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HONG KONG LAND

INVESTMENT AND

AGENCY CO., LTD.

Large Decrease In Rent Revenue

GLOUCESTER HOTEL LOSS FOLLOWS DEPRESSION

"Looking at the Gloucester Hotel an increased loss of, ap- proximately. $10,500 was shewn at the balance of the Working Account. This was somewhat to be expected as a natural se- quence of depressed trading, but I can assure you that the hotel has kept its popularity, with a noticeable growing of patron- age," said the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson when he presided at!

THE CHÌNA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1936.

More relentless than the most powerful man-made machine, Niagara River ice swept every thing from its path as it moved slowly to the sea last month. These homes on the banks are shown crumpled like matchwood by the unprecedented ice-jam at Lewistown, New York.

the annual general meeting of RUXTON MURDER

the Hong Kong Land Invest-

ment

and Agency Co. Ltd... which was held this morning in the Board Room of Messrs. Jar- dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.

Supporting

the Chairman were Sir Robert Ho-tung and Messrs. F. A. Joseph. S." T. Williamson and T. E. Pearce)

TRIAL

100 Witnesses Called For Prosecution

London, To-day. Nearly 100 witnesses have al-

cution in the Euxton murder

NAVAL COURT MARTIAL

BOY FROM ‘HERMES'

HONG KONG ROPE

MANUFACTURING

COMPANY, LTD.

Loss On Year's Work Reported

EMPIRE PREFERENCE SCHEME NOT BENEFITING COLONY TO ANY GREAT EXTENT

A net loss of $36,673.01 for the year under review was reported by Mr. A. L. Shields, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing Co. Ltd.. at the annual gen eral meeting held this дог ning in the registered offices of the Company”.

WINDING-UP ORDER severe competition with

MADE

The loss was attributed to

which the company had to contend dor ing the year and to the general trade depression. The Chairman laid particular stress on the fact that the Colony were still deriving little beneft under the Empire Preference Scheme. Court Martial held

An order for the winding up Supporting the Chairman were: board HMS. Hermes yesterday. of the firm of O. K. Gidumal Sir Robert Ho Tung, the Hon. Henry Morris John, a Boy, 1st and Watunmull, Ltd., was made Mr. J. P. Braga and Mr. S. T.

A:

SENTENCED

·OB

Partners Fail To Agree

THE ACE

OF PLUGS

Sole Agents:......... DODWELL & CO., LTD. HONG KONG

LODGE

MADE IN ENGLAND

LODGE

POPULAR FILM RECORDS

MACE STO

(Directors). Mr. O. Eager (Se-ready been called for the prose class. of HMS. Hermes was sen- by Mr. Justice Lindsell at the Williamson (Directors) and Mr. cretary) and. the following shareholders:-Messrs. Frank trial. known as the "Ravine tenced to 12 strokes of the birch Supreme Court this morning F. J. Tavares, Secretary. Austen, H. Summers, B. C.

The remain and dismissal from His Majesty's when he delivered judgment in The Murder Care."

following shareholders Field. A. Stevenson. A Murder largely consist of medical service on a charge of gross the case in which Odharmal were also present: Messrs. I. W. doch. G. W. Grey. R. Grieve,

examined experts, who

the indecency.

Girdharimal, one of the four Shewan, J. Dick, H. Dreyer. C T. R. Macdonald, D. L. Newbig- ring. P. L. Leefe. E. B. Childe, parts of the dismembered bo- The President of the Court was partners of the firm, sought a M. L. Cole, J. Toppin and A. R.

dies found at Moffat. It is ex- Captain J. W. A. Waller, the Mem- dissolution of the partnership Botelho. C. E Tod. A. E. Wilcox, M. J. nected that the trial will run bers being Commander AR. M. on the ground that he was un- Chairman's Speech Henderson. M. H. Railton and into next week.

Reuter

Bridgy. Commander, N. V. Grace. able to carry on the partnership Commander R. J. Wilmot-Sitwell owing to disagreement with The Chairman.' in his speech and Commander H. P. K. Oram. his co-partners. He was repre- said:-

The Prosecutor was Captain the sented by Mr. Eldon Potter, "It is with much regret that Hon. G. Fraser, D. S. O, the Of K.C., and Mr. Leo D'Almada, your Directors have to place be FB 1250-The Morning After

ciating Deputy Judge Advocate inr. instructed by Mr. M. A. da fore you a statement of Accounts which shows a loss in the Com- being Paymaster Commander M.; Silva.

E. O. Butler.

Chairman's Speech Addressing the meeting, the Chairman said:

"You will have noticed a change in the setting-out of the 1935

Balance Sheet as compared with thuse of previous years, and this has been done in order to show to Shatefulders the position of the Company with greater clarity.

KING GEORGE'S

PRAYER

Hung Upon The Wall Of His Study

On the wall of the late King Buckingham "A further feature is the re- George's study in

valuation of properties, the rea-Palace was hung, the following £1,000 DAMAGES

son for which has been fully ex-prayer:~~~

plained in the Directors' Report Teach me to be obedient to the

no rules of the game..

Of course these changes in way mean an alteration in the po- licy of your Directors, which will continue as heretofore.

has been

Teach me to distinguish be tween sentiment and sentimental- iry, admiring the one and despis- jing the other.

AWARD

Woman's Fall From Station Platform

UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY

"PRINCESS CHARMING” MR1427-Near and Yet So Far

LOVE IS A SONG

"HANDS ACROSS THE TABLE"

FB 1250--Sugar Plum

For-Trot

Waltz

Foz-Trot

"THANKS A. MILLION"

Foz-Trot

“MUSIC HATH CHARMS” FR 1221-I'm Feeling Happy. FB 1251-Page Miss Glory"

Quick Step Fox-Trot

on

This

“BROADWAY GONDOLIER”

C 175.-Rose In Her Hair

A. W. Sweny and the Officer of Mr. H. G. Sheldon KC, in-pany's operations during the past the Court. Lt. E. H. F. Moultrie. structed by Mr. M. M. Watson, year.

L. I. R. Sarel acted as Prison-appeared for the other three "The net logs for the year after jer's Friend.

partners, Messrs. Keramchand, providing for Directors' and Au- Gidumal and Watummull, who ditors' fees. Depreciation, In- opposed the petition.

terest. Commission to General Managers and depreciation Investments is $36,673.01. amount deducted from the credit balance brought forward from the previous year leaves $26,155.19, which your Directors recommend be carried forward to the credit of next year's account.

"Depreciation op Buildings, A final meeting of the United Asbestos. Oriental Agency Ltd. Plant and Machinery has been (in voluntary liquidation) was calculated on the usual basis and held in the offices of Dodwell & Stocks and Stores taken in at cost Co., Ltd., the liquidators, at or under.

"You will observe in the Profit 11 am. this morning.

Those présent were Mr. Stan-and Loss Account the amount of of Jodrelroad, Old Ford, E., wholey H. Dodwell (Chairman), $25,346.25 written off for depre

Rent Revenue Decrease

Teach me neither to proffer par A woman who fell on to the line Turning to the Profit and Loss

at Clapton, E. Station, and broke Account, it is to be seen that there to receive cheap praise.

a. decrease in revenuej If I am called upon to suffer, her leg was awarded £1,000 dam from rents of approximately, let me be like a well-bred beast ages against the L.N.E.B. Co. in $116,500 the corresponding that goes away to suffer in silence the King's Bench Division

Teach me to win, I way; if month. figure for last year. This was due!

may not win, then above almost entirely to the Company's

teach me to be a good loser. having to meet general requests for reductions on secount of the poor state of business during 1935. moon nor over spilt milk.

от

"Looking at the result of the

Gloucester Hotel an increased loss

of approximately $10,500 was

T

Teach me neither to cry for

BLOOD

all

last

She was Mrs. Matilda Schlarb,

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LIMITED

Final Meeting Held

the alleged that the station was ia- Mr. A. C. I. Bowker, Secretary, ciation on the Company's Invest-

-

adequately lighted.

of

These now stand in the

and Messrs. B. S. Vieira, H.Jments. Because that, she said, she did not see the Silva and D. Harvey (share book at market value on Decem-

holders). Jedge of the platform.

When she fell on the line she

shewn at the balance of that Work- RADIO APPEAL FOR saw a train coming in. She squeez- ing Account. This was somewhati

ed herself against the platform to be expected as a natural se-:

but could feel the steam of the ¡gine. quence of depressed trading, but 1

Negligence? can assure you that the hotel has! kept its popularity, with a notice- able growing of patronage. I might point out that a reductiun!

Offers Received From

14 People

Aberdeen.

ber 31, 1935.

is the

severe

The Liquidators laid before "The loss on working the meeting an account show inevitable result of the ing how the winding-up had competition with which we have been conducted and the assets had to contend during the year of the company disposed of, and and to the general trade depres- this was adopted unanimously.sion.

The usual resolution as

to

Empire Preference Scheme "I regret to say that we are For the L.N.EE it was urged the disposal of the Books, Ac- that there was sufficient lighting counts and Documents of the still deriving little benefit under and that the edge of the platform Company was also carried un-the Empire Preference Scheme.

was

in rent was granted to the hotel to; A broadcast appeal was made was regularly "whitened." They animously. coincide with the more o. less uni-¡from the Aberdeen station of the submitted that the accident versal drop throughout the Co-B.B.C. last month for donors of due to Mrs. Schlarb's own neglig- (Continued from Nest Column ciprocity for a preferential tarif

iony..

blood to save a man's life.

епсе.

28 Chinese dwelling houses

During 1935 only one sale of The announcer said: "I am ask- Mr. Justice Atkinson held that Kennedy Town. property occurred and this wased by the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary the lighting at the station was in-

NOS. 11:23 Ice House Street, to make an appeal for blood donors | adequate.

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at

"Unlike other parts of the Em- a free pire, Hong Kong, being port, has very little to offer as re-

on its manufactures, but this, I

be obtain "With regard to the Ma-tau-kok hope, may eventually property, a portion of the factory ed on sentimental grounds if the A stay of execution was granted buildings is

Government can press the point still being let o

for less the patient for whom the with a view to an appeal.

with the Secretary of State lease. blood is required receives it with-

"Now as regards the prospects

the Colonies, when tariffs are be- for the current year, I am afraiding adjusted under the Empire this is a difficult matter to fore-Preference Scheme.

"I refer particularly to India, of affairs in where we pay the same duty as competitors who have pro-i Europe, and out here in the East, our

which was resumed by the Hong for immediate transfussion. Kong Government

Increase In Interest

"On the debit side there is little in the next two hours, he is not that calls for comment beyond the likely to live."

item of Interest. Here an increase! Within an hour over 40 people of, approximately, $14,500 was re- had offered their blood. corded and this was accounted for

by the acquisition of Nos. 15-19 The ss. Santhia will leave Amoy Queen's Road, Central, the full ef- to-morrow afternoon and is due fect of which was not reflected here on Thursday afternoon. She during 1934.

will leave for Rangoon and Cal-, "Doubtless you will expect from cutta viz. the Straits next Satar- me some remarks about the imme-day morning. diate prospects of the Company,

FATHER MAKES PROTEST

Young Girl's Ordeal At Inquest

Cast

in view of the present unsettled

ztate

"With a view to reducing" work-

I can only say that our deliveries tection in their own countries. to date are satisfactory compared with those for the corresponding ing costs, your Directors effected A 14-year-old girl had been period of the previous year. Com all possible reductions in salaries

and overhead expenses compatibl giving evidence for 40 minutes petition is still very severe, and I

with carrying on our business at the inquest on her mother at hope that the low value of our

"Appreciating the necessity for especially in view of the competi-istic. The Profit and Loss Appro- Croydon last month and was in dollar will help us to a certain efficiently. tive office space available. The priation Account shews, that your tears, when the coroner (Dr. H. extent in our sales.

"I now beg to propose that the reducing expenditure as much as Company rather prides itself upon Directors recommend a Final Divi- Beecher Jackson) intimated that

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the service it gives and, as far as dend of $1 per share which, to- he had further questions to put Report and Accounts as submitted possible, your Directors and Gen HONG KONG BENEVOLENT

I can see at the moment, there gether with the interim Dividend, to her.

Directors Re-elected The Hon. Mr. LP. Braga

was

to the meeting be adopted and eral Managers have also volun-

should be little loss of actual ten-makes a total of $2 per share for

The girl's father left his seat, passed and that the credit balance tarily agreed to a reduction of 50 mission, respectively, 我看 from clasped the girl to him, and ex-of $26,155.19 be carried forward per cent. in their fees and com- ants: unfortunately, the few who the year under review.” have left since the beginning of

the July 1, 1935. Mr. Paterson then proposed the claimed to the coroner: "Make to 1936 Accounts."

it snappy; get a move on and

"The savings referred to above 1936 are those that were occupants adoption of the report and &C-

think of the child.”.

are embodied in the Accouts for of large areas.

counts, and, seconded by Mr. A.

The coroner put two more seconded the adoption of the Bethe past year, but the full benefit "With the completion of “Mar-Stevenson, the motion was carried ina House" the Company is in a unanimously.

questions and the girl was then port and Accounts, which will not be gained until the cur- assisted from the court by her then put to the motion and car rent year. position to offer modern accommo-

Directors Re-Elected

father.

ried unanimously.

Drop in Rent Revenue dation to those wishing to movel Mr. Frank Austen proposed and

The inquest. was on Mary Sir Robert Ho Tung and Sir from the cooler and airier rooms Mr. T. R Macdonald seconded, Elizabeth Isaacs, aged 49, of Elly Kadoorie, EEF, were the Profit and Loss Account, you "Turning to the credit side of of the older premises and, with the that Messrs. A. H. Compton and T. Berne-road. Thornton Heath elected to the Board of Direc-will notice that the total revenue further rebuilding of those proper E. Pearce be re-elected to the Her daughter, Joan Isaacs, sald forson the proposals; of

derived from rents is $31,373.57, ties now coming towards the end Board of Directors. This was car that on returning from school Mr. J. Dick, seconded by Mr.

a reduction on the figures for the of their existence, the Company ried unanimously.

she could get no answer at the C. M. L Cole. will be well equipped to meet the The re-election of Messrs. Perey front door. On going round to

Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and Previous year of $12,188.14 This demand of all requirements. Smith, Seth and Fleming and the back she found her mother Fleming and Messrs. Linstead is due partly to a portion of our Ma-tau-kok property being vest- Optimism Regarding Future Messrs. Linstead and Davis as an-lying dead in the scullers with and Davis were re-elected led at the end of December, 1934, "I do not think that the time has ditors met with unanimous appro-her head in a gas oven. She ditors for the ensuing year at and partly to reductions made in yet arrived to allow my saying val when it was proposed by Mr. immediately ran for help. remuntration of $500 each on the the rents and vacant fists in our whether or not business is upon E. E. Childe and seconded by Mr. The verdict was suicide while proposal of Mr. A. A. Botelho; the upward grade but I am optim-|D. I. Newbigging.

lof unsound mind.

seconded by Mr. J. Toppin.

(Cont. at Foot of Preceding Col).

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