| collection |
SOAS Archive
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| id |
JSS.5.7.1
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| recordtype |
archive
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| scb_item_location |
Archive & Special Collections
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| item_location |
Archive & Special Collections
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| scb_loan_type |
Reference only
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| scb_order_with |
JSS Box 2844
|
| callnumber |
JSS/5/7/1
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| callnumber_txt |
JSS/5/7/1
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| callnumber-sort |
JSS/5/7/1
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| scb_alt_ref_no |
JSSV 7/1
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| prefix_number |
1
|
| scb_previous_numbers |
COMP108; JSS/5/7/2
|
| title |
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Minutes
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| scb_date_creation |
1882-1951
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| scb_level |
File
|
| level_sort |
7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
|
| scb_extent |
1 volume
|
| format |
Archive
|
| description |
Minutes of extraordinary and ordinary meetings of the shareholders of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery. Includes minutes documenting; construction of the Refinery; allocation and value of Company shares; annual profits and distribution of dividends; output of the Refinery; the market for Taikoo sugar and raw and refined sugar generally; the foundering of the ship 'Hupeh' and damage to the 'Shantung' in 1899; plans for construction of shipyard and dock on surplus land at the Refinery site; the development of the market for refined sugar in China; a donation to an endowment fund for the University of Hong Kong in 1909; the purchase of the ship 'Taikoo Wan Yi' in 1919; closure of the Refinery due to strike action and riot in 1925; war and unrest in China in the period from 1925 to 1929; the reorganisation of the Company in 1929; the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in 1941; transfer of the control of the Company from London to Hong Kong in 1949 through voluntary liquidation of the old Company and establishment of a new Company in Hong Kong.
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| scb_access_status |
Open
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| scb_copyright |
Copyright is owned by John Swire & Sons, Ltd, 59 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AJ
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| scb_use_restrictions |
Copying for personal research purposes is permitted. Please contact the archivist for all publication requests.
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| scb_finding_aids |
Handlist available
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| hierarchy_top_id_raw |
JSS
|
| hierarchy_sequence |
JSS.005.007.001
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