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ADVERTISEMENTS

THE CANTON INSURANCE: OFFICE, LTD,

NOITJE TO SUAREHOLDERS.

THE FIFTY-FIRST ORDINARY

GENERAL MEETING of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned, on Thursday," the 19th May, 1982; at Noon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agenti, together with a statement of o counts for the year ended the 81st: December, 1981.

The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the 5th to: the 19th May, 1982, both day's inclusivo.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO, LTD...

General Agents.

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Hongkong, 28th April, 1982.

NOTICE.

YONSUL for Japan and Mrs. T. YOSHIDA beg to announce that, in celebration of the Birthday of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Japan, a Reception will be held at their home 2A, Conduit Bend, on Friday, April 29th, afternoon from 12:45 to 180 o'clock.

Members of forsiga communities. in Hong Kong are cordially invited

CONCERT.

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HINA LIGHT & POWER RECREATION CLUB, King's Park Enclosure. BAND OF H.M.S. 14 CORNWALL" and several WELL. KNOWN LOCAL ABITSTES. Baturday, 30th April, 1982,, 6:00 pm: Admission $ILIO (including tar),

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

TEFTE EXTRA ̈RAGE-

TMENTING will be: hold (weather permitting) at. HAPPY VALLEY OF SATURDAY, 30TH APRIL, 1839, com- ̈ mending at. 145 p.m.

The First Boll will bo Rung at 1.15 p.m.

MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Members are notiided that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed...

No One without a Badge will be admitted to the Members Enclosure.

Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at 80,00 for Gentlemen and $3.00 for Ladies Both inpluding Tax) are obtainable through the SECRE- TARY, upon Introduction by a Member, sash Member to be responsible for Payment of All Chits, etc.

Badges admitting to

Members" Enclosure will NOT be on sale as the Race Contac

On No. Pretext will Children be parted in either Endlosure during

Meeting.

Tiina are obtaisable "at `the Olab

Blouse provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance. "Telephone 21920,"

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE,

The Prise of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2.00, including Tax, for all Persons, including Ladies, and is payable at the Gate:

Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform are admitted Half Price,

Bookmakers, Tie Tac Mas, ete....

will not be permitted to operate with In the Precinate of The Hong Kone JOCKEY OLED during the Race Meeting. Tifins will be obtainable in the Res taurant in the Publio Enclosure..

By Order,

S. A. BLEAP.

Hong Kong, 26th April, 1982.

Acting Secretary,

AGENCIES,

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London. Uffise of the HONG

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HUMBER

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Tale of the Day.

I've never seen such oyes Before!

"Maybe that because keeping me up so inte

Should a Doctor Tell?

News and Views

dreamy you're

mostly agricultural labourers, were ; Giant Rudder's Journey, repatriatode Prefecture viso states that there After travelling for six days and

The report of Che

busos in circulation on the Paris the Berengaria's rudder from were 27,842 taxin tramways and 18 hours, the giant lorry bearing streets last year, and that out of Gouthampton arrived at Darlington 107,799 applications for driving Forgo licenses only 46,269 were granted. Lack of petrol caused a

*90* minutos delay less than half a milo] from the end of the journey.

Those who go round begging be long to the founen aidegory Mont at then have tried the patience of segretarion to the charitable assosio- tion to breaking point nad have tadan back on this expediens. They present a difficult problem. "Many ara men of natural generosity in- telligence and enterprise, but a fatal instability of character pro- vents them from shouldering the stendy burden of modern commer. éial and industrial life A soldiers In wan time, they often do well. It may be that as some future date a settlement for such persons will bo founded, where, under some du the mysterious. death at Sete, the This problem has arisen out of gree of well-planned control they Rend Le Meur, of the 240h Colonial French Mediterranean port, of Lt. will be able to support a fairly easy Infantry, who was found uncon- existenes away from the big romscious in the room of a woman munities in which they find po abdomen.

friend with a Bullot through bis place. Such a solution would be the last thing that such persons would désire. They much prefer the ad venture of getting along somehow of Banding into a group, sharing good and ill-fortune together, defy ing and despising the prosaic and respectable citizen. But it may be that the community will insist upon protecting itself, humanely but

May a doctor reveal the dying. statement of bis friend to help the France and Beich Planning Als police to alear up a supposed conse of murder f

DURO GARAGE maly, against these adventurers,

in Nathan Road, Kowloon,

GILMAN & Co., Ltd., Agents.

The question of aged officers and men of the marchant service is one

Crowds turned out at all the vil lages through which the lorry, DISE News has been received: at Algiersed and the main streets of Darling Franco-German air service between a week or ten days of repairs of a project to establish a joint ton were lined with people. After Europe and South Amerion via the Forge the rudder was, back to northern Africa, toward the end of Southampton by road. this year."

Gifts for Bome Polios..

The route proposed: is said to be by way of Marseilles, Barcelona, The wounded was taken Casablancs, and Dakar to Buenos to hospital where, recovering me. Aires. Both France and Germany The strange sight was to be gaan. mentarily, ho asked for his friend would have an equal share of the in Rome of policemen on point duty Medical Officer Quenet, Dr. Quenet traffic, and the present air service dricating the truffle with growing was fetched, and the officer died in between France and Morocco would piles of New Your gifts heaped his arms after making a statement not be affected.

round their feet presents from as to how he was shot.

motor car drivers, who would slow man's words to Dr. Picqused, who "Dr. Quenet. reported the dying

down their cars at the crossings to hand out their gifts and wish the made, a postmortem examination

smiling, policemen a Happy New to reveal the statement on grounds of the body, but both men decline

Year

of professional secrecy,"

Huge Thorease in Cigarette Smoking Britain's output of tobacco in 1930 was 87 per tant, greater than in 1924, Cigars and pipe tobacco showed & decline, but there was production of cigarettes.

General Noble to Try Again,

General Nobile, the leader of the the airship Italia, das signed a 601- ill-fated North Pole expedition by

This unusual ritual is the result tract with the Russian Government of a campaign by an institution to participate in the Arotic Expa, known as “Automobile Housa,””, to the Leningrad Aretio Institute. diion which is being prepared by develop friendly and practical co- operation between police andễ thà

that quite a small sum of money would solve. The professional guilds, A the shipping firms and, perhaps, the an increase of 58 per cent. in the signed the contract with the per- scowls as an aid in traffic blocks.

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at O.

m.stated:-

The anti-cyclone is passing into the Pace to the E. of Japan. A depression is moving eastward towards »Sianghai.

Local Forecast-E or vari- able winds, moderata fine to doudy.

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Passing through Berlin on his motoring publie for the better re- way from Moscow to Rome General gulation of Rome traffic... Nobile, when Interviewed by press It is a move to promote helpful representatives, stated that ho had miles instead of antaguniatic

the transfer of his residence to Mod House and brought from it by mission of Signor Mussolini who, be added, had also consented to items prepared by "Automobile The gifta were all modest little

governing authorities of ton Fa Eastern ports ander European wwereignty should be able between 004,000-figures issued by Board of Cow which will probably take place motorists, from private owners to

The total value of 1930 products was £88,230,000, as against £62 Trade.

Germany's Guide Dogs,

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in Aprill

The expedition, he said. would taxi-drivers, and to each gift was start sometime in May and would tory formula: "To the metropoli attached a dard with the concilia last until July or August, after tan traffic policeman-careful watch man, vigilant and steady, and also courteous and indulgent, of not too easy roads out best wishes, with great admiration and sym pathy."

Drop in Use of Wine.

The 10,000th guide dog for ex-which he would return to Moscow to soldiers blinded in the war has prepare à detailed report. "graduated from the "Potsdam Institute for the Training of Guide Dogs which was established shortly after the war to provide the war- bind with reliable guides and com- into the crowded streets of the der panions on their hazardous ventures man cities,

years,

New 75 m.ph. Ford..

our

them to provide some form of alms-house refuge for these veterana, who have rightly earned comfort and security in their declining yenra. It is manifestly unfair that these cases should be billeted either upon Institutes designed" as social contres for young men, or upon

Consumption of wine in the 13: tld: free hospitais, two solutions not

countries providing the best market unknown at present. There is no

more than 12 gallons per head of for that product hast decreased by lack of generosity out East and the

population in the Inst, ve charitablo organisations show the

The graduation was made the according to statistics compiled by utmust patience in dealing with men which the "graduate"" was

occasion for a small ceremony at the International Wins Office for

cere. its annual congress.. Editorial and Business Offices: 13

down on their luck. "Probably the moniously handed over to a wir Prohibition, temperance legisla Ice House Etrent. Tel. 0951.

obtained by the profea blind man who was then led around tion and customs, barriers in the is intimated that it will cost Night Editor (Wanchai Office):sional adgurs would go a long way predecessors displayed an astonish-fic are considered chiefly responsible

Tel: 94513

cylinder models. towards keeping such as almos-house, ing intelligence. German police for the decline. Overproduction in

The car is officially rated at 30- If charity were less easily exploit-doga are used exclusively for the the Hat 30 years is estimated by.p., developing 66-h. p. ed, the last would soon be seen of Institute, Heur Hass explained that 748,000,000 gallons. Wine growers hour. It includes a silent synchro purpose, and the director of the Wine Office officials to be more than The V-8 is capable of 76 miles an certain local characters, and more they preferred the female of the in Europe are said to have lost nised gear-change, downdraft car money would be available for those species, because she was "more re-more than $1,000,000,000 between burattor, carburettor silencer an- regs genuinely in need of help

liable and loyal"

1927 and 1930.

tomatic spark control, and a diaph- ragm pump drawing fual from a tank in the rear.

London Oe: 58 Flant Street,

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, APRIL 28,. 1932.

MEN IN DISTRESS.

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money

THE SLANDERED BEAUTY QUEEN.

Details of the Ford Motor Com eight-cylinder V engine, have been pany's new car, equipped with made public, but no montion, has yet been made of the price, except that

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Gold Dealers' Losses.

Modern. ' Manns.'"

»

A report recently issued by the Many bulion dealers who bought Paris Prefecture of Police is large stocks of sovereigns at.278. 63. teresting because it reveals the have suffered severe losses through A fall of "manna" from a cloud- many different activities of that the "sudden drop in the price of less sky is reported from a farm at body. The issue and renewal of gold.

Vryheid, South Africa. Natives re-, SCORES OF LETTERS OF identity curde, without which no Caught on the falling market,ported that the ground was covered! foreigner may establish a residence with the price of gold.at. 264, 6d, in with a white snow-like substanco, for work in France, is one of the experienced dealers are now left which tasted like honey. In ap most important branches of the with large stocks of sovereigns and pearance it resembled popcorn, 1931, 72,400 people were granted now closed their doors but the expert the tongue. Specimens were pre work of the Prefecture. During old gold. Several dealers have powdered easily, and melted upon cards and 104,927, renewals were is enced men, who have sold currency served and sent to Durban for a sned; 827 foreigners were refused against the drop in price,, are con- scientific investigation, which has their "permis de' sejours." and 4587, tinuing to bay gold.

not, yet boon comploted...

SYMPATHY.

"SOUTHEND NO WORSE THAN

OTHER TOWNS.

and

Local Notes and Events

The Hong Kong dollar

le/3-1/8d.

rose

Tus report of the Chaplain to the' Sailors Home and Mission to Sesmo extracts, from which are given in this issue, states that there is a certain degree of distress among

Miss Ethel Wilson, Southend's number of Europeans in this 16-year-old Carnival Queen of 1931, has received scores of letters from Colony. There has no doubt boen

all parts of the country expressing suspicion that such cases are on sympathy and good wishes the increase, and even that the un offering services in her fight against employment problem, as we find it

the acandalmongers who have been"; a Home, is spreading out East.

sprending rumours about her.

Sa widespread wore the rumours: Singapore a number of pinaters that a statement was issued by a firm of solicitors on behalf of the and other respectable British per Carnival Committee refuting the yesterday and was quoted at the North by the Blue Funnel steam sons, discharged from their posts, rumoured allegations and threaten- owing to the slump, have beening legal proceedings to clear Miss

Wilson's name formed into a "Service Company **.

Two cases of meningitis, one of Mr. K. H. Thurlow Baker, hon smallpox and one of diphthorin and have been housed in a camp, orary solicitor of Southond Ca-ware reported on Tuesday. where they drill and are well looked Rival, said that he had no know. after. When positions of any kind nature being received. He said:

ledge of any letters of slanderous fall vacant mon with the suitable qualifications are recomiended. The material wants of these men are thus provided, and, what is most important, under a form of "mili. tary disciplino, self-respect is main. tained:

I think we can safely say that the rumour is dead. I am con. to stop it was the course we took. vinced that, the only possible way One can only fight such people by coming out into the open.

nature...

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The inter-school sports will take place at Caroline Hill track to morrow at 2.20 p.m.

Among the passengers aniling for

Fer Hester to-morrow will be Mr. C. M. McDonald, News Editor of the South China Morning "Post,| who is proceeding to Peking, where ha will act as correspondent, for The Times, the South. Uhina, Morning Post and other newspapers

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CONVICTION SET ASIDE

LAUNCH COXSWAIN

DISCHARGED.

from the files.

The coxswain of the test launch Wah Hing, who, about a week ago, was fined $250, or in default three

Looking back 25 years.

Advices from London state that months' imprisonment, appeared

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Dr. Rugg, a Professor in Colum-the loan for the British part of the bia University who is doing research, Kowloon-Canton Railway is a again yesterday before Hon. Com- work in the Far East, will give a great success, the list having closed marder G. F. Hole when an ap- of H.I.M. the Emperor, the Japan the Education Society, Hong Kong The competition for the Blake by Mr. F. H. Loseby for a re-

On the octavion of the birthday bion and the New Education to

lecture on Our Changing Civiliza. yesterday.

plication was made on his behalt Consul General and Mrs. University, to-day at pm in the Shield will take place at King's hearing. Yoshida are holding a reception at Union Amembly Hall. The lecture Park rifle range on May 4. their residence, 7A, Conduit Road, is open to the public: to-morrow, from 1943 to 1.30 p.m.

OLG

he,

"Alarming Spread. "We cannot, of course) be other than surprised at the alarming way The position is not the same in in which the rumour spread from

The charge on which the coxswain Hong Kong. Careful inquiries from mouth to mouth in a few weeks, but In connexion with the celebration against him, a Chiness who was srill for the last ten days and is still es coxswain, had allowed the safety

With two previous convictions Sir William Des Voeux has been was formerly convicted was that local residents, in personal touch worss in the way of stands) than to be held at St. Andrew's Church, Gloucester Building, was sentenced malarial fever, which precludes him

I do not think that Southend is any of the Russian Easter services are rested in the Venner Shoe Shop, suffering from a severe atsack of valve to be under the control of HONG with this problem, yielded a anani- any other town. It is just hamar Kowloon, this work, by a Russian to four madatha hard labour for from doneldering, or answering lots sincer by removing the pad- KONG DAILY PRESS, 68mous opinion that there were prac PLANT STREET, LO4, is constant.tically no deserving cases of distruth in the disgraceful allegations. services at 7 pm.... ly resairing Enquiries from Home trees in Hong Kong. A number of

There was not the slightest menes at 8 am and the evening. Mr. M. Ragusin. The theft took April 29, 1907.

priest. The morning services com stealing a pocket book belonging to terHong Kong Daily Press, lock atted to it. Hanufacturers regarding Buitable

"The Inst thing that rumour

place on Tuesday when the prison- Firms to not Agents for their National and other Soolaties exist founda itself upon is truth. Tho

er entered the shop, ostensibly with Looking back 30 years.. products in Hong Kong and for the relief of persons in dif their mouths firmly closed now: Wellington Street, and Kaan Wan was turned, the defendant extract the letter of our Haiphong corres

The forthcoming marriages are the intention of buying a pair of rumour-mongers seem to be keeping announced: Lai Chi Hing of 58B, shoes, but when the attendant's back As will have been remarked by gineer to see that the pressure, of Fenth China. it. Local Companies desirous of taking city and admirable and adequate Thore does not appear to be the Ching of 23, Reclamation Streeted the pocket-book from a coat hang

up further. Ageasier will at work is done in finding employment, slightest possibility of tracing the Lo Kam Bon of 01, Queen's Bonding up inside the shop know the Lines in which they are rendering temporary aid, and promany people, however, do not realise Keo, Market Siu Nam, district,

Fource of the rumour A good East, and Yau Kwai Hing of HaS interested the information will be forwarded to London and passed viding passages, In Hong Kong a that merely by the repetition of it Kwong Tung. on to interseted parties as op good man, is seldom out of work they render themselves at once liable. portunity, offers fr

to prosecution for slander." This Service is offered to our Bosters for long. The remaining cases fall without change and, of course into two categories, those who for no obligation in isourred on either one cituse of another are unable to keep a job for noyt length of time,

ride,

The Bequired Information should-be ment to the ARRAZK

It has been suggested in some quarters that the rumour was start. aby jealous girl. Mr. Baker said there was no evidence of this."

Mr. Loseby contended that under . the Ordinance there was a definito obligation on the part of the en-

pondent, the Capital of Tonin the safety valve, was not excessive has passed into the hands of the After referring to a section in the French with the fall of its citadel regulations, Mr. Lessby argued that For storing methylated spirits at In fact, there is good reason to be there was no active act by dead or their promises at, 3, Tong Yau lieve that the reign of the Emperor

terday afternoon before Mr. J. A. Ng Kwong Hing, wore. Aned 325 be incorporated in Cochin-China and therefore he had committed no Street, and 8, Tong Yau Street, Du Toc over the province has sas-order on the part of the accused At the Kowloon Magistracy yes without a licence, Tong Shing, and ed to be, and that Tonquin will Fraser a coolie named Kwong Lui and 350, respectively by Mr Sche It is to be deplored that thereofence. sued his employer a contractor field in the Central Police Court, should have been an eusion of named Kwang Lui for 840:75, be yesterday. Mr. C. Fit Henry blood in this conquest, and it some

Commander Holo said that since

My own idea," he said, "le that ing wages due to him since October, of the Fire Brigade said that the to us it might have been avoided. the facts had been put in that and a number of sick and aged fit was started as a joke. It gained 1981. Judgemont was given for the street way YTY NATION and the all-event-resistance would he quite ngreed with: HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, LAD vico, who are physically unfit forheen prominently before the public, plaintiff or to go to prison for oun Fire Brigade in the avont of an land seized the citadel Hong KoNous conviction and sentence, be ret

mon, mainly of the merchant wer-particular eredence Locause it was plaintif His Worship ordering the storage of such spirits was a source have been slight, had French He made in order that the

connected with a nards that had contractor to pay the money to the of great potential danger to the gone ap to Hanoi.an oreo at frat "and so it became a scandal,”-

honth

outbreak of fre.

Daily Pren, April 88, 1898

aside and discharged the Rocused,

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Hong Kongay-

regular work