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THE HONG KONG

AND YAUMATI FERRY CO., LTD. Notice in hereby given that the Nineteenth Ordinary Annunl

THE CHINA MAIL, SÄTURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1947.

Labour Minister To Direct

Certain Workers

London, Sept. 18.

Meeting of the Company will be The Labour Mnister, Mr. George Isaacs, tonight

held at the Company's Office, Vocux 3rd Floor, 144-148 Den Road, Central, Hong Kong, an Saturday the 4th October 1917 WANTED KNOWN

at 12.00 noon for the purpose of reeriving the Report and State-: PING KEE, Tailor and Dress-ment of Accounts for the Year maker. 40, D'Aguilar Street. ended 31st December 1916. wisties to remind his pre-war customers and friends that he is now open for business at the above

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS

Re: Offer of 600,000 shares of $10 each at par to the proportion of 2 new shares for every 5 issued shares held by Members on the Falster at 22nd September 1947.

Notice is hereby given that the Register of Members of the Company will be closed from the 23rd day of September 1947 to the 6th day of October 1947, both days inclusive,

By Order of the Bard of Directors.

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD),, Agents.

Hongkong, 11th Sept. 1917.

Service Auction Rooms

Auctioneers, Surveyors, etc. Basement, French Bank Bldg., A.E.B. de Sousa, Auctioncor Telephone 31807,

the

Notice is also given that Share Register of the Company n be closed from the 27th September 1947 to the 4th Orto- ber 1947, Loth duys inclusive,

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By Order of the Board,

LAU TAK PO,

Managing Director,

Hong Kong, 20th Sept. 1947.

PUBLIC WORKS

DEPARTMENT

NOTICE

Public Dumps for Building Debris etc.

It notified that, as from 22nd September, 1947, the public <lump South

Istand Itead to the East of Aberdeen,

will be closed,

of

A new dump for earth and bulliling debris will be

open, from the same date, on the South side of Island Road, West of Aberdeen Dock.

Permits to dump here may be obtined, free of charge, application to the Engineer in charge of Roads Executive and Tunnels, Public Works Department, Lower Albert Road.

Dumping without a permit fs prohibited.

V. KENNIFF. Director of Public Works.

Hongkong. 19th Sept, 1947.

LAMMERT BROS

Auctioneers, Surveyors and Appraisers,

Pedder Buliding. Telephone No. 20224.

PUBLIC AUCTION

BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTOR OF DISPOSALS FAR EAST- ERN AREA (M, O.S.) Messrs. I ammert Brothers of Pedder Building. Hong Kong, have received instructions to sell by Auction at their Sules Rooms, Pedder Building. Basement, at 10.00 am, on Thursday, the 25th. September 1947

A LARGE QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS STORES

VEHICLES

AND

LOCATED AT R. A. F. WORKS SITE. KAI TAK

Excavators Smalths and R. B., Compressor, Pump-Diaphragm, Belt Conveyor.

LOCATED AT R.A.F. DISPOSAL SITE, MATAUKOK ROAD

Tins Mess. Helmets Crash Steel. Traller Fire Pump. Scrap Metal Mixed, Fire Extinguishers, Cable Electric-New and Old LOCATED AT KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY WORKSHOPS

(BRITISH SECTION) KOWLOON Roller Marshall 8 ton

LOCATED AT II. M. VICTUALLING YARD, KOWLOON

Galvanized Steel Racks Dismantled. Empty Clear Glass Bol tles. Glazed Earthenware Rum Jars, Glazed Earthenware

Jars.

LOCATED AT H. M. DOCKYARD, KOWLOON

Flotanets, Corn Starch, 36 1. P. Hull, Hory Hull LOCATED AT HIM. DOCKYARD, HONG KONG

Scrap Steel, Belt Driven Milling Machine with Counter' Shaft, Bell Driven Metal Sawing Machine, Chalk Powder, Aircraft Models, Chevrolet Saloon. Ton Jeeps, Hillman Saloons LOCATED AT H. M. NAVAL STORE,

REFINERY

TAIKOO BUGAR

ordered a "limited" direction of labour into vital export industries, but warned that he would not hesitate to use, "in the nation's need," the wartime powers he still possesses for full conscription of manpower. "Limited direction means that only workers be- coming unemployed after Oct. 6, when the

order comes into force, will be directed.

Humber U/T (Body), Hillman Saloon (Body) International 3 Ton Lorries, Ford 3 Ton Lorry. Fordson Tippers LOCATED AT H.M.S. FLYCATCHER, KAI TAK'

Unserviceable Aircraft Spares Aero Engines, Aircraft Tanks, Exhaust Rings, Propellera and Nacelles.

LOCATED AT HONG KONG I

COY, "K" GODOWN KOWLOON

KOWLOON

GODOWN

Chifley New Dictator,

After, that date, all jobs must be obtained through la bour exchanges.

By autumn, the effects of the plan of Sir Stafford Cripps. President of the

Board of Trade, to starve nori-essential

Says Menzies Industries of fuel and

raw

men

haterials, will begin to be felt.. Among the provisions of the

covers all Menzies, order, which

between the ages of 18 and 50, and women between 18 and 40. were:

Canberra, Sept. 18. Mr. Robert leader of the Opposition, today accused the Aus- tralian Government of "weaving a pattern of dictatorship" in its pro- posal to nationalise the banks.

Hatches, Lurs, Galley Stoves, Cast Iron Berths, Cargo Rope Nots, Rope Scrambling Nets, Wire Not Holdalls, Wire Seram- bling Net, Rope Slings and Wire Slinge...

LOCATED AT E. 5. B. D. SHAMSHUIPÓ

Firewood and Electric Lamps

Fermits to view, Catalogues and Spoola! Conditions of Sale etc. may be obtained from Monats. Lammert Brothers.

Inspection of Stores and Vehicles at the above locations can be, made between the hours 9.30 a.m. and 12.00 noon and between the hours of 2.00pm and 4.00 pm, on the 22nd, and 23rd. September 1947.

.

Guaranteed Rate

Women with familles will not be directed:

And

Family men will not "in gen- erul be directed away from Mr. Joseph B. Chifley, the home or, if they are, special} Prime Minister, retorted: lving allowances will be paid; "Hitler and Mussolini did nol

All directed workers will get! m_tionalise banks. The banks

guaranteed "rate

for the financed Hitler."

job." and will be offered an Mr. Menzies, a former Primewide a choice as possible among Minister and now leader of the the available jobs in essential Liberal Party, moved a vote of work. the House of Representatives en force for a limited period, nor- The direction will remain in

proposed |__futionallaation mally six months, after which werkern will be free to leave "We believe that a politically- the employment, unless fur controlled Government bankingther direction is issued. monopoly will be an instrument of despotism and oppression", he said.

Terms: 50% of the Purchase Money, to paid on the Fall of the Hammer and the Balance to be paid on Friday, the 2013, September 1947.

WALTER M. WEINBERGER,

PLAN CHAIRMAN,...

BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD,

THÔNG KÔNG)

cemure of the Government in

the

measure.

Crisis Measure

An attempt had been mada

Employers may not dismiss in the Australian press and a directed person except for elsewhere to create the impres- serious misconduct and all attempting to plon that the Government was workers have the right to ap

do something pral to a local board. contrary to the spirit of the de- mocratie wishes of the people

is not mo," he said

*Thai Reuter.

British Envoy's Daughter Is Missing

After presenting the order nude under the wartime De fence Regulations, Mr. Isaacs imphasised that the direction was "limited," and said that every effort would be made to do this job without moving anybody from his home."

"We want contented work ere," he added.

He said that the plan was not the Government's idea of ព democratic plan, buf "I

Ruuter.

Then He Checked Britons To Be

Clothed His Coupons

In Export Leftovers

Greenwich, Sedt, 18.

A 24-year-old dairy.niaid who said that she was kept from noon one day until next morning in a house at Chelmsford, Eues, during part of which time she was tied to a bed, gave evidence today when John Henry Cole. 28-year-old electrician of no fixed address, was accused of criminally assaulting and "robbing her.

Joan Phyllis Lodge said that Cole had said that his wife would let her, have a pair of nylon stockings but there was no one else in the room when she was taken there by Cole, She alleged that Cole tied her with one leg to each of the bed-" pasts and tied her hands. When she recovered consciousnces, he dragged her downstairs, made tea and checked his football coupons,

The case is proceeding-Reuter,

"Martin Lo" Has Short-Lived Life In Solomons

Darwin, Sept. 18. Officers of the British submarine Amphion, which arrived here today, said that the Solomon Is- lands in the Pacific were being patrolled by the 1,710-ton destroyer, HMS Contest, and it was believed that the ringleaders of a planned native uprising against the British administra- tion had been captured.

The officers said that the ar- rival of their submarine at the Solomon Island of Santa Ana probably prevented bloodshed. According to Henry Kuper,

for Sept. 1.

Twenty Men And A Filly And

a

tion owner who has lived in a naturalized British planta-

Lincoln, Sept. 19. the Salomens for 36 years, an Twenty men and uprising and the overthrow of British rule had been planned filly parted company to- day, ending one of the When Amphion arrived, two most unusual racing days later, officers who went combinations in the his- ashore found large groups of tory of the British turf. natives standing around a mast from which was flying a yellow The fly, Twenty Players, dog with black stripes, which was owned in equal partner- British the natives anid was "martin ship by 20 farmer lo"-Marxist law-and the Army officers. While in a pri-

lag of freedom.

soner of war camp they made! a pact-if they ever returned safely to England to buy a race horse.

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Amphion Ared star shells from her six-inch guns and all the natives fled across the is land and dispersed to rejoin their tribes.

Bradford, Sept. 18.

The British people would be clothed in "only what is left over" from exports, Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, said here today.

He warned that unless output was increased by 12 per cent monthly, the home market would be "starved"

He was giving detailed ex- port reports to the British woollen textile industry.

"Within the family of the Commonwealth and Empire.

we shall, 1 hope, help ofte an- other more and we shall take steps-long overdue-to do.

velop our own resources within that family.

The animal made a promis- jag dubut ax a two-year-old} Kaper told the British that last year, placing second. Since the leaders of the

disap- uprising then she has been a

pointment were from another Sclomons island, Malaita, which was thef The 20 men gave her a last "revelutionary headquarters" chance on Thursday when shel of all the Solomona falanders. was beaten by a neck. They

He said the trouble was due sold her for 260 mainly to propaganda, circulat- Associated Press.

---Reuter.

Albany, NY., Sept. 18 crisis measure which we have

The search for 18-year-opted most reluctantly."-ed by soldiers during, tho' war. old Yvonne Gascoigne, daughter of Sir Alfred Gascoigne, British envoy to Japan, widened to- day. The local police began dragging Fishkill Creek for the girl, who has been missing from Craig House near Bea-

Dangers Behind Wedemeyer Report

New York, Sept. 18.

con, N. Y..since Sept. 4. Far East specialist Maxwell S. Stewart in the

She reportedly stipped past two nurses who did not dis- cover her missing from the Sanitorium till the following! morning. Local police and state police and immigration! officials joined in the hunt to- day.

WAR

Liberal weekly, The Nation, said today: "Lt- Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer's report may de- cide whether the United States will persist in its efforts for a democratic settlement of China's problems or will be manoeuvred into a position of maintaining in power elements we have consistently denounced as undemocratic, in- efficient and corrupt."

support

has

blowing of the Communlats ex. clusively for the situation and Cectured: "The most significant thing about his statement la a

absence of the usual allusions in | China's rights As a sovereign nation."--United Press.

The police said the girl nt-i tempted to jump frosa a tiana-i Atlantic plane when she dewStates has lost povlarity

He contended that the Unite, members of the Kuomintang and to the United States.

in the Government. Divers searched the creek decadent regime which

China for helping perpetuate On the other hand. Stewart yesterday but found nothing otherwise have gone, under.

would pointed up Gen. Wedemeyer while a shoreline search likewise fruitless,

Stewart sald If the Doctors at the House said programme were to be continued. she was

depressed over the it will be dent under the banner death of her brother in theol stop Communism, and content war, during which she served | sd that the Greyk situation with the British

United States Women's proves the Auxiliary Forces. -United kern unwise and assumed a wente Press.

ally which will prove a liability. U.S. ARMY Stewart outlined the difficulties! CHIEF IN London, Sept. 18. the Administration wi face. In Russia announced today in a Congress trying to get

LONDON COURT Rudto Moscow broadcast that funds, pointing out the original

London, Sept. 18. Soviet potato growers who rate $300,000.000 loan of 1042

A London police court today ed 20 tons per acre would be "eppused by Ambassador Gauss sentenced Philip Ragon, elvillän decorated and granted the title and the Stute, Department" und chief of a United States Army "Hero of Socialist Labour". cling Gen. Wademeyer's blunt office in London, 'to five months' United Press.

Imprisonment for failure to pay a £1,000 fine for violating im port regulations.

charges of corruption

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600 STRIKE.IN BANGKOK

Bangkok, Sept. 10.

Six hundred workers of iho Standard und Shell of companies struck on Thursday for 75 per. cent wage Increases and other benefits.

The gasoline and oil trade was paralysed throughout the city. The workers necused the manage. ment of stalling on the demands, made originally un Sept. 3.- Associated Press,

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Sly Stafford Cripps promised that industry would get "every assistance" to obtain coal, raw material and Inbour, but warn-

Buenos Aires, Sept. 18.

Argentine Government today lifted the prohibition on the export of canned meat to Britain which was recently Im- posed.-Reuter.

Threat Of New U.K. Coal Strike

London, Sept. 18. The threat of another ed that some re-equipment stoppage in the South postponed Yorkshire coalfield, under, his short-term plan for where the strike of face reducing capital expenditure.

would have to be

He gave the following tar Workers, just ended, cost gels for the industry:

the nation 600,000 tons of coal, was averted to- day, when 6,000 key workers withdrew their notices to strike.

The Targets Wool prepared in its final

form before making it inta yarn: Production at the rate of £9,000,000 a year immediate ly, and £11,000,000 later.

Yarn:

Because the labour

The men affected are in threo grades of unilerground super- visors angt blanting specialists.

force was still only 80 per cent of pre-war and because of the

The dispute arose over what needs of manufacturing firms,

officials considered "anomalies” the export of yarn could not be in the five-day week agreement," much higher than the present i performance.

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Talks between their Associa». Plece Goods: Production tion and the National, Coal should be increased to the rate Board, which controls the of 100,000,000 linear yards per tionalisel mines, were complet. year at the first stage and to ed. today, and the proposals 180,000,000 linear yards as will now go before the soon as possible aftorwards, Asunciation's niceting next week. Reuter.

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