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› THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, · 1957.

Stamp Collecting In Hongkong

you should suddenly

docide to collect used postage stamps today, you | may rest assured that you are a very late atarter in this feld, that the manager of your firm probably col- lects these for his nephew, your departmental manager for his brother-in-law in Australia, the lady who dis- tributes the incoming mall brother for her younger and the office boy salvages to have a bronk Sinatra or Sibelius

the whatever goes into differences of Text To ten ghoice, we carry simple stocks Ot

wastebasket for sale by bath cleat Frat popular

Bike which will all-fy the need for the weight. iyle nostalgia of a Sinatra Ballad or for the cravings of the majestje zweep of a Sibelius Symphony.

your problems to Esics & Co.. 210

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FOR SALE

AIR MAIL Letter Forme, BU per 100 South China BO cents per luzon. Moming Posi. Ltd., Hong Kong and Kowloon.

NOTICE

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE COMPANY,

LIMITED.

Notice To Shareholders

Isaue Of 325,500 Shares Of $5.00 Each Par Value At A Premium of $5.00 Per Share

A copy of this notice has been delivered to the Reglar of Com- ponies for filing.

The satisfactory position of the Company justifies, in the opinion of the Directors, the issue, at a premium of $6.00 per share, of 325,500 of the unissued shares of the Com- pany to persons who, on 27th July, 1967, are registered a8 holders of the already issued shares of the Company.

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The new shares will rank for dividend pro rata from 1st October, 1967, and in all other respects par! passu with the already issued shares of the Company.

Shareholders will be

en-

It it is not quite true that everybody in Honitong collects postage stamps, it would reYTE Pal

every other person does collect these fur a son, niece, uncle or even grandmother.

No Pressure

Where there is no pressure from collecting relatives, the stamp dealer wades in and col- luis a very large slice of the slamps of all incomlag letters

Hongkong Intes

for re-sale through scores of countera in shops dealing in a variety of other goods, particularly shops dealing in books and stationery, and through as many one-man enterprises in the streets,

You have only to walk through the Trimshatsui area in Kowloon te come across several displays of sets of used postage stamps for sale, packets of 50, 100 or

1,000 (41073

different, world,

Asia or Brush Colonies. If

with the you are au salified

dealer will gladly display, the show you several stockbooks full of "singles".

Most of the pavement dealers agents for larger- nre simply

whom there scate dealers, of are 33 in the Hongkong Stamp Dealers' Association and if the prices

sleep seem

15 littlo there in regarding the vendor as a "shark" as he does hot pet or control the prices of his wares.

you

by a China Mail Staff Correspondent

the long-gone Empire of China. You must always bear in mind that come stamps, no matter how old will not increase In value even 10 per cent within your lifetime, though they may have been issued before you

were born.

Inform

Read The Rules Nepalese

Before Posting

Your Entries

General

Leaves

General Toran Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, CBE, Readers taking part in the China Mail Commander in Chief of the Nepalese Army left the photo competition are asked to read the Colony by air this morning rules and regulations carefully before sub-for Singapore after a two-

day official visit. mitting entries,

General Rania came to the The prescribed size is 6 x 8 or larger. Some have colcay

to visit the Churka sent in contact prints which are too small for reproduc-troops stationed here, at the in- Lion.

Forget your stamp catalogue other than as a general guide, Most stamp catalogues

The competition is in two sections: nows and "human you that a lamp quoted in value at one cont does not cost that or animal interest". Prizes aro: first, $150 in each mee- much, that is the dealer's hand-tion, and accond $100 in each section.

Hing charge. If you want to buy

Entrants should state which section they are enter ing in, and write a full descriptive caption, not just a title.

the same stamp in hundrels and

have thousand you

It 43 offered you at twenty cents a hundred

A FULL CAPTION WANTED

BOLONIA

BOLONIA

100%

100%

col.

10 point add to little Algernon's pavement lection, and people so believing

in Blackpool, Bloemfontein o Brisbane are not wrong in ro linking except that they are very much misinformed about bugain prices prevailing in the used stamp markete of this fur- the map of away pinpoint on the world.

Your Chances

can

The big dealers themselves daily have their fokis, children DIXI Yemale relatives bundle stamus in lots of a hundred or

the

N

York-and will every ere kely to receive mall they drallar bundles from any for- way por: such as Suva, Seattle or Sydney.

rent

KOPEZ

Also bear in mind the fact that the catalogue price of stamp is the price asked for u slump in excellent condition, whether used or unused, and that Also be purchased rhillings

a stamp valued at Et may

or less it

for five you don't

mind a heavy cancellation on It cr some red or blue ink marks.

Little

Value

Generally heavily cancelled or damaged stamps have very 186 value unless they are very" rate, but of a specimen of which there are very few coples extant even

damaged copy has value, But if your aunt has promised

нег you

deceased husband's priceless, and very old collec- un when you reach 21, do not

to be hope inevitably

loying hands on a very valuablo heritance.

There have been extreme uncles cases where deceased

Prettified their stamps by trim-

the "eeth". mig

Such cases, of course, become rarer every day as Victorian collections dis- but appear or are absorbed, many

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Hongkong's trade is so world-wide, that largu- scale

dealers enquire here for a hoard of the stamps of Trinidad. Fiji or Frenck Equatorial Africa with

much chance of Ending lot for sale as they would at Bristol, Auckland or Paris.

Nol

cur- necessarily only a

a whisper of treasure at lol, Stamps of the reign

gatherings Victoria of Queen

arc very

disappointment when pre- much on the local market

rented to a dealer for evalua- of course, tion quantities, though,

it As

discovered these are not offered by street

used ose that grand-ancie vendors to schoolboys, whose arable to mount his old Chinese pennies don't

to such

stamps. Even It he was fuxeuries and are not tempted N||

modern-minded to by a portrait of Queen Victoria sumetently alone without a picture of lion in its native habitat to se- Company.

ca

gum-

have used stamp hinges, he also used his tongue and over the years his salivu bas sprend

Tempting

If you have suddenly decid- to ruin what was once a caud- ful early Natal ug Tasmania. collect used postage stuinps, take my advice, how- One luing you

rest

ever, und don't imagine that of and that is that asured

you can over the years slowly your chances of striking u just about nil,

buy yourself a collection that at your retruncat in twenty

Old collections come to light bargain are though the vendor will wor? more for dispatch to the stump years time you will pass on to with regularity, though you can Poothe your pride in your

markets of the world-Singa- your son as on investment of rest assured that if it is a good ability to bargain by graciously

pore, Rotterdam, Hamburg, which considerable dividends collection that is about to come- waiving 28 per cent off

have already necruel,

un the market it will have been by Newly evaluated

known his stamps,

pre some amateurs knowledgeable By all means, colleet stampa, K

as people in the Stamps also feave Hongkonk it's a fascinating hubby though, business for a living.

Usually, a very tempting offer find that the inevitably, you will on to

your collection takes up mor may live been made years ago space than is comfortable in for loose duplicates in a stock book er in envelopes and the even a very spacious desk.

nis In 10 years time you may inheritor bases on this fact pick through your son's newly own evaluation of the main col purchased Christmas package of lection. He may discover that 509 different and discover that there are no offers, whatsoever, suit includes a Cape of Good for the ruins" in the main Hope and quite a few stamps of albums.

titled to 1471. allotment of marked nice if you are spend- if you one new sliare for every fouring several dollars.

even don't bargain, he may No fractional shares held.

surprise

you by waiving the 10 cents oft

your totid pureliage of $3.10.

certificates will be issued, but holders of an odd number of shares will be entitled to take up a whole share in lieu of the fraction.

One would think that the pavement vendor main cus- tomers would be schoolboys and the displays would suggest that. There are few sets displayed

No interest will be allowed that are not picturesque and

on prepayment.

The Company have agreed to pay underwriting com- mission at the rate of 2 per

cent on all the shares covered by this offer.

Shareholders may renounce their rights in favour of a nominee.

generally animals sporting

SERIES, frults fund flowers dominate.

In Hongkong's streels you number of very can buy any

In the holds of freightS 51 socks, slil clinging piece of envelope on which they were originally stuck.

Imports

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Hongkong Imports a lot of alamps from Taiwan and the People's Republic of Chlua, picturesque Hungarian stamps Sheets of stamps of

the long and can easily" ralisty "your

defunct Kingdom of Manchukuo stili arrive here and are sold in craving for pletures of African

stamp dealers abroad. birds, hunting dogs, giraffes and

Shrefs antelopes.

Hongkong is also the P In the stamp business, is market for the world's is

known as the uvenile scale stamp buyers for certain

of denominations

the used This trade. is one of trado". prado". The Share Transfer Re- the mast lucrative in the bus postage stamps of Singapore and Malaya, which are import→ a banana re- gisters of the Company willness and many

South over is lack ct here from

.China be closed from 29th to 31at public must sigh

poris.. interesting flora and fauna, of July, 1957.

for much of the revenue of banana republies comes from regular -issues of postago

world's children.

Application forms will be

posted to Shareholders on 1st | stamps for the albums of the

August, 1967,

Application Lists will close as follows:-

Hong Kong & Macau Share- boldera

50th September, 1957 Overseas Shareholders

81st October, 1957

and the Directora will

pro-

ceed to ullotment on

lat

November, 1967.

The purchase consideration

will be payablo :—-

On Application:

$2.50 per share, and

$2.50 on account of the

premium

$5.00

On 1st December, 1967 :

82.50 per share, and

$2.00 on account of the

premium

$6.00

By Order of the Board

8. M. CHURN

Chairman Hong Kong, 6th July, 1987.

Surprised

Mail Notices

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19 By Air Hawadi. U.S.A., Canada, & p.m. Korea, 6 pm.

By Surface

· Australia, New Zeeland 6 9.10. Maceo. 6 p.m.

But if you have observed a street vendor in used posinge stampa condueling his busi- nes you will be murprisadi nó the number of adults who spending their money on his wares. It does not necessarily follow that their own collections. there adults are buying_for They

may just have received a letter from home informing them that "ittie Algernon has started-coli

| lecting stampa,"

Hongkong in generally regard-

ed as THE place from which to

"THURSDAY, JULY 1

By Air Peking, Shanghai, Hankow, Kun-

fathow. 7 03.** Japan, m. Tradiend. Pakistan,

Lebanon, Germany, & Groot Britain, ID am.

Philippines, 1 p.m.

Indo-Chine, France, 2 pan. Pakistan, Middle East, Atries, Great Britalia Europe, e pim.

USAP

surface Chine, People's Republic, 7 a.. Indonesia, Noon.

Masao, 1 D.m.

Indo-china, Thalland, 1 pm. Mar, 0 p.m.

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What's On Tonight

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Maverick Queen"; A western in which Barbara Stanwyck is the boss. With Barry Sullivan, Scott Brady, Mary Murphy. In Naturama,

KING'S and PRINCESS: "Melbourne Rendezvous": A feature length documentary taken at the 1956 Olympic Games. METROPOLE and STAR: The Gold Rush":

A

re-issue of one of Charles Chaplin's early films made in the days when he was known as "Charlie".

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "International Police": Victor Mature of the United States Anti- Narcotic Squad pursues dope peddler Trevor Howard across Europe while Anita Ekberg looks elegantly on.

ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Wayward Bus": John Steinbeck's story about a group of people Joan thrown together during a bus journey. Collins, Dan Dailey, Jayne Mansfield, Rick Jason, Betty Lou Keim, Dolores Michaels.

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Gaol & Fine For Coxswain Is

Drug Offence Fined $100

WORLDFI,

For possessing 44,1 grams of herein, a 86-year-old

Lee Yau, a coxawain of the Chun Yan, 280 Thi Hiạn Temple Man Loc No. 4, vos fined $50 fill, was this morning senimbed this morning by Mr D. L. P. to nine months' gaol und Shed

another Exwards at the Marine Cout In addition $2,000 or nine mentha' by Mias D. K when he admitted leaving port at Central Magistamay, without giving nation to the Police, acting on information, Director of Marino,

defendant at Tin arrested th Hau Templo Rood early yester. He was find another $50 for day morning.

-mailing out of the harbour limita,

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At Bay View Police Station, He committed these affanges on she was found to have thời Jun an at 740 pm. botoks fucked in the top of her

trolasers,

Another man. Chan Kam- She told the Magistrato sheshaie, was fitted $25 when he bought the heroin for $2310 for fallod to exhibit navigation hertown `cerbumption.

'Tights while uIRIWAY “

Send your entries immediately to the Editor, the China Mail, 1-3 Wyndam Street, Hongkong.

vitation of Lieut-Gen. E. M. Bastyan, Commander British Forces, Hongkong.

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General Rana was seen off at the alport by Group Captuin A. J. Sinylte, Commanding Offer. Kal Tal, aut other ArmY JUPRO- sentatives...

The General left by Royal Als Free aircraft.

RADIO

Rules And Regulations Hongkong

1. Entry is free.

2. One entrant may submit two photographs

in each section.

3. All entries must be accompanied by the printed slip below, duly completed and signed.

4. All entries must be preferably on glossy-

finish paper and measure 6 x 8 or larger.

5. All entries must carry a caption adequate.

ly describing the photograph.

6. Retouched photographs will not be

accepted.

7. Photographs should be topical but good news photographs taken in previous years are acceptable.

8. The China Mail cannot accept entries from any members of the staff or their families of the South China Morning Post Ltd.

9. Photographs known to have been published in any newspaper, magazine or periodical in this Colony or in any part of the world will not be accepted.

10. All entries submitted become the property of the China Mait and the China Mail reserves the right to exhibit and publish some or all of the entries at a later date.

11. All photographs must have been taken in

Hongkong by the entrant,

12. The editor reserves the right to refuse any entry if it is considered in any way offensive, or if it is otherwise unsuitable. 13. The China Mail reserves the right to determine the size of each published picture.

14. No responsibility can be accepted for any deficiencies claimed either in processing or printing but every effort will be made to reproduce photographs to the best of this newspaper's ability,

15. The judges' decision is final and no com- plaints or appeals will be entertained.

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SIGNED.

This entry form should be either posted in the top left- hand corner on the back of every photograph submitted. or attached with a paper clip.

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