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G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER AND SURVETOR

-Public Auctions-

Tells Puble Questos,

THE Undergoed has received instrno-

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THURSDAY, March 1, 1980,

commencing at,Il am.

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at No. 8 Stewart. Terrace. No. 95, The Peak

:

A Quantity of Valuable Roundbold Furniture,

including

Tank extension dining table. Silver; hine wish Chubb's. Lock, Tonk Book-1

Tak wardrobe with hevelled mirror. Teak Dining Table with bevell ed mirror, Maris The tant wachstand!. Brass monoted beren. 870 ** with wine and hair matures and mosquito neta, Child's Cut with wirel and bair mattrO698;

ate.,. *te.

A Quantity of Books,

Bath Room, Pantry, and Kishen Fianaila,

Ate.,

Also

One Perambalator in good condition. One Collection of Butterflies and Not be

One Collection of Snakes in koules,

A pamber of Cerus and Plants in

you

O view from Wednesday the 3rd

Narth, 1920:

Catalogues will be issued.

Tore-Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Apetieneer, “

Hongkong. February 28, 1920.

INTIMATIONS

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INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

ORDINARY "YEARLY MEETING of the Shareholders in tis Corporation will be held at the CITY HALL, Hongkong, TO-MOR. ROW, (SATURDAY), the 28th day of February, 1920, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1919.

The Register of Shares of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 16th February, to SATURDAY, 28th February, 1920, (both days inclusive), during which! period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Court of Directors,

N. J. STABB.

Chief Manager

Hongkong, February 10, 1920.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the THIRTY-FIROIT ANNUAL CHINARY GENERAL MEETING of toppany (since its registravion) will be held at the Flongkang Butel, Flong- song, co SATURDAY, the 6th March, 1920, at Nous, for the purpose of receiv- ing the Report of the General Managers together with a Statement of Accounts to the 31st October, 1919.

The Register of Shares of the Com- pany will be CLOSED (ro WEDNES DAY, the 3rd day of March, 1920 to MONDAY, the 8th day of March, 1920 both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be rogistered.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. Hongkong, February 26, 1920.

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BRAINS FIRST IN AT ENGLAND.

We should, I think, definitely set out to secure for everyone a decent minimum of comfort which will per- mit the natural capacity of each of us to be properly developed.

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their quest for decent homes and adequate schooling.

"When we seek a beter England we shall act quite otherwise. Super- man is not the offspring of a super- tax.

"An increase in leisure and in- come and education will not, of "Even now in Paris the muri- course, automatically yield a crop of cipality is selecting the best couples our A1 citizens from the class who are for its houses, giving them additional now C. Such conditions would, accommodation without additional of

however, give us a far better oppor rent for additional children." tunity to gauge the natural capacity" of each.

Sir Malcolm Morris, one of our most distinguished surgeons, writing in the Weekly Dispatch, says:

"The immediate future of

matter, country. and, for that civilised countries everywhere, has surely never been more fascinating than it is to-day. It seems certain that, fifty years hence. England will have changed more than during any half-century of her history.

In the wider interest of the race our next step would be to curb the

"English industry is engaged 'in' buying up the best brains of the country," says the Chronicle.

"One of the latest captures of increase of the less desirable rype of big business is Dr. A. W. Cross- men and women by the simple exley, who was Professor of Chemistry pedient of placing the quick-witted in at King's College. He has been ap- a better position than the others to pointed Director of Research to the strengthen the stock of the following British Cotton Industry Research As generation. That aim ought to be sociation. consistently expressed in the laws of our-land.

"Already the old barriers have

The caste system is practic gore. ally dead.

Just as during the war, we had the scions of our didest fami- lies serving as rankers for a shilling or so a day while men of little line- age were making many millions, so to-day one may find a professor at an English university with £250 a year, while an American railway guard earns, mands. hís £500..

"Many excellent people, unaccus- tomed to mental, exercise, view with an air of gloom these rather rapid

reversals of the social values.

1969 MADE BY, 1919. "They forget that the future is in the hands of the present; that the England of 1969 is what the England of 1919 chooses to make it..

"Nor is it Improbable that the next generation will be an improvement

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"Amongst others who have joined the industrial ranks may be mention- THE TRAGEDY OF DEPECT.

fed Mr. S. E. Slade, formerly at the "It may be asked just what is University College, who was appoint meant by any individual's contribu-ed head of the British Photographic tion to the society in which he lives. Association, and Sir Herbert Jackson, Necessarily, his contribution largely late of King's College, who has join- depends upon what his society de- ed the directorate of the British

"In a community which set a high value upon spiritual attributes one would find artists and musicians and authors encouraged to create. At the present moment, our own social ideal may be said to be a demand for as good a standard of living as can be obtained for as large a population as we can support.

• Scientific Instrument Research "As- sociation.

"So serious has the question be- come for the universities that the governing bodies are considering the whole questions of salaries which can be offered in the future for professor- ships, lecturers, and demonstrators." The feeling is that unless a favourable revision is made big busi ness' will attract all the best men from the academic positions.

BIG SALARIES.

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"Discussing the question with a Daily Chronicle representative, one who is closely connected with the

"It is an ideal of which we need be neither proud nor ashamed. Clear ly, the general improvement of social conditions is essential; it is not less tion should, as far as possible, be re- essential that the succeeding genera-

The breaking down of cruited from those who benefit most administration of the London Univer- caste barriers is of itself good. from this improved environment. ¦sity pointed out the great difference "Moreover, the unrest' which pre- "One does not; for example, de- in salaries offered. The minimum vails to-day need not be a matter forsire to see in the England of fifty for a professor to-day is only £600 a melancholy if the more worthy types years hence a mob of mental defec.. year, and the same man in industry of human beings are as a result pre tives maintained by the mentally is offered £1,000, and in some cases sented with an opportunity to emerge efficient. Therefore, a person who considerably more. In fact, some of from the mass always provided that can keep himself by his own efforts the enormous business corporations, our new standard for giving social in the community should, as a ger-particularly those who have merged prominence to people is the standard tral rule, be encouraged to marriage their industrial relations, offered al of neither a demagogue nor a snób. and to parentage in preference to one-most unlimited prospects to the right

"Open industrial warfare does un- who cannot do so, whose father, men. doubtedly develop anti-social qualities grandfather, great-grandfather have

failed to do so.

in both employers and their workers, because each group is fighting for its own hand, and consequently there is

"

"Ari averige of between £600 to £1,000 can be placed as the plums in the universities. It a man takes honours in chemistry and is only offered a post of £300 a year he is going to snap. at the greater chances offered him by industry."

BEWARE OF COLDS. CHILDREN are much more likely to ‚'contract' the; contagious disenson when they have colds. Whooping onegh, diphtheria, scarlet fever and consp

OUR INDIFFERENCE TO BRAINS. "As a community we have been not that motive of selfless sacrifice oddly indifferent to brains. The in which exists in the, mote terrible-war-ventors of aniline dyes, 'to cite one fare of the guns. But while an ex notorious instance, have never re- tension of collectivism might result in ceived the reward of the research a levelling down, and while we have work Manufacturers have earned certainly to be on our, guard agaitist handsome profits; the workers' stan- any repression, of individual skill by dard of living has increased; those trade unions, we must at the same whose brains really contributed. that time admit that the general effect of new knowledge and that new wealth trade uniorism is upon the whole have not been recognised as the social

tion aradise son ibalère often contracted socially beneficent. Society cannot asset which they so plainly are? when the child has a pold. That is why all, -win-spiritual-freedom without a cer. If that be our attitude towards radical authoritien ar beware of colds. tain freedom from the materialistic obvious ability, it is not surprising For the quick cure of colds you will fi

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that we simply ignors qualities of a Cough Remedy. It can always be more everyally, stamp, taxing their depended upon and is plesant and safe possessors to childlessness, hendi to tako For sale by all Chemists Ma capping those with tiny families in torekeepers.

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