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G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER APPRAISER AND SURVEYOR..

Public Auctions-

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THE Understgued has receivodi instruc

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THURSDAY, July 31, 1919,

commencing at 2:30 pm, st.No. 12 Chatham Road, Kowloon, A Quantity, of Valuable Household Furniture,

Comprising: "

Teak extension dining table & chaira. Teak sideboard & dinner waggon Teak overmantels, mirrors, tea tables, tempoya, carpets, tenk bedsteads, teak wardrobes with bevelled mirrors, teak dressing tables, chests of drawer, etc.,

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On view from Wednesday, the 37th inct..

Catalogues will be issued,

Terms: Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Hongkong July 25, 1919.

INTIMATIONS

SHELL TRANSPORT & TRADING CP, LED:

E have been requested by the

Wave Cangany to annance

that New Shares will be beat parto Jakien) olibers on the 16th June, 1990. in the proportion of ONE new share for every TWP uld shares,, fractions being disregardi

Holders of HEARER ~ 'Warrants should deposit their holdings not later than the 9th August 1919, incompanied by payment of the equivalent of 21 Sterling for each new share claimeri, with their Bankers who will starp the warrants on the face thereef with the words " RIGHTS. CLAIMED 1919"

Registered shareholders should pay to their Bankers the caivalent of £1) Sterling for cach now share claimed, rot later than the 9th August,. VOID.

FOR THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION.

N. J. STABR

Chief Manager..

Hongkong, July 25, 1910-

KONGKONG TRAMWAY CO.,

LIMITED (incorporated in the United Kinglóm.).

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OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 2 INTERIM DIVIDEND of NINE PENCE per Share on accent of the year 1919 has been declared.

The DIVIDEND will be payable on and after MONDAY, the 25th day of August, 1913, to Shareholders on the Register on MONDAY, the 17th day') of August, 1919, hod will be paid to Shareholders on the Colonial (Hong kong) Register at the exchange rate of 34 per Dollar.

By Order of the Board,

W. E. ROBERTS,

Skeretary. Hongkong, July 9, 1019.

THE HONGKONG, <CANTOX & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

AN INTERIM DIVIDEND OF ONE A DOLLAR per Share for the six months ending June 30, 1915, will be PAYABLE on TUESDAY Augne 5, un which date Dividend Warrants magij he obtained on application at the Com pany's Office.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Gompany will be ULUSED from WED NESDAY July 30 to. TUESDAY, Angust 5. both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

JOHN ARNOLD.

Acting Sedretary,

Hongkong, July 22, 1919.

NOTICE..

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LL PERSONS with the exception. of those of Chinese races desiring to leave the Colony shuu.d apply ia person between the boars of 99 4.4 to 1 PM, and 9 PM. to 4 pm daily at the PASS OFFICE. Post Office Building,

Applicant will be required to produce | Passports or identification papers all

INTIMATIONS

METEOR GARAGE

Sole distributors of

MAXWELL CARS.

Autome' for Hire

and for Sale

at reasonable Prices,

'Phone 2500.

65 Des Faux Road: Central,

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The Natural Milk Food for Infants,

Invalida and Nursing Mothers.

We have just received a burge entgntun

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ACTOGEN

RECO

NATURAL MILN

FOOD ROM

INFANTSAMİN VALIDS)

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Agent: For onekoax, and Heath Chinn Now, Ai si de, Commuight Randy satral, Flodgking.

Teleplan No. 10&

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

KIPPERS!

KIPPERS!

JUST RECEIVED

A New Shipment direct: from

Scotland.

65 cents per lb. ·

FOR

SALE POSTAGE STAMPS

to

Commemorate

PEACE

at 50 cents per set of 4

GRADA & CO., No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. U. Box 620..

Hongkong.

JAPANESE

MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

TO

ORDER

CHERRY & CO.,

PEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong label. Telephone No. 491.

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

parsons, with certain exceptions, whic MACGREGOR'S

remain in the Colony for more than ↑ days are required to Register thum selves ander the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Ports of Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained at the Q.P.0. and at all Police Stations.

The Pensity for and complunch is a Ane pot adding 850

MEE CHEUNG.

PHOTOGRAPHER

Ice House Street.

Photo of

Paano Celebration Day&Night. Decoration,

Branch Opposite City Hall.

V.O.S.

(PARLIAMENT BLEND) "

FINEST LIQUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY.

EXTRA SPECIAL FINEST LIQUEUR WHISKY.

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.,

15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG,

THE CHINA MAIL.

Golofina

EVERY TIME YOU WANT A

GOOD SMOKE.

Sold in Two Sizes "PERFECTOS"

Actual Size.

BOUQUET"

*PERFECTO*

Actual Size

& 'BOUQUETS ”

Obtainable at all

High-class TOBACCONISTS.

This Advertisement is issued by British-American Tobacco Co., (China) Etd.

IMPORT RESTRICTIONS.

HOW SMALL TRADES

ARE CRIPPLED.

What strikes one most in looking through the long list of import re strictions is the relative cnimportance of most of the items. Except for a few things like hosiery, boots and shoes, silk manufactures, electrical, apparatus, and glass, they do not represent any great bulk of trade. But, just because they are spread over such a wide field their effect on industry and on prices is the more harassing. They are not raw materials in the ordinary sense of the word, but they are many of them semtraw materials which enter into the finished articles of a score cf British trades.

subsidy of machinery, and so on- none, one is informed, will undertake the work The import ration is in- adequate, and there is fear that the few business may be crip pled. The cost of the rubber plates is only one tenth of that of the finished article: the rest is made of British materials and British labour. The import of rubber goods, it is understood, has been cut down largely on the re- presentation of the British rubber manufacturer.

THE OCTOPUS.

The Report of the Committee on Trusts, published recently by the Ministry of Reconstruction, shows not only that we are at last waking monopolies, but that the need itself up to the need of dealing with trade is becoming very much more urgent. The Committee reports a great in. crease in creation of trusts during the period of the war; and the whole movement is a twentieth century growth the strangle hold of which has fastened itself on and

our trade industry, retailer

and the small are powerless

and " the consumer

to resist. The

One meets with this same co plaint of the "dog in the manger policy from quite a number of other quarters. The manufacturer has not always had his way, but he has often been sufficiently plausible to influence the Consultative Council. An attempt, objects of these combines and rings was made by the basker-making are to restrict competition, to abolish trade, through its Whitley Council, the once normal conditions of supply It is quite simple for the Board of admitted that order-books were full, thus artificially restricting supply; to stop the import of baskets. They and demand, by reducing output and Trade to cut down the supply of, for but they wanted the market to be and to control and keep up prices. example, Swiss embroidery, on the kept favourable to them, and security There are few important trades in plea of benefiting a few British gained for future seasons. The Con- which there are not associations or manufacturers, although (as it was, sultative Council, however, heard the combines, some of which jointly fix reported to the Consultative Council) evidence of the fruit-growers, which prices, some regulate tenders for those manufacturers have only 400 threw another light on the applica contracts, some eliminate competition machines against 14,000 in Switzer tion. They said that owing to the by restrictive conditions on buyers, land. Swiss embroidery is the raw shortage of baskets last year tons of and some regulate output by fines or material of several branches of the fruit were wasted because baskets compensations for those who exceed hosiery and clothing trades, who are could not be got to send it off to or fall short of an arranged allotment. directly interested in getting it cheaply, market, and they feared a repetition Its price is now inflated, and the unless baskets could be brought from the general effects of these combina- The Committee has no doubt about London home-trade houses report Holland. The relaxation of the pro- tions of masters of industry. However that the remoyat of the restric, hibition was recommended by the much it may be argued that they tion would bring prices down. The Council, and approved by the Board help our export trade by affording xation is only 50 per cent of 1916 of Trade, much to the indignation of facilities for dumping, the fact imports (by weight), but that is the basket makers' Whitley Council. remains that they make profiteering suficient, according to a market These reactions and interactions of the rule and that they make the con-

steadily to pieces." Here the the whole range of industry. The report, to cause the British trade to one trade on another run through | sumer pay more. We are paying question is clearly whether a few Consultative Council by regulating Nottingham firms are to be bolstered one trade to suit its manufacturers up at the expense of the general and workpeople hit unwittingly, body of consumers of hosiery and sometimes perhaps callously, at an- fancy goods, who, of course, number other trade which depends in part on many millions. Capital is ready free supplies of the goods restricted. for investment" in the embroidery The consumer loses every time. industry, we are told, "as soon as

THE SHIPBUILDER'S TROUBLES, the Government can make up its The uncertainty as to what the mind to give a fair measure of Board of Trade will de next, what protection for the next few years." imports they will free, or what new Surely there must be something in ones they will prohibit, adds to that herently weak about an industry general paralysis of enterprise by which "falls to pieces" when a small which, after six months of peace. fraction of foreign imports is allowed large sections of industry are still and even when that small fraction afflicted. The shipbuilding ladustry itself keeps up prices in favour of is brisk, and will be so long as the home manufacturer.

more for tron and steel goods than we should, more for woollen goods, more for bricks and cement, and furniture, and fish, and almost every- thing that we need every day.

recommendations, but in our opinion The Committee makes certain

these recommendations are le more than playing with the subject. They would make it the duty of the Board of Trade to collect and if annual reports to Farliament, to necessary exact information, to make inquire into complaints, and to set whole machinery suggested does up a tribunal for investigation. The little more than promote publicity- which would be of great value if it A "DOG IN THE MANGER"

neutrals continue to pour out their could be guaranteed, but it rests too erders. Ships, however, are POLICY.

hot exclusively on the enterprise of the Another quite small case may be a "time and line" basis, for no ship certain recommendations of the being built on contract prices, but on Board of Trade. Nothing less than quoted.

The import of rubber builder can make contracts for the minority of the Committee will manufactures is restricted to 15 per delivery of materials eighteen months satisfy the public, for whom a cent of 1916 totals from America, ahead. This is not the fault therely of Italy, and Japan, but as the ration is the import restrictions, but a great deal exercised during the war will be measure of control similar to that only granted for six months it of it is the consequence of the Gov- the least that will be demanded- amounts in effect to no more than ernment's 'trade policy, With the Daily Chronicle. 7 per cent of 1916 imports. A country's fiscal policy undetermined. firm imported before the war large with the shackles of control still quantities of dress preservers and gar unpleasantly lingering, there is no ment shields in the finished state, but incentive to lay in the stocks without the big houses bear out, moves they have since started a factory to which industry cannot plan and just now in a very circumscribed make these goods. Ar essential part forge ahead. is a this rubber plate. made only, in

market a market of trickling sup America and Germany. Although the import restrictions in many small prices, and of manufacturers with full The shipbuilder feels the pinch of plies, hawked about at exorbitant all kinds of inducements have been ways. To fit out a ship means draw order-books, who treat delivery dates offered to British rubber manufacting on a sort of universal provider, with some disdain, but still banker urers-ordersfor a long term of years, and the universal provider, as any of after protection against the foreigner..

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1919.

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansiona

Agents for:—ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,

MACARONI, PASTE STARS, EGG NOODLES, VERMICELLI,

AND ALL KINDS OF SOUP STUFFS,

LL our Pantes boar the "Booster" label and are made from Flor of the Beek principal components of Flour Gluten la easier to digest and contains mora nutriment than Starch. Manufactured under the most sanitary condiciona

A Quality sentaining a large percentage of Glusse. Starch and Glutes are the

Large quantities have been exported to various important cities in the World.

Terras moderate, especially for Agencies. Orders executed promptly. THE HING WAH PASTE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.

Bend Office: No. 47 and 45, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong; Tel. 19:49 & 2230, Principal Factory: No. 71, North Soochow Road Shanghai China; Tolephone 3385. Branch Factory: Wing Hing Street. Causeway Bay, Hongkong. Cable Address: "HINGWAK."

COPPER QUEEN BELTING

Has Established a New Standard of Power Trans- mission Efficiency.

Sole Agents for: HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA.

GERIN, DREVARD & Co.

Hotel Mansions.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

Operating :-

...The leading Hotel in the Far East.

The coming seaside resort of South

Chim.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL “.. THE REPULSN BAY HOTEL

(opening in the Summer of 1919) THE HOTEL MANSIONS

Office premisea)

The bradecarters of the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, and the leading American business concerns.

The Hote Company having recently extended their cold storage plant and instituted motor transportation, are specialising in outside catering such as banquets, dances, picaica. etc, ai are prepared to supply all necessary equipment, decorations, furnishings, and-manic.

Quotations may be obtained on application at the Hotel Main Office, or representative will call on communicating with

Telephone No. 483. Catering Department. Telephone No. 1873, Manager.

J. H. TAGGART, Maxaca.

THE PEAK HOTEL.

1,500 Feet above Sea Level,

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of

'Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

'CENTRAL LOCATION

ALL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pass Entration, Electric Lift Hans and Lighting European Bathe and Sagitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout. Beat of Food and Service.

Telephone 373. Telegraphia Address :--'VICTORIA."

J.-WITCHELL Manager.

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

(Two minutes from Star Forry).

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughous and entirely undior "new management. Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Booms. Terms moderate. Special carina to tamilies on application to

Telephone E. 3. Telegraphie Add.; "PALACE”

J. H. OXBERRY, Prostor.

CARLTON HOTEL,

(WIS ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL IN THE DOLANT,) ICE HOUSE STREET,

Under American Management. Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes welk from the Banks and Central District. 43 Bedrooms, Excellent Cuisine, scrupulously clean. Moderate Terms. Monthly and Family Kates on 'application to the Proprietress Launches meet Passenger Boats.

MR. F. E CAMERON.

Telegraphic Aldrem "CARLTON?""

BLUE BIRD

ICE CREAM ·

PARLOUR

AND CONFECTIONERS

TANG YUK, Danzig,

Baccamor to

BLUE BIRD

the late BIEN TING, 14. D'ÁGUILAR STREET.

TERME VERY MODERATE

Consultation Ide

dib,

CHOCOLATES Plain Het Vasite Chocolat Home-Madu Assorted Chocenter Here's Nestle's and

Catilor

Choco

Chaculata

25 eta, per pat Amorina Chocolata per t

0000 A Imperial Guqus....per 15. Par-KI Citran! Erenkat öron”....

20 per

FRENCH LESS INS

6. MOUSSION.

18, Marrison Hall Road,

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