COMPANY REPORT:
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY FEBRUARY 24 1912
Balanco Shoot, December 31,
Capital:-
12,000old The following is the report of the board of directors to be pre-shares at cach sented at the ordinary meating of $50 shareholders, to be held at the (fully paid- Company's Hotel, at 12.30 p.m., Up) .... on Saturday, March 2, 1012-
To he shareholders-of-the shares at Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd. :---
$25
1011.
Llablilties.
$600,000.00
8,000 new
each.
Gentlemon, The directors beg paid up
200,000.00:
...
1,500 mort- gage
doben-
to submit thoir roport for the half-year ended December 31, 1011.
Acconats.-The profit on work-tures (6 per
-$800,000.00
POKFULUM WATER SUPPLY.
Tho. discussion which took placa at last week's meeting of the Sanitary Board on the Pok fulun water supply while bring- ing to light all the facts, emphasis od only one, and that was the possibilityofcontamination. With an aron of 116 avres, containing 59 European houses, with queritra for hundreds of attendants, with well frequented roade and the ensual Habits of the scavenging conlie, it is next to impossiblo that such a catchniont can be any thing but questionable, or that the water therefrom could be re- garded with anything but suspi sion. In fact, as far back as JR- nuary, 100 Cal. Bedford remark -540,000.00 ed ina minuta on the subject: The profit and loss account,
Reserve Fund..648,975.78"I maintain that Pokfulum aren including the sum of $21,740.21
Sunday Creditors... 32,807.07 afanda condemns in the eyes of brought forward from lust ball-
Unclaimed Dividends, 1,780.20 all practical mengand the sooner your, shows a credit balance of $58,089,80, which the directors Hongkong & Shang-
that stops are taken to extend the other sources of water supply to rocommond should be appropriat-hai Banking Corpora-
the Colony, and the closing of of as follows:-
this most suspicious one, the bettor."
ing areount
amounted to cent.) al
Less J08 hold by the
$39,952′26 as rompared with $500 ench, 750,000.00 $46,323.56 for the corresponding period of 1911, being a decreaső of $0,371.30.
To pay a dividend of—
$3.00 por
share o
12,000 old
shares.....$36,DOO"
$1.50 por
share on
8,000 new shares.....$12,000
To write off Furniture
and Fixtures Ac- couat.....
To write off Installa- of Electric
Gion
Light Accoust...... To write off Steam Launch Account ...
To carry forward to
New Account.........................
$18,000.00
Company 204,000.00
tion (Current Account) 368,565.86
Profit
Loss Account, balanco as per Statement
Assets:
Value of properties, as per last ac-
58,689,80
$2,456,818.70
count ..... ...$2,146,398.69 Re-building of the
South Block, final payruenia 'coTAN Cost of No. 13 Wel lington Street...
...
5,000.00
5,000.00
Furniture
500.00am Fixtures,
as por lust
This extract appears in the report made by the Government Bacteriologist on-the-Pokfalum supply, and on the same page is to be found the following puse
ugo:-
TADDY & CO.'S
Mild and Fragrant
"GRAPNEL MIXTURE"
KRUSE & CO.
during tho. past year out of six be done before the smugglers" filter beds at West Point, only tindo is ruined. It is even on one over filtered less than 500 record that a few of the earn- bineros are tendor-hourted men, and have given up the sorvico because they cannot find it in them to seizo, tho. contraband tobacco. The wives and families of the boation depoad on getting the stuff through," they complain,
"Under theso chrēùmstances, it is impossible to regard the fren yerde gallons per day on the in any way ideal, the mal monthly average and that only 10,200.21 habita of the night soil coolies, during three months. All the rest filtered on the averago inore etc., are too well known; on the than 500 yards gallons and in no 15,000.00 other hand there is no apparent fower than six cases the average
good rease for condemning the 2,171,598,90 catchment area as long as careful worked out higher thau 800, the supervision is kept over it and highest being 893 yards gallons ellicient storage and filtration per clay. enrried out."
189.80 account...... 173,575.8)
Leon writ-
$58,689,80 tenall, as por
Property: No. 13 Wellingtonastreport... 11, H1.60 Street was purchased in Septem- ber, 1911, as an addition to ser- vants' quartori
Directors. Mr. W. Hutton Potts retiros by rotation, but offers himself for re-election,
Audit Tho accounts have boon and hy Messrs 11. U. Jeffries and A. R. Lowe, C.A., who offor themselves for re-eloc tion.
Edward Osborno.. Chairman.
Profit and Loss Account. For the six months ending
Docebar 31, 1911. To Bad and Doubtful
Debts.....
$502.20
Crown Rent....... 505.92 3,708.76
Rates
Fire Insurance...... 3,823.25 .20,516.33
11
21
Intorest ......
Directors and Audi-..
tors' Fecs............. 3,200.00
"
Repairs and Ro-
newals ofe, balance
ni por Statement..... 1,889.45
Balance...
By Bálaure from June,
30, 1911
Less Divi- dond.....$48,000.00 Los Tranferred to Repairs and Re-
nowals ne-
count $10,000,00 Less Written off Furniture and Fixtorch
8/0 $11,401.60
.58,680,89
Sincs added
162,206.21 10,142.10
Installation of Floc-
tric Light, por last recount 9,278.69 11,092.52
Sinco added
Hotel Steam Lounch,
as per last accenni.. Shares in Public
Companies, as per Inst account...... Stock of Lines, -Crockey, Glass-
ware, Winos, Pro....... visions, &e, as por inventories......... Licenses. attaching
to 1912 Sandry Debtors.ne Cash in hand....
$08.805.80 C. Mooney,
$91,2018
$801461,60,
$21.740.21 „Rents of Shops and "Hotel Man-
sions
37,040.00
„Divid mis on shares
in Public Com. panies...
04.00 .21.00
...Scrip Fees
Bad Debts recovered......... 78:33
,,Profit on Hotel Work-
ing Account for the
nix nonths onding
December, 1911...... 39,952.26
$ 98,895.80 Repairs and Renewals Account For the six months ending December 31, 1911..
To Payments on account
of repairs and re- nowals during the half year ondin Dec. 31, 1911. $11,889.45
$11,889.45
By Amount transferred from Profit and Loss Account as recom- monded in last Re-.. port............... $10,000,00 Transferred to Profit Lost Account...... 1,880,45
-172,488.31
at
'and, wo aro married men our- aclves! The feeling of the whole The answer of those advocating countryside is in favour of, the
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YOU NEED NOT BUY.
Call in and inspect our
BUTCHERY DEPARTMENT
the attention of the Pokfuluin smugglors. Cheap tobacco is bel and the various specialities we have
supply, irould still appear to be tor that illuminated roads. the old one that the supply is
THE FIREPLACE.
Reading between the lines it! would appear that, water from a suspected area may be consider ed fit for domestic purposes, eon-8cessary and that there is no
There is a sweet reasonablones ditional upon its having been tie alternative but to use the water from this area. It may be even quately stored and efficiently fil-aid that it is necessary to filter in the argumente of those who tered.
the water at nearly double the would substitute steam-hoat for It is here that the allegational rate. If that be so the fire in our housus. On a statement of coulamination can be followed
sooner the necessity is obviated of the facts, there are few who are closely with a further suggestion the better and it is clear that live not convinced that the steam- that neither storage nor filtration
is carried out with that thorough work at Tytam Tuk should be heating apparatus has several Bess which is to be expected, put afoot with the least possible distinct advantago over the fire- There is an admission in the delay. The question of cost does place. But whether our poots
on sale,
You will be surprised and pleased.
THE DAIRY FARM CO., LD.
Wyndham Street.
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20,701.21 report that in times of wet weather not enter into the matter to a will evor abandon the fires GARNER QUELCH & CO.
great extent. Wo havó hoard it nid that it would pay the govern-
WINE MERCHANTS.
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a considerable ammont of wator
to us to be doubtful. Indeed, for 3,500.00 that finds its way into the malis
huw not been admitted into the ment to do away with the Pok-ny individual whose judgment fulum aron on the grounds that is at all swayed by sentiment, ar reservoir for storage but, led
મ ol
· plant steam-henting 4,371:31 directly to the filter beds. The were that dond much more land by literature, the installation
importance of storing water is would" bo available for develop that while filtration is a purely ment on the Peak. Be that as it comes, for all its eren temper- mechanical process. for removing may the facts remain that thoature, economy, and purity, as catchment area-lms been under something of a disagreeable shock. matter in suspension, störaga les 39,838.08 the primary effect of extinsspicion since 1010 at least, that A fire-placo has thousands of
Supply the highest quality Wines, Spirits, Cigars guishing the life of microbos of storage is not invariably efficiexit disadvantages. Have you ever and that filtration is carried on spont hours inatttempting to draw 901.66 epidemic water porno discases,
up a moribund fire by the method and Cigarettes obtainale, consistent with price. All much too rapidly: 43,573,22 such as the typhoid, bacillus and
of holding a newspaper over the Wines and Spirits bottled in Europe by Shippers of 206.01|the cholera vibrio. It can be
grate? It is a miserable expe world wide reputation. readily understood that in wot
rience, and one that steam-hoating Yet thero $2,450,818.70 weather much of the water, that
entirely eliminates. Edward Osboruo, Frenches the filter beds has flowed
remains a certain section of the population that will never take W. Hutton Potts, over the surface of the ground,
Directors.
rather than percolated through it,
kindly to the new system until it G. and has had many oportunities
has become the subject of song
DISAPPOINTED SMUGGLERS.
Gibralter "Trade" "Threatened
With Extinction. There,ia a possibility that a
to
Secretary.
of gathering to itself the types fourishing industry in the bay of and story: Ones wo published, We report that wo have nudited of bacilli that are universal, Gibraltar will soon receive its in our "By The Way" column, an the above Balance Shoot with the and of dissolving all the soluble death blow. Smugglers, who "Ode to a Gas Stove." What we Books, Vouchers and Securities of products of decomposing vegeta-have carried on their trade for now neel is the "Epic of Steam the Company and that in our tion. It can be easily under-rears, are protesting that it is not Heat" It is a matter, at present, opinion such Balance Sheet is stood, therefore, that ¿ cer- fair to them to build the new road into which the question of vision properly drawn up so as to ex-tain aimount of risk mist exist between Campamento La enters largely. It is so difficult, hibit a true and correct view of overywhere, but in a case where Linoa, Besides, they argue, there wo mean, for the unimaginative the state of the Company's affairs the conditions practically presup-is the fact that the road has been mind to think of clustering round at December 31, 1911, accord-pase contamination, the fact that talked of for the last 60 years. the hot-air pipe. And nobody has ing to the best of our informa- this important process is neglect Why should it be made now? To yet succeeded in seeing pictures in tion and the explanations given od calls for comment. It may be carry out a plan which has been the steain-boater.The “Globe.” us, and as shown by the Books of said that the demand for water in propraud for half a century is the the Company. We have obtained the city is responsible for the non-Spanish way, and if the road is all the information and explanatorage, and the remedy in this case constructed the bench will be il-
CONDI- Lions we have required.
would seem to be to find another laminated all night. Thisis what
TIONS of the letting by Publis aren where the risk will not be so worries the smuggler They Auction Sale, to be hold on MON- groat if there be no storage oc have so often met the carabineros 11AY, the 4th day of March, 1912. casionally. As it stands at pre-under cover of darknessotlust a
nt & r.x., at the Officer of the Public sent it would not be unjust to say friendship between the law and Works Dopsitment, by Order of. His dat during wet weather the sur-the law-ovaders has sprung up. Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of face washings of the catchment The pay of the smugglers. is OROWN LAND at Me Lun Street in area are filtered straight away half the profits and the chance of the Colony of Haugkong, for a term of and sent into the mains regard being captured, but a greater fear 75 years, with the option of renewal ata less of the interesting biological is that of robbers, who lie in Crown Reat to be fixed by the Bur- Volunteer Parade Servico. at possibilities that such water may wait till the cargo is well on the rayor of His Majesty the King, for
be fraught with.
IU; Jeffries, A. R. Lowo, Ú.A., Auditors. Hongkong February 15, 1912.
DON'T FORGET,
Sunday, Feb. 25.
St. John's Cathedral, 11 ...
Monday, Feb. 26. Band at the H; K. Club ing Association,
Tuesday, Feb. 27,
PARTICULARS end
Re-isur No.
LOCAL1T+
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Boundary
Measuriło.
Upers Price
way. Because of the risk the one farther term of 75 years. If this were not enough the price of tobacco goes up as one PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. filtration itself does unt seem to goes inlard, and men who have Skat-lo all that could be desired. 1t their tunics packed with the weed must not be thought that the often hund a few.cigars to the bels are not correct; there is nothi-carabineros who, lot.. then pass Hongkong Benevolent Societying to justify any such assump without being searched. Dogs, moting, City Hall, noon. tion. There is an admission, too, are used, each animal being Hongkong Auxiliary, British however, that filtration is not a packed with 501b, of tobacco and and Foreign Bible Society, annu. effective ne at home, and the thrown into the water during the meeting, City Hall, 5.15 p. m.
only reason that can be found night. A swim from the boat to seems to be that filtration is far the beach, and a race home past Wednesday, Feb. 28.. Hongkong Ice Co. meeting,
nool.
Y. M. C. A. Annual meeting. Friday, March 1.
Horticultural Society Show. Saturday, March 2, Holf-yearly meeting Hongkong $11,889,45 Hotel Co., Ltd., 12.30 p.z
Lee Lan Street
Heel Heet Tect
feat
1,74, 18 *.935
too rapid. A paragraph states: the carabineros is the work thoy Hongkong, 2411 Feb., 1912. “As regards rates, of "filtration, haye to do, and the man who can 400-500 yards gallons appears shoot a running dog on a dark to give, as
afirate good a
night must be an expert with the as 250-400 doos; there is ride.
however, no reason to believe Not long ago it was decided to
Hongkong, 15th January, 1912.
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