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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1932.
Money and
and Markets
AOFC. Average of Shanghai Stocks
*WENTY
REPREKENKAT IVE
STOCKA
COMMENT ON AO.F.C. AVERAGE.
Shares an
the Shanghai Stuck The A.O.F.C. Average registerni a exchange sagged down just before reevery of 20 from the low of the the Christmas holiday. The market year established be the morning of was very quiet until just a few | December 24. But irregularities hours before 12 o'clock Thursday then get in, for certain shares be when pre-holiday trading onded Some good buying that set in a this time, took prices up, well above. lows established engly in the day.
A firm tons developed on Mon day when business was resemet
came rongsionary" while others 'ex- inded their gaine.
The organization of the govers-, ment at Nanking has relieved sons But it is as yet diffenit to appraise of the ancertainty that has oxisted. policies, and people are still plan-
OUR DRYOLEANING SERVICE MARKS. THIS .CONDITION
POSSIBLE
EVERYONE,
FOR
NO OLD FASHIONED PRESSING METHODS
ARE USED WHICH MERELY MAT
DOWN THE FIBRES
AND DEADEN THE
FABRIC. YOU'LL
LIKE THE WAY YOUR SUITS COME
BACK TO YOU.
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78, WYNDHAM STREET.
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60. Qavos's Road Central, Tol. 21270.
HONG
KONG
HOTEL
New Grill
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Ball
Room
DINNER DANCES
NIGHTLY MONDAYS TO
SATURDAYS
THE
Tea Dances 5 to 7 p.m. every Week-day
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ning cautiously for the future. From this point on, a general im-. provement is expected in the un- settled situation, and the market may become progressively better.
The statistical Tecord of the A.O.F.C. Average follows:-
High for year Low for year
MAYOR'S SECRE- TARY HEAVILY
FINED.
STATESMEN AND ADVERTISING..
A THING NO GOVERNMENT CAN IGNORE.
now
FOURTEEN MILLION
TELEPHONES.
„BIG GROWTH IN LONDON SYSTEM SINCE 1923.
London, December 30-According
UNLEAVENED BREAD FOR JEW'S
CONTRACT PLACED WITH U.S. FIRM FOR SUPPLIES TO RUSSIA,
DANCING MARATHON
CONTINUES
› TWO COUPLES STILL DANCING
AFTER 40 DAYS.
Nice, December 30-Two couples out of the original 18 now, remin at the international dancing mara then, which has been going on for 40 days and nighta.
An English girl collapsed - this" morning half dead, her feet badly
In view of the gïent awakeneng
New York, Dec. 30.-An agree,] to the vital accessity of improving to statistion issued to-day, the num-
ment was reached to-day between trade that is taking place at home | bar of telephone calls in London Amirg, the Soviet trading organi. an awakening that. Hong has increasel from eight million insation in Amerien, and the Manis Kong can
chowitz not for long be indif. 1923 to fourteen million in 1991.
Matzoth Company of ferent to the following speccher,
Special exchangos, are being.com | Cincinnati under, which the latter mada by Lord Luke presiding at to deal with overseas traffic and 18, a thousand tons of matzoth (un- structed by the Cloneral Post Often will send to Russia, until March luncheon given to Mr. Chamber London promises to be the centro. lain, Chancellor of the Exchequer,of what may before many years be leavened broad eaten by the Jaws wollen. She was disqualified; bus -
como a world telephone exchange. by the Incorporated Society of Bri-
during Pasanvor.) The matzoth will won the third prize with her part- Alroady subacribers in Britain are
ner, an Italian. tish Advertisers, and Mr. Cham able to converse by telephone with be delivered free of duty and the berlain's speech in reply, should be people in many parts of the world agreement provides that it must-40 days and, eight hours-with n of interest in putting in a clear
and both South Africa and Japan French its destination not later than will soon be able to take calls. a day before Passover. light one of the most important essentials to "that resic by in business which we, in Hong Kong, ars hopefully anticipating in the present year.
The speechos show the practical interest in the power of advertising displayed by the British Govern- munt, and this example may spread. to Governments situated on the shores of the Pacific Ocea21 and South China Sea
PATHWAY TO TRADE RESTORATION
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Ford Luke, proposing She January 6 24.10 September 19 25.56 chequer, said it was beane nd- (tons) of The Chuneellär of the Ex-
December 24 23.00vertising could be a factor in 10- December 29 23.13
duding costs, both of production and distribution, that the efficiency of their advertising a home and abroad was yearly becoming a matter of over-increasing national importilace It was only by ad vertising line they could get the enerous sales necessary for pro duction 031 a sufficiently large scale to render possible an' all- und reduction in prices. He Jinked with advertising the value of branding as one of the essentials in bringing cost, 'down and build- New York, December 20-The ing up good will. That value had courts here to-day imposed a fine of even been recognized in Govern- 0.$50,000 upon Mr. Russell Shur.ment direles by the establishment of a National Mark for certain wood, the personal secretary of classes of British products. Ad- Mayor James J. Walker of Now vertising, he added, might be anid York City, for his failure to appear to be the oil thus lubricated dis to beetify before the Hofstadter part in that great restoration of tribution. Advertising might play legislative committee which is in national and Imperial trade to vestigating graft and corruption in which they were all looking for this city's administration.
ward.
ALLEGED OBSTRUCTION OF INQUIRY INTO N.Y. CRAFT.
Attorneys for. Mr. Samael Sea- bury, who is preasing the investigu tion of graft here, had asked that Mr. Sherwood be fined C.8100,000, which maximum penalty. They charged
The Treasury Advertises!
said:
Mr. Chamberlain, responding, Referring to the enormous "in- rense lu the power of advertising in the last generation, that even Government Departments had be gun to wake up to the fact that that Mayor Walker has been ment." Even the most dignified of
"Swent were the uses of advertise strumental in keeping Mr. Sherwood away from the investigators.
would have been
the
all Departments, the Treasury, had not despised the efforts of the puo licity agent. He instanced the War bonds campaigni, in which £1,000,000,000 was raised, and the Victory Loan campaign, which re Ne Chancellor of the Exchequer sulted in the raising of £750,000,000 could fail to recognise the tremen deus power of this advertising in. right direction, and to what better strument if it were turned in the direction could it be turned than British-made goods, whether n in stimulating the marketing of home or abroad?
Three Months' Trial. The case has been before the courts since early October when Mr. Seabury, arguing Before Supreme Court Justice Edward J. Glennon, Jr., charged that Mayor Walker had joined forces with those seeking to obstruct the Hofstadter inquiry, Mr. Seabury said that Mayor Walker had kept Mr. Sherwood out of the jurisdiction of the committee.
Mr. Seabury and the Hofstadter He called attention to the speci gommistec for many months have ally fruitful field for advertising been exposing mismanagement, activities in the markets of the graft and corruption in the govern Dominions and Colonies. ment of the city of Now York. They have unearthed scandals and have
Inter-Imperial Trade. made sensatiopal revelations of mis- use of public funds. Mr. Sherwood mic Conference at Ottawa, he hoped Referring to the Imperial Econa- evon. went to Mexico to avaid testifying as to the business ac point for a new and far-reaching that it might. form the starting tivities of Mayor Walker and of poli-development ticians now under investigation by trala, the probers.
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HEALTH IN EASTERN PORTS.
The following for the week ended December 20, fins been issued:-
Plague.
Chaos. Death.
TEA AND DANCING
$1.00
Port Said Rangoon
I
1
Cholera.
Calcutta
Small-pox.
Baghdad
Calcutta
Madras
1
LTD:
Rangoon e Pondicherry. Saigon Amoy Canton Shanghai
4
1
8
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20
3
0
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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS,
of inter-Imperial Their efforts, however, would be nullified unless they were followed by the most active and determined efforts on the part of farmers, manufacturers, and dis tributive agents to make the most of the new channels which were to he opened up to them. The re- storation of prosperity would be a long process, and not the Joast effective patie in the work of re- atcration could be taken by those who controlled the great power of advertising, (Chacre.)
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Lack of restful sleep
A cup of hot Horlick's brings sound refreshing sleep.
A
MODERN MENACE"
"... Doctors say
Too restless, too wakeful.
..... many
of us, say medical authorities, fail: to get the rest we need. Often sleep has not the calm, deep quality that leaves us thoroughly refreshed.
That is why doctors everywhere recommend a hot cup of Horlick's Malted Milk last thing at night. For Horlick's brings yon sound re- freshing sleep.
While you sleep, Horlick's abundant nutriment" (derived from full cream milk and nutritive extracts of wheat and malted barley) supplies your body. with fresh energy.
It is
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Representatives:
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Horlick's Malted Milk
or Chocolate Flavoured
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