HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1937.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. LARGEST NAVY
HONG KONG CLUB
NOTICE.
The Ninety Third Yearly Gen- eral Meeting of the, Members of the Hong Kong Club will be held in the Club House on Tuesday, the 23rd March, 1937, at 5.30 p.m.
By order,
S. R. KERR,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 12th March, 1937. *[5111
1937-1938
R
Sealed Tenders will be received at the Royal Naval Hospital, until 10 am. on the 19th March, 1937, from persons desirons of supplying Beef, Mutton, Fowls, Pork, Cheese, Pure Cow's Milk, Ice, and other provisions, and necessaries for the year ending 31st March, 1938.
Printed Forins of Tender and further particulars can be obtain- ed at the R.N. Hospital.
The right to reject the lowest
or any tender is reserved.
G. D. G. FERGUSSON,
"Surgeon Captain, Medical Officer in Charge.
Royal Naval Hospital,
Hong Kong. 11th March, 1937.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
5108
PROBATE JURISDICTION
H
IN
THE GOODS of HENDRIK JAN VAN DER
TAK late of 16 Hoofdweg Amsterdam to the Kingdom
of the Netherlands deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has, by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Ori dinance' No. 2 of 1897 made an order limiting the time for credi- tors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to 29th March, 1937.
All Creditors and others are ac-' cordingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on or before that date.
DEACONS, Solicitors for the
Administrators,...
1, Des Voeux Road Central..
Hong Kong.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
5089
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN
THE GOODS of ALEXANDER COLBOUR NE LITTLE otherwise. known as COLBOURNE "LITTLE late of 11, Bird- hurst Road South Croydon
In the County of Surrey in
-the United Kingdom deceas
ed."
provisions of Section 58 of Ordin ance No. 2 of 1897 made an order
limiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to 29th March, 1937.
IN THE SUPREME
COURT OF HONG 'KONG"
す
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Power of Attorney dated" the 29th day of March, 1934 giyen by Mr Than Man Chee other of wise Chau Man Chi-to Mr. Mok ODD BRUUSGAARD late Tat Huen to manage the Imports of Oxhey Villa, Pokfulam,and Exports Department of the Victoria in the Colony of firm of Chau Yue Teng of China Hongkong, Merchant deceas Building has by Deed dated the
ed.
revoked.
北
HONG KONG & WHAMPOA
DOCK CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders will be held in the Offices of the Com. pany 2, Queen's Building, Hong Kong, on Monday, 22nd March, 1937, at Noon for consideration of the Directors"
Report and
6th day of March, 1937 besu | Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1936. The Share Register and Trans- ter Books will be closed from 12th to 22nd March; 1937, both days inclusive.
NOTICE is hereby given that
Dated the 6th day of March,| the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Or. 1937. dinance, No. 2 of 1897 made an order-limiting the time for credi fors and others to send in their claims against the above estate tq 2nd April, 1937.
All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under. signed on or before that date.
-DEACONS,
18
Solicitors for the Administrator"
1, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong. 5095
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HỎNG
KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS of GERTRUDE ELLA AN- DERSON late of 92 Waterloo Road, Kowloon in the Colony of Hongkong, Married Wo- man deceased. "
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Or. dinance No. 2 of 1897 made afi order limiting the time for credi tors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to 29th March, 1937.
All Creditors and others are ac cordingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned
on or before that date. DEACONS,
1:
Solicitors for the Executors,
1, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong,
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB
5089
The First Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at HÄPPY VALLEY on Satur. day, 13th March, 1937, com. mencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Bell will be rung at
1.30 p.m.
By Order,
GEO, K. HALL BRUTTON & CO.,
Solicitors for the abqyenamed Chan Man, Chee otherwise Chau Han Ch
By Order of the Board of Directors,
5098
E. COCK, "Chief. Manager. Hong Kong, 1st March, 1937.
5079
|HONG KONG, SWATOW AND AMOY FREIGHT CONFERENCE
FOREIGN & CHINESE SHIPPERS
Notice is hereby given that as from 1st. APRIL, 1937, rates of freight "Trom Hong Kong to Swatow and Amoy will be "In- creased 20 per cent over current rates.
The Tarif rates on Tranship- ment Cargo from United King- dom, Europe, Canada and U.S.A. will be increased by 20 per cent on and after the 1st. MAY, 1937. Full details of revised tariff rates, are obtainable on enquiry at the offices of the undersigned.
DOUGLAS
Hi
Editorial and Business
Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central, Tel. 30251.
Night Editor (Wanchal Offer):
Tel. 24511.
London Office: 53, Fleet Street
E.C. 4.
The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, MARCH 14, 1937.
FUEL FOR SHIPS
|PROGRAMME -
SINCE THE WAR
Battleships To Cost £8,000,000 Each
BIG EXPANSION OF FLEET AIR ARM
BY HECTOR C. BYWATER - "Daily Telegraph” Naval, Correspondent
The Naval construction pro- gramme for 1937, as partly fore- shadowed in the White Paper on Defence Expenditure, is to be the largest for any year since the war. It is compared below with the programme for 1936:
-Battleships
Cruisera.***
Aircraft carriers
►
2
3
7
2
2
..
STENOGRAPHERS' ROLE
Requirements Of The Profession
"No argument should be needed to demonstrate that the skilled stenographer is well entitled to professional' status ana" correspon- ding pay," said Mr. Leonard W. Matters, London Representative of "The Hindu," in an address given at the Kellett Hall, Triplicane. The lecture was under the auspices of the City Stenographers' Associa- tion. and attracted a large au- dence of members of that organ- isation, newspaper men, and the general public.
Mr. T. R. Venkatarama Sastri, C.I.E, presided, and introduced Mr: Matters as a journalist well quali- fed to discuss the subject he had chosen, "The Status of the 'Stano-
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assem-
scarcely be any need to lecture at all. No stenographer required to be reminded that his was a highly skilled
in profession,
which
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Then, said the lecturer, there was, the all-important question of transcription of shorthand notes to English, or the language of the original speaker. Was it appre- ctated, he asked, what a real pub- le service the stenographer ren- dered in this respect? "I am cer- tain," he declared, "that if it were. not for the capable and conscien- tious stenographer, seeking at great pains to preserve some sem- blance of sanity in the presenta- tion of the written language, the reputations of half the politicianUS and other public men as oratora or exponents of ideas, would col- lapse. It is the stenographer who takes the responsibility of making their speeches rend sense, when, as delivered, they never sound- ed sense. I do not know what
this problem may be in Tamil, or other Indian lan- guages, but is a serious one in which, more than any other I think, lends itself peculiarly to maltreatment. It is not an analy-.
English. That is a language,
tical language, but has been built
Although the number of de- | grapher.” stroyers
and submarines to be The lecturer wald that if his re; asked for this year is not yet uls- | marks went no further than the closed, it is likely that as many body of professional men vessels of these types as were bled to hear him, there would voted last year will be thcluded in the new programme. They were, 18 destroyers and eight submarines FIVE 38,000-TON VESSELS The ordering of three new efficiency was acquired only after battleships this year will give the intense study and application, and Navy a homogeneous squadron of that the writing of shorthand, in up over centuries from all the lan- guages of the world. Who speaks five 35,000-tor vessels by 1940. as any of the well-known, systems, classical English, and where? What the King George V. and Prince of was not simply a mechanical art in
la classical diction, or pronuncia- Wales are already under construc-which perfection was easily ac-
tion? About one man or woman in tion.
quired. The practice of steno-
iten tbhusand of those who claim This indicates a reversion to the -graphy involved far more than a
to be well educated, has a complete mastery of English grammar, or prewar practice of building battle- capacity to register a maze of ships in groups of five. Including signs, representing to the uninthe capacity to speak the language the Nelson, Rodney, and Hood. itiated a mysterious mass of hiero we shall possess three years hence slyphics. There was far more in eight capital ships of the powerful the stenografier's art and science
modern type.
а
than that but it remained an un- The Дте battleships building fortunate fact that few persons ap- and projected will be the costliest peared to appreciate the claims of vessels 'ever built in this country, stenographer to be given each being priced at about £8.- proper professional 000.000. This is at least £500,000 emoluments in keeping with such more than the post of the Nelson status.
and Rodney.
.
ment's standard
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status, and
"MUCH MORE THAŃ MECHANICS INVOLVED"
',
faultlessly. Nine-tenths of the members of the British Parliament can never be reported as they speak. If Hansard reporters and men working for the press let speeches go as they are actually delivered, with infinished senten- ces and grammatical errors and, other faults, nobody's reputation
...The
would be safe. The truth is very largely that the competent and The provision of seven cruisers
careful stenographer goes far be-- 13. yond, simply recording what additional to the seven authorised last year will materially hasten After referring to his own youth-spoken on most occasions--perhaps the attainment of the Govern- struggles to master shorthand with less faults by the judiciary, of 80 underage and acquire a speed ditting him to because they commonly write their cruisers, as
in last take a place in reporting political announced
stenographer Judgments. year's White Paper on Detence.
gatherings and the proceedings of does not report merely what was legislatures, Mr. Matters dwelt on kald but what should have been the measures necessary to equip said, and that means a big differ- a man to serve efficiently as a ence and kindness akin to mercy. stenographer, and on the attributes If justice. Is the prerogative of the
courts, mercy is the noble privilege required of him. In the first place. he declared, it was wholly wrong of
public stenographer." to believe, as some people did, that any person could learn and prac- tise shorthand, and give satisfac-
The fuel used in the mercantile BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. marine of the world is a mutter CHINA MERCHANTS S.N. of great importance in national
CO., LTD. economy.
Large as the decline in the STEAMSHIP
shipment of coal from Britain for CO., LTD. bunkers has been, the trade is JARDINE, 'MATHESON & still valuable and, for the sea-. AIR ARM EXPANSION
CO., LTD. board" coalfields, is a condition of Including the two projected for Will aircraft carriers It is to be remem: 1037, five
As bered that a high proportion of shortly be under contruction.
five older carriers are now in ser- the cargo shipments of coal is vice, it is obvious that also destined for bunkers in over- great expansion of the Fleet Air sea ports.
Arm la foreshadowed,
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA. | prosperity.
UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS
The trade is falling away be- fore the increased use of oil in cargo as well as passenger vessels.
A little more than half the total
a very
Bu
the (Laughter).
ter
was called on for service in the was to-day an indispensole law courts, legislatures, or as re- unit in trade, industry, and busi- porter of public meetings for the ness although bis qualifications Press, soon came, to realise that were not necessarily particularly much more than mechanics, was high, nor the demands on him so Yet it was a fact. that involved. Necessarily the steno | exacting. grapher had to start with a good in England and America very high sound education. He must possess salaries could be commanded by
A DISTINCTION Its present strength of 217 Arst-
tion. It was quite possible for the. Mr. Matters said there was an the distinction between man or woman of average intelli-obvious line machines will probably increased to at least 500 during gence to gain a mastery of the services rendered to the State in the next few years.
simple business of registering its various departments and to the The present strength of the The Thirty-second
Annual Lognage of merchant ships now Navy's personnel, about 101,000 signs, although there was no sub public at large by the professional stance at all in the claim that sténographer entrusted with such officers and men, is to be largely even this could be done within high responsibilities as those he General Meeting of Shareholders burns oil, will be held at the Offices of
Some vessels fitted for burning increased.. This will involve many three months, or less. The man had indicated, and the services to Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., oil can also burn coal, but the more offer entries, and a great who took up stenography as a pro-commerce of the ordinary short development of the training extab- Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank proportion of the tonnage entire-shments for boys and special fession, and particularly he who hand-writer and typist. The » Building, on Tuesday, the 23rd ly coal-burning is less than half. service" seame March, 1937, at 11 a.m. for the The transition has been made purpose of receiving the report within the last twenty-five years
Tam Chee, aged 68, was convey- of the General Managers, together and is progressing rapidly. Last
ed to the Government Civil Hos- with a Statement of Accounts to year only twenty-seven per cent.pital on Wednesday suffering from 31st December, 1936.
in tonnage of the merchant ships injuries to head received when he launched in all the world were fell off his bed at No. 492, Holly- entirely coal-burning... Figures not only measure a change in marine engineering; they also show. the extent of the loss of insufficiently appreciated," the the coalmining industry's mari: appliance makers say, so that time customers. There is, of to some extent the preference for course, the shipowner's as well Diesel machinery represents a as the coal-owner's view of the fashion' rather then the result Find of fuel, to be used in ships. of economical facts." Why is the change being made, and is it warranted when a Fulance is struck between gains and losses? Is it economically advantageous and for that reason
The Transler Books of the Company will be Closed from 9th to 23rd March, 1937, both Days
*nclusive.
C. B. BROWN,
DODWELL & CO., LTD., Secretary.
General Managers. Hong Kong, 8th March, 1937. Hong Kong, 4th March, 1937.
5099
THE HONG KONG AND KOWLOON WHARF & *
GODOWN CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
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6087
THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS.
inevitable ?..
These wood Road.
Some time ago the Combustion Appliance Makers Association THE FIFTIETH ORDIN- The Sixty-eighth Ordinary made an investigation in Britain. ARY ANNUAL MEETING OF General Meeting of Shareholders Its principal findings were that SHAREHOLDERS will be held will be held at the Offices of the for small ships with low power
ceiving the Report of the Di
rectors and the Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1936.
The Transfer Books of the
The Share Register and Trans er Books will be closed from the 11th to the 25th March, 1937, both days inclusive.
It appears therefore that the burning of coal in most classes of ships is definitely a British in terest, and last month the British Secretary for Mines presided at a conference which met to ascer tain whether, in fact, all who are the ship directly concerned owners, the shipbuilders and marine engineers, as well as the coal producers and exporters→→
p
the Under-
the best men and women short- hand writers.
a sharp ear, and an ear that could quickly attune itself to all voices,
Despite the fact strange yolces-sometimes dread- that commercial colleges and in ful voices (laughter)-and to the stitutes turned out ordinary steno- accoustics of shy and every hall graphers by the thousand, every as well as the open air. Many a businessman appreciated as a trea-' shorthand writer who could suc- sure a first class, thoroughly skill- ed note-taker, and paid for his or cessfully pass a speed test in the examination room, broke down her services accordingly. This be completely under conditions which ing so, How much more important the stenographer who was physic-was it that the stenographer en- ally properly equipped soon learn gaged in public service, and of ed to overcome-the interruptions whom a far higher degree of skill and reliability was required, should. at public meetings the confused sounds of crowds and traffic, the be recognised for what he was mumbling and muttering of wit-person whose functions, were, in nesses in court, and frequently the the language of Gilbert, "part!- chronic incapacity of persons to cularly vital. He should be given
his proper status and pay. enunciate decently.
JAYANESE TRADE; WITH BURMA
reconciled. The reason for the
BELGIAN CHAMBER BY ELECTION
Brussels, March 10. The by-election for a seat in 'the' Chamber, in which the candidates are M. Paul Zeeland, the Prime, Minister, and M. Leon Degrelle, leader of the Rex Party, has been
fixed for April 11—” Reuter Bulletin Service
at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, undersigned on Thursday, the the Diesel internal combustion could agree that this is so and,
The Burma-Japanese negotia- Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Fri- 25th March, 1937, at Noon, for engine was probably preferable, in that event, take steps to safe- tions, which have been proceeding NOTICE is hereby given that day the 12th March, 1937, AT 11 the purpose of receiving the Re- and that for fast liners the oil- guard an interest, which is in for the Court has by virtue of the A. M., for the purpose of report of the General Managers, fired boiler was well-established. serious danger.
the last two months now Logether with a statement of | But in the intermediate cate- A committee of which Sir appear to be drawing to a 2011- clusion. It is understood that the Accounts for the year ended the gories of ships, which comprise Alfred Faulkner, 31st December, 1936,
65 per cent. of the tonnage of Secretary for Mines, is chairman different points of view have been the British mercantile marine, will carry the inquiry farther.
One thing is plain. The oil & fuel coal used in conjunction with modern appliances could compete industry provides not only very successfully. This inquiry but also a service that is cons stimulated & movement of restant, reliable, and adaptable. sistance to a change in practice If the British cool industry is to which, over a large part of the hold its own in the future and
London, March 11. mercantile marine, is not econo- to recover lost customers, it must
Herr von Ribbentrop, German mically beneficial when all costs do the same and be able to
Ambassador in London, arrived at are taken into account guarantee regular supplies of points, which are still outstanding, Croydon on his return from Ger-
The reliability and efficiency standard quality at a fairly con- are out of the way, the terms of many last night. 5092 of modern steam machinery are stant price.
All Creditors and others are ac. cordingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on
or before that date.
DEACONS, Sollcitors for the Executor & Executrix Respectively
1, Des Voeux Road Central,
Hong Kong
6000
Company will be CLOSED from Friday, the 5th March 1937, to Friday, the 12th March, 1937, both days Inclusive,
JARDINE, MATHESON &. CO., LTD...
By Order of the Board
· General Managers, of Directors, F. H. CRAPNELL, The Hong Kong Fire Insurance
Co., Ltd: Secretary. Hong Kong 26th February, 1937. Hong Kong, 5th March, 1937.
(5070
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delay is that the points of dis- cussion, had to be referred to the respective Governments at diffe- rent stages. The two main dif- culties, which had been the sub- ject matter of a recent reference to Rangoon and Tokyo, have been solved, and as soon as the aine- rences regarding some minor
settlement will he announced?:
VON
RIBBENTROP RETURNS
British Wirden,