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THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED

Notice To Shareholders

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

COMMISSIONERS

POWERS ORDINANCE,

1885

Proclamation No. 6.

of 1941.

It is hereby notifled for general

matters

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information that the Commission appointed to inquire into certain

connected with

the Architectural Branch of the Air Raid Precautions Department will resume their sittings in private THURSDAY, August 21st, 1941, at the Pulsne Judge's Cham- bers, Supreme Court, and all per- sons wishing to testify before the said Commissioners are request- ed to give written notice to the undersigned at the Colonial Secre- iary's Office by the earliest-pos- sible date.

K. M. A. BARNETT, Secretary to the Commissioners.

Hong Kong, 15th August, 1941.

St. Stephen's College,

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The new School Year begins on September 1st, both for the Mid- dle School and the Preparatory School. Entrance examination for New Students (Middle School) on August 30th., at 9 a.m.

NOTICE is hereby given that For prospectus, apply to M. S. an Interim Dividend of $1.00 per] FUNG. Esq., ur P. L. CHAN, Esq., Share has been declared for the c/o Messrs. Harry, Wicking, half year ended 30th June, 1941, Prince's Building. (Tel. 30241) or payable on MONDAY, 25th to

the WARDEN, St. Stephen's AUGUST, 1941, on which date College, Stanley. Dividend Warrants may be ob- tained on application at the Office of the Company, Kowloon.

The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from SATURDAY, 16th AUGUST, 1941, to MONDAY, 25th AUGUST, 1941, both days Inclusive.

By Order of Directors.

PUBLIC AUCTION

The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public

the Board of Auction on

C. M. MANNERS,

Secretary & Manager. Hong Kong, 11th August, 1941.

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SATURDAY, 16th. August, 1941. commencing at 11.00 a.m. at their Sales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road, Central, 2nd. Floor.

540 Pairs Boots 193 Caps

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MASSED BAND CONCERT

in aid of

BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR FUND

The Massed Bands of The Royal Scots and of The Middlesex Regiments will give a Concert in aid of the above Fund on the ground of the Hong Kong Cricket Club at 9:30 pm. on SATURDAY, 23rd August.

Everyone attending is asked to buy a pro- gramme with badge from the Lady Programme Sellers either on the ground or beforehand.

Tables may be reserved at a charge of $1.00 per person on application and payment to the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. I. E. Roberts, Messrs. Thomson & Co., Hong Kong Bank Building.

Refreshments, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, will be served throughout the Concert, the pro- ceeds of which will go almost entirely to the Fund

and so

Gather your friends and come and

enjoy a good evening

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help a good cause.

HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB GROUND

SATURDAY, 23rd AUGUST, 1941.

BRIDGE NOTES

| TOO MUCH DOUBLING

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 16, 1941.

INVENTORS PROVE

OLD ADAGE

THE. QUESTION, “What makes an inventor invent," was answered in New York by men and women exhibiting their gadgets and mechanisms at the Inventors of America Congress

By The Four Aces North over bid his hand terri- fically because hisparther was While buzzers buzzed, wheels whirled lights very conservative, but credit for the making of the slam should be blinked a motion picture machine chattered and given partly to South for his ex- cellent play and partly to the interested throngs milled through the grand ball opponents for their very informa-room turned laboratory," several inventors took live doubling.

time out to explain how and why they were in the Business

North, Doaler. Both sides vulnerable

NORTH

A A 10 6 3

6 3

OK 10 7 6 AB 3

WEST

A QJ 5 4 2

1 7 4 2

FAST A 7 ♡ 5

◊ J

#3 74

0 Q 9 8 5

4 3

Q10 9 6 2

SOUTH AK 98

AKQ 10 9 8 A 2 K 6

The biddag:

North

East

14

Рива

South

3♡

4&

Dbl.

40

60

Dbl.

B

Pars Рана

Pass Pana

Redbl.

West

Pass Pass Dbi Pass

West opened the seven of clubs, and South took stock. Evidently

East had doubled HIGH CARD VALUES

because of length OF HE

in the minor suits; FOUR-ACKS SYSTEN

and West must ACE

have doubled be- KING: 23 cause of a trump QUEEN:13 trick and strength HACKIN

in spades. With this analysis the best line of play was quité clear. South won the opening lead with the club King and laid down the three

dummy. top "trumps,

Next he parting with a spade. led a low club to the dummy and ruffed a club in his own hand. Then came the Ace of diamonds and a low diamond towards dum- my. West could have made things very easy for South by ruffing, but he properly discarded, and dummy won with the dia- mond King.

A low diamond was returned from the dummy, South ruffed, and West again discarded a low spade. South then led his last trump, forcing West into the lead. Since West's distribution counted out easily, South knew that East had only a singleton spade; and therefore any lead West made his side the was bound to cost spade trick that they would other- wise have made.

*

*

Howard with'

Yesterday

you were Schenken's partner and, both sides vulnerable, you held:

JT

733

The bidding: Jooby

PAKN Pass

Schenkam Dbl. 20

Malar

Püss Fass 3 Page (1)

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ANSWER: "Big four diamonds. Your partner must be trying for a slam, and you should both en- courage and inform him: Since he is probably vold of clubs. (if the opening bid was-sound) you; will do better to show Aces than to use the Blackwood (convention. ✅Score 100% for four diamonds, (80%; for four no-trump, 50% for four hearts,y 20% for four spades.

Question No. 796

you hold

same and the bidding epälinues:

BZAVA

DEL

Monday:)

(Released by The Bell Syndicate,

•

For William Olsen; on whose York bank,, he saw the hazards, display table lay a dozen devices both to Housewives and clothes, with half a hundred others dia of drying the wash on the roof or grammed, but not modeled, it was far out the window. He went to case of "necessity being the work, and his folding-up clothes- mother of invention"-other peo-dryer was the result.

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Women, too. have perfected useful articles because they saw a

ple's necessity. Mr. Olsen, born in Denmark, is superintendent of a mid-town apartment building. As such, he is summoned when win need for them. The women, for dows stick, faucets won't work instance, who designed the Daphne and other mechanics of city home-bed rest - a pillow for reading life go wrong.

Necessity The Mother

These difficulties, Mr. Olsen said, gave him ideas. When a tenant found it hard to open a window from the top, Mr. Olsen built a pulley-and-rope device by which the upper window may be raised or lowered without resort- ing to chair-ladder or pole. Now he has patented the idea.

in bed-was a nurse who through long experience realised that the usual collapsible" pillows and hard wooden' rests could be im- proved upon. She perfected a tri- angular-shaped pillow which props up beautfully and, built of rubber and hair, is light and thoroughly restful for sitting up in

bed.

For many an inventor, linker- ing with gadgets is an avocation, a hobby pursued with fidelity and ! When windows stuck, Mr. Olsen far into the night when the day's first resorted to applying soap.

work is done; for others, invent- Both This dried too quickly. Then he ing is a chosen profession. perfected a

grease preparation types are well represented at the that doesn't dry. A manufac-Inventors of America "gadgeteria" turer is

headed by Albert Burns, marketing this to-day.

sident. These are two of 100 inventions which he has listed, ranging from à "lady-finger shaper" to a dough- nut machine for the home.

The best way to invent la to bullä It simple,” Mr. Olsen' cald. “When I started to build') the window-lowerër In my workshop T began with cranke and wfidels and 'more' complica- tlone. Gradually 1 discarded this and that and ended up with this rope and pulley.”

Also Profited By Experience

Max Kalks, inventor of a "safety clothes dryer" which anybody can hang outside his or her window and dry a whole washing on, is another who profited by his work- time experiences. As a former in- spector of buildings for a New

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