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THE HONGKONG

In the New

1932

CHEVROLET

YOU FIND THE LATEST MODELS OF THE CAR THAT HAS WON THE HEART OF THE WORLD, LEADING ALL OTHERS IN SALES.

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TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, AUGUST. 6, 1932.

But that is not the Government's way. Rather does it prefer to take what was well described as a retrograde step by reverting to the old dumping method, and, in the process, spend sixteen thou sand dollars on a pier and a couple of barges. The six hun- dred dollars which the incinera tors cost is apparently to be writ- ten off as a dead loss.

The ques-

DAY BY DAY

FLAGRANT EVILS GURE THEM-

BEING SELVES BY Cardinal Newman.

Bulls and Inners

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From the Office Butts

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Some of our griffin-yachtsmen, Bathing costumes are now being FLAGRANT although somewhat at sca when made from wood-pulp to

yachting terms are discussed, can them more buoyant. Beech suita? hold their own when it comes to

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make:

The Gazette contains detalled re-bilgo! gulations in respect of breweries.

At Tuesday's meeting of the Rotary tton was raised, during the dis-Club, Rotarian C. D. Lambert will cussion, whether the Shaukiwan"How Did It Happen?"

give a talk on motor-cars, entitled

proposal implied that the Govern- ment intended to conduct no more experimental work in connexion with incineration as a means of disposing. of rubblah. The Colonial Secretary's reply, that

AT THE CURB YOU WILL ADMIRE THEIR SMART MODERN BEAUTY, ON THE ROAD YOU WILL MARVEL AT THEIR EFFORTLESS CONTROL, THE EASY SMOOTHNESS OF PERFORMANCE, AND THE LUXURIOUS COMFORT WITH he would not like to go as far as WHICH THEY RIDE.

believers in

Mr. Philip Jacks has resumed duty as Land Officer on the termination of his appointment to be an additional Judge of the Supreme Court.

A small boy, was knocked down by a motor car in Queen's Road East yesterday and sustained bruises to the head. He was not seriously injur

brulaca

With regard to the man of whom According to Mr. M. F. Key, n it is written "He carried on while frock-coat and topper were need others slept," we can only assume ed in order to report the delib he was an after-dinner speaker. tions of a quackery commlasion.

07.0 Even so, the subject nearly became a key industry.

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We notice that Hongkong sent a delegate to the Congress of Pre- historians at Hanoi. Most appro- priate.

□□ "Most old sailors are full of pro- verbs," states a writer. Sen saws.

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it was so cheap-I just couldn't After the Sales:-"But, darling,

resist it."

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It is notified that the rate for lime- A statistician says that of all washing in Hongkong and Kowloon sportsmen cricketers are the most under By-law of the Domestic free from epidemics. Cleanliness and Ventilation By-laws

Some, of shall be $3.80 per floor for the year Curse, never catch anything. starting 1st October, 1032.

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Mr. K. Yamasaki, the Manager of

If China puts the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha Canton, has much more duty just been transferred to Manila. He on gin and is leaving Canton to-day and Mr. whisky, there'll Takahasi will take his place. Mr. soon be a whole- 'Yamasaki has been in Hongkong and

Canton for 19 years, and will be much sale migration Shang- missed by his many friends of all from nationalities. Mrs. Yamasaki left hi to Hong- Canton some time ago for a holiday kong. in Japan.

moderncam

to say that, cannot be describeded and refused to go to hospital. EVERY MODERN IMPROVE-as very informative. However, MENT IS AT YOUR COM-in the meantime

In running across the roadway to the Shaukiwanretrieve their playing tops two small MAND. INCREASED POWER, vate has been held over and the bus in Laichikok Road near Pell

boys were knocked down by a motor CUSHIONED AGAINST VIBRATION. THE VELVETY Government will have the oppor- Street yesterday, receiving slight SMOOTHNESS OF THE FAMOUS tunity of studying some modern SYNCROMESH GEAR SHIFT-methods which the Hon. Mr. Shen- ING. THE THRILL OF COAST-ton has brought to its notice. ING ALONG ON MOMENTUM WHENEVER YOU WISH-

This question of incineration CONTROLLED BY THE TOUCH as a means of refuse disposal in OF A BUTTON.

this Colony has arisen again and DON'T FAIL TO SEE THIS. again during recent years, but CHEVROLET SERIES "BA" 5 with no definite decision being PASSENGER SPECIAL SEDAN- MAROON OR BLUE complete reached one way or the other. As with 6 Wire Wheels, Tires and ardent Tubes Bumpers, Luggage Rack, methods of dealing with this mat- Tourists Trunk, Chrome Tire Covers, Etc., Etc.

ter, we should not like to think the case will be decided on the experiences gained with a couple of three hundred dollar outfits. These may be adequate for the .needs of Shaukiwan, and they | may serve a useful purpose in a small way. But, unless we en visage plant of this type dotted about all over the Colony, they cannot represent a real contriba-of sunstroke, tion to the solution of the problem. Despite all that has been said against refuse destructora in the ast, and their inadaptability to Hongkong's needs, it is certain

ed with the first quarter, and 7.27 ! that some such method will even-as compared with 1931, there being tually have to be employed here. We cannot for ever adhere to the old-fashioned and unhygienic method of disposal which still persists in this Colony.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1932.

THE DISPOSAL OF

- REFUSE

19:21.

The death has occurred in London of Mr. Henry Macpherson Tibbey, who

the

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"Rotary spells

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came to Hongkong in 1898 to represent nterna the Sun Life Assurance Co., and intional, harmony 1902 joined the Hongkong office of and anity," as- the Glen Line. In 1904 he was transserts a writer in ferred to Shanghai, where he even American tually became the Manager of the Glen Line Eastern Agencies, Ltd. He magazine. retired in 1926 after a severe attack spite of long- kong boasting a branch, emphas measured at the Statistical Branch of the Imports and Export is should not ne

wholesale Department

prices in ceasarily be Hongkong during the June quarter of placed on the 1932 showed on balance general first syllable. average decreases of 45 as compar

Might we describe the carninga of jazz-band players as the wages of din?

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If the present epidemic of bur- glaries continues, Hongkong will be known as the boaty spot of the East.

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Auntie Cyclone is quite in fav our of building a higher tariff wall, provide only British bricks are used...

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The sort of share report Hong- kong wants to hear:-Boom!

Talking of the sea, the flapper who swima, simply isn't in it.

Mr. Smith had just finished

the putting

Accdn in the yarden.

"How about the birds eating the needs?". queried Mrs. Smith. "Hadn't you better put a scarecrow?"

"Oh, that doesn't matter."

was the reply. "One of us will always be in the garden

A coolio was recently bitton by a Peak dog Thero truth in the ru mour, however, that the coolie

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has been remov.

ed to Kennedy

Town for obser-

vation f

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With her hus-

band in close at- tendance, a lo- cal lady, while making pu. r- chases in a lo- cal, store, IL- marked "I don't want that old pot!" No won-

der the aalex.

man blushed!

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pared with 1024 and the base year of thrifty. Come to think of it, they song forbidden by the censor." increases of 18.0% and 26.7 us coni- Most airmen are said to be Latest Howler "Banditti-any 1922 respectively.

WATER LEVELS.

WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS

in the West, North and East Rivers: Higlustan Lowest Aug. Aux.

recurd. on revol. 3

الاستديات

Went River at

Shishing... $41.7 North River pl

Shishing. +41.7 North Silver at

Samehul

1-223

.D

33-1

130

13,3

Sheklang

+15.7

--26

12.4

11.5

know how to bank and to keep a good balance.

The only thing some Scotamén are prepared to stand in a bar is no nonsense from anybody.

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Scotland Yard officials, we read, are well catered for by an efficient staff of cooks. The frying squad.

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It was only to be expected that the burglar or burglars who visit-

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"How would you tell your dog

Wireless Note:-"Dear Sir, from among a hundred others?" Unless in future you switch off asks a reader. We should whistle, your se at a more reasonable call his name, and smile coaxing- 215 hour-

ly. Then he paid no attention we should know he was ours.

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A wireless fan in Golders Green

cently that when he tried to get.

Germany's Tactics.

The following table issued by the Unofficial members of

One step at a time was the

Kwangtung River Conservancy Cam-i the

One consoling thing about talked the premises of "Castrol" Legislative Council

political axiom which the late Dr. in English feet on the dates named ing to talk bnek.

mission shows the height of watering to yourself is that nobody's go. agents would make a clean get- ar to be

away! He commended for having succeeded Stresemann made his own. in holding up two votes totalling edged by all to make good Ger- proceeded with a skill acknow- sixteen thousand dollars which many's claims one by one, und had been asked for in connexion never to express them en bloc. with refure disposal at Shanki-That was his method, compounded East River at

The facts, so far as they of audacity and caution; and it were disclosed at the Finance stood him in good stend. Yet

According to an old superati- Committee meeting on Thursday, many Germans were dissatisfied popularity, the responsible minis-tion, if it rains on a man's birth-

with the slowness of this means are, to say the least, surprising.

ter is bound to proceed soberly, day, he's probably be wearing his says that reception was so bad re- It appears

of liberating Gemany from the Those who would support many new palm beach suit. that, for some Hittle disabilities placed upon the coun- of the German demands, and those time past. experiments have been try by the Versailles Treaty, and, who would resist them, will agree carried out with two small in- when his guiding hand was

A man said in court recently re- on one thing, namely, that much that he had demanded an anology cinerators, but that complaints moyed they clamoured for un more is likely to be accomplished from his wife for not speaking to have been made to the authorities instant and wholesale revision. by stey-by-step progression than him for a month. Some men don't regarding the smoke nuisance

The situation from the viewpoint by rush tactics.

deserve to have good wives, created. As a result, it is pro- barrassing, though the German of the German authorities is em-

posed to erect a timber jetty and ministers themselves are in large buy a couple of sailing barges, in

part responsiblo for it. They order that the refuse

may be

have tried to shout with the Hit- earried across the harbour and

lerites, and have they therefore dumped at Mataukok.

further rise of encouraged the experimental

Hitler. Germany has been led to de-

The two

incompatible with

the peaceful

incinerators only mand immediate results that are cost six hundred dollars in all, so they cannot have been elaborate affairs.

very organisation of Europe. Im- Be that as it partial observers declare that the triumph of Hitler in the elec- tion with the consequent stimulus to German foreign policy, is in reality a setback. Instead of in- creasing the influence of Germany, it has reduced it. Herr von Papen has excelled as a diplomatist but

may, if the Government has its way they are now to be discarded in favour of this other plan of dis- posing of the garbage in the real, orthodox Hongkong manner.

The point which will immediate

ly suggest itself to anyone who he was forced to any openly that

man programme are somewhat

has read the Finance Committee if there is not. general disarma- discussion on the maller is

that ment, then Germany will shake off the incineration experiment can-

the military fetters of the Ver not be condemned in this offhand of upheaval serves largely to in- sailles Treaty, Such a prospect,

manner merely because the smokerrease, the obstacles to German from the plant has caused claima Nations which might annoyance. If we are to judge have been friondly and sympatho from the remarks of the Director tic toward some parts of the Gor- of Public Works, the incinerators alarmed at other parts of it. The have worked quite satisfactorily Chancellor, if he is well advised from the standpoint of dealing and awake to the mistakes in a with the rubbish, the only com- German diplomacy pushed hend- plaint being in regard to the long by extremists, should now smoke. The obvious step, there- fore, would have been to move the plant to a spot where no annoy ance would be caused-quite a sim-

· ple matter, one would imagine,

endeavour to revert to the method of Stresemann. It is for him to choose the proper time to make Germany's demands, and to decide | Germany's alms at a given mo- mont. Even at the risk of un-

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"If there's nothing to horoscope readings, how could she

toll I had the instincts of a creative artist?"

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- Clapham and Dwyer he could only

get as far as Clapham.

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Birda have adopted the hire-pur- chase system. They furnish their neats with a little down.

New Definition:--A banker is

man who charges you for the use,

of other people's money and thinks

ho is kind-hearted.

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They say the German President keeps cool in all circumstances. Hindeniceburg!

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These scientists who are trying so hard to split the atom, ought to send it through the post, marked "Fragile."

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A cricket team has been formed a number of photographers near London. They ought not to miss many sitters.

The Government Gazette gives new rates for lime-washing. No- thing, however, is said regarding white-washing.

TENDERS ACCEPTED

THE LATEST GOVERNMENT

LIST

The Government has accepted the following.tendors:

to

Forming Children's Playground and arecting of sheds, Cox's Road, Kowloon,Measra. Sang Loo & Co.

Repairs

S/L "P.D.1."-- Mesars. Kwang Cheung Hing.

Approach Road to New Kowloon Urning Cemetery No. 5. Mr. Man

Gang.

Nullah training at Sookunpoo.~~~ Messrs. Tai To Construction Co.