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PROFESSORS AND BANANAS.

Gaucherie of Their Ridiculed Youth.

'EHAVIOUR" IN FRUIT.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FORTY-SECOND THE ANNUAL GENERAL ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING THE ANG ANG he will be held at the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine. Offices, P. & O. Building, on WED-

Bananas are undergoing a re- Matheson & Co., Ltd., on FRIDAY, NESDAY, 18th March, 1981, at 11

transition from the March 20, at 5.30 p.m.

n.a. for the purpose of presenting markable the Report of the Directors to gaucherie of their ridiculed youth gether with a Statement of Acthey were still a curiosity at the counts to 31st December, 1980, beginning of the century-to the and electing Directors and Audi solemn dignity of age. A few years ago they were mocked in

by Konga

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improve transport and storage conditions that the more delicate varieties of West Indian banana, which are also immune to Panama Disease, can be exported. In this direction the scientista seem to have met with most success. A cold store has been erected by the Empiro Marketing Board In Trinidad, where bananas are kept in bulk for the same period, and under the same conditions, as on a voyago from Port of Spain to London. Two varletics-Gaven- dish and Lacatan-have given very promising results, and the Caven- dish variety in particular "seems," in the worda The REGISTER OF MEMBERS frivolous

of the professors, "a suitable substitute for the Gros of the Company will be CLOSED comedians; now their "behaviour"

Michach." by professors from 5th March, 1991, to 18th is analysed

Cavendish bananas, which are March, 1931, both days inclusive, official reports. The Empire Mar-

also known as "ladies' fingers," issues to-day during which period no Transfer keting Board

are described as being of a pale of Shares can be registered.

monograph on "The behaviour and

colour, with a "tendency to freck- disenses of the banana in storage ling with advancing maturity," and transport," by two scientists and of delicate texture and from Trinidad. which finally disfavour. They are, however, very pels any lingering lusion that susceptible to injury.

Lacatans, the banana is not to be taken also, suffer the penalties of being auriously.

tora.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

| GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. Agents. Hong Kong, 19th Feb. 1931.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LTD.

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We are, it appears from this re- port, very unenterprising in our attitude towards bananas, for we are familiar, practically speaking. with only one variety-the Gros Michael whereas there are many

thin-skinned; their flavour is ex- ceptionally sweet and texture ten-

der.

Claret-Red Skina,

have been ruled out as commer- Most of the other varieties tried clally impossible, including, unfor-

the victima of blackmall to be sup- pressed was probably a reason why there were now more proaccutions i for that crime than there used to be.

Commenting on the defence, the

Recorder said that it was a cut- throat sort of defence, and the jury must do the best they could to And the truth.

A Bathing Party.

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MONEY WITHOUT WORKING.

"

Inquiry on Insurance for Unemployed.

SCOPE OF POOR LAW.

Sir Arthur Robinson, Secretary · In the early summer of 1928, the Recorder said, Mr. X. who was said of the Ministry of Health, gave evi- to be a man of considerable post-dence recently before the Royal tion in London, was with a bathing Commission on Unemployment In- party, apparently at Maidenhead, surance. and seemed to have allowed himself Sir Arthur reviewed the scope to be photographed. The two pho- of the Poor Law, stating that tographs had been submitted to the broadly speaking, a man got less jury. It was not for him to charac- than if he wore working. terise them. Mr. Percival Clarke case of a man with 'a large family for the prosecution, had described of, say, twelve, however, he might them as indiscreet.

get more in relief than he would get in wages.

ion might be that the photographs Probably a more censorious opin- were discreditable and disgusting. It was difficult to realise how any "that horrible way," one could allow himself to pose in but it was

done.

name of

way,

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ether kinds of greater excellence tunately, a beautiful claret-colour-bership of which they had been summe work when they can."

that the 2nd ORDINARY still unknown to us. Who has ANNUAL MEETING of Sharehold-heard of Lacatan, Congo, Bumulan, ers will be held at the Dfices of or Giant Fig? Yet their delicate the Company, Exchange Building, flavour, fine textile, and fragile Des Voeux Rond Central, Victoria, skins proclaim thom aristocrate Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the among bananas, while the fami- 18th day of March, 1931, at 11.30 Har Gros Michael is a compara am.. for the purpose of receiving tively coarse plebeian. The ex- A Statement of Accounts and the periments described by Dr. Ward- Report of the Directors for the law and Dr. McGuire, respectively year ended 31st December, 1930. pathologist and physiologist at the Imperial College, Trinidad, aim at introducing us to some at least of these new variaties. The profes- sors' object is to see whether, and der what conditions, the new bananas can be exported from the West Indies to Great Britain.

Panama Disease.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, 4th March, 1931. 1. WEDNESDAY, 18th March, 1931, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

ALLAN KEITH,

Secretary.

tractive on closer acquaintance ed banana which proved less at-

than its striking appearance led the professors to hope.

One of the biggest problems with these new varieties is their susceptibility

to injury and the consequent spread of rots, of which there are legion. One, in particular, called "Main Stalk Rot" creeps along the stem and causes the bananas to drop from the buneb.

The scientists, how ever, have found a preventive and have taken out a patent for their discovery. It consists of the simple device of cutting of the end of the stem with a sharp and sterilised knife and smearing vase This seals obtain access to the bunch. up the area where fungi normally

This has become a vital com-line over the wound. Hong Kong, 19th February, 1931. mercial problem for Empire Pro

THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD STORAGE COMPANY, LIMITED

NOTICE TO SHAREHOL "RS.

IN that

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Coinpany will be CLOSED from the 7th to the 18th March, 1931, both days inclualve.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

|

ducers since Panama Disease, which first appeared in Central

America in 1903, spread to the British West Indies. The disease doca not touch the fruit itself, but attacks, and kills the trees, and so reduces supply. In places It has forced the abandonment of

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The loss to the British West Indies banana trade-which is worth about £2,000,000 a year from rots is heavy, and this method will, it is believed, effect a large saving.

THE "MR. X" CASE,

"ONCE PEOPLE BEGIN THEY CAN' PAY, AND PAY."

In the

Judge Holman Gregory, the chairman-Is any effort made by any public assistance authority in Brtiain to provide work for men in order that they should produce something useful for muney paid to

A Potent Threat.

them? No, not actually. They The photographs, continued the look at the problem in a different They say, "Here are a num- Recorder, were given to a member of the club, who kept them in his ber of men who can work, and one... locker at the club, the

of the things we ought to have re- which the jury knew and the mem-gard to is keeping them fit to re-

able to consider.

The chairman--it in a pity that Their experience of

men should be paid money without We producing something for it. women told them that a great many have new to anticipate that there members of that club were people will be many workers in Britain in politics, the arts, the Church, who will not be in regular work, and society-people of unimpeach- and who many have long spells of able reputation, whose

good opinion any member of the club gidered whether any other kind of

unemployment.

would desire to maintain.

work conld not be introduced which Could there be a more potent the local authorities might make threat than that in the letter re-use of? ceived by Mr. X on December 3, that kind has been done in the old A good deal of work of which arid: sending prints (of the negatives) local authorities, and now between "I am considering days between the guardians and the

men and

to each of the 1,300 members of your club for Christmas"?

Has it been con-

one committee and another of an authority, Commenting upon the trap set for the accused men, the Recorder

Abuse of Relief, remarked: "If there were no traps evidence the Commission had re- The chairman said that from

blackmailers would bever bo caught."

ceived there was what might be termed n residue from in- Another remark of the Recorder dustrialism--men who had grown Was: "Once people begin to pay old, men perhaps between 45 and blackmailers they can pay and pay, 60, or between 50 and 16, whom the and pay."

employers did not wish to engage, work. and who could get only intermittent

POLISH NEWSPAPERS SUPPRESS

Sequel to Publication of London Report.

Sir Arthur Robinson agreed that this was so.

Mr. Henry Clay-Is the stigma that used to be attached to Poor Law assistance gone?

Warsaw, Feb. 12. The Polish Upper Silesian au-

Sir Arthur Robinson-It is al- thorities have suppressed three most impossible to answer you in German and two Polish newspapers a way that would be true of all Because of the difficult in- for publishing a report from Lon-areas.

don Intimating that after his re-dustrial conditions of recent years turn from holiday at Marshal Pil-there has been a modification in 籍 new the reluctance of people to have sudski will inaugurate Polish-German policy on the basis recourse to public assistance. I Bay that in some of granting Germany a revision of think one can her Eastern frontler in return forareas in the country what is called undertaking of benevolent the Poor Law stigma has lost a But it is neutrality in the event of attack great deal of its force. upon Poland by Russia, whose five also true that there are other areas years plan, the report declared, In- in which that is not so, and where cluded a substantial strengthening the stigma is as strong as ever. of armaments, which is causing Mr. W. Asbury- Do you know if growing uneasiness of Marshal the arrangement of giving relief,

particularly in kind, to able-bodied. Pilsudski and his friends.

an It was alleged that they tried to obtain money from a young man of high social position in London on a threat to circulate copies of photo. graphs to members of a club to which he belonged.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN plantations and threatened the the THIRTY-FIFTH very survival of the industry. were called in and ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING Scientista

a three-fold attack of the Shareholders in the Com-launched

In the first place pany will be held at the Com-the problem. vany's Town Office, 2, Lower Al- they put under observation the

The Recorder, Sir Ernest Wild, bert Road, on WEDNESDAY, the, fungus which causes the disease.. 18th March, 1931, at Noon, for the The second method of attack K.C., summed up at the Old Bailey purpose of receiving the Report of was an attempt to breed a new in the case in which Llewellyn the Directors together with State- banana resistant to the fungus. Winthorpe Kendrick, a Gravesend ment of Accounts, declaring a Gros Michel is particularly sulted schoolmaster; and William Corbett Gravesend hairdresser. Dividend and re-electing Directors to commerce but correspondingly Smith, a

10 susceptiblé

disease.

Other pleaded not guilty to charges of an? Auditore.

varieties, less adapted for trade, blackmail. are immune. In particular it was thought that in the original home of the banana in the Far East, Siam, Malaye, Burma, Sumatra, and thereabouts-might be found immune varieties suitable for crossing with ros Michel.

The prosecutor has been referred For a year

a scientific expedi- to throughout the trial as "Mr. X. tion searched the East and brought

"These, cases are described as hack suckers of all Borts of moral murder," was a comment of strange and frenk bananas. Mr. Percival Clarke, K. C. (prese- These were propagated in

he addressed the cuting) when quarantine station erected at Kew | jury. by the Empire Marketing Board to

"A Grave Case," avoid the risk of introducing other,

The Recorder said that the jury and equally bad, disekaes into the had been listening for three days to West Indies.

I+ The varieties col- that most serious case. was THE FORTY-FOURTH ORDIN=lected

were strongly disease-most grave for the prisoners, each ARY ANNUAL MEETING of resistant, but had one great com- of whom had hitherto been a man SHAREHOLDERS will be held at mercial fault- they produced of good character.

Office of Messrs. Jardine, large, hard, and black seeds.

The case was also most grave for Matheson & Co. Ltd., on THURS- Better Transport and Storage. the public, who were very interest- DAY, the 19 March, 1981, AT The third effort to defeated in crimes of blackmail being NOON, for the purpose of receiv- Panama Disease is a sort of flank|proved If, in fact, that crime was ing the Report of the Directors attack, and is the subject of the committed. and the Ssment of Accounts for Empire Marketing Board's Grey- The Recorder said that the fact nded 81st December, book. The essence of it is so to that the court allowed the names of

J. D. THOMSON,

Acting Secretary, Hong Kong, 27th Fob., 1931.

THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

THE

the

the year 1980.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of tha | **** Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 10th March, 1981, to THURSDAY, the 19th March, 1991, bath days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

F. H. CRAPNELL,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 2nd March, 1981.

THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TH

THE SIXTY-SECOND ORDIN- ARY GENERAL MEETING

HONG KONG HEIGHTS of Shareholders will be held at

the Offices of the Undersigned on THURSDAY, the 26th March,

For the information of visitors 1931, at Noon, fer the purpose of the following list of some of the receiving the Report of the Gen- highest points on the Island and eral Managers, together with a Mainland is published:

Statement of Accounts for the

Victoria Peak... Signal Station Mt. Parker

Island.

Feet. year ended the 81st December, 1829 1930,

1774 The SHARE REGISTER and 1734 TRANSFER BOOKS will be

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One of the banned German papers men is subject to a good deal of has been suppressed for the 210th abuse in the large centres in the time.

north; that small tradesmen are compelled, owing to lack of re- sources, to pay their contractors with relief tickets contrary to the law; and that the public assistance authorities have to wink at it?-

FOR RADIO FANS.

"Watt are you doing here?" "Eating currents," replied the

!

apprentice. "Anode you'd catches, you have to balance ono evil

with another. me at it."

"Wire you insulate this morn- ing?" naked the boss.

"Leyden bed."

"Can't your relay-shunts get you up?"

"Amperently not, sir."

"Fuse going to do that every day, you can go ohm," said the boss, and the circuit was broken.

FAMILY DRAMA.

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN GERMANY.

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Berlin, Feb. 9. A painful sensation has been oc- easioned by terrible family drumu. A workman, Frederich Falmer, shot his wife, mother-in- law, alster-in-law and two small- children dead, grievously wounded his brother-in-law, and then, just as the neighbours' and poliec. were about to break into the house, turned his weapon against himself and committed suicide. It la surmised that he acted in a gust of madness brought on by worry over his desperate financial situation.

STANDARD TIMES.

SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY.

Bunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong for March 1081,

Staz-

dard time of the 120th Meridian, East of Greenwich) are as fol- lown:-

Sunrise Sunset

Dato

B.III. p.m.

17

6.82

6.83

18

6.81

4.88

19

46.80

6.84

-20-

-0.23 0.34

21

6.27 6.24

22

0.26 0.85

20

6.25 6.86

24

625. 0.86

Peak Hotel

1805

26

6.24 6.36

Taikoo Sanatorium

1000

Mt. Davis

877

Bowen Road (Alterbeds)

297

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Managers.

28

0.23

6.80

27

6.22 6.87

.728

JEL 6.87

Mainland.

Fest.

Taimozhan.

8724

The Hong Kong Fire Insurance

* Co., Ltd..

3:20

4.20 6.37

Kowloon Peak

1971

Hong Kong, '5th March, 1981.

Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor, the charming stars of “High Society Blues showing to-day and to-morrow only at the Queen's.

6.19 6.88

6.18 6.38

Mountain Lodge

The Eyrie..

1725 CLOSED from the 12th to the 26th 1726

March, 1931, both day, inclusive.