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YOUNG AS YOU FEEL

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Cuddle Up! Pucker Up! You'll Love Her!

Sweetie

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Nancy Carroll Helen Kans

Jack Oskie

Stanley Smith

THE

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SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG AND CANTON,

SHEWAN TOMES & CO

FELIX

St. George's Building HONGKONG.

HAT SHOP

York Building, Chater Road,

Now Displaying Spring

Millinery.

Pastel Shaded Summer Weight Felts and Straws. Every Hat a distinct creation.

Printed and Published for the Proprietora by FREDERIGE. PEROY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria

Hongkong.

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1932.

ASSURANCE CO.'S

APPEAL.

MAKING ABBEY LOOK NEW.

REPAIRS IN SOUTH TRANSEPT.

L.N.E.R. DIVIDEND

SURPRISE.

LOSS OF TRUSTEE STATUS.

'The declaration of a dividend of

Judgment was reserved In the How did Westminster Abbey House of Lords in the appeal by|look when it was new? the Hearts of Oak Assurance Com- For answer the Abbey authori-only 1 per cent. in place of the pany, which raises the question ties are revealing, to the pubile normal 4 per cent. on the Second whether Inquiries into the affairs last, the upper walls and the vault Preference stock of the Londyn of Industrial Ansurance Spelettering of the South Transept, which ind North-Eastern Railway enused should be held in public. In mak- they have lund etcuned.

a sharp fall in the Ordinary and ing the announcement Viscount The vast bridge of planks whigh Prior Charge issues of the com- Dunedin remarked that their Lord- spanned the Transept half-way up,pany, for it means that the Pre- nhips (lid so, as it (the Judgment and hna completely asked every ference and Debenture stocks lesp must lay down the law.

thing above it for two years, their "trusted status and canvei Mr. Justice Luxmoore and the ready visitors get an astonishin, regain it for at least ten years.

coming down piece-meal, and Appeal Court had held that the glimpse of what the Abbey has Commissioner had discretion to

This is not the first time that been hold an inquiry in public or in

may soon be again private. The company's conte above the floor, the

The valuting, a hundred feet, the stocks of a British railway eleratory company have lost their status sa Hion was that an inspector had walls and the intricately ornamet-trustee necurities by reuson of the not power to hold & public ined arende of the triforium are now passing of dividends on their Or. quiry, as it was not a judicial pro- a bright, creamy white, in which dinary stocks, as it occurred i

every detail, including the famous the case of the Great Central Rait- carved angols, shows up clearly.

reeding.

and

to

The Solicitor-General (Sir Boyd Merriman) continuing his address, Immediately beneath the trifo-way la respect of last year, too, insisted that the duty of the Camrium the black wails and pillars the London Midland and Scottish missioner In the case of an In- of the lower part of the Transent Company had, to use reserves dustrini Assurance Society was how up in gloomy contrast, pay a small dividend un Ordquar not merely to examine and report. has been effected by a secret protrustee status of its prior charges The change from night to day stock, and thereby preserve" the

Gord Macmillan---By public in-leess, which leaves the surface of under the qualification

that fo quiry you may create panic the stone

in perfect condition, quires a dividend to have among policy holders. You may after it has removed the stains of paid on the Ordinary stock for a gout must out of witnesses by pri- renturies.

period of not less than ten years, vate examination. The Director Work will be started at once' on : { of Public Prosecutione does not the lower part of the south wall

bold his inquiry in public. In of the Transept, and when that is fell by nearly £6,000,000, your inquiry, the other side has clear there will a respite for but against this the savings not its full chance of being heard, the summer. in the writers to working expenses amounted and that is a very material confollow it is hoped that the entire

Interior mag eventually be franse, formed.

sideration.

Humble Folk,

The Attorney-General (Str Thomas Inaki;. KC) explained that he accepted responsibility for having brought this matter before their lordships. The people af

feeted were humble folk who paid Their insurances in pence every week. Such publicity was the only i way of informing the public of Their rights and of a duty to in- i form an inspector on anything! which came within their

know- 1

MORE DIAMOND MINES CLOSE.

ANOTHER BLOW FOR

SOUTH AFRICA.

Johannesburg, Feb. 19.

The L.N.E.R. Ogures show that

4,216,543.

in

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The four big group railway companies have now announcel their dividends for last year. On the chief stocks they are as follow, compared with the payments for 1930:

G.W.I. Ord. L.M.S. Ord.

1930 1931 GA 3 2

Southern Pref. Ord. G L.NE.R. Pref. Ord.

all

Following the decision of De SUNDAY CINEMAS. ledge.

Beers to close the Kimberley Lord Warrington--Supposing a Mines there was further conster declaration were made that the in-nation to-day at the Announc spector is not entitled to conduct ment that the Premier Diamond GOVERNMENT TO IN- an inquiry in public, with the adMine of Pretoria, the richest in dition that this shall not prevent the world, la similarly ceasing

TRODUCE BILL IN APRIL him admitting any person whom production at the end of Marek,

the end wi

he thinks necessary for the eflinging 330 Europeans and 1,509 Sunday opening of musical enter- The Government B for the Aclent

conduct of the inspection. natives out of work. The A

Attorney-General--I should

tainments, cinematograph enter- Apart from the depression, it la not object to that.

known that the Lichtenburg dia-tainments, and exhibitions will he

Introduced towards Mr. Pritt, K.C. (for the contmonds and the vast Namaqualard April by Mr. Oliver Stanley, the pany)-If declaration states discoveries caused serious losses Under Secretary for Home Affairs. that an inspector is at 1lberty toto regular producers, while the admit any person whose presence ever-increasing illicit traffle in It is stated that the Bill will be is necessary to the proper conduct stolen stones, estimated by some similar to the measure introduced of the investigation I should be to amount to £30,000 weekly, help-last year by Mr. Clynes which wi content,

ed to bring on the criais,

dropped by the National Govern- ment In favour of a temporaty measure for one year.

The Attorney-General and-Mr.

It is not known when the mines Pritt conferred with the object of are likely to reopen, but the Goy agreeing on a form of declaration, ernment is investigating the whole

Later. the Attorney-General | position. It In questionable: The main principle of the now handed to their Lordshipa a forn whether the industry will ever re- Government Bill la local option er of words which Counsel had gain its former prosperity. In the conferring on local authorities agreed. He stated that public indeed, rome are wondering if the of power to grant licences for terest was safeguarded by the world's satauration point has Sunday performances afler evid #greement.

[already been renched, in view of ence that this would be in accord Lord Dunedin then made the re-the fact that diamonds are purely with a substantial demand in the mark quoted above.

luxuries and imperishable.

locality.

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