THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1936.
HONGKONG'S SECOND ICE AGE IS HERE Housewives Start Refrigerator Sales Boom
Hou
CHANGING THE COLONY'S MEAL HABITS
JOUSEWIVES are bringing the Second Ice Age to Hongkong through their phenomenal demand for domestic refrigerators.
The boom is changing the nation's meals, improving people's health, and bringing prosperity to a new industry comparable with the boom in radio..
One company has just sold 25 supplies for the year have already
been snatched up by retailers. refrigerators in a week.
The manager of another refrigera- tor firm said:
"I am selling hundreds n year now for every one that I sold ten years)
Experts estimate they are now being sold at the rate of is thousand a year and that this figure will be half as much again before the end. of the summer.
IHRE PURCHASE
The sales manager of one firm
id.
"Even $250 a month homes have them now.
"This is by far the biggest year we have ever had. For every machine we sold twelve years ago
* are now selling duzeus. By the end of last April we had sold as many cabinets as in the whole of last year, which was itself a record one.
"The chief reason for the rush is the introduction of a hire purchase scheme by which the housewife can buy a refrigerator for a few dollars a month.
"Mest retailers will probably have to follow this leal Housewives have began to realise the value to health of a refrigerator, and of the enormous aving in food which would otherwise have to be thrown away.
"The cost is more than paid for in the saving. It depends on the size of the family, but a small refrigerator saves about $15 a month in food.
ICE PUDDINGS
British and American refrigerator manufacturers have spent millions of pounds enlarging their works and re- equipping them with machinery for mass production needs."
The demand for domestic refrigera tors has been so great in the last few months that some companies have been caught napping, and their budgeted!
Japan Looks South
NAVAL GOVERNOR FOR
FORMOSA
"The Industry is growing in the same way that the radio manufhe turing business has grown. Twolve years ago it was non-existent.
"We are only at the beginning of the boom, as the market han just been touched.
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"I am budgeting for at least a 50 per cent, Increase in sales every year for many years to come. Prices are showing a slow but maintained redue-
tion.
"In short time evang house will have a cold cabinet in the snine way that it has a bath.
"Housewives have definitely adopted iden of refrigeration, mainly on the account of the advantages to health and to the entirely new range of dishes n refrigerator brings to the home
mynd.
The roast beef of old England is giving way to nach delicacies prawns in nispie and ice pucklings."
MORE WORK
rty
The turnover of the domestic re- frigerator business in Hongkong is estimated by an authority as running into lakhs of dollars annually. It is increasing by leaps and bounds.
Refrigerators can be supplied in colours to match decorations, although the popular demand is for the while
ninet.
WEARING
HAT IS
A THRILL ··
HONGKONG TROOPS AT JAFFA
Seaforth Highlanders who are coming to Hongkong in August, photo- graphed standing-by inside the "Citadel of David" at the entrance to the
Old City, Jerusalem.
BRITISH STUDENTS TOO ROMANTIC
-SAYS H.K. GIRL
Romance and sentiment among men and women students in the English Universities often seriously interfere with study, according to Miss Tsi-Dai Irene Ho, who sits for her Ph.D. degree at London University this month.
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"There is no nonsense among men and women students in China. They are good colleagues with a fine sense of co-operation," she said.
Miss Ho is working day and jis being forced by circumstances into night to complete her thesis, militarism.
"We refuse to be the aggressor," sho "Education
andl in Ancient Modern China." But she left said, "but if it is a question of our her study for a walk in Gardens nearby.
national existence we must be pre- Kewpared for self defence. Pushed to the wall, we will one day push back with
Miss Ho always wears. Chinese all our might." dress. Over her Jade-green silk gown she had put a full-length "overcoat"
Her spare time has been spent at the Chung Hwa School and Club, Pennyfields, E., which she founded
of wadded navy blue silk, with a tiny three years ago to help the familica diamond pattern in white,
Both garments were cut in the clas.of.Chinese sallors married to English
It is its own house and sical Chinese fashion, with high mili- women. tary collar, allts on either side of the playing ground. skirt, and fastenings of rolled silk riban down the right side,
The chief aim of the club, which is under the patronage of the Chinese With her delicate, fower-like Ambassador and Sir Robert Ho Tung, y gracious smile and long-flow her father, in "to make the children ing lines, she might have stepped out better men and women, so that they of the recent Chinese Exhibition at may in their lives reflect credit upon Burlington House.
the two countriesTM wiriels give-them- their dual inheritance."
She believes that the wearing of national costume is important for internationalism. But women must set the fashion, because men are too shy and conscious."
BASKET ART
One of the fathers was recently per- self-sunded to develop his technique in the art of making Chinese baskets. It may lead to the creation of a local industry.
GIRL FROM THE PHILIPPINES WEARING tweeds and woollies -and-running-to-catch the The new policy of the bus-- Japanese Navy to look for a These are two of the chief at- -"southward advance" took tactions of London for Miss definite shape this month Irene Abelgas, the first Filipino- trained nurse to take the Inter- when the Government pro-national Course in Public Health mulgated a law establishing under the Florence Nightingale
"WE WILL PUSH BACK" a Formosan colonial com- International Foundation, BC-
"Like the ordinary family, the Miss Ho spoke on "The Modern pany for the exploitation of cording to the London News family of nations is happy together Chinese Woman" at the Birth Control Japan's southern possession, Chronicle.
only when each member is allowed to Contre, Westminster, on June 3. she develop its own personality," while the Navy Ministry in- "No Filipino girl ever runs," she
On her return to Hongkong this explained. said. "We take thy, languorous steps, dicated that it intends to ap- and our must rigorous excrcine Is
Miss Ho is grieved over the way in summer she expects to take up work which China, "most pacifle of nations," in some branch of education, point a naval governor of waving a fan or twirling a parasol." Formosa, probably Vice- PINEAPPLE-FIBRE CLOTHES Admiral Seizo Kobayashi,
She showed some of the "ordi- ex-Commander-in-Chief of mary" clothes of silky, cobweb-fine
An unclalined telegram is lying at HE IS HAPPY WHOSE CHICUMSTANCES the combined fleet, says the pineapple fibre which she wears every
Eastern Extension Telegraph BUIT HIS TEMPER; BUT HE IS MORE EX-the day at home-exquisituly coloureil
onlin addressed to London Morning Post in a and embroidered slips and gowns with CELLENT WHO CAN SUIT HIS TEMPER TO Company's
Fecietate, from London. long tight skiris and-four-foot trains. ANY CIRCUMSTANCES,~~~]]ume. copyright article.
It has also given her a thrill to wear hats, gloves and coats, because In the Philippine. Islands women have no use for these.
wear
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The Indian Company of the long- kong Police Reserve is giving a te
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g The possession of 756 po-piu lottery tickets was admitted by a widow, Ho Chuen, 30 years, brought before Mr. J. II. B. Lee at the Central Police Court this morn ing. A fine of $150, or, in default. six weeks hard labour was inflicted. Sub-Inspector L. Mist prosecuted.
The Navy has had it in mind for some time to appoint a naval officer as Governor of Formosa, making it the central point of When the returns home next month on the second voyage of the Queen Japan's southward expansion. Mary, Mias Abeiges will not Vice-Admiral Kobayashi is one of native dress.
On charges of loitering on the fifth the ablest Japanese naval officers.} ON MEN'S SHOULDERS
floor of Gloucester Hotel at 3,50 a.m. The law creating the Formosanj
on Tuesday and returning to the Development Company as a Gov- Instead, she will wear the simple, Colony before his term of banishment The following forthcoming_wed- announced: Mr.. Robert ernmental enterprise was passed cotton uniform of the public for ten years had expired, Tung Yu- dings are
years, silk dealer was Wayne Adɩms, ; chung, 20 by the last Diet. The purpose of health nurse.
musiclan, of 39 sentenced to one year's hard labour Village Road, and Miss Alice Chow, the new company is to encourage field nurses who are scattered among Her job will be supervising the 100
by Mr. J. II. B. Lee at the Central | dancing git, of the same address; the development of enterprises in the 3,000 or more Islands. She will Sergeant D. Hann prosecuted.
Police Court this morning. Detective Mr. Theodore Leslie Bell, clerk. Formosa and Japanese territories cover a territory of 57,000 square
residing at 16a Canal Rond, and Miss Ruby Leung, of 70 'Morrison in the south.
miles--an area bigger than England.
Transportation will be her great
Hill Road." problem. Where mud is thick in the nice fields, she will be carried on men's shoulders.
SOUTHWARD: ADVANCE According to official statenients.. the slogan, "Southward advance," means that Japan intends to keep and develop the mandated islands and to increase economic penetra- tion in the Dutch East Indies, and even as far as Slam. The Philip pines are not directly mentioned .other than to emphasise the desir ability of cultivating close rela tlons with the new Filipino Gov ernment.
It is understood that the Japan
ese are angling to obtain a conces slon in New Guinea to bore for oil,
"Kong Taim, 20, who pleaded guilty at the Central Magistraty to day to loltering, in Kennedy Road near the
BRITISH CAPITAL
OVERSEAS
FIGURES FOR SOUTH AMERICA
The discovery of nearly 4,000 tuels
London, July 1. raw opiuma aboard two fishing
Replying to a question in the Com- mona, the President of the Board of junks lying in Junk Bay led to the arrest of five fishermen. Lel Kau, 40,
Trado said that, pending the final Among the smallest islands she will Yee-kas, 37, and Fung So, aged Peak tram line, was bound over. He Chan Tal, 22, Chan Yau, 19. Lel paddle in the dangerous native coupe,
results of investigation of the geo- graphical distribution of British who appeared before Mr. J. H. B.
capital Investemonte overens, the Lee at the Central Magistracy this admitted a conviction for begging estimated nominal value of British in- Detective Sergeant Tvestments in 1935 In Argentina was morning. Lel Kau pleaded guilty last year. and the remainder denied the charge Cashman said defendant walked to
£436 millions, in Brazil $100 millions of possession. On the application of nnd fra near the tram line for about
in other South American he saw Revenue Officer A. W. Grimmiti, 15 minutes and when
£160 million, the accused were remanded for one detective, he squatted and, was unable week, on $5,000 ball cach.
to give a satisfactory reply as to his being there.
COLONY PREPARES
TO TRADE WITH ITALY AGAIN
ANTICIPATING the end
of sanctions, local im- but the American and British porters of Italian goods are
much encouragement.
Singh,
and
champa unemployed a
Colony
countries
Dividends and interest remitted on these Investmente in 1935 amounted approximately to 84 millions, £3% millions and £3 millions' respective ¡y-British Wirolero,
RETAIL TRADE
‚ without ̧«är, valid „phesport.
London, July 1. The total value of retail trade sales Carrived" here from Macao In May was 7.2 per cent. higher than
yalid for Hongkong: it had expired marked in suburban London. For the for six or eight wooks. He was and had no. Brities, visa, Defendant.
first four months of the trading year, suffering from a compound fracture had, a letter of Introduction, from the telat sales were 0.9 per cent. of the sight leg, and ather Injurias. Catholic Fathers in Shanghini, and above those for February, 1935. En- The defendants were remanded for wished to return there. His Worship, ployment was 3.5 per cent. higher one week on bail of $100 each, also granted an expulsion order." thon May, 1995-Bettiah Wireless, pav
Four Indians, Curdisi
A Russian, M. A. Yavorsky, 33, Channan Singh and Didar Singh, I imemployed and without any money, private watchmen, appeared before was fined" $10 with the alternative. at the Central of two weeks' hard labour by Mr. Mr. W. Schoßckd Police Court this
this morning, charged J. H. B. Leo at the Contral Pollee with companies there have not len preparing for a resumption B349 Are Police Constable Court this morning for entering the
Singh, at Taihang on Col Juno 20. Acting Sub-Inspector C. S. The Navy Ministry in a recent of trade with Italy. pamphlet emphasised the necessity National Fascist Federation of Madgwick, applying for a week's re- defective Sergeant F. E. Russell said
mand, that of Japanese expansion and Immi Merchants reports that Far Easts in ostale sarwan Singh was on dune 30 zile passport was not in May. 1035, the rise being most gration southward, declaring, ern importera have placed large
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Chicago, July 1. Emma Goldman has telegraphed to friends here that Alexander Berkman, the notorious radical who was deport ed with her to Russia in 1922, hos lied in France. United Press.
Kill Kidney
Trouble Quick
Chan Kim, 17, unemployed; pleadod guilty before Mr. J. II. B. Loo at the Central Magistracy this morning to stealing a handbag, containing $5.70, from Miss Lucy Tang, Nurses Quar ters, Government Civil Hospital, and was remanded until to-morrow for medical examination to see if the man is fit for.birching,
Thousands of eniferere Sub-Inspector A. Kirby, of Upper trouble and Bladder weakness bare stopped Lovela Police Station, said that at Getting Up Nightt, Leg Falás, Nerronsonne; 12.00 | p.m. on June 30, Miss Tang was Rheumaliam, Dissines, Lumbago, Burning. walking near the Nothersolo Hospital itching, „Emmeling, · Acidity when the defendant came up and Vigour by Doctor's new discovery called snatched the bag and fled... Sho mado Oyster (Blatex); · Cently *;; soothes, Lones
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