THE CHINA MAIL.
£3.000,000
Reserve Fund
£1,000,000
Reserve Liability of Pro.
prietors
..£3,000,000
Reserve Liabilities
HEAD OFFICE:—SINGAPORE. Hong Kong Branch: 13, Queen's Rd. C. Authorised Capital Straits $20,000,000
sued Capital
8,000,000 Fald-up Capital
4,000,000
H
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Agencies and Branches:
of Shareholdera. Surplus ..... !!!
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Stelling.............. £ 1,500,000
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS |—
Han. Mr. C. d. 8. Blackie, Chairman,
Bom, ktr. 3. 1. Palergen, Deputy Chairma.
W. It. Ball, Fag. T. E. Paice, Esq.
A. H. Compton, Esq. 1. A. Plummer, Eng.
B. Lauder Lawit, - Eng, T. II. H. Shaw, Boy,
J. Miskin, aq.
AMOY. BANGKOK
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FOR THE HONGKONG AND SITANDUAE BANKING CORPORATION.
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Chief anger.
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.
HEAD OFFICE:
98, Boulevard Haussment, l'aris.
Subsribed Capital
Fra. 72,500,000.00 Paid-Up Capital...Frs. 68,100,000.00 Busarve Funds ....Fra.102,000,000,00
(Perak .M.9.)
and Foreign Exchange 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,
Manager.
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Hong Kong, 8th January, 1929.
THE NATIONAL CITY BANK
OF NEW YORK.
HEAD OFFICE: 55, Wall Street, New York.
Capital, Surplus and
Undivided Profits ..U..$224,554,208
Branches in:-
ARGENTINE LONDON
BELGIUM
BRAZIL
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CHINA COLOMBIA
GUBA
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STRAITS
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of Credit, Travellers' Cheques, Bills BRANCHES:
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Current accounts Lought and sold. Saigon Battambang Ilus
and Savings Bank accounts opened Shanghai Mengtso
Fixed Deposits in local and for- Nam Dinh Singapore
and Neumon Thanbea
at rates that eign currenales taken Tientsin
may be ascertained on application to Peking
the Bank. Tourane
We are also able to affor our Cas. Pnom-Penh Vinh Pondicherry Yunnaafu BANKERS:
Gantho
Canton
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tomers the services of the Branches
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4,000,000 2,525,000
Branches Agencies and Gorrespon denta in the principal cities of the world.
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted.
TAN ENG HOOI,
and
Commerce
Finance
LOAD THAT MUST BE REHABILITATION OF
LIGHTENED.
SILVER.
Mr. Beaumont Pease Not Pressing Problem.
on High Taxation.
of the Moment.
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1931.
MORE EFFICIENCY IN toads towards the average rather
INDUSTRY.
than the beat that any given branch of industry can produce, and that the very process of draft- ing such a specification necessarily has that result. In practice this is
A Saving of Time and hardly ever the case.
Materials.
STANDARDISATION PLEA.
im-
A plea for standardisation as an aid to industry was put forward by | Mr. C. La Maistre, director of the British Engineering Standards As- sociation, in a paper read before the Royal Society of Arts. While While everyone in the western not claiming that standardisation "High taxation, especially in Manager.
this country, has killed enterprise.world is being brought face to face was a panacea for all industrial while low prices have falled so far with the difficulties caused by the evils, he considered it an te produce new orders to any ap- toll of prices as measured in goid, portant factor in diminishing the preciable extent," said Mr. J. W. comparatively little attention, out-excessive ups and downs from of side the limited aphere of the which industry suffered. It was, Beaumont Pense, chairman Lloyds Bank, at the annual meet-silver market and of others direct he said, one of the remarkable de- ly effected, is being paid to the velopments of the century in that ing.
"If men were prepared to trade very much greater fall that is it eliminated much of the avoid and to make purchasce," he said. being imposed in countries whore able waste and promoted greater "there is no lack of hanking credit silver is the measure, states
effelency in Industry. Financial News. It is, perhapa, with which to make the necessary
"In industry there
three in some exaggeration to say that the payments. The plain truth
factora," asid Mr. Le that, for want of confidence, for purchasing power of half the main
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL- MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V.
(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY)
DANKENH
Estabijabe 1874.
-Hong Kong Dow:-31, Queen's Road Central
· Authorized Copital Guildars 150,000,000
(£1,000,000.) Pald-p Capital
Guilders 80,000,000 (28,067,170) Lowers Fund ......... Quilders 10,015,000 (20,334,507)
Fload M-AMSTERDAM' Eastern Bend Ono#:-BATAVIA.
want of belief that business is on
the
measure of
are
"Moreover, it must not be for gotton that the specifications pro- vida the consumer with a recognis ed standard of quality which was not at his disposal prior to the issue of the specifiention. It also protects the manufacturer from un- fair competition by putting ali manufacturors on an even basis. It is to be regretted that there are still many trades and industries outside of the engineering and allied industries, which so far have given but little attention to this important matter.
Coal Standardisation.
"For the first time in the his- tory of the coal trade, a British standard specification drawn
up by the industry, quite apart from any Government control, giving standards for everyday commercial use, has been agreed upon, after strenuous efforts for three years on the part of the Association. The foreign buyers of British coal have population of the world has thus Malatre, "the producers, the dis- been consulted during the pro- the upward trend, the business been reduced by a fall that in five tributors, and the consumers. It
ceas, and their criticisms have been given BRANCHES 1. Bandjarmasin, Bandong, Yombay, world is refraining from giving years has brought the gold value is common knowledge that in the
the most careful Calcutta, Charlbom, Djember, Djok
more than the minimum of orders. [ of silver from 32d, an ounce to 14d.) case of the older manufacturers, | consideration. Foreign buyers are jakarta”, The Magun", Fuldak,_Kobs,
competition often drives them to Kota Sadja, Makammer. Medan, Pedang "It is not because of any short-
This statement overlooks the give up all idea of economic pro to take British coal at its face not so prepared as they used to be Passage of gold that these orders are very important difference between duction and make not only their value. They insist on some acien- Falambang, Pekalongas,
Rotterdam bamarang", Shanghai, bol not given.
It is not because of the position of the people of China own particular design of com- Singapore, Gumtie Sorakarta (Bola), Tegu. This any shortage of gold that Ameri-where silver is the
tific method of ascertaining its en and France think themselves value, and that of India, where the /modity, but also those of their com-heating value and the amount of unjustified in londing to those rupee is a token
petitors. As to the distributor, his coin having a
rubbish it contains in the form of countries who would like to-bor value based on gold. Yet, even in problem is possibly even more com-
ash and other impurities. plicated. He has to carry an enor India, the depreciation of silver le mous variety of patterns or sizes of "The difficulties of language, of a vital element in the economie, each commodity. Then there is different units of measurement,
the political the consumer, who wants and, therefore, in lend to would-be borrowers. situation.
aome and of Industries and trade which thing efficient, yet easily, replace- have grown up along entirely anyone suppose that they would be more disposed to Mr. J. F. Darling, who urged the able and at the same time, cheap." different
Jines, present most do so if an addition of 100 mil-need for rehabilitating aliver at a
serious barriers to the promotion The term "standardisation" was lions of gold were suddenly made meeting organised by the Royal rather an
of that spirit of co-operation with- unfortunate one, al- to their existing large stocks? Is Empire Society, ie thus from all though we could not find a better.
out which industrial standards are any trader in this country unable points of view justified in em It seemed to lead to the idea, very to obtain credit if he is a reliable phasising the immense and press prevalent among many people, that man and ready to place an order? ing importance of the silver quesit stultified progress by setting up tion upon the welfare of the Em-
unalterable standards. piro generally and of the country was further from the facts. in particular.
Weltevreden.
• Therefore have safe deposit buser to t London Bauart a--National Provincial Bank LAD. Correspondante all over the world Braking buses of vary description transasieć.
A. STOKKINE,
France
row.
keting Manager
Hong Kong, 18th August, 1086.
If America and are disinclined, with their present
stock
gold, of
to
THE BANK OF CHINA.
行銀國中
Reorganised October 28, 1928, under special charter of The National Gov-
ernment as an
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE BANK. Subscribed Capital ..$25,000,000.00 Pald-Up Capital .$24,710,200.00 Reserve Funds
..$ 3.829,503.84
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
and foreign banking and exchanges, clients special facilities for damesti
does
Nothing
impossible to arrive at, and there is again the enormous difficulty of differing fiscal policies. other hand, as International trade On tho
No Demand for Loans.
increases it will become inevitable that there should be some general "You have seen from our figures that our advances have greatly de-
Under the general term of stand-! agreement between purchasers and The silver problem has two asardisation, British standard speci- producers all over the world. creased, and the reduction in our pecta that should be carefully disfications were prepared for quality profits is largely due to the fact tinguished. From the long-period of materials, standards of per try is concerned, this is already "So far as the electrical Indus- that our proportion of advances has point of view it is part of the goldformance and to a certain extent being brought about through the fallen to 48.5 per cont. Obviously that was not in accordance with that, falling the restoration of interchangeability, as for instance Commission which is supported by problem. There is little doubt component parts for the purpose of bur wishes, or due to the fact that silver to its old place as a measure
screw threads, sparking plugs,;
because there was no demand."
International
Electro-technical
we could not or would not lend, but of value in western countries, it electric lamps; also factors of many Governments, as well as the "Trado requires some lightening tually the whole world is on a gold safety methods to be adopted for electrical industry of every coun-
will not be very long before vir- of-ite-vast-load-of-taxation, said basis. Such a development would
d'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnsis;
IN FRANCE: Comptoir National tlon in San Francisco and Spain and world, we are able to extend to our Mr. Beaumont Pease, in canclusion.greatly accentuate the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas; Crodit Industriel et Commercial; 8o. ciete Generale.
IN LONDON: The National Pr vincial & Union Bank of England, Ltd.; Comptoir National d'Escompte de Park; Credit Lyonnais,
IN NEW YORK; J. P. Morgan & Ce: French American Banking Cor- poration; Guaranty Trust Co. of New York.
also of The National City Bank New York (France), SA, In Paris and Nico.
F. MED. COURTNEY,
Manager, Hong Kong, 20th February, 1981.
THE
Interext allowed on Current Ac- AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY,
counts and Fixed Deposits according
to arrangements.
Every description of Banking nad
Exchange Business transacted.
INC.
Safe Deposit Boxes to let
Head Office: 65, Broadway, New York.
Manager.
Hong Kong, 1st May, 1929.
Capital Surplus Reserves
A. LECOT.
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK,
LIMITED.
Established 1880.
Capital (fully paid-up) Yen 100,000,000 Reserve Fund
Yen 116,000,000
Head Offee:-YOKOHAMA. Branches and Agencles at:
Nagoya
Alexandria
Batavis
Bombay
Buenos Airea
(Temporarily
clared).
Calcutta
Canton
Changchun
Dairen (Dalny)
Newchyang
New York
Osaka
Peking Rangoon Rio de Janeiro
Saigon
San Francisco
:
Semarang
Shangha
Fongtien (Mukden) Bastile
Hamburg
Hankow
Harbin
Mong Long
Honolulu Kxl Yuen Karachi Koba
London
Los Angeles
Lynne
- Manila
Nagasaki
coumio.
Shimoneschi Singapore Soerabaya Sydney Tientsin
Teinanfa
Tsingtau
Vladivostock
(Temporarily closed)
.U.S.$6,000.000 .U.S.$1,572,454 U.S.$1,008,200
Amanda Адр
Athens
Baie
Berlin
Шахов
Bizarella
Notabe
BRANCHES:-
Попре Glasgow Havana Kamb
Intarlaken Jerusalem Lido Loodon
Siew Saphi
$1 Parla
Tobag
Bernh Drush Barnie Aires
Liwapond Пилоты Luso
T-king Palacana
«Рос Staminul Mughal Beathampire Sugapore
Onze Oelpotta Свали
Dolombo Constantinople
Coper Edinburgh
Омаята
years.
difficulties
ten
enterprise encouraged. "Confidence must be restored and that might arise from a shortage
Just as of gold in the next five or We also handle the haue of Bonds and ether Publle Funds of the Chin recipient of the dole finds it unat- esc Government both at home Anatractive to work for the few extra abroad.
shillings which separate the dole SHOU J. CHEN,
allowance from a worker's wages, so Manager.
13 Hong Kong, 5th March, 1930.
THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD.
Tatablished 1912.
Head Ofre:-Hong Kong.
Authorised Capital (II.K. Ourtenay) $11,000,000 Pald-Up Cap... Rovers Fund..........
1,100,000
8,488,800
DILANCIES- Casion, Shanghal Bankow, Swan, Bangkok, New York and San Francisc
CORRESPONDENT:
LONDON BANKERS :-
The Lord's' Bank, Lámbad.
in all principal elites of the World
Pamiga smásage and banking bumisses of ury description transoled.
Bats Depois Boxes (varivan sima) as a yearly watel of from 0 to $10.
LOOK POONG SHAN,
Chief Manager.
Ledam
І недор
THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD. (TAIWAN GINKO.)
K. His
M001 Carlo
· Tiemula
Starli
Sedon Tokobama Zuuich
· Ventɔk
Manimat Milan
Branches of American Express
Incorporated by Special Imperial
Charter, 1889.
Company in Principal cities of Unit» | Bank-Nolas sassed Average amount „čan. 15,000,000)
ed States of Amerles and Canada.
All classes of Commercial Banking Transactions undertaken.
Personal : lavestment handled.
Central Bank to Formosa,
BEANCHES AND AGENCIES, JAPAN :—Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, Owaka.. FORMOSA 1 (pan, Kagi, Karanku,
insuring_tham, were_to_a_certain extent dealt with.
Saving Time and Materials.
"The use of standard specifica- tions," said Mr. Le Maistre, "by saving waste of time and material, increases the competitive power of the manufacturers in the open markets, enabling them to accure difficulties can bo overcome. The
|more orders, and so they tend to balance of profit remaining after one is to move forward, through increase, rather than to diminish
central banking co-operation, to the number of employed.
Only Two Ways. There seem to be only two ways, a capitalist discouraged from broadly spooking, in which those entering upon any enterprise by the fact that if it is successful the
•
try producing or using electrical "machinery or apparatua."
Is Your Blood Up To Quality?
Perhaps you will find this ques. tion rather hard to answer. If, however, you suffer in any degree from headaches, listlessness and the deduction of income-tax And
general lack of energy you will surtax is insufficient to compensate the position where the gold re
know that your blood is below garded as necessary for currency "Industrial standards which par. If you have frequent attacks him for the risks run, whereas, on
reserve purposes in very much re- have to be reviewed from time to of Indigestion, or suffer from the other hand, if it prove a fallure.duced. The other is to broaden time and brought up to date, would nerves and irritability your blood ho has to bear the whole of the load the metallic basts for reserves by be ruined if they were made a mat-lis considerably below normal, Possession Only for Payment. the re-monetisation of silver. This ter of legislation; indeed, they whilst rheumatiem, neurasthonia, |issue is very largely a practical must be susceptible to compara physical weakness, emaciation, or "Until there is some amelioracne, depending upon the pro tively quick and simple modifica prostration indicate that the blood
conkability that the necessary banking tion, which would be impossible if is in a very bad state indeed. secm to co-operation and the modification once they were fixed by law.
And even if your health appears be necessary that no obliga-of central, bank statutes CB0 be "Engineers of the country some to be normal, that is not to as- tion, whether national or Inbrought about before great diffi-180 years ago decided to form asume that you have a blood supply dividual, should be entered into
culties result from falling gold standards organisation. They had that is rich, red and abundant, for which the nation or the inprices.
the foresight to realise that it a continuous battle is going on all
tian of these hindering ditions. it. would
dividual cannot afford to carry out. Neither a nation
any
which either desires to have.
in a position to pay the adequate price, or give full consideration for the bargain.”·
CLEARING BANKS.
nerve
or The short-period problem is how must be impartial, and Indepen- the time in the blood-stream and an individual has divine to overcome the immediate troubles dent of Government control, yet you may be living on the border
have the fullest Government aup-line. right to possess those things that are now arising from the report in order to give it authority: In order to be perfectly Bure It cont extreme fall in the gold value and so the Engineering Standarde that your health is safeguarded HEAD OFFICE:-Talpah, Formosa, fall depends upon whether they are of silver. Thoy must be surmount Committee came into being in by a healthy, rich and plentiful ed with reasonable promptitude if at all. It is no use to wait for 1901. It has gradually gained to supply of pure blood you ought to a most marked degree the con- take Dr. Williams' Pink Pille, the several years, during which interfidence of Industry, and, under its world-famous blood and national agreement might concetv-
present title, its work is growing tonic. ably be reached for a policy of
This remedy, which has proved bimetalliam.
By that time, sup by leaps and bounds.
"Great care has to be exercised by, its continued popularity over posing silver to remain in the in order to ensure that a standard forty years, to be absolutely eff neighbourhood. of Its
specification supported by the caelous and genuine, builds up and values in silver-using countries trade shall not become a hindrance maintaine the blood in such a way to the introduction of new pro- that disease can obtain no foot- great attendant difficulties and cesses, however radical may be the hold in your system. Keep your
changes involved.
blood-stream up to quality with hardships, down to their silver
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and en- measure..
joy abounding health, vitality and "It is sometimes objected that a happiness. All chemists can sup
standard specification ply you...
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Affliated with
Interest allowed or Current Ac- THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK Deposits 'recolved for fixed periods | Resources ::Over G$2,500,000,000 at rates to be obtained on: applica
tian.
IL. MORL
Manager.
Hong Kong, March 11, 1981..
CIL BENSON,
-7 Manager.
THE BANK
OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
Established 1918.
·HEAD. OFFICE:
10, Des Voetix Road, Central
HONG KONG
Capital and Burplus „............
Total Resources wipekee.
¿verḍH.$8,000,000.00' aver ́ H.380,000,000,00
Every description of Banking and Exchange business. „transacted.
Current and Fixed Deposit Accounts in local and for- rocurrencies opened for cliente
Baridys Account and Safe Deposit Boxes... Branches” and “Agencies all over the world.
KAN TONG PO
Chief Manage
HONG KONG DUANCH,
JA: De Varer Road Censen), Hong Kong, 19th January, 1991.
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CONSIDERABLE FALL IN
TURNOVER.
| value, labour and
present commodity
would have been forced, with very
Recognised Standard of Quality,
A considerable fall in the turn
Once that had taken place the over for 1980, is shown by the ar- nual statement of the Bankers rehabilitation of silver would have Clearing House Although during to take place on a basis of Its de British
showed an across of £206,820,000, tlon. If anything is to be done to the first half of the year the preciated gold value. It would be amount cheques, billa, etc., pala useless to force a great apprecia the total of £48,658,854,000 for the check the very serious effects of whole year was £1,358,828,000 deflating silver values to a point lower than for 1929. This is the adjusted to the present market Arst time since 1926 that the year's price of silver, it must be total has failed to show an increase done quickly. We thus suggest over the previous year. The 1830 that while the rehabilitation of figure, however, was 2761,285,000 aliver, as demanded by Mr. Dar- above the average for the past Aveling, is a question that deserves. very full consideration, it is not. years,
The chief reasons for the de- the pressing problem of the mo crease, the report states, are un ment That problem is to restore doubtedly the widespread, general the price of eliver to, say, some- trade depression throughout, the where not much less than two country and the amallar number of shillings. This problem demands purely financial transactions which immediate attention. affected the town clearing gures. The total for 24 Stock | Exchange-settling days was 2242,- 928,000 Lower at E4,193,728,
record were
established the
return
ed July 2
weekly record
the total of $282,1
80 was the highest
lever recorded?
eek end- previous
3,000, while
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