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CHINESE ESTATES,
LIMITED.
EIGHTEENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING
NOTICE IS
HONG KONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
оп
NOTICE.
The Hong Kong & China Gas Co., Ltd. hereby give notice that, The Ninety Seventh Yearly due to increased coal costs, Gas, General Mecting of the Members charges will be revised as from HEREBY of the Hong Kong Club will be the March meter readings by an GIVEN that the EIGHTEENTH held in the Club House
increase of 50 cents per 1000 cu. ORDINARY YEARLY MEET- Thursday, March 27, 1941 at it. and a reduction in present
discount rates. ING of SHAREHOLDERS will 5.30 p.m. be held at the Company's Office; at China Buildings, 5th floor, Hong Kong, on Thursday, the 3rd April, 1941, at" 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of receiving: the Report of the Directors and, a Statement of Account for the year ending the 28th February,
By Order of the Committee, C. TRENCHARD DAVIS,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, March 20, 1941.
IN THE SUPREME
COURT OF HONG KONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION,
"SARAH SIMPLE" SUCCESS
"SARAH SIMPLE," presented by [the Hongkong A.D.C. players at the China Fleet Club, Theatre last night, `was accorded as great nu ovation again as at the Dress Re- hearsal on Tuesday, and should continue to 'please.
excellent entertainment.
With - Shells. Mackinlay, Claude Burgess and Day Sage in the lead- IN THE GOODS of Thomas mg roles, the Ught comedy, one of Edward Griffith late of A. A Milne's best, is given added Marnoch Lodge in the Parish flavour by sparkling performances from everyone in the cast, and of Rothiemay and County of makes for more than two hours of Banff, Scotland, deceased.
The play has three rights yet to NOTICE is hereby given that run, and seats, at $3.30, $220 and the Court has, by virtue of the $1.10, may be booked at the Ander- provisions of Section 58 of Orson Music Company. dinance No. 2 of 1897, made an order limiting the time for creditors to send in their claims
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NEW DISCOUNT SCALE.
NET First 5,000 cu. ft. On Cost of next 5,000 cu. ft. 3% 15,000 ...10% ...15%
...20%
25,000
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50,000
25%
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against the above estate to the 31st day of March 1941.
1941, and of electing three THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC Directors and an Auditor.
The TRANSFER BOOK of the Company will be CLOSED from the 28th March to the 3rd April, 1941. both days inclusive. By Order of the Board of Directors,
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CO., LTD.
all over 100,000
COMPANY, LIMITED.
KOWLOON'S ROLE
IN COMMERCE.
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1941.
BUILDING A MEMORIAL TIME CANNOT SHATTER: ROBERT DONAT SPEAKS OF "THE OLD COUNTRY”
“Let us pledge ourselves to build a mentorial that time cannot shatter. We must, turn our backs on the dark night of doubt and we must turn our faces to the rising sun," said, MR. ROBERT DONAT, the well-known film and stage star, when he broadcast from London yesterday in the series. From the Old Country."
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"The choice before, us is back to their jobs in the morning a simple one fulfilment or, with the same sense of proportion failure," continued Mr. Donat. Anish the job and to take their and the same good humour, to World peace that is the share of the responsibility. only thing worth striving for."
FATEFUL MEETING
Mr. Donat opened his talk with. a reference to the fateful meeting
A meeting to celebrate the Afth of the British War Cabinet which anniversary of the Chinese Cham-was held following the days of
"This reaction against Hit- lerism has awakened at last. Though mankind had to be: wakened and though it" shirks its collectivity. God knows that we need our leaders and they need as too. "There are many amongst you All creditors and others are ber, of Commerce, Kowloon, was Dunkirk to make what he described who were shattered in the 1914- "It is with the event itself that tening to me. They will be think- 1919 cataclysm who must be 11s- Fifty-second Ordinary Yearly
Notice is hereby given that the THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC accordingly hereby required to held at Kowloon City yesterday as a momentous decision.
with Mr. Tal Yeuk-lan in the
I am concerned now," said Mr. tng of the promises that were chair. Meeting will be held at the Com
Mr. Tal said that Kowloon should Donat, and I am going to venture never kept and that men died in the opinion that this meeting of the war that was never finished. pany's Registered Office, 4th.
play a vital part in the commerce the War Cabinet came to a decir am not blinding myself to the Floor, P. & 0. Building on
of the Colony in the present situasion which was more daring than tragedies of the issue and all its tion. He urged members of the anything else in the history of war. dreadful frontes. Thursday, 20th March, 1941 at 11 a.m. for the purpose of present ing the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of 158 Accounts to 31st December, 1910 and electing Directors and Audi. tors.
FUNG PING FAN,
Director & Secretary, Hong Kong, 18th March, 1941,
CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD.
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NOTICE TO CONSUMERS.
Notice is hereby given that the Company's standard charges will be increased as from 17th March, 1941, by adding a 10% surcharge to the amounts charged for electricity consumed for lighting and power as per meters read on and after 24th April, 1941.
The existing scale of discounts will remain in force.
By order of the Board of Directors,
B. W. MUNTON,
Manager. Hong Kong, 8th March, 1941.
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The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 8th March to 20th March, 1941 both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By order of the Board of
Directors,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. Agents.
Hong Kong, 21st February, 1941.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.
4% DEBENTURES
02
NOTICE IS HEREBY, GIVEN that INTEREST for the six months ending 31st· MARCH, 1941, on the above DEBENTURES will be payable at the OFFICES of the COM- PANY on that date.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public THE REGISTER OF DE. Auction "to be held on Monday, BENTURES will be closed from the 24th day of March, 1941, at 3 TUESDAY, 25th MARCH, 1941.) p.m., at the Offices of the Public to MONDAY, 31st MARCH, Works Department, by Order of 1941, both days inclusiye, during] His Excellency the Governor of which period no. transfer of one Lot. of Crown Land at DEBENTURES can be register- Tai Kok Tsui, in the Colony ed... of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to he fixed by the Surveyor of His Ma- jesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
0. EAGER,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 18th March, 1941.
NOTICE IS
HEREBY
GIVEN that an Extraordinary. General Meeting of the Company will be held in the P. & 0. Building, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong at 11.15 o'clock in the forenoon on Thursday, the 20th day of March, 1941, or as soon thereafter as the Ordinary General Meeting of the Company. shall have terminated for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing the following resolutions :-
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send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.
Dated the 11th day of March 1941,
WILKINSON & GRIST, No. 2, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong,
Solicitors for the Attorney for the Executors.
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HONGKONG, MARCH 20, 1941.
Chamber to unite together to bring
prosperity to the Colony.
Mr. Wong Yeung-yau. Manager of the Chamber, reported on the activities of the organisation.... ·
Princes Chamber.
"It was an astonishing thing that happened a handful of men were deciding the destiny of the world-it was not mere- ly the destiny of the nation or of Europe itself. It was the destiny of the world.
Age shall not weary them nor years condemm. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.'
"WE MUST REMEMBER” "Do we remember them?" asked
those
"I have never attended a meet- Mr. Dona. 'Do you? We must not NEW DELHI, Mar. 19 (Reuter)—
We must remember with The Princes Chamber has recording of the War Cabinet and I don't forget.
think that I ever shall," went on all our might and main ed its heartiest gratification at Mr. Donat, but what these men agonies and the dreadful futilities the victories in Albania and Africa were saying was 'If Herr Hitler in-that followed them. We must ad- and its pride in the magnificentrades us now, the chances are mit our mistakes our tragic mis- part played by Indian troops, '·.
against us. What is left of our
But it seems to me that army is unarmed and unprovided, however tragic those mistakes may He will probably invade and if he be, the issue is unalterable Herr
Hitler and Hitlerism he has every chance of succeed-swept from the earth.
does so, we must face the fact that
takes.
"1. That the Directors be and they are hereby authoris
make out that a gift of two.
must be ed to capitalise the sum of
hundred million quintals of $3,000,000 Hongkong currency,
wheat from occupied 'France, ing."
"It is no use pretending that be- cause the British Ught-heartedly part of the undivided profits of
which Herr Hitler had grant-
A FRANK PICTURE
distniss Herr Hitler the issue is the Company standing to the
ed showed that the Germans!
"Try and picture that scene less serious, that each individual credit of the Company's Re:
were more generous than the trankly. In that Committee Room sacrifice is no less, worthwhile. serve Fund, and to allot to the
British to the French people, a handful of men concentrated all The point I am trying to stress 18 members holding shares of the
The effect of this subtle pro- their Intelligence and courage and that however dark and bitter the
all their love of freedom on, the past has Company as on the first day of
been, however much paganda could not be allowed tremendous decision they had to despair, and disillusioned mankind April One thousand nine hu
to grow and Britain had to take.
has become in these past years, dred and forty-one in respect of
ake it clear to the French "Then another voice takes up nothing can be gained by despair. the net amount capitalised
people that
was not the challenge and it was the most fully paid shares of the Com:
acting against them in insist-Jaudacious thing of all "The "Each of us has to bear our pany of equivalent nominal THE CONTROVERSY overing on her blockade and that chances are that they are going to share of the burden. It is no less
the question of permitting the British people were by no possibly in the Suez Canal. But if kind. value in the proportion of one share for every three shares of a relaxation of the British means desirous of seeing the we send these men abroad, we are listening to me and who is zortur the Company held by them blockade to enable food sup- people in unoccupied France sending out practically everything ed respectively and that such piles to reach unoccupied starve.
By order of the Board of Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., LTD.,
Agents." Hong Kong, 21st February, 1941.
BLOCKADE & FOOD"
SUPPLIES
she
BURDEN TO SHARE
strike hard in the Mediterranean. a burden than the burden of man-
To every person who is
with that dreadful personal we have got That is rather a torture, I would say that there is
gamble.'
“A gamble, indeed!", satd Mr. Donat, "I"don't think there was ever a greater gamble in our history. These are the men who are pilloried as war mongers. The men who say that forget that a war once begun must be decided and that the Enemy must he stopped. The grim business has to be done and this ter rible responsibility rested on their shoulders.
ño comfort in the stricken heart, there, is no peace for the tortured minds and in this I intrude. every doubt, every tear, every shattered limb, every broken body and every broken heart in the world today-unless the sum total of these human agonies can be, justified.
"And it seems to me, that there can be only one justification nothing will balance the loss of life except going on with it. Let us, therefore, pledge ourselves to build a memorial that time care "It was a gamble to send "rein-not shatter. We must turn our
~THEIR FINEST HOUR"
sun.
"The choice before us Is Я simple one-fulfilment or fail- ure. World peace that is the only thing worth striving for."
NEWSETTES
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shares so allotted shall rank for France appears to have been THE MAJORITY of the dividends as from the 1st day ended by the statement made French people undoubtedly of July, 1941.
in Washington. by Lord Hall-recognise the position very 2. That if on such distribu" fax, British Ambassador to clearly and there must be tion as aforesaid any person the United States, that cer- many of them who would be would be entitled to a fractional tain quantities of grain might prepared to even run the risk share the Directors shall, in now be shipped to French of starvation, if it will bring Hieu of issuing fractional cer territory 'outside Nazi control, nearer the day of their libera- tificates, cause the whole share on condition that the Ameri-tion from the Nazi yoke. As to be allotted to a person or can Red Cross makes certain far as America and Britain persons to be named by the that these shipments will not are concerned, they do not Directors and such share shall, help Germany either directly wish to see their charity be- at such time as the Directors or indirectly. If this reporting abused and a position think fit, be sold and the is correct, Britain is ad- created where foodstuffs are forcements to the Mediterranean, backs on the dark night of doubt proceeds distributed amongst mittedly taking a serious risk emptied into one end of a And the equipment that went with and we must turn our faces to the the persons entitled to the in withdrawing from her pre-pipe, from the other end of them. They were drawn from rising fractions making ар such vious unqualified stand that which the Nazis are able to South Africa, India, New Zealand share."
any such help could not be help themselves. It is on and Australia and from your Da- permitted as long as the these grounds that Britain tive land. That battle is still be- ing fought. Here in Mr. Churchill's Vichy Government were. un-demanded definite guarantees words is the summing up of this Intending bidders are advised
able to prevent the Germans that anything that might happening--If Britain and the that immediately after the dis.
from laying their hands on it. reach France would not bene-Commonwealth and Empire" last posal of the lot the Purchaser
The ground for this argu-ft the enemy. The question for a thousand years, then we will (if not the applicant) will be
ment was a sound one, It of food in all the Nazi-occu-
was their nesta annual meeting of the Union. required to deposit with an
was based on the suggestion pied areas of Europe must "Now I am going to shift the Church, Hongkong, which was to.. authorised officer who willi ́"be]
that if Germany had not undoubtedly play a big part scene to a working man's club have been held yesterday, was post- present at the sale, the sum of GODOWN COMPANY LTD. Under the powers conferred looted the food supplies in in the defeat of the German somewhere in England," said Mr. poned to Monday next, March 24, two hundred dollars, ($200) in
upon them by Article 12 of the unoccupied. France, there war machine and the per- from the council room where the
Donat. It was probably not far at 5.30 pm cash. This sum will be refunded?
Articles of Association of the would have been no necessity mitting of food shipments to cabinet at. The common man is The forthcoming marriage of Mr. Company, the Directors have for depending on assistance each France must always be holding forth on the progress of Ng Ting-cheuk, civil servant, of THE FIFTY-FOURTH OR decided to offer to Shareholders from abroad.
considered on this basis of the war. I don't think you will No. 689 Nathan Road, and Miss DINARY ANNUAL MEETING on the Register on the 1st day THE POSITION, however, ultimate results. That is, of ever guess the subject even if Chenk Shi-wan, teacher, of No. 4 PARTICULARS OF THE LOT OF SHAREHOLDERS will be of April 1941, one share at par is that most of France's food-course, the correct view to be give you a hundred guesses, for Tim Ro Fong Street, was ancime-
held at the Office of Messrs. for every complete three shares stuffs come from the areas adopted, because if these Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. held by them (excluding the now under Nazi occupation foodstuffs do fall into the
"At the hour that Britain's on WEDNESDAY, the 26th Bonus Shares to be offered to and it seems impossible to hands of the Germans, It fate was hanging in The MARCH, 1941, at NOON, for them under the preceding resolu | expect them to be swayed by would only result in prolong- balance, this bunch of men the purpose of receiving the tion) upon the terms that pay; any humanitarian principles. ing the sufferings of the con-
had the cheek, the infernal check, to be discussing. Just Report of the Directors and the ment for such shares shall be Certainly, the men at Vichy quered people by strengthen-
what they would do with Herr Statement of Accounts for the made to the Company's Bankers, appear to be in no position to ing Herr Hitler's war ma Hitler when the war was over! year ended 31st DECEMBER, The Hongkong & Shanghai Bank demand it and the Germans chine for fighting a protract "It is commonplace to dismiss
ing Corporation, Hong Kong have been quick to take aded war and thus delaying this sort of chatter as compla » Transfer Books of on or before the 30th September vantage of the situation, with their final freedom. These cency, but it is complacency in the Company will be CLOSED 1941 and that Shareholders be the help of 'Admiral Darlan, are some of the aspects of the which there is an equal share of courage and good humour. It is was
on payment of the Purchase
price..
No. of Bale, i
Registry No.
Locality.
10T
Tai Kok Tsui:
Inind
Kowloon 4303
ot No. 2241:
Adjoining Kowloon
Larch Street, Inland Lot
Boundary
Measure-
ments.
As per.
sale plan
Contenta in
Square feet.
About
9.114
8
Rental
ool Upset Pn08.
Azz'or
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THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF &
-Notice to Shareholders
1941.
...The
NOTE:
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say that this hour."
the reason that it is. the last one ed at the Registry "yesterday." you will think of..
from SATURDAY, the 15th given power to renounce their to try and jockey Britain into question that Britain. the sort of humour that makes us MARCH, 1941, to WEDNES rights under such offer and that making a decision. A refusal faced with and the decision speak of Signor Mussolini as
The annual meeting of the F- pino Club, postponed from Mar. 9 owing to lack of a quarum, will now take place at the Club House, King's Park, on Mar. 25 at 5.45 D.IIL
A
A, in Kowloon, on April 4 when
CHILDREN'S DAY CELEBRATIONS
large mamber of Chinese children are expected to turn out The purchaser of the lot will be DAY, the 26th MARCH, 1941, no rights attach to any fractions, to lift the British blockade to taken now to permit a relaxa-Musso and Herr Hitler as Adolf for athletic games at the recrea tion ground of the Chinese YM required to pay to the auctioneer both days Inclusive.
The shares taken up under the even a point might have an- tion of her blockade to a cer There is no explaining it, but it is
Children's Day will be celebrated. in cash the sum of $1,823 (being
above offer shall rank for divid tagonised the French people tain extent must only have a fact and it is a fact that we are
very thankful for,
The games, sponsored by the 10% of the upset price) Immedi
ends as from 1st day of July 1941, in unoccupied France as well been reached after her post-
YMCA) Will include roller-skat- ately after the fall of the baminer,
Formal letters of offer, acceptance against the British Indeed, tion had been made perfectly SENCE OF PROPORTION
"A sense of humour usually in Ing, football, bicycle-riding, Chi- and renunciation will be sent to Admiral Darlan made this a clear and after the guaran dicates a sense of proportion nese boxing, mass drill the balance of the premium being
Shareholders as soon as possible point when he made what tees which she has been given what these men decided that Herr dancing, All children under 18, paid in accordance with the Con
after April 1st next.
really amounted to a threat were found to be absolutely Hitler's fate should be I cannot irrespective of sex, are welcome to ditions of Sale."
126 against Britain in trying to foolproof.
tell you, but I am sure they went participate.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
C. M. MANNERS,
Hong
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Secretary & Manager, Kong, 7th March, 1941.
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