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SUMMER UNDERWEAR

AS YOU LIKE IT

Far be it from us to tell you what Underwear you should wear. Perhaps you have a liking for India Gauze-open or pull-over style-you may be a wool-all-the- year-round man, you may find life unbearable in anything but Aertex. It is because we realise this so well that we keep all thèse Among kinds-and many more. them you are sure to find under- wear as you like it.

GAUZE

$3.00 Each.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17,

PRIZE SPEAKING

SITS MISERABLY WATENG HIS TURN TO SPEAK HIS PIECE

STARTS GOING OVER FORM IN HIS MIND TO MAKE SURE HE HAS IT FORSOTTEN IT

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

KAIPING

HOME, FACTORY

CATCHES SIGHT OF FAMI- LY IN FRONT ROW ALL BEAMING AT HIM

SIGHT OF FAMILY RATTLES HIM, HASTILY AVERTS EYE AND STARES. AT CEILING

AND BUNKERS

COAL

FOR ALL PURPOSES

POWER

HOUSE,

TUGS &

LOCOS

AERTEX

B. V. D.

83.75

$1.75

"

Cash Discount 10%.

Mackintosh's

King George IV"

PRE-WAR

QUALITY

THOROUGH MATURITY

RARE

BOUQUET

DELICATE FLAVOUR

Old Scotch Whisky

Ragus

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SOLE AGENTS:

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HONJEONG.

WHITEAWAYS

2 SPECIAL DOLLAR

THE 1930 PRINTED TABLE CIVERS

SQUARE

SQUAR

A SPECIAL VALUE

IN

VALUES"

PRINTED COTTON

TABLE COVERS

Suitable for "Tea Tables, Occasional Tables, Bridge Tables, etc., etc. 36 inches Square. Assorted Designs and Colours.

$1.00 EACH.

HUCKABUCK FACE TOWELS

A Good Washing and Wearing Coloured Bordered

Quality.

Ends.

Size: 20 by 38 inches.

SPECIAL

PRICE

EACH.

Damask Bordered

CKABACK TOWEL

HOUSEHOLD FURNISHING DEPT.

FIRST FLOOR SHOWROOMS.

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

HONG KONG.

SUDDENLY REALIZES HE'S UTTERLY FORGOT- TEN THIRD ONE OF HIS PREM

EUNAS WRUAMS

REMEMBERS LINE BIT FINDS THAT HIS THROAT HAS GONE DRY AND HIS TONGUE FEELS LIKE A

BALLOON

REALIZES HIS TURN HAS COME: WONDERS DES - FERATELY COULD HE SNEAK OUT PRETENDING TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN ID

(Copyright, 1920, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

RESTRICTIONS MUST CONTINUE.

AN EXTRA »37 MILLION GALLONS YESTERDAY.

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THE TARIFF FOR YOUR, WATER,

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL'S NEW REGULATIONS.

Regulations to be introduced into the Legislative Council to-day include the imposition of a price of 75 cents per 1,000 gallons for the Peak and 30 cents per 1,000 gallons in other parts of the Island. Excess consumption will be charged even higher, except in special cases mentioned.

Penalties for wasting or polluting water are also heavily in- creased. The whole object is to reduce consumption.

Our representative was informed yesterday that while the Government were closely watching the situation, it was impossible as yet to relax restrictions. The reservoirs are still extremely low and much more rain is needed before an increased supply from the mains can be allowed on the Island. At the present rate of con- Fumption there is only enough to last, till the end of the year.

WHAT YOUR WATER WILL COST.

NEW REGULATIONS.

TO REDUCE CONSUMPTION.

At to-morrow's meeting of the Legislative Council the measure, already announced, to abolish the free allowance of water will be in-

troduced and when passed the fol- lowing regulations will be put into

force.

Schedule of Prices.

The price of all filtered water supplied by meter shall be seventy- five cents per thousand gallons in the Peak District and fifty cents per

thousand gallons in all other parts

of the island of Hong Kong.

The price of all excess consump tion in the case of filtered water

The price of all un£ltered water supplied by meter at Pokfulam, Repulse Bay, Stanley, and Tai Taw, and elsewhere" except at Tai Po or Fanling, shall be fifty cents per thousand gallons.

The Mainland.

In the case of filtered water sup- plied by meter in Kowloon or New Kowloon no price shall be charged in respect of the quarterly amount and the price of all excess consump. tion shall be seventy-five cents per thousand gallons.

The price of all unfiltered water supplied by meter at Tai Po shall be thirty-five cents per thousand gallons.

BETS UP SHANILY, STEADIES KNEES, AD- VANCES TO FRONT OF STAGE AND BEGINS

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known as the "free allowance" of water. The abolition of the "free allowance will actually be effected

by regulation. The scle aim of this proposed legislation is to check cuz sumption during the present very serious shortage of water.

The quarterly allowance is the so- called "free allowance." Section 2 of this Ordinance substitutes the term quarterly amount" because "allowance suggests the present "free allowance" and that is to be abandoned temporarily,

It is obvious that the meters throughout the Colony cannot ros- sibly be read on the same day, and the regulations provide that the reading may be taken on any day not more than ten days before or after the calender date of the com- mencement of the quarter. Accord- ingly, the meter reader's quarter for any particularly tenement may be loager or shorter than the calendar quarter, but a long quarter is always balanced later on by shorter quarter because the last reading of any one quarter must be taken as the Brst reading of the succeeding quarter.

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION,

Head Quico-TIENTSIN.

DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hong Kong.

HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.

A small boy was eating Jello. with a three-year-old baby's interest in the process. He watched it trembling as he brought it to his rosy lips, and spoke to it soothing ly, saying, Now, don't get ex-

cited.'

James: butter."

"Papa, I ain't got no

Papa: "John,

correct your brother."

John (looking over at James's plate): Yes, you is."

boarding house): "I admit I don't object to sleeping in the breakfast room, but really. I think you're going a little too far when you charge me extra for breakfast in my bedroom !!

Holiday Maker (leaving crowded

A little boy from the city was visiting his grandfather in the country. One afternoon they were strolling through the woods when the child stooped and picked up something:

"What have you got there 1" Grandfather asked..

For the first time since I've dined at this restaurant the charge is reasonable." said the guest.

"Reasonable echoed the waiter, surprised. "I had better have an- other look at the bill. There must be some mistake."

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How did you succeed if you never burned, the midnight oil

I sold it."

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"That is a skyscraper," announe- ed the guide.

Old Lady: Ob, my! I'd love to see it work."

torist had occasion to crawl under On the road to Mossel Bay a mo- his car to do a small repair. A herd of cows came by in charge of a bay.

A the last one passed the car the boy called out: All right, mister, you can come out, They won't hurt you now."

1.

Blink: "He's an interesting talker."

Jinks: "Yes, he is as full of stories as a skyscraper."

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How is your husband getting co with golf?

"I don't know," Jimmie replied, its hat on." "but it looks to me like a nut with

"Oh, very well indeed. The chil In his chubby fist be was holding | dren are allowed to watch him an acorn.

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now,

CROSSWORD "PUZZLE.

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The Street Fountains. " Section of this Ordinance amends the regulation-making sec- tion of the principal Ordinance in two way?.

In the first place it abolishes the present maximum price for water supplied by meter. In the second place it gives the Governor in Council a wide power to make regulations for the purpose of controlling the persons who re- sort to the public fountains. For example, in a time of shortage such as the present, it may be desirable to nesign particular public fountains te particular blocks of buildings and

to exclude persons from outside The price of all unfitered water

arcas. It might also be desirable to supplied by meter at Fanling eball introduce some system of rationing. be one dollar per thousand gallons: It is also desirable to be able to provided that the special price give powers to police officers and hitherto charged for water supplied others who may be stationed at gallong in all other parts of Hong at Fanling shell remain in force

to the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club public fountains.

shall be one dollar and seventy-five cents per thousand gallons in the Peak District and one dollar and twenty-five cents per thousand

Kong.

DO

For Builders.

only in respect of water supplied

Penalties Increased.

The price of all water supplied by Section 7 to 13, both, inclusive, of In the case of filtered water sup-meter to shipping direct through this Ordinance amends the various plied by meter to hospitals or pipes on wharves or piers, or to Penalties under the principal Ordin- charitable institutions

ance. Some of the penalties in the price water beats, shall be two dollars per

thousand gallons, and the price of principal Ordinance appear to be shall be charged in respect of the all water supplied by meter to ship-o

small. For example, the quarterly amount and the price of ping otherwise than direct through maximum penalty for wilful waste all excess consumption shall be pipes on wharves or piers shall be of water, however much water may

four dollars per thousand gallons. have been wasted, is only $25. seventy-five cents per thousand

Again, the maximum penalty for gallons.

For water supplied by meter to by meter for building purposes shall other noxious or injurious matter The price of all water supplied negligently polluting the water- works by " any foul liquid gas or naval establishments the price of be two dollars per thousand gallons, is only $100, and even for wilful 'filtered water jeball be seventy-five This regulation shall have effect pollution of this nature the In the cents per thousand gallons, and of by meter in the third quarter of maximum is the same. unfiltered water thirty-five cents per 1920, and for the purpose of this second place, the maximum penal- ties seem to be unnecessarily thousand gallons.

paragraph the word quarter with varieds The amending sections of reference to any particular meter Any special price hitherto charged shall be construed as meaning the this Ordinance make the maximum for filtered water supplied by meter period between two

consecutive Penalty in any case 8250 which is to military establishments shall re-readings of the meter as provided now the standard maximum for sum. by Regulation 7 of these regulations mary offences. In the two cases for the purpose of calculating the where a daily penalty is provided in the principal Ordinance this. Ordinance makes the maximum a day.

Section 14 of this Ordinance gives chau" and Shaukiwan no price shall, The Objects and Reasons as ex- nower to make the temporary aboli be charged in respect of the quar-plained by the Attorney-General tion of the "free allowance terly amount and the price of all (Sir Joseph Kemp, K.C.), state to the current quarter, and it makes consumption ahall be suteralia thut the main obiect of it olen that what is meant is the

temporary abolition of what is

main in force.

Outlying Districts.

In the case of filtered water sup- plied by meter at Aberdeen, Apli-

excers seventy-five

gallons,

quarterly consumption,

OBJECTS AND REASONS.

(Continued on Page 5.),

apply

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Horizontal.

1.-Sharp. B-Happiness. 11.-Those who lasso. 13.-Vile person. 14.-Printer's, measure. 15.- Nicked..

17-Correlative„of "either." 18.-Insect egy.. 20,-Compact. 21-Part of to be." 22.-Pain."

24-Sheep.

25, Ram EWBY

13.-Caprice.

16.-Plastic earth..

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19-Name of a gland. 21.-Changed. 23,--Dropsy. 55.--Blazes.

27.-Brief slumber.

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18.-Expression of disapproval, 30.-Stéma.

31.-One who talk idly. 32.-Observed.

23.-Artist's worshop.

24-Recompense.

35.-Conjunction.

23-Capital of New South Wales. 37.-Head coverings.

28.-Spasms,

29-To peruse.

31.-Ostentatious display.

30.-Father.

32-Guides.

35.-Afternoon' party.

34.-Tune.

36.-Third son of Adam. 39.-Small compact mase.

39. To bombard.

41-Piece for twe 42-By. 43.-Expressed gratitude. 45.-To act. 48.—Territory. 48.-Duli. B0,-Idler, Bi-Bongs for three parts.

Vertical.

1-Place for combate." 2.Humorous "Ectors. 78-Above"

4-A number. 5.-God of love. 6. Brought up.

T-Preceded. 8.-Pronoun. 9-Tallies

12-Packed away.

39.-Foot covering. 40A Latvian. 43.-A metal, 44.-A beetle. 47.-Boxing match. 48.-Symbol of lithium,

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