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NEW GOODS

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1QIO

VALLAMBROSA RUBBER.

FULL REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING.

MANAGING DIRECTOR'S ADDRESS, The sixth ordinary general meeting of the shareholder in the Vallambrosa Rubber Com pany was held at Edisburgh, on July 25,

Mr. 4. R. Wilson Wood, the managing direc tor, was called to the chalk. In his opening remarks, he ssid Gentlemen, I trust you will agren with me in thinking that the results of the reason's working are satisfactory. To the directors they are particularly so, as they fully Justify, I think, a stop taken by them at the and of 1908, which, at the time, gave rise to much adversa criticism, I refer to the change in fecal management. It was naturally only to be expected that outsiders should know more about the company's affairs than the directors!

sons, all new coolles are trained on the renew ed bark Sach women as are employed on this work are also put to tap lower bark dreis affected by Tamil women is

Public Companies.

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bat limited, and they have a natural-and IHE ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY think very proper disloction: ton to climb ladMEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will dare. Any one seeing tapping done on both ROW, the 10th September, 1916, at 1230 KM. be hald at the Company's Hotel, TOʻMOR- lower and upper back might enilly jump to the for the purpose of receiving a Statement of conclusion that the estate was being over Accounts to the sosh Jane, 1910, with the tapped. "I hope I have now dispered this idea. Report of the Directors, and to discuss any The quantios of the future of the rubber market mattor that may be competently brought before has been so often dealt with by man more The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company

the Mastingshiradores fingers Beafairioin & prima cut- competent than I am, that i do nos propose to will be CLOSED from the 4th to the roth: touch it farther than to say that a continuanca Sapt, both days inclusive.ave for any time of present high prices is neither By Order of the Board, likely, der lu the tram fnterests of the Industry, desirable. Already one beams of rubber for sach purposes as the packing of marine argine joints being discarded as too costly, and a continuzzce of these abnirmally high prices

would be bound in the long run to affect adversely the rubber manufacturing industry,

THE FUTURE."

Hongkong, 9th September, igno,

CMOONEY, Secretary

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED

A DENTS pre Share for the Six Months N INTERIM DIVIDEND of FIFTEEN the ending soth, af June, 1pto, will be payable

plication at the Compasy's Office. Dividend Warrants may be obtained-on ap 12th day of September, 1910, on which date, on

1 do not object to that, but the tone of some of the litters written on the subject were nonscar sarily offensive. It was, for examplo, suggest ed that the step was actuated by motives of economy, and that a deserving a jager was dispensed with 'to make room for a chesper MRD. This is gale untrue. We were for tupate anough to flad in Mi. Bailey a mans will ba coming forward, I am not laclides of September, 1910, both days inclusiva S

ger not only with some kcapledge of rabber but accustomed to handio large tea crops, and, therefore, fally alive to the importance of economy and attention to detalle, without which no property can, ba worked to fall advantage, The mugin of pretz in the case of tea has for many years bann Jess lo pence per ib. than rubber gives.shillisge. There is no room for extravagance, and every, hem of expopse is fixed to fractions of a cent......

reliable information about the supply of wild As to future supplies, It seems difficult to gat.

though undoubtedly much larger qanotliled rubber. In the case of plantation rubber,

to accept the estimates of ultimate yields furnished by various authorities for the gold- ance of investors, Tasse figures appear to

will be CLOSED from the ret to the 13th day The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co, bene General Managers, Bum Hongkong, 26th August, 1910,

THE OUINA LIGHT AND POWER

complied without any reference to such an sential matters as the equality of the land and

COMPANY, LIMITED.. its suitability, or how the planting operations THE÷NINTH ORDINARY ANNUAL have been canind out. Large tracts of land MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in have "bien" taken up that would never have the Company will be held at the OFFICE of found purchasers before the boom, and no Connaught Road, on SATURDAY, the 13th the Company, St. George's Building, No. 6, NERVOUS SHAREHOLDERS.

doubt in many cases the opening has band September, 1915, at Noon, for the purpose of With rubber, on the other hand, there is, so

done in a very haphazud fashion. Anyone receiving a Statement of Accounts and Repart far, no fixed standard of costs, and it is ex-

with the smallest practical experience knows of the General Managers for the year ending tremely difficult to localcata economy with the that land varies as much, if not more in the Sat July 1910, and electing a Consulting

Committes and auditors. huge profis being madej rome men boing tropics than say in this country, and that noth- VERY. LIGHT 'WEIGHT

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., apparently laclined to think that economy ising can ever make up for a bad start; yet ther

General Managers, nat becess sy, ́Our view Is that whatever the calculations are based on the idea that as acre

Hongkong, and September, 1910, [579 PERFECT FITING., a concern should be run on baslcess of rubber is no acre of rubber and that whether

lines, and this is what we have nimed at. The the land be old worked on tipioca land or DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO, LD. result bas horse out our anticipations, and the rich alluvial, whether the clearings are planted THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEET. cost per lb. bas been reduced from iv. gåd, to with picked plants carstally ser ont, or with ING of the SHAREHOLDERS 10 the ¿¿ The amount of crop scored was, of the refuse of purseries or seed simply dibbled above Company will be held at the Company's course, larger, thus reducing proportion of fixed out, the result is to be the same, so many at Noos, for the purpose of receiving the Offices, on SATURDAY, the 24th September, charges; tut, on the other hand, the increase in pounds an acre at a given age. Very simple Report of the General Managers, together with export tax (a) per cent. ad valorem) put quite an but I think hardly practical. There is another a Statement of Acchants to the Jath June, extra pesny perib.oo the cost, and upper tapping point also ignored, and that is that, in the com. 1910. necessitating a ladder bolag carried from tree Petition for labour, that it is certainly coming 61° | will be CLOSED from the 9th to 24th Septem

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company ber, both days inclusivo. A

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tatos situsted in feverish districts will fort the pinch first. The conclusion I have arrived at is that future yields have borg overestimated, and that of the total obtainable only a percentage will ever be harvested, As to cur fatura policy we propose to leave all felled land for a couple of years to give the limber time to rot. When

should be destroyed. We propose to open op the rest of Bukit Kraion and Athloúo gradually, and hope that this may be possible at a com parative by small cost. Next year a considerable portion of Bukit Kratom will be tappable. The estimate for current season is 425.000 lbs. Mr. Bailey explains that yield would have been

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co. My General Managers: Hongkong, 3rd September, 1910.

Intimations.

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watched. If there ware any truth in tumors I cleaned-up and burst, most of the timber STATE OF NORTH BORNEO. | Voal-Ngau Obal Yak asas (9.

to tree, adjusting sama, sad adding to difficolty of scast operation, also added to cost. Thira has been a great deal written during the past year on the subject of pests. We have always bad some trouble with white anis and a contain amount of loss from fomes. There are not ["now, they have attention, and are closely

which have from time to time been circulated (I know not by whom) regarding the Vallam brosa property, our position would indeed be very different from that in which we bappily fiad ourselves. I do not pay any attention 13 any such rumourą myself, any more than to the periodical scares about sjathetic, rabber; but, | as I am getting tired of being constantly reconsiderably more, but for the fact that he Tenders will be received at the Office

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January, 19:1

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TENDERS FOR REVENUE FARMS.

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1 propose to refer bileßy to as many of there that there are soms 91,000 fewer traes to lap. { of xx. 2 or 3 your commencing on the rat Doves-Pan Kau weeCADES falty sales as I remember. The following are

The traes loft are already benefiting mach a few which hava at various times been reported from having more room. The directors hava The Farms above referred to are the to me. No depth of foil; trees bound to die made no forward sales. It is in their opinion Opiem, Spirit, Gambling, and Pawcbroking when water is fonched; trees all leaning over, better, as a general rule, to sell is the open Farms for the whole or part of the State, ma.ket. I-should like to especially express Copies of the Forms of Contracts for the liable to be blown over by first gust of wind; the satisfaction of the directors with the ex- Farms and fall, particolare of the conditions eatate so unhealthy that no labour can be got; collent work Which Mx. Bailey bas dous durs to be observed by tenderers may be acen on whole estate eaten up by rate; situated within ing the year, the result of which is reflicted is application at the Office of the Government danger zine (whatever that may mean); barkdition of the estate which I am able to report Co, Singapore and Pennug, or of Messes, tha balance sheet, and in the satisfactory.com. Secretary, Sandakav, or of Messrs. Guthrie & not renewed owing to 'close planting; estata

to day. r. Bailey has been well supported by Gibb Livingston & Co. at Hongkong, overtopped, and no bark lift. There are 3 or his staff of assistants, and I feel that we owe

The retail rates for Obanda fixed by a fact of clearance over the water-level, and them all an expression of our cordial apprecia- Government for the Opiam Farm for 1911, I have seen splendid, trees growing with lion of their servical. An immense amount of 1912 and 1913 are the. specified belaw

work entailing" late hours bis falleg on the vit, only a couple of feat or loss of clearance;

Fecretariss The directors take this oppor do lean same trees.

For every 3 hea packet but they fanity of expressing their satisfaction at the over, are healthy and yield as well as their neigh. Texcellent manner in which the work has bara. bours; there is no malaria, except, of course, with so many share transactions as took place carried out and kept up-to-date-no easy matier imported cases; and I have it on the authority during the boom. I should like to thank Mr. of the district medical officer that Vallambrosa Gordon Dickson, our London agent, for the is an hoalthy as any estate of its clavation in the skilful and judicious manner'la which he has tropics. The idea of trees go to 40 feet high carted on the marketing of and price. THE BRITISH-FOREIGN IMPORT; &

Tarkey's, Cock-Yo Kai Kun bolog eaten up by r's is too absurd to be taken fore formally moving the adoption of the

EXPORT COMPANY, Central Balide. Hen... seriously; I do not quite understand what is report, the chairman foron que:tions, but ings, Liverpool, England, is prepared to Wild Ducks, Shangtal, Sui-n

nons being asked the adoption ofthe report and receive Consigaments of, Local Produce on Teal, Shanghal, Sul Ap meant by danger zone, but, if the writer accounts was seconded by Mr. R. Ross Stark, best termIS. means that the trees are liable to attacks || who said the shareholders ware greatly indebt- from fangold pests, it would have bean more

ed to the director, the necrosarins, and to Mr. |Bailey; for the splendid result of the: year's to the purpose had he been able to poist out working. The report, he thought, was vaty a district' or estate that can claim immanity satisfactory. This was carried unanimously, I have seen tai in Ceylon killed by famen,! Mr. O. M. Pelham Born moved that the or some allied dissate, at any e'ovation from directors' fees for the year to' March 31, 1910, 200 feet to 6 and feet. That Vallambrosa was be fixed at £1,000, free of income-tax, and that they be paid their travalling expenses incurred too closely plasted lo the fast instance, there in attending board meeting. This was second- ein be no doubt, and for this I am, I fear, res-ed by Mr. George M. Wood, and was carried porniblo, en it was done at my suggestion. Lituanimously, tle planting of subber in clearings had then bo- IRISH POPLIN, ETO, en done, and I took the best expert advice available, that of Mr. Ridley, of the Singapore

·Botanical Gardens. The then idea was to plant 10 feet by to feet orsz feet by a fast and at explty of four years tap one row to "death,... - No latex being forthcom'ng, 'I gave directions to uproot each allemate row, but this waY, BEYLE done. The trees, you will see; now average' about 156 to the acre, or may 17 foot by 17 fast." This is close, but wat log close for bark senewal. ALLEGED OVERTÍPalnog g We bave Mr. Bailey's 'derurance that the bark has rentwed wall, and so long, as April, 1998, Mr.. Herbert Wright-reported that the bark at that date was fit to tap agalo. Cipsa plinting has this advantage, that should a tree. from any cause be lost it can be spared; where: only the exact numb;r it is intended in retain, are planted, any tres lost must be re-plisted. As to avenapping (much the mes) serious allegation), it is now live years since we started Tapping. Owing to unskilled labour much bark was wasted, so our lower bark shon]d, withoát allowing for lecreased growth, last longar in fasure, and, as our

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The re-election of Mr. A. R. Wilson Wond

director of the company was agreed to ROCKERY, Cathery, Electro and Silver and Mr. C. L. Da'xlel, Ciâ, was appointed at. * Plated, Glass, and Imn Warst of all Citor for the current year at a fee of so quintar, descriptions, always on hand, for sale or ca The proceedings, tormianied with a vaze of hire at modainte rates. thanks to the chairman,

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Beans, (French) Macao-Oh Moon Fin

Baans,(French), Shanghai-Shaung Hol

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Gaulidowar, Medium size-Cheung Yoh

Gantiflower, Small slam--Bai Yok Chol-fa Gaitota-Kam Bus

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Galery, Chinais-Tong Kan Okoy w Galery, English-Young Kan Chal Galery, White-Fak Young Man Cha

Chilllas, Dried--Don Kat Chin Jones

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Curry Stuff, Haglish-Ka Les Ghol Lia Oucumbers--Chang Kwa

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