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Notice To Shareholders

ARY

UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD.

Notice to Shareholders

NOTES

A Losing Slam Bid By The Four Aces

an opening bid of one spade will therefore be passed out?

A mo..

ment's reflection will show that chance is so negligible as to be disregarded. We think South must accept responsibility for-the los- ing Slam because of the unwise two-bid.

*

The THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF

Yesterday you were Howard SHAREHOLDERS will be held at "Please clear up a point for THE FIFTY-FOURTH ORDIN- the Offices of Messrs. Dodwell & us," is the plea

Schenken's partner and, with of a Baltimore ANNUAL MEETING OF Co., Ltd., Hong Kong and Shang-reader.

"In the hand attached, neither side vulnerable, you held: SHAREHOLDERS will be held at hai Bank Building, on TUESDAY, North felt justified in bidding a the Office of Messrs, Jardine, the 15th April, 1941, at 11 am. Grand Slam on the theory that Matheson & Co., Ltd., on WED- for the purpose of receiving the an opening two-bid guaranteed a NESDAY, the 26th MARCH, 1941, Report of the General Managers great deal of high-card strength, at NOON, for the purpose of re- together with a Statement of South insists that she had a game ceiving the Report of the Directors Accounts for the year ended 31st if North had as little as the Jack and the Statement of Accounts December, 1940.

of diamonds, and was therefore for the year ended 31st DECEM-

correct in opening with a two- BER, 1940.

bid. Who is right?"

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 1st April to 15th April, 1941 both days inclusive.

The Transfer Books of

the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 15th MARCH.

DODWELL & CO., LTD., 1941, to WEDNESDAY, the 20th MARCH, 1941. both

General Managers. days in 24th March, 1941. clusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

C. M. MANNERS,

Secretary & Manager. Hong Kong. 7th March, 1941.

HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY,

that

LIMITED

South, Dealer Neither side vulnerable

A 7

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD. ✨ K4 3

Issue of 600.000 new ordinary

shares of $10 each.

AKJ O J 9 6 2 ♣ AKQ93

4 A 6 ♡ Q 10 8

4 2

5432

976 63

W

Ε S

0

J 10 7 4

66 2

AK QJ 10 9 8

NA Q2 10 8 7 6 48

The bilding:

South

West

Nort b

Dast

4

Pass

34

Pass

30

Poss

《《、》

Poss

30

Pass

4

Pasa

40

Puss

70

Para

Pass

Dbl.

PARS

Paru

1188

#2

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Rogister of Members of the Company will be closed from NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 1st to 5th April, 1941, both days;

Extraordinary General inclusive, during which period no Meeting of the Hong Kong Tele- Transfer of Shares can be regis- phone Co., Ltd., will be hold in the Board Room of the Company. 2nd Floor, Exchange Building, Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the 28th day of March 1941, at 12.15 o'clock GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD

Agents.

AS

li

in the afternoon or so soon there- after

the Annual General Meeling convened for moon1 that day shall have terminated. when the subjoined resolution will be proposed as a special resolu-

tion:-

That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered in the manner following:-

(a) By the deletion of

Jumber of Directors

the existing Article 95 and the substitu- tion in lieu thereof of the folowing Ar- ticle:--

tered.

By Order of the Board

of Directors,

Hong Kong, 21st March, 1941.

CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD.

Notice To Consumers

We agree with North. An open. ing two-bid should guarantee at

least half of the high-card strength

HISM CARS WALUNCH

FOUR-ACLE SYUTER

.ACF... 5 KING..2 QUEEN.1 IJACKIN

TOTAL VILAR OF PROK SA AVERAGE HAND & 36

in the deck, lar- gely

to guard against just the sort of mishap which took place in this

AAK 96

K 4 a 6 6 ♣ ̧AK Q 43.

The bidding: Schenken Maier You Fass 14 Pass (2)

Pass

Jacoby

Pass

ANSWER: Bid four spades. This extremely powerful bid in- vites a Slam if your partner has any top-card strength, and at the same time makes sure that a game is reached, No other bid clearly describes the nature the hand.

Score 100% for four

50% for three

SO

of

spades,

hearts or three

diamonds, 40% for three spades,

30% for three clubs.

Question No. 673

are

Oswald

To-day you Jacoby's partner and, with neither side vulnerable, you hold:

AK J 9 7 3

02 10 4

◊ KG 3

7 G 3

The

Jacoby 10 24

bidding:

Bebenkon

Pang

You

Mater Pase

Pass

(7)

What do you bld? (Answer

tomorrow.)

hand. Fine players (Released by The Bell Syndi.

all recognise that a cate, Inc.)

large part of the

burden in Slam bidding

after an

opening two-bid rests on the weak hand. The strong hand shows nearly all his strength in the opening bid of two; it is up to his partner to judge whether or not his support is sufficient to carry

The actual South

Notice is hereby given that the Company's standard charges will "95. The Directors be increased as from 17th March,

of the Com- 1941, by adding a 10 per cent. On to Slam, pany shall not surcharge to the amounts charged be less than for electriuity consumed for light- "six and noting and power as per meters read more than ten on and after 24th April, 1941. in number." The existing scale of discounts

will remain in force.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

(b) In Article 101 the word "six" shall be substituted for the word "four" where such word occurs in the third and Arth line respectively of such Article.

By Order of the Board,

J. P. SHERRY, Managing Director. Hong Kong, 5th March, 1941.

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OFF THE RECORD

player was,

F

of course, correct in assuming that game was possible if North held as little as the Jack of diamonds But that fact did not make it ne- cessary for her to open with two bid. If we assume that North has a blank hand except for the! Jack of diamonds, how likely is it that neither East nor West will be able to make a bid, and that

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