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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL

COUNCIL

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATION,

APPOINTMENT OF ASSISTANT

MASTER.

APPLICATIONS are invited for

the post of Assistant Master (Foreign) in the Council's Education Department to tench Woodwork, Drawing, and general subjects. Candidates must be fully trained sad certificated, and must possess either the City and Guilds Certificate for teachers of Manual Training or the diploms of the Board of Ex- aminers for Educational Handwork A single man is required preferably between 23 and 30 years of age.

The selected candidate would be required to commence duty on January 1, 1984.

The inlary offered is Tls. 360 per mensem for three years, but for a University Graduate possessing all the above qualifications the salary is Ts. 400 per mensem for three years,

The selected candidate will be re quired to pass in examination by the 'Council's Medical Examiner in Shanghai as to physical fitness and serve a period of probati n of from three to six months before confirma- tion of the appointment which will be under local service conditions.

Applications, stating nationality, age, qualifications and experience, together with copies of testimonials covering ability and character should la forwarded to the Secretary, Municipal Council. «Administration Building, Shanghai, not later than August 31, 1993.

By order,

J. R, JONES;

Secretary.

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NOTICE OF INTERIM DIVIDEND.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an INTERIM DIVIDEND

NOT

1933,

of FOUR per cent (4%) for the six months ended 30th June, amounting to FORTY cents per share on each share of the Company will be paid on FRIDAY, the 4th August, 1033, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application” at the Registered Office of the Company, Exchange Building, 4th Boor.

TL TRANSFER BOKA of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 29.1 July to FRI-

inclusive.

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DEATH OF MR. J. W. DAVIDSON

* News and Views *

Petrol-Saving.

FOUNDER OF HONG KONG | At the Tus-tablé,

ROTARY CLUB

Rotarians in Hong Kong will learn with great regret of the death

Last Wednesday of Mt. James W. Davidson, the Rotary International High Commissioner, and the founder of countless Rotary Clubs, including that of Rong Kong.

An anecdote in Dr. G. C. Wil liamson's "Portraits in Miniature?

Do you know what the amber of Queen Victoris pouring her tealight is for the motorist "asked was too hot and the was in a into a saucer to drink because it his passenger 24 they waited for

the automatic signals to change. hurry, brings to mind the story of

"To give warning, I suppose," "genteel mother who question. was the answer. ed the social status of her daugh I can start their engines again,

Yes, to tell the Scotsman they ter's young man because he adopt said the motorist ed a similar expedient. "Ob, but Ma," said the daughter in defence, 44 he didn't blow it; be fanned it with his pocket-book

Big Game Angling in England,

A thrasher shark weighing 280lb., and measuring 10 feet was caught by Mr. H. A. Kelly, a London angler, while Ashing in the Chan nel of Hye with a rod and line. The shark was landed at Dungeness after an hour's fight.

"It was often said "Rotary won't go and couldn't even be got going in Hongkong. The general and energetic Jim Davidson got it going, and foundation members always had a warm corner in their hearts for him, and hoped one day to welcome him back to Hong Kong. His name was constantly mentioned at meetings, and only yesterday as spesa, * at the closed meeting said in opposing a proposto the side of his boat and a strong Mr. Kelly manoeuvred the shark ed recess; "It might need line was slipped overite tail by Jim Davidson to get us, going another angler. The shark was again." little thinking that Jim then towed ashore. had joined the great majority.

Shanghal Tribute. Our Shanghai contemporary, the Narth China Daily Neice says of Mr. Davidson-

Shanghai Rotarians were inform- ed on Thursday of the sad sewi of the death the previous day of Mr. James W. Davidson, who save ral years ago visited Shanghai as & high commissioner for Rotary In ternational. He was then complet ing a two years tour in the interest of the establishment of Rotary Clubs, principally in the Near and Far East. His visit to Shanghai was of particular interest because he was in charge of the Consulates General here at Shanghai during the first half of the year 1900 and his recent visit to Shanghai was the first since he left in July 1905

to return to the United States.

Mr. Davidson had represented the United States Government in the Island of Formosa as Consul from 1897 to 1904. His monumen tal compilation entitled "Formosu Past and Present continued for many years as the leading English authoritative publication on the island.

Polished Orations!

Polished period from the keen play of mind against mind, quea tion-time in the House of Com

mona:

Mr. Tom Smith: Can the Minis ter for Mines give the House any idea when he will be able to say something definite about anything! Mr. Ernest Brown (Minister for Mines): deal about

I hope to say a good

Thursday.

a lot of things on

Are We Superstitious 7-

thor of a little experience in the Writes a well-known British au- Strand:

Looking up I saw that the rush on the ladder was not using a paint-pot, so I walked under it. The ladder-man's mate at the foot remarked, "You're the first, o far." I stopped for a few minutes Sure enough everybody who passed to watch the course of events,

arrowly agirted the ladder or ran the risk of being run down by step

ping into the roadway. The Baily Press.

HONG KONG, JULY 26, 1933

HONG KONG'S HISTORY

DAY; the 4th August, 1933, both days Eight years from now

By Order of the Board of Directors,

W. L. MCKENZIE, Secretary,

11th July, 1833.

ALICE MEMORIAL AND AFFILIATED HOSPITALS.

ANNUAL MEETING 1933.

1996

E Annual Meeting of the above Hospitals will be held on Thursday, July 27th, 1938, at 4.30 p.m. in the Board Boon of the Gras al

Chamber of ComLorce.

BUSINESS:

(1) To receive report and statement

Hong

months for news of any kind to reach Hong Kong from Home? When Mr. Bonham, one of our

The 1850 shop.

CHIANGFENG DISAGREEMENT

FEAR OF CIVIL WAR IN CHARHAR

(By Our Special Correspondent)

CANTON, July 25. RELIABLE news despatches from

Peiping state that General Chiang Kai Shek, Chairman of the Nanking Military Commission, has ordered his divisions not to open fire on General Feng Yu Haisng's troops until the Charhar situation is discussed at the present Kuling Conference.

A general store as it will appear in 1950 is one of the features of the great Advertising and Market ing Exhibition which Lord Derby In view of the public opposition opened at Olympia on July 17. to the use of force by Nanking to This shop of the future will be run haraas Feng's Anti-Japancae Allied somewhat on the lines of a modern Forces, General Chiang comes to cafeteria, in that the customers will the conclusion that should civil war select their goods from large break out in Charhar, northern central counter on which every-militarists such as General Han Fu

The shoppers will not even be asked Yen Esi Shan of Shanai will back thing will either be in tins or Chu, Chairman of the Shantung glasses or wrapped in celophane. Provincial Government, and Gen. checking counter. They will place Nanking. to carry their purchases to the up the South-West to turn against them on trays transported by a miniature railway right up to the checkers," and there, after payment has been made, they will be hand od all the articles in one large holder. Even men might go shop ping under such ideal conditions.

Forts of Long Agǝ.

디

$1,000 to Help Feng..

CANTON, July 25. Mr. Lo Yih Chun, a member of the South-West Political Council, has donated $1,000 national cur- rency for the support of the people's anti-Japanese allied forces under General Feng Tu Hsiang. salary drawn on the Council. This sum is charged on his officiat

He

tercentenary of the death of Van

Pars. The celebration of the ban has included a special memori has also proposed that al exhibition; but it has also drawn officials of the senior rank should attention to a remarkable collection contribute one. half month's salary of models of the fortifications de- to the same cause and those of signed by him, which has been stor junior rank to give one-fifth of ed on an upper floor at the In their monthly salary for the same fifty years. valides for the last hundred and purpose-Central Press.

Until 1920 these models, which

were supposed to have some im portance as military information, could not be visited by the genera public; but as the war destroyed the last vestiges of confidence in the tury fortifications, they can now modern efficacy of seventeenth cen-

be examined by anyone who cares to climb the four fights of stairs,

There are over two hundred of them. They are carved in walnut, and every house, every road, and every tree which was standing when they were made is shown upon

SULPHURIC ACID

FACTORY

SUCCESSFUL-START ÅT CANTON

(From Our Special Correspondent)

first Governors, was knighted, the Greenland in 1803-04 and was The man on top saved himself by them, the scale being Ito 600. Thes / THE sulphuric acid factory locat

intelligence did not reach the Colony until the mail steamer from Home came to Hong Kong seventy-five days afterwards. It is interesting to note, by the way, that the postage rate at in locul currency, as the air-mail that time cost exactly as much, Kong will be completing its censervice, taking about a fortnight tury of British occupation and| the history of the place still re-

to get Home, costs to-day.... mains to be written. It is true Do the property owners of the that attempts have been made in the past to compile some sort of a record, but it is equally true that none of the earlier works meet with the present-day con- ception of a history. Here is a task awaiting to be done and any competent man with sufficient enterprise would find the work of compiling a history of Hong Kong, not only a pleasant occupa tion, but one which, if produced in conjunction with the Colony's force?

profitable as well.

#

CANTON, July 25.

ed at Sai Chuen is turning

At last there came a man who wasn't looking, and before anyone could intervene he had barged into the ladder, and sent it swaying. clinging to the guttering with his were original ordered by Louvois, out fifteen tops of such product handa, while his mate managed to in order to show Louis XIV. how every day to meet the local de- grip the ladder in time and steady the scheme of fronties defence was mand. Testing of the machinery .5. Consular Service in 1800, hit. After s. suitable apology the being carried out. Many of the and equipment during the past

blunderer wens on his way. mate's closing comment but if will remember the one at Doullens, respect "I ain't superstitious," was the peared; but some British soldiers plant

actual fortresses, have now disap- few days has revealed that the

chap gets it in the neck some day !pital. there's anything in it I'll bet that which served as a Canadian hos-

is satisfactory in every

Mr. Davidson accompanied the periodic expedition to North war correspondent in the Far East during the Chinese-Japanese war. Following his retirement from the top his residence in Calgary, a naturalised Canadian. During Canada, and subsequently became

has made his home at Vancouver, the past few years Mr. Davidson Lillian Dow of San Francisco who, B.C. In 1906 he married Miss with their daughter Marjory, Bur vive the husband and father. Mr. ant member of the Extension. Com- Davidson has been very import mittee of Rotary International and at one time was mentioned for the presidency of the organisation but not permit of his accepting the

Colony know the conditions under which land was first sold in Hong Kong? Does the average resi dent in Hong Kong know that for the first ten years in the history of the Colony such a thing as responsibility. Unofficial representation on the Legislative Council was unknown =

his delicate state of health would

and that the public were not in-roada conjure up pictures" of an formed of the introduction of new legislation until the ordinance together with some of the lead- array of Governors of the past, introducing. it had come into ing residents of their time. The There is much that is list is indeed almost inexhaus-"

Local and General

secretary of the Spanish Legation Mr. Felipe Alcober, former Columbia, has arriving in Pei- ping from Japan. After a short stay in Peiping he will leave for Spain

P

W48 sent

As this is a new enterprise, the Provincial Department of Recon- struction which operates this works will shortly fix a price list for this product. The goods will be ready for the market in the next few days.

Sulphuric acid has a good de si for the manufacture of arma- mand in this province and Kwang- ments and in connection with in- printing etc. dustries such as tanning, dyeing, ...

At

recorded against him, a Chinese With eight previous convictions,

months by Mr. Wynne-Jones for to prison for three the theft of three electric bulbe The Department of Reconstruc- from 108 Jervois Street. Defen- tion is also planning to establish a dant served three months in Sep-brewery, iron and steel works, a tember last year, after which be silk and ramis mill etc. Factories lance for two years, was placed under. Police surveil- already operated by the Depart-

ment are the cement. works Honam and Sal Chuen, the new silk testing bureau ete.Ma operation of industries have be

Government ownership

and come popular in, Canton, because over those privately conducted. Government factories are assured in the auditorium of the Tientsin depend on profits for their main- Municipality."

tenance, Another factor in their' favour is that the government will see to it that there is no undue

goods.

of accounts for the year ended | centenary, should prove to be interesting in the history of this table, but that is not all. Spring don't fall again," said Mr. Wynne- Tientsin on June 28, Over 400 men such plants have special privileges:

December 31st, 1032

"

(To approve the general estimates

of expenditure for the year 1933.

13) To elect the Chairman and Do

puty Chairman of the General

Committee who stall, ax officio.

be members of the Excentive

Committee.

(4). To elest fire other memers of

the General Committee, of whom

three shall be Chinese and two

other than Chinese, to serve on the Executive Commitee.

(5) Other busiTELL........

F. B. ASHTON, Secretary.

Eong Kong, July, 28th 1933.

NOTICE.

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JOHN

OHN EDMUND JUPP has this day been authorised to sign for the FIRM" Per procuration.'

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS .......

& SN Hong Kong, 24th July, 1983.

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Mr. Fabio Rios, the new Panama President Grant yesterday. Mr by his family, arrived aboard the Consul in Hong Kong, accompanied Charles Harrop was also on board. "Young man, take this chance, Island, and, needless to say, the Garden Lane in Wanchai is Jones yesterday in binding over a authorities in Hong Kong have estimable value to men whose actually there at one time, while him on a charge of obtaining a Meanwhile, it is felt that the study of it should prove of in-named after a garden which was Chinese who was brought before done little to encourage the study occupation in Hong Kong keeps Upper and Lower Lascar How quantity of paper valued at $20.40 of the history of the place. Most them here for any length of time. art reminiscent of the days of the by false pretences. of the schoolboys of Hong Kong Practices that were an everyday sailing ship, when the crews would be able to tell something occurrence in the past, have now which manned the vessels in port tries of Finance and Industry re- A petition was sent to the Minis- of the bistory of England and of entirely disappeared, while many were mainly Lascars who lived cently by the Chinese Chamber of other countries, but how many, it of the amenities of an ordered in the streets, still named after government which we enjoy were unknown in those days.

them.

possa tas on imported foreign flour Commerce, requesting them to in- in order to protect the Chinese product.

Oheral Yu Hsueh Chung, Chair- man of Hopei, formally assumed the concurrent post as the Mayor of

tended the inauguration exercises representing the local civil, mili which started promptly at 9 o'clock of sufficient capital and may not tary, and public organisations," at

baskets of laichecs which did not competition from, foreign and other appear on the ship's manifest, a For bringing into the Colony .42.

ship's foki was fined $50 by Mr. Wynnie Jones yesterday. It was pleaded for the defendant that

check smugglera and, moreover, no there was no attempt to evade the CANTON-HANKOW Ordinance which was meant to duty, was payable on laichees,

RAILWAY

$90,000,000 FOR ITS

COMPLETION"

FOR the

is wondered, would be able to write a creditable essay on the history of European enterprise in It is, however, in the physical however, does not stop with the The history of Hong Kong, the Far East? Our schools and growth and development of Hong story of its growth and the

Sentences of six months' and one colleges should take the initiative Kong that the real romance of romance of its administration. were passed by Mr. Wynne Joncs year'a hard labour respectively. in this matter and a simply writ- the Colony lies. Originally, the The battle for the trade of South on two Chinese women convicted ten matory book of Hong Kong City of Victoria meant only China and the. might be included among text Queen's Road (not as we know piracy, which was rife in these had induced the girl to run away state that the waters in the Grand

suppression of of harbouring a girl. The woman who received the heavier sentence books for local schoolboys, so it to-day, but as it was then, a waters when the Colony was from home,

Chinese telegrama from Tainan that when they attain manhood narrow road of chipped stones ceded to Britain, in addition to

Canal in Shantung.continues to rise they can, with the knowledge, and mud) and the few surround- throwing light on many details

as a result of the recent wet wea they have acquired in school, ing streets. Year by year the of local affairs will give that touch Colony has so far this summer, struction of the Shantung Provin Despite the unusual heat the ther. The Department of Recon- pursue in greater detail the gener- city area grew and the streets and of adventure which is so essen- qotifiable diseases. Last week's re- men to be stationed in six districts al outlines that had been taught to roads improved, until the present tial in a well-written history. It cord shows 6 cases of enteric (1 along the Cazal for the purpose of been fortunate in the matter of cial Government has appointed six

CANTON, July 25. them

completion of the city limits were reached some must be remembered that prior death and 3 cases of meningitis supervising flood prevention men-

Canton-Hankow Railway, 4 mil From the fragments of history thirty years ago.

lion five hundred thousand pounds published in our columns, the velopment of the Colony proceed Britain the bulk of China's trade culosis, however, totalled 89. On

Still the de- to Hong Kong being ceded to death). Deaths from tuber-sures

aterling is to be borrowed from the British Boxer Indemnity Funds imagination is certainly stirred, ed and there are now, as we with Europe was handled in Monday one case of enteric was TE- and many of us must have had know, large areas outside the city Maceo and Canton, and the pass-

which is equivalent to about ported.

$90,000,000 Canton currency, but some yearning at different times limit which are thickly populated ing of that trade to Hong Kong

before this amount is available, the for the good old days in Hong and which command practically was no small event, not only in complished and now that we are effect on July 20, was drafted ints honds to this amount, according to Ministry of Railways will float. Kong. But there are two sides all the amenities of city life. the history of the Far East, but drawing close upon a hundred the Concession's statutes for the Mr. Wang Jen Kong assistant to every picture, and while in the Many public buildings have come of the world. With regard to years of occupation, it is to be ploitation of all forms of gambling Shackwan Railway Administration,

purpose of discouraging the ex- managing director of the Canton-: past there were opportunities and gone, the history of some of piracy, living under the peace and hoped that the task will be taken for personal gain. The French or known as the southern section. enough for the man with brains which would be as romantic as security of Hong Kong to-day, up by some competent person or Municipal Comcil upon an order of the Canton-Hankow Railway. and initiative, there were also any chapter in story of the we can hardly imagine the time persone, that we may be able to Consul, adopted similar measures to Liputau, while the section from

from Mr. Ch. Lepissier, French many drawbacks, Living as we Colony's growth. The"

Traffic has begun from Shackwan do in the luxury and comfort of and inns of Hong Kong, of which pirates were in Hong Kong, when of Hong Kong since 1641. In prises where the enterprise is held, pleted in two more months, he when the headquarters of the hand down to posterity the story to frustrate all gambling enter Liputus to Lohchang will be com- the present day we can hardly there is not a vestige to-day, realise the struggle which was at one time the

were their loot was openly sold here this connection, it is well to re- for personal gain. Special licences, sald place and when some foreign residents member that for want of an as in the case with the British Receipts from the Canton-Sham- here of the Colony were actually work accurate history the story of the onion, are issued through the shui Railway are most encourag of Hong Kong in his everyday before the days of

romantic glamour of Macao's holding or exploiting of any sweep-increasing passenger traffic, a night municipality concerned, for the ing, Mr. Wang said. To mest the Can anyone living to day the members of the maritime It will be seen, therefore that historic past is lost for all time, I stake or lottery, where the sweep train carried 200 passengers. and out a population congregated to ex- an important work the writing and even the date when the stake or lottery is to be held for after three months the number of change news of current events in of a comprehensive history of Portuguese first occupied the the promotion of charitable work passenger increased to 600. various countries Hong Kong has yet to be ac- Colony is lost in the ashes of asiat any recognised club to secure more passengers" patronize

or the good of public welfare of to tional trains will run at night when of our streets and (Continued at foot of mere column) oblivion

finances for the club's funde. Me night serviceCentral Pren

puba

encountered by the early resident of the city 6ping in collusion with them.

life.

The new bylaw for the control of lotteries in the British Conces sion of Tientsin, which is to take