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EDITORIAL

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Messrs. MacKinnon, MacKenzie

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS & Co. wish to thank all friends who

NOTICE.

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The public are hereby notified! that the 'Office of the Feod Controller is being removed to the Union Building, 1st floor, on 10th March, 1941.

The Office of the Rice Con

B.

COMMISSIONERS POWERS

ORDINANCE, 1885."

NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified for general Information that the first public Commissioners

session of

the

troller will remain in the Ex-appointed to enquire into the change Building.

affairs of the Immigration Department will be held shortly

D. L. NEWBIGGING, Controller of Food.

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC

COMPANY, LIMITED."

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary

031 n date to be announced by proclamation in the Gazette and all persons wishing to testify before the said Commissioners are requested to give written notice to the undersigned at the Colonial Secretary's Office by the earliest possible date together with a brief memorandum of the evidence which they propose to offer.

The examination of witnesses General Meeting of the Company will be held in public but the will be held in the P. & 0.

Commissioners may, if requested Building, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong at 11.15 o'clock to do so for good cause, direct in the forenoon on Thursday, the that the whole or part of any 20th day of March, 1941, or as Soon thereafter as the Ordinary General Meeting of the Company shall have terminated for the

K. M. A. BARNETT, purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing the following Secretary to the Commissioners.

resolutions---

**1. That the Directors be and they are hereby authoris ed to capitalise the sum o!! $3,000,000 Hongkong currency,

witness's evidence may be taken in private. Any request to this) effect should be included in the

above mentioned memorandum.

THE HONGKONG &

KOWLOON. WHARF &

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have expressed their condolence and sent floral tributes on the THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC occasion of the death of the late

Mr. John Lowrie,

CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

It is hereby notified that the following increases in the Com pany's standard charges will be

made for current consumed in

respect of accounts issued for

meters read on and after 21st March, 1941 :----

t.

2.

For Lighting from 15 cents to 16 cents per unit.

For Power & Heating from 5 cents to 5 cents per unit. 3. The discount of 10% mi Power accounts in excess of 1,000 units per month will be discontinued.

By order of the Board of Directors,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents.

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THE BANK OF EAST

ASIA. LIMITED.

part of the undivided profits of GODOWN COMPANY LTD. March, 1941, at 2.00 p.m. for the

the Company standing to the| credit of the Company's Re serve Fund, and to allot to the members holding shares of the Company as on the first day of April One thousand nine hun- dred and forty-one in respect of the net amount capitalised

Notice to Shareholders

الروا

THE FIFTY FOURTH OR DINARY ANNUAL MEETING

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HONGKONG, MARCH 8, 1941.

SQUANDERMANIA,

THE DEBATE in the Finance

Committee of the Legis- lative Council on the removal and disposal of nightsoil pro- vided another example of the determined

attitude

Mr. Si Wai-ming and his bride, formerly

Miss Nora Yuen- (King's Studio).

WEDDING AT

REGISTRY

SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1941..

"THE GREAT DICTATOR” HAS GREAT PREMIERE

Distinguished Audience

At Lee Theatre

Charles Chaplin's “THE GREAT DICTĄTOR" was greeted with a full sharé of enthusiasm by the public of Hongkong when it had its gala premiere at the Lee Theatre last night, the “first-nighters" in- éluding many notable figures in local soclety.

The picture was of Chaplin's best and the great comedian excelled especially in his Hitlerian antics, his oratory and the Prus sian clip with which he shorted the masses of Tomanis leaving. Adolf Hitler à good second -

In the first night audience were !E. E. Major-General A. E Orasett, Str Vandeleur Grayburn and party, Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Hon. Mr. AL Shields.. Dr. Mei Lan-fang, Mr. O. K. Yul, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Stanton, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Turner, |Mr. D. Chang. Lt.-CọL H. L. Mur- row, Mr. A. S. Mackichan, Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones, Lt. Col. H. B. L Dowbiggin. Brig. T. McLeod and Mrs. McLeod, Mr. D. H. Black, Mr. and Mrs. E. Tebbutt and many

At the Registry, yesterday Miss others. which Cheng Po-kau, of No. 11 Tung!

the representatives of the Cheong Building, was married to, people in this Colony have Mr. Lee Wing-vor, merchant, resid- taken up to put a stop to the rig at No. 2 Maple Street. care-free spending methods

The following forthcoming

ANNOUNCEMENTS

A NEW CHAPLIN

A new Chaplin is born in. The Great Dictator; one with vision, one with grip on the common maras satire and tragedy to bring affairs of common people, one who

of the Government. That the rages are announced:

Mr. Albert Wraight, corporal, B subject of the debate is of

vital importance to the health Coy, Middlesex Regt., and Miss of the Colony is not dented. Elleen Seen Fung-lin, of No. 402

Portland Street; Indeed, this aspect loomed Mr. Kirby Fairchild, salesman, of in the arguments Palace Hotel, and Miss Nina Mul- largely which were put forward by ins of the same address. the unofficial speakers, who'

home to the oppressed of

all

nations the unscruplausness, yes

even manta, inherent in a dictator class.

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Chaplin proves himself not only a pantalcon-and there are many touches of the old Chaplin in this masterly production-but also an actor capable of playing on one's

us by well timed gags.

showed a full realisation of CORRESPONDENCE amotions as well as entertaining

A DISCLAIMER The Editor. HK. Daily Press Dear Sir-With reference to re- cent articles in your publication on the Rex v Jacobs case in the cri-

comes

The production opens with the defeat of Tomania, then the rise of the defeated country. the advent of a dictator, Hynkel.

NOTICE is hereby given that the TWENTY SECOND OR DINARY YEARLY MEETING of this Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Com. the situation and who were pany No. 10, Des Voeux Road gravely concerned that some- Central, on Saturday, the 8th thing should be done to re- medy a situation which the purpose of receiving the Report of Director of Medical Services the Directors together with a aptly described as chaotic. If Statement of Accounts for the unofficial opinion doubted the year ended 31st December, 1940, ability of the Government to you could publish the fact that the

make everything in the night- soldier witness named "Bright" has fugitive The Register of Shares of the soil garden lovely by the no connexion with myself as, owing Qesterlich as a conqueror, having Company will be closed from adoption of a $400,000 a year to the fact that I belong to the been hailed as the dictator. Saturday, 1st March, 1941 to scheme, this doubt is based same unit as the accused, and ma-

minal court.

and the oppression of the Jews Our little private is a Jewish bar-

I would greatly appreciate it, if ber.

jority of the witnesses, it could be

fully paid shares of the Com. Jardinc. Matheson & Co., Ltd. Saturday, 8th March, 1941 (both on previous experience of reasonably assumed that I am the

on

WEDNESDAY,

OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Office of Messrs.

the 26th days inclusive) during which Government fallures to jus- witness in question. pany of equivalent nominal

MARCH, 1941, at NOON, for period no transfer of shares cantify expenditure of such sums value in the proportion of one|

The soldier named "Bright" who purpose of receiving the be registered.

to the satisfaction of the is giving evidence, belongs in fact share for every three shares of the Company held by them Report of the Directors and the

By Order of the Board of public. There have certainly to the Middlesex Regiment.

Thanking you in anticipation, Statement of Accounts "for the Directors.. respectively and

been more than one instance)

Yours faithfully, shares so allotted shali rank for year ended 31st DECEMBER,

of this inefficiency and reck-

R. E. BRIGHT. 1941.

less spending in recent times.

that

such

dividends as from the 1st day! of July, 1941,

the

The Transfer

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KAN TONG PO,

Chief Manager. Books of Hong Kong, 20th February, 1941, 2. That if on such distribu, the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 15th tion as aforesaid any person would be entitled to a fractional MARCH, 1941, to WEDNES share the Directors shall, in DAY, the 26th MARCH, 1941,

both days inclusive. lieu of issuing fractional cer tificates, cause the whole share to be allotted to a person ·erj persons to be named by the Directors and such share shall, at such time as the Directors

By Order of the Board of Directors.

C. M. MANNERS.

Secretary & Manager.

DONATIONS

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Later, Hynkel is mistaken for a!

and the barber enters

PLEA FOR FREEDOM

CHAPLIN

First A.N.S. Dance Is Big Success

Unqualified success attended the first cabaret supper-dance of the AUXILIARY NURSING. SERVICE held at the Peninsula Hotel last distinguished

night

uuder

the

He has to make a speech. Chap lin, speaks, and speaks brilliantly for six minutes in a plea for the patronage of HE. the Officer Ad-

ministering the Government, Lt. freedom of mankind and on this Gen. E. F. Norton. C.B., D.S.O.. clever piece of oratory the film

M.C. ends.

Over 900 people attended and Jack Oakle, rises to his oppor- the cabaret items presented were tunities magnificently in the role thoroughly enjoyed.

of Napaloni, Dictator

As

Herring.

Henry

4

Bacteria.

:

Rhexie Stalker, Nan Moodle, It is hard to understand, have by no means been few

Captain Schultz, Reginald Bingo Parsons, Mary Sterling, therefore, why so much off or far between. It is a com- Gardiner typifies the pre-war mili-Margaret Cuttinger, Marjorie Ford- tary class with a certain sym-ham and Eleen Grant, all mem- cial resentment should be dis-mon sight to see half the con-

pathy,

Daniell $ subtly bers of the Auxillary Nursing Ser- played when a recommenda- tents of a garbage Basket or poison-minded 3.5 Grabitsch.vice, presented "Shepherds Hey," an tion, for a more economical box left in the road owing to Hynkel's propaganda minister, exceptionally fine dance number plan for dealing with the the negligent mariner in and Billy Gilbert is literally broad- while the "Wanchal Brothers" nightsoil problem is put for- which its contents have been y farcial as his chief of staff. added no small measure of success.

to the programme. ward in a spirit which takes emptied into the lorries.

Paulette Goddard as Hannah, Members of the ANS. acted as fully into account the tre- IN THESE circumstances it brings out the spirit of courage dance hostesses and there were NEW TERRITORIESmendous burdens which the seems unreasonable for the and resolution which helps to novelty bars and competitions.

RELIEF ASSCN.

the lot of oppressed! Colony has had to share un-Government to persist in the lighten

AN AUCTION The Members of the New Terri-der the stress of present dif-adoption of an expensive people, and Maurice Moscovitch, "In the course of the evening the

playing on wholly tories Relief Association Committee ficult times.

scheme, which the Colony can suggests strength and resignation Cine Kodak camera donated by 130 beg to acknowledge with grateful THE ADMISSION by the ill-afford now, without giving as her father.

appreciation and thanks the tol-Government spokesmen that every other economical plan a The Great Dictator was written (donáted by Mrs. Eu "Tong-sen), lowing donations and gifts made it has not been possible to fair chance to prove whether and directed by Charles Chaplin. and two A.N.S. dolls (presented by during February, 1941, towards the

Mrs. Crabbe, maintenance of the Clinics and enforce the law and proper it can improve the present Hospitals operating In the New supervision over the present unsatisfactory system. That Sec. A of Marine Lot 122 and

Territory villages:-

Mr. Au Boon Haw, $1,500: Building thereon known as 216

hardly a guarantee that the most unpleasant of occupa- Cheung Chau Elders. 240: На

is undeniable." The Wanchai Road and 144 Praya Tsuen, 169.90; Miss Ruth Gilbert- enforcement of the law and tions East. The building is eminently son, 100; Per Lr. Leung Ho Wan, supervision will be better just eagerness with which one

think fit, be sold and the Hong Kong, 7th March, 1941.

proceeds distributed amongst| the persons entitled to the fractions making up such share."

By order of the Board of Directors,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,

Agents.

Company, the Directors have!

decided to offer to Shareholders

FOR SALE

ume

casc of Eagle

thanked the speaker.

to the

•

serious vein. following articles were auctioned:

Mrs. F. C. Barry), ivory figure

system of nightsoil removal is there is pront-making in this APPEAL FOR

GIFT OF

Mrs. Perdue and respectively),

There was also a raffle, the prizes being a dress and hat donated by "Eunice" and a wireless set which- was donated anonymously.

The dance was in aid of the Bomber Fund and "a substantial sum was realised,

EXCEEDINGLY KEEN BIDDING : AT LAND SALE

the value of Exceedingly keen bidding was

of the Navy, Army and Air Force. South, yesterday morning when u

suited for a Building Contractor 105: Mr. A. H. Malkenzie 10; Mrs. because 2,000 coolies will work party has offered to comply BINOCULARS Hong Kong, 21st February, 1941.{

or similar business and further Rouse (Seventh Git), one parcel under the aegis of a Govern- with any conditions which The Secretary of State for the NOTE:

information may be obtained on Luenberger.

of socks for babies; Mr. A. M.

ment department. In fact, the Government might re-Colonies has asked His Excellency Administering the the admission supports the quire of it and to even con- the omicer Under the powers, conferred application to Lowe, Bingham Brand milk,

contention that malpractices tribute a substantial sum to Government to appeal to the peo apon them by Article 12 of the & Matthews, Mercantile Bank

iple of Hongkong to give their pri will probably increase to the any charity named by the vate binoculars to His Majesty's Articles of Association of the Building,

public inconvenience when Government proves this, but Government for the use of the NEWSETTES these newly-fledged Govern- it also indicates that it will fighting services. It le hardly Messrs. C. E. Warren & Co...

ment servants are invested take meticulous care to see necessary to stress A lecture on "Coronary Syn- on the Register on the 1st day Ltd. (in voluntary Liquidation} {aromes" was given by Prof. P. B. With authority to deal with a that the work is done satis such instruments to all branches witnessed at the District Office, of April 1941, one share at par have for disposal a large and wilkinson to members of the Unt-matter on which the health factorily. Supervision organ- They are, in constant use and lots were sold by public auction. for every complete three shares assorted stock of Sanitary Fit-versity Medical Society last night of the population is so de-ised on foolproof lines by the the needs of the services in this Four building and four agricul held by them. (excluding the tings, Piping, Tiles, Monumental in, the Union Assembly Room. Mr. pendent. The example of the Government will not, in such respect are expected to increase tural lots at Kau Fa Kang wers Bonus Shares to be offered to Marble, etc., etc. All enquiries Tan, President of the Society. transfer of garbage collection a case, be as difficult as the as the war proceeds.

sold to four purchasers, whilst two thein under the preceding resolu should be addressed

Other parts of the Empire have tots at Lamma was sold to Mr. In was-somewhat unfortunate- Government, spokesmen tried! tlon) upon the terms that pay Liquidators, 2nd floor, Mercan-

already co-operated willingly in Tam Fuk. The remaining lot, st ly we think brought in to to make out and the public the scheme and His Excellency is sam. Tung Uk, with an area of 48 ment for such shares shall be tile Bank Building.

support "the Government's might well look forward to an confident that the response from acre was purchased by Messrs. Chan made to the Company's Bankers,

case, when

present Hongkong will not be less gen-wing-lu and Ip Tak-Kan. The Hongkong & Shanghai Bank-

clearest evidence daily to back position if the Government is erous than that of other Colonies. The prices paid were $450 (2,160 His Majesty's Government re-square feet), $215 (4,500 squarÉ lng Corporation, Hong Kong

Mr. Dodwell's statement that prepared to on or before the 30th September

he did not think the system suggestion and put it into quires priamatic. binoculars of G. feet), $109 (2500 square feet), $82 7 or 8 magnlication which are in (1,200 square feet) for the building. 1941 and that Shareholders be

of scavenging was in any way practice under its own strict good order. In order that given power to renounce their rights under such offer and that no rights attach to any fractions. The shares taken up under the above offer shall rank for divid ends as from 1st day of July 1941, Formal letters of offer, acceptance| and renunciation will be sent to Shareholders as soon as possible after April 1st, next.

What do

יו

you want?

If there is anything

you want to buy or

sell, try * small Classified

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An appeal to all owners of motor- cycles to join the Motor-Cycle Des- patch Corps of the ARP. was made by the Director of ARP., at the weekly Press conference yesterday

afternoon.

Tong-sen has donated $2,000 to the

Colony.

#

the there is the alleviation of

consider this

this

It was announced at the Press better to what it was before guidance. There is no reason Government may have a record of lot at Kau Fa Kang against the conference yesterday, that Mr. Ea Government took over con- why 2,000 coolles employed by these gifts, and that they may be upset prices of $87, $90, $50, $28, AR.P. Department for the forma-trol, to judge from the con- a guild or contractor should suitably acknowledged by His Ma- respectively. The agricultural lots jesty's Goverment in the United in this district were sold for $318 tion of A.R.P. clubs throughout the dition of our streets. As a fall to do their work better Kingdom, donors are asked to at (22 acre), $185 (.03 acre), $153 (71 matter of fact, the present than 2,000 coolles wearing tach to each pair a label showing acre) and $52 (20 acre), against upset prices of $24, $102, $77. and } method of scavenging is en-hat bands marked "Sanitary their names and addresses. The following unclaimed tele-tirely unsatisfactory and In-Department," If Government All binoculars, enclosed in their $22.

The two lots at Lamma were sold grams are lying at the office of stances of the high-handed vigilance is exercised as it should be sent to the Director of for $21 and $16, with upset prices Messrs. Cable and Wireless Ltd. manner in which the coolies should have been all along, Supply, War Supplies Board, Gar- of $16 and $12, while the lot at Nyipaochun, Gloucester Hotel, from Shanghal; Hoseiltz, Chase Bank of the Sanitary Department without indulging in its pre-rison School Building. Garden Sam Tung Uk was sold for $401

against the upset price of $105. behave towards householders sent mood of squandermania. Road, Hongkong.

advertise-

ment in the Hong- kong Dally Press.

25 words $1.50 prepaid

for 3 insertions.

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cases where these

are available.