1936-07-02 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY

1936.

HONGKONG'S SECOND ICE AGE IS HERE Housewives Start Refrigerator Sales Boom

CHANGING THE COLONY'S MEAL HABITS

HOUSEWIVES are bringing the Second Ice Age to Hongkong through their phenomenal demand for domestic refrigerators.

The boom is changing the nation's meals, improving people's health, and bringing prosperity to a new industry comparable with the boom in radio.

One company has just sold 25 supplies for the year have already

been snatched up by retailers. refrigeratora in a week.

The mainger" of another refrigera-

Experts estimate they are nowter firm said: being sold at the rate of a thousand

a year and that this figure will be half as much again before the end

the summer.

HIRE PURCHASE

...

The sales manager of one firm sald.

"Even $250 a month homes have them now,

This is by far the biggest year 150 have ever had. For every machine we sold twelve years ago We are now selling dozens. By the end of last April we had sold as many abineta ns in the whole of last year, which was itself a record pne.

The chief reason for the rush is the introduction of a hire purchase scheme by which the housewife can buy a refrigerator for a few dollars A month.

"Most retailers will probably have.

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"I am selling hundreds a year now for every one that I sold ten years) ago.

"The Industry is growing in the same way that the radio manufac- turing business hus grow. Twelve- years ago it was nan-existent,

"We are only at the beginning of the boom, as the market has just been touched.

am budgeting for at least a 50 per cent. Incrense la rules every year for many years to come. Prices are: showing a slow but maintained redue. tion.

.

"In a short time every house will have a cold cabinet in the same way that it has linch.

"Housewives have definitely adopted the idea of refrigeration, mainly on necount of the advantages to health and to the entirely new range of dishes a refrigerator brings to the home

nient,

"The roast beef of old England is such dellencies as

to follow this lead. Housewives have giving way in

begun to realise the value to health of Prawns in aspic aut ice puddings,"

a refrigerator, and of the enormous saving in food, which would otherwise have to be thrown away.

"The cost is more than paid for in the saving. It depends on the sire of the family, but a wall refrigerator saves about $15 a month in food.

ICE PUDDINGS

British and American refrigerator] manufacturers have spent millions of pounds enlarging their works and re- equipping them, with machinery for nines production needs."

The demand for domestic refrigera. ters has been ku great in the last few months that kome companies have been eaught napping, and their budgeted

Japan Looks South

NAVAL GOVERNOR FOR FORMOSA

•

MORE WORK

The turnover of the domestic re frigerator business in Hongkong is estimated by an authority as running into lakhs of dollars annually. It is increasing by leaps and bounds.

Refrigerators can be supplied in colours lo match decorations, although the popular demand is for the white cabinet.

WEARING

HAT IS

A THRILL

GIRL FROM THE PHILIPPINES

HONGKONG TROOPS AT JAFFA

RADIO BROADCAST

Relay of Dance Orchestra From Hongkong Hotel

Z.E.K. PROGRAMME

From ZEW. on a wavelength of [355 metres (346 kilocycles).

6-7 p.m. telay-Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra,

?

Concert Waltzes by p.n. Johann Strauss.

Tales from the Vienna Woods; Artist's Life: Roses 'from the South.

7.20 p.m. "Love'a Old Sweet Song"-Descriptive Ballad.

730 Orchestr Leslie Jeffries and his

Musical Comedy Gems; Dance of the Icicles; The Frollesome Hare.

7.43 p.m. Vocal Gems.

A Country Girl; The Merry Widow;

The Waltz Dream.

8 p.m. Time, Weather, Stock Quo-

tations and Announcements.

8.05 p.m. Studio-Chinese

11 p.m. Close Down. *8,05-10 p.m. European

Z.E.K. on

cert.

Seaforth Highlanders who are coming to Hongkong in August, photo- David" at the entrance in the graphed standing-by inside the "Citadel af

Old City, Jerusalem.

BRITISH STUDENTS

TOO ROMANTIC

-SAYS H.K. GIRL

Komance und sentiment among men and women students in the English Universities often seriously interfere with study, according to Miss Tsi-Dai Irene Ho, who sits for her Ph.D. degree at London University this month.

"There is no nonsense among men and women students in China. They are good colleagues with a fine sense of co-operation." slie sait.

gramme

from

frequency of 640 kilocycles.

Con-

a

8.05 p.m. Piano Selections by Billy Moyer.

Billy Mayerl's Own Selection: Billy

Mayerl's Savoy Havanna

Memories.

'8.18 p.m. “Jubilec

Parade, 1010-1035."

Music Hall

8.36 p.m. "Hungarian Pantasia" (Liszt) played by Arthur de Greet and the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, 8.53 p.m. Two Songs by Mariano Stabile (Baritone).

1. O Solo Alo (di Capua); 2. Siciliana di Pergoles! (Pergoles),

9 p.nt. Daventry News Bulletins- and Announcements.

0.20 p.m. Organ Solos by Reginald Dixon.

1. Mississippi-Selection: 2, Blaze Away-tarch; 3. With Sword and Lance March; 4. Curly Top-Selec- ilon. Miss lo is working day and is being forced by circumstances into

9.33 p.m. Marek Weber and his Orchestra. night to complete her thesis, militaris. "Education in Ancient

"We refuse to be the aggressor," she and

Chopinata Potpourri (arr. Silber- (Esslinger); Modern China." But she left said, "but if it is n question of our

national existence we must be pre-marin); Forest Idyll her study for a walk in Kewpared for self-defence. Pushed to the The Hermit (Schmalstich); Saschinka.

(Schurmann). Gardens nearby.

we will one day push back with wall, all our might." Miss He always wears Chinese

Her spare time has been spent at dress, Over her jade-green silk gown she had put a full-length "overcoat" the Chung Hwa School and Club, of wadded navy blue silk, with a tiny three years ago to help the families Pennyfields, E., which she founded diamond pattern in white.

Both garments were cut in the elas.of Chinese sailors married to English- sical Chinese fashion, with high mill-women. 1t has its own house and tary collar, elits on either side of the playing ground.

10 p.m. Big Ben from Daventry. Close Down.

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following wave-lengths and freqmention

Sign

are observed by Daventry.

Frequency

4,030 *..

Wavelength

49.55 the 41.55 Petres 31.30 metren 26.63 meira 23.29.tra

10.82 16.06

setres elree

Gan.

G80

9,510 k.. 9,445 k..

CBD

11,750 k

CHR

GH

11. k 15,140 h

Can

17,700 k.c 11,470 k.

of the recent Chinese Exhibition at may in their lives reflect credit upon -Burlington House.

the two countries which give them their dual inheritance,"

081

GNJ

15.340 k., 31,

19.40 metro

CEL

4. 6,110 – k‹..

15.60 metres

__45,10_metres

She believes that the wearing of national costume is important for Internationalism.

BASKET ART

But "women must at the fashion, Que of the fathers was recently per- are too shy and self-snaded to develop his technique in the conscious,"

art of making Chinese baskets. It may lead to the creation of a local industry,

"WE WILL PUSH BACK"...

skirt, and fastenings of rolled silk. The chief aim of the club, which is ribbon down the right side.

under the patronage of the Chineso With her delicate,

flower-like Ambassador and Sir Robert Ho Tung, beauty, gracious smile and long-flow her father, is to make the children WEARING tweeds and woollies ing lines, she might have stepped out better men and women, so that they

_and_running to catch the The new policy of the bus- Japanese Navy to look for a These are two of the chief ni "southward advance" took tactions of London for Miss Irene Abelgas, the first Filipino- definite shape this month trained nurse to take the Inter- because en when the Government pro-national Course in Public Health mulgated a law establishing under the Florence Nightingale a Formosan colonial' com-International Foundation, ac- pany for the exploitation of cording to the London News Japan's southern possession, while the Navy Ministry in- "No Filipino girl over runs,” Rho suid, "We take tiny, languorous steps, dicated that it intends to ap- and our most rigorous exercise is point a naval governor of waving a fan or twirling a parasol." Formosa, probably Vice- PINEAPPLE-fibre cloTHES Admiral Scizo Kobayashi, showed some

She

of the “ordi- of silky, cobweb-flne ex-Commander-in-Chief of nury" clothes the combined fleet, says the pineapple fibre which she wears every day at home exquisitely coloured London Morning Post in aand embroidered silps and gowns with copyright article.

The Navy has had it in mind for some time to appoint a haval officer as Governor of Formosa, making it the central point of Japan's southward expansion. Vice-Admirał Kobayashi is one of the ablest Japanese naval officers. The law creating the Formosan Development Company as a Gov-. ernmental enterprise was passed by the last Diet. The purpose of the new company is to encourage the development of enterprises in Formosa and Japanese territories in the south.

Chronicle.

long tight skirts and four-foot trains,

It has also given her a thrill to wear hats, gloves and coats, because

in the Philippine Islands

„have no use for these,

women

When she returns home next month Mary, Miss: Abelgas will not on the second voyage of the Queen 'native dress.

wear

ON MEN'S SHOULDERS Instead, she will wear the simple cotton uniform of the public health nurse.

Her job will be supervising the 100 field nurses who are scattered

the 3,000 or more istanda, d amor

"Like the ordinary family, the

Miss Ho spoke on "The Modern family of nations is happy together Chinese Woman" at the Birth Control only when each member is allowed to Centre, Westminster, on June 3. develop its own personality," explained.

On her return to Hongkong thes Miss Ho is grieved over the way in summer she expects to take up work which Chinn, "most pacific of nations," fu some branch of education.

Modesty

she

Creeps Back

Into Beach Fashions

Paris, July 1.

HAVING learned her lesson last summer, the 1936 bathing belle will know better than to appear on the beach clad in nothing but her swimming suit or shorts. If she does, she will simply be- out-of-style as well as out-of-date..

Beach fashions shown recently or sweater in navy blue or any other in Paris are all very modest solid colour, is the type of thing which featured in the Jean Patou mid- and extremely feminine.

seasort collection.

Swimming suits are an abbreviated as they can possibly be, but even beach

Ib in equally smart, and perhaps shorts, to be worn for exercising or more practical, in one of the new sun-dalhing, must disappear under terra-cotta browns.or vivid greens, in some sort of wrap when walking to or which case the contrasting Jacket is

usually white,

PLUS-FOURS-NOW!

cover. termstory of 67,000 square miles-an area bigger than England. from the hotel.

Transportation will be her great j

Where mud is, thick in the nice fields, she wil be carried on men's Among the smallest islands she will

SOUTHWARD ADVANCE According to official statements, the slogan, Southward advance, shoulder.

COLONY PREPARES

means that Japan intends to keep paddle in the dangerous native. canoe. and develop the mandated islands and to increase economic ponotra tion in the Dutch East Indies, and even as far as Siam, The Philip pines are ndt. directly mentioned. other than to emphasise the desir ability of cultivating close rela- tlone with the new Filipino Gov- ernment:

alon in Now, Guinea to bore for oil,

much encouragement.

TO TRADE WITH

ITALY AGAIN

་་ ' །

It is understood that the Japan- ANTICIPATING the end eso are angling obtain a conces- of sanctions, local im- but the American and British porters of Italian goods are companies there have not lent preparing for a resumption

The Navy Ministry in a recent of trade with Italy. pamphlet emphasised the necessity National Fasciat Federation of of Japanese expansion and Immi- Merchants reports that Far East- gration

southward, declaring ern importers have placed large “The advance of Japanese labour conditional orders for Italian and capital in the South Sean Will quicken all aspects of Japanese marble, to be delivered when life."

sanctions are removed.

Shorts have brassiere 'tops, with bodices with sun-bathing backs or trim tailored blouses with sleeves these for the woman who is not interested in acquiring a cost of suntan,

an

Wide-brimmed hats, of extravagant proportions, are the necessary 'comple- ment to all beach wear,

Beach plus-fours have also made Swedish Princes their appearance, usually worn with ta" vivid xwezier · top; and 'ax

alternative to the masculine or pleated shorts there is the "knickers- short" with fullness held in by an clastic band.

For the non-swimmer, there are the charming beach dresses where every

May In Future

Wed Commoners

12.97 Intres

Transmission 1

(4.8.N., G.S.D.)

12.30 pm. Bl Ben. "Characters

Sport."

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12.41 pm. Recital by Watson Forbes

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1.10 p.m. Hampton Court Palace, 2.10 pm The News and AnnouncemNAČE, Greenwich Time Hignal, at 2.16 p.

Transmission 2

(0.2.0, 0.8.11.) ·、

↑ pute Bir Den. The Tencadere Cinema

Orchestra.

7.15 p.m. This Tennis Racket."

7.45 p.m. Irish Songs and Dances, 6.13 p.m. "Charnelers in Epert."

1.30 p.m. A Programme of New Grama-

phens Records.

Greenwich Tims Signal at 9 p.m.

3 p.m. The News and Announcemunia, 1.20 p.m. The Philip Whiteway Ensemble.

Transmission 3

10.8.0. G.8.F. G.S.D.)

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Programmes may be broken into for com- mentarien by Colonal . . Brand Captain FL D. T. Wakelam on the All-England Lawn Tennis Club Championship, from the Centre Court. Wimbirdan,

Dens 10 p.m.

"A Diary," 10.15. The Band of 15

Countryman's Majesty'm

Horst Marines. Mymouth Divialen,

11 p.m. The Arcadian Poll." 11.43 p.m. The Haro Teja 1 $1.65 p.m. The News and Announcementa. Greenwich Time Birna, at 12 kan. 12.15 am, Dance Husie.

U.S.. COMMODITY -

PRICES

LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS

The following quotations on the New York-conimodity exchange are Issued by Reuter,^~~

New York Cotton

July

12,23/23

October December January

11.51/61

11.52/52

March

May Spot

July

12.40/40 11.69/70 11.69/70

11.51/51. 11,70/70.

11.72/72 11.52/53 11.68/08 11.78/79 12.33

12.50

New York Rubber

...

10.14a

16.15b/10 16.23/24 16.25b/27a 10.270

Stockholm; June 10.

16.000 can be indulged in our combination. A proposal by King Gist or Deleber

Swaden for a change in the w December 10.30h/27 14.40/40 These have detachable tops; or are

14.40

10.43n made all in one, and in any case the of succession, to give princes of January

10.48/48 16.50b/52a bodies portion le very decollete both the royal house the right to marry March

16.58 16.00 front and back. A diminutivo bolero foreign commoners without lose of May...

Total sales420 tons. or cape transforms this type of dress royal rights, was passed to-day into an ordinary summer dress for all by the Swedish Parliament.

.Chicago Wheat The new lan will not, however, July

02/0214 0576/057% be retroactive, so Prince Lennart, September 03/034 07/06

·FYJAMĀS, TOO

December.. 05/05 08/08 son of the Crown Prince, and. His Pyjamas are still featured, for cousin, Prince Sigvard, who Tuesday's sales: 21,038,000 busheln. yachting or boating, but very sober married the daughterà, of com

Chicago-Corner d and masculine in cut. Tha" "all-white

05/05 0747872 linen or pique pyjamas, completed by a monere, will not regain their September December,

03%/00% tailored Jacket, with shirt-blouse top royal rights,

day wear.

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Chevrolet

Sedan

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1932

Austin "12"

Saloon

54450

1300.00

1932

Vauxhall

Saloon

18031

900.00

1931

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THE CHINA FLEET IMPORTANT SUMMER

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between August 4 to August 7 at

Chlawantao,

All ships will be at Weibelwei by

September 10, except the destroyers Delight and Duchess, who have been ordered to Shanghunt and Hongokng.

}-Reuter."," London, July 1. An Important cruise of, about 20 ships of the China Fleet in North China waters, under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Little, be gins on July 24,

Kill Kidney

Trouble Quick

H.M.S. Dorsetshire and the de- stroyers Daring and Diamond will visit Tsingtao from July 25 to July 30. H.M. Hermes and the de stroyer Ďuncón will go there from

Thousands, ot ifterers from July 31 to August 0.

trouble and Bladder "weakness', bare stopped H.M.S.

Medway, the dolls leader anung Up Nisby Leg Pains, Navyöunem, Bruce and H.M. Submarines will go Rheumatism, Dissiness Lumbaro, Burning, 10 Chinwantro from July 25 to Iteblos, Bmarting, Aeldity and Lowe

to Chefoo from August Viewer he August 1,

Doctor's new diacovery' sallest. 2 to August B

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