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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 19, 1941.

MUTT AND JEFF

JEFF, CHASE THOSE KITTENS!

THEY'RE FOLLOWING THIS

FUR COAT I BOUGHT FOR

THE SWEET WOMAN!

SHOO! SCAT!

YOOHOO!||DONT YOU DARE HONEY! SEE! I BOUGHT

YOU A FUR COAT!/

TRY TO BRIBE ME WITH A CHEAP COAT!

NO, DARLING,|| OH,YEAḤ! LOOK! IT'S HOW DO I GENUINE

KNOW IT'S SQUIRREL!

NOT CHEAP RABBIT?

Page

By BUD FISHER

THERE YA ARE, SWEET, RABBITS

DON'T CLIMB

TREES!

(MEOW

MEOW

MEOW

THROWN INTO THE HARBOUR

That an Indian private watch

aan, Lahora Singh, who attempt. ed to arrest three thieves, who were stealing charcoal from

Yaumati junk in the

Typhoon Shelter yesterday morning. W.. packed up and thrown o the Harbour, was mentioned before ME HC. Macnamara, at Kow- Joon this morning, when Ng He- 24 was

extrnerd le four moondis hard labour for stealing 53 ent- ties of chareval.

de

A1 830 am. yesterday he '; on duty the watchman ALAN three Chinese, including ac rused, taking charcoal from junk When he approached them 114 was picked up by two of the not arrested. and thrown

into the Harbour.

DROP IN REVENUE

AT "THE

LIDO'

THAT EVACUATION had caused a drop in pa- tronage of the Lido was mentioned at the annual met ting of shareholders of the Hong Kong Realty and Trust Company, held this morning, with Mr. E. M. Raymond in the chair.

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bremme

full vacant,

past

having recently been reached only as a result of rental reductions being effected.

Air-Conditioning

The Chairman said: The profit, undertaken in July of the for the year under review umount- year, after which patronage dwin- ed to $62,473.74, which added to dled and several of the bungalows Decupancy the amount of $20.246.33 brought) forward from the preceding year, makes The sum of $91,720 07! available for appropriation; the recommendation of your Board

this connection is to pay i dividend of thirty cents per share involving

The Balance Sheet records capi- $60,000, and to carty i tal additions to the "Lido" Build- forward the remaining balance to r the 1941 Account The profit for plant and Machinery during the ing. Furniture, Fixtures. and the year 1940 of 562.473.74 shows a decrease of approximately $20,000 year under compared with the profit realised

been incurred in connection with in 1939, which is accounted for by! 1.vidends on Investments showing air conditioning units therein pro- the Restaurant; the installation of a decline of some $7.700, and deint balance of working Account |

vided a much appreciated ameni- No particular of $2,179.91 compared to a credit ly to its patrons. balance of $13.359.72 in the pre-

comment appears to be necessary Balance ceding year.

The debit balance other items in the At the request of Det -Sgt H.| referved to reflects the compara- J Baldwin, Mr D. J. N. Anderson; tive drop in revenue at the Re- it Kowloon this morning remand-pulse Bay "Lido" and rental re- ed three Chinese for 48 hours on ceipts from the a charge of possession of a toy pistol and two knives for an un- lawful purpose in Hunghom dis- Trict.

The Indian, however, managed

to swim ashore and arrested ac- eused with the assistance of district watchman m Soy Street Accused was carrying one ruck

charcoal when he

was

arrested.

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Company's ad- jacent bungalows; earnings in res- pect of both these departments | were well maintained up

to the time of the evacuation measures

OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

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HORIZONTAL

¡ Plane

surface

3 Confusion

Peruvianı Indian

12 Apparent

enlargement of an object by an optical instrument

15 Indo-Chinese

tree

10 Thong

17 Weight

10 Symbol for

sodium

10 To the shel-

tored áldo

20 Pronoun

› 22 Colloquial:

father

23 Winged

24 Discovery

20. Bullard shot

28 To spread for drying

· 29 Former 7

Turkish title

32 To incite

33 Price

34 At all

35 Frefix: in

favour of

38 To hanfen

37-Threefold

38 Anaesthetic. 40.Hackneyed.

41 While

43 Land

·mcasure

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કાકા

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platforin

44 Sun god

40 Music as

written

48 Tempest

50 Vast age

51 Lake in

Russia

53. Pronoun 54.Swamp 55 Biblical country

50 To attempt

37 The orient

VERTICAL

1 So be it

2 Hindu

princess

3 Ovum

4 Arilele

5 Subsequent

to

@ Dreadful

1 Peruvian

tuber

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YESTERDAY'S ·80LUTION.

MEP LORA ATEE AMALE RATT CRO TACTICIAS KETCH HASH

HA TER BROE PAY SUL GOBEL NE VEX TOX AZ OADET FOR BAB BBON DER · ON

TALE OBENZ TARUBALENTRR

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ARIANT FO]

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B Pronoun

9 Insect egg

10 Enclosure 11 Girl's name 13 The Moham-

medan religion 14 Insect in Fibre plant 21 Printer's

measure 23 Slang 24 Charge 25 Ship's crane 26 Container 27 Taken into

custody

28 Golfer's

mound 30 Liberal 31 Part of "to be" |33 Evergreen

tred:de '34 Goddess of discord

36 Pronoun 37 To-clip

39 Interjection 40 To delay

41 South-African * fox

43 Sullen

45. The 'dlit

47 Gone by 40 Child

50 Guido's high **note 52,Sacred Hindu

word 04 Compass

point

review, the major portion of this expenditure having

Sheet.

ill

It is with regret I have to re- port the resignation of Mr. J. H. Taggart from the Board of Dirce- tors of this Company, Mr. Tag- gart sponsored the Company's pro- ing Director for the 18 years since motion and had been its Manag-

its inception; only continued health rendered his resignation necessary, and on behalf of this Board, with whom 1 feel sure Shareholders will also desire to be associated. I take this oppor- tunity of publicly expressing warmest thanks to him for the valuable and essential services he at all times rendered the Com- pany and also to convey heartfelt wishes for his speedy return to good health.

Lido Losing Money ?

Seconding the adoption of the accounts, Mr. C. C. Blake, asked the Chairman: "May I ask if the Lido is still losing money and what was the actual amount lost last year?"

The Chairman replied: "I am afraid I cannot give you this in- formation until after the meet- ing."

Mr. L. Juck then proposed the re-election of the Hon. Sir Shou- son Chow and Mr. P. K. Kwok as directors, and the appointment of Mr. P. H. Suckling as Manag- ing Director in place of Mr. J. H. Taggart who resigned owing to ill-health.

was

Mr. A. E. Eca proposed the re- election of Messrs. Linstead and Davis as Auditors, and seconded by Mr. C. C. Blake,

Both proposals were carried unanimously.

Those present included Mr. E. M. Raymond, (Chairman), Mr. P. K. Kwok and the Hon. Mr. T. E. Pearce, (Directors), Mr. J. H. Taggart, O.B.E. (Managing Direc- tor,) Mr. F. C. Barry (Secretary), Messrs. C. C. Blake, J. E. Köte- wall, L. Jack and Mr. A. E. Eca (Shareholders)

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