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Summer GOLF HOSE

These unahrinable 'mercerited collon Summer Golf Hose are undoubtedly the finest 'value obtainable for present wear. No seams to cause discomfort but the hose is excellently shaped with a special centre rib, extending from the heel-to the calf of the leg..

In shades of-

White and Khaki

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Size 10' to II!" $2.50 a pair.

3 pairs for 6.50

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LANE, CRAWFORD, Ltd.

Men's

Figure

it

out!

Wear Stylists,

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Prove it this way!- Efficiency- plus economy, plus cleanliness, plus casy control, plus reliability.

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COOK BY GAS

HONG KONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD.

West Point and Jordan Road, Kowloon. Central Showroom... Ice House Street.

Telephone Central 47.

E. HING & CO.

SHIPBUILDING MATERIALS, SHIP CHNDLERS HARDWARE MERCHANTS.

PHONE:CENTRAL No. 1116.

Wing Woo Btract Tol. Contral 25,

THE ROMANTIC SENSATION -actually filmed in the South Seas!*`

WHITE SHADOWS

IN THE SOUTH SEAS* COMING THE QUEEN'S

TO

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

DRINK AND THE ELECTION.

'TRUTH'IN A PARABLE,

Carry

TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1929.

MISSILES IN PRISON

CHAPEL...

BOOTS. AND BIBLE HURLED

AT GOVERNOR.

A General Election is an occa- ston when the · olectorate is beact and beseiged by the clamour of

London, April 30. nervous and auxious cominercial An extraordinary incident oc- travellers, with mixed samples incurred in the Chapel of Barlinuie their packs, who endeavour, under prison, Glasgow, on Sunday, As the handicap of varying gifts of the service was proceeding, salesmanship, 'strenuously to push pristner threw three missiles nt Mr. Wilkinson, the sale of their particular goods. the Governor, Some of the salesmen

who, however, escaped injury. side-lines which do

Mr. Wilkinson was sitting in not beni the authorised trade-mark of the the body of the church with other established firms to which the officials when one of the prisoners salesmen themselves are attached. took off his boots and threw them

Among these "side-lines" one after another at him.

Timely warning was given to much distrusted by all the estab-

a member of lished firms, who know the difficul- Mr. Wilkinson by ties of manufacture is what is the staff, and he ducked. curiously, but perhaps incurably, first boot struck the wall, missing called "Temperance Reform." 1 Mr. Wilkinson's hend by about is a strange and ill-choson name, two inches.. and it perplexes, instead of en lightening, the potential purchaser, who notices to his or her bo- wilderment that samples so labelled annear to differ greatly in character, quality, and service ablenoss in different agents' packs, Warders rushed forward and They represent, in fact, quite dif- overpowered the prisoner, who, it a term of ferent moda. Some of the goods is stated, is serving offered under that name are un-imprisonment for theft. deniably superficially attractive- they appeal to a taste which has been long cultivated and encourag-

fortunately, as the agent thinks)

The

The prisoner immediately threw the other boot, but the Governor again succeeded in dodging it, Then the prisoner selzed his Bible and threw it, but it went wide and fell on the chapel floor.

LETTER GOIF."

ed, but which has lately, (un-

To-day is Indies' day on the

declined. Being a philanthropist,

and the agent of philanthropists, letter golf course. RUTH and the agent has set himself to MARY seem to be the star per-

quicken and revive the taste, and formers. Par is five.

he is indefatigable in his devotion

to duty. His goods are apparent- ly cheap: they will be easy to make, for the designs are to bo presented free of cost (but subject, of course, to a royalty on sales), to each or all of the established (politien) firms who are willing to make and deliver the goods according to the designer's specifications That is essential; royalties" will suffer from uny departure from the simplicity and ingenuity of the design, and although the prompters of the goods have a deep and patriotic concern to meet a publle need 'to' which other are blind, and to revive an ancient but declining taste which has been sadly dis- couraged of late, philanthropy has need of its due reward.

MARY

R

UTH

1-The idea of letter golf is to change one word to another and do it in par, a given number of atrokes. Thug 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 abbrevia- tions don't count.

Competing "Lines." "Where," ask the established Arms, "is the demand? And what of the risk to our balance-sheet?" "The dentand," say the promoters, "Is there; It has only to be stimulated and excited, Our agents are already in the Beld; they are to be found in every con- changed. stituency, with samples (made from our own designs) and highly--other page.

4--The order of letters cannot be

One solution is printed on an

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18

90 MILE ICE FIELD.

HONGKONG.

Another fot of Crown land price was $22,100 and the "four changed hands at $22,300, Chinese purchasers were Messrs. Syndicate of four Chinose buying Chiu Young-Look, Ho Wai, Chu

Prince Edward Road. The upset 15 Sat Kang Road, Kowloon,

coloured and attractive printside-line" in a general compet}. /CAPTAIN'S STORY OF LINER'S) #9.11,050 square feet of ground on Man-shun and Hong Lok-tin of

tive display of specially designed

EXPERIENCE.

Liverpool, Fridny. When the Cunard liner Antonia arrived at Liverpool to-day Captain ed her adventures in the Atlantie G. W. Molsom, the captain, describ

which women, especially young women, should find irresistible. The demand will square your goods. It will not, generally | GREENISH balance-sheet and bring in some speaking, be pressed by officially accredited salesmen,, although thing over."

some of these will have it in their packs. It will be pressed in the main by unofficial agents presenting different and acutely opposed interests, inspired by con

lieting motives and aime.

ice fields.

**But," any the

cautions established firms, "what of the other commercial travellera in the field, with samples in their

"We found ourselves among the packs which bear the same name?

ico on Wednesday of last week," How will you meet their competi-

Their intrusion and distracting he said. "There were all kinds of tion? What if the public prefer

by ice-pack ice, field ico, 'growlers," roads? Where shall we be then importunity will be resented

"They," reply the philanthrople most of the officially accredited small "bergs and large 'bergs. The salesmen because it tends to divert ice probably extended about 90 promoters, "do not really gount. The samples they carry do not attention from their own specially miles. bear an accredited stamp. Their designed goods. And the resent Wo first triad to find a way out mznt will fall, as usual, with salesraanship is ludicrous in its inexperience. Moreover, the goods particular emphasis upon those by stemming northward, but after- they offer, although labelled alike, troublers of political Israel, the wards we farned south and steam- At times we found our- differ greatly in quality and representatives and supporters of enutiously round the edge of the

temperance organisations and ice field. design and in attractiveness. The

was considerable fog it he-men, who are the people who temperance programmes, whose selves steaming round a bay, and count, will not look at them. We zeal is always inopportune and as there are not so sure of the women, who who will not "let well alone." took us a long time to find our way The challenging cry is natural, seem, in this up-turned age, to but undiscerning and historically Just as we had got clear of the have lost their respect for he-men unjust. The temperance organisa-ice we ran into a fox, which delay- at home. We shall try to drive tions did not bring the drinked us another ten hours. It was our rivals out of the field. Our question into politics, and it is th combination of, ice and fog agents have had long experience not they who keep it there. It was which has caused us to be three in salesmanship; they have strong rought into politics unwittingly daya late." central support behind them, and they have a substantial interest in temperance organisations were Before the voyage ended the pas- results. It is unfortunate that our founded, when the State, through sengers presented Captain Melsom rivals' goods carry the same name default of the Trade; began fts with testimonials, in which they as ours, but that cannot be helped, tortuous and always contested task expressed appreciation of They invented the name, but as it of restriction and improviantion manner in which he had conducted is not protected by copyright, and of safeguards. If every tem- the navigation of the ship in excep- trying and dangerous perance organisation withdrew tionally

looks well in an advertisement, we

by Parliament centuries before

out.

adopted it. Our agents, however, from politics to-morrow, the agents circumstances. have been Instructed to explain of the Trade would remain. They

the

When the vessel was in the midst that while the stamp on our goods dislike intensely (and naturally) of the ice passengers wore so littlo is "Temperance Reform," that is the goods in, the packs of the disturbed that they danced on the only the commercial name of them. temperance reformers, but their deck.

The goods themselves are really real quarrel is with the laws of "

"Reformed Temperance," and we the Statute-Book. When the State

find that, in some quarters at gave a legal sanction to the

least, the explanation appeals. Hensed trails (conditioned, as it CROWN LAND SALES. The immediate and urgent ques was hoped, by adequate safe- tion is: "Will you make and guards), it linked up with the

deliver the goods?”

sanction powerful Inducements The reply of the cautious which its safeguards could not established firms (new and old) enchain. It is these inducements, is: "We must wait and see. It in all-powerful in their attractive

KEEN BIDDING FOR A MONGKOK LOT.

Brisk bidding featured the sale

not a time for speculative risks." force, imperative in their natural by public auction yesterday' of n Private and Public Interest, - urge, which keep and will always lot of Crown land at Mong Kok So far the parable, unlike the keep the drink question in Taul. The lot is at the junction schoolboy's idea of a parable, has politics. an "earthly meaning," And the They challenge the restrictions Streets

of Boundary; Tai Nan and Maple covering about; 8,536 meaning is related to an Important in existing law and clamour for square feet, and the upset price fact, At the coming General fuller freedom to exploit the comwas $5,394 Election the drink question will be mercial possibilities of their trade. pressed upon the attention of The challenge is natural, per was obvious to the FW.D. When the bidding opened it electors in a variety of ways and sistent, and insistent, but in-auctioneer that the lot of ground from the angle of different dubitably against public policy. Interests-private and public. The programmes of ileensing bids ran up in hundreds of dollara was in great 'demand and the will not be, as some ardent reformers-which do not carry until the lot was finally disposed advocates on both sides, and some stereotyped form-may be perfect of for $7,300, having been bought sensational journalists, naaume, or imperfect, but they have ono by Mr. Yeung Wai-chan, 99 Wing dominating question, but an im- undoubted merit: they all oppose Lok Street, portant and plainly indicated public to private interest..

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Dor AS FAR AS

THE WOMEN ARE

CONCERNED

THIS NEW *WRAP-ARâulip* COAT FOR MEN

EN'T REALLY

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