IG. P. LAMMERT.
AUCTIONEER, APPRAISEZ AND SURVETOR.
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INTIMATIONS.
HONGKONG
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the following DAYS during the month of November, from 4.30 to 7 P.M.
TO-DAY 4th. FRIDAY, ITH MONDAY, 10. FRIDAY, HTH MONDAY, T. FRIDAY, 21ST MONDAY, H4TH. THURSDAY, 3771, Admission to Dance Room each Day 43-per band, including TEA.
J. H. TAGGART,
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ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that AD EXTRAORDINARY GEY ERAL MEETING of Members will be beld at the CLUB HOUSE, North Point, on WEDNESDAY, 5:5 Novem ber. 1919, at 3:43 PM for the purpose of confirming the Resolutions passed at
aa Extraordinary General Meeting, held
on 10th October, 1915
A Launch for the convérience of "Hembers will leave Queen's Statne
Wharf at 3.15 1.3.
By Order,
R. E. MACDOUGALE,
How, Secretary,
Hongkong, October 21, 1916.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
No
a EXTRAORDINARY GEN ERAL MEETING of A. S. WATSON &CO., LIMITED, will be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL, on the 5th day of November, 1919, at Noos, when the subjoined resolution, which was passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 20th day of October, 1919, will bet submitted for confirmation as a Special Resolution.
That the new Articles already "approved by this Meeting, and for
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the purpose of identification subs- cribed by the Chairman thereof, ba and the same are hereby adopted the Articles of the Company to the exclusion of and in substitution for all the existing Articles "thereof."
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Dated the 21st Day of October, 1919, Hongkong.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OP CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTI
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thet an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING af the SOCIETY will be held at the regis. |||| tered Office of the Society, Nos. 3 and 1 Queen's Building, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, on FRI DAY, the Seventh Day of Novem ber, 1910, at 12 o'clock Noon, when the subjoined Resolutions will be proposed:-
1. That the fusion of the interests of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited (in this and
the following Resolutions refer- red to as the Society "), and the North China Insurance Company, Limited (in this end the following Resolutions refer- red to as the Company "), he approved of and agreed to on the following:--
(a) That shares of the Society
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£10 each whereof £4—pez sbare shall be credited as paid up be alictted to the shareholders of the Com- pany in exchange for the Bares of the Company in "the-ratio of one and a half shares of the Society for euch,one share of the Com pany.
(b) That the Society, in addi- tion make payment to the shazaholders in the Comm Fony of the sum of £5 (Five pounds) Sterling in cash for each one share in the Com- pany held by such share.
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2. That for the purpose of carrying into effect Resolution No. 1 (a) above, the Society do issue 15,000 Shares of the nominal value of £10 each (whereof the Eum of £4 per share is credited as paid up) out of its ucissued capital of 104,000 shares,
8. That the 15,000 shares referred to in Resolution No. 2 above as and when, issued do rank for dividend and in all respecta pari pasu with the existing Ordinary Shares of the Society and that the balance (if any) of such 15,000 shares be dealt with in such manner as the Board of Director of the Society shall think most beno- ficial to the Society. Dated this Twenty-fifth day of October, 1919.
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A SHIPBUILDER'S IMPRESSIONS OF CHINA, JAPAN, AND THE UNITED STATES.
[BY SIR HERBERT ROWELL, PAST PRESIDENT OF THE. SHIPBUILDING EMPLOYERS FEDERATION. ]
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AFTER-WAR RIVALRY.
The Amerian situation, as far a shipbuilding is concerned, is, of
Spain
to buttons, is Japanese. They have one of the best plants I have seen anywhere. They build first-class liden and war ships. The same company has got a very fine plant unde, a result of the war. It was throughs war that we displaced the leading maritime Then there is the Asano Shipbuild- ing Company at Yokohina and theer of the world. Its true that Spam was our cheury in the six- Yokotania Dockyard and Engineering teenth century, while Americas hue Company. These are all first-class places. Their phat would be ac counted first-class in this country, The lay-out of the plant, the size of the ships, and the quality of the tonk" are as good as it' is possible 'to
BELOW BRITISH PRICES.
I had heard so much of what was have them. going on in Japan and the Unite!! States, and also of the possibilities
The Japanese workinen is extreme
of China, that I deviled to pounty industrius, intelligent, and in-
Sezer
half months.
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[been our ally. But war makes a strange melting pot, und it is dif- cult to forecast is results in the peace time which follows, when, ommercially speaking all countries ere_competiton.
Some people think the position 31 America in the shipbuilding worki of the future has been exaggerated. But I can only say that while in
is for myself. I started is genious. He thoughly understands America I felt myself in the midst how to make up for want of weight of circumstances which conveyed Marsh, mal was away four and 4 and stature by using his strength conclusively to my mind a real scientifically. His rate of wages is potentiality, both in shipbuilding and Among the plow I visited fast. At one word they were doing shipowning. I do not attach too shell riveting on an 8,000 tonner much turportanca to their rapid. con- were the Straits Settlements, Hong- 6. hundred, which is vastly strastion of yurde, or even to their kong, Shanghai, and Nagusaki. The below British prices.
repid construction of ships. But 1 The Japanese have been very quickcannot dispel from my mind the latter has grown to be a very import
in adopt wintever seemed best in Bossibility of serious rivalry in the ant shipbuilding place and so have this country and also in the United future when I picture the trans Hongkong and Shanghai. There States, where labourering machin formation which is taken place in are two first-class yards at Hong- ery is much more general than here. America. Whereas, in 1014 whe long and three first-class yards at Shanghai. At Hongkong they are building quite large eargh bout-up to 10,000 tons. But both yards are capable, by extensions being made, of hiking much larger.
The workmen are Chinese, but the managers and head foremen: ore
British. The Chinese are absolately
AMERICA'S DETERMINATION.
There is great variation in what owned two million tons gruas of may be called the atmosphere" sen-going skipping, in 1919 she owns in the yarde in China and Japan, almost ten million tons, in addition One feels in going through some so her lake tonnage, which is now yurds a degros of vitality and activity over two millions. which is enviable. In other yards. however, there seems to be the same kind of compleiab os we havela "80;t The fact is that, whatever cur of difference.
views on the subject may be, it s The great difficulty of the Japan-America's intention to continue her ese in cheap production is material shipbuilding and develop her ship. point of view of skill and industry, but the Mitsu Bishi Company this owing. When she has devoted her. as well as being of excellent physi-pring started steel-rolling in Korea self to the capture of an industry in
on their own secount. que. Whatever the remion may be
the past she has usually been auc- Japan has not developed her ship ul. Switzerland believed her the Chinese works as though he likes it, ant the dificulty is not to get ruikling industry the same degree position in the watea trade unassail him to keep hill time, but to limits the United States. This is due able, and a similar view was held
that it was from Argerica our sup regard to agricultural machinery, in the first place to the circumstance in Great Britain at one time with lies were coming during the war, To sum up the broad iropressions
Arst-rate workmen, both from the
work.
the number of hours that be many In the case of the highly edited is about 12 years old his father takes him to work with him and person ally instructs him and interests him self in seeing that the boy becomes equally skilled.
Chinese mechanics, as soon as I NOT
SKILLED SHIPNUILDERS,
as well as her own men and muni- left on my mind as a result of my. tions. This stimulated her activity visit to China, Japan, and the United in shipbuilding. In the second place labes, I am convinced that this she had the stee: and timber, and country can hold its own if it will. there is also no doubt, she saw the It is the extent of the danger I am opportunity of establishing herself emphasizing, not the certainty of as & shipowning nation. These our competito e success. But there stimulating causes were absent in must be no policy of muddling. the case of Japan. In addition the through and trusting to our tradi Japanese had not got commercial tional good luck, Success, like the genius, is the result of a capacity to enterprise in the same degree America. 1. Generally speaking the take infinite pains. Japanese will not risk their money
ke Americans.
I was surprised to find that ship- building in China and Japan was 50 fur advanced, and from what I have seen" I regard them as very much botter shipbuilders than we had been led to believe them. On my tour 1 ract several engineers who knew China, Japan, and the United States wel, and they expresseds the view that if they were going to start a shipyard out of Britain they would cut of the American yards is very.
start it in China. When China
In the United States I visited
yards all up and down the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts, as well as in
Vancouver and Montrends. The lay- DEAFNESS
similar through the whole country, especially in the yards which bawo awakens we shall have another seri been laid down recently. It provides o rival to face,
There are not for the minimum handling of mater wanting those who are doing their ial, and a perfectly natural dow of best to awaken her,"
material through the work as it But to pass on to Japan. At Nagasaki the whole organization of passes from the stockyard to the the Mitsu Bishi Company, from top
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