1927-12-08 — Page 8

AGRICULTURAL SHOW.

(Continued from page 30)

VEGETABLES AND FRUIT. From Mr. Peter Potts garden came a fine collection of pineapples, notable for their size.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8th, 1927.

Ans selection of airs, under the

baton or lys. urte A.R. C, 1.. (Bandmaster).

Mr. NY. Tsao (General Secre; tary of the Chinese Y.M.C.A.) and Tsun Mo Fat (also of the Chinese 'Y.MIC.A.) rendered much help.

Boy Scouts also rendered material assistance to the Show officials.

teas Refreshments and sarved by the Cafe Pavilion, and the Kowloon-Canton Railway had spe- cial facilities.

were

OFFICIALS AND JUDGES.

COMMERCIAL SECTION.

REINCARNATION.

DR ANNIE BEBANT EXPLAINS.

The Secretary of the Hong Kong Theosophical Society has kindly forwarded an interesting article on "Reincarnation" by Dr. Armie Beat which appeared in the London Spectator. We give the following extracts.

STRANGE FATALITY AT

SHANGHAI.

CHINESE BOT KILLED BY BRITISH SOLDIER.

POLICE INVESTIGATIONS.

Messr Brunner, Mond & Co. (China), Ltd., occupied the most prominent stand in the building set apart for the Commercial ssation. The stand W23 very effectively decorated to show to the best advantage the firm's fertilizera which have a world-wide reputa tion for the excellence of their quality. Both the firm's speciali ties were on view on their stand, gin, neutral sulphate of ammonin

Forty years ago, working in the Patron: F., the Governor (Sir and. the " Crescent complete fer. London alums, seeing occasionally, Cecil Clementi, E.C.MG.): Vice-lizer which is claimed to contain when the public houses closed, tile Fatson: Mr. J. A. Fraser: Cam every food for every plant.” To mob of rowdy, swearing; animalis- bittee: Rev. H. R. Wells, O.B.E demonstrate the efficiency of theseed men and women hurting out (Chairman), Indy Ho Tung and fertilizers Messrs. Brunner Mond, into the gramy street, or when toil- Mesars Jas, Bullock, H. B. L by arrangement with the committee,ng in the solid courts, I would Lowbiggin, L. Gibbs, J. L. Mae, exhibited same forty pots of chry- think: For these hopeless, help

herson, Ng Sing Chi (Hun. Chisanthemums and dahlias in full less ones, what can be done? Bet-ment, yesterday (Friday) imorning, Mr. Carvalho's collection of english Secretary and Treasurer), tractive feature of the Show them up, and leave none of their nese Secretary), J. P. Braga (Hen. Bloon which formed quite an atter aa earthquake should swallow was of admirable quality.

and Chinese Committee comprising Those plants "were fertilized with type. They and generations after forty members, a

Brunner Mond's "complete" fer the can never know the beauty, Judges.

tilizer.

the joy of really human life. One worked on. What else could one do The work would have helped one day in a far-off future, in a world renovated which did not

There was a vary interesting exhibit of Chiu Chow oranges grown from seed," and the first of their kind ever produced in the Colony. Their growing is to be credited to Misa Gloria d'Almada, Fanling.

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Lady Ho Tung's experimental farm contributed an excellent cal lection of fruit and vegetables in prime condition.

The Botanical and Forestry De- parnnent had indeed an exceeding ly appetising array of products These included greengage plums, paranips, carrots, mustard cross, potatoes, bottled fruits, lettuce, sweet corn, ground nuts (shelled and unshelled and grown locally kohlrabi, French beans, pineapple, etc.. The collection was in charge of Mr. Green (Supt. of the Depart meat) and Mr. Luk, the Head Gardener.

Some bennenke was sent from Newchwanwhile next to it was displayed a collection of Chinese fertilising products, including pig

manuro shrimp

manure, manure, cown bone ash and me.

Lust, but not least, there was in a very fine pig section, not for com petition, a Scandinavian Landance Sow' exhibited by Mr. H. - A. Rodgers, of the Hong Kong Land Investment Company, and living at Taipo. This sow was aged-8-9 nonths, and prosented a striking picture of fitness and site: POULTRY AND LIVE STOCK

SECTION.

Not For Competition: Although the entries were not as numerous as might have been ex pected from the fart that a number of local residents own fowls of the Mediterranean, American and Aus tralian breeds and could have sup ported the show had they wished, this section was very attractive and interesting.

Exhibitors were as under“. Exalton:-Poultry Specialists Company, 4. Duddell Street, Man- ager: Mr. A. E. R. Schua-Sidgle Comb White Leghorn Cockerel, and Pullet, Anrienn Strain: Single Comb White Loghorn Cockerel and Pallet. Australian Stain: Single Comb Rhode Island Red Cockerel and Pallet: Black Australorp Cockerel and Pultet,

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Foreign Vegetables: Mr. Fas. Bullock, Mr. J. L. MacPherson, Mr. Fung Koi Chouk.

Rocks, etc., Green Vegetables (Chinese):-Mr. Ho Kom Tony. O.B.E., Mr. Choo Po Sien, M. Tag Wai Teng, Mr. Tang Yau

Shan, Mr. Lan Wang.

Ree:Mr. Li Cham Hing. Mr.

Tang Wai Torg, Mr. Tang You Shan. Mr. Lau Wang,

Fruits and Melons:-Mr. Tsoi Po Tin.

Mr. Lau Wang. Mr. Tang Wai

Other Cereals and games Tong, Mr. Tang You Shan.

Sugar Cane-Mr. Leung Wai Tai.

Officials in charge of Poultry and Live-Stock Section: Mr. Jas. Bul- lock, Mг.^E, V: M. R. de Soúza,

Committee's Thanks.

An enlarged photograph of Mesra Brunner, Mond & Co.'s stand in the Shanghai Chrysan themum Show 1933 was on view and

Was much admired.

Mechanical Ploughs, Messrs. Andrew Harper & Son, representatives in Hong Kong for and for Lincoln Cars, secured an Ford Cars, Trucks and Tractors allotment at the Show. Within the exhibition grounds the firm con- ducted ploughing demonstrations and truck together with various and are showing a Fordsen tractor

parts of same.

-Cotton-And-Wood-Oil- From the industrial point of view the successful experiments with cotton grown in the New Territories and the extraction of Chinese wood oil (Tung oil) from. Aleurites Cordata; Mull. Arg., promise great possibilities for the future. An expert examination of the boll of cotton grown in the Pat Heung district and exhibited at the Show pronounced it the equal to any grow in the districts around Shanghai. In fact, considerable surprise was. expressed that such fre cotton could be ninde to grow The Committee also wish to thank in the hinterland of Hong Kong the Star Ferry-Co-for-the-con-considering the prevalence of cession of free fores to the Bands typhoons in these regions and what

Tas Committee express their indebtedness to the Railway autho xities for the arrangements in con nection with the conveyance of visitors to and from the Show., aprdial cheap oxcursion rates were granted and every facility was afforded by the management for the quick transportation of articles for the Show,

men of the K.O.S.B., who wore pre- sent at the Show and under the capable direction of Mr. WH Fitz-Earle, A.R.C.M.. delighted the visitors with excellently rendered music throughout the afternoon,

Through the good offices of Mr. Chow U Ting, cominauding officer, the Committer had the benefit of the services of some fifteen mem- hers of the Chinese Company, Police Reserve. The specials kindly volunteered their services and very efficiently maintained | control on the grounds.

SPECIAL PRIZES.

were

admit alumA..

The

SHANGRAT, Dec. 4th. Shanghai papers arriving here yesterday give fuller details of the strange affair (briefly cabled) in which Lee-Cpl. Robertson, servant of Captain D. Harvey, A.P.M., is alleged to have shot and killed the Chinese boy employed in the apart between 9.90 and 9.43 o'clock. The

weapon was a 3 calibre Colt 'nuto- matic. pistol. Robertson left the apartment in the China United

Building, walked to the Amoy Rond Cinol, and, as he surrendered, sød that he had shot the Chinese in Thair came the Secret Doctrine, self-defence. It is understood that and all was changed. The Sun had he made no further statements. risen. These congenital criminals The authorities at the Gaol were only reborn "savagea hopeless, had in them a seed of the De-Sergt. Grubb went to the scene people who seemed so helpless, so notified Sinza police station and Divine Life, and therefore of Divine Perfection, ns, the acorn

RE одет. Nothing was touched, which grows into the image of the however, until the officers from the was Finger Print Department arrived, the law of the developing in-

to photograph the interior of the dividual, as Evolution was the law

room and to examine the corpae. of developing bodies. What 'then ia Reincarnation? Here is the A police physician, kewise, at hypothesis, to be studied, under-tended, and pronounced the man stood, and then tested by applic tien to human lives, to see if it serves as a key to their riddles.

parent oak.

Reincarnation

dead...

On beginning their investiga- The Spirit in man is the Life tions the police found the Chinese of God, individualized in the near the door to the apartinent human form, when that form has through which it is believed that evolved to a stagwhich made it Robertson emerged. Because the possible. that the three basic door swings inward, they have qualities of Divine Consciousness arrived at the conclusion that the manifested in our worlds, Power, servant was not killed instantane Wisdom and Creative Activity (or ously, hut that, after his assailant Love) could germinate within this left the room, he managed to crawl material form as Will, Self-Realiza- toward the door, and fel: dead just tion and Intellect. In the higher inside. He evidently attempted to animals, from whom-the-form-had-raise himself, and in so doing, putt evolved, these could only faintly heed on himself a bag of golf clubs. was once believed to be the un- shadowed forth, as germinal mind, Deceased lay with his head to- suitability of the soil. Now that desire, and netion.

ward the door, his right hand near the Show has demonstrated the

Reincarnation is n message of his head, and the left hand extend- possibility of cotton cultivation Hope. The worst criminal end alongside the body. The pistol within

the Colony, it should bodies the Light" which lighteth was found within a few inches of only be a matter of time beevery man who cometh into the the hand. There were three spent fare its production on a commercial world." He is only ignorant and shells not far distant.. seale becomes an accomplished fact. is in a low class in the Divine

Signs Of A Struggle. With cotton obtainable in sufficient School. Our congenital crindinals quantities from the district of the are very likely the murdered savage Officers are of opinion that New Territories, the industrial de of our Colonial bush, returning to struggle took place before the shoot- velopment of Hong Kong would is to profit by our civilization;g because several bullet holes were receive a very great impetus. they should be reformed, not found in opposite corners of the punished, though kept under re straint (for the guarding of society) and taught.

Chinese Wood Oll,"« Another article of much commer- cial interest is a little bottle with a tag attached bearing the follow Several special prizes for the coming descriptive matter: Chinese retitive section

presented.

Wood Oil (Tung Oil) from That offered by H. E, the Governor,

Aleurites Cordata Mull Arg" EXHIBITOR: Mr. D. E. de Car- which is the most coveted, takes the The oil was extracted from the valho, c/o Mesays. Botelho Bres-form of an honorific tablet in gold kernels of the fruit grown by Mr. One pen of Rhode Island Reds, letters on 2 red ground. The Garrard at Taipo. Messrs. A. Single Comb; a cock and two hens; Chinese characters were Sir Ceril S. Watson & Co., Ltd., extracted one dozen Leghiru eggs; two ounces Clementi's own composition. This and distilled the oil for the ex- or over ench »gg.

prize is awarded for the most hihition. The fruit of the dicurites Existon-Mr. H. A. Rodgers, successful group of villages in any fully developed is of the size of "White Cottage," Taips-Scan- one district sending the highest a small apple. A few dried speci- dinavian Landrac Sow (directly number of exhibits. The board will mens of the fruit were shown along imported); a, very fine specimen have inscribed on it the name of these the bottle of oil and were of Age: 8-9 months, weight 300 catties, successful district and is to be held a dark-brown colour and of the size in the district council or hall for of greengage plum. Chinese EXIBITOR :→Mr. Leo d'Almada e one year. It is won outright by wood oil, as is well known, is Castro, Fanling. New Territories any oug village securing the award largely imported into Hong Kong Yorkshire bow obtained from the for three years in succession, The from the West River districts for Dairy Farma. I and Cold Storage winning district this year is Kam export to Europe and America, Co.'s strk and reared at Faaling. Tsin with 36 first prizes. Un Long An analysis of the, oil extracted with litter of eight young ones

from the fruit grown at Taipo gave (Quite recintly Mr. d'Almada dis-

results proving it to be superior in posed of a Sow which weighed, 375

quality and colour to the commer- ba. whru only 10 months old,"thus|

cial article dealt by Hong Kong testifying to the excellent quality of "food" grown at Fariling suit; able for rearing pigs sucessfully).

or 400 lbs.

COMMENTS ON POULTRY.

The following is a comment on the 4 Duddell Street erhibits-

The White Leghorns were spień. did specimens showing in both in- stances the true characteristics of the breed, viz., alert, carriage and graceful curves. They were very much admired.

District elme second.

"Duro" Pump Engineering Co.

An honorific scroll was the prize offered by, the Hon. Mr. J. Owen Jiughes for the individual exhibitor securing securing the highest aggre-werchants. rate of first and second prizes. The judges awarded the prize to Tung Ying Hok: Po (Lady Ho Tung's Mr. W. 5. V. Curtis, of the Experimental Farm).

"Duro" Pump & Engineering Co.; The thirteen first prizes of 83 gave the Committee much assistance each in the rice "section were the in attending to the electric installu. gift of Messrs. J. M. da Rocha & tion for operating the moving pic. Co., who also made the free gift of ture exhibition. Principal among one hundred parcels of 10 catties the Company's exhibits must be "Matthews" Auto" each of first quality rice seed for mentioned the free distribution to the farmers. matic Electric Lighting & Power Mr. S. de Osan. acting Consul for furnished for the operation of the The cheque for 8100, received.from Plant. Power from this plant was

the Propaganda for Chilean Nitrate by the Hong Kong Amusements Chile in Hong Kong, on behalf of moving picture machine supplied of Soda, was distributed among the Sradicate and operated by their winnera of first (3 each) and 20 électrician. This plant, of which second prizes (92 each), respectively. there are some half dozen in opera- in the Chinese Green Vegetables tion in the Colony, has a capacity section. The Black Australorps

of 1,000 Wafts (about 50 lights), and (Aus-

In all classes the first and second provides current at 32 Volts Its tralian bred) were large and im- pressive in appearance, with las-rizes were of a value of 23 and 82, operation is entirely automatic; trous greenish black plumage cover Show funds.

which were disbursed out of the that is, it requires no attention in everyday operation beyond the ing a brad deep and rather long A bonus of 3100 was presented periodical addition of fuel, oil, and body. This breed has a great re- putation in Australia, and is hibitors who put in groups of not

for distribution among those ex-water. prolific egg-producer. The speci-

leza than eight exhibits each. mens shown, a cockeril and a pullet, were the object of general admira- tion.

The Rhode Island Reds were fine big specimens, red-breasted and long-bodied, the plumage of both varieties being rich red and lustrous, these being the true characteristics of the pure bred:

Certificates of Honour,

room,

The weapon had not been used for some time and on Thursday Moreover, Reinearation makes night it is known that it was un- life intelligible. If every soul is loaded. The weapon was freshly newly created, why is one embodied greased, and the police found in congenital criminal and clearly imprinted finger mark upon other in a saint One in an im- the left side. beeile, another in a genius; one in a happy home, another in a miser- parents, and trained in virtue and able; one of pure and noble in honour; one of a ruffian and a harlot, joined by lust or violence, and trained in Vice?

By our thoughts we build our characters, if we have built badly in the past, why not build better to day? By our desires we attract opportunities; why not desire the transient? By spreading happiness more permanent rather than the among others we reap happy cr cumstances for ourselves. With Reincarnation, we have as much time, as we need. Our talents may make them into great capacities in be small; but our aspirations will

the heaven world, and we shall bring these back with us to our next earth-life. Our future is in our own hands. Let us sow good- seed The Law amures the harvest.

Duro" Deep Well Pump.- This type of pump is cpanble of drawing water from any depth up to 200 feet," and against heads of 150 feet. It could not be shown in exhibition operation, but was merely

the

Electric Light and Power Plants.

Hydro-Electric and Wind Driven This company also had on exhibi- tion pictures of two recent types of Private Electric Plants, showing their manner of installation. The water driven, type is adaptable to provide current for any required purpose wherever a smail stream of running water is available, and a the latest development in this field of engineering. Its most salient feature is the low cost of operation. There was also on view the and maintenance,

as after Duro" Automatic Electric Water initial expense (no more than the Pumping System used to supply usual liquid fuel plant) no further, water for Mysterious Faucet dis disbursements are required other The cost of lithographing the play, and for Wash Basins--the than for n little lubricating oil certificates of hunour was defrayed latter being open to the use of the every month or so. It is designed FILMS AND MUSIC, ETC. by Messrs. J. M. da Rocha & Co. publie, Water was supplied to all for 24 hours service, and requires Every exhibitor received a copy tops under a minimum pressure no accumulators. The Wind Driven Various films, dealing with is worded in English and Chinese of 25 lbs. This system obtained its plants are adaptable to provide agriculture were shown by courtesy and reads pe

power from the Matthews plant, current wherever fairly reliable [of Meaars, Hrunner, Mond &*Cổ. "New Territories Agricultural and served to demonstrate how winds can be obtained. It has

chemicals for agricultural pur-Show, 127: Patron: His Excellency water could thus be provided un poses), Messrs. Anderson, Meyer Sir Cecil Clementi, K. C.M.G.: Vice der pressure wherever desired. neriod of calm lasting a week

storage batteries to tide over a and Co. (farming implements, etc.); Patron: J. A. Fraser, Eng., District The Messrs. Ford Co. (through local (ficer, North District.This Certi Water Pumping System is used to will generate current, and when "Duro" Engine Driven Wieds as low as fles per hour. agents. Andrew Harper & Son).ficate of Honour is issued to Mr. and also two comedies from their recognition of his having sprinkler, and to demonstrate the lant automatically eats itself oat supply water the garden they reach 30 miles per hour the Hong Kong Amusements, Ltd.), participated in the New Territories working pressures attainable with They are designed to stand wind films were shown.ca specially Agricultural. Show 1927-Hong these systems. This system is force of about 120 miles per hour. erected outdoor screen, by Hong Kong, 7th December, 1927 ? Kong Amusement operators The certificates were signed by driven from & specially designed Much pleasure was given by the the Rev. H. H. Wells, O.B.E.. ns and compact gaaoline engine made presence of the band of King's Chairman of the Committee, and by by the makers of the pumpe. Its Own Scottish Borderers who by J. P. Brags and Mr. Ny Sing pactness and simplicity were permission of Lt. Col. L. J. Comyn, Chi, hon, English and Chinese very noticeable. Q.M.G., and officers, played a very Secretaries, respectively. A

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Water by Wire."-This was a coloured moving picture shown by this Company to illustrate the various ways, in which our fore!

fathers obtained the most vital of liquids required by the human rape..

When it has been determined whose finger made the imprint, the will be able to determine how much police believe that they still further

of a struggle took place.-.-C. Daily News.

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