HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1937.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS.
HONG KONG SHANGHAI CONFERENCE
Foreign & Chinese Shippers.
NOTICE is hereby given that as from the 15th April, 1937. rates of freight from Hong Kong to Shanghai will be increased 20
per cent. over current rates.
Tarifs showing current rates as from the 15th April, 1937, are now in course of preparation and will be issued shortly.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD.
Secretaries,
Hong Kong Shanghai Freight"
Conference. Hong Kong, ist April, 1937.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
5168
PROBATE JURISDICTION
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IN THE GOODS of JOHN MEEK late of 15A Meadow Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, Watchmaker and Jeweller deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Or dinance No. 2 of 1897. made an order limiting the time for credi tors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to 24th April, 1937.
All Creditors and others are ac. cordingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on or belote that date.
"
DEACONS,
Solicitors for the Executor,
1, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
5165
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN
THE GOODS of WILLIAM ASHETON TONGE, late of The Old Rectory, Warburton in the County of Chester and of Toage Hall, Prestwich in the County of Lancester in the United Kingdom, Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the "provisions of Section 58 of Ordin.
THE FANLING HUNT
A Point to Point Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at Potts Bungalow on Saturday, 3rd April, 1937, commencing at 3 p.m.
Additional coaches, will be at- tached to the 12.12 p.m., and 1.25 p.m. trains to Fanling, and the 6.39 p.m. train to Kowloon.
THOMSON & CO.,
Secretaries.
NOTICE.
R.
NOTICE.
We have pleasure in intimating that Mr... ERIC MACDONALD BRYDEN, C.A., has been ad mitted a partner in our" firm as from 31st March, 1937,
and that Mr. DAVID SCOTT
been authorised to sign our name ROBB, C.A., has from this date. in all matters pertaining to our
Firm.
LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS; Chartered Accountants,
- Hong Kong.
5167
31st March, 1937.
For sale at the office of the Superintendent of Accounts and Stores, Public Works Depart- ment, Lower Albert Road, Geological survey maps of the Crown Colony el Hong Kong,
Scale = 1 mile. Price $5.00.
R. M. HENDERSON, Director of Public Works Public Works Department, Hong Kong, 31st March, 1937.
NOTICE.
5164
NOTICE IS. · HEREBY GIVEN that the partnership heretofore subsisting between the
late GEORGE
G.
R..
5154
PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction. to be held on Monday, the 5th day of April, 1937,. at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Tai Kok Tsui in the Colony of Hong Kong for a ferm
of 75 years, with the option of
HONOURED
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
American Express
Travelers Cheques
The safe and convenient means of carrying travel funds.
THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO.,
Incorporated with Limited Liability in T.8.A.
4, Des Vœux Road, Central.
renewal at a Crown Rent to be ADVERTISEMENTS. fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.
Intending bidders are advised "BUTTON that immediately after the dis POTTS, PATRICK CUMMING posal of the lot the purchaser. HUTTON POTTS and RUS (11 not the applicant), will TOM PESTONJI carrying on be required to deposit with an business as Stock, Share and authorised officer who will be General Brokers at Victoria in present at the sale, the sum at the Colony of Hong Kong under two hundred dollars, $200.00 lo the style or firm name of BEN. cash. This sum will be refund JAMIN AND POTTS having ed on payment of the purchase "Terminated by effluxion of time price.
at the 31st day of March 1937,
No. of Sale.
Registry No.
Locality,
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Boundary.S Measure ments.
Contents in
@quare feet.
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Rental
Upast Price!
the said Firm will be carried on PARTICULARS OF THE LO1, as from the 1st day of April 1937 by the undersigned PATRICK CUMMING HUTTON POTTS, JACK YUAN HUTTON POTTS and RUSTOM PESTONJI in partnership under the style or пате of “BENJAMIN AND POTTS."
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Dated the 1st day of April, 1937.
G.
P. C. POTTS,
J.
HUTTON POTTS,
R. PESTONJI.
[5161
PUBLIC AUCTION
PARTICULARS AND CON
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DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 5th day of April, 1937, al 3
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Kowloon Inland
Lot Noland
Lats Nos. 3809 & 3758. Lai
Chi Kok Rd., Vai Kok Tsui
Between Kowloon I
G.
N. L. Z.
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-PUBLIC AUCTION. PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Publie
BRITISH MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, TIENTSIN
MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATION No. 6/37
VACANCY FOR LADY SUPERINTENDENT
OF HOSPITALS
The British Municipal Council, Tientsin, invites applications from British ladies for the post tion of Lady Superintendent of its Municipal Hospitals, which will become vacant during the summer of the present year.
INC.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
BRITISH MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, TIENTSİN MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATION No. 5/37
Q.
VACANCY FOR
"
FIRE BRIGADE
R.
SUPERINTENDENT
ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT. COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS.
Notice is hereby given that the ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING of Shareholders in the Company will be held at the office of the Company, Queen's Bullding, Victoria, Hong Kong, on Monday, the 12th April, 1937, at noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors, together with a State ment of Accounts, and -- re- electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 6th to the 12th April, 1937, both days inclusive.
ROYAL AIR FORCE
Staff Appointments
Appointments are notified to the staffs of three of the home com- mands for specialist duties. ·
Wing Commander E R. Open- shaw, promoted in the New Year list, joins the Bomber Command, Uxbridge, for armament duties on his return from two years at Mid- dle East headquarters. Calm. He was commissioned, to The Somerset Light Infantry in 1914, and was seconded to
the R.F.C. with seniority of June 1, 1918, later. serving in France. Before special- izing as an armament officer he commanded No. 111 (Fighter) Squadron at Hornchurch.
Squadron Leader G. G. Banting, who joins headquarters of the Training Command, Market Dray- ton, for air star duties, served with. the Australian Air Force in 1934-36 and was formerly at the Air Minis- | 17.
He graduated at the Staf College in 1931. Appointed for flying training on leaving Sand-
By Order of the Board of burst in 1918, he served in France and Italy with Nos. 34 and 52 Directors.
Squadrons in 1917-18.
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H. DA LUZ,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 27th March, 1937.
Editorial and
Business
15-19, Queen's Road
Tel 30251.
Night Editor (Wanchal
Tel. 24511.
6147
Omice: Central
Office):
很
Lendon Office: 53. Fleet Street
E.C, 4.
The Daily Press.
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HONG KONG, APEI 3, 1937.
The British Municipal Council, THE PROGRESS Tientsin, invites applications
OF MEDICINE from British Subjects for the position of Superintendent for its
That the progress of medicine Fire Brigade, which will become is continuous, and that the pace vacant in the latter half of the of progress is increasing, is made present year.
abundantly clear by the annual The commencing salary will Report of the Medical Research be $600 (consisting of $400 Council which was published "'basic salary" plus $200 “Re-
recently in London. Advance is patriation Pay") per month with recorded all along the line, and free quarters, from the date of
in some areas the success, achiev
Applicants should give full taking up the appointment ined any properly be described as
details of their training, posts | Tientsia, held, special experience, etc., in The successful candidate will their letters of application, to be on probation during the first 5151 gether with coples of recent six months of his service. At
testimonials.
the end of the probationary Other things being equal pre period, if his services have been ference will be given to can satisfactory, he will be given a didates who have had previous four year contrar under which, experience as Hospital matrons in addition to the above-men er superintendents, particularly tioned emoluments, he will be those who can show evidence of entitled to the benefits of the business-like, efficient "and and uniform allowances etc.
Applicants should give in their letters of application full details economical manner.
The successful candidate will of their experience, training, receive a commencing salary of positions previously held, and $450 (consisting of $300 "basic also copies of recent testimonials. salary" plus $150 "Repatria It is essential that the cand tion Pay") per month, com date be able to speak the Chinese (Northern dialect) mencing from the date upon language which she takes up her datles in Tientsin, together with free board
spectacular.
This is certainly true about the work on puerperal sepsis in its relation to maternal mortality. That terrible disease has, until recently, exacted * toll annually of some 1,200 lives
in Great Britain alone. Even in so excellent an institution as
Squadron Leader N. H. D'Aeth. who is appointed for navigation duties at Fighter Command head- quarters, Stanmore, has been with No. 8 (Bomber) Squadron, Aden, since 1934, and was promoted in June last. "In 1930-31 he was in charge of the flying section of the Arctic Air Route Expedition, led by the late Mr. H. G. Watkins to ex
plore the Arctic ice-cap of Green- land with a view to establishing a route across the Arctic to Canada." " HEMSWELL AERODROME. Personnel proceeding by. rall to the new air station at Hemswell, Lincolnshire, which was opened last month, are ordered to travel to Gainsborough Station, distant 10 miles. Stores are to be consigned Kirton-in-Lindsey Station, which is eight miles from Hemswell.
to
Josef Lampkin, the famous violin the King's Theatre on Wednesday virtuoso, who will give a recital at
next.
"KID" LEWIS FOR. TRIAL
Kid" Lewis, the former welter- weight boxing champion of the world, was committed for trial by the Bow-street Magistrate charged
course of law and Justice. Ball was allowed.
ance No. 2 of 1897 made an order P.m., at the Offices of the Public Auction to be held on Monday, ability to administer hospitals in Superannuation Fund, travelling the hospital between the years with attempting to pervert the
limiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to 24th April, 1937.
i!
All Creditors and others are ac- cordingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on
or before that date.
DEACONS, Solicitors for the Executor, 1, Des Voeux Road Central,
Hong Kong
6116
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. The Fifty-sixth Ordinary Gen.
Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Lai Chi Kok in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be axed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 24 years less the last three days
the 5th day of April, 1937, at 33 P.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Wong Nel Chung in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crow Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.
Intending bidders are advised Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis-
She will be on probation for a that immediately after the disposal of the lot the purchaser posal of the lot the purchaser(not
the applicant), will period of six months from the (if not the applicant), will be required to deposit with an date of taking up her duties, be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be authorised officer who will be pre present at the sale, the sum of sent at the sale, the sum of two two hundred dollars, $200.00 in hundred dollars, $200.00 in cash, cash. This sum will be refunded
thereof.
fi
fluently.
He was described as Edward
Lewis, aged 41, in charge of the
Moulin Rouge Club, Old Compton-
street, W.
The case arose out of an assault
Queen Charlotte's Hospital the of puerperal sepsis admitted to mortality rate," among 495 enses
1931 and 1935; was 22.7 per cent. To-day the mortality rate is only 4.7 per cent. Scarcely less encouraging is the work now in progress upon influenza. In place of the chaos of conflicting
suggested that, for £50 he would met and baffled the student arrange for witnesses to "muddle observations and theories which case. Lewis is alleged to have twenty years ago there is to-day the evidence" so that one of the the fact that influenza is a virus defendants would be acquitted. disease capable of being trans. mitted to ferrets and mice. Not only so, but it has recently been creation. It is urged once again established that transmission that, a close relationship exists from animals to man can also be between exercise and diet, and H. F. BARNES, effected. As has so often hap- the opinion is expressed that Secretary and Engineer.pened before, the transference of nothing seems to bo better esta..
study from the bedside to the blished than the fact that the
Applications should be forward- and lodging, uniform allowances, ed so as to reach the undersigned etc.
not later than 12 o'clock (noon) on Tuesday, 22nd June, 1937.
By Order,
At the end of the probationary period, if her services have been satisfactory, she will be given a
eral Meeting of the Company This sum will be refunded on onpayment of the purchase four-year contract, under which,
will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Messrs. Jar.
dine, Matheson
payment of the purchase price.
& Co. Ltd. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Thursday, 8th April, 1937, at
noon, for the purpose of receiving! the Report el, the Directors, passing the Accounts, and elect- Ing Directors and Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 1st to 22nd April inclusive.
By order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON &-
CO., LTD.,
General Managers, Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.
New Kowloon
Inland Lot No. 3674 Registry No.
Castle Peak Road,
Lai Chi Kok.
Locality.
Boundary
Monauro-
ments.
B. W..
1+
As per
sale plan
price.
In addition to the above mention- ed emoluments, she will be
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT entitled to the benefits of the
Contents i
Square feet.
32
Rental.
1,680
* | Upest Price. |
No, of Bala..
Inland Lot
Registry No.
Locality.
About
009'%
5150
7469 OK
Weet
of
and adjoining |
Inland Lot No. 3688,
Blue Pool Road, Wong
Nei Chung.
Boundary
Measure-
monta.
An per
Bale plan
Annua
Rental.
About
Contents in
$7,000
Square feet
1,048
Upset Price,
·98, 45
5152
Superannuation Fund, •Leave Pay, Travelling allowances, etc.
Applications should be forward. ed so as to reach the undersigned not later than 12 o'clock (noon) on Tuesday 25th May, 1937.
By Order,
H. F. BARNES, Secretary & Engineer.
COUNCIL ROOM, [TIENTSIN, 11th March, 1937.- 5142
5143
KOWLOON CANTON
COUNCIL ROOM,
which at one time seemed to be in early life, is endowed with TIENTSIN, 11th March, 1937. laboratory is resolving difficulties properly fed animal, especially insuperable. The immensely such vitality that exercise cannot difficult task of elaborating be suppressed whatever the en methods of immunization is now vironment, and that only too being carried out by means of often the improperly fed animal animal experiments and may, cannot either indulge in foll because these experiments have activity or profit to any great become possible, be accomplished extent by opportunities of physi in the near future. It is already cal exercise. possible to say that some degree A valuable study of the kinda of resistance to the influenza of food which people in Britain virus can be effected.
est has revealed the fact that,
RAILWAY.
NOTICE
The Public is hereby notified that the Taipo Belle Parlour Car shown in the Public Time-table as running at 2.30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, will not run on Saturday, April 3rd and Sunday, April 4th, By order,
As was to be expected, the though diets vary widely an be- study of nutrition occupies an tween north and south and east important, place in the Report. and west, the nutritive value of On this subject, the Council there diets tends to be constant speaks with the authority of a for all areas. So much so indeed pioneer, for the new science of that some kind of instinct seems 5149 food is to a large extent its own to be at work.
R. D. WALKER, Manager and Chief Engineer.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.