MONDAY, APRIL
When In Hong Kong Do Not Fall to Visit THE TWO NEW STORES.
CHINA LACE CO.
61, Queen's Road, Ctl. (Opposite The Chins, Emporium)
and
17, Queen's Road, Ctl.
(Opposite A. A. U. & Asia Life Bilg.)
Manufacturers and
Exporters of China Laces,
Embroideries, Jade Ware, Ivory Ware, Pewter Ware,
Etc. Ele
INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED,
ISACK & COMPANY
JEWELLERS AND GEM MERCHANTS, WHOLESALE & RETAIL.
· LARGE · COLLECTION OF STAR SAPPHIRES and ZIRCONS. Orders and Repairs Executed, Promptly. Hong Kong Hotel Bldg. - Fedder St.
Tel. 21797.
11MAN SPRICHT DEUTSCH!!
KOMOR & KOMOR
·
York Building, Chater Road, Hong Kong. (One minute walk from the Hong Kong Hotel) THE OLDEST AND MOST RELIABLE
ART & CURIO EXPERTS
IN HONG KONG :
ESTAB. 1869.
Visitors are cordially invited to call, whether intending purchasers or not, to inspect this
WORLD-RENOWNED EXHIBITION. Goods packed, shipped and insured to all parts of the world.
KOMOR & KOMOR
TOYO MURAKAMI.
Shanghai Branch, 270 Kinngse Road.
WANG HING
JEWELLER Hong Kong's Famous Old Jewellery Store Established in 1860.
MOST REASONABLE PRICES FOR HIGHEST CLASS GOODS.
Gold and Silver Ware Manufacturer
and
JADE-STONE DEALER.
· Branch Store;
10, Queen's Ed. C.
Hong Kong
2 Gal Ring St., Canton
Tel, 11782,
Tel. 22085e
TABAQUERIA FILIPINA
THE LEADING TOBACCONIST
IN THE FAR EAST.
ALL KINDS OF CIGARS, TOBACCO, CIGARETTES AND SMOKERS REQUISITES,
Large selection
DUNHILL PIPES
26, QUEEN'S ROAD
TONG KONG
CHINA MAIL, SPECIAL TOURISTS SUPPLEMENT.
THE SCENIC BEAUTY CHINESE CURIOS
S
OF HONG KONG
ROUND THE ISLAND
BY CAR
INTERESTING SCENERY
The Art Of Buying.
TOWHERE in the world do you!
NW och entroad to make
purchases as when you are. To China especially in Hong Kong, for everything is so quaint and unusual that you feel you must take some- thing home..
Don't forget a curto is not beau- tiful because it is old, unless you know something about it you
PLENDID motor roada, excap-june rubs ones eyes and wonders if should not buy or pay an exorbi- Aber tant price for so called: "anti- tionally good, make motoring they are "seeing things,*** indeed a pleasure in this Colony, de is the most picturesque and quity which, when you take it | Everyone has heard of the beanti-charming village in the Colony, the home you will not know where to buy ful Round the Island" trip but as entire community is supported by piace it. Make it a rule to it happens, there are many ways of the nahing industry. Sampans and only at well established Arms with making it. A drive, where if trading junks fairly choke the ena good reputation for they will not attempt to trick you, as they directions are followed, will prove to tire smail harbour.
Repulse Bay
have a reputation to lose cannot offer, the most in point of Interest.
Pass on by Deep Water Bay, with adord to do so. Leaving.Hong Kong Hotel and turn-
When buying of a reputable firm ing to the left passing Battery Parkja fine nine hole Golf Course, attract on right, St. John's 'Cathedral above, tite. Club House and a sandy bath you will get a honest opinion and In a lovely setting of flowers and old ing beach,, that is prettily situated will not be asked more than the article is worth though it is pós- joak trees, on, past the Army Quar- at the base of the bills. ters, on Seven and Six Penay hill, About a mile further on easible that even the dealer him- through the Chinese Wanchai sec-ruptly turns a corner, and the whole self may be mistaken, for experts tion with Chinese Temple on the panorama of lovely Repulse Bay.lice hold varying opinions. Mr. Komer right. What greater contrast could at one's feet, the general effect acknowledged connoiseur sin be offered in a mile radius. As particularly at night is startlingly Hong Kong says frankly "I know cending the hill, on the right is the beautiful
Ashing
about
know
and
nothing" thought it is certain Mount Parish · residential district The road winds ou, passing that after dearly fifty years in with Happy Valley and is beauti-small
village and
St. floty Kong, he knows more about] fully situated race course on the Stephen's College, then the large curios than most of us. The idea left. One sees imposing, rezidences reservoirs which supply Hong that every Chinese mast on either side, some perched pre-Kong's water are reached, crossing something
curios cariously on the sheer edge of cliffs the large Tytam Dam that is 171 Chiness art is wrong,, not every View From The Peak Keet high, with a capacity of Frenchman knows what. a'good
Further on Kallons. A fine view of Kowloon with the 1,500,000
Wine is and not every Lancashire
од man is an authority Peninsula Hotel dominating, the the read branches oy to Shek O
cotton landscape and shore front catches with its fine golf course. and
goods. the eye. Great steamers and hun-bathing beaches, Cape D'Aguilar
You will find buying in a reliable dreds of shipping craft with many light house is seen in the distance. Islands dotting the sea like so many The Drive continues down to the store, or living in the best Hotel jewels is a sight long to be remem village of Shaukiwan, an old. Chin-is cheaper in the long run.
ose port, formerly a pirate lair.
bered.
The low flat promontory on the Nearing the city, we pass the Tal- coast at further end of the harbour koo Docks, and Sugar Refinery, is called the Praya East Reclama-then-through the. North Point sec- tion, all reclaimed land. Out in the lion and return to the Central dis- harbour is Dumbell Island, Chung trict. Chau, a popular resort 'during Bum-
mer season amongst Europeans, with An die Deutschen passagiere
Finally the fine bathing beach.
Peak is reached, a stop is advised to visit the Peak Hotel, and enjoy the panorama,-
bord der "Resolute."'
WO KAUFE ICH??
WOOD CARVINGS.
ONE of the most important in- dustries of China is artistic Its origin can be am Wood Carving,
traced back to the period when the structures were built of wood. and
Chinese temples, palaces, houses were decorated with the At The Water Front
TIS ist selbstverstandlich wenn most gorgeous wood-carved work. Returning to town again; and on man in China ist muss man Walls, ceilings, doors," and even through Des Voeux Road passing the etwas kaufen, nun ist die Frage: windows, showed the most beauti Chinese Department store district, wo soll ich kaufen? Die Antwort ful designs of sacred scenes, holy turning to the right on to Con- ist, im besten Laden sind wir am figures, God animals," birds, etc.. naught Road following the quay sichersten zu bekommen was wir carved by the most famous artists which fa lined with shipping craft brauchen und sind geschnetzt dass of China; and in those times even all busy loading for Chinese ports. wir nicht uebervortellt worden den a Princa or Mandarin did carving On through Kennedy Town, one of eine alte Firms muss ihre Reputa-for the love of the art. the oldest sections of Hong Kong Lion bewahren und hat alle Preise Nowadays carvings of this sort where dried fab seems to predo-auf allen Waaren gezeichnet.
are very rare, but Messrs. Komor minate.
Natuerlich kommt es vor dass man and Komor display some very fine We then pass on to West Point durch Zufall auch in irgend einen examples of carvings which date The art with many Chinese restaurants alx klenin Laden das Elne oder das back hundreds of years! to eight storeys fa height, where the Andere billig kaufen kann, doch rooms of this old-established: firm gay night life of the Chinese holds muessen wir nicht vergessen, dass are a sight of Hong Kong and if forth. Many Sing Song girls, the die ganze Welt eine Stadt ist und you can get a permit to see the inveltable adjunct of a "proper" wenn ich in Europa etwas kaufen private home of Mr. Komor in Chinese dinner. One must acquire will auch nur dort kaufs wo Ich Prince Edward Road, Kowipon, you the taste, to appreciate their aing weiss dass es eing bekannte, solide will-find-the style-of-decoration in ing and playing of stringed instru- Firma ist und wo ich mich darauf mente...
A Picturesque Village
verlassen kann, dass die Waaren die
mir angeboten werden echt sind. On through Victoria Road, skirt Dies ist umsomehr In China
黑红
ing the sea with Stonecutters sad beachten wo unser schlauer Chinese Green Island near by. At Junc ein Kuenstler in Nachahmung ist. tion of two roads go to the
left, ascending Mt. Davis Rond to
Pokfulam Road, passing an old "FLOWER STREET”
Chinese Christian cemetery : cover-
ing the hillside. On the left is a
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Chinese Cemetery with many elabor. NE of most attractive features ate graves. Each grave site, ac- of the city especially to the cording to Chinese custom must be stranger, namely "Flower Btreet," chosen with great care in accord-formerly situated at the corner of ance with the temperament at the Queen's Road and Wyndham Street, deceased,
A
has been removed to where the Passing the French Misalon and average person would never see it, down to the quaint fishing village is now situated in D'Aguilar St. the hall (see illustration) drawing of Aberdeen. These villages have Most picturesque and lovely are rooms, and dining rooms which you a novel custom of dyeing their chic-these masses of gorgeous blooms, in will mjoy and naver forget. kena. In diferent colours, so that the form of bouquets, wreaths and colours and the wonderful com their respective owners will have cut flowers, that delight the bination of carvings, on the wall no difficulty in recognizing their tourist--and is ops more testimonial and furniture is a scheme of decora respective flocks. The result to the charm of Hong Kong, The tion which has never been attempt- is a bit startling to the stranger, Chinese-vendors all so happy and ed before and would surprise the along comes a pea green contingent, obliging, tender a flower for the great Reinhard could he see the
bold design possibly a pink one across the way button hole as "cumshaw," **
CHINA HANDICRAFT COMPANY
Gloucester Building Des Voeux Road,
Manufacturers General Exporters of HAND MADE SILK AND LINEN EMBROIDERIES
DEALERS IN
OLD IVORY, JADE JEWELLERY SHAWLS, SILK UNDERWEAR,
Linen and Gra
CHINAHANDA
The
Praton Luce Ciclis
LOWEST PRICES IN HONG KONG,
Qui Business Motto
SMALL PROFITS MAKE LARGE SALES.
Always: Something New In ART EMBROIDERED TABLE LINENS
AND
LATEST MODELLED LINGERIE.
When in Hong Kong DO NOT FAIL to visit us
Be satisfied; leave us smiling. SWATOW LACE CO. LTD.
16, Pedder Street, opp. Gloucester Building. Phone 24656.
IF YOU WANT
NOVELTIES
IN..
WATCHES, JEWELLERY, ETC.,
At Reasonable Prices
or your watch well repaired
call at
J. ULLMANN & CO.,
(Established 1860)."
Chater Road, (Next to Hotel Cecil.)
Our Speciality Is
BEST QUALITY DIAMONDS.
A USEFUL and UNIQUE SOUVENIR OF HONG KONG
which every tourist should. take home for future reference
HONG KONG
DOLLAR
BEST
DOLLAR
VALUE
$
MOST UNIQUE
BOOK
DIRECTORY
1934
Your stay is so short that you cannot do all the "hopping you would like, or learn all about Hong Kong.
ON SALE AT ALL BOOKSTORES.
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