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PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS "AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public! Auction to be held on Monday, the 25th day of Nov., 1938, at 3. p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of Crown Land at one Lot of Aberdeen, in
Colony of the Hong Kong for a term of 73 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN- GOLD MINING CO., LIMITED.
(Incorporated in Queensland).
Notice of Declaration of Third
Interim Dividend.
THE ROYAL SCOTS
History To Be
Broadcast
Included in the radio pro- gramme to-day is a relay from Daventry, at 8.05 pm. of one of the "Their Red Line", 'series which deals with the history In view of the Royal Scots.
to
the presence of the 2nd Battalion of this Regiment in Hongkong. this should be of more than ordinary Interest. A brief history of the Regi- It was in 1633 that Louis XIII
who was then in the French Army, commissioned Sir John Hepburn, to raise a new regiment, burn used the remnants of a body foundation of this regiment, Hep- of Scottish Infantry which bad been in French service since 1500 and which thus became the first
NOTICE is hereby given that a Third Interim Dividend of five pence per share for the financial year ending 31st March, 1939. has been declared by the Direcment may be interesting. tors of the Company in Brisbane. payable on 15th December, 1938 to Shareholders on the Registers at Brisbane and Singapore, on 14th December, 1938.
NOTICE is also hereby given Intending bidders are advised that the Singapore Transfer Re be closed from that immediately after the dis- gisters will posal of the lot the Purchaser Thursday, 8th December, to 14th December.. (if not the aplicant), will be Wednesday, required to deposit with an 1938, both days inclusive, for the authorised officer who will be preparation of Dividend War present at the sale, the sum of rants. two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the
priče.
Purchase
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
| No. of Sale.
Registry No.
Aberdeen Inland Lot
No. 117.
Inland Lots Nos 4- Locality.. and 7. Island Road,
Petween Aberdeen
Aberdeen.
Boundary
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IN THE SUPREME
COURT OF HONG KONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION,
THE IN
ESTATE "ol HARRY G. SMITH, late of Chungking, in the Province of Szechun, in the Republic of China, Air Pilot, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Probate Or- divance 1897 made an Order credi. limiting the time for tors and others to send in their claims against the above, estate to the 12th day of December, 1938...
All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required te send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.
Dated the 14th day of Novem ber, 1938.
WILKINSON & GRIST, Solicitors for the Administrator, No. 2, Queen's Road Central,
Hong Koog
HELENA MAY INSTITUTE.
The Annual General Meeting of subscribing members will be
By Order of the Board,
DERRICK & Co.. Chartered Accountants, Local Secretaries. Hongkong Bank Chambers, SINGAPORE, 12th Nov., 1938,
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HONGLONG, NoszиBER 3, 1938.
FIRMER ACTION ADVOCATED
CONSIDERABLE INTEREST
Oare the questions in the House of Commons with reference to the Japanese invasion of China and. the attitude likely to be adopted by the Powers over the blockading by the Japanese naval forces of the Yangtze and Pearl Rivers, "thus effectively preventing foreigners from carrying on business to which they are legally entitled under the treaties.
As the
parent corps.
The regiment was brought to full strength by 3,000 recruits from Royal Scotland raised ander warrant granted by Charles I.. and by amalgamation with the famous Green Brigade.
TITLE CHANGED
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EDITORIAL
FINANCE COMMITTEE
MEETING TO-MORROW
Supplementary Votes For $341,722: Transport Of Government Servants
Charitable Services
Supplementary votes totaling $341,72% Includkig $115,000 for transport & Government servants, about $73,000 for charitable ser vices, $11,323 for personal emoluments Hongkong Volunteer Defence considered by the Finance Commitee of the Legislative Council at a meeting to be held tomorrow afternoon in the Council Chamber. Carps, and $2,500 for the maintenance of lepers in Hongkong, will be
The memoranda explaming the items is, part as follows:-
E-TIMATES, 1938
Provision was made in the 1933 Cadet Officer sumates for one under this Head, which is now,
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1938.
ABERDEEN FISHING JUNKS
The above picture shows three of the 300 Chinese fishing Junks now anchored at Aberdeen. Several thousands of these funks are Owing to the closing down of lying idle at Cheung Chan, Shaukiwan and Aberdeen for fear of (Photo: Victoria Gaol and Laichikok Prison seizure by Japanese warships outside Hongkong waters. the Prison Department vans no A. A. Kahn), District Office, South-Personal longer cross the harbour and the
Police Department have to trans-creased expenditure for regular STATE FUNERAL OF Emolutions-$21,093.
PANCHEN LAMA Port a number of prisoners daily Army instructors. from Kowloon to Hongkong; al- MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES
Rent Allowances-Aslatic Sub- though this was known when es-
Chungking, No. 22. The thrilling and pertions Owing to increased rentals, and journey to northern Sikong by Chi- to more oficers being eligible for nese Government representatives owing to staff changes, meeting the mates were framed in 1937, the ordinate Officers-$6,500. salaries of three sith officers, two of whom are on leave.
rent allowances, the provision made attending the state funeral of the has papred Insufficient.
Panchor Lama is described in an to the Transport of Government Ser- official report submitted
National Government by Mr. Tao The amount provided in this Chi-tao. President of the Examina- vants-$115,000. year's Estimates has proved insuf- tion Yuan. fielent owing to increase in fares!
Post Office:-Electric Fans and Lignis-$300.
The General Post Office is now
the amount required for this pur- pose was underestimated.
Twenty 303 Rifles and Bayonets ~$300.-
Owing to an increase in the cost
these rifles and bayonets the sum originally provided has proved Insuficient...
eidne-$1,332,
ment Stan.
In 1811 the Prince Regent had the title of the Regiment changed kept open for public business until to "The First Regiment of Foot, 7 pm, and an increase in the con- Under the sumption of elecule current has Scots." The Royal
PRISONS DEPARTMENT
The thousand-mile trip took five Cardwell Scheme of 1881 the title been inevitable.
Special Expenditure, Sowing ma-and to more passages being re-months during which time the Mall Bags Parcel Boxes, etc.-
passed over quired than was anticipated when
a high bravellers became The Royal Scots, (The
$600 Lothian Regiment)."
It is proposed to expand the the Estimates were framed. It is
mountain range near the Tibetan border. The sceretary, narrowly During the Great War in ad- Owing to increases in the cost"
tailoring industry in the Hongkong estimated that a further sum et dition to two Regular, the Special or mail bags and to additional bags Frison to include the making of all $115,000 will be required to meet escaped death when he fell over Reserve and severi Territorial being required to cope with the in- ; Battalions.
less
1938. than eight crease in air mall co.respondence uniforms for the Prisons Depart-expenditure up to December 31, Service,
and one Labour
two arising from the extension of the The cost of ten additional sewing Garrison Battalions were raised "All-Up Scherrie" to the Colony, the! and maintained.
provision originally made for 1938 machines required for this purpose
is estimated at $1,332 It is impossible to give details is expected to be insufficient by ap
Clothing and Shoes for Staff- regarding the actions fought by proximately $600 and a supplemen-
$3,700. in Individual battalions in the tary vote of that amount is Re- Great War but the fact that the cordingly requested. Regiment played a noble "part in every theatre of the War is evident by the following list of battle honours botne on the King's Colour:-
"Le Cateau." "Mame." "Ypres." "Teos," "Somme." "Arras" "Lvs," "Strama," "Galipoll," and "Pales.
tine."
SMUGGLING SILVER
Shanghai, Nov. 15.
FIRE BRIGADE Incidental Expenses-$200.
meet all charges for the year, for the reasons stated below. (a) Increased cost due
bluff one night and sustained Injuries to his side. CILARITABLE SERVICES
The funeral of the Pancher' Maintenance of Lepers in Hong-
Lantze Lama took place at the kong-$2,500.
Provision made has proved in- Temple. The party returned to Chengtu on September 26.-Reuter. abnormal! sufcient owing to the Cost of materials for officers number of lepers maintained, and clothing has proved higher than also to the payment of expenses fo. was estimated and there has been the small-pox hospital f.om Janu- jan increase of staff since the orary 1, 1938.
Relief of Tung Wah Hospital The abnormal number of cholera ginal 1938 Estimates for this. Item and small-pox patients being was submitted. It is estimated Chinese Refugees-$50,000.
The several sume voted by transported in the ambulances that an additional $3,700 will be have caused additional expendi- needed to meet commitments this Council for the relief and repatria.
¡ year.
tion of Chinese Refugees through ture in the washing of blankets.
the Tang Wah Hospital organisa- tion have been exhausted and fur- With the greater number of vans ther funds are urgently required to now being used, increased mileage meet expenditure already incurrea and with consequent repairs the and to provide funds for the La- provision made under this, Sub-mediate future, head in the Estimates has proved |
Oil and Fuel for Vehicles-$8,000. Upkeep and running expenses of Ambulances have been obliged to motor vans-5700. run much increased infleage owing to the Cholera and Small-pux epidemic and the vote for this item is now exhausted...
One Austn 20 HP. Motor Am bulance-$500.
Owing to the cost including i In violation of the ordinance for
of the ambulance being the nationalization of white silver, freight
estimated, the a number of merchants are buying higher than wis large quantities of the metal from amount provided has proved in- the interior to be smuggled out to sufficient by $500. Hongkong.
As foreign exchange is at pre- sent soaring, they intend to pro- fiteer by it at the expense of their
own country.
The Department of Finance has, therefore, especially established 2 White Silver Smuggling Preventive service to keep a watch over the perpetrators. Smugglers of white silver will be sentenced to death, or at least seven years imprisonment
"Takungpao."
SUPREME COURT Personal Emolumens---$7,000.. This vote has been called upon to bear unforeseen expendite in respect of acting pay for the posts of Chief Justice and Pulsne Judge and to provide for the salary of temporary stenographer.
Cown Solicitor:
Emoluments-$1,050.
Personal
inadequate.
Refugees Camps-$20,000.
#
to high consump- tion for the firs seven months
(b) Execution of un-
foreseen repair work at the Yau- mati Service, and- Jubilee Reservoirs...
(c) Cost of waste detec- tion work, for which the Finance
Committee has in- formally approved of an expenditure up to
Waste
$ 1,000
4,000
5,000
510,000
Detection.Meters
and
Equipment-$25,00.
A scheme for the provision of MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
"Camp at Kain Tin to accommodate Maintenance of lunatics at Can-.efugees om China has already been approved and it is now neces- Icon $1,600..
In the past accounts for the sary to vote a sum of money to maintenance of lunaties in Canton meet the expenses which are now [fave not been rendered promptly being incurred. It is expected that and the November account Is the cost of running the Camp for usually paid in the following year, the remainder of 1938 will be not
A supplementary vote of 125,000 owing to the Sino-Japanese nos-less than $20,000 a vote for that
lies in Canton the administra-mount in the first place in reis requested to meet the cost of Water Meters and other equipment ton of
the Municipal Insane quested.
General Chinese Charities Fund.necessary for carrying out certain Asylum Hospital has DOW been
proposals for the detection and taxen over by the Sisters of the -$1,234.
The Chinese Pubile Inspensaries prevention of water wastage Immaculate Conception who are expected to render the November Fund, which is one of the pene
Barbed wire fence Leper Settle- This application is necessary account in time for payment was deiary charities included in this owing to the fact that the Crown
vote, has by long-standing custom ment at Kennedy Town-$1,200.
A barbed wire fence estimated to Agents' account in respect of thes Up to October 6, 1938. 137 pa-received contributions from junks salary of one of the Assistant ments had been sent to Canton as and fishing craft collected by the cost $1,200 is urgently inquired to Kennedy Town recently taken over Crown Solektors for December, against 118 for the correspondine Haitou: Department along with surround the leper settlement nt
by Government. and 1937, was not forwarded in time to period in 1937 and this increase is licence fees. Halifax, the Foreign
The collection of these contri- debit the 1937 vote,
expected to be even larger as soon
PUBLIC WORKS PROTESTS Secretary, arrive in
Official Receiver: Personal as communications between Canton brations ceased in September and
EXTRAORDINARY USELESS. Parls to-day. to dis-
Uming ground, Access Road and Hongkong are reopened there it is the intention in future that cuss subjects of in-
THREAT to the French Gov- This vote has been called upon to by increasing the cost of man-equivalent payments should b terest to both countries. And, it is
made from Government funds and ernment in connection with the des- bear unforescen expenditure intenance.
The provision of an additional added, there is a possibility of a more effective retort being made patch of supplies to China by way respect of Crown Agents expenses
Rent of Public Telephones-$600, off-set by an increase of 10 per When the estimates for this year cant. in licence Yees collected in urning ground on the Mainland is than mere verbal protestations, to which the Japanese are not dis-menacing of the French Con-of Junior Clerical Staff subsequent were prepared it was not known ex-respect of boats, junks and steam considered necessary, and a sudt- posed to listen.
cessions in Tientsin and Shanghal, the framing of the 1938 ES-actly how many telephones would launches authorized by Regulationsable area on the North slopes of
LONDON REPORTS indicate that Britain and France, following relection of their protests by the Japanese, will discuss the matter fully when Mr. Neville Chamber- lain, the Prime Minister. and Lord
•
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to enumerate
Eastern otherwise.
APART
situation-economic
H
THE FROM
VAKLED Emolument—$700.
J
of Indo-China and the constant incurred in 1937 and of promotions
STRONGER
with any accuracy the number ACTION
Japan's constant in- timates terference with the rights and Interests
MAGISTRACE, HONGKONG Fees for Interpretation, etc.--560. The special jury in the death in- a case of atropine
of protests which have been made | NECESSARY of foreigners is such
SOME OF THE EXCUSES given "are not merely lame and with- out basis of fact but they ate futile
that it cannot be
year.
$4,000.
#
000.
the
4.
be required for use in the Queen published as a Government Noti-Hammer Hill has been emarked fication. It is acco.ngly proposed for this purpose. The new ground Mary Hospital and this sub-head
to make a grant of $1,234. to com- is required for use in 1939, and it was under-estimated.
Apparatus and Chemicals $324. pensate the Dispensaries Fund for is desirable to proceed as early as to Tokyo by the Powers but it is
The D.R.-2 unit in the Genera: the loss of revenue during the cur- possible with the ruimation of an supplementary access road caluated to cost $4- "possible to say that not one in a tolerated much longer. It is the quiry into
Conversion of Laichikok Prison 1965 dozen has met with any satisfac-fervent hope of all foreign re- poisoning at Queen Mary Hospital Electric refrigerator installed in rent year and a
tion. The usual Japanese proce-sidents of China that Whitehall requested the services of an in- the Government Laboratory has vote is requested accordingly.
Flowood (all departments)- Upper Block ar Cholera Hospital-
$700. dure on Japan's part is to question will adopt an attitude firmer than dependent medical witness to whom broken down swing to short cir- PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT has been the case in the past with the usual fee of $100 is being paid. culling of the motor. This unit the grounds for the protests, which
Magistracy, Kowloon:-Elecirte cannot be repaired locally and the $5,000.
Certain additional items have they know to be entirely true; and a view to adjusting all outstanding
Arrangements have been made Agents have offered to supply a matters and take stronger action Fans and Light $130. then to answer by giving their own versions and weak excuses. The to safeguard the trading interests in order to cope with, the con- new electrical unit at a reduced for the supply of firewood to Gov- been requested by the Medical Buliding Ordinance Compensa- protests are then pigeon-holded of her citizens in this part of the gestion of cases the magistrates price of $324 There are not suf-emment Departments and Refugee Department since the original es-
have had to sit late in the even- ficient funds under this Sub-head Camps from Government planta- timate was prepared.
tions, which is more economical "and nothing further is heard of world.
Lion arid Resumptions-$18,000. jings resulting in increased expen- to cover the cast of this new unit. them.
INCIDENTALLY. It must be noted are on electric light and fans. D's'nfectors, operating expenses. than purchase from cont.actors.
Upkeep and running expenses With the object of facilitating that the scapegoats are not the
·POLICE FORCE
-$200.
Owing to the epidemics of small. of Motor Louples and Cara-$1,000. futare residential development the Cainese burITAL American and French Rhat of Stations
and Married
Owing to the higher cost of closure of British, alone, but the other Powers, in- Police Quarters -$4,500. * ¡pox and cholera and the high cost clading Tokyo's allies in the Anti-
With the opening of the New of coal as compared with last year necessary spare parts required 102. grounds at He Mun Tin has been Comintern "bloe-Germany
Passport Office, Government leased the amount provided in the Es-Governmen: vans, lorries and ears, effected and, after negotiations Italy. The Germans are angered the 5th floor of Chung An Build timates and the amount obtained the vote approved in the current with regard to the Roman Catho that she is dealing EXCUSES as a result of the refusal of the ing at a monthly rental of $500 as by a supplementary vote under this Estimates is insufficient to meet lie cemetery, the Mission is now sub-head have already proved in- expenditure to the end of the year. prepared to surrender, its area to Japanese to permit them to trade To submit Balance Sheet and with seasoned states
sufficient to cover the cost of Upkeep of Motor and Steam Government, in exchange for one situated to the West of the railway Rollers$1,000. Small Sto:es—$2,600. men and diplomats and the time freely in north China, especially from Apell this year. Annual Report for 1937-38.
will come-soon, it is to be hoped- insofar as the fur and wool trades
Owing to the increase in price operating the disinfector
Owng to a heavy programine of 'and North of Boundary Street. It DEFENCE when she will be called upon to are concerned, and the Italians.are
Indignant over the fact that their of stores purchased locally and
Volunteer Defence Corps: Per-ad repairs during the year and is desirable to effect the exchange to the higher cost of spare parts at an early date by the payment face the issues without evasion. auty
clligens are being arrested and through Crown Agents and to ex- COMING SO SOON after the gistracefully 11-treated, as evi-optional purchases necessitated by 'sonal Emoluments $11,324.
American protest denced vigorous
by the case. Involving emergency conditions, the vote of Additional expenditure in per-quired for rollers, the vote ap- of agreed compensation amounting Housing Disinfector at Kennedy sonal emoluments has been in- proved in the current Estimates ls to $18.189.
Town Hospital-$1,450, against Japan's constant inter- Father Pio Belli, a report of which $7,000 has proved inadequate.
Extensive repairs are neces8377 PUBLIC WORKS RECUERENİ ference with the interests of US appears in another section of the Subsistence of Prisoners $1,600. curred owing to the appointment Insufficient to meet expenditure to citizens in China and against the Hongkong Daily Press" to day. Owing to the increase in crime of a Commandant at an increased the end of the year,
and the consechent mcrease in the salary, the payment of leave salary
Kowloon, Mantenince of Water to make serviceable the 614 steam disinfector, removed from Victoria slamming of the "Open Door," the decision of the Powers to stand up THE BITUATION has become so number of persons detained, the to the former Commandant, the
The amount provided in the cur- Gaol to the Kennedy Town Infec master: in defence of their legal rights unbearable that the time has vote of $4,950 provided in Estimates appointment of a new Quarter-works-$10,000.
ent Estimates is insumetent to tous Diseases Hospital cannot fail to have a very impor- come for dilly-dallying to stop and bas, proyed, memme 1972 tant bearing on the present Far for firmer action
held on Wednesday, 30th Noventand, to say the least, ludicrous, ber, 1938, at 10.30 a.m.
NOTE
BUSINESS.
Alter the meeting there will be an tion of 1939. Maga- zines.
."
Will those who wish to pur chase any magazines at a reduced rate, please be present.
IRENE D. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
What Japan apparent-
ly does not realize is. LAME
-
and