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--COMPANY MEETING. HONGKONG, AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY. LTD....

An extraordinary meeting of the long- kong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., took place yesterday morning at the offices of the Company, Queen's Building Mr. D. G... Bernard presided and there were also present Mr. AHL White, Mr. T. G. Woal (directors), Mr. R. M. Dyer (chief manager), Mr. EL Hosie (secretary) Mr. R. Mattingley (solicitor), Mesars. Chau Siu Ki, H Leung, F. H. Kew, A. A. Gutierres. A. 0. Lang, T. E. Pearce, J. Arnold, P. M. N. da Silva, and A. A. Alves (shareholders). The meeting was representative of 3,776 shares.

The Cuiry MANAGER having read the notice convering the meeting and the details of the extraordinary resolution.

The CHAIRMAN said:-Gentlemen,-As shown in the notice which has just been read by the Company's Chief afanager. this meeting has been convened for the purpose of increasing the capital of the Company by the issue of 10,000 further shares of the comical value of $30 each. Sixty thousand of these shares are to be offered to existing shareholders in the ratio of one new share for each old share that they hold and at a premium of $10 share. The Directors are given power to dispose of any of the new shares not taken up, and also of the unised. 80,000 new shares in any manner they think t There will thus be raised additional faids which the Company will employ

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Mr. George Lanshury, Socialist M.P.

ing of the Company held on the 30th of MENTAL, PHYSICAL, AND MORAL March-mat-In-view-or the crease of capital it has been necessary to alter the Articles of Association, because Article 17 at present provides that no member for Bow and Bromley, who said in Par may hold more than 4.000 shares. We lament recently that the unemployment must, therefore, alter that amount by dole ruining young men between 19 and Increasing it proportionately to the in- 25, spoke last month on "The Tragedy of creased capital. The first of the resolu- the Dole' at na Aldwych Club luncheon tions set out in the notice of this meeting in the Connaught Rooms, Great Queen" effects this object by substituting a new street, W.C. Article for Article No. 17. I do not He said the physique of the nation was think there is anything further with suffering severely. The proportion of re- which I need dent.but if any share-jections of men for military service owing holder would like to ask questions or to physical inferiority was something to seck any explanation, I shall be pleased fill "everybody with dread for the future. to endeavour to "answer such questions and. give such explanation to the best of my ability. If no questions are asked or you approve of the alterations in the explanation sought, I shall assume that you approve of the altérations in the Articles of Association na presented, and will thereupon propose the resolutions .re. garding the same, which are set out in the notier convening this meeting.

There were no questions.

The CHAIRMAN proposed that the re solution be passed as an extraordinary resolution."

Mr. CHAU S Kx seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously.

The CHAIRMAN: Another extraordin ary general meeting will be held, gentle. men, on Tuesday, June nil, at 11 o'clock, at which your presence is requested. This further meeting is called for the purpose of . cor.frming as special r solutions, the resolutions just passed: That in all the business, gentlemen.

THE JAPAN EARTHQUAKE. WHAT THE OFFICIAL STATISTICS

"REVEAL.

Socialist as am. I don't want the „future of this country to depend on people who have not proper physique and proper morale. Whether you are capitalist, Socialist, or workman, you cure sufficiently for one another and for the future of the country to desire that its people should grow up physi. cally, and morally strong.

Specially tragic was the lot of uti married women between the ages of 35 and 45. Nobody seemed to want them and they were treated as a burden.

The positive fact is that we spend millions of pounds educating children, then tumble them into the labour mar- ket or to walk the streets, while at 18 they draw the dole.

EDUCATION FAILURE

"I appeal to you to say whether it is worth while to spend millions on "ele- mentary education unless we endeavour to get more out of it than we are get- ting to-day. Children cannot get a fair chance.

It was impossible to measure in pounds, shillings, and "pence, the deterioration in character involved in the present system Mr. Baldwin had advocated the develop ment of the Empire as a pew market in which we should sell our goods.

I say not a word against that. I want to see a true Commonwealth of the British Dominions and more commerce between us. With new demands spring- ing up for wheat in countries which did not know bread. a few years ago, there may be a scarcity of wheat in the near future.

We are advised to send people thou- sands of miles to grow this food. That may be a good or bad thing, hut there ase between 300.000 and 400,000 able- bodied young men unemployed in this country and "miles and miles of land gractically uncultivated around all our great towns. Why send men to Austra in when they might cultivate this land

it better to pay ʼn man 18s a week to

The latest volume of the Financial and Economic Annual of Japu- work anhually published in English, by the Japane Department of Financis of special interest because it covers the year following the rent earthquake and re- veals the effects of this disaster upon the country's financial and business operations. We are told that great na was the damage caused by the catas tropba it did not shake the sound economic and industrin foundations of Japan because the devastated area was an administrative and consuming centre, a centre of foreign trade, rather than The main centres producing centre. of industry fortunately were unaffected by the catastrophe. But the effect of this appalling disaster upon the country's finances could not be otherwise than ex- tensive and severe. The country's export No Empire had ever persisted "when trade suferis greatly, but imports the people at its centre forgot how to till actually inerted with the inevitable the land. Masses of British people were result that the adverse balance of the now living on kinemas and the dole. trade of the country for the year of the The land was going to ruin and masses earthquake (no less a sum than yen of men were also being ruined mentally, 531,000,000) was greater than it had ever physically, and morally. been before. The tables of Foreign trade values show "an even larger adverse balance of trade for 1921-namely yea 640,157,000.

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The earthquake occurred at a time of the year when Japan is usually exporting more than she is importing, and the destruction of stocks, especially the burning of large stocks of raw silk,. cotton yarn and cotton fabrica, inevit ably had a disastrous effect on the trade Latistics of the country. Even the trado of Japan with China abowed a large adverse balance at the end of the year, whereas the reverse is usually the case. In the case of France the "excess ex- poris" declined from about sixty million yen in 1923 to three million yen in 1923. The balance in favour of export to the United States was also reduced by Forty million 'yen. On the other hand, the countries whose trade balance is in variably on the other side such as British India and Great Britain show ed a much larger excess of importa than ever before. In every ear," saya the official statement, excess exports dwindled while excess importa twelled," But the country's revenues, nevertheless, were fairly satisfactory showing indeed, what appears to be a substantial increase over the revised estimates for the year, though we are told that a drop in inxes consequent on the disaster renched 130.000.000 yen compared with the original estiuates." It must be said of the volume that while the tables of statistics are obviously of the greatest value to foreign students of the finuacial and ecourunic conditions in Japaa, its vals would be much enhanced if the

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