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Chairman's Speech The Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, reviewing the year. said:
"I would preface the few re-i marks that I propose to make by saying how difficult it is for me to avoid a measure of repe- tition at this meeting. which follows so closely on that of the sister Company the "Hong Kong Fire: the comments then made on the trend of "Fire" insurance apply equally
"Marine."
whch
is the raisua d'etre of this Office.
"In both categories and on every side. we are confronted
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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES MANSLAUGHTER
Monday next, the day following! To-day being Ascension Day Empire Day. is a public holiday the offices of the French Consulate and all educational establishments, will be closed to the general public offices and Government de-public. partments will not be open for ordinary business on that day.
Owing to unforeseen circum- stances, the concert promoted by ; Kwong Kai, aged 34, was fatal-Miss Maria Margarida Gomes to of
Lessons is the manipulation of anti-aircraft weapons are being included in the curriculum Munich schoolboys.
The boys are being taken dur- ing school hours to the nearest anti-aircraft batteries,
at Frei- mann, as part of the great Nazi *get acquainted with the army" campaign.
•
Government buses are provid- for the boys and official "guides" explain the principles of " the new artillery.
confined to senior pupils at the So far the trips have been city grammar schools, but their attendance is compulsory.
with acute competition which spectively. It was appears to stop at nothing in your
Directors (to
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TALE OF BLOW IN GAOL`
Ahmed Din, one of the wit- ly injured when he fell down the assist the funds of the "Caixa nesses for the prosecution, in stairs of No. 316 Portland Street Escolar" for the education of poor the case in which an unemploy- at 7.15 p.m. last night succumbing Portuguese boy's in Hong Kong, ed Chinese, Lau Fong, aged 19, 8C 10033-We saw the Sea at 10.30 p.m. after admission to has been postponed to June 2. at is charged with the manslaugh
I'm putting all my eggs in the Kowloon Hospital.
19 p.m. in the Club de Recreio. ter of Tsoi Tong, aged 35, was
subjected to a lengthy cross- BC 10034-rd rather lead the band . While scraping the funnel of
accused Mrs. O. Parkinson, MA. examination by the the ss. Silverstreak at Kowloon Acting President of the Manuk when the case was resumed be- Docks yesterday Shun Tai. Lodge of the
fore Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden at Theosophical So- coolie, was severely injured as the eiety. will give a public lecture the Criminal Session this morn-
ling.. result of a fall and was admitted this evening in the Society's Lodge
The case is a sequel to a fight to the Kowloon Hospital,
Room. Hong Kong Club Annex. lb Chater Road, at 6 p.m1. Her sub between the two men at the Laichikok Prison on February 18. last when the accused is al- The Royal Engineers Old Com-leged to have struck the de- the scramble to obtain busi- General Agents gladly acquiesced) Schofield at the Central Magis-rades Association will be holding ceased a blow on the knee with ness; the one idea seems to be that all investments, which were tracy this morning for the theft open air whist drives and tom knife.
Mr. M. J. Abbott, Assistantİ to secure Premium Income, at all doubtful, should be written of a quantity of clothing from the bolas every Monday during the quite regardless of the ace down and it is to this and, in a roof of No. 11 Seen Keen Terrace summer season. The first of these Crown Solicitor, was for the pro- quacy of rates to the liability lesser degree, to ordinary normal Acting Sub-Inspector Madgwick functions will take place next secution, while the following jury undertaken. I do not wish to causes that the falls in this last said that the defendant was seen Monday, and in the event of rain was empanelled:-Messrs. H. R. be more specific but could quote mentioned Account are due.
¡Pethick xathering the clothing by Mr.it will be held indoors.
(foreman), C. W. L case, illustrating what I have "Our Reserves
than Pincott, who lives at No. 1 East-
Spradbury. G. L. Fenton, Wong! just said and which go to such ample to care for the business we ern Terrace, which is opposite! The Boy Scouts' Association are Sui-ki, Pong King-cheong. Lo extremes as to border on the transact and we should welcome the Seen Keen Terrace. and Mr. holding their annual competition Kwan-wai and R. J. K. Walker. *Indierous.
an increase in the latter but only Pincott raised the alarm. De-rally in connection with the Prince Ahmed Din, 3 warder in the if this could be achieved with fendant was arrested by a hou. of Wales' Banner Competition on Laichikok Prison. continued his Saturday next at the Diocesan evidence, which was begun on the! "It is difficult to see any solu- some reasonable prospect of profit boy.
Boys' School, Kowloon, commenc-previous day, and he told the! tion at the moment. but inconse- resulting.
Court that the accused struck the! Abdul Aziz was this morninging at 2.30 p.m.
deceased first and almost imme- fined $10 and had an expulsion
diately after the blow had landed.) the deceased fell down. Witness then went into the ward and seiz- ed the accused, at the same time) helping the deceased to get up. At the time of the incident, wit- iness said, the accused was not Chan Pin-hung, a female, and using the knife in connectioni
before Mr. C. B. Burgess charged had deliberately picked up the with possession of 8.100 heroin weapon with which to strike the pills at No. 351 Hennessy Road on deceased.
"Down To Bed-rock"
quent and bad trading must reap its own reward and then, and only.
then may we look for an improve-
ment.
are more
The Balance Sheet
"The surplus now to be dealt order made against him, by Mr. C. That we are now down to with is $1,034,433.17, out of which E. Burgess at the Central Magis- bed-rock, no one with any insur- has been paid an Interim Dividend tracy when he was charged with ance snowledge will dispute: pre-of $3.60 per share. We now entering the Colony without a sent day rates leave the barest recommend the payment of $8.40 proper passport. margia over cost and further cuts per share. making in all $12.00
can only end in disaster, more per
share. which will
absorb
The *.8. Santhia will leave
HEROIN PILLS
Woman Sentenced For. Possession
particularly if any serious run of $600.000: we further recommend Amoy on Saturday next and is due Yip Chi and Ho Yiu appeared with his work of mat-making. He total losses should come along., the addition of $50,000 to the here on Sunday afternoon. This state of affairs is world-Reinsurance Fund and the trans- wide and our little market infer of the balance. amounting to Hong Kong is merely following in $384,433.17, to Underwriting Sus-
of
Mr. C. Y. Kwan pleaded guilty
the wake of London and other Pense Account to close 1984 and PAPER MONEY IN May 1 big centres in courting the wrath, previous years. The balance and later the vengeance, of the $2.041,516.50 at credit of
Account allows of the payment of
gods.
1925 KWANGTUNG
vice to our constituents and await-earlier part of my speech, the tive of the Ministry of Finance, covered partly in the yard.
No Action Taken
jon behalf of the first defendant In cross-examining the witness, and not guilty for the third, while accused asked: If, as you say. I an Interim Dividend of $2.50 per No Conversion To “Big"|
Mr. D. McCallum, who represent-struck the first blow, and you ac- "Gentlemen, I could not say this share for that year. You will
ed the second defendant, pleaded tually saw me doing it, why did with such equanimity were I not notice that we have eliminated the
Dollar Standard
not guilty.
you not stop me or shout at me?—.... reasonably well assured that your bonus of $1 per share and em-
Mr. Grimmitt accepted these It is my duty to ring the alarm Company is in good fettle to with-bodied it in the figure of dividend. DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED pleas, saying the only evidence he bell first, if anything unusual stand the buffets that lie ahead) "Shareholders may think that
had against the second and third happens. For the past 20 years we something more might be dis- (From Our Own Correspondent)
defendants were that they were! But in a case like this, if I had have been preparing for lean tributed out of the year 1934. but
found on the premises when the struck the first blow, your going Canton, To-day. times and feel that with care and your General Agents and Consult-
to ring the bell instead of taking ouring Committee feel that it would the present currency were to be
"We would lose $10,000,000 ir raid was carried out. circumspection, we can hold
immediate action would have left! Mr. Grimmitt further said that: own no matter what may come; be better to defer any increase changed to
me plenty of time in which to in- the big dollar' as the result of an arrest eise-
jure, or even kill the man? Wit- we are not big. but our finances until later, when we hope the standard," Mr. Foh Pao-tsal, as-where they visited these pre-
ness reiterated that he had to are eminently sound. That a future may look, somewhat less sistant manager of the Kwang-mises and had to burst the door! change will come one day we are obscure; we want first to be sure tung
sound the alarm first. Provincial Bank, of open to gain entrance. Through Accused: I put it to you that moderately certain and. until that any addition made can be press representatives last panel the first defendant was then, we must be content to
you never saw the incident at all sit comfortably maintained. You night.
seen to go to the rear with a par- and only gathered your facts from tight, giving the best possible ser-¡will have gathered from the "Mr. H. 0. Tong, representa-cel. The 8,100 pills were re- the other prisoners.-I have no ing the advent of better days: direction in which our troubles discussed the conversion scheme Mr. Kwan asked for leniency grudge against either of you, and these last will arrive only when lie and if Reserves should be call-with us," Mr. Foh added. "While as his client was only a tool, be the story I have just told is the the bitter lesson of the years 1923 ed upon to bolster up Working the plan is sound on the face of ing tempted to look after the to 1928 has been re-learned, Accounts. Interest must fall: I see it, the immediate standardisation cubicle for $10 a month.
2 no present prospect of this, but of the dollar is out of the ques- Mr. Grimmitt asked that The Accounts
it is in the natural sequence of tion. Concrete measures have to serious view
be taken, and "Turning to the Accounts that things if and when underwriting be mapped out before a change is fendant we now present to you. That for ceases to be profitable. I have no possible." 1994, though showing an improve-wish to sound too doleful but it The Bank official denied that ment in balance of some $40,000 would be senseless for me to con- the silver coins held in the Bank over 1932, is not exactly a triumph ceal from you the fact that the will be minted into of underwriting as no less than struggle for existence to-day island said that since
big dollars. STARHEMBERG'S Well, you have said that you $707.000 is derived from. Interest just as great in "Insurance" as in jcoins have been replaced by on Invested Funds.
any other branch of Commerce, paper money, big silver dollars "Comparisons of the various "Bevond once again voicing ourjare unnecessary. items of the Working Accounts appreciation of the careful man-agents of the Bank are in the for 1933 and 1934 show that Pre-ner in which our underwriting in counties in an effort to buy up mium for 1934 was up by $638,- London is being conducted in the all silver coins. 104.65 as also were Losses by midst of many difficulties, 1 do The premium for Hong Kong $665.156.67: fortunately Interest not think there is anything that dollars is mounting steadily but turned the scale in favour of 1934 calls for further mention.
slowly. This is due to the excel-
the silver
was sentenced to months' hard labour.
RETURN
a
three
truth.
It may be true that you bear:
me no grudge, but I put it to you that you are telling this story! de- because your are afraid you will get into trouble with your superior officers if you said that you did not see anything at all--That is not so.
saw the whole incident. Will you
tcll me then what the deceased was doing when, as you say, I
He added that Rousing Welcome By struck him?-He, was sitting on a
Home Guards
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Vienna, To-day. Prince von Starhemberg return-
stool.
There was no stool in the ward, there was only a long plank-But | the plank is supported by two or three stools.
He was not sitting on the stool then?-No. he was sitting on the
with a rise of $164,413.28. Charges "I now propose the following lent demand, as Hong Kong money ed here yesterday afternoon by air fell from 34.21 per cent. in 1933 Resolutions:-
is used to buy arms. Many peo- from Rome. Several hundred of plank. to 20.46 per cent. in 1934. The "That the Report and Accounts, as ple in high places also give up the his former Home Guards were as- How did I cut him with the balance of working was 10.08 per presented, including the payment of local paper money in exchange for sembled on the Ringstrasse, the knife? You picked the weapon cent. as against 17.32 per cent. in a Final Dividend in respect of the Hong Kong bank-notes. 1923 and the account in question Interim Dividend in respect of the year 1934 of $8.40 per share and an
main thoroughfare in Vienna, to up from the ground, came from Speculators are creating rum- greet their former chief and shout behind him and struck him just can be regarded as only moderate year 1935 of $3.60 per share; an ad-jours that big political develop-Long live Fasciam."
below the knee. when compared with some of its dition of $50,000 to Reinsurance Fundments are expected here, This and of $254,433.17 to Underwriting will further raise the premium of more recent predecessors.
"A review of the Working Ac-Suspense Account, be adopted and
passed “
Hong Kong dollars.
count for 1935, after 12 months,
Mr. Ho Kam-tong seconded the
as compared with that for 1934 adoption of the Report and Ac- at the same stage, reveals a more counts, which were ananimously cheering state of affairs with an
increase in the balance carried forward of $537,362.18; there is
carried.
Other Business
Sir Robert Ho Tung. Messrs.
yet a long way to go but, granted D. E Clark, A. H. Competon, L reasonably good fortune, we
are
Dunbar, F. A. Joseph, T. E. hopeful of being able to place before you a satisfactory resuit Pearce, J. H. Taggart and $. T. about a year hence.
$12 Per Share
CAR DRIVER FINED
Failed To Stop After
Accident
COVENANT SAFEGUARDS ́ALL
London, to-day-The Foreign Secretary, asked in the House of Commons yesterday what obliga- tions had been incurred to de- fend the independence and in- tegrity of Austris, replied: “I would refer the Honourable Member to the Covenant of the League of Nations."-British Wireless Service.
Williamson were re-elected to the Consulting Committee on the pro- Fun Yuen-wai, driver of private! posal of Hon. Mr. M. K Lo, car No. 1099, was fined $5 by Mr.
“URGENTLY NECESSARY" "An analysis of the Balance seconded by Mr. J. D. Danby, W. Schofield at the Central Magia-
Eome: The fact that Prince! Sheet shows that the total 01 Messrs. Lowe Bingham and tracy this morning for failing to von Starhemberg's presence in Assets, as expressed in Sterling Matthews and Percy Smith, Seth stop after accident with Vienna has become "urgently ne-
TE
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Facing His Work
Was the deceased facing me or facing his work at the time?—He was facing his work.
Then how could I have struck him on the right knee when there his was somebody sitting right? Oh, that man was about two feet away.
I put it to you that the bench is
not long enough to allow three people to sit on it and still be: labout two feet away from one another. The plank in from six] to seven feet long.
The case is proceeding.
GO.C.'S RETURN
General
has fallen by a £120,710.16.10 and Fleming were re-elected au- cyclist in Queen's Road East on cessay is said to be the reason whereas in Hong Kong Currency ditors at the usual remuneration May 2
Godard was why He left here so hurriedly - by there is an' increase of $2,570,- on the proposal of Mr. J. H. E...On another charge of failing to plane on Tuesday. 772.06. The Réinsurance Fund is Hance, seconded by Mr. M. H. Lo. report the accident defendant was The former Austrian Foreign. His Excellency the down by £44,676.13,2 in sterling
fined $10.
Minister," Baron- von Berger-Wal- Officer Commanding, Major- and up
by $433,386.07 in Hong.
These summons were the result denegg, who was recently appoint-General A. W. Bartholemew, C.B., Kong Currency and the Invest One case of diphtheria and one of a report made by Mr. W. E.jed Austrian Minister to Bone, CMG, C.BE., D.S.O., at present ment and Exchange Fluctuation of typhoid fever were reported as Hollands, who was driving behind will take up his duties here on on a tour in the Northern Ares, Account shows shinkages of having occurred in the Colony the defendant when the accident June 10, the Italian Government is due to return to the Colony on $53,121.16.1 and $32.263.53* in during the 24th hours ended on occurred. Mr. M. A. Silva was for now having agreed to the appoint- June 9. He is coming back from Sterling and Local Carrency re-Tuesday last,
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