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ELECTRIC
REFRIGERATION-
Is a miniature cold
storage plant for use
in the home. It gives
cold storage refrige-
ration.
YET NO ICE TO BUY.
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THE UNION TRADING CO.,
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LTD.
·Phone C: 387.
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Consulting Engineer & Manufacturers' Representative.
Agencies for --,
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Telephone Contral 442: 2 Telegraphio Address FARSEEING "
ATTENTION, LADIES!
CHEAP SALE 35 MODELS OF SUMMER DRESSES Showing at
Nathan Road.
52 NATHAN HOUSE Kowloon,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
DANDRUFF AND HEREDITY IN BALDNESS.
SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1927.
KONGMOON TRADE.
BIG DECREASE REPORTED FOR 1926.
The trade of Kongmoon for the year 1926 showed the worst return of any such since the opening of POSSIBLE TO CONTROL.
the port in 1904. The total value The definite causes of simple of the trade which passed through baldness are uncertain and there is the Maritime Customs amounted L décrcaso much room for speculation. As a to Hk. Tls. 1,708,444, result, all sorts of factors are in-of Hk. Tls. 4,849,051 compared voked to explain it, from the wear with the value of the similar ing of tight hats to improper trade for 1925 and of: Hk Tis. inethods of breathing. Some would 13,539,980 compared with 1924. go so far as to say that there is no such thing as hereditary bald- ness and to attribute, all of the euses te seborrheic dermatitis or mflammation and dandruff.
This is an extreme view; but certainly the ravages of dandruff have to be taken into account in all cases of baldness, and in con- sidering the causes of the condition ho separation can be made between simple baldness and that due to dunruff,
During the first three quarters of the year under review there was no trade whatsoever, owing to the boycotts of Hongkong and Macao, the former of which affected Kongmoon overwhelmingly, as all the river steamer traffic from this In mid- port goes to Hongkong. October the boycotts were settled, and trade was resumed here on the 18th October, when the first rive steamer for 15 months ar Dandruff can be controlled in rived at Kongmoon from Hong- the resumption of most cases by the simple hygiene kong. But of the scalp that has been recom- trade was not to go long undia mended and by suitable treatment turbed. By the middle of Novem- applied under competent advice.ber the Tung Tak Labour Union Unfortunately most people overdo had a difference of opinion with the matter of making applications the Cargo-boat Guild, the result river steamers to the scalp, applying strong al-being that the coholic hair tonics and washing the carried no cargo for a week at that for ten hair far too freqüently.
time, and, again none days at the beginning of the follow- Many "Cures,” **
ing month. On the 1st November com- The popular remedies to prevent the Internal Tax Bureau
operations collecting menced falling of the hair would fi) an en-
duty Custums
all cyclopedia. Vibratory and elec-half
except wine, tobacco, trical treatments, hair tonics that goods
keroseng oil, which are supposed to feed the hair roots, and. crude kerosene, massage and mange had to pay a special consump- Alltion tax. Also, cement and sugar were separately mulcted for the upkeep of the Canton University.
enres,
and eaps, varuum sorts of coloured rays, have had frequent and fulile trials.
Oll Prices.
on
the
It is impossible to prescribe any method that will be of service in general. The health of the patient
A special tax, on piece goods had mast be brought up to a high level, been in operation for several his diet and digestion may require years. Kerosene oil has paid a attention certain remedies which tax of Small-coin $2 per case of an known to affect the skin when 10 American gallons since given internally may be tried by 15th July, 1926, but independent the physician with caution, and ap- plications may be made to the out-importations of kerosene oll have side of the sculp, after study of the been amuggled into the Szeyup and condition has shown whether the Heungshan districts in very great scalp is inflamed or requires stimu-quantities under escort of well- paid local pirates. During the. lation.
The bald-headed man is likely to first half of the year under review. console himself, with the, bromide prices ranged high-front $7 to coin- that "no grass grows on a busy $12 (Cantonese subsidiary street." He likes to feel that bald-age) per unit. In July the Stan- ness is a sign of intelligence and a dard Oil Company agreed to phy result of mental labour.
the tax of S.-. $2 per cage. Upon the abandonment of the anti- British boycott in mid-October the. Baldness is more likely a mani-Asiatic Petroleum festation of à transitional stage in followed suit. By the end of 1926 human evolution. The warmth both oil companies had approach-. and other protection afforded by theed their normal trade figures.
Careed Joan of hair are no longer of great import- We. now use a hat ance to nini. instead of relying for protection on
Don't Need Hair..
A
3:00,000 muon
upon Chamber
Company
S.-C. the Kong-
of.
Com-
a shock of hair as did our aborig-merce, in September, 1926, did
We are the
inal ancestors.
much to stifle the scarcely reborn This does not mean, however, trade. This was aided in its In- that we can preserve our hair by felicitous task by the prevalence discarding our hats.
of piracy. Notes of the Centril results our heredity and we would have to discard the hats of Government Banking. Corporation our ancestors for a great many met with favour at the hands of generations that have gone before. the public as the subsidiary coin- According to figures assembled by age minted in Kwangtung. became Jackson and White, baldness is due more and more debased; but for to heredity in from 30 to 40 per all big business, Hongkong dollar notes retained the popularity cent. of all cases.
which they have enjoyed ever since. Kongmoon was opened as a port. There are not, and never have. Leen, any silver dollars current here. Hongkong dollar notes and subsidiary coins have been the sule two currencies, not even ex- cepting copper.cents. These Auc- tuated between 155 and 160 to the dollar (subsidiary coinage) during the year, showing thereby how for them. small was the demand
RADIO PROGRAMME.
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR HONGKONG LISTENERS.
The Manager of the Holland- China Trading Company, the agents for Philips Lampwärks at Eindhoven, writes to the S. C. M. Post:
and
This atation has been heard very clearly in both the Dutch East and West Indies, and quite recently an operator on board a Dutch steamer Was able (near
Money Matters.
now
In June and August subsidiary We are in receipt of telegraphic information to the effect that coins were in the ratio of $129.75 Messrs. Philips, Eindhoven (whose to Hongkong $100. By the end of activities on the short wave sys-November the inte had fallen to S.-c. $116 Hongkong .$100. em of wireless telephone are so well known amongst radio enthu-Money was easy and interest low Riasts) intend to broadenst from during the first half of the year, their Eindhoven (Holland) studiout the Northern military expedi- tion, which started in July on its continuously for 24 hours com- march to the Yangtze, soon chang- mencing on Tuesday, 26th July, ated that. In the latter half of the 6.40 p.m. (Hongkong time). There will be a special programme and year large sums were remitted to announcements will be made in Canton, from here for military purposes: a drain on the financial English, French, German Dutch; the wave length of this resources of the province which has not since ceased. In consequence, station is 30.2 metre and the call
money became exceedingly tight in letters C. P. J. J.
Kongmoon and interest very high, and this in spite of the large sums remitted to the Sunwai district by former residents, who are Overseas Chinese in the United Singapore) to follow practically States of America, Straits Settle- word for word a speech delivered monts, and other regions. Local by the Queen of the Netherlands sericulture was a complete failure, thanks to unfavourable eli- at Eindhoven. He used a simple short wave telephone reception set mate conditions. In consequence, constructed by him on board, con- mulberry leaves--usually sold at sisting of a single wire aerial Se. $2 to $2 per picul--barely fetched 60 cents. Rice crops, string between a boat davit and a funnel stay and one detector and both first and second, wore nd- two low frequency amplifying vergely affected by floarls and 'ty- valves, with, of course, the neccs- phoons in June and October. The sary transformers and condensors, first crop showed a yield of 65 per Care should be taken, when try cent, and the second crop one of. ing to tune in, not to confuse this 40 per cent. compared. with the atation with Petrograd, which, we normal amounts.-Chinese Econo- understand, works on practically mic Bulletin, the same wave length, and which latter station was picked up last week both at Hongkong and at sea in.. between Hongkong and Shanghai, broadcasting programme.. MessrS,
As Agents for Messrs. Philips, Philips
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MEN'S DEPS-GROUND FLOOR,
MONDAY to WEDNESDAY
20%
JULY 25th & 27th.
DISCOUNT
OFF REGULAR
STOCK
WHITE
CANVAS
Normally $10,50 Sale Price $7.00
WHITE
YOU SAVE
ODDMENTS
AT LEAST $2
BUCKSKIN
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IN EVERY
TEN
in WHITE
SHOES
from $3.50
"NETTLETON”
SHOES
BLACK or TAN
USUALLY
$27.50 NOW $16.50
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Cancer Attribsted to the Cockroach!
THIS starting chim was made by a number of the worl's foremost authorities after a great many years of research.
The cockroach, we are told: by defiling food with its dirt and filth, sp.cads the dreaded germ ni cançer.
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Ass. Bad Bul
of the South China Command Sports Colony. The name of the veteran FOOTBALL.
Board, been alloted to the H. K. interporter, Sims, is mentored in Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation, the line-up and it will be no surprise FRIENDLY MATCH FOR
The net receipts will go to swell the if a few familiar, players of the funds the latter are raising to send Colony who belong to the Corps are -TO-DAY.
a delegation to the Far Eastern seen in play also.
The Chinese line-up will be as Olympfad. Weather permitting, there, will The R. A. M. C's records are not usual-Pau Ka-ping: Lau Mow, Lo ATC further parti- be a friendly football match between
probably include
scasoned ying, Ng Po-lau: Lee Bing-tong, we will be pleased to hear from cularly Interested to learn, at what the R, A. M. C. and the China Athletic yet known, but their team will Wai-man: Ho Cho-yin, Lam Yuk players who are well versed in the Suen Kam-shun, Wong Pak-chong, any local W/T receiving station time of the day the best reception at 5.45 p.m. to-day at Soskunpoo.
This match has, by the courtesy conditions and style of play of the Choy Ping-fan and Ng Kam-chuon which was able to liston was made.
to the
above.
apecial
aome