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INTIMATIONS.

ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT CLUB,

THE

*TREVESSA TROPHY"

"HE THIRTEENTH RI-ANNUAL RACE for SHIP'S LIFEDOATS will be Bailer on WEDNESDAY, the 19TH MARCH, Starting at 4 r..

Each Ship may enter Any Number of Boats.

GOLF NOTES.

FINAL OF THE GOVERNOR'S SHIELD.

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B. & S. BEAT DODWELLS,

.B. & S.

Dodwells.

Traland Robertson Thayer Spicer Roberts

Singles.

Dodwell beat lost to Holmes lost to. Warren

COURSE:-Stark from CHANNEL Rocks, thence to Kowloor lock (P), Mark of YACHT CLUB (S). CUST Book MARK (P). Finish at the YACHT CLUB across the Linn. from West to East

Compating Boat should be in Polliaton tion at the Starting Line by 3.30 PM.

Ships proposing to enter Boats are requested to Notify the HON. SEC RETARY, ROTAL HONG KONG YACHT CLUB, Not Later Than NOON, on the 19TH MARCH.

B. J. VERNALL,

Hon. Secretary,

ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT CLUB, Hong Kong, 17th Feb, 1930. [8976 HONG KONG TELEPHONE CO., LTD. AUTOMÁTIC TELEPHONE

SYSTEM.

DEMONSTRATION MODEL

BET

lost to Valentine

beat Humphreys bent Syme Thomson Fourballs.

Ireland and Robertson lost to Dod-

well and Holmes. Thayer and Spicer beat Warren and

Valentine.

Roberts and Hinton beat Hum-

phreys and Syme Thomson. The match was most exciting as the last the result depended on Fourball and it was notable for the fact that one of the fourbal's went to the 23rd hole before a decision could be arrived at.

The morning round finished all even, each side winning" three matches."

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Ireland, and Robertson were one

DEMONSTRATION Showing the Operation" of the Automatic Switches during the Progress In the Fourballs, B. & S. were ef & Call, and demonstrating the Various Tones received at Each Stage,receiving three, six and fivo bis- bas been Instaled in the MAIN ques, respectively. LOUNGE of LANE, CHAWFORD'S Care, and Telephone Tears Bre Esraostly Requested to avail Themselves of the Opportunity of Becoming Conversant with the Method of Operation by paying a Visit to This Warking Model where Ocera of the Company will bo in attendance to explain the Function ing of the Switches and the Meaning of

J. P. SHERRY,

Manager. (8951

the Diferent Tones.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG."

PROBATE JURISDICTION. -

THE Goong or ERNEST ALEXANDER CHAPLIN, LATE OF 6, PEMBERLEY AVENGE BEDFORD, IN THE COUNTY or BEDFORD, ESOLAND, DECEASED.

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down at the 12th with a couple of bisques in hand and were unable to use them at the next two holes where Dodwells got 3's. They used their bisques to win the 15th and fith. At the latter hele neither of then was on the green but both chipped within holing distance and Dodwells were both putting for B. & S. squared in 4 at the 17th and a half at the 18th necessitated à continuation.. The 19th, 20th and gist were halved in 4, 4, 4, and B. & S, looked to have won the 2nd, but Dodwells ran down a long patt which severely tinted the back of the hole. Fortunately for the latter they managed to win the 3rd otherwise they would have had to concede a stroke at the 94th.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19,

NATIONAL HEALTH. THE HUMAN VOICE'S

OPIUM CAMPAIGN AND' INDUSTRIAL WORKERS'.

WELFARE.

The three-day conference of the National Board of Health ended at Nanking on February 11. The' following are the more important resolutions adopted :-

UPWARD TREND.

FEW REAL BASSES AND CONTRALTOS.

TOP-NOTE TENDENCY.

Mr. George Dodds, Newcastle- on-Tyne professor

of

MOTOR-CAR AND TRAM

"COLLISION AT WEST POINT.

Shortly after 9.30 last night, a bramear which was proceeding in a westerly direction, came into a colleion with motor-car No. 762, driven at the tinie hy a Earopena.

The motor-car, which was also going from East to West, overtook singing the tram near the St. Peter's

1. All problems relating to phar-speaking at the annual conference maceutics and the manufacture of of the Incorporated Society of medicine were referred to a com- Musicians at Chester last month, mittes composed of specialists said that the human voice was on Through their recommendation the the upward trend.." following resolutions were passed: (a) That the draft Chinese Phar- macopain prepared by the Ministry of Health be adopted, with a few minor changes, and published in the next two or three months.

selves baases or contraltos are now

"There are to-day," he said, very few real low baas voices or low contralto voices. There are many more top F's and top G's and nearly all men's songs are written for baritone rather than bass. The tendency is for singing teachers to train their pupils' (b) That thả - Ministry" be recom-

mended to make a thorough in-ices up. Vocalists calling them- vestigation of the drug producing really baritones or mezzo-sopranos." centres; to provide a place in

The present world standard of atral location for the exhibi- tion of native drugs; to estabalism was low, continued Mr. Dodds. He did not entirely blame lish a botanical garden and mechanical music. While it un- research institute for the mant

doubtedly had a bad effect on the singer'a chances of earning a liveli- hood by concert work, the influence of gramophone and wireless per- formances generally was good. The present-day gramophone was cap- able of giving a singing lesson.

facture of drugs; to include pharmaceutical subjects in the curricula of the present medical schools; and to train phar maceutical personnel abroad.

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Health in Factories.

II. Industrial Hygiene. Recom- mendations relating to industrial hygiene were made similar to the procedure already planned by the finistry of Health for the training of personnel, demonstrations, and the health insurance of factory em- ployees..

III. The training of public health visitors shall be initiated as soon as facilities are available.

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sing.

Church, West Point, but after it got about 50 yards ahead, it had to serve to avoid a Chinese boy, who shot out from a side lane on a bicycle. The car stopped dead with its front wheels projecting one to the tram lines,

Before the motorman of the ca could apply his brakes, he ra broadside into the "motor-ear, dim- leging the running board. However, with the help of some of the Chi nese who had grahered around the car and train, the driver of the former ted his vehicle clear of the tramcar and went on his way.

No damage was done to the tram-

CiLT.

SENATE'S APPROVAL OF MR. C. E. HUGHES.

STRONG WESTERN OPPOS- TION DEFEATED IN THE SENATE.

Melody Unfashionable. Melody was qu the whole not fashionable in music to-day. There

[UNITED PRESH, } ing clever rather than beautiful,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 was a danger of performances be brainy rather than inspired." The

Despite the determined opposi- fashion of the day," he said, "ition of Western insurgents which perhaps to dance rather than to

gained strength during the past se veral days, the Senate confirmed A liberal education was declared President Hoover's namination of by Professor Shera, of Sheffield Mr. Charles Evans Hughes to suc University, to be of the utmost imcted Mr. William Howard Taft, portance to musicians as conferring who recently resigned because of ill the power of intellectual sympathy, health, as Chief Justice of the U.S.

"I think," he said, "it would bupreme Court. be a splendid idea if teachers taught their pupils, for instance, to discern the mediaval spirit in, i Bay, Chartres, the spirit of V. Recommendations were recom-Michangelo in. the paintings in the mended on the joint control of Sistine Chapel, of seventeenth-

century

Holland in Vermeer's and the eighteenth century in the a minor Symphony."

IV. Rules governing the examina. tion of unregistered physicians and pharmacists shall be promulgated at an early data.

Education and of Health. These re commendations shall be submitted to the Joint Committee on Medical Education of the Ministries Education and of Health.

The third Fourball was really ex- diting.. Dodwells had worked off TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the handicap and were all square,

that the Court has, by virtue of at the Armchair. B. & S. won the inedical schools by the Ministries 01 View of Delft," and of Mozart Section 58 of Probate Ordinance 1897, 16th and then Hinton excelled him- made An Order Limiting the Time for self at the 17th. He cut he drive Creditom and Others to send in their

to the far side of the 4th fairway, Claims against the above Estate to the played a superb brassie onto the 12TH DAY OF MARCH, 1930..

All Creditors and Others are accord- top of the hillock amongst the trees ingly hereby required to send in their on the left of the green; from here Claims to the Undersigned on or before he finally emerged, amidst the outraged protestations of nesting That Date.

magpics and halved the hole. A half at the 18th gava B. & S. the match.

Datod the 11th day of February, 1930. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Executrix,

Prince's Bailding, Hong Kong.

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CHINA UNDERWRITERS,

LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Fanling golfers will be glad to hear that A. 11. Ferguson is making satisfactory progress and it is to be hoped that we shall soon see bis diminutive figure on the course again

ENGAGED.

that by a Resolution of the Board TWO MALARIA EXPERTS of Directors of CHINA UNDER. WRITERS. LTD., made on the THIRTEENTH INSTANT, A CALL: of ONE DOLLAR For Share has been made upon the Members of the Company payable on or before the TWENTIETH

DAY OF MAY, 1930, to the Company's Bankers Tax. HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA TION, at HONG KONG.

Dated this 14th day of February, 1939, By Order of the Board, HERBERT R. STURE,,

Manager and Secretary.

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› Opium Adicts.

of

VI. Anti-opium drugs shall not be allowed to be sold in the market, because of the presence of narcotics. People wishing to rid themselves of the opium-smoking habit shall be taken care of by physicians only.

VII. The National Government

shall be petitioned to set aside a special fund for state medicine and the prevention of epidemics.

VIII State medicine shall be in- troduced by health organizations whenever conditions are favourable.

IX. Recommendations aball be made to the Ministry of Justice in regard to the training of personnel for legal medicine.

At the fortnightly meeting of the X. Travelling clinics shall be in- Sanitary Board, yesterday, Mr.troduced in rural districts.

K. Lo asked the following quea-·

tiền :--

Will the end of the Sanitary Department be kind enough to as- certain from the Government, and inform the Board, what is the pre- seat position as regards the steps actually taken or contemplated by the Government in dealing with the arable of malaria and its vention within the Colony "

The Chairman (Mr. G. R. Sayer) replied as follows:

pre-

I understand the member to be referring not to the work of the Board in connection with the mos. quito-nuisance as auch within its own area but the broader subject of anti-malarial field-work.

I am authorised to state that in order to enable the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services to make recommendations to the Gov- ernment as to what should be done, two experts in malariology, have been engaged from the Federated Malay States and are shortly due to arrive in the Colony."

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The modern training of the listen- er, he thought, arose from three CANU BOS! 1. the realisation that music was a foreign language; 2 the awakening of the historical sense; and 3, the increasing demand made by instrumental music on the. intellect as well as on the senses and emotions.

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How the Voting Went, ... The vote on the confirmation was 5% to 20, showing an addition of one to the 23 Western opponents re- vealed in an informal poll yester day.

1930.

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Mr. Hughes's Thanks.

and Australia.

New York, Feb. 13. Mr. Hughes, has issued a state ment voicing his. appreciation 'of the high honour which has been bestowed upon him.

Mr. Hughes said that ho would take his scat when the court re- convened on February 24.

The best learning, however, is, by doing" said the Professor, and I regret very much that many secondary day schools have no choral societies. I also should like to urge that every competitive festival should end in a combined performance. Parallel study of as many of the arts as possible is most A blind girl student at Chorley valuable in aiding the realisation Wood College (Herts), Miss Hazel of the environment in which the Winter, has won a £60 open scholar- music of the various periods came ship for history at Lady Margaret, into being and which it expresses, Hall, Oxford. She is seventeen but before we can make our teach years of age. At her examination ing a really worthy part of a real-be had to compete with the best ly liberal education, we must make women University candidates in the sure that we are liberally educating country. Chorley Wood is the only existing public school for blind Mr. Bernard Johnson, the Not-girls. Miss Winter is a daughter tingham city organist, dealt with of Colonel C. B. Winter, late of the the equipment pecessary to church Indian Army. organists, dividing the organ into various parts, which he termed surgical, medical and manipu- lative." Referring to hymn-sing- ing in church, Mr. Johnson said that hymns were sung to-day far too coldly and without warmth or feeling, And," he added, "the majority of people seem to be lack- ing in a scase of ryhthm"

ourselves."

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Senator Tom Heflin of Alabama last week invited Mr. Henry Ford, the motor magnate, to testify be- fore the Senate Cotton Price Inves tigation Committee regarding pre vions testimony that his agents had helped to depress the price of cotton by "remorseless buying."

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Fong, to-morrow night at the Wardman Park hotel..

The affair will be one of the out- standing affairs of the Washington social scanon.

A large number of prominent per« * sons who bave expressed a desire to meet Mei Lan Fang will be un- able to attend, owing to limitations of space in the theatre..

The programme is to begin at 10:30 p.m. Dr. Wu will introduce Mr. Mei

(UNITED PRESE]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. Dr. Wu Chao Chu, Chinese Minister to Washington, and Mrs.

Sketches of various famous Chi- Wu have issued invitations to 500 of the leading diplomats, Cabinet nese plays, together with full ex- members and congressmen to witplanation designed to explain thern ness a private performance of the to foreigners, will be followed by famous Chinese actor, Mei Lan! Mr. Mei's interpretation..

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