1935-08-29 — Page 2

TRADE

NATIONAL

MARK

NATIONAL String instrUMENTS.

We stock National Steel Guitars, Ukuleles, Mandolines. and all National accessories such as.cases, strings, slides, and picks.

Send for an illustrated booklet or better still call and inspect the instruments or accessories you are interested in.

Prices:

Guitars ......from HK.$145.00 Ukuleles $105.00 & $200.00

Mandolines

$150.00 & $220.00

LARGE DISCOUNTS FOR CASH.

"THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR A NATIONAL." TSANG FOOK PIANO & MUSIC Co. 9, Ice House Street, Hongkong:

Tel. 24648.

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TO-DAY

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TEL. NOS. 25313 & 25332.

LAST TWO DAYS!

THE NEW PROGRAMME

CONSISTING

"LIVING MARBLE”

(Reproduction of World Famous Masterpieces)

"THE HUMAN SHELL"

"TROVEVUE

|

THE HONGKONG

73 Men Who Failed To Pay Their Debts

SPENT NEW YEAR'S DAY IN PRISON THIS YEAR

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29. 1935.

Why Not End The Noise

Nuisance In Hongkong?

NEW BRITISH RECOMMENDATIONS

Recommendations which may be made by a Government Committee in England regarding noise abatement may well be adopted in Hong-

Seventy-three martyrs to kong. Clause 56 of the Magistrates Ordinance of 1890 were in Annoyance caused by noise is, in some cases, Hongkong prisons on De-within the category of a legal trespass in this cember 31 last, representing Colony.

an increase of eleven the same day in 1938.

over But existing legislation for dealing with

street noises sadly needs strengthening.

The 73 spent New Year's Eve in prison because they failed to pay their debts.

Under Clause 56 of the Ordin-

As Mecca

ance says that any sum of money Mainland recoverable summarily as n civil debt shall be deemed to be a sum for payment of which a magistrate has authority to order a period of imprisonment, with or without hard labour.

Definite terms of imprison ment are laid down under the Ordinance, as follows: When the Amount Does Not Exceed

$1

$5

310

$50

$150

Imprisonment Not Exceeding 7 day 14 days 1 month

2 months 3 months

The maximum period of im- prisonment for debt is six months, for debts exceeding $150.

At Home more and more at- tention is being paid to the nuisance by the blare of radio loud speakers, a fruitful cause for suppressive legislation in Hongkong.

ral

APARTMENT FLATS

IN CENTRAL DISTRICT.

SOMETHING NEW IN RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION

IN HONGKONG,

One, two and three-roomed up-to-date furnished and unfurnished! apartments, each with kitchen, pantry, bathroom, and detached: For Bathers Scientists at the National Phyni-modem 8-storey re-inforced concrete building known as "DINA servants' quarters, will be available, at moderate rents, in the new Laboratory at Teddington, HOUSE" now nearing completion in Duddell Street. The Bathing on the mainland of Middlesex, are waging a ceaseless Hongkong is becoming increas-war against noise.

furnished flats will be fitted with fumiture of modern type. A ingly popular each year.

telephone and frigidaire will be provided in each apartment. Experiments are being made in Automatic lifts (Waygood Otis), According to the Annual Re-special test chambers.

These apartments are bright and alry, the majority of them facing towards the Gardens or the port of District Officer, North,

harbour. twenty-five new permits for bath- ing sheds were issued at the various beaches on the mainland. This brings the total to 171, and practically exhausts supply of available sites.

the

Approximately $25 per annum is charged by the Government for each site, so that permits to erect matsheds now represent a considerable source of revenue.

The Prison Ordinance provides that debtors shall not be confined with convicts, but must be kept in a separate block, separating them altogether from the KATARINARIANSMAUGINTAVEITSISPANIMATIZACJRMUDACIM criminal prisoners.

A prisoner cannot be im- prisoned more than once for the

same debt,

4,985 ALIENS

LIVING IN H.K.

POLICE FIGURES FOR. LAST YEAR According to statistics issued by the Inspector General of Police, a total of 4,985 aliens, other than Chinese, were re- siding in Hongkong on Decem- ber 31, last year.

It is estimated that 9,216 Europeans and Americans, of whom 7,121 are British reside in the Colony.

Bootleggers Cross

The Atlantic

CHANNEL PROVIDES

LUCRATIVE SOURCE OF INCOME

Le Havre, Aug, 20.

It has been found that 20 per cent. more energy is required hy people working under noisy conditions. The efficiency of a

typist, for instance, is impaired by 7 per cent, when working In a noisy office.

rats Experiments made upon showed that their rate of growth

was impeded by 10 per cent, when subject to continuous noise.

The average sergeant-major will be interested to know that his voice has been mensured, and when he barks out orders on parade he is exceeding the

average decibel

figure by 30 per cent.

At the National Physical Labora- tory they are experimenting to find the silent house, so that noises from the neighbour's wireless, the barking of dogs, and the slamming of car doors can be eliminated.

The completely noiseless house has actually been built. The in- sulation of walls and floors with rubber, the provision of air condi- tioning, which obviates the neces sity of the open window, are the

Bootlegging in the ChannelPrincipal features.

has cost the French Govern. ment at least £2,000,000 in the past few weeks.

Silent Road Drills

Contributions towards the

The traffic is on the lurgest elimination of noise that have al- scale ever known, and detectives rendy been made are:

of the Surete Nationale (the Silent rond drills t West- French Scotland Yard) already minster,

DURING the year, when the have proof that the brains behind

Registration IN MONTEVIDEO”

Etc., Etc., Etc.

PROF. WILLIAM DOORLAY'S

TROPICAL EXPRESS NON-STOP REVUE

TWO SHOWS DAILY—6 & 9.30 P.M.

ADMISSION: MATINEE-$3, $2, $1 & 50 cts.

EVENING $3, $2, $1

PLUS

TAX

SERVICEMEN 'IN UNIFORM-M.S. $1.50, 8.5. 70 cts.

CHILDREN HALF PRICES MATINEE ONLY.

"It is believed that the operators are former bootleggers in the United States.

of Persons the operations have vast working Ordinance, providing for the capital. compulsory registration of all aliens, was brought into force, total of 6,837 persons registered. Eight died during the year, and 1,852 left the Colony.

Nine persons were convicted for failing to register under the ordinance.

During the year, 85 persons of various nationalities other than Chinese were put before the courts for the folowing offences;

Vagrancy Stowaways

14

9

Passports

62

while 66 destitutes were dealt

were

Two Arrests.

Rubber-tyred wheelbarrows on L.N.E.R. stations.

Silent milk churn for railway sintions,

Semi-silent propeller for aero- planes.

Those who have already booked flats, and persons wishing to view the premises, are informed that lifts have now been installed and... that they will be shown over the building if application is made at Messrs. H. Ruttonjee & Son's offices next door-No. 7 Duddell Street.

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

ACROSS

1 It's profane and forbidden if you

drop your II.

A reverse for the T.U.C.

"It is not for your health, thus to conimit your weak condition to the morning" ("Julius Caesar") (Hyphen 3-4).

And experimnets made by the The traffic, with headquarters london Transport Board prove un traba could be at Le Havre, has been manily con- that noises cerned with the importation into eliminated if the public would be France of wireless sets and photo-lieve that the open window is un-13 "It's never too late" &c. but graphic outfits, but any side-line necessary. Air-conditioning would

12 This will take up no one's time. 11 Any suitor is equal to this.

better before this tinie.

17 Morning service. (One spell-

ing 19 Published, it seems, in anger, but

Turks understand.

is followed that promises profit. enable all the windowA to be 14 Solos.

Police declare they have con- closed-and still provide fresh vincing proofs that undesirable air. men and women have been

The noise which accompanies smuggled into Britain, while underground travel comes many hundreds of immigrants the reverberation of the wheels In21

from in excess of the quoin have been the hollow tube. landed in the United States.

It is believed that the ring has

with. Deportation orders

Closed windows.would keep this carried out with respect to 13,217 been responsible for a considera-noise out of the carriages. persons, as compared with 12,709 ble traille in arms and munitions

in 1933. Of these, 3,218 were imported from Belgium and Hongkong banishees, 4,451 were destined for the

Use of one or

gaol discharges who were auto- other of the two political groups "Quads" Grow Up

matically banished, 1054 were secretly arming in Paris and other; Singapore vagrants, 1,183 were large towns in anticipation of a Dutch East Indies and Deli un clash when the Laval Government desirables, and 56 were Ocean Is-is overthrown. land and Samoan deporteus.

+

Mona, Roberta, Leota and Mary Keys, of Hollis, Oklahoma, are the Soldiers Rounded Up

It is known that in the region only quadruplets on record in the of Le Havre alone the cargoes United States who have reached When General Taai Ting-kai landed in the past few weeks have their twentieth birthday. failed in the abortive Fukien re- involved a loss of £2,000,000 to The sisters have just celebrated volt, many of his famous Nine- the French Customs.

this happy event at Baylor Univer- teenth Route Army soldiers fled to The revelation that A largesity, Texas, where they are known Hongkong, During 1934 2,244 of quantity of opiumi had beer found as "The Bunch of Keys." these disbanded Holdiers were on board an American steamer at Nineteen veurs

ago they were rounded up by the Hongkong po- Dunkirk has attrred the fear that just as famous as the Dionne lice and were repatriated.

this port may also be implented | Quintuplets are to-day. Their the wholesale traffic. Two advice to the "Quins" is "Ench arrests have been made..

develop your own personality."

A total of 665 mendicants were dealt with during the year.

in

These contrivevees are 20 Mount that named a Codex.

more

than half devil, and more than half appreciated this summer. 23 Puts an end to electrical con-

neetions. 24 Commenced in a better way a

saving would result,

26 Quite a useful vehicle, though not so fast as the smaller one. John, in Russia, gardening. he comes a hero of romance. 30 If on a cruise you'll find the mob

cool here. 31 Why bo's troubled?

32 An appropriate disguise for a

square dame.

DOWN

This lown's wine isn't fit to drink.

In like manner the doctor will become a minor prophet.

4 Although from the days of Eve, men have been taken in by them, they are, in a way, kind women. 5 Noah niade the most of it at

night.

6 To comfort, or to sympathise:

either will do.

7 in a reverting to subterfuge.

possibly.

8 Changes by magic, but first gains

more by the change,

10 This makes mother return very

angry.

16 Righis to retain possession.

16 For one man who works ashore,

there are five in the Navy.

18 Lacking in grit, if not in wood:

more wishbone than backbone. 20 Bend in and out "as I tune"

(anag).

24 Demanded as a niedical change, 25 You may make part of the circle

by car.

27 False, but hangs on to Peter on

the banks of the Thames. 28 A musical disgrace! That's

what it is.

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SAM, T'DAY YOU PLAY LEFT FIELD, BUT THATS TH SUNFIELD! THE ONLY SUNGLASSES ON "TH' TEAM BELONG

TO BEN SLAPPUM!

THAT'S OKAY! phh DỊC tại THI OUG-OUT AND BORROW 'EM!

Play Ball!

THE WON'T LET WATCH ME

YA KAVE 'EMI MAC!!

HE'S SORE AT KOULD TALK BEIN' EDGED JAN ESKIMO| OUTA.HIS OUTA KIS FUR

POSITION,

COATI

SOYA DID GET THOSE SMOKED GLASSES, HEY?

By Small

WHADDA YA MEAN, SMOKED GLASSES? SLAPPUM LOST His TEMPER AN' GAVE

ME A COUPLA SHINERS!

ECILK

1936 MY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REC. 1, §. MAT, OFF,