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CANADA AND THE ORIENT. ly increase.
POTENTIAL GRAIN MARKET.
["D.P." Special Service.]
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1929.
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RAW. SILK.
PROBLEM OF THE JAPANESE MARKET.
Mees. Pentreath & Co. have forwarded us the following letter, dated August 19. from Mesers. Hornby, Hemelryk & Co., Liver pool:-
In the meantime w must regard it as a fluctuating mar ket, to which our shipments may be three or four times one year what they are the next. $
To form opinion of the potentialities of the Oriental mar. ket it is only necessary to remem- Vancouver, B.C.-Canada looks
ber the great population. Accord to the Orient as a market of greating to Davisson, the consumption promise in the future for her grain of wheat per capita in France is 7.3 bushels per annum; in Canada trade, W. Lloyd Craig said here 7.4 in Great Britain 3.5, in Italy
6.9, ia Australia 6.3 and #0 recently on the occasion of his re- tirement as chairman of the Van throughout the countries inhabited by the white races. In Japan the couver Grain Exchange.
consumption of wheat is only 0.8 bushels per capita, and although the figures are not given for China,follows:- it is considerably less than Japan.
"Of Canada's wheat markets, the Orient is probably the most pro. mising yet is the most difficult" to develop, Craig said.
"The ex- port of North American wheat to the Orient has been a development of the twentieth century. In China and Japan wheat is consumed only when it is cheap or when the rice crop fas
The Orient is a highly-competi- tive market, but a very good begin. ning has been made in introducing Canadian hard wheat, and obser vers well competent to judge have no hesitation in saying that the consumption of wheat and wheat four throughout Asia will gradual-
CONSIGNEE NOTICES
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION Co.'s. STEAMER MIZAPORE,"
A HONG KONG ON 16ta SEPTEMBER, 1929. FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.
VONSIGNEEB of Cargo by the abors
CONSIGN VERI are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and
A READER'S APPRECIA-
TION.
The following letter was re- ceived last week from a grate-
ful render :-
to
*Dear Kufan,-I beg inform you that I have found your advice extremely valuable and helpful, and consequently. I nur very thankful to you."
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Since our last report, August has been down to 4.806., but prices anve hardened in the meantime, and, on balance, values are from 2c. to de. higher.
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Japanese statistics compare at
July June May 1920. 1920. 1929. Bales. Boles. Bales.
Shipments to
U.S.A. 59,078 30,232 42,092 Settlenieats
for export... 2,000 37,000 48,000 Arrivals from
interior 69,600 31,200 41,630 Into slight
movement... 71,1 6,812 43,617 Port stocks... 11,000 1,000 27,000
According to mail advices from New York, although the Japanese statistics were generally considered bearish, the earlier reports from Japan of extended drought have caveed some "apprehension regard- ing the outturn of the summer snd autumn crop.
Sentiment appears very mixed.
A tug of war between Japancic reelers and exporters is believed to
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON
350 METRES.
1.45 p.m.-Weather_report. 5.30 to 6.30 p.m.-Programme of Chinese music (records supplied by The Sinophone Co., Ltd.).
port.
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7.45 p.m.-Evening weather re 8 p.m.- Evening programme. (Columbia records supplied by Alessrs. Anderson Music Co., Ltd.). The Belle of New York" Selec
tion, Regimental Band of H.M., Grenadier Guards. "Valse Bloue (Margis), and
"Amoureuse. Valse (Berger), J. I. Squire Celesto Octet." "Love The Magician" (de Falla).
Korales Symphony Orchestra. "Clowns in Clover-The Calinda"
and Clowns in Clover Little Boy Blues," Quartette: June, Bobby Comer, Chick Dennis Cowles, and Chorus. -
(Strauss), The Gipsy Baron
Selection Johann Strauss and Symphony Orchearts. The Marriage of Figaro-Oh, Come, Do Not Delay," and "You, who have Knowledge' (Mozart), Soprano Bella Bailie, Pomp and Circumstance" Marut.
and
Lorraine "Marche' (Ganne), Regimental Band of
H.M. Grenadier Guaros, "Song. Without Words, No. 18, (Mendelssohn), "Minuet in G major" (Paderewski), Piano- Forte Solo, William Murdoch. "Signal March of the Cavalry'
and The Imprisoned Cas- sucks," The Don Cossacks Choir.
Barenrolle" Tschaikowsky, and Vaise Creole," Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards.
(Gounod) and "Ave Maria"
Chanson Triste" (Tschaikow- sky, Cello Solo, Giuseppe Di Silva "The Twelve Robbers," and "On
the Road to St. Petersburg." The Don Cossacks Choir.. "The Barber of Seville," Rossini,
Overture B.B.C. Wireless Sym phony Orchestra. "Polka," and "Berceuse" (d'Osten -Sacken), The Catterall Quar- tette..
"The Bohemian Girl" (Balfe),
Overture Percy Pitt and B.B.C. Wireless Symphony Orchestra. O Signore Che Dal Tetto Natio " (Verdi), and Chorus of Ciga rette Girls" (Biset), La Scala Chorus of Milan, "Prelude in C sharp Minor," and "Humoreske (Dvorak), Organ Solo, C. T. Pattman. "Queen High" Selection. Percival
Mackey's Band. 10.30 p.m.-Close down.
be in progress, and the latter, with DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS.
commit
In the
alleged substantial short ** When it in considered that an
ments, are holding off in the hope of one increase in consumption
that financial needs and the ad. bushel per capita in China and Japan would mean an increased vancing yen will force the flatures
to liquidate their silk. consumption of nearly 500,000,000
meantime, American manufacturers bushele, there seems to be some justification for the statement that are believed to bave placed them- in future Canada may look to selves some time ago in a comfort. the Orient as her principal marketable position for their autumn re-
quirements. for wheat.'"
While pointing to the rapid growth in the development of grain exports through the Pacific porta grain crop this year in the Cana. dian West would be smaller than any since 1994-United Press.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
Buyers Bears Sales Nominal
Our New York correspondents cabled that manufacturers appear $1,230 fairly well supplied for, the current
placed at Tausn urs'x in the Hong Kong of Canada, Craig said that the mouth and are holding aloof from £20 and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com- Godowas at Kowloon, where each 'pany's
Cossigament will be sorted out Mark by Mark and Delivery can be obtained an the Goods are landod.
This Vessel brings on Cargo from London, ko, and from Persian Gulf ox B.I.S.N. and B. & P.S.N. Co. Steamers. Options! Goods will be landed here anlous instructions have been given to the ", contrary 6 hears before arrival of the.
Steamer.
Gooda not cleared within 9 days including date of arrival will be subject to
Bapt
NO
Fire Insurance will be effected by va in any case whatever.
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowas for examination by the Con- signese, and the Company's Burreyor, MANTS, GODDARD & Douglas at 10 al. Thursdays, within the End
он
Mondays Free Storage period.
All Claims against the Steamer must bo procated to the Undersigned on or before 6th October, 1929, or they will not be recognized.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown. MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co.
Agents.
Hong Kong, 18th Sept. 1990. [8380
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CANADIAN NEWSPRINT
EXPORTS.
SHOW CONSIDERABLE GAIN.
[“ D.R." Special Service.]
Ottawa, Oat.-Canadian newe print exports during June reached the value of $13,035,556. This was more than $400,000 heavier, than the figure of $12,014.252 for the preced. ing month and was nearly $9,000,000
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$310
$7.50
China Fires
$310
H.K. Fires
$760
Shipping
5274 Douglases
325
226
$25
Steamboats
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Indos (prof.)
$70
Do. det
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heavier than the total of $11,130,670 CANTON MARKET REPORTS.
for June, 1928. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reporte the total for all paper and manufac tures thereof exported from Canada during June as $13,555,979, com. pared with $13,124,730 in May and 811.509.257 in. June of last year.
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Fu. Ngun Yun
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