BANKS
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
Authorised Capital
$50,000,000 Issued and Fully-Paid-up. 20,000,000
Reserve Funds:----
Sterling ........£6,500,000
Hong Kong Currency
Reserve
.....$10,000,000
Reserve Liability of Pro
*
prietors
HEAD OFFICE: BONG KONG,
EWARD OF DIRECTORS.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA
Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON
Paid-up Capital
Reserve Fund
Reserve Liability of Pro-
.$20,000,000
prietors
£3,000,000 „£3,000,000
£3,000,000
Agencies 'and. Branches:
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timber.Ta
Centau
Семеро
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Hanila Mater
Basis Lumpur" tungspoen
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ZAL
Amor ork
Piping
Promos
Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson.
Christ.
G. Miskin Esq..
Deputy Chairawa.
Hon. Mr. W.H. Beli, JR. Masson Esq A. H. Compton Esq. T. E. Pearce Esq., Cabo Hon. Mr. S. M. Dodwell,
J. A. Hummer Esq.,
Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson,
A. L. Shields Esq.,
V. M. Grayburn, Esq. Chief Manage.
ARON BANGKOK
BATANIA
2519325.43
CALCUTTA
CANTON
'111' COLUMISS PAIKEN
HAIPHONG
HAMBURG
HANKOW
HARBIN
HUNGLEW'
15425
JUKURE
SUBL
BOWLOON
BRAMHES:-
KUALA LUMPUR
LONDON
110 MALACCA
MANILA
NAAR BIJ
MUKDEN
SEW YORK
PELPING
PENANG
MANGOUN
SAIGEN
Delhi
Hinakow barbus Hong Kon
Sokndades Laubmanga
Forsign change sad General Banking busczeer
Curs Acvate opened and lined Deponim
de que year or shorter perioda i taśm which will be quoted us apgacións.
The Back's Haul Ushan in London undertaken Basoslar and Trustee barat, · «od · clas shoovary of British Jaomne Isa overpaid. co terza biols may, be mecntiained vi ang of vio Agencia and Branchna.
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1936
Commerce an Finance
RAW RUBBER
Latest Quotations From Singapore
SHARE MARKET
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS
The following was the list local share quotations issued
Banky
Messi H. B. Joseph and Codax:- yesterday received the following: unotations
Straits
Currency from Singapore for Raw Rubber.
Buyers
11
Spot
25% Unchanged
September Oct/Dec. Jän./March
.264
.267%
127%
Market:-Quiet.
Buying Quotations From Ellis & Edgar
A BREARLEY,
Manager.
Hong Kong, 1st January, 1935.
SAN FRANCISCU
SLANGEN
SINGAPURE
SUURABAYA
DUNGE PATANI
3/M. 1A/3.
Delivery Aug. 10 Last Price C.
26-7/16 Unc. Spot
26-13/16 Unc. O./D.
27-1/16 Uac.. 27-7/16 Unc.
TIENTSIN
TUKYU
TSINGTAO
YOKOHAMA
Current Assunta opened in Loval Currency and: Find Depouts moved for en four or borver periods in Lool Currency and Sterling on Vezina which will be quoted on appication.
ALSO up to 38 SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES Various LizeL TO LEX.
Hong Kong, 24th February, 1936.
THE CHINA & SOUTH SEA BANK,
LIMITED
(Incorporated in China)
Head Office-Shanghai
$7,500,000.00
Capital Reserve
$1,500,000.00 Branches-All Important Cities in
China.
Frei
Exchange and General Banking Besides
Franssler
Current and Saving Secounts opened and Fixed
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK Deposits received for me your of star perices
The Busines of the above Back in condu~t~ ve by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BASKING CORPORATION.
POR THE BANKING CORPORATION.
: rates which wit be quoted so application.
SOU Z. CHANG.
**Mapast.
HONG KONG BRANCTI :
De Veux Bondy Central. Manager's Tel Foreign Exchange Dept. Lett General Office
Eu may o KONG AND SHANGHAI |
GRAYBURN, Hong Kong, 24th February, 1936.
Chief Manager.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
queried Capital
$20.000.000,00 $ 5,508,000.00 descrve and Cadivided Fußte=685,306.5#.
HEAD OFFICE :-HONG KONG.
20. Des Vous Bond. CentraL BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Chairman. Lihoos Chua, Eng., P. X. Kai, Esq. Wong Tun Tong, Ey Chas Ching Shek, Zeq. Il Lan
3500
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 every dea- tription of banking business transact- ed.
Current Accounts and Savings. Ac-
Tăng cân hoặc một soái tinh của Lee Yes counts opened. Fixed Deposits re-
Po. Ing
Amug
Belavin
Bucabe
Ren Jung-Po. Fog, Chiel Xmagst....
Li To Fang, Eryn Manager.
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES :—
Calcutta.
Manila Melbourne
Kersmak
Seattle
Shanghai
New Luck
Singaporn
t'anton
Chatim
Haiphong
Taris
Hankow
Peping
Henciniu Doln
Perag
Taiboke
Rangoo
Tantain
Saigon
Take
Labourer Fnatice
Yokohama
Kowloon. London
Stow
Sydney
Unchanged Stagnant
LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY
Silver Prices Rise
The local dollar is steady, open- this morning ing on demand at 1/2-13/162.
"Spot" silver has risen 1/16 to 19 11/16. while "forward“ has also advanced 1/16 to 19 11/16.
The London on New York cross- rate was quoted at £-US$5.02% as compared with £-US$5.02, while the New York on London cross-rate was quoted at £ 18.35.023. as compared with £-U.S.$5,02 9/16.
OIL CONCESSIONS
ceived at rates which will be quoted TO FOREIGNERS
on application.
Trusteeship & Executorship under- taken. Safe Deposit Boxes for hire.
PHILIP GOCKCHIN, Chief Manager.
HONG KONG HEIGHTS
Embargo To Be Raised
The Colonial Secretary stated in a written answer recently that, conditions, it subject to certain had been decided to raise the em- bargo upon the grant of oil con- For the information of visitors cessions to foreigners or foreign-| Brevuets opened In Local Cursery the following list of some of the controlled companies
Erary description of Banking and Exchange
Businem Lensacked wecurities
LUFTFOR
Lous granted on approved
generally
and Fixed Deposits messed he one year of highest points on the Island and throughout the Colonial Empire.
shorter periods is Local and Foreign Corsica
an be which will be quoted ow applica thezza.
Sale Depurit Born To Let
FAX TONG PO
ISLAND
Mainland is published:-
Chief Monger.
Victoria Peak
Signal Station
Feet 1,323 1774
Mt. Parker
1,734
Mountain Lodge
1,725
The Eyrie
1725
Peak Hotel
1.305
Mt. Davis
Bowen Road (filterbeds)
MAINLAND
Kowloon Peak
Taimoshan
877 297
Feet 1,971 3,124
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
LIMITED
Established 1880-
Capital (full paid-up) Yen 100,000,000 | Reserve Fund
Yen.129,150,000
Head Office: YOKOHAMA
Branches and Agencies at
Moji
Nagasaki
Nagoya
Alexandria
Bangkok
Batavia
Berlin
Ботожу
Calcutta
Canton
Dafren (Dainy).
Fengtien (Mukden)
Hamburg
Hankow
Harbin
New York
Osaka
Paris
Peiping Rangoon
Rio de Jeseiro
San Francisco Seattle
Eour Long
Honolulu
Semarang Shanghai Singapore
Hainking
Karachi
Kobe
London
Los Angeles
Manila
Sourabaya Sydney Tientsin
Tokyo
Tsingta
Yingkow
Interest allowed for Current Ac
Counts.
Deposits received for fixed periods at rates to be obtained on applica- tion.
G. KISHINAMI
Hong Kong, 3rd July, 1936.
THE
Manager.
SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL ★ SAVINGS BANK LIMITEL (Incorporated in China) Capital paid up $5,900,000. Reserves in
$7,500,000. Capital Savings Dept. $500,000 Reserve Savings Dept. $500,000. Read-Office-Shanghai
A Bank beving as ita mission the industrial : development (on Chins and the fostering of her commercial, relations xbroad. Hong Kong Office bef
4, Queen's Road Central-
Phone: 21116.
Concessions will only be given in cases where the foreigners con- cerned are citizens of countries! granting similar advantages to British nationals, and the major- lity of the employees must be Bri-
tish subjects.
As soon as the output of oil reaches a specified amount at least 50 per cent will have to be re fined on British territory and the plant made capable of producing fuel oil suitable for Admiralty use. The change will become effective on September 1, 1938.
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for your travel funds
The funds for your business or pleasure trip Câ be safe- guarded if, before leaving you have us convert them into
AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELERS CHE QUES
They are spendable everywhere and no identification is neces- sary other than your signature. If lost or stolen, counter- signed, your money is refund- ed. Issued in denominations of $10, $20, $50, and $100. Also in Sterling-42, £5, and £10.
THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC. Incorporated with Limited Liability in US.A.
No. 4, Des Voeux Road C.
to-
BRITISH SEA-BED HAS
-NO SECRETS
(Continued from Page 6) "This is where we start for the day said Lieut Comman
*Come on the! der Baker.
bridge." I followed him up the ladder to the bridge. Looking after the ship itself was the At the navigating officer. or other end of the bridge were three officers, and sitting on a stool near them was a seaman. "We are now surveying this section of the Dover Straits," I was told. "We are steaming along definite parallel lines marked on our charts, up and down, up and down, so that no B part is missed."
HK Bank $1,550 b. ex. div. H.K. Bank (London) £102 n. ex
div.
Chartered Bank $14% n. Mercantile Bank A and
31.
$
Mercantile Bank C. 14% n. Bank of East Asia $73 n.
Insurances
Canton Ins. $260. Union Ins. $54724 b. China Underwriters $1 n. China Fire Ins. $462 n. H.K. Fire Ins. $250 n. International Asace. Sh.$31⁄4 1.
Shipping
Douglases $30 n. H.K. Steamboats $4 m/ Indo-Chinas (Pref), $30 n. Indo-China (Def) $20 z. Shells (Bearer) 101/105% n. Union Waterboats $12 n.`
Docks, etc.
H.K. and K. Wharves $95 n. HK. and W. Docks $14.20 st. Providents (Old) $1.56_n. Providents (New) 20 cts. a. Hong Kew $185 n New Engineering Shệ4 n. Shanghai Docks Sh.$85 n
Mining
Kailan Mining Ad 10/6 1. Langkats (Single) Sh$5 n S'hai Exploration Sh$3 m Shanghai Loans Sh$3 D. Raubs 180 1. Venz; Goldfield $43 b. Antamoks $5.35 ́ Atoks 91 cts. b. Baguio Gold $43 b. Balatoes $24 m.
Benguet Consol $231⁄2 n.
Banguet Exploration 33 cts.
39-cts. 32.
Two of the officers were {"fixing" our position with the laid of sextants. With these you must have two objects to
You observe.
observe one through the telescope of the sextant first, then you twiddle the screw at the side until the second object is visible through the mirrors attached to the sextant
are
super-
When the two imposed in your sight, the angle between them is shown on the sextant.
"Ready-Fix"
The other fellow is recording the angle between two other objects and the two angles give the exact position.
This is what I heard: "Ten seconds to go.” "Ready."
"Thirty-fifty-two.” "Sixty-four-forty."
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CANADIAN PACIFIC
BOOK NOW FOR YOUR
TRIP HOME IN 1937
Yako-
Hong Shang Nagu-- Kode Kong hai
hama Honolulu victoria
Leave Arrive Leave Leavé Leave Leave "ArTING
Steamer E/Canada Jan. 26 Jan. 28
Jan. 31 Feb. 2 Feb. 9 Feb. 14 Feb. 12 Feb. 14 Feb. 16 Feb. 18
Feb. 27 E/Russia E/Japan Feb. 23 Feb, 25
Feb. 23 Mar. 2 Mar. 8 Mar, 13 E/Asia
Mask 37
Mar. 10 Mar. 12 Max. 14 Mar. 16 Mar 18
/Canica Mar. 19 Mar. 21 E/Russia Apr. 2 Apr. 4 Ap. E/Japan Apr. 16 Apr. 18 E/Asia Apr. 30 May 2 May
E/Canada May 14 May 16 E/Russia May 28 May 30 June E/Japan Jane 11 June 13
6
Mar. 24 Mar. 26 Apr. Apr. 8 Apr. 10
2 Apr. 7
Apr. 19
4
Apr. 21 Apr. 23 Apr. 29 May 4 May 6 May 6
May 17
May 19 May 21 May 23 June 2
1
June 3 June 5 June 12 June 18
June 16 June 18 June 24. Jume 29
For Information Apply To Your Own Agent Or
Canadian Pacific
WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM
HONG FONG
paper, the depth of water at.
TEL. 20752 --
NEW
1:
Jeach position is immediately ADVERTISEMENTS
At a large plotting-board on known. the bridge the third officer,
This WES
LLOYD TRIESTINO
(Flotte Riunite Lloyd Triestino, Marittima Italians E “Sitmar”)
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
When you get hundreds of with a station pointer, quickly positions recorded along long
the various! arranged his instrument to the lines on a chart two angles given, and plotted contours of the sea bed can be drawn in. But the tides the position.
numbered-139. change, the water is always The officer leaning over the rising or falling, so depths re- table called out this number, corded have to be corrected Motor Vessel and the seaman on the stool re, accordingly. So the Kellett has peated it through a voice-pipe. a man ashore watching the tide. From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISL, Then the officers peered Every half hour he makes a PORT SAID, MASSAU, ADEN,
These readings are KARACHI, BOMBAY, COLOMBO,·
PENANG & SINGAPORE. compared with the soundings which have been taken in the CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby are being ship, and after further calcula-informed that all Goods tions the depths are worked out landed at their risk into the Godown
b. through the telescopes of their reading.
sextants again.
Big Wedge 64 cts. n. Consolidated Mines 6 cts. b. Demonstrations $1.52 n. Ipo Gold 32 cts. n. Itogons $2 b. IX.I. $2.97 b. Masbate 99 cts. n. Northern Mining 43 cts. b. Paracale Gumaus ́81 cis. Salacots Mining 16 cis. 32. San Mauricio $2.80 b. Suyoc Consol. 56 cts. b. United Paracales $1.80 n. Gold Greeks 70 cts. n.
Lands, Hotels, etc.
H. and S. Hotels $4.95 s. HK Lands $33% n
HE 4% Debentures 105% `n Shanghai Lands. Sh$13 m.
Metropolitan Lands Sh. $10 Humphreys $9 n. H.K. Realties $44 n. Chinese "Estates $80 n.- China Resities Sh.44 m. China Debentures Sh.$60 11.
Public Utilities
$2.
z.
"Ten seconds to go." "Ready."
." Bix"
"COL DI LANATM
There are only two minutes as though the survey. has been of the Hong Kong and Kowloom between successive "fixes." done at low water spring tide. Wharf & Godown Company, Ltd., at Kowloon, whence and/or from the They go on steadily, fixing posi-Thus, when the contours are wharves delivery may be obtained tion after position, and the man finally recorded on paper, they
Optional cargo will not be landed
on the stool keeps repeating the show the depth as at low water bere, mess notice has been given då hours prior to vesma's azivai, bat numbers through his voice-spring tide.
Should a ship require to know carried on from port to port to the pipe "133-134-135"-and so
extends.. on. His voice is heard down the depth at any other state of final port of call to which the option No claims will be admitted after below by the man watching the the tide, correction is applied to
this charted depth: this is the Goods have left the Godown, and sounding machine.
obtained from the tide-tables. all Goods remaining undelivered after the 11th inst, will be subject to rent. Motor-Boat Used This machine is amazing. I
All claims against the vessel monst the Kellett reaches be presented to the undersigned on Down in the bowels of the shipwater too shallow for her to or before the 20th inst resting right on the bottom, are
Inandible Sound
When
they
All broken, chafed, and damaged
two water tanks. In one is an sound, she lowers a motor-boat will not be recognized electric coil which is charged to investigate. This boat uses
where they will be examined on the with 1,000 volts every third of ordinary weighted lines to as-Goods are to be left in the Godew a second. This causes the coil certain the depth of the water. 11th inst. at 10 am. by our surveyors to expand ever so slightly, and but it still has the same system Mears Goddard & Douglas in the
of constantly "fixing" position presence of Consignees concerned. the cutting off of the current | makes it contract again, ever so that the depths recorded may In the case of defiable cargo, COME be transferred accurately to the signees are requested to inform the Imports and Exports Ofics that they so slightly!
have such goods for examination.
No Fire Insurance has been effected Bill of Lading will be constarsign. ed by
LLOYD TRESTINO
Queen's Building, Hong Kong, 5th August, 1936.
PUBLIC AUCTION
charts.
So three times a second the
Some of the other surveying H.K. Tramways $11.30 b. and coil is made to expand and con-
tract. And there is a noise ships have their boats fitted created a super sonic noise with echo-sound gear.
While this constant "fixing" which cannot be detected by and sounding is going on in the the human ear but which is Kellett, the nature of the bot- very loud to the sounding
tom is being obtained every The noise passes! machine.
"fixes" five
(approximately
Peak Trams (old) $6% 1. Peak Trams (new) $23⁄41⁄4% n. Star Ferries $90 n.
Yaumati Ferries $20 n.
C. Lights (Old) $11% 8. $1165/through the bottom of the ship every 10 minutes); this is done E Undersigned have received hits the sea bed, and echoes with a deep sea lead, the bot-Instructions to sell by Publie back a fraction of a second
1160 sa
C. Lights (New) $8.20 n.
H.K. Electrice $62% $56. later. The echo is caught by tom of which is filled with tal-
Auction
commencing at 11.00 am
apparatus in the second tankow; after each cast the lead and transferred to the sound is handed inboard and the tal-
Sand may be Tuesday the 11th August 1935 low examined. ing machine.
sticking to the tallow, or it may On this
a fast oscillating show scratchings indicating needle passes to and fro over a rocks. In this way the nature roll of iodised paper. As the
echo comes back, the electric of the sea bed is discovered.
**When the echo-sounding current reaches the needle, and
Macao Electries $20 n. Sandakan Lights $3.30 n. Telephones (Old) $261⁄4 b. Telephones (New) $8.65 5. China Buses Sh 11% n Singapore Tractions: 29/- n Singapore Pref. 28/- n.
Industrials Malabon Sugars $91⁄2 ́n. Cald, Marg. (Ord) Sh$19% 11.
paper. Cald, Macg. (Pre£} Sh.$15 n Canton-Tees $21. Cements $9.65 1. HK Ropes $342:11
Stores, etc.
Dairy Farms $21 n. Watsons 23.50 n. Lane, Crawfords $83⁄41⁄2 n. Mackintoshs. 35. 11. Sinceres $3, 11.
an impression is made on the gear detects a wreck, it is ime portant to ascertain the least
at their Sales Boom, 2.
Daddell Street when we
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLDD
FURNITUREZA
Biso
separate lots)
The result is that, three depth of it," Commander Baker 15 Bales Coir Mats (to be sold in
"To do this we explained times a second, that needle
drift broadside on over the makes its mark on the paper.
Me damaged).
for account of the concerned
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMEET BROS.
* "Auctioneers.
By calculation the point where wreck, with a horizontal sweep & Spring Mattresses (slightly the echo is recorded gives the suspended below the ship; this is lowered after each drift until depth of water.
The machine is so sensitive the wreck is fonied. If it is that a shoal of fish swimming near the surface, we put down a beacon on the spot and in- under the ship will be indicated form the Admiralty by wire Hong Kong, August 10, 1936. on the paper of that sounding less." And within a Lew Win Powells 40 cis. n..
japparatus.
minutes of the Admiralty being to April their time is spent Wing On (EK) · $50/1.-
Hundreds Of Positions informed of the position of making out the finished charts Cotton Milis
Now every time the men or dangerous wreck, the message for the Admiralty and these are Ewo Cotton Sh$3 2.
the bridge make a "fix" it is is sent out to shipping through used for the ecrrection of the Shanghai Cottons (old) Sh
marked on the paper of the out the world.” sounding machine. The result Shanghai Cottons (new) She is that, when the numbered Zoong Sings $18. Wing On Textiles Sh.$25-2.
Miscalianbons Entertainments $2.90 ms S: C. Enterprises $1.35 në
•Macao "Greyhounds". $24u.. Constructions^(old) $1%%~n Constructions (new) 89 cta.-b. Vibro Filing 11.
published Admiralty charts. How Deep Is The Ocean? The work is done so accurately It may seem dreary work, that any ship, knowing her positions on the plotting-board this constant charting of the position, will know to within a are compared with the marked depths on the sounding machine bottom of the sea around Bri- few inches what depth of
tain, but the men in the Kellett water there is at that spot love it. Their "season lasts Ifcft weren't for the work of from April to November, and surve,- ships like HMS. Kel bad weather may rob them of lett you would have Thames as many as 40 days during the river and Southampton water season.
and every other port chock-a-
Ch. Gort. 5% 1925 GfBda.
・92% b
HK Govt. 4% Loan 6% prem. HK Govt 64% Loan par. b. Wallace Harpers 34. n.
b.
In the period from November (block with stranded steamers.