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THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB.
HFOURTEENTH EXTRA
TRACE MEETING will be helil
Weather Permitting) at HAPPY WALLET on SATURDAY, 18TH DEO. VEMBER 1981, Commencing at 2 pm.
The First Bell will be Bung at 1.30 P.m.
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and their Ladios mast wear their Badger prominently display od
No one withcat a Badge will be admitted to the Members' Endlosure.
Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members Enclosure and Clubs Rooma a. 85.00 for Gentlemen and $3,00 for
Ladios (Both including Tex) are obtainable through the SECRE TARY upon Introduction by a Member, anch Mombar to be responsible for Payment of All Chita, ets.
Morabora
Badges admitting to Enclosure will not be on sale at the, Race Conrad.
Members in chtain, upor Application to the SECRETARY, Badges (mited to ONE) for the Free Admission to the Members' Exolosure of "Wives, Lady Relatives and Friends. Names must be stated when applying.
On No Fretext will Children be permittel in either Enclosure during
an Mooting.
Tiffins are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy by 3 p.m. on the 11TH DECEMBER. Telophone 21920.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE,
The Prise of Admission to the Public Enclosure, is 32.00, including Tax, for all Persons, including Ladies, and is payable at the Gato
Boldiers and Sailors in Uniform are admitted Half Price.
Bookmakers, Fio Tac Men, eta.. will not be permitted to operate with in the Precinct of The Bore Koxe.
Joe Gaus during the Race Meets
Tins will be obtainable in the Rew taurant in the Public Exolosure,
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Becretary. Hong Kong, 7th Dec, 1931, C1540
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'OF CANTON, LTD. 話 BRITISH TRADERS' INSUR- ANCE COMPANY, LTD. THE CHINA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE.
HE Undersigned resumes charge of the above-named Companies from MONDAY, the 7TH DECEMBER, 1981,
By Order of the Board, PAUL LAUDEK,
General Manager.
Hong Kong, 4th Dec., 1981.
DOUBLE BARRELLED
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1931.
discan which is spread by this) habit.
"The practice of hitting was com- mon enough in Great Britain a couple of generations ago.. No one
OPPORTUNITY particularly objected to it, except
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The
in vory refined circlan. majority of Britons were frank offenders 16 wis the doctors who
nade te al reform by frightening ut about the danger of tubereiftosis. Appalling figures were given of the percentage of people" who died on- nually from the disease and of the number who caught lung trouble as a result of the prevalence of this habit. Even the germ papalation floating in the air, waiting to be swallowed when we opened our muths to eat, to speak, to yawn or for any other purpose was accurate- y computed. Ladies and gentlemen were taught that spitting was bad) männers with such effect that "the
torgnettes of dowagers and the chill disapproval of persons with anthoritative manners were recruit-i ed to the crusade. So great has been the victory in England that is is really not delicate to refer to
DURO GARAGE the matter and, except in a few public places where men of all classes meet to smoke and drink, no notices are necessary. We all GILMAN & Co., Ltd, Agents. know that snobbery is very repre- AB.hensible, but in this instance it has been used to good purpose and in
vory proper cause,
Editorial and Business Offices 11
Ios House Street. Tel: 0251.
The resolution to be put to the Sanitary Board contains, the pro- Night Editor (Wanchai Ohoo)viso, "that the board may, in its
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, DECEMBER 8, 1081.
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A MATTER OF SOCIAL HYGIENE.
Tale of the Day,
News and Views
The woman. I marry must be a good swimmer.?? "What for?"
mouth
Beer in its Perfection.
Sir Edward Elgar.
Many of the guests ab the ceremonial dinner of the Worship-
So that she'll know how to koop. ful Company of Musicians, express
ed their wonder that the grantest her mouth shut.
living English musician, the vetor- an Sir Edward Elgar, "carries his What is perfect boer ? An export4 summors so lightly. : at the Browers Exhibition claims that at last has been produced, Advancing years bring no diminu- inade, of course, from British tion of his ernet, almost military hons, and for condition, flavour, bearing, nor of his hale and hearty, purity, and food value rehching appearanen With ready wit E.E.
as Sir Hugh Allan culled him, took higher standard than øver."':
up the latter's quips about his sadder side "his interest in horses and horse-racing.
One does not And the word trength in this list of virtues, but beer drinkers should hope for the best.
"Just Right."
atrength is really there, the beer is indeed "just right."
But not, one frusts, in the sense of the oriticism of an agricultural labourer on the beer supplied at harvest time by stingy farmer,
To a visitor from London who,. having taste the poor stuff, asked the reply was. O course it's just why the man called it just right."
right, If it 'ad bin worse we couldn't u drunk it, and if it nd hin better we shouldn't a' got it. So it's just right " Home Grown Sleepera.
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Many people have often wonder cd why British railways have never found a satisfactory steel sleeper, because they have seen lots of them in other countries, Now it is na-
nounced that the Great Western Railway has at last found suitable steel steepers of a now type, with chairs all in one piece. By the miles of track with them. end of the year it will have laid 94
Played Everywhere.
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Tut then minst British" doctors, one imagines, are likely to regard the nows dispassionately, remember ing the sad fate of an earlier " dia- form of rheumatism wo call heart. covery" of the germ causing the dissuse.
A Mystery of £2,000,000,
in
The mystery of an alleged fortune £2,000,000 said to have been left England by a German 8 years go is being again discussed.
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A letter from Arnstadt, Germany. has been received by the chairman of the Tramore, Ireland, Henith Committee requesting that endeavour should be made to trace relatives of Ferdinand do Gros, to whom the £2,000,000 estate is 'said to have been left by an unclo named Gottlieb Daniel Nebenthal,
Sir Hugh Aller; the Principal of the Royal College of Music said that in a recant tour of the world Gros lived in Tramore about 1863.
ke It is anid that a man named Boj he had heard Elgar's music every but it is apparently impossible at where, from the Australian bush to present to trace any of his connee- those islands of the Pacific where ener dusky beanties weave their apolla.
In a town of Transjordania, he
The letter, rewived is signed Do made the laborious ascent of the Gros, and the writer claims to be s
am-nephew of Ferdinand de "Gras. phitheatre, only to be greeted at terraces of a Greco-Roman the top by the strains of the Eger Broken Men,statu Variations on a gramophone.
Confusion.
writes a lady correspondent to a
There are 8,000 ex-Service men in mental hospitals and more than 32,000 officially recognised as suffer. ing from neurasthenic.
"May venture to suggest,"
This is revealed by the Ex-Ser. Home paper, that the new B.B,vices Wolfare Society, which has and curative building might suitably receive the established homes
of Tower of centres for the treatment of these alternative me
"broken men." Babel '{"
& Public School Novel,
The sobiety, which is in urgent need of financial aid, points out that last year more than 2,000 inter views were given to men sooking.
sesistance, and 9,879 meals and 3.178 boda were provided for applicants who did not require" in-patient treatment.
The Professional View,
There has just been published" n new novel of public school life. It in chilled Destination," and differs from the ordinary public school novel in that there is little story in it. It is, in fact, nn, analytical study of the paychology of an intras. pective boy in relation to his school. "Here is a paragraph taken fellows, his masters and his parents. from an article on ammunition The style is immature, but the which appeared recently in a milj. powers of observation are remarktary magazino," writes a correspon ably developed. A ROBBIAN AT-Ident to the St. John's Review. It The author is Mr. Leonid seems admirably to emphasize the Bely. En is aineteen years of a cold blooded brutality which the and is a Russian, who after endur spirit of war hrings "forth.. The report that a Polish peasant,ing all the horrors of the revolution The Paragraph is as follows. reputed to be 123 years old, has went to England in 1920. His started to grow a new set of teeth hook is vivid and provocative. It has been received by dentists with should cause some heart-burnings grent reserve. In extreme old age, mixed with indignation, especially they say, there is a tendency for
among public school masters. emerge, which might have given rise Rheumatism. broken stumps of old teeth to
to the story....
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tralization, an enemy wounded man "From the point of view of aвU- absorbs even more enemy activity than does a dead one. His evacua- tion and maintenance entail the A, S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.
employment of far more personnel than would his burial, his return Nature's refusal to provide us The news that American research to the fighting line is often in- with new teeth in later life has al-workers have demonstrated that effective, and though the porman.. ways seemed the ouly exception to rheumatism is due to a streptococent elimination of effectives of her normally generous tendencies.cus should be treated with some re primary importance, in the early A number of people no doubt hoped serve. It is a little too early yet stages cf a campaign the choking. this discovery would prompt the to say that the battle between the of hospitals with wounded, of lines dental profession to investigate bacteria schoul" and their critics, of communication with hospital means for growing rather than for which has lasted over 15 years, is trains, of back areas and home bases with shaken arid mutilated tale bearers, and the wastage of trans port and supplies entailed thereby, will all go as far as heavy mortality to throw the enemy into confusion."
discretion, exempt in writing any premises from the, shove require If those prove satisfactory the ments. It is to be hoped that as railway companies will be able to effect substantial savings in the few invidious distinctions as purse of years. Employment will sible will be made; that not too be provided for British atesl works, many eating houses will be allowed and money that would have gone abrond to pay for foreign timber to announce on their sign-boards will be spent in, England. а special attraction spitting where you like." We hope that if the Sanitary Department finds initial difficulties it will not use its discretion" with such fre- gueres that the law is in danger of becoming a dead letter. Perbana if aufhelent fuss be made about obtaining these official excimptions Tar danitary Board is making a
in writing," the eating house wise and moderate attack on the habit of spilting. Accepted prac keepers of Hong Kong will fall into tices are not to be abolished by line and show themselves not only gets, orders and regulations, but ennverts, but devotees, of olean 1534 they can be circumscribed and foors and the new science of gradually eliminated by first,chang hygiene, as taught by their friends ing the altitude of enlightened the Sanitary Inspectors. persons and engaging their support | and co-operation. Spitting is "hot"} to be allowed in restaurants, except! into the panal receptacles, and these articles have got to be properly BECAUSE Our immediate problems looked after by the proprietors of are mainly in terms of economics these plaats. We are sure that no we are inclined to forget that they reasonable person could take excep- arise out of more profound and tion to these regulations and no permanent questions than" how to doubt the resolution to be put this produce and how to distribute. afternoon by the Chairman of the The economie organisation of theed Sanitary Board will be accepted world depends not so much on mere without opposition, and any re-efficiency as on the world's 'moral marks made will probably be of a values, and our civilisation, as the Laudatory nature.
head master of Harrow has pointed The objection to indiscriminate out will stand or fall tot by spitting, from the Government's the wealth we accumulate or the but by the point of view is not that refined per power we wield
A small pet dog was found stray- ideal thating near The Pharmacy on Sunday sopa find it nauseating to see and to adequacy of the
and was removed to the Kennedy
HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE
ASSOCIATION.
THE ANNUAL DINNER DANOE Twit be bold at the PENINSULA HOTEL, KOWLOON on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16zų, 1981.
Tables may be booked at the Peninsula or Hong Kong Hotels. Charge for anch person 88.0" Payout meat be made when booking tables tickets will be issued,
By Order,
"15201
B. D. EVANS,
Hon. Becretary,
CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME- ORIENT. Monroe BANK AND ESTATE
ADEN78:
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PRINCE EDWARD ROAD.
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Modem Construction with Garage,
A QUESTION OF VALUES,
extracting.
But the vested intereste in den- tures are enormous, so one supposes there would be little encouragement for auch research.
over.
The only test of such discoveries is whether or not others working with the same methods are able to get the same results.
Local Notes and Events ★
Que case of diphtheria was re- 1a.ported over the week-end.
The Hong Kong dollar appreciat-
further and opened at 1-15/16d. yesterday.
The fourth annual dance of the Hong Kong Ladies' Hockey Club will be held at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant on Friday, January 8,
1932.
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From the files.
HONG KONG & KOWLOON,
VISCOUNT GLENAPP IN HONG KONG.
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF P. & O, CO.
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Viscount Glenapp, son and heir of Lord Inchenpe, the famous owner of the P. & O. shipping line and other companies, arrived in the Colony yesterday by the 8.8. Pre- sident Coolidge from Manila. He is on a combined business and When the 8.a. Tsinan arrived from
pleasure trip to the East, following" Shanghai and Amoy on Sunday,
a visit to Australia; accompanied by Mr. . W. Scott, a passenger, made a report to the police to the effect
his daughter, the Hon. Patricis that while the reseal was hetween Looking Back 25 Years. Shanghai and Amoy, someone en-
Mhekay; a son, the Hon. James.... At the Naval And Military tered his cabin and stole 8400 în | Lodge Thursday
on
night
[Mackay, Lady Violet Stow and her the money.
following officers were installed for daughter, Miss Cynthia Stow. The the year 1907-Right Worshipful party arrived in Manila from Aus- The case in which three Chinese Master, Wor. Bro. A, W. Hill: T are charged with armed robbery at mediato Paet Master, J. Smith;tralia by the E. & A. Company'a
Bix-roomed & Fire-roomed Apartments hear, but that it spreads consump-inspires ordinary men and women. Town "Dogs' Home by the police. 131, Shoung Sha Po Village on Deputy Master, F. Howell; Sub-6.8. Nankin, but all except the Vis- tion. The Government regulations It is perhaps a just consequence of The owner of the animal may have November 20, and with receiving stitute Master, F. Last: Worship-count's son transferred to the Fre- merely seek to minimise the the general acceptance of a material same apon application.
stolen property, was again before ful Senior Warden, E. A. Chapman; Mr. J. A. Fraser af Kowloon, Worshipful Junior Warden, G. W sident Coolidge. They proceed from effects in places where infection is philosophy that now the balance of
We have Been informed by Magistracy yesterday. At the end Coyah; Secretary J. J Binke: here to Shanghai. Detached and Semi-detached in particularly liable to be spread.trade should be held up as the the Secretary of the Football Asao of the day's hearing, however, it Treasurer, J. McLeod, Chaplain, The Viscount, who was born in There is no attempt at abolition.altimate index of our well-being ciation that the venue for the was remanded until 11.30 a.m. F. Winter: Senior Deacon, Bro.
R.A.O.C. Kowloon match in the to-day, That may be a far-off ideal, but (and that the abomination of desola second division of the league on
C. W, West; Junior Deacon, J. 1857, was educated at Eton and At Kowloon Magistracy yester-Newman: Organist. W. J. J. Gast Trinity College, Cambridge.. and it is not the immediate Concern of tion, should be, in the eyes of our Saturday has been changed to Chat-day, a Chinese named Choi Ping- Stewards, C. H. Parkinson and J.
was called to the Bar in 1010. He the Government. Before abolition governors, a depreciated currency. ham Road ground.
Ewong was charged with obtaining Gibson Inner Guard, H. E It may be," Dr. Nonwoon said,
$150 from a womne be means of a Lowther Tyler, J Vanstone.served throughout the Great War that we have followed faise values
trick. It was stated that the de- Hong Kong Daily Prean, Duc. 8. with the 12th Lancers and M.G.Ü. fondant effered to give the woman 1908. a few thousand dollars if she let: him have $150 with which to work his "charm" Hearing was fixed for next Monday afternoon.
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Owing to the length of the Opera it has been decided to commence the evening performances at
9 P.M. Sharp
instead of 9.15 as previously announced.
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We have been informed that up the practice, widespread and often so long and are so committed till December 3, the number of chronie catarrh, will have to be them the world over that we have Reople vaccinated by members of the eliminated, and that is a matter of now gone too far, and that this St. John Ambulance Brigade totall
The Victoria Regatta is fixed to particular civilisation of ours nd 47,300. The Mongkok Division a better physical standard among must be scrapped, and that we heads the list with a total of 18.2
take place on the 23rd and 24th inst "shall
He is Deputy Chairman of the while the Chinese Athletic Associa
It is under the patronage of their it. scrapped the poorer members of the Chinese
Certainly A material civilisation. tion is second with 8,863,"
The Chinese Tatapayers Associn Excellencies Bir John Pope Hen. P. & O. Co., partner in Mackinnon, community. Only a steady could suffer no more apt fato than
tion has addressed a letter to the neary, Vice Admiral Willes, C. Mackenzie & Co. Calcutta; Mac. provement in housing, the provision the present situation, when our. Owing to the length of the Shanghai Municipal Council re- and Lieut.General Donovan, and
The Donald, Hamilton, Sydney; and, of athletic facilities, and, above all, wealth is the cause of our starva-malian comedy," Mine. Hook questing the authorities of the In-Hon. F. B. Johnson, Colonel Hall Gray, Dawes & Co., London; as well
Commodore Cuming, B.N. tion. It is not that we have gorged Holland," to be produced by the ternational Bettlement not to education in hygiene during the and so become soft and decadent, Hong Kong Philharmonic Society, terfere with the patriotic moveR.A.. Captain Tracy, H.M.5. Iron coming years can effect such as happened to many past civilisa- it has been decided to commence the ments of the Chinese people be Duke, Lieut. Col. Geddes. I I.F., change. Spitting, in fact, will go tions; it is that we have so zealously evening performances at 8p.menuso such anvements are permitted and Messrs. II. C. de Forbe. A on, and all the health authoritius multiplied our possessions that their sharp instead of 8.16 as previously under the Criminal Code and the Melver, and H. Hoppius act ne Stewards. The programuo 16 weight has made us impotent. We announced.
Provisional Constitution, and, fur- can do is to promulgate mild re- are fattened out by our possessions.
ther, that the Council should not similar to that of last year but. guiations of a kind that will be Millions of people are idle and in In view of the outflow of hard fear "the barbarism of might but it will be noticed, the Ladies Purse Ten Men on a Rait.
want because of our possessions. cash in large sums from various
stchd of a sculling race na formerly. On a raft Apating in the midst generally accopted,. and need "The leisure that our wealth: might Chinose ports, to foreign countries. adopt a sympathetic attitude to this year a pairoared race in-1
wards such peaceful movements. minimum of enforcement by law.
This alteration, which is a judicious of wreckage some 13 miles off have made available is wasted in which has been caused by the un
one, was made in order that it Cartagena, Colombia, teo men were The success or failure of regulathe wimless lives of the unemployed; certain situation in north Chine,
should not be a walk over as it has recently sighted by a Panama Air the security for. thought and the the Ministry of Finance (states ai tions on these lines really resta low perfecting of human society message from Nanking) will short for all races will close on the 19th on several occasions proved. Both ways pilat
The wind was too high, to allow with the leaders of the Chinese that it might have given is wasted ly jasne an order forbidding the inst, and that post entries will be for this race and the 8th event on community, and with the Chinese in aimless rivalry between" one exportation of silver dollars. Ar-allowed to the Detached Squadron the second day, trial hents will be the airman to alight and obtain:
and another. Is it al-cording to the Chinese bankers, no only. This exception has been made rowed a wek or so before the meat details and take succour, but the Press, No doubt all enlightened together surprising that there are less a eum than 88,000,000 in hard to enable thous vessels to take part ing, as there are more craws entered raft and its desolate crew wore be Persons will lead thoir, aid in soms who look forward to the final cash has been shipped from Shang in the Regatta. There is every than there are boats to pull in, the lieved to be all that remained of a developing a correct public opinion collapse, whether from revolution hai to the north during the past prospect of the forthcoming Regatta Club only possessing three pair corbing vessel which was wracked or from war, because then, at least, few weeks with the result that the proving one of the most, ruoressful pared outriggers. Particular notice a short time ago and could not sum. in this matter, with the hope ofit will be possible to begin again local money market is threatened over held in Hong Kong Hong is drawn to the fact that entries mon help because it was not equip
with dislocation.
Kong Daily Preis, Dec. 8, 1981, effecting a reduction of the terrible from at clean desert ?
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