THE WEATHER
OF FEBRUARY
Sun-Then Fog
WITH,
The weather during the earlier part of the month was mainly with considerable sunny periods. A strengthening of the -continental anticyclone brought a rapid drop in temperature on the evening of the 12th, ang a spell of cold cloudy weather lasted from.
From the then until the 17th. 21st to the 27th the weather was very warm and humid, with oc- casional fog, owing to the tendency at a damp south-easterly wind to displace the north-east monsoon. The monsoon set in again with" considerable force on the last day of the month, a gust of 47 m.p.h. being recorded."
The mean temperature for the month was 61.2 F. which is 1.3 above normal. A maximum of 78.5 was reached on the 24th. which is within 1' of the highest ever recorded in February. A minimum of 45.9 was recorded on the 2nd.
The mean relative humidity was 78, which is normal.
Sunshine amounted to 103 hours, against a normal of 95 hours; 8 days were completely sunleas There
was Occasional drizzle throughout the month, but the total rainfall amounted to only 0.31 Inches. against a normal of 1.75 Inches.
Fog occurred on the 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 27th.
THE AMBULANCE BRIGADE
Annual Inspection By H.E. The Governor
His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.Q., C.BE., Knight of Grace, Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem,
at the will officiate
annual in- spection of St. John Ambulance Brigade at the open, Naval Re- creation ground, Causeway Bay, on Tuesday, March 30, at 5 p.m.
Colonel J. L Sleeman, C.M.G., C.B.E., M.V.O., Knight of Justice, Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Chief Commissioner of the Brigade Overseas, who is ont a tour of inspection, will be in at- tendance.
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In the course of the proceedmgs, His Excellency will present || Dis- tinguished Service Medals to the following:
District Surgeon the Hon. Dr. Li
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H. K. POLICE
RESERVE
(Orders by the Hon. Mr. T, H. King,
Inspector General of Police)
CHINESE COMPANY
Training Course (Part II) :-The undermentioned members of the Chinese Company will attend Chi- nese Company Headquarters on Tuesday, March 2 at 17.30 hours for Part II of Training Course:---
Constables R2 Chan Tak Chiu, R4 Tam Hu Fung. R5 Woo How Ching, R6 Chân Shik Chun,, 'R$ Wong Yue Shun, R25 Lee Chee Leung and R3 Napoleon Leung Pan.
INDIAN COMPANY
Training Course (Part III):-The undermentioned members of the Indian Company will attend Indian Company Headquarters on Wednes- day, March 3 at 17.30 hours for Part II of Training Course:---
Lance-Sergeant R241 Sultan Khan, and Constables R231 8. 1 | Bux R203 Mohamed Din, R207 Feroz Ali. R225 Kasim Ali, R228 A. R. Razack, R20 Chulam Hussain, R250 A. Hamid, R256 St A. Khan, R20 Omar Hossan, and R232 Latif Khan.
EMERGENCY UNIT RESERVE
Riot Drill; A Riot Drill will be carried out by members of the Emergency Unit Reserve on FTI- day, March 5, 1937. All members will parade outside Queen's Pler at 17.20 hours. Dress: Optional.
C. CHAMPKIN,
Hong Kong, March 1, 1937,
DAP (R.).
ST. DAVID'S DAY
Ceremony At The
Cenotaph
Yesterday being St. David's Day, the Hong Kong St. David's Society laid a wreath at the Cenotaph at 11 am. A wreath was also faid from the Royal Welch Fustlers.
The Society's wreath was car- ried by Mr. E Lloyd-Jones, Vice- President, and Mr. D. F. Davies, Hon. Secretary, while Lieht, H. A. Kempthorne, RW.F. carried the Regimental tribute.
Among those present were Mr. D. Davies, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Cooper. a Sergeant-Major and five other ranks of the Royal weich Fusillers and Pte. Gifford, R.A.M.C,
The Fusiller men wore tradi- tional sprigs of leeks on the left side of their uniform. caps.
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Shu-fan. Divisional Superinten- REGISTRY WEDDING dents Chan Ping-kwong, Fan Shiu- nam and Lam Sing-yu, Ambulance Omeer Chan Sau-ping, Sergt. Chau Yuk. Privates Leung Chung-yfn, Tsang Lung-sau. Li Ping-tsub, Kun U-wah and Kun Ngok-sang.
There will also be the presenta- tion of Brigade trophies after which His Excellency the Governor will address the Corps. The March Past" by the Corps will conclude the parade.
DONATIONS
The Hon. Treasurer of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul acknowledges with grateful ap- preciation and thanks the receipt of the following donations to the Society's Funds.
In Memory of the late Mrs. Melanta Botelho
Mr. & Mrs. E. J. de Figueiredo $2.00 Mr. & Mrs. F. Ë. A. Remedios 1.00 Mr. F. M. de Graca
In Memory of the late Mrs. M. Houghton
AL the Registry of Marriages yesterday the wedding took place between Mr. Sackin Chan, mer- chant, son of the late Mr. Chan Yick-ho, and Misa Wu Yuen-Down, nurse, Leung Kwong Hospital, Canton, daughter of the late Mr. Wu Yip kon. Mr. J. P. Murphy, Deputy Registrar of Marriages,
oficlated. The witnesses were Messra Leung But-ping and Tong Ng.
WEDDING
The forthcoming
wedding is announced Augusto Antonio dos Remedios. of the Standard- Vacuum Oil Company, Saigon, and Misa Eleanor Maria Xavier, of 8. King's Terrace, Kowloon.
1.00 ENGLISH ASSOCIATION
1,00
Mr. & Mrs. B. d'Assumpcao ... Mr. & Mrs. H. A de Figueiredo 1.00
MEETING
The Hong Kong Branch of the English Association will hold the 5th meeting of the Session 1938-37 $6.00 to-day at 5.30 p.m. at the Helena
May Institute.
Mirs. Williams, Mrs." Cock, Mis. Sedgwick and- Mrs. Greaves are seen chatting at the Bace Course.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1937.
YACHTING
Lobo And Diana Win Races
Two yacht races were held at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club yesterday and resulted as follows:-
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Isobel
18.07.40
(Mrs. M. Ellerby).
Joss
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Quil
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10.05.44
(Mrs. G. D. Adams),
Kittiwake
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(Miss P. M. Hing).
THE KING AS HOST TO
EMPIRE PREMIERS
Historic Banquet For Coronation
CABINET MINISTERS FROM DOMINIONS
The King is to attend a luncheon of the Empire. Parliamen- tary Association in Westminster Hall on May 1--the Friday be- fore Coronation Day.
The guests will be the Prime Ministers and members of the Legislatures of the Empire who will be in London for the Coro- nation, the Imperial Conference, and an Empire Parliamentary Conference.
At the Empire Parliamentary including Ceylon, Bermuda, Bur- Conference the Dominion Parlia- badoes. Bahamas. Jamaica and ments will be represented by de- Mauritius. legations headed by a Cabinet Mlaister and Including Speakers, leaders of the Oppositions and of other principal parties in the Par- ilaments.
There will be a delegation from the Indian Central Legislature. Invitations have been sent to the Premiers of the Australian States and the provinces of Canada.
Delegates are also expected from the Irish Free State, and from the Parliament of Northern Ireland as on the occasion of the Empire Parliamentary Conference of 1835. SEVEN-PREMIERS ACCEPT
Colonies which have resched certain stage of self-government are also sending representatives.
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COMMITTED TO SESSIONS
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Three men, Chun Man, 24, Chul Ping. 34, and Chan King Kwong. Acceptances have so far been re- 18. were committed to stand trial ceived from about 40 of the invited | at the next Criminal Sessions by delegates, Including Ave Speakers | Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen ... at the while seven Premiers of States cr | Kowloon Magistracy yesterday af- Provinces have up to the present accepted the invitation to be the guests of the Empito Parliamen- tary Association for the Corona- tion Parliamentary Conterence.
In recent years a number of functions arranged by the Empire have Parliamentary Asscelation taken place in Westminster Hall. When the present King then Duke of York, retained from his Austra- lian tour in 1927, he attended a reception given by the Association to visiting members of the Parlia- ments of the Empire.
FIFTY YEARS ON
Science And The Future
THE DREAMS OF
BIO-CHEMISTS
(BY E. S. GREW)
THE
birth has been borne in on them so that it can no longer be denied. they say it is not important. After that, if its importance becomes suficiently obvious, they say, any how, it is not new.
After looking back on the last true. Then a little later, when Ils Afty years of science, it is tempt- ing to speculate on what will be done in the next fifty. It is more prudent to ask what there is to be done. Discovery in the future, as in the past, will seem to go in jumps, as when some stroke of genius out of the common brings to a focus thoughts and ideas that are in the air. But the form this
generalisation may take is unfore- seen till it makes itself known.
Genius of this kind cannot be hurried, It is as incalculable in time and place as any other kind of genius · But when a discovery is established now, the results of it. arc speeded up as never before. In the laboratory of a chemist like
sands of bio-chemists who con-
tinue, after a quarter of a century's unabated pursuit, to publish three separate papers on them every day In the year. Few of these mark any fresh breakaway, but all all some gap and their volume serves to show how many hands are need- ed to keep the pump working from which the stream of knowledge
ternoon on a charge of committing a robbery from Kwong Tal, of 717 Reclamation, Street, Kowloon, of
$78.
Evidence was given by the com- plainant, and several detectives from the
Police Shamshulpo. Station. Mr. T. Murphy, A.D.C.L gave evidence of an identification parade held at Shamshulpo Police Station.
The three defendants denied all allegations made against them.
Divisional Inspector Chester-
Woods prosecuted.
began with the best known of these waxy futs, cholesterol. Cholesterol is one of the problems which any biol-chemist would give many years of his fe to solve. More than one bio-chemical laboratory studies nothing else.
This white waxy stuff is present in nerve tissue, brain cells, and elsewhere in the body, and exists in, egg yolk. It serves some in- dispensable purpose in the body's economy during most of our life, but turns against us after middle age, or the beginning of old age, hardening its heart and aur arteries.
MISSING FACTOR
That is not the only crime which it may commit, in the absence of something in the test tube of qur bodies to control it. What is this, That is, from one aspect, the missing chemical factor which fails às life, advances? Does one story of the vitamins. But it is
of the hidden glands of the body not the point of view of the thou-neglect to send out a chemical
messenger to deal with It?
These chemical messengers, or 23 Professor Ernest hormones, Starling called them, meaning "I rouse to activity" might well oc- cupy research, and all the help and money it can get for the rest of the century. They are sent out to do their work by the ductless glands. These hidden mechanisma are the body's servants, and its masters. Through the messengers they send they control the heart and lungs, they regulate energy, they are the watchdogs of digestion they are the keepers of health, the sentinels of disease, the lords of creation.
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VITAMINS. AND HEALTH
Abdehalden each, of a score "of | flows.. assistant chemists is given a little bit of the same problem to work out while Abdehalden waits to synthesize the whole.
The whole chemical world might be compared to a vast laboratory where, in Europe, Asia and America, this form of mass attack on ques- tions waiting an answer is carried on. The laboratories of the chem)- cal (and electrical) industries are enlisted alongside those of the uni- versities, and are powerful rivals.
THREE STAGES
Eight vitamins are known, six of them necessary for the avoidance of human ills, from" scurvy · to rickets. Years of, intensive and distributed enquiry have pinned down four of them, so that the part they play in health and
Yet how little is known of their | nutrition is established, and their working or their chemistry. Even chemical constitution known. If the number of the glands 'is not In another twenty-five years, the other four are pigesn-holed, the bis-chemist will probably find that there are still other vitamins to
This outside help is being ex-conquer.. tended to the nclence of · blow chemistry which is hardly older than the 20th century, but may "well 'All out the rest of it. It em
braces the whole body of man în health and disease, and is there-
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certain, þat eight are well estab- shed, and three or four are easily named, the thyroid, the adrenal, the pituitary, and the pancreas, Whan wi nak what the bio-chemist. The cod liver oil vitamin entered knows.of them, the progress of rur on a new stage in its history when search appears painfully slow. Dr. Piquet - and'. Dr. Harriette・ He knows the products, the hor- Chick were ministering to the starved children of Vienna in 1919, Cod liver oil was the specide to re fore sure of attention. I suffers | medy rickets in these poor victims, at present from a disability re- but it was found that sunlight or marked by Dr. Leslie Harris, one | ultra violet light was a powerful of its professors at Cambridge, who aid. Why? In animal tissues are quoted the American philosopher, certain waxy substances, fals, William James, to illustrate It.named stérols.
mones sent out by three of the glands, and their signiffiçance, quite well. The three are adrena- lin, thyroxin, and insulin, and of these only adrenalin and thyroxin have been made in the laboratory. Thyroxin was a triumph, for a British bio-chemist. Insulin still waits à similar stroke of chemical James said that there were three When the researchers set out to genius; its manufacture, syntheti– stages in the history of every find which of the sterols of the cally, would be a landmark on the medical discovery. When it is first | tissues yielded this miraculous | endless road the blo-chemists have announced people say it is not medicine under light-rays, they to travel.
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