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NOTICE by mutual arrange- ment Mr. P. Nettie has severed his connections with this Com pany.
MALCOLM & CO., LTD. 5187
NOTICE. NOTICE-Mr. H. M. Howell has joined our staff and will sign as Branch Manager.
MALCOLM & CO., LTD. 6188
THE CHINA
FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE TO
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1937.
ADVERTISEMENTS
MUNICIPALITY OF GEORGE TOWN, PENANG
ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT
Applications are invited for the uppointment of 'Architectural As- sistant in the Engineer's Depart- ment for a period of three years only at a monthly salary of $600 plus a transport allowance of $100 per month.
Applicants, who should be be tween the ages of 26 and 30 and preferably single, must have had a good general and technical education; preference will be given to candidates holding ac cepted professional examination qualifications and had experience in the design and erection of Municipal buildings such Abattoirs, Markets, etc. They niust be thoroughly acquainted with modern Building Construc- tion, including Reinforced Con. Pcrete.
as
On completion of three years satisfactory service a bonus equal lo six months salary will be. granted.
OF
Applications, stating age, place of birth, whether married single, experience and qualifica. tions, accompanied by copies of three recent testimonials, should be received by the undersigned NOTICE IS HEREBY not later than the 10th May, GIVEN that the SIXTY 1937 endorsed "Architectural
SHAREHOLDERS
EIGHTH ORDINARY YEAR- | Assistant.".
Its
By Order,
LY MEETING of the Company Canvassing in any form will will be held at
HEAD disqualify. OFFICE, Union" Buliding, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 16th APRIL, 1937, at 2.50 p.m., for the pur pose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December. 1936, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be A. S. WATSON & CO., CLOSED from 29th MARCH to 16th APRIL, Both Days inclo- sive.
LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN that the FIFTY.
SECOND Annual Ordinary Gen.
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By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager.
eral Meeting of the Company Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.
tsince its registration) will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel. Hong Kong, on Tuesday, the 20th April, 1937, at 11.30 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st October, 1936.
The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from Thursday, the 15th day of April to Wednesday, the 21st day of April, 1937, both days Inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS
& SON," General Managers. Hong Kong, 6th April, 1937.
Mr.
$175
ÜNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED..
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE IS. HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Soclety will be held at the HEAD OFFICE, Union Build. ing, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 16th APRIL, 1937 at 2.30 o'clock p.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1936, and of declaring Dividend, etc.
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 29th MARCH to 16th APRIL, Both Days, inclu- sive.
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.
5180
BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
5137
SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SEVENTY FIRST. ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will he held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Baliding, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 16th APRIL, 1937, at 2.55 p.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1936, and of declaring Dividend, etc.
the
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 29th MARCH to 16th APRIL, Beth 'Days incia. sive.
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB
6188
Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the Fourth Extra Race Meeting to be held on SATURDAY, 24th April, 1937 (weather permitting) may be ob tained at the Secretary's Office, Exchange Building; the Club. House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the Sports Club; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road.
T. W. DOUGLAS, "Secretary to the Municipal Commissioners. Municipal Office, George Town, Penang, 31st March, 1937.
Editorial, and Business Office:
15-19, 'Queen's "Road Central Tel 30251.
YACHTING
Championship And
Night Editor (Wanchal Omel Sweepstake Races
Tel: 24511.
Londoù Once: 53. Fleet Street
B.C. 4.
The Baily Press.
Boxo KONG. APRIL 13, 1087.
HEART THROBS.
After the lie detector the
plionustethograph!
Widgeon, sailed by Miss H Crawhail-Wilson secured first place In the Championship Race Mixed classes held by the R.H.K,Y.C. yesterday, while Joss, sailed by Mrs. B. D. Ackroyd-Hunt was first in the remainder of the Sweep- stake Race.
The distance was 8.1 miles and the course Quarry Bay imark (P), Holt's wharf mark (8). Kowloon Rock mark (8), Channel -Rock mark (8), Club, line.
Details follow
"Championship Race" (Started 14:40)
Finshed Corr. Fos. Dorothea..... 15.36.58 16.38.58 5
(Mrs. S. D. Reid),
(Mr E R Edwards). Gull ............: 18.43.54 18.36.491 4
(Mrs. L. Stanton). True Blue ...... 18.43.53 18.36.48) 3
Some twenty years ago London playgoers had sa opportunity of Lobo 18.45.20 16.38.24 6 seeing a play, written by a Rus- sian dramatist named Evreinoff, in, which the scene wag the inside of a man's body, and the characters were three different Widgeon... Egos that dwelt within lui. To auch a degree of publicity, will each and all of us be brought, if this sort of thing is allowed to 80 on! It is all very well for Sir Francis Acland to weave his dark Miltonic spells and mes- merize the lie detector into be
VARDON, THE RECORD BREAKER
Champion Who Taught The U.S. To Play Golf
HARRY VARDON, WHO DIED AT HIS HOME AT TOTTE- RIDGE, HAD NO PEER IN GOLF FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS. HE SMASHED ALL RECORDS.BY WINNING THE BRITISH. OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP: SIX TIMES, HE ALSO WON THE AMERI- CAN. OPEN ONCE, WRITES A CORRESPONDENT IN THE “KVE- -NING NEWS »
His first" "Open" success was in 1896 at Muirfield after, a tie with his great friend and rival J. H. Taylor. His last was in 1914 at Prestwick. On that occasion he was drawn on the last day with J, H. Taylor, who, but for a disastrous fourth hole, might have won the championship. At one point in his geldog llie, round about 1900. Harry Vardon was Invincible. He broke records wherever he played, and his brother professionals say that he was never off the fairway during that spell.
American
distance, but Vardon:
and Vardon put the yards from the pin.
It was at this time that he went about the to America; he was the first Enx-still insisted on taking th cleek.
The cuddle handed it to him-- lish: golf professional to show the
ball three Americans how golf should be played (Mrs. G. D. Adams). ・・
From that point to the end of Re 16.44.30 18.34.22 1
left an indelible mark in (Miss H. Crawball-Wilson). Amercan golf, and it can be saithe championship the caddle turn- Owl
16.54.40 10.36.37) 2 that his visit was responsible "fered his back on Vardon each time (Mrs. D'Arcy-Evans).
the success of the
he had to take a club, and let the champion select the club himself THE RIVALS Vardon was born at Grouville, Jersey, and was one of a family. of nine
Early in his career he was page. Then he was gardener to Major Spofforth.
Sweepstake Race" (Started 14.55) Finished Pos. ............ 17.01.25 Carpenter
(Mrs. P. R. Richards), Artemis,, D.NF...
Eve
(Mrs. Hopkinson).
4
(Mra, M. Ellerby).
17.03.21
18.56.17
16.55.50
5
1
16.58.35
3
Joss
(Mrs. B. D. Ackroyd-Hunt). Kittiwake
lieving that he felt more serene tobel when people were jabbing pins into his leg than when they were not. Not everyone knows his "Milton"; and, of those that do, very few would be able to dis- course blandly of man's first disobedience and the trait of that
(Miss P. M. King).
RICE MERCHANTS SUFFER LOSS
forbidden tree while inquisitive people, with one eye on a ma- chine, asked them where they
It is reported that local rice were at eleven-thirty-seven on merchants have suffered heavy the night of April 12, or whether losses through the question of
this they knew
bloodstained exemption of rice shipments to knife. Indeed, under those con- Canton from payment of import
duty being still unsettled. ditions the most innocent of men
So far, no reply has been receiv might well forget his favourite ed to their telegram to the Nan poem, and get into such a stewking Government praying for an as to give every sign of unmiti-early settlement of the duty ques 5182 gated villainy.
And conscioustion, and it is reported that as the result of a meeting, the leading virtue, able to defy the subtlest rice merchants of the Colony will wiles and the fiercest assaults of personally interview and petition a Patrick Hastings, might betray General Wu Te-chen, the newly a confusion that the machine appointed Governor of Kwangtung province, when he is the Hong would register as clear proof of
Kong.- guilt.
PARLIAMENTARY
NAVAL ENGAGEMENT
"
Debate On Air Estimates
An outbreak of naval hostilities
Against the machine, in fact, the ordinary man has no chance. surprised and enlivened the House No matter what the question of Commons during the debate on caked-Did lie steal the ginger- the Air Estimates. Admirał of the bread nuts? Did he rob the Fleet. Sir Roger Keyes was advo-church? Does he like cheese? eating putting the Fleet Air Arm under hayal control, when Rear- Admiral Sir Murray Bucter tried to interrupt him...
The Admiral of the Fleet de clined to give way, but as soon as he finished the Rear-Admiral opened fire. He pointed out that, the House at any rate, the Admira of the Fleet had "no stripes over me."
If he had a brother would he like cheese?-the machine will claim to know and to tell every- body whether he is: telling a lie or not; and the machine, being **scientific," cannot, of course, tell a lie itself.
"The phonostethograph, has os tensibly nothing to do with truth Bir Murray, though he was the and falsehood, crime and inno- creator of the old RN.AA., fought
It is a marvellous inven- hard in his speech for a continua ceuce. tion of the Air Ministry control. tion, not indeed for curing, but I turn he drew on himself 1 for recording the action of the broadside from Vice-Admiral Ernest Taylor.
heart, and for publishing and perpetuating the record. That is all very well in its place. Fortu-
Firing On His Old Chief
Not content with raking the Ad- miral of the Fleet with a remark about "those silly little watertight compartments that so many naval men will insist on working in." Sir Murray Buster turned his fire on Mr. Winston Churchill. Mr. Churchill was his old chief at the Admiralty when he was Director of the Air Department.·'
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He complained of the lack of enthusiasm for the Air Arm dis- played by the Admiralty in the early days, and instanced the tact that he had been called "the biggest damn fool" for ordering the Handley-Page machines which later proved such a success.
A further shot was directed at Sir Thomas Inskip. Here, how ever, the Rear-Admiral was con- tent to fire across the Minister's bows to secure bis attention when he was talking to Sir Philip Bas- soon. He had only to repeat his
tention for one minute" twice.
If I may have, the Minister's at
our
nate indeed are we that tyrants, the medical profession,
are
benevolent tyrants and scrupulously secretive tyrants, Nevertheless the mere existence of such a machine is disturbing.
Chinese Evening Preis.
P
NORTH CHAHAR QUIET
Suiyuan Not In Danger Of Attack.
Peiping. Apr. 12 "Information received here indi- cates that reports in Shanghal, to
the effect that another, attack on Bulyuan by Mongolian and Man- chukua irregulars is imminent,
every-
golfers who have carried thing before them in our cham- plonships as well as their own. Indeed. It can be said that he "took” golf to America.
MASTER" GOLFER
It
This master golfer made unfverboy at a doctor's. sal the Vardon grip, which pra tically every golfer uses to-day. His success with the overlapping grip made everyone tollow this style.
brother of the "demon" bowler; and it was Major Spotforth who gave Vardon his first real golf and started his interest in the game.
Vardon's first post as a profes- Vardon was always a believer in light clubs. The driver with sional was at the Studley Royal which he.won his first open Golf Club, Ripon. Then he went weighed only 12joz. against the to Bury, and from there to Gan- average of 14oz. of to-day. That ton. driver is in Vardon's own little golf museum in the South Herts Golf Club.
HIS FAVOURITE CLUB His favourite club was the cleek, and I have known him select it in
the dismay of his caddle. preference to his brassie much to
Finally he became attached to the South Herts Club at Totte- ridge, where he remained as pro- fessional to the last, a matter of more than 30 years.
His three great rivals James Bandy
Braid, J. H. Taylor and great tusales, always held Vardon Herd, with whom he had many
I have always regarded his best in the greatest esteem and air performance as that at Royal St. realised when they played him George's, Sandwich, in 1911, when that they were up against a golf- he won the "Open" after a tie with ing machine, Arnaud Massey, the French cham-
pion.
J
Mr. John Ball, th Hoylake crack.
was the referee, and after Vardon had won ne said: "I did not think
that such magnificenty and long driving was possible."
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BELOVED BY ALL Vardon was beloved by everyone. Wherever he went he made many
friends, and nowhere more than in Scotland and America.
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He was one of the first profes- sionals ever to play golf in plus There is a good story of Vardon fours, and his graceful easy swing and his cleek. A Scots caddie was and still is the model on wanted him to take his brassie. which thousands of golfers of all Vardan wanted to take the cleëk. classes have tried to base their
They bad a slight argument game.
CORONATION
IN SHANGHAI
(Continued from Page 1)
fact that HM. The King is at pre- sent Grand Master Mason of Scot- land (although indications are
are without any foundation. that he will readgn upon his coro-
MR. SUN FO ON SICK LIST
Nanking, April 12 Mr. Sur Fo President of the Legislative Yuan has cancelled his trip to Cantan owing to Indiaposi tion, in Shanghal and needs a rest of one week before he will resume his official duties.
The report that Mr. Foo Ping- sheung, chairman of the Foreign North Chabar is very quiet. Man nation), the Lodge is making Relations Committee of the Legis- chukuo
garrison still occupy special efforts to mark this as a lative Yuan, will be transferred to Changpet and other points, adja-memorable occasion. There will be the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is of the les of the area joined the Chinese galla "will be worn, and the ladies cho,, secretary general cent, but nearly all the mercenar- a number of special features. Re- denied to-day by Mr. Liang Han- last, November."
will be given souvenirs of the ball; Legislative Yuan- Similarly, there is no evidence the services of the Shanghai Scot-Union News, the Chinese are planning to attack tish pipe band are being secured to although Sulguari is give the ball a national favour, Chahar, strongly garrisoned.-
Dancing will commence at 9.30 p.m. Router,
ofcial Celebrations The official 'celebrations on May
Shanghai, Apr. 12. 12 will commence with a service
Signor Giuliano Cera, new Ita- in the Holy Trinity Cathedral,
lian Ambassador to China, arrived and special arrangements are ex- pected to be made to accom- from Europe this morning and was modate the unusually large con- I warmly welcomed by Italian dip The Karachi Store at No. 66, gregation. The needs of British lomatic and consular officials and Queen's Road East was the victim children in Shanghai will not be representatives of the Chinese of a burglary between Bunday and forgotten on this day, and games
KARACHI STORE BURGLED
yesterday.
NEW ITALIAN "AMBASSADOR TO CHINA. ARRIVES
Government.--
In wrong hands this object that is placed on the breast could make a more awful form of ques
and "all the fun of the fair will Reuter. tion by torture than ever the
Entry, was gained by breaking be provided in the afternoon, pro- pressing, applied of old to felons.
When medical examination be-through the iron grill of a win-bably on the lines of those very
dow. Rolls of silk valued at $209 successful Empire Day fairs held The Zero Club reception will be
a few years' back;%
held on May 11, at noon. fore marriage becomes compul, were stolen.
In the evening, the British
Two other garden parties of note Bory, it may include a series of
naval and military forces will will be held during Coronation tests by the phonostethograph;
combine to present! a Tattoo at Week The first will be given and indeed before exchanging to broadcast the truth over the the Course and the crowds which jointly by the Overseas League
world.
will turn out to watch the colour and the British Residents' Asso hearts the parties would naturally wish to have particulars of what
The best that can be said for ful pageant are expected to eclipse clation from 3 pm to 7 pm. at those which attended the specta The Lait," 600 Hunglao Road, they were getting. The result might well be a set of grame the device (outside its proper cular display, given if 1935 on the on May 8. As in the case of the Ball Sir Hughe phone records, which, when the province) is that it might be occasion of the Jubilee of HM the Coronation
Knatchbull-Hugessen, the British examinations. No late King George V. pair had reached "Mid-Channel," useful in
Receptions, will be given by the Ambassador, and Admiral Bir might be used to prove that the motorist, for instance, should be match was, on this side or on licensed unless the phonostethoZero Club and probably by the Charles Little, Commander-in
Shanghai, while the British Wo are expected to be present. that, no love-match, but a social graph had approved. his reactions Royal Air Force Associaton of Chier of the British China Fleet, CHAMPIONSHIP or commercial speculation. It is to the ideas of pedal-bicycliste, men's Association will hold a The other garden party is being children without special Garden Party in the held by Brigadier A P. D. Telfer- Bri- well that our younger poetsafe dogs, and
grounds of HM, Consulate-Gene- Smollett, Commander of the 1 ral, 33 The Bund, in the afternoon tish Forces Shanghai Area, and
Entries close at 12 o'clock OPEN SNOOKER NOON on Thursday, 15th April, 1937.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,"
Secretary
A. F. Pereira beat E. M. Reme already tired of hearts and darts, amaha.
Snooker Championship" played at
dios by 185 to 120 in the Open for none of the gentle mysteries Suitable texts for every pro the Kowloon Cricket Club yester of love can be trusted any more fession and calling should not be
to an organ which can be made hard to devise
5183 day
of May 10. Arrangements in con- Mrs. Telfer-Smollett, at thair nection with this Garden Party home in 700 Avente Halg on Me
have not yet been fully completed. 11
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