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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1930.

SHOPPING GUIDE

Felix Hat Shop

DECEMBER SALE

FELT HATS from $6, . JUMPER SUITS from $20. AFTERNOON GOWNS

GREATLY REDUCED. 7, Ice House St.

Rolande Sarrault

MODES-COUTURE

14|

HAS REMOVED, TO

3rd Floor, PEDDER BUILDING

ROOM No. 3

TELEPHONE.

2252

A SEK & CO. PHOTO-SUPPLIES

264, DesVUT Be. O. Tez. Č. 3459

NAKAMURA

MASSAGE

No. 3, Lee Toxa STREET, 1ST FLOOR, WANCHAI.

Hora Roxo.

RADIO SUPPLIES

Mackintosh's

Men's Wear Shoçialists.

Alexandra Bldg, Dis Vœux Road.

Fresh Flowers, Fruit

and Vegetables

The Clover Flower Shop

10, ICE HOUSE.STREET

REMOVED TO

74, QUEEN'S ROAD C.

DER A. WING & CO. (1925), LTD.

ELECTRIC GRAMOPHONES Madame S. LEITE

AND MOTORS

SUPER ELTO OUTBOARD

MOTORS

RUDGE-WHITWORTH MOTOR CYCLES TENNIS RACKETS

RUDOLF WOLFI & KEW, Lro.

54, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. 1st Floor.

Tel. C. 2173.

Ladies' Wear Specialist.

NEW SATINS AND LACE BRIDAL VEILS OF BRUS- SELS NET AND TULLE,

ASIATIC BUILDING. 1ST FLOOR TELEPHONE C 4474

QUALITY

DAINTY SHOES

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.

MADE TO ORDER AT MODERATE PRICES

ROYAL SHOE STORE

No. 1, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Hong Kong Telephone C. 3237.

SHOP

AT

THESE

SHOPS

PERMANENT WAVING

11

The Most Up-to-date Beauty Shop in Town. MRS. BETEN. TEL. K. 681. PENINSULA HOTEL Ex. 34.

A. YUN TAILOR & OUTFITTER 49, YOTTINGER STREET, CENTRAL

TEL. C. 6060,

Howo Long.

POWELL'S

Gentlemen's Tailors and Outfitters.

BESPOKE ORDERS Executed In 24 Hours.

10, ICE HOUSE STREET.

ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE BEAUTE

For the Best Perman-i ant Finger & Marcel Waves. Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladies & Gentlemen.

MODERATE CHAROZS,

PZDDER BLDO. ST FLOOR, Room 5. 'TML. C, 5169.

L

Opposite Entrance H.K. HOTEL

HONGKONG HOTEL

GARAGE

FOR JAR HIRE

FOR HONG KOxo: 0. 4758

FOR KOWLOON: E 681

THE DAIRY FARM

les HOUSE STREET

FOR PURE MILK

FARM AND IMPORTED FROZEN

MEATS. HOUSE FED POULTRY

VITE INTEGRITY

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

THE DEPARTMENTAL STORE OF THE EAST.

TEL C. 4567 (6 LINES).

ESTADLISHED 1898.

Tak Cheong

Gentlemen's Tailors, Outfitters and Dealers in all kinds of Fancy Goods

50, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

1HONE; CENT. 1317

HONG KONG EURNITURE CO., LTD.

MANUFACTURERS OF TEAKWOOD, BLACKWOOD

AND

RATTAN FURNITURE.

8, QUEEN'S. ROAD CENTRAL

MAISON DE MODES M-ME D'OBRY.

MODES, ROBES, COUTURE

CHRISTMAS SALE 20% Reductions BATS, AFTERNOON AND EVENING GOWNS, COATS, SMART ACCESSORIES.

18, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

A SUIT IS NOT A SUIT UNLESS THE CUT IS PERFECT AND FOR PERFECT CUT GO TO

AHMED DIN

4, D'AQUILAR ST.

KOWLOON ARANCI

ΡΕΝΙΝΗΣΙΑ ΠΟΤΕ

EXCHANGE BUILDING.

AUCTION!

IF YOU ARE FURNISHING.

AND WANT, `TO PICK UP GOOD PIECES OF EITHER EUROPEAN OR ORIENTAL MAKE AT ADVANTAGEOUS PRICE, GO TO

LAMMERT BROS.,

BUDDELL STREET

Mac's Cafeteria

HONG KONG HOTEL Finest Selection

of

CHOCOLATES

in

FANCY GIFT BOXES

ALWAYS ON SALE

FRESH CALIFORNIA FRUITS

BOOK & BIBLE DEPOT.

CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CALENDARS !

BOOKS FOR Young and Old

LABOE. ASSORTMENT OF CHINESE LITERATURE.

2, WYNDHAM STREET,£

P. O. Box 1, Hong Kong

is the Address.. Write an Order for the Weekly Press to be sent you for Three Months or Thirty Years. The Rest will cost you $3.75, and the Annual Subscription is $15.

The SUN Co, Ltd.

DEPARTMENTAL STORE

DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL

H.K. TRANSFER & LIGHTER CO.

FURNITURE" REMOVALS AND GENERAL TRANS- POET BY 'TRUCK OR LIGHTER.

87. GEORGES BUILDING

L. Es S. Hodge,

Tel. C. 3639 K. 1422

HAVE YOUR EYES

TESTED AND FRAMES FITTED

By

„CUSTOMS REVENUE IN 1929.

COLLECTION NEARLY

DOUBLED.

ALL OBLIGATIONS MET IN FULL.

The Maritime Customs" Revenue for 1920 amounts in round figures. to Hk. Tia. 152,760,000. (For 1999 the revenue was in round figures Hk. Tls. 89,339,000.) The sterling equivalent of the 1999 col- lection at the average exchange of 25.7 13/13d. is approximately £20,248,600.

The following table shows in round figures the collection for 1929 at the principal ports:

Harbin.. Antung

Newchwang

:

1929.

Collection

1829, Hk. Tia.

3,112,000 2,352,000

.3,701,000 2,311,000

Dairen

12,837,000 8,187,000

2,084,000 1,194,000

Tientsin and

Chinwangtao 10,351,000 9,554.000

Kinochow

Hankow

Shanghai

Amay Swntow Canton

6,671,000 3,318,000

5,208,000 € 5,117,007 69,442,000 .33,650, (1 2,177,000 1,118,000 2,028,000 1,074,000- 6,115,000 3.01 1,000

The 1020 Revenue of "the Native Customs under the Inspector General's control amounts in round figures to Hk. Tls. 4,580,000 which t the

average exchange of 25.7 13/10d, equals £607.000. (The Native Customs revenue in 1928 was Hk. Tis. 3,638,000.)

All Foreign Loan and Indemnity obligations secured on the Customs Revenue, including the service of the Reorganization Loan, have been met in full. The cost in silver of the service of the above gold ob. ligations was Sh. Tls. 85,338,113.41

compared with Sh. Tis. 57.389,724.87 which means an extra charge on the Chinese Customs Re- venue of Sh. Tha 8,048,358.51 due to an unfavourable rate of ex- change.

The service, both interest and redemption, of all Domestic Loans secured on cancelled Indemnities and on Additional Duty has been met or provided for in full. The interest on those Domestic Loans which are secured on the old 5 per cent. Customs Revenue surplus was also met in full.

Difficulties of Comparison. The N.-C. Daily News points out that the official Customs Revenue figures as published above seem to need some sort of explanation for the casus reader. While the year- ly returns for 1928, a record year, show a totul income.dervied by the

Chinese Government from the mari-

BY APPOINTMENT

There can be but one answer to the question- Why do all first-class- hotels & restaurants use

Cerebos

SALT

Representatives Tan & Hutchison

GT, Hong Kong.

WOMAN'S CORNER.

CAN YOU DANCE IN THE NEW FROCKS?

"Can you dance in the "now When the Blues was frst intro- dance frocks" sounds na if it duced wo wore bouffant frocks might be the title of the latest with skirts wired on the hips. At foxtrot, but it is really a perfectly the height of the slow foxtrot's serious question. Most serious for popularity long, slim dresses were for the dancing girl..

the vogue.

For autumn dances we found it possible, to wear. dresses which merely flirted with the DOW silhouette, the new hem-line, but with the arrival of the winter sed. son we to had make up our minds whether we could dance in the really

new tight-hipped, high waisted, long-skirted fracks,

The fitted to below the hips style is not one to be carelessly adopted by the dancer. Even for ordinary wear it is suitable only for the slender.

For dancing, it must not be very tight fitting or the wearer would be quite unable to move with that easy swing from the hips so essen- tial to good dancing.

For high waist and fitted bodice the dancer need feel nothing but thankfulness. Some partners have a genius for holding one in a way which makes one's figure assume the ugliest of lines; tight bodices utterly defy the worst efforts of such partners.

Touch of Digalty.

Last year our skirts became de- finitely longer, though usually at one point only-we dared not do the thing properly with the dances like the Varsity Drag and the Heebie-Jebies hovering around.

But this year when even Our liveliest dances have a touch of dignity about them, a skirt which touches the ankles is practicable wear...

But it must be no longer than the ankles. should firmly and finally refuse to Every dancing, girl

the ground-whether with a train, wear skirts which anywhere touch panels or with godets.

What with talking to our part- have quite enough to do without ners and following their steps, we having to stop and unhook a train, or disentangle a floating panel from somebody's heel.

Bre 30

And long skirts. Obviously we The velvet frocks that could not have danced the Charles- fashionable just now have an an- ton-any-way in its frisky youth-noying way of showing every finger in long skirts, but this season's mark and impression. The casiest dances all being gracefully smooth, and most effective way of remov they can be managed in skirts to ing these marks is to hang the the ankles.

dress in the bathroom while a hot bath is in progress.

lime Customs-receipts of roughly about Hk. Tls. 82,300,000 in 1929, the sudden increase to Hk. Tis. 152,800,000 which in view of the present depression of trade, seems to require some explanation.

It has, however, to be borne in mind that when Mr. F. W. Maze took over the Inspector General- ship at the beginning of last year. it was arranged that every Custom House under his control would col-ing together.

lect simultaneously, from February

1, the old five per cent. duty" and the new additional duties, and

THE HONGKONG OPTICAL CO. that these, two figures combined

Qualified Opticians

53, Queen's Road C. Tel. 0. 2232

J. Ullmann & Eu

High Class Jewellers

Est. 1860

Alexandra Bldg. Chater Road.

FRIGIDAIRE

<BOLI ÁORATO

DODWELL & Co, Ltd. QUEEN'S BUILDING." TEL. C. 108

BRUNSWICK

.

HOUSE

BRUNSWICK PANATROPES

AND

RECORDS

17, ICE HOUSE STREET TEL. C. 4036

now represent the revenue collected for 1029.

Additional Duties Responsible.

To draw a comparison between 1025 and 1929, is under these con- ditns, an impossibility in the ab- sence of direct information as to what portion of the year's collec- tion represents the old five per cent tariff and what portion should be credited to addition duty. We can draw our own conclusion, bow- ever, working on the basis of the 1928 collection and the three quar- terly returns already published by the Customs that the difference, be- tween the 1923 total and that of 1920 represents the sum collected under the heading of Additional Duties.

Of course the results so obtained, are only surmise, but it would seem that, considering that the new du- ties are supposed to double those charged before, our estimate is not very far from the truth. At the same time it should not be forgot- ter that owing to the fighting which has taken place during many months of last year in many pro- vinces, a number of ports in the interior have for some time been out of commission as revenue pro- ducing centres,'

From the data at hand, however," it is possible to gather that the big trade centres, such as Bhang- bai, Tientsin, Dairen, Canton and Hankow show in some cases Con siderable increases, while in other places, allowing for the conditions that have prevailed, there has ac- tually been no real falling off in trade. On the whole the "returns are auch that the Chinese govern- ment and the foreign interests con- cerned have no reason to complain of the satisfactory results achieved by the Maritime. Customs under the S-controlul Mreži=@sean=b

spite of the very adverse circum- stances prevailing at intervale throughout the country...

Indeed it is worthy of note that our fashions and our style of don- The hot steam will remove the cing have a pleasant habit of chang. | marks without further effort on

your part.

Bigger & Better Than Ever

CHRONICLE

and

DIRECTORY

for

1930

Now In Preparation.