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KONA INVESTMENTSĮ

SHOW DEPRECIATION

"H.K. Fires" Chairman Reviews Year's Trade

future

that the less said about the 1 think you will agree the better, as it is quite impossible to anticipate the events at of the present time," said the Hon. Mr. J. J, Paterson, chairman

meeting of directors, while presiding at the 71st aanusį general the Hongkong Fire Insurance

Co., Ltd., yesterday.

aver in-

Are

in no wise lessened with. "Insurance difficulties are creasing competition and vexations legislation, while taxation in I dare say all 'com- all areas is advancing by leaps and bounds,

good and we pany legislation is verations, but it is for our

80 Still we carry on and far have no merely unappreciative.

results for the first three reason to be dissatisfied with the months of 1940."

Hon

Mr.

Paterson

was

The supported by Mr... C. Bernard

Brown, Mr. A. H. Compton, the Fire

Hon, Mr. M. K. Lo, Mr. T, E Pearce, and Mr. J. H. Taggart (directors);

Shareholders were present Messrs. H. W. Dulley, D. V. Step henson, D. Hong, M. H. Lo. S. H

Ross, P, Tester and A. Ritchie..

EMINENTLY SATISFACTORY

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Brigade & Auxiliary Service

INSPECTION BY

In moving the adoption of the H.E. THE GOVERNOR repprt and accounts, the Hon. Mr. Paterson, said in part:-

flis Excellency the Governor The result of the Company's will inspect the Hongkong Fire woking for the year 1938 which Brigade and Auxlary Fire Service we now present to you is eminent at the compound of No. 2, Police Station. Wanehal, on Thursday ly satisfactory, the Account hav. ing run off with a credit balance next, April 11, at 5.15 p.m. of $869.429.78, the fifth best have had.

Wa

AWARDS

After the inspection, His Ex- This is the more gratifying in cellency will award the following view of the fact that Premium medals and commendations:-- Income fell by just over $120,- (a) MI. J. C. Fitz Henry 000, as compared with that re Superintendent, Fire Brigade ceived during the year 1987; this Colonial Police Medal for gallan- drop in revenue was due to the try on the occasion of the serious material curtallment of our Sterre at Connaught Road, West ing operations and also to the during the typhoon on September greatly reduced showing of our z, 1937

and the

CHINESE SOCIETY WEDDING

|MR. STANLEY SHEN & MISS C. PEI

A fashionable - Chinese no- ciety wedding took place yes........ terday when Miss Cecilla Pil daughter of Mr. Tau Yee-pel.

the Manager of

Bank of China, and Mrs. Fei, was már- ried to Mr. Stanley Shen, son of Mr. Shen Yunr, a pro- minent Tientsia merchant. and Mrs. Shen.

The marriage was solemnized at St. Joseph's Church, with the Rev. Fr. R. Brookes officiating.

The bride, who was given away by her father. was attended by the Misses Li, daughters of Mr. Li Tse-fang. as bridesmaids, After the church ceremony, a well "at- tended reception was held at the Hongkong Hotel, where the newly married couple received the con- gratulations of a large circles of friends.

THE TOAST Proposing the toast of the Bride and bridegroom. the Hon, Sir Ro- A few years bert Kotewall said: ago, when we had not two wars to distract the mind, I was well in the running for the champion- ship of Hongkong in speaking at weddings. Though I am now little out of practice, my zest for this kind of job has not abated: for. true to a familiar saying. I love a lover. Certainly my, plea sure in proposing the principal toast today is very keen, for two reasons... One is that I have a tremendous king for the bride, and the other is that I have no less a liking for the bride's father.

Mr. Tsuyee Fel needs no intro- duction to you. He is one of the

(b) Head Foreman Li Po - con-Colonial Fire Brigade Long Serablest, best known and most high-

at vice Medal.

ly respected bankers in China. Among his claims to fame are his services to the National Govern- ment of China in financial mat- ters, and his loyalty to friends. I owe much to Mr. Pet. I am proud of his friendship, and value it.

Some twenty years ago, when 1 was aspiring to a banking career, Mr. Pel, who was then the busy manager of the Hongkong Branch | of the Bank of China, gave up his

Shanghal takings at

when Northern Agencies, verted into Hongkong dollars present day rates of exchange. (c) Assistant Station Officer. COMPARISON OF RATIOS c. W. Brand. Sub-Officer, Wonx

Motor be- Wai-tsol, A comparison of ratios as

Driver, Sung tween 1938 and 1937. reveals the Kwal. Motor Driver, Cheung Tim. following:- Losses 45.91 per cent Fireman No. 48 Cheung Tor, Fire- 3 against 61.74, per cent Charges man No. 38 Ng Chuk, Fireman No. 40.15 per cent and 37.67 per cent 45 Wu Im. Fireman No. 9 Ho Tal-

sit, Fireman No. 53 Ng Ting, Fire leaving a balance of 13.94 per -cent as against the extremely man No. 52 Yuen Hol-For zea- lous and courageous action on narrow one of 59 per cent for

the occasion of the Shangha! 1997. The rate for: Sterling Ex-

Dec. 3, 1939 in change remaining at 1/27/8d, no Street fire on change took place in this respect

noons for a whole month, in order The balance at credit of 1939

to initiate me into the mysteries Working Account-after

of foreign exchange. If this is months stands at $853,596.82, n Beresford - Stark Trailer Pump. not friendship of the most un- decrease of $108,855.38 on that for ¦ competition between four crews selfish kind, I should like to know 1938 at the same stage. This is of the Auxiliary Fire Service (Two | what is. Looking at Mr. Fei one due to a still further pruning of Hongkong and two Kowloon). would not think that, as far back our Sterling, transactions and the Two best crews to compete in the as twenty years ago, he was al- yet lower exchange at which both final

ready a manager of a big bank

twelve

effecting rescue of persons from Wednesday and Saturday after- burning buildings.....

DEMONSTRATIONS

GENERAL

Legislative Council

ORDER OF BUSINESS

FOR TODAY:

A meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council will be hold today at 2.30 p.m. H.E. the Gover nor will, préside.

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-The report of the members of the Standing Law Committee of the Council on the War Revenua "Bill, 1940," will be presented to the Counell by the Attorney General

TWO MOTIONS

There are two motions on the order of business for the day:

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The Attorney General will move: That the additional by-law made by the Urban Council under section 3 of the Public Health (Banitation) Ordinance, 1935, on February 27, 1940. under the heading "Danger- ous and Offensive Trades," be ap- proved.

The Financial Secretary will move the Second and Third Read- ings of: "A Bill to amend the Tolo- phone Ordinance, 1925, as amend- ed by the Telephone Amendment Ordinance, 1930, and the Telephone Amendment Ordinance, 1933." ..

MILITARY BAND CONCERT AT THE PENINSULA

The management of the Penin- announces that on sula Hotel

Sunday, April 21, a Military Band Concert will take place in the lounge of that establishment from 9 to 11 p.m.

By kind permission of Major HW.M. Stewart, O.B.E, M.C., and Omicers, the Band of the 1st Battalion The Middlesex Regiment (D.C.0.) are providing the musical arrangements under the conduc- torship of Mr. W.E Kifford, A.R.C.M.. Bandmaster.

Included in the evening's enter- tainment will be a few select outstanding local vocalists, and the entire programme should prove worthy of the purpose. namely in aid of The British War Organisation Fund,

To augment the funds for the occasion an advertisement sup- ported programme is being com- piled which will be on sale to the audience, and an. admission charge of $1.00 per person will be made.

Many musle Jovers in this Colony" would no doubt welcome a concert of this kind and it is hoped that so worthy a cause will receive the cordial support which it merita.

Premium Income and Interest,! Demonstration of two Turntable here. He is so young-looking and BOOKS DONATED

emanating from China sources, Fire Escapes at work, have been taken into our books. Beresford-Stork Trailer Pamp The surplus to be dealt with is competition. Two final Auxiliary $669,429.78 the balance of 1938 Fire Service crews to compete. Account and we now recommend Presentation of the

Auxiliary the "payment of $11 per share, Fire Service Shield to winners of absorbing $440,000, the appropria- the Beresford-Stork Trailer Pumo tion of $100,000 to Reinsurance competition. Fund and that the balance of *$129,429.78 be transferred to" In- Floats at work in the harbour, vestment and Exchange Fluctua

tion Account.

SMALLER DIVIDEND

Demonstration

two Fire

Cable & Wireless. Limited, have the pleasure to announce the lopening. on April 1, of an office "This represents a cut of one for acceptance.

of telegrams at dollar per sbare in the dividend Grosvenor House Hotel, Park

Continued on Page 11

Lane, London."

Built WITH STONE AND MORTAR! Cemented WITH BLOOD AND HATE! "Mixed WITH WOMEN'S TEARS!

FROM THESE GRIM WALLS EMERGES TERRIFYING DRAMA OF HISTORY'S MOST REND- ISH AND FASCINATIKO CHARACTERS

TOWER OF LONDON

Marring

BASIL RATHBONE

BORIS KARLOFF BARBARA O'NEIL IAN HUNTER

VINCENT PRICE NAN GREY

AÑO CAST OF THOUSANDS

TO-DAY AT

THE

KING'S

so handsome, Would anyone, not knowing him, believe that he is a father-in-law? I am sure that he owes his youthful looks to the solicitous care of Mrs. Pel whose charm is only equalled by her successful way of "mothering" her husband.

BRIDE AND GROOM

TO LINGNAN U.

LIBRARY

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of Intercourse and Education, (whose - Director is Mr. Nicolas Murray

I must not go on talking about | Butler), has donated a number of the bride's father, when I should interesting books to the library of be talking about the bride herself the Internatiorial Relations Club and her husband..

(LRC) at Linguan University. in Hongkong.

I have known the bride since she was a girl of five or six, In those

days she often came to my house with her brothers and sis ters to play with my children; and I sometimes carried her on my back a thing I shouldn't like to attempt now, at my age. I think I detect in the bridegroom's eye. the threat: "Just you dare!" These things establish a bond. and 1 recall those days with real

pleasure.

The gift of books was made possible through the Headquarters of the I.R.C. in New York," under the auspices of the Carnegie En dowment for International Peace.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has issued an "order commending the patriotism of the Chinese hawkers and merchants in Hong- kong who raised and remitted re- cently $4.000 to the National Cecilia has been a very good Military Council as

a. comfort daughter. It was only yesterday fund for the Chinese frontline help she had been to her mother troops in Kwangtung" and Kwang-

that her father told me what a'

in looking after her little brothers

and sisters. From today she will have someone else to look after. and she will make as great a suc cess of it, too.

I am not personally acquainted with the bridegroom, Mr. Stanley Shen; but all that I have heard about him is good, He comes from a big family-big in commerce. and big in size. His brothers, sin

ters

alone number and cousins ninety-severi. I can only guaran- tee this figure to be correct up to

St.

already proven his ability as B man of commerce.

It 18 pleasant to think that he is maintaining the banking in- terests of his forefathers by mar- rying the daughter of a banker. In the choice of his wife he has taste and displayed excellent

It was only judgment

2 1ew months ago that be Arst met Gecilia; and at that time there

4 o'clock yesterday afternoon was no lack of eligible suitors for

when it was given to me. In such her hand. But he saw, he fell in

a. prolife family, there is no telling what it has become since,

EXCELLENT TASTE.

love at sight, he worked, he con- quered. A man with such com. pelling and winning ways 13 bound to get on in life, and I

Mr. Stanley Shen is the son of therefore prophety for Mr. and a well-known Tientsin merchant, Mrs. Shen a successful and happy and his grandfather, who is hap-future.

pily still hale and strong, was 'n "Ladles and gentlemen, I now prominent banker in his days. give you, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Unlike most sons of rich men, he then"

was not content to sit back and The bridegroom replied briefly lead the life of the man-about- thanking Sir. Robert Kotewall for town. He wanted to branch out his references to his bride and for himself: he started a business himself and proposed the toast of of his own at Haiphong, and has the bridesmaids,

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