ADVERTISEMENTS
CHINA ENTERTAINMENT AND LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
OTICE is hereby givan that the
Third Ordinary General Meet ing of Shareholders will be held at the Registered Offices of the Com- ay, King Theatre Building, 5th Boor, on Monday, the 27th day of February, 1933, at 12 o'clock noon to eceive the Directors Report, and Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1982, to elect Auditors, ded to transact such other business feway be properly transacted at an Ordinary General Meeting of the Company.
And Notice in further hereby given that the Register and Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 22nd to the 28th day of February, 1988, both days inclusive.
LIANG CHI HAO,
Managing Director.
Hong Kong, 14th February, 1933.
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THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Forty-fourth Ordinary. Yearly Meeting will be held at the Company's Officer, P. & 0. Building,
WEDNESDAY, 15th March, 1933 at 11 am. for the purpose of prosenting the Report of the Directors together With a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1932 and electing Directors and Auditors
Tre Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 2nd March to 15th March, 1933, both days Inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shaver can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD, Agents.
W
Hong Kong, 16th February, 1933.
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THE HONG KONG & SHANG. HAI HOTELS, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG)
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RYOTICE 18 HERERY GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders of The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited, will be held at the Register. ed Office of the Company, Exchange Building, Des Voux Rond, Central, Hong Kong on Monday, the 20th day of March, 1983, at 11.80 1.13., ment of Accounts and the Report of or the purpose of receiving a State.
he Board of Directors for the year ded on the 31st December, 1982, and re-electing a Director and the Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Com. pany will he closed from Saturday, The 4th March, 1938, until Monday, he 20th March, 1938, both days Inclusive.
By order of the Board,
F. C. BARRY,
Secretary,
Hong Kong, 14th February, 1933,
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THE RAUB AUSTRÁLIAN GOLD MINING CO., LTD.
(INCORPORATED IN QUEENSLAND),
HONG RONG
R,
White Label"
YOU act wisely and take no risks in selecting this whisky from the multitude of stimulants
DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 16, 1933.
"WHITE LABEL"
Sole Agents:
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
DEATH.
Est. 1841.
HILL-On 13th February, 1933, at London, RougaT HUNTER HILL, Governing Director of Bradley &Co., Ltd.
minimum of delay and large num- bera of British taxpayers anticipat- ad the demands.
Quietly and without fuss, the nation abandoned its traditional free trade policy and, as a much-
Editorial and Bumates Office: 11, néoded weapon of defence, adopted a system of tariffs. A conference of
of the representatives
Ice House Street. Tel. 30981.
Tel. 94511.
various
Night Editor (Wanchai Office)nations of the British Common- wealth met at Ottawa and signed London Office: 53, Fleet Street, agreements for mutual commercial
E.O. 4.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 16, 1933.
BRITAIN SEES IT THROUGH."'
NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF THE confident and cheerful address
protection: Dominion and Colonial producers were to enjoy a favoured position in the British markets, and British manufacturers wore to be given more equitable treatment in the markets of the Dominions. Tariff reform and Imperial prefer ence helped to improve trade in various directions, and a number of industries rapidly benefited from the more favourable conditions thus created. In the nine months from January to September, 1932, the execs of imports of goods over exports was reduced by £70,000,000 as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year.
Having created a more favour-
"BERNARD "SHAW'S
SIGNATURE
HOW IT WAS OBTAINED
BY A RUSE
*News and Views *
Doggy Edinburgh.
deposit required from them, tho jubject iming to deter people with insufficient backing or capital from flocking to the fields.
An official from London who was Bernard Shaw's rofumi to sign recently transferred to Edinburgh an autograph album at the Univer declares that the Scottish capital aity on Monday led to a bet at one is the "doggiest" city in Europe. It is true, that the nuinber of new of the local clubs on the following In the street in which he resides gold-soekers is partly offset by the day as to whether G.B.S.'s signa every householder has at least out departure of some of the early ture could be obtained by a ruse, dog; some have two or more. Il
prospectors, who have insufficiont A local solicitor undertook to ho wants to meet some of his newly patience and capacity for hard work obtain the great dramatist's signa-mado acquaintances he strolls out for the job. As in every gold rush ture, the stakes being, appropriate about 11. p.m. and finds them in history, many optimists want ly a drink. The zuse he adopted" piloting poodles or exercising into the reserved expecting to was to send G.B.3. a book which soappy terriera. He has struck up strike lucky and make a fortune had recently been the object of several new acquaintances by nakin a few days and have now, return. much controversy in this part of ing them what sort of dog ho him-ed to quieter occupations, The the world, accompanied by a letter self should purchase. The way prospectors are either camping out pointing out the interesting features to the Edinburgh man's heart," her sleeping in their motor-ents, as in the book an adding: No ae- says, "is opened by his dog."
accommodation at the mining een knowledgment is required.”
tres is quite insufficient. Its The next morning, the solicitor
understood that, in the opinion of concemed received a letter · op In the hope that America will an eminent geologist who has ex "Canadian Pacific" a notepaper, abolish prohibition and that Pales-amined the region, the area within reading as follows!
tine will have an opportunity to which gold may be found may even 13th February 1933, export large quantities of wine to reach ultimately to about thou- "Dear Sir,
the United States, when Roosevalt sand square miles, It is very kind of you to is President, the management of the send me.
I cannot deny Mikveh Israel Agricultural School myself the pleasure of sending several months ago began prepara you this word of grateful acknow- tions to cultivate 300 dunams of its ledgment,
farm lands as vineyards in order) Faithfully,
to prepare wine for shipment to America as soon as the sale of liquor will be permitted there. It is expected that Palestinian wine will find a large market in the United States, especially among the Jewish population there.
+
Sd. G. BERNARD SHAW."
Falestine Wine.
Kenya Gold Rush.
THE UNIVERSITY SPEECH
MR. BERNARD SHAW's address Monday has caused more pertur
In view of the impression" given bation, outside the University than within it. Consciously or uncony the Colonial Secretary in the House of Commons that the mining sciously Mr. BERNARD SHAW WAS
operations in Kenya are of a tem- what merely repeating
every varsity teacher worth his salt, tolia: porary character, the latest news to It his pupils on first seeing them reach London is surprising. "Think for yourself. Don't accept would appear from the reports com- a statement made by & lecturer or ing in from Kakamega that
Progress professor. Argue with your tea-genuine gold rush is in chers-if you get the chance-then there. Most significant is the item that claims are already changing you hear the other side of the quanands at prices ranging from 823 tion. Read the big books by great
A Book of Words,
Literally this compilation is a book of words. Turning its pages, one reflects a little sadly on this modern phase of valuing words for their component letters rather than as living symbols of intelligent thought. But there is one consola- tion. The words out of which the commercial crossword, with its quirks and doubles, is built strike one as being of an almost uniform ugliness, is, for instance :--
**TT* Batta, batty, hetty, bitts, botta, butte, butts, butty. Catty, cutty. Ditto, ditty, dotty. Fatty, fytte. Gutta, gutty. Jetty, jutty. Kitty. otto. Matte, mitts, motto. Natty, nitty, nutty Patty, petto, petty, potte, potty, putty. Ratty. Set-to, sitta Tatta, tat-ta, tutti, tatty. Vitta. Witty.
DIARY OF LOCAL
Decons
TO-DAY (February 16).
(I Moon 22nd Day); Exhibition at Artistic Minia tures, Hong Kong Hobel, 2 p.m.
Legislative Council Meeting, 9.30 m. Concert at Helena May Institute, 5.15 p.m.
Court. Hong Kong Union Church Hall, 3.10 p.m.
Hong Kong Tramways, Ltd., Añ-- mual Meeting, noon.
Football Council Meeting, 5.30-
Theosophical Society Meeting, 8'
Lecture on "Building Cements Ancient and Modern," by Professor. Redmond at the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, 5.45 p.m.
P
P..
Theatres,
Central: "13 Women." King's: Hat Check Girl.". Queen's
Pack
Up Your Troubles."
Oriental: "Tarzan the Ape Man.' World: "Cuban Love Song." Majestic: Sob Sister." Star: "Everything's Rosie."
Dancés. *
Tea Dances at Gloucester Build- ing, King's Restaurant, and Hong Kong Hotel.
Hotel, King's Restaurant,
Dinner Dances at Hong Kong End Peninsula Hotel,
Sports. Billiards: Open Championship :: C-S. Jarman r. 8. M. da Cruz (St. Patrick's Club), 6 p.m.
Lawn Tennis:--Open Singles: M. W. LoL C Earnshaw: Yew Man Kit e. Tam Yoe Fong.
Principal Mails,
Inward from Europe ria Nega patam by Friesland; Australia by Atauta Maru: Canada, and Europe in Siberia by Empress of Asia
Outward for Canada and Europe pra Siberia, by Empress of Russia,
men, and not the little examination up to several hundreds of pounder. Joyce, getting on with the job & p.m. ̧
according to the locality and the amount of gold that has been dis covered. The influx of prospectors has become so large that the Govern ment has more than doubled the
text books. Go, if you can, to original sources, of information." As to the suggestion to steep them selves in Communist literature; there is nothing in that! If a person las Communistic lennings- let him work it off at a University, where his comrades, far more than his tutors, will argue the nonsense out of him. To most people the best cure for Communistic tenden cies is to read the tedious text-books on the subject. Communism is bred by Teal grievances, and by an innate dislike of one's surroundings --not by a few words, even from ported. Mr. SHAW. The amusing thing is that while Mr. SHAW probably imagined that he was being daring and original, he was only firing off commonplace professorial patter.
in hand-he himself prefers to call!
"--could "A Work in Progress scarcely do better.
Sunrise: 6.55 a.m.; Sunset: 6.21 p.m.
Tide: High at 0.49 and 13.16: Low at 7.01 and 19:47.
Local and General
On Tuesday six cases of small-
The Dockyard Recreation Club pox and one of meningitis were re Dance is to take place at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, to-morrow. Friday.
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotel Company's Ordinary Yearly Meating of Shareholders will be held on Monday, March 20, at Ex change Building at 11.30 am.
It may be replied that what is quite suitable for sober-minded British. students is far too heady The monthly meeting of the Hong for young people in China where Kong Football Council will be held. revolution and Communism are at 5.30 p.m. to-day when the draw grim realities and not the subject for the second round of the Shield for academic trifling. Hong Kong competition will be held. -University is not exactly an institu- tion for the horney-handed sons of toil. It will take more than a few minutes' jesting to turn its students into dangerous" Reda" A little of Mr. SHAW goes a long way, and he has left us for good and all. We are far too solid to be upset by Severe burns to his face were re- his little volley of jokes. If he ceived by a fireman on board the were making his home here its.s. Sandviken on Tuesday due to Mr. SHAW kept silence no doubt are.
The annual general meeting of the Hong Kong Tramways, Ltd., will take place at Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s Beard Room at noon today........
|
The death took place in London on February 13th, of Mr. Robert Hunter Hill, a Governing. Director of Messrs. Bradley & Co., and a former resident of the Colony."
The wedding will shortly take place between Mr. Malcolm Allan Wylie, of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe Bon & Co., Ltd.. and Miss Isabel Maud Mazlin, 27, Shields Street, Cairns, Australia,
On Feb. 9 Singapore celebrates her 114th birthday and in this case we prefer to vary the customary greeting to "Many happier returns of the day."
FOURTH INTERIM DIVIDEND.. Mr. G. WARD. PRICE at Tues/able atmosphere by the balancing would be a different, matter. Had throwing some kerosene oil on a daughter of 'H.E.
NOTICE is hereby given that a somewhat jangled by news from the world markets through tariffs and
Fourth Interim Dividend of Six Pence per share on account of he financial year ending 31st March, 988 has been declared by the Directors of the Company in Bris- ane, payable to Shareholders on the Registers at Brisbane and Singapore
Thursday, 16th March, 1983. Notice is also hereby given that be Singapore Transfer Registers l be closed from Friday, 10th Arch to Thursday, 16th March, 988 (both days inclusive) for the reparation of Dividend Warrauts.
By Order of the Board, DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants, Local Secretarios.
kong Bank Chambers,
re, 10th February, 1988.
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THE SUPREME COURT
HONG KONG
day's meeting of the Rotary Club of the Budget and improving the came as a tonie to local nerves country's bargaining powers in the North, on top of general apprehen- protection, the Government made son as to whether the Economis another bold move. Again relying, Depression is likely to affect the and that with absolute justification, Calony more this year, than in 1932, the patriotic temper of the public, the Government launched Mr. WARD 'PRICE declared that as far as Great Britain was concerned the biggest conversion scheme in the economic depression, haal not history. On the first of July the only reached its climax, but per haps passed it." The year 1932 was Loan from a five per cent, to a 31
conversion of £2,000,000,000 War
per cont. basis was launched. This
that would have given cause for
He offence.
The annual general meeting of the Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd., will be held on Wednesday, March 15, when the Directora will propose a dividend of $2.50 per share and a bonus of 25 cents per share.
At the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders at 8.45 pm, to- day, a paper entitled "Building Cements Ancient and Modern" will be read by Professor F. A. Hed- mond, B.Sc.
Mr. J. B. Young, a senior part. ner of Edward Boustead and Co., London, and a director of the Chartered Bank, arrived with Mrs. Young in the Corfu last week on a visit of about six weeks to the Straits and F.M.S.
At the third annual meeting of the China Entertainment and Lands Investment Co., Ltd., to be hold af King's Theatre Building, on Mon day, February 7, the Directors a to recommend a dividend of $1 share.
The Hong Kong Wharf and
Miss Dione Clementi, the eldest the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi) and Lady Cle- menti; arrived by the Corfu. Miss talked long sad Mrs. Fung Ping Shan has gen- Dione was in Singapore. previously, affably to pressmen, he talked well, crously presented 7,000 volumes of and went home about a year ago. if not quite wisely at the Univer modern Chinese books to the Fung sity, and now, if truth be told we Ping Shan Chinese Library at the Mr. George Goldsack, manager of down Co., Ltd., report that all want to know what he will write University of Hong Kong. It will the Runnymede Hotel, Penang, and year's profit amounted to $813 about Hong Kong. It is never anfe be remembered that this Library Mrs. Goldsack have sailed for home A dividend of $8.00 per share, nothing!
sity by the late Mr. Fung Ping who is leaving the country for declared, and $317,000 carried. tobot, but the probability is which was presented to the Univer-by the Carthage. Mr. Goldsack, a bonus of 82 per shtra ha
Bhan was opened by H.E. Sirurgent family reasons, was former ward.
y assistant manager at the Europe William Poet in December last
Hotel, Singapore, for
From the files.
years.
several
the affairs of the Company the A fatal motar accident, occurred General Managers have little or near the Garden Theatre in Hen nothing to add to the report which nessy Road on Tuesday afternoon has been circulated amongst the when an 80-year-old man, Les Nui shareholders, I am assured by the Shek, of 10, Ship Street, was LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS
manager that the building and knocked down by a motor-lorry. It The Adventure (HM famex works of the company are in first was learned that the victim at transport) arrived on the 4th with class order and will require no cut tempted to cross in front of the the remainder of the 70th She lay for some time to come. I hope vehicle which was driven by Cheung brought nothing later from Cal- the shareholders will confirm the Kiu Iu, a licensed driver, at the
policy which is advocated by the time... outts her dates from Singapore General Managers of writing down reach to 22nd alt. Nothing had out of profits the most of the pro- ben heard of the mail. The report
of the Alma, with the China mails
reserve,
..
As a result of a fall fr second floor of 294, Das Voeu Woat, on Tuesday afternoon, " nese named Cheing Wun Tai Lai On Lane, was removed tor Government Civil Hospital su ing from severe injuries to his and body.
For bringing an unregister mus fi into the Colony, a wom was fined $10 by Mr. Schofield was stated by Inspector Fr Central Magistracy yesterday the 8.0.A. that the girl ha that she had been sold to well treated by the defendng #110 Canton currency.
Further evidence was taken by party, and of accumulating a cash Mr. W. Schofield at Central Magin tracy yesterday in a case in which four Chinese were charged with ob
News has been receive taining goods by fraud. The de Colony of the marriage fendants were alleged to have open of Miss. Gladys Heard ed a bogus firm at 131, Connaught Edwin Sewell. Both Road, and by its mesna to have will be remembered obtained goods valued at over $1,000 oularly Miss Heard a from four firms in the Western ber of years she held District. The case was again ad position in tannis journed.
Sewell was at one
a nightmare, but, even at this very at operation was prepared with short interval of time it is well to campista thoroughness, and it was reall what was achieved at Home carried through with complete to lay the foundation for Mr. WARD smoothness. Subsequent conversion PRICE's optimism.
loans on a smaller scale were also Despite the serious problems which effected with success, with the re- remain to be solved, the people of sult that 30 per cent.
of the Great Britain can look back on that ¦ nation's internal debt has now been year with
proud feeling of converted from an average interest national achievement, an achieve- | rata off five to one of 34 per cent. ment which is nothing less than the The first conversion loan involved a re-establishment of their country's net saving to the country of about credit throughout the world.
In £23,000,000; subsequent conversions face of low prices, contracting have brought this as to a £30,000,000 markets, unemployment, and an reduction on the Budget burdens, unbalanced state of production and even when losses, on Income Tax OF consumption, every country had a receipts have been allowed for.
difficult struggle in the economic In the industrial world the role of 15th November, having broken I have now to move formally feld; and none has had a stiffer tions between employers and em down the day after leaving Galle that the report, and accounts as PROBATE JURISDICTION. uphill fight than the. British. But ployed were generally good through-
is confirmed, and as she was in printed to be adopted and passed. each individual citizen has shown out the year. There were disputes tended to bring the Landon mails I shall be happy to answer any THE Gooda or JEANIE the same cheerfulnge in suffering in the transport and cotton indus of 10th December its nou receipt questions shareholders may have to BLYTHE CUBITT, LATE OF personal hardship and privation, tries, but they were not of a very is accounted for.Hong Kong put-Hong Kong Daily Press, CLIFTON VICARAGE, IN and the same unflinching deter serious character, and the succes. Daily Press, February 18, 1888,
February 16, 1683. CJUNTY OF DARDY, ENGLAND, mination to pull together" for sion of troubles in the cotton: in- WIFE OF REVEREND SPENCER the common good. The ordinary dustry, were really a legacy from LOOKING BACK SO YEARS Cooking Back 25 Years. HENTY CODITI, Deceased.
man has once again proved himself the previous year. On the railways
His Excellency the Governor, who well endowed with the extra and in the mining industry dif- ordinarily good qualities of cour- ficulties arose, and various discus, ing of the Hong Kong Ice Co., Was accompanied by Lady Lugard The General Committee which presided so the annual distribution was promoting the Women's Inter- persistency. Without this general 1933 escaped conflicts in those lead-
General Managers, Mekers, Jardine, Matheson & Co. yesterday morning of the Royal Sanitary Institute held impossible to carry out their Kong having be goodwill on the part of the people, ing sections of the industrial world.
There were prosent Hon, F. B. in the City Hall yesterday after scheme at present on the intended | the Government could have achieved. Meanwhile confidence steadily in-
member of Johnson (Chairman) Meters Anox There were wated with their lines. At the meeting held on but little; with it the Government creases in practically overy sphere Coro, T. Jackson Douglas Jones, Excellencies at a table at a head February at the Candilands Hut it int has done more than our visitor of activity. The British public and others a coord scorned willing to admit, The quite realises that there are still D. McCall Ch M.B. Polishwalla, of St Andrew's Hall, the Hon. Dr. was decided to dissolve the Com-Heard's their salvenoy of the country was restore obstacles to be ourcome, but there Y., Rocha, J. B. Madar, J. Pos JM Atkinson, president, of the mittee and retorn all subscriptions Nanking
To staccessor tonjog, W. Parfl. "A G. Blokes, Hong Kong branch, Mr. Ralphs, and donations The holl which secretary, Hon, ME W Chatham, was, to be railed on the benefit of Dr. F. Clark, Mr. 7. Perkins, Mr. the Club will be drawn for now A. H. Ough, and Mr. A. J. Breo- | week, and, unless any objections Gentlemen, konbury. The body of the hall was are sent in to s has any special, also filled when Dr, Atkinson open May Road the mo In the end to ed the proceedings-Hong Kong to the Daily Press, February 18, 1908. ** - Society,
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joine
at Mestra. Lane, C Mr. J. Heard, the
Chat Provisions of Section 58 of 7, détermination; patience and sion are still taking place; but Ltd, was held at the office of the of prizes of the Hong Kong branch national Club have found that it is Heard, as well
No. of 1897, made an miting the Time for Creditors Habern, in sand, in their. Claims
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