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TUESDAY JANUARY 8 1924.

TO-DAY'S NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

This Prospectus has been duly filed with the Registrar of Companies.

The Subscription list will be open on MONDAY, the 14th day of JANUARY, 1924, and close.on or before SATURDAY, the 19th day of JANUARY, 1924.

THE SIMPLEX PLASTER COMPANY, LIMITED.

Incorporated under the Companies' Ordinances 1911-1921.

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CAPITAL

$500,000.

DIVIDED INTO 50,000 SHARES OF $10 EACH.

Offer of 4,000 Shares of Public Subscription,

Of the above shors 15,000 credited as fully paid will be allotted to The Chino American Industrial Peveloping Company, Limited. na the punckusse price for the sale ter the Company of property, platit, machinery and pigmen of The Chino Amarica Industrial Developing Company, Limited, or the fernis of the continet set forth in this Prospectus. Of the reniaining 35(K) shares it is intended at the present time to issue only 15,000, stal of these shures 11,000 hava already been subscribed for cash by the Directors and their friends. On these shares 82.50 per sdure will be paid on application and the - balance when called up on the same basis as the reroníring capital.

The remaining 4,000 shares to be issued at the present time, zanking equally with those already subscribed, are now offered for

Public Subscription, payable as to $2.50 per shares on application.. The balance due on ench share (57.50) will be called up on allotment. The unissued Capital of this Company will be insed at such timo or Times and on such teams as the Directors shall determine.

Directors:

CHARLES EDWard [[artnell Beavis, No. 9, Queen's Road Central,

Victoria, Hongkong, Solicitor.

CHAN PER CHUs, No. 34, Bonham Strand West, Victoria, Hong-

kong, Merchant,

CHAP YEE TANG, No. 16, Des You Road Central, Victoria,

Hongkong, Merchant.

Carl BRADLEY SHANK, Nos. 50-52, Queen's Road Central, Victoria,

Hongkong. Engineer.

EDWARD DRAN SHank, Nos. 50-52, Queen's Road Central, Victoria,

Hongkong, Architect.

Woxe Kwok Sury, No. 169. Des Voux Rord Central, Victoria,.

Hongkong, Banker.

One further Director will be appointed by the Boord after allotment,

Bankers:

THE INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION.

Auditors:

MESSIEURS LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, Chartered Bank Building, Victoria, Hongkong.

Solicitors:

MESSIEURS WILKINSON & GRIST,

No. 9. Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong.

Registered Office of the Company:

China Building, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong.

PROSPECTUS.

(a) The recent remarkable developments in building in this Colony Juvo resulted in a demand for labour and building inaterials that has been unprecedented. Inawased costs, consequent upon such demand, necessitate the adoption, where possible, of tucans whereby not only may luhundr be saved but muteriak produced bold quickly anil Exemically. Thus Company is formed mainly for the purpose of providing plaster and gypsum products which are required in the construction of every building from the small house to the largest block of modern ollices. Sipler Phuster," which the Company proposes to mamulucture in this Colony, is manufactured by a special process, and is ut present only obtainable from abroad, and the Promoters are confident that it can be manufactured her and sold for a prico consadembly below that which the commodity pormunds in Hongkong at the present time. This plaster is now extensively used in building in this Colony, and is in fact, as experience hust shown, extremely beneficial in the Far East and particularly in Hongkong, for it is impervious to white wils, does not chip oving to damp, and is practically tireproof, remaining unbroken and unaffected by heat untess of a vinporature of 250 to 300 degrees centigrade.

(b) The Company has required as a going concern that branch, of the business of The Ching Ansaricau Industrial Developing Com- pany, Limited, which has been engaged in the manufacture of "Simplex Plaster. The purchase includes piece of land of an

approximate area of 41,000 square feet ditunts at Tsun Wan, together with the buildings, plant, machinery and equipment thereon, the machinery being already assembled for the coinmencement of man- incture. The purchase price will be paid and satisfied by the allet." ment to The Chin American Industrial Developing Company. Lånûted, of 15,000 shares of the Company credited as fully paid up. Furthermore the agreement with the Vendors provides that the Vendors will place with the Company all further orders for the supply of plaster required by the Vendow. ↑

The Contract for the acquisition of this business is dated the 4th day of January, 1924, and is made between The China American· Industrial Developing Company, Limited, of the one part and Denis Houry Blake as Trustee for the Company of the other part. A copy of the Contract can be inspected at the Registered Office of the Com- pany or ut the office of the Company's Solicitors,

(e) The minimum subicription on which the Directors may proceed to allounent is seven gbares.

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(d) No commission or promotion money is being paid by the Company

(e) The Company will pay the preliminary expenses of and incidental to the formation and floating of the Company down to the time when it becomes entitled to commence business, and the estimated amount thereof is $5,000.00.

The Articles of Association provide that the qualification of a -Director ia to be the holding of 600 shares in the Company, and that the remuneration of each of the Directors is to be $600.00 per annum. (4) The Directors are interested in the promotion of the Com- pany to the extant only that they or some of them are Directors of other companies with whom the Company may do business,

(h) Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company can be inspected at any time during business hours st the Registered Office of the Company or at the office of the Com-: pany's Solicitors.

*(1) A copy of the Company's Mommundum of Amodation is anexed to this Prospectus and forms part of it.

Application-for-shares abould-be made pan the Fam attached to this Prospectus, and sent to the Company's Banters together with a remittance of $2.50 per share, the amount of the deposit condens

Where no allotment is made, the deposit will be returned in full, and whữes the anniher of shares allotted in less than the number apliod for, a proportionate amount of the deposit will be returned

Propockies can be inspected at and Forms of Applications wbtained from the Cofaponya Bankare, the International Banking. Cinepoésiem, mod'nt and from the Registered Office of the Company

Wie das of Janmary, 10211 vand

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Hongkong, January 8th, 1924.

NOTICE.

THE FORTYEIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING will be held on WEDNESDAY, the 9th inst. at 9.15 p.m. All M. M. are invited to attend.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE ONE HUNDRED & FOURTH

· ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company No. 4A, Des Voeux Road, on FRIDAY, 1st February 1924, at 12 O'clock NOON for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts, declaring a Dividend and electing Director and Auditors.

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