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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 7, 1941.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS BRIDGE
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
NOTICE
It is hereby notified that the fol- lowing increases in the Company's standard charges will be made for current consumed in respect of ac- counts issued for meters read on and after 21st March 1941:-
1. For Lighting from 15 cents to
16 cents per unit.
H.K.$ 9.00 H.K.$18.00
2.
H.K.$36.00
H.K.$17.00
H.K.$34.00
OVERSEAS (including postage)
All
3 months
6 month
12 months
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REMOVAL NOTICE
For Power and Heating from 5 cents to 5% cents per unit.
3. The discount of 10% on Pow
er accounts in excess of 1,000 units per month will be dis- continued.
By order of the Board of
Directors,
THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF &
NOTES
East could signal which Ace he had. Now he could lead a dia- mond, ruff the spade returu, and' cash the diamond King to defeat the contract.
1 *
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Yesterday you were Howard Schenken's partner and, with both
GODOWN CO., LTD. AN UNUSUAL HOLDUP | sides vulnerable, you held:
Notice To Shareholders
OF
THE FIFTY-FOURTH ORDIN- ARY ANNUAL MEETING SHAREHOLDERS will be held at Jardine, of Messrs. Matheson & Co., Ltd., en WED- NESDAY, the 26th MARCH, 1941,
the Office
By The Four Aces
KJ 9 7 3
⇓ Q
8 4 2 Q 3 6 G
2NT
BA
The bidding: Schonkels Jacoby
Pass 10
Pass Pass
You 14
Maler
Pass
9
Pass
(7)
The holdup play (postponing or "holding up" the winning of a high card) is usually considered the property of Declarer, and is usually employed at no-trump to at NOON, for the purpose of re- rake it difficult for one defender But ceiving the Report of the Directors to get to his partner's hand.
Bid four spades. and the Statement of Accounts the holdup can be used also by Your partner must have fair for the year ended 31st DECEM-the defending side even against a three-card support for spades and trump contract and may serve an has shown great strength by his entirely different purpose.
BER, 1940.
The Transfer Books uf the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 15th MARCH. 1941, to WEDNESDAY, the 26th MARCH, 1941. both days in- clusive Agents.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY,
LIMITED
By Order of the Board of
Directors.
CM. MANNERS,
Secretary & Manager. Hong Kong, 7th March, 1941
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Commissioners Powers
B. C. Cheng, registered tang of the Company shall have dentist, former principal terminated for the purpose of con- idering and, if thought fit, pasang cf Min Sang Brothers, the following resolutions. Dental Office has removed his practice to No. 29A, Nathan Road. First Floor, Kowloon.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS
The Under-named have received instruct.oIP To sell by Public Aut.pon en
-
FRIDAY, the 7th March, 1941 ermeteng at 2.30 p.m.
at then Sales Ruem, No. 35. Hankow Roadi. Kowloon
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprising:—
Teakwood Drawing Room, Bed Room, Dining Room, Office and Rattan Furniture, Chesterfield Suites, Cutlery, Carpets, Rugs, Curios, Ornaments, Coir Runners, E. P., Brass, Aluminium, Glays & Porcelain Ware, Gramophones & Records, Electric Table Lamps & Heaters, Tea Sets, Piclures, Clocks, Sinks, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc. also
A. Few Pieces of Blackwood
Furniture
and
3 Pairs Binoculars
1 Reflex Camera fitted F4.5 Lense
1 Bed Room Suite
1 Exposure Meter
1 Wardrobe Trunk
1 Enamelled Bath
1 Dining Room Suite
1 "Zenith" All Wave Radio
1 "Mullard" All Wave Radio
(A.C. & D.C.)
1 Lot Dance Music
Ordinance, 1886.
NOTIFICATION
For example;
South, Dealer Both sides vulnerable
AKJ 98 B ♡ 6
◊ A 10 7
CAQJ 10 9 3
ANSWER:
jump to two no-trump, so there should be a fair play for game. It would be foolish to go to game in no-frump after you have suc- ceeded in warning your partner away from just that,
Score 100% for four spades, 30% for three no-trump. G for pass.
Question No. 658
To-day you are Oswald Jaco- by's pariner and, with both sides vulnerable, you hold:
983 2 10 9 8
7
48542
♡ К872
W
♡ 5 4
O K J 54
4 КБ 43
S
A 3 7 6 2
▲ A Q 10
Q 8 AQ
The bidding:
0 8 4 3
JG 5
South 10
Weet
North East
Pres
l'ass
14 Pass
Pass Рава
The bidding:
Jacoby
10
Behenken
L'ass
ENT
l'ass
The bidding indicated a very i
South hand, so West knew his partner might hold one
OF THE
HIGH CARD VALUE'S
FOUR-ACES SYSTEM
If
AKJ9 7
Q3
Yin
1A
Mater
l'ass
What do you bid? (Auswer tomorrow.)
(Released By The Bell Syndi-
Ace but not much more strength. West could have ente, Inc.)
that i) Extraordinary General: Meeting of the Company will be heki 1) the 1. & O Building. Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong at 11 15 o'clock in the fore-
the 201 noon on THURSDAY,
It is hereby notified for general day of March, 1941, or as sooni information that the first public thereafter as the Ordinary General session of the Commissioners ap-
pointed to enquire into the affairs powerful of the Immigration Department will be held shortly on a date to! be announced by proclamation in the Gazette and all persons wish-
seen which Ace it i 1. That the Directors be and, ing to testify before the said Com-
was, he could have | they are hereby authorised to missioners are requested to give
led a diamond; and capitalise the sum of $3,000,900 | writen notice to the undersigned
then an immediate Hong Kong currency, part of the at the Cotonval Secretary's Officej
club shift by East andiyaded prolits of the Coms by the earliest possible date to-
would have led to puny standing to the credit of the gether with a brief memorandum
the contract's de- Compatty's Reserve Fund, and of the evidence which they pro-
feat. But if East to ali to the members holding puse to offer shares of the Company as on the
had the club Ace instead of the The examination of witnesses
diamond Ace. diamond lead Brst day of April One Thousand will be held in public but the
well be disastrous; and hundred and forty-one in Commissioners may, if requested might respect of the net amount capi- to do se for good cause,
direct ether minor-suit lead might be fered tully paid shares of the that the whole or part of any wit-bad it Fast happened to have the
spade Ace. Company of equivalent nummudj ness's evidence may value in the proportion of one private. Any request to this effect shate for every three shares ut should be meluded in the above-ended, the singleton spade was the the Company held by the cementioned memorandum. pectively and that such shates
so aloited shall rank for divid- ends as from the 1st day of July, 1941.
2.
That if on such distribu- tion as aforesaid any person would be entitled to a fractional: share the Directors shall, in heu
be taken 11
K. MA. BARNETT, Secretary to the Commissioners. Hong Kong, 6th March, 1941.
TO LET
ACE 3 KING..2 QUEEN.1 JACK.....¿
TOTAL VÁLMĖS PADE ZA
SERAM Parte 67%
All things considerad, West de-
best opening tead. Dummy woll with the spade Jack, and prompt- ly finessed the Queen of hearts. It was at this point that West exe- cuted the unusual holdup play by dropping a low heart,
Fearing a spade ruff, South tried to exhaust trumps by cashing the
of issuing fractional certificates, NEW SIX ROOMED HOUSE heart Ace and returning the heart cause the whole share to be al-(Spanish Style) on Hillwood Rd., Jack. But now West took his lotted to a person or persons to Kowloon, with fixtures and fully heart King and East promptly be named by the Directors and Furnished. Large garden. Apply signalled with the ten of dia- such share shall, at such time as Ieh Fong Coal Corporation, Taimonds. That was the purpose of the Directors think fit, be sold Ping Bldg., Queen's Rd. Tel. 20664. | West's holdup und the proceeds distributed amongst the persons entitled to the fractions inaking up such share.
By Order of the Board
of Directors,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
Agents.
Hong Kong, 21st February, 1941.
NOTE Under the powers conferred upon them by Article 12 of the Ardeles the uf Association of the Company,
decided Directors have
to
to offer Shareholders un the Register on the 1st day of April 1941, one share at par for every complete three shares held by them (excluding the Bonus Shares to
On View from Thursday, the 6th he offered to them under the preced.
March, 1941.
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 5th March, 1941.
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on SATURDAY, the 8th March, 1941 commencing at 10.30 a.m. at No. 2 Wood Road (Basement), Wanchai
299 Packages Miscellaneous Goods comprising:-
Cotton Shirtings, Poplin, Nan- Keen, Blue, Black and Grey Drills, Cotton Prints, Crepe, Cotton Sa- rong. Cotton Jean, Cotton Singlets, Towels, Hats, Rubber and Canvas Shoes, Hair Clips, Padlocks, Steel Wood Screws, Aluminjum Ware, Wire Net, Chromium Plated Oll Lamps, Radio Parts, Charcoal Flat Iron, Electric Lamp Bulbs, Flexible Cords, Wall Sockets and Plugs, Electric Three Way Soc- Hets, Lamp Shades, Cardboard Photo Bucks, Stationery, etc,,
(all more or less damaged) Terms: Cash on Delivery,
· CAMMERT :"BROBL
Auctioneers. Hong Kong. 6th March, 1041.
ing resolution) upon the terms that payment for such shares shall be made to the Company's Bankers, The Hung Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hong Kong on or before the 30th Sep- tember 1941 and that Shareholders be given power to renounce their rights under such offer and that no rights at tach to any fractions. The shares tak- en up under the above offer shall rank for dividends as from 1st day of July 1041. Formal letters of offer, accep tance and renunciation will be sent to Shareholders as soon as possible after April 1st next.
BRASSO
METAL POLISH
FOR A
·REAL
POLISH
OFF THE RECORD
to wait until
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