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COAL CRISIS.
LTD.
COMPANY MEETING.
EXCAVATION, PILE DRIVING & CONSTRUCTION CO.
20 PER CENT DIVIDEND,"
THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1926.
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Other Business.
Co. could no longer promptly meet labour payments, our company, as Mr. Edward D. Shank moved that the gonerat labour contractors for a dividend pf 20 per cent; for the the scheme, had one of two alter year ended March 81, 1928, to be gatives, ofther to carry on the work payable on June 30, 1920: (yoster- in progress "or to completely shut | day), be declared-auconded by downs the work. To close down | Mr. Chau Tue-tung and carried. work on aachéme as large as the; "The following were re-elected as Kowloon Tong project is quite a directors: Mr. B. Montagus, Ede, The 5th annual meeting of the serious matter both for the cilents Mr. Charles L. Shank, Mr. Li Yau- Hongkong Excavation, Pile Driving and for the contractors and would taun, Mr. Chan Pek-chun, Mr. & Construction Co., Ltd., was held cause a substantial Anancial los Edwarth D. Shank, Mr. Carl B.. at their registered office. Powell's to all concerned. After much com Shane, and Mr. Chai Yue-tong-- Building, yesterday afternoon, alderation, at the request of the proposed by Mr. Chau Yue-tong,
Those present were:-Mr. B. directors of the Kowloon Tony Co., asconded by Mr. Charlon L. Shank. Montague Edă (chairman), Mr. it was decided that we carry tho Megara. Lowe, Bingham Charles L. Shank, Mr. Chan Pok- necessary burden to keep the work | Matthews wore re-elceted as audi- chan, Mr. Edward D. Shank, Mr.im progress and the result has been | tors--proposed by Mr. Carl B. Carl B. Shank and Mr. Chau Yuẻ that up to the present moment our Shank seconded by Mr. Chau teng (directors).
company has a substantial part of | Yue-tong,
A resolution was also passed to pay a bonus to staff of $2,500- proposed by Mr. Charles L. Shank, seconded. by Mr. Chan Pek-chun.
It funds invested in the scheme.
SUN'S PHASES.
Calendar for July.
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Tribute to Late Mr. Ede.
Beacon Hill Reservoir, After the convening notice "had been read, Mr. Carl B. · Shank
"A contract was secured by the (who is also manager of the com- company on a competitive basis for pany) said:
building the Beacon HN1 reservoir. "Before commencing the formal | which is to supply water to the business of this meeting, I take this Kowloon Tong estate. This" ro- occasion, in view of the relation-servoir has long been completed, ship existing between our former, but no payment in pursuance to chairman and our present one, to this work has yet been made. In Sunrise and Sunset in Hongkong the oil she requires and oven refer with deep sorrow to the death addition to these difficulties, the for July, 1926. (Standard Time of of the Hom, Mr. C. Montague Ede. Government who are doing the the 120th Meridian, East of Grean. have a surplus for export. Mr.
“As you are all aware, Mr_C-levelling of the site are long over-wich) Hodges's ideal of freedom from Montague, Ede was, up to the time due on the agreed time for com- Date. "internal conflict" (ie., strikes) of his decease, the chairman of this plating this work, which has caused July 1 for three or four years, in order company and for several years its the general construction work, even keen supporter, and a large part of Lefore the strike, to be carried on in that his proposal should be given the success the company has en- a piece-meal, and uneconomical à fair trial, seemed too good to joyed during the last few years is manner. This, of course, has come true: Mr. Herbert Smith, due to the beneficial services ren-absorbed the profit on the general President of the Miners Federadored by him. The late fr. Ede's labour contract which would have public activities are so well known been available had the original tion, did not altogether agree to you all that they need not be scheme for mass production been with Mr. Hodges, and declared the mentioned here.
carried out. A good many of the subscribers now realise the great only solution of the difficulties of
assistance this company has been the mining industry was national-
to the whole scheme and many are isation. In any event the Govern
doing their best to meet their. ment has a sufficient majority to
obligations promptly. It is to be impose its will on both the miners
hoped that this attitude will con tinue as your directors teel that, and the owners. Having failed at
without the co-operation of sub- the conference table through the
seribers, and prompt fulfilment of .contract on the part of the Kowloon deadlock between the owners and
Tong Co., this company is πό the miners it can only have re-
longer justified in nursing the course to legislation on the lines of
Kowloon Tong scheme financially the Coal Commission's report.
as. It has done in the past. As will
be seen from to-day's cabled news the Eight-Hours Bill has passed the Committee stage in the House of Commons and its passage is a certainty.
"KINGSCLERE.”
PART OF BUILDING SOLD YESTERDAY.
ALSO YAUMATI HOUSES."
sale rooms. It is registered as Section. S. of Inland Lot No. 1381,
together with the buildings erect ed on it..
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"The company la, however, in no small degree compensated for such a great loss by its good fortune in having the late Mr. Ede's son as its present chairman and it is most sincerely hoped that he will remain permanently in the Colony to carry on the work started by his father, The sympathy of this meeting is extended to the bereaved family.",
Bigger Dividend.
With the customary opening re- sarding the raport and accounts,
"I think I have now touched all Mr. B. Montague Ede said :—
"The result of the year's working the points upon which you require is once.
more very satisfactory which, I am sure you will agree, is information, and I now beg to pro
pose that the report and accounts, very gratifying indeed in view of
And as presented, be adopted the unsettled 'trade conditions pre- valling during practically the en-Passed. When this has been seconded, I shall be pleased to tire period in review.
answer any questions. from share- notice from the "You will balance sheet that, at the close of holders, to the beat of my ability.". the preceding year ending March 31, 1926. $226.896.43 was carried forward after a bonus to staff and a dividend of 15 per cent. on the ordinary shares had been paid. This year's working has proved satisfactory and your directors have decided to declare a 20 per cent. dividend on the ordinary shares. Your directors feel justi fed in recommending such a large dividend on account of the results that have been obtained, this year
and the comparatively large re
serve that has been carried forward in previous years. The above dividend of 20 per cent. in respect of the partly peld' ordinary sharea Js being capitalised and used in part payment of a call of 350 per share which is necessary to meet It will be seen therefore that this certain obligations of the company.
dividend does not deplate the com- any's reserves by as much as would have been the case under ordinary circumstances,
Raymond-Piling System.
Any hope of a truce in the coal crisis at Home appears to have gone with the unanimous decision of the Miners' Executive to re- sist increased hours and reduced wages. It may be the turn of Mr. Frank Hodges to revive the
Part of the site of Kingsclere scheme put forward some time changed hands yesterday when Lago for a solution of the troubles, that portion of the ground situated at Macdonnell Road was put up for Mr. Hodges, it will be recalled, re-auction at Mr. A. G.. da Rocha's Bigned the Secretaryship of the Miners' Federation on receiving & post in Mr. MacDonald's Ministry,
and, unlike other Trade Union Starting at $8,000, the price roas leaders, did not regain his pesi- to $10,100 at which price it was purchased by the representatieve tion. Mr. A. J. Cook, a Com-
of the Sum Kwong Hop. Co. munist was elected in his stead,
Eleven houses at Yaumati were as many think, much to the detri- also disposed of yesterday for
alightly over $3,000 each. ment of the miners. Mr. Hodges were put up at the same time with They recognises that the problem of an" upset price of $85,000. One coal is international, and that advance of $800 was made at which therefore, international organisa-price they became the property of
Mr. Fok Pak-yul. tion is indispensable, but he adds The respective lots consisted of that internal efficiency must also | (1) All that piece of ground situate.
"The net. working proft, for the be obtained in British mines,at Yaumati, Kowloon and register-
ed in the Land Office as Section year has amounted to $207,275.67. Elimination of waste must be en of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 760 of this proft, $67,717.32 has been forced, unproductive methods at together with the five buildings absorbed in providing for depre the pit. rigorously dealt with, and erected thereon known na Nos. 12, ciation. on the company's invest~ |
ments and plant, etc., and providing unification in the production of 14, 16, 18 and 20 Hamiton Street,
Yaumati; (2) All that parcel of for ի special financing fee on power for colliery uses secured ground situate at Yaumati afore-equipment, which leaves a not pre- He favours the amalgamation said and known in the Land Office fit to the Profit and Loss, Account into single concerns of all col- as The Remaining Portion of Kow-of $139,558.85. Heries in definite geological areas, loon Inland Lot No. 780 together a reduction in transport costs and a new method of coal distribution, which would eliminate the onerous charges of middle-men, factors, merchants and retailers. In- çidentally, such a method might be applied with advantage to the handling of foodstuffs and other domestic requirements, which in- crease so alarmingly in price in their passage from the producer to the consumer. But apparently Mr. Hodges's scheme is merely. that municipalities should be vested with power to buy coal from the collieries and distribute it retail-a form of State trading which would be opposed by many, In any case this part of the Another unusual visitor who was scheme has been definitely turned found in the divan was a Chinese priest, but there being no direct down meantime so far
evidence against him he was dis Government
charged. legislation concerned.. Scientists, chem- ists, and engineers should, Mr. Hodges thinks, be encouraged to put their knowledge to public uses and he believes that he can save 245,000,000 which Britain now! paya for the
im- portation of oil, by
from British coal
is
with
"After a dividend of 20 per cent. the six buildings thereon and the bonus to staff are paid, known as Nos. 74, 76, 78, 30,782 there will be $19,658:35: to carry and 84 Purtland Street, Yaumati, forward, which when added to the the combined areas being, 9,001 profits carried forward last year square feet or thereabouts.
will make a total sum carried for ward -titi year amount 20 $308,453.78.
OPIUM SMOKERS.
PRIEST AND CONSTABLE IN
A DIVAN.
POLICEMAN REBUKED."
"During the period in review, the company's piling operations under the Raymond system have been very satisfactory. The piling con- tracts undertaken have been exe ented to the satisfaction of our cents and the company has had the pleasure of receiving letters of commendation from clients on the In imposing a fine of $2 for speed, efficiency and satisfactory. smoking opium. In a divan and $15 manner in which these contracts for misconduct as a police officer, have been executed. It is only to the Kowloon Magistrate told the be anticipated that the Raymond defendant, a Shantung constable. system of cast-in-place, piling will that he was disgracing the police, become more and more popular force by keeping company with throughout the Far East until this such men.
system replaces many of the les efficient and economical piling methods now being used locally and elsewhere.
Other defendants arrested were Ained $2 each, while the two keepers had to pay $30 anch ̈ ̈
Kowloon Tong Burden. "The contract with the Kowloon Tong Co. has proved to be a heavy burden on the company during the year A great many subscribers, for one, reason or another, have found it inconvenient to pay the "A man should work a few hours calls on their houses as they be as possible.Henry Ford
"Labour problems should be made secur-
an essential part of the educational all
system.Glenn Frank).
came due and in consequence, early in the year the funds of the Kow, joon Tong Co. became depleted, When certain materials became exhausted and the Kowloon Tong
No question was put. Mr. Chan Pek-chun seconded and the resolu tion was carried unanimously.
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Poets' Corner.
SONG OF A BRITISH SOLDIER STATIONED IN HONGKONG.
I cannot see, I cannot roam,
I cannot smell the air of home. No more for me the wood and green,
Or walking through the squire's demesne, Where o'er a thousand sights present:
Themselves to eyes that don't resent; Where, under groves and shades as low
And very branches that I know, My childhood sweet had been unfold.
And boyish mem'ries, since grown old, Come back to me of schooldays spent
In the one school where, aged, bent,. The learned master dignified
Presider' with rule that denied From anyone the slightest say
In all affairs. He's had his day- And now he sleeps, to a cruel syrmisë,
A sleep from which he cannot rise.
I see in dreams-and only dreams-
The dear old village, and it seems
As if I saw it standing there
In the glorious sunshine-fair.
I see it standing nobly up,
Drinking whate'er is in the cup: I breathe ita peaceful atmosphere,
And doing so, I will not dare
To ask why thus she is content,
For know now I for this is meant. I see the curling streaks of smoke,
That love more rather than provoke;
I see the herdsmen tend their flocks; I hear the clarion of the cocks"
I see the everyday of all,
And Sunday hear the church-bells call. There, pious the minister stands,
Proclaiming God to English lands;
I see my parents in the pew,
Deaf to ideas and teachings new, Most faithful to their God on high,
And finch not-oh, exalt the sky! I see my sister in the choir,
Giving praise to the Eternal Sire.. And then, I see the homestead sweet,
Where, inder frost and under heat, Through many seasons gone was 1:
How now I view it with a sigh The service ends, my people come,
And following them I hear.the hum, Still, of, their thanks, reechoing..
And prayers for their distant offspring, How I love them I cannot tell
Though they be heav'n and I be hell; But they are blood of mine, and blood..
Doth link kin in the coming flood. They pass the gate, the door is ope,..
Then enter hearts all full of hope.
I try to enter, but cannot
How helpless hands stretched out forgot That miles of land and leagues of sea,
Diminish In a reverie.
Een out from Hades rescueth me, And in a paradise te be, Yet I can never leave behind
A thought of home, and all I find. That breathes to me of English fore,
And tells me England loved of yore," How sweet the land, Its hallowed bowers;
flow blest old England, mine, yours, ours.
ECALEXANDER CLAUDE GREAVER,