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SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1930..

'Phone C. 22

FOR

CLASSIFIED

NOTICES.

BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION,

OPENING OF SAIWAN CAMP.

Steam Launch "SHUN

ADVERTISING T LEE" Will leave Murray Pier

Twenty-five Words three inser- tiens prepakt $1. Every addi- tional word four cents for three insertions.

All replies under this heading must be called for.

FOR SALE

PLANO. Good condition. Owner leaving Colony, Genuine bargain for quick Sale, Can be seen by appoint- ment, Apply S.Q.M.S. Booker, Com man! Pay Office, Victoria Barracks, Hong Kong.

TO LET.

TO LET Once (2 Rooms) to be lat from 1st January, 1930, in Hong Kong Club (Annex). Apply Secre. tary, Hong Kong Club

WANTED

WANTED.- Private Family in Nathan Road, Kowloon, five minutes by bus from Ferry, desires Gentle man Boarder for one large Bedroom. Use of flush system, bath, etc, Good $120 food, and washing included. per month. Apply to Box No. 616, c/o "China Mail.”

HOME TUITION.

WESTOVER---STEVENAGE.

an hour frum London.

Within

In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS.. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention.

Particulars apply to:

MISS RUTH CULLEY

For

(Camb. Higher Local).. Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER

(National Frodel Higher Certificate.)

MISCELLANEOUS

YOUR VISITING CARDS nently and promptly printed."China "Mail" Office, No. 3A, Wyndham St. Tele. phone Central 22.

.m. On

THE CHINA

MAIL.

ROPOSED - REDEVELOPMENT

- INLAND

LOT

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GRAND NEW CINEMA THEATRE

SCHEME FOR YEE SANG FAT'S PRESENT SITE

A COMPANY OF $1,000,000 for Saiwan Bay at SATURDAY, January 11. Wolf Tho China Cubs, Brownies. and the smaller Land Investment Co., Ltd. has

Entertainment Scouts and Guides can be accom-been registered under the Com-* modated, also a few Officers-in-panies 'Ordinance of Hong Kong charge and friends, provided that 1911-1921. The authorised capital the total number does not exceed is $1,000,000, in 100,000 shares of 130 persons.

$10 each. A small part of the Trams run to Shaukiwan and capital will be available for public back every four minutes during subscription in the near future. the day, starting at Western The Hon, Sir Shou-son Chow is the Market.

No

HONG KONG AMUSEMENTS, LIMITED.

LOST SCRIP

Nos. 21708 to 91767,

Registered in

chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Chang, Fat and Mr. Liang Chi- hao are joint Managing Directors. Mr. Liang Chi-hao has been Chair man of the South China Athletic Association (1922) and Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital (1924) and a member of the Committee of

He is the

the long Kong Chinese General Chamber of Commerce.

JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certifientes for the following Preferred Ordinary Charos in the above Company are alleged to Have present Managing Director of the Been LOST, Namely, No. 142, repre- Malectic Theatre. Mr. Chang Fat senting 100 shores, Nos. 1421 to 1520 ls the present Manager of Yeo and No. 144, representing 50 shares, Sang Fat and vendor of the pro- the Name of ROLAND MARGESONperty. Among the directors áro DAVISON,

Beveral well-known Chinese as tho Application has been made to the Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso, O.B.E., LL.D., Directors for the Issue of Duplicate Certificates, and should No Objection be Lodged with the Company within the Date hereof Thirty Days from the Application will be complied with, subject, to such Guarantees as may be approved by the Directors.

CHAS. S. ROSSELET,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, Jan. 9th, 1930.

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

ANNUAL RACE MEETING

February 22, 21, 25 and 26 and March 1, 1930.

RAFT

PROGRAMMES and

DENTRY FORMS are

ΠΟΥ

ready and may be obtained upon upplication to the Secretary.

Hong Kong, January 8, 1930.

HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE

ASSOCIATION

TEMBERS arc notified that

M Booking for the Dinner-dance

to be held at the PENINSULA HOTEL on January 17, is now open at the office in the main entrance Xof the Hong Kong Hotel, where LONDON DIRECTORY they may purchase their tickets

X

PUSZKID ANNUALLY.

THE

with I'rovincial & Foreign Sections and Trade Headings in Five Languages, enables traders to communicato direct with

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One-inch BUSINESS CARDS of Firms desiring to extend their connections, or Trade Cards of

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THE LONDON DIRECTORY CO., LTD. 25. Abchurch Lane, London, E.C. 4,' England.

X BUSTIERS ESTABLISHED IN 1841

We have, in Stock and FOR SALE

and reserve sents.

C. P. MARCEL,

Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, January 10, 1930.

DOLLAR ACADEMY, DOLLAR, SCOTLAND, TREPARATION for Universities,

PRE

Army, Public Services, Com- merce. On list of Schools nominat- Ing for Sandhurst. Contingent of Junior Division O.T.C.

Mild climate and healthful sur- roundings, specially suitable for colonial boys and boys from urban areas. Preparatory School adjacent..

Prospectus and full particulars may be obtained on application to the School Secretary, or at the Office of this paper..

Headmaster, HUGH F. MARTIN,

B.A., (Oxon.)

RADIO PARTS.

We have just unpacked, the Xfollowing:

Used and Unused Asiatic and Foreign POSTAGE STAMPS

In Sets, Single, Packota, Bags and in Approval Books.

Your order will have our best Attention and the Opportunity of Serving You will be a pleasure.

GRACA & CO., Dealers in Postage Stamps, Religious Goode, Garden Seeds, etc., etc. No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, PO Box No. 020°

HỒNG SONG

Brown Vee Loud Speaker Unit with '12" cone and chassis.

tors.

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Ready Radio-Selectivity Unit. Dubilier Fixed Condenser. Hydia Condensers for EliminaTM|

etc., etc. We have also many other parts on the way and arriving soon, including Electric Gramophone motors and Aluminium Panels. Enquiries from :-

ORIENTAL COMMERCIAL .COMPANY, LTD. Bank of Canton Bullding,

(3rd Floor). -Phone C. 4405.

PERFUMES

Our new stock of perfumes include many of the popular brands, and make an appreciable gift for milady. ROGER & GALLET, HOUBIGANT, YARDLEYS, CHERAMY, ERASMIC, CARON, COTY.

4711 EAU DE COLOGNE,

THE BAKILLY CO. LTD.

154 15. De Voeux Road Central

Messra

PROPOSED

Shum

SCE ELEVATION

Inland Lot No. 16, on which stands the old Coronet Theatre and Yee Sang Fat Building, and has a front 4ge

Queen's Road Central, to Wyndham Street and D'Aguilar Street. These premises

12DEVELOPMENT

Pak-ming, Wong Kwong-tin, Li Jowson and others.

Present Valuation

The tentative plan has already been approved and Messrs, Clark and Iu are the architects..

The present property has recent- The primary object in floating the company is to establish, mein-

PROPOSED

ELENA TAČKI YEMEK OYING KALI ÇAY

GIV

1,200 comfortable seats and will be equipped with the most up-to-date system of air cooling for the hot ведзоп, Lifts will be provided for the dress circle and no expense will be spared.

INLAND

situated in the heart of the city. It is also intended in due course should conditions warrant, to operate cinema theatres la Kow loon, the Colony's dependencles and elsewhere..

Imposing Entrance Apart from an imposing en- trance hall, the main, frontage on

REDEVELOPMENT ---- OF

EXCTION in bed

and tala and oporate a first-class up-to-date cinema theatre in Hong Kong and to exhibit the best films. ly been valued by Messrs. Palmer & Turner at $923,000,00.

The company has therefore ac- quired the valuable site known as

LOT ← IG

Although the main object of the company is the floating of a cinema, the income which is expected from the shops and offices will be up- proximately $8,000 to $9,000 per month. It will be seen that this revenue will justify the invest- ment of $1,200,000-on the building as it will bring a net income of 8

INLAND

SCALE & PEET= { INCH #|

LOT

IC

Queen's Road--will be utilised for, to 9 per cent. per annum, apart modern shops and stores and above from the cinema. these shops six storers will be available for office accommodation or restaurants, with all modern con- veniences.

The cluema theatro will have

PROPOSED - REDEVELOPMENT

ΔΕ

Cost of Undertaking Mr. Chang Fat has agreed to sell the present property under agreement for the pries of $865,000 and, to show his confidence in the

INLAND LOT

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SCELLATION Cam Exchter

OUR DINING CAR MANNERS

THE PASSENGERS LESS EASY TO PLEASE

VICTORIANS LESS "NERVY"

Mr. D. G. Kerridge, "father" of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway dining cars, who is to re- tire shortly on the age limit, was in charge of the Arst dining car which ran from Euston in 1989. He is of opinion that the Victorians were $ much less disgruntled generation than the diners of to day.

"It may have been," he said, "that dining cars were a novelty and that. the_passengers wore too pleased with the new facility to complain, but the fact remains that they were gulet, felaurely and satisfied with everything. They were always ready to acknowledge that you were doing the best you could for them. "Since the war," he said, "people have been norvy' and difficult to undertaking, he has agreed to please, and in spite of the fact that necept the allotment to him of the plain food of the 'nineties has 28/994 ordinary shares and six given place to an abundance of founder shares respectively in the dishes and plenty of variety the company (credited as fully paid) tendency to complain and demand and the balance of $565,000 in all sorts of impossible things seems cash.

to have increased,"

The estimated cost of the under- taking is

Land

Building

$865,000 $500,000

$1,365,000

of which half will be raised by, mort- gage

$600,000

Balance required.

$765,000

[Reproductions of drawings are given on this page and also in the coloured supplement.1

STELVIO TUNNEL

Third Largest In Europe To Be Opened This Year

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Shy Passengers

"In the old days," said Mr. Ker- ridge, "one often met people who [did not feel comfortable in tho public car. They asked to bo served in the private compartments be. cause they did not like dining with a lot of other people."

**To-day, however, there 骤 variant of

the 'Bame shyness.

People make for corner seats, hate to have strangers sitting opposite, and frequently behave in a can- tankerous manner if another por son comes to the same table."

He told a story of the obstinacy of passengers in the earlier days. Before trains were "articulated" and the dining saloons were separ ate, passengers had to enter and leave the dining car at stopping stations.

On this occasion a batch of

diners should have left the car at Rugby but they refused to make

Rome. The question of a tunnel way for others, and rather than through the Stelvio Pass, in the leave they each paid for another

meal.

"They only nibbled at it, was

Wash Away

That Itch

Upper Adige, was first mooted by Senator Silvio Crespi at the Peace "Did they eat it?" He was ask- Conference in Paris in 1919.. Italy's ed. right-indeed her need-to improve her communications in this region the reply. for the defence and naturalisation of her new provinces was fully re- cognised by the Alliea. Later it was decided that the new route should follow the electric line from Milan to Tirano (through Lecco, Varenna, Colico, and Sondrio), and that a further line should connect: Tirano with Bormio, where the tunnel will begin. Over eleven miles will have to be drilled through the heart of the mountain | to reach Prato, which will be link- ed up by a short line of railway to Resch, on the Austrian frontier, where the Adige has its source.

The new line of international communications thus created will lessen the distance between Milan and Munich by over 74 miles, and will bring Munich 125 miles nearer to the port of Genoa than it is to the port of Hamburg, a fact which; is bound to have its influence.in) increasing the traffic of the Italian port with Central Europe.

When completed, the Stelvio tun- nel will be the third longest tunnel in Europe, coming close after the Simplon tunnel and the Apennine tunnel between Florence and Bologna. It will probably be open- ed for traffle this year.

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.

The following unclaimed tele- grams are lying at the E. E Telegraph Co, office, Hong Kong:-

Johnson, from Isloworth... Raghel Tridon Post Office, from Singapore.

Zircon, from Bangkok.

8. LACK,

Superintendent.

Hong. Kong, 9th January, 1930.

THE GREAT”. NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD. OF DENMARK

The following, unclaimed tele- grams are lying at the office of the Great Northern · Telegraph" Gome pany (Limited) of Denmark:

"Hong Kong Chinese Importing Union, from Hankow.

Lolan, President Van Buren, from Shanghai.

Hoyt, Hong Kong & Shanghai|| Bank Bldg., from Slamford, Conn.

With a Penetrating Antiseptic Now you can stop burning. tabing skin korloge Apor las pure cooling liquis PRTOLA. ITCHING PROPS INRTANTLY, 2de bealing stannable penge Lesla the skin and sooche the irisled Karam, TONGA, trouble

to this famous antiseptje. LOL promise you to (and wily belib. Made in U, B. A. and sold by all mot druedata, Datos Molise à Phipps, ManhamBhangbiak

STAR THEATRE

COMMENCING THURSDAY, JAN. 18th

A. CARPI

- PRESENTS THE

ITALIAN

GRAND OPERA

IN A SERIES OF OPERAS

THURSDAY, JAN. 10th

LA BOHEME

FRIDAY, JAN. 17th

RIGOLETTO

SATURDAY, JAN. 18th-

MME BUTTERFLY

SUNDAY, JAN. 19th

BARRIERE di SIVIGLIA

· MONDAY, JAN. 20th

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA ANDRA MAN

· PAGLIACCI

TUESDAY, JAN. 2111

FAUST

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22nd

CARMEN

Booking at MOUTRIE'S and the STAR

Prices: $4, $3, 32, #1..

Wüllen Teh, Peninsula Hotel, LAMMERT BROS.

from Shanghal.

Akawple, from Shangha

Hahakalan, from Swatow,g |– AUCTIONEERE, "APPRAISERS

E. V. JESSEN

Superintendent

Hong Kong, 8th January, 1980,

AND

SUBYEFORE, AC

Public Auctions