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and
DIRECTORY
for
1930
Now In Preparation.
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THE
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI, CHARTERED BANK OF DIDIA,
BANKING CORPORATION.
Authorised Capital $50,000,000! Iuued & Fully Paid-up...$90,000,000 Reserve Funds:--
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. INCORPORATED BY ROTAL CHARTER,
.***.1953.
HEAD OFFICE: LOWDOW.
£3,000,000
Reserve Fund munion £4,000,000 Reserve Liability of Pro-
Sterling
Silver
£8,500,000 $9,000,000
Faid-up Capital
Reserve Liability of Pro-
priators
....$20,000,000
"HEAD OFFICE: Foxo Kora,
Board of Directors :
J. A. PLUMMER, Esq., Chairman. C. G. S. MACKIE, Esq., Deputy
B. D. F. Boith, Esq. W. H. Bell, Esq.
Chairman.
A. H. Compton, Esq..
B. Lander Lewis, Esq..
W. L. Pattenden, Esq.
T. E. Pearce, Esq.
T. H. R. Shaw, Esq.
J. P. Warren, Esq.
Chie! Manager:
Hon. Mr. A. G. HYNES.
Kuala
BRANCHEN:-
Amoy
Ipoh
Peiping
Bangkok
Johore
Lenaug
Batavia
Kobe
Rangoon
Bombay
Kowloos
Saigon
Calcutta
San Fran-
Lumpur
cisco
Shanghai
Singapore
Bourabaya
"Patani
Canton
Chefoo London
Colombo
Dairen
I
Lyons
Malaces
Foochow Manila Sungei
Haiphong Muar
Hamburg (Johore) Tientsin Hankow Mukden Tokyo Harbin Nagasaki Tsingtao Honake New York Yokohams Laila
:
CULLEST ACCOUNTS opened in LOCAL COBRENOY sad Fizzo De POSITS received for one year or shorter periods in Look CURRENCY and STERLING on terms which will be quoted on application.
Hong Kong, 24th Feb. 1930. (20
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
THE Business" of the above Bank T conducted by the HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rules may be ob- tained on application.
For the HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, A. C. HYNES,
Chief Manager... Hong Kong, 13th Sept., 1997. [2 EQUITABLE EASTERN BANK- ING CORPORATION..
CAPITAL, SURPLUS AND UNDIVIDED PROFITS
U.S. $4,000,000.00
HEAD OFFICE:
87, WALL STREET, *. NEW YORK.
An American Bank offering com. plete Foreign Banking Service in the principal Markets of the world.
Interest Allowed on all Deposita.
A Subsidiary of
$ 3.75
Rates on Application.
$ 7.50. $15.00
281
prietors
„£3,000,000
AGENCIES & BRANCHES: ALOR STAN HONG KONG TONGKAN
(Malay tata) ILOILO AMRITSAR IPOH
BANGUON
BANGKOK
BATAVIA BUMBAY
CALOUTTA MANION CAWNPOBE CEBU COLOMBO DAHLEN DELMI
HAIPHONG
HAMBURG KANKOW KABBIN
Tora
Manchuria)
(huket)
SEMARANG
KEREMBAN
BHANGHAI
KARACHI
KLANO
КОНЕ
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KUALA
KANOSAR
SINGAPORE
KUALA
BOURABAYA
LUMPUR KUCHUNG
MABIRAY- MANILA
TAIPING (F-3.4) TAYOY TIENTSIN
MEDAN NEW YORK
PEPING
PENAKO PESHAWAR
TOKYO THINGTAO
TOKDIAMA ZAHDOANGA
(Pbilippins
slands)
FOREIGN EXCHAxes and General Banking Business transacted..
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened ad FIXED DEPOSITS received, for one year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on applica tion.
A. H. FERGUSON,
Manager. Hong Kong, 9th Jan., 1928. [30
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BANQUE FRANCO-CHINOISE POUR LE COMMERCE ET L'INDUSTRIE (Incorporated in France): Prince's Building, Chater Road, Victoria, Hong Kong.
HEAD OFFICE:
74, Rue St. Lazare, París.
Fra. Capital, fully paid-up, ... 50,000,000 Special Working Capital 50,000,000 Reserves ........
22,318,000
BRANCHES:
Marseilles
Paris Lyons Yaigon Haiphong Hanoi
རཱ་ Huo
Pnom Penh
Tourane' Quinhon Thanh hoa Vinh Paping Shanghai Ticutain
Hong Kong
BANKERS: France: Bociété Générale, Banque Nationale de Crédit, Banque "de Paris et des Pays Bas London: Midland Bank, Ltd. New York: American Exchange Irving Trust Co., Banca Com. merciale Italiana.
San Francisco: Bank of Italy.
Every description of Banking and
Exchange Business transacted.
the Correspondents throughout
World.
A. BOLLIN,
Manager.
Hong Kong, 1st July, 1829. THE MZEJANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,
HEAD OFFICE:-
16, Gracechurch Street, London, E.O. 3.
Authorized Capital
Subscribed Capitai Paid-up Capital
THE EQUITABLE TRUST COM-Reserve Fand and Best
PANY OF NEW YORK.
Total Resources in excess of 0.8. $900,000,000.00.
D. M. BIGGAR,
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL- MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V.
BANTKES =
26, 1930.
Wills
GOLD
FLAKE
CIGARETTES
GOLD
· Brister & Lender
FOR ALL TIMES IN ALL CLIMES
This advertisement in larued by the British-American Tobased Co, (China) Lad
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.
Head Office:
26, Boulevard Haussmann, Pariä. 23,000,000 Subscribed Capital Frs.79,000,000.00 The £1,800,000 Paid-up Capital ... Frs.68,400,000.00 21,050,000 Reserve Fund ..... Fra.103,000,000.00
1,812,047
BRANCHES:
TH BANK OF ENGLAND and MIDLAND BANK, LTD.
Managar,
Bangkok Batavia Bombay
(NETHERLANDS TRADING BOOINTY.)
BANKERS!!
Established 1824.
| Calcutta
Colombo Delhi Galle
Hong Kong
BỘNG XONG 07710; 11, QUEEN'S ROAD, Howrah
CENTRAL.
"Authorised Capital
BLUE FUNNEL
LINE
REGULAR AND FAST PASSENGER SERVICES |
FREIGHT AND
LONDON SERVICE.
"PHILOÛTETES" 4th Mar., Mlos., Is'doa., B'dan, & H'berg. "AEKEAS" 18th Mar, Mle, Lidon, R'dam, & Glasgow,
LIVERPOOL SERVICE. "LAOMEDON" 5th Mar., Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow. **KEEMUN” 20th Mar., Genos, Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow.
PACIFIC SERVICE. (via KOBE & YOKOHAMA) "PROTESILAUS" 6th Mar., Victoria, Vancouver & Beattle, "TALTHYBIUS" 20th Mar., Victoria, Vancouver & Beattie,
INWARD SERVICE. PROTESILAUS" 1st Mar, Kobe & Yokohama' "CANFA" 1st Mar., S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Y'hame.
PASSENGER SERVICE AENEAS 18th Mar., Singapore, M'les. & London. "SARFEDON" 16th Apr., Singapore, Mies. & London.
Also cargo steamers with limited passenger sccommodation
at specially reduced fares.
For freight, passage raize, and information apply to:-
Butterfield & Swire,
Agenta.
Gidra. 150,000,000- (£12,500,000.) Paid-Up Capital...Gidrs. 80,000,000 (£6,668,607.) Beserve Fund... Gldrs. 40,000,000- (£3,333,333.)
Djoki
Head Office:-Amsterdam.® Eastern Head Office:-Batavia. BLANCHEjerman, Handoen. By Calcutta Cheron, Djembefor karta. The lingu Kotacliada Makasar, Hedin, F dang. Palembang, Pekalongan, Pe TIKU, Postlamak, Tauroon, lutter- dem, barang", Ehanghel, Bibolga
Sooraba Bingapore, (Sumatra), Soerakarta (501), Trys), Tjilatjap and Weltevreden.
*These #flove kava Buft Deposit Bezze Te Lai,
London Bankers:--- National Provincial Bank, Ltd.
Correspondenta all over the world. Banking Business of every descrip-
tion transacted
P. M. ELBERG, Manager. Hong Kong, 27th May, 1929. [34 THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD. HEAD OFFION: HONG KONG.
Hong Kong Currency. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL. $11,000,000 8,664,200 PAID-UP CAPITAL MA
850,000 RESERYE FOND......... Branches-
CANTON, SHANGHAI," HANKOW SWATOW, BANⱭEDE, NEW
YORK and SA
FRANCISCO. London Bankers:— THE LLOTDA BANK, LAD. Corresponderíta
In all Principal Cities of the World. Foreign Exchange and Banking DUANCES of every description transacted,
Bafe Deposit Boxes (various sises)
Ipoh Kandy
BRANCHES :
Karachi Madras Kota Bharu New York Kuala Krai Penang
. (Kelantan)Port Louis
Kuala Lipis (Mauritius) (Pahang) Rangoon Kuala Shanghai Lumpur Simla Kuantan Singapore
(Pahang) Sourabaya
HONG KONG BRANCH: Every description of Banking and Exchange Business transacted.
Travellers Cheques issued."
Trustee and Executorships under taken.
INTEIST allowed on Current Ac counts and Fixed Deposita at Rates that may be ascertained on. appli- cation.
C. L. C. SANDES, Manager
7, Queen's Road Central.
Hong Kong, lat Oct., 1929. [29
THE BANK OF CHINA. 行銀冠中
(Specially authorised by Presidential Mandate of the Republic of
China on the end of y
November, 1917.)
A
Bangkok, Hong Kong. Quiahon Battambang Hus
Cantho Canton
Saigon
Mengtez Nam Dinh
Shaughsi
Singapore
Thanhoa
Tientain
Djibouti NouDies
Fort Bayard Papeete Haiphong Peping Tourane Haikow Prom-Penh Vinh
Pondicherry Yunnanfu
Elanci
BANKER:
IN FRANCE: Comptoir National d'Facompte de Paris: Credit Lyonnais Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas; Crédit Indus trial et Commercial; Société Générale
IN LONDON: The National Provin
cial and Union Bank of Eng land, Ltd.; Comptoir Nationa d'Escompte de Paris; Crédit "Lyonnai
In New York: J. P. Morgan &
Bank. Co.; French-American
Guaranty ing Corporation; Trusty Co., of New York. Interest allowed on Current Ac- counts and Fixed Deposits accord- ing to arrangement.
Every description of Banking and Exchange Basiness transacted. Safe Deposit Boxes to let,
A. LECOT,
Manager. Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1920. [39]
THE YOKOHAMA SPEDIE BANK,
LIMITED.
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, $80,000,000.00 Capital fully paid up
ZAID-UP CAPITAL RESERVE FUND
Yen 100,000,000 19,760,200.00
9,884,208.09 Reserve Fund....Yen 108,500,000
Head Office:-PIPING. Hong Kong Branch:-, QUEMA'S ROAD CENTRAL.
HEAD OFFICE: YOKOHAMA,
BRANONES AND AGENCIES AT : Alexandria Kai Ynen Rangoon Karachi Kobe
Canton
London
Lyons
Saigon Boorabaya San
Francisco
Branches and Sub-branches all over Batavia China, and Correspondents in Bombay. Europe, America, and other Calcutta parts of the world.". London Bankers-Tas GUARANTE Changchun Los Angeles Seattle
TRUSTY Co. of New York, Tax Dairen Manila Semarang VIDIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK, (Dalny) Nagasaki Shanghai
Singapore Fongtien Nagoya New York "Bankers-Tux EQUIT-
(Mukden) Newchwang Bhimonoseki ARTS EASTERN BANKING COR- Hamburg New York Sydney PORATION, THE IRVING BANK Bankow Osaka Tientsin
Harbin COLUMBIA Tauer Co.
Peping Tokyo Interest allowed on Current Ao Hong Kong Rio de Teinanfo Dounts and Fixed Deposits Terms Honolulu Janeiro Tringtso on application
Every description of Banking Business transacted.
Approved Loans granted on..... Becurities.
Special facilities for domestic
at a Yearly Bented of from 85 to exchange.
LOOK POONG SHAN,
SHOU J. CHEN, Manager. Hong Kong, 29th June, 1927.
Buenos Ayres (Temporarily closed). Vladivostock (Temporarily closed). Interest allowed on Current A counts.
Deposits received for Pixed Periods at rates to be obtained on application, an
H. MORI, Manager. Hong Kong, Sept. 11, 1999-
AGENCIES.
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I Local Companies desirous of taking op farther Agencies will let us know the Lines in which they are Interested the information will be forwarded to London and passed. on to interested parties as op. portunity offers.
This Service is offered to our Beaders without charge and, of courses so obligation is incurred on either aide.
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EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS,
Dr Coron
February 26, 1930. Telegraphic Transier....1/01 Bank Bills, on demand 1/6 3/18 Bank Bills, at 30 days'.
sight
Bank Bills, attend months right........ Credits at 4 months"
sight
Documentary Bill, 4
months' sight
On PARIS. ·.
1/61
1/7
1/72
Bank Bills, on demand 942)
• Credits, 4 months' might 1017) On New York-
Bank Bills, on demand 36% Credits, at 00 đ/1.38 ON BOMBAY
Telegraphic Transfer Bank Bills, où dow
maad
Chr CALCUYTÁ.***
Telegraphic Transfer Bank Bill on "de-
mand
ON SHANGHAI...------
1011
101
Bank Bills, et sight ...79
Private, 30 days' sight
ON YOKOHAMA
On demand
742
ON MANILA-On demand... 74
ON SINGAPORE-
On demand
65
BATAVIA-Ou demand... 913
Os HipnonG.—
On demand
now.
ON SAIGON-On demand...nom, ON BANGKOK-
"On demand
ROVIREGLA, Bank's Buying
ratoor GOLD LA, 10 dae; per
BAR SILVER, per cz.
1221
12.65
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