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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1929.

LOCAL FLYING CLUB]⠀⠀ Womanly Fascination

INAUGURATED.

GOVERNOR ON FUTURE OF AIR DEVELOPMENT.

and personal attractiveness in man, depend in no small degree upon the condition of the skin and of the breath. One of the com- monest causes of facial eruption and of blotched and yellow skin is constipation. It is likewias re-

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To dispel constipation nothing Speaking at the inaugural meet ing of the Hongkong Flying Club better exists than Pinkettes, the

dainty little laxative liver yesterday, Hin Excellency Governor said the Government was gulators. Sick headaches, billous determined to leave nothing un-attacks, Matulence, foul breath, done to aastat Hongkong in be- vertigo, pimply and sallow com- coming one of the best air-ports in plexion, are quickly corrected by the Far East.

their use. Your chemist supplies Pinkettes at 60 cents the vial.

The meeting was held in, the City Hall, His Excellency the Governor presiding. Others pre- sent were the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southörn, Commodore R. A. S. Kil),

H. E. Major General 3. W. Sand Locative Parkacion

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we shall lay the foundations of very important aerial developments,

lands, the Hon. Mr. H. T. Crenay, the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, the Hon. Mr. W. E, L. Shenton, the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, the Hon. Dr. B. H. Kotewall, the Hon. Dr. S. W. T'80. the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, the Hon. Commander G. F. Hole, Sir Robert Ho Tung, Colonel 1. G. Bird, Professor Middleton Smith, Captain K. V. B. Benfield, Wing Commander A. 11. S. Steele. Perkins, Mr. E. I Wynne Jones Mr. R. Vaughan-Fowler, Lt. Com-

We hope that in this matter we mander W. B. Keith, Mr. A. W shall have the co-operation of China, Summers, and Mr. A, Ritchie, who is our nearest neighbour, and There were also about fifty pro-not only of China, but of Japan, the spective. members of the. Flying Philippine Islands, Macao, Kwang Club present, including two ladies.chouwan, French Indo-China' and

His Excellency the Governor was Siam.% accompanied by Captain F. G. I do not, of course, suggest" that Silliton, A. D. C. Addressing the members of the Hongkong Flying. meeting he said.

Club will at the outset wing their way all over the countries I have named; but the remarkable achieve- ments of airmen and airwomen in Europe suggest that in the near future flights from Hongkong may be made quite often along the whole west coast of the Pacific, and even further stil.

Gentlemen, We are mel here this afternoon, in order to con- stitute a Flying Club in Hongkong. It is a great pleasure to me to pre side over a meeting held for this purpose, and 1 um exceedingly glad That the Club fa to be constituted before I leave Hongkong. The objects of the Club are an follows: The possibilities, for aviation in (a) To provide flying instruc-China appear to me to be limitless: for aviation has" berun at a time tlon:

when the Eighteen Provinces possess very few railways, in com- parison with their size,—some of them none at all when scarcely any trunk roads suitable for motor traffic have been built. "and when the lawlessness ashore and pirncy ut sen suggest that the wir muy bi safer medium of transport than land or water.

(b))To create air-mindedness in this Colony:

(c) To make better known 10 the Far East British flying machines and British methods of flying:

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(d) To provide the necessary training for the nucleus, of, a Volunteer Air Squadron;

(e) To provide another op-: portunity for social intercourse be- tween all communities in this Colony without distinction of race

or class.

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Moreover, the speed of aerial communication is astonishing. 1 can remember how tailfully, years ago, I mudo my way on foot and on Government Determination.

horseback through most of the Hongkong is already the greatest] Eighteen Relices of Chine. The shipping-port in the Far East, and various journeys occupied months- the Government and the people of one of them almost a year. But this Colony are determined to leave now a flight from Hongkong to nothing undone which may assist Peking should easily be made in two Hongkong to take its rightful place days. A flight to Ch'eng-tu in

DI Lanchou-fu as one of the best, if not the very Szechuan, best, of the air-ports in the, Far Kansu should take no longer; and East. The Hongkong Government, a flight to Hankow or Yunnan-fu with the full support and encour-might be made in a day. agement of His Majesty's Govern- I have heard it said that the Ger- ment, has now almost completed the man Lufthansa contemplates a fly- construction of the Kui-tak aero- ing service from Berlin to Peking drome at the head of Kowloon bay. in five days. If from Hongkong We are also about to erect, again we can connect with such a service with the assistance of His Majesty's in two days, the journey to Eng- Government, a suitable hangar in and would take little more than a developments will this nerodrome, capable of housing week. Such not only the flying machines of the completely revolutionize life in the Royal Air Force, but also those in- Far East and will bring the mother tended for commercial aviation and country much closer to Hongkong for the use of the Flying Club. and, as I hope, thereby assist our Moreover, the Hongkong Govern- people better to understand Hong- ment attaches so much importance tong and to give Hongkong to the establishment of a Flying larger measure of their interest Club in the Colony, that the Legisla. and support. The best way for us Live Council has voted $60,000 as an to assit in such developments is to air-mindedness in this Initial grant to the Club and has greate also undertaken to pay the Club Colony, and the best way to create annual subsidy of $30,000. air-mindedness is in form a Flying

Club... These votes have received the ap proval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and we are met to- day to inaugurate the Club, so that

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Preparatory Work. The preparatory work for the be in a position to com-formation of a Hongkong Flying Club was largely done by Mr. (Continued on Page 17.)

it may mence work early in next year. Possibilities in Far East. The Great War, and still more the years subsequent to the Great War, have demonstrated the im- mense, posafbilities of aviation, both military and commercial. Hitherto the Far East has in this respect laved behind; but the opportuni-' ties here are infinite, and I am con-1 Sdent that from small beginnings

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