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Hongkong Daily Press.

Registered Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom.

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Hong Kong's Only Europma „Optžalan

"(Established Over Forty Yiureja.

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(Pamenul Attention).

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No. 21,845

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BARRA HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JULY 19th, 1928.

TREE SEED FOR THE EMPIRE.

PRINCES' AFRICAN

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

UP TRAINS

101

STATIONS No 1 No. C10) No. 8 - No. 12 No. 14 No. 16 No23 Na18 No, 14M0.26 No.38 AMAMAX. A‚M, }AM. | P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M.J.P.M. || P.X.

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Kowicon.Dep. 8,40 8.08 8.80 9,10 10.00 19.15 1.18-2.352.00

9.20.10.08

1994 108

9 33 10.20 13.38 18

9.43 10.03 19.49 1.4

9.58 10.87 12.53 1.51

4,30 5,427,50

Yazmati...Dep. 6.49

4.38 5,50 7.39

Bhatia

...Dep. 7.01

Taipo Market Dep. 7,15

4.50 6,0% 7.50 5,04 8.15 8.03

Tipo

Fanling Dep, 730

...Dep, 720

10.05 10.47 1.03 8.01

Sheangahni Dep. 735

9.07 10.10-10.82 1.09 2.08

Shamokun...Arr. 7.41 8.45 8.13.10.1510.58 1,14 2,12

508 6.19 8.07 5.18 8.30 817 5,93 8.85 BLSZ 8.40 5.99 6.41 8.37

Canton ...AIT. 12.40 -

5,38

7,28

DOWN TRAINS

STATIONS

No. 1 No. 3

2.M. A.X.

Xa. 7 No. 4 A.M.

Canton

...Dep.

No.18 .17 No.11 No.11 No. 23 No. 18

P.M. PM. P.M. 4.3. AM. P.X.

8.05

F.M.

*+

8.30

2.58 4.89 5.49 6.457.04 19.03 8,054.48 5.58 6.62 12.07 8.10 4.50 6.00 12.18 3.215.00 6,10

Shamairan...Dep. 7.18 8.051038 11.40, 11.36 BheangehniDep. 7.25 8,13 10.45 Fanling ...Dep. 7,308.18 10.47 TaipoMarket Dep, 7.40 8.28 10,37

Taipe

...Dep. 2.44 8.31 11.01

7,578,44 | 11.14 ...Dep. 8.118.56 11.26

Art. 8.17 0.02 11.32 12.29

Bhatin ...Dep, Youmati Kowloon

12.92 8,285,048.15

12.38 3.395,17) 6.28 12.48 8,615,29 | 6,40

12.54 8.57 5.33 6.46 7.28 7.45

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POPULARITY OF THE THAMES.

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CANADIAN HELP TO

FORESTRY. ¿

HOW THE CONES ARE”

THRESHED,

MONTREAL One of the largest free seed ex- traction plants on the continent is maintained as New Westminster, British Columbia. by the Forest Service of the Department of the

Interior.

Here in good sted years thousands of sacks of cones' of Sitka spruce, western yellow pine, Douglas fir, western red cedar, western hem- lock, and other trees are brought in by steamer, rail, motor-truck and wagon. The cones are dried and the seed threshed out, cleaned, and boxed or sealed in 'tin con- tainers for shipment to various parts of the British Empire.

The motive for the establishment

肆拜後

DIARY OF EVENTS.

To-day.

(July 19th.)

日玖拾月柒年八廿百九仟登英

Extraordinary General Meeting, Hong Kong Football Club in Jar- dine, Matheson's Board room, 5.30 p.m

,

THE

HONGKONG

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Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONG KONG.

AND

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Queen's Theatre: "Hotel Im- perial." "World Theatre: "Three Faces Arrox HousE HOTEL PALACE HOTEL; Enst."

Star Theatre: 41 The Master."

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Music

Tea Dance: HK. Hotel, 4.30 p.m. Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe via Suez (Rajputana). Outward: Europe via Siberia (Chenan), 4.30 P.m. (Rajputnac), 6 pm.

Friday,

(July 20th.)

Christian Fellowship Meeting "Open Day" Victoria British School, 10.30 am

LONDON, July 23rd.. Arrangements "are now well ad- vanced for the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Gloucester to visit South Africa. One of the seven largest ships of the British India Steam, Navigation Company, the of this plant in 1921 was the desire Molde, will carry them on their of the Canadian Government to assist the Imperial Forestry Com outward journey. The Royal travel-mission to reforest certain areas in lers will have a suite of rooms on the British Isles denuded during the boat deck, and will take their the war. Experience has shown that many Canadian trees, parti- meals with the other passengers in cularly Douglas fir and Sitkn the dining saloon."

spruce from the British Columbia | perial." const, do well in Great Britain.

The work of seed collecting from small beginning in 1917 has grown to large proportions, and

Helena May Tastitute, 10.30 a.vi.

Promenade Concert E.K.V.D.C. Murray Parade Ground, 9.15 p.n, Tea Dance HK. Hotel, 4.30 p.m. Queen's Theatre: "Hotel Im.

World Theatre: Three Faces East."

"The Music

Star Theatre: Master"

Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe

Saturday: (July 21st.)

The ship will sail from London on August 31st, and will call at Marseilles before passing through the Suez Canal on her way to Mom-to-day is assisting in building up forests in many parts of the British bassa. "The Royal brothers will leave Empire. New Zealand, in particurid Siberia (Rawalpindi). England in the first week in Sep lar, is supplied each year with large quantities of seed and smaller tember, and will travel overland on

quantities are, shipped to various the first part of their, journey, parts of Australia" joining the Malda at à point on her voyage which has not yet been determined. They will land at Kilindini on September 28th, and go to Nairobi. The Duke of Glou. cester is to spend some weeks "on a shooting, trip, on which he will not be accompanied by the Prince Then, the brothers will make their way through Tanganyika to Rhode sia, and so through South Africa to the Cape.

The Princes will sail for home from the Cape enrly next January, arriving towards the end of the month.

The crop of tree seed varies greatly for each species from year to year. During the past season, taking all species as a whole, the crop was only, medium Of the three species most in demand Sitka spruce, Douglas fit, and western yellow pine only the Sitka spruce produced factory supply

Following a bumper crop in 1926. the western yellow pine also yielded but little seed. From the 1926 crop, however, over 3,800lb. of this seed was supplied to New Zealand alone.

Golf: Bogey Pool, Fanling. Tennis-Third Division: R.A.O.C. South China; Chinese "A",

Y.M.C.A.; Civil Service

v. Chinese "B"; R.A.M.C.. Indian RC; Recreio "B". Nippon Club: Recreio "A". Kennedy Rond; Hong Kong 0.0. v. Kowloon Indians.

Lawn Bowle-Division-I.: Civil Service. Craigengower; Kowloon Bowling Green . Kowloon Docks; Kowloon C.C. v. Taikon. Division IL: Craigengower v. Recreio "A"; Yacht Club #. Civil Service; Taikoo r. Kowloon Bowling Green; Recreio "B". East Point.

Baseball Senior Division:

Now, of course, this is as it may e. But numbers are not always | Filipinos . South China, 4 p.m. A Junior Division: South China . the most important factor. mighty host has often been beaten St. Joseph's, 2 p.m. in battle by a small army; or, as the Morning Post puts it, Goliath in all his armour was vanquished by David with a sling and a pebble taken out of the brook. In one of those expansive moments that are not uncommon to the Mail, the Master." paper stated that it gets £600 for un inside page advertisement per

Queen's Theatre: Hotel Im- perial."

World Theatre: East."

Star Theatre:

"Three Faces

"The Music

Ten Dances: EL.E. Hotel, 4.30

A Picturesque Visitor. London, as becomes the capital eity of the Empire, often has strange visitors. One of these is here at the moment in the person of Nana (king) Ofori Atta, the chief of one of the largest States, on the Gold Coast. He has come to receive from King George the accolade of Knighthood conferred 1005 bim in the New Year Honours.

Sir Ofori is a most picturesque insertion, and that the Morning; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.

"net sale" of just Principal Mails: Outward: Sgure, and speaks excellent Eng-st with a

Marseilles (Rawat Tish. He is accompanied by over 100,000 daily ought not to Europe via

pindi), 10.30 a.m.; Europe via retinue of ave, who wear European charge, as it does, £250 for a page. clothes, but the great man himself The reply of the Morning Post Siberia (Glenogle); 6'p.m. appears everywhere in a gorgeouswa's worthy of its traditions-

and reasoned

well robe of many colours, with gold and dignified, silver facings, while round his neckwritten. The point effectively made he has a heavy gold chain, and was that while the Mail is read by best of all-he wears a gold crown the masses 95 per cent. of whom on his curly close-cropped head. An have po money to buy what adver attendant is always near at hand tisers want to sell, the Pust is read to hold a huge blue and red um by the people who pay income tax brella over his hend when he stands and super-tax. There can be no or sits down. He is also attended doubt which class is the better from by, a little boy who is known as the the advertiser's standpoint. King's

Boul."

The "Coupon " Papers. This insistent harping on the alleged value of "Det sale" as proof of the influence exercised by dow not, perhaps, a newspaper greatly concern the general public. But the man in the street likes fair play, and the attack on the Morn- ng Post was entirely unprovoked. Besides, as the Post remarks," Dog does not eat dog,"

in

Londoners On The River. The River Thames seems to be coming into its own again to some extent as a highway of pleasure. In the brave days of yore we had paddle-boats, that used to take people up and down the River, calling

stopping at appointed places. But for years there has Leen nothing of the kind. It is

There is a curious circumstance interesting, therefore, to note that there appears to be a movement to in connection with the row wards using the waterway for plea- Fleet Street which throws some sure by people who purchase their light on this question of vast circu- on boats. On any fine Sunday Intions A. conference of divert you can see parties setting out from ing experts has been held in the the landing stages at Chelsea and Midlands, and the delegates dis Westminster for a day up the cussed the net sale" question at Thames. No doubt the crowded considerable length. They also dis state of the roade at week-ends cussed the practice of many news. owing to the growth of motor traffic papera running competitions with fage of London's only uncrowded entry. One delegate vouched for a case where a man obtained 8,000 highway-the River Thames.

copies of a paper which boasts a An Argument In Fleet Street.

net sale "and was conducting a An entertaining dispute has been coupon competition. He cut out proceeding between the Daily Jail the coupons, and sent back the and the Morning Port on the sub-5,000 copies to the retail agent, who ject of circulation. The former returned them to the newspaper as. tells the world every morning, that unsold and was allowed for them! it sells nearly a couple of million What is the value of this class of copies a day" net sale." Latterly paper to advertisers the paper has also claimed that with such a circulation it is in effect the only medium worth the atten- tion of advertisers t

(Continued on next Column).

Sunday, (July 22nd)

7th Sunday after Trinity. Golf: Bogey Pool, Fanling. Baseball Junior Division: South China Scouts . Y.M.B.A. and China Athletic v. Kiora&

Queen's Theatre: "Frisco Sally Levy."

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HOTELS,

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In association with

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TEA. DANCES MONDAY, WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY 5 to 7.1.H.

(Thirty Tifin Tickets for $25 sem be ontained at the Office of the abore Hotel),

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TERMS MODERATE Special Terms to Familion or appiles.

Maa J. EL OXHERKÝ, Frprintress

World Theatre: "The Show Off." Star Theatre: "Hell's High-Bento road."

Ten Dance: H.E. Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Monday...

(July 23rd.)

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Without Surcharge @ $3.00 Net. With Surcharge @ $3.50 Net. Per Complete Set of 4 Stampa:

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Queen's Theatre: "Frisco Sally Levy

the only in PARIS, World Theatre:""The Show Off." Star Theatre: Hell's High-qualified Permanent Hair road."

Tea Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Waver in Hong Kong) Guar Principal Mails : — Outward: antees the Best Results and Europe vid Victor's B.O. and vid Most Natural Looking Waves, Siberia (President Grant), 5 p.m.

Tuesday.

(July 24th)

Banitary Board Meeting, 4.16. Queen's Theatre: "Frisco Sally

is inducing many to take advan coupons" as the qualification for Led Theatre: Forty Winks"

These are some of the little things that add to the gaiety of life in the Street of Adventure, and, some. times take precedence of events that really matter -H.B.

Star Theatre:"The Couring of Amos.

Tea Dance, H.K. Hotel, 4.30 p.m.. Princips! Mails-Outward: Europe vid Marseilles (Perecuá), 2 p.m.

Wednesday, (July 25th.) Queen's Theatre: "Sorrows of Sater."

World Theatre; "Forty Winks." Star Theatre: "The Coming of Amos"

Tea Dance: EL.K. Hótel, 4.30 pin,

Large or Small, Flat or Fluffy, "OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE

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