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HONGKEW WHARF
CO... LTD.
The Annual General Meeting
April, 1938.
Notice is hereby given that will be held in Shanghai on 14th the Annual General Meeting off the Members of this Association will be held at the offices of Messrs. Linstead & Davis, 1st| floor, Exchange Building, on Thursday, 31st March, 1938, at
5.30 p.m.
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Secretaries and Treasurers.
Transfer books will be closed from 5th April to 14th April inclusive.
A Gual dividend of $5.-per| share has been recommended.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.. General Agents.
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21st March, 1938.
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SOCIETY OF ST.
GEORGE,
HONG KONG,
The Annual General Meeting
UNION INSURANCE
SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
NOTICE TO
of the Society will be held in
SHAREHOLDERS.
the Board Room of The Hong
the
Kong Jockey Club, 1st floor, NOTICE IS HEREBY
WED. GIVEN that the ORDINARY |
YEARLY MEETING of Society will be held at the HEAD OFFICE, Union Bullding, Hong
Exchange Bullding, on NESDAY, 30th March, 1938, at 5.30 p.m.
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6624 Purpose of receiving the ReportA. S. WATSON & CO.. HONG KONG REALTY
CHINESE ESTATES,
LIMITED.
FIFTEENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTEENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEET- ING of SHAREHOLDERS wil be held at the Company's Office at China Buildings (5th floor), | Hong Kong, on Tuesday, the 5th April, 1938, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of receiving) the Report of the Directors and a Statement of Accounts for the year ending" the 28th February, 1938, and of electing two Direc tors and an Auditor.
of the Directors and the State- ments of Account to 31st Decem- ber, 1937, and of declaring DH} dend, etc.
By Order of the Board,
A.. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 14th March, 1938.
LIMITED.
NOTICE IS
HEREBY
AND TRUST CO., LIMITED. (Incorporated under the Com panies Ordinances of Hong Kong).
TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1938.
ADVERTISEMENTS." TERCENTENARY FIGHT AGAINST
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
of the
SERVICE
Scottish Covenant
MALARIA IN INDO-CHINA
ENCOURAGING RESULTS
natural hotbed for
The Fifty-seventh Ordinary General Meeting' of the Company lomal
In commemoration of the Na
Covenant, signed at Grey- will be held at the Offices of the friars on February 28, 1838, a General Managers, Messrs. Jar special service was held in Orey- dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., friars Church, Edinburgh, last
Indo-China, the French colony in Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on
Southern Asia, is 'n country which, month.
Every seat was occupied and owing to its situation, the com- Thursday, 31st March, 1938, at many stood throughout the ser position of its soll and its climate, noon, for the purpose of receiving vice.
From the grey stone pillars provides a the Report of the Directors, of the church hung the banners of malaria where the malaria mos- passing the Accounts, and elect the Covenanters.
quitoes, anopheles, find plenty of ing Directors and Auditors.
Twenty-five représentatives of breeding places, and where the The Transfer Books
the Cameronlan Regiment attend-population of certain, region is ed in memory of the founder of entirely infected by malaria. Company" will be closed from the
the regiment, Richard Cameron, .In December 1929, the Pasteur 24th March to 14th April Im who was a martyred Covenanter. Institute which has a world-wide clusive.
Dr. Hugh Watt, of New College, Įreputation and possesses three Edinburgh, delivered an address branches in Indo-China, at Balgon, and the Rev. Donald Maclean, | Hanol and Nha-Trang, was entrus- Moderator of the Free Church ofted with the organisation of the Scotland, also too part in the fight against malaria. service
The first important work to be In connections with the tercen-carried out was the preparation of tenary celebrations an exhibition is a map showing malaria areas in | being held in the National Library | Indo-China, so), as to obtain a of Scotland, Edinburgh, of books general idea of the altuation as it. arid manuscripts. The
ram's then existed. This was done, in
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By order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.. General Managers. Hong Kong, 11th March, 1938.
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skin on which the National Coven- 1930, by extensive research work. HUDDLESTON.-On March 15. ant was written is preserved in The information thus supplled led 1933, at The Country Hospital, good state in the City Museum. to the steps for dealing with Shanghai, Elizabeth Edna, aged
malaria which today are still for the most part in force.
two years, the dearly-beloved
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. will only be used further to stific Before the Pasteur Institute took Huddleston,
foreign trade in China by making up the fight against malaria in an MOUSLEY—On March 15, 1938, at Japan's own position more secure. intensive manner, private enter-
Shanghal. Helen Thompson,
resistance prises were already carrying out dearly-beloved wife of Harry Mousley.
be
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HONG KONG, MARCH 22, 1938.
Meanwhile, Chinese
I will be offered in increasingly systematic quininisation of their
stiffer doses. The vast resources of concerns.
the various provinces are being The chief railway companies. harnessed to this end as they never were the first to take up this were in the history of the country standpoint, which is easily ex- The process of gradual retreat of plained by the fact that otherwise the Chinese armies is not such a the workmen, when laying tracks terrible thing after all for China.which often pass through marahy It is far more dangerous for Japan localltles, would became ready To China's advantage is that occu-victims to mosquitos. pation of territory means its deve- |lopment.
The results of these particular measures are very favourable, as may be seen from the statements made on this subject by H. Morin and L.A. Bordes:
Actually, whatever the cost of the war in men, material and money it has during the past eight months had the effect of developing, the
"The practical and direct results interior of China more than had of the fight against malaria in taken place in the seven years pre Cochin-China are "most" encourag- ceding the war. Prolongation of ing. In Cochin-China, we have hostilities for another year will see seen that the depression itself has practically every province inter- helped the struggle with malaria, connected by road or rail, and with for the latter has effected certain the adced river transport facilities
economles. available in most parts of Chine
The "SHARE TRANSFER GIVEN that the FIFTY-THIRD BOOKS of the Society will be ORDINARY YEARLY MEET. CLOSED from 26th MARCH ING of the Company (since) to 13th APRIL., Both Days Inregistration) will be held at the NOTICE IS HEREBY clusive.
Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly on TUESDAY, the 22nd Meeting of Shareholders of Hong MARCH, 1938, at 11.30 A.M.Kong Realty and Trust Company, for the purpose of receiving the Limited, will be held at the Report of the General Managers Registered Office of the Com together with a Statement of pany, Exchange Building (2nd Accounts for the year ended 31st Floor), Des Voeux Road Central, OCTOBER, 1937,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of 23rd March, 1938, at 11.30 a.m., Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the
Above all, "the Malaria Commis- the country, will before long be one sion of the League of Nations." the Company will be CLOSED for the purpose of receiving a
of the easiest in the world in which decided in favour of the short from SATURDAY, the 12th Statement of Accounts and the
to travel..
quinine treatment with doses of MARCH, 1938, to TUESDAY. Report of the Board of Directors
No, greater stimulus is lent to 15-18 grains of quinine daily dur the 22nd MARCH, 1938, both for the year ended on the 31st
this aspect of China's fight for na-ing 5-7 days and rejected the old- tional existence than the Central time methods of treatment with days inclusive.
December, 1937, and re-electing If there is one thing which Japan what might be termed decen- months. We are of opinion that Government's encouragement of large doses taken over a period of JOHN D. HUMPHREYS two Directors and the Auditors. has signally failed in her China
& SON,
Business, tralisation." The Transfer Books of the enterprise it is to kill Chinese cul-cultural and other institutions have
industrial, the new therapeutic method, which General Managers.
Company will be closed from ture by the destruction of China's left and are leaving the coastal
is very economical, "will spread Saturday, the 5th March. 1938, whole mserable campaign of con- ing numbers. Specially is this so seats of learning. Indeed, Japan's
regions for the interior in increas-throughout the whole of Indo- to Wednesday, the 23rd Marchquest has falled, and prolongation
For prophylaxis the Commission case of universities. The 1938, bath days inclusive,
of the struggle means the tighten-biggest factor making for the prograins during the whole malarial recommends a daily dose of 6 ing of the noose which Japan has
verbial slowness of China's ad- unwittingly placed about her own
vancement 35 compared with neck.
Japan, was the extremely low
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS..
NOTICE' IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTY-NINTE
The TRANSFER BOOK of ORDINARY YEARLY MEET
6071
the Company will be CLOSED ANG of the Company will be Hong Kong, 4th March, 1938. from the 28th March, to the 5th held at its April, 1938, both days inclusive
By Order of the Board of
Directors,"
HONG KONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, 13th APRIL, 1938, at 11.20 a.m., for the pur- pose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, NOTICE IS HEREBY 1937, and of declaring Dividends, GIVEN that the Ordinary Year 6620 etc.
ly Meeting of Shareholders
FUNG PING FAN,
Director and Secretary Hong Kong, 21st March, 1938.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG
KONG.
By Order of the Board,
F. C. BARRY,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 16th Feb., 1938.
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The SHARE TRANSFER will be held in the Offices of the THE HONG KONG FIRE BOOKS of the Company will be Company, 2, Queen's Building. CLOSED from 26th MARCH Hong Kong, on Monday, 28th
to 13th APRIL, Both Days in March, 1938 at Noon for consi clusive.
deration of the Directors' Report: and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December. 1937.
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. PROBATE JURISDICTION, Hong Kong, 14th March, 1938.
IN THE GOODS ol William Curwen Barrett, late of Erlesdene Abbotswood Guildford, in the County of Surrey, England, deceased.
JJ
BRITISH TRADERS` INSURANCE CO.,
INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS.
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CHINA'S WAR BENEFITS
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in the
China."
season.
She may
be in a position to standard of literacy. The reason MEMORIAL SERVICE finance hostilities indefinitely by was that the universities and cul- the issue of bonds and other means.tural institutions were confined to That is what she is doing and will a few big cities in the" more ad-General Huang Mu-sung, former do, but unless she is able totally vanced provinces. to smash Chinese resistance during
Canton, March 21. The anniversary of the death of
Chairman of the Kwangtung Pro- Japan has helped China to revincial Government, was observed the next month or two, it may medy this serious defect in her na- sately be predicted the bulk of her tionat fe. In. order to escape today. General Wu Te-chen took army of invasion will meet their Japanese bombs, these seats of door on Chinese soll.
a leading part in the commemora→
at the Citizens Training Institute
learning have spread from one end tion ceremony-(International). This is no empty boast, but a of the country to the other-Yun- statement based on cold, solidnan, Szechuan, Kweichow, Hunan
universities and seats
of higher
facts. Japan is a poor country by and such other backward provinces Institutions will return to their old comparison with her European are now definitely on the cultural locations when peace comes. New rivals. Already she is faced with map. The Sixty ninth Ordinary the gigantic task of consolidating That Is the most hopeful out-learning may spring up where The Share Register and Trans. General Meeting of Shareholder: in the occupied territory of China come of the war for China. With others had previously imbued a fer Books will be closed from will be held at the Offices of the territory considerably larger than out the progress of education in cultural consciousness in the peo- 12th to 28th March, 1938, both undersigned on Tuesday, the the whole of Japan. This process all parts of China the process of ple, but, for this very reason, a days inclusive.
required rehabilitation of the coun-national unification is retarded. return to the old practice of con- 29th March, 1938, at Noon, for try, repair as the devastated areas. Thus, Japan's effort to kill it has centrating in coastal cities will be the purpose of receiving the Rethe setting up of strong, authorita-hat the effect of spreading the discouraged as much as possible. port of the General Managers, tive govemments.
seeds of Chinese culture within the In any event, the stimulating ef- together with a statement of That is where Japan will be up space of a few months to parts of fect of the presence of a university Accounts for the year ended the against it when peace comes and the country which it would have in a city which previously boasted 31st December, 1937.
perhaps four decades to jonly a school must have a favour- sential for her. She may finance reach in normal circumstances. able reaction that is bound to en- the war, but can she, without for-
It is most unlikely that these dure. elan ald, finance peace? All of Japan's most eminent financiers and economists
are agreed with their foreign colleagues that
LIMITED..
NOTICE TO
By Order of the Board of..
Directors,
E. COCK,
Chlef Manager. SHAREHOLDERS. Hong Kong, 3rd March, 1938,
6061
NOTICE IS HEREBY
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Pro GIVEN that the SEVENTY- bates Ordinance 1897, made an SECOND ORDINARY YEAR. Order limiting the time for LY MEETING of the Company creditors and others to send in will be held at its their claims against the above OFFICE, Union Buliding, Hong estate to the 16th day of April, Kong, on WEDNESDAY, 13th 1938.
APRIL, 1938, at 11.25 a.m.,
NOTICE.
HEAD HONG KONG AND CHINA
GAS CO., LTD.
The Share Register and Trans. fer Books will be closed from the 15th to the 29th March. 1938. both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Managers,
The Hong Kong Fire Insurance
Co., Ltd. V
All Creditors and others are for the purpose of receiving the Owing to the very heavy in. accordingly hereby required to Report of the Directors and the crease-approximately 100%-in Hong Kong, 7th March, 1938. send their claims to the under Statements of Account to 31st cost of Coal, The Hong Kong
signed on or before that date.
Dated the 21st day of March, 1938.
JOHNSON, STOKES &
MASTER, Solicitors for the Executors, The Hong Kong & Shanghal Bank Building, Hong Kong.
December, 1937, and of declaring and China Gas Co., Ltd. are Dividend, etc,
reluctantly compelled to increase The
their basic charges for Gas by SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be 50 cents per 1000 cubic feet- CLOSED from 26th MARCH approximately 11%
- commenc›
to 13th APRIL, Both Days in ing April, 1938. (As from clusive.
MARCH meter readings.)
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager 6621 Hong Kong, 14th March, 1938. -
.
The present scale of discounts will continue in force..
Hong Kong, 21st March, 1938.
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NOTICE.
that is why a quick victory is es- taken
Japan's tasic in China is impossible PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
without foreign assistance, and that realisation, and that alone.
is responsible for Japan's change
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of tactics regarding foreigners in Arriving in the Colony by the The many friends of Mr., A. A. China, All talk of the "honour of ss. Marshal Joffre, Mr. C. K. King, Suffad will be glad to learn that the Japanese Army" is mere eye-well-known in Shanghal business he has recovered sufficiently to re-
circles, will stay here for about a turn to his office again. Mr. Suf But, nothing is clearer than this. week or so. He has registered at fad was recently in the Queen 6072 However loud Japan cries of the the Hong Kong Hotel.
Mary Hospital with a bad leg and "open door," however kindly she
for the last week or so. had been may treat foreigners in China's oc-
Mr. V. Desborough, one of the resting in his home cupied territory in future. not a directors of the National Carbon penny of British money, not a cent Company, is at present on a busi- of American capital, not a sou ofness visit to the Colony. He Messrs. JOHN 1. THORNY.French wealth (they are the only staying at the Hong Kong Hotel.holiday in the near future.
potential lenders) will and the way
Mackenzie had for some time been. CROFT & CO., LIMITED, have to Japan or North China while
新 the Hon. Secretary of the Hong, moved their EXECUTIVE Japan persists in her present China
Mr. J. Gero, who had been stay-Kong Cricket Club and his duties OFFICES to ST. GEORGE'S policy. All pleas for assistance will ing in the Colony for some time, in this connection have been taken. BUILDING, FIRST FLOOR, fall on deaf ears unless and until with the Hong Kong Hotel as his over by Mr. P. E. Baskett. HONG KONG. Tel. No. 22363. Japan completely renounces her headquarters, left on Sunday for
present alms in China. That is Haiphong. He may be returning Dr. LH. Mat is leaving the 0112 only logical since such assistance here after a short stay in that port. Colony shortly for a holiday.
We understand that Mr. A. K Machenzie will be leaving for a Mr.
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