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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
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For the best Permanent Finger and Marcel Ware Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladies and Chris Gentlem Pedder Bldg It: Loor, Room 5.
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NOTICE.
THE HALF YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of VOTING MEM- SIXTH EXTRA RACE CERS will be held at the Club
T MEETING will be held (wea House, Happy Valley, on WED-
p.m.
ther permitting) at Happy Valley NESDAY, 27th May, 1931, at 5.15 on SATURDAY, 23rd and MON- DAY, 25th May, 1931, commencing at 2.30 p.m. on both days.
The first bell will be rung at 2 pm.
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and their Ladice must wear their badges prominently displayed.
urc
per
No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclos- ure, Badges admitting non- members to the Members' Enclos- and Club Rooms at $5 day for Gentlemen and $3
Ladies per day for
(both Including tax) are obtainable through the Secretary upon intra- duction by a member, such member to be responsible for payment of all chits, &c.
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will not be on sale at the Race Course.
Members can obtain
upon ap-
plication to the Secretary badges (limited to ONE) for the free ad- mlasion to the Members' Enclosure of wives, lady relatives and Names must be stated when applying,
friends.
On no pretext will children
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS. APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
Public Auctions -
HE Undersigned have received
Tinstructions to sell by Public
ON
FRIDAY, May 22, 1931, commencing at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
All members are cordially in- vited to attend and participate in Auction any discussion which may ensuc. AND NOTICE is hereby given that
an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Voting Members of the Hong Kong Jockey Club will be held at the Club House on the 27th day of May, 1931, immediate- ly after the half-yearly meeting of the Voting Members when the subjoined resolution will be pro- posed:-
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.
'SHOCKING SENTENCE' ON EUROPEAN.
Appeal by Rubber Estate Assistant.
ADAMANT JUDGE.
was discovered,. the appellant
was arrested in Rangoon in the beginning of March and had been in custody ever since.
The misappropriation had come
to light mainly through the ap pellant's confession to the mana- The money ger of the estate. was repaid in full to the estate y a third party, an hour after the report was made to the Police. It was paid on the condition that the prosecution would be with- drawn as the employers At the High Court, Rangoon, had suffered no loss. When the Mr. Justice Dunkley heard the matter came before the District appeal of Mr. G. R. Maydwell Magistrate, an application was made supported by the Public against the sentence of two Prosecutor to withdraw the case, years' rigorous imprisonment but the District Magistrate com- passed on him by the Sessions mitted the case to the Sessions
Judge. Judge of Tavoy and Mergui on a
Before the Seasions Judge, he Velvet and Cretonne Cover Ches-charge of misappropriation of pleaded guilty and urged in ex- terfield Couch and Chairs, Teak Rs. 16,000 belonging to the Mer- tenuation that the money had Dining Table and Chairs, Teak gui Crown Rubber Estate.
been repaid and that the prosecu. Wardrobe with Bevelled Mirror
tion had been continually press- Mr. T. F. R. MacDonnell aping for the withdrawal of the case. But the Sessions Judge, Arguing the appeal, counsel continued counsel, preferred to words "The number of Ordin- Curios, E. P. Ware, Cutlery, Water said that the appellant had been convict the appellant and sen- ary Membera shall be one thousand two hundred or such Colour, Engravings, Filter, Car- for five years employed in the tenced him to two years' rigorous
pets, Cushions, Glass Ware, Teak Mergui Rubber, Estate as ac-imprisonment. greater number as the Voting and Zinc Ice Chests, Electric Fans, countant and book-keeper and Counsel submitted that in a Members shall from time to Table Lamps, Gramophones and also as field assistant. It appear case of this kind the Sessions. ed the appellant misappropriated Judge had erred in passing a Cabinete, Records, etc.
Rs. 16,800 of his employer's shocking sentence of two years. cash. After the misappropriation Orders were reserved.
That Article 6 of the Articles
of Association of the Club be altered by deleting therefrom the words "Orditary Members
may be unlimited in number"
Comprising:--
Doors, Teak Dressing Tables with peared for the appellant. Mirrors, Teak Chests of Drawers,
and substituting therefor the Desks, Chairs, Brass Ornamente,
also
A Nice Selection of BLACKWOOD WARE
time determine." BY CIVEN that a Further Extra- AND NOTICE IS ALSO HERE. ordinary General Meeting of the Voting Members of the Club will be held at the same place on WED- NESDAY, the Seventeenth Day of
Dressing Table, June, 1931, at a quarter past five Desks, Joss Table, Chests, Tea- be o'clock in the afternoon for the
Including:- Wardrobe,
permitted in either Enclosure dur-purpose of receiving a Report of Poys, Jardinieres, Couch, Tables:
ing the Meeting.
and Chairs with Talee Stone, the proceedings at the above men Table Screens, etc. tloned meeting and of confirming |
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
If thought fit as a Special Résolu The Price of admission to the tion the above mentioned Resolu Public Enclosure is $2 per day in- tion. cluding tax, for all persons includ- By Order of the Stewards, ing ladies and is payable at the Gate.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are admitted half price.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, &c., will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
Tiffin will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Pablle Enclos
tre.
By Order,
B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 18th May, 1981."
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 14th May, 1981.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
Bubscription Griffins and Australian Ponies.
THE LIST of Bubscribers to the above will CLOSE. at Noon on SATURDAY, 80th May, 1981.
By" Order, of the Stawards,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 14th May, 1981.
and
One Kelvinator.
One Underwood Typewriter. One Set (9). Engravings (Old Hong Kong).
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
On View from Thursday, May | 21, 1931.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, May 18, 1981..
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