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INTIMATIONS

THE WEST POINT BUILDING COMPANY. LIMITED.

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INTIMATIONS

TF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN AN INVESTMENT

which, in return for an outlay of £100 N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Three

Dollars per Share for the six per annum for five years, will thereafter. months ending 30th June, 1918, will be return you an Income of froin £500 'to payable on FRIDAY 28th July, c£1,000 per annUNI. which date Dividend Warrants may he obtained on application at the Com pany's Office.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will ba CLOSED from Friday, the 19th, to Friday, the 26th July(both days inclusive) during which period no. Transfer of Shares can be registered...

By Order of the Foard of Directors..

A. SHELTON HOOPER.

Steritary,

Write for full particulara to AFRICAN REALTY

14

TRUST, LTD.

(Capital £400,000 fully subscribed 38 New Broad Street.

Londer, EC, England.

6231

THE HONGKONG LAND INTEST. THE CHINESE OPTICAL CO.

MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.

General Agents for the

AVEST POINT BUILDING Co., Lrn

Hongkong, July 10, 1918.

582

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67 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

THE CHINA MAIL.

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SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1918,

INTIMATIONS

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THE BONG SONG LAND INVEST ALT & AGENCY CO., LTD.

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Three A and half Dollars per Share for the six months ending 30th June, 1918, wil be payable on FRIDAY, 26th July, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Com-

ny's Office..

BOOKS of the The TRANSFER BOOK

CLOSED, From Corapany will be Friday, the 19th, to Friday, the sh July (both days inclusive) during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board, of Directors.

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary

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ran at too high a speed for women, but women are operating machines for wood planing and for making wooden boiler

WOMEN AND SHIPS..

TASKS THEY ARE DOING IN SHOP tabe plugs..

AND YARD..

IN THE ENGINEERING SHOPS,

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MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S BONS.

NEWSPAPER OBY DENTED.

The engineering shops find them The Frise Minister's private secretary Shipbuilding The very word rings work on 6ia. and Sin. slotting machines, has addressed the following letter to the like the clanking of innumerable horizontal and vertical drilling machines editor of the National News " hammers, and creates the mind-vision and turret and capstan lather (con-

I am dewired by the Prime Minister repetition work in very many enxer of tall gaunt shipsides, propped by and the women satting up their own to request that you will be so good" as to scaffolding of men like adventurous togis). One woman, taid to be able to set in the National News a cor- Pygmies clambering all over them, turn her hand to any job, operates tradition of the following statement bammering, riveting, hammering radial turret drilling machine with which appeared in last Sunday's - 128 capstan bead which performs six of that paper: The exclamation had clankety-blank-unceasing, monotonous, operations. Overhead cranes are driven obvious reference to the fact that Mr. desiening,

A man's job, you are by women, and one, woman drives a Lloyd George's son is now in the United unconsciously thinking, remarks travelling crane among the small States as a member of Lord · Bending's corpondent in a Home paper.

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| entourage." -. And then you see a figure, clad in blouac, tiny close fitting cap, add what ezem to be breeches, clambering also, Comical figure for a 'mes, you think, and suddenly you see it is not a man but a woman; and farther that she is painting You admire her, you cannot help it, nor should you if you could. She is one of legion of women who, amid all those who bave so gallantly tacked the man's jobs, have his on the shipyards as their sphere-bare invaded the "heart of the fortress" from the toiling, sweating, pre-war man'a point of view.

The tasks women are doing in about the yards and marine engineering shops Fare innumerable. That fact tempted an engineer to say two years ago that by 1918 women would be able to build a tattleship From keel" to aerials. Too optimistic a statement, maybe, but let us consider for a moment what they have netually done.

WOMEN IN THE YARDS.

radial and sensitive drills and milling already been denied in the Pros." you

They are generally employed on

"Although rumours to this effect, have machines, and turbine blades are made and assembled by them. Women are still think fit to repent as a fact a state- also acetylene welding, nut facing and ment which is utterly untrue, and for acting as plumbers" assistanta. In the which there is no foundation. Both foundries they are machine moulding, Lloyd George's sons joined the Army at making, grinding, packing, and aörting, the beginning of the war! The elder was The boiler abops and them work in America when war broke out, and drilling, boring, turning, slotting, help-retamed to this country at once to join ing light platers, painting, assisting with the Army. "He has been at the Front rivet machines, pickling hoiler tubes, new for three years. The younger, to cutting tubes, removing burrs from tubes whom the rhmoura apparently relate, but and plugging them, and turning tube who has never been in Ameries at all, expander mandrils. They are Stting has also been at the Front since 1915, and filing pipe and valve flanges, filters went through the fighting on the Somine and valves, and bending super beater.

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tubes. They are constantly working in and the whole of the heavy fighting of the rigging house on wire ropes of 13 last year on the Arris-Ypres front. inches, and have done 2 inches. In the

LANGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILERMAKERS, BRASS and IRON In regard to the work done by his FOUNDERS. All work done in this wetablishment is guaranteed. We here braziers shops they are repairing lamps battery during, this latter period, it may over thirty years' experience. We own two Blipways and can scommodate y craft and soldering.

be added in fairness to him that he of 200 feet long. Of the more readily suitable jobs, received the congratulations of his generaį such as tracing, storekeeping time for his valuable services and devotion te clerking, scutching and spinning fibre

I have before me a carefully compiled in rope shops, looking afte, switchboards daty. He was invalided borde a short record of the multifarious jobs being in generating stations, and lacquering time age, and is now returning to the done, and well, by women in and about there are a great number.

Front in the ordinary course." abipyards and marina pogineering shops. "All these are not jobs ideally suited Before setting them down I will quote to women. That the women are doing the words of an eminent Scottish ship them; and, on the whole, well, is yard expert: "Strength and endurance aufficent tribute to their fearless adven

Town Ofion, 48, CONVERT ROAD CAL, Hongkong Telephone No. 459.

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WONG, FING WA, Manager

Hongkong, April 1, 1912

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jobs. They are intelligent enough-their inspiring industry, and to their more intelligent than many of the men; great and whole-Learted championship they work hard; they don't get fed up of the cases of humanity the Allied with doing the same job constantly cause.

Give them a repetition job that makes good pay, and they will go on with it week after week-uite happily. But there are, jobe they cannot de: heavy tiveting werking up to the knees in water and mud, repairing the keel of a ship, moving shiga about the yards, and

so on."

On-board saip, women are fitting. electrical apparatus for yard lighting, mains and telephoner, and doing com plex wiring work generally Also they are chipping scraping and painting (doing dredgers and sleam hoppers externally and internally). In the yards they are bydraulic riveting, acraping and coating the bottom of destroyers and submarines, driving.. erates (some of 30 tons), French THERAPION No. 2, polishing, labouring (carrying '60lb. ested in thay holes. Ban LEGS SHEM STUPTIONS weighta singly), loading into, wagons and barges, cleaning and painting chain" cables,

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YEAD OFFICE: KOWLOON

Telephone No. R. 55.

All classes of light steel work manufactured by the above process.. Tinks, Drums. Ventilators, Pipi, dz, &c.

TTHE DIMENSIONS OF DOCKS AND SLIPS ARE AS VOLLOWS THE

DEPTH OVERH

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SPRINGS

ERNOTE NAME OF DOCK OF SLIP ON KRED. ENTRANOS | SILL AT

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No.

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QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.

Telephone No. 2, Hongkong,

R. 8,567 ELNA. Anwloon Dock, Hongkong