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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

Tal.. Central: 239.

SOLE AGENTS FOR

7, Queen's Buildingu.

BELL'S UNITED ASBESTOS CO. LTD..

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THE MYSTERY OF FORTUNES."

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 10TH,

WORLD THEATRE.

HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.

CONTRACTORS FØR

CIVIL ENGINEERING AND BUILDING WORK OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS.

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Specialists in Reinforced Concrete Foundations and Structures for Factories, Godowns, Wharves, Bridges, Piers, &c.

Bole Licensees for Hongkong and China of the Franki" Patent Compressed Concrete Piling System...

Enquiries to HEAD OFFICE :

ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD.

Telephone Central 4581 (Two Linga). –

PIANOS FOR SALE OR HIRE.

T. 4848.

TSANG FOOK PIANO CO.,

No. B, DER Vav Roar Central (Entrance Ice House Street)

COMPANY MEETING. SIMPLEX PLASTER CO., LIMITED. The first annual meeting of shareholders ia the Simplex Plaster Co., Limited, was hell yesterday afternoon at the office of the Company. Powell's Building. Dés Voeux Rond. Mr. D. H. Blake presided.

After the Secretary had read the notice convening the meeting.

The CHAIRMAN said: Gentlemen,-The Report of the Directors and the State- ment of Accounts for the year 1921 have been in your possession for some time,. and will. as usual, with your permais. sion, take them as readi

Your Directors regret that, the results of the year's working.have not been ns. favourable as anticipated when the Com pany was formed. The loss that has been sustained is, however, comparatively. small, and has been caused by a series of events which could not have been anticipated by the General Manages s

You will note the balance sheet that the land is put down at cost viz: $14.000, Mr. Wong Kwokt Shen shortly after he bad acquired the land for the Company, received a tentative offer for it of $120,000, and states that now it is probably worth at least $60,000, so that the $14,000 appearing in the balance sheet may be taken as a very conservative valuation.

The assembly of the machinery was completed the latter part of May and the factory started operations the rat week in June so the period of opera- tion from the date the machinery started working to the end of the year is only seven months, instead of a full year. As this year is the first of the Company's activities, the comparatively heavy or

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COAL

TSINGTAO.

ganization expenses and expenses incurred JAPAN FORMOSAN AND in securing desirous connections and per sonnel is a burden which will not materi. ally effect the Company in the future.

When the Company started operations. the General Managers anticipated finding it necessary to work the plant day and

night to fulfil the large contract for pla SUZUKI & CO.,

LTD.

COAL DEPT.,

Tel. 0). 484 & 459.

ter which had been made with the Kow. loon Tong Company. However delay was experienced by the Kowloon Tong Com- pany in securing sufficient sites an which to build and they have not been able to complete the number of houses antici pated. Plaster was supplied for approxi- mately forty houses instead of one hun-China Bailding, 1st Floor. dred and sixty-six houses which the Kowloon Tong Company anticipated finishing by the end of Decembor last. If this contract for plaster had been com pleted your Directors no doubt would have had a much more favourable bal- ance sheet to present. However, ninety odd houses have how been completed and fifty of these will be ready for plaster. within the near future. The major por- tion of the benefits which the Company will derive from this contract will, how. ever, accrue to the Company this year?

HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.

A few months after the plant started operations, our plaster expert, whose scr- vices had been secured at considerable expense to the Company, Lemme found is necessary to leave the Colony. His departure enused delay in the deve lopment of the Company's export busi- ness, the intricacies of which can only with be properly accomplished by one considerable experience in the manufac- ture of

However, it Hypsta products. gives me pleasure to report that the Com- pany has since secured another expert, whose experience in gypsum industries even surpasses that of our former plant manager, and we hope this year will see our export trade firmly established.

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I have pleasure to further report the establishment of a department for the.. manufacture of ornamental fibrous plas ter under the departmental management of Professor Ciro

who has beer in dae of the Universities at Rome, and who is thor oughly informed with all the details per taining to this industry. The Company has established workshops for this de- and has partment at Ngau Shi Wan, already received contracts for ornamental plaster work from several architects and from one of the largest local shipping Your Directors have every. companies.

Professor Tavarell

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

ARRIL 9, 1925. Hongkong and Shanghai

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To place totion of

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CANTON—No. 17, Teu Yuen Ha Kai. „

Serve Fund 90,000.00 SIMPLEX PLASTER Co. LTD.

To place to

Dividend Account

100,000.00

The amount at Credit of Proft and reason to believe that this department Loss Account for the year ending Decen

grow to considerable will be greatly bonenein proportions and ber 31st, 1924, is $540,704.55 and, after to the Company. deducting interim dividend paid on August The General Managers in conjunction 20th, 1924, amounting to $101,333.80, sub- with the plant manager have recently de- ject to audit, the General Managers and Committee will at the forth- signed and made a machine for the manu Consulting facture of what is commonly known as coming aaaual meeting of the Company "sheet rock" This is large flat sheet to be held on Monday, the 27th April,

1925,

recommend the balance of profits: of gypsum plaster with asbestos, paper covering, in thick by 24in. wide and to be allocated as follows:- from 19 to 1s feet long. This will no doubt prove exceedingly satisfactory for Chinese types of houses owing to the cheapness of the material itself and its grout adaptability. Instead of plastering internal brick walls of Chinese dwellings, lic. wide wood furring strips placed

24in. apart and extending from floor to

to ceiling are nailed directly to the brickwork. Shest rock slabs are then nailed to the furring strips and the vertical joints be- tween the sheets are covered with small metal or wood beadings. Paint or colour wash can then be applied to the exposed surface of the sheet rock, and the final result is a beautiful panelled room at a much less cost than if native plaster were used.

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There is a considerable amount of pro- spective business, for the Company to be bad in the Colony in connection with the new buildings now under constraction, and several large contracts for plaster work have already been promised to the Company through the General Managerd This, together with a fair proportion of the other available work to be had and

To write off from Godown -Equipment Account ........ To pay a Final Dividend of 80 cents per share on 170,000 old shares

To pay a Final Dividend of 77 cents per share or 30,000 bonus shares

To pay a Final Dividend of

18 cents per share on -398,247 new shares and carry forward to new

account

7,452.1.

*138,000.00

23,100.00

71,324.48

11,489.76

$439,350.05

Mr. C. B. SHANK moved that during the absence of Mr. C. E. H. Beavis from the Colony, Mr. D. H. Blake act on his behalt as Director.

Mr. E. D. SHANK seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously.

the development of our export business, Mr. Wong Kwox BHUE proposed that will enable the Company, no donht, to the Hon. Mr. C. Montague Ede and Mr. place before you next year a bighly satis-E. D. Shauk be re-elected Directors. factory report.

I think I have now touched all the paiuta

which you require informa upen tion, and I now beg to propose that the report and accounts, as presented, be adopted and passed. When this has been seconded, I shall be pleased to answer questions from shareholders to the best of any ability.

Mr. E. D. SHANK seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously.

"(Continued at foot of neck Column.).

Mr. CHAN PEK Cats seconded, and this was carried.

The CHAIRMAN moved that Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews be re-elected auditors.

Mr. E. D. SHANT seconded, and the motion was carried.

Those present were: Mr. DH Blake (Chairman), Messrs. Chan Pek Chun, C. B. Shank, E. D. Shank, Wong Kwok Bhuen (Directors); Messrs. S. FL Lang ston, Mak Tat Huon and A. R. F. Bayon

WE HAVE PLEASUER IN ANNOUNCING THAT WE HAVE OPENED A DEPARTMENT FOR

ORNAMENTAL FIBROUS PLASTER WORK UNDER THE PERSONAL DIRECTION OF

PASSION TAVARELLI PROFESSOR CIRO

TENDERS SUBMITTED TO QUE OWN DESIGNS," OÈ TO THE DESIGNS OF ARCHITECTS. QUOTATIONS FREE OF CHARGE.

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