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SWATOW TRADING CO.

(ESTABLISHED 1910), MANUFACTURERS & EXPORTERS.

OF

SWATOW DRAWN WORK, ART EMBROIDERIES,

SILK SHAWLS

CRSS STITCHED WORK & LACES

ETC. ETC. ETC.,

WHOLESALE & RETAIL

CABLE ADO:

CHINA BUILDING

No. 6, PEDDER STREET

HONG KONG EMBROIDERY"

TELEPHONE. c. 3309.

A. LƯNG & CO.

&

(SUCCESSORS TO A. LING & Co.)

BLACKWOOD AND TEAKWOOD FURNITURE

MANUFACTURERS

PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES.

DEVELOPING.

PRINTING AND ENLARGING. KODAKS, FILMS AND CHEMICALS. MIRROR MAKER BY LATEST PROCESS.

19. Queen's Road Central. HONG KONG. Telephone No. 1219.

ABAQUERIA FILIPINA

LEADING TOBACCONISTS

IN THE FAR EAST

Smokers Requisites

We have the Finest Selection

in the East...

Do not Fail to replenish your Stocks at this Store. Prices are extremely low,

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TABAQUERIA FILIPINA

A PC. Building, 26 Quee's Road Central

"LITTLE HONG KONG”

Dismal Prophet's Vision.

"PERNICIOUS CLIMATE."

"One of the Most Unhealthy Spots In the World."

Taken from an old book written by Mr. H. R. Fox Bourne and

:

SPECIAL TOURISTS SUPPLEMENT.

SHOPS TO

TO VISIT

WHERE TO OBTAIN THE BEST VALUES

LOCAL SHOPPING CENTRES

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Lace.

Tourists arriving in Hong Kong Pandora, which is the sole agent be described as the "heavies”----- will find the merchants one and all in the Colony for A specialį trunka, tea, sets, and such like ready and willing to attend to the make of Foochow Jacquer goods, besides toys for the kiddies requirements of their visitors ware,, the reputation of which is on board there is an immense ony too anxious to display their high indeed even in China. The stock of toilet requisitos so essen- wares, and courteous to the ex-firm also stocks Chinese curios oftial to the ladies who are having treme..

many kinds and at prices to suit their complexiona menaced by tra- That Hong Kong can, and un-all purses.

velling through so many different doubtedly will, offer the tourist

cliraes. There are lotions for vi iting the. Orlent for the first Few tourists have an oppor-every need. And the counters of time much that will attract and tunity for visiting the picturesque haberdashery of every.description please, goes without saying. city of Swatow which is situated cannot but impel attention from Those responsible for the en- fteen hours' distance from the visitor passing through the tertainment of the "Resolute" Hong Kong. Nevertheless, a visit Colony. tourists have very wisely to some of Hong Kong's lace em Great Industrial Enterprise. planned matters: in such a poriums will convince the visitor. One of the afghts of Hong Kong way that the visitors will have that no expense, has been spared is that great Industrial enterprise, ample opportunity to visit at to bring the product of this the Sincere Company's great store their leisure those emporiums in coastal city within the reach of all in the heart of the business. sec- Queen's Road Central and its im- visitors passing through the tion of the city. This is a verit- mediate neighbourhood, whose Colony. The Swatow Trading Co., able wonder show a Marshal stocks of Oriental merchandise the Swatow Lace Co. Fook Field or a William Whiteley own have become famous the world Weng & Co., and the East ed, controlled, staffed and manag Astatic Trading Co., for instance, ed by Chinese where the resi vie with each other in their claim- dent or visitor can purchase any. to take premier place as vendors thing from a life-insurance policy of the beautiful lace and drawn to a packet of garden seeds, or work produced in Swatow,

from a plece of rare Chinese por- For Oriental jewellery, includcelain to an earthenware pot. ing, of course, real Chinese jade- A Real Art Gallery,

tions of Oriental art is to ba found at the premises of Messrs. Komor and Komor at the corner of Ice House Street and Chater Road. Be

million- aire, ready to invest your dollars in a magnificent.kakimono, or in some priceless piece of lapis, Mr. Komor will find you just what you want. This is an exhibition that should not be missed.

over.

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Some of the visitors will divide their time between motoring through the New Territories and Round-the-Island tours, but all will have just sufficient time to make a few necessary purchases from our local silk and curio stone rings, bracelets and pen- One of the most amazing collec. shopa, and it is with

a view to dants, visitors are especially re- assisting our visitors in this con-commended to visit the store of nection that the following notes Measre, Long Shing, and Co., the have been compiled.

oldest established jewellery firm in the Colony. Here can be seen an amazing variety of these goods, whilst amber beads and bangles are also, here in plenty..."

Hong Kong's Silk Shops. It may be said at once that the silk stores of Hong Kong are known the world over:

In these shops can be seen a

Whiteaway's Emporium. huge variety of silks-silks: from

Every resident in the Far East, India, from Burma, from China and even further apart, knows and from Japan; plain, figured Whiteaway's, whose Hong Kong! and striped silks; silks of every emporium is but one of 48 hue, a delight to the eye. A visit branches This business was should be made to the Pioneer started in Calcutta in 1882 by Silk Store, which will be found on Messrs. Edward Whiteaway and one's immediate left after enter-Robert Laidlaw, and the history ing. Queen's Road, to the of the concern is one of uninter- emporium of Messrs. Pohoomull rupted progress from the time of

you a

At The Jade Tree Studio. "The stock at this store is varied and includes beautiful pieces of old furniture in golden lacquer and blackwood; finest quality of Peking rugs; Coromandel screens, painted pigskin screens old chests; iron pictures and gold

Fine Photograph of the tourist liner "Resolute" now on a voyage round the world.

A Palatial Store.

MONDAY, MARCH

1927

WHITEAWAYS.

THE STORE

THAT SERVES THE EAST.

48 BRANCHES EAST OF SUEZ.

HONG KONG BRANCH

Des Voeux Road Central.

minute's walk from Hong Kong Hotel.

WELL ASSORTED S STOCKS

GENTS OUTFITTING,

LADIES" OUTFITTING,

BOOTS & SHOES,

TRAVELLING GOODS

HABERDASHERY,

U

TOILET REQUISITES.

ETC., ETC.

One Price Only. The Lowest.

PAY US A VISIT. “J

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD

20. Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong

Au Chic Parisien.

ties, shirts, and socks, and for the Whilst dining, dancing, or re- ladies silk dress lengths, brocade freshing the "inner man at the purses, and slippers, not to men- Cafe Parisien, the opportunity tion underwear in both silk and should be taken to inspect the cotton crepe.

lovely dresses and beautiful A useful adjunct here is a Chinese embroidered shawls at Japanese shoemaker's outfit, Au Chic Parisien under the same where boots and shoes can be proprietorship as the Cafe Pari-made to order at only 24 hours. Bien. This dressmaking and notice. millinery salon has been es-

Photo Supplies.

tablished for 27 years and has For photographic supplies of the latest French millinery and every description, developing, day and evening gowns, at pricis printing and enlarging, Kodak to suit every purse. Expert films and chemicals the right Parisien dressmakers will make shop to go to is that of A. Lung a dress for you within 24 hours.

and Co., in Queen's Road Central (turn the corner of the Hong Tobacco Stores,

Kong Hotel and keep to the left). Connoisseurs of good cigars The camera tend will find every- Bros., situated just opposite the its inception. After establishing scrolls; Mandarin coats and old and all desiring high-class smok-thing that matters in the photo Queen's Theatre, and to the branches in most of the towns in embroideries; Peking jewellery ing requisites should not fail to graphic line. The firm also Bombay Silk Store which is just India, Ceylon, and Burma, the firm and novelties.

call at the Graeco-Egyptian Tostocks a large and varied supply round the corner in D'Aguilar opened out on a similar large scale

bacco Store in Queen's Road Cen-of blackwood and teakwood furni- Street-the latter being conined in Malaya, subsequently coming to Founded just over three-quarters tral Here can be seen the largest ture, both useful and ornamental, solely to the sale of silks without Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tien- of a century ago, the great em- and most varied stock of cigars, besides other articles that appeal. any sidelines" in the way of tsin, besides Nairobi, Mombasa porium of Lane, Crawford, Ltd., is cigarettes and tobacco to be found to the tourist, curios, etc.

and Entebbe, In 1908 the con- one of the land marks of the City anywhere assembled under one Chinese Antiques, In addition to a large assort-cern was turned into a limited. Assembled here, in one of the root in the Far East, whilst the Tourists by the 8.8. "Resolute ment of silka, the first two liability company.

newest and palatial build- courtesy of the management in should not omit a visit to the pre- shops. mentioned are dis- playing quite a range of Indian that the great success of the Com- Orient, is to be found every cigare to take with one during a George's Building Ice House The Directors, rightly claim nga to be found anywhere in the advising just the right kind of mises of Mr. Kwong Sang. St. and Persian rugs at prices which pany is due to the fact that it thing for the home and its occu- long voyage is proverbial.

Street, where they will find a rare astonish every one, The Ploneer buys for cash and sells for cash pants.

In a straight line from Blake collection of Chinese antiques, por- published in the year 1869, entitled "The Story Of Our Colonies, Silk Store specialises in ladies' which even to-day is unique in the Luxuriously appointed through Pier up' Pedder Street is the firm celain, jade, jewellery, and art

and gentlemen's silk hosiery, history of retail dealers in the out, this great store offers the of Tabaqueria Filipine, in the blackwood furniture.

They should also make a point of the following will serve to illustrate to the present day reader the carrying one of the largest stocks Orient the land of chits and visitor everything consistent with A.P.C. Building. The head office improvement which can come to a city within a short span of years display a large collection of silver- Company offers at each of its departmental stores of London themselves on being the "Number woven alk) picture of the "Man- in the Orient... Messrs. Fonoomull credits unlimited. Moreover, the the most modern and up-to-date is in Shanghai and they pride seeing an Imperial "Kalahu" (hand ware, including an elaborate branches (including, of course, Faris and New York.

One tobacconists of the Far East. Jusar! Buddha." This is made of hand woven or drawn coloured silk- "Much of the trade by which turizes the island-rock; but its model of the world-famous Taj Hong Kong) a sufficient variety of Here can be found the best pro. Here are to be found cigars and and real geld thread of the finnst Singapore is enriched is derivadeological formation, and the perni Mahal.

the newest and latest gouds at ducts and manufactures of the cigarettes of every conceivable workmanship drawn in the imperial cious climate to which it is exposed, i from China, and passes through render it one of the most unhealthy store should also be visited. keeping old customers and at buyers in the leading manufac.cigarette holders, cigar and cigar- Leidence of the late Empress,"

Chellaram and the Popular Silk the lowest possible, prices, thus world's markets, the firm's own brand, besides pipes cigar and Palace fo Peking under the superin-

The firety is in

Queen's tracting new.

In the middle of the shrine is the This inhospitable little island, Road,

The Company turing cities of the world being ette cases, and a hundred and one. nearly opposite the maintains a complete buying oren of life-long experience of the other smokers' requisites. The Manjusari Buddha, and at the back sists of a broken ridge of moun

noun with an area of about Queen's Theatre, and the latter is ganisation in London, and the ad- Orient with an unsurpassed know name "T.B. speaks for itself to is the finest gold thread screen with

miles, for centuries the haunt of ainous hills at an average height Chinese pirates

of My Lady minute figuren lu the circular all devotees and smugglers, in Pedder Street, opposite the vantage of its influence on the of about 1.000 feet; but from this

Nicotine. It should be noted bridge. In the lower part a lion WRK ceded to Great Britain by China Hong Kong Hotel, Both firms have Home markets is reflected in its ledge of the requirements of both ridge and its spurs various conical in 1842 as a free port for trade and built up a name for themselves as retail selling agencies in the Far Far Eastern residents and tour that this Brm will supply custom (Buddhist attendant) or Dog of Fu mountains rise to the height of a. naval station for the protection Bilk shawl specialists and silk East.

ista passing through the tropics.

with tufts of hair and lucky tail 1,500 or 2,000 feet above the sea of British interests in

The long experience of the crs on board free of duty, Chinese pieca goods for all climates and all

Premier Japanese Shop. closely resembles the Paking and are very precipitous. The waters. To it was added the small occasions. They also stock houri will have not the slightest difficul- cial standing of the firm have en- Paserngers by the "Resolute management and the solid finan-

In the same block of buildings spanici, who is, in fact, called after abruptly from the occali, are a few narrow valleys and deep 1867: but of these only 1.644 were well repay the visitor. ravines, through which the son Europeans, and 80,587 of the

the little island of Hong Kong, the spots in the world. 13 colonies of mallest of all the Great Britain. The Island

greater part of the coast shelves peninsula of Kowloon in 1861. Its coats, and claim to have the best ty in finding Whiteaway's, which abled the Directors of the Com-as the Hong Kong Hotel-only him the "Llen. Dog. The lion is cularly on the north face. There was 20,507 in 1849, and 117,471 visit to either shop should Des Voeux Road (along which the ern agencies for a number of the Central-will be found a delightfowel pendants and tassels, and the parti-population, about 12,000 In 1842, stock of kimonos in town is nearly almost the Post Office in pany to secure the sole Far East round the corner in Queen's Road mounted in diaper pattern saddle; Occasionally bursts; or which serve natives, unable or unwilling to find Every visitor to the Colony is having already sampled tropies leading British, Continental and ful Japanese shop rejoicing in the two attendants are in Buddhist

as conduits for the mountain tor-

road, could be made to connect and now that a better policy has

tramcars run). It may be that,

form

American manufacturing Arms, name of Daimyo, Great "biz This is an excepcional Chinese homes on the barron shore, lived enchanted by "Flower Street" weather visitors may imagine thus enabling Lane Crawford, was done here by the passengers work of art, and shows the Kalshu rents: but on the north side of the in boats in the rivers. The ravenue (officially known as Wyndham that there can be little here to a color the public the widest on the tourist liner "California alk: type at the best. There are island, especially where the town of of the Colony rose from £31,078 In Street). Almost behind the flow appeal to them. That, let it be

on March 15 and 16, and every two similar Kaishu pictures In the Victoria is built, the rocky ridge 1847 to £160,226 in 1866. But it er stalls is the China Handicraft sold straight away is a great range of exclusive articles offered preparation has been made for Chinese Museum in Peking, which approaches close to the harbour; derived its importance from the Company, whose stock of silk em mistake. From the thousand and anywhere in the Far Eas and it was only by hewing Jealousy of the Chinese in exclud- broidered shawls, eilk underwear, fone articles that figure in White Get it at Lane, Crawford' coping with the "Resolute's are highly priced. The picture is,""

visitors. Everything Japanese 57 inches by 28 Inches in size, through this ridge that a street or ing foreign trade from other ports: and slik materials is well worth away's catalogue there must be public of the Colony, and can be had here: the feature of and is mounted in fine old Chinese

is a well-known phrase among the the straggling Ines of build been established, commerce is pass inspecting. There are als Irish one thing that the tourist simply passengers of the "Resolute" of silk kimonos at prices much basis is said, refused by the previous which is a specially selected stock tapestry. Offers of $10,000 were, extend along the ing from the imhealthy rock in the and Chinese linen tablecloths must have something forgotten would be well advised to mamorisa low those prevailing in Japan fi owner before coming Into Mr. ings which water's edge for nearly four miles south to more attractive and more and handkerchiefs and Venetien elsewhere something else that Here and there, on the

seit owing to the high duty there. Kwong Sang's possession t tops of commodious places on the northern lace tablecloths and ruoner pets needs replacing by something all dainty for the home and easy brighter or more up to date.

Restaurant Parisien. There are also silk gowns, even there is also a Famille Noire some isolated hills, or along the way that th precipitous slopes of the mountains, What a fifty that this ancient to pack away in the cabin trunk Whiteaway's have a complete out-

Cafe Resta ant Parisien,ing coste, hour coats, cashmere jar with own cover hav scattered houses have been con- didmai prophet is not alive today till the end of a perfect voyage, fitting department both

ebolfe coats and kim stracted; but rugged, broken, and to visit our beautiful Colony, and Jade and Amber, and gentlemen - and that abrupt precipices, with deep rocky after viewing the architectura A visit to Messrs. Kaw Koe & echivalent to ravines, mast effectually prevent wonders of t Peak, to learn from Co. or the Chinese Bazaar willman neede may contracted population rom our Chamber of Commerce that Cove

interesting,

Sneed not

tin thenway

monos, prie

ats," not

being able to provide eficiently for the Imports of the Colony for the

its own protection cloguliness, and year, 1918, werd -850,631,708,;

comfort. Hong Kong cannot be the Exports: 942,984 and

tions

and amber Jewellery

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