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THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY: LIMITED NOTICE TO SIABEHOLDERS ORDINARY YEARLY" MEET-
ING.
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1940.
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION
HUMPHREYS ESTATE &
FINANCE CO., LTD.' NOTICE la hereby given that ORDINARY: YEARLY
the Ordinary Yearly. Meeting. of Shareholders will be held GENERAL" MEETING
at the Hong Konit Hotel, Hong Notice is hereby given that NOTICE, IS HEREBY GIVEN Kong on Tuesday 8th March the Forty-seventh Ordinary that' the Ordinary Yearly 1949 at 12 noon, for the purpose Yearly Meeting of the Members General Meeting of the 'Share of receiving the Report of the of the Company will be held at holders of the Corporation Directors with a Statement of the Omce of Messrs Jardine, will be held at the Head Office Accounts for the year ended Matheson & Co. Ltd., Pedder of the Corporation, 1'Queen's 31st December, 1948 and for the election of Directors and Street, Hong Kong, on Monday, | Road Central, Hougkong, on the 20th day of February, 1949, Saturday the 6th day of the appointment of Auditors. at Noon, to transact the follow-March, 1949, at, 11.30 am. for NOTICE is further hereby given ing business:→→→
the purpose of receiving, and that the Register and Transfer 1. To receive and consider considering the reports of the Books of the Company will be the Report of the Direc- Directors and the Auditors closed from the 24th February tors and the Statement of and the Profit and Loss Ac- 1940 to the 8th March 1949 inclusive during days Accounts for the year count and Balance Sheet for both ended 31st December, the year ended 31st. December, which period no Transfer of 1948.
1948, and for the elettion of Shares can be registered. Directors and the appoint- ment of Auditors.
.
2. To sanction a Dividend in respect of the year 1948.
3. To elect two Directors.
4.
To appoint Auditors.
OF TRANSFER
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POSITIONS VACANT ACCOUNTANCY QUALIFICA. TIONB now gained after
only
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SELECTED, attractive, Residen olekor Bites, In best parts of Island or Kowloon, Box No. 745 "China Mail".
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BOOKS.
Notice is also given that the Transfer Books and Register of Members will be closed from the 14th February, 1949, to the 28th February, 1949, both days inclusive.
By Order of the
Board of Directors.
G. B. S. THOMSON,
Secretary.
BATU LIMA Estate comprising some 450 acres of rubber and 590 acres reserve land, situate on the malo road, 6 miles outside Banda. kan, For further information Hong Kong, February 1, 1949. The Principal. London School of apply-Harrison Accountancy, 12, Duke Street, at (Borneo) Limited, Sandakan,
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THE CROWN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Notice is hereby given that Mr. Lee Yong-Chang has re- signed his appointment, as an Authorised Representative of this company, with effect from the 14th February, 1040 and that he is no longer associated with the company.
DIRECTORY
All Policyholders who have (1949 edition) containing Hong! List, GovL Ofiices,
conducted their Hospitals, previously Schools,
Churches.
Institutes, affairs in consultation with Mr. Consulates. Services Glubs, Y. C. Lee are requested to Agencies, Who's Who, Residences, communicate direct with the It's the most up-to-date and most undersigned in future regard- complete of afl business directoriesing all matters in connection In the Colony. NOW ON SALE with their policies. at all loading book shops
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HONG KONG FILM- AND THEATRE NEWB at dd cents per
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NATURALIZATION NOTICE
TAMARA MAY 503 Peninsula MARINE DEPARTMENT Vsevolod Nicolaevich Vargas,
NOTICE NO. 9/1949
Hotel, A large selection of Sum. mar Dresses, how on, display. Winter Dresses Metafored at re- duced prodigirders taken for A quantity of old cable, be- Wedding "and Evening Gowns, lieved to comprise 11 lengths knows Etc. European/Borkmanship only. of 4 and 1 length of 3%", has THE VICTORIA CQ.. Dry clean. been salvaged from Kowloon ing a Dying Experts, 80 years Bay and is now lying on the experience. No. 40, Jordan Road Fraya Wall'at Tai Kok Tsui. A No. 38, Nathan...Goad, Kowloon,
Unless this cable is claimed CARPETS end "Ruge, Peralan, before the 15th, March, 1949, Chinese and Oriental designs. In it will be sold to defray salvage all sizes and" "Colbura. Carpet costs, Industria, 63, Austin Road,' Kow- Toon,
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Hong Kong, Feb. 22, 1940.
FOR ALL PROPERTY AND LAND MATTERS consult
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The Register of Shares of the Corporation will be closed Friday, the 18th. of February to Saturday the 5th of March, 1949 (both days in- clusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered...
By Order of the Board,
A. 'MORSE.. Chief Manager.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED
NOTICE is hereby given that the Sixtieth Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Company (since registration) will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on Friday, 25th Febru- ary, 1948, at 12 noon, for the purpose of receiving the Re- port of the Directors, together the Statement of Ac- with counts for the period ended
31st October, 1948, and to elect Directors and appoint Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the
Company will be closed from Tuesday, 15th, February, 1949, to Friday, 25th February, 1949, both days inclusive,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, LIMITED, General Managers. Kong, Feb. 7, 1949.
Hong
AND NOTICE is hereby also given that an. Extraordinary General Meeting of thosCom*7: pany will be held at the same place on the same day at 12.30 p.m. or so soon afterwards as the Ordinary General Meeting shall be concluded, when the subjoined Resolution will be submitted:-
THAT the Authorised capit- all of the Company be in- creased from its present Capital of $3,000,000 divided into 300,000 Shares of $10 cach (of which the whole have been issued) to $10,- 000,000 by the creation of 700,000 additional shares of the nominal value of $10 each and that such addition- al shares as aforesaid shall be issued at such
lime or
times and upon terms and conditions as the Company's Board of Directors in their absolute discretion pholl think it.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, LTD. General Managers.
Hong Kong, Feb. 9, 1949.
HONG KONG TEACHERS
·ASSOCIATION
ALHAMBRA CARNIVAL
COMING SOON
"GET OFF MY LAND
..OR GET UNDER IT!”
-No Men Ever
Lived To Conquer The Land They
Wore After
RICHARD JANE
DIX WYATT
ժում
BUCKSKIN
FRONTIER
with ALBERT DEKKER
LEE J.
VICTOR
LOLA
COBB JORY LANE MAX BAER, JOL SAWYER
Drected by LESLEY SELANDER,
Sherry
that is
in
Shakespearean its Excellence..
The Annual General Meet- ing of the Hong Kong Teach- ers Association will be held in St. Joseph's College, Ken- nedy Road, at 5 p.m. op Wed- nesday, February 23, 1940.
Agenda
HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LTD. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN |that the Ordinary Yearly Gen-}||
cral Meeting of the Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company, Limited, Hongkong,
22nd Tuesday,
day of March, 1949, at 12 o'clock Noon, to transact the ordinary business of the Company,
сп
And, NOTICE IS HEREBY
NOTICE is hereby given that
soff of 45, Morrison Hill Road, 3rd floor is applying to the Governor for naturalization, ALSO GIVEN that the Regis- and that any person who ter of Members of the Com
why pany will be closed from the naturalization should not be 8th to the 22nd day of March, granted should send a written 1949, both days inclusive.. and signed statement of the
By Order of the Board, facts to the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong.
W. H. PATERSON,
Hong Kong, Feb. 22, 1949.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers, Burveyors and Appraisers, Podder Bullding. Telephone No. 20224.
PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned have re- ceived instructions to sell by Public Auction on
FRIDAY, February 25, 1949 commencing at 2.30 p.m.
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at their Sales Rooms, No. 35 Hankow Road, Kowloon. A Fine Collection of
VALUABLE -HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising:-
Underwood Typewriter 20", Sewing Machine, Underwood Portable Typewriter, Tientsin
We Serve! Blue Carpet 9x, 12, Black-
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(First Floor){ 6 Queen Road; C MTO15, 21275& (31118)
wood Standard Lamp, Black- wood Tea Poys, Oplum Stools, Electric Cooker, Bables Cots, Perambulator, Portable Gramo phoné, Ultra Radio, Tea & Din- ntr Services, Chesterfield Suites, Office Desks, Office Arm- chairs, Book Cases, Coffee Tables, Table Ornaments, Teak Tea Poys, Double & Single Wardrobes, Double Single Bedsteads, Divans, Dressing Tables, Bed Side, Cupboards, Chest of Drawers, Tall Boys, Cutlery, Glass Ware, Dining Tablos, ⠀⠀ "Sideboards,....- Gloss Cabinet, Dining Chairs, Bed Mirrors, Room Cupboards, Kitchen 7, Sink, Typewriter Tables Bureaus, Blackwood Curio Cabinet, Pouffees, Roll Top Desk, and Campliorwood Chests, Etc., Etc.
On View from Thursday, the 24th February 1949
Terms: As Customary/
KLAMMERT BROS,
MASAuctioneers.
NOTICE
Secretary.
Notice is hereby given that the Exclusivo Autllorised Re- presentative of Jantzer Knitting Mills in China and Hongkong Is
'D. B. SPARKS (MANAGER-Laura Gutterres)
care of. John D. Hutchison & Co. Ltd.,
· King's Building. February. 21, 1949.
Presentation of Audited" Statement of Accounts and
Annual Report for year 1947/48.
2. Approval of New
stitution.
3. Election af President.
Con-
M. HEARSON, Joint Secretary, Hong Kong Teachers Association.
HONG KONG SOFTBALL
DAN ASSOCIATION
Reminder
The Extraordinary General Meeting will take place at the Green Roum, Peninsula Hotel, .on':Monday, February 28, at
"
A, E RIBEIRO,
Hon. Secretary.
THE REFORM Club
...OF HONGKONG
THE FIRST PUBLIC, MEET- ING will be held at The Roof Garden of The Hongkong Hotel on Friday, the 25th February at 5.30 p.m.
1949:
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay.
"The Authorityzon Authorities?
IT HINGS ON READING his own holding, the spade J and EVERY ITEM deduced from diamond 3. In that case, if West your reading of the opponents be the only one able to guard hands may be wrong except some against diamonds, he would be diamonds and ona vital detail. But if that is squeezed between correct, it is all you require to the club. If Eust be the only eno make your plan work in some able to safeguard both diamonds situations. This is especially so and apades, he could be squeezed.
om Even if both
pould
guard dia- In the case of cortain fairly com
be sunk by plex squeeze playa It applies in momis, they most interesting fashion to sonic double squeeze in caso East pro- of the devastating double squeezes tected spades and West clubs. built by akillful declarers.
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and
K. Then he raked in the club K, five moro hearts and the spade
A So when the last heart was AVE
double aqueezo now led, his
worked. West had to keep the club Q to top the J, so discarded a diamond from the J-6. The club
J
was then tossed from dummy. and East was squeezed. If he
throw away the shade
the J
would become good, so he picked
4 diamond from the 9-7. That
(Dealer: South. Both eldes wulonable the diamond 3 to the A
East make, the
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to drop both the and, 9 and
South
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West followed his scoring of
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Tomorrow's ProblemTMTM
the club A with a switch to the diamond 2, and South went to work at his card reading. Ho de cided that, if West had not held--- 041 the club Q, he would have repeat- HAQ6 ed the suit in order to help es- D 1084 tablish it for Eat-hence West 07: had it.
South's thinking then followed orderly lines. With eloven tricke
Sight
in
and no club to lead for
a finesse of the J, he had to build
a squeeza. Buppose he played BO
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DJ 653 GAKJG4 (Donler: South. Neither side vulnerable.)
as to havo in dummy the dia- What reasons can you think of mond A.8 and'chb J when he led to cause a funny bid of 2-Spades the last heart,
also having in by West over South's 1-Club:
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