HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
Londoners Have Certainly
Changed Their Habits:
New Tempo Of Life
LONDONERS HAVE CERTAINLY CHANGED THEIR HABITS; NEARLY EVERYBODY NOW GET TO THEIR WORK ON BICYCLES, The magnificent porters of Claridges or the Ritz will park a bicycle these days with less fuss than a Bentley. The Bavoy courtyard is always lined with the blcycles of its clients. and some of these are pretty old-fashioned conveyances, too.
UNIVERSITY ENROLMENT
Plenty of men ride in from out- lying districts, where they have parked their families, in shorts, and change in the office.
Hiking boots for both sexes also ine up in the cloak rooms of many office premises!
Hostel Accomodation | WALKING TO OFFICE
The younger members of the Taxed To The Limit staff have tired of walting upon
Dus
the convenience of varying The number of students on the registration roll of Hongkong Uni-schedules and have taken the mat versity may tup the 600 mark this ter into their own hands or rather! lerm, as against a total registra pou their own feet!
tion of 588 last year.
This will be
A man who lives in Surrey. the largest enrolment in the Unclaims walking to his office to be versity's history.
New students total 197, of whom
72 are studying Medicine. 44 are in the Engineering courses, 50 are in Arts and 22 in Belenice.
A feature of the enrolment this term is the large number of stu dents from Malaya, who are tax- ing the available hostel accom modation to the limit.
his only amusement these days. To date he has tried 26 different
routes, and stimulates himself by trying to knock out his own re corda
CHENG -- LIU
Mr. M. T. Cheng and his bride. formerly Miss Liu Hing-yuen -(King's Studio)
FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES
PROCEEDINGS REVERSED
change quickly and dash out again feld Barracks,
Friends who used to burry home. now reverse the proceeding. nave their entertainment as
GENERAL
Non-drinker Guest Has Come Into His Own
Once upen
time the non- drinking guest was looked on by hosts and hostesses who went in | for entertaining in a big way as a
duff a problem child
"What'll we do with the Smiths? They don't drink," the would-be Hosts and hostesses used to ask each other sadly. And they never seemed to hit on a very satisfac- tory answer. There was no gel- ting around it, the Smiths made entertaining hard You couldn't just greet them at the door, hand them a drink and keep handing them drinks until the party was over, comfortable in the knowledge that if they didn't have a good time at the party they wouldn't [remember it, and certain also that the talk wouldn't have to be bright or even Intelligent-not if the drinks were good.
The following forthcoming mai riages were announced at the Re- gistry, Supreme Court, yesterday-
Dennis Cuffwright. private. Royal Army Medical Corps, Whit-
THEY LOVE HIM and Miss Kwok But that day is past, and the They Lal-teun, of No. 179 Sat Yeung non-drinking guest has come into soof Chot Street:
his own. Host and hostesses no Mr. Fung Yuk-tong, salesman, of longer just tolerate him-they love travel home at last on the less No. 68 Hennessy Road, second floor, him There has been a fairly large en-crowded services Some people and Miss Lo Liu-sim, of No. 199 rolment of women undergraduates, walk the crowded end of their Lockhart Road, no fewer than 40 of the 59 new journey and only pick up a bus or students in the Faculty of Arts be ing women.
WOMEN UNDERGRADUATES
as work is Anished, then diye and
Mr. Sih Yee-plu,
At last they've realised that t is possible to mix drinkers and merchant, of non-drinkers without either suf- an underground for the last half No. 5 Hee Wong Terrace, ground fering any ill effects, and both They prefer movement to the floor, and Miss Rosalind Wu. of managing to look dreary business of queue-ing, with No 118 Johnston Road,
the interruption of an
Though statistics are not aval able on the classification of stu-perhaps dents by schools, etc., it is estim- Alert. ated that 25 per cent. of the en-. rolment at the University this year ance with the crowds In London Is from Malays
and the beginning of the black-
It is difficult to strike the bal-i
Also, the proportion of women out and the A.-A. barrage, for this undergraduates to men is bellev-reason an increasing
number of;
PRODUCTION
own good tima.
out for their
FINANCIAL ASSET
And hostesscs especially have come to see that the non-drinking guest is always more considerate, RECORD CREATED more easily managed, and less
BY GIRL
boring than the guest who after the third drink thinks everything ed to be higher than ever before people sleep at their work, toll alter--A 21-year-old
BIRMINGHAM, Bep 22 (Reu-he aays is either funny or has dee in the University's history.
most right and day and then oe-Duncan, has created
girl, Evelyn social significance. SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME castonally join their familles ful cord for production of anti-aircraft a world re- Among the new students are long week-ends,
Besides that, a lot of hostesses shell components three young men from Free China, If it is possible to make some
ure trimining their budgets thes comprising the first batch of week-ends longer than the one day in six days
She turned out 6,130 components days-and the guest who doesn't scholars at the University under of rest this is a fairly good sold Evelyn
consume liquor is a financial ns- the British Counell's Scholarship on for travelling these days is figure in a competition field here
Duncan reached this set. Scheme Selection of scholars to getting increasingly wearing
not in connexion study at HK. University under this to say dangercus. scheme is made by a special selec- tior committee of the Sino-British Cultural Association.
STAY AT HOME When one gets home one stays home, thankfully People are get-
!campaign
with n
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Happily the non-drinking guest recruiting realises that he is no longer
problem to hosts and hostesses. The previous components in one week.
record was 3,000 and so has quit apologising for not
drinking. Another competitor also out- The days of holding one drink previous record. all evening are over. Today the production of 5,905 non-drinking guest just says, "No,
thanks" and lets it go at that.
the
CHINESE N.C. HOLDINGS IN COLONY "FROZEN"
Of the three students. all of ting more and more carpet-slipper stripped whom have already had a year's minded, though, as one will gather, reaching the study at universities in Frec China, their lives are far from sedentary.components. one is from Hupeh and the other The biking, the walking, the A.RP. two from Cheklang. Two of them duties, the Home Guard and the have enrolled in Engineering and bundling around to try to save! the other in Setence.
skins allows no room for the Under typ* British
Council's growth of cob-webs. Scheme, the University contributes There is no time for dreaming, free Luition and hostel residence the tempo of English life is chang- during term time to the Scholar-Ing. Meals are more simple, not ship. the British Council making a only in type and in length but in monetary contribution of approx number. Classes and creeds are all mately the same value for main mixed up working together, eating tenance and other expenses. together, sleeping together, and i
they can be allowed to take a long view and boast a little, jully well winning the war together!
NEWSETTES
Mr. J. B. Ipekdjian, director of Ipekdilan Bros. Ltd., who was in Hongkong on business, left for Manila at the week-end.
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Mr. L. A. Garrard, of the Stand- ard Vacuum Oil Co.. Manlia, who was in the Colony, returned to his station af the week-end.
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B. W. O. F.
The following is the latest list jor subscriptions received to date
for credit of the BW.OF:-
Previously acknowledged, £115
and 3740,434.83.
Apparently with a view to wiping out the prevailing "black market" and to prevent leakage of Chinese National currency from Hongkong into "occupied" and Japanese controlled territory, all Chinese National currency holdings, personal and otherwise, in the banks in Hongkong have been frozen by the Hongkong Govern- ment.
Rumours of the action were in circulation during last week but were only confirmed by a notification issued by the Exchange Con- trol Officer, Mr. D. Kelvin-Stark, to all banking concerns in the Colony yesterday.
According to the restrictions, into H.K.$ may be referred by monies in Chinese National Cur- the Bank concerned to the Stabi- rency will only be allowed to be lisation Board of China provided withdrawn for remittance to places that such requests comply in all
the
Board of China,
IMPORTS
Stabilisation
R. Hancock (Monthly), 25; Mr. in Free China and on cheque draft respects with the directions issued and Mrs. A. F. Horden (Monthly), or other bill on or in favour of to banks by Mr. Rafael Unsen, of Madrigal 20; Dr. K. w Chaun (Monthly), residents in the Colony. & Co... Manila, who was in Hong (Monthly), 20:
30; Anchymous. 5; Lam Fook Lye The notiflation issued to all kong. Jeft the Colony for the P.1. Davies Brooke and Gran (Month-
Anonymous, 10:banks this morning states:--
1y), 70; Mrs. M. M. Drake (Month-
at the week-end.
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THE RULES
In cases. where imports from neighbouring parts of China and The following rules are intro-Macao into Hongkong are nor-
with the Government DI
Library, Sure
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DAY. SHIRTS
THESE SHIRTS HAVE TRUBENISED
COLLARS AND OUFFS AND THE
COLLARS ARE GUARANTEED TO
FABRIC
OUTWEAR THE SHIRT.
SHRINKAGE IS 1.ESS THAN UNE
PER CENT WHICH MAKES
SHIRT UNSHI RINKABLE.
IN WHITE ONLY
$1050
EACH
Less 10% for Cash
LANE CRAWFORD • LTD. ·
The House of Zreality & Service
THE
Men's Wear
Department
Tel. 28151.
JOHN I. THORNYCROFT & Co.,
Limited.
Engineers & Shipbuilders.
Watertube Boilers.
Shallow Draft Steamers - High Speed Boats.
Marine Motors & Motor Vehicles.
SHANGHAI Robert Dollar Bldg.,
51, Canton Rd. Tel. 14270
Mr. R. C. Robertson will address), 10; Some members of the staff duced as a measure of co-opera- mally pald. for, by way of C. N. UNE IN TWENTY
of Messrs. Jardine Matheson &tion
the Hongkong Rotary Club today Co. Ltd., June and July), 203; China.
on "The Burma Road Re-Visited" QAIM.N.S. (Monthly), 32; Mrs.
currency bank notes application
It is a condition of the authority for withdrawals from C. N. cur-
The next meeting of the Directors. F. Phillips (Being a result of a of banks under the Defence (Fin.frency bank accounts by way of G.
of the Club will be held on Fricollection box in the Kowloon Dis-
ance) Regulations
to
deal
in
day next, at 5.15 p.m. at the Hong pensary), 28.35; Anonymous, 48.72}foreign currency that such rulos made to the. Exchange control
kung Hotel.
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The annual "At Home," in hon- our of the feast of their patron-- ers, "The Little Flower" and the visit of H.E. Mgr. Jose da Costa Nunes. Patriarch of India, will be given by the President and mem- ber of "The Little Flower Club," in the Club House at King's Park,
pm.
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OVCIBORS
Chinese. Inisation
1. W. Hume (Monthly), 10. Total: $740,046.90.
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V FOR VICTORY CYCLE BADGES
brooches,
FAMILIES ARE INSURED
in
N. currency bank notes may be
through the bank .concerned. Insurance protection for life should be strictly observed.
Withdrawals from any Chinese Personal applications cannot be one for every twenty familles in This is reveniéd National Currency account with considered and applications will the Philippines. any bank in Hongkong may not only be approved if full evidence in the survey made by the Nu be made in C. N. currency note, is presented by the bank concern tonal Life Insurance Co. of the Besides manufacturing victory or by way of cheque draft I. T. ored that such notes are required Philippines, whose other interest- car badges and
the other bill drawn on or in favour for the legitimate purposes of findings were broadcast
the Voice of Industry programme Malayan Handicrafts Co have of any person firm or bank in established trade. on Tuesday next, Sept. 30, at 6.15 badges at $1 each,
now put on the market V bleycie | Shanghai,
- Withdrawals in bank notes in of the NEPA over KZRM.
The average Filipino family Banks may allow such with payment of contracts entered into These chromium plated badges, drawal by way of cheque draft before 21st September 1941, be-comparatively less protected by insurance. In the United States with the words Victory and Free-T. T. or other bill drawn on or tween banks in the Colony, or be the average insurance protection dom, oinbossed on a from Indo-China headed by M. ground, have the V in red, blue, Chins, provided- that no remit persons are free.
circle back in favour of a bank In Free tween authorised banks and any is P8,000 per family and Chen Li-le arrived in Kwelyanz green or yellow and can be fixed tance in excess of those at pre-
every two persons carries Htein- Other withdrawals in bank notes surance, on Sunday on a tour of investiga to the handle-bat, front or rear sent. allowed for family remit in payment of contracts entered tances may be permittent in any into before a1st September 1941, on the Provincial Authorities to warded $429.25 to the F.M.S. War draft or other bul drawn on or permit on Form G which should Butte, Mont-Mr. and Mrs. company ha for one month, and by way of cheque are subject to exchange control 10 SONS IN DRAFT day before continuing their Journey Fund, proceeds of sules of to Chungkirig.
car in faveur of a resident of Hong be applied for through a bak Daniel Parini of Elk Park, near with full evidence of the contract Butte, have in of 12 sona register- The marriage took place on
All such cheque, must be clear Nothing in this notice allows ou for the draft. The Farials, Bept. 0,, at the Church of Saint Shanghai, and the late Mrsed through a 0. N. currency no any payment forbidden under any natives of Switserland, have 17. John the Evangelist, Landsdowne, Massey, to Juth Manuc), daughter count with the Bank of China; previous instructions given ta ohikiren, five of whom are Pennsylvania, of Brian Phillips, or Mr. and Mrs. William Suddards, Requests for conversion of Chi- banks or tropidaen under the Dedaughters. They operate a dairy son of Mr. P. W. Massey, of Landsdowne, Penn.
nese National cutroncy depbalte fence (Finance) Regulations, runch.
tion in Free China. Membora uf
the mission are expected to call
mudguard.
So far the
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