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Records.
8-3017 at The Lay of the Lady's vote: Before I go to Sleep Anona Wian with George Baker-H. French-& L. Henry- Gracie Fields
B-3008 (u) Hot Pot (5) Sonny Boy B-3000 (2) Hatfield Bells (¿furtin).
(Sung by Percy Heming)
B-3005) Until(Sanderson)
(b) Crown of the Year 1 cartin)
(b) Annabelle Lea (Leslie)
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(Sung by Walter Glynne) B-2999 (a) She's Funny that way (b) 1 till my finger and
(Gracie Fields)
say
**Tweet [Tweet''. B-2997, (a) One Kiss (from" New Mo.") (h-Soft y as in a morning [Sunrise Playel by de Groot and His Orchestra
B-2966 A Run with the Darktown Aunt, Pts 1 & 2 Scott & Whaley B-2961 () Ave Maria Bach-Gounod) (b) The Rosary (Nerin) Organ
Playel by Charles O'Connell
C-1660 (Now Moon" Selection (a) "Wake up and Dream" Selection.
Played by The New Mayfair Orchestra
C-1658 () Love Lies" Selection (6) "Five O'Clack Gir!'! Selection.
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Played by The New Mayfair Orchestra.
C-1590 Finale In B Flat, Op 21 (Franck) Parts 1 & 2 (Orgnü)
Played by Guy Weitz
C-1589 (O Come, All Ye Faithful (a) The Message of Christmas fel Christians Awake (Westminster Contrat Hall Choiri G-1581) Kate in the Call Box (Herbert) Angelo Baddeley
E-518 in The Swan (Saint Suens) (Saint-Saens)
Organ E-492) Rococo ‹ Pulm (ren)
Pinno-Played by Moiscivitch E-487) Armourer's Song ide Kown)
Vulcan's Song.
(6) Reducing (Herbert)
th. Prelude in E Flat, Op 99
Played by Marcel Dupri thi Le Potil one blanc (bert)
Philemon et Baucis- Sung by Robert Radford,
S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.
Chater Road.
"QUALITY WITH SERVICE“
Community Plate
"The Aristocrat of the Dining Table"
T
WHE Patrician finde
itsmotifinthe fine,
Old English octag-
nal silver; but a
motif transmuted here into a
perfection of polished planes
and beautiful outlince,
In point of design, wearing quality and public approval, there is no tableware in America today so well worth, fcatering as COMMUNITY.
CANTEENS
MADE TO CUSTOMERS OWN REQUIREMENTS.
For 12 or 6 persons.
IN
MAHOGANY OR OAK ADDRESS YOUR ENQUIRIES FOR SPECIMENS AND PRICE LISTS TO THE SOLE AGENTS IN
HONG KONG. SILVERWARE DEPARTMENT
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NOW IS THE TIME TO GET YOUR
FRIGIDAIRE
THERE ARE DOMESTIC
MODELS OF FROM FOUR TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET STORAGE CAPACITY.
OVER
MONDAY, JULY 15, 1929.
business circles and amongst residents generally, there is very considerable disapproval of thia
DAY BY DAY.
THE SECRET OF POWER IN ANY OC-
plan, which, if put into oporation,CUPATION, WHETHER ART OR BUSI will add to the alrendy high cost of NESS, IS CONCENTRATION,-Kobert living in the ease of householders Bridges.
and will prove a most unnecessary ... Liont. J. R. Roberts-West has burden to business concerns. In been appointed to H.M.8. Suffolk. this connexion, sighit must not be
CORRESPONDENCE.
Dairy Farm Milk.
lost of the fact that meter-users. has been appointed to .M.S.Trade Mark of our Company, we Surgeon Lieut. D.T. Wales, M.B, Aphis.
in common with everybody else, are already paying, in their general taxes, a two per cent. rate for water, besides which they have to bear the cost supplies used above the proscribed free allowance. It has been suggested to us that if all water is in future to puld for according to meterage, the two per cent, water rate should be taken off. That, however, would not be practicable, for the present rates
The P, and O. s.8. Malwa, from Singapore, is due here at noon on Thursday,
Hoar
Captain E. 0.
(Royal Marines) has been appointed to II.M.S. Borwick.
...
The Very Idea!
"The controversy at Homo on To The Editor of Hongkong
the relative merits of white and Telegraph.]
brown bread still continues. The Medical Research Council have Sir,With reference to the re-just issued a report in which cent correspondence between "Lac-white bread scores a victory for togen" and the Dairy Farm Com the moment. pany, as Laciogen is a registered
Gentle reader, you'll remember;
-in the days when you feel it incumbent on us to inform
were young the public that we have no connex- ion whatsoever with this corres- pondence. Neither has "Lactogen" our authority to use our Trade Mark as his nom-de-plume.
Thanking you for inserting letter-Yours, etc.,
this
H. C. SHRUBSOLE, Manager Hongkong Office, Nestle & Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co.
Hongkong, July 16, 1929.
The return of notifiable diseases for the past two days shows one im- ported Chinese case of typhold.
Sir, Mr., Manuk's remarks on buffale milk in connexion with "Auction." The author of the Chinese dairies may lend the pub- are levied on all consumers of water, problem to-day points out thee into thinking that all such whether, meters are used or not,error to which you draw and it would obviously be impossi- tion. ble to vary our Pating systein ns
Lieut. C.I.C. Singleton has been between those who get metered sup-appointed to H.M.8. Peterel and
atten-
1,000,000 plies and those who do not Mare-Paymr. Licut. E. R. Towneond to
IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD:
DODWELL & Co., Ltd.|
Sole Distributora:
HONG KONG & 8, CHINA
DEATH.
YVANOVICH.-Died at 2.30 am. to-day at 8, Gordon Terrace, Kowloon, Francisen Marla Lima Yvanovich, aged 79. Funeral Deeply regretted. will leave the residence at
4.30 p.m. to-day, passing the monument, at 6.30 pm. Shang hai, Manila and Macao, papers please copy.
The
Hongkong Eelegraph.
MONDAY JULY 15, 1929..
airies come under the same ente- Hory.
As a matter of fact of the total number of cows in the Co- lony kept by others than the Dairy Farm the number of buffaloes does not exceed 3%, and this 3% is kept by these little establishments that also engage in truck garden
A verse about a content, for a
crown
'Twixt a lion and a unicorn-or
so 'twas said or sung
When the unicorn was beaten
round the town, You will also, perhaps, remember··
how the combatants wero fed
By their seconds, or specta tors standing high- But which took white and which took brown no chroniclo has said- (Perhaps some pugilist or
doctor, will reply).
"A man who can afford to get drunk can afford to pay a fine."
Highgate magistrate.
I don't believe there is a man' in the world who knows what his wife intends to do five minutes over, our general taxes are operu Tamar II.
hence. Mr. Justice Swift, in the tive yearly, whereas, we understand
At a Committee meeting of the ing where these buffaloes aro
King's Bench Division. The Government's proposal is that Hongkong Ping Pong Lengue, heldutilised as draft animals. Bur-
Woman at Enfield: My huge the charging for metered supplies last week at the Mann Kwok Hotel, faloes, as Mr. Manuk must know. band said he was going to leave is to be merely a temporare Dr. T. Walter Waro was unanim-are not economical milk, producers me and find someone who was
scheme.
On general grounds, however, we are against this extra taxation of
meter-users. We have been offel- ally assured that the proposal is considerations of unt based
on
finance. Nor can it be defended on the ground that
wasting are
meter-users
water, Inasmuch
is no figures have yet been given to bear out this contention. Then the reason must obviously be that as non-usera of meters are, in the present crisis, mulet in certain expenditure in connexion with the fetching of supplies, those more
ously elected as the Han. President and only under such conditiona of the League.
Dotective. Inspector L. P. Lane, of the Hongkong Police, who has boon noriously ill with a growth in the head, has made a wonderful recovery and it is learned that he is now practically out of danger.
The Dairy Farms, Ies and Cold Storage Co. Ltd., in conjunction with Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd., will shortly open a store for the benefit of Ponk residents at the top of Stubbs Road, about 100 yard
The build- from the Peak Hotel ing is in the course of erection and will be completed in the near future.
a dairy
perfect.
ean they be kept in connexion with The Clerk at Highgate: I never can. understand tram- "Lactogen" need have no fear tickets; they are worse than Acts that he will not be getting cow's of Parliament. milk if he confines himself to some of the larger Chiness duiries and he will be getting milk that will-test around 4 to 44% which would be about 25% more value than Mr. Manuk's 3.5% milk, as- Auming that prices are level.
My wife's language may not be of the best, but it in to the point. A man at Shoreditch County Court,
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A Woman told the North London magistrate the other day that aho As regards purity, a simple thought her husband should give test would be to get a bottle of her half his wages. Her marriage the same delivery from each dairy motio seems to be "To halve and to and keep them under the same hold."
The sample that temperature, can keep sweet longest would be the purest.
Another point on which per-out just before a certain stopping Mr. Sun. Fo, the head of thehaps Mr. Manuk might care to in-
place:
"Maudlin-road for the highbrows, partment and son of the late foun-
There is a conductor on
the Wandaworth 'bus. route who calls
fortunately situnted must pay more Nanking Government Railway De-form' the public is whether milk Magdalen-road for the lowbrows.
And as passengers alight there them into the two classes!
for what they get. This docs der of the Kuomintang Party, did supplied by the Dairy Farm is I not strike us as in any way a stales- not arrive in Hongkong on the fresh milk, viz., the approximate perhaps he is mentally arranging President Johnson on Saturday number of hours between the time Inat as was expected. It is under it is drawn and the time it is de- stood that he was probably delay.livered, because this is an import- ed in Shanghai and is expected ant factor in the vitamin content of milk. I bellevo all Chinese dairies deliver their milk as soon here in a day or two,
as it is drawn and a consumer should get it in about two to three houra.-Yours, etc.,
manike policy-that because one set of people suffer, others must be mute to do so algo. In any event, THE WATER OUTLOOK. the scheme will have un permanen- cy; it is, at the best, a makeshift not designed to arrangement, help solve the water shortage, but, far as we can see, merely intend- ed as a sop to one section of the com- munity. It may be that eventually we shall need to overhaul the whole system of water distribution, and our system of taxation as well, but that is a larger issue, which will have to wait. In the meantime, matters are best left as they are.
Welénue' indeed have been the rains of the past few days, for they have added materially to the contents of the reservoirs on both sides of the harbour. In Kowloon, where the position has been free from the anxiety felt on, the island, the storage is now very much more than it has been for the whole year, and there is therefore no fear of any crisis wing reached on the mininland. The Hongkong supply Allows
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The body of a young Chin ese woman of about 18 was seen on the Connaught Road West on fonting near the Sni Kong Wharf Saturday morning, white, on the same afternoon
another body
dressed in black, was also found Both also of a woman, of about 30, ucar that Hame wharf.
bodies were taken by the Water is believed that the couple were Police to the public mortuary. It
sampan women.
[BRIDGE MADE EASY by W.W.Wentworth
Unblocking-2.
Illustrations of holdings in reat; some may, Indeed, bo puzzi-which the principle of unblocking ed to see what connexion lies be- is applied follow!
BULL
Kowloon, July 15th, 1929. Sir, I regret to 800 that Mr. Manuk in trying to imitate the proverbial attorney who resorted to abuse whenever the facts or the Far from being in a state of ignorant bliss" or wallowing in law were against him..
buffula's milk, 1 hasten to assure Mr. Mank that I am not a cus-a tomer of any Chinese Dairy.
Mr. Many has ignored my con- tention that good cow's milk con- tains on an average about 4% of fats and I still await his explann- tlon as to why Dairy Farm milk contains only 3%-Yours, etc.,
LACTEAL
Hongkong, July 15th, 1920.
The writer of this letter is the gentleman who previously signed himself "Lactogen." We have changed his. tom-de-plume for rea- sons which appear from another letter on the subject" received to- day.-Ed, 11. K. T.] \
Racial Prejudice. Sir-Regarding the article on Racial Prejudice which has been given so much publicity in the local press, the designation as a "notorious lie" referred to therein of an alleged notice. "Dogs and Chinese are not admitted," report- ed to have formerly existed at the entrance to the Bund gardens at Shanghal, fs hardly correct.
The exact wording as seen by the
Over in Newark, New Jersey, the other day, Tommy McGowan, aged 13, picked up a cat which was being pursued by a dog. Pussy bit him. off he went to the city hospital to have the wound cauterised. Next day he met the dog; it took one look / at him and bit him. Now he knows the sort of life one has as a high official of the Balkan Department of the League of Natious..
A newspaper states that tele.
use in trains. That is one way to phones will shortly he in general encourage air travel,
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"Cheer up," said the best man to rather melancholy-looking quest who WOA wandering round. "Haven't you kissed the brido?".
"Not lately," came the sad reply.
"I've met the Perfect Pessimist.” "Who's that?
"A fellow who always bandages his head before he goes for a run In his car."
ROYAL LIFE-SAVING
SOCIETY.
EXAMINATION AT DOCK BATHING BEACH.
An examination was held on Saturday at the Kowloon Dock Bathing Beach, under the auspices of the Royal Life-Saving Society. of Great Britain.
Empire Development. distinctly gratifying 1L
The first step in the immense ineronse, the position on Saturday, task undertaken by Mr. J. II. so far as reservoir contents are | Thomus, that of finding a cure for concerned, being about the same unemployment, appears likely to as at the beginning of June, when receive the approbation of all the ration allowance was just double sides of the Houac. Its influence what it now is. Much more rain has, we are referring, of course, to
establish of course since fallen. Notwith- the proposal to standing the improvement, it would Colonial Development Fund of £1,000,000 annually- may not be be very doubtful policy to modify the existing restrictions for the present. Indeed, we need well tween the scheme and unemploy Declaration-No trump. over twenty Inches more of rainment in the Old Country. Deeper Dummy holds-Spade 6 4, heart before the position can be consider consideration, however, Huggests 3 2, diamond A.K 7 6 6 2 2, club ed safe. The point to be kept in that if Mr. Thomas's hopes are 9 G mind is that we have to legislate realised and the facilities offered for the dry season, which starts in lead to the undertaking of develop-4.
ment work to the value of £40,000,- Declarer can make seven tricks October. So low have the contents 600, substantial orders for such in diamonds if he does not block nt the reservoirs fallen that things as steel rulls and machinery himself. He must unblock, First writer in 1916 was "Chinese and reserves have to be built up for the are likely to be placed in England. he plays the diamonds 10 and dogs are not admitted," which may weather conditions were far from The merit of the proposal lies in takes the diamond Ace. Then he show a little more consideration on the purpose to which the Fund is leads the diamond King and plays the part of those responsible, but to be applied. The Government the diamond 9 from his own hand. nevertheless was for a long time a is not attempting such a foolhardy On the third round he leads the reasonable cause for resentment thing as financing public works in diamond 7 and plays the diamond amongst Chinese who were aware the Colonics, but is prepared to 4. If the declarer plays the din of the notice, make a free gift annually of £1-mond 4 on his diamond Ace, he is 000,000 which will provide the blocked and cannot make more to this factor are apt to Jull them- Inforest, or stil bettert"a portion than three tricks in diamonds. By off as Japanese and enter the sacred of the interest on Colonial loan unblocking, he should make seven, for development purposes. With
Declaration-No trump, Dummy holds-Heart A K 9. his usual sagacity, Mr. Thomas is. making a proviso that in the event
Declarer holds Heart Q-8 7 of the existence of a balance in
coming winter; otherwise, there will ipe u danger of an even greater crisis to be faced than anything we have yet experienced.. Those who do not give full consideration
elves into a sense of false security by the recent rains, but we have no doubt that the authorities will keep well in mind the necessity for continued conservation of supplies, This is a matter in which we can not afford to take chances, for what the future has in store none of us can say. A policy of the utmost caution must be followed, lest for the sake of present convenience we jeopardise the future.
5.
Declarer holds-Diamond 10
4:
Of course, Chinese In foreign garb were able to pass themselves
A class of eleven members of the 2nd King's Own Scottish Bor- derers, B. Coy, was presented by
Pte. W. Freeman for the Pro-
ficiency Certificates and Bronze Medallions of the Society. The favourable, and the fact that all eleven candidates qualified for the awards testifies amply to the en thusfasm and interest they had taken, and to the conscientious and able manner in which they had been instructed.
The successful entrants were 1-.
precinct, but none to my knowledge Pte. W. Freeman, L/Cpis. P. Lent- ever had the desire to violate the han, and G. Smith, Ptes. W. Talt, decree. The Chinese of those timca W. Seprborough, W. Quick, P. were hardly the obstreperous peo- Daley, J. Clark, J. McGill, G. ple they are nowadays, or the no Davidson, and A. Dorsett. In ad- tice would not have been tolerated to dition, Pte, W. Freeman will be exist for the time it did.-Yours, recommended for the Honorary
etc.
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TRUTH SEEKER. Hongkong
ng, July 15th, 1929.
Metered Water, Sir,--Allow me, as a business
Instructor's Certificate.
This is the firat' class of Bor- derors that has been entered, and it is hoped it will not be the last, and that possibly other units in the Garrison will also decide to form voluntary, classes among themselves.
hand from the £1,000,000, at the The declarer should, take the end of each year, the sum will first trick with the heart Ace and not be carried forward. Thus, the money not used will be definitely the second heart Queen must be last to the would-be recipients. played on the third round after The object, a laudable one, in to which the declarer should win two induce legisintive bodies in the additional tricks in hearts. If Empire to speed up their plans for the heart Queen is played first, development. If the co-operation the declurer may win only three man, to express my approval at anticipated la forthcoming, there tricks in that suit, instead of the the stand taken by the Teleprank is little likelihood of unexpended five made possible by unblocking regarding the proposal to charge Whilst we have no fears that the balances. The B is to come be- Efruta: The third paragraph for all water supplied by moters.
We are already paying for a means accurate, it being slated Government will be persuaded into fore the House shortly, and since of the first Installment of the
allowance of water, on good authority that thore unwise concessions because of the Lieut. Col. I. C. M. S. Amery, chapter on "Unblocking," publish certain
on Saturday should have through the Colony's taxatlone as much as 50 per cent, error Dominions Secretary in the last ed fortunate rainfall of the Government, and his right-hand read:
system, in addition to which we in recording. Even air passing Dummy holds-Diamond K9 pay for excess consumption. Is through the pipes has the effect past few days, we still doubt the man, Capt. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore,
it fair that we now be asked to of recording water uange-Yours reasonability of its proposal to have already lent support to Mr. 3 2.
etc., The paragraph read, by error, pay even more still? Thomas's schome, it may be tekan
ANTI-TAX. clurge for all metered water. for granted that little opposition "Dummy holds-Diamond A 9 53} From what we have heard in will be encountered."
Hongkong, July 14th, 1929,
One other point. It is "woll known that meters are by no