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CENTRAL

HEATRE

FINAL SHOWINGS

AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

UNITED PHOTOPLAY SERVICE presents:

LILY YUEN

IN..

"THE COMEBACK"

WITH

KAO CHAN FEI-M. NIKITINA

LEE KENG.

NEXT CHANGE

LUM KWAN SHAN

IN

A CANTONESE TALKING PICTURE

"A CUNNING FELLOW"

WITH

Miss PIN SIN WONG. Produced by CHUNG WAH FILM CO. Coming Attraction

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

A CERTAIN SOVIET

SURPLUS BALLOON

BRITAIN'S BUDGETARY

ACHIEVEMENT

BURSTS

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1934

AMBITIOUS SLUM PROGRAMME

STRATOSPHERE

ASCENT

LATEST FIGURES PARACHUTE ALSO

London, Mar. 13.

The Intest weekly Treasury returns show that up to March 10, the total ordinary revenue

MISSING

Moscow, Mar. 13.

FIVE YEAR PLAN FOR HOUSING

GOVERNMENT'S SCHEME

London, Max. 13.

The new envelope of the An ambitious scheme for for the current financial year automatic stratosphere bal-slum clearance throughout which enda on March 31st amounted to £676,908,092 and the loon which is to be used the British Isles is detailed ordinary expenditure for the shortly by Soviet scientists in a White Paper issued by

for, another attempt on the the Government to-day. For the full year, it was estim-existing height record was It is hoped that as u result of ated that the ordinary revenug Avould amount to 2008,777,000 and tested a second time near the Government's programme the slum problem in Britain will have that the ordinary expenditure would Leningrad to-day.

same period £651,185,862.

be £700,806,000.

QULLA'S

To-day to Saturday at 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30

Girls!

Dancing! Gayetyl

A now personality for the screen!

MAX BAER IS THE NEW IT" MAN OF THE SCREEN!

Cler's your chance to cavet Will he gtre you a thriti? Kave's then picture everyone de calicing about. What a les ment. A love story youth love) And the fint ring bazzle beswwen TRIMO GARNIRA and MAX BARU · Exchèng from

Socht

* MYRNA LOY * MAX BAER * PRIMO CARNERA ★ JACK DEMPSEY

THEPRIZEFIGHTER

The balloon reached a 'height of disappeared after a period of five Inland revenue collected last nearly eleven miles and then years

£18,313,000, and burst. week totalled

Among the Government's pro- included £10,215,000 in income

A parachute with a number of

attached pesala In the demolition of over, al tax, £3,050,000 in surtax and £1,-selentine Instruments 860,000 in catate duties.

had previously been released from quarter of a million housca in the Receipts from Customs and Ex-the balloon, but it has not been slum areas and the building of found. It is thought that, the nearly three hundred thousand parachute descended either in new houses to replace them.

The Achume envisages that Finland or in Ladoga Lake.

During the ascent of the robot- balleon, the automatic wirelcan 1,250,000 persons will be removed installation aboard transmitted from the slum districts and information regarding the tem-housed in up-to-dale premises. perature, the atmospheric pressure

WORK FOR 110,000. and the humidity of the air.

at the The capital cost of the scheme The temperature Ordinary and self-balancing re- venue to date amount to £765,238, maximum height reached was 55 will amount to £115,000,000 over the Svo-year period, the Exche 092and the total ordinary and self-degrees below zero.-Reuter. balancing expenditure, after allow-

cise last week amounted to £5,082, 000 and the total revenue from this Rource during the current financial year now amounts to £269,465,000, which figure is already alightly in revenue excess of the estimated from Custoins and Excise for the full year.

re-

A

anco is made for two items not pro- It is learned that Mr. W. II. Baileyquer contributing, at the begin- vided for in the budget, £7,215,007 has found it will be impossible for ning, about £600,000 rising to over

(At the period of forty years. provision for a now sinking fund him to take the Bass solo work in £3,000,000 and. continuing for and £3,304.392 in War Debt pay-Dvorak's "Stabat Mater"

The local authorities are also ments to the United States, amounts foot of the Crcas) which the St. An-. to £740,035,361, The Budget est-drew's Church choir is rendering at

Passiontide, on March 20 at 9 pm. contributing £200,000 at the begin- mate for ordinary and self-balanc-His place is being taken by Mr. C. Wning rising to over a million in ing expenditure was £784,405,000. E. Bishop in the sole, and by Mr. F. forty years. The scheme will give work to 110,000 people.-Router. -British Wireless.

W. Dann in the quartet.

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* LOVE!

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