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THE HONGKONG & YAUMATI FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED Notice is hereby given that
and old boys of The Diocesan the Twenty-Second Ordinary by Annual Meeting of the Com-Boys' School to a cocktail party on Thursday, May 25, 1950 modern, convenient DURACLEAN pany will be held at the Com from 8.00 10 8.00 p.m. at The
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1950.
SMUGGLERS' PARADISE
By Alexander Clifford
It is second-hand wickedness ut There is dismay in the har- bour at Tangler, where the that, for it is nothing to do with Tangler. The boats snil out per- little
boats from. Oslo and fectly legally and correctly, and Genoa and Falmouth and the Tangerines neither know nor There is gloom.in the flashily Piraeus lie bobbing at anchor. care what happens next.
raffish bars round the port,
international
Taking steps
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For the authorities of that
But they suspect-so far and uninhibited they are interested at all-that city have made a move against some of the cargoes, manage to
dodge the Custome officials smuggling.
foreign nations. And so in a very Smuggling is only a tiny frac-indirect way Tangler is responsl- tion of Tangier's activities. It is ble for some vice. amateurish, small-scale stuff and it hasn't been particularly suc- cessful,
But in this most law-abiding place on earth-for you can' break rules where there aren't any smuggling. is the only thing! with a real flavour of wicked-
IC95,
NOTICE TO TRADERS No. 10
ex-
And now, in a small way, they have started to take steps to stop 4. No, they hasten to tell you, because any of their own regula-" tions are being broken.
But there have been complaints from abroad. And the Tangering authorlites (who are a potpourri of half a dozen nallons) have lold down that ships which Bail out with cargocs must have their papers in order.
It isn't much and it isn't even But in being enforced much. principle a blow has been struck. For most of these little ships which do the smuggling are not qualined to carry freight.
It is hard for them to have their manifests and documents all in order. Smuggling is going to be slightly more dimeult,
JAPAN TRADE
notice, Until further change for the purchase of goods from Japan through the Hong Kong open account will be granted freely to all ap. proved traders, the allocation system being suspended for the time being. This measure To understand this smuggling. is experimental and its succes3-which is a tiny by-product of Tangler's unique economy-you will depend largely on the co-operation of merchants, in must first understand what the particular, on their applying economy itself is
Tangier
muly-lingual, for exchange only for bona-multi-currencied ancient-and- fide transactions.
modern city sprawled along the Southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar. She has a tiny scrap of her
territory own
spread around it, and is governed by a; committee of foreign consuls at present headed by a Dutchman.
2. The rule that a Letter of Authority must be opened within 15 days of the grant of an import licence will therefore be strictly enforced; a mer chant who applies for and is granted an import licence but fails to take out a Letter of Authority within the stipulat- ed period will normally be refused further import licences,
3. It is also proposed that importers, when taking out Letters of Authority, shall be required at the same time to enter into a formal obligation to re-sell to Government any cancelled or lapsed part of the credit at the official buying ratę at the date of re-sale; Government's charge of 4 for opening a Letter of Au- thority, and %% each month of its duration in ex- cess of three months will not be refundable on unused credits,
for
Free and easy
She has no Industry and no agriculture. trade defict of some £7,000,000 a year which is a lot for one small city. And she solves. It by the simple process of being an anarchist in a world of restric- Lions,
But she has got a
Laisser faire is Tangler's motto. No restrictions and no controls. You buy what you like and sell what you like and you use what money you ilke and no bothers about you.
one
to
Tangier's free-market scheme works like this. Supposing, take an imaginary example. Ice- land sorely needs rocking horses. Iceland finds to her distress that rocking horses can only be bought in Bolivia, and Bolivia will only accept dollars, And Iceland has no dollars.
Tangier is the solution.
In
So
4. The maximum period of validity of a Letter of Author-Tangier, Iceland can buy dollara ity will be six calendar months freely and legally with any cur- from the date of opening, un-
roney she happens to have. less in special circumstances a
she orders the rocking horsea to be delivered at Tangler, pays in longer period is agreed at the
dollars, and then takes them on time of opening.
home. And Tangier makes a profit on every phase of the deal. 5. The existing. "return ex-There-are-any-number-of-other change" arrangements will no longer be necessary and will be discontinued forthwith.
6. The new arrangements will come into force on 22nd May, 1950, and will remain in
force until further notice.
ARTHUR CLARKE
I
Director Supplies & Distribution.
Hong Kong, May 17, 1950.
NOTICE
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL
ASSURANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED:
ingenious complications, llable to land you deep into the dizzy mozes of financial mathematics, At Tangier, for instance, all cur- rencies fall to their natural level. For your pound you get not what some Government has decided
you shall get but what someone is willing to pay you,
All are innocent
It follows that some CUT- rencies are very cheap In Tangler. Their natural level la much lower than their official level. Spanish: only pectus, for instance, cost half as much in Tangier as they do In Spain. So any merchant wanting to buy something In Spain would do well to get his pesetas in Tangier.
There is no
It is all legal, honest, and above The Annual General Meeting
board. It would be a Black Mar- of the Hong Kong Stage Club
kel' if à White: Market existed, but Tangier has only one market will be held at 8.30 p.m. on
a free one. Friday, May 20, 1950, in the
denying that, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN without breaking any rules of her Lecture Theatre of the Public Relations Office, in Statue❘ that the Fifteenth Annual own, she does offer a temptation Square, Members, and all in- General Meeting of the Com- to people to break the rules of terested are invited to attend.pany will be held at the Com- other nitions.
pany's Head Office, 11-13.! Smuggling has to be done in "OBLITAS.
Queen's Road Central, Hong little boats; for the goods must Honorary Secretary. Kong, on the 31st day of May. be landed inconspicuously often on beaches. So privato yachts 1950, at eleven o'clock in the and converted trawlers and all forenoon, for the following sorts of small craft from all sorts purposes.
of countries have gone into the business.
HONGKONG TELEPHONE CO. LTD
`CABLE & WIRELESS, LTD. jointly announce
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To receive and consider the
They look very innocent when Report of the Directors, you see them bobbing in the the Annual Statement of harbour. There is no suggestion Accounts and Balanci of stealing out of the harbour at Sheet for the year ended midnight with darkened lights 31st December, 1949, and after hoodwinking the pollee. the Auditors'. Report And the reason is of course, that
they are Innocent.
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
Authority an. Authorition!
TWO STRINGS TO A BOW
could not even have made his YOU ARE nearly always bet- contract by pecking and then ter off if you can have two strings fincesing,
If South had properly bid the bow instead of just one. to your That is the principle which ap-hand, he might have learned that when the bidding has shown North had only five spades. After plies your side to have two preily good Nerth's 3-Spade call, South could suits and you therefore select have rebid his diamonde at four No Trumps for a slam declara- to see it North wanted to bid tion Instead of one of the two spades a third time. If he had, suits. If the first suit you try in a six-card suit would have been the play falls to establish,
due shown, making two cards much
to lack of good division in the safer support than two would be When North alive-carder. defenders' hands, then you can for
try the other. That is n sound failed to rebid the suit, No Trump idea to observe sometimes when would have been indicated.
Even without that intermediate there is doubt about a satisfac- tory fit between the partners in both of the suits.
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won and the club A driven out. Three high
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winner. With spades ne (Dealer: South. East-West vul- sure
trumps,
North had only one porable). string to his bow. When he fall-
If the second spade is ruffed
ed to find the trumps, breaking, and East-discards on the second he was licked. The way the trump lead, what should South: thrice-guarded I was located, he then do to make 4-Hearth?
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HEIGHTS The same with the quayside Merle Oberon David Niven bars: There is nothing furtive or
Laurence Olivier
To clect Directors and Ausinister, no mysterious rendezvous ditors and to transact the or whispered messages. No one ordinary business of the cares what is said or what money Company.
passos,
NOTICE is also hereby given.]
that the Share Transfer Books
"
of the Company will be closed TAI HANG JEWELLERY
from the 28th day.'of May to the 31st day of May, 1950, both days inclusive
By Order of the Board of Directors;
LOT BE FOSTER HALU
Secretary
Kong, May 19, 1980.
Wholesalers of CUT-DIAMONDS
Sole Ager
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