HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1930.
SIR JOHN BLAND-SUTTON. WOMAN'S BODY
A copy of this Prospectus has been filed with the Registrar of Companies. The Subscription list will open on Monday, the 1st day of December, 1930, and
close on or before Saturday, the 31st day of January, 1931.
PROSPECTUS
OF
HONG KONG BREWERS & DISTILLERS,
(Incorporated under the Companies Ordinances of Högg-Bong.)
CAPITAL: 83,000,000.00
DIVIDED INTO
300,000 Ordinary Shares of $10 each.
Issuo at par of 50,000 Ordinary shares, payable as follows, namely, allotment 32.50, and the balance to be called when and if required.
LIMITED.
on application $2.50 and on
The Directors and their friends have agreed to subscribe for 20,000 abaras of the above issue, and the balance of 80,000 is now offered for Public Subscription.
The Minimum Subscription upon which the Directors may proceed to allotment is 20,000 shares.
J. P. WARREs, Eaq.
Sir ELLY KADOOBIE, 'M
X.D.B., Com. Leg. Hon.
Hou, Mr.T..P. BEADA...
HO KOM TONG, Esq., 5.P., o ..
WONG KAM Foox, Esq. 1.F.
Samuel So Wono, Esq.
M. Manus, Esq. ..........
J. H. RUTTONJze, Esq.
DIRECTORS:
.....Queen's Building, Victoria, Manager of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd.
Exchange Building, Victoria, Merchant.
..la, Chater Rond, Victoria, Printer.
175, Queen's Road, Coutral, Victoria, Banker.
The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon,
Merchant.
.27, Sick Koo Yuon Road, Tangshan, Canton, Merchant.. ....2, Lower Albert Road, Victoria, Secretary of The Dairy Farm,
Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.
.15, Queen's Road, Central, Victoria, Proprietor of Mosers. H.
Buttonjor & Bon.
BANKERS:
THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
SOLICITORS:
Mzesne. WILKINSON & GRIST, No. 9, Queen's Road, Central, Victoria, Hong Kong.
AUDITORS:,
Messen, LINSTEAD & DAVIS,. Chartered Accountants, Victoria, Hong Kong.
SECRETARY:
C. DE S. ROBERrsos (Acting).
REGISTERED OFFICE:
RUTTON BUILDINGS, No. 7, DUDDELL STREET, VICTORIA, HONG KONG.
OBJECTS.--The Company has been formed to carry on the business of Browers, Distillors, Maltstors, Wine and Spirit Merchants, Aerated Waters, Cordial and Ico Manufacturers and any other business as indicated in the Memorandum of Association, a copy of which forms part of this prospectus.
PROSPECTS OF COMPANY.-The advent of a Browery in this Colony cannot now be looked upon as an entirely new project, but in view of changed conditions, it is no exaggeration to say that ita suocose on the lines indicated in this prospectus may now be anticipated with complete confidence. The main contributing factor is the already largely increased and rapidly growing consumption of beer as a beverage amongst all classes, particularly the Chinese people, in the Far East, giving a market for sales in China alone, which, can be assuredly expected to tax a Brewery such as is proposed to its capacity once the work of its establishment is reasonably advanced. The following facts are presented for consideration :---
1. All materials required by the Company are duty free in Hong Kong enabling a first class beer to be placed on the market at the lowest possible price. The machinery and plant are being purchased from Mesars, Skoda Works of Pilson, Czechoslovakis, who are among the leading manufacturers of Brewery plant. The manufacturers have gustanteed the quality and output, and will furnish the services of an expert brewer.
2. The advantage enjoyed in this Colony in comparison with those countries from which our present
supplies of Beer are imported, so far as supply sad cost of labour is concerned, are manifest 8. Climatic Conditions. One of the most successful Breweries operating in the Far East is at Manila. 4. Furthermore, as the Company requires a refrigerating plant for the Brewery, the manufacture of ice, also accommodation for cold storage will be considered, and will be easy of development as an addi tional source of revenue, It may be stated that a contract has already been entered into, on behalf of the Company, with the Dairy Farm, fes and Cold Storage Co., Ltd., for supply at a remunerative price of the whole of the Company's excess production of ice.
8. The following figures spank for themselves.
Importation of Beer and Stout into Hong Kong.
1926: 496,549 Gallona, 1927: 731,021 Gallons, 1928: 699,856 Gallons.
The exceptional increase in 1937 was dus to supplemented Nival and Military forces (the "Shaforce") in Hong Kong.
6. Breweries established at Peiping, Tsingtao, Shanghai and Manila are oporating most nanesssfully. SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES.-Brawry: Upon the basis of consumption in the Colony so far as same is ascertainable, it is estimated that about 50 per cent will be osasumed locally and the remainder will be exportad. A ressonable estimate of output is 200 Hogsheads per week.
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Distillery: It is also the intention of the Company to erect a Distillery capable of an output of about 980,000 gallons per year of alcohol of the highest grade, for drinking purposes as well as for other uses, both for local and export trade,
00% Gas: It is proposed to purchase Liquifying Plant capable of transforming all the CO2 gas. obtained by fermentation at the Brawory and Distillery into a marketable product. As this gas is by product of Distilleries and Breweries the turning of it into liquid gas is a comparatively cheap process. Cóz gaa is used as a refrigerating mollum, also in the manufacture of aörstod water and for various other purposes, SITE AND WATER SUPPLY.-It is proposed to acquire a lesse of land situate on Castle Peak Road. The water anpoly is a lequate, and is of the highest quality. The following is an extract from the certificate of the Hong Kong Government Analyst as to the suitability of the water for brewing:-
"I am af opinion, from the above results, that this water is quite suitable for brewing of dark ales, stout and portar, and with the addition of 8 gmins of magnesium sulphate per gallon, would be suitable for browing of pale ales."
MANAGEMENT.-A competent Brower is available, and the executive positions in the Companý will. be filled by experienoot business and technical officere,
CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS:-For the formation of the Company and for the construction of the buildings and the purchase of the necessary plant and machinery for an output of 200 Hogsheads of Beer, Lager-and-Stout per week and 10 tons of Ica per day it is estimated that the capital required will be $500,000.00.
ESTIMATED PROFITS:-It is estimated that the nett profit on the above capital outlay will amount to 24.8 per cent. per annum.
Application for shares should be made upon the form accompanying the Prospectus and rent to the Company's Bunkers together with a remittance of $2.50 per share, the amount of the deposit.
Whore un all-tment is made the deposit will be returned in full and where the number of shares allotted.
in less than the number subscribed a proportionate amount of the deposit will be returned.
Prospectuses can be inspected at and Application fras obtained from the Company's Bankers, and st and from the office of the Company at Button Buildings, No. 7, Duddell Strest, Victoria, Hong Kong.
The following further information is given in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Ordinance, 1911.
(a) A copy of the Momoran fum of Association is printed in the fold hereof, (8)Directors Qualification and Remaneration. The Articles of Association provide that the qualifica
The remuneration of Directors tion of a Director is to be the holding of Two hundred shares. will be devided at a General Meeting of Shareholders but will be not less than $1,000.00 per annum. (0) Underwriting and Brokerage.-Brokerage at a rate not exceeding 4% per cont. will be paid on all
shares underwritten.
(d) The Company will pay the preliminary expeness of and incidental to the formation of the Company
up to the time when it becomes entitled to commence business.
(6) Material Contracts.-No material contracts have been entered into on behalf of the Company, other than the contract for a lease of land and the contract with the Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Co., Ltd., baroinbefore referred to,
(/), Paymont to Promotors. For the services rendered and exponses incurred by the Promoters, who have been engaged for a lengthy period in the necessary investigations, there will be allotted to the Promoters two thousand shares in the Company credited as fully paid..
() Naturo and extent of Directors' interest in promotion-Other than the interest of fir. Buttonjeo in regard to the proposed loase, and the interest of certain of the Directors, ns, Promoters, no Director is interested in promotion of the Company, and no consideration has been paid or xmasagreed-texto paid bone-marrow ka indaga him to becoma ar to qualifz bins as a Dirgator. This Prospectus has been duly filed with the Register of Companies. Dated the Tenth day of November, 1980.
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EMINENT SURGEON IN. HONG KONG
Sir John Bland-Button, Bart. who is a past President of the Royal College of Surogons and also a past President of the Royal Society of Medicine, arrived in the Colony on Monday, on the Blue Funnel liner Hector, accompanied by Lady Button.
EXHUMED.
DEATH MYSTERY AFTER
EIGHT MONTHS.
Sussex. A woman's death bero some nine months ago had a drama tie sequal when the pokeo visited the cemetery and exhumed the coffin containing the hody.
A jury has been summoned to Borve on an inquest. ་་
The body, exhume The body exhumed is that an ex--
woman, Mro. Katherine Gertrudo Ramage, aged 12, who came to Bhoreham, with her husband, Captain Arthur Ram- age, three years ago.
Previously they had lived in Wandsworth -road, London, and in Peckham, London Their marri- age took place in 1018. There were no children.
John is one of the most eminent surgeous Great Britain has ever produced and has done a lot of original work in pathology. He retired at the end of last Juno, since when be bas done a lot of travelling. Ha was at the height af his career during the War when
Mrs Ramago had a voiture in hia genius, with the knife, and his
March 1929. She was suffering sound knowledge of the anatomy of from heart trouble, At Christmas the human body and its requiro- she alayed with her mother in Cam- monts were responsible for saving berwell Now road. She then com- plained of acute pain, and roturn- the lives of thousands of cured to her home at Shoreham. wounded.
.
For some time she was bonvalce Sir John recently donated the cent, but on February 7 she died, and donth was certified as being Middlesex Hospital of Pathology due to an embolism while she was to the Government who in return suffering from valvular disease of named the pathological department the heart. of one of their latent and most modern hospitals the Bland-Sutton Department."
Since his arrival in Hong Kong, sir John has been the "guest at | many parties. Ün Wediceday night, the British Medical Associa tion gave a dinner in his honour, while he attended a ten party, given by the Medical Society of the university on Thursday, and on the Ramo dight he was present at druner given in his honour by the Chinese Medical Association.
BRIDEGROOM SENT TO
GAOL.
£2,500 ROBBERY FROM HIS
DRIDE'S EMPLOYERS.
Frank Songer, agad twenty-six, an artist, who was arrested during his honeymoon at Blackpool, was sentenced at Marylebone Police Court to six months' hard labour and fined £50, with the Hitornative of an additional three months' im prisonment, For stealing jewellery monoy, and other property, worth £2,500, from the house of Mr. and Mrs" Wbiddia, in Gloucester- square, Paddington.
The house in which Captain and Mrs. Ramago lived is "Locarno," Swiss Gardon-road, a picturesque reidence olose to the toll bridge known to most motorists coming to Brighton along the old road from West-Euseox.
Comotory Closed,
Early in the afternoon, canvas screens were created around the the grave, which is in the lonely cemetery a mile from Shoreham,
When the dead woman's brother, ex-Detective 'Bergeant John Nor man Moore, late of Vine-street, ar- rved with a friend, the friend was refused admission, as the card was marked "To admit only one per-. Bon. 17
The investigations are boing.con- ducted by Superintendent Alco, of Steyning, the headquarters of the division in which Shoreham is situated. Both the Superintendent and Inspector Bubb, of Shoreham, were inside the cemetery.
Weird Night Scene.
The work in the cemetery was carried out by the light of police, officers' flash humps and oil lampa which had been specially brought to the remotory.
One of the officials who watchod. the proceedings was the coroner His wife, Rosa Benger, aged for West Sussex (Mr. F. W. But- twenty-three, who was accused of ler), whose duty it will be to con- being concerned in the theft, was dust the inquest. He took ovidence found not guilty and discharged at the graveside from the local Detective Inspector Mallett read undertaker who was in charge a statement, alleged to have been of the funeral. Another person pre- soade by the man, in which wore Bent was Mrs. Ramago's medical. the following passages:-
attendant, Dr. A. G.. K. Leder, of Shorsham.
I am desirous that my wife shall ruit suffor for what I have done, or It was arranged to remove the what she has done under my por body to the local mortuary imuno- suasion. My wife obtained employ-diately after the coffin had been
ров ment with Mr. and Mrs. Whaddin. taken from the grave, and
She was quite excited about the bo-mortem examination will be made autiful clothes, and the wonderful by Dr. H. F. Galt, pathologist to things she had seen in the flat. It the Royal Sussex County Hospital, was as a result of this that I docid-Brighton
ed to get my wife to help me ob-
tain some of the things.
Relativen Statement.
I told my wife that if I could The action by the police follow- got some of the things it would give ed a statement made by a relative us a stark I brought a jemny of the woman. An application was with me to the fat to make it ap- made to the Home, Office some time pear that there had been a burg-ago for an exhumation order, and ary, and then collected a number at that time it was refused. The of articles of jewellery, and a fur order was granted only a few days
Dart
AMAZING NOTE TO GLADYS COOPER,
RUSE TO GET £109.
ago.
In an interview Mr. Ramago's brother, Mr. John Norman Moore, id: My sister had a strokė about 1929, Following that her health alternated between good and bad.
When she died my mother wie win- An amazing letter, purporting to in the groom polidung, tho have been written to Miss Gladys down. My sister had been out of Couper Lady Pearson) by Miss bod' and had got back when my Sybil Thorndiko, was read in the mather, in a mirror, saw her sud- Liverpool Police Court.
denly stand up and fall off the Lily O'Neil, aged 30, was remand-ind. She died shortly afterwards." ed on a charge of trying to obtain Captain Ramage, who now lives £100 by falso prefeuera from Miss at Gordan-road,, Beckenham, is 35 Gladys Cooper
years of age. Since his wife's death ho has married again.
The lotter, which the prosecution inid wagon formation, was alleged. to have been written by O'Neil. It was supposed to be signed" by Miss Thorndike and addressed to Miss Cooper from the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, where Miss
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