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HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

SIGHTSEEING & PICNICS

ON THE ISLAND' AND 'MAINLAND BY MOTOR

FOR HONG KONG DRIVES

BOOK CARS AT THE

HONG KONG HOTEL, PHONE 24758 & 30011

FOR KOWLOON DRIVES & NEW TERRITORIES EXCURSIONS

BOOK CARS AT THE

PENINSULA HOTEL, PHONE 56463 & 58081

Reliable Open & Closed Cars and Drivers

Fixed Rates

20 SEATER BUSES AVAILABLE BY ARRANGEMENT

THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

Cakes and ice cream are sold only at week-ends, and the sale of rice also is restricted.-Reuter. į

ANZAC SOLDIER

WANTS REVENGE

A MAN WITH an old score to settle is among

forward to the Treasury that the contingent of the Australian Imperial Force red from claiming on behalf of Who left their sunny Dominion and reached Britain his wife if he is a disabled man, a few weeks ago to complete their training.

and I am glad to say that that has been accepted."

Woman's Sacrifice

He is Private B. J. Bugden, who night at his work. He gave it up was determined to get into this to be in the war, age limit or no age limit,

war, like Private "Up to thirty-fives only," they miner, with his own prospecting Ted Weston, a Sepik river gold In the case of the three fighting told him, when he went to enlist. box on the Equator line. Services the full family allow- He got in. ance would be paid for thirteen weeks after death or presumedj

death and he had been able

to

get the shipowners to agree that where a ship was lost the pay-

ment would continue for four per cent. of that money would be refunded from

weeks. Fifty

the Exchequer.

"It's a country worth fighting His brother was a V.C, In the for," said Weston, sweeping, his 31st Battalion, killed at Pass-arm round to the farms and fields. chendaele in the last war when Worth more than all the gold I he was only twenty-one.

could ever get." Bugden, a banaha farmer, even, gold his farm on the Queensland border of New could

South Wales so that he

get at the Germans who killed his brother.

The Ministry had already pald 600 pensions to disabled mer- Stocký gold miners, husky cat- chant scamch and over 600 tle ranchers, sheep farmers, ban- pensions to widows and depen-ana growers, pearl divers

dants of

and

merchant seamen. full-blooded aborigines are among The Ministry had also paid out these Australians-he-men of the 5,300 Injury allowances, most-finest physique.

ly to A.R.P. workers and aux- illary firemen.

Private To 0.C.

He expressed the Government's Most of them are in the twen- appreciation of those pensioners ties, and most of them thought who since the war broke out had the. defence of Britain was well offered to give up their pensions worth their giving up their good as a matter of patriotic duty, jobs.

Sir Walter read a letter from Gunner-Leigh Watkins thinks a Yorkshire woman of seventy-this home is worth fighting for. four years of age, who lost her He's only twenty-one,

who from Adelaide, and earned a good|

son In the last war and

comes

offered to give up her penaton of salary for such a youngster in a For-

petrol company out there.

96, a week.

She was setting an example to When he joined up, aged twen- wealthy people which he hoped ty, his firm they would follow to the full,

£20, FOR SHOWING LIGHTS

gave him a medal Jand presented him with a silver watch. He loved his work but, he said, "I think this is much more important,"

From private to commanding officer is the record of a lieu. tenant-colonel. In the last war he was a private, Now, at the age of forty-five or so, he com- manda a battalion of men who speak of him as a "very swoll Buy," Sergeant Joe Mallster, a made for a purpose prejudicial Mount Isa, Queensland,

Fines totalling £20 were im-| posed at Eastleigh County Petty Sessions at Southampton on Mrs. Edith Rayment, of High Street, Old, Burscledon, Hants, for mak- ing signals by means of light in. such circumstances 26 to bal

et schoolmasters With grammar and puzzle their brains nonsence and learning Good liquor, I stoutly

maintain

Gives genus, a better

genuiscerning

And

(Goldsmith)

..

PILSNER LAGER

BARCLAY'S BEER

FOR PREFERENCE!

Wing On Co., Ltd. Sincere Co., Ltd. Sun Co., Ltd.

Obtainable at:-

China Emporium Ltd. French Store

Fook Cheong Tai and all loading compradore shops.

"IT'S SUCH A RELIEF

TO PHONE MY ORDERS

THESE HOT DAYS!”

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