THE
CHINA MAIL.
WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 7, 1931.
BANKS
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
Autherland Oàpital, mantentemann 890,900,000 Isawed and Tells Alkas ma 130,300,000 Rovner Fundo :-
Sterling
***** £ 1,390,248 $10,000,000
Sverre List day at Propriators 200 120,000,9
SERAD STIGE: HONG KOXO.
BOARD OF DIRECTOR#/mun
Mom. Mr. C. O., Meshka. Chairman.
Ston. Xr. . J. Palarson, Deputy Chatrasan.
'M. Mr. A X. Bell, TX Foncos, Boy.
A. M. Uspioni Kaş, J. &. Plummer, Boy.
Land Zawls, Roq. T. II. 1. this. IM.
2. Wiekin. Mag.
AMOY
MANOKON DATAVIA
DONDAY
DALOUTTA
J. P. Warren, Mas
Chief ManageET.
*. Desybura, Has
ANCHES:~~
LONDUR
LIGNA
MALAGOA
MANILA
MUAR (iskorni
11, DANTON
MUIDEY
NEW FOAL
COLOMBO
DAIRES
ODOO
ILTONG
KAMBURG HANKOW
BARDIN
FONDREW
ХРОВ
JUDORA
KORE
OWLOON
XUALA LUMPUR
TENANC PENANG
андон AAIDON
BAN FRAMOISON
ANDR PINGAPORE
BOUBABATA SUNGRI PATANI TIENTGIN
TOKYO
TRINOTAU
YOKOHAMA,
Durres Accounts opened la Leo Dary Fiel Dagosite received for ans your shorter periods in Loos! Carroney and kisel onberma which will be quoted on apglionilaa. Kong Lond. 19th Pahenary, 1893,
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
The Buds of the above Bank la venda H-
ed by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI WANKING CORPORATION,
abala in application.
Buted maybe
FOR THE LONGEDNG AND BHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Call Knoeg.
Many Kong, 18th July, 1906.
THE BANK OF CHINA. 行銀國中
Reorganised October 28, 1928, under
special charter of The National Gov- crument as at
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE
BANK,
Subscribed Capital'
Paid-Up Capital
Reserve Funds
$25,000,000,00
.$24,710,200.00
..$ 3,820,509.82
HEAD OFFICE: SHANGHAL
HONG KONG BRANCH:
4, Queen's Road Central
Owing to our numerous branches in Chios and large connections in the im portant commercial contres of the world, we are able to extend to ozr clients special facilities for domestle and foreign banking and exchanges.
We also handle the issus of Bonds and other Public Funds of the Chin ese Government both at homs abroad.
SHOU J. CHEN,
Hong Kong, 5th March, 1981.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1869.
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON,
Paid-up Capital Rosorve Fund
Reserve Liability of. Pro-
prietors
.::£3,000,000 .£4,000,000
..£3,000,000
Agencies and Branches:
ATOR HTAB
KUCHING
AMRITSA
HADRAS
MANILA
MEDAN
BANUXOR
BATAVIA
BOMBAY
DALOUTTA CANTOR DAWNPORE CESU COLOMBO DAIREN
IA:THỐNG
NEW YORK
PEPING (Peking) PENANŲ HANGOON MAIOON
REMABANG
SEREMBAN
SHANGHAI
SINGAPORE
HITIASAN
BOURADAYA
TAIPING
TIENT IN
DELHI
HAMBURG
HANKOW
RABEIN
HONG HONO
FOLLO
KARACHI
TOXTO
ELANG
KUALA KANGSLE
XCALA LUMPUR
Foreign
Exchange
Iron
KODE
TONOKAH (Dkukai! TRINGIAD YOKOHAMA ZAMBOANGA
and
General
Banking business transacted.
Current Accounts opened and Fix ed Deposits received for one year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on application.
Manager.
J. STUART,
Hong Kong, 17th August, 1931.
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL-
MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V.
INETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY)
BANSEHS.
Established 1994.
Many Kong Ofice :~11, Quana's Hood CentrAL.
Authorland Dapilař
Quilders 380,000,000- (210.000.1 Pald-Up Capital .............. Quiidae 0.090,
(25,269,170) Guildar 40,015.000 Besser Fund
(21,064,443)
Land -AMSTERDAM" Learn Head OP:-BATAVIA.
·KGANCHES -- Bandžarriazin, Bandong", Bombay,
Jalousie, Cheribos, Djember, Djok jakaria, The Hague', Jaddak, Moda, Kow Radja, Makasar, Medan, Padang Palming,
Pontianak,
Bewe
Takalongssterdam Bangos
Shaogual,
Bibelga (Gum) Bingapor Boursbal Bosakaria (Balot," Togai, Tyllajup azt Weltevreden,
** Tases ofoes have malu dapoală boses to lak. Lain Basker ---National Provincial Bank Li
Correspondants all over the world
Banking business of Svery darios trensarted.
A. STOKKINA,
Hong Kong, 18th Auguns, 1000,
THE
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY,
INC.
Head Office: 65, Broadway, New York
THE NO HONA 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 ...
4,000,000
Reserve Liabilities
of Shareholders.
Surplus
4,000,000
and
Commerce
Finance
2,087,000 HOSIERY FACTORY RUN BY WORKERS.
Branches, Agencies and Correspon- dents in the principal cition of the world.
Every description of Banking, and Exchange business transacted.
TAN ENG HOOL,
Manager.
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINI,
other women; and it was the com- munal house which had given thel founders their chief anxieties. But they all went into the business with good will, and a determination not Last year there were a number of | to quarrel, and to their own surprise reports about the taking over of they had found that it was not factories by the workers. What difficult to live together in unbroken generally happened was that the concord. owners of small and not too well
As regards the busincas end, they managed concerns, anding that they frankly depended on their power to were losing money monthly, offered compete with the factories run on their employees the alternative of ordinary profit-making lines. There either being out of a job or running were thirty-five workers altogether, the place themselves for a small
Home of them members of the rent. It is rather difficult to get founders' families, others employees any particulars of these. Not much on regular wages. But the foundors was to be hoped for and no great and their familles had been content success has been achieved. A con- so far with food, lodging, and bare cern rather different from the rest, requirements; the place was paying Cantho Mangtze Shanghai however, figured in the newvepapers its way, but had some debt to pay Canton Nam-Đinh Sing para as an assay in Communism-which, oft. Djibout Numos
of course, immediately attracted a Tiantain
HEAD OFFICE: $6, Boulevard Haussmann, Paris. Subscribed Capital Fra 12,000,000.00 Paid-Up Capital...Fra. 68,400,000.00 Reserve Funds ....Frs.102,000,000.00 BRANCHES: Bangkok Hong Kong Quinhen Battambang Hue
Fort-Bayard Papeets
Haiphong Hankow Mama!
Salzon
Teking
Tourans Phon-Panh Vinh Pondichery Yumpanfo BANKERS:
IN FRANCE: Comptoir National l'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnais; Banque de Paris et dos Pays-B Credit Industrial et Commercial; So-
ete Generals.
IN LONDON: The National Provin- na & Unies Bank of England, but,
omptoir National d'Escompta ars; Credit Lyonnais.
IN NEW YORK: J. P. Morgan
French American Banking Cor poration; Guaranty Trust Co. of New Cork
Interest allowed on Current Ae counts and Fixed Deposits according
o arrangements.
Every description of Banking and Exchange Business transacted. Safe Deposit Boxos to let.
A. BONNAUD,
Bong Kong, 1st May, 1981.
Manager.
THE NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK.
HEAD OFFICE: 55,, Wall Street, New York.
Capital, Surplus and
Undivided Profits..U.S.$228,087,802
Branches In>
ARGENTINE LONDON
BELGIUM
BRAZIL
CHILE
CHINA COLOMBIA
CUBA
DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC
INDIA
ITALY
JAPAN
MEXICO
|
Very little working capital was good deal of attention to it, and, in-needed. For the present they work- deed, rather embarrassed it in itsed for wholesalers who supplied the earliest days. It was called a fabric with their orders. This was |"Hosiery Guild," wrote the Kobe cut and made up into simple gar- correspondent of the Manchester ments, which the women machined dexterously, on their hard-driven Guardian.
little Singers. The bright-coloured | garments, the visitors were inform- ed, were mostly for the Indian and the white onca for the African market. Mon ironed out and in- spected the finished garments and impressed the wholesaler's trade- mark.
The "Hosiery Guild" is In Great er Osaka, which includes a number of villages, the recent municipalisa tion of which has encouraged the builders to encroach on the fields; but on two sides of the Guild yellow helds of faintly fragrant rape were in bloom. A wall enclosed a small
And yard at the entrance, and within the
how about dangerous yard facing the office stood a Shinto thoughts? The director laughed and shrine, ali neat and cared for, with said that their Inctory was certainly a vermilion toru like a seven-foot communistle in so far as they had; gateway before it. There was all things in common, and no more evidently no regular clerical staff, for one than for another. But it; but a man in working-clothes camo had not been difficult to persunde into the little office and received the police that the essentials of the with polite interest the announce venture were working for the com ment that we were interested in the mon good and meeting hard times venture. It was a simple matter, by sincere co-operation. Of the he said. The slump had bit the original ten directors two had got hosiery trade badly, and the scared by the suggestion at the out- founders of this business were ten set that there was something Rus- practical men who got together for sian about the scheme, but the other À venture in rationalisation. Some eight had managed to carry on had little money,
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dome had without them. For the present, as sewing-machines, and some were the vialtors had seen, they depended! making up in service for their lack a good deal on the wholesaler; but of initial capital. Though business it was their ambition, when they was bad, they thought that if they were financially independent, to buy all worked together, with no share their own materials and do theirs holders to phy and ne bom anxious own trading, and
thie with
PANAMA PERU PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PORTO RICO STRAITS
to
get rich quick, they would in view they had refrain- be able to make a job of it.ed from tying themselves up
contracts. SETTLEMENTS They had enough between them to with any
They had It Was persuade the bank and the builder got plenty of orders. URUGUAY VANEZUELA to do the needful. The factory is a easy to see that, so far as light, air,
long clapboard shed, with the little and space are concerned, not to: Commercial and Travellers' Lettera offee partitioned off in one corner. speak of cleanliness, the workpeople of Credit, Travellers' Cheques, Bills of Exchange and Cable Transfers it is well lighted and ventilated are better off than the law requires. .U.S.20,000,000 bought and old. Current accounts almost too well to be kept warm by ‚U.8.$1,572,454 and Savings Bank accounts opened the couple of stoves in the Winter. .U.S.$1,008,209 and Fixed Deposits in local and for Across the shed run long tables, at rates that four sewing-machines on each side, eign currencies taken may
be ascertained on application to the Bank.
und a shaft running along the floor We are also able to offer our Co. below each table, an electric motor tomers the services of the Branches to each. The floor is smooth and of the International Banking Corpora: clean, and one took off one's shoes tion in San Francisco and Spain and
Capita! Surplus Reserves
and
BRANCHES:---
Manager,
Amsterdam Antwerp Athear
Back
Beriba
THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD. Established. 1912.
Bombay
Bremen
Brussel Buenos Aire Cairo
Osbo Glasgow Harass Hamburg Harr Iniselakan Jurussiaco Lido Londco
NL Naples Pionee Parla fenang Taking Patarima
Balousie
Liverpool Loc Lugase
Botterdam Home Harbou
Shanghai dowshamp
Singapore
Xa. Moris
Trentain
Head Office: Hong Kong.
Authorized Capital (H.X. Gerrenny) $11,000,000 CALLIN Pull-Up Depřál saamisemma Bestra Fund 1,100,000
BRANOKIA -
Casion, Shaoghal, Hankew, Bustow, Bangkok, New York and Son Frandase.
DORRESPONDENTU
LONDON BANKENO 1—
The Lloyd's Bank, Limited.
Le all principal diles of the Worië
Yocela azago and banking bustness of weery Lesartytics scatsnoted.
Sala Deposit Boss (various alma) så x zoorly
ecial of from 5 to $40.
LOOK POONG SHAN,
Chief Manager.
Constantinople Gopaskagan Edinburgh Florence
Lajor
Macmilla Monte Carlo
Manila
Hostel
Matress
Müan of
Viapa Forlo Yokohama Berish
Света
Branches
American Express Company in Principal cftlen of Unit- ed States of America and Canada.
All classes of Commercial Banklog Transactions undertaken,
Personel investment accounts handled
The Company offers to intending Travellers the ass of its "Travelers THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, Cheques" and Letters of Credit and,
LIMITED.
Established 1880.
Capital (fully paid-up) Yon 100,000,000 Reserve Fund ...... ..Yen 110,200,000
Head Office:--YOKOHAMA.
Branches and Agénelem at:
Alexandria
Eztavis
Dertin
Sombay
Calcutta
Chengchun
Dairen (Dainy)
Nagasaki
Nagoya Nawchwang
In addition, the world-wide services of its thoroughly equipped, Travel De partment
Affiliated with
THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK Resources ..Over G$2,500,000,000
E. W. DUGGAN,
Manager.
New York Osaka Paris
THE BANK
Peiping Rangoon
Prengtien (Makden) Rio de Janeiro
Hambara
Hankerw
Harb
STONE KORK Kong Honolulu
Kat Ysen Karachi
Habe
London
Los Angeles Manila
San Francisco Seattle ***Semarang
Ald
Singapore
· Boerabaya
Sydney Tientala Tokyo Tsingtan
Interest allowed on. Current Ac- aunts,
Depoalta received for fixed periods at zatos to be obtained on application.
H. MORI
Manager.
Hong Kong, 11th September, 1911.
also of The National City Bank of before entering. New York (France), SA, in Paris and Nice.
F. McD, COURTNEY,
Manager Hong Kong, June 16, 1981.
THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD.
(TAIWAN GINKO.)
HEAD OFFICE:-Taipeh, Formosa.
Incorporated by Special Imperial Charter, 1893.
Bank-Notes asund Average amount Tax. 44,000,000
Parallel with this are the living quarters, in two storeys, divided into two-room tenements, with the usual thick Japanese mats. There kitchen and dining- room, also a Japanese bathhonge, with a bath for men and one for
s a common
women.
They all work hard, the director said, about eight and a half actual working hours a day-but that is well within the statutory limit.
NEWFOUNDLAND'S FINANCES.
British Expert to Advise.
Sir Richard Squires, Prime Min- ister of Newfoundland, made an The Communal House.
official announcement in London It was one of the directors who when he was there recently that had received the visitors, whom he Sir Percy Thompson, Deputy Chair- took into his quarters. Each family man of the Board of Inland) had the same, he explained—a six- Revenue, had been selected for col- mat and four-and-a-half-mat room laboration, consultation, and advice (that is, twelve square yards and with the Newfoundland Government PODMORA Uras, Kap Karenko, Kalung nine square yards respectively), and in connection with its fiscal pro-
Ako Nanto, Shinahlku, Talak, Tainan, verandah and entrance porch. He gramme covering the Dominion's! Takao, Taxes, Tosa, Halic, Tatto OHINA:-Shanghal," Banks, Amey, Focoke, was quite frank about their appre- revenue and expenditure and public')
Swalow, Canson.
hensions as well as their aims. In debt. Sir Richard had been in con- spite of their gentleness, Japanese ference with the Dominion Office Women are much like other women and the Treasury.
Centesi Bank in Farmona,
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES: JAPAN:-Tokyo, Yokohama, Kebe, Ovaka
OTHERS-Lines Easy, Bingspors, Borshay,
Beleria Bernging
Bombay. Balogla London, New York, Dairen
LONDON BANKERS,
The London County Westminster and Parr's Bank. The Bank Las Correspondents in all the prince
Comercial Centew throughout the world.
Z MAGURA
BONG KONG BRANOM:
Des Faux Boad Central. Hong Kong, 19th January, 1986.
Manager.
OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
Established 1918.
HEAD OFFICE:
10, Des Voeur Road, Central HONG KONG.
Capital and Surplus Total Resources
when it comes to sharing kitchens, Sir Richard also stated that Mr. and living in close contact with Robert J. Magor, a well known busi-
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LTD.
HEAD OFFICE.
15, Orosokuroh Birosi, Landon, ECA Authorised Capital ....£3,000,000 Subscribed Capital 1,800,000 Paid-up Capital.... 1,050,000 Reserve Fund and Rest 1,600,845 DANKEES,
The Bank of England à Midland Bank, Ind, +
BRANCHEI↑ Bangkok
Ipoh
Bateria
Bombay
Karin)
over HS 8,000,000.00 over H.$30,000,000.00
Deloutis
Kota Bharu
Dotos.be Delki Clažja
Kuala Krai
Koala Lipis
Kuals Txipar
Hoai Boo Howrah
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted..
Current and Fixed Deposit Accounts in local and for- eign currencies opened for ellents.
Savings Account and Safe Deposit Boxes, Branches and Agencies all over the world.
KAN TONG PO,
New York
Port Louis
{M) Kangoo Hingha!
Kuantan (Pahang) 'Bingapore Madina
HONG KONG BRANCH,
Every dortyuion of Backing and Exchange b
pass tersaucted.
Travellers Cunguni kivonë.....
Trustee and Executorships under taken.
INTEREST allowed on. Curret &" Ancontre · spē Fixed Depozita al Estes that may be sepertained an application.
C. L. SANDES,
Chief Manager.
19. Queen's Boud Canten).
Hong Kong 19 April,
Manager.
11038 oxecutive of Montreal, and been selected to associate himself! with the Newfoundland Government for the purpose of consultation and advice regarding the reorganisation of the public services of Newfound- land, as represented by the Now- foundland rallway, steamships, dry "dock, telegraphs and telephones.
BEER TO RAISE REVENUE,
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Both congressmen and, senators | of New Jersey will be Included in the invitation,-United Press.
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NEEDS WATCHING!.
Under the weight of serious responsibilities,
he forgets
{
. yet in business a good per- sonal appearance is an asset.
Your job is to
make it an asset by
having his clothes re- gularly cleaned and
pressed at our valeteria shops.
THE STEAM LAUNDRY CÓ.
Sanitary Laundrymen, Dryers and Dry Cleaners. HEAD OFFICE & WORKS: Mongkok. Tel. 57082. KOWLOON HOTEL DEPOT. Tel. 68808. HONG KONG DEPOT: 40, Queen's Rond, Central, PEAK HOTEL DEPOT.
PENINSULA HOTEL (Visitors only).
HONG KONG HOTEL (Visitors only). 73, WYNDHAM STREET.
SPECIAL VALETERIA SERVICE.
No. 2, PENINSULA HOTEL ARCADE, Tel. 58031.
Tel. 21270.
No. 384, Nathan Road (Next to Majestle Theatre), Tel. 58000. No. 69, Queen's Road, Central. Tel 21270.
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