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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 19, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
JEFF, CHASE THOSE KITTENS!
THEY'RE FOLLOWING THIS
FUR COAT I BOUGHT FOR
THE SWEET WOMAN!
SHOO! SCAT!
YOOHOO!||DONT YOU DARE HONEY! SEE! I BOUGHT
YOU A FUR COAT!/
TRY TO BRIBE ME WITH A CHEAP COAT!
NO, DARLING,|| OH,YEAḤ! LOOK! IT'S HOW DO I GENUINE
KNOW IT'S SQUIRREL!
NOT CHEAP RABBIT?
Page
By BUD FISHER
THERE YA ARE, SWEET, RABBITS
DON'T CLIMB
TREES!
(MEOW
MEOW
MEOW
THROWN INTO THE HARBOUR
That an Indian private watch
aan, Lahora Singh, who attempt. ed to arrest three thieves, who were stealing charcoal from
Yaumati junk in the
Typhoon Shelter yesterday morning. W.. packed up and thrown o the Harbour, was mentioned before ME HC. Macnamara, at Kow- Joon this morning, when Ng He- 24 was
extrnerd le four moondis hard labour for stealing 53 ent- ties of chareval.
de
A1 830 am. yesterday he '; on duty the watchman ALAN three Chinese, including ac rused, taking charcoal from junk When he approached them 114 was picked up by two of the not arrested. and thrown
into the Harbour.
DROP IN REVENUE
AT "THE
LIDO'
THAT EVACUATION had caused a drop in pa- tronage of the Lido was mentioned at the annual met ting of shareholders of the Hong Kong Realty and Trust Company, held this morning, with Mr. E. M. Raymond in the chair.
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bremme
full vacant,
past
having recently been reached only as a result of rental reductions being effected.
Air-Conditioning
The Chairman said: The profit, undertaken in July of the for the year under review umount- year, after which patronage dwin- ed to $62,473.74, which added to dled and several of the bungalows Decupancy the amount of $20.246.33 brought) forward from the preceding year, makes The sum of $91,720 07! available for appropriation; the recommendation of your Board
this connection is to pay i dividend of thirty cents per share involving
The Balance Sheet records capi- $60,000, and to carty i tal additions to the "Lido" Build- forward the remaining balance to r the 1941 Account The profit for plant and Machinery during the ing. Furniture, Fixtures. and the year 1940 of 562.473.74 shows a decrease of approximately $20,000 year under compared with the profit realised
been incurred in connection with in 1939, which is accounted for by! 1.vidends on Investments showing air conditioning units therein pro- the Restaurant; the installation of a decline of some $7.700, and deint balance of working Account |
vided a much appreciated ameni- No particular of $2,179.91 compared to a credit ly to its patrons. balance of $13.359.72 in the pre-
comment appears to be necessary Balance ceding year.
The debit balance other items in the At the request of Det -Sgt H.| referved to reflects the compara- J Baldwin, Mr D. J. N. Anderson; tive drop in revenue at the Re- it Kowloon this morning remand-pulse Bay "Lido" and rental re- ed three Chinese for 48 hours on ceipts from the a charge of possession of a toy pistol and two knives for an un- lawful purpose in Hunghom dis- Trict.
The Indian, however, managed
to swim ashore and arrested ac- eused with the assistance of district watchman m Soy Street Accused was carrying one ruck
charcoal when he
was
arrested.
1
Company's ad- jacent bungalows; earnings in res- pect of both these departments | were well maintained up
to the time of the evacuation measures
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HORIZONTAL
¡ Plane
surface
3 Confusion
Peruvianı Indian
12 Apparent
enlargement of an object by an optical instrument
15 Indo-Chinese
tree
10 Thong
17 Weight
10 Symbol for
sodium
10 To the shel-
tored áldo
20 Pronoun
› 22 Colloquial:
father
23 Winged
24 Discovery
20. Bullard shot
28 To spread for drying
· 29 Former 7
Turkish title
32 To incite
33 Price
34 At all
35 Frefix: in
favour of
38 To hanfen
37-Threefold
38 Anaesthetic. 40.Hackneyed.
41 While
43 Land
·mcasure
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કાકા
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43 Raised
platforin
44 Sun god
40 Music as
written
48 Tempest
50 Vast age
51 Lake in
Russia
53. Pronoun 54.Swamp 55 Biblical country
50 To attempt
37 The orient
VERTICAL
1 So be it
2 Hindu
princess
3 Ovum
4 Arilele
5 Subsequent
to
@ Dreadful
1 Peruvian
tuber
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YESTERDAY'S ·80LUTION.
MEP LORA ATEE AMALE RATT CRO TACTICIAS KETCH HASH
HA TER BROE PAY SUL GOBEL NE VEX TOX AZ OADET FOR BAB BBON DER · ON
TALE OBENZ TARUBALENTRR
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ARIANT FO]
44 45
B Pronoun
9 Insect egg
10 Enclosure 11 Girl's name 13 The Moham-
medan religion 14 Insect in Fibre plant 21 Printer's
measure 23 Slang 24 Charge 25 Ship's crane 26 Container 27 Taken into
custody
28 Golfer's
mound 30 Liberal 31 Part of "to be" |33 Evergreen
tred:de '34 Goddess of discord
36 Pronoun 37 To-clip
39 Interjection 40 To delay
41 South-African * fox
43 Sullen
45. The 'dlit
47 Gone by 40 Child
50 Guido's high **note 52,Sacred Hindu
word 04 Compass
point
review, the major portion of this expenditure having
Sheet.
ill
It is with regret I have to re- port the resignation of Mr. J. H. Taggart from the Board of Dirce- tors of this Company, Mr. Tag- gart sponsored the Company's pro- ing Director for the 18 years since motion and had been its Manag-
its inception; only continued health rendered his resignation necessary, and on behalf of this Board, with whom 1 feel sure Shareholders will also desire to be associated. I take this oppor- tunity of publicly expressing warmest thanks to him for the valuable and essential services he at all times rendered the Com- pany and also to convey heartfelt wishes for his speedy return to good health.
Lido Losing Money ?
Seconding the adoption of the accounts, Mr. C. C. Blake, asked the Chairman: "May I ask if the Lido is still losing money and what was the actual amount lost last year?"
The Chairman replied: "I am afraid I cannot give you this in- formation until after the meet- ing."
Mr. L. Juck then proposed the re-election of the Hon. Sir Shou- son Chow and Mr. P. K. Kwok as directors, and the appointment of Mr. P. H. Suckling as Manag- ing Director in place of Mr. J. H. Taggart who resigned owing to ill-health.
was
Mr. A. E. Eca proposed the re- election of Messrs. Linstead and Davis as Auditors, and seconded by Mr. C. C. Blake,
Both proposals were carried unanimously.
Those present included Mr. E. M. Raymond, (Chairman), Mr. P. K. Kwok and the Hon. Mr. T. E. Pearce, (Directors), Mr. J. H. Taggart, O.B.E. (Managing Direc- tor,) Mr. F. C. Barry (Secretary), Messrs. C. C. Blake, J. E. Köte- wall, L. Jack and Mr. A. E. Eca (Shareholders)
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