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HONG KONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1930.
DIVIDEND OF 80 PER SHARE.
The directors of the Hong Kong
Messrs. Percy Smith. Seth and and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd. will present the follow. Fleming, Incorporated Accountants, ing report to shareholders at the and Linstead and Davis, Chartered forty-third ordinary annual meet-Accountants, have audited the a ing to be held at the office of Messrs.counts now presented and effer Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. on themselves for re-election. Thursday, March 13 at noon.
The profit on working was $1,302,861.36
compared $1,004,858.82 in 1998.
DS
with
The balance for the year, after transferring $200,000 to renewals account, dedücting directors' and auditors' fees, allowing for depre- ciation, and other outgoings, i $730,035.08. The amount brought forward from last year is 8380,063,79 making a total of 81,090,119.77 available for appropriation.
The directors
following:-
recommend
To pay dividend of
8 per share
To ply a bonus of $3
per share
To carry forward
GOOD-BYE TO OLD DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS.
SHOPS.
LONDON CASUALTIES.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
SHAREBROKERS'
ASSOCIATION.“
By cre
Ballare Bales Sominal
MONDAY. MARCH S.
Buyers Ballers
Balod │Kommina)
806
$750
Mr. M. T. Johnson resigned his
The sentimental Londoner making seat on the return to the Colony his New Year perambulation will of Mr. C. Gordon Mackie who was invited to rejoin the Board.
find many sad casualties among the Dr. Allan Cameron and Mr. Fold-fashioned London shops that Austin retire according to the Articles of Association, but being gave character to our streets (writes $1,345| eligible, offer themselves for re- the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian). For about election."
a century there stood in the Hay- market a deep, low shop with a large window which gave light, to skilful men making saddles. They were always elderly men, bent over. their task, never giving a glance te the bright pageant of the Hay market, and they never seemed to grow older
younger. A few years before the war the place was rebuilt, but when the new house was finished there were the elderly saddlers making hunting saddles as usual in the Haymarket. Inst autumn they vanished, and the old business began a new life in War- wick Street. Apart from the old hatter's it was the last shop in this part of the town where tradesmen could be seen actually making the things that were sold in the shop.
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During the year, Mr. T. Q. Weall, Mr. e. Gordon Mackie, Mr. A. W. Hayward and Mr. Ar 9. Gubbay resigned their seats on leav ing the Colony and Mr. J. P. Warren, Mr. M. T. Johnson and Mr. H. H. H. Priestley were invit ed to join the Board.
"SUICIDE" HAT PROBLEM. FASHION PUTS WOMEN IN. BLINKERS.
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WHEN THIEVES FEAR TO STEAL.
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· The Saddler, «
Another famous saddler's shop that has gone was Smith's, in the Strand, near Somerset House. It had a big army connection," and its saddles Agured on racecourses all over the Empire, from Shanghai to Simla and Vancouver. The saddler. on summer days used to air, his saddles on their packing cases on the pavement before his shop front, probably with some pardonable pride, the label showing all their far destinations. The saddler and Royal ontfitter near by always seemed the right shops to stand at the entrance to Somerset House. One conceived heirs coming away from Somerset House, their probate business over, doing themselves very IMMUNITY OF OLD MASTERS.well with silk shirts and dressing-
What shape is the perfect hat!
Every self-respecting crook re: gown and good saddles. It is that the highly pleasant to 306 Every sort of hat that women have cognises that it is an act of folly to respectable outfitter is still holding worn in the past few years, except steal an article of great value which his ground. the picture hat, has been condemn-I cannot be disposed of easily-as, for sed on wethetic grounds. Now example, the recent mysterious dis- caroner. declares that, in view of appearance of the £90,000 Vaa the modern fashions in women's Dyck. headgear, it is surprising that there The paintings of the old masters; not more women. knocked therefore, usually enjoy compara
tive immunity from the hands of down,"
the burglar in days when their dis appearance is immediately broad- cast to all parts of the world.. Their repurchase is also rendered im- probable.
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He was conducting an inquest on a woman who had been run over when she was wearing a hat that covered her' eyes.
Wall of Felt:
No crook has any desire to be It is the "blinker" hat he was
a stolen Raphael or the receiver The fashionable hat, Botticelli unless he be a private criticising, with its gap of inckea over the eyes, collector himself. Even then he is causes no danger as long as the wearer is lanking to the front. But deprived of the chief pleasure of in many cases what happens when the collector, that of displaying his she tries to "Eyes right" or "Eyes Possessions to his friends. left" Her eyes encounter a wall
Once in a way stolen masterpieces of felt. There has to be some hat so disappear, apparently, for good and all. Gainsborough's "Nancy somewhere, and as it has been re- Parsons" and Sir Joshua Rey moved from the forehead it has tolds Portrait of the Hon. Mrs. go over the ears.
Flans of felt that look and act Yorke." both of them stolen in the
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A grievous shop loss is the passing of Sir John Bennett's old clock shop in Cheapside. It is being rebuilt, but the great me- chanical figures, Gog and Magog and Father Time, that struck the hours in the deep arched alcove over the shop have gone to Detroit, which deserves them if it wants $19.70 them more than London. These rather absurd but well-regulated figures gave to time in the City of London a very proper signifi- $10.33 cance. It seemed wrong that in the centre of the world of money that time (which is money) should be allowed to pass day and night as though it were of no importance as it completed its dread portions To see the tall-hatted citizens in Cheap T-173 aide pausing in their business to watch these metallic monitors pro- claim the death of another hour was
like blinkers shut out the view from year 1907 from a house in Parka serious experience that many
both sides. They naturally diminish hearing as well, and a woman cross- ing the road in such a hat is literal- ly taking her life in blinkers.
Everybody would agree that it would be madness for a deaf and half blind man to attempt to cross a busy road without assistanco, yet women, who are rendered deaf. and half blind by their hats sail light- heartedly into the traffe without a qualm,
Half-Solved Problem, Some milliners have evidently realised that they making auicide hats, for one or twe French milliners appease their consciences by cutting a little hole in ench flap over the ear. This solves half the problem, and English women would do well to adopt it, and to find some method of cutting the flap so that it does not obscure the eyea..
It would be too much, of course, to suggest that the easiest way would be to abandon the hat.
are
lane, have never reappeared.
A Daring Theft,
The theft of the pictures occurred in the following manner.
An art collector, of Park-lage, had surrounded himself
with treasures, all of which he was pre- pared to sell at his own price to would-be purchasers.
young Londoners had had in their youth and never forgot.
Fleet Street has lost one of its last groups of old buildings, which included the Warning Advertiser's office, with its panelled rooms-the oldest newspaper office in London.. Elderly Londoners will remember the chemist's shop at the corner of Shce Lane as the office of a weekly A picture dealer, an elderly man, comic paper entitled Ally Sloper's smartly dressed, came to visit this Half-holiday, which had a great collection, inspected the treasures vogue in late Victorian days. It and left without making any pur-wae a dingy, musty little place, chase.
with a Ayblown window in which He engaged the services of were set out a bottle of gin and a down-and-nut waiter whom he took pair of long spats, a bulgy um one night shortly afterwards to the rella. and a strange sort of hat, house in Park-lane, helped him to like the hat that Mr. Micawber climb to the top of the portico, and
wore in some Dickens editions. gave him a knife with which to All this
"Relics labelled WAS open the catch of a first-floor win- of his eminence," and in those dow.
days all this was thought to be for some reason or other funny. A journal that gave distinction to the Strand has gone from the corner
where of Bedford Street,
its sedately elegant frontage with ad mirable lettering was always pleas ant to see. The Lancet has trans ferred its headquarters to
a. yet better building in the Adelphi.
A Strand Fight.
The waiter entered the house, made a selection of gold stuff boxes and other treasures, and ripped the two pictures out of their frames..
The dealer later told him that the pictures were valueless fakes, and persuaded him to hand them over. Then the police offered £1,000 for the catching of the thief, whose loot was assessed at £35,000.
The thief was duly betrayed to the police and was sentenced to The Grand Hotel has gone, and seven years' penal servitude.
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SHAVIAN PLAYS AS "TALKIES"?
MR. GOLDWYN FINDS "G.B.5." A GOOD BUSINESS MAN,
Will new
talkies" include some of the plays of Bernard Shaw? Mr. Shaw has been approached on the matter by Mr. Samuel Goldwyn, the American film magnate; and the possibilities of seeing Shavian works on the screen can be judged from a recent interview which a London reporter had with Goldwyn... "I am a great admirer of Mr. Shaw," said Mr. Goldwyn." sid
shopping. The battle between the Kangmoon (except Saturdays) 500 p.m. I'm just crazy about his latest play
high-class shops that are coming Kankong (except Saturdays), The Apple Cart." Asked if he
up in important groups in parts
Fatihan (By Train) had secured any of Mr. Shaw's York, was going to Hollywood of the Strand, and the cheap tailors plays for the purpose of making after sho had returned to England and shooting gallery" shops that Tai
talkies," Mr. Goldwyn smiled in April for a holiday, to make had settled down there during the enigmatically. He has got some picture for him, "I've had film period of transition will make a things I should like to buy," he tests made of her, and she comes out very interesting little struggle dur- anewered, but Mr. Show is such a marvellously," he said.
ing 1880. Is the Strand going to good business man"-and the film Mr. Goldwyn added that he was become the Bowery of London, or magnate shrugged his shouldera re-convinced the colour process for will it recover its old status i signedly. Some day I may be kinema films had come to stay.. "I able to do something with them, am going to use it in all my musical but and again Mr. Goldwyn's films in the future," he said..
Mr. Bernard. Shaw, later said attitude seemed to suggest that Mr. Shaw had been one too many for that his meeting with Mr. Goldwyn him.
was purely a friendly one, and was Mr. Goldwyn said that Mies in no senso a business interview. Evelyn Laye, the English actress "There was no question," he said, who has scored a big success in New" of negotiating for the talkie (Continued at foot of next columa). rights of any of my plays.".
The severity of the sentence,into a new arcade. The Cecil Hotel coupled perhaps with the hope of has been sold, and will become its reduction, inade him disclose the offices next June, and even that fair- identity of the dealer, who, wasiy modern piece of the Strand will promptly arrested. Replicas of the be changed out of recognition knife which be had provided for again, while the Bush House exten
which will complete the opening the shutter and which the sion, waiter had left behind were found Strand line at last on the Aldwych Macao & Triushen in his possession. The dealer was site, will transform that No-Man's sent to prison, for seven years.. Land into a centre of expensive
But the pictures had vanished. Where are they now 1
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