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EDITORIAL
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO.,
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION,
deceased.
IN THE GOODS of Justina | Auction to be held on Monday, Jessie Anderson of Marley the 20th day of May, 1940, at Belle Vue Road Southbourne 3 p.m., at the Offices of the on Sea, Hants, formerly of | Public Works Department, by Essendon Stourwood Bourne Order of His Excellency the mouth Hants Spinster, Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Cheung Sha Wan, In the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, - with option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 24 years less the last three days thereof.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Pro- bates Ordinance 1897, made an
time Order limiting the tor creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to the 8th day of June, 1940.
All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.
Dated the 14th day of May, 1940.
JOHNSON, STOKES &
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*MASTER. Solicitors for the Executors. Hong Kong & Shanghai
Bank Building,
Hong Kong.
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THE CANTON INSURANCE. OFFICE LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
The Fifty". Ninth Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the under- signed on Wednesday, the 22nd May, 1940, 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 Decem. ber, 1939.
The Share Register and Trans fer Books will be closed from the 8th May, to the 2nd May, 1940, both days Inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD..
General Agents.
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Hong Kong, 1st May, 1940.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
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This is to give notice that the undermentioned cargo will be sold in our Gedewas at Kow. Joan by Auction, to defray storage charges, at 10 am, on Thursday, 30th May, 1940, unless claimed and storage charges are paid before that date.
Co.
G.
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
"PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public
LOT NO.
STORERS
CARGO
DATE STORED
ORDER OF
G 25151 25268
Ane Shean & Co.
1 Bale Cardboard
11/7/31
30
6
Bales Strawbeard.
9/8/31
J26872
Ching Fong Chong & 79
Bags Cotton Gloves
24/6/38
H 30849
Meezon & Co.
4
Cases Pencils
2/6/37.
J 27077
Kong Kee & Co. Ltd.
18
Casks. Retorts
23/7/38
€ 62663
Fal Hing
1
Case Cotton Goods
6/1/31
J 27654
Tack Wo Kang Kee
2
Casks Dyes
29/9/38
Dyestuff Co.
27656
-1" Cask
< 27800
1 Dram Sod. Sulphate
21/10/38
27814 28201
s Drums
25/10/38
199
$1
Sulphur Black
27/1/39
G 25916 Wing Hong
26094 H 28203 Leung Yu Wing
28217
20 Cases Hosiery Wool
29/10/31
3
1#
"
*
4/12/31
Box Cinema Films
15/4/35
T
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17
24/4/35
Case Machinery
23/9/36
3 Cases Rayon Goods
14/7/37
5 Pkges. Match Machine
21/8/37
10
??
16/10/37
8 Cases Water Bottles 2 Cases Packing
2
Medicines
25/4/32 22/10/28
4"
Talcum Powder
.. 9/6/29
Toa Trading Co.
Canton
2 Cases Ganze
20/9/30
25869
30687 Yokohama, Specie
Bank
1 Case Printed Matter
* Asb. Sheets
30688
Intending bidders are advised thai imediately after the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser' (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who, will be present at the sale," the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
No. of Sale.
Now Kowloon Inland Registry No. Lot Na. 2702. Junction of Castle Peak Road & Fat Treung Street, Cheung Sha Wan
Locality.
Boundary
Measure-
ments.
As per
sale plan.
About
204.
Contents in
ADAUMI Square feet.
Rental
. | Upset PriON,
About
11,093
LA
H 29894 Tam Yui Lin
31109 Tung Sing & Co. 3!351 Tin Tạo & to, 31599 29739 F 38922
G 39459 F 45261
G 44747 23874
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Kwanan Trading Co., Canton Trading Assn.
"1
Hongkong Import &1 Case Perfumery
Export Co...
67978 N. S. Moses & 14 Co. Ltd.
Goldstone
H33315 Hirata & Co. Canton
46011
3
7
33457 Muller & Phipps Ltd. 35877 Chartered Bank of
3
"
Waterproof Cloth Fasteners - Prepared Food Case Disinfectant
280
37864
Pkges. Sanitary Ware
Q.
B.
40488 42520
1 Case Horse Races
1 Case Instruments
PUBLIC AUCTION.
1 Crate Kettle.
3 Bales Woollen Yarn
60 Pkges. Asb. 'Sheets
4 Cases Band Steel
PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 20th day of May, 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department,' by Order of His Excellency the Governor of
Land one Lot of Crown To Kwa Wan, in the Colony of Hong Kong for 2. term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be Axed by the Surveyor of Bu Majesty the KING, for one fur ther term of 75 years.
India Jardine, Matheson & 51
Co. Ltd., Agents, "Glen" Line Capt Godinez Kawamura & Co. Canton 42911 Stard & Co. Canton. 43373 Central European
Trading Co. Canton
43405 43775
12
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H 43867 Central European
Trading Co. Canton
E 14421 F 14688 14689
1 Case Machine
5 Cases LampTM Cord'
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1940.
Daily Press.
Editorial and Business Office:
15-19, Queen's Road Central, Tel 30251
Night Editor (Wanchal Office):
Tel. 24511.
London Office: 59. Fleet Street
E.C.4.
Hongkong, May 15, 1940.
Paper Famine
ONE IMPORTANT effect of
Mr. Yeung Chung-shing and his bride, formerly Miss Norma Ho Koon-fun after their wed- ding at the Registry on Satur- day. (King's Studio).
TECHNIQUE OF PIANO PLAYING
the war, and for which, i unfortunately, little provision appears to have been made, concerns the paper industry.. When the Germans so unex- pectedly invaded. Denmark and Scandinavia, the world's chief source of supply of
and
WES woodpulp paper automatically closed and the resultant cessation of exports: from these countries is likely 'to create a grave shortage of A serious problem, paper. therefore, confronts all pub- ishers and newspaper com-
W. LOVELOCK. panies, in particular, will begin to find it increasingly・・ A most Instructive lecture on difficult to give their reading the technique of plano playing and public the full service to teaching was given yesterday at which their readers have be- the Club Lusitano, by Dr. William come accustomed. This state Lovelock, at the conclusion of the of affairs has been brought Trinity College music examinations about by the folly of not lay-held since May 6. 22/1/31 Nippon Yusen Kaisha ing in "sufficient stocks of Dr. Lovelock expressed pleasure. 9/12/29
7/8/36
9/3/26 Nederlandsche Handel
Maatschappij
11
4/6/31
do.
15/3/33 Nippon Yusen Kalsha
2/8/37 28/3/33 11/12/33
21/8/34 Manufacturers Bank
of China
27/6/35 24/2/36
11
29/4/36 Nippon Yusen Kaisha
9/7/36
-21/7/36 10/7/36 12/9/36
14/11/36
27/6/37 Nippon Yusen Kaisha 23/7/37 Yokohama Specle
Bank Ltd.
at
44222 45629 Giko Yoko, Canton 45917 T. Eyaki
...
1 #1
1 "Case Glass Bottles
G13255 Hongkong Trading Co H12223 Wing Cheong & Co.
13484
2 Cases Turpentine
16/4/32
2
+4
2
Port Wine Vermouth
31/12/33
15/8/34
*
1. M. Noronha Lammert Bros.
2 Drums. Rect. Alcohol
4/10/24
28 Cases Wine
12/1/29
26
11
59
I Case Beer
9/6/32
8 Cases Brandy etc.
16/6/36
6.
11
Wine Cigarettes
30/5/36
30/6/37
"
Z
29/5/36
1,
"
:
15 Tins Dyes
1/8/36
- 4 Cases Thermos
4/6/34
Intending bladers are advised that immediately after the dis posal, of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant), will be PARTICULARS AND CON required to deposit with so DITIONS of the Sale by Public authorised officer who will be Auction to be held on Monday, present at the sale, the sum of the 20th day of May, 1940, at 3 two hundred dollars, ($200) in. p.m., at the Offices of the Public cash. This sum will be refunded Works Department, by Order of on payment of the Purchase
price. His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Argyle Street, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Ma- jesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis. posal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant), will be required to deposit with no authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum et two hundred dollars ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded. on payment of the Purchase
price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
No. of Sale,
Kowloon Inlaud
Lot No. 4978.
Registry No.
South-west of Kloon Inland Lot No. 1800,
Locality.
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Ha Heung Road,
|_To_Kwa Wan.
Boundary
Measure-
menta.
As per
sale plan
Annual
Rental.
About
Contents in
3.720
Square feet.
08
2,700
Upset Price.
J2.
G 13473 Honwan Trading Co.
..Canton
H 11033/6 Kế Chi Cheung
17904 San Martino Co. H 00192 World Tobacco Co. (7983 Heung Wah G 8203 Ping Kee G.4471 Yce Kee On
Hongkong: 6th May, 1940.
THE INDO CHINA STEẢM NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
-C. M. MANNERS,
SERIOUS CHARGE
*AGAINST OPERATORS
mg at 11 o'clock was granted Mr.
Secretary & Manager.
BLACK-OUT :
OFFENCES
A
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as hostilities paper as soon started. When it is réalised that Denmark, Scandinavia and Finland together export over 5,000,000 tons of paper and woodpulp, the seriousness of the position now for im- porters of paper and publish- ers will be better understood. The effect of this paper shortage-began to make itself. felt in Hongkong as soon as Germany carried the war into Denmark and Norway and prices today are soaring for the stocks that are still avail- able in the colony.
than
MOST OF THE NEWS- PAPER publishers in Hong- kong have no doubt sufficient { stocks to carry them on for some months, but when the duration of the war and its effect on paper imports come to be considered in years, the consequences of this paper famine will become apparent most much sooner people seem to expect. The inevitable result will be that newspapers here and in other parts of the British Empire will be forced to restrict their space and size.. Some people will perhaps welcome this as providing less pages to wade through to find the important news of the day, but it cer- tainly is a strange irony that while a war has the effect of reducing paper, stocks and
LECTURE BY DR.
at Hongkong's standard of music, especially that of Chinese can- didates, who were a majority of the 187 participating.
Dr. Lovelock gave some valuable advice and said that when can- didates are examined on sight reading, accuracy of time and fluency are stressed, while a cer tain number of wrong notes is allowed.
The fact of playing plado, or violin, well does not make one a teacher,
"Parrot learning, and tea- ching is to be deplored, said advised Dr. Lovelock. He against wearing wrist-watches when playing the piano, as it hampers the movement of hands.
OD the
Dr. Lovelock showed plane how some players fail to distinguish between the melody and the accompaniment, whether in the bass or treble clef. "Make the melody sing," said the lecturer.
In conclusion, Dr. Lovelock play- ed with fine touch and expression a delightful piece by Debussy, "Arabesque," ending up with an energetic rendition of Percy Grain- ser's "Country Garden.”
On his first visit to Hongkong. De Lovelock has cancelled "his trip to Shanghal for the Trinity College examinations, and will re- - turn to India, via Malaya and Ceylon.
NOT: GUILTY
supplies of newsprint for Appearing before Mr. R. Ed newspaper companies, it at wards on a charge of theft of a the same time results in vast-fountain pen, Ng Hak-keung," a Chinese boxing teacher. waz ly increased news services and
charged.
was dis
The complainant in the case was Chung Yuk-sze, and he al- leged that while walking-along Queen Victoria Street on May 8 the defendant took the pen from his pocket. He said that a small boy gave him a push from the left and s person picked his pen. He turned round and, saw the de-
it is the harassed editor who found not guilty and has to solve the difficulty of finding means and ways to cram more and more news into ever decreasing space.
IN THESE CIRCUM- STANCES, sacrifices will have to be called for, not only from newspaper companies, but Mr. R. J. V. Everest, of the from their reading public as fendant walking a short distance Government Electric Works, Chat- well. Many features of news- in front.
Defendant denied the allegation A remand until Saturday morn-ham Road, was cautioned when papers will necessarily have
appeared be
before Mr. Qto be curtailed, if not given and offered to let the complainant Kowloon up entirely, and the public. to search him. The pen was not Leo D'Almada S, appearing for A A, Macfadyen at NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING second defendant, when the case Court yesterday on a summons should unhesitatingly accept found on him. It was stated that.
against Leung Tze-hong, 33, Lung for an offence against the Black- the position thus created with the complainant alleged that the Chiu-kong, 29, and Cheung Bau- The Fifty-ninth Ordinary Genwal, 35, wireless operators, charg-Lighting Regulations on the regard to the presentation of defendant had passed the pen to
night of April 11
news. For instance, the plea- the small boy. Defendant stated he had
sure most readers derive from eral Meeting of the Company ed with offences against the De-
fence Regulations, came
up for
switch on his spotlight suddenly seeing large 281 will be held at the Offices of the
and graphic that he was a boxing teacher and hearing before. Mr. E Himsworth
to avoid a possible accident as a headlines with General Managers, Messrs. Jarat Kowloon Court yesterday.
generous Chinese woman ran across the make-up displays and illus- dinc, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Defendants are charged with street walle he was taming fromtrations will have to be sacri- Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on possession
printed. of marked
Nathan Road into Hankow Road. Thursday, 30th May, 1940, at documents, bemg tele-communica
Mrs. V. C. Labrum was fined $5 ficed. News will have to be pre- tion call signs, with conspiracy to
lights of her car to be switched on at 9.50 p.m. on the night in question,
to
The defendant, in evidence, said
on the day in question he was on his way to see a friend.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT DONT FORGET {noon, for the purpose of receiving knowingly send or transmit by for having allowed the parking sented in a "more and more able. Very few parts of the
Registry No.
Nọ, of Sale, i
Kowloon Inland Lot No. 4277. Argyle Street, Kowloon leland
| Locality.
Lot No. 4207.
Boundary
Mensure
ments
E
As per
Įsale plan.
About
Contents i
12,000
Annual Square feet
Rental
8,000
* Upset Price, |
set
279
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The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 23rd May to 13th June inclusive. By order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Managers, Hong Kong, 16th April, 1940.
telegraph instructions for utilizing means of secretly conveying celving or recording information. and with possession of means of secret comirpunication.
condensed form, in narrower British Empire produce paper and closepacked columns and and woodpulp in large quan even in smaller type; lengthy titles and what comes from Miss W. Wickett, of No. 2, Pratt reports of matters of local Canada, for instance, will be Building, was fined $10 for not interest will have to be needed for home consump There are five additional charges having had the Hights of her car severely cut down, however tion: American exports alone against first defendant, who is a properly screened, and Mr. Frank much it may irritate public will be unable to supply world. Burrell, of Butterfield and wire. speakers, and terse comment requirements satisfactorily cused of transmitting various mesas fined $5 for a similar offence, will become the order of the and other known sources of sages over the wireless while em-
day in modern journalism. production are either totally ployed at the Water Police Station
The position is not one that insufficient or of such an in- newspaper readers will wel-ferior quality as to be useless. come, but it is one that can- for newspaper requirements. not be remedied unless a new The problem is undoubtedly e and large source of supply for grave one and no immediate paper and woodpulp is avall solution appears probable.
as a wireless operuor, and three First defendant is being repre additional dirges against third sented by Mr. Leo D'Almada Sr., defendant. who is also accused of second defendant by Mr. G. B. having transmitted messages over Ford and third defendant by Mf. the wireless other than as provid Alfred Y. Hon. Mr, J. Reynolds, 226 ed by order of the Postmarres Crown Counsel, will prosecute.
Defendants are on bail.
General..
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