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OF CANTON, LTD.. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG),

NOTLOW TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TOTION: 18 HEREBY GIVEN that the BIFFY NINTE ORDINARY YEARLY MEDŢING of the Society will be held at the READ OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 17th MAY, 1982, at 11 O'clock A.M, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and "the Statements of Account to Blut. December, 1991, and of declaring, Dividends, atc.

Tho TRANSFER BOOKS of the Bociety will be ULOSED' from 9th MAY to 27th MAT, Both Days inclusive:

By Order of the Board,

FAUL. LAUDER,

General Manager...... Hong Kong, 30th April, 1932.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

No

thet the BIXTY-THIRD ORDINARY "YEARLY" MEETING: of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 27th MAY, 1982, at 11.15 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

GILMAN'S

for

According to the report, dbvorings

Clectualty Bou

cently issued, the national producs

tion of electricity last year increas

HILLMANSd by about four and a half per Talk of the Day.

A truly British car;" with an engine up to American power standards that's worth your study and final choice.

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APRIL 30, 1932,

News and Views

cont.. Great Britain was alone, samong the industrial countries in shall all my husblind showing a toflits mercast Over the Ave years 1997-31 the expansiun of the output of electricity from horepublio supply undertakings was 34.0 per cent, pompared with 16.3 për cent, in the United States, 14.6|| par, cont." im Germany, and 21 per cent. in Italy.

you don't Tramp He is not at home Woman: How do you know pl Tramp. A man with a wife like you is never at home

To the South Seas in ex-Brixham

Trawler."

Birds Flumage Smugglers,

veryreale, water, probably of Polari Attampts to smuggle the plumage drigin, and the other of warmer, Fofs rara bjegulator Gront Britainors salt water which flows north- have groutly dierensod during lata ward from the liquetes in summer [Featug but the truffle has not beennud returns in winter, passag

eliminated."

4 recent ghaoillustrated the tookaroul assistance the Customs rundive from the staff of the British Museum.

A bird was found hidden in same: baggage, and the owner protested that it was not one that could not be importat The Customs sent the bird to the Natural History Muse us at South Kensington, and the ex- ampton are two titled women, aports thers dooided against the baronet, several ex-naval officers of owner, an high rank, and two bank clerks, He was asked by the Customs if who are prepared to throw up their he would present the bird to the positions immediately

Musoum, otherwise it would bet destroyed,

Mr. George Honry Robbins, who || is organizing the adventure, is a rotired business man who was for merly a sailor, and wants to see. the savan, suas onge more before he dies

The bird was handed over to the Musoum..

Among one hundred persons who have answered an advertisement for a crew to join a shark fishing In some areas, notably the dis-and adventure expedition on tricts where some of the basic mailing trip to start from South dustries are found, the upward movement in coneuzaption, which had proceeded almost unbroken from 1022 to 1930, was not continued in 1983; but the decline in the industrial consumption wa more than made good by the extension of the demand for electricity for domestic and commercial purposce. "On the other hand, electrification Linut-Coin C O Luxmore, son of industrial processes and re of the explorer, will be the navi equipment of installations were gator of, the Girl Winnie, in which curried out in some industrial areas the party will sail; and Mr. Valen more widely last year than in pre tine Cox, the Sussex writer and textile arma, iron and steel plants the South Seas the expedition will garden paths at Crawley Sussex

Cotton and woollen artist, will be one of the crow. "In especially in Lancashire, Yorkshire fish for aharks and wolf the skins and Scotland-paper mills and for leather. chemical, works carried out import The Girl Winnie was sold by Mr. unt sohemes of conversion to cleaAlfred Bobb, of Brixham, to its new tric drive.

owners last year.

DURO GARAGEvious years.

in Nathan Road, Kowloon.

GILMAN & Co., Ltd., Agents.

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5:30 Pim, stated:

The anti-eyclone is now cen tral to the South of Japan. Å depression is centra to the East of Peiping. Depressions appear to be forming over Indo China and to the East of N. Borneo:

Local ForeenstSE or variable wind moderate; cloudy showery.

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Account to 31st December, 1981, and The

of declaring Dividends, etc.

The TRANSFER BOOKS" of the Company will be CLOSED from 9th MAY to 27th MAY, Both Ilays inclusive:

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By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager. Hong Kong, 30th April, 1992. "

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

HONG KONG, APRIL 30, 1932.

ELECTRIFYING BRITAIN.

For many years Great Britain was definitely behind wane cther nations a" the use of electricity. There

were various reasons for this state.

Way of King Pigeons..

There are many exhibits there which have been obtained in this. Iway.

Loat Radium Needles.

Radium needles worth £400, lost in Westminster Hospital, are being

of

The task, apparently de difficult na trying to find a domestic needle in a haystack, is not regarded as needle has already been found in a hopeless-in fact, one radiam heap of clinkers."

This tide of warm water, Dr. Lo Danois says, attains in greatest effect as intervals of one, four and a half, nine, 18 and 11 years, fan as we are concerned.."

Have: You a Broken Heart?

If you have keep it inside and do not answer. It is a terrible sin.co. confess your ailment.

Believe it not, any woman who has loved and lost and tells the work is instantly convicted by any jury of women of having fibbed."

And any judge who tries to an seas the damage of the break is promptly told he knows nothing about the law-the immutable law Last month in Melbourne Judge of woman.

Foster awarded £130 as the amount of damage to the heart of a woman who had been jiltech. He complain ed that he had no scale to work on" in Axing the value of a broken heart. It was all guesswork, he

...

said to-ding

And to-day someone in every

scale of the world of women tradicted him. ม

coll

It was the unanimous vordict of young bride to old bride, mother to femininity from flapper to finnego.

grandmother.

The associating of Crawley's gar. The court of women, on notion by den paths with Westminster Hosa woman for breach of promise. For some tiine the citizens of Salpital was worked out as follows:

decides in this fashion:" zburg have been trying to evolve s

Tho needles, which had been Flapper: If she can stoop so lose humane way of killing off some of used on a pations, wore it is asas to drag their so-called love the pigeons whose rapid propaga

sumed thrown by mistake with through the mud of publicity, then tion in their town hus became tư:

the discarded dressings into a it is not her heart that is, Broken great nuisance. Rauter reports that rubbish box.

but her pride.

special committee was appointed to investigate and report. Ali kinds of methods for exterminating. the surplus birds were examined, but none appeared to be entirely satisfactory.

As the towers for the carrying of the transmission lines in the making of the "Grid all over the country must be built largely on private land; the obtaining of the sanation of the many various owners for the sites for the towers and the work connected therewith, or

wtylowyes" as they are called have to be obtained. Wayleaves were acquired last year for 1,280 miles of main transmission lines; bringing the total up to 2,677 miles only 225 miles remaining to be obtained. These included sites. for 15,459 towers out of an estimat ed total of 17,205 for primary lines, and 6,938 out of 8,879 for secondary lines. 175 sites for switching and transforming stations had been ac gaired an increase of 67 over the total recorded as the end of 1930...

The construction of the main transmission lines advanced almost as rapidly as the acquisition of which state they will be easily wayleaves. In primary line 1778 netted and put painlessly to death. miles of towers had been erectedBinnacle as: Font. during the year of 1,143 miles, and at the end of 1931, an increase.

The rubbish box was emptied in to the furnace...

Clinkers from the furnace were said to a contractor in Crawley

who

Fiances: There is no cash value on a broken, heart. And there is no cale" that can apeses the damage. Young Bride-Only the soulless woman will gy, to court and brazen- Soll them to local residents,ly say she has broken heart. That who is

sort of woman has no heart to Used them for making their break. I would sooner die of a paths and drives. The hospital authorities obtained me.... from the contractor a list of all the

Mother The child of mine who people who had bought glinkers dares to go to court on such thing from him

no longer is my child. When add if the pigeons eat the

Man were sent to each house, Grandmother -- Fiddlesticks | fall into an inebriated stupor-insitive instrument which divines" for such a thing. Let her parents gain, it is expected that they will armed with an electroscope sen- I She is a hussy who wants money

But now a bright idea is to be put into operation. The pigeons are to be intoxiugled. Grains of whent, impregnated with strong fliquor, are to be scattered about the Cathedral Square and other places whare the pigeons, congregate

On the quarter-deck of the des

the

the presence of radium.

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The hospital authorities are hope- ful that all the needles will be found.

The Gulf Stream Has No Effect: On

Olimate, Says Expert.

in secondary lines 534 miles, antroyer Vesper, lying alongside De- increase of 350 miles. At the ead vonport North Dockyard, was wit of the year 910 miles of transmis nessed religious ceremony which Is the Gulf Stream a myth sion lince-604 miles of primary and is probably without procedenting the According to Dr. Edouard 306 miles secondary--were, in com- history of the port. It was Dannois, Director of the Scientific mission, and 43 miles in addition baptism of the twin infant sone ufarid Technical Department of the had been.energised and made ready an officer of the ship-Commission French Fisheries and a leading for operation. At the end of 1030 ed Egineer C. A. Honwood, R.N. authority on marine life, it does the gura was 464 miles, had at

The part of the deck used for the not eross the Atlantic, but vanishes the end of 1020, it was 80 miles service bad been screened with fags. before renching the Azares, and bas The total value of the contracts The binnacle was used as a font,no effect upon weather conditions placed by the Board for the,, con

and in this was the ship's bell, in Western Europe struction of the Grid amounted to which, being inverted, contained the 21,848.880 at the end of December, water used for the, baptism. The An increased of £3,584,040 during water was condensed in the ship by the year. The construction of the

the father of the children. Grid, we are informed in the re- port is proceeding without any major alterations in the original design.

The full effects of the Grid will not be felt for sometime, but the

beneficial

Should trade boom develop as it is expected to do by many experta, the electrification of the

country will be of enormous benefit

to

of affairs, one of them being per-effects will be" very haps tant British industry, and NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. British industrial centres haal beeri NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN huis in on conl and Kna for power tho SEXTY.SIXTH a lighting purposes, and it was ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING not unsy to change over. In other of the Company will be held at itaentries, which entered the indus FEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 27th trial. fold at a much later date, MAY, 1982, at 11.20 A.M., for the it was possible to make a start purpose of receiving the Report of with electric power and light. the Directors and the Statements of Account to 81st December, 1981, and of declaring Dividends, etc.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be OLOSED from 9th MAY to 27th MAY,, Both Days" inclusive,"

By Order of the Board,

FAUL LAUDER,

General Manager. Hong Kong, 30th April, 1932,

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NOTICE.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD........

their customers

A few years ago the question of better utilisation of electricity way earnestly considered, and the Central Electricity Board was formed.

The Board is a sensi- official body, on the lines of a number of the most modern British undertakings, designed to give the public, the benefit of private enter- prise and initiative, and at the same time retain Govertimental direction and control. Its frat

promise to 34, NATHAN ROAD, ing stations, connected by powerful commenting on Sunday, May 1st. transmission lines" known as the

(2142)

Grid, was prepared.

The country was divided into

traders Great

The parents of the twins carried the children from the wardroom to the quarter-deek. The children went through the ceremony without a

of protest.

MUTĶAUT

He holds that warm currents of varying intineity wash the Irish. French and Spanish coasts as a re ault of an "Atlantic tide" flowing north and south in summar and winter between the mouth of the Amazon and the Gulf of Guinen.

The Atlantic, he says, consists of two vast layers one of cold; not-

broken heart than admit he hurt

spank her and put her to bed

May be but it does not stop them. suing for headt-balm.

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Use of Italian In Malta.

The question of the removal of Italian from the list of compulsory subjects in the shools of Multa is to be raised in the Italian Sonate, Signor Grandi, the Foreign Minis ter, will be asked:

"What action, if any, the Ita lian Government propcess to take. in respect of the British Govern- ment's proposal to abolish the teaching of Italian in the Maltese elementary schools and to sup- press the use of the Italian langu- age in the criminal courts! The question is introduced by twelve Senators, including two former Ministers of Education. It is expected that its discussion in the Senate will bring to a bead: the whole problem of Italian interfer ence in Maltese concorns.

Local Notes and Events *

manufacturers. and throughout the country. the utilisation of this enormous terday quoted at is. 28/44. on. de Britain His not moved quickly in

The Hong Kong dollar was yes- power which the scientists and technicians, have given to us, but now that the problem has been faced" it is being dealt theroughly and completely.

with

POPULAR POLICE OFFICIAL.

MR. P. P. J. WODEHOUSE RETIRING.

In 1910 Mr. Wodehouse was made

A Companion of the Order of the

man

As from May 1, the Kowloon branch of Messrs. Lane, Crawfords will be at 94, Nathan Road and not in the Dairy Farm premises.

Salisbury Road, Kowloon, regret that owing to suitable promises bo ing unavailable at present, they will close the Cheero" Naval and Military Branch on April 30. They hope to re-open it in October.

The Directora of the Y.M.CA,

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BACK FROM THE WAR!

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE -

PARTY RETURN.

After spending two months. His Excellency the Offter "Ad-tending to the wounded soldiers, in ministrating the Government. has

The offices and stations of the Accompanied by his wife the Hon. been pleased to appoint Mr. C. the French Concession, Shanghai, Chinese Maritime Customs for Mr. F. 6. Boyce, member of the Me. 1. Mesar, to be a director of the remaining members of the St. Kowloon and District will be closed! Legislative Council of New South the Widows and Orphane Pen-

to public business on May 5 be1 Wales, arrived here by the E. and sion Fund during the time he holds John Ambulance Brigade returned ing a Customs holiday..

A. &. Nellore on Thursday, from the office of Colonia! Treasurer. to the Colony on the RMS. Eme Japan. They are on a pleasure trip through the East.

The Devonian Society of Hong press of Japan yesterday Kong held its eleventh annual, din

f

The

The official opting of the Chin- one: Marchants Land Investment

nor on Saturday evening at the party consisted of 18, men and 24 and Construction Co. Ltd, wil At Kowloon Magistracy yesterday

Hong Kong Hotel and the fune-nurses and Brigade Offcer Wong Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, A.S.P., take place at 11.30 am. to-day on a driver, employed by the Kowloon tion passed of with, its customary Shu Wa Susinces was to en-ordinate the

will retire from the Hong Kong the third floor of Gloucester Build- Motor Bus Co, was fined #10 whanaudos Shelton Hooper Government Service when he sailing many existing electrical under for Home on May 27, Born-locally

he was summoned for failing to presided, and Mr. Mowbray S.. During their stay in Shanghai, the takings and develop a national in 1887,, Mr. Wodehouse started his

keep to the left side of the road Northcote the hon. secretary members of the Brigade handled The annual general meeting of In another caso Ng Young, the cupied the vice-chair-Hong Kong

300 cases.

most of the they are removing their Kow-supply. A plan for covering the long and total service with the members of the Hong Kong General driver of a hand-truck, was, suas Daily Press, April: 80, 1901-10

patients unf Government at the early age of 19 Chamber of Commerce will be held moned for damaging the road by Looking back. 50 years, sen pworthy of note that only one death loon Branch from the Dairy Faountry with a network of generate and during his 35 years of service in the offices of the Chamber, har overloading the track, It was scat The intelligence received yester. 90currad

Afaring from fractures, and it is he bha cooupied many important, and tered Bank Building, on Thursday od that the defendant, had no less in Nathan Road on April 14 by responsible positions with much May 8, nú 4.18 p.m. credit.

then three tons of material in the day through Router's wagenos, vis

The Motor Ambulances and all calculated to make the friends, af truck. A fine of $20 was imposed. Irland stand aghast. That run surplus medical supplies taken to Indian Empire for services render the police by Mrs. J. Wright of In ognsection with the formation rage, were becoming common every nose Red Cross, Hospital there be-

According to a report mada, to

less assassination and brutal out Shanghai were presented to, the Chi- ed during the military operations, The Fosk, some person stole s and during 1918 and 1919 he acted silver cigarette biz valued at 300 of an Auto" Company of the day occurrences in the Green Inte ns A.D.C., in addition to his outer from, the arsudah of her house Hong Kong Volunteer Defence we knew well suaughs, het ons ter fore the departure for Hong Kong duties, to Sir Henry May and Sir sometime between 1 am, and 145 Corps, we understand that twenty-rible, moral, deterioration which Claud Severn, "AAA",

a,m, on Thursday.

eight men have been sworn in at long continued disorder and im The Brigade were the Mr. Wodehouse is a keen football

Volunteer Headquarters and it is munity from the consequsages of of many trophies, cups, and enthusiast and has taken considers

confidently anticipated that this crime appear to have wrought has Among the passengers arrived on number will be increased in the never, hitherto been brought home

which were presented able interest in the manngontent the President Tait yesterday was near future. The Company will be to the minds of Britons living associations: in Shanghai, of the game in Hong Kong, being a Rear Admiral E. B. Fenner, who issued with distinctive uniform, and abroad, as the last daring erime Football Association. Vice-President of the Hong Kong is returning to America to take a cable has been sent to Australia committed, will force it. In broad over the U. S. Light Craisers, Divi; for a supply of slouch hate charac-daylight, in, Phoenix Park, Duba

the Citizens Bo alon & Admiral Fenner has been tersitic of the Australian Imperial in the Chief Secretary and the tion, International in charge of the Naval Base In Force. It is Boped to have the Under Socratary of Bata for mittee. Chinese Y Manile minos November last year, Company fitted out in time for the Ireland are suddenly set upon and tain to Roar Adül

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