Important Move to Increase the Board's Borrowing Powers Amsterdam, Oct. 23.
The Royal Dutch Petroleum Ca. proposes to increase its capital from six hundred million guilders to a thousand million in "view of the necessity for providing periodical strengthening of the firm's resources.
The directors propose to scrap the provision stipulating that the previous consent of the shareholders must be obtained before Loan Bonds are issued, in order to give the Board greater freedom to secure the necessary funds at any given moment in the manner which they consider most desirable, An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders will be held on November 6 to consider the proposals modern girls are all right in the eyes of at least centenarian, Mrs. th Gare cently celebrated her 100th Bobbed haired herself, she said the approved modern dress and modern manners, Mrs, Squize's her mother dur-on London used the rest of the family for going' into the collar. She was then nearly 90. Hard work and plain food is her formula for long living.—United Press. ur
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