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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER TOTE, 1941.
THORNYCROPT
JOHN 1. THORNYCROFT CO., LIMITED,
SHIFEVILDTES and EvarnaNS,
LONDON, BOSTMANITOS and BaningsTUKL
Shanghai Ofice:
10.
Kiukiang Road,
15 B.H.P. 30B.H.P. 50 B.H.P. Engines
in Stock
For quotation apply-
SHANGHAI OFFICE.
VIYELLA DRESSING GOWNS."
We have just "received a few Ultra Smart Light Weight "Dressing Gowns in Plain assorted shades. With Collars and Culis contrasting. Also Pyjamas to Match Dressing Gown, Just the Garments for between Season Wear.
Only one of each size 35 38 40 42
N
DRESS GOWNS
PYJAMA SUITS
SEE
$25.50 $13.50
WINDOW DISPL
Mackintosh
العالم
& CO., LTD.
Mens Wear Specialists
6. DES VOEUX ROAD.
*PHONE 99:
MMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,
Hongkong Branch-2, Queen's Buildings.
PHOON,
MOTOR CARS,
MOTOR CYCLES.
¿CIALITY.
PLATE GLASS.
C. 'NSEQUENTIAL " LOSS.
FIDELITY GUARANTEE..
PERSONAL ACCIDENT & SICKNESS,
&c., &c.
EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENTS FOR CHILDREN
LSCAL MANAGER-G. H. ELLIOTT.
1378
MEN'S "JASON" WOOL UNDERWEAR GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICE.
We are pleased to be able to announce a GREAT Reduction in Price of this popular Winter underwear. Secure your wants early as supplies are limited.
No. 4127. All Pure Wool Light.weight.
Sizen 34
38
48
38 40 42. 44
Vests with Short Sleeves...$6.25 6.75 7.26 7.75 8.25 8.75 9,25
...86.50 6.95 7,50 7.95 8,50-8.95
$6.75 7.25 7.75 8.25 8.75 9,25; No. 558. A good” Medlum weight.
Long Sleeven...
Panta
ป
„Vests with Short, Bleeres.
Long Sleeves...
Trousers
$8.75 7.25 7.76 8.25 8.75 9.25
86.95 7.50 7.95 8.50 8.75 9.50
--$7.25 7.75 8.25 8.75 9.25
No. 3691. An excellent heavy-weight pure soft wool. Comfortable to wear.
Vents with Short Bleeres $7.75 8.25 8.75 9.25- "9,75
Long Sleeves...
...87.95 8.50 8.5 9.50
Trouser
$8.25 8.75 9.25 9.75 10.25 -
No. 4997. A alce light weight” In Wool and Cotton. Just the thing for present wear.
Yeats, short Sleeves... Long Bleeves
Tro14688
...84.75 5.25 5.75 6.25 6,75 7:25 7:75 ...$4.95 5.50 5.96 6.50 8.95 7:50
£35.25 5.75 -0.26 6.75 "7.25 -7:750
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.,
THE "STORE FOR VALUE”
HONGKONG.
COMPANY MEETING.
DAIRY "FARM ICE AND COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
A RECORD YEAR.
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The twenty fifth ordinary annual meet- ing of shareholders in the Dairy Farm
MATSHED FIRE NEAR KING'S PARK.
ARMY MULES BURNED TO DEATH. INEFFECTUAL PRESSURE OF WATER.
At 2,30 o'clock on Saturday afternoon,
Ice and Cold Storage Co, Ltd., was held, a number of matзheds used as stables by on Saturday at noon. Mr. J. Scott the 20th Mule Corps (A.S.C. Mule Tran Harston (Chairman) presided and there sport), just behind the quarters of the were present:Rev. Fr. Robert, Messrs.
J. Bell Irving, jr., and W. S. Brown H.K.S. Battery. R.G.A., were destroyed | (directors), A. Stevenson (manager).] by fire and 8 mules and 2 ponies, were M. Manuk (secretary), and Mossrs. Wburned to death. According to an oa E. Yan Eps. Bagram, H. Porey, Smith,
C. Makehaa, T. Oliphant, H. W. Page looker who lives in Cox's Path, a row and Chan Tong (shareholders),
of houses overlooking the scene of the
The CHAIRMAN Bid-Gentlemen,-Your Are. it was evident within a few minutes Directors are pleased to be able to come of the first alar that nothing could,sav before you with 'such satisfactory resulta
as are shown in the report and accounts the watsheds from destruction. The fre These results constitute a record in the originated at a matshed on a knoll f nanals of this Company and reflect grost land opposite the Obelisk in Jordan credit on all concerned,
Road. Whistles were blown and the
After making the usual provision for | Ludian soldiers hastened to the spot, "some bad and doubtful debts, "depreciation, Jof them emptying buckets of sand over etc., your, Directors recommend that the the matsherl. They then filled the buckets net prants mounting to $41.0910s be from a horse trough and tried the wet appropriated as follows:-
method of quelling the outbreak, as the dry method had been ineffectual. ~Blaz- $199,500.00 ing fragments of the matshed root ware
To pay a dividend of $1.75
per share ..***
WORLD THEATRE
PHONE
PHONE. 1337
Hongkong's Most Modern Picture Palace. (Entirely under British Management)
*
TO-NIGHT 9.15 pm. TO-NIGHT By Arrangement With Broadwest Film A De Luke Sporting Drama of the Season
Starring
To place to cattle reserve... 20,000.00 carried, almost immediately, towards STEWART ROME and GREGORY SCOTT
To place to typhoon insur-
ance fund
To carry forivarı
reconstruction.
Jordan Road and fell on the long line 10,000,00 of miatshoda in which a considerable 14,391.05 number of mules are feri. These matsheds first caught alight at the Cox's Road end $11,001.05 and the flames were seen to travel with
great rapidity along the roof.
You will observe from the report and The mules could be heard screaming; accounts that, in addition to spending and trampling in their right and a 1366,318.90 off repairs and renewals, we bumber of Indian soldiers very pluckily have written of $47,710.78 on account if rushed into the matshed and released as depreciation, which sour Directors con-many animals possible. They could sider both wise and necessary in view do nothing at the Cox's Road end as that! of the fact that some of our buildings part of the matshed was soon fully and machinery at the ice works are old, ablaze. Some of the men came out, re and that a considerable sum will have moved their turbans, and went in again to be spent on them for repaire and in the anxiety to save as many of the unfortunate males as they could from a The cattle disease which broke out painful end. A. difficulty was that, by among the cattle imported from Aus- renson of these creatures' habit of kick- tralia Inst year, referred to by my pre ing. they were each chained by ons hind) decessor in the Chair (Mr. L. N. Leefe) leg and fastened by the halter to the in his last year's speech, carried off a manger. Their right, also, soon caused number of our hard, and the subsequent them to become unmanageable. The outbreak of rinderpest and other disenses fire was over in a very short apace of considerably pugmented our loss-in time and two mules were removed, still consequence of which the death roll this living, from the embers. They were shot, year has been the heaviest the Company however, to put them out of their misery. has known for a considerable period. Two more had to be shot, yesterday. Everything possible has been done to The carcases of the animals burned to check the disease and to prevent its redeath within the matabed were after currence, and I am pleased to say that wards destroyed at the Kennedy Town the conditions are now very much better, destructor. and we have passed the worst,
Although the See was a very, rapid
In addition to the 160 head of new affair, the Kowloon Fire Brigade was on cattle imported during the past year, the scene well before the flames got t we are now making enquiries for a complete hold of the long matshed further lot in order to enable us to cope bordering the main road Bat matahed with the very large demand for our milk fires are, notoriously, only a question of and dairy produce.
In view of the satisfactory profits, the staff have not been forgotten, and your Directors have been pleased to vote them a bonus of 15 per cent, on their salaries, which, I have no doubt, will meet with your unanimous approval
UNIFICATION OF INTERESTS...
moments, and the Fire Brigade, though they acted with great promptitude, could do very little. The nearest hydrant is at the corner of Cox's Road, and, the ose had to be dragged along the road for a distance corresponding to the width os tennis court, and taken round the corper, before the jet from the nozzle
Then it could play sa the fire. found that the pressure was very bad indeed; the bydrant is only a four-inch one and the leng length of hose did its share"in reducing the force of the jet.
08.10
On the 26th of last month an announce ment was inserted in the local newspapers to the effect that the Hongkong Hotel Co., Wiseman, Ltd., and this Company were conducting negotiations with a view
Connection was then established with to the unification of the interests of all three Companies These Begotiations Theatre in Nathan Rond, and no fewer the next nearest hydrant, at the Chinese were undertaken with a view to the Companies concerned arriving at a to reach the scene of the fire.
than sixteen lengths of hose were used A mere understanding whereby the shareholders dribble was all that could be obtained. in Wiseman, Ltd., and this Company It may be added that the Yaumati coh- should (if they approve of the proposed tingent of the Fire Brigade attended and unification of interests) surrender the also did what they could. share held by them respectively in ex- change for shares in the undertaking of the world it is problematical whether Even with the best supply of water in the Hongkong Hotel Co., the object of this being to weld the interests of the more than a short section of the matshed in which the mules were could have three Companies together in such a been saved, haring regard to the rapidity manner as to secure by an increased with which the flames spread. Never turnover and economy in ruaning etheless, the need for the provision of penses beneficial results not only to the hydrants of larger diameter at this spot, three Companies mentioned but also to that a good pressure of water may the general public. The above negotia be obtained in case of fre, is very appar tions have been abandoned, however, so ent. The Diocesan Girls' School occupies far as regards Wiseman, Ltd., but will be a triangular site near by, at the junc proceeded with in regard to this Comtion of the two roads that join at the pany. The proposed uniäcation will not Obelisk. A short distance away is a involve the liquidation of this Company knitting Factory employing 300 work which will be preserved as a separate girls and, judging from Saturday's ex entity, and the basis upon which the experience, if a fire occurred at either of change of shares between the shareholders those places, the jet of water available in this Compaar, on the one hand, and would not reach higher than the first the Hongkong Hotel Company, on the other, will be effected. will be that the shareholders in this Company will receive The European who telephoned the first On other matter deserves mention. in exchange for each share surrendered by them respectively one share in the warning of the fire (we are informed) was undertaking of the Hongkong Hotel Co. said "I want. Fire Brigade," that h told, at the Telephone Exchange, when lo The further details in connection with must give the number. the foregoing are now under considera would not put him through without being The operator tion, and, when complets, the scheme of gives the cupber and there was some unification will be duly submitted to the little delay while he found it in the shareholders of both the Companies con Directory. This is unnecessary in most
owns and should be so here.
cerned.
now beg to formally propose that the report and accounts; of the Company for the financial "year ending July 31st, 1921, as presented, be adopted,
Mr. W. E. VAN Er seconded the re solution, which was carried unanimous
ly
floor.
We should be better able to educate the public if we did not resort so readily to threats.-Fr. Stephen Walsh, M.P
The retiring directors, Messrs. J. Scott Not unusually when a boy washes hie Harston and W. S. Brown, were unaal neck without being told, it is a sign of mously re-elected on the motion of Mr. his first love affair.-The Rev. P. A H. Pener SITH, seconded by Mr. A. Servante, STEVANION.
Mr. T. OLIPHANT moved, and Mr. 0. MAKEHAM seconded, that Messis. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming' be re-elected auditors for the ensuing year at a remuneration of $600 per annum. ·
This was approved and the meeting concluded.
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ONE MACHINE MISSING. "Out of four seaplanes which left Kyi shu for Beoul, on October 4th, baly one reached its destination. Two safely land optical manufacturing house in the Colony), ed, but one is missing. Destroyers were located in 6, Queen's Road Central, and a pair despatched to search for the missing
machine which carried one man,
This flight was the preliminary survey
of lenses wille specially greaed to correct, help
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