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A” NEW-ZEALAND ROLL OF HONOUR.
PROPERTY SOLD.
VOLUNTARY WINDING UP..
"ENGINEERS CORPS
PRIVILEGE.
DEDICATION, IN KITCHENER CHAPEL AT ST. PAUL'S,.
BRITAIN STARTS NEW
TRAVELLING CLUB,
CARDS AND COFFEE MAY HE HAD ON WAY TO BUSINESS.
There are clubs and clubs-but probably only" on
the London- Brighton section, of the Southern Railway is a genuine travelling
host
Upon three trains travel
It was recently announced in the Daily Press that Prince's Building had been sold to the Hong Kong)
The Roll of Honour of the Newclub conducted. Land Investment and Agency Co., Zealand Engineers was dedciated at of business men make Brighton or Ltd., for the sum of 83,000,000 cash. St. Paul's Cathedral on October Hove their home. Soon after tight This sale was recalled yesterday 10th, and placed in a recess in the every morning, they act out for London and before seven in the afternoon "when no extraordinary Chapel to
the memory of Lord evening they are back again in [general meeting of Prince's Build | Kitchener, who was himself a Royal Sussex.
ing and Land Co., Ltd., was held | Engineer. The New Zealand En- A Press representative who nt the registered office of the Con-gineers are one of the Dominion surprised to find how these season travelled on the 8.5 m. train" was pany, Prince's Building, for the Corps which share with the Royal ticket holders make themselves at purpose of passing an extra Engineers and the three corps of home, says a Home Correspondent. ordinary resolution authorising the Indian Sappers and Miners the breakfasts were served to those who, In one of the Pullman coaches, valantarily winding up of the Com- privilege of having their Rolls of one suspected, had lumbered too pany
and the appointment of Honour kept in the Kitchener long to eat at home. Coffee was Equidators.
dispensed to most of the travellers, Chapel.
and at several of the tables games Mr. E. Joseph (Chairman)
of cards were in progress. preaïded and was supported by Sir Robert Ho Tung and Hon. W. E. L. Shenton (Directors). There were also present Mr. E. M. Raymond, Mr. S. S. Perry, Mr. A. M. Bowes Smrich, Mr. F. MeD. Courtney, Mr. S.
M. Churn, Mr. K. F. Lay, Mr. D. H. Cooper (representing Mr. A. V. Apear), Mr. M. Nemazce, Mr., A. Nemazeë, Mr. Liang Chi Hao, and Mr. Tseng Iu Tang (shareholders); with Mr. S. R. Moosa (Secretary),
CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH.
Addressing the meeting, the
The Roll consists
of a parchment volume, bound in leather, with the! Corps badge in gold on the cover." It is beautifully illuminated and is inscribed with the names of 408 members of the Corps who fell dur- ing the war. It was sent to Eng- land from New Zealand in a elaborately carved casket of totera wood, made from one of the piles. of the Queen's Wharf, Wellington. The casket is in the form of a Maori treasure box, and bears the emblem of the Sun God, the guar- dian of the contents, and two figures representing defiance,
A city man who detached himself from a game of solo whist to talk to the Pressman, remarked-Yes, we enjoy ourselves during our daily trips to town and back.
I have friends whom I meet on the The strange thing is that though train every day, I don't know the business, nor where they live. names of several of them nor their
Well Kept Secrets.
such, where no questions are invited This is a club, if I may call it and no "shop" allowed. For a couple of hours every day we forget business trouble and domestic cares; it is "on with the game.
in comfort and at the end of the
I remember a year or two ngo we had a newcomer to our little "school," CHATEMAN said As all share
a pleasant, unassuming Those at the....dedication cere fellow who lost probably every holders are no doubt already aware mony included "General, Sir Bindon game of cards he played. Then from the announcements in the local Blood, representing the Colonels- it was not till long after that I Press a short while ago, your pro-
one day he travelled no more and perty as it stands has been sold to Commandant of the Royal Engi-learnt his identity. He is one of the Hong Kong Land Investment neers; Sir James Part, High Com the leading financiers of this coun- & Agency Co., Ltd., as on and from 1st November, 1927, for the sum of missioner for New Zealand; Major- tell you. It is one of the unwritten
try. His name? No. I cannot. 83,000,000 cash. It is needless for General P. G. Grant, Director of rules of our club" to keep our me to assure the shareholders that Fortifications and Works; General secrets within the train. this decision was reached by your Sir George. Kirkpatrick; Colonel daily travellers between London Directors after very careful con-
I certainly think the number of sideration at Board Meeting Pridham; Colone! Pritchard; and Brighton is increasing, you held for that purpose on the 24th Colone! Addison; and Subadar see it is only just an hour's run September, 1927, when the resolu tion was passed unanimously. Be-Nauser Khan, and Company Havil, day's work, there is scent of the fore proceeding further, I would dar Major Abdur Rahman Khan, ofsen and the heights of the South like to take this opportunity to King George's Own Bengal Sap-30 or 40 minutes in a tube train, Downs. That is rather better tann say that the financial position of the Company prior to the sale was pers and Miners, each of whom and trim suburbia when the day quite sound and had been con holds the Indian Order of Merit. is over. tinuously and steadily improved.
Not all the regular travellers go expenditure of much time and Canon Alexander.
class carriages, the club spirit has trouble on the part of your Chair-General Sir Bindon Blood, ex-aleo perineated One foursome, hy, tenants have been renewed during man the leases of all the principalplaining the ceremony, said the a little ingenity, has made card. playing easy. Some-perhaps one the past two years at practically Royal Engineers specially valued of their wives-has made for them a the full rental which had been their privilege of keeping their canvas "table." This is how it figured on when the building was acquired, and the Company was at
Rolls of Honour in the Kitchener is attabed a tape, the other end of works at each of the four corners. Inst on the eve of paying a Chapel, because they remembered which goes over player's jacket dividend The fact that the expir:that great man and faithful soldier button. When the journey is end- ing lenses were renewed at very of his King and Country, as one of a.. the tapes are unbuttoned, and much higher rentals during a
the table" rolled away into an period of unprecedented crisis in them. When the New Zealand attache case, the Colony speaks sufficiently for Corps of Engineers came over to the value of the site, which is situated right in the very heart join in the Great War, they were The Pressman nlio discovered the of the banking area.
trained in Egypt under the super-most exclusive book exchange in the The difficulty, or rather the draw-vision of Colone! Pridham, and had and the books in circulation are the world. Its membership is three, back, with us however was that our Capital of $700,000 was much too specially asked that he should put property of the members. Caring. small, being less than one quarter their Roll of Honour in the place not for the pleasures of the card of the value of the property, hence reserved for it..
table, those travellers do, as most the increasing rate of interest wo
Englishmen do" in a train-put have had to pay for our loans has volume to Canoti Alexander, and by reading away
Sir Bindon then "handed the their eyesight to the severest test prevented us from paying any Colonel Pridham placed it in the journey.
their daily dividend to shareholders up date. The Company therefore, recess in the north wall of the It is the only time I get my though owning a well constructed chapel, which already contains reading, except at week-ends, snid one of the men. My two friends. and palatial building, on what is other Rolls of Honour. probably the finest site in the
Sir Bindon told a Press repre- much as possible. We make it a and I keep up with new books as Colony, and one of great potential sentative that as there was no suit rule to buy one book a week, and vaine, was nevertheless in a difficult able place, in the Cathedral in position, and a call or shareholders which to keep the casket, it would then pass it around. The plac for increased capital had also been be placed in the R.E. Museum at works very well. Our tastes are considered by your Chirman and Chatban. All ranks will be able dissimilar, of course, but each of Directors, but in view of the diff to see it there," he said.
its finds something which "In
By dint of hard work and the The service was conducted by by Fuliman coach. Into the third
holders.
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...... A Club Of Three.
will
cult times still prevailing it was fact, it is a matter of routing in interest the others as well as
himself.' extremely doubtful whether such a training recruits that they are call,
if made, would receive taken to the museum and shown sufficient support" from share the Corps' memorials and records, Under the circumstances which are carefully explained to it was unanimously decided that them. This happens more than the beat interests of the share-once during their training, and we holders would be served by dispos and it a very useful way of stimu ing of your property at the price lating the Corps spirit." offered which was accordingly done.
The
...
No questions being asked in
museum contains, among response to the Chairman's invita other things, & number of relics of tion, the Chairman formally pre-used by the Duke of Wellington. General Gardon, the Waterloo map posed the following resolution.
and a uniform "coat: worn by Lord That the Company be wound up Kitchener when Sidar of Egypt, voluntarily and that Mr. John bearing the twenty-two ribbons to Hennessey Seth and Mr. Sydney which he was entitled before the Hampden Ross, jointly and South African War, severally of the firm of Messrs. Pervy Smith, Beth and Fleming
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Mr. D. H. Cooper (representing 31. A. V. Apcar) seconded and the resolution was carried us animously.
Directors' Remuneration.
which they have waived their fees in the past should now call for some consideration from the share holders in return, by the fixing of Ruch remuneration to them at this meeting at a higher figure than would otherwise obtain
NOVEMBER 22nd, 23rd,
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BOOKING AT ANDERSON'S.
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that adolescence should be round- The Warden of All Souls ed off by a few years at Oxford or College, Oxford, is not to be rank Cambridge. With the extension of ed among the pessimists who can bursaries and improved expectation discover, nothing but a tendency to of ultimate pecuniary reward, com- degeneracy among modern young petition in Retunt scholarship is men in comparison with their pre-displicing to a considerable extent decessors. Dr. Pember, it is to be that rivalry which of old was mani- sonal knowledge gained by ex- or on the river. In short the un- perience, when he informs us that dergraduate of to-day is taking the manners of the present day himself and his prospecte more undergraduate have improved in seriously than did his forefathers, recent years. But did anyone over although it must be admitted that deny it? asks. a Home paper. this is far from: having named Youth will still have ita fing, and epidemic propertions. Still the Mr. Raymond (said: Under the must have some outlet for exuber fact remains that the average The Chairman, continuing said: There is one other matter that circumstances and in view of the ance of animal spirit, only this out-student of to-day is viewing his reasons and explanations given, I let has naturally found newer academic career from a never-and calls for your consideration before have much pleasure in proposing modes of expression. The all-night better angle. He has accordingly concluding this meeting and that is that the Directors remuneration eittings of the past are indulged in less time for frivolity, and finds his the question of the remuneration for the period up to the date of by the few nowadays, perhaps be pleasures in quarters the antithesis for your Directors. As you are all liquidation be fixed at $2,000 each, cause of temporary exhaustion. fol. of the uproarious outbursts that, no doubt already aware and trust which I feel sure all present here towing strenuous exertion during however pardonable in irresponsi understand and appreciate, your will agree is fully deserved the day, as the Warden suggests, ble youth, certainly were a blemish Directors have been obliged give no
on personal conduct and a refles THERAPION No. 1 little of their time
Mr. S. M. Churn seconded, and but rather we think the change is
to be traced to the changes in social tion on scholastic training. THERAPION No. 2 and attention, especially of late, the resolution was carried,
habits. Excess of all-sorte is now Human nature is not given to to many questions and matters The Chairman announced that the deprecated, whereas formerly over-violent change, but it is well, to be THEBAPION No. 3 of importance in connection with next meeting to confirm the resolu- indulgence was supposed to distin- assured by Dr. Pember that such or Bidder Chasco. 3 for Blood & Bais Biekamos „No. 3. for Eugenia WINKOMMEN, HOLM BY the negotiations and eventual ziens passed at this meeting would guish the man of fashion. And movement as there is apparent in
PLATE IN MIND, EN, DE, K. Gems sale of your property. This, in be held on Thursday, the 8th must we not take into account the the undergraduate is in the way
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