HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
Authorised Capital
.$50,000,000
Issued and Fully Paid-up ...$20,000,000 Reserve Funds:—
Sterling
Hong Kong Currency Ro
serve
Leserve Liability of Pro-
priators
.€ 0,500,000
.$10,000,000
.$20,000,000
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONⱭ,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Chairman.
W. H. Lor, Esq.. Deputy Chairman,
. E. Bousfield, Esq... G. Miskin, Eeq..... A. H. Compton, Esq., K. S. Morrison, Esq. Í.. J. Davies. Engu Hon. Mr. T. E. Punton,
corridor into a private chapel at Bon, Mr. B. H. Dodwall, Hon. Mr. A. L. Shielda, one end of the house
There he
seized the intruder by the neck and asked him what he was doing.
Str Vandeleur M. Grayburn
Chief Manager.
BRANCHE8:-
Bangoon Balgun
Pan Francinom Bhanghai
Kuala Lumpur Singapore
Bourabaya
Sungai Patanl
Алад "I thought you were a blinking | Bangkok
the Batavia parson not a cop." gasped
Bombay struggling man. Twice he broke away and was recaptured.
Ipak Johore Kubo
Kowloon
Calcutta
Canton
London
Cheloo
Lyoon
"I told him to hand over any-
Colomba Dalton
Mainoon
Marila
Muar (Johor) Tokyo
Mukden
Tsingtao
New York
Poiping
Penang
| Thing he had taken,“ Canon Jolly Poonbuw
said.
Haiphoog "He gave me a purse and a Flankow large sum of money which belong-Harbin ed to a guest staying at the tollo Deanery.
Women of Britain are ready to give more than their blood for
"I kept him in the house for half story.
an hour talking to him. Then I One of them wrote to Dr. W. gave him a cup of tea and a shil- Stanbury, of Leeds. Regional
ling and let him go. Blood Transfusion Officer --
"I am willing to part with an ear, left-hand finger, thumb or toe, u give a yard of skin, if it will help any kiddie injured in an air raid."
And a twelve-year-old school girl walked into the Mayor's Par- four at Exeter and
offered the Mayor her hair.
"I thought the proceeds could ge to the war effort," she told him. handing over her tresses.
Enlist 1,000,000 pare lunches and the needy
Have 2000,000 study Arst-aid and traffic safety.
fact, will be The objective, in
The Mayor, Mr. R. Glave Saun- to meet any of the unprecedent-ders, examined the blonde
locks ed needs of war and peace," to use and thanked the donor. Olive Mar- a sentence quoted by the "Times-tin, of Old Tiverton Road, Exeter, Herald" from a memorandum pre-for her sacrifice.
-the first will probably be ready at the end of next month. For they will be supplied pieces and householders must put them together themselves. The Home Secretary told "The new shelter is not proufpared for the President.
Another Yorkshire Woman
"I found out subsequently that the about £2 was missing from house. I suppose he still had that on him."
The police are now for the man.
searching
LOCAL SHARES
BANKS
Hong Kong Bank $1340 s, Bank of East Asia $70 b.
INSURANCES Union Ins, $420 b., $430 s.
SHIPPING Indo-China (Pref.) $80 b.
According to the Times-Herald" wrote to the Leeds Blood Trans-DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS, Mrs. Roosevelt called a meeting at
fusion Officer
Wives
against a direct hit, but it is ex- cellent cover against the debris of a two or three-storied house.
the White House of women in of- * tam sixty-five, and last March "The shelter has been doubly firial life.
of members of had a stroke, losing the use of my tested against this: first,
at Congress, of Supreme Court Justi- left arm and leg. by heavy weight dropped directly res, and others were present, in on it, and then by a swinging all some 50 to 75.
blow like that of a collapsing floor,
"It makes sleeping in one's own
home nearly as safe as sleeping in an Anderson."
MAN WHO MADE MISTAKE
AS
NO AID SON DIED
A mother with a new-
"I do not know how A stroke affects the value of one's blood, [but, being lame, I can do no active
work.
"I should be glad to do some- thing for my fellows if I can by giving blood."
DAD'S
born baby dead by her BOOTS
side shouted half an hour
for help in a maternity SAVED BOY
A study of the causes and pre- | vention of aeroplane accidents, home air
raid shelter
written by a student pilot who while two nurses on duty
narrowly escaped a crush in the
ETC.
HK, Docks $15 sa. LANDS. HOTELS & BLDGS. HK. and S. Hotels $2.80 b. H.K. Lands $33 s.
PUBLIC UTILITIES H.K. Tramways $16.20 s., $15.-
90 sa.
b.
China Lights (Old) $5 H.K. Electries Rights $14 s. LAST DAY'S SALES 100 Docks @ $15
200 Trams @ $15.90
RUBBER
CONTROLLER
Swatow
Tientsin
Yokohama
to
opened ACCOUNTS CURRENT
Currency and Local
FIXED DEPO SITS received for One Year or shorter periods 1 Local and Other Currencies
will be quoted on terms which application.
ot
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES of various sizes To Let.
TRUSTEE and EXECUTOR business undertaken.
Hong Kong, 28th February, 1941. HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
The Business of the above Bank ta conducted by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Rules may be obtained on appucation. AND FOR
HONG KONG THE SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 1st March, 1937,
THE BANK OF EAST
ASIA, LTD.
Authorised Capital Paid-up Capital
Reserve and Undivided
Hon.
Profits
$10,000,000.00
5.698,600,00
2,983,261.00
HEAD OFFICE-HONG KONG 10. Des Voeux Road, Central.
BOARD OF
Sir Shou-son
DIRECTORS:-
Chow, Chairman; Li Koon Chun, Esq.. P. K. Kwok, Esq.. Chao China Wong
Yun Tong, Esq.,
Shek, Esq.. Li Lan Sang, Esq., Wong Chu Ben, Esq. and Fung Ping Wah, Esq.
Kan Tong Po, Esq., Chief Manager. Hon. Mr. Li Tae Fong, Manager.
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-
Manila Malbourne Nagnanki
Batavia
Beattie
Bemarang
Bhanghai
New York
Bingapore
Parts
Beaurabaya
Pelping
Bwntow
Pahang
Bydney
Bangoon
Timisia
Kowloon Loodop
Balgon
VADOSITE
Ben Franma00
Bankow
Sir Walrond Sinclair, it
was Amoy announced in London yesterday, Bombay has been appointed Rubber Con- Dalousta Father's big rubber boots help-and managing director
troller. Sa Walrond is chairman | Ustpl/ma of the Honolulu air over- Roosevelt Field, New were having their supper. ed to save Peter Wilby, thirteen, British Tyre and Rubber C-- Koba York, has become fi standard This was revealed at a Ĉardiff who was trapped by falling brick-
work when a training guide throughout Amer-inquest on the baby boy of Mrs.
bomb-damaged, Reuter. ica.
Sarah Roberts, of
shelter collapsed outside his Lon- Fidlas Road,
was
The essay was written as a Cardiff. penalty for a "fagrant mistake" The child, two days old, In the air on the part of Ban- suffocated by blankets. Misadven- ford B. Perkins, a member of ture was the verdict. the Yale University Flying Nurse Katherine Jane Jones ad-
Club.
m'tied to the coroner, Mr. Gerald The instructor ordered him to Tudor, that for half an hour she prepare an exhaustive study of and the other nurse were in the landing technique as a punish-kitchen having supper and could ment. He listed six do's" and not hear the mother's shouts from "dont's" for pilots to make the shelter.
planes will
certain that no other
interfere throughout the pattern of a imanoeuvre: to consider all
cation.
Unattended
or over.
don home.
Total s'aff employed by Minis- Every description of Banking and When workmen ran to his re- try of Food is 30,000. Of these Exchange business transacted. Loang scue his legs were under a mass 114 are in receipt of £1,000 a year granted on approved securities. of debris.
opened in Local Current Accounts Currency and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter periods in Local terme Currencies and Foreign which will be quoted on application.
Safe Deposit Boxes To Let.
Peter, conscious throughout his ordeal, did not shed a tear. While the workmen tore at the THE CHARTERED BANK bricks and concrete Peter slid his |
OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1859.
his feet out of his father's boots which he had been wearing and was dragged out.
But one of his legs has had to be amputated below the knee.
The shelter had been damaged by the blast from time before and was due for re- pair.
a bomb some
"The boy never whimpered," a workman on the scene told a re- absence porter,
presence of mind
other pilots; to give right of way She agreed it was not right to, to pilots executing a more diff-have left patients unattended so cult manoeuvre; to be prepared long without means of communi- for any possibility of collision however remote; not to start a
The coroner said it was not pos- manoeuvre if there is a 'plang sible to say whether the ahead that might interfere; and of the nurses inade any difference "It was his not to rely too much on right of to the fate of the child. He added: which led him to wriggle out of way even
"Whether there arc regula- the boots which helped us to get have it.
few minutes and tions or not, it is far from satis-him out in a factory that patients in a ma-rush him to hospital.
"He has been brave all through." ternity ward should be taken to a shelter and left there without nurses or means of communicat- ing with them."
if you
consider you
CANARY SURVIVES SHOCK
When bombs fell during a Nazi raid on Brighton, Bobby, a five- year-old canary, was buried be- neath debris and suffered
much from shock that he never sang again for seven months.
The sister in charge said ar- rangements had been made so that this would not happen again.
BRINGING HOME
THE BACON
CURFEW FOR CHILDREN
Paid-up Capital Reserve Fund Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
£3,000,000 £3,000,000
£3,000,000
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON: 38, Bishopsgate, E.C.2. But-Agencies in London! 117/122, Leadenhall Street, E C.2. West End Branchi 14/16, Cockspur Street, S.W., Manchester Branch:
52. Mosley Street, Manchester, 1
BRANCHES Panaug
AGENCIES AND
Hankow Houg Long
Alor Star Amritsar
Bangkok
Bataris
Kangoon
Iloilo
Saigou
Ipoh
Boremban
Bombay
Karnobi
Bhangha
Calouta
Klang
Singapore
Agencies 1 Robe
Bitiwan
Olive treat Kuala Lunspan Bourabaya Fairlie Place Euching
Canton
Cawnpore
Cebu
Dolomba
Delhi Haiphone Hamburg
Taiping
Modras
Tiontain
Menila
Torghak
Medan
(Bhuket)
New York
Telotter
4
Palping
Yokokams
Baking)
A curfew for children and the raising of the school age to 16 are FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General The Kowloon Cricket Club pre- among suggestions put forward Banking Business transacted.
cricket, by chief constables of provincial FIXED DEPOSITS received for fine CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and But now people stop In the sentation of prizes for street to listen to the canary. He Tennis, bowls and Billiards will forces in their annual reports to year or shorter periods in fecal or started singing when the first be held at the Club House on check the serious increase in other Currencies at rates which will rays of spring sunshine Altered Saturday, May 3rd, at 9.15 p.m. A juvente crime. through his cage.
Mr Arthur Guy, of Kemp Town, Brighton, owner of the canary, said:
"Bobby was the finest singing canary in the district until we were bombed I never expected to hear him sing, again.
“We all think that his renewed Life as a songster is a prelude to food war news.
| be quoted "on" application mušical" programme is being' ar- The black-out, lack of parental | SAVINGS ACCOUNTS miso opened i ranged and a new game will be control due to war conditions, Local Currency and Sterling with n introduced entitled: "Bringing the temporary breakdown of the terent allowed at rates obtumable on Home The Bacon
educational system at the begin application ning of the war, are said to be The Bank's Head Office in London German newshawks working in mainly responsible for the in- undertakes Executor and Truster busi ness, and claims" recovery of British the United States have their bags crease.*
Income Tax overpaid," on tering which: packed ready for a quick got away. In one area boys were respon« may be ascertained, at any of the Many in New York and Washing-sible for no less than 55 per cent, asmales and Branches, ton have stored their furniture; of the offences committed by per are living in hotels."
{ sons of all ages,
|
W; H. EVANS THOMAS,.....
·Manager."
on
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager.
THE WING on bank, LIMITED.
Head Office: Hong Kong. 26, Des Voeux Road, Central, Authorised Capital... $10,000,000
LONDON BANKERS:- Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and description of banking business transacted.
every
Current Accounts and Savings Accounts opened. Fixed Deposits received at rates which" will be quoted on application.
Safe Deposit Boxes for hire.
PHILIP GOCKCHIN,
Chief Manager.
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