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Hongkong Daily Press.

No. 22911. HORNKHAI

Lagistared allow Newspaper" at the Generali,

Post Office in the United Kingdom"

NOTICE

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HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMERS

JOINT SERVICS OF THE HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO Brṇamboat Co. Lrog, and CHINA" NAVIGATION CO., LTD:

HONG KONG-CANTON LINE. SAILINGS From HONG KONG-Dally at 8 am, and 10 p.m. (Sundaye 10 p.m, only).

BAILINGS From CANTON-Daily xt 9 am. and 4.30 p.m. (Sundays 4.30 p.m. only).

HONG KONG-MAUAO LINE,

SPECIAL SERVICE. -

BAILINGS From HONG KONG-Daily at 8 am, and 5.30 p.m.

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(Sundays 9am. only).

(Sundays 4 pm, only).

SAILINGS From MAOAO-Daily at 3 am, and 2.00 pm.

EXCURSIONS TO MACAO:- Friday, 1st January and Sunday, 3rd January, 1832 8.8.." SUI TAI "

will depart from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf nt 9 mm,

and from MadAo at 8p.m. and 4 p.m. respectivoły."

9.8. "SUI AN” "

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will as from Hong Kong at 4.30 p.m. iostend of 5.30 p.m. on Saturday, 2nd January, 1932.

SPECIAL SALOON FARES.

WEEK DAYS:- Single: $3.01; Return: $5.00, EXOURSIONS-Single: $2.50; Return: $4.00. ..

Nors -All Steamboat Company's Steamers are fitted with Wireless,

DIARY OF LOCAL TURNING AN AIRSHIP

EVENTS

TO.DAT.

(December 31.)

New Year's Eve. Hogmanay

Social Exching and Watch Night „Survice, Union Church Hong Kong. Hockey Radio v. University.

· China Bight & Power Co., anaual general meeting, St. George's Build- ing 12 noon.

Queen's Theatra: „ The Dawn Patrol"

Central Theatre : - "Tabu."

King's Theatre:

ness,

Monkey Busi

Star Theatre: "Let Us Be Gay." World Theatre.. New York Nighta,"

Majestic Theatra: "Derelict." Ten Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel..

Peninsula Hotel Ross. Room, Signor Genaro Bonavita, Italian Operatic Tanor..

President's Dance at Craigen- gower Cricket Club; Carnival Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Pen- insula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel

FRIDAY,

INTO ASH TRAYS

INGLORIOUS STEAM ROLLER END FOR

£450,000 R.100,

CARDINGTON BASE TO BE MAINTAINED,

MOORING TOWERS TO STAY.

Cardington, December 3.-Sledge

i

The

engineers say that she will hammer, axe, and ateam-roller are ; be a heap of scrap by Christmas. turning the mighty frame of the Her bods and lights and fittings are airship 1.100 into scrap metal.

out of her You can buy the beds for 30s. cach: Some have been bought on sentimental grounds by those who used them in the skies.

In less than three months "pe trace will be left of a ship which cost £180,000.

The duralumin skeleton, filing Others are being bought by yachts- the enormous shed, is 720ft. long,me. Her fabric, ripped from her, European Mail-Inwards | bang Europe via Biberia (Zuiderkerk); 130ft. in diameter amidships, and lies in a soiled heap, like, a bundle Outward: Europe via Siberia

Ratan Pandjang) 10.30 a:m.

110ft where the bot section begins. of dirty linen.

To-day the bow-piece, some five tons of metal, was detached and lowered. At the end of the pro- cess it was allowed to drop a few feet, crashing to the concrete. and partially arumpling up.

(January 1.)

Now Year's Day. Crisket University Past u. Pre- sent, Hong Kong G... Navy,

Football-Services Civilians (Club ground), 3.30 p.m..

Golf Royal Hong Kong Golf Club New Year's Meet..

K.C.C. Children's Sports; K.E.C. New Year Day Festival, 11 am.

Sports-Kowloon C.C. Children's

∙sporta.

Steeplechasing

Fanling Hunt

and Race Club (Kwanti).

Chinese Chamber of Commerce At Home, 3 am Queen's Theatre: Possession."

World Theatre-1- Patrol."

The Man In The Dawn

SLEDGE HAMMERS.

"

At one corner of the shed mon wore at work with sledge hammers, reducing portion of the structure, to fragments!

Presently, for pynoses of eas transport, a steam folles will crush to serap piles of girders and stays, which cost much to make and am-

King's Theatre: "Monkey Busi-body beautiful workmanship.

nesa.

Much electrical apparatus and miles of wire are to be sold by the contractors, Messrs. Elton, Lovy & Co., who employ from sixteen to twenty-five mon here according to the

of the work. progress One complete bay of the struc ture, No. 11-12, is to remain here for experimental purposes, but it must not be inferred that any re- vival of the airship programme in at prosent contemplated.

MOORING TOWERS TO „

STAY.

Cardington is to be kept under ai care and maintenance party. Kite

Stay Theatre: "Let Us Be Gay. There are about fifty tons of balloon and ordinary balloon 'work' Central Theatro: "Dirigible. duralumin in the frame, Already Į continues,, The hydrogen-making. Majestic Theatre: "Dishonomed."thirty tons have been sold to a plant will be kept in order. To Dances at Hong Kong Hotel foreign buyer. There have beco and King's Restaurant. Dinner Dances at King's Restaurant, Pon insula Hotel and Hong Kong Hotel

European Mail: - Inward: Europe via Suez (Chitral); Out ward: Europe via Siberia (Empress of Japan) noon.

SATURDAY.

few inquiries for parts to keep ho souvenirs, or for adaptation in their present form, but little can be done in this way. It is possible the duralumin beds may be diaposed of as beds.

MEMENTOES.

(Januers" 9.) Cricket-Hong Kong C.C.-W. Navy, Kowloon C.C. v. Army'

The frame may reappear as nah First Division: University v. Royal Artillery (L.) Second Division: trays, candlesticks, anything like Civil Service Palice (L), Border, that. Some metal may go to the ere. University (F.).

or wireless masts..

The mooring tower will be pre- served, as presumably will be the towers in India, in Egypt, and at Montreal. Ere long we may see them used by American and German airships:

The Director of Airship Develop. ment, recently appointed; has been transferred to another post. The

few remaining members of the staff have already been dispersed or are

Awaiting orders to go elsewhere. motor industry; a lot. will be ex-

In addition to giving up the ported. It was suggested that it might be used for ladders, bridges R.100, the authorities have put an end to every form of airship train- ing, Since Cardington is sy bò kept up, it would have cost but little more, one would have thought, to use the R100 for training experi

ment.

Football.Chinese League: Yeo Woo Sung Ching, Eastern South China "B" Chinese Athletic HAN Chinese Athletic B."

Golf Royal Hong Kong Golf ' Club New Year Most

Seventy-five per cent, of the men King's Theatre: *

Monkey Busi- who are diamantling R.100, help. nees,"

Central Theatre: Dirigible."

ed to dy her in her glorious days. Queen's Theatre: "Man In

One of them is a survivor of the PORCssion."

R.101.

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ENTRY FORM

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THE

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

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In my opinion the attached is the best advertise. which has appeared in the Hong Kong Daily Press, between the dates of November 28 and December 25. I enclose a letter giving reasons for my choice. I have read the conditions of this competition and agree to abide by them,

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