BANKS
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
Ástkærized Capital --****
Invuol and Fully Pull-up --- $90,000,000 Boro Fukis ¡---
Werlag... a 1,100,000 BŪTI . (10,000.244
Reserva LƐally at Propelshort 2.0 XM,099,51
HEAD WITION: HONG KONG.
DOARD OF DIRECTORS 1- Hon. Mr. d. 0. 1. Markle, Chaleman
Hon. Mr. J, I. Painesos,
pop Chairman.
HEAR ME, M, K. Bell, T. Tara Big
1. Z. Campion. Try. J. A. Platszer, Hoge
1 Lander Lewis, Keg, T. H. D. Skaw, Hip.
05. Mukia, Mi
AMOT
BANGKO BATAVIA
BONJAY
CALOUTTA CANTON
MARPOO
EXLOM NO
DAIREN
CHONG ANBORO
WONGKIW
LLOILO
iron
JOHO
KOWLOON
JP, Warren, Beg.
Okist Manag
\. Oraghata, Bad-
ANCHES:
XUALA LUMPUR
такро
LYONE
MALACCA
TAXURE
MANILA
MUAB (Jshers)
MORDEN
NEW YORK
PEIPINO
PENANG
BAN FRANGIGA
BANDOON
HAIGON
HELANGUA
SINGAPUNK
BOTIBAHAYA
SUNGZI TATAHI
TIENTUIN
TOXTO
THINGTAO
YOKOHAMA
Current Amovals opened in Local Oure sad Fixat spode recalved for one you shorter periods in Look Current and abeling term which will be quoted in applźonitem.” Eng Long, baik Pebrewry,,tual.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK,
The Business of the above Bank is valam
ed by the HONG KONG AND BHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
shinized on application.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853.
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON.
Paid-up Capital
Reserve Fund
..£3,000,000 ...£4,000,000
Easorve Liability of Pro-
prietors
...28,000,000
Agencies and Branches:
RUONING
MADHAB
ALOB BIAN
ANKITSAL BANGKUK BATAVIA BOMBAY CALOUTTA CANTON CAWNPORE
טמעט
HONG ON
ILOILO
ΣΤΗΣ
KARACHI
KLANO
MANILA
MEDAN
NEW YORK
PRVING (Peking) PENANG RANGOON
TAIPING
TOKYO
THE HO HONG BANK, LTD.
(Established 1917.)
HEAD OFFICE:--SINGAPORE. Hong Kong Branch: 13, Queen's Ed. C.
Authorised Capital Straits $20,000,000 Issued Capital
Paid-up Capital
Reserve Liabilities
of Stareholders. Surplus
"
8,000,000
4,000,000
4,000,000
THE
CHINA MAIL.
Commerce
Finance
and
2,687,000 THE STRENGTH OF but in the usual case this is great-
Branches, Àreacles and Correspon- dents in the principal cities of the world.
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted.
TAN ENG HOOL
Manager.
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.
HEAD OFFICE: .96, Boulevard Haussmann, Paris.
BRANCHES:
Hong Kong Quinhon
Saigon
BOLONTO
DAIREN
SAIGON
DXLJI
HEMABANO
KALPHONG
ЧЕНЕМВАХ
HAMBUDA
KHANUHA1
HANKOW
BINGAPORE
HARIN
SITIAWAN
BOUBABAYA
TIENTBIN
Bangkok
TONOXAH (Bhukah)
THING1 AO
ТОКОНАМА
Cantho
Battambang Ilve
ZAMBOANGA
Canton
Mengire
Nam-Dinh
Djibouti
Numca
Fort-Bayard
Pepeate
Haiphong
Peking Tourano
Hankow Hanoi
Phom-Ponh Vinh
Pondichery Yunnanfo BANKERS:
KONE
KUALA ZANDRAN
KUALA LUMPUR Foreign
Exchange 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.
J. STUART,
Hong Kong, 17th August, 1931.
Manager.
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL- MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V.
(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY)
BANBAB.
Established 1894.
Hong Kong D:-11, Queen's Bond Canal
Rules may b
Authorised Capital
Pull-Up Capital
Boys Fond
www
FOR THE HONOKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
V. M. GRAYBURN, -
Chief Manager.
How Kuar. 19th July, 1990.
THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD.
Established 1912.
Head Offee-Hong Kong. Astberland Capital (E.. Ouracey) $11,000,000 Palk-Up Capital ....LATE
BRANCHES 1-
1,100,000
Oston, Sangkal, Baker, faster, Bangkok, New York and San Fraciare.
WHAREEFONDENTS
LONDON BANKERS—
The Lloyd's Bank, Limited,
In all principal oilies of the World.
Forsig
songs snd banking bastos
cription tramoled.
afe Deports Boxes & various sinus) at a yearly
ennial of from 5 to 10.
LOOK POONG SHAN,
Guliders 160,000,000
(£13,830,009.)
Guilders 80,008,009
(4.588.278) Gildare 40,618.308 (,,UX
Good Ofori-AMSTERDAM* Eastern Hand OBATAVIA. BRANOKES 1- Bandformasin, Blandong", Fombas. Calcula, Cheribon, Dambe, Dot jakarta, The Elague", Juddah, Lobs, Kota-Badje, Makamar, Medan, Padang Pekalongan Penang. Falembang, Poatiaba Bangoon Rotterdam, Samarang, Bhengual, Bubolgh (Humaira), Blagapor Bourabal Boerakarta (Solo), Tugni, Tjilajup and Weiseredex.
• Those choo kara safe deposit boxes to let. London Banker Hational Provincial Bank LAL Correspondania all over the world Banking business of every éription transanlað.
▲ HTOKKINK
Hong Kong, 18th, Augus), 1900.
THE
Manager.
Chief Manager. AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY,
THE BANK OF CHINA. 行銀國中
Reorganised October 20, 1928, under
special charter of The National Gov.
ernment a
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE
Subscribed Capital...$25,000,000.00
INC.
Head Office: 65, Broadway. New York.
Capital
Surplus
Reserves
.U.9.80,000,000 U.S.$1,572,454 .U.9.$1,908,200
Shanghai Singapora Thanks
Tiontain
TIMBER PILING.
Use for Foundation Work.
work
ly in excess of values which prac tical judgment would permit. The development of frictional resist- ance in a given soil is subject to many factors about which little or nothing is known, and it depends alad upon spacing between the piles when in groups.
of
It certainly seems, as a result of lengthy research work, that principally a pile behaviour is
of the characteristics matter the soll into which the piles are driven, and is largely independent of the plle itself.
CALL A SILVER CONFERENCE!
It is impossible to say when the use of pile foundation for heavy Yet, buildings was commenced.
of Im- although the practice is
nre few mense antiquity, there
little subjects about which so Subscribed Capital Fra. 72,000,000.00 Paid-Up Capital...Frs. 68,400,000.00 scientific knowledge, exists, in spite Roserve Funds ....Fru.102,000,000.00 of its great importance in the en- gineering world. Many engineera realise thoroughly the high struc- tural efficiency and economy of timber piles, and yet specify piles. uf other materials, mérely because they have no exact knowledge of the behaviour of timber
The world is suffering from de- under various conditions. Pos-pressed trade. jaibly the failure of a part of It is no use comforting ourselves IN FRANCE: Comptoir National Waterloo Bridge, built on timber by pointing out that other nations
for some reason ¡foundations
are as badly off as we are. Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnais; Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas other, has something to do with does not help us,
million We have nearly three Credit Industriel et Commercial; So this. Sete Generale,
If No, all that can be said is unemployed. The number is grow- IN LONDON: The National Provia- 2211 & Union Bank of England, Ltd; that circumstances alter cases, and ing. What can we do about it? Comptoir National d'Escompte de that, in practically every instance, usks Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen.
timber piles, even when complete- The world is divided from PA; Credit Lyonnais.
IN NEW YORK: J. P. Morgan & Co., French American Banking Cory submerged, are extraordinarily money point of view into two parts, The western nations-who have poration; Guaranty Trust Co. of New durable. It is known fact that York.
under such conditions wood de gold as their standard of value- teriorates extremely slowly, and its and who comprise about two-fifths Interest allowed on Current Ac-strength does not become impair of the world's population.
The eastorn and some Central counts and Fixed Deposits according ed for hundreds of years. In the 10 arrangements.
West Country some of the timber American nations-who have silver Every description of Banking and foundations of bridges built in the as their standard of value-and Exchange Business transacted.
late thirteenth and fourteenth cen-who total about three-fifths of the turies are as good and sound to-world's population.
first put Manager. day as when they were
down.
Safe Deposit Boxes to let..
A. BONNAUD,
Hong Kong, 1st May, 1981
THE NATIONAL CITY BANK
OF NEW YORK.
HEAD OFFICE: 56, Wall Street, New York,
Capital, Surplus and
Undivided Frofits ..U.S.4226,037,892
Branches in
ARGENTINE BELGIUM BRAZIL
CHILE CHINA
OLOMBIA
CUBA DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC
INDIA ITALY
JAPAN
LONDON
MEXICO
PANAMA PERU PHILIPPINE
ISLANDS
Essential Data.
or
That
1
We and other western nations have by our own short-sighted policy allowed silver to fall to such a price that the eastern nations can no longer buy from us.
#
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1931.
THE STANDARD OF THE BUSINESS WORLD.
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The Crowning Achievement of the Typewriter
Leader of the World.
The five keys are just above the numeral keys, where they are easi- est and quickest to reach. Carri- age speed in tabulating is govern- ed by an automatic brake.
THE NEW UNDERWOOD. STANDARD TYPEWRITER, MODEL No. 6.
Sole Agents--
Shiders
DODWELL
Queen's Bldg.
& CO., LTD.
Tel. 28021.
AC-
In other words, by our own tions we have lost three-fifths of our customers,
Very little appears to have been written regarding timber piling, and engineers do not seem to be jagreed as to sizes, depth of driv- ing, and load. There are many
What happens to # shopkeeper jabuses as a result of this lack of
knowledge, euch. as proceeding who suddenly loses three-fifths of with the work without suitable his buyera?
He is on the road to bankruptcy.stockholders being no longer at the data on which to base the neces-
Precisely the same thing is true addressed. sity for piles, determination of the length required, use of improper of the western nations.
Unless they do something quick equipment, under-driving, or what
their eastern the same
is perhaps worse, over-driving of ly to get back pilea. Mr. J. F. Seller, who is, customers, they are on perhaps, one of the greatest living road. SETTLEMENTS authorities on structural timber URUGUAY
PORTO RICO
STRAITS
VENEZUELA
N
this
Only 1,200 of these letters could be reposted to fresh addresses, and the Bunk learned for the first time that hundreds of stockholders were dead and their representatives un-
Silver sells now at around 130. known. work, tells us that one of the most per ounce. serious of these abuses is the as- Let the western nations call signing of arbitrary load capacities conference now to deal with Commercial and Travellers' Letters to piles, irrespective of conditions silver question, and raise the of Credit, Travellers Cheques, Bill of soil, manner of driving or post-price to 256, an ounce.
bought and sold. Current accounta
of Exchange and Cable Transferation of piles, or their arrangement It can be done in many ways,
and Savings Bank accounts opened in groups.
and
Fixed Deposits in local and for- eign currencies taken at rates that
Pile capacities have been deter-
formula of
some of which are quite simple.
The price of silver is at the root
may be secertained on application to mined for many years past by of the world depression.
based
mcans
on
Why not let Great Britain take
We are also able to offer our Cas-dynamic factors of the energy de- the lead in correcting the ev!!? .tomers the services of the Branches livered by a hammer blow in con-
of the International Banking Corpora
BRANCHES:-
BANK.
Angtaidam
Gents
Antwerp
Athens
Paid-Up Capital
.124,710,200.00
Tiesla
Berlin
Heserve Funda
.$ 5,820,503.32
Biarrit
Bombay
Dremen
Glave you
STHER Hamborg Harre Intariskan Jerusalem Lido
Kios Napias Pirie
the Bank.
Jaria
Feking
l'alarino
HEAD OFFICE: SHANGHAL
kunala
London
Soda Home
No Ar
Liverpool
Galra
Lusarse
HONG KONG BRANCH:
Below
Casua
4. Queen's Road Central
Owing to our numerous branches in China and large connections in the im portant commercial centres of the
Oolombe
Constantinopla Copenhagen Edleburg Foru Фадета
Brancher
Lugado
IALT Marais
Madiis
Bambool Shanghai southampto Singapore
Tientsin
H. Morita
Maule Carlo
You chara
Munich
Montrea Milan
Vienna Venlos
Zurich
ed States of America and Canada.
of American Express world, we are able to extend to cur Company in Principal cities of Unit clients special facilities for domestic and foreign banking and exchanges.
We also handle the issue of Bonds and other Public Funds of the Chiu- *se Government both at home and abroad.
SHOU J. CHEN,
Hong Kong, 5th March, 1981.
All classes of Commercial Banking Transactions undertaken.
Persone}
Manager.
handled.
investmeat
accounts
The Company offers to intending Travellers the use of ita "Travelers THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, Cheques" and Letters of Credit and,
LIMITED.
Eatablished 1890.
In addition, the world-wide services
of its thoroughly equipped Trayal De partment.
Affiliated with
Capital (fully paid-up) Yen 100,000,000 THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK Reserve Fund.....Yen 116,200,000
Resources ..Over G$2,500,000,000
Head Office:~~~YOKOHAMA,
Branches and Agencies at:
Alexandria
Nagasaki
Nagoya Newchwang
New York
Osaka
Paris
Batavia
Berlin
Bombay
Calcutta
Canton Changchun
Dairen (Dalny)
Polping
Rangoon
Fengtien (Mukden) Rio de Janeiro
Hamburg
Hankow
Harbin
KODE
A Yoan
KAI
Karachi
Eoba
London?
Los Angeles
Manila
San Francisco
Beattle
Shimonoveld Sourabaya
Singapore
Sydney
Tientsin
Tokyo Tain tau Interest allowed on Current As- counts,
Deposits received for fixed periods at rates, to be obtained on application.
IL MORI
Manager.
Hong Kong, liik September, 1921.
THE
tion in San Francisco and Spain and nection with penetrations under- also of The National City Bank of gone by a pile due to such blows, Now York (France), S.A. in Paris In certain cases these formulac and Nice.
F. McD. COURTNEY,
Manager. Hong Kong, June 16, 1981.
(TAIWAN GINKO.)
FORTUNES LEFT LYING IDLE
STANDARD TIMES.
Sunrise and Sunset in Colony.
Sunrise and Sunset in Hong £187,593 Holdings.
Kony for October, 1931, Stan- Unclaimed funds were credited dard time of the 120th Meridian to 10.300 accounts, which included East of Greenwich) over forty holdings of more than lowe £10,000 each. The holdings of one individual in Consols and “Reduced October Threes" amounted to no less than £187,593
Some holders of Government stocks go abroad and are never heard of again. Others move from one place to another and fail to notify the Bank, or, apparently, anybody else, with the result that the dividends cannot be sent to them, but go on accumulating.
Many persons also, through 11- nese or old age, forget that they Government stock, and there are hundreds of people who die and leave no record of their holdings.
There is talk of a Conversion possC96 Loan. When these great financial change-overs occur it is found that many stockholders have seemingly vanished.
have been found to give conserva- tive results for individual piles, but more often it has been found that actual loading tests give re- sults completely at variance with THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD. these formulae, especially for piles ¡in groups. Mr. Seiler points out that the practice of assigning do- sign loads of 20 tons for timber piles and of 30 to 35 tons for con- crete piles is one which cannot be justified on the basis of compara-
Among the mass of owners of tive loading teats, because no auch tests covering any proper scope of Three Per Cents, representing the total of £555,000,000, many could the subject exist.
'HEAD OFFICE:-Talpeb, Formosa.
Incorporated by Special Imperial Charter, 1899.
Queer facts came to light during the operation of a great conversion and redemption scheme of Viscount
Goschen's.
Unclaimed Dividends. As a consequence dividends un- claimed annually are understood to average more than £500,000.
These are automatically trans- forred by the Bank of England to the National Debt Commissioners if unclaimed for five years,
Content Bank in Formoes.. Bank-Notee leted &verage amount. 4,000,000 BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:
So long ago as 1909, the latest JAPAN:-Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, Usika, FORMOSA 1-Uran,
Karenko,
The contention that a heavy con-not be found.
Out of 68,000 letters posted by date for which official figures are Sakong, Nanto, Bhinchiku, Tucku, Talinas, erete plle penetrates less than a Takan. Tatosul. Tosa, alio, No. OHINA-Bhanghai, Hankow, Amby, Woodkow, timber plle under a given amount the Bank of England notifying the available, the accumulated unclaim-
Bestow, Castor OTHER: Kong, agaporn. Boersbars, of energy delivered, and therefore conversion of stock 'no fewer than ed
London, New York, Dairan.
LONDON BANKEES 1
dividend
aggregated over persona
Betzarang Batavia, Bomber. Delia affords a correspondingly greater 12,700 were returned through the £5,000,000. Over 20,000
load capacity, is one that cannot Dead Letter Office, owing to the were entitled to large sums. The London County Westminster and Pary's Bask be maintained. Obviously, it does
The Bank has Correpondanta, in all the principal not take into account the fact that Commaral Gastene throughost the world.
I. MAGURA.
Manager.
EW. DUGGAN,
Manager.
HONG KONG BEANCH;
B., Des Var Bond Central, Bong Long 10th January, 1990
the heavier pile much absorb a large proportion of the kinetic energy of the hammer blow before jany useful work of actual penetra-
tion can be effected.
Timber and Concrete. Comparisons of capacity may
BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD. justifiably be based, according to
Established 1918.
HEAD OFFICE:
10, Des Voeux Road, Central. HONG KONG.
Capital and Surplus Total Resources
over FL. 8,000,000.00 over K.$30,000,000.00 Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted.
Current and Fixed Deposit Accounts in local and for- eign currencies opened for clients.
Savings Account and Safe Deposit Boxes. Branches and Agencies all over the world.
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager.
our authority, on cross-sectional strength or area of surface, but not necessarily on dynamic factors involved in the driving of various types of piles. In this connection It is to be noted that timber in- compression is more than twice as strong as concrete.
Bat oven these considerations do not afford anything but the most. general approach to the problem, because all conditions, may or may not develop the crosa- sectional strength of a pile; in skin friction on its surfaco,
It appears that cross-sectional strength does measure the ultim ste land which a pile can sustain,
"Hell-Fire Jack" Visits Canada
Visiting Canada for the purpose
of officiating at the opening
of the Canadian National Exhibi- tion and presiding over the 5th biennial conference of the British Empire Servies Lengue, Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe, herp of Jat- land, former Governor-General of: New Zealand and friend of ex-ser- vice man the world over, arrived at Quebec on Saturday, August 22nd, l'on board the Canadian Pacific Unor "Duchess of York." The accom- panying picture shows the famous,
British saflor on the ship's flying a 19-gun salute and a guard of bridge, 'as he took the sale of honor of Canadian infantry snap- two warships in Quebec harbor, pod through the motions of "pre- which "dressed ship" and cheered sent arms," as he set foot on the their former chief to the echo. Dominion's soll. Hia, Canadian Thus, at Canada's great gateway, visit, punetusted by a number of "Hell-fire Jack" found the plaudita public appearances, is being fol of his own beloved navy added to lowed with the greatest attention, those of the public of Canada, both by veterans and by the peo- while a shore battery boomed out, ple as a whole.
аго As fol-
Sunrise Bunset
n.m.
p.m.
10
6.17 6.03
11
6.17 6.02
12
6.18 6,02
13
14
15
6.19 0.01
6.19 6.00
6.19 5.69
16
6.20 5.58
17
18
6.20 6.21
19
5.57
6:56
6.21 5.65
20
6.21 G.56
21
22
23
24
0.22 5,64
6,22 5.59
6,22 5,53
6.28 5.52
25
6.24 5.51
26
€.25
5.51
27
6.26
6.50
28
6.25 6.49
ALERT & 2 2 * ****
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
The following unclaimed tele grams are lying at the E.E. Telo- graph Co. Ofes, Hong Kong:-
Ficharris, from London. Pretribo, from Shanghai.
9. LACK,
Manager. Hong Kong, October 8, 1981.
The following unclaimed telo- grams are lying at the office, of the Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited) of Don. mark-m
Robo, from Shanghai. Boardpaper, from Oslo. Metaltrate,' from Yokohama,
I. EFFERSOE, Actg. Superintendent.
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