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THE SERVICES

By the Air Mail. London, Oct. 231

ROYAL NAVY

ages to Singapore for himself and back to England under the usual DUTY IN SPANISH WATERS

conditions. Tue duties of the The 5th Destroyer Flotilla, un-charge engineer age not connected der the command of Captain L. y." with the discipline or organization Morgan, C.BE, M.V.O., D.S.C., In

but wth mantaining and run H.M.S. Exmouth, has left Portland ning at maximum efficiency all the for duty in Spanish waters. The power and plant. A sound flotilla is as ful; strength except

technical knowledge of the techni- for the Encounter. The Electra que and skill in diagnosing faults and Escort have gone to Northern

and carrying "out repairs arc Spain, the other six vessels to

estential. Applications must reach Gibraltar

the Secretary of the Admiralty (C.E. branch) not lated than De- cember 1.

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They will relleve the 6th Des- troyer Flotia under Captain V. H.Danckwerts, C.M.G.. sisting of HMS. Kelth and des- troyers of the "F" class. The Fearless and Foxhound which have been on duty off Northern Spain. will leave for England 'The rest of the flotilla will pro-

bably leave for Gibraltar.

RETURN OF THE DESPATCH H.MS. Despatch. Captain F. L. S. King, M.V.O.. will leave Malta on November 24 for Portsmouth, where she is due on December 1 to reduce to reserve. Her place

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as flagship of Rear-Admiral Wells, DS.O.. commanding 3rd Cruiser Squadron. I! taken by the Arethusa, Captain P. L. Vian which recommissions next month after a rofit at Chat- ham. CHARGE ENGINEER, SINGAPORE

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A vacancy exists for a retired naval oficer, on a civilian hasis. as charge engineer for the main- tenance of wireless apparatus the naval wireless station. Sin- sapore. The salary is £300 a year, In addition to retired pay, and colonial allowance is payable. The ficer will be granted free pass-

YOUNG SHROFF, IN TROUBLE

by

Serious charges of larceny servant of 6,400, possession of four forged $200 Hong Kong

and- Shanghai Bank notes and conspl- racy were preferred against Tam Wal-ming. 22, shrott, when he ap- peared before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy yesterday.

A week's formal remand was

THE ARMY

V.C. GENERAL MEETS HIS

OLD CORPORAL Immediately after the Trooping of the Colour ceremony by the Royal Marines Plymouth Division recently in commemoration of the Rattle of Trafalgar, sixty-one- year-old ex-Corporal Charles Har- ries stepped up to. the saluting base and shook hands with Gene- ral Sir Lewis Halliday.

Mr. Harries, a native of Carmar- then, served under the General. then Captain Halliday, during the Boxer rising in China.

Captain and corporal had not met for thirty-five years, and on Oct 21 as General and unemployed tram driver they stood chatting for several minutes of how they had tared in the meantime.

The 'Boxer rising had brought the captain the Victoria Cross. which heralded a brilliant career in the Royal Marines, but to the corporal it had brought only a bullet wound that resulted in his being invalided from the Servicc.

BANKRUPTCY COURT

The public examination in bank- ruptcy of V.A. Neves, whose total amount of labilites amounted to $3.096.90 was ordered to be closed by the Chief Justice Sir Atholl MacGregor, at the Bankruptcy Court yesterday. Mr. J.B. Prentis Official Receiver, was present.

granted on the application of sub- Inspector L. R. Whant.

-HONG KONG WHOLESALE

PRICES

Index Numbers of Wholesale Prices in the Colony of Hong Kong for the third quarter of 1937 as compared with the corresponding periods of 1935 and 1935, and the full years 1935 and 1935.

(Based on declarations of quantities and values furnished to the Statistical Office of the Imports and Exports Department by Mong Kong importers and exporters).

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1922-100

Miscellaneous Articles

3rd Qr. 3rd Qr. 3rd Qr. 1935 1930 1935 1936 1937 B$.4 113.3 81.4 113.1, 138.5 74.2 09.4 05.4 106.1

120.8 70.8 107.2 75.1 108.4 155.4' 72.3 92.5 60.2 91.2 130.4

Average

77 103.1 726 104.7

136.3

Textiles

Foodstuffs

Metals and Minerals

Fruits, Fresh

Mutton

Onions

Potatoes

Foultry

Rice (Broken)

Rice (White)

INDIVIDUAL AVERAGËS

128.0 181.1.143.2 146.3

FOODSTUFFS

Beans

Beet

Eggs

Flour (Wheat)

Salt Fish

Lard

Milk. Condensed

3rd Qr: 3rd Qr. 3rd ár. 1935 1935 1935

1936 1937 78,7 121.4 67.8 130.1 141,9 165.6 73.6 93.0 76.0 .93.3 118.7 66.3 104.4 62.2 106.0 143.4 113.9 97.5 104.7 98.3 121.7 201.5 256.2 214.1 291.2 315.7 82.7 113.2 75.9 116.1 153.3 111.4 109.5.107.6 107.8 116.5.

116.7 172.7 116.7, 175.8

192.4

48.8 04.4

28.3

.57.0

70.1

Peanut Oll

-84.7 131.3 72.7

138.1

155.6

Pork

77.3

07.3 70.0

95.8

171.8

60.4

88.0 52.8

72.5

88.1

92.2 85.9 90.4

Sugar (Raw)

Vegetables (Dried, etc.). Vermicell

68.6 103.0 €0.9 113.1 71.4 106.3 06.5 -112.1 43.3 ·71.8 41.3 69.6

97.0 40.6 55.5 35.8 52.7 51.5 63.3 84.7 00.0 84.0 134.3 TEXTILES

83.2 139.7 137.1 120.8

77.1 105.0 69.2 109.5 129.6 57.2 60.9 56.3 55.1 81.2 $9.2 47.8 88.9 115.2 50.3-33.6 40.4 67.4 140.0 55,6 143.5 147.8 1978 115.8 211.1

42.2 96.0 47.5 173.8 50.5. 55.4 68.9 51.8 73.3 56.2 19.8 20.5 14.7 20.6 27.3 78.1 104.6 78.1 111.4 122.5 203.6 216.2 173.0 169.6 278.0 .61.5 41.1 69.3 92.8

66.8 207.9 220.0

Cotton Yarn

Cotton (Dyed Plain)... Italians (Dyed Figured, Plain)... 57.3 Shirtings. (White 40/43 Yards)... 38.9 Hemp.(Manila)

Gunny Bags

Hessian Cloth

Silk Piece Goods

Silk Yarn (Artificial)

Blankets (Wool and Unian)

Flannels

Brass Sheets

Yellow Metal Sheathing Coal

Iron and Steel Bars........... Iron and Steel Nails

Suitings and Tweeds (Woollen)... 44.3

METALS AND MINERALS

07,2 86.1 57.2 90.9

171.7 73.5 103,9 64.0 104.0 160.8 73.I 85.0 $5.4 85.4 105.2 78.9 108.4 78.1 113.8 185.3 82.6 86.4 53.3 84.0 156.0 113.4 175.0 96.1 181.4

250,1 76.5 148.0 82.3 141.8 209.6 29.7 40.8 23.8 41.0 54.5* 128.5 148.4 141.4 165.8 176.A 69.4 70.8 64.8 70.9 70.5 19.8 33.4 17:2 33.3 40.7 168.0 200.1 157.7 198.2 282,0

Iron and Steel Plates

Lead (Pig).

Kerosene

Oll Fuel

Lubricating Oil

Petrol-

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 1937.

UNIVERSITY TEA PARTY

THIS AFTERNOON

WELCOME TO H.E, THE CHANCELLOR AND MR. D.J. SLOSS

FAREWELL TO SER WILLIAM HORNELL

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The Hong Kong University Union are holding a tea party in the Great Hall this afternoon at 4.30 pm. to welcome His Excellency the Chancellor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, K. C. M. G. and the new Chancellor, Mr. D. J. Sloss, CBE., MA, and to bid farewell to Sir Vice- William Horne. Kt.. C.I.E., LL.D., M.A.

SIR W. HORNELL

One Of Most Popular Vice-Chancellors

Mr. William Woodward Hornell, as he was when he stepped off the S.S. Takada on February 12, 1924 to has been one of the most popular assume the Vice-Chancellorship.

his activities have been generously men to fill the University post and given to many other bodies.

was

A son of the late Mr. Robert Hornell, Barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple, Sir William Trinity College. Oxford, entering educated at Radley School and

the Indian Educational Service in 1901. There, he was Professor of Calculta: Inspector of European English at Presidency College,

Schools at Bengal; Assistant Director of Public Instruction, Bengal, from 1906 to 1908.

Sir William Hornell

In that year he resigned the Service and went to the Board of Education at Whitehall as Assis- tant Director of Special Enquiries and Reports for two years when he became Secretary of the, Im- perial Education Conference. In 1013 he rejoined the Indian Edu- cation Conference. . In 1913 he re- Joined the Indian Educational Service as Director of Public In- struction which post he vacated to come to Hong Kong. From 1917 he was for two years a member of the Calcutta University Commis- sion and in 1918 the award of the CLE. recognised his services in the Indian Empire.

FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS

The following forthcoming wed- dings are announced:-

Mr. James Albert Kitchener Wilkinson, assistant sales manager of Bosco Radio Corporation, resid- Ing at No 420 Hennessy Road, and Miss María Consuelo Gardner. of Swan. Culbertson and Fritz. residing at No. 69 Wang Net Chong Road.

Mr. Chan Wah Hing, of the Public Works Department, residing at No. 1 Parkes Street, third floor, and Miss Tong Sul Wong, of No. 160 Tung Cho! Street, second floor.

Mr. Lo Dat Lun, secretary of Y.M.C.A., Amoy, at present resid- ing at No. 71A Pokfulam Road, first floor, and Miss Hsu Tak Chee of No. 26 Ting Bong Road, Amoy.. Mr. Ngal Chuen Cheung, build- ing contractor, of No. 3 Kai Yee Street, ground floor, and Mrs. Lily Wong, c1, No. 2 Kai Yee Street, top- Gloor.

ST. DUNSTAN'S REPORT

"Talking Books" For

The Blind

MR. D.J. SLOSS

Held Teaching Appointments In English Universities

Mr. D. J. Gloss was educated at Oulton School, Liverpool, and at the University of Liverpool. He had a distinguished career in the Indian Educational Servlee having served as Professor of English Literature first at His Highness the Maharajah's College at Trivan-

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drum in Travancore and then at the University of Rangoon. He was, for many years, Principal of University College. Rangoon. He took a leading part in the organ- gation and establishment of the University of Rangoon and awarded the C.B.E. in recognition of his services. Prior to his service In India and Burma Mt. Bloss held teaching appointments in the Uni- versities of Liverpool and Leeds. In 1919-1920 he held a William No- ble Fellowship (English Literature) in the University of Liverpool. He. has also had considerable teaching experience in schools in England.

Mr. Sloss was responsible, in col- laboration with Professor J. P. Wallis (now Professor of English in the University of Pretoria), for the publication of a critical edition of "The Prophetic Books" of William Blake (2 volumes, Oxford Press, 1928).

Mr. Sloss arrived here on October 28 on board the P. & O. Ranchi.

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THE BRITISH LEGION

Assisting Ex-Officers

Since taking up his appoint- ment, Sir William has paid visits to North China, Malaya nd other Belds to extend his knowledge of the facilities for education in the Crown Colonies and the peculiar difficulties of this subject. One of his most notable achievements was in securing for the University a share in the Boxer Indemnity Fund for which purpose he had to make a special journey to London. In 1931 a Krighthood was con- ferred upon the Vice-Chancellor and two years later he received £65,188 was expended in assist- the degree of Doctor of Laws ing ex-officers, their wives and honcris causa. He had been for children. * 935 several years indentiñed with the

children of ex- officers were educationally assist- Philharmonic Soelety and the ed at a cost of £19,893. 1,836 per- Philharmonic Society and the Eng- sions claims were dealt with by lish Association, amongst others, the Claims and Pensions Bureau, and the news of his retirement and legal advice and assistance has caused general regret.

was given to 200 ex-officers and their dependants. The Clothing Store was again of immense value to ex-officers and their families, The Officers Employment Bureau, which only operates in London, succeeded in placing 491 officers in employment: Previously acknowledge J. H. Taggart ..... Hon. Sir Henry Pollock Aaron. Landau

Sir William is leaving on Friday.

FUNERAL OF MRS.

LAZARO

The funeral took place at the Roman Catholic Cemetery yesterday of Mrs. Maria Esmeralda Silva de San Lazaro who died in the Precious Blood Hes illness. pital yesterday morning after a short The Kev. Fr.. Granelli officiated at the graveside

N. Croucher

St. Patrick's Society of H∙K. The deceased lady together, with | Provincial Grand Lodge- her husband and six children, only re- cently arrived in the Colony on the way to India. They were on the Conte Verde when the typhoon delayed them, resulting in thrir enforced stay here.

Mr. Lazaro is the principal of Messrs Sans Lazaro & Co. of Nanking Road, Shanghai, well-known music store.

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RA,O.B. (GLE) China Detachment, Royal Army 1st. Kumaon Rifles

Pay Corps HK. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hall. Brown. Jones & Co.

Li Ping

K. R. Quick

Ainong those present were Dr. and Mrs. Bernado da Souza, Mr.

C. C. Willson and Mrs. E. & K. Ho tang, Mr. and C. C. Roberts Mira. H. Lacklan, Mr. E.J. Figueirado, Mr. and Mrs. Frank, Austin Mr. J.J. Gutierrez, Mr. J. M. Gutierrez, R. A. C. North Mr. M. M. Gutierrez, Mr. R. M. M. F Key Gutierrez, Mr. J. Rosario, Mr. A. M. Diniz, Mr. G. M. Rosario, Miss M. M. Miss C. U. Mitchell Diniz, Miss M. M. Diniz, Miss C. Pintos, Miss D. Miller-

Floral tributes were sent by the followings:--

Mr. and Mrs. E. S. K. Ho tung, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Golding, and family, Mr. and Mrs E. J. da Silva, Misa Emilia de Figueiredo, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Remedios, and family, Mr. J. M. V. de Figueiredo and sisters, Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Garcia and family, fra. M. Garcia do Figueiredo and family, Miss Murie Figueiredo and Miss E M. Y. Figueiredo, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Gutierrez and family.

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Further contributions will be gratefully received. by Mr. F. G. Maunder, Secretary to Earl Haig's Fund, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Bldg., Hong Kong.

Cheques should be made out to Thomson & Co. and crossed "Poppy Day Fund." :-.

THEFT OF COOK'S

CLOTHING

The report is accompanied by Sentence of one month's in- articles and pictures depicting the prisonment with the alternative of men at work and play. The report a fine of $15, was imposed by Mr.

The 22nd annual report of St. Dunstan's has just been issued, and is an eloquent testimonial to an- other year of accomplishment. Statistics may show how many blinded ex-servicemen are employ- ed in this occupation or that, and how well they have carried on, but 11 is the Impression that they are active, vigoruus normal men that speaks volumes for the miracle which St. Dunstan's has wrought same In their lives.

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also states that progress on the K. Keen at the Kowloon Magis scheme for providing "talking tracy yesterday on an unemployed discs which will play on a special books" for the blind-gramophone Youth, Chan Wai, when he plead- ed guilty to the charge of theft of thachine has now been definitely clothing belonging to the cook, at established as a result of the mag- the refugee camp, Latchiks nificent gift of £5,000, and the

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annually, by Lord

Inspector Hynes told the Court that defendant had been employ- ed as cook there, and was seen

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