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ON LONDON:-
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This Large Volume of approximate- ly 2,200 Pages gives, in addition to the Usual Lists of Firms, an Alphabetical Lista of Residents in the Far East containing the Names of nearly
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April 20, 1931.
HONG
KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1931.
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI OHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
BANKING CORPORATION..
Authorised Capital 850,000,000 Issued & Fully Paid-up...@20,000,000 Reservo Funds-
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.
Board of Directors: Hon. Mr. C. G. 8. MACKIE,
AUSTRALIA AND UHINA. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 1853.
-HEAD OFFICE: LONDON."
prietors................ £3,000,000
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Head Office:
Telegraphie Transfer... 11 Bank Bills, on demand 11) Bank Bills, 4 months'
Sterling unuti Silver
£0,500,000 $10,000,000
05, BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
Capital.
Reserve Fund......
Paid-up Capital ............ £3,000,000 Surplus
..£4,000,000 Reserves
U.8.80,000,000 U.S.61,372,545 U.S.$1,009,209
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months'
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prietors
Reserve Liability of Pro-
80,000,000
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Bank Bills, on demand 007) Credits, 4 months' sight 8471 New York:-
Bank Bills, on demand 23 3/16 Credits, 60 days' sight. 24 15/16 ON BOMBAY :-
Telegraphic Transfer Bank, on demand
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Arranged, with the initials as well ON HaruONG:
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Chairman.
Hon. Mr. J. J. PATERSON,
Deputy Chairman.
W. H. Bell, Esq. A. H. Compton, Esq. B. Lander Lowis, Esq.
G. Miskin, Esq.
T. E. Pearce, Esq.
J. A, Plummer, Esq.
J. P. Warren, Esq.
T. H. R. Shaw, Esq.
Chief Manager:
COLOMBO DAIRIN DELHI
HAIPHONG
MANILA
MEDAN
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NEW YORK
HANKOW..
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TOKTO TSINGTAO TOKOHAMA
ZAMBOANGA
(Phil
Maturia)
Lalande
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General V.M. GHAYBURN, Esq. Banking Business transacted.
On demand............... 4 ON MANILA-On demand.... 477 ON SINGAPORE:—
BRANCHES:-
Amoy
ON BATAVIA: -OD
On demand d. ft
490
Bangkok
I poli Johoro
Peiping
Penang
Batavia
Kobe
Hangoon
Bombay
Kowloon
Saigon
On demand
Calcutta
Kuala
San Frau-
Canton
Lumpur
cisco
ON BANGKOK ! ***
Chefoo
London
Shanghai
On demand
183
SOVEREIGNS, Bank's Buying
Colombo Dairon
Lyons
Singapore
Malacca
Sourabaya
Rate...
1/08
Foochow
Manila
Sungei
BAR SILVER, per oz.
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as Buruames in strict alphabe|ON tical order,
CLASSIFIED" LIST
of
MERCHANTS,
AND
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CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for one rear or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on applica ⚫tion.
A. H. FERGUSON, Manager. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1031.
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BANQUE FRANCO-CHINOISE FOUR LE COMMERCE ET L'INDUSTRIE (Incorporated in France). Prince's Building, Canter Road, Victoria, Hong Kong.
HEAD OFFICE:
74, Rue St. Lazare, Paris.
· Fro. 50,000,000
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Affiliated with THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK Resources Over G. $2,500,000,000.
C. H. BENSON,
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and STERLING on terms which will Beserves be quoted on application.
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Ohio Manager. Hong Kong, 18th July, 1930,
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EQUITABLE EASTERN BANK- ING CORPORATION.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS- U.S. $4,800,000.
HEAD OFFICE:
18, PINE STREET,
NEW YORK.
An American Bank offering complete Foreign Banking Berrics in the principal Markets of the world, Interest Rates on Application.
II. Ice House Street. This Bank in entirely owned by Taz
BLUE FUNNEL
REGULAR AND FAST PASSENGER SERVICES
FREIGHT AND
LONDON SERVICE. "AENEAS"
"CALCHAS””
12th May. For Port Said, Marssiller, London, Botterdam, H'burg. de Glasgow. 28th May, For Port Said, Mars., Casablanca,
London, Botterdam and Hamburg. LIVERPOOL SERVION "ELPENOR" 20th May, For Port Said, Genoa, Havre,
Liverpool and Glasgow. 2nd June, For Port Said, Hours,
Liverpool and Glasgow. PACIFIC SERVICE (via KOBE & YOKOHAMA "TYNDAREUS“ 2nd May, For Vistoria, Vancouverð
PRUTEBILA 8" 19th May, For, Viptoria,, Vaccouver a Beattio.
INWARD SERVICE.
THESEUS "
Due
30th Apr., For 8'hai., Tsingtao, Taku & Daing. "SARPEDON" "MENESTILEUS" 5th May, From New York. PASSENGER SERVICE
For Baile "SARPEDON" 2nd May, Shanghai, Tsingtao, Taku & Dainy. *AENEAS" 12th May, Blagapore, Marseilles & London."
-All cargu steamers with limited passenger accommodation at spocially reduced fares.
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For freight, passage rates, and information apply to the
undermontioned,
All bookings are subject to the provisions of the Company's nus of Lading.
Butterfield & Swire,
Agente.
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CHASE NATIONAL BANK, New York, whois Total Resources TO 0.8. $2,800,000,000.
D. M. BIGGAR,
Manager,
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V.
(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY.)
BANKERS
Established 1924.
HONG KONG OFFICE: 11, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
BRANCHES -- Paria Lyons
22,319,000
Marsefiles
Saigon Haiphong Hanoi
Hus Tourane Quinhon
Thanh hoVinh Pnom Penh Peiping Shanghai Tientsin
Hong Kong
BANKERS: France: Société Générale, Banque Nationale de Cródit Banque de Paris.ct des Pays Bas London: Midland Bank, New York: American Exchange Irving Trust Co., Banca Com- merciale Italiana
Ltd.
San Francisco: Bank of Italy.. Every description of Banking and
Exchange Business transacted. Correspondents throughout the
World.
A. ROLLIN
Manager. Hong Kong, 1st July, 1929.
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED, HEAD OFFICE:- 15, Gracechurch Street, London, E.C. 3.
Authorized Capital' ..... Subscribed Capital Paid-up Capital
Established 1917.).
HEAD OFFICE :-SINGAPORE. Hona Kana Orsici :~13, QUEEN'α RD. C.
Surplus
13.
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CLUES.
Across
1.This will certainly hold water. 5.-She loved Ivanhoe, and her prototype is associated with
A 24.
9.Nearly all edges, one asserts. 10.-May be a pear, or of orange 11.-Past this is really countrified. 12-Cornish town.
20
15-This may be black or silver,
sounds a good deal of. n. myth, and is known the world - over.
18-Feebly describes Chicago's
underworld.
10-The loudest are frequently
the least convincing. 20.-Shades in, and darns the
edges,
13.-Something like, a relation. 2.-Thene may be fowls, or neces.
ship.
10. A feature lacking in much of
modern art..
17.-Much walking takes place over the interior of this large island in the Malay Archi- pelago. 18.-Fastoned,
21. This beer is taken away in
the finish.
sary far one of the forms of
cookery referred to in 28.
22.
Is the party nearly finished 1
23-A quality of certain wines
that sounds like an im- possibility.
97.-Put two letters in front of this two-syllable complaint and find a monosyllabic de scription of it.
28-Nearly an abrupt outburst.
It just stops in time.
Remove the second letter and it is still cook. 28. Salutation to an Eastern The solution will be published to-
official disliked by modern morrow."
children.
24. In the pink. Autherained Capital....Strails 320,000,000 Inspod
25.-Cook. $8,000,000 Paid-up
+ $4,000,000 Resorvo Liabilities of
Shareholders
$4,000,000 52,520,000 Branches, Agencies and Corres pondents in the principal cities of the world.
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted. .
TAN ENG HO01,
Manager.
20-Ornamental table "stand,
Head Office:
BANQUE DE L'INDO-UHINE.
03, Boulevard Haussmans, Paris. Bubscribed Capital Fra.72,000,000,00 Paid-up Capital ... Frs,68,400,000,00 Reserve Fund....Fre. 102,000,000.00
BIANCHES:
Bangkok Hong Kong Quinhon Battambang Hue Saigon
...22,000,000 | Cantho
Mengtsz Shangbai
£1,800,000 Canton Nam Dinh Bingapore £1,050,000 Djibouti Noumen Thanhoa
Reserve Fund and Rest....£1,000,845 Fort Bayard Peposta Tiontein
Batavia
BANKERS:
THE BANK OF ENGLAND
and
MIDLAND BANK, Lro.
BRANCHES :
Karnehi Madras Bangkok Kota Bharu New York Bombay Kuala Krai Penang Calcutta (Kelantan) Port Louis Colombo Kuala Lipis (Mauritius) Delhi (Pahang) Rangoon Galle
Kuala Shanghai Gidrs, 150,000,000 | Hong Kong Lumpur Sile
Howrah Kuantan Singapore Paid-Up Capital...Gldra. 80,030,000- Ipoh (Pabang) Sourabaya
| Authorised Capital
(£12,500,000.)
(£6,000,170.) Reserve Fund........Gldrs. 40,015,000- (£3,334,683.).
Head Office:—Amsterdam.*. Eastern Head Office -Batavio. BEANQUE:-Bandfarmads, Bandoeng, Bombay,
Calcutta Chibon, Djember, Djekja karta" Tha Bayús”%, Jäddah, Kol, Koia ladja, Makkosar, Medan, Pa dang, Palembang, Pekalongan, P ARDE, Pontianak, Radgoun, Holler
dae, Samarang, Bhanghai, Sibers (Samaral. Singapore Bourbe, Boerakarta Colo), Tegal, Tillata and Wallavanden ¿*Time offene kogu Eufe Lispanis Brass Te Xtte London Bankérė: ~ National Provincial Bank, Ltd.
Correspondents all over the world. Banking Business of every descrip-
tion transected.
A. STOKKINK,
Acting Manager. Hong Kong, 18th May, 1930 (30
THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD.
HEAD OFFICE: Hosa Kona.
Hong Kong Currency. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL...$11,000,000 8,605,800 PAID-OF CAPITAL RESERVE FUNDIN 1,100,000
Branches:
MARIAN
CANTON, SHANGHAI, HANKOW, SWATOW, BANGKOK, NEW Youx and BAN FRANCISCO. London Bankers :..... THE LLOYDS Bank, Ltd, Correspondents
Kandy
HONG KONG BRANCH: Every description of Banking and Exchange Business transacted. Travellers Cheques issued.
Haiphong Peiping Tourane. Hankow Pnom Penh Vinh Hanoi Pondicherry Yunnanfu-
BANKERS:
IN FRANCE: Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnais; Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas; Crédit Indus. trial et Cominercial; Société Générale.
IN LONDON: The National Provia
cial and Union Bank of Eng} land, Ltd.; Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris; Crédit Lyonnais,
IN New Your: J. P. Morgan & Co. French-American Banking Corporation; Guaranty Trusty Co., of Now York.
Interest allowed on Current Ac counts and Fixed Deposits accord ing to arrangement.
Trustce and Executorships under. Every description of Banking and
taken. :
INTEREST allowed on Current Ac- counts and Fixed Deposits at Rates that may, be ascertained on appli- cation.
O. L. SANDES,
Manager. 7, Queen's Road Central,
Hong Kong, 20th April, 1931.
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BANK OF CHINA. Reorganized October 28, 1928, under special charter of The National Government as an INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE
BANK.
Bubscribed Capital....$25,000,000.00 Paid-up Capital...... .824,710,200).00 Reserve Funds
#3,820,503.82
HEAD OFFICE:-SHANGHAI. HONG KONG BRANCH;'
Exchange Business transacted. Safe Deposit Boxes to let.
A. LECOT.
Manager. Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1929. [38
| THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
LIMITED
Capital (fully paid up)
Yen 100,000,000 Reserve Fund............Yen 115,000,000
Rio do
HEAD OFFICE; YOKOHAMA,
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES ATH- Alexandria · Honolulu Batavia Berlin Bombay..... Calentia
Janeiro Rangoon
Kai Yuen Karacbl Kobo
4, Queen's Road Central.
Canton Changchun Dairen
London Lyons
Boerabaya Ban Francisco Benttia
Owing to our numerous branches"
Manila
Los Angeles Bemarang Shanghai Shimonoecki Nagasaki (Dalny) Pongtie Nagoya Bingapore in Chins and large connections in
(Mukden) - Nowchwang Bydney the important commercial centres of Hamburg New York the world, we are able to extend to Hankow
Tientsin Oraks
Takyo Paiping
Tsingtao Hong Kong
Interest allowed on Current Ae counts....
all Principal Cities of the World. Four clients special facilities for Harbin.. Foreign Exchange and Banking domestic and foreign banking and
Business of every description oxchange.
We also handle the issue of Bonds Bafe Deposit Boxen (various sizes) and other Public Funds of the at a Yearly Rental of from 8 to Chinese Government both at home
and abroad. 840.
transacted.
· LOOK POONG SHAN,'
#7]
Manager,
SHOP J, CHEN,
Manager.
·
Deposits received for Fixed Periods at rates to be obtained on application.
H. MORI, Manager. Hong Kong, April 11, 1931.
30,1.need not enlurge. bere-you YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
de, though,
31. Your father'a doughters.. 32-That which is over.
Down.
HODE TEPID I8LE ARE ADICAL MKEN GATE PIPEE REST BTENCIL DISEASE ORDERED NEAR ER
1.In this hullabaloo a shell-fish
introduces, our ends. 2.This fruit requires no stoning..EREORGANGEREN. 3-Any ledger is full of this. MEW-SEWELL DEW 4.-Quack remedy, ma BAL;NIKAS PAN.BY BIDE 3.--Prizes that include charges of RUT BEFIP DORIN
the Lord Chancellor.
6. An animal greatly apprecint-
ed in Ireland and Spain. 7.-The game to play. 8.-This gets up your nose. 14.It is said that this is right-
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MEISEN MOLEST RECENT GRIMAGE ORANGE SEDENTAL YAKU EAVED DIRE
and, indeed, there is little ATE REGALLY OAT difference:
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