The Archive · 1941

COMPANY MEETING

hai Kedah Plantations Ltd.

Government Regulations for Remittances Said Harsh; Final Dividend of 75 Cents Declared Shanghai, Jan. 26.

20th annual general meeting of the Shanghai Kedah Planta~ tions Ltd., was held at 20 Canton Road on January 24. Mr. Mellor, presided, supported by Messrs. E. E. Parsons and J. H. Liddell, directors. Shares presented and represented were 67,400.

The chairman in his speech said:—Before dealing with estate matters, shareholders will no doubt be pleased to have some information relative to the remittance of profits from the Straits, T think most of us, whether shareholders in rubber companies or not, realized at the outbreak of War thai, some form of restriction on remitiances from countries within the sterling bloc to those outside was bound to come and with this principle during war-time one cannot disagree.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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