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WHEN TRAVELLING sickness can often be avoided by taking a mild laxative the night before starting and again when necessary during the journey. For this purpose Pinkettes are ideal. As gently as natura they

PINKETTES

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BIG BANK MERGER.

́LANCASHIRE BANKS JOIN FORCES.

London, Dec. 1. A provisional agreement has been reached for a fualon of the Lancashire and Yorkshire bank with the Bank of Liverpool and Martins.

dispel constipation, regulate the liver, banish sick headaches and

According to the latest balnuce- -biliousness, restore daily regular- ity. Of your chemist, or post free sheets, the Bank of Liverpool and 60 conts the vial, from the Dr. Martina has deposita of about Williams' Medicine Co., 60, Klang-£60,000,000, and the Lancashire se Road, Shanghai. Let Plakettes and Yorkshire Bank deposits of

173A DOA J33X

OXYGEN ACETYLENE DISSD."

AMMONIA, AIR NITROGEN CARBONIC ACID CARBIDE

HYDROGEN, NEON ARGON NITROGEN.

(On special request !

THE FAR EAST OXYGEN ACETYLENC co., Ltd.

OFFICE:-P, &. O. Building," 5th Floor Phone Tul, C. 2344. - WORKS:-To Kwa-Wan -

Tel. K. 789,"

M. J. E. QUILLOT, Managor.

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WESTINGHOUSE, ELECTRIC

Reiss, Massey & Co., Ltd.

DISTRIBUTORS.

Exchange Bldgs,

Tel. C.678

PHOTOGRAPHY & ART EXHIBITION & CONTEST

AT MACAO... From 22nd Jan, to 15th Feb. 1928. Entries close 18th January, 1928.

For particulars address:

The DIRECTOR, Port Works Department.

Mueno.

Mrs. SEKAI

MASSAGE

1st floor.

6, Wyndham Stroot, Hongkong.

over £23,000,000, so that the com- bined institution will have a total of deposits exceeding £33,- 000,000.

There are one or two points, which give particular interest-to this banking fusion. In the first place, It is considerable timo

since the Treasury gave consent to any really large banking amal- gamation, and the reason for the sanction in this case is popilarly, and probably correctly, supposed to be that further growth in tho dimensions of the "Big Five" by the mere process of amalgamation is, in a general way, regarded as undesirable, owing to the great size of those Institutions, though their natural growth, through ex- pansion in business, is constant.

By the present fusion, how- ever, we have a development tending, in a sense, towards re- atoration of the balance, for the new combination will rank as the sixth largest bank in the country.

A further interesting point in the fusion is the establishment of A closer link between Lancashire business and the "clearing" bänks. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank was not in the clearings, though the Bank of Liverpool and

Association with Martins Bank.

Martins was, by reason of the

From Elizabeth Days. Finally, a touch of almost romantic interest is added by all

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1928.

A NEW ZEALAND BEAUTY SPOT.

"We have pleasure to-day in reproducing the above picture of one of New Zealand's

beauty apota, kindly sent us by a reader. It shows Dusky Sound, Southland.

FIRST CLASS NATION IN THE MAKING.

CHILDREN TO-DAY STRONGER

THAN IN 1907.

OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

15

20

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30

Across.

Cycle for two.

0 Agent.

10 Precentor's desk.

11 Macaw.

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12 Kind of sour cherry,

19 Short small footstalk (Bot:)

Corroduci

17 Robound.

20

A row.

Children of 1894 look neglected, Everything which makes for the uncared for, and unhappy. Chil sound nutrition and careful 20 Dragged. dren to-day lock the reverse.

domestic nurture of all school Darling. "Mouth-breathing" is shown in children from 5 to 10 years of age 38 Set

in

the 1927 children. the 1894 children, but not with will be a substantial contribution Formed with art.

to the prevention of acute rheu-7 Part

26 Determined, antism, writes Sir George, dia-

8 Desolate, using the treatment and preven-an Pred

Set.

The character and position of the hands of the 1894 children are

34 Finttish-bottomed 'beat.

ecialious, The English child is growing very striking and instructive don of the disease. in stature and height. The childningless, untrained, and un- Action should be taken by Local 37 Gathered together. of today is stronger, talier, and tically. different from the chil-earch should be made by the 10

isciplined. They are characteris-Authorities as follows:-Vigilant 39 Coins. heavier than the child of 1907-dren's hands of to-day. He is a better nourished child.

Booby. school doctor for every case which | 11 Applied to the end of a bone. This is the declaration of Sir

Day Nurseries. that is involved in the fact that, George Newman, Chief Medical quarter of the children entering early signs and symptoms of acute,

Referring to the fact that one manifests, however slightly, the Ornamental frilling, Officer of the

Small variety of dog. tion, in his report for 1926, which tion. Sir George says that what ister should be kept. Proper

Board of Educa school still need medical atte rheumation. A rheumatism red Arranged.

16 Fondly. he describes as a sort of Domes seems to be needed is an exten- tion of the English child,

The changeis, no doubt, primarily made on the szorg of brevity,

pro-

educational provision should" be;

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10 Granted by will,

18 Pictorial sketch.

19 Hean.

21 Pertaining to a foot.

22 Palatabic.

24 Moistura deposited at night.

25 Drugs.

A salt-work,

30 Marks with graduations of colour, 31 That which obliteratos,

32 Having divisions like toes.

34 Circle that intersects another "at

the poles of the world.

15 Quarrel,

36 Wanderer

28 Distributed.

39 Same as, No., & Down.

"Down.

1 Small cim.".

2 Of Hittle width.

3 Ran away.

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4 Measured.

6 More' emancipated.

Fisherman.

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Streaked.

Rasi-8 Triangle. Sina- Clatter.

Who Fired The Fatal Shot?

| in connexion with the amalgama- tion, it has been decided to change the title of the Bank of Liverpool and Martins to "Martin Bank." day Book of the physical condi-sion of child welfare work up to made for the school supervision Sir George is far from satis-e years of age and the inclusion af such children. A rheumatism centre or cardiac consultation but all the same it preserves one fied, however, with things as they of definite medical treatment. of the oldest names in banking area quarter of the children ad- the expansion of day, nurseriesbe devised at the local hospital, The suggestion is also made oreline, or clearing-house, should history. We believe that the [mitted to school need medi-

Hos avtual date of the formation of cal attention-and makes under the Ministry of Health in school clinic, or elsewhere. Martins Bank is lost in antiquity, strong appeal for the

which children under five could pital bed accommodation should hut the textbooks record the busi-vision of more playing fields, nurtured. receive sound habite provided for acute cases. ness ng having been established the extension of the infant training and be submitted re-ential hospital schools or in the region of Elizabeth.

welfare service, and the teaching gularly to medical inspection and toria for recovery and prolonged 15 leaming,

rest should be made available. After epnducting operations of hygiene in schools.

treatment. for generations, as private lank- Sir George bases his conclusions

There is one great outstanding ers, Martin's Bank, was establish-on a long series of tests carried difference between men-know- ed some years ago us a private out by the medical officers of edi-ledge, writes Sir George. Ignor- company, but when a few yearscational authorities throughoutance, it has been well said, is the back it amalgamated with the the country. The average mental great human curse. Bank of Liverpool, the title was alertness of el. Idren, too, in high- But we know for certainty i changed to the Bank of Liverpooler than that of a decade ago. great deal more than we are will and Martins. Now; however, the

ing to use and apply. We must Burger institution reverts, to the

Children entering elementary 'Le plain and explicit. We, know. short but well-chosen title of schools provide the basis of the that food is more important than "Martina" Bank, 'Lṭd.”

tests. Boys and girls aged cight raiment, yet many poor bodies and twelve at Chatham have in-foolishly clothe themselves with creased in weight by an average the fine apparel, though they know of three pounds between 1915 and that food is better than silk stock- 1926, and the average ineresse ings; we know that conditions of in girls aged twelve has been six fresh air and exercise of warmth pounds. "Eight-year-old childron and cleanliness are necessary to not practise at Turquay-comparing 1914 with health, but we do 1928-have "Increased 11⁄2 in. in them we know how to prevent height and two pounds in weight.eprosy, cholera, plague, typhoid, An inquiry was made in respect rhus, and septic diseases, and of 30,000 London children. They where we have been able to apply showed a definite rise in the height ur knowledge they have dis

net vet and weight figures compared with appeared, but we have the pre-war standard.

one it throughout the British

LETTER GOLF.

You should be able to change FOOT to BALL in four kicks.

F

OT

BALL

1-The idea of letter golf is to change one word to another and do it in par, a given num-

·ber of strokes. Thus to change. COW TO HEN, in three strokes, COW, HOW, HEW, HEN.

2-You can change only one letter at a time.

3--You must have a complete word, of common usage, for each jump. Slang words and abbreviations don't count.

4-The order of letters can- not be changed,

One solution is printed on another page of this issue.

VAPO-HALINE

RELIEF TO IN- THE - HEAD,

GIVES INSTANT

COLD IN

FLUENZA ETC.

A FEW DROPS ON HANKER- CHIEF OR IN HOT WATER TO BE INHALED FREQUENTLY. Prepared by-

THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY

14, Queen's Road, C,

Tel. 0.1877,

1913.

Six Pounds" Increase.

Human Scourges.

There were further collateral ex-Empire. periments. Medical examinations were made of 31,301 boys und We know the causes of tubercu- 81,749 girls leaving school, and loss and rickets and venereal it was found that only 4 to 5 perfdisease, and we know how to pre- eunt. showed malnutrition' cem-vent all three of them, yet those still pared with 14 per cent. in 1913, red human scourges are and 28 per cent. had, defective widely tolerated; above all else, we teeth as against 42 per cent. In now how to save infant life, and baild up sturdy boys and girls, Intereating

are and stronger men and women, and comparisons made by Sir George Newman, bo-we have done it where we have tween characteristics revealed by chosen to do it, but all too often photographs of children taken to-we do not choose. "The, people day, and photographs of 1894. perish for lack of knowledge.". These give the following "differ- All men are agreed that the: place to begin any universal re- Clothing neatness, cleanliness, medy is at the school. For there, alertness and "address", of the by law, the children are; there, children now ara in every way too, are the persons traired

educators; there niso is the one superior to those of 1894.

carri-and only opportunity of imparting! chi-knowledge to children systema

tically.

ences:-

The posture of the body age, and stance of modern dren is better than in 1804.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

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