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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1930.
LANE, CRAWFORD'S ANNUAL MEETING,
CHAIRMAN'S REVIEW OF YEAR'S BUSINESS: IMPROVEMENTS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS.
REPULSE BAY KIOSK TO BE
EXTENDED.
A satisfactory year's business was reviewed by the Chairman of Directors of Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Limited, at their annual meeting held in Exchange Building on Saturday last...
Mr. M. Manuk took the chair, and was supported by Messrs. J. P. Warren, A. B. Stewart, E. M. Raymond, T. E. Pearce, S.-J. Jordain (Directors), A. W. Brown (Secretary), and the following shareholders :—Messrs. C. B. Brown, D. M. Goodall, E. W, Run- dall, F. W. Stapleton, D. K. Kharas, Chan Nai Pan, and H. B. L. Dowbiggin.
It was indicated that considerable pains had been taken to keep up the high quality of food and service generally at the Com- pany'a restaurant, and it was felt, from the popularity of this estab lishment, that the trouble taken and improvements effected had been worth while.
It was also stated that the Company's Kiosk at Repulse Bay would be extended in the near future.
Stocks as valued by the man- CHAIRMAN'S SPEECE. Addressing the meeting the Chair-agement" have been valued at landed cost, and depreciated where man said-Gentlemen,-The report
Recessary. and accounts having been in your hands for the prescribed period, I will, with your permission, take them as read. The auditors' report is as follows:-
"We report that we have examined the accounts of Lane, Crawford, Ltd., with the books and vouchers of the Company for the year ended 28th February, 1930, and have obtained all the information and explanations we have required. In our opinion the above balance-sheet is pro- perly drawn up so as to exhibit true and correct view of the. state of the Company's affairs nc- cording to the best of our infor mation and the explanations given. to us and as shown by the books of the Company."
Profit and Loss, R
Peak Developments. During the year under review we have improved our depot at the Peak. This had been done in con-
junction with our friends, the Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Storage Co., Ltd, and the new situation un- doubtedly gives better facilities to our customers served by that depot.
We have also taken over the Peak Garage, and I am pleased to inform you that our clients are well pleased with the service they receive.
Catering Business.
The amount of business done by the Kiosk at Repulse Bay has en- couraged your Directors to farther In dealing with the accounts, extend and develop the surrounding you will notice that the nett result land. The Government has granted profit us a licence for the sale of alcobolic of our working shows a of -842,023.45 as compared with liquors to be consumed with meals $23,102.85 for the previous year, and on the premises. a loss of 811,027.74 for the year pre- ceding the last,
"THE PRINCE"
BRITAIN'S HEIR-APPARENT CELEBRATES 36TH
BIRTHDAY
of
To-day is the thirty-sixth birth- day of H.R.. the Prince of Wales, aad from all parts of the Empire- and from many foreign, countries also-there will be mesanges congratulation to one of the most popular Princes Great Britain has ever bad, Among all classes of people the Prince of Wales has a host of real friends-not more sycophantic admirers, but men and wonien who appreciate his manly manner and the keen and intelli gent interest he shows in their affairs. Before he attained his majority the Prince had won the warm affection of his own people, and particularly from 1914 onward had shown his determination to get into sympathetic contact with all classes of the community,
The fact that the Prince has reached the age of 36 still it a state of single bliss has, in the nature of things, increased the chances of the British Empire being ruled by a lone monarch.
Those who concern themselves with these matters, the afternoon- tea match-makers, and folk with Royalty complexes, are at a loss to understand why, he has not mar- ried. His chances of doing so have not been few, even if they have been confined to the amall circle of blue-blooded Royalty.
It was said that the Prince once remarked that he would marry when he was 33, and then at his mother's choosing, and again, when he was taxed with his bachelordom, he is reported to have said: "England had a virgin Queen who was a great success. Why not try a virgin King ""
Idle Prophecies.. In any case the number of cligi- ble mates for the Prince has con- recent siderably diminished in years, and there are those who now predict that he will never marry. They even suggest that he will never rule, will abdicate in favour of his brother, the Duke of York. These are idle prophesies, however, for officialdom emphatically denies that the Prince contemplates a private life.
His whole lifetime of intensive training for the Throne gives the lie to such suggestions, while an- other indication of their lack of truth is that during and since the
Your Management has been at considerable pains to keep up the You will also notice an item at high quality of food and service gen-King's illness the Prince has taken on himself many duties of State the debit of profit and loss accoubterally of your Company's restaurant, formerly performed by his father. under the heading of "Exchange," and in this connection bew kitchen Although he assumed these at a time This "sum, vi., $1,669.78, represents equipment was purchased during the of necessity, it is said that he now the adjustment of sterling accounts year. From the popularity which continues them out of choice.
The outstanding event in this current between our office here and this restaurant enjoys it would ap- 36th year of his life is the com- our London agents.
pear that these improvements of our pletion of what may be his last long trip abroad. Since be return. service are appreciated.
ed from his big-game hunt in East Africa, he has led a life of State duties, functions, and so on that would not be altered very much if he became king.
Repairs and renewals show a dc- crease as compared with last year. This is accounted for, to a .con- siderable extent, by the fact that sundry repairs and renewals have been debited this year to working
account.
Bad and Doubtful Debts.
The same policy has been adopted with regard to your Company's bakery. Your Directors are satisfed with the advance this department is making, judging by the increased
turnover of late months.
Purchase of Fremises.
Anxious Times.
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ing and sold his horses last year, "He motored himself in a blind- he has turned to golf as a meansing rainstorm at 5 g to Her- of exercise. He is a passionate ad- vocate of physical fitness, and the tale is told that when he was young he used to stand in front of a mirror and study his figure with the remark:"I'm not getting fat like grandpa, am I!"
Fondness for Flying,
A Great Traveller, When the Prince landed in Eng land on April 25 last, at the end of his trip to Africa, it was esti- mated that he had travelled some I informed you last year that the Your Directors have been in 200,000 miles abroad since 1918. He 18 probably one of the most-travel- reserve for bad and doubtful debts, negotiation for some months pasted people in the world, and his
His golf has somewhat improved, namely, $3,000, which was then for the purchase from the Hong value as the Empire's unofficial am
is inestimable. The although he is still asbaky 14, created, was considered by your Kong Realty and Trust Co., Ltd., bassador Directors to be ample, and you will of the building known as Exchange Frinco has visited all the Domin- but he took the opportunity when ions and practically every im- the American stars were in Eng notice that the amount to be Building, in which the main section portant country. He has sailed at land for the Walker Cup and play written off this year is $2,349.19. of your Company's business is least seven seas, and circled the Amateur championship, to It is proposed that in addition to situated, and I am now in a position globe three times. He has seen In with Bobby Jones and others. Australia, South Jones said the Prince's game had dia, Japan, the $3,000 already standing to the to inform you that the Board of America, the Sandwich Islands, the improved considerably. reserve for bad and doubtful debts, Directors of the Hong Kong Realty United States, Canada and Africa. the further sum of $5,000 be added and Trust Co., Ltd., have agreed, It is noteworthy, however, that he
As regards flying, the Prince now- has not visited many countries in thereto, and I ar
sure you will subject to the approval of their Europe. France, of course, but uses practically no other means of agree with the policy of your Direc-shareholders, to sell the property to not Russia or Germany, or any of travelling. He has been interested
the Balkan countries.
in it for some years, and has two tory in this regard. It is a matter this Company.
His last trip to East Africa was small 'planes of his own, and a for congratulation that the writing-
the continuation of a hunting veca private fiying field in Windsor off and reserve necessary' are so General conditions in Hong Kong tion started in September, 1928, Great Fark, near his new country
and interrupted by the King's ill-house, Fort Belvedere. small, considering the magnitude and China during the financial year
The Prince has qualified for his and nature of the Company's busi- under review, coupled with the de-ness, when he made his record
journey by rail, road, sea and air, "A" and "B" certificates, which clining dollar, have been such as from the African hinterland to his means that he can handle the con- to cause the management and your,
trols, but it must be a matter of Directors considerable thought and father's bedside.
He promised the natives then great-andnes to him that in all anxiety, and where these conditions are taken into consideration I think that he would return, and on Janu probability he will never fly a mn
for Africa. The trip was pure. working tice with me that the ery 3 this year, he once again set chine alone w
of the Company is not en- tirely unsatisfactory, thanks to the ly private. Newspapermen were all loyal ́co-operation of the manage»,
bat barred. There was consterna went and the staff as a whole.
tion when it was learned that the Prince was ill with malaria, but Subsequently to the printing of fortunately the attack was only the report and balance-sheet which slight, and he soon recovered. “ ore before you, Mr. L. N. Murphy, The Balance Sheet,
Mr. A. B. Stewart, and Mr. T. E Pearce were invited and have joined Auto en estments the Directorate of the Company,
Turning the balance-sheet.
According your Company's which has already been referred to, Articles of Association, these ap- the only explanation necessary is in regard to depreciation," and inpointments do not require confirma explaining these figures I think it tion at this meeting.
ness.
It is regretted that our invest- ments have not given us any return this year. This, however, should not be taken a meaning that these investments "have depreciated. I would nssüfe you, gentlemen, that our investments are fully worth the amount, at which they stand in the books of the Company
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don," said Mr. du Maurier," where he entered his Moth aeroplane, and flew to the Shetland Isles, where he opened a saw-makers' exhibition. Our chairman then proceeded in a submarine to Wales, where, with- out adopting a diver's suit, he went to the bottom of the sea to examine the pearl fisheries. He was very much interested in a shark at the bottom of the sca.
"After that he motored himself to Edinburgh, where he drove the Scotch express to London so as to be present and make a speech of the 8,000th dinner.of the Dentists Association,
Prince as Speech-Maker, The Prince, who was in the chair, said:
"When a chairman rises towards the close of a public dinner to give the toast of the evening the night is by general consent regard- rd as young, and the guests settle down to listen to a food of oratory of uncertain length. Even the last speaker on the toast list can be assured of a fairly full bouse.
"But a luncheon in the middle
I understand that in front of of the day is a different affair. The concern which was felt over each place is a Waterman fountain: repeated falls from horses is very pen, which can be pocketed by any much greater over his lying. It is one, provided that it has been used hinted that he bas been advised." at the table to sign a cheque or a in other words, ordered, for reasons donation forms come of
"If you take the pen. I know that of State, not to attempt any solo fighte. Perhaps that is why the your contributions will be a gener Prince has never fully qualified for ous as you can afford to make Match-Making Rumours.
them? his pilot's certificate." Both on this and the previous
Both his tiny Moth planes are trip to Africa match-makers revived fitted with dual controls, and on the old rumour that Lady May more than ons occasion he has Cambridge, daughter of the Earl handled the joystick, but his per of Athlone, Governor-General of sonal pilot has always had his hand Bouth Africa, was to be the Prince's on the other contrala choice of a mate..
One of the Prince's longest flights So far as eligible English girls was on his return from East go, she is casily the foremost hoice.Africa. He few from Marseilles to The Earl of Athlone is Queen Windsor Great Park. Since then he Mary's rother, hence Lady May has hopped over to Le Touquet to the Prince of Wales. She is now to Cardiff and Bath to officiate at 24 years old.....
ceremonics. If the Prince's trip had not been broken off, he would have spent Christmas of 1928 with the Athlone family in Cortos feet shich intensified the rumours linking name with Lady May', but they
will be sufficient if I point out that I now beg to propose that the your Directors have decided this report and accounts for the yeur year to depreciate $21,564.81 as ending 28th February, 1930, as pre- against $8,382.27 for last year, and sented, be adopted, and shall be I feel sure that this conservative glad if some shareholder will secondle the Queen's niece, and a cousin for some quiet golf, and has flown policy will be endorsed by you this proposal. When this has been without hesitation
done I shall be glad to answer to the best of my ability any question shareholders may wish to aak
There is one item of depreciation which I should like to explain, and that is "garage tools and equip.
Straleton seconded.
A Easy Life, The Prince of Wales laughed as heartily as the rest of the company less depreciation appear under and there being no questions the this head without any amount being report and accounts were carried
actor, gave a fanciful description. wore somewhat squashed on this at a luncheon of one of the Prince's shown. The depreciation has been unanimously...
busy days. debited to working accourt of the KrE MARaymond was re-electlast trip, for the cousins never even department concerned, and theed a director and lesers. Linstead met figure shown represents the net de- & Davis were re-elected auditors for The Prince's hobbies are golf préciated value.
the ending year.
and flying. Since he gave up hunt
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