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THE HONGKONG AND
SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION
ANNOUNCEMENT
The
Directors of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
an-
nounce that they have de-| elded to
interima рпу hm dividend of £2 per share on Saturday, 10th August 1987, in respect of the year ending 31st December 1967.
The
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1957,
China's
Student What's On Tonight
Rebellion
by A China Mail Correspondent
News contributions, ways we transfer books will be closed THE difficulties which China's rulers are reported to be experiencing with
come, should be
addressed to the Fallor, bustness communications and advertiser.enta to the Secretary.
Telephones 20611 (5 Uines),
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NOTICE
Obtain-
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE COMPANY, LIMITED.
Notice To Shareholders
Issue Of 325,500 Shares of
$5.00 Each Par Value At A Premium Of $5,00 Per Share
A copy of this Bolice has bort: delivered to the Registrar of Com- panies Sur Bling.
The satisfactory position of the Company justifies, in the opinion of the Directors, the issue, at a premium of $5.00 per share, of 325,500 of the unissued shores of the Com- pany to persons who, on 27th July, 1967, are registered na holders of the already issued shares of the Company.
The now shares will rank for dividend pro rata AB from 1st October, 1957, and in all other respects pari passu with the already issued #hares of the Company,
Shareholders will be en- titled to
of allotment one new share for every four shares held. No fractional certificates will be issued, but holders of an odd number of shares will be entitled to take up a whole share in lieu of the fraction.
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on prepayment.
from 26th July to 9th August,
both days inclusive,
university students in many parts of the country include a number of problems which exist in universities all over the world.
The Directors have also
Some are containly not exep decided to transfer a sum oftions to Chino. Others, of course, 11K.$26,000,000 (£1,562,500) are peculiar to countries which to the published Reserve aim at political indoctrination as Fund by transfer
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of part of education policy. HK.$9,000,000 from the These problem are, however, correctly by the forward in diagnosed balance carried the Profit and Loan Account Chinese authorities. nt 31st December 1966, and HK.$16,000,000 from Reserver,
Arrangements
completed bern Government of
Inner
have how
with
the Hong Kong to introduce the necessary legislation to
abolish the contingent lability of Shares holders,
to
and, iice of careers in which they are, They behave bedly have an unhealthy outlook. not consulted, the waele of talent One newspaper reported that... so on."
The Peking People's Daily, in at Nanking Univeralty cludenis "waste their entire time, when a leading article on October 4
U11090 not atteding lectures either last year bears this out: "Many In playing poker in one of the students, especially
establish- educational rooms of the students hostels, or higher chattering. Sometimes they play munts, have been overburdened poker un!ll midnight without with clnesce. They have been living and studying in a state of stopping.
excessive tension.
Essentially Chinese students today are seciding individual liberties. They found oppor-
"At the Peking School of unity for this expression follow Engineering, some students sleep
unrest in Ing
the European in their dormitories when they satellites, revelations of similar have no morning lectures; after trends
students In lunch they go to sleep again, and among Soviet Russia, Yugoslavia and in the evening, during the timb the satellites and they also ap pear to have taken advantage set aside for Independent work,
they do not study.
People's of the popular cumpalga now sweeping the country-"Let 100 University, Peking, some flowers blooza, let all schools of į rudenis waste the Ume allowed
them for independent work. thought contend."
The Crux
Subject to the consent of 118 Excellency The Governor of Hong Kong to the relative Increase in capital, it is pro- posed
recommend
Here is perhaps the crux of to Shareholders at an Extra-lhe problem, expressed in an article entitled "New problems General Meeting which deserve our attention, are ordinary to be held on 9th August arising in our higher educational 1957 that a bonus issue be institutions," published in the made in the proportion of Kuan Ming Jih Pao: phe share for ench share then held by the capitalisa- tion of HK.$25,000,000 the Reserve Fund, Such new stress shares will not rank for the present interim dividend but will be entitled to all sub- sequent dividends.
10
"AŁ the Chinese
Demands
"Out of the five evenings, they the cinema and spend three two watching football matches." Another writer sold "Some
shows that
Sunday Work
hours
"A large proportion of them 4 weak. Not only were were having to study 60 or 70 they kept very busy through the day by their studies, but they even had to work cn Sundays and rest-daya.
stud 'become "College life mechanical, monotonous, Somo Secondary schools drew up rum- bers of meticulour, complicated rules, governing not only the
pupils.
studies but the daily life of the
conditions of Hte in present-day China,
Somewhere then between the students demand for "excesive democratisation" and the past polleirs et excessive restric tions" enforced by the authori- tics Ucs to answer.
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Maverick Queen":
A western In which Barbara Stanwyck Is the boss. With Barry Sullivan, Scott Brady, Mary · Murphy. In Naturama,
KING'S and PRINCESS: "Melbourne Rendezvous": A feature length documentary taken at the 1956 Olympic Games.
A
METROPOLE and STAR: "The Gold Rush":
re-issue of one of Charles Chaplin's early films made in the days when he was known as "Charlie".
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "International Police": Victor Mature of the United States Anti- Narcotic Sqund pursues dope peddler Trevor Howard across Europe while Anita Ekberg looks elegantly on.
ROXY and BROADWAY:
"The Wayward Bus": John Steinbeck's story about a group of people Joan thrown together during a bus journey. Collins, Dan Dailey, Jayne Mansfield, Rick Jason, Betty Lou Keim, Dolores Michaels.
AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
FOUR MILLION WORK OUT THEIR IOUS
Sydney, (By Airmail).
Something like four million taxpayers throughout Australia on Sunday evening began to worry about how much They also expected the pupils they owed the Income Tax Commissioner on their earnings students during the year. June 30 was the close of the Australian
Financial year.
to be too Industrious. is the circumstances, the
could not digest, what they learnt.
minds
As much as
of our young people were recent- ly to be heard declaring Up to now we have had to listen to
Their
were too tense. They had no chance of thinking
people is not | laboratory until tests are mado "In their own lives, university you the leaders of the adminis
we all dislike various other
cannot working by themselves.
be taxable and this would indicate to ensure that they students set up individualism tration and of our organisations
-but
the virus to nalive, from now on, you will thinking along independent lines paying income tax it must of in opposition to collectivism. A have to listen to us. Such talk and
the carly that he has a sollu reed to lean tranmit animals, working independently, admitted that since they every opportunity
the procedure has on. some young people Their health suffered as a result" war years individual, the habits of the relationship between the leaders, the chiodicity a way out take most of the terrors out of
on the freedom of the have an insufficient grasp of the
Up till now mosquitoes have been streamlined sufficiently to There is evidence, however,
resent, What taxpayers do however, is the implied threat been used as a disease carrier individual, the tastes and and the mass of the people.“
in which the authorities, with the tax form
by the Taxation Commissioner but their usa has been limited opinions of the Individual, thus And Another: "Nowadays, cut impairing fundamentasi In these days of "pay as you that it workers do start claining by the fact that they are unable showing 4 rather dangerous some young people
from to carry such a deadly form of are making education policy will pay greater curn" very few workers on a rebates for fares to ned | tendency towards individualism." | exaggerated denunda for con attention to the demands of tho straight-out salery or wage owe werk the Department will get virus as the fleas will be able
The author goes on to say: fortable living conditions, and students, "But-faced
operate the Commissioner anything at
to and also the fact that they a cerlain with this situation, soon as they notice the slightest
the end of the period.
can only neliker the professors, the or mistake or defect they make
distance from water. ganisera responsible for the endless and noisy criticizn.... students, nor the students these are not Isolated events, but themselves venture to intervene, everyday ones,"
Why has the student problem for fear of being regarded as
with individui in China suddenly burst forth: interfering
strangling
the into prominence? It has been in development of the personality evidence for some months new ..University studenis are dis- but it appearest to be gathering playing 2 tendency fowards momentum recently. excessive democratisation."
A French correspondent after a lengthy analysis of Communist newspaper complaints put it this
This proposed capitalisa- tion is being made in connec. tion with the cancellation of the reserve liability of Share holders. and should not be construed as an indication of intention to increase the total amount to be distributed by
of dividend in way future.
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI RANKING
CORPORATION
the
NOTICE is hereby given that an Interim Dividend of 12.0.0. per share has been' declared in respect of the year ending 31st December, 1957. at the rate of 1/2. 13/168, per Dollar.
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Difficulties
Here are some of the dimeul- Her facing China's educational authorities:
Students ገሮ heglecting politics, social activities and physical exercises They are not conforming to
school decipline
Way:
Complaints
The
Thus, Mr Tseng Teb-iin, in on
"We must im article entitled prove and intensity the ideologi cal and political education el university students," said:
Unhealthy
the
very tough indeed and the poor old taxpayer will have to wait a long time for his rebate,
Within the next six
weeks
In fact, quite a number have authorised their bosses to take duit of their pay each week anions of taxation forms will Ittle more than the necessary be flowing into taxation offers amount, with the result that vast majority can look for some small rebate.
Simple Procedure
"We have not paid enough at-
to developing tention character and embilions of our students, Consciously or uncon- sciously we have even prevented their personalities, tastes and
The procedure has become 50 insiividual talents from expand-relatively simple, in fact, that
ug to that their state of mind not a great deal of
people
is
is net normal and their mentality appreciated the spanner which
unhealthy....Moreover, both the President of the Taxpayers in daily life and in extra-Association of NSW Mr C curricular activities we have au- Sindel,
into threw
This Dividend will be pay- They are turning up late to /methods with the excesses and cople's National Congress, Mr the taxation authorities.
able on or after Saturday,
where Shareholders are quested
re-
The Company have agreed Warrants. to pay underwriting com- mission at the rate of 2 per cent on all the shares covered by this offer.
10 apply for
their professors
Mail Notices
The latest
themselves."
In Between
the
In every capital city and the Taxation Commissioner has put
They're Betting
Wharf labourers down on the
a little sugar on the pill by Darling
Harbour waterfront
telling laxpayers that if they have opched a belling book on are good boys and don't raise the final Inishing dalcs of two any unpleasant bogies thel tuildings. refund-cheques will be flowing to them from about four weeks onwards.
Caves Discovered
Sydney cave explorers last discovered what they
One is the 210-feet high, Caltex 21-storey, 14-million House-Australia's tallest build- Ing. The other is a convenienco for wharfies bulit el timber. measuring approximately 50f x 15 ft cnd costing about £200,
blow
bath for The first
on the same Buildings started
ago and
the wharfles bave watched with kiterest as the steel girders of Callex House and the wooden beams of the convenience have moved skywards.
koen
the
Shot In The Arm
"Many passages in the oficial press revent the loss of faith the disillusionment, the disappoint- ment and the doubts feit by the tomatically insisted on collectivi- machinery this week when he week students as to the superior merits salon, socialisation, and have urged workers to claim fares to believe to be the biggest lime-day some 18 months tried to enforce uniformlly and and from work as an income stone cave in Australia. the socialist systern, their studies they lay of
conformity in everything. In the tax deduellon,
It is in the hill-country about tension that prevails among In
of colectivism we have exaggerated stress on their
100 miles from Sydney and the Ho wants them to do this so them, their Irrepressible dissatis.name personal tastes
the party. Mr Ted that he can make a test case leader of neglecting to faction with the servile Imitation placed exaggerated restrictions are
of They
said the cave was Lane, of Russian on individual liberty," and application rend
And at the third session of the out of rejection of the claim by newspapers
staggering beauty.
At the moment. the odds are doviations which have marked lectures or playing truant
Ho said the party found the sightly in favour of the timber the movement for the repression Yang Isu-feng declared that
Mr Sindel will, of course, cava by following passage construction, but as one They dismiss Communist
of counter-revolutionaries, with the mechanical monotonous life
volunteers, but it from one of the tourist Cuves watcher of the two buildings 10th August, 1957, at the morality
should be given more leisure can be conceded that the for 1,000 feet. They then said this week: "The race is by tism, formalism, uniformity,
have time to majority will disregard his!
waterno mesns over, for while the
werd No interest will be allowed Offices of the Corporation, They are disrespectful toogical conformism, dogma- of the students must alter, they have many
racing to Anish forced and collective regiments that they would
they learnt and advice on the grounds that the waded through ley-cold excessive
Caltex
time tion,
House ORK supervision, digest what
feet. must be taken to less needling they give thean underground river for 600 men sliding discipline, the innumerareater chre
beiter,
workmen on the convenience able exim-curricitar and social training students to think for Taxetion Department the
Experience has proved that Hy estimated the cave helght seem to knock off at the drop of activities. super-collectivism,
there is little to be gained by to be about 200 feet, the length a hat". cectarianism, transigence, the
coming to grips with the cross the main seellon about Testrictions imposed upon thơm,
Taxation Department.
400 feet, and the width up to the "mechanical and unvarying
300 feet. life they are made to lead, the snubs, the shortage of accommo dation, the overloaded curri culum, the long hours of tecture, the work they are expected to do
I could well be that of the students' on Sundays and pubile holidays,
because Sydney underground explorers compulsory physical training, the basic demands with a policy Bindel has something,
encm and free travelling allowed to rall-aro becoming more and more Impossibility of developing their aimed at educating
bus woricers, active and they hope to make u traveliers and new survey of subterrANCOA
waterways at Jenolan Caves,
They
are members of the and in the immediate. vicinity now huge buildings Sydney Cave Diving Group and there are
and plans for many more than 20 of them will take going up part lu a search for this lost more to the value of for more
than £10 million.. world
Australia has about 200
Latest shot in the arm for the urganised underground explorers ares is the n that the
known in this
country as Maritime Services Board la to "envors".
build new wharves on one elde The equipment they use JA
of the Quay costing £1,500,000 specialised and much of it has to berth the 45,000-ton llpers been perfeeled in this country, of the P & O and Orient lines, They use wire ladders which which will be on the England- weigh about 4-lb. per 30 feet Austraila run by 1950. and roll up to the size of a
Shareholders may renounce their rights in favour of a nominee,
The Share Transfer Re- gisters of the Company will be closed from 29th to 31st July, 1957.
Application forms will be posted to Shareholders on lat August, 1957.
THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be closed from Friday, the 26th day of July, to Friday, the 9th day of August, 1957, (both days inclusive)
period during which transfer of shares can bel registered.
By Order of the Board, MICHAEL W. TURNER Chlef Manager.
Hongkong, 8th July, 1957.
Application Lists will closs To ADVERTISERS
as follows:
Hong Kong & Macau Share-
holders
30th September, 1957
Overseas Shareholders
31st October, 1957
and the Directors will 'pro-
cred to allotment
on
1st
November, 1957.
The purchase consideration
will be payable:-
On Application:
$2.50 per share, and
$2.00 on account of the
premium
$6.00
On 31st December, 1957:
$2.60 per share, and
$2.50 on account of the
premiumh
$6,00
By Order of the Board
8. M. CHURN: .
Chairman Hong Kong, 6th July, 1907.
no
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This then is the problem faced by China's education authorities and the way out of the present io lle in a dilemma appears rationalisation
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Lost World
gallon paint tin.
Three years ago the Circular Quay area of the City had all the earmarks of being finished and developing into lille better than a slum arco.
however, Recently,
it has taken on a tew leoAC of life,
This is the first part of a They wear trog" suite of scheme for remodelling the tough material, spiked bools and Quay area which will cost the
from od about 3-million, helmela to protect them
falling rock.
They carry modified army- typo Reld telephones because human voices play tricks
Slashers Active
underground, and special The Publlo Library of NSW lighting.
is instituting a "astreb servico" Their favourite hunting to strike down Univerally ground at the moment is the students
who are Blashing Jenolan Caves area where they valuable books, feel certain that there are more
The principal librarian, Mr caves to be explored and found G. D. Richardson, Bald this than have so far been charted. week that recently
England.
Flea Eggs
a student cut pages from a Chambers Encyclopaedia and slashed
valuable periodicals.
What is making library
CSIRO scientists' have 'muc-authorities mad is that for 17- cessfully hatchet 30 de ogge photostat copies of the pages in a CSIRO Jaboratory in are available. Canberra, which were sent to A tow years ago the brary this country by almait from had a almálar matbreak" of:
vandaliam and on that oceaalon hope
breed the work was tracked means of transmitting the library withdrew, all Books. Prag House, 18-49 Cannaught Rd, C. myxomatosin to rabblis..
needed for the ytar's stuAY BE Tel: 37IU2/2917H
The fleas are da barkapık..
A similar, threat close - gun in the made now
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