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BONGKONG OYMKHANA CIJE,
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TING of Members will has held at
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Business: To receive the Committee's Annual Report and Statement of Account To Fleet a new Committee
f the ensuing year.
Any other buymers that may arise.
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THIRD TOURNAMENT..
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14th, 1920, at 9:15 PM.
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2.-15 Round CNTEST FAYE MIDDLE- WEIGHT CCM 19×STIA UM TA CALANY, AND THE * Hosexové DAILY PRESS" BELT-
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-6 Rusa oNTEST FOR THE AMATEUR LOTTWRIGHT CHAMPIONSsnie" or TUS COLONY.
uwen Youn Malier, ex-Driver, R.Q.A. (Holder),
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4- ROUND MIDDLEWEIGHT CONTEST.
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- Rov-D LIGHTWEIGHT CONTEST.
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PRINCE OF WALES'S INTEREST, In the unavoidable absence of the President of the Board of Education, Dr. F. E. Oglivie presided at pre- sentation.
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It is officially annouced that the directors of the Phoenix Assurance. Co., Ltd., and the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Ltd., -have agreed on a basis for a provisional agreement for the fusion of the two companies. This preliminary
an-
nouncement is made at the earliest possible date to protect the interests of the shareholders says the Journal Commerce Terms will be an- nounced shortly.
By this fusion the interests will be
In the new Science Museum at Ireland at an average speed of 117 South Kensington a temporary miles an hour. aeronautics exhibition has been opened, and here the Vickers-Viniy Rolls Royce aeroplane, which was piloted across the Atlantic by Captain Sir John Alcock and Lieut. Sir A. Whitten Brown, was presented to the
The chairman indicated that the nation by Messrs. Vickers Ltd. and Prince of Wales had intended to be Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., as the present, and had wired saying that central treasure of a most interesting he hoped to inspect the famous collection of aviation relics says the machine at an early opportunity. Daily Telegraph. It was in 1912 that Mr. H. A. L. Fisher sent a message will maintain its present organisation. It is understood that each company an early exhibition of apparatus stating that be had received an illustrating the application of unexpected call to a conference at effect will produce a very powerful The arrangements if carried into scientific principles to the study of Downing-street, and that nothing combination, and should be greatly aeronautics was held in one of the except a matter of extreme, urgency, to the interests of the shareholde.s galleries of the eastern part of the which could not have been foreseen, of both companies, museum, which were then about would have prevented him from to be demolished to make way for being present. Mr. Churchill alsa-merged of two of the oldest insurance the new building. That exhibition wrote regretting that he was unable companies in existence. Both com- brought together many valuable to be present. objects of historical and scientific in-
panies date back to the eighteenth Mr. Douglas Vickrs, in makinz century, the Phoenix having been terest, and at its close there remained the presentation, said that, great as for the permanent collection a good the achievement in crossing the Union in 1797. The Phoenix has an established in 1782, and the Norwich series of examples illustrating im Atlantic by aeroplane was, he thought authorised and subscribed capital of portant points of departure in avia the flight to Australia was..perhaps, £3,210,650 of which £125,855 is in tion. The advances since then_iu aerial science and practice have been greater. The fight to Australia was 309,755 shares of £10 each, with EL great, and varied, and it is the objected that if the authorities thought it paid shares of £1. The shares were performed In 120 hours, which show-paid, and £113,180 (Pelican) "fully. of the museum authorities to add to their nucleus a well-balanced selec-worth while letters might be carried formerly £50 each £5 paid, and £5 tion of exhibits in Blustration of the week, (Cheers) But, after all, it sub-divided in 1919. Of the fully- from this country to Australia in a fully-paid respectively, but were progress made from time to time. This expansion is being carried out was not the machines, wonderful as paid 5 shares 14,266 were issued
they were, which counted so much on the under the advice of experts.
amalgamation of the The Vickers-Royce machine which the pilots. To start off into the Pelican and British Empire-Life crossed the Atlantic occupies con- unknows, firing without any arrange office with the Phoenix, in 1908, siderable floor space in the centre of ment of ships, trusting to the stars, and a further: 8,334 shares on the this exhibition. One of its two im- and rarely seeing the sea surely amalgamation with the Law Life mense Rolls-Royce engines of 360 this was one of the most splendid Assurance Society in 1910 horse power lies on the floor imme-records of endurance and pluck of Pelican was, prior to the amalgama- diately in front of the fuselage to our race among our many splendid tion referred to the oldest British joint" stock company confiaingits facilitate inspection. A raised plat.records. (Cheers.)
Mr. Claude Johnson, responding operations to life assurance. It was form gives access to the two-seater cockpit in which the two plucky for Messrs. Rolls-Royce, in the unoriginally founded in 1797, by the aviators spent these thrilling fifteen avoidable absence of the chairman, directors of the Phoenix, as a friendly hours and fifty-seven minutes of the said that the memoranda of the institution, and the two companies fight, from the afternoon of June 14, engineer who built the famous during their long independent careers 1919, to the following morning. machine, Mr. Royce, had been put were closely allied for business pur- Originally, as told at a into book form and showed the poses. The Phoenix Company is luncheon given, yesterday at the amazing amount of thought and care one of the most important in the Hyde Park Hotel by Messrs. Vickers which went to the accomplishment country in the department of fire and Messrs. Rolls-Royce, the machine of the machine. The book was business having a very large foreign was one of a number of standard known irreverently, as the Rolls and coloural as well as bombers which would assuredly have Royce bible, and a copy was given fire business. By the absorption of bombed. Berlin but for the armistice. to every one of their young engineers. the Pelican and Law Life Companies It was in no sense a special machine, Mr. Johnson suggested the erection it also became a great life office, in but certain alterations were made, in of a monument to the men who, 1907 It commenced the transaction it to carry a crew of two for a 2,500 cressed the Atlantic-not-in Ireland, of accident business, and in 1910 it embarked in marine insurance, It miles direct Journey. The petrpi but in London. tank was much enlarged, so that in Sir Alfred Mond, his Majesty's operations in this fiel became of place of bombs it could carry 870 Commissioner of Works; who arrived more importance with the aïquisi- gallons of petrol, and 50 gallons of late, owing to a motor car breakdown,tion as from July 1, 1911, of the un- oil, The engine and propellers sald-it was obvious that we were dertaking, of the Union Marine Insur were undamaged gn arrival, only at the beginning of this marance Company, and were further In fact, the whole machine vellous new mastery of the air. strengthened by the acquisition of was perfect, and had it not What would happen in the next ten the shares of the Northern Maritime been for the unfortunale fact that an or twenty years could not be fore-Insurance Company in 1917. Irish bag was mistaken for a green seen bat with such pilots and such (Continued:on Page 93 field in landing in Ireland there is no engines as we had Eritain possessed doubt the fight direct to London an enormous, advantage by which to
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WALLA the engines are concerned, there is she had upon the sea, (Cheers.)
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1920.
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