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THE CHINA MAIL.

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more.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6," 1927.

WM. POWELL LTD.

$31,000 LOSS ON YEAR'S WORKING.

visory Committee on African Education by enlarging, the ad- as to visory organisation so cover the whole field of educn- tion in the colonies. These im- provements in the central ma- chinery, in the great general TO-DAY'S ANNUAL MEETING. staff, in the minds of those who guide the destinies

the of

colonies have all been closely A heavy reduction in turnover associated with the idea of due to disturbed conditions and securing the best men for the consequent reduction in the pur- service in the colonies them-chasing power of residents was selves. As regards research reported at the annual meeting workers, at any rate, the im- this morning of William Powell provements have been devised Ltd. over which Mr. M. Manuk with the special aim of creating presided. both conditions of salary and opportunities of the best work for each man which should at- tract; ability and ambition.

CORRESPONDENCE.

SCOTLAND FOR EVER!

Crawford

The Chairman was supported by Mr. R. L. Bridger. (Managing Director), Mr. F. M. and Mr. S. J. Jordain (Directors), Mr. A. C. Howell (Secretary) and Messrs. H. E. Scriven, E. J. Ainslie, H. Overy and A. W. Roberts (Shareholders).

the the

P'RAPS-P'RAPS NOT!

"An Comhgar chum na gald hilge" or "The Short Cut to Irish" says a Dublin newspaper. Anyone attempting the "short cut" may find it quicker to try a If unable to "double Scotch." react to a "double" take as much snuff as will cover a half-a-crown, holding tightly the Adam's apple to prevent any accidents with the dentures.

Doctor McCree! "My dear" Mrs. Goodman, how could you bring out a tiny child on such a day as this, with such a bitter east wind blowing?

Mrs. Goodman: "Ah, doctor, you will always have your little How can a baby of this joke. age possibly know what wind it is?"

Barrister (to a witness at Bow): If you were in the mid- dle of the road and looked to the right, you would be wrong?"

Witness: "No, I should be looking right."

"But you would be wrong to look right: You should look left to be right."

"Oh, yes, I see; by looking to the right I was wrong right. enough."

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firm of printers and stationers has published a calen- dar in which April has 31 days. This is believed to be a praise-

disturbances. worthy effort to avoid May Day

Chairman's Speech. The Chairman said: Your Directors very much regret to To the Editor of the “China Mall." have to place before you such an Sir-Regarding the letter from unsatisfactory result for tho "British Soldiers" under the head-year's working, but when ing "A Scotch Houdini" I should conditions prevailing in be much indebted to them if they Colony are taken into account, would keep the Scotchman's name and also the consequent reduction out of these affairs. Of course, if in the purchasing power of the re- he is referring to a London sidenta, no other result could be Everything possible Scotchman it makes all the differ-expected. but until the civil war reaches

ence. Alternatively should the has been done to economise in stage at which it may reasonably so-called "British Soldiers" en- the running of the various de- be said that foreigners can safely quire at the Y.M.C.A. they might portments which, to a great men- find that the Scotchman is one of sure, accounts for the comparn- move about the country without the most spendthrift men that tively small loss, compared with any fear of molestation there frequent that place. It seems the heavy reduction in the turn- seems no justification for reduc- that the author of the above over.

We are hoping, however, that quoted letter envies the Scotch- ing the aggregate of the foreign man. Its inevitable, but we can't conditions will soon improve and forces in China, Past crises all belong to the finest race in the enable us not only to wipe off the affecting foreigners have been world..and if the so-called "Bri-debit balance we are now carry. created not by war lords like tish Soldiers" were more intiming forward, but to pay our usual

ate with the Scotch race they dividend. Chiang Kai-shek or Chang Tso would find that what I have Our business has suffered in

Mr. S. B. Joel has won a court lin, but by subordinate Generals, written. is to be considered, and common with all other similar)

case against n produce merchant licensed troops and uncontrolled not to take in too much of what businesses in the Colony, and we

is read in the joke columns of are doing our utmost, as already who charged him 18s, a hundred- mob. There is nothing in the his daily paper.

stated, to reduce our overhead ex-weight for oats instead of 12s.

6d. I wish to point out that in all penses and conserve our resources position at the moment, in spite of

The merchant had probably the rise of the moderates in the probability the Scotchman had to so as to be in a position to meet

heard of the prices Mr. Joel Nationalist groups, to wariant pay more for his cigarettes on ar- the demands of

charges for carats. rival in China than our correspon- when conditions improve. any lessening of the precautions dents, priority makes a basis for

$31,000 Loss.. taken by the foreign Powers to later arrivals.

To conclude with if the Scotch

The loss made in 1925 own nationals, safeguard their

Houdini can purchase, his Capstan written. off by transferring even though it may be possible for 15 cents and the "poor ordin- $37,000 from the General Reserve for one Power to withdraw one ary mortals" cannot this evident to the Profit and Loss Account Brigade. The foreign forces inly is thrift and not meanness. In the present instance, however, No reference do I wish to make your Directors consider it advis China have not yet accomplished to the Y.M.C.A. except that their able to carry forward the loss of their mission; therefore their generosity is appreciated. MACKRELL.-On July 6, at 6.15 aggregate strength must be main- a.m., at the Matilda Hospital,tained until they do. Any reduc-- Miss Eva L. Mackrell. Funeral tion on a large scale would imme- passes the Monument, Happy Valley, at 5 o'clock this after-diately be construed as a sign of

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noon.

DEATH.

Hong Kong. Wednesday, July 6, 1927,

OUR FORCES IN CHINA.

Yours, etc.,

A TRUE SCOT.

Konkloon, July 5, 1927.

Y.M.C.A. VALUES.

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our cusomers

was

$30,996.60 instead of drawing upon the General Reserve.

Owing to a misunderstanding the draft balance sheet approved by the auditors was slightly altered, the last item on the assets side of the balance sheet in weakness by the extremists in the

the draft read "Profit and Loss Chinese Nationalist ranks, whol

Account $30,000.00 odd" and this (To the Editor of the “China Mail."] would once again make a bid for

was altered as shown on the Sir, The comments of the balance sheet before you. supremacy with the object of!

Men of the R.A.F. on reading the Through an oversight the ac- wreaking their spleen on the for- letter by "British Boy" in the cur-counts were printed without sub cigners in the country. Nor can rent issue of the "Hong Kong mitting the alteration to the the despatch and maintenance of Sunday Herald" would take off auditors for their approval and Two reasons are, advanced for foreign troops in China be regard- some of the sting which is bound upon their drawing the attention the reported instruction for theed in terms of £ s. d. or dollars to be felt at his remarks by the of the Directors to the alteration fine body of people who run the in the wording we undertook to withdrawal of one Brigade of Bri, whatever the cost it is a ridicul-Y.M.C.A. out here, could they bring it to your notice at this

meeting.. tish troops sent from India to ously cheap insurance of foreign have heard them.

In my opinion it is a gross in- Our auditors point out that the China. In the first place it was lives and property.

sult to a true Britisher to have a loss is not for the year inasmuch person of the calibre this fellow as we brought forward 1,400.00 must be, to sign himself "British" odd from the previous year, and anything, and man who has not while apologising for the over sufficient courage of his own con- sight, I take this opportunity of victions to sign his name to restating that the auditors are in no marks such as he has made is way responsible for not drawing shareholders' attention to the despicable.

Where, in Hong Kong, can Cap-wording of this item in the stan cigarettes be obtained, at balance sheet, as the draft balance less than 17 cents per packet? I sheet initialled by them correctly have bought them at 15 cents described the item us A debit once only, and these were so damp balance of profit and loss account. that the paper was brown, render-

London Buying. ing them unsmokable. In our own N.A.A.F. Institutes, run solely for

stated that the withdrawal has been made possible by the in-

groups.

seems the more probable.

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Commenting on the fact that the White Star steamship line is puzzled to find new names ending in "ic" for its vessels, a writer in the London "Morning Post" suggests the

"Eestatic" and "Cherubic."

Guests at the banquet given in London by M. Doumergue com- mented on the fact that the wine list included "an uninteresting Sauterne, a 1916 champagne and a 1916 Margaux, unworthy of the occasion."

We agree the whines were un- worthy.

Crime, indirectly and directly, costs the United States approxi- mately £2,600,000,000 a year, according to statistics in the "Manufacturers' Record."

It doesn't seem worth it, some-

how.

Centipedes a foot long have been presented to the London Zoo.*

Thus confounding the mathe- maticians who declare that 100

feet will not go into one foot.

A scientist says that children reveal their character in the manner in which they sharpen lead pencils.

It is always nice to know if your children will make its mark.

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crease of the forces of other Problems of the Colonies. Power in China, notably the Mails from Home are bring American. Secondly, it is asserting full reports of the recent ed that the step is being taken Colonial Conference in London. because the tension in China is From these reports it is clear lessening and that the British that the Conference did excel- "We have created a Government is satisfied that there lent work. is less danger to British lives and new and better relationship be-

A surly old Scots.bachelor was Was the property than

ense tween ourselves, between colony

My predecessor, in his speech his employer swept the dead employed as a gardner. One day earlier in the year, largely owing and colony, as well as between to the ascendancy of the moder- the colonies collectively and the the benefit of Service men, last year, informed you of the

leaves off the lawn and put them into a basket. The gardener ates in the Chinese Nationalist Central Office here," said the Rt. Players and Gold Flake are 15 change which had been effected in

cents and Capstan 17 cents! Hon. L. S. Amery, Secretary of These so-called "posh" cigarettes don. "I am glad to say that this looked at the basket for some

our buying arrangements in Lon- Of these two reasons the first State for the Colonies, at the are value about 4d. English change has proved beneficial, not time, then took a running kick

final sitting. It is not only a money whereas in England they only in reducing first costs, but The personal relationship; that was preponderance of British subjects good before, though I think we are 6d, so I fail to see any cause in enabling us to buy more up-to-

for complaint. have made, and can continue in China made it inevitable for steadily to make, it better. It is letter seems to be a hit at the absolutely clean. and have in

His sole purpose in writing his date goods in a wider merket.

The stocks of the Company are Great Britain to take the lead even more a new intellectual re- YM.C.A., and in order to justify every case where necessary been promptly in rushing as many lationship, a sense begotten un-myself in this, I will quote one or depreciated to replacement value. forces as possible to those zones der the keen stimulus of our dis- two outstanding examples of good Since the close of the financial cussions, that we are emerging value obtainable there. Iced

year under review, Mr. A. S. D. wherein British life and property from the merely negative con- minerals are 5 cents per bottle, Cousland has resigned from the were menaced. That these forces ception of control and direction whereas elsewhere the cheapest Directorate on leaving the Colony incidentally afforded protection to by the Colonial Office to a more obtainable is 10 cents and in most Your Directors are indeed sorry the nationals of other foreign positive together in a great cheese cost 10 cents. The price I vices, as his advice and council Powers apparently less informed creative enterprise, fascinating in have had to pay outside for the was at all times of great value to as to the gravity of the position its interest and transcendent in same quality is 20 to 25 cents. He the Company. earlier in the year is a point that its importance. Such a concep- will thus be in pocket to the ex- With these few remarks, I beg tion, once realised by those who tent of a "posh" packet of cigar- to formally propose that the re- requires no discussion or criticism are at the head of the service ettes on these two alone, and port and accounts, as presented, of any kind. In a fight corner the and diffused through the service were " Boy" to study these be adopted, and I shall be glad United States would be found generally, cannot fail to add im- things, a paltry 2-cents would not if some shareholders will kindly equally ready to protect the in- measurably to its efficiency, and trouble him.

second the proposal.. also add to the sense of dignity Further, some time back, (I terests of Britons as well as those and worth while in lives apent believe it was in March), the

Other Business. of Americans. In the meantime laboriously, usually in discomfort, Y.M.C.A. managed to purchase Mr. H. Overy seconded, and other Powers have had time to often in danger, and with com- some Capstan cigarettes at a there being no questions, the re- paratively little recompense in cheap rate, and the benefit of this port and accounts were put to the

and scattered basket and leaves all over the garden.

"What's the idea, Angus?" demanded his employer

"Weel, sir," replied the gar- dener, "d'ye mind Margaret, the housemaid, twenty years back?"

"Yes." "Weel, air, a'e nicht I was talk- ing to her in the garden, and ske said, 'Angus, I'm cold. So I gi'ed her ma coat. It's only jist dawned on me she wanted to be

kissed!" conception that we, are places 15 cents. Biscuits and to liave lost Mr. Cousland's ser-

"Oh, tell me, Sister Penelope, do you like a drop of gin on a frosty morning?".

"No Sister Hortense, I'd much rather have mine on a lump of sugar.”—Carolina Buccaneer.

Missionary (to cannibal chief): "Is this a review you are hold- ing?"

Cannibal Chief: "Oh, no;

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send out more troops, thus re- the ordinary currency of reward was not felt, as "Boy" seems to meeting, and unanimously adopt merely my annual inspection of

sown.

Hleving Great Britain of some of for effort." Solid results were suppose, by the Y.M.C.A., but by ed. the original burden voluntarily achieved in more than one direc- the Service men, the cigarettes. Mr. M. Manuk, retiring Direc shouldered by her with the sole tion and much good seed was being sold at 25 cents for two tor, was re-elected on the proposi- object of adequately protecting whole-heartedly the principle of

The conference endorsed packets!

tion of Mr. Seriven, seconded by Mean mis-statements of facts Mr Ainslie. British subjecta.

collective action, of collective such as those made by " Bay": Mesars. Percy Smith, Seth and It may be that the ascendancy finance, and of an efficient con- could only emanate from a mean Fleming were re-elected auditors of the moderates in the Chinese tral organisation in the field of mind, and in that case are really at a remuneration of $600 & year scientific research. In the all-not worthy of the consideration on the proposition of Mr. Ainslie

seconded by Mr..Overy., The Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd. Nationalist groups has lessened Important field of education the of decent fellowa.

the tension and reduced the dan-conference decided to follow up

This concluded the business. Of ger to British lives and property, the successful work of the Ad-

the meeting.

Yours, etc.

"R. A. F."

the cemetery."

In Baluchistan they have an idea that if you want to change your sex all you have to do is to go and roll under a rainbow. But who wants to change his, or her, sex?

An American paper asks: "Is It libellous to refer to a seed catalogue as "spring fiction"?!"