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INTIMATIONS

BRITISH GOVERNMENT

WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES

33

Appli tions may be made through the undernoted Banks from whom full information and the necessary forma may be obtained :-

CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,

Australia and CHINA. HONGLONG AND SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION. ' MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LTD.

War, Savings Certificates

Value 5 years

aftar purchasO

£500

£1

Parchace Price

£387 10 0 15. ed.

FREE OF INCOME TAX For every 13. 6d. lent. now £1 will be paid in "5 years" 'time. equivalent to 5 per cent. com- pound interest, No Income Tax will be payable. it

Anyone, whatever his or her income may be, can buy War Savings Certificates"- up to a maximum of 500 £1 Certificates in all or their equivalent.

Meanwhile the money may be

INTIMATIONS

UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.

1

WANTED.

MECHANICAL ENGINEER

required by the University of Hongkong, to act as workshop instructor and foremaa in the University workshops and engine rooms Commencing £990 and quarters.

Salary

Applications to be made in writing to Professor Middleton Smith, The University, Hongkong, from, whom further particulars may be obtained

Hongkong Jan. 4, 1917,

1392

NOTICE.

TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that Mr. GEORGE PHILIP LAMMERT bas been admitted a Partner in this Firm, the Business of which will henceforth be carried on at the same address under the tyle of WORCESTER & LAMMERRT.

W. G. WORCESTER & Co. 3, Des Voeux Road,

Hongkong, Jan. 2, 1917.

1387

HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY,

LIMITED.

A-S already notiled, this Company's A Generating Plant is pow carrying in the vicinity of the marimum load and no further installations can be made For the present Consumers and Wiring Contractors are warned against the

of making additions to

to existing

withdrawn in fuil any time, with lancet are reminded that

an addition after the first year.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

(1) A Certificate entitles the purchaser to receive Et for each 158. ed. on the fifth anniversary of the date of purchase, free. of income tax in respect of the accuino- lated interest.

(2) A Certificate is not transferable except by permission of the Fostmaster General; & fee of ts, will be charged in respect of each transferee. In the event f death, the same rules will be applied as in the case of Savings Bank Deposits. (3) On written application (on a form. obtainable at any Post Office) being made to the Controller, Money Order Department, London, the purchase price, ar part thereof in multiples of 156, 6d. will be repaid at any time, with an. addition of 34. for each 15s. 6d. on the first anniversary of the date of

purchase and with further addition of 1d per 153. 6 for each month thereafter.

(4) No person may hold more than 500 £1 Certificates or their equivalent.

The £t Certificates (purchase price 168. d) are issued in book form. The Certificates for £19 (purchase price £9 B) and 25 (purchase price £19 7. fc.). are imped without Books. The £1, £12 and 993 Certificates are on sale at local Post Offices and at most Banks.

Single Certificates for gums from £100 £500 may be obtained on application to the Comptroller and Accountant General, General Post Offe

Londen application forms are available at ali Post Offices and at most Banks.

If Certificates, he lost," and the serial zumbers can be furnished to the Controller of the Money Order Depart ment, new Certificates will be issued at

■ charge of Ia.

GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,

June, 1816

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(For examples of Investment in War Savings Cartiñcales, san the pther side.)

Examples of Investment in

War Savings Certificates

001

-- 978

OOR

260 5-

pox

00

~ OF BET...

-

DE

-I R.

GEL OB

Purchase

Valuo after-

.3 JOLT,

48 15 -

* Yours. 6 JOR 408 15 --- : 800

878 -----

281 -

187 10 --

88 16

03 18

48 17.6

17 15-

19 15 --

8 17 0

9 7 0

■ 11 ----

2 16.8

1 15-0

£ 17 6

-169.

- 17 9

41 17 6:

18 15-

4 B9

157 10 -

251 5

167 10.

39 7 8

- L. Q

N.B-The Invortement may "be" scy

multiple of 166, 6d, up to 2297 10%..

THE CHINA MAIL

INTIMATIONS

QUALITY is the point

which is necessary

in an enjoyable

Cigarette.

Embassy

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

WD GHOWIE

That's why

“EMBASSY " VIRGINIA No. 77 has been justly described as

THE CIGARETTE

DE LUXE

under the Regulations for securing the Safuty of

of the Public contained in the Schedule to

to the Electricity Supply Ordinance 1911 (as amended) Any person making any addition to any electrical installation connected to the WHEN THE WAR IS OVER. release with the group bearing the same Company's main

shall be liable to penalty not exceeding Afty Dollars for every such addition".

By Order of the Board,

GIER, LIVINGSTON & CO.

Agents Hongkong, Jan. 5, 1917.

1395

Qvar 30 yarn ago the late Lord Beacunsanld testiárdíto the benefits „ba sucdited from HIMROD'S CURE, ary post brings aboilar letters today.

CURE for

TAMED FOR 40 YEARS,

ASTHMA

Sold in tins by ali! Chemia and Stores throughout the Country,

Beware of Imitations.

| DAIRY FARM-NEWS.

POULTRY.

OTE. HOUSE FED OAPONS AND CHICKENS,

Are the best in the East. Tender eating, delicate favour

TRY, THEM...

Isay

KEATINGS LOZENGES

cure the Worst COVENAN

COLUMBIA

GRAFONOLA

WILL COMPLETE

THE FAMILY CIRCLE

DURING THE

THE QUESTION OF DEMOBILIZA-

TION DISCUSSED.

nubber as that with which the document

is stamped. This would be retained by the man's commanding officer while the duplicate would be held by the soldier, to be produced at any time to show that he had been completely discharged from the army. There would also be in the bock-let a warrant, extitling the man to a tree railway pass to the place named

YOUR EYES

SHOULD NOT BE

BE NEGLECTED

At the first symptom of eye strain you should consultus. We test eyes solentifically and it glasses] to individual re- quirements.

CLARK & CO.

ENTIFIC OPTICIANS

CHATER RD

HONGKONG

RK BLOGS,

HONGKONG & MANILA Z

MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA

R2

(Mitsubishi Co.) ·

COAL DEPARTMENT.

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF TAKASHIMA, DOHL MUTASE, KISHIDAKE TOSHINOTANTZ, HOJO, NAMAZUTA SAYO KANADA,

The complexity of transferring each of the 5,000,000 or 8,000,000 soldiem into a niche in our industrial life which will enable him to exercise his skill for the thuszon which would be his home there rational Bepent, me well as for his own advantage, is most obvious. The correos would contain a warrant for a sovereign SINNEY, KAMYAHADA, ETRAI solation must greatly affect the prosperity

employmens awaited him. Another page

to be cashed by the military authorities

of the people, and should therefore at the front, so that the man would have

tackled with statesmanalite breadth of money for food while on his journey. view, completeness, and the greatest care. Four other similar warrants, each fos a Where trades are federated, as in the sovereign, are to be included, these to case of shipbuiding, engineering, textiles be payable, by the post office of the towa and mining, the employers' federations to which the man is proceeding, at ought to be set to work, in association intervals of pus week on and after the

dates named. with trade unions, to prepare lists of men now in the army for whom positions could be found on the attainment of peace at work which would immediately conduce to the establishment of industria equilibrium

Although it is a small detail, we would suggest that the first warrant should be payable only on the date, in order that the worker would make due haste to reach This destination. He would carry his No difficulty need be anticipated to arms, equipment and clothing with him garding the extent of employment avall and hand these in at the nearest military centre to his home, getling a receipt in able, nor the possibility of unskilled or partly skilled or female labour being other to bo posted to the depot of his duplicate, one "to be retained and the displaced, saya

"Engineering." The

unit. The military authorities should be immense wastage of 27 months of war fare has to be made up, and therefore responsible for sending the man in due course his discharge, certificates, army in practically all industries there will be character, etc., and the balance of his pay. experienced such a demand for labour This seems a fairly reasonable method of will more than absorb the supply conso- quent on the demobilization of the army. It is a question rather of effectively die, posing of this labour to the best advantage": from the individual and national points of view. With the lists of suitable workers prepared by employers federations and trade unions," the army sathorities could quickly discover the men, - sad arrange for their passage direct from the front to the bench so that there would be no deley. On the other hand there would be the extreme satisfaction on the part of each unit of the army in finding national recognition of the duty to place

procedure.

FROFITS FROM WAR FILMS.

BENEFIT OF CHARITIES.

him in a position to earn his Erving, in mandenwartia ?

VEIGHT AND WRONG METHODA.

to

sum

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Fat Pactionlari, apply to

K. KATO,

Manager.

No. 2, PER STERIL.

INTIMATIONS

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Wha will be a imsitor knäve? Whá cm fil a enward's grave? Wha sue base'as be a slive? Let him turn and fee!

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AND

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HOUSEHOLD

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So great has been the interest at Home in the remarkable cinematographi war films officially taken for the War office that it has been denied to revise the methods of placing them on the market. These films, showing as they and the de- really like makes on our brave soldiers, better circumstances, we hope, than in have a money value as well a

as an educa the past...

value. tional

Of course it impossible for the War Office make any profit out of them, Objection, might be taken to the diff and therefore the whole of the proceeds culty of this proceedure in the army, and received from letting out the

films to has we are glad to see that such an authority war charities. The public paid a in the aggregate for the very large ne Major-General S. S. Long, CB, who privilege of seeing them, and the question. occupied the important position of has arisen whether the war charities Director of Supplies and Transport, has have received a sufficient proportion of met, eues possible objection with logical this sum, after the expenses of exhibition

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for the frumber of man from ous division, or charities

of Central Market) Telephone No. 516. another is hors de combat owing to

The work of taking moving pictures Bongkong Beptember 4: 1915- Casualties, and that those responsible for on the European battlefields will be con- the maintenance of such divisions have Conditions of modern warfare do not on the same lines as in the past. tinted every day practice in keeping them up admit of great spectacular effects being to full strengthe Major-General Long.in obtained, but the daily life of the sol- his article in the Nine-teenth Century

diers of the Allies, and the hardships and After treats the subject of right tontinue to be a never-failing source of

they

are called upon to undergo, will

of

SILIMPOPON (SEBATTIK) FESTIVE SEASON and wrong methods of demobilization" interest.

COAL

BE Undersigned baring been appointed ason for the COWER HARBOUR

COAL CO. LTD., are prepared to quote

pricta o'lur best quality · BILIMPOPON CHAL trimmed into Bankers at NEBAT.

TIK SANDAKAN (Erica North

Berned

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Steamer calling at BRBATIK of SANDAKAN exclusivaly for BILIMPA 205, 00% (either

cargo

For Banker) exempt

from payment of all Port barge

Shattik Steams are herthed along- side the Company's wharf where there in a minimum depth of 27 to 26 feet at low water Spring Idea

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THE ANDERSON

MUSIC CO., LTD.

MARTIN'S

APIOL STA

- Tat.-1993;

on broad lines, somewhat corresponding to those we have indicated, and, from his service experience, ho evolves a definite procedure by the army anthori

In ander to enable individuals who ara chosen for their adaptability to meat immediate peace requirements in the factory he suggests that the document of discharge of each soldier might take the form of little book with perforated pages. There would be given an duplicate an authority signed by the demobilization official, ordering the man

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