THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 8, 1937.
BRITISH ENGINEERING OUTLOOK IMPROVES
The recovery in the British en- gineering industry noted in 1934 and 1935 has been greatly accele- rated during the past year, and the average rate of activity during the first three-quarters of 1936 was nearly 13 per cent. above the 1985
level.
China Committee Appointed
The Executive Conanules of*
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AUSTRIAN STATE
LOAN
Problem
BANKS
To Meet Unemployment HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI
Vienna, To-day. The issue of a State Loan of 180,000,000 schillings, the proceeds of which will be used to stimulate
members are Messrs. A. McKinstry, issued to balance the 1936 Budget. Julian I. Piggott, Frank Gill, Archi- The sum of 17,500,000 schillings bald Rose, J. L. Edmondson, S. Peter will be employed to cover invest- Leigh, R. S. Rowell, and Colonel R.ment outlays in the current year; E. Morcom.
| 22,000,000 ∙ schillings- will be allot-, -Engineering-ted to equipment of the Austrian
BANKING CORPORATION
Authorised - Capital ` Issued and Fully-Paid-up.: 20,000,000 Reserve Funds:--
Sterling
$50,000,000
AL£ 6,500,000
Hong Kong Currency
Reserve
.$10,000,000
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
$20,000,000
HEAD OFFICES HONG KONG.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson. Chairman... GMiskin, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
J. F. Bousfield, Eng.. Hon. Mr. S. HA K. T. Johnson, Esq.,
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J. R. Masson, Eag-
K. S. Morrison Bag., T. E. Pearce, Baq
A. L. Shield, Esq.
V. M. Grayburn, Esq., Chief Manager.
BRANCHES-
industry and thus provide employ Tothili-street, Lonoun, recently
ment on an extensive scale, has Whereas last year certain sections proved the jormation of a special been decided upon by the Schusch- of the engineering industry lagged be- committee, composed of experts, to nigg Government. hind others in their recovery, there is study the Chinese market and make The Loan, states the Minister of now scarcely any section which is not practical suggestions for improving Finance, will be issued at 90 and fairly fully occupied. While the pre-England's trade with China. depression level has not yet been
will bear interest at 41⁄2 percent, but reached, 1986 has seen substantial re Committee is Lt.-General Sir George redeem short-term Treasury Bills & Compton, Sewell,
The chairman of the new China
54,000,000 schillings will be used to covery in shipbuilding, and the railway re-equipment programmes,
MacDonogh, G.B.B. and the other together with a welcome increase în exports, have assisted in dragging the locomo tive industry out of the desperate con- dition which it was in a few years ago. Many sections of the engineering industry have, of course, been consider- ably aided by the rearmament pro- gramme, which has affected not only AAAAAAA Army; 22,000,000 schillings will be those normally directly responsible for
used for road building, and con- arms manufacture,
to the lower prices usually obtained siderable amounts such as military
will be ear- aircraft, naval shipbuilding and the compared with the home market. The marked for continuing electrifica- manufacture of ordnance, but also present situation offers perhaps greation of the most important railways.|
HAMBUEG ter possibilities than any previous
HANKOW ELABBIN boom, since recovery in exports has The Loan will be repayable in
HONGKEW before usually come more or less thirty years and will necessitate an ILOILO
IPOH home market, whereas there is still the about 11,000,000 schillings. This KOWLOON simultaneously with recovery in the increase in the debt service of- JOEORE
KOBE Possibility that a recovery in exports:
will be covered by an increase in will in the present instance be super-
KUALA LUMPUR imposed on the home market boomstamp duties.
In this connection the recovery in The Finance Minister also reveal
those which partly through not being so fully occupied as other branches of engineering, have received substantial Government orders, eg, tanks in the case of locomotive firms, and shell cases in the case of textile machinists. Machinery Exports Whereas, however, in 1935 recovery
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ALSO up to date, SAFE. DEPOSIT BOXES in
in exports made some contribution to the former gold-bloc countries, which, ed that the Austrian Government which will be quoted on application
in spite of accompanying dislocations,
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Hong Kong, 24th February, 1936.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK
wards recovery in the industry as whole, the total British exports of machinery in 1936 have barely main has followed on the heels of devalua is determined to liquidate the Inter-ions is 10 LET. tained the volume of 1935, and still tion more quickly than was perhaps national Federal Loan of 1930, but remain 33 per cent. below the 1928 commonly expected, is
a promising that international conversations maximum. There has, it is true, been factor, as British exports to the Con-would first be necessary-Trans-
still represent a recovery in the value of engineeringtinental countries
a Ocean. exports amounting to over-6 per cent trade in many engineering and other large proportion of the total export but it must be remembered that costs have definitely tended to increase products-Engineering. throughout 1936 as regards both labour and raw materials.
Casks containing caviare washed ashore at Sandgate, Hythe, have been taken charge of by coastguards, who The Northern Command Tattoo an- will hand them over to the Beceiver of Great Britain failed to experience thorities have completed the normal reaction to
caviare, which is de- currency
in arrange- Wrecks. The valuation in the early days of the de- three years in Roundhay Park, Leeds. been consigned from Bussia to Paris ments to hold the event for the next good condition, is believed to have pression—namely, the increase in the cost of imports--because she repre- sented in the case of so
Mr. Justice Timothy Sullivan, Pre- materials one of the most important sident of the Free State High Court world markets, and the strength of her of Justice, has been appointed President purchasing power was ficient to in- of the Supreme Court and Chief Justice fict what was, in fact, a deflationary of the Free State. process on the rest of the world.
many raw
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Now, however, with the general rise Signor Mussolini has distributed the of raw material and commodity prices, equivalent of $6,080 to 95 mothers of producers of these are in a much large families. stronger position and this country is being faced with an increase in the cost of imported materials at a time. also when the volume of imports, as a .result of rearmament and other fac-
tors, is also increasing.
Rise In Copper
It is only necessary to draw atten- tion as an example of this to the rise in the price of copper (one of the most important imported: raw -materials of the engineering industry not only for electrical engineering but also for general engineering brasses) from just over £35 per ton for standard at the end of 1935 to over £45 at the end of 1936; but the price of lead (used for cables and batteries and a variety of other engineering uses as well as extensively in the construction trades). has followed an even more striking
course.
On the whole, in spite of the sub- stantially increased costs of imported iron ore and of coke (following, for instance, the agreed increase in coal prices to meet the miners wage demands) the steel industry resisted the temptation to push up steel prices to excessive levels under the influence of the unique de-
has
and New York.
A camp for two tank battalions with a large expanse of thick concrete „for manoeuvring exercises, is being built near Warminster, on the fringe of Salisbury Plain.
An Italian Cabinet meeting has de- cided to sanction the 40-hour working week by decree.
application.
The Business of the above Bank in conducted by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAT BANK- ING CORPORATION. Bules may be obtained FOR THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
7. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 24th February, 1995.
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK LIMITED
Established 1880
Capital (fully paid-up) Yen.100,000,000 Reserve Fund. Yen 130,900,000 Head Office: YOKOHAMA Branches and Agencies at
THE CHARTERED BANK OF THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD. Alexandria
INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA
Incorporated by Royal Charter," 1853,
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON
£3,000,000 £3,000,000
£3,000,000
Paid-up Capital Reserve Fund Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
Agencies and Branches:
Alor Star Amritsar Bangkok Batavia Bombay Calcutta Canton Cawnpore Cebu Colombo
Delhi
Flaito
Ipoh
Kazachi
Klang. Kobe
Kuala Lumpur
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Authorised Capital
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HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG
10, 'Dea Vœux Road, Central.
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Current Accociats opened and Fized Deposita received for one year, or shorter periods at rstes which all be quoted on application
The Bank's Head Office in Lendon undertakes Executor and theexte business,
cisins every of British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained, at any
mand conditions now current and of the long delivery dates on most classes of steel; but steel prices have risen, in Agencies and Branches. the case of certain classes, - such motor body sheets, to an extent which has evoked strong protest from the engineering industries concerned.
Great Possibilities.
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The importance of international trade to the future of the engineer- ing, as also to that of most other Bri tish manufacturing industries, can scarcely be over-emphasised. Thes main rush of rearmament orders, is likely to have spent itself by the end of 1937 or at any rate by mid-1938, and if trade to be r
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Manager. Hong Kong, 1st January, 1935.
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Head Office: Hong Kong,
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Y. KANO,
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(Incorporated in China)
Capital paid up Baserres
Capital Savings Dept. Beserve
$5,000,000.
500,000,
50,000,
$800,000,
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