1938-02-17 — Page 8

TRAVEL

"American

Express"

A World Wide Organization

No. 4, Des Voeux Road, Central.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

BANK HOLIDAYS

The

will Exchange Banks open at 9.34 a.m. and will close at 12 noon for the transaction of Exchange business on Monday, Tuesday and

Wednesday, the 21st, 22nd and 23rd February, 1938. (RACE MEETING). Hong Kong, 14th Feb., 1938.

NOTICE

The Next General Meeting și the Society for the year 1937-38 will be held on Monday, 21st February, 1938, at 8.45 p.m. in Room "K" when Mr. F.J.M. Bourdrez, of the League o Nations, will deliver a lecture entitled WORK ALONG THE GREAT RIVERS OF CHINA (With lantern slides) ALL IN TERESTED ARE WELCOME.

MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATION

·No. 2/38.

VACANCY" FOR DEPUTY ELECTRICAL ENGINEER.

HỌNG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17,

ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HUMPHREYS ESTÁTE |

BANKING CORPORATION.

& FINANCE CO., LTD.

1938.

The Baily Press.

友之國中

Editorial and Business Office

15-19, Queen's Road Central, Tel 30351

Night Editor (Wanchal Office):

Tel. 24511.

on London Office: 33, Fleet Street

E.C.4.

Notice is hereby given that the

NOTICE IS HEREBY Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the GIVEN that the ANNUAL OR Shareholders in this Corporation DINARY GENERAL" MEET. will be held at the Head Office ING of shareholders will be of the Corporation, No.HELD at the HONG KONG Queen's Road Central, Hong HOTEL,

Hong Kong, Kong, on Saturday, the 26th THURSDAY, the 17th. FE February, 1938, at 11.30 .BRUARY, 1938. at 12 NOON | for the purpose of receiving the for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors Report of the Directors together together with a Statement of

with a Statement of Accounts Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1937.

The Register of Shares of the Corporation will be closed from: Monday, the 14th February,

for the year ended 31st. Decem ber, 1937.

HONG KONG, FIBRUARY 17, 1838.

Hong Kong Off

CORRESPONDENCE MORE MONEY FOR

FLAG DAY APPEAL

FIELD DRESSINGS

(To The Editor, "The Hong Kong DAILY PRESS APPEAL

Dally Press"} .

Further donations have been Sir-May I ask that through

Press" for the "Daily the columna of "The Hong Kong received Daily Press" you will kindly bring Field Dressings Fund to provide to public notice an appeal on medical ald for wounded Chinese

soldiers. behalf of the Ministering League.

An adequate supply of feld

On Saturday next. February 19,

to be the League is holding a flag day. dressings is essential if the lives I do beg everyone most sincerely of wounded soldiers are

Various organisations are to be generous to this old and saved. most deserving charity, which busy doing the work but increased assists. for the most part, the less funds are imperative for the pur- well known charities, both Chinese chase of materials.

Contributions of any and non-Chinese.

Among

amount

The Map Again League is pledged to maintain two Marina House, Queen's Road Cen-

Dressings

its obligations the may be sent to the "Dally Press." cots in the home at Ottershawtral, Hong Kong. Cheques should and a cot in the Nethersole Has be made out to the "Daily Press" The TRANSFER BOOKS of

and endorsed Field Yesterday we published an an-pital here. Last year's funds were

Fund. the Company will be CLOS

that nouncement

from next allocated to the Nethersole Hospi- ED from SATURDAY, 5th Wednesday Imperial Airways will tal Cot. Hong Kong Benevolent Saturday, the 26th February: FEBRUARY to THURSDAY, carry all first. class mall to every Society, Hong Kong Society for 1938 (both days inclusive) during 17th FEBRUARY, both days British possession in the Far East the Protection of Children, Blind which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

་་

"V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chiel Manager. Hong Kong, 7th Feb., 1938.

to

inclusive.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. |HONG KONG, 26th Jan., 1938. 5951

Total

$50

***8

$175 & £5

"DAILY PRESS" FIELD DRESSINGS FIND Contributions received:- -EXCEPT HONG KONG.

Home at Pokfulam, Victoria Home Daily Press",

Orphanage. Sailors' and Mrs. J. H. Padwick ... ... 45 This will mean that a friend or and

G.M.S. School Pro-Chinese, Briton" $10 business-man in London writing Soldiers' Home. to the favoured destinations in the Fund. Garrison Ladies Help So Mr. O. W. Luke

......... 830 Far East will pay only 12 for his clety, Kowloon Chinese TW.CA. Mr. Wm. Yinson Lee ... $10 letter, whereas his counterpart in (Baby Clinic and Factory Girls' "Daily Press" Staff in Hong Kong has the great privilege Clubi. St. John's Ambulance. Little

memory of the late of the Poor, Canossian

Mrs, La! of paying four times as much! At Sisters the same time he "enjoys"-a ser-Orphanage (Shaukiwan), and the vice far inferior to that provided Hong Kong School for the Deaf

and Dumb-a total of 88,920. for Singapore and Karachi.

I know the génerous response Judging from reports received from Home, great (but unneces- Hong Kong made to the appeal on War Rellet in MUNICIPAL

sary) fears are held for the safety February 12 for

It may seem unkind to NOTIFICATION

NOTICE IS HEREBY of Hong Kong in connection with China.

No. 3/38.

GIVEN that the ORDINARY the present hostilities in China but make another appeal so soon, but when it comes to a matter which the Ministering League's arrange- YEARLY GENERAL MEET.

vitally affects the present and fu- ments were already made before VACANCY FOR DEPUTYING of HONGKONG TRAM ture material welfare of the Colony the former appeal was launched. not the slightest consideration is feel the League need offer no apology for asking all to contri- shown to our needs.

bute freely to this. Its annual

Emblems will be on sale from 8

5075

HONGKONG TRAMWAYS,

LIMITED.

J

་་་

Thanking you for your courtesy In publishing this letter.

MARY KING, President, Ministering League.

| WATERWORKS ENGINEER WAYS, LIMITED will be held at the offices of Messrs. Jardine,

Nearly a year ago we were told The British Municipal Council, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Hong that by last June one of the new collection. Tientsin, is prepared to receive Kong, on FRIDAY, the 18th day dying boats would be put on the applications from British Subjects of February, 1938, at 12 o'clock Penang-Hong Kong flight as, of am, till noor. Seilers have been for-appointment to the position of noon, to transact the ordinary the 1500 miles of this route, 900 asked to refrain from going into

were over water and It was not business offices. business of the Company. The British Municipal Council, Deputy Waterworks Engineer.

reasonable to employ a land' plane Tientsin, is prepared to receive}

Candidates must hold degrees AND NOTICE IS HEREBY for such a run. applications from British Subjects in Mechanical Engineering from ALSO GIVEN that the REGIS or appointment to the position of recognized universities, or possess TER OF MEMBERS of the DEPUTY ELECTRICAL EN equivalent technical educational Company will be CLOSED from qualifications and have had SATURDAY, 'the 5th to FRI Candidates must hold degrees several years experience in Water DAY, the 18th February, 1938. in Electrical Engineering from works plant operation and in both days lnclusive,

water supply work generally. } recognized universities, or posSCAS | cquivalent tehnical educational They must be not less than 25

nor more than 35 years of age.

GINEER.

and

By Order of the Board,

W. E. SIMMONS,

Secretary. The successful candidate will Hong Kong, 27th Jan., 1938. receive an initial salary of 1050 Chinese dollars ($700 basic pay

HORTICULTURAL

plus $350 repatriation pay) per HONGKONG month from the date upon which he takes up his duties in Tientsin. He will be upon probation for a period of six months from that!

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SOCIETY

Some little time ago 26 of the

28 flying boats ordered by Imperial Airways from Short Brothers had been delivered. By now it is al- most certain that the whole order completed but as yet has been there is not a sign of Hong Kong's promised maching.

SERVICEMEN AND CIVILIANS

(The Editor, The Hong Kong Daily Press)

Str. I was very interested in a paper

A FIELD

DONT FORGET!

DRESSING, MAY SAVE A MAN'S LIFE (See also Page 7)

TO PUBLISH IN

HONG KONG

Leading Chinese Newspapers

From Shanghai

Shanghai, Feb. 16.

The three leading Chinese news- papers in Shanghat, the "Shun Pada Kung Pao" and the "China Times." which closed down in December as a protest against the censorship demand made by the local Japanese authorities, are making arrangements to resume publication in Hong Kong in the near future, according to a recent arrival from the Colony..

The Editor of the Ta Kung most Pao" has arrived in Hong Kong

In view of the scattered natpre of the British Empire, swift com-

qualifications

munications, providing for rapid and have

had

Interchange of information and letter published in your everal years experience in Elec

ideas. are of the utmost impor- from "A Naval Petty Officer."

. He conveys to us. that tricity Power Station work. They

tance but the British authorities. must be not less than 25 nor

even if they are aware of this need, naval men leave Hong Kong with from Hankow in connection with a civilian, the revival scheme of his paper. have always been led by other out having spoken to

frst issue 15 more than 35 years of age.

expected to nations in effecting improvements simply because facilities do not The They must be conversam with

exist for an opportunity of mak- appear in the Colony on March 1. in al services.

The Shun Pao is also rushing the control, maintenance, and, re‹

No doubt great progress has ing such acquaintances. been made, but, compared with I would like to challenge that preparations to make its debut in pair of modern Steam Turbines,

Hong Kong within a month's Alternators, Water tube boilers,

THE ANNUAL SHOW of foreign civil aviation, Britain lags statement.

If our naval friend cares to meet time.

The China Times," which had etc. They should also be able to date, and will be offered a four FLOWERS and VEGETABLES pitifully behind.

We have the machines, we have me any time, by appointment, I

to planned

resume years contract at the end of his will be held at ST. JOHN'S the men, it is through the appall shall be pleased to discuss this originally supervise the installation of

publication in Chungking then Transformer Sub-stations

probationary period if his services PLACE (opposite the lower Peak ing and inexcusable slowness in matter with him.

After the proposed talk I would Yunnanfu, has finally decided to Transmission, and Distribution prove satisfactory.

Tram Station) on THURSDAY, speeding up organisation that we He will receive half salary only the 3rd March, 1938, from 3 p.m.

like him to express his views fur-carry on in Hong Kong.--(Reuter). fall down.› systems, including overhead

Reference has been made recent-ther in your paper. maire of 5,000 volts tension, A

for the period spent in travelling |

to 6.30 p.m. and FRIDAY, the

ly to the friendship and co-opera- My address is enclosed for refer- knowledge of the construction, re

to Tientsia and payment of this 4th March, 1938, from 10 a.m. tion existing between Great Bri-ence purposes. (Sd.) Y. T, KWOK,

tain and the Netherlands. In the pair and test of domestic clectri. will be calculated from the date

to 4 p.m.

["A Naval Petty Officer", may of his embarkation. The Council Hon. Secretary.cal appliances is also desirable.

ENTRIES WILL DE. field of civil aviation this friend-

London, Feb. 16. will pay for his passage (first

FINITELY CLOSE at the Hon ship could easily turn to contempt arrange this appointment by com-

bulletins The successful candidate' will

Broadcast news

in 600

on the part of the Netherlands municating with the Dally Press. class) to. Tientsin and in case he

Secretary's Office, Stock

-Editor). Ex when one considers the efficient receive an initial salary of Chi-

Spanish and Portuguese will be is not offered a contract at the ncse Dollars 1,050 ($700 basic end of his period of probation, a

Building, change

Ice

emitted by the B.B.C. for listeners House manner in which the Dutch air

GREATEST RESPECT in Central and South America on pay plus $350 repatriation allow return passage, of similar class,

Street, at NOON on THURS. lines are conducted.

If those responsible for the con- ance) per month from the date will be given him,

DAY, the 24th February, 1938, trol of Imperial Airways are not To The Editor, "The Hong Kong |upon which he takes up his du

but intending exhibitors are re-prepared to help this Colony, the Applications containing refer ties in Tientsin. He will be upences, credentials, copies of dip.quested to SEND IN THEIR Hong Kong authorities should take on probation for a period of six lomas and "curriculum vitae" ol ENTRIES AS EARLY AS the drst step, and do something who think they are ignored in will be GSB. The Spanish pro- months from that date, and will each candidate should be address POSSIBLE.

HONG KONG REALTY AND TRUST CO.. LIMITED.

(Incorporated under the Com panies Ordinances of Hong Kong).

"BEE"

B.B.C. BROADCAST TO SOUTH AMERICA

לי

at 1.30

March 15.

Two short-wave transmitters will Daily Prens."]

be broadcasting simultaneously on Sir-Regarding the service men 31.55 metres, while the called sign to bring pressure to bear and cor- the Colony, may I ask if they ever gramme will be emitted rect the present gross injustice give a thought to their best girl GMT while the Portuguese pro- MEMBERS who have not yet under which we are suffering.

or wife at home? Speaking as a gramme will be given at 1.45 GMT. Any demands made for a better

One of the Empire programmes only one that matters. Every also normally designed to appeal service can be fully fustile ir sullor. I have a girl at Horne, the brought to Hong Kong each week.

pay-loads foreigner with whom I have come to Latin America as well as Em- English, From the point of view of Bri-n contact on shore has treated pire. Hateners will be accompanied

by announcements in tish prestige, instead of palming me with the greatest respect.

ANOTHER SATISFIED A.B., Spanish and Portuguese-(Reuter off one plane a week on Hong

H.MB. Falmouth. Bulletin). Kong, every effort should be made to bring this service up to date. 5956 Specially since the Pan-American Airways have extended their route

Je offered a four years contract at ed to "The Secretary and En the end of his probationary period gineer, British Municipal Council, paid their subscriptions and ALL if his services prove satisfactory. Tientsin and should be forward. THOSE who wish to join the He will receive balf salary onlyed so as to reach him not later Society are requested to send NOTICE 15 HEREBY for the period spent in travelling than Wednesday, 30th March, $5.00 to the UNDERSIGNED GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly to Tientsin and payment of this 1938. Meeting of Shareholders of Hong will be calculated from the date Kong Realty and Trust Company, of his embarkation. The Couse!!! Limited, will be held at the will pay for his passage (first

By Order.

H. F. BARNES,

Secretary & Engineer.

• Registered Office of the Com-class) to Tientsin and in case he pany, Exchange Building (2nd is not offered a contract at the Council, Room, Floor), Des Voeux Road Central, end of his period of probation, 2 Tientsin, January 29, 1938. Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the return passage, of similar class,

re

23rd March, 1938, at 11.30 a.m., will be given him. for the purpose of receiving a Applications containing Statement of Accounts and the ferences, credentials, copies of Report of the Board of Directors diplomas and "curriculum vitae" for the year ended on the 31st of each candidate should be ad December, 1937. and re-electing dressed to "The Secretary and two Directors and the Auditors.

British Municipa1

Engineer,

The Transfer Books of the Council, Tientsim” and should be Company. will be closed from forwarded so as to reach him not Saturday, the 5th March, 1938. later than Tuesday, 29th March,

to Wednesday, the 23rd March, 1938.

1938, both days inclusive,

By Order of the Board,

F. C. BARRY,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 16th Feb., 1938.

6013

By. Order,

H. F. BARNES,

Secretary & Engineer.

Council Room, Tientsin, January 28, 1938.

6008

6007

J. T. BAGRAM,

Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, 8th Feb., 1938.

the ever-increasing

PURCHASE OF C.E.R.through from Manila,

connection with the purchase of air mall includes the weak and. "People Who Matter”

PEOPLE WHO MATTER, to the advertiser are the," people who can afford to buy his goods, Most of these people bey and read the

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS

Mr. and Mrs. W. Sayers, of the

+

*

The re-arranged schedule will certainly reduce the stop-over in Tokyo, Feb. 16.

Hong Kong but it will result in a Japanese

syndicates

Walker banking

Major. and Mrs. R. D. have decided to underwrite a 50,- certain amount of inconvenience 000,000 yen bond, issued by the to business houses as the time be- Public Works Department, will will sail on March 5th for home Government of Manchukuo, in tween arrival and despatch of the proceed on leave by the ss. Car- on leave. He is not expected to

thage on Saturday, Mr. Sayers is return till late November. Furthermore, with two planes a one of the Colony's keenest phi- the Chinese Eastern Railway from Soviet Russia,

week to Singapore, a reply to a let-latelists.. The present issue forms the last ter sent there from London can

Congratulations to Mr. D. be obtained in half the time that instalment

payments. totalling 172,000,000 yen, all of it can from Hong Kong. Hardly a Biggar, manager of the

by flattering thought for the people Bank, who is celebrating his which were underwritten Japanese banking syndicates of Hong Kong. (Reuter),

Cash

KING VISITS ARSENAL

Disintegration of the British Empire has often been predicted.

Mr. H. Moh, director of the Chin- ese National Railways Purchasing M.Department, left yesterday morn Chase ing on the Eurasia plane for Han- birth-kow on a busines trip. On Tues- night members of the staff gave him a farewell dinner at the Chung Wan Hotel.

day today.

Mrs. Martin-Gray of New York

If this sort of muddling is allowed is visiting the Colony and is stay-

Mr. Robert Young or the A.P.C.

to continue. It may become more ing with friends on the Feak. She than a prediction as protests about will be sailing for the United the slow progress in the growth of States shortly and will be accom-left for Manila this morning by air mail services have been voiced panied by her nephew George R the Philippine Clipper on business. The King made a tour of Wool-In more than one part of the Em-Cartley.

London, Feb, 16.

Hong Kong Daily Press, wich arsenal today. Although it pire.

Mons. A. Friedmann, 2 Paris

was a surprise visit His Majesty Strongly as we feel on this mat-cept to refer to the whole unsatis-Journalist, arrived by the Aramis as a pathetic yesterday. He is expected to be in spent some considerable time ter editorial restraint bids us re- factory position

town for some time." (Renter Bulletin).

frain from any further remarks ex-'1 state of affairs.

there