NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
WTM
NOTICE."
7′′E have from this day removal pur Ofices to Non Road Central (Top Boor, Messrs. Anderees Meyer & Col
N. MODY & CU
Hongkong, 1st February, 194
WISEMAN, LIMITED."
[31.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Transfor Ruler of the Company will be olol from FRIDAY the 10th of February to TUESDAY the 11th February 1922, bo h days inclusive, during which peris no tranfers of shares can be registered.
By Onlar of the Board of Directors,
D. K. KHARAS.
Secretary.
Hauskang. lat February, 1991,
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THE GREEN ISLAND QEMENT
CO., LTD.
THE THIRTY THIRD
ORDINARY
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Buildings, Chater Bond Victoria, Hongkong, on THURSDAY the 16th day of February 1992 at 11 o'clock in the forenoon for the purpose of roceiving a Statement of Account and Report of the Directors for the ending 91st December 1981, and declaring Your
dividend
A
The TRANSFER BOOKBɑf the Company
ELLA HONGKONG DAILY PREJS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY AND 1991.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
PART
a
B.
PUBLIO ZUCTION.
DARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MUNDAY, the 6th day of February, 1931, at 3 pm, at the Ofices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Elis EXCELLENCE THE Governor of ens Lot d OROWN LAND on new read from Gap Road to Bowen Road in the Colony u. Hongkong, for a term of a years with the option of be renewal at a GROWN RENT to Bred by the Sarveyor of His MAJESTY tu Kisa, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Inland Lot No. 2565. ¦ Registry No.
Locality.
Boundary Kararamente.
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NOTICE
ཀ
Abosse
Annual Rental.
Upact Price.
| ES,000; 192:19,575
1319
Q. HONKEY having resigned · cossos
will the CLOSED frning MONDAY the 5th Mto sign on babsit of blais Company from
February 1923, until THURSDAY the 16th Fahrany 1922, bath it ys inclusives.
"By Order of the Board of Director, SHEWAN, TIMES & CO., General Managers Hongkong, 1st February, 1912
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HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
date."
THE UNION TRADING CO. LTD. Hongkong, let Febuary, 1929.
[308
HONGKONG HOTEL".COMPANY
LIMITED,
NXTRAORDINARY
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an GENERAL MEETING OF THE AB VE COMPANY wil be held at the HONGKONG BOTEL Fedder Struft Victoria in the Colony of Hong korg on WEDNESDAY the first day of February, 1923, at noon for the purpose of considering and, if thought f, paming the following Resolutions as Extraordinary Resolu. tiena namely
No
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the CITY HALL Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 18th. day of February, 1993, * Noow, for the purpose af receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a statement of accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1921.
the
The REGISTER of SHARES of Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, th. February, SATURDAY, 18th. February, 1922, (both days inclusive, during which perind no transfer of abares can be registered.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that
#11 EXTRAORDINARY MEET ING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the BONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION will be held on the day and at the place aforesaid immolitely upon the termina ion of the Ordinary Yearly Meeting for t`s purpose of considering and if thought fit
passing the following resolution, viz!-
of
That the Directors of the Hongkong & Sanghai Banking
heroby requested
•be and ways
on
Are
behalf of the harsholders of the Car
the Corporation to take the steps neemanry for the introduction of an Ordinance into the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hongkong.nl for the enact
out of the same by the flover of Hongkong with the advics sad conueritof the Legisli iva the amendments
INTIMATIONS
ST. DAVIES DATİ
IT is proposed that Be RevD's Day should A. be celebrated by a Dinner at which Captain EVANS .C. D.8.0., 3., supported by Bir WE REES DAVIES ETC. will preside..
Will all Welshmen in the Colony kindly communicate ith the undersigned, sa soon si possible to that the meséŭrary strangements may be considered P
D. J. LEWIS Messra, Johnson, Stokes & Master) |
Prince's Building. Hongkong, 31st January, 1922.
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HUMPHERYS ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY LIMITED.
N THE
INTIMATION
CHAMPAGNE
The Edgar Warwick Comedy. Co. open · their season at the Theatre Royal to- night with Mr. Somerset Maughan's play The Circle" which has med with great success in London and New York.
There are 4,107 foreigners resident in Peking, according to the Census furt completed by the twenty police districts in and adjoining the city; 2,829 of the foreigners are men and 1,881 are women,
that nothing will, stop its continued growth. There has been a wide pro- Paganda among the working classes to this end, and they have become well indoctrinated with what one of the circulars of the Seaman's Union in Hongkong recently called the prim ciple of self-determination.""
They have yet to learn, as the workers in many de ST. MARCEAUX & CO. | Western countries have had to learn, by very bitter experience, that "self-deter- mination is not a practical policy in economic affairs, and that wages cannot Owing to cable interruptions, ordinary soar according to the wishes of the private telegrams are not being accepted worker. In a dispute such as that which for the Philippines at present. Govern- now locally prevails arbitration offers the inent tolegrams and urgent telegrams hie only practical solution, and this is only accepted for transmission gid Japan and. possible if both parties to the dispute are Bonin. amanable to reason and common sense. The Seamen's Union have put themselves
REIMS
Vintage 1911.
(Guaranteed)
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ORDINART "ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOL- DERS IN THIS COMPANY will be held at the Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong, on SATUR DAY, the 4th February, 1913, at 1.30 am, for The finest vintage, wine since wholly in the wrong by rejecting arbitra
purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a statement of Accounta
ending 31st December 1921
the
for the
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from the 15th Januar to the th February (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered
JDEN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hongkong, 1th January, 1992.
as
∙1984...
Champagne de St. Marceaux
& Reims, is considered one of the finest Champagnes produced It invariably figures in the Menus at State Banquets, Civic functions, T-ORDINARY MEETING OF LAND Regimental Dinners; and is served
The C. Daily News reports that inquiries are proceeding in connection tion, and at the same time studiously with the disappearance of an office bay abstaining from furnishing such facts and formerly in the employment of the figures as might seem to justify the trans Standard Oil Co., who after absconding parently unreasonable demands they is believed to have pocketed bank orde mako. They have resolved on an attempt to the value of $20,000. to gain their enda by force, majeure, Failure to bring the shipping trade of Among local residents who left by the Hongkong and the neighbouring ports to Aadhar for London yesterday were Mr a standstill, by the strength of their own and Mrs. A. F. Crook and Mr. J. H. organisation, has led them into mislead. Goodban, Mr. G. L. Sandes, who has or intimidating kindred labour been in charge of the Mercantile Bank organisations to join in the strike against of India during the absence on leave of "the bloated capitalist" as represented Mr. N. C. Wilson, loft for Singapore. by the shipowner, This week we have
10g
seen the scope of the strike extended by
J
THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO, LTD.. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. HE AND SECOND
Mr. G. D. Lucas, Senior Warden of ... HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company Union Building, on in all the leading Social and Sport-colios who work cargo on the ships, and week in distressing circumstances the the inclusion of the tally men and the Mines, Federated Malay States died last TUESDAY, February 7th, 1822, at 13 O'Clock NOON, for the purpose of receiving a Report
there is talk of the coal coolies and others cause of death being two shot wounds in being induced to follow their example. the head. There is no telling, indeed, where the Civil Service of the Malay States for Afr. Lucas, had been in the mischievous advice of the intransigeant nearly twenty years, and returned from strike agitator may lead unless these leave on June 17th, 1921. developments are promptly arrested by stern Government action.
of the Directors, together with a Statement ing Clubs. of Great Britain, Europe of Accounts, declaring a Dividend and electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company wil do OLUSED from January 24th to February 7th, 1922, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors, JOHN ARNOLD, Secretary. Bongkang, 14th January, 1922.
0) "That the Autho ised Capital of the
Company
(which is now $3,500,000 "consisting of 250,000 shares of the Inominal value of $10 each-whereof $219,300 shares have been ismed) ba
increased from $2,500,000 consisting THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF "aforesaid to $1.000 (consisting of
* 600 000 shares of the nomical las of $10 each) by the creation of 210,000 additional shares of the nominal value
of $10 each and a from date of inafter montioned) Ba allotment for divided and in all other "respecta pari pass with the shares constituting the Company's present "issued Capital. (2) That 109,650 shares he offered (in the Proportion of one new share for every
+
& GODOWN CO, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
America, India and the Colonies.
230
SOLE AGENTS -
A
THE THIRTY-FIFTH ORDINARY HOLDERS will be held at the Ofoes of
ANNUAL MEETING SHARE MESSRS. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD. on FRIDAY, February, 10th, 1990, at 11. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts for the year ended December 31st
1922
ny them respectively; to the persona
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company of the confirmation of will be date the boog
CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, this Resolution Spin Resolution are registered in the Company's Share February 1st, 1923 to February 10th, 1922,
"both days inclusive. Register as the holders of the mid 18, -300 aliares at a premium of $5 pors share
By Order of the Board of Directors and so that on allotmest tha nominal
W.S. BROWN, Secretary amount due in respect of such 109,680 sharea plus the said premium of 35 per
Hengi.org, January 26th, 1929. "shere shall ko payabla as fellows Am'mint pay Amant pay.
ante in.
ablo in respect of
Council thereof, to effect under which the pecessary to the Ordi
Ordinances Corporation is incorporated and sarrying on business to as to allow of the diony nota inane of the Corporation wing increased to $20,000,000 (being the amount of the present up capital of the operation) and to modi', the existing requirements as regards Date of the deposit of security in rupeet of its nota Paymeet ingues in such
(n).10
manner
to relieve the Corporation fro the. necessity of keeping with the Crown
respect of
the nominal
value of each
share.
Agoats or with Trustees appointed by the 15 March 1929 33
12y of State coin or bullion as
15th Augt, 1922 $3
the premium on ench share.
Total
32
$5
32
12
.35
B5
30
$15
(1297
THE KOWLOON LAND & BUILDING COMPANY LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
THIRTY THIRD ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Company's Offices Victoria Buildings on FRIDAY 10th February 1922, at 12 o'clock neos for the purpose of the Report of the Directors together repering the
the Statement of Accounts for the year "aad farther that until such time as the ending 31 December 1921.
REGISTER of BHARES of the Com "said 109,650 shares shall be fully paid
against any part of the ordinary 15th March 1923 $4
note issue and to give the Corporation the option of securing such pation of the same
as is required to be secured by the deposit
fat the option of the Corporation) either
of coin or of securities approved by the Secretary of State.
(b) to relive the Corporation of the obliga 1jon keep as each of its establishments an amount of coin or bullion equal in valas to 1,3rd. at least of the notes issued from such establishment and actually in circulation and
discretion of 120 leave such matter to the
Corporation.
allel to allow the Corporation to keep por- tions of the coin or hallion required to be deposited with the Colonial Fecretary and the Colonial Treasurer as security against its excess note iwas (riz: the issue beyond $20,0.0,00) in places outside the Colony where its notes are issued to such amounts and subject to such conditions may be approved from time to time by the Governor
By Order of the Court of Directors.
AG STEPHEN,
Chief Manager,
(879
Hongkong, 24th, fannary, "1720,„
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY. NONSIGNEES of Cargo for Hongkong per 6.8. "JEYPORE" ne bomby notified that owing to the strike of Cerzo ed Wharf Coolios,
für Hongkong will be carried ou to. Shanghi
ghi and landed at that part. Coulegaeon are therefore recommended to make tho zecers- ary" arrangements respecting usu-nara etc. accord ngly. The cargo wil be returned to Hongkong immediately conditions at this port became settled.
cargo
-PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM
MACKINNON MACKENZIE & CO."
Agents. Hongkong, 1st February, 1922,
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NOTICE TOS SIGNEES
NAVIGATION COMPAN
CONSIGNEER of
cargo for Hongkong will be carried on
to
Shanghai and landed it that port
Consigrees ne
éto
bocome sted.
MACKINNON MACKENZIE & CO.
Agente. Hongkong, 31at, January, 1:22.
[314
a?
$10
"Fares, only rank for dividend
paid up thereon to the full
• value ($10) thereof, and that
transfer of shares can be Registered."
By Order of the Board of Directors,
MOWBRAY 8. NORTHCOTE. Secretary to
S. WATSON CO. LTD.,
Wine & Spirit Merchants,
ESTABLISHED 81 YEARS.
TELEPHONE 618.
It will be seen from 14 advertisement that the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank ing Corporation is eceking an amendment of the Ordinances under which the Cor poration, is incorporated and carrying
on business to as to allow of the ordinary note issue of the Corporation being in- creased to $20,000,000 (being the amount of the present paid up capital of the Corporation) and to modify the existing requirements, as regards the deposit of security in respect of its note issues.
The difculty in dealing with the situation lies in the ignorance of the mea and their leaders. They do not realise the extent of the injury they are & inflicting on the business interests of their own countrymen. By paralysing the shipping trade of the coast they are rendering idle not only a great concourse of workers whose livelihood is gained by the movement of cargos from shore to ship or ship to shore, but of thousands in the interior who perhaps have never seen a big ship in their lives. Nor doos His Honour Charles Sumner Lobingior. the injury and there. If the shipowners Judge of the United States Court for are compelled to pay extortionate wages, China, has tendered his resignation us they will naturally seek to recoup, them- Legate of the Ancient and Accepted Scot- selves by increasing the cost of transit itsh Rite of Freemasons for the Jurisdic- for passengers and cargo. It is the tion of the Philippines to accept an elec general community, which pays, and in tion by the Sovereign Grand Lodge of this instanco quite possibly by permanent the Southern Jurisdiction of the U.S. a loss of trade. In other words, the like position as Legate of the Bodies in
are jeopardising by
the Jurisdiction of China under the insane behaviour the trade of the Leigh bouring provinces on which the live lihood ef many milliora of their coun position. trymon depend. If there was a proper appreciation of this fact on the part of the strikers themselves, or even on the part of the authorities at Carton under whose wing the strikers are sheltering, it is inconceivable that the dispute would
HONGKONG OFFICE: 104, Da Vaux RD., C. LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLET STRENT, Z.C.
The Daily Press.
In
HONGKONG, FEBRUARY 2ND, 1992. !
THE STRIKE.
A STAGE has now been reached in the
29
strikers
their
20
Governing Grand Lodge. He succeeds. the late Dr. John Reside Hykes in this.
merchant of Shanghai, has been elected Mr. C. R. Burkill, a prominent British
Vice-Chairman of the Good Roads Move- moct of China. A campaign for funds they aball, vis a vis the said 219,800 puuy, will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY Seamen's "Strike when it is perfectly not have been forced into arbitration build a short model. road.. Engineers and members netted $33,000 and 11,000, Sat February to FRIDAY, 10th February, obvious that drastic measures by the many days ago. If the men had remain will be sent out to survey a road from members. $10,000 will be employed to "proportion to the ratio, borns by the both days inclusive, during which period no Government are necessary if the irres ed in Hongkong to fight out the question | Shanghai, to Hacgchow, sa soon as wen-
ponsible strika agitators are to be the strike would probably not have lasted ther permits, prevented from paralysing the whole many days, but a good deal of misplaced Roads Movement of China now are: Dr. The Hongkong Land Investment & business of the Colony.
We welcome, sympathy appears to have been extended c. T. Wang, Chairman, Mr. C. R. Bur- Agency Co, Ltd.
therefore, the issue yesterday by the to the men at Cantor, and those who General Agents for Secretary for Chiness Affairs of a sters have offered it will have only themselves surer; Mr. George E. Sokolsky, Honor- -
kill, Vice-Chairman, Mr. P. Chen, Trea- 8) "That the balance of the shares con.
warning to these irresponsible mischief- to blame for the permanent injury to #titating the Company's shissned "Capital be
be issued at such time or times,
makers that anyone who shall mislead the trads of Cantor and its hinterlandry Secretary; Mr. Wu Sud Executivo in such manner and upon such tarms
or intimidate any other person to strike which must inevitably accrue from the Secretary... conditions in every rospect as the
will be punished with the utmost rigour strike if it is not speedily terminated. ompany's Board of Directors may THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY of the law and be banished from the Colony. The beads and officers of all labour organisations aro warned that
"any of the said 109,650 shares which "shall not be taken up by the Company Shareholdera in manner aforesaid "be disposed of in such manner as the "Company's Board of Director shall
"think St
"docide"
(4)
That no Share older shall be entitled o any offer of a fraction of an addition- "al share in respect of any old share held "by bira." Bhool
the above Resolutioga ba pasand by tae requisi e majority, they will be submitted for confirmation as Special Revolutions to a SECOND EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING to be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL Pedder Street aforesaid on FRI- ›DAY the 17th day of February 1952 at 11 am for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, confirming such Resolutions as Special Besol, tions scoringly.
Dated this Twewirth Day of January, 1622
By Order of the Board,
H. N. BEAUREPAIRE.
Secretary.
2607
PREPAID
" WANTED " ADVERTISEMENTS
Letters are lying at this Office for Box OK, GS, EX, LM, LN, LR LT, LW, MA, MK, MZ, NB, NP, OG, PD,
The Kowloon Land & Building!
Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 23rd January, 1992,
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
[28€
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Transfer Books of the above Company will be closed from 28th January to 7th February 1922, buth days inclusive..
Dated this 16th day of January, 1922, By Order of the Borl GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD. Agents.
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they will be held entirely responsible for ¦ Addis, and Mr. B. F. Mayers left Shang- Sir Charles and Lady Addis and Misa any action on the part of their guilds, hai last week for Hankow. which means that they, too, will be punished and banished if they support
days.
or encourage the extension of the strike. Botanic Gardens for the mouth of Janu
The total rainfall registered at the We have frequently heard the Governary was 1.95 inch. Rain fell on eighteen ment condemned for, recognising the recent remarkable growth of -labour NATIONAL LOANS.
guilda in the Colony by official registra UBSCRIBERS to the National Loans of tion, but we think a justification of the the Third Year of the Republic (1914) and policy is to be found in the fact that it Fourth Year of the Republic (1916) are hereby has enabled the authorities to learn who notised that drawings for the redemption of the are the responsible leaders and so deat ahore Loans will be held this year as follows-
Drawing
of Fourth Year Loan with them in the terms of the latest pro- ($1,400,000) rodemption begins 12th clamation. So long as Inbour organiza April
tions act within the limits of reason and
4th
Fire has destroyed, the Kobe Customs House, a landmark in Japan. It was one of the oldest structures in Kobe, hay ing been built in 1879...
.
A Chinese servant, employed at 253, Queen's Road East, is reported to have absconded on Desember 27th with $250,
5th Drawing of Third Year Loan ($2,750,000) | common sense in efforts to remedy any the property of his master.
redemption begins 31st December,
The time and plate of the drawings will be substantial grievances they may have
COTTHO
The officers of the Good
A distressing motor-cycle accident oc- curred in Beach Road Singapore, last weck resulting in the death at the Gen-
the Borneo Company's staff. eral Hospital of Mr. L. S: Dunlop of The "de- ceased gentleman, with a friend, was proceeding on his motor-cycle and side- Both men were thrown out, the late Mr. car when a collision with a car occurred.
Dunlop receiving a nasty injury, from the handle of the cycle striking him violently above the abdomen, causing in- tornal injuries from which he eventually succumbed. The late Mr. Dunlop time out to the Borneo Company about 14. months ago.
Replying to the toast of "Our Guests" at the annual Ladies' Festival of The Star Chapter, No. 1275, at the Con- naught Roods, London, on November notified by the Ministry of Finance in dan such combinations cannot reasonably boUhinese Philosophy" to the Reading is a great and pleasant experience for me Mr. Kuo Fingh Ho will speak on 30th, Dr. Koch, of Hongkong, said:-It. PB, FG, PO, A
Ta order that redemption of the Fourth Year resisted by the authorities as unlawful; Circle at the Helen May Institute to to be present at a social gathering of TRAYED from 63, Robinson Road: A be fally releezed by the 6th and final drawing
Loan may be accelerated and that the Loan may but when one labour organisation, either day (Thursday), February 2nd, at 10.30 this description, for it is the first time White Ba'l Torrior DOG with Collar, and in 1923 according to the Original Schedule and by misrepresentation or intimidation, name "Mike" and above address engraved the Loan Regulations, it is proposed to have a induces other labour organisations to Rood Central.
ALIA. All are invited-ADVT.
are hereby notified Finder, Apply to H. P. WHITE 2, Des Yooxanely the 5th drawing($4,640,000)—due notice time that Governments responsible for, the the University of the Philippines, has Unfortunately, in that far-flung, outpost
that owing to the strike of Cargo and Wharf Coolios
Finance.
i are therefore réetmmand, d to wade- May. Apply Buxo. PB, c/o Daily proper date, namely, December 1925, it will also ed some controlling influence upon the that institution at an annual salary of' arrived, we do not admit the fair sex to..
TO LET-Sir Rosmed House, Peak: 1st. accordingly. The cargo will be returned to Press Office.
the neces-ary arrangements reipes ing in curance
Hongkong immediately conditons at this port
"Pesos 33,000. Dr. Benton took office a Masonic social gatherings, which is Since the Bevolution of 1811 we have year ago under a one year contract, with rigidly confined to the weaker sex, but" seen in all parts of China a very signi- the understanding that it would be ex- it is remarkably "pleasant to bo teated: ficant growth in Labour organisation on tonded for ten years if mutually satis at this hospitable board over which Western lines, and it has to be recognised | factory.
ladies shed their charm and beauty;"
that I have been present at a Masonic Dr. Guy Potter Bonton, president of
banquet graced by the presence of ladies, of which will be given by the Ministry at To extinguish the Third Year Loan at the
welfare of the general community exercis accepted a ten-year contract as head of of the Empire from which I have just
be necessary to have a supplementary drawing situation. of this Loan in 1924, duc notice of which will be DET H FIRM of Merchants require given. "
Accommodation, 4/5
Rooms.
F.A. AOLEN, Ground nor preferred, central location..
Inspector eneral of Customs. Write full part 'calars VICINITY, efo Daily Inspectorate General of Customs, Prea Office.
Peking..18th January, 1922.
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