HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1933.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
NOTICExordinary General Meeting of the above Company will
be held at the Offices of the General, Agenta, Mesra, Jardine, Matheson and Company, Limited, Pedder Street, Victoria, is the Colony of Bong Kong On Friday, the 9th day of June, as 12 noon, for the purpose of receiving a report of the proceedings of an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company beld on the 28th day of May last and of confirming if thought fit as Special Resolution the following were passed as Resolutions which Extraordinary Barolations at the above mentioned meeting namely:--
(1) That the existing 10,000 shares "ia the capital of the Company si "the nominal value of $250 each, "apon which the sam of 9100 bas "been paid up, be divided into 450,000 shares of the nominal value "of $50 each, upon which the enm "of 220 shall be credited as paid up. "(2) That ns on and from the lit "day of July, 1933, the regulations "contained in the printed document "anbaltted to the meeting and for "the purpote of identification sub. "scribed by the Chairman thereof "be approved and sloped as the "Articles of Association" of the Com- "pany, in subatitation for, and to "the exclusion of, all the existing "Articles thereof".
AND NOTICE is hereby also given that in the event of the above men tioned Resolations being confirmed as Special Resolutions the Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 9th June, 1933, to the 18th June, 1933, both days inclusive.
Dated the 3rd day of June, 1933.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Agente.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
TAEETING will be held (Woalber
EXTRA RACE Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY OU MONDAY,
1933,
• JUNE, 5TH commencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Bell will bo Rang ut 1.30 p.m.
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
No One without a Badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure.
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Badges admitting Non-Members to London Office: 53, Fleet Street,
the Members' Enclosure and Olub Rooma st. $5.00 for Gentlemen and $3.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax) are ob tainable through the SECRETARY apon the personal application of a Member, such Member to be responsible for all visitors introduced by him, and for Payment of All Chits, etc.
The Secretary's Office, 3rd Floor, Gloucester Building (Tel. 27794), will close at 12 O'Clock Noon.
Members'
to admitting Badges Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the
Race Course.
On No Pretext will Children be
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HONG KONG, "JUNE 5, 1933,
forest, situated mostly in the west of England, in Wales and in Of this area 251,000 Scotland. acres have been purchased, white the rest is partly held on lease and partly has been transferred fram the Crown Lands. The Commis sion is naturally anxious to plant the largest possible areas with new forest, but land is "dear in Great Britain and the Commission has generally had to content itself with acquiring land which is too poor for agricultural cultivation, Although this land is suitable for the growing of conifers, the broad- leaved species of the typically Eng lish landscape demand better soil.
permitted in either Encloe are daring AFFORESTATION IN GREAT any cases unemployed, industrial
the Meeting.
Tiffins are obtainable at the Clau House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephone 21920.
admitted Half Price.
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HOUSE VERANDAH COLLAPSE
★ * News and Views ⭑
Two Dead: Two Injured English v. French Cookery. Mrs. "Allee in Wondariand,”
TRAGIC AFFAIR IN HAPPY VALLEY
Mrs. R. G. Hargreaves (Alice
\SUMMARY OF NEWS
Far East, Glen Hargrave, an or-United The great chef, Louis Eustache Ude,
who served that famous pleasance Liddell), the original of States marine, at present a Ford epicure the Earl of Sefton for Alice in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in car salesman, has voluntarily over twenty years, and was pea- Wonderland," has been chosen to surrendered to the United States sioned by him (afterwards becom-unveil a memorial to the author District Attomey following the ing high priest at Crockford's), at Llandudno in August. A fund death of Britisher, Leslie Mal- used to admit that some of our for the erection of the memorial, colm Bell, aged thirty-five, national dishes were the envy of which will be a six-foot marble the world.
The first Earl of Dudley always maintained that a good soup, a small turbot, a neck of venison, and an apricot tart constituted a dinner fit for an emperor." Righteous Indignation.
A serious accident, attributed to the heavy rainfall on the previous afternoon, occurred on Saturday night when a second floor balcony of 16, Tuk Sau Street, Happy Valley & newly built European style house collapsed shortly after 0.30 p.m. As the result, & Chinese amah, Ching Tai (31) was killed and a little girl named Jessie Hou- sad, aged 11, succumbed to her in-
At supper many people were juries shortly after admission to the astounded that the great dining Government Civil Hospital. He soloon could accommodate all the brother, Gordon (18), sustained in-guests for supper at a single sit juries to the arms and legs and ating. But a lady horrified the younger sister, Ada (9) also "re-gymnasium instructor, temporari ceived injuries to the limbs and ly turned wins steward, by com body.
menting adversely on some of the The incident is all the more sad pictures.
pointed out They were, he as the parents of the injured child- ren are not in the Colony at pre-proudly, part of the ship's per
valued exhibition the Fiji inanent sent, being away in Islands, and that the lad had only £125,000! just come home from school to spend his holidays.
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on
ness,
a
pillar, complete with the rabbit with pink eyes," has just been started, and children are to have an opportunity of contributing their pennies.
Enthusiasts to the Last.
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But have we auch, enthusiasts to- day as that Irish peer who, when dying, summoned his heir to his hedside to tell him a secret which would compensate him for the wretched, dilapidated state of the family property ↑
It was, briefly, "Orab sauce is better than lobster sauce.""
Then there is the story of the London spieure who was similarly summonded many years ago by an old major (who had been with the 13th Light Dragoons at Balaclava) in order to tell him how to de mutton so that it should taste ex actly like venison." Dancing in Harbour.
From the deck guests could see signs of the effect which cruising is having on shipping policy.
Even the gallant old Mauretania was being painted white-in readi.
A great charity ball was given ness for participation in that basi-fast-month in the Majestic, as she The lay at Southampton docks. experiment was a goat success, both in the numbers it attracted and in the novelty of the enter tainmen it offered. Distance, now- adays, has lost its terrors, and it observe tbost revealing to was
many parties "bed motored how down from London.
When Shaw Broadcasted.
Details Meagre.
Details of the tragedy are very meagre bui & Daily Press repre- sentative who was the scene almost immediately after learnt that the three children, together with the amah, had just returned wireless from a cinema show and were in the verandah, enjoying the evening breeze. Suddenly, the floor of the verandah "folded over,' throwing the four people onto the terrace some thirty feet below. Part of the balcony came down with crash onto the first floor balcony and it was extremely fortunate that there was 10 one there at the time, otherwise they would certain- ly have been badly injured.
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One of the disadvantages of a
from programme,
the listener, stafidpoint, is that-like the man in the pew, at church he cannot answer back. Mr. Ber- nard Shaw's broadcast speech in the United States evoked. however, a few retorts by, telephone. Here Turn are some of the protests: him off and give us a regular pro It's an insult for a granime.' foreigner to knock the United States." If Mr. Shaw doesn't like this country, why doesn't he It's a disgrace for instay home "
a nice station to broadcast such & " "He doesn't even pro- speech." nounce his English right." "A few minutes of his bunk is enough,"
Ching Tai received multiple juries to her head, limbs and body and was in a very serious condition when picked up. She died shortly after.
Of the children, the elder girl was found to have sustained the most serious injuries and little hope was held for her recovery despite all that medical aid could do for her,
Dr. Li Sung who lives in the next house was on the scene almost at onee and after he had given the
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DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND
And the final denunciation was "That man even makes my baby ery."
French Ambassador's Chef, “
Some say that there are no long er any real gourmets left in Eng land. Yet it is certain that a fow of the elect of London Society have felt a thrill in learning that the new French Ambassador is to be accompanied by His faithful
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The general impression now is that the Hopel Provincial Govern- ment will be left to arrange to take Japanese troops when they with-- over the areas exacuated by the draw to the Great Wall. Page 9
General Feng seems to be intent on causing the authorities trouble if Chinese reports from Kalgan are Page 9 true..
M. Sokolnikov has replied to the Japanese offer to mediate in the Soviet negotiations with the Man- chukuo Government concerning the Page 0. sale of the OER,
The North China situation re-
Page 9.. sins quiet despite developments in Charhar province.
General.
A "Moratorium for all of Gen many's foreign debts will be announced shortly after Whitenn, stated Dr. Schacht, President of the Reichshank.
Page 9. At least 14 people were killed when the Paris-Nantes express was derailed outside Nantes. Page 9. The King's Birthday Honours Page 9. List, will be found on.
H.M. King George was 66 on Saturday. He spent his birthday Page 9. quietly at Buckingham Palace.
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Lieut. James Mattern left New York on Saturday for Harbour Grace, from where he will sit ont Page 8. on a world flight.
Prince Wilhelm, the eldest son of the German Crown Prince, married Saturday Miss Dorothea von Salviati, at the Page. Bono Town Hall on
Few hotels on land can boast a ballroom the sire of that carried by the world's largest liner. Few dance organisere can offer, as an added inducement to purchase tie- kete, that bed and breakfast, plus a dip in the swimming pool, will morning. be included in the programme,
In the French Tennis Champion- abips, quarter-finals, Batop, Japan, Procedure at the World Conference. surprisingly defeated Perry, Bri The World Economic Conference tain's number one player, 1-6, 7-5, Page 9. is sufficiently near and the pro-4, 2-6, 6-2: gramme at the opening will prob ably be as follows-
Local.
i The delegates of the 64 or 66 The Philippine Island Indepen countries will each make a speech dence Mission to the US. arrived setting out his nation's views here on the return journey to and will sbout the objects of the Confer- Manila on Saturday, ence, the things necessary to be spend about a week in the Colony, done, and the order in which they The Hon. M, L, Queron is head of shall be done. Two weeks will be the delegation. Kowloon Supple required for this second-reading
Two persons were killed and two debate, as we should call it in England. Then committees of ex-badly injured when the verandah, perte will be set up and each com of a house in Happy Valley "col- mittee allocated a particular prolapsed on Saturday evening Seventy years ago, when Abra blem before the Conference. These
As in former years, the King's Hayward (Dicken's hated committees, our foreign visitor critic) was able to stir society by stinks, will continue to work on Birthday parade was most impres his brochure on "The Art of Din-their different problems, until the
chef.
ham
ment.
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ing," London would have leapt at beginning of October, by which sively conducted and thousands of this announcement, and one of the time they could be expected to be people witnessed the impressive to the indisposition of H.E. the questions immediately asked would in a position to make some recom-spectacle in Statute Square. Owing have been, "Can he cook green mendations to the Conference as a Governor, the General Officer Com- manding (Major-General Borrett) Page 7. Conference The insertion of this item in the
Local Birthday honours were ne menu for the dinner given to Lord would take up the discussion of took the salute, Chesterfield by thirty of his friends' these recommendatione. This would
goose ju
whole.
Immediately the
Southern, C.M.G., Colonial-Secre
on bis quitting the office of Mas be the crucial "work of the confer follows. The Hon. Mr. W. T. ter of the Buckhounds was sup-ence and might be expected to go posed to be the Count d'Orsay's go through October and Novem-tary receives the order of Knight. master-stroke.
ber.
Local and General
Notice is given in the Gourn ment Gazette, that the Statistical Office has removed to the first door of the old Beamen's Institute, Johnston Road, Wanchai.
The City Government of Greater Shanghai is drawing up plans for of Woosung, the reconstruction which was destroyed in last year's hostilities. As.a first step, efforta are being made to remove debris from the war-torn area and to lay Mr. Lu Hench Pn, director of out a work of new roads before the Central Mint, interviewed by new buildings are started. members of the Chinese prese denied the press report that be had been appointed the Customs Su- perintendent. for Foochow.
Commander of the British Empire: Chief Banitary Inspector C. F. Frith is awarded the Imperial Ser- vice Order and His Excellency has bestowed the certificate of merit on Mr. Li Yik Mui and Mr. Page 7. Tam Wun Tong.
CHINESE TRADE IN SINGAPORE
- STARTLING FIGURES RE- VEALED BY SUNDRY GOODS DEALERS
One method adopted by the
Ichang, May 24. Forestry Commission to encourage
The 5.4. Ming Chu came here afforestation is to offer grants, de
laden with ammualtion and mili- cording to the species planted, of
tary gear said to have come from from 2 to £4 per acre planted by
Nanking. She, was destined for private owners. The result of this
the Szechwan War Lord, Liu scheine has been the planting of 85,000 acres, apart from the Com-Helang At Washsien, General Wang Fang Cheu, invited the mission's own undertakings. An-
guard of sixty men in-charge of other echeme, consisting of the es-
the cargo, to a dinner, While tablishment of forest holdings, al-
they feasted the ship was unload- benefits the unemployed. In
ed and the military stores trans- ferred to General Wang's depôt. workers have by this means been transferred to the land. Under
The guard have wisely not gone this scheme boldings of ten acres on to Lin Hsieng at Chungking, but are, still enjoying the hos or less are allotted to suitable ap-
pitality of General Wang. How plicante, with a guarantee of em. PUBLIC ENCLOSURE,
comployment of not less than 150 days will it end is the question that
this
Interests us. The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2.00 including Tax, forsidering the advisability of taking a year. Needless
financial stringency limits the es- all Persons, including Ladies, and is steps for the replacement of the scheme is a very popular one, but | parabic at the Gate.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are country's dwindling forests. The tablishment of these holdings to.
outbreak of the Great War; with between 15 and 20 a year.
The present resources of the injured what treatment he could, Bookmakers, Tie The Monteita vast demand for home grown Forestry Commission permit of they were sent to the Yeung Woo in the Precincts of THE HONG KONG timber, made the position still planting about 20,000 acres per Nursing Home which is quite close will not be permitted to operate with-
worse, accounting as it did for the year. In addition another 10,000 by. From this place the injured JOCKEY CLUB during the Race Meeting.
were sent to the Government Civil By Order,
felling of nearly half a million Gores per year are planted by pri
This combined area Hospital. vate owners. acres of the best timber in the maintains
forest present Great Britain, but
▲ Now House, country. In 1818 the Forestry Act growth in.
leaves nothing over as actual in- was passed, a Forestry Commission crease. When the call for national
Being as it is a recently. builag of the Rotary Club will be keeping disorderly home at 62 society are dealers in preserved was appointed to deal systemati economy becomes less pressing, the
"Amateur Dude Wrangler-that cally with the problem, and Par. Commission will no doubt be af-house, it is rather hard to under. Rotarian Maynard, and his subject was reported, was barricaded by fish, dried oysters, oyster sauce, liament voted the sum of 8 mil.lowed to speed up this important stand, why the balcony, which wasis if Wheeler and Woolsey, who took were four sailors on the premises!
work. In the meantime increasing apparently very solidly constructed, attention is being paid to the should "fold over in the manner his place a couple of weeks ago, utilisation of the vast resources of it did. The only explanation offer don't turn up again!
With funds contributed by na timber in other parts of the Bri-ed was that the heavy downpow
The ssociation's report states tish Empire. It is estimated that on Friday afternoon might have to
a certain extent, saturated the lives of Ningpo in Shanghai, the no less than twq million square
recent report, that the total volume of business base" of the balcony and weak Ningpo Residents' Guild part bas within the borders of the Empire,
The guns and beroplane are ex-
Nationalist Army during the of four million dollars a year. ly receiving Enquiries from Home wood. At present its import of and of this area nearly half is so stand the weight. of four people. land and four anti-aircraft guns.mander of the Ironsides of the sixty per cent, that is a difference
cessible and contains trees which
The house is occupied by Mr. pected to arrive in Shanghai by Scound Northern Expedition, who The drop has been, mainly do ko With Manufacturers regarding Suitable timber is only exceeded in value will supply useful timber. Kwok Wei Sam who was cut at the the middle of July.
In now in Germany stayding mili the lessened buying power of the Firms to set at Agents for their by that of cotton and wool. The the wider adoption of modern time. When asked how the acci products in Hong Kong and country imports nearly 45 million scientific methods of forestry and dent happened, the people in the
Dr. Hu Shih, the well-known Lary science, is returning to Can mining and rubber estate roolics Ponth China,
pounds worth of timber per year up-to-date grading, storing, and
house could make no statement be- Chiness scholar and philosopher, ton shortly at the request of Gen. who used to depend largely on while its own production amounts conveyance, there is here a source
be given command of his Fourth their nourishment. Local Companies desirous of taking to only six per cent. of its reef supply sufficing for the needs yond the fact that they were most is expected to leave. Shangbo for Chan Chi Tang. Gen. Chang will preserved food from China for
a loud crash, and when they rush deliver a series of lectures in the ap further Agencies will let ut quirements England's contribu
of other countries who within their ed out to see what had taken place, know the Lines in which they are. [ tion. towards her own consumption not only of Great Britain but also y, asleep and were awakened by the United States on June 18 to Army on his return in order to interested the information will be might, however, be increased co-own confines cannot find the tim
they were greeted with the unples coding to attend the fifth biennial forwarded to London and passed siderably, and if the financial ber they require... -
sant sight of four members of the conference of the Institute of Paci on to interested parties as up
household lying helpless on the fic Relations Dr. Hu is the chair portunity offers.
terrace while parts of the collapsed man of the Chinese delegation to verandah was resting on the bal the conference. cony directly under it.
C. B. BROWN, --. Secretary. Hong Kong, 29th May, 1933,
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AGENCIES.
The London Uffice of the HONG
lion to be spent on afforestation over a period of ten years.
Because of the limited extent of its area, England must of neces
The speaker at to-morrow's meet
SINGAPORE; May 20. A fine of $750 or three months
Startling figures were disclosed hard labour was the sentence im by the Chinese Sundry Goods posed by Mr. Schofield on a Chin Dealers Association of Bingapore ese woman who was convicted for last week. The members of the Hennessey Road. The place, it Chinese delicacies such as canned locked doors and grilles. There salt fish and bean condiments, in- port other foodstuffs to the value pointed out in the event of a fire, of millions of dollars every year, and the prosecuting police officer ported from China. They also im- the customers would have been besides paraphernalia for religious
purposes. caught like rats in a trap..
According to a
KONG DAILY PRESS, 53, sity to a large degree remain de miles of forest are to be found ened it so much that it could noted a pursuit aeroplane from Eng Gen. Chang Fa Kwei, the com- done in 1932 showed a drop of over
FLORT STREET, ELC.4, is constant-pendent on overseas supplies
This Service is offered to our Beaders without-ebarge and........ of: oDETEN. no obligation in incurred on eitzer
side.
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of
aspect of the question permitted
of auch & venture, it is estimated. that upwards of four million beres
at present more or less unutilised McLellan and Det, Sergt. Fitches could be put to afforestation. from No. 2 Police Station, and Mr. About three million acres, or rather Brooksbank of the P.W.D who car more than five per cent. of the tied out & short examination of the country's' 5108, is now covered by premisen,
Good. Rescue Work
University of Chicago, later pro- fight the Japanese
China."
in north
KOBE'S SLUM EXPERIMENT
General Ma Chen, Shan and General Sut Ping Wen arrived in EIGHT APARTMENT BUILDINGS" Hong Kong on Saturday on the TO HOUSE 4,200 PEOPLE. Conte Roule and were welcomed by The Japanese Government has represantatives of the Canton decided to dispose of its old Tice Komintang Canton Government It is hoped that within another holding and will buy new crops in officials and leading Chinese re dve years the worst of the Ship
forest. This area properly main-Mr. B. A..
A Hyder. attached to the As usual Fire Brigade and Police the markets of Tokyo, Osaka, and sidente in the Colony, General Makawa alam district of Kobe will The Required Information should be tained and gradually increased by Indian Division of St. John Am- officers were soon on the scene and several other cities. The volume of is proceeding to Bhanghai and re- have disappeared.
two million acres of conifers balance Brigade, rendered valuable rendered what assistance, they selling will be 240,000 koku. The Fused a pressing invitation to visit Two large apartment buildings, would, it is estimated, make Eng assistance while other police and could. Among the officers, present 500,000 koka conversion was de Canton. He was not certain whe each capable of housing about 500 HONG KONG DAILY PREBB, Lagency as far as timber is concern-workejut NASA
land self-supporting in an emer Brea brigade, offers also did good were Mr. H. T. Brooks, Superin- cided on some time ago, but out of ther or not he would go to Nan persons, have been completed, and tendent of the Five Brigade, this amount, the Government has king to report events in Heilung more will be contracted before One appliance from Wanchai - Mears its hens and Cash, Also niready sold some 280,000 kokuto king as there war tot much to 1933, housing it is hoped at least
ble conditions. Ich, Hovan Brzany
his troops The Forestry Commission row station stood by until the of the Fire Brigade, Inspector: meet the food shortage in the report apart from the defeat of 4.200 people now living under terri
column). Hokkaido and Tohoku districte. controls some: 602,000 acres of clear" signal was given. Bong Kong.
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