1926-04-23 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

KÂWIPLÜG NÝVŠEHOLD OUTFIT.

RAWLPLUGS

36

Every Fixture in your Home can be

neat and firm

N EVERY home there are dozens of articles-shelven, cupboards, coat hooks, ela, all of which must be fixed securely and neatly. There is only one method of ensuring real and perinanent satisfaction- and that is" the Rawlplug method-successful on walls of any material from plaster to concrete.

The Rawlplug Outfit contains everything accessory to enable anyone, without previous experience, to do these joba hitnself.

(1) Invisible when in

position. (2) Anyone can use them.

(8) No damage to Walls, |(4) There is a Rawlplug

for every screw.

DAWLPLUGS

RAWL

WALL FLUGE

Obtainable from all stores, or the Sole Agents The General Electric Co. of China, Ltd.

TO EUROPE

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Full information given in regard to travel by the above routos, faros, sailings, dates, etc. Our interpreter meets all steamers at Marseilles where every facility is given to passengers travelling overland to points in Europe.

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COMPANY MEETINGS

THE SIMPLEX PLASTER CO.

Bright Prospects.

FRIDAY, APRIL

23,

1926,

FAMOUS SINGER.

MR. JOHN MCCORMACK COMING TO HONGKONG.

Shanghai, April 22,

The famous singer, Mr. Joãn The second annual meeting of McCormack had a tremendous re- the Simplex. Plaster Company, Limited was held in the Com-ception from a crowded audience pany's offices yesterday afternoon, in the town hall last night." the chair being occupied by Mr. He aubsequently visits Hong C. E. H. Benvia, who was support kong, and later Japan, and possibly ed by Micears. Chan Pek-chun, Peking and Tientsin-Reuters Chai Yue-teng, C. B. Shank ant

B. D Shank (Directors). Others present included Messrs. B. Mon- tague Ede, Chung Chi-nom. Yik Tat-ting and A. R. F. Raven' (shareholders).

The Secretary having read the notice convening the meeting, the; Chairman said:

Gentlemen,-Before proceeding to the business of the Meeting. I should like to recall the great loss the Company has suffered, since the last Annual Meeting, in the death of the late Mr. C. Montague Ede. Mr. Ede was well known to us all and as you are aware. took a great interest and an

tive part in the Company's opera tions, and we were greatly indebt- ed to him for his advice and ready assistance at all times in the numerous matters requiring att n tion and experience in

сопрес- tion with the early development of the Company. '

The report af the Directors and statement of Accounts have been in your possession for the stipulated time, and I shall, with your permission, take them as

read.

A MAHARAJAH'S GIFT.

TOWARDS THE FRENCH FREEWILL FUND..

Paris, April 22- The Maharajah of Kapurthala the has given 50,000 franes to fund for the improvement of the franc-Havas.

COAL DEADLOCK,

London, April 22. The conference of coatowners and miners has completely broken down. Reuter,

necessary in order to increase the efficiency of the plant.

There is a considerable amount of prospective business which the Company may hope to obtain in the Colony, and I am happy to be able to inform you that the General Managers have just secured the contract for the internal plaster work in the Peninsula Hotel, which means that the Company will sup. ply all the plaster board used in connection with this building. This order, with the existing local orders on which the Company 1 now engaged, together with an in creasing export business, justify me in taking an optimistic view of the present prospects of the Com pany.

"STEPHEN'S" BUILDING

SOLD.

OTHER LOTS OF STEPHEN'S ESTATE DISPOSED OF.

Present Proceerts $1,700,000.

"Stophon's" Building, that in which the Fire Brigade now has its headquarters has been sold, it is understood. Tho buyers are Messrs. S. J. David and Company. This building is part of the estate of the late Mr. M. 1. D. Stephen the well-known solicitor

It will be recalled that some time. ago Messrs. Deacons offered many lota belonging to the estate for sale by private treaty. It is anticipated that they will probably fetch a sum in the region of $5,000,000.

To date, number of lots have been sold to the total value of $1,719,200. The properties dis- posed of for this sum are. "Stephens" Buildings, 9,200 square, feet. Nos. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 35, 370, .37b, 38, 38, 39 and 40 Connaught Road Central. This means that all the Connaught Road property owned by the estate has been sold excepting" three houses, viz., Nos. 21, 22 and 29.

Messrs. Watson's Among Purchasers.

Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd., are stated to have become the owners of the four houses hitherto, occupied by their aerated water Depressed Conditions.

town office, compradore depart- Your Directors regret that the

ment, etc., along the waterfront, results of the year's working

just beyond the Pottinger Street have not been favourable. The

function. Other lets sold are No.) adverse balance has been caused

B, Shelly Street. No. 9, Mountain principally by the

depressed

View, the Peak: Nos. 147 and trade conditions prevailing in the Colony during the period in re-

149, Shanghai Street (now number- view, which have interrupted the

ed 255 and 257) Yaumati. Nos. Company's operations for an ex

132, 134 and 136. Reclamation tensive period of time. With

Street, Yaumati. Kowloon Inland continued operations it is pos

Lot No. 422-2,375 sq. ft. Nos. sible for the plant to produce at

381, 838, 335, Shanghai Street (now economical coats, but when the

numbered 489, 441 and 448), Mong- plant is closed down for any period as happened last year, it It must, of course, be borne in koktaui. Nos. 531, 533, 535, 537 is only natural that the cost of mind that this Company is the 55, 559, 561, 562, 647, 649 and 651, production should largely in pioneer in the manufacture of Shanghai Street (these are "new" crease. During a certain portion Gypsum products in this part of numbers) Mongkoktsui. The de- of the period under consideration, the world, and in the case of all tailed prices have not been divulg- production coats mounted up to a pioneering projects a lean, perioded as yet. figure higher than the market inust be expected during the early price of the product and as the stages of the development,until the market prices were definitely es- mapufacture gets known and finds tablished same could not be ad- its various markets. We have been justed to meet increased produc-pasing through such a period and tion costs..

have in addition had to face the Experience has now shown general dislocation of business toj that the Company's plant is not which the Colony has been subject established on as economical a during the year under review basis in production as However, in view of the business

Pioneering.

TEETHING TROUBLES

Are Quickly Relieved By DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS.

Two sports-

One smoke

Fishing or Shooting?-Each

sport has its adherents believing their pastime un- rivalled. But both agree

that for cigarettes there can be only one choice-

STATE EXPRESS

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

555

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Atonacco contrá, Landon

LONDON

Made by hand

One at a time

-MADE IN LONDONÉS

by ARDATH TOBACCO Co., Ltd.

may be desfrand and achieved and which is coming forward and the Read Mrs. Brisand's Evidence. HONGKONG BUS SERVICE

your Directors have recently been enquiries which are being made for considering and have approved of the Company's products there is suggestions made by the General good reason to believe that the Managers" for increasing the Company is now making quite

Mothers should never give their capacity of the mill by installing satisfactory progress. an 8' x 8' Calciner in addition to In view of the state of the children opiates to, produce sleep the existing Caleiner, also by in- Balance Sheet your Directors have except on the instructions of the creasing the power, and by add waived their fees for last year family physician. It is not only ing certain other units which will Furthermore, the General Man- harmful but unnecessary, for be necessary for achieving the agers have agreed to defer the Baby's Own Tablets, the sweet object in view. Your. Directors payment of a proportion of the little laxative Tablets, in a natural feel justified in making these adfees due to them as General Man-way produce health-giving sleep ditions as the increase in de-agers until the Company is in and are absolutely harmless. mands for Gypsum Products by position to declare a. dividend

"I have used Baby's Own Tab- the Company's agents makes it This action on the part of the difficult at times for the Company Directors and General Managers lets for whooping cough," says to fill export orders promtly. At will, I feel sure, be appreciated by Mrs. Eva Boland, of No. 13, King the present time the mill is work you.

Street, Central Falls, U. S. A., Ing night and day to cone with I think I have now touched upon "and they are a wonderful 'medi- orders that have recently been all the matters on which you may cine. When my baby was teeth- placed.

require Information and I now beging I gave her the Tablets with In addition increased produc to propose that the Report and excellent results. Baby's Own tion will greatly reduce the cost Accounts as presented be adopted Tablets quiet my children when of the finished product as the and passed. When this has been they are restless and permit thei larger plant can be operated with seconded I shall be pleaed to to sleep naturally. The Tablets very little additional overhead answer to the best of my ability are a fine laxativo and I would any questions you may wish to ask. not be without them in the

Mr. Chau Yue-teng seconded and the resolution was carried unanimously.

expense.

Plaster Board, Since the last general meeting equipment has been installed in the Mill for the manufacture of plaster

house.

Baby's Own Tablets are sold by Mr. C B. Shank moved that Mr.all druggists, or sont post free, 60 Wong Kwok-shuen and Mr. Chau cents.. the vial by the Dr. Wil-

of the Company.

Road, Shanghai.

CHANGE OF SCHEDULE & TERMINAL

Commencing Friday Morning,

the 23rd April, 1926.

A 15-minute service will be given between Blake Pier and the Hongkong University from 8.00 a.m. to 11.45 p.m.-Buses leaving both terminals on the quarter hour.

An hourly service will be given between Blake Pier and Felix Villas on Mt. Davis Road from 8.45 a.m. to 11.45 p.m.-Buses leaving Blake Pier 15 minutes past each hour and Felix Villas 45 minutes past the hour.

board, which is becoming more an Yue-teng, be re-elected Director liams' Medicino Co., 60, Kia.

The motion was seconded by Mr. Chan Pek-chun and carried un- animously.

more popular in this market. The present espacity of the plaster board machinery is 5,000 square feet per day, which is sufficient to supply existing demands at the On the proposition of the Chair- present time. I might state that a man, seconded by Mr. E. D. Shank, large proportion of the adverse Messrs.-Lowe, Bingham and Mat- balance. shown on the Balance thews, were, re-elected Auditors of Sheet has been occasioned by such the Company. improvements and alterations to!

There being no further business,

the machinery as have been found this concluded the meeting.

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