Vehicular Ferry Service..
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1930.
STAR" FERRY CO.,At our meeting last year, I men-
LIMITED.
tioned that a vehicular ferry ser- vice connecting the Island and, the mainland was receiving the con- We. VEHICULAR FERRY SERVICE sideration of your Directors.
INCREASE OF $48,115 IN
TRAFFIC EARNINGS.
have, however, made, very little pro- grees in this direction, as we are unable as yet to obtain the view
of the Government as to the terms and conditions on which such a ser vice would be required to operate. The present service of transporting Mr. B. D. F. Brith (chairman), cars across the harbour by lighter addressing the shareholders of the has been in operation for the past Star Ferry Co., Ltd., at the twelve years, and we are fully alive 32ad ordinary yearly meeting, held to the fact that the method is now yesterday in MessTS. Jardine, antiquated and "far from satisfac- Matheson's Board Room, "mention-tory. When it is borne in mind that ed the proposed vehicular ferry a regular half hourly service is service. Very little progress had, he said, been made in this diree tion na the directors were unable to obtain from the Government the terms and conditions under which auch service would be salled upon to operate. Speaking of the lighter service now in use. Mr. Beith cm- phasised the fact that it was run, at a loss to the Company.
With reference to the balance sheet the Chairman pointed out that there had been mu increase of $48,115.30 in traffic earnings, com- pared with last year.
Supporting the Chairman were Messrs. C. Gordon Mackie, H. I. H. Priestley, J. P. Warren and F. H. Crapnell (secretary).
maintained on Sundays and holi- days and a car can be ferried across the harbour practically at any time. of the day on week days, it is ap parent that the Company have done their best under existing coa- ditions.
Lighters Run at a Less,
THE TSUN WAN MURDER LOCAL & GENERAL.
CASE..
ANOTHER REMAND
GRANTED.
with murder in Taun Wan on the i
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An Aberdeen Glit.
A Kissing Convention.
If kissing is really dangerous, as the Medical Officer for Health for Nowcastle suggests, then England must have suffered severely when she had a reputation as a kissing nation. Erasmus was in raptures over the English habit, praise greeting people with
kisa:
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To take advantage of his "luck" Appearing before Mr. J. S. Mac the winner of one of the gifts in con- nection with the London Stock Ex- laren at the District Court yester change. Help Yourself" Fund worthy beyond description," of day on behalf of a Chinese charged, would have to travel over 1,000 night of January 13-14, Mr. Hin miles a day for 313 days or take Shing Lo made a formal applicap his residence in Aberdeen. The tion for the man's release on the gift is "a glass of beer every law. ground that he had been in pri- ful day during 1930," to be called son for nearly a month, and that for at the premises of the donor in apparently the Crown could not Aberdeen. The winner is a Lon proceed with the case till two others doner. It be decided to have his who were alleged to be connected beer and took out a third-class season ticket bo would have to spend with the crime were also arrested...
almost the whole of the year in rail Mr. L. R. Andrewes for the Crown called a Chinese constable to give way trains, and each glass would evidence of the arrest of defendant cost him 9. 6d. It is announced, however, that the donor does not on January 16,
intend to take advantage of the terms of the gift and that the win- ner will be suitably rewarded "in kind."
Mr Le suggested in his 'croES- examination that accused was ar rested without a warrant.
Mr. Maclaren then said that be thought the interests of justice would be served best by ordering & remand in order to give the police a fair opportunity. Accused was accordingly remanded for a week.
SENTENCE TOO LIGHT! PLAINT OF MAN WHO LOST
A COW.
Two lighters are now employed almost excusively in this service, and the capital expenditure entail 'ed is far from justified by receipts.
Realising, however, that as al public utility Company, they owe a dusy to the public, and that the cessation of this service would er- tail considerable inconvenience to the general public, the Directors have continued, with the co-opera- tion of the Wharf Co., to operate the service, in spite of the loss which has now extended over many years. As we are the only Cor
The complainant in the case ask pany who have made any provizion
ed the magistrate to award him of this nature, we have every hope compensation and remarked that that we shall receive due considera-the sentence was too light. He tion when Government sacction for the inauguration of a vehicular stealing a cow was only six weeks said that if the punishment for in prison with hard labour, then everybody would be stealing cows, which were worth about $80.
ferry service is granted.
ÇILAIRMAN'S SPEECH. The Chairman said: The profit on the year's working shows a 000- siderable improvement on tho pre vicus one, there being an increase of 849,115.38 in traffic earnings of this amount by far the greater portion is represented by first-class fares via the turnstiles. The latter, as you are aware, have now been in use for the whole period covered do not think. Gentlemen, there by these decounts. There is also is anything further that calls for larger revenue derived from interest comment and now beg to propose and dividends on investments made that the report and accounts as from our surplus fonds. These in presented be adopted and passed. vestments, you will noticó under When this has been seconded, I share fuctuation account, appre-shall be pleased to answer to the ciated during the year to the ex- best of my ability. any questions tent of $50,130. You will also cb- that shareholders may wish to ask. serve from the accounts that we The report and accounts were are transferring 800,000 to reserve adopted on the proposal of the and 240,000 to general contingency | Chairman, seconded by Mr. J. P. account, bringing these accounts up. Warren, .to $150,000 and $200,000 respective- ly. After allowing for regaiss, and depreciation there remains a bil- acce of $354,487.03 for appropria- tion. It is proposed to pay a dividend of $2 per share and a bonus of like amount, absorbing $320,000, and carry forward $21.437.03, which I hope will meet with your approval.
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OTHER BUSINESS. Messrs. F. H. H. Priestley, J. P. Warren and C. Gordon Mackie were elected directors on the proposal of Mr. J. T. Bogram, seconded by Mr. H. E. Scriven,
Mr. A. H. Compton was re-elect ed a director on the proposal of (Continued on next Column.)
THEATRE
On pleading guilty to a charge of stealing and then slaughtering a cow, a Chinese was sentenced to six weeks hard labour by Mr. T S. Whyte Smith yesterday.
It was alleged by the prosecution that the defendant had led away the cow during the night and taken to a dealer to whom it was sold for
838.
Demand for War Novels,
The popularity of the war novel is embarrassing the Libraries De partment of the Stepney Borough Council. At a recent meeting of the Council the Chairman of the Libraries Committee said that dur-
ing the past two months there had arisen an enormous demand for war books, and though the libraries had done their best to meet that demand they had not been able to do so. One hundred and twenty-six copies of one war, book" All Quiet on the Western Front-had been bought. This was record for single volume, but there were still 553 people in the borough waiting to obtain it. Their difficulty was are lent the books to other added to by the fact that borrow hers of the family and their friends before returning them.
France's Bid for Fame.
Venetian visitor in 1819 said of the London ladies that if they meet a friend they take his hand and kiss him fall in the mouth. And their people do not take it ill. And they are the most beautiful ladies and most pleasant." Another visitor, Nicandar Nacius, found "kissing went on openly in the church, in the street, and everywhere," and added, "To themselves they appear by no means indecent." A century later Bulstrode Whitelock, when Ambassador to the Court of Sweden, was requested by the Queen to teach. her and her ladies" to kiss after the English fashion" Although a Puritan, he obliged, his pupils offer. ing only a few pretty defences." Novel Air Terminus.
Mr. Alfred Smith, the former Governor of New York, announces that the Empire State Company, of which be is head, believing that "in pelin airships will establish Trans- a comparatively short time: Zep- atlantic and transcontinental" lines from the port of New York," pro- poses to have an airway terminus,' stage, constructed on the top of its with mooring most and landing
new skyscraper on the site of the old Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Fifth Avenue at Street. It is Transatlantic passengers down to estimated that lifte will bring the pavement of Fifth Avenue with mearing secured to the mast. The archi in seven minutes of an airship's be tects are of opinion that the steel framework can bo autficiently strengthened to enable it to with stand the strain of an airship swinging at ite moorings in acy weather except a full gale. The structure would give the new build- ing a total height of 1,300ft.-970ft. higher than the Chrysler Building, which is at present the highest in New York.
Work has started at the St. Nazaire-Penhoct shipyard in Brit- tany on a great cecan liner which is designed to be the largest and Mr. L. S. Greenhill, seronded by fastest merchant vessel afloat. De-
tails of its construction, particular Mr. D. Mackenzie.
Mr. C. Bernard Brown, A.C.A.;ly regarding horse-power and speed, was re-elected auditor on the pro- are a closely guarded secret. The posal of Cantaia C. B. Riggs, vessel is being built for the Cie seconded by Mr. O. F. Ribeiro,
Shareholders Present, The following shareholders were present: Mesara. J. T. Bagram, W. S. Bailey, L. S. Greenhill, D. Mackenzie, C. F. Mendham, C. B. Rigge, O. F. Ribeiro, and H. E. Seriven,
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Madame Anna Sedlachkova, of the National Theatre, Prague, has brought an nction against the talented Czech sculptor, Foit, who had been commissioned to make a marble model of the actress's head. Recently Madame Sedlachkova, was astonished and disagreeably sur- prised to find a crowd outside one of the largest Prague art atores gazing with interest at a model, not only of her head, but of her naked bust na well. Several newspapers and magazines reproduced the work. The actress at once 'insisted that the (to her) offensive portions of the work should be suitably draped.
She was unable to obtain the re- moval of the model, and is now. suing the sculptor for semi-falsi. fication." She declares that she sat to the sculptor" only for å model of her head, certainly not for a full bust. On the other hand, the sculptor declares that the actress sat for him exactly as he has de- picted her in the moded. He says that one of the sittings took place in the presence of her husband, a Czech industrialist.
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People who have never mot & ghost and who think that their existence is in all probability res tricted to the efforts of entertaining writers of fiction, can only marvel at the extraordinary confidence with which the trus believers
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