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THURSDAY, the 3rd April, 1941 commencing at 2.30 p.m.

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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 24th MARCH, 1941, to THURSDAY, the 3rd APRIL, 1941, both days inclusive. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers, Hong Kong, 18th March, 1941.

UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD.

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with together

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cent.

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also

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and

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One Tientsin Carpet

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Two Rolls Leather Cloth

One Frigidaire.

1 Rolliflex Camera in Case

1 Agfa Camera "Karat" 8.5.

14 Rolls Films-New

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Catalogues will be issued.

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LÁMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 29th March, 1941.

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PUBLIC AUCTION

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

NOTICE

THIRD EXTRA RACE

MEETING, 1941

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 2, 1941.

BRIDGE NOTES

An Accumulation

By The Four Aces

"Please don't mention my name or town," writes a harrled reader; "but tell me what went wrong. I'm considered a good player, but North is known as a' terrible' dub. What should I have done with the South hand.

North, Dealer North-South vulneradle East-West 60 part-score

AJ 7

AQB8 4 ◊ A 5 ♣ KQ 8 8

J 10 7 3 KQJ984

+962

N AK 8 6 3

12-5

(Km)inued by The Dell Byndicate, İsta]

Bling Badle says the'd Bala wonder at the eport if it was a matter of staying on one's seat instead of one's feet.

INSTITUTE RESULTS

♡ 6

W

E

$

◊ 10 7 3 2

A374

A Q10 9 5 4 3

K & 2

06

10 3

The bidding: North

East

Bouth

Pass

Pass

10

30

Pass

3A

4-0

Dbl.

Pass

West

2 Pass Pass

that

were

Posa

for

many

Results received by the Re- gistrar, International Institute of Accountants, Incorporated, show local candidates awarded Honours in the Intermediate and. Final examinations held in De- cember, 1946. It is noteworthy that all the candidates so awarded,

except one, received their training

"Four diamonds went

a at the School of Accountancy & ride of 1,400 points; and you Commerce, Kowloor. The follow- should have heard what Northing is the list of S.A.C. passes:

Intermediate Bookkeeping 1: said about my bid-

Norman Broadbridge (Honours); ding! My opening S. E. Bux; L. T. H. Phelps; Cheung bid was unsound, Sig Kee; Yu Foo Lun. he complained, I Intermediate Bookkeeping, 11: should have passed Yu Foo Lun; L. T. H. Phelps; Yung the second round; Hin Ming. and I should have Intermediate Auditing: R. G. bid four spades L. Ng (Honours); N. Broadbridge rather than let him (Honours); E. D. Osborne; Wong - stay in four dia- Pak Wing.

HOŞET CARD WIDES

FOUR-ACER SYSTEN

ACE KING.. QUEEN 1: JACKLA

Blues We The

Races Nos. 7 and TI-monds. It was a little self-contra- Intermediate Law L. T. H.

Second Doy→→→ Coolgardie Stakes

dictory, but what should I have Phelps; S. E. Bux, done?"

and if a good hand: South had a poor hand, the soon- er North-South got out of the auction, the better.

Intermediate Law N. Broadbridge (Honours); E. D. Os- borne; Wong Pak Wing; R. G. L. Ng; Yung Hin Ming.

Final Bookkeeping : -W, S. Anderson (Honours).

Final Bookkoping 11:-L. M, da Silva (Honours); Lim Lee Seng.

Final Auditing:-Chan Pul Kai. Final Law -W. S. Anderson (Honours)..

Final Law !—L. M. da Silve 2. The Faculty of Secretaries,

England. :) Intermediate Bookkeeping: - Cheung Sik Kee (Honours); Lok King Wah.

The "opening bid was sound as a whistle Many fine players re- Attention is drawn to the con- Juse to pass such a hand in any should read as follows:-- ditions of the above races, which position; certainly any good play- er would bid it third-hand. The COOLGARDIE STAKES. Win trouble really began with North's Third bid of three diamonds. He knew ner $1,000. Second $500. $300. For Australian SUBSCRIP- there was no fit for spades and TION Ponies of 1941. Weight 142 that there would be serious trou- Ib. 1 lb. penalty for every $200 or ble if South had no fit for dia- part thereof won in stakes. Win-monds. He should have passed, ners barred. Jockey Allowance, knowing that South would rebid Entrance $5. From the Two Mile if he had Post Once Round & In (About. 1 Mile 171 Yards). Note-One Entry only will be made for the Coolgardle

But South made a psychological Stakes (Races Nos. 7 and 11). Entries will be divid-error when he bid three spades. ed into First and Second Knowing that North was a dub, he should have feared that North Sections by a Draw,

had made an unsound bid and, Ponies that are entered for

furthermore, that North might this race are barred from refuse to give up if given an Foo. entering for the Rosehill other chance. The chances are Stakes, Races Nos. 5 or 8 that three diamonds, undoubled, on the 1st Day,

would have been the final con- In the event of there be- tract; and that would have cost ing less than 21 Entries for North South only 400 points. The this race, only one section actual catastrophe was the camu will be rur.

lative effect of one unwise rebid

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

Teakwood Drawing Room, Bed Room, Dining Room and Office Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Carpet Runners, Table Cloths, Napkins,

DRAFT PROGRAMMES and Curtains, Wardrobe &Cabin Trunks, Brass Coal Scuttle & ENTRY FORMS for the THIRD Shovel, Fire Brasses, Gramo- EXTRA RACE MEETING to be phones & Records, Table Fans. held, weather permitting on SA- Heaters, EP, Brass, Glass and

TURDAY, 12th and MONDAY, Porcelain Ware, Ornaments, Filt- ers, Cooking, Stoves, Kitchen 14th April, 1941, may be obtain- Utensils, etc., etc.

also

A Quantity of Valuable Blackwood. Füthiture.

and

2 "G.E.C." Radio Sets.

1 "Century" Typewri

1 "Coropa" Portable

writer.

Type-

1 "Univex" Cine-projector and

1 Cinc-camera 8 mm:"

1 Pair Binoculars in Case.

1. Violin in Case,

t

1 "Singer" Sewing Machine,

1 Hand Sewing Machine.

1. Get Table Glass.

1. "Westinghouse? Refrigerator.

1"Kelvinator

Refrigeratör

good condition)!

On View from Thu 3rd. April, 19417

Termst Gabon De

LAMMER

Hong Kong, 2nd

ed at the Secretary's Office, Ex- change Building; the Club House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the Sports Club; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Hoad.

Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON: on THURSDAY, 3rd April, 1941., By Order

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary Hong Kong, 31st March, 1941.

Elementary Bookkeeping:-Paul Cheng (Honours); Low Wel Ming (Honours); M. T. Trinh; Alice: Lo; Yuen Wing Kin, Chan Bak Foo

Advanced Typewriting: - Lok King Wah, Wong Char Fat,

Elementary Typewriting: Alice Lo: Wong Yue Lam; Chan Bak

PLATES TO

by South and two bad, bids by, SPITFIRES

North;:'

Yesterday you were Howard Schenken's partner and, with neither side vunerable,, you held:

7:53

A 105 The bidding!

Incoly Schrnken

ANSWER: Bid two hearts. You tave much too-strong a hand to pass, and, no other bid is really satisfactory. You hate to raise freely on only a three-card trump holding, but it's the best bid available

Score 10

for two hearts, 30% 0 for any other bid:

Question No. 680

karne hand;

If the Aring

ry used smaller din-*. ner plates, the eventual saving would buy a few Spitfires for the R.A., say the people in the pot terles who make ten-and-a-half inch "crocks" for the troops

When breakages have to be re-. placed, it seems, someone pulls out of a dusty drawer an invoice dat- ed a hundred years ago, and dic- tates:

“Army, for the use of Ten thousand dinnet "plates to the Just Falkek and (pecifications

copy them from the llet wo uted in the Crimean Wit" At least that is what the people who make the pottery think.

"The Army 1s terribly conser vative and old-fashioned,” said manufacturer.

NO PETROL BACK

TO HORSES

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re (quar...)

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