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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

GOVERNMENT BILLS.

etc.

TENDERS for DOLLARS current in this Colony, for tele graphic transfer, on the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, London, up to and for the sum of £90,000 will be re- ceived by the Treasury Chest Officer, Command Pay Office, un- til 11 o'clock a.m. on the 16th April, 1937.

The tenders to state the total Amount (in pounds sterling). No telegraphic transfer will be made for less than £100..

The tenders to be in duplicate, and in sealed covers, addressed to the Treasury Chest Officer, Com. mand Pay Office, and endorsed Tender for Government Bills. etc."

The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is re served.

Copies of Forms of Tender can

be had on application.

"Persons tendering for (Bills)

are hereby notified that basing regard to the provisions of the

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Hong Kono, APRIL 16, 1937.

A DISTINGUISHED SEA CAPTAIN

"Safe

Barr's" Life Of Adventure

Capt. James Clayton Barr, great sailor who commanded many ramous Cunard liners and figured in thrilling adventures, bas died at his home in Wallasey, Cheshire, at the age of 81. Among his feats was the rescue of over 500 per- sons from the a.a. Volturno dis- aster.

Capt. Barr. Commodore of the Cunard Beet when he retired 20

| SIGNS OF THE TIMES years ago, was known on the North

Atlantic as "Safe Barr."

He was a native of Burnley, and An elegant, but to most people,

went to sea at the age of 17. As extremely baffling examination

an apprentice" in sall who og one paper could be set from the voyage after another had to round bandbook on "Time Measure-Cape Horn, he developed the ment" which has just been qualities of seamanship that were issued from the Science Museum to make has career so noteworthy: of South Kensington (Stationary Office, 28.). For the handbook gives a detailed and illustrated catalogue of the various devices for measuring time that are con- tained in that museum, and some of the details might disturb the plain man's idea about dates.

For, example, when were elec" trie clocks introduced ? Some time in the present century?

Acts 22 George III Cap. 45 and ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS Long before that;

41 George III Cap. 52 the accep». tance of any such Tender is sub- | ject to the express condition that) no Member of the British House of Commons shall be admitted to any share or part in or to any benefit to arise from the Contract thereby wade for the allotment of such (Bills)."

"The provisions in question de not apply to Contracts entered into by any incorporated Com pany in its corporated capacity and made for the general benefit of the Company."

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'L." J, LIGHTFOOT,

Colonel, R. A. P. C.,

Treasury Chest Officer.

His Majesty's Treasury

Office," Hong Kong.

5196

MACAO JOCKEY CLUB.

The April Race Meeting will

be held at Areia Preta, Macao,

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS

NOTICE IS

HEREBY

BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE TO

Alexander

Bain patented one in 1845. On the other hand, adaptations" of the sundial principle were still being patented in 1892, and there are details here of a modern

• universal helio-chronometer (which is sundial writ large and

made in Preston) or of Wheat- SHAREHOLDERS

stone's solar chronometer with NOTICE IS HEREBY which "the time is indicated on

the

or

He had been shipwrecked three times before he joined the Cunard as a fourth officer in 1885. He served in many vessels, including the Umbria and Etruria, before be- ing given his first command in 1899. This was the Catalonia, and his first trip in her was to South Africa with troops during the Boer

War.

Lieut-Col.. and Mrs. D. M. Barchard, Royal Welch Fusilers,

at the annual "Bisley" Meeting of the H.KRA at Kowloon City.

FINANCIA

ORGANISATION OF

COLONIAL GOVERNMENTS

was forwarded to us by the A voluminous communique Colonial Secretariat yesterday, dealing with the proposal for the reorganisation of the financial administration (from the consulta- tive aspect) of Colonial Governments.

The salient points of this communique are printed here-

under:-

of

In a circular despatch June 10, 1932, the Secretary of His vessel was employed on the state observed that he was im- coast of

South Africa, for some pressed with the desirability of time afterwards, and eventually each Colonial Government having became a depot for Boer prisoners.

Subsequently he had command at its disposal some member of of the Lucania, the Saxonia, the Caronia, and other ships, and for a time, when she was quite new. the Mauretania.

HELP TO BURNING SHIP As captain of the Carmania in October, 1913, he was crossing the North Atlantic when he received an urgent cry for help from the 8.5. Volturno. This vessel, with 654 people on board, was on fire 80

miles away."

SUPER SCALE-POSTS

The normal field of recruitment for the higher financial staff must

class

this

of

Will them-

inevitably be the Colonial Ad- ministrative. Service, though the barred to door should never be omcers of any branch of the Ser- its staff charged with the special vice who are suitable for

of

The posta work.

selves be "super-scale" posts in the Colonial Administrative Ser- vice, and in order to secure that

All these a succession of trained personnel should be available to posts as the product of a system designed for the purpose, the officers who will assist the Finan- cial Secretary should normally be selected from members of the Administrative Service.

duty of advising the Government on all financial questions; be Financial Secretary suggested that this duty might appropriately be assigned to the Treasurer, and that desnite steps should be taken to stress that officer's. functions in this respect, and to give him adequate oppor tunity for exercising them.

The replies to that despatch in- dicated in most cases that the proposals which the Secretary of State had made were not under-

Sending out an S O S to all ships in the vicinity, he raced to the

stood to involve much, if any, Volturno and was the first to ar- rive. Some hours later he was charge in existing practice, and directing 10 vessels in the work of that the advice of the Treasurer was always sought in ragard" to rescue.

the financial aspects of Govern- Nevertheless, the ment policy. experience of the past few years, during which the Colonies have been exposed to the effects of the general depression, has created a strong impression that the ma- chinery in most Colonies for de-

A heavy gale was blowing, and face of dificulties and in the dangers that at one time seemed insurmountable 521 persons were saved. The Volturno, which was a mass of fire, then bad to be abandoned.

GIVEN that the ORDINARY GIVEN that the SEVENTYn dial by hour and minute hands YEARLY MEETING of the FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY as in an ordinary watch."

at the MEETING of the Company will Away at the other end of things Society will be held HEAD OFFICE, Union Build.be held at its HEAD OFFICE are Egyptian "shadow clocks" ing, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, Union Building, Hong Kong, "on of the tenth century B.C. and 16th APRIL, 1937 at 2.30 o'clock FRIDAY, 16th APRIL, 1937. an Egyptian water-clock of 1400 p.m., for the purpose of receiving at 2.55 p.m., for the purpose of B.C. Yet the water-clock the Report of the Directors and receiving the Report of

clepsydrs was still being made in the Statements of Account to Directors and the Statements of Britain as late as 1700, when it 31st December, 1936, and of Account to 31st December, 1936, had at least acquired the useful

and of declaring Dividend, etc. habit of indicating hours of equal of the Carmania when the Great ve'oping a sound, progressive, and declaring Dividend, etc.

*The SHARE TRANSFER length, which was not the method BOOKS. of the Company will be of its distant Egyptian fore- CLOSED from 29th MARCH to runners. 16th APRIL, Both Days incin | sivc.

The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 29th MARCH to 16th APRIL, Both Days inclu- sive.

By Order of the Board,

A. 'W. HUGHES,

General Manager:

on Sunday, 18th April, 1937, Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.

commencing at$2.00 p.m.

The First Bell will be rung

at 1.30 p.m.

By order,

S. W. CHENG,

Secretary.

R

NOTICE

$136

THE CHINA

FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LTD.

5197

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS

By Order of the Board,

A. W. HUGHES,

General Manager. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.'

Capt. Barr was still in command war broke out. At the request of the Admiralty he became a Com- mander, R.N.R., and his ship was converted into an armed merchant cruiser.

He salled in her as navigating officer and took part in the great Cap fight against the German Trafalgar. for which he received

consistent policy in the financial and economie sphere is far from being as effective as it should, and funda- can be made. It has also drawn urgent attention to the mental. importance of sound economic and financial policy as an essential basis of good govern- ment In these circumstances, it

But in Japan modern time. reckoning by equal hours did not arrive until 1870; before that change quite complicated clocks with elaborate striking arrange ments "were designed to divide

Other exciting little adventures

sideration. 5198 the periods of daylight and dark | followed, but early in 1915 he was ness each into six divisions. taken ill and had to be invalided

the C.B.

The disadvantage of dials and home. Declared unfit for further service in the RNR.. he returned shadow clocks is their dependence to the Cunard, and commanded LIGHTING ORDER

on the sun therefore we find the Mauretania, the Saxonia and AT MANOEUVRES

"nocturnals," made about 1700, the Carpathia before retiring in to ascertain the time by night October, 1918. Seyen shopkeepers were caution- ed by Mr. E. Himsworth at the from the "pointers" of the Great Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on Bear. Nevertheless, what seems ubscuring their to be the oldest mechanical clock a charge of not on the Lights

night ai the

still existing in Britain, a turret NOTICE IS HEREBY manoeuvres last month.

Mr. W. P. Thompson, A.S.P., in-clock for Salisbury Cathedral. the GIVEN that

SIXTY.

that the was made about '1986. EIGHTH ORDINARY YEAR-

police did not press the case, but In the history of time-keeping

formed His " Worship

will be held at its HEAD that Government regulations must

ECHO TO LABOUR STRIKES

It is not contemplated that officers who are posted to the financial branch of the Secretariat should be retained permanently in that capacity, or the that their experience in branch should necessarily be limited to a specified or to a single Occasio11. On the contrary, it is an essential feature of the or ganization that it should include a definite, though flexible, system of exchange between duties in the financial branch and duties of an else- administrative character where.

To sum up: an organization of the nature contemplated has :cer- tain very definite advantages as compared with the system which in most followed to-day Colonies. It provides within the central Secretariat for a trained

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has been found necessary to give staff charged with the special the whole matter further

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the

Con-

function of exercising financial and economic" control, as distinct from the subsidiary furiction of accounting for money received and spent; it ensures that the financial and economic aspects of Government branches

TO INITIATE IMPROVEMENTS

The word "Anancial" has various connotations, and it is

policy in all its necessary to emphasize that in

are kept constantly this discussion it is intended to relate to matters of policy and under expert review, and that new general control, and not to tech- proposals are not put forward", to nical questions of recounting.the Governor for approval without The essential feature of the or having been fully examined and by officers specially ganization now to be described is criticized the

in inclusion,

central equipped to advise on their finan- machinery of the administration, clal and econòmic as well as their Finally It of a financial officer fitted by political implications. training and experience to advise provides, as part of the ordinary of Government, a upon the whole, financial and machinery ment. It will be the business of this officer to indicate the mea-

cial and economic polley on proper Mr. Ormsby-Gore replied that lines; to point out weaknesses Labour Unions were legal in the where they exist; and to initiate Malpy States. He was not aware improvements." CATHEDRAL TRAGEDY of cases of expulsion simply in respect of the organisation of strikes, but some expulsions were

were misused for the purpose of dis- violence and incitement of

London, April 14. Arising out of the recent strikes la Belangor, Negri Sembilan, the Labour member, Mr. H. J. Parker der what authority the strike or-

LY. MEETING al the Company they wanted the public to know the oldest and the newest devices asked the House of Commons un-economic policy of the Govern means by which the ablest officers of the following Traffic arrange, ¦ OFFICE, Union Building, Hong be obeyed, especially as in this have overlapped curiously in theirganisers were banished from Sel-sures necessary to maintain Azan-

terests of the public.

The Public are hereby notified ments which will be caforced for Kong, on FRIDAY, 16th APRIL, case when they were in the in- respective spheres. the official embarkation at 11 1937, at 2.50 p.m., for the pur- a.m. of H.E. Sir Andrew Calde.pose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1936, and of declaring Dividends, etc.

cott, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., at Queen's Pier on Friday, the 16th April.

1. Connaught Road Central from Pedder Street to Jackson Road will be entirely closed to Vehicular Traffic from 10.30 a.m. to 11.40 a.m. (approx.).

2. Motor cars conveying guests to Queen's Pler will pro ceed by way of Jackson Road to

the Hong Kong Club where the

SNOOKER RESULTS

angor

Just as the ceremony of install-orderet where Industrial disputes

Mexico City, Apr. 14. Results of the snooker cham- plonahip played yesterday were as ing the, Very Rev. Luis. Mattinges The SHARE TRANSFER follow:-

as Archbiship of Mexico was. tak- BOOKS of the Company will be

FP. Sequeira beat W. Konging place, the noor, of the Cathed-

ral caved in. CLOSED from 29th MARCH to 135-131.

Altogether. seventy persons we 16th APRIL, Both Days Inclu Live,

By Order of the Board,

A. W. HUGHES,

General Manager.

guests will alight and walk to Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.

the Pler. Cars will be parked

in Connaught Road Central, east.

of the Hong Kong Club.

3. No parking will be per mitted in Jackson Road; Wardley Street north of the Statue, or Connaught Road Central between Queen's Pler and Star Ferry until 12 noon."

T. H. KING, Inspector General of Police. 15th April, 1937. Hong Kong:

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6187

LOCAL MAPS

Peak District,

Kowloon,

Victoria,

New Territories.

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.

order.com Reuter.

J. E. Noronha beat R. Dodge injured, and many of these aTREATY OF LOCARNO 131-130.

not, expected to live. Reuter,

KING AND QUEEN HAVE BRIEF OUTING

London April 15. The King and Queeh travelled by road from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace this morning. They will return to Windsor this afternoon

British Wireless,

SHIP-WORKERS' STRIKE

St. Nazaire, Apr. 14. Three hundred workmen on the new cruiser. George Leygues, struck, to-day, for an increase in wages, Reuter

PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL

Washington, Apr. 14 President Roosevelt has ap- proved the appointment of a joint

Philippines-American

London, April 14,

CEYLON TENNIS

in the service may acquire the experience necessary to deal effec- tively with those problems of economics and finance which con- front us-to-day, and which will in- creasingly demand the best that the Service can give

RADIO HOCKEY VICTORY

Malayan Champion victory over the C.B.A. by a score

as regards of India.

Beaten

The Radio won an unexpected,

of 1-nil in a hockey match played. at the US.R.C. ground yesterday. The winning goal was scored by, Awtar Singh about twenty minutes after the commencement of the game.

The CBA team commenced a counter-attack during the second

H. C. Sansoni, who visited Malaya last August and annexed Am Majesty's Government are the men's open singles title, was stul sound by the first paragraph beaten in the Ceylon champion- of Section Three of the text of ships at Newara Eliya 6-2, 6—2. proposals of March 19. 1938 by 6-1 in a semi-final by Y.R. Bavur halt, forcing seven short corners, which they declared,

but were unsuccessful in their their obligations to France and

Bavur went on to win the Ceylon attempts. S. Fowler sent a hard shot that nearly enabled his side Belgium, that nothing that had title the next day from N. Krish- Committee happened before or since the breach

as a result of the blockade. of the Treaty of Locarno, could be nasamy, a fellow Indian who had to equalise the score, but was

two years, by 6-2, 6-3, 7-5.

few minutes later 6. Fowler again considered as having freed the held the Ceylon title for the last stopped by Clarke who was hurt Miss D. Bansont, ladies singles delivered a stroke that had the signatories of that Treaty from any of their obligatións, or guaran- tees and that the latter subsisted champion of Malaya, lost her mix-goalkeeper beaten. At this point ed doubles title, which she bad Hussain played cleverly and clear- in their entirety."

held with OML. Pinto for the pasted. Ave years.

to study the economic relations or the two Governments preparatory to the termination of preferentia: trade treatment. Reuter.

ROYAL DELEGATE ARRIVES London, April 14.The Sultan of Pahang Federated Malay States, arrived in London to-day to attend the Coronation British Wirden.

This statement was made by the Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons in answer to a member who enquired if Britain were still bound by the Locarno Treaty in view of Germany's denunciation and Belgium's approaching release from its obligationi

British Wireles

A

The fast fifteen minutes w Miss Sansoni was defending her C.B.A. pressing strongly with great singles title against Miss Wood hope, and the Radio were bottled bridge of India but the game, was in their own half, and although Interrupted by rain and had to be the CB.A had most of the play!

The next match had been tent mer Malacca player, won postponed. D. M. Dando, the for- they could not and the net,

veterans singles title..

tively arranged for April 25.

the