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NEW ADVERTISE

MENTS.

THE HONG KONG, & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LIMITED,

T7821 for TWENTY AD cal;

THE SHARE CERTIFICATE No. SHARES Nambered 69,158/69,179 in the above Company and randig boen in the Name of LO KWÔNG YU having reported LOST, NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that lows the ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE in produced within Uns Month from the Date Horect, it will 'hereafter be held by the Company as NULL AND VOID and NEW CERTIFICATE for the aid Share

Becretary [6505

will

F. HCRAFNELL,

11th July, 1928;

OFFICIAL NOTICE.

PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME.

W

the CHEEN ON STEAM. BOAT COMPANY, LTD.. of Victoria, in the Colony of Bong Kong, HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that in consequence of a Contract entered lato by us for the Bale under another Name of the Ship bereinafter described, we have applied to the Board of Trade,

1894,

under Section 47 of the Merchant in respect of the Act

"CHUEN CHOW" Ho

Official Number 137634 of

293.09.017.10 tons, Register Tonnage

tone, heretofere owned by us the CHUEN ON STEAMBOAT COM- PANY, LIMITED, whose registered Ofice is situated at Vioforia”in the Colony of Hong Kong, for the Permission to Change: her Name to KONG SO" sad to have her registered in the New Name at the Port of Hong Kong - m owned, by us.

Any Objections to the proposed Change of Nams must be sent to the Registrar of Shipping at Victoris in the Colony of Hong Kong within Seven Daya from the Appearance of This Advertisement

· Dated at Victoria, Hong Kong, this

14th day of July, 1928.

泉安輸船有限公司

(Signed) CHUEN ON STEAMBOAT

COMPANY, LTD.

#

NG CHO MING

Managing Director

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THE HONG KONG LAND

INVESTMENT & AGENCY S

CO., LIMITED.

N INTERIM "DIVIDEND or

A TWO DOLLARS for Share for

the Six Months ending 30th June, 1928, will be Payable on

THURSDAY,

2 AUGUST, on which Date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on Applica fion at the Company's Office, 9, Chater Вод.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

INTIMATIONS.

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION,

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 17th, 1928.

An INTERIM DIVIDEND of £3 Per Share, subject to deduction of Income Tax has been declared for e HALF YEAR Ending 30 JUNE, 1928, at Rate of 2/0 Per Dollar.

The DIVIDEND wil be Parable on and after TUESDAY, 7TH AUGUST, 19:8, at the Offers of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants

THE REGISTER OF SHARES the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 230 JULY, to SATUR. DAY, STR, AUGUST, 1928 (Both Day inclusive), daring which Period No Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Court of Directors, it

· A. C. HYNES,

Chint Manager. Hong Kong, 14th July, 1928. [6486

!

HAI HO CONSERVANCY COMMISSION.

VACANCIER FOR THE FASITIONS_OF ASSISTANT DREDGING SUPER. INTENDENT AND ASSISTANT WORKS SUPERINTENDENT.

Mechanical Engineers for the PPLICATIONS are invited from

A abova positions.

Applications are required to give the following Particulars-Name, Nation- Date of Birth, Married or single, Saulications, Previous Training, Fort tions held, Testimonials.

The following necessary. :—

requirements

STO

Age about 27 Years Certificate of Mechanical Engineer with know. ledge of Marine Engines, Workshop Equipment, Welding and Electrical Machinery, Photograph and Medical Certificats of fitness.

The conditions of appointment are→ The successful candidates to take up

their appointments immediately.

The appointments may be terminated with 3 Months Notice by either side.

The initial Salary of the employs will be Tia. 250 with triennial increases

ustil maximum of Th. 425 is

resebed. (The possibilities of

further promotion depend upon the

INTIMATIONS.

Man is happiest

left, the ship goes to the right, and THE TYPHOON AT

it is averred that in some schooli the custom has aris"

of regarding

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as mean-

the command toTM" port ing the ship herself shall turn to the left. Ta British Chamber of

when dispensing Shipping has gone very fally into

good cheer.

the matter, the ides being to con- sider the possibility of reform so that the risk of error or confusion

CANTON.

NO DAMAGE DONE."

BOAT POPULATION'S ALARM.

"

[ROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

CANTON, July 16th,

GOVERNMENT

SALARIES.

EXCHANGE COMPENSATION

SCHEME,

BASIS OF CALCULATION.

TO COME IN FORCE THIS MONTH.

FAIR DISASTER.

MARGATE'S "DREAM-

LAND."

DYING MAN'S - SMOKE..

Dreamland, the fairground of Margate was the scene of a "dying boat" disaster, in which four poo- ple were killed.

The roundabout on which the tragedy occurred is called the

It calls for discrimina- | shall be eliminated as far as that The long expected typhoon did tion, and a real know-can be done in an imperfect world, not cause any appreciable barm in

But in our opinion, since we are Canton and everyone was ready for the Daily Press referred to the Atlantic Flyar," and was inatall:

At the beginning of last month ledge of the subtleties

attached to things that are con-it. On Saturday afternoop at about persistent rumours in the Colony that make for happy secrated by ancient customs, the hait past one the Custom House at that the pay of all local Governed at Whiteutide. It comprises friendship.

remedy should be sought in uni enam Point hosted a black bag ment servants would be increased eight boats, which were whirling

round when one of the wire hawsers. versal agreement, as to whether the tien. The boatmen as one made as from July 1st by some amount, In Short, it calls for helm or the

tion. The boatmen at once made such as eight ten or even twelve supporting the boas from the roof hip is meant.

all haste in their sampans and The reason put forward seems to other oraft to the typhoon shel- & better backing before ters; The narrow creek separating demand such a drastic change is made. In Shamees and Canton was one of carly times larboard" was the the places of refuge. By twe order given to mean the opposite of o'clock the whole canal was packed

DEWAR'S

DEWARS

#6

WHITE

LABEL

AND

"VICTORIA

"starboard,” and we can imagine the Elizabethan captains shouting and it when in a tight corner heavily outnumbered on the Spanish Main. But it was dropped because amid the thunder of the guns or in half a galo it was liable to be mistaken by the man at the wheel.

The Collisions Commission of the Chamber of Shipping makes the admission that the words "port" and "starboard" are so completely unlike that they are valuable. Further, the point is conceded that even if the Internationt! Collisions

per cent.

At that time nothing definite had been decided, but the following communication received from the Colonial Secretary last evening) shows that there was good ground

with small boats. There was a con- siderable excitement during the race for shelters, yelling and }... brawling going on practically all the time.

Other campane were anchored close to shore on either side of the Pearl River. Many sought safety intributory riverlets or creeke in Honam..

A heavy wind was blowing prac tically all Saturday night and all Sunday. There has also bcen beavy rain. Few sampans dared to cross the river on Sunday, traffic being carried on by a few ferry launches. No sampans were seen

VAT" Committee coined new words for use or White Goose Bay.

FINEST

employe's qualfications for promotion SCOTCH

to te rank of Superintendent exMAŬ

as upon vacancies in that rank).

A Hent Allowance, will be issued to

the employe

A Superannuation Fund will be kept

in the same of the employs.

Home furlough oo full pay with second-

class passage paid will be allowed

for a period of 9 Months after every

5. Years of service

WHISKIES

OF GREAT AGE.

All applications for the position mast A. S. WATSON be in the hands of the Undersigned by the 15th August, 1928.

R. 8. CAMPBELL.

Becretary.

Ha Ho CoXENTANCY COMMISSION,

& CO., LTD.

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Wine and Spirit Merchants. Phone C. 616.

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"THE PEAK FLATS."

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Company will be CLOSED from CITUATED within Two Minutes' SATURDAY, ZIST JULY, to Walk from the Tram Station and WEDNESDAY, the lar AUGUST (Both Days_inclusive), during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Urder of the Board of Directors, L. 8. GREENHILL,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 18th July, 1928. (199

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONG KONG

ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS No. 27 or 1923.

IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED (AND BEDCCLD)

AND

IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES

Orpinaxcz 1911, "

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

overlooking the Southern Side of the Island. Beady for Occupation in JULY, Five-Roomed FLATS and Six-Roomed FLATS

with all Modem Conveniences, Drying -Booms and Out-houses, Two Lifte.

Apply to- CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME ORIENT.

4TH FLOOR, FRENCH BANK BUILDING.

TO LET.

A-Boomed HOUSE in MINDEN

AVENUE, KOYLOON-Apply to HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD, ALxandza BuildinGH. TO {6578

TO LET.

BIRTE. FRASER-At the Victoria Hospital, on Saturday, July 14th, to Mr. and Mrs. J. A. FRASER, a son.

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Hong Kong Office: 11, Ice House

Street. London Office: 91, Bride Lane,

Fleet Street, EU4

The Daily Press.

Hos Kone, JULY 17TH, 1928

“HARD-A-PORT, SIR.”

AAT I CARNARVOS BUILDING, IT is to be supposed by mere

Kowloon.

FLATS at MAY ROAD, Hong Kong,

Apply to HUMPHREYS "ESTATE AND

FINANCE CO., LTD., ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

6201

for the rumour.

The Colonial Secretary writes:

In 1990 the salaries of officers

gave way. The stern of the boat swang out, dinging its eight on cupants on the crowd standing

Panic. Panic followed. Men and women

neer.

fainted, and shrieks drowned the fairground music.

Philip Finkelstein, who was flung ordinarily recruited in Great on the children's playground and Britain were settled and quoted broke his back, smoked a cigarette in sterling. An Exchange com-until he died. Miss Blewitt, who.. pensation scheme was later added

was thrown through the roof of the for values of the dollar from 4/40. to 2/6d. In 1998 after a long children's roundabout, said she was period of a low dollar a scheme all right and did not want any of remittance privileges for mar-thing while a police officer was put ried officers with families at home ting her. broken leg into splints was put in force. The Secretary Another maa walked two hundred of State has now approved of a yards with a terrible injury to his recommendation that this scheme scalp before he collapsed and died. should be discontinued and the following continuation of the director of Dreamland, said: "In Mr. J. H. Iles, the founder and compensation table be brought all my twenty-one years' experience into force as from July 1st.

"The Unofficial Members of of amusement parks I have never both Councils were consulted and known such a terrible accident. The unanimously approved the recom-

Atlantic Flyer is a replica of mendation before it was submitted the one liotased by the London to the Secretary of State."

County Council and used at Olympia at Christmas."

Although much apprehension Was as far as our felt, there has been, correspondens is able to ascertain, no damage of any sort. The wes ther is now fine, the wind has | Dollar

THE LATEST REPORT.

*

to

Percentage addition dollars payable when dollar is at 2/0d,

Officers. Married. Single.

£350,000 COST" OF A SCHOOL.

2/1 2/0

s/ and below 2/6

2/3 1 9/97

2

2/5 4

$

FOR A TOWN OF 800, PEOPLE.

2/4 в

3

2/3.....8

JA

2/2 10

2/1 19

..!!.

2/0 14 1/11 10 18

1/11 + 1/10 ??

by all nations the words agreed on would have to preserve this virtue Then why make a change at all Why not stick to the old words and issue a clear ruling on the way stopped blowing and rain ceased at Value.

Some of our about 5 o'clock on Sunday after-2/4 they shall be user! nautical readers may like to ex- noon. press an opinion on this subject. But there can scarcely be two opinions that if the old words go half the romance of the sea will be

lost. It is difficult to conceive marizers brought under the New Oxford Dictionary. Are captains to cry Hard to the left!" in moments of emergency instead of "Hard a' port!" or "Keep to the right"like a London policeman in Oxford Circus-instead of "Star- board there!"

A Chinese woman, believed to be

NOW A DEPRESSION OVER

TONGKING.

· According to the Royal Observa tory report yesterday evening the to the south of Haiphong at & a.tn. typhoon probably entered the coast that morning and now exists as a depression over Tongking

Local Forecast

The Observatory's local forecast for today is: S.E. winds, moderate, fait.

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LAND SALE.

Below 1/10

PREVIOUS CONCESSIONS.

"PERIOD "

THEATRE AND

CLASSROOMS.

One of the wonder school of the United States is to be found at Chazy (pronounced shayzee), a small town of 800 inhabitants in New York State near the Canadian border.

About 1019 it" was decided that to be converted at the rate of 12 all sterling salaries were in future

It was built at a cost of £350,000 dollars to the pound if the sterling by a wealthy man who began life rate of the dollar was above that as a poor boy in the district. He valu .......

also contributes the larger propor In 1917 or thereabouts there was tion of £33,000 required annually considerable increases, varying from drawn from the town and aur a general revision of salaries and for its upkeep, The 600 pupils are twenty to thirty-five per cent. were rounding districts, and, as in all sanctioned.

New York schools, tuition is fres

Shortly afterwards the Govern- up to the age of 21. ment appreciated that the great Mr. E. G. Savage, one of his increase in renta hnd entailed hard- Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, ships, and a scheme for housing describes this school in an appen-

insane, was removed to the Govern- TAIKOKTSUI LOT SOLD FOR Government servants was worked dix to his report on Secondary

ment Civil Hospital from No. 18, Amoy Lane, where she, lived. She threatened the inmates of the house with a chopper.

A weekend report to the police by the accountant of the Tai Shing goldsmith shop at Shamshaipo states that an employee has dis- appeared with a quantity of gold entrusted to him for making orna

ments.

Dean and Mrs. Walter Williams, of the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri, Columbia, landsmen that 'the International

Missouri, U.S.A., are paying Japan Collisions Committee a body which

and China another visit. They does not promote collisions at sea sailed from San Francisco on June but considers how to avoid them-- 20th and will arrive at Hong Kong are versed in their basiness. But by the Siberia Maru this week. what is to be said of the recom-

Nthat a Petition for confirming the Reduction of the Capital of the above Company from $350,000.00 to $100,000.00 was on the 4th Day of Jer, 1998, presented to the Supreme Court of Hong Kong and is now pending. A List of the Pomona admitted to have, been Creditors of the above Company on the 18th Day of JULY, 1928 (the Date fixed by the Registrar in pursuance the Order of the Court in this matter dated the

of Jouf, 1928) Day

Parents and friends of the pupils may be inspected at the Offices of Meners BB LET OR SOLD-Commendation that the time-honoured DEACONS, the Belicitors to the Cam-

modians BUNGALOW terms of seafaring, folk "port" of the Victoria British School are pany at No. 1, Du Vaux BOAD MAGAXING GAP, near Meros HOAD:

Kong, at any Time

“starboard" should be abolish-invited to the Open Day" next Good Garden. Private Garage-Apply: and Time

Bot No 6273, c/o Hong Kong Dailyed! It is proposed instead to

Friday, July 20th, at 10.30 am during Usual Business Hours.

[6278 Any Person who claims have been on Press,

After a short programme coneist the Last mantioned Day and still to be

aubstitute the words left and

ing of a few songs and two Greek Creditor of the Compsay and who is

right." The bare mention of plays, visitors are invited to see the change ought to be sufficient to the work in the various class call up the ghosts of all the writers rooms.

Hang

not entered in the said Last and Claims LET-Furnished, Four Room to be so entered must on or before the

FLATE, 18, MACDOTELL ROAD, 20TH DAY OF JULY, 1928, end his with Modern Convenience. For a Name and Address and the Particulars of calars, Apply: XAVIER BROS.

his Claim and the Name and Address of QUEEN'S ROAD, TEL. C. 3218 or 0.2722. his Solicitors fif any) to the Underigued

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"ARONT PORTION of SHOP TO

at No. 1, Des Vœux ROAD CENTRAL aforesaid or in default thereof he will be precluded from objecting to the proposed ET Castral Position, Suitable Reduction of Capital. man, fon

for Milliner or Dres Maker. Moderate Dated this 13th Day of July, 1928.

Rental Apply

2. ela Hong Bong Daily Prem

(648)

DEACONS,

Solicitors to the Company,

44

of sea stories, not to mention the

*L

86,975.

out. Partially furnished quarters Education in the States of New were provided and broadly speak- York and Indians.

The grounds of the school,

ing, a Government servant now pays

arrangement there, are cases"where

At the Crown Land Office"yester; six or perhaps seven per cent. of states, caver 37 acres within sight: day afternoon, a portion of land his gaisry for them, Under this of Lake Champlain. at Taikoktaui known as Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2123, and situated at the junction of Fuk Taun Street to Li Sung Sheung, of No. 1 Ivy and Oak Street, was sold for $6,875 Street

The property has an area of 4,030 quare feet and bears a annual Crown rental of 854. One of the conditions of the sale was that the purchaser shall within 4 months build one or more substantial build ings upon the lot and a sum of no loss than $10,000 shall be spent in rateable improvements.

WOMAN'S 44 YEARS IN PARLIAMENT.

BUT HAS NEVER HEARD A SPEECH.

possibly 870 or 880 a month is paid

Wonderful- Organi for quarters which, in the open school building is an auditorium One of the main features of the

and $300, market, would cost between 250 capable of seating all the pupils. were It has a wonderful organ, which provided for all Government ser- mechanically. The stage curtain is Free passages home were also can be operated by hand or vants, their wives and children. a picture painted by a well-known the family man with children at fifteen sets of scenery are available Then there was a concession to artist, while other paintings and home. He was allowed to remit a for dramatic performances, ⠀**** proportion of his pay at a priviliged The classrooms have been furnish- dollar, the rate being 9/6. This ed and decorated with a view to concession, as stated above, is dis-reproducing the atmosphere of the continued since the new method of subject to be studied, no calculating salaries has come into In the Cicero room everything is force. W

of severely classical style in white Taking all the concessions into enamel and with busta and other consideration it may be roughly decorations suggested by the calcalated that Government salaries period. The Shakespearean room have increased by eighty percent. beautiful warm-looking Tudor or more during the past twenty room with comfortable oak chairz

years.

"I have spent forty-four years MOTOR CRASH TRAGEDY.statues in bronze by a modern

of my life in the Houses of Parila- ment and have never heard, a speech there.

Boys and girls have separate gymnasia and swimming batha. The latter are paved with mosaica and embellished with life-sized

sculptor. At the girls swimming bath each girl has a private! shower-bath and a dressing cubicle with mirror of bevelled glass and a special hair-drying appliance, which produces a stream of heated

DRIVER'S STATEMENT TO This is the proud boast of Mr.

THE POLICE. Thornton, known to all members hasmended the rugs of both ing house proprietor of Dina sir of Parliament as Annie," who Albert Hartman, a Swiss board Houses and the oficial residences gardens, South Kensington went 1 The waters of the Chazy River for forty-four years, but is now to Hammersmith Police Station are the source of the electricity and stated that he was the driver which lights and heate the build- old sea captains from the time of An Alsatian dog belonging to retiring owing to illness.

Miss Murray, of No. 228, Wanchai

She has a deep affection for the of a motor car which met with an ings, and runs the machinery used in carpentry instruction, forge have served their purpose for many after it had bitten a boy named

criticises the members.

A collision between a Dear, dear, those men. What motor-cycle occurred in which Air There are laboratories for the centuries, and by language the George Kerman, fiving at the same great big babies they are, she craftsman Hayles, of Ports sciences and agriculture and.

check. Another words are almcet stored in the animal owned by Mrs Tourer exclaimed to a Daily Express te- mouth was killed, and Joseph special rooms for cooking and

of No. 4, Minden Avenue; acted Just because their wives are RAF mechanic,

presentative. vocabulary of the men who go strangely on Saturday and was shot not there to watch them they be injured. Bowell,

aged seventeen, another dressmaking: Add

Was seriously Children showing signs of mal- EMLDETACHED HOUSE, with down to the aes in, ships and do by the police, its carcase being sent have as they never would at home, that as he was driving through time: nurse, a full-time oeuist, and nutrition are provided daily with Hartman explained to the police milk and special biscuits. A full- business in great waters" To pro to the Bacteriological Institute. walking on beautiful carpets with pose an alteration seems in the

out wiping their feet and throwing Staines hie windscreen was fudia part-time doctor are members of: The six Chinese who appear, cigar and cigarette ends all over denly shattered, and his face was the school staff. nature of an impiety FEN MOTOR BOAT-Dimensions:YHT Continue to suffer when

ed before "Major C. Willson for the place, MA covered with blood. His only For pupils living too far away 0818 84 10. Drafti 2'S POO ON HEIS are within

complicity in the armed robbery Something disgraceful, it used thought was to get home as quickly to walk to school. 17 motor- which took place at No. 84, to be, the way they littered the possible. He did not know omnibuses, provide free transport Recently Overhauled. Teak Throughout.

starboard” in themselves present Des Voeux Road West, at 7am. place up and burnt holes in the what had happened until he saw daily, making 60.85 HP. Sterling Engine. Speed: 14 Tour reach-imples, Cab, Asthma,-

***** Bronchitis, Cough, Constipation, Dia

the Sunday newspapers stating teacherage," or house for the Knota

no difficulty, but that a certain on Saturday, June 30th, wers.com carpeta y de betes, Dropay,, Bheumatism, and many A130

mitted for trial. An application"I have to mend all the holes, that Hayles had been killed, and members and the staff, bas 25 AURA CRANE FAST: BUNABOUT MOTOR other: Diseases. No Drage, Purely amount of confusion, results from was made by C.D.L. Murphy for the and it used to make me so angry, then he placed himself at the dis" single rooms, each with its own BOAT, Tractically New. Spood; 16-16 Chinese Herbe

the meaning attached to them. In remand of the fifth defendant to see them sometimes that once posal of the police. A charge of private bath room and living-room. Koots For Further Particulars Please POO ON HERBS CO.,

against whom he would bring an or twice. I spoke to them about it: manslaughter was later brought Nine furnished suites are avail- Apply: Boz No. 8466, c/o Hong Kong | 86, QuzaN'S ROAD CENTRAL, 187 FLOOR the time-honoured usage when the additional charge of passion of Now they have boxes given them against him at West London Police able for married teachers and their Tristy Pics,

helm is "ported or turned to the arme. This was granted.

I to put the cigar-ends in

Court.

Drake Port." and "starboard" Road, was removed for observation House, but keenly, though kindly, accident at Staines and a work, and machine shop work.

No. 1, Des Voonx Road Central, Victoria, Hong Kong,

FOR SALE

[8500

18400

Flash Installation, No. 5. Corpurr ROAD. - Three 3-4 Boomed FLAT8, în No. 14 and 18, CONDETE-ROAD-Apply to: H. M. H. NEMAZEE.

TEZ: 657 2000,

It is argued that "port" and

1 dl families at nominal zente,