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LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS!
CHINA UNDERWRITERS
HOLD MEETING
PUBLIC AUCTION. Hon. Mr. Shields Reviews,
Messrs. SCHMIDT & Co., Ltd. (in Ilquidation).
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THE
THE Undersigned have received
instructions from the Liquida tors of the above named,
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
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Wednesday, the 15th May, 1940
Good Year's Work
Satisfaction with the trading progress of the China Under- writers Ltd.. was expressed by the Hon. Mr. A. L. Shields, chairman of the board of Directors, at the Company's annual meeting yester- day when he added that at the present time there seems no reason why the Fire Marine and Accident Departments, "though" small, should not conținue to be profitable unless anything catastrophic happens.
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The Hon." Mr. Shields was sup 127, and also an increase in Policy ported by Dr. J. W. Anderson, Loans. The total assets stand at Messrs. LI Tse-Long, Mohamed $3.304,661 against $2,919,987 * at Nemazee, G. A. Pentreath (Direc-December 31, 1938. tors), Mr. H. R. Surt (Managing Generally speaking your Direc‣ and Mr. E. R. Childe tors are satisfied with the trading Director) (Secretury).
progress of the Company which The following shareholders were has in the past been somewhat present: Messrs. H. J. de Figeutra-| slow owing to a number of unfore- at the godown of Messrs. Schmidt | do, N. V. A. Croucher, L. W. She-seen 'events, particularly the Hong- & Co., Ltd. (in. Ilquidation)," in the basement of Gloucester Building (entrance by lane between Glou- cester and Exchange Bulldings).
commencing at 10.30 a.m.
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A Selection of Scientific and Medical Equipment and
X-Ray Apparatus
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comprising:-
16 Student's Microscopes
1 Analytical Balance and weights
1 Potroleum Bath for 4
tances with é resistances
resis-
1 Biological
Colorlimeter
with
Haemoglobin attachment
1 Thermohygrograph
1 Microtone and Accessories
2 Sets X-Ray Apparatus
and H. Dreyer.
After the Directors" report and accounts had been duly adopted, Mr. Shields. Mr. M. Namazee, Mr. Penreath and Dr. J. W. Anderson hostilities which closed Canton and were re-elected to the Board of all China to business and resulted Directors and Messrs Lowe, Bing- in the disastrous slump in the ham and Matthews and Messrs. National Dollar, and. lastly, the Percy Smith Beth and Flemming World War, were re-appointed auditors.
GENERAL
Scroll Gift To British Relief Unit
THANKS
EXPRESSED
IN MANDARIN
The five members of the British Relief Unit to China, who are at present in Hongkong, were enter- tained fa dinner at the Cafe Wind- sor last night by the Canton University Students' Association.
There was a large attendance, and during the evening a scroll was presented to the Unit, on be- half of the students, by Mr. Jack- son Tong and Miss Chếung Hung- fal. The rose, the national flower of England, and the plum, the national flower of China, formed the motif of the scroll, for the gift of which Mr. Evert Barger expressed thanks on behalf of his colleagues,
Wan. Chan Hau-po, Wong Tat- kong General Strike in 1925 just choi. J. R. Leitao, J. G. Barros after we commenced business, the world trade depression between
TRUE FRIENDS 1929 and 1933 which seriously
Introducing the guests of honour affected our business in the South-Mr. Sunny Tal, Secretary of the ern agencies, the Sino-Japanese Association, who presided said
We are very happy indeed to have with us tonight several true friends of China-namely, Mr. Evert Barger Mr. Philip Wright, Mr. Owen Evans, Mr. Llewelyn Evans and Mr. William „Jenkins. We deeply regret the absence of' Mr. Michael Sullivan who is now in Kwelyang. We are also glad to welcome a good friend of China Mr. Frank Short, of the London Missionary Society.
Donations To B.W.O. Fund
CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH In presenting the report to the meeting Mr. Shields sald, in part:
In the Life Assurance Depart ment New Business Premiums "at) $118,605 compare with New Bust- ness Premiums of $126,471 last The following is a Hat of sub- year. Renewal Income has inscriptions received to date
fo:
1 Short Wave Diathermy Appara-creased, and the total Premiums credit of the British War Organisa-
tus
1 Graphascope
1. Cylinder containing 40 cu. ft.
Hydrogen Gas
1 Monalamp
1 Electric Distilling Apparatus ·
1 Louis Schopper Testing
paratus
1 Silverlite Gas Plant
and
Projector, Bulbs, Laboratory Glassware, Bine and Tangent Galvanometer, Tyre Pumps, Field- glass Adjusting Apparatus, etc.,
etc..
at $669,784 show an increase com- pared with the figure of $661,417 in 1938.
to
tion Fund, Hongkong Branch:
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The
Previously acknowledged $523,- 37271; Evan M. Davies (monthly) Death Claims at 3117.899 show 10; John Moodle (May) 20: Staf an increase over the gure of of China Provident Loan & Mort- $87,852 last year, but the Claim gage Co., Ltd. in Memory of the Ap-| Rate is not unduly high, Claims late Mrs. S: M. Churn 24.50; F. Dunnett 20 J. by Maturity, which can of course Linennen The estimated in advance, amount (monthly) 30; Russian Orthodox $112:236. as compared with Church Community: 28.50; $43.987 in 1938, a corresponding locally engaged staff of Cable & lability having been released. Wireless Ltd. 110; Wm. Powell Ltd. Surrenders have increased from 250; The Foreign Staff of the H.K. $137,413 to $152,169. Expenses, ex-Telephone Co. Ltd. (April) 140: de- Razor Trading Co. 10; Some of the cluding commission, show a crease from $218,446 to $214.147. Chinese Staff of Holt's Wharf "LIFE" FUND INCREASED 43.01; A. H. Guinness (monthly) The Life Assurance Fund ta-20: D. G. Day (monthly) 15; Mrs. creased normally from. $824,436" to F. M. Deacon (monthly) 10; A. M. $871,379, and this has been further Kenriedy (monthly) 30; H. M. Mil- Increased. as will be explained ler (monthly) 15; High Men" 5; later, by the transfer of $350,000 Members of the Indian Company from Profit and Loss Account and of the HK. Police Reserve (Jan.- General Reserve, bringing the Feb.-Mar.) 134,05: Mrs. Yin Fon- figure at the end of the year to ming-Painting Exhibition held by $1.221.379.
H.K. University Chinese Bociety 20, Total: $524,298,67,
(All lots will be sold without reserve)
On. View from Monday, the 13th May: 1940.
" Catalogues will be issued.
Terms: As Customary.
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS.
In the Fire Insurance Depart ment Premiums at $101,623 com-
N.T. RELIEF ASSOCN. pare with the figure of $102,859 in
Members of the Committee of 1938. Claims at $45,207 are about the New Territories Relief Associt the same as last year.
tion beg to acknowledge with Expenses, excluding commission.grateful appreciation and thanks have been again reduced from the following donations and gifts $20,356 to $19.331.
made towards the maintenance of The Fire Insurance Fund, be the Clinics and Hospitals operat-
PUBLIC AUCTION. fore making any transfer, ning in the villages:-
THE Undersigned have received
instructions
to sell by
***PUBLIC AUCTION
on
Friday, the 17th May, 1948 commencing at 2.30/p.m.
at their Bales Room. No. 35. Han- Low, Road, Kowloon.
"QUANTITY OF VALUABLE
·HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
Comprising:-
creased from $93.148 to $107,873.
A transfer of $20,000 has been made from this account to the crédit of Profit and Loss, and the Fund is carried for... ward at $87,873 which is more than adequate to cover unex- pired risks.
Premiums in the Marine In surance Department,at $130,414 compare with the figure of $122.942 in the 1938 account. Claims show an increase from $46.140 to $69,479.
Mr. Aw Boon Haw $5,000. Per Mr. Tang (Ha 1guen) 3454.30 Per Mr. Fung Wel Shing $300. Sir Elly Kadoorie and Sons $250. Provincial Priory of China $200 Cheung Chau Elders $120.10. Mr. and Mrs. Stanton $100. Victoria "Preceptory and Priory $100.
Wing Fat $100. Sir R. Ho Tung $50. Mr. 14 Ta Ming $50. Mr. and Mrs. Stone $25 Bata Shoe Co. $26.
L R. Brown Esq. $25. China Dispensary $25. Associated, Trading Corp Lia
EXPENSES REDUCED Expenses have been slightly re- duced, and the Marine Insurance Fund shows an increase, before making any transter, from $167,- $20. 892 to $192,153.
A sum of $90,000) has been transferred from this ac- count to the credit of Proft and Loss, bringing the figure at the end of the year to $102,153 which is more than adequate to cover un- expired risks.
In the
Teakwood Bed Room, Drawing Room Dining Room and Omcé Furniture. Ice Chests, Carpet, Rugs, Cutlery, mectric Celling and Table premiums at $49,301 show an in- Accident Department. Fans, Radiators and Lamps, Per-crease over last year's, figure ot "ambulators, Baby Cots, Filters, $44,176. Claims at $25,594 com-
Gramophones and Records, Pump Stoves, Ornaments, Curios, E P... Brass Porcelain and Glass Ware, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc.
also·
A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD - FORNITURE
1 Teakwood: Bed Room Suite -'
•1-Bewing Machine
Dinner ServicesTM
2 Chromium Plated Figures
3 Radio Bets'; .:
3 Porcelain Wash Basins.
On View from, Thursday, the 16th May, 1940,
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS..
AUCTIONEERS!
pare with $32.538 last year.
In the Profit and Loss Account the interest credited amounted to $67,601 as compared with $53,826 in 1938. To this account we have, as stated, transferred $20,000 from the Fire Account and $90,000 frogn the Marine Account. Transfers have them been made of $60,000 to the Investment and Exchange Re- serve and $125,000 to the Life Ac- count already referred to...
The Balance Sheet reflects the fall in the value of secart- ties as at December 31, 1989: The actual depreciation was estimated to be $179,612.. This depreciation is mainly account- ed for by the low values of British and Colonial Govern- ment Securities at the end of the year, the lower rate of ex- change of the Chinese Sliver Dollar and the depreciation In value of local Stock Exchange securities.
DIRECTORS SATISFIED There has been an increase in Mortgages from $199452 to $443-
Ching Hua College $20. Miss M, B. Hall, 320. Ying To College $20, Col. Dowbiggin O.BE $11. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Clark 310. Mr: Hung Chi Đỏ 310, Cheong Hing Store $10. Cheong Hing: $.
Fook Hing Cheong -$10. Mr. C. C. Chan $10. Mr. Tang Fat 55.
Mr. Wat Sai Man $5. Kam Tong Restaurant $3. Mr. Chu Wing Fong 35. Mr. Leung Hung . Miss Eliot $5./
Mr. F. F. Duckworth $5. J. T, Bagram 35.
Tratman and Co. Ltd, $3. Tack Hing and Co. $2. British American and Co $1. Kung Sheurig $1.
Messrs Nestles Milk Co 4 cases Eagle Brand Milk
Mrs. Rouse 2 doz. pairs babies socks.
further support is respectfully required.
$
CHINA RELIEF FUND
The Members of the Committee have the honour to acknowledge receipt of the following gifts, to the Hospitals operating at Cen- trea in China.
Messrs. Yau Show Lomins Por Mrs. Wong So Medicine bot-
tles.
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Miss Yue Medicine bottles.
Y.W.C.A. Medicine bottles.
WEDNESDAY, MAY
15, 1940.
Picture taken of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps Nursing Detachment on the occasion of the inspection by Mrs. A. E. Grasett, Bonorary Commandant, on Friday ́in St. John's Cathedral
----- Hall;· ·(King's Studio).
NEWSETTES
Mr. E Debs. of the Foreign Y.M.C.A. Shanghai. who was spending a holiday in the Colony, has returned to Shanghal.
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Mr. and Mrs. E Letowt passed through the Colony recently on Our honoured guests will soon their way to Shanghal, Mr. Letowt. leave Hongkong and join the Inters with the Customs in Canton. national Red Cross in Kwetrang. Their immense sympathy ang in- valuable assistance will forever remain vivid in the minds of our people. Their friendly interest In the tragic fate of the Chinese people will prove to the world that the sense of justice and righteous- ness is one thing common to all people of good-will and faith, even though they are separated by thousands of miles.
We sincerely hope that this sense remain vived in the minds of
good-will and faith, will eventually make the world safe for democracy. an that the reign of brutal force will soon be eliminated on earth.
ONE LESSON' Mr. Philip Wright responded, speaking in Mandarin. He said:— should like to thank you most On behalf of my companions I
warmly for your kind welcome. We are 51x of Us University graduates and we are therefore, particularly happy to have the goodwill of University men Chins
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learnt above everything else one At Oxford" and Cambridge we
outlook and far-reaching sympa- lesson, namely, to have a broad thies. That is why we have come from England at the present time to do what we can to alleviate suffering in China.
-Measured in miles, England and China are far apart, but human feeling an sympathy draws them close together.
Students and scholars all we are. and we known at least something of Chinese civilisation; and so we realise that, while doing what we can in the service of the Chinese people we shall all the time be learning from China. This will be a great privilege.
AMERICA WANTS
MORE FUNDS
WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuter) It is announced that President Roosevelt will address a message to Congress this week, asking for additional funds for rational de- fence.
It is believed that the new re- quest will be in the neighbourhood -of $500,000,000, which will be áddí- tional to the $2,000,000,000 already being allocated by Congress for defence needs during the Ascal year beginning July.
The 7th mass wedding in which 24 couples took part, 'was solem- nized in Chungking by Mayor K. C. Wu, under the auspices of the New Life Movement. Association:
Fer Mrs. Wong Su Ciutning.. YWCA, Clothing Dressings and Mrs. Langley 'Clothing.
Bed-pans
Chinese Pelce Goods Guld 2 rolls bandage cloth.
Mr. Chan Harr 20 lbs. cotton, wool and gauze.
Miss Yue 6 Ths. cotton wool, Mr. Michael Cheing (8281. Ás timal Currency) and ($5 Hong- kong Currency).
Per Miss Bascombe Btam) $30.0
Mrs. Wong Bo $20.
(Belfilos
Gloucester Hotel (Chinese, Staff)
$100.
Additional agaistance is earnest.
ly invited.
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Mr. P. F. Woodruff will give a A Requiem Mass was celebrated lecture on "World Brotherhood" at at the Church of Christ the King. the Manuk Lodge, IA Chater Road, in Shanghai, on May 4 for the late tomorrow at 6 pm.
Miss Zephyrina. Maria Vieira who died last Thursday at the Shang-
Mass was, Pleading guilty to a charge of hai General Hospital. unlawful possession of two rifles said by the Rev. Father L. F. Me- and 289 rounds, of ammunition, Greal. S.J., and the, last rites of Roman Catholic faith were Lam Lau-chang. 38, master of the trading junk. was cautioned by Mr. conducted by the Rev. Father J T. J. Houston at the Central Court |K. Lipinan, 8J., at the Pahsienjac yesterday. The arms and ammuri Cemetery as four o'clock in the tions were ordered to be confiscat- evening. ed...
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Mrs. Evans, wife of Mr. R. T.
The return of cases of the New Evans, prominent American-attor-
Sentence of four months hard Territories Relief Association, fer ney in Tientsia, Is spending a labour and 10 strokes of the cane the month of April, shows that a Vacation in Tungchow.
was passed by Mr. E. Elms-total of 9.876 were treated, includi- worth at- Kowloon Court ink 99 maternity cases. The China yesterday оп Chun Chi, Reller Association returns show. 18, convicted of having snatched a that a total of 1,397 cases were handbag from Sul Kuen. 22, atreated in the two hospitals main- married woman, in Nathan Roadtained by the Association, each of near Argyle Street on Monday which has a resident doctor with night
its complement of qualified nurses,
Mr. Leung Su-cho, executive secretary of the Chinese National YMCA, will be the speaker at to marrows tin meeting of the Hongkong Y's Men's Club at St. Francis Hotel
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