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The
Hongkong Telegraph
NINTH ANNUAL
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC
COMPETITION
June-September, 1939
CASH PRIZES
$250 $250
(Donated by "Hongkong Telograph") TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250 (Donated by ILFORD, Ltd., London) SEND YOUR ENTRIES IN NOW
CLOSING DATE & TIME:
29th SEPT, AT 5 P.M.
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 Plelures, 1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10. SECTION TWO: General Pictorial Section: Landscapes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scenes, etc.
18. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.
SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human
1st. 530. 2nd. $15. 3rd, $10 SECTION FOUR:
Studies.
Still Life and Table-Top Studies. 1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd, 510. SECTION FIVE:
Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years. ial, $15. 2nd, $10. 3rd. $5.
RULES
The flowing Rules will govern the Competition:
1. The Competition is confined ex- to amateur photo-
clusively graphers
3. No employee or member of any firm in the photographic trade is permitted to competà. 3-The prizes will be awarded to the
competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- graph in each Section. Each eairy must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period or the Cora petition. and which must pasted on back of entry,
be
The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph. B-All photographs
entered mriat have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been already entered in other Competitions are ineligible. -No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of loss of, or darnage to entries,
-All entries to be either black. senia, or tobaŭ pictures, and must
USE. THIS FORM
AND PASTE IT
:ON THE
'BACK OF EACH ENTRY
+
photo-
mounted. Caletsred graphs are ineligible. B.Pictures submitted in repla tones should be accompanied by a Amaller print in black and white. D.-No picture to entered in more
than one Section.
10.-Mounts to be only white or
creni
tho and, except in Children's Bection, must be of one of the following sizes:-10X12 10x30,
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, age and address on the entry form, counter-signed by a parent, 13.-Members of the Staxa of the Hongkong Telegraph And the South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete.
14.-The decisions of the Judges shall
De final.
15-At the conclusion of the Com- petition, entries will be returned to competitors on application at Ue Telegraph omces within seven days.
SECTION
NAME
ADDRESS
DATE
ENTRY FORM
Plesso use block letters and parts thi on back of wach Entry. If entered tr -Children's Bestion, parent please cou
tarsign here,
FRINCO CAPE
BONECA-
Armoured cars and large numbers of both French and Municipal Police carrying machine guns have placed Avenue Edward VII., Shanghai, on a war-time footing following recent gangster raid and further threats on Shanghai's Fleet Street.
United Kingdom Sells More To Malaya
London.
THE United Kingdom's share of Malayan imports in 1938 reached a higher percntage of the total im- ports than in any of the last ten years. The figure for all imports was 18.6 per cent., compared with 15.6 per cent, in 1937, and the United Kingdom proportion of im ported "articles wholly or mainly manufactured" was 29.7 per cent., compared with 26.9 per cent, in the pre- vious year.
1
These satisfactory figures are con- The report, remarking that the talned in the Report on Economie and Japanese obtained the contract fur Commercial Conditions in Maloya, by the supply of cement to the Singa- his Majesty's Trade Commissioner inpore municipally for the Arst six Singapore (Mr. R. B. Willmot}, pub-months of 1939, states, "The average. Tished in London recently.
pice of UK, cement rose from $18.40
11 1037
Mr. Willnot remarks that owing toper ton in 1930, to $19.00 the importance of Singapore and und $20.40 in 1938, compared with Penang as ports for entrepot trade, the average price of imports in 1938 from Hongkong of $10.75, the true United Kingdorn share of the from
of $11.45, and trade in competitive articles is even French Indo-China
The higher than the manufactured arti- from Japan of $7.80 per ton."
Straits Settlements imposes no duly eles' Agure.
imported cement.
2 PROGRESSIVE INCREASE
The share of the British Empire asi
IMPORTS UP
Owing to increased building activi-
in whole shows a progressive' increase from 31.7 per cent. in 1916 to 32.0 ty the imports of cement have risen during the host three years. The per cent. in 1937 and 36.7 per cent. us improved her total imports last year. The Netherlands Indles slightly, faut not by uty means in share shows a step fail from 32.4 praportion to the Reneral increase, per cent. in 1937 to 27 per cent, lust states the report. There is a factory your, and that of Japan has fallen in Hongkong and another
at al- from 6 per cent. in 1937 to 2.3 perį phong in French Indo-China; by ren- cent. last year.
son of their low manufacturing costs
An extensive Chluese boycall of the short sea transport involved These are able to compete against Japanese goods has reduced fatal the UK. imports front Japan to $12,128,000 last year, compared with $10,482,000 In 1937, belag a heavy one in prae- tically every item.
Imports from Japan were steady round about 90,000 tons in 1938 and 1907, but haut declined in 1938 to 30,000 tons owing to the boycott. The In general there was a substantial decline in Malaya's foreign trade in Japanese factories are stili, however, 1938 mrt filing from $670,013,ue to out a rearonable amount of tuslass, thanks to the enormpur 000 in 1937 to $540,810.000 last year, difference in price. and exports from $887,121,000 in 1937 to $560,015,000. The full In the value of exports is, of course, mainly! due to the operation of the rubber | and Un restriction schemes and the decline in commodity prices.
THE QUOTAS
Tiny Rattler Coils In Pipe
KERNVILLE, Cal. (U.P.)-George Barney gets a lot of pleisure from
The average rubber quota for the year was 55 per cent, compared with. $3 per cent, in 1937 and 034 per smoking his handcarved pipes, but ent. In 1936, bringing the permissible he wants none of the mixture he the other day. On export 331,100 tons, and the value found in one, of rubber achitally exported to $272,-looking into the bowl of a pipe with 980,000, compared with $404,662,000 which his son had been playing, in 1937.
Barney was shocked to see a 7-inch rattlesnake ecited therein. "I lost no In regard to tin, the average quota time in cleaning that pipe." he said. percentage fer 103 (including domes-
te buffer stock) was 41,225, compared
with average percentage of 77.75 in 000, which, states the report, is due! 1937, and the value of tin exports to a heavy fall in price and with-; was halved at $90,339,000 compared holding of stocks.
with $189,760,000 in 1937.
Detailed figures are given, as usual,
Copra showed a considerable fall of the various items comprising the from $22,794,000 in 1937 to $12.494,- trade.
Singapore Man On A Spiritual Experience
London.
A REMARKABLE account of hów. Mr. J. N. David,
of Singapore, was first attracted to spiritualism is coh- tained in a recent issue of Light, London organ of spiri- tualism.
Mr. David describes, how, in the, lous new world. Within 13 days my year 1910, while he was silil a boy, father, the Rev. John Duvil (a CMS his mother was for some days unable anissionary), followed her, and every- to partake of any food as the result thing happened just as she had fore-
told. of tetanus after childbirth.
"Three months after their passing, Her teeth were clenched as in vice. Then suddenly, one day, "she my grandmother was chastising my opened her mouth and called for my younger sister, when from ten feet father, my-grandmother and mysler, away from us, we all distinctly bened and requested us to sing the Praise of voice saying: 'Do not punish my Hallelujah. She then said she was child so severely. Teach her to be
ung to a new world, or planet, to obedicat by idindness." which her departed friends
and
tives were lovingly calling her.
rela-
"We at once searched everywhere
to find who had spoken; even seizing She bade us not to weep or lament, storm-lanterns and searching all for she was
to going
a place of round my uncle's house to a distance exceeding beauty, such as she could of 300 yards. It was 10 o'clock at not describe. We were to sing and night, and not a soul was there; so show not race of grief.
we knew it had really been the voice "Calling me by name, my dear of my mother, mother then bade me be faithful to "Since that day," concludes Mr. my uncle, who would take care of David,
Intensely
"I have been
me, as her husband, my father would interested in the doctrine of sur www very shortly follow her to this glor-vival:""
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