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IN THE SUPREME "COURT OF HONG

KONG.

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PROBATE JURISDICTION

IN THE GOOD'S ol HAROLD BEVINGTON FOSTER, late of 74, Chester Square, Saint Peters, Eaton Square, in the County of Middlesex, in the United Kingdoni, deceased. ·

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BUNG KONG, MAY 15, 1937.

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Minorities are fashionable.

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NAVY'S NEED OF A MALAYAN REVIEW

STRONGER R.N.R.

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." be 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

Abyssinian crisis, and immediately more than a hundred officers of the Royal Naval Reserve came for- ward to help.

Governor On Advertising

A Three-Fold warning to British traders in Singapore was give 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 Railway station at Tanjong Pager in January that yeur.. 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 literature 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."

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Malaya's Coronation Contingent"

over, the post-Versailles world they have popped up like mush- coouis To-day, flaunting their grievances and their disabilities, they excite in us both pity and alarm. Experts in agrarian re form, connoisseurs of proportion- their al representation, study with avidity; nor are the folk-

far song merchants

behind. Tyranny is often imputed to their rulers, and the intentious of neighbouring dictators are assum- ed to be strictly dishonourable. Geneva celoes "with their woes. appeal to your for them. And 1 appeared in one of the aircraft Journals, 'A young man's fancy,

Malaya's Coronation contingent, now in England includes repre- sentatives of the Malay Regiment. The regiment, commanded and created by Colonel G. Mel. S. Bruce, was formed three years ago, and. "We have needed you during this from small beginnings has gone from strength to strength. It has difficult period of naval expansion. already had its first experience of something akin to active service in the recent Chinese strikes in Malayn. The regiment did excellent We needed at once a number of

work in guarding mines and rubber estates in difficult circumstances. trained executive officers, we had,

The Malay Regiment has no dificulty in finding recruits. The not the time to train them our-picturesque undress uniform melts the Malayan female heart. selves. At once we were able to Moreover, the regiment has the backing of the vernacular find nearly 100 such

it wus believed

hitherto

ters and others to send in their ADVERTISEMENTS.] ADVERTISEMENTS erroneously, alus -- that

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

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

The Filth Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Satur- day, 15th and Monday, 17th Hong Kong. May, 1937, commencing at 2.00 5272 pm. on Saturday and at 12.30

p.m. on Monday.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION

IN THE GOODS of FRANCES MARGARET BOIS, late of **Taikoo "

Belstone, near Okehampton

CHINA UNDERWRITERS,

LIMITED. (lacorporated in Hong Kong)

NOTICE is hereby given that the Thirteenth Annual Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of China Underwriters, Limited, will be held at the Offices of the Company, 4A, Des Voeux Road The First Bell will be rung at Central, Hong Kong, on Thurs 1.30 p.m. and at 12 o'clock Noonday, the 20th day of May, 1937, respectively.

By Order,...

C. "B. BROWN,

Hong Kong, 10th May, 1937.

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Great

Britain" had escaped the embar- rassing, responsibility of fostering minority of the kind referred to. In this country people have always been divided by the shades of their opinions and, lutely, of their shirts. But it ind not appeared that our shores Harboured a section of the com-

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available in your ranks.

officers Malay Press.

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"We shall want more officers to Air Tuition In Penang All their places in the Reserve. 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? Will the taking of the Reserve for the Royal Navy immobilise the Mer chant Navy?

FEWER SEAMEN

This is an age when, to employ a misquotation which recently-

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 flying 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 a 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 flourishing at. Kai Tak

Healthiest City In Asia"

speech on the 'adjournment. Referring to the annual report of the Secretary

"The drst 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.

"I am not going to attempt to unity separated from its fellows dogmatise on a subject that is by that most radical of all diver- much more complicated than it gences, colour bar. The appears. I will only say that as ominous fact leaked out not long to the second question, the general body of expert opinion takes the ago in Qur correspondence view that the Merchant Navy columns. Signing himself would certainly not be immobilised at noon for the purpose of recely, Deuteranope (for such is the by the calltag up of the R.N.R. ing the Report of the Board of forbidding nale applied by Directors and a Statement of science to men afflicted in this Accounts for the year ended 31st way), a reador wrote to complain' December, 1936, and of electing that, being unable to distinguish with certainty between red, green, and brown, he had the greatest difficulty in telling halfpenny stump from one three times its value. He claimed that he was far from being alone in this; and his letter was imme- diately followed by others from fellow-sufferers, enlarging scop of their grievances and revealing the formidable, numeri- cal strength of the Deuteranopes. 5256

There are, it seems, a million of them an unus country; and a

Directors and Auditors.

The Transfer Books and Re gister of "Members of the Com pany will be closed from the 12th May, 1937, to the 20th May,

in the County of Devon, in THE CANTON INSURANCE 1937, both days inclusive.

the United Kingdom, Widow, 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 on order limiting the time for credi itors and others to send in their 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 er belare that date.

DEACONS,

Solicitors for the Executor,

I, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

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PROBATE JURISDICTION

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

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

limiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to 6th June, 1937

OFFICE, LTD.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS.

By Order of the Board of Directors, HERBERT R. STURT,

Managing Director.

The Filty Sixth Ordinary Hong Kong, 7th May, 1937. (ieneral Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on 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.

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

"We in Singapore, are in 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 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 typhold 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 son for the falling-off of recruit-reduce, but Dr. Hunter is pegging away at it, and I want every Com- ment for the sea, it shows the missioner to assure him that we are going to do our very best to sup- great need for improvements at

port him. sea keeping pace with conditions on shore.

"No doubt the shipping slump has adversely affected them. It this is so, the shipping recovery ought to expand them. No doubt, also, shore conditions of work have thegreatly improved. If this is a rea-

2211100 Protonopes 45 well.

But be this as it may, I can assure you that neither the Board Trade for the Admiralty s

OFFICIAL VISIT Ley are an, or very nearly all, of ring this vital problem.

ENDING

Chinese Delegates Haye Busy Time

State Ball at Buckingham Palace

Sartoriai

men. Women, füsly for their

"You can rely on the Govern- reputations, are viment to see that the vital problem dally mune and can tell red of effectively manning the Navy 10m green at a glance.) But and the Merchant Navy receives the minority, even without any this inquiry the urgent atten- women in it, is a most disturbing tion that it deserves." phenomenoù. it would not be

so bad the relevant colours

Moneylending Judgment

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.R.MS. Sittambaram Chettiar and 8.M.B. 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 polat 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 $66,000,000.

The following is 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. (appellants) and the chargees (respondents) ought to be re-opened whatsoever arising on and from June 18, 1927, between the chargers and set aside and that the chargors ought to be relieved from pay- tent of any sums in excess of the surns actually advanced by the chargees to the chargors and interest thereon at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum, simple interest, and if any such excess has been paid by the chargors the chargees ought to repay the sum to the

chargors:-"

&

London, May 14. The official visit of the Chinese were blue and yellow. It would one from the other, to a million JARDINE, MATHESON & delegates closes to-morrow in a

of His Majesty's subjects? Why but be so bad if they were any- .blaze of glory. To-night Di CO., LTD.

Kung and Admiral Chen, Shao-ing other than they are. Red equip railway guards with flags which to five Englishmen in General Agents. kuan will attend Mr. Eden's State and green, us one writer points Hong Kong, 27th April, 1937. dinner to the delegates, diplomats out, are vital colours to those who every hundred convey absolutely 590 and Cabinet members at Downing drive Cars or navigate ships. no message at all? How can Street and then they go to the Why this should be so nobody recruiting hope to prosper when where Dr. Kung conducts the au suy." is green (the colour of every twentieth recruit is in Duchess of Norfolk in the Royal joulouay, of the jungle, and of capable of telling whether the HONG KONG TO POOCHOW procession to supper at midnight many other disagreeable things colours to which he is being Dr. Kung. Admiral Chen with any more reassuring than blue? called are red, white, and blue.

Or red more balefully admonitory or green, white, and blue?

The situation is delicate and ceived by the King at Buckingham than yellow? These theses can

uf hand: Palace to say farewell

hardly be upheld, it is clear that may easily get out Numerous entertainments are red and green owe their eminence The authorities, lethargic as ever, leave. Mr. Howell will be accompanied by his wife, who it is under- still remaining. Cununie Owen lunches with Dr.

On Sunday Sir to causes arbitrary or accidental. have as yet ollered Kung at his house in Sunningdale. Such being the case, it is all too smallest Other arrangements include lunch easy to imagine the resentment with the Chartered Bank. lunch of the Deutersnopes.

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

will become effective as from 1st

AUGUST, 1937.

Full details of revised tariff All Creditors and others are ac-rates will be obtainable at the cordingly hereby required to send Offices of the undersigned.

to-morrow.

other foreign delegates were re-

with the United Committee Christian Universities, dinner with

The

financial experts

accom-

Officials On Leave

Many Singapore Government officials are going away on long leave very soon. The Colonial Secretary (Mr. A. 8. Small) will be.. proceeding on leave at the end of July. Mr. C. O. Howell (Attorney- General) and Mr. J. A. Hunter (Under-Secretary, are also going on stood has not been in good health of late, and opportunity will be concession to the taken of the leave to consult medical authorities abroad. Mc. Deuteranopes,

and feeling" is Howell was formerly Legal Adviser, at Kuala Lumpur, where he went Other running high among a class of from British Guinea about 2 years ago. Mr. Hunter will join his. wife at Monte Carlo, and will spend his leave in England and the

not the

1815.

of minorities assert their right to people who, since they have as u Continent. ance No. 2 of 1897 made an order present Transhipment cargo rates 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 Gallipoli landing on April 25. the Admiralty. Dr. Kung probably that the Deutersnopes, mutatis much longer, these unfortunates was not attend.

inatandis" and when the time is will be goaded beyond endurance. panying the delegation are now ripe, will do the same. To them The day will come when" they BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. working hard preparing a state-it must appear that the regime will see red for green, of course); DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP ment of the Chinese financial under which they live goes out and we shall have then, in

CO., LTD. position. No early conclusion must

Bryceson. be expected. Reports that China of its way to persecute them. Marvell's words, annihilating The poet's 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 denominain Deuteranopian circumstances Trinity Church, Eltham, Kent. anything concrete emerges.-.-

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

their claims to the undersigned on

or before that date.

DEACONS,

Solicitors for the Executor,

1, Des Voeux Road Central,

5274

Hong Kong

Hong Kong, 11th May, 1937.

5275 Reuter.

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TO CHURCH

Forty old soldiers of the Gallant Twenty-ninth, who had saved up for a year to make the motor-coach Journey from Sheffield, attended Gallipoli heroes memorial service

The congregation of 1,000 also Included representatives of the French and Italian Embassies, re- presentatives of Newfoundland and New Zealand. Lord and Lady Flender and Sir Arthur and Lady

The sermon was preached by the Rev. HA.. Hall, -vicar; of Holy Trinity, who, as divisional chaplain. to the 29th Division, landed with. the troops.