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Friday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 2, 1940.
CLASSIFIED NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, LANE, CRAWFORD,
ADVERTISEMENTS
BANK HOLIDAYS
In accordance with Government
LTD.
BANK HOLIDAY
Monday, 5th August, 1910.
25 words $2.50 ordinance; The Exchange Banks that on Monday, 5th August, our
for 3 days prepaid
WANTED KNOWN.
on
OPENING 1st August, Gents' Barber Saloon, Expert Barbera, Prices reasonable. Manicuring given, Business hours from 8 a.m. to 7 pm. Gloucester Arende
DOMBERS FOR STAMPS! If you have any postage stamps you do not before them want, please send August 10 to the Hongkong Philatelle Society, G.P.O. Box No. 227, or clo Box 304, "Hongkong Telegraph." All stamps received will be sold by auc- flon in aid of the S. C. M. Post and Fund. Hongkong Telegraph War Further details will be announced later. Thank You!
WANTED TO BUY.
Gold
will be closed for the transaction of Public Businces on Monday, the 6th August, 1940: (The First Monday in August).
Hongkong, 31st July, 1940.
NAVY CONTRACTS
Tenders are invited for the of the undormentioned supply articles for II.M. Naval Service:
Enithenware. Cups, plates, etc. Tinware. Urna, Canisters, etc, Enamelled Ware. Jugs, Mugs,
We beg to inform our patronя
Main Store will be closed and hours of business in Groceries and Provisions, and Brend and Caken Departments will be as follows:
Grocerlos and Provisions, Bread and Cakes East Lane Annox, Exchange Building, 7.00 am. to 1.00 p.m.
a.m. to Kowloon Branch 8.30 1.00 p.m.
Peak Depot 7.00 um. to 10.00
1.7.
CAFE WISEMAN-OPEN AS USUAL
etc.
G.
Cutlery. Knives, Spoons, etc. Forms of Tender can be obtained
and specimens of the articles PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
WE PAY HIGH PRICES for all gold required can be seen on applica and silver articles, diamonds, inde
tion to the Superintendent, H.M Apply China and jewels. Redning Co. Room 0, Pedder Bulld-Victualling Yard, Navy Street, ing, 2nd floor.
FOR SALE.
"HONGKONG AS REVEALED BY
of the
THE CAMERA" Second Edition. Over 60 excellent views Colony. Price $1.50. Obtainable at Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, South China Morning Post, Lid., Wyndham Street.
TO LET.
AVAILABLE 16th August, modern European Fint with lawn, four rooms, two bathrooms, servants' quarters and
135, #1 conveniences, No. Kennedy Rand, 1st door. Apply Bank of Canton, Ltd., Tel. No. 31215. TO LET:-Nos. 3 and 4 King's Park Buildings, Austin Road, Kowloon,
flats, Hot four-roomed
and cold water. Gurage optional. Apply Union Trading Co., York Building Telephone 27738.
ARANDORA STAR DRAMA
Lontion, Aug. 1.
Kowloon.
Tendern are to be returned by noon, Monday, August 12,
NOTICE
Notice is given that from the 1st of August, 1910, Mr. W. Vosmeer hng been appointed Manager of our Hongkong Branch office.
P. J. KLINK LTD. (China Handel My. Erven P. J. Klink N.V.) General Manager.
NOTICE
As per 31st July, 1940, Mr. J. Havelaar is no longer in charge of our business in Hongkong and his Power of Attorney has been
P. J. KLINK LTD. (China Handel My, Erven P. J. Klink N.V.) General Manager.
withdrawn.
NOTICE
The name us just been revealed of a British offleer who herolenlly sucrifleed his life to save one of the altens, for whom he was responsible, when the Arandora Stor was
A As from this day we are no torpedord. The officer was Brevet Major Christopher
Bethell, Omeer longer acting as Agents for:-- the Military Guard Commanding
JAVA CHINA TRADING over the Germans and Italiang, who were being tulen to Canada. As the vessel was sinking he gave his life- belt to one of the internees, then walked to the bridge and went down alongside the captain.-Reuter.
In Every Roone
KLEENEX
DISPOSABLE
TISSUES
Always have a box handy. Kleenex hus hundreds of u
WHITE PEACH GRZEN
ORCHID
TISSUES
KLEENEX TABSU
Indispensable
at handkerchief during cold. Soft and ab sorbant, checks the spreading
of germs.
Two Gunners
Sentenced
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COMPANY LTD.
P. J. KLINK LTD.
(China Handel My. Erven P. J. Klink N.V.).
1st August, 1940.
THE "STAR" FERRY CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE is hereby given that an Interim Dividend of $2.00 per Share has been declared, for the half year ended 30th June, 1940, payable on FRIDAY, 16th AUGUST, 1910, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtain- ed on applleation at the Office of the Company, Kowloon.
The Register of Shares of the from Company will be closed WEDNESDAY, 7th AUGUST to FRIDAY,' 16th AUGUST, 1910, both days inclusive,
Order of the Board of
By Directors.
C. M. MANNERS, Secretary and Manager, Hongkong, 20th July, 1940.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Tuesday, the 6th day of August, 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Oficos of the 'Public Works Department, by Order, of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Repulse Bay, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
Intending bidders are advised that Immediately after the dispo- sal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised olleer who will be present at the Bum of two hundred sale, the dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price, PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale.
Registry No.
Rural Building
G.
one
Locality
South Bay Road,
Repu
iring Garden
Rural Building Lot
NO, 397.
Boundary Measurements
N. 23 E. W
as per solu
pian.
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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Tuesday, the Gih day of August, 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of tho' Public Works Department, by Order of“ His Excellency the Governor of Lot. of Crown Land at Mong Kok, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75
with years,
the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for further term of 75 years. Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo- sal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required. to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sate, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price,
OND
that an Interim Dividend of $1 PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
per ahare has been declared in respect of the half year ended 30th June, 1940 on 600,000 OLD SHARES and will be payablo on and aftor Wednesday, 11th Sep..
Seven And Five Months (tember, 1940. Dividend Warrants.
Detention Ordered
may be obtained on application at
the Company's Registered OMee,
Sentence has been promul-P. & O. Building.
gated on the two Gunners who
figured in an incident with
THE REGISTER OF MEMBERS
superior officer in the Peninsula of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 2ND SEPTEM.
Hotel on July 7.
Gunner E. E. Milsom was found |BER, to SATURDAY, 7TH SEP-
1940, gulity of charges that he, while on TEMBER,
(both daya
native service, used insubordinate Inclusivo) during which period no language to a superior omee, Flight-transfer of shares can be regis- Lieut. McGovern, and attempted to
strike him; and three other charges
terad.
of using insubordinato language to By Order of the Board superior officers. Milsom was son Directors. tenced to seven months' detention.
Chargos
Three Gunner W. H. Davies, who ካብዚ with the first accused, was found gulity of using insubordinate language to a superior officer, Flight-Lieut. McGovern, using abusive langungo whilst in 'n publlë omnibus in military custody, and using insubordinate language to superior officers in Nanking Barracks. Davies was sen tenced to five months' detention.
The Gunners were irled by Dise trict Court Martial af Stanley Bar racks on July 23 and 24.
of
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
Agents. Hongkong, 1st August, 1940.
No. of Sale
Inland Let
Registry No.
Junction of Tong
Mi Road and
Mong Kok Road,
Locality
Mong Kok.
Boundary [Measurements
N. . . WV.
feel fret feet feel
As per sale
plan.
STOCK MARKET REPORT
$28,350
-Hongkong Stock Exchange OMélol Summary, issued yesterday, says:
The market is off the boll, Hitle trade has been reported to-day and atlessness replaces the burst of en-
METROPOLE quiries with which the week was
HOTEL
CENTRAL CLEAN COMFORTABLE - FIREPROOF
ushered in.
...
J
Bales
HK. Banks $1,2207 Cements:$18
Electrics (new), $30/
$1 TIFFINS
at
Jimmy's
Also A la
China Bldg., Hongkong.
TODAY AT
Carte
Hankow Rd., Kowloon.
THE KING'S
Presenting the
BATTLE of the CENTURY
Marlene
Una
DIETRICH vs. MERKEL
James STEWART Referee
Round 1 Marlene gets a strangle- hold on Uno's hair!
Round 2
und Stewart insists on a clean fight. supplies the water!.
Round 3 "Who did that?"snarls Dynamite Dietrich!
Round 4
What footwork! And, boy...what leg work!
Round 5
At the sound of the bell...they go into
a clinch!
Marlene
James DIETRICH STEWART
DESTRY RIDES AGAIN
Charles WINNINGER Mischa AUER - Brian DONLEVY
Irama HERVEY • Unɑ MERKEL
Allen JENKINS - Warron HYMER ZA}]ly GILBERT_
BANKS
THE . CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA &: CHINA. Incorporated by Royal Charter 1353, Paid-up Capital ........................... £3,000,000 Reserve Llaniilty of Proprietors 9,000,000 Itoserva Fund
HEAD OFFICE-LONDON,
sishapigste, E.CE Bub-Agencies in London: 117/12, Leadenhall Stre92, 1.C.), West End Branchi 14/18, Cochspar Street, S.W.L Manchester Branchi
$2, Mosley Streat, Manchester, E.
AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:
Alor Star
Harbin
Hongkong
Панкооп
POST OFFICE
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
گر
OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Mall Inte closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise. slated, and where mails aro advertis ed to close nt or before 9 a.m. regis- tered and parcel mails are closed at p.m. on the previous day. When mails are advertised to close after 5 pm Registered and Parcel maila are closed at p.in.
k
INWARD MAILS
Amritsar
Bangkok
Ipoh
Saigon Semarang
Batavia
110110
Bombay
Karachi
Calculia
Klang
Arencies: Kobe
Clive street
suutm
Beremban Shanghai Bingapore Sillawan Bourabaya
Air Mall by "Imperial
Airways:
Service"
.Aug. 2
Canton
Aug. 2.
Fairlie Place
Lumbur
Taiping
Haiphong
„Aug.
Conton
Kuching
Teisin
Cawnpore
Tongkan
Japun
:Aug.
Mania Medan
(Bhukel)
Japan and Shanghai,
.Aug.
New York
Tainatio Yokohama
Manila
.Aug.
Japan and Shanghai,
.Aug. 3.
Halphong
Pelping
Hamburg
(Peking)
Man!!o
Aug.
Hankow
Penang
Palembang
Aug. 3.
Saigon Straits
.Aug. 3.
Aug. 3.
Celu
Colombo
Doll
Macras
And General
FOREIGN EXCHANGE Banking Businças transacted. CURRENT ACCOUNTS
opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year of shorter periods to Local or Other Cur rencies at rates which will be quoted on application,
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS als opened Local Currency and Sterling with interest allowed at rates obtainable on application. The Bank's Head Ofco in, Lendon undertakes Executor & Trustee business, and claims recovery at British Ineame Tax overpaid, on terms which may be Ascertained at any of its. Agencies and
n. A. CAMIDGE,
Branches.
The
Manager.
Hongkong Telegraph Tenth Annual
Amateur Photographic
Competition
juno -September, 1940. Two Silver Trophies Awarded
by ILFORD LTD.
For the best and second-best entries. Four Silver Trophies Awarded by EASTMAN KODAK CO. First Prizes in each of the four Sections. $250 CASH PRIZES $250
SECTION ONE General Pictorial: Land and Seacapes: Architecture: Street Scenes, etc. 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20, 4th. $12.50
SECTION TWO Portraits; informal Close-ups: Human
Studles.
1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50. SECTION THREE
Still Life and Table Top Studier. 1st, Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12,50.
SECTION FOUR (Craftsmen's Section)
The whole of the work entailed In the production of every entry must have been done by the competitors who will be required to make a declaration to this effect. Each entry must have pasted on the back it special entry form obtainable on application from The Hongkong Telegraph or from the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Photographie Society. Subjects at the discretion of competitors.
1st. Silver Cup. 2nd: $30. 3rd. $20., 4th. $12.50.
RULES
The following Rules will govern the Competition:
1.The Competition is confined ex- clusively to amateur photo- Kraphers.
3. No employes or member of any Arm in the photographie trade is permitted to compete,
3. The prizes will be awarded to the
competitors sending In what ar
djudged to be the best photo- Sropha in each Section, Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period of the Com- petition, and which m be pasted on back of entry. -The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.
All photograph entered must 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 damage to entries.
T-All entries to be either black,
sepla, ar toned pictures, and murt' be mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are ineligible,
B-Pictures submitted in sepia tones should be accompanied by a smaller print in black and white. B-No picture to entered in more
than one Section.
10-Mounts to be only white or cream, must be of one of the following sizes:-10X12, 10×20.
11. No correspondence will be entered Into in connection with the Com- petition.
12-Members of the Staffs of the Hongkong Telegraph and the Routh China Morning Post are not permitted to campate, 13-The decision of the Judges shall
be Anal,
14-At the conclusion of the Com
petition, entries will be returned to coinpetitors on application at the Telegraph offices within seven daya.
NAME
SECTION
ENTRY FORM
ADDRESS
Please use block letters and paste this on back of each Entry in jections 1.2 and 3.
U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Manila (San Francisco date, 10th July),
Australia and Maulla Canton
Aug. 3.
.Aug. 4.. Aug. 4,
OUTWARD - MAILS Friday, August S Shanghai
.....12.30 p.m. Salgon and Bangkok........7 pm. Manila, Rabaul, Australia and New
Zealand via Brisbane
G.P.O. and K.F.O.
Par.
.Aug. 2,
p.m..
Reg.
Aug. 3, 0.45 um.
Ord,
Aug. 3, 0.30 um.
Baturday, August ‘J
Atroy Sandakan
.8.30 am..
Shanghal and Parcels only for
tsin
.8.30 nm.
Tien-
Bau,
Fort
Bayard
Bangkok
.10.30 am.. .2.30 p.m. Straits, Ceylon, India East and South
Africa.
.....3.30 p.m. Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, USA. Central and South America, Cona- da, and *United-Kingdom via Son Francisco (No Parcels for Canada).
G.P.O. and KP.O. Parcels,...Aug. 3, 4 pm. Aug. 3, 6 p.m. Ord. ....................Aug. 3, 5.30 p.m. Air Mail for "Imperial Airways- Service"
to Indo-China, Durban and thence by Sea Service to United- Kingdoni.
Reg.
G. P. 0, and K, P. 0. Reg.,
.Aug. 3, 5.00 p.m. Aur: 3, 5.30 p.m.
.8,30 a.m.
Sunday, August 4
...m.
Ord.
Shanglial Manila
Afonday, August G
Canton .. Halphong
.10.30 am. 2 p.m.
Salgon Conton
4.30 p.m.
7 p.m.
*Superscribed Correspondenco Only.
H.K. Stock Market
The
following quotations were Issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar- ket this morning.
BANKS
H.K. Banks $ H.K. Banks (Lon.) £ H.K. Banks (H.K.)
Chartered £.... Mercantile, A. & B. £. Mercantile, C. £
East Asia $.
Canton $
INSURANCES
Union $ China Underwriters H.K. Fire 3.
SHIPPING
.1,220 .
03 n.
...00 n.
..Gil-n.
28 D.
.11. ...73 D.
.215 s. .350 1.
40-cts. B
.100 11.
120 m.
.11 m.
100 n.
60 n.
33/0 n,
0.00 n.
.00 n. 16.40 n..
17 n.
.3
.27% n.
MINING
:16/- n. .8.85 n. cla, n.
LANDS
Douglases $ Steamboats $. Indo-Chinas P. S. Indo-Chinas D.$. Shell (Dearers) s/- Waterboats $ x.d..
DOCKS ETC. Wharves &. Docks (old)
Docks (new) Providents
Sh. Docks Sh. $.
Kailan +/- Rauba S.. H.K. Mines
Hotels S. Lands .... Lands 4% Debentures S'hal Lands Sh. $. Humphreys $.
HK. Realties $. Chinese Estates $..
UTILITIES
Trams $. Peak Trams (old) $. Peak Trams (new) Star Ferries, $.
Y. Ferries $
Chinn Lights (old) $.. Ching Lights (new) H.K. Electrics (old) HK. Electrics (new) $.. Macao Electries (old) Macao
Electrics (new) $. Sandakan Lights $ Telephones (old
Telephones
(new) 5.. INDUSTRIALS
10.20
101
10 n. 1,40 n. .3.70 n.
.57 n.
21 n.
8 n.
10 n. .11% n.
.22.
...84 n.
Cald: Macg. (Orl.), Sh. $....14.80 n. Cold: Mace (Preft), Sh. $...12 n. Canton Tees $2
.....I a. 15's. & 80. 14% n.
Cements $. IK. Ropes
STORES, &kci
$
Dairy Farms Watsons $.. Lane Crawfords $: Sinceres $. Wing On (HK.) 5. Powell Ltd. A
COTTON MILLS Ewo Sh. $..... S'hai Cotton Sh.
H.K.. Govt. 4% Loan
H.K. Govt. 34% Loan
H.K. Govt. 3% (1040)
.18 .
.8.
:7.46 n.
.2.15 n.
35% n. 200 n.
.00 n.
Ch. Govt. 6% 1925 G$Bds.31% n.
B. K. Entertainments $0.00 . Constructions (old) ......1.00
A
Constructions (new) S... Vibro Piling-............ Marahana Inv. (Lon.) / 7/0 n. Marsmens Inv. (H.K.) s/.
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