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PASSAGES BOOKED
AT
TARIFF RATES
ON ALL
PASSENGER LINES.
THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC.
Incorporated with Limited Liability in USA.
No. 4, Des Voeux Road, Central.
KOWLOON RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION
THE RENTS QUESTION
The General Committee of the Kowloon Residents' Associa tion proposes, if deemed advisable, to make representation to the Government of Hongkong in support of tenants whose rents have been unreasonably increased or who have been evicted "despite prompt payment of rent.
To enable the Association to present irrefutable facts Do Government, residents, whether or not members of the Associa- Jon are invited to fill in this form and send it to Mr. R. Bald: win, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, 51, Kimberley Road. Kowloon.
All replies will be treated confidentially.
Note: Whether your rent has been increased or not, please make a return so as to enable the Association to judge approximately what proportion of tenants have been victimised.
Nume
Address
Name of Landlord'
Flat or House ...
+
Are you principal or sub-tenant?.
Rent paid on June 30, 1937 $
14.
•
September 30, 1937 S
"
December 31. 1937 $
February 28, 1938 $
What was your rent when you first, occupied the premises? $
Has your Landlord evicted you?.
For what reason
Were you in arrears with your rent?
Are you a satisfied tenant?
Remarks
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
Q
1938-1939
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1938.
ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
U.
R.
COLONY HAS FIRST HAIL
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Notice is hereby given that the Forty-ninth Ordinary Yearly PARTICULARS AND CON meeting will be held at the Com-DITIONS of the Sale by Public pany's Offices, P. & 0. Building, Auction to be held on Monday, on Thursday, 10th March, 1938, the 14th day of March, 1938, at 11 a.m. for the purpose of at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the presenting the Report of the Public Works Department, by Or Directors together with a State. der of His Excellency the Gov. ment of Accounts to 31st Decem.ernor of one Lot of Crown Land ber, 1937, and electing Directors at Repulse Bay Rd. in the Colony
of Hong Kong for and Auditors,
term
The Register of Members of the of 75 years, with the option of Company will be closed from 26th renewal at a Crown Rent to be February to 10th March 1938, fixed by the Surveyor of Hie both days inclusive, during which Majesty the KING, for one fur period no Transfer of Shares canther term of 75 years. be registered.
By Order of the Board
.
of Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON
& CO., LTD.,
Agents.
Hong Kong, Feb. 18, 1938..
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Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser tit not the applicant), will be required to deposit" with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refund-i al on payment of the purchase price.
THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
GODOWN CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS.
OR.
THE FIFTY FIRST DINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. on Friday, the 11th March, 1938, AT 11 A.M., for the purpose of Teceiving the Report of the Direc‹ tors and
o! the Statement Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1937.
The Transfer Books of the
Friday, the 11th March, 1938.
both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
F. H. CRAPNELL,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 21st Feb., 1938.
6032
Rural Building
Lot No. 407.
Ropulse Bay Rout.
No. of date,
Registry No.
Locality.
Boundary
Measure.
ments.
fr. ft. ft. ft
As per
wale plan.
BIRTH
Contente in
About
Bquara fest.
Annual
Bental.
(Upset Prica
30.000
STORM
are
Destructive typhoons, heavy downpours of rain. an extra warm day in winter and an unusual drop of temperature
in the summer,
the strange elements in the Hong Kong climate which people experience years throughout.
But to the surprise of all Hong Kong residents, added
to
ali these extraordinary phenomena F hail storm fell for the first time in the history of the Colony, at 9.50 a.m. yesterday.
Following single flash of lightning, the hallstones fell for three minutes. The largest was the size of a big pea
The cause of the fall was believed to be the excessive warmth for this time of the
year.
The thermometer re-
84 at 2 p.m. on
gistered Sunday.
cases before the committee. for on that wil depend what legislative action the Government will con- sider taking.
POLISHED RICE
ROUND WORLD WITH EMPRESS VISITORS
Prudence Gives Glowing Accounts Of Cruise
THE LOT OF REPORTERS who go on board the Empress of Bri- tain for interviews certainly falls in pleasant places, for on all sides one hears glowing accounts of the voyage.
་་
Granted an interview with Lady Burton (wife of Sir Montague Burton, the well-known author, of travel-book fame) I found her in their luxurious suite, where she was just entertaining Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Raymond, for this is their second visit to Hong Kong, and they have quite a number of friends here.
Lady Burton looked extremely they did the train journey from smart in a charming costume of, Cairo.
otter-brown tweed, with a match-! Mrs. Callaway had been tre- ing hat and trimly-cut shirt of mendously impressed by her visit. otter crepe-de-chine. She Mughed to Agra, and thought that the TaÍ- a good deal when I asked if they Mahal was beautiful beyond des- had met with any adventures incription--and had been struck by the Mediterranean-and said that the strangeness of its new appear- they had not seen even the shadow |ance! Although it is so many or any of the Spanish combatants, hundred years old it seemed to her or their ships.
that the wonderful marble tracery looked as smooth and white and sparkling as if it had been carved
By moonlight, and in the pearly Ught of dawn it still seems love- ller than a dream.
She added that all their friends in Monaco had thought they were taking rather a risk in leaving only yesterday. safe place like Europe, to come out to a dangerous place like Honz Kong..
and what did I know about THAT:
She commented on the strange Speaking of the voyage, Lady contrast between that exquisite Mr. D. Y. Lin's very able review Burton told me they had a smooth monument of death, and the sinis- jof the work being done by Kwang-passage all the time and the most ter effect produced by the Tower
tung to conserve the province's glorious weather. This is her sec- juf Silence in Bombay, food supply given on Tuesday be-ond voyage on the Empress of Bri- Mrs. Callaway is one of those fore the Hong Kong Rotary Club tain, which she thinks the stendiest "happy shoppers" and loves to was as enlightening as it was re-ship she has ever known (and she browse among all the shops in all freshing.
has been three times round the the parts! I think she means to
Rice is the staple food of Asia į world, and ought to be a judge). pick up some blackwood while she and it is the hope and intention. She also knows and loves Ceylon, is here, and also has her eye on of the Bureau of Agriculture and and has found it most interesting those carved camphorwood chests. Forestry of Kwangtung, of which to travel this route for the second which are (I fancy) only procur- Mr. Lin is the Director, to make time. to note all the changes in the able in Hong Kong. Kwangtung self-supporting in the different places. and re-visit old matter of its rice supplies. Mt. friends in each port. Lin demonstrated that this task, although by no means completed.;
MISS M. C. BEVAN S.B.N.
MISS JEANETTE EDRIS
Miss Jeanette Edris la a charm- ing representative of the "Younger
6081 is quite capable" of achievement. Miss Allured (Private Secretary to Set" and is making a pleasure trip and the work being done to this Sir Montague Burton) then very and enjoying every moment of it. end is not without great signi- kindly took me in charge and 1 Very keen on all games, she was Company will be CLOSED from ADDIS-On February 22, 1918, at flcance to this Colony as well as to went with her to be introduced to asked to go on the Sports Com- Friday, the 4th March, 1938, to Lima House, Reading, to Pame-all countries where rice is eaten Miss M. C. Bevan, who gave me mittee, and it keeps her pretty
la, wife of Commander C. Tas the staple food.
another very interesting angle on busy all the time.
The tournaments are now in full Addis R.N... а -daughter. At the present time Kwangtung the voyage.
Shanghai papers please copy), produces all but approximately 13 She is visiting the East for the swing. and while all events have a lot of interest, the 1281 per cent of the 82 million piculs arst time, and gathering new Im-attracted
She was greatest enthusiasm of all is shown SILVER WEDDING
of rice required to feed the 33 pressions all the way. BUDGEN-WAGGOTT-Or. March million inhabitants of the pro- particularly struck by the beauty over the tennis tournament. There
3. 1913, at Shanghai. Edward, vince, but the shortage of 10 mil and, luxuriance of the vegetation are two courts on the upper deck.
Finals will be played off between youngest son of the late lion pfculs, Mr. Lin points out, in Ceylon and Malaya, and the Thomas Budgen of Newhaven can easily be made good in two brilliance of the flowers there, after Hong Kong and the next port of call. "Miss Fanny Goodyear and (England) to Lilian
Kate. ways. Firstly, by producing rough her train-trip across the arid wastes eldest daughter of the late grade rice instead of the polished of India, on the flying vidit to Agra, Miss Bristed have just got into the Capt. Waggot of Sunderland. grade. a saving or at least nve from Bombay, via Delhi, Aldapur semi-finals of the ladies' singles, while among the men, Prince million plculs can be effected. and Jalpur.
A member of the Society of Re-Loul Tasso, Mr. Rowland Hall, and | RABAUTE-On March 1. 1938. Secondly, by the greater use of
suddenly, Dr. Julien, Rabaute. "cha lang." or minor food crops. Zistered Nurses, she bas spent her Mr. A. M. Loew have also reached.
It is with
Miss Edris comes from Seattle the first that the life in the service of humanity, the semi-finals. Colony Ls
She is making the voyage with her If chiefly concerned.
brother the Ber. E. Bevan, and is on the Pacific Coast, and will be the Kwangtung Government would immediately put an end to the very specially interested in all the very sorry to end her pleasure foolish practice of bleaching and hospitals and Medical Centres in cruise at San Francisco.
"MARVELLOUS CRUISE" polishing, rice, it would accomplish each different country.
She was particularly struck by Miss Mary Brooks, small, blonde, three important and wise things. three things. Firstly the wonder-and blue-eyed, was simply full of It would save five million plculs ut hospital at Penang, secondly the zest of life when I caught her of rice every year. It would help
as she was going ashore. in no small measure in improving the Scottish Memorial Hospital at just
Tiberles (on the shores of Lake She said she was having a per- the health of the population and Galllee) and thirdly the clinic for fectly marvellous cruise and that
HONG KONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Ordinary Year ly Meeting of Shareholders will be held in the Offices of the Company, 2, Queen's Building, Hong Kong, on Monday, 28th March, 1938 at Noon ler consi deration of the Directors' Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December. 1937.
The Share Register and Trans. fer Books will be closed from 12th to 28th March, 1938, both days inclusive.
By. Order of the Board of Directors,
E. COCK,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 3rd March, 1938.
6064
THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE CO.,
LIMITED..
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS.
The Sixty-ninth
DEATH
..
Mass will be held tomorrow at Avenue St. Peter's Church, Dubail.
The Daily Press.
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HONG KONG, March 10, 1938.
HOUSE RENTS: GOVT. ACTS.
domestic animals
(bullocks and there was "a swell crowd of young
it would set the lead for the whole of China, and probably of the world. to abandon a practice at Cows, etc.) in Colombo, which she people on board" and that they
had a simply grand time.” thought quite unique. queer and unreasonable as it is
Miss Bevan is also a member of She entered for all the sports stupid.
the British College of Nurses. The events. has been knocked out of Why do merchants bleach and Head and Founder of this is Mrs some, but is still in the deck- polish
consumers ask for it. And why do con- sumers ask for it? Because it looks better On the table!
is 50 white and
clean looking. This practice has been
rice? Because
Science
and
the
has
Bedford Fenwick, who also founded tennis and ping-pong.
the International Society of Nurses. Miss Brooks said the greatest This Society meets in some big thrill of the trip was at Madeira, clty of the world every third year when they flimbed the usual and numbers a great many Chinese mountain, for the sake of that members.
wonderful trip down in a "coaster" which means two miles
FROM DENVER COLORAINO
a friend of hers (Miss Goodyear) told me that when she came down It was just a bit too exciting, as
Mrs. Callaway (wife of Mr. Jack their driver fell off about half Callaway of Denver, Colorado) and makes 'a
sunshine cruise every
way, and they completed the run
in vogue for a long, long time-- They met last year in London, we do not pretend to known how and it was specially noted that the down in a sort of sled-on-wheels, long. but it is known that it dates standard of knowledge of the Chin which gets up a terrific speed. back to a time when little was ese nurses was exceptionally high. These small sleds hold just two known about such things
After the conference the Heads of people and the driver who con His Excellency the Governor's vitamins and protein. The people this society were entertained at trols the brake and steering, etc. statement in Legislative Council, who introduced the practice did Buckingham Palace and had the
In her case. they made a thrill- yesterday, regarding the housing not know that in the process of honour of being presented to Queening trip down and enjoyed it. but and rents scandal in Hong Kong bleaching and polishing the food Mary and Queen Elizabeth, will be greatly welcomed by thou-value of the rice is greatly deplet- NOTICE IS HEREBY
sanda of tenants throughout the [ed. Indeed, the TOBAG of Con- GIVEN that the FIFTY THIRD
Colony. Such prompt action is insumers are still ignorant of the Sealed Tenders will be received ORDINARY YEARLY MEET-
Ex-fact, keeping not only with His
discovered. that the vitamin Ordinary cellency's great sense of justice however, at the Royal Naval Hospital, until ING of the Company (since
However all's well that ends 10 a.m. on the 16th. March, 1938, registration) will be held at the General Meeting of Shareholder and fair play for all, but also with protein content of the rice is winter, and is congratulating her with no driver to apply the brake! enthusiasm for concentrated in the thin. brown self on having got away in good well, and it must have been a from persons, desirous of supply Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong,
will be held at the Offices of the his unbounded
encouraging and promoting covering immediately beneath the time this year, since the home- Tuesday, the
very unique experience! ing Beel, Mutton, Fowls, Pork, on TUESDAY, the 22nd undersigned on
hygiene and clean living among husk
bleaching and mall has just brought - her news
THE YOUNG SET Cheese, Pure Cow's Milk, Ice, MARCH, 1938, at 11.30 A.M. 29th March, 1938, at Noon, for as many of the people of this polishing is to remove this valuable that the temperature is down be
food. The protein is cast away low zero just now in Denver City. After that I got involved in a and other provisions and neces for the purpose of receiving the the purpose of receiving the Re Colony as possible.
It usurous practices of landlords and the consumer swallows a load She has visited China and Japan crowd of the "Young Set" who saries. for the year ending 31st. Report of the General Managers port of the General Managers,
appeases the before, and on her last visit to the gave
me all sorts of amusing are driving many clean living of ballast which together with a Statement of together with
print it too, if I liked.... and citizens and their families to dirt, pangs of hunger, but leaves the Colony made a short stay at the "back-chat" and told me I could squalor and despair, then action (eater unsuppiled with the essential Hong Kong Hotel.
She enthused over the mar i know, that my readers would of some sort is urgently necessary. nutritive elements necessary for If pecuniary greed on the part of the maintenance of good health, vellous weather," and said that enjoy it beyond everything... and there by yesterday morning in Hong Kong am only 80 sotru" (as Charlie landlords is also driving many It has been placed
his great was the first bad weather seen Chan would say that I could; wage-earners to
since they left Jerusalem, and that never succeed in getting it past intervention by the community is wisdom throws it away! equally imperative.
The problem' of nutrition is an the only other rainy day was when the Editar, who is always so strict That the problem is
and never allows me to be indis- a most urgent one throughout the tropica,
creet... difficult one was clear from the but particularly so in Hong Kong outset, and the Governor's de- were economic conditions coupled ly all local Chinese hall, would set So I am afraid I can't tell the cision to appoint a committee with with the glut of available labour, the lead. it would not be long be-story about the lemon squash, or power to receive and analyse com- makes it practically impossible fore the Hong Kong Chinese grow any of the other things they told ext unpolished me-but it must be lots of fun plaints from aggrieved parties as for the bulk of the masses to af-accustomed to
March, 1939.
statement of
Printed Forms of Tender and Accounts for the year ended 31st Accounts for the year ended the
31st December, 1937. lurther particulars can be obtain OCTOBER, 1937. ed at the R.N. Hospital.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of The Share Register and Trans The right to reject the lowest the Company, will be CLOSED fer Books will be closed from the from SATURDAY, the 12th 15th to the 29th March, 1938 or ally tender is reserved.
| MARCH, 1938, to TUESDAY, both days inclusive..
JARDINE, MATHESON & the 22nd MARCH, 1938, both
CO., LTD., days inclusive.
General Managers,
G. D. G. FERGUSSON, Surgeon Captam,
Medical Officer in Charge.
J
Royal Naval Hospital,
Hong Kong.
10th. March, 1938.
6082
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hong Kong, 4th March, 1938.
6071
The Hong Kong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Hong Kong, 7th March, 1938.
financial ruin, nature and
man in
the an initial move is the wisest ford to supplément the rice diet rice, because the existing prejudice going round the world on course in the circumstances. It is with anything more nutritious. Ir is nothing but one of usage and Empress of Britain and I wish
that I could join un, and go too! 6072 now for the tenants to put their Kwangtung, from where practieal-is easily eradicable.