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MOTORING

110,000

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cars

die yearly

but 271,000

E know all about the astonishing

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birth rate of motor cars.

We know, for example, that since Christmas more than 100,000 new motor cars have been produced and that during the present summer most of the 1,500,000 private cars now in exist- ence will be put upon the roguis,

Now I am able to tell you about the death rate of motor cara.

Figures have just been conipleted by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders for last year,

In 16 no fewer than 110,000 motor cara died in Britain. Many died a natural death in the yards of the break-up men. The disintegration of old motor cars has became a big business. After years of usefulness on the rond the worn, aut ear is stili of some value,

Parts that are still working are sold as “spores,** Metal and rubber are sold as serap. Intact the ear mny be worth a matter of £5. But the bits separated from the car may be worth three times that sum to the man who, knows how to market them.

A few sentimental people who have had a lot of fun out of their motor cara refuse to sell them, and if they have suflicient roomstow them away in some odd corner of their petals.

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Old Crocks

After many years a car becomes what is known na an "old crock,” and it again becomes valuable,

Rut it is not worth much to the ear curio hunter until it is about thirty years of

Сага n.

dating hark to 1900 have fetched as much as £150,

The death rate of cars in 1935 near-

are born

Does your car climb well?-

If not, one of these

may be the cause

(1) Carbon in cylinder

(2) incorrect valve clearance

(3) contact breaker paints

badly adjusted

(4) incorrect ignition setting

(5) unsuitable carburetter jets

ly equals the birth rate of cars in Car Incomes 1024. 1 excreds the 1924 birth rate by 10,000.

There are approximately 1,000,000 High-speed · Escapes

rarbing this mount. But this doca not mean that people do wot run cars- on lesk than this income,

Tell Tale Typing

-OTTINGHAM police are searching for a type- writer which has been used to type out address labels for the parcels of poison- ed. Easter eggs sent through the post to two families."

To a layman nearly all type-writing looks the same, but actually no two -machines write exactly alike. After Hix weeks an every machine develops all sorts of idiosyncrasies obylous to the expert.

When the police and the type-writer, n typewriting expert will use it to make a copy of the labels on the par- eels. Then he will examine original and copy under a microscope.

Peculiarities

If it is the right machine, the same | Jerdiarities will appear in the copy ns in the original. All sorts of letters will be slightly out of place, some will be thicker at the bottom than at the

When a machine is being assembled the keys are aligned by a mechanic. He does his best to make each letter print evenly and at the correct height.

But it is impossible to get perfect alignment, and an every typist strikes some keys harder than others or does something else in a peculiar way, the machine soon develops individual characteristics.

It is no use for a typewriter thief to erase the number of a machine. Every machine has another secret number known only to the makers.

Unknown SUFFOLK

UFFOLK is one of those

about, and it is not often visited.

W. L. Handley's escape from drath South and west and north it is defend- Water is the key to this county. during the ear race at Donington reed by rivers, People with incomes of $1,000 times when approaching a ben al beside which both Constable and Gain cently, when hự somersaulteď Your The southern boundary is the Stour month are regarded na potential two 90 mph, is only one of many high shorough were born, and whose vale ear-owners. There are a considerable speed racing escapes, number of these.

they both painted. There have bech frequent escapes Westward the Lark, a lovely little Experts believe that there is no at Brooklands In accidents where cars frout stream, guards the county, while reason why ultimately there should have been travelling at more, than on the north you have first the Little not be 20,000 car owners in Hongkong 100 m.p.h.

Ouse, or Brandon, and then-loveliest At present we still have only one or roughly one car for every two On Pending Sands an Italian upset and most leisurely of all fiver nantes- This death rate gives a striking car for every eight Europeans, or Europeans. Our inndard of living its cur when travelling at 140 m.ph. the Waveney. illustration of the growth of motoring one for every 250 inhabitants in Britain. While 110,000 cars went Hongkong. In America the figure is America, where every 4.6 person owns

of is comparatively higher than that in and got off with only slight injuries. Good Sailing

In Denmark Sir Malcolm Camp- out of existence last year 271,704 one car for every 4.6 persons, and in a car. This figure is still very far bell lost a tyre when travelling at 160. were born. The birth rate exceeded Britain ano for every 30 persons. behind Amerlen. the death rate by 161,704.

What sort of income do you require Whenever there are stories of enor. to run a motor-car? The statisticlana mous car sales, people say that we say that any one with an income' of must be near saturation point. But $450 a month. 13 potential car statisticians do not believe this.

SEVFOCRAA

owner.

Why has Amerien the wonderful Agure of 4:6 persons to every car?

nup.h.

* * *

The Waveney at Beccles is twelve feet deep and very clear. If you lat the boat drift and watch quietly you will see, every now and then, a It is entirely due to better Skids On Bends

moving in this transparency 21.3 wages and cheaper vehicles. It is due

saothly as a drop of rain on a widow. mainly to the fact that enr-owners in

This, however, does not neessarily Gipping) and the Deben

There are others like the Orwell (or America, owing to cheap taxation and mean that the faster you go the safer Stour, that have big estuaries, where sind the fasurance, enn motor out of income. you are.

On the motor racecourse there are and cornfields and church towers and you get good, though tricky, sailing, Here any people with small in few comes have to save money to pay the They occur mostly through skids or frame your holiday in.

accidents involving collisions, brown-sailed barges for a picture to tax and insurance before they can bends. The driver B usually enta

tari motoring.

Ipswich is the county town for all If we could pay our taxes and our

pillar-of-the-ear. There is nothwich, with Mr. Pickwick's in a racing dar-ven of the White Horse Inn, and hence run many 82204-Blaze Away. March...Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards Insurance on the easy payment sys unsplintering type-and the driver is roads to the county's delights.

tem there would be many more cars not enclosed, on the ronds. We are not only over- taxed, but we have to pay our taxa drivers on the raids this summer.

But do not try to emulate racing tion in a luni stim.

Safety first!

POPULAR BAND RECORDINGS ON H.M.V. RECORDS.

Washington Grays. March,

B2408-Colonel Bogey. March..

Youth & Vigour. March.

B2501-Liberty Bell,

Hiawatha.

B2647--Bells of St. Malo.

Semper Fidellis.

B2924-Wee MacGregor Patrol.

Policeman's Holiday,

B2941-Marche Lorraine.

El Capitan. March.

83530-Stein Song.

Old Cområdes. March.

C1273-Gondoliers Selection,

C1369-1812 Overture.

C1421-Zampa Overture.

B4492-TIDWORTH TATTOO.

B8025-

B8106-ALDERSHOT TATTOO,

B8188-

B9224-

B8236-

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Good Cooking

Beccles and Bungay, in the Waveney Valley, and Eye, on one of its tribu- taries, mustn't be missed. Cyclists, note that Suffolk gradients are easy

ones.

By Home Page Cook

Cold Sweet Sauces

TE do not go in for cold sweet sauces much in Hongkong, and so อ few recipes garnered from abroad may be useful.

Apricot Sauce

Melba Sauce

Squash some fresh or tinned raspberries and rub them through a sieve, then add a quarter of their weight in sugar and cook until it is a heavy syrup. Let them grow (The famous Peche Melba consists of a peach on a anilla ice with this sauce poured over sit.)

Orange Sance

Take equal quantities of cream and the pulp of tinned .Massed Bands. add it to the pulp and sweden as you like.

apricots rubbed through a sieve. Beat the cream stili, Coffee Cream Sauce

Ingredients: Ingredients: 1 cup strong coffee: 3 egg yolka: 43 egg whites. Beat the whites stilly and add by degrees a 2 oranges; 1 lemon; powdered sugne: tablespoonfuls of sugar; a gill of cream.

quarter of a pound of sugar, beating all the time. Finally Cream the eggs and sugar with a pinch of salt and add the juice of the lemon and the juice and grated rind add the coffee very gradually. Let the mixture cook in of the oranges. a double saucepan until it is thick, then when it is coll fold in the stiffly-whipped cream.

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TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY, Marina House, 19, Queen's Road, Central, Tol. 24648.

Honey Cream Sauce

Vellore Sauce

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9 A doctor gives the cane in dis-

approval.

11 Why senwl? Stay till I arrive: I hear she has the proper iron (hidden).

12 Sever, but only in your turn. 13 This and that together. 16 Hidden in Clue 11.

17 if you regard them as borders, they are not herbaceous, and mot Lizing.

10 No, it isn't Edward who is in- fected, said he, speaking vulgar-

21 You will have to run when the 23 Hidden in Clure 11.

beast turns.

24 A custom that makes a hit with

a sailor.

*25 Animal of the eat.tribe.

28 By Irony father is put out at

heart

I reside here mostly, during tho winter. 80 Thus in digs I arranged to in-

dicate difference.

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1 Sh1 Ears are keen.

2 Spanish team at one time in this

country.

a Rubber

synthetic.

A Listen.

neither Indian

nor

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Here both new and old testa- ments may be consulted (two words, 8, 5).

7 I toastel chips in a worldly-wise

way.

10 Hum this and it's nothing out of

the ordinary,

114 It seems a pity to make it dry,

for it really isn't clean.

15 This plant has a cleansing effect. 18 Kind of plaice that does not livo

In nequariums.

20 Kent timber.

21 Suffering in not making П

success,

22 Chaotise.

26 These come out of the earth.

lidden in Clue 11.

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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN,

sick and destitute children is estimated at The total Expenditure In 1930 on behalf of $25,000, against which the Income to date is $18,000 only.

In order to continue its work, the Society asks for the balance of

before the close of the financial year on 31st

- $7,000

October.

Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.,

Ingredients: 2 eggs: 4 oz. powdered sugars vanilla Ingredients: A g cream; a trifle more honey; gradually aid the sugar, beating all the while.

or brandy. Beat the eggs until light and frothy, then Mr.

Flavour Hemon. Rent the cream stiffly, then whip in the honey with a teaspoonful of vanilla essence or of brandy, if you g and a teaspoonful of lemon juice..

profer it.

c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co.,

P. & O. Building.

KWOK CHAN,

c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,

Hongkong.

SALESMAN SAM

3 Silver Cups, A "Filmo” Straight-8 Movie Camera,

$250 in Cash Prizes

to be won in the

Hongkong Telegraph's 6th ANNUAL AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC

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TOLD TA BE CAREFUL OF!

TUMMY

ACRES

Tine HOME OF

MRS, POLLY

KRACKER

GRRR

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A Pull Dog

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TA USE TH FRONT!"

I'M SORRY,

DON'T

SIR, BUT TH WORRY! DOG PULLED ITS QUITE ME THROUGH ALL RIGHT! TH' GATE!

By Small

THIS PUP ALWAYS IS-

BRINGIN' HOME LITTLE ODDS AND

ENDS!

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