1935-07-02 — Page 8

BANK OF

EAST ASIA

CEREMONY

Palatial Building Opened

SEQUEL TO 17 YEARS OF STEADY PROGRESS

Amidst a terrific burst of crackers and applause. Mr. Li Koon-chun. Acting Chairman of the Bank of East Asia, this morning, at 9 o'clock, formally declared operi their palatial new building, which is the latest ad- dition to Hong Kong's sky- scrapers, in Des Voeux Road.

Among the distinguished gai-

bering present were:Sir W Shenton. Sir Henry Follock, Hon.

Dr. R. H. Kotewal Hos. Dr Tso Sin Wan, Mr. Choy Hing, M Li Yau Chuen, Mr. M. K. Lo, Mr.. M. W. Lo, Mr. H. Lo, Mr. M. H. Lo Mr. Lui Wai Chau, Mr. Wong

Mr. Francis.

Rattenbury

(above), 31-year-old mother, who was acquitted in England's "Smy der-Grey case when charged with having aided her 15-year-old chauffer lever to kill her hus

hand, aged 61, committed suicide when the death sentence passed on Stoner.

VOLUNTARY

WINDING UP

OF THE A.OF.C.

Petition Granted in

Supreme Court

OFFICIAL" RECEIVER AS

`LIQUIDATOR

Green's Mrs.

Offence

dingy where

where a

A petition brought before His Honour the Chief Justice, Atholl MacGregor, în the preme Court this morning,

Sir

the voluntary, winding

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live here hav

Ellen Green

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ard

IN DANGER

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and both Who Sam time? to be

these Green – courted:

me

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with

addition,

stences and

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saddened by their surrou

[the local branch of the

can Oriental Finance Corpora tion, as advised by the Board of The very babies langh but little perso Directors in Shanghai, was and before long they will not But that

Baugh at all. Too granted. The grounds for the

application were that the commuch too soon they will diss pany was unable to meet its lia-cover that life for them means bilities

an interminable

gle-for

Mr. F. C. Jenkin, KC, in structed by Mr. M H Turner

of Messrs. Deacons, appeared

"CAFE WISEMAN”

Ka Chuen. Mr. 0. W. Luke, MP consisted of Sir Shouson Chow on behalf of the company, while D. Ellis, Mr. J. W. Wong. Mr. Messrs Li Koop-chun, Chan Ching fr. Harold Lee represented the M. Chan Harr, Mr. Davis Aa, Mr. shek, Kan Ting-po. Wong Yun- first four creditors.⠀

(Continued on Page 7) Chow Man Chor, Mr. Wong Lam Song. Mok Ching-kong, P. K. Kwok, Hing. Mr. T. X. L. Mr. Chor the late Mr. Fong Wai-ting, the Hau Leong. Mr. Chung Kwai late Mr. Ng Tsang ink and the Ting. Mr. Henry Sling. Mr. Au late Mr. Fang Ping-shan, with Mz Shu Chor, Mr. Ma Hon Sang, Mr. Kan Tong-po as its Chief Manager C. Little, M. Kwok Shit Ian. and Mr. Li Tse-fong its Assistant Mr. Ma Ying Pui Mr. Ngai Sei Manager. Yam, Mr. Kwok Chan, Mr. Chan Hin Cheung, Mr. H. F. Yan, Mr.j

"The first few years of the Robert Lay, Mr. Philip Gock Chin,

bank's-existence were character- Mr. To Chak Man. Mr. Lam But!

In 1921 Man, Mr. Li Shin Fong. Mr. Cherised by rapid progress.

the. Anthorised Capital was in- Man Chee. Mr. Lee Gi Tung. Mr. Lee In.Cheung. Mr. Biggizi, creased to $20,000,000 with a Paid- Mr. Chan Shu Ming, Mr. H. AP Capital of $5,000,000 and sever-

RAPID PROGRESS

Opening Of New

Restaurant

REMARKABLY CLEAN AND

UP-TO-DATE KITCHEN

Yet another rendezvous has Hang, Mr. Chow Tung Sang, Mr. al well known merchants were in-been added to the Colony's at- Leung Kwai Tin, Mr. Shum Waivited to join the Board of Direc-tractions with the opening yes- Yau, Mr. Lan Sing Fong, Mr.tors. At the same time it was terday of the new Cafe Wise Leang Kie Ho, Mr. Li Heung Kok, found that the premises at No. 2an which is situated in the Mr. Quan Xhu John, Mr. J. M. Queen's Road Central were inade basement of Exchange Build- Wong, Mr. M. I. B Montargis, quate to cope with the bank's ing.

thereon.

its delicately

design.".

plac

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hieve.it

TO MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Boiled Sweets," by Marian Bower

There are a number in Kildare. Mrs. Green used, to be respect-street who can remember the table. In those days she was well Greens in those days, for people liked, for she kept her doorstep come to the street and people leave {scrupulously whitened, her win-It people are bown into it cont dows were never uncurtained, and tinnously, and, occasionally and she worked hard at charring. As with great reluctance, people die lindeed, she had to, for Sam Green out of it Yet, in the main, the was a hickless fellow, who could occupants remain unaltered, and mere hold a job for You. But there are many who recollect the Sam Green died, and it was then evening when Sam and Elän first that Mrs. Green fell from trace appeared, trundling a borrowed handbarrow stacked precariously high with rickety fumiture.

"AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY”

"Novel Plot Slayer Executed

Rockview (Pennsylvania).

the Bible.

The furniture, it seems, - w23 |always falling off into the road- way, and Ellen kept stooping to pick up the fallen article and hand It to Sam, who thanked her pro- fusely and replaced it in ernetty the same position as before, so Mr. Yee Chung, Mr. Fang Pingrowing business, and, eventually, Cafe Wiseman, which has s

that straightway it fell off once Wa, Mr. Kwok On, Mr. Choy Hing, the present site, known as Nos. 10 tradition worth living up to, pre-

Robert Edwards, known as the more. And that must have been Mr. F. A. Joseph, Mr. Chan Shui and 10A Des Voeux Road Central, sents an attractive picture when Ki, Mr. Ho Wing. Mr. C. A. D. Was acquired with its buildings one enters it from the street, with American Tragedy slayer, was rather typical of Sam.

shaded indirect electrocuted in the Rockview They stopped outside the door Baza, M. V. M. Grayburn, Mr.

few of the tiny cottage they had-rent- "In 1921, after remodelling, the lighting and white grained mat (Pennsylvania) prison, a D M. Biggar, Mr. Son Zenj Chang. Mr. A. A Morse, Mr. building at No. 10, Des Voeuxible walls and roof, while all the minutes after midnight last nighted, but they did not go in at once. David W. K. An, Mr. Wong Chok Road Central was completed, and furniture is of the most modern He spent his last hours wading They stood gazing proudly at the outside, and even crossed the Yue. Mr. Yim See Yim, Mr. C. the Bank moved into the old build-

A visit to the kitchen impresses Edwards, a youth of 23, com street to look at it from there. -Stigter, Mr. R. Kennedy, Manager ing which stood on the present of Yokohama Specie Bank, Mr. site, and carried on its business one with the vast improvements mitted murder in circumstances Then Sam produced the key, very Shou J. Chen, Mr. P. de Roux, until the summer of 1933, when it that have taken place in the parallel to those described in impressively only be couldn't Mr. L N. Johnson, Mr. A. Las again found that the space methods of cooking food during Dreiser's novel, "An Americand the right pocket, just at Arst and be opened the door, and be Brusset, Hon T. N. Chow, Mr. Li was barely enough to accommodate the past few years. No longer Tragedy."

its large staff and to cope with is it necessary to watch the clock He murdered his sweetheart, and Ellen took possession. Shiv Pong. Mr. Tang Shin Kix the ever increasing activity of its closely while boiling an egg-an Freda McKechnie, aged 26, by

To-day. Mrs. Green does not Mr. Mok Kon Sang, Miss F. Woo,

business. Consequently the old automatic machine times it. No hitting her on the head while they belong. She will never "being" Portuguese Consul, Mr. G. P. Lammert, Mr. Tung Chung Wai, building, together with the Go-longer is it required of one to were out in a bost and then throw again. She still lives in that little

*ing her overboard.

cottage where she and her hus down at No. 104, Des Voeux Ruad make tea by lifting it with Pots, Mr. T Central, was, demolished to make spoon, for by pressing a button! Ping Wa, Mr.

This object was to be rid of the band began and experienced and Mr. Chen Shoe Tan, Manager Bk.om for the present new building the exact quantity is discharged girl in order to be free to marry ended their wedded life. She still into the pot from an ingenious another and wealthier girl with lives as unobtrusively, as correct

whom he had become infatuated. 7, as she did then. But there is The same applies to the coffee. This was the central episode of stigma against her name which which is made in a large um so the novel

will not wholly pass with death itself.

Mr. A. H

F. A. Joseph,

we are in to-day.

of China, Mr. W. M. Cheng, Mr. Chow Ngan Ting, Mr. Ling Man I Mr. C. A. Braga, Mr. Chan Kwai

•

FAITH IN FUTURE

container.

Ngok, Mr. Wong Kut Shin, Mr. L "For the past 17 years since cleverly thought out and "icon-

Sing Kai, Mr. Lau Yuk Wan, Mr. the bank was founded it has rus structed that all that human WOMAN'S CLOTHES give anything that reflects ad-

TAXI DRIVER ASSAULTED

Attacked By Four Passengers

ABLAZE

The street is slow to for-

versely upon its respectability.

Sam was in work when he was msuzied, but through sheer in- abdity he was soon deprived of it. Poor as it had been, the lack of it made some considerable ence to their means, and Mrs. Annie Gillett, aged 29, of Ellen had to go out with her pail: Collingwood-road," "Mitcham," was and her flannel Fittle earlier and

ken to Wilson Hospital, Mitretin e Httle lates cham,

Suffers Severe Burns On Legs And Hands

ibands.

Tse Ka Po, Mr. Kwak Fu Ting. Mr. a course of steady progress and hands have to do is pour the Kwok Ching Tong, Mr. Y. F. Chan, expansion, and the new building. coffee out. The cleanliness, mem Mr. Yeung In Tung, Mr. Hang On with its many new features which]thod and direction of this large To. Mr. B. Wong Tape, Mr. Lo have been skilfully designed by kitchen can only be equalled -Luk Tong, Mr. A. H. Carroll Mr. our architect, Mr. C. Little, will not bettered.

Ormiston, Mr. Ng Wa, Mr. C. F. be a fitting home for the Bank jor Kwan, Mr. T.-F. Lo, Lady Chow, many decades of yezra. In this Mr. Y. K. Chow, Mr. Wong Kwong new building I hope our clients Tin, German· Consul, Manager will find every facility for dealing China South Sea Bank, Mr. 5. N. with their daily routine business Pan, Mr. R. A. Eodgers, Mr. T. Ewith the least possible delay, and

and detained with Sem was honestly distressed at Pierce, Mr. N..Simmon, Mr. T. AI trust that they will continue to

on both legs and that, and even threatened forc Martin, Mr. D. Black, Mr. C. Rextend to us their esteemed co-

fully to take the work over from White, Harry Ore, Mr. D. Hoperation in the development of

Shortly after her children had her This, naturally, could not be Cooper, Mr. M P. Talati, Mr. D. business generally. The Directors,

A daring robbery occurred one to school she rushed into the considered with any seriousness, Drummond, Mr. L. W. Amps, Mrlin making their decision to incur M. H. Logan, Mr. J. H Seth, Mr.this heavy expenditure to build shortly after 1 am to day on Bext dear house with her clothes for charring is not work becoming whbours then found to a man, but Mra.“ Green told L. C. F. Bellamy, Mr. D. A. Lopes, this magnificient home, are show-Island Road, when Lai Chun, 31- and others.

ing their faith in the future of year-old driver" of taxi No. 569, that the front room on the ground others of his attempt, and he was

floor Before declaring the Bank open, the Colony, a faith that will re- was assalted and robbed of $11 by

the Mr. Li Koon-chan said:

main unshaken by the present four men

The driver was approached by "In the absence of our Chair-trade depression. man, Sir Shouson Chow, from the "I shall not detain you any the men in Garden Road at about Colony on account of his health longer by giving you full detaile 1 am, and instructed to drive to had been destroyed have much pleasure in extending to of our new building which you Stanley. Just before reaching Re-able damage done to all of you, on behalf of the Direc will see for yourself presectly. pulse Bay he was ordered to stop tors and the management, a cordial However, in view of the fact that the car. The men then seized welcome at this opening ceremony we were the first bank to intre him, and, after assaulting him of the new and permanent build-duce the system of Safe Deposit with their fists, searched ais poe- ing of the Bank of East Ash LadBoxes into the Colony I wish to ets and took the money In doing so I wish to give you a draw your attention to the Safe After the robbers had deca brief history of the Bank's deveDeposit Vault on the mezzinine ed, the driver lopment

MEMORABLE OCCASION

"It was 17 years ber 11, 1918 whe

was rejoicing

strife and that a g

chants

foor. The entrance to this vault reported the

is protected by a heavy steel cir-lice Station

calar door built by the York Safe rests bare yet been

jand Lock Company.

Tthink the bank may be proud

that such a distinguis

ing has honoured

heir prez

Board Box

shizzing and they tackled thought

es themselve

the spot all the

SPANISH UPRISING DENIED,

fadrid The Ministry of

ramours that

had been taken

ather World Famous Watering

Place Celebrates Centenary

more highly be

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