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COMBINE IS TOLD HE HAS TO GO
SIR WILLIAM FIRTH, chairman of Richard Thomas and Co., The Fifty-ninth Ordinary Ltd., the £18,000,000 Welsh sheet, steel and tinplate combine, has been removed from office by the control committee, of which Mr. Monta- gu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, is chairman,
& Co., Ltd.,
General Meeting of the Company will be hold. at the Offices of the General Managers, Moura. Jar- dine, Matheson Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Thursday, 30th May, 1940, at noon, for the purpose of racdiving the Report of the Director, passing the Accounts, and electing Direchas not realgned, tors and Auditors,
His removal is believed to have followed differences of opinion on the managerial policy, but no statement has been made on this point at the firm's administrative headquarters at Cobham, Surrey.
"All we can say." Sir William's secretary stated, "ls that Sir William
He has been removed by the control committee." Since the outbreak of war the firm's headquarters have been at Hatch- The Transfer Books of the Comford Park, near Cobham, a mansion owned by Sir William Firth. pany will be closed from the 23rd May to 13th June inclusive..
By order of the Board.
JARDINE, MATHESON &
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NOTICE is hereby given that the Eighteenth Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders will be held at Exchange Building, Hong Kong, ou SATURDAY, 8th June, 1940, AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK AM.
The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be closed from 28th MAY to 8th JUNE, 1940, both daya inclusive,
By Order of the Board Directors.
of
A. W. BROWN,
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The control committee was set up in 1938 under a scheme whereby Richard. Thomas and Company obtained £6,000,000 to complete a new plant at
Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire.
Sir William Firth was originally chairman and managing director of the company and under his guidance the vast concern was built up. He re- mained chairman and managing director until August, 1939, when he resigned the latter position in favour of Mr. John E. James,, deputy chairman,
LOST. £1,000,000-
The control committee; which has power to remove directors, consists of Mr. Montagu Norman; Sir William Firth in his capacity as chairman of the company; Viscount Greenwood, representing the steel industry; and Mr. E. H. Lever, representing the Debenture stock trustees.
Mr. James continued in the capacity of managing director, until last Dé- cember, when Mr. G. H. Latham was appointed to the position.
Sir William became-chairman of Richard Thomas in 1931. In 1988 he told a meeting of the company's share holders that he had lost £1,000,000, Tepresented by the decline in value since the previous year of his holdings in the The Ebbw Vale plant, which has been described as the most spectacular British industrial venture for years, was held up by lack of capital when half completul. It was then that money was held up by lack of capital when half completed. It was then that money was subscribed by the banks and the con- trol committee was set up.
company.
TO-DAY'S WAR PRODUCTION
The combine to-day is of great importance owing to war production. Sir William Firth, who is 58, began his career as a clerk and became the largest manufacturer of tinplate in Britain.
He has been regarded as one of the real driving forces in the steel in- dustry, and it was in a very large measure due to his initiative and persist- ence that the £10,000,000 Ebbw Vale plant was brought to fruition. There was certainly great reluctance to believe that the loss
of Sir William's services by the steel industry could be good for the industry in war time.
HONGKONG GIRL'S MUSICAL SUCCESS
“OOMPH” GIRL'S ADMIRER Teacher's Diploms Examination
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN for the year are revealed shortly," an associate of Sir William GULPS KEY
Studio portrait of Miss Cecilia M. Passos, who passed in her
||||(A.T.C.L.) held recently in eyed and panting, suddenly rushed Hongkong, and conducted by at her. capped handcuffs around Dr. W. Lovelock. Miss Passos hals and her wrists, and then, with
"There is no justification for his removal. The people of South Wales as well as the city will be astonished when the profits told a reporter recently.
"Sir William
NEW YORK.-A Nineteen- was asked to resign following differences of opinion on manage-Year-Old lovesick youth who in ment policy. He absolutely refused to resign and was then told Hollywood handcuffed himself handcuffed to the theatre's first-aid that his services would not be required any longer.
the control met
committee and
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he
koy.
a tremendous gulp, swallowed the was the only candidate in this examination in Hongkong-who. passed. Ann and Brunnencamp were led to "comph girl' Ann Sheridan station where the manager tried to and swallowed the key,
com-cut the handcuffs with a big saw.
"You're sawing off my arm." she walled. plained of severe stomach-ache afterwards.
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SEAMAN INJURED
Kwok Kam-tak, a 17-year-old' mah, was taken to. Kowloon Hospital. on Saturday suffering from injuries received when he accidentally fell Into the hold of T Vell on iTY BUD between: Kwangchowin and Hong- kont
He
"Oomph," he moaned.
And Ann, forgiving him, although
"L'affaire"
While Ann sobbed, Brunnencamp. explained, "I have always been
Judge Criticises Peace Union
Blaming the Peate Pledge-Union-
crazy about you. I only wanted to for youth's change of mind about military service, the chairman of the be near you!"
Manchester Conscientious Objectors" A poller car, sirens shrieking, ar- Tribunal said that had it not been. "Sir William Firth put his life savings of half a million cu
rived at the theatre with a locksmith for the union nothing else would have and Ann's bonds were sovered. pounds into Ebbw Vale at a time when he could have retired.
The handcuff incident, known to-
She refused to presccute Brunnen een heard of the case.
The boy's appearance is due en- has the complete confidence of the employees and all the leading
day in Hollywood as "Taffaire Dick camp, who said fellow students, hear-tirely. to, the machinations of the steel people in the world.
"What other man in the country could bring in a batch of Brunnencamp," was the sensation of ing of his handcuff plans, had bet him Peace Pledge Union," said the, chair-
a fashionable pro-view of Ann's latest a dollar he would not dare carry it man, Judge Essenhigh.
Stated to have signed the military orders after one trip abroad worth £5,000,000?
pleure, "It All Came Trus."
She was making a grand en After the pre-view,—Ann-invited register last June and in October lo trance to the theatre, amid the Brunnencamp to dinner, saying, "He have requested to be registered as a cheers of thousands of fans, when swallowed a key for me. The least C.O, applicant, 21 years of age, has Los Angeles Universty under- I can do is to top the key with a now had ble name removed from the
register of conscientious objectors. graduate Dick Brunnencamp, wild- pic."
"The whole story will soon be told and-it-will-then-be-scon that at a time when it is vital that the industry should be running smoothly it was a great mistake to turn out the one man who put it on its feet.'
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