THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1930.
'Phone C. 22
FOR
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
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Twenty-five Words three inser tions prepaid $1. Every addi. tional word four cents for three Invertions,
All replies under this heading mont be called for.
TO LET
GENERAL NOTICES
THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY (1918), LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
NOTICE
that an Interim Dividend of Five per cent. on the paid-up Capital of the Company has this day been declared in respect of the financial year ending 30th September, 1930, and that such Dividend will be payable on MON- DAY, 12th May, 1930. on and after which date Dividend Warrants
THE CHINA MAIL.
··LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS,
– Public Auctions -
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Fublic Auction
ON
MONDAY, May 5, 1930, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
may be obtained upon application at Dr. Heanley's Laboratory, and
at the Head Office of the Com-dwelling house, Mount Davis Gap, pany, St. George's Building, Hong Kong.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TO LET-2-roomed FLATS-No. 24,MONDAY. 5th May, 1939, until Sut floor and No. 28. Ground floor, SATURDAY, 10th May. 1989, both Ashby Road, Kowloon, with flush days inclusive. system. Apply Rakilly Co., Tel. 6. 2545.
Ltd.
TU LET-No. 5, Dragon Terrace. Causeway Bay, 1st, 2nd and 3rd boots. Ench flat has three bed raonis, dining room, servants' quarters, kit rhen, bath room, and water closets, Suitable for Europeans. Apply Clark
Iv, 10, Des Voeux Road C.
GODOWN TO LET.
A GÓDOWN at Whitfield Rond con- xisting about 2.500 sq. ft. next to Kwong Sang Hong Glass Factory.j 'lease apply to Kwong Sang Heng, Ltd.
EXHIBITION.
SPRING EXHIBITION of WATER COLOURS & OIL PAINTINGS at MeкST. Komor & Komer opens for ONE WEEK ONLY, WEDNESDAY, April 30.
POSITION WANTED.
YOUNG ENGLISH LADY, who is experienced with young children, has u good knowledge of French, Sewing und Household Mang-ment and also some business expérience, seeks suit-
Write able engagement.
Box No. 650, e/ "China Mail."
WANTED.
WANTED-The United Directory of Canton, Hong Kong & Macao for the yen: 1930-193 will be issued ston. Those who wish to advertise in the said Directory are requested to apply Sze Hing & Co. China Building.
TUITION
By Order of the Board of
Directors.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers, Hong Kong. 8th April, 1930.
KOWLOON'S WELCOME
to
H.E. SIR WILLIAM PEEL, B.B.E.. C.M.G..
at
CLUB DE RECREIO MONDAY. May 12 at 5.30
Felix Villa Road,
A Large Quantity of Valuable Household and Office Furniture and Laboratory Glassware. Comprising:-
Teak and Glass Cabinets, Glass Bookcases, Cottege Plano, Gramos phone, Records, Chesterfield Couches, Armchairs, Carpets.
Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Teak Double and Single Wardrobes with Mirrora, Chests of Drawers, Dressing Tables, Toilet Crockery, Iron Safe, Teak Dining Extension Tables, Windsor Ice Chest, Kel- vinator Tee Chests, Teak Side- boards. Electric Table Fans, Vases, Table Glass Ware, etc.
Typewriter, Sixteen Office Desks, Library Tables. Small Tables, Iron Filing Cabinets.
Bacteriological Microscopes, His- p.m.tological Microscopes, Laboratory Glass Ware, Sterilisers, Incubator,
Boxes Lymph
and Grinding Machinery, etc.
Tickets are obtained at all Kow- loon Clubs or at the door-$1 per kead.
TEA and DANCING.
By kind permission of Lt. Col. . B. Vernon, M.C., and officers, ¡the hand of the 3/15th Punjabis
will play during the reception.
RECEPTION ON THE ARRIVAL OF HE. SIR WILLIAM PEEL,
K.R.E.
OFFICIAL WELCOME AND PRESENTATION OF ADDRESS.
AT A PUBLIC MEETING held
at the City Hall on FRIDAY. the 4th April, it was decided to present HE. Sir WILLIAM PEEL, KBE., with an Address of WEL- COME on his arrival in this Colony, which will be during the morning of the 8th May next.
At the same Public Meeting it CANTONESE
MANDARIN Was decided that the whole of the LANGUAGE and characters TAUGHT Theatre. Royal should be thrown by Mr. SHIU. Special notes and books, open to the public without charge
Rapid Twenty-three years' experience. anve only that the stage be re- progress ensured. Special explana- served for the Reception Com- tions in English given to beginners. Particular coaching in pronunciation. mittec, Members of the Executive Terms modernte. First class refer and Legislative Councils. Repre-
Numerous successed ences, examinations." No. Street, Top Floor.
AND
atsentatives of the Navy, Ármy and
10. Wyndham Air Forces and the Heads of
HOME TUITION.
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Public Departments, the first two
On View from Saturday, May 3, 1930.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, April 25, 1930.
JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE
Fine Assortment of
LOOSE - LEAF STAMP ALBUMS with spring back and patent stops from $2 to $22 each.
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GRACA & CO., Dealers in Postage Stamps, Post Cards, Garden Seeds, Toys, etc., etc.. 19, WYNDHAM STREET, P.O. Box No. 020. HONG KONG
POLITICS HAMPER
BUSINESS.
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rows of the stalls for the Con- inclined to make light of the whole Bular Bady and their wives and matter.
the representatives of the It is hoped that the President may WESTOVER-STEVENAGE Within Churches, also the first two rows make a definite declaration on the an hour from Londen.
In healthy of the dress circle for ladies.
whole subject which will take it out
neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS It is hoped that as many resi-of the realm of speculation and con-
and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders
troversy, and this, it is believed,
received in the House of the Principal, dents of the Colony as possible will be as helpful to business and
Individual care and attention.
Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
For will attend this Public Meeting finance as the disposal of the tariff
(Camo. Righer Local). Camb. Teachers' Diploma).
MISS GERTRUDE TURNER
(National Frodel Higher Certificate.)
MISCELLANEOUS
at the Theatre Royal, and thus give a practical demonstration of the support of the Colony to its new Governor:
COMPANY MEETINGS
HUMPHREYS ESTATE &
No
question.
The Banking Problem.
From one point of view the bank- ing question has caused more annoy ance and anxiety to the business world than has been true of any other one thing. Before the panic there was an increasing amount of complaint about the brokers' loan situation, and the high rate of in- terest on business funda, and conse-
YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.quently criticism upon Federal Re- promptly printed. "China Mail"
serve banks. Since the panic this Office, No. 3A, Wyndham St. Tele-NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN kind of criticism has notably lessen- phone Central 22.
that the ANNUAL ORDIN-jed, but such lessoning was due, part ARY GENERAL MEETING ofly at least, to the belief that there Shareholders will be held at the would soon be a much easier con- Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, ondition in borrowing money for local WEDNESDAY, the 7th May, 1980, business enterprises. No change of at 11.30 am. for the purpose of the sort has occurred, but, on the receiving the Report of the Direc-contrary,, money, If anything, has tors together with a Statement of been scarcer for business loans and Accounts for the year ended 31st for real estate mortgages since re- December, 1929,
servo rates were lowered than it was
ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE
BEAUTE
For the best Permanent Finger så Marcel Waves. Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladles & ̈
Gentlemen: Pedder Bldg. 1st floor. Room 5
Tel: C. 5169. Opposite entrance H.K, Hotel-'
PHOTO - SUPPLIES
· Kodaka and: Cameras.
Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
A. SEK & CO.
Tel. No. C. 3459,
Deux Bead C
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the before that time. There is COR- Company will be CLOSED from siderable dissatisfaction on this MONDAY, 28th April, to WED-score and desire to have some step NESDAY, 7th May, both days in- taken that will tend to alleviate con- clusive.
ditions. Apparently there is little JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, that the Administration can do in General Managers. this direction, except to make it as Hong Kong, 22nd April, 1930. easy as possible for hard-pressed and frozen banka to get along. re- leving them of any pressure for liquidation in the meantime.
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE FORTY-NINTH ORDIN-
Process Of Recovery. While waiting for the slow opera- tion of the process of political re- lief, the market is moving forward In the work of correcting its own condition,
Considerable genuine progress
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TARY GENERAL MEETING has been raade and better. business of Shareholders will be held at has been reflected in higher prices the Offices of the undersigned on for many shares, The volume of FRIDAY, the 16th May, 1930, at turnover has continued large, and if Noon, for the purpose of receiv- the state of things and the activity ing the Report of the General of public interest were to be judged Agents, together with a Statement by this one criterion alone, there going forward. of Accounts for the year ended could not be very much ground for
HONGKONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LTD.
AT-
MIDNIGHT on 3rd. MAY, 1930
The New Automatic Telephone System will
come into Operation.
STOP USING
YOUR
MAGNETO TELEPHONE
AT 11.45 p.m. ON 3rd MAY!
Do not use your telephone at all between 11.45 p.m. and 12 Midnight on 3rd. MAY as the Change-Over will then be in progress.
IF
AFTER MIDNIGHT
ON
3rd MAY,
You must
use your Dial
when making Telephone
calls.
A
YOUR TELEPHONE HAS GENERATOR HANDLE AS WELL AS
A DIAL DO NOT TURN THE HANDLE! USE THE DIAL ONLY!
The new automatic telephone numbers will be found in heavy print in the second column on each page of the Telephone Directory,
REMEMBER!
Your automatic telephone will be of no service
UNLESS YOU · KNOW HOW TO USE IT!
Call now at the Company's Office, 4th floor, Exchange "Building, and -
ASK FOR A DEMONSTRATION.
Read the instructions contained in the Orange Coloured Section of The Telephone Directory.
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feel it necessary to reduce their the matter runs quite contrary to which were not very favourable Reaumption of purchases for for- commitments, and to strengthen ordinary opinion, but has good aup-speculations before the panks will be the Blet December, 1929. complaint That a good deal of the eign account has taken place and their position. Such an analysis port behind. Itaquera for likely to take the least of some of
The SHARE REGISTER and trading has been artificial is quite such resumption has tended to offset throws Interesting light upon the If, at the Bamo time that the the old speculative favourites. TRANSFER BOOKS will be likely, and due allowance must, the threatened gold expert move classes of stocks in which recovery clearing up process is completed in CLOSED from the 2nd to the 10th therefore, be made for that factor menta. In the opinion of a good may be expected. The Brst to show May, 1980, both days inclusive.in the situation. Nevertheless, the many persons, an inward movement real results will undoubtedly be JARDINE MATHESON &amount of business remaining, when of gold is more likely than an out-those in which the clearing up pro-
.co.
all deductions have been made, has ward. It continues to be true that cess is drst completed, rather thar been substantial, thus showing that a great deal of liquidation is taking those in which actu Hong Kong, 24th April, 1980. real investmention a large scale was place on behalf of banks which still have been greateát. -1
General Agents.
dins,
a given group, the political factors The annual production of honey: already aleetched become more in Canada- is about 80,000,000 favourable to that group, extensive pounds-While a great hat of and continuous advance may be look-
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