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TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1931.

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(Continued from Page 1.) explained, but it remains for me to add that the Company's godown

3709

ST. GEORGE'S.

ANNUAL MEETING OF LOCAL SOCIETY.

PAID OFFICIALS.

The annual general meeting of

T. R. H. the King and Queen of properties have been efficiently Siam arrived in the Colony this maintained entirely out of revenue. morning, aboard the m.s. Selandia. In July 1st year the Board The entourage consists of 14 per- sought and obtained the authority sons, inclusive of T.R.H. Prince and of the shareholders for an fherense Princess Svasti.

in the Company's authorised St. George's Society was held last No formal calls were made but capitul by the creation of 300,000 qvening in the Board room of Their Majesties' were conducted by new shares of $5 each of which Mesara, Jardine, Matheson and Co., the Consul for Siam, Mr. J. T. 294,789 shares of $2.50 paid up under the chairmanship of Mr. T. Bagrom, on a tour of the city. The wore offered and taken up by E. Pearce (President), who party will leave for Kobe aboard shareholders and the underwriters supported by Mr. E. Cock (Presid- R.M.S. Empress I Japan to-morrow, of the issue. The proceeds of this ent-elect), Mr. W. A., Dowley and later proceeding to Vancouver and issun together with the sum realis- the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton New York, which they expect to ed from the liquidation of loans (Past Presidents), Sir William reach about the middle of April. were applied towards repayment of Hornell, and Messrs, W. A. Cornell, Their Majesties' sulte includes: the overdraft with our Banker H. B. L Dowbiggin, C. Kulmer H.S.H. Prince Vipulya Svasti-which a year ago stood at almost Johnson, F. J. Sherwell, T. H. King, wongs Svastikula, His Majesty's 9 lakhs, but has now entirely F. C. Hall, G. A. L. Plummer (Hon. Assistant Private Secretary;

disappeared. Tho Balance Sheet Treasurer), and P. S. Cassidy (Hon.

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WAS

H.S.H. Prinec Thavaramonkol.before you records a credit bal- Secretary). wonse Javant and Mom Luang ance with our Bankers for the first The large gathering of members

General Chao Phya Bijayendra time in several years.

present included, Lieut.-Col. L. G. Yodhin, Chief A. D. C. General to

Bird and M. H. R. B. Hancock H. M. the King:

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Captain H.S.H, Prince Prasobari Chicapravatti, His Majesty's A. D. C. (now in America);

Phra Noraraj Chamnong Mom Rajawongs Smak Sman Luang Sakdi Nai-won

Luang Siri Sombatti.

གནཾ པ ཧཱམ

ANDERSON MEYER.

CHINA BUSINESS HOUSE'S FIFTH JUBILEE.

ROMANCE OF TRADING.

Industrial Awaking.

Reserve Accounts.

We have considered it advisable (Past Presidents) and the Hon. Mr. to show the adjustments made in E. D. C. Wolfe. our Reserve Account by including The Chairman said:-

in the published account a state- The applications for financial ment in detail in which there is assistance, few in number, I am only the items of underwriting glad to say, were carefully scru- commission $28,507.73 to which, tinised by the committee appoint- special reference need be made. ed for that purpose.

The Report Was Adopted Officers The following offeers were thon

On their return journey, accord-This sum might quite reasonably The ceremony at the Cenotaph ing to present arrangements, they have been spread over a number on St. George's Day was well at- will leave Vancouver homeward of years, but your Board decided tended. This ceremony takes but bound on Sept. 19.

to extinguish the charge complete- a few minutes, and I would urge ly in the accounts for 1980. You all members, who conveniently will remember, this Reserve Ac- can, to turn up and support the count was created at the time President and committee on future when the Company's finances were occasione, reorganised, and it has naturally In addition to the inmented death boon a fluctuating account since; of Mr. P. W. Blackwell, I have to as far as can be ascertained there regretfully report the death of an- will not be any need to draw on other of our members, Mr. G. H. the Reserve Account beyond a Arnold, which took place whilst There would have been a re-

aum approximately $70,000 in fur- proceeding on home leave Inst year. ther quidation of loans, thus, I would take this opportunity of crudescence in America of the A romance of industry which leaving the eventual balance of putting on record the Society's Big Navy party's assertions that might well go to, the making of a the Reserve Account at the sub- thanks to the Officer Commanding the British Admiralty was "did- novel is revealed by the luxurious stantial figure of $600,000.

the 1st. Somerset Light Infantry dling" the United States, and the well-known Hong Kong business for the prezent year,

Anniversary Book published by the

Gentleman, as to our prospects for the Concert put up by the beyond Band and Bugles of that whole atmosphere of internation-house of Anderson Meyer and Co., stating that the first three months Regiment on the Cricket al negotiations would have been Ltd. of China, which celebrates its have been encouraging. it is im Ground од St. George's. darkened.

twenty-fifth birthday to-day. This possible to forecast likely storage Day. Also our grateful thanks The prospects for

exceedingly handsome volume, of business, having in mind its close to the artistes for their assistance next year's Disarmament Confer-250 pages printed on art paper, in connection with

exchange which at the evening concert in the Los ence would have been made im- addition to a special section, in 'seems to be the factor détermining Theatre, and to the ladies who al- measurably poorer.

Chinese, is published in commem-, the volume and freedom of Im- sisted by distributing cigarettes on As it is, those prospects are Jubiles. It contains hundreds of

oration of the Company's Silver ports.

that evening, Chinese Dwellings.

Your Committee have decided, none too good, It may not be drawings and photographs and Your Board is considering the for the sake of continuity, to ar- true- though there is too much tells in an interesting manner of development of some of our pro. range for and appoint a paid Trea- reason ip believe it that one of the origin and history of the firm pertica as Chinese dwellings which surer and Secretary, and your cok-

and its organisation at the present promises to give the expedients by which the Bri-time, as well as descriptive sketches commensurate

a return more firmation of this step will be ask- with the admitted ed for at the Special General: Meet- tish Government was able to contributed by some of the manu values of property at West Point, ing which follows this one. bring about the Franco-Italian facturers it represents.

The business of leans on produce Messrs. Linstead and Davis are agreement is the complete with-

which, from lack of funds could not prepared to undertake the duties, drawal of British opposition to

As the souvenir recounts, the last be considered before, will engage and to meet the cost it is proposed twenty-five years have witnessed a the Attention of the Board this to increase the subscription from the French demand that trained period of industrial awakening in year, and it is expected to capture 32 to $3 per annum, and to debit reservists shall not be counted as China, a monarchy has been over- some of the business which now the Ball Account with a portion of soldiers.

thrown and a republic established, goes to competitive concerns grant the sum required.

Members will observe with satis- But that demand is still insisted and there has been an almost un- ing this facility.

paralleled progress made both po- Gentlemen, the dividend which faction the final figures of the 1930 upon by France, and, while it is, litically and economicaly during the Directors propose is small, but Ball, there being a surplus on the there can be no real disarmament. this time. The result of this has it is the first distribution made in right side of no less than $828.10. Hong Kong, Tuesday, March 31, 1931. Next year's Conference

been a great development of inter- 6 years, and we trust it will meet

I am pleased to be able to report the 1931 Ball will also show a sur- meet and wrangle over details of facturing, commerce, transporta-

est in the modern methods of manu with your approval.

I now formally propose that the plus of $300 to $400. how much nominal war atřength tlon, agriculture and in the on- Report and Accounts for the year is to be allotted to to this coun-gineering arts. These various de 1930 as presented to you, and the

partments of industry all como proposed distribution of profits, elected:-President.-Mr. E. Cock, try and that.

So long, however, as everybody Meyer & Co.'s activities, and the of 10 cents per share on the fully Mr. P. S. Cassidy; Hon. Treasurer within the range of Andersen, namely the payment of a dividend Vice-President-Mr. H. B. L. Dow

biggin; Hon. Secretary (pro tem.)---- Navy League in this Colony, may knows that behind the nominal extensive development of this or paid up shares and of 14 cents per (pro tem.)Mr. C. A. L. Plummer; rightly have anticipated, the

strength there is a far greater Banization since 1906 has contri- share on the partly paid up shares. Committee.-Messrs. L. C. F. Bel- naval agreement between France

buted to some extent to the increase be adopted and passed. and Italy, with the help of Great strength in trained reserves (and in and demand for modern equip

I would ask a shareholder to be lamy, W. A. Cornell,

Grayburn, F. C. Hall, Sir William Britain, did not in mail week probably in other things), the meat in China to-day.

good enough to second this pro- Hornell, C. Bulmer Johnson, V. C. fixing armament The frontispiece shows a posal, after which-I shall be glad to Labrum, F. Shervell, E. F elicit a chorus of approval from pretence of

limits, which may afterward be picture of Mr. Vilhelm Meyer, explain any matter living refer: Aucott, J. Bentley, G. E. Mitchell

and there is a congratulatory letter ence to the Report and Accounts and A. B. Raworth. reduced, will rentain a hollow

from H. E. Mr. H. H. Kung, Minia- which you may desire information.] sham, inspiring nothing butter of Industry of the National:

Upon Mr. E. Cock taking the Mr. de Figueiredo seconded, and after the Chairman had replied to chair, he proposed that for the an- there been no agreement it is greater fear and distrust among Government of China.

It is interesting to recall that the Mr. Morley's questions, the motion nual celebration of St. George's fairly obvious that there must

Company established its Hong was put to the meeting and car Day, the Society endeavoured to have the same arrangements as in have been competition, and Mr.

Kong branch In 1917 and the Can- ried unanimously. Henderson stated that it was in-

ton branch in 1920. The Company's

the past-Carried. Olber Business. largest undertakings in this part of The appointment of Mr. Ll Tee- formation as to the imminence of

the world have been in connection forig to the Board of Directors vice naval competition that prompted

with the Kwangtung Electric Sup- Mr. J. H. Taggart, (rezignod), and the British Government to inter-

ply Company, which lights Canton. the re-election of Messrs. C. A. da A roman, Ho Wal-fee (21), It has also supplied X-Ray installa Roza and N. V. A. Croucher as vene so energetically as it did. residing in Temple Street, was tions to a number of hospitals in Directors

Italy could very ill have afford- taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital South China and locomotives for meeting on the proposal of Mr. were approved by the ed a naval race with France at yesterday suffering from the effects the Canton and Yunnan rallways. Morley, seconded by Mr. Soares..

of opium poisoning, from which she The Sun Yat-sen auditorium and, this juncture, but she was deter- died later.

Messrs. Linstead and Davies, and the Chukiang Bridge at Canton are Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and mined not to let her claim for

two notable, construction contracts Fleming were re-elected Auditors

ACQUITTED OF CHARGES. parity lapse by default, France

of recent years. The bridge is not at the remuneration of $1,250 each, Partaking of “a meal of toad- was not under exactly the same stools, which they mistook for also supplying a steal water tower seconded by Mr. Churn.

yet completed. The Company is on the proposal of the Chairman

Paris, Yesterday. Two days after his acquittal on sort of pressure, but had been mushrooms, two married women, sufficiently alarmed by the scare both residing in an unnumbered;

Wong Chan (58) and Lam Yee, (69) Flitration plants for sundry fac- announcement by the Chairman fidence, M. Pierre Audibert, "Iste the Tangshan waterworks. The meeting terminated with the charges of fraud and abuse of con- over the German "pocket battle-hut at Chol Eam, Tung Cheik tories, refrigerators. Spinning that dividend warrants would be Editor of Madame Hanau's Gazette ship," the Ersatz Prussen, to be Village, Kowloon City, became ill, machinery, road machinery, mining ready for issue on April 8. in a mood to make up all her and were taken to the Kwang Wah and agricultural machinery all carry the Andersen, Mayer mark in Hospital. supposed naval deficiencies,

many parts of Hong Kong and Test plots of sugar beets grown in various parts of Manitoba dur- South China. In the absence of an agreement

The total eclipse of the moon. The Company's book and its hising 1930 showed an average augar It appears that both France and takes place between 3 and 5 a.m. on tory generally earn for it hearty content of 17.1 per cent and an Italy would very soon have under-Friday The moon will enter the congratulations and good wishes average yield of 13.8 tons per acre. Both are higher than the average of taken programmes of naval con- penumbral shadow of the earth at upon this twenty-fifth birthday..

the United States, struction which would have been 1,27 am and the umbral shadow tea at 2,23 am, leaving the umbra at understood by the whole world as 5.82 a.m. and the penumbra at 6.48 Le struggle for supremacy in the a.m. The total eclipse will begin

G. Roylanco, Fong reaided at tife With the departure for Mediterranean

That would not of 8.22 .m. and end at 4.53 a.m.

Blind Home, Ma Tau Was, and fail-, to-day, on retirement, of the Hon. only have ded, tq, general alarm

[ed to turn up to work, he having Mr. John Johnston, the head:" of left home al 4.80 yesterday morn=| Messra: Jardine, Matheson and Co., and a disastrous discrediting of in charging a Chinese before

Ing for that purpose, lapot [the Far East loses onu of its best the whole movement toward dis-Mr. W. Schofield in the Central

However, later in the day, a: known' business mer (and, koenesti Polloe Court this morning, a,China armament, but it would very aso detestive stated that the seedred

stery surrounds the sudden noto, presumed to a have been sportsmen. · Mr. Johnston, who has - rando" of- Fung Lee, witten by Fung, was found in his been in the Far East for more than » have compelled Britain concealed the 'ties of ootum In a scaven ng foreman @or the Sani, premises. It read: go to the twenty years, has sat on the Muni- to modify the operation of

which he was wearing whilst tary Department, who is believed top of Sung Wong-toi to jump lato cipal Council of Shanghal and the agreement with thei Uni

walking along Queen Street... A, torkays been-draw

the sea and are the morning” Legislative Council of Hong Kong. ine of $230, with the alternative of

According to a report made to A, vigliaut search was carried Mr. and Mrs. Johston left, by the two months fall, was imposed.

the Police by Sanitary Inspector out, but without result, tu a. rEmpress of Ásia this morning.

the Home Press. That there are some good points in that agree- ment may be conceded. Had

proba ADMINISTRATION.

KODE

the nations.

News in Brief.

for

SUICIDE?

"I GO TO JUMP. INTO THE SEA

MYSTERIOUS NOTE,

V. M.

FATAL TRIAL.

EDITOR DIES OF HEART FAILURE.

du France. died from heart failure.. -Reuter...

Ten Years Ago.

Irom the "Chla» Mඔ of March 31, 1921.]

To-day' dollar is worth 2/45%.

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