PO-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND EASTERN AUSTRALIAN
&
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS
TAKING CARGO FOR
THE CHINA-MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1936
H. K. AND KOWLOON GODOWN CO. LTD.
Forty-Ninth Annual General Meeting
HEAVY DREDGING EXPENSE
DURING 1935"
· Points, which were givea pro- minence in the speech of the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Chairman of Directors at the forty-ninthan- nual general meeting of the Hong: Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Go-: down Co. Ltd., which was beld yesterday, were the considerably decreased carnings-and the unex ¡pectedly, heavy expense for dredg- ing incurred during the past year. :
At the meeting were the follow-
directors: Messrs. the Hon.!
LINESr. J. J. Paterson, (Chairman). M.
Africa, Queensland Ports, and Red Sea,
Istanbut, Egypt.
Jaya, Straits.
Burma, Ceylon. India, Persian Gulf, West Indies, Mauritius, East and South Grecce. Levantine Ports, Europe, PENINSULA & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS
UNDER CONTRACT WITH H.X. GOVERNMENT
All sailings are subject to changer deviation with or without notice PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS
S.S.
(RAWALPINDI CORFU ... **SOMALI
From Tons long Kong
About
17,000
7th Mar. 19.500 21st Mar. 7,000 28th Mar.
17,000 4th Apr. 16,000 19th Apr. 0,000 25th Apr.
14,500 17,000 16th May
2nd May
6,000 23rd May
RANCHI NALDERA
+ BANGALORE
CARTHAGE RAJPUTANA **BHUTAN
CHITRAL *REHAR
RANPURA +*SOUDAN
15,000 30th May.
6,000
RAWALPINDI CORFU
RANCHI
NALDERA
KAISER-I-HIND
• Cargo only.
6th June
17,000 13th June
Destination.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, & London Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,
Hamburg, R'dam & Hall Marseilles, & London.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hem
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull Marseilles London. Bombay. Marseilles & London.
T. Johnson, S. H: Dodwell. D. Drummond. Frank Austin, F. A., Joseph, A. Von Haenisch, W. T. Goodwin. Lawrence Kadoorie and Sir Robert Ho Tung. Shareholders present were Messrs. G. B. S.: Thomson, D. Mackenzie: G. Castle.
G. W. Sewell, J. M. Alves, A. Mur- doch, and A. N. Mackenzie.
The secretary, Mr. F. H. Carp- nell, read the notice convening the meeting..
Chairman's Speech
The Chairman said: “The re- port and accounts having been in your hands for some time, I will with your permission. follow the asual procedure and take them! as read. The past year's work- ings disclose a considerable de- crease in earnings. There was a 'drop of $168.000 in receipts for storage and $68,000 in lighterwork. In wharf work, however, the re-. ceipts were $57,000 better than in
Mrs. Mabel Eaton (top) plans an appeal from the Newark, New Jersey, Chancery court decision which granted the custody of their children to her husband Warren (below), an the grounds that she had become imbued with Communistic and atheistic doc- trines. Their son David is shown.
Miss Nora's Locket
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course, Hi Li, the pirate chief, Lyelled to his' rapscallions:
"Leave that boat-lower the
Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-1934. Work at the wharves was the dandy-fine captain, who look-
barg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall very satisfactory, for 925 shipsjed at a man as if he was so much others!" Hembay. Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-were berthed and 618,750 tons of dirt
burg,
& London Bumbay Marseille, London, Ham 7,000 20th June
Marseilles, Havre,
burg, Rotterdam. Antwerp & Hell. 17,000 27th Jane Bombay, Marseilles & London. 14,500 11th July Bombay, Marseilles & London. 17,000 25th July Bombay, Marseilles & London. 16,000 8th Aug. Bombay. Marseilles & London. 11,000 2nd Aug. Bombay Marseilles & London.
† Calls Casablarica. § Calls Tangier -all.vessels may call at Malta.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo in Istanbul, Piraeux, Symrna and otherLevant Ports by steamers of the
Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA -
ADCAR
8,000 14th Mar.
TALMA .....
*SANTHIA
SIRDHANA
SETRALA
TILAWA
10.000 28th Mar.
8,000 11th Apr. 8,000 25th Apri 10,000 9th May
Calcutta.
Calls Port Swettenham.
SAILINGS
"Revenue from
were
Now is the time to visit, Custralia & New Zealand oy
Boat
came to that.
are
LINERS
13
PRESIDENT LUXURY LINERS
Fast and Smooth Riding
TO SAN FRANCISCO
TO SEATTLE, VICTORIA -
LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK, Vĩa Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama
Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama
and Honolulu
Pres. Pierce
Fres. Coolidge Pres. Lincula
Pres. Hoover
Midnight Mar. 10 | Pres, Jefferson Midnight Mar. 13
Noon Mar. 21❘ Pres. Jackson Midnight Apt. ? Pres. McKinley
Noom Apr. 18 Pres. Grant.
Pres. Jefferson
Pres, Cleveland Midnight May 5
EUROPE. NEW YORK Via Manila, Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Suez, Port Said, Naples,
Genes and Marsailles
Pres. Harrison
Mar. 27
Apr. 10
Apr. 24
May 3
TO MANILA THE MOST FREQUENT SERVICE NEXT SAILING
Pres. Adams 8.00 a.m., Mar.-14 | Pres. Jeferson 6.00 p.m... Mar.
Mar. 28 | Pres. · Coolidge 9.09 p.m., Mar. 12 Apt. 11 Pres. Adam 8.00 am Mar. 14 Apr. 25 Pres. Jackson 6.00 p.m...Mar. 21 May 9 Pres. Harrison 8.00 a.m., Mar. 28
Pres. Hayes
Pres, Wilson
Pres, Monroe
BOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE
BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE
MONTHLY SERVICE
Pacific
SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES
TO Panama
BALBOA (Panama). CRISTOBAL (Colon) NEXT SAILING
Atlantic NEW YORK
BOSTON
M.V. "TRICOLOR”
19th
ON
MARCH
EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION FOR 12 PASSENGERS
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
AGENTS
Hong Kong Bank Building.
PORTUGUESE GIRL STUDENT PASSES
ارف
Miss A. M. da Rocha
BURIAL AT HAPPY VALLEY
YESTERDAY
Telephone 28021
RETURN OF RAF. FLYING BOATS Non-Stop Flight From Shanghai
The two RAF. fiying boats which were prevented by the
For all of them, Mrs. Mal- His men were snarling around Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall. cargo landed, this being 100 ves-linson and Nora- Nora who'd put the starboard forward boat, in
increase of 80,200 tons of carga Mufity's horny paw could be ing sels more to go alongside and an her soft little hand confidingly into which Muffity was croached, throw- rockets and socket-signals landed compared with 1934. These sliced into a thousand pieces!
blindly into the pack that scrabbl- figures illustrate that it is un- Muffity knew those lifeboats in-jed on the deck below. The pirate doubtedly more satisfactory for a side out, knew every detail of their chief emptied his pistol into the ressel to go alongside a wharf to equipment. He'd sougee-mougeed boat, and one bullet grazed Mufity discharge than it is to deliver them often enough to recite their
so poignantly that he lost his head. cargo overside when moored at a contents with his eyes shut He
The metal box of emergency fire- nipped across the boat deck like works which he had souger-monge buoy.
"Approximately 80 per cent of wraith; hugged the shelter of the ed so often when doing scaveng the goods landed was for tranship-nearest boat while he unrove the
ing work was empty; but enough ment, and only a small quantity of cover-lacing; he zipped into the rockets had gone up aloft to make the local cargo was left on stor-
seaside iluminations committee There was really no need to grope feel envious. If there'd only been jage.
among the impedimenta, if it another -rocket, Revenue Follows Exchange
Muffity hazily storage com“. The watch-keeper aboard E.Mit in that yellow ruffian's face, to thought, he'd have liked to bung menced to drop in 1930 in sym-destroyer Whirlwind stared for'ard make up for his swiping the kid's Singapore, Penang. Rangoon and pathy with, the fall in exchange with steady eyes, and it was the
locket. In previous years our godowns) sentry over the after lifebuoy
As there was no rocket remain well filled, when mer who actually raised the alarm chaats kept stocks ahead of
"Rockets!" snapped Mr. War took Hi Li just where neck meets ing, he hurled the metal box. It immediate
requirements.
Over burton. "Helm to port, turn six-shoulder, as he was dashing down the past six years stocks of teen points?" He was a prompt! merchandise have gradually de
young man. He sounded the alarm the bridge ladder to join in the mad pleted and now coincide with pre- and the destroyer's crew hurried ramble at the boats. He totter- sent trading conditions in the Co-to action stations. The lean ship
jed to the deck, staggered to the The death of Miss Aida Maria disturbed conditions in Japan st from completing their goodwill "Work on the lengthening and another ascending flight of rockets. he suffered unduly, for a beauti-the early age of 19 years at her flight to that country, paying a
swang and steadied her bow on, pitched overboard. Not that da Rocha occurred suddenly widening of No. 1 Wharf was com- Commander Boyle came up at the fully placed shell from the Wairl residence, No. 10 Shing Wong visit to Nanking instend, retum-
wind's starboard 12-pounder plunk Street, at 4 am. yesterday. - pleted early in the year. The run.
ed from Shanghai yesterday non- stop, in Beven hours and tem wharf is now 750 feet in length what lifebelt we picked up did ed fairly into the lowering life-
But Maffity, as land 81 feet wide. There is a shel-mean something, then!" he
he later The deceased, who was for-minutes actual "fying time. ter in the centre which proves very eurity. ""Full speed!"
humbly explained to big Mr. Bea-merly a student of the Italian The third flying boat of the
Convent, had been ailing for the squadron arrived "I'm sorry, sir," he said. "I past five months. On Wednes-from Amoy, at which port it broke Igers waiting on the wharf during over the Empire State's funnel
as usual its journey. the hot and rainy season.
when the Whirlwind's searchlight hadn't ought to have chucked that day night she retired
box--then the yellow fellow and passed away quietly at 4 "At our last meeting I mention revealed her headed on no lawful
Shortly after 230 yesterday, led that dredging was in progress ---
wouldn't have gone overboard and a.m, owing to heart failure.
|two squadrons, 803 and 824, of Td ha' got Miss Nora's locket off The late Miss Rocha is survivH.MS. Hermes took off from the in the vicinity of the wharves
completed during the the Equalisation of Dividend Fund of him. Fair broke me up, it did. ed by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. air port and headed in anotherly This was
bear that kid a-snivellin'. A. J. C. da Rocha, three brothers direction, and later escorted the year and we were called upon by and the Repairs and Renewals Acto Government for $201,571.00 as the count In the Prost and Loss Ac-Clumsy I was, clumsy.”
and a sister. She was the eldest; two flying boats to Kowloon Bay. This way and that, you didn't daughter. Company's contribution, which count, the amounts written off as
The Hermes squadrons comprised The funeral took place at thetwelve aeroplanes, grouped into was considerably more than anti-depreciation have been adjusted to do so badly," said Mr. Beamish, cipated. Extensive dredging to a round off the values of property with more humility than he had Roman Catholic Cemetery yester-seven and five.
ever displayed in his life before day evening, the Bey. Father E depth of 34 feet was carried out and plant under fixed Assets.
"No, sir, beggin' your pardon,” ¡C. Brookes officiating, at the
To Visit Canton in the harbour, and your Direc- "Of the new issue of 10,000 EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS tors had to agree to bear the cost shares offered to shareholders dur contradicted Munity with defer
Air Commodore Smith stated The chief mourners were the that the flying boats will leave of dredging to a similar depth being the year at a premium of $25 ence, "it were chamry. An' havin graveside.
Caus deceased's father. brothers, for Canton "to-morrow, "and pa tween the wharves and over an each, 7,639 were taken up, realismucked up that boat, it
Frankie, their return here will depart on and Gustavo, Octavio area 100 feet off the sea ends. Iting a profit of $190,975, and leav-janother songee-mongee job for
*ne t subsequently transpired that their 2,361 Shares still unissued.
sister. Annie, uncle, J. M da Monday for French Indo-Chins, He went in search of the neces- Government scheme did not, as we
"There does not appear to be
Those present were Mr. and pore will be made. thought, include dredging that anything else that requires special sary materials; not knowing that Rocha, and cousin, J. G. da Rocha, whence the return trip to Singa Mrs. M. Andres, F. J. Agabeg. Group 'Captain R. P. Willock, section of the harbour which mention, and I now beg to propose his abiding problem of a payday would be necessary to
that the accounts be adopted as was already settled, for him permit
Mrs. W. K. Kew, V. C. da Rocha, Air Attache at Shanghai, was deep draught "chips
H. Barros, E. La Barros, Q. passenger by the flying boats yes- approach Presented”
Mr. Dodwell seconded the mo Jour longest wharf,
Castillo, J. Baptista, A. S. Gomes, terday. tion, which was adopted.
Other Business
lands of Sunshine and Romance. "Down Under" you will feel a new being and even if you are not inclined towards Surfing, Fishing, Shooting or Mountaineering you will find that the Antipodes have plenty to offer you-including 25/- for your pound,
On the way down your life aboard will be as you wish, quiet or beetie for the E. & A. will humour your every whim.
And by the way, there is no additional charge for Deck Cabins and there is of course a Sun Deck Swimming pool, an Orchestra and a fine Laundry
A Surgeon and Stewardess are at your disposal and last but not. least we had almost forgotten-the cuisine will set you listening eagerly for the gong!
and
Regular Monthly Sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan Hong Kong to Australia
Frequent, connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union S.S. Ca's Steamers to the United Kingdom vis New Zealand,
and, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The P. & O. Branch Service of Steamers to London via Suez, The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s Steamers for
London via Panama Canal.
TANDA NANKIN NELLORE
Southampton and
7,000-
3rd Apr. 2nd May
7,000 6th Mar. Manila, Rabaul Brisbane,
Melbourne & Hobart. 7,000
Sydney
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
NANKIN
BANCHI SIRDHANA "BANGALORE NALDERA SHIRALA
CARTHAGE
NELLORE
*BHUTAN
TILAWA
RAJPUTANA
7,000 6th Mar. Shanghai & Japan. 17,000
6th Mar. Shanghai Kobe & Yokohama. 8,000 19th Mar. Amoy, Shanghai & Japen. 6,000 19th Mar. Shanghai & Japan. 17,000 20th Mar. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
8,000 2nd Apr.
Shanghai Amoy
& Japan. 14,500 2nd Air. Shanghai, Robe & Tokohama.
7,000 5th Apr. Shanghai & Japan. €,000 15th Apr. Shanghai, & Japan. 10,000
Amoy, Shanghai & Japan. 17,000 16th Apr. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
16th Apr.
ALL DATES are approximate and sub-
ject to alteration without notice. All Cabins All's well
are fitted with Electric Fans or Panks Louvre
**stem.
on London and Aas- Steamers tralian Lines are fitted with Laundries, Par- cels measuring not more than 5 en ft. will be received at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.
on the
PO
For further information, Passage. Freight, Handbooks, tic apply The Agents>---
MACKINNON MACKENZIE.CO
said
boat.
convenient to friends of passen- When the first shell screamed mish, was annoyed.
to
were
THE END.
GERMAN DANISH TRADE TREATY
Copenhagen. To-day.
on Wednesday
of
RM J. Silva, F. Barros, J. By courtesy of the Air Com- "Strong representations made to the Government on what
Figueiredo, V. Ribiero, A. Silva, modore a large quantity of mail appeared to your Board to be rea- Mr. Thomson proposed and Mr.
J. P. Pomeroy, F. Marques, matter was carried from Shang- Ribiero, D. Baptista, H. Dickson, hai for Hong Kong and Sings- sonable grounda. They maintain-Murdoch seconded confirmation of
JA. Nevies, A. Pinto, ed that the dredging of an area, Messrs. Johnson, von Haenischị
C. Q. Dore. The Baptista, A. C. Gomes, J. Veier The night before leaving Shang- which was necessary in the gen- and Goodwin being invited to fill, eral Interest to enable the port. to vacancies on the Board of Direc- ratification bill of the German-1. Remedios, J. B. Xavier, J.hai the officers of the two flying accommodate modern, vessels, tors, also of the invitation to Sir danish Trade Treaty of January Evans, J. Pinto, Sisters of the borts were the guests of the 30, 1936, which passed the Fol- should not fall upon the Wharf Bobert Ho Tung and Mr.
Shanghai, at an informal social Company. I regret to say, however, Kadoorie to join the Board. The keting on February 21, also Italian Convent and pupils, and Royal Air Force Association
many others. passed the second and final test that our protests were unavailing motion was carried.
Floral tributes were sent by gathering.. and in the end we had no option
Octavio. Annia but to submit to this additional ex- Mackenzie seconded that Mr. Aus night, so that it becomes law.!
and Frankie;
One ease of diphtheria, two of pense...
tin and Mr. Compton, who retired-Trans-Ocean Service.
Pauline; "Ada and Tim; Cissie enteric fever and one of chicken- General Reserve
in rotation and offered themselves)
Abbas: Minnie Abbas; Mr. and pax were reported to the Health for re-election, be re-elected to the
Mrs F. de Barros and family authorities in the 24 hours ended Turning to the accounts, you Board. The motion was carrica,
Misses Norah and Helen Kew; on Wednesday,
Mr. Castle-proposed and Mr. D. in the Landsting on Wedesday Father and Mother; Gustavo,
FUNERAL BEAKER-DIES.
will notice that the balance sheet Mr. Castle proposed and Mr. D. Bertie Oakley, saged 45, master Davey Lee: Miss S. E. Lee; Dr. G. has been revised by creating a Machenzie seconded that Mesars, mariner, collapsed and died at Lee, Mr. Lee and Mrs. Bucks; Mrs. G. F. da Rocha; Mrs. Julia PC.O BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL. HONGKONG General Reserve Account. This Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming be Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) while Mrs. McKenzie and Jim: Steve M. C. da Rocha and family; Mr.
has been formed by absorbing the retained as auditors. This was preparing to act as bearer at a Ozorio: Rosita de Eochs Phone 27721
premium on the new share issue, agreed to.
Joao Maria da Rocha; Mr. and V. Woo and others.
friend's feneral.
and and Mrs. W. L. Way; Miss Helen
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