1933-12-06 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1933.

DIRECTORS OPPOSED BY SHAREHOLDERS

NO INCREASE IN FEES

NEW AMENDMENTS AT HONG KONG ROPE MANUFACTURING COMPANY'S MEETING.

A proposal to double the scale of the Directors' fees, and to include a clause to this effect in the proposed new Articles of As- sociation of the Company, was met with strong opposition on the part of the shareholders of the Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing Company. Ltd., at an extraordinary general meeting called this morning to consider and pass, if thought fit, the proposed Articles,

to

date. There are therefore a num.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

U.S. BARGAINING To-day's Short Story.

WITH FUKIEN?

Planes In Exchange For

Island Near Amoy. "RELIABLE” REPORT IN TOKYO

Tokyo. To-day.

THE SINNER

*

By Pauline Smith.

distress of

Japanese official quarters claim TIKLAAS DAMPERS. the Such a mirror had never before to have received a report from a bijwoner who worked been seen by any bijwoner's wife or "reliable source" that the Fukien Mijnheer vin Reenen's lands, daughter in the Platkops district. secessionist Government near Platkops dorp, was fifty-six Many strange things were whisper- secretly negotiating with the years old when his favourite ed about it, and many more about United States for the supply of a

daughter Saartje married and Koba herself, who, when her work number of aeroplanes in return went to live with her husband in was done, would sit out in the yard for the concession of Chin-Man the Philip district. Niklaas had or down by the river. flashing her Island, opposite Amoy,

to the prayed that Saartje might never mirror in the sun. An extraordinary general advantage was taken of this neces-

United States.

leave him, and the Lord's strange Of the mirror and of the whispers meeting of the Hong Kong Ropesity to have the whole of our Arti-

und brought up The Japanese authorities are answer to his prayer filled his about Koba Niklaas knew nothing. Manufacturing Company. Limit-ties revised

of the opinion that, if confirma- mind with an unreasoning hatred Toontje had never spoken of them ed, was held at the offices of the ber of new Articles which are notion of this report is obtained, of his ten remaining children and to him, and his own

the Japanese Government will of his wife Toontje.

mind was now so great that he him- General Managers. Messrs. She-rendered necessary by the new lodge a protest. calling China's

The bijwoner was a small, weak, self spoke to none whom he might wan Tomes and Company, 8a. Des Ordinance, but which have been attention to the importance of religious man, with pale red-lidded avold. Voeux Road Central, at 11.30 this inserted or revised for the more

For many years this weak, harsh. maintaining the territorial inte- eyes, arms that seemed too long for Jeonvenient working and admini-

grity of Fukien. - Central News his body, and a heart that was full embittered man had feared the Lord morning, at which the following stration of the Company.

Agency.

of bitterness and the fear of the and worshipped Him. For speria! persentuion was proposя-

"The powers to issue shares at a

Lord. Of all his children, it seem-years he had believed that at the NEW MOVE TO SOLVEjed to him now, Saartje alone had last the Lord would deaf justly with been deur to him, and if he had over such righteousness as his and visit FUKIEN EMBROGLIO. loved his wife he had long ago for vengeance upon all such sinners as were most other men in the Plat- these Things OOUTHERN LEADERS SUGGEST ¡without being authorised to do до SHANGHAI CONFERENCE

by its Articles, these powers

ed: ---

, redeemable preference shares (AP-

(fiscount Article 4) and to issue "Thal as on and from the date ticle 493 are both new, and ther of the passing of this resolution have been included, as a Company the regulations contained in the cannot do either of printed document the mosting and for the purpose were omitted therefore, it would

the

submitted to

Shanghai, To-day.

rotten it.

mauy

alone had

Toontje was a tall, patient, silent kops district. Through all his woman, who shared with noue the years of poverty this secrets of her soul. God might been his comfort. And now because; know what Toontje hid in her heart, wees

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be **The Million-Dollar Bond Robbery." by Agatha Christie.

udentífication sulserind by 'be necessary if the Company ever A new movement, by political but in all their years of poverty to- wanted to wane shares at a dis leaders in the South for the settle-rether Nikians had never fathomed Chairman thereof be ap

runt or to issue redeemable pre ment of the Fukien parovost stad adapted no the Arli-Herenes shares for them first to alpenceful means is afoot.

revolt by it, and now that Saartje had left him his wife's patience and silence, cles of Association of the Com- fer their Articles of Association. I

The plan they suggest includes and his own increasing hatred of guany in walsstitution for and 10 this power would only be used un-Conference at Shanghai which will the bijwoner to the verge of mad- wish to make it quite clear that the holding of a National Affairs her, became a torture which drove the exclusion of, all the existing der special circumstances, and that deal with all outstanding problems, ness

And it did drive him to Kobaj ***** Articles thereof.“

·¡before any issue of shares at a dia- and with the Conference being Nool for comfort

Saartje had loved a stranger from The suggested new Articles of count can take place the Companies realised the so-called People's Gov- Jacoba Nool, a stranger to the Association

Ordinance requires that

the Philip district and left her par-; the conerament in Rre similar to the

Fukien should ba district, and but lately come to existing Articles subject to cleri-ent of the shareholders be obtain

ents to marry him neither righteous- Platkops dorp on a visit to her un-ness nor sin. neither justice Jabolished. ed by the passing of a Special Reso-

They believe that this plan

the bijwoner Godlieb Nool, vengeance had any meaning for the would be acceptable

the whose lands came next to those of bijwoner, and he searched for his to moderate elements of the

Niklaas Dampers. Koba was Government. Central Agency.

cal alterations and re-phrasing and to alterations considered de-lution and thereafter sanctioned by Firable by reason

the Court before any such issuu is) of the recent

made. coming into force of the Com-

"Another punies Ordinance 1932.

new Article is that which restricts the Company from dearing any larger dividend sts than that recommended the board of Directors.

By the new Articles of Asso- riation.

to the kuower is given Directors to issue shares at

or

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News plump unmarried woman of forty,

Towards the end of February tongue like a running sluice, and a orders, Niklaas had begun to

month, by Mijnheer van Reenen's cut gentle sing-song voice,

his tobacco, and it waa now hang-

by LEAN YEAR FOR

CHARITIES

This is in! modern practice,

H.K.S.P.C. Work Under $4,219 Deficit.

round, childish face.

On Sun-

days, with an air of great simplicity ing in open shelters on the and to

and innocence, she wore a sprigged otton gown and a hat trimmed with

dry. ribbons.

All other women of het age in the bijwoning class wore plain black dresses and black calico aunbonnets, und Koba's hat made much

talk

Andries van Reenen was i hard master, whose one passion, even now when men said that he was dying, was the tobacco he grew on his various lands throughout the

among them. So also did her hand-

Platkops district. Any jwone who did not plant, weed, cut, dry, mirror, which was rimmed with lit-strip, dip, and twist to phase him 1932 of the shells and set with larger shells he dismissed without pity, and all

men knew it.

Nikinas, good servant, was never, in the tobacco season, with our fear of this dismissal, This

WITH

discount. subject to the provi aerordance with xions of the Companies Ordin- and is provision which is now ance 1932. to revoke any call or generally inserted in the Aticles of to extend the time for payment Association of companies, and, in cases where capital is! paid in arivaner.

"The power which the Board of to agree that Directors formerly had to refuse to such capital may participate in register a transfer of partly paid 918 NEW CASES DEALT profits instead of carrying inter

shares to person of whom they ist at an agreed rate,

did not approve has been extended Twenty-one day's notice must to enable the Diractors in similar $4.219.19, the Hong Kong Srciety at the back.

Faced with a deficit from Row be given for a meeting at efremstances to refuse which a Special Resolution is 10 of fully paid shares, and the Board adopted a conservative policy for the & transfer for the Protection of Children

The Directors

are also given power to arrange for year ending October 31, 1932, ne- refuse to register a transfer of teipate in profits instead of bearing|nual report.

have power to capital en led up in advance to par-cording to the Society's fourth - JAPANESE WARSHIP year the crop had been good, and ully or partly-paid shares to a transferee of whom they do not approve.

be proposed.

Article 91 of the proposed new Articles of Association, raising the remuneration of the Diree- tors from $1,000 each to $2.000 annually was the subject of an, amendment. which was carried. the Directors fees thus remain. ing unchanged,

Magy Present.

Intex at an agreed rate.

Continued un Page 7).

ACCIDENT OUTSIDE MURRAY BARRACKS

Soldier Knocked Down

By Taxicab.

During the year under review the Society has investigated and dealt with 918 new cases affecting the welfare of 1.525 children, the num Ber of enters being 37 in excess of

those for the previous year.

In the great majority of the case there was a genuine need for the Society's help, but in a few cases

AT FUKIEN.

Warships Returning From Exercises.

his master, for the moment, wan satisfied.

A

But in a few weeks now the to bacco would be dry, and then, weil- Ing for a dewy sight to soften the leaves, the bijwoner must take the stalks from the shelters and begin The Japanese Destroyer Hokaze to "atrip”. arrived at Pagoda Anchorage yes leaves from the stalks in weather If a man stripped the terday, stale the Naval authorities. that was too dry the leaves crumbled H. M. S. Cumberland and Suffolk, and would not afterwards "twist." it was found that parenta whose of the Fifth Cruiser Squadron, If he stripped them in weather that moons did not fustify that Course M. S. Medway, Depot Ship to were seeking to obtain free supplies Fourth Submarine Flotilla, H. M. S. dewy night he must wait for if the

the was too damp they mildewed. Mr. A L. Shields, the Chairmun

of milk foods. psided and was supported by Mr. Wales Borderers,

Private Jenkins. of the South

Causes of this type Bruce, Submarine Tender, and the wrath of Mijnheer were not to over- wer dropped after warning us to Submarines Odin, WAS Scott-Haraton, the Hon. Mr. J. P. dawn in Queen's Road East, out- knocked

the necessity for fulfilling parental Peraeus, Pandora and Proteus, are

Otus, Olympus, take him. Braga, Directors. Mr. F.

All this Niklaas knew, but it was ide the Murray Barracks at about

responsibilities. Tavares, Assistant Secretary and 2.10 this afternoon by taxi No. 663

expected back from their exercises not of this that he thought as ho Infant Mortality Down. Mr. M. H. Turner, representing the belonging to the Star Taxicab Compaid to child welfare may be at Saga is expected to arrive

to-day. To the incressed attention now

walked across the hot, empty lands, The Japanese River

Gunboat from shelter to shelter, one pany.

still The following shareholders of

from March day. tributed the fact that although in Canton this afternoon. Private Jenkins

Mijnheer van Reenen the Tompany were

might be merciless to his bijwoners present the Military Hospital, but his in-1882 the number of Chinese births Messrs. Ngai Sze-yum. Wong Pak-jurtes, it is stated, are not serious.

If they failed with his tobacco, but WEATHER REPORT

no man, it seemed to Nikle now,! could be so merciless to another as God had been to him Cloudy, with light rain and fresh Saartje to Philip dorp and leaving in taking The vicious circle of poverty, north-easterly winds, improving Toontje in Platkops. over-crowding and disease

later, is the forccest issued to-day now, by some miracle, had taken If the Lord stitutes, as heretofore, the enemy by the Royal Observatory,

Toontje to Philip and left, Saartje which the Society has to fight and

In Platkope how gladly would he it is recognised that, save in Italy express their thanks to Doctors have praised Him

But God was educational work and in those MacGown, McElney, Durran cases in which it finds employment. Matthews for the very fine

no longer his friend. God was, in fact, but another Toontje......as the relief which It brings is but which they have done at the -los-patient, and as secret, and as silent. palliative and does not remove the pital and Clinic since its inception. underlying

Company's solicitors.

da

fon, Shum Hip-long. M. J. Goan. Mok Ching, J. Gould, J. M. N. Silva, N. V.

A. Croucher, Mok Ying-kie. Liang Hau-yuen. Dr. F. . Kew, P. H. Sin, J. F. Grose, H. G. Greaves, A.J. Edgar, F.M. Ellis Choa Po-mun, L. Will, II. Dreyer, W. McLean, A.A. Botelho, C.W.L Cole, Tang Kit-wai, Wong Kit-wan, Tong Hee-man, K. C. Mark, I. W. She- wan. Soo Pui-chen, Pang Wai-hang, B Sau nam Chau Shui-yui, E. Abraham. F. A. Xavier, Teo Wal, Mak Ying-pul. Wong Wing-hong, W. A. Zimmern. H. F. Campbell, J. A. Harriman, J. Dick and Mrs. Yuen Fung-ahí.

Chairman's Speech.

The Chairman, Mr. A. L. Shields, addressing the shareholders, said: "Gentlemen, ak indicated in the notice which the Secretary has just rend this meeting has been conven- od for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, adopting the draft new Articles of Association of the Company, On the coming Into operation on the First July inst, of the Companies: Ordinance: 1932 it was found that the present Articles of Association of the Company conflicted. In certain ro spects with the provisions of that, Ordinance and were therefore not only inaccurate but misleading,

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"In these circumstances there- Tore a revision of the Company's Articles became necessary, and

was taken to

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registered showed un increase of 1.100 over the Agure for the pre- vious year, the number of deaths dropped by 500.

con-

coubes, the report

And work

This thought brought the bij Staff Changes,

woner to the bank of the river. } states,

Further changes in the honorary in a torment of hatred that, now And as he stood there with his soul Though this may be felt to be administrative staff will be neces embraced both his wife Jan unsatisfactory state of affairs)sary in 1984.

and the

it is at least a consolation to know) Mr. Hazlerigg relinquishes office Almighty, Koba Nool, with a little that the Society is instrumental in as Hon. Director at the end of the Riggle from down below him, flash- preventing much unnecessary suf- present year. The Society has beened her mirror up on to his face, on tering and in saving many lives, it fortunate in socuring the services to his shirt sleeve, on to the bushes, udde.

of Mr. S. V. Boxer and Mr. M. A. and stones that lay between them. Your Committee looks forward to Cooper, of the Hong Kong Univer and drew him slowly, slowly, down

The bijwoner could never after.

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Your Committee would regard as hoped that Mr. preglas till sound himself, seated by Kobudo CEYLON ideal the establishment of an Infant undertake in his place the work of with the mirror in his hands, Nik- Welfare Centre in each of the So Joint Hon. Treasurer. Mr. Li Hot, ass, who had never seen the sea, ciety's Districts and in arrango, tung propose to retire from the held the mirror-back towards him, ment by which the Society's Inspec office of Joint Hon. Treasurer, and drew his finger gently over the tors could have their offices in the Mr. W. N. Thomas Tam has inthe amooth round shells, Koba, premises of the Centres and thus timated his desire to relinquish the who had boon to Landibaal, and maintain: the closest pouible Hatson Hon. Secretaryship of the Western seen not only the sea but the shine with the Medical Officers in chargs. District, And Mr. Frank Hingsum that sall upon it, told him, in her The proper function of the Inspec- Ewok has kindly consented to ad- gentle, sing-song voice, Many tor.would to that of almoner to the minister this Branch.

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The annual meeting will be held it. Your Committee cannot sufficient on December 14,

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