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LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION. PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned

Instruerenner have received THE Undersigned have received

and others

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

01

Friday the 29th. December 1939

commencing at 4.30 p.m.

at their Sales Room. No. 35 Hankow Road, Kowloon,

'A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

cornprising:-

Teakwood & Iron Bedsteads, Divans, Wardrobes, Chests of Drawers, Dressing Tables, Wash- stands, Chesterfield Suites, Chairs. Dining Tables, Desks, Cabinets, Bookcases. Rattan Furniture, Tea- poys, etc., etc."

Carpets, Rugs, Siver & Crystal Glass Ware, Silver Cutlery, Brass, E.P., Porcelain and Glass Ware. Pictures. Curios, Elèctric Table Lamps & Heaters, Gramophones, Omaments, Curtains, Clocks, Cook- ing Utensils. etc., etc.

also

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A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD FURNITURE

and

A Fine Collection of New Regal

& Columbia Records,

One Plano by "Zeftter Winkel-

тала"

One Plano by "Minerva"

One Barometer "John Barker

& Co."

One Electric Motor "Bitter" One Enlarger

One Camera "Kodak"

One Typewriter "Underwood"

One Grandfather Clock

Three Radio Sets

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On View from Thursday the 28th. December 1939.,

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS.

instructions

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

On

Thursday the 28th. December

commencing at 5.15 p.m.

GENERAL

NUTRITION OF SCHOOL CHILD & YOUNG ADULT

T

BY F. I. TSEUNG, M.B., B.S.

It has been said that 80 of the average Income in China is spent for food. The importance of food to the Chinese is thus ellevident. It is only logical that each person should study how his expenditure on food may produce the best results. It is pro- posed, therefore, to outline what nutrition really means before embarking on the problem of nutrition of the school child and the young adult.

"

One must realise that nutrition a The human body can be com- does not only depend on the mere paced with a motor-car. The life supply of food to an indivdual, but of a car depends on air, water, 1939, rather on food of the right exercise" and rest and 30 does the quality and of sufficient quantity human body. They both inhale as well as its proper digestion and and exhale air and require water subsequen't absorption."

to regulate the temperature of the Food-may be classified into three engine. The car needs fuel for main groups:-

at their Sales Room. No. 2 Con- naught Road, Central. (Room No. 205, 2nd Floor).

A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF POSTAGE STAMPS

On View from Wednesday the 27th, December 1939.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

(1) Fuel foods or energy-produc ing foods.

(2) Protective foods,

heat and energy production just as the human body requires foods for a similar purpose except that the human body can make (3) Tissue-building foods. Fuel foods include carbohydrates. repair while a car, cannot do so. Use of the protein foods for self lats and proteins. They supply the The human body needs mineral body with heat and energy and salts just as a car needs lubricants form the greater part of our dally and oils. Without lubrication, a car dies. Foods rich in carbohydrates will not run very far, Likewise a are sugar, rice, wheat jour, other man cannot go on well without cereals and potatoes, Foods rich in mineral salts. fats are butter, lard, and vegetable ous Foods rich in proteins are white of egg, lean meat, sh. poultry, bears, soy-bean products

LAMMERT BROS.. and peas.

AUCTIONEERS

Protective foods..

consist of mineral salts and vitamins. Although they form a very small part of cur daily diet. yet they are CONSIGNEES NOTICES very essential for growth and all

body activities,

There are many mineral salts but those which are usually deficient in our daily diet are calcium

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

H.K. STOCK

EXCHANGE

Business reported during the morning copaisted of Unions rate $425. Docks rate $19.60. Tramways rate 116.90, Watsons rate $84 and Hotels rate $4.00.

...

BUYERS Canton ms., $200. Docks, $19. Providents, 43

Tramways, $18.80. Star Ferries, $661:

China Lights (New), 1.85 ex di», Watsons, $8.70,

Entertainments, $6.60.

SELLERS

Providents, $4.60. „Telephones (Old), $25."

Wabrous $8.85.

SALES

Docks. $19.60, Unions Ins., $425. H&S. Hotels, $4.90. Tramways, $16,90... Dairy Farms (Old), $20.20. Watsons, $81.

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• MANILA GOLD SHARES

Bagulo Gold 16 h, Batong Buhay Atoks 19 & Antamoks 16) 015 a Benguet Con 5.56 Big Wedge 221 b. Coco Grove, 16 s, with their sparking plugs of a car,

The vitamins can be compared Con. Mines 003 s; Demonstration The car has four to six cylinders 41 s, Ipo Gold 14 b. Itogon Mining 104 s, East Mindanao 11) s. I. X. L with their accompanying sparking 294 s. Manbulao Con, 017 b. Mas- plugs and sɔ we have four to six bate Con, 11 s Mind. Motherlode Kinds of known vitamins When 09 s. Mine Operation 11) s, North a sparking plug is missing or not Camarines 16 s, Paracale Gum- working properly, the motorist will maus 1846, San Mauricio se & notice that his car is lifeless, weak Surigao Con.. 17 b, Suyoc Com. 13 or inefficient. Thus declency ofs, Syndicate Inv. 025 b, United the vitamins in our diet will lead Paracale 34 a to arrested growth, and disease of nutritional deficiencies.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD, phosphorus, Iron and lodine, These

Correst nutrition, therefore, de- salts play a very important func-perds on the supply of a well- tion in regulating the body activi- balanced diet consisting of aut ties. Thus, an adequate supply of

cient energy requirement, enough calcium phosphorus is essential for protein and an adequate amount

THE S.S."

Arrived HONG KONG

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From LEITH. MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON

AND STRAITS

YONSIGNEES of Cargo are bereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardons and/or extra hazardous Godowas of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company, Ltd. whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 20th Dec., 193, will be subject to rent All claims against the vessel must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 10th Jan. 1940, or they will not be recognized.

are examined.

To comply with the General Bonded Warehouse Regulations. Consignees must have a Revenue Officer, in atter- dance when damage datiable goods PUBLIC AUCTION. Gods are to be left in the Godowns, All broken, chafed, and damaged where they will be examined on the 28th December, 1939, at 9 a.m. by Merara, Carmichael & Clarke.

THE Undersigned have received:

instructions

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

on Thursday, the 28th day of December, 1939 commercing at 3 p.m. at their Sales Room No. 2 Connaught Road Central (Room No. 205, 2nd floor)..

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY

Situate in

The New Territories of the Colony of Hong Kong and regis tered in the District Land Office North at Taipo as District No. 181 Lola Nos. 2 and 671, together with all messuages erections and build- Ings thereon.

For further Particulars Conditions of Sale apply to:"

and

Messrs. HASTINGS & Co., Solicitors for the Vendor, 15-19 Queen's Road Central, 1st. noor, Marina House. „

Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS, Auctioneers.

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS.

Hongkong, December, 1939,

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T

you want?

It there is anything you want to buy or well, try Claas Bed ment in the Hon- kong, Daily Press.

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No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigner

PIRATES SEIZE SALT CARGO

A cargo of salt, valued at $1,000, was the prize taken by a gang of

proper bone formation; iron is in/of mineral salts, vitamins and pirates who boarded a cargo junk

water,

CARBOHYDRATE FOODS

athlete

in British Waters, of the Tung Ku Lighthouse, on the night of Dec.

11.

Hing-ki, 30, master of the junk. to the police yesterday by Do A report of the piracy was made

were 10 men on the pirate junk, who was robbed. He said there No. T1439H, but only four, all his vessel. armed with rifles, came on board

portant constituent of the red

·colouring matter of the blood and lodine is essential for the proper functioning of the thyroid gland, a school child to supply his energy. An adult requires more food than salts to the human body, some however, with the amount of work In view of the importance of these The energy requirement varies, knowledge of foods rtén in these Salts is deemed necessary. Thus, or one doing hard manual labour

one is doing. Eence an foods rich in calcium include milk. naturally needs more food for the cheese, green vegetabies, egg yolk;' soy-bean curds, etc.; foods rich in In our daily diet we rely mainly on compensation of the energy spent. phosphorus Include cheese, cat- meal. dried beans, egg yolk, etc..

carbohydrate foods to supply this! foods rich in iron are liver, at requirement, as carbohydrate foods So. meal, egg yolk, green vegetables, cheap and easily utilised by where he made his way to Hong- dried beans, whole cereal, etc; and

the body.

kong by way of Namtau, Lau Fau The protein requirement depends Shan and Un Long. foods rich in iodine are Ash, water- eress and onions.

on the quality of the proteins, as animal proteins have д higher hutritive value than vegetable proteins. Hence in the Chinese dietary which is mostly vegetarian,

VITAMINS RECOGNISED As regards vitamins much work has been done in recent years. Six

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or more of them have been re- the allowance is greater than that cognised, but the most known are of the Westerners in whose diet

four viz. vitamins A, B, C and D.simest half of the protein is

of rich

He was ordered to sail for Ku ir. Chinese Territory, from

CHINESE DOCTOR

FINED

Appearing before Mr. T. J. HOUS- ton, at the Central Court, on: Saturday, charged with practis- ing as a doctor without being duly registered. Chan Mun, 33, was fined $200.

Detective Inspector A. L Hop- kins. who prosecuted, said that he visited the premises with Dr. Valentine and found that the de

In addition to their influence on animal origin. While the growth, vitamins cause specific people are apt to take too much effects on certain tissues...

Vitamin "A has specific effect on quate intake for sumelen; nutr

protein in their daily diet, an ade-

epthelium of the eye. It has also economie, means of the poor. For the epithelial tissues, especially the tion is sometimes beyond the been claimed by some to increase an adult of average weight about the body resistance against. infec-two and a halt ources Chinese fendant was a registered doctor tions, especially colds. Its de-tang) of portein dally would be Aciency leads to complaint of poor suficient. sight at night and dryness of the" WEATHER REPORT eye-ball, Foods rich in this vitamin

W. R. LOXLEY & Co. (CHINA) LTD.

Agents. Hong Kong, 23rd Dec., 1939.

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Hongkong Royal Observatory 10 am.. Dec. 24. Barometer (at sea level), 30.30 ins." Temperature, 59 F. Humidity, 47 per centi" Wind Direction, N/E. Wind Force (Beaufort), 2 Temperature; maximum yesterday-

69

Temperatare, minimum last night

53

Rainfall for 24 hrs., ending 18 6.m.

today, nu.

Total rainfall since January 182

86.70 ths. Against an average of, 84.90 ina::: Sunset tonight, 5.45 pm. Sunrise tomorrow, 7 a.xx.

4 p.m., December 25.

Humidity, 53 per cent. Wind Direction, NEN. Wind Force (Beaufort), 2 Maximum, temperature, 66 F. Minimum temperature, 53'F Rainfall, nil

in Canton.

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In this connexion it should be pointed out that most meats and beginning, it should be introduced fish have a protein content of gradually by mixing the white rice about 20%, eggs about 12% and with a third or a quarter of deduct all the proteins in the rice rice can be used as congee or made bean curd about 8%. So if we polished rice or

the unpolished which contains about 9%, we really into noodles. In need very little more protein foods small ration of cod liver oil for the winter a in the form of meat, eggs. or soy school children is recommended to â disease characterised bean products. Although school

supplement the possible lack of vitamin D.

include butter, milk, cheese, liver, most animal fats except lard, fish. liver oils and green vegetables.

Vitamin B has specific effect on the nervous tissues. It helps diges tion, promotes appetite and helps in the action of the bowls. Its deficiency results

beri

beri-

comparatively

Besides the Auld contained in

is to be maintained.

Each diet

is meant for the whole day and satisfied the nutritional needs des- cribed above.

hands and legs and sometimes their protein requirement is almost by weakness and numbness, of children have 日 smaller weight, swelling of the face, belly or feet, the same as that of the adult be the food, at least two to four pints Foods rich in this vitamin include cause school children are "stiji yeast, eggs, liver, green vegetables, growing and need a higher allow-preferably taken two or three hours of water, should be taken dally bran layers of cereals and certain ance for tissue-building..

after each meal. of the pulses.

In the children's diet. however,

In conclusion, I wish to suggest Vitamin C has specific effect on it must contain a the blood vessels. Its defency regreater proportion of animal pro-guidance of those who may be in- the following sample diets for the sults in scurvy, characterised by ten preferably in the form of terested "The middle dass diet is sore mouth bleeding from the milk and eggs. Even if the pro-meant for those who can afford it, Barometer (at sea level), 30:19 Ina gums and sometimes into the teins are derived from a purely while the other alternative is the Temperature, 64 F..

joints, tissues, etc, Foods rich in vegetable source, they should be ob- minimum requirement if nutrition this vitamin include prange, lemon, itained from different varieties. pumelo, mango, tomato, juice of To ensure an adequate supply of cabbage and certain green veget, mineral salty especially calcium ables.

In the diet, if it is within, the Vitamin D is necessary for the economic means of the individual, proper utilisation by the body of milk, meat and green vegetables in calcium and phosphorus. Its de abundance should be included in nclency leads to infantile rickets the diet. For the poor the calcium associated with tony. deformity, requirement would be met by tak- Irregular growth of teeth, thest ing on catty of green vegetables, A young Chinese, Kwok Kam- and bowel disorders, etc Foods two liang of soy-bean products and yung, 16, suffering from septicch in this vitamin include fat one catty or rice daily. wounds in his right arm, was adish, fish roe, fish liver offs and mitted to the Kowloon Hospital Folk yesterday. A member of the crew of a passenger boat "B97487, he was brought in by the master. The wounds were caused by a heavy bucket fallirig: on Kwok,

ACCIDENT ON SHIP

TISSUE-BUILDIN

LDING

1

Apart from its energy-producing function, protein as an extra function of e-building · and tissue-repairing.

NOT ASCERTAINED The exact amount of each that is required of vitamins has not been ascertained, but it is safe to say that by partaking freely of

Middle class diet for a young adult:

lang, Meat 4 llang. Fruit 10 ftans, Vegetables 12 Hang. 2 eggs 15 Rice 12 lang. Oll for cooking 1.5 lang.

Minimum diet for a young aduit: Vegetables 1 catty, Boy-bean products 2 lang, Sweet potatoes 12 lang, Rice F catty, Oll as de sired.

Middle clasä diet for a school child

.

Vegetables 10 lang. Sweet pota- toes 5 liang, Soy-bean eurd 8 lang. Meat 2 lang. 2 eggs, MUK 22 lanz Rice or other cereals & lang. Minimum diet for a school child: products 10 Hang. Sweet potatoes Vegetables 12 11ang Soy-bear

10 llang, 2 eggs, Fice 11 Hang. On

NB 1 catty-16 lang (Chinese)

fruits and vegetables and whole grains, the needs of the body for vitamins would be satisfied. As Although water is not usually white rice which is deficient in regarded as food, but as it forma vitamin B is being greatly used in A mass meeting was held in about 70% of the human body China, every encouragement should Chengtu on Saturday, to welcome weight, an adequate intake of be given to the introduction of the Burmese Goodwill Mission water is necessary both for the unpolished rice in the Chinese Mr, U. Ba Lwin, leader of the body activities as well as the re-dietary so as to minimise the in- as desired. Mission, made a broadcast speech moval of waste products froth the cidence of beri-beri. If people are on his impressions of China

body.

not accustomed to its use at the weight).

MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1939.

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