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8.00 a.m. Apr. 21 Pres. Hoover ....Noon May 1 8.00 a.m. May 19 Pres. Lincoln...
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Pres. Hayes ...... Pres. Wilson Pres. Monroe Pres. Adams ... Pres. Harrison Pres. Polk
8.00 am. Mar. 5 6.00 p.m. Mar. 8 8.00 a.m. Mar. 17 8.00 a.m. Mar. 23 8.00a.m. Apr. 11 8.00 am. Apr. 25
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Midnight Mar. 12 Midnight Mar. 26 Pres. Jackson Midnight Apr. 9 Pres. Jefferson":"Midnight Apr. 23 Pres. McKinley :. Midnight May 7 Pres. Grant Midnight May 21
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THE 1937
DOLLAR DIRECTORY
NOW ON SALE
PLACE YOUR ORDER WITH
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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 5, 1937.
General Motors Peace
Agreement
Detroit To-day.
regards hours, wages and working conditions, leftį unsettled at the end of the recent General Motors strike, may be signed on Monday
This is according to officials of the Corporation.
Meanwhile work has been re- sumed in the Murray automobile body corporation and the Briggs body corporation-Reuter.
LOCAL DOLLAR
Silver Prices Drop
The local dollar is steady, open- ing on demand this MON- ing at 1/2-27/32.
"Spot" silver was quoted at 20
and forward,” at 20.
The London on New York cross- rate was quoted at $-US$4893.
POLAND SHIPPING ORDER IN BRITAIN
London, To-day.
.
The Polish steamship line," the Gdynia-Amerika Line, has ordered from Swan, Hunter Wigham and Richardson, the famous Tyneside shipbuilding firm, a motor vessel of 11,000 tons for the South Ameri- can service.-British Wireless.
̈HOOVER'S H. K. PASSENGERS
21.
LOCAL SHARE MARKET
ring is the list of changes and in local share quotations this
BANKS Hong Kong Bank $1850 b, $1855/-
1860 38.
Bank of East Asia $90. be
INSURANCES Union. Ins. $624 buy E. K Fire Ins. $290 sa.
SHIPPING
Douglases $33 b.
H. K. Steamboats $9 b. DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS, ETC.
HK and K. Wharves $110 b. $111-
$3.
H. K. and W. Docks $22 b., $9274
sa
Providents (Old) $1.85 b., $1.85 sa.
MINING
Raubs $134b.
LANDS, HOTELS & BLDGS. H. and S. Hotels $6.15 b., $5.70/6.20
să.
H. K. Realties $4.85 b.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
H. K. Tramways $13.30 6., $13.35 sa. Peak Trams (Old) $4.30 b. Star Ferries $85 b.
China Lights (Old) $13.90 b.
China Lights. (New) $10.95 b. $11
sa
HL K. Electrics $59 b., $59/60 sa. Sandakan Lights $11 b. Telephones (Old) $291⁄2-b. Telephones (New) $11.30 b., $11.40
sa.
INDUSTRIALS
Cements $EL:35-b., $11.35 sa. H. K Ropes $3.30 b., $3.35 sa-
STORES, &C= Dairy Farms/$243% b., $241⁄4 sa. Watsons $435 b.. $4.45 s2
COTTON MILIS. Shanghai Cottons (Old) Sh$102 6. Shanghai Cottons (Sfew) Shay? b. MISCELLANEDUS Constructions (New) 40 cts. b.
Antamoks Atoks Among the passengers who
Baguio Gold rived in the Colony, on the 8.8. Ralatoe Mining President Hoover this morning Benguet Consol were:-Mr. T. H. Brayfield, Miss P. Benguet Explor Dimond, Mr. S. E. Edgar, Miss M. Ellis, Mr. H. Odell, Mr. G. R. Payne and Mr. W. G. Poy..
Big Wedge
Coco Grove
Opening
B
10a.m.
ELA
in Pesos
135
D6
27
1474
14
16
.30
62
Consolidated Mines .045
Demonstrations
90 X. Div.
E. Mindanao Gumaus G'field
34
28
2915
EIL Itogons
145
SINGAPORE RAW RUBBER Golá
Messrs. H. B... Joseph & Co re- ceived the following quotations from Singapore in Straits Currency Raw rubber:
Bayers
Masbate Consol Hin Resources Northern Mining Paracale Gumans Salacot Mining
36% Unchanged San Mauricio 36% Unchanged Suyoc Consol.
United Paracales.
Spot
Apr/June
July/Sept.
37
Oct/Dec.
Market:Firmer.
Up
39
THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
OF HONG KONG, LIMITED
BUILDERS OF ALL CLASSES OF SHIPS.
BUILDERS OF RECIPROCATING STEAM ENGINES.
BUILDERS OF MARINE AND LAND BOILERS.
BUILDERS OF TURBINE MACHINERY.
Under License From Messrs. Parsons.
BUILDERS OF DIESEL ENGINES.
Under Special License From Messrs. Sulzer Bros.
Licensed To Manufacture Lanz Perlit Iron, Specially Suitable
For Internal Combustion Engine Working Parts.
DOCK & SLIPWAYS
FOR DOCKING VERY LARGE, AS WELL AS SMALLER VESSELS ON ANY TIDE
ALE
OF SHIP ENGINE AND BOILER REPAIRS AND EXTENSIVE WELDING BOTH ELECTRICAL AND OXT-ACETYLENE SKILFULLY AND
PROMPTLY CARRIED OUT-
“Talkoodock," "Hong Kong-
30211. ___---- Jumeral One
"Penns
SUGAR PARLEY
Meeting In London In April
London, To-day.
The international sugar confer ence will meet in London on April stated the Premier, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in the House of Commons yesterday.
The English representatives will be the Lord President of the Cour cil, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, the Se- cretary for the Colonies, Ormsby-Gore, and the Secretary for Agriculture, Mr. Herbert Morrison.
Trans-Ocean
BERLIN BOURSE
For the first time banks placed buying. on the Bourse yest
**Business, as a result, was arimated;
though price more
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