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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISIRS AND SURVEYORS.

Public Auctions-

TER Undersigned have received in-

Co., to sell by Public Auction

TUESDAY, the 18th May, 1920, at 3. p...

4

at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, The Steamer "DAGMAR"

as she now lies in the fanam River,

Bangkok, with all her machinery, gear

and appurtenances, etc.

1457 tons gross Rag..

021 tans net Reg.

1800 long deadweight capacity on

17 feet mean draft. Speed 10 knots.

This Steamer went ashore in the

Gulf of Siam, was salved, and towed to

Bangkok, where she was dry-docked and patched up..

Inspection orders on application to the East Asiatic Co., Ltd., "Bangkok.

The Steamer to be at purchaser's risk after all of hammer, when purchase money is to be paid..

For full particulars apply to

LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneer. OF

Massas: THORESEN & Co,

Hongkong.

FOR SALE.

One Complete Set of 25 Volumes:

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA

over been used).

Apply

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

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When there are disesser prevalent in the season, it is the most dangerous to Infants and sa Great Caro must be taken in feeding them with proper food atherwise they would give their Mothers a lot of trouble. To avoid the trouble is to feed them with LAC- TOGEN which resembles human milk. It is easily digested and promotes healthy appetite. It keeps the Infants. thriving and free from all Infantile Ailments.

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Bol Agents for Isngkong naď South. China.

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Telephone No. 1:39

WE HAVE

Just received

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Many varieties and values of

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also

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OBTAINABLE AT ALL HIGH-CLASS TOBACCONISTS,

THE WONDERS OF COLD

STORAGE.

In the House of Commons recent ty, the President of the Board of Trade stated that there were at pre- sent 128,000 tons of meat in stock in the United Kingdom. Mr. and Mrs. Newspaper Reader, who read the statement at breakfast the following morning, were duly impressed-for a moment. But that was all. The fact is, the twinsisters, science and

have done

invention

(Cinna) Edd.

Ltd., which is the largest enterprise of its kind in the world, alone has. cold storage capacity in the United Kingdom exceeding ten million cubic feet and is now building a cold store at Alexandra Dock, Liverpool, which wher completed will be the largest. cold stare in Europe, with a capacity of 3,000,000 cubic feet.

This Advertisement la famed by British-American Tobacco C

pressed with the professor's idea that they actually tasted chops from a sheep killed in this way; but they reported that the chops tasted "slight

flat. Another claimant suggested that the only way was to pack meat into barrels and pour in fat at a temperature of 200 Fahrenheit round the meat A clergyman delivered to the Committee a stirring address on

The cold storage accommodation fungi, but somehow the mushroom available for frozen meat in the Uni- palliative failed to impress the Comted Kingdom at the present moment mittee as a substitute for the roast is approximately 175,000 tons, which beef of Old England. 50

Professor is equivalent to four month's con Redwood advocated raw meat presumption of imported meat. Cold the served in paraffin, and scores of storage, therefore, is the greatest

processes for tinning meat were tested. After a campaign of fifteen years, this Committee issued a gloomy report, and died a sudden death in

much for the present generation

that. they are accorded

proverbial contempt that comes of

familiarity. We lead such compara. tively comfortable lives now we are back again in days of peace that

most of us forget the causes that have led to the comfortable effects. Few people, for instance, who read the statement regarding the 128,000

tons of meat realised that such a

1881.

boon mankind possesses to day. It defies changes of temperature -and- gives the teeming masses of the Uni ted Kingdom a plentifulsupply of that foodstuff so vital to Britain's progress In the meantime, however, Harri and prosperity eat. All this, how son and Mort, the pioneers of frozen ever, has only been possible by meat in Australia, and the French reason of British commercial enter- scientists Tellier and Carre, had been prise. The Union Cold Storage stock was possible only because of experimenting frozen meat refrigera Company, for instance, has laid the wonders of refrigeration and cold tion. After zaveral abortive attempts down capital in every continent. storage. Indeed, were it not for reto ship frozen meat from Australia With its associated companies it frigeration and cold storage the so that it reached England in a owns ranches over which hundreds United Kingdom would probably sound state, the great problem of of thousands of cattle roam, freez never have reached commercial and meat supplies for the United ing works, refrigerated steamers political greatness it at present Kingdom was solved in February (the Blue Star Line recently taken enjoys. Cold storage has enabled the 1880, when the as. "Strathleven over by the Union Company; being people of these islands to be fed on 40 tons of beef and mutton on board. the world), inland transport services arrived in London from Sydney with the largest refrigerated fleet in frozen meat brought from the ends of the earth-from Australia, the The meat had been frozen on board, and cold stores works and shops to Argentine, Brazil and many other and when examined was found to be handle the meat when it reaches the "in a perfectly sound state, frozen United Kingdom. It is, indeed, a meat exporting countries.

The birth and progress of the quite hard and covered with an universal meat provider and brings frozen meat trade is, indeed, one of the artificial rime." A carcase of lamb was the joint of beef direct from the wonders of modern civilisation, Fre sent to Queen Victoria and a sheep to ranch to the kitchen. The head of vious to the introduction of frozen the Prince of Wales. A joint was also this great concern is Sir William meat into the United Kingdom, home given to the Travellers' Club, and Vestey, Bart., one of the pioneers of supplies were being rapidly overtaken the last Lord Hatherton found it so the industry. He began life as an in increasing consumption and the good that he asked for another office boy in Liverpool at a few shill- scarcity of meat became the fore helping.

Ings a week, and the Company he

most question of the day, As a Since the successful Strathlaven founded has gradually grown until it nation progresses, so its people be experiment the frozen meat trade has bas become the largest of its kind la come. greater meat eaters. Dr. become one of the world's greatest the world. Truly, a splendid achieve- Brown, in "The Food of the People." industries, and John Bull, unable toment in the bistory of British Com published in 1865, wrote: "The provide sufficient meat for himself, merce and enterprise. Journal of Plague spot, the skeleton in the has compelled Australasia and the Commerce closet of England, is that her people Argentine to supply Him with are underfed. So once again in the mutton and beef essential to the history of civilisation, necessity became the mother of enterprise and invention...

And How To Treat It.

the meat eaters of his great THE LITTLE ONE'S COLD industrial and commercial nation, Some idea of the immensity of the The meat shortage became so acute industry at the present time may be In 1865-1866 with high prices and gauged from the fact that the total

If your little ene has a cold do not much adulteration, that a Committee quantities of frozen mutton and lamb neglect it, for neglected colde lead to of the Society of Arts was formed imported into the United Kingdom bronchitis, pneumonis and dangerous to inquire into the question of food during 1919 were 6,425,181 cartasesinoss supply with special reference to of mutton, and 3,482,219 carcase of are noticed give the child a warm bath When the Arst ymptoms of a cold meat, Hundreds of patents were re lamb as compared with a combined and dry carefully. Reduce the quantity gistered for processes that c'aimed | total of 403 carcases of mutton and of feed & littlo and give. Baby's Own to preserve meat, and the methods "lamb in 1880, and 2,948,076 in 1890. Tablets to move the bowels. Grease the suggested to the Committee, as This tremendous growth of the nose inside and out with pure vaseline. detailed in the "History of the Frozen overseas meat trade, however, set Ms. James R. McDermid, of Mar- Meat Trade" by J. T. Critchell and another important problem to be tintown, Ontario, Cazads, says: "I Joseph Raymond, were varied and solved, that of storing the huge medicine for baby I have ever aced. fad Baby's Own Tablets the best viewed in the light of present day supplies coraing into the United They break, ap colds, cura sour stomach experience, not a little amusing. Two Kingdom, and once again the ques-and the other little ills with which babies men advocated dipping meat in s tion was solved just as the inars troubled. They have mede og baby bisulphide of lime solution which dustry itselt. was founded by bright, strong and healthy, and I would they claimed would keep a beefsteak British enterprise and capital, as he without them.

Baby's Own Tablets are

| Bro guaranteed

for instance, sweet for months The cold storage capacity of the to be entirely from frons narcotics and Professor Gamgeen suggested that principal stores available in London | priecily barmless. They are recom cattle should be killed by being made | ploup excreda thirteen million cubical mandel in mentol aimple lover Kenliky to: fahale carbonic oxide gas. The feet, while the principal stores (copatione indigestion, disriitres, Besh of cattle so treated, he declared, in the provinces have a capacity chemists of post Erne at 87 cents the vial "testburg troubles and worms." -Sold-by retained its fresh and bright appear of nearly twenty-two million cubic by Dr. Williams Modicios Co, 90 se ance. The Committee wera sa imfeet. The Union Cold Storage Cochon Road, Shanghai

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