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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS OF HONG KONG.

A Paper entitled

"THE BENNIE RAILPLANE" will bo read in the Institution

by

PROT. W. BROWN, M..., 2.8G.,

Y...B., AM. I. E, X.

On

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8TH,

at 5.15 P.M..

Members and their Frionds are invited to be present,

NOTICE.

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R. HELMUTH FERBER, how

Mutionized to sign our

firm per procuration.

A. GOEKE & Co.

Hongkong/Canton,

December 2nd, 1922.

NOTICE.

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The rival of a completa assort NHIE undersigned beg to anneanco

ment of

HELLESENS' DIY CELLS AND BATTERIES,

suitable for all purposes in connection with radio "A batteries, grid bins, ete ignition; detonating of explo sives; torch and all types of portable lights.

Price lis on application to -

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

NOTICE.

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A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. HE undermentioned Cortilastos THE

for 75 shares in this Company. registered in the name of Chow Pung deceased, have been declared LOST. I at the expiration of one month from the date hereof the following share certificates be not produced to the Company, namely Cortificate for 26 shares No. 68105/56129 and Certificate for 60 shares No. 58180/56229, new Certificates for the sid shares will be issued by the

and Company

thereafter NO OTHERS will be acknowledged. A. 8. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. Hongkong, 2eth November, 1937,

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THE SIXTEENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on BATUKDAY, 10 DE OEMBER, 1932, commencing at 2.00

p.m

The First Boll will bo Rang at 1.30 p.m.

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

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1932.

FINE SHERRIES

of very superior quality, grown and bottled by

Anto R. Ruiz Y Hermanos Xeres de la Frontera.

AMONTILLADO, AMONTILLADO SUPERIOR, SOLERA FINA, SOLERA FINA SUPERIOR, SUPERIOR PALE DRY. FULL GOLDEN, AMOROSO EXTRA, FINE OLD BROWN.

FINE PORTS

GROWN, BOTTLED AND SHIPPED By

Robertson Bros. & Co., Ltd. LONDON & OPORTO.

DOURO, OLD RUBY, VALOR, FINE OLD RUBY, PRIVATEER, PYRAMID, CHOICE OLD, VERY FINE OLD TAWNY.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

E.C. 4.

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

Est. 1811.

Editorial and Business Officer: 11,earn about 200 a month and at Ice House Street. Tal. 30251. present either make an effort to go Night Editor (Wanchai Office): home or

élso content themselves Tel. 24511. London Office: 83, Fleet Street, with the proverbial bun and milk. Their custom is not of much use to establishments serving a dollar tilla and upwards, and thera ne ways, in which the saving of time and money will benefit the local Brms with whom these young women do business.

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, DECambes 6, 1839.

THE BUSINESS GIRL IN HONG KONG

1r is interesting, and to

QUARREL OVER RENT

APPLICATION TO COURT CONCERNING DESTRAINT

the

COMPLICATIONS FOLLOW

SUB-LETTING

An application was made before Paino Judge, Mr. Justice Wood, yesterday by Mr. Peter Sin on behalf of Leung Wing of 286 Shanghai Strent, for discharge of 6 distress warrant in respect of two 'month' rent on the premises.

Mr. F.C.E. Rendall of Masry, Buss and Company was for the destrainer, a woman named Chan Tka shi.

News and Views

Cannibal Tastes,

Home Work We Like!

prentices, as undor existing sys-

most lads finish their ap teins A California father was able to The Dean of Canterbury ha prenticeships with only a partial put a daughter and four sons evidently. no cluse acquaintance and not a complete knowledge of through high school on the pro-with cannibalism, otherwise be their trades. ceeds of a fifteen-acro asparagus; would not have expressed willing bed. It is assumed he was helped,ness to cut off his hand to food a as well as giving help, with the starving child, "homework."

Here is a short history of a The P. and 0. great firm, the P. & O.:-

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Selling a Pipe.

Át cannibal banquets the palmus Smokers walking along the of the hands are always rejected a Strand have boon amused" by a a tobacconist'a win- circumstance which is explained by machine in the cannibal gourmets as being duo dow. This ingenious automaton Young Arthur Anderson came to the exceeding bitterness of that

was a cylinder-shaped affair which was smoking" half a dozen pipes London from the Shetland Islanla member. at about the beginning of the 19th Even the dogs who devoured the at once. The specimens protrudel century and was engaged us a body of Jezebel left the palms of from a flat surface which had some connection with the inysterious clerk by Mr. Willcox, a ship-broker her hands,

machine; and pleasant grey spirals of Lime-street.

A worby son of his rock-bound Gone Are the Days!

rose from the mechanically smoked pipes, each of which had a label native isles, he became a partner

WEA a time when in the business, which as Willex Thore

San boaring its name and description In making the application, Mr. and Anderson, shipowners, moved Francisco was described as the The only other advertisement of Sin said: This application is made to 51, St. Mary-axe. They ran wickedest city in the world," and this order that comes to mind is a under the Distress of Rent Ordin- sailing ships from Falmouth to many people thought the great, Dutch experiment which, was use. ance of 1883, to discharge or sus Portugal and Spain, and in 1832 earthquake that visited it a direct 10 years ago. It was made in the pond distress warrant on the one of them was fitted out as an judgment from the Deity. Now form of a manikin which smoked. several makery. ground that the rent so distreued ammunition carrier and Anderson hear what the city has to say of cigarettes, but

{ found that it consumad more than had been satisfied or paid. The sailed in her to be attached to the inelf:-

"San Francisco for the past it sold, so the idea had to be grounds are fully set out in an Portuguese naval squadron com affirmation by the applicant and anmanded by Admiral Sir Charles fortnight has been absolutely fre abandoned.

from disorder and virtually free these grounds the application is Napier.

crimes Known as the Peninsula Com! from made. The point in the case is exceedingly simple and amounts to pany, its services were extended t a question as to who has the right Malta nad Alexandria, and in 1940 to collect the rant It would be the title of Peninsular and Orien. the applicant's case that the portal Steam Navigation Company son, at all material times, who had was adopted, and a mail steam the right to receive the rent was ship service to India started two on Doctor Ho Ko Tsun who is the years later. agent of the superior landlord and my client was instructed to pay him the rent.

The Puisne Judga: Who is the registered owner of the premises ! ·

Mr. Bin: Dr. C. C. Wu, my Lord.

4 dentary Ago.

Apprenticeship Revival.

of violence. The Humanising the "Belshier." no street brawls. No have been

Moscow authorities have decided drunken brute has heaten his wife. No gamblers have murdered each to put their employees back into Bufore the revolution other in low resorts Except for uniform. some dealings with sneak thieves, Russian uniforms made a delight the occupation of the police courts ful comedy. Each service had its. is gone."

own special design, and the hum blest offcial office-boy wore enough gold braid for an admiral. Uni: Then followed services to Cer

forms wore banished by the Bo lon, the Straits, China, and Aus An early attempt is to be made, ahovika. Clearly, any distinotion tralia. In 1870 the Suez Canal was to re-establish in London the old in dress might lead the ignorant opened, and in the course of ting system of apprenticeship in the to imagine a corresponding dis the company built a new feet ant, crafts from which the ancient eit tinction in brains or social degres. directed its services through that guilds originally sprang. One or The reason given for the present waterway. Since then, it has deva two of the livery companies have return to loathsome bourgeois Who is Chan Ho Shi-She is a loped into the great organisation maintained their associations with habits is that burglaries and ba stranger to R

it is to-day, but the P. and their crafts through training col- ditry are facilitated by the lack of house fing remains an emblem of leges for Apprentices, but in the uniforms. Any one who is plun Has Dr. Wu changed his agent 1-: those Willcox and Anderson ser majority of cases the guilds or dering a letterbox can say he is a No, he has employed Dr. Ho as vices to the Iberian Peninsula of a completely dissociated nowadays postman. The roal explanation 19 his agent.

contury ago,

fream the crafts, and it is a num that Russians, retain remnants of Since when I should say about

Divided, blue, white, red and her of these which are proposing barbaric tastes, and. like dressing- three or four years ago..

yellow, per saltire, or diagonally, to revive the old customs. It is up The first two colours are from the not a matter of sentiment or tradi- In this they are, of course, un- old Portuguese royal flag and the tion. Industrialists, are deploring like the more enlightened people second two from the Spanish. the lack of properly trained ap of the West.

Has your client paid the rent to Dr. Ho for a long time?-No, since September.

Who collected the rent before! that 1-Chan Siu Nam,

Who is be? How did he derive hin authority 7-He is the owner. or principal partner of the Fo Wo firm, who is the principal tenant.

Local and General

So the tenants there are sub-ten- One case of small-pox was report. ants, are they 1-To Chan Siu Named over the work-end, of the Fo Wo fm.

No Recolptal

Leung Hing. Managing partner of the Yuen Po Kee firm of 256 Shanthai Street, Yaumati, stated

The feminine view is that a club where a girl can drop in for au hour and ret without the necessity that he had rented the whole pre- mines from Chan Sai Nam since of buying food, or where she can November 1999. The rent at that Lif she wishes ont a sandwich lunch time was 8297.50 per Chinese month braught from home, or each purchase and it was subsequently raised to 8242.60. Of this latter amount aslinder meal and eat li at her | 8230 was paid to Dr. Ho Ko Taun, soma leisure without suffering a barrago He had no receipt for the rent poopis perhaps a little alarming to of reproachful glances, is the least paid on the ninth and tenth moon although he had paid the rent fle mark the many different ways in she can tak in compensation for the had formerly paid rent to Chan which the Women's Movement is fact that she is paid lower wages Shiu Nam, but since September, of equal Chan told him to pay the money man young permeating Hong Kong. It ranges than a

direct to Dr. Ho at his office. When pagent was made for the ninth moon a temporary receipt was in sued which was given by witness to Chan and was never returned.

Cross-examined by Mr. Rendall witness said he understood his land- lord to be Chan Sui. Nam and he knew of no woman named Chan Ho Shi. Distress was levied on the premises on November 9.

from the riding of steeple chases ability. Mea can afford Clubs; the at Kwanti to management of offices | average working girl cannot. The

in the Central District. Chin:so new enterprise is an effort at com. domestic life is being modified even fort, without luxury, and a careful move than British, and it must catering for what is needed, with appear strange in Eastern gentle out extravagence. men of the old school to see Chines indice driving their own cars, and

No doubt if the Club gets the support it deserves, activities and

winning the Harbour Swimming amenities will be extended is the Rres and the Ladies' Tennis Cham- demand grows. But the main ob-

oned of supplying a place where the

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

Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at 85.00 for Guntlemen and $3.00 for Ladies (Both including Tar) are pionship. The fact is that thejects will be the useful if prosaic obtainable through the SECRETARY apon introduction by a Momber, dich emancipation of women is a mové. Member to be responsible for paymentment that has for its supporters, mid-day meal can be consumed and of all Chits, etc.

in one form or another, enlightened where a girl can pass an odd hour Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the minds, without regard to age, or in comfort and security. itace Course.

race, on sex. There is nothing sur- prising in the fact that the project-

Da pratext will Uhildren be permitted in eith Enclosure daring ibs Meeting.

اره ما

Dr. C. C. Wu's Agent.

Mr. B. Wylie, accompanied by his wife and daughter, returned from Home leave by the Blue Funnel liner Menelaus.

The Shanghai Nanking Railway) is running two night trains, includ ing the express One leaves that North Station at 10 p.m. and the other at 11.45,

Professor W. Brown is reading a paper on The Bennie Railplane, on Thursday, December 8th, at the Institution of Shipbuilders and En- gineers of Hong Kong.

,

The Chapei War Sufferors. Asto- ciation, at a meeting held last week, resolved to ask the City Government of Greater Shanghai to grant them a loan of $3,000,00) to enable theth to re-open the shops and re-build their houses which were destroyed during the Sino-Japanese fighting.

Mr. F. J. Raven, president of the American-Oriental Banking Car- poration, has been reappointed vice-. president for China for the Ameri Bankers' Association. can Raven has hold this position for several years.

Mr.

The Canton Police Department has been requested by the Shamcen In order to prevent smuggling, Connoil to co-operate with the Sha- aeroplanes of the China National meen authorities in effecting the Aviation Corporation will in future arrest of H. Goldenberg, manager be subject to search by Customs of Backhouse & Co., Shameen, who officers prior to their departure is alleged to have embezzled $30,000 "from, and arrival at Shanghai, from the firma,

Nanking, Kiukiang and Hankow. Hitherto, the right to

conduct searches rested with the Chinese military authorities.

The Annual Meeting of the Girl

According to a report madu to the Guides' Association will be held at

Sandilands' Hut" at 11 a.m, on police by Miss R. Hancock, daugh Wednesday, when Lady Peel haster of Mr. H. R. B. Hancock, a car which she was driving along Queen's kindly consented to preside,

Hoad East on Sunday knocked down a Chinese girl, aged 8. was not seriously injured. She was taken to the Government Civil Hospital and after treatment was allowed to go home.

The Japanese 15th destroyer flotilla, comprising the Susuki, Teuta, lagi and Fuji, hus sailed for Japan. This flotilin came to Shanghai immediately preceding the outbreak of local hostilities.

A large cemetery is to be laid out by the Ministry of War outside the Chung Shan Gate, Nanking, for the burial of the Chinese soldiers and officers who lost their lives during the fighting against the Japanese and Manchakuo troops in Manchuria

Dr. Ho Ko Tsun stated that he acted as agent to the owner of 258 C. Wu. Ho had verbal authority and 258 Shanghai Street, Dr. C. to do an from Dr. Wu's mother three years ago. The two premises

A pickpocket case came before ware reated to Chan Siu Nam in Mr. Buttors at Kowloon Magistracy the name of the Fo Wo firm af yesterday, the victim being Mr. F. n rental of $445 and at present the i. ei Arculli of the Shameen Print rent was in arrear from the end of, ing Press. The arrested man enter the seventh moon,.

ed a plea of "not guilty" through He had received the rent for No. Mr. C. Y. Kwan. The hearing of

1 250 Shanghai Street for the eigth. the case has been fixed for Friday, ninth and tenth moons at #230 per month from Leang Wing but he The cutter Sector, which recently escaped from Vladivostock and had always had difficulty in Ret which, according to rumour, is to ting the rent from the Fo Wo firm. In consequence of that he gave them be returned at an early date to its Soviet owners, is still being detain- notice to quit.

ed by the Chinese authorities, pond- ing investigations as to who are the proper authorities to receive it.

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From the files.

The girl Looking Back 25 Years.

Here is a sample New York message dated November 2: --Ac- cording to the Washington correa- pondents Mr. Taft received canic A haul of money and jewellery instructions while he was in Shang- valued at $5,000 was made by

hai recently to make enquiries as thievos who broke into No. 37, to the attitude of China concern- Pokfulam Road, the residence of a Chinese family named Simpsoning the occupation by the Japanese result that he ascertained that the Included in the booty is a diamond of the island of Pratas with the ring valued at 82,000 and money to place in claim to be indisputably. the extent of 81,600.

It is stated Chinese territory.. that the thief or thieves gained ads mission to the premises by climbing up. a drainpipe.

According to the Washington ad- vices, the question under considera- tion by the United Statos is whe- The wedding look placo in ther it will be necessary for this Hukow last week of Miss Enid country to support the claims of Whitcomb, daughter of Mrs. J. H. China to the inland in the event Waller, of Peiping, to Mr. Maurice of such claims being formally and lett, H. M. Consul-General at Banking. A recent eoble in the Howlett, son of Sir Meyerick Hew officially put forward from Pe kow, and Lady Hewlett. After the Horald" was to the effect that wedding, the young couple will re-, Chinese warships has been ordered side at Changsha, where Mr. How to proceed to Pratas appears to lett, who is connected with the have been at the least premature. British-American Tobacco Co., will It is hoped that nothing of that

bo stationed,

kind will be attempted, for obvious ly China can do nothing by her The death took place early on self in forcible vindication of her Sunday of Mr. R. E. G.. Leung, supposed right.-Hong Kong Daily well-known local sportsman, after an Press, Dec. 8, 1907.

ed branch for Hong Kong of the mitted being in arrear with rent Tifins are obisicable at the Clab Blue Triangle Women's Inter since the end of the 7th moon, Last Blouse provided they are ordered from to No. 1 Boy in drance. Telephone national Club, which is being or year on account of financial diffi- 21920.

ganised under the chairmanship of culties he approached Chan Ho Bhi PUBLIC ENCLOSURE,

W T. SOUTHORN, should and borrowed a sum of money from The Price of &dmission to the Fablic Mrs. Enclosure is $12.00 including Tax, for mirendy have received a splendid her and as a security he gave her all Persona, including Ladies, and is

end-off in the form of a slonation the deposit receipt for the 81,001 payable at the Gate.

Boldier and Sallora ia uniform are of $12,000 from a Chinese sym he had given Dr. Ho and he also admitted Half Fria,

pathiser, Mr. TANO SHIU KIN, and let her have the rent for 236.5

On the 18th day of the 8th moon Bookmakers, To Tao Mes, etc.,

The institution is instalment. The tenancy of both Chan Sin Nam went to witness will not be permitted to operate with his friends.

houses was transferred to Chan Ho office and paid 8000 rent, and a in the Precincts of Tam Hong KoNo question is for women of all races Jock 27 Ozun during the Race Meeting and creeds. It seeks to provide is Sui by reason of the fact that the receipt was issued in favour of the Yuon Po Kee for $230. He then By Order,

the heart of the Central District Fo Wo firm was short of cash. The received instructions from Chan to 6. A. SLEAP,

the amenities of a Club primarily transfer took place. in the 10 collect the rent direct from the Acting Booritary.

Yuon Po. Kce. Hong Kong. 3. Deo., 1939... [2860 for business girls. The need is t

Witness said that he hover, ar-

Answering Mr. Rendall witness real one, for the number of young ranged with Leong Wing that the said he was paid 81,000 deposit by women who are staployed as clerks, | intter was to pay his rent direct the Fo Wo as well as shoe money. typists and saleswomen is steadily to Dr. Ho Witness said that be-He recognised the tenant of 258

did not take Chan Ho Sin to see Shanghai Street to be the Fo Wo The-Chinese Maritime Customs honoura upon the military dega and, on boards laid across the joists. THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB.

increasing. Most of them live at Dr. Ho about the transfer because firm and Chan Siu Nam as their has placed on order for the concarrier pigeons to the Japanese The joists proved insufficient_to_ Kowloon and cannot return home if he did, Dr. Ho might want an- | agent

struction of two, with a probable army during the fighting in Shang-support the weight, two of them and ENTRY PROGRAMME SIXTH EXTRA for tiffin, except på sacrifics of the other $1,000 deposit. The reason

third, vessels for ite--preventive hai and Manchuria, according to breaking in the middle while others why he took the receipt from Leung

service with, the Kiangnan Dock & the Nichi Nichi. It is planned to and given way at the ends through RACE MEETING to by held in Macao rest which is real necessity for Wing was that he had to give them on Sunday, 16th December, 1912, may be

Chan Siu Nam said he was man. Engineering Works. Theno vessels have special memorial collars made having insufficient purchase in the........ obtained at The Sports Club, Hongkong proper efficiency during the after to Chan Ho Shi na he was colles-

Aper of the Fe Wo firm and took are larger than the Hua Hsing and for the dogs and small gold leg walls, and the pile of bricks foll Jockey Club Stables, or at the Ofices of noon, especially in the summer. ing the rests for her.

over the two premises three years ei Haing, which the same builders rings for the pigeons, while the into the basement. As there w7 Mossra Pergy Faith Beth & Fleming, The catablished restaurants may

ngo in the name of the Fo We from recently completed and handed over remains of those which have been no one working below, there were 6, Des Voeux Host Central

regard the club with a certain

Hotho then sab-let Nosferatisfactory trial The cow killed in action will be buried either no fatal consequences hutan ENTRIES Cleo at 4 PM. 03

Shanghai Street to the Tien. Po vessele will be about 1,200 tons die in a special compound at the Yssu- three, Chinese who were hear SUA THURSDAY, 8th DECEMBER, 1992, uspicion, but it is designed to

Kee at a rental of $230, Ho ad placement and will indicate about kuni Military Shrine, or at some tained auta and contusionson

other temple,

Kong Daily Preis, Dec. 0, 1882, [2850 enter for the hundreds of girls who

(l'ontinued on Previous Column) 2,000 LII.P.

moon.

His Lordship granted the np plication with cont and ordered thr the money in Court to be paid out to applicant's solicitors. He also awarded damages.

Meeting Arrears.

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A new Shanghai Fronch Muni-ilmess of over six months. The cipal Regulation forbids more than deccaseil, who was only 25 years of Looking Back 50 Years. two persons riding.on a solo motor age, was an undergraduate, at the i

Some excitement was caused in eyele and more than three persons Hong Kong University, where he riding on motor oycles with side figured prominently, in athletice. Wyndham Street yesterday by the cars. A seat taking the place of The funeral took place yesterday fall of a quantity of bricks at one the baggage grid must be specially afternoon.

of the houses in course of erection fitted for the persuns occupying that I

above the corner of Wellington position.

Plans are being made at the Street. The bricks, about five tons Japanese Ministry of War to confer weight, probably, had been piled