1936-05-23 — Page 13

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1936.

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Coronation Committee to be Asked to Work on Bigger Task? HONGKONG CENTENARY IN JANUARY, 1941: CELEBRATIONS ON BIG SCALE MOOTED

AIR RACE MAY BE FEATURE OF COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMME

SIX MONTHS' CELEBRATIONS COMMENCING SEPTEMBER, FOUR YEARS HENCE

"Telegraph" Special Reprosentative IN less than five years Hongkong will celebrate the cen- tenary of its cossion to Great Britain by China. The island of Hongkong was ceded to Britain in January, 1841, the cession being confirmed by the Treaty of Nanking in August, 1842,

Within a short, time the Hongkong Government will appoint a representative Committee to plan the local cele- brations for the Coronation next May of His Majesty the King.

"I understand that the same Committee may be asked to continue as a Committee in charge of the details in con- nection with the celebration of the Colony's centenary.

The actual centenary celebrations will probably com- mence in September, 1940, just over four years hence, and last until the end of spring in 1941.

This will ensure that tourists to the Colony will be able to participate in the celebrations during the best time of the year.

No definite plans have, of course, as yet been made regarding the actual form the celebrations will take, but it is anticipated that they will follow in some respects the Jubilee celebrations last year and the intended celebrations for next year's Coronation.

Several schemes in connection | with the centenary celebrations have already been put forward, the celebrations in Melbourne in October, 1933, providing a precedent.

on

ing at Happy Valley, with greatly Increased prize lists;

an Empire Trade Fair;

Far Eastern Olymples, sirullar fo those held in the Philipphre Islands last year;

The appointment of a special Publicity Bureau.

in view of the enormous rosti

BUST OF BENEFACTOR

SIR ADBLÁT HO TUNG, ENT.

A GENEROUS BENEFA

| THIS BUSY WAS UNVEILLD BE H7

· SIR ANDREW CALDECOTT Kt. C.B.E, C.HG.. :GOVERNOR OF Hong Kong

On 19TH MAT 1930

Pictured above is the bust of Sir Robert Ho Tung, benefactor of the Aberdeen Industrial School, wilch His Excellency the Governor un- veiled at the School this week. (Photo: A. Pong),

HONGKONG PHONE

TO LONDON IN TWO MONTHS

RADIO LINK VIA CANTON TO OPEN MID-JULY

"Telegraph" Special Representative

One of these suggestions is that a Contenury Air Rhee be involved for prizes, etc.. it may held between London and Hong not be possible to hold a Centen kong. Whether this will materialary air race unless a philanthro ise will depend, to some extent, pist materially assists by donating In less than two months, the last remaining com-

whether . Hongkong certain of the prizes. philanthropist will follow the lead

There is no gainsaying the fact. land will be removed.

munication barrier between Hongkong and the Mother- given by Sir MacPherson Robert-however, that the Melbourne cen- son, who donated £50,000 in prizes tenary celebrations received their

SO FAR HAS THE WORK ADVANCED ON THE NEW HIGH for the Melbourne Centenary Air greatest Alp through the POWER RADIO-TELEPHONE STATION AT CANTON THAT IT

Special efforts undoubtedly will and it may be that the Hongkong, BETWEEN CANTON AND SHANGHAI WILL DEFINITELY COM-|

Mildenhall-Melbourne air co4S NOW POSSIBLE TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE SERVICE bo to attract a record number of Government, in view the enorm MENCE IN MID-JULY, tourists to Hongkong during the

advertisement that would Arrangements have already been made for the existing Centenary season, and the ques-accrue, may make its own arrange- Hongkong Telephone Company's trunk line service to Canton tion of travel facilities and agments in this connection, commodation will be one of the

to link with the radio-telephone service from Canton to first that will have to be tackled

Shanghai. by the Centenary Committee.

Race

DIG SHIPS TO COMET

Tho new Canadian Pacific sig. ter ship to the Empress of Britain will be launched in 1940 and It seems almost certain that her maiden voyage will, like that of the Empress of Britain, boa round-the-world cruise embracing Hongkong.

CENTENARY DAY

Shanghai is in communication by radio-telephone-with Japan

By utilising an ordinary relay system, it will be possible for any person in Hongkong to telephone to 98 per cent. of the 30,000,- 000 telephone subscribers throughout the world.

Trunk line calls may be book-į not anticipated that the charge

rency.

RADIO BROADCAST

Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra

DAVENTRY BULLETIN

From Z. B. W. on a wavelength of

360 metres (845 kilocycles):

12.30 p.m. A Concert.

1 p.m. Time and Weather. .1.03 p.m. Instrumental Variety

Items.

1.30 p.m. Press Bulletins, Weather, timo

ime and Announcemonts,

1.40 p.m. Dance Musle, -2.15 p.m. Close DownL

4-7 pm. Chinese

7 p..

Concert.

Mengelbergramme. Sinfonia (Bach); Damnation of

gebouw Orchestra.

mnatiogarinn Dance (Berlioz); (Berliozisaikovsky);

Cossack Dance ("Mazop Perpetuum

1 J. Strauss.

by

7.25 p.m.

p.m.

Welsh Memories" sung

Orchestra Raymonde.

Gounod in Vienna (arr. Walter); Stephanie Gavotte (arr. Altendorf); Berceuse (Jarnefelt); Indian Mail- Descriptive (Lamuther); Glow Worm Intermezzo (Lincko); Delibes Vienna (arr. Walter).

8

its

5 p.m. nouncements.

8.03 p.m. A Varlety Pro-

Time, Wenther and An-

gramme.

Organ Solo-Reminiscences of Frim....Reginald Foort; Vocal-If I had Rhythm in my nursery rhymes; The Star and the Rose......Sam Browns and The Rhythm Sisters: Piano

Salon With all my heart; Taggin' along

you......Gerry

Moore; Band never be an

other you....London

Piano Accor-

deon Band; SongMy First thrill.... June Clyde; Band---A Broken Dol Darktown Strutters: Vocal

Curtis and Ames; Or- on Youth... chestra A Musical Comedy Switch New Mayfair Orchestra; Piano Soles-Charlie Kone

.Eddie Pea-

Volley: Banjo

Sule-St. Louis

body;

on the

Prairie... The Hill Billion; Orches tra-Wedding Dance Waltz (Lincke); Magyar Melodies (Vilmos)....Alfredo and his Orchestru.

9 p.m. Daventry News Bulletin and Announcements.

9.20 p.m. Vocal Gems from "Mou- sieur Beaucaire

9.30

p.m. Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra.

10 p.m. Big Bea from Daventry, 12 midnight. Close Down. NOTE: There will be a Chinese recorded Programme from. Z.E.K. on frequency of 640 kilocycles from

B-11pm.

TO-MORROW'S BROADCAST

Studio Recital By Gaston D'Aquino

10.30 a.m.-11.30 a.m.

Morning Ser-

vice from the Union Church.

11.30 am-12.15 p.m. Morning Ser- vice from the Hop Yat Church.

12.13 p.m. Le Bourgeois Gentil- homme" (Richard Strauss, Op. 60).

12.50 p.m.

.m. Two Songa by Hed- dle Nash (Tenor)

1. La Boheme -Your tiny haul is frozen (Puccini); 2 The Fair Maid of Perth-Serenade (Bizet).

1 p.m. Time and Weather,

The actual cession of the inlend and harbour of Hong- and Europe. kong was announced at Macaol on January 28, 1841, by Captain. | Charles Elliot, N., but Captain Elliot did not take actual possession of the Colony until January 26. The actual cem ed from a business office or for a three-minute conversation tenary day, therefore, would be private home in Hongkong to between Hongkong and Shanghai | on this Intter date.

any part of Britain for appro-will exceed $10 Hongkong cur-

1.03

03 p.m. Military Band Music. Four days after taking possos-ximately 25 sterling for a three-

Tidworth Tattoo, 1936; Woodland It is safe to predict that the son of the Colony (February 2), minute conversation.

Pictures-Rural Suite (Fletcher). ever-incrensing number of

Captain Elliot issued a Proclama-

It is understood that the appor- To ensure socrecy of conversa- 1.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins.

1.35

A Recital by Elisa- p.m. European and American tourists tion, whereby he became the first:

tionment of charges between tion the latest "scrambling" debeth Schumann (Soprano), visiting the Far East each year mont from England. By that is still under discussion, but it in and Shanghai. These devices in- ("Lo Nozze did Figaro") (Mozart); Governor, pending an appoint Hongkong, Canton and Shanghai vices will be used between Canton 1. Ah Come, nor linger more will rench their penk during 1940-41, when the attractions Proclamation all Chinese residing

vert the voice-frequency waves at 2. My Love is forever true (11 He associated with a visit to "the

the transmitting station and be, Pastore" (Mozart): 3. My Lovely Riviera of the Orient" will be

the of the South Australian centenary fore they can be rendered de- Colia (arr. Lase Wilson); 4. at their height.

British officials landed is held to committee to a centenary rifle cipherable an "unscrambling" ucrale (arr. Lano Wilson).

1.50 p.m. "Three Men Suite" (Eric Special literature will be pre-be Possession Point, and the meeting in Adelaide this year and vice must be employed. pared by the Hongkong Travel guide we still have to this inter-will be bound to regard this as Association for distribution to eating site is the roadway known precedent.

on the island became British sub- jceta,

The exact spot where

overy part of the world, pointing to-day as Possession Street, run- Hongkong as a venue for cer-used in both Canton and Shanghai,

Contos).

2.05

p.m. A

Pasto-

Selection

of

British made equipment is being | Waltzes.

Artist's Life (Strauss); Danube suro (Becucel); La Spagnola (The Spanish Dancer) (Di Chiara); Eva Waltzes (Lehar); Carmen Sylva-

out the advantages of a holiday in ning from Queen's Road Central tain Davis Cup matches during and British engineers are install-Wares Waltz (Ivanovici); bly Trea this Colony during the centenary (then the waterfront) up to Holly [centenary year would be a natural ing the apparatus.

celebrations..

.the advisability of:

holding Centenary

wood Road.

drunk with

|

2.90 p.m. Close Down. the English

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme, institutions still retain the more Major (Jupiter) (Mozart). newspapers and many private 7

p.m. "Symphony No. 41 in C familiar "Hongkong" spelt a one

7.30 D.m

Organ Recital by word. The actual charter of Harry Goss-Custard. Hongkong bears the date of April

Storm (Lem. 1. Fantasio The mens); 2. Evening Song (Bairstow),

7.43 p.m. Concert Waltzes.

5. 1848.

• KOWLOON'S ANNIVERSARY

A Thousand and One Nights (J. Strause); Moonlight on the Alator

p.m.

conclusion if the present sugges|— POSSIBLE PROGRAMME

It probably marks at its lower tion is adopted that two Pacile

kong" was officially re-adopted, Waltz (Ivanovicl). end, now crossed by Queen's Zones be created for this im- While plans in connection with

Road, the exact place where the portant annual sporting event. and to-day two of the colebrations are still in the

Under existing zonal arrange historic landing took place. nebulous stage, it is possible Although possession "wan nobl ments tho matter may bal that, in addition to following the taken until January 26, H.M.S. Impossible to arrange. plans laid down last year for the Sulphur (Captain Sir Edward VISIT FROM. ANTIPODES Jubilee celebrations, and con- Belcher) arrived on previous day.. tempinted next year for the under instructions to carry out & There would be no difficulty in Coronation celebrations, the Con-eurvoy. Sir Edward Belcher | negotiating visits of representa- tonary Committee may consider landed at 8.16 n.m. on Monday,tive sporting teams from the An-

The Kowloon Peninsula and (Fetras); Wine, Women and Song January 26 and "being the bona tipodes, and the question of inter air race |úde first possessors, Her Majesty's port sporting functions is one that (Stonecutter's Island were ceded to (Straus)*. Time, Weather and An between London and Hongkong health was

B as being al-Great Britain under the Conven- three might be regarded either over the existing Imperial

tion signed at Peiping in October,nouncements. This would also Airways roule or via the Atlantic cheers in Possession Mount ready settled.

RE-ENACTING EARLY SCENES

apply to the suggestions regard-1860, and under the Convention ing the holding of Far Eastern the area known as the Now Ter- signed at Pelping in June, 1898, Each of the above-mentioned Olympics In the Colony as, in the fitories, Including Mirs Bay and Gualdi, Incidents may be commemorated natural course of events, it would during the Colony's centenary probably be Hongkong's turn by Britain by the Government of Furtiva

Deep Bay was leased to Great 1. Elegio...Massenot; 2. Yna Lacrima from "L'Eliair celebrations in 1941 by a re-1941 to stage this important sport China

for 90 years. The total D'Amoro". Donizetti 3. La Par enactment of the scenes and by ing festival. tableaux.

area of the Colony, including the tida...Alvarez; 4 Roses Ted In a request to the Internationai |

It Is. Interesting to note that New Territories, is about 990 the Garden....Landon Ronald; B. Lawn Tennis Association that cer-In view of the popularity of the city of Victoria was origin- squaro miles.

ས་, Marochiare....Tosti. tain of the Davis Cup matches be rifle shooting in Hongkong it is ally known as Queenstown, the

8.20, p.m. The Regimental Band played in the Colonyi

practically certain that the Colony name being changed to Victoria While the Colony of Hong-of H. M. Grenadier Guards Bri tours to Hongkong by Austra with the biggest rifle club in that by the proclamation of 1813, kong will be celebrating its tish Composers, Han, New Zealand and

which also made the spelling of centenary, Kowloon will be Pomp and Circumstanco March No.. sporting bodies, such as foot-Empiro will be the venue of an

zolf-Empire "Bisley" meeting during Hongkong one word, ・・ ballers, cricketers and

almost simultaneously celebrat-1. (Elgas); Matcha Lorraine (Gianne); Hyde Park Sulto (Jalowies); Nautical ing the Roth anniversary of Ita|Moments (ar Winter). players, and by Interport sportsmen the centenary celebrations. Hong Centenary annual race meet | kong has-accepted-the-invitation

becoming a-British possession

Continued on Page 5.)

and Pacific oceans;

* re-enactment of the scenes at the actual cession of Hongkong to Britain;

"Bisley" rifle shooting meet- ing, to which representative rille. man from the whole Empire will be invlled;

It was only a few years ago that the two worded name "Hong

8.03 pm. From the Studio, A Recital by "Gaston d'Aquino (Tenor) accompanied by Elislo

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