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Hongkong, Saturday, March 14, 1925.

ALL DRESSED. UP—

4:

idly, sitting about, bored.............“all dressed up and nowhere to go.”

Oh Those Delays!

It was alleged at one time that the high cost of building wes due. to the existence of a "ring" which kept out the small man and made it impossible for him to get con- tracts. It is open to doubt. If it is true, the application of the swat should be brought into immediate use. We ask for light: It is absurd. Where is the weakness? One weakness undoubtedly exists and that is the practice which! prevails of the original contractor | farming out his/contract, in some cases selling out and reaping a profit without having earned it Perhaps the second man sells his rights also. Each selling makes it difficult for the purchaser to do proper work. It may be difficult. to stop this method, but where it is known to exist it should be stopped. It should be made a matter of law., Again contracts should have a bank guarantee should get a class of contractor attached to them. In this way we dependable and work done in stipulated time and of an endur- ing nature.

Going to Wembley.

"After Offer Toil

SATURDAY,

MARCH 1

HONGKONG ELECTRIC SPORTS CABLES.

PROGRAMME OF EXTENSION JUSTIFIED

SHAREHOLDER'S COMMENT..

Office work over, there is a general move to the Club, tennis courts nowadays, for out of the many games in progress" at five. o'clock or so one at least may be counted upon as providing tennis. well worth while watching, even though the seating accommoda-sided over to-day's annual meat- tion may all be taken when one ing of the Hongkong Electric Co., arrives. During these early Ltd.

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The Hon, Mr. A. O. Lang pro-

-M.C.C TOUR.

FINAL CRICKET MATCH IN AUSTRALIA,

(Router's Service.)

wirket was perfect.

MALOK in their first innings, made 179. Sandhum scored 89.

A. Richardson took 5 wickets for 52, Palmer 1 for 50 and Grimmett

for 40.

Adelaide, March. 18... utages the interest attaching to There were also present: Hon. The final match of the present the matches is not regarded as Sir C.-P. Chator, Mr. B. D. FARCE font in Australia com sufficient to justify the evection Beith Mr. T. G. Wonll, Sir moneed today in no weather: of the special stand, which is u Robert Ho Tung and the follow. There were 5,000 apectators. The pity in many ways, for it often happens that the player or pairing shareholders:-Messrs. G. best qualified for the runner-up Murray, T. E. Fearce, Yip Yung- position meet the prospective pak, Leung Shiu-sou, O. F. Champion or champions in the Ribeiro, Leung Fat-tin, L E. very first round and if the public Qzorio, J. T: Bagram, G. V. were notified they would turn out Osmund, L. J. Davies, C. G. in strength to witness the match Alabaster, W. J. Joseph, D. When stomps were drawn, South which, given the conditions indi-Baptista. Lo Chung-kue, Wong Australia were 76 for 2 wickets, cated, would provide better tennis Ping-sun Leung Yan-po, Felix Grimmett is presumably, the than the final. However, there M. Ellis. H. Ruttonjee, A: A trundler who contributed to Eng are always a certain number of Alves, J. P. Braga, Loo · Pul-fland's disaster in the Fifth Test.] | chairs to be had and for the pro- chung, Tong Hin-pong, Ip Fook, vision of these, their general hos- and Ng Siu-lau. pitality and the mere fact that they open the grounds to all and sundry upon the occasion of the annual tournaments, the Hong kong Cricket Club are deserving of the best thanks of the public Their grounds are easy of access to nearly everybody, and to many fus a visit to their cooling green ness and the watching of a few sets of good tennis is as beneficial in ita soothing effects as any doctor's physic:

SAILORS' HOME.

NEW BUILDING FOR KOOWLOON.

'OLD SITE TO BE SOLD.

CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS...

The Chairman said: Gentle- men, the report and accounts have. been in your hands for the pre- scribed period and I propose with your permission to take them as read.

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The nett profit for the year after making due allowance for depreciation is $1,325.396.26 and with the sum of $148,757.39 brought forward from last account we have $1,474,158.64 for appro- priation.

• DAVIS CUP...

RECORD NUMBER OF CHALLENGERS.

(Reuter's American Service.)

:

Honolulu, March 18. Hawaii has issued a challenge for the Davis cup.

[Aprevions cable stated that lust,yeur's record, number of entries had abready' beer equalled. Hawaa's challenge therefore makes 300,000 shares.$750,000.00 the total more than that for last. To place to reserve $800,000.00|veur.]

With this sum we propose:-- To pay a dividend of

$2.50 per share on

To carry forward to

next account.....$124,153.64

The dividend is $2.50 per share

fompared with $1.60 for the pre-beneficial, and it is hoped to com- vious year.

mence' operations during 1923,

In view of contemplated exten- At our last Meeting I stated ST. PETER'S CHURCH ALSO TOsions of plant your Directors con- that we should in the near future.

BE MOVED

sider it advisable to make a liberal require fresh capital and that an provision for reserve and conse-issue in the early part of 1925 Since that To be introduced into the quently the sum of $600,000 has was contemplated. Legislative Council, shortly is been set aside for this purpose. date we have entered into the "Bill concerning the Sailors' Home, "Hongkong, and St. Peter's Church, The "Object and Reasons" as given in the Gazette" are-

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The object of this bill is to create a corporation to be known "The Trustees of the Sailors Home in Hongkong," to appoint the first trustees, and to vest in the new corporation the Crown lease of the land on which the present Sallors' Home stands.

The amount carried forward to sext account is slightly less than last year,

I trust Gentlemen that this proposed allotment of the profits meets with your approval.

At the beginning of April we reduced the price of current for lighting and fans from 18 cents per unit to 16 cents per unit, a reduction which has benefitted our consumers to the extent of over.

The present Sailors' Home was $236,000..

arrangement outlined above and this together with the increased profits made in 1924 will enable us to defer for the present the question of a new issue.

Before moving the adoption of the Report and Accounts I shall be glad to answer to the best-of my ability any questions you may desire to ask.

Seconding the adoption, Mr. T. E. Pearce said:-

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, rise with much pleasure to second the Resolution which has just been proposed from the

provided by the community, the The sales of current in 1924 site being given by the Govern- amounted to 23% million units, a ment and the cost of the buildings substantial increase over the out, being defrayed by public sub-

put of 19 million units in 1923 and Chair. scription. The original Crown lessees, who were practically 15 million units in 1922, trustees of the Sailors Home have all died, and the Home has for many years been conducted by an informal committee which grew out of the body composed of the original Crown lessees.

We have added a further, 2,500 consumers to our system, a rate 01 expansion which your Directors consider satisfactory.

I think I may safely say that all your shareholders who have the Company's best interests at heart are entirely satisfied with the proposed allotment of profits. · The work of changing the

Some few years ago you placed voltage and frequency of our before us a programme of expan- The present site has become supply to a modern standard wassion and development which may quite unsuitable for the purpose started in 1921 and completed in to some have appeared unnneces- of a Sailors Home, and it is September, 1924.

Results have sarily optimistic.. proposed to transfer the Home

The amount expended on this proved the contrary and the to a site in Kowicon immediate work during the year under re-figures which we see to-day must ly to the south of Signal Hill. view was $140,981 and the special be a source of great satisfaction There is no person or body at reserve of $100,000 set aside in to the Management and Directors, present who has any legal right 1922 has now been utilise and as it is to the Shareholders.. to deal with the existing site disappears from the balance sheet. units of current sold, or 20 per The Increase of 4 million Accordingly the bill.proposes to The total cost of the change of cent. more than in 1928, and over create à corporation consisting voltage and frequency has been 50 per cent. more than 1922, and of the members of the present $641,372. The work has been one the addition of 2,500 consumers to Informal committee and to vest of considerable magnitude and has our system are figures which I

in present - site new corporation. The members fans, the free gift of over 240,000 ed as more than merely "satisface involved the rewinding of 15,500 venture to suggest can be describ-.. of the present committee, who will be the members of the new of 3,400 appliances, and the recon-I think the generous policy lamps, the conversion or exchange

tory." corporation, havé agreed inform- ally to surrender the existing site struction of over 16,000 meters. and buildings to the Crown, and We have purchased during the change of voltage, and the fur the Government have undertaken year a piece of land adjoining our ther reduction in price of current to grant to the corporation the North Point Works which will during the year should have well proposed new site in Kowloon give us a frontage on the new satisfied our consumers. and to provide the sum of 100ft, road and provide room for

We are pleased to learn that $800,000 for the erection, furnish future extensions; also a building provision is being made for ing and endowment of the new aite for European quarters at further extension and develop- Home

Causeway Bay, and sites for sub-ment, a policy which is fully justi- stations at Kennedy Town, Mount fied by the ever increasing Cameron and Aberdeen.

'demand for our supplies..

the

D

the

adopted when dealing with the

There is something wrong in the way we allow these tourists to come and go. The thing is

St. Peter's church was erected treated in a strictly business

in the year 1871 on a portion of nanner, and those who have

the present site of the Sailors Building has been, commenced When I last had the pleasure of charge of the visit do their work

Home. The cost of the building on thirteen houses at Causeway seconding the Company's report, was defrayed by subscriptions Bay and the substations at Mount I commented on the fact that our in a most efficient way. We confess

raised in the Colony and else Cameron and Aberdeen, to being a little tired of hearing

where and by a grant of $2,500

charges were considerably cheap- The first block of Workmen's er than many of our neighbours.. the praises of the beauty of the

by the Government. The total Quarters at North Polat com- in the East, although some of island sung. We could only help

So Sir Robert Ho Tung is off

cost appears to have been about pleted and occupied in April them are supplied by municipal again to Wembley, as the lady in

$1,500 or $7,500. The site of the forms a useful addition to our undertakings. This to-day is the beauty in so far as we have the song might say, "at my time

church is required for the pur property, a given our Botanical Departmento life." And again he will repre-

poses of a police station, and the A new substation building at shareholders will support my still the case, and I feel sure full encouragement; and we are sent the Colony in the things that

authorities of the church would West Point was finished towards congratulations to the Manager, fast destroying that beauty by that East is East and West is matter, an embodiment of the fact

prefer to have it in a quieter the end of the year and one of the Staff, Directors and Agents on the neighbourhood than the present allowing so many buildings to go West and ever the twain can meet..

one. The Government accord staff residences has been prac way this Public Utility Company up that are not beautiful to look He will again smilingly explain his

Ingly propose to grant' a new

tically reconstructed.

is so ably and successfully site for the church and to con- The principal expenditure on managed. upon. We have reason to be proud system of sericulture and some of

tribute the sum of $50,000 for the plant during 1924 has been in

With these remarka I. beg to of some of the things which, have the things that are helping this erection of a new church respect of mains which includes second the adoption of the report followed on British occupation of Sir Robert doubtless gets a lot of Com. G. F. Hole, R. N. (Harbour underground cable.

The appointment of Mr. B. D. F. place on in the march of progress. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, Licut the laying of 50,000 yards of and accounts. this Colony and there are things pleasure out of it, but if we were Master), the Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang An agreement has been entered Beith and Mr. T. G. Weall as which, we submit, should be similarly situated we think should and Mr. G. M. Young are to be into with Messrs. Butterfield and directors was confirmed on the offered to the view of those who not be inclined again to risk the the trustees,

Swire for the Interchange of proposition of Mr. J. T. Bagram, call upon us. The Docks at How rigours of probably another decep-

energy between their Taikoo seconded by Mr. Yip Yung-pak, tive English summer, but would

Power Station and our Station at The Hon. A. 0. Leng and the North Point. We believe that Hon. Sir CP, Chater retired by this arrangement will be mutually rotadan from the board. but ware the Naval Yard. There may be cooler north. These examples of has been attached to the American Consul Charles L.-De Vault, who

re-elected on the proposition, of inexhaustible interest are splendid Consulate General, London, is in perpen other things, but these spring things. They create good feel the Colony en route to Taiboku, CRAMPS IN THE STOMACH

Mr. Alabaster asconded by Mr. uppermost in the mind at

Joseph ing, cement, our faith in such Formosa, where he will assume

Messrs Linstead & Davis were idealistis ventures ag the League charge of the American Consulate the stomach or intestinal pain Chara-elected auditors upon the pro- of Nations, and make us want to He is rellev Mr. Harry T. berlain's Colle and Diarrhoea. Eusody position of - Mr. L. J.

been transferred purer fails to rollare the mort severe seconded by Mr. G. Murray, to NE OVA Jinan Mrk. DeVision/Get it to day, there will be Dividend, warrants were Barc nounced as obtainable on Monday.

woon and.Taikoo: the Electric prefer to lie back in the compara- | *** Company's plant: the University:tive comfort of Hongkong of the

moment. Show these

They are what enterpris try and vision:have"

go out with an are to find the fool Goodi who said

No need of offering from crampe in

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Davies: