1933-12-29 — Page 7

SANDAKAN LIGHT &

POWER CO.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY DECEMBER 29, 1933.

COL. J. H. MORRIS

DUE HERE

OVERSEAS LEAGUE

Assistant Director of And What It Is

Chairman Explains Loss At Supply and Transport

Annual Meeting

A debit balance of $997.46 was revealed by the Annual Re- port of the Sandakan Light and Power Company which held their annual meeting yesterday in the Board Room of Messrs. Shewan Tomes and Company, presided over by Mr. A. L. Shields,

Supporting the Chairman were the Hon Mr. J. P. Braga and. Mr. S. M. Churn (Director) Mr. D. W. Munton (Consulting" En- gineer) and Mr. Noel Braga (Secretary). There were the fol- lowing shareholders present; Messrs. J. Toppin, H. Braga, F. J. Tavares, A. M. · Braga, I. W. Shewan and Tse Tзan Tel.

The Chairman said:-

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costs in any event.

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Gentlemen.--The accounts hav- Ing been in your hands for the Our Manager and Resident En- prescribed period, I will take themgineer reports that the plant, as read.

buildings and distribution system are in a good state of repair and

"I must refrain from prophesying about the immediate future of the Company, but I venture to hope that business cannot get any worse. Exchange and fuel costs

The balance at Credit of Work- ing Account, after allowing $25,- | enclency. 514.00 for depreciation, and also General Managers' Commission, amounts to 87,342.52, as against 831.122.72 for the previous year.

The Profit and Loss Account, you will observe, shews a debit balance of 8097.46, as compared with a credit balance of 820,171.39 last year.

Revenue has dropped by Straits 83,134.00 during the year, and, as the `average exchange rate has been higher, the figures in Hong "Kong dollars have been adversely

affected.

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are factors which may affect our current year's results, and I hope the Government and community of Sandakan will give us their fullest possible support in our en.. deavours to supply light and power at

fair ratës, considering the limited field at our disposal,

I now propose the adoption of report arid accounts as pre- seated, and when that has been seconded I will endeavour to an- swer any questions from " "share-

The number of units sold for lighting is down by 10 per cent. and although power units are up by 1.3 per cent, combined revenueholders.

Doing

PUBLIC MONEY VOTES

Several Minor Items For To-day

Steam Rollers

Items totalling $27,795, parti- culars of which will be found be- The new Assistant Director' of An Interesting address was low, are due to come ap before Supplies and Transport to the given last night by Ms. L. Carr at the Finance Committee of the Le- China Command Col. J. H. Mor- the Helena May Institute where gislative Council to-day. They ris, D.SO., OB. E, is expected to those interested in the League ga-re as follows:- arrive here on January 11, He alls thered to bear all about the work Upkeep of Motor and the place of the late Col and the aims of this splendid 'so- Kinnaird Watson.

ciety which is doing so much Col, Morris joined the regulars good. After tea had been served from the Militia and from 1903 the Hon. ED.C. Wolfe introduced until 1905 was 2nd Lieut. in the the speaker and told the gather Army Service Corps, being promoting something about the work ed to the rank of Lieut. in March which Mr. L. Garr as the secre of the latter year. He received tary of the league was doing. the appointment of Captain in Mr. Wolfe said that Mr. Carr November 1911, and when the was travelling in the Far East war broke out was transferred to with the view of furthering the the R.AS.C. with the rank of Ma-cause of the League He has al- jor. In January, 1919, he received ready put much hard work and the brevet of Lieut. Colonel, the has been successful in enrolling appointment being substantiated many members. in 1829.

Col Morris has held many posts with the Arms, being Deputy As sistant Director of Supplies and Transport of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Egypt, and the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, being appointed Assistant Director in 1915. This post he held until 1919 when hé, returried to Eng- land. From 1923 until February. 1927, he was Deputy Assistant Director of Supplies to the War Office. A

4.

"For service in the South African War he was awarded the Queen's South African Médal with the Cape Colony, Transvaal. "South Africa (1901) and South Africa, (1902)

Is lower by 7 per cent So far The Hon. Mr. J: P. Braga sec-Clasps.

there is no sign of improvement | onded the adoption of the report. Col. Morris saw service in Fran- in trade in Sandakan.

and accounts.

The available supplies of saw- dust and frewood for fuel afe decreasing, and we are now con- sidering substitutes. This wil in crease the generating cost, but close attention is being given to the efficiency of the plant in order to keep the fuel bill as low as possible. It may be found econo- mical to run" the light load. period with an oil engine, but we are faced with higher generating

Re-election of Hon Mr. J. P. Braga, and Mr. C. A. da Roza as Directors, was confirmed on the proposal of Mr. Tsë Tian Tai and seconded by Mr. F. J. Tavares.

On the proposal of Mr. H. Braga, seconded by Mr. J. Toppin Mesars, Lowe, Bingham and Matthews and Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming were re-elected as Audi- tors at a remuneration of 8350) each per annum.

A SUPERB MRS. A LIFE IN AIR

SIDDONS

Sybil

Thorndike In New Play

There are two ways of writing plays about great historical char- acters. One is to make it one's first concern that the play, shall be good, and force the character to conform. This method is rare- ly used, but is invariably success- ful

The other, more usual, method is to concentrate on the character and let the play look after itself. This only succeeds when the character chosen has bad the fore- thought to live a life like a play, which seldom happens.

11 It did not happen with Mrs. Siddons-and therefore Naom! Royde-Smith, in the play about her which was produced yesterday at the Appollo for a charity ma- tinée, has been wrong to use the second method.

The authoress depends through-

ut not on her story, bub on one's personal interest in Mrs, Siddons.

The story is there. It is the

FORCE

Sport More Risky Than Flying

-

The most dangerous occupation

ce and Belgium during the Great War from October, 1914, to Octo- ber, 1915, in the latter year going to Egypt with the Egyptian Exped- itionary Force. He was mention ed in despatches on three occa- sions and holds the British War Medal, the Victory Medal and the D.8.0.

were annuai

$600.00

81,200.00. The increased expenditure is principally due to heavy repairs and replacements which found necessary at the examination of the rollers. Incidental Expenses Protection of Plantations. Services of a Public Work's Department lorry

Upkeep of departmental

car

Fire Brigade: Water Tox-

VALOR

BRITISH Made

OIL HEATERS

$22.50

30.00

10.00

er" and Fire Incape' ... 23,900.00 Then Mr. Carr got up to speak

The Motor Turntable. Water and thanked those assembled for Tower and Fire Escape were or- the warm welcome extended to dered through the Crown. Agents im and the keen interest taken in 1932 and a vote of 880,000 was in his work. Travelling in many provided in 1932 Estimates or strange parts, Mr. Carr. has often this sum only $32,510.58 was paid" passed through various places as last year: A yote of $29,900 is a lonely stranger not knowing therefore requested to meet the anyone but still always further balance of the cost of the machine. the interests of the League.

•Transport

12.00 Talking of his various experien-Foilce Force-Light ces he told the audience many amusing experiences that he has Fire Brigade, Light and

Electric Fans

$1,500.00

'been' through one of which was Electric Fans

$550.00 especially good.

21.

And

A FINE BAG

Four Lions And A Lioness

Four lions and a lioness ware

In 1929 when he was travelling across Canada,, he came to one town where after addressing & meeting he sat down. A collec- tion was taken and on putting something into this Mr. Carr na- turally turned to the chairman bagged by a party of shikaris, and asked what he had the hoa-which included three young ladies our to subscribing to. To provide from the family of the Gaekwar of better speakers. next year," came Baroda in a shooting expedition the answer. The aim of the lea- in the Dhari forests. gut is "to bind us all together to make us get to know each other by Princess Vimala-Raje.

The largest of the lions was shot

and to help the Empire forward"""The beasts had terrorized the vil Certámly now there are members lagers of Amreli Mahal, in all parts of the world ranging from the wild prairies to the long- ly light-houses on the outposts of

"AUNT SALLIES" the world and even in the mines

OF G.B.S.

Verbal Shafts From "On The Rocks”

The two best scenes in Mr. Shaw's political fantasy, On the Rocks," which was produced at the Winter

8,000-rt. under

the

of under ground..

The first idea of the League really generated in the mind of

a young man of 22 in S.Africa

but nothing was done towards it

until 1906 when Sir J. John Wrench put the idea into genere-} lization by fowiting a link between

tries

War CreR- When the why "brodr out the society was still very young but

CHINESE IN LONDON

Boxer Students Are

#

Doing Well

London

in the Royal Air Force. has no Garden Theatre are the conversa nevertheless it mangred to collect Gladstone, Sir John, and Lady

thing to do with flying.

year

Flying accidents in the 1932 were responsible for killing or injuring only one out of every

party fasť nikagu HOLYSMI Cadogan, and la dors the guests included. Bir Roderick and Lady Jones, Lady

sations between the Prime Minister £1,000,000 from its members for Pratt. Dr. W. W. Yen and several and Mr. Hipney, the old Socialist the various war fund thembers of the Legation and For Leader from the Isle of Cats, on the society begun to grow in eiga Office, Mr. Qoo Thai-chi vis The following are some quote-leaps and bound The President spending his Christmas" in a short one officer or man out of every tions from Mr. Hipney's remarks:

"The Cabinet is full of Labour York The

of the Association is the Duke of holiday on the Riviera, with Dr twenty-seven was injured through

Vice President the taking part (mostly compulsorily) men that started as red-hot Socia-Prince of Wale and the Patton

lists; and what change has it made 1s His Majesty the king in games or physical recreation.

These interesting details are re-except that they're in and out of

The League is also trying to en- vealed in the annual report of the Buckingham Palace like peers of

courage trade the realm ???

229 members of the RAF. But

health of the R.A.F. for 1932, 'pub- lished recently,

that the number of accidents due From the report it is gathered

to the latter cause is increasing so steadily that it has now reached

ily subject to danger.

thing

Yen

Chinése students "will hold s large party on Déc. 22-at-China House when there will be a spesial entertaiment, and dancing. There Talking about more personal are now 227 members of China

stranger may come from a foreign and the Universities Com work they are establishing various House including over half the Ghi- premises clubs etc. where's "i nese student community of Great Britain Accommodation is over- Mittée is already considering mor~ ing into larger premises.

country and feel at homes at abcel

Already they penises in 21 different cities of the world in spite of deprem there has been a tremendous inca in member ship during the Beat the total being 1,500 higher than it was for the previous ye

"The Labour movement is rotten ple don't seem ever to read any with book learning; and your pea

"The only man that ever had. a nearly 50 per cent, of all accidents proper understanding of Parlia

ment was old Guy Fawkes.. in a service which, by its very na- Mark my words, same day there ture, must be more than ordinat-will be a statue to old Gay in In 1932 there were 1,139 cases of Westminster on the site of the injury from games or physical ex- present House of Commnas." ercises: in 1931 there were 1.089, "Democracy was a great thing and in 1930 there were 983. Foot- when I was young and we had no As regards the membership in ball was responsible for nearly vates it was a dream and a

Hong Kong them case S80 mem-

ged it down to earth, as you might appealed to those present. pay, and made it a reality by givin their power to

bership to 500 adal ing everybody votes."

Better one dictator standing ahead of Singapor up responsible before the world for the good and evil he does than a dirty little dictator in every street responsible to no body, to turn you out of your the right to exist." house if you don't pay him for

been received of the work of the nine British Borer students who arrived last October

Very safractory reports have

story of how Tom Lawrence, the three-quarters of the number of vision which lasted until they drog bers now, and to do i wents Union Christmas party last

ca563.

artist, loved Sarah Siddons with- out knowing it. Worshipping" the Equally noteworthy is the large mother's image in her two

to RAF proportion of accidents daughters, he fell in love first with

personnel caused by motor Sally and then with Maria, and vehicles. A record in this respect brought misery, to both. Only was set up in 1932, when there when "one is dead and the other were 468 cases. Of these twenty- about 'to die does he recognise his passion for what it is.

This is a theme for a nine play: but though Miss Royde-Smith takes what liberties she can with history, history is intractable. She has written a fine part, and one or two fine scenes. The play has her which escaped

probably means that it would have escaped anybody.

As Mrs. Biddons, Sybil Thornduce

is superb. Whenever one of these

one proved fatal, and twelve vic-| tims had to be invalided from the Service. Seventy-five per cent of the accidents occurred to those using motor-cycles.

"You can't frighten me with a word like 'dictator. Me and my like have been dictated to all our lives by swine that have nothing

TOCH BIRTHDAY but a snout for money,

FESTIVAL

life-size-and-a-half women has to Prince of Wales to be

be played Miss Thorndike steps in and claims it as by divine right. abe is moving in the last big scene; and... by contrast, she is gloriously funny in the domestic Interludes.

The two daughters are Atting- ly cast for, and neatly played by, Miss Thorndike's own two daugh- ters. Mary and Ann Casson Eric Portman is admirable sa Lawrence, John Laurie's Kemble is the right mixture of flamboyance and au thority, and Ralph Roberts does well as little Biddons, the partner of greatness.

BERKELEY

SQUARE"

at Albert Hall

(Special Air-Matt Hervice)

London, Dec. 8.

"The Jews didn't elect Moses; he just told them what to do, and they did it. Look at the way they went wrong the minute his buck was turned

Those

Mr. J. R. Woo his warm thanh behalf of those pr an excellent mu was then rendere

Mr. Schreuter Mrs. A Sánger,

Amongst those

A special reunion for them at Oxford in the new year is being arranged by Mr. Lionel Curtis and the Warden of All Souls College. At the Chinese Christian Stu the mem-Pay Limehouse nearly 300 put it entiren, of Chinese and. Anglo- -Chinage, parentage were entertain- to 22. Quiristmas tree and gifts..

Buvent chỉ was present.

GERMAN

COMBINE

Scheme Endorsed

Berlin December One of the biggest"; fusions" ever carried out

general

Mr. Wolfe, wirst Woite, “ Mús Wolfe, Mr. Bowbiggin, Mr. and Mrs Wood," Mrs. Davidson," Mr. and Mrs, Stopark Mr. and Thompson, Matei Mrs. Kolpli Mza Crossthwart Mix "Shirts are Uniform."

Wintworth Mr. and Mrs. Staple-and Sir Broadfoot Basham Chie! ton, Mr. Edwards Mr Nelson, Mrs, m Commissioner of Police has been De Biere, Kirs, Stubbings. Masi given some good things to say:

Falker, Miss Fa "An English crowd will never do Robertson: Mr, anything, mischievous or the rover 1

27 se, while it is listening to speeches,

Prof Bro "It seems easy to buy lot of Mrs. de Bilva The Prince of Wales will light black shirts, or brown shirta, or red the Lamps of Maintenance at the shirts, and give one to every hooli. Bu Toe H birthday festival at the can who, is out for any sort of misaren. Ca Royal Albert-Hall on: evening, December 9. The Arch-work who fancies himself a patriot

Saturday chief and every suburban out of Hayward, M

Miss Heap bishop of York will give an ad- But don't forget that the coloured dress, and there will be music by shirt is & uniform." the band of the Welsh Guards and community singing conducted by Sir Walford Davies. Earlier in the evening there will be a thanks- giving service in St. Paul's Cathe dral'

4 Very Comman Complaint.”

There is an outstanding scene al the end of the first act between the

Minister and the won

The festival will be continued healer, who tells him that he

and who is

the League.

on Sunday, December 10, and will | mffering from a “very - common include services at All Hallows by chunglinh complaint —an underwork on the the Tower In the afternoon thereed brain,

will be a "Family" Gathering”, st | Other quotations are

the Royal Horticultural Society's Games ars for peop New Hall Westminster

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