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ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS.
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HONG KONG EVENING INSTITUTE
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MALCOLM & CO., LTD.
Notice is hereby given that Mr. H. M. Howell is no longer connected with Malcolm & Co., Ltd., and that the authority
The Evening lastitute will re-granted to him to sign on behalt open on Monday, 13th March, of the Company is withdrawn as
1939.
Entry Forms may be obtained at the Education Office, New Fire Station Building, or at the Trade School, Wantsai.
J. RALSTON,
Director.
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HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
FOUR .the TEENTH ORDINARY YEAR. LY MEETING of HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY LIMITED, will be held on TUESDAY, the 7th day of March, 1939, at the BOARD ROOM of the Company, Second Floor, Exchange Building, Hong Kong, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors, for the Onancial year ended 31st Decem ber. 1938, and re-electing two Directors and the Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from the 25th February to 7th March, 1939, both days inclusive,
Dated this 31st day of Jann-
ary, 1939.
Order of the Board. W. L.. MCKENZIE, Secretary.
14, Des Voeux Road, Central.
92
HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED.
from to-day.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
可
E. R. WALCH,
Secretary
Hong Kong, 3rd March, 1939,
187
HONGKONG REALTY AND TRUST COMPANY, LIMITED (Incorporated under the Com- panies Ordinances of· Hong Kong)
HEREBY
NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders of Hong Kong Realty and Trust Com pany, Limited, will be held at
the Registered Office of the Com pany, Exchange Building (2nd Floor), Des Vocux Road Central, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 8th March, 1939, at 11.30 a.m., for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors for the year ended on the 31st December, 1938, and re-electing two Directors and the Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from Thursday, the 23rd February, 1939, to Wednesday, the 8th March, 1939, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,, F. C. BARRY," Secretary.
Hong Kong, 27th, Jan., 1939.
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THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.
THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS.
The Seventieth Ordinary Gen cral Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Friday, the 24th March, 1939, at Noon, for the
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HONGKONG, MArch 7, 1939
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1939
CORRESPONDENCE THE CHINESE ALMANAC
AUXILIARY NURSING AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE
SERVICE
[To The Editor “Hongkong
Dally Press"]
Bir.-May I through the medium of your newspapër. draw attention and appeal for active interest in a scheme for the, formation of a Civilian Hospitals Auxillary Nursing Service.
The widespread recruitment of women in Great Britain for hospital work in case of emergency has, no
purpose of receiving the Report POLICE METHODS doubt, inspired many with the
of the General Managers, to- gether with
statement of A
Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1938.
The Share Register and Trans. ter Books will be closed from the 10th to the 24th March, 1939, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
General Managers, The Hong Kong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Hong Kong, 3rd March, 1939.
THE HONG KONG AND KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS
183
THE FIFTY SECOND OR
Superstitious Practices And Propitious Days
BY T. PAUL GREGORY
Every one has seen a copy of the Chinese almanac -that book with the ornate covers of crimson-hued paper-which makes its annual debut about the time of the Chinese New Year. Few perhaps realize its im- -portance in the eyes of its possessors; for it is more than an ordinary calendarial compilation-it is the book par excellence.
work.
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desire to learn something about! RITICISMS made from the the care of the injured. Under the Bench of the Central auspices of this Auxiliary Nursing
Within the compass of its days and hours of good or evil jass Service opportunity is now afforded Magistracy by Mr. R: A. D. those who want to equip themselves pages is found a curious com- conclude the prefatory part of the Forrest. Senior Magistrate, with this knowledge.
pound of science and super- This unit will work in close co-stition, which is regarded by during the past week have, to say the least, been scathing operation with the existing Women's the masses of the Chinese but nonetheless quite justi- Organisations which are already fed. Police methods in all doing splendid work in the Colony, people as having the utmost oracular significance. It is parts of the world are subject and representatives of the St. John
not surprising to find that] Brigade and the to attack, some with good Ambulance ground, others for political Women's A. R. P. Union have this compendium is looked on the upon in much the same light Sub as was the family Bible in reasons. "The Hongkong Po- already agreed to serve lice Force 13 not above Auxiliary Nursing Service
Western homes-the
of Indeed, there are committee. Thus there will be no some
daily inspira-: criticism. numerous points to which overlapping and those who have source they are open to attack and passed the examinations in First tion, and the key for solving! Aid and Home Nursing will be the problems of good or evil it would be no easy matter for even the most ardent cham-able to go straight on to practical joss which perplex the people. plon of the police to defend the force.
experience in hospital.
Let us take a glance through the Courses of lectures in First Aid
contents of the popular almanac and Nursing will be available forlagued for the present year-the those who require them. Practical
A glance through the suc ceeding pages of the book re- veals much miscellaneous mat- ter, some of which is highly mysterious, Illustrating the great hold that superstitious practices have for the masses of the people. The only pages are famillar to Westerners those which represent the flags of some 96 countries. These are depleted by crude wood-" eut blocks, and are sadly in need of revistön, being evident- ly nearly a quarter of a cen- tury behind the times.
PROPITIOUS DAYS
Some of the tables and charts
ON THURSDAY last, Mr. Forrest was sharp in his re- nursing will be taught in the year of the hare in Chinese chono- marks against the police for wards of the Queen Mary and. It will be seen that the first are of special interest. One gives their treatment of a night-Kowloon Hospitals and, for the pages are printed in red, the days on which it is propitious are carefully observed by the ma- strange conjectures as to the rea- soil coolie, who claimed that benefit of those who speak Chinese and their casual perusal arouses to have a shampoo. These rules sop for this. Needless to say.jority of the amahs in Hongkong. he had been the victim in a only, at the Alice Memorial and
Affiliated Hospitals and Lal Chithese pages are perhaps the most who regard them as gospel truth snatching incident and who,
Kok Hospital.
important in the book, as they in every respect. Thus none of after he had detained one of
A special appeal is made for the give the Inquirer information of these women would think of wash- the thieves and handed him help of trained nurses resident in
value. For instance, the very first moon, as that, according to the assaulted by a Wanchai be invaluable in case of emergency page has a crude woodcut of the almanac, would shorten their life. DINARY ANNUAL MEETING over to the police, was himself the Colony, whose services would matters of either real or trivial ing their hair on the first of the
The Magis but who even now could render hon-ngau-ts'al, or "herd boy," with SLY lecturers and the ch'an-ngau. or "spring ox," or OF SHAREHOLDERS will be Station officer. held at the Office of Messrs.trate caustically observed that assistance
in the practical
required in the water-buffalo which Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., it was a very bad state of demonstrators
will be
spring for ploughing operations. on THURSDAY, 23rd MARCH; affairs if things like this could nursing classes
arranged for recruits.
From this picture the Chinese Those who are interested and 1939, at NOON, for the purpose happen in a police station.
are enabled to guess approxi- want to volunteer are asked to of receiving the Report of the
mately the probable state of send their names and addresses Directors and the Statement of
the weather during the year. together with particulars, if any, of
Indeed, as they look at the Accounts for the year ended 31st
previous nursing experience to:-
"berd boy" they can tell whe- December, 1938.
The Hon. Secretary, Auxiliary
wet or dry ther it will be a Nursing Service Sub-committee.
season. In the present in- C/o. Medical Department. Past
stance, we are assured of much Office Building, 2nd Floor
rain: for the lad in the cut is wearing, shoes. Last year his predecessor was represented as bare-foot. signifying drought, and we know from experience that this was a true prediction, the year 1938 being one of the dèlest ever noted in the Colony, RHYMED COUPLETS
The Transfer Books of the Company will be 'CLOSED from MONDAY, the 13th MARCH, 1939, to THURSDAY, the 23rd MARCH, 1939, both days in. clusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
C. M. MANNERS, Notice is hereby given that
Secretary & Manager. the TWENTIETH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of this Hong Kong, 4th March, 1939. Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Com.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Registered Offices of the Company, Ex. change Building, 14, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong, on pany No. 10, Des Voeux Road Tuesday, the 7th day of March Central, on Saturday, the 11th
of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1938.
1939, at 12.15 o'clock in the March, 1939, at 3.00 p.m. for the afternoon or so soon thereafter as purpose of receiving the Report the Annual General Meeting of the Company convened for that day shall have terminated for the purpose of considering, and if thought it, passing a resolution as a special resolution altering In certain respects the Articles of Association of the Company.
Full particulars of such pro posed alterations have been seni out to shareholders by post. A copy of the proposed special re solution giving details can be inspected at any time during business hours at the Registered Office of the Company.
By Order of the Board,
".
W. L. MCKENZIE,
Secretary. tong-nong, 7th-Feb., 1939.
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HONG KONG & WHAMPOA
The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from Saturday, 4th March, 1939, to Saturday, "11th March, 1939, (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of share! can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 17th Feb., 1939
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188
APPEAL JUDGES
AND VALUE
OF LIFE
Court Unable To
Fix A Scale
The Court of Appeal declined a request recently to set a scale of damages for luss of expecta- tion of "lite. Lord Justice Seatt stating:
The problem set the courts of this country is one of quite extraor- dinary difficulty, but it is not for the judges to lay down in advance anything approximating a scale of the financial value of life, and I do not propese to make the attempt." A general disquisition on the value of life would be a dangerous and wrong course, he added. The only safe course was to leave the
tion of judges
"It makes people have a funda mental distrust in the administra- tion of justice. hope the Hong- kong Police Force will have public an inquiry as possible in order to clear its name of these allegations: or. ir an inquiry should go the other way, to bring the guilty person to justice. (Ad- dressing the detective in charge of the case, he went on) I hope you will bring these allegations to the notice of your superior officers and that an inquiry will be held. for, if one is not held, I feel it incumbent to send a copy of these depositions to the Attorney- General."
"Paak-t'o chik nin yue-shul tah Ha-ts'au chi yat fong yim tao: "Paak-t'o chik nin yue-shui toh, Ta'aam-neung shau-moon song-yip
shiu,
It is well understood that there are many calls on the time and energles of public-spirited women just now, but this is essentially a The knowledge work. woman's acquired beforehand will make THE SECOND CASE in- their service doubly valuable in volved the re-arrest of two wo-time of emergency and should they men who has been cautioned be fortunate enough never to be
In order o emphasize the signi- by Magistrates for soliciting confronted with such an emergency for immoral purposes and, as the training received will always ficance of these data, there are a result, were put up for ban be useful in everyday life. Thanking rhymed couplets which run in part ishment. Asserting that a you for giving publicity to this thus: been adopted by the police, most improper procedure had scheme. Mr. Forrest said that, what- ever one might think of banishment in normal times, when it was perhaps possible to hold that it was a punish- ment, there could be no ques- tion but that, in present cir- cumstances, it would operate as a very heavy punishment indeed, one which would cause far more severe hardship to the persons banished than the heavy penalty which he had the power to impose for the offence.
"As I understand that these giris are banished on the grounds that they have been convicted of this offence before me, there will be no further convictions unt!! I. -am assured that this practice has been abandoned, and I have no alternative but to dismiss the case as trivial..
I am.
Yours faithfully. 8d. Lilias Dovey. Chairman, Auxiliary Nursing Service Sub-Committee.
. STREET - SLEEPERS SHELTER SOCIETY
To the Editor, "The Bougkong Daily Press"}
air-whilst cordially thanking
Neither would they shampoo on the fourth, as that would cause their hair to fade, nor on the twelfth, as that would be highly dangerous. Therefore, the average amah chooses a lucky day such as the eighth, ninth, and tenth. On the eighth, he is assured of long Hfe, the ninth of getting a hus- band, and the last, of brightening up her eyes like the girl with the scintillating orbs in the eye remedy advertisements in popular maga- zipes.
it...
Other features deserve men- tion. There are` pages, detail- ing charms and talismans. Some of these are said to famous # from emanate worthy known as Cheung Tin- sz, who to this day ix'regarded the "Patron Saint" of necromancers. One of the favourites is that used by ex- pectant mothers to guard arainst any premature accl- denta
$5
To add to the popularity of the amanae, the compilers have added a great deal of extraneous, matter which must have a wide appeal along the Chinese. These are: A fortune telling, on a guide to
Nung-foo hang tak ahau-kot to." A free translation is as follows:
"During the year the white hare rules much rain will fall, In summer and autumn beware "without a teacher" method, a list
of flood:
of the Past-king, or "Eight Famous The maids who tend the silk- Views of Canton," à collection of
worns will be sad because mulberry leaves are scarce,
and origin, But the farmers are fortunate; the
for they will have an early not the least important, are many such harvest.
curtous charts detailing
200 some
surnames showing
of places
TSIN-TSZ-MAN”
To make the book more interest-
ot Thousand
which was
Like the Western calendar, the trivialities as the meaning attach- all those who have kindly respond- Chinese almanac has a list of the ed to a sneeze at certain times, etc. ed to my broadcast appeal for "Dog days." which occur during funds, I regret to have to report the hot season. These, for the that we require $2,500 moze to en- convenience of the inquirer' are able us to carry on our work. given on the first page, and are ing to the literary-minded, there I am making this appeal in the divided into three periods called is likewise included the famous hope that those who have been "ch'oh-fuk; chung-fuk, and moot-Ts'in-taz - man, favoured by fortune at the races fok-beginning, middle, and end Character Classic” will kindly remember the "unfor decades of summer heat. These familiar to every Chinese school- tunate sleepers in the streets, for occur this year about July 12, July boy of a generation ago. The annotated that even the illiterate whom we are providing shelters, 22, and the early part of Septem-version given in the almanac is 50 amah is encouraged to pick up. two in Hongkong and one in Kow-ber. HIMSELF paying the fine loon.
On the page following the pic- quite a few characters and their Donations may be sent eltfier to ture of the "herd: boy and his which he had imposed on two
in its way the cause of mass education. -a-brothel, Mr. Forrest remark-c/o Thomson and Co., Hongkong chart based on the observations of The case was an appeal by an! ed that the circumstances of Bank Building, who will send a Chinese geomancers, or fung-shul Morning Post," of supplementary data giving the unemployed miner, William Ellis, of the case convinced him that receipt for the same, or to the experts. Below this are several whom a jury had awarded £126 the girls: however, he was Wyndham Street, who will ac lucky months for burials, etc. Ryhope, co. Durham, and his wife, there was no vitimization of South China for the death of their seven-year- bound to convict. He would knowledge receipt of the same in old son. Derek. He was knocked not impose a severe penalty as he was convinced that it down by a car.
Mr. Russell Vick, K.C., for the would do no good whatever by parents, said that although a claims harrying and harassing these
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question to juries under the direc-women charged with keeping the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. 8. Grove,charge, there is a curious kind of meaning, so that the book serves
RETRIAL ORDERED.
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LIMITED. Notice is hereby given that the Fiftieth Ordinary Yearly Meet DOCK CO., LTD. ing will be held at the Company's Offices, P. & 0). "Building, on NOTICE IS HEREBY Thursday, 9th March, 1939, at GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly 11 a.m. for the purpose of pre- Meeting of Shareholders will be senting the Report of the Direc. held in the Offices of the Comters together with a Statement of was made under the Law Reform women. Mr. Forrest added:--
Act, 1934, for loss of expectation of life, the jury awarded nothing un- Lord Justice Booty said the case would have to go back for retrial, but only so far as the assessment of damages was concerned.
Lord Justice MacKinnon and Lord Justice Goddard agreed.
pany, 2 Queen's Building, Hong Accounts to 31st December, 1938, Kong, on Monday, 27th March, and electing Directors and Audi,der that, head 1939, at Noon for consideration tors.
The Register of Members of of the Directors Report and Statement of Accounts for the the Company will be closed from year ending 31st December, 1938, 25th February, to 9th March. The Share Register and Trans- 1939, both days inclusive, during fer Books will be closed from 16th which period no Transfer of to 27th March, 1939, both days Shares can be registered. inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
E. COCK, Chief Manager.
Hong Kong, 1st March," 1939.
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By Order of the Board of Directors,
"The reason for their occupation is econondic, "but our law, it stands, indicts great and, uh merited hardship by making it a Crime
with them to supply lodging, except under ote condi- tion, namely that each one should have a fiat for herself, with which it is impossible to comply. In view of this, the fact that the law has never declared prostitution: to be legal in itself is somewhat hypocritical."
their columns.
H. E. POLLOCK, (Chairman) See also Page 9
COLONY HEALTH
RETURNS
The final portion of the volume is composed of data which must be of particular interest to the superstitious masses the calendar CYCLICAL YEARS
for the whole of the year with Next is a table of the cyclical copious detalla of what is lucky or years of the last century, showing unlucky on every day. Especially the months which are intercalary auspicious occasions are singled in the different years. Then fol-out for comment, so that one need lows a kind of mysterious kind of not go wrong if he follow the ad- pseudo-astronomical chart detall-vices of this household mentor.
Such is the Chinese almanac-a ing the hours when certain
planets and fixed stars are domin-book which has probably a greater me
least no volume is more widely were reported to the Health De-which are written large, and fir/ credation than any other, A partment on Sunday, in addition to the middle of the page represent studied by the masses of Cathay twenty-three cases of measles, six the conditions under which the
for the most important thing with cases of cerebro-spinal fever, ve Ruler of Heaven bestows blessings them is, good joss,
Thirty-five cases of tuberculosis ant and the central characters
cases of small-pox (two imported),
two cases of dysentery and one case
Succeeding this is a table setting
each of enteric fever and chicken out for those born at certain
MR. FORREST'S campaign | DOE
cleaner and more for a
A fine of five dollars was imposed. periods the months which are
at the dangerous for life, and then as by Mr. E Himwortź sort of consoling addition the Kowloon Court yesterday on Chan
Halia
court The
military sentenced two Arabs. to death, Death sentences passed upon three Arabs were commuted to impel- somment for life. Two Arabs were efficient police administration by offering their services, hours when this baletul influence Yee, a 50 year old widow, who was killed in a clash between Arab is deserving of all support but gratis if necessary in order may be said to terminate are in-convicted on a charge of cruelty to Kirrgulars and British troops who we would presume to go a that those who are not for- cinded. Then follows three pages five chickens. The muc were searching the village of step further by suggesting tunate enough to engage legal of verses on the subject, a table of to have been kept in a crave the wa
and other planets, and a chart of for them. Taffna in the Hebron district, that the legal profession of advice may obtain the full the movements of the sun, moon, judged too amall 10 COLEM
Hongkong might co-operate benefits of British law 141 (7.0)
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents. Hong Kong, 16th Feb., 1939.