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INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

METERS and the PUBLIC are

hereby notified that Mr H C HANDFORD he many years: Ron. Treasurer of the Hongkong Jockey Club "having expressed his wish to be relieved from that office his resignation has been accepted.

Messrs. LINSTEAD & DAVIS bare been appointed Secretaries and Treasurer to the Club as from the 10th January instant

Members who have not yet paid their subscriptions for the current season are requested to wake payment to Messrs. Linstead & Davis who are hereby anthorised to collect all monies due to the Cimb and will in future disburse funds in settlement of accounts owing.

Messrs. Linstead & Davis will issue to Members, and Members' Ladies, Tickets of admission to the grand stand. And enclosure and will be in charge of the lo of Admission Tickets for the general pablo which may be obtained as hereto form from cars. Kelly & Walsh, Limited, or at the gate on Face Day..

By Urder,

T. F. HODIH,

INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG.

TWO GRAND CONCERTS

SATURDAY, 2nd

and THURSDAY, 7th Feb.,

_at_9.15 p.m.

A. MIROVITCH

(PLANO)

Clerk of the Course M. PIASTRO

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB

Hongkong, Jan. 91, 1815.

NOT

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THE WEST POINT, BUILDING

[COMPANY, LIMITED. AN

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTIETH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the ⚫fices of Messrs. Jandres, MaSHESON & COMPANY Limited, on TUESDAY, 29th January, 1918, at 10 AM for the perpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with statement Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1917.

The REGISTER of SHARES of the) Company will bs CLOSED · from SATURDAY 19th to TUESDAY, 29th January, 1918 (both days_inclusive) during which period no Truster, of shares can be Registered.

By Order of the Board of Directore,

· A. SHELTON HOOPER,

·Secretary to the

HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT &

AGENCY, CO, LTD.

General Agents for the

WIST POINT BUILDING COMPANY,

·ILIMITED.

Hongkong, Jan. 11, 1918.

THE HONGKONG CENTRAL

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ESTATE LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the FOURTH ORDINARY MEET- ING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs JARDINE MATHESON & COKFANT; Limited, on TUESDAY, 29th January 1918, at 11.45 AM for the purpose of receiving the. Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1917. The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corapany Will be CLOSED from NATURDAY 19th to TUESDAY, 29th January, 1918 (both days inclusive) during which period no Transfer of Share can be Registared.

'By Order of the Foard of Directors

THE HONGKONG CENTRAL

`ESTATE LIMITED,'

A. SHELTON HOOPIE,

Secretary to

The General Managers. Hongkong, Jan. 11, 1918-"

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

·MENT & AGENCY, COMPANY, LIMTTRU.

NOTICE TS HEREBY GIVEN that

the THIRTIETH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANY LIMITED on TUESDAY, 20th January, 1912, at Noon, for the purpose af recepting the Report of the Directora together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1917. The REGISTER of BHARES of the Bompany will be CLOSED from SATURDAY 19th to TUESDAY, 29th January, 1918 (ch days inclusivo) during which period po Transfer of Bhares can be Begistered.

(VIOLIN.)

BOOKING AT

MOUTRIE'S.

PRICES:

$3.00, $2.00 & $1,00

HELENA MAY INSTITUTE.

CONCERT

Under the Patronage of His Excellency The GoverDÓT,

WEDNESDAY, 30th Jannary, at 9.15 p.m.

TICKETS $2 EACH

may be obtained at the Institute."

Proportion of Proceeds in Aid of

WAR CHARITIES. A

BILLIARD CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE COLONY:

Held under the Auspices of the V.B.C. Preliminary games 250 up. Semi Finals Final

800 p 1,000 up. Winger of the Competition to meet Sergt. W. Pitt, halder of the title, in

game of 1,000 up. All games to be played at the V.R. C.. Entrance Fan $2.00, Three Prizes for the Winner of Competition, the Ranner Up and the Highest Break.

Entries close 311) January, 1918,

R. C. WITCHELL,

Hos. Bec, V.RO."

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THE CRISIS IN THE VA D. by the Joint Committee of the Red Crossmembered, may be far from home and

and St. Joka of Jerusalem, ar Auxiliary without a friend in the district. Hospitals, administered by private All these matters, together with ques- people or a cbaritable committee. The tion of status, maintenance allowance War Ofles inspects these hospitals in and travelling concessions, bave been order to secure the welfare of the investigated by committes which re- patients, but it is not concerned with ported and made suggestions. In the conditions for the staff. In some of addition to this, the War Office, early these hospitals the staff are very well off in 1916, asked the Central Joint V.A.D. | .

Committee to frame some kind of V.A.D.'s will be dismayed to hear of indiced, but in some the arrangementa

unsatisfactory. Some are instructions for the guidance of hospitals the resignation of Mrs. Charles W. Forevery late commandant-in-chief of that body, hurdly over-staffed, others havs dan and VAD. officers throughout the

gerously

personnel

In country, No scheme has been forth- for it was ander her direct inspiration many billets are injudiciously coming, and nothing has been done. A. that many of its members were enrolled, chosen. and no obligation is laid on sub-committee has lately been formed those who organise them to provide for by the Central Joint V.A.D. Committee and in confidence in her personal guar the girl' leisure hours.

to favestigate complaints, but by the antes of good will that many parents Ja theory, all these matter, are sup time matters have reached the stage of consented to let their daughters enrol.posed to be the care of the county formal complaint they have reached a Mrs. Furse is resigning.because, in her director.. A few county directors have condition of arisis. In everyone's in associated women with them in their terest the trouble should be detected opinion, the title commandant-in-chiefwork, and under them this part of the and dealt with earlier, or better still, of the V.A.D. implies a power to ensure machinery works well. But often the conditions should be of a kind to prevent the welfare of its members, which, she

mare social Égurehead, altnost glaringly has been persistently prevented from inexperienced in the conditions of Wards V.A.D. is certain. Every family exercising, and which is not ensured by women's work, « quite unsuitable person is pread to possess one among its mem- any other person or body

for a young girl to appeal to about mat bers, and everyone who has a friend in The Voluntary Aid Detachment, asters of lodging or sanitation or personal hospital is grateful to them, for they treatment. He is equally unsuited to the too that without them adequate everyone knows, is a corps of women job of deciding questions of discipline, hospital accommodation would have enrolled to undertake work in hospitals should matron appeal to him in case been impossible. The public is equally (and other places for wounded soldiers, where a raling on dress or manners may concerned that uniform they hars Some work in the wards, others are in be wanted. That these defects in or learned to respect should not be ganisation bear tangible froit can he shelter for social pretensions sap- the pantry or kitchen. Of thoes in the seen.by, what has occurted. Girls have ported by insignificant services Yet warda some have undergone the course been put to live in utterly unsuitable is the ordinary citizen in a position of Instruction provided by the Bt. John's places, in one case in a room in the to securs either of these things! The Ambulance Association. Some are whole-let's quarters among the mecservists. A.D.'s are under the Central Joint time workers, some come daily (many of They have been kept at night duty for V.A.D. Dommittee of the Society these having their own house work to long perioda (a case of a girl who had of B John of Jerusalem, the Red do when they get home), some give less been "on night" for year has occur Cross and the Territorial Forces Associa time. But one and all have taken on red. They have been kept on at work tion This committee is a self-appointed the work out of sheer good will and when ill, and then sent home without a body, nominally under the War Office; patriotism, and except in the military penny paid for treatment or in combat apparently under no public control. hospitals where they get £20 to £30 apenastion. And outside the more sense No Kinister has answered for them in year, they are mainly unpaid.

rional incidents thers bave been a steady Parliament, and criticism attered alas- In hospitals where the professional stream of overwork, of movenly cooking, where is equally powerless. Whilst nursing staff are kind and the work is insuficions eruckery, and leave granted admitting the great services performed. OWNERS OF DOMESTIC BUILDINGS. Well organised the A.D. are very and withheld without any routine or by this body, it is impossible for some PAMPHLETS

happy. They enjoy the nation of system

grave administrative defects in its public usefalc.css and a corporate life WELFARE OF THE GIRIA. organisation to continue unimproved and and in it adequate poward for hard it is the contention of Mrs. Fure and without serious consequences Enough drudging work and long hours. But if the resigning members of the V.A.D. has occurred already to show there is this Company will be held at the, Ofices VENTILATION BYE-LAW (as amend being unsuitably ledved, beds for organisation that the people responsible case fez inquiry and a need for reform.

badly fed ne for recruiting girls cannot help pledging JAZDINE,''''' MATHESON & ad), every Domestic Buliding or part of flis ill, she has at present no women to their persocal guaranton for their SOMTANT, Lizzo, en TUESDAY, 20th auch Beilding within the CENTRAL hom she can appeal, if her extron or welfare, and should be allowed to secure January, 1918, at 13.16 P.M. for the Division the Dity of Victoria, and the local organlation are unfriendly or it. Yet they have not aver the right of purpose of receiving the Report of the the WESTERN Division of Kowloon, incompetent There is one excaption entering a bospital where a V.A.D. is at Directors together with the Statement occupied by members of more then Hospitals directly under the War Office work either to investigate a complaint af Accounts for the year ending 31st one family, except those within the are inspected by the Metron-in-Chief made by VAD. profesional staff, or to Decasaber, 1917.

European Reservation or in Howloon which secures a standard of conditions, "look girl up, who, it must be re- The REGISTER of SHARES of the South of Austin Bord, or those parts of Company will be CLUSED from Domestic Building aod as Shop: Uffee and, while no protection against petty unkindnem, is a safeguard against SATURDAY 19th to TUESDAY: 29th or Gadown, mint be CLEANSED and serious injury.

ary, 1918, (both days inclusive), LIMEWASHED THROUGHOUT by the ring which period no Transfer of Owners daring the months of Doomber Shares cati be Registered

The fandt D DIRECTION OF HOSPITALE

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A SHELTON (HOOPER,

Secretary:

Hongkong, Jan. 11, 1918.

THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMATION COMPANY,

A

LIMITED.

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Q.

R

SANITARY BOARD OFFICE, HONGKONG.

· TO THE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the SEVENTEENTH ORDINARY ARE NOTICE that ender No. 3 of the MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in „DOMESTIC “OLEANLINESS and.

of**

By Order of the Beard, of Director......... HOWBRAY 8. NORTHCOTE,

Becretary.

Hongkong Jan 11, 1918,

36

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

COMPANY, LIMITED

and January It will probably come as a surprise to N.B.-The word throughout and in many people to learn that all hospitals

this Notion means that the Houses should be for soldiers are not directly under the Limewashed in respect of s: the Walls of War Office A matter of fact only a sach Room, all Cubicles, Partitions Stair percentage are military hospitals thera Osing and Stair Liminga, all Ceilings and are Red Cross, Hospitals, administered the Undersides of Boots in Main

Buildings, Offices and Beeranta”. Qüarters,

snd inclusive of Norandaba,

pība Baakyard must haru lis. Containing 'to the laval of the

Woodwork

THE DIRECTORS of the above Walls

Company have declared A3, IN Wirst Floobed up '24'e TERIM DIVIDEND 3 (eqtial to 3-per share) on the Freferred Ordinary in good condita, kowever, need not be Shares and 4% (equal to 8 per share) Limewashed, but minat be Cleaned

Carred

IF YOU FEEL A COLD APPROACHING

the Deferred Ordinary Shares The CENTRAL Division of Las City:

the mie of 2/119 per lies between Gilman Street and Pool

Street, ns the East and Tank Lane, and hot baththe-time and a dose of $1 Clayarly Street on the West

Finketies, the little gentle de mature laxatives, firm the best preventative.

Calculated at the Dallas

DIVIDENDS are one of Income Tax for thoes Shares on the Colonial Regis ter and will be payable on and, after FRIDAY 15th Februsty, 1818, at the Company's Office.

Kowloon I divided into the Pacters and Western Divisions by Nathan Boul sad s straight line drawn from the North wad through the Taumsti sarvion TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company reservoir to the Northern Boundary of will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, Kowloom.

7th February ta

February both days,

DAT 214th

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