CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
20 WORDS 82 FOL ONE INSERTION PREPAID, 31 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL INSERTION. ADDITIONAL WORDS 10 CTS, PER WORD PER INSERTION
$2
at Dur
Replies are awajung ocea for Box Nos, 240, 266, 266, 1 273, 274, 276, 283, 290.
WANTED KNOWN.
OLD
ETONIANS 4th June please conthel D. F. Lank Telephone 34311.
EDUCATIONAL
COMPLETE COURSE of cutting and sewing in three, six og Ro months, Lexion given in Frenc English and B-sinn
Shangha
LAMMERT BROS.
}
Auctioneers, Surveyors and Appraisers. Pedder Building. Telephono Np. 20224.
PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Anetion on
Friday, the 23rd May 1947 commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Rooma No.35 Humkow Road, Kowloon.
A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
comprising:-
Single & Double Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, Chesl Drivers,
f
Double
THE
CHINA PROVIDENT
LOAN & MORTGAGE
CO., LTD.
THE CHINA MAIL, FRİDAY, MAY 23, 1947.
HONGKONG
TRAMWAYS
LIMITED
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING
HONGKONG',
& WHAMPOA DOCK" COMPANY, LIMITED." NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Notice is hereby given that! NOTICE is hereby given that that the Ordinary Yearly Gon-j
an Extraordinary General Meet- ing of the Company will be the Forty-Sixth Annual General era! Meeting of HONGKONG
The SIXTY-SECOND OR- held at 18 Pedder Street (1st Meeting of the Shareholdera TRAMWAYS LIMITED will be
Offices of Messra. DINARY ANNUAL GENERAL finor) Hong Kong on MONDAY will be held In the Jacobean held at the
NINTH day of JUNE. Houm of the Hongkong Hotel, Jardine, Matheson and Com- MEETING of the Company will the
on be held at the Offices of the 1947, at NOON, for the pur.] Pedder Street, Hongkong on pany, Limited, Hongkong,
Managers, Messrs. pone of proposing and if Saturday, the 31st May 1947, at Thursday, the 29th day of May, General Noon for the following purposes, 1947, at 12 o'clock Noun, to Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., thought fit passing the sub- namely, to consider the annual transact the ordinary business Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on joined resolutions as a special
Friday, 27th June, 1947, at resolution, viz:- statement of accounts and of the Company,
noon, for the purpose of recelv- sheet, the balance
and the reports of the Directora and
And, NOTICE IS HEREBY ing the Report of the Directors, That the Articles of Assoclá-| Auditors thereon, to elect Di- ALSO GIVEN that the Regis- poaring the Accounts for the tlon be altered in the manner
Com-year ended 31st December, 1946, following:- rectors & Auditors in the place ter of Members of the
the and electing Directors and of those retiring, to declare a pany will be closed from
(1) Articlo 17 shall be can- dividend and bonus, to appro- 16th day of May to the 11th Auditors.
celled. priate the balance of Proft and day of June, 1947, both days Loss Accounts as recommanded inclusive.
by the Directors, and to Transact any other ordinary business of the Company.
AND NOTICE is also given
Transfer that the Share
Re. Single Fushion School 192 genes al éxe | Beddetinds with, Hoxpring Mat- gieters will be closed from 2006
Shanghai, Paraston tarsons, Kitchen Tables, Dintug! May, 1947 to 31st May, Road, Kawloan.
Jente
FOR SALE
Pabies. Sideboards, Chairs, Waring Tables, Glans Cabinets, Carvest Camphorwood Trunks, Chinese Rants. Carpet Runner,
Suite, Tables,
FOR SALE 15 ewt. Army Ayje! Chesterfield Chevrolet, Lauty in rat conditest. Wuker Chairs, Blackwood Apply Kowlocis cics.
CHESTERFIELD
Brand-now. Cost
$450 Buyer
preve
SUITE $6301 Accent FREE 15 #1 Caz pott 289, Top, Prince Edward, 65 799 10.029). Phone 57687
PRESENT O
VERY FINE pair of "Gurz" "Zeiss" to x 335) Binorulm "Shipping," (7 x 300 8300 asp. Top, Prince Edward, 45 7:30 pm 6 Phone 57987
ur more
Hon
both date inclusive,
1947,
By Order of the Bhard,
A. D. LEARMONTH, Secretary.
{"bairs, and Ten-Poya, Bed Side) HongKong, 12th May, 1947. Tables, Deals, Curlon, Glass Ware & Cutlery etc. etc.
POSITIONS VACANT
APPLICATIONS 11 invited from certificated derk and
Diesel
officers tof engineer foreign or Chinese nationality). ex-Naval Officeres with five yearsį experience and] full watchliteeping: | certificate for employment in the Marine Department of thej Chinese
Customs. Maritime Particulars of contract may be obtained from the Office of the Chinese Maritime Customs. E Marina House, Queen's Road. Central.
holding
a
POSITIONS VACANT
The General Post Office, Hong Kong. Telecommunications have Immediate vacancies Wireless Technicians as follows:--
far!
tperators
WIRELESS OPERATORS:
Claas A. $250.—per- niensem,
Class B. $200.-
Class C. $150.- ...
TECHNICIANS:
Class A. $250.—per mengem,
Clasa B. $200,-..
Class C. $150,-..
plus
standard
5+
rehabilitation
and or high cost of iving al- lowances.
Applications shoull be made
in writing with references, cer-i
+
ALSO
1 Fan New Tinlain Carpets
1 Persin Rug
# Steel Filing Cabinets
Upright Piano
Bellard Table 9' x t
2 Treudle Sewing Machine
New Bread Cutters
1 "Imperial" Typewriter 16“
"Tumba" Portable Gramo- phore
THE
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
By Order of the Board,
W. H. PATERSON, Secretary
|Hongkong. Gth May, 1947.
HONGKONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED
NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY
GENERAL MEETING
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Com- pany will be held at the Offers of MSCs, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd., 18 Peder Street, Vic- torin, in the Colony of Hong-
The Transfer Books of the Company will be cloned from the 20th June, 1947, to the 11th July, 1947, incluinive.
By Order of the Board,
JARDINE, MATHESON
CO. LTD. General Managers.
Hong Kong, 19th May, 1947.
NOTICE
that
on
(b) In the third line off
Article 71 the word "two" shall be substituted for the word "three"
YO-HO AND A BOTTLE OF COGNAC!
London, May 22.
The days of Smuggler Dick are back on England's long South Coast. Mysterious lights flicker in the Channel mist. Somewhere between the chalk cliffs of Dover and the rugged red rocks of Cornwall, a small boat glides ashore. Crates and cases are: transferred to a waiting truck, There is the sound of an engine starting, and then silence,
A week to ten days later, scarce Cognacs appear in London West End night clubs. American nylons go on sale-under the counter-in 'cer-. tain smart Mayfair shops. Handfuls of jewels from Amsterdam change hands in grubby East Eng Cafes.
1
It's big business, this post- war smuggling-and more pro- (e) The following Article shall fifalde than ever before, owing!
be substituted for Article to the shortage of luxury good 7670: Subject to any in Great Britain and sky-high| purchase! special terms us to voting customs duties and
The Daily Graphle" upon which any shares of taxes. the Company may have recently estimated the
issued or may for glers annual turnover at £1,-
upon
In
one
been the time being be hold. a show of hands every member present percon shali have vote, and upon
poll every member present in person or by proxy shall have end vote for every share held by him."
Д
By Order of the Board,
THE HONGKONG AND YAUMATI FERRY CO., LTD.
Notice is hereby given the Eighteenth Ordinary Annual Meeting of the Company will he held at the Company's Office, 3rd Floor, 144-148 Des Voeux tend, Central, Hongkong, Saturday the 24th May 1947 at Dated kong on Thursday, the 29th 12.00 noon for the purpose of day of May, 1947, at 12.20 in receiving the Report and State- the afternoon or in soon there.ment of Accounts for the Year The Annual General ended 31st December 1941 and at the Jacobean Room, Hong-Meeting shall have been con- for the period 16th September
Hotel, kong
Street, cluded for the purpose of pro- Hong Kong, on Saturday, 31st posing and if thought it pass- May, 1947, at 12.15 p.m. (oring the sub-joined resolution as as soon thereafter as the Orja special resolution viz:- be dinary Annual Meeting to held at Noon on that date ahni!! have been concluded) for purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing the sub- Juined Relation as an Ordin- nry Resolution:-
NOTICE hereby given that un Extraordinary General Meet- On View from Thursday, the ing of Shareholders will be held
May 1947.
Terms: As Customary.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Chinese Optical Co.
OPTICIAN
67 QUEEN'S ROAD C
Service Auction Rooms
Auctioneers, Surveyors, etc. Busriment. French Bank Bldg., A.E.B. de Sousa, Auctioneer. Telephone 31807.
Pedder
the
"That the Capital of the
increased Company be
to $10,000,000.-by the creation of One Million. Two Hundred Thousand additional now shares of Five Dollars tach to be issued nt such terma and conditions' in every rea- pect as the Company's Board of Directors may think GL" By Order of the Board,
A. D. LEARMONTH, Secretary.
Hongkongi 12th May, 1947,
BY ORDER
OF THE DIRECTOR OF DISPOSALS FAR EASTERN AREA
(M. O. S.)
I. THE
STORES BRITISH
DISPOSAL (HONG KONG) is authorised to receive TENDERS following:--
BOARD
for the
%
TUCS, LAUNCHES, LIFE HOATS, DINGHIES, ETC.
flcates, etc. und passport size LOCATED AT ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS, 626 WATER photograph to the Genlby Wire-
TRANSPORT COMPANY, SHAMSHUIPO.
than 28th May, 1947.
leas Engineer. General Post
Lot No. 1 Office, Hong Kong., not Inter Lot No. Lat No.
14 foot Dinghy (No, D.985)
2
14 foot Dinghy (No. D.888)
E. I. WYNNE-JONES,
Postmaster General,
Hong Kong, 21st May, 1947.
ed
TRANSPORT
Lat No. 4
Lot No.
Lot No. 6
Lot No. 7
14 foot Dinghy (No. 1014)
7 font Passenger Launch (No. N/N/3)
"1" Type Launch (No. J.BG)
"J" Type Launch (No. J87)
"D" Type Tug (No. 199)
LOCATED AT WING ON SHING YARD, CHEONG SHAWAN (NEAR LAI CHI, KOK)
28 foot Motor Boat (No, N/N/4)
Lot. No N
*Lot No. 9 Lot No. 10
LOCATEN AT, H.M. DOCKYARD, KOWLOON.
10 font Dinghy (No, .N/N/5)
Lot No. 11
Is hereby notified that anual-Lot No. 12 tenders which should be Lot No.13 Lot No. 14
clearly marked "Tender, for Lot No. 15 Provision of Road Carrying Lot No. 16 Motor Transport i ton capacity Lot No. 17 on hire to W.D." will be re- Lot No. 18 ceived at the office of the Com- Lat. No. 19 20 mander, Royal Army Service Lot No. Corpe, Queen's Road, Hong Lot No. 21 Kong until noon on 28th May Lot No. 22
Lot No. 23 - 1947 for the hiring to
Lot No. 24
the
War Department as required!
10 foot Dinghy (No. 9970)
10 foot Dinghy (No. 2370)
10 feet Dinghy (No. 497)
18 foot Boat Drifter (No. N/N/6)
foot
24
24
Cutter Pulling (No. N/N/7). foot Life Bont (No. 888)
Boat (No, N/N/8)
Life foot 36 foot Harbour Launch (No. 44272) 10 foot Dinghy (No. 2300) 10 foot Dinghy (No. 1840)
14 foot Dinghy (No. N/N/0) 10 foot Drifter (No. N/N/10) 10 foot-fator Roai (No. 720)
27, foot Wholer (No. 4250) 29 foot Life Bost (No. 29810)
mechanically propelled vehicles 2. No warranty is given in any way as to condition etc., for transport of W.D. Stores, and lots will be bought as they lie,
Veideles will be required in
Hong Kong island and in Kow- and
loon and New..Territories and 4.
Hours of inspection: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays Fridays, 10 am, to 12 Noon and 2 p.m. to 4 pm.
after as
to 31st December 1945.
Share Register of the Company Notice is also given that the
will be closed from the 15th) That the Articles of Associn- | May 1947 to the 24th May 1947,| tion be altered by cancelling both days inclusive, Articles 127 fal and 127 (b) and that the following Articles be substituted:
"127 (0) Any General Meeting may resolve that any moneys investments
Applicants for Tender Forms are required to deposit."127 offers may be made for each $100.00 with the Board at the time of applying for the Tender aren separately or for both Form. This eum may be reckoned as part of the 10% deposit required to be remitted with any tender. (See paragraph Forms of Tender: and fur- of Page 1 of Tender: Form). ther particulara. may be obtálá-6.
Areas.
H
The $100.00 deposits made by contractors not eventually cd from HQ. R.A:8.C., wishing to, tender will be returnable against receipt in the Queen's Road, Hong Kong, Beard's offices of the original Tender Form Issued.
The War Department doon 6. Closing date for tenders:-12 Noon, Thursday, 29th May, not bind itself to accept the 1047.
lowest or any tender, and re— The Chairman of the British —Storos —Disposal...Board- sorych, the right to accept all
(Hong Kong) does not bind himself to accept the higheat or any tender.
or any part of any tender.
S. P. PERRY
Lt Col., Commander, Royal Army Service Corpa,
HONG KONG
WALTER M. WEINBERGER
BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD,
Chairman,
TONG CONG
By Order of the Board,
LAU TAK PO, Managing Director.
HONGKONG, 10th May, 1947.
tion 44 of the Com- panles Ordinance, 1932 and the direc tors may appoint any person to sign such contract on behalf of the persons entitled
to the dividend or capitalised fund, and such appointment
shall be effective."
R. G. CRAIG,
Chief Manager.
Hong Kong.
000,000.
smtg-
However big this illegal traf- fic, the Treasury, in coopera- thon with Scotland Yard, in out to smash it. Revenue cutters that
did wartime service an! minesweepers and trawlers are being radar-equipped to aid the| operation.
Oficial vigilance is being re- April one warded. Early
men clambered morning, two
D.day
ashore from a landing craft be-f ing used in a reverse
Two other 2734:13 operation.
truck were waiting with
switched basis. The engine roared, then-
this Ninth day of May, Ces were
1947,
DEPARTMENT OF
"Ialt!"
"Int" came a cry from thei semi-darkness. The truck hall
choice-a road block sealed
1
off the lonely Dorset lane, and
VASSILIEVSKY "TOO BUSY"
London, Mag 21. Marshal Vassilievisku han postponed his visit to Britain "owing to extremely heavy pressure of work," the War Office announced today.
After Field Marshal Lord Montgomery visited the Noviet Union cartier thin
year, he wrote to Marshal Vasilievisky saying that he wa "looking forward" to the Soviet Marshat visiting Bri- tain this June-Reuter.
Allocation Of Rice
Washington, May 21. The International
IMPORTS & EXPORTS | His Majesty's Customs Service Emergency Food Coun-
NOTICE
This department will be elon- rd on Monday, the 20th of May.i 1947 for all purposes except for entry and clearance of ships' manifests between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m.
(ad) E. HIMSWORTH,
Superintendent, Imports & Exports.
Dated: 20th May, 1947.
REMINDER
SPORTS CLUB
Looks over. The intercepted cil has announced allo-
loot: 1,286 bottles of assorted spirits, worth a Black Market cations small fortune.
of 2,158,700 metric tons of rice for landing Not only
craft. 1947, including 100,000 abandoned on the Normandy beaches, hot privately-owned tons for Hong Kong. yachts, some of them former naval launches, are being used |
in
The
announcement stressed* the cross-channel traffic. that "a very small world sup Still other smugglers use the ply is available for export" and pointed out that allocations were regular passenger boats. There, the risk is
the face of requests even made in greater. Customs agents took for over 6,000,000 metric tons
10,000 worth of jewellery for the same period. from a business man at Dover. Two Belgian seamen were fined heavily for trying to smuggle in 100 watches
"No European astong are as- signed imports in view of the, Council's policy of reserving all supplies in arcus'
British offeinla do not like exportable
Coastal
The International Emergency "Many Food Council added: basically rice-cating areas whil be restricted to less than 50 per cent of their prewar consump- tion during 1947 as a result of the severe shortage".
to talk about the rise in smug where rice is the basic food," gling or their campaign. handi- capped by limited manpower and shipping facilities, to check Selling lotteries for the It. But residents of Rye,
other Whitsun Race Meeting will be Hastings and If the above resolution is hold TO-DAY at 6 p.m. sharp. towns gossip freely. duly passed as a special resolu tion the following two resolu- tigan will be proposed as or-
H. S. YOUNG! Hon. Secretary. dinary resolutions respectively viz:-
or other assets form- ing part of the un- divided profits of the company or any un- realised profits aris- ing from revaluation of any assets of the company and stand- Ing to the credit of any reserve or nny capital redemption reserve fund, or in the hands of the company and avail- able for dividend for pre- representing mluma received
оп the issue of shares and standing to the credit of the nharc premium account) be capitalised and dis- 'tributed amongst such of the share- holders as would be entitled to receive the same if distribut ed by way of divi- dend and in the same!
the proportions on footing that they bo- come entitled thereto as capital and that' all or any part of such capitalised pro- fits or reserves be applied on behalf of such shareholders in paying up in full either at par or at auch premium as the resolution
may pro- vide, any
untanuod shares or debentures or debenture Atock
the
company which shall be distributed accord- Ingly ur in or tn- warda payment of the uncalled liability on any issued shares ar debentures or de- benture stock, and that Ruch distribu
tlou or payment shall be accepted by such shareholders in full satisfaction
of their interest In the! said capitalised pro-
fits or reserves.”
· of
the
(b) For the purpose of! giving effect to any] resolution under the last preceding article directors mhy settle any dimeully which may arise in regard to the dis- tribution be they think expedient, and
In particular may is. Aud fractional carti- icator Where re- quialte, a proper con- tract shall be deliver- od to the Registrar for registration fo -accordance with: Boc-
(1) That the
authorised
Capital of the Company be increased to $20,000,-) 000 by the creation of 3,
NOTICE
"La Mouche" According to these, accounts, much of the contraband comes across from Boulogne, France,
it
The announcement also made clear that "these allocations
where a mysterious ex-Maquis for the whole of 1947 will re- known as "La Mouche (the place and include the ones pre- fly) is said to be master smug-viously announced for the first gler. His English counterpart six months of 1947"-Router. is reputed to be an ex-senforing
We have appoled Mr. B. C. man called "The Captain." 360,000 new shares of Hale as General Manager for Offelal watchdogs of the
the nominal value of $5 the Far East with effect from South Coast acknowledge that Control
ench.
a sum
May 1st, 1947, vize Mr. J., II.
THOS: COOK & SON, LTD.,
(2) That it is desirable to Green who retired on February
capitalise
28th after 40 years valued aer- of HK$6,500,000 being part vice for the Cor:pany in the of the balance standing Far East. at the credit of the Fix- ed Assets Revaluation Reserve of the company and accordingly that Buch Fum ber and is hereby capitalised, and that such capital sum be applied on behalf of the persons who on the 29th day of May 1947 Woro the holders of the 650,000
Berkeley Street, London.
BANK HOLIDAYS
only small operators have been caught so far. Customs water- guard superintendent T. H. Jones said in court recently that there in "undoubtedly a highly organized 'scheme of amuggling."
With $1 few more radar- equipped cutters, are authorl- ties
confident they can! knock some of the main props from under the organization. -Associated Press.
ל
Aro
The Hague,, May 21
The veteran Dutch flyer, D.
Of Atomic Energy
Lake Success, N.Y., May 21.
Members of the United Na-. tions Atomic Energy Commis- sion today agreed la principle that the proposed world atomle control agency should be "CB" tablished within the frame=h Work" of the Security Council,
The Exchange Banks will be Parmentier, will pilot a KLM on the understanding that there
fasued shares of the com- closed for the transaction
pany in payment in full public business on Monday, the its first for 1,300,000 now shares 26th May, 1947, (Whit of the company of the day.)
nominal value of $5
Mon-
of "Constellation" on June. 4 on would be no voto of the
from Agency's day-to-day opera trial flight Amsterdam Batavia
to
and tions.. back. He will take a normal loud of 43 passengers. The service is operated at present by "Skymasters."-Router.
The Commission convened an working committee to re- a month's post- sume, after ponement, consideration of the Russian proposals for changing the American 'atomic energy. control plan as adopted by the
Of The War majority of the Commission's
Progress Of The War Crimes Trials
each, and that such Hong Kong, 23rd May, 1947. 1,800,000
new shares credited as fully paid bo accordingly allotted to such persona respectively in the proportion of two of such new shares for "every one of the sald Issued shares then held by such persons respec tively, and that the shares.so allotted shall be treated for all pur poses as an increase of the nominal 'amount of the capital of the com- pany held by each⋅ nuch. shareholder and not an Income' and 'further that Buch
now, nkares" shail from the 1st day of
London, May-22.
Mr. Bellenger, the War Minister, says that the progress of war crimes trials at military courts In Singapore, Hongkong, Malaya, Burma and Borneo is being satisfactorily maintained By April 25, 687 Japanese and Koreans had been tried. Of these 53 had been sentenced to life imprisonment and 235 to death.
The latter, figure
12 members.
The original American word- ing suggested a control agency within the United Nations.
M. Gromyko reassured tha
Commission that Russia did not activities but gave no sign of a change in Soviet insistence that the big powers should to able to veto punishment of atomic control offenders in thêy "Security' Council. -',"-.
insist on a voto on day-to-day
This left uncertain-how much of the Agency's, activities, the
January 1947 rank for
figure includes sen-, poro, Part Darwin and Rabaul dividend and in all other tonces not yet confirmed; 108: Of these, 371 have been sentenced Soviet would consider "day-to- respecta pari pascu with death sentences hars no far been to various terms of imprisonment day."-United Press. ****
141 and 142 to death. he already bound shares derrlos zout. Of the accusing in Singapore, at the end of
By Order of the Board
W. H. PATERSON, Becretary
trial with the cance again them April five accused-worestill completed, and 1905 in cu awaliing
trial by Australist sont available to show how many tudy whose cases are under in courts, 41 accused had also been were awaiting trial in Japan, ins vestigation, de who are suspecta teled by tha U.8. courts in Japan similar, cases. It would not be in. bald'spending investis only da zeln } cases, involving British vie- the public Interest to disclose the Um 14 had been sentenced to dates when, Lie Worserlmer sælala 2B8 teams of imprisonment and I to by British military codria, were bhag Dxpected to be ompleted. Aand- mapa Theri were no Ugures hi preciated Fres