1930-02-13 — Page 11

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1930.

SZERELMEY

STONE LIQUID

The Reliable Remedy for Damp Walls

and

Stone

Decay

THE EXTERIOR OF THE

PENINSULA HOTEL

was Entirely Coated with this liquid

IT PREVENTS PENETRATION BY DRIVING RAIN

Stocks Carried.

REISS, MASSEY & CO. LTD.

Sole Agents for

Hong Kong & South China.

REFLEX CAMERAS with 4.5-3.5 & 2.5 lenses KODAKS LOCAL VIEWS — LANTERN SLIDES. ALWAYS IN STOCK. EXTRA SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO DEVELOPING

PRINTING, ENLARGING

THE KWONG KWUI CO., LTD. PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION

PHOTO SUPPLIES

74, Queen's Road Central, dong Kong.

Telephone No. C. 2170.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This crossword puzzle has been made by an expert but nur readers are warned to look out for recasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altko.)

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16

20

33

58

163

196

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HORIZONTAL

1-A young dear 7-Salary

13-A brownish color 14-A famque Greak

painter

15-Mottled streak in

wood

16-Nearly extintat

European black 17-A peach-tree dia

BASE

18-Toward 19-Personal pronoun 20-True 23-President of the

Confederate States 97-An Italian cola 29-A church official 31-Short for Nancy :82-To make love (Wang) 32-Prefix-apart” 34-To allure

1 37-in no manner 38-Me (French) 89-Now (Best.) 40-It is, contracted *42-Degression of

spirita

44-A pouch 43-Food of bees

· 48-Out (B. Afr. D.) 4-A tool for shaping

metal

125 126

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HORIZONTAL (Cont.) VERTICAL (Cont.) 51-Presently

22-The (French) 24-One of the Lee-

52-A woodland dalty 64-Man-dating demon 65-Jumbled printing

typo [56-Conjunction

68-A region of N.

Europe

G1-Buddha

63-To employ

84-Releases

85-Pistol 66-Small food-ffah 67-Prizes

VERTICAL 1-Marked with stare -2-Town in 8. W.

France

3-invasions 4-Cleverness

& Jewish high peleat's

vestment

6-Roaldence (abbr.) 7-Crafty B-Abounds 9-Small Island 10-Wearing away of

rocka

by walor 11-At the

prosent time 12-To discourse at

length |21-The striking out of

a part of a word

ward Islands 25-Variant (abbr) 26-Lack of sense 27-Lord. Provont (abbr.)

30-47

a ram

32-Facing the direction

whence a glacior moves (Geol.)

35-Part of the foot- |38-Prafx="with"

10-A plant without trus

root, stem or fouf 41-One who pries into

things 43-To rip (Sco) 44-Luggage 45-Natives of Germany 47-Half an em 50-Borrow

53-A Greek at the slege.

of Troy 83-Rain-colored hersca 65-A language of India 67-Oxidation of fron [59-Man's name 40-Female dear 81-A common exclama

tion 82-Silent

¿Tâa solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear

·LO-MOTTOSI E (Esue along with a new cross-word pussie.)

Communist demonstrations took place at Westminster Police Court when Herbert Lovell, secretary of the Class War Prisoners - Ald Bociety, was ordered to forfeit £80

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

NG OARSLERE TA BREAKERS OMEL

CETE

OURS ZANY HARGE

recognizances entered into lastŐZŐ VERY PEN DO May:

STORE CARTS ST AIO LORO FEA predicEAD SORE BAGS ROMP FUND RADOS

Sensational claims

aflied

ses, it

QUON 190 JOOOT TRYS

THE CHINA MAIL.

WHERE THE MONEY This amount is a revote of a sum New Kowloon: Buildings, Market at

GOES

ADDITIONS TO ESTIMATES FOR 1929 1930

CERTIFICATES OF HONOUR

unexpended in 1929. Provision was Kowloon Tong. To meet the cost of 'made in 1929 Estimates for $4,000 erection of a permanent market,

for construction of Cust Rocks $10,000. Beacon Light.

. A sum of $1,500 was provided in A sum of $3,115.00 was paid to the 1929 Estimates for a small tem-! Lam Woo & Co. contractors, during 'porary Market at Kowloon Tong. 1929, while a sum of $400 was re- With the rapid development of tained pending satisfactory main-the district and corresponding-in- tenance for 8 months expiring crease in the number of inhabitants, March 16, 1980.

it was considered essential that a At a meeting of the Finance Com-

The contract for this work was larger and permanent market should mittee of the Legislative Council arranged by the P.W.D., and owing be erected at an estimated cost of this afternoon, the following Sup-to a misunderstanding no provision $10,000. plemental Votes were considered:

was made in Estimates for 1930 for the payment of retention money,

Waglan Lighthouse Public Works Extraordinary: Provision made In Estimates, New Territories, Miscellaneous,

A vote of $10,000 is therefore re- $1,000.

Waglan Lighthouse, New Electrical

quested. More copies of deportees' photo-installation, to complete work su

Government Telephones graphs, and extra photographs of thorised in 1929 Estimates, $1,464 Other Charges, Special Expendi Public Works Department:— other prisoners, have been requir-| A sum of $5,850 was included in ed for the Police this year.

Estimates, 1929

Prisons Department Other Charges, Photography, $51.00

Expenditure for 1927, $988.80. Expenditure for 1928, $705.60, Expenditure for 1929, $1,050.58.

This proposal was recommended. by the Public Works Committee and j has been approved by the Secretary of State.

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the 1929 Estimates for the above ture, Telephone Instrument and work and the plant ordered from plant. To meet the cost of inntru- Home in January.

ments ordered from Home in 1929, There was insufficient time after

$4,600.

In 1929 a sum of $20,000 was pro.

The above is to be met from sav-its arrival in September to com ings under rent for quarters for plete by the end of the year, the exvided for plant for effecting inter- European Warders.

Exchange Compensation Miscellaneous Services:

Ex.

change Compensation Allowances,

$1,168.

Provision made in Estimates, $350,000,

Provision made by Supplementary Vote, $78,000.

Total $428,000.

this

communication between the Govern.

penditure being $5,836.

A vote equal to the unexpended meat and Telephone Company's tale- balanco (1,464) is requested to iphone system. laying of a service cable to the complete the Installation, by the

laphone tower.

This same cable will be used in connection with the typhoon lights approved this year.

did not begin to arrive in the Colang The work could not be completed jlast year as the material from Home

until about the middle of Novem ber. Part of It is still awaited.

The expenditure in 1929 was $15,400 and a vate equal to the un- jexpended balance là requested,

Publie Band Concerts Miscellaneous Services:-Public

Garden Road Widening The total expenditure for Public Works, Extraordinary :-) the year 1920

sub- Hong Kong, Communicationa. Wid. hoad жаз 8429,166. Owing ening Garden Road at Junction with Band Concerta, $1,200. to the effect of officers return- Queen's Road. To complete the It is proposed to provide six Pub ing from leave not being fully work commenced last year, $6,000. |lic Band Concerts during the estimated for $1,500 more being re- A sum was provided in the 1929 year in Kowloon. All arrangements, quired In December than in Novem- Estimates for widening the lower will be undertaken by the Kow. ber, the supplementary supply ask portion of Garden Road, adjacent to loon Residents Assoolation and ad for in Decomber last was short Murray Barracks.

Government has agreed to subsidise of actual requirements by $1,168 The work was commenced in Do-the project to the extent of not more and a voto for this sum is now re- cember, but there was no ax than $200 per concert conditional ¡quested.

penditure before the end of the on admission being free to those year.

who do not wish to pay for seats. - Avate corresponding to last) Government retaina the Broad- year's vote ($6,000) is requested to casting rights of those concerts. It meet the cost of the work.

is hoped that they may become self- supporting in course of time.

"Rent Allowances Miscellaneous Servicos: Roni Allowances, European Subordinate Officers, $831.00.

Provision made in Estimates, $40,000,

Provialon made by Supplement. ary Vote, $6,000.

Total, $16,000,

Flying Club Headquarters Public Work, Extraordinary:

A vate for $1,200 to cover the full Additions and renovations to Field extent of Government's liability is Cottage, Kal Tak-necessary to requested. This vote was-inadver make it suitable as the Head Quarently omitted from the 1930 Estim The total expenditure for the year ters of the Flying Club and resid-ates. 1929 on this sub-head was $46,831. ence of Superintendent of Aero- Owing to the effect of officers re- drome, $13,550 turning from leave not being fully estimated for the supplementary, aupply naked for December last was short of actual requirements by $831 and a vote for this sum is now requested.

Estimates, 1930 Harbour Department Special Expenditure Repairs to R. T. Kau Sing, $17,190.

Coat of repairing damage,to R..T Kau Sing caused through an accid- ent on November 27, 1929, when the grounded off Cape Collinson.

Law Books

2. Fitting up 2 kitchens, $1,000. 1. General repairs, $3,200.

3. Additional

$7,500.

servants'

room

4. Partitions on 2nd door, $210. 5 Laying on water to bathrooms

and kitchens, $100.

Tung Wa Eastern Hospital Charitable Services:-Granta-in- Ald of Charitable Institutions, Tung Wa Eastern Hospital, $25,000.

The Tung Wa Eastern Hospital was opened in November last and it the running expenses of hospital is proposed to make a grant-in-aid of

current year

for

(b) Installing 15 heating lative

* points, $450,--

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the

6. (n) Overhauling Electric wir foreshadowed in the Gov.

ing, $300.

ernor's statement to the Legis-

Council on

September 23, 1920, The sum proposed is been made in the Estimates a sup $25,000, and as no provision has

plementary vote is requested.

Total $116,067.

7. Clearing up grounds, $400. 8. Laying on gas (no ttings)

$350.

Total $13,510.

Attorney-General Other It is proposed to utilize the top Charges, Books, Halsbury's Statutes floor as a flat for the Superintend of England, $500.

ent of the Aerodrome and to lease Provision made in Estimates, the ground and first floors to the $250.

This is required in order to purchase Halsbury's Statutes of England, а classified azid

statute

law

in force

Flying Club.

Latrine Building

THE REICHSBANK

Germany's Industrial Recovery

The

final

of

the

report Reparations Agent, Mr. Parker Gilbert, will not be published till

Publle Works, Extraordinary:— annotated edition of all the Hong Kong Buildinge, Latrine, public.

Junction of Water Street and in Britain to-day, which it is con- Queen's Road West, to carry out aldered essential for the Attorney the work approved last year, $10,000. General's department to have. Ten

A sum of $10,000 was provided in after the Hague Conference, for the volumes have just been published Finance Message No. 12 Item No. obvious reason that the Dutch Com- and the remaining ten will be pub-4, in 1929 for this building, but missioner of the Reichsbank, Pro- lished next year. It was impossible tenders were not approved until fessor Burins, publishes his report to make provision earlier because 12.10.29. The contract was signed to the end of 1929 in Berlin. Pro- fessor Bruins is regarded na the prospectuses of the work have on 29.10.29.- only just been received. The cash

The work was commented but the probable President of the In- price to early subscribers is £37,ittle progress was made due to dif-ternational Reparations Bank, which which at 1/8 amounts to $455. $4 ficulty with the contractor.

is expected to begin functioning on No payment was made last year April 1. He states that the posi

Re writes: (1929) note is requested to complete way sound. the work.

"It le gratifying to note that in spite of the pressure of credit difficulties on the economic life of the country, the producing capacity

la added for carriage and possible and a vote equal to the unspent/tion of the Reichsbank is in every

fall in exchange.

Public

Gaol Work Works

15.

Extraordinary: Hong Kong Buildings, Cook House Shapkiwan Reclamation land Servants Quarters, Victoria Public Works, Extraordinary:

Gaol. To complete the work com- Hong Kong. Miscellaneous, Continu- of Germany was in general menced last year, $2,600.

ation of Roclamation at Shauki affected.. The aggregate produc A vote of the unexpended balance wan. Amount required to completation of goods remained at a level noti from last year's vote is requested work in hand $15,500.

below that of the past two years.

to reduce the noise as much as pos- pleted until March, 1990. A activity of sible whilst the Courts were sitting.

THE

HONG KONG

PENINSULA HOTEL:

11

HONG KONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTEL :

MAJESTIC HOTEL.

HOTELS,

LIMITED

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking.

ST. FRANCIS HOTEL "Alphonse" J. Hund, Manager.

COSY LOUNGES

TIFFIN $1.25 DINNER $2.00

FULLY LICENSED

or a la carte

Under the personal supervision

of "ALPHONSE”

Special Menus for Private Parties.

"THE RIGHT PORT IN SIGHT"

AROSO'S PORT

Obtainable Everywhere.

Sole Distributors:

H. RÜTTONJEE & SON.

Wine and Spirit Merchants. 15, Queen's Road Central

PARCELS OF CLOTHES for

the Hong Kong Benevolent

Society can be left any day

with Mr. Grenham at the

Y.M.C.A., City Hall.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

to complete the work in hand. It A sum of $20,000 was provided] But the growth in unemployment was not possible to finish the work in Finance Message No.8 Item No.gures shows that only a fraction In 1929, as the contract was not 47, 1929, for the continuation, of of the increase in the workingi aigned until the end of September Reclamation at Shankiwan.

class population, could be worked and the progress was slow owing to The work was commenced in Sep-into the machinery of production. AT THE NEW SILK STORE, requesta from the First Magistrate tomber, 1929, and will not be com "In general, the energy and TAJMAHAL SILK STORE.

German national [ LADIES'Shawls, Hourf A vote equal to the unexpended economy have been able to overcome Coats, Kinomos, Underwears balance (15,600) is therefore re-the difcutties on the capital

(8. pc.‹ set) at $15.00. uested to cover the cost of the un-market, but it is nevertheless ap

GENTLEMEN'S:-Silk Bhirts completed worka.No

parent from the Increase to the

$3.00 & Silk, Pyjamas $6.00. 1920 Estimate for Work; $20,000, number of bankruptcies and other

5, Flower. Street, 31.12.20, $4,500.

Approximate Expenditure to indications that the credit dim

culties have not been without serious consequences.

The Ox planation of the fact that the Agures of production, remalo at a satisfactory level is to be found

- Certificates of Honour Miscellaneous Services Certi. ficates of Honour, $1,068..

It is proposed to institute a local Cartificate of Honour as a means of recognising services rendered to this Colony. The Certificate of Honour will consist of a scroll and

Unexpended Balance, $15,000

Drainage In Kowloon

(opp, China Mall")

BOOKBINDING.

THENEWSPAPER

PRISE LTD

ENTER

For Superior Binding "China Mall" Offices,

JA, Wyndham Street, Tel, U.27.

DENTISTA

HARRY FONG, Dentist,

a silver glit medallion Public Works, Extraordinary

The cost of printing 25 copies of Kowloon Tong MI-Extension of mainly in the expansion of exports, the scroll will be £12.4.8 and the Storm Water Drain from old Tal Pocspecially of finished articles, parti cost of a die for the medallion will Road to Kowloon Tong Village area. cularly machinery, and of other be £52.10. The medallions will cost To complete the draining work commeans of production. The favour €1.10 each and it is proposed to menced last year, $7,000 able business situation in njost im order ten of theso in the first fa- A sum of $15,000 was provided in portant markets no doubt contribut stance.

The total cost of the above pro A contract was entered into in it is more dificult than ever be

the 1929 Estimates for this worked to this development. 1st floor, No. 74, Queen's Roed

30 Central Tel C. No. 1255. posals is estimated at $1,068 and April, 1929, but the rate of progress,fore to forecast the development of DAN BERN BEDROOM

The Secretary of State has algat other contract for filling over the posable on the world market and

- of this work is dependent upon an- the coming months. Changes are ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES. hed His Majesty's approval of the low-lying areas. By the end of the in the price level of commodities institution of the Certificate of year more than half of the work whien may have considerable effect Honours

under this contract: had been com- on the German business situation. Beacon Light G

pleted the expenditure being appro If this occurs it may be accompani- Harbour Department and Alr ximately $8,000, on the other hand, by farther ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS,

Expenalture: A vote equal to the unexpended basing of the international capital

W. B BAILEY & CO., LTD., nent of Rebalance

is requested to com market and Increased credit por

vote for this sum is requested;

sómmoditie already

THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG --ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO., LTD."

72, Queen's Road, Cantral. S SPRACHTEINC.3270.00

Kowloon Bay, New Work & Repairs, S

Call Flag "L Sold Agents for Kelvin Motora,

FOR BETTER PRINTING.

THE NEWSPAPER: ENTER-

PRISE LTD.,

General and Commercial Printers, "China Mail" .Ofcos.

3A, Wyndham Street, Tel. 0.22.

HAIR DRESSERS & BOOKSELLERS

LEK YEE, A

Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair

Dressers & Booksellers. No. 12, D'Agullar Street, "Copposite "Queen's Theatre),

OPTICIAN.

THE HONG KONG OPTICAL

Phone

68, Queen's Road Centfal

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WONG SIU WOON