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"SHELL" Transport AND

TRADING COMPANY.

The annual general meeting of the share holders of the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, Ltd., was held at Winchester House, Old Board-street, on 22nd Nov, the Chairman, Sir Marcus Samuel, Bart presiding. The Secretary (Mr. E. A. Smith-Kewse) having read the notice convening the meeting, and also the auditors' report, the Chairman said;am

The balance sheet for 1902, which is now be

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY

THE GUFFEY CONTRACT.

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"The Chainman said that, the millenium not having yet arrived, he was afraid he could not promise they would have no competition; but he could say that they could meet competition in a form which would render it wholly un profitable to those who attempt it. The united companies had now such an enormous produc tion as to render them closely nearing the point of doing without Russian oil besides, the transport of Russian and American all was to hopeless to the East in comparison with that produced locally, that they did not fear any anxiety in view of such competition. As to the Borneo production, that had increased enon- ously during the past month. It was much more than it was in 1933, and to-day it was at the highest point it bad yet reached, the pre- sent week's returns being 4,100 tons. With he might say were most careful in their work, regard to the balance-sheet, their auditors, who had selected the form of balance-sheet, and that had been adhered to. The directors would, of course, be pleased to entertain any sugges- tions as to a different form of balance-sheet, and in the meantime he could only say if there were any questions the shareholders desired to. ask on the accounts he would be most happy to same to the best of his ability.

answeroutes was then carried unanimously. Marcus Samuel, Bart, Mr. Benjamin, Mr. Best, Mr. R. Jardine moved the re-election of Sir and Mr. Philip Arnold as directors of the com pany. Mr. J. Henderson seconded the motion, which was unanimously adopted.

Mr. Balfour, in moving a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors, said that the share- holders ought to feel grateful to the Board for having taken so much trouble in carrying curtailment, if not the elimination, of the com- through negotiations which had resulted in the petition to which this company had recently been subjected.

that in their chairman they had the one man Mr. Barber, in seconding the motion, said who could bring them through any crisis.

The motion was passed with acclamation. had an uphill task. and in spite of the com- The Chairman, In returning thanks, said they

pay him, during 190s he had not been able to pliment Mr. Barber bad been kind enough to

give the time and attention to the business that his colleagues for the splendid efforts they had he should have liked; but he wished to thank made to make this business prosper. thought they might congratulate the share- holders on having got over the bad period. They did not want to lay too much strees upon the fact, but they did believe, as they always had, in the future of Koetei.

tion when I say that it is source of much pleasure, at the end of a period of last than six years, to find ourselves in the position to close the exploration period and to commence a working account, with every prospect of seeing large return upon the capital we have invest ed. That we are indebted to this possession for the position we have attained in the world of Eastern producers is anquestionable, and thus from every point of view the policy of your directors in securing and developing an East era supply has been fully justified. In the fore you, is that for the fifth year's trading of report itself we have already announced that we

propose placing the venture on a proper work this Company. It has been with the greatest ng basis, and in this connection I must refer to regret that the directors were compelled to the remarks of your accountants, Messrs. adjourn its presentation to so late a period in Turquand, Youngs and Co. They take excep- the succeeding year, and then to find them- tion in their report that certain items have not selves in the position of being obliged to put before the shareholders estimates only. But fest to the business men whom, I am addressing been property allocated. It will be very mani- those who are acquainted with the operations that in the early stages of the exploration of of the company will readily understand the

these fields, in a country uninhabited, where position. We announced at the meeting in

access was only possibile by our owo craft, and June 1902, that negotiation had been conclad- ed to end, by an agreement with the Royal times on board ships, sometimes in huts of the where the pioneers had to work, living some- Dutch Company the competition which had rudest construction, that, necessary as it may rendered profits to either concern a matter of

be to auditors who have to give a reliable re- impossibility. These arrangements provided port to shareholders, and who will not do it for the drawing up of elaborate agreements, to unless proper vouchers are forthcoming---I say which not only the two companies were parties, that in the men who had to start this difficult but also the Mccara Enim Company, the exploration we sought practical workers rather Mosnesi Ilir Company, Mesars. Rothschild, of than those who would have kept excellent ac Paris, and the Société de Naphte Caspienne a counts, no doubt, but who would never have de la Mer Noire, and as it was open to all these brought about the results on which we are prid- parties to take such exceptions as they pleased ing ourselves to-day. And so it seems to me before the final agreement could be recorded of very little moment that men, whom we were in a legal document, there was no alternative entrusting with untold sums, and upon whose But for each party to continue separately the integrity we not only could rely, but have never conduct of their trading operations for the com mon account until this end was accomplished, whether the sums expended by them, in such had any occasion to mistrust, could not state and it was only on July 1, 1993, that the Asiatic labour as they were able to get, should be allot Petroleum Company was registered with a ted as to hospitals, or to surveying, exploring capital of £600,000, subscribed jointly by the building, transport, or boring. And I go much "Shell" Company, the Royal Dutch Company, further, and say that it is wholly immaterial, and Messrs. Rothschild, for the purpose of ful because what the Board have under serious filling the marketing agreed. As one of the consideration, and what they will invite the agreements was to make over certain ships shareholders to agree to, is to treat the whole and craft, to hire installation spread all over expenditure to the end of 1903 as development. the world, and which had to be scheduled and to leave those on the port to decido how to the most. minute particular, and as aris much to allocate to wells, storage and refinery, ing from the state of interregnum, stores when starting the working account, and take and material involving detail of great over the figures shown at the end of 1903 as extent, it will not surprise any business man to being the cost to the company of the magni- know that such accounts as would satisfy theficent territories they possess, allowing the proper requirements of auditors would involve Board to give evidence to the auditors (as they great difficulty in preparations, and even now will readily be able to do) that they have in this there are some outstanding questions which property more than equivalent for the asset as prevent a final adjustment. Under these it will then stand. circumstances, the directors of the "Shell" Company have deemed it desirable to meet the

The next item I have to allude to is the con- shareholders, to fully explain the position to tract which we made with the Guffey Petroleum them, and to ask their indulgence under the Company for Texas oil, and is connection with dificulties which they have to deal with, assur- which we felt justified in increasing the capacity ing them that it is matter of much greater of the feet materially. Most unhappily the anxiety to the Board than it can possibly be to production of Texas oil declined ina manner any individual shareholder, that they should which no expert could have foreseen, and so have to submit estimates rather than final sudden was this, and to entirely unexpected accounts. Coming to the trading for 19oz,

that, in November, 1901, the contract price was announced at the end of 1901 we found our reduced, and so late as May, 1902, the Guffey selves with a stock costing £600,00, upon Petroleum Company voluntarily further re which there was a depreciation of something duced the contract price of the liquid fuel approaching 50 per cent, according to market which they had contracted to give us, prices. We congratulate our shareholders in order to encourage the offtake. upon the fact that, thanks to the organisation the more mortifying to us, therefore, that in of the company, we were not only able to the autumn of 1903 10 grave a falling off in pro- liquidate this large stock without a loss, but duction occurred as to threaten the Guffey in spite of drawbacks, and chiefly to the fact Company with most disastrous consequences that assets approaching a million sterling did any attempt to enforce the contract rights, not contribute a shilling to the credit of profit which we had obtained had been made, and in the balance sheel, it is a matter of legitimate under the circumstances there was no option satisfaction to the directors that they found to your directors hut to accept a compromise themselves in a position at the end of the year which the directors of the Guffey Company 1907 to distribute a dividend of 2 per cent. offered them, and this they have done. Whilst For it would not have surprised anyone know a certain compensation under this will be ing the conditions of the oil trade and of derived, it leaves us with a large fleet for which the shipping industry, to find such a company pany as this, whose assets are largely com and which, under the present condition of the up till now no regular employment is afforded posed of details under these two denomina shipping trade, tells heavily upon our profit, companies have done, a balance to the bit because we have to pay the builders' interest side. But i would not like the shareholders three steamers delivered to us during the cur- on the purchase price, although in regard to to think for a moment that the working of the last two years has been normal. This com- since we have arranged with the builders to rent year no depreciation will be required, pany found themselves in the position of hay defer delivery until employment can be found ing their Iusiness based upon Russian oil. for them. It is not to be supposed that we Whilst their competitors in the Eastern trade, shall sit by and leave le hose boats and the Royal Dutch Company, were able to others of our fleet not included in the agree realise large profils, the "Shell" Company, ment with the Asiatic Petroleum Company, and had they relied upon Russian oil only, we have taken strenuous steps to secure them would not have been able to earn a dividend employment in the European trade, and in this at all. This position your directors fore- saw when they undertook the development taken an interest, as shown in the balance- we have every prospect of success. We have of the fields in Borneo, and recognising sheet, to the extent of £95,500 in the Petroleum it they also entered into contracts with the Producte Actien Gesellschaft, one of the con- Motara Enim Company and the Moesi ir ditions of that interest being that the "Shell" Company. For some time the production of Company's fleet should be employed in the oil in the East by the Royal Dutch Company business, and, having secured upon favourable fell off to such an alarming extent that they terms supplies of petroleum from various were compelled also to go into Russian oil to keep their steamers and installations employed, their European trade on the lines on which they sources, it is the directors' intention to develop and also partly with the view to compete with the "Shell Company. The position changed minimise the fact that until this end is accom. created the Eastern tradu. We do not wish to entirely when the Royal Dutch Company plished, the boats will constitute a charge upon recovered their Eastern production and found themselves able to market about six million it has been also recessary to construct certain our profits. In the carrying out of this design units of Eastern oil annually. From that time installations throughout Europe, and in the your directors recognised the absolute necessity current year's working this outlay will not con If both companies were to make money, of tribute to the company's profits. We succeed- coming to an agreement, but unfortunately the ed in placing the whole of the preference mattor was not to clear to our competitors shares at a cost of £59,109, or including all (now our friends and allies), and a war of prices, brokerages, commissions, advertising, and is extending over a period of almost two years, suing, something under 6 per cent, which must occurred before they shared our views. Your be considered very satisfactory terms. directors have confidence that the alliances have written off during the year under review We now concluded render the united companies 10,000 of this cost, and I would call attention invulnerable and that when the full results of the amalgamations are experienced all con- cerned will appreciate the advantages of co- operation.

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come tax, an additional dividend of it per cent. to the fact that, with the £13,000 paid for in- was earned, although not available, except la directly, for purposes of distribution. Probably the shareholders would like some information as to the working of the year 1903. I am glad to say that, upon carefully prepared estimates, the gross profits (without taking any credit for interest on the amount in Borneo) are con siderably more than for the year 190s, and although we have to provide for interest on the items I have enumerated, there is still sufficient available to allow the directors to distribute a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, which will be paid on Jan. 1, for the present year, (Applause.) As to the future, it is not

THE KOETEI PROPERTY. Next in order comes the question of this company's property in Koetei. It will be apparent from the balance-sheet that the directors have taken no credit into their current account for interest upon the very large capital expended on this property, and in doing this, they are only asking the shareholders to practise a self-denying ordinance until the and of the present year, when they have every expectation that a reward will result. During the current year the production of oil in Kostel has risen from 122,600 tons in 1902 to 147,000 wise to prophesy, but when an investment of tons from Jan. 1 to date, whilst the present production is at the rate of 200,000 tons a year, to the earnings of the company, as we may so huge sum as 1,000,000 sterling contributes with, I am happy to say, a large increase in the production of light off from which we are getting 58 per cent, of kerosene, whilst we are also now succeeding, having established a market for the porduct, in getting no less than 28 per cent. of kerosene from our heavy oll, a great increase on the quantity hitherto obtained. We were fortunate enough to obtain the services of Professor Schmidt of Barle, one of the best known and most reliable geologists on oil territories, and this gentleman proceeded to Koetal to give us Independent opinion. He arrived in Koetai on Nov. 6, and Twill read you a telegram received from him on 17th inst. Louise Concession. Splendid oil bearing anticlinal to the extent of boundary

expect the Borneo property will do in 1904, we look forward with some confidence to a better state of things, and when once the accounts are adjusted between the parties interested to be able to present the accounts of the "Shell" Company without the very regrettable delay which has occurred for the 1901 balance-sheet. This, however, must not be taken as a pledge, but merely as an aspiration, since the accounts are no longer dependent upon the "Shell" Company, but various others with which they are allied. It will, however, I think, be satisfac tory to the shareholders to know that I am the chairman of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, and that i know our associates in it, Meurs Rothschild and the Royal Dutch Company, are

to boundary. Noanl Concession. Exploration quite as anxious as we are that there should be Just begun, Containa continuation Balek no unnecessary delay,' I have great pleasure Pappan district and Sanga Sanga district strata. | in moving the adoption of the report. Hatalde Well Drilled oil-bearing rocks not Mr. A. V. D. Best seconded the resolution. la pronounced anticlina Recommend trial Mr. E. H. Barber asked if the selling of the Walli Süngel Glendasan."--The-Louise. Con oil through the Asiatic Petroleum Company. cassion is about 1 miles in length, the total would in any way secure them from competition. Imith being about 60 miles, so that with the He would also like to know if the wells, in Improved and increasing production through Borneo were producing all to the same extant "Balto location of the anticlinal, we are as at the close of 1902. As to the accounts, in the possession of a property of would it be possible to give a more detailed value, provided that production is -balance-sheet, drawn up more on the lines of

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FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the. Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark, ind delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed

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Goods not cleared by the and February, at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent,

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me is any case whatever,

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All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which data they cannot be tacognised,

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are hereby notified that their Goods having been transferred to the SS. "SHAWMUT have reached this Port, and are at their risk being discharged into Lighters and/or landed into our Godowns Nos. 1 and 2, at Kennedy Town. (Marine Let 243), and delivery may be had either taken from Lighters or from our Godawns upon countersignature of Billà of Lading.

Goods remaining unclaimed after the 5th February will be subject to rent.

All Claime must be sent in to me on of before the 8th February or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

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BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.....

STEAMSHIP "SHAWMUT," FROM TACOMA, VICTORIA, YOKO,

HAMA, KOBE AND MOJI.N The above Steamer having arrived, Cons signees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bill of Lading for countersignature and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.

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