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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the NINTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS of the HONG KONG ENGINEERING and CONSTRUC TION COMPANY, LIMITED, will held in the BOARD ROOM

Menses. St. George's FRETAN, TONES & Uo., St. Building Chator Road,

APUL WEDNESDAY, Hong Kong, on 1931, at 1 O'clock NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directora and a Statement of Accounts for the Year ended on the, 8 Decemb**, 1930, and electing Directora and Auditors.

the

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 1arn to the 2ND. APRIL, 193', Both Daya inclusive.

By Order of the Board

B. ALVES.

Secretary.

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Hong Kong, 7th April, 1931.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,

THE THIRD EXTRA RACE MEETING will be hold (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VAL LEY on SATURDAY, 18TH APRIL, 1931, Commencing at 1.30 P.M.

The First Bell will be Rung st 1 P.M.

MEMBERS ENCLOSURE, Members are notified that they and

prominently displayed,

PHYSIKURATE

IN NOICE CURANS.

FOR ALL

URIC ACID

COMPLAINTS.

RHEUMATISM,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1931.

WEATHER REPORT.

The weather report, forecast and remarks iested by the Royal Obrer, vttery, Hong Kong, at 3 pi Ver terday state-

There are indications of an anti- yclone forming over North China. A depression covers 5.W. China.

· Laent forecast-Southerly or variable winds, modernte, generally,

overcast, rain.

Editorial and Businese Offices: 11

Ice House Street. Tel. 30251.

Night Editor (Wanebni Office);

Tel. 24511.

With regard to the marketing | system in Hong Kong and China, there is undoubtedly room for im. provement, but again the fault dors not rest nitogether at this end, where merchants have, after long and, in many cases, painful experi-Correct Approach! ence, evolved a system of distribu. "I have often marvelled at your tion which seems to be the best piness at repartee, your-" "I under local, circumstances.

it's more than a pound, old man.. Gone I can't do a thing for you. I'm aro the days when the Chinese mer nearly broke myself." chant's word was his Lond, and the The Bargain! British piece-goods merchants' path is strewn with thorns.

* News and Views

The Cotton Mission suggests the forination of a company in Britain London Office: 53, Fleet Street, to control the export and sale of Lancashire goods in China. This, wo think, is a step in the right direction, as it would climinate the

E.C. 4.

A well-known London hostess hasi hought "Genesia," Mr. Epstein's

latest monstrosity. At the Leices

First Game in 33 Years,

SUMMARY OF NEWS]

| Local"

The first international footballity. match between. Eranço and Ger.

kicked

Interesting debate at the Univer .. Page 7. Round the local shops: By "Eve” Page 2. Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels,

many in 33 years ended at Colom. I bes Stadium to-day in a Fronch Ltd., annual meeting. victory by one goal to nil, Muon- zenberg,, one of the German halves,. accidentally

the ball through his own goal. Over 80,000 Galleries, where it was exhibit- ad, it was priced at 1,500 guiness. people watched the match, 18,000 being Germans brought to Paris by Woman Sits Up In Cofin

special trains. There were 150 Three hours before she was to German journalista reporting the Province of Chile, a 22-year-old play 27 telephone lines were book.

have been buried in the Bio-Bio

Press, many middlemen in Londen and woman sat up, in her cofing and ed to German towns. Mr. 3.

LUMBAGO, SCIATICA, The Daily Press.

NEURITIS, GOUT, &c.

All these are caused by excess of uric acid.

PHYSIKURATE

will absolutely neutralise this excess, and free you from pains in the muscles, their Ladies must wear their Badges joints and nerves, morning

No One without a Badge will be admitted I to the Mombers Enclosure.

Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms At $6.00 for Gentlemen and 33.00 for Ladies (both incinding Tar) are obtainable through the SECRE TARY upon Introduction by a Member, sach Member to be responsible far

of All Chits, &c.

admitting to Members' Enclosure will not be on sale at the

Race Course.

*Members can obtain, upon Application to the BECRETARY, Badges (Limited

Onej

to

for the Free Admission to the

dulness

and headache,

nightly twitching of limbs,

&c.

To be taken last thing at night.

Members Enclosure of Wives, Lady It Cures While You Sleep.

Belatives and Frienis. Namos mast, be

stated when applying.

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Soldiers and Sailors is Uniform are

admitted Half Price.

Bookmakers, Tie Tac Men, ke.. not be permitted to operate with.

in the Precincts of the BoNG KONG JOCKEY OLoa during the Race Meeting.

OF ALL CHEMISTS.

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Tifin will be obtainable in the Restau- THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY.

rant in the Publio Enclosura.

6091

By Onler,

CB. BROWN,

Secretary,

HONG KONG, APRIL 17, 1031..

THE COTTON MISSION'S REPORT.

Manchester, through whom many China merchants do their business, as opposed to dealing direct with the manufacturers. It is true that. many old associations would have to be severed and many old and popular "chops" would have to go by the board, but the elimina tion of the commission drawn by Tun report of the British Cotton these export houses, commission Mission, which recently visited agents or forwarding agents would Ching and Japan, contains nothing be a factos in lowering the price of that is new and very little that is cotton goods when they reach this constructive, so far as the British end. One corporation in Britain merchant in the Far East is concern-handling the export and sale of ed. The "stern warning" to Lanca Lancashire goods would also cut down the number of cotton manu- „facturers' representatives in China | China unless her goods are placed one of the most expensive, items on the market at competitive price, in the marketing of the product. has been delivered ad nauseam by, We are told that in Shanghai thee British merchants throughout, the

were, until about a year ago, about Enat for the last two years, in fact a hundred and fifty foreign repre- ever since Japan,, and, in a very sentatives of Manchester and Brad- much smaller degree, Germany, ford houses, but this number has Italy and Crecho-Slovakia became now been reduced by nearly half.

shire that the cannot hope to regain I' even retain her trade with

factors which had to be reckoned with in the manufacture and dis. tribution of cotton and woollen, Lextiles.

The Mission als tells the British

manufaglærer that quality has be

come a secondary consideration in China owing to the reduced par chasing power of the people-n fact

has 'proved' most

f

Pages 6 and 11. Assault on European child by chair coolie,

Pogo 7.1 Hong Kong Stock market. Crou- cher & Co.'s daily report. Page 7. The remains of Mrs. Emily Juster, who passed away at the Kowloon Hospital, were interred nt Page 7. Happy Valley yesterday.

To-day's wireless programine.

Page 4.

asked for a drink of water. She Crowe, of the British Football As Sport. had been apparently dead for days, sociation, was referee. The vast The doctors attending her say that she would undoubtedly have revivi; ed in the grave had she not wakon ed before burial.

Lord Oxford and the Press.

Sir John Simon relates that when Lord Oxford, appointed him Home Secretary in 1916 he said: Probably the chief task of the Home Secretary is to prevent se cond-class rows from becoming first Lord Oxford informed him that class rows." On another occasion throughout his whole career he had only three times written to the Press to correct statements made about him; and after each occasion he wished he hadn't.

Woman's Hockey Costume,

Cricket Notes: By R. Abbit.

Page 10. Glasgow Celtic defeated Mother well in the Scottish Cup final re- play. A description of the game

Page 10,

crowd stood together in complote friendliness, and all were bare headed and silent while the band played the Prussian national. air, "Proussenlied," and the "Marseiland English League results appear inise." In a place of honour hung the Gorman Republic's banner,

Bishop on Sunday Cinemas,

The Bishop of Chichester (Dr.

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Latest Cables.

Queen Ena of Spain and hor family arrived at Paris. Page 9.

Martin Haw has been declareď at Seville as the result of Com- Page 9. Bell), in the "Diocesan Gazette," manist disturbances.

The Spanish Royal Family have expresses the view that the opening

been acclaimed everywhere in of cinemas on Sundays is essential

France. for the entertainment of certain

Page 0. classes of the people. We must Ex-King Alfonso is now on his ackowledge," Dr. Bell adds, "that way to Paris from Marseilles, for one reason or another large, where he arrived on board the

men and women are to unable to

agita

Principe Alfonso.

Pago 0.

At every stopping place in France there have been moving sonnes on the arrival of the Queen of Spain and her family. Pago 9.

Shots have been exchanged be.. tween the troops and Communiste at Seville, one of the latter being killed.

Page 0. Serious disturbances broke out no Mukden yesterday during the elections for the National Assembly."

Page 2. "Make it quite clear that His Majesty has not abdicated," said the Duke of Miranda to a Reuter Page 9.

interviewer at Marseilles. unprofitable.

of

A correspondont to a London paper asks why it was that wo perhaps increasing, numbers of men hockey players did not take to the costume of shorts and shirt entertain themselves, or even cm- which is blamelessly worn by wo. ploy themselves reasonably and mon in so many other games "sanely after working hours, that am pleased to observe that now at they feel they cannot exist without some public amusement on Sundays, least one team has ventured on the innovation. I wish them enough Indeed, it is often stated that there success in their games to make the is more trouble and mischief on example a compelling ano. After Sunday nights in places where no As to the Mission's suggestion re-all, even if women hockey players such amusement exists, and young the are conservative in their dress, they men and women idly roam garding the holding of stocks in have made certain advances. I streets, than on the other six nights China of bulk lines, this method remember, many years back, when

of the week. From this point of view, therefore, it would seem in- I was younger and more bashful has been used with great success in than I am now, being pressed into advisable for Churchmen as Church the past but in the last few years service to referto in a women's men to lend themacived to

hockey match. Feverishly studying tion which is intended to meet a Small stocks of "spot carg" are that it would be my duty to satisfy

the rules, I was horrified to find social, even a moral need." still held by most of the big piece myself that the skirts of the play goods firms in Hong Kong and ers were not longer than the ro- In Ancient Corinth. which has been evident in Hong Shanghai, but the business done in gulations permitted. I imagine that the modern refores rarely Kong and China for some years this manner is only a fraction of needs to use his font-rule." Actually it is not so much the re what it was. Local inerchants havU duced purchasing power but the learned by bitter experience that fact that the inferior kinds of the Chinese dealer, once he knows in which Japan specialises, are in simply retrains from buying until cotton piece-goods, especially prints, that ready stocks are to hand,

many cases better value for tho

the merchant is forced in time to money. The secret of Japan's lower his price. We do not agree, success in the cotton trade is the and we shall probably be taken to low cost of production, though the task for this statement by many local merchants, with the Mission's some cases, take a lenf out of her statement that there are too many book in the matter of marketing merchants headling Lancashire pro- On this subject of the marketing dsets in China. Competition is system the Cotton Mission offers always good for trnds and for the several constructive suggestions but ultimate consumer, who, after all, has little to any about production creates a demand for any tom costa True, it urges all engaged in the cotton industry; from the

modity.

buying of the raw material to tho Balo of the finished article, to "con- sider how costs can be reduced,"

CHINA ENTERTAINMENT AND IN THE SUPREME COURT OF British merchant could, also, in

LAND INVESTMENT CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE.

LIANG CHI HAO, Managing

vested in me nder Article 5 at the

I, Diretar, puranent to the portr

to to

Articles of Association of this

this Company intend to offer the Shareholders on the Register on the 70TH APRIL, 1031, the remaining 20,503 Ordinary Shares of the Nominal Value of $1000 Each

issued by the Company at par is proportion to the existing Bharos held by them respectively on that Date.

Dated this 17th day of April, 1971.

LLANG CHỈ BẢO,

fanaging Director,

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SPECIAL NOTICE.

SUNDAY, APRIL 19TH

THE 88th ANNIVERSARY

UNION CHURCH, HONG KONG,

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SERVICES

MORNING: 11 A.M. (BROADCAST)

PREACHER: THE BISHOP OF VICTORIA.

EVENING: 6 P.M.

(Social Hour after Evening Service).

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'PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE Goons or VY TAN D'OYLY WINTLE, LATE OF DUALET COVAT, 23, Tuz AVENUE EASTBOURNE, IN THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX, FORMERLY Or 27, CLEMENTS LANE, IN THE CITY OF LONDON, In the United KINGDOM, Droriser.

NOTICE IS A

that the Court has, by virtue

of the Provisions of Section 58 of but it offers, no suggestion as to Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an Orderhow this can be achieved. limiting the Time for Creditors and

Trials of an Art Expert.

The reputation of the late Dr. Wilhelm von Bode has received an other blow by the discovery that a other to send in their Claims against As one prominent local merchant Hobbema, vouched by him as a9- the above Estato to UTH DAY OF

us yesterday: "The thestic, was in fact a forgery. MAY, 1991.

PRORATE JURISDICTION.

put it to

Shirt-Front Wickets.

interest in the recent pronounce-

At the suggestion, that abdication was preferable to bloodshed, the Queen of Spain became galvanised aux exclaimed: "Abdicate! He has gone! That is all!" Page 9.

The Manchester -Guardian says that the conclusions of the Colton Mission's Report are uncommonly like the findings of a coroner and jury.

Pago D. valuable

It is reported that laul of ancient relica has beer unearthed at Anchang, Honan, dating from the fourteenth century Page 0. B.C.

It is announced in Windsor that King George is progressing satin- factorily, and that no further off- cial statements will be issued. 4

Page 9.

Mr. H. G. G. Payne, Director

the

British Archeological School, In a lecture on the Bri- tish excavations at Perachora, near

the Corinth, said

Excavations Australia, the home of the shirt brought to light a great quantity

mant by Lord Hawke that bowlere front wicket, took a good deal of of material, most of which dates from the archaic period (the Seventh and Sixth Centuries B.C.). hearts would be broken if some- The bulk of the finds consist of thing were not soon done to put pottery decorated in the "orien an end of the "doping" of pittalising styles of that time, much ches. The Sydney Cricket Ground of. it of extraordinary fineness, world for intemen and the grounds pottery was the discovery of is nearly the best pince in the More important, perhaps, than the man denies that depe" is used considerable number of bronze in the preparation of his precious votive offerings. The Corinthian

Moh Teh Hui, China's chief de- for him as effectively as tons of bronze-fabrics. Little bronze hav pitches. Nature does the trick was the most famous of all ancient legato to the Sino-Soviet Confer- once at Moscow, 'roporia to Nan- "dope" He turns on the hose ing been found at Corinth itaclf, king, that he had submitted pro- after new soil has been spread over the bronzes found at the templo posals to M. Karakhan for the pur- the wicket. The result is that it of Hera Akrain constitute the first chase of the Russian intereste in is full of runs. It is to Bulli soil serica which can certainly be called the Chinese Eastern Reailway. that the perfection of Sydney Corinthian. The earliest of the wickets is commonly attributed. But more important pieces are a larga the groundsmon declares that it griffon's head" (about 11in, high) comes from Newcastle, New South and an engraved Howl, both works Wales, 150 miles or so from Bulli. of the early. Seventh Century. The Still, "done" or Nature, it is one excavation of the site is to be cón. lodge residential batsmen. to the tired bowler trying to dis- tinued in April and May of this

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year.

Page D.

It is reported from Hankow that Father Maryn Aeons, who was cap- tured by Communists at Patung, in

upch Province, on the 4th inst.. has been murdered and his bedy, found on the river bark near Patung.

Page 2.

Local Notes and Events

Normal telegraphie working

been re-established. with Shanghai and beyond has

+

A cook employed at the Wireless Scales Mr. J. A. Jupp. Starter: Station mess on Stonecutters Ie. Major Parker. Time-Keeper: Mr. land was fined 875 or six wocks 8. Forrest.-Hong Kong Daily hard labour in default when ho Prem, April 17, 1000. -wa-convicted-on-a-charge-of-theft Looking Back 60 Years,-~* of of a saucepan and a quantity of

E by crockery. In the course of the case it was stated that the defendant's employers were completely satisfied with defendant as a cook. His Worship decided to give the man the option of a fire.

AN

California, who is wanted"

Mrs. Jeng Shee, formerly

the American authorities on embezzlement charge, was again be fors Mr.-W. Schofield yesterday and Was remanded formally for another week. Mr. T. Murphy (Assistant Director of Criminal Intelligence) informed his Worship that the agent from Amerion would be ar riving in Hong Kong in May.

All Creditors and others ara, nocord-marketing of picce-goods in Hong Thankless, indeed, is the task of ingly hereby required to sand their Kong and China-and for that the director of a great museum. Claims to the Undersigned on or before matter throughout the East-could. Bode in remembered not by the that Date.

DEACONS,

probably be improved upan, but the genius which enabled him to create' real fault is not at this end. Tha the Kaiser Friedrich and to render Solicitors for the Executor 1, Des Voeux Road Central

crux of the matter is the prevailing it one of the finest galleries in the Hong Kong.

high wages which obtain through world, but by the fact that he once -[591–

out the colton industry, the direct mistook the work of a Mr. Luena result of trade unionism." This for the work of Leonardo da Vinci,

Yesterday afternoon. Mr. C. P. Chater, Deputy District Grand | viewpoint was borne out by several The only time I met Dr. Bode he,

Master of the Freemasons of Hong ofher woll-known local business-men was very cross says a correspondent

Kong, entertained his Majesty the King of Hawaii, and suite, His and seems to us to strike at the to a London paper. "To this day I

Excellency the Governor, and IN THE SUPREME COURT OF root of the decline of Britain's am unaware what had occurred to

large number of the residents at HONG KONG

picco goods trade in the Enst. barage him, but seldom have I en-

tiffa in his spacious bungalow at Kowloon. His Majesty There can be no doubt that any countered a mat more difficult to

King Kalakaun and his suite and his material improvement in the situa appease. His assistant, who escort-

Looking Book 25 Years.

Excellency the Govarnar accom- IN THE GOODS OF FREDERICK tion is dependent either upon aed mo to the door, begged me not

panied by his private secretary Dr. LEONARD PYNE, LATE OF

Although the weather on Sutur-Eitel arrived about half past one Tax FUREK CORHAMPTON lower rate of wages throughour the to mind. You ses, he explained,

An old Chinese, 71 years of age, day afternoon Was dull and o'clock, and were received at the. ROAD, POKESDOWN Ri trade at Home or upon intressed the professor has had an irritating died following a motor accident, threatening, the rain kept off garden steps by the hospitable host life. Of course, I answered, there from which he was injured. The and the first meeting of the who conducted them to the entrance output from each operative. was Flora And the Emperor, my accident occurred on the Baikung Gymkhana Club, which was held at of the banqueting room, where they As the Mission stater, there in companie wlded meditatively. The Road near She Ti Un-village and heretofore. His Excellency the by the assembled gusts. About one Happy Valley was zuccessful as were received with a ringing cheer no likelihood of an increase in pro- Emperor I asked. Well, you nee,

it is alleged that the man UNITED KINGDOM DECEASED, duction costs in the East, which he explained, whenever wo bought 1, W. R. Hawes, who recently first race, and watched the events to an elegant and most bountifur knocked down by a car driven by Governor arrived in time for the hundred and forty, guests sat down

NOTICE I HEREBY GIVEN

seems to give the lie to one of its any new pictures we had to obtain took up an appointment as ground from the stand next the Judge's repast. In the centre of the room that the Court has, by virtue of own members, Mr. JAMES BELLA his approval. It was difficult, cagineer at the Flying Club as Box. The intervals between races were ranged Mr. Chater's numerous the Provisions of Section 58 of Ordinanca M.P., who in the course of an very difficult. Wo were maxious,

were enlivened by music supplied and handsome trophies of the turf No. 2 of 1807, made an Order limiting address before members

by the band of the Royal Went which presented a really magficient the Time for Creditors and others to

my informant continued, to nequire

Kente. Patrons: HE, Sir. Mat-coup d'oril. The distinguished, sand in their Claims again't the above Hong Kong Rotary Club; expatiate some of the French Impressionists on Shaukiwan to the Goveri Admiral Sir Arthur W. B. Moore, of precedence; the tifin proceeded. A demented man was removed thew Nathan, K.C.M.G., H.E. Viceguests having been seated in order Estate to Gru DAY OF MAY, 1931.

ed at considerable length on the aud oven some of the Expres mont Civil Hospital yesterday K.O.B.. KOVO. OMG. HE. At its close Mr. Chater rose and All Creditors and others are accord benefits that would accrue from sionists. The Emperor really only where he is now under modical ob Major-General Villiers Hatton, in a few well chosen and apposite lugly hereby required to read their Claims to the Dadoreigned on or before cade unionism in China and liked pictures of home life or horses jump into the Harbour after aliams, RN. Members of Committee:His Majesty the King of Hawaii. pervation. The man was even to C.B....Commodore H Pigot Wil sentences proposed the health of that Date.

"Japan," and foreshadowed the day, by German artists. Whenever we couple of ducks which he had beon The Stowards of the Hong Kong The tonet was received with great DEACONS,

In the near future, when, wages bought one picture by a Franch chasing. He was in the water for Jockey Club (ex-officio), Lt. Col. enthusiasm, the company drinking and the standard of living in the artist we had to buy, two domestie over half an hour before a friend, Aitken, Major Parker, Messrs. G. it in bumpers and giving three. It was very suspecting his condition, interven K. Hall-Brutton, C. H. Ross, J. A. ringing cheers for their illustrious Enat would approximate to those ones by a German.

trying. No vanile the professor's ed and enused his removal to hos Jupp and H. P. White. Judge: visitor.-Hong Kong Daily Prett Obtaining in this" West."

nervos are frayed.****

pitali

Mr CHRoss, Clerk of the April 17-1881-

HOUANEMOUTH, IN THE COUNTY or HANTS, FORMERLY OF 8. FAWCETT STREET, RencliFre Gardens KensINGTON, IN ZUB COUNTY OF MIDDLEGES, IN THE

Bolloitars for the Executors 1, Des Vœux Road Central, Hong Kong.

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