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SWATOW TRADING CO.

(ESTABLISHED "1910), MANUFACTURERS & EXPORTERS

OF

SWATOW DRAWN WORK, ART EMBROIDERIES, SILK SHAWLS CROSS STITCHED WORK & LACES ETC. ETC. ETC., WHOLESALE & RETAIL “ CHINA BUILDING.

No. 6, PEDDER STREET

HONG KONG

CABLE ADD: "EMBROIDERY"

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A Palatial Store.

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TELEPHONE 3303

SPECIAL TOURISTS SUPPLEMENT

HONG KONG.

Facts About the Colony.

SHIPPING AND COMMERCE.

Vast Trade.

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BIRD LIFE

Hong Kong's Fast Vanishing Fauna.

tically destitute of birds. When on a walking tour in Japan ax- tending over twelve days and covering varying types of coun- try the present writer once wrote

land a similar test was made: more than thirty species were seen on a single afternoon with out moving more than 100 yards from the house.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1927.

Quality

Meals

Music

Dancing

Cafe Restaurant Parisien

French Cuisine

Par Excellence.

Pedder Building, opposite H.K, Hotel.

Peak District is favourite place, of residence, and is reserved for Europeans. The how Territories contain peaks from 1,800 to 8,000 feet. The hot season lasts from May to October. During the winter months from November

Every person who has travel- to March, the climate is cooler, drier, and more invigorating. The led in the British Isles or on the average dally maximum tempera-continent of Europe, and then Hong Kong is an island about ture ranges from 87 degrees in visited China and Japan notices the great difference in quantity 10 miles long and from 2 to 6% July to 68 degrees in February in the bird fauna. Japan is even miles broad, with a total area of and the average daily minimum worse than China . it is prac 32 square miles; it les close to temperature from 78 degrees in July to 55 degrees in February the mainland, being separated at The average annual rainfall is 34 one point by a narrow strait in., of which no less than 75 per (Lyeemoon) not more than a cent. falls between May and

down a list of all the different quarter-mile wide, and was first Sptember, when the S.W. mon-

soon prevails.

species of birds met with. They occupied by Great Britain in

amounted to sixteen different January, 1841 and was formally

#Hong Kong is the centre of a species and not too many indi- ceded by the Treaty of Nankin in 1842; British Kowloon was subsevast trade in many kinds of providuals even of those! Shortly quently acquired by the. Peking duce, chiefly camphor, coal, cot-afterwards when at home in Ire Convention of 1860; and the Newtons, flour, gunnies, hides, iron Territories, being a peninsula in and steel goods, leather, matches, the southern part of the Kwang- oils, rice, silks, sugar, tea and tin. Much encouragement is given

and other birds. The island and sent rate of extermination China" tung province, by a lease algned

the New Territory are being will be as bare of birds as the June 9, 1898. The whole colony by the Government to education

To persons who have any real steadily opened up new road and Sahara desert before any stable THE SHOPS TO VISIT. range of exclusive articles offered comprises an area of about 891 in the cctony. In 1924 there

anywhere in the Far East.

Get it at Lane, Crawford" square miles, with a population were 1.079 schools subject to interest in nature birds and wild paths have been constructed, and effective wild birds protec car have made many What is there then which can a well-known phase amore (1921) of 662,200 (1925, est. Government supervision, attend flowers form the great joys of motor boat, ataam launch and tion Acts are in force.

874,420). The non-Chinese resi-ed by 58,980 pupila.. The Un- the countryside. Their absence motor public of the Colony, and visitors dents, excluding naval and mili-versity (opened in 1912) includes or their disappearance is an un-plages easy of access which, be done! Our duty is plain. the re- Hong Kong and the whole New the "Empress of Scotland""

ing, and arts.

The countryside in China and ward of keen and good pedas-Territory ought to be made an Founded just over three-quarters would be well advised to memorise tay, numbered about 16,200 faculties of medicine, engineer-speakable and irreparable loss. fifteen years ago, ware

(1925, est. 16,500).

Hong Kong is a Crown colony, Japan is in this respect a blank trians only. Many of these birds absolute preserve in which no A Free Port..

are nervous and shy the addi-bird of any kind, game bird or The capital of the colony is Vic-and its government is adminis compared with the British Isles, Cafe-Restaurant Parisien.

The question naturally arises, tional traffic and habitation other should be shot, trapped, decoyed, or snared. At present. The Cafe-Restaurant Parisien, toria, which lies along the north- tered by a Governor, aided by an

But there is far worse than Hong Kong and the various land marks of the City of Vic- situated in Pedder Street, offers ern shore of the island, facing Executive Council of 9 members, what has caused this great dis- drives them further afield.

together with a Legislative Coun-appearance of bird life? And if

The whole territory and Treaty Ports along the China sembled here, in one of the all that can be desired in the way the mainland and between the cil of 14 members, including him- so, can anything be done to pro- this. most newest and palatial build-of first class entertainment at mainland and the city is the har-self, a representative from the vent their extermination? It is the surrounding districts are be, coast are simply dynamle cen- ings to be found anywhere in the prices consistent with the pockets our which is one of the finest in Chamber of Commerce, and a extremely difficult to say with ing shot over to an ever increas-fres of destruction owing to the

Musical tiffins, teas and the world, with a water area of Colony, "are to be found every-¡ of all.

the Peace. There is also a of birds is on the decrease. No birds are pursued in season by and the precision of the modern thing for the home and its occu- dinners are to be obtained at this some 10 square miles. With the representative of the Justices of certainty that any given species ing extent. The regular game possibatles of getting cartridges delightful rendezvous, a visit to exception of liquor and tobacco Sanitary Board, partly elected, one really makes a sufficiently,sportsmen with dogs, etc. This, shot gun. If the whole New the port is free, and is fortified which controls certain sanitary careful count of all the species of course, is only within fixed Territory were made an absolute which should not be missed.

It possesses excellent locks, capa-measures;

each year to be able to give an dates, (except for snipe.) But preserve it would be only too Graeco-Egyptian Tobacco Store.ble of holding the largest vessels.

absolutely definite answer. there can be no doubt about the small for the salvation of the Connoisseurs of good cigars for the purposes of repair. There

But about Hong Kong and effect this is having on these surrounding district.

If an absolute restriction were and all desiring high-class smok-is a considerable ship repairing

especially in the New Territory game birds. ing requisites should not fail to and construction industry. Ship-

there seems to be good evidence There is even worse than this. put on the destruction of all birds call at the Graeco-Egyptian Toping entered (1928) 26,701,120

that most species are on the It is a pitiable thing to have to there, would be people of course Here can be found the best pro-bacco Store in Queen's Road Cen- tons. A railway, of which 23

Young Tom Thompson was "eer- decrease. If the bird lover re-say but nevertheless it is true; to raise the outery about the ducts and manufactures of the tral. Here can be seen the largest miles belong to the Government,tainly a very officions young man, views his experiences of the last all sportsmen don't always play damage birds do, and the danger world's markets, the firm's own and most varied stock of cigars, runs from Kowloon to Canton; as every one in the employ of sixteen or twenty years he must the game. Some shoot practical-from birds which are only.

Skinner, Skinner, of the Sham Messrs. buyers in the leading manufac cigarettes and tobacco to be found the length north

realise the growing scarcity of ly anything that comes their way. vermin. This is always exag- turing cities of the world being anywhere assembled under one Chun River (which is the bound Skinner agreed. He was always

many species. Ter or fifteen Paddy birds, pigeon, etc. are "gerated. Any person who has men of life-long experience of the roof in the Far East, whilst the ary of the British territory) is pushing himself in where he was Orient with an unsurpassed know-courtesy of the management in controlled by the Chinese, Govern-not wanted, and he had a very years ago he knew of more places shot and given to the Chinese opened and examined the crops where the beautiful Kingsfisher servants who eat them eargerly. and stomachs of birds knows how ledge of the requirements of both advising just the right kind of ment. A light railway runs exalted opinion of himself to say.

(Halcyon Smyrnensis) used to At one shooting expedition in the hard it is to bring chapter and verse for such an accusation. Far Eastern residents and tour-cigars to take with one during a through the fertile valleys of the the least.

There were two partners ip the breed regularly: or places where Philipine Islands at which I was iats passing through the tropics. Journey to North China can be re- north-east portion of the New arm, and one of them happening to the tailor bird (sutovia autovia) present, wagtails, woodpeckers, The magple, the kite, the sparrow

The long experience of the lied upon.

Territories from Fanling to Sha-die, young Thompson approached was a regular and constant sunbirds, and even the wonder-and a few others are local offen- management and the solid finan-

tau-kok, a distance of 7 miles, the surviving partner, with whom visitor and breeder; or the haunts, ful hornbill (Buceros bicornis)ders occasionally. They might be

left to their natural enemies. cial standing of the firm has en-

Good roads connect the principal he was no favourite.

of the Oriole; or flats where the were all indiscriminately shot.. abled the directors of the Com.

districte with the railway."

White Egret was abundant. pany to secure the sole. Far East-

These birds may be seen still but ern agencies for a number of the

they seem to be becoming de leading British, Continental and American manufacturing firme,

cidedly less abundant.

thus enabling Messrs. Lane, Craw- ford to offer the public the widest

of a century ago, the great em-fit. They have the goods you re- porium of Messrs. Lane Craw.quire. ford and Co., Ltd., is one of the

toria.

panty.

Luxuriously appointed through but, this great store offers the visitor everything consistent with the most modern and up-to-date departmental stores of London,

Paris and New York.

POLITE, AT LEAST.

Stutionmaster

(to

suspicious- locking old lady who has just enter ad the first-class compartment: "Are you first-class, madam?"

Aged Lady: "Yes, thank your How are you?"

Climate.

The island is broken in shape and mountainous, the highest point being Victoria Peak, which la about 1,820 feet high. The

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DELIGHTED!

and

"I am sorry, sir, to hear of Mr. John's death," said the young man,

"and I have come to ask if you would like me to take his place."

"Yes, I should very much," was the reply, "If you can get the under- taker to arrange it

There are many causes for this gradual disappearance of these

In the adjoining country of: China, no "close season" for birds is observed, nor judging by the disturbed condition of the coun, try, is likely to be observed, for generations to come... At the pre

On the other hand the good done by most birds cannot be exaggerated, but, owing to its involved, and subtle nature it escapes the notice of all except (Continued on Page 3.)

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"HONGKONG'S LEADING DEPARTMENTAL STORE

1927

A PALATIAL STORE

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Lincoln

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Mappin & Webb,-Hartmann Trunks Royal Typewriters,-A. G. Spalding. Bros Community Plate,-White Horse Whisky

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LANE, CRAWFORD'S NEW STORE GPENED AUBUST 1926.

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