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MENTS.
MENTS.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31st, 1928.
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HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
INTIMATIONS.
**THE PEAK MANSIONS."
SITUATED within Two Minutes"
overlocking the Southern Side of the Island. Beady for Occupation.
ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT MACAO RACES. DR for SEVENTH EXTRA Walk from the Tram Station and
CLUB.
MEMBERS are Reminded that A
MEDINE wil be held in the CLUB HOUSE CT THE EVENING of SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH, At 9.15 r..
DAS: DINNER JACKET. Those who intend to be present should send in their Names sa early na possible to the Box. SECRETARY'))
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R. J. VERNALL
Hon. Secretary.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
&.
ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 6TH DAY of NOVEMBER, 1929, at 3 ... at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Urder of His ExcELLENOT THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of Crowa Laad ut Li Chi Kok, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1895, with the option of renewal at a Crown Reat to be fixed by the Surveyor of His MAJEMET THE KING, for one further term of 24 years less three days.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
New Kowloon
No. of Bale.
land Lot No 1179, Registry No.
Lai Chi Kok.
Locality.
G.
Boundary E
Metro-
menta.
N. 8. 2.
Aaper
aul, flau.
About
15,000
Square feet.
Annual
Rental.
Contents in
L'ect Prev
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
6,000
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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 5TH Dit of NOVEMBER, 1928, at 3 r.x., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Hm EXCELLANOT THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Shan- kiwan Road, in the Colony of Hong Kong. for a term of 76 years, with the option of renewal at Crown Rant to be fired by the Surveyor of this MAJEST THE Kara, for one Farther term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale.!
Registry No
East of Inland Lot No. 1706,
Locality.
Shankiwan Road.
Inland Let
No. 2845.
Boondary
Monaure
menta.
As per
asle plan
Contents in
Annual
Rental
Abort
10,400
Square feet.
Upset Price.
DOPOT
MACAO FAIR GYMKHANA
MEETING:
'SUNDAY, 4ru NOVEMBER, 1995.
(Weather Permitting),
FIEST RACE AT 1.15 P.M.
ADMISSION TO PUBLIC ENCLOSURE;
40 CESTY.
ADMISSION TO MINERS ENCLOSTRE: $1.00.
"SPECIAL- RACE STEAMERS
WITH SPECIAL FARES "LUNGSHAN" Leaves. SAT. 11 AMl.
Retorns 30.
"WING ON " Leuven SAT. 3 r.. “TAISHAN". Leaves SUN, 9:30 AM.
Returns & 45 7.4.
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R.
NOTICE.
HONG KONG WATERWORKS.
T 13. HEREBY NOTIFIED that,
BAFT Programmon and Entry
RACE MEETING to be held on SATURDAY, 10TH NOVEMBER, 1929 (Weather Permitting), may be obtained the Rack COURSE, HONG KONG OLUS,
and Cause way Bay State,
Entries will CLOSE st 12 O'CLOCK Noor OD WEDNESDAY, 31 [6874 OCTOBER, 1928.
· HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION,
DINNER DANCE.
THE ANNUAL DINNER DANCE of this ASSOCIATION will be held at the PENINSULA HOTEL, on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 147, 1928, at 9 P.M.
The PRIZES awarded at the MOTOR CAR PARADE at the Recunt GRAND TATTOO will be presented during THE EVENING.
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G. E. 3. UPIDELL,
-Hon. Secretary.
NOTICE
WING to the Demolition of Our Pre- sent Premises, We will REMOVE from 12. QuEN'S ROAD CENTRAL to 13, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (almost directly opposite da or about the 31st of OCTOBER. Oor Lens
in be Grinding Factory
located at
At the Rear of the Same Premises and provision has been made for Waiting Room in the Froat Centre of the New Store. We assure our Cliente the same core-
I in consequence of the Existing Ful and accurate Service that has been a Shortage of Water, the SUPPLY
feature of this Store for the past forty from the MAINS ↳ HOUSES in the RIDER-MAIN DISTRICTS will be
years,
Per LAZARUS, DISCONTINUED After WEDNES(Hong Kong's Only European Optician). DAY, the 31st OCTOBER, until
(Sigsed) RALPH & COOPE Further Notice.
Registered Optometrist, F.LO., A SUPPLY" WATER will be
Manager.
[6301 Available from PUBLIC FOUN. TAINS in the STREETS from the MORNING of THURSDAY, the 1st NOVEMBER.
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Water Authority. PUBLIC WORKS DEPT Eong Kong, 28th Oct., 1928. [6915
THE ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT CLUB.
HEREBY GIVEN FOURTH
NOTICESTER
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
PARI-MUTUEL THROUGH
TICKET No. 309.
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1998.
THE above Ticket, which is the Fro TH
Of HE. YEUNG YUK HÁN, perty having been reported LOST, NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said Ticket is produced to mo, within
from This Date, One Month
NÜLL and VOID.
Fire-Roomad and Six-Roomed APARTMENTS with all Modern Convenienses, Drying Rooms sad Out-houses, Two Lifta.
Apply to- CREDIT FONCIER
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FILINGS
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Alexandra Buildings.
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Street.
London Office: 21, Bride Lana,
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The Daily Press.
Hona Koxa, Öcrosez lar, 1928.
OUR STREET, SLEEPERS,
A STU-COMMITTEE of the St Peter's branch of the Victoria Diocesan Association has recently issued a report of an investigation into the question of street sleeping which it carried out earlier in the year. The members of the committee tackled their work in a very prac
Rights under such Ticket stall become tical way by organising parties who
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of MEMBERS will be held at the OLUB).." HOUSE, NORTH POINT, on WEDNES- DAY, Tas Jist Dar or OCTOBER, 1928, at 5.45 P.M.
BUSIN14:
(1) To receive the Reports and Accounts for the Period ended Blat Auersz, 1923.
(2) To elect Officers for Ensairg
Yrar and other General Business. By Order of the General Committee,
E. J. VERNALL, .
Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, 22nd Oct., 1928 [6889|
MACAO CHARITY AND COM. MERCIAL FAIR,
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
HE Executive Committee Cordially
H. R. FORSYTH, ··
Acting Secretary. [6777 1st October, 1928.
"CHINA" LADIES' HAIR DRESSING SALOON.
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(For Ladies only.) (Tel. 0, 6234.)...
SEZOND BRANCH :➡22, Queen's Ed. Cent
(For Ladies & Gents) (Bear Ground Floor of KariMALLY BUILDING.)
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among these unfortunate. people and sought the causes from
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destitution or the reason for using the pavement as a bed. Of the fifty cases 'examined in April four only were sleeping out from choice; the rest were doing so from dire necessity. These included men who had left their wives and families in the country and had come into the Colony in the forlorn search for work. There were elderly coolice, either truck pullers or cargo car-his night's bed. riers, who, expended what money they earned, after satisfying their
requests the pleasure of the Your Visit is cordially welcomed when you minimum bodily needs, in the pur-
of the Sale by Public Auction to presence of the General Public at the
be held on MONDAY, the STH DAY of INAUGURAL CEREMONY of the
NOVEMBER, 1928, at 3 r. at the FAIR on SATURDAY, 3RD NOVEM Offices of the Public Works Department.by
Order of His E10 ENCY THE GOVERNOR, BEE, 1928, at 9 px.
of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Princo Edward Kand, Kowloon City, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1888, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor
of HuMAJESTY Toz Kixo, for one farther term of 24 years less three dayal
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
[ No. of Sale.
Registry No.
Prince Edward Road,
Locality.
New Kowloon In- land Lot No. 1174
Kowloon City.
Boundary
Messure-
mante.
'As per
slo plan
ANNEOL
Rental.
Contents in
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£quare feet.
$
** |
12,788
**Upret Price.
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COL. DUARTE VEIGA.
Chairman. [6891
EX.ACTIVE SERVICE MEN'S ASSOCIATION (1914-1918).
ANNUAL MEETING.
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THESE
THE SEVENTH ANNUAL GEN- ERAL MEETING of the sbore ASSOCIATION will be held on WEDNESDAY, the 31ST INSTANT at the CLUB PREMISES, No. 17, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Commencing st 5.30 r.., for the purposes of :-
(1) Receiving the Report and State:
most of Accounts
(2) Electing Officers for the Ensuing
Year, and (3) Any Other Matter.
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B. J. HUNT.
Hon. Secretary.
BUSINESS CONNECTIONS WANTED.
BE
will see that our Trained Female Hair Dressers give you every satisfaction.
Branxa HoVER
8AM to 7 P.M. on Week Days. 12 Noor to 6 r.. on Sundays.
AGENCIES.
The London Office of the HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, 21, Enox Lase, EC.4, is constantly receiving Enquirica from Home Manufacturers regarding Suitable Firms to act as Agents for their products in Hong Kong and
South China.
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make use of it in order to buy for himself alcohol and cheap opium, instead of paying as at present, for
The solution of the problem is one to which the responsible Chinese should address themselves, through chase of opium or some other drag. their present benevolent organisa In addition to these more or less tion. They alone are qualified to able bodied men there were men of tackle it if funds are provided and various ages too weak and diseased it is certain that if an appeal were for work, but not too helpless to made for "such a shelter, it would, beg. In the course of their work receive a liberal response from all the investigators came acroes one those who feel that the present state woman with children sleeping out. of things is unsatisfactory. The She was destitute because her hus-sole reason
we imagine" that the band had recently died.
question has been neglected is that few Europeans, especially ladies, are aware of the conditions that prevail in the lower parts of the
It is very easy to describe the situation and to discover the in- dividual causes; the difficulty is to
During the absence of the in- In order that the fountains in the tiator of No. 91, Shelley Street, gardens of Blenheim Palace might yesterday aftemoon, some person be made to play, the Duke of entered by the back door and stole Marlborough recently ordered that. jewellery and clothing worth about attempts should be made to dis $143.00 The police were notified cover the source of the spring which of the theft,
supplies Fair Rosamund's Well. The attempt has not succeeded, but the workmen, in the course of several weeks' labour, have found the stone slab which covered the well 800 years ago and also fragments of the ancient Royal Palace of Woodstock.
Mrs. James, residing at No. 5, Minden Villas, Mody Road, Kow loon, has reported to the police the loss of jewellery worth $1,373 in olding a platinum ring worth 2000. The articles were last seen in a drawer of a wardrobe on. October 18th, but were found to be missing yesterday.
A Departmental Committee ap- pointed to inquire into the use of the "Guss "the harness attached The members of the Chinese Consledges in Somerset mines-have to boys pulling coal in pusta or pany, Hong Kong Police Reserve, decided that there is no evidence are holding a reception at the Com- that the practice causes any per- pany's Headquarters and Club, 17manent injury or lasting detriment Queen's Rond Central, Wednes
to health. The "Guss day, November 7th, at 3.30 p.m.
isa girdle The Club will be formally opened pulling the "putt" he moves for fitted around a boy's waist, and in by the Captain Superintendent of ward in a stooping posture, mainly Police (the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, CM.G.) and congratula sometimes on his hands and kages. on his finger tips and toes, but tions will be tendered to Dr. 8, W.
The report stated that there had Tao, O.B.E., on the honour recently been comments as to the indignity conferred on him.
to human labour involved in the' guent strong cbjection felt by some use of the guss,' and the subso- af the miners to this form of tar ness." The Miuers Association, the report stated, did not contemplate the immediate total abolition of the to the expression of a hope that,
guss."
They confined tehimselves
as a result of the inquiry, practical recommendations would be made that would eventually do away with the practice. The abolition of the
Miss Susan Lawrence, M.P., will in all probability be chairman of the Socialist Party national exern. tive next year. The new executive meeting in Birmingham last month. elected Mr. Herbert Morrison chair man, in succession to Mr. Lansbury, and Miss Lawrence as vice-chair-
This means that in the or dinary course Miss Lawrence, will next year 'sucreed Mr. Morrison as Chairman. She is the first woman as vice-chairman, and will be the first woman na chairman.
man,
guas" it was pointed out, would lead to the closing of the present workings in a number of Somerset
Beams.
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eng beer
Mr. W. R. Morris, the famous motor-ear manufacturer, who has already at various times giver.
It is not often one learns of ship- 2170,000 to hospitals and charity mates spending 25 years together organisations, has now promised on foreign service on board one ship,
• gilt of £40,000, and a further but such is the unique instance of £40,000, for the extension and certain menibers of the H.M. cable development of the Radcliffe In. ship ri, which was commissioned firmary, at Oxford. The Mayor of on February 14th, 1903. Captain Oxford who announced these be- H. R. Hughes, chief questa at a meeting at Oxford Inst J. D. S. Fleming. Paymaster R. month, said that Mr. Morris had Bannister, Cable-foreman J. Book- promised the arst £40,000 to pay the ham, and Cable-jointer J. R. King coat of the maternity department, are members of the crew who have and the 'second £40,000 would be spent, a quarter of a century on paid when the public have contri- board the Iris. Month by month, buted £80,000.
year by year, this ship bas lain at her moorings with steam ready to Mgr, Gaspar Latty, Archbishop depart; now and again she goes of Avignon, has died at the age of for a spin to repair a cable or try 84 He was ordained in 1888, and the engines and test her gear. Re- after occupying several cures in gular watches are kept by officers Paris became Bishop of Chalons in who take days on and off for watch 1894. He expressed a wish to be duties, and a full crew of blue- above all the Clergy's Bishop," jackets are constantly on the pay and soon after his arrival at Chalons roll. It is warship life, as in all convened a congress of clergy at cable-ships stationed abroad. There Epernay, which aroused controversy is time, found for tennis, golf, in the Chamber. Mgr. Latty devot. gricket, and sport of all kinds to ed himself to the better training help fill the monotonous life, and of the clergy, and issued a num neither officers nor men are over- Biblical studies, theological teach must be kept fully manned and ber of letters and pamphlets on burdened with work, yet the ship
ing, and the art of preaching, and founded the Ste. Croix School at Chalons. He became Archbishop of Avignon in 1907.
a party of
equipped ready for emergency duty It was the Iris that caught the escaping Germans, including the adventurous Count von Luckner, in the schooner Mon
Baron Maurice de Rothschild, deputy of the Haute Alpes, may be
No. 1 of vol. 90 of the Smith- defendant in a suit for damages sonian Miscellaneous Collections brought against him by M. Louis de a study of Chinese religion in Sz Kermaingant, a prominent French financier and sportsman, as a result Graham, who points out that this chuan Province by Mr. David C. of a hunting accident that took place in Scotland some weeks ago. for the study not only of the re- area provides an excellent ground M. de Kermaingant and M. Mauriceligious beliefs of the Chinese them de Rothschild, with French and English were guests at selves, but also of those of the aborigines. In the family, which a hunting lodge in Scotland for the is the social unit, and not the in- grouse shooting. In the course of dividual, the ancestors are part, the shoot the Baran's gun went off and the most benoured part. The maingaat, who was standing behind ceremonies of their cult can only prematurely and injured M. de Ker
be performed by the eldest son. him. M. de Kermaingant has since
Hence, not only are sans desired, Baron Maurice de Rothschild, instructed his lawyer to summon
but also every means taken to pro- tect them from harm. The concep
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M. Venizelos, the Greek Premier, person at the tablet and the grave, One result of the recent visit of tion of a multiple soul makes it. possible to commemorate the dead to London is that an English com- while the soul, or one part of it, pany has been given the preference for the work of reclaiming and may also reside in the underworld. At death every effort is made to irrigating vast areas in Thessaly, entice the soul to return and take the Epirus, and other districts. Sir Murdoch MacDonald, of Mac- up its abode in the ancestral tablet. Donald and Partners, consulting In the popular religion the con- engineers, of London; and Messrs. ception of mana is the primary Henry Boot & Sons, public works key to understanding... Demons, the contractors of London and Shef spirits of the dead who for some reason are not at prace, play à field, have been authorised to make
large part in the lives of the people # eurvey of these areas, and it is expected that Mesura, Boot will
and are the cause of all disccses and other calamities Both gods.... accept the contract. The cost of the and charms protect from their in- This work is part of the Greek and maintains a belief in a myster- agricultural land for the benefit of lucky and unlucky days and being Government's policy of regenerating ious potency, producing belief in the 1,800,000 repatriated Greeka.
responsible for a number of super- stitious practices. An attack on the alleged practice religion is so arraiged as to arouse The organised ambulance chasing" by legal the feeling of awe and loyalty by aid societies of a certain type was
if Local Companies desirous of taking solve this grave problem without town. That there is a deep fund of scheme is estimated at £10,000,000. Huence. The element of luck creates
up further Agencies will let us
know the Liner in which they are interested the information will be forwarded to London and passed on to interested parties se op portunity offera. This Service is offered to our Benders
practical sympathy to draw upon in this Colony is quite clearly shown by the splendid work, of the
creating a greater evil than the oac we set out to cure. In winter time there is undoubtedly very severe hardship. The proposal that a night shelter should be established Cruelty to Animals. The continued of
Society for the Prevention of
without charge and, of course, for these people is auggested, of existence of this evil of street sleep made by Mr. E. R. Cook, of Lon. its large temples situated on
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course, by the method of the Salva ing in winter ́is a grave reflection tion Army in London, where some On the Christian churches, on the or women beaten in the com-charitable organisations, and on the petition of life prefer the freedom community generally who ought by of the Embankment, rather than.
now to have found some means of the casual ward of the workhouse dealing with it. which is open to them, but from which they shrink because of the
ed.
don, at the Society's conference at hills, and the imposing character Eastbourne. Mr. Cook described the of the great deities with their robes system in America, and said there and their retinues of priests and was frequently a scramble between flects the attitude towards and the their festivals. This feeling re- the ambulance chaser" and "the insurance company to reach the bed practices connected with their age- side of injured people, the "chaser" time temporal rulera.
Notwith- importuning the victim for a re- standing the spread of democratic tainer and the insurance agent ideas, to which anything connected" clamouring for the victim to sign with royalty is abhorrent, this personally to chase ambulances in a claim release for little or nothing. aspect of religion remains unchang- If it were not possible for lawyers England," it had been possible for them to lend their professional aid
WEATHER REPORT. to those lay societics and in- dividuals who had communicated Yesterday's weather report, fore- indiscriminately with people injured cast and remarks, issued by the charge room at the Central Police render them legal aid on
A ricksha cookie brought to the in accidents their willingness to Royal Observatory at 5.57 p.m..
aj par« { stated :—", Station yesterday afternoon a centage basis. He advocated the
The anticyclone has strengthened parasol which be stated was left remedy suggested in the report of slightly. behind by European lady in Mr. Justice Finlay's Committee on Chater Road near Messrs. Wat-Legal Aid for the Poor chat the Strong monsoon may be expected son's. The parasol has a dark most permanent and satisfactory along the south-east coast of China mauve silk cover and a large ivory remedy would be the ousting of and moderate monsoon over the Zing attached at the end of the those undesirable societies by the China Sea. handle. The owner can claim the spread of legal aid societies of the Local Forecast -North winds, article at the Police Station. genuine type.
fresh, fine.
irksome restrictions and the claim nounced of Mr. J. Durran, medical The forthcoming wedding is an- made upon them for labour, in practitioner, 80 Nathan Road, return for their night's loggings travelling to Hong Kong on board Kowloon, to Miss K., Hunter,
and a meal.
The problem here, the na. Hector.. also, would be to provide a remedy. 56. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, la F100 which would not increase the number of Hong Kong's paupers, nor make it the Mecca for Kwang tung's destitute population. shelter were provided admission to it would have to be to restricted that the ordinary coolie would not
Lady
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