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CHINESE ESTATES,

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

LIMITED.

EIGHTEENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC: THE HONGKONG &

COMPANY, LIMITED.

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KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN COMPANY LTD.

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BLACK-OUT ΑΤ ΤΑΙΡΟ

A black-out exercise to test the effect of the Star-lighting system was held at Talpolast evening from 11 pm to midnight. Reports received indicate that the exercise proved to be successful,

In addition to the Starlighting system, it was learned, two other systems necessitating the use of blue bulbs were also experimented

with.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY-SIXTH GIVEN that an Extraordinary

Notice to Shareholders NOTICE IS HEREBY ORDINARY YEARLY MEET. General Meeting of the Company! GIVEN that the EIGHTEENTH ING of the Company (since will be held in the P. & G. ORDINARY YEARLY MEET registration) will be held at the Building, Victoria, in the Colony DINARY ANNUAL MEETING THE FIFTY FOURTH OR ING of SHAREHOLDERS will Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, of Hong Kong at 11:15 o'clock OF SHAREHOLDERS will be pated in the exercise.

In the forenoon on Thursday, the held at the Office of Messrs. 20th day of March, 1941, or as Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. dents, it was learned, remained at soon thereafter as the Ordinary General Meeting of the Company

be held at the Company's Office on THURSDAY, the 3RD at China Buildings, 5th floor, APRIL, 1941, at 11.30 a.m. for Hong Kong, on Thursday, the the purpose of receiving the 3rd April, 1941, at 12 o'clock Report of the General Managers noon, for the purpose of receiving together with a Statement of the Report of the Directors and Accounts for the year ended → a Statement of Account for the 31ST OCTOBER, 1940,

year ending the 28th February, The TRANSFER BOOKS of 1941, and of electing three the Company will be CLOSED Directors and an Auditor.

from MONDAY, the The TRANSFER BOOK of MARCH, 1941, to THURSDAY, the Company will be CLOSED the 3RD APRIL, 1941, both from the 28th March to the 3rd days inclusive. April, 1941, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

FUNG PING FAN, Director & Secretary. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1941.

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CHINA LIGHT & POWER

CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO CONSUMERS.

Notice' is hereby given that the Company's standard charges will be increased as from 17th March, 1941, by adding a 10% surcharge] the amounts charged for electricity consumed for lighting and power as per meters read on and after 24th April, 1941.

to

The existing scale of discounts will remain in force.

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By order of the Board of

Directors,

D. W. MUNTON,

Manager.

Hong Kong, 8th March, 1941.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

PARTICULARS AND CON.

24th

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers.

| Hong Kong, 18th March, 1941.

NOTICE.

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The Hong Kong & China Gas Co., Ltd. hereby give notice that, due to increased coal costs, Gas charges will be revised as from the March meter readings by an increase of 50 cents per 1000 cu. ft. and a reduction in present discount rates,

NEW DISCOUNT SCALE. First 5,000 cu. ft.

NET

On Cost of next 5,000 cu. ft. 3%

15,000

"...10% 11.15%

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3.

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,, 25,000

50,000 ...20% all over 100,000

"...25%

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HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.

shall have terminated for the purpose of considering and, i thought fit, passing the following

resolutions:-

"1. That the Directors be and they are hereby authoris

on WEDNESDAY, the 26th

MARCH, 1941, at NOON, for

Many air raid wardens particl-

The majority of the Taipo rest-

home.

the purpose of receiving the " JUNK MASTER Report of the Directors and the

Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st DECEMBER, 1941. * The

PUSHED OVERBOARD

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1941.

EXCELLENT ACTING IN BRIGHT MILNE COMEDY Sheila Mackinlay Outstanding As "Sarah Simple": Claude Burgess, Day Sage Act Well

from

ed to capitalise the sum of the Company will be CLOSED waters on Mar. 18 when eight chi-way neglected all the charm of that

By Order of the Board of Directors

nese

According to a report, Mo Tong, master of class IV boat No. 1891P, stated that about 11 p.m. his boat was anchored at Peng Chau, Mirs Bay, whan eight robbers boarded

The setting for SARAH SIMPLE" one of A. A. Milne's best- comedies on a romantic note, is the simple one of a Httle place, in the country where abide William Bendish, landscape painter who made a fortune from inventing a new and better corkscrew, and Marlanne, widow of Canon Bell-Mason.

Bendish, separated

his not believe in Charles Chaplin or wife, Sarah, for some eight years, in any reference to the best direc- is about to fall for all the charm tors of film classics being resident directed at his person by the in America, Amyas thinks too that beseeching Marianne, but up to a sense of humour has been the the moment from which the story. curse of Anglo-Saxon art... as unfolded on the stage, starts, he Neither Amyas or Alftrudá get has succeeded in warding off all along too well with their would-be attempts at tying the bond of aunt. Marianne, and the former Transfer Books of A robbery occurred in British matrimony, the while having in no briefly replies to one of her queries Some of us (at the school) Marianne. from SATURDAY, the 15th ransacked a boat and threw the long last to the fact that he is tied ever faster, the affections of Wil-

men. arned with pistols,

are beginning ta see through MARCH, 1941, to WEDNES master overboard

Hardly has Bendish confessed at cricket." As the plot moves on,

DAY, the 26th MARCH, 1941,

legally yet to his wife than Sarah lam Blendish return to his former both days inclusive.

the wife, enters herself on the wife, and the final curtain suggests scene. She is as beautcus a Sarah reunion. decade ago, a most charming and as the one that left him nearly a

BRIGHT CAST desirable Sarah. possessed too Hongkong Amateur Dramatic Club "The play, as presented by the every other desirable attribute that at the China Fleet Club Theatre is lacking in Marianne.

last night, was greeted with one of the loudest receptions accorded: if any measure can be taken of the any amateur effort here recently. New York, as a creator of becoming volume of clapping. "The cast was hats, and proceeds to educate her s compact and' bright, ́one with. niece. Alftruda, to the fact that SHEILA MACKINLAY turning in twenty minutes spent in adjusting an outstanding performance as the moval and disposal of night- one's hat on one's head is 'time Park Avenue hat-shop sophisticate soil. In the meantime, of that has never been wasted if the Sarah Simple.

result achieved is at all a satin- course, the

unsatisfactory factory one.

CLAUDE BURGESS, 43 William position has been allowed to

Eendish, is always in full com- Alftruda is but slightly interest-mand of the situation and gives: deteriorate to its presented, all her time and effort being the play added zest in a masterly state. Even now there is no directed to caring for her scholar-interpretation of an oft-bored re- reason why the proposals ad-ly twin-brother, Amyas, who does cluse being prodded back to life by vocated by unofficial members

a wily widow and a charming former-runaway wife. during the recent Council de-

DAY BAGE as Mariane Bell- Mason, does very well in the part of a fidgety widow, Intent on get- ting her man. Her attempts to interest the, twina in her own schooldays and the Anal scene where she informs the sleepy Ben-

C. M. MANNERS,^,

Secretary & Manager.

$3,000,000 Hongkong currency, part of the undivided profits of 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 han dred and forty-one in respect of the net amount capitalised Hong Kong, 7th March, 1941. fully paid shares of the "Com pany of equivalent nominal value in the proportion of one share for every three shares of the Company held by them respectively and that such shares so allotted shall rank for dividends as from the 1st day of July, 1941..

2. That if on such distribu- tion as aforesaid any person would be entitled to a fractional share the Directors shall, in lieu of issuing fractional cer tificates, cause the whole share to be allotted to a person or persons to be named by the Directors and such share shall, at sach time as the Directors: think fit, be sold and the proceeds distributed amongst the persons entitled to the fractions making up such share."

By order of the Board of Directors,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,

Notice is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of

Agents, Shareholders will be held in the Hong Kong, 21st February, 1941. Office of the Company, No. 2NOTE: Queen's Building, Hong Kong,

His Excellency the Governor of The Share Register and Trans. one Lot of Crown Land at fer Books will be closed from the Tai Kok Tsui, in the Colony 18th to 31st March, 1941, both of Hong Kong for a term of days inclusive.

75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Ma- jesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.

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By order of the Board of

"Directors,

E. COCK,

Chlef Manager.

Intending bidders are advised Hong Kong, 10th March, 1941.

that immediately after the dis-

posal of the lot the Purchaser.

I not the applicant) will be

required to depósit with" AD|

present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) In cash. This sam will be refunded on payment" of the Purchase-

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the craft from a sampan.

After

salling he was pushed overboard.

· one-and-a-half hours After three hours swimming he reached Sut Tau sha where he was picked up by a relative.

The total loss was $44.

bate should not be immediate- London Office: 53, Fleet Streetly adopted and given a fair

Avoti

HONGKONG, MARCH 19, 1841.

GRAVE CHOLERA

·MENACE..........

chance to succeed under strict Government supervision. Such

a course, would, at least, alle- viate the present state of

BECOMING HATS tablished herself in Park Avenue, Sarah explains that she has es-

Eight Couples Married At Registry

The Registry,Supreme Court, dish that she is giving him up in affairs and contribute to the had a busy day yesterday when no favour of a Mediterranean cruise, measures that will have to less than eight Chinese couples are wonderfully done. be taken to combat

the

were married, Mr. J. Reynolds,

THE RECURRENCE of the cholera scourge. The longer parties were

Deputy Registrar, officiating. The The twins are superb. Amyas

cholera menace so early the matter is left in abeyance

Mr. Lai Yuk-sang.

TWINS SUPERE

Land Alftruda (TIM FORTESCUE exchange and JOAN CRITCHETT) are the

in the year and its rapidly in- while Government considers broker, of Luen Flat Street, and children of Derek Bendish, who, creasing toll of victims raises the question, the greater will Miss Tong Lal-ming, of 48 Lock- his brother tells the audience. once again the question of be the incidence of the hart Road;

leaves for Africa every now and the problems which confront menace.

then to satisfy an annual grudge the health authorities in the

Every

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of 13 Lock Road, first floor, and

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The play was porduced by

ly did a good job by it, and the

Stage Management is ably directed by CHARLES GILMORE V. V. K.

NEWSETTES

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to leave 11 Tak Shing Street, and Miss live up to the reputation of being Mr. Tsieng Sam, merchant, of against elephants, and the twins Colony and the measures that the subject of the Colony's Chan Shuk haan, of 184 Third the children of such an unusual are necessary to solve them. health and the risks to which Street:

personality. The outbreak of cholera in it is open in the matter of Under the powers conterred such

Charles the Waiter (WELIJAM DITIONS of the Sale by Public noon for consideration of the Articles of Association of the with which its advent is prevails today. Hongkong's Lang Street, Fround Loor;

on Monday, 31st March, 1941, at

upon them by Article 12 of the even before the hot weather, to the overcrowding which and Miss Chan Stu-kan. of 6 Tang believes in people with "haquiline

alarming proportions epidemics without referring

Mr. Liu Shui-kam, merchant, of KIRBY), who conducts research Auction to be held on Monday, Directors' Report and Statement Company, the Directors have usually associated, has set in, surplus population shows no

Battery Street, ground floor, in the homely poisons and dis- the 24th day of March, 1941, at 3 of Accounts for the year ending decided to offer to Shareholders indicates that the public is sign of decreasing. p.m., at the Offices of the Public 31st December, 1940.

countenances" is another char- Works Department, by Order of

acter that fits in perfectly with on the Register on the 1st day as much to blame as the shophouse is packed with wong Mo-han, 246 Queen's Road CYRIL BROWN, who most evident-

Mr. Mok Wai-yin. merchant, of the whole, and is well-acted. of April 1941, one share at par health authorities in being families who exist in the most west, first floor;

39 Cumberland Road, and Miss for every complete three shares over lax in the matter of pre-ill-ventilated and insanitary held by them

(excluding the cautionary measures. Bonus Shares to be offered to thing that is done now to landlords have divided up Miss Chan Wai-lin, office clerk, of Any-Leubicles into which avaricious Mr. Leung Wai-lin, bank clerk, them under the preceding resolu check the epidemic will be so every foot of available space. 8 Jordan Road, third Boor; tion) upon the terms that pay much like closing the stable Those unable to pay the ex- ment for such shares shall be door after the horse has been orbitant rentals of $5 or $6. made to the Company's Bankers, allowed to get away.

Mr. Chung Sake-fal, building The Photographic Society The Hongkong & Shanghai Bank complacency of the public accommodation are forced to and Miss Leung Moon-wah, of 697 ing at Cafe Wiseman last night.

The a month for such unhealthy contractor, of 38 Tak Ku Ling Rd. Hongkong held its monthly meet- ing Corporation, Hong Kong and we refer here to the live on the pavements, hud-Nathan Road, first flour;" on or before the 30th September poorer working classes and died together with their be-

A lecture on "First-Aid to the 1941 and that Shareholders be thousands of slum dwellers-longings in a manner that is tractor. of 85 Wing Lok Street, Dovey at the Board Room of the Mr. Poon Shilu-che, building cun- Infured" was given by Dr. J. E given power to renounce their on matters of health is truly nauseating to passers-by and and Miss Lee Sau-man, of 5 Bute 8.C.M. Post yesterday evening. authorised officer who will be THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC tights ander such offer and that appalling. The way in which creating a situation which is Street;

no rights attach to any fractions.fith and rubbish is permitted a disgrace to living conditions

The Taumati ferry Man Tak The shares taken up under the to accumulate in tenements in a British colony. It is 1 Caine Road, and Miss Mok Slu- near the entrance to the Yanmați Mr. Ping Man-chiu, student, of collided with No. 6 Police launch above offer shall rank for divide and shop-houses during the common enough to see a food haan, of 183 Wanchai Road Mr. Typhoon Shelter on Monday, The Notice is hereby given that the ends as from 1st day of July 1941. winter months is the surest hawker setting up his stall in T. 9. Whyte-Smith, Registrar of Police launch was slightly dam- Fifty-second Ordinary Yearly Formal letters of offer, acceptance way of inviting the cholera the closest proximity to these Marriages, officiated:

aged. Meeting will be held at the Con and renunciation will be sent to germ to begin its deadly work pavement dwellers at all

Shareholders as soon as possible of infection. The compulsory hours of the day and night, The following forthcoming wed-san Boys' School yesterday, spon-

The third concert at the Dioce Floor, P. & 0. Building e11

after April 1st next.

cleaning out by the Sanitary thereby almost certainly in dings were announced at the Re- Thursday, 20th March, 1941 at

sored by the Hongkong", Bchools' 126 Department is far too inadecreasing the danger of Infec- Mr. Robert Hervey Blake, mer Musical Association, was featured 11a.m. for the purpose of present ing the Report of the Directors FUNERAL OF MRS. effective and even then the the present outbreak, it is Phyllis Mary Catharine Haslam, Braga, and Mra Elizabeth Drown. quate and spaced out to be tion from food. In view of chant, of 400 The Peak, and Miss by fine renderings by the Thoir of at. Joseph's Church, Miss Carolin together with a Statement of

C. SADICK work is only hurriedly done. Incumbent on the health au- sister of the War MemorTİRİ Accounts to 31st December, 1940

at the piano. The conductor was The funeral of Mrs. Christine A more drastic programme of thorities to ban the exposure Nursing Hospita and electing Directors and Audi. Sadick, wife of Mr. O. Sadick, took visits by health officers and of food for sale on streets and

the Rev. Father A. Biganti place at the Mohammedan Ceme- their staffs to these crowded pavements, in addition to Ribeiro, clerk of 237 Nathan Rd, Mr. Henrique Augusto Vieira-"

Under the auspices of the Hong- tery yesterday when a large num- dwellings and, The Register of Members of ber of relatives and friends attend-

8 rigorous conducting daily inspection top floor, and Miss Niẞia Maria kong University Medical Boclets. the Company will be closed from ed to pay their last respects. Maulvi destruction of the rubbish of Chinese eating houses and Franco, of 24 Carnarvon Road, Dr. Annie Sydenham, MR.CS.. 8th March to 20th March, 1941 Mohammed Noor Shah led the which these tenants pile up cafes where cleanliness is by ground floor.

LR.CP, of the Alice Memorial Hospital. will give a lecture, on both days inclusive, during which Prayers in the Mosque and at the in every nook and corner of no means apparent. As far

graveside period no transler of shares can

the premises they live in is as inoculation of the public 18 27. Bonham Strand West, and Miss the Union Assembly Room on Fri Mr. Lee Shih yao," merchant, of "Fifteen Years of Midwifery in The late Mrs. Badick, who was urgently needed.

concerned, invitations to the Choi Ful-kuten, teacher, of 2 St.day, March 21, at 530 pan only 27 years of age, died at her THIS, HOWEVER, is only people to attend the free Stephen's Lane. residence. No. 62 Village Road, yes-one aspect of the insanitary clinics will never ensure that terday morning,

The next general meeting" of the A large number of floral fribates conditions which prevail in every man woman and child BITTEN BY DOGmorrow (Thursday), at 1.30

Science Society will be hald There are of has received treatment and Freddy Abeser, a 12-year-old boy,

"Kt of the Main Butidi other causes house to house visits must be of No. 540 Nathan- Road, Bacond

to the carried out if the epidemic door was bitten by a dog yester- sor of Chemistry Airli cholera with which the Colony is The dog, belonging to Lai day and was treated at the hos one is threatened is to be effectively guns of No. 542, Natham Road, ton In the 'TO-

price.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT pany's Registered Office,

Registry No.

Locality,

| No. of Sale, Kowloon Inland Lot No. 4303

Inland Lot No. 2141. - Adjoining Kawloon

Larch Street,

Tai Kok Truf

Boundary

Measure-

ments.

As per

sale plan.

Conterade 3r

Square feet.

Rental.

About

9.11.4

8

.871

es | Upset-Pride.

18,228

tors.

By order of the Board of

· Directors,

The purchaser of the lot will be be registered. required to pay to the auctioneer in cash the sum of $1,823 (being 10% of the apset price) immedi ately after the fall of the hammer, the balance of the premium being paid in accordance with the Con- | ditions of Sale, ¿

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GIBB, LIVINGSTON

& CO., LTD. Agents.

4th

were "sent.

Hongkong.

course, nu

Mr. S. E. Faber, residing at. No which 20, Braga Cirenit, has reported the

contribute

spreading of the Hong Kong, 21st February, 1941, theft of a slide rule, valued at

$50, from his car parked in care germ ton Road on Monday

the disor

gistry:

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