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NOTICE

HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO, LTD. Notice to Shareholders

Notice is hereby given that the Thirtieth Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders of the Hongkong Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. will be held at St. George's Building, Chator Road, 2nd floor, Hong

News contributions, always wel-Kong, on Thursday,, the 28th come. should be addreed to the Editor. business communications and advertisements to the Secretary

Telephone: 26611 (5 Lines).

KOWLOON OFFICE

Hallsbury Road. Telephone, SA165.

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ADDITIONAL INSERTIONS

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day of April, 1856, at 12.00 Noon, to receive the Direc- tora Report and the State- ment of Accounts, to declare a dividend and to transact the ordinary business of the

Company.

The Share Transfer Books from the 5th April to 26th

of the Company will be closed

April, 1956, buth days inclu- nive.

By Order of the Board,

ERNEST BAHMET,

Secretary.

cents each additional word, Hongkong, 27th Mar., 1950.

ALTERNATE INSERTIONS

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PREMISES TO LET

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NOTICE

GOVERNMENT OF SAKAWAK

Tenders are to be invited shurtly by the Government of Sarawak for the Construction of an all-weather road from Surian to Simunggang in Suruwak a distance of about 82 miles.

The road will be 18 feet wide, with 5 foot grasa verges and '6" eide drains and will bave a seal and wearing coat of bitumen emulsion แฟ a crushor run chippings on basecourse with an average thickness of 8" placed or a compacted subgrade.

The contract will include all felling and clearing of trees and undergrowth for a width of 100 ft; earthworks. drainage And culveris; quarrying, crushing und spreading of stone; con- solidation and application of bitumen. It will also cover the design and constraciton of temporary bridging 10 be handed over on completion of Contract Sections with a use- ful life of 5 years for public traffic. Permanent bridging does not form part of the contract.

Draft contract documents and typical plane will be available for inspection at the office of

The Director of

Public Works, Hong Kong.

Contractors who

Ara

In-

terested, and who, after of the draft Inspection documents and plans etc., are prepared, if invited, to tender should apply in writing to

NOTICE

HONGKONG ENGINEERING

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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1956.

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WESTERN INFLUENCE

DIES HARD

IN BUDAPEST

By JOHN EARLE

Budapest, Apr. 2. Western influence dies hard among the 1,800,000 inhabitants of Budapest, once the twin jewel of the Hapsburg crown and perhaps the biggest now containing conglomeration of "bourgeois" left in the Soviet bloc.

A traveller arriving from another Communist country might think at first that he had strayed into Western Europe.

Among a middle-class looking, Shaw and Schiller are popular crowd in the street, be may names on this winter's hand- even meet some old gentlemen bills, Among contemporaries, wearing bowler hats, while with names like Sartre, Marcol young people narrow, American-Pagnol, and Eduardo di Filippo style bow ties are popular.

more than hold their own with Soviet writers.

Compared with other Com- munist capitals, there are few slogana and few pictures in shops of political leaders such Lenin or the Bral secretary of the Blutigacion Communist

Matyus Rakosi Party

En- quiries at a tobacco and pleture post card kiosk for a postcard of Mr Rakosi elicited the reply that they never slecked articles.

such

tunes 1 um both North and Latin Amerlea

Aine, however, is drawn at If a couple starts Jitterbugging.

doing it, they will probably be asked politely by the band leader to leave the dance floor.

& CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD,

Notice to Shareholders

No Jitterbugging NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary

Cafes--called by the Italian General Meeting of Share-

"espresso" restaurants | nine holders of the Company will

are well fre- and night clubs be held at St. George's Build- quented by prople listening ing, Chater Road, 2nd floor,elther to traditional Hungarion Hong Kong, on Thursday, the yusy music or Western dance 28th day of April, 1956, at 12.15

(Or p.m. thereafter as the business of the Thirtieth Ordinary Year- ly Meeting of the Company shall be concluded; for the purpose of considering and, if

Foreign residents told me that thepurty fil, passing thought

their and members following Resolution 4 an families, just NS much

"reactionaries," like appear Ordinary Resolution:-

well-dressed in public places. It is not here a sign of pro-regime "That it is desirable to

sympathies, as in same Com- capitalise a sum of $2,000,-munist countries, for a man to 000 being the Reserve for appear in public unshaven and

without a tie. Building Development and that accordingly a special capital bonus of $2,000,000. free of income tax, be de- clared and that such bonus be applied on behalf of the persons who on Thursday, the 26th day of April, 1966, are holders of the 1,000,000 fully paid-up issued shares of the Company in payment in full for 1,000,000

Black Tie

rece

الامانة

When going to the opera, both men and Women Tour dark sults. One of the late-t fashions introduced in months from the West is for women to wear long strings of artificial pearls knotte and dangling la front.

opera collective gave a February to which new big ball in Febr shares of the Company of black lies and evening dress.

guests were asked to come in $2 each. and that such

The repertoire of the opera is 1,000,000 new shares cre- based on Verdi, Mozart, Puccini,

Bizet and other dited as fully paid be ne-

popular Western Europtan composers. cordingly allotted to such

Dow

Russian

operas are per- persona respectively in the formed here. proportion of one such new

It is the same with the share for every

where Issued theatre,

Shakespeare, share then, held by such persons respectively, and that the shares so allotted shall be treated for all pur- poses as an increase of the nominal amount of the copi- tal of the Company held by each shareholder and not as income and further that Buch new shares shall ka from the 1st day of January, 1956, rank for dividend and in all other respects par разви with the already Issued shares.”

AND NOTICE IS FUR-

the Director of Public Works,THER GIVEN that the Share Kuching, Sarawak, not later Transfer Books of the Com- than April 80th 1956 with full pany will be closed from the

particulars of their organiga. 5th April to 26th April, 1966, tion and resources and of any both days inclusive." large works recently under- taken.

One of the Conditions of tonder is that a site inapec-

By Order of the Board,

ERNEST SAHMET,

Secretary,

tion of the road trace shall be Hongkong, 27th Mar., 1056.

made. It is anticipated that tenders will be called for sub- mission in mid-August 1966 to the Government of Sarawak. Tendorers will be required to hold their tenders open for three months. The Buccessful tenderer will be required to start work on site by March 1957

Harry Odell

Don't forget to-morrow night's GRAND, MASSED BAND

ONCERT at aħd EMPIRE THEATRE

9.30

THE

CHINA ENGINEERS,

LIMITED

Change of Address As from 1st April 1966 3rd Floor ALEXANDRA HOUSE Ice House Street Telephone Number unchanged 3 4 1 1 6

P.O. Box unchanged 1 4 8

REMOVAL NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that

48 from the 1st day of April,

1956, the office of the under- signed will be at:-

Room No.786 on the 7th floor of ALEXANDRA HOUSE, No8.4-8, Ice House Street.

C. Y. KWAN & CO.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF

CANTON LTD.

announce the removal of their Brunch Office to 5th floor Alexandra House as from 3rd. April, 1956

Telephone No. 28081 remains unchanged. Head Office remains in Union Building.

REMOVAL NOTICE

"We have removed to

750, ALEXANDRA HOUSE, -(7th FLOOR)

ICE HOUSE STREET TELEPHONES: 30166

D. ESSES.

35657

No Illusion

the cinemas. Soviet and ΕΠ other East European fins are unavoidably much more com- mon than Western Alms because ut East-West trade conditions. One fim from the West, which recently run to packed houses, was "The Million Pound Note" with Gregory Peck.

Demonstrators Wreck ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Bus In Athens

Demonstrators during Independence Day celebrations in Athens are pictured throwing stones and breaking the windows of a British-owned bus. Bludents began the trouble and were dispersed by police baton-charge. Several arrests were made. Elsewhere in the Greek

And capital troopy guarded barbed-wire barricades ervcted around the British Embassins...In case of demonstrations over the Cyprus attention.—Express Photo.

Turkish

Wives 'Steal Husbands Motorcars

Melbourne, Apr. 2. Twice in two daya police in Mildura searched for a "stolen", car that was not stolen

an

On the first occasion architect parked his "car" on a taxi rank while he went into a telephone booth to make a call. His wife was asked to move the car.

She slipped the keys from her husband's pocket while he talked, moved the car, and alipped the boys' back in the husband's pocket-without his knowing.

TOLD POLICE

When the architect returned to the parking place the car was

gone and he told police..

He joined the policy in their search- until koura Inter the 'mix-up was discovered,

The next day another search was set under way in Mildura when a business man went to

got his parked car and found il gone.

He found cut inter that his wife lund wanted the car and had taken the keys from his office desk while he was out.--China Mail Special.

Physicist Deplores Bad Use Of Science RED GIFTS

Parls, Apr. 2. French physicist and

Professor Curie was tread of stown how much progress had Residents, however, say that

Nobel the French Alemic Energy Com- been made towards abolition of though Western customs may Prize winner Professor Frederic missariat for four years, but was secrecy in selence, against which ! prevalent on the surface, Joliot-Curio

sald here today relleved of his post In 1950 after the world federation had long Hungary's economy is just on

the destructive

a possibilities of telling French Communist fought. neh socialised as in the other

weapons Diner modern

showed the

Party congress "progressive It bad use of science which all clentists, Communist scientists

scientists should oppose.

democracies." "People's would be an illusion to think that these customs denote any strious politient opposition lo the Government.

He was speaking in a message to the Pekling meeting tomorrow of the Exécutive Council of the

head-

World Federation of Selentille

bus its

FOR KABUL

In 13

New Delhi, Apr. 2. The Soviet Ambassador Afghanistan has presented But, he said, "everything is buses, 17 cases of spare parts and 704 cases of hospital equip- ment to Afghanistan's capital, Embassy

the Chinese

w never give bit of their far from being settled in this science to make war against the sphere, and though we have a Soviet Union."

right to rejoice that there wos a

Kabul, the Afghan Chinese scientist among our announced here today, observers at the Geneva confer- In the hairdresser's or beauly

His wife, physicist and Nobel

Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, the shop-of which: Budapest seems

Prize winner Irene Joliot-Curie,ence, we can only deplore that

Soviet Premier, Workers, which

Government was

promised the 10 have a large number-the

who died last month, was made

not asked to send its official re-equipment during his Kabul visit burber may

quarters in London. greet him woman

president of the World Federa-presentatives."-Reuler,

last December-Reuter, customer with an old

Professor fashioned

Curie, In the ion of Scientiile Workers during Hungarian

phrase like "kiss

message quoted by the Federn-a visit to Budapest in 1833. your hand." But he would Lion's Parts office, said," The

In his message to the Peking nevertheless be a member of a torrible destructive

Lention, Apr. 2. possibilities

meeting, which, presided over socialised hairdresser colicetive.

of modern arms clearly show

by Professor Powell, is main- The Gothie Cathedral in With a man customer, as one the bad

which use of science

ly devoted

to celebrating the Poznan, one of Poland's oldest barber said, he is allowed by all scientists must oppose." federation's tenth anniversary, churches, will be reopened for municipal regulations to take

But he

"how

could Professor Curie said: "It is not public worship this Jung, the erid, nine minutes over a shove and scientists complain of lack

of enough to

to fight to stop science

agency PAP re- 18 minutes over cutting hair. reaction by their fellow-citizens being used for destruction. One ported. If he takes longer than the to the iminense dangers of a must also fight in order that the The cathedral was badly norm, nine filler (seven tonths modern wer if they have not rich possibillies of progress be damaged during the final stages of one

penny) are deducted | given in time all the elements Immediately put into effect.” of the war. Rebuilding is now from his salary for every minute for appreciation. which they Professor Curie said last year's nearing completion, the agency mo:e-China Mail Special. alone can supply,"

Geneva atom conference had added-China Moll Special.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

THEY'RE TIED IN THEIR OWN JEEP NOW,BOSS WHAT'LL WE DO?

TAKE THEM TO THE EDGE OF THE BIG

CANYON

FERDINAND

NANCY

--THEN UNTIE 'EM AND PUSH THEM OVER--SO

STY'LL LOOK LIKE AN

ACCIDENT Whi THAT'S TOUGH

WEIGHT

AND

FORTUNE

WEIGHT AND FORTUNE

JOHNNY HAZARD

CAN'T DO ANYTHING TILL WE'RE' PREE OF THESE ROPKSÍ, DON'T GER ANYTHING SHARP.

LYING AROUND244

MAYBE IF m MUGHT TAKE HOURS ... BUTI COULD CHEW ON YOUR ROPES A

Polish

news

By Lee Falk and Phli Davis

IT'S OUR

HOW DO I

EVER GET

LIVES

INTO THIS.

TOO LATE TO WORRY ABOUT

THAT!

AGAINST

ANYHOW

THEIRS.

DOIT!

THANKS, BROOK,BABYÍ BUT ||YOUVE GIVEN MÊ THE IDEA... || SOMETHING THAT CAN CHEW

THROUGH...IN DECORPSE

ERNIE, BUSHMU

TOO DANGEROUS IF YOUR HAND, SHOULD UGH!}

NO, SNAP

HIGH TAXATION HITS TOASTS

Copenhagen,, Apr. 2. Sales of snaps, in which Danes make their traditional "skanl" toasts, fell by 12 per VSAJ In 1955 from about 4,500,000 bottles to 4,000,000 bottles.

The reason--too high taxes, -China Mall Special.

Shih-

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

By Mik

NO SWIMMING

Have you seen

Admiral

AIR CONDITIONERS

AND REPRIGERATORS

If we were any fresher

wed still be on the vine!

TRY

Libby's

7-31

FROZEN STRAWBERRIES

TODAY

By Ernie Bushmiller

BEWARE. OF SNOOPY FRIENDS

ROWNTREES

By Frank Robbins

BUT JUST THEN OUTSIDE

THIS IS THE ASHDANIEL, BRINK?

·JA, STEPPNA AND INSIDE TA WE WILL FIND THE STOLEN- CAR OPERATOR WHO HAS THE PAPERS WE SEEKI

AURO

this situation

calls for a

Miguel

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