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AND
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FREE
A TIN OF
BARNEY'S TOBACCO.
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JUST RECEIVED
NEW RCA-VICTOR
RECORDS FOR AUGUST,
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& MANSFIELD BOOTS
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FOR ANY SPORT
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1932.
In the New
1932
CHEVROLET
DAY BY DAY
Bulls and Inners
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varying degree, have availed them- selves of the new system of mass production: Thus while all coun tries have need of foreign markets,, all countries likewise neck to close their own markets against the
A new local football Club this We hear of a philatelist who is foreigner. Against the overwhelm- MAINTAINED, THINE EMPIRE SHALL years is named the Blue Diamonds. so patriotic that he has given up
If the Y. M. C. A. had only entered buying foreign stamps. the Red Triangles, we might look revised forward to a very colourful season.
ingly powerful necessity of Interna- tional trade, there is pitted the desperate resistance of national YOU FIND THE LATEST MODELS OF THE CAR THAT trade. Each country la interna- HAS WON THE HEART OF tionalist in selling and nationalist THE WORLD, LEADING ALL in buying. Hence there is a hope- OTHERS IN SALES.
less.contradiction. We would have AT THE CURB YOU WILL
all markets open ADMIRE THEIR
to us, and we SMART MODERN BEAUTY. ON THE would open our own markets to ROAD YOU WILL MARVEL AT none. The new methods of pro- THEIR EFFORTLESS CONTROL, duction are thwarted by the old THE EASY SMOOTHNESS OF methods of distribution. The one PERFORMANCE, AND THE
LUXURIOUS COMFORT WITH| requires a recognition of inter- WHICH THEY RIDE.
dependence; the other stands pat
MENT IS AT YOUR COM- MAND.
EVERY MODERN IMPROVE on national notions of independence. It is surely clear that traditional INCREASED POWER, CUSHIONED AGAINST economic theories are inconsistent VIBRATION. THE VELVETY with this industrial revolution. SMOOTHNESS OF THE FAMOUS Intensified national competition, SYNCROMESH GEAR · SHIFT-
ING. THE THRILL OF COAST- with its paraphernalia of regulation ING ALONG ON MOMENTUM and restrictions, can only stultify WHENEVER YOU WISH- the development of technical inven- CONTROLLED BY THE TOUCH tion. The tariff defences that OF A BUTTON,
various countrica DON'T FAIL TO SEE THIS.
ure putting up CHEVROLET SERIES "BA" against each other in a mad race PASSENGER SPECIAL SEDAN~| to build the highest strike actually MAROON OR BLUE complete at the countries which put up thene with 6 Wire Wheels, Tires and defences. For they are trying to Tubes Bumpers, Luggage Rack,
BY FREEDOM GAINED, BY TRUTHI
UE STRONG.
The Gazette contains the schedule of the Colony's recreation grounds,
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When money begins to circulate
at Tuesday's meeting of the Rotary more freely, hoard times will be
Mr. Kingaton Taft Tan is to speak
Club on "The Value of Talking over.
Pictures,
Several pages of the Gazette are It's one of the ironies of life devoted to the conditions for tender that the man who can tell you how ing for the road transport service of international debts can be wiped the Colony for a period of 15 years out, is usually one who fails to from June 11th, 1933.
honour his bridge obligations.
His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of dia allowance with respect to the Ordinance to amend the Employers and Servants Ordinance, 1902.
It is notified that the For East Brewery, Distillers and Dairy Farm, Limited will be struck off the Com panica Register, if it fails to obtain within two months.
certificate to commence business
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advertise that on Monday, September Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd., 6, all departments will be closed. The Hongkong Dispensary, Dispensing Department, will be opened for dis- pensing prescriptions from 10a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 0 p.nt. to 7.30 p.m.
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Experts say that wood contains from 20% to 40% gas. This raises the poser-Are blockhendis Kas-bags ?
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(Roferring to Hongkong, a writor of "society notes" in a homo paper body who is anybody at all, simply nserta that "...... of course, any- must live on the famous mountain
known as the Peak.")
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For dignity and atmosphere, For social life unique; For culture's very stratosphere,
One must live on the Ponk!
The birds themselves display
cclat!
Arise! Come to the Peak, Ha!
Hal
--CYN.
"May I have the next stance?”
As the photographer said to the Kolfer.
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Statistics announcing that about The most that some peoplo get thirty hundred tons of sugar are from their cook-boy's efforta la in- waste annually in the bottom of digestion. teacups are said to be causing a great stir in Aberdeen.
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A Surrey poultry farm has been turned into a racing stable. The owner is evidently cutting the cackle and coming to the horses.
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His Excellency the Governor-in- Council has ordered that the duration of the rights, powers and privileges It's a bad sen- granted under the provisions of the
son for scarlet Company's Tramway Ordinance, 1901,
when of one year from the 15th December, they're mere hi- 1932.
Tourists Trunk, Chrome Tire live in watertight compartments shall be extended for a period | runners
Covers, Etc., Etc.
Price HK$3,780.
AUTHORISED CHEVROLET
DEALERS.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
The Hongkong & Shanghai Hrich, Ltd Incorporated in Hongkong, Stubbs Food
Happy Valley
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 12932.
HOPELESS CONTRADICTION
when the very condition of their existence is to extend the range of their activities. This way lies the complete breakdown of the world economic system.
Family Changes. Whether in the West or the East, nothing is more the subject of lamentation at the present day than the supposed decadence of family life. We are told by the older generation that the beautiful
kers.
following tenders-Construction of
The Government has accepted the ☐ ☐
Yes, the dol- an Access Rond, Shing Mun Valley, Messrs. Sang Tai & Co.; purchase of lar does go far- waste paper, Prison Department, ther nowadays Mesars. Chan Ching Kee.; improving-provided it's and strengthening main roads, New in the pocket of Territories, and road conditioning at Sha Tau Kok, Messrs. Sang Lee & a motorist look-
Co.
ing for a park- ing-space.
A reader com-
After several months of experi- ments, a determined attempt is being made to place dog-racing at Macao on
sound footing. Several im- plains of the lack of mails have been made from the
family life of former days hani portant changes in the manning from Home. A
gone.
The family hearth, like the family altar, is no more. The bond has been snapped, and the home has taken on the character of a boarding-house. The good old spirit of solidarity, of companion. ship, and common interests, has gone out of it. Some months ago, Sir William Beveridge and other sociologists sought for light on the subject by the help of the B.B.C., and now the first fruits of The Imports Duties Advisory investigation have been published. Committee has fallen into the car-A thorough scientific examination and classification of the thousands dinal error of all economie nation of answers given by British fami- alists by endeavouring to work on lies of all einsses has yet to be two planes at the same time. The made. But first impressions of the excuse for the latest tariff increases information supplied would seem -to encourage mass production into indicate that there has been certain British Industries-might little or none of that fundamental be acceptable were the Committee change which is so much bewailed. able to point to some outlet for the The country is still filled with normal people, who live happy mass-produced goods which they family lives. There have not been suggest will be exported. To-day any very great changes in family their proposals can only have the life in the last generation, say the effect of further complicating the investigators, but what changes task of those striving towards there are are on the whole an im- business revival in the world at provement. The real changes are less than the apparent or formal large. There is a glut of almost changes. There has been a loosen every commodity on the world's ing of family ties and authority, markets. The May Committee sug- and a strengthening of real ties. Rest steps for adding to the heap "A lot of sham family loyalty has ing up of unwanted goods,
been lost," one father is quoted, Miss production, to be effective. "but I do not find any lack of must be based on international mar-readiness to co-operate in a happy family life." The kernel of the
kets. Machinery has been improved {whole question may lie in these far beyond what would have been words. In the former generation deemed possible a few years ago. there may have been more show of This mechanical development has authority, more compulsion, but been accompanied by a correspond was there more family affection ing reorganisation of methode, then than now? That is the true Elficient plant and
test. The "heavy father" is dend.) ception of industry have brought one who does not consciously try His place may have been taken by production to # remarkable to enforce respect, but is more pitch. 'The output is such human, more companionable, and that it is necessary to extend in the main every whit as good a the scale of distribution. Ever parent.
a new coll-
since the days of the Phoenicians some countries have depended on foreign markets to a degree that
would have been unthinkable a generation ago. There has come
SUGAR MARKET
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS
The following cable at the close
treath and Co.
.
Per-
London Terminals. Decumber 1932 6/6 up d March 1933 6/7 up 1d. May, 1938 6/9 up 11⁄2d. August 1988 6/10% up 1d. Buyers at above prices, sellers asking d-d more.
to the aid of mass production an of the sugar market yesterday has unprecedented facility of transport, been received by Messrs. The problem would be simple were there a beautiful equilibrium of manufacturing and agricultural countries-if one set of countries could send out their mass-produced goods and another net of countries could receive them. Unfortunately, however, there is no such balance. Although all countries are not on the same level, all countries are, in.
New York 'Terminals, Spetomber, 1932- December 1032 1.13 no change. March 1938 1.00 no change. May. 1938 1.18; no chango,
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of this month, and the smooth running
of racing in recent weeks point to the young Lothario Inc
fact that the management has says that's no- of the past. Those interested in succeeded in overcoming the obstacles
thing compared greyhound racing will be accorded the with the lack of Opportunity of witnessing race meet females. ings on both Saturday and Sunday nights during the two coming week- ends.
Schoolboy Definition:-An is- land is a place where the bottom of the sea sticks up.
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As Sambo remarked, most ftsh stories "am fibious."
A minister discovered two of his fack playing cards on Sun- day and for money.
"Rastus,” he said, “don't you know it's wrong to play cards. on the Sabbath?"
"Yes, parson," replied the sinner, ruefully, "an', believe me, Al's payin' for malı sine,"
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Week-end Warning:-There was
People who can be rend like a book are not
BeccaBari- ly hide-bound,
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Once a golfer told hin story he should atick to it. A cardinal rule of the game states
that he mustn't improve a lie.
The domain of the Evil One is to be depict- ed in a forth- coming stage production. An opportuni- ty for See-Nick display.
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"Yachtsman's Romance."
He
once upon a time a motorist who was not content to hug the shore. always took his corners on two wheels. Last week he took a journey to the hospital on four.
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Furniture fitted with electric fans is the latest cruze. Ohm suite home.
BANK RETURNS.
NOTE & SPECIE FIGURES FOR AUGUST
The returna tion and of specie in reserve in her husband to work in the gar And create more high tension.
A wife is never able to under-
☐ ☐ amount of bank notes in circula- stand that when it is too wet fur longkong, during the month end-den, it is dry on the golf links..
"Wireless Sets that Annoy."
of the
average
ed 31st August, 1932, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks are,
Banka.
Chartered Bank H.K. & S. Hok Mercantile Bank
Total ...
Averrey Amount
Specie In Iteserve.
*19.876,302 X,300,000 130,744,206 112,000,000 2,498.654 1,350,000
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□□ American convicts are allowed Where to play football in prison.. No one, it appears, is allowed to play right out-side.
Law and order, says a reform- # 189,030,221 121,600,000 cr, is the need of the day. Fewer
In addition Sterling Securities laws and more orders would be are deposited with the Crown very acceptable in these days. Agents valued at £1,325,100.
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In addition Securities deposited with the Crown Agents and Straits They say that Shakespeare never Government valued at £2,747,000. told the same story twice, but with the Crown Agents valued at Plenty of court witnesses have the In addition Securities deposited there's nothing unusual in that.
£100,000.
same record.
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As a result of her deportment,
a young girl gained a position out of fifty applicants. Carriage paid.
"Hands can be improved marvel- lously in a few hours," writes a beauty expert, Yes, the luck's bound to turn.
A scientist has stated that the worth of the average man is about tenpence. He must have made his calculation just before pay-day.
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A reviewer says he sees no use for the big, cumbersome novel. Doesn't he ever get bitten by a mosquito?
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One thing about the gas meter- card man, he does a lot of light reading.
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A deep-sea diver says he has been out of work for months. But at least he's been able to keep his head above water.
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A sports writer says footballers
are now back into training. But surely some are only half-back?
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The Week's Simile:-As misor able as an Australian exile who
as lost his Sydney Bulletin.
Time.
"Bridegroom Missing for Third Presumably he is now en- titled to his freedom.
Owing to the unfortunato fadin position of Madame Kathloon Chapelle she will be unable to appoar at the Peninsula Hotel's symphonia concert to-morrow, and her plano- forto nolos as well as the vocal items, by Mrs. Telloy, previously arrangod. will therefore be bold;