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THE HONGKONG. DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAKOH 15TH, 1981

THORNYCROFT

JOHN I. THORNYCROFT & CO., LIMITED.

*SHIPBUILDERS AND ENGINEERS,

LONDON, SOUTHAMPTON

AND BADINGSTOKE,

Shanghai

Office:

10, Kiukiang

Road

15 B.H.P. 30 B.H.P. 50 B.H.P. Engines

in Stock

For quotation apply-

SHANGHAI OFFICE.

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A few sizes in Flannel Coats

Viyella Wool Gloves

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Men who are contemplating travelling to Europe or America should take advantage of these extraordinarily low prices.

16. DES VŒUX ROAD.

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CLEARANCE SALE.

To make room for new and up-to-date goods.

We are holding a large stock of Reflex Cameras and Kodaks of every description, which must be sold within 14 days. from March 10th, 1921, at a reduction of 20 per cent. cash only.

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THE PEACE MEMORIAL

SCHOLARSHIPS.

THE P. & O, MAIL. SERVICE

TO AUSTRALIA.

A correspondent writing the NC. EARLY RESUMPTION EXPECTED. Daily News says:-

The Peninsular and Oriental 'Line` ore

GOLF NOTES.

(BY ZODIAC.)

Our loëni golf humorists have made it extraordinarily difficult for me to take up

SPORT.

LAWN TENNIS.

YESTERDAY'S TOURNAMENT - PLAY.

willson beat A. D. C. Sandberg, 6-4, 6-1, Open Championship Singles-Major C.

1. "M. W. Lo beat Ng Sze-kwong, 6-1

7-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4,

1 see from the last paragraph of thei

at present building at Home in various my pen this week, for fear of giving them Trust Deed creating these valuable

shipyards several new ships.

an opening for further humour at my scholarships that the regulations concern.

The mail and passenger servies to Aus-expense. The Poem to Chloe, by E.W.H., ing them are to be sent to the load-tralia will be resumed in full on the comwa most amusing, but his insinuation masters of all British public and private pletion of the hips now being built. The

Open Championship. Doubles.-Major schools in China and Hongkong, I know mail services to India and China will also that my "notes are one long grouse, has

be resumed on a better scale now when prevented me from writing what I really Greenaway and Capt. C. Olliver boat J next to nothing of sclinuls in Hongkong the new tonnage has been released from want to this week. Our local Chari-Rodger, Jun., and G. S. Rodger, 6-2, 5-6, but it is humiliating, to have to admit the yards. "

0-1. varia" burlesqued my notes so success. that in Shanghai and North China-gene-The eight steamers taken over recentfully that more than one of my Scottish |

Club Championship.-H. W. Sassoon from H.L. Government, viz. the Pesha- rally there does not seem to be a single war, Lahore, Nagpore, Alipore, Jeypore, friends, who unfortunately lack the sense beat K. W: Lane (no score available); de British school capable of undertaking the Kidderpore, Euston and Redcar, are all in of humour, accused me of dollar grab W. Raworth bent J. S. Jennings, 4-1, 6-2, - preparation of lads up to the scholar-commission.

The refrigeration of the Peshawar.bing by repeating my remarks under 6-3. 61. ship standard-matriculation at Houg which had to be postponed owing to another som de plume! So altogether "Sngles" Handicap B."--Lieut. C. H. kong University.

labour difficulties until the ship had made I have had a most trying week and at the | Lackcom beat H. Greenwood, &-X 00. Of British schools, there is the Cathe a sound vorage, has now been completed.present moment I am sitting in my shirt Handicap Dougles.-A. H. Crook und dral School in Shanghai, where the

The large passenger and mail steamer standard reached by older pupils is far building at Messrs. Camel, Laird's yard sleeves with a wet towel round my head. A. D. Ball best Major H. M. Edwards. short of the required standard, the pupils at Birkenhead, is making slow progress, endeavouring to cause my brain to work and Major Timmis, 6-0, 6-2. T H. King themselves leaving long before the age, and it is not likely that she will be de

and C. Blaker beat J. W. Alabaster and as it has never worked before! contemplated in the Trust... The Weilivered until after the end of this year.

The five ships of the "B" class, con-

G. W. Sewell. G-0,.8-6. haiwei School, it seems, is a preparatory tracted for with Harland and Wolf for school rejecting, д.ч. a rule, pupila

Mr. A.E. Ashton qualified for the over 14. The new schon at Kuling is the Company's Australian emigrant and Captain's Cup. during the week end of carga business. are progressing. The also for young pupils as is the smal Ballarat has already been launched and 5/7 inst, with the excellent score of H. S. Crole-Recs and Mrs. Bowen-Smith, school at Peking. There is, of course, the much larger school at Chefoo, but though the majority, of its pupils are 'British it is owned by an international missionary society and is mainly concern ed with the education of children of members of the China Inland Mission. In this school, too. I um told, boys must leave before they are 17. (Candidates for the new scholarships are eligible up to the age of 101). « .

Hence

bave extraordinary situation-there is no British school in North China, and, possible, not in Hong- kong. capable of preparing candidates the very valuable scholarships that are now being put before British boys in China.

for

W

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The situation seems to point a moral. He who runs may read, and the remedy is sufficiently obvious not to require further emphasis,

REDUCTION IN WAGES

SINGAPORE.

the Hongkong dollar was high, and artisans who were remitting money there complained; a fifty per cent, increase of wages was granted. Now that the Hong. kont dollar has dropped it has been decided to take twenty per cent, off that increase, so that wages will still be thirty per cent. above the old rate,

the intention was to cut the present rate of wages by twenty to fifty per cent,

MALAKOFF RUBBER CO. THE APPROPRIATION OF THE

YEAR'S PROFIT...

is excepted to be delivered early th's00-167 net. I pressure the handicap year,

Cu

Mixed Handicap Doubles. Col. L Humphrey and Mrs. Timmis beat Rev.

6-0, 6-3.

BILLIARDS.

In the Ho Kom Tong handicap tourna“

The mail and passenger steamers the ring Committer will be on his track, Narkunda and Naldera which have if they have not already been. 'already called as Colombo, have made Yoyage to Bombay and Australia, and Everyone is praising the Greens Comment. at the Palace Hotel, yesterday, R... have proved very popular ships.

The Assaye now remains under full remitter for top dressing the greens at Thomus (175) beat T. B. Golding. quisition to the Government. This vessel Fanling with sand. It has made the game (-300). Seores:-2350-02, respectively. has now been over six consecutive years 20 per cent, more enjoyable; but I trust E. Guimaraes -200) bent W. E. in Government service,

The Morea. Malwa, Mantua. China" and they will bear in mind that one covering Wilson (~30). Caledonia have all been refitted after of sand is not going to make the greens pectively. their lengthy war service and are again what they should be. They will be wise in commission. The Egypt and Mace-

been sold.

nice

Sentes:-230-140,

s

To-day's match:-E. Guimuravs v. J. B.

donia are being refitted. but the Isis has if they put another covering on when the Wilson.

courses are closed. Although the sand The Ballarat, Balranald. Baradine,makes putting easier, this is not the Barrabool, and the Bendigo, vessels of

GIGANTIC CARGO THIEVING 13.800 tons, are being built for the Aus premier idea; it is to give tralia. vi Cape, service, The Maloje, springy" bottom to the turf and to SPECIAL DETECTIVES ENGAGED... Mirzapore (8,500), Moldavia and Mongolia make the grass finer. which in time will (15,600), and Mooltan are being built for be the means of creating good greens on

Lord Inchenpa's letter to the news the other service vid Colombo."

which one can putt with confidence with-

Unfortunately Papers concerning the great depression The Maloja and Mooltan are vessels out the aid of the sand. IN of 20.700 tons, and will be the biggest there is no such thing as turf at Funling, in shipping business, in which he assert- P. & O. steamers to call at Colombo, and so it must be made; there is only ed that the thieving that went on at the while they will rank second to the one way to make it and that is by top sea docks was beyond anything in his dressing the whole course with turf and We are informed (says the Straits | Amerika.-Times"of Ceylon,

sand. It is an expensive item, but if tory, has revived attention to the serious. Times) that the Singapore Harbourt

the committee adopt the penny-wise pilfering of overseas cargoes, which · is Board and the engineering arms of the

pound-foolish principle the club will estimated to cause a loss in London of P. & O. STEWARDS.

always have heavy expenses to bear. An town have resolved to make a reduction

long as Hongkong is a British Colony over £3,000,000 yearly. A representative in the present rate of wages paid to REPLY TO LORD INCHCAPE.

the Golf Club is assured of a large mem of the Australian Press Association has... labour, other than clerical, from the 13th Inst. Some time ago, when the value at i Waiting to the Times of the Sist Jan-bership, and the committee should have been informed by ship-owners in the Aus- uary, "Purser says: A letter appeats inno, qualms about spending money as long tralian trade that the losses through as it is spent on the improvement of thieving frequently amount to £2,000 per your issue of the 9th instant, signed by the courses.

ship per voyage. One compasy recently Lord Inchcane, in which he deprecates

136 shown puudering losses at the rate. the condition into which the stowards of

The committee are arranging a proof £950,000. per anntun, and owners are the ships have now fallen, so far as con.. cerns their work, honesty, wages, ate. gramras for the Easter meeting, but so unable to allocate the chief leakage bo- truly lamentable picture ofar no details are available for publien. tween the shipping houses, packers, rail- He draws

ways, British dockers and Australian There is almost certain to be a the present state of affairs at sea. Oas toa.

They point out that has been wrongly stated elsewhere that whilst he was writing his exposition of the days over the new course, and I hopo pilfering by the crews is negligible, and

cannot help. wondering if his lordship, mixed foursome competition on one of hari labourers. the present crisis, pondered for a mo- this early warning will give ample time can be easily distinguished from the ex- ment as to the why and the wherefore of for would-be competitors to find partners. Pert methods used by thieves prior to the present deplorable conditions if to Too many ladies fight aby of competitions, pilfered cases cannot be detected.

shipment of goods, by which repacked did he would not have far to seek for an which is a great pity. Competitions tend answer to the problem, for British ship to improve the standard of golf. This beavy claims on account of stolen cargo, London ship-owners, in view of the owner and ship managers have themselves reminds me that for the last qualifying recently established, at a cost of £35,000. to thank for the present rotten state of round for the lady Captain's Cup, there per annum a special force of plain affairs. Will you allow the writer who were. I believe, only two returns, Mrs. clothes police to work on the London has served 40 years at sea-to say a word Winslow's being the best. The next docks. The members of this force belong on behalf of the much-maligned stewards qualifying round is on March 29th over to the port police, but ship owners pay, In the passenger vessels of the P. & the old course at Fanling, and it is to be the entire cost of their special work Company the stewards commenced work hoped that the ladies will show moreaboard ship. at b o'clock in the morning and with a enthusiasm than heretofore. full complement of passengers did not

Mr. II. Gosling, president of the Trans- port Workers' Federation, approved the finish work until 9 or 10 p.m.-17 hours work per day-if they obtained an hour's Ladies can only obtain a handicap by claring that the union welcomed any pro- scheme prior to its inauguration, de- rest in the afternoon they were lucky, returning three cards over the old course ject to remove the stigma of wholesale For the greater part of the voyage the at Fanling. This is where the Ladies' vessel was in the tropics, and the misery Committee have made a great mistake. thieving from the docks.

The force is not expected begin to of stoward's life during a hot passago The standard of ladies' golf in the Colony show results immediately, but already down the Red Sea beggars description, is poor and the majority are beginners, increasing prosecutions for cargo pilfer For this 17 hours work, a day's a steward who find the old course too long and tiring are being laid, promising auccess. was paid about £3 per month and boys ing; also many of them only visit Fanling The dockers have raised no dificulties 10s. The writer in all his experience has on Sundays, when they are not permitted never met more decent, law abiding, to play over the old course, Consequently the overseas committee has adopted a are gratified that honester, or more able men at their work they will not try to obtain a handicap, similar scheme at Australian ports. than these stewards of London vessels of and the numbers entering for competi

At the Old Bailey police court, a steve- 10 or 15 years ago. The accommodation tions will continue to be small. To obtain dore was sentenced to twelve months' im- for these men was wretched in the ex-

a handicap under the Ladies' Golf Union prisonment, with hard labour for_pilfer- treme--although up to Board of Trade regulations it is necessary to play over ing from a Cunard liner in the Thames. requirements they were berthed in the lower forepeak of the ship, a place that the old course as this is the only one for Two ship's firemen were sentenced to four- which the L.G.U. have assessed the months and a third to six months' im- could not possibly be used for any other scratch score, which incidentally is 78. prisonment on a charge of receiving. It purpose; it was ill ventilated stuffy is There are very few ladies in the Colony is stated that the Cunard company's no name for the atmosphere-and was who wish to have a L.G.U. handicap, as losses through pilferage on the Black The Compagnie de Commerce et de known as the "Glory Hole"; one corit is no use to them out here, and I-am Sea service during the last twelve months.."

tainly would not koop a d or even a Navigation d'Extreme Orient, of Saigon, parrot in it, but still it was good enough for returns on the new course, and all

sure that if local handicaps were given have been over 220,000. in their report dated March 1st, state for stewards. Had man in Lord Inch-

There is no change to report in our cape's position been a little broad-mind. ladies' competitions were held on this market since our last letter. Except with a little of the milk of human kind which is what is wanted.

ed, possessed some foresight, coupled course, there would be many more entries, Few thousand tons of rice sold to Japanese and a small amount of human sym and Europe, and some lots to the Philippathy for their employés, the probability. I called attention in my last paragraph old course at Fanling, on March 22nd. pines, there is no important transaction is that the present wretched conditions to the poor standard of ladies' golf in Mention of Miss Healing's name calls to to mention. Prices are about the same, would never have arisen, or would, any Hongkong, but the men's is very little my mind the fact, that her name already with a downward tendency.

how, "have been postponed for a consider.. The total amount of rice exported from able time. In the hunt for big dividends better. By this I do not mean that we appears on the board in the Ladies' Club- January 1st to February 28th in 181,438 the human element was cast aside are no good players, but, considering house, as winner of the Championship, tons against 153,737 tons in 1920.

Twas over thus." Now the stewards

the large number of members, the per- but I have not yet seen Mr. R. L. D.

The eleventh report of the directors in the shareholders in the Malakoff Rabber Company for the year ended December 31st. 1920, states that the net profit for the year, after making full provisions for for income-tax of depreciation, and 817,170.32, amounted to $137,063.16. to which has to be added 841.097.49 brought forward from last account, making a total of $168 000.68, and that na interim divid end of 5 per cent. absorbing $30,000, was paid in September last, leaving a balance of $118.000.58 available for distribution. The directors, recommend that this summ be appropriated in the following manner ; Tramfer to general, reserve account 850,000.", transfer to depreciation on in- vestments account $22.500. carried, for ward to next necount $45.500.39. »

SAIGON RICH MARKET..

We quote to-day-White Saigon rice, No. sifted, Japan quality, Hongkong 84.40 per pioul fo.b. Saigon for March shipment.

Australian owners

The Cup presented by Miss Healing for competition amongst the ladies, will be played for against Bogey over the

are getting a bit back, and can one centage of bad playera in very pro Wodehouse's nains in the Men's Club- wonder if they do so? The officers and nounced. This, of course, is due to a buse as winner of the Men's Champion engineers of the vessels were in like man great extent to the fact that there is no ship! per driven into unions, and received no professional available to give lessons.

"There is one thing I would like to bring consideration until they struck. If they On the other hand there are two Chinese had not struck the chief officer would still boys" in the enddy master's shop at to the committee's notice about the tifin bon bloated aristocrat on 210 per month, Happy Valley whose talent is not utilised list, which is put up in the Hongkong and the chief cagiacer ditto on £20.

There is only one column, and to any appreciable extent. Both boys Olub. have a good style and are capable of this I take it in for tiffins required in the 、་: '.

teaching. It would be a great asset Men's Club-house, so if the catering the committee announced this fact, atat department wish to know the exact num ing the charges for lessons, also when her required in each Club-house, it would and where lessons can be given.

he convenient, for married men, at least, if there were two columns on the list.

"

REALLY GOOD SPECTACLES are such a comfort to tired or strained eyes that their value cannot be over-estimated. If your

INDIAN COAL SITUATION. eyes need glasses, they should have the best you

Replying to a question in the Legis can get. That means (1) careful and expert lativo Assembly at Delhi on February

17th, Sir George Barnes said that, owing I have often wondered why Golf Clubs examination; (2) precision in the making; (3) to the comparative cheapness of Indian do not have a large looking glass in some Here is a hint for players who are adjustment to a nicely (4) the best of materials. coal and the difficulty of obtaining sup where members could practice and at the Draw a broad arrow in the mind's eye, secluded spot adjacent the Club-house, slicing" or " pulling 1 their shots.. plies at foreign parts, steamers leaving All the above, the Hongkong Optical Co., Indian parts during the last few months same time see themselves as other set on the ground, facing the direction the Succeisoen to Clark & Co, Manufacturing & of last year were bunkered more liberally them. Why shouldn't the R.H.K. Golf ball is desired to travel. With the ball Refra, Ling opticians, the most competent optical than formerly. They bunkered right up Club he enterprising and give it a tri resting on the point of the errow, take to the port of final destination and some It is an excellent way of detecting one's

Arrow and when bringing the club establishment in Suth China, located in 60 times for a part of the return journey. At mistakes. I doubt not that some players & stance parallel to the shaft of the the end of last year it became known that would receive a great shock if they per through, follow this line with the hands- Queen's Rod Central, offer you. Testing the the demand for coat in India exceeded the formed in front of the glass as they do until the ball is struck. If the bands sight and fitting, glassos in their exclusivo available supplies and as one method of on the links: but it would be to their follow the line of the near arrow & pull

"will" result, if the far arrow then a slice. reducing pressure on the coal supplies it benefit! Lurines ADIT.

was decided to restrict the bunkers.

will result.

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