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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE.

Mr. W.A. Cornell, F.R.I.B.A., Architect. During his temporary absence from the Colony, Messrs. Linstead and Davis will act as his Agents. All communications should be addressed, to them,

NOTICE.

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A. D. H. HANDS, deceased; will all persons having claims against the estate of the late Mr. A.D.H. Hands, Imperial Air- ways, Ltd., submit same on or hefore 31st December, 1936

to:-

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS (FAR- EAST), LIMITED PENINSULA HOTEL,

KOWLOON,

NOTICE

:

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I have pleasure in announcing that Messrs. M. 1. Ling and Y. C. Leung have this day been granted jointly and severally my personal power of attorney and that of my firm.

signed:G.A. HARRIMAN,

and

G.A. HARRIMAN

& COMPANY,

Stockbrokers 11, Queen's Road Central

and at Sharebrokers Association.

4889

CHINA LIGHT AND POWER CO., LTD.

"

DEATHS

KOCFL-On November 26, 1936, at 7. The Circus. Bath, Louise Ida, dearly loved wife of Dr. W. V. M. Koch, CLARKE -On November 21, 1936. suddenly, at Inverness, follow- ing ад operation, Arthur Clarke, of the Chartered Bank of India. Australia and China, dearly beloved husband of Nan) MacLeod Langweil, Crowa Drive. Inverness, and third son of John Clarke and the late Mrs. Clarke, formerly of Addi- son Gardens, London.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1936.

H. K. RIFLE ASSOCN.

Council Meeting

A meeting of" the Council of the Hong Kong Rifle Association was beld Rast evening at the Hong Kong Hotel, when the following were present:--

Major R. D. Walker, M.C., Pre- sident (in the chair). Mesars, A. C. Ford, W. Austin, Y. S. Wan, J. D. Pattullo, R. EL Woodman, A. C. Berlyn, Captain Carless, R.M., with the Honorary Treasurer (T. G. Stekes, Esq.); and the Honorary Secretary (Major D. H. Steers, REX

After the minutes of the last meeting had been read and con-

Ofice: 53, Fleet Street Armed, the Council approved of

E.C. 4.

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, DECEMBER 16, 1935

SCIENCE- JAZZ-

WORMS!

the applications for individual fuli membership from eighteen per- sons The application from the Hong Kong Police Reserve (Chi- nese Company) to affliate os S "unit" to the Association was also unanimously approved.

The Honorary Secretary report ed that the individual full mem- bership to date now numbered 458, while the affiliated. membership exceeded 5,200. He also informed the Council that enquiries had recently been received from two units regarding affiliation, and that there was a distirict possi-

bility of the five hundred agure being passed as regards individual full membership by the end of the present year.

was

The Honorary Secretary given authority to engage addi- tional clerical assistance in view

Science is indeed wonderful. Cltimately, it finds a use for of the fact that the membership everything, so justifying the wijs of God to man.

Thus Japanese savant has just discovered the true virtue of jazz music, Proporly applied, it seeins, jazz can save the silk in dustry of Japan from one of its most formidable enemies. The industry is threatened by parasitical maggot which preys upon the silk-worn-producer of the raw material. But it is mer. cifully discovered, and In the nick of time, that a remedy is provided, not by Nature indeed. but by Art.

11

This maggot-who would sus- pect it? happens to bave a

NOTICE OF FINAL CALL OF highly developed musical ear, $2.50 PER SHARE and jazz is more than it can

endure !

יו.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Directors have made a final call of $2.50 per share upon all the members belding shares of the 1936-Issue, upon which only $2.50 per share has been paid, and that the same will be payable to the Bankers of the Company, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hong Kong, on the 1st day of April, 1937.

By Order of the Board Directors,

of

NOEL BRAGA,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 11th Dec., 1936.

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SANDAKAN LIGHT & POWER COMPANY » (1922), LIMITED.

the

When jazz is played on gramophone within the range of its sensory apparatus, the maggct instantly buries its head in the body of the silk-worm and- honourably preferring death to discord-dies of asphyxiation in less than half an hour.

as some

Thus we may realise that, after all, juzz hus u great and beneficent place in the scheme of things. "It is not," had supposed, an entertainment: it is a prophylactic, or rather a cure, It was intended, as muny others had suspected, not for

nen but for maggots!

more

has now reached such unlooked- for numbers, that work in the Secretary's Office has assumed such dimensions as definitely necessary for extra staff to be employed.

to

THE NEXT WAR

"Will Be Different"

J

Mr. Duff Cooper's View

Dr. Duff Cooper, Secretary for War, expressed the opinion, ta-s” speech recently that if there was another war it would be quite dif- ferent to the last one.

He was Appealing to leading business

men of the St. Maryle- bone district, at a luncheon giver by the Mayor of St. Marylebone, Councillor R. Silles Allen, for help in recruiting for the Regular Army and the Territorial Förces.

LOCAL FINANCE

Big Supplementary Votes

MEETING THIS AFTERNOON.

votes totalling Supplementary $517,303 will come up for con sideration before a meeting of the Finance Committee of the Legisla- tive Council to be" held this after- noon.

KEEN INTEREST SHOWN

Mr. J. McGregor and Capta crowd present at the RW.F.'s camera. Some idea of the vast athered from this pleture. Gymkhana on Sunday may be gin Walker, RN, caught by our

DO YOU KNOW

THAT

The votes include 56,000 for clothing for prisoners and $10,000 for an additional llnotype machine which is required for use in the printing shop in the new Prison at Stanley in 1938. There is also a vote for $170,860 under the head-

expenditure was only £394 but the ing of personal emoluments.

The items are explained in the estimate was based on a 1/88. dollar and an excess is due to the Harbour Department: - Launch fall in exchange. A supplement- Moorings and Buoys, Navigational | ary vote for $1.233 is accordingly Moorings and Buoys-$297.

requested." Provision made in Estimates $1,900.

There were well-informed peo- ple, he said, who talked contin- uslly about the horrors of the last war, of the mud In Flanders and the incompetency of the gefollowing memoranda:-- rerais

"If there is to be another war," Mr. Duff Cooper added, "we need not be afraid of having to go through Passchendaele again, of sitting in the mud of Flanders in the way many of us did from 1914 to 1918...

"It would be the unexpected | that would happen, as always, but at least it is certain that we shall require for the defence of this vast Empire the minimum of land for- ces although how they will be used I cannot tell.”

It is considered advisable to construct one launch and one air- craft buoy this year at a cost of $770. The balance available on this vote is insuficient by $297 and a supplementary vote for this amount is requested.

Public Works Department: Other Charges, 5, ectric Fans and Light$2,000.

Provision made in Estimates $30,000,

The amount provided in the Es- timates has proved insufficient to meet the cost of electric current and lamp replacements, and it is The above is to be met from estimated that a further sum of savings under Head 10A, sub-head | $2,000 will be required to cover ex- 12 (1936 Estimates page 28 sub-penditure to the end of the year. head 12)

A supplementary vote for amount is accordingly requested.

Post Office and Wireless, (A) Post Office:-9 Stamps-$2,150.

Provision made in Estimates -$9,000.

In the event of a sudden break- down of negotiations, we might Kowloon - Canton Railway: have to defend any one of our Sleepers, E-5-5-2 Sleepers-$2,000. possessions against no one knew Provision made In "Estimates what Power. **Therefore it Ls318,500.

small essential for us to have a Regular Army and a small Territo- rial Force up to establishment. equipped with the latest and most powerful weapons of war."

this

The dally average of prisoners this year, is 1,200 persons.

Government have purchased an ambulance second hand-for $250, It is for use at Kad Tack. "In view of the increasing importance of Kal Tack as an air port.”

The anti-piracy guards who were on board the sa. Sunning during the typhoon of August 17, lost all their personal belongings amount- ing to $450

current make it

The Council heard with the greatest satisfaction that the ap- peal made by the President at the First Annual Dinner has resulted in Fromises of Anancial support for the Clubhouse Building Fund exceeding $1,300 in the aggregate.

Provision was made by the Council for the batter conduct of the Spoon and Practice Shoots. (particularly those taking place at week-ends), as regards sperding- up the shooting and thus avelding- as far as possible. any members having to fire in a rapidly taláng light.

It was agreed that the usual "Wapenschaw". Shoot should be held on Boxing Day, providing that the Naval Authorities could see their way to allow the Associa tien to use the Stonecutters Range, and that the dinner which held in the Association's Club- house on the Army Rangės,

follows the shoot should now be

as

decided Final detalls were regards the opening of the Club- house to-day by Mrs. A. W. Bar- tholomew (wife of His Excellency the General Officer Commanding),

There were many who said they would be quite ready to join up when the necessity arose, but what they had to impress upon these men was that when the time was ripe they would have very little to give, unless they had had the necessary training in the years of peace.

The main difficulty affecting re- eruiting for the Regular Army, he believed, was the fear among men that army service would affect their futures. They must fight that prejudice and try to ensure seven that every man, after his years' service with the regular forces, should have a good pro- grésalve job found for him.

The

Was Office was already working in this direction, and he hoped before long to develop the Army Vocational Training centres to fulfil the need.

铃

To Race No More

for which ceremony, a large at Malcolm Campbell's Decision

tendance of members and quests is expected.

PIANOFORTE RECITAL

Bir Malcolm Campbell, whose

"Bluebird" record-breaking

has

Just arrived back in England from the Toronto Exhibition, is to race no more. He said recently:

"I promised Lady Campbell I would not race any more if I once got above 300 m.p.h. I have never regretted anything so much as

Last Night's Treat By that promise, but it will have to

Mr. H. Scott

(BY E. J. M.)

be kept."

The car, he said, was built to do 325 m.p... and he was sure that it would do that with slight modi-

We should all think kindly of jazz now, though its inventors were probably, like all great innovators, unconscious of the ends that they were serving.

Those who attended the piano-cations. But on second thoughts the re-

forte recital given by Mr. Harold come--that ailk-Seatt in the St. John's Cathedral flection will Notice is hereby given that the worzu maggots are not the only Hall last night must have felt that FOURTEENTH ORDINARY living and sentient things to YEARLY MEETING of Share. which jazz is deadly, if not holders will be held at the Head always deadly within half an Office of the Company, Bank of hour. East Asia Building, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, 29th December, 1936, at 12 o'clock, noon.

for some silk-worm in the carcase SHEWAN TOMES & CO., of which he might bury himself

General Managers.

and so cease upon the midnight Hong Kong, 14th Dec., 1936. with no pain But, no such 4879 refuge from suffering has been

available.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

How many a human has not been tortured by it into the wish

"It is an historic car and a real

they were fortunate to be able to listen to this artiste who is, with- out a doubt, one of the best ex- ponents of plano playing ever to visit the Colony. Few planists heard in this Colony have acquired that masterful left hand that monument to British engineering. characterises Mr. Scott's brilliant I should like to see it finish up in playing to a point where the a museum after a tour of the Em- deepest. and fullest expression is pire." conveyed to the audience in order to reveal the true beauty of the

compositions.

Last night's recital was not only out of the ordinary in its excellence

but the artiste introduced each piece with a short history of the

Clearly, therefore, it remains for Science to complete its work

composer and a description of the and discover some kindly body theme of the music.

This little

musical narrative it contained.

The programme was cleverly ar-

in which the man who is agonis- talk before each item proved high- ed by jazz may find relief, evenly interesting and perhaps gave The Thirteenth Extra Race at the cost of death. The com. not a few a truer incept of the Meeting will be held (weather posers of jazz and the interpreters permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY of it suggest themselves as the ranged to at the introductory talks on Saturday, 19th December, most likely subjects, but as and any criticism of Mr. Scott's 1936, commencing at 2.80 p.m.

The First Bell will be rang at alluring: 1.30 p.m.

By Order,

sepulchres they are not perhaps

playing would certainly be out of place. However, one might per- haps feel that Chopin's waltzen Meanwhile, the homage of the and preludes were played with a sensitive world is due to the quicker tempo" than. was necessary C. B. BROWN, ailk-worm maggot a humble or but this, of course, might be re- Secretary.ganismo, it may be, but one that garded as purely a matter of in- Hong Kong, 14th Dec., 1936, has shown "homo sapiens" theIt would be interesting to note

881 way to do and die.

dividual taste,

that Mr. Harold Scott-will, give an-

Owing to the fall in exchange, the cost of erosoted sleepers has increased from $3.38 to $4.03 per sleeper. It is estimated that a further sum of $2,000 will be re- quired to cover necessary sleeper renewal during the current year.

A supplementary vote for this amount is accordingly requested.

In consequence of the full in exchange the estimates provision, which was calculated on the basis of $1-1, 8d, has been found to be insufficient.

A supplementary vote for $2.150 is requested.

Public Works Extraordinary: The above is to be met from

New Kowloon, Miscellaneous. Kow.. savings under 26, Kowloon-Canton-loon Walled City-New Village Rallway, sub-head 6, Coal, E-3-1- Type houses and Site Formation- 2-1 Coal for Locomotives (1938 $15.000. Estimates page 75 sub-head 8, E-3-1-2-1).

Medical Department: Dental and other special treatment—$500,

Provision made in Estimates $3,500.

The number of calls on this vote has been greater than was anti- cipated and it is estimated that a further sum of $500 will be required to cover expenditure to the end of the year. A supplementary vote for this amount is accordingly re- queated.

made in Estimates

$30,000 for which provision was made in Government expenditure estimates for the cost of electric and lamp replacements,

and has proven inadequate further sum of $2,000 will be required to cover expenditure to the end of the year.

a

Government have purchased a the notype machine locally at

the cost of $10,000 for use in printing shop of the new prison in 1938. The machine is stated to be "almost new.” A machine frum home would cost £1,200.

Miscellaneous

Services: Goy-

ernment Gazette--$800.

* Provision -$7,000.

made in Estimates

Provision -$34,000.

A sum of $30,000 was provided in Estimates for 1935 for housing in a new area twenty-five familles whom it was considered, on sani- tary grounds, necessary to. remove from Kowloon Walled City to a rural area in the vicinity of Kah Hang, where the keeping of pigs and other livestock will be more appropriate than in an urban dis- The number of Draft Bul's and trict. As negotiations with the Ordinances printed during the villagers had not been completed | current year has been greater than in that year very little expenditure was "anticipated, and expenditure was incurred, and the funds pro- Is expected to exceed funds pro- vided lapsed.

vided by a sum of $600. A sup- plementary vote for this amount is therefore requested.

The above is to be met from savings under Head 22, sub-head 20, Provisions for Patients (1936 Estimates page 54 sub-head 20). A revote of $15,000 is now re- Hong Kong Naval Volunteer | quired to cover expenditure during the current year additional to the Force:-17-Upkeep of Ship...and Boats-$747.

funds provided in Estimates. Provision made

Prisons Department-Clothing ~~$6,400.

for Prisoners-$6.000. Provision made The lowest tender received for the annual docking of HMS. $15,000,

in

Estimates

in Estimates

from The above is to be met savings under Miscellaneous Papers (1936 Estimates page 90 sub-head 951.

Miscellaneous Services:Contri- "Cornflower" amounts to $5.851 to

bution in connection with signal- In view of the drop in the par- ling Messages to Observatory-- which must be added estimated chasing value of the dollar, the $310. expenditure of $550 on this sub-"quantity of material ordered head to the end of the year. $5 through the Crown Agents for pri- | -$900.. 654 only is available and a supple-soners' clothing was, this year, re-. The provision made in 1936 Fa-" mentary vote for the balance of duced, and it was hoped that re- $747 is requested.

The above to be met from savings under Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force, sub-head 3, Am munition (1936 Estimates page 87 sub-head 3).

age

Provision made in

Estimates

.."

conse-

Police Force:-Expenses of Anti- Piracy Guards-$450.

timates for this contribution was serve stocks would be sufficient to

at the rate of $1-1/8d. The meet any deficiency. The number

amount provided has, in of prisoners has, however,, con quence of the fall in exchange, tinued to increase, the daily aver proved insufficient. Supplement- during 1936 being appro-ary vote for $318. is therefore re- ximately 1,200, as compared with quested.. Public Works Department:- 1,000 in 1935, and reserve 'stocics Other Charges 3, Conveyance of clothing are exhausted. Addi Allowance-$2,500,

tional supplies are now urgently Provision made In Estimates required, and as it is not possible -$38,000.

to awalt delivery from England it Under

is proposed to purchase these locally. The estimated immediate requirements is $6,000, and a supplementary vote for this amount is, therefore, requested.

Charitable Services: Sundry Charitable Allowances and Pen- slons (already allocated)$2,600.

Provision made in this$13,096.

cost

of

Extimates

Provision made in Estimates (page 45 sub-head 12)—$20,000.

Provision made by Supplement. ary Vote (Message No. 10 item No. 87)-$6.950. .......

Total: $26,950. The

"I would not like anyone else to

the revised regulations race the car though," he added.published in the 1938 Edition of "Only four people have ever sat in General Orders many, officers have the driving seat of it since we qualified for higher allowances,

Anti-Piracy Guards, who started to build the original 'Blue- and funds provided are insufficient

were on board the 88. “Sunning” bird' in 1824 the present King. to cover expenditure on this sub-

during the Typhoon of, 17th August Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford, my- head. It is estimated that a fur-

lost all their personal effects when the ship ther sum of $2,500 will be required

was wrecked. The lost self, and my chief mechanic,

during the current year and s

property is valued at $460, and, as ... for vote supplementary

the loss was not covered by in-. amount is requested.

The sterling payments which surance, it is considered equitable PHsons". Department: Special comprise the greater part of this that the guards should be reim- Expenditure, Linotype Machine-service were provided for on the bursed this sum. A supplement- $10,000.

basis of an exchange rate of ary vote for $460 is accordingly re- "An additional linotype machine | 1/8—$1. It is estimated that,quested.

The above is to be met. Trom owing to the fall in exchange, a will be required for use in the

further sum of $2,500 will be re-savings under Police Force (1938 Printing Shop in the new · Prison

-quired during the current year and Estimates page 48 sub-head 20).

a supplementary vote for this amount is requested.

other recital together with Miss Nora Flint, violinist, in the St. Andrew's Hall, Kowloon, un De-

cember 18.

Last night's programme was 25 follows:

1. (a) Holberg Suite (Prelude, Barabande, (Gayotte, Air, Rigaudon). A

(b) At the Cradle, Solitary Wanderer, Nocturne, At Thy Feet, Homewards.

in 1938,

A machine of the type required in almost new condition can bëj obtained, if purchased now, at the very favourable price of $10,000, whereas a new machine would cost approximately £1,200 sterling. It is considered that it would be to Government's advantage to buy this secondhand machine, and as (c) Senata in E minor (Alleno provision was made in this

gro. Andante, Minuetto, Year's Estimates for this expendi Finale) .......Grieg. ture a supplementary vote for $10,- Waltzes in B minor and A 000 is requested. fat; Preludes in B minor, O Audit Department: Share of major and C minor, Mazarka Home: Expenditure--$1,233. S.. In A minor; Barcarolle; Po Provision made in Estimates lonaises in C minor. (Op. 40)-$4,94406437 and A fat (Op. 53) ....Chopin

This sub-head of expenditure is 3. Papilions (Op. 2)....Bchumann not under local control and under 4 Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13. instructions was extimated at 2412 List for the current year. The actual

Air Bervice-Purchase of Am~ bulance-$250.

.t

Various Departments-Personal

Emoluments-$470,650.

Provision made in Estimates $9,279,113.

Provision made' by Supplement- ary Vote (Message No. 8 item No. 38 Head 27 (A) Sub-head 1)- $1,000; *)

"Total: 39,280,113.

In view of the increasing Im-" portance of Kal Tax as an air station. It is considered desirable that the equipment of the Aero- drome should include an am- bulance, Government has the op sterling salaries "were provided portunity of purchasing a second- for on the basis of an exchange" hand ambulance, localty, at a price rate of 1.84 $1. It is estimated or $250, and it is thought that it that owing to the fall in exchange would be advantageous to accept a further sum of $470.350 will be this offer. As no provision was made required to meet expenditure dur- in the 1930 Estimates for this ex-ing the current year. A supple- penditure, a supplementary vote mentary vote for this amount is, for $250 is requested.KE therefore, requested flere tend

The above is to be met from schedule showing allocation to savings under B. Air Bervices (1936 Departments is subjoined Estimates page 33, sub-head: 775 Total: $517,303.00