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Notice To Consumers
Notice is hereby given that the Company's standard charges will, be increased as from 17th March, 1941. by adding a 10 per
cent. 1 surcharge to the amounts charged for electricity consumed for light- ing and power as per meters read on and after 24th April, 1941.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
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BRIDGE NOTES
Lieutenant Thomas Lonsdale Hilton, a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve What Kind Of Double? officer, was ordered by a naval disciplinary inquiry at Great Yarmouth to be severely reprimanded.
He was accused of expressing defeatist views ilable to cause alarm and despondency among the pubile.
The Court found the charges proved.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be CLOSED from Temporary Skipper Robert SATURDAY. the 15th MARCH, Herbert Soanes said that on De- 1941. to WEDNESDAY, the 26th cember 9 Hilton got into conver- MARCH, 1941. both days in-sation with him on a bus. He said clusive.
that Hitler was a clever man to invade the Low Countries in
and to gel twelve weeks.
his troops into Norway across 120 miles of water, and asked where was the British Navy that it had not supped them
By Order of the Board of
Directors.
CM. MANNERS,
Secretary & Manager. Hong Kong. 7th March, 1941.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY,
LIMITED
"'Rotten"
Hilton said. Skipper Soanes continued, that democras....” govern- ment was rotten, and that if we riid not watch out we should be blockaded.
He added that the working- class people would stop the war. England was not free, andy in speech
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 2011 Extraordinary General
The prosecutor submitted that Meeting of the Company will be
there could be no doubt that it heli in the P. & 0; Building, ton's remarks, made in a publie Victoria, in the Colony of Hong velucle and overheard by a sub- Kong at 11 15 o'clock in the fore ordinate officer and a rating, could not but be regarded as of a de- Boon on THURSDAY, the 20th
Teatist character, and therefore day of March, 1941, or as
and to good order prejudicial thereafter as the Ordinary General vai discipline, Meeting of the Company shall have terminated for the purpose of con- sidering and, if thought f1, passing| the following resolutions: ---
Soon
1. That the Directors be and they are hereby authorised to capitalise the sum of $3,000,900 Hong Kong currency, part of the undivided profits of the Com-
AFRIDIS WANT TO
JOIN ARMY
A gathering of 800 Afridis and other tribes at Peshawar yester-
By The Four Aces
"What kind of double did East make in the enclosed hand?" queries a St. Louis reader. "It started an interesting debate, which is still going on.
South, Dealer North-South vulnerable
A A 10 8 7 6
♡ Q 10 6 2
◊ A Q 5
A KJ932 VAJA 0 7
♣ A Q 10 4
Q4
9 8 7 J 10 8 K983 2
W E
5
K 5 3 OK 964 32
765
The bidding: South West
J'ass
2
Pass Pass
l'ass
Pase
North East
1
Pass Pasa Dbl. l'ass
"After South had made his con- tract with an overtrick, West
hastily asserted that East's double
TISH CARD VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM
نرالامر
ACF KING QUEEN 1 JACK...A
was
31 Penalty Double, since he hadn't doubled at oppo-
bis first
tunity. East re-
plied that it should have been obvious that he was doubling for a Takeout. We all granted that was 50 when we Saw his hand, but are not sure that West could have known when the hand was actually being bid.
"If East and West were both experts, what would East's double
1-15
WAS
HE
LOOKIN
{Relonosci by The Hell Byndicate, fae) The menialty ake.chy girl- friend thinks when her beau cays she certainly cuts a figure on the ice rink he means she's a swell performer.
arceptance: and West can 500 three more diamonds in his own hand. Therefore East cannot have enough diamonds for a Penalty
Double.
C
✡ Yesterday you Bruce Burstone's with both sides
held:
were David partner and, vulnerable, you'
AKJ 9 7 a
C6 2
84 2
J 65
The bidding: Burnstone Jacoby You
10
Pass JA 2NT Pass (?)
Schenken Pass
ANSWER: Pass. Your main leason for responding to one dia- mond was that your partner might have an extraordinary "At" for spades. The jump in no-trump denies any such wonderful sup-
pany standing to the credit of the' day presented £750 to the Gov- mean in the situation described- / Post for spades, so you must avoid
Company's Reserve Fund, and to allot to the members holding shares of the Company as on the
Province, expressed ernor of the North-West Frontier loyalty to the Government and desired to join the army to fight Hitler.-
Reuter.
NAZIS BUY PETAIN
PHOTO
first day of April One thousand nine hundred and forty-one in respect of the net amount cani- talised fully paid shares of the Company of equivalent nominai value in the proportion of one share for every three shares of the Company held by them res- pectively and that such shares so allotted shall rank for divid-Soir," states that many thousands Lyons radio, quoting the "Paris ends as from the 1st day of July, of photographs of Marshal Petain were sold in Paris and that many were bought by German officers and soldiers.
1941.
2. That if on such distribu- tion as aforesaid any person would be entitled to a fractional share the Directors shall, in lieu of issuing fractional certificates, cause the whole share, to be al- lotted to a person or persons to be named by the Directors and such share shall, at such time as
RIBBENTROP'S FATHER DEAD Lieutenant A.D. von Ribben
the trop, father of Ribbentrop, German, Foreign Minister, has died in Berlin, aged eighty-two.-Reu-
the Directors think fit, be sold and the
proceeds distributed amongst the persons entitled to ter. the fractions making up such share.
By Order of the Board
of Directors,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
Agents.
Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members' Enclosure and Hong Kong, 21st February, 1941.
arc
HONGKONG &. ¿WHAMROA DOCK .CO., LTD.
Notice is hereby given that Club Rooms at $5.00 for Gentle-
the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of men and $3.00 for Ladies (both; NOTE-Under the powers conferred Shareholders will be held in the including tax)
obtainable upon them by Article 12 of the Articles Office of the Company, No. 2 through the SECRETARY upon of Association of the Company. the
Directors have decided te offer to Queen's Building, Hong Kong, on the personal or written application Shareholders on the Register on the 1st MONDAY, 31st March, 1941, at of a Member, such Member to be day of April 1941, one share at par for noon for consideration of the responsible for all visitors intro- every complete three shares held by Directors' Report and Statement duced by him, and for Payment of them (excluding the Bonus Shares to of Accounts for the year ending all Chits, etc.
be offered to them under the preced- 31st December, 1940.
terms that payment for such shares shall be made Ing resolution) upon the
The Secretary's Office, 1st Floor, Exchange Building, (Tel. 27794) will close at: 11.45.aim.
The Share Register and Trans-
to the Company's Bankers, The Hong fer Books will be closed Iram Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation; the 18th to 31st March, 1941, Tiffins are obtainable at the Hong Kong on or before the 30th Sep both days inclusive. Club House provided they are given power to renounce their rights
tember 1841 and that Shareholders be By Order of the Board of ⚫ ordered in advance from the under such offer and that no. rights at No. 1-Boy (Tel. :21920).
tach to any fractions. The shares tak-
No children or amiahs will be en up under the above offer shall rank admitted to either Enclosure.
for dividends as from 1st day of July 1941. Formal letters of offer, accep tance and renunelation will be sent to Shareholders as soon as possible after
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE The price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $1.00 includ-April 1st next.
ing Tax, for all Persons, including Ladles, and is payable at the Gate.
Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform ROSITION WANTED
are admitted Half Price.
By Order,
Į
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 10th March, 1941.
BIOR SALE
HONG KONG DOLLAR LOIKEO
+
Directors,
E. COCK, Chier Manager, Hong Kong, 10th March, 1041.
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tract by passing.
Score 100% for three spades.
pass, 20% for
a Penalty or a Takeout Double? any further increase in the con-
It would be a Takeout Double. To begin South has passed originally and that with, remember
that North's failure to rebid Someone denies a strong hand. must have a good hand; and West should realise that when the op-
ownl
ponents confess weakness and his
hand is poor, his
parther should have a strong hand. Then in doubling for penalties? North again, what point would there be and South would just "run" to a safer contract, thanking East for warning them of their danger.
As a matter of fact, West's own hand should make it obvious that the double is not for penalties.. Surely North and South should have at least seven or eight dia- monds between them for the two- of diamond bid and: North's puss
OFF THE RECORD
Question No. 661
partner and, with both sides vul- To-day you are Oswald Jacoby's
nerable, you hold:
KJ 10 9 6 3 ♡.Q 5 4 2
8.3
Schenken
Jacoby
The bidding: Maler You 30 (?)
What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.)
*
(Released By The Bell Syndi- cate, Inc.)
By ED REED
your chin, Dear-If my memory la correct?"
Here Luck
EWO BEER
Tel. 30311