SONGKONG AND SHANGHAI THE BANK OF EAST
BANKING CORPORATION;"
HEAD OFFICE: HONGKONG. Authorized Capitel *** $50,000,000 laced and Fully Paid up...$20,000,000- Reserva Funda
Sterling...£1,500,000/ Silver......836;500,000:
Rosarve: Liability of #20,000,000
Proprietors
COURT OF DIRECTORS: G. H. Young, Baq:--Chairman." H. P. White, Esq.-Deputy Chairona. #E. Ball, Hag † Hon. Mr. A. O, Lang, G., Bernad, Exp. Pattanden. Begy As Ht. Compton, Esq. 1. A. Plummer. Ba om. Mr.P.H. Holyoski T. A. Womilý, Hog
CHIEF MANAGER:
A. E. BARLOW, Esq.
Manager: Shanghai--GH, STTTT, Esq.
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LONDON BANKERS.
Westminster Bank, Ltd.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened in LOCAL CURRENCY ad FIXED DEPOSITS: received for one year or shorter periods in Local Curyeay' and Sterling on terms which will be quoted. In application.
Hongkong, 20b,, May 1925.
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
NEDE baxiosas of the above Bank. In
sonducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING COR PORATION, Bales may be obtalasd on spplication.
INTEREST on deposita in
laulated:
on the lowest balancs during exo com. ploted Calendar Month at 3 per cent.. per anuum. Should there be no balance on any day in a month no interest will be allowed for that month.
Depositors may transfer at their eption Balanes of $100 or more to the l HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANK to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT at JURRENT RATES.
For the HoweKONG: & SHAXEMAI BANKING CORPORATION,
A. E. BARLOW,
Chlad Manager.
Hongkong, 7th January 1925.
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BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.
HEAD OFFICE:
#6, Boulevard Haussman, Paria..
Bubscribed Capital .. Frs. 72,000,000.00 Paid-Up Capital .....Frs: 68,400,000.00 Reserve Fund Fre. 59,687,288.54 BRANCHES: Bangkok Hanoi.
ntiambang.
inton
ithout!
Fort-Bayned
''nboer Hankow
Hongkong
Pondicherry Frig
Moagize
Shangh
Noamen
Singapore
Paposto
Tientsin
Peking
Trare
Prom-Perb
Yunnanfu
*MANKERS.
IN FRANCE: Comptole National d'Erocopte dris; Credit Lyonasig, Banque de Parli et As Pays Bas. Cred, Industriell at Commercial
Hariete Generala.
IN LONDON: The Nations! Provincial & Union Bank of England, Lid.; Comptoir National & Excompte de Faria: Crodit Lyonnais IN NEW YORK: J. P. Morgan & Ca; French Amerlons Banking Corporation. Gaaraty Trust Co. of New York.
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Intent allowed on Current Accounts and Fred Dejionite according to arrangemenk. -Evory desorption of Banking and Exchange
Buslos transacted:
A. LECOT
Manager. Hongkong, 11th December, 1925.
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATSCHAPPIJ.
-(NETHI RÚANDS. TRADING SOCIETY,)
A
KITANZARIERE 1854 Boxoxones Branun Östantanen· 1908,- Authorised Capital G.150,000,000 £11 500 Paid-Up Capital...G. 80.000.000 Becerra Fund, 30,138,861 2 1.7114 Special Reserve.... 29,050,000. 6. 1,388,231 HEAD OFFICE:--Amsterdam. EASTERN HEAD OFFICE:-Batavia..
BRANCHES: „ Bandarmasin Bindowng Bombay Cheribon Beber The Hague Kobe Maca
Meden Palmbang Pocalongan
Ontoutta
Djokskarta
Kota Badis Padang Penant Botterdam
(Margspora.
Tags:
Pontianak
Semarang
Boarabais
Bangoon
Shanghai Boerakarta (Bala)
Thatjan › Weltevreden
LONDON BANKERS:--
National Provincial Bank, Ltd.
Correspondents all over the world.
ASIA, LIMITED.
HEAD OFFICE HONGKONG (18; Dos Vaan Road Central, Hongkong.
Authorized Capital $70,000,000 8,000,000
Paid-up Capital *******1,000,000
Eeserve Fund ....
DIRECTORS:
Bon. Mr. Chow Shoe Hon-Chairman Fung Ping Shan Mok Ching Kong Li Koon Chur Wong Yun Toari. P. E. Kwok
uyub Tai
Ng Ching Luk Kan Ting Po Poag Wal Ting. Chan Ching Shak
granted on approved' ascurities.
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES to Ist.
KAN TONG PO
Chief Manager - Hongkong, 18th February, 1925.
THE CHINA
COMMERCE AND FINANCE
WHEAT TARIFF.
PORTUGAL'S TAXES.
To Benefit Japanese Agriculture. INTOLERABLE BURDEN ON
An Increase of customs tariff
on import wheat la contemplated.
TRADE
Foreigners Plight,
by the Department of Agriculture. and Commerce, with the object of
Portugal sometimes complains protecting Japanese agriculture, of her isolation, writes the Lis
COTTON-
Every description of Banking and It will be increased from 77 sen bon correspondent of the yield has increased In five years Exchange Pasiness transacted. Loans per 10 kin to about Y1.80. The "Morning Pont." It is not evi
bill is to be submitted shortly to dent that she does anything the Department of Finance for practical to lessen this isolation, approval
Portugal is one of the few coun The present wheat tariff was tries which retain all the barbed fixed in 1918, when it was about wire of passports and visas de 20 per cent of the market price vised during the war; the exami then. The present price is about nation of luggage on the Fortu. Y9.50 and the imposition of 20 guese frontier is conducted with per cont duty will make the tariff a minuteness, one might, almost say a fierceness, unknown else at about Y180.
Farmers are the largest con- where, and the hapless foreigner sumers of flour and the increase is deliberately fesced from the of import tariff will raise the first moment of his arrival in this market price of flour.,
beautiful country
行銀商工法中
BANQUE FRANCOCHINOISE. pour le Commerce et L'Industrie (Incorporated in France).
5. Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong. HEAD OFFICE: 74, Rae Bt. Laanre,
Paria
}
Sir Geoffrey Archer, Governor- General of the Sudan gave to re- presentatives of the cotton In- dustry a valuable survey of the progress that has been made. in cotton-growing in Africa Uraan- da had developed furthest ; the from $2,000 to 200,000 bales, and it is notable that this has been done without inflicting any hard- ship upon the natives or dis possessing them of their land: they have reaped all the benefit. It is expected that ere long Uganda will be producing half- a-million bales. The Sudan pra- sents a yet greater, though as yet an, undeveloped field. The Ge reh irrigation scheme promises a large growth of Egyptian-type cotton; and American-type cotton also is being grown. The ulti The harbour dues have been mate yield from Gezireh is a The Japanese four mill com panies are opposed to the pro- raised só extravagantly that some half-araflion bales and there posed increase of customs tariff lines of steamers have been ob are vast areas of the Sudan which on foreign" wheat: The natural ad to exclude Lisbon from their, are suitable for cotton-growing rise of flour prica by the increase ports of call. The Customs without irrigation. We are still of tarif will, they argue, impede duties are so enormous that they faz ingeed from the day when the the growth of Japan's four trade sometimes equal or exceed the Empire will be able to save Lan- for China.
Japanese flour is value of the article taxed since, cashire from its present depen heavily demanded in China be even when the duty itself is more dence upon the American crop, cause of its cheap price. Over or less reasonable, a cluster of but real progress is being made. production of flour in this country additional charges brings up the is worrying flour mill companies total to a formidable size... The here but they are profiting by postage of letters to foreign. countries is a little over four- shipments to China
Since the impediment of four penny. Other prices are in pro- Banque
The State and the Nationale de Credit, Banque de trade development is a vital ques-portion.
tion to these mills, they may bureaucracy are certainly in a adopt a counter resolution against flourishing, condition, and python- like. threaten to crush the whole the tariff revision on wheat.
industrial and commercial life of the nation, which indeed is al- ready more than half paralysed. To levy all these duties and taxee an immense army of officials is employed; and it is impossible to. diminish the taxes and duties be.. cause this army of officials re- quires to be paid. In proportion as the unparalleled size of the duties frightens away trade the duties have to be rather increased than diminished because the army
in proportion,
Fra 11.160.000,
F 20.000.000 Capital Spesial Working Capita)........ Fr# 50.000.000 —
BRANCHES
Paria
Lyons
Baigan
Peking Canton
Maren
Haiphong Hanoi * Shanghal Tientsin. Hongkong.
HANKERS:
FRANCE: Scolete: Gemarle,
Paris et des Pays. Bas. LONDON:- Midland Bank Lide NEW YORK: Irving Back Columb
Trant Co..
Every description of Banking and Exchange Business Transacted: Corre spondents throughout the world.
A. ROLLIN, Manager. Hongkong, Isi December, 1925.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.
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INCORPORATED BY ROYAL "CHARTER, 1883. HEAD OFFICE: LONDON.
Paid-up Capital ...£3,000,000 Reserve Fund ......£4,000,000 Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
£3,000,000 - FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for 2 year or shorter period at rates which will be quoted on application
A. E. FERGUSON, Manager. Hongkong; 18th April, 1926,
SCIENCE OF SELLING. London College for Assistants,
A Sewell and Cross young man, A Howell and James young
„man,
A pushing young particle-what's
the next article? Waterloo House young man. -Patience Act. H.
have their own free college those living outside the metropo-A well-known officer was com lis: can attend for £11 58. a year plaining the other day that there -in which to learn the technique is no money to provide the soldiers with uniforms; there is and romance of selling.
The training has been arranged no money to supply the hospitals by the Incorporated Association with blankets; the roads have be of Retail Distributors, in con- come, impassable; the schools: junction with the London County have to be closed or allowed to Counti It includes the study decay; the very large sums levied of merchandise the history of by mer is of unfair and exorbitant accounts, business charges on land and sea traffic commerce,
and travellers and trade in. training, and hygiene
Personally-conducted visits are general are required to pay the arranged to important retail bureaucracy and for political stores, and talks to the students purposes. Yet Fortgual can only are given by the heads of these regain prosperity when it is stores. Over 200 students were realized that the States is the given positions in the stores dur. servant and ally of trade and in-
dustry, not their worst enemy.
THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD. ing the past 12 months.
(Talwan Ginko.}
Incorporated by Special Imperial Charter, 1899.
Capital Subscribed. Yen 45,000,000 Capital (Paid-up) Yen 89,375,000
HEAD OFFICE:-Talpsh, Formosa,
BRANCHES: JAPAN--Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobo
Osaka.
Shin
FORMOSA: — Glan, Kagi, Karenko,
Heatong Bokoto,. Nanta,
chako, Taicha, Tainan, Takao, Tatsui, Toyen, Heitah, Taitoh.. CHINA:—Shanghai," Hankow, Amoy,
Swatow, Canton..
Foochow OTHERS: Hongkong, Singapore,
Soerabaya, Semarang, Batavia, Bombay, London, New York, Calcutta.
LONDON BANKERS: Landon County Westminster and Parr's Bank.
The Bank has Correspondents in the Commstels Centres in the European Canton Bu shuria, Tsingtao, Japan, Jade-China, Philippine Islamli, Java, Africa, ko,
·India,.
BANKING BUSINESS OF EVERY Deposits at rates which will be quoted on applias
DESCRIPTION.
M. J. HERBSCHLEB,
Agent. Hongkong, November 4, 1924.
THE
YOKOHAMA SPECIE
BANK LTD..
Established 1880,
Capital (full paid-s 34: Yen 100,000,000 Reserve Fund e Yan. 83,500,000
Head Offer:---YOKOHAMA.
Branches ad Agencies at (
Bombay, Bamon Ayrin
awekwang
New Yorki
Faking Rangoon Rio de Janeiro.
Interest allowed us Current hornieta; and' Pigad.
Mon
T. TAKAGI,
Manager HONGKONG BRANCH:
8, Des Vœux Boad Central, Hongkong, lat Movember, 1925.
THE BANK OF CHINA. 行銀國中
(Specially Authorised by Presidential Mandate of the Republia-at. Ching,
on the 22nd of November, 181/4) Authorised Capital ..... $80,000,001 DO Fakl-up Capital
$18,273,000.00 Reserve Fund" 2002. - $ 9,829 425.24
HEAD OFFICE; PEKING
HONGKONG BRANCH:
P) Rusan's Road Centrál: Branches and Sub-branches all area China and Correspondenta in labo LAmerica, and other parts of the
Zandon Bänkers:.../The Nat
Peinland Union Bank of
The scheme is supported by Sir William Burbidge (chairman of Harrods) Six Sydney Skinner) (chairman of John Barker and Ca), Mr. John Lawrie (manager of Whiteley's); Mr. Gordon Sel- fridge, and Mr. Percy Best (manager of James Shoolbred and Co.).
SUGGESTIONS.
The Foreign Buyer.
"One of the outstanding faults of the English seller is that he The classes are carried on at sends out his representatives the Westminster Day Continua- bound down on all sides by" res- tion School, in Horseferry road,trictions that not only hamper, but may even destroy, any pros- pect that there might have been. of effecting business, writes Lord Aberconway in the "Weekly Gross. Dispatch."
Sir
LATEST, WILLS.
Charles Behrens
·(77), cotton mer- chant, of Sir Jacob Behrens and Sons, Manchester, twice Lord Mayor of Man-
chester,
Mrs. Mary Watkins (50), of Finchley- road, London, NW. Mr. Benjamin Avery (57), of Wickham- road Brockley, S.E solicitor to Deptford Borough Council":" Dr. James Forster (56), of Conisborough, Ho- therham, Yorks
Mr. Frederick A Barnardo (85)) Bexhill-on-Sea,
sex retired physician
HE MERDANTILE
INDIA, LTD.
"The laxity of selection too in appointing representatives for British firms is remarkable. In many cases the men sent out, how ever good they may otherwise be, have no knowledge of the existing 2177,047 business and economic conditions of the country to which they are going. Only too frequently they 41,887 cannot understand the language, or speak it so badly that they cannot be understood.
"Nothing Irritates a potential buyer so much as unnecessarily protracted discussions.
It may be local preference, may be climatle conditiona, 29,025 may be due to per capses, but the for
NOW I WONDER WHO THAT CAN BE
Very detan, this is your first thought when you receive a maneage to call up such and such a telephone number. You can and oni sasily from the Telephone Handbook which gives the numbers in the hu order. You simply turn the pages, and the number, and wow who that has been calling you,
The Telephone Handbook can be obtained from the publ
ham Strest, price one,
HONGKONG MARKET PRODUCE. APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
Beef Sirioin
Prime Cut
» Corned
Roast
"
Breast
"Soup
Stank
Steak, Sirloin
# Saugen
Butcher Mest.
1925
Phasen
Bullock's Brains,
Canton
Tongus, fresh. Tongue, corned:
Head
$1.50
Turke
Heart
Hump, Salt
Feet
eachTM
"Kidney
15
Liver
Trips
120
Calves' Head & Fest. Button Chop
$1.00 $1.00 $1.00
...
"Leg
Shoulder Saddle
Pig's Chitlings
Brains Feet
Fry
Head.
Heart
Kidneys
Liver
Pork Chop
Tag
Lain
Fat or Lard.
Sheep's Head & Feet.
Heart. Kidneyn
Liver
Sacking Pigs, to Stet, Beef
Mutt
Veal
Barbel
Cattle
Dab
Do Fish
2013
台
Beans
Gand Sho
Califo
Fruits.
1925).
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