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No. 21,645 ER#GAXY BOVACK¶T HONG KONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24th, 1927. BAR BO#ACHTLUSAAFFEX PRICE 1 & PER MONTH

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

WEEKS DAYS..

4.3. AIMS || {A, AJ

PMTM. P.M. (P.M. ! TM.. [2.1

Kowloon Dep. 8,40 8.05 9.10 10.00 12.00 1.182.35 3.00 4,85 5,49 7.15

9.20 10.07 12.07 1,29 -

9.83 10.19 1210184-

Tanmati...Dep. 6,49

Shatin ...Dep. 7.01

Talpa

Dep 7.15

9.43 10.33 19.92 -1.47

720

Thipo Market Dağ, Fanling

-

9.53 10.36 12.88 1,51- Dep

7,50

10.03 1046 12,40 2,01-

·Shaungshzí „Dep. 7,251, # 10.10 3051 1261 2.06814 Shamcha Arr. 7,41 845) 10.15-10.67 12.57 2.123.20 3.40 Canton

11.30 6.38

(AM) AM | JAM A.M.

Canton ...Dap.

6.05 Bhumahan...Dep. 7.18 8.05 10,3411.09 Shaungahsi Dep. 1.25 8,12, 10.41 Taaling

Dep. 7.30 8.18 10.45 10.55 Tipo Market Dep. 7,40 8.26

...Dep. 7.4831 11.00 Bhatin Dop 7.57 8,44.21.18 Taumati... Dep. $.11 8.66 11.26 Kowloon

A. 6.17

9,03 11.31 11.49

4.48) 5,607,28 4.54 8.04 7.35 8.07 8,15 7.49 5.116.197.5%? 5.31 6.30 8.08 5.96 6.36 9.07 8.39 6,41 S.12

1.MG F.K. FM FM... X.

8.90 11,372,08 4.47 5.49 624 6.46. 653 11.448,05 4,48 5.56 11.49 8.10 4.59| 6,00

12.00 891 5.02 B

12.05 8.25 8.07

12.198,39 5.30 6.28

12.31 8,51 6.32 6.40

12.37 5.57 5.88 8.44 7.04 7.29

Our London Letter.

A LEAP YEAR SUGGESTION.

EMPIRE TRADE MOVEMENT.

PROPOSAL CATCHES ON " IN AUSTRALIA:

IMPROVEMENTS IN PICCADILLY.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. }

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́ ́PAY AS YOU GO

SLOGAN

AMERICAN METHODS.

HIRE PURCHASE FOR EVERYTHING.

EVEN JEWELLERY.

"Hire-purchase-buying goods by the instalment plan has become one of the chief motive powers of retail business judging by a remark able analysis of this "Pay as you go" system, published in the montbly issue of the Westminster Rank Review.

DIARY OF EVENTS.

Today.

Interport Cricket: Shanghai v. Malaya, H.EC.C. ground (second day).

Interport Rife Shoot practice, Taikoo Range, 2 pm

Trade Revival Conference, Gón- eral Chamber of Commerce, 4p.m Garrison Football League: RAQC. » HQ and K.O.S.B.; HQ, 1st K.O.S.B. v. R.A., Sookun- poe, 4.13 p.m.

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy,

4.30 p.m.; Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-6.30 p.m.; Cafe Regent, 4.30-6.30 p.m. Musicale Helena May Institute (Romanticist Music"), 5.30 p.m. 'Steel and Coulson's Billard League: D.R.C.v. Queen's

War ders e. Police.

After dinner dance, at Lee Gar-

Retail sales financed in America by instalments total £1,200,000,000 | dens. in a single year..

Cafe Regent dinner dance, 8.p.m. The instalment debt" at any H. Amateur Dramatic Club given.moment in the United States present "Bulldog Drummond,"

LONDON, October 20th.

The United States is taken by the Next year will be Leap Year, and Review as the chief home of hire in this connection an original sugpurchase, and the following figures gestion has been made which has

are quoted attracted a good deal of interest both here and in Australia. It emanates from the promoters of the All-British Trade Exhibition which is to be held in Melbourne from February 23rd to April 10th. This period covers February 20th, and the exhibition authorities have call- ATM Ned onAustraliana throughout the 8.05 8.30 9.04 9.10 10,00 12.00 2.94 3,00 5.1817,15 9,20 10.07 12.07 2.81 5.967.93 9.33 10.19 1219 2,435.83 7.95 3.52748 9.48 10.91 12.33 2.56

SUNDAYS: AND PUBLIO HOLIDAYS.

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4,307

· ANC,

Kowloon ...Dep. 6,40 Teamati...Dep. 6.69

* Dep 7,01 Dap. 7.13

Табро Taipo Market Dep. 7.50 Fanling

..Dep.,i 7,30

Bhaungahul..Dop, 2.35

Shum Chaz Arr, 7,41 Canton ATT.

Canton

Sham Chan..

9.53 10.36 12.38 3,00 5.36 7.59 10.05 10.46 19.4813.10 6.07 8.02 8,19 8.07 9.07 9.41 10,10 10,51 19.518.18| 8.45 0.13 9.47 10.16 10 57 12.57 3.21 3.40 0.18 8,18 11.50

5.38

6.47-

A

AN. A,M, F.X,

2:05

F..

8,05 10.94 11.09 11.37

2.68

5.00 5.84 5.50

11.44 3,05

5.07 5.41

8,03

11,40

8,10

6,11

6.07

12,00

8.91

·6.21

4,17

19.06

8.28 6.95

0.31

6.46

Bhaunguhai..Dep. 8.1 10.41 Taling ...Dep. 8.16 10,48 Taipomarket Dep. 8.96 10,58 Taipo Dep. 8.81 11.00 Bhatia

Dep. 8.45 11.18

Yaumati

8.51 5,50

12.19 8.39 6.38 .12.31 9.09 11.81 11.49 19.87 8.37

Dep 8.67 11.95

Kowloon ...Arr.

• FIRST Class ONLY."

3.20 -6.24

5.56 6.17 6,69 1,04

Further information may be obtained at the RAILWAY OFFICEL, KOWLOON,, or from Messrs. Thos. Coox & Sox, L., Hone Hors, or from Tux AxERICAN EXPERSS COMPANY, HONG KOND,

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Commonwealth on that day to buy. some Article of entirely British manufacture... The idea has been taken up in the Australian Press, and from the number of letters written to the papers applauding the suggestion it seems that the idea has caught on.

A similar movement is, however, required in the United Kingdom, and the Federation of British In dustries have been asked by the Exhibition authorities to do all their power to me that on February 29th everyone in Britain is induced to buy some Australian product or manufactured article, thus making the movement reciprocal. By this means it is hoped that an idea may be started and carried on either year by your or avery Leap Your day. The movement is of course, capable of infinite expansion, and might be made the basis of a very powerful campaign to stimulate trade within the Empire,

Is £350,000,000; exclusive of trans-Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.

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actions in houses, life insurance, Queen's Theatre "What Price Incestion with the GRAND HOTEL Prince's Building.

And stocks and honds, st

These figures are -15 per cent. of the annus amount spent by citizens of the United States on- retail buying.

Pioneer Industry.

Glory,

World Theatre: "The Man on the Box":

Star Theatre: Wages for Wives."

DE WIGONS LITS, PRIDES.

Principal, Mails:-Outward: KING EDWARD

Friday,

Canada, America, etc., and Europe The available evidence, derin Victoria (Talthybius), 9.30 .. clares the Westminster Bank Re-Canada, America, etc, Europe vio jew, shows fairly conclusively Vietoria, B.C., and rią Biberia that the extent to which resort is (President Grant), 10.30 am. made to deferred payment methods varies considerably from industry to industry and, on the demand side, from one stratum of society to an- other. The automobile industry bas been, as already stated, a pioneer as regards this form of selling policy in its present phase.

"According to Dr. Plummer, a Pennsylvania University economist, no less than 75 per cent, of the products of this industry are sold on hire purchase, about £300,000,000 worth of motor cam being driven on credit at any given moment

Entries close for Macao 5th Extra Race Meeting

Cricket: Shanghai United Services, K.K.C.Ĉ. ground.

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotal and Hotel Savoy, 430 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, .5 p.m. Lince, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-6.30 p.m.; Cafe Regent, 4.30 6.30 p.m

Hockey Club "A" Club de Recreio, King's Park, 5 p.m.. Government House Dance Cafe Regent dinner dance, 8 p.m. Engineers Institute "Dapo H.K. Amateur Dramatic Club present "Bulldog Drummond," Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: What Price

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Next in importance come the furniture trades, responsible for Piccadilly Open Again,

just under 30 per cent. of the total instalment debt. Other trades re- Piccadilly is again open to traffic lying on the system to a greater or Glory." along its entire length from the less extent are gramophone, making World Theatre: "The Man on Circus to Hyde Park Corner.(which markets about four-fifths of the Boz With the disappearance of the last its output in this way), electrical Star Theatre:

"Wages of the barriers to traffic the buses washing machinery (which markets Wives" made their way over the famous about three-fourths), vacuum clean

Mails: Inward: thoroughfare, and after them it ers (about two-thirds), and jewellery Europe ria Suez (Kashgar); seemed that every sort of heavy (one-fourth), while the majority of Europe. ria Siberia (Mongolia).. vehicle in London that could find pianos, sewing machines, wireless

Baturday.

an excuse to take that route ansets, and electric refrigerators reach peared in Piccadilly-motor lor their purchasers by way of a de ries, snorting steam engines with ferred payment contract. trailers behind, and big delivery

VAILS,

The blic on the buses who drive along Piccadilly every day were de lighted with the smoothness of the surface. The line of pot holes be- tween the New Princes Gallery and the Green Park that used to hounge the buses up and down like balls has gone. It took all the years of war to make those holes, and I think it is safe to say Pie endilly will never see their like again. The shop keepers are also xlad to see the traffic on the street once more after months of compara- tive quiet and the stoppage of business

Minister Of Health On Tour,

£28,000,000 For Clothes. "Something like £28,000,000 of clothing is sold annually in the same way, but in this case the term of payment is short and the amount of credit outstanding at one time comparatively smil

It is apparent that British bankers have not quite made up their minda as to the complete nd vantage of the instalment system, for the Festminster Bank Review, in passing general-judgment, says

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SATURDAYS: 8.00 to 12.00 1x

TEA DANSANT for MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS (AND- DE PRIDAYE (Thirty Ton Tickets for $25 can be [obtained at the Office of the above Hotel),

First day of Jemadi-al-akhir. Queen of Norway born, 1888. Italian Conyent Bazaar, for Orphans and Invalids, Caine Road, 10 am.

Bankruptcy Court, 10.30 am Interport Cricket: Malaya ‘4. Hong Kong, HK.CC. ground (1st. day).

Hong Kong Jockey Club 8th Race Meeting, Happy Extra Valley

Yachting Club Cruise to Dis covery Bay

Cricket League: Division, L Craigengower C.C. I.R.C. "A.” Division II.: Club de Recreio r H.K., Electric Co.

South

"A larger experience of its effects is desirable, however, before

Friendly Cricket: H.M.S. Tamar scientific ofservations can confident- ly pronounce upon its merits or de- C.S.C.C. 2nd XI.

Football League-Division I.: fects. Evidence is required in par Mr. Neville Chamberlain is mak ticular of its characteristics during S.C.AA. Club; R.A. v. Kow a period of trade depression. This loon; Queen's Scots Guarde; ing a tour of the provincial cities evidence has not been provided, up Chinese Ath. Recreio. Division of England, and is closely examin to the present, in the United States, Fos Kowloon 1. BA.; ing the working of the local where the system has reached its K.O.S.B.. Becreio; South China Government services. This is fullest development, and it would "B" s. Club; Chinese Ath. v. St. characteristic of the thoroughness be well, therefore, to regard any A Division II. B

Joseph's; University of the Minister of Health. The Socialist suggestion which is often conclusions based on present experi-

ence as necessarily tentative." made that Conservatives are hostile to sound progressive local govern ment will not bear examination, It was a Conservative Measure in 1888 which created the County Councils and the County Boroughs. The present system of education was based on

a. Conservative Act in 1902.

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Tea Dances H.K. Hotel and head of the famous brewing firm Hotel Bavoy, 4.30 p.m.; Lane, of Guinness--in the Earidom. That Crawford's Restaurant 4.30-8.30 the will be elected there is hardly p.m. Cafe Regent, 4.30.60 p.m. a doubt, because Southend is, on Cafe Regent and King Edward the whole, a Conservative strong Hotel dinner dance, 8 pm. The total death rate and the Ia hold, and as the Socialists are go- "Al Fresco Concert for Inter fant Mortality rate of the nationing to contest, it, as well as the port Cricketers, H.K.C.C, ground, have been halved within four Liberals, her election is a certainty. 8 p.manifes generationa the mortality of [The cable has already reported H.E. Amateur: Dramatic Club childhood is one-third of what it Lady Iveagh's success by an over-present fiun performance

Theatre Was 80 years ago; and the "ex whelming majority Ed.] There Bulldog Drummond," pectation

"of life for a child born will then be four women Conserva- Royal, 9&là p.. in this country today is not less live members, all of whom will

Queen's Theatre: What Price than 17 years longer than it was have succeeded to their husband's Glory." for a child born 80 years agoe (

World Theatre!" sphere if influence,

The Man on As for housing, all the important Viscountess Astor followed her the Box (5.15 pm, and 9.20 p.m.); Acts to the outbreak of War were husband in Plymouth, when he suc Chinese film, The Mystic Fan" with one exception Conservative. ceeded to the Peerage; Mrs. Philip (2.80 p.m. rud 7.15 p.m.).

Wages for Star Theatre: It is dus chicly to the present Gov- son came on the scene in Berwick- ernment also that the housing upon-Tweed when her husband, Wives." Mortage is being overtaken. One owing to an electoral mishap, had Principal Mails:- Outward;' thing more the ratepayers want to give it up; and the Duchess of Europe in Marselles, etc. (on- substantial lowering of rates. The Atholl, although she did not impulia). 19.20 a.m. Europe via tcadency is in the direction of re-mediately follow her husband when Siberia (Szechuen), 2.20 p.m. duction but not nearly fast enough. he went to the House of Lords, was die Bunday.

Vist Sunday in Advent. Women M.P's elected for the same constituency

which he represented in Parliament Italian Convent Bazaar, for OUNTAINING ALL THEIWEEK'S An interesting commentary on

when he was Marquess of Túllibar Orphans and Invalids, Caine Road, the woman M.P is suggested by dine. Moreover, when the Liberal 10 s.m. the fact that the Countess of Iveagh Mr. Wintringham-who is not a standing for Southend, which member now came into the House bas become vacant owing to frez it was in her late husband's fool

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