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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1950,

KOWLOON SHOPPING

VARIETY AND

ORIGINALITY

SEND OVERSEAS BY AIR

NYLONS

IN

IDOL, DEXDALE, KAYSER MOJUD, HOLEPROOF

FISHNET and MESH

From

ORIENTAL SILK STORE

03, NATHAN ROAD.

PHONE 50755.

SPECIALLY IMPORTED

For

CHRISTMAS PARCELS

XMAS PUDDING • XMAS CAKES

TINNED

MEATS

JAM

HAMS

9

❤

FRUITS AND SWEETS

BISCUITS +

• NUTS

CHOCOLATES

CHOOSE YOUR PARCEL

TAI WO COMPRADORE

WILL PACK AND SENT IT

10, Peking Road, Kowloon.

FOR YOU

THIS AUTUMN

Tel: 56391

HAIR THAT IS SOFT AND SHINING BEAUTIFULLY STYLED. TO SUIT

YOUR PERSONALITY

Consult

BETEN'S

Peninsula Hotel Arcade.

EXQUISITE

Tel. 58081.

WEBB CUT GLASS

WINE & COCKTAIL SETS BEER GLASSES & JUGS SALAD SETS - VASES ETC.

J. A. WINDSOR & CO.

'0, Hankow Road, Kowloon.

cuit..

Phone 52158.

New Shipment of Dresses Just Received

Keella

国三面

限定)

AUTUMN SHOPPING SEASON NOW OPEN

Austumn is hore and as usual it is the bost timo

for shopping. As you walk down the main thoroughfare on the mainland you will notice that shop windows have recently been ro-de- corated for autumn shopping.

New goods for this season and the winter ore al- ready on display. Goods of every description and make which have been recently unpack- ed now await your inspection and selection.. Christmas gifts have ap- brocades and silks are among

the finest obtainable here. peared in many shops.

At Tai Wo Compradore special Christmas gifts, carefully select- cil for export to England are ou clisplay in the store's spacious windows.

It is truc- Christmas still seems a long way off but why wait for the rush hour when you can pick your choicest presents at a rea- sonable price now?

Mee Kwong and Company wish to notify customers that # new consignment of electrie appliances has arrived at the well-known mainland store.

Electric kettles, which save so inuch time for housewives, are high-grade domestic elce- among trie equipment recently unpack- ecl. Others include perculators. manufactured by celebrated elec- tric appliances Inanufacturers. electric irons of the most up-to- date models, lamps and lamp- shades that will help to brighten up your homes.

A long-time, dealer in electric appliances, Mee Kwong and Com- pany wish to assure customers that everything electrical isob- tainable there.

Glamour

One of the many ways in which womenfolk obtain their glamour is through a good hair-dresser's.

Where, then, is a better hair- dresser's? Why, Beten's, of

course.

For better cutting, styling and the new L'Oriel. French cold wave, yes, Belen's is the right place.

Visit Beten's the next time you wan!

your hair to have that glamorous look and 1 am sure that with me will agree Beten's experts really know their job.

You

The other day, a friend of mine recently arrived from North China was strolling along Nathan Road with me and we walked Into North China Industries.

Being an expert on Chinese those from products, especially North China, my friend pointed out to me that the Peking gauze sold at North China Industries is one of the very few genuine Pck- Ing products he has come across during his stay in the Colony.

I know why North China In- dustries has made itself a good name here. Their Chinese fancy'

· Cut glass

nud Company J. A. Windsor

large have recently received a selection of cut glass wine sets,

Made of the best cut glass, the wine sets are among the best.

Webb Corbett's beer jug and glass, cocktail shalters and sets

are among the large selection, Silverware sets are also obtain- able.

For replacements in wine sets call at J. A. Windsor and Com- They will satisfy your

pany.

wants.

Ladios wear

for

Chenille dressing gowns ladies and children can now be obtained at Bon Ton-the name that spells magic in ladies wear, Ladies' handbags of plastic in

shades and Autumn

children's knitted wear are also sold at Bon

Ton.

News for Christmas gift parcel seekers! Glamour proudly an- nounces that they will send your Christmas parcels to Old Coun- try.

For mutual, convenlence, Glam- our further announces that the mail for home is open from today to October 20.

Place an order

for your Christmas gift parcel now with Glamour. Your gift travel to the old parcels will Country on the steamship Corfu. Better nylon stockings for longer wear are what the Orien tal Silk Store can offer --you. the with Place your orders Oriental Silk Store now before the Christmas rush hour is here.

You can

now obtain better Chinese handwork linen at the Nan Kwong Trading Company at reasonable

prices. Handker- and chieves, Peking porcelain eloisonne are among the variety handwork goods Chinese obtainable there.

Also obtainable are varieties children's hand-embroidered dresses of numerous designs.

of

of

Photographors

from

can any

know that you Do you engage photographers for social function

Mayfair Studio? Just notify the studio and a photographer will be pre-

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

FOR THE HOME

KETTLES • PERCOLATORS • IRONS TABLE LAMPS HAIR DRYERS TORCHES

ETC., ETC

GENERAL ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS RADIO REPAIRS

MEE KWONG & CO.,

192, Nathan Rd., Kowloon.

Tel: 69398

MAYFAIR STUDIO

OVERNIGHT..SERVICE

ON YOUR WAY HOME FROM BEACH DROP. YOUR FILMS INTO OUR ILLUMINATED SPECIAL BOX MAYFAIR STUDIOS WILL DEVELOP AND DELIVER TO YOUR HOME EXPERT IN PORTRAITS, DEVELOPING, PRINTING AND COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY

Chr. Haiphong & Nalban Road.

**____* Oppoelto Dairy Farm.

Tel. 58944,

sent at any social function, any- where in the Colony.

GUIDE

SHOP IN

Pago

COMFORT

SEND YOUR XMAS GIFT PARCELS TO YOUR DEAR ONES IN U.K. PAYABLE IN INSTALMENTS

GLAMOUR

SILK STORE

KAI TAK'S DEXDALE, MOJUD, IDOL & DUPONT NYLONS

HISTORY

The piece of land now mostTM ly occupied by the Colony's airport was formerly part of Kowloon Bay.

The vast streich of water was reclaimed during the early part

of 1014.

re-

ALWAYS IN STOCK

COMPARE OUR PRICES WITH ALL OTHER

MAIN STORES BEFORE YOU BUY POSTAGE & PACKING FREE FOR ALL PARCELS SENT TO U.K. BY SEA MAIL 4, Granville Road, Kowloon

nr. Blue Peter Bar, Nathan Road.

KOWLOON TOYLAND

Largest Selections: Reasonable ONE PRICED Store

Also for your information, in case the studio is closed a spe- clal lighted box on the studio's Four wealthy local Chinese in-

$1,000,000 to doors is there for you to drop.vested about your roll of film in. Just drop claim the area. These men-Ho the roll into the box with your Kal, Au Kai-ylen, Cheung Sum- Mayfair ming and Ng Ting-fang-formed On it, name written

Best & the reclamation Studlo will do the rest for you a syndicate for including sending the developed project.

Ho Kai was elected chairman film and prints to your home.

which the syndicale after the project had begun faced serious dimculties in obtaining a sufficient supply of materials due the First to the outbreak of World War.

The reclamation project had to be suspended until shortly after the end of the war.

There are a few things which are unobtainable in England, the

these things place where manufactured, and yet obtainable here in the Colony.

are

are

Glamour proudly announces that new corduroy, gaberdines and other choice materials for clothing which are unobtainable in England obtainable at Clamour.

Glamour further wishes to notify its customers that dresses and clothes of any material can be made to order in 24 hours!

Glamour, though the name suggests that it is an exclusive stord for ladies, also deals in men's wear. Men's shirts, socks, and gowns pyjamas, dressing other clothes that make a well- dressed man are obtainable there.

Food parcels

Food parcels for United King- dom

can best be had at the Cheong Hing Stores who special- ise in provisions, wines and spirits and foodstuffs.

Cheong Hing Stores also has a fresh selection of dully large vegetables and fruits,

Good news for hockey players! Hockey sticks for ladies and

of

soon

Soon three of the five planned districts of newly reclaimed Tand were added to the adjoining hilly lands (Wong Tai Hsien and Ngau districts) which were Chi Won later levelled, A wealthy

Chinese merchant named Chao Sang was said to be the first to make use of the

newly reclaimed land by erecting a residential villa.

It was due to the presence of Chao's villa that roads, power and waterlines were built into the

new district.

Soon the district had scattered tenement buildings and even a vernacular school.

As the district grew, together with other sectors on the main- extended innd, public vehicles their route into the newly re- claimed area thus aiding the quicit growth of the Kai Tak district, as it was then called.

gentlemen. have just arrived from 1. ccording to some old Kowloon

England at E. C. Fincher's.

the

Far plastic toys for boys and girls of all ages National Toy Company

mainland stronghold Mechanical -

Is

of better Loys, minded youngsters will find National Toy Company's mechanical toys just the kind they were looking forward to.

Besides toys, games for both in and outdoors are also sold

there.

A large selection of morning, afternoon and evening wear of the latest fashion and best shades are now on display at Excella,

DEFENCE PLANS

London, October 14. Mr. Leon Henderson, United States wartime Price Control Ad- ninistrator, forecast here that Canada, the United States and Britain would set up a joint body to handle defence production.

This body, composed of civi- 1lans and Chiefs of Staff, would also allocate strategic raw

materials.

residents, the arca Was named Kai Taic after two of the Chinese merchants who contri- buted so much in reclaiming the arca-He Kal and Au Tak.

Chiu Lung Tal Contractors of On Bank Building had the Wing task of reclaiming the vast Kal

Tak area,

During the Japanese occupa- fion, the area occupied by the expanded Colony's airport was considerably. Today Kat Tak airport occupies most of the land which was reclaimed in 1914.

BEATIFICATION OF NUN

Rume. October 14. Pope Pius XII will tomorrow proclaim the beatification of a French nun who died 19 years ago, Sister Anne Marie Jovouhey whem King Louis Philippe once called "a great mun" because her benevolent work needed more than the strength of an ordinary

Woman.

The Solemn beatification cere- Mr. Henderson was speaking mony in St. Peter's Basillen will yesterday at a university meet- be the seventh of this Holy Year ing-Reuter.

-Reuter.

PEKING GAUZE

IN

PASTEL SHADES

FANCY BROCADE

NEW DESIGNS COLOURS

NORTH CHINA INDUSTRIES

230, NATHAN ROAD

JUST ARRIVED

SPALDING © HOCKEY STICKS ALL ENGLAND FOR LADIES

"TOP FLITE FOR MEN

E. C. FINCHER

Salisbury Road, Kowloon,

Tel: 58:18.

TOYS

NATIONAL TOY CO.

220, NATHAN ROAD,

KOWLOON.

CHINESE HANDWORK

BEDSPREADS

TABLE LINEN. HANDKERCHIEFS

CHILDRENS FROCKS

UNDERWEAR

NAN KWANG TRADING CO.

, Chungking Arcade, Kowloon.

CHENILLE

DRESSING GOWNS

FOR

·LADIES and CHILDREN

AT

BON TON

38, Nathan Road, Kowloom.

Tel: 50539.

LAST SHIPMENT FOR U.K.

CHRISTMAS PARCELS

S.S.

OCTOBER

24

TUESDAY

BY

CORFU"

SEND YOUR ORDERS FOR

IMMEDIATE ATTENTION TO

CHEONG HING STORES

472, NATHAN ROAD,

PHONE 58180:

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