K Crepe rubber soled SHOES.
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THE HUNGKONG DAILY
K Makers have spent two Years in perfecting the creps rubber soled shoe. Last year they overcame the difficulty of making rubber soles weld immovably by meses of a new and successful method. This year they have applied the non- skid principle of the motor tyre to X crepe shoes. The circular boles in the outer layer of rubber give a firm suction grip and also help to prevent the tough crepe rubber from spreading.
Buy "K's" and be satisfied.
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PRESS, HONDAY HAI Sigr 196
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
(Continued from page a.)
I am extremely glad results have prov- ed otherwise, and that the disaster which belelt ca by the fire has been over- come to a great extent
The profits are some 4 lakhe below those for the year 1924, but as has been pointed out by the Chairman the reduced Agure was due largely to increased charges to the Profit and Loss Account mainly for interest which I fear will re mala with us so long as the Company works on a capital relatively small in comparison with its assets.
THE LATE MR. P. H. HOLYOAK.
ALICE WORK AT THE HIS
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
(Contributed.)
Amongst the many activities of the late Mr. P. H. Holyoak none lay nearer bis heart than the work of the Alice Me marini and Aliated Hospitala
For many years he was Chairman of the Hospitals Committee and gave very much time and thought to their affairs.
A few years ago he took a leading part in the transference of the management. I would like to commend the policy of and control of the Hospitals to a Com- the Directors in treating depreciation mittes of local subscribers, which Com- in the ectreet manner as a charge againstmittee has become responsible for collect: profts and not as an allocation from
profits, a point which is not properlying the funds needed for carrying on the work, the London Missionary. Society appreciated in local company £nance
Since that time he redoubled his
Their policy also of spreading the risk providing the Superintendent and by branching out to the various centres Matron. of China, a policy which has been ranch vriticized in the past has been amply justified by results, and excellent returns efforts to carry out the details of this might confidently be expected when co-responsibility. He frequently paid per- ditions normalise. This Colony has produced business institutions ranking amongst the first of their kind in the world, and may get give another in the Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
TERMS OF SALE.
In connection with the sale of the Kalee at Shanghai will the Board inform the Meeting, of the terms of the sale in so far as they relate to the use. of the building after delivery. Has the building passed to other Hotel interests
It is fallacious, gentlemen, as you all Snow to value our interest in the Com- pany by the intrinsic value of its assets- its ability to pay dividends is the true test. but it may interest you, gentlemen, nevertheless to know, when the earning power returna na it surely will, that measured by the assets at merely their hook values, the shares of this Company work out at $18.00 each.
Before I conclude, Mr. Chairman think it desirable to record the splendid services given to the public by the Hotel in the early days of the strike for which the Directors and the management de- serve the thanks of the community.
With these words, Mr. Chairman, formally second your proposal for the
adoption of the report and accounte
CHAIRMAN'S REPLY.
sonal visits to the Hospitals, and invited others to accompany him, feeling assured that those who saw the work would cer tainly be ready to assist in its support and in the upkeep of the Institutions.
No doubt this increased the burden be had to bear during the last few months. But he felt that in this work he was doing two things, riz, doing all be. could to help the poor and needy ataong, the Chinese, and helping to fcater inter- national friendship.
When charges for food had to be in. creased, he was foremost in urging that really poor people should, if necessary: be admitted free, and payments reduced to those who could not afford the amount charged. He further urged that none should be turned away, because of poverty. Thus he strove towards the highest ideals of service to the poor.
He fostered friendships with the Chinese in this united effort to relieve their sufferinga and help them in time of adversity, by his very friendly atti tude to the Chinese members of the Com .mittee.
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SANITARY BOARD.
BUSINESS AT TOMORROW'S MEETING.
Among the matters which will bo brought before the members at the meet-
Commenting upon the proposed re- storation of the Trans-Siberian Expressing of the Sanitary Board to-morrow. the China Express & Telegraph of April afternoon will be the following 25th says!
An agreement has been reached in niple between the Soviet Government and the International Sleeping Car Company for the restoration of the Trans-Siberian Express, by which it will The CHAIRMAN, in reply, thanked Mr.
He was ready to help all Chinese hoe pessible to reach China, overland, da Roza for his kindly reference to the late Mrs. Taggart. With regard to the needed assistance and was anxious to from London; in 13 days, and Japan in sale of the Kalee Hotel, Shanghai, Mr. combine with all who were willing' to do
clause in the agreement restricting the purchasers from utilising the property as tryinen in distress.
MANCHURIA RAILWAY Taggart pointed out that there was no their utmost for the good of their coun-
SUMMER HOLIDAY
RESORTS
IN
SOUTH MANCHURIA
an hotel as such a restriction would be When the late Mr. Chau Shiu Ki met
14.
"There will be no more of those vexations delays of which travellers have
in the nature of a blot on the title, and his lamented death none spoke more feel complained, and it seems as if facilities |
would therefore prejudico the price obtainable.
Mr. Taggart added that the company as hotel proprietors would not have sold
could be successfully operated as a hotel.
PRESENT POSSIBILITIES.
ingly of him as a personal friend than Mr. Holyoak.
Letters from the Government relative to the election of Dr. S. C Ho to be a
member of the Board; the extension of the City and Kowloon Conservancy Con-
tract for a period of two years; and the`. revision of the prices of vaccines, zera,
etc.
Minutes will be prosented by the Presi dent relative to the re-appointment of
Select Committees; the appointment of a Select Committee on the Fresh Food Prices; and the staff of Sanitary Inspec
tora.
A CHINESE EPICURE.
are to be given for restoring the route to the satisfactory conditions of pre-war days, and, if possible, to go one better.
The agreement has not yet been sign-"COOKERY IS LIKE MATRIMONY." TWO THINGS SERVED TOGETHER SHOULD MATCE.
“HOSHIGAURA.-Finest Seaside ummer Holiday Resort in North China. Five miles rom Dairen, but connected with the city by special motor and carriage road and electric tramway. Yamato Hotel (35 room) and is furnished Lungalows in charming cliff gardent Eathing, Bosting, Fishing, Gold, Tannis, Billards, Orchestra twice a week. Capital place, cooperty for a figure at which it General Meeting held shortly before Mr.ed, but Mr. H. M. Snow, Agent-General for children. OGONDAI -Most beautiful and select Seaside Resort is the Far East. Two miles from Port Arthar. Formerly the Sammer Resort of the high Russian offers and oficials. Yamato Hotel and to villas and bungalows, mostly with detached ser ante quarters. Excellent Bathing, Wonderful Scenery, Historic Battlefields, Buined and Dismantled Farts Miles of okarming Walks and Drives. Abendant Pinicing Facilities. Orobeaten twlon a week, Bert place for nigh-aware familias, PORT ARTHUR.-Famous for its two memorable Sieges and its beautiful landlocked Yamato Hotel Harbos. Exactly one hour's journey from Dairen by express train (16 rooms) afficient place of historiasl and axonie. Interest to all month with free walk or drive every day. Most healthy and salubrious spot in the Far East. All weder the direct management of the SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY CO. Illustrated Booklets and all Information post- free on taquest Applications may be sent to the Hntal Managers at the various resorta or to
THE SUPERINTENDENT OF HOTELS, Tramo Departmen Cable Add.: MANTETSU or Sarco, 80UTH MANCHURIA-HAILWAY. Dauen CABO. 5th & 6th Ed., Al. Lieber's and Bentley's.
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HONGKONG.
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Those who were present at the Annual
Holyoak left the Colony will not readily forget the way he referred to that gentle- Mr. N. V. A. CROUCHER said: Mr.man as a personal friend, and the great Chairman and Gentlemen, I have listensense of logs that came upon him when ed with appreciation to the very full statement made concerning last year's ache beard of his death. It was a state- counts and take this opportunity to ment of real friendship with and respect acknowledge the heavy handicaps under and love for him. which the Company has laboured during The spirit of earnest service he has that period. I trust, however, that the shown cannot be destroyed. It must live result of the many economies effected on to cement the brotherhood of man, on the one hand and increased revenues and epecially as represented in the relo- on the other, the Board can see prospectations between the Chinese and British East, 13 returning to Calais... of an interim dividend for the present peoples and other nationalities here
corner has been turned and that, as a
year.
The remembrance of this will help to bring comfort to his bereaved family with whom British and Chinese alike will gently sympathize.
-METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVA-
TIONS.
BROADCASTING FROM CAPE-
D'AGUILAR.
Yuan Mei, who lived in the eighteenth
of the Sleeping Car and International. Express Trans Company, says there is execlient reason to believe the signatures will goon be attached. The Company century, may well be described as the hopes to be able to ran a train of six Brillat-Savarin of China, writes a corre ears daily from Calais, and plans for spondent to a Home paper. Like, the the duplication of the line across the famous French epicure, he was a magis- Siberian versts are being considered to trate, a poet, and an author. At the enable 20 trains to be at different stages early age of forty he retired from the of the route daily-13 going to the Far official arena, and led a life of lettered ense in his beautiful garden at-Nanking. His cookery advice was given in scholar- ly fashion with dignity and authority.
Mr. Snow anticipates that a suffi- cient number of care will be available
"Cookery!" wrote Yüan Mei, "is like. within three months of the date of signature of the agreement to permit matrimony. Two things, served together should match. Clear should go with the service to begin. The route from clear, thick with thick, hard with hard, London to Vladivostok will be rid and soft with soft. I have known people Ostend, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Dortmund,mix grated lobster with birds'-nests, and
mint with chicken or pork.! Berlin, Frankfort, Posen, Kutno, War-
"The cooks of to-day think nothing of saw, Brest, Minsk, Smolensk, Moscow, mixing in one soup the meat of chicken, Pensa, Samura, Oufa, Toheliabinsk, ducks, pig, and goose. But these chick- Omsk, Tomsk, Kansk, Irkoutek, Tehita, en, ducka, pigs, and geese have doubtless abula. And these souls will most certain- Manchuria, Harbin, and Vladivostok. ly file prints in the next world on the From Harbin the line branches to Pekingway they have been treated in this. and through Korea to the neighbourhood
I should like to ask therefore if the Chairman can give us his idea of present possibilities provided he is causing the Board no embarrassment by doing sol
Replying, the CHAIRMAN said he had not embodied in his speech any reference to the possibility of the company paying a dividend for the current year as any such reference might, in the light of after events, he regarded as "ever optimism." He pointed out, however, that the amount brought forward from 1925, as shown by the accounts, was approximate- It is notified in the Government Gazette ly $300,000: the proht on the sale of the that from July 1st, the meter Gogeta Kalee Hotel, as he had indicated, would observations from various stations in the be some- $330,000; and the company's Far East will be broadcast by Cape Audited monthly accounts to the end of D'Aguilar on a 600 metre spark at 0400 the first quarter of the year showed a and 1200 and repeated on a 2800 metrc
"Fares from London will approximate 'profit of $250,000. He could say no more. wave at 0500 and 13000, respectively.
steamship There being no further questions, the These messages will be followed imined the first-and" second-class Report and Accounts were adoptediately by the weather reports and fore- fares. As there is only one tunnel on unanimously.
casts which have hitherto been broadcast the whole route, and no law bridges, the
at 0500 and 1600,
of Nakasaki.
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The signing of the agreement and
As the four heroes of the table, Yuan Mei gives the Chicken, the Pig, the Fish, and the Duck.
He was a delicate feeder, and disliked o display and overlavishness. He tells how he dined with a friend, who gave his guests birds'-nest soup in bowls more like vats. The other guests applauded vigor. ously. But Yuan Mei smiled and said: "I came here to eat birds'-nest, not to take delivery of it wholesale."
"Don't eat with your eyes" is one of bie, maxima. By which he means that. the host should not cover the table with unnecessary dishes and too many courses. "Don't eat with your ears" is another maxim. In other words, don't seek the applause of fools by giving extraordi- sensational After dining with a friend, who produced no fewer than three re moves (sets of eight dishes served separately) and sixteen kinds of sweets, Yuan Mei, when he got home, had a bowl of rice guel. He felt so hungry!!
OTHER BUSINESS.
As it has been found impossible to sleeping-cars will be high and roomy, and practically all the amenities of ship The CHAIRMAN said: The next business, secure complete synchronism, the morn. gentlemen, is the confirmation of the ap- ing barometer. readings will be reduced pointment of Mr. R. G. Shewan as approximately to 2200 and the afternoon life will be available: library, inlloor games, shower-baths, gymnasium," and Director. This is now rendered a purely observations to, 0600. formal resolution in view of the fact that The first four figures of each group since, the issue of the Notice convening will give the barometer reduced to 289 special dining-saloo0k/ the meeting I have received a letter from aca lever, and gravity at 45o. The afth. Mr. Shewan conveying his resignation as and sixth figures the temperature of the the starting of the new service will be Director owing to reasons of business air in degrees Fahrenheit, the seventh. welcomed, not only by business people, I take this opportunity on behalf of the and eighth the temperature of evapora Board of thanking Mr. Shewan for his tion, the ninth and tenth the direction to whom the saving of time is of im-nary, out-of-the-way foods or anything services to the Company and our regret of the wind (0-North; 4-East; portance, but by many people working, in the East, who cannot spare the time that be bas decided not to continue to 8-Bouth; 12-West) the eleventh the occupy a seat on the Directorate. force of the wind on the Beaufort scale, eaten up by a long sea voyage both
9 meaning or above. The twelfth the ways." wenther according to the following code:-1-fine; Blue sky or detached clouds; 2 cloudy or overcast; 3-rain; Mr., T. G. WELL proposed and Mr. B.4-fog; thunderstorm; Z=no observa- MONTAGUE EDE seconded, and the pro- tion: position was carried.
I shall be obliged if a shareholder will kindly propose the 'confirmation of Mr. Shewan's appointment.
On the proposition of Mr. W. VAN: DER STEEN, seconded by Mr. Poor LAI EUNG, Mr. J. Scott Harsion was re-elected a director.
WEATHER REPORT.
PARCEL POST RATES.
It is notified in the Government
YUEN HOW STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. Gazette that the following rates of post- age will be imposed on parcels posted in
The following resolution was passed, Hongkong on and after June 1st:-For French Indo-China (Annam, Cambodia, at an extraordinary general meeting of Last night's weather report, forecast Cochin-China, Laos and Quang Tcheou the Yuen Mow Steamship Co., Ltd., held and remarks by the Royal Observatory Wan) parcels not exceeding Elbe, 70 at No. 65, Connaught Road, on May 7ib, On the proposition of Mr Ezika nid :—
centa not exceeding 11 lbs, $1.10; not and confirmed at a second meeting on
May 22nd- ABRAHAM, seconded by Mr. KELLY SAYCE, The Northern depression is moving exceeding 2215, $1.85.
That the Company be wound up Mesars. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming, eastward across the sea of Japan. The There are a number of exceptions to and Messrs. Thomson & Co., were depression over Tongking appears to be these rates and for certain specified dis- voluntarily under the provisions of the re-elected as auditors,
filling up. The anti-cyclone over. China tricts the rates will be 95 cents; $1.35 and Companies Ordinance 1811, and that Mr. 82.10 respectively For Yunnan the par- Leung Yew Nam, of No. 5. Wood Road, The CHAIRMAN: That concludes the has strengthened, business of the meeting, gentlemen, and
Local forecast:-N.E. winds, moderate, cel post rates will be $1.10; $1.60; and he hereby appointed liquidator for the
I purpose of such winding-up." $2.55. I am much obliged for your attendance. overcast, occasional rain.
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