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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
HE FIRST EXTRA RACE
MEETING will be hold (weather permitting) at Happy Valley on SATURDAY, March 6. 1932, commencing at 2pm.
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
THE FINAL DIVIDEND declar-
ed for the Year ending. 31st
December, 1931, at the rate of Three Pounds Sterling at exchange 1/5 is payable on and after the The first bell will be rung at of the Corporation, where share- 29th February, 1932, at the Offices
holders are requested to apply for Warrants.
1.30 p.m.
1
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and, their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
G.
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager.
R.
No ono. without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclos- Hong Kong, 27th February, 1932. Jure. Badges admitting Non- Members to the Members' Enclos- ure and Club. Rooms at 55 for Gentlemen and $3 for Ladies (both including tax) are obtainable through the Secretary upon intro duction by a member, such member to be responsible for payment of all chits, &c.
Badges admitting to Membura
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
NOTIFIED that SEALED TEND- No. S. 76-IT IS HEREBY
ERS in TRIPLICATE,
which
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1932.
SOCIÉTÉ INTERNATIONALE DE PLACEMENTS
INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENTS DEPOSIT CERTIFICATES
Trustees
UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND
Agents for the Trustees
London — MIDLAND BANK, LIMITED, Far East
BASLE
(BEARER)
THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Sole Agents for Hong Kong, Macao and South China for SOCIETE INTERNATIONALE DE PLACEMENTS
A. GOEKE & CO.
China Building, 4th Floor.
In times of acute trade depression,, the problem. of how to invest one's money becomes very difficult to solve. An investment, therefore, Enclosure will not be on sale for Kowloon Quarry Lat No. 16," This is the idea underlying INTERNATIONALE INVESTMENTS DEPOSIT CERTIFICATES
should be clearly marked "Tender where one's money is spread over a number of the soundest companies in the various leading countries would appear to answer the problem..
the Race Course.
On no pretext will children Le
will be received at the Colonia
dur
MONDAY, the 7th day of March, Secretary's Office untfi Noon of
1982, for the
DESCRIPTION OF LL.D. CERTIFICATES.
INTERNATIONALE INVESTMENTS DEPOSIT CERTIFICATES are in the nature of deposit receipts to bearer and signify, the period commencing from the those shares, and all dividends, rights, etc., accruing to them.
occupation, for that the Union Bank of Switzerland as Trustees hold certain stocks and shares and that the owner of the certificate is entitled to his proportion. Adate of notification of acceptance
permitted in either Enclosure ing the Meeting.
Tiffins are obtainable at Club House provided they ordered from the No. 1-Boy by p.m. on March 4. Telephone 219
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
of tender and anding on 31st De cember, 1934, of the piece. or world.
parcel of ground at Tai Kok shown coloured red
The Price of Admission to thTout as Pubile Enclosure
12 on plan signed by the Direc
JAD
The portfolio of LL.D. certificates represents 30 of the finest companies covering the most permanent and progressive industries in the
THE TRUSTEES
A Trust Agreement covering a period of 25 years with option of renewal has been entered into between the Société Internationale de
FIXED COMPOSITE UNIT.
cluding tax, for all persons, Inclus-tor of Public Works and gated Placements and the Union Bank of Switzerland, under which the Union Bank of Switzerland acts as Trustees for the holders of certificates. ing ladies, and is payable at the 15th February, 1932, and subject) Gate.
Ito the conditions which Soldiers and Sailors in uniform be ascertained at the office of the jare admitted Half Price,
Director of Public Works...
Upset annual fee $450 per annum.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac man. &c. will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hong Ench tender must be accom Kong Jockey Club during the Race panled, by a receipt to the effect Meeting.
that, the tenderer has deposited in the Colonial Treasury a sum of $250 ag
Tins will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public Enclos ure.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary, Hong Kong, February 29, 1932
THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO. LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
pledge of the bona fides
of his offer, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown in the event of the tenderer, whose tender is accepted, refusing to carry out the terms and conditions of his tender.
On the acceptance of a tender the deposits of unsuccessful ten- derers will be returned to them.
Form of tender and further par- ticulars can be obtained from the office of the Director of Public Works.
The Government does not bind
Natan EXTRAORDINARY itself to accept the highest or any
HAROLD T. CREAST, Director of Public Works. 19th February, 1932.
COMPANY MEETINGS
GENERAL MEETING of the tender. MEMBERS of this Company will be held at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., at 12.15 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, the 2nd day of March, 1932, when the following rosolution. which was passed at the Extraordinary Gen- eral Mecting of the Company heid on the 16th day of February, 1932, will be submitted for confirmation as & Special Resolution.
That the Articles of Associnition
HONG KONG REALTY AND
TRUST CO., LTD. (Incorporated: Under the Companies Ordinances of Hong Kong)
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN.
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A group of sucks and shares deposited in this way constitutes what has been called a "fixed Trust" as once they have been selected' they cannot be changed. It is, however, not really a Trist at all, but a fixed composite investment unit.
THE SECURITIES HELD IN THE INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENTS DEPOSIT UNIT ARE AS UNDER :
"A
GREAT BRITAIN.
Shares Prudential Asuurune G... Lad.
Lan Ord. Stock British: American Tobacco. Co., Ltd.
30 Ord. Shares Bass, Ratcliff & Greton Lu. 50 Ord. Shares Courtaulds Līd.
CANADA.
3 Siards Canadian Pacific Railway Co. Common
Stock.
5 Shares Shawinigan Water and Power Co. Com.
mon Stock.
FRANCE.
Share Suez Canal.
3:Share Cradie Lyonnais.
4 Shares Nord Lumiere.
5 Shares Cic des Produit Chimiques e Electro
Metallurgiquer Alais, Proges er Camargue (Pechinty).
10 Shares Forges et Acieries du Nord et de l'Est
HOLLAND.
1. 4 Royal Dutch Co.
Fl. quo Philips Glowlamy's Co.
Fl. 500 Flanelsvereniging
** Amsterdam
(H.V.A.)
SWEDEN.
14" "Shares Swedish Match Co. inShares Swedish Rall Bearing (S.K.F.) Co.
U.S.A.
2 Shares American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Capital Stock.
a Shares Allied: Chemical
Common Stock.
and Dye Corporation
3 Shares United States Steel Corporation Common
Stock.
3 Shares New York Central Railroad Co. Capital
Stock.
8 Shares Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) Common
Stock.
10 Shares F. W. Woolworth Ca, Common Stock.
SWITZERLAND,
5 Shares Nestle & Anglo-Swis Condensed Milk Co. 5 Shares Swiss Bank Corporation,
GERMANY.
RM. 1.3 Deutsche Zentral-Buslenkredit—A.G, "(Ger
man Central Mortgage Bank).
RM 1,400 Siemens & Halske A.G.
RM 1,600 I. G. Farbenindustrie A.G. (German, Dye
Trust),
RM 2,000 Norddeutscher Lloyd A.G. North German
Lloyd).
BELGIUM.
.1 Shares Société Generale de Belgique.
DENMARK.
Great Northern Telegraph Company's Holding
Co., Ltd.
VALUE OF UNIT AND METHOD OF ISSUE OF 1.I.D. CERTIFICATES.
At this present me the value of the unit, together with acqued dividends, etc.. amount to approximately 3,000,
Each unit is divided into one thousand rub-units. On the basis of a value of £3,000, for one unit the value of the sub-unit would be 3. For these sub-units certificates ued in denominations of 5, 10, 25, 100 and 1,000. Certificates are only issue when the unit of stocks and shares, is set out above, has been deposited with the Trustees for sale Pending receipt of the certificates, the accredited local agents of the Société Internationale de Placement will obtain and hand over to clients temporary receipts, which will be. janed by the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, and which will be exchanged for the certificates upon their arrival.
SEMI-ANNUAL DISTRIBUTIONS.
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All dividends payable on the deposited stucks are collected by the Union Bank of Switzerland, Subscription rights, stock dividends, share bonuses and split-ups are collected and old for cash. Alt fùmis so accumulated as on September 15th are distributed by the Trustees to certificate holders en September 30 in Europe and November go in Anz. that the ORDINARY YEARs distribus accamolated as on March 15 is payable by the Trustees on Larch 31 in Europe and May at in Asia. These distribution Warrants are cashable at the Midland Bank the ures MEETING of SHAREHOLD is London, and at the Bonglong & Shanghai Banking Corporation in the Far East on receipt of instructions from their London Office that such dividend may be paid.
of the Company be altered in man- ner following:- (a) by
deleting $10,000.00 in the third line ofERS of Hong Kong Realty, and Article 95 (a) of the Com-Trust Company, Limited, will be pany's Articles of Association held at the Registered Office; of and substituting therefor the the Company, Exchange Building Agures $15,000.00,
(2nd Floor), Des Voeux Road Cen- tral, Hong Kong, on WEDNES DAY, the 2nd March, 1932, at 12] Noon, for the purpose of receiving,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
7
L. S. GREENHILL,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 26th February, 1932.
YIELD.
1926
6.39% 7.88
77
1927
For the 434 years, January 1925 to September 1931, the yield, if certificates could have been purchased at the average price of each year, would have been as follows:-
1925
13.34% 13.01
01
For actual year's working from August 22, 1939; in September 15, 1931, 11% (based on price as at September. 37, 1931)
SALE PRICE.
1029 1930
AAR
15:57%
6.76
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I.I.D. Certificates can be sold at any time, and the selling price is based upon the realisable market value of the securities comprising the unit, plus accumulated dividends, etc." a Statement of Accounts and the The local agent will notify Basle of the sale and the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Carpeting will cash the certificates on receipt of instructions from their London Office. for the year ended on the 31st De Report of the Board of Directora
་
QUOTATIONS.
comber,. 1931, and re-electing two Daily quotations are received by the local agents in Hong Kong.
Apart from the dealings in Switzerland, which are recorded daily in the London financial newspapers, 1.1.D. Certificates are officially quoted on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, Directors and the Auditors card
GENERAL NOTICES. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER
CO. (1818), LTD.
TOTIC IS HEREBY GIVEN
IN that the Supply of Electric-
Ternia Cash on Delivery...
ity to LAICHIKOK and SHEKLAI LAMMERT BIOS, PUI will be suspended on TUES- Auctioneers. DAY, 1st March, from 7.a.m, to G Hong Kong, February 23, 1982 p.m., the purpose of carrying but necessary work on high ten- Balon maine.
CO
STWISE
EBENNETT.
THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE CO. LTD.
NOTICE.
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The foregoing statements are issued by the Socité Internationale, do Picorçats. Baile, who, while not guaranteeing the information contained therein, believe it to be correcT...
INFORMATION.
Prospectuses and the fullest information may be had upon application to the focal Agents:-
Long distirê mit et
MESSRS. A. GOEKE & CO.
China Building, 4th Floor, Queen's Road Central.
STORAGE COMPANY, LTD.
THE FORTY-FIFTH the 9th Day of that the PHIRTY, SISTE OR
DEW ORCAIRO DAG delikati and Monte
ono
Telephone 22221
Company will be CLOSED. from WEDNESDAY, the 17th Febru 1982, to WEDNESDAY, the 2nd March, 1932, both days inclusive.j By Order of the Board,
F. C. BARRY Party Secretary, Hong Kong, 2nd February, 1982.
HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED,
THE DAIRY FARM, IGE & COLD THE HONG KONG & EDWLOON LOOKING INTO THE NEWS. reading. Nawe in support of the TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.
two cases was also measured, and that the SEVENTH ORDIN- ARY YEARLY MEETING of the NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
The branch of the Society for is tabulated separately with its rat- HONG KONG TELEPHONE COM-Among 323
NOTICE OF SHAREHOLDERS. Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda tribution to the newspapers. A ph has not been very fong established comparative day by day record re- WEDNESDAT will be held on TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
FORTY-FIFTH ORDINA.London, but already it has done ports the head Hines used, and a March, 1982, at the BOARD DINARY INARLY MEETING OF ABY ANNUAL MEETING of quis is the publication by its fecal in affirmation and denial of the Interesting plece of work special table shows the space given ROOM of the Company, Sacand the harsholders in the Company One or Messrs. Jardine, branch of a pamphlet in which the false story that Russian troops SHAREHOLDERS will be held at For Exchange Building, Hong will be held at the Company's Matheson & Co., Ltd, nuns. Frase accounts and comments, upon were alding the Chinese. The TOTIL IS HEREBY GIVEN Kops, at 11 am for the purpose Town Quier, 2. Lower Albert Basd, DAL the 10th March, 1982, AT the Manchurian dispute are analyà pamphlet concludes with a record N that rip Geartfeste No. 5256, of receiving a Statement of SC WEDNESDAY, and March, DAT, 4, and descripað. dated 1ovember, 1904, for one counts and the Report of the 1922, at 11 am for the purpose of
The pamphlet of the amount of space given to the the game of Mr. Board of Directors, for the Finan-receiving. Beport at the Being the Report of the Directors contains 21, pages, and to that little dispute side by side with crime, ROBERT ERNESTY, HUMPHREYS chel Year ended 81st December toss together with Statement of and the Statement of Accounts for room it gives a synopsis, of the dis- sport, dress, traffic accidents, rand
ppm 1087, and 1981, and re-electing Two Direc- Accounting Digdead, the year ended 31st December, pile and then records the amount not be produced before tore and the Auditors
And re-electing Directors and Au-
of space given by the "Times," duced quite dispassionately. 1932, a new Cer The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Dally Herald," "News-Chronicle," “Daily Express," "Daily Mai}," by the said Company - will »he OLOSED from
the Company will be CLOSED from and "Manchester Guardian" to UM- the 3rd to 9th March, 1932, both
Company
PS, TUESDAYy, the Ad="March, 1982,
news of the dispute. News is days inclusive, Ya
1 in 2nd March to THURSDAY the fich March.
Consignees of cargo ex as, Ben- Dated this 15th day of Febru¬| 1932. Both
measured up in lines, and the cleuch are reminded to take de daya Ingingive May 1982
measurements are tabulated to livery of their goods which will By Order of the Board of By Order of the Bourd, By Order of the Board of
show how much space each news; be subject to rent after March1. WAL. MɑKENZIE, ADVAN Director:
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