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With the world shortage of metals as an incentive, work of constructing the necessary buildingsTM and installing plant for Hong Kong Mines Limited is being pushed on as rapidly as possible and it is anticipated that the plant will be in operation within three months.

This was announced at the statu, The remainder of the mill equip- tory meeting of the Company held ment consisting of one rake type on Thursday with Mr. C. C. Stark in the chair:

The Chairman said:--

fotation cells, classifier, Bank of two thickeners, American filter, and a Concentrating Table will be de- livered in April Aside from the As you are aware this Meeting above machinery which is directly has been called pursuant to Section a part of the Mill, it was necessary 112 of the Companies Ordinance

to order equipment for mining and which requires that every public

equipment for the repair and main- company shall hold a meeting of tenance of the machinery. shareholders within three months of A contract has been entered into commencing business. We received with the China Light & Power Com- our certificate to commence basiness pany to supply power for the opera- on the 7th January last.

tions on the property. The plant Before opening the Meeting for will call for a maximum load of discussion you will doubtless be in about 700 HP and the normal load terested to hear from me on some will be round 500 HP. As a safety of the principal matters dealt with factor a small generating plant will since the Company was formed on be installed on the property to take the 18th November last A Pro- care of any vital operations in case spectus was issued on the 30th of a temporary shutdown on the November, and the response from main line.

the local public amounted to $302,-

IN JUNE

985, being some seven lakhs short with the present shortage of of the one million dollars we can metals as an incentive all work is sidered necessary (as stated in the being pushed as fast as possible and prospectus) to go to allotment. As the plant should be put in opera- the result, your Directors had totion some time in June. Not only look elsewhere for finance, intimat will this plant be the first of its ing in the meantime that those sub-type in Hong Kong but will be one scribers desiring to do so could with-of the best constructed and laid out draw. $53,725 was withdrawn leav- in the Orient. ⠀

ing roughly $250,000 worth of ap The Chairman then opened the plicants. To co

· commence business, Meeting-for discussion.

therefore, we had to find someone There being no questions, on the prepared to put up $750,000 in cash proposal of the Chairman, seconded" and, as you know, sabsequent events by Mr. W. G. Poy, the Statutory ultimately led to the well known Report was unanimously adopted. mining House of L. B. Nielson & This" concluded the business of the Co. putting up the requisite balance Meeting.

conditional on assuming the man- Present at the Meeting were agement on terms to be later em-Messrs. L. B. Nielson, C. C. Stark, bodied in a formal contracts th G. Scholey David, Wai Kwok Au, J. Your Directors feel cause for con- M. Wong, W. G. Poy and T. A. gratulation in having brought the Martin for the Secretaries. Company within the sphere of operations of these mining speci alists. If any local shareholder, however, still wishes to withdraw, Mr. Nielson who is present at this Meeting is, I understand, ready to purchase such shares at par which would have been the position had the minimum subscription not been reached. I will now call upon Mr. Nielson to report on progress at the Mine. Me

REVISION OF TREATIES

LORD ALLEN'S DEMAND

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”) London, To-day.

Revision

MR. NIELSON'S SPEECH Mr. L R Nielson then addressed

of the Peace Treaties the Meeting as follows: Upon Niel and return to Germany of her form- son & Co. assuming an interest in Hong Kong Mines, Ltd., in Decem-er colonies was demanded by Lord ber, 1936, a definite programme to Allen of Hurtwood, the Labour pat the mine on a producing basis Peer, in a speech before the League as soon as possible, was laid out of Nations Union in London yester Samples of the ore were taken to

day.

Manila where metallurgical tests

were made and a flow sheet of a Lord Allen regretted that neither mill for treating the ore worked Germany nor any other Power com- out. An estimate of the tonnage of pelled to sign the treaties at the the ore available showed that

end of the Great War had been in- plant capable of treating one hunvited to state their grievances with dred and fifty tons per day" would

be justified so plans were made ac- the view to drawing up an offer cordingly. Excavations for the that would remedy them. various buildings were started aa He emphasised that return January 12th and to date have been Germany's former colonies would be finished for the following Office, the only way to obtain the Reich's

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Mill building are nearing compleTHE NEW MAYOR OF

tion: Erection of the godown and on house have been completed; the compressor- house, and machine, shop! is: 50%, completed; the office build- ing 50% and the hospital 30%. One staff house is in the course of erec tion and work on the others will be started within a few days. Erections of the mill building be started the first: part of April Grea and should be, completed about the first of May. All buildings are be ing constructed of hollow Spuncrati tiles with tile roofs or steel and G, L roofing.

MILL MACHINERY All Mill machinery as soon as possible sheet "was; drawn up primary rock crus been del

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