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HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTEL:

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL:

PEAK HOTEL

and

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTEL:

HOTEL

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.

first class

Hotel

Penang

The Scenic Gem of Malaya

Runnymede

Modern

throughout and beautifully Situated

Hotel

Malaya's Premier Hotel

Food and Wines especially good.

AFTER-DINNER DANCE Every Thursday & Saturday Orchestra Daily.

CABLES "RUNNYMEDE"

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LTD.

George Goldsack, Manager.

THE EUROPE HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

After Dinner Dances are held every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.

COCKTAIL HOUR IN THE BIRDCAGE.

Mondays to Fridays

Saturdays

7.40 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. 12.30 p.m. to 1.30 p.m.

8.00 p.m. to 8.30 p.m., The Now Europe Orchestra will render all the

Latest Music during the above hours..

Music during Tiffin and Dinner every day by our new all European Orchestra, under the direction of Mr. F. J. STRASSER.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1932.

Telegrams "Europe" Singapore.The Europe Hotel, Ltd. Telephone 5361 (4 Lines)

Most Modern Hotel

in the

Far East

When in

Singapore.

SHANGHAI

Make your headquarters at the

Cathay Hotel

Cable Address: CATHOTEL-

250

Rooms and Suites Each with Private Bath

Special Summer Rates, May to September

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No.-9 D'Agullar Street.

Tel. 20780,

Lung trouble

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CONTRACT BRIDGE

By W. E. McKenney.

The following hand appeara rather simple, but it is peculiari to note that in a duplicate tourna ment, when this hand was play- ed, not one pair succeetied in making the five no trump. As matter of fact, at several tables, only one no trump was made."

A7-3 ❤A-Q-7-6-4-2 +K-J-9-3 *K 7

Q-10-5

8-5-3 NORTH

♦ Q-10-

9-7-6- 4 45

Dealer SOUTH

4K-J-9-8-6-

10

♦ A-2

A-Q-J-7-3

A-4-2

♥K-J-9 ♦5 $10.9.

8-6-4. 2

The Bidding.

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The hand was played in n du- plicate contract match. South, the dealer, holds two five-card suits and the required two and one-half quick tricks. When holding two biddable five-card suits the high- er ranking suit is bid first, there- fore South bid ene spade, West passed and North bid two hearts. East passed and South went three clubs. North then bid three nu trump which bought the con- tract.

The Play

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LOCAL HEALTH REFORMS

DR. WELLINGTON'S PROPOSALS

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CO-ORDINATION

Drugs Ordinance, and the Factorles and Workshops Ordinanca should be administered by the Medical and Health Department.

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The Registrar of Births and Deaths, should be the Director Medical and Sanitary Services.

The Town Planning and Town Improvement Ordinance should be administered by a Board which should contain the D.P.W. and the D.M.S.S.

The Water Authority under the Water Works Ordinance should be a Board on which the D.M.S.S. has a scat.

Important recommendations are made by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington. In his report to the authorities on the proposed, reor-be ganisation on modern lines of the Medical and Sanitary Services of the Colony. The report has been forwarded to the Sanitary Board

for comment.

The Bulldings Ordinance should administered by the Public Works Department.

Suni.

be administered by the

The Sanitation Ordinance should tary Board and the Sanitary De-

partment.

Sanitary Department's Scope.

A covering letter from the Colonial Secretariat to the Presi dent of the Sanitary Board, states:

With reference to your let under the new scheme will confine The Sanitary Department, which ter. No. 297-29 of the 17th Scp-its attention to sanitation in the tember, 1980, I am directed to restricted sense of the term, will forward for the information of deal with town cleansing, housing, the Board and for any comments scavenging, conservancy, the control which the Board may wish to of certain trades, and the sanitary make the accompanying copy of supervision of places of assembly recommendations submitted by such as common lodging houses, the Director of Medical Sanitary Services for the reor ganization on modern lines of the Medical and Sanitary Ser- vices of the Colony.

and

ed and legislation designed to give effect to other recommendu- tions is under consideration.

I am, etc.,

theatres etc., etc.

In most up-to-date cities the head of such an organisation would be the Municipal Engineer. In Panama it is the Health Officer,

In Hongkong, because of the desire

2. One measure, the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Ordinance has already been pass-of certain of the Chinese to have

a buffer interposed between them; und the professional hygienist, it is recommended that until publie opinion is more educated on mat- ters of Hygiene and Sanitation the! post of "Head of the Sanitary || Departinent” shall be held by FL

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(sd) R. A. C. Nouri,

p. Colonial Secretary,"

The Recommendations.

Dr. Wellington's recommendu- i tions are as follows:

at

East has the opening lead. Some players holding 10. nine, eight will lead the 10 spot--the top of

The laws dealing with Quaran- the three-card sequence-while ting and Prevention of Disease others prefer the lead of a 10 skuld be grouped together under spot to show a higher honour, suche Ordinance and Quarantine and as queen, 10, nine. The East Prevention of Disease Ordinance. player in this rase played the six This Ordinance would not only deal | of clubs, his fourth best elab, with human infectious disenso of dummy played small and North, an epidemic character such the drelarer, won the trick with plague, cholera and small-pox, but the king.

with less dangerous infectious dis- In order to ge

game, the de- cases such as diphtheria, measles, clare must establish the spade etc., and with special disease such The seven of spades is ledas malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy. by declarer and when Eust play's Vaccination would be included. The the denec, the leglarer finesses scope of the Ordinance should be the jack which goes to West'a extended to include animal dis queen. West returns his fourth cases, animal quarantine and the best diamond, declarer plays the control of slaughter-houseN, nine which holds the trick.

suit.

Food and Drugs.

The only way for the declarer to go game now is to find the ace of spades in the East

The Sale of Food and Drugs Or- hand.dinance should be amended so as Therefore, the three of spades is to alloy of Health Officers taking led by the declarer and when action and to ensure that none but East plays the four, declarer goes Government Analysts shall

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right up with the king in dummyists under the Act. The scope which holds the trick, and returns of this Aet should be extended so a small spade hoping for a split as to include provisions for insur in the spades. East won trick with the ace and returned sold, and to prevent the sale

then the mirity of foods and druga the 10 of clubs which the dummy won with the nce, declarer dis- food and drugs unfit for human carding the four of hearts.

It should include consumption. two good spades are cashed in where food is prepared for sale and provisions for licensing plaers dummy, declarer discarding the six and seven of hearts, East dis retail and wholesale and for eat- for places where food is sold either carding the pine of hearts antiing houses, restaurants and dairies. The ace of diamonds is played Workshop Ordinance for dealing There should be a Factory and from dummy, Enst is forced to with the sanitation of factories and discard the four of clubs. De-workshops, for regulating the hours clarer now has more good tricks of work allowed, and for ensuring than is necessary, The three clubs are good in dummy and he proper precautions being taken in also holds the good ace of hearts

the case of dangerous trades. and the king of diamonds.

dence of clubs..

By establishing his side suit. the declarer has made five no trump..

MIGRATION SCHEME

RELIEF FOR DEPRESSED JAPANESE FARMERS

Tokyo, July 27. As 'relief measure for the de- pressed agrarian population, the department of Overseas Affairs is considering the financing of large scale immigration to Manchuria, Mongolia and Brazil. The estimated cost of the scheme is 3,000,000 yen, appropriation for which will be referred to the forthcoming extraordinary session of the Diet-Renter's Special;

SALESMAN SAM

TGUSH! I'M SORRY. I SENT FER

YOU TODAY! I CAN'T WORK WHILE YOU'RE WORKIN” --- TH' SUONER YOU LEAVE,

TH' BETTER!

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A Sanitation Ordinance. All matters relating to Urban sanitation, houses, drains, scaveng- ing, and town cleansing. conser- vaney and sewerage, and the licent- ing of premises other than those where food is sold or prepared for sale, should come under a Sagita- tion Ordinanee. There should be a clause authorising the Governor to apply any or all the provisions to villages and rural areas

Regulations regarding the con- struction of buildings should come under a Building Ordinance.

There should be an Ordinance for Town Planning and Town Im- provement.

Administration.

The Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance, the Sale of

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Spacious Dining Room and Rostful Lounges.

Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea served in the airy lounge on the 8th Floor,

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Old English Bar where service and quality reign.

Express Lifts during rush hours.

Tel. 28128.

Cable Address:-"Gloucester."

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P. I. NEWMAN,

-Manager.

GLOUCESTER BUILDING

(THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD.)

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