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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Nthat the SIXTH ORDINARY
Dated this 11th day of February,
1931.
A
By Order of the Board,
W. L. MCKENZIE,
Secretary,
Des Voeux Rond Central; at present 14, Des Voeux Road Central,
in the nccupation of the Netherlands
Inla Commercial Bank, zvaliable from 1st Apr, 1931. Apply to David Sassoon &Co., Ltd.
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Hong Kong.
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Notat
COMPANY MEETINGS
THE CHINA MAIL.'
THE HONG kong ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LTD.
MACHINE V. MAN
DISCUSSED.
AN ACCOUNTANT'S A SIKH'S TERRIBLE
SERIOUS LAPSE.
CRIME.
Hardships Involved ́by | Speculation Over Motor
Rationalisation.
TOO HIGH A PRICE?
Garage Leads to Ruin.
CONFESSION HANDED IN.
Death Sentence on Guns Curtis's Murderer.
that the FORTY-SECOND TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN YEARLY MEETING of the HONG, ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING
NO MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCE KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, will be held at the Company's LIMITED, will be held on WED- Omees, P. & O. Building, on WED-
"It looks as if it might be as The plon that he was a victim
Lahore, Fob. 9. NESDAY, the 11th day of MARCH, NESDAY, 18th March, 1931, at 11
The full text of the judgment is 1931, at the BOARD ROOM of the a.m. for the purpose of prosenting possible to go too fast as it is to of the slump was made in the Company, Second Floor, Exchange the Report of the Directors to go too slow in the matter of railon-ense of A. N. H. Van Cuylenburg, available to-day of the judgment of accountant to Messrs. Fogden, Mr. Gordon Walker, Sossiona Building, Hong Kong, at 11.30 a.m.. gether with a Statement of Ac-alisation."
This observation is but one of Brisbane & Co., on February 23 Judge, who sentenced to death for the purpose of receiving a counts to 31st December, 1930, Statement of Accounts and the and clecting Directors and Audi- many significant passages in the before Mr. G. C. Dodd, the Singa- Sujjan Singh, the murderer of Mrs. report of Mr. H. B. Butler, deputy | pare Criminal District Judge, Curtis. The Sessions Judge after Report of the Board of Directors, tors.
"The REGISTER OF MEMBERS director of the International Labour when sentence of one year's rigor-dealing with the facts of the for the Financial Year ended 31st December, 1930, and re-electing of the Company will be CLOSED Office, on his recent visit to Canada nus imprisonment was passed on murder of Mrs. Curtia which took from 5th March, 1931, to 18th and the United States. The report two charges of criminal breach of place on January 13, at her Two Directors and the Auditors.
bungalow in Lahoro Canton- The TRANSFER BOOKS of the March, 1931, both days inclusive, was to be submitted to members of trust.
Van Cuylenburg who was arment, Bald that Mrs. Curtin Company will be CLOSED from during which period no Transfer the governing body of the Genova
·labour organisation.
rested on a warrant was previous received many sword wounds the 4th to the 11th MARCH, 1981, let Shares can be registered.
Mr. Butler collated during hisly charged with criminal breach the most grievous of which was one bath daya inclusive.
By Order of the Board of
visit some striking data concerning of trust in respect of $14,000 and which fractured the skull and two Directors,
the effects of rationalisation on em- he claimed to be tried and was re-others which cut into the upper GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD,,ployment. Owing to the introduc-manded on bail of $5,000. part of her left arm and partially
Agents.
tion of the "combine," a machine Two specific charges were pre-amputated her left wrist. Sho Hong Kong, 19th. Feb., 1931. which both cuts and threshes the ferred against him and he plead-aled at 6.30 the same evening of grain there has been a great dia-ed guilty to both. He was charg-shock and haemorrhage. The placement of labour in Canada and ed that between April 22, and main facts of the occurrence, added the United States.
June 30, 1930, he committed the Judge, were clearly established In Canada, states the report, "a criminal brench of trust as secre- on the evidence of witnesses. Wit- large farm which formerly took in tary of the firm of $4,166.26 and nesses differed in details as one between July 3, 1930, and would expect men to differ who 30 men in the spring, and another that OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 120 to 150 during the harvest, now January 10, 1981, committed were expectators of a drama of this
That the 42nd ORDINARY employs only 14 men
as accountant of nature and this discrepancy only throughout similar offence TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
ANNUAL MEETING of Sharehold- the year. An average small farm the firm of $10,198.99.
strengthened one's belief in the tho FORTY-SIXTH
Full Confession.
truth of the main story. The Moderate charges. 61, Clarendon ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL will be held at the Offices of will employ two or three men in-
Mr. F. G. Vaux, who appeared prisoner made two statements, con- the Company, Exchange Building,stead of eight to ten .... Roughly: Road, Holland Park, London, W.11.MEETING of the Company (since Des Voeux Rond Central, Victoria, speaking, every
combine deprives on behalf of the complainant firm.tinued Mr. Gordon Walker, one be- its registration) will be held at
handed in a confession made by fore the committing maglotrate and the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong. Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the at least five men of a harvest job.
18th day of March, 1931, at 11.30 "As a consequence, whereas the Van Cuylenburg, showing a total the other in the sessions court. Jon MONDAY, the 16th Marcha.m., for the purpose of, receiving railways used to transport thou-deficit of over $14,000 from April In the former he described the at-
sands of men
and & tack and stated that he bought a annually from the last year to January last eastern States to reap the crops on bundle of cheques relating to the sword a few days before the in- the prairies, no harvest trains have amounts involved.
cident with the sole object of kill- been run during the
Explaining the system of frauding Europeans. past two years."
employed by Van Cuylenburg, Mr.attacked the lady and her children In the United States over three Vaux said that his clients were as he could not find any European million people have of recent years arm of building contractors and men, In the sessions court pri- employed a number of soner made a statement to explain been obliged to leave, farm employ-as such ment to seek work in the towns, sub-contractors. Van Caylenburg the motive for the murder which although during the same period occupied a position of trust in the briefly amounted to, the fact that the output per agricultural worker firm and signed cheques on behalf he brooded over the wrongs of and as Sikhs and determined to avenge· Increased by more than 25 per cent.of the firm as secretary
them by killing Europeans. Output Per Head.
Sub-contractors submitted their
Plea of Insanity.. The same process is apparent in bills in duplicate and duplicate Mr. Gordon Walker added that no industry. Quoting the United receipts and vouchers were made plea of insanity was put forward for Labour's out by the accused, who posted during the trial of the case but at THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD States Commissioner
Butler states that: the amounts in two widely separ- the last moment in his concluding statistics Mr. STORAGE COMPANY, LIMITED.
"If 200 out of the 1,357 boot and ate ledgers. The accused also
address, defence counsel has shoe factories in the country work-made out two cheques instead of argued that the statement made NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. ed full time they could satisfy the one for the same amount and paid by the prisoner in court clearly.
whole existing demand and the re-one cheque to the company's credi TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN maining 1,167 establishments could tor and endorsed the other and showed that he was of a disordered
mind. ROYAL NOTIC
The judge held that the that the THIRTY-FIFTH be closed down.
cashed it himself. As the nc-
prisoner spoke clearly and ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING "Similarly 1,487 out of the 6,057 counts were so widely separated in coherently and evinced not the of the Shareholdera in the Combituminous coal mines could pro- the ledgers the auditors were not alightest symptoms of a disorder-
at the Com-duce all the coal that was needed if able to discover the fraud. The
C. B. Colson.
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AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
- Public Auctions
THE Undersigned have received Tinstructions to sell by Pubile
Auction,
ON WEDNESDAY, March 11, 1931, commencing at 5.15 p.m.
at their Sales Room,
4, Duddell Street.
A Valuable Collection of POSTAGE STAMPS.
On View from Tuesday, March
. 10, 1991.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, March 7, 1981.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
THE BASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO. LTD.
www.
1931, at 11.30 a.m, for the pur- Statement of Accounts and the pose of receiving the Report of the Report of the Directors for the General Managers, together with
Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1930.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the year ended 31st October. 1930.
Company will be CLOSED from The REGISTER OF SHARES of WEDNESDAY, 4th March, 1931. the Company will be CLOSED
W WEDNESDAY, 18th March: from WEDNESDAY. the 11th day 1931, both days inclusive. of March, to TUESDAY, the 17th day of March, 1931, both days in- clusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be regis- tered.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hong Kong. 5th March, 1931.
GENERAL NOTICES
THEATRE
By Order of the Board of Directors,
ALLAN KEITH,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 19th February, 1931.
pany will be held
accountant.
ed mind.
He said that he
PART and MRS. BOTTLE? Pany's Town Office, 2, Lower Al- they worked three hundred days in counts of the firm were last audithe committed the murder of Mrs.
TO-NIGHT AT 9.15.
March 11, at 5.15.
March 13 and 14,
at 9.15 P.M.
BOOKING at
ANDERSON'S
OUR
LADIES' TAILORING
the year."
Between the years 1919 and 1929 "the output per head increased in manufacturing Industry
ed in June last.
He clearly stated that
Curtis to avenge the wrongs which
bert Road, on WEDNESDAY, the 15th March, 1981, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with State- ment of Accounts, declaring United States by '45 per cent, but ed that the case was a very unheld, was of sound mind and agree- Dividend and re-electing Directors ani Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 7th to the 18th March, 1931, both days inclusiva.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
J. D. THOMSON,
Acting Secretary.
Hong Kong, 27th Feb., 1931.
THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
Financial Difficulties. In a plea for leniency for the in the accused, Mr. V. D. Knowles stat- Van Cuylenburg
during the same period the number fortunate one.
he thought his community suffered from the countrymen of the murdered lady. The prisoner, he Ing with the assessors' unanimous verdict, the judge found him guilty of the murder of Mrs. Curtis. As there was no mftigating cir- cumstance the only possible penalty was death.
of persons employed in manufacture before he secured employment in declined from nine million
to 1926, speculated by purchasing 8,100,000.
well known motor garage in Singa "In mining the output per head pore and got into difficulties. increased more than 40 per cent.. Mr. Knowles proceeded to say while the number of employed fell that the accused was the sole sup- by 7 per cent. Railway efficiency port of his mother, who was 80 likewise increased considerably, yet years of age, bealdes his wife and the number of employed decreased fiv children, and was struggling MARRIAGES IN SIAM. by, about 300,000, or 15 per cent."
accounts
for the ac-
against the losses sustained in the motor Changes Coming.
garage business. The Reviewing the facts and his im-slump, which affected most busi- pressions Mr. Butler states that "itnesses, probably affected a motor LAW BROUGHT INTO HARMONY is dißcult to resist the conclusion garage business more. Although
WITH MODERN CONDITIONS. that the aggregate of unemploy there was no excuse ment would be far smaller to-day cused, Mr. Knowles said that the if technical Improvements both In Court had to take into considera-
Bangkok, Feb. 25. industry and agriculture had pro-tion the fact that the accused had
The long expected amendment act· himself made a confession, in bringing the law relating to hus- THE FORTY-FOURTH ORDIN-ceeded at a less rapid rate.
ANNUAL MEETING of "However, true it may be that view of Mr. Vaux's statement that band and wife into harmony with were 80 widely modern conditions has been pro- SHAREHOLDERS will be held at rationalisation in the long run pro- the the Office of Mesere. Jardine, duces a higher standard of living separated as to render audit difi-mulgated by the Government Gazette ofcult. The accused had listed the and becomes, operative on April 1, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on THURS and promotes the progresa DAY, the 19th March, 1981, AT civilisation.....the question never-items and had given the auditors
The principal provisions NOON, for the purpose of receiv-theless arises whether under modern every assistance. Van Cuylenburg are that marriages must be regis- ing the Report of the Directors conditions the hardships involved now stood before the court a ruin tered to be valid; and that parties and the Statement of Accounts. for by too rapid technical development ed man and Mr. Knowles urged marrying under the age of twenty the year ended 31st December, may not imply purchasing the for leniency although the offence must
ultimate advantages it procures at was serious.
Replying to his Honour, Mr. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the too high a price." Company will be CLOSED from Underlying some of the pasanges Knowles said that Van Cuylenburg None of the TUESDAY, the 10th March, 1981, in this report there is a suggestion was 88 years old. LOVELY SILK STORE to THURSDAY, the, 19th March, of the imminence of very import-money misappropriated had been
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1980.
1981, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
Secretery,
F. H. CRAPNELL,
Hong Kong, 2nd March, 1981.
THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
ant changes, if not something in the repaid as Van Cuylenburg was n nature of revolution in America. totally ruined man. Rationalisation, unemployment and Remarking that the offence was over-production are seen to be going a very serious one, his Honour hand in hand. The workers are to passed sentence of one year'a a great extent aware of this pro- rigorous imprisonment on each cess and also of the menace to charge, the sentences to run con- themselves which it involves
Currently,
CYNICISM OF THE MODERN CHILD.
Yet at the same time they realise the inevitability of the advance of technical improvements. They are reatless and inclined to accept al- The following acclaimed tole You want a Catalogue.
Imost any remedies, however, wild
"As Edwardian," In an articla grams are lying at the E.E. Tele Because it enables you to identify
may be the schemes. Moscow had in the Daily Telegraph on the pre- graph Co. Office, Hong Kong:--
not failed to take advantage of this cocity of the modern child says that' Coard Squarey,
your stamps, to recognise scarce Cunard Co varieties, to gain a knowledge of
favourable Roll, and has of late probably owing to the books they from London, Po.
intensified Bolshevik propaganda In read and the plays they are taken stamp values, and to have a basis THE SIXTY-SECOND ORDIN Canada and the United States, Масло-
on which to buy, seil or exchange. "ARY. GENERAL MEETING Alt. Butler observes that particu-bubens chour, ey have develop in to children a of Shareholders will be held at larly in America "opinions and to be born old." the Offices of the Undersigned on beliefs on political, economic, and
The writer instances the follow- THURSDAY, the 26th March, social questions are in process of ing Dealers in Postage Stamps and 1931, át Noon, for the purpose of undergoing drastic analysis and Philatelic Goods, Post Cards, receiving the Report of the Gen |Prayer Books, Garden Seeds, Toys, erai Managers, together with a Statement pf Accounts for the No. 10, Wyndham Street. year ended the 81st December,
1980.
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Superintendent. Hong Kong, 5th March, 1981..
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD, OF DENMARK.
The following unclaimed tele gram is lying, at the offlósof
the Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited) of Dep.
mark 2
Vendor, from, Shanghai,
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JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Managers.
1982.
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