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COMPANY MEETING. MONGKONG HOTEL 'CO., LTD. SPROPOSED NEW HOTEL IN KOWLOON.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH、 SIST, 1921.

COMPANY REPORT. SHANGHAI AND HONGKEW WHARF.

COMPANY, LTD.

A REMINISCENCE OF SIR JAMES CANTLIE" OF 1887.

[BY G.N.]

HONGKONG CHAMBER OF

COMMERCE.

REPORT ON BUSINESS CONDITIONS."

The Fortnightly Price Current and Market Report, published by the Hong- kong General Chamber of Commerce,

(Sir James Cantlie's advocacy of the necessity for exercise, even at an ad- vanced age, has called forth the follow ing reminiscence from the time when the celebrated doctor practised in Hong-states:— *kong),

"Ye had better come and sede

Cotton Piece Goods and Faney Cotton Goods. The market, remains inert and there are no signs of improvement for the near future.

10s at

At the amul generalineeting off The annual meeting of the Hongkong -Motel Co., Ltd., was held at the Hotel, shareholders in this Compang held at Saturday, at noon. Mr. A. & Lowe Shorelai, fast week. Mr. Brooke presided and amongst those, also present Smith who presided, stated that com-I wero: Sir Ellis Kadoorie, Mr. J. Scott paced with 108, the profit for the year Barston and Mr. F. Maitland (Direc-showed an inerente of Tie 20.183.75 and

It war Dr. Caatlie who spoke. He had bors), Mr. a. H. Taggart (Manager), the was the best on regard, since 1907. Anaybe I can do something for yẹ” Hon. Mr. Ho Fook, osrs. Hie Kwong,interim dividend of Tls. 3 was declared recently arrived in the colony as a partner Cotton Yarn-Market has ruleal wenk W. Logau, F. A. Ram, B. Wylin, E. M. last August and a final dividend of Tis. of Dr. Hanson (now Sir Patrick Manson, and dealers have been buying for urgent the celebrated authority on malaria) am requirements only. Prices show further had just fioished his examination of a declines of about $10 per bale all round. Baymond, S. V. A. Croucher, A. S. 10 was now proposed.

In view of the present cost of mate friend of mine, who was ill in bed. Dur Nominal quotations are:-No. Gubbay, Ho Ki, Vau Eps, E. Abraham, H. Percy Smith, P. C. Potts, Fung Turrials and labour the Directors considered ing conversation with myself he had $140 to $175, No. 12s at $145 to 175, No. it desirable to set asid-Tis. 60,000 for noticed that I was somewhat deaf, and 16s at 8170 to $183, No. 30 at $175 to Haug (shareholders).'

ordinary and Tis. 75,000 for special in his bustling, energetic, and compelling $200; arrivals 2,500 bales; sales, 3,300 The CHAIRMAN said: -- Gentlemen, repairs and renewals; also to build up way he at once began to tackle the pro-bales; Shipment nil; unsold stock, 13,000 The report and accounts, together with the depreciation fund. inaugurated last blem: How long; probable cause; father hales; bargains, 10,000 bales. the anditors certificate, having been in year, with an appropriation of Tls. 30.000, to bring this reserve to Tis. 75,000. Since your hands for several days, i will, with 1907 it had not been possible to add to your permission and in accordance with equalization of dividends, but an appro the usual practice, treat the same ax read. Priation of Tis. 30.000 was now suggested which would nugment that fund to Tis The balance at credit of profit and loss 75,000.

A revised schedule of the Company's "account, after Lilowing for depreciation,

the Company properties showed that bad and doubtful debts, etc., and includ-own no less than 6033 mow of land, with ing the sum of $4,355.05 brought forward a river frontage of 7236 feet, and over to 2332,073.30. 2,000,000 square feet of floor space in from 1919, amounted After deducting the interim dividend godowns.

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paid in September, 1920, costing $100,000, the sum of £232,873.30 remains, which the Directors recommend apportioning an follows:-

To pay Final Dividend of 85 per share on 20,000 shares To pay a Bonus of per share on 20,000 shares..... To transfer to General Re

Berve pay

To carry forward to New

Account

CHILD "SLAVERY IN HONGKONG ·

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mother, grandmother, etc., at the end of which he again repeateil:-

Well, ye come and see me. I have had some experience in that line in the London hospitals, and maybe I can do something for ye."

Woollens-There is still no change in the woollen market. Dealers are holding off until home prices and exchange are steadier.

sack.

Raw Cotton-Values have ruled easier. There was no question of resisting Dr. Nominal quotations are:-Indian descrip Cantle's invitation which was uttered in tions, 3 to $28; Chinese descriptions, Metals.Business very quiet. No new that, kind and polite but withal stern to $30 per picul. manner that brooks no refusal. He spoke. rapidly, as if he were pressix for time; business reported. Dealers are king with a brogue in which the Scotch burr importers to closo contracts with seem was absent, and I could not determine ingly impossible terms regarding delivery to what part of Great Britain he owed and late goods. Until there is some de the quaintness of his dinlect. He im- Ened understanding, arrived at it will be Pressed me and everybody else who came difficult to arrange new business. Prices within the orbit of his incessant activity quoted from home for thin gauges, wire us the personification of restless energy-nails, galvanized wire, shown slight "A STRIKING COMMENTARY ON always on the move, always doing some advance from the bottom., Steel bars are

thing, and always perspiring. Within a slightly lower, as also tin-plates.

Flour Market Report-Stock: About few weeks after his arrival his rather OFFICIAL REPLIES.”"

short, somewhat squat, personality became 215,000 sacks; Quotations: American Truth of February 16th has the follow a well-known figure up hill and down dale Patent, $5 per sack American Cut Off, $100,000.00

in the staid somnolency of Hongkong. $3:42 per snek: American Straight, $3.35 ing notes:

Some recent statements in the Hong At the appointed bour 1 made my 40,000.00

kong Press with regard to child-slavery appearance in his consulting room. With per sack; Shanghai Flour 2nd, $3.36 per

Sugar.-Market firm. 50,572,94 in the Colony furnish a striking com a rapidity that astonished me he inserted mentary on the oficial replies to queries the familiar hollow, but horrible, snaky +41,800.68 in the House of Commons. For instance, rubber tube into my nostril, pushed it ad your Board trust that the suggested about the time when the Under Secretary up, turned & street corner within, and for the Colonies was in effect telling pressed the apex of the tube into what 1 appropriations will meet with your 's that there is no traffic in girls thought must be my brain, but which in approval.

in Hongkong, the Attorney-General of reality was merely the cavity behind the Poopla similarly afflicted will be A RECORD YEAR,

Hongkong was asking the Legislative car. Council to amend the law on the ground able to appreciate such an operation par- The year under review constituted

"Swallow!" record in the annals of the Company, and that "the evil resulting from the traffic formed with unusual energy.

in girls was so great that further powers "Where," I asked i in this connection I desire to emphasise are required for dealing with it."

Dr. Cantlie stamped his foot, In a case before the Hongkong Magis that the increased profit is not due to

ye to swallow when I say Swallow1" excessive charges, but has resulted through trates in December it appeared that not talking about a bird, ye fool! I want It was not his fault that the tube bad a greatly increased volume of business, Chinese woman had sold a girl (her own more particularly in the tourist line, and iter) to a man with whom she was to got out of adjustment, so after rummag live. The offence with which the womaning in blind alleys for a while inside my the new enterprises. in point of fact, was charged was not, the selling of the head I again felt the muzzle of the tube ewing to the low rate of exchange, and girl but the obtaining of 30 dollars by up against the wall of my car, and the the increased cost of provisions, wines. the false pretence that the subject of the doctor shouted "Swallow!"

I did so. At the same instant he press spirits and all commodities pertaining to bargain was unmarried. The Hongkong the business in which we are engaged, we Daily Pre declares that the traffic ined the large inflated bulb attached to the shall should exchange continue at the slave-girls goes on "like the selling of tube, with a force that sent a 100 mile-an present rato-be compelled in the near cattle and it is to be hoped that the hour typhoon into the cavity of my head. future to increase our prices somewhat. Colonial Office will no longer allow itself Motor cars had not yet been invented in This step has already been taken by other to be hondwinked by the attempts of those days, so I was at a loss how to establishments operating similar enter .prises to ours, but hearing in mind the the local administration, to draw a veil classify the, sensation caused; birt people of settlement in the fevered atmosphere | fact that we are carrying considerable an ugly and indefensible scandal. atceks, it is not our intention to advance prices until such time as these stocks are reduced.

HOTEL SHORTAGE: AN UP-TO-DATE

HOTEL IN KOWLOON.

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SAILORS IN CONFLICT. GRAVE DISTURBANCES IN HONGKONG.

The centre of Hongkong was thrown into turmoil on Friday night by violent proceedings between British and Ameri- of the affair it is best not to enter; a can sailors. Into the rights and wrongs magisterial investigation is to take place in due course so that for the time being the matter is sub judice. At any rate, confining ourselves strictly to facts, thirty-five American sailors belonging to the Wilmington were taken to the Police Station' and will be charged, when their vessel returns, from a ten days trip for which she is under orders.

The trouble began in the bar of the Hongkong Hotel, report hath it on the mach-vexed question-and one impossible

who have experienced similar pleasat of hotel bars-namely Who won the quart d'heures will agree with me that Wart" Another war. regretably enough, it can only be compared with the crunch between Allies: appears to have been gives out by a Ford when, in cranking started to settle the question, and in the it, there is back-fire and a violent tion of the engines. Having been blown scuffle several British sailors were in- The main building at Repulse Bay was

arrived armed with weapons of offence." opened on the 1st January last year, and

The shortage of hotel accommodation in up half-a-dozen times at as many sit jured. It is alleged that the Americans It would appear that, by a pre-concert- ita revenue dependel entirely upon the Hongkong 18most regrettable more tings it is to be presumed that if there catering business until the latter end especially do 1. rofer in our own caso to were any cobwebs inside my head they ed signal, an adjournment was suddenly of August, when the first extension, the handling of transient trafic, the must have been blown away, but as their

where another disturbance was "delibe- known as the east wing, and comprising situation having become so neute at times disappearance did not improve my hear made to the Astor House Hotel bar, twelve bedrooms, became productive. The that strangers have been landed in the ing other methods were introduced.

One day when the dear, bustling doctor rately fomented, demand for accommodation.at Repalse Colony without the means of ecuring Bay fully realised onr, expectations and even a night's lodging a state of affairs was leaning over me with a stethoscope prompted us to arrange for a further which is more or less applicable to all pressed firmly against my heart' I observed extension of nineteen bedrooms, which large town centres throughout the world. him shaking his head dubiously.

Anything wrong with the heart, should be ready for occupation by the With a view to eradicating this state of

doctor 1" 1st May in the current year.

affairs, your Board bave recently been in negotiation with the Government with a DEVELOPMENT OF REPULSE BAY.

view to acquiring a particularly fine site at Kowloon, and on completion of these negotiations, your Company's intention is to erect on the site in question an up-to date hotel with accommodation for five hundred guests.--(Applause). This new

The erection of the Repulse Bay Hotel has had the effect of opening up what I may term the opposite side of the leland, and this, coupled with the fine roads which have been and are, in course of construction, has been instrumental to

Well, I don't know; that's just what I am trying to find out." And with rapid a door and sang out: strides he walked across the floor; opened Manson, just come in here a minute, will y

Dr. Manson appeared, stethoscoped, con- suited with his colleague in a voice that

The police had been sent for from the despatched. At the same time, a naval Hongkong Hotel and a large posse was picket was organised at the Naval Yard. The police made several arrests and kept the crowd moving westward so that con- tact was soon established with the naval picket, to which many American sailors

submitted.

. The men taken to the Central Police Station were not detained; the Com mander of the Wilmington made himself responsible for their appearance at the. Magistracy at the conclusion of the vessel's trip, which was begun yesterday.

The police received reports af miner affraya between American and British sailors on Friday night in the vicinity" of the Sailors Home, and in Ship Street.

IMPORT OF OPIUM AND DRUGS.

a marked pleasant ful part of Hongkong to the fore as the modern lines, and provision will be made words aloud, and disappeared.

for fine assembly" rooms, gurage, and a What are re doing with yourself; Beade resort of the Orient. The theory roof garden, while apart from suites, each

taking much exerciso 7 that the south side of the Island wae room will have a self-contained bath-rooux Well, no, I row a bit and run up to unhealthy having been thus finally

and lavatory, and will, I venture to pre- exploded, applications from all over the dict, surpass anything at its kind in the the Peak early in the morning to make

myself a Far East for accommodation at Repulse Far East

Oh, I see, that explains it. How Bay have been forthcoming, thus afford-

It is estimated that the cost of this Ang ample testimony of the increasing new Hotel will be in the region of two many races did ye row at the regatta the

other day! popularity of that. Hotel. In this con million dollars. I may add, however,

Four." nection it may interest you to know this that no better medium for the develop

"And how many did you win?" Aren of Company has acquired an

"Two; the Chairman's Cap' and the

OFFICIAL EMBARGO "ANNOUNCED. approximately 650,000 sq. ft. of land ment of the Kowloon Peninsula than this

enterprise could be undertaken, while the Garrison Cup." at Repulse Bay, and it is the Company's fact that this Company is intimately

And how about your running up to.

It is notified in the Gazette for general intention to extend its accommodation associated with the future progress of the there from time to time as the demand Colony, is becoming more and more ro- the Peak; when do you do that?

"Early in the morning. I have to be information that after June 1st, 1021, the warrants. It is a source of gratification cognised and I think we can say within the office at seven o'clock, so I run up exportation from the United Kingdom to to your Directors to be in a position to dus modesty that we have left no stone to the flagstaff and back in about an hour the Colony of any opium (raw or inform you that the Repulse Bay venture unturned in our endeavour to fulfil our and Gifteen minutes before starting work. prepared), morphine, cocaine, ecgonine, has proved profitable from the outact.obligations as caterers to the public-inMy dear, young man, ye are a fool. and diamorphine (commonly known as (Applause),

which connection I would further say THE COMPANY'S MOTOR BUSINESS. that the thanks of all who have benefited Yo are absolutely crazy. Do ye think heroin), and their respective salts, and As you are aware, the Company has therefrom are due to our energetic and your heart can stand such a strain, run-medicinal opium, and any preparation, in that time and early in the morning containing not less than one-fifth per recently embarked upon the transporta hard-working Manager, Mr. Taggart, and ning up to the flagstall and back again admixture, extract or other substance The details of the above new undertak. tool. Te are not to. row in races any cent. of morphine, or one-tenth per cent. tion of patrons and garaging of motor his staff. cars a branch of business which the Com-

of your lightning trips to the Peak not be permitted under the Dangerous coumquence of its expenditure upon the pany has ever embarked upon have It was a crushing order for a young Drugs Act of 1920 unless covered by a pany found it necessary to undertake in ing-which will be the largest the Com-more. Yo may go out paddling, but none of cocaine, ecgonine or diamorphine will considerablo aspirant to aquatic honours, and with the certificate from the praper local author. Kolor you that, despite heavy dopre amount of forethought; am confident, rebelliousness that has always been in my ity, namely, the Superintendent of Im- Repulse Bay enterprise and I am pleased necessarily involved ciation, the Company's business in the however chant when the enterprise homily soul I disobeyed my kind doctor, and for ports and Exports. Such a certificate further materialises, the new Hotel will not only the next few years rowed in some twenty will contain a similar proviso ir case above connection has provided

be B credit the Colony, but will merit

races with varying fortunes, beating. source of profitable revenue. Arising out

session is desired, of the above, your Company deemed it a similar degree of patronage to that

of Consortium and other fame, in a race advisable to erect a garage at Repulso with which the Company has been favour among other celebrities, Sir Charles Addis e exportation to any other British pos

on the Soochow ergok, where my eyes Bay, which is now nearing completion,ed in the past. and this garage, with certain alterations

in

I now beg to formally propose that the the boat on that occasion compelled me fuff kindness. I was leaning back in a in the main buliding at Hongkong, will report and accounts for the year 1120 na to keep them glued to the back of E.C.P.. collapsible chair, and the good doctor was provide the Company with an up-to-date presented be adopted, and I shall be who was then as popular a Secretary of

Inside my mouth. Bervico station and show room accommoda. obliged if some shareholder will kindly rowing as he later became as Chairman groping with a strong right forefinger Open your mouth property, will ye." tion and thus enable the Company to be second that proposal, whereupon ques of the Municipal Council.

But my dear doctor was wrong in his

Iyawued as far as I could and felt bis very shortly in a position to greatly imtions on to the report and accounts may

There never finger right back at the roof of my mouth. prove its motor service and render facili-bes raised

Mr. P. C. POTTS seconded the Chair. diagnosis about my heart. ties for cheaper transportation- most

this day, thirty-three years after its ton- important factor in the future develop man's proposition and the report and anything wrong with that; and to Pressing the top of my head with his left ment at Hepulse Bay and the surround-accounts were adopted.

On the motion of the Hon. Mr. He demnation, it functions normally when hand he thrust his right forefinger with until something Inside broke. I gave a ing district.

climbing elevations of many hundred foet great force against the roof of my mouth As the outcome of our exploitation at confirmation of Mr. A. B. Lowe's on the hills round about Kwongfung. On tremendous yell. A door opened and a Repulse Bay, other Government sites have appointment as Director and the reelec the other hand, his diagnosis on the state young bespectacled Oriental appeared, been applied for and taken up for buildtion of Mrd. Beott Harsten and Mof my mentality hna found numerous up soiling inquiringly.

porters an years have passed by It's only this young fool who-yells ing purposes, and it now only remains Maitland as directors were approved.

this is Mr. for nothing. Here On the motion of Mr. A. 8. GUBBAY 19 was one of the last times I was in Sun Yat-sen who is learning the doctor

honours are even, for work to be pushed ahead on the now Toad through Wong-Nei-Chong Gap seconded by Mr. W. LOGAN. Mosera H

Dr. Cantlie's consulting room. He had

business. giving an alternative and short route to Percy Braith and JH Seth were re

But my eyes were too full of tears to and from the City, for speedy develop appointed auditors at a remuneration of taken an inordinate amount of trouble

with

and there was no end of his recognize, in the person to whom I was ments to ensue.

introduced, a Inture President of China. |~ {Continued ut foot of next column.)

(Continued at foot of next column).

Foox seconded by Mr. Ho Kwong the

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