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POL ROGER

POL ROGER

Champagne

Obtainable Everywhere

Je Agents:-

H. Ruttonjee & Son

ANNOUNCEMENT

PASSENGER FARE

DNG KONG – CHUNGKING

H.K. $350.00

AIR EXPRESS

H.K. $3.50 Per Kilo

Or Fraction Thereof

Application for reservation of passenger

sents on our plane or for shipment of air parcels will ONLY be accepted at C.N.A.C. OMee.

Any complaints by our patrons will receive our prompt attention,

ucester Building

Tel. 31180.

CINA NATIONAL AVIATION CORPORATION PANAMERICAN

GERAL TRAFFIC

CENTS FOR

AMBIA

Needed Urgently

MEN'S, WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S

Vinter Clothing

Hongkong Benevolent Society

11 Ice House Street.

MONDAY

J

THURSDAY

10 a.m. to 12 Noon.

COUNT THE

"TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY,

NOVEMBER

26, 1988.

Car Kills Woman, Doctor Gaoled

Sentence of 18 months' imprisonment in the second division and permanent disqualification from driving was imposed at Buckinghamshire Assizes recently on Dr. Eric Finch Peck, aged 47, of Thorn- bie, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire.

Dr. Peck, formerly a Royal Artillery officer and ship'a sur- geon pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Miss Mary Ann Prince, a 69-years-old cook, of Hitcham Close, Taplow, and driving while under the influence of drink.

Mr. Richard O'Sullivan, K.C., gaid that Dr. Peck's car mounted the footpath at Taplow, and knocked Miss Price hedge.

over 4

"EMOTIONAL STRESS" Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., de- fending, said that Dr. Peck had "for some time been labouring under great emotional stress arising out of domestle matters.

"Before he went out he drank very much more than he thought. His career 13 shaltered and he will carry to his grave the recollection that through his weakness and folly he has killed a woman."

Mr. Justice Atkinson said that Mr. Birkett had persunded him not to Bend Peck to penal servitude.

Exhumation After 340 Years

London. On the night of November 1, after 340 years, the coffin of EA- mund Spenser, author of "The Faerie Queen" was brought out of its tomb in Westminster Abbey. His tomb was opened in the hope of Anding on answer to the

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old question-Who-Francis Bacon or Shakespeare wrote the Shake- spearian words?" An Elizabeth historian Camden, headmaster of the Westminster School in 1509, chronicled that at Spenser's burial contemporary poets wrote elegies the to him and threw them into

twenty years After open grave, of battling by the Bacon Society for permission to open the grave, It has now been done but manuscripts were found.

Mutiny Islanders Can't

Spell, Can't Cook

Life among the lonely

Pitcairn between Joland

(midway colony Punoma and New Zealand; founded by the Bounty Mutineers in 1790) has these days of its compensations In rearmament laxation.

"Arms tax"-the only tax at all- is gun cence fee #d, per annum.

And the money thus obtained is used to buy stationery for the Chief Magistrate!

Population 209: one death a year in last 50 years.

but

no

23,000 MORE 'IN EMPLOYMENT

Fewer Jobs In The

South

no

INCREASES IN MINES AND COTTON TRADE

Insured There

12,204,000 were persons at work in Great Britain on of October sign

figures 17, according to Intermarriage,

issued by the Ministry of Labour physical or mental degeneration.

"Physical courage and strength are recently. This is 23,000 more than

on September 12. remarkable. The island is well kept, and there is evidence of solid work.

casual

The numbers of unemployed prг- sons on the registers of employment Moral degeneracy?"The Pit-exchanges were 1,408,032 wholly un- cairners had read accounts of this employed, 307.047 temporarily stop-

and 64,348 normally in and gave us little or no information."

it total of fewer The islanders are deeply religious. Smployment. making

This was 17,301 family has than on Sept. 12, but 390,978 more

than at Oct. 18, 1937, on a compar

Bu "discipline of the deteriorated. Children do

as they

like without correction. The culinary

arts are of a low standard.... There is a stronge lack of knowledge of many essentials of home culture."

In the school (47 children) "the noise was indescribable"; speiling "shocking"; general standard "appall- ing": the English spoken "difficult to understand."

able basis.

An analysis of applicants for un- employment benefit, according to the length of the last spell of registered unemployment, is:

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840,000 or 52 per cent, less than 6 wreka

3 months 1.046,000 4 275.000 17

12 months or more 1.207,000 74

Differences between Sept. 12, 1938, and Oct. 17, 1836, in the total num- bars unemployed on the registers in year the various administrative divisions

But children bright, healthy, well- clothed.

to £12 Four teachers, £G cach.

Annual income

of island

pending on orange crop), £1,800

£2,000.

Oldest inhabitant,

were:

London **** South-Eastern

South-Western

(de- Midlands....

North-Western

to North-Eastern"

Northern Scotland

Wales Mary

McCoy, 87; oldest male, Young, 80.

Ann Vieder

The Island swarmy with rats, both, Indoors and outdoors.

[From reports by Mr. J. S. Neill and Dr. Duncan Cook, Issued recent- ly by the Colonial Office (Stationery Office is. 38.)}

Crowds See Vicar Marry "In Secret'

""

OYLAND

OPENSS

AT WHITEAWAY'S

THE MOST COLOURFUL AND FASCINATING ARRAY OF NEW TOYS THAT EVER DELIGHTED A CHILD'S EYE (OR AN ADULT'S FOR THAT MATTER)

Toys of all description to make Christmas as happy as it should be Mechanical Toys, Wheel Toys, Indoor & Outdoor Games, Wonderful Dolls and Playthings, too numerous to mention, too clever to describe in mere words.

TOYLAND IS OPEN

and you are invited to come on Monday and every day until Xmas.

Do Your Xmas Shopping Early

All our Christmas Goods have arrived and are now on display. You'll find an appropriate gift at the right price for everyone on your list.

OUR STORE IS FULL OF-

CHRISTOAS

Gift Suggestions

FOR LADIES

HANDBAGS

+20.070

++15.502

+13,500

15.601

11,00%

In real Russian leather

5,509

from $10.50.

2,703

Dainty woollen

3,001

INDUSTRIAL CHANGES Industries in which unemployment decreased as compared with Sept. 12

Cotton **

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Iron and sleel

Woolien and worsted

Metal goods inanufacture

30.192

22.350

11,080

6,409

6.403

Motor vehicles, cycles and alr

craft

1.005

Fishing

Tailoring

2.093

Hosiery

493

Paper and paper board

Textile blenching, printing, dye-

ink

Arficial silk yarn

minufacture

1,000

industries:

Hotel boarding-house

Distributive trades

Building

Entertainments, spori

Increases occurred in the following

Road passenger transport Public works contracting Printing and bookbinding Shipping service an Saip building and repairing: Railway service Premii enko making ... Laundry servico

The figure or the number

24.401

20,203

19,364

4.263

4,000

0.119

3091

2.010 2.00G

2,348

1,857

in um-

The ipswich vicar, 55-years-old flev. H. G. Green, who planned u secret wedding to a member of his congrestation, 35-years-old Miss Eliza-ployment on October 17 Included of Ipswich, was 30,000 persons insured under the beth Cuilwick,

at St. Nicholas agricultural scheme and in the classes married recently Church-but there was little secret of domestic employments which br- came insurable on April 4. These about it.

classes have hitherto been excluded from these figures.

The church was filled, and police controlled the crowd outside.

Mr. Green two months ago oficlateri at the wedding of Miss Nancy Carroll, described by her mother as "too in- noseni to wed" when the applied at the police court for permission to marry. Mr. Green performed the ceremony free of charge as a gesture of sympathy.

Divorced From "Mean" Spouse

n

LOUISVILLE, KY, Mra. Catherino Stewart Was the granted divorce here on grounds her husband was mean to her during their six months of mar- rled life. She charged he walked on her laundry, threw her meals out

Air Guard Blue

"A rich warm blue" is the colour chosen by the Air Mluis- try for the Civil Air Guard uniform.

The uniform will be a type of boller sull, with chromium buttons Inscribed 0.A.G.

Contracts have been placed, bat the Air Ministry have yet to decide on one of three aliades of "rich warm blue,"

Bolt Strips Wallpaper

Hopkinton, Mass.

A lightning bolt struck Arthur

the window, demanded she spent Ladd's house, tore the paper from the

only $1 a week on groceries, would walls, knocked a all from under the

not let her drive an automobile, and floor and disrupted the telephons sorr

BED JACKETS

from $4.95. Lacey woollen

JUMPERS from $7.95. Gorgeous FRENCH SILKS from $3.85 yd. GLOVES

In suede or glace kid from $5.95 pr.

In Hogskin with gauntlets $8.50 pr.

In suede finish fabrle from $2.95 pr.

ALADDIN BEAUTE SKIN HOSE

93.95 pr.

Floral Celanese

SLIPS & KNICKERS

$9.50 per set.

Sachets of LAVENDER from 90 cents. Lace trimmed Georgelte

HANDKERCHIEFS

from 90 cents ca. BEDROOM SLIPPERS

in beautiful pastel shades. Soft fur trimming or colourful embroidery trimming $3.50 to $10.75 pr.

Perfumed FLOWERS

with natural flower extract from $2.05 to 30.05.

FOR MEN

SUEDE GOLF JACKETS

with zipp fastening $45.00,

JAEGER SLIPOVERS Camel Hair and Wool $15.00, $17.50 & 322.50.

SHIRT SWEATERS

In Green, Navy, Maroon & Grey. With while horizontal stripes 57.50

RIDING SWEATERS Canary, Green, Maroon or Navy cable knit with roll collar $13.50 ca.

I

CROPS from $4.95.

DRESSING GOWNS

In newest Foulard Silks and

Cashmere

$15.00.

Sk Brocades

from $25.00.

PYJAMAS

Soft spun art slik in plain shades-

Green, Champagne & Bluc

$7.50.

Grecian

SLIPPERS

in Royal Blue & Brown $1.95 pr.

Camel Hair - $5.95 pr.

GOLF SOCKS ·

In gay "Argyll" checks by Morley

$3.95 pr.

FOR THE HOME

FINLAY'S TARTAN BOXED BED SETS

Consisting of 2 sheets 21⁄2 x 3 yds and 2 pillow cases 20 x 30 Ins. Col'd hems in Blue, Rose or Green $25.00 net.

Attractively boxed COL'D TEA CLOTH wtih 4 napkins to match $3.95 set.

Webb's Irish Linen

GUEST TOWELS

Boxed in pairs.

Very smart colours and desigrus. Size 14 x 22 ins. $4.95 box..

A large selection of the better grade E.P.N.S. WARE

in offered at a genuine 50% reduction.

Beautiful All-Wool COL'D BLANKETS

In Blue, Rose & Green Size 60 x 80 ins.

$21.00 pr.

COFFEE & TEA SETS make most useful gifts.

It would be hard to find a better selection

from $8,75 to $25.00 set. BABY'S NURSERY RHYME BREAKFAST SET

6 plecer. What could be better! $6.95 mot

The Store for Xmas Gifts

Whiteaway. Laidlaw &

once made her sit on the doorstep vice. No fire resulted, but the house halte utasikan

until 4. mum..

Ghad to be repapered:

Co. I