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Rookie catcher Jim Sheehan (right) is taking the word of an expert for some of the finer points of the receiver's job as he absorbs. some hints from Gus Mancuso, veteran Giant backstop, in the New York Giants' training camp at Havana, Cuba.
FREDDIE DIXON'S FREAK CAR FOR NEW RECORD SHAPED LIKE CIGAR: DREAM OF 375 M.P.H. OR MORE!
London, March 24.
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 15, 1937.
COMPANY MEETINGS
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HE
HEREBY GIVEN
that the ORDINARY YEAR-
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE
LY MEETING of the Society will be held at the HEAD OFFICE, THE PUBLIC are hereby noti- Union Building, Hong Kong, on fied of the 'following Traffic FRIDAY, 16th APRIL, 1987, at arrangements which will be ✨en- 2.30 o'clock p.m., for the purpose forced for the official embarkation of receiving the Report of
the at 11 a.m. of H.E. Sir Andrew Directors and the Statements of Caldecott, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., at Account to 31st December, 1936, Queen's Pier on FRIDAY, the 16th and of declaring Dividend, etc. April,
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS 1. Connaught Road Central from of the Society will be CLOSED Pedder Street to Jackson Road will from 29th MARCH to 16th APRIL, be entirely closed to ̈ Vehicular Both Days Inclusive.
Traffic from 10.30 a.m. to 11.40 a.m. (approx.).
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTIC
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY
YEARLY
MEET- ING of the Company
will OFFICE, be held at its HEAD Union Building, Hong Kong, on
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NEW aspirant for the world's land speed record has arisen. unsupercharged cars produce speeds far beyond their designers' hopes, is building a strange car of his own design, with which he dreams of 375 or even 400 miles an hour.
A motor at
Dixon has recently removed from Middlesbrough to Reigate, Surrey, where he has set up workshops. The car he plans is revolutionary in almost every particular. It will, he says, be shaped like a dart or a hollow cigar. He will sit in the nose or point of it. "I am thinking of calling it 'The Dart,' he said yesterday.
All four wheels will be driven. All road wheels will steer in res- ponse to the steering wheel. None
J. SOWERBY
of the wheels will carry brakes; NOT FOR F. A.
these will act on the transmission. « The engine will be something entirely new. It will be a two- stroke, supercharged radial engine. It will have no crankshaft like an ordinary engine, the pistons are set radially about the centre and the drive is through an improved awash-plate.
Such is the efficiency of this en- gine, according to Dixon's calcula- tions, that he will get 350 miles an hour from 700 bh.p. Actually the car he is designing will have a .1,000 b.h.p. engine.
Dixon plans to attack the record next year, either on the Salt Lake beds at Utah, United States, or more probably on one of the great European motor roads.
“AUSSIE” TOUR
ཀ་”
2.50
by
2. Motor cars conveying guests to Queen's Pier will proceed way of Jackson Road to the Hong Kong Club where the guests will alight and walk to the Pier, Cars will be parked in Connaught Road Central, east of the Hong Kong Cłub.
3. No parking will be permitted in Jackson Road, Wardley Street, north of the Statue, or Connaught Road Central between Queen's Pier and Star Ferry until 12 noon, i
T. H. KING, Inspector General of Police. Hong Kong, 15th. April, 1987.
p.m., for the purpose COMPANY MEETINGS of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1936, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 29th MARCH to 16th APRIL, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
-
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.
NOTICE
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN &
MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Nthat the FORTIETH ORDIN-
ARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held in the Jacobean Room, 1st Floor, Hong Kong Hotel, Pedder Street, HONG KONG on WEDNES- DAY, 28th APRIL, 1937 at 12.30
Sowerby, the Ipswich Town for ward, is unable to join the F.A. BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE P.M. for the purpose of receiving a
touring party to Australia, and L C. Finch, the amateur international and Barnet winger, will take his place.
LEICESTER BACK CAUTIONED
COMPANY, LTD.
Statement of Accounts and the Te port of the Directors for the year
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. ended December 31st 1936; elect-
ing Directors and Auditors.
NOT
the
By Order of the Board,
J. C. GUTERRES. Secretary. Hong Kong, 12th April, 1987.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that
SEVENTY-FIRST Company will be CLOSED. from ORDINARY YEARLY MEET. MONDAY, 19th APRIL, 1937, until Jones, the Leicester City full-ING of the Company Will WEDNESDAY, 28th APRIL, 1937, back, who was sent off the field be held at its HEAD OFFICE, both days inclusive. during the match with Fulham at Union Building, Hong Kong, on Craven Cottage on March 6 has FRIDAY, 16th-APRIL, 1937, at been cautioned by the F. A. and 2.55 p.m., for the purpose warned that any reports of a simi-of receiving the Report of the lar nature will be more severely Directors and the Statements of dealt with.
Account to 31st December, 1936, and of declaring Dividend, etc..
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 29th MARCH to 16th APRIL, Both Days inclusive.
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By Order of the Board,"
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager: Hong Kong, 18th March, 1987.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS
HONG KONG HEIGHTS
For the information of visitors - the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and..... Mainland is published:
ISLAND
Victoria Feak
Signal Station Mt. Parker Mountain Lodge
The Eyrie
-Feet
1,823.
1,774
1,784
1,725
1,725
877.
Bowen Road (filterbeds) 297
Kowloon R Davis
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Shipbuilders & Repairers.
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MAINLAND
Taimoshan Kowloon Peak
Feet
3,124
1,971
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