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LIFTS

and

NOTICES.

WAYGOOD-OTIS

ELEVATORS

FOR ALL PURPOSES.

FOR QUOTATIONS APPLY TO THE

SOLE AGENTS ←

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

MACHINERY DEPARTMENT.

SOLE AGENTS—

GANDY BELTING

THE EASTERN ASBESTOS GO.

QUEEN'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD, HONGKONG

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment;

Principal features: Small Premium, Liberal Surrender Value, No Medical Examination, Return of Premium in the Event of Death, and Numerous Options at the Age of 25.

FULL PARTICULARS TO WRITE FOR PAMPHLET AND

DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents.

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING

ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERS OF

LTD.

PURE MANILA ROPE

3

STRAND

1 to 15"

CABLE LAID 5" to 13"

4 STRAND 3" to 10" CIRCUMFERENCE.

DIRCUMFERENCE CIRCUMFERENUR

Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in langth. Prices, Samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application.

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

་

LIME JUICE CORDIAL. SIRDIR

SOLE AGESTS

CALDBECK

MACGREGOR

& CO.

No. 15, Queen's Road, Central. Telephone No. 75.

HONGKONG JAPANESE MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.

Mrs. A SUGA Mrs. S. HONDA $ Queen's Road Central.

Mr. U. SUGA Mr. I. HONDA

Hengkong.

METALS

of all kinds, especially for ship. building and engineering works. Largest and best assorted stock in the Cology..

General Managers.

NORTH BRITISH

AND

MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1919.

in which are vested the shares of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD. AND

to

THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.

The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared

ACCEPT RISKS against} FIRE at Current Rates, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks of 375 lbs. not In Bags of 250 lbs, net.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

General Managers. Hongkong, 16th August, 1916.

MASSAGE HALL

23. FLOWER STREET.

MR. T. TAKAYE,

MRS. MORITA. CERTIFICATED MASSEURS. PATIENTS TREATED IN THKI Ows Howa JJ DEARD.

SINGON & CO., LONDON DIRECTORY,

(Established A. D. 1880.)

HING LUNG ST.

Phone 515

MEE CHEUNG "ICE HOUSE STREET.

FOR

EXPERT PHOTOGRAPHY -DEVELOPING, PRINTING. ENLARGING & SPECIALITY. STORE OPPOSITE CITY HALL

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY. Z

THERAPION NË, 1 THERAPION NË 2 - THERAPION No3

Mr. 1 for Badder Ontario Sin. 2 fer Blood & KRİN TEMPANGE, Fe. & Zar Caronte WasichesING. BOLD BY LEADINGCHEMITE PERE IN ENGLAND.SE DR. LECLERCH.Chiaverterklin WkLens. BEE TRADE MARKED #DED WELLSION

KO S

ANNE GOTT, STAMF AFFINED TO GARVINE PACKETS

(Published Annually)

mobi traders throughout the World ontmaninte direct with English

MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS in each cism of goods, Besides being complete oummercial guide to London And Suburbs, It contains lists of

EXPORT MERCHANTS

with the goods they ship, and the Colonis, and Foreign Markets they supply; also

PROVINCIAL TRADE NOTICES

of leading Manufactures, Merchants, até,, in the principal Provincial Towns and 15- Istrial Centres of the United Kingdom - Business Cards of Merchazia and Donlara rocking

́ ́ BRITISH AGENCIES

now be printed, under 'exal trade in which they are interested at a cost of EJ for each trade heading. Larger advertise- ments from 6 to £12.

Loopy of the directory will be sent by port receipt of portal order for £1 10.0. THE LONDON DİKEQTORY, CO, LTD. I. Abchurch Lane, London, E.C.

Ford

$1380

Complete with Electric Lights & Electric Horn.

ALEX. ROSS & CO.,

4, Des Vœux Road Central.

'Phone 2487.

THE CAMERA MAN.

BRITISH ENTERPRISE TO

BEAT GERMANS.

AGENTS IN BRITISH MARKETS.

IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR COLONIAL TRADEKS,

There is a manufacturing business in Chius which has been running over 500 years,

NOTICES.

CALL

AT

THE HONGKONG

and is now being reorganised CIGAR STORE and extended. It is the Imperial Porcelain Factory at Ching Teh Ching, which has always supplied the palaces of China

CO., LTD.

AND ASK FOR

AND

YOU will be

convinced that Hongkong is

now favoured

with their fanicus blue and EL PALACIO white porcelain, and is iz! future to extend its operations to the making of ordinary domestic articles as well. No. business in the British Empire can lay claim to such a long record, but not a few can boast a history of over a century, sad the Landon house of John Had- don & Co. is one of them. It is a well-known firm of Export and Import Agents, specialising in Colonial trade, and though founded so long ago as 1814, it has been conducted all the way! thuongh by only three members of the Haddon family in succession

Its present proprietor is Mr. Walter Haddon, a man with interests ia the mpany business world, in which, indeed, he has been the pioneer of far- reaching improvements. No business with more energy and uan ever pat his back juto enthusiasm, and 20 man has a greater respect for the dignity of commerce, or a higher conception of its enormous power. He has no sympathy with that snobbish idea that trade is on a lower

sipus. He knows that trade plane than politics or the profes

keeps the politicians and the professors going, and he believes that every man should be work- ing in some way or other for British prosperity.

with the best brand

of

MANILA CIGARS.

KODAKS

& FILMS Developing & Printing

Undertaken.

Germans to push. But now we have succeeded in producing cameras of this kind quite as good as the Gengan article, in Bome respects rather better, and four makers are now looking for

ward not only to a large trade at An industry which is looking home but to a big export trade, We have a firm in England forward with confidence to a large expansion of trade when getting ready to put on the camera suitable for the world settles down again to market ä peace-time conditions is the high-speed photography which British photographic trade. They will be as good ss, and probably are hopeful of beating the best better thau, the Guerz camera that Germany had accomplished that the Press photographers like up to the time when the enrtain and we have the Fetories of

Certainly he has found not Messrs. Houghton and Batcher fell in 1914.

During last year the British and other firms preparing to turi merely interest but even romance photographic manufacturers co-out cameras as geol as any rival in some of the many develop operated for the ärst time in a has ever doce, in large quan-ments of his own business during the quarter of a century in campaign to bring the merits of tities.

In lenses, though the Ger- which he has presided over its A. TACK & CO., British goods to the notice of all!

With over". 1,500 uations who were not busy on the man- boomed their own products fortones. battlefields. They seat literature very artfully and cleverly, we employees to think about he

now producing better in has no time to waste, but fads 26, Des Voeux Road Central. explaining what they made, the ara prices at which the articles could struments of British glass, which plenty of time in which to in- be bought, and how they could be is now every whit as good as the crease the activities of the firm and add to the number of the obtained. They printed informa-famous Jena glass.”

Haddon interests. Daring four years of war wre tion in the language of every

The general offices of the firm country concerned, and they have learnt to be self-supporting quoted prices in the currency of in regard to all really essential are situated in Salisbury Square, each country. One of the earliest chemicals result was an order for 7,000 British plates, notwithstanding that part of the city of London in cameras from one country-which the difficulties of the supplies of

begiass and chemicals, have main unfortunately could executed at once as all the factor-tained their old quality, which is ies were on war work. But the the finest in the world. For a time seed thus an will bear fruit in there was a difficulty in getting the early future.

100

for

-

TEE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE .CO. LTD.

(Capital Paid up........$1,250,000.)

Lamer on Martynge of House Property, in Doods reprived on Stor THE

·ádromes made on

Loans made on the Prot.dant Syste

*TRUSTRE. ELECUTOR OF WIB. ATTORNEY, de Undertakan and Executek, (Kalms and Particulara în appčestion) To the Os of

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

General Managers.

photography. Fleet Street, in the very centre of THE ALEXANDRA CAFE.

which all the great daily papers are produced. The Export and Buying Department is the oldest branch of the business. Constant and steady growth has marked its

all the material that was desirable operations, and the new block of Mr. A. C. Brookes, secretary off for the production of good photo-offices and warehouses is now 3 The the British Photographic Manu- graphic printing papers, but the hive of industry, every section of facturers Association, told a products of France helped ne over which is organised and equipped Dolly News representative that a period and now an enterprising in the most approved and up-to- during the war our photographic paper firm is establishing aspecial date methods. During the past! factories have been kept busy on factory in Scotland for the pro-decade the firm's activities in surgent Government work, but asduction of the best chemicallypare 1000 31 contracts expire they paper for photography.

are

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PORTLAND STONE REVIVAL. Portland stone masons are re-

foreign fields have been energetic- ally pursued, with the result that business has been enormously their converting 10W

increased. Branches have been factories ictu photographic

established at Capa Towa, workshop again. In the high

Toronto and Sydney, and selling class cameras sed" by studio photographers," said Mr. Brookes, turning to the quarries in large agencies in Paris, Milan, Copen- we always held the leat, and numbers on their release from the hagen, Christiania, Stockholm, we shall retain it. Our cameras Army. Stone from the island Cairo, Montreal, New York, of this kind went all over the largely u-el in important Singapore, Shanghai, Yokohama, Auckland. Wellington, Mel- world. But in the ubiquitous public buildings in London, and fulling plate camera, which when the Government placed a bourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Fre-

Madras, amateurs are using in ever-ban on the completion of premise mantle, increasing nutubers, the Germans in course of erection, Portland Calcatta, Colombo and Buenos had a valuable trade over here. stone quarries were practically

"They were well made as a closed down. Now, however, More and more business within rule, and they had an attractive there would appear to be some the British Empire, and as much finish, and as they sold for £4 or prospect of the ban being re- as possible outside it, would £5, they were a useful line for the moved.

PHILIPS LAMPS OBTAINABLE "1⁄2WATT NOW IN UNITS OF

25 AND 32 C.P.

WHICH CONSUME ONLY ABOUT HALF THE AMOUNT OF ELECTRIC CURRENT USED BY METALLIC FILA MENT LAMPS OF EQUAL CANDLE POWER. FURTHER IN UNITS UP TO 300- C.P... ARE PROOP AGAINST SHOCKS AND VIBRATION.

FOR WHOLESALE APPLY TO

HOLLAND-CHINA TRADING CO.

HONGKONG - CANTON." BOLE AGENTS FOR SOUTH CHINA,

Aires.

Bombay,

pretty accurately sum up-the policy of the House of John Haddon & Co. In touch with Indian

for

RENOWNED THROUGHOUT THE EAST"

Alexandra Cale (next door to Hongkong Hotel) för Tiffin and Dinner. Our famous filleted Haddock as a light Summer Snack is unsurpassed. Choice-Ginger Cake a speciality, try it.

FOOK LEE & CO.,

Established 1871.

IRON & STEEL PRODUCTS, HOUSE & SHIPBUILDING & ENGINEERING MATER ALS,

HEAD OFFICE:

Nos. 2,4 Hibler Street, Phone 1174.

BRANCH OFFICE: York Building. Chater Road, Phone 1950.

PRICES SENT ON APPLICATION.

of the standards of

etc.,

GENERAL NEWS.

WORKED 90 HOURS A WEEK. A fine of £12 and costs was

and Colonial centres import into England the pale

rubber, which everywhere, the firm acts as buy-crepe ing agents for an unlimited one class of goods. Every possible plantation rubber, and indeed requirement, personal or business, they had a great deal to do with inflicted on the Nucla" Glass is handled. Commissions for any the beginnings of the rubber Works, Ltd., of King's-road, kind of merchandise are executed industry. The department ships Barking, at Stratford Police Court traders, storekeepers and consignment of produce from all recently for employing women planters who are far removed parts of Africa, Australia, Fiji, during illegal hours.. An inspect- from the markets; and with a re- India, Ceylon, China, Borneo, or said the women were employ- cord of over a century behind it. New Zealand, South and Central ed on night work all the week, there is good reason for the ron- America, Madagascar, Mauritius, and thus worked 00 hours.

and these ONE MILLION EUTZES WANTED. fidence reposed in the firia by its Tahiti,

Lord Chelmsford has issued a from rango consignments oldest clients.

to -timber,

from strong appeal on behalf of the Then there is the importation tea of Colonial produce. From the coffee and cotton to cloves and Imperial Indian Relief Fund for very earliest days in the history copra, from metals and oils to £666,600, which, in addition to feathers and fibres, and even live the £533,280 which the fund of the firm a considerable amount wild animals on occasion.

has in hand, is needed for a of basiness of this kind had been

The successful methods of the scherne of relief for Indian done with the West Indies and Madagascar, but as time went on, firm, and its reputation for fair officers and men and their established and honourable dealing, are dependents, and the dependents with produce shipping houses such as to recommend it to any of British officers of the Indian all over the world. Haddon & readers who may be looking for Army, who have suffered through Co. were amongs first to London Agents to promote their the war.

connections were

interests.