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THURSDAY APRIL 19, 1928.
INTIMATIONS.
· HOUSING COMMISSION.
THE Undersigned would be glad
to receive in writing on
or
before the 20th. inst. suggestions from members of the general public in regard to
(1) The standardisation (with the object of reducing the cont of buildings) of
(a) Designs for lionics, (b) Fixtures and fittings for
housen. (2) The reduction of the cost of
building materials,
(8) The use of cheaper or more suitable kinds of building inuterials,
(4) The greater employinant of labour saving machines or Jevices,
(5) Improved methods for the transportation of building
materials,
(6) Procuring an increased sup
ply of skilled labourers, (7) Reducing the number of mid-
dlemen,
(B) Other methods for reducing
the cost of house construc tion.
2-Measures which should be
taken by the Clovernment for promoting any of the above objects
8.-Measures which should be
taken by the Government
(1) To increase the quantity,
of housing accommoda- tion and in particular (2) To facilitate the build-{
ing of more houses for accupation by
(i) Pergans of moderate
meris
(ii) The working classes
H. E. POLLOCK, Chuirtuan, Housing Commission.
Prince' Buildings,
9th April, 1923.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
THIRTY-FOURTH UR- DINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Company's Offices, St. George's Building, or SATURDAY, 21st April, 1923, at 11 30 AM, for this purpose of prosenting the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Acconuts to 28th February 1923, and electing Directore and Auditor. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 14th to tho 21st April, 1928, both days inclusive. By Order of the Board of Directors. QIBD. LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
Agents.
Hongkong, April 4, 1928.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE SECOND GYMKHANA is
fixed for SATURDAY, 5th May. 1923, Draft Programmes and Entry Forms may be obtained at the Race Course, Hongkong Club and Cause. way Bay Stables.
Entries close on Saturday, 21st April, 1923.
Hongkong, April 16, 1923.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
G.
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
RTICULARS and Conditions of the
PARC Public Auction Salo, to be
held on MONDAY, the 23rd day of April, 1023, at 3, at the Oilces: of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency, the Governor of one Int of CROWN LAND at Hok Un in the Oplony of Hongkong for a term of ・ 75 yours. with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Barvayor of His Majesty the King, for one further terza of 76 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT,
No. of Sala,
Kowloon Intal
Begistry No.
Opposite Karlson Taland
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THE KWONG KWUI-00.
PHOTO SUPPLIES.
60 Queen's Road Central. Telephone No. 2170.:
·Photos of EL. B. E, Prince of 'Wales landing on 'sale.
A Parent's Duty
NOTICES.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY
COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Pedder Street, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong on THURSDAY, the Third day of May, 1923, at 11.30
m, o'clock in the forenoon ---
For the purpose of consider. ing, and, if thought fit, passing an Extraordinary Resolution to the effect:-
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, LIMITED.
INo
(a) That the Conditional Agree- |
ment submitted to the meet- ing for the amalgamation with this Company of the Hongkong Central Estate Limited upon the terms i (inter alia) of the acquisition by this Company of the complete undertaking, busi-2 ness, goodwill and property of the Hongkong" Central Estate Limited in turn for the issne to that Company of 40,000 shares of this
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Company
of the nominal value of $25 each credited as fully paid up, being four shares of $25. each of this Company for each share of $100 each of - The
Hongkong Central Estate Limited, be and the same is hereby approved . and that the Directors be
they and
hereby authorised to carry the said Agreement into effect with such (if any) modification either before or after the execution thereof as they may think fit.
are
NB. A copy of such said Condi
tional Agreement may be ins- pected at any time, during i Business hours at the Register- ed Office of the Company Victoria Building Queen's Road Central, Victoria afore-| said and at the office of Messrs. Deacon Harston and Shenton, Des Voeux Road Central Victoria aforesaid Solicitors to the Company.
for the purpose of consider- ing and if thought fit, approv= ing the draft new Memoran- dum of Association of the Company which will be, sube mitted to the meeting.
A print of such new Memo- randum of Association and a print of the existing Memo- randum of Association of the Company may be seen at the of the Registered Office
the
. Company, Victoria Building, Queen's Road Central, Victoria aforesaid, and at the office of Messrs. Deacon Harston and Shenton, 1, Des Voeux R. Central, Victoria aforc- saku, Solicitors for Company, and the portions of the proposed new Memoran. dum of Association which dif- fer from the existing Memor- andum of Association are in- dicated by being underlined
in red.
3.
【OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY. GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will be held at the Offices of Mrs. Janine, MATHE 50% & Co., TAMITED, Pedder Street, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong- kong, on THURSDAY, the 3rd day
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
25 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID Erory additional `word # Conte
for 3 incertions.
TO LET.
&
of May, 1929, at Noon, for the pur-10 LET.Two Airy Office Rooms pase of considering and, if thought on top floor of 6, Queen's Road' fit, passing as Extraordinary Re. Central. Apply to Gande, Price,
Co., Ltd. Holations the following, namely: 1. That it is expedient to effect on
amalgamation of this Company TOLET-One Europeas flat in with the Hongkong Land Invest | Lee Building" Wanchal Gap ment and Agency Company, Road, Apply to No 32 Kennedy Lipited and with a view thereto Road this Company be wound up vol. untarily and that Honice Percy Smith of Victoria in the Colony of Ilongkong be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator for the par- pose of such winding up. That the Conditional Agreement submitted to the meeting for the
TO LET.-Seven-roomed detached
house with tennis lawn and garage for two cars. Apply to PERCY SÁTTU, SEIII & FLEMING.
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND-
DAN NEAR.
Mr. W. Hodgson, ex-Lord Mayor. of Leeds, was killed in a motor accident of Leeds, while returning The froin Bradford with friends. car ran fato a tram standard at a dangerous corner. Mr. Hodgson was killed instantaneously, but the others were not dangerously hurt.
A double tragedy occurred in Jersey, when it is stated a young man pulled out a revolver, shut dead his male companion, and then shot himself. From a state- ment he left apparently the act was premeditated. The young men were formerly partners in a small business.
While. Father Allen, of Peter- borough Roman Catholic church, was at tea on Sunday, a bell con- nected to an offertoy box in his church rang.
On reaching the church ho saw a man rush out with the box
gave. chase for some
but was outpac- Led,
amahenuation of this Company FRENCH LESSONS being hampered by his cassock.
G. MOUSSION 15, Morrison Hill Road.
PEAK TRAMWAY CO., LTD:
TIME TABLE ·
WEEK DAYS.
7.00 30, 7.10 7:30 to 8,00
8.00
with The Hongkong Land In. vestment and Agency Company. Limited upon the terus (inter alia) of the acquisition by The Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Company, Limited of the complete dertaking, business, goodwill and property of this Company in return for the issue to this Company of 40,000 shares offThe Hongkong Land Invest- ment and Agency Co., Ltd.. of the nominal value of $95 each credited as fully paid up, being 11.00 four shares of $25 each of that Company for each share of $100 each of this Company, be and the same is hereby approved and that the Liquidator be and he is hereby authorised, pursuant to section 185 of The Companice) Ordine 1911 to adopt the said Agreement and carry the same into affect with such (if any)} modifications either before or after the execution thereof us the said Liquidator quay think ex- pedient."
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A copy of sugh said Condi tional Agreement may be in- spected at any time during busi- ness hours at the Registered Office of the Company, Victoria Building, Queen's Road Central, Victoria aforesaid and at the office of Messrs, Deacon, Hurston & Shenton, 1, Des Voux Road. Central, Victoria aforesaid Soli citors to the Company. That the aforesaid 40,000 shares of The Hongkong Land Invest- ment, and Agency Company, Limited shall in pursuance, of clause 8 of the aforesaid Condi tional Agreement be allotted as and from the 2nd day of July, 1923, to members who are on the Register of Sharehuklers of this Company on the date of the con- | Lal May, 1923. firmation by this Company of the special resolution confirming the said agreement,
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that a Further Extraordinary General Meeting of Should the meeting approve the Company will beld at the same of such new Memorandum of place on THURSDAY, the 24th Association, with or without day of May, 1923, at Noon, for the modification, the subjoined Re-purpose of receiving a report of the solution will be proposed as proceedings at the above mentioned an Extraordinary Resolution, meeting and of confirming, it namely:--
thought fit,, as Special Resolution the above mentioned Resolutions;
Dated this 17th day of April, 1923,
By Order of the Board,
(b) That the provisions of the Company's,Memorandum of Association with respect to its objects, be altered so as to read as shown in the print signed for the purpose of identification by the Chair man of this meeting.
3-For the purpose of consider-
ing, and, if thought fit, approv ing the draft new Articles of the Company which will be submitted to the meeting.
A print of such new Articles and a print of the existing Articles may be seen at the Company's said Regis tered Office and at the said office of Messrs. Deacon, Harston and Shenton.
In
L. 8. GREENHILL,
Secretary to the General Managers. N.B.-Tho necessary steps will be taken to divide yach of the exist. ing 50,000 shares of $100 each constituting the present Capital | of $5,000,000 of The Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Company, Limited, into four fully paid up shores of $25 each and thereafter to increase the Haid Capital from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 by the creation of 200,000 new shares of $25 each.
such print the-ponions of the TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND proposed new Articles which OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
differ from the existing Articles
being
ALL preliminary notices of forth-
are indicated by underlined in red.
coming meetings, lectures and, Should the meeting approve. entertainments, sent for Insertion in of such new Articles, with or the news colombs of the China Mail, without modification, the sub are charged for at the rate of $1 each. joined Resolution will be (as announced in May and June, of proposed as an Extraordinary last year) providing that they do not Resolution namely; occupy more than four lines. In (c) That the
future if this space is exceeded they new Articles already approved by this will be placed in the advert's ng mecting and for the purpose columns at the prevailing ratet of identification 'subscribed by the Chairman thereof, be and the same are hereby Association consequently involved
Company's Memorandumi adopted as the Articles of will be submitted to the Supreme the Company to the ex-Court of Hongkong for confirmat clusion of and in substitution
tion.
of
for all the existing Articles Dated this 17th day of April, 1923. thereof...
By Order of the Board.
Should the above mentioned LS GREENHILL, Resolutions (b and c) be passed by faut de Secretary, the required majority they will be N.B. The necessary steps will ** Tudi boy is always getting costco submitted for confirmation as be taken to divide each of the ex- or cut or braised Becames those Special Resolutions to a farther isting 50,000 shares of $100 each wounds have healed all right in no sign Extraordinary General Meeting constituting the present Capital of they always will. Get bottle of which will be subsequently con this Company of $5,000,000 Into Chamberlain' Pain Balm and bog that venedor for fully sold up akira ad as meday Should the second of the shove each and thereafter to increase the You can get nothing. bottars and blood poison is too dangerous limondo to risk. Resolutions (b) be confined as a sald-Capital (from $5,000,000 to Formle Mall Chegal trand Special Resolution by the requisite $10,000,000 by the Storekeepers:
majority the alterations in the 200,000 new shares of
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By Arrangement at the Company. Offico" Alexandra Buildings. Des Voeux Rood
SWAY HOUSE
HAT MAKER.
No. 16, Wyndham Street.
Our 50 years' ex- perience in mak ing low prices, In selecting worthy serviceable goods, but offer. Jogtiematasav ing, has gone in to the making of this big, 1999 Catalogue.
The cost of living index-figur| which takes into account the cost of food and clothing (retail prices), fuel, and light, was one point lower on Frebruary 1 than a month earlier. It was approximately 77 per cent above that. of July 1914, states the Ministry of Labour Gazette, as com- pared with 78 per cent. on January 1,
--Scotland Yard reports that three. men are wanted by the police for breaking into a house in Abbey Road, Belvedere, and stealing £15 and some jewellery. It is stated that the men are in the habis of driving from house to house with a horse and van offer- ing non-afcohlic wines for sale. In this way they are able to find out which houses are temporarily moccupied.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the proprietors of the Under- ground Electric Railway Company, Lord Ashfield said they were in-. terested in sixty two miles of rail-. way, which carried in 1922 325,000,000 passengers; in 1.778 miles of omnibus routes, carrying 924,000 passengers; and 117 miles of tramways, carrying 186,000,000
assengers.
The famous Circle of Epicures in Paris is to have a riyal in London, Membership is to be strictly limit-
ed to 25 masculine veterans in-the art of what Dr. Johnson, rather coarsely called "guzzling and gorging." A trial banquet has been arranged and is a mouth-watering affair. Those who survive are ex- pected to give an expert report on the dishes with "illuminating com- ments."
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At Glasgow High Court, Mary Catherine McNeill,63, was charged with murdering her husband,” a corporation employee, who was found stabbed with a knife in his house, Adelphi-street, Bridgeton, Glasgow. The woman said that she did not mean to kill her hús- | band, but merely threw a knife at -him-in self-protection. When she was found not guilty, cheers were raised in court.
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