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HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
Assorted Capital
***** $50,000,00
Tasued and Fully Pald-up 10,000,000 Reserve Funda :-
Wireling
0,100,000
Hive ...........19.800,000
Reserve Liability of Proprietors 30,000,000
HEAD OFTHE KONG,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:-
1. A. Plummet, Esq. Cheirao.
Hon. Mr. . . 8. Mackle. Deputy Chairman.
W. E. Bail, Zoq. Hon. Mr. J. J. Palermoo
▲ H. Compton, Yaq. T. P. Powera, Eag
E. Leader Lawie, Pag. T. II. 1. Abaw, Eaq.
D. Mihin. Esq.
AMOT
ПАНСКОВ
BATAVIA
CROMBAT
-QALOUTTA
-CANTON
DOLOMLO DAIREN
oocow HAIPHONO
НАМВОВО HANKOW HARBIN
HONGKEW
ILOILO
IPOTI
JOBODY
Колк
KOWLOON
J. P. Warman, Bay.
Chiat Manager.
Y. H. Unyban, Erg.
BRANCHES:--
KUALA LUMPUR
LONDON
LYONK
MALACCA
MANILA
MAR (Jobanıl
WURDEN
NAGAHAKI
NEW YORK
PEIPINO
PENANG
HANGGON
SAJOON
HAN BANCIACO
RITANCETAT
SINGAPORE
SOURABAYA AUHOKI PATANI JIENOSIS
TOKYO
TSIHUTAD YOKOHAMA
Curtwat ruuate opened In Loral Currency sad Pixel Deposite roosived for has your DE shorter periods in Local Currency and Sterling en lartas which will be quoted on applivation Hong Kong, 1st April, 1980,
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
The Business of ida shore Bank à nanduce
ed by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
ained on appikwlion.
Rule
FOR THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING COUPORATION.
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Hong Kong, 2014 July, 1900,
Chis! Maangur.,
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL- MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V.
(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY) BANKKBS.
Established 1821. Hong Kong Ooli, Queen's load Central. Authorised Capital ......... Quitdues 100,000,003. [212,500,000.) Fald-Up Capital Ozaildar 20,080,000 .... Oulidera 60,010,000 BT Fund..........
(£3.6.id!
fload :-AMSTERDAM* Eastern Head Omer-BATAVIA.
AKCIES Handssemacin, Batong Bobay.
Calcutta, Caribon, Bamber, Djok
akarta, The (Lagus". Jadiah, Kobe, Roto-Madje, Makassar, Medan, PARDE
Palembang,
Prod Pekalonga
Barbara".
Pontianak, Bangoon, Botterdam's
Shangri (Bust), Blogspo
Babol Boubai Hoerakarta (Holo), Taga), Tilinjap sod
WN",
* These flow have safe deposit bone to st
Landen Bankere:-National Provincial Deak Zid.
Cowespondents at or the world
Booking busiom of story description transacted.
A. STOKKINK.
Arting Manager.
Hong Kong. 18th Auguel, 1903,
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.
HEAD OFFICE:
96. Boulevard Haussmann, Paris.
Subscribed Capital Frs. 72,000,000.00 Pald-Up Capital Fra. 68,400,000.00 Reserve Funda....Fra.102,000,000.00 BRANCHES:
Hong Kong Qalahon Bangkok
Saigon Battambang Hue Canthe Mengtze Shanghai Caston Nam-Đỉnh Singapore Djibouti
Fort Bayard
Haiphong
Harkow Hano!
·
Neunien
Papeeto
Thanhoa
Tientsin
Peking Tourané Pnom-Panh Vinh Pondicherry Yuananfo BANKERS:
IN FRANCE: Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnais; .Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas; Credit Industriel et Commercial; 80- ciete Generale.
IN LONDON: The National Pro- vincial & Union Bank of England, Ltd.; Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris: Credit Lyonnais.
IN NEW YORK: J. P. Morgna ž Co.; French American Banking Car- poration; Guaranty Trust Co. of New York.
Interest allowed on Current Ac- counts and Fixed Deposits secording
to arrangements.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853,
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON.
Paid-up Capital
Agencies and Branches:
Reserve Fund
£3,000,000 £4,000,000
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
£3,000,000
ALOR STAN
KUALA LUMPUR
[Malay Blaten)
SUCHINO
AMBITHAN
DANOKOK
HADRAS
HAHILA
BOMBAY
CALCUTTA
NEW YORK
DANTON
BATAVIA
UAWNPORE
OEBU
COLOMBO
DAINEN (Daley
Houth Vanthuria)
DEZNI
HAIPHONG
HANKOW
HARBIN
(8. Manchuria)
EHỒNG KONG
ますます
KARACHI,
BLANG
KOBE
KHALA KANOMAN
(Para 7.M.B.)
MEDAN
PEKING
PENANG
PESHAWAR DLA KOGON
BAKON
HEMARANG BEBENSAN
SHANORAC
BINDAPORE
BOURADAYA
TAIPING (ZM.8.) TAVOY
TIENT BEN
TOXYO
TONGKAH (Hhuket)
THINGTAO
YOKOHAMA
ZAMBOANGA
(Philippine Islands)
General
Foreign Exchange and Banking business transacted.
"Current Accounts opened and Fix- ed Deposits received for 1 year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on application.
A. H. FERGUSON,
Manager. Hang Kong, 8th January, 1029,
THE HO HONG BANK, LTD.
(Established 1917.)
HEAD OFFICE:-SINGAPORE. Hong Kong Branch: 13, Queen's Rd. C. Authorised Capital Straits $20,000,000 Issued Capital
8,000,000 Paid-up Capital
4,600,000 Reserve Liabilities
of Shareholders. Surplus
4,000,000
2,526,000
Branches, Agencies and Correspon- dents in the principal elties of the world.
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted.
TAN ENG HOOL,
THE
Manager.
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY,
INC.
Head Office: 65, Broadway, New York.
Capital Surplus Reserves
Amsterdam Antwerp
.U.S.$8,000,000
.U.S.$1,572,454 .U.S.$1,008,209
BRANCHES:--
UADOR Olasgow
& there
Berlia
Hamburg Marce
Files Napice Piraeus Paris
Топалс
DIAT
Interlaken
Bomber
ihranton
Bruassis
Buton Alte
Cairo Caloutta
Cannes
Colombo Constantinople
Copenhagen Poloburch Florenos Glan47
Jaruzelor Buldo London fiverpool
Lugano Luxor
Marcilles
Moose Carlo Magis
Munich
Monteux
ANITA
Jeking Tatertua Belloriam
Roma
abou
العلاج بمط؟
Fouthampton Singapore
St. Moritz
Tienen
Vienna
FORICO
Yaohama Zurlob
Branches of American Express Company in Principal cities of Unit- ed States of America and Canada.
All classes of Commercial Banking Transactions undertaken.
Personal investment
handlod
Accounts
The Company offers to intending Travellers the use of its "Travelers Cheques" and Letters of Credit and, In addition, the world-wide services of its thoroughly equipped Travel De- partment.
Afiliated with
THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK Resources.Over G$2,500,000,000
THE CHINA MAIL.
and
Commerce
Finance
ELECTRICITY & THE Biandard
EMPIRE.
A Reply to the Prime Minister.
of
efficiency largely through the fact that during the War years and immediate post- War years it was able to carry out a large programme of rationalisn- tion. New factories were erected and equipped on up-to-date linės. Old factories were reconstructed, Amalgamations and groupings took place to prevent overlapping, to en-| courage specialised mass production How Imperial rationalisation, and to eliminate destructive in auggested by the Dominion Primeternal competition. Research, both Ministers, can be and has already individual and collective. been applied in part to Empire ganised on an ambitious scale. electrical development and the crea-) tion
SIR HUGO HIRST'S VIEW.
of an Empire electrical in- dustry was stressed at the annual dinner of the British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' Association, held at the Connaught Rooms, Lon don. Lord Derby, president of the Association, was in the chair, and there were present some 750 guests, representative of every section of the electricity supply and electrical indue- and allied manufacturing triea.
Proposing the toast
of "The
Electrical Industry and Industrial Co-operation within the Empire," Sir Hugo Hirst said that the elec |trical industry, while still compara
tively new, and still smaller in actual volume of production than the old stable Industries of Great Britain, must in a few years play a dominant part in the Industrial
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1931.
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE.
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
Butcher Meat.
Beal Sirtoin ......
n
14
Prime Cut......
Corned
19
Bonst
M
Breast
H
Soup
Steak
2
12
Steak Birloin
SEURAGES
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"
ТУАЗ ОГ
The co-operation of the various firms engaged in the industry was developed by the increasing activies of bodies like the British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' Associa-
tion.
At a time when the whole the was talking about country necessity of reconstruction British electrical manufacturers carrying out the process.
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Foreign Competition. "When the electrical industry has
Baddle seen the creation and catablishmen: Pig's Chitlings of the national power
scheme,"
Brains added Sir Hugo, "and contributed to the possibility of bringing cheap power to the old stable and the new industries, it is now in danger of losing the benefits of such ser vice through the enormous flood of imports, which is increasing very Pork Chop rapidly in volume. It does
he continued, "that
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revival of Great Britain and the consolidation of the British Empire. capital, by our manufacturing en- Sheep's Head & Feet
Electrification would aid Great
terprises, we are creating a rich Britain and the Empire to recover and expanding market, we let it be from the exhaustion of the World War.
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Experience in other coun-exploited by competitors who shut trica, above all in America, showed us out completely from their own Sucking Pigs, to order
of electrical that the use
power Was A sure index to industrial efficiency, and it was true that older industries which had been electrified had undergone a process of rejuvenation.
The
Preventing Overlapping.
British electrical industry has been able to reach its present
THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD. Established 1912.
Hend Office:--Hong Kong-
Authorised Capital (EX. Currency) #1,000,000 Pad-Up Capital has the develop te
Be Fund -
BRANCHER:-
1,665,000 1,000,000
Canton, Shenzha), Hankow, Bwatow,
markets.
Baet, Beef "If this flow of foreign electrical gooda remains unchecked for long, yeal It cannot help but affect our ability to serve the Empire on the lines on which I have spoken before. Wa have proved that we can produce, we have proved that we can sell, and we resent the Prime Minister's ac-Barbel cusation
doubting the business Bream
ability of the men in our industry. Canton Fresh Water
"The electrical industry has al-
ways advocated the largest possible Carp measure of Empire rationalisation, Catfish and it has already realised in part Codfish, such a theory, above all in Aus-Crabs tralia.
When I visited Australia Cuttle Fish in connection with the British Dab Economic Mission, I was able
to Dace
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CORRESPONDENTS
LONDON DANEEDS:-
The Lord's Bank, Limitat.
Fe mil principal cities of the World,
Foreign change and banking business of
ry dawription masarted.
Bafe Deposit Bozen (variona lzon) at a yearly mold of from 8 10 10.
LOOK POONG SHAN,
Chief Manager. Bong Kong, 14th May. 1990.
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LTD.
HEAL OFFICE:
15, Oronchurch Bizeel, London, E.0.1.
Authorised Capital
Subscribed Capital Pald-up Capital
.£3,000,000 1,800,000
1,050,000
Reserve Fund and Rest 1,648,506
BANKERS
The Bank of England & Eldland Bank, Lid.
BRANCHES
New York
Penang
Port Loul
Daszkok
pod
Batavia
Xandy
Bomber
Karachi
Calcutta
Kota Bharu
Colora
Kuala Kral
Belbi
Kuala Lipla
Kuala Lumpur
Hong Kon
Howrah
(Manzilina) Bangoon Bharshal Βίπιλα Kuantan (Pahang) Singapore Hada
Поставет
Manager.
E. W. DUGGAN,
THE BANK OF CHINA,
行箴國中
Reorganised October 28, 1928, under
apecial charter of The National Gov- erament és án
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE
BANK.
Every description of Banking and | Subscribed Capital .$25,000,000.00 Exchange Business transacted.
Bafe Deposit Boxes to let.
A. LECOT,
Manager.
Hong Kong, 1st May, 1929.
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED.
Established 1889,
Capital (fully paid-up) Yon 100,000,000
Reserve Fund
.......Yen 118,500,000 Head Offee:-YOKOHAMA,
Branches and Agencies at: Alexandria
Nazuj Newchwang New York Ozake
Babevin
Bombay Utenos Aires
(Temporarily
closed).
Calcutta
Canton
Changchun
Datron (Day)
Poking Rangoon
Rio de Janeiro Salgon
San Francisco
Frogtión (Mukden) Benitle",
Hamburg
Hankow
Harbin Hong Kong Honolulu Kai Fuen Karachi
Kabs
London
Los Angeles
Lions
Karila
Nagasaki.
Semarang Shasplet
Shimonoseki
Bingo pore Boerabaya Sydney Tlontain Токуи Talkunfu Tangtan Vladivostock
(Temporarily
closed)
Interest allowed. "or". Current Ac ¡CÓTTEN.
Deposits reasived for fzzá
at rates" to be obtained on
H. MORI
Hong Kofz," 10th September,
Paid-Up Capital .... .$24,710,200.00 Reserva Funda
.'8,820,503,82
HEAD OFFICE: SHANGHAI
HONG KONG BRANCH:
4, Queen's Road, Central
Owing to our numerous branches in China and large connections in the important.commercial centres of the
world, we are able to extend to our
cllenta special facilities for domestic and foreign banking and exchanges.
and other Pubile Funds of the Chin- ese. Government both at home and Abroad.
We also handle the line of Bonds
SHOU J. CHEN,
Hong Kong, 5th March, 1980.
Manager,
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HONG KONG BRANCH.
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This was the case in re- Plaice facture.
spect of electric lamps, and ar- Pomfret, White rangements were accordingly made Pomfret, Black
a lamp PrawIZEN factory, financed jointly by the Bay
of principal importers
to establish in Australia
electric Rock Fish
Every description of Banking and Exchange badlamps and enjoying the benefit of Roach
De tranzacted,
Travellers Chequee Jowand,
Trustee and Executorships under- taken.
INTEREST allowed on Current &ccounts and Fixed Deposita at Bates that may be seceriained assypiication.
F. THOROUGOOD,
Queen's Road Contrai.
Hong Kong. 15th April, 1200.
Managez.
THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD. (TAIWAN CINKO.)
HEAD OFFICE:-Taipek, Formosa. Incorporated by Special Imperial Charter, 1899:
Castral Bank in Farmona, Bank-Bicton wund Average amount ...Yun. £3,000,000 BILANCHES AND AGENCIES: JAPAN :—Tokyo, Tokohama, Kobe, Deals,
their collective technical experi- Salmon
Shark ence and research.
have Skats "These working treaties been arranged by the electrical in- Shrimpa and without Snapper dustries concerned cacsultation with either the Aus- Soles tralian or the home Government. Tonch In my opinion, they Indicate the Turbot
lines on which the electrical and Parties, small, fr, water other Industries must proceed if we
are to bring the industrial develop-
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rural
ment of the Dominions within
stage. If those sure sources of life we were still behind America in unified scheme which will maintain from which we had drawn all over our electrical development and he our prosperity and 'minlater to the the world should be curtalled it would not be satisfied until the productive ambition. of the
would be a matter of life and death blessing of electricity had reached Dominione."
to the country. It was necessary every urban house, every to have proper imagination for village and every farmer. considering the, great economio Probably more
than half the issues.
population could not afford tho Mr. Churchill said he had a con- initial cost of electrical installation.
Sir Hugo coupled with the toast the name of the Right Hon. Win PODNOSA Dirto, Karl Karakolarston Churchill, M.P.
Makong, Nasto, Shitchiko, Taisha, Tainan, Takao, Tamani, Then, Halto, Tašto, QUINA-Baughal, Bankow, Amy, Vocchow,
Blow, Canton.
OTHERS Kong. Bisapors, Gourabay
Barang Bar Bombay, Low Tock. Dalat,
LONDON BANKERO,
Calenta
The London County Wetmitater and Par's Bak. The Bank has Commspondent in all the principe
Cardial Centrse throughout the world.
X. KAOBRA.
HONG KONG BRANOU:
4, Don Varm Bond Cauland, Hong Koon, 19th January, 1999.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
Established 1918.
HEAD OFFICE:
10, Des Voeux Road, Centrál. HONG KONG
Capital and Surplus
Total Resources
over H.3.8,000,000,00 over, H.$30,000,000.00.
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted.
Current and Fixed Deposit Accounts in local and for. sign currencies opened for clienta.
Savings Account and Safe Deposit Boxan. Branches and Agencies all over the world.
KAN TONG PO
Chief Manager.
An Economic Sub-Parliament.
was the erection of an
U.S. GRAIN CROPS.
LITTLE HOPE OF REDUCING PRODUCTION.
Washington, D.C., Dec. '19. Little hope of reducing crop pro Responding, Mr. Churchill said he had been particularly interested structive suggestion to make, and it To meet their case a number of duction in America was seen to-day economic supply undertakings bad Instituted when the United States Depart- in the request which Sir Hugo had sub-Parliament to sit alongside the a polley of assisted wiring and hire- ment of Agriculture made public made in no veiled terms for pro-political Parliament and have very purchase of domestic apparatus, its statistics of Winter wheat plant- tection for the electrical industries. definite and real powera. The whereby initial expenditure could ing... That was especially significant incomposition of this sub-Parliament be avoided."
the rawest of raw material.
per cont.
But he was satisfied The Department of Agriculture view of the fact that the electrical would consist mainly of trade ex-that there was room for a great announced that to date plantings of industries were in the range of ports, and it would be in a position extension of this policy, and he ap Winter wheat cover 42,042,000 highly finished Industries and con: to submit and introduce. Bills into pealed to the supply undertaking to acres. This figure amounts to 98 sequently protection for them would the House of Commons irrespective adopt it and pursue it vigorously in per cent. of Inst Winter'e wheat necessarily involva protection for of the Government of the day. I order that more consumer might be acreage or a reduction of only two every stage down to the crudest and would mean the giving of the best won for electricity, which, in its advice by people who had no
bring benefit to the tura would Continuing, Mr. Churchill said he political axe to grind.
manufacturing aide of the Indus believed there was a strong opinion 1д Britain with regard to 腐 tariff, moderate and scientific, both for revenue and for protective pur
"Are we taking the right stepa us a nation; are we really at the present time doing as much as manufacturers of electrical plant
posés
Still Behind America. Responding to the toast of "The Guests," proposed by Sir E. Hilton Young, M.P., Mr. Morrison, M.P. (Minister of Transport), aald that
try,
The Greater Shanghai Burenu General Chamber of Commercs has sent letters to the police au3-
With so much Winter wheat plant- ed the experts of the Department. of Agriculture seo little opportunity to reduce America's crop produc- tion. The same altuation prévall- ing with regard to wheat applies to rye. The rye autumn-planting covered 4,158,000 acres, represent- Ing an increase of 162,000 acres planted to ryo in the United States.
we can to obtain the beat livell and equipment were properly in thorities of the International hood! (No, no.) We cannot but terested in the development of the Settlement, the French Concession feel there are other countries where supply side of the electricity In- and the Chinese territory, saylag-United. Pross a far greater grip is being taken of dustry, So far as he was con- that the Increase of crimes. In the situation.
cerned, the more each section of Shanghai is a great impediment to We were in the position of an the great industry took a friendly the development of Industry and laland which had 20,000,000 more Interest in the work of other commerce in this city and request people alive today than it could sections, the better he would being the police authorities of the feed, or possibly feed except by pleased.
threo territories to co-operate in descending to an almost savage Great as the progress had been suppressing crime:
Major, Reginald Kenworthy," the Schnoider Trophy airman, was found not guilty on December 11 a... charge of " conspiracy "in altare transactions. The trial was held in London:
on