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NOTICES.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary Ceneral Meeting of the Rociety will be held at the registered office of the Society, Green's Building ngkong, on THURSDAY, the 10th day of April, 1919, at 13 o'clock soon, when
subjoined resolutions
That the nominal silver capital of the Eociety aà existing when this resolution is confirmed a special resolution be converted into sterting and that such capital so converted,
be is creased beyond the sterling equivalent of such silver capitul «hen such conversión takes place to the sum of £9,000,000 Sterling divided into 200,000 shares of the nominal value of £10 each.
That eneb af the issued silver" shares of the Society of the nominal value of .250, each with the sum of $100 paid ve thereon be enverted into five shares of the nominal value of £10 each with the sterling equivalent of 920 Hongkong vur- runcy at the opening T. T. rate of exchange on the date this resolution is confirmed a special resolution eredited as paid up thereon and accordingly that 80,000 shares ont of the 20 pip ishares. the uomiral value of fig each constituting The capital of the Society so converted and increased bo this vidu vil by the Peard to the persons who are registered na skatei midēts at the Society on the dsto this resolution is corfait s'peciel retolution in exchange for the silver shares then beid by them.
2. That the Antjeles of Association be altered in mannerfollowing,
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mecition after ärticle No. 107 of the following Article.
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TEE NEW SPIRIT OF THE LAND,
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emerges.
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and in the spirit of the people in the – WEIHAIWEI LAND, land, that there is no reason why we' inhould not advance on war figures! instead of retrograding. We are proud of our effort, but our acres
The directors of the Weihaiwei
SATURDAY, MARCH 29,3" 191K
CICI ES HOSANN FACSUTA, INTIMATIONS
still produce on the average about Land Building Co. Ltd., have prepared CRUICKSHANK'S GOUGH BALSAM.
have ing to be held on March 25. It shows good that for the year ended December 31, and 1918, Tis. 2,002.01 was expended on general repairs and upkeep of the bungalows, all but one of which were occupied during the whole of the 1918 summer season.
The proft and loss account shows
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After four years in France, where half what Belgian acres produce. hedges do not exist and a grass field
their report for presentation to share- The new spirit is visible in a score holders at the twentieth annual meet ig a rarity, England has a very of little signs, all significant. Since English appearance. But, as one. Leturning from the waz travels about "the country with in sten farmers, with the will of their landlords eye to the changes, a new England
the help ict German prisoners, des Many countrymen who are old roying hedges, and rooting up trees, enough will remember how between an obvious benefit scarcely dreamed '80 and '90 their homes became of in the past. I knew people before encircled with a scit of park, as the war, as deep in the country as field after field, previously under Berkshire, who could only get veget the plough, was allowed to fall backables from Covent Garden; and the to grass, and the beauty of the land country people everywhere could a credit balance of Tis. 3,583.10 out grew as the use diminished. The hardly be persuaded to regard vege of which the directors recommend farmers whose rent was reduced as tables as a staple form of food. a yearly operation made money by In the eyes of farmers vegetable that a dividend of three per cent. the simple process of not spending, culture was generally felt to be s. 9.60 per share) should de paid. and where no tenants were forth- deregatory, and their gardens were This will absorb Ts. 2.204.40. leav coming the landlords universally neglected. Labourers quite frequently ing to be carried forward a balance lost so much per acre by attempting let their allotments go out of cul of Tis. 1,375.70.
tivation. They were not worth the to farm for themselves.
The company owns 318 mow of A WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION for "Wheat," the wiseacres said, trouble, they used to say.
land, comprising five estates, of will never reach a paying price. This sort of spirit has, as it seems which only 44 maw
Eave been again."
to me, wholly vanished; and the new utilised, leaving 274 mow to be deve- Wheat is now over 70 shillings a spirit has many things to keep it
loped. quarter, and it used to pay at 30 alive.. Home supplies of food are shillings.
almost as valuable now as they were. The least enterprising could see A Food Production Department that there was money in it, and the is as necessary as before, and fccd desire is, I think, general. It will grass fields began to vanish and the will remain dear for years, probably be a serious set back it. they are face of the country to change as after always. Throughout England allot;
ousted, as they may be, for a thaw. Almost exactly two million ments have multiplied, and the acres of grass have been ploughed gardens are cultivated to the hilt. there is a tendency to say that their up since 1916, a good many of these Both for the first time are accepted labour is not economic within as little as ten miles of as a real source of wealth, and even Lordon, to the interest and astonish-luxury- catment of almost suburban residents, who felt for the first time that agriculture concerned them as a per- sonal thing.
PROVETU
The Pearl may en ploy the funds of the Society which Emplesmi bave a bien established purstant to the provisions of Article 107 NOTH arany e't them ne any portion ri ergot (and that whether each funest
s of such portion as is propered to be dealt with were set site for the jurial purpose in which they are proposed to be applied or for any other purpose or not) in or for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say, in meeting contingene es, in equalizing dividends, in paying special divides ne or tenuses, in erguicing unproving and main wining any toperty of the Society, or otherwise in the basi ness of the Society, and in or for such other purpos as the Board shall in its discretion-think conducive to be interest of til bralety, and in regard to ang such employ mo ntas ufore- sided shall not be bound to keep als separate
from the other noseta.
By the insertion of the following Atticles after Article No. 108. #108 ( Ary general meeting at which a dividend or bonus is Ranna
declared et sanctioned may make a call on the members of a such room as the meeting fixes but so that the call on each member shall not exered the dividend or bonus payable to him and so that notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 19, 20 and 21 the call may te payable at the same time as the divid end or benus and the dividend or bonus may, if so arrucgëd between the Society and the member, be set off against the call. The making of a call under this Article shall be decies onlinary business of an ordinary general meeting which declares a lividend.
(4). After an insolution has been passed under the provisions of paraph 1) of this Article the Board may asange cn behalf Horiety for the dividend or bonus to be set off. against the call by authorizing any person on behalf of the mentes from whow such call is due to enter into an Agree; ment with the Society providing for such dividend or bonus to be stuff against such call and any agreement made under such aghority shall be effective.
(5). It shall be no objection to any resolution made under paru- graph ()ri (bis article or to any call or arrangement that such relation was parred or such call or arrangement was made at Le meeting at which the resolution introducing this Article and Articles 10% (a, was confirmed as a special résolu- tion provided that live notice the intention to propose such first inentioned resolusion and to declare such dividend or bonus and to make such cal! skall have been given prior to the Confirmatory meeting aforesaid.
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108 (b). Dividends may be paid in Hongkong Currency at such late of
rate of exchange as the General 3leging declaring us sanction. ge ing the sale or the case of interim dividends, as the one may determine."
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Should the above resolutions be passed by the requisite majority they will be sakmitted for confmation us special resolutions to a wevend extraordinary menting which will I « subsequently convened.
Dated the Twenty-eighth day of March, 1919.
By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE EDE ·
General Manager.
BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the registered office of the Company, Queen's Building, Hongkong in THURSDAY, the 10th day of April, 1918, at 5 o'clock Z when the subjoing resolutions will be proposed as extraordinary re polutions:
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1. That the nominal silver capital of the Company as existing when this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution te converted into sterling and that sach capitalso converter he increased beyond the sterling equivalent of such silver capital. when such conversion takes place to the sum of £1,0LDO Sterling d divided into 200,000 shares of the nominal value of
es each.
That each of the issued silver shares of the Company of the nominal value of $83.33 each with the sum of 885 ruid up thereon be converted into three shares and two-fifths of one share of the nominal value of 25 each with the sterling equivalent of $7.35 Hongkong currency at the opening
T.T rate of exchange on the cute this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution credited as paid up thereon and according 1y that F1,600 shares out of the 200,01 shares of the nominul value of each constitating the capital of the Company so converted and increased be distributed by the Board to the persons who are registered as shareholders of the Company on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution in exchange for the silver shares then held by then.
3. That the Articles of Association be altered in manner following,
namely
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fonds,
By the insertion after Article No. 100 of the following Article. "106-(a). Thu Board may employ the funds of the Company which 'Emplastenk
have been establis het pursuant to the provisions of Article 106 or any of them or any portion thereof (and that whether such funds or such portion as is proposed to be dealt with were-st-il for the eperint purpose to which they are proposed to be applied or for any other purpose or not) in or for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say, in meeting contingencies, in equalizing dividends, in paying special dividends or bonuses, in repairing improving and minintaining any of the property of the Company, or other- wise in the business of the Company, and in or for such other purposes as the Board shall in its discretion think conducive to the interests of the Company and in regard to any such employment as aforesaid the Board aball not be bound to keep such funds separate from the other wets."
By the insertion of the following Articles
icles after Articlo No. 191. 107(1) Any general meeting at which a dividend or bones is Dons ry declared or sanctioned may make a call on the members of gainat ca Puwut of such amount as the meeting fixes bu so that the call on each member shall not exceed the dividend or bus payable to him and so that notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 18, 19 and 20 the call -y be payable at the same time as the divid end or bonus and the dividend or bonus may, if no arranged between the Company and the member, bo set off against the call. The making of a call under this Article shall be deemed ordinary business of an ordinary general meeting which declares a dividend,
(9) After any resolution has been passed under the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article the Board way arrangn on behalf of the Company for the dividend or bonus to be set off against the call by authorizing any person on behalf of the members from whom such call is due to enter into an Agree- ment with the Company providing for such dividend or bonus to be not off against such call and any Agreement made under aneh authority shall be effective,
12). It shall be an objection to say resolution aude unter pare
graph (1)of this article or to any call or arrangement that such resolation was passed or auch fal or a rangement was made at the meeting at which the elation producing this Article and Articles 100 (cd us a special risolu- tion provi, ed that due notice of the intention to propose such first mentioned resolution and to decisa much dividend or bonds and to make such cal shall have, been given prior to the Confirmatry meeting." aforesaid.
107 (b). Dividends may be pd in Hongkor Iurrency at such into of rate ci exchange as the Groen Bring declaring or h
Txchange Banctioning the same or, the case of hdcrim dividends dividende as the Beard may determine.”
PAZAble to
Should the above resolutions lensed by the requisite majority they will be somitted for car Brmation as sprout revolutions to Brod extraordinary meeting which will subsequently cord.
Dated the Twenty-eighth day of March, 191 -
By Lider ¿f the Fissid,
QUEMONTAGUE EDE,
General Manager.
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The figures of British production, as I can testify from many taiks with cbservers in both countries, astound-
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It is the most remarkable part of England's war eforts," an eminent American statesman said to me in America last spring.
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I have before me quite amazing figures of the percentage of increase of grain, bears, peas, and above all, potatoes. Last year potatoes even exceeded the natural rate of con- sumption, as the German supply always does. But statistics are cold." things. It is much more persuasive tote the process on a piece of land with which one is familiar.
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HOME-GROWN," THE MOTTO "All you see on the table is kome grown," said to me the other day London worker with a country home; and the fare included a rabbit and a home-cured ham. Such things are small details, bet they express well enough a sentiment that is new and
almost universal.
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have said, are visibly, even in mid-| Village gardens and allotments, aS
winter, reformed places; and the collected figures of their production which have been gathered with much trouble, are even more startling than the figures of farm production. Everything on the land has added worth, "as if England were France. Even the rabbits are farmed." Wood-cutting, for ex ample, which is an important addi- tion to the activities of most French villages, is a popular occupation, and a certain number of farmers have bought circular saws, and use thera for their neighbours' benefit:
All this new activity is, of course, primarily due to war, but it is. ass0TM ciated with the presence on the land of many women. We have exactly! I know, for example, a one-hundred- the sarce phenomena in France and) acre ex-meadow that row provides in Germany, which even before the enough starch food for 400 people war used just ten times as many for a year. I doubt if it fed ten in women on the land as we did and the old days.
cultivated a third more of its area. They tell us these figures will In England before the war country) never be approached again, and com.women of all classes had notoriously! plaints of the disappearance of grass become too fue to concert them- are numerous; but grass is the thin- selves with the land. the world acknowledges. Haply we nest of all forms of cultivation, 35
shall never be content with so much of it again; and as it seems to me, the change is such, both on the land
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of the women who are now working To-day at this moment 80 per cent.
on the land are desirous of staying on it. I speak of a particular district in one of the Home Counties, but the
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Ring buying from us is an Investment. It is like putting money in the Bank. You can convert the Ring into money- of any time you wish. We will always give you back in original price, les 10 per cent.
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Our method of Ring Selling provides a leisured choies, the oppor
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Winter you wish, after ven month, can your, ten years, or twenty years, we will repudiam your' Bíos at 10 per cant. teie than the price you have paid for i
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