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TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
NOTICE
ORDINARY YEAR-
LY MEEING of the Society will be held at the HEAD OFFICE Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 20th MAY, 1933, at 11 o'clock A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the State- ments of Account to 31st December, 1932, and of declaring Diɣidends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOBRD from 9th MAY to 26th MAY. Both Days inclusive..
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PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager,
Hong Kong, 1st May, 1933.
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SAIGON BY AIR
III.-VIVID PICTURES OF INDIA, BURMAH
AND SIAM-
RICE FIELDS, FORESTS AND SPACIOUS ·
CITIES
Bishop F. Chairs," of Hanoi, in the following article describes the Anal stages of his journey, by Air-Orient airplane, from Mar- seilles to Salgon, The section covered is from the South of the Persian Gulf, across India, with vivid glimpses of Karachi, Benares, Calcutta and the River Ganges. Then on to Rangoon, whose beauty greatly impressed the traveller, through the vast forests and rice-fields of Burmah, Siam and Indo-China to the end of the jour. ney at Saigon. There the traveller sighs for another 'plane to taks him in abe hours to Haal, instead of a journey of 60 hours by train.
Wednesday 18th.-Departed at 643 a.m. on a run of 1000 kilometres to Karachi, which we should pass the following night, after a short stop half way at Djask. We flew over masses of rocks strangely situated with sharp hills and ravines and without any vegetation, intersected are sandy valleys practically W
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.). NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the SIXTY-FOURTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 26th MAYby 1933, at 11.18 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account' to 31st December, 1932, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
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Hong Kong, 1st May 1933.
BRITISH. TRADERS' INSUR- ANCE CO., LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG).
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE Fifty-second Ordinary Gen- eral Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the andersigned on Thursday, the 25th May, 1933, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1837.
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A uninhabited.
really desolate country of tiring monotony. After two hours we crossed the narrowes which joins the Persian Gulf with the Galf of Oman. We arrived at Djask at 10.05 to take in petral and at 11.45 we started again for Kara- chi."
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left for Joilpore (1000 k.m.) and Allahabad (1030 km.). We left the Farman to enter a Fokker, also a tri-motor monoplane of 700 h.p. It was stable and larger than the Farman but heavier and not 50 fast. It took us right to Sai- gon at a mean speed of 150 to 180 k.m. an hour.
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MR. GEORGE POTTS
Veteran Broker's Optim- `ism About Hong Kong
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GOING ON HOME LEAVE
Interviewed by our representa- tive yesterday, Mr. Potts said that he was not leaving Hong Kong for good. He was only going on a holiday, just to get a
We crossed the immense plain of Mr. George Potts, the popular the Indus, formerly sterile and now chairman of the Hong Kong Stock populated and fertile thanks to the Exchange, well-known horse-owne irrigation schemes and the many
and one of the most familiar figures canals of the English." It is harvest in Ice House Street lögves for time; we the fields of golden Home to-day on a short holiday. corn, partly harvested and stacks He is travelling so America where of straw in the
farmyards, he, will visit his two sons before but at a thousand feet we were not seeing the "rest of the family" in able to distinguish individuals. We England. few over the town of Hyderabad Sind). Again the country becomes dry with small hills and sand dunes for a distance of some 50 kilometres. The plain is again well populated and cultivated at the approaches to Jodpare a town of some 60.000 in- habitanta alose to which we land at 10:45 nt the wonderful airport made by the Maharaja. No cus toms formalities Allahabad. While they were filling up with petrol, we breakfasted copioualy at the superb bungalow built by the Maharaja at one corner of the "landing ground.
dur
ing the hot weather and he expecta to return in October or November.
4 Long Time Here, Mr. Potts added that he had been away regularly every summer, and that he had now been in Hong Kong for 49 years.
Aaked what he thought about business in the Colony, Mr. Potts said that in his opinion things were very healthy here. Nobody's hard up," he said, "and every body's got plenty to eat.”’
Continuing Mr. Potts said that all the Companies in Hong Kong were doing very well and he thought that things were þrightër here than in any other part of the world.
Mr. Potts war: very confident there will be an all-round im provement in the share market, but when asked what he thought of the gold bar market. Mr. Polts en pressed doubts as to whether It would ever obtain wide support in the Colony,
We started again at 11.50 and We left Persia and entered India. flew over at a country fertile at We flew over ·Coast, with times with numerous villages, at the YARN monotonous country times sandy desert. We climbed to desolate rocks alternating with the height of 2,000 feet to find a candy, shores Wind and altitude favourable wind, but the atmosphere variable and wo flew down into a was so pure that we were able to hot atmosphere. Then the clouds distinguish clearly the configura- and adverse winds caught us flying tion of the ground, the ronkis, ↑ up to 1500 metres, the machine per-canals and motor cars which ap- forming a sort of dance. We pass peared from this height to be going ed a machine going from Saigon to very slowly; we entered the basin Marseilles. On the coast one sees a
of the Ganges a vast plain thickly few fishing villages, then we crossed populated and fertile. At 1 o'clock the arm of a sea and arrived at we arrived at Allahabad a town Karachi at 4.43 p.m., having cover of 400,000 inhabitants, partly Hin- doos and partly Mussalmans. It ed in a day nearly 1900 k.m. at a mean speed of 200 k.m. an hour. lies at the junction of the Jumaa In my mind I compared this way and the Ganges, the sacred river of of travelling with that of early mis- the Hindoos, where, every year, sionaries, who made the journey more than 150,000 pilgrims bathe imm. Europe to Indo-China on and seek the purification of their foot, taking more than a year and souls!... Every ten years there are (1) "That is from the 1st day of leaving companions, who had died no less than four to five million later crossed the lower reaches of
What a difference." I murmured, paigrims.
aeroplane. The looking at our
Friday, 20th.-To-night we should the Ganges where it divides into a
number of branches. voyage in an arroplane is not with sleep Rangoon after passing Cal- a landing was made close to the out fatigue, even with the splendid cutta-a total journey of 2000 City of Calcutta, with its popula (2) "That as from the 1st day of weather we had between Damascus kilometres, and the longest stage tion of more than 2,000,000 inhabit and Saigon, because one must take of the voyage. So we must start at
ants After filling up, with petrol count of the appalling noise of the daylight! We got up at 2 a.m, and we started again at 8.35 for Ran- motors. But at the same time this made a ten kilometres journey, in
goon, 1,950 kilometres away. is a slight inconvenience compared with the perils of our first mis It was almost night ionaries. when the company's car put down at our hotel in Karachi, sore 16 k.m. away from the air port. The hotel was comfortable and a good night's sleep made us forget the fatigue of the day.
Thursday 16th-At 6.15 am. we
The following Resolutions will also be submitted to the Meeting :-
**Jattuary, 1933, the remunera. tion of the Consulting Com. mister be increased from **STB,000 to $24,000 per annum.”
"January, 1933, the remuners- tion of the Auditors be raised "from $1,250 to $1,500 per "annum for each Firm."
The Share Register and Transfer The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 9x Books. will be closed from the 11th to MAY to 26 MAY, Both Days include 26th May, 1933, both days
sive?
By Order of the Board.
PAUL LAUDER,
inclusive.
General Manager.
Hong Kong 1st May, 1933,
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Agenta. (714 Hongkong, 4th May, 1933
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passed at a height of 3,000 metres between two violent thunderstorms. At murise we descended to and then 700 metres and a little
1,500
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We
which
a motor to the aerodrome. On the few over the great delta of the road we passed many vehicles drawn Ganges and Bramaputra by two, three and four bullocks. At 3.40 a.m. we started for Calcutta empty themselves into the Bay of Bengal, by countless arteries, round (750 k.m.). We passed Benares (130 which the land is thickly populated k.m.) before daylight, a sacred city and hundreds of villages could be of the Hindoos, who glory in their
wegen. It was intensely warm, and wise men and their fakirs.
even in the 'plane the wind was hot. We cut off the Northern point of the bay, steering in sa East- South-East direction. For a long time we hugged the coast and then flew over the port of Akish where a number of sailing ships and steamers were anchored.
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THE STAGE COACH 1700 A.D.
In the days when the stage coach was the only means of getting from place
place, the "stages" were the journey
postilion and passengers refreshed them inn to inn. At each stop driver,
with beer. Experience had taught them that a draught of good malt liquor was the best means of throwing off the weariness of the last stage and gaining stren
for the next.
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Rangoon.
We flew over the chain of wooded mountains which separates the Bay of Bengal from the Irawadi basin and then crossed the Irawadi Delta, We saw rice fields being harvested, alternating with others newly own. Many of the villages were hidden by green trees. At 3 o'clock wa landed 18 kilometres from Rangoon, Priests of the missions met me and took me in a special car along a wide, asphalted read, bordered by superb villas round the waters of a beautiful lake. We entered Ran- goon, a large and fine oity of 400,000 inhabitants, fifty miles from the sea, north-west from the Gulf of Martaban. It is a cosmopolitan town with all racci, chiefly Bur mase, Indians and Eurasiaña. We made a tour of the city and I ad mired the superb edifices, the large houlevards, and the port where the Jiggest ships, can come up to the town docks and quaysides. Bpen. did pagodas with majestic golden domes, are magnificently illumin- ated every night.
SATURDAY, 21ST. We start at 343. As the English passsager had left us at Rangoon there remained only the Italian journalist and myself-
Over Slam.
We set out for Bangkok, 600. kilometres to the East, cutting off the Northern point of the Gulf of Martaban, and passing close to Moulmein, an important town. We then turned off to the South East, and, at a height of 1,100 metres, we crossed the Siamese frontier paas ing over a hill with three pagodas. Then we descended to the Valley 6 Mainte The Valley gradually gets larger, and opens into the vast and rich plain of Bangkok. On the edge of the forest, at 140 km from Bangkok, we flew at lem than a height of 100 metres. Herds of cattle were frightened and, took fight, We Luer rose to 400 feet: there are ara patebes of rice field, Uran, further on, magnificent rice fields
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