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THE HONG KONG & WHAMPOA
DOCK CO., LTD.
NURDINARY YEARLY
INTIMATIONS.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LIMITED.
い
ANNUAL MEETING At
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 41sT ORDINARY TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Or SHARE- the MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS HOLDERS will be held will be held is the Office of the Offices of the Company, Sr. Gronor's CBATER ROAD, Victoria, Company, 2. QUEEN'S BUILDING, Hong BUILDING,
en WEDNESDAY Kons 31 MARCH, Hong MONDAY, Fong, on
of roriring n 1930, at NOON, for consideration of the the 19TH DAY of MARCH, 1930, Directors Report and Statement of at Noox, for the perpose Accounts for the Year ending Slat Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directers for the year ended 318T DECEMBIE, 1993.
Dxcxxxxx, 1929,
and The SHARE REGISTER TRANSFER BOOKS will be OLOSED From the 24rg to the 31 MARCH 1930, Both Days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
B. M. DYER,"
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 18th Mar., 1930, (9186
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
HE SECOND EXTRA RACE TWEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 2ND MARCH, 1950, Commecoing at $ 7.3.
The First Bell will be Eung at 1.30 r..
MEMBER'S ENCLOSURE Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
No one without Badge will be admitted to the Members Enclosure.
Dadges admitting Non-members to the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $2.00 for Ladies, are obtainable through the SECALTARY upen introduction by a Member, such Member to be responsible for payment of all Chits, &c.
Members' Badges admitting to Enclosure will not be on sale at the Race Course.
Members can obtain, upon application to the SECRITALY. Badges (limited to Two) for, the Free Admissio's to the Maber' Faslosure of Wives, Lady relatives and Friends. Names must be stated when applying.
Onno pretext will Children be permitted in their Enclosure during the Meeting,
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $1.00 for all Persons including Ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform ars admitted Half Price.
Bookmakers, Tio Tac Men, etc, will not be permitted to operate with. in the Precincts of the Boxe Kore JOCKEY CLUB during the Race Meeting. By Order,
91783
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
NOTICE.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S
f DEPARTMENT.
"N Order that a Complete List may Ozerint for Record, purposes,
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED. from SATURDAY, 8TH MAROH, 1930, to WEDNESDAY, 19TH MARCH, 1930, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co..
General Managers, [9056 Hong Kong, 20th Feb., 1933.
NOTICE.
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
tast the
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THIRTY-THIRD ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING in the of SHAREHOLDERS Company will be bold in the Company's BOARD ROOM, 2ND FLOOR, ALEXANDRA
WEDNES BUILDING, Hong Kong, on DAY, 10TH MARCH, 1930, at 3.50 r., for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the Year ended Dzczan 31st, 1999; electing Directors and Anditors.
Audit TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company, will be CLOSED From MONDAY, 110TH MARCH, 1930, until WEDNESDAY, 19TH MARCH, 1930, Both Days inclusive,
By Orier of the Board,
D. L. KING.
Secretary
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HE SIXTY-FIRST ORDINARY TOENERAL MEETING
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HONG KONG CLUB. NOTICE.
News and Views:
Among the passengers on the Em press of Canada leaving to-day is Mr. Walter : Hawker, who for some years has been managing director of Hong Kong and Shang-
to eircumstances without it being WEATHER REPORT.
tinker. with the to necessary Yesterday's weather report, fore-economic foundation of the much cast and remarks, issued by the larger interests represented by the
A mandate was issued on March Royal Observatory at 5 p.m.; import and export business of the
Colony. The purely domestic in-, appointing Dr. C. T. Wanghai Hotels, Ltd. Mr. Hawker has: stated:-
The anticyclone "remains station-terests are important, admitted-plenipotentiary Chinero delegate to ary over the Lower Yangtze Valley in fact, they are predominant to negotiate for the rendition of We and the depression over the Sea of Japan. Moderate monsoon will prevail along the S.E. Coast "of China and over the N. China Sea. Local Forecast-E. winda moderate; éloudy generally, some raio.
hai-wei.
those whose interests are wholly bound up in them, but Hong Kong
Walter Sue, of King's College, does not live on or by its purely obtained. Distinction in English at domestic activities. These are the Junior Local Examinatica held' by the University of Hong Kong in November 1929,
merely incidental to the much larger and important fact that the Colony is a free port whose pros- perity and progress depend upon The total output of the Kailan Min- the volume of trade passing throughing Administration's mines for the Take away the inward and out-week ending March 1 amounted to ward trade which is handled in this 92,8 tons, and the sales during the Colony, and the large and import-period to 94,891 tons. ant undertakings whose interests
BIRTHS. JACRSON-On March 0, at Ash
brooke Nursing Home, Sunder- land, to Mr. and Mrs. H. JACK.it. MCBRIDE-On March 11, at In- ternational Hospital, Hankow, to Paymaster Lieutenant-Com- mander and Mrs W. MCBRIDE-
sos-a son.
, son.
DEATHS. Cauz-On March 12, at the General Shanghai, CELESTE Hospital, (CHELLY) PINTOS CRUZ, aged 33, dearly beloved wife of J. H. CRUZ.
Roe-At Hertford, England, YAL
EBIE KATHRYN, dearly beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. RoE, aged six months. WATTON.On March 12,
at the General Hospital: Shanghai, WALTER GEORGE WATTON, aged
23.
The Baily Press.
and activities are purely domestic can close their doors and their books simultaneously.
But to turn back to the question of stabilising the dollar. At what
nt
Judge Hazlett of the Los Angeles Superior Court last week held that the California Gas Conservation Act is constitutional. This Act is designed to prevent wastage of gas and oil.
.:
No
Several earthquakes occurred at Freeport, Maine, last week. damage or casualties have been re- ported, although the people were considerably frightened and many are remaining out-of-doors in fear
now recovered sufficiently from his accidens to make the long trip
home. We understand Me, Hawker will be no longer associated with the Company over which he has presided, and it is unlikely that.
he will return to the Colony. His many friends will hope the sea voyage will hasten his complete. recovery.
The death is reported of Mr.. the Walter George Watton at General Hospital, Shanghai, on March 12. Mr. Watton had only been in the Far East for a short period, going in 1025 from Ports" mouth, England, to Hankow, where he took up the post of Sanitary Inspector to the British Municipal Council. In 1927 he was one of the unfortunates who lost his job over. night when Hankow was surrender- ed to a Chinese mob and came to Shanghai, where he found a post with the Health Department of the Shanghai Municipal Council. Mr. Watton leaver a widow and infant san, his only relatives in Shanghai.
ter. Mrs. Jefferson Cohn, were pre- sent when she died. She had been unconscious since Wednesday. Mrs. Bottomley, who was formerly Miss Norton, daughter of a Clapham contractor, went to Dicker about 38 President Samuel W. Stratton of years ago with her husband. She the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- was a strikingly handsome woman nology announced last week the in her youth... appointment of Dr. Karl Taylor to become president in his place. Dr. Stratton will become chairman of a newly created executive committee of the institution next July, it was
Bgure is it to be stabilised, and who is to atand the racket " The par al exchange means mint par-the intrinsic value of the coins of one country expressed in terms
Mrs. Bottomley, wife of Mr. of another when the same metal is There can
Horatio Bottomley, died on Febru- used as the standard.
Hailsham, Sussex. A tragic coin- be no par of exchange between
ary & at her home, The Dicker, near cidence is that Mr. A. H. Clapp, countries having different standards of after-quakes.
the estate steward, was accidentally of value, such as gold and silver.
Standing on some rocks, Chung shot dead while going through a In auch circumstances Auctuations
time that Mrs. Bottomley died. Editorial and Business Offices: 11, in the rate of exchange are depend-Kiu, a vegetable gardener aged 65. bedge on the estate just about the was fishing in a pool at the Ho Hops Bottomley would have cele Ice House Street. Tel. Centralent upon the price of silver. If a Shek village, New Territories, when brated her golden wedding on May 12. Night Editor (Wanchai Office): country uses silver as a currency,
he accidentally slipped, fell into the 16. Mr. Bottomley and his daugh- debts are discharged in that metal Tal. Central 4511
water and was drowned. The body London Office: 53, Fleet Street,
the price at which the commodity was recovered by the Folies and E.C. 4.
is selling in the market. Repeated removed to the Kowloon Mortuary. attempts have been made by coun- tries using both gold and silver Tess. currency to value one in terms of the other at a fixed rate, in order to prevent violent füctuation in the prices of the two metals. Bi- metallism, however, has always failed in practice, owing to the large production of silver and its THE DOLLAR AGAIN.
the unrestricted
appearance on on dollar world's markets, and countries with OUR recent comments
gold currency have been forced exchango have been described by a contemporary as both wrong and to take measures to restrict" or If short-sighted. We are accused of prohibit the import of silver. supporting an academic argument the Hong Kong dollar is to be which wholly ignores those interests stabilised on a gold basis, it will resident within this Colony-large be essential to control the move- and important companies conccrued meat of. silver into the Colony-a with domestic and retail trading, tiny island from which can be seen investments in property, and large the shores of the vast country with industrial undertakings. For the which it does business, upon which large interests settled and operat- it depends for its very existence as ing wholly in this Colony there is an economic unit, and a country only one viewpoint possible, name- whose national currency is silver.
HONG KONG, MARCH 10, 1930.
for this state of affairs is
between
A
stated.
Mr. Pepys in Hong Kong.
This day I take a wherry by Queen's Pier and so to Kowloon. But Lord how long it do take to attract their attention and then Between 23 and 30 men and they very slow to come alongside. women were injured, 13 from gun. And I rebuke the man sharpe shot wounds, when a mob of 600 When in Kowloon, I do marvel at striking hosiery workers attacked, the approach to the wharves whence, the ferry doth run and the private the home of Peter Marpone, & strikebreaker, at Philadelphia, last wherries, and to think so fair a
done for the better ordering unless. week. Marpone fired into a crowd town have so foul an ingetting. and pistols.
they dig down and make the stages which was armed with bricks, clubs. Yet it is hard to see what can he go around beneath the ground, as The King and Queen visited the fately tacy do at Piccadilly. Of London Hospital last week, and which, I speak to Mr. Robert Mac made a long tour of the wards and Whirter who taketh infinite pains operating-theatres, having many upon the welfare of Kowloon. But little talks with the patients. This he tell me that the costs be pro- was the first visit which the King hibitive, and moreover 1 fear it is has paid to a hospital since his over near the sea, which by zeepage illness. Their Majesties both take might wash the place away. But I a keen interest in the work of the doubt something will be done soon. hospitals.
Thence to the Peninsula where Mr. Prodgers mighty sharpe at me for The de-commissioned eruisers my telling of lazybones at Kowloon, American Des Moines, Chattanooga For, he doth aver, it is not the time G.880,000 at Portsmouth, N.H. The reverberation thereof that do irke and Cleveland have been sold for of the salutation but rather the Cleveland was built in 1901, the Des them, so that to sit in the Cafe- a normal displacement of 3,200 thereof at nuncheon, but he take Moines in 1002 and the Chattanooga teria is painful when the guns be in 1903. They are sister ships with fired. I did suggest I might judge.. toas: length 3,000 it., beam 44 ft. not the hint. So to Hung Hom, and speed of 18) knots.
But such a
Leaving aside questions of Im- DINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of, that of a stabilised dollar." We the Company will be held at the are told that, those dealing mainly perial policy, Hong Kong has two HEAD OFFICE, No. 6, DES VEUX with imports and exports to and valuable assets, and, two only. It ROAD CENTRAL, Hong Kong. WEDNESDAY, the 26 MARCH, from China can have no great is a convenient warehouse for goods 1930, at 2.58 2., for the purpose of concern in the question either entering and leaving South China, receiving the Report of the Directors together with Btatement of Accounts way; their hopes lie in China. It and it is an efficient clearing-house for the Year ending 31st December, is, the disastrous domestic effect of for the financial business associated the depreciated dollar which has with that trade. That the Free
and glad to se: everywhere the pos- ters of my play. But Lord! in The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
what strange places do they put Company will be CLOSED From the to be considered-and remedied, trade policy followed in regard to
We have been informed, says the 10 MARCH, 1930, To the 26 though our contemporary does not commerce, and the silver policy MARCH, 1930 (Both Days inclusive).
Central China Post that Paymaster 50me. Thence to a fair lawn with a building of wood thereby where I than to declare evading detail well suited to the economic cox-Lieut. Comdr. McBride has received meet many jolly rogues who do ply Shares can be Registered. daring which Period No Transfer of say how this is to be done other followed in regard to currency, are
that Hong Kong currency must be ditions which exist is proved by hack his motor-car from the Chinese me with strong waters and one Mr. put on a fixed relationship to gold. the progress shown in the prosperity authorities in Hankow. The" noti- Robinson give me of lettices a few
was sent through the M. Con- safely be consumed. By keeping the Colony's currency of the port. From the business Beation to take delivery of same head, mighty fine and such as may pinned to silver we are increasing man's point of view, this island sulate General. However, the coffin talk of whether they shall build & the cost of living, seeing our invest-is an integral part of China, and of the deceased student is still lying new pavilion, for or against, that ments depreciate, extending the it is in the best interests of those the vacant piece of land opposite I am fain to ghome by coach and ferry. My wife, poor wretch, vext the Dong Jen Hospital.
at my stopping so late, but I do gambling to which all business trad-handling the commerce of the port ing is now reduced, and adding, to that the economic gap
Mr. William D. Mitchell, U.S.stop her mouth with the Jettices the perplexities of business and British and Chinese territory ba Attorney-General, last week request which she do relish mightily. And company management. So, runs the kept as narrow as the geographic ed the Supreme Court of the United so to bed.
States to review the decision of Federal District Judge Morton of indictment. The suggested remedy distance which separates them. 84.23
togold dollar for Hong Kong would Boston in which he held that the Looking Back 25 Years,
The fourth race for the Governor's" the provisions of the Volstead Act. Cup for English-rigged cruisers. stabilise the dollar in some manner lead to exchange business being purchaser of liquor does not violate
Mr. Mitchell expressed the desire took place on Saturday. The wea not specified in detail, and so done direct between foreign coun
yacht (Haidee, now the winner) relieve those whose interests are tries and China, and it would not that this matter or settled forever tooer was very rough, and only one. wholly confined to the Colony from be long before a new commercial by decision of the highest Court.
went over the course, around Futau- the loss and anxiety now being and financial centre would spring
Twenty representatives of the man Island. She was sailed by up in South China. A gold dollar
Soviet Government, who arrived at Messra. Kew and Shepherd. Some In our previous comment on this would widen the narrow, distance New York last week in the White of the party on board were sea-sick subject we distinctly emphasised now separating this free port from Star liner Majestic, are being de--Hong Kong Daily Pren, March
the vast market it serves. British, tained at Ellis Island. The dele- 20, 1905. the fact that the present slump Japanese, American and German gates claim to have come to the Looking Back 50 Years...
4SIR,--There certainly seems hits many people very hard, but exporters would not convert their United States to purchase American" pointed out that the question is prices into Hong Kong gold dollars machinery through the Amtorg.
knowing their goods were destined Corporation-a body that was form very peculiar modus operanți fol- not one of individual profit or loss. for Chinese buyers. handling silvered to facilitate trade between loved even in the supply of water the colonists are entitled to, though currency Exchange would be ar Britain and Russia. The Corporact in the terms of the Charter. As The fact that certain firms or in-
a resident of Arbuthnot-road I bave dividuals have sustained a heavy ranged between them and Canton tiña, however, denics thix
Hong Kong's. services being dis
nat had a drop of water from the loss by the drop in the dollar ispensed with. Before long we should
The Brussels police have arrcated pipe for the last fortnight; whilst unfortunate, though it is probably see goods following the gold, Hong. the case that at some time many Kong being again eliminated as a the art-dealer, Gustave Daglio, of I observed daily in the premises of clearing-house for commerce. Then Uruguay, who is known under some bakadhura. in Queen's Road have profited considerably as a are the dangers-as we see them various names and is suspected of Central there is a continuous flow result of favourable exchange, when of stabilising the Hong Kong dollar being concerned in a series of of water from the pipe during the no suggestion would be made about on a gold basis, and in to other sensational robberies of pictures whole day, and a waste of it is also way could it be done. That there and other works of art throughout made by the carelessness of the THE NORD DEUTSCHER, LLOYD, the urgent necessity for stabilis are disadvantages attached to the Europe, including the theft of fifty servants May I, therefore, aak, in
BREMEN regrets to announce that owing to the fact that the 88 ing the currency of the Colony. present system nobody can deny, sketches by Hembrandt that took the emphatic Anglo-Chinese phrase, but of two evils we should surely place last year at the Madrid "How fashion this? Why, in the COLUMBUS bas been chartered The issue, however, is not one of choose the lesser. If, as we believe, National Gallery. Daglio is be name of all that is reasonable, n for this World Cruise by the RATKOND individuals, but of the whole com- a gold dollar would seriously shake lieved to have three accomplices, of section of the city should be de and Paris and the other at Berlin. The the residents are in all justice en- no permits for boarding or inspection munity. Certainly those whose the strong position Hong Kong has whom one was recently arrested at prived altogether for weeks for what can be issued..
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THE SECOND YEARLY DRAW ING of 20 DEBENTURES (1828 Issue $500. Each) of the HONG KONG OLUB, Payable on TUES DAY, the 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1930, will be held in the CLUB HOUSE at 11 O'CLOCK. A.M.. os THURSDAY, the 20TH MARCH, 1930.
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