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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESD

SEPTEMBER 30 1931

CANTON PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE HONG KONG STOCK

THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF TRADING ARABS

PERSIANS PORTUGUESE AND BRITISH

KAIPING COAL

MARKET

FOR HOME FACTORY & POWER HOUSE

YESTERDAY

ANSAC

MR. LEE FONG FORECASTS GREAT FUTURE FOR SOUTHERN PORT,

tlement, having passed off

Futu

Canton Past Present and delivered by Mr. Les Fong at the Rotary Club:

Banks changed

(but@nt

close

HORA FACTORY AND BUNKER

yesterd

offer at 31,500,

ong Fires could have been

POWER HOUSE

Meeting a Friend, hir (or her) first glance is at your face... your head. So how's your hat

Nothing can make a worse Impression than a hat. Even a new hat. Then the blame, for he has considered the h your head and has forgotten that you've A face to do with it.

We are not that sort of hatter. The hat we sell you will be rightly yours. We're Interested in you not at a habrack, but as a man. Heads and facer constitute our little daily problems.

'Let us demonstrate to you how well we

solve them

Mackintosh's

A PRESSING NEED.

Every ono can't afford a valet but everyone can afford to have their suita, dresses and other garouts looking like new by the use of the Steam Laundry's Valeteria Service.

True, the up-to-date equipment: we use is costly—that's, why some still cling to the old fashioned methods which morely mat down the fibres and deaden the fabric. But Valeteria press- ing costa no more. You'll like.. the way your suits and dresses come back to you soft dried. The Nap is mised, the

the lustrous look of the fabric is renewed."

THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.

Sanitary Laundrymen, Dyers and Dry Cleanert HEAD

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No 2, Peninsula Hotel Arcade, Tel. 58081.

264, Nathan Road (Next to Majestió Theatre), Tel. 38903.

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MEN'S

FELT HATS

THE STYLEX” SMART HAT AT ECONOMY PRICE

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SPECIAL

VALUE

PRICH;

$11.50

MEN'S OUTFITTING DEPARTMENT

| WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

The Hon. Mr. WE. L. Shenton presided, and in introducing

said that Mr. Lee long had been o

of st

eeded to

Toseph's College and from, there had bridge, for the purpose of continuing his education. air. Los Fong returned to China, and had been thes

number of appointments

“a judge in the Suprome

Governmer

bing and in the Foreign Ofic He had also been Chineso Consul Samoa, and had now returned to Hong Kong where he was tem- porarily reading

In the course of his nsidresa, Mr. Loo gave his audience n vory picturesque, glimpse of the Canton in the early days, and its trad- ing relations, with Persiang and Araba in the Pre-Christian, ora, Some interesting details of the plans and programme mapped out for the city in the present, day were also given by the speaker, who went on to enviango a glorious future for " The City of Rams and predicted that the time was not for off when Shanghai would have to look to its laurels if it wore to retain ita position as the biggest city in the Far East.

POSSIBLE RIVAL TO SHANGHAI.

Mr. Leo Fong's address-was as visits to Canton and to piracy and follows

shipwrecks. It seemed to be the custom at that period for Persian ships, on arrival at Canton, to en- trust their cargoes to the Chinese

godowns until the ships of the seaon had arrived, and after deducting 30 per cent as import duty left the merchandise at the disposal of the owners. In this manner, the traders were placed on as equal a footing as possible, for no one by arriving first on the scene was permitted to skim the cream of the market, theres by causing loss to those who might have been delayed by strass of

I am indecu scosible of the honour in being asked to give a talk. before you representative body of | various vocations in this Colony officials. The latter stored them in

have attended some of your lunches in Poiping, and I have always come away deeply impressed by the bonhomie of the Rotarians. These weekly gatherings must result in a better, closer, and more friendly contact between the members of different nationalities, thus paving the way to that universal brother hood, which is the aim of the Great Powers, if not always in practice, at least, in theory In China, weather, or had to come from firmly believe the Rotary Club can do much to bring Europeans and Chinese together on a common level, which will help to submerge that superior complex mentality, which fa found in all nations in more or less aggravated form. I wish your Gentlemen, every success. Some time ago I was saked by one of your Rotarians to give a talk here, I readily consented, and with out much thought I said that my subject would be Canton: Past, Present and Future. Now to candid, I have since regretted that I have chosen a subject that covers a period of some 3,000 years to the present day, not counting the years, to come, and I find that I have only half hour to do it in I have there fore tried to arrange my subject m that I may linger a little longer o the present, and still less to the future:

greater distance. It is interesting to note. that this idea of fairness was carried out even in the ease of the Emperor, who had to pay the highest price in cash for any article he required for his own use

800 A.D

Arabs in

in Canton in

ATM

1820, and the" to the ne

10:

rema

Kwon, were in demand

Trams could have been obtained

Star Ferries are on offer at

05.

China Lighta were in request at

"Umments (combined) were in the market at $19.

Dairy-Tarme could have been ob- tained at $arpo

Lane, Crawfords (old) changed hands at $6,10, and the new shards were also sold at #5);

Constructions rights were on

AFTERNOON SESSION,

There was no change" to report from the morning session. The

p market remained quietly steady.

Banks, after changing, handa at 81,300, closed in demand at this rate

Wharves were in demand at $150. Hotels (old) were the medium of sales at $15.7

Trams were negotiated at $234, China Lights were disposed of at 283

Ropes were dealt in at 810,

Providents: (old), were done aë 25:85 but at the close there were further buyers at this quotation.... Constructions, cum rights, were on offer at $104,

CHINESE ARTS AND CRAFTS.

** The Araba in the, course of their maritime adventures established fac tories along Malabar consts, in Cey- Jon, Sumatra, Java, and finally at Canton is far back as A.D. 300 Then came the Pereinns, who gradually overshadowed the Arabs FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION

AT CITY HALL

in commerce.

By far the most important in- vasion of Canton-I mean peaceful.

In the current issue of the Hond Kong Naturalist, Mr Soame Jongng in an article on... “Our Local Oyster, uses the phrase ever since eating became an art and ceased to be a barbario neces- sity The Chinese were probably the first nation to raise eating from a barbaric necessity into on art and it is mest appropriate that an exhibition of Chinese-Arb ́and Culture should include a Chinese restaurant emong its varions -at- traction. In other parts of the exhibition, the art of the painter, of the ivory carver and of the worker in silver and brass may be protected by the words "Planse Do Not Touch" but the cook asks for no such barrier to be sot up bo- foro big masterpieces; they must not merely be looked at uut tasted and extent vide

veion was that of the Mahomme as it the beginning of the 7th century, in the next century they felt themselves strong enough to at tack the city of Canton. That was tho frst outrage committed on Chi 300 Years Ago,

nene soil. Later on, the Mahommedan According to Chineas records, the community had attained such im history of Canton dates hack to the portance that the Chinese Govern Chow, dynasty (BC. 1122). About ment was induced to appoint one that time a certain duko named of their number to enforce Islamic Kung Si Yu was driven to the south laws and keep, ordar among his by the King of Tsu (Hupah Profellow Musulmans Here was the vince) and set his camp at a place frat, instance of the application of called Tung Hoi (The Eastern Bea) extrality in China, to There he saw fantastic shaped rocks The foreign population bad now whose presence, he attributed to the grown to such size that we are told work of some gods. Considering by the Arab, Aba Zaid, that in an them as a good omen, he built a attack by the Government troops on walled city which he called Namthe city which was held by rebel We, now known as Kwangchow, or forces there perished in A.D. 577, be- Canton as the foreigners: call it sides Chinese, 120,000 Mahommedans, ́Canton has been called from time Jews, Persinus, and Arabs, mostly immemorial the City of Rams engaged in trade. After this tor- According to o-popular legend thore rible massnere, the foreigners moved appeared one, day before, the early out of Caston, and settled on the inhabitanta five old venerable men west coasts of Omar and Siraf. garbed in five coloured robes and From the aunels of the Tang mounted on five rams of five differ dynasty (AD 616-907) it is stated ent coloura - They carried in their that Chinese junks made voyager arms sheathics, of rice grains, and from: Cantor to the Euphrates; if presenting them to the people, they not farther We advice, on the choice of dishon-will said aloud From Dew on mere Luropeans to arrive at Canton and serve the tables; and resons will The Portuguese were the first be given by the young ladies whe

shall be no famine „bere. “

Many Europeans, to their great losi have never tasted Chinese food: they are shy of entering a Chinese restaurant, they do not. know what to order they have no Chinese friends. At the China Exhibition, the ment will be print- od in both Chinese and English :

THE KAILAN

ION

ELIZABETH ARDEN

London

Paris

New York

TRY THESE

THREE FIRST

VENETIAN ARDENA SKIN TONIC A tonic and mild astringent. Use with and after Cleansing Crea "in the night and morning, treatment of the skin. It clears, firms, and whiters the skin new

rings your to

wlife and every cell. Its astringency serves to tone and firm the muscles under the skin and to keep the tissues active and healthy.

ARDENA VELVA CREAM A delicate -cream, that smooths and refines without fattening. It keeps the skin soft and fine-textured velvety Specially prepared...... “for sensitive skins.

ILLUSION POWDER. A pure, vaguely scented powder for those who demand the extreme of quality. Tints Illusion shade Rachel Mat Fonce Ocre, White Minerva, Banana and Poudre de Lilas (a new mauve shade for evening)

IT IS NOT VAIN TO WANT TO BE BEAUTIFUL

a right and perfectly natural feeling Everyone likes to lock at lovely things.

IT IS NOT EX- TRAVAGANT TO CHOOSE ELIZA- BETH ARDEN PREPARATIONS. It is in fact true economy, because they do just what they claim to do and you get every cent back in pleasure at your added loveliness.

ELIZABETH ARDEN

LONDON, NEW YORK, PARIS, BERLIN, ROME, VADRID

Then they vanished towards the sky, while later settled at Macao in the 16th be given in the use of chopsticks---- the rams changed into grazite storie, century. By paying the Chinese in short the path of the novice will MBA, There is a temple at Pa Shat, in authorities an annual sum of 28,000, be made easy

Chines: E

the suburbs of Canton, where you toy amoured the sole right of trad| Many people are already inviting will find the images of the five 32g with the Chinese merchants, their friends to dinner, par fairies each, carrying, sheathes of Consequently, they were able to the China Exhibition Restaurant rico grains, and the stone ngures of black all other Europeans for a long is something now, in the enter the five rams, that have become the time from dealing direct with the tainment The and the dates are objects of worship to the simple

worth nothingNovember 5, 6 and minded people. Incidentally

The British East India Company 7 of the City Hall understand that the men with their succeeded, however,

17th: shonthes of rice grains and the five century, in gaining ting in rams are emblems of masonry, Canton, and gradual

Another legand assigns the name thened their position as to become

those days

trade was

of the river on which Canton the premier foreign company in Boating popolation find a precarious livelihood, to a precious pearl which Early Anglo Chi Ka Huone of the eight popular based on a monor Rode Had dropped into theater East India Com While grossing the rivar; hence the of the royal- Name Paarl River,

tas trade wit Coming to solid facts, we have the chants No

catives of twa Arab merchants -

don dirrel and Ibu Wahab of Baara through t rxirited Caston in the hard, the century, and the datter in the 4 in Engl They tell us that Chinese Chinese.

Lane Crawford, Ltd.

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