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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

FRANCO CHINESE TRADING. CO., LTD.

(IN LIQUIDATION)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in

pursuance of Section 88 of! the Companion Ordinances 1911, that. the Final Meeting of Members will be. held at the offices of Mesurs, Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming: No. 8, Des Vosur Road, Central, (4th floor) en Saturday, the 14th day of May, 1982, ab 19.18 p.m. for, the purpose of having as account inid before them showing the manner in which the winding up has been conducted and the property of the company disposed of, and of hearing any explanations that may be given by the Liquidators, and also of determining by Extr ordinary Resolution the manner in which the books, accounts and docu- ments of the Company and of the Liquidators thereof shall be disposed. Dated the 13th day of April, 1982;

J. HENNESSEY JETA, 8. HAMPDEN BOSS,

Joint Liquidators

WIZARD

SNIPE

WATCH THE STARTLING PAIR You mostly see their etails as they overtake you-as they always. will.

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FRANCO SINO ANNAMITE: CO., LTD..

(IN LIQUIDITION). ́OTIČE IS HEREBY GIVEN in

purenunce of Section. 189 of the Companies Ordinancon 1911, that the Final Meeting of Members will be held at the offices of Mpears. Porey Smith, Beth and Fleming, No. 6, Daa Voeux Road, Central, (4th floor) on Saturday, the, 14th day of May, 1932 at 12 o'clock noon for the purpose of having an account laid before them showing the manner in which the winding ap has been conducted and the property of the company disposed of, and of bearing any orplanations that may be given by the Liquidatore, and also of determining by Extra- ordinary Resolution the manner in which the books, accounts and does. ments of the Company and of the Liquidators thereof shall be disposed.. Dated the 11th day of April, 1932.

J. HENNEŠĖBY SETH,

8. HAMPDEN BOSS,

Joint Liquidators.

À. S. WATSON “& CO., LIMITED,

[2081

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Forty-seventh Annual Ordinary General Meeting of the Company (since its registration) will be held at the Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong, on Tuesday, the 19th, April, 1982, at 11.80 AM. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 81st, October, 1981.

HUMBER SNIPE

AT THE

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL L 12, 1932.

Inst year. Taking both sections of the Fair this represents an in- ureado qver last year of approxim Acaly sixty per

cant. !

* News and Views *

Thore wors 70 different countries represented by buyers, as compared Tale of the Day. with 75 in 1931.

Denmark headed

the list with 955,, followed by

Secretary of Tary Interior Golf Hoiland with 484: Germany was Club: "Well, what did you think third; France and Norway shared of the course t: ?" the fourth" place; and the fifth Visitor: "Oh, perfectly amar position was shared by Sweden, ing By the way, what is your local Switzerland,

Belgium and there when a ball is lost on the

arebni " United States of America Japan sent 25 buyers, China 20 and Russia 15. A now country represented was Liberia, and two women buyers came from the Solomon Islands Of tho, British Dominions the Irish

Fable: An explanatory. Action Free State headed the list with beginning Well, you see it wan 273 buyers, followed by Canada | like this” with 184. The others werd, in order, South Africa. India and Australia

Modern Definitions.

Edge: Something one has on when one is a bit off.

Daylight Saving in L.0.0. School.

About £2,500 has been saved by

"

NAVAL RELIEFS.

RIVAL OF ARRIVAL OF KM.S. VINDICTIVE

E.M.8. Vindictive, carrying. re-

the advancemont by half an hour hiefs for HM.S. Medway and sub- of the afternoon session in London, marinos, arrived from Home yester elementary schools.

day with 400 ratinga taken on board The arrangement was introduced at Portsmouth, which port she left In addition to on February 16. as an economy measure four months! ago to reduce axpenditure on light raliofa for the China, Station, the ing and heatinga

Vindictiva took out a new crow for Now the schools are to revert to H. M.S. Triad, Senior Officer's ship the prdinary working hours of 2)

on the Parsian Gulf, the relieved to 4.30 (4 for infants), instead of crew from the Triad being taken 1.30 to 4 (3.30 for infants);

to Colombo and transferred to H. It was stated that there had been. S. Berwick for passage Home. no complaints of inconvenience be

After disembarking the local re cause of the shorter mid-day. in-efa, the Vindictive will go into terval. Where there was loand dif- dook. She is due to sail for Home culty in working the temporary on April 1 with the relieved crews hours the normal time were con and a few ratings from H.M.S. It is still impossible to give | of to-day. reliable statistics of the business Gush: The boim of an esteem.tinued, but only about 20 school Tamar and other ships who have terms of service completed their dond, but it was estimated that abradiator blowing off esteem at high departments contracted out'

the WAS the White City alone, orders to the pressure. value of £2,000,000 were "taken. These orders represent a genuine

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Farthingade: The hooped skirt of our grandmothers,, not to by con- fused with the whoopeed skirt

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Powder: What every woman nose.

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DURO GARAGE | addition to the normal turnover of Proot: If he will give up his the Arms exhibiting. The other pet brand of eigarettes because it sections of the Fair, which were makes your Pekingese cough, much larger and represented a far Propotal: An amigble candleston-"] greater number of industries, werosion, generally from the wrong

in Hathan Road, Kowloon. "

GELMAN & Co, Ltd, Agenti

BIRTH...

(A. PRI

believed to have exceeded consider-man. mbly the £5,000,000 mark, hut en

account of their more extensive character it was impossible to got anything like an exact estimate.. RAINALE On April 3, of Shangha; In the textile section it was a

to Mr. and Mrs. JOHN RAINALS, "a daughter.

MARRIAGES. . FINCH-HEMMINGS.-Mr. and Mrs. R. HEMMINGS announce that the marriage of their daughter, JEAN Ross, to ALFRED REINHOLD TANNER FINCH will take place in All Saints' Church, Tientsin. on Saturday, April 30, HUTCHIBON DAVEY.-On April 4

at Shanghai, JAMES DAVID- ARTHUR HUTCHIBON, BÓN of Mr. and Mrs. JA HUTCHISON, of Shanghai, to WINIFRED PHYLLIS ARNOLD DAVRY, daughter of Mr. and Mrs R. B. PERCY, - also of Shanghai..

Editorial and Business Offon; 13

Toe House Street. Tal, 2016). Night Editor (Wanchai Off)

Tol, 24511.

London Office: 53, Fleet Street,

KO. 4.

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, APRIZ

1931.

The

.:

Psychology: A useful word with

which you explain something you don't understand,

Resort: A secluded spot to which people lock in great numbers to avoid each other..

Stocking: A sheer illusion of gauze and affect.”'

Suspicion: A mental picture seen through an imaginary key- hole.

Tact: To lie about others as you would have thom lie about you.

Unotuous: Possession savon Pfaire.

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common experience for frme to re- port that so big were orders they had received that it would be im- possible to complete them before next autumn. In some instances, except for certain ranges of goods,

be refused. orders had to Lancashire Cotton Corporation sold the whole of their production of special "cotton and wool-mixture Vulgar The kind of people who twood fabrics Representatives of are getting everywhere nowadays.

The kind of food the Corporation stated that they Wholesome: did more than four times the buri- recommended for a cure but not for

sa opicure ness done in 1931, and to complete their orders they will have to get new mills. "A Carlisle firm making mainly dress fabrics reported that, a result of the Fair, their factories will be working night' and Another day for three montba. arm which produced a new print. design specially for the Fair sold twenty thousand yards in one trans- action, and so big were the total orders, that finally they could only quote for orders for delivery in August.

as

One of the most attractive, ne it was the largest section at Olympia was that for furniture, and it did excellent business. Splendid dis-

The Register of Shares of the Company will

be closed from Wednesday, the 18th. day of April, to Tuesday, the 19th. day of April, 1982, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, THE CREAT BRITISH FAIR. plays were made by London rad

General Managers. Hongkong, 7th. April, 1932. [2071

WM. POWELL, LIMITED,

IF

High Wycombe manufacturers, who showed that good furniture is

Yard Just enough for a frock—» (but not for long.) (""

Yarn Where be (she) said be (she) was that evening.

Yore: The good old dazą, Zoo: A place devised for animals study the habits of human beings......

Unobservant,

In spite of the very modern training which he undergoes, the American Policeman does not seem

An Eagis Shot in Kent.

i'm

here.

An eagle, 3ft. ein in height and measuring 7ft. from wing to wing, has been shot in woods at Lonacra Court Farm, Whitfell, near Dover, Half a rabit was in ite mouth.

Mr. Maurice Broadly," aged 20, a farmer's, son, states that he was

shooting rooks when he saw the eagle 60ft, overhead and apparently about to attack him. He fired oss barrel, hitting the angle on the wing. It then attacked him. The next abot struck the eagle's breast and it fell dead.

Four types of mother are to blame for a great deal of unhap Pines in the youth of today, ac- cording to Dr. Elizabeth Sloan Chesser in a London lecture They

THEFT IN CATHEDRAL.

CULPIRT

"WORKS" DURING

SERVICE.

Before Mr. Wynno Jones yester charged with the theft of a felt hat day, an unemployed Chinese was

The defendant pleaded guilty. belonging to Mr. Lo Pok Wan

Sub-Inspector J. Dick, who pro- secuted, said that on Sunday morn ing Mr. Lo was attending the ser-

It is thought that the eagle had vice at the Roman Catholic Cathe flown from Norway.

dral and had left his scot to par- ticipate in a part of the service. Mothers Who Bring Unhappiness. His hat was on the seat and was taken away by the defendant. There had been quite a number of complaints, although none had been made to the police, of such thefts from persons attending the Caths- dral. The troop of Boy Scouts at tached to the Cathedral volunteered to keep a lookout and this time dur. The possessive mother, who does ing the service one of the Scouts, S aut" dant her children to grow Faria, saw the defendant taking away from her, and tries to keep them from making new friend, Mr. Lo's hat. chips.

The muther who spoils her children.

1

According to Sub-inspector Dick;

The selfish, neglectful mother, the defendaut was banished fer- who is taken up with her own life from Singapore in 1920 follow. enjoyment.

ing four previous convictions there.

Sentence of three months' bard labour was imposed.

The competent and efficient muther, who tends to do every- thing for her children.

Dr. Chesser added that much of

to be more charrant than his the cause of failure in adolescents European counterpart. One' makes this deduction from a recent ex-ia. based on ill-educated mother amination held in the New York hood,, cpecially among upper-class Police School.

During a lecture by the inspector schoolmaster an elderly man came into the room, baid a few words to

the lecturer, and then left.

any evidence were needed of the now" being made on mass produc- quent encounters with gunmen—and |

economic improvement made in Britain, the British Industries Fair recently held in London and NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Birmingham provides it

in full that the THIRTY-FIRST

measuro Before the Fair was ORDINARY GENERAL MEET

opened on the 23rd of February ING of Shareholders will be held in the offices of Messrs. Percy Smith, the organisers and the exhibitors Beth and Fleming, Des Voeux Boad, had every reason to hope that it Central, Hongkong, on Thursday, the would be successful; they fever 21st April 1982, at 11.30 am. for the imagined that its success would be purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors and a State-no overwhelming. In practically ment of Accounts for the year ended overy trade and industry all pre- 29th February 1932 and electing vious records wore surpassed. The Directors and Auditors.

The Transfer Books of the Com-London section, housed at Olympia pany will be closed from 12th April, and the White City, did amazingly to 21st April, both days inclusive.

By order of the Board,

W. ALEXANDER

Becretary. Hongkong, 8th April, 1982.

NOTICE

well. It provided the most exten- siva and the most representative display yet organised of British light manufactures. The stands [2056 || presented a combined frontage of eight miles, and 1,150 exhibitors shared approximately 380,000 square fest, of spans The heavy indus- trics, housed at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, bad more space and they reported better business than

TOTICE is hereby given that the N

management of our Longkong Branch has been taken over by Mr. P. A. LAROCHE of our Tientsin Branch, during Mr, L., D. WALOH'N absence on leave..

J. ULLMANN & 00.

[2074

ever.

mothéra

"I call a woman uneducated if

science and art of living and of she knows very little about the

training children, öven if she car speak three languages or has taken

The lecturer turned to his pupils, husky Irishmen, toughened by fre

books and write me a lightning de commanded: Take your note- university degree"

Bpocial acription of that man. marks will be given for a correct

account of which hand he held his stick in."

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tion principles, and that modernism is not restricted to expensive pieces. Some exhibitors displayed copies of English antique furniture which were wonderfully exact... And so it

Of the 42 pupils 17 gave the left was throughout the Fair. As the hand and the right. Thres de leading event in the commercialclared their inability to name the year, the

The man carried no stick!

exhibition not only

justified itself, it exceeded the most optimistic expectations, god' it "demonstrated to the world the soundness and solidity of English

in 411 its manufacture branches and ramifications. „

many

CROWN LAND SALES..

TWO LOTS FETCH GOOD

PRICES.

hand.

Oldest Journalist Dios,

Bernard MeEvoy, who was called the oldest working journalist in the British Empire, died at ninety. He was at His desk in the Yan- couver Provideo regularly until a few days before his last illness Mr. McEvoy was born in Birming ham, England, and had been con- nected with Canadian newspapers, for many years with the Province, since he came to Canada in, 1585.

Decline in Sales of Liquor.

Control Board.

A New Flag."

A correspondent in Paris writes that the Elysee, where the French President lives, has a new flag as 1 M. Herriot, the Radical-Socialist leader, was looking skywards with result of the Cabinet crisis.

a thoughtful expression while he was waiting in the Elysee court- yard prior to buing received by President Doumer.

A journalist, so king his opinion on the crisis, asked him: "May I ask you what you think, M. Her- riot."

A decline of 1233 per cent. in

Noted for his "genial but non- total sales of liquor in Ontario for the past year is a feature of the committal replie. to Pressmen, M. "Well, I think The decrease was it is time the Elyses had a new annual report of the Ontario Liquor Herriot answered more than £1,300,000 which com- fing." panos with a drop of £1,000,000 re- M. Doumer heard of the incident corded in Quebec province,

and inspected the flag. "Certainly The Ontario Board sold liquorget a new one," he said. "If there and permits to the amount of 18 one place that ought to have a £10,000,000, of which £3,500,000 was clean flag it is the Elysee." made up in sales from breweries and brewery warehouses under official supervision and the remain. Danced 1,190 Hours, Then der sales from the 124 government atores. The actual decrease, it is painted out, is greater than the figures indicate, since prices were raised on two occasions during the year. A net profit to the provincial government of £1,500,000 was made.

Collapsed.

Miss Mary Bruderer, a Causdian competitor in the Amateur Dancing Marathon at Nice, fell to her knees after dancing for 1,100 hours. She. was disqualified.

Local Notes and Events ★

According to a police report,. Wong Sam Chun, of 14, Wo On

Lane, was admitted to the Govern Three cases of small-por, me ofment Civil Hospital at midnight diphtheria, three of enteric fever

There was a large gathering t the Crown Land Offloo yesterday when two lots of land in Kowloon were offered for sale by public auct ...The attendance figures, how-to | tion, ·

The Hong Kong dollar remained hand, tell their own story of the Mr. E. M. Hazeland, of Mears hanged yesterday, the demand success of the Fair. The number Hazeland and Gonnella, the well-rate being is. 2/d. of members of the public attending known architects, bought Kowloon the London section this, year was Inland Lot No. 1814, which has an 39,442 as compared with 34,079 area of about 8,250 sq. feet, for year ago; the number of home 815,700. The upset price was buyers was 278,823, as compared 813,875,. The land is situated on LL Croditors and others are with 107,200; and the number of Prince Edward Road, and hat au

requested to send in their claims vorms buyers wa 10,000 com annual rental of $106. against the above estate to the under-pared with 4,864. The aggregate New Kowloon Inland Lot No. signed as "woon as possible...

NOTICE.

IN THE GOODS OF MALCOLM

MANUE, PRASED,

“DIACONS,

Solicitors for the Executor,

1. Des Vaut, Bond, Central, : Hong Kong,

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number of visitors was thus 223,338 this yar, sa.compared with 903,782 in 1931. The total figuro in respect of the Birmingham section was 143,780, as compared with 108,000

and sight of cerebro-spinal fever on Sunday suffering from an over- were reported over the week-tid dose of opium believed to be self-

The 8.8 Szechuan, which left Shanghai in April 9, vid Bwałow; with 150 bags of mails for Hong Kong, is due to arrive here on April 13. ··

1890 was sold to Mr. Chepng" Yau Kam and two others of 16, Glenṇa- The total output of the Kailan ly, or 817,600, the upset price Mining Administration's mines for being $14,000 The land is situated the week ending March 26, amount at Kowloon Tong and bas so araned to 109,622 metric tons, and the of about 20,000 sq. ft. Ita annual sales during the period to 07,464

metric tons, rental is $340.

administered.

"A telegram from Mr. Wong Ching Wei, President of the Execu tive Yuan at Loyang, has been received by Sir Robert Ho Tung offering him the High Advisership. to the Chinese Governmentes

- At the annual meeting of the St. Andrew's Branch of the Fictoria Dioosen and Missionary Associs When a Chinese was charged be. tion at 9 pm on Thursday even fors Mr. J. A. Fraser yesterday |ing, Dr. M. O. Pister is giving a. with trespassing in Shamshuipo dasture, illustrated by lantern Police Station on Saturday after views, entitled Through Tunnan noon, it was stated that he was to China's Sacred Mountain Omi." found in the passage way outside. There is no charge for admission the cells talking to three men in, and the meeting is open to any one of the cella The Magistrato friends who wish to come. There said that it did not seem a serious will be a retiring collection in aid

of the funds of the V.D.MX 1 case and registered a caution.

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HONG KONG STOCK MARKET.

YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL

QUOTATIONS.

In the investment section shares" are again being sought after, but only at current quotations.

Generally, there was no change of rates at yesterday morning's session.

Sales.

Hong Kong Electrics $74). Watsons (Rights) $34....

Buyers

Hong Kong Banks $1,595. Union Insurances $470. Douglases $20). - Benguets $13. -Baubs- $39.

Whervos $142, Docks $20.

Providents (Old) $4.85," Providents (New) $21. Hotels (Cum. Rights). $13.35. Hong Kong Realties $111. „Chinese Estates $95.

Ewo Cottons Fla. 14.85. Hong Kong Trams $214. Peak Trams (Old) $18}," Hong Kong Electrics $74. Telephones (P.P.) $24. Amusements $22.0 Constructions (New) $1.90, Government Loans 31 per sept.

premium,

Sellers. International Asso. Tis. 4. Humphreys #178,

8.0. Enterprises 810-

AFTERNOON SESSION. The market was entirely feature- day, with less throughout the trading on wry meagre scale.

Hong Kong Kanka +$1,550 / 1,555. Providents (Old) 84.90, China Lights (Old) #81,10; Hong Kong Electrica 874)............

Buystsko

Hong Kong Banks $1,345. Benguet Explorations 23 cents,