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TEARLY MEETING of i SHAREHOLDERS will be bold at the COMPANY'S OFFICES, ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, 3RD FLOon, on TUESDAY, the 25T DAT OF AUGUST, 1981, at 12.80 r., to receive the Directors Report and Statement of Accounts, to re-elect Directors, and to re-elect Auditors.

By Order of the Board,

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General Managers,

(3087

Hong Kong, 18th August, 1981,

HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.

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that the TRANSFER BOOK:

of the Company will be CLOSED. from BATURDAY, ru, to MONDAY, But AUGUST, 1931, Both Days inclusive,

By Order of the Board,

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Secretary. Hong Kong, 17th Aug, 1981, [105%

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be

20TH AUGUST, 1931, New Certificates for raid Shures will be issued and the

Old Certificates Nos. 6745 dated 2nd. June, 1911, and 6765 dated 27th July, 1611, will be thereafter treated by this Company as NULL and VOD,

Certificate No. 6746 dated 2nd June, 1911, for no Shares Nos. 38501/88850.

Certificate No. 6765 dated 17th July.

1911, for 100 Shares Nos 86901/58950 azd 129645/129694.

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could only gain additional upced by

HALE AND HEARTY,

*News and Views

life of Mr. John D. Rockefeller,

| facing extreme risks on, the corners.

He elected to face the risk, and was THE Brst thing asked, of a President killed. In other words, he gambled of the United States is that he his neck against, perhaps, £1,0% should be sound in wind and limb, in immediate cash and the value to and the first move towards getting his career of the victory which he a President elected is to get him Warning to Wits.

Talkie Biographina. might have won and he lost his a medical certificate of fitness. Beware of the Catling Descrip-It anything comes of the part- gamble, These circumstances, close Tont, at any rate," is the "quaint tion. It is strange that so many ed intention of a Hollywood con- ly reacmble those under which policy adopted by one of Governor character have no objection tail

who would, never blackon' another'e cern to produce a film based on thờ several motor-racing men annually FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT's political, houetting it.

sen,, with Mr. George Arliss in 'thờ' acrifico their lives. They are admirers He is writing a bio-

leading role, it should not only ba circumstances which automaticallygraphy of the Governor (with an

an extremely good film, but may start a fashion · 'in"

n" tallác-big- raise the question whether motor oye, naturally, to the next Presi

graphics of contemporary cole- racing is justifiable.

brities. Mr. Nelson Keys, for ex ample, who is so clever at changing his face-in the literal sense-mighti follow suit with a talkie-biography of Mr. Lloyd George. And Mr. Charles Laughton could portray a convincing Mussolini. While Mr. Ralph Lynn the greatest allly asa" on the stage-could give a might be libellous to suggest it. lifelike portrayal of but

A mistress was awarded 6 8d. damages against a servant who left work without notice at Kings ton (Surrey). "My client," said her solicitor, in as likely to get this money as I to fly,"

"Take a Gar," Old Man.**..

dential campaign), and has ap. parently persuaded his distinguish The answer in terms of puro od subject to undergo a special morality depends very much on medical examination. Three eminent how the question is phrased. We doctors have solemnly pronounced that his health and powers of should all agree that no man has endurance are such as to allow him a right to enlarge his buxinées and to meet any demand of private and Blamese Twins Separated. fill his pockets by methods which public life" And another enthu

An operation almost unparallel siastic probably involve the death of his the Governor's chausts in the at a hospital in. Baltimoro, where Hoovovoltian, appraising ed in surgery has been performed employees. But the racing factories western States, testified to having girl Siamese twins, cined: ab seen him, in a Cincinnati hotel. the abdomen at birth, have been and never turn a hair. It is true. shake hands with 1,500 persons separated. They are still alive. that there has been some anxiety

A young official of the British Broadcasting Corporation, aftor, that Mr. ROOSEVELT's healthhe Gripped the Lions Tongua {'

A rancher named Gleimann, from he the victim of an antipodean.cou

suspecting that he was intended to was once attacked by infantile paralysis, which he has happily the; Abercorn district, of Rhodesia, fidoneo trickster, finds himself the shaken off. But that hardly ex who was attacked by a wounded possessor of a new and costly saloon uses this feverish certification. lion saved his life with great pro car. The stranger sat at the off- It has often beer said that the first sence of mind, by gripping the sial's lunch table, after introducing Tabour Government in Great tongue of the maddened beast. Mr. himself as a New Zealandor. He Britain fell because the Prime Lovatt Campbell, a newcomer from extolled British scenery as soen dur- Minister had toothache. But Mr. England, rushed to Gleimani'sing a motor trip, and elicited that MACDONALD daca not poriodically assistance and dispatched the lion the official owned a prehistoric inform the electors of Seaham that with his last bullet. Gleimann was little two-seater of the mouse-trap his teeth have beon looked over by severely mauled.

competent dentist and are in good condition. If a candidate in Eng land, were to open his campaign by dwelling or his physical fitness his supporters would probably reward his very excellent commonsense by entertaining grave doubts about his

a

3 E. Clarke's Will,

and politician, who died on April Sir Edward Clarke, the lawyer

last, aged 90, left £39.429. In his will, which is dated October 10, Clarke as 1028, Sir Edward refers to Lady my dear wife, whose love and care have given me many years of happiness," and to her he leaves the contents of his residence, Peterhouse," at Staines

Training Unemployed Youths,

The premises of a large marine engineering firm at Sunderland may be aquired to provide train ing facilities for 200 unemployed men between the ages of 15 and 21, The industrial depression has com tinued so long that there is a fear that, unless some practical training is provided, there will be a shortage

proves of skilled, workers when trade im

A Presidential Record.

Here is the clocked applause re cord of President Hoover's Indian apolis speech:

Introduction of the Pre-

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Bident.... 2min. 30sce, Prosperity 8ice. "Avoidance of Strike 3sec. Immigration Restrictions 12sec. U.S. Foreign Con- -

ditions

Farm Protection

Against a Dole

and to them.

bsec. 14ECC. Exec.

type. "Havo mine!” sexolaimed the stranger, who took the official's address and departed This official went home, and was astounded to and his garags occupied by the New Zealander's gift, complete with log. book and insurance certificate. The police, when consulted, assured the there was nothing. official that wrong, though the benefactor had disappeared.

Career Like Fairy Tale.

Local Notes and Events

in actual practice are extremely anxious that their 'drivers shall not take such risks the incing man- ngers are profoundly moved when one of their men is killed, and many factories have rood for years without killing a man.

man, or even hav- ing one of their men ariously in jured. The percentage of serious accidents to the number of drivers is fractional. No factory and no manager in actual practice regard themselves as facing such risks; and there are plenty of veteran racers and record-breakers who have never been hurt. The problem might

might ask whether an individual is mental health. be phrased quite differently. We

justified in risking his neck for money or fame. To this question most people, would probably reply that a man's neck belongs to him Iself, and that if he is single he

Rather like a fairy tale was how tho Registrar at London Bank may gamble in this way if he is

ruptcy Court described the carcer of sa: inclined, but that if he is mar:

Reginald Brandon Trye, one of the former directors of the Blue Bird ried ho should first obtain his wife's

Motor Company. Originally a consent to the gamble and see that

tutor, the debtor, he said, became full provision" is made for his de

interested in a garage business, 108 RISKS IN MOTOR RACING pendents if he is unfortunate. The much of the furniture and

later was a taxi-driver. In 2010 he began the Blue Bird Motor Hiring problem has not yet been phrased many of the pictures which_ars

Company, and his career for the in its most fundamental aspect hold of "Paterhouse he leaves to already her property." The free-

next 20 years was phenomenal. Ho DURING the current season a numaamely, whether a man is justified the Ecclesiastical

worked the business up until it was ber of men have been killed in in risking his life in the interests upon trust to use as the vicarage of Commissioners

valued at £58,000. Then, unfortu- motor-races or during the

nately for him, Lorang appeared on prt of science. Even here no unanimity the parish of St. Peter's or other Twenty Year Plan 12sec. the scene and dealt so improperly liminary practice which precedes can be obtained

wise to apply it to increase the The system has ita merita. The human race endowment of the parish church see, for instance, that, apart from formed as to bring rain to every Wo with the companies afterwards all the great motor-races. Only one would be unanimous in acclaiming built at his expense in 1804), on the references to personalities the body concerned, including the such fatality has occurred during a scientist who risked his life, and condition that Lady Clarke "shall, greatest applause was for immigra debtor. Even during the period 1831 in a British event, when the perhaps perished horribly, in ex be allowed it free of fent so long as tion restrictions and against a dole, that he was wealthy fr. Trye was late F. G. HICKS brake his neck in perimenting with some

she desires to do so." Sir Edward It is a method which might be a living (said the Rogistrar) at under new ray appointed his two sons, Sir Por-plied with advantage to British £500 a year. He thought the debtor. the course of the Senior Tourist which..might furnish a remedy for cival and Mr. William Clarke, and politicians. The results obtained was entitled to very great sympathy, Trophy race in the Tale of Man. cancer. But men like BEGRAVE and my good friend," Horace Grims would be valuable to their hearers and his discharge would be suspend- Perhaps ten men have been killed Hicks have died in the attempt to

ton, to be joint executors,

ed for only three months. in the earlier races of the same extend the data on which, rapid series, and probably as many at transport is based. And it is for Brooklands track since it was first more difficult to argue that an in- opened. These accidents are paral- crease in the speed of transport, leled by very similar casualties, whether by air, water, or rond, is both in America and on the Con- really vital to human welfare. All tinent of Europe. For every man

wo can say is that the human racy who is killed outright in connee has become the victim of an irresist tion with, mater-racing, another ble passion for speed in its trans- dozen are more or leas seriously in port. Nothing but a radical re At the end of the 1931 TT.volution in human thought ean races the Noble Hospital in the Isle prevent us from remaining the of Man was crowded with accident victims of this passion until we cases resulting from the racing. have plumbed its absolute limits. At the end of the Senior race an Since all civilised races share this ambulance brought in several per passion, it in hardly possible to pons, including competitors and condemn the men who inspire and spectators, who had only been able direct research work, devoted to to receive first aid by the roadside that end or to pass laws which will until such time as the course was hamper the experimenter in serving reopened. Anybody who is brought our common, if possibly illegitimate into close contact with an in and absurd, passion. The in- dividual catastrophe of the kind dividual fying pilot or motor- very pardonably begins to cherish racing driver or speedbont helms- serious doubts as to whether motor man may chinée to be directed very Owing to the inclement weather, racing can be justified at such a largely by the hope of personal the promenade concert which was cost. The late F. G. Hicks is a fame or the expectation of personal to have been given by the band of case in point. He was a manager fortune, or may be executing a job ers at the Botanic Gardens last "tombstones" may mark the graves ing out. We are requested to ac the 1st Batta. South Wales Border lead one to believe, although there, however, serious points of of the research department of A. which falls to his lot without any night has been postponed. The re- of the hopes of many of the comphasise this question, but do not J. Stevens & Co., Ltdy a famous mental exploration of its precise vised date will be announced later.petitors.

guito see how public sympathy con firm of motor-cycle manufacturera significance and morality. But the

A coalie was fined $1,000. by Mr help. What is needed is to submit Ha bad graduated to this position governing fact is that all.civilised pine feet Jong within the waters of tracy yesterday on being found assessors, who are bound to consider. The presence of a shark about J. A. Fraser at the Kowloon Magie the evidence and arguments to the from the status of an ordinary nations are entangled in a quest the Colony was again reported to guilty of unlawful possession of 200 them at the proper time-Hong mechanic. He failed in the Junior for high-speed trausport, which has the polles over the week-end.

momentarily or permanently, he

It rounds of 32 ammunition. It was Kong Daily Press, August 18, 1900, race, when a maladjustment. of his come vastly important under the was seen swimming about Stanley stated that the man was soon leav carburettor caused an exhaust present conditions of social or Bay on Friday afternoon near the ing the mv. Chichibu Maru by an

shore at the. valve to burn. He was thus doubly ganisation. It is as essentini to

a south end of the beach. Indian watchman, who perceiving eager to acquit himself well in the completely indispensable in war, national prosperity in peace as it

that the man's coat was bulging, The case for the prosecution in tried to stop him. The man drop senior raw. When he stopped at And it automatically claims the ease in which thirteen members ped the packet containing the am higpit after several fast laps to small but steady tell of human life of the Sik Yee Club of West Point munition and bolted. He was later amongst the engineers who serve the are charged before Mr. Williams seen trying to get back aboard the replenish his tank he received in various nations in their quest, under the Gambling Ordinance, was ship by climbing a rope and was formation that he was running BEGRAVE and HICER Are, therefore, closed yesterday. The hearing will caught.

At 8 a.mwind-E.N.E with much second behind two men who were in essence as much martyrs to the be continued to-morrow afternoon

rain," and "a heavy sea from the a few seconds faster up to that their deaths in laboratories con- Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton, will be Cheung, Yeung Tak and Chau Lam hurricane, the res breaking over the cause of science as if they had met when the defence, represented by day, three Chinese, Fong Wa wind 8.8.E. blowing a perfect At Korpon Magistracy yester south, barometer 29.10 At noon,

point. The lender was several morated to research work in con opened, minutes ahead; but nobody expect nection with cancer, or sle

pintado, the latter a woman, were charged vessel in all directions, washing sleeping. sickness;

with detaining three Chinese boys away, bulwarks and everything · ed the loader to last the course" Psychologically there is no quee Correspondence relative to the at 116, Tung Choi Street, without movable off the deck. At 1 p.m. the in fact, he crashed voty ebortly tion that a certain percentage of appointment of a Select Committee the consent of their parents. In centre of the hurricane passed the after H10s and was lucky to our younger and more adventurous to advise the Board in the matter suector Murphy, of the S.C.A. told ship: wind SS, W., blowing away men (and aren women) are irked of exemptions and modifications the Court that the children were all the sails: barometer 25.40 Ab emerge alive from a terrible fall by the gospel of Safety first from all or any of the conditions kidnapped in Canton, the smaller 8 pm, the wind moderated Binge -Hicks- Wast already using every. No matter how carefully we might nid down in by-law, 4 of the by of the three being actually kidnap then had moderate sutherly wind atom of his available speed and succeed in closing number of laws governing food-preserving er ped by the second defendant-and-and-oilm sea, the current some

roads; which lead, to sudden death, tablishments will be rend, at the brought to Hong Kong by the first timen running-four, knots to the... power on the straight actions of they would soon devise, other fortnightly neoting of the Sanitary némised. Hearing was adjourned E.N.E. Hong Kong Daily Prais this very dangerous" course, and perilous pastimes and professions. Board to-day's

till Saturday morning.

August 18 1881

DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE Jured.

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CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO. CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNEO, THE PHILIPPINES, Etc.

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Correspondence relative to the application for the registration of floor, as a dairy will be submitted No. 8, Morrison Hill Road, ground at the Sanitary Board riceting this

afternoon.

One caso (Chinese) of typhoid lover was reported on Friday and during the week-end. one case (Chinese) of diphtheris

The wedding was solemnised on Saturday at the Registrar's office of Mr. Hugh Peter Lim, last sea The Naval Armament Supply son's captain of the irst eleven of Officer has informed the Harbour the Craigengower CC, and Miss fireworks will be fired for proof a Chinese dinner, given at West Master that a small quantity of L Chinn, formerly of Seattle. At purposes at the Stonecattor's rifle Point in the evening Mr. and Mrs. range to-morrow morning.

Lim were the recipients of the hearty congratulations of their many spent at Repulse Bay. friends. The honeymoon is being!

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The forthcoming marriage is an- Espiorito Santo Ozorio dos Reme nounced of Paulo Maria Benedicto dios, residing at 2, Granville Road, Kowloon, to Evelyn Benedita da Latz née Sales, of 2, Peace Avenue, Hemuntin,

It is notified at the Harbour Office that firing practice will be carried out by the French sloop Regulus at Gau Tau rock in Mirs Bay during this week?

from the files.

Looking Back 25 Years.

Messrs. R. Matthaey and J. W. Osborne, proprietors of the two Hong Kong Golf Club is giving It appears they pay the maximum The Ladies Section of the Royal modification of their assessments. Kowloon Hotels, are agitating for party on Tuesday, September 20, at liquor license of 32,400 per annum, Deep Water Bay A bridge drive in common with the two lending will be held, while the more light hotels of Hong Kong, the only hearted guests will be enabled to reason for making the four alike indulge in a "tombstone" com being apparently that they are all petition, which is by no means as over a certain rental value. There gloomy an affair as its name would

difference" which do not need point-

Looking Back 50 Years.

The British barque Cuba, which arrived here on the 7th inst, gives the following report of a typhoon which she encountered in Lat. 26.10 N. and Long 122 E which com- menced at 5 am with wind at 8.8.E. and falling barometer