HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION.
Authorized Capital
Issued' and 'Fully Paid-up'...$20,000,000 Reserve Funds:-
Sterling
$50,000,000
.2 0,500,000
.$10.000,008
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
..$20,000,OGE
Hong Kong Currency Re-
serve
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.
Hon. Mr. J. J. PaterBON, Chairman.
W. H. Lock, Esq..
Deputy Chairmen.
A. H. Compton, Esq..
L. 4. Davids Ex..
G. Miskin, Esq..
R. 8. Morrison, Esq. Hon. Mr. T. E. Paaron,
Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell. Hon. Mr. A. L Shield, Bir Vandeleur m, Grayburp
Chief Manager.
BRANCHES —
J. E. Bousfeld, Esq.,
Ipoh
Bangkok
Jobors
Batavia Bombay Osicutía
Kobe
Kowloon
Lyons
Manila
Malacos
Bangoon
Baigun
Canton Cheloo
Dotow be iitima Poochow
Isiphons Hankow Barbin
Wolla
San Francisundi
Bhanghai
Kuala Lumpur Singapore
London
Bourabaya
Bungei Pand
$WSW
Tienta
Muar (Jokore} Tokyo
Mukden
New York
Peiping
Penang
CURRENT
Local Currency
Talogtas
Yoknkamo
ACCOUNTS opened
DEPO and FIXED SITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Local and Other Currencies
will be quoted ferma which
on
application.
00
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES of various sizes To Let.
TRUSTEE and EXECUTOR businesN undertaken.
Hong Kong, 28th February, 1941.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
The Business of the above Bank te conducted by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
FOR
AND
THE HONG KONG
V. M. GRAYBURN.
Chief Manager,
DURING THE FIFTY YEARS that Miss Annie Rules may be obtained on application. Tandy has worked at a manufacturing jewellers in SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Vyre Street, the Hatton Garden of Birmingham, hundreds of thousands of wedding rings have pass-Hong Kong, 1st March, 1837. ed through her hands.
But, at the age of sixty-three, of the rings I have sold for gipsy she is still wearing her engage-weunings nave weighed just un- ment ring. Her lance died in der 202..
marry.
1913 after they had arranged to Wings On Rings
Showing me her engagement "Heart-shaped wedding rings rng, which she has recently had were once the ruge, nud to-day remodelled in modern style, she engagement rings are being inset said:
with
R.A.F. wings and Army "I first came here when I was badges. thirteen, and have worked under "Many now prefer white gold to three generations of my employ- the yellow gold. My firm remodel- engagement ring, re- colouring it to white gold and re- setting the stones for me.
ers.
I am now cashier and book-led my keeper
"I have seen all the fashions in wedding and engagement rings
"I have helped in making rings during the past fifty years. Some for royalty.
LOCAL SHARES
By Schunan
$2.60
77
James Hilton
Moore
1.60
1.80
Bank of East Asia $70 b.
SHIPPING
Undest
2.00
++
BANKS
Stuart Cloete's.. 2.00 !
Indo-China (Pref.) $80 b. DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS, ETC.
Providents $4.85 b., $5 s. LANDS, HOTELS & BLDGS. H.K. and S. Hotels $2.80 b.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
H.K. Tramways $15.60 b., $16 s. China Lights (Old) $5.70 b.,
$5.90 s.
"Me are very fussy about the'r | signet "rings. Only yesterday a man came in and asked for his ring to be recoloured in white gold to match his wife's wedding ring."
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1833,
Paid-up Capital Reserve Fund
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
£3,000,000. £3,000,000.
£3,000,000,
MEAD OFFICE: LONDON: 38, Bishopagate, E.CZ But-Agencies in Londoni 117/122, Leadenhall Street, E.C.1. West End Branchi 14/16, Cockspur Street, S.W.L. Manchester Branch:
62, Mosley Street, Manchester, 2
AGENCIES AND BRANCHESL
Alor Bhar Amritsar
Bangkok Batavia Bombay
Karachi
Hankow
Pensag
Boog Long
Bangoon
Bollo
Saigon
Ipok
Beremban
Bhanghai
Calcutta
Klang
Bingapore
Agenoves:
Kobe
Bitiawan
Cave Sirens Eumia Lunipar
Bourabaya
Fairlie Place Kuching
Talping
Canton
stadres
Tientsin
Cawnpore
Manila
Tongkah
Medsa
(Bhuket)
New York
Pelping
Talogia Tokokame
INDUSTRIALS
H.K. Ropes $6.10 sa.
STORES, &c. Watsons $9 s.
Lane, Crawfords $71⁄4 s. MISCELLANEOUS
Entertainments $6 b.
LAST DAY'S SALES 118 Hotels @ $2.80
150 Macao E'ectrics @ $17 500 Ropes @ $6.10
2.70
Green Light
"
Douglas
1.80
For Whom the Bell Tolls
11
Earnest Hemingway
2.60
H.K. Electrics Rights $134 S. Macao Electrics $17 b.. $17
sa.
Inner Asian Frontiers of China
By Lattimore
2.70
Peach Path
Kuo Chin Chiu. 1.50
The Fields of Paradise
Bates
2.00
"
Lowell Thomas
1.80
•
Tabor
3.00
"
Churchill
2.20
Bigland
2.60
3.00
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The World's Great Letters
Schuster
3.40
D
Cities of Sin
Leeuw
1.20
The New Concise Pictorial Encyclopedia Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
3.40
5.00
Die Methoden Der Organischen Chemie
Pagant of Adventure
The Star-gager
All in Fun
Into China
Richard Halliburton
By Ven Dr. J. Honbens 50.00
Obtainable at—
SLEIGH CHAMPION
JOINS UP
The world's champion long-dis- tance dog-sleigh driver has left his huskies to learn to fly a long- distance bomber,
...
Leland, Abbott, who made the longest dog-sleigh trip on record when he drove his seven dogs from the Canadian Arctic to New York. 3 800 miles. In September. 1938, to attend the New York World's Fair, has joined the Royal Cana-. dian Air Force.
He has sacrificed a £10 a week touring job in the United States and sold his huskies.
"I felt I had to come back to do my bit," he said, an
THE A.B.C. SECOND-HAND BOOK CO., LTD, NO LARGE HELPINGS!
37, Queen's Road, C. (1st Floor).
"Not as an order, but as a re- quest," the Ministry of Food is asking catering associations not to 'sorve large grills or large portions
of meat, poultry or game...
Many, restaurants have already cut out grills.
George J. Hecht, president and
THE of publisher PARENTS' MAGAZINE, presen's to Frank Lloyd Col- producer-director of umbia's "The Howards of Virginia" the award given the picture as the outstand- ing family audience pro- duction of the month!
" THE HOWARDS OF VIRGINIA“ Starring Cary Grant and Martha Scott, from Eliza beth Page's sensational best-seller "The Tree ; of Liberty" was directed by Frank Lloyd, three-time Academy Award Winner, and 'director of such out- standing screen hits "Mutiny on the Bounty",
Cavalcade", "Under Two " & "It I Were King", and you will want to geć this picture opening to. morrow at the
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KING'S THEATRE!
Cebu
Colombo
Delhi
Haiphoog
Hamburg
(Baking)
FOREIGN FYCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periods to local or Other Currencies at rates which will be quoted on application.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with in- terest allowed at rates obtatoable on application.
The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor and Truster, busk
*WEATE
and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which
at
of the Ray may be ascertained Agencies and Branches.
W. H. EVANS THOMAS,
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 every description of banking business transacted.
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 Mandner.
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