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LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS || LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS
GENERAL
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 1940.
Committee To HITLER HAS Lord Athlone Legislative
THE JUMPS NEW GOV. GENERAL
Finance Consider Supplementary
SIR CHAS LITTLE
PUBLIC AUCTION. PUBLIC AUCTION. Votes Totalling $272,336 & THE LION'S TAIL
Mesars. SCHMIDT & Co., Ltd
(in liquidation)
THE
THE Dodersigned have received "Instructions from the Liquida- tors of the above named,
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION.
On
Wednesday, the 17th April, 1940
commencing at 11.00 a.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 2, Con- naught Road, Central, 2nd Floor.
A SELECTION OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS AND" SUNDRIES
comprising:
1 Ortho-lux Research Microscope
1 Panphot Microscope
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1 Leitz Demonstration and Freez-
ing Microtone
1 Leitz Large Sledge Microtorie
2 Leltz 35 m.m. Projectors
1 Kwaza Bona Quartz
(Table Model)
Lamp
Electric Sterilizers
1 Permanent Wave Machine
3 Polarimeters
1 Leite Copying Camera (No Lens)
1 Ether Mask
Exposure Meters (Weston, Om- brux and Sixtus)
also
THE Undersigned have received
Instructions
THE
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to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
Wednesday, the 17th April, 1940
commencing at 5.15 p.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 2 Con- naught Road, Central. (Room No. 205, 2nd Floor).
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A VALUABLE, COLLECTION OF POSTAGE STAMPS INCLUD- „ING A FEW LOTS OF RARE
totalling inadequate and upŝultable, to the new Central Store at North Point.
Supplementary votes $272,336 will be considered at a meeting of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council to be held tomorrow afternoon after the Council meeting.
The Chater Collection of Por- celain is also being" transferred, "to the. Central Store premises from the old City Hall building which The memoranda explaining the is required for office accommoda- Items is as follows:-
ESTIMATES. 1939
Charitable. Services:-Tung Wah and Associated Hospitals $199,000,
made in Estimates
Provision $121,000,
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In view of the increased. ex- penditure of the Tung Wah and Associated Hospitals, due partly to the continued increase in the work which these Hospitals have been called upon to undertake in present circumstances and partly to the higher standard of main; tenance and supervision which the Medical Committee atm at es- On View from Tuesday, the 16th tablishing. the Directors applied
OLD CHINA,
April, 1940.
to Government during 1939 for a special grant of $100,000 to assist in meeting their dèficit for 1938 and also for a further grant, pro- visionally estimated at $279,000, to meet the expected defcit for The amount actually paid LAMMERT BROS., during 1939 for the latter purpose
Was $99,000.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
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AUCTIONEERS.
Piano Recital By Miss Yao
A plano recital will be given by Miss Yao Tschin-schin, a talented Chinese planist, who recently re- Bathroom Scales. Balances and turned here from Germany, at the Sets of Weights, Step-down Trans- Rose. Room, Peninsula Hotel, at 9 formers and Resistances, Mercuryrm. April 24. Vapour Lamps" and X-Ray Tubes, Microscope Accessories, Microtone Accessories, Altitude Barometers, Stop Watches, Barthel Burners, Surgical and Dental Instruments. Enlarging Bulbs, etc.
On View from Tuesday, the 16th April, 1940.
Terras: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS..
AUCTIONEERS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Miss Yao studied music at the Staatliche Akademische Hochschule tuer Musik. Berlini, for seven years. In 1939. she graduated and took the Reifepruefung, known to be of a very high standard in musical examinations, which requires not only artistic perfection at the plano but also a thorough knowledge of all phases of musical science and art. Miss Yao ranked first and was the only Chinese to pass the
examination.
Miss Yao has played at concerts In Germany and also over the German wireless.
The programme is as follows: 1. Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13— Beethoven.
2. Ten, Variations on "Come un agnello" by Sarti, K.V. 460-Mozart. 3. Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65-Weber..
Interval
4. Fantasie-Impromptu in C sharp THE Undersigned have received minor, Op. 66 Chopin,
instructions
to sell by
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PUBLIC AUCTION
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Friday." the 19th April, 1940
commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Salcs Room, No. 35, Han- kow Road, Kowloon.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
Comprising:-
Chesterfield Suites, Sideboards, Dining Tables, Chairs, Bedsteads, Cots. Wardrobes, Chests of Draw- ers. Dressing Tables, Tea Poys, Desks, Cabinets, Bookcases, Chests, Wardrobe Trunks, Peram- balators, etc., etc.
Ice
Carpets Cutlery, Silver. Bronze, Brass, Aluminium, Cloisonne, E. F., Cut Glass, Porcelain and Glass
5. Berceuse, Op. 57----Chopin,
5. Impromptu. in F sharp major, Op. 36-Chopin.
7 Ballade in G minor, Op. 23- Chopin
Tickets, at $2 and $3, are obtain-
able at Tsang Fook Co. and S. Montrie & Co.
In The Police Reports
Theft of
money and Jewelery from his house at Prince Edward Road was reported to the Police yesterday by Mr. A. C. Jeffreys. The articles.valued at $82, were taken from his bedroom.
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1939:
ttori due to the present emergency and a sum of $1,000 is required to meet cost of shelves and racking.
Lairine-Lung Kong Road, Kow- loon City 322.400.
LONDON. April 2 (By Air Mail)-Admiral Sir Charles Little Second Sea Lord, ad- dressing cadets at Dartmouth Royal Naval Odllege to-day, on the occasion of the Easter prize-giving, sabi:
""THE JUMPS"
"I feel justified, when Hitler's red Tight is showing оп the western horizon, with the Royal Navy at its stations in the Seven. Seas and the lion's tall moving faster and faster, in using the ex- pression, Hitter has the jumps'"
A sum of $13,000 was provided in the 1939 Estimates for the erection of a public latrine in
Sir Charles stressed the need for Nam Kok Road. estimated to cost. $18,000, but owing to objections good understanding between
officers and men, and continued: from residents in the district an-
"There is a war going on and other site in Lunk Kong Road was что raise eventually approved.
the sooner you get into that was, this site to Town Planniar levels as you have chosen the naval 3 considerable amount of ang profession, the better for you and was necessary, thus causing delay the better for the Service. The war may not go on for a very long in the erection of the building. No expenditure was incurred dur-time and there may not be another ing 1939, and the revised cost is
career. The great war in your now estimated at $22.400.
thing which every fighting man wants to do is to gain experience of war"
Government Slipway. Yanmaţi- Reconstruction of Pier 328.143.
Provision made in Estimates $27,000.
The present pler is in a dilapi- dated condition, and it is essen- tial to carry out the reconstruc-
Defence Volunteer Defence ftion before the typhoon seáson. Corps. Special Expenditure:-Two
Total $273,338: Armoured Cars 314.199.
In May, 1939, it was decided to purchase two armoured cars for the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps at a cost of $12,000 each. The actual expenditure.. durii g that year was $14.198.15.
Stores Department:-Unallocat- ed stores. Purchase. Freight and Other Charges $270,836.
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No Case To Answer
ECHO TO CAMP DISPUTE
:
E more severe blow
In accordance with the instruc- Է։ tions contained in the Secretary
Holding that the prosecution of State's despatch of November 25, 1937, on the subject of Colonial had not proved defendant struck Accounts (published in Sessional deceased Paper No. 9 of 1938), the financing of Unallocated Stores from sur- plus balances discontinued and any excess in the value of purchases of stores over the value of issues of stores on the opera- tions of each financial" year is to be charged to expenditure. At the end of 1939 this excess amounted to $270,835,04
ESTIMATES, 1940-41 Charitable Services:-Tung Wah and Associated Hospitals $180.000.
Provision made Estimates $350,000.
than was necessary in self-defence, Mr. E. Himsworth at Kowloon Court yesterday discharged Ng Kwai-wing, 21, interned Chinese soldier of the Argyle Street Camp, accused of the manslaughter of another. Interned soldier, Cheng Hop, 39.
Ng was charged with the un- lawful killing of Chang. Hop fol- lowing a quarrel over the slowness of play at a mahjongg game. Deceased, witnesses agreed, struck defendant first, and the latter had at first retaliated but then run out of the hut with the de fendant chasing him.
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On the basis of the estimated defcit of $279,000 in respect of the year 1939, it was proposed to After recalling to the witness- Increase the Government's sub- stand Fong Chung-chan #10
Chun, the two vention for that year from $121.Cherng
other 000 to $400.000. Of the additional participants with defendant and aum $99,000 was paid during De-deceased In the mahjongg. Kaine, cember. 1939. leaving $180,000. to Mr. Percy Chen,' instructed by Mr. be met in 1940. over and above M. A da Silva, submitted that the evidence taken suggested that the deceased took the initiative and
the grant already provided in the
Estimates for 1940-41.
Evening
Education Department:-Equip-struck the first blow. ment of Classes KOT Institute $885
Provision made in $1,300.
Estimates
man,
for defendant haa
DECEASED WIELDED BROOM
Defendant warded off the blow, and struck deceased once or twice, In October, 1939,
31.12. evening in retaliation. The blows were class, for apprentice dispensers in nct excessive and there was 110 training for Part I of the attempt by defendant to use any examination prescribed in the instrument. Out of respect Pharmacy and Polions Ordinance, the older 1937, was formed. The course in even run out of the hut, and de- cludes instruction in magnetism ceased, after and electricity
the exchange of for which the blows, was able yet to run about necessary apparatus is not avail- able, the cost of which is estimat-
"defendant" atd 20 yards after wield a broom stick ed at $895.
Capitation Grants $3,567.
There was not sufficient evi- Provision made in Estimates jdence to show whether deceased's injury had been caused by a blow
Mrs. R Maslen, of Kennedy Road, Military headquarters. has $300,000.
or by a fall in the hut later when, had been given to
reported to the Police that an Owing to an increase in the at- unidentified Chinese snatched her tendance of pupila at the English as evidence handbag... valued, with its contents, and Higher Grade Vernacular show, he struck the portion of the at $38, whilst she was walkingSchools during the year 1939 the bed against the wall and moved provision made in the current es-this about half a foot aut of Battery Path on Monday,
timates for the Capitation Grants position.
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Ware, Electric Table Lamps, „Fans Injured during the Japanese in respect of that year is insuf- & Clocks, Gramophones & Records, combing of Shayuchung on April clent. Curios, Ornaments, Pictures, Cook-13. five Chinese, Ko Ying, Wong Medical Department:- Special ing Utensils, etc., etc.
Sun, Wong Yuen, Lau Tai
X-Ray and Expenditure: Wat Chal
admitted to the Equipment $3,789.
also
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▲ QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD AND FOOCHOW LACQUERED
WARE
and
2 Pairs Binoculara
2 Radio Seta
2 Cine-Projectors
1 Cine Screen
1 Piano Accordeon
1 Barometer
1 Hand Sewing Machine
1 Dinner Service
1 Silver Statue (Horse)
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were
Queen Mary Hospital yesterday.
Yik Buk-tul and Ng Kwan hin, both multsais, living at 16, Yin Po Song Street, have been ad- mitted to hospital suffering from the effects of poisoning, believed
to have been self administered.
THEFT OF AN UMBRELLA Sentence of six weeks
hard labour was imposed on Ng Wing.
ONLY, BLOWS SUFFERED
Replying to the submission for Therapy the derence Mr. J. F. Murphy, Assistant Crown Soliciter, sald Post Office:Mall Bags. Parcel that the only blows suffered by Boxes. Date Stamps and Scales deceased were struck by the de- $15,000.
Provision made. In Estimates
$11,000.
fendant. H
In discharging defendant, Mr. The number of mall bags to Himsworth said that the question transit has increased an account of whether the fatal injury had of heavier outward mails from been sustained in a fall or in a Hongkong and the stock, notwith-blow from accused was essen- standing additional supplies obtially one for a jury to decide. tained in 1939, has again begome The prosecution had not proved so seriously depleted that further that defendant had struck a blow supplies must be obtained from at deceased more, violent than was the United Kingdoma
sufficient to defend himself, and he held defendant had no cass to
Public Works Extraordinary:-
24, unemployed, when he pleaded Central Government Store $16,- answer. guilty before Mr. H. G. Sheldon at | 500.
On View from Thursday, the 18th the Central Court yesterday to a
April, 1940.
Terms: Cash on Delivery..
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEEREN,
Provision made in Estimates
charge of theft of an unbrella | $8,000; Provision made by Supple- from motor caz No, 210, the pro- perty of Mr. T. Bolt.
The defendant was seen taking
away the umbrella in Hennessy Road on Monday and was chased
and arrested
mentary Vote $34,247. Total $40,247,
Mr. R. Rose Andersen, Manager
It is proposed to transfer stores of Mesurs, Thoresen and Co., Ltd., was booked to leave
on charge of the Medical Depart- Bangkok
ment, whose present accommoda- Hongkong this morning for Bang- tion in the former Seamen's In-kok by the Imperial Airways mail stitate at Johnston Road is both plane Denabola.
OF CANADA
Council Tomorrow
A meeting of the Legislative Council will be held tomorrow at 2.30 p.m.
The Order of business is as fol- |lows:
MOTIONS
The Attorney General will move that the Trade Mark Emergency) Rules, 1940, made by the Chief Justice pursuant to the Trade Marks
(Emergency) 1940, section 8, be approved.
The Attorney General will also move the First reading of
Ordinance.
"A Bill to amend the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1932"
"A Bill to amend the Interpre- tation Ordinance. 1911.”
The Earl of Athlone, K.G., G.C.B.,
"A Bill to amend the Fire. In- G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., the new Gover-vestigation. Ordinance, 1895." nor-General of Canada. He is 65 "A Bill to amend the Prevention years of age and was Governor of Eviction Consolidation and General of South Africa from 1923 Amendment Ordinance, 1939." to 1938. He was created a Knight of the Garter in April, 1928.
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The Financial Secretary щоте
That the Counell resolves itself LONDON, Apr. 4 (By Air Mall)into Committee, to consider clause Lord Athlone, brother of Queen-
by clause "A Bill to impose "war Mary and uncle of the King, is to taxes and to regulate the Colles-
tion thereof."
be the new Governor-General of- Canada in succession to the late Lord Tweedsmuir." This was offl- cially announced, last night from Buckingham Palace.
MASS. INST. OF TECHNOLOGY
HEAVY FINES ON CHINESE Charged with keeping a'com-
This will be Lord Athlone's mon gaming house, possession of po plu lottery tickets, selling po second experience of being a Gov-
ernor General-he has been Gov- Alumni in Hongkong of the piu lottery tickets and possessión
without a ernor General of the Union of Massachusetts Institute of Tech of a printing press ilcense, a man named Wong Ngau, South Africa, where he was an ex-nology, numbering more than 30, 41, was fined $625, in default sfxtremely popular figure, months' hard labour, by Mr, Q. A. A. Macfadyen. at Kowloon Court yesterday.
Defendant was arrested by the police in a raid, at 7.30 pm, Un April 15 at 298, Temple Street, thire floor.
met together at the Chinese Mer: chants' Club last night at dinner.
It is understood that he will not leave for Canada for two or three
Periodical dinners are given by weeks. Princess Alice Lady Athlone the local alumni, the hosts" last will accompany her husband. They night being Mr. Peter H. Sin, Dr. are now at their country seat, Y. L. Yeh, of the" Ip Tak Co., Ltd., Brantridge Park, Balcombe, Sus- and Mr. Y. H. Li, sub-manager of
the Central Trust of China,
sex.
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