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In Accordance with Govern- *ment Ordinance, the EX, CHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the transaction of Public Business on MONDAY, the 17th May, 1937. (Whit Monday).

Hong Kong, 14th May, 1937.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

5285

PROBATE JURISDICTION

IN THE GOODS 61 BEVINGTON HAROLD FOSTER, late of 74, Chester Square, Saint Peters, Eaton Square, in the County of Middlesex, in the United; Kingdom, 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‹

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tors and others to send in their ADVERTISEMENTS. claims against the above estate to

6th June, 1937.

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 Executors,

1, Des Voeux Road Central Hong Kong.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG

KONG

5272

PROBATE JURISDICTION

IN THE GOODS of FRANCES MARGARET BOIS, Late of "Taikoo "

Belstone, near Okehampton

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

The Fifth Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting)

Editorial and Business Office:

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15-19, Queen's Road Central. STRONGER R.N.R.

Tel. 30251.

Night Editor (Wanchal Office):

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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, MAY 15. 1937.

RED-GREEN

Minorities are fashionable. All over the post-Versailles world they have popped up like mush- rooms. To-day, auting their grievances and their disabilities, they excite in us both pity and alurin. Experts in agrarian re- form, connoisseurs of proportion- al representation, study them with avidity; nor are the folk- behind. song merchants far Tyranny is often imputed to their rulers, and the intentious of neighbouring dictators are ussUID- ed to be strictly dishonourable. Geneva echoes with their woes. It was believed hitherto ADVERTISEMENTS erroneously, alas that Great Britain had escaped the embar- rassing responsibility of fostering a iuinority of the kind referred to. In this country people have always been divided by the shades of their opinious and Tately, of their shirts. But it had not appeared that our shores

CHINA UNDERWRITERS,

LIMITED. (Incorporated in Hong Kong)

NOTICE is hereby given that

at HAPPY VALLEY on Satur, į the Thirteenth Annual Ordinary | narboured a section of the com-

'By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

First Lord Appeals For More Men

Sir Samuel Hoare. (First Lord of the Admiralty), speaking at the annual dinner of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners, at the Mansion House, said he was there as Minister for the Navy of Defence to pay a tribute to the Navy of Supply.

"To-day," he continued, "once more when the clouds around us seem dark and uncertain, the Navy.

of Defence needs you of the Navy of Supply. We needed you in the Abysshian crisis, and immediately more than a hundred officers of the Royal Naval Reserve came for- ward to help.

"We have needed you during this difficult period of naval expansion. We needed at once a number of trained executive officers, we had not the time to train them our- selves. At once we were able to find nearly a 100 such officers available in your ranks.

"We shall want more officers to All their places in the Reserve. I appeal to your for them. And I appeal to you to give us ratings as well.

"The shipping slump of recent years, and the diminution of our

seafaring population have inevit- ably made us ask two questions. Is

there now a sufficient Reserve for the needs of the Royal Navy? WIE the taking of the Reserve for the Royal Navy Immobilise the Mer- chant Navy?

"I am not going to attempt to

Governor On Advertising

A Three-Fold warning to British traders in Singapore was given by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Shenton Thomas, when he open. ed the sixth annual British Trade Fair in Singapore.

He stressed the competitive nature of the trade in a free port like Singapore and urged that traders should keep up to date; urged. up-to-date and extensive advertising; and called for keener salesman- ship.

The 1937 display emphasises the great strides that have been made since the first Trade Fair was held in 1932. That display was prompted by the success of the exhibition which had been held in the new Rallway station at Tanjong Pager in January that year.

Speaking of the need for advertising. the Governor said:-"An- other point which I would stress is the need for up-to-date and extensive advertising. A generous provision of advertising Biterature and catalogues is essential. Where the introduction of a new line will be assisted by the distribution of free samples, let the supply of those samples be liberal This Fair gives a particularly suitable op- portunity for practising this form of advertising."

Malaya's Coronation Contingent

Malaya's Coronation contingent, now in England includes repré sentatives of the Malay Regiment. The regiment, commanded and created by Colonel G. McI. S. Bruce, was formed three years ago, and. from small beginnings has gone from strength to strength. It has already had its first experience of something akin to active service in the recent Chinese strikes.in Malaya. The regiment did excellent work in guarding mines and rubber estates in difficult circumstances. The Malay Regiment has no difficulty in finding recruits. picturesque undress uniform melts the Malayan female heart.

Moreover, the regiment has the backing of the vernacular Malay Press.

Air Tuition In Penang

The.

"This is an age when, to employ a misquotation which recently- appeared in one of the aircraft Journals, 'A young man's fancy, lightly turns to thoughts above." In this Club we are glad to say our lady members are imbued with the same spirit. I refrain from draw- ing an analogy from the hand that rocks the cradle. "To the younger men a Flying Club such as this provides a unique opportunity to train in dying under ideal conditions with expert tuition and at a cost which, thanks to the generous Government subsidies, is lower than in any other part of the British Empire. "There is so much in the game of flying, not only from the point of view of commercial utility and Empire defence training, or regarded purely as a sport,

that it is worth little sacrifice in other directions to devote time-

and money to flying training."

The above is an extract from the "call to the air" delivered by Mr. H. E. Nixon, President of the Penang Flying Club, when he pre- sided at the annual general meeting of the Club, recently.

It is perhaps of interest to note that Hong Kong once had a Flying Club several years ago but it is now defunct.. In its stead there is the Far East Flying Training School which is nourishing at. Kel Tak.

would certainly not be immobilisedHealthiest City In Asia" by the calling up of the B.N.R.

FEWER SEAMEN

"The first question seems to me to lead to another. Is the diminu- tion in the seafaring population going to deprive the Navy of es- sential reinforcement in time of war? I will say at once, I am not happy about the numbers of the seafaring population.

day, 15th and Monday, 17th General Meeting of Shareholders unity separated from its fellows dogmatise on a subject that 13 May, 1937, commencing at 2.001 of China Underwriters, Limited, by that most radical of all diver- much more complicated than it pm, on Saturday and at 12.30 will be held at the Offices of the gences, Li colour bar. The appears. I will only say that as Company, 4A, Des Voeux Road ominous fact leaked out not long body of expert opinion takes the to the second question, the general p.m. on Monday.

The First Bell will be rung at Central, Hong Kong, on Thurs ago in our .correspondence view that the Merchant Navy 1.30 p.m. and at 12 o'clock Noon day, the 20th day of May, 1937, column. Signing himself respectively.

at noon for the purpose of receiv Deuteranope" (for such is the ing the Report of the Board of Forbidding DRIC applied by Directors and a Statement of science to men afflicted in this Accounts for the year ended 31st¦ way), & reader wrote to complain December, 1936, and of electing that, being unable to distinguish Directors and Auditors.

with certainty between red, The Transfer Books and Re. groen, and brown, be bad the gister of Members of the Com-greatest difficulty in telling a pany will be closed from the 12th halfpenny stamp from one three May, 1937, to the 20th May, tince its value. He claimed that 1937, both days inclusive. lie was far from being alone in By Order of the Board of this; and his letter was imme-

Directors,

diately followed by others front fellow-sufferers, enlarging the HERBERT R. STURT,

scope of their grievancēs and Managing Director.

revealing the formidable numeri- cal strength of the Deuteranopes.

Hong Kong, 10th May, 1937.

5259

in the County of Devon, in THE CANTON INSURANCE the United Kingdom, Widow, deceased.

NOTICE is hereby given that. the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Or

OFFICE, LTD.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS.

The Fifty-Sixth Ordinary Hong Kong, 7th May, 1937. dinance No. 2 of 1897 made an General Meeting of Shareholders order limiting the time for credi-will be held at the Offices of the tors and others to send in their undersigned

claims against the above estate

to 6th June, 1937.

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,

5273

оп

Tuesday, the 18th May, 1937, at Noon, for

the purpose

of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1936.

The Share Register and Trans. ter Books will be closed from the 4th to the 18th May, 1937, both

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OFFICIAL VISIT ENDING

Chinese Delegates Haye Busy Time

kuan will attend Mr. Eden's State

men.

"No doubt the shipping slump has adversely affected them. I this is so the shipping recovery

ought to expand them. No doubt, also, shore conditions of work have greatly improved. If this is a rea- son for the falilng-off of recruit- ment for the sex, it shows the great need for improvements at sen keeping pace with conditions on shore.

"We in Singapore are la the proud and very fortunate position of being in one of the healthiest cities, if not the healthiest city, in Asia." Thus said Mr. G. Parbury at the meeting of the Municipal Commissioners, in" paying tribute to the local health authorities, in a speech on the adjournment. Referring to the annual report of the Health Department which was tabled, Mr. Parbury mentioned that it had entailed a great deal of work. "We take a great pride in our... health, and this report. put up by Dr. Hunter and his assistant, is well worth reading; not only by Commissioners but the public generally," said Mr. Parbury. "Health has been very good, but it' can be improved. There are two or three heads under which we can. improve it. The greatest trouble we have is tuberculosis, and in a. lesser degree. typhoid. "Both are preventible things to a great extent. TB is brought about by overcrowding, and typhoid is brought about by insanitary foods. "Another thing is that it is the custom of this country to eat from hawkers' barrels, and hawkers' stalls, and that is a thing which will be very difficult to eradicate or even to reduce, but Dr. Hunter is pegging away at it, and I want every Com- missioner to assure him that we are going to do our very best to sup pórt him.

"But be this as it may. I can Moneylending Judgment

assure you that neither the Board of Trade nor the Admiralty ignoring this vital problem.

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here are, I seelus, a willion of them in this coury; and u milion frotuuopes

as well. Ley are an, or very nearly all, AQUIER, Tuckily for their

"You can rely on the Govern- Sürtoriat reputations, ure

vir.

ment to see that the vital problem: ally шRU apu can tell red

of effectively manning the Navy nom green l

A glance.) But and the Merchant Navy receives the minority, even without any

in this inquiry the, urgent atten-, women in 11, is it most disturbing on that it deserves." phenomenon. It would not be

which

London, May 14. BO bud 11 the relevent colours 1, Des Voeux Road Central,days Inclusive.

The official visit of the Chlaese

were blue and yellow. It would one froin the other, to a million Hong Kong.

JARDINE, MATHESON & delegates closes to-morrow in a

not be so bad if they were any-of His Majesty's subjects? Why blaze of glory, To-night Dr.

Red equip railway guards with flags CO., LTD.

Kung and Admiral Chen Shaothing other than they are.

to five Englishmen in and green, as one writer points General Agents. Hong Kong, 27th April, 1937. dinner to the delegates, diplomats out, are vital colours to those who every hundred convey absolutely

5220 and Cabinet members at Downing

or navigate ships. no message at all? How can Street and then they go to the Why this aliould be so, nobody recruiting hope to prosper when State Ball at Buckingham Palace where Dr. Kung conducts the can say. Is green (the colour of every twentieth recruit is in- Duchess of Norfolk in the Royal jealousy, of the jungle, and of capable of telling whether the colours to which he is being

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION

IN THE GOODS of ELLA MARY RAMSEY, late of Swatow in the Republic of China, Widow, deceased.

drive

cars

An important judgment of the full Court of Appeal which sat in Johore Bahru last month was read in the Supreme Court by Mr. Jus- tice L. V. J. Laville. It is of considerable concern to the Chettiar Community and other kinds of moneylenders in general. The case arose out of an application by S.RMS, Sittambaram Chettiar and SMS. Sinniah Chettiar of Johore Bahru, to sell certain land in Kulai ". belonging to Mr. Loo Thon Poo and his wife, Madame Puan Ying of Singapore.

The point at issue was whether the interest charged was ex- cessive and also whether the transaction was substantially unfair. The amount involved in in the neighbourhood of 586,000,000.

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The following la part of the judgment of their lordships regard- ing their decision:-"We allow this appeal and set aside the order

of the trial judge and declare that all the transactions and accounts whatsoever arising on and from June 18, 1927. between the chargors (appellants) and the chargees (respondents) ought to be re-opened and set aside and that the chargers ought to be relieved from pay- ment. of any aums in excess of the sums actually advanced by the chargees to the chargers and interest thereon at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum, simple interest, and if any such excess has been pald by the chargors the chargees ought to repay the sum to the

chargors:-

HONG KONG TO FOOCHOW procession to supper at midnight many other disagreeable things called are red, white, and blue, Officials On Leave

FREIGHT RATES FOREIGN & CHINESE

SHIPPERS.

Notice is hereby given that as from 1st JUNE, 1937, rates of freight from Hong Kong to Foo. chow will be increased 20 per cent, over current rates.

An increase of 20 per cent. on

NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Ordin. ance No. 2 of 1897 made an order Limiting the time for creditors and present Transhipment cargo rates others to send in their clatins will become effective as from 1st

AUGUST, 1937. against the above estate to 6th June, 1937.4

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

5274

to-morrow.

with the United Committee Christian Universities, dinner with

not the

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Many Singapore Government officials are going away on big leave very soon. The Colonial Secretary. (Mr. A. 8. Small) will be proceeding on leave at the end of July. Mr. C. G. Howell (Attorney- General) and Mr. J. A. Hunter (Under-Secretary, are also going on leave. Mr. Howell will be accompanied by his wife, who it is under- stood has not been in good health of late, and opportunity will be taken of the leave to consult medical authorities abroad. Mr. Howell was formerly Legal Adviser at Kuala Lumpur, where he went from British Guinea about 21 years ago. Mr. Hunter will join his wife at Monte Carlo, and will spend his leave in England and the Continent,

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any more reassuring than blue? Dr. Kung. Admiral Chen with Or red more balefully admonitory or green, white, and blue? other foreign delegates were re-

The situation is delicate and ceived by the King at Buckinghamthan "yellow? These theses can Palace to say farewell.

hardly be upheld; it is clear that may easily get out of hand. Numerous entertainments are red and green owe their eminence The authorities, lethargic us ever, still remaining.

yet offered On Sunday Sir to causes arbitrary or accidental. have as Cunliffe Owe lunches with Dr.

concession to the Kung at his house in Sunningdale. Such being the case, it is all too smallest

and feeling in Other arrangements include lunch easy to imagine the resentment Deuteranopes, with the Chartered Bank, lunch of the Deuteranopes.

Other running high among a class of of minorities assert their right to people who, since they have as a China Association Committee and their own language, often de- body no constitutional rights or facing proclamations written in status, are inevitably driven to Federation of British Industries.

Admiral Chen Shao-kuan at-words which mean nothing to underground and terrorist acti- tends the naval review as guest of them; and it cannot be doubted vity. If things go on like this SAVED A YEAR TO GO the Gallipoll landing on April 25, the Admiralty, Dr. Kung probably that the Deuteranopes, mutatis much longer, "these unfortunates rates will be obtainable at the will not attend. Offices of the undersigned. : The financial experts accom-mutandia" and when the time is will be goaded beyond endurance. panying the delegation arc now ripe, will do the same. To them The day will come when they

Forty old soldiers of the Gallant BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE working hard preparing a state-it must appear that the regime will see red (or green, of course); DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP ment of the Chinese

under which they live goes out and we shall have them, in Twenty-ninth, who had saved up for a year to make the motor-coach CO., LTD. position. No early conclusion must

be expected. Reports that China of its way to persecute them. Marvell's words, "annihilating journey from Sheffield, attended The poet's Gallipoli herous memorial service JARDINE, MATHESON & proposed this and that can be Why else does His Majesty's all that's made."

CO., LTD. emphatically disregarded. Many Post Office issue stamps of which next line, it will be recalled, has held annually since 1917 at Holy

preliminaries are necessary before two of the commonest denomina- in Deuteranopian circumstances Trinity Church, Eltham, Kent. Hong Kong, 11th May, 1937.

anything concrete emerges.→→

The forty men were all present at tions are indistinguishable, the a most sinister ambiguity.

Full details of revised tariff

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5275 Reuter.

financial

TO CHURCH

1915.

The congregation of 1,000 also included representatives of the French and Italian Embazales, re- presentatives of Newfoundland and New Zealand, Lord and Lady Plender and Sir Arthur and Lady Bryceson,

Rev. H. A Hall, vicar of, Holy The sermon was preached by the

Trinity, who, as divisional chaplaiz to the 29th Division, landed with the troops.

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