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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The Society asks for $25,000
in 1936 to continue its work for
sick and destitute children.
Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.,
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co.,
P. & O. Building.
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine.
Hongkong.
THE
HONGKONG
PENINSULA HOTEL:
APB
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL:
PEAK HOTEL
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTEL:
HOTELS
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LTD., PENANG.
CRAG HOTEL,
Penang Hills
(2,400 feet above sealevel).
(near summit atation) Hill Railway.
"THE ISLAND'S MOST EFFICIENT SERVICE.”.
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL
On Sea Front.
Private Care for Excursions Anywhere.
Caterers ele, to Impselal Airways.
Kash xow interchangeable, no extra sint wherwise you have your breaklapk hansheon, ten, or ChinaT,
Booms of both hotele bars private bathrooms and modern sanitation. At the Bunnymade each room has its own publier lebone
The Bannymede Restaurant has undenišály pride of place among botule of the Kark with the exisine, and justly claims by its association to offer the traveller sosh ga,
not to be found where.
Teething troubles
Because SCOTT'S. Emulsion contains 44% of pure cod live
oil and lima taks
for bone formation, It provents teething troubles, rickets and soft bones. Ask for genuine
SCOTT'S EMULSION
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY
Eyes And
In Karnwestheim, near Stuttgart, the new Lown-hall bus n° 150 feet: high tower watch also serves water tower.
One Man Gives Away £1,000,000
LORD NUFFIELD'S LATEST, £125,000
Lo
AS R
ORD NUFFIELD, ex- bicycle repairer, to-day
one of the world's leading
21, 1936.
Ears For The Queen Mary
4-MILE BEAM OF LIGHT TO DETECT ICEBERGS Plans For Maiden Voyage Broadcast
Clydebank, Jan. -1. A new safety measure for the Cunard-White Star liner the Queen Mary is being experimented within Messrs. John Brown's shipyard here, and if the tests now being carried out are successful, the liner will have a powerful light beam to warn the officers of any obstacles in her path. The beam, which will be connected with the ship's wireless system, will form an are of light extending for four miles in the direction the Queen Mary is steaming. CELEBRITIES' BROADCASTS
Any obstacle such as an iceberg or a wreck will break this beam, and an officer in the charthouse will receive a warning flas', The liner's course can then be immediately changed.
The most remarkable radio experiment ever attempted on the maiden voyage of a liner will be made in the vessel when she sailst from Southampton, on May 27.
Listenera in their armchairs Inm England and in the United Stater will be able to switch on their sets and follow the events taking place in the wonder ship of the world almost as well as if they were on board.
In the Queen Mary is
miniature
Millionaire And Bride
Broadcasting House, equipped with Marooned
and receiving ap-
paralus unequalled in
any ship
stations in
afloat, and incidents in the linersbane (Queensland), Jan. 1. will be broadcast
to
England and the United States and Mr. George Vanderbilt, 21-year- Bold American multi-millionaire,
The Vanderbilts are on a honey-
relayed. Concerts in the liner will be one and his bride have been stranded of the big features of the pro-on an uninhabited island off the motor - car manufacturers,gramme, and as many celebrities Queensland coast for two days and has given £125,000 for- will be passengers, FL is probable two nights,
"The early discovery and that a number will be selected to efficient orthopaedic treatment give over the microphone their immoon trip that is taking them of every child threatened with pressions of the ship and the voy-round the world, crippledom" throughout thee. country.
Island, in At lady Musgrave the coral beit nf this const, they f 600 Ft. Aerial Span To deal efficiently with the deleft their yacht and went ashore. This latest sum-hits largest single gift to charlly-brings themands on its regular service the Then the yacht returned to the total of Lord Nuillett's charitablener will have 32 wavelength-13inland for some stores.
for shortwave use, nine for radio. A violent storm arose, The Eyacht could not make the island.! gifts to more than £1,000,000. |
telephony, seven for long, and five for medium wave, Nine aerial And there, for two days and two Lord Nuffield, formerly Mr.ystems will be required to operate nights, the young couple were cut William Richard Morris, is fifty-these wavelengths, the main neriu off from the civilised world. eight years old, hurried, but has not having a span of 600ft. family.
For The Children
He has always taken keen interest; in the welfare of children and young people.
Inherited £4,000,000
They made a rude shelter and waited till the weather became calm enough for their friends to. rescue them.-Reuter,
Mr. George Vanderbilt, the late Mr-Gwynne Vanderbilt, was married to Miss Lucillo Par-
son
of
Passengers may speak by radio- telephone to any part of the world. and the installation is equipped with a secret device so that conversation cannot be intercepted or overheard Il gifts incluil: £60,000 for
Thirty-eight loudspeakers are so crippled children in New Zealand:unningly concealed in the public £50,000 for crippled children in Ausrooms that they appear to be part tralia: $10,000 each for the Borstal of the schenies of decoration, and sons early last September at West Association, Motor and Cycle Traileshree programmes may be relayed Orange, New Jersey. Fifteen hun- Children's Homes, St. Peter's Halit the same time,
dred guests were present at the Collage. Oxford; and many smaller! The engines of the Queen Maryeremony. sunis for crippled children
On the bridegroom's 21st birth- and have now been officially passed by adults.
Cunard-White Star experts, and day, September 24, he inherited Other Gifts-
hey are ready-for-the-tests-to-l $20,000,000 (£1,000.000). He will Other large gifts made by Lord carried out earle in the New Year. get $20,000,000 more when he is 36; Nuffield in the past ten years are:-sama je bilang geIONE
Infirmary, Oxford
£100,000,
41wo part
itadel fiuy's Hosplint, Conan..... ..... £11,000,
two portion) ......177,6005 twa portional)
Ht. Thomas's trapital, 1.onden... £104,009; Birmingham Topiti
£30,000€ £16,000
Wingfield Orthopedic Hospital... 415.000 € League of Industry car Worcester Royal formaty Het Empire Casseer Campalen... $22,000; Country and Warwickshire Hospitals £23,000 Papworth Village Settlement
£25,000 Mount Vernon Hospital
A central fund named after Lord
Happy Days Are Back
MILLIONS NEXTRA ON ENJOYMENT
OFFICIAL news of happier times: Britain is drinking more champagne and more beer; smoking more tobacco; using more petrol, and spending more on entertainment.
Nuffield is to adminster this latest gift of £125,000. It will be spent during the next four or five years in developing the organisation cube-and using more sugar. half of cripples where this work] cannot at present be undertaken on an adequate scale,
SEVENTY
YEARS
1861-2d. WAY back in 1861 penny
stamps for the Gape of Good Hope were being printed in England.
Travel then was not what it is to-day. The stamps were late ar riving, so "emergency" stamps were issued.
TW
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1935-£140
TWO of those "emergency" penny stamps were sold at farmer's sale rooms, London, last month, for £140.
SALESMAN SAM
IT'S A GOOD THING SAM'S BEEN KEEPIN' OUTA MY SIGHT T'DAY! I'M SO DAWGONE MAD I COULD KICK HIS EARS OFF!!!
HET
GLOVES
ALWAYS ON HAND!
True, the sale of whisky has gone down, but that has really been due to the wildness of last winter.
Beer
POPULAR SONG AND PIANO ALBUMS. EIGHT FAMOUS SOPRANO SONGS. Includes: A May Morning, The Lass with tho Delicate Air, Dear Hoart, Lovo's Echo, atë. EICHT FAMOUS MEZZO-SOPRANO SONGS. Includes: Roso in
the Bud, A Bowl of Roses, The Garden of Sleep, etc. EIGHT FAMOUS TENOR SONGS. Includes: The Showy Breasted
Pearl, In Sympathy, Red Devon by the Sea, Innis Farrol, ote, SIGMUND Romberg SOUVENIR ALBUM. Songs from Desert
Şong, New Moon, Student Prince, Nina Rosa,
Includes DizzÝ FIRST ALBUM OF NOVELTY PIANO SOLOS.
Fingers, Coaxing the Piano, You Tell 'em Ivories, Cho-Piano, Mississippi Shivers, etc.
SECOND' ALBUM OF NOVELTY PIANO SOLOS. Includes My Pet. Greenwich Witch, Poor Buttermilk, Kinda Carclass, Symphonola, etc.
THIRD ALBUM OF NOVELTY PIANO SOLOS. Includes Bugle Call Rag, Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady, Fashionotte, Creole Love Song, etc.
EIGHT FAMOUS VALSES. Includes The Merry Widow, Valse
Blue, The Pink Lady, Venatis, Sphinx, etc.
Kittan on the Keys, Dardanells. Tiekla the Ivories, Chicken Reel, Tho Turkay PIANOFORTE NOVELTIES. Includes Trot, Black and White Rag.
SPECIAL PIANO TRANSCRIPTIONS. Includes 1 Nover Know, I'll See You in My Dreams, She's 'Funny-That Way, You're Driving Me Crazy,
NINE FAMOUS VALSES. Includes Bitter Sweet, Lilac Timo,
Luxembourg, Un Peu D'Amour. Dorothy, Romeo & Juliet ota, -- FAMOUS COMPOSITIONS WITH MODERN ARRANGEMENTS. Includes St. Louis Blues, Somebody Stole My Girl, After You've Cone. Some of These Days, My Blue Heaven, etc.
TSANG FOOK PIANO Co.
9 Ice House Street HONG KONG
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1 This show is finally born.
5 A surgical instrument,
Partly a sleepish figure.
10 A supporter of the way. 11 Femininu nume.
12 May refer to one of a race with
.out the means of running one. 16 Lacking border.
22 Meteor? Far from it!
20 One of the cat's tails?
23 Reverse one source of life in on-
other for a valuable fump.
A necessary aid to fresh-air pro-
We are even drinking more texwill get the benefit of that
Rucers. £1,000,000 In his next Budget:
Chief increases in revenue were:25 The mnd-hatter's daughter?
£2,000,000 Keep. After allowing for higher duty 27 Time and direction combine to
cancel. before April, 1933.)
£3,000,000 30 An antonym of terse $2,000,000 38 Not pre-Christian poetry, eviden.
£500,000 tly, but contrary.
This cheerful story of a nation's gaiety, published appropriately on the eve of Christmas, is contained in a Blue Book report by the Com- missioners of Customs and Excise for the year 1934-35.
Tobacco Petrol
Entertainments
Champagne, wines, etc. £265,000 37 A hint worth waiting for. More than half the increase in 38 Steepy-headed fuel. wines
was in Empire vintages, Spoil
10 This may be dug from its head. which carried a duty of 48, a gallon against the full duty on foreign 41 Train partly made from metal. wines of 8s. a gallon,
Consumption of spirits fell from 14,200,000 proof gallons in 1925-24, to 9,400,000 proof gallons last year equal to a reduction per head of the population from one-third of a gallon to one-fifth.
Revenue Hold-Up The net revenue for the year showed an increase of £3,500,000, the total being £289,000,000. The increase would have been larger still but for the Budget remissions of duty on beer, silks and heavy oil. Even the unrealised hope of a réduction of duty on spirits In the last Budget robbed the past year's revenue of about £1,000,000, "It will be observed," say because the trade postponed Commissioners, "that the revenue elearances of liquor in anticipation increases reflect the change in the of the Budget. The Chancellor purchasing power of the people."
Bear consumption rose by 16 per cent.
Job Wanted
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1 Pattern partly for poets.
2 A sound tribute to the harpist's
pluck.
3 May be a part of the body
other than check.
4 Snare:
5 After the start this river is
nover changed.
This is calculated to give one a start.
7 A changed duper,
8 Turn French Marshal
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BIG SAFE! I JES' SOLD TH REMAINS TO A JUNK MAN LAMP
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14 A Zon favourite (two words). 15 Plain features from Russia.
17 Cut but no coleur. finally.
18 He has gained something, but.
nat from his own will
70 Kind.
21 American town.
28 Hand on the story, like a shop-
keeper.
29 An army gure from the papers. 30 Poison.
31 Mature,
32 Nearly an aimless result. 34 A subterranean Jump.
36 Caloureil article for defence, 30 Uncanny.
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