DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS
HONG KONG STOCK
EXCHANGE.
SHAREBROKERS
ASSOCIATION,
Layer Bara
Bala: Nom!}
THURSDAY, OCT. 27.
Boyers
Baller
Banks
$1,250 12.86
$610
$1,180
1,6761,683 H.K. BADE
Do. (London) ** Chartered Banks ...
Mercantile liks. "A"
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1932.
MONEY AND
ANTI-DUMPING
SURCHARGE
81,605
Eil
£14
8141
223
Do.
22)
#
DUTY WHICH MAY BE ABOLISHED
$10)
Bank of East Asia...
8:07
N. O. & 8. Barks
... $71
$28 18
Am. 0. Fin. Corp: 31
[BRITISH WIRELESS SARVIOL.]
81.6il
Prul
Canton inenITASICOR.......
31.340
Underwriters
****** $2.95
Union InsuranIODE .......!
Chins Fires
$516 3676
#614
$620
34.16
China Fin Corp.)
Do
Ingarandee
3254
1231
$45
H.K. Fires*******
International Aw00..
shipping
Dougiakes Steamboats Indos (prof.) Do. doff
RUGBY, Oct, 20.
MARKETS
STERLING STILL FLUCTUATES
LONDON REMAINS
UNPERTURBED
[URITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
| STABILITY OF THE
POUND
#
L
SIR HILTON YOUNG'S SPEECH AT BANKER'S
DINNER
nothing which impeded business and the prosprets of bankers to the same extent as those credits.
He referred to the class of bank- er whose business lay largely over seas and who had been generous londers on short, credit overseas, acting each for himself without co. operation or knowledge by one of; what the others were doing, with the result that, in many instances,, concerns had been enabled to bori
which, row on short credit sunw had the various lenders been aware!
London, Oct. 21-The pound had of, would have been quite out of
Jenny, Oct. 20. QUESTIONED in the House of THERE were again sharp tuctua proved itself more stable than gold, tions in the sterling excluing declared Sir E. Hilton Young, Commons regarding the Cann-rate to-day although the tone of $1,20dian. Covernment's attitude towards the market was reported to be who is the Minister in charge of the anti-dumping surcharge based steadier. At one time it reached Export Credite and Secretary of
3.32 but it closed at 3.20). on the rate of exchange, Mr, J. H.
Sir Robert Horne, former Chan this, Overseas Trade Department in Thomas said. sympathetic considera, cellor of the Exchequer, in a speech the National Government, at a tion was promised to the possibility by the recent falls,
in London, said he was unperturbed bankers' dinner at the Mansion
House last night.
$20
3248 $234 561-
$3%
60%.
46/U
Shella
"24/
Wator-b-osta
$201
Mising
$184
Benguet
$3.80
Venezuela Gold Fid.
23/9 Kailans
TA
Langkats (single)...
T2.10
Loans ...
$10.10 -
Pail
*கம்
T£30
Tronoh Mini
17 cts Benguet Explorations
Docks, Wharves,
Gedowns, sto.
H.K
& K. Wharres.
Providents (old) .....]
Do. (new)...]
W. Docks
***
318 $3.9&
25/
T.
T.21 T.
(5% juba sə)
10/0
of reducing, if not wholly abolishi Without any support from the ing, the duty in so far as it appli- exchange equalisation Account, thei ed to imports to the United King- pound sterling was reaching the
level which is should naturally at
dom.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
A.O.F.C. QUOTATIONS
$146
3147
8.95
12.2')
$2.20
128
H.K.
$10
S. China Slotura' A'
310
New York, October 20. Dow Jones averages:-
18
Do,
"
$10
Oct. Oct.
T.00
1.00
7.6
New Engineerings
T.6
T14.95 T14.90|T! 4.90
Shanghai Dock....
1,225 Hongkwwa
Lands, Hotels, and
Buildings
H.K. Hotela (old)
Do. (new)
H.K. Lands....
B'bai Cottone resear 1973 Zong Singa... T1.10
Pusk Trama (old)
$12
25 20. Ohange. 30 Industrials 60,32 81.38 1,01 up 20 nails 27.12 27.61 .52 up en Utilitics... 26.81 27.18 .37 up
Messrs. E. A. Pierce and Co. Report.
The market showed an absence, of liquidation to-day, with a sharp rocovery taking place at the close. The technical position of the imarket is not as weak as suppored and thero is a fair chance of a moderate advance
The fall in prices in Great Bri tain was less severe than in coun-
tain in relation to the amount of tries, on the gold standard, hel trade being done with the outside said, and a return to gold would world.
be possible only when it was made clear that the gold standard would work properly and that the condi tions set ait in the Ottawa resolu tious would be satisfied.
The difficulties presunted were smith in comparison with the ad vantages of having the pound on a natural level.
HONG KONG STOCK MARKET
YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL
QUOTATIONS
The investment issues were again to the fore, and Lands, Wharves, Electrics, Fercies and Dairie, have registered substantial advances. Ewo were also fairly firm and were booked at Tis. 14.90.
a
The speculative section remained
quiet.
Sales.
Hotels (Old); 811.00. Ewts, Tls. 14.00.
Watsons (Old), 812).
Buyers.
Canton Insurances, $1,355.
$11.90 $11.40
$77!
$763
T.94
Shanghai Laude
T.10
Metropolitan Landı..
$0,00
H.K. Hoalties.......
$9.76
TIL.40
China Du
|1,964
Do. Dubentu os
$16
Humphreys
3133
$140
Asia Reallios "A"M
$28
Do. "B"M
$100
Chinese Estate......
Ootton Milla
[T14.80] T.13
T.JA T11.10
Business done 100,000 shares.
$145
Wing On Textiles(8.)
***
3143
Divi
Last Sale.
Union Insurances, 8510.
Public Utilities
For
Oct. Uct,
Underwriters, $2.83.
$22
Tramways
$211
$100 इ.
$157
Share.
05
20
H.5. Fire Insurances, 81,150.
Da
(DBW)...
374
$3.00 Air Reduction. 8544
$501
Douglases, 328.
Star Furries
$414
Union Waterboats, 8202.
$30
Younati Berrios (old)
0.00 Allied Chemical
Ral, 810.10.
$35
$341
Do (now)
and Dye
715
791
Venz: Goldfields, $3.80.
$17
$17.20
Chins Lights (old)...
817.35
4.00 American Can.. 50
51
$17
Do. (new)...)
3.7.
$78
876
H.K. Bloatrics...... 177
9.00 American Tele-
Macao do.
***
$18
Sandakan Lights...
... 102
103)
$29
5.00 American
To-
00
21-
147-
Do. (prof.)..............
B
Industriais
42
(27)
Malabon Singers.
T.14
1.30
Caldbeck, ford.)
2.00 Borden Co... 20
27
Macgregors pref.)
Canadian
Canton Ives
$15.71
Pacific 13
138
314
$14.20
Cements (comb.)...
(old)...
$14 SIL
(3)
1.00 Chrysler Motors 13} 4.00 Consolidated
13/
112
$12.40
$10
100
Gaa of New York
Maenu Electrics, 825). Cements (Combined), 814.- Dairy Farms, 828). Watsons (New), Wing On (H.K.), 8236. Constructions (New),
11.10.
551
571
299
II.K. Govt. Loans, 1
1.35.
Premium.
302-
$20
328
Sellers.
#137
Ch. E'tainment...... $1
$6)
$1.35
Constructions, (old) $6.30
De.
(now)
31.46
(5.10
Lane Crawfords...... $0.40
Share........... 23 0.40 General Electric, 15
241
$21
2.00 General Foods. 27
281
131
15#
211
3291 Telephones (ald) ......
$28.90
Do, (par
T.10 China Busas.........
Tractions diusunan
Ropes
Do.
Do. (now)...
Chi Agricultur
Miscellaneous
Dairy Farme
Dar A
Wings........
Amusement....**
Mackintosha............
Nanyang Tobacco... 34
$10 Sinceren
$10.00
3121
+14
Watson (old)......
$:2.65
Lo. new)
$121
13.35
W, Powells
$3.3)
310
M. Greyhounds.......
SKL
8. C. Enterprises
United Theatred......
60*).
R. Ind. G. Bonda.....
prem.)
3/1
$10
***
China Sports Ltd... B.K.. Wing On S'hai
Do
H.B. art. Lonas...
Wallaco Harper · ...
LOCAL, AND BEGULAR OUTWARD MAILS,
7.15 am.&f 7,00 mm;-) ·7:15pm & 1·7.00
800 pi
Canton...
Famshal and Wuchow (B) 4.00 p.m.
direct stramer)...
graph and Tele- phone
bacco "B"
Anaconda Cop-
per Mining
4,00 Auburn
22 232 23
4.00 Drugs, Inc.
2.00 Du
Pont de
Nemours...... 331
3.00 Eastman Kodak 49. C%, Electric Bond &
1.00 General Motors 19 1.00 Q.lett Safety. 15 1.20 International
Harvester 201
International
Tel. & Tel.
0
........ 35
901
Ward 11
4.00 Liggett & Myers
"B" 3.00 Locw's Inc.
Montgomery
2.80 National Biscuit. 36
60%
31C4
$236
#z15 2.00 Preific Cut
&
Electric Pennsylvania Railway Radio Corpora- tion
2257
14
Scara Roobuck. 18)
1.00 Standard Oil Cr.
of New Jersey, 201 0.80 Socony-Vacuum
Corp.
1.20 Union Carbide and Carbon ....
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FROM
Frox G.P.0.
SHEUNGWAX Braxon P,0.j
FROM G,P.0.
SUNDAYS & POLIDAY:
FROM SHEUNGWAN BRANCH 2.0.
02
231
17.00 pat
4.00 px.
15.00 pm
1.00 puh.
(8.15am. & 1.16 p.m.
17.00 p..
9,00 17.
BRO,
·Alacho & Tuneñar
***
(7.15 am. & 1.15 p.m.
11,80 p
8.18
1.80 Sundays 8,80 Lonly
6.00 Union Pacific... 63)
United Steel Westinghouse E. & M.
States
344
....... 251
Jongmoon (except Saturdays) 5.00 p,in.
Kankong (100pt Baturdays).
8.00 p.m. 6.00 p.m.
6.00 p
6,00 p.m. 1,00 am,
Fatehan and Wuchow (By) 7:16 am,
Train)
*+
1.00 p.m.
TAO
0,00 am, &
"Tu Pone
Shuurobun
Cheungchow
Blatin,
d-bonde-szi
Branley is
Plagahan, Santin
Shatalok and Shoung- gbruk
Balkung ***
DIS
9,00 m,&
8.00 p.m. 1.00 pm, & 10.00 p.m
8.30.5.
1250 pan. 8.30 6.1.
8.50 p.m.
*480 p
Sundays
only
7.15 m.,
11:00 a 0.001
11.00 ..
$11.00
& 5.00 pany
8.00.
8,80
.10.80 $3,
10,80 ..
69 32 72*** = * * * * * * 77 I I
UNEMPLOYED IN GERMANY
33
143
7
181
201
01
234-1
1.K. & K. Wharves, 8147. Providents (Old), $4,8& Hotels (Old), 811.00 Hotels (New), 811:40. Hong Kong Lands, 8773. Ewo Cottoms, Tls. 14.85. Shanghai Cottons, Tls. 72.. Zong Sings, Tls. 11.10.. Hong Kong Trams, 8212. Star Ferries, 802. Youmati Ferries (Old), 835 Chinn Lights (OLI), $17. Electrica, $78.
Caion lustrancen, $314.
Ewo Cottons, fls. 14.00. Cements (Combined), 814 20. Agriculturals, $10.
Watsons (Old), 912.
EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONE,
On Loubor:-
October 27, 1932.
Telegraphic Transfer... 1/4) Bank Billa, on demand 1/4 Bank Bill, 4 months'
sight in Credita,
months
sight
1/48
1/56
Bank Billa, on demand 585 Credita, 4 months' sight 605 ON NEW YORK:--
ON PARIN
Bank Bills on demand 291 Credita, 60 days' night. 238 OR BOMBY-
Telegraphic Transfer
Bank, on demand ...
ÚN CALOUTTA :--
Telegraphic Transfer
Bank on demand-u
ON SHANGHAI:-
Bank, at sight:
381
ÚR YOKOHAMA (10
954
5,150,000 REVEALED BY STATISTICS"
On demand immagan
891
UBI
ON MANILA-Un demand.... 44 ON SINGAPORE:-**
On demand...
581
ON BATAVIA:~~On demand, 85
Ủa Farrolet-
On demand...........
ON SAIGON:-On demand
On Baxaro;~'
On demand ...................137) BOVERKIONA, Bank's Buying
Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, said that one of the great things which, te chnically speaking, the wished to dispose of was the frozen credits throughout Europe.
THE
There
WR6
ture this be done on some basis of
the question. He urged that, in fu cooperation in the interests of all.
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H. M. T. NEURALIA ARRIVES
HERE TO-DAY.
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Neuralia Ahoy!
"HURRAH! She's off!"
The beautiful white steamship Neuralin with a, cargo of about 1,000 schoolboys on board, is away
Many of you know that the first "Taper" of the season, arrives Neuralin here to-day JIM.T. ieft Engined Inst September and after a long voyage of over five weeks she gets as far as Hong Kong. When she returned home ast May she was immediately commissioned to take schoolbers on board for a long summer holiday trip. I have managed to get you a story, which
"Yes, mother, we're all right!", was written on the spot; so I want you to imagine you are watching shouts a boy, heaming broadly over The Nepralia leave Leith Harbour the ship's side. "I'll be able to run and someone is telling you about the a boat when I came home--you'll į trip.
Cheeria
UNCLE JACK.
STIMULUS
IF you were to examine your mus
eles under a microscope you would see that they are made up of bundles of thread-like cells, called "muscular fibres." These fibres are about one inch long, and are so fine that they measure only about 1-500th of an inch across. But, although so small, each tiny fibre is protect. ed by its own sheath:
Now you know that if you are tickled by a feather you cannot koop still, because you feel an irritatimi. Something just like that happens when your brain sende à mesange. through your nerves ordering your mascles to move. The part you want to move is irritated or excited no that it cannot keep still.
The brain's messago is sometimes calls a "stimulus," because a stimulus is something which rouses people to act. It is also called 'a nervous impulse." As you know,
!
from the strapping dusky sailors from Madras who form the crew!
There will not be much opportu- nity, of learning foreign languages
on her great 10-days" adventure. on the trip, as so many Scandina
viaù boys speak English, but a num- ber of keen young philatelists are. looking forward eagerly to exchang- ing some of the stamps they have brought from their own collections with the boys they meet,
see "
Slowly the Neuralia stegns out of Leith Harbour, but before Lending for the sea she turns left up the Firth of Forth in order to visit the Forth Bridge, one of the engineer, "ing wonders of the world, which. takes so long to paint that no soon. er is it finished than work on it is begun all over again!
i
1
As evening draws on, the Neura is turns and faces cost, gliding out
*|
*1 have brought my gramophone records along," said one bey, and immediately found himself popular with the music committee. A ru- our went round that the Scandina- Vians were to be given a taste of Highland bagpipes and Scottish songs during the time the ship is in foreign ports, and there are to bo games and recls' and community. singing.
How much the boys will learn about the entries they visit re- mains to be neen, but it is certain that they will not forget their first glimpse of the Norwegian fjords, from which the land rises so steeply in some places that the cottages have to be built on precipitous ledges, and the mothers tethor their children to rocks, as if they were gants, when they put them out to play The children do not mind a bit; they are sure-footed, and the rope is long enough to allow them to play in comfort.
Sweden is not so mountainous. It is'n land of inkes and the, timber. As for Denmark, it is best known to musst British boys as the place from which oggs, butter and bacon come! Co-operative farming is the great. businces there.
Momentos of Amundsen and Hansen,
an impulse is something you do on into the gray mists of the North the spur of the moment, because Sea. By morning she will be well you very much want to do it, and on her way to Norway, the land of of course you move because you very fjords and the midnight sun, and
Cathedrals, islands, public parks much want to do so,
before she returns the boys will have Movement is energy, Bet free by a scen Oslo, the Norwegian capital, und museums will pass like a mov- stimulus from the brain. That is Gothenburg, Copenhagen and Stocking picture before the young visi. why, when you rome about all day holm, as well as the Kiel Canal tors, but one of the biggest thrill mother often says you are full of and they will have been welcomed will be when they see the actual old When you are tired the in the various cities by the Norwe. viking ships, Amundsen's tent, and stimulus cannot work so easily, and gian, Danish and Bwedish Boy Nansen's sailcloth boat,
The 200 teachers who have gono you find it a big effort to nove,
Scoute, who will act as guides, showing them as many of the sights with the boys are as excited about at all as are the boys themselves. as time permits.
There was just one complaint, how- _Q_Way_are_gloves_like_pins Seamanship on-Board,
over, as the Neuralia started: Why don't they charter a ship for-the girl? Well, why not?
energy.
A Because they are always-in- pairs (nears).
Q-What flower beheaded becomes
when the AA pink (p-ink).
Berlin, Oct. 1. The hopes that of the jobless by 100,000, were very black .. the Government's now prosperity badly disappointed" pher would suit in a progressing statistics closing on October: 15. Q-Why is a sailor a bad horse- reduction of unemployment, ex Tevealed that the number of the man pectations, which were stimated employed had increased again A Because he rides on the main by the fact that despite the adby 40,000, thus bringing the total (mane).
QWhat is the best field to dance vanced season of the year returns to 5,180,000, of thors officially listed for October 1, showed a decrease and actually receiving some sort of in.. (Continued at faut of next column ) { monetary holp
A-A hop-field
The trip has been so arranged that the boys will learn something of seamanship while on board..
What is the difference between in There will be fairly strict discip line-and-every-morning the captain imara and an egg-Tho mare is a will inspect the troop docks. During the nice-vee and an egg is an e-og Tho inspection the boys will-parade When your tooth has been drawn, at their emergency stations, while why is it like something you have Because, illa, quite mesa orderlies stand to their tables. forgotten1,
And auch yarns 'as they will hear gone out of your head.