THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1936
LOCAL APPEAL Green Island Cement
COURT
Echo Of Heroin
Pills Case
ALLEGED INADEQUATE EVIDENCE
The Lower Court proceedings which culminated in L So, alias Li Tat-shang being convicted and sentenced on charges of possession of heroin pills. possession of heroin, and possession of poison. had its sequel in the Full Court
the Magistrate's findings.
others were arrested Caroline Hill Road,
Police Court proceedings which followed, the men
with possession of the heroin pills.
possession of heroin, and posses
sion of poison.
Accused's Statments
Reversing to the events on the
Company Meeting
Pronounced Improvement In Cash Position
MACAO SITUATION CAUSES ANXIETY
ST. PATRICK'S DAY
Irish Guards Parade
In London
London, To-day.
LOCAL SCHOOL'S
RECORD
Good Work Done By Recipe for
Mui Fong College
SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS GIFT
Some time
ago the Board
In connection with St. Pa- trick's Day yesterday the Irish Guards held a military parade Trustees for the Administration! at Chelsea barracks, at which of the Indemnity Funds remitted all the officers were presented by the British Government decid- with
shamrocks Reuter's led to make a gift of science ap- Bulletin Service.
paratus to some of the biggest schools, both in China and over
In the meantime,
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came
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have
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PROFIT for the year under review of $22,552-27 was reported by Mr. J. H. Taggart, presiding at the annual general meet-call that the major portion of this seas. It is learned that very re- of Appeal yesterday when Mr. ing of the Green Island Cement Company, Ltd, at the offices of plant was laid down in 1925, and cently a set of this apparatus for Leo D'Almada jnr.. instructed by the Company in Exchange Building this morning.
can still, therefore, be regardeded to the Mui Fong College in Chemistry and Physics was grant- Mr. F. H. Loseby, appearing on The Chairman was supported by Sir Robert Ho Tung. Mr. as a useful and economical units Hong Kong. behalf of the appellant, made an A. L. Shields, Mr. T. E. Pearce, Mr. W. Scott Harston and Mr. Li for the production of Cement; in appeal before Mr. Justice Lindsell Tse-fong (Directors) and Mr. T. C. T. Beck (Secretary).
the event of your Board effecting tablished 19 years ago, is indeed The Mui Fong College, es- and Mr. Justice Hayden against The volume of the company's business in Macao had not a decision to abandon operations worthy of favourable attention. shown an increase during the year under review and conditions in Macao, it is reasonably anti-
Last month the girls again won In support of his appeal, Mr.in the Portuguese colony showed very little or no, improvement. cipated that no great difficult the Championship of the Open D'Alamda said that on November "Your Board feel that there is little hope of smelioration of the will be experienced in realising Basketball League for the fourth 19. last, the appellant and, three existing state of affairs and of our business in Macao regaining on the plant.
at No. 15, even a modicum of its former prosperity; in the circumstances, it expenditure at these Works has year in succession. This month, The appellant may be necessary to consider permanent cessation of our activi- been reduced to a minimum, and. their Girl Guides the Sixth: was found in the outer room of ties in that port and the ultimate disposal of the plant." declared steps are being taken in the first Hong Kong Company -
handed in the best Chinese essays. that address and at least one of the Chairman when dealing with this question.
instance-to sell all obsolete ma- The following shareholders were present: Messrs. H. J. M. de chinery and stores.
jin the competition for the others was in the back cubicle, i
the S.P.CA. Cup. This is the in which was found a heroin pill! Figueiredo, M. A. da Figueiredo, Fung Kwok-wa, C. A. L, Rickett,
Japanese Competition factory in full blast." as well as N. V. A. Croucher, E. M. Raymond, A. C. Botelho, H. A. Edgar.
"Your Company again experi-cond time this Company has won 35.000 heroin pills, a quantity of F. E. Silva, Soo Pui-chen and Mok Ying-kie.
enced intense, competition from ¡this trophy. heroin and other drugs. At the
In a circular recently issued by The Chairman, in his review productive output of the Newithe sale of Japanese Cement
Plant is fully capable of meeting the Hong Kong market throughout the Girl Guide Headquarters the were charged of the year, said:-
"You will note, on examining such calls as may be sanguinely the year under. review, figures following lines are found: The the Profit and Loss Account, that anticipated. In the circumstan- available displaying the fact that. 6th. Hong Kong should be the profit on working for the year ces, it was decided to call for tea, while 97,468 tons of Cement were gratulated on the best essays of amounted to $46.306.37, and, after ders for the disposal of all ob-imported into the Colony during the whole. The handwriting is !good and neat and the essays very providing for Directors and Au-solete machinery, spare gear and the year 1935. 79.126 tons ditors' Fees, the final payment of buildings at Hok Un, and these from Japan. In this connection, systematic and written in night in question. Mr. D'Almada
$175 of it is interesting, however, to note good style." said that Revenus Officer Grim- compensation to Messrs. Shewan eventually realised the
Tomes and Co.. Bank Interest, $64,341.46. In view of the fact that the price of Japanese Cement mitt went to the address at Exchange differences, and, deduct-that, for Reconstruction purposes, has been increased of late, due! "about 10 o'clock where he ing the amount brought forward these, Assets were written down presumably to the present
found the appellant. Certain ruestions were put to the appel-at the debit of Profit and Loss to $16,000, your Board of Direc-latival values of the Hong Kong
as dollar and the yea. lant by Mr. Grimmitt after he had Account for the year 1934, the tors rezard this transaction
"We continue to supply a par- placed him under arrest and, as profit for the period under review satisfactory.
amounts to $22,552.27, which your "It will be observed, on further tion of the requirements of the. a result, certain statements were
the Balance Sheet, Hong Kong Government, and we made. In regard to the heroin Directors recommend be carried reference to
forward to next year's account. that Assets to the extent of $10,000 trust that, with the reduction of pills the appellant said: "The
"In dealing with the figures for still appear under the headings our prices, we may, in future, bei heroin pills did not belong to
1935, it is necessary for me to "Buidings, Old Factory and accorded more support to our in- The Annual General meeting of me." and so far as the dangerous draw attention to the fact that no "Plast and Machinery. Old Fac-dustry, particularly having regard the Chinese Recreation Club was drugs were concerned, the man
Club premises last said: "I did not know that mat- Provision has been made for de- tory," and I would like to explain to the fact that your Works employ held at the
Mr. Ng Sze-kwong, a wo preciation in the Accounts as pre-that these represent the Manag. some 1.500 hands and afford a Saturday. ter; I went up to look for
of livelihood to the per president of the Club, was in the sented; in this relation, shareer's House, the Office Buildings at means Continuing. Mr. D'Almada said holders will doubtless recollect Hok Un and also the Saw Mill, capita dependents, apart from bechair.
it has, of course,
one of the largest been ing
power Before proposing the adoption that the grounds for the appeal that, when the Scheme of Reor-which
undertaken by necessary to retain, and which are consumers on the mainland: under of the report and accounts, Mr. which circumstances. as has 30 Ng Sze-kwong remarked that the 1. Wrongful admission of evi- your Board, all plant and floating still included under the heading
loften been stressed from craft were written down to their of "Old Factory."
this Club, financially, was very strong. dence by the Magistrate;
With the disposal of the Old Chair, your Company materially Its fixed deposit at the Bank The Crown did not prove its estimated residual values at that!
normal Plant, we no longer required our contributes to the revenue of the showed 20 increase of nearly case. that is to say the verdict time, disregarding the
Colony. Assets Steam Lighter, "Ilha Verde." and
$1,500
compared with lasti was not supported by the evi mechanical life of these
"I am pleased to be dence:
but giving full consideration to this vessel was consequently dia-
able to year. Mr. Ng Sze-kwong's mo sum of $13,700. state that our export trade, prin-tion that the Club should start 3. The Magistrate misdirected the necessity of reducing operat-posed of for the himself: and
man."
were:-
2.
ganisation
were written
Was
down to what
be advertised
!
C.R.C. MEETING
re-
Financial Position Strong
TO START CRICKET AND LAWN BOWLS
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LOCAL ESTATE
ing expenses to a prime cost basis. Furthermore, in May last.. it was/cipally to Malaya, has been well cricket and lawn bowls next year]; 4. The Magistrate assumed ju. With this object in view, the de- decided that the remainder of the maintained during the past year, was carried unanimously. risdiction beyond that granted.
clining Assets of the Company Deep Water Bay Property should and the present exchange levels should enable us to improve our for sale, and Fourth Point First Counsel then asked permission was estimated to be their break-eventually an offer $10,000 was re-position in those markets. to take the fourth point first, relat which these Assets now stand together with
up values; therefore, the values ceived for RB. Lots 94 and 119. bungalows in the Balance Sheet, read in con- standing thereon; in view of the
inaccessibility of this junction with the Reserves ap-
property
marking that this was concerned with the sentence passed
upon
discussion Mr. Justice Lindsell
offer
the
"In September last, it became i evident that, if your Company was Former Resident Leaves
continue its operations sad
87,400 enter into further contracts, it
Ito
Application
conviction of the appellant. This pearing on the contra side, in the and the probable cost of its main- would be necessary to make some Local estate, valued at $87,400, was allowed, but after a lengthy opinion of your Board, preclude tenance and/or development, your provision for additional supplies
of our principal raw material was left by the late Mr. Alfred to accept such
Parker Stokes who died on Junej Furthermore, namely, Limestone. said that it would be better that the necessity for further deprecard decided
"Turning to the matter of out-your Directors have in mind certain 7, 1935, in France.
important schemes under con- for the re-sealing of probate, by to ascertain from the "Turning again to the Balance put, I am pleased to be able to
sideration, 10 connection with Mr. G. G. N. Tinson, has been Superintendent of Prisons in- Sheet; I would make special re-report that our New Plant at Hok which your Company may be ask- granted.
ference to the very considerable/Un, though not working at fulled to give a guarantee as to the
this particular point be left over in order
the Court,
ciation for some years to come.
Improved Cash Position
observed that
only been liquidated during
over
the
WILL
Position In Macho
constant
12
QUEEN'S THEATRE CHANGE
WEATHER REPORT
formation
as to how he would
The application by Mr. D. L construe the sentences passed on the appellant.
improvement in the cash position capacity, was kept in
continuity of Cement supplies. Strellet for the re-sealing of pro- operation throughout Dealing with the first point, tion. it will be
the year, Your Board felt, therefore, that it bate, in the estate of the late Mr. of the Company, in which connec- and the sales from that factory Mr. D'Almada submitted that the whereas at the end of the yearious year.
was inadvisable that our stocks of Patrick Charles Inglis, who died. again exceeded those of the previ-imestone should be permitted to in Shanghai on February 25, last. Magistrate wrongly admittted cer-1934, the overdraft with the Hong trenchment and economies were in view of the satisfactory state
Moreover, further re- tain evidence and Counsel went Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor effected during the year and con-of the Company's cash position,
fall below one year's supply, and, has been granted.
on to say that the evidence to which he took exception, at the/poration was in the region of four tributed to the general reduction moment, was the statement made lakhs, this indebtedness has not of our operation costs, coupled negotiations were entered into for
IN PROGRAMME ļa fresh contract, and I am pleased by the defendants after their ar-
with which, the final payment of year, but we have been enabled to compensation due to the late Gen- now been made for the supply of the films being delayed by fog to say that arrangements have Owing to the steamer conveying rest at Caroline Hill Road. Mr.
accumulate
ofi D'Almada added that one of
a credit balance the
eral Managers
made in ($97,995.16 by the close of
100,000 tons of Stone at a price the picture "Four Hours to Kill points was
that February last; therefore, this item whether or not the financial period. statements were elicited in such
will now disappear from the Ac-which, due to rates of exchange will not be shown at the Queen's "You will also note an increase counts.
obtaining at that time, bears Theatre to-day. In its place the a way as could be approved by in the Company's General Re
favourable comparison with pre-management has been able to now stands at the
vious contracts entered into for acquire Kay Francis' latest star- In support of the second point, substantial figure of $937,498.68, of our business in Macao has not tion of your Board in this matter Gander."
serve, which
"Tregret to say that the volume supplies of raw material. The acring success, The Gouse and the Counsel said that apart from the the increase therein being mainly increased during the last statements the only evidence
thus assures continuity of opera against the appellant was that he certain bad debts previously writ show little or
accounted for by the recovery of months, and conditionS there ton for some two years ahead. was present in the flat, and he ten off and amounting to $25,350-The Permit regulations enforced no improvement.
Economy ensure submitted that this was not sur 44, together with profits accruing by the Canton Authorities in 1934, ficult times through which your "In view of the somewhat dif- fetent to warrant conviction.
An anti-cyclone of great inter- The hearing is proceeding.
and above written down of which mention was made in the Company is passing, and in scity has developed over North values on disposal of the Old Speech from the Chair Last year, cordance with the strict policy of China and the neighbouring seas;|
· CANCELLATION OF ARTILLERY $50,000, the Deep Water Bay Pro rescinded, and have seriously in possible, your Board unanimously
Plant and Machinery at Hok Un, have not, despite our efforts, been reducing expenditure as far as pressure is highest to the north of Shantung. The depression, has GUN PRACTICE
perty, $9,546.85, and the Steam terfered with shipments to China agreed that the remuneration of moved to the north of Hokkaido Lighter "ha Verde," $6,942.43. from our Macao Works. Coast Defence Artillery Prac-
each Director should be reduced and has deepened very consider Sale Of Old Plant
"The cement requirements 0%
Jably. North-east winds, fresh to tice with live ammunition, due to
from $3,000 to $2,000 per annum, take place from Mount Davis the augmentation of the Reserve not sufficient to keep our factory 1935, and until such time as the or light rain, was the forecast for "The main item contributing to the Colony of Macao itself are as from the beginning of the year strong; cloudy with mist, drizzle Battery on March 24 (March 25 resulted from the sale of the Old in constant operation, and - spare day), has been postponed Plant at Hok Un, which was erect these reasons it was accessary to reversion to the former rate.
for Company's business justifies a to-day, as issued by the Royal
Observatory-this morning. until a date to be notified later.
ed in 1905, and, having served the curtail production very consider- "Before closing, I have to refer THE MERCANTILE BANK OF
Company over a period of nearly ably in July last, on account of again to the matter of unconvert the December 31, 1335, as pre- 30 years, had outlived its normal accumulated stocks. Your boarded shares, of which 67,047 still sented." INDIA LTD.
life as an economical unit, and therefore, feel that there is little remain to be sent in, ed would reached a state of obsolescence. hope of amelioration of the ́exist once more repeat the request made Sir Robert Ho Tung and Mr. The local office of the Mer-Moreover, it is the considered ing state of affairs and of our at the last annual meeting that T. E. Pearce were re-elected to the cantile Bank of India, Limited, opinion of your Board that the business in Macao regaining even shareholders in possession of this Board of Directors on the pro- has received a telegram from—=
smodicum of its former proscrip will assist us by sending it posal of Mr. C. A. L. Rickett and the Head Office in London, 12 per cent for the year, less sperity, in the circumstances, it in for conversion.
seconded by Mr. Fing Kwok-wa. advising that at the ananal gen-income tax), £10,000 written off may be necesary to consider the There being no further matters Mesure. Linetead and David and eral meeting of shareholders a landed and house property, permanent cessation of our calling for comment, I now have Mesarz, Lowe, Bingham and Mat- final dividend of 6 per cent on £25,000 contingency account, activities in that Port and the pleasure in formally proposing the thews, were re-elected anditors for the A "B" and "C" shares and £174,090 carried forward to ultimate disposal of our plant. In adoption of the Report and Ar- the ensuing year at a remunera- will be recommended (making the 1936 account.
this relation, shareholders may re-counts for the financial year endedition of $1,000 each.
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