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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1932;
Correspondence.
LOCAL SHARE PRICES.
-senf-Managers,-to-give-
management for which a Compensa tion is to be given. "The Compensa- tion may be anything from $600,000 -to $1,000,000 to be given the Managers in shares, a new 'Issue, which again means. the Company) - has to increase its earning power to The Rey. L N. Watkina, Priest- [To the Editor, "China Mail."]
be able to maintain the dividend om. In-charge of St. Peter's Church,
Sir-In one of their recent the increased Capital. They may, preached his farewell sermon in St. Summaries the Stock Exchange be able to do so, but this increase Andrew's Church, Kowloon "yester-criticised what they call a non-of Capital will make it diff it to day evening.
descript group" for "Bear attacks" pay higher dividends and goodness. on certain local stock, specially knows the shareholders have been Colonel and Chief Paymaster D.Green Island Cements and China waiting long enough for a better G. N. TWimberley, R.A.P.C., dis-Lights.
return. And what will happen to embarked at Singapore from the As the Stock Exchange's "puzzled the stock if the Managers decide to Glenluce, from Hong Kong for tem- aloofness is of little use to their sell their shares after they have porary duty in Malaya.
clients, it may perhaps be of been allotted. I just ask you. interest to consider the Stocks From the above I think it is An Organ Recital will be given mentioned and their real value from quite clear that these Stocks have, by Mr. Rupert Baldwin, A.T.CL., in an Investors of view.
been quoted at much too high a St. Andrew's Church at 9 p.m. to- Cements paid a dividend last year figure and unless they come down to night. Mr. Baldwin will be assisted of 51 cents per, combined share, a basis which will give the "share- by Mr. J. W. Baldwin, Mr. F. W. They have been as high, as $20 per holders a sound return on their Dann and Mr. K. J. Best.
share, surely a figure out of all money the Brokers cannot hope to m proportion. They owe money on retain the confidence and patronage White dozing on the floor of No. their new plant, they owe money to of their clients. 24 Wing Lok Street, Leung Lai, athe Bank and they are as most in- foki, saw a man stealing his cloth.dustrial.concerns faced with very ing. The accused was given one severe competition, possible strikes, months hard labour in Central breakdowns, exchange vagaries, in Police Court to-day.
short all the ailments, an industrial concern must cope with. Why then Wing Chow, who once before had this high figure on Cement Shares? returned from banishment and had Simply because they have been to stop the hideous noises made by had three urevibus convictions, ap-boosted much too high.
the thousand and one urchins selling
four months' in gaol.
"BEARISH.."
HIDEOUS NOISES.
[To the Editor, "China Mail"] Sir, Cannot something be done
It
peated again before Mr. Wynne- The Cement Co., is undoubtedly aj Chinese Newspapers in the streets. Jones, this morning and was given good concern doing good business This perpetual howling is becom-
and tuining out good Cement, but ing an unbearable. nulsance. they are unable to pay a dividend Penetrates our homes and our offices After the summer holiday break, justifying these high prices. At and is nerve racking. The cry is the St. Andrew's Church branch of par-$8.50 they are worth having of such an car-splitting nature, and the Scripture Union will meet on with a dividend of 51 cents. At its awful monotony is depressing
to an extreme. Wednesday in the Church Hall at their present price $18 they
Surely something. could be done by the Powers that be?
Yours etc.,
"SICK OF IL" Hong Kong, September 10 1982.
are
6 p.m. The speaker will be the Rev. too high. I understand it is more N. V. Holward, and. his subject than doubtful that they will pay "a. "The League of Nations-what it is higher dividend this year, as a mat- and what it is doing."
ter of fact one would hardly expect) it seeing the Directors had to call up fresh Capital last month to pay (off part of the outstandings on the plant. By the way, the final instal- ment on the plant is due at the beginning of 1984 and it is quite possible there will be a further calli next year to meet this.
·EIGHT PERSONS LOST ON
OCEAN FLIGHT
Smoke Nuisance Bogey.
PARTY OF MASONS IN COLONY
Manila Group To Visit Shanghai.
tons of oil were completely dis- placed by an equivalent amount of colloidal fuel, the consump-
(Continued from 'Page 1) Hong Kong, Monday, Sept. 12, 1932, tion of coal, if it formed 40 per cent. of the mixture, as in the Cunard Company's experiments, tic fliers, however, that they took I am fully aware of the value of Experiments In Fuel. would be only some 800,000 tons Four men were added to the pany's property at Hok Un, but to their two little girls with them, the new plant and also of the com-
The total consumption party, as a crew for the huge the shareholders the plant is only
Hutchison himself worth what it can produce in divi- A number of prominent Masons: The idea of the "colloidal of oil fuel, in British ships alone, flying boat.
dends on a sound basis, and the from the Philippine Islands, arriv- fuel" a mixture of heavy oil
must amount to a much larger was a good pilot.
The first legs of their cruise same applies to the property.ed in the Colony to-day, en route to figure, perhaps twelve million with finely divided coal which
were uneventful: They flew to There is also the everpresent pos-Shanghai for the purpose of visit- tons even in the present de- Newfoundland, aerogs Davis sibility of the Cement Companying the Amity Lodge. was burned in place of ordinary fuel oil under one of the boilers pressed state of shipping; but the Straits, after coasting up Labra- having to vacate Hok Un owing to The party under the charge of of the Cunard liner Scythia dur-balance is made up by, bunkers dor, and landed safely in Green the smoke nuisance, in which case Mr. Aurelio. Diego Rosario, the
land waters, near Cape Desola- the value of the property would Grand Chaplin, includes the fol
a year.
ing a recent voyage across the taken on board in foreign ports, tion. They proceeded to Juliana- have to be offset against a new lowing:
The Hon. Mr. Teodoro M. Kalaw,
described as
to
No Reserves.
even under ordinary conditions House Street.
(Seas Were Normal)
TARZAN
IS
Atlantic is not new; it dates back and even if it were to consist" en-shaab and there rested and wait- site, buildings and loss of business at least to 1913, and in 1918 it tirely of the coal-oil mixture ed for favourable weather, for at during the time of transit. The Fast Grand Master, Attorney An-
British coalmines could not ex-
this period of the year there G.I.G, shares, being Industrials tonio Gonzalez, rand Master, was put to practical tests extend-
pect to supply the whole. or even the coast."
are frequent heavy fogs along should come down to a level where Lieut. E. M. Masterson, Assistant. ing over several months in a
they give a return of 7 to 7% per Grand Lecturer, Mr. R. Mendoza, cent. and not 22 per cent. as Assistant Grand Secretary, the small United States vessel, the a large part, of the coal requir
Engine Fails.
Hon. Mr. Vincente Albo, and Gem. As the results of those ex-ed for its manufacture. If, on Apparently all was well for a hitherto.
Messrs. S. R. Hawthorne, Mariano- coal-oil flight on Saturday and they periments were
the other hand, the
Messrs. S. R. Hawthorne, set off, climbing to soar over the satisfactory, and as the coal-oil proved so attractive and so cheap rugged southern cape and reach to the China Lighte. Here we have Jose
The same remarks apply generally Mariano Gonzales, Luis - Arnaiz.
F. Fettalvero, Vicente mixture can give a fuel which is to make in this country that the opposite coast. It was when a Company with a share Capital of Poblete, Eugenio Sevilla, Eduardo at least as good in heat value as ships came to bunker it at our they were within a few miles of $6,000,000-with no Reserves. Last Del Rosario Tankiano, Miz: plain oil and costs less because ports, the object of reducing oil their destination that they were year they paid a 50 cents dividend, Ong Tiong Chie, Mr. W. Yinson
forced down by engine trouble. the coal. It embodies is cheaper, imports would not be attained, Their machine, & big seaplane, 320.00, round about which figure Tong Siong, Mrs. U. S. Sevilla. and in other words 2% per cent. "on Lee. Mr. B. Tankiang, Mrs. the question arises why it has though there would be increased may have been heavily loaded they have been quoted t recently. Miss E. Lee, are also accompany- not hitherto come into general consumption of British coal. Carrying six grown persons and two As a matter of fact 12 months ago ing the party. use, and the answer appears to Certainly the Cunard Company's children, it must have been taxed they were $39.00, ye boosters on Ice be that means had not been experiments deserve be with the loads of fuel it must carry. It is granted that the China Light found by which the stability of watched with every hope for for long voyage Just how long it is a public utility Company and the mixture could be ensured and their complete success, since un could remain afloat in a set under therefore in a somewhat different the coal dust prevented from der present conditions anything the sudden gales which sweep the class to the Cement Company. But
coast can only be conjectured. separating from the oil in the that adds to the demand for our course of time, It seems that coal is to be warmly welcomed;
A later despatch from Ang- this technical difficulty has been but the consumption of coal magsalik says that the Lord. overcome, and that it is now pos would be promoted more effes Talbot reached the position in- dicated in distress calls after sible to make a mixture that will tually if the art of using it in the
only four hours of hard steame remain stable for as long a period pulverized form, without the ad- Ing. There was no sign of any as is required for practical pur-dition of oil, could be so develop wreckage nor of oil upon the water which might indicate poses. If that is so, ships and ed as to lead to its extensive
that the plane had sunk............ industry in general have at their substitution for liquid fuel
The
The position given by the dis- disposal a liquid fuel which, be- Secretary for Mines stated in tressed fliers was 65.28 North, 45 sides being cheaper than plain the House of Commons recently West oll, has the advantage from the that pulverized fuel is being national point of view that it used in this country to a greater every reason to suppose that shor provides a new outlet for coal extent than is generally realized; could ride the average seas. It and pro tanto reduces the but its marine application has was not rough when she landed. amount of oil that need be im- made isappointingly slow pro- Her landing gear the undercar- riage, had been detached when she ported from abroad. It would gress, and it is therefore the
| stopped" in: Nova iscotia, and was not, however, be difficult to ex-more surprising that nothing has sent to Edinburgh for later stages aggerate the benefits that may been heard of results obtained of the proposed light EBATE l'accrue to the Briti coal Indus- with the vessel which more
try from the advent of colloidal than three years ago was offe fuel, even if r
by the Ad
to the Selenting an
Its
and
The machine was ordinarily an amphibian type, and there was
other things, the Hutch- sona intended touring: Europe. Vi
Blärted Last Monthu
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why these high prices on their shares? I hear their plant and machinery is getting old and soon needs considerable renewals, and they are negotiating with the pre
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