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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1929.

PICNIC FOR BLIND·

SIXTY GIRLS TAKEN TO SHEK O

THANKS TO HELPERS

Donations

A. C. Bynes Esa.

CLUB AIRCRAFT

RENEWAL OF AIR MINISTER'S CERTIFICATE

AIR WORTHINESS

THE CHINA MAIL,

ROUND THE CINEMAS SHADOWS BEFORE.

MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN SPAIN

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN "CHINA MAIL"

IN ROAD HOUSE".

Excellent wreen entertainment offered in Fox Filme

"Road House" which is showing at the Queen's Thea tre to-day. It is a colourful splendidly told story of modern youth.

"Road House brings two new play ers to the fereen. Maria Alba, no- claimed the most beautiful girl in Spain, has personality.. marked ability and promises to make screen history.

Social Functions

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

WANTED,

To-day-Dinner Dances at Hong YANTED-Chines Timekeeper for Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, barge Works in Ilong Kong. Experi- 8.30 p.m.

ence essential. Apply Secretary, P.O. To-day-Dinner Dance 'at Re-Box No. 22. pulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

Entertainments To-day Queen's Theatre; "Read House." She has To-day World' Theatre: "Grandma's Boy," and "The Adven- [turer" (Continuous performance

Theatre: cebts

The Committee of St. Peter's It in now neady three years Church, V.D.M.A. responsible for since the British Corporation Re- Aircraft the organisation of the picnic to the sister of Shipping and

altered its name and constitution to blind held on Saturday, wish to undertake the classification of the make this public acknowledgment flatter, although it was obvious that of those who, as follows, either sent the proposition was somewint

Jahead of the commercial develop donations or baned cars.

ment of aviation that time An Aviatian Committee was, however, $ 2500ormed, and the nucleus of an

The other youngater is Warren 10.0 spection Staff was collected, both Butte, who plays the role of the pr 10.00 having their headquarters ju Lon- digel son. He gives an excellent per

5.00 don. As a result of the foresight fomane and is really a find. 5.00 then displayed, we understand that Javile ranks..

Lionel Barrymore recently the Air Council has 10.00 authorised the Corporation to earwy father of the boy, who sees disgrace 10.00 out the inspection of privately-thragh his own indiscretion. In this

fall upon his family and 5.00 owned and club ainraft in connec-part Barrymore, always the artiste, 20.00 tion with the renewal of the Air girs one of his most human and syri 15.00 Ministry's Certificates of Air-pathetic portrayals to the screen,

5.00 worthiness. In addition to the l

F. Masci, Esq.

Cautain F. Baylis

Mrs. Mackay

Anon

The

Hon. Mr.

Southern

M.J. Quist Est.

E. W. Hamilton Esq.

W. T.

Chief Inspector I', Grant,

A. Rheins hagea Esq.

Mrs. Fincher

Mr. H. A. Allea

Mrs. B. Lyon

Mrs. A. W. Milar

**JP."

A friend

Lady II. Pollock

A. G. W. Tickle Esq. Mra, H. L. x

Cars

Messrs. 13itzer.

W. N. Thoms Tam Esq.

C. S. Bossekt. Esq.

Captain F. Baylis,

5.00 Inspection for the Airworthiness 5.00 Certificate, the Corporation is pre-1

in

is east as the

from 1.15 to 11.15 p.m.). I

To-day-Star "Slaves of Beauty."

To-day Majestic Theatre: "Love Me And The World Is Mine," at 5.15 and 9.15 p.m., "The Uncon- himself querable" (Chinese picture at 2.30 and 7.15 p.m., (added attraction, Nina and Jacques, at 7.159.15 p.m.).

"SLAVES OF BEAUTY"

To-day-Forbes Russell Comedy Co., in "Her Cardboard Lover," at Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m.

Lee Theatre, 9 p.m.

Oct. 21-Nelson Day Concert at.

Home Mail

2.00 pared to undertak a quarterly Sparkling yah, the bright lights 3.00inspection of the class of aircraft of Broadway, bve among the beauty 200 referred to, and has issued tules shops, and the steadfast determination 10.00 for the inspection and maintenance of a woman to find love, are the chief

To-day Outward for Amer 10.00 or classe aircraft which should be ingedients of "Slaven of Beauty," aica and porte and Europe via Van- 2.00 of considerable value to the private Fox Films predaction which is showing couver ("Empress of France"), 5

Theatre to-day owner and will doubtless, in due at the Star

and to pm. $150.00 course, be advantageous from the

point of view of insurance. The human story written by Nina Wilcox This picture is based upon a very. inspection system of the Corpora- Putram, one of the most observant ion is being organised throughout,authors in America.

The Hon. Dr. K. H. Kotewall.

f. W. R. Griggs Esq. Anon.

The Hon. Mr. T. H. King. Dr. E. W. Kirk.

Colonel T. A. Robertson..

ΠΑΠΟΥ,

Holmes Herber

"TRUE HEAVEN"

Conflict between love and loyalty never was more emphatic nor more dramatic than "True Heaven" which will be shown at the Majestic Theatre, Kowloon, to-day and to-morrow,

"True Heaven" tells of a young Bri.

and will altimately cover, the and Olive Tell have the featured roles, whole of the British Empire, and arrangements have also been made whereby the Aircraft Classification Societies of the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, and Japan will place the services of their aeronautical inspectors at the disposal of owers whose air- craft are classed with the Congora- tion if inspection should be requiris officer, played by George O'Brien ed in any of those countries. For of "Sunrise" fane, and a beautiful but the prefont, aircraft used in the serious gid, "Judith," played by public transport services is not in- The Committee is also deeply in-heation, the machines so employed eluded in the Corporation's Classi- debted to the Kowloor. Motor Bus being already subject to the most Company and the Star Forry Com pay for the provision of free rigorous inspection and the highest standard of maintenance by their

Paymaster t-Comdr. A. Pigott F. W. Parker Eat.

Hong Kong Amusements Ltd. Mrs. Barker.

A. S. W. Tickle Esq.

transport and also to the owners. Mr. M. E. Denny, C.B.E., Kong Tramways for the nifer of a 'bus which was

is Chairman of the Aviation Com-i

Meetings

Sept. 26-Meeting of the Hong Kong Lawn Powis Association (gen- eral committee) at "S.C.M. Post" Board Room, 5.1 p.m.

Sept. 27-Kowloon Cricket Club meeting, 5.30 p.m.

Sept. 27-St. Andrew's Society meeting at City Hall, 5.45 pm.

Sport

Sept. 29 St. John. Ambulance Brigade aquatic sports, King's Col lege bath, 10 a.m.

Miscellaneous

To-day-Seventh general meet- ing of the University Art Assen.. in the Union Assembly Room, 3.30

Lois Moran.

Trey meet, in a strange way, backp.tx. veloys, of the British lines, and romance de acted, brillianty directed and sump "True Heaven" is superbly tuously producet.

ROADS IN KENYA

Sept. 27-In the Great Hall of the velopment of Aviation University, Lecture on "The De-

in China,

8.30 p.m.

STEEL SLEEPERS

DISADVANTAGES WHICH HAVE

NOTICE.

MRS. J. O. MATTOS

HEREBY GIVE NOTICE bat I am not responsible for any fcurred by my wife. CHRISTALINA DE OLIVEIRA MATTOS, 23 from the 12th day of August. 1929.

JOSE DE OLIVEIRA MATTOS.

IN OTHER PLACES

CHRONICLES FROM JAPAN TO JAVA

It is reported that Mr. R. O. Bishop. M.B.E, is shortly joining the staff of the Rubber Research Institute, Malaya.

Estate, Seremban, and captain of Mr. G. H. Brinkley, of Hillside the Sungei Ujong football team has gone oh transfer to Johore.

Chinese press telegrams from Tientsin carry the news that the authorities of the various conces- sions there are taking steps to suppress aplum.

Mr. Warg King-kyi, former Minister to Belgium, at Shanghai, and now high adviser to the Waj- chiaopu, and Mrs. Wang, have. gone to Eangehow for a short time.

!

Mr. Chang Cho-ao, director of raconstruction. for the Shanghai District, has been transferred to a similar post in Tsingpoo and Mr. Wu Wen-hua has succeeded him.

not required mittee of the Corporation, and Mr. I Kenya early all the heavy Thanks are also due to Messrs. T. R. Thomas is pracipal surveyor transport, other than by rail and R. Losley & Co., for presenting a and secretary. The offices of the outside the main towns, of course, case of soap and to the Flying Aircraft Survey District of London is tong by bullock waggon of the

TO BE OVERCOME

Dr. F. K. Chen, brother of Tan Squad. Police Roserve for valuable

Tji-kong and Tan Khion-kong, has are at Billiter Buildings, 49.South African type, the result being mysistance in escorting the pary to

There are 52,000 miles of railway arrived from Europe by the s.. Leadenhall-street. EC.3. Shek and luck.

that the country routes are always track on the railway systems of "P. C. Hooft." He will make a in the most appalling state of dia- Great Britain, the upkeep of which short stay in Singapore before pro- repair. So serious has this become costs over £12,000,000 per annum. ceding to China. that it is now common practice to This track consists of the rails, the GEOMETRY IN THE GARDEN

A travelling man one night found resave special roads for use by cast-iron chairs on which the rails himself obliged to remain in a small light pneumatic-tyred vehicles, pro- rest, and the sleepers which sup- Admiral Yang Shu-tsuang, town or account of a washout on hibting under severe penalties the port the rails and chair and trans-Minister of Navy and chairman of like to study the railroad caused by the heavy use of these by bullock waggonsmit the weight of the trains to the the Fukien Provincial Govern- How would you geometry in the garden? How rain, which was still coming down The authorities realise that good ballast or road bed. The track ment, is expected to would you like to have a gardener in torreats. The travelling man routes and bulock waggon transport undergoes constant inspection, re. Shanghai from Foochow at the as grometry teacher, one who would turned to the waitions with:

are not compatible with one an- pair, and renewal by gangs of men, end of this manth. other. In Uganda, on the other which each have a definite length

say. "We shall now go into the gar "This certainly looks like the den to study poetic pentagons"? food."

This would be the lesson: Poetic "The what?" .pentagons gNW on the annual "The Blood.

radii are the lines that meet in the

centre, but this centre is concealed!

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Miss Hsia

return to

Chin-yung, a graduate of the McTyeire Girls' School music department, has been appointed music instructor in the Moore Memorial School and the Hsin Kua Art College.

hand, bullock waggons cannot be em to look after. Prior to the war it Messrs. Kiang Hsiang-fan and ployed on account of the tse-tae fly. was generally agreed that for Feng Pang-yen, graduates, res.

railway You've read about This has resulted in a transport British

requirementspectively, of the University of phiox. The sides of the pentagon the flood, and the ark landing on development on the lines of light sleepers ent from Baltic redwood Nanking and the Great China are formed by the edges of the Mount Ararat, surely."

pneumatic-tyred lorries, the use of fir, which was easily obtainable at University, has left for America petais. invariably five in number, "Gee, Mister,” she returned solid tyres being prohibitive on aca reasonable price were the most to continue their studies. Eleasure them with your eye. The ain't seen a paper for three days." court of their effect upon the roads. satisfactory, Steepers are usually 8ft. Gin. long by 10in. wide and 5in. find in We Uganda an astonishing net-work of deep. Since the war the cost of by a charming pattern, a little star

well-surfaced smooth roadways, timber has increased, and close at whose rays shoot into the petals, but they are commonly called ap-which must very greatly contribute tention has been given by railway

most exquisite combination of line ples, peaches, or plums.to the prosperity of that country engineers to the question of adopt and colour. The centre is sunken, Elliptical shapes occur in the spri-The roadways have little or no ing sleepers made from materials luminous ebomber-what can enter cot, the large pium, the water foundation as we understand the which can be produced in Bri- but the bee's slim tongue, and the melon. Clusters of spheres talled term in England, and are

mostly tain.

some 4,000,000

Mr. Yang Wei-yu, assistant butterfly's? See how the edge of grapes hang on vines: chtres roll surfaced with gravel or laterite, but used annually. sleepers of British | director of the Vocational Educa- the petals is inely waved-oh, so about the earth under the name of the light pneumatic-tyred vehicles steel would materially assist the tonal Association, and Mr. Wang finely, and the corners, otherwise cantaloupes. All at: shaped after a whith run them do little fron and steel industry, which has Chih-hua, a well-known educator, the angies, rounded. Moreover, the pattern, and though the variations damage, even though rain is fre. been severely depressed in recent have left for Japan on a three edges which mark the radii overlap may be many, we shall always find quent and the surfaces are general years. In addition to steel sleepers, months' investigation tour, one another so as to hide the bare the fundamental concept.

ly moist. I has been suggested reinforced concrete sleepers and re- straight line to the centre. Es it There are other geometrical facts that the difference in respect of inforced concrete slabs, held to- not sweet? Look at it again. The one may learn in a garden. For in-roules in Kerya and Uganda is gether by transverse steel ties, have middle points of the sides mark the stance, "A straight line is the mainly accounted for by the fact been tried. Up to the present the coners of the pentagons; the shortest distance between two that material for surfacing is avail best allernative to the wooden edges, the radii; the sweet window points." Very well, let the beeable in Uganda and not in Kenya. sleeper seems to be one made of mor health in consequence of seri- in the centre glows with a faint, show you, provided he is going It is doubtful if this is the case steel of approximately the same Kolden, stained-glass softness straight tome, or the humming bird to my appreciable extent, but even length and breadth as the timberous wounds he received in the Moreover, the Bower-pentagon is after he has finished his sipping: so, this would not alter the fact sleeper, but hollow and like an in- Var, hopes to return to Ipuh pink with a white and pink star, or otherwise consider, yourself, whe- that the roads of Uganda would be verted trough in form. The steel

shortly. mauve with a white one; each with ther in going after your trowel you cut to pieces is a very short time if sleeper has certain disadvantages a differing colour about the centre, are justiñed in faking the geometri-bullek waggon transport were em which have yet to be overcome. It to mark it distinctly. is plain cal rule as your guide athwart the ployed over them. The bulk of the acts as a conductor, for example, that nature does not care for un-lower bed, or whether you shall de-credit for the good roads and con- and cannot be made use of where adorned geometry. With her vast monstrate the reverse of the rule, sequent material prosperity of track circuiting is installed. It is volume of illustrated polygons, cir-and go the longer way round. Uganda, is in all probability due liable to corrosion in certain indus- cles, spheres, ever before her eyes. When we why should we study gaunt outlines geometry gardener may show us the

are studying lines, to the tso-tse ly.

triel areas and when laid on slag ballast, and noise and vibration are on a blackboard, or in a textbook, perpendicular illustrated by the

said to be increased by its use. merely?

spider hanging from aloft on his

PASSENGER LIST

DEPARTURES

Per A.M. Liner "President McKin ley from Hong Kong-for San Fran cises on September 24:-

The next lesson will be on circles, long thread. Let the wind be still-

The Chief Scout, who has chosen and the class will assemble about ed, and the perpendicular will ap

the title of Lord Baden-Powell of the daisy bed. Shasta daisies with pear; the horizontal may well be

Gilwell, following the conferment of upturned faces repeat the theme of illustrated by the apparent meeting

a peerage upon him by the King. circle with flutings and rufflings of sea and sky beyond the garden

was presented with a motor-car, his erund the edges. The numerous slopes, or the varíallons be studied

RH. Whitfield, Dr. H. Huber, Mrs. portrait in oils, an illuminated petais emphasize the idea of radil in the sky line making the hill Miller, F. L. Newcomb, Mr. and address, and a check for £2.750.

Mrs. R Campos, Miss Dolares even better than the phlox. The range.

Straight lives in a garden Campos, Miss Hercedes Campos, Miss Bubscribed for in peony donations big yellow button into which the may not so readily be achieved, Mare Campos, W. E. Antrim, T. by boy scouts throughout the world. radii, otherwise the petals, are set, since nature sceras to love best the Korthals, Mrs. Ellen Robinson, Mr. could not be anything but centre. variations

It is understood that Rev. Father Goyenhache of- St. Nichael's Church, Ipoh, who went home to France last year in very

An interesting visitor in Shang-

Mrs.

i at the present time is Mrs. John C. Carr, of London,

a sister-in-law of Carr, who is

Ir. Harold Balme, former presi- dent of the Shantung Christian University, Is a member of the Board of Governors of that insti- tation and is in China on a short visit.

Mr. Frederick J. Wilcoxson, the sulptor of the statue of Dr. Lake Yew erected at his tomb near Kuila Lumpur, and of the scalpture on the Raja Brooke memorial, Sarawak, arrived in Kuala Lumpur recently and went onto Singapore. He vill. towever, be visiting Kuala Lumpur the geometrical M. and E. Soares, Miss E. Carvalho, Mr. MacDonald, inviting to Nr. Wilcoxon recently executed a Mr. Compton pent a wire to again in the course of a few days.

and Mrs. Chas. McClelland, the Misse

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If the lines of the edges were con- themes. However, orderly garden- c. 6. Pan, Y. W. Lee, A. Hifu, F. S. Manchester to help in reconciling siver shild for His Majesty the tinued, you can readily see that ars aim to have straight lines-they Kwels, Frank Lee, Thomas, Mrg the parties. The Premier replied King and one of his latest works is they would meet in the exact centre know what they are--and so they Remedios,

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of the yellow button. Geometric stretch a string between pegs at P. I.

Matr. Booth Thomas that he would not immediately visit a marble bist of the Prime Midis- ! circles are the basic pattern of the end of their beanrows-to-be-

C. B. Edmonson, Mrs Manchester. moon-faced daisies. **. They manage thereby to maintain

Miss Josephine Fernandez, Mats Edward And then, geometry-gardener at least a tradition of straightness. Misi J. 1. Lardizabal, Mrs. R. P says we shall go into the orchard To make a circular bed, one can String, Mes. S L. Smith, Miss M. E to study spheres. They may be easily imitate a compass by means Raymond, Mr.

and Mrs. Ward found on the fruit trees, and if they of a string fastened to a peg in the Raymond, Shahin, Mrs. N. Adair are ripe, we may also taste them, so centre, and tires gang around, and Miss. E. M Adair, Miss M. Cros

Miss F. Craz as to have a pleasing memory of the tracing the circle on the ground. faste of spheres. Observe the won- No doubt one could also bisect lines derful symmetry of these growing in a geomtric way, and so keep faith spheres, slightly flattened at one with mathematics.

The will of Mr. Michael Rogers Oldiald Thom, who left £12,618, contains a gif of £1,000 to provide

end, slightly pointed at the other. Intermixed with poetry, mathe-a light passenger lift at the Natural How kindly the hand takes to thematics is beautiful Shown in its story Museum South Kensington ruumled shape of these fruits, curr relationship to the universe, reveal for the use of the staff. Other be ing about them so easily. There ed through and through in the quests include one of £9,000 to the are Junumerable spheres all about, fabrica of nature, it is sublima. London Hospital.

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