HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
Authorised Capital
.850.000.000
Isrued and Fally Fald-up ...$20,000,000 Reserve Funds:-
Sterling....N
Hong Kong Currency 'Ro
serve
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
.£ 0,000,000
-$10,000,000
+$20,000,00☎
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson Chairman.
W. H. Lock, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Comptan, Esq. J. K. Bousfeld, Esq.. G. Miskin, Laq....
K. S. Morrison, Beg. L. J. Darios. Enq... Hon. Mr. T. E. Pearos,
The agreement is the climax to negotiations which have been inter found two young cou-Hon. Mr. 8. H. Dodwal. Hon. Mr. A. L. Shield.
progress for the past two years.
It involves a new interpretation of the Rush-Bagot Agreement of 1817 governing naval operations in the Great Lakes.
The new agreement lays down that the vessels are not to be in- tended for service on the Great Lakes, that each government must furnish the other with full details before beginning construction, that warships may be built with full
but armaments
that the latter must be incapable of immediate use while the vessels remain the Lakes, and that the vessels must be moved promptly from the Lakes on completion-Reuter.
ples in bunks.
"This sort of thing is going on all
over the district, but we are powerless to stop it." Mr. A. E. | Amoy Waters, chief A.R.P. West Ham told a reporter.
officer of
Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn Chief Manager.
BRANCHES:-
Fangor Balgon
Ipob
Bangkok
Jobors
Bateria Bombaj Calcutta
Kobe
Ban Francisc
Kowloon
Sbangbal
Canton Thefoo
Kuala Lumpur London
Singapore
Lyons
Sungai Patan
night. Colombo
Dairan
Moochow
"The only solution is to. have paid personnel with definite au- thority on
duty each Young couples find dark corners
Hankow
Marbla [folla
in the shelters to carry on their faiphong love-making. Voluntary war- dens have not the authority to stop sharing bunks, on
"The voluntary warden must find a policeman, and by the time the officer arrives the couples have gone.
but it has been in effect sabotag- ed by the refusal of even the most elementary facilities which experience had shown abundant- ly necessary for its proper and (8) Italian power in Abyssinia convenient functioning. When broken,
these facilities were not refused whose duties lay in other spheres downright there was delay, more instead of providing at least tem- than is adequately explained by porarily the services of an officer the normal demands of office properly equipped to see the routine.
Financial control department set on its feet In throughout has preferred the the matter of an accounting sys- form of cheeseparing to
wise tem. spending, and financial advice
the I may illustrate has taken normally the form of liberality with which the Mala- greater
criticism in arrears or of advice yan Immigration Office has been to utilise the services of non-treated in this matter of provi- existent officers or of officers sioning by quoting one instance. Some few weeks ago I was asked by the Financial Secretary to undertake certain additional work in connection with control of currency carried by
of
(10) final consolidation of the Empire force, each with its own productive arsenal, and entry the United States as a non-belli- gerent ally far beyond Hitler's conception of the use of such al- lies. Reuter,
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I agreed to do so, but asked for
assurance that my ment of six senior officers speci- ally for this service would not be questioned, I having arrived at that figure after carciul consulta- tion with my staff. The reply hinted at scandalous extravagance In staffing, and ended by saying that the Financial Secretary would prefer to drop the scheme altogether rather than consent to such waste; the scheme was cordingly dropped. A few days later I learned accidentally from Mr. Huggins of the Singapore Im- migration Office, who happened to be in the Colony, that his staff had just been augmented by 32 Europeans expressly for this work. Anything more clearly showing
ac-
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CURRENT
Bourabaya
Bwntow
Tientsin
Malacom
Manila
Huar (Johor) Tokyo
Mukden
New York
Peiping
Penang
Thingto Yokokuten
ACCOUNTS opened to
DEPO Local Currency and FIXED BITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Local and Other Currencies ол terms which will be quoted 100 application.
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES of various sizes To Let.
"We Are Powerless"
"By supervision we are doing all we can but without the proper undertaken, authority of paid personnel, or a Ministry order to segregate sexes we are powerless,
the
"And with the problem of men and women sleeping separ- ately arises that of married cou- ples who won't separate." A Ministry of Health official said: "Restrictions should be dealt with locally, and police officers called if order cannot be kept."
When James Kitch, aged nine- teen, a labourer, of Clive Road. Romford, was fined £5 at West Ham for obstructing the police, it was stated
that he told young couples in bunks: "Take no notice of him, it is nothing to do with the police. We can stay here as long as we like."
CHINESE GOODWILL
MISSION
THE UNOFFICIAL CHINESE GOODWILL MILITARY MIS. SION, LED BY SHANG
GENERAL IN
CHEN. ARRIVED NEW DELHI YESTERDAY.
During the stay, extending the lack of sense Thursday, the Mission will be en- of proportion or of imagination tertained by the Viceroy and Com-
would be mander-in-Chief.
in financial control hard to find.
Disregarded
TRUSTEE and EXECUTOR business
Hong Kong, 20th February, 1941.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
The Business of the above Bank 1s conducted by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rules may be obtained on application. FOR THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager.
Hong Kong, 1st March, 1987.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
Authorised Capital Paid-up Capital Reserve and Undivided
Profils
Hon.
.$10,009,000,00 5,508,600,00
2,963,201.50
HEAD OFFICE:~HONG KONG 10, Des Voeux Road, Central,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Sir Shou-son Chow, Chairman; Li Koon Chun, Esq., P. K. Kwok, Esq., Wong Yun Toris, Esq., Chan Ching Shek, Esq.. Li Lan Sang, Esq., Wong Chu Son, Esq. and Fung Ping Wah. Esq.
J
Kan Tong Po, Esq., Chief Manager. Hon. Mr. Li Tse Fog. Manager,
Manda Melbourne Nagasaki Now-York,
Beattle
Samarang Shangha Singapore
to
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-
Amy,
Batavia
Bombay
Caloutte
Parin
Polping
Penang
Bangoon
Baigon
Ban Francisco
The Mission is leaving on Thurs-phos day or a three-week tour of places Hankow of military importance in India, Kobe
Honolulu including the North-West Fron-Kos!DOR Generally, almost all these tier, particularly Peshawar and Loudon causes of unsatisfactory working also Poona and Calcutta from could be digested into one: The where they will return to China. united advice of those working in Reuter. the department and best acquaint- ed by practical experience
with
OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA
Its peculiar problems was given THE CHARTERED BANK second placed to that of those working in far easier conditions, with an adequate and fully train- ed staff, uncrowded offices, and traditions to work by instead of
AND CHINA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1849.
to make; the man on the spot | Paid-up Capitat gave warning of the inevitable Reserve Fund result, and was disregarded. To Reserve Liability of Pro- say that had my advice been taken in all
cases everything would have gone well might be to go too far; but it is at least certain in my mind that had my demands been promptly met the bad: effects would have been greatly minimised, and this in- quiry need not have been held at all.
prietors
£3,000,000 $3,000,000
£3,000,000
HEAD OFFICE:- LONDON: 38, Bishopsgate, E.C.2 Sat-Agencies in Londont
· 117/123, ' Leadenhall Street, E.C.2. West End Branch: 14/16, Cockspur· Street, 'G.W.L, Manchester Branch!
53, Mosley Street, Sïanchester, 2.
Dalbi
AGENCIES AND BRANCHESI
Hankow Penang Hoby Long Rangoon
Gaigon
Iloilo
/pol
ping
Halphona
If in retrospect I see good Ale Bar grounds for accepting blame for amatove the conduct of the department Bangkok they are that I should have ab- Bombay Bateria andoned a manifestly impossible Calcut
Karobl Khar struggle as soon as it became Agencies ( Kobe plain that my demands for the
Cles Btrueh Kasla wherewithal to carry on the CTES.. new department in the only way
Ceba in which it could be carried on Clambe- properly were to be unheeded; pos- sibly I ought to have compromis-Harg ed; as was not so long ago, sug- gested to me by a certain highly- placed Government officer, to Banking. Business: tranzanatadı
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and Gederal· the extent of taking a reasonable CURRENT ACCOUNTS og amount of squeeze in my depart. FIXED DEPOSITS received. ment for granted, and thus I Kear or shorter perioda" in might have allayed a great deal Other Currencies at rates wüler of the sponsored discontent. I be quoted en application can only explain my failure to Local Currency and Starling with x- SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also:opined 30 adopt ether line of action by tareet. allowed at ralon obtamable on an officer who left the service of
· this Government some fourteen undertaker Trecutor and Trustee, busi- years ago and say that any officer: myoma Tan overpaid, on taring which ness and claims recovery, of "British worth his salt will carry on his may be ascertained at say of the work however unencouraging the conditions under which he is call ed upon to work.
Bonsabaya Bwalow
Sydney
Tionisin Vancouver
Exchange business transacted. Loans Every description of Banking and
granted on approved securities.
Current Accounts opened in Local
and Currency and Fixed Deposits received for 'one year or shorter periods in Local Foreign Currencies on terma
Safe Deposit Boxes To Let
which will be quoted on application.
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager.
THE WING ON, BANK, LIMITED.
Head Office: Hong Kong. 28, Des Voeux Road, Central, Authorised. Capital ... $10,000,000
LONDON BANKERS Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and every description of banking business transacted
Current Accounts and Savings Accounts opened. Fixed Deposit received. at rates which will be quoted on application. W
Safe Deposit Boxes for hire.
PHILIP GOCKCHIN,
Chief Manager.
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