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[OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWELFTH ORDIN ARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Lounge adjoining the Company's Restaurant, 1st. Floor, Exchange Building, Hong Kong, ou ATUR DAY. 9TH JUNE, 1984, at 1F o'clock A.M.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

Company will be CLOSED from 24. MAY, 1931 to 97 JUNE, 1931, both days inclusiva.

By Order of the Board of Directors, A. W. BROWN,

Manager & Secretary,

Hong Kong, 23rd May, 1934.-

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OTICE is hereby given that the ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Share- hollors will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hone Kong, on MONDAY, the 17th JUNE, 1934, at 11.30 am.. for the purpose of receiv. ing the Report of the Directora together with Statement of Accounts for the year endel 30th April, 1934.

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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

•Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY. 1st day of JUNE, to MONDAY, the 11th day of JUNE, 1931, both days inclusive. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managore.

Hong Kong, 24th May, 1934.

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NOTICE. REGISTRATION OF PERSONS ORDINANCE, 1934.

1-Attention is drawa, to the provisions of the above Ordinanca which comes into force on 1st June, 1934.

2. Unless specially exempted in writing by the Inspector General of Putica or exempted by Section 2 (5) of the Ordinance every alien other than an alien of Chinese isce who is resident in the Colony at the com mencement of this Ordinance is required to report the fact in person or in writing for registration at Police Headquarters within" опе enth of such commencement, and every such person who arrives in the Colony or who changes his ordinary residential or business address dr who is about to leave the Colony is required to report the fact as Police Headquarters within seventy-two hours after every such arrival or within one week before every such change of "address or intended departure.

3. In any case of doubt a person ahall be deemed to be an alien unless and until he produces a certificate, passport or other evidence to the satisfaction of the Inspector General of Police or of a Magistrate to the effect that he is a natural born or naturalised British subject,

4.The Registration Office at Police Headquarters will be open between the hours of 9 am and 1 p.m, on week days.

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was

the time of the outbreak of

and the. Manchurian trouble; advice which he then tendered to was Government the Chinese generally believed to have been of a political character, and certainly regarded with suspicion and dislike in Tokyo. There is no evidence that since his assumption of his new post as Technical Agent China Dr. of the League Rajchmann has departed from the Li entirely non-political spirit which he was enjoined by the China Committee of the Council But his to carry out his duties. appointment; and the fact that Japan is not represented on the China Committee of the Council of the League, still seem to make Japan look askance upon the work

London Office: 53, Fleet Street which is being done in China.

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HONG KONG, MAY 30, 1934.

MODERNIZING CHINA

at Japan originally supported Geneva the idea of technical aid being proffered to China; and it was only the withdrawal of ber membership which prevented her from being chosen a member of the Committee. It is evident from a study of Dr. indeed

the Rajchmann's Report that Chinese are very' definitely being Own taught to develop their resources on an unprecedented scale. Old-established foreign con. cerns of every nation will have to take into account this extremely In its matter-of-fact way, the unportant development, and here report of the League of Nations' and there there must no doubt be Technical Agent" telis a fascinat-losses and displacements; but on ing story of the modernization of the whole it seems most likely that and prosperous a great and ancient civilization, a reorganized though the work is at present in China will in the long run create the stage of promise rather than an enormously augmented market of performance. The process of for foreign imports-especially, as centralization was first seriously this Report shows, for agricultural begun by the Chinese Government Implements and for the machinery when it established its National used in the manufacture of cotton Economic Council in 1931. In May goods.

The implements previously em- of that year the National Govern- ment felt temporartly free from played in agriculture were usually of a primitive sort, and the general the menace of a major civil war, and its flag was dying over a great conditions in this, as in other *are ati! extremely part of Central, Northern, and industries,

The Commission for" Youth-West China. The country backward. seemed more quiet and peaceful the rationalization of the cotton and it therefore determined to set industry finds itself in a more about the re-organization of its hopeful position than most of the vast resources on more modern agencies in the industrialfeld. lines.

But a flood of disastrous Cotton is more heavily capitalized magnitude in the Yangtze Vallcy and employs more labour than any and the Japanese invasion of the other of the growing Industriea;

harian, Provinces, distracted and China, unlike Jaran or Great

the attention of Nanking; and last Britain, can not only support the year year it was decided to ask industry- but, can also produce the council of the Langue to form raw material. Eleven of the

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a special China Committee and to Chinese provinces possela all the send to China & centralizing natural characteristics suitable for technical expert.

Browing cotton; but at present the The League appointed Dr supply is inadequate for the Rajchmann, a member of its staff spindles Manufacturers who make of Polish origin, who had shown anything but the coarsest, cloth great ability as Director of the Are still obliged to buy abroad. Health section of the Secretariat Water conservancy is a technical to and who had previously paid an task of immense importance official visit to Chins. His ap- China, and here foreign help Has pointment had everything to been particularly welcome. In the Tecommend it on technical course of centuries the rivers have grounds; but it is remembered washed down so much silt that against him by Japan that be they constantly overflow; one offender, the Hwal, happened to be at Nanking at the particular

OBITUARY

Admiral Hughes

Washington, May 29. The death has occurred"of Ad- miral Charles Frederick Hughes. of the United States Navy.--Reuter.

Large Gathering At Funeral

zame

The funeral of the late Mr. A. M. B. Rocha whose sudden death was reported In our columns of yesterday, took place at the Catho- lic Cemetery Happy Valley the the evening. Practically whole of the Portuguese commun- ity was present, as well as Mr. L C. F. Bellamy, Mr. W. F. Simmons. Mr. A. E Coates and á detachment from the Portuguese Company of the Hongkong Volunteers,

member. which deceased was a Two buglers from the South Wales Borderers sounded the "Last Post."

of

The Rev. Fr. Page officiated and

the chief mourner was the father, Mr. A. J. C. Rocha.

number of

Among the large floral tributes sent were those from "His Sorrowing Wife" (which with him). Aida, was buried Octavio, Annie and Frankle, Amalia and Henri, Tony and Frank, Hen- rique and Frederico, Bally, Betty. Olga and Granny, Maria Teresa da Rocha and A. J. da Cruz Rocha, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. F. Bellamy, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Coates, Mr. and Mrs. W. K Way, Mr. and Mrs. E O. P. Hyndman, Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Rodger, "Mr. and Mrs. 8. A. Lopes, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Rodrigues, Mr. and Mrs. V. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lee, Miss L. G. Ablong, Mr. and Mrs. F. A, M. Rosario, Mrs. A. Cosano, "Dr. and Mrs. F. S. Fern- ando, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Pomeroy, Mr. and Mrs. F. de Barros and family, Mr. P. Gill, Mrs. A. E. Mat- thews and family, Mr. M. T. WH- Hams and family. Mr. and Mrs. Kay and family, Mr. and Mrs. C J. friggs, G. M. de S. F. d'As- sumpeão and sisters, E, B. da Luz Remedios and Paulo M. Remedios, Messrs. V. R. Gordon, E. Mitford, W. J. Howard, A.. A. Xavier, L. V. Xavier, G. W. Yipp, Ho Ming Hin, W. 8. Glendenning. D, G. McAvoy, J van Seventer, L. Z. Marques, H. W. Hammond, B. R. Kew, EL F. Bunje, and Dr. K. D. Ling.

Officers, N.C.O.'s and men of the Corps. Infantry and No. 10 Flatoon (Portuguese Joy. HK.V.D.C.) Hong- kong Tramways, Ltd, Officers and Men of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, Members of the Sergeants Mess, H.K.V.D.C., Com- mittee and members of the Vic toria

Recreation Club, Chinese staff, Store Department, Shroff Department, and Book Office Staff of the Hongkong Tramways, Ltd. and Craigengower Cricket Club.

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which lies, between the Yangtsze and the Yellow River, has never had a regular outlet to the sea. Due to the fact that that the has never Chinese Government. made up its mind whether provide it with its own proper river-bed or to try to induce it to flow into the Yangtsze this river is continually trespassing. more often than not with disastrous results. The greatest progress o far made has been in regard to famine relief and to transport. Too much, from the industrial point of view, is still carried by wheel-barrow, or on donkeys, or the human back; but the mileage of roads and the mechani-

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