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THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1919.
1894%
HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO.
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Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for week ending October 4, 1894)
THE DOLLAR.
Dollar on demand to-day is 29. September 28.-The rate of the
14d.
Directors feel confident is very All cattle and stocks have been considerably lower than the profit valued by your Manager and made by many others retailers Secretary and the same are well in the Colony who in the majority above their book value. of cases handle less perishable I should mention that your goods than those handled by this Directors have considered it Company. It is solely due to advisable, in order to meet the this Company's large turnover growing demand in Canton for that your Directors are able ice, to erect a factory in Shameen to recommend the dividend for the manufacture of that com- they have done. The above madity. The necessary land has figures conclusively show been acquired, and the machinery that this Company at least can ordered; and we hope to be able not be called. a profiteering one to turn out ice in Canton by I would like to mention at this next summer, which will make juncture, that, while Chinese Canton independent of Hongkong, retailers and others in the Colony.and enable residents in Canton
ACRIMONIOUS. have been allowed to regulate and Shameen to obtain cheap and two or three new methods of September 29.-There are are their prices as ther pleased, this godice. As the ice will be most-journalism, lately made a feature Company has been unduly handily consumed by Chinese residents. of by our two local contemporaries, capped by the system of control Four Directors have decided to which disgrace and discredit a exercised by the Food Committee. float a separate Company to be profession generally considered an which, in its effect, has caused called The Hongkong & Canton honourable on which we propose adv rse discrimination against Ice Manufacturing Company, dealing with in our next issue. this Company in regard to its Limited," with a capital of $400,- In the meantime we may say prices. The Company has often 000 divided into 40,000 shares that by no stretch of the mest sold across its counters, of $10 each. whereof food at a cheaper rate
half elastic imagination can a whilom than (namely 20,000¬ṛshares) will could be obtained in the be offered to
newspaper delivery coolie, a bust. Chinese sub up bookbinder, and a third-rate Chinese market, and has con- scribers-thus giving the Chinese type-slinger-not one of the three tinued the sale of such articles an opportunity of sharing in the having enough brains to know at a loss rather than disappoint profits of the new Company-while when to come in out of the rain its customers.
the remaining 20,000 shares will to prevent getting wet-be con- You will observe from the be offered to the shareholders in sidered fitting representatives of accounts that. during the the Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold intelligent journalism in Hong- past year,
we have Storage Co., Ltd, (that is, this konger elsewhere. spenc $45,853,21 on, Repairs Company) which latter Company and Renewal Out of this amount will be General Manager of the $26.752.02 was spent on repairs to proposed new. Company The. the old Hongkong Ice Company's new Company will have a Board launches, machinery and build-of Directors, consisting of six |ings, which when taken over by members, of whom three will be this Company, were found to be Chinese, nominated by theChinese in a deplorable state of neglect shareholders, and three will be no- It will, I understand, be necessaryminated from theexisting members to spend further large sums in of this Company's Board of Dir order to put the Ice Works into ectors for the time being. I am good running condition, so as to pleased to say that ready pur- enable them to meet the growing chasers for the shares to be demand: and we contemplate the offered to the Chinese as above addition of new and up-to-date are being found, and it is hoped ice plant. and the scrapping of to place the matter in the hands obsolete machinery which has of the Company's Solicitors for stood for cars doing nothing the formation of the new Com- beyond rusting.
pany in the near future.
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REGARDING PLAGUE. October. It is no use asking. who is to blame for this recur- rence of the plague, but it is to be hoped that the fact of our having the germs of this fatal disease still in our midst will stop once and for all the croakings of G. Sharp, and the other se fshly interested schemers who have lately been doing their utmost to upset the sensible arrangements. decided on by the Government to protect the health of the com- munity.
RECOGNISING VOLUNTARY HELP.
October 1.-We understand that
formed at the recent public a meeting of the committee meeting held in St. Andrew's Ha!!
THREE GARDEN HATS IN ONE
Five years 280
a Willesden lady bought a black straw hat for £1.11g. 3d., which has now, in
proved a notable bargain. Re- these days of dear millinery,
cently she made an inspection of the hat and found a white straw
By the untimely death of D:.
Before closing these remarks, Macfarlane. the Government would like to make reference Bacteriologist, this Company and to two further important matters.
to decide upon what steps should also the Colony have suffered a Damely:-First, the
most be taken to recognise the services serious loss in their deprivation material assistance which the of the volunteers who worked in of the services and assistance of Cmpany
has at a!! times the slums of the plague-stricken very valuable Government received from the Govern districts of the colony during the servant-I-cannot speak tootment, bath during and since recent epidemic, will be held in highly of the services which the late war-assistance without the Supreme Court library on Macfarlane, along with Mr. which the Company's interests Wednesday afternoon. Gibson, rendered tothisCompany, might have been placed in serious but I may say that it is very | Jeopardy--I refer particularly largely owing to those services to occasions whereon the Govern that your Company's cattle are ment gave aid to the Company in in that excellent state of health regard to embargoes placed upon which they enjoy today. Dr.the export of supplies from other Macfarlane was one men to whom nothing is too much
of those Colonies.
trouble: painstaking to a degree, the deep
Secondly, I desire to record he found no detail tuo small Board of the whole-hearted devo- appreciation of the for his attention, and you may tion to duty displayed by the well understand therefore what Manager and Secretary, and a tower of strength he was to the other members Company:
of the Com- plait underneath and, between Company, your Directors take ruuch
On behalf of the pany's Staff. which has done the two, a Japanese one. Three this opportunity of conveying to tion
to relieve the situa- members of the family have thus arising Mrs. Macfarlane their sincere strenuous period through which DEATH OF VICTOR OF TSINGTAO.
of the been provided with garden hats. condolences with her in her sathe Company passed during loss and. at the same time placing recent years. And, on my own on record their keen appreciation behalf, I would convey my thanks Major General Nathaniel Walt- of the services rendered by Dr. to the Secraters, to whom I am died recently at Felixstowe Macfarlane to the Company over indebted for the whole of the data a term of several years,
on which this speech is based, Your Directors have voted the and nine-tenths of the substance staff a bonus of 10% on their contained therein. I now beg to salaries, and have
propose that the Report and Ac created Provident Fund for the European counts as presented be adopted staff, which they do not doub and I shall be much obliged if will meet with your unanimous
shareholder will kindly approval,
second that proposition.
Mr. Beattie seconded and the motion was carried
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COMPANY MEETING. 'difficult to obtain. I may add, that I understand, America is experiencing a shortage of meat. and is in consequence, importing cattle from Mexico. With the foregoing facts before you the reasons for the Company earning decreased profits. in spite of its The -twenty-third ordinary increased turnover, become quite annual meeting of the Hongkong obricus. Dairy Farm. Ice and Cold Storage In the past, the dairy business Company was held at the Cou-which was the original and, for pany's offices to-day at noon.com years, the only business Mr. J. Scott Elarston presided and of the Company, was of the great- there were also present the est assistance in nursing other Rev. Father Robert, Messrs. branches of the Company's basi- Maitland, and W.S. Brown nessuntil these latter were placed (Directors),. Walker (Manager), on a paying basis; but that very W. M. Mansk (Secretary), T. tusiness would, this year, have Oliphant, C. Makebam. W. E. L. shown a loss, save for the fact Shenton, A. Beattie, J. F. Grosebat thanks to your Manager and Chan a Gong (shareholders). careful selection and care the After the notice convening &verage milk yield of the Com- the meeting had been read panys nerd has shown consider
The Chaitzan said: Gentle-ble improvement, and thus men, As the report and enabled that department to show statement of accoun's, together profit. You will be glad to know with the Auditor's Report, have that many of the black and white been in your bands for some days, cattle on our farms are descended I will with your permission, from the same family as the adopt the usual course and treat famous bull which. the same as read.
private ale recently. real You will
a that thesed
price of 2000. accounts include those concern Recognising the necessity for ing the working of the Ice and supplying the public with fresh Cold Storage Department, which(nik, at a low a figure a were last year submitted in a possible, and, in order to refrein separate raport.
from causing any hardship to
After making the usual n Your Disectors regret that the classes with moderate means, vision for bad and doubtful debts, result of the years working. your Director-though realising and writing a sum of $18,031,0 Mr. W. E. L. Shenton proposed though by no means unsatio- the almost in perative necessity off Machinery &c. Four Directors the re-election of the retiring factory, is not so good as that of for a contrary policy-refrained, recommend that the net profits Director- the Rev. Fr. the preceding year-a
state during the past year, from raising amounting to £200.867.15 be ap Robert and Mr. F. Mailand. of Fairs which is due the price of milk, but the time ispropriated as follows:-
over rapidly approaching when your which the Company has had no] Directors may be compelled to control Runnies expenses and raise the price of that commodity coat of eattla food have increased in order to obtain an adequate to the extent of 0 per cent. to return on invested expital. 100 per cent. during the past) It will no doubt be of interest to three years, and are still rising: you to know that a profit on in addition, the prime ost flour turnover is only about 1316% imported catile food advanced, and that on our invested capita during last year, some 23 peritess than 6 which pret your cent. to 30 per cent, whereas the Company's prices for its various commodities have remained un-, altered since the commencement! of 1915-the price of the Com- pany's fresh milk having remain-] ed the same for a period of over 15 years. The Company's present prices compared with its pre-war prices show an increase averag- ing 15% to 20%, while food of. every description in England basi increased 100% to 150% at least.j In Australia, wholesale prices' during the like period have advanced 25% to 30%. and, according to the latest reports. it is anticipated that in 1920, prices for food in Australis will be bigher than. The situation of the Companyj with regard to dairy cattle- is even more acute. Dairy cattle, whereof the cost per head landed: in Hongkong was (before the war), £50 to £60, cannot now be im-' ported at under £150 per bead; while dairy utensils of every description have advanced in price to the extent of 300%, and, even at that rate, are extremely
to
Farious Causes
ever.
To pay a Dividend of $1.50
per share absorbing $171,000.00) To. place to Cattle
Reserve
To place to Typhoon and Fire Insurance To cry forward
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
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This was seconded by Mr." Oliphant and carried
On the proposition of Mr. Grose, seconded by Mr. Chan u 20,000.00 Tong, Messrs. Percy Smith. Seth and Fleming were re-elected 5,000.00 suditors for the ensuing year at 4,867.153 remuneration of $633.
The Chairman announced that $200.867.15 divideod warrants WATC now
Tready.
er Barnardiston, C. B.. M. V. O.,
Cottage Hospital. following an who was in his 61st year, was in operation. General Barnardiston, command of the the British forces in North China at the beginning of the late war, and was promoted Major General after the capture of Tsingtao. In 1892 he married a daughter of the Hon. D. R. Floyd Jones, sometime Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor of New York. She died in 1917.
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