NEW 'ADVERTISEMENTS' ADVERTISEMENTS
A. S. WATSON & CO..' LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that. the FIFTY. SECOND Annual ́Ordinary Gen eral Meeting of the Company Isince its registration) will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, the 20th April, 1937, at 11.30 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st October, 1936.
The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from Thursday, the 15th day of April to Wednesday, the 21st day of April, 1937, both days inclusive, during which period no transter of shares can be registered.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers, Hong Kong, 6th April, 1937.
CONVITE.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the at the Society will be held HEAD OFFICE, Union Build. ing. Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 16th APRIL, 1937 at 2.30 o'clock P.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1936, and of declaring Dividend, etc.
The
SHARE TRANSFER
BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 29th MARCH to 16th APRIL, Both Days Inclu sive.
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By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.
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FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LTD:
·SHAREHOLDERS
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NOTICE TO
HEAD
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTY, EIGHTH ORDINARY YEAR. LY MEETING of the Company will be held at Its OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on. FRIDAY, 16th APRIL, 1937, at 2.50 p.m., for the pur- pose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1936, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company wih be CLOSED from 29th MARCH to 16th APRIL, Both Days inclu-
offer sive.
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. & Co., Dept. B.D. Westminster Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.
Series, all records broken. Lewis
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THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
The Fifty-sixth Ordinary Gen. eral Meeting of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Messrs. Jar- dine," Matheson & Co., Ltd., Podder Street, Hong Kong, on Thursday, 8th April, 1937, at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and elect- ing Directors and Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 1st to 22nd April Inclusive.
By order of the Board, . JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Managers.
Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.
THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION.
To the Executors, Administra. tors or next of Kin of Essabhoy. Sheik · Abdul-Kader of Hong Kong, deceased.
BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
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SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SEVENTY- FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 16th «APRIL, 1937, at 2.55 p.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1936,
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ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS.
BRITISH MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, TIENTSIN
MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATION No. 6/37
G.
R.
VACANCY FOR LADY SUPERINTENDENT OF HOSPITALS
The British Municipal Council, Tientsin, invites applications from British ladies for the posi tion of Lady Superintendent of its Municipal Hospitals, which will become vacant during the summer of the present year.
Applicants should give full details of their training, posts beld; special experience, etc., in their letters of application, to gether with copies of recent testimonials.
Other things being equal pre ference will be given to can didates who have had previous experience as Hospital matrons or superintendents; particularly those who can show evidence of ability to administer hospitals in a business-like, efficient economical manner.
and
The successful candidate will
and of declaring Dividend, etc. receive a commencing salary of The SHARE TRANSFER $450 (consisting of $300 "basic BOOKS of the Company will be salary plus $150 "Repatria CLOSED from 29th MARCH to tion, Pay") per month, com. 16th APRIL, Both Days inclu mencing from the date upon which she takes up her duties in Tientsin, together with free board and lodging, uniform allowances, etc.
sive.
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937,
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HONG KONG-SHANGHAI
CONFERENCE
Foreign & Chinese Shippers.
NOTICE is hereby given that as from the 15th April, 1937, rates of freight from Hong Kong to Shanghai will be increased 20 per cent, over current rates. "
NOTICE is hereby given that the twelve shares in this Car. poration numbered 94360 to 94369 inclusive and 94372 and 94373 registered in the name of Essabboy Sheik Abdal Kader of Hong Kong (now deceased) have Tariffs showing current rates by a Resolution of the Board of as from the 15th April, 1937, are Directors pursuant to Regulation now in course of preparation and
10 (5) of the Regulations of the will be issued shortly.
Corporation been duly forfeited.・ Dated this fifth day of April, 1937.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD.
Secretaries, Hong Kong-Shanghai Freight
Conference. Hong Kong, 1st April, 1937.
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By Order of the Directors,
(Sgd.) V. M. GRAYBURN,
-Chief Manager.
She will be on probation for a period of six months from the date of taking up her duties.
BRITISH MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, TIENTSIN
MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATION No. 5/37
G.
VACANCY FOR
FIRE BRIGADE
SUPERINTENDENT
The British Municipal Council, Tientsin, invites applications from British Subjects for the position of Superintendent for its Fire Brigade, which will become vacant in the latter half of the present year.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
UNION, INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED. (Incorporated in Hong Kong)
Editorial and Business Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central Tel. 30251.
Night Editor (Wanchal Omcá);
Tel 24511.
London Office: 63, Fleet Street.
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The Daily Press.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the Ordinary | ~1 Yearly Meeting of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited, which will be held at the Registered Office of the Society, Union Building, Vic. toria, Hong Kong, on Friday, the 16th day of April, 1937, at 2.30 p.m., there will be proposed the sub-joined resolution as an ordinary resolution, viz:--
HONG KONG, APEIL 8, 1957.
DISFIGURING
HONG KONG
HEAVY OIL FOR AIRCRAFT
Increased Use In Germany
NON-INFLAMMABLE FUEL
'Heavy-oil engines are being" fitted to the Junkers 86 long- range bomber, a fact important as evidence of the practicability of this type of engine even for a military long-range seroplare.
Eleven German air liners are fitted with heavy-oll engines, and. have no doubt afforded much ex- perimental operational data. The
Dornier German
"20" eight- Atlantic fying engined 57-ton
has
**If you would please remove a few of those hoardings I'd take a few shots of that bouding boat, soon to be launched,
heavy-oll engines. and a few others, too," was the
A British firm makes. under significant remark made by one licence. a German heavy-off nero of the Australian Rotarians who engine. and three of these have
"Perth" Aying boat, which, how-
A
sailed south yesterday with the been fitted experimentally in good-will mission which has con-ever, has not yet undergone trial plated successful tour of the fights with them. Far East.
Often have we left just as that visitor felt when, standing in one
At least two British heavy-olă. aero engines have been developed. but none is in "production.
For aircraft, such engines are
That it is desirable to capi. talise the sum
of £270,000 being part of the unallocated reserves of the Society and for that purpose:- (a) That a call of £2 Per share be and is hereby made on the shareholders of the Society as appearing on the Register of Mem- bers on the 16th day of April, 1937 and that such call shall be payable on of the main thoroughfares flank an attractive proposition because the 10th day of May, 1937 ed by handsome and sometimes they offer a greatly reduced risk. to the Society at its Regis picturesque buildings, tve have of fire, lower fuel-consumption, tered Office, Union Build wondered why it is that the which offsets the Increased weight of the engine, smaller tankage Ing, Victoria, Hong Kong. Government seems a little callous space, and lower cost of fuel.
They need no (b) That for the purpose of to the aesthetic by permitting paying the aforesaid call hoardings, which possess in size of £2 per share a special what they grievously lack in ar- dividend of £2 per share tistry, to so disfigure this world- be and is hereby declared famed city. payable on the 10th day of May, 1937 and that such special dividend be applied by the Directors on behalf of the persons who on the 16th day of April, 1937 were the holders of such shares in satisfaction of the said call of £2 per share and that such special dividend shall accordingly
Not only in the bub of Hong Kong but in less thronged arena of the Colony and the New Terri- tories do these vast hoardings make the landscape hideous."
Why is it?
magneto.
and
are therefore immune from radio
+
interference. They have no sparking plugs, and are thus
free from the kind of trouble
which recently delayed the start of the Empire dying boat, "Cas- tar," for nearly two days...
it bas
LESS RISK OF FIRE Of these advantages, the pro- mise of much reduced risk of fire 13. perhaps the greatest, for be zides averting much loss of life.
important material, and therefore financial bearings. Many an aeroplane accident would have far less serious results but for the outbreak of fire. The crash of a Douglas air liner at Croydon in December last was # case in point, and the already long list is ever lengthening.
This la so serious that the. Aiz Ministry has been urged to issue as immediately an afnouncement that at a date five, or even fewer".
We inquired of a leading thea tre manager, and, with depre- catory, shrug of the shoulders, he answered, "Well, I guess one fool makes many. Not that one be treated for all purposes person in an hundred over steps ''aj an increase in the out onto the street to risk getting amount of the paid up run-over to look at them, but started the hoarding capital of the Society held someone. by each such shareholder racket and the rest of the "and" not as 'income.
'mugs' followed."
That scarcely satisfies our in-years hence they will require that vehicles, telligence, even though it might al pubile service. air amuse our intellect. We realize except small air taxis, must use a fuel of a non-Inflammable charac- that in all parts of the world ter. This would, of course, include where products are sold in a big heavy-oll engines. way, then the hoarding is, used as a complimentary advertising would stimulate the development of heavy-oll aero engines of small
point-that medium is used with few remaining problems would expert discrimination. Here in soon be solved, and the drawback so far, heavy-ofl engines Hong Kong the hoarding is not that used, it is simply flagrantly duration fights, and that they offer' but little economy in short- abused through the monotonously are apparently unsuitable for indiscriminate manner in which fighter and other high-perfor
aircraft would Soon be it is plastered here, there and mance everywhere impertinently:
The commencing salary will
By Order of the Board, be $600 (consisting of $400
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. "basic salary" plus $200 "Re Patriation Pay") per month with Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937. ́free-quarters,... from the date of taking up the appointment in Tientsin.
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Such an order, it is claimed.
The successful candidate will THE HONG KONG, CANTON medium, but and this is the as well as great power, so that the
AND MACÃO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, "LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
be on probation during the first six months of his service. At the end of the probationary period, if his services hæve been
SHAREHOLDERS: satisfactory, he will be given a four year contract ander which,
Notice is hereby given that in addition to the above-men- tioned emoluments, he will be the ONE HUNDRED AND entitled to the benefits of the SEVENTEENTH ORDINARY Superannuation Fund, travelling and uniform allowances etc.
Applicants should give in their letters of application full details of their experience,, training, positions previously held, and also copies of recent testimonials. It is essential that the candi- date be able to speak the Chinese dialect) language (Northern Quently.
Applications should be forward- ed so as to reach the undersigned not later than 12 o'clock (noon) on Tuesday, 22nd Junc, 1937.
By Order,
H. F. BARNES, Secretary and Engineer.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
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At the end of the probationary | COUNCIL ROOM, period, if her services have been TIENTSIN, 11th March, 1937. satisfactory, she will be given' a' four-year contract, under which, in addition to the above-mention- ed emoluments, she will be entitled to the benefits of the Superannuation Fund, Leave Pay, Travelling allowances, etc.
Applications should be forward
as to reach the undersigned not later than 12 o'clock (noon), on Tuesday 25th May, 1937.
By Order,
The Third Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Satur. day, 10th April, 1937, commenc log at 2.00 p.m.
There was a time in Britain
.removed.
MEETING of Shareholders in when, hoardings having become the Company will be held at the so prolific and grotesque, that in the architecture of the city, office of the Company, Queen's such a public outcry was raised that a visitor is to be congratu Building, Victoria, Hong Kong, as to result in special legislation lated on pitying a people with so little genuine civic pride. Ad- on Monday, the 12th April, being passed to not only cons- 1937, at noon, for the purpose dorably restrict hoardings but mittedly there should be hoard- of receiving a Report of the also to impose a very and rightly ings, but in reasonable numbers. Directors, together with a State strict censorship on this artistic These unsightly boardings give ment of Accounts, and re and moral tone of the displays to the main thoroughfares of Hong Kong and Kowloon the on all hoardings. electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of In Hong Kong the hoarding appearance of rows of side-shows- the Company will be CLOSED situation is one of the worst ad- at a very provincial fair. Their can conceive. colouring and lettering shriek so from the 6th to the 12th April, vertisements we
If, for instance, some of the much that we can.only liken the 1837, both days inclusive."
By Order of the Board of controllers of some of the famous whole lot to a massive bag of "lines" advertised on the hoard-crackers which cause a hidenos H. DA LUZ, inge of Hong Kong would only din, leaving behind nothing more
Secretary.
make the time to prosecute a attractive than a nasty smell and Hong Kong, 27th March, 1937. personal inspection here, we feel "
a heap of debris.
It is for the Governinant to 5147 confident they would be greatly
puzzled by the mentality of a tackle the matter, because people who tolerated auch mag-great many of these hoardings" sive crudeness in a form of ad- are completely incongruous to vertising which repels rather than their surroundings. In a vast Chinese merchants here have compels. But wait, maybe such number of instances they repre- been virtually unable from trading advertising docs compel-criti sent extravagance rather than expenditure; in most instances in Japanese goods as the result of cism.
If there was any commercial they represent the acme in ad- pressure brought to bear on Japan- ese trading agents by the Chinese justification for such a bewilder-vertising impotency.
Directors.
MERCHANTS IN DIFFICULTY
Tientsin, Apr. 7.
venting smuggling.
Customs officials in charge of pre-ing mass of hoardings as contri- This is a glaring instance where Their efforts to ferret out bute to eye-ache in Hong Kong, the Government can perform a smuggled goods have included then there might possibly be fine service to the community in scouring shops in the Chinese some excuse; but, unrestrained general and business in partion- The First Bell will be rung at quarter and the British concession. by expert authority, the hoarding far, because by legislating in
1.30 p.m..
H. F. BARNES, Secretary & Engineer.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 5th April, 1937.
COUNCIL ROOM, :" TIENTSIN, 11th March, 1937.
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All Japanese goods are being con- fiscated on suspicion of having en tered Ching through illicit trazis actions. On the pretext of ex- amining customs licences, officials are even taking awap display in shop windows. 5171 Union News.
goods on
can become a menace, as actually Hong Kong along the restrictive eventuated in Britain before the lines adopted in Britain, then necessary, restrictive legislation the community will be given a was imposed. There are so more dignified and attractive many hoardings obliterating city, and the advertisers will be whatever beauty
e might be saved from themselves, -
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