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...8.00 a.m. July 18
TO SEATTLE, VICTORIA "THE EXPRESS ROUTE”
Via Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama Pres. McKinley Midnight May 7 Pres. Grant -- . • • • Midnight May 21 Pres. Jackson .Midnight June Pres. Jefferson Midnight June 18 Pres. McKinley .Midnight July 2 Pres. Grant .Midnight July 16
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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 27, 1937.
SUGAR PACT IN SIGHT
Fresh Proposals Well
Received
London, To-day.
The negotiating committee of the International Sugar Conference held a meeting yesterday with the heads of delegations.
The President, Mr. Ramsay Mac- donald, formulated some fresh pro- posals for fixing the export sugar quotas to be allotted to certain coun- tries. These proposals were gener- ally approved.
The Canton Insurance Office, Ltd.
We are officially informed that the Consulting Committee of The Can- ton Insurance Office Ltd., will, at the forthcoming Meeting of Share- holders to be held on Tuesday, May 18, recommend a Final Dividend of $8 per share in respect of Working Account for 1935, and $200,000 to Reinsurance Fund and $496,101.36 to Underwriting Suspense Account'; they will further recommend the. payment of an Interim Dividend of $5 per share in respect of Work- ing Account for 1986, and that the balance of $1,962,031.92 be carried forward.
To meet the views of certain de- legations, some changes were sug- gested and did not give rise to ob- jection.
It was agreed that the final ac-MONEY ORDERS ceptances of these proposals should
WILL BE be left for a plenary meeting to be held at an early date.
LIKE CHEQUES
Meanwhile, the Sub-Committee will continue their work and the negotiating committee has been ask- ed to draft a Convention.-British Wireless.
LURE OF GIRL'S LEGS
Led Cycling Pest Into Trouble
Change After 100 Years
The familiar English Post Officer money order is to be altered in form for the first time for 100 years. The new orders which are about to be issued will be similar in appearance to bankers' cheques, and will have counterfoils to enable the senders to keep a record of their
John Dipper, twenty-six, of Ash-transactions. ford, Middlesex, is something of a The most important change from trick cyclist, and his tricks have the point of view of the Post Office- landed him into trouble.
is that the present system of sort--
His pet practice is. cycling up to ing the orders by hand under the girl cyclists and taking such an in-names of the issuing offices will be terest in their legs that he nearly eliminated. The new
knocks them down.
orders will. have perforations to enable them to be sorted by electricity under
In fact, pretty Miss Muriel Green- wood, the Wee House, Laleham-on- Thames, told Feltham (Middlesex) serial numbers. magistrates:
Money orders play a considerable: part in small financial transactions. Last year the issue in this country was £59,000,000.
"This man has followed me on several occasions at night, and has nearly knocked me off my bicycle.
"He rides alongside me, and is so A large proportion of the busin- interested in my legs and face that less is accounted for by the fact I cannot understand how he can that the money order is the only keep on his bicycle."
safe method by which a man who
Two police officers said numerous has no banking account can send complaints about Dipper's beha- money abroad.
viour had been received.
Dipper was fined 60s. for insult- ing behaviour, and as he imposed the fine the
chairman observed: The R.M.S. "Empress of Asia" "The Bench would like to thank from Manila is due at 7 aim. to-- Miss Greenwood very much for her morrow and will berth at Kowloon great courage in coming forward. Wharf.
/ Lloyd Riestin
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