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WANTED.Competent
FOR SALE.
European
GUIDE TO THE COMPANIES ORDINANCES OF
HONGKONG.
In The Form of a Detailed Index
Below are
(181 PAGES); COMPILED BY WALTER J. HAWKER, A.C.I.S.. HONGKONG.
some opinions by Lady STENOGRAPHER for Proprofessional men who have been fessional firm. Apply Box No. 681, favoured with advance copies. "Hongkong Telegraph."
"I have tested it in several instances, and found that in each FOR SALE. Junk "Maskce" Strang-of those instances, the work fully ly built (1930) China. Fir and Teak. meets the test." Registered Tonnage 14 tons. Length
"For years
I have complained overall, 42 ft. Beam 12 ft., Depth in cabin G ft. 4 ins. Greatly improved on bitterly of the lack of an Inder to Ordinances of since built, deck covered with Maltheid the Companies' Roofing, Ideal for week-end, or deep Hongkong. The volume will be of sea cruising, would cost $3,000 to
great service." build locally, Complete with sampan, sails, compass, Typhoon Barometer, awnings, etc. Owner covered 700
"The work is excellently con- lles in her. What offers? P. D.ceived and very well worked out."
- Box 341.
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TO. LET.--Large and Bright Office ROOMS at Kayamally Buildings. Apply to Kayamally & Co., No. 20, Queen's Road, Central.
TO LET-Office Rooms, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Building. Apply to Sang Kee, same Building.
CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME- ORIENT
Mortgage Bank & Estate Agents.
"PEAK MANSIONS" "One small five-roomed flat available from 15th. August."
Prince Edward Road, Kowloon
Detached an 1 Semi-detached villas. Modern construction
Flut
with garage.
"Cambay Buildings"
ith modern conveniences.
STORAGE
"Every solicitor, barrister and Auditor and company secretary will find the work, indispensable"
"I heartily congratulate Mr. Hawker on his work."
Price $5,00
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by the
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, -LIMITED.
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INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE
New Advertisements
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
The Sixth Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at Happy Valley on Saturday, 7th June, and on Monday, 9th June, 1930, commencing at 2 p.m.
The first bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. on both days.
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE.
Members are notified that ther rad their ladies must wear their badges prominently displayed.
No one without a badge will be. admitted to the Members' En-
closure.
BANK HOLIDAYS.
In Accordance with Ordinance No. 5, of 1912, The Exchange Banks will be closed for the Transaction Business on Monday, of Public the 9th of June, (Whit Monday). Hong Kong, 2nd June, 1980.
HONGKONG TELEPHONE CO.,
LIMITED..
1930.
BATTLESHIPS AS HOUSEBOATS.
FLOATING HOMES FOR SLUM DWELLERS.
"NOT DIGNIFIED.” When our battleships lose their jobs, under the new scheme for smaller navies, why not turn them The Transfer Books of the into houseboats for slum dwell- Company will be closed from theers! 23rd June, to the 30th June, 1939. both days inclusive.
Dated this 22nd Day of May,
1930.
By Order of the Board.
W. I. MCKENZIE,
Secretary.
That is the proposal put for ward by Mr. Eustace Miles, the food reformer, who urges:
Instead of breaking up old battleships for scrap iron, why not use them as cheap dwellings for the 'poor?
Mrs Miles, who shares her husband's enthusiasm for the project, told a Press representa- tive all about their dreams happy ocean villages.
Badges admitting non-members to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5. per day. for Gentlemea and $2. per day for.
PEAK TRAMWAYS CO, LTD. Ladies, are obtainable through the
NOTICE is hereby, given that Secretary upon introduction by a
member to be the Annual Ordinary General
"As they intend to scrap member, such responsible for payment of all Meeting of Shareholders will be these ships, why not relieve slum held at the Hongkong Hotel, Heng-congestion by housing families in chita, &c.
kong, on Saturday, the 14th June. them?" she asked. 1930, at 11 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Diree tors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 30th
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will not be on sale at the Race Course.
Members can obtain, upon ap- plication to the Secretary, badges (limited to two for the free ad-April, 1930. mission to the Members' Enclosure of wives, lady friends. Names must be stated when applying.
On no pretext will children be either Enclosure permitted in during the Meeting.
POST OFFICE NOTICE
GENERAL HOLIDAY,
On Monday, the 9th inst. the G.P.O. will be open from 8 a.m. to noon, Kowloon Branch Post Office from 8 a.m. to 11 am, and other Branch Post Offices from 3 an; to 9 a.m.
There will be one collection from the pillar boxes, one delivery of ordinary.correspondence as on Sundays and one delivery of registered correspondence at 9 a.m.
The Money Order Office will be entirely closed.
RADIO NOTICES,
Individuals and Arms are recommended to register their telegra phic addresses at the Radio Office. No charge is made for this.
From
Shanghai and Swatow Shanghai and Amoy
Australia and Manila Straits Straits
INWARD MAILS,
Per
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Due.
June 7.
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Kitano Maru Toyohashi Maru
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"They could be anchored near. the shore, with little bridges so that the men could get to their
are fine sites jobs. There such a scheme in the Thames or at Plymouth and all round the
for
"Of course the ships would have to be altered internally, but that would probaby be cheaper than building. new houses and pulling down slums.
The Transfer Books of the Com Cornish and Devon coasts. and relatives
froni CLOSED many will be Monday, the 9th day of June, to Saturday, the 14th day of June 1930 both days inclusive, JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, 4th June, 1930.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is $1. per day for all persons including ladies and is payable at the gate.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform The Forty-Ninth Ordinary General Meeting of the Company are admitted half price. Book- will be held at the Offices of the makers, Tic Tac men, &c. will not General Managers, Messrs.be permitted to operate within Co. Ltd., the precincts of the Hongkong & Jardine, Matheson Pedder Street,
on Jockey Club during the Race Hongkong, Wednesday, the 18th, June, 190, Meetings. at Noon for the purpose of receiv- ing the Report of the Directors.
ADVANTAGES passing the Accounts, and electing
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FIAT GARAGE
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Directors and Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be closed from the 11th June to 2nd July, 1930, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD.
General Managers. Hongkong, 28th May, 1939,
The
EVERYTHING SE.C. ELECTRICAL
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your graminteo
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COLLAPSE
OF THE
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CHURCH NOTICE.
Local Services for To-morrow.
WHITSUNTIDE.
GRANDMOTHER GOES 400 MILES.
RACE FROM THEATRE TO BEDSIDE.
A grandmother's all-night jour- ney of 400 miles to the bedside off her injured daughter ended atļ Deal.
"And they would be so healthy. The children could play on the decks and get plenty of fresh air.
"There would be such oppor- tunities for community life if families lived in little townships' on board ship. You can have such lovely dances between the decks-I've been to some myself. The meals could be cooked in the ship's big galleys and there could deck, and even a be games on church."
Official Horror.
After this enthusiasm It was. depressing to meet with the frigid This was a sequel to the Chan- dubiousness of the Admiralty. nel collision between. the great "Floating workhouses!" snorted German liner Bremen and the oil a permanent official when his tanker British Grenadier. Mrs. opinion was solicited. Robinson, a passenger in the tank- "The ships are totally unsuit- er, was injured while saving herable. The cost of conversion children.
would be huge, and, while it is Her mother read of the accident often thought that ships are worth' while in an Edinburgh theatre.
nothing as scrap, they are actual-
"I was casually looking through|ly very valuable.
an evening paper," she said, "when "Besides, having ships used for I read the report of the collision.this purpose would lower the
I hurried home and found a num dignity of the Navy.” ber of, telegrams awaiting me. I started for Deal immediately.
was
St. John's Cathedral, Hongkongtravelling all night.
June 8th, 1930. Whit Sunday "My daughter's escape from Holy Communion 8 a.m. Holy death was wonderful. She Communion (Peak Church) & pinned down beneath a radiator, an. Children's Service 10a.m. and had to be hauled up to the Muttins and Sermon 11 am. deck by ropes." Preacher: Rev. H.
V. Koup, Holy Communion 12.15 p.m. Evensong 6 p.m. Preacher: Rev. C. B. Shann..
Union Church, Kennedy Road. Divine worship will be conduct- ed as follow:-Morning, 11 a.m.
Evening, 6 p.m. Preacher, morn ing and evening, the Rev. John
Foster.
Her Second Thrill,
Mrs. Boyle, wife of the captainį of the British Grenadier, was land- ed at Deal day, and revealed that the collision was not the first she had experienced.
THE RESTRICTION PROGRAMME..
SCHEME TO CURTAIL THE OUTPUT.
C-
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Batavin Japan
Cremer
Tjileboet
Pros. Johnson
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hai (San Francisco 16th May) Canada, U.S.A.. Japan and Shanghai
(Vancouver B.C., 29th May)... Empress of Asia U.S.A.. Honolulu, Japan and Shang-
Pres. Lincoln hai (San Francisco 23rd May)... Lordon Parcels 8th May and Straits Pyrrhus
Aki Maru Australia and, Manila
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hai (San Francisco 24th May) ... Shinyo Maru Japan
Tango Maru
OUTWARD MAILS.
June 23..
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For
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Bangkok via Swatow Swatow, Amoy and Formosa Shanghai, Japan, Canada, U.S.A., Central and South America, *Furope via Victoria B. C. and *Europe via Siberia
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Sayulakan
Ammay
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Date ADN Tim
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President Jefferson....Mon, June 9,
Parcels
Registration
Letters.
..11 .. ..11.15 a.m.'
.11007.
(Due Victoria B.C. 27th June.) Hydrangea.......Mon., June 9, noon.. Tjisordari..Tues., June 10, 9.30 a.m. Haiching.Tues., June 10, 1 p.m.
Antenor
.Tues., June 10, K. P. 0.
.4.30 pr. ..1.30 p.m.
Registration Letters
Bertetration
Hwalow and Fonchow
CEP Shing
Shchai, Japan. Tenslalo, USA.
Canda. Central
South
Aneries and frau vis Bon Francisco and Europe via Siberia Tenyo Maru
Hathow, Pakhai and Haiphong...... Straits and Calcutta
Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, Fast and South Africa and South American Ports
G. P. O.
.5 p.m. 16 p..
Marles, 9th July).
Tose, June 10, 5 pm. Wedd., June 11. 8.30 a.m. Wed, June 11, 1:0 p.m. June 11, 8.30 p.m. Wed., June 11, 5 p.m.
Thurs. June 12. Registration June 14.5 p.m.* Letiers...June 12, 8.30 a.m. (Due San Francisco 4th July). Kanchew Thurs., June 12, 8.30 am. Sui Sang
Thurs., June 12,
Parcels Letters
London, June 6. It is understood that the special committee nominated by the Tize Producers' Association to celerate the restriction pro- "Some four years
ago," she gramme, is considering a scheme said, "I was on a trip round Scot to concentrate the bulk of the land in the Duchess of Argyll, proposed 20 per cent curtailment when that vessel was run into by much shorter space of time, ins-
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow ..... Haiyang of output recommended, into
Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, the steamship King Edward. But tead of spreading it over a full; that was not nearly so serious cr year as originally planned, thrilling as our encounter with the Bremen,
First Church of Christ Scientist. Macdonnell Road, below Bowen Road Tram Station. Sunday "Hearing shrill blasts of fog Service, 11.16 a.m. Subject horns and steam whistles so close "God the
Cause only
and to us yesterday we hurried on deck Creator." The Sunday School is just in time to see the huge liner held 011 Sunday Marn- coming straight for us out of the ings, at 10 o'clock. Wednesday fog, and Mrs. Robinson ran below Evening Meeting at 5.30 p.m. for her children." Reading Room at above address open Tuesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Monday and Thursday, 5.30 to 7 p.m. The Public is cordially invited to attend the service and visit the Rending Room. Branch of The Mother Church. The First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston, Bass, U.S.A.
Seventh Day Adventist Chapel, 20. Ice House Street, Saturday Sermon 5.15 p.m. Sunday night, June 8th, 8.30
p.m. "Can Modernism do Away With the Realities of Heaven or Hell?" by Lyman W. Shaw, Pastor. Wednesday night, Meeting for Prayer 8.30 p.m.
Peak Church
SPECIAL NOTICE
DURING THE FOUR MONTHS beginning JUNE 8th 1930
and
ending OCTOBER 13th 1820 HOLY COMMUNION
will be celebrated
ONLY ON THL
SECOND & FOURTH SUNDAYS
In each month.
2
The scheme, in effect, will mean the closing down of plants all over the world for two months, It is stated that the scheme, in order to be effective, must become operative immediately.
An official announcement on the subject is expected next week.
-Reuter.
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.:1 p.m.
Rio de Janeiro Marú
Fri., June 13, 9.30 am. Fri, June 13, 1 p.m.
К.Р. О.
East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles Fushimi Mara .... .Fri., June 13.
Registration Letters
Registration
Manila
Letters...
G. P. O.
4.30 p.m.
.4.30 Dim.
p.m
p..
(Due Marseilles 14th July).
Pres. Johnson. Sat, June 14, 5 p.m.
Australia and New Zealand via
Manila and Thursday island
Changte
CHINA ENTERTAINMENT & LAND Saigon, Straits.
INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Issue of 23,636 fully paid up
Shares of $10,00 each.
THE SUBSCRIPTION LIST IS
NOW CLOSED ·
DEVELOPMENT OF FORMER YEE SANG FAT BUILDING AND, CONSTRUCTION OF AN UP- TO DATE CINEMA AND OFFICES.
Bankers
Ceylon, India, Mauritius, East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and *Europe via Marseilles
Swatow, Amoy and Poochow Manila Manila
Parcels Registration
Tues., Jund 17. -
..June 16, 5 p.m.
.......9.45 a.m. Letters....10.30 a.m. (Due Thursday Island 28th June.)
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Registration Letters
Tues., June 17. K. P. O.
Registration Lettera
G. P. O,
1 p.m.
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(Due Marseilles 19th July.) Hai Ning Tues., June 17, 2. p.m. Emp. of Asia Tues., June 17, 4.30 p.m. June 17, 3.30 p.m. Pres. Lincoln Tues.,
uperscribed Correspondence only.
PHANTOM £4 A WEEK DUSTMEN.
WHAT JUDGE CRAWFORD DOES NOT KNOW.
THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION ployment as dustmen in West Ham
Auditors
Messrs. PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING,
- Bank of Canton Building.
Solicitors
Messrs. RUSS & CO.,
Bank of Canton Building.
Registered Office
No. 36, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong,
Very rosy..
..but getting a job as a West Ham dustyan-that is different.
Of these favoured souls there are between 100 and 200. The waiting list for the job la far more than 300,
It takes two years for even a
Those in the know are smiling at Judge Crawford's advice to de- fendants in his court to seek em-Į
at £4 a week.
Just, as if alayman could walk tired, the Head Dustman may, fix into West Ham Town Hall, take him up.
fortunate neophyte to achieve his ambition. During that time he is employed as a temporary dustman
in ruah times.
If he shows himself apt and.
another dustman has died or re-
off his coat, exhibit his muscles, Nine out of ten of the dustmen say "I want to be a dustman," and stay for years once they get in, so be admitted to the eclectic profes-the prospects for Judge Craw sion straightway!
ford's defendants are black in
The West Ham dustmen earn deed, about £3 10s. a week, exclusive of One thing only is in their overtime. They have a fortnight's favour. Formerly the West Ham holiday each year, and some col- dustmen, the Men Who Had Got. leet such comfortable sums under There, used to try to get their the superannuation schemes that friends and relatives Into their they retire before they reach the happy state. That practice has Lage limit...
ceased.