NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8TH, 1924.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
ST. DAVID'S SOCIETY, HONGKONG.
This Prospectus has been duly filed with the THE ORDINARY ANNUAL GENER
Registrar of Companies.
The Subscription List will be Open on MONDAY, the 14TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1984, and Coss on or befors SATURDAY, the 19TH DAY OF JANUAŘÝ, 1924,
THE SIMPLEX PLASTER
COMPANY, LIMITED. Incorporated under the Companies' Ordinances 1911-1921.
CAPITAL
$500.000
DIVIDED INTO 50,000 SHARES OF $10 RACE. Offer of 4,000 Shares for Public Subscription
Of the above shares 15,000 credited as fully paid will be alloted to The Chino American Industrial Developing Company, Limited, as the purchase price for the sale to the Company of property, plant, machinery and equipment of The Chino American Industrial Developing Company, Limited, on the tarma of the contract set forth in this prospectus. Of the remaining 35,000 shares it is intended at the present time to issue only 13.000, and of these shares 11,000 have already been subscribed for cash by the Directors and their friends. On these shares $2.50 per share will be paid on application and the balance when called up on the same baxis as the remaining capital.
The remaining 4000 shares to be issued at the present time, ranking equally with those already subscribed, are now offered for Public Subscrip tion, payable as to $2.50 per share sa application. The balance due on each charo ($7.50) will be called up on allotment.
The unisered Capital of the Company will be issued at such times and on auch terms as the Directors shall determine.
The Form of Application for shares is at the back of this Prospectus.
DIRECTOR:
CHARLES EDWARD HARTNELL BEAVIS, No. 9 Queen's Road
Central, Victoria, Hongkong, Solicitor.
CHAN PER CHUN, No. 34 Bonham Strand West, Victoria, Hong-
kong, Herchant.
CHAU YUE TENG, No. 15 Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria, Hong-
"kong, Merchant,
W
CARL BRADLEY SHANK, No. 50-52 Queen's Road Central, Victoria,
Hongkong, Engineer.
EDWAP DEAN SHANK, Noa. 50-52 Queen's Road Central, Victoria,
Hon song, Architect.
WONG KWOK SEUN, No. 169 Des Vœux Road Central, Victoria,
Hongkong, Banker.
One further Director will be appointed by the Board after allotment.
BANKERS.
THE INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION
AUDITORS,
MESNEUES LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS Chartered Bank Building, Victoria, Hongkong
SOLICITORS.
MERSTEURS WILKINSON AND GRIST No. 9 Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong:
REGISTERED OFFICE OF THE COMPANY: China Building, Queen's Road Central, Fictoria, Hongkong
PROSPECTUS.
(4.) The recent remarkable developments in building in this Colony have resulted in a demand for labour'an i building materials that has been anprecedented. Increased costa, consequent upon such demand, necessitate the adoption, where possible, of means whereby not only may labour be saved but materials produced both quickly sal economically. This Company is formed mainly for the purpose of providing plaster and gypsum products which are required in the construction of every building from the small house to the largest block of modern offices. "Simpler Plister," which the Company pro- poses to manufactura in this Colony, is manufactured by a special process, and in at present only obtainable from abroad, and the Promoters are confident that it can be manufactured here and sold for a pries considerably below that which the commodity commands in Hongkong at the present time This plaster is now extensively used in building in this Colony, and is in fact, as experience. has shown, extremely beneficial in the Far East and particularly in Hongkong, for it is impervious to white ants, does not chip owing to damp, and in prac tically fireproof, remaining unbroken and unaffected by heat unless of a temperature of 250 to 200 degrees centigrade.
(b) The Company has acquired as a going concern that branch of the business of Tax CHINO AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPING COMPANY, LIMITED, which has been engaged in the manufacture of "Simplez Plaster." The purchase includes a piece of land of an approximate an of 41,000 square fect situate at Tren Wan, together with the buildings, plant, machinery and equipment thereon, the machinery being already assembled for the commence ment of manufacture. The purchase price will be paid and satisfied by the allotment to THE CRINO AMERICAY - INDUSTRIAL DETILOPING COMPANT, Laxirzo, of 15,000 shares of the Company credited as fully paid up. Further more the agreement with the Vendors provides that the Vendors will place with the Company all further ordre for the supply of plaster by the Vendors
The Contract for the acquisition of this business is dated the 4th day of January, 1924, and is made between Tar CRISO AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL DAVE- LOPING COMPAST, LIMITED, of the one part and Denis Heary Blake as Trustee for the Company of the other part. A copy of the Contract can be inspected at the Registered Office of the Company or at the office of the Company's
Solicitors.
(c) The minimum subscription on, which the Directors may proceed to allotment is seven shares.
(d) No commission or promotion money is being paid by the Company. (e) The Company will pay the preliminary expenses of and incidental to the formation and floating of the Company down to the time when it becomes entitled to commence business, and the estimated amount thereof is $5,000,00.
(The Articles of Association provide that the qualification at a Director is to be the holding of 500 shares in the Company, and that the remuneration of each of the Directors is to be $600.00 per annum,
(The Directors are interested in the promotion of the Company to the extent only that they or some of them are Directors of other companies with whom the Company may do business.
(k) Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Com- pary can be inspected at any time during business hours at the Registered Office of the Company or at the Company's Bolicitors.
(i) copy of the Company's Memorandum of Association is anexed to
this Prospectus and forma part of it.
(j) Application for shares should be made upon the Form attached to this Prospectus, and sent to the Company's Bankers together with a remittance of $2.50 per stare, the amount of the deposit
Where no allotment is made, the deposit will be retumed in fall, and where the number of shares allotted in leerthan the number applied for, a proportionate amount of the deposit will be returned.
(k) Prospectares can be inspected at and Forms of Application obtaine ed from the Company's Bankers, the International Banking Corporation, and
at and from the Registered Office of the Company.
Dated the ith day of January, 1924.
AL MEETING of the above Bocisty. will be held in the Surge Count, an HON- DAY, the 14TH JANUARY, 14 2.10 Pa
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WANTED.
or Composite
STEAM-
A LAUNOH of 100-150 Registered Tens nath with Large Awning Dook and some Cabin accomodation, Epood, 7-8 knots, Prise Ready for Sea Beplies to KELLY & WALSH, LTD, Raffes Face, Bingapore. (170
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO, LTD.
JONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer # MENTOR"
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will be at Consignees risk and sublot to terms and conditions of storage at Holt's wharf. from The Cargo will be ready for delivery f Godown on and after 7th January.
Optional Cargo will be landed, unless notice
prior to Steamer's arrival. give has been
and damaged goods are All broken, chafed and
na where they will be be left in the Godown
bo ba
examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.43.m. and noon within the free storage period
No claims will be admitted after the Gooda have left the Steamer's Godown, and all
INTIMATION
Seasonable Remedies and
Preventives
WATSON'S
PECTORAL
COUGH BALSAM For Coughs: Colds and Bronchitis in bottles* $1.00 and $1.75.
MARTIN'S
each Power, Chian may obtain bilis Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tang returned and talegraphic transfers as best suita to the Colony pesterday, on the French her interests at any place and at any mail steamer Pool Lecat. ·
bank at the lowest price or, by public tender, provided that the payments, in gold be made to each Power direct on
During the 48 hours ended January 6th
the due date. It is understood that 19 cases of small-pat were notified to the China responsible for the exact pay Medical Officer of Health.
The British Naval authorities in Shang-
being
ment of the transfer and the hills. Each Power in accepting the present proposals must inform the Chinese Government which of the three methods hai report that the Admiralty have ap
"reserve gunboat aited above is the one it chooses till proved of a the debt is extinguished.
maintained at Hakow, France, as as Belgium, Great Britain, Holland, Italy and the United The Canadian Pacific Railway War States of America, selected as the Memorial Tablet, erected in the Hongkong
well
method of payment telegraphic transfers, is to
be unveiled by H.E. the
in their respective currencies, and pay- Gotthor to-day at poon.
merta thereafter were made..to the Powers according to the method each hast selected, down to the time of the temporary suspension of the Indemnity INFLU-payments by mutual arrangement on the
ENZA MIXTURE
YO
Cold in the Head and Catarrh $1.00 per bottle
WATSON'S
ANTI-
Goods zemaining Start SEPTIC THROAT
January, will be subject to rant.
All claims against the steamer must be pro mented to the undersigned on or before the will nob. be recognised. seth January, or
No Fire Inraranda be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agenda Hongkong, 6th January, 1924
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES The Steamship "PERSIA"
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From TRIESTE VENICE, BRINDISI SPALATO, MASSAUA, PORT SAID, ADEN, COLOMBO, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
NONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inform
ed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co, Ltil, at Kow loon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded "unla notice to the contrary be given befors 5th int No clains will be admitted after the Goods left the Godowns, and all Goods 13 remaining
undelivered after the 11th inst. be rubject to rent
be All Claims against the Steamer must presented to the Undersigned on or before. abe 21st inst., or they will not be recognised. All broben, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where they will be by ONJ examined on the 11th proz, at 10 am, Sarreyors, Mezers, GODDARD & DOUGLAS, No Fire Insurance has been effected. Hills of Lading will be countersigned by
DODWELL & CO, LTD.
Agenta, Hongkong, 6th January, 1924.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE -FROM NEW YOEL
THE Steamship
LANGTON HALL"
haring amived, Consignes of Cargo by her are Informed that at Goods are being landed at their rink into the hazardous and or extra-hazardens Godowas of Holt's Wharf, where delivery may be
" wo erased admitted after the Gooda:}
MATE
left the Godowne, and all Goods remain. ing undelivered after 12th January, 1924, wud be subject to rent
the Steamer must be pre-
be
All Grindersigned on or before 1913 |
or
sented to the January, 1924, or they will not be recognised All broken, ahsfed and damaged. Goods are to be left in the ho
where they will Fridays, on any Tue examined between the hours of 10:45 am, and Noon, within the free storage period of one week. No Fire Insurance has been endocted. Bills of Lading will be counterdgned by
THE BANK LINE, LTD, General Agenta..
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, Pas NEW YORK & NEWPORT (NEWS).
THE Steamship
"PASTILLES
FOR
Relaxed and Sore Throat, 50 cents per tin
WATSON'S "EU- PINE INHALANT
A.
roz
Cold in the Head, &c, 50 cents per bottle.
S. WATSON CO., LTD.,
ESTABLISHED 81. Yrans
ofiar of the M. Louis Grasset, an French Army, who was wounded in the great war, is now in Hongkong as repre- sentative of the Michelin Tyre Co
Dr. S. C. Ho's motor-car" No. 606, figured in an accident at Queen's Road Wrat near Centra Stroot, on Sunday. Driven by the chauffeur it accidentally knocked over a Chinese boatwoman, who
was seriously injured.
entry of China into the war on the side of the Allica Before the war, exchange fluctuations” were narrow in their extent "They sometimes favoured China, and sometimes went, against her. On balance over a period of months, the loss was not great to either party. But we all
Six Chinese boat women were Sned $2 know what has happened to the Euro- pean currencies sine the war Lord each by the "Acting Marine Magistratą Dzasy publicly told a story recently of Lieut. Conway Hake) yesterday for an Englishman "who, just before the war, lying alongside the Jardine wharf at lent a German manufacturer £30,000 for West Point without permission when not The being engaged in taking passengers on- board vigsel, or landing cargo or pas8P]= gers, thereby causing an obstruction."
the development of his business. loan was recently repaid in marks the equivalent sum in marks for whieh the sterling was exchanged when the loan
A Chinese boy aged 19 years was fatally was made. In English currency these
injured near the Cement Works on Sun masks, which were worth £50,000 in 1913 day. He was playing in the road with are now worth exactly tu pience. Chica, two other boys who ran for safety on the by her attitude on the Frane issue, is approach of Motor Bus No. 49 which following this German inethod of paying as proceeding from Kowloon City to her obligations. She points to the fact Hanghom. The deceased attempted to that since 1905, down to the temporary follow suit but ran into the bus and was suspension of the Indemnity payments the Powers had always received the
run over.
opulated amounts in their respective The forthcoming weddings are
currencies from month to month and pounced of Mr. Powys Drummond, Agent from year to year, and she argues from for the "Asiatic Petroleum Company at as used in Hoihow, to Miss Linley Buth Sharples of this that the word "gold" Article VI of the Protocol, and in eSt. George's House, Hongkong; Mr. "can" not be | Sydney Harold Ernest Backett, jeweller Arrangement of 1905, reasonably construed to mean anything of the Kowloon Hotel, to Mits Helen other than the currencies of the Signa Esther Bawden Hedda de Yere Provis, of tory Powers issued on the basis of their the Adelphi Hotel, Singapore. respective gold standards, and that what- &ever exchange rates prevail at present,
Dr. Schmalzried, the American Mix-
or are likely to prevail for some time in sionary who was captured by bandits early, future, favourable or unfavourable to in November, was released on December Official notification to this effect China, as compared with the Protocol 20th. rates, they cannot be considered as a has has been received in Peking. Dr. valid ground for a radical de Schmalzried, who belonged to the Applied Evangelical Association, was captured an of payment.
No parti parture from the mode
the Hunan-Kweichow border. selected by the Signatory Powers in BINTA
culars regarding his release were reosived said Arrange-
at Peking. BETT-At Kuala Lumpur, F.M.S.. on accordance with the
December 24th, 1923, the wife of Capt. ment." The Protocol, however, expressly E. W. BRETT, retired ludian Army, of stipulates that the indemnity should
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OGILVIE-BARRE-At Westminster Con
MARRIAGE.
son of Mr. and Mrs JAMES OGILVIE, possibility of greater depreciation of advertisements of a nov
to: ANNIE
Lyadhurst, Carnoustic,
SHITA, youngest daughter of Mr. and
Hongkong Office: 14, Chater Hos London Offles: 11, Flees Streety EC.
The Daily Press.
HONGLONG, JANUARY 9TH, 1974.
"constitute a gold debt calculated at the
NEW LOCAL COMPANY. rate of the Haikwani tael to the gold
LTD. gregational Church, London, on Dec. currency of each country Spain and THE SIMPLEX PLASTER CO., 10th, by the Rev. J. A. Hutton, D.D., Italy at that time were under a regime
The prospectus appears among to-day's unconvertible Notes, and to offset the ARTHUR GEORGE WEIGHT, Foungest.
company which their currencies they selected gold francs is being formed in the Colony mainly for MT. THOMAS BARRIE, 6, Kinnaird as the medium of payment. That is how the purpose of providing plaster and
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they now come into the question. As gypsum products which, the prospectu recently as October: 1992, the Chinese states, are required in the construction of. Minister of Finance of the day drew up every building from the small house to full statement of China's foreign. and the largest block of office buildings. Tho "Simplex" plaster has been manufactur domestic obligations in which he showed the equivalent of the outstanding ainousted by the Chino-Industrial Development of the Boxer Indemnity due to France Co., Ltd., and this branch of that com- as £15,663,281.102 Exchange had been pany's business has been acquired by the taken at $5. Francs to the £, whereas new company, the purchase price, being at the time the market exchange was paid and satisfied by the allotment of between 67 and 3 At a still later date 15,000 shares fully paid up.
The proposed capital of the new com February, 2003-since the controversy arose, a Chines Minister of Foreign pany is $500,000 divided into 50,000 We do not suppose that the "Gold Affairs (Mr. HUANG FO) admitted the shares of $10. Of the 35,000 shares which Franc Controversy" between the Govern correctness of the claim made by the remain after the payment of 15,000 to the ments of France, Belgium, Italy and interested Powers. This decision is now vendor, it is intended to issim at present Spain and the Chinese Government has reversed by the terms of Dr. Koo's only 15,000, and of these 11,000 have been been finally terminated by the latest recent communication to The Powers fubscribed for cash by the Directors and Note from the Chinese Foreign Office which entirely ignores the fact that their friends. The balance, 4,000 sbarce, 4 "gold debt" are being offered for public subscription. Dr. WELLINGTON Koo, the Minister of the Indemnity is Foreign Affairs, has very plausibly In the circumstances, we presume a The Subscription list opens on Monday, argued the matter, but in doing so has offort will be made to get the subject the 14th inst, and will close on or before conveniently ignored certain official de refered to The Hague Tribunal for the 19th fast. clarations that are essential to a just arbitration, and we think in view of the decision in the matter. These Powers facts briefly narrated as to the clear
THE GOLD FRANC
CONTROVERSY.
"GARLIC PRINCE"
the baring arrived from above Porta, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that theis goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited.
Jobs risk! at Consignes and Kowloop, and stored at expense
All broken, chaică, and damaged goods are in be left in the godowns, where they will be examined on 14th January, 1924, 10 are claiming that the remaining portion intention of the Protocol, the verdict of NEW G.O.C. FOR MALAYÄ.
within 15 of the Boxer Indemnity due to them an impartial Tribunal could be con SIR NEILL MALCOLM'S SUCCESSOR All alsims must be presented
APPOINTED. shall be paid in gold and not in the ideatly predicted. Meanwhile it will be
The new G.O.C. of troops in Malaya depreciated paper Frane. The French very embarrassing, to Franco especially, Minister says there is no doubt whatever to have the decision held so long is that the Protocol of 1001, as well as the abeyance, as the arrangements she has in succession to H.E. Sir Neill Malcolm,
days
of the steamer's arrival hers, after which date they cannot be recognized.
No shims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns, amid all Goods remain
the 14th undelivered after
14th January, 1984, wil be eubject to rent a newby notified
Consignoos & cargo are that they must produce an Import permit signed by the Superintendent of Import and before Bills of lading Exports, Hongkong can be countersignal.
No Fire Insurance has been effected Bile of Lading will be countexigned by FURNESS (TAR EAST), LTD. Hongkong, 6th January, 1994 (174
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Arrangement made in 1505, provides in a made in regard to the protection of the who leaves the Straits in February, will
manner absolutely clear and indisputable Far Eastora chentelle of the unfortunate be General James Bonald Edmonston that the indemnity should be paid in Banque Industrielle de Chine, and the Charles, Royal Engineers, C.B., C.M.G gold, “., for each Haiwan tael due arrangemente in regard to the devotion D.S.O., who is expected to arrive at the to each of the Powers, China ought to of part of the Indemnity payments to end of May.
pay the sum in gold which is shown in educational purposes for the bencât of Article
General Charles is a son of the late
General Charles entered
of the Protocol, te the equi Chinese, were doubtless calculated upon T. Edmonston Charles, M.D., hon. surgeon of one tael." The Arrangement Indemnity payments being made in gold to the King. of July 2nd, 1905, provides that
france
the army in 1804, served in South Africa, 1800-1900; Bazar Held Force, 1008;
China will make these payments, calculated on the basis set forth above,
A plot of Crown land, situated near Mohmand Field Force, 1908; commantled which fixes the value of the Haikwa Ms Tau Wei, was sold by public auction seth Division 1913 and 1910, mentioned in Protocol tael in relation to the money
of each country, either in silver yesterday afternoon for $33,100, the par-despatches, five times; Officer of the according to the price of silver on the chaser being Chaa Ming, No, 207, Des
Duties, A.B.Q. Jadis, since 1921. London market or in gold bills, or in Your Road Want The upset price was Legion of Honour Director of Stall
$97,118 telegraphic-translers, at the choice