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CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
N. Y. K. LINE
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA) FROM EUROPE & STRAITS
The Steamship
HATUSAN MARU,” having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained. Goods not cleared by the 10th. February 1924, will be subject to
rent.
Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignee's and the Co.'s representatives on any Tuesdays & Fridays, at 2.30 p.m. within the tree storage Period.
All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date) they cannot be recognized.
No claims will be admitted; after the goods have left the Godowns.
No fire insurance has been effected.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
Hongkong, 3rd. Feb. 1924.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. OCEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY, LTD. and CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
Consignees Steamer
per
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
HOTELS, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Lids will be held at The Hongkong Hotel, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on Wednes -day, the 13th day of February, 1994, at 2,30 o'clock in the afternoon, when the subjoined Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary Re- Bobations:-
(1). "That the authorised Capital of the Company (which la now $5,000,000 consisting of 500,000 Shares of the nominal value of $10 each, whereof 875,000 have been issued) be increased from $5,000,000 consisting as aforesaid to $10,000,000 (consisting of 1,000,000 Shares of the nominal value of $10 each) by the creation of 500,000 additional Shares of the nominal value of $10 each, ranking (subject. as hereinafter mentioned) as from date of allotment for dividend and in all other respects pari pasek with the Share conatitating the Company's present issued capital" (2) That in the first instance 375,000 Shares be offered at par (in the proportion of one new Share for every one old Share held by them respectively) to the persons who on the date of the confirmation of this Resolution as a Special Resolation are registered in the Company's Share Register as the holders of the $12,000" old "Shares, and so that on acceptance of the offer the nominal amount due in respect of such 375.000 new Shares shall be payable as to the sum of $5 part thereof on acceptance of such offer and as to the balance thereof on the 30th day of June, 1924. And further that until such time as the sald 375,000 new Shares shall be fully paid they shall vis-a-vis the said 375,000 old Shares, rank for dividend only in proportion to the ratio borne by the amount paid up thereon to the full nominal value ($10) thereof, and that any of the said 375,000 new Shares which shall not be taken up by the Company's Shareholders in manner aforesaid be disposed of it such manter as the Company's Board of Directors shall think EL"
(3) "That such offer be made by Notice specifying the number of Shares to which the, member is entitled and limiting a time within which the offer, if not accepted by the member on behalf of himself or his nominee, will be deemed to be declined and that the Directors be at liberty to fix sach time and in the case of Shareholders those place of ad- dress is not in Hongkong to extend it to such date or dates as they may think 52"
(1) That the balance of 250,000 Shares constituting the Com- pany's unissued Capital be issued st such time or times in such manner and for such purposes and upon sach terms and conditions in every respect as the Company's Board of Directors may decide."
(5) That the Regulations contained in the printed document submitted to the Meeting and for the purpose of identifica- tion subscribed by the Chairman thereof be approved and adopted as the Articles of Association of the Company is substitution for and to the exclusion of all the existing Articles thereof."
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that a further Extra- ordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the same place on Thursday, the 28th day of February, 1924, at 2.30 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the proceedings of the above-mentioned Meeting and of confirming. If thought fit, as Special Resolutions the above-mentioned Resolutions.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from Thursday, the 21st day of February, 1924, to Thursday, the 28th day of February, 1924 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
The suggested new Articles of Association are similar to the old subject to clerical alterations and to the following alterations of substance, vir -
(1) The deletion from Article 1 of the words "and holding or representing by proxy not less than one-tenth of the issued Capital."
(2) The alteration of the minimum number of Directors to
four and of the maximum number to seven.
(3) The alteration of the remuneration of Directors to payment at the rate of Four thousand dollars per annum and such sums as a General Meeting may determine instead of the fixed sum of Three thousand dollars per annum and such sams as a General Meeting may determine.
(4) The alteration of the gaorum of Directors to three instead
of two.
(5) The addition of Articles enabling the appointment by the Directors of a Local Board or Advisory Committee in ang place at a remuneration to be fixed by the Articles and the appointment by the Directors of Local General Managers. - Secretaries or other Assistants, delegates or Attorneys at
a remuneration to be fixed by the Directors.
(6) The addition of an Article enabling the Company to have 'an Official Seal and Local Registers in places outside the
Colony.
A copy of the Articles of Association of the Company with the said alterations and amendments incorporated and indicated in red ink or red print can be seen during usual business hours at the Re- Company's gistered Office of the Company, Powell's Building, Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, and at the Shanghai Office of the Company in Hongkong Bank Building, Shanghai, in the Republic of China.
·DEMODOCUS " are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignee's risk and subject to terms and conditions of storage: at Holt's Barf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after. 4th. February.
Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given prior to steamer's arrival.
and
All broken. chafed, damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 am and noon within the free storage period.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods; remaining undelivered after the 12th February, will be subject| to rent.
An Claims against the Steamer mast be presented to the under signed on or before the 26th. February, or they will not be recognised.a
No Fire Insurance will ba effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRK Agents. 4th February. 1924
Dated the 31st day of January, 1924.
By Order of the Board,
PERCY H SUCKLING,
-Secretary.
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