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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly Gen- eral Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong, on Wednes- day 24th May 1950 at 12 Noon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Notice is hereby given that Accounts for the year, ended the Twenty-Second Ordinary 31st March 1950, and for the Annual Meeting of the Com- election of Directors and the pany will be held at the Com-appointment of Auditors. pany's Office, Jordan Rond Ferry Pier, Kowloon, on Satur- The Register and Transfer day, the 20th May, 1950, books of the Company will be
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Hong Kong, April 14, 1950.
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By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities?
MAY GAIN, CAN'T LOSE
MANY declarers are disdainful
A, K and and the heart. J to have ten tricks,
of axira tricks. That is all right Instead of one extra, East could
if seeking them Involves any risk have had two without any, risk of their contract. But if there is whatsoever, not even to the single some way to seek an extro.trick extra trick. His chance to make which involves na possible chance the effort came immediately, after of loss, the decision should be winning the flucase of the dia- Such an effort might mond Jon the fourth trick. If clear-cut. gain, but couldn't loso. Failure to he refrained from taking the dia- try it, whenever such a situation mond. A just then and switched exists, can mean the loss of al to the club A, followed by
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lost to the heart A, and the last, East given up in spades.
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