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LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION. PUBLIC AUCTION.
BOTANIC GARDENS' WAR WORK
The Singapore Botanic Gardens are playing a very practical part THE Undersigned have received in Malaya's "more home-grown
THE Undersigned have received instructions
instructions
TO SELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
Friday, the 26th July,.1948
OX
commencing at 2.30 p.m.
▪
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
ON
Friday, the 26th July, 1940 at 12 o'clock (noon)
GENERAL
FASHION DECREES FROM
COMMUNIST BOOK FOUND
IN MILITARY
AMERICA
BEACH AND “PLAY CLOTHES
THE BEACH might be located well, within the bounds of the U.
food" campaign. A spot of lawn, SERVANTS ROOM 3. A, but it's a safe bet the clothes
that would otherwise, have produc-
the
ed only flowers and grass, has Considerable trouble among ser-you'll and adorning the fair ba
thers and sun loungers will be been turned into a self-contained vants at Chang, resulted in experimental station cam show-arrest of Ham Ni Tiu. a 25-year-Pan-American in appearances. room for a large variety of vegeta-old. Hainanese, for the possession Brilliant Hoes: bles.
of a prohibited publication whe
BOLD PRINTS, from Mexico in On the outbreak "of war:28 beds Emancipation" - — which for vegetable culture were opened stated to be the journal of the the brillant hues of that colour- American on the lawn mentioned, and all" China Communist Party.
loving country, South hues, colours that rival in coolness vegetables grown were labelled,
the greens of the North, Woods or the sparkling whites of Central particulars Ok propagation and
american wear-all have been other information.
at their Sales Room, No. 35 Han-at their Sales Room, No. 2 Con-while a notice board close by had
kow Road, Kowloon,
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
comprising:-
Hatstands, Chesterfield couches and armchairs, Card table. Black- :wood Majong table, Dining tables.
Road
(Second Central
naught
Moor).
A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS GOODS
Comprising:-
Galvanized wire, Tin spoons, Chairs, Sideboards. Desks, Back-Paper ware, Talcum Powder, Oker, parts. Mirrors. Combs, cases, Tables, Cabinets, Radios. Bicycle Electric Ceiling and Table Fans, Alum. Enamelled ware, Sardines, Typewriter, Binoculars, Bextent, Margarine. Metronome, Thermometer, Bed- steads, Wardrobes, Dressing tables, Chests-of drawers, Tientsin Carpet and rugs, Cutlery, Porcelain and Cass, Ware, Perambulator. Pump 'Stove, Picture Printing "Machine,
Inverted Lights, etc., etc.
also
A QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD AND RATTAN FURNITURE
End
One Plano by "Rachals & Con
One Plane by "Moutrie "
One Organ
One Kelvinator
One Austin Motor car, 16 H..P
One Dining Room Suite
Two Bed Room Suites
On view from Thursday the 25th
July, 1940...
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS.
also
10 cases Kerosene. Heaters
7 cases Vulcan Fibre Tubes
J
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS.
▪,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE
THE Undersigned have received
instructions
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
Saturday and Monday, the 27th
and 29th July, 1940,
commencing at 10.30 am, on Saturday and at 2.30 p.m. on Monday
at No. 103 Austin Road, Kowloon:
PUBLIC AUCTION. A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
WE Undersigned have received (Full particulars from catalogue)
Instructions
to sell by
***PUBLIC AUCTION
1.1
Monday, the 29th July, 1940
commencing" at 10.30 am.
"at No. 113, Austin Road, Top Fidor, ¦
"A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
Particulars from Catalogue
Ton View from, Sunday, the 28th July 1940
15
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS..
AUCTIONEERS.
it
On View from Friday, the 26th" July, 1940.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS.
SHORT PAPERS
[sults.
Ham pleaded gulity to a charge of possession of the publication and was sentenced to two months' Veretables and notice board at-rigorous imprisonment by Mr. used with extremely satisfying re- tracted considerable public in. Rappoport, the Third Police Ma-
gistrate, Singapore. terest; reports Mr. R. E, Halttum,
From Mexico comes a plarsuit Gardens, S.S., and Mr. F. 1 Tremlett, who prose of rayan fersey. The suit features Director of
cuted, said that there had been a bare midriff below an abbre- many requests for further
considerable trouble among formation were received.
the viated top of white jersey. The servants at Chang! Cantonment. top has sleeves and a square neck. As a result the military authoriTire skirt is full, brilliantly print- Carry ed in red, yellow, blue" and green In connexion with this work, a tie at Changi decided to number of short papers on local out a search of suspected persons. towers. Tiny panties complete the
was searched," jouth, vegetables and their cultivation Ham's
Copy Vivid Brazilian flowers in bright were prepared by officers of the sald Mr. "Tremlett, "and Gardens Department, for the M. of "The Emancipation. Issue No. green, blue, wine, copen, wood 4. H. A. magazine with the co-19. was found in his room. The brown, purple or reds have been operation of the Agricultural Off-Emancipation' is the journal of transferred to linen and cottons the China Communist Party, and for use as play suits and rwin- cer. Singapore.
Besides these vegetable plots in its importation was
forbidden ming suits. the Botanic Gardens, the Gardens under the Undesirable Publica- on similar tions Ordinance and gazetted Department carried out work in Government House domain Apr, 10, 1940.
A BALLERINA SKIET with a where a vegetable garden Was "Ham was also found in pos- | brassiere-top bodice la figure- flat- opened in addition to the former session of two documents which tering.
eye-catening. The nursery accommodation for this were written to his own hand-flowered-print is hold in size and purpose.
writing. One was about a strike¦ colour..
room
Я
Ballerina Skirt:
and
い
In the 38 beds were grown long and the other was B letter of One line features a print inspir- beans, frenet beans, sweet pota-waming signed by the Traitored by the tattoo of the sailor. A toes radishes, cauliflowers, lobak. Exterminating Corps."
butterfly perched-on-a-ross mas- maize, brinjals, lettuces, artic.
Ham said that he bought "The terpiece is printed on
a three hokes, lady. Angers, amaranthus. Emancipation" five of six months piece ensemble. The tiny cotton and Chinese cabbage.
ago and that he had picked up top is of plain colour and a full Another vegetable garden was
had skirt with a shirred elastic top is the two pamphlets which also made, at the outbreak of war been distributed by a cycllat at, worn. The midrif is bare. in the grounds of the Colonial
The separate pants are of Secretary's house.
When reminded by the magle shirred cotton matelasse, in the trate that the documents were in printed design. his own handwriting, Ham sald that he had written the pamphlets
CORVETTES FROM CANADA
Changi.
Two entwined hearts are printed
out while practising writing Chi-on cotton elasticized matelasse to make a fetchings bathing suit. The LONDON, July 25 (Reuter)nese characters. Canada's latest contribution- to the war effort consists of build-
"
ing of vessels to be known -3.5 The wedding of Mr. D. McL. for Wheeler, of Imperial Chemical In- were dustries (China), Ltd., and son of but Mr. and Mrs. J. E. wheeler, tor-
Corvettes which will be used patrol purposes. Corvettes originally vessels similar smaller to frigates.
merly of Shanghai and now at are Highcliffe, Hants, and Miss Jean Greig, adopted daughter of Provost G, Beles and the late Mrs. Eeles,
In the United States they known as sloops of war.
They will be named after towns
in Canada just as other Cana of North Berwick, East Lothian. dian warships are named after took place on July 18 at Holy"
Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai. Canadian riyers.
80-Year-Old Land Deal Decision In Court
Judgment in favour of the Attorney-General was delivered.
PUBLIC AUCTION. by Mr. Justice Manning in the High Court Singapore in respect
THE Undersigned have received THE
Instructions
to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION
on
Monday, the 29th July, 1940 commencing at 10.30 am.
of two pieces of land sold by the East India Co, in 1857 and 1858" to Wee Guan Hoe and Wee Guan Wee, as trustees, far the burial ground of the Wee Clan.
TRUSTS FAILED
suit is a simple, one-piece model It has a fingertip length beach coat of matching cotton, made without the elastic.
X Sharkskin:
SHARKSKIN, in briliant white, used for swimming suits, play
suits, slacks shorts-every variety or play clothes.
For tennis, the above-the-knee
wide favor. In skirts have won white pique, linen, sharkskin or cotton, they're made for coolness and freedom of action.
.
The skirt is always full but this į fullness is achieved in a number of ways: One of the most popular styles is the short ballerina skirt. Others have box pleats to give both a slim line and fullness.
FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1940.
For the Summer Days
ICY-HOT JUG
SODA SIEGEN
FOR HOME
FOR CLUB
FOR OFFICE
·MODERN: IN DESIGN
PRACTICAL IN USE
SODA KING
S Y P HO N
Make Your Own
Club Soda Easily
- Quickly
·
Economic- ally.
CHINA EMPORIUM
GLASSWARE DEPT,
Important
Scheme
SECOND FLOOR
Government
Shelved
be
An •indportant Government scheme which would have bad * excellent effect on the cultural life of the city has had to shelved for the time being. This proposed scheme aimed at ex- tending Raffles Library to the buildings at present occupied by St. Andrew's School, says the Malaya Tribune,
не
by
Work was scheduled to start, Further extensions to These tennis dresses have short immediately on the building, as library have long been urged pants of white worn under the soon as the school transferred to various publje bodies in the city. dress which may be either in one its new premises at Woodsville. Quite recently, the Straits Set- or two places.
PAPERS AS USUAL
News of Government's derision tlements (Singapore) Association ¡to postpone the development of made a recommendation in
to Government for the the scheme-put forward by the letter committee of the library-was re-establishment of branch libraries. ceived recently. the Tribune is the suburbs of the city, with a informed,
view to benefitting very many residents than Raffles
The proposed scheme was in
·more“
FATHER GIVES
AWAY TWO DAUGHTERS
For a number of years these | Mr. N A. Mallall, who appeared two pieces of land, situated in on behalf of the Attorney-General Tanjong Pagar District, were used (the defendant) argued that the as burial grounds for members of proceeds of the sale of the lands the Wee clan. Part of the first should be distributed in accord- plece of land was acquired by ance with a cy-pres scheme to be
LONDON, July 25 (Renter)-In extend the library to the build-Library is dring now Government over 30 years ago approved by the Court.
the House of Commons yesterdays left vacant by St. Andrew's and for the last 30 years rielther
Mr. Duff Cooper was asked whe-School. By this move, the junior piece of land. had been used as a
"I am in agreement with Mrther any arrangements. had been library and the public library housed in burial ground...
Neither was ever licensed under Mallall's argument on this point made in the event of any region would have been
went on His Lordship. "Here theref Britain being cut off during an separate buildings,
enemy invasion; to secure the 48- The present library would then the authorities, stated lordship, seemed to have winked land for burial of the members of
widest scale possible.
reference: Ubrary" y the clan Wee, Trustees were spr
The Minister of Information re Development of
Singapore, recently, Mr. G. Baker the public of years.
ed to acquire the necessary land arrangements have been made have depended entirely on
itself would thereafter walked down the aisle with 's bride The lands could no longer be The land was acquired.
on each arm. the both by National and Provincial amount of money available,
He gave away his daughters "It was the intention of those newspapers on their, qwn account in the question of money, the ble wedding to Lance Corporal a part of them no longer belong-who subscribed this money that to secure distribution should such committee has decided that Ralph Desmond Sharpe R. and used for burials, firstly, because
Gwendolyn. and Olga at theif dou- ed to the trust; and, secondly, the land should be a perpetual
a period of emergency arise. On view from Baturday, the 7th cause the law bad forbidden gift to the members of the Wes their use for the purpose for cian for a particular purpose. The July, 1940.
which they were purchased.
Kowloon.
at No. 113 Austin Road, Top Flat, the law as a burial ground, but was a trust created to acquire tribution of newspapers on the have been developed-purely 28 the Bethesda Gorpet Hall, PUBLIC AUCTION. A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE at bantals in them for a number pointed and money was subscribeplied that he understood adequate reve
TELE
HE Undersigned have received
Instructions
to sell. 27
PUBLIC AUCTION
on
Tuesday, the 20th July, 1940 commencing xf 18.30 am.
at No. 98, Nathan Road, Kowloon.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
articulars from Catalogue.
View from Monday, the 29th
July, 1940,
Terms: Cash on Delivery S
BROS
IONEERS,
·
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
(Full particulars from catalogue)
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
AUCTIONEERS,
*
land was used for this purposa for
In these circumstances. the a number of years, 1e the gift LORD LLOYD'S
"Then owing to a strict enforce- CONGRATULATIONS port should be forth- mad wearing a picture frock of
financial support for the man Lance Corporal Ernest Corner, R.F.. tenance sad improvement of the respectively. library... should not come from Miss E. Toemans attended Miss Government alone, and that more Gwendolyn Agnes Baker, as brides Judge stated, certain issues had
took effect boon framed for trial in which a
Corning
blus taffetas with pale pink acces- man named Wee Caln Ann.
ment of the law, and a Ôm-
"LONDON," July 25 ~ (Reuter): "
There have been other proposals sories. Her bouquet was of blue LAMMERT BROS, sandson of Wee Guan Ho, was
the plaintiff and the defendant pulsory sale of part of the land when Lord Lloyd, Secretary of for the taking over of the school and pink hydrangeas,
an Mise Olga Naomi Baker was at- was the Attorney-General on the to the Government, the land could state for Colonies, inspected two bufidings. On the relation of a member of the Wee longer be used for the purpose. detachments of Cypriot Transport Road aide one of the oup of tended by Misses G. Blddons and
"The answer to the first and companies attached to the North- buildings will be handed ove The first two issues, were whe-second sales is that the trusts era and Southern Commands yes the Toe # Club,
Nothing has been finalised ther the trusts created by the two ave failed because they have beerday, he delighted them by ad- indentures dated March 3. 1857, come impossible of performance, dressing them in their own lan yet, however, but it is believed wore headdresses of pink
Тре Club and October 20, 1858, had failed. The answer to the third lesue is guage. He said that he was much that All that needed to be said as re-that the persone beneficially en- impressed by their discipline and over the building gards these was that the objects titled to the proceeds of the sale qualty and congratulated them on date, although imp of the trusts had become impossi- of the lands are the members of their efficiency during the recent renovations to the ble of performance as the land the Wee clan under a scheme to campaign in France, and could no longer be used for burials,
What do
you want ?
you
If there is anything'
Jou want to buy or sell, try ■
n
Classified advertise-
ment in the Hong- kong Daily Press.
25 words $1.50 prepaid
for
clan,..
be approved by the court,
The third issue was what per Wee Chin Ann sons were entitled to the lands represented the
Halim comprised in the two indentures M
or the proceeds of sale therent: trustees."
Palestine He also inspected the represented Corps and told them how impres NA Mallalled he was their bearing and dis- ratulateu Attorney-General; cipline, and he also can
them on
the recent campaign in Fri
Iding.
ta M. Bullivan. They were frocked alke in pink taffetar picture 15 frocks with bine accessories.
tarf halo shape and carried bou an early pink gladialil ments and Officiating minisue was
Dr. B- Chew was the Lance Corpora) QUESTION OF COST.
tended by Reason for Go rnment's decran RE
to Desh the extension1 Corner was att heme however. 13 the question Adams, a of cost.
Prew was the
be necessar
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