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THE
NOTICE
HONGKONG
Balisbury
AND
SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION
Ordinary Yearly General Meeting
HEREBY
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1956.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITED
Notice To Shareholders
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the Company will be held at the Company's Registered Office, P. & 0. Building, 4th Floor, Hong Kong, at 11.15 o'clock in the forenoon of the 15th day of March 1956 (or as soon thereafter as the business of the Sixty-third Annual General Meeting of the Company shall be concluded) for the purpose of considering and, it thought fit, passing the following Resolution as a Special Resolution:
"That the authorised Capital of the Company be increased from its present Capital of $50,000,000 divided into 5,000,000 shares of $10 each to $100,000,000 by the creation of 5,000,000 ndditional shares of $10 each,"
AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing the following Resolutions as Ordinary Resolutions:
1. "That it is desirable to capitalise a sum of $5,000,000 being part of the General Reserve Account and that accordingly a special capital bonus of $5,000,000 free of income tax be declared and that such bonus be applied on behalf of the persons. who on the 15th day of March 1956 are holders of the 3,500,000 fully paid-up issued shares of the Company in payment in full for 500,000 new shares of the Company of $10 each, and that such 500,000 new shares credited as fully paid be accordingly allotted to such persons respectively in the proportion of one such new share for every complete seven of the said issued shares then held by such persons respec- tively, and that the shares so allotted shall be treated for all purposes as an in- crease of the nominal amount of the capital of the Company held by each share- holder and not as income, and further that such new shares shall as from the 1st day of July 1956 rank for dividend and in all other respecta PARI PASSU with the already issued shares,
"If any member would be entitled to a fractional atare the Directors in lieu of · issuing fractional share certificates will cause the wholesshare to be issued to a person or persons to be named by the Directors and such share shall at such time- As the Directors think fit be sold and the proceeds distributed among the persons entitled to the fractions making up such share."
2. "That. in accordance with Article 11 of the Articles of Association of the Company there shall be offered to members who on the 15th day of March 1966 are the registered holders of the 3,500,000 fully paid-up issued shares of the Com- pany 1,000,000 shares of the Company of the nominal value of $10 each at par (such nominal value being payable in full upon application on or before the 1st day of July 1956) so that each member of the Company or his approved nominee, shall be entitled to apply for and take up two new shares for every complete issued seven shares then held by such member. The shares so offered shall rank for divi- dend as from the lat day of July 1956 and in all other respects PARI PASSU with.. the already issued shares.”
"If under the terms of the offer any member would be entitled to a fractional share, the Directors, in lieu of issuing fractional certificates, will cause the whole share to be issued to a person or persons to be named by the Directors and such share shall at such time as the Directors think fit be sold and the nett proceeds distributed among the persons entitled to the fractions making up such share."
"The Directors will dispose of any shares offered to members in the event of non-payment therefor by members or their approved nominees on or before the 1st day of July 1956 at such time or times in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as they may decide."
It is most important that any persons who have purchased shares in the Com- pany but are not on the Register in respect thereof should, if they wish to take advantage of the offer, present their transfers for registration accompanied by the requisite share certificates on or before the 1st day of March 1956.
The offer will be made by notice sent by post to each shareholder specifying the number of shares to which each shareholder is entitled and such offer, if not ac- cepted either on behalf of such member or his nominee on or before the 1st day of July 1956 will be deemed to be leclined.
NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Cor- poration will be held at the Head Office of the Corpora. tion, 1 Queen's Road, Central, Hong Kong, on Friday, the 10th day of March, 1966, at Noon for the purpose of receiving and considering the
AND NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Register of Members will be reports of the Directora closert from Friday, the 2nd of March, to Thursday. the 15th of March, 1956, both and uf the Auditors days inclusive. and the Profit and 1088 Account and Balance Sheet for the year ended 31st December, 1955, and for the election of Directors and fix- ing their remuneration and the appointment of Auditors.
THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be closed from Friday, the 2nd of March to Friday. the 16th of March, 1956, (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered,
By Order of the Board, MICHAEL W. TURNER,
Chief Manager.
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.
Notice to Shareholders
11
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Sixty-Third . Annual General Mecting of the Members of the Company will be held on Thursday, the 16th day of March, 1956, at the Company's Registered Ofice, 4th Floor. P. & O. Building, for the transaction of the business of an Ordinary General Meeting including the following:- (1) To receive and consider 'the, Reports of the Diree- tors and of the Auditors, and the Profit and Loss Account ·for the ended 31st
year December
1955, and the Balance Sheet as at that date.
(2) To approve the Dividend.
(3) To elect Directors. (4) To appoint Auditors.
The Register of Members will be closed from Friday, the 2nd of March, to Thursday, the 15th of March, 1956, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board,"
F. I. FELL.
Secretary. Hongkong, 16th Feb., 1956.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. Agonia. #ilongkong," February 11, -1854,
Dated Hong Kong, this 17th day of February 1956.
•
By Order of the Board of Directors,
F. H. FELL,
Secretary.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
CLAY CAMEL CAUGHT!
NOTORIOUS THIEF ARRESTED IN EMBASSY IN RIOTOUS .SCENE AS HE IMPERSONAT AMBASSADOR, SITUATION COMPLICATED BY TH
FERD'NAND
NANCY
CITY DUMP
OF ALL THE CRAZY--WHEN
I SAW THREE AMBASSADORS--..
IT WASN'T AS
HERE ARE THE
I PLANNED-CROWN JEWELS,
BUT IT
MISTER AM--Or
WORKED! --YOU ARE THE
WE'VE GOT
I WONDER IF I CAN HIT
THAT OLD DRESSER WITH THIS ROCK
'JOHNNY HAZARD
TIMED PRECISELY, GABY'S ROTOR BLADES İSLICE THROUGH THE HOSE CONNECTION/
ERNNE
THE CLAY
CAMELY
AMBASSADOR?
OH --- YOU BROKE THE
MIRROR -
THAT
MEANS BAD LUCK
Large Aquamarine Spotlights
An Egyptian State Tourist office was opened last week in London's Piccadilly by Mr Nasħad Murad of the Egyptian Tourist Administration. Mr Murad is pictured standing In front of the entrance, while visitors throng the inside of the office. Express Photo.
HALF SHEEP, HALF GOAT
Wellington. Fob. 16.
A strango animal, half sheep and half goat, ing been dis- covered
in the on a farm Awakino district.
It was reared by an ewe and
has a head like sheep, goat's
cars and the rudiments of horns, longer legs than A lamb and silky hair,
It has no teeth-China Mail Special.
By Leo Falk and Phil Davis
I AM, YOUR
HIGHNESS.
IF YOU'VE ANY DOUBT,
PULL MY MUSTACHE.
CRASH
[THE TWO PLANES SIDESUP AMART? NOW THE
SECONDS RUN OUT-THREE~~TWO.......ONE
YOU'VE PLENTY OF TIME NOW, CLAY CAMEL.YOU CAN DISGUISE YOURSELF AS A JAILBIRD,
Bah!
NEXT
'U-HUNT'
By Mik Lingerie
By Ernie Bashmiller
OH. YEAH
·By Frank Robbins
FROL
US Tanks For
Saudi Arabia
Brazilian Industry
By Haig Nicholson
Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 16. News of the discovery of what is claimed to be the biggest aquamarine in the world in Brazil recently attracted new attention to the country's coloured gemstone industry.
prosperous,
The aquamarine weighed 61 kilo- grammes (over 134 lbs), but experts like Hans Stern who, at the age of 16, left Hitler's Germany for Brazil, and now, at 33, is probably the biggest coloured gemstone dealer in the world, asserted that its importance lay rather in its size than in its quality.
..
"It is of inferior quailly and curately to assess the gemstone has faults," Mr Stern declared, industry's annual turnover, but "and when broken up and cut it certainly runs into millions of is not likely to prove very pounds, valuable. It is certainly not in The greatest success story of the same class as the Martha the Brazilian gemstone Rocha aquamarine."
try is the story of himself.
Two Partners
indus- Mr Stern
From the age of 10, he start-
Coloured gemstone dealers in and it was not surprising that ed collecting inineral specimens, Brazil will long remember Martha Rocha, and Mr Stern Essen, in the Rhineland,
the when he arrived in Brazil from has a number
Just of the superb before the start of World Wer stones which came from this 11, he should enter the 32 kilogramme aquamarine stone industry. mined last year and named after Brazil's 1954 Beauty Queen.
It is the biggest aquamarine of top quality yet found. It was found by a prospector who had Washington, Feb. 16.
two partners. The three became The United States is to do owners of half of the big stone, liver 18 light Waller Bulldog valued at £150,000, and tanks to Saudi
the other half became the property Slate Department announced ut the man who financed the
today.
Arabla,
A State Department spokes- man said the 18 tanits had been the freighter loaded on bonne
Jaimes Monroe, which is dùo to weigh anchor in New York on Friday for the port of Dammam
(Saudi Arabia).
Walter Bulldog tanks are light
reconnaissance vehicle.
Also
known as "M-41", they weigh 25 tons-France-Presse.
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
FROZEN FRESH
IN THE COUNTRY!
TRY
Libby's
FROZEN FOODS
TODAY!
ROWNTREES
IT'S THE FULL
GREAM MILK THAT
MALES ROWNTREES CHOCOLATE JD
DOMBEY WOOD!
Coventricit
MILK CHOCOLATE
this situation
calls for
San Miguel
prospectors.
gemTM
He studied every aspect of the industry for six years 'and then started business an hic own, at a desic In a rented room.
Hard Work
has travelled all over the world Today, eleven years later, he
of the in search knowledge and stones and has built up a busi- ness with world-wide romiflca- tions and a staff of about 120. But before dt WIS Anally
From an intricate filing sys- broken up and cut, 20 people tem, he can tell the history of every stone which has passed had shares in the stone.
The main mining centre for through his hands. Brazilian coloured,
He has made six key employ- ces directora of his fm, In is the state of Minas Gerais
(said to produce the Scotsmen which he holds all the shares, of Brazil), adjoining the State and he has his own stuff social of Rio Janeiro, Minas Gerais | welfare scheme. provides about 80 per cent of He attributes his undoubted all the gem stones found in the success to "hard woric and luck." country, Other mining centres He is not married. "I have are in the State of Ballà north | never found time for that," he of Minas Gerais, and in the says.-China Mail Special.. slafe of Rio Grande do Sul in
the deep wouth.
Mem stones
to
Figures relating to the gem- stone Industry are difficult get, but it is estimated that at the peak period each year up- wards of 10,000 men are engaged In prospecting.
Talisman
A small number prospect all the year round but the bulk are part-time farmhands and part-. Lime miners. They work on the land during the harvest season then turn to digging for gem- stones when there is little no work on the farms.
Compared with mining methods say, in South Africa,
or
those in Brazil are somewhat primitive. Prospectors work with picks and shovels some- times burrowing as deep as 300 feet into the side of a hill But about they produce diamonds, 00 per
cent of the world's aquamarines
and
other gem- | stones including the topaz, amethyst and tourmaline, The stones found generally range in weight from 20 grammes to 150 gramm.ce.
ü
The aquamarine, regarded by
Grecks and Romans as talisman for ocean travellers, prized in the Middle Ages as a renewer of marriages, and said when taken powdered in water to have been a cure for lazl- ness, is now, in the opinion of Mr Stern, in" gradually Increas- ing demand and fashion.
"Diamonds,
said Mr Stern "are the most publicised jewel. Every woman wants diamonds. If the demand for aquamarines was as great as for diamonds the price of the highest quality equamarines might rise to as much 100 times the price of diamonds. The explanation that while there are many high gialty diamonds comparatively dew high quality
aquamarines are Yound."
The popularity of the topaz. birthstone for. November, sym- bol of friendship and possessed of the legendary powers of pro venting bad dreams, and · die- pelling worry, moves in cycles. It is not in demand at present.
Wholesale Exports
The amethyst, which legend saya protected, the wearer, from tive evils of strong drink, is still favoured by elderly people.
The tourmaline will never be
dashionable
|0
comparatively few dre found.
· 11′′i walimkted that about. 78' per cent of Brazil's production of coloured germatones" Leave the country, as wholesale exports, mainly for Abo United States and Europe, Gormany, with: ita gem... cutting centre at Idar Oberstein, is an important customer,
The nominizider, of Alva 'lobes Care sold in kise doren of peole- |lactis,, prendente) - lour-cing,' kingi and komore to dranilang and tovardata from all over for prockcha
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