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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS; SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1931.

WHITEAWAY'S

EPOCH-MAKING

SALE

STARTS ON

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5th.

THE SALE OF THE CENTURY.

A CABLED MESSAGE

FROM LONDON

HAS BEEN RECEIVED AS BELOW

WARFIELD HONG KONG-

"Your Stock was 420,000 Dollars in excess of present trade requirements on September first stop you are therefore authorised by the board to hold a Special Clearance Sale during October and to offer this excess stock practically at landed cost price or less stop we feel convinced that these startling reduced prices should create a sensation in Hong Kong and attract crowds of delighted customers daily throughout the Sale."-CHAIRMAN.

THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE BEING ACTED UPON AND ON

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5th

WE SHALL COMMENCE THE MOST

IMPORTANT MONEY SAVING

SALE

EVER HELD IN HONG KONG

OVER

$400,000 WORTH OF GOODS

.....

FROM ALL DEPARTMENTS

MEN'S WEAR

LADIES WEAR

CHILDREN'S WEAR

FURNISHING GOODS

HOUSEHOLD LINENS

HARDWARE

BLANKETS & SHEETS

CROCKERY

TOILET REQUISITES ETC., ETC.

WILL BE SOLD PRACTICALLY

LANDED COST OR LESS.

We expect crow SALE Bo

of buyers in the Early Days of this GREAT uld secure the Best Bargains COME EARLY.

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & GO., LTD.

SHANGHAI WATER SUPPLY

MAKING THE WHANGPOO

FIT TO DRINK.

DESCRIPTION OF A SCIENTI. FIC AND EFFICIENT SYSTEM.

PURITANISM A DYING PHASE?

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In what sense is a weepstake a lottery gambling. The joke of the fuss over the Dublin Sweep la that it had nothing to do with either the Grand National Steeple The water supply to the Interchase or the Irish hospitals Nino national Settlement, French Con-

thing to do with botting on horses,

cussion, and the Nantha and Chapei people out of bou who bought Districts of Shanghai, is afforded tickets didn't know the name of a by four suparate companies, that to single runner. The same remark the Settlement being in the bands.

applies to the Stock Exchange and of the Shanghai Waterworks Com Ltd., which was incorporated in

Calcutta sweeps, which have no 1890 Shanghai has fresh water at her doors, but the water leaves much to be dosired. The Whangpoo is always. turbid, solida in suspension being at times as high as 600 parts per million, but it is also, and al ways lins heen, polluted by the run- off from the cultivated districts

Sir Arthur Stanley exposed, in t humorous letter to the papers, the

were

anting protence that tickets bought to help the hospitals. The Boho syndicate, one of whom drew a prize bought sixty tickets. If

Haig

DYCH WHIŠICY

JOHN HAIG&Co.Ltd. ¿Owning Malg & Hälg,'Lt). MARKINCH SCOTLAND.

Consumers are requested to see that every botila of John Haig Gold Label Whisky as supplied by us bears the fool, label thus: "Gands, Price & Co., Ltd., Bole Agents for Hong Kong."

SOLE AGENTS":

through which it flowe, and by the three or four men choose to put up GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.,

discharge from the city and floating population.

Most So niide

Plant.

To render such a water potable requires a carefully and specially designed plant, modern and selen tido methods and, most important of all, constant vigilance. Although the Shanghai Waterworks Co. is not only the largest but the oldest of the modern water undertakings in China, experience gained in the last fifty youre has not been alone relied upon; the company's policy has been to engage highly trained men and to give them opportunities for in- vestigating the methods adopted in Europe, America and. in India. The directors have from time to time obtained advice from leading Euro- poan and American engineers, and it is claimed that as 'n result of this policy, the company's plant and netfiods represent the most scientiae adaptable to Shanghai's peculiar conditions. In the original plant water was allowed to settlo:"

naturally, and the partially clarified

water decanted and then filtered.

Increasing demand and increasing land costs rendered the adaption of congulation and of continuous settle-

ment necessary. Various coagulants have been and are being experiment- ed with, that now used, being sulphate of alumina.

The Sedimentation Tanka.

The sedimentation tanks are the result of large-scale experiments by the company's engineers, who have also evolved novel methods of re- moving the mud deposited. After sedimentation the water is filtered either through open sand-beds or by rapid gravity filters evolved and designed by the company's, staff, which filter at Sfty times the rate of the older type, and are cleaned by washing in a reverse direction with altered water. To relieve the lond on these filters the water is trated with a small dose of chlorine And a second dose is added before the water is pumped to the com pany's consumers. These purifica tion methods result in a reduction in the number of bacteria.

of 99.9. per cent.

between themselves to have what Sir Arthur calla "a good gam ble," why should they not do so? Whom do they hurt or annoy is IT prefer to spend £5 in buying tickets in a restaurant dinner or theatro stalls, on what ground am I to bo blamed or preventail!

But

I am not thinking "of the uned" guid, who regard all playing with chance as the devil's work. there are serious moralists who de clare that He becomes an enervat ing dream of imaginary wealth for those who buy tickets in stroops.

To be sure, if a man does nothing else but buy sweep, tickets he may become demoralised, but that is because he has lost all sense of pro- portion, and is, in fact, mad, and de lunatico non curat ler. But a moderate indulgence in day-dreams is a charming and harmless occupa tion.

Castles in Spain.

It would be hard, indeed, if our

drab and dreary lives might not be lighted by an occasional castle in Spain. And if a portion of the So

to syndicate's £20 and of my 26

handed over to hospitals, is it not

wholly to the good?

I remember writing some fifteen years ago that the great voluntary hospitals were drifting towards the ratos. The late Lord Knutsford an grily denied this and he was right then. If he were alive today and repeated his denial would he be right

The issue of premium bonds with a State guarantee of 2 per cent. interest and periodical drawing of prizes would result in the receipt of hundreds of millions of pounds by: which in a few years the National Debt would be literally paid off. I will never be done, because it is not "serious finance," and the tyranny of serious stupidity over common sorso is incredible, except to those who have experienced it.

3. Construction of a battery of eight, and equipment of four, rapid filtera

4. Installation of a 000,000 gallon diesel-driven centrifugal main:

pumping set.

5. Installation of a000,000 galion. electrically-driven centrifugal main pumping set."

Proposed New Pumping Main.

Pumping from the river to the sedimentation tanks and to consum rers in effected by centrifugal and 6. Installation of Venturi moters plunger pumps, driven by electric and delivery mains and construction motors, diesel, gas and steam en of a tunnel beneath Fangtszepou gine,. The most modern machinery road in connection with these sets. is used with av

7 Sinking of a 12-in diameter, boring at Kiaochow-road with the necessary pumping plant.

te very high standard of maintenance. The distribution system iuoluvlen 165 miles of main, with the necessary valves and fro 8 Canstruction of staff quarters hydrants. The company has now in for European and Russian foremen hand, the laying of a new 40-in.at Yangtzepoo

diameter steel prouping-main, the 9. Minor works, including high- total cost of which will be not less tension electrical equipment, bypass than Tis. 1,000,000"/

New Works Completed. The following new works were completed last year to meet anti- cipated increases in demand

1. Extension of river pump house,

steam maineenversion of old river Dump house to coagulant house, and extensions at Rubicon-road Sub Station. New works commenced in cluded:

10. A new intake.

1 A residence for the engineer- Giel at Kinochow road Famping

2 Installation of two ball-million Station.

"diesel-driven contrifugal

pumpa

river12 Preliminary survey for the de

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ferred new pumpi

Economie Journal

St. George's Building, Ice House Street,

DIAL 20185.

Announcement

ELIZABETH ARDEN

has sent her personal representative, Mrs. Ann Tripler, who has had years of experience in the ARDEN SALON, to visit our toilet, preparations department (1st floor). She will be there daily until October 2nd,

Do come in for a private consultation without charge, and receive her personal advice on correct care and treatment of the skin. The representative is not permitted to sell Preparations.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. First Floor.

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