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AHONG KONG TRAMWAYS,

LIMITED

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY GENERAL, MEET. ING of HONG KONG TRAM WAYS, LIMITED will be held at the offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, ou FRIDAY, the 26th at 12 day of February, 1937, e'clock noon, to transact the

G.

R.

TRADE SCHOOL

WOOD ROAD WANTSAI

DEPT. OF BUILDING

The Full Time Day Course In

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1937.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Mrs. Hong Bling and family thank all friends and relatives for

their attendance at the funer- al, wreaths and kind messages

H. K. RIFLE ASSOCN.

of sympathy in their bereave-Week-End Spoon And

mient.

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Office: Editorial and Business

15-19, Queen's Road Central Tel. 30251.

Practice Shoot

Night Editor (Warichat Omee): Conditions

Tel. 24511.

un-

Building will open on March 1, London Omee: 53. Fleet Street tremely poor throughout, while the

1937.

The Course will cover three ordinary business of the Comears, the fee being $60 per pany.

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AND NOTICE IS HEREBY FALSO GIVEN that the RE GISTER OF MEMBERS of he Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 13th to FRIDAY, the 26th February, 1937, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

W. F. SIMMONS,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 1st Feb., 1937.

1991

HONG KONG FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION,

INTERPORT

HONG KONG v. SHANGHAI on the

innum payable monthly.

Eight months per year will be spent in the School, and tour months on buildings.

The School work will consist uf:--

(1) Lectures

on

Building

E.C. 4.

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 1, 1837.

If Gossip We Must

Success Of The U.S.R.C.

(BY PRUDENCE)

I looked in at the U.S.R.C. last Sunday and found the place was.

A Spoon & Practice Shoot was held on Saturday afternoon st by permission of the Naval authori- ties' on their range at Stonecutters.

were definitely favourable, the light being ex- wind varied both in strength and activity being that an American always very simply packed, the reason for this direction. In spite of these handi-Tournament was in progress. These that 13 probably caps, a member of the Dockyard all-day affairs are Rifle Club, who only took up the cheery, and

of the reasons why" the "Blaley" type of shooting this sea-

U.S.R.C. is one of the most popular son. won the "nett" spoon in the

Clubs in the Colony. S.R. (b) Class with a score of 95; this was Mr. H. W. Cory who wins this spoon for the first time, and won the who three weeks ago.

Jame "handicap" spoon in the class.

Construction, Mechanics, News And The Radio spoon in this Class was Corporal Drawing, Quantities, Pre- Estimates, paration of Materials, Surveying and Setting out, etc,

In the art of presenting news, proportion and perspective. allied to necuracy of fact, are the

of credit.

one

When I arrived I found forty- four people busily sorting them- selves into couples, after which everyone made a bee-line for the courts and settled down to the serious business of finding and challenging opponents.

I could not help being struck by the fact that the whole affair was

and or marvellously planned ganized. (Doubtless the reason

Miss Anne Winter, who took the part of Teresa in the Philharmonic Society, "Mald of the Mountains." (Rialto Stadio).

a list of nanies and fashions. Of course, everybody looked their best, and all the people we know as well as quantities of people we- did not know-were there in full. force. This charming new fashion- veryTM: of, flowers in the hair pleasant, and a change from the everlasting bandos of a season ago; Mrs. Cavanagh-Mainwaring wore a delicious tight little posey in her fair curls with striking success-a perfect anish to her slim, ser green appearance.

Mrs. Compton was very hand- some in that lovely new midnight blue, and Mrs. Grossman's dress. of much the same shade had a most attractive little sequin coat to match.

Mrs. Prentis in pale green and. silver locked as charming as ever, and I loved Mrs. Bryden's simple pink taffeta gown

On these "uniform" occasions it is so important to choose colours which do not clash with those of

(2) Workshop Instruction on marks of skill and the standards handicap of 4, beats the member stay, for it is the only completely out here just before Xmas, but your partner, and shades of car-

Carpenter's and Joiner's Work, Bricklaying, Rein- forced Concrete Work,

etc.

(3) Field work, including sur veying, levelling and set. ting out.

Students must make their own arrangements to obtain practical training during the time the

Navy Ground, Causeway Bay 3.30 p.m., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 School is closed.

Prices of admission:- $2.20-$1.10

The number of students ac cepted will not exceed 30.

Application for admission should be made by post on Forms now obtainable at the Trade 4992 School.

Bookings at Messrs, Moutries and The China Emporium from 1st February, 1937.

THE HONG KONG BRANCH OF THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION

Ma. G. P. DE MARTIN

will preside

at the FOURTH MEETING for the

SESSION 1936-37

on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2ND

:

(TO-MORROW)

AT 5 80 P.M. in

The BELENA MAY INSTITUTE

M188 STEEL M. A. (Lond.) will speak on, "ELIZABETHAN THRILLERS.":

Those who wish to have ten in the

22160).

No applications will be consi. vered after February 13.

The minimum age for admis. sion is 16.

(Sd) G. WHITE.

Principal.

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THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO

NOTICE IS

The winner of the "handicap" C. Singh of the Hong Kong Police Force, and the care which has been taken in the compilation of the handicap tables, la shown by the fact that this member who made u nett score of 91, and who had a taking second, place, who made a Distortion and wrong emphasis nett score of 94, with a handicap impart, a degree of falseness, and of 3.

Only a comparatively short time it is no light undertaking to guiu ago was the Dockyard Rifle Club knowledge of facts and to dia-issued with a certain number of tribute the information without "1814" rifles, and it is not without prejudice or bias. The sepur significance that, as will be seen tion of a fact or a group of fans from the detailed results given be- from their natural association low, five out of the eleven names which appear therein are those of may set a thing that is itself true untrue position and be wisrepresentation.

News values may be genuine or meretricious and are always relative. An event or a mant, or even an opinion, can have a

in an

move.

different value on one day from what it would have on another solely because of other events, movements, or opinions are claiming attention on that that day: "and the distributor of news inay not always possess the prescience or discernment to set them in their rightful place order

and

members of this particular Club.

On Saturday next, the Dockyard R.C., and, indeed, the Association as well, loses the support and services of one who is not only a keen rifle shot himself, but who, at all times, has given both or-

ganisations material help when re-

quired. At the moment Mr. John- son is Honorary Secretary of the

while in addition he has done

rifle section of the Dockyard R.C.,

follows:-- w

"

Mr. T. J.

од

白您

why everyone enjoyed it so much) There is no doubt too, that au- tomatic-handicapping has come to satisfactory method of enabling players, good, bad or indifferent, to meet and play against each other on fair and equal terms.

Last Sunday there were so many entries that matches were divided

into two sections, the winners of each section meeting in the final.

The winners of A Section were Mrs. Grant Oliver and Mr. O. C.. Wo-

(whose mack.. The former is a sister of 'the Rev. Lewis Bryan, amusing and delightful talks on the radio are still remembered by his many Fans, although it must be at least two years since he went away.) B. Bection was won by Mrs. Richards and Mr. Eric Grimble who carried off first place after a well-fought final, and they

presented with

were

#1

silver

photograph-frame and silver tank-

a

ard respectively while the run-

were consoled with ners-up silver sweet dish and most attrac- tive ash-tray. The hidden number prize went to Mrs. Ronnie Childe and her partner.

LOVELIES">

Minna

There were such a lot of local "lovelles" there I don't suppose. I saw half of them, but I did notice Mrs. Sullivan looking very beauti- fel, and Mrs. Shirley (who plays a remarkably strong game) and Mrs. Whitham, and Mrs. Radcliffe both looking quite charming. Whitham was there of course. I Wonder when she will go back to Z.B.W. again? She has such

was al- lovely speaking-voice it ways a pleasure to listen to her announcements, and she made the dullest news seem Interesting. Joan Baker was there, too, and

prettier than ever. She only came

let are most effective if you are apt to dance with members of the to go everywhere and know every- already is "one of us" as she seems one, Another newcome is Phyllis services. Mrs. Mike' Turner, who gorgeous Churston, who has a splendid ser-has recently returned from Home. vice and hits a hard ball all the looked wonderful in a

shade of what I would describe a time.

pale scarlet, and I thought Mrs. scarlet and gold Swinburne's

The gardens were looking very nice and were full of bright flowers, but it was just a bit too chilly for after the tea out-of-doors. 50 tournament we all adjourned to the Clubhouse where we devoured delicious cakes and savoury Band- wiches, and drank lashings of hot not to mention stronger tca, fluids!

St. George's Ball

(BY ONLOOKER)

Yet another St. George's Ball 19 a thing of the pasti

It is amazing the way we Eng lah people rally round and go "all British" on these national occa- sions. All sorts of "stay-at-homes" who ordinarily never leave their comfortable armchairs rouse up. don their best bibs and tuckers. and sally forth to the merry scene at the top of the Peninsula Hotel.

Special congratulation is due to those who were responsible for the decorations this year. The whole Hotel was a blaze of welcoming arrived, and the light as we enormous coloured picture of St. George' over the dias in the Rose Room inspired much patriotic Jollity even though the Dragon was missing,

BEAUTIFUL GOWNING

If I attempted to describe all the lovely visions of femininity I saw this column would become merely.

yeoman service for the Association particularly in the case of the annual dinner, held last Decem- ber, when, with the other members of the special committee appoint- ed to organize that function, he devoted much of his spare time towards ensuring that the event The imparting of wrong values should be an outstanding success.

The leading scores inade to news need not be wilful; it may come of inexperience, slo- Saturday afternoon last are venliness, or sheer bad judgment.

S.R. (b). In the valuation of news--or at

A.H. 200 500 600 Tt.

yds. yds, yds. rate of the lesser new uny

absolute standard; Mr. H. W. Cory 1 33 32 30 551 there is no SHAREHOLDERS

and varieties of taste and feeling

Boulton 3 32 29 33 94 scr. 26 35 31 94 S.L.M. HIll HEREBY are as pronounced in this 8 in

Sig. W. Edwards 2 30 33 31 94 lecture-hall, are asked to order it the GIVEN THAT THE THIRTY- every other art.

Axed C.P.O. Pellow SCT. 30 31 31 92 So there cannot be day before from the Manageress, of The Helena May Institute (Tel. No. | NINTH ORDINARY YEARLY

MEETING OF THIS COM. moral standard by which to test Sgt. Blandford scr. 31 30 31 92 PANY will be held at the Office all news and the presentation of Mr. C. Watson

Cpl. 8573

P. Singh 3 30 30 31. 01. of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & it. Selection of news of one .4930

Co., Ltd., on Friday, the 5th shade or colour betrays a bias or Cpl. B763

C. Bingh 3 31 30 30 *91§ February, 1937, at 11 a.m., for propagandist purpose, and the

3. 30 32 28 90 the purpose of receiving the force of iteration is immense; Mr. W. Austin

Lakeman 3 32 32 26 90 Report of the Directors together but the appeal of prejudiced news Mr. G. H

The

AH-Ass'n handicap with Statement of Accounts is mainly to ignorance.

-Denotes that the 8.R. (b) rifle for the year ended 31st Decem excuse for a conscious bias-that

All other competitora there is not room for all the news was used. ber, 1936.

The story belongs to that one

Gosano w be playing for Hong and all the truth and that a part used the "1914" rifle.

-Denotes the winner of the nett among the authors of the First more emphasis that the

five books of the Old Testament,

Kong In the Interport series needs whole is an admission of the spoon.

generally known as "J." The story

against the North for they twelfth is based on the ancient Babylonian

time. He was selected last year need for another and

but could not obtain the necessary myth framed to account for hu- acting source of supply.

leave to travel to Shanghal There is no means of measur-

man mortality which the Hebrews probably brought with them from

Lee Wal Tong, Leung Wing Chiu and Bickford were members of the their Mesopotamian home, Accord- ing to this myth, there was in the team that defeated Shanghal in the North last year. Beltran and "Fields of the Blessed" a Tree

M. BARKER. Hon. Secretary & Treasurer,

HONG KONG/CALCUTTA FREIGHT CONFERENCE.

FOREIGN AND CHINESE

SHIPPERS.

NOTICE is hereby given that as from the 1st MARCH, 1937. rates of freight from Hong Kong to Calcutta, Rangoon and Madras will be increased 15 per cent over current rates.

Schedules showing tariff rates as from the 1st MARCH, 1937 are now in course of preparation and will be issued shortly.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Secretaries, Hong Kong/Cakutta Freight Conference. Hong Kong, 26th Jan, 1937,

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HONG KONG/STRAITS

FREIGHT CONFERENCE.

FOREIGN SHIPPERS.

The Register of Shares of the Company will be CLOSED from Friday, the 29th January, 1937, to Friday, the 5th February, 1937, both days inclusive.

By order of the Board of

Directors.

F. H. CRAPNell,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 22nd Jan,, 1937.

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COURT RETURNS TO LONDON The Court returned from dand

London, Jan. 30.

ringham to London to-day and a large crowd assembled at King's Cross station to witness the arrival

on an

counter-

1 31 32 29 92

-Denotes the winner of the handicap spoon.

There were insufficient SR. (a) entries to allow of a spoon being

awarded. NOTE-The bandicap of each win- ner has been reduced by one point as shown. This proce-

THE STORY OF

THE FALL

The Rev, H. W. Baines preached the sermon at St. John's Cathedral yesterday. He said, in part:--

The story which was read at the First Lesson this morning from Genais II, is called The Story of the Fail.

INTERPORT

FOOTBALL

(Continued from Pare 1)

Lee Wai Tong will captain the Vice- team with Campbell as captain.

New Interport caps are Pau Ka Ping, Campbell, Evans, Yeung Shui Yick, and Wilson.

most effective.

Alas for this tempus fugit busi- ness! It makes one feel very old seeing more and more of these things returning from. young Home after an interval of educa- tion looking completely soigne Kittah Miss and Krown up.

Is

recent- another Butterfeld

new batch of addition to the "young lovelies." She wore black velvet with cire Satin with, un- qualified success.

Another outstanding dress was: worn by Mrs. Vyner Gordon-pure white with diamante touches, and Mrs. Keith Valentine was a per- fect study in daisies: a daisy fat- term all over her full tulle gown. daisy shoulder straps, and daisies in her becomingly dressed hair!

Mrs Croucheras usual-contrl- buted an interesting item to the gorgeous gowning: brown taffeta, with rainbow godets of green, blue, and yellow at the back. Miss Peggy Humphreys looked charming in a gown of brown and green, of exquisite line.

only a few These are outstanding dresses which caught watchful the eye of your ever Onlooker-there were many more lovely and interesting

can

of the

effects I

assure you, and everybody looked so happy and gay dancing under the benign eye of the brave St. George.

Office Boy Stabbed And Robbed

Attacked In Lavatory

A daring robbery was committed last Friday morning when Pau Kau, 23, an offre boy employed by Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., was stab- bed no less than five times by a thief who eventually ran off with $350.

The boy was sent to the Hong

Kong and Shanghai Bank to cash."

a cheque for $350. From his story. Pau was leaving the Bank premises. when he was accosted by a man who wished to borrow the sum of $50. The loan was not granted

dare applies to all S.P. (a) and whose fruit conveyed immenity" Talbot were also members of the and he kept on his way to Queen's

9.R. (b) Spoon Shoots. (Owing to pressure on space, the report of a Council meeting of the ILKRA is held over)..

from death.

It was intended for man, but the serpent, always regarded by the ancients as uncannily wise got there first and so cheated man of his birthright.

eleven.

COMMENT

Building.

+

money was extracted from his in-

side pocket,

ing the persistent effects of news and its manner of presentation people. individual or & News is more and more a part

Pan went into the Lavatory and of the daily lives and routine of

it was there that he was stabbed The choice of Andy Wilson, ol

twice in the right thigh, Ha re- men and women and even child- ren. They read it in their daily

the Club, at inside-left, will no paper; they hear it broadcast on

doubt come as a great surprise to cognised his assallant as the man "followers in view of his poor per-who had wanted to borrow the $50. the air and they see it pictorially

In the story it was a Tree-which formances both in the Governor's In the ensuing struggle Pan was Os part of their entertainmoot. Presently it may be broadcast industrial news. The fact of a bore the temptation before which Cup match and in yesterday's struck three other times, and the visually. It travels faster: its inor dispute or strike made the woman fell: In the God-made game. But on the other hand,

Pau remained in the lavatory un- percussion, and repercussion is known by broadcast is, by the sequel it was the Cross of wood wilson has been playing con- more violent. It is more volu- very fact of the broadcast, taken and the crown of wooden thorns sistently well in League matches The wounds were superficial and

out of its true perspective. which bore the means of our during the season

tale of the robbery. Pat was then ninone.

A good wireless receiving set Broadcasting, as Mr. Leggett Redemption: This is God's way: Talbot played brilliantly yester he was found by an orce 25-

power of loving suffering into clusión.

Campbell and Evans thoroughly taken to the Government Civil deserve their positions in the Hospital and detained.

Une NOTICE is hereby given that of the King and Queen, Queen will say day tap the common said, gives news a "front page" to take evil and convert it by the day and his display warranted insistant to whom he related the

which with. as from the 1st MARCH, 1937, Margaret, who travelled home by news of the whole world. The position and & relatively trifling good.

in with untruthful truthfulness. than, the observance of the law; intermediate news rates of freight from Hong Kong the Royal train. The Royal party wireless is the greatest medium bit of bother gets bruited abroad

Port were warmly cheered as they drove for the circulation of Penang, to Singapore,

this or any other country. Here The next morning's paper will but in the manifold news of the Leung Wing Chiu, at right-half, Swettanham (direct and via away

wireless news is agency nows. no doubt tack the same fact lawful activities of people in all forms & most formidable trio. Singapore) will be increased 20 British Wireless.

It is reduced to broadcasting away in another and more ac spheres, from politics to sport, form in the broadcasting head curate appraisement of its signi- there is the daily witness to good quarters, but the raw material ficance, But the broadcast effect government and respect for or

is no golden rule for The passing over of David in supplied. It aims at being is not lost.

News, unless well controlled. impartial and knows no conscius

tends to get out of hand like news, though just sometimes it Leonard (St Joseph's) from the London, Jan. 30.. It is stated that the Princess bias.

Tet how easily news may take that. The recording of strikes is silence that is golden and not attack is another surprise. Royal and Lord Harewood are leaving probably at end of next on a wrong cast was pointed out is easier than the recording of publication. All that can be week for Enzesfeld Castle near by Mr. F. W. Leggett, of the the normal condition of industry, hoped for is a love of truth, a Vienna on a visit to the Dake of Ministry of Labour, when talking which is peace, Crime, it may eye for perspective, and a sense

claims more publicity of proportion. the other day. on the diffusion of be

per cent ever current rates.

Schedules showing tariff rates

as from the 1st MARCH, 1937, are now in course of preparation and will be issued shortly.

JARDINE, MATHESON &". CO., LTD.,

Secretaries, Hong Kong/Straits Freight Conferencs, Hong Kong, 27th Jan., 1987

Mary and Princesses Elizabeth and

PRINCESS ROYAL FOR VIENNA

1981

Windsor- British Wirdles.

dinances.

There

Stevens, who has been selected

as a reserve full back, played very well yesterday,

Yeung, Fung, Lee and Bickford were certainties for the forward

line.

recent form and on yesterday's

Beltrao, who is a reserve half back, has not been so steady on display, Campbell was definitely

better.

McGRATH WINS

Sydney. Jan. 30. Vivian McGrath won the Austra~ lan tennis championship to-day," after a thrilling fluctuating five-

set match.

The unsuccessful finalist was

keen night, but failed to hold his John Bromwich, who put up a ground when EfcGrath set up a devastating attack in the fifth set were: 6-3, 1-6, 6-0. 2-6,,6-1--

The scores in McGrath's favour

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