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TYPHOON MAP

OF THE

CHINA SEA

The Landsman's

Handy

Guide

to Locating the

Centre of a

TYPHOON

Price 40 Cents.

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IN

ALL DEPARTMENTS

THE WING ON CO., LTD.

LAND OFFICE

WHAT THE ANNUAL REPORT

·FOR 1928 SHOWS

INCREASE IN REGISTRATIONS

THE CHINA MAIL,

MONEY AND SHARES

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS

On London—

Bank, wire

1711

Bank, on demand... 1/11 3/16 The report of the Land Officer Bank, 30 days' sight for the year 1928 states:

Bank, 4 months' sight 1/11 Credits, 4 months"

Registration

During the year four thousand sight

2/- %. seven hundred and ninety eight Documentary 4 months" (4,798) instruments were registered sight. under the provisions of Ordinance On Paris- No. 1 of 1344,an increase of 170 Ondemand. in the preceding year.

The total number of instruments registered under the provision of

T.T on London. T.Ï, on Shanghai

1/11/

$8214

Banks

H.E. Bank H.K London Reg.

$1240 n

.£1321⁄2 n

Chartered Bank

$19% b

Mercantile A. & B. Mercantile C. ...

...£33 n

£151⁄4 n

2/-. 3/16

B. & O. Bank Bank of East Arla

Insurances

£9% n

$90 n

Canton Insurance

$640 s

1197

Unon Insurance

Credits, 4 months".

aight

$324 B [328/324 58

1272

North China Insurance

Ori Berlin-

Yangtze Insurance

China Underwriters

‚M850 n $2.10 5

China Fire Insurance

On demand.

46%

H.K. Fire Insurance

$300 b $775 D

The total consideration on sales, Credits, 60 days' eight 4811⁄2 mortgages, surrenders and miscel On Bombay--.. laneous land transactions amount-Wire

Shipping

Douglages

8271⁄2 n

1291/2

H.K. Steamboats

$2584 &

On demand

1291⁄2

H.K. Tugs & Lighters

$2.60

On. Calcutta-

Indo-China (Pref.)

.$46 b x d.

Wire On demand

129/2

"Ind>>Chína: (Def.)

$70 m

129%

Shell Transports (old)

100/

Shell Transports (new)

83%

Union Water-boats

$22 n

94.

PLEASE DON'T

the above mentioned Ordinance On demand (since 1844) to the end of the year On New York- 1928 was 113,126:

ed to $140,481,255.69.

Grants of Land

The total area of land leased during the year under review was

On Singapore- 462 acres 1 rood and 1 2/6 poles of

(On demand which 393 acres änd′ 38 2/5 poles On Manila→ were dealt with by the District on demand...

Officers.

Surrenders

On Shanghai- On demand....b... 81 Sixty four (64) surenders of 30 day's eight (private and required for public purposes paper)

(including surrenders under con- On Yokohama— tracts of exchange) were prepared on demand and registered in the Land Office, Gold Leaf, 100 fine the total consideration for those required for public purposes Sovereigns amounting to $48,690.98.

Crown Leases

Two hundred and thirty five Bar Silver, in Hong (235) Crown Icases were issued Kong during the year, as against 196 in Copper Cash the previous year-an increase of Copper Cents

39.

WASTE WATER

106

Mining

(per tael)

Benguets

(Bank's

Kailan Mining Ad.

$3 n ..65/- n

buying rate): Silver (per oz.)

10.00

Langkats (comb.).

...T14

24. 7/16

Langkata (single)

T72: 8

Shanghai Explorations

32;-

Nominal

Shanghai Loan!

T48

Nominal

Raubs

..86% D

4% prem.

Tronoh Mines.

19/- b

Rate of Native In-

* 7% p

H.K. & K. Wharves

.$124 b. ,$36 n

.$4.10 B

T168 in

T5.85 b

T1381⁄2 b

The total amount of fes collect- terest

el (exclusive of the New Terri Chinese Sub. Coin... 30% dls. tories) amounted to $85,085.00 Hong Kong Sub. Coln, Par. being an increase of $8,477.50 on

the preceding year.

Land Registration Fees in the New Territories amounted to $5,255,30 and Crown Lewe Fees to $$0.

·:

Stamp Duties

Stamp Dutles paid on registered Avcuments (exclusive of Probates. and Letters of Administration) amounted to $1,299,441.80.

Stamp Duties on Probates and Letters of Administration register ed amounted to $582,871,

Crown Rents

The

number of lots entered

on the Hong Kong and Kowloon Crown rent roll was 5,516-an in- crease of 182 on the preceding year, The Crown rents on this roll acounted

to $575,427.50 an in- crease on the preceding year of $26,491.13.

The number of lots entered on the. Village Grown rent roll was 3,289— a decrease of 28 on the preceding

year.

The Crown renta on this roll amounted to $1,787.05 as compar- ed with $1,832.55 in the preceding year.―á decrease of $45.50.

(Continued on Next Cdumn.)..

There are THREE REASONS WHY we have been

entrusted with the installation of

CENTRAL HEATING

HOT WATER & SANITARY SYSTEMS

SCHOOLS

at the following Institutions, etc:-

St. Stephen's College

Diocesan Boys' School St. Stephen's Hostel St. Stephen's Staff

Quarter

Repulse Bay Hotel Mausiais Lodge

Pallonjee House, Cinton

Stubbs Road Garage ----

CLUBS

Hongkong Club

Hongkong Cricket Club Hongkong Jockey Clch US. Reacation Club Royal HX, Golf Clab

OTHER BUILDINGS

HOSPITALS

Victoria Hospital

Matilda Hospital Alice Memorial Hospital New Tang Wah Hospial Nursing Home, Cantor

Oriental Hotel, Canten Aigburth Hall

South China Morning Post Baildog Sisters' Quarters, Matilda - Hoandik Branksome Towers

All Bystems are designed by experts thoroughly acquainted with local conditions and requirement

Police Station, Sham Shui Po

FIRSTLY

SECONDLY

THIRDLY

We do not interest ourselves in so called cheap

All work exceed by our own atat, thereby eliminating scamped work caused by subletting

systems being designed to reduce maintenance absolute minimu une.

DODWELL & CO., LTD

Queen's Buildinra

LONDON EXCHANGES

Berlin

Deks, Wharves, Godowns, &c.

H.K. & W. Docks

China Providents

Hoogkews. New Engineers Shanghai Docks

Cotton Mills

Ewe Cottons

T12.85 b Oriental Cottons

.12.20 b Shanghai Cottons (old)..T701⁄2 b Shanghai Cottus (new) .. TSS b Lands, Hotel & Buildings H.K&S. Hotels .$8.45 b.8.60-a HK Lands WAKA,

Paris New York

London, Yesterday.

124.

4.84 27/32

Brussels Geneva

$4.93

20.19%

Amsterdam

12.073

Milan

92.66

20.33

Stockholm

18.00

Shanghai Lands

Copenhagen

18.20%

Humphreys Estates

Oslo

18.1944

H.K. Realties...

....$62 s T1421⁄2 b

..$7 b

Vienna Prague

34.51

HK Territorials

16334

Prince's Buildings

Helsingfors

193

Madrid

34.05

H.K. Tramways

108%

Peak Trama (old)

376

Bucharest

817

Peak Trams (new) Star Ferries

Rio

53%

Buenos Aires

47-3/16 .1/5-15/16 (?)

2/44

Lisbon

Athens

Bombay

Shanghai

Hong Kong

Yokohama

Silver Spot & For-

ward

1/11 1/9 20/82

24 7/16 -British Wireless Saïvine,

of

The total Crown rents amounted |to $577,214.64-an increase

$26,445.63 on the year 1927.

The increase: wis occasioned by the sale of new kits and recision of Crown rents."

Documents

Six hundred and eighty three

(683) miscellaneous documents

were prepared in the Land Office during the year, vis

(a) Two hundred and thirty five. (235) Crown Leases (with Coun-

nine

terpundred and forty

(b) One

(149) Memorials for the regis tration of Undertakings relating to Verandahs and Balconier over Crown Land:

(c) Sixty four ** (61)" ~ aurrenders

land

of

for public purposes,

Public Utilities. . .......

$19.60 b

.311.80 m

.86.05 m

.865 b GG *

China Lights (comb.) China Lights (old) $13% e Rts.

($12.90sx Rts..

[$7.90 Rts

'Chits Lights (now) Chins Lights 1928 Issue FL.K. Electrics (old) $554 b 551⁄2 s H.K Electrica (new)

Macio Electrics

H.K. Telephones. Chida Buses Singapore Tractions Singapore Pref. Sandakan Lts.

Industrials Chisa Sugars .... Malabon Sugara Canton Ices Cemente (comb) Cements (old) Cements (new). H.K. Ropes (old) H.K Ropes (new).

United Asbestos

Stores, &c.

*

Dairy Farm Watsong

| Der A. Wings

Lane Crawfords Mackintoshs Sineres

Sovements and private Wm Powells

Exchanges, T

(d) Three (3) deeds of covenant re- lating to scavenging lanes m

(e) One hundred and eighty five (185) agreements for leases, erchanges, sorrenders and permits.

(1) Forty seven (17) memorials of

re-entry

Naval and Military Lands

A parcel of land portion of the Victoria Cantonment at the junc- tion of Queen's Road and Garden Road was placed, at the disposal of the Colonial Government by His Majesty's Secretary of State for War for the purpose of road im- provement and the instrument of Transfer is in coume of completion;

On March 14, 127, His Excel- eney the Governo was pleased to appoint the Land Officer Mr. Phillp Jacks to set as Pusne Judge until further notice, the Assistant Land: Officer Lt Col Frederick Eaves, D.S.O. to act as an Mr. William Jamer

to act as Asslataut Land effect from March appointments: stil!

cer and art-Smith

fficer with These

nd rans

Miscellaneous

H.K. Amusements H.K. Constructions B. Ind. G. Bonds H.K Govt. Loans:

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ONLY AN ICEBERG ! ISLAND WHICH BRITAIN CEDED TO NORWAY

LATEST REPORTS

in 1826 saw a second island to the north-east and a cluster of others. But nobody else can find them. Shall we

believe Bouvet Is and a myth or an ice-

berg? It cannot be. In 1998 a Gor- man_oceanographic expedition landed. They reported it a volcanic cone 2,000. feet high, coming down to the sea in $26%

A year ago the peace of the world steep cliffs pentagonal in shape and five ....87 b was shattered by the news that Nor miles across. How can it have become way was claiming an island 15,000 an iceberg? How do these isles of the T14% b

miles south of the Cape of Good Hope sea get told ??? 11/- which Great Britain maintained was .18% A

hers," says the "Daily Telegraph." It AMBULANCE CORPS 82168

continues: "Last November Wi breathed again. With wonted mag .80 cts, b❘ maximity our Foreign Office waived all $27. n and any British claim to Bouvet $2 b Island. And now comes the news that $7.95 bit is not an island at all but an ice

$711⁄2 berg

The magnanimity of the For $1.40 ¤

eign Office thus appears less than the original estimate, though its wisdom, $7.9. shines brighter than ever.

.$5 b

This Iceberg Story

"But we take this iceberg story with every kind of suspcion, though ever $19 if true it would not be unique of its $12.7 kind. Many mythical islands have cta. bj been put on maps.. In the far Antarc 813⁄4 sth Sir James Ross charted one by the $18 bname of "Doubtful Island" because he $12 b could not make out whether it was Innd $30 an iceberg. It turned out to be ** more toe. These remote lonely southern seas provided navigators with many imaginary landfalls.

$291 b

$14

FURTHER LIST OF DONATIONS ACKNOWLEDGED

The Hon. Treasurer acknowledges the receipt of the following dona- tions to the St. John Ambulance Brigade Fund:

Mok Wing-yue Ko Ho-ning

Chu Chung-hin

Lala Dore

Ho Lal

Fung-pak

al Yaet-chan

Pik-tung

Wong Chan Lams-kwan Mok Hing-cheung Mot Hing-kiu Tsol Ho gang

Li Tize-chang

Mr. Justice Bateson

$100

100

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