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CANTON TRADE
NOTES.
Wholesale orders for ectton yara have been limited, but retail sales fairly brisk. Fine yaras and coarse yarns of No. 20 are in demand and their prices are unchanged. Prices Paper works in the North and of other varieties are also normal. East River districts have been bad-According to a Shanghai telegram ly hit by large arrivals of Japanese dated the oth, price of No. 20 has paper.
tisen by a tael per picul in the Shanghai market, while those of other varieties are steady.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1930.
CANADA'S LIQUOR DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS.
BUSINESS.
STATIONS TO BE INCREASED.
U.S. STILL GETTING SUPPLIES.
SHAREBROKERS' ASSOCIATION.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
hayere Sailers
Balen Kazalo JANUARY 11.
SATURDAY,
Buyer
Bellort Sales Mamiast
Banks
$1,300
1.295; 1,300
K.K. Banks.................. $1,200)
1,993/1,300
2118
Do. (London)...
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215.
Chartered Banks....
£191
227 £15t
Mercantile Bks. "A"
£34
Do.
"C
£15
$95
Washington, Jan, 7-Negotia- tions are under way between the United States and Canada looking Shipping merchants in Kongmoon
to an increase in border patrol | 196 have been doing very badly during
stations from the present number the past few months owing to the Because of the decline of the silk [ of 100 to a total of 600, it was learn. Military situation and the prolong-industry, some of the leading silked to-day. ed. draught.
merchants are trying to make im- Mr. Vincent Massey, Canadian provements in the silk filatures. | Minister to the United States, has There
Preparations are under way for the discussed the proposal with Trea- T150 organisation of a model silk fila-sury Department officials. They ture, and experts have been dis denied, however, that there is any patched to investigate the condi- intention of increasing the border tions in Shuntak and Namhoi. The patrol force to 10,000. proposed model filature is to have thousand women workers who will be properly trained, and then dis patched to the various flatures in the country districts to teach other workers.
has been considerable activity in the fruit market lately Oranges and pears are especially in demand, and the prices have been going up.
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The shoe-making trade has been poor for over a year and hundreds of workers have been idle. This has caused a shorter demand for leather and hide.
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There has been a sharp decrease in the export of Chinese sausages and other preserved meat. Dealers declared that they are doing only half their hormal business.
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RAW SILK.
It is expected that there will be 10 men to each station, making a total of 6,000 men when the increase in nairol stations has been made.
The Administratión's plan, mean- while, involves the placing of nar cotics, liquor, immigration and gen eral smuggling matters under the Coast Guard,
Bank of East Asia..
Insurances
Canton Ins.....
$710
$705
Underwriters
$1.80
North China ........................
8375
$320
$378/376 Union Ins. .................................
$374
M.$50
Yangtsze Ins..............
China Firos .....
$310
H.K. Fires....
$815
$895
Shipping
3264
Douglas02 .........
$24
8271
Steamboats
$43
Indos (pref.) viney
$70
Do. (def.)
:::::F
B0/10 $231
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Water-boats
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Mining
Berquets....
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gith Jan.
$5.45
$301
H.K. Docks ..........
8304
T.106 Shanghai Docks
Tas
New Engineering
T.71
JAPANESE SPRING CROP.
Some members of the Coast Guard stationed at New London. Messrs. Pertreath & Co. send us Conn., have declared that despite 4.70.. Trade conditions in Koukong on the following letter, dated Decem. the abolition of the old "rum row" the West River are improving.ber 9. received from Measta Horn there are still 150 smaller vessels off the coast hueily engaged in ful- Goods are being imported in large by Hemelryk & Co., Liverpool:-
antities and prices of foodstuffs The tendency has been easier dur-lling the requirements of the liquor and other commodities are normal.ing the past week, and on balance trade so far as they are permitted.
In former days values are about 6c. to De. lower.
rum row" con- $11 The market for edible marine The November Raw Silk statis-sisted of a string of large vessels products has improved during thetes compare as follows:
hovering of the 19-mile limit and past two days. Arrivals are short
watching for their chance either to but demand is brisk, and there has
dodge in and land their spirituous been a noticeable increase in the
cargoes close in-shore or trane shipping to smaller vessels which could run the blockade which the There is little demand for either
Coast Guard endeavoured to keep Chinese or foreign artificial ferti The consumption figure, conform-up. This condition has changed but lizers. Owing to the cold spell, theed to general market expectations. critics say it is in degree and detai farmers are in no haste to book The Japanese Spring Crop in esti and rot in its major aspects, orders, and prices have consequent mated to have been 2 per cent, over ly dropped.
last year, say, 417,635,600 lbs. as compared with 409,683,383 is. last year. Estimates of the Summer BAN. ON "OLD BUDDHA." and Autumn crop vary from 8 to 10 per cent. increase. The "Summer and Autumn crop last year amount-
to 266,205,000 lbs.
prices.
some
There has been a slight demand for raw silk since Friday last when The 135 unles were sold. prices were H.K.81,100 for No. 13/35, H.K.8910, for No. 13/15 Best 1 and H.K.8934 for No. 14/16.
The Central Bank of Chinn notes were quoted during the week-end ninety-four per cent, of their face value. The exchange rate for the was about Hong Kong currency 81.27 Canton for the Hong Kong dollar.
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Quotations of both rice and fire wood have gone down as supplies are abundant. Firewood of com- mon quality is sold at $1.60 per picul while rice of common grade is sold at nine catties and a half the dollar.
Arrivals of wolfram ores are short but prices remain firm. The latest quotations vary from HK. $62 to .K. 866 per picul. Demand by foreign merchanta is not brisk at present, and large, arrivals are expected very shortly.
The cotton yatu market during the week-end was disappointing and prices fell by two to three- dollars, demand still being limited. Telegraphic advices from Shanghai indicate that the quotations there have also dropped by about two dollars per bale.
The Canton Government is crect- ing a $2,000,000 zement factory at Saichuen, in the cutskirts of the city. The building will be com- pleted in eighteen months. Machi- nery costing H.K. $60,000 has arrived. It is estimated that the factory will produce 1,200 kega daily, the raw material will be im- ported from Yingtak and Fayuen. The old cement factory in Honan produces 108.000 kegs of cement annually but the amount is for from sufficient to meet the demand of contractors and highway build- ..ers, and at present, foreign cement ia imported in very considerable quantities.
Nov.
.Oct. Nov. 1929. 120, 1928. Bales. Bales Bales, Consumption 50.582 57.489 47,709 Stocks
76,459 64,130 49,500
One of our New York correspon Cents says that many manufactur- ers admit that present prices are low, and that it would seem that the chief obstacle to an advance is uncertainty regarding the immedi late future owing to recent events in the financial world, whilst the Japanese statistical position is also discouraging. The result is that manufacturers have been more in- terested in disposing of their pre- sent stocks than in contracting for supplies of the raw material.
Our New York correspondents cable that Spot and Raw Silk for Tear delivery are in fair demand. There is also a moderate demand for finished silks, and the enquiry for thrown silk is improving. The futures market is now steady but dull.
EXCHANGE RATES.
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Rugby, Jan. il.
123.02 4.87 34.935
Paris
New York Brussels.................
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Amsterdam
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Kailans
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Ewos
T.71
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Do. (LAW)...
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H.K. & S. Hotels... 312.85
T15.90 T.83
T54
FILM
T10
Zeong Sings..
REMINDERS OF ANCIENT COURT LIFE OF PEKING.
The motion picture story of the "Old Buddha,"
the Empress- Dowager Tsu Hai, has been banned Ly Peping officials, ", because it tends to exercise a degenerating in- fluence on the mind of the public and constitutes a grave reflection on the national dignity of China." The story was filmed in Peking last year by the Kanyang Kuo Hud Mo- tion Picture Company, a Chinese concern, by special permission of the local officials at that time.
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Impartial observers who viewed. the private showing of the film agreed that it had been well done, 89.30 and was of considerable historic T.15) and romantic interest, but members of the Kuomintang and Bureaux of Social Welfare and Public. Sa fety, who were asked to pass upon the picture, were unanimous in any- ing that it should not be shown in China. The attitude of the censors was that this is not the time to recall Imperialist days in China, when the "kow.tow" was a degrad.
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China Sugars.....12
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