BANK S
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION..
Amikoriand Capital, ......................
$4,500,000 Lacuni and Fully Fid-op $30,000,000 Esserra Funda-
berling ST
8,600,000 $10,000,000
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1858. HEAD OFFICE: LONDON. Paid-up Capital Reserve Fund
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE HO HONG BANK, LTD.
(Established 1917)
HEAD OFFICE: SINGAPORE.
Commerce and
Finance
Hong Kong Branch: 13, Queen's Rd. C. SILK HOSE MADE
Authorised Capital Straits $20,000,000 Issued Capital .... Paid-up Capital ...
Liabilities
of Shareholders.. Surplus
.£8,000,000 .....£4,000,000
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
£3,000,000 Reserve
Agencies and Branches:
KUALA LUMPUR
LUODING
MADRAS
MANILA
MEDAN
HEAD OFFIUK: HONG KONG,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS |— Hm. MT. 0. d. 8. Veckla. Chairman.
Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Deputy Chalmaa.
tw. “Mr. v. a. 34, T. E. Pero, eg, J. Compoo, Zag. J. k. Plotenser, ag
1. Landry Lewis; Ear, T. E. R. Shaw, Boy.
4. Mohla, Reg.
J. F. Warren, Bos.
Chal Manager.
V. M. Grayburn, Xaq.
BRANCHES:
ALOR STAR
(Malay State AMRITSAR BANOXOE BATAVIA BOWRAT
GALQUITA DANTON
** CAWNPORE
CEBU
COLONDO
DAIBEN (Deng
Bouth Manchuria)
NEW YORK
AMOY
BANGKOK
BATAVIA
BOMBAY
VALOUTTA
PEKINO
PENANO
RANDOON
SAIGON
BEMAHANO
HERKKHAN
TAIPINO (P.M.B.)
DELHI
HAIPHONG
BEANGHAI
HAMBURG
SINGAPORE
LONDON
HANKOW
BITIAWAN
HARBIN
HOURABAYA
LIONA
(N. Kancharias
KALACOA
HÒNG TONG
TAVOT
ILOILO
TIENTSIN
MANILA
JFOR
TOKTO
MUAB (Johora!.
KABAOHI
TONGKAH (Bkutai)
HVEDEN
KINO
TRINGTAO
NEW YORK
KOBE
YOKOHAMA
ZAMBOANGA
COLOMBO
PZIPINO
(Philippia
DAIHEN. FOOGHOW KAIPHONG
HAMBURG
SIANKOW
HARBIN
CANTON
CULPOO
HONO KEW
11010
IPOR
JOHORE
ZOBE
KOWLOON
RUALA LUMPUR
PENANG
BANGOON BLIGON
HAN YRANDIBO
BHANGHAI
HINGAPORE
GOURABAYA
BUNDEL PATANI TIENTSIN
Tor
TSINGTAO
ХОЛОНАМА
Current Account opened in Loval Ourens and Fixed Deposite toeirad for one your OF thorter perioda is Local Currey orlis term whick, will be quoted on spication. Kong Kong, 28th February, 100.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
The Bulus of the shore Tank le canduok ad by the HONG KONG, AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Bul may be obtained on application.
FOR THE HONGKONG AND SHANOWIAT DINKING CORPORATION,
Y. M. ORATBURY,
Hong Kong, 18th July, 180.
Chial Kanuger
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.
HEAD OFFICE:
$6, Boulevard Hausaman, Parla.
Subscribed Capital Frs. 72,000,000.00 Pald-Up Capital ..Frs. 68,400,000.00, Reserve Funds Frs.102,000,000.00
BRANCHES: Hong Kong Quinhon,
Saigon Mengtze Shanghai Nam-Dini Singapore
Thanha
Bangkok Battambang IIue antho Canton
Tourana
Dibouti Numea Fort-Bayard Papecto Tientsin Haiphong Peking Hankow Pnom Penh Vinh
Pondichery Yunnanfu BANKERS:
Hanot
IN FRANCE: Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnais; Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas; Credit Industrial et Commercial; So- elace Generale.
IN LONDON: The National Provin cia & Union Bank of England, Lid-; Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnais.
IN NEW YORK: J. F. Morgan & Co., French American Banking Cor peration; Guaranty Trust Co. of New York.
Interest allowed on Current Ac counts and Fixed Deposits according to Arrangements.
Every description of Banking and Exchange Business transacted. • Safe Deposit Boxes to let
A. BONNAUD","
KUALA KANGSAR
(Perak F.M.
lasde) and General Banking business transacted.
Foreign Exchange
Current Accounts opened and Fix- ed Deposits received for 1 year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on application.
J. STUART,
Acting Manager. Hong Kong, 28th May, 1931
THE NATIONAL CITY BANK
OF NEW YORK.
HEAD OFFICE: 55, Wall Street, New York.
Capital, Surplus and
Undivided Profits..U.S.$220,037,392
Branches →→
ARGENTINE
BELGIUM
BRAZIL
MEXICO
LONDON
PANAMA
CHILE CHINA
PERU
COLOMBIA - QUBA
PORTO RICO
DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC
INDIA ITALY JAPAN
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
STRAITS
SETTLEMENTS URUGUAY VENEZUELA
Commercial and Travellers Letters of Credit, Travellors Cheques, Bills of Exchange and Cable Transfers bought and sold. Current accounta and Savings Bank accounts opened and Fixed Deposits in local and for- eign currencies taken at rates that may be ascertained' on application to the Bank.
We are also able to offer
Cas- tomers the services of the Branches of the International Banking Corpora
our
8,000,000 4,000,000
4,000,000 2,526,000
Branches, Agencies and Correspon- dents in the principal cities of the world.
Every description of Banking and Exchange businers tramacted.
TAN ENG HOOI,
Manager.
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL- MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V.
(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY)
BANKERS.
Established 1984.
Hong Kong Oficer, Quaen's Road Canwal Authorised Capita), z Gullders 183,000,000- (11,600,000, Pald-Up Capital anomena Billiers 80,000,000 (85,000,179) Baners Fund siegenmanns Galliera” 40,013,300 (23,4,623)
Bend Once AMSTERDAM” Estar Head Offs:—BATAVIA,
BRANOURS Bandfartmade Baudoeng, Bamber.
2
Calle, Ohribon, Djember, Djoki
FROM WOOD PULP.
Bewildering Machines
That Never Err.
F
CARDBOARD BRAINS.
does its shaping automatically,
two needles being cast off at a time
from each end of the lot as the
MONDAY, JULY 13, 1931.
·BUSINESS MEN
'PROTEST.
“LIFE - STREAM OF TRADE."
Sir William Morris' Call Judge on Growth of
to MP's.
NATION'S DANGER:
Advertising.
NEW PROFESSION.
Mr. Justice McCardle was the The National Council of Industry principal guest at the festival din- stocking needs to be narrower. This and Commerce, which was formed ner of the National Advertising machine produces plain stockings. last September by bankers and in- Benevolent Society at the Con- Its brother, next door, produces pat- dustrial lenders, meeting in London, naught Rooms. terns, with the aid of forty carriers has made a declaration and forty tiny spools to each set Warning the nation of the grave danger of an economic and indua trial collapse.
of needles.
*
Here is the superb miracle-the control of the carriers, each bear! ing its separate coloured thread by
trip of perforated cardboard.
Design in Code. The cardboard strips contain the
"
!
Demanding Immediate action by members of Parliament, and
Affirming iş own determination to take "whatever ataps may be nece sary to assist in, averting impend
In submitting the toast of the Society, he said that its title was significant of several things. It was a society which had sprung from a profound change. In the world conditions of commerce;
"To-day" he proceeded, "the vital importance of advertisement is recognised on all the basic es- sontials of business aaccess both here and abroad. Advertisement is
It announces. It proclaims. It creates and broadens demand.. It
of supply.
I write to-day of hose, of hose! for the woman, half-hose for the design, as it were, in code. They, ing disaster." man, and socks for the little boy revolve slowly beneath steal rods, Sir William Morris, the chairman, who howls down the aide street. /or "dropper's," and whenever a rod on behalf of the executive commit- the Hfe-stream of progressive trade. writes F. G. H. Salusbury, Daily Ex. finds a perforation through which tee, proposed the declaration in the
It can drop, it works a carrier. The following terms:- press Special Representative,
Such are the technical differ-man in charge of the machine aim! This meeting confirms the reso- strengthens and develope the source
A brain in cardboard, tution passed at the National Coun- ences between what you and I loose-ply minds it.
cilla Inaugural meeting, and, asserts sees to the pattern.. ly call socks and stockings.
And out they come, plain and pat-that the industrial conditions then aprevailing, so far from being miti: Bix paíra terned stockings,
gated, have in fact been much ac It is a good word: Shakespeare used machine, every forty minutes.
They lack soles, however, and centuated in the interim. The dan It; Queen Elizabeth used it. "An-
I could wish, on reflection, that| "bose" were in more general use.
Kote-Bečja, Makassar, Medan, Falembang. Fontianak Bangoon, Bottargam", "Darn them!"
backal, Bamamang
Alboigs (Bumai). Bingapors, Bourabaís, Boerakaria (Bole), Tegal, Tillafes and Weltevreden".
Fatalepte fiung them at a wench, exclaiming,
You remember?
"I suppose that two of the most striking features of recent years have been: firstly, a new conception of the dignity-aye-the-nobility---. of business; and, secondly new con- domestic and world enterprise, by
Important Duties.
"The growth of advertisement has created a new vocation, a new A fresh
profession, a new art.
other pair of hose gone west with their heels are represented by two ger lies not in the intensity of the ception of the part to be played in Drake," she said, on a famous oc- strips, ono on each side of the up. Immediate depression, but in the {Kkarta", The Hague”, Jeddah, Kobe,casion: then ripped them off and per part of the foot. So, the heel progressive deterioration of the wise and far-spread advertisement.
strips are joined and to them is knit. fundamental position of British in- ted a sole by a man called a "foot-dustry.
Solemn. Warning. er." Then the sole and the upper
"The meeting now warns the Bri- are seamed along the sides; the Hose, half-hose, and socks .... The factory, employing more than stocking ia seamed up the back; and tish people in the most solemn man- two thousand hands, which I have the opening left at the toe is clos-ner that unless immediate and effec realm of dativity has arisen with a ed. The result, madam, is half a tive action le taken to reduce ex scattered in many places and vest- just visited turns them out by the
penditure and to protect Britished with many difficult and import- industry and agriculture an econo- ant dities. And so this Society mic and industrial collapse is in was founded in 1913, and it became
registered in 1925 under the Friend-. evitable..
"It deplores and condemns the ly Societies Acts. The rivulet of apathetic attitude of the Govern- beneficence grew to stream, and ment to the urgent and pressing neods of the times and even more
** Theus cfton kava sala deposit boxae so ima, Loaden Banken ;—National Provizcial Bank Lád. Correspondants ali zvar the world Banking businam of ovary description transacted."
L. STOXXINK,"
Hong Kong, 19th Kogul, 1900.
Manager.
THE BANK OF CHINA.
行銀國中
special charter of The National Gay Reorganised October 26, 1928, under
ernment As AD
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE ·
BANK. Subscribed Capital, Paid-Up Capital Reserve Funds
fountain
I
vast body of workers and thinkers
we trust that the stream will
of
the
hundred thousand. It produces pair of hose..
I wished I had space in which also an enormous variety of jump to analyse my awe of the seamless ers "ladies' outer wear" and bathing costumes. "Anything machines which produce yards of aylindrical' "stockings and socks knitted!" it says, with its hand on like strings of sausages, to be snip its heart: "Pray.command me?" ped apart the moment after they are Having written so much I pause made. The same sort of machine surrounded by a fog of tobacco makes seamless bathing, costumes condemns that section of the House/expand ere long to a board river of help and beneficence and kindness," smoke, and tapping my
| and jumpers gigantic sausages., of Commons which, whila disagree-
He mentioned that the Society A problem Then there are, for admiration, ing fundamentally and in principle gave help to those engaged in the Confronts me, which is to describe the dye works-full of overpower with the polley of the Government,
against my teeth.
advertising departments to others as unlearend as myself
Ing vapours to a stranger the yet for purely party ends maintains newspapers, on the staffs of those machines the most marvellous
scouring room where it is always it in.office. I watched one, have ever seen.
washing day, and where all impuri "The meeting also views with who advertise, and also to those ..$25,000,000.00 hypnotised by the lunge and flickerties are pounded out of stockings grave misgiving the willingness of engaged in the work of advertising $24,710,200.00 of the needles, for a quarter of an and socks not previously cleaned individual members of Parliament agencies, and to the widows and 8,320,503.83 hour while an elderly man who has in the "yarn" state; and the seam to support measures of which they Since this Society was formed
worked in, and others like it, for
over £60,000 had been expanded in admittedly disapprove.
"It therefore urges and calla on assistance, benevolence and educa individual members of the Housetion. Over one thousand cases had of Commons to put country before been dealt with affecting 1,586
conscientiously to adults and over 1,140 children.
whole energy 1929 the expenditure was £6,594, In 1980 it had risen to £9,157. In
CABER that year 186
were helped,
adults and over 120 children in want of actasl distress.
HEAD OFFICE: BHANGĦAL
HONG KONG BRANCH: 4, Queen's Road Central,
the
enforcement
as
50
much
children.
In
tion in San Francisco and Spain and world, we are able to extend to a room where the yarn for whatever/of wood, cut like a beautiful leg in and urgently required by the pre- and those cases affected nearly 200
also of The National City Bank of New York (Franco), SA, in Paris and Nice,
F. McD. COURTNEY,
Hong Kong, June 18, 1931.
THE
and
Shimmering Skeins..
fection.
I
are demanded sent economic depression, or to re- aign their scata and take the con- sidered opinion of their constitu ents in view of existing conditions.
Standard of Living.
thirty odd years, told me all about ing and linking room, where sewing it with the fondness a mother demachines whirr for ever and 200 votes to recounting the cleverness girls never make a mistake.
Which brings me back to the of her only child..
Then I had to ask him to begin seamless stocking; for it is here party and Owing to our numerous branches in again: and he did-just as the that a false seam is sewn up the concentrate their
back of the stocking to give it style. | on China and large connections in the im- mother would have done.
Then it is slipped over a flat plece measures portant commercial centres of the
My tour began in the winding clients special facilities for domestic and foreign banking and exchanges.
purpose and it is "yar, be it profile, and steam-pressed to per- We also handle the issue of Bonds of lisle, wool or artificial silk-is; have seen buttons stitched on
The Society was proud of the fact and other Public Funds of the Chin wound on to the spools which feed
wear," and buttonholes
that not a single deserving case "outer Manager.ese Government both at home
the machines. abroad.
made, one every three seconds..
had been sent empty away. SHOU J. CHEN,
have seen girl examiners, buried in
Major J J. Astor, M.P., was an- Manager.
"The council believes in a pro- | Hong Kong, 6th March, 1031.
The artificial silk, which is made piles of stockings, passing or re from wood pulp, comes in skeins; jecting each one madre quickly than gressively improving standard of other speaker. He said that ad- living for British workers, good vertising was the legitimate parent and it is pretty to see a dozen shim- you could say "half-hose." mering skeins, looped round wire And I have learned that there is wages and regular employment both of goodwill. If advertising was re- THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD. drums, being transferred, at an in sometimes a mile of yarn in a man's in industry and agriculture, and the duced, goodwill also diminished. credible number of revolutions a sock. Two miles of marvel on my application of modern solutions, Ground was lost, and it seemed well minute, to the ever fattening spools"poor old feet;" it is the title of a economic and political, to modern established that ground lost in that
way was very costly to regain. problems.
"It is convinced that these ende He understood that one firm of I recommend any husband who
motor manufacturers has been trained into "holding" According to W. A. Brown, Chief can only be achieved by resolute American wool for his wife to have this de- of the poultry market division of fact-being-further-civic-alone increased its advertising in vice installed in the home-not that the Dominion Livestock Branch at ed that such a policy and such an 1930. In spite of this fact its bual- Bangkok Bework and RF his wife could be compared with an Ottawa, gains in production of eggs objective have behind them the sup-ness was down by 14 per cent, but ever fattening spool; I hope no one are nowhere, so pronounced as in port of all true and well meaning the average drop for the trade had that impression.
The west, with weekly shipments citizens, irrespective of class or sta- az a whole was 28 per cent.
cases, as tion, declares its determination to The room was humming with the running around 21,000 noise of belta taking power from compared with about 17,000 a year take whatever steps may be neces-
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, INC.
Head Office: 65, Broadway, New York.
.3.5.56,000,000 U.S.$1,672,454
.U.S.$1,908 209
Maniger.
Hong Kong, 1st May, 1981.
Capita! Surplus: Resorver
BRANCHES
Nisa
Kiplas
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK,
LIMITED.
Established 1860.
Capital (fully paid-up) Yen 100,000,000 Reserve Fund.....Yen 115,000,000
Head Office:-YOKOHAMA.
Breathes and Agencies at:
Manila Nagasaki
Alexandria
Batavia
Berlin
Bombay
Calcutta
Canton
Changchun
Dairen (Dalny)
Nagoya Newchwang
Now York
Osaka
Peiping
Rangoon
Fengtien (Mukden) Rio de Janeiro
Hamburg
Hankow
Harbin
Hong Kong
Honolulu
Kai Yuen
Karachi
Kobe
London
San Francisco Boattle Semarang
4pki
Singapore Socrabaya Sydney Tientsin Tokyo Tsingtau Intereat allowed on. Current Ac- counts.
Los Angeles →→
Lyons
Deposits received for fixed periods at rates to be obtained on application.
HL MORI
Manager. Hong Kong, 11th April, 1981.
Aczekazdarm Antwerp Ashane
Deale
Berlin
Pfarrila
Bombay bria Brusale Buenos Aire
Clo Ominatla Cansı
Colorabe.
thlasgow Havars Hamburg Flatte Interiskan farmsalon Lido Looden Liverpood
Leiberna Lugano
Maroline
Constantinople Monta Dark
Середньо
Linburgh
Flocos Gapete
Manila
Kunin Hantreux Hilan
Pirmas Pala Tang Faking Falerina
Holierdam Пет Boboul Stangkal Beuthampton Bingapore St. Morit Tintin
Vischs
Vrajos Yokohama Kurich
Brunches of American Express Company in Principal cities of Unit- od States of America and Canada.
All classes of Commercial Banking Transactions undertaken,
Personal investment accounts | handled.
The Company offers to intending Travellera the use of its "Travelers Cheques" and Lettera of Credit and, In addition, the world-wide services of its thoroughly equipped, Travel Do- partment.
Affiliated with
Batsbilshed 1912.
Head Office:-Hong Kong.
Authorised "Capital (H.E. · Ourivacy) $11,000,000 Paid Up Caplia!2199. B549,000 Best Fond8 PASEAND INAWA IM 1,300,000
BRANCH ZU
Canton, Shanghal, Bankow, Dyrslow,
CORRESPONDENTS
LONDON BANKERS. —
The Lloyd's Bank, Limiter
£á së principal cline of the World.
Foreign robange and banking business of
Parary damoription fraamried.
Safe Deposit. Banen (encions dose) sa a sourly recial af from 18 to Bin,
LOOK POONG SEAN.
below.
song!
the shafts overhead and of count- ago. Alberta alone had shipped out sary to assist in averting impending ment of industrial recovery."
more disaster ant the secure for the Brit in January or less spools whizzing round on a 29 carloads Chief Manager seemingly endless perspective of than one carload for every working ish nation and its workers the can-
THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD. (TAIWAN GINKO.)
HEAD OFFICE:Taipeh, Formosa,
Incorporated by Special Imperial Charter, 1859.
benches. A rainbow had been cap- day of the month. tured and its colours spilled over the..threads. Girls moved every- where, renewing the spools, knot- ting broken threads, guarding the machines angelically and with grimly angelic, efficiency.
I followed the spools into the room of miraculous machines. Im- agine twelve steel-toothed comba, Ben-Netos sed Areas amosas Yen. 150.000 of which each tooth is a barbed needle, arranged along the face of Esel, Eurosko, Bostong, an exquisitely complicated mass of
Central Bank in Porn
OTHEKE --HONE
London, New York," "Dairen."
LONDON BANKHRS Į
The London Deonly Taimimwe and Fury's Bank.
The Bank has Correspondente in all the grindst Cammarolal: Centre throughout the world.
coga, cams, and
REANCHIES AND AGENCIES: JAPAN)—Tokyo, Tokohama, Koba, Qualit FORMOSA Uran,
Makong, Nanso, Bulaobika,, Taishu, Ihis, wheels, shafta, "Takao, Tamaul," Town, Kallo, Talizm CHINA-Gangha, Hankow, Amor Foockow, rods, whose structure is, in shape,
Brator, Cesions ons.
Singapors, Boumbags, something like a fourteen-foot-long Bemarang, Batatiz Bombay, Dicut, upright piano.
The spools are on spikes on the top. Their yarn descends to head "carrier,"
birds' of atcel
the which nipa. yarn in Its beak one carrier to each comb. The machine starta. The carriers rasp-loft! right! left! right-across the steel needles. With each rasp a lino of knitting is done, just like that, "zzzz"';, and the top of a stocking appears.
THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK HONG KONG BRANOR
Resources. Over G$2,500,000,000
C. H. BENSON,
General Manager.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
Established 1918.
HEAD OFFICEL
10, Des Voeux. Road, Central. TONG KONG
Capital and Surplus Total
Lover" His:8,000,000.00
#over H.330,000,000.00
Every description of Banking and Exchange businesa,
acted,
ent and Fired Deposit Accounts in local and for
fles, opened for clients.
Account and Safe Deposit Boxes:
Bianches and Agencies all over the world
KANTONG PO,
Chiaf. Manager.
L. NAGURA
.8, Des Vous Road Central Hong Kong, 1942 January, 1828
YOU
Мали,
ABE INVITED TO INSPECT
STOCK OF ASIATIC FOREIGN AND COLONIAL
Now, stockings are of two kinds, There is the frame fashion" kind OURthe superior one-which is knit ted as a flat piece, shaped. down each side to fit the leg, and seamed up the back, afterwards; and there is the seamless, which is made on a circular comb of needles, and which comes out like a cylinder
The machine. I have just describ od is for the frame fashion" kind.
POSTAGE STAMPS
IN SETS, SINGLE PACKETS BAGS AND IN APPROVAL
SHEETS T
GRACA & CO.
Dialers in Postage Stamps, Philatelic Goods, Pictures,
Postcards, Toys
WYNDHAM BW
QUALITY PRINTING
With Quick
Service
ditions necessary for the achieve
The declaration, seconded by Mr. Walter K. Whigman, was adopted with acclamation.
Life's Work Is Hobby, Too
Mechanics are a hobby as well
life's work of Henry Bians Bowen, chief of motive power and rolling stock, Cana- djan Pacifio Raliway, who has an up-to-date machineshop in the basement of his Montreal home. Here he has invented a number of tools now In use throughout the vast shopsyb tem of the company and bullt A series of model stationery and marine engines, to the great delight of his three sons. He came Into particular pro minence recentlyasthebufider of the C.P.R.'s new glant, "8000" type, multi-pressure locomotive, the biggest and most powerful of its kind in the world and unique of the American continent, destined for heavy duty in the Rocky
Moun-
tains.
The plo
tures
·ɛhow tha: work- shop, int which so "many of Mr. Bow
en's lot- mitehours
reapent. Heprides kimself. "that It is2
the most complete private plant In Montreal Inset, Mr. Bowen do's seen operating'a milling-machine. which he built with his own hands The model marine engine, shown/haj
$750
lower right, is the latest product of the hobby-shop. Although it is only four inches high and could almost
be housed in a cigar box, st is compito in the minutest detall and can develop 4000 spvolutions a minute. It offers an Interesting contrast when considered in comparison with the newest mammoth locomotive Me Rowen built them both