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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS

"

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE undersigned have received ing

instructions"

-to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

on

Monday, the 22nd July, 1940 commencing at 11.00 a.m.

FIRE, MARINE

די

INSURANCE COMPANIES

DEPOSIT

The Gazette contains the follow-

In exercise of the powers con- ferred by section 7 of the Fire and Marine Insurance Companies De- posit Ordinance, 1917, the Gover- nor in Council rescinds the Re- gulations under the headings "De- posit" and Fees" contained in the First Schedule to the sald Ordin- ance and substitutes the following regulations therefor-

The value of any securities de- posit with the Registrar under.

at their Bales Room, No. 35, Han- section 5 shall be the market value kow Road, Kowloon,

A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

W

on the day on which they are so deposited.

The company shall prove the market value thereof to the satis- faction of the Registrar and shall pay to the Registrar a fee, of twenty-five cents for every hund- red dollars of such market value. The company shall before de- positing such securities transfer

LAMMERT BROS.. the legal ownership therein to the

AUCTIONEERS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received

instructions from The Liquida

tor

" to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

Tuesday, the 23rd July, 1940 ""commencing at 10.30 am.

at No. 3, Algburth Hall, May Road.

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

And

One Refrigerator

Registrar.

Mr. Hwang Hon-ming, of the Bank of Communications, and his bride, formerly Miss Rita Wong.(Photo, King's Studio)

Two Factories Close Down

If at any time the Registrar, is of opinion that any securities have fallen below their value at the

There has been very little change date of deposit he may require then the labour situation in Hong- company to make up the difference kong of late, though two factories in value by the deposit of further

have closed down, securities: and the fees payable on A large gas mask factory, the

further deposit shall be such charged at the rate set out in Re-Jan Hwa Gas Mask Manufactory. is moving to Chungking. The move

gulation No. `2

from European countries.

If the company is dissatisfied was decided upon owing to the with any such requirement it may difficulty of importing materials appeal to the Governor in Coun- ell who shall thereupon determine whether any further deposit is necessary, and it so to amount,

what

GENERAL

ROUND THE POLICE COURTS

AT CENTRAL

It-

EMBEZZLEMENT · CHARGE #Lal Lau, 31, shrom, WAS manded 72 hours when he peared before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy on Satur- day on a charge of alleged em- bezzlement of $1,057 from Mesury. Robertson, Wilson and Company, David House on May 9,

·· Mr. C. d'Almada is appearing for the prosecution while Mr. Alfred S.K. Lau is for the defence. Det-Sgt. T. Cashman is for the Police.

AT KOWLOON-

STOLE 200 REAMS

OF PAPER

Sentence of two months, bain labour was passed by Mr E. Him- sworth at Kowloon Court yester- day on L. Sing. 23, a native of Java, convicted of the larceny of 200 reams of paper valued at $1,440.

Defendant, it was stated,, was introduced "to the complainant by triends some three months ago, He had been of much help to the complainant, Wong Ting, who had a shop at No. 630, Nathan Road. and came to live with him and was supplied with expense money and other comforts as he assisted com- plainant in his business.

The high cost of labour in Hang- kong has been given as another influencing factor to this move. "Shortly before July 19, there had Most of the employees of the fac- been a quarrel between complal- Subject to the provisions of sec- tory, however, are Shanghai men, nant and defendant, and on July 19 tion 5 of the Fire and Marine In- and they will be sent, to" Chung-defendant came in a lorry to the surance Companies Deposit Ordin-ng there the factory will resume shop in Nathan Road and took ance. a company shall be entitled the production of respirators, away 200 reams of paper

The factory employed 200 work. He sold the paper to the Chan at any time to substitute approved securities for any part of its exdsters, including 70 women and had Vick" Paper Shop at No. 565, workshops-one in Tenchow Stanley Street, Hongkong, and ing deposit and the provisions of two these regulations with regard to Street in Shumshulpo and the when arrested returned to the the original deposit shall apply other at To Kwa Wan In Honghom police a sum of $1,182,55, mutatis mutandis to any such sub-District. situted deposit.

DEFRAUDING THE FERRY COMPANY

A Small toy manufactory has The fees payable for Inspection also suspended business. It is On View from Monday, the 22nd of documents or registers, for learned that several firms have copies or extracts or in respect of granted special high cost of Eving July, 1940,

any acts done under the Ordinance allowance, the average being about shall be those prescribed. As may 10 per cent of wages, to their em-manded on bail of 3200 when he

Catalogues will be issued.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

be at the discretion of the Regis-ployees, trar in respect of the like acts!

under the Companies Ordinance, 1932. "

Similar regulations are. made. re-

LAMMERT BROS.,garding section 34 of the Life In-

AUCTIONEERS.

Instruction's

to sell by

surance 1907.

Companies

Ordinance,

DRAFT BILL

DETAINED IN "FORMOSA

Ying Hip-hau,36, a ticket collec- or employed by the Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company, was re-

appeared at Kowloon Court yes- terday before Mr. QAA. Macfadven on a charge of conspiring to de- fraud the Ferry- Company of 30 cents at the Shumshulpo Ferry Wharf on July 18,

Because they had allegedly en-

The case will be heard on the tered a fortified zone without per-afternoon of July 24. mission, three United States

POSSESSION OF DAGGER citizens who sailed from Hongkong

The following is the draft Bila tiny yacht à month ago for Ng Lu, 22 conlle, and Ho Sin

1907.

ed.

In the hand of the Japanese are sion of two daggers in Nga Tsin Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sever and Wal village

PUBLIC AUCTION. of an Ordinance to amend the Life a trans-Pacific voyage, have been hi, 34, a boring instructor, were Insurance Companies Ordinance, detained by the Japanese anthort-remanded three days in custody tles in Formosa, while their yacht when they appeared at Kowloon Sub-section (5) of section 3 o1 was confiscated, it is reliably learn-Court before Mr. E. Himsworth THE Undersigned have received the Companies Ordinance, 1907, is

yesterday on a charge of "posses- repealed and the following sub- section is substituted therefor--.

(5) The deposit shall consist of Mrs. Bever's brother. Mr. Morgan securities of the following nature-Pattison, all from Santa Monica, (a) fixed deposits in banks ap- California, who left Hongkong on proved by the Governor in Coun their two-masted ketch "Cynjo.” (b) stocks, funds or securities, on June 24. In their plan to sail other than the security of a charge across the Pacific, they had ap- on land by way of legal mortgage Parently incurred the displeasure at the Top Flat of St. John's. Am-dr otherwise, authorized by the of the Japanese authorities in

PUBLIC AUCTION

C

Wednesday, the 24th July, 1949 commencing at 10.30 a.m.

bulance" Headquarters, Tal" Hang

Road.

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

On View from Tuesday, the 23rd July, 1910. Particulars from Catalogue.

Ternis: As Customery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS.

RE-OPENING TRADE POSSIBILITY

cll;

Trustee Act, 1925, or in any man- Taihoku, Formosa.

ner which may be authorized by

Provided that any

MARINE

COURT

ANCHORING CHARGE Cheung Kui Tal, 34 master of

others were charged with having Class 11 boat No. 133Y, and two on July 20, 1 am, anchored their ang Act amending or replacing Ordinance and existing ones should tunks" at Prays near the Yuen Op

Wharf, a

hundred yards from the said Act;

be replaced. (e) any Government securities Clause 2 of the Bill, which re-the low water marx,

All the defendants pleaded of the Colony:

places section 3 (5), sets out the company nature of the securities to be de-guilty, and were fined $10 each days hard which has, before the 1st day of posited. In future only cash or or in default ten July, 1940, deposited securities not gilt-edged securities will be accept- of the aforesaid nature shall have ed as deposit. The proviso allowe a period of three years from such those companies which have al- date to replace such securities by ready made a deposit a period of securities of the aforesaid nature. years within which to comply with

Sub-section (8) of section 3 of the new requirements, the Life Insurance Companies Or- dinance. 1907, is amended by the deletion of the words "other than bank deposits in the name of the Official. Trustee."

OBJECTS AND REASONS By section 3 (5) of the principal Ordinance the whole or part of the deposit required to be made.

labour:

NO CLEARANCE Lo Wah Kan, 49, of trading junk No. T4504H of Macau, ap- peared before Commdr. G. F. Hole at Marine Court' yester The amendment in clause 3 is

day on the charge of having consequential on the repeal of sec-left the port of Hongkong with-

on 3.151.". A similar draft all of "an Or-out clearance of permit. dinance to amend the Fire and The defendant pleaded guilty. Marine Insurance Companies De-was ordered to pay a fine of posit Ordinance, 1917.

$15 or otherwise serve two weeks' Insurance Companies Deposit hard labour. Amendment Ordinance, 1940.

Bub-section (2) of section 5. of Cheung Kam, 34, nsistress of

and Marine Insurance

class 11 boat No. 439v of Hong- kong and four others

Decisions have been reached, it might consist of fixed deposit in the "Fire

la learned, between the Japanese certain banks. To cover the re- † Companies Deposit Ordinance, Consul-General, Mr. Kita, and the maining portion, if any, of the 1917, is repeated and the following

LYING INSHORE

were

British Consul General Mr. Blunt deposit companies often offer sub-section is substituted there charged before the Marine Magis-

in Canton, regarding the negotia mortgages of leasehold property for:— \)

PARATE trate yesterday with havingOn tion for the lifting of the restric-These are an unsatisfactory form (2) The deposit shall consist of July 19 anchored nehore at the tions on the import and export of security in that they are liable to securities of the following na Praya between the Harbour Office trade between Canton and the great fluctuation in value, are not ture-

Pier and the Hongkong and Can- Colony,

readily realizable and cause con- (a) fixed deposit in banks apton Wharf, The details of the agreement siderable work to Government in proved by the Governor in Coun- Commar, G, F. Hole fined the will be released in Tokyo, Canton periodical assessing of their value, cil; -

defendants $10 each with an al- and Hongkong within the next 10 Moreover, it is not now the prac- (b) stocks, funds or securities, ternate sentence of ten days «days lf, approved.

tice in England to accept mot-other than the security of a charge | hard labour, It is also understood that gages as securities under such acts on land by way of legal mortgage conditions warranted the shipping as the Assurance Companies Act, or otherwise, authorized by the programme will be, increased. At 1909, the Trustee Act, 1925; and the Trustes Act, 1925, or in any man- present, however, only three ships Road Traffic Act, 1934, although ner which may be authorized by which has, before the 1st. ply between the two ports, two they are authorized investments any Act amending or replacing the July 1910, deposited securities not Japanese steamers and one Bri-under the Trustee Act, 1928. It is said. Act

stead of the aforesaid nature anal have tiah, the ar, Fatshan, which considered that the time has come (c) ang Government securities a period of three years from such makes the voyage once every 14 when mortgages should no longer of the Colony

date to replace such securities by

days

be accepted as security under the Provided that any company securities of the aforesaid naturas

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