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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE.

To the desired in the Firm THE interests and responsibilities

of HALL AND "HALL hitherto carrying on business as Architects, Civil Engineers and Harveyors at Nos. 20-, Queen's Road Central, "Kayamally Building"

ceased ns from

the 2th day of October, 1833. All claims against the nil Firm up to that day will be liquidated by the undersigned.

W LIAM HALL

Hong Kong, 12th October, 1933..

NOTICE.

WF, the undersigned have THIS

DAY, purchased the practice

MR WILLIAM BALL hitherto carried on by him as Architects, Civil Engineers and Surveyors under the name of HLL AND HALL at 2022, Queen's Road Central, Kayamally Building", AND will continue the practice nader the style or firm name of WAY AND HALL at the same address.

HARRY, WAY,

GEORGE ALBERT VICTOR HALL. Hong Kong, 12th October, 1933.

[1879

REMOVAL NOTICE.

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

ON and after the 11th instant the

business of the above Corpora- tion will be carried on in the Old City Hall Building adjacent to the present Building.

Entrance to the premises will be from Queen's Roid.

LN. MURPHY, Acting Chief Manager.

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO, LTD.

AND

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

CONSIGNEESR per Co.'s Yeal

*ACHILLES"

FOK UNITED KINGDOM VIA BINGAPORE

are hereby cotified that thoir Cargo will be discharged

Holt's into Wharf, Kowloon, where it will be se Consignees risk and subject to Tercis and Conditions of Storage at Holt's Wharf. The Carge will be ready for Delivery from Godowa on and after 11th October,

Optional Cargo will not be landed here unless Notios has been given prior to Steamer's arrival, but carried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the option artands.

to Bent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 31st Oct., 1933 or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be offesteil.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1933

MARRIAGE.

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2

DANDRUFF

WITH TI-TROL

THE NEW GERMICIDAL TOILET SOAP. The lather of TI-TROL releases a newly-discovered essential oil, ELEVEN TIMES MORE POWERFUL THAN PURE CARBOLIC, which destroys dandruff organisms and leaves the scalp clean, clear and healthy. But TI-TROL goes even a step further: it invigorates the glands and nourishes the hair-putting back the glimmering high lights and glints of sunshine into stringy lifeless

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TI-TROL

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A. S WATSON & CO., LTD.

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that the Colony had reached its taxable. limit, and any attempts to raise further revenue, will fail for

1933, at the St. John's Cathe dral Hongkong, by the Row, N V. Halward, M.A.. Fraliçes Ellen, elder daughter of Mr.

BUS SERVICE

TO HONAM

and Mrs. J. A. Trever Thomas, Brings Prosperity To

Shanghai, to Francis Henry, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Donald of Tintagel, Cornwall, formerly of Shang- bai.

WEDDING

The Place

(From Our Special Correspondent)

Canton, October 12. Extension of a motor bus

A very pretty wedding was solem- John's Cathedral when Miss Frances Ellen Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Honam island has brought Mrs. J. A. Trevor Thomas of Shanghai become the bride of Mr. Francis Prosperity to the latter; which Henry Donald son of Mr and Mrs. was once a quiet precinct with Andrew Donald of Tintagel a few motor roads and no Cornwall. She looked very charm vehicular traffic. ing indeed na she entered the Church on her father's arm. Her gownEight buses are now main- was of ivory satin cut on simple lines,

nised yesterday afternoon at St. service from Canton proper to

the veil was daintily cusbroidered by taining a regular service from the Sisters of the Siccawei Convent, the Central Park at Wai Shun and was held in place by a tiny wreath Road to Fung Wong Kong, the of Orange Blossom. A bouquet of white gladioli completed I the ensemble. extreme end of Honam She was attended by two, brides suburb. Travelling down Wai

maids Miss Nora Seaborn also

ECHOES OF

"

1859

21.-The Water Problem of Former

Days

April 5, 1859

DAILY PRESS."}

into a

be

contract

much

it be tolerated that the inhabitants of this Colony pay a heavy tax.

as

Tro THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG and the Government with £94.000 at their disposal, should not expend a small portion to ensure a pro- Sir.-In appearance very

per supply of such a really neces resembling our Surveyor General sary article of consumption I have been lately in much bodily water? Can you inform me who fear during my morning walks, at are the actual parties in the direc- the sullen, and ferocious looks of tion, of this most paramount afair? hundreds of water coolles looking Is It His Excellency. Sir. John about for that necessary article, Bowring, the Surveyor General, or water, and particularly on pas- the Legislative Council? "I there- sing our Lought to use fore send you this Information These coolies, I preparatory to an advertisement fall reservoirs.

well as English, imagine, taking me for him. have in Chinese as caused me to dread an ebulition which I have little doubt will glad of feeling on their part which, den the hearts of these poor coolies might end in something serious to with the prospect of water unt!' Why could not myself. I am thinking during the the rains ses in. continuance of this dry weather of taps be fixed say half way down entering

with, these Reservoirs, and left open un- Messrs. Bowra and Lane Crawfordill dark? Even the present supply and Co., to have their Water Boats would again all "them ere morn- placed for several hours every mor- ing, and plenty of water would ning at different wharts along our still be left against Fires. etc. At Frontage to supply these poor peo- present they are always full and ple with what I think they have during the night are running over, every right to expect,

which of course is all wasted. By inserting this in your useful Jour- most ordinary and simple arrange-nal, you will greatly oblige.Yours. by crossing the bridge, and ments, a supply of ten times the truly. those who prefer rapid transit!" may take a bus for a fare of only ten cents. Such facilities means that instead of being isolated by water Honam is geographically a part of Can. ton city.

of Shanghai and Miss Carolyn Shun Road, the buses will Thomas, sister of the bride, who look- Cross

over the Pearl River ed charming in their dainty organdy dresses with bluo hate to match, and bridge, to the other side of the carried sheatha of pink gladioli. city.

Mr. R. G. Castleton carried out the duties of best man while Messrs. W. J. Cole and F. A. M. Elliot acted us wa hers.

Ray, N. V. Halward, MA. conducted the ceremony.

A reception was subsequently held at the home of Mr and Mrs. Stafford Smith at 19 Pesk Mansions. The boneymoon is being spent at Repulse Bay.

SIR RICHMOND PALMER

New Governor Of Cyprus

Sir

This new service has an ad- verse effect on the motor ferry and rowing ferry boats. People can go over to Honam

well-paved}

On an Island Hke this, by the

demand might be available. Cari

UNREST IN BRITISH NAVY

Denied by Admiralty

London, Oct. 12, -

Th British Admiralty yesterday

issued a statement declaring tha

PATHER FAMILIAS..

OIL TAX IN CANTON

Will Be Enforced Shortly

rumours. in the battleship. HM.S. Hood, the largest man-of-(From Our Special Correspondent war in the world, given prominen- ce in a newspaper, is an entire fa- brication.

Their Lordships deeply regret

that they are forced to deny a! baseless rumour reflecting on such

Honam "has streets and will. soon have al long Bund rivalling the one on the opposite bank. The only handicap is the lack of athe modern water works, as re- sidents have to depend on river or well water. The city London, Oct. 12.

government is planning to con Herbert Richmond nect an under-water pipe from Night Editor (Warchai Office): the well-known reasons that enter Palmer. K.C.M.G., Governor the Sai Chuen Water Works,

prise is checked, money is invested of the Gambia since 1930, to that suburb. elsewhere and people economise on and

previously Lieutenant- dutiable goods, when taxation gats Governor of the Northern too high. Beyond urging economy Provinces, Nigeria, has been In administration Dr. Kotewall has appointed Governor and Com no definite suggestions for simul-mander-in-Chief of Cyprus in

While carrying steel plates at the i taneously maintaining public ser succession to Sir Reginald Ed- Taikoo, Docks, a coolie Lu Hung, vices and balancing the budget, ward -Stübbs K.C.M.G.slipped and fell into a slipway, re- without facing the prospect of British Wireless Service.

ceiving head injuries resulting In his admission to Hospital. Increased taxation. An economy

London Office 53 Fleet Street,

E.O

The Daily Press.

Bady

Hoxo Koya, October 13, 1933. -

THE BUDGET DEBATE

The Budget has had a good re- ception alike by Public. Press and Legislative Council. The great

All broken, chafed sad damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Taendar and Fridays between the hours 10.45 a.. and Noor within the Fres thing is that taxation has not been. Storage period.

No Claims will be admitted after the increased, while existing services, Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, are maintained. and certain and all Goods, remaining undelivered after the 17th October, will be subject public works, long overdue, are now in hand. Sir Henry Pollock again urged on the Government the need to push on as rapidly as possible with the Shing Mun Scheme. A proper water supply is a bed rock necessity in this Colony and the [1875 Shing Mun scheme is not only the best, but also the cheapest method of supply. The Government which, has, encountered, not only 23- VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDSCHE SCHEEPVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ tonishing technical difficulties, but

(UNITED NETHERLANDS NAVIDATION),

no small obstruction from the HOLLAND-OOST AZIE LIJN. (HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE)

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

8th October, 1933.

FROM

ANTWERP, BREMEN, ROTTER- DAM, AMSTERDAM, HAMBURG, GENOA AND OTHER PORTS.

HE Steamship

THE "MEERKERK"

Colonial Office in getting on with

a splendid ship's company, statement adds-Reuter..

LOCAL AND GENERAL

the

Canton, October 12. Collection of oil tax which

was scheduled on October 15. is postponed to the end of the month, as furtlier drafting of the tax regulations are neces-, sary with respect to the power of the Head Tax Bureau and the branch offices in Swatow, & Shensi province may now be Kongmoon, Hoihow and other reached by radio, the wireless sta- tion constructed by the Provincial places. Telegraph Administration having The office of the Head been completed. Tests made

Bureau is located on the third September 8 proved satisfactory, commission went very thoroughly Sir Reginald Stubbs.

and communication with Nanking floor of the Provincial Trea- into this matter and could only Governor of Hong Kong from Owing to pressure on space and other cities is now available sury building, and Mr. Wi

report of Lieut.-Commdr. Gandy's to the public. recommend cuts that made very 1919 to 1925, has been aplecture on surveying, given yester-

Hsin San is appointed director Hittle contribution to the problem pointed to the Ceylon post in day at the Engineers' Institute has

The second international exhibi- of the new organ. Sub-direc. the late Sir been held over, but will appear to- tion of the H.K. University Amators for, the branch bureaus succession "of reducing expenditure...

Graeme Thomson, who died

teur Photographic Club will be will be appointed later. while on his way home to take

held in the University Union from It is requested that donations to October 17 to 23. On October 21 s

It is expected that this new up the appointment of Per- the Street Sleepers Shelter Socie- lecture will be given in Room E tax will yield at least $300,000

direct to the of the University, at 4 p.m., by Dr. State for the Colonies in suc- Fung, c/a Mesars. Gilman & Co...

Under-Secretary of ty be forwarded

Honorary Secretary, Miss R. Mow" K. Mackenzie, on "The infra-red a month in view of the heavy Kong, designed by nature to sup- cession to Sir Samuel Wilson, Ltd., the committee having decid plate, a new weapon for the ama-imports of kerosene by the

teur photographer.”

As the size and wealth of

town increase revenue must rise at least proportionately. This is especially true of a place like Hong

port a few hundreds of peasants,

manent

to

who is retiring next month:

Sir Reginald will celebrate earth. The his 57th birthday to-day.

...

morrow?

nd to centralise collections."

of

leading foreign oil companies

and the manufacturers have

A Chinese, who used two pieces been agitating for protection The marriage of Miss Rosamond Dewar Durie to Mr. Robert H. of bamboos in the form of chop against foreign competition. sticks" for stealing clothing Scott took place at Peiping through lattice work on the first bence the Provincial Depart- October 11 at the British Legation Boor of 288, Des Voeux Road Cen- ment of Finance has decided

the ceremony a tra] was sent to prison for Chapel. Following reception was held at the home. of weeks by Mr. Balfour in the Cen- to impose this new tax. Sir Eric and Lady Teichman.

tral Police Court yesterday. De- While the rate of the new fendant was caught by a detective tax is not officially announced," after a long pursuit,

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but, by the work of man convert- ed into one of the most densely peopled places on problem of this Colony is that of poverty., A vast proportion of the population lives from hand to whole a prosperous population

from these mouth, and though decent. hard- relatively immune working and law abiding, they are things. The modern theory of.

Six cases of enteric ( import

it is understood that imports absolutely without reserves. A Government is to relieve destitued, 1 death) were reported last

will be assessed at a higher small mishap and they enter the tion, to make decent citizens out week. There were two савен of

"I felt chilly last night, so scale as preference to local great army of destitutes, short of of the vagabond and the criminal. diphtheric (1 fatality) and one of took a cardigan, stated an un- food, and clothing, and all the Sometimes the task is done half-losis numbered 58. On Wednesday Mr. Balfour in the Central Police rate is $3 national currency partyphoid. Deaths from tubercu- employed Chinese charged before products. Approximately the necessities of life. A big proportion heartedly, or too late, and there two cases of enteric were reported. Court yesterday, with stealing for a case of five cans of im- this scheme should be, and the of the revenue spent in this Colony fore ends in failure: but unless

blanket, cardigan and some other public certainly is, deeply grateful in one way or another goes, and

British engines are to be used in clothing from an elderly patient at ported oil and $2 national eur- to Sir Henry Pollock for his per-rightly goes, to the assistance of enjoy every comfort

a great city, whose wealthy classes Netherlands military aeroplanes. the Tung Wah Hospital. The de rency for native goods of the

and security. It was announced that the Nether-fendant was soon in the grounds at sistent goading in this matter of the poorer class Chinese.

same quantity. The is willing to spread these benefits number of engines from the Rollsing the blanket and wearing the lands Government had ordered four o'clock in the morning, carry- the new reservoir." A large section police are mainly engaged in keep-downwards, prosperity, slips away. Royce Company. They will be ind sweater. He ran away, dropping oil refining companies in There are about 180 native of the British community, will be in order among them, in settling The process of improvements: is stalled in Fokker" single-senter and the parcel. He was bound over.

Kwangtung employing over even more grateful to Sir Henry disputes put of court, in helping expensive, and taxation is the only two-seater fighting machines, the this being his first offence, for his remarks about the Central in ways seldom realised. The Peak known method to counteract un-lande Air Force.

type of craft in use by the Nether-

45,000 workers, Chinese British School. Apart from His District requires only a light even distribution of wealth, and

manufacturers assert that given Excellency, Mr. A. E. Wood and patrol, for policemen are not call to give the poorer classes the educently bought in England for the subofield, at the Central Magis- a good market, because kero- Li Tat-sang, a shop keeper, a due protection they will have Eight up-to-date locomotives re-pearing on remand before Mr. The Batools to bring landed, at Mr. N. L. Smith, it would be in- ed in to settle domestic quarrels, cation, the medical services, and Tientsin-Pukow Railway have arri-tracy yesterday, charged with havsene is widely consumed every- their risk into the hazardone and/ro teresting to know how many men or to deal with obstreperous sons. the proper housing conditions that ved at Tsinan from Tsingtas Testing aided and abetted in the illicit where in Kwangtung, extra has done Godowne of the org bers of the Legislative Counen Equally the Sanitary and Medical the more fortunate classes can buy runs last week in Tainan were sit-

and Kowloon Wharf Godown Kong

trafficking of opium, was discharg isfactory. According to expertad, Revenue Officer Grimmitt, said Co., Ltd, whence and/or from the whar have, In recent years, seen the services are fighting a'

mighty for themselves.

from, the Ministry of Railways, the that he had been instracted to offer ves Delivery may be obtained.

locomotives will be used: on the Goods not cleared by the 19th Octo-higgledy piggledy and far too battle with disease. not in the

Popular sentiment may, as Dr. Peking-Shanghai through service.

no evidence. They had received no *ber, 1958, a pan., will be subject to Rent small congerie of buildings which

wealthy districts, but in the dirty Kotewall says, resent the idea of

answer, from Singapore, which was broken, chafed and damaged Pack form the present Central British and overcrowded slums. Here the ages are to be left in the Godowns

more taxation, and admittedly Prosecuting a Chinese widow for the vital link in the proceeding and

decoded.

At St. John's Cathedral yester- October, 1988, at 10 am, by Mosure present at the opening of term at share in the struggle. Dr. Welling-

Street, Detective-Sub-Inspector

day, the wedding took place be- Goddard and Douglas, Hong Kong.

tween Miss Frances Ellen Thomas Consignees are requested to apply for the Kowloon Junior School. when ton's most valuable report for 1932 raised without damaging our com- Baker said the door of the flat was locked and barred against the a Revenue Officer in attendarce when the Headmistress had the pleasant on the health of the Colony, em-mercial structure. But we believe Police. The inhabitants refused to

and Mr. Francis Henry Donald. damaged dutisblo

Cargo

are being task of telling a number of British phasises the need for propaganda, that Hong Kong is perfectly well open the front door and it had to lenders had been received. Page 1

Page 8. examined:

be broken down, with an axe. He Hong Kong Stock Exchange re-

HE, the Governor reviewed the Claims against the Steamer must be parents that she had no more room for education, for the lifting of able to find the money necessary asked for a heavy fine owing to port and share quotations appear Colony's financial position, and presented in writing within Ten days for their children at the school superstition and ignorance. Pover- for public works for health ser- the fact that defendant knew of the on page 13.

made an interesting statement or

·'after arrival of Steamer, otherwise they Dr. Kotewall, speaking on behalf by a bad economies: crime, dis- vices, for education, and for alle presence of the Police and refused. Bhanghai were beaten by the

will not be recognized."

of the HK housing policy. Pa No Fire Insurance will be effected by of the Chinese members concluded ease, political disturbance comeviating the distress and degradationix weeks was imposed by Mr. Bal Lawn Bowls League in a friendly anal stages, but the one relating

to open the door. A fue of 850 or Second Division

Several bill passed through their ths any case whatever,

on a welcome note of optimism and from the slums. There are that must wring the heart of every four. Another widow charged with same yesterday,

Page 8.

to moneylenders' transactions was confidence in the future of the are criminals of all classes, and humane person who has ever taken a similar offence at 50, Lower

an application from the money- Orders for closure were made in

Won the ladies race.... Page 2 (Continued on preutons col. [188] repeats what he has said before, wealth and position, but on the face of life in the Colony-

hoth cases

having arved from the above Forts

Consignees of Cargo by her are notified

"Where they will be examined on the 14th School.". Certainly no official was Education Department bears 15 there is a limit to what can be keeping a sly trothel at 16, Gough they had cables, which could not be

he Undersigned in try cao nhetsigned

L. Roza Pereira won the V.R.C.

bell being second. Miss Doris Hunt

NEWS SUMMARY

'」,。

JAVA CHINA JAPAH LIJN, Colony. Dr. Kotewall, however, epidemics are no respecters of the trouble to look below the sur. Lascar How, was also fined $50. Cross Harbour, Race, W. T. Campbeld-back, it being indicated that

QAgents.

Hong Kong, 19th Oct., 1988.