BANKS
"HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
Amphorised Capital
.$50,000,000 Luned and Fally-Paid-up 20,000,000
Esserve Funda:-.
Sterling ......£4,500,000
Hong Kong Currency
Reserve
....$10,000,000
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA
Lacorporated by Royal Charter, 1953. HEAD OFFICE: LONDON
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1936
Commerce and Finance
SHARE MARKET
Paid-up Capital
Reserve Find
Reserve Liability of Pro-
..$20,000,000
*prietors
£3,000,000 $,000,000
$3,000,000
· TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS
Agencies and Branches:
Alor Star
Rangoon
AFDELING
Bangkok
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson.
Chairmen
G. Miskin Esq,
Dupasty Co
Batavia
متحلل
لوادي
Camarong
therapis Shangha
Bala Lumpur Singapor
Kuching
Enok
Kanchi
Xiang
Hombay
Xobe
Calata Canton
Sitiawan
Capore
Бокольга
Taping
Medan
Tongka
Ниркино Hamburg Harbu
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(Pacing)
Tangian
Yokonana
Zaming
Hon. Mr. WF. Bell, J.R. Masson Esq, Dabs AE Compton Esq. T. E. Pearce Esq. How Mr. S. H. Dodwell,
Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson,
AMOI
J. & Plummer EG-Hanko
A. L. Shields Esq. So V. M. Grazbura, Esq.,
UZTA
POOCHOW
KAIPHONG
BANDOW
HARATY
FOXOLIW
ВОДА
{PUEL
JOBOT
KOBE
KOWLOON
Chest Maungat.
BRANCHES
ТАТА СМРСА
LONDON
LIUNG
MALACCA
MANIDA
MUAB (Jokers)
MUALDEAN
NEW TURI
PELPING
PESAND
RASUOON
DALGON
SAN FRANCISCO
DHANUKAI
SANGATURE
NUCHABAYA
SUME PATANI
TIENTSIN
ZOEYO
TMNOTLO
YOKOHAMA
Operand Lassante epsost in Lami Currency: and Bhind Daytocin contend for our your de cho
panada in Lovsi Cuervocy and backing as be SAFT DEUS BOLICH in
A will be quoted as application.
ALBO 13 14 Kalbos em 23 LAVT.
عليسون
Farsign Exchange und General Banking bust, (transacted.
Current Accounts opened and Fixed Deposita (revaved 10w on your or shorter perioda at ruler (which will be quoted an application.
The Bank's Time Offor in London undertakes Exseabor Bad Trustee business, and clasina motery al British Escoma Tax yourpaid, on serena which may be ascertained at ang of co } Agracias and · · Branches.
A. BEBARLEY,
Manager. Hong Kong, 1st January, 1935.
THE CHINA & SOUTH SEA BANK,
LIMITED
(Incorporated in China) Head Office---Shanghai
Capital Reserve
-$7,500,000,00 -~-$1,500,100.00
Branches-All Important Cities in
Ching
Page Exchange and Chemeral Banking Business
tesoracial.
Hong Kong, 24th February, 1936. Daived 2 one year or whocker ponede
Derous and Barság Aarvaste opsoně ani žižeć
at in which will be quoted on applican DOW Z OFFING.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK
Dhe Drusions of the shore Bank is condu
by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI MANING CORPORATION. Bales y be alized as ADPLOSSINI.
FOR THE HUNG KONG AND BRANGKAI “BANKING CORPORAVICM,
V. K. GRAIBURN.
Chiat Masagst
Hong Kong, 24th February, 1936.
"THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
Authorionl Capita“ para
- CENI
Bakers and Undivaded Prodi
HONG KONG BRANCH: 26 Due Toma Bosd, Central
Managw's Office we
Fangn Exchange Depa man
General Offer
Cashier's 06ce.
Manager.
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21300
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THE WING ON BANK, LTD.
Head Office: Hong Kong
26, Des Voeux Road Central. Authorised Capital $10,000,000
LONDON BANKERS :-- Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and evay das- Cripton of banking business tranzact
$10,000,000.00 5,52,000.00 1,006,306.52
.
HEAD OFFICE:-BONG ZOSO.
Faux Bood, Castral.
·
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1-ma Hon. Si Shou-son Chow, Chairman. A Loan Chuo, EP. E. Em, E, Wong Iva Tang, Znj., Chan Ching tibok, Engry I Insta Hong Ko- Fosg Chu do," Eny, and "I'm Xing
In Tong Po, Eng, Chint Maangat..
A Two Foog, Engu Masagot.
J
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-
Stacula
Malbourne
سلمين
taurabaya
LADY
beallis bernarung zhanghai
Osie Censo Haiphong
Sew York
Sagapor
Input
Penang
Labe
Kangoo
Marta Latina
Kwiec Losion
Daugia
Sea Fencin
Every crption Bandana Waamcima.
bwalow sydney
okyo
of Bankng sod Exchange Los grated on approved
ALTERE Avouris Оредний Да блюсв! Сместу sand Fixed Deponize conved_for_can___ poncor} shorter - penoda in Lomi and Foreign Comunales { an betona, which will be quoted on application...
Gala Deposit Boxes To Lover
FAN TONG FO
Call Manager.
Current Accounts and Savings Ac counts opened.
Fixed Deposits ze- ceived at rates which will be quoted on application.
Trusteeship & Executorship under- taken. Safe Deposit Bazos for hire.
PHILIP GOCK CHIN
Chief Manager.
UNEMPLOYMENT
IN GERMANY
Further Substantial Decrease
“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Berlin, To-day..
The number of unemployed in Germany underwent 3 further substantial decrease during the month of June. The official figures issued by the Reich Institute for Statistical Research showed that
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK the total figure of unemployed is
LIMITED
Established 1880
Capital (full paid-up) Yen,100,000,000 Reserve Fond ... Yen 129,150,000
Head Office: YOKOHAMA
Branches and Agencies at
Moji Alexandría Bangkok
Naguazki Nagoya
Batavia
Baclin
Bombay
Calcutta
Canton
Daizen (Dairy)
New York Oxaka
Peiping 2272000
SKO
Francisco
Fangtien (Mukden) Rio de Janeiro
Hambur
H
Iwa.com
Harbin
Hong Kong
Honolulu Hainking
Karachi
Kobe
Los
Angeles
Mania
Seattle Semarang
Shanghai
Singapore
Sourabaya Sydney Tientsin Tokyo
Tringtau Yingkow Interest allowed for. Current As Comta.
Deposits received for fixed periods st rates to be obtained on applica- tion.
G. KISHINAMI,
Hong Kong, 3rd July, 1936.
THE
Manager.
SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS BANK LIMITED
(Incorpoented in China)....
Capital paid up.........$5,000,000. Reserves
..$7,500,000. Capital Savings Dept. $500,000, Reserve Savings Dept. $800,000,
Read-Office-Shanghai th
A. Bank having as its mission the industrial development" on China and the fostering of her commercial relations abroad. Hong Kong Ofic
6, Queett's Brad Central Phone-21116.
now 1,315,000, as against 1,823,000
in June 1935.-Trans-Ocean Ser- vice.
· DOUBLE TRAGEDY
David Stables, a roadman, and his wife were found with throat wounds at Keith, Banffshire, last month, and died in a few minutes.
The following was the list. of Jocal share quotations issued to-day-
Banks
HK. Bank $1,575 b.
HK Bank (London) £101 a
Chartered Bank $14% n.
NEW YORK SHARE MARKET
Utilities Should Be Held
REDUCTION OF OTHER HOLDINGS
Messrs. White, Weld and Com
Mercantile Bank · A. and · B|pany, New York Correspondent
£31 1.
Mercantile Bank C. £14 n. Bank of East Asia $TS
Insurances Canton Ins. $255 n. Union Ins $525 m.
China Underwriters $1 n China Fire Ina. $462 n. H.K. Fire Ins. $250 n.
ECONOMICS IN FRANCE
Nation-Wide Drive Initiated
BABY BONDS ON SALE
Paris, To-day.
A nation-wide drive to re- store the national financial sit- uation was initiated yesterday by the Minister of Finance, M. Vincent Auriol, in a broadcast appeal to rich and poor to buy the new so-called Baby Bonds, issued in denominations of 200 to 100,000 francs.. The new categories are:
(1) One-year bonds bearing, 4 per
for Messrs. S. E. Levy and Com-jeent. interest; pany, report:—
(2) Six months' bonds,
with in- terest at the rate of 3 per cent. The Bank of France will discount
the bonds without restriction.
M. Auriol said that the gold
MOTORIST CHOOSES GAOL
Protest Against Tyranny
And Unfaizness
Protesting against the "tyranny and unfairness" of the police in summoning him for failing to stop at a halt sign, Charles Henry Cranleigh-gardens, Hewitt, of
Stoke Bishop, Bristol, said he would go to prison for six days rather than pay the 30s fine im- posed on him last month at Bris- tol
Hewitt, an official of Bristol Motorists' Defence League, said that he had approached the cross- roads with great caution. was escorted to the cells.
Ee
FOOD SUPPLY IN WAR
Stocks: We think that utility securities may be held for further rise, but we would reduce other holdings generally. Busi-exodus had ceased and over ness done: 1,290,000 shareN, 500.000.000 francs had returned] DEBATE OPENED IN
The
Wheat:-This market is some-home in a fortnight. what nervous, but urgent selling State's credit was being restor- International Asace. Sh.33% appears to have been completed. ed. — Reuter.
*----- Shipping
Douglasės $36 1.
HK Steamboats $2.10 b Indo-Chinas (Pref.), $50 a Indo-Chinas (De£) $90 1. Shells (Bearer)-96/3 n. Union Waterboats $12 L..
Docks, etc. -
HK and K. Wharred 288-n. H.K. and W. Docks $101⁄2 b. Providents (Old) 95 cts. sa. Providents (New) 20.cts. E. Hong Kew Sh.$185 n.
New Engineering Sh.34 - Shanghai Docks Sh $100 n.
Mining Kailan Mining Ad. 11/3 n. Langkats (Single) Sh.$8 n. S'hai Exploration Sh.$41⁄2 a. Shanghai Loans Sh. n. Raube $10% D. Venz; Goldfeld $44 b. Antamoks $4.84 sa., ex. div. Atoks 90 ets. b., 82 cts. 53. Baguio Gold 38 cts. b. Balatoes $22 b.
Benguet Exploration 30 ets. b..
31 cts. 83.
Benguet Exploration 30 eta. b.,
31 cts. sa.
Big Wedge 67.cts. b., 62/66 cts.
B3
LORDS
PRIMARY CONSIDERATIONS
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE
HOW MING" TRADING COMPANY LIMITED
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Na Creditors Meeting of
the above Company will be held at the offices of the Company Shell Rouse, Hong Kong on Wednesday, the Fifth August 1936 at half past eleven in the forenoon.
Dated the 4th day of July 1936. By Order. of the
Board of Directors. THE HOW MING TRADING CO., LTD.
Sgd: B. ASTINGTON
NOTICE
Manager.
HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LTD.
The crop picture suggests renew- BANKRATE LOWERED fed buying. Total sales: 50,067,- Paris: The Banque de France!
Notice of Interim Dividend London, To-day. 1000 bushels.
lowered its bankrate yesterday
A debate was raised in the Cotton:-The market readily from 4 to 3 per cent. This step House of Lords yesterday on the
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of absorbed the heavy volume of pro-follows last week's cessation of fit-taking. Speculation in this the gold outflow, that had set in
It of FOUR per cent. (4%) for the event of war. (supply in the commodity is broadening. We with the advent to power of the was recalled that the Minister for six months ended 30th. June, 1986, expect a hardening trend with Popular Front. Trans-Ocean the Co-ordination of Defence, Sir amounting to FORTY cents per wider fluctuations.
(Service.
RAW RUBBER
Buying Quotations From Ellis & Edgar
-
LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY
Silver Prices Rise
Thomas Inskip. had said that a stare on the Fully Paid Up Shares sub-committee under his chairman-and TEN cents per share on the ship was examining all aspects of Partly Paid Up Shares of the Com- the food supply in a time of pany will be paid on FRIDAY ther emergency, but the importance 7th AUGUST, 1936, on which date was urged by speakers of stimulat-Dividend Warrants may be obtain- ing food production and the pro-ed on application at the Register Įvision of granaries for the storing ed Office of the Company, Ex- The local dollar is steady. of wheat.
change Building, 4th Floor. Price Change opening on demand this morning] The Lord Chancellor, Lord Hail-
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the at 1/3-5/16d.
sham, replying for the Govern Company will be CLOSED from "Spot" silver rose 1 to 19-ment, reminded the Eouse that THURSDAY, the 30th JULY, to 11/16, while "forward" advanced without control of the seas and air FRIDAY, the 7th AUGUST, 1936.
% to 19-11/16.
they could not preserve the safety both days inclusive.
Last
Delivery
Spot
O.D. {J_M_
July 10 26-15/16 26-15/16 Unc.
27- 5/16 27- 5/16
19
27-9/16 27- 9/16
#
A.J. 27-13/16 27-13/16
Market dull. Possible Sellers O.D. 27-9/16, |J.M. 27-13/16-
The London on New York cross of goods stored in this country. xate was quoted $—US$5.01%, as Therefore the primary purpose of compared with S-US.$5.02, the Government's policy must be on Loudon to see that they were adequately
U.S.$5.01-15/16, as compared with give adequate protection to im-
—U.S.$5.02-1/16.
Iports-British Wireless Service
Latest Quotations From while the New York
cross-rate was quoted at prepared against attacks and to
Consolidated Mines 34 cts. n. Demonstration $128 b.. $1.22/quotations
1.23 sa
Ipo Gold 31 cts.
Itogons $1.92 sa.
IXL. $234 b.
Masbate 89 cts. n.
Northern Mining 374 n Paracale Gumsus 62 ets. b. Salacots Mining 12 ets. r. San Mauricio $1.20 sa Suyoc Consul 54 cts sa United Paracales $1.20 b.
Lands, Hotels, etc. HK and S. Hotels $4.45 b. H.K. Lands $2934 b..
H.K. 4% Debentures 100% b. Shanghai Lands Sh.$13.
Singapore
Messrs. H. B. Joseph and Co have received the following in Straits currency from Singapore for Raw Rubber.
*Buyers.
Spot 27 b. Down .
Aug-Sept. 27% b. Down .
Oct-Dec. 27% b. Unchanged. Jan-March 271⁄2 b. Unchanged. Market: Quiet.
!!
BILLINGSGATE MARKET TO BE EXTENDED
London, To-day-The Court of Commons Council of the City of London has approved the pro- posals for building a bigger fish market at Billingsgate at a cost
Metropolitan Lands Sh. 310 a. of £600,000. The scheme 'provides
Humphreys $8.55 z.
H.K. Realties 34.
Chinese Estates $80 .
China Resities Sh.34 n
China Debentures Shi$60, n.
Public Utilities
HK Tramways: $1034 sa Peak Trams (old) 61⁄2 Peak Trams (new) $2 Star Ferries 3851⁄2 b. Yaumati Ferries $20 b. C. Lights (old) $10.
AMERICAN EXPRESS.
COMPANY
TRAVELERS CHEQUES
IN US. DOLLARS
AND STERLING
CAN BE CASHED
THE WORLD OVER
THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC.
Incorporated with Limited Liability in USA
No. 4, Des Voeux Road, Central
for the acquisition of property to permit of the extension of the market premises to the west of the! present building. British Wire- less Service.
C. Lights (new) $71⁄2 n. HK. Electrics $50 b. Macao Electrics $18% m Sandakan Lights $8.30 n. Telephones (old) $25% Telephones (new) $8% n China Buses Sh$111⁄4 r Singapore Tractions 32/6 b. Singapore Pref. 23/ Industrials
Malabon Sugars $9 b. Cald. Macg. (Ord) Sh.$191⁄2. n.. Cald, Macg. (Fred) Sh.$15 i. Canton Ices $13⁄41⁄4 n. Cements $8.70 b. H.K. Ropes $3,90 m. Stores, etc. Dairy Farms $191⁄2 1. Watsons $3.45 1. Lane, Crawfords $63⁄41⁄4 1
Mackintoshs 5 m Sinceres $3 sa
Wm Fowells 40 cts. a. Wing On (HK) $50 1.
Cotton Mills
Ewo Cottons Sh.$7.40 b., $7% s Shanghai Cottons (old) Sh
$70 IL
Shanghai Cottons (new) Sh
$39
Zoong Sings Sh$18 x. Wing On Textiles-Sh.$25 -
Miscellaneous
Entertainments $2.90 a. 3. C. Enterprises $134 m Macao "Greyhounds” $2 z. Constructions (ok) $1% na Constructions (new): 30 cta. b.: Vibro Piling 32 m.
Ch. Govt. 5% 1925, GJBds.
93. Du
HK. Govt. 4% Loan 7% prem.
b.
H.K. Govt. 33% Loan 1%%
---- premi, hinna Wallace Harpers Jen
By Order of the
Board of Directors,
W. L. McKENZIE,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 8th July, 1936.
1936
HONG KONG
DOLLAR
DIRECTORY
NOW ON SALE
HONG KONG'S BEST
DOLLAR VALUE!
PRICE $1.00
OBTAINABLE "AT
THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE LTD.
TELEPHONE 200222
CHINA MAIL BLDG.
AND ALL BOOKSTALLS.