The following is taken from a Home paper—Messrs. Reiss Bros. (1923), Ld. Manchester, was registered on June 2% as a private limited company, with an initial capital of £102,000, with the usual powers to increase it. The company is formed to acquire £1) all or part of the business carried on in England, China and elsewhere -by Reiss Brothers, Ld. (in. liquidation), and (2) all or any of the shares and securities of Holyoak, Massey and Ca., Ld. (referred to as "the new China company"), registered in Hongkong and carr: ing on the business formerly carried on by the old company in Eh and all or any of the sets and liabilities of "the new China company," ete.
The first directors are:—H. J. Reiss, The Rise, Whitchurch, Pangbourne-on-Thames. cotton broker (director, Soces. Asia-fiques, Lyons): A. F. J. Reis: 149 Gloucester Road S. W., cotton broker, J. A. Reiss, Shaw House, Tarporley, Cheshire, cotton broker, and G. khard, Broome House, Didshury, cotton broker. The registered office is at 28, Quay Street, Manchester. The directors will have the advant; of tha assistance of an Advise: Committee consisting of Messrs. F. P. Nathan, T. D. Barlow, and C. M. Skinner. The company has acquired entire—good will and marks of the old company, and, in order to preserve continuity, has taken over certain current orders on the books, but otherwise it starts entirely free from all the obligations of the old company. The business in China had already, with the full approval of the directors of the new English company, been reconstituted under the name of Holyoak, Massey and Company, Ld. The two companies ara separate, but will work in close harmony, and the necessary reciprocal arrangements have been made.
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