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COAL BUNKER AT AN ARSENAL, ENGLAND,
The British Government used Robertson's Asbestos Protected Metal on this structure because of lis
ability
to withstand the corrosive action of salt air, coal dust, and humidity.
Sole Agents: Messrs, DAVIE BOAG & Co.
Bank of Canton Bulldings.
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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 15TH, 1926.
COMPANY MEETING.
FAR EASTERN JEWISH BANK OF COMMERCE.
The anaual meeting of the Far Eastern, Jewish Back of Commerce was held re-!
cently at Harbin, 83 of the total number of 92 shareholders being present, repce: senting 4,509 shares.
This report showed that the total turn- over of the bank for 1925 was 2,948,039 yen, being over eighteen millions more than in 1994. Accounts current and billa showed a turn over of 121 million, an improvement of 2.7 million, but the dis. counting of bills was 370,000 yen less Notwithstanding tho dificulties in trade. the Bank made a gross pront of 267,678 yen and a nett proft of 19,593 yen. The committee of management requested the meeting to allow them to present the staff with 2 months salary cach which was carried unanimously.
Of the sett proât of $2,500 yen, id per cent was placed to reserve, A sum of 3,100 yen was voted to the Management as a special bonus and it was decided to pay a dividend of 6 per cent, 2, thro yen per share, each share being 30 yen.
THE PERSONAL FACTOR IN ACCIDENTS.
WHY CERTAIN PEOPLE ARE MORE LIABLE.
BY THE TIMES" MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT. }
Recent studies of accidents bave led to the view that there are certain persons who are more prone to disaster than others. These people suffer a larger number of casualties than their neigh- bours and are attended, throughout life, by mishaps of various kinds.
The test contribution to this study. which is published recently, is a report of the Industrial Fatigue Research Board on "The Human Factor in the Causa tion of Accidents." It is written by E. M. Newbold, B.A.. and is of a highly technical character.
16,000,000 BRITISH
CAPITALISTS.
SMALL INVESTORS' WEALTH."
£1,730,000,000.
Figures regarding the capital owned by small investors were given by Mr. Walter Runciman, Liberal M. P. for Swansea and a former Financial Secre tary to the Treasury, in an address to the United Kingdom Provident Institu tion in London.
Leaving out of account small houses owned and already paid off, as well as the small investments in banks, railway companies, and other joint-steek con- cerna, he said the summary of the intest Sgures was:-
285,000,000 Post Office Savings Bank.. Trustee savings banks
*****....... 3.000,000 National Savings Certificates,
(small investors) 223,000,000 Sinal Government holdings...199,000,000 Share of Ordinary life assar-
ance funds...... Industrial life, assuranes
funds Building societies Other registered provident so
cieties **
...........300.000.000 Share of approved societies.... 60,000,000
....3·10,000,00
130,000,000 140,000,000
Grand total. ..... £1,730,000,000
In bia comment Mr. Runciman said:➡ These are remarkable figures, and although they are not sufficient to justify anyone in stating that poverty is a thing of the past they go to pravo that there is a much wider distribution of wealth now than at any time in the history of this country, and that capitalists, so far from being restrict- ed to a small circlo, now include an ever-increasing number of millions of our people.
Indeed, only a minority of the adult population very substantial mino- rity, but still a minofits-are not to u greater or smaller extent capitalists.
The wiping out of private property, if such a thing were possible, would i mean such a revolution in the status and rights of thu 15,000,000 or 16,000,000 capitalists included in our population that, apart from the in- direct effects of transforming our system of property, it would obliterate the tangible assets of thrift in three households out of four in Great
-Britain. The main conclu-
sion, however, is simple enough: that the observed distribution of accidents among the populations studied is, in every case. very different from what would be ex- pected either on the theory of chance in- cidence or on the theory that liability is affected by the fact that a previous acei dent has been incurred.'
HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
APRIL 14TH, 1916.
...$1,063 buy.
£126 nom. 221)
Hongkong Bank.......
Do.. London.. Chartered Bank Mercantils Bank, A. & B......280 bay.
Do
....1Vj nama.
Su bay.
Sum bay.
The chances of accident are not the same for each person. There are, as has heen, said, persons to whom "accidents will happen.
but there are also persons P. & O. Bank...... to whom in all probability, accidenta East Asia Bank. will not happen. Thus the elimination Caston Insurance. of comparatively few specially suscep-ins Underwriters
PrNorth Ubina Insurance tible workers from risky occupations Union Insurance.............288 bay. would go tar to reduce the number of in-o
Yangtaze Insurance
bins Fire Lusurance
dustrial accidents.
Sac
$1.90 nom. The 145 nom.
..........$39 now.
$170 buy.
A table is given in the report by the use of which a rough estimate can easily on Fire Lusurance.. $500 bay.
be made from the accident records of a department, whether the causes of accidents are mainly such as affect all the workers alike or whether special risk is attached to any individuala. It is interesting to note that youth is one of the factors making for special liability to accidents, and sa also is ill-health. As the report states: "The people who | have the most accidents are, on the whole, those who pay most visits to the am- balance room for minor sicknesses."
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DRY LAW IN DUBLIN... -
COMEDY OF CANCELLED BANQUET. The Companions of St. Patrick decided not to hold their annual banquet in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day, in conse quence of the conditions which the police authorities imposed on the Shelbourne Hotel, where the banquet was to have been held.
Under the new licensing laws St. Patrick's Day is a "dry Free State. The police intimated that an application for exemption by the hotel company would be opposed unless the following conditions were agreed
to:-
Dumi
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H., U. & M. Steamboats...125; nom. Hongkong Tugs. Indo-China (Pret).
Do. (Del.), Shell Transports
tar Ferries... Waterboats.
Oriental Navigations: China Sugars ........... Malabon Bugars
Beng Mining A.. Langkat (combined) Do. (single) Shanghai Mxplorations.. Shanghai Loans Bant****** Tronah Mines Uzal Caspians
K. & K. Wharfs.. HK & W. Docks. Hongkews..... New Engineerings, Shanghai Dooks.. HK.& S.Hotels Hongko Hongkong Lands Hongkong Realtys (ap).
Territorials (L.p./.....
day in the Hope states.......
Companions and their guests must book their seats at table on or before. the 13th inst.
All orders for intoxicants must be given before the 18th and entered up in a book, by the hotel.
A record of the name and require ments of ench guest must be kept.
A list of the names and addresses' at diners must be furnished on the 18th to the superintendent of the Civic Guards.
Consumption of intoxicants is con- fined to the hours between 7 and 12 p.m. in the room set aside for the dinner.
These conditions were regarded as objectionable and uncalled-for, and the committee of the companions decided to postpone the function.
"
COLOURED MAN ON DOLE.
YACHT, MOTOR CAR, AND MOTOR. -"CYCLE.
AND £350 AT THE BANK.
John James, 99, an engineer and man of colour, was convicted at London Sessions recently, of receiving stolen wireless apparataa.
A detective stated that before his ar rest, although he was drawing the dole, James was the owner of a motor-car and
38 nom $40 nom. buy. 1352 sol. ŞİD ROM.' $25 nom.
*us" bay.
$34 num.
παστα 71
42. bay ..Tha. 241 bay. Tix. 12 buy, Tis. At buy.
nom
$5 nom
.56/. nom.
Bi. nom.
$133 buy., 129 sa.
360 sel
1. 185 bay. Tis. 5.70 buy.
Tia. 18 be,.
$10.10
nom,
$60, sal.
..$5 BT.
14 buy.
$100 nom. It torn,"
Tl. 101⁄2 nom. TL 3.10 bay.
El 55 buy. Th. 29 007. $11h buy. $74 nom,
Building..... Lands ural wo Cottons Uricatais........ bhanghai Cottons (old).
Do.
(new).. Amusementa Uanton icea Cements (combined)...
Do. (old) 10. (new) China Buses...st China Lagate (combined)......821 nom. (uld)
315 buy. (now). $11.
4!
Do.
Chi Providenta Constructiona Dairy barms... Dez A Wing (p.) Hongkong Bisctrics Vacão Electrics HK. Bopes (combined) ..... H.K. Developments.
LJO. (old) 16. (DOW).... Hongkong Tramways Lane Crawfords, Mackintosha..... Peak
Trams (gld) Do. (now).. Sinceres.. Taris Umed Asbestos Watsons (old)
$154 any.
33 FOLL
Tis, 10 sol.
bay.
sel.
* nom.
$10 nom.
$40 com... 25 eta, mom. $30 sel. $10 sol.
..$24). bay, it mu ..Jist noi.
$21, nom
24
176 bay. 47) buy. ...$11 nom.......
.84 sei.
120 nom. $19 bay, Wm. Powalls....
.$10 nom. Singapore Tractiozw $8 sol...
baybayers; sel-sellers; s.--gales ;
nom-ncuius i
WEATHER REPORT.
Last night's weather report, forecast the last instalment of £85 he paid just and remarks by the Royal Observatory before he was arrested, James had a said:-
bank balance of £350 and he believed An anti-cyclone is shown over N.E. it was true that James also owned a China and B.B.. Mongolia and a dopres yacht and a motor-cycle and sidecar. sion over Indo-China.
James was sentenced to 12 months' imi"- prisonment.
Local forecast: E. winds, moderate. overcast, rain.
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DEATH OF SIR PHILIP WATTS.
MAN WHO DESIGNED THE DREADNOUGHT,
Sir Philip Watts, the naval architect,
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who died in London last month at the A BOOK FOR THE GLOBE TROTTER
age of 79, was Director of Naval Con-"] "" struction from 1902 to 1912, and designed
of the most famous of modern bing. Mr. Reginald McKenna, when! First Lord of the Admiralty, declared that Sic Philip "must bear upon his broad shoulders all the praise or all. the blame which is to be associated with the name Dreadnought." adding that it was A type of ship which had been much copied. Of the 34 British battleships and battle-cruisers which were present at the Battle of Jutland 29 were designed. by Sir Philip, and of the other five three had been Bought from foreign Govern- menta on the outbreak of war. It was during his régime that the submarine was introduced into the Navy.
He also designed many warships for foreign. Powers during his sixteen years as director of the warship building de partment of Messra Armstrong, Whit- worth & Co., of Elswick-on-Tyne, which he rejoined as a director in 1818.
During the Inst few years he was, en gaged in restoring the Fictory at Ports mouth.
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