ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB
AC
TVES FIRST EXTRA RACE
MEETING will
be (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VAL- LET on SATURDAY, 558 MARCH, 1938, Commegoing at 2. p.m.
Tho Tinh Holl will bé Rung mới 130
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MEMBRES ENCLOSURE
Member are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
No One without & Badge will be admitted to the Mambers' Enclosure.
Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members Enoloauro and Clul, Rooms At $1.00, for Contiomen ad $3.00 for Ladies (Both jarinainr TAT Aro obtainabla through the SECRE TABY Introduction by Member,
apen saah Member to be responsible for
Payment of All Chits, ote.
to
Badgos. admitting Membera Enclosure will not be on sale at the
Bass Courne,
On No Pratext wil! Uhildren be permitted in either Enclosure during the Meeting.
Tifins ar obtrinable at the Club
House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy by p.m. on MARCH 47. Telephone 21020.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE, The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2.00, including Tax, for all Persons, including Ladies, and is payablo at the Gate
Boldiers and Sailors in Uniform ara admitted Half Price.
Bookmaker, Tie Tat Mon. to.. will not be permitted to operate with in the Precincts of The Hovo KOND JOCKET OL.daring the Race Meeting. Tiffin will be obtainable in the Res- taurant in the Public Wooloure.
By Orler,
C. B. BROWN,
"Secretary.
Hong Kong. 10th Feb., 1937.
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HONGKONG REALTY AND
TRUST CO., LTD. INCORPORATED Under the CompAN- TIJORDINANOES OF HONG KONG)
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HONG KONG, DESSE VON BET- SOCIETY.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGf, be held on FRIDAY, ir MARCH. 11 am, in the Sanitary Board Room, Bed floor, Post Office."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1932.
THE GREATEST PLAGUE OF
HUMANITY.
(Continued from Page 7.),
Mrs. Southern has kindly consented is implanted to render the soil to take the Chair.
[1847untenable. In order to survive the
THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD..
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
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that the FORTY-THIRD ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING will be bold at the Company's Offices P. & O. Building, on WEDNESDAY,
·23ыь MARCH, 1992. at 11 am,, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounta 70 31st December, 1981, and electing Directers and Auditora.
The Register of Members of the Company will b CLOSED from
MARCH. 10TH
1282 to 28an MAROH. 1982, both days inclusive, during which period nu Transfer of Shares can be registered.
infection, the germs of tuberculosis' must not be innoculated in too great number, and not too frequently. There are two terms of tuber culosis that concern mankind-the
bovine type and the human type,
Bovine tuberculosis is a negligible. entity "in China. Ile transmission takes plaes through the medium of milk or ment of tuberculosis catthi A milk is not a staple article of food among the Chinese in the in- terior, the risk of infection is only confined to constal ports. Although condensed milk is largely consumed, it is perfectly made...
The only fresh milk that eng bo free frem tuberculosis infection in
that obtained from the artified
"By Order of the Board of Directors, SIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
Agenta.
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Hong Kong, 17th Feb., 1982.
THE HONG KONG NATURALIST
ردار
A QUARTERLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNA
PRINCIPALLY PON HONG KONG
ANE SOUTH CHINA.
VOLUME II, 1982.
Edited by O.A.C. HERKLOTS, Ph.D., M.Sc., F.LS.
THE UNIVERSITY, Hona Koro.
NEE first number of Volume III will be published early in March. It will contain one coloured plate and 12 half tone plates of flowering shrubs, birds, nests, crabe, leopard, barking deer, etc. besides dunerous figures in the text.
Contributors include Mr. A. H. Crook, Lieut. Commander 8. R. Ascherson R.N., Commander E, A. Aylmer B.N. and others who wrote for the previous volumes.
Volume I (200 pasov) in sold out
Volume 11 (324 pages) remain.
The subscription rate for Volume III is $7.00 H.K. per annum past free, but a request is made that those who can do so will send $10.00, the extra $3.00 being put to a fund to. defray the cost of citra" coloured platos,
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEAR. II MEETING of SHARE.ad leg thun 2 complete sets of HOLDERS of HONG KONG REALTY and TRUST COMPANY, LIMITED; will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, Exchange Building (2nd Floor), Dos Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 2ND MARCH. 1092, at 12 Noor, for the purpose of receiving a statement of Accounte and the Report of the Board of Directors for the year ended on the 31st. December, 1931, and: reialecting two Directors and the Auditors,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED," from WEDNESDAY, the 17TH FEBRU ARY. 1932, to WEDNE Day, the 2ND MARCH, 1932, both ays in clusive,
By order of the Board, F. C. BRRT,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 2nd February, 1982.
12776
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION..
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THE Final Dividend declared for
The Year ouding 31st December, 1931, at the tute of Three Pounds Sterling at exchange 1/5 is payable on and after the 29th February, 1932, at the Offices of the Corporation, where shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
By Order of the Board of Directors, V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 27th Feb., 1932. [1885
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B.
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT,
TT IS HEKERY NOTIFIED that
Subscriptions may be sent to the Editor.
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tuberculin-tested cattle. The aitor-
is sterlitent by a process called Pasteurization. The necessity for the elimination of tuberculosis from the dairy herd is not to be for- gotten
By far the greatest danger of infeetion in that from the human sourer, and this moons raw sputum. There is evidence that much of the childhood infection is sequired through raw apatum from obscure cases of tuberculosis:
It is shown that droplets of galiva ou row sputum can reach out to three foot during the net of coughing, and that a drop of aputum 'from an active esse may contiau 114 many ne 4,000,000 tuberels germs. Imagine the dan- ger to the family when they are sleeping huddled together and also the use of the family muqaito- curtain. Under the direumstances indeed, the mouth of a tuberculosis patient is moro deadly than the muzzle of a big guar
Dried putam comes next in danger, Being dry, it rondily
Roats when the floor is wept. It in found that the most dangerous parts of IL buberet lasis-infected room arh the floor and the skirting of the walls.
Is it ry wonder that infants and children are infected so readily. and in such huge numbers, when so much of their time is spent on the floor, and since the tendency of infante is
put anything within grasp to their mouths
One of the most beneficient legis Tation in Hong Kong in this con- nection is the recently passed Anti-
ENDERS are invited for the
supply of Labour and Lighter.spitting By-law an applied to publio age for Admiralty Coaling for a period of 12 months certain from the 1st April 1932.
Forms for tendering can be obtain. ed on application to the Naval Store Officer, H.M. Dockyard, Hong Kong, and tenders should be lodged in the Naval Store Officer's Office not later than Noon, on Tuesday, 8th March 1932.
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ANNUAL NAVAL CONTRACTS. SEALED Tendors are invited for
the following contracts, viz., Supply of Timber and Timber
Materials.
Upholstery Works. Dry Cleaning Works. Repairing Clocks, Watches and
Stop Watches.
Supply and Repair of Bamboo
Bunblinde.
Supply of Acetylene Gas. Supply of Oxygen Qas. The Contracts to commence on 1st April, 1989 and expire on the 81st March 1982.
Forms of tender may be obtained on application to the Naval Store Oficer, H. M. Naval Yard, by whom tenders will be received until Noon, Thursday, 10th March, 1992.
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enting houses. It is a stop in, the right direction, nd Y sincerely trust that this will mark he begin- wing of the long overdue mavement against tuberculosis, I hail also the periodical publication by the health authorities of the death figures du to Luberculosis. Thoru awakening the anti-tuberculosis con is probably no better means of science of the community.
Anti-tuberculosis Scheme.
In the warfare against tuber- culonis it is essential that the com- munity should posaran a complete anti-tuberculonia scheme.
Such a scheme should include the provision of tuberculosis dispensaries, sana- toria, open-air schools after-enro committees, etc
A dispensary, being more or less in the nature of a olearing house, should have at least one taber- culosis medical officer who is armed with expert knowledge and the necessary equipment for making diagnosis and treatment. All doubt ful ense should be referred to him, While the late entses are referred to the segregation hospitals, or super- vised home treatments, the early cases are sorted out for the sana toria. It is now generally accepted that tuberculosis is ourable. The should attract a large number of free and expert dismenaary service
such early cases. Such a disponana y The right is reserved of rejecting is really an out-patient department all or any tenders and or adapting solely devoted to tuberculosis work.
[1890 Many portion of a tender.
I onen beard the argument that owing to climatic conditions Hong Kong is not the place for a sana- torium, and that the beat place for it in Weihaiwoi. The Arat part of the argument may be fittingly answered by the aduga: "No good is done by looking at the mouth of a starving horse"; and the servind part by the Chinese saying: "Distant water cannot put out a nearby fre”
I8EALEL TENDERS in Triplicate, which should be clearly marked "Tander for Kowloon Quarry Lot No. 16, will be receivert at the dolenia? Secretary Office until Noon of MON DAY, the 7 day of MARCH, 1939, for the dostpation for a period commencing from the date of notifice tion of acceptance of tender and ending. on 31 December, 1984. of the prece or parsol of ground at Tai Kek Tani as shown coloured red on a plan signed by the Director of Public Works and deind 16th February, 188, and subject to the conditions which can be ascer tained at the office of the Director of Public Works
Upset annual fee $450 per sanúm.
Each tonder must be accompanied
Latest
BRUNSWICK
and
by receipt to the effect that the MELOTONE
tendorer has deposited in the Colonist Tresenry a sum of $250 as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown in the event of the tenderer, whose tender is accepted, refusing to carry ont "the terms and conditions of his tender.
On the scoppianos of tonder the deposits of unanpessful tenderers will be returned to them.
Form of tender and further partion
Jare can be obtained from the office of the Director of Public Works,
-The Cherudent does not bind Itiomitt
HAROLD T, GRRAST,
Director of Pablis Works.
19th February, 1932.
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RECORDS
Obtainable-
Another argument fa. what good is a sanatorium:lf at the end of the treatment the patient has to ratarn
the patient. Here he will learn all
the rules of health. what to avoid.
SOCIÉTÉ INTERNATIONALE DE PLACEMENTS BASLE
INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENTS DEPOSIT CERTIFICATES (BEARER)
Trustees
UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND Agents for the Trustees
LONDON-MIDLAND BANK. LIMITED
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FAR EAST-THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
Sole Agents for Hong Kong, Macao and South China for
DE PLACEMENTS A. GOEKE & CO., HONG KONG, China Building, 4th Floor.
SOCIÉTÉ INTERNATIONALE
In times of acute trade depression, the problem of how to invest one's money becomes very difficult to solve "An investment therefore where one's money is spread over a number of the soundest companies in the various leading countries would appear to answer the problem. This is the idea underlying INTERNA TIONAL INVESTMENTS DEPOSIT CERTIFICATES,
DESCRIPTION OF LID. CERTIFICATES
INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENTS DEPOSIT CERTIFICATES are in the nature of deposit receipts to bearer and signify that the Union, Bank of Switzerland, as Trustees, hold certain stocks and shares and that the owner of the certificate is entitled to his proportion of those shares and all dividends, rights, etc., accruing to them.
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The portfolio of 1.1.D. certificates represents 30 of the finest companies covering the most permanent and progressive industries in the world.
THE TRUSTEES
A Trust Agreement covering a period of a5 years with option of renewal has been entered into between the Société Internationale de Placements and the Union Bank of Switzerland, under which the Union Bank of Switzerland acts as Trustees for the holders of certificates..
FIXED COMPOSITE UNIT
A of stocks and shares deposited in this way constitutes what has been called a "fixed Trust"
group as once they have been selected they cannot be changed." It is, however not, really a Trust at all, but a fixed composite investment unit.
THE SECURITIES HELD IN THE INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENTS DEPOSIT UNIT ARE AS UNDER :---
GREAT BRITAIN
HOLLAND
5 "A" Shares Prudential Assurance Co., FL. 460 Royal Dutch Co.
Ltd.
13
£20 Ord. Stock British American. Tobacco
Co., Ltd
.50 Ord. Sharce Base, Ratcliff & Gretton Ltd.
50 Ord.. Shores Courtaulds Ltd.
CANADA
8. Sharos Canadian Pacific Railway Co;
Common Stook
5 Shares Showinigan Water and Power Co.
Common Stock
FRANCE
1.Share Suez Canal
3. Shares Credit Lyonnais
4 Shares:Nord Luiniere
5. Shares Cie des Produits Chimiquer et
Electra-Metallurgiques Alais, Froges
A
et Camargue (Pechiney)
10 Shares Forges et Acieries du Nord et
de l'Est
Fl. 490 Philips' Glowlampe. Co.
FL. 500 Handelsvereniging "Amatordanı
(ÉL.V.A.)
SWEDEN
10 "B" Shares Swedish Match Co. ·
10 Shares Swedish Ball Bearing (S.K.E)
Co.
►
U.S.A.
2 Shares American Telephone & Telegraph
Co. Capital' Stock
2 Shares Allied Chemical and Dys Cor-
poration, Common Stock
3 Shares United Stator Steel Corporation,
Common Stock
3 Shares New York Central Railroad Co.
Capital Stock-
8 Shares Standard Oil Co. (New Jejsey)
Common Stock
SWITZERLAND
6 Shares Nestle & Anglo-Swiss Condensed
Mik Co....
5 Shares Swiss Bank Corporation
GERMANY
RM. 1300 Deutsche Zentral--Bodenkredit
A.G. (German Central Mortgage. Bank) RM. 3400 Siemens & Halke A.0. RM, 1600 I. & Farbenindustrio A.G.
(Gorman Dye Trust).
RM. 2000 Norddeutscher Lloyd AG,
(North German Lloyd)
BELGIUM
2 Shares Societe Generale de Belgique
DENMARK
10 Shares F. W. Woolworth Co. Common £80. Great Northern Telegraph Company's
Stook
Holding Co., Ltd.
VALUE OF UNIT AND METHOD OF ISSUE OF LID. CERTIFICATES At the present time the value of the unit, together with accrued dividends,, ete, amounts to approximately £3000. Each unit is divided inte one thousand sub-units. On the basis of a value of £3000 for one wait the value of the sub-unit would be £3. For these sub-uits curtificates are issued in denominations of 5, 10, 25, 100 and 1000. Certificates are only issued when the unit of stocks mud shares," as set out above, has been deposited with the Taters for safe custody. Pending receipt of the certificates, the accredited local agents of the Société Internationale de Placements will obtain and hand over to clients temporary receipts, which will be issued by the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, and which will be exchanged for the certificates upon their arrival.
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SEMI-ANNUAL DISTRIBUTIONS
All dividends payable on the deposited stocka are collected by the Union Bank of Switzerland. Subscription, rights, stock dividends, share bonuses and split-ups are collected and sold for tash. All funds so accumulated as on September 15th are dis tributed by the Trustees to certificate holders on September 30 in Europe and November 30 in Asia. An interim distribution accumulated as on March 15 is payable by the Trustees on March 31 in Europe and May 31 in Asia. These distribution Warrants are cashable at the Midland Bank in London, and at the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation in the Far East on receipt of instructions from their London Office that such dividend inny be paid.
YIELD
For the 6 yours, January 1925 to September 1981, the yield, if certificates could have been purchased at the average price each year, would have been as follows:→→
1925 1926
6.39% 7.88
11
1927" 1928
-13-34° 13.01
11
1929 1930
15.57% 6.76
For actual year's working from August 22, 1980, to September 15, 1981, 111% (based on price as at September 30, 1931) SALE PRICE
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LI.D. Certificates can be sold at any time, and the selling price is based upon the realisable market value of the securities comprising the unit, plus arcumulated dividends, etc. The local agent will notify Basle of the sale and the Hongking & Shanghai Banking Corporation will cash the certificates on receipt of instructions from their London Office.
QUOTATIONS
11
De bre
Apart from the dealings in Switzerland which are recorded daily in the London Annacial newspapers, LL.D. Certificates officially quoted on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, Daily quotations are received by the local agents in Hong Kong.
The foregoing statements are issued by the Société Internationale de Placements, Basle, who. While not guaranteeing the information contained, therein, believe it to be correct.
INFORMATION
Prospectuses and the fullest information may be had upon application to the local Agents:***
Messrs. A. GOEKE & Co.
China Buliding, 4th Floor, Queen's Road, Central, Hong Kong
Teleph. 22221
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the day. Burely freedom from disent things as they have proved as so on are undoubtedly very exál- nase is a freedom worth fighting for, homo, during the pours of years. in this world of suffering and pain. They are valuable educational (Applause.)
Prevention.
centres for fubezen.cais patients but whether they have proved of value
to his former unsanitary murround lief. help, or improvement of home question. Tuberculosis is control fres. As a matter of fact, the conditions
lable. If we tiny not be able to sanatorium is a practical school for
eradicate it in this generation, we A Social Problem,
spall at least lay a wund founda , and how to ans well, and he should Tuberculosis is a medical problemation, for the woll-being of the future
portainly be instilled with the will which is closely linked to social and generation. Fighting against the Professor Gerrard, in thanking or not is very doubtful. Therefore, to mat wall, which counts so much economic problems, requiring to be disease is a long-drawn battle in the speaker, said: The paper has I would suggest that for Hong in the battle. Moreover, the adoendealt with by the community as a which the scientist, philanthropist, been a very quonilent one from Kong the peguentin Wis is the mont tional value of a sinatorium, among whole, by social reformers by and politician should co-operate; every point of view. The only thing important has preventative n wide circle of patients relatives Bonifary, municipal and political and they should have the courage I am sorry about is that Drij medicine the one province of and amuaintances lays a authorition. As 70 per cent of and prevarapoe to follow up the did not streng more the preventive module in which the quack dars BRUNSWICK HOUSE foundation for the perversion of tuberculosis occur among the poor advance made In this battle of side of tuberculosis becaued it not difer walk ar
tuberdulosis in the future. One it is indeed an economio question, man varaus microbe the public must more I see of Hong Kong, the more wine of quailed medical man must pot forget the beneficent part Poverty ignoranas, under feeding support the medical profesion and I am convinced that talking about and in that particular proventative of the after-car committee, which and tuberculosis are bed-fellows. the authorities. The prosperity and curing tuberculosis is rather a medicino we have most hope in the will after discharge render the The prevention of tuberculosis happiness of the poople depend on disaster. All efforts should be on future for the stamping out of patient any necessary advlač, rain, thén, both e medical and #ocini hesith Prevention is the order of the preventive side. Sanatoria and tuberculosis
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