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Comfortable Sleeping Suits

for Summer

wear

SHORT SLEEVES-KNEE LENGTH

Made of a fine Zephyr cloth with blue, mauve or black stripes, cut on free lines to prevent drag, at Any, point.

$10.50 per suit

B.V.D. Cloth $7.50 per Suit

Aertex Cellular

$17.50 per Suit

All prices Less 10% discount for Cash.

Mackintosh's

HEAD OFFICE - TORONTO, CANADA (Occupied exclusively by the Company)

Buy Money Now For Future Delivery LIFE Insurance creates a Savings that

is beyond the reach of the daily impulse to spend. Let us show you how to create an estate and provide at the same time for later. years through small, regular premium deposits.

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Established 1887

MANUFACTURERS LIFE

INSURANCE COMPANY

MR. E. J. R. MITCHELL

Branch Manager.

1s, OHATER ROAD,

Tel. 20801.

Canton Repræsentative-Mr. V. E. FERRIER,

27, B. C., SHAMEEN,

BE FASHIONABLE AND ECONOMISE !

Come to the COLONIAL DISPENSARY at 13, Queen's Road for

BARGAINS

in household and toilet requisites, etc. We have many things you need, all in good condition, but marked at absurdly low prices because we wish to dispose of some of our stock to facilitate removal to new premises in

GLOUCESTER BUILDING,

PEDDER STREET,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1931.

MARGARET MACMILLAN. £123,000 SEQUEL. TO HANKOW'S BUDGET

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The period is one not for ignorant mothers, and still less for ignorant nursemaids, but for those who have special training and that sym- pathetic insight, which enables them to deal succesfully with children of tender years.

The nursery school at Bradford

HATRY FRAUD.

SETTLEMENT IN ACTION OF A BANK AND DRAPERY ·

TRUST.

BURDEN OF THE LOSS IN TRANSFER CERTIFICATES,

A acttirment was announced in

DEFICIT.

NOTHING „FROM OPIUM

LAST YEAR!

The last issue of "New Hankow contains the accounts for January of this year in a much more ab breviated form "than usual. The House Tax yielded 873,693; the

is the model on which the larger the Chancery Court of the action Race Tax, 856,474; the Brothel Tax, and later one at Deptford near London was founded.

The essential, feature of the Rchool is the large garden, and rooms so arranged, that they open out easily upon the lawn.. Its Key note is brightness and freshness, and as far as towns will rermit, tho

presence of

nature-trees, flowers, grass, and birds.

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The children are brought to the school at 8 o'clock in the morning by their parents and at 5 o'clock i in the emoving they are reclaimed, but neither teachers nor pupils find the day long, or the work tedious.

It is carried on rather on the lines of a large family, which is intelligently guided in its tivities. Personal cleanliness is the first requisite and for this purpose butha are provided, and then smocks are donned, each marked with the nuimal, which the owner has chosen as his special crest,

Then climbing and jumping and such big movement are encouraged to give free play to the limbs, balancing and running arise upon taneously, and so do many of the games. Throwing bulls and riding tricycles and such. things help to train hand and eye, and co-ordinate muscular movement, But ferhaps one of the best fentures of wach a school is the routine, that is established with regard to ment times, when the children take their part in setting the table, in carry- ing the dishes, and arranging themselves. in due order on their benches.

Blesta.

After dinner the chilven stretch themselves upon camp beds, and Boon every one is asleep. The little newcomer Inughs at the idea of such a thing, but the example of the rest is always too strong, and quickly he succumbs to the delights and beneficial effects of an after dinner rest to watch forty or fifty children sleeping in the open air, and to study the varying expies- sions as they awake is a liberal training in paychology.

The work continues through the afternoon and as in the morning much of it is mingled with informal instruction but the freedom, the jule de irre is always prescat. Happiness and cheerfulness of a atural kind is never absent when

the children are in the school.

brought by Lloyds Bank, Ltd., $14,647; and against the Drapery Trust, Ltd., airsing 1 of the Hairy fraude.

had been pledged wita the bank

Falsely certified shn.cs transfers

the Water Rate, $31,018. These are the principal items and the yield is about the average. The total revenue is given as 8305,972 and the expenditure at $500,838 so that there is a deficit

No ex.

Mr. Wilfred Greene, K.C., for the bank, in announcing the settle. 184,800. This deficit is account- ment, said the netion was one toted for by the fact that there was determine which of two perfectly no revenus from opium. innocent parties was to bear the Planation of this sudden cessation burden of loss arising. through the of wint has been the principal fraud of third persons,

"At a Crisis,”

He said that the Drapery Trusts, Ltd., was a well-known company gistrar a company at that time in which had appointed as their re good repute--Secretarial Service fraud in a place where it was not Ltd. Unfortunately, there Was to be anticipated, and without any negligen by the Drapery Trust that, frana was fil.Mr. Greene added:

source of revenue is given, and no uttempt to balance the necounts in made. It is merely stated that the defirit will be met from accumulated balances.

od,

Trouble at Waterworks.. Electric Light Co, finds that its The Hankow Waterworks and

pumping station shave Chiaokout

demand for water and also that the on the Han is unable to meet the

pollution in the lower part of the Han is increasing as mills are erect, It has, therefore, outlined a "Hatry and his associates wer scheme for erecting a pumping practically in complete.control of station at the foot of the Tai Chia Secretaria: Services, und they were minded a crisis in their affairs above Hankow, this station to be Hill some distance up the Han to obtain nioney from banks and equipped with three 100 hp, motor others, including Lloyds Bank, by pumps which will raise the water to means of what when seesi now, ap- peared to be a simple, fraud byculated that by working the pumps

a reservoir on the hill. It is cal-1

meris of forged certifications or in the daytime, when the demonst transfers."

for current in the, Chinese eity is not heavy, the present power station will be able to supply all the needed current. No estimate of the outlay has been made public.

Tho celications were used by Hatry and his associates to defraud nat merey Lloyds Ban!: but several other banks and people The claims of the other persons awaited the result of this ense.

Burvey of Land Values The City Municipality has pub- On neither site conid 't be mid lished a very careful survey of Land that there was any negligence. It Values in the Hankow district. was entirely due to the failure of Those who are familiar with Han. the human element and the frandkow will not be surprised that the that the loss occurred.

highest value, in placed on property "The opportunity has been taken around the Customs House, land to settle not merely the present there, being valued at from 81,500. action but all other claims arising to 8000 a fong. In the old Hwang- out of similar transactions with pi Street, one of the parts of Han- other banks, individuals and firms.kow least touched by modern im

provements, the value is $900, this

of all fise claims the Drapers |

"For the purpose of getting riding higher than the 'value of land in the new lingseng Road, which Trust has paid £123,000, which goes

was cut through from the China Merchants wharf to the Water the banks, firms and people affected. That £123,00 represen 15-

Tower, which is valued at $750;

LO

Pald £123,000,

of the shares involved in these 25 per em, of the nominal value

fraudulen certificates."

Mr. Justice Maughan, assenting to the set lcment, said that in cases where plaintiff and defendant had heen the innocent victims of gross

frand by another party there seen The parents are invited to meeted to be all the elements for a rea this lenchers once each week, in sonable writlement, and he was glad order to secure their sympathy and it had been possible (3 reach it. good will by discussing the pro- gress of the individual children. Such en-operation links the school to the home and helps to produce that uniform atmosphere, which is necessary in the interests of the child.

fong, because if the widening of the Pig Lane, of all placea, comes next with fetitious value of 8700 a

the owners of frontages on the Cus Customs' House Road is undertaken

toms Road will have to buy up the property in the rear to get the Taking the River Street, which necessary depth for new shope.

follows the line of the Han, as a fair sample of land values, it is found that at the end near the Customs House the value is 8600 a fong, near Lung' Wang Miao it has dropped to $500, half way up the eity it is down to 8300, and at the upper end of the elty it varies from 850 to 845 a fong. It is increasing. by evident that the stretch of the city up the Han will cease to be of any great value, while property in and around the ex-British Conces The Golden Text was; "He thassion is likely to rise in value. Land behind that ex-concession is now worth ten times as much as land on the banks of the Hon, though the latter was the centre of trade when- the former was still under cultivation as vegetable gardens.- N.C. Daily News.

LESSON SERMON.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.

"Mortais and Immortals" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, May 17.

A World Movement, The remarkable results achieved by this experiment on the mental and physical growth of the children has created such an impression that the nursery school is now assured soweth to his Arsh shall of the flesh of world-wide adoption.

reap corruption; Lut he that soweth Though the school was opened to the Spirit' shall of the Spirit in the interests of the mill workers, rean life.everlasting." (Galatians whose day's work made it impos sible for them to look properly 0; 8.)

after their children, it is obvious. Among the citations which com. that it is the solution of the dif- prised the Lesson-Sermon ficulties of the middle class family, small to erunte the necessary lively atmosphere within which the child's interests can be aroused and his innate powers provoked into a tivity.

the following from the Bible;, "Now this I sa,, brethren, saat flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdon of God; neither doth corruption inbert incorruption. For this cor- p ruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on im mortality (K Corinthian, 15;

ACTRESS SUES FILM PRODUCERS..

MISS B. LILLIE BRINGS .

ACTION FOR $150,000.

Beatrice Litio has renewed hor auit Los Angeles, April 20-Mies claiming $130,000 daninges against

Fortunately, the MacMillana opened a special college at Dept ford for the purpose of training suitable teachers for this work 50,53.) The limit of expansion at the pre- The Lesson Sermon: also includ- sent moment in determined, not by ed the following passage from the money available so much as by, the Christian Science textbook, the number of teachers able to "Scienco aid Health with Key to Warner Bros. on the ground that realise in practice the splendid the Scriptures, by Mary Bakor after engaging her for a feature " ideal of Rachel and Margaret Mar Eddy;

"When

understanding pieture they only took a few shots, Millan, the two Scottish social changes the standpoints of life and of her and then used them for short workers who have achieved their intelligence from material to a filme. brilliant success in spite of the spiritual basis, we shall gain the abaonce of wealth and influence. It reality of Life, the control of Soul that the demurrer against the suit Miss Lillie's lawyer has asked was the sheer weight of their zen over nense, and won parodiya bo released and the case ordered for for social betterment in the field Christian.1y, or Truth, in its trial. of education, that carried them into the front rank of reformers, and it is within that rank they are destined to remain.

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divine Principle. This must be thBeatrice Lillie, who in the wife of climax Letore harmonious and im-Sir Robert Feel. Bart. descendant mortal man is obtained and his of the famous Prime Minister, first capabilitis revealed." (P, 32%.) rose to fame in Charlot Revuća.

N. Y. K. offer a variety of Fares in connection with

your

HOME LEAVE

via United States of America or via Canada £120 £15 £14 £112 £110 £107 £110 £ 88 Particulars obtainable at

N. Y. K., Hong Kong, Tel. 30291.

DON'T TAKE RISKS

Dry cleaning in an important part of any family's programme of thrift BUT

"BEWARE"

of cheap DRY CLEAN- ING. So called CHEMI- *CAL CLEANING. is soap and water with a little spirit spotting. Such methods do not preserve cloth from moth and other insects,

"What is GENUINE DRY CLEANING ?" Removal of all dust, spots, and soiling of a greasy matter by special spirit soaps and pure PETROLEUM BENZINE which can only be used in special machines installed in a fully licensed building approved by the GOVERNMENT. There is only one large installation in the COLONY..

THE STEAM LAUNDRY WORKS, MONGKOK.

After cleaning the cloth is sterilized and pressed with the latest steam pressos. All SUITS, OVERCOATS, and orders to the value of $3,25 sent during May 1931, will receive ONE IMPROVED SANETEX MOTH PROOF BAG. Aftor June, 10th, (dule of arrival).

There is no surer method to preserve your clothes during the SUMMER than GENUINE DRY CLEANING and SEALING in a MOTH PROOF BAG,

THE STEAM LAUNDRY

Head Office-Mougkok, Kowloon Hotel Depot, Hankow Road. Hong Kong Depot:-16, Stanley St, Kowloon Dept, 19, Canton Road.

Tel. 21279.

Peak Hotel Depot. Hong Kong Hotel (Visitors only).. Valeteria Service:--364, Nathan Road, (next door Majestio Theatre)

2, Peninsula Hotel Arcade.

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