H.K. And Whampoa Dock Company's Gross Profit Decrease
A
Reduction In Capital
Resolution Adopted
ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING
·DECREASE in the gross prolit of $40.667.88. as compared with 1933, was reported at the annual general meeting of - the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, Ltd., which was held this morning, at the company's offices and which was pre sided over by the Hon. Mr. W. H. Bell, who was "supported by Mr. Stanley H. Dodwell, Sir Robert Ho Tung, The Hon. Mr. J.,J. Paterson, Mr. L. Kadoorie, Mr. Felix A. Joseph, Mr. S. T. Williamson and Mr. D. Drummond (Directors) and Mr. E. Cock, M.BER · MLNA. (Chief Manager) and Mr. B. L. Hosie, C.A. (Secretary).
The following shareholders were also present: - Messrs. Lo Köon-han, Lo Koon-hang, H. J. M. de Figueiredo, Shum Hip- - Tong, P. C. Polta, T: Ramsay, A. H. Potts, J. M. Turner, represent-
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1935
mind a kong nag kalakkada To-day's Short Story.
Called as a rebuttal witness in the Hauptmann trial, Arthur: Lar sen, a painter, told the prosecutors that Elvert Carlson, who testified he saw the convicted Hauptmann in New York on the night of the kidnapping, and spent that night with him at Dunellen, New Jersey.
ing the firm's solicitors, and Mr. It. Ohl, representing the Mes- MURDER TRIAL
sageries Maritimes..
Following the ordinary yearly meeting, an extraordinary general meeting was held for the purpose of passing two number- ed resolutions dealing with a reduction in capital and of propas- ed new articles, both of which were satisfactorily adopted, on the proposal of the Chairman, the Hon, Mr. W. II. Bell, and second-
ed by Mr. P.-C. Palts.
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COMMENCES
Sequel To Alleged
Junk Piracy
THREE FISHERMEN PLEAD "NOT GUILTY"
Changeling
ADRAIC and Grania O'Toole
By Colin Howard
But Padraic was at a loss also.
Plived in a little, white stead-There was something inexpressibly ing set like a gem in the hillside, orrle in his son's eyes. He could and the hills of Kerry rolled, not put a name to It. He did not blue and vast, above them and know that, with the fit. a little cloud below them and about them had settled upon the dormant intel- There was no other dwelling lect, a cloud temporary maybe, but within miles of them. Their soli-none the less stifling. Yet both he tude, was that of folk who, far and Grania., with the healthy ani- from the world, find belief in an-mal's quick, instinctive perception other world of strange people and of the abnormal, knew that some- strange happenings easy-Rare-thing had happened. They drow ly did they hear voices other closer together, and the woman took than their own, unless, indeed, Padraic's hand.
you counted the plaintive bleat- ing of the sheep or the quiet lowing of the little black cows, that formed Padraic's stock, or the purling song of the brown (mountain stream. -
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be
Treatment," "Expert
by Grosvenor Reeves.
All that day and the next Michael
Until, one day, a new voice was A voice that could scream jheard.
and sob fretfully and chuckle' in lazy contentment. And the owner of this fresh voice was small and red and crumpled, and very wonder-was different. No less alive, no less
vital. but diferent. "Sure, Padraic, and isn't himself lay crooning to himself, or rolled He no longer!
just the most marvellous thing that
on his back, gur- over helplessly ever was happening?" whispered gling at his very helplessness. Ho Grania, rocking the sleeping baby
lay instead storing blankly before backwards and forwards in her him, and yet with a hint of some-
thing aardonie in his eyes. And Padraic. stroking the tiny Padraic knew what had happened. cheek with a horny forefinger that
"Tis the fairies that have done, could be incredibly gentle agreed this upon us." he told Grania poși- that "himself”' was.
tively.
arms,
t
And
In his review of the year the [altered even for the same composi- Chairman said:
tion of its elements, by the heat "Befare commencing the busi- treatment it has 'during its produc
But when Bitte Michael was ten "Och, Padraic! Is it meaning ye ness of the Meeting. I desire to tlon. Having found the solution of Three men appeared before His weeks old, a disquieting thing oc refer to the grievous loss we four difficulties, we are now in a posi-Honour, the Chief Justice, Mr. curred. Granta, at work over her are that they've bewitched Mi-
chael?". have sustained by the death of tion to expand this section of our A. D. A. Macgregor, at the washtub on the green outside, heard Mr. J. P. Warren,
[Criminal the upright work if the demand justifies it.
Sessions,
"Not bewitched him. They've Supreme choking noises coming from within. taken him from us." man and wise counsellor, who,
Court, this morning on a charge She dropped her soap into the was for several years Chairman
Understanding came to her face. "From the very nature of things of murder. They were Chan water, leaving, it to dissolve in blue, of this Company,
we derive some of our revenue, from Cho, aged 25, Ho Wing, aged 22; opaque swirls, and fled in to her
"And they've left us a change- "The Gross Profit is $40,667.88 the misfortunes of others, and we and Kwok Kan Tai, aged 20, all son. He was lying stretched upon ling?" less than last year, while the have been fortunate with our sal-of whom are fishermen.
the bed where she had left him. Ho weren't we taking better care of the "That's the way of it. Ah, why It is alleged that on January was curiously rigid with tremors. bitten boy, and as with a fairy ring 15 at Taung Shan, near Castle His breath came heavily. His face at our very door, and the grey dew Peak, they boarded the junk of was drab.
Salvage Operations
was
ant
green with their footsteps in the dawn? Sure they've taken our Michael, and God knows when we'll be getting him back again. And, meanwhile, it's ourselves that must
Grania wept.
net profit of $43,385.72 is less by vage operations, followed, some-, $9,036-16 only. This is account-times by repairs to the ship salved, ed for by a saving in Bank In-land by collision repairs. terest, Insurance and Deprecia- "Two large vessels were success another fisherman, named Chan Grania had never seen
a fit be- tion. The latter, however, is on fully floated off the Pratas, Reefs Tai Li, and killed him. All plead fore, and she did not recognise it the same percentage basis as by our anlvage staff and the Tug
ed "not guilty."
now. She approached Michael previous years.
Another man who was alleged fearfully." "Henry Keswick", and one "The profit for the year, towed to Hong Kong and repaired.in custody.
she wondering what to have accompanied them is not should do. She wished the trembe looking after their changeling." together with $175.280.91 Several other stranded vessels were Mr. J. A. Fraser, the assist-ought to do something, but what?
hling would pass -
plainly she brought forward, leaves a sum refloated during the year, and we at the credit of Profit and Loss managed this, year--we do not alueting the case for the Crown cision when Padraic enterede and all, at all?
Attorney-General, is con- She was still in an agony of inde-want to take me darlin' boy for at "Och ochone, and what did they] Account of $218,675.63, which ways manage it-to get every ship Mr. D. McNiel, instructed by Mr. together, they stood helpless, watch boy, with the heart of a lamb, and your Board recommend should be off on which we worked,
And him the loveliest carried forward.
F. X. D'Almada; Jnr., is defending the shaking bed. "The Balance Sheet is
* Docking 'Improvements
ing the first accused while Mr. same form as previous years with expended during the year on
"A fair amount of money has been Lee D'Almada Jnr., instructed by had come. The tension of the small be without him, and us left with a The fit went off us abruptly as it the blue of the seven seas in the eyes of him? The sad, long days 'twill im-Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios, limbs slackened, the breathing quie-black-lockin' imp—” the exception that the Staff Pro- provements and extensions, the most and Mr. W. H. Thomas Tam, in- vident Scheme Accounts, have been important of these being the length-structed by Mr. M. A. da Silva./tened to ease, and the normal colour] left out. Both the dollar and sterning of No. 2 Dock, the fitting of are representing the other two went to take Michael up; hut be you wanting the little people to do
(Continued on Page 7) accused, respectively.
The following jury was em-were uncanny. They looked dull, be speakin' ill of the little people, turned his eyes full upon her. They a mischief to our Michael? Never! panelled: Messrs. Alfred Wil-
157 4
In the
now in
ling funds of the Provident Schemes are invested separate Accounts and not inter- mingled with
Company' the
acts as trustee,
Overdraft Reduced
moneys, although the Company still D.B.S. HEADMASTER
ORDAINED PRIEST-
Ceremony In School Chapel
"The overdraft, you will observe, has been reduced by $370,000, in addition to which $189,447.62 have been spent on necessary additions and improvements. Materials in!
#came back to the face. Grania
Padraic stopped her nervously. "Whisht, woman. whiht!
Are
am da Roza (Foreman), Walter and blank, yet with a touch of some the way they're the fellows with the Thomas Sullivan, Dennis Lati-thing fey. Grania felt their un-long ears and the long hands for mer, James William Reeves, Ho secing gaze penetrate her breast to getting of their own back. Let us Ping-nam, George Sinclair Red-er heart. She clutched Padrale. be taking good care of their change- ger, and William Hyslop Brown "Padraic, I'm frightened! What
is it, Padraic?"
Rigg.
Boat Anchored In Bay Mr. Fraser, in outlining the facts
stock and in transit and work in. The Rev. C. B. R. Sargent. of the alleged attack, said that on progress stand at $1,596,248.31. Headmaster of the Diocesan the night of January 15 Chan Tai There was no particularly out-Boys' School and Scout Master of Li anchored his boat at a small bay the 1st Diocesan Boys' School near Castle Peak. There were alto- standing feature of our business during the year, but there are one morning by the Rt. Rev. R. O. the forward hatch were the deceased,
Troop, was ordained priest this gether eight persons aboard. or two points which I can dwell on Hall, Bishop of Victoria, in the his wife and their two children. In a little to give you an idea of what School Chapel before
we have been doing.
"We have made very considerable strides in two directions, electric
gather-the midway hatch were Chan Mun, dea-while the forward hatch was occu- brother of the deceased and his wife,
pied by two others.
ing of clergy and friends."
Last year he was ordained con by the Bishop.
GOVERNOR ASSISTS GOOD CAUSE
'Sir William Peel" Fund Opened
SOCIETY FOR PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
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"But there is truth in Coming Presentation Of
"The Young Idea"
FOUR PERFORMANCES AT CHINA FLEET CLUB
the last act, that roused younger spectators to enthusiasm, left their elders cold and unrespon- sive.
ing, the like as if 'twas our own Michael, and they'll treat Michiel well, too, and someday, God send, they'll give him back to our arms.”
I'm thinkin' 'twill go sore against | the mother's heart of me," said |Gṛania, with a long-drawn, quiver-
ing sigh. your words."
But Grania found it loss difficult] than. she had imagined to care for the child. For some
reason she could not understand, she felt drawn
Noel Coward is a phenomenon of towards the solemn-eyed infant, “al-{"
the youth-idolatry of the age; pa- most," as she expressed it to Pad- Mr. Noel Coward arrives short-rallelled in fiction by authors who "In the early part of the year Bishop throughout the service:
school chaplain, assisted the men, three of whom are alleged to the Protection of Children has re-flesh of me, instead of the broad, it is therefore perhaps fortul before' they
The junk was boarded by four The President of the Society for raic, "as if he was the child of the ly on a visit to this Colony and also have enjoyed a world-success trained demonstrator from one
were 30. It is not have been the defendants. Amongst those present were
They ceived the following letter from His green ring." And it was the same tous that the A.D.C. should be only to the young playgoar in Eng the leading Electric Welding firms Rev. J. R. Higgs, Rev. A. J. Ben were armed with a chopper, a knife, Excellency the Governor, Sir Wil-with Padrale, so that, often they producing one of his best known land that Mr. Coward appeals; he in England was brought out here, nitt. Rev. N. V. Halward, Rev ascertained which of them had been
a pistol, and a file. It had not been lam Peel, KCMG., K.B.E
were near to forgetting that of plays, "The Young Idea." at the has also had tremendous successes partly at our expense, and one of H. our European Staff, whilst on leave C. Brown, Rev. H. C. Davies, could be assumed that they all had
A. Wittenbech, Rev.
Government House which they were every day more China Fleet Club Theatre each in Germany and in the United carrying these weapons, but it during 1988, had a special course in Rev. E. Lee, Rev. Lee Kow-yan,
convinced that it was no child of evening, from April 6 to April 6 States. Hong Kong
Idol of the young, enfant theirs, but a fairy changeling, inclusive, at 9.15 p.m this particular art, with the result Rev. Tsang Ki-ngok, and the
terrible to the middle-aged, Noel Jone each,
March 4, 1935
Mr. Noel Coward has been call: Coward's career is watched with that we can really, claim that our Deaconess Vincent. Mrs. Hall,
My dear Sir Shouse, On hearing an uproar on the deck I have received the letter signed ed away, and the small cloud dimin- if he has not yet written anything
As the boy grew, so his fits passed the English Sache Gultry, and cagerness and apprehension. overhead, the deceased. Chan Tal
Young Playwrights Vice-Presidents of the Society for had quite vanished,
welding and steel casting.
High Standard Welding
OL
The Rev. L. L. Nash, the
*
welding is up to the highest stan-Mrs. Higgs, Mrs. Nash, Mra, opened his hatch and peered out yourself as President and by the shed and dwindled until that, too, up to the standard of a Pasteur;}
ness.
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BUS FARE REDUCTION STILL
· UNDER-CONSIDERATION
But, for all he is yet young and the compari
There is some appropriateness
dards obtainable at Home, and is Luard, Miss H. D. Sawyer, Head- being cared for in the matter of mistress of Diocesan Girls' He was struck on the head with the Protection of Children asking that, he was a strange child. His son has its justice. Mr. Coward and no iconoclasm in mentioning supervision by men, who have a School, Mrs. Thomas, Miss Lock, thorough knowledge of the bus-and the. Messrs. G. S. P. Hay-
me to allow my name to be used in nature was sullen and unresponsive, is, comprehensively, a man of the that playwrights before Mr. Co- "In addition to other very im the School Troop), P. Walter and ward (Assistant-Scout Master. of
connection with a general appeal to and he was doggedly intractable, theatre: actor, playwright, com ward have written when they the public for funds. I need hardly As the years crept through child- poser of light music and writer of were very young Congreva was portant welding work, we built B. D. Lay.
ay that I regard the proposal as a hood, and he became more indepen-lyrics and revue sketches. He is twenty-three when "The Old Ba what is, I think, the first all-welded Miss Fiddes, Mrs. Hamolton. vessel constructed in Hong Kong. Miss Bancroft, Mrs. Hassard,
great compliment to rayself and shall dent. Padraic and Grania loved him, a man of the modern theatre, not chelor, was performed, and only bo only too delighted to allow my as men and women do love those experimenting in new forms, but thirty at the time of his last play This vessel, a very small one beland the Messrs. E. C. Thomas,
name to be so used. I have the whom they have protected, but there accepting the old and making them Rivals" was performed bedere "The Way of the World."The it anid, was designed to, carry an T. S. W.. Chan, A. G. Prew, F.
greatest interest in the work done was no trace of answering affection his instrument for the portrayal Sheridan had reached the age of all-welded gasoline tank, and she Mason, A. Crawford, N. H. Fok,
by the Society and I trust that the in the boy.. has been well reported on during Law. Lok-tin (Senior Assistant
appeal will be a great success and I cannot be making him out at Coward For Youth
twenty-four, and. "The School for her first few months of, service. Chinese Master), Lau Po-kei.
that the Society will be enabled to all," grumbled Fedrate to his wife.
Scandal when he was only twen- Steel Casting Business Poon, Sou-fung and Chan Chuk
continue the excellent work which it "Ah, aure, we mustn't be hard on It has been noted that the au- ty-six. Steol casting business is still wan, and members of the D.B.S. amall, but during the last six Staff. months of the year we mude a radical alteration to the furnace,
and now we are consistently turn leading guilty to a charge of ing out a very high grade of mild stealing a fountain pen from the steel, casting.
person of Chan Ming, a 22-year-old The metallurgy of steel is ex-hop coolfe, Cheung Yam, a 22-year- tremely extensive it may surprise old, unemployed, was sentenced to some of you to know that steel of four months hard labour by Mr. E any one kind, and there are many, Wynne Jonee at the Kowloon has a very complicated structure Magistracy this morning.
Government Stated To Have Reached No Decision
The objections of the Hong Kong Tramways Ltd. to the Proposed reduction of bus fares
to less than 10 cents on thood routes where buses compete with tramcars are at present under the consideration of Govern ment, and, as far as the Trans way Company is aware, so devi. sion has yet been ived
an oficial
ved from the Hong Kong Tramways Limited,
years.
of the modern spirit.
has carried out during the past few him," she replied, softly. "He's adiences of Mr. Noel Coward's Opinion will necessarily differ Free changeling, remember. He not plays are predominatingly young as to which is the best of "Mr. I congratulate the Society on the like you or me... "Tis no fault of our and in that fact the measure of Coward's comedies; but "The generous response, which has already own."Anschle achievment la Implicit. He has Young Idea" is a play that not been made to its appeal
That I'll swear to," he said, the wit of his period, and Its emo-alone by its title, Irresistibly sug Yours sincerely heartily “Faith, we couldn't, have ton.
gests itself as his most representa (signed) W. PL cared better for our own Michael, if Older members of his audiences tive work. It may be interesting
je
|Hon. Sir Shouson Chow, Kt., LL.D. the little people had let him stay are sometimes puzzled at his me- to recall that the author himself work, and him thods es in, for instance, The played the part of Sholto Breat in The RAM, 8. Empress of Japan not caring for us the anapof
Here In the second set America when he was 21 and after. arrived in Shanghai yesterday, and little anger,
older people might well see awards played it in London. triumph of dramatic emotion, but (Continued on Page 15)
Ja due at Kobe on
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