1920-02-17 — Page 2

C. P. LAMMERT.

G.

AUCTIONEEL, APPRAISER

AND SCRVETOR.

Public Auctions-

INTIMATIONS.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO., LTD

NOTICE IS HEREBY OVEN that!

the ORDINARY ANNUAL GEN- ERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLD ERS in this Company will be held the Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong,on WEDNESDAY, the 18th February. 20. at Noon for the purpose of *ceiving the Report of the Directors.i together with a Statement of Ac- counts for the year ending 31st Dec, 1919.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 11th February to the 21st February (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered..

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers.. Hongkong, February 3, 1920.

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI"

BANKING CORPORATION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Shareholders' in this Corporation will be held at the CITY HALL, Hongkong, on SATUR. DAY, the 28th day of February 1920, at Noon; for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1919.

The Register of Shares of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 16th February, to SATURDAY, 28th February, 1920, (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

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By Order of the Court of Directors,

N. J. STABB,.

Chiy Manager

Hongkong, February 10, 1920.

WISEMAN, LTD.

TEA DANCES

TO-DAY (TUESDAY), 17th Feb.

AND

THURSDAY, 19th Feb."

Dance Tickets 50 cts. each.

D. M. GOODALL, Manager.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

IL

ARTICULARS” and Conditious of tha

Petting by Public Auction Sale, to

be held MONDAY, the 23rd day of Tub-uy, 1920, at 8p.M, at the Offices of Fito Public Works Department, by Order of Is Excellency the Governor, of One Lo of OROWN LAND at Shaakiwan Road, in the Coley of Hongkong, for a term

of 75 years, with the option of renewal be fixed by the at Orown Ront to

kurveyor of Bia Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 year9,

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Registry No.

Locality.

Bondary

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INTIMATIONS

BOW TO AVOID_INFANTILE'

AILMENTE.

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SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sale Aponte far Hongkong and South China Nos. 47 & 28. Connanght Road Contest, Hongkong. Telephone Nom. 1935 a 2750)

FOR

SALE

Fine Collection of

12500

POSTAGE STAMPS

all different, Guaranteed Genuize

and all

Nice Clean Copine for

$750. net.

GRACA & CO.,

Deal rs in Philatelic Goods, Garden Seeds, Toys, dac.

· No. 10, Wyndham. Street, P.O. Box 630.

Hongkong

JAPANESE MAKERS,

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Bengkong, March 30, 1914.

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WHAT IS A TAX?

POPULAR.EXPLANATION OF

THE IMPOSITION."

FACTS NOT ENOWN.

In a series of articles headed Ten-minute Talks with Workers" which have been appearing in The Times, the writer asks, "What is a Tax?" and then explains. it as fol-

lows:-

What is a tax? The question is apparently a very easy one, but it is part of both the difficulty and the charm of our study that the easy things turn out to be the hard ones. Still, by beginning at the beginning, as we always try to do, we may go a Fttle way in the right direction, so that we can finish the journey by

get the great boons you formerly got for them in old England.

ADVANTAGES OF IGNORANCE.

HUMOROUS:SPEECH BY MR. FISKER.

Mr. Augustine Birrell presided at the National Liberal Clab over a delightful lecture given by Mr. H. A. L Fisher. M

When you are buying a hat you j pay great attention to two points→→ (1) the quality of the hat, and (2) the price you are asked to pay for it. You want the quality to be as bigb and the price as low as possible. Foolish people sometimes talk as if you were acting improperly when you do this, but you know that if you do not do it for yourself nobody

Mr. Fisher who was cordially is in the least likely to do it for you received, spoke on The Natural In precisely the same way a tax Limits of the Value of Ignorance." should be regarded as the price paid The first part of his address was in for something-namely, the services the ironical vein. He quoted a re rendered by the Government. You solution of the Caterers' and Re- cannot do without these services, and sidential Hotel Keepers' Association you cannot render them to your which, suggested the suspension of self. Once every man was his own the operation of the new Education policeman. What do you think Act for a period of three years. In would become of us if that time their opinion the business of catering came back again, and you had to for the body would be conducted spend a good portion of your time with more success if animpeded safeguarding goods already pos by the process of catering for sessed instead of at work producing the mind. (Laughter.) The idea One of the very few things we more?

was that as we were going to be know about Shakespeare's father, is

THE FIRST DUTY OF CITZENSHIP,

poor we might as well be ignorant,: that he was fined for having a heap

Io John Shakespeare's, day, the (Renewed laughter.)Was not one of refuse in front of his door. They State did very little for the citizen. good hotel keeper: doing more for were not very sensitive to these I had got to the point of fining him the human race than 10 indifferent things theo, and we may be pretty when the refuse heap in front of his poets, and why should money, the sure that the nuisance was a bad one door grew too much of a nuisance, most precious of God's gifts, be and of old standing. Whether John but, as you may remember, even two expended on an effort to rectify Shakespeare offended again is not centuries later when Dr. Johnson qualities based upon the primordial known. What is known is that a arrived in Edinburgh in the dark nature of things? (Laughter.) Let few years later, in April. 1564; the he growled out to Boswell that he it be remembered that a dinner party plague broke out in Stratford and knew he was there because he smelt was reduced to chaos if all the guests swept of most of the inhabitants it-for Edinburgh was the Athens of insisted on talking, at the same time, It spared John Shakespeare's house the North from one point of view that a Cabinet was ruined if icon and so his baby boy, William, only and Auld Reekie from another.

tained more than one clever a week or two old, lived amto: write the greatest things in the world's

eurselves at leisure.

Eterature.

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In these later daya the tide has man (loud laughter)-that Ignor turned, and is running strongly in the ance and her twin sister inertia other direction.. The State does far were such essential parts of human "Now observe that John Shake more than it used to do, and every well-being. such indispens speare had to remove his own refuse. day new calls are made on it acti-able political ballast to the State that He had either to do the job himself vities. Hence the fret, business of the any country would become ungovern and lese his time, ar pay someone to citizen is to remember that a tax is able if all its residents really took to do it. You are not in that position. 2 price, and that it is just as true of thinking for themselves. (Laughter.) Your refuse is removed for you, nor State services as it is of the services Consider the numerous advantages do you have to hunt for a man to do rendered by hat makers, and house of ignorance, how comfortable, how The municipality sends him, and maids, that the man who pays a fashionable, how inexpensive, how pays him, and you repay it his wages penny, more for them, than they are congruous with the designs when you pay your "rates which worth to him is not doing something of Erovidence, with the designs. are only local taxes.

noble and patriotic, but something of engineers, with the im In this and many similar cases it uneconoidle and foolish.

mutable nature of man, with the wise Is clear that the payment of a tax is a private life the relation between economy of State, and, finally, in view the purchase of a commodity or ser the price paid and the commodity re of the fact that the people of Great vices. The postman, the policeman, ceived in return is always, watched Britain had during the present year and the teacher are just as much more or less carefully, for to each acquired 35,630,000 hours a week your servant as the charlady" and cne cf us this relation is a matter of more leisure, how agreeable to the the washerwoman who come on direct personal concern. Your hat financial interests of caterers and their appointed days to help your must fit, because you have to wear residential hotel keepers wife in her housework.

t: it must be worth its price for you

IN DARKEST AFRICA,

VIEWS ABOUT THE PRESS. have to pay for it. The man who Becoming serions, Mr. Fisher sald Suppose you were taken up on the does not make sure of these points that of all forms of ignorance the magic carpet of the Eastern fairy is not fulfilling his first duty to him- most dangerous was that which tales and suddenly transported info self and, to those dependent upon paraded itself in the sheepskin of a native village in darkest Africa. The fact it the hatter is. a knowledge. Obotzepesous, ignor Well, you would miss many things known, and defe person and the ace creaming, through, a mega. very sadly the clean and lighted bat a simple, and easily Judged com- paone, to a million scullery maids streets, perfect sanitation, safety of modity makes it very easy. You that the Empire was being ruined life and limb. freedom to enjoy cannot see the State, and perhaps by Austrian waiters or by cheap yourself and your property in your you have never reflected that a tax, domestic coal" was one of his den own way. You would miss all that direct or indirect, is really the pur-criptions during this part of his makes life as yoy now know it poschase price of an important com- address. Then he went on to deal modity the Government. If you with the Press, saying that the ajble. In a word, you would misa civilisa- tion, and surely you would soon now recognize the fact you will also Press was a wonderful institution, come to the conclusion that though realise that the first duty of citizen the services of which to many good you had now rp rates and taxes to ship to see that you get your causes he would be the first to ac

would gladly pay the pay, you

money's worth to the last farthing

Continued on Page 93).......

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1920.

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansions.

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,

HEALTH against

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TRADE MARK.

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HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING —

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

J. H. TAGGART. KAZATEL

THE PEAK HOTEL.

1,500 Feet above Sea Level,

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W

Mrs

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CENTRAL LOCATION

LL ELECTRIC TRAMS PR Entrance, Electric Lifta, Fans and Lighting:

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J. WITCHELL, Manager.

PALACE HOTEL

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Telephone K. & Telegraphie Add: "PARIOR

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CARLTON HOTEL.

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ICH HOUSE STRICE,

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Telegraphie Aldrew "CARLTON."

M. F. E. CAMERON.

TALEXANDRA CAFE T

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Christening, Birthday & Wedding Cakes made to order.

Mr N. BABBAGE, Manageress,

BLUE BIRD ICE CREAM PARLOUR

AND CONFEOMONIDA

TANG YUK, Dawei,

the late BIRT TING,

- 14, D'Anvidar ÖZKEVE,

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Cogon 30 ct perf

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