TUESDAY,
UST 25, 1931.-
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
DRAWNWORK & EMBROIDERIES
Manufacturers & Exporters of
ALL KINDS OF
SWATOW DRAWN
WORK
AND
ART EMBROIDERIES
SHAWLS
UNDERWEAR
PYJAMAS
KIMONOS.
LITERATURE
BOOKS
All
Bibles, Pocket Testaments, Prayer Books and Stationery. General Literature Presentation Books Children's Books a Speciality.
SWATOW TRADING CO THE BOOK & BIBLE DEPOT
6. Pedder St. opp. Hong Kong Hotel
Phone. 23303.
ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
The Latest in Gentlemen's Outfitting
AT PRICES TO SUIT ANY PURSE
PERFECT FIT
AND
RELIABLE SUITINGS. WING HING CO.
Gentlemen's Qutåtters
64, Queen's Rd. C.
· Tel. 21417.
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, No 74, Queen's Road
Central. Tel. 21256
TANG YUK, DENTIST Successor to
the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Agullar Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATB Consultation Free.
· ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES.
THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO., LTD. 72, Queen's Road C. Tel. 23270.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. 8. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,
Kowloon Bay. New Work & Repairs. Call Flag "L" Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors.
FRUITS.
AMERICAN
FRESH FRUITS
Just Arrived
KELSY PLUMS
YELLOW CLING PEACHES
BARTLETT PEARS
, SUNKIST ORANGES
SUNKIST GRAPEFRUITS
Wholesale and Retail.
WING COFFEE CO.
139, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel. 25869.|
K.
Wyndham Street.
Next to King's Theatre.
Agents for
British & Foreign Bible Society · The Religious Tract Society and The League of Nations' Society.
SWATOW DRAWNWORK.
JUST OPEN!!! LAI YANG EMBROIDERY CO. 2. Wyndham St.
(above Book & Bible Depot.) Direct Exporters of Swatow Drawn Work, Embroideries, Silk Shawls, Irish Linen & Grass Cloth, Handmade Laces & Ladies', Underwear.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
HAIR DRESSERS
LEE YEE,
Ladles and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers, No. 12, D'Aguilar Street. (opposite Queen's Theatre).
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY, 'Phone 22232.
53, Queen's Road Central
SHOES.
ог
Pair Direk
Brown Shoes from $8.00. Black Brown Boots from 18.00. Children's Boots or Shoes from $2.00.
Beat styles, meat complete stock of all sizes. Repairing a specialty, WONG BIU WOON 21, Pettinger St.
Phone 21474.
SPORTING GOODS
ATHLETIC GOODS
ᎥᎢ . .
24.
THE CHINA MAIL.
RADIO TOPICS
ANNOUNCERS' PECULIARITIES. 'BROADCAST NEWS FOR THE
Moscow's Sweetness,
By Spark Gap.)
EMPIRE
WIRELESS FOR ARABIA.
Mecca and Riyadh, during his jour-to Chapultepec. The call-sign re- nays, into the desert.
mning X D A..
In Mecca, a powerful telephone Japan. - Short-wave listeners and telegraph transmitter with a have to obtain Government modern type receiver will be install-licence before they can laten in ad within the sacred precincts. Japan.
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As Mohammedans only may enter India-Two new Indian short- Before long, Arabia, one of the the Holy City, a Mohammedan. en-wave stations are said to be under few remaining countries which stiligineer will have to be found to in-construction and due to operate retain many of the Longer Hours For B.B.C.'s Short-customs of Biblical times, will be equipment.
manners and stall the transmitting and receiving this year. Wave Station.
Prague. Working on linked with the world by wireless. All the apparatus for the stations
In a land where the camel mes. will be transported by car or camel metres on Tuesdays and Fridays #
B.S.T. (for two | at ··8,80. p.m.,- The Prince of Wales, when ad-senger travels, the ancient caravan caravan over the ancient desert
fled by "Halo, Radio Praha." dressing a gathering of business routes, at times side by side with tracks, for roads are few, and the hours), this station can be identi- the modern motor-car, are to be only, railway in the country was Reports on reception are welcomed nien in the Midlands reqeatly, bullt 15 stations, which will provide destroyed during the war.
incomplete system of telegraphic
communication.
King Ibn Saud, of Hedjaz and
SHORT-WAVE SHORTS.
by the Minister of Posts and Telegrapha, Praha.
Bombay. The wave-length of 49 metres was recently abandoned
Colony)
Bangkok, Aug. 15. With neighbours on either side of me accoutred with loud speakers and powerful seta which they havn't the faintest idea how to use efficient service of British news in urged establishment of a more properly, I confess to being fed-up distant purts, and he made a point with HSPI emissions. My netgh- of the fact that not only would bours both, I am glad to note, al- this be a benefit to overseas listen-Nejd, who has just signed a con- Long Island.-W2XV, the Long in favour of 311 metres. ways shut off promptly when Euro-ers but it would also provide aast with the Marconi Company Island station, recently opened up Mombasa.(Kenya pean music starts which affords me valuable trade link.
for the execution of this work, is on 62.5 metres, transmits on Fri-has been on the air experimentally chance of hearing it nicely.
Listeners in Malaya and other to have, in addition to town sta- day afternoons, in addition to his on 21 metres. There is trick that some
Colonies and Dependencies often re-tions, four sets fitted in lorries as 34.68-metre wave-length.
Tokyo, Japanese amateurs have announels have got into-I
San Lazaro-This famous Mexi-recently been active on 20 metros don't refer
port how difficult it is to receive general mobile stations. to the local an-
These will enable the King to can station, heard on 61.22, 25.5 and and. thereabouts, between 11 p.m. news or programmes of any kind from 5SW, because the trduamis keep in touch with his two capitals, 20.5 metres, has changed its name and 12.30 a.m. (Singapore time.) sion schedule is too short and is not hours of dark and light. Here, properly arranged to
the
one listener for instance, is what in the back o' beyond says of 68W.: have made up the Worldwide Short-wave Three." and get fine re- sults from the Philips station PCJ, It is really the only fault from several American sta tions. I can find with Saigon's very ex- enthusiastic
I cannot claim to be very about reception; collent programmes, which
I am far re- are though, because here now coming through better than moved from the usual news centres. they ever did before, To-morrow
It is difficult to get newspapers, night Salgon is giving the whole of and when they arriye they give Massenet's opera "Werther," which British news which is at least four starts at 8.30 a.m. Likewise on weeks late. Saturday, the 29th, they are giving Massenet's "Manon,"
nouncers-of coming out with regular burst in the first few words of their announcements and then letting their voices drop they almost die away. The jovial gentleman at Saigon in rather bad at this for, so far as local reception goes, you often hear a stentorian, "You will listen to,"
and the rest is silence, till the music
starts.
cover
Good News Service.
"I do occasionally get 65W; but Experiment here has demon-though it is supposed to relay the strated that the output of National programme it never gives the television stations in Lon-anything I want to hear.
All the don, Berlin and several
parts gramophone records I hear through or the United States is not PCJ, and the dance music from receivable. At least, experiment America, but if I could get real with valioua sorty
news through 5SW then I should has failed to make the only neon consider short-wave reception really lamp I know of in the place to give worth while.. There are nearly any of the signs which, when the twenty other radio enthusiasts other special appliances are used, near me who would welcome a de- form a picture. So we must cent news service.". evidently bide our time.
· of
sets
If you look at the transmitting
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE.
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
1931. 1918. 1914.
Aug. 12, June, Jane,
Butcher Meat.
Gee. Cía. Ct.
Bead
Sirions.
#
lb, 83 24 12
Chicken
80
28
+
+
23
12
33 24 22
Duck
Doves
Prime Cut
Corned
Roast
Bresal
Soup.
Stank
"
Steak Sirloin
Sausages
Bullock's Brains....
Tongus, fresh.........
燒牛热中牛牛4
27
20 18
Poultry,
30 20 18
33 24 22
Capons, Small
Capons, Larra
Eggy, Hen (cooking)..
Eggs, Han (fresh)
Fewis, Canton
Fowls, Hainan Grase
Pigeons, Canton
46 30 86
per set 17
36 20 20
10 12
.
each 75 50 60
Tongue, corned
60
www
Sothow
+
Head
-$1.20
-$1.20
Turkeys, Cock
Heart
24 18 14
Π
Hump, Bali
20
18
Snipe
Feet
cách 12
10
12
Pheasant
Kidneys
45 10
12
21
Tail
27 20 22
Liver
b.
18 14
H
Tripe
B B
schedule of Chelmsford you will Calves' Head & Fact.... +479 set $1.50 $1.00 $1.00 see that there is cause for
com- Mutton Shop plaint There is a popular ides
Probably few people who go to the "talkies" realise the extreme- ly close connection between them and the radio. Without the latter, at home that 5SW relays the Na- there could, of course, be no tional programme all the time, but, "talkies." What, you
*
Lag
Shoulder
Saddle
Brains
Foot
Fry
Head
13
H
Heart
Kidneys
Liver 29 The
Pork Chop
see on the actually, it never works at times Pig's Chitlings screen is, purely optical, the when most overseas listeners want ordinary moving picture.
But to hear it.
It does not work on what you hear is really all radio, Saturdays and Sundays, ABYS after light has been converted into home journal. sound. It all comes from a little
It relaya 5XX.only from 12.30 to strip of the film less than one- 1.30 p.m. and from 7 p.m. until sixteenth of an inch wide through aldnight; that is, if 5XX does not which light is made into musical shut down before 12 p.m. Bound of micro-audibility, and morning period is far too short thence stepped up or magnified by and, for reasons of copyright, the four successive stagea and sen news service is practically non- along to the loud speaker under existent. the screen, Through the cour- I know that in pressing this quee- tesy of the Phathanakorn people. I tion the old argument against it spent an hour or so in the "went of expense and of the difficulty in tox" the other night, while the making the overseas listener pay courteous gentleman In charge de- for his nowa service-will be rale- monstrated the who fe modus ed. operandi, which as a practical ap-i plication, of wireless is really well! worth a study,
Who Is To Pay?
Leg
**
Loin
Fat or Lard
Sheep's Head & Foot
Heart Kidnera Liver
**
Sucking Pigs, to order Sust, Beet
Matton
Yeal
Baner.go
No. 1
Fish.
I cannot see that any appreciable. expense will be involved fn slightly In Great Britain in 1922, there increasing the transmittlig "hours were 35,744 holders of radio re- of 55V, or of changing them to ceiving licences. The latest times better suited to long-distance Barbel figures to hand give the number as reception; and there should be no Bream
THE LIANG YOU CO. 3,600,000. In Oxford 14 per cent. serious increase involved in leaving Canton Fresh Water
-70, Queen's Road C.
FUJIYAMA
PHOTOGRAPHER
ANNOUNCES HIS REMOVAL
of the population are licence the microphone "open" when the men pomelo Blah holders, which is probably a record news is being broadcast. for the world.
Many people are interested in H.V.J., or the Vatican, but don't
Carp
It seems hardly worth while run- Catfish ring SSW at all as an experimental Coal station if it not appreciated, and Craba
know how and when to get it. it sceme a pity that foreign stations Cattle Fish
It is now on the air daily from 10 such as PCJ, which are smaller nah
to 19-30 on 19.84 metres, and from than GSW. should be better Daco
10 to 19-30 on 50.26 metres, On received than the British Dog Fish. Sundays and feast days of the because of longer transmitting. els, Conger Chutch it is on the air. from 10 to licurs and aerials specially design-
forth. I was going to shift on to really sorry when some excellent soma other station when something music took its place.
11 a.m. on 50-26 motres. Part of ed for directional effect: ► the output la always in Latin and
cunnot get Frogs Overseas listeners part in Italian, but in addition to direct reception of medium-wave Garoupa this other parts are as follows:-B.B.C. stations because of fading. Gudgeon Tuesdays, English; Wednesdays, It would not seem misplaced -Em-
Herrings Spanish; Thursdays, French; Fri pire advertising to work 6SW to days, German, and Saturdays other greater advantage so that it could languages.
he known in the Dominions as the Fifty metres as a wave-length is Empire station. As several daily about ruined for reception now-nowspapers are doing their best to adays by the Moscow Trades Hall develop an "Empire" policy, they But the other night I really might think it worthwhile helping gang. got interested in it. A gentleman to put 53W on a proper financial with an accent reminiscent of the basis Trongate, Glasgow, was holding
Fresh Water Yellam
Halibut
Labrus Leach
Lobsters
Mackeral
Monk Fish Mullet Oyater
Parrot Fial Porch
Pike
Plaice
Pomfret, White
Pomfret, Black Prawas
b
WYNDHAM STREET,
3rd floor.
he said made me pause. And then I really have to apologise to I quite enjoyed myself. For I Saigon. The other day 3 said that heard all about the ➡, capitalista, It put on some Siamese gramo- the employers and the phone records. It didn't. "........... What
Ray Royal Family and all the it did and is now doing nightly, was Rock Flab dear old stuff that I used to enjoy to put on come. Cambodian pin pad Roach. in Hyde Park of a Sunday after-muste. But Saigon is doing some almon noon about 45 years ago. It was thing I wish it wouldn't, for it is shark quite like old times, especially when now nightly endeavouring to boom grate the speaker referred to soldiers as a well-known Franch mineral water, shrimpa "hired murderers." The only which is supposed to care, various snapper thing it lacked was the interrup complaints. And this almply galen tions from an amused crowd. - Ae spolls what is otherwise a most Tazon a matter of fact it was so reminis artistic programme Siam Obser- Tazbat cent of good old times that I was ver
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Fruits.
lb. 44
#
44 26
Aiments
#
80
40
44
Applus (California)
11
45
26
30 27
10
Bananas (bride's)
森山香乐
8 IT
4
Per ret 8
Carinibola
绕
12
ib.
16 15
Coconuta
28 15 18
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# each '14
10 10
18
20
Leinone, China
16
25 80
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10
10
Leinova (American)
15 10 а
Lichees. Dried
each 13 8 #lb. 1.00
26 30
Ib. 48 30 24
36... 25
28
Orangos (Canton J
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38
Oranges
#
16
44
60
70
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Fears (Chutoa)
28
20
21.
por set 90
Peanuta
70
14. 10 12
.each. 128
7
16.12
_10_
Persimmons, Large - $ Plantain
12 28
8
46
28
25
Pume'o, Siam
Ib 26
22
齉插 each 20
12
Wainnes
18
48
20
Grapes
*#*
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30
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10
56 10
Artichokes. Beans, Sprout
Long
Best Boot Bitter Squash Brinjals, Groen
Red...
Cabbage, Chinese
#b.
Vegetables, &c.
(Shanghai)
Cane/Shoots, bunch + ||| Cauliflower (Large) ..
Carreta
(Small)
Là 1 cách Anh
54 10
17
32
28 26
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(Medium)
Celery, Chinese
Chillies, Dried
菜菜菜
紅錄
10
26
50 10
Red
10 .10
80
26
80
Green
.0 B 12
92 82: 25
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28
40. .30
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82 12 18
74
02. 24
68
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Horseradish, Shanghai
10
Lettuce
蹴生束
12
44 12 21
#
12 21
60 20 20%
46
13 2
40 12 38149. 345 80 15:
'62 16
83 29
Cucumbers
Garlic
Ginger, Young.
Ola
Indian Corn
Water Chestnuts
Mushrooms, Fresh Olcross
Oulons, Bombay
Grêm 294 Shanghaț Paraloy Potato, Bweet
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