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ANNOUNCING OPENING OF

எக்க

THE SEASON

IN THE "GRIPPS" HONGKONG HOTEL

Saturday, 1st October

PRESENTING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HONGKONG

JUNE and COLLETT “SPECTACULAR DANCE CREATIONS"

SPECIAL DINNER" DANCE

EXTENSION TILL 2 A.M.

Music provided by

THE HONGKONG HOTEL DANCE BAND

and the

TANGO ORCHESTRA

DINNER $5.00 — NO EXtra cover CHARGE

RESERVATIONS PHONE 30281

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1938.

HONGKONG LAND

Number of Reclamation Schemes In Hand

London, Sept. 14.

The following is an extract from! on article in Great Britain and, thè Eust, dated September 15 entitled "Commerce and Finance, Notes and News":

THE

LOWEST PRICE RADIO WITH

ELECTRIC TUNING

Hongkong 19 enjoying A Jand boom, and never have innd values been so high. The trouble in Hong- kong is that the rugged little island: and the scarcely less rugged strip of mainland offer practically no natural building sites. It la neces- sary to level sites out of rocky hill- sides and to make reclamations out into the sca. Tila process has been going on during the ninety-four

Britain yours since

annexed the} Ísland, and at the moment a number of bi reclamation schemes are in hand. The chiet need is for factory sites, but oppilcations for such land are having to be refused. A Shang- hal rubber shoe manufacturing drin was prepared to take over what was ill a swamp, reclaim it and put up

a million dollar (£60,000) factory, but the offer had to be refused be- cause the place was earmarked for refugees.

PUBLIC SERVICES

Chinese Women to Hold Charity Ball

266B9D8CE8GEOS,CENNES of the National Women's Relief As-

BURNS PHILP LINE

Passenger & Freight Service To

AUSTRALIA

M.V.

Members of the Hongkong branch; sociation will hold charity ball at the Hongkong Hotel at 8 pm. on Friday, October 7, to nist funds for relief work during the coming winter and for the purchase of wurm cloth- ing and bianicets for the refugees.

Patrons at the function are pro-} mised an claborate programme of | entertainment, which will include a beautiful pageant showing the attire] worn by Chinese women from pre- vious dynasties to the present. Other items on the programme will be singing

violin and

solo by Miss Nec-sa Lang and tap-dancing by Miss Betty Lec-Central News,

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1st OCT.

For

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SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE.

Excellent passenger accommodation with a large number of single cabins at по supplement. Built-in Swimming Bath and Spacious Sports Dock. First Class to Sydney:→→→

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Passenger & Freight Agents:-

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Tel. 28031

P. G O. Bldg.

Will all men holding a First-Aid certificate who wish to volunteer their services please report to SL John Ambulance Brigade Headquar-| ters, Tai Hang Road, Causeway Bay,

JUNK

PIRATED

Fruit and Wheat Cargo Stolen by Gang

A cargo junk was pirated at Black Point on Tuesday morning by three; men who boarded the junk, and after binding up the crew, made awny of bumanos and 30 with 50 piculs sacks of wheat.

Tong

master of the ng Chan, 37. junk, reported to the pplice that he sel call from Mum King Sho, Chi- nese territory, on Sunday, and when

Point near Bluck

small sampan came alongside the junk and fired three shots at its bow, The men boarded the junk and after ransack- ing it left for an unknown destination by their sampan.

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· REGISTRY WEDDINGS

Two weddings took place yester- day afterpon before Mr. W. A. Jones, Deputy Registrar of Marri- ages, ut the Registry, Supreme Court.

Joseph Henry Pittham, army war-

Garrison rant offlcer, of the

Ser- grants' Mess. Hongkong, married Amy Gentry (nee Bosworthick), of Hong- 2 Kennedy Road, A Block, kong. The witnesses were Mr. and Mrs. C. Watson.

The

Mr. So Wal-kong, editor of Age Pictorial of Hongkong. married Ma Man-ying, nurse at the Kwong Wah Hospital, Yaumati. The wit- nesses were Messrs. So Wai-chueng and Albert Lai.

Radio Dept.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

The Hongkong Stock Exchange official summary issued at 12.30 p.m. yesterday says:

In view of the European situation the prices of all purely Jocal stocks have been left at nomiñal que'utions, Antamoks

..Ps. 36 53

11.00

Aloks

Bagulo Gold

Benguet Consol,

Coco Grove

Consolidated Mines Demonstrations

I. X. L.

Paracle Gumaus Man Binurielo Suyse Consol. United Paracales

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Saturday, 22nd Oct. Monday, 31st Oct.

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Monday, 24th Oct.

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Friday,

Hakozaki Maru (via K'lung & S'hal) Friday, 21st Oct. Kamo Maru

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