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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE.

LAND, CRAWFORD, LTD...

beg to announce that their GENERAL STORE will be clonal on Friday & Saturday, 1st & 2nd JULY, 1992, except The GROCERY DEPT which will open on Saturday from 9 m. till 10 ani. for Pass Books only.

The PEAK STORE will openi from 'm. to 10 am on both Days. The Cafe, Corner House, Broad Department & Kowloon Branch vill open as usual,

BIE W. 6. GILSENT

WRITES

"Cursed with an appetite

keen I am

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and I'll subdue” it- (several repetitions) with Cold Roast Lamb !

-HONG KONG WAR MEMORIAL NURSING HOME.

IT

T is hereby notified that, as from 1st July, 1982, the scale of charger for accommodation in 'the Nursing Home, Kellett Ridge, will

be -

A accommodation $11.00 per day. B accommodation 9.00 per day.

BY ORDER OF THE "COM. MITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

LINSTEAD & Davis,

Secretarios.

NOTICE.

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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD: (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG)

ERTIFICATES No....1965 and

4855 for Fiva.and One Shares,

4 per Shara, paid up, Numbered 74401/74405 and 90555 respectively in this Sucioty standing in the name of LOUIS JOSEPH GRUNARD (DECEASED) late of Shanghai. bare baan Declarad LOST, and if at the Expiration of One Mouth from the date hereof the above Documents be not forthcoming the Said Certi ficates will be deemed cancelled and of No Effect, and NEW Certificates for the said Shares will be issued in

hoir stend by the Socisty,

PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager. Hong Kong, 29th June 1982.

LOST...

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Delivers order covering tha A undermentioned orge which arrived per the Swedish East Asiatic Co., Ltd. Motor Vessel "Peiping) has been reported to have been lost and is hereby declared null and void.

A new delivery order is being issued in its place.

Original delivery order which has

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That's the spirit that grips the person who on ucre his puošo with Pan-Yau nod tuklós his appotite With the Pickle. He doesn't even gut the repetitions!

You remember the model Misior- General in the Pirates How the drag old red faced aquare- pusher would have benefited by having a hand drawn on

Pan-Yan

Pickle and Sauce

GILMAN & CO. LTD..

AQEETI

ACKNOWLEDGMENT, ·

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Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Lisa tender

thanks to their friend and re- latives for the kind expression of sympathy, attendance at the fanerul and also for the floral tributes during their recont bereavement.

Editorial and Business Offices: 131

Ice House Street. Tal. 3028.

Night Editor (Wanchai Offee);

Tel. 34531. London Office: 83," Flest Street,

KUL

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, JUNE 29, 1932.

BRITISH BANKING.

been lost was issued to the order of THERE Are few more reassuring. Mesars, Bander Wieler & Co. and P-

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1932.

News and Views *

Big Five") and Ave, smaller in stitutions This quasi-monopolistic nature of the British credis strie ture gives it immense strength and enables it to function with little teansfer of precious instal, while į Tale of the Pay. the universality of cheque par- Voice can't catch the name." ments han accustomed the British

Profeur B for Brontosaurus, people to the absence of the sight for Rainayana. A for Athana of money. This psychological factor |sing 1 for L'ambars, N for Nep is very important at the pressut juncture.

tunisia."

It was stated that she was sert- salence of imprisonment and could not appany. Mr. G. J. S. Harper, solicitor to the council. said he had been informed that she had no means with which to in struct a lawyer.

A Court for Domostig Problems.

Pencemaker.*'

A Friendly Talk.

As far as possible all cases ia which domestic affairs are concern. ed are heard by a small body of magistrates in the magistrates' private room which... for the time; being, effeiälly becomes the second court.

CANTON'S NEW NAME.

TO BE KNOWN AS PUNYU?

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IT NEVER VARIES

Dewar's

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Miss Margaret Hardy, a Brigh

It is Difficult to understand why ten magistrate, and one of the lend ing Liberals in the town, suggests the Post Office has adepted the to indicate this Expounder. For that a special court of domestic word "Yunya" affairs should be established in view city, anys. the of the pinblems created by the mum- several dendes it has been known ber of married couples in Brighton to foreigners as Canton, and now

suddenly the Post Offes believes WHITE LABEL who agree to differ Woman Docter Struck of. "The foregoing remarks will have

To all intents and purposes such that this name is too exotic and prepared the reader for the re-

A scotties Woman dector, Mrs. a court is already in existence, as I changes it to Punyu. High official latively small contraction in basket Main-strent, Barrhead, concerned with it, little is known parantly believe that Pany sounds Roua Leckhart Wetherspoon, registhongh, outside those intimately of the Postal Administration ap Ing business that the British joint-Renfrewshire, was ordered by the of its working: It is presided over batter and gives a more accurate ex stock banks experienced last year.nnerál Medical Council to be by Mr. B. J. Saunders, who is pression of the name of this south Among the English banks alone onal conduct.

struck off the register for unprofer-known throughout Brighton as the ern metropolis. But they do not abolish the word "Canton ako evidence of the depression is to be

gether. When the Post Offices in Shanghai advertises the closing of! found in the relatively small shrinking

mails for this port, it is referred nge of £151.2 millions in deposit

to as Punyu. Immediately after that and current accounts on a total

work, the word "Canton" serted in brackets. sum of £2,083 millions. This de cline in working capital is not of sufficient magnitude to be serious.

It is a banking maxim thus an advans creates a deposit, and aet- ing on this elne we shall expect to find--as we do-that" in 1031 there was a declins in advances, The continued induzrini depression weakened, on the one hand, the demand for advanes and, on the other hand, compelled the bankɛ to be more reserved in the granting of facilities. Advances in 1981 of English banks (exclusive of the Bank of England) were 2003 millions, as against £903 millions in 1830, and the high-water mark

of 1020 of 21,080 millions. In

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Several Cantons.

anglicized Perhaps the

word

The president. Sir Norman Walk, er, announced, after she facts had bern considered in camera, that as Mr. Saunders, has been instru Canton cases confusion to the Dr. Witherspoon had been proved mental in bringing together many postal officials. There may be guilty of the offence alleged against couples who would otherwise havsveral Cantona in the world, and at separated. His work does not end least there is une Canton in the her in the notice of inquiry, the ro zistrar had been directed to erase when the court. finishes, and in the state of Ohio. U.S.A. In Switzer past he has personally interviewed her name from the register.

many husbands and wives, some times in their own homes, and pro: vented canes from coming into court.

French Grammar Best Seller.

The best-selling book of the mal ment in Franco is a French Gram mar. Six weeks ago the Franch Academy, after years of labour, published the first authoritative grammar of the French language. Fifty thousand copies were printed, and the book appeared in the Paris booksellers' shops on the morning of April 8. In three hours not a copy

remained.

Light Sentences,

I don't care what the neighbours think, it's the people next door that I'm worried about-Southend man. Motorist at Highgate; My raar light was really alight, but out. You understand what I mean.

Wife Willesden: I have done

my duty to my husband by giving

these three years the percentages of advances limbikties were 627 for 1931, 03.4 | mand. for. 1800, and 64.4 for 1929.

The printers began a second edi tion, and for three, weeks workid deposit and aute until midnight to satisfy the de-boy arrested and not the

London, as the world's financial { centra, has ndways been a large dia- counter of bills. The decline in

world trade, due to falling prices

Cand vunomie nationalism show? in bariffs, has brought down the gura for bills discounted to £244 millions

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Up to the moment 120,000 copies have been sokl, and a further 50,000 are to be printed with more to fol low.

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New Hadio Valve.

A now type of wireless valve with an eficiency factor" higher than any now available is shortly to be

on the market.

of a

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and

land, a Canton is a province. How ever, there is only one Canton in China. That name has remained as such for over half a contury, and Que wonders why it is abruptly changed to Punyu. Postal officials may any Punyu is the Chinese name for Canton, and if this is the ex- planation, they certainly make a great mistake. In fact, there is no place known as Punyu anywhere is. Kwangtung and that came must be a erention of some of the foreig employees in the postal service.

There is however a bien or cour

ty known as Poon Yue which once

him a good home, plently to eat and included the city of Canton. As pocket-money every-week.

cording to southern accent, the two Willesden Mother: Why was my words would be spelled Poon

others i

Yue.' and in northern or Man Policeman: Becauas he was the darin dialect, is should be spelled slowest runner

"Pan Yul" Inno ease the name Nottingham Witness: should should be spelled Payu. Never not like to say it was a lie. I willtheless, Poon Yue o Pan, Yui is call it an antruth."

Wrists and Stiffes.

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Mr. G. P. Male, President of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur geons, was leaving the witness-box after giving evidence in a case at Berkshire Assizes no Reading r8- cently when Mr. Justice Horridge said:

SEPTENT TO HER MUESTY WAS

White Labell FEST SCOTCH WHI

OF GREAT AGE.)

Dewar & Sop

DISTILLERS.

not the name of a city but a coun- ty. Honce it can be clearly seen that Poon Yue has nothing to do with this city. To call Canten Poon Yue is to say that Chicago is Sole Agents- Cook County. It seems to be hopeless confusion on the part of the postal authorities.

in 1901 as compared with 2026

Better Stick to Canton. millions in the previous year. The

Known as the Micro-mesh valves, high-water mark here was in 1921 they will be sold at the standard

None the less, they cannot get rid prices of the British Radio Valse when the total was £475 faillions. Manufacturers Asagiation,

Before you go, will you tell me of the word Canton altogether, The remuneration obtained on these will be made is the British factories something I have always wanted to as already pointed out they always famous wireless company, know. What is the object of call-attach the word Canten in brackets transactions was, it should be r which does not at present marketing parts of horses by different after Punyu, because foreigners ali membered, comparatively low in ordinary receiving valves,

names from those of corresponding ways remember this city as Canten 1001, being no more than £2 178. The chief feature of the Micro-parts of human beings Why can- and not as Punya. If the word not you speak of a herses kner into words are Kwong Chow. "Canton" sounds foreign, the rea! 4d. per cent, in the first half year. mesh power valve in that it has a stead of ita stifle i

mutual conductance" of 12.0 na The result of this contraction in

compared with the present highest business led to the banks, almost obtainable of about 8. uniformly, reducing somewhat the

Mr. Male: I am afraid I cannot These two words are easy to pro- tell you that I suppose is hasnounce and convey the real mean- something to do with antiquity. ing of the city, while Punyu is Mr. Ralph Thomas (one of the really misleading, confusing, and horse's front leg, don't you?

Mr. Male: No. Counsil: Oh! The proper. term is still stife?

doriel by Mosers, Bei Hing Loong,phenomena in, the present wat dividends paid their shareholde assume from this that more powercounsel): You speak of knees on a incorrect.. However, all the world'

Hongkony.

Chopped Sui Hing Loong, Marked

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One care Piece Couls.

GILMAN & CO., LTD.,

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A. THE SWEDISH MAST PASIATIC CO., LTD.

Hongkong, 29th June, 1992,

G.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

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in February last This followed the umaal sound, conservative pine- tion of the directors of the British banks and as wo shall sex in a i

The non-technical listener may is got out of these valves, or that the same power cat be got out of them with less being put in.

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wide geonomie depression than the efficiency of the British banking system. To realise this it is neces!

Mr. Male: No, On the front legs General Filled. sary to consider for a moment what

the kness are wrista (Laughter.)

Webster's Dictionary gives the have been the outstanding features moment, it cannot be said, con-

sidering how industrial sharehold Brigadier General Lionel Warren de following definition of stide: The of the depression. First there has

Vera Sadleir-Jackson, the great ers have suffered at the present authority on polo and big game Bank in the hind leg of the horse joint next the hook and near the bren a widespread departure from

juncture that the shareholders bunting, was killed in his motor- the goid standard of currency. the

of the British baaks were hardly car while travellinks between Band allied animals; the joint car responding to the knee of a man. leaders in this movement being need. According to figures publish. Quentin and Bouloghe last month.

The car was going at 1. good. Great Britain and certain of her ed in the British financial journal, speed, and the Brigadier-General Dominions. This departure Was

The Studiet, the profits of 31 banks had to swervo, violently, near cross- caused by an urtheil gold short-

ronda, in order "to kvoid a tractor. of Great Britain and Ireland in The front of his machine struck an age, due to the transfers of large

Amounted 1931

wrecked, to F sum of electric pylon and was suma, pasable as war debts and £11,088,860, after deduction of in- General Sadleir-Jackson was struck on the forehead and died within a come-tax. This gives an averago few minutes. dividend of 11.3 per cent on a

General Sadleir-Jackson will be remembered as the man who took the Russian Relief Force to Ar- changel.

reparations, which were oxacted in gold. Accompanying the actual or threatened departure from gold

ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS Pa Sain by Public Anation

were a host of restrictions on the to be held on MONDAY, the 4TH DAT of JULY, 1832, t 3. P.M., at the ransfer of currencies from one Offices of the Pablin Works Depart country to another. A wave of mant, by Order of En ExCELLENGE THE Partial or complete moratoria has GOVERNOR, of Our Lot of CHOWN LAND at Shamshaipo, in the Dolony also passed over the world and, at of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, the moment

1499, commencing from 1st July, with the option of renewal at a Crown

the Surveyor of Rezt to be fixed MASTY THE Ko, for one further term of 24 years leat the last three days

thereof.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT,

No. of Sale

Begistry No.!

Locality.

New. Kowloon Island

Inland Lot No. 1813,

Un Chau Street.

Near New

“Bonadary;

Measure

mente.

As per

Bale plan.

About

Contents in

2,448

Bquare feet.

ARRY

Upest Price.

paid-up capital of £os millicus,

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Luxury Baby Car.

is accustomed to know thin metro- polis as Canton, and to change the came after long usage simply in- vites confuzion and delays in the transmissions and delivery of mails to and from this city. In any event, this city is certainly not Punyu.

Reducing Family Seat.

The Earl of Durham who recent ly sold many of his pictures and

Lambten furnishings at

Castle, A luxury baby car is being pro County Durham, has decided in duced by the Daimler Company stead of closing Lambton Castle to and should be on the market, next retain it as a family seat. Most of month. It will have a 10 h.p. four the state frontments, a large hall, cylinder engine with self changing and a portion of the servants quar- The al- gear box and fluid flywheel. The tera/ars to be demolished. new model will be manufactured,terations will occupy between 18 and marketed by the Lanchester Mo months and two years. This deci tor Company, an associated com- sion may well set a new fashion pany of the Daimler Company. in meeting the increase of taxation,

Local Notes and Events

It is not possible to predict the future with any assurance, but it would seem that the departure of Great Britain from the goid stand- grd has had a less adverse effect on British banking than at one time of writing, severnd

was feared. In recent months the States in central and south-castern

pound sterling has kept remark Europe have been forced to default ably steady and foreign funds have been attracted to Great Britain.

The Hong Kong dollar on! The total output of Kailan Mir- respect of their public and Money is again cheap and the private obligations abroad. In. Lank' frozen credite in industry demand was quoted at la. 3d. yes-ing Administration's mines for the such a state of world finane it are bing thawed. When the wheels orday. would be a miracle if the internal of world trade revolve freely again, British banking will be found ready reonomy of any country, however to play again the prominent role in strong, did not suffer some set-back, the world's money market it has 30 for these are days in which success, long and honourably filled. must be measured by the malices

of long

The success of Great Britain's " credit structure in the last year or two can be attributed to several en uzer, but one of the most import

'INDIAN UNDESIRABLE.

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Contral

week ending June 18 amounted to i 110,083 metric tons, and the sales during the period to 93,931 metric tons

from the files.

Looking Back 25 Years,

A

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A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. WINEAND SPIRIT MEROBANTS

ESTABLISHED 1841.

GUIDE TO BUYER..

If you want to buy prepared nedí. cine at moderate price or to order á pair of gizases of the highest point of perfection plunge came and patronize The Great China Medical Co., No. 11, Wina LOX STREET (Opposite The Sun Ca.).. A trial will convince you and make you stifled.

LAS V

SUGAR DEAL.

ALLEGED BREACH OF CONTRACT.

PLAINTIFF'S SUCCEED IN THEIR CLAIM."

There was a further hearing, in the Summary Court yesterday of the action in which the Yang Hing claimed $1,000 ** Hong find damages from the Tak Shing firm alleging breach of contract in L sugar transaction, which necessitat ed the purchase of the goods on the open market at a price grently in excess of the contract price.

Mr. F. C. E. Rendall appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. Horace - Lo for the defendants.

The loss of a camera valued at $100 and an overcoat valued at $15 has been reported to the Polite by

fruit now in season and Mr. "T. B. Rolland of the Public The body of a woman, Tsang Ip, worth attention is the Australian

The min peint in Mr. Lo's argu- ment was that an alteration had Works Department. Mr. Rolland, aged 20 years, formerly the con Passion Fruit." We have enra-

gibine of Cheing Chiu, of Keswick i pled some grown at Chatley,Prak ( been made in the contract without who lives at 14, Conduit Road, Bus Street, was removed to the Public farm, and find the favour Lốt ing, TO BE SENT BACK TO INDIA. Peets the articles had been stolen Mortuary on Monday, when the like the big, hairy gooseberry of the consent of the defendants.

The Puiane Judge (Mr. Justica by his boy who has since dis-woman committed suicide by hang English growth. The manager of

ing herself from an iron bracket the fruit farm tells us that the pulp Wood) ruled that the broker made- I' above her bed.

makes excellent squash drinks the alteration while acting for the ant of these is economy in the desirable, an Indian named Guja

Desuribed by the police as an un-appeared.

Hong Kong. Dualy Press, June 20,

defendents. His Lordship found transfer of gold coin and bullion, Singh was charged before Mr. Before Mr. Wynne-Jones, at the }. In attempting to stop a fight 1007

that there had been a breach of An immense structure of monetary Wynne-Jones at the Central Magis-

Magistracy yesterday between his own dog and an animal tracy yesterday morning with

contract arid, as the quantam of transactions is supported on a re-arriving in Hong Kong without a morning, Loung Fook, un unem owned by Mrs. Tsang, of Banco Looking Back 50 Years,

Buildings, Mr. Greigs, of the latively small amount of precious valid passport,,

Early yesterday morning the damages was, not in dispute, he ployed Chinese, was sentenced to Peninsula Hotel, was bitten by one Detective-Sergeant Mottram told metal, and this is made possible by the tort that the defendant had six months hard labour and order of the animals, Mr. Greige went funeral of the late Mr. Henry gave judgment in favour of the the widespread use of the eherabeen in the Colony before and had ed to be kept under police super- to the Kovicon Hospital for treat Smith, Chief Accountant of the plaintiffs for the full amount and

poration, took place at the Pro- a means of payment,

This in been sent back to India by the vision for two years for stealing ment, while both dogs were removed H.K, and Shanghai Banking Car costs."

to Mataukok for observation. The polico asked for os from the person of another

testant Cemetery, Wong Nai Chung. turn in due to the very centralized police.

remand to enable them to communi-

The funeral procession left Bencons

ILD. CERTIFICATES. socoriance with Government I ordinanda The EXORANGE nature of the British banking estab

cate with the man's brother in Chinae in Pottinger Street. The

field soon after eight o'clock, Mr. BANES CLOSED for the lishments, and, po far as England Hong Kong with a view to having defendant concealed the money in friends were present, the Hon. F. Jackson attending as Chief Mour TRANSACTION of PUBLIC BUSI and Wales

the defendant sent back to India. the leather band of his topec, but B, Johnson among others. The Garner, while all the bank officials Placements, Basle (Local agents are concerned, prac-

Messrs. Gocke & Co.) vice was rend by the Rev. T. B. Ost.followed, and a considerable num The man was remanded for 48 tically all banking transactions our bail being granted in the was chased and caught by Chinese-Hong Kong Daily Press, June,ben, of the deceased gentlemen's Monday's (June 27) officin! quota-

Detective Chan Kang Sing, +-1882...

(Continued on Previous Column.,tion in Basle.£2.0, 3... [2:26 are done with Ave banks ("The sum of 100.

BANK HOLIDAYS,

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NE88 on FRIDAY and SATURDAY, the laz and 20 JULY, 1832.

Hong Kong, 24th June, 1032.

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