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WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED
THE
FIRST DELIVERY O.F- OUR
this
hint for our
we read in
News, about
School They
Here is the material
The Education Auth
determined to utilise
the best advantagē, aru
that everything possible should
Sherification” “A cha
done to preserve its amenity.epending of the sale of æ firez building will not be of the sky- scraping order so familiar near
Braest Charles TravoĽA by in Cecil Street, bin will be Benest Norman, a naturalised Bedsi -limited to two storeys in height subject, aged 30 years, described There will be no lavish expendi and latterly engaged in teaching
a winchuman, formerly of Tem ture on stone and lime, the to-be, might school was charged with tention being to erect a building attempted murder and robberg which, after serving for three de conection with the daring daylight cades or so, could be demolished theft in the Babbling Well district and replaced by one of 1 mare 5,000 worth) of jade ornaments, on the up-to-date character. One of the the property of a curio dealer who so perhaps capital blanders at by-gona was shot by the thief.
You can guess who she 191) She eight years old and she has an exeruse book in which she draws whole stories Samefines there are about six pictures to one story. It must be fun doing it and I hope when she sees this she will send in one of her drawings,
School Boards. was the erecting
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DESTROYER
RADIANT AT SINGAPORE.
LATEST SUMESE ACQUISITION.
pick who lives up
Her midis are Hi
Share
of the GeneralManagers for presentati
venth Ordinary General Meeting to be held at the Company on Saturday, the 25th day of Septem 1920
Mangers beg to submit to the Shareholders their report hirty-seventh year's working of the Company, ending S0th June,
paying all humming expenses, Docking Charges, and Fremix of the amount at credit of Profit and Loss Account is $530,551.38, ch, an Interim Dividend of 89% absorbing 380,000, was paid in subject to the approval of Shareholders, it is proposed to ate the Balance of $450,551 38, as follows:
To pay a Final Dividend of $% ($2.00 per share)..... $20,000.00 To pry a Bonus of 8% (4.00 per share) 299-***
To write off from the value of the Company's
Steamers and Properties
*To place to credit of the Reserve Fund
To place to credit of Underwriting Account -
80,000.00
140.551.98
-100,000.00
90,000.00
$-450,551.38
The 5.5, "Haitao"-has been sold and delivered, and S.5 "Morialta
renamed “Hailoung" has been acquired.
The Coast run has been well maintained by three Steamers while several Charters have been secured for the extra Steamers, the Charter of SS.
Quinnebang" being continued andil March.
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The Steamers and other Properties of the Company have been thoroughly kept up.
of palatial and costly structures on cramped and badly-chosen sites, so that to-day there is scarcely a school within the large are of the Glasgow Education Authority designed to ineet modern requirements. Educa- tional policy has evolved so rapid- ly that even the most recently.
[China Mail Special.] erected schools will have to be reconstructed to coulomm with;
SINGAPORE, Sept. 17. the new Education Act.
The British destroyer "Radiant"* Future buildings in Hongkong which the Siamese Government has should be erected with an eye on purchased, arrived at Singapore where the probability of Hongkong's con- she was taken over by a Siamese tinual growth, so that later neces-Crew, Prince Cumpara command di·. Last week I told you that there The Accounts have been audited by Me. A. R'Love and Mr. C. Berna sary roigrations need not involve the "Radiant" from England.
trast:.
In the meantime, the urgent thing is that out Government should be awakened to the fact that
NEW SEASON'S DRESS GOODS.elementary education should be its
Stylish Checks for Coats and Golf
Skirts,
Plain Colored Cloths
For Costumes
SPECIAL VALUE IN
ALL WOOL
2
VELOUR CLOTH DIFFERENT
SHADES
Exclusive Designs in Foulard Dress Lengths, INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED.
The China Mail.th the comfort of the private car
*TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SZT. 18, 1990.
ROAD LOGIC.
owner, but then so did he in his turn disturb the comfort of others: before him. As the Manchester Guardian'shrewdly observes, the earlier objector to motor cars was told years ago that his eyes and ears and nose and nerves would
"LOCAL AND GENERAL.
On August 26 the Morning Post first and most important charge. Dyer Find amounted to £17,450, It must make no its mind to a much larger expenditure. Its present
The Bandman Comedy Company outlay, when compared with other open at the Theatre Royal to-night places of like size and importance, with "Nothing but the truth.”. looks absurdly mean. We invite expressions of public opinion on
-The Marquis of Breadalbane is
the subject of our schools generally. selling Taymouth Castle and 60 With considerable experience in thousand ecres, a portion of the mind, and not forgetting Herbert estates.
Spencer's famous essay, we are not
disposed to recommend compulsory We understand that members of education and all its machinery: the Hongkong Volunteer Defence but we certainly ought to make a Corps are holding a smoking concert and elementary education avail-on the anniversary of Armistice Day. able to all comers.
...
Early in August the French cross channel service suspended since 1914 was resumed. There are now bet. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. ween Dover and Calais four steamers
each way daily,
FORTNIGHTLY REPORT.
SERIOUS EFFECTS OF POLITICAL
TROUBLE. A
The Military Governor has asked the Ministry of Finance to issue $100,000 of revenue stamps at once. It is reported that this amount will be used towards military expenses.
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There will be prizes for the girl and boy who send in the best drawings for their ages. Of course you want to know what these prizes will be? Well just see if you can win one and then you will know!
Your loving
PETER PAY
were ever so many different kinds of fairies. Here is a little story about some of them :---
THE CAMPHOR TREE FAIRIES.
Joyce was just big enough to go for short walks by bersell,
One day she was going home from school and as she was passing a TOW of camphor trees she saw some pretty blue flowers growing in the grass by them and stopped to pick a few.
voices near by and though there seem- As she was picking them she heard ed to be several people talking at once she heard them say,
Now Shinygreen, seal up that bar and be quick about it!"
"Pointyleaf this is too soong. Put in some more water."-
"Nonsense, Lazylcon, you have" only worked for half an hour and you know how specially busy we are to- day. You can't go out and hive a: drink of honey water for another
hour."
CONSULTING COMMITTEE,
Messrs. D. G. M. Berard and J. W. C. Bonnar having resigned; Hoa Mr. John Johnstone and Mr. A. O Lang were invited to fill their places.. These two gentlemen and Mr. W. E. Clarke now comprise the Committee, who'retire but offer themselves for re-election.
- AUDITORS.
Brown who now retire but offer themselves for re-election.
To Consulting Committee's Fees
Auditors' Fees
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.
General Managers,
PROFIT AND LOSS-ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR-ENDING
JUNE 30, 1920.
2,000.00
ts
Remuneration to Gederal Managers for Office Expenses Balance
1,000.00)
0,000.00°
Interim Dividend paid......... Balance
80,000.00
50,55138
530,551.38
543,55133
$12,963.30
15,837.38
28,800.68
12,909.08
Exchange Account
-15,689.48
Investment Fluctuation Account
6,361.57
»
Profit en Sale** Haitan *********
109,641:15
Profit on running the Company's Steamers and Steam
Launch during the year.
379,249.32
543,5513
By Interest on Mortgages.
Interest...
Dividend on Investments..
Capital Account
BALANCE SHEET ON JUNE 30, 1920, LIABILITIES.
The voices came from the hollow trunk of a camphor tree and when Joyce peeped in she saw about jen fairies; dressed in brown and green. They were all as busy as they could bé except one, who was looking rather sutry and this, Joyce thought, must Reserve Fund as per last Account
20,000 Shares at $50 be Lazyloon.
Some of the fairies were filling tiny Added Unclaimed Dividends
Added in 1919 as per lait Report bottles with water and adding a few
Underwriting Account of the Company as per
Last Account, divizama musiqu
In the meter ear case arising out Cotton piece goods and fancy of the death of Mr. Stapp, which have to get used to these by-pre-cotton goods--The market is un-occurred at Singapore on August ducts of fast road traffic, whether changed. The political trouble is Mr. Cooper, the accused, was com he liked them or not, and being a likely to have a very serious effect, mitted for trial at the next Assizes. An occasional carriage, a frensible man-as most cyclists and for unless it ends very soon the quent cart. The pedestrian on the all walkers are--he soon ceased to water buying season will have pass, The total output of the Kailan highway bad nothing to mar his grurable about what he couldn'ted without any sales having bean Ming Administration's mines for enjoyment of the English road. avoid, stopped writing letters to the possibly the Moon Festival which amounted to 1,166 tons, and the effected. It is rumoured that the week ending September 4, 1920, Children sprawled in bis path at the villages. Fowls investigated Papers about the manners of the takes place in about 10 days time, sales during the period, to 60,035 to see that they were working pro- Profit & Loss Account
road-bog," and expressed his pas-will bring about peace, as the soldiers tous.
drops of camphor to them, some were putting the bottles in small shells and Sealing them up with gun and others Added in 1919 as per last Report were writing addresses on the shells Added Premium 1919 less Claims paid with rush pens Sipped in pollen. tions and going from one the other Accounts Payable...... -There was one fairy giving direc- Unpaid Dividends
perly.
-$1,000,000.00
$350,000.00 25,000.00
142,00
2375,142.00.
213.083.18 40,000.00 4,702.61
257,785.79:
-5,316,00:
177,596,61
450,55138
$2.266,490.78
****$1,137,573.49
50,000.00
the possibilities. Calm coms occasive disapproval of forty miles an will want paying. Armed bandits inally caused a detour, standing bour on the King's highway merely are taking advantage of the situation The vernacular press reports
Just then six more fairies came run- those baving a particular right, by getting off it whenever he could and terrorising the countryside, with that two more aeroplanes are expecting round the tree, carrying rush switching tails. There was life ca The proletarian road-hogs in their the result that shop keepers even ed to arrive in Swatow from Shang- baskets. They were evidently in a
ASSETS. the roads of England in those days; charabanes have just as much right outside the war area are closing hai within the next few days. This great burry, and did not see joyce as Steamers but it was quiet life, and jolly to run amok as the earlier ones had. down. It is impossible to sum up
will make elevan There was dust on the roads, but and if private car owners cannot the situation with any degree of
Hatching." aeroplanes she knelt by the tree-trunk, peeping.
Haibong and altogether. at seldom bothered anybody. They enjoy the highways as they used accuracy, for the unexpected always
"Halloong "Commander Camptior Colony," Less Amount written off as resolved at last, were gracious days and gracious to, because of these newest in-happens in China. There have been Mr. W. L. Gardner, master the first of these fairies cried, "we General Meeting.. ways. Then came the bicycle. traders, they may do what the rumours in Manchester of large mariner, has been nominated under have delivered all the packets of medi How the cyclist was cursed at first! pedestrian had to do, and quit. orders being placed for, far Eastern the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, cine but in nearly every house there The roads were no longer safe. He
markets, presumably, a good deal 1910, as a person entitled to be ex- is Sill some one with a bad cold... The Additions since made, including cost “Hailong* was penalized with various laws,
further East than Hongkong.
amined for a licence as pilot in the King has already drunk two bottles of
and less Book valné " Eaitan " Sold Cotton Yarn-Political troubles in | pilotage district of Singapore. the mixture and be says that if he does the interior are still a disturbing
not receive another one within Eve Value of Wharf at Hongkong, Buoys and came the motor cars, noisy, smelly,
factor, consequently the market has Ia view of the combined apris minutes his servant, Blow-a-Gale-
Moorings at Coast Ports and Furniture at heavier, faster. The motorists More and more se the days pase continued extremely quiet.. An ings of revolutionists and bandits, shall cut down two of your largest Less Amount written offias resolved at the last
Hongkong as per last Account facked like monopolizing our roads. does the necessity for concentrating insignificant business was transacted martial law was prochimed in Konge trees. They had small consideration for attention on elementary education and values declined about $10 for moon on September 14. The author On hearing this even Lazyloon be
General Meeting *.............. others. Village parents hated in Hongkong appear. Something the lower counts and $20 for the ities there are paying particular gan to work as fast as he could t them. Pedestrians hated the dust very pronounced and practical really higher denominations.
attention to the vessels and passen- *Take this basket quickly, Fleet Less Amount, written off as resolved at the last
Half Share of Steam Launch at Foochow they spread, and the stink of their must be done. The policy of drift Quotations are
gers in that port.
foot," said Commander Camphor General Meeting exhaust. Even the placid cows and tinkering can only land us in No. 30s $175/210.- No. 128
Colony, Biling it up with snail shells. resented them. Hedgerows and cot- shoal water. Waiting for a breeze 3138/215 No. 165 $225/250. No. Beach North Point Bathing tage roses became chronically dirty is not enough: we will have to 20s $225/280.
but multiplied, and in time took his place as a familiar feature.
Then.
OUR SCHOOLS.
because of them. They too were kedge out, possibly get out the bal Shipments mil.
Arrivals 2,500 bales." Sales 50
cursed. Very solid arguments were weeps.
Then he clapped his hands and ever Loans on Mortene
73.89
381925.49
18,072.59
$122.5
1,700.00
200.00
50,000.00
cent War Loan
50,965.40
22,983.05
123938.45
123,592.00
351,318.07
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Beaches, having been leat to the 2nd so many more fairies came tearing Hongkong Government 6 per cent War Loan Battalion of the Duke of Edinburgh's Wiltshire) Regiment on Thursday my knocked Joyce right over $80,000 at 157
round the trees at such a rate that Straits Settlements 6 advanced in their favour, as that The Kowloon Ratepayers' Asso-Bargains 13,000 bales.
Unsold Stock 10,000 hales and Friday the 23rd and 24thof they led to improved roads, and so ciation is already taking up one
September from 1 o'clock pot willen she got up spin she saw all British Government 5 per cent War Loan £5,000 Wooliens Small sale of serge be closed to the Public during the baskets and packages but they went the fairies muming away with their an. But the most crashing argymatter that has been neglected for reported. No business at all in other afternoon of both these days.
at 84.15-$4,237,10-at 3/8-1 ment was that which showed the more than a year, and is a week lines
so test that she could not catch them complainants to be foolish con- or so the Press will no doubt be
investment in Shares in Local Public Companies Raw Cottons-Values are nomin- servatives who would, but could invited to co-operate, That is in ally, unaltered as follows: $32/35 Chilean independence. The office of
To-day is the anniversary of up, and she never saw them agün. (at märket prices at date).** thwart the inevitable progress connection with the time table at for Indian grades. $36/43 for the Chem Consulate will therefore OUR CORRESPONDENC motor traction Although never the British schools. When the Chinese staple. Apa be closed to-day The Consal and
CORNER im were the roads as pleasant, Board of Education was formed, Flotar Market Report-Stock: home from 4 to 7 pm, at their re
Metals Nothing doing
Madame Rojas Huneeus will be at got reconciled even to the motor the views of parents were brought
and the complaming tied to its direct attention, but they About 500,000 sacerican Patent Kimberley Road, Kowloon Terrace
Home just now it is were ignored.
over again, and the Recently, we had to criticise, cer ncs are the provoca tain results apparent from the humour of fite the working of St. Joseph's, and we and conspicuous pro understand we did not pick by any the private means the worst school, as regards pedes the teaching of English.There are, abers however, special reasons why we to fare entitled to expect better thingy
(This sounds rather doesn't it. But it just mea
Quotations Road, Kowloon,
whenever: Ehave letters from $3.95 per sack, American Straight Cheuk Kwal Ting, a Commander to many time you want to and $4.80 per sack, American Cut off
3.40 per sack, Shanghai Flour 2nd at the front, removed his family te don't mind how many question, you
you will answer them 3.10 per sack Australian Na 1 Hongkong on September 15, Accord 05 per sack, Australian No.2 $3.50 ing to Canton press report Com per sacked a
Petroleum Products,No Inclined to be weak on accortat
Sundries and Coals
of St. Joseph's. As an institution accumulation of stocks.
ale which taker in paying boarders
wander-in-Chief Lus Chi-La: Lebenda
change, to mortgage-his house at the East Gate to a local firm for $23,000 HS mily is reported to be moving Hongkon
SugarMarket declining owing
from foreign countries- non- to absence of demand and contined
British pepile it gets a very hand some grant from our government, perhaps's little more than its con
tor expected to get when they Va want, in the case,of better value than we
and we sha now what the
weakness in Java.
Freights, Accounts Receivable, Agency Balances,
200 30/6/20 sen puhamadal
Ja hand wit
makone and Shanghai Bank Current Accou
in Hongkong and London, 24
Tonnage Dues tmexpired amou Coal and Liquid Fuel in Bankers
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bave
baying
miting
DOUGLAS