BANKS
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
Authorised
Capital ------550,000,000 Issued and Fully-Faid-up. 20,000,000| Reserve Fundaz
Starling ......$ 6,500,000
Hong Kong Currency
Reserve
Eeserve Lisbility of Pro-
HEAD OFFICE. BONG KONG.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA
- Interparated by Rayol-Blache, 2018,
Agencies and Branches:
Ipa
Bang
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON
Paid-up Capital
$10,000,000
Reserve Fond
ES,000,000 £3,000,000
0,000,000:
Esserve Liability of Pro-
prietars
$3,000,000
Alor Hote
Bangkok
Bolivia
Самока
-Manila
| Calho
New York
Facing
-book] Salagios
Zamboanga
SOLED OF DIRECTORS.
Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson,
Chair
G. Miskin, Esq.
Deputy Chairman.
J. E. Masson Esq.
A. E. Compton Eaq, T. E. Pearce Esq, Dalhe
Hoz. Mr. S. M. Dodwell,
1. A. Piumar Eaq,
Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson,
A. 1. Shields Esq. V. K. Gaybum, Esq.
MOT BANG SOK
BATAVIA
COLO DAREN
HALFBONG
KAMBU DO
KANKOW
HARKIN HUNGILT
பட
JOBORS
KURZ
KOWLOOX
BRANCHES.-
KGALA LUMPCZ
LANDON LYOKS
MALACCA
MUAK (Johor)
CAR
SEW.TORI
PELPING
PENLIG PANOOR SAIDOS
SAN FRANCISCO
SHANGHAI
SINGAPORE
BULELRAYA
SUNUKI PATANI
TIENTSIM
NXTO
TRUXUTAO
TOKOHAMA
Currena komunin opened in Lesel Carmany mod Pited Ducati pontved for one yer vr shorter. de in Level Corsary Docking on sovins
BAFE EXPONIT Box
Hong Kong, 24th February, 1938.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
The Breakdown of the above Bank in youðurs. SONG XONG AND FRANGEL BASKING CORPORATION.
ahminst en application.
FOR THE BONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BAXKING CORPORATION.
V. GRAYBURN
Hong Kong, 24th February, 1936.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
Authorized Capital
Carina 2zoka NS ZAM,306,27
HVAD OFFICE BONG KONG.
10, De Four Bewd, Conten).
BOLED OF DIRECTORS 20 Hon. Sir Shoti-son Chow, Chairman,
Li Koos Chun, Eat P. L. Kook · Eng. Wong Tun Tong, E- Chiên Ching Ebok. Egy Li Zma
Lg Wong Cho Son. Zap and in. Y
10.
Xua Tang Po. Eng., Chint Manager fo
Tong. Req. Mangat.
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-
Hanila
طبيق
Lady
Batavia
Malbour
Bombay Calenda
New York
Settin Semarang
Singapor Sourabay
Baiphong
Pane
Hawkow tocolul
Taiping
PADARE
Bangoon
Kowlane
Loado
Hang Long
Changhai
Kaula Lumpur Singapore Smoking
Pareiga Buchungs and General Banking business Aceste opened and Fised - Dupcaisa {PRONG 202 me year or aborsie periodo di China,
wheck wus be guosad on appliquent...
The Bank's Hand Utos in London nodurtakas Immer and Tranter business, not claims mory of British Inc. Tax everpais, os terme which may be mearíaimed at pag of im Agocios and Devonkus.
A BREARLEY,
Manager. Hong Kong, lat january, 1985, 0)
THE CHINA & SOUTH SEA BANK,
LIMITED
(Incorporated in Cmna) Head Office-Shanghai
+$7,500,000.00 Capital Reserve
.$1,500,000.00 Branches-All Important Cities in
Fargo Exchange and Gecerni Barking Busines frameseted.
China
Cuaca and Sering kestole opened and Zized: Depronita zmeníend loc una p902 de chache painte jet mies which will be quoted_on_upyžiantiem.
NOU A CHF 23.
HONG KONG BRANCH: 36, Des For Road, CastenĂ. Manager's Ofna samanta Foreign Exchange Dept. wenn man GENE OGOS
Center's Or
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 cription of banking business transact- jed.
Current Accounts and Savings Ac- Fixed Deposits re- counts opened. ceived at rates which will be quoted on application.
Trusteeship & Executorship under- taken Safe Deposit Boxes for hire.
PHILIP GOCKCHIN, Chief Manager.
THE
THE CHINA: MARS
«BER:12:"1936°
Commerce and Finance
LOCAL SHARE MARKET
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS
The following was the list of local share quotations issued to- İday.
Banks
HE. Bank $1.675 b. HK (Lon. Reg.) #1061⁄2 n. Chartered Bank 15% 1. Mercantile Bank A and
$324 D
Mercantile Bank C. 94% 2 Bank of East Axia $83 n..
Insurances
Canton Ins $265 1. Union Ins. $600 n.
Ching Underwriters $1 1. FK. Fire Inx. $255 n..
B
THE TIN QUOTÀ INCREASED
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
E
PUBLIC AUCTION
PARTICULARS AND CONDI
TIONS of the Sale by Public
SURPRISE MOVE BY Auction to be beld. on MONDAY,
COMMITTEE.
the 16th day of November, 1936, lat 3 pm, at the Office of the Pu- blic Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Goremor of METAL BROKERS AMAZED
Jane Lot of Crown Land at Kow) London, To-day. loon Tsai in the Colony of Hongj The tin quota for Malaya, the Kong for a term of 75 years, com- mencing from 1st July, 1898, with' Netherlands East Indies and Nigeria has been increased to the option of renewal at a Crown ¡105 per cent. of the standard Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor tonnages for the last quarter of of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 24 years less the 1996. Some 90 per cent. of the last three days thereof. increased quota may be attri-
Intending bidders are advised buted to the international quota that immediately after the dis and the remainder to the arposal of the lot the purchaser will rears already surrendered by be required to deposit with Bolivia, which in the last quar authorised officer who will be pre-
·EMPRESSI
CANADIAN PACIFIC
OFFERS YOU
2 WAYS
HONG KONG
TO
PACIFIC COAST
1 DAYS HONG KONG TỪ TANGOUVER
via the Direct Express Route
18 DAYS HONG KONG TO VANCOUVER
via Honolulu, "the Paradise of the Pacific”
International Assce. Sh. $3% nter will export 90 per cent of sent at the sale, the sum of two DAYS HONG KONG TO UNTIED KINGDOM (via direct connection)
Shipping
Douglases. $30 z. HK. Steamboats $6% n Indo-Chinas (Pref.) $35 1. Indo-Chinas (Def) $36 Shells (Bearer) 120/- n. Union Waterbosts $10% 0.
Docks, etc.
HK. and K. Wharves $110 sa. HK and W. Docks $14 n. Providents (Old) $2.10 1. Providents (New) 20 cts. n. New Engineering Sh.$4 a. Shanghai Docks Sh.4811⁄2 ne
Mining
Kailan Mining Ad. 13/6 n. - Raubs $12 b.
Venz: Goldfield $61⁄2 b.
Lands, Hotels, etc. HK and S. Rotels $6.30 n. HK. Lands $39 3.
H.K. 4% Debentures 105% n. Shanghai Lands Sh. $13 m. Metropolitan Lands Sh.$10 2. Humphreys $9 n.
HK Realties $51⁄2 n. Chinese Estates $78 n. China Realties Sh.$4 n. China Debentures Sh$60 1.
"PHILIPPINE MINING
Closing Rates -10 3.73
in Pesos
Franciace
Every desciption of Banking and Exchange Zuze vracasted. Los granted, as approved
Carrees Locate opmel in Zom! Currency | and Fixed Deposita received_fur one Ja shorter periode is Lovst and Forsign Cursocia pet wink will be quoted on applessiou
Set Deposit Bones to th
TONG TO.
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY,
INC.
Antamoks Atoks
Interporated with Limited Liabilay in Us Big Wedge
Head Office-65, Broadway,
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK LIMITED
Established 1830
Capital (full paid-up) Yen 100,000,000 Reserve Fund
Capital Surplus
Reserves
Amsterdam Auvay
Athena
Berlin Bombay.
Yen 130,900,000
Bead Office: YOKOHAMA Branches and Agencies st
Calotzita
Colombe
Druskin Edinburgh Forme
Ge
Alexandria
Bangkok
Batavia
Nagoya New York Ossica
Berlia
Bombay
Calcutta
Canton
Dairen (Dairy}
Kon Nagasaki
Paris
Fengtien (Maiden) Rio de Janeiro
Hamberg Hankow
Harbin
Hot Bong
Honolulu
Elanicing Karachi
Kobe
London
Peiping Easgoon
San Francisco, Seattle Semarang
Sourabaya Sydney Tentsin Tokyo Tsingtan Yongkow Interest, allowed for Current Ac-
Los Angeles Mamil
Deposits received for fixed periods at rates to be obtained on applica tion
G. KISHINAMI,
Manager
Hong Kong, 11th Sopimber, 1986.
THE
SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS BANK LIMITED. (Incorporated in China)
Capital geld up
Benecres
Capital
Savings Dept. $300,000,
Estes
the international quota plus hundred dollars, $200.00 in cash. their share in the Bolivian This sam will be refunded on pay- under-exports.
Kanjoon
No, of Hate
Rogśalvy No.
Localiis,
Boundary
potente la
Akugal Rantal
ment of the purchase, price. A look of blank amazement ap- peared on the faces of metal- PARTICULARS OF THE “LOT brokers when the announcement was made public. The session had opened with tin easy, owing to the baliday in the United States and the consequent lack of orders; so that the market appeared to be ripe for the inevitable reaction when the quota bombshell was de- Evered. Theoretically the increase releases an extra 5,300 tons in the current quarter from Malaya. Ni-i geria and the Netherlands East] | Indies, but some quarters express; doubts regarding their ability to produce this full extra amount. It is generally assumed that the jextra quota accorded to Bolivia will be ignored, since her ability (to produce it is most doubtful
Many circles are inclined" to suspect that United States pres-i sure has been brought to bear on
PAR
· per ania plani 20,000 m
PUBLIC AUCTION.
■ARTICULARS AND CONDI- TIONS of the Sale by Public cans felt that the 40 per cent. rise Auction to be held on MONDAY, in price within the last three the 16th day of November, 1936, months called for drastic action at 3 pm, at the Office of the Pu- by the committee, whose task it blic Works Department, by Order is to maintain the stability of the of His Excellency the Governor of inetaL-Reuter.
one Lot of Crown Land at Island Road, Pokfulam in the Colony, of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years,
LAID FOR BRITISH with the option of renewal at a
in Pesos Curency
.40
P. 3.70
J
51
Baguio Gold
29
Benguet Consol
13%
Benguet Explor
.17
Consolidated Mines
03
Demonstrations
40
New York
Ipo Gold
-24
LX L
1.65
_U_S_$6,000,000.00 Itogons
2240 76438
1.70
Mashate Consol 897,612.65 Northern Mining
.47
Paracale Gumans
BRANCHES.
San Mauricio
245
Suyoc Consol
Mostl Milan
Sales Pizzakas Pazia
United Paracales
51 1.50
Genos
The Engin
Hamburg Katre 16Mbarg Juteriakan
Indon Liverpool Luccio Lagabo
Konte Carlo Nauka Manish
Bome
shanghai Southampton
Singapore Tintin JEDDA
Yakobama Zurich
Branches of American· Exxpress Company in Principal cities of United States of America and Canada.
All classes of Commercial Banking Transactions undertaken.
led.
Personal investment accounts hand-)
The Company offers to intending Travellers the use of its “Travellers Cheques and Letters of Credit and, in addition, the world-wide services of its thoroughly equipped Travel Department
C. EL BENSON,
General Manager.
LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY
Silver Prices Up
The local dollar is steady, opening on demand this morning: at 1/2 ...
"Spot" silver rose 9/16 to 22-7/16, while forward" also rose
Eeserts Savings Dept. $800,000.9/16 to 22-7/16.10.
Lead-Office-Shanghai
A Bank having saita zužusion
the industrial development on Chies and the fostering af ber commercial relations abroad
Hong Kong Ollo
4, Queen's Rand Central':
Promos 21116
The London on New York cross- zate was quoted at US$4.88,
as compared with £ US$4374, while the New York on London
Pablic Utilities HK Tramways $12.30 n. Peak Trams (old) $61⁄2 n. Peak Trams (new) $2% D Star Ferries $93. Yaumati Ferries $25 s. C. Lights (Old) $141⁄4 n. C Lights (New) $10% n HK Electrics $5331⁄2 m. Macao Electrics $20 n. Sandakan Lights $8.30 n. - Telephones (Old) $29 n. Telephones (New) $10.65 China Buses Sh.$114 n. Singapore Tractions 27/- n. Singapore Pref. 27/- n.
Industrials Cald., Macg. (Ord) Sh$191⁄2 Cald., Macg (Pref.) Sh$15
Canton Ices $2.20 n. Cements $11.60 n. FK Ropes $3.90 n.
Stores, etc. Dairy Farms $22 z. Watsons $4.85 m. Lane, Crawfords $6 m. Sinceres $3. n
Wing On (HK) $50 ̊n.
Cotton Milis
SHIPPING
ANOTHER PLEA TO THE GOVERNMENT
•
Crown Bent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.
Intending bidders are advise that immediately after the dis- posal of the lot the purchaser will be required to deposit with 20 The serious position of British authorised officer who will be pre- shipping as a result of foreign sent at the sale, the sum of two subsidised competition was raised hundred dollars, $200.00 in cash. in the House of Lords yesterday This sum will be refunded on pay-
London, To-day.
by Lord Lloyd, who appealed to ment of the purchase price. the Government to assist Pacific] PARTICULARS OF THE LOT shipping and also shipping in In-
dfan and Far Eastern waters. He said that the Bombay Japan traf- fie not many years ago was
Itirely British and was now 80 per
(cent. Japanese.
Lord Essenden, the shipowner, asserted that if nothing was done the line between Canada, Austra- bia and New Zealand was likely to go. He said that the Japanese companies were receiving subsi- dies which enabled them to deal with four times the amount of their own trade.
Lord Templemore, for the Gov
_No. of Sale.
Registry Ko
Toexity.
Boundary
Mosatzenmesta
L
Aquare feet,
htt
about $$
A
persalepian. 25,000-
ernment, stated that the report of EEYORE'S the Imperial Shipping Committee.!
just received, was being sent to WEEKLY MISCELLANY
the Governments of the Domin- ions as well as the British Gov- Dernment's views, in the hope that
Zoong Sings Sh. $16 n. Wing On Textiles Sh$25 TL-
Miscellaneous Entertainments $2′′n.294 Constructions (Old) $1% n. Constructions (New) 421⁄2 cts.
(Continued from Page 6)
agreement would be reached on The Newer English
its recommendations--Reuter.
RAW RUBBER
A
LONDON paper quotes some excellent examples of the new (language being coined in America
in connection with television!': The
Latest Quotations From New York Times says that “Presi-
Singapore
Spot
Jan/Mar Apr./June Dec.
30% 30% 30
Market:Uncertain
dent Roosevelt and Governor, Lan- don were telecast over the New Messrs. H. B. Joseph and Co-describes a film made or used for York area,” while telefilm" now have received the following broadcasting. It is also a verb, Ewo Cottons 3h 10.70 n. Shanghai Cottona (old) Sh.76 n. quotations from Singapore in Shanghai Cotton (New) Sh$43 Straits Currency for Law Rubber:so that faces are "telefilmed."
The paper also refers to the Buyers
29 Up picturesque phrase "ironing the dbugs out of the transmitter," fwhich, it surmises, must mean the elimination of black and white "spots on the screen. I must say I like that. It is terse, vivid and **[Continued from Next Colum) to the point, as all the best slang should be Consider that really Iwonderful word "blurb,” which, if any slang expression deserves the eris-hemour, should be "taken pazzma- ently into the language. It ex- presses all the wush, sinals and nal(gush which publishers" notices on re-book-jackets always contains It is
Farwhale of a'rword."-
Continued
Vibro Piling $5.30 sa... Ch. Govt 5% 1925 G‡Bds.
This Week's Gem
“Hankow, Nov. EK: Govt 4% Loan 8% premtence here. of a charity
which more than HK Govt 34% Loan 9% prem. windows, “are
Wallace Har
cent
The
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