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CRYSTAL

DRY GIN

GILBEYS

LONDON

DRY GIN

Dr Shupewd

LOND

GILBEY

A

NEW RECORD

by

GRACIE FIELDS

If I had a Talking Picture of You i'm a Dreamer, Aren't we all

(From the popular "Talkie" "SUNNY SIDE UP"

A lao-

NEW RECORDS BY

Aan Penn,

Peter Daws0D,

Edwan O'Henry,

Reginald Goss-Custard.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

The

Chater Road.

ONE-BLADE Safety ROLLS

RAZOR

It strops and hones itself!

Some other razors have claimed auto- matic stropping devices, but the Rolls Razor is vastly more advanced - it strops and hones itself. You can do it yourself, either stropping or honing, simply by moving a handle while it's in the case there's no assembling a And it enables separate machine. you to keep the One Blade always keen and ready for use.

Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

Phone C. 4567 Hardware. Dept.

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1930.

NOW IS THE TIME

TO GET YOUR

FRIGIDAIRE

THERE AHE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM FOUR TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET STORAGE CAPACITY.

OVER

1,000,000

IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

DODWELL & Co., Ltd.

Bole Distributors HONG KONG & 3. CHINA.

Peak

BIRTHS. GREEN-On March 15th, 1930, at Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. II. Green, a daughter. PATEY-On March 15, 1930, at Mr. the Matilda Hospital, to

B. Patey, and Mrs. W. daughter.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY. MARCH 17,

:9 0.

THE WHEAT MARKET MANIPULATIONS.

1

DAY BY DAY.

HE THAT WILL KEEP A MONKEY SHOULD RAY FOR THE GLASSES HE

The 8.8. Japan (Swedish East Asiatic Co.), from Hamburg, is due here about April 30th.

POLICE RESERVE.

ÖRDERS FOR THE CURRENT

: WEEK.

Police Reserve Orders by the. Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G. Inspector General of Police, state:

Chinese Company, Training Course: Part 2-The class for instruction in police) duties and regulations will be The P. & O. s.s Karmala, from held as usual 'at the Police Train- Hongkong, arrived at Marseillesing School, Kowloon, on, Tuesday,

March 18th.-at 6.30 p.m. on 14th March at 3.30 p.m.

eighty per cent of her exports of wheat are in the hands of three in- ternational, grala arms, French, German and Belgian, and on OC caslon there is a certain cohesion in BREAKS-Selden, · policy between these groups. As to

The P. and O. s.s. Alipore, from the United States, the Farm Board Shanghai, is due here at 5 p.m. to scheme is, without doubt, aimed at morrow: getting a stable price Internally by dumping her surplus wheat at any price on the world market. If, in addition to these facts, we bear in mind that about sixty per cent. of the wheat consumed in Britain is now bought by one or other of three great milling combines, It will be seen that the British agriculturist is subject to any change of policy or temporary difficulty on the part of any of these great combines, on the one side or the other, whether sellers or buyers. The whole wheat trade of the world has, in fact,

It is notified that the Customs changed, and in the intense varia- authorities at Shanghai have with- tions in price, there has been no nd drawn the notification declaring Hongkong to be small-pox infect- vantage at all to the British con-ed, and medical examination has sumer with regard to the price of now been discontinued. bread or flour.

The Ben Eine s.8. Bennevis, from Home, Straits ports and Manila, is due here on the 28th

instant.

H.M.S. Petersfield, flying the flag of the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinu Station, left Hongkong for Swatow and the yesterday North:

Squad Drill-All recruits of the Chinese Company, who have not yet passed part 1 of Training Course, will attend at Central Police Station on Thursday, March 20th, at 5.30 p.m. sharp for squad Dress-Mufti. drill under P/Sergeant R. J. Hunt.

Training Course, Constable R98 Chan Ping Fai has been pass- ed out as efficient in Part 1 of Training Course.

Indian Company. Training Course. Constable R252 Shah Mohamed has been passed out as efficient in Part 1 of Training Course,

Flying Squad.

Mr. A. Strok, who brought the English Singers to the East, re- turned to the Colony from Manila

The weekly instructional patrol' to-day and leaves to-night for Shanghai. Later, he intends pro- of the Kowloon Section will take ceeding to Europe in order to en-place on Tuesday, March 18th. Fall in at the Tsim-tsa-tsu! Fire gage further celebrated artists.

Brigade Station at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress-Winter Uniform and Cap with White Cover.

Accidentally falling off the ver- andah on the second floor of the

The weekly instructional patrol Seamen's Institute, shortly after midnight, A. B. Bruin, of H. M. S. of the Hongkong Section will take Suffolk, is now in the Naval Hos-place on Friday, March 21st. Fall Dress-Winter pital receiving attention for in- in at the Central Police Station at juries suffered as a result of his 5.15 p.m. sharp.

Uniform and Cap with White Cover. 40-foot fall.

British agriculture being thus practically at the merev of foreign manipulations, it remains to dis- cover the remedy. It has been suggested that Britain should stop bounty-fed imports from coming into the country, but, as has been pointed out, this would not touch the case of the United States, under the Farm Board Bill, deciding to sell, at whatever it will produce, a block of grain in order to assist Nor

With characteristic enterprise, American internal prices. would it meet the case in which, for Messrs. Mackintosh and Co., Ltd., example, the Canadian Wheat Pool have opened a show-window at the Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon. It con- found itself temporarily embarrass-tains a most striking display, very ed because it was holding stocks too artistically arranged, and reflects that hallmark of excellence and long and had to meet temporary correctness which the public has financial difficulties. In the opinion come to associate with this well- of those who have studied the mat-known firm of men's wear special-

ista. ter disinterestedly, Britain has to adjust her import, commercial and financial arrangements to an en- tirely new situation, As selling has become concentrated, buying must become concentrated too. That is the only possible way of putting the supply of wheat to the country on

a

There were again a number of Chinese cyclists before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on charges of dan- his gerous riding. In one case, Worship pointed out to the defen dant that it was the cyclists them-

selves whom the authorities were

Sharpshooters' Company.

Strength. Constable R405 · T. Williams has been taken on the strength of the Sharpshooters Company, as from March 14th..

General.

The Very Idea!

An example of how girls work themselves into a state of acute excitement over books and films' is given by the following incident A girl had seen the film "Rasputin," and was lying in bed at I am read- ing a fifth and particularly grue- some book of his life.

She thought she heard a rustle in the wardrobe, and her eyes grey large and round. She crept out of bed nervously, and went inch by inch over to the wardrobe--which never loomed in the dim light of

reading lamp so horribly before. There must be some one inside what if it were Rasputin.

She placed a hand on the knob, and her breath came in short Just at that critical mo- ment a coathanger Inside the ward- gaps. robe fell with a clatter.

The girl fainted!

The very humble clerk entered his employer's office..

"Excuse me, sir, but do you think I might take this afternoon off? My wife wishes me to take her out shopping."

"What? An afternoon off to go shopping? Most certainly not!"

"Ah-thank you, sir. Thank you very much indeed!".

A writer suggests a comminatory ode on a collar stud is needed.

Here's to thee, true and faithful

stud!

Let others say thy name is mud I'll praise thee while I live. Thou art a very friend in need, He is a clod who doubts, indeed,

The noble aid you give.

I

Though some may fail to sym-

pathise,

And even let their choler rise, And view you with a frown, cannot hold you less than dear Since 'tis your task, 'tis very clear,

To keep my collar down, And if it rises any way Revolver Practice.--The weekly It does not lie with me to say. revolver practice (voluntary) will| That you neglect your charge. take place at the Bowen Road Re-For 11 the fastening comes undone volver Range on Wednesday, It must be clear to everyone

The stud holes are too large. March 19th. from 9.00 p.m. to 10.30

p.m.

(Sgd.) D. L. KING,

D.S.P. (R).

If while I'm dressing you should be. Obsessed with love of liberty

My clumsy hands I blame; And if in merry, glec you race

protecting, as they were the ones ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY. Into some dark and secret place.

offences.

EXCHANGE RATES.

MEMBERSHIP' NOW OVER

FIVE HUNDRED.

Why is not that the game?

I do not stoop to seek you thore, And bang my head and loudly

swear,

For age abhors such shocka. Mary, who sweeps my room, shall

make

take

The report of the Committee of the Society of St. George, Hong- kong, for presentation at the The needful search,. Meanwhile I' thirteenth annual general meeting to be held in the Board' Room of 124.25 the Hongkong General Chamber of 4.86 5/32 Commerce on Friday, at 5.30 p.m.,

.34.89 states:

Londen, Mar. 16,

.92.85

Britain's agricultural industry is, like that of most other countries, a reasonably steady and secure likely to get killed. The defen still in a depressed state, and the basis. It can best be done, so it dants were fined from $5 to $10 taak of easing the situation is is contended, by setting up an Im-according to the nature of their proving extremely difficult. The ports Board, representative of the farmers plead for some kind of Pro-trade, the farmers and the con- tection, but none of the political sumers, acting for the Government parties is inclined to resort to this and the people, as a business-like method of solving the problem, concern in supplying the country's

What the Paris wheat. needs in chielly because it is felt that, whilst

New York is

new kind Brussels Protection might very well benefit

farmer wants the agriculturist, such benefit could

of Protection-protection against Geneva

Amsterdam only be attained at the expense of

the wheat

manipula market Whilst the consumer.

there are

chances of against the tor,

consumer re- Copenhagen many aspects from which this ques-

dumping; and the tion can be viewed one dominating

Vienna factor of which insufficient account quires to be protected also, to secure Oslo

Helsingfors is taken is the great change which that when wheat does come into the Progue comparatively low Madrid has taken place in the international country at a

Athens grain trade. During the past week, price, he will get the advan- Lisbon

of that reduced

price. Bucharest there have been references in the tage

British Rio of centralising The

Buenos Aires cables to the steps which the United States is taking in order to stabi-imports would doubtless be follow-Bombay

-Hongkong lise the price of wheat in America.ed by similar action in other coun- Shanghai This development is of importance tries, and in the end regulation Yokohama

Silver (forward) illustrating present-day. ten- would be posishle on an internation- Silver (spot)

al basis. dencies. Taken in conjunction with Canadian the operations of the Wheat Pool, it throws some light on the gravity of the situation which

25

Economic. Advisory

at competitive

.34.62 .164 .193%

38.95

Another from my box.

A townaman out on .a winter walk was crossing a farmyard on his way to the farin-house,

"I say," he shouted to one of the farm hands, "is that bull over there quite safe?"

"Aye," replied the man, "a lump safer than you are!"

* · ·

Husband (who has been inveig- ed into going shopping with wife); "This stuff would make you a nice dress."

.26.1114 The general funds show .12.124 balance of $4,452.88 made up of .20.384 cash in hand on current account, .18.11% and on fixed deposit $3,452.88 and 18.16 Public Works Loan $1,000.00 às 18.17 against a balance of $6,168.86

brought forward from last year.

During the year númerous calls have been made on the Society 108.30 for assistance, and grants, to the .375 sum of $966.05 have been given. .818 On St. George's Day a wreath .5.11/16 was laid on the Cenotaph, later the 41.11/16] Band of the 1st Battalion Somerset Holiday. Light Infantry played the "Re- That won't do either. Every-

.1/1036 ·treat" on the Cricket Club's

body's got something like it. It's 1/5 ground, and during the evening .2/0

too. common." .1914

the Society was "at home" to the ..19 United Services at the Lee TREATIN

Theatre. A wreath was also laid

-British Wireless.

Wife: "Oh, nobody is 'wearing that now."

"Then how will this suit?"

on the Cenotaph on Armistice Day. WHO WAS..

The Society's Ball was held on

The

to cite some of the facts brought scrutiny of these experts, by the improve.. Costs of transport would Mr. G. W. C. Burnett, Mr. W. J.1

its

The Channel Tunnel.

rates. Its advan- the 4th January, and once again The Channel Tunnel Cornmission tages to the country at the present proved a great success.

Andrew's Society took place at Britain's wheat-growers are facing. after a close study of the project time are fairly obvious. It would annual golf match against St. Some little time ago, the British | from an economic and engineering provide direct employment to four Fanling on 17th November, 1929, or five thousand men," It would resulting in a narrow victory for delegate on the Supreme Economic angle have reported favourably stimulate all that industries-con- this Society. Council gave an illuminating sur-The next step, presumably, lean cerned in the supply of materials. Your Committee deeply regret maiden speech in the examination of the Report by the When completed. Britain's trade to have to record, the death of the vey, in a House of Commons, on the wheat Premier's

report: Captain G. D. Arthur, situation, and it will be of interest Council; and then, if it survives the with Europe would most certainly following Members since the the be reduced as trans-shipment would Eldridge, Mr. J. H. Ramsay and Committee of Imperial Defence. It

be unnecessary; the extent of the Mr. H.-P. White. orward: In pre-War days, the grain is to be hoped that these further ex-

between France During the year, 58 new Mem- trade all over the world was or- aminations will be carried out, with- Passenger traffic ganised on the basis of a fairly free out loss of time: What should be and Britain would, it is believed, in-bers joined the Society, bringing crease enormously by reason of the the active Membership up to 517. The accounts have been aduited market. There was a multitude of the primary consideration, sellers, and in Britain there was a economic advantages to Great Bri- removal of a fairly common reluc multitude of importing merchants tain, is subscribed to by all the tance to undertake the Chantel by Mr. C. Bernard Brown, A.CA

members of the Commission, with crossing except when absolutely to whom our thanks are due. each of whom held stocks, so that the exception of Lord Ebbisham, necessary, American and Eur- opean tourists would come to Great

The health bulletin of Eastern there was a constast basis of stocks and he is concerned, not with the Britain in far greater numbers. ports for the week ended March 8, in the country. Prices were thus result of the Chamel working, but None of these beliefs can be proved issued by the Director of Medical kept steady by the play of the with the effect of that working on in advance, but they seem a perfect and Sanitary Services, gives the ly natural outcome, and offer, quf- following cases, the figures in market. Since the War, however, established industries, as for in-

deaths: shipping ficiently good prospect to justify parenthesis indicating the wheat trade has become highly stance cross-Channel

The Committee finds that no satis- centralised, and a large proportion factory alternative to the Tunnel an early commencement on the pre- Plague, Baghdad 2 (2), Rangoon 2 liminary undertaking, the boring (2), Colombo 1 (1), Bangkok 1 (1), of the importing merchants of the has been devised. Their one doubt, of a pilot tunnel. Ancient military Pnom Penh (5); Cholera, Calcutta old' type have disappeared. Canada and this is not strongly emphasised, objections cannot in 1930 interfere 105 (56), Rangoon 1; Pnom Penh 2 (1), Saigon 5 (4), Dairen 1; has centralised her selling in a great is concerned with the engineering with the scheme. If it is economi-

Small-pox, Bombay 221 (117), co-operative pool which handles side of the problem, and they recally sound, and there seems no real Calcutta 160 (116), Cochin 74 (8) millions of tons per year, similar commend the construction of a doubt on this score, Mr. J. H. Karachi 22 (8), Madras 48 (8), pools have been formed in the Aus- experimental pilot tunnel, the traffic Thomas owes it to himself to apply Moulmein 29 (12), Rangoon 1, tunnels to follow if success results. as much pressure as he can bring Vizagapatam 2, Batavia 8 (8) tralian ates and Russia comes The Committee believe that the to bear in an effort to secure & Macao (2), Shanghai (1), Canton inta harket as a single seller. Tunnel is a sound commercial pro- start on such a highly promising 2: Cerebro-apinal fever, Shanghai

(22).i So far Argentine is concerned, position, that it could be operated project.

Balder the

Beautiful.

Balder the Beautiful was the handsome young, god in the old Scandinavian legends, being the son of Wodin, who gives his name to our Wednes- day.

When Balder told his mother that he suffered from dreams of evil omen, she required all things in heaven and earth,.. both animate, and Inanimate, to register a vow that they would do her son no harm. The pledge was everywhere: forthcoming, except from the mistletoe, which was too young: to take the oath.ne

Being henceforward immune themselves by shooting arrows from hurt, the gods disported: at him, but, unfortunately, Loki, the God of Mischief, got to know about the misletoe, and induced one of the blind gods to shoot a dart made of that plant, with the result that: Balder the Beautiful fell dead.

The ruler of the under-world: agreed to restore the god it; all Nature should weep for: him, but this plan Loki was also instrumental in frustrat

Ing

Sydney Dobell has a fine poem on this story."