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STOCK MARKET
REPORT
The Hongtang Stock Exchange omela summary Issued at 12.30 p.m. yesterday says:
Most of the Interest of the market was concentrated on Docks after the pubiica- tion of the results for 1937. Docks opened at $31 and business was done up to 14 at Ho close. Tho rest of the market was atendy, sales taking place in Wharves at #333; Cements and Telephones "Old" were Wanted at $15.30 and $27 respectively,
The Manila market was easy, prices generally falling off,
Buyers
Hongkong Bank $1,575 Cantan insurance $207 Union Insurance 1540 China Underwriters $1.60 HIK, Fire Insurance $245 Union Waterboals $3.30
H.K. & K. Wharves $132 HK. & W. Docks $31 Providenta (Old) #3 Providents (New) #1 II. & S. 11otels $4.85 Chinese Estaics $87 HK. Tramwaye $10.40 Peak Trams (Old) $0 Star Ferries #03
Yaumati Ferries $254, China Lights (Old) $11.20 China Ligita (New) $9
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
HONGKONG & WHAMPOA
DOCK CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly Mooting of. Shareholders will be held in the Offew of the Company, 2 Queen's Bullding, Hongkong, on Monday, 28th March, 1938, at Noon for consideration of the Directors' Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st Decomber, 1937.
The Shara Register and Trans- for Book will be closed from 12th to 28th March, 1938, both days Inclusive.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
E. COCK, Chief Manager. Hongkong, 3rd March, 1938.
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS,
LIMITED.
(Incorporated in Hong Kong) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders of The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited, will be held at the Registored Office of the Company (Exchange Building, Des Voeux Road Contral, Hong Kong), on Wednesday, tho 6th day of April, 1938, at 11.30 a.m., for the purpose of receiving | a Statement of Accounts and tho Report of the Board of Directors the 31st for the year ended on December, 1937, and re-electing a Director and the Auditors. The Transfer Books Company will be closed from Friday, the 18th March, 1938, to Wednesday, the 6th April, 1938, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board,
of
F. C. BARRY,
tho
Secretary. Hongkong, 2nd March, 1938.
ILK. Electrics 1017
Macao Electrics $109% Telephones (Old) $27 Telephones (New) 310.20
Cements #15.20
HP Ropes 23
Watsons $61⁄4
Lane, Crawford $9
Entertainments $64
Constructions $14
HK Govt, 45 Lonn 3% pm. Wallace Harpers $4%%
Sellers
Provident jold) $3.03 H. 8. Hotels $7 Peak Trame (New) $34; China Lights (Old) #125; Maramans (R)_5/-
Baler
Hongkong Tank #1,370/85 Douglases CO
HK. & K. Wharves $133/4 HH. & W. Docks 129%/10 Providents (Old) $3.05
K. Mines $0.10
11. & S. Hotels $7
H.. Lands $35/35/
H.K. Realties to
H.K. Tramwaya #151⁄2
China Ligita
912.20
China Light (New) $9.10 HK. Electrics 501/ Telephones-(Old)-$27- Telephoner (New) $10,20 Cements $15.20/40
Lane Crawfords $0/0 Antamoka
Aloka
Bagulo Gold
Benguet Consol
Coco Grova ..... Consolidated Mines Demonstrations
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SOCIETY
THE ANNUAL SHOW of FLOWERS
VEGETABLES, and will be held at ST. JOHN'S PLACE (opposite the lower Peak Tram Station), on THURSDAY, the 3rd March, from 3 p.m. to 0.30 pm, and on FRIDAY, the 4th Murch, from 10 am to 4 pm,
J. T. BAGRAM,
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HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
. The Final Dividend declared for the Year onding 31st Decem- ber, 1937, at the rate of Three Founda
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By Order of the Board of Directors,
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager, Hongkong, 26th February, 1998.
HONGKONG/AUSTRALIAN
FREIGHT CONFERENCE,
Notice is hereby given that on and after 1st April, 1938, rates to Australian from Hongkong Main Ports and with Tranship- ment will be increased as under:-
GENERAL CARGO-655/- por ton Weight or Measurement.
OTHER CARGO-20% Over Current Rates. Australian-Oriental Lino, Ltd. Burns Philp Line. Eastern & Australian 9.9. Co. Ltd. Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Osaka Shosen Kaisha:
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Notice is hereby givon that the Forty-ninth Ordinary Yearly Meet- ing will be held at the Com- pany's Offices, P. & O. Building, on Thursday, 10th March, 1938, at 11 a.m, for the purpose of present- ing the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1937, and electing Directors and Audi- tors.
The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 26th February to 10th March, 1938,
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By Order of the Board of Directors,
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Agente.
Hongkong, 18th February, 1938.
KOWLOON RESIDENTS'
ASSOCIATION
Notice
The Eighteenth Annual General Meeting of the Kowloon Residents' Association will be held in St. Androw's Church Hall, Kowloon, on Friday, 4th March, 1938, at 6 p.m.
Adoption
Business
of Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1937.
Election of Officers and Com- mittec.
Any other business.
It is earnestly requested that mombers and all others interested in the welfare of Kowloon will endeavour to be present. An opportunity will be given for bringing forward matters for the consideration of the now Com- mittee.
R. BALDWIN,
Hon. Secretary.
THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE FIFTY-FIRST ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHANE- HOLDERS will be held at the Office of Messrs, Jardine, Mathe- son & Co., Ltd., on Friday, the 11th March, 1938, AT 11 A.M, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and tho Statement of Accounts for tho year ended 31st December, 1937.
The Transfer Books of tho Company will be CLOSED from Friday, the 4th March, 1938, to Friday, the 11th March, 1938, both days inclusive.
:
By Order of the Board of Directors,
F. IL CRAPNELL,.
Secretary, Hongkong, 21st February, 1988.
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ELETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
To The Editor,
Hongkong Telegraph,
Tenant's Grievance
Str,-Another example of ship on tenants,
hard-
We have been living in this place for six years, and I have been re- gular. In payment of my rent. For some unknown rensons my landlady. solicitors notified me through her that
am "required to quit and de- liver up possession of the above pre- mizes" by giving a month's notice.
Falling this, steps will be taken. against me for "efcetiori as she may be advised",
Why did'nt she do this two years ago? Why now?
I am not rich enough to consult a solicitor and so I aim my grievance through the press with the hope that the proper authorities will help to straighten this out for me.
L.
Hongkong's Housing
Problem
Sir, It is about time that attention was again drawn to the housing pro- blem in Hongkong.
Since the matter assured serious proportions in the autumn of last year, the gravity of the situation has been further accentuated rather than diminished. ·
To re-introduce the Rent Restelo- tions Ordinance, as it existed in the Colony some years ago as an emer gency measure, is, I consider, an in- advisable step. I say so with a per- fect practical acquaintance with the effect of the Restriction Bill and of the one-sidedness of its operation to the prejudice of the genuine opposed to the speculative class of landlords.
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POST OFFICE.
AIR MAIL
LETTERS
Ordinary or mail letters may be posted in the ordinary posting boxes at Kowloon Post Omce and General Post Omee. They should be clearly marked "By Air Mail" and bear postage. Insuficiently sufficient prepaid letters may be taxed with double the deficiency or forwarded by Steamer Service, at the discretion of the Post Office.
VIA SIBERIA ROUTE Letters and Postcards for Europe and South America are forwarded
via Siberia" if so superscribod.
are the
'OUTWARD MAIL, TIMES Registered and Farcel Malls closed 15 minutes carller than time given below, unless otherwire stated, and where mails are advertis- Air Mail Services to Shanghaied to close at er before D ̈ ́àm.,, re- Nanking, Tsingtau, Tientsin and Pegistered and parcel mails are closed
at 5 p.m. on the previous day. ping are temporarily suspended.
INWARD MAILS
AIR MAIL BERVICES
From
Japan and Shanghal Stralis
Straile
Tanda
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Imperial Airways Plane
Direct Servico-Lendon date, 24th
Per
Aramis Atreus
Duo
March 3.
March 3.
Barentsz
March: S.
Japan and Shanghai Shanghai
Comorin
March 3.
Conto Verde
March 3.
Hollow
Kwanglung
.March 3.
Calcutta and Stralta
Sirdhana
.March 3.
March 2.
Japan
Saigon
Bontekoe
March 4.
Dairen
Shanghal
Delagoa Maru Glenapp
March 4.
.March 4.
..March 4.
February
Japan
Kutsang
March 4.
Bangkok and Swatow
Kwelyang
March 4.
Japan
Manila Maru
March 4.
Japan
Mirzapore
.March 4.
Australia and Manlia
Nankin
•March 4.
Haiphong
៥.
Cyclops
March 6,
G. Paul Doumer
March 6.
Perseus
.March 5.
Shanghai
Ixion ...
.March 0.
Air Mail by "Pan American Air-
March 8.
Si Kiang
March 6.
Tinegara
March 6.
Kumsang
March 7.
Cremer
March 8,
Marechal Joffro
March 8,
Taiping
March 8.
Hector
.March 9.
President Jackson
.March 2.
March 10,
„March 10.'
March 10.
Straits
Straits
ways Direct Service-San Fran- Pan-American Airways Plane cisco date, 23rd February. Japan ......
Japan
Shanghal and Amoy
Straito
Australia and Manila
Shanghai
Saigon
U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Manlia-
Scattle date, 12th. February. Canada, U.S.A., Japan and Shanghai
Vancouver B.C., date 18th Feb. Emp, of Russia
Scharnhorst Straits and Manila
Taima Amoy
For
Bangkok Salgon
OUTWARD MAILS
Per
Thursday
Date and Time
Let it be granted at the outset, as has been demonstrated by the Chinese. Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council, or a majority of them, that landlords as a class had gone through a very lean period after the financial crisis of 1032. It was with consider- uble con Council in
that the argument was behalf of advanced landlords that the reasonable rise in
Air Mail for Wachow, Kwellin, CN.A.C. Plano ......Thurs., Alar. 3. rents, bringing them more or less to
Kwelyang and Chungking by the only pre-crisis level,
was not
"C.N.A.C., Airways Direct justified but eminently desirable for
vice." those who sought a sound form of investment in landed property and house construction in Hongkong.
Д
The present situation, however, presents a totally different aspect. The recent great increase in the population of the Colony has caught it wholly unprepared to provide ac commodation for all, As a result of this abnormal increase, estimated at over a quarter million, residents Gro being driven
in ever-increasing
numbers out of their homes. In many cases tenants are being given notice to vacate their houses without even the option of paying an increase in rent: It is from these persons that complaint arises. For them practical sympathy is enlisted, and in their interests and for their protection leg- isintive aid is invoked.
Were our resident and domiciled citizens to be given an opportunity of paying a fair and reasonable in- crease in rent, it is felt that no justi- fable, complaint could be supported. against landlords, who, after all, are acting within their legal right and who may be expected to argue that, following the law of supply and de- mand, they have to make up for the lean years through which they have passed. However, in the majority of cases that have recently been brought to my notice old residents are given no option; they
with are served notice to quit upon the expiry of the bare statutory minimum of only one month,
In the present pressing conditions, language need not be strained in order to illustrate the harrying plight of local wage-carriers. The cost of living has risen through a combinan Lon of circumstances which they and it extremely difficult to
cope with. Well-to-do transient visitors are ac- commodated the
at
of per- expense manent residents; they obtain security and freedom from the severe hard- ship and anxiety which evicted ten- ants are made to suffer.
I have been at some pains in stat- ing the case for the helpless tenants, having regard to the realities of the situation. The least appeal that can bo urged in behalf of bona fide Hong- kong residents in that Government and the Unofficial Members of the Legislative
Council take into ime. mediate and earnest consideration the introduction of a short Bill, with ite
of
passage through a a single sitting of the Council, to enable tenants to be
given the option of paying a fair and rea aonable increase in rent. The phrase "fair and reasonable" is not capable definition; but a way may cary be found out of the difcully with the counsel of wisdom procurable in Summary the Counell Chamber.
eviction is a high-handed procedure Inflicting serious hardship on the victims.
the advice If Government, after tendered to them by the Unomelat Members of the Council, should appear besitant to legislate for what is an economic reform of pressing urgency, may I appeal to some one of the Un- Pc- official Members to introduce vato Dill along the lines · suggested above? Such a step would, Icon- sider, provide a remedy, for a situa tion that is becoming bitoterable and wolghing hoävlly on Die wage-coming population; upon whose services the commercial and Industrial -- life of Hongkong so largely dependa
J. P. BRAGA."
Samshul and Wuchow Kongmoon..
Shanghai and Jupan
Tientsin
Ser.
Michael Jebsen Thurs., Mar. 3, 5 p.m. Apocy....Thurs., Mar. 3, 3.30 p.m.
K. P. 0.
Ref..
„Mar. 3, 5 p.m.
Ord..
.Mar. 3, 5 p.m.
G. P. 0.
Icg.. Ord.
.Mar.. 3, 5 pm
.Mar. 4, 6 am.”
Friday
Kongso
On Leo
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow vin
Amoy
Fri., Mar. 4, 8.15 .. Fri., Mar. 4, 10 am. Naldera.....Fri, Mar. 4, 10.30 a.m. Newchwang ..Fri., Mar. 4, 10.30 am. ....Fri, Mar. 4, 1.30 p.m.
Anhul
Straits, Ceylon, India, East and Manila Maru..Fri., Mar. 4, 2.30 p.m.
South Africa.
Air Mail for Sian, Lanchow and Eurasia Plane. Fri., Mar. 4,
Chengto, etc. (via Hankow) by
Japan, Honolulu, U.S.A., Canada, President Coolidge
Central and South America and
Curono via San Francisco-due
.Mar. 4, B am. ..
..Fri., Mar. 4.
.Mar. 4, 4 p
.Mar. 4, 6 p.m.
the Eurasia Airways Service"
G.P.O. and KP,0.
(To
further points by Murface transport ss Services permit).
Hex.
Ord
..... Mar. 4, 0,30
Farcela Reg
Ord
Barentsz
Shanghal
Fri., Mar. 4, 5 pm.
Parcels, Reg. Ord.,
Mar. 4, 5 p.m.
„Mar, 5, 9 0.1%
Fri., Mar. 4,
Francisco 22nd March and Europe via Siberia.
Manila, Rabaul, Australia and New Tanda
Zealand vila Brisbane-duo Bris- bane, 22nd March.
Straits, Ceylon, India, E. and South Comorin
Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles-due Marseilles 1st April.
Samshul and Wuchow Sandakan
Air Mail for "R.LBL
Mar. 4, 5.30 p.m.
Thurs, Mar. 4
Mar. 4, 0 p.m.
G. P. O. and E. P. O.
I
Parcels Reg.,
Ord.,
Saturday
........Mar. 4. 3 p.m. .Mar, 0, 0.45 am, .Mar. 6, 10.30 a.m.
Tai Hing.....Sat., Mar. 5, 0.16 a.m. Tai Seun Hong Sat., Mar. 5, 8.30 am.
Bak, March Airways Comorin............
G.P.O, and K.P.O. Beg Ord,
Direct Service”-duo Amsterdam. 13th March
Kongmoon
Holhow, Pakhol and Haiphong Shanghal
Straits, Sandakan, Ceylon, India, Egypt and Europe vía Brindist due Brindisi, 25th March
Fook On
Kiangsu ..
.Mar. 5, 9.30 am, .Mar. 8, 10 De Sat., Mar, 5, 10 am.
Sat., Mar. 0, 1 p.m. Sinking.....Sat., Mar. 6, 2.30 p.m. Bot., Mar. 5. Conte Verde
Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Hono- Fan
Inlu and U.S.A. by the "Pan- American Airways Direct Service" -duc Ban Francisco 14th March.
Sunday
GP.O. and E.P.O.
.Mar. 1, 2.45 pm. Ord...Mar. 1, 3.80 p.m. American Airways Sat., Mar. 5.
E. P. O.
.:
Mar. 5. 5.00 p.m.
Dog,
Ord.
.Mar. 8, 5,00 p.m.
G. P. O.
Reg., Ord,
3lar, 5, 5.00 pat.
Swatow, Shanghal and Tientsin ... Kwalsang
Monday
Shanghal, Japan, Honolulu, Canada, Emp. of Canada
USA, Central and South Amerl- ca and Europa via Vancouver B.C.; (Parcela for Canada only)— due Vancouver B.C., 27th March and Europe via Siberia.
.Mar. 7, 0 a.m.
Sun., Mar. 6, 9 a.m.
Mon., March 7.
Parcels, Reg Ord.
.Mar. 7, 4 pm. ...Mar. 7, 8 120.
..Mar. 7. 0.30 p.m.
Tuesday
Manila. Makasser and Sourabaya.. Tjinegara....Tues., Mar. 8, 8.30 a.m. Air Mall for "Imperial Airways Imperial Airways Piano
Direct Servito”-dva London, 16th Marcit
Darwin,
Tues, March 8
GP.O. and KP.0,
.
Reg.,
Ord.
Mar. 8, 8 am, „Mar; 8, U mu
Tuon, larch 5,
G.PO, and KP.0.
Res., Ord
„Mar. 8,'8 n.1).
Air Mall for "Australia by Imperial Imperial Aleways Piano
Airways Servico"-dun 12th March
Biralls and Coleuita.
Shanghai and Japan
„Mar. 1, D. m.201
Kunsang"...ivati. Tues., March 9.
Parcels,
Ord
Mar. 8, 11 a.m. .Mor. 0, Noan.
Tuca., Mar. 5, 1.80 pan.
Marechal Joffro
Wednesday
Amoy and Shanglidi ............ "Swatow, Foochow and Tientsin, Yunnan Wed., Mar. 9, 0.50 a.m. Swatow and Bangkok
Kwelyang ...Wed, Mar, 0, 10,20 ■.m. Swatow, Shanghai and Tientsin.......... Taksäng .....Wed., Mar. 0, 3.30 p.m.
Taiyuan Wed., Mar, 0, 0.30 a.m.
Manila
Thursday
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ETROra., Mar, 10, 3.30 p.m.
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