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Charles Yu, of No. 177,- Queen's Road West was summoned before Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., this morning, for possession of a radio without a licence. Defendant had an indoor aerial and

found until was not Police were "tipped off."

Defendant was fined $10. Wong Pui-long of No 131, Con- naught Road West, was fined $10 for a similar offence

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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 20, 1940'

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

CASE OPENS

THE

| COMPANY MEETING

PROFITABLE YEAR FOR ROPE CO.

MAJESTIC · THEATRE TICKETS CASE COMMENCED THIS MORNING AT THE SUPREME COURT BEFORE SIR ATHOLL MACGREGOR WHEN CHUISHUI- "I AM GLAD TO SAY THAT WE PO, HEAD SHROFF AND TICKET | HAVE STARTED THE YEAR WELL SELLER, WAS CHARGED WITH | AND HOPE. THAT THE PRESENT UTTERING A FORGED TICKET ON | DEMAND FOR CORDAGE WILL DECEMBER 19, 1939, AND ON CONTINUE,” SAID. MR.・ A. L. EIGHT COUNTS OF UTTERING | SHIELDS, CHAIRMAN, AT THE AN- FORGED TICKETS ON FEBRUARY NUAL MEETING THIS MORNING OF THE HONG KONG ROPE MANU-

-13.

Mr. E. H. Williams, assisted byFACTURING CO., LTD. MR. Sergeant N. B. Fraser, was for the SHIELDS WAS SUPPORTED BY SIR prosecution, while accused was de-ROBERT HO TUNG, MR. J. P. fended by Hon. Mr. Leo d'Almada BRAGA, MR. S. T. WILLIAMSON, Jr.,. instructed by Mr. D. McCallum. DIRECTORS, AND MR. F. J.

The jury was composed of Messrs. TAVARES, SECRETARY. L. B. Warren (foreman), Wong Kwok- king, Wong Man-kit; B. Agafuroff, J. B. Tam, Wong Kin-wah and -Fung Ping-san.

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The chairman said:—

review exceeded those of the previous year. You will see in the profit and loss account that the profit on working is $112,945.47. This, com- pared with the figures for 1938, shows an increase of about 38 per cent.

Competition is still very keen, but Mr. Williams said accused was em- I am pleased to be able to report that. ployed at the Majestic Theatre as a our sales of ropè during the year un- ticket seller in the Dress circle book-der ing booth and his duties included also the collection of takings from the sellers at the other booking stalls.

The Cinema company had for the past 10 years printed their tickets at Some the Albert Printing Press. 10,000 tickets were ordered at a time, made up in books of 100.

On December 19, Sergeant Fraser bought two tickets for. the p.m. performance. On receiving the tickets, he noticed that they were not exactly alike in colour and that in spite of the fact that they had been bought together, the numbers were not consecutive. He later handed the tickets to Sergeant Johnston.”~~

With regard to our properties, there was a constant demand for Chinese dats during the past year and all the 112 flats of the 28 houses at Kennedy Town continue to be fully occupied. The factory buildings at Ma-tau-kok are also in occupation.

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The stocks and stores have been valued, as usual, at cost or under, and depreciation on buildings, etc. On February 13 at about 7.20, Mr. has been calculated on the usual

Additional Golding, manager of the Theatre, saw oasis.

depreciation of one of the collectors with a number $30,000 has been provided in respect of counterfoils of Dress Circle tickets of plant and machinery to allow for took them from him, and later, aurther replacements, etc. and the home, found that eight were forger- amount has been debited to profit and les. He informed the police and Ser-1085 account. geant Pope visited the theatre and took a date stamp, and the cash book and arrested accused. The cash was checked with the counterfoils and tallied, though the forged tickets were entered as having been sold the pre- vious day.

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Accused, when charged, sald he knew nothing about the forgeries.

EMPLOYED SIX YEARS

Sergeant Moran, who took photo- graphs of the dates stamped on the forged and genuine tickets, said they were made by the same chop, the one that had been seized.

Mr. C. Golding, manager of the had been em- theatre, said accused ployed by the theatre for over 6 years The counterfoils were not a 'sure check on sales as sometimes all seats were not taken up.

Case is proceeding.

NEW MACHINES

The war in Europe has affected de- livery of some-machines ordered last year, but these have now arrived and are in course of erection at the fac- tory.

You will also observe in the profit and loss account a return of the gen- eral managers' commission to the minimum authorised by the Articles of Association, which was voluntarily to 50 per cent. in 1935 and subsequently raised to 75 per cent. in

-1938.

reduced

The staff and workers deserve the bonus recommended by your board and I trust that the same will receive your approval.

Now, as regards the prospects for the current year, I am glad to say that we have started the year well and hope that the present demand for cordage will continue. In view of the present uncertain conditions I cannot say more than that...

I do not think that there are any other items in the accounts that need special comment, and I therefore. propose that the report and accounts as presented be adopted and passed, and that the amount of $170,390.30 at credit of profit and loss account be appropriated as follows:-

Pay, a dividend of 50 cents

per share, absorbing Pay a bonus to Staff and

Workers

And carry forward to 1940

Account

.$100,000.00

5,507.00

04,889.30

170,390.30

The resolution was seconded by Mr. S. T. Williamson and carried unanim- ously. Sir Robert Ho, Tung and Sir Elly Kadootle were re-elected direc- tors, and Messrs. Linstead and Davis and Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming

re-appointed audito

Paris, To-day

Charged with distributing literature; 88 Communists have been arrested in the Paris area-Router,