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"DECOLITE"
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7TH, 1925
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The Pick of the Pictures
FIRST NATIONAL PICTURES PRESENTS
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STRONGHEART
The Wonder-dog
IN
"THE SILENT CALL"
in 7 parts.
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DANCING DISPLAY BY
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TO-DAY, at 2.30 & 7 pm sharp.
Another Big Chinese Masterpiece
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Their most recent Chinese Love Drama in twelve parts.
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AMERICAN COTTON AND
ASIATIC MARKETS. Reviewing the effect of conditions in
Asia on the market for American cotton, the National Bank of Commerec in New York points out that the Far East' ab sorbs the bulk of cotton manufactures moving in international trade and thus indirectly but powerfully influences the world market for American cotton. Writ ing in the December issue of Commerce Monthly, the Bank says:
"Last season the United States con- sumed and exported from its own crop a total of 11,000,000 bales. This year a larger trop lends interest to the cutlook for increased exports in the current sen- son and to the tread of affairs in the East which will have an important hearing on the volume of export demand."
"The cotton spinning mills in China during the 1924-24 season were operating at about three-fourths of capacity while in Japan spinning was nearly 15 per cent. below full-time schedules. For the Ascal year ended March 31st, 1024, yarn pro duction in India was also low, running nearly 15 per een, less than in the pre- vious fiscal year. It is dihet to put these facts into terms of actual cotton but It may he said roughly that if mills in Japan and China were to go on full time this year and Indiate production were to reach that of 1922-23 the total consump- tion in these three countries would be around 1,000,000 hales larger than that of last scusou.
The bulk of the mill consumption in these Eastern countries is cotton of Indian and Chinese growth but it is as a market for goods manufactured in Europe that these countries come in most direct relation, with the American crop. Before the war China was the world's largest market for cotton yarns, but this trade was divided about evenly between India and Japan. As a piece-goods mar. ket, however, China accounted for 10 per cart. of Britain's total output. The out- look for increased activity of Chinese mills and larger imports this, season is doubtful. Sharp losses in both Japanese and British shipments of cotton goods to China in September revealed the effect of disordered political conditions. In India consumption of cotton goods in recent years has been notably restricted.
Native mill production in the last fiscal year was only 540,000,000 yards larger than that in 1913-14 as compared with a decline of 1,770,000,000 yards in aes imports and an estimated loss of 100,000,000 yards in the output of the hand weavers.
Fasparable trade balances for some time back and prospects for good crops this year poins to a greater demand for cotton goods generally. During the first nine months of the current year, the volume of Indian piece goods imports has been 12 per cent, above that of a year
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sgc. During September Great Britain. BE. WARREN & CO., LTD shipped to India 150 million square yards of piece goods, a gain of 34 million square yards over shipments of Septem ber, 1923, and the total for the frat nine
months of 1024 was 1,251,000,000 as com pared with 1,074.000.000 square yards, a year ago. While the influence of the Gandhi movement in favour of cottage woren cloths is still felt in some parts India in many places mill cloths are steadily gaining. These facts certainly afford a foundation for the belief that the increase in raw cotton exports from the United States to Great Britain this sea- son is a real indication of a greater con- sumption in fatare months."
HONGKONG" SHARE MARKET.. CLOSING QUOTATIONS
JUARY 6TH 1925. and Shanghai
$1,200 b.: Canton InsuranČAS
3060 b. $7710. b.
b.
Hongkong
Banks
Union Insurance||
Hongkong Firadusurances Douglas Steamships......8541
ELE, C. & M. Steamboats...39% nom. "Star" Farmies
#136 b. Chins Sud
Sugared)
{com Wharron Kowloon Whampoa Docks
Shanghai Docks
Hongkow Wharvo.. New Engineerings................ Hongkong Lands...
Tia. 24 b. #212 b. $130 b.
109 b..
Tim. 210 b TTA, 7.40 nom.
Hongkong Hotels...fold) $19 b., (new) 118 B. Famphreys Estates. $21 b.
Ewo Cotton MTs.....
Shanghai Cottons
Orientais
...Tlx 12; b.
(sid) Th. 60 &
(new) Ms. 23 nom,
Tla. 4 b.
Hongkong Reyes (combined) $45 nom.
Cement
China Providente (combined) $374 b.
Waterboats
Dairy Farms ...... 27 b.
Walans
Hongkong Electrics...
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INDIAN
UOTTON RESEARCH",
· LABORATORY.
The Viceroy on December 3rd laid the Foundation stone of the Technological Research Laboratory and opened the spinning platitted at Bombay,
of the Indian Central Cotton
An important of the In-
This function marks
advance in the develop is dificult to dian cotton industry and it over-estimate the value of the new Jahnem ito
to India. The laboratory will properly controlled spinning
and will be able to interpret the and arrange later for full-scale
tests for the Agriculture 1
before new sottons are brought into gener nl cultivation. The Research Labora tory thus formed will be the only one in the world concentrating in the improve. ment of raw material and the investigat tion -olj growers' needs...
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THE WORLD
TO-DAY till SATURDAY
Another Film Masterpiece
.
MARY PHILBIN Most beautiful of Screen Ingenues
and
NORMAN KERRY Filmlands' Handsomest Lover
..in
The Wonderful exotic love drama.
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