FRIDAY MARCH 21, 1994
INTIMATIONS.
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
HOTELS, LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
No
that the Ordinary Yearly Meet- ing of Shareholders of the Hongkong
VVSINTIMATIONS.
THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMATION CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above
& Shanghai Hotels, Limited, will be Company will be held at the offices of
JEWELLERY
JADE &
PRECIOUS STONES
etc
OF
ITRE CHINA MAIL.
CUPS & SPOONS.
held at The Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Mossieurs Jardins Matheson & Do Also A Large Selection Street, Hongkong, ou SATURDAY,Ltd. Fodder Stroot, Hongkong on the 22nd March, 1924, at 11.30 FRIDAY, the 14th day of March. 1924, o'clock a.m., for the purpose of at 11.30 d'alcol in the forenoon, whon receiving a Statement of Accounts the subjoined Resolution will be pro and the Report of the Board of posed as an Extraordinary Resolution, Directors, for the year ended the viz:-- 31st December, 1923, confirming the appointment of Directors, and re electing a Director and the Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from Friday the 14th March, 1924, until Saturday the 22nd March, 1924, both days. Inclusive
By Order of the Board,
PERCY H. SUCKLING,
Secretary. Hongkong, 6th March, 1924.
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE. THE ANNUAL MEETING of the
Members of the HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COM MERCE will be held on MONDAY, March 24th, 1924, at 4 o'clock pre- cisely, in the OLD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM, City Hall, for the following purposes:
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To receive the Report and Accounts of the Committee for the year ended 31st December, 1923.
To elect a New Committee. Té transact ang General Busi
nesa.
By order,
D. K. BLAIR,
Secretary, Hongkong, 12th March, 1924, !
HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
THE THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR- LY GENERAL MEETING of the members of the Hongkong Club will be held in the Club House on TUESDAY, the 25th March, 1924, at 5.30 p.m
By order, 'T. A. ROBERTSON,
Secretary. Hongkong. 15th March, 1924.
HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the members of the Hongkong Club, called in pursuance of a re- quisition by more than 20 resident members, will be held in the Club House on TUESDAY, the 25th March, 1924, immediately after the yearly general meeting.
BUSINESS
As set forth in the notice post- ed in the Hall of the Club.
By order,
T. A. ROBERTSON,
Secretary. Hongkong, 15th March, 1924.
THE HONGKONG FIRE INSUR ANCE CO., LTD.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE EIFTY-FIFTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Share holders will be held at this Offices of the undersigned on THURSDAY, the 27th March, 1924, at Noun, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended the S1st December 1923.
The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the 13th to the 27th March 1924; both days in- clusiva.
"That the Company be wound up voluntarily and that Loalie Solbó Greenbill. of 5 Queen's Road Central, Vietoria in the Colony of Hongkong, be appointed Liquidator for the pur. poses of such winding up."
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AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that further EXTRAORDIN ARY GENERAL MEETING of the. Company will be held at the said offices of Messieurs Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd, on SATURDAY, the 20th day, of March, 1924, at 11.30 o'clock in the forinoon, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the proceedings at the above mentioned Mesting and confirming if thought fit as, a SpoolalResolution the above mentioned Resolution.
Dated the 5th day of March, 1924. By Order of the Board of Directors.
L. S. GREENBILLĄ
"Acting Secretary.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
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TTING will be bold (weather THE FIRST EXTRA BACE permitting) at Happy Valley, on SATURDAY, 29th March, 1924, commencing at 3 p.m.
The Charge for admission to tho Public Enclosure will be 81.
Soldiers and Sailor in uniform balfi price.
Members are advised that they must i show their 'Season Tickets to obtain' hdmission to the Members' Enclosure
Each member has the right of in- the troducing 2 Bon-member to Members' Enclosure, tickets for whom can be obtained from Mosers: Linstead & Davis at $5. caob up to FRIDAY March 28th.
The Stowards favite the Ladies of Hongkong to be present,
Hongkong,, 18th March, 1924.
"SUITABLE FOR®. SPORTING TROPHIES
obtainable at:**
SHERIFF BROTHERS.
:.69, Queen's Rd, CH.
HIGH CLASS BOOTS AND SHOES
Made to order. ROYAL & CO.
No. 1 D'Aguilar Street
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
#6 WORDS JINSERTIONS,
91. PREPAID, Every additional word + Cons
for 3 insertions.
WANTED.
WANTED-Two or three-roomed furnished flat in Kowloon or one double room for two bachelors.
REVIVING TRADE.
WORLD ADVERTISING CONVENTION.
MALL WEEK NEWS. ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES
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The fares proscribed for pabilo vohlalam re as follows:
Associated Club's experience in the marketing and advertising of the World's goods to bear on these problems-an experience strengthened and kept fresh by the fact that they are always bringing themselves in line with The curve of World commerce the latest developments in modern In 1924 will be greatly influenced methods and conditions. by the results of the International should know better than the man Advertising Convention which will who sells the goods? And that in Epping Forest, Joseph White five mi
BUSINESS: NOT POLITICS.
Who
Mohopolitan Asylums Road csti- hates indicate a reduction of 1d. in tho in the rate for the year.
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For setting a trip to catel deer
was fined $3 at Epping, Esax.
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comIn the hand of Hongkong, Chine Road and Lower Levela, auch in Kowloon, and Norg Köistoon.
fen minutes,.................................... Quarter hour, '«mmisitetsommezone
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Mr. George Hughes: 81, widow-alf boar, er, und, Mrs. An Allen. 92, a widow, wewe married at Whittlesey if the "jinslaksha .bo engaged sharged outside the Western part of the Register office, nent Peterborough within the Ulty of Victoria, and be de Just discharged he cured from alty of Viatoria after p.a. pr be dis tharged to the Kast of Bay View Pollos lunatic asylum, Louis Cro, 31, a
of Victoria after 9 p.m., an extra basi erk nt La Bastide, near Marseillation on the Easton side of the City les, shot dead his wife, two child are shall be chargeable, ron, and himself.
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be held at the British Empire man will be represented in his ! Exhibition at Wembley, near thousands at the International London, in July next. Over two Advertising Convention in July thousand of America's loading next. advertising men will meet the advertising brotherhood of the British Empire and other countries Politics will not enter into the to discuss ways and means of activities of the great congress of promoting co-operation, between Advertising men. Polities have business men in general, and tried and found wanting. A war advertising men in particular, weary world no longer looks to throughout the World. The Con-them as the panacea of its ills. vention, which has been organised The peoples of the World realise. by the Associated Advertising that only by putting trade on a Hundreds of spinnors and wowvOPS Clubs of the World, has for its sound and healthy basis can there have been thrown out of work prime object the getting together be any hope of returning through the destruction by free of of all those responsible for selling normal conditions of life. The the Fronder nulle ne Henllan, Car- the World's goods through the magician's wand cannot bring diganshiro. medium of Advertising, in order this about and, the bricks
politician to devise a concerted plan to of the
The now mtable valuation of restore the balance of international found to be lacking in the trade and prosperity by forging proverbially necessary straw. The London toinls nearly £50,000.000, closer links between advertising peoples of the World, not placing an increase for the year of £647- ment and promoting a wider over-much faith in the old Parlia-000, due to the erection of new appreciation of the functions of ments, lend their hopes to the new offices in the centrul nro. Advertising amongst the com-Parliament, the Parliament
A Rochester, Kent, boy named Empire Rest, who while playing with his father accidentally received a blow in the abdomen and colinpsed, has died."
munity at large. ADVERTISING, A WORLD FACTOR. Advertising is no longera luxury trade. It has become a World factor in trade, and commerce, and one of the principal economic forces in modern life. Indeed, it is now such an integral part of the life of the ordinary citizen' that it has become an accepted fact, in the sense that, marketing and buying and selling are accepted facts. It is not talked about. It is! fust taken for granted.
Apply Box No. 1478 "The China one
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB Mail." EXTRA RACE MEETINGS 1924.
MEMBERS' Season Tickets are now ready and may be obtained by those Members who have not already received them from Messrs. Linstead
Davis, Alexandra Buildings.
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hongkong, 18th March 1924.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED. REDUCTION IN PRICE.
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FROM 1st April 1924 until further
notice the price of current for Lighting and Fans will be reduced to 16 cents per unit.
Discounts will remain, as before. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD
Agents. Hongkong, 10th March, 1924.
WING HING
TAILOR PERFECT FIT : GUARANTEED.
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Specially Selected Woollen Suitings Just Arrived. Orders executed at Shortest Notice. Price lowest
64, Queen's Rd., Ctr
Hongkong.
Telephinde 1417.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., T-UNG SANG
General Managers.
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co. Ltd.
: Blongkong, 8th March, 1924.
CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY..
NOTICE.
THE FORTY-SIXTH ORDIN
ARY ANNUAL MEETING of the Shareholders of the above Com pany will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, Pedder Street, on MONDAY the 31st March 1924 at 11.00 am for the purpose of receiving the Report & Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December 1923-
TAILOR
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Business, which will open session at the British Exhibition, London, in July.
Ever since the British delegates came back from the last Conven- tion, in Atlantic City, U.S.A.; last year, with the message that the At the request of local authorities fan minutes,....... 15'conte
of in the Kent Coalfield nres, Pro3arter hour............... Conference World next Advertising men would he held in Fessor Abercrombie, of, Liverpool London, these hopes have been University, is to prepare a town-
planning scheme for the area. gathering strength.
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M. Peter Hearing, head for 60 years of the business which his fa ther founded in Copenhagen in 1818 for the manufacture of cherry brandy and other liqueurs, is died. aged 95.
Stipulating that one slum honge should be demolished for every two
The body of Frederick Wakeford new houses. Mr. David Davies, houses at Newtown, Montgomery-1-year-old Maidenhead, Berks
LP, has offered free bricks for 50
shirs, newsboy, who had been miss- -shire.
ing since December 27, was found in the River Thames at Shoppertoni -
The Greek authorities allege that they have discovered in secret pack between Italians, Bulgars, and Turks to unite in rebelling against the Greeke and South Slavians in Macedonia.
Repatriated by the Sailors and Firemen's Union, 600) German: soa- in; who had beer on; strike sines January & against £3 a week ages, left Fondon for Harburg.
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THE GREAT OPPORTUNITY,
Carnaarthenshire, which The British Empire. Exhibition 143 more spinsters mad widow's thinn bachelors and widowers, ext.-" The Associated Advertising will be the meeting place of busting one female and fout anale Clubs of the World, which for ness men from Canada, Austraila, bookmakers, according to the 1921 twenty years have been working New Zealand, South Africa, and assiduously and unceasingly for all the Dominions of the British the betterment of Advertising as a Empire, and there will be count public and social service, intend less visitors from the U.S.A. and to take their own medicine: They the great Continental and other intend to have Advertising talked countries. It will therefore be the about in every way and every day ideal ground for the discussion of during the session of the Conven- the problems which will
A tion in July. next. great front the International Advertising number of the keenest."selling Convention. The leaders of the brains of five continents will be Conventions Clubs, business gathered together in comrade, the Advertising Clubs, business ship. They will get to know circles, and general public of the will Empire and the World. It is up another. They develop that "get-together to the rest of us to help by giving
A Belgian Air Force lieutenant spirit" without which no team that "little shove behind."
An annual expenditure on advert- work is possible. They will get' WANTED.-Bachelur requires down to the bed-rock problem of ising of many millions will be and sergeant were fatally injured
By the demolition of the premises single room with bathroom bringing about cheaper rates of represented in the personalitics of when a biplane piloted by the latter
of a corn merchant which cause d' .......bottle neck in the principal street af and full board preferably in Kowloon, living, and the general ameliora this World conference. The result rashed near the flying ground ne Apply Box Nr. 1479" China Mail."
tion of the conditions from which confidently looked for is not only Evore, Brussels.
general the furtherance of Advertising it
Rector's Club, Ltd., Tottenham Burton-on-Trent, Staffs, notice to the commercial, and communities of practically all self, but a great step forward to- nations are suffering to-day. Howwards the return of trade in the Court-ad, W., have entered an quit first tendered by the corpor will they do this? By harnessing British Empire and throughout the appeal against the order, amide in tion 42 years ago is being fulfilled
drinks after permatted hours, what The total number of journeys the World's energy and resources World to a normal condition of the recent prosecution for selling for the benefit of the community health and prosperity.
It is the great opportunity, and it the clab should be struck off the re-made by neroplanes belonging to the French commercial air service at large through the service of
in 1928 was 9,826, an incronas off Advertising. What will be their should be attended by every busi gister.
ness man who can manage to make
The conviction last December of 2,405 on 1922. The milenge flown. method? Greater co-operation.
a trip to Europe that will let him be in London in July, whether he Capt. Francis R. Eustace, a Tipper was 365,900 greater than in 1929.
** * * ADVERTISING AND THE FACTS OF LIFE.
be merchant, manufacturer, re-ary kmdlord and paster of fox-
hounds, who was sentenced by Mr. Signor Colonna di Cesaro, the It This, then, is the general ob-tailer, or publicity man.
The Presidents of the Conven- Flood. District Justice at Nenagh, lan Minister of Posts and Tele- jactive of the Convention. The. detailed application follows in tion Committee In London are the to 12 months' imprisonment for graphs, has resigned. He objected logical sequence. Advertising is Lord Mayor of London, Lord Burn having been concerned in an armed to Signor Mussolini's policy of re
Dublin..
private enterprise, and banded int the world's salesman. Without it ham, and Lord Leverhulme. The robbery, was quashed in the King's tirning Government monopolies to his resignation last August, bat. the Manufacturer and the Merchant Convention offices are at Sentinel Bench Court. D could not possibly reach out to House, Southampton Row, London,
Refusing an application to hear withdrew it later. FOR SALE Bangour". 192 World markets. Without it the W.C.I. All who hope to be able
Mount Kellet. Four-roomed general public could have no broad to attend should communicate with evidence regarding insanity, the Bungalow with Hall. Recently conception of what to buy, and that address as soon as possible, Court of Criminal Appeal dismissed reconstructed and entirely moder where to buy cheaply without sacri- stating when they expect to arrive, nised. Site area 37,500 sq. ft. ficing the quality standard. Further and their prospective address in Possession, Ist " April 1924. For more, Advertising, by extending London. permits to inspect, apply in writing the range of purchasers of com- to A, R. Lowe, Special Manager, módities, makes it possible for the Reiss Brothers Ltd. Un Liquida, manufacturer to scale down his tion.)
prices in ratio to the Increases of sales. This is but the 'A.B.C. of It follows, practical economics. therefore, that the International Advertising Convention, by bring ing about an extension of the powers and range of Advertising.
TO LET: One well-lighted OFFICE ROOM on top floor 6 Queen's Road Central. Apply "Gande Price & 'Co., Ltd,"
TO LET-A few Office Rooms. Apply Secretary of Prince's Building & Land Co., Ltd.
FOR SALE.
Hongkong, 17th March, 1924.
i: FOR
SOTHO KHÁTER BUFFLY.
Level and Btorage of water in ressu
the let March 1994- TIES AND HILL BISTRJOT WATER WORKS,“
1923
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FRENCH TUITION will promote better business-and Fran 20 d., Balew 18th. Pia, Below overton
114 Peel Street
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SVETERESAT EXPERT FITTERS.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
Company will be CLOSED from HIGH CLASS TAILORING
the 17th to 31st March, 1974," Both
days inclusive, M
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD.
General Agoata ta
Hongkong, roth March, 1924,"
MASSAGE HALL VI
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A SERVICE.
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Write to
G. MOUSBIOK c/o China Mall office.
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TISER AND PUBLIC. The writer, speaking both a5 3. publicky man himself and as a member of the great consuming public, affirms the fact that; by the time the labours of the Convention are under way, there will Do] terdam longer exist if, indeed, it ever existed to any appreciable extent gulf between the advertising profession and the general ipabila The Advertiser, the Advertising 11 Agent, and the Public spread interdependent. The Convention means to drive this point inter attent apply in eil Rider Main home, Its intention is, to get the Districts duzine February 1933 axcapting Advertising Clubs to provide days vize 15th to 15 iucluding » con-- educational courses in the clubs slant supply of water, on account of themselves and, in educational in water on Locount of Chinade New Year. stitutions; to enforce Truth in Constant Supply lo il districts during Advertising and increase pubile Fabrasry 1981 raingana confidence in Advertising and to or KOWLOON WATER WORKS KEPRIBA educate generally the public to the on Gerilai) 192 in Below: Toit, ala, Below facfitat Advertising is an economics of
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p02140 m. Ext.630. distribution cost, the wider and
stan more efficient marketing of com Full Supply in all distriota darlag modities, and the stabilisation of Febrasry 1913 and 1824
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Pabile Work
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had fallen overboard.
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