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PUBLIC AUCTION, ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Pubile Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 30th day of December, 1929, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Gov | ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land at Cheung Sha Wan, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal
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ST. GEORGE'S BALL 6th January, 1930.
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at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the B to represent Mess 3. Hunt-
TO LET Office (2 Rooms) to ba lot Surveyor of His Majesty the King. from 1st January, 1930, in Hong for one further term of 24 years Kong Club (Annex). Apply Secro-less three days. tary, Hong Kong Club.
GODOWNS TO LET-Two Godowns at Praya East, Gloucester Road, nhout 7,400 and 8,000 ft. ench, opposita, to Kwong Sang Hong, til.. Factory, and one Godown at Whitfield Road, about 4,000 ft. next to Kwong_Sang Hong, Ltd., Glass Factory. Please apply to Kwong Sang Hong, Ltd.
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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale.
Bectatry No.
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Boundary Henrutelunits.
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LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,
- Public Auctions -
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
TH
Auction
ON
MONDAY, December 30, 1$29,
commencing at 2.30 p.m. at No. 268, The Penk (No. 5. Stewart Terrace).
A Quantity of
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. On, View from Sunday, Decem- ber 29, 1920.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS..
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, Dec. 24, 1929.
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CAUSES OF FAMINE
IN CHINA
INTERESTING LECTURE BY MR.
A. DE C. SOWERBY ·
CIVIL WAR EFFECTS
There was a good turn-out of members of the Royal Asiatic So ciety Shanghai recently, to hear a lecture by Mr. A. de C. Sowerby on the Causes of Famine in North China. The chair was taken by the Rev. F. L. Hawks Pott and there: was a considerable amount of in- teresting discussion following the Jecture.
In the course of his address. Mr. Sowerby anid that a great deal had beon heard about the north China famine recently and the causes that had conducted to this state. of affairs. There was a good deal of divergence and the speaker defined the conclusions of two camps as to the contributary Causes. One camp claimed that famine conditions were largely due to the effects of civil war and the of soldiers
uncontrolled ravages consent,
E hereby give notice that,
mutual Messrs. Nestle & Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co., Hong Kong and South China Branches, will no longer represent us after the 31st December, 1929.
Huntley & Palmers, Ltd., Reading & London.
HUNTLEY & PALMER'S BISCUITS.
WE
7 hereby give notice that we have appointed Mears. Dodwell & Co. to represent us, from the 1st January, 1930, in Hong Kong Swntow, Amoy, Foochow and South China.
Handley & Palmers, Ltd. Reading and London.
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YE have pleasure in an- nouncing that we have been appointed, as from Janu- ury 1st, 1930.
Sale Representatives of
Messrs. Huntley & Palmers, Ltd.,
Reading & London.
for Hong Kong. Swatow, Amoy, Foochow and South China.
Orders will be accepted by us at Manufacturers' prices and discounts.
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and bandits, to lack of adequate railway and other trausport, and the general indifference of the officials to the sufferings of the people. The other claimed that it was mainly the unfavourable cli matic conditions prevailing over a more or less protracted period that: had brought about the present deplorable state of affairs. As a matter of fact, while bath camps were in a sense right, neither went far enough,
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disappearance of the forests and vegetation at the hand of man that ultimately changed the
limate.
Afforestation Wanted
amount
of
The Yellow River Basin The speaker then made a gen- eral survey of north China and snid here was a great stretch of country showing wide variation in the physical features that charac- terized it. He then went on to describe, the country and the basin
The only thing that could alter of the Yellow River with its in the unfavourable conditions in numerable tributaries which drain north China would be the re-. ed the whole of a vast area of clothing of the hills and moun- yellow dusty country, gathering tains with a rich vegetation.". If enormous quantities of Bilt and
a universal order, went out, and carrying it
down to the plains was enforced, to the effect that where it Was deposited. The all local magistracies were to un- larger tributaries were muddy and dertake
д certain charged with silt, while the innu afforestation work and at the merable ravines for the most part same time the people were pro- showed intermittent streams.hibited from the promiscuous and Even comparatively large river wholesale cutting away of all the beds were dry as a bone for the brush and scrub of the hills and greater part of the year.
mountains, it would not be many After dealing with the difference years before a very marked differ- in the western part of the country ence in climatic and other condi.. and the south, the speaker said tions affecting agriculture and the. it had been asked "Why was there lives of the people in rural dis this difference?" and mentioned tricts would be noticed. that the answer was that the ell-coupled with
This, mate differed. North of the Ching vancy work, the development .of energetic conser- Ling Range the air was dry, so coal mines for fuel and the build- dry as at times to make one's ing of motor roads and railways very nerves tingle, while ma- to ensure adequate transportation mediately to the south. was the facilities, would soon make north soft balminess of a gental moist China a new and delightful coun climate.
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in the north mainly fell during a BERLIN TRAM FARES comparatively short period in the After describing the
Bummer.
Public Indignation At Increases
floods, Mr. Sowerby mentioned that north China was dry, south China was moist. North China Was periodically subject to pro-
"Berlin, Dec. 16. tracted periods of drought, when The utmost indignation is ex- there is no precipitation to speak pressed at the sweeping Increases of for a year, sometimes two, in in the prices of public utilities, in- extreme cases three years at a cluding the tramways, which the atretch. These periods might be municipality has decreed under the interspersed with periods of pressure of the Reichsbank Pre- phenomenal precipitation, when aldent Herr Schacht, who, after re- torrential rains occurred daily fusing to
sanction
the
muni.
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