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NOTICE.
R.
KOWLOON, WATER SUPPLY.
IT
is hereby notified that com mencing on Wednesday 22nd May, and until further notice, the hours of supply in all districts will be 6 A.M. to 9 A.M. and 4.30 PM. to 7.30 PM.
R. M. HENDERSON,
Water Authority. PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Hong Kong, 20th May, 1035.
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NOTICE is hereby given that the
THIRD ORDINARY YEABLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be beld at the Registered office of
Tel. 24511.
THE HONG KONG VOLUNTEERS NEWS SUMMARY
London Ome: 63. Flees Biret Too Many Officers In The Corps!
Office: Street,
E.C. 4.
The Daily Press.
the Company Nat. 6.1.66, Queen's The
Road Central, Victoria, Hong Kong, on TUESDAY, the 21st. May, 1938,
4.30 PM. for the purpee of receiving the Raport of the Directore together with a Statement of Accounta for the period ending the Prd. Feb- ruary. '933 and alecting auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 14th. May to [3611 21st. May, 1935, (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
M. CHAN HARR,
General Manager.
THE ON HING COMPANY, LIMITED
NOTICE OF CREDITORS" MEETING
FOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Meeting of the Cheditora of the On Hing Company, Limited, will be held at the office of the Company at No. 10, Hing Lung Street, Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, on Friday, the 31st day of May, 1935, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purposes mention. ed in Sections 227 and 229 of the Companies Ordinance, 1932..
By Order of the Board.
YAU TIT HING,
Managing Director.
Dated the 20th May, 1935.
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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY
OF CANTON, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG)
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at the HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 24th MAY, 1938, at 11 o'clock a.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1984, and of declar ing Dividend, etc.
Hong Kong, 6th May, 1928.
FoxG KONG, MAY 21, 1938.
BATHING BEACHES
With summer here again our thoughts turn to the beaches for despite the fact that tennis and bowls have increased in their popularity, there is no denying the fact that swimming is by far the most popular pastime during the hot weather and it would be no exaggeration to say that al- (3840 though thousands of people visit the different beaches; every day. niany more would do so if they bad the means to do so." It is ta this connection that we launching our annual appeal" to the Government to do something affects the in a matter which welfare of the 'community at large but this time we sincerely hope that this appeal will have the desired effect. Its predecessors. we'regret to say, had always fallen on deaf ears.
THE CANTON INSURANCE
OFFICE LTD..
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
H Fifty-fourth
Ordinary General Meeting of Sharehold ors will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Wednesday, the 22nd May, 1985, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agouts, together with a statement of Accounts for the year | ended the 31st December, 1984.
The Share Begister and Transfer Books will be CLOSED from the Eth to the 22nd May, 1395, both days inclusives.
JARDINE, MATHESON& Co., LTD.
General Agents. Hong Kong, 1st May, 1935.
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CLUB.
DAF SO
RAFT "Programmes and Entry the Seventh Extra Race Meeting, to be held on SATURDAY, 1st June, 1936, (weather permitting), may be obtained at the Secretary's Office, Gloucester Building The Club House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Club; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road.
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON MAY to 24th MAY, Both Dayson THURSDAY, the 23rd May, 1935. inclusive.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 8th
By Order of the Board,
“A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 80th April, 1935.
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THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.
(INCORPORATED I* Eoxa Koxo)
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
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By Order.
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
CANTON NEWS IN BRIEF
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton, May 20.
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It is a great pity that with, so many suitable sites available for the laudable purpose of providing the public with a bathing beach that
15 easily accessible, the authorities persist in neglecting this important matter. Some years ago the bathing beaches at North
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CONSCRIPTION AND ABOLISHMENT
OF MESSES SUGGESTED
The abolishment of the Officers' Mess and the Sergeants Mess; the enforce ment of Conscription; a regular officer to be the Commandant; the inconvenience of the present Headquarters; "the introduction of more attractions; the control of the Corps by the military authorities; and examinations by regular officers for commission. The above were some of the suggestions made by several of the thirty persons present at the Garrison Lecture Hall yesterday in response to the invitation made by His Excellency, the General Officer Commanding the Troops in China, Major-General 0. C. Borrett to air their views regarding the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, of offer any criticism of its present composition and regulation.
Suggestions, Excuses Or Complaints
Addressing the meeting His Ex- trained in the Lewis Guas is cellency, said:
The role in war of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps is to co-operate with the regular garrison in order to prevent an enemy from landing on the shores of Hong Kong Island and the New Territories, or from crossing our frontier with China.
The peace time regular garrison comprises. In addition to the Fixed Defences, four or five bat- talions and a number of mobile batteries: and there is no reason to believe that the strength cf this garrison will be seriously in-. creased.
It is clear, therefore, from the outset that the role of the Volunteers is of great importance
the case in all regular Infantry the personnel Battalions-and reach a very high standard of marksmanship. Without intro- ducing any new weapon, we have it in mind to extend the function of the Portuguese Company, so as to include Anti-aircraft Lewis Gun training.
ferring to the number of foreigners In the Colony, he suggested that they should be allowed to join as in other places..
IN TIME OF TROUBLE
An ex-service man who had seen service with an .O.T.C. at home, had passed through Woo- We must not forget the Volun-lich, fought in France and India teer Air Arm This is in its in-and was at the present moment a fancy, Local Government legisia member of the Corps, said he tion' in regard to Insurance and thought the
the tasks which subsidized flying by Volunteers is Volunteers, had to perform were In hand. But-in our opinion-not sufficiently known to the pub recruitment for this particular lle in Hong Kong. "He thought the ann should not have priority over necessity of maintaining a strong existing units of the H.K.V.D.C. Volunteer force in the Colony, if
Finally, we have those. very
only for the purpose of controlling valuable auxillary units the the local population in time of Medical Bection, and the Army trouble, was generally realised. Service Corps Cadre. Of the tm- They had at the moment 500 portance of the former, and of the Volunteers of which probably only admirable support it receives from 30 per cent were really efficient the hardest worked profession" in ¦ and even if there was a corp df the Colong, "I need say very little.. But of the Army Service Corps Cadre, I should like to say how much I appreciate the enrolment of some 80 members. Their func- tion in a local war would be a most important one-the main- of our Regular and tenance Volunteer garrison when it is deployed. Unfortunately, it is in the very nature of things that we caprot-in peacetime-exercise them in their emergency duties, Next March, the garrison will probably be deployed for a füll present organized as follows:-
These Headquarters conduct all week during the Combined Exer- clae: the personnel of the the administration of the Corps in peace, working directly under the A.S.C. Cadre can join up in the is evenings we shall certainly have
plenty of work for them,
During the past few years we have made every endeavour to simplify the composition of the. Corps-in terms of units which, in its tüm, allows us to simplify the training of the units to a
Foint and Kennedy Town provid- ed hundreds of people with their 50 great, in fact, that it would be impossible to exaggerate it. Gally swim and although they
And it is this role which must- were not what might be described
govern the composition and train- exceptionally good "* money making propositions," they at leasting of the Volunteers. served as the playgrounds of the -poorer middle classes. Rea-bath ing has always been highly recom- mended as an extremely healthy form of exercise, and especially when our water supply is so scarce that office-workers and it difficult to get their daily bath, the value of sea-bathing is at once mult pled. Rather than letting the two beaches in question continue to function, Government saw it to allot the Kennedy Town site to a private institution while that
amali stretch in North Point has long since been reclaimed,' pre- sumably for "industrial purposes." As a result of this hundreds of people have been deprived of their only chance for their daily swim; for it must be borne in mind that the people who trequented these benches were mostly those who found it too expensive to go out to Repulse Bay. Stanley or for a launch picnic. So far 29 adults are "concerned they have had to be content with a swim about once a week but "youth
degree compatible with the effort which can reasonably be expected from young men who spend long office hours in a rather trying
climate.
!!!
THE CORPS First of all there is the Corps
Headquarters. The Corps is at
Colonial Government: there
also the keenest aison with my own Staff and direct with regular units, so that we may give the whatever saistance Volunteers
The
Iles within sur power.. Headquarters has a small Bienal Section which plays its the
part in the
communications system of within the Fortress as a whole.
Then there is the Corps Battery the Corps Engineer Unit These are required to mua ne or two of the existing forts and a group of searchlights. They train
In a weekly memorial speech will be served" and the younger this morning, Mr. Ou Fang Pu.. people, who know no better, have daily to "taking their
Provincial Commissioner of flat pane
and
for these duties "at" Volunteer Headquarters and at forts reason- ably close at hand: and they carry out practice periodically- Just 2.5. the regulars do from
NOTICE IS BEREBY VEN
that the SIXTY-SIXTH ance, stated that the ten-dollar plunge just off the Prays, where ORDINARY YEAR Y MEETING notes of the Kwangtung Provin-most of the smaller craft anchor. of the Company will be held at its
clal Bank have been accepted at and, it hardly needs mentioning HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, full value since April 18. As the that, the water in these places is Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 24th silver reserve exceeds the number anything but sanitary. MAY, 1936, at 1.20 m. for the of rotes in circulation, there is a
The pity of it all is that all this purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of od demand for the government can be avoided if the authorities such forts and Ughts as may be paper money. In fact the de- would only take a hand in the
selected. The
Machine-Gun
11
Battalion.
BELOW STRENGTH
So we see that training is simple -the gunners at their one type of gun, the sappers at their lights. the machine gunners on their Vickers gun, and the Portuguese in their Lewis Gun. I need scarcely add that every man must be able to defend himself with a rifle and bayonet.
As regards numbers, Hong Kong has some 600 "actual Volunteers of which 10 per cent. are usually on leave out of the Colony. Even with the Volunteer Reserve, this is not enough. To be perfectly frank, the role of the Hong Kong Defence Corps requires an active strength of 1,000 400 more thail we have at present and I
ber of young Britishers in
unselfish spirit latent in them somewhere.
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1,000 strong behind the regular army, he queried whether that would be enough. It would be therefore necessary for every one to join up and to take some form of training.
The fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board will take place in the Sanitary Board Room this afternoon when, amongst other things, the collection of refuse will be discussed,