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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY. LTD.

Tel. Central 196

Queen's Buildings.

SOLE AGENTS FOR

BELL'S UNITED ASBESTOS CO. LTD.. MANUFACTURERS OF

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, MAF HTH, 1924

QUEEN'S THEATRE

PLEASURE HOUSE DE LUXE

Commencing MAY 13th to 15th,

MISS GENEVIEVE FELIX THE LADY OF MONSOREAU

in 7 parts.

Beautiful Colour Photo play adapted from the

French Novel by Alexander Dumas,

ALSO

at 5.15 and 9.15 p.m.

Charming Dancing Entertainment

BY

THE OLYMPIA FOLLIES”"

THE LAST TWO DAYS.

ADMISSION:

5.15 & 9.15 p.m.

BOX (to hold: 6 Persons) $15.00 BOX (to hold

DRESS CIRCLE MA

STALLS

***

2nd CLASS

.2.00"

2.30 & 7.15 pm

Parsons)

$7.20 .80

.50

.30

DRESS CIKCLE

1.50 | STALLS:

80 2nd CLASS 5

Picture shows on THURSDAY, MAY 15th. USUAL PRICES.

M.

BOOKING. AT THE THEATRE

Y. SAN & CO., LTD.

PRESERVER CANCE SELECTED

© BEST YOZING SIEM CINDERS

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KR

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READ OFFICE: No. 93 to 100 Queen's Road: Central FACTORY: Canton Road, Kowloon

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Perfectos

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Bankers

100's $10.75 27's 8.90 25's £50 25's 6.50 25's 7.25

TABAQUERIA FILIPINA,

38, Queen's Roai Central

The CITROEN.

The Last Word in Car-Economy RUNNING COSTS LOWER

Less Tyros

Los 011

Winner, 3 years running 1990-11-12. Grand Prix for Low Conemption.

Cars for Sale:

LEPACK CO., LTD.-

60-52, Queen's Rd. G.

THE CANTON SHPPING STRIKE

THE GOVERNMENT'S

REASON

VOICE KILLING PIANO.

OVERRATED INSTRUMENT.

The piano is the curse of modera Vocul muttie, said Sir Richard Terry in an interview with the Burning Standard.

The whole thing is a compromise. Its intervals are not in tune Choirs accustomed to sing to the accompaniment. of a keyed instrument never get a true intonation. Any ordinary choir accus tomed to singing unaccompanied never get out of tune.

* FOR THE WAR TAXES

The strike of the transport firms in the Canton Delta against a levy of SU PET vent on freight and passenger rated, which began on May stir continues

Aside from the overal hundred steam Isumebes doing tag service and the scores of sik, rice, salt, and other freight junks, says the Canton centig Sw, nearly a hundred mixed junks-plying between the prinsipal inland towns and Canton are now idle. This means that hundreds of towns and small cities are now ent of Irean communication with Canton: Thesenise is again, however, comin mixed freight and passenger junk are its own, and is no longer the Cinderella coming into owned by about 73 individuals or com of the art The reason why the piano panies

in my opinion lacks real tune is beväpse the wolf had to be avoided. The wolf is the discordant avise which is always obtained from any keyed instrument which is tuned perfectly,

losie has heen divorced from litera ture and art in this countryway back. in the sixteenth century our people made their own music. They alid–1 concerts then

not go to

They demand the repeal of the tax, but the Government is representing that it needs the money to organise a move mont far, the suppression" of piracy on the rivers, and the lanach and junk owd-k. At the same time. It must be real- ers would thereby be saved the suns thesed that we cannot do without the piano now pay to pirate organisations for in but while admitting that fact, it should munity. River craft gwners apparently, be realised by everybody that the piano have no confidence in the Government not the perfect instrument: that” se

7

promlacs in this respect, having regarding families Imagine, It

admit that

to the obvious need a large funds to carry On the other hand, I will on the military operations now in progress the piano played by a genius can be in the East River ragion

wonderful, hut, on the other hand-the least said the better.

An item of news in a Canton contem porary read ? * Very few piracy cases were reported in Canton last week, prab ably owing to the shipping striker during which no important junk service has taken place.

OTHER NEW TAXES.

During the last fortnight taxes, have been imposed on the manufacture and sale of patent medicines; an the sale of cosmetics and other toilet articles and

PREPAID WANTED”

ADVERTISEMENTS

Letters are Jymy at this Office for

Botes-YI

ATNED A Good HOME for 3 Small

fees have been levied for holding reliW KITTENS Black-and I Tabby-

gious festival, and for wedding or funeral

processions. License fees for sedan chairs Apply S.P.0.A., 367, Tux PEAK and registration fees for chair bearing coolies base also been announced.

WAGES IN JAPAN. According to statistics, prepared by the Japanese Social Affairs Bureau, the aver ngo wage paff in Japan to-day 35. Yen 1.55 per day. Men are earning a dail wage of Y1.79, while women are paid at the rate of 10.89.3. 9

Classified according to kinds, the statis- tics show that the highest wages are paid f to employers in electrical and gaa" works (Yen 25); mechanics earn on the aver age about 50 sen less per day while dyers are paid at the daily rate of Yen 1.00.

Wages in the Tokyo area are higher than anywhere else, averaging about Ten 165, and in north-western Japan they fall as low as Yen 1.15 In Osaka ald neighbourhood the average rules at about Yen 1.70-

The same Bureau has issued

statistics

of working hours, showing that in some trades employes are called upon to do fifteen hours per day, and that the neer- age length of the working day is 10are -20mias

The number of working days per month- a on the average twenty-seven, but in mining districts one more..-Beyttre

A BIG

COMMERCIAL

FLYING-BOAT.

While Squadron Lender MacLaren was heading off from Calshott for the coast of France another interesting event waa taking place an Southampton Waters This was a trial fight of the sew type of Jarge twin-engined commercial amphibian designed and built by the Sapermarine Aviation Works, Ltd., Southampton: It took all quite successfully and climbed | straight away to a height of 2,000££

The hull is of the recognised super- marine construction, circular in section, and so built that it is comparatively flex ible and is, so to speak, a circular spring If the boat strikes the water hard tha give of the hull, which is called “" pant ing. absorbs the shock and prevents damage. In sind aeroplane this fine tion is performed by the elastic rope with which the wheels "are attached to the under-carringe In many types of flying boat. including the Tulture, the hall is rigid and no provision for shock absorp- tion is made. The same is the case with Boat seaplane Ther the pilot must get the craft down on the water without andue shock, but supermariné practice | provider mechanical aid to human skill... The new boat. is designed to take 14 passengers in the cabin and is driven by two Rolls-Royce 300-kp. Eagle engines. - The craft provides a curious sight for passengers crossing the River Itchen by the floating bridge, for the roof of the bin makes a camel-like hump on the back of the hull, and the long thick struts of the landing wheels have an un “usual," "appenzaoce. It is the only twini engined; amphibian yet built.

HONGKONG SHARE MARKET CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

May Idrus, 1924. Hongkong and Shangin

Canson Inauralines 720 Dulon

View Insurances 340 h

Langkis (Combined). Tb. 25Į m

Wharve

Docks 3140 Docks

Laudy

$17) (new) 3174 (oldyb. ?.

Two Lotton Mille Cements.$20) (old) 54 (pox) b Hongkong Rap (

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China Lights (new) $16

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Simplest and most trouble-free type of motor ever invented.

It has the most distinctive and gracefully balanced body of an

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The Willys-Knight car is the four cylinder molored car that makes the six

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The Knight motor is utcam principle. The valves are two cylindrical stews with rectangular slots or posta which when they register with each other and the ports in the block allow the ingress and egress of the gasas without abstraction. These wille open pasanges, particularly on the exhaust side, permit more thorough cleaning of the burnt gases from the combustion chamber than any other type of motor, so that every ounce of energy available in utilized from the explosive mixture, which gives us such tremendous power

-It has no valve to grind and no carbon to clean.

combustion chamber is completely surrounded by water and an alloy piston notel for its great radiating qualities is used ko neither the corabustion chamber nor the head of the piston gets hot enough to bake the residue from the exposed gases to form carbon while there is still enough heat matained to handia the explosive mixture effectively

1-It is the only type of motor that improves with use.

While carton can not form in the combustion chamber, still a certain amount of the resulue from the barat. gaacs works up behind the wide scaling ring n the cylinder head mod, as this building in process obtains, it keeps pashing this scaling my more tightly against the inner sleeve until it completely seals the compression chamber. developing more power with every role, the motor is drawn.

-It is the only type of motor that wears in while other wears out.

All parts in the Willys-Knight car are abled with wide clearance between each other and off is forced into these clearances under heavy pressure so that the entire assembly is lapping or wearing in on these heavy flms of all instind of wearing out. In other words, every bearing in this motor is an oil bring instead of a metal io melak, baring which is necessary in the construction of s poppet valve motor is entor to keep it quiat with watequeut quick wear and boise."-

It has eliminated one hundred and sixty two quick wearing parts necessary in the operation of a cylindered poppet rare factor. There are no hammering parts such as catus, siriking against pash rods, push rods against valve stema, or valve hende snapping back into their seats through the mixliam of heavy springs, etc.

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