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"ADVERTISEMENTS.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY

OF CANTON, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.) NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN

that the FIFTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at tha HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, HONG KONG, on FRIDAY, 29TH MAY, 1981, at 11 O'clock M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 81st DECEMBER, 1930,

and declaring Dividende, etc.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Bocisty, will be CLOSED from 117m MAY to 29rg MAY, Both Days inclusive.

By Order of the Board, PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager.

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Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1981.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMFANY, LTD.

(INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.) NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. Nthat NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the SIXTY-SECOND ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, Hoxe Koxo, on FRIDAY, 29rn MAT, 1831. at 11.15 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 3ist DECEMBER, 1930, and of declaring Dividends, etc.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

ORANGE

SQUASH

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1931.

WEATHER REPORT.

The weather report, forecast and remarks issued by the Government Telegraph Offee, Hong Kong, at 7.50 p.m. yesterday states-

A feeble depression is central Jover Koren. A depression appeara to be, forming to the SE. of the Loochoos. A depression is central to the West of Tourant.

Local forecast:-E. or parinble winds, moderate, fair to showery.

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BIRTH.

to Mr. and Mrs. FREDERICK J.

TRUE, a daughter.

* News and Views ⭑

Overweight,

Wife at Highgate Folies Court

| Nagging · Defined.

"Do you nag your husband" the He hit me on the jaw; I, hit him magistrate at Thames Police Court on the jaw. He hit mo, on the

SUMMARY OF NEWS

Latest Cables.

The Government and the Mili tary, authorities at Shanghai have

the consorship commenced

of cables?

Pago 9. The Egyptian Finance Ministry head with a pices of tin and I. F. T. Barrington-Ward,

allocated £50,000 for pro- hit him on the head with a 211h. |K.C.) asked a woman "You know has

paganda in connection, with noot Page 9. weight, Then he said, "Enough." what nagging is-a constant re-ton campaign.

petition of unpleasant truths."

2

zloped by Airplane.

The auditors in Dublin are now totalling the takings in the Irish Hospitals Derby Sweep which closed on Saturday. It is unofficial. ly tried that the amount is | £2,000,000.

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money invested in building societies is rather attractive in those days of high taxation and the uncertain returu on ordinary commercial shares. This has created something of a plethora of would-be investers, and in the circumstances many of the most important of the British building societies have though, it prudent to give lower interest rates on share capital reducing this from five to four-and-a-half per cent.

As for the future it would seem that expansion will not be so rapid. Tho acute stage of the housing shortage, which was so marked a His View-Halloo.

On the eve of the retirement of Tau-On May 19, ai Shanghai, feature of the whole of post-war

Europe, was passed in Great Mr. Guy Hargreaves, Master of Britain a year or two ago. It is the South, Berkshire, a fox which thought that the supply of new houses has renched the point where supply is equal to effective demand. This, of course, is only from the building society point of view, for almost all the house built with their aid are built for sale. There are, unfortunately, many people so poor that they are beyond the help

Mr. Angus Arthur Ferguson. ful service of a building society,

B.A., has been appointed Chiof and the problem of building houses for tenancy is held to be, rather

Fifty years ago there was start- Constable of Northamptonshire. Ha one for the Government or the General Ho Chien, after delivered, in a broken-down chapel in the is 27 years old, and is believed to municipalities. In any case, it is ing his edict, concluded in the Southern States, an organisation he the youngest police chief in believed that the day of the land-words of the Queen of Hearts, "I lord and tenant is passing and that must go back and see after some a nation of house-owners-the build-executions I have ordered." ing societies ideal-will take its

Win by Advertising. place.

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Ice Elonse Street. Tel. 30251,

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The Daily Press.

Hoya Kano, MAY 30, 1931..

WATSON ECO.20..

A NATION OF HOUSE OWNERS.

Make from

NEVER was there, a time when the

Company will be CLOSED from 11TH CALIFORNIAN ORANGES savings of quite small people was

MAY 10 29TH MAY, Both Dayı inclusive.

By Order of the Board, PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager.

Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1981.

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BRITISH TRADERS INSUR. ANCE COMPANY, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.)

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

This Squash is made from Ripe Fruit; Pure Cane Sugar and Aerated Water only is added, resulting in a Perfect Beverage.

of more importance in the coonomic structure of a modern country. Re- cognising this all governments are doing their utmost to encourage thrift. The great joint-stock banks of the United Kingdom will now open an account with only a few pounds and receive on deposit, and pay interest thereon, sume as low as twenty shillings. Other important organs in the thrift movement are the National Savings Certifientes,

ASBESTOS MOTOR-

BODIES.

ExTENIMENTS have for some time been made in England in the production of an entirely new type of motor-body. So far three of the most important motor manu facturers have carried out private tests, which have advanced stage and are believed to have been successful. As bodywork

reached

an

TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN A. S. WATSON & CO., the Post Office and Trustees Savings has become of prime importance in NOT that the SIXTY-FIFTH

ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING

of the Company will be held at ito

HONG KONG, on FRIDAY, 29ri MAY, 1931, at 11.20 AM.. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the "Directors and the Statements of Account to Blat DECEMBER, 1930, and of declaring Dividende, otc.

LIMITED.

TEL. 20438. TEL. 57139.

Banka, Municipal Banks, the the buying and selling of motor Friendly Societies, the Trade vehicles, this new development in HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, Aerated Water Manufacturers. Unions, the Co-operative movement, being watched with the kernest and the Building Societies. It was interest. The new material is of recently estimated that the total asbestos, the user which has sum due to the many millions of been made possible by introducing small proprietors of capital in these layers of other materials, to in- resiliency. forms of saving was approximately crease strength and £1,800 millions to £2,000 millions, Hitherto asbestos has been too in powerful feature in the economic brittle for such a purpose.

structure of Great Britain,

Since the Great War the growth been phenomenal, and this move of British building societies has

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 17 MAY to 29TH MAY, Both Days inclusive,

By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager,

[689

Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1991.

THE CHINA SUGAR REFINING CO., LTD.

(IN VOLUNTARY Liquidation),

NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN

that in pursuance of Section 187 2) of the Companies Ordinance 1911, of the GENERAL MEETING Company will be held in the HOARD ROOM of MerE, JARDINE, MATHESON

& Co. LTB, Pedder Street, Hong Kong,

on FRIDAY, the 29 Mar, 1991, at 12 NOON, for the purpose provided for in the said Beotion.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD,

JOHN FLEMING, CA..

Joint Liquidaton. Hong Kong, 20th May, 1031.

[769

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY

CLUB.

SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFINS AND AUSTRALIAN PONIES

above will CLOSE at NOON on THE List of Subscribers to the SATURDAY, 10TH MAY, 1981.

By Order of the Stewards,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

NOTICE.

A representative of a London newspaper was recently permitted saloon bodies made under the new to inspect one of the first asbestos

had been unsuccessfully hunted several times during the season, came close to him at his house at Shinhold, looked at him, and then walked slowly away.

Ill-timed Humour.

After playing attention to a nine- teen-year-old girl-and borrowing £1700 from her family an impostor at Stuttgart, in Germany, vanished He porsunded her to with her. take an air trip with him and a

woman whom he represented as his sister. They flew to Geneva, where' trace of them was lost.

Commenting on the ban on the use of " Alice in Wonderland” in the schools of Hunan, the Evening Nigger Heaven. Standard diarist presumes that

Thieves ransacked the residence of Mrs. F. Maguire in the French Concession, Shanghai, early on San- day evening and decamped with. jewellery valued at $18,000 and a. deposit receipt for $5,000 from the National City. Bank.

Police Chief at 27.

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the

to bring prayer and education to England. After being in

Army, Mr. Ferguson joined the the freed slaves who minde up an immense pauper population. Piety, Edinburgh City Police Force ng n constable; he is now a plain clothes sacrifice and racial dignity were

man in the detective department. the cement with which the famous

He is a son of Sir Arthur Fergu Bir Malcolm Campbell, the world's Tuskegee Institute was built upon land-speed record holder, address that spot. Last month the jubilee son; who three years ago retired month, said that the only way Bri-celebrations bring to light the fact after 24 years' service as Inspector tain could hope to heat her foreign that the most up-to-date depart. of Constabulary for Sectland. His competitors was hy advertising.ment of the Institate is that which mother it.a aister of Lord Stone. He visualised an international pub-trains negroes in beauty culture, licity movement for all our great in the arts of losing their colour industries. In the case of the wool, and straightening their hair. industry, such a movement had at least its genesis in the Imperial Wool Industries Fair and Pageant shortly to be held in Bradford.

British,

Girls Run WI,

haven,

Asbestos Suits,

Walter Summers, who is direct ing "The House Opposite" for British International' Pictures nt Elstree, has procured three asbes Four girls who, according to a

tos muits to be worn by himself, "run police officer, had

wild"

Wallace Geoffrey and Frank Stan. since being out of employment, more. The reason for these pre Captain Smith's widow has died pleaded guilty at London Sessions cautionary suits is that the two London. Nineteen years ago to breaking and entering a fiat in artists and the director have to street-hawkers were selling the Arundel-gardens, North Kensing come out of a burning house. The words and music of Nearer, Myton, S.W. They were Ethel Low-suits will be worn underneath the God, to Thee," hearing a picture isg, aged 18. Ethel Collins, aged ordinary clothes so that, although of the Titanic, which had mink to 17, and Ellen Sayle, aged 10, laun, the artists will be smouldering ex that tune. Half the 3000 people dresses; and Nellie Collins, aged ternally there will be no possibility aboard this vessel, died when she 16, factory hand. There was a fur of their bodies getting signed. struck a berg on her maiden voy ther charge against Ethel and Walter Summers, had a certain age. Captain Smith stood calmly Nellie Collins and Sayle of break-amount of difficulty in/getting the on the bridge while his ship slowlying and entering a flat in Elgin artists to agree to do this scene settled. When the liner sank below crescent, Notting Hill, W., and realistically but in these days of the surface he was throra, into the against Soyle of stealing a hat public enlightenment one cannot water near a floating baby. He from a shop in Westbourne-grove. fake to any great extent; therefore, in his arms to a lifebont and put girls had been affected by the en- which Mr. Geoffrey and Mr. Stas- clutched the child, swam with it A police officer said that all the the hours which is fired and from

ment-to make a nation of house process. It looked equal to any it on board Ho refused to enter vironment of their homes, which more will escape, is now being built

·

owners-is, one of the bright fenother type of well finished modern

tures in the prevailing post-war | conchwork. And it is fireproof. difficulties. Its material and moral It is also a non-conductor of heat, contribution to the stability of the and therefore, it is claimed, there nation. ia incalculable, and it is is less likelihood of the interior of understandable why an important an asbestos saloon becoming over- British financial journal, the heated during hot weather. The Static, should have recently pub-most important claim put forward

·lished a suppleménu of forty pages on behalf of the new material,

THE HALF YEARLY GEN- devoted solely to the consideration however, is in regard to cost. ERAL MEETING of VOTING | of the position and problems of the ( Asbeston ena be moulded and the MEMBERS will be held at the building societies.

use of expensive dics and plant can CLUB HOUSE, Happy VALLEY, On

Despite the general depression in be eliminated.

5.16 P.M.

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the boat himself. 'I shall get on

that piece of wreckage," he said, and swarn away in the ice-cold sen. That was the last over s.en of him.

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were in a very poor quarter of West London. They were put back for sentence so that, they could be seen by a woman probation officer.

on the "lot," preparatory to being razed to the ground. On the day of shooting there will be two fully equipped fire engines on the epot and the whole scene will be that of a first-class fire.

Local Notes and Events

Mr. and Mrs. G. Harman and the. prices realised on the edible bird-nesis, which only realised 820,123.168

with compared 824,805.39 in 1004, and also because the export duties now being im posed by the Dutch have for i time damaged trade, and also that the market prices on damar, rattan and gutta were so low as to hard- ly make it worth while to work these industries.-Hong Kong Daily Press, May 26, 1906. Looking Back 50 Years.

A mould can be Whilst attempting to board the WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY, 1931, trade last year, which, it is calcu-built for a body of any desired steam launch Kwong Man Yat Sa Mr. John Barrow of Hong Kong on were among those elected as Fellow All members are cordially invitedlated, caused a fall in the national shape within a few days, whereas the Yaumati typhoon shelter to attend and participate in any income of about £400 millions, 1930 the process takes some months when Sunday, the cook employed on of the Royal Empire Society at the discussion which may casua

was the most successful year on re-dies have to be used. Owing to board fell overboard. He was re-inst meeting of the Council. AND NOTICE 18 HEREBY cord in the history of the building this advantage it is suggested that cued and sent to hospital suffering GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY

from effects of the immersion. no need for GENERAL MEETING of the societies. The latest official figures there will be VOTING MEMBERS of the HONG | available for the movement are for manufacturer to standardise his KONG JOCKEY CLUB will be held the year ended December 31, 1929, coachwork for a year or so, us is at the CLUB HOUSE on the 27TH when the total assets of all build usually the case at present. He DAY of MAY, 1931, immediately after the Half-yearly Meeting of the ing societies making an annual will be able to provide a constant Voting Mombers when the anbjoined return to the Registrar of Friendly change of body fashiona for the

Societies amounted to £312 millions fastidious purchaser. NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN resolution will be proposed:

"THAT Article 6 of the Articles This, it will be seen, is about a ***of Association of the Club bosixth part of the capital of the

"altered by deleting therefrom the

small proprietors mentioned above. "words "Ordinary Members may

NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL, MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V. (Netherlands TRADING SOCIETY)

44% LOAN DUTCH EAST INDIAN GOVERNMENT.

thats New Netherlands East Indian Lasn 'of FL 100,000,000.-- (Hundred Million Gullders D.EL. 01.) bearing Interest at the Rule of 41% pay in being issued by the Government o the Dutch East Indies through the Intermediary of the Nederlandscho Handel-Maatschappij at Batavia at the Price of 974%.

The Hoxe KONG Adesor in prepared to received Applications and. to supply Further Information.

A. STOKKINK,

A gent. Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1981. [766

"be unlimited in number" and This sum was £48 millions more "subsitituting therefor the words than the figure for 1028, and it is

The number

Orientals in B.0.

Although the numbers of Orient als entering British Columbia have

The two privates from the South Wales Borderers, who were report Whilst driving her motor cared to have absented themselves-from along Nathan Road on Saturday, their battallion on Saturday, are

The maid increase which has Miss F. T. Gce of the Diocesan still missing, although their uni

aforms, which they are believed to

recently taken place in the valus of Girls' Schoot knocked down Chinese married woman who was have discarded, were found by the land in Hong Kong, though u8 taken to the Kowloon Hospital police at the Kowloon Godowns.doubtedly traceable to a very large with injuries to her legs and left A report issued from Police Head-extent to the natural prosperity of the Colony, cannot altogether be shoulder.

quarters states that Sub-Inspector thus accounted for except in an As business in- Elston found two. military uni- indirect manner. forma bearing the badges of the orcases land must necessarily rise in value, but when there is alio

A coolie who was carrying a bale

of Ordinary reliably estimated that when the been kept severely down during the of paper from a godown in West South Wales Borderers, at the an abnormally large amount of

"Meruber shall be one thousand official figures for 1930 are available

two hundred or such greater "number as the Voting Members it will be found that the total "shall from time to time nsects of these societies will be in "dotermino"".

the neighbourhood of £370 millions. AND NOTICE is ALSO HEREBY It is worth while to enquire the GIVEN that a further EXTRAØR- DINARY GENERAL MEETING origin of such a rapid expansion. of the VOTING MEMBERS of the The purpose of a building society Club will be held at the same place is, of course, to advance sus on WEDNESDAY, the SEVEN the security of building lands and quarter past FIVE O'CLOCK in the Arraunoon, for purpose of receiving main income being from mortgages

last two decades under agreements Point to a sampan in the water- with the Indian and Japanese front was knocked down hy a tram. authoritics, and by the imposition car on Sunday. He was taken to of a heavy poll tax on Chinese, the hospital, suffering from injuries to Griental population has steadily the head, from which he succumbed

later.

Kowloon Godowns, and these are capital seeking investment the rile wili of course be greater. The latter believed to have belonged to factor int present exercising & Private Booth and Homaff, the powerful influence on the Hong

missing men.

Looking Back 25 Years.

Kong property market. We have it on good authority that there in farge amount of Chinese capital increased until it now totals 54,000,

coming into the Colony and that the capitaliste are

satis of whom the Japanese account for nearly half. Much of this, it is thief ontored a flat occupied by a According to a police report, a pointed out, is due not to im European family at Aimal Villas Borneo, says in his report for price calculated on a basis of ter Mr. W. H. Hastings, the Resident fied with a return of from five to per cont Property which a of the East Coast, British North few years ago was bought at a migration alone but, as in the case

on Sunday night and stole a coat 1903-There has been a very con- to twelve per cent, may, therefore,

create to be expected from the among other property, a silver pre- the tobacco-only 3,703 bales of for it. This is a

of exports. This is partly due to double the amount which was paid vory cheerful a Report of the proceedings at the It accumulates. its capital by the settling down of Oriental families sentation cigarette case. The theft tobacco were exported in 1003, as state of affairs for those who were BING, to be held on SATURDAY, Orz/confirming if thought fit as a Special interest (round about five per cent! the cxtent of this increase it quot journed from the verandah to the hut was not due to the catates clos- it difficult now to fined really pro SEVENTH EXTRA HACE MEET above mentioned meeting and of issuo of shares which bear a fixed in the country. An indication of occurred after the party had ad- Compared with 5,684 bales in 1004. fortunate enough to seize time by The difference is very considerable, the forelock, and although it makes white school dining room, thus showing that theing any or planting less field, butfitable investments, looked at from population has increased only by

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,

RAFT PROGRAMMES DENTRY FORMB for

And

the

JUNE, 1981 (Weather Permitting). bo obtained at the RACE COURSE, Hoke Kore Civa and Causeway BAY STABLES

TEENTH DAY or JUNE, 1931, at a buildings, chiefly residential, its af California, to the natural in: belonging to a visitor containing, siderably falling off in the valus now be sold for something like

Rosolution the above mentioned Resolution.

By Order of the Stewards, Q. B. BROWN, Katrine CLOSE at 12 coax NoM

"Benetary,” Hoa TEURELAY, Weru Hit, 1991,

[77 HongKong, 14th May, 1931. [785

and it receives deposits. (which liko the shares are withdrewable) which ed. While the receive shout four per cent. These five per cent, since 1997, the Japan party had been kept under obser dividends are exempt from Income ese attending schools harvation by the intruder. for some

ed by 38 per cent." Tax, so that the real return on

tjine.

to the abnormal floods which cea public point of view, it is a caure surred on the Segaina River and of almost unmixed satisfaction. which spoilt immensé quantitics of Hong Kong Daily Press, May M, tobacco. It is again partly due to | 1881.