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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTION IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY.FOURTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING "of this Company will be held at the -Office- of- Messrs. Jardino, Matheson &Co. Ltd., on THURSDAY, the 11th February, 1982, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year 'onded 31st Decembar, 1981,
The Register of Sharos" of the,i Company will be CLOSED from Wednesday, the ard February 1982. to Thursday, the 11th February. 1982, both days inclusivo.
NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that BIT Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the above named. Company will be held at 12.15 p.m. on the same day and at the same place as, and immediately fter the before mentioned Ordinary. Goneral Meeting for the purpose of considering and if thought it passing the following -resolution S
Extraordinary Resolution.
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That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered in manner following:-
(a) By deletion of the worde One thousand Dallare" contained partly in the third and partly in the fourth lines of Articles 96A of the Company's Artiolea. of Association and the substitution tharsfor of the worda “Five thousand Dollars."
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that A further Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the Company will be held at the same place at 12.30- p.m. on Friday, the 28th day of February, 1932, for the purpose of receiving a Roport of the proceedings at the before mentioned Extraordinary. General Meeting and of confirming if thought at the before mentioned resolution sa a.Special Resolution.
By Order of the Board of Directors," F. E. CRAFNELL,
Becrotary.
· 27th January, 1932.
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HONG KONG TRAMWAYS,
"LIMITED.
【OTICE. JS "HEREBY GIVEN |
that the ORDINARY YEAR- LY GENERAL MEETING of
·HONG KONG TRAMWAYS LIMI. TED will be held at the offices of Messrs. JARDINE, Mathison & Co., Lrn.. Hong Kong, on WEDNES DAY, the 17th day of FaaRUARY, 1982, at 12 o'clock noon, to transact the ordinary business of the Com. pany.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 2nd to WEDNESDAY, the 17th February; 1982, both days inclusive
By Order of the Board,
W. F. SIMMONS,
Secrotary.... Hong Kong, Jan. 26th, 1982. [174]
WIZARD
SNIPE
WATCH THE
STARTLING PAIR You mostly so their tails as they overtaka you-as they always till,
Got
a look
at the real comfort and magnificent engineering.
Consider u
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1932.
News and Views
iso a number of persons employed by public authorities, and others Arith rights under authorised super«, annuation schines, etc., who do not come under the oporation of the Unemployment Insurnuco
Acts, Tale of the Day. Among most of there class the beat dily recently received cidence of unemployment is less from har seven-year-old niece in & letter, insufficiently stamped, severe than among sinatred,per London. It concluded: P. S. suns generally.. -
Please excuse penny stamp, but
doing my bit in this economy stunt,"
land..
the youngest son of the ex-Kaiser's Prince Christopher of Hessen
and Sphinx by moonlight, because Prinas Becomos Priest: the opportunity of paying a grace-change of occupation in the case of te photographers will have lost Perhape the most expected photographing Mr. Lloyd Gourge in ful compliment to the Schins by the ex-Crown Prince of Saxony, front of it, in the manner of the now a Jeanit father in Hel regular tourist. This, of course, in a great loss to Posterity: Lloyd George, on a camel, with the sphinx as a background would have become no doubt as popular a pie ture for hanging in boarding- houses and other caravanserais as
The Stag nt. Bay," Cattle at Evening."
or Highland
A artistic event has been missed.
great
The total number of persons on the registara of the Employment Exchange on the 14th of December
A 6ft. 8in. Boy. last. was 8,579,002. Of these 2,044,883
A boy of 17, who played in the were wholly unemployed: 422,010 London Public School v. The Rest were on short time, or wore otherBugby match at Richmond stands wiss suspended from work on the ft. Bin. and weighs 18 stonu. definite understanding. that they
However, no doubt Mr. Lloyd George was shown the amazing. were shortly to return to their Saanties Earn New Year Dinners..sight of the Sphinx illuminated by former employment: 105,094 were The lile of the seas' was in the magicrium flares, and the Pyramids persons who normally seek a liveli. voice of an old out-of-work mariner by the light of the moon. Perhaps hood by means of casual jobs of who sang shanties to passers-by in they will replace the Welsh on tains as his source of rhetorical in short duration.
Liverpool ut New Year time.
And optixing of their "direct spiration. The unemployed "who are in refreshness gnught his listeners-
HILLMAN WIZARD eipt of benent may be divided aparticularly the older folk--for be
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HUMBER SNIPE
AT THE
in Nathan Boad, Kowloon.
GILMAN & Co, Ltd., Agents.
roughly into two classes. There are those who are in reeipt of "or dinary benefit by reuson of the fact that they have paid thirty o more insurance contributions dur-
There
went home with
A turkey,
Two ducks,
Three chickens,
Four pounds of butter,
Friased at Work.
for
The Imperial ex-Princes of Ger many are the highest pensioned fficials in the world. They are all working, and the leading National Reich, to enlist ist organ of the
the
Monarchist cause, publishes a list of their various jobs.
While the ex-Crown Princo divides his time between sport and ad- ministering his estates in Silesia, his eldest son, Prince William, is
A quart of elderberry wine, and sympathy Two bottles of wine.
"I only wanted to give a few people a good dinner," he said.
Most of all, however, he was de lighted to find that the shantion he used to sing at the capstan could still make jazz-age people listen.
|DURO GARAGE ing the prounding two years. They would have given him are thess in receipt of transi.money, too, if he had wanted it.
But he refused it all. tional benefit. This latter class consists of those who are unable to
satisfy the contributions test "for" ordinary benefit, but who are able to satisfy certain special conditions less restrictive in character. The unemployed in recpipo of ordinary benefit number about two millions (and those in receipt of transitional
benefit ever half a million.
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5, 10 p.m., stated:
The anti-cyclons appears to be central near Sianfu
Loen Forecast:-N.E. winds, moderate; fiue to cloudy.
Curious Obsequies,
sister, is a salesman for a Berlin motor Arm.
The list dors credis to the ver satility of the Imperial outensle, Ono doubts, however, if it will I- press the German public, which is anything from extreme Mcnarchist to extreme Communist and every- thing except.. pro-Hohenzollern, Pe
Striking Home.
A London correspondent na just doceived a terminal report on his scn, aged 10. "He must do care ful" it runs, not to use journalese in his essay
Trom Oberammergan to England.
Inquiries have disclosed that over thirty girls who took pars in the last Passion Play at Oberam morgau are now cccupying domes tic posts in England,
America's Motor Death Boli.
America, where the passion for studying law at Konigsberg. His statistics rivals the erase for back-
cond son, Louis-Ferdinand, in motor denti-roll for 1931.
gammon, has already prepared its working in the Ford factory in Detroit, Prince Hubertus, „Che The total, complete to December. third sen, is at the Potsdam Agri-27, reveals a casualty list which in | cultural College. Frederick, tho its number of deatha exceeds by
than five times our fourth san, is in a marine ingur. more
losses during the Boer war. ance office.
A Hitler Lieutenant.
and
total
In 1931 American automobiles killed 34,000 persons, gr slightly less than the number of American Princes Bitel-Friedrich
soldiers killed in the Great War. Oscar, the ex-Kaiser's, second and Returns from 27 States show 'a third sons, are engaged in looking considerable increase in the num after their father's interests in Gerber of motor fatalities, while the son, and formerly a painter, is now is nearly three per cent. many. August-Wilhelm, the fourth total increase for the entire nation
one of Hitler's lieutenanta,
Henry of Prussia in a farmer. His The elder son of the late Prince younger brother is a planter in Costa Rica.
The surprising thing about the story of an undertaker of Buenos Airas who did a friend proud by providing "seventeen aged women There are the two further sub- to faint at the biorat his funeral, divisions. The wholly unemployed at £3 a head, is not the size of the are those who are definitely out of bill, but that anyone should con- a job and have no knowledge of partod to engage seventeen aged ceive it to be a tribute to the de;
the date on which they will find women to faint at his funeral,
When he went further, and hired work. The temporarily unemploy forty-one women to weep for an ed includes thous on short time who hour at £2 a head, he whs merely were not at work on the day of the fellowing a good old Oriental cus count, and those otherwise suspend.tem. But to have seventeen aged women fainting shows real imagi- ed from, employment on the definite nation. understanding that they are to He- It is believed it was originally
The standard instance of a school
dirent sume work with their former em-thought of by the publicity agent of report devastating in its KIISTO January 18, at Shang-ployers within six weeks from the not explain its appeal to the private.
ness is that of the boy of whom his a deceased "film-star, but that does
master wrote: "Manners none. hai, Doxoriy EUNICE KLINT,
Customs beastly." aged 37 years. Dearly beloved date of suspension. wife of FRANK KLINT
From these figures it will be scen that, serious as the probis un-Missed Opportunity. doubtedly is, it is not's
It seems a pity that Mr. Lloyd so serious a8
DEATHS.
Wez-On January 20, Mrs. D. N. War, beloved mother of Mrs NELLIE WE Nzx, aged 94 years.
Editorial and Business Offices: 1
les House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
Tel. 21811
Tondca Office: $3. Fleet Street,
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, JANUARY 27, 1932.
UNEMPLOYMENT IN GREAT
BRITAIN.
THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY
CO., LTD.
BRITAIN's greatest problem is u#- employment, and everyone is
citizen.
it is generally imagined to be. George only visited the Pyramids
How It is Done.
But it we Thring, Uppingham's famous head, who was wont to write. with tactful arabiguity, "There never won such a Latin scholar,"
The highest increases are shown fernia. by Montana, Missouri and » Cali..
Bu Brown" Stat.".
TLIL
Mr. H. G. Watkins, loader of the Greenland expedition, told amazing story of Mr. A. Courtauld, who wintered in the Arotic, in a lectured children arranged by the Royal Empire Society in London.
Courtauld sent wireless,, mess ago home saying "Send suet," of which he wae, fond. When.. the re- lief ship arrived he was handed a smart double-breasted brown suit!
Local Notes and Events
When all reasonable allowances have been made for the few unem- played who do not register at tho Labour Exchanges, there is no doubt that the total number of British workers in employment on any one day excords fifteen million.
Quarantine restrictions have been And of the unemployed a substan-imposed against arrivals
from tial proportion are out of work onlySearabaya on account of Plague. for short periods. There is thus every reason to hope that energetic medsares, by the Government at
The annual meeting of share home, and a clearing up of the holders of the Star Ferry Co. will international situation, will reduce be held at the offics of Messrs. Jar the problem of unemployment in dine; Matheson & Co., Ltd., at Great Britain to reasonable dimen-noon on Thursday, February 11. sions.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN | anxious to see what will be the King's Theatre Innovation. that the FORTY-FOURTH effect of the new tariff policy on We would remind our ORDINARY GENERAL MEET.
the ING of SHAREHOLDERS in this British industry and the extent to that Company wil be held at the Offices which surplus labour will be ab- King's Theatre
December 1781..
I
management
readers of the showing,
It
One caso of diphtheria, swo of¦ cerebro-spinal fever and one of puerperal fever were reported on Monday. During last week there were seven cases (three deaths) of diphtheria, six cases (two deaths) of enteric fever and 44' deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis,
4
According to a notice posted at
Having disappeared on Tuesday Chinese gunboat at Tungchow on the Harbour Offloor the wreck of the last, the body of Wong Tin, aged the Yangtze River, has drifted into 30, was mocvored from the Harbour the fairway and constitutes a dan. by the Water Palics launch on Mon- |
ger to navigation. The last posi day. The man, had been employed tion was about two cables south of as an engineer on an A.P.C, lighter.
Tungehow light buoy.
Banished only on Saturday lasi,"
From the files.
Looking Back 50 VOLTS,
SOME
PARAMOUNT REASONS
WHY YOU SHOULD GIVE YOUR DOG THE
(
QUORN"
DOG REMEDIES
CONDITION, AND
TONIC POWDERS. FAMOUS KENNELS ... RELY
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UPON THE QUORN" BREEDERS AND OWNERS. USE THE "QUOEN " BOTH THE BIPEET AND THE} AMATEUR ARE BUYEÉS OF THE "QUOEN "* WHILE CHAMPIONS OF
1
ALL BREEDS HAVE BEEN
KEPT FIT FOR YEARS
AND YEARS WITH
THE "QUORN" DOG REMEDIES.
THEY COOL THE BLOOD, REMOVE ALL IMPURITIES
AND ACT AS A TONIC TO
THE WHOLE SYSTEM.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD,
THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY]
Council, at which any save formal HONG KONG STOCK
Legislation in Hong Kong has apparently come to a complete standstill, the reputed activity of its Governor notwithstanding. The last meeting of the Legislative
business was transacted, was held months ago. It will be recollected on August 29th. last, some five that at the meeting of the Council of the 23rd. August the Hon. F Bulkeley Johnson, in the course of a speech on the work of the un- official members, suggested among other things that the Council meetings should be held at fixed periods, montioning at the same
month
MARKET.
YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL
QUOTATIONS.
With the Settlement out. of the
The Harbour Master at Pakhoi 4 Ohinese was arrested on Monday notifies that a buoy, anlighted, and time the first Monday in each way, there was some liveliness at painted red and black will be. Excellency the Governor in reply having developed for a number of as convenient dates. His the afternoon session, an enquiry placed experimentally to mark the said that the suggestion
was de-
counters in the list.
and leaving Pakhoi in a position suggestion has required turning point for vessels enteringerving of the fullest consideration. We can only presume that the very full from which Kwantas Point bears consideration indeed, for His Ex- 10 deg. distance 14 miles
callenoy has certainly not shown any signs of adopting it yet Hong Kong Daily PA, January £7, 1882,
of Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co..sorbed. The National Government, on Wednesday and Saturday, Lid, on TUESDAY, 16th Febuary, which has imposed these protective special screenings of British news 1939 at NOON for the purpose of receiving the Raport of the Directors dies has also introduced reforms reels from 11.45 am, to 2 p.m. together with the Statement of which cleared away certain abusen will be a continuous performance, in the Colony for returning from Accounts for the year onding" 81st in the administration of the Insur each performance lasting just weer banishment, and when brought be ance Acts, and thus debarred a half-an-hour. The prices are oxforo Mr. Williams at Central Ma The REGISTER of SHARES of number of recipients of unemploytremely modernate-60 cents up gistracy, yesterday, was sentenced to the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY,
ment pay from further bonefta. The stairs and 20 conta downstairs, in ten months hard labour. 28th January to TUESDAY, 16th Feimary, both days result of these various changes was cluding entertainment tax. inclusivo, during which period no that the number of unemployed de-, transfer of shares can be registered. elined considerably within a very By Order of the Board of Directors. short period. It is, therefore, op-
L. 8. GREENHILL,
Secr-tary.
Hong Kong, 19th Jan 1932.
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THAT WHEN
You are at Home
you
can get the Hong Kowe DAILY PRESS
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Selfridges.
Fire Fire!
Portune to review the situation, in A fire at the War Offies recently the light of the latest information stimulated a Very High. Official to to hand, cspoalally the statistica tako, é personal interest in the ar récantly issued by the Ministry of rangements of the War Office for Labour. In the first place it is dealing with such emergencies. interesting to note that the total
Ho asked many questions to number of persons cagaged in oc satisfy himself that there was an cupations for gaia (apart from em established routine for dealing with ployers and persons working on outbreaks, that the hydrants were their own account) is estimated to adequate, and that each messenger be between 18,000,000 and 18,500,000.knew his duty..
At to-morrow's meeting of the] Legislative Council, the Attorney- General will move the first readings
The Hong Kong dollar register- of a Bill to amend and consolidato od a drop of a farthing yesterday, Looking Back 25 Years the law relating to Estate Duty, a Bill to make provision for Proceed the demand rate being 18, 413/180. Loyal Germans yesterday sele
inga in roference to Juvenile Offen- ders, and a Bill to amend the Police Force Ordinance, 1000.
7
The case in which Privates hrated the birthday of the Emperor Thomas and Howells of the South William in a fitting manner, Wales Bordurors are charged in
Russia has notied China and vopnection with the recent theft at Japan of her decision to evacuate Two brothers appeared before Mr. the residence of Mr. H. L. Dennys., Manchuria immediately, instead i Schofield at Central Magistracy was again mentioned before Mr. waiting for the appointed date of
astero po le bieted that enault Williams at Central Police Court April 16. case. The polico stated that one so yesterday. His Worship fixed Mon-¦ cused the other of stealing and day afternoon for the hearing of pawning his clothes and the one the case of receiving stolen proper second of the four stern wheelers Оп Saturday afternoon the
thus accused'assaulted, his brother ty against Howells. Of these the number. insured Then he retired to his sanctum to with a file, causing a superficial wound. His Worship fined the
against unemployment under the brood over the matter, and after | aggressor 810, // Unemployment Insurauco Acts is an hour or so decided to put it to a approximately 12,500,000. The practical test.
balanes of about 3,000,000 whó ara Throwing open the door he stap not insured is composed mainly of pod into the corridor and shouted agricultural workers, young people" Fire! Fire" at the top of his under 16 and old people over 6 voice,
designed for river trade in Tonkin, and built to the order of Mesza Roque, was launched from the Yard of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company. A sha left the weighs she was christened
Balas.
Twos, Tls. 101.
Cements (combined), $19.40. Star Ferries, $101), *Electrica,||#77}E
Unions, $400
Buyers.
Providenta (old), $5.30ị. Providente (new), #2.45.* Hong Kong Lands, #81). Two, Ts. 18.30, 10 Uhina Lights, $28.30. Gements (combined), $19.38. Constructions (old), 85.40. Constructions (new); $1.85. Douglases, $24.
Hotels (old), #15.15,
· Hotels" (new), $14, Eexitios, $11.60
Trame, $22). Hong Kong Electrics, #77). Oanton Icas, - #5.
The Fire Brigade received no les than thros calls on Monday night and early on Tuesday morning Of Summoned for driving in Kenne these, one was n false alarm, one dy Road, Mr. F. E. Filmer, in the was a call from the Nam Yan Emerald" by Mrs. Jack. employ of Messrs. Arnold & Co... Tobacco Factory where an electric. 51, Bonham Strand, was fined $10, motor had become overheated caus, On Saturday afternoon His Ex-Hong Kong Government Loan, by Mr. Schofield yesterday. Kan Ing an outbreak of a minor nature cellency the Governor received Ad- $3 per cent, premium. nedy Road is ordinarily closed and one was from 17, Gage Street, miral Tamari of the Japanese years of age, and persons employed The response was immediate, but public vehicular traffe and, accord where a foss-stick and lantern Fleet at Government House. The otherwise than by way of manual not what he expected. A messengering to Inspector Alexander of the maker's shop had caught fire, No Admiral arrived in the Colony the Traße Department, pormit to drive very serious damage was done. at previous day on hard the Janan labour at a rate of remuneration come running into his room with n
on such read, can be obtained at the last address, due to the promphoxe cruiser Takachike."-Hong a month or $50 a year,”.
- arrival of the Fire Brigade, Kong Daily Press, January 7, 1907 exceeding £250 a year. There are scuttle full of fresh coal, /
mere Bellora
DWOR, Tis. 163 Lane, Orawfords, #6:35. Enterprises, $10.