COMPANY-REPORT.
AiS Watson and Co., Limited,
The report of the general man- agers of Mesura, A. &. Watson and Co., Limited, for thy your "anding December 31, 1918, for presentation to the shareholderi at the twenty-ninth annual ok. dinary general meeting of the company (since its registration) to be held at the Hongkong Hotel on Friday, May 29, at 11.30′s.th., ia as follows:
་་
Gentlemen,We beg to lay before you a statement of the Com- pany's business, with a balanos Sheet for the year ending the 31st December, 1913.
The Nat Profits of e
the Company for the twelve months under review, after paying all charges, includ ing the salary of the General Man- agers, and pro- viding for all bad and doubtful debts, allowing for loss on sub- sidiary coins, the "payment of audi- tors' fees $500, and including 8975 90unclaim- od dividends forfeited, smount
· To which bas to bɔ added the balance brought forward from the previous, Joar masa isa men
From this there has to bs deduciød f--" General Managers'
Commission of 5 per cent, on the net profits for the year as per Article 80 of the Com- pany's Articles of Association Remuneration-of
the Consulting · Committee as per Article 92.
Leaving available for appropriation We propose to pay a dividend of 7 per cent. which will absorb Write off Building Improvements, Furnituro, Fit tinge, Utensils of Trade..
Write off Aeratəd Water and other Plant and Ma ohinery...
Write of Steam
Launch, Steam. Lighter, Water Boats and Motor Lorry
And carry forward
$ 100,920.59
240.11
#101,160.70
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 23. 1914,
SPECIAL CABLES.
Subidal Parifio Serviès to this " Telegraph
CHINESE LOAN QUESTION.
A REPORT DENIED.'
Pokig. Received May 21. With rufarunce is the repœted: contract with the Bethinbush Stand Werke and the paymaat to Chins of an advance of $2,000,800 (Geldy, Renter's Agency is ollicially authorised to say that the statement is ba olssa.
BRIGANDAGE:
· TROUBLE IN SZECHUAN,
Chengte. Received May 21.
- À édustani stream of nämn is coming from southern Szoobahn of Battles with robbar bands, One from Hill.. top Fort says that 400 robbers wore only dislodged after the soldiers had burnt them out of their position.
RACIAL ANIMOSITY.
CHINESE OBJECT TO JAPANESE SIGN-BOARD.
Kwolyang. Received May 21,
branch of a Japanese firm was recently opened here by a Chine manager. The police obja ted to the wɔrde Japanese Merchant" on its sigaboard, and the manager 1efaling to remove the words was confined in the police office. Later the police removed the Japanese flag and the siga and the Chinese manager was released."
Mortgage on Re- maining Portion of Secten D. of Inland Lot No. 1,020, and the Buildings there-
$5,046.02 on ..
Advance against Mortgage (up to $125,000) on Marine
2,000.00 Lot No. 293, and the Baildings there-
7.046.02 on, and Kowloon Lot No. 1,208, and $34,114.88 the Buildings there
ין
$03,000.0
DE..
Billa Payable Hong kong and Chit a Unclaimed Divid-
end. Security Deposita
$11,000.00 from Stall
#13,000 00
6,000,00
30,000.00
"15,000,00
previation in May, 1913...
Added during 1913
Good Debts due from Custo-
дег
'
*
Sundry Debtore Cash in hand 40,000,00| Cash in biok
$100,000.00
Insurance Fire 87,159.61 Premia and Lio-
1,857,20
KL.
17,500.00
Profit and Loss
Account? Forward from 1912
Account
Net Proft 1013
ences. Unex- pired
A
Section E. of Inland
Lot No. 19 and .. tho
Building thereon Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1,208 and the Buildings thereon 100,920.59 Marine Lot No. 203
and the Buildinge thereon:
240,11
: 101,160,70
As per last Account $1,437,188.08 | Expanded during
ASSETS
to 1914 account 1,114.08 Total Stock in. Daring the year the advance
1913
Trade... ...$681,002 23 Bhamren Lot No. 74
against Marine Lat No. 203 and Building Improve
Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1,208 and the buildings thereon respectively has been reduced by $44,827,41, and the mortgage of $48,000 on Section E. of Inland Lot No. 19 and the Buildinge thereon has been paid off in full."
Consulting Committee:-The
ments, Furniture, Fittings and Trade Utonsila's.. Hongkong, Can- lon, Amoy, Tient. sip, and Shang. hai, and at Native Braules:-
existing Committee consista of As per last Account Hon. Sir C. P. Chater, U.M.G., | Written off for D:~
Auditors: The Company's Added during 1913 Accounts have been audited by
and the Buildings thereon, Canton
Remaining Portion
of Section D. ef. Inland Lot No. 1,026 and the
Concession
Lot No. 78 and the 'Buildings there- on, Carton...
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
BUTTER. BUTTER.
WE HAVE RECEIVED A
NEW SHIPMENT OF
DAISY
BUTTER
Absolutely the best table butter in the Colony.
and with the returns from the different branchés. We have received all the information and explanations we have required: The Stooks at Hongkong are as certified by the General Managers, and those at the various branches | by the Company's branch mana- geru.
Ordinance ara issued in respect of the premises and of the persons named therein. All obanges of address, alterations of the pre- mises, and changes of the manager or teaching staff shall be sub- mitted for approval beforehand, and when approved the certificate shall be corrected accordingly by the Director.
In our opinion, each Balinde Sheet is properly drawn up so sa Not more than 50 pupils shall to exhibit a tees and correct view be taught at one time by one of the state of the Company'
y's teacher, except when classes are aft árs scoording to the best of massed for such purposes as drill, our information and the explane-needlework, or singing. tions given us and as shown by. the books of the Company.
F. MAITLAND", -C, BERNARD BROWN.A.C.A
Auditors.
Hongkong, 20th May, 1914.
"HONGKONG SCHOOLS.
8,150.00
Regulations Regarding Sanita- $27,700.25tion and Corporal Punishment.
0,093.47
The following regulations have $37,483.72 been made by the Governor-in Council ander Section 12 of the $206,084,35 Education Ordinance, 1913-
Hygiene and Sanitation. There shall be not less than 170,114.39 80 cubic feet of internal spses 10,420.87 and 8 equare fest of floor space $13,500.87 for Back papil in attendance. 7,189.18 Only such portions of premises
68 are sufficiently well lighted.to 20,689.85 ensure that every pupil can work without injury to his eyesight shall be considered in making Baloulations under this regula- tion.
0,051.84
The Boors of schools must be washed at least once a week, They should be swept carefully 60,000.00 every morning.
27,500.00
154,836.64
1,022,71
$165,850.35
The desks should be arranged so that the light falls upon the left of the pupils.
Masters and pupils most be clean and tidy.
Smoking in school premises during school hours ie forbidden. Spitting except in spittoons is forbidden: spiltoons must be Foleansed frequently,
Discipline.
Corporal punishment of girls is forbidden.
62,000.00 Corporal punishment of boys must be confined to blows with the open band or a light cane on the palms of the hand, or the buttocks over, the clothes. Pull.
In schools where children of both sexes are admitted, there shall be an age limit of twelve years for one of the sexes.
It shall be within the power of the Director or of an Inspector acting under his authority to wsive all or any of the regulations misde wnder the Education Ordin- ance in particular cases.
. Mr. Rockhill Returns. The Bon. W. W.. Rockhill, formerly U.S. Minister to China, accompanied by Mrs. Rockhill, after a lengthy tour in the Far Eat, left Shanghai for New York and Washington by the se Empress of Russia.
Notice
KOWLOON CANTON
RAILWAY (British Section).
NOTICE
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.
NOTICE is hereby given that
16
COMFORT
'IS ASSURED BY WEARING
B.V.D.
SLEEPING SUITS
SHORT SLEVES,
$2.
75
KNEE LENGTH
·PER SUIT. OBTAINABLE AT
MACKINTOSH
**MEN'S
& CO., LTD.
WEAR SPECIALISTS
DES VEUX ROAD. 16
WM. POWELL,
TEL. 346.
"SAXONE
LTD.
BOOTS AND SHOES
FOR
GENTLEMEN.
(HIGH GRADE RELIABLE FOOTWEAR). WM. POWELL, LTD. Sole Agents SAXONE SHOE CO., LTD.
JULLMANN & CO.
JEWELLERS, WATCHMAKERS, OPTICIANS.
LANGE SELECTION OF: WRIST WATCHES
FOR LADIES & GENTLEMEN, Prices Right
ALL WATCHESOLD BY US ARE FULLY GUARANTEED.
J. ULLMANN & CO. COMERO Flows
THE
W
STREET.
ANDERSON MUSIC CO., LTD.
THE "ALLISON”
GREAT
ENGLISH
PIANO,
HIGH CLASS INSTRUMENT:
AT THE
PRICE OF A CHEAP ONE.
Additional Trains will leave Kowloon for Sheung Shui (Fan- ling Golf Links) at 8.45 am. 6, DES VŒUX ROAD.
calling at Taipo at 9.15 a.m. and arriving at Sheung Shui at 9.27 a.m. on Monday May 25th, Mon- day June 1st and Wednesday June 3rd, 1914.
By Order,
ROBERT BAKER,
Acting Manager. Kowloon, 20th May, 1714,
To-day's Advertisemeris
G.
R.
PARTICULARS and CONDI Buildings thereon & 18,500 00ing or boxing the ers and blows
with the fiat, shaking, and all TONS of the letting by Public Extra
other such punishments are ex- Auction Sale, to be hold on Tues- Frequent day, the 2nd day of June, pressly forbidden. 29.000.00 resort to corporal punishment 1914, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of may be regarded as a sign of the Public Works Department, $332,025.35 imperfect discipline, Where there by Order of His Excellency the is more than one teacher corporal Governor, of One Lot of Crown $1,497,188 68 punishment shall be inflicted by Land at Shanghai Street, Mong the head teacher only, or under Kot, in the Colony of Hongkong, PROFIT AND LOSS.
for a term of 75 years, with the To Balance
$101,160.70 his express authority.
option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.
#68 632.33
Mr. J. Scott Haraton and Dr. J.
W. Noble. Mr. H. P. White re-
preciation in 31-y. 1013
signed membership on his de- parture from the Colony on leave.
77.2.76
$60,880.57 *1.083 57
$67,973 14
By Bilance from
By Net Profit
1
Mr. Francis Maïdland and Mr. Ö.
Bernard Brown, A.O.A, who offer Aerated Water auf
themselves for re-election."
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SO
General Managers.
Hongkong, 218 May, 1914,
Balante Sheet. LIABILITIES,
8900,000,00 $154,938,52
Capital Account Reserve Fund Local" and General
Liabilities in the M Fast andin America... $ 59,299 38 Local and General ! Liabilities in Lon don.........18 15,478.29
on Sha
Lot No. 74 Canton, and the
other Machinery And Plant
AL
Hongong, Can-
ton Amoy and
Shanghai! - A3
per lant Account $100,213.87
Written off for
Depreciation in By. 1013
Added during 1918
Steam
Steam Lighter.
Water
Hor Larry and Motor Jank :- As per last Account
£5,000.00. Weften vil für de
CONTRA
No person other than teachers $101,160.70 and pupils shall be permitted to occupy a class room daring school hours.
1912 Account $ 240.11-
2013 Acconat 100,020,59%
School Registers. There shall be a separate At tendance Register for each Class
8F01,160.10 to be kept in a form to be ap-
$101 100
0107 24 C. P. CHATER, Consulting
J. W. NOBLE, I. Committee.
91,106.83 ↑ J. A. TARRANT, Sɛoretary. 10,420 56 JOHN D. HUMPHREYS
proved by the Director.
Other Regulations.
of
Additional regulations for the proper conduct and efficiency schools are as follows:
The work of each class shall be
&SON. General Manager, governed by a time table, and $101.527 40 In accordanos, with the pro syllabus, which shall be submitt- visions of the Companies Ordined to an Inspector, and upon CO, 1911, a report to the approval by him be mounted and Shareholders of A. 8. Watson & hang in a conspicuous place in Co. Ltd., that we have examined the class room, Amendments to the above B.latce Sheet with the the time table or syllabus must books, accounts, vouchers and also receive the approval of an various gerit:ition, and have found Inspector, an át to be lo accordance therewith Certificatee under
(8) any 19 (3) of the Ed
$30,940.26
Sections
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
og kriging.
LOCALITT
Lot No. Lies Shanghai
No. of Sale
foot
Boundary
·Measurements'
Approximate
*.
Free: Fleet Tort.
WANTED.
Contants in
Upsus Price
WANTED A Nures to look
A ROYAL DRINK
"KING GEORGE IV LIQUEUR WHISKY
THE
TEL. 1322
THE DIGLI
EDINBU
TOP NOTCH
ONE STANDARD QUALITY.
ONE STANDARD
PRICE.
BLENDED & BOTTLED
UNDER BOND AT SOUTH QUEENSFERRY NEAR EDINBURGH.
SOLE AGENTS,
GANDE PRICE & CO. LTD. 6, Queen's Road Central
Hongkong
· after a child of tw) years must be experience. Apply to Tel. No. 135. "Halo" Hongkong f'elegraph,"