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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
Hongkong Telegraph
EIGHTH ANNUAL
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC
COMPETITION
June-September, 1938
$250 CASH $250
PRIZES
(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph")
"TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250
(Donated by ILFORD, Ltd., London)
SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1938
Dance Bands Are Public's Favourites
Dance bands are still "Enter- tainment No. 1 in public opinion" -according to the dance bands.
CLERK'S £90,000 FLATS
A former navigating officer Mr. C. A. Mackay, secretary of the and bank clerk who spent thou- Dance Band Leaders Asociation, told sands of pounds in property deals the first annual meeting held at Ciro's admitted, during his public
recently that:
examination in London Bank- "Dance bands take more pro- gramme time at the B.B.C. than any ruptcy Court recently that he other engagement and are top of the had never kept any books of bill on the stage."
Fifty band leaders, muny in sweaters and, slacks, were at thet meeting.
Most had been conducting untit midnight the day before and some had travelled by night.
Jack Hylton had sent his regrets: from Paris, and Henry Hall his from Cardiff,
Henry Hall was elected chairman for the coming year, Jack Payne vice- chairman, Jack Hylton treasurer, and Jack Hürrles and Sydney, Lipton trustees.
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Bigamy Almost His Occupation
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accounts.
"All my income was collected by agents who kept accounts," he said, and all the property business was managed by solicitors. The only record I have is my pass book."
Mr. Bruce Vlieland Parker, the debtor, described as an insurance broker and property dealer, ol Regent-street, W., admitted gross liabilities of £130,000, of which £47,316 was expected to rank, against assets valued at £23,010
Replying to Mr. C. Bruce Park, the OMetal Receiver, Mr. Parker safd that from 1915 to 1920 he was an up- prentice at sea as a navigating officer. In 1820 he became a bank clerk. Od resigning his position in March 1935 he received a bonus of £2,325 in leu of a life pension.
In 1932, while still in employment, he started dealing in leasehold and Said to have been legally freehold properties, his methods being married twice and bigamously to repair and renovate the premises in order to obtain a profitable sale and, three times, Reginald Wright while in possession, to let them at a
BELL & HOWELL FILMO DOUBLE EIGHT Hughes (412), motor engineer figure which would cover the out-
MOVIE CAMERA & CASE, VALUED $288
(Donated by Filmo Depot, Hongkong)
SPECIAL PRESENTATION DE LUXE PHOTO ALBUM
Hand-made in leather by a renowned Vienna artist to the value of $100.00
Donated by: HELMUT NOCHT
To be awarded to the best action study, including
sequence shots.
Open to all classes.
COMMENCE SENDING YOUR ENTRIES NOW
THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.
Prizes will be allotted as follows:
SECTION ONE:
FOR STORY-TELLING PICTURES First Prize: Bell & Howell Filmo Double 8 Camera, Streamline Model, four speeds, self- setting footage indicator, built-in exposure guide, single picture device. Complete with case, Donated by Filmo Dept.. Hongkong.
Second Prize: $40 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph,"
Third Prixo: $20 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
SECTION TWO:
GENERAL PICTORIAL SECTION (VIEWS, ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPES, SEASCAPES, HUMAN AND ANIMAL STUDIES). First Prize: $50 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
The following Rules will govern the Competition:
1-The Competition is confined exclusive-
ly to amateur photographers. 2-No employee or member of any firm
in the photographie trade la permitled to compete.
3-The prizes will be awarded to the
competitors sending in
what aro adjudged to be the best photographs in each Section. Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during, tha; period of the Competition, and which must be pasted on back of entry.
Second Prize: $25 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph,"
Third Prizes: $15 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph.
SECTION
THREE:
STUDIES IN STILL LIFE First Prize: Hongkong Telegraph.'
$30 Cash, donated by "The
Second Prize: $20 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Third Prixo: $15 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
SECTION FOUR: SNAPSHOTS TAKEN BY CHILDREN UNDER 14 YEARS
First Prize: $20 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph,"
Second Prize: $15 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
RULES
been taken in the Colony of Hong- kong. Patography which have been niready entered in other Competition are ineligible.
6. No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of, loss of, or damage to entries,
7-All entries to be either black, gopin, or toned pictures, and must ba mounted. Hand-coloured photographs are ineligible. &-Picturen submitted in seplo iones should be accompanied by 'n amaller print in binck and white, 2.-No picture to be entered in more
then ano 'Bection.
4-The right to publish any or all of the,,
entries in the Telegraph is reserved 10-Mounts to be only white or cream,"
and, except in the Children's Section, 5-All photographs entered must have
must be of one of the following
1z0-10" by 14", 10" by 12", 10" by D",
11. No. correspondence will be entered Into in connection with the Com- petition.
12-Entries In the Children's Section must bear the entrant's name, ngo and audrens on the entry form, counter- signed by a parent. 13-Members of tho Stafs of the Hongkono Telegraph and the Souths China Morning Post are not permitted to compete.
14-The decisions of the Judges shall be
Anal.
13-At e cònalulon of the Competition, entries will be returned to competitors on application at the Telegraph omces within seven days
BOUGHT £31,000 ESTATE
who posed as a secret service roings. man, was sent to prison for six months at the Old Bailey recent- ly.
The Recorder (Mr. Gerald Dodson) told him "You have had such n chequered matrimonial career that it in Impossible to pass over the case. You made bigamy almost an occupa- tlon."
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Detective-Sergeant P. Sinclair sald that the police had received com- munication from a young woman in Oxfordshire, saying that Hughes in 1930 and he promised to marry her. He told her he had been doing secret service work in Pales- tine and had been blinded while
out his duty. Larrying
Later, he dis-
ofeer added that Miss Anna Marin Austin, with whom Hughes vent through a bigamous ceremony, had been left with a child.
It was stated at the last sessions that Hughes was married in March, 1917. and then twice committed bigamy before being divorced in 1025, in Ausgust, 1932, he contraeind a second legal marriage.
In December 1934 he bought an estate for £31,000 and carried out | renovations at a cost of £14,500, On account of the purchase he paid n deposit of £1,250, which he borrow- (ed, while the balance, In respect of which £28,750 was still outstanding. was left on mortgage by the vendor.
The Income from the rents of the estate was not sufficient to meet the outgoings and, in 1936, the mortgagee entered into possession.
He also bought a block of flats on Chelsea Embankment for £10,000, He spent £1,700 on renovations, but was unable to let all the flats, and the income was insufficient to meet the outgoings. Ile borrowed £3,000 to meeting the expenses, but last July he was unable to meet interest due, and the mortgage took possession.
Mr. Bruce Park said it appeared from Investigation that the ranking Jiabilities would be about £50,000, and the deficiency would be about the
same amount.
Joan Can Wear LAST LAP DASH WITH
£300,000
Smile
Hollywood.
JOAN CRAWFORD can afford to smile at the depression which is now hitting Hollywood, and at the attack on her alleged inck of box-office appeal made recently by the independent Theatre Owners' Association. For in the next five years, she will take £300,000 from her studio. Truc.
this does
not work out so much per film as in the past, but
£300,000 in still a
a lot of
money When she completes that ive-year contract she will have a record of more than 15 years' service in one studio-Metro-Goldwyn-Muyer. It
seems long time ago now since she was Lucille la Seuer, the little girl from Brooklyn.
SERUM
Four hours after some rare scrum had been sent 500 miles by plane from Aberdeen, in response 10 TL urgent request from London, it was being administered in hope of saving the life of a Streatham woman. Mrs. A. Dickson,
Her husband met the plane at Croy- don and rushed with the remedy to St. Peter's Nursing Home, where his wife llesi with a rare form of pneumonia.
The only available supplies of the serum, which has been recently dis covered, were In Aberdeen and Liverpool.
By telephone it was arranged that supply should be motored from Aberdeen to Renfrew Aerodrome, and from there flown to Croydon, where Mr. Dickson waited to take it to Streatham.
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