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TER TWENTY-NINTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Building, hatar Road Victoria, Hongkong, on SATUR DAY, the 3rd day of March, 1918, *1.30 o'clock in the forenoon for the parp so of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directora for the year ending 31st December, 1917 and decisring a Dividend
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 14th March, 1915. antil SATURDAY, the Erd March, 1818, both days inclusive.
By Order of the
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Hogkook, Mar. 3, 1918,
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TEL FONGNONG & WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.-
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Office of the Company,
Queer's Ruildings, Hongkong, on MONDAY, 25th March, 1918, at 12 Neon, for consideration of the Directors' Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1917.
The FHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the 16th to the 25th instant, bath. days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
F. M. DYER..
Chief Manager.
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Bongtong. March 13, 1918.
PURCHASERS OF PARI-MUTUEL I TICKETS on the fifth Race, Second Day, for Cash Sweeps, Places and Winners siso Cash Sweep Ticket Holders, of following Baces can obtain a refund on production of their tickets at the Offices of the HorosoNG JOCKEY CLUB on the Ground Floor of the RONGKONG CLUB ANNEXE CHATER ROAD, between the hours of 3.30 PM. and 5.30 P.M. on MUNDAY,
he 4th March, 1918, until 9th March (Saturdays and Sundays accepted),
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HOLDERS OF UNPAID WINNING TICKETS (Cush Sweeps, Places and Winners) will also be paid at the same ace and between the same hours as ted above on production of their
tickets.
LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,
Accountants to the HANGING JOCKEY CLUB. Hongkong, Mar, 1, 1915,
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as-compared with 1908-10, and repre sected a birth rate of 6.3; in Scotland the decrease is number was 4.8 per cent. and 6.6 per cent in the birth-rate; in: Ireland the decrease was 1.8 per cent in
numbers and 1.3 in the birth-rate. In Germany, where she decrease had been Bandoerg that the tests carried on for the close on a year bave proved that con- much more rapid of lats
years, decline was & per cent. In nambers and tinuous direct communication between per cent. in birth-rate, and in Hungary the Netherlands East Indies and Holland 1. and 3.5. From these figures it was apparent that the United Kingdom had cau be maintained. The only thing that suffered far less than had Germany in is wanting is a temporary station in the Netherland In fars, the station is near. this vitally important point.
laid on the fact that the sanding station which is all but complate is merely a temporary installation with very limited capacity so that, as a rule, it will be available only for the sanding of oficial
In bis presidential address to the Royal Statistical Society Sir Bernard Mallet referred to the overwhelming importance of the whole question of
The United Kingdom, the speaker racial advance or decline, on which the
stated, bad lost by the fall in births ing completion. It may even be asserted fate of nations so largely depends, and over 800,000 potential lives, approximate that the complete installation is merely to the damage which the present struggle is 10,000 per million of the population, a question of a few days. Nothing is Germany had lost in the same period known here as to the condition of must inflict on this and other nations.
Addressing himself to the indications 2,607,000, approximately 40,000 per airs in the Netherlands. By means which came under his notice as Rezia- million. Hungary had lost 1,500,000, tar-General of Births, Deaths and Mar- approximately 40,000 per million. At of this station, radio messages can riages, and dealing with the effect of the outbreak of war the population of be received as well as sent over a war on marriages, he said that the sum the Central Empires was about two and distants of 12,000 kilometres without the bers of marriages increased steadily from a half times as great as that of the need of a transmitting station over this 26), 544 in 1909 to £34,683 in 1913, and United Kingdom; their losses of births, enormous distance. Emphasis must be that this increase was continued in the had, apparently, been ten times as great first two quarters of 1914 Although the The poorer classes in this country had increase in the latter half of 1914 was never experienced more favourable con- smaller than that in the carlier hall, dur ditions, but the Germans, if all indica- ing the second, third and fourth quarters tions were to be believed, had suffered of 1913 and the first quarter of 1916, a to such an extent as to affect serially messages and that, thes, it will be of sudden and abnormal rise occurred, and the general health of the population. It very little use to commerce. It is war marriages swelled the totale until remained to be man what effect on our necessary to emphasize this in order they reached "ecord" heights. There birth-rate would be produced by a not to raise hopes which, in the present
increase
in marriages winter, if that should be before us, in times, are sure not to be realized. Very the after,
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diminished force, which supplice of fuel and food were few trade radio messages will be able to continued, but
be sent, seeing that the capacity of the and by the third quarter of 1916 the num, greatly curtailed
As regards infant mortality, the station smounts to 7,200 wonda daily only bers had fallen below the average
Crudely stated," he declared, the rate during 1914-16 had been lower The permanent wireless station which, war has resulted in 2.0.000 people being both in the United Kingdon and in sccording to telegram received in the married between August, 1914, and Jone Germany than in any previous period of Esat Inilies from the Netherlands, will 1917, who in the ordinary course would like duration, but the summer mortality cost five million guilden and which can not bare married." The marriage rate in 1917 appeared to have been extra- not possibly be erected there on a cheaper for 1915 was the highest recorded-19.4 ordinarily high in several German cities, scale, cannot be completed for another the previous maximum-17.9-was in in spite of the great organised effort year and a half or two years. It will be made in Germany to save infant life, an enormous installation compared with Alluding to the marriage statistics in and the German rate all through re-hich the present temporary one will belligerent countries, he said that in mained at some 50 per cent. higher than sink into insignificance. It will be Haugary the effect of the war had been in this country. The rate recorded in such capacity as to comply with all the that more than 600,000 people, who, in the United Kingdom in 1915 was the demands of commercial telegraphs. It will be the largest installation' in the the ordinary course, would have married, lowest on record
In speaking of the deaths during the world, bas it will take time to, com had not done so. In Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Besse, Hamburg and Bremen, period of the war the speaker said plete biz Btates containing more than 8 per that he had to distinguish between cent of the German population, the civilians and members of the armed total number of mirriges in 1913 was forces. Generally, there was a marked 434,105 and in 1914 the number was rise in civilian death in 1915, followed 292,053, a decrease of nearly 10 per cent. by a full to below pre-war numbers in in spite of a great number of war mur 1916. He had paid some attention to riages during the first month of the war the causes of death, and there was a figures available in Saxony,.com-decrease owing to the restrictions in the From pared with the last year of peace, the output of alcoholic liquor, although it decrease was about 36 per cent, in Ham would he unwise to place two mach barg 24.5 per cent, in Bremen 37.8 per reliance on that fact. can, and in Berlin 21.0 per cent, and he presumed that the decrease in the county was greater than in the town.
Comparing the statistics, the President) said that the very notable difference was not difficult to account for In Ger- many the whole population of military age was mobilised; in England war marriages were stimulated by generous allowance and pensions. On the Introduction of compulsory service larger numbers of men of macriageable ago were fighting abroad and the con ditions were beginning to approach those of the Germans, the influence of which could be seen in the birth rate, although the comparison was wholly in favour of this country,
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LOSS OF JOTENTIAL LITE The loss potential lives to the belligerent countries by the decrease in the numbers of children born was per hape, the most important ellect produce
ME LI BON TAX & Das radiate versed in by the war on vital statistics. It was
Al. Hlasture, has bera i taketari (a: Karsyas first felt at the end of 4 prli. 1925, nodit (Ozacials and Merchants in this Colony for ten porte.
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