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* THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JULY

Studebaker

9, 1932.

DAY BY DAY

AND IN-

Bulls and Inners

From the Office Butts. DO

blow in

Our deep-sen life expert informs us that the fifteen-foot snake ob- by hot air. Maybe that's why we Typhoons are usually preceded served by the intrepid yoyagora to are always liable to Macno, was, it all probability, the Hongkong. larvae of the Dicormicus Dra-

onions Cheungeltans.

☐ ☐. And talking of American sport

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A cartoonist depicts

rings for baby cara.

toothing It is pre-

their rattles, sumed that they already have

ᄆᄆ

It is some consolation to poor

swimmers to know that they can

causés.In Peking, for example, taels have ceased to exist, and the only three places where sycee taels still form one of the media of exchange are Shanghai, Tient- ain and Hankow. Even without A NATION THAT CEASES TO PRO- offcial Interferonce, the the in

DUCE ORIGINAL AND INVENTIVE being surely supplanted by the

MINDS, BORN TO ADVANCE THE LAND- MARKS OF KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL, dollar, and there are hopes that WILL RECEDE FROM STEP TO STEP, Has seen

eleven depressions official action will now give fur-TILL IT LOSES EVEN THE SECONDARY come and go Studebaker expects

MERITH OF IMITATION ther impetus to a natural move-DUSTRY.-Hallam, to see more depressions COME

It may be recalled that in AND CO, because at the end of ment. 80 years instead of being un-1928, the National Government The Gazette contains revised regula-stara, shouldn't this golf wizard be steady and spent, Studebaker is decided that the tool as curroney tions regarding motor-bants, with named "Geni!" Sarazen? In the finest fighting form, more should

scale of charges. be abolished after July closely trained, and better pre-int,

1929, when the Shanghai pared to fight the battle of com- petition than at any time in it's lat was intended to produce a history,

new uniform dollar as sole legal tender coin. Although the originally fixed date has had to be postponed repeatedly by force of circumstances, it is hoped that the total extinction of the sycee "A few lawless men are depriving tael will materialise within a rea- the land of sovereignty. The laws are cast out and men walk sonably short period. Since the upon them in public. The law-lant defnite proposal was made in breaker is lord of wealth; the Nanking, the Kemmerer report rich man has lost all Scantylus been issued. This, us is is gold; craftsmen are without known, envisages two main aims His Excellency the Officer Adminis- work; the reaper of the harvest the replacement of China's con- tering the Government has made the

Some gets nothing, while he who'

following appointment in the Anti Hongkong gos- plowed not, profits. The land is

fused currencies by a uniform Aireraft Light Automatic Company of alps should join depleted. There are more rulers and nation-wide system, and also the Hongkong Volunteer Defence the

Corps--No. 1844. Private

tale-wag- than ever. 1 show thee a land the introduction of a gold stand-Campion Dunbar to be Lieutenant. turned upside down."

urd. But here, again, the pro- True many cracked up in those

The names of Drs. Teal Al Lee and

A family of five in Warsaw make a splash at the seaside. Loh Mung Sun have been added to the claim to be able to read each liat of medical practitioners.

others' thoughts. Kind of telepath

口口 Poles!

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The dolorous wallings of some people to-day remind us of an authentic papyrus recently un- covered portraying the following conditions in Egypt some forty centurie sago.

It is nutified that, his Ilonour,

If things had only gone as they were going back in 1929, the

the Chief Justice has ordered that the A reader anys taking Home United States would by now pro-

next Criminal Sessions shall be held leave coats more than it used to, bably have been full of two-yacht un Tuesday, 2nd August, at 30 o'clock So, for that matter, does staying in families.

in the forenoon.

During the quarter ended June

30th, seven samples of bread, six of

Hongkong.

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There seems to be a crazę now for the removal of teeth and ton- The only signs of economy we ails, in the interests of bodily milk and one of honey wore examined see in Hongkong these days are health. Very soon, the specialist under the Sale of and Drugs to be found in the bathing won't have anything left to pull.. Ordinace. All were genuine.

costumes at Repulse Bay.

except your leg.

Jalin

days just as the cracking up ofposals, although worked out in His Excellency the Officer Anminis-]

croakers continues to-day. But remember times of stress stimulate and develope leaders.

STUDEBAKER IS FORGING

AHEAD.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd. Incorporated in Hongkong. Stubbe Rond

Happy Valley

FUNERAL.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

gers' club.

of

We read that remainedtoring the Government has been

pleased to recognise, provisionally and a firm of brew- pending instructions from the Serre- era is publish- |tary of State for the Colonies, Mr. ing a staff ma- Manuel Rivern Iglesias as in charge gazine. A bar- of the Consulate General for Peru in

rel-organ? | Hongkong.

#reat detail, have pigeon-holed up to the present.

One point stressed at the fatest Shanghai conference is the fact that native bankers have always fought changes which are likely to do away with the fluctuating differences between the tael and the dollar, as they derive profits therefrom. This factor may also be cited as having barred the way other reforms in the past. Indeed, certain banking interests have for this very reason been opposed to China's adoption of a

To

ᄆᄆ Trattle police

His Excellency the Officer Adminis tering the Government has appointed Mr. R. M. Henderson to Director of Public Works, Mr. Hender- sun is also to be an Official Member map of

the Legislative and Executive Kind of Councils, and Vice-President of the scholars. Sanitary Board.

in England at- act tend lectures on

Messrs. Gilman & Co, Ltd., ad- vise that so many enquiries have been received for the Shapson's Self- Raising Flour Recipe Book, that the receive shortly a good supply of They will keep a list of those de- sirous of receiving Recipe Book which is acknowledged a copy of the

to be one of the finest produced in the British Empire."

reading. roads

.

"You used to call me sweet- heart before we were married. Now you don't call me any tking."

"That just shows my self- control,"

Little Bo-Peep is now feeling A doctor

cheap,

And the reason may thus

adduced

the summer.

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A eritic says "a decent girl wouldn't be see in one of thos a modern bathing cos tumos." Ob wouldn't she?

GO

Guards

On

NOME of the railways in North China 'use bugles. In case

com-

of danger, they blow the muication chord!

in

advises no meut

This, of course, is

he the thin end of the veg.

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With a thoroughness grim, she

decided to "alim"

To a figure absurdly reduced.

☐ ☐ One of life's mysteries is why woman will pay $10 for a pair of stockings that give the im-

any. pression that she isn't wearing

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Seen On our and poise.

benches:-Girls

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If the motorist stops the cartoo on, he's likely to go through the windscreen; if he doesn't, the pedestrian is.

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A Penkite says he thinks Kow- loon people are too narrow in their

The funeral of the late Mr. Woo Hay i gold standard, and it is worth re-supply has run out. They expect to Tong will take place on Monday, calling that here in Hongkong, dur-new edition that is now in the press. the 11th instant. The cortege in the currency controversy, murh will leave 15, Kennedy Road at

.m. and will proceed vin Kennedy of the opposition to the sugges- Road, Queen's Road East, Arsenal; Street, Hennessey Road and will tion that the Colony "go gold' was reach Mount Caroline at 3.30 p.m. from quarters which feared that the existing exchange business would be hit by such a reform.veloped. It would bring home to To revert to the Chinese develop the eye and ear, in enthralling ments, it is essential, both from form, the inexhaustible wonders Kitchen devices will now the commercial and financial of the world, of nature, of the almost anything except take the outlook. Suffering from peninsul standpoints, that the present muddled state of the country's currency should be brought to an end. It gambling in exchange is lessened as a consequence, this will be all for the best. When all is said and done, the gains of speculators cannot be taken into with the benefit which sound cur- serious account when compared

rency reform implies.

SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1932,

CHINA CURRENCY

REFORM

Better Films.

human race, of science, of man's place of a power to do and to care. film would be something helping

The cook.

do

good, old-fashioned arity, in fact,

This suggestion of currency re-

to make all of us better citizens, "Austin Should Beat Vines To. form in China is an old tael! and to intensify the bonds of Em-Day," said a contemporary last pire. When one thinks of what Saturday, after having, three days the film might be, and of the base Likely Champion."

previously, dubbed

Well, if bears in Ice flouse Street wouldn't uses

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After all, the bulls and Crawford

the

to which it has been prosti- British player isn't champion, it get far if it weren't for the goats. tuted, one is filled with anger and was no fault of the newspapers! despair. So much damage hay been done that a large section of Che public will have to be re-

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One thing, If Prohibition ís

facilitate getting the

low-down

"Philatelist Dies in Want, abolished in America, it will educated in film-going. A blast have been financially licked. on the high-ball.

of pure air will have to blow through their vitiated tastes. It

says a heading. He appears to

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We hear of a woman who attack-

☐ ☐ Kowloonites who often

have

difficulty in getting a seat on the

..

Not for the first time are plans under way for the abolition of the tael as the medium of exchange in Ching. The latest development is a conference in Shanghai between Mr. T. V. Soung and representa- tives of the Native Bankers' Guild and the Chinese Bankers' Associa- The progress of the film in Eng-assuredly worth undertaking. Our Maybe he was canned.

will be a gigantic task, but it is ed her husband with a tin-opener. tion, at which the idea has been land well illustrates the British constructive idealists, however, ence again explored. As an out-"genius" for letting things grow will need all the courage, enthu-| come, it is said that the change haphazard, and for shrinking may be put into effect in the im-tudes are uttered in plenty about tasks of practical ideallam Plati médiate future. In view, however, the great power of the cinema for of past experience arid of the good or evil, but practically noth- objection to the move which is like.ing is done to guide the develop- ly to conte from vested interests, ment of this potent agent of on- the sceptics may be pardoned for tertainment and instruction along being somewhat

the most desirable lines. Indeed, very early action. Like so many under the domination of the half- the British cinema is still largely other very necessary measures of wits of Hollywood, and many good currency in China, this tael abo-citizens, have long despaired of lition movement has been hanging

seeing it otherwise. The fire for many years now. Gra-proposal for setting up a National

bus have a standing grievance. ᄆᄆ

口口 siasm, and persistency they can hold their own in a

Most women, says a writer, cun

A local resident says he hasn't

and arduous. command. The way will be long tongues.

battle of worn a hat for six years. Seems

doubtful

uf

over

dually, however, the pressure of Film Institute, referred to yesler- sound economies is being felt, day by the Telegraph film corres- and, sooner or later, the change pondent which would endeavour to must come about. This is only the national well-being instead make the screen a definite factor one step in plans which will have to be devised to give Chination of the minds of young and of, as at present, largely a pollu- a fixed recognised standard

of old, is therefore one that com- currency.

mands the warmest approval. So good is the project that one is contrained to. wonder whether it will ever become a living reality, frowned

upon as it may be by powerful vested intersato. The

The tael, of course, is a weight of silver: not an actual coin. As a unit of silver money, its fine

nesa, size and value

vary from

place to place. Naturally, there-ideal, as one sees it is this. First fore. it is a ivory complicated and foremost, British Alms for mechanism of finance. There are British people. Films should be hundreds of different weight, and, cican without being dull. Tho

if possible. still more kinds of two things are not incompatible, money taels existing in China. As though the majority of American | a well-known authority has point-producers seem 10 think so. ed out, the sycee tael, which has real life instead of stark traverty, Wholesome human amusement, served China,for nearly a thou and humour to make one forget in sand years, is really arehnic in

laughter the eares of the day, constitution, and its gradual dis- would be available in abundance. appearance as a medium of cut-Then the cultural possibilities of rency is coming about by natural the film would be shrewdly de-

don't.

The trouble is that they to be a non-top record.

口口

"Now that I've had four years of college, maybe I ought

to get married, or something."

A man lent Henry Ford two cents the other day with which to buy a stamp. It is understood, however, that he does not intend trying to get into the talkies or vaudeville on the strength of it.

The

exploits of

the

Graf Zeppelin have been described as

tonic

Teutonic!

to

aviation." Yes;

口口

The recent production of

seven-pound grape-frult suggests

the possibility of a combined break- Fast and shower-bath for late risors.

I

៨ ច The latest thing in women's hats resembles the postman's cap.

It should attract the males.

口口

Judging from the sun-bathers

we ace on the beaches, lots Hongkong people

being done brown.

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don't

of mind

According to " pyschologist, anyone can waken ut a predeter

mind hour by concentrating on it.

The triumph of mind over

troвs.

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It's strange thing.

but

mnt-

some

women can talk for an hour on

Incidenta

speechless,

which left them

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A golf course near Dundoo is

anid to be haunted. It's thought that some Scotsman lost a there in 1678.

ball'

.