Annual Meeting of Company Recently Acquired By Union Ins. Society of Canton Ltd.
HE 31st annual ordinary general meeting of the British Oak Insurance Company was held on April 19, 1939, at the head office of the Company at 81 and 82, Cornhill, London Mr. H. C. Gray (the chairman of the Company) presided, and in his speech said During the year 1938 several events of major importance to the company took place. The Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd, of Hongkong, one. of the, best known and certainly the oldest British Colonial insurance company, acquired practically the whole of the share capital, an acceptable offer having been made to Messrs. Spillers, Limited, and to the other shareholders. The association with the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd., which Society: was founded as long ago as 1835, will give to our company an added permanence and stability and to our executive an encouragement. still further to strengthen the foundations of the Company 29% and to build for the future.
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