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SOCIAL

WOMEN'S PAGE

GIRL'S CHOICE

OF CAREER

TWO WEDDINGS

AT REGISTRY

The Registry, Supreme Court, was the scene yesterday of two weddings, at both of which Mr.

Preferred Typing TJ. Gould, Deputy Registrar of

To Teaching

Marriages, officia.ed.

*

*NEWSETTES

The parties were Mr. Ho Ga-

Mr. Lei Yin has been appointed Oyster cultivation is steadily, hon, of No. 200, Fortland Street, Administrative Vice-Minister A girl who preters a secretaria and Miss Poon Pu-wal, of No. 21, Interior

at though gradually, ga'n ng imper.. -career to that of school teacher of Jervois Street, and Mr. Lau Sak-

ance in Ma.aya, and if expert- similar professional work recent-kal, of No. 81, Des Voeux

ments which are being made at Road ly expressed her views on

Kra com-Central, and Miss Lal Ho Lai Sim,

near Penang prove ments made in a case et West-of No. 3. Shan Pin Terrace. minster County Court

the

ANNOUNCEMENTS

•

has opened more than fifty new successful, oyster culture wil be

The Kwangtung Provincial. Bank "Pulo

branches in various districts in established as a profitable indus- the province to facilitate overseas try. Standard methods of cultiva-: Questions raised by

Case The following forthcoming mar-remittance and currency circula-

t'on are being adopted, and the were whether or not a shorthand-rtages are announced!---

tion...

results are encouraging, states the "typist's position was a dead-end Sgt. Robert William Powell,

Fisheries Department report, for job and which bas the higher Shamshulpo Barracks and Miss Br. J. O., Middleton-Smith was

1638. ocial standing, a secretary or a Christina Elizabeth, Skelly, of No.aned $5 by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, teacher.

13, Hankow Road;

at the Central Court yesterday, clerk, of No. 2 United Terrace, direction

Mr. Leonel Augusto Carvalho, for driving a car in the wrong Homuntin, and Miss Alda Celest na August 18.

at Chater Road

Humphrey's Avenue; Remedios, steno-typ'st, of No. 8.

The girl is Miss Barbara Gur ney, 18. Her mother, Mrs. Murel Gurney, Palace-court, Bayswater, sued her husband, Francis cames Ward Curney, solicitor, Cockspur- street, W., under a clause a matrimonial separation naree. ment

ם!

The clause provided that thei girl should be educated

а

manner suitable to her position in life,"

"JUST A TYPIST"

Mrs. Gurney claimed +25 al- leged to be due under the deed. Mr. Gurney counter-claimed а declaration that the deed, af separation was now void, and that the monthly allowance made his wife should be reduced from £25 "to £18 15s.

Judgement was given

he

con-

sent for Mrs. Gurney for £33 and £17 10s. costs, and the deed was amended to reducing the monthly allowance to £22.

During the case the father sa'd his complaint was that his wife. had not educated

and

brought

of

Mr. Hu May-ala, merchant, No. 6. Lau Li Street, ground floor, and Miss Chan Yüeh-sam, of No. 44. Yin Wan Street, ground floor,

DANCED ROUND CENOTAPH WITH CROSS OF FIRE LONDON. Aug. 19 (By Air Mall)-A man waving a flam- Ing cross dashed down Whitehall last night towards the Cenotaph.

When he got to the Ceno- taph he pranced around it, brandishing the cross, which was made of wood, and soaked in paraffin. He shout- ed "Home

rule for Scot- land."

Was

WIN

Was

He was led away by police officers. Later. man, be- Leved to be Scottish.

WLA taken to Cannon-row police station, where he was by a doctor.

seca

up his daughter as contemplated In the deed. The idea of the g'ri becoming B schoolteacher

dropped and "h's

daughter

Just a shorthand-typist now."

"MORE

OPPORTUNITIES"

Mr. Gurney's solicitor said the girl left school at 16 and atter n'ne months at મૈં commercial college became a receptionist In a firm of estate agents at 359 a week. Her salary had since risen to £2,

Miss Gurney said:

"The Women's A.R.P. their address will be c/o to announce that as from

Secretary's Ofice. An

cn

If the plan submitted by the special committee of the Ceylon Aero Club (FI-Lt.. R. Duncansen ¡Mr. G. H. Dulling and Mr. Dunstan de Silva, for the formation of a Union Des Ceylon Auxilary Air Force is ac- Colonial delegates Squadron Leader C. W. to-day cepted by the British Air Min'stry A.R.P. M. Ling and Mr. W. E. Taylor, the opened personnel for the proposed train- House, ing school will be advertised for In given England and the Air Ministry wil

make the selection,

Recruiting Office is being at First Floor Holland details of which will be later.

▪1

A Shanghal message states that, German residents, in the French To the Kajang High School, in Concession in Shanghai pave re- Selangor, Federated Malay States, selved notificationa from the gces the distinction of having in- French Consulate-General advising novated a judicial court, which them to stay at ease in the Con- probably has no paralel in the cession in spite of the European annals of Malayan schools, where- tension.

in students are dealt with for breaches of law, in almost the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, lead- same way aserring members of er of the Indian Nationalist Move- the public in the law

court- ment, left Chungking for Chengtu Deta'ls of the work done by this by plane on Wednesday morning. novel court are recorded in the After a four-day stay in the Szech- ably edited School magazine "The wan capital, he will return to Kajang." Chungking and then proceed to Kwellin.

Both official and

unofficial

Large numbers of able-bodied. opinion is strongly in favour of the Chinese males who came recently establishment of a Boys' Club in to Tientsin because of the flood Singapore. High Government offt. have been sent to Manchuria to c'als and practically all community do hard labour while many chi leaders, except the Chinese, have

Ir-

M. George Barthel de Wey-nese women refugees have been expressed themselves as wholly in denthal, the Polish Minister to placed in brothels in Tangshan, sympathy with the project. China for the past ten years. has Chinwangtao and other places, a spector M. Boyle, a member of the been appointed to a new post in Tientsin report alleges.

Singapore Rotary Club, who has the Polish Fareign Office. He wil

many years of experience with the leave Shanghai on Beptember 3.-- ¡Central News).

Dr. C. T. Wang, formerly Chinese formation and control of Boys' Ambassador to the United States, Clubs and who has taken the trou- has arrived in Manila to attend ble to sound the views of officials the formal opening, on September and unofficials, and has ascertain- job, and I don't agree that 14, of the new branch there of the ed the degree of support they arr "I certainly d'd not want to be shall not advance any further. Bank of Communications as willing to give, is now anxiously, a teacher. There arc 30 many ** should imagine quite a storm presentative of the Chinese Govavating the views of the Chinese more advantages and opportuw be caused among shorthand-ernment. Mr. Chang Huai-teh nas Irties attached to 2 secretarial typists by the suggestion career. I am very happy in this their job is a dead-end one.".

DAY

NIGHT

WEAR

REGISTERED, TRADE MASK

WARNING!

Cheap imitations of the well-known products

Viyella

AND

'Clydella'

are being offered for sale in the Colony at

low prices.

BEWARE OF THESE INFERIOR IMITATIONS.

LOOK for the selvedge label throughout

the piece.

Viyella

AEGO

APBA

that been appointed manager of the new

branch.

-

community.

The statement that opportuni- ties would be given to As'atics Several thousand Chinese. Euro-other than Malays to take up pad peans and people of other na-cultivation in the FMS. was made tionalities attended a performance by the High Commissioner, Sir given recently by the Wuhan Shenton Thomas, at the open'ng Songsters, at Port Swettenham, ir fot the annual exhibition of th a'd of the Ch'na Datrets Relief Malayan Agri-Horticultural Asso- Fund. A sum amount'ng to about cistion. He said that suitable land $7,000 was realised by sales of which is not and cannot be put tickets and auction.

under cultivation by Malays. w'l be made available to others. Els Chinese circles believe that the Excellency said that his decision assassins of Mr. Chu Hang-kung. would not be popular in editor of the "Ta Mei Wen Pao,"quarters and would meet with (Chinese edition of the American-criticism, but it would be wrong cwned Evening Post and Mercury), his part to gloss over with are pro-Wang Ching-wel terrorists, smooth words the serious nature states a Shanghat report. Mr. Chu of the position in Malaya with re- had received many threatening gard to food supplies, letters warning him to stop his scathing criticisms on Wang Ching-wel...

Some

NOT LIVINGSTONE

Boer Discovered Victoria Falls Claim

Prominent leaders in Szechwan and Sikang" have just issued & circular telegram denouncing Wang. Ching-wel for his traitorous attempt to form a bogus govern- ment. Among those who a'gned the dispatch were. General Teng Hs-hou, and General Pan Wen- mua, respectively Pacifcation Com- missioner, and Deputy Pacification Did the Boer, Karel Trichard, Commissioner for Szechwan and and not David Livingstone discover. Sikang. General Wang Chan-shu, the Victoria Falls? The question Chairman of the Szechwan Pro- has once again been brought into vincial Government, and General the limelight in a discussion by Liu Wen-hul, Chairman of the the Ring of the Dutch Reformed Sikang Provincial Government. Church at Daisyheid, Bloemfontein.

It was stated that an Tay Tal Mol, a forty-year old servant, living at Livingstone. Chinese

visited the falls one day and saw woman and wife of a vegetable gardener, gave birth to

the statue of Livingstone, which. triplets at the Muar Government white man, who had discovered the he was told, depicted the first, Hospital, in the FMS. recently. It is believed that this is the first

falls. time triplets have been born at the After studying the statue he re- Government Hospital. It is learn-marked that it was not a good ed that Tay Tal Moi first gave likeness, He then save a descrip birth to a giri at her resdence intion of the first visitor to the Pagoh, a village eighteen miles Talls, which fitted Karel Trichard from Muar, at about four o'clock precisely.

old

in the morning. She was then Dr. H C de Wet, minister taken to the Mear Government of the Dutch Reformed Church at Hospital and at about 8.15 am Blisbury, and Mr. J J. Cilliers, of ahe gave birth to another baby Daisyfield, propose to visit the boy. The third boy arr ved at servant and take him to a magle- 8.35 am. All the babies and the trate to make an "omdal state mother are doing well.

ment on the question,

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