DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS
Hong Kong Stock
Exchange
Buyer
Balleru
Balen
Noi
Sharebrokers'
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14,
Association
clearm Sales
Buyers
Silver prices rose 1/18 yesterday Athens for both deliveries, the quotations Belgrade, being 18 9/16 for Ready and 18 Berlin. for Forward,
Silver advices re- Bombay
ported Chins of having bought. Brussel The market was quiet. In Amer Bucharest ica the rate was slightly at 431 Buenos Aires for Spot. The tone was steady.
New York advice reported the Geneva....
1210 Florina 375 Drachmas £76,316 Dinars 20.40 Marki
1. 6d. per Rapes ...36 Belgas 813,568 Lei
47,56d. per Peso 18.159 Kroner 95.29 Franc ...)-193.29 -Marks
550
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1933.
MONEY AND MARKETS
THE EXCHANGE
Sterling.
LONDON EXCHANGE RATES
On Amsterdam
Montevideo
Montreal
ti
Banky
MARKET
1,810
H.K. Banks
11,830
2131
Do. (London) ...
214
"Chartered Banks....
$16
228
Mercantile Bka "A"
MESSRS. ROZA BROS.
E13
Do.
BIS).
REPORT
3101
Bank of East Asia... $984
N; C. & S. Barks
320
Am. O, Fin.Corp:
ព.
Ch. Fin. Corp: Ord. 8.
35
Do. Prof. B
Insurances
$310
Canton Insuranicos...
13271
Underwritera* *****
31.66
$1.60
Union InsuraN868 ........
180
1580
$5.5
China Fires.. ********
1515
Copenhagen
$260
$260/70
H.K. Fires
$270
18
International Asco, S.
Shipping
*#1
Douglases
at 5.001 and operiing rate closing rate at 5.041 The was steady.
the Helsingfors
$10
Steamboat
115
Market.
tone Hongkong
Lisbon Madrid
$30
Incios (pref.)
$34
133
Do. (def.)
$30
to easiness.
$113
Shelly
36/-
$15
* 1
$34
83 sts.
50 ats.
$10
Waterboats
Amtamoks
$10
Mining
Balateos
Baguio Gold
Benguet Consolidated
148 ota. 338
20 ctx.
་**
Do.
130 oth
Do. Exploration
30 ats. Big Wedge ...............................
30 ot.
Goldfield ...
30 cts.
19
Gold Creek.....
19
Ipo Mining..
for
$71
Itogons
23/
Kailans
$15/
$18
184.35
Explorations.......
Langkats (single) B.
31A
$4.35
$6.65 Shanghai Losos :8.
$6.65
37 1/18 February.
$13.30
$13.20
Yen.
Tronoh Mine******
19/
Merchants were quoted
at 115
$6
Venezuela Gold Fizia.
for near delivery.
Docks, WharvRE,
Godowns, #to,
$115 $2.70
H.K. & K. Wharves.
$119
Providents (all)
$1.35
#1
39.76 (new) ... 75.ata. Do. H.K. & W. Docks...
98
$8
S. China Motors" A
Do.
14
•B
$149 Shanghai Dock S.
New EngineeringEN.
$148 18
Quiet.
Shanghai,
9/10
жете
Shanghai Stockholm Vienna Yokohama Silver (spot)
War Loan'
indicated.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
Sterling Parity
Dec. 33.
1/63/64
Dea 12.
8.13)
8.17
582)
582,
340
240
13.79
13.74
1/8 3/64"
23.53)
93,85
1,380
3836.0
38 0.5.
99.40
29.10
16.92
16.03
9264
228
1/5 3/16
1/8 1/18
1093
100%
01/18 621 35).$.0.
405/18
62 9/16
341 O.S.
5,05
5,02
15,072
5.03)
19.90
83 31/32
110
40S.
19.39
1/30/16 10.39
1,
34.58 Schillings 24.384 per Yen
30
30
1/2 13/39
181
1/916/32 18.9/16
109/16
181
21%
100 7/18
1001
PRESIDENT Liners
13
Fastest Time Hong Kong to San Francisco. Speed with Comfort.
TO SAN FRANCISCO 18 Days via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu
Fortnightly anilingə
Pres. Pierce.......Dec. 19, Midnight Pres. Hoover ......Dec. 30, am, Pres. Wilson......Jan. 18, Midnight Pres. Coolidge ...Jan. 7, a.m. Prea. Lincoln... ...Beb. 1a, Midnight
To VICTORIA, SEATTLE 17 Days
via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama
Fortnightly sailingö Fres, Jefferson... Des. 22, Midnight Pres. Grant .......Jan. 5, Midnight Fros. Cleveland Jan, 19, Midnight Pres, Jackson.. Fab 2, Midnight Pres. Jefferson.....Feb 18, Midnight
ROUND TRIP FARES TO EUROPE & AMERICA.
Special through rates to Europe via United States. ecanestions with all Atlantic ince.
Direct
Choice of all lines across 20 United States and Canada, liberal rop-over privileges for
Sight-seeing. Full particulars upon application. ⠀⠀
Fortnightly via Suez to Europe & America
Fortnightly sailings on Saturdays via Manila, 8traits, Colombo, Bombay, 18pez Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Canoa. Marsilles, New York and Boston
Pres. Garfield Dec. 23,8 m. Prem Polk ......
Jan. 8.
Pres. Adams........ Jan. 20, 8.m.
TO
Next Sailing.....
Pres. Hoover
Pres. Garfield
Pres. Grant
Pros. Harrison
Prez Hayes ̈ ̈... Pres. Johnson.
MANILA
..Pres,
.Dec. 21,0 p.m. Dec. 23, 8, ........ Dec. 30, 6 p.m”,
...Feb. 3, a.m.
... Feb. 17,8 a.m.
Mar. 9,8
Jefferson Dec. 16, 6 p.m.
Pres. Folk Jan. 8. Prea Wilson J&D. & po Pres. Cleveland........Jan. 13, 6 p.m..
Connecting with 8.8. MATON To CEBU, ILOILO, ZAMBOANGA
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP
AMERICAN
LINES
MAIL LINE
FEDDER BUILDING-HONG KỞNG. CANTON BRANCH:+4, SHAKIR ROAD..
$15 China Da..........
970
Cotton Milla
3117 S'hat. Cotton......S. 8131 Zoong Sings S Wing On Textiles(9.)
Public Utilities Tramways coLAZIT
Quiet. The market was inclined Milan
Business was done early in the Now York morning at 1/5 5/16 for January Oslo
Paris... delivery. The Prague....
32 at followed later by transactions at
1/5 9/32 for near market closed at lunch time with Rio de Janeiro) sellers at 1/51 December, 1/5 9/32 January and 1/5 5/18 February, buyers at 1/32 higher respectively. U.S. Dollar. Business was done at 36
delivery. There near
sellers at 364 December, 381 Jan- Silver (forward)
nary, and 37 February, buyers at
36 9/16 for near, 36) January and
Shanghal Dollars,
Were quoted at 110 13/16 for cash.
Sellers were
at 1/3 9/16 for near, buyers at 1/3 December.
IN THE AFTERNOON The market was quiet in the afternoon, the tone being a shade steadler.
Sterling
In Sterling business was as.
110 Escudes 25.29 Pesotas 02:48 Lire
.80.964. per Peso
4.667 Dolları 4.687 Dollars 18.159 Kroner .-14.21 France
184. Kronen, 26.934. par Gold
Milreis
18.159 Kroner
19.90
.83 19/32
110
4 &0. 1/38
Closing Quotations
Decoinber 14, 1933.
ON LONDON:
Telegraphic Transfer... Bank Bills, on demand Bank Billa, 4 months*
sight
Credits, four months'
sight
ON NEW YORK:-
Bank Bills, on demand 3:
Credits, eo days' sight.. noun
ON BATAVIA:-
Du demand
ON PARIS:
"Bank Bills, on demand 685
Credits, 4 months' sight Bo
1/5
ON SHANGHAI :----
ON SAIGON:
On Deniand
ON SINGAPORE :--
10#
On demand
1
ON MANILA :-
On demand
DOA
On demand
ON JAPAN:-
ON BANGKOK :---
On demand
114
Op demand
21
ranged at 1/5 5/16 January OR INDIA: -
finishing with sellers at 1/5 9/32 Telegraphic Transfer... 1
half
December 1/5 5/16 second
January-February, buyers at 1/5 5/16 December and probably JAR- uary and 1/5 11/3 February.
U.S. Dollars.
The "market closed with sellers at 364 December, 36 Jan- uary and 37 1/16 February, bun ers at 36 for, hear, 364 January and 37 February..
H. K. STOCK MARKET
YESTERDAY'S "OFFICIAL
$7
1351
Hongkewn" on
23.
Lands, Hoteli, and
Bulidings
$6.30
H.K. Hotels
$8.15 162
3714
FI.K Tanda.......8. 37
$30
Shanghai Lands...A..
$14
Metropolitan Lands..
$51
H.K. Realties
38
$137
Do. Debenturea S
812.10
312
Humphreys
New Asia Hotel
*******
161
3140
$20
Asia Realties "A" S.
Do.
"B" 9.
507
Chinese Estates....
$13
"Ewos
B. $13
+118
$13
3-5
$211
$31.10
$151 Poak Traina (old)......
$7
Do. (new)...
$15 37+
$OB
Star Ferries...................
8241
Yaumati Ferries
$23
$9.60 $9.40
China Lights (old)........
$9.56 F.20
$9
Do.
(DOW)...
$731
$741
$23
H.K. Electrics ...... Macao
!
"
da
$104 330 324.90
Sandakan Lights .... Telephones C. Rts.
Do.
1301
I. Ets.
$35
11
.Do. Rights
$17.
011!
China Buses
S.
3/
25/
ca
Do. (prof.)
Industrials
$15
Malabon Sugars
321
Caldbeck, Hard.) 2.
$19
Macgregor (pref.)8.
$8
Canton Ives ..........
313
$2.50
Do. (old)...
»5 cta
Do. (DOW)...
10 ct.
$81
Ropes
$61
$28
Dairy Farms ---------
$28)
ST
Der A Wing.......
Canton Insurances $310. Union Insurances $585.
Amusemente......
STO
Ch/Etainment...... $10.10
$10
$2
Constructions, (old)
-€0 ala
$21
$4,50
$8.30
Tractions
Cements comb.)... $1.20
Miscellaneous
Do.
(now) 55 sta
Lane Crawfords.......
Mackintosh 99049
Nanyang Tobacco...
$13.20 Sincares
Watsons
Wm. Powolle....
151
$3,60
32.10
32
M. Greyhounds
***
$11
S. C. Enterprise
$2
38
United Thestrea... 8........
81%.
B. Ind. G. Bonds... 78%
H.K. Gost, Loam... $132
Wallace Harper................)
$140
BK Wing Oa
$140
$140
38
S'ha "Do
Asia Lands Limited
Gloucester Building " Tel. 28880 We offer you a complete brokerage. service for the purchase or sale of New York Securities Daily quotations sent-gratis-upon request. See our investment news on the Financial Page of The Hongkong Daily Press
“¡Canton“, „Agenta
John H. Ferguson & Co.
32, B. C. Shameen.
Tel. 13624
QUOTATIONS
shares at current rates.
Bank, on demand
SIGNIFICENT FIGURES
Cotton In The Sudan
Special Air-Mail Service
Sovians, Bank Buying
Hate
BAR SILVER, per oz.
681
70'
131 rom
1/58 18 9/16
BURMA CORPN. ACCOUNTS
Excellent Working For Past Year
The full accounts of the Burma Corporation, Ltd., for the year to June 30 last show an increase in London, November 22.
net profit from some 28,72,000 The foreign trade returns for rupees to 41,71,000 rupees, which September issued by the Sudan is very gratifying in view of the Government are significant in altcuit conditions still prevailing.
was shown regard to cotton. It
The improvement is mainly due In the sterling section sales of that for the first eight months of to expansion in the demand for Banks and Unions were reported this year out of the total cotton lead during the closing quarter of to-day at $1.820 and $585, respec- ginned in the Budan £930,000 the period, a demand which the tively. In the general list, Hongworth was exported to Great Bri- company was able to satisfy in Kong Lands changed hands attain and only £82 worth to considerable measure from ac- $711, whilst some forward busi- Japan, whereas the import of cot cumulated stocks at prices in ex- ness was transferred in the minor ton plece goods was £273,000 cess of their balance sheet vaina. from Japan and "only £93,000 tion. A further factor" of import- China Lights. This Company from Great Britain Much the ance was a decline in costs from has declared a dividend of 45 cents same position was rapidly arising Rs. 31.8 to Rs.28.4 per ton on a on the old shares, which, while in the Colonies; in Ceylon, Ken-tonnage mined and treated 63,921, better than expected, had a some-ya Tanganyika, West Indies, and tons above the level of 1931-32. what mixed reception in the other countries owing to the many Dividends paid out of the pro- market, shares being still offered kets being flooded with Japanese fate of the year amounted, to 34 at $9.35 with buyers bidding #91. goods. To meet that competition annas, against only 2 annas for
Sales...
trom a country which bought the preceding period, and it will Hong Kong Banks $1,820.
practically nothing from the Su-be recalled that an interim dist can, and to place the home, and tribation of 4 annas has already. been made in respect of the cur- favourable a position the rent accounting year. During the competitors, a tax per yard could period the company continued to be imposed on all imports of suffer from the low price of lead Japanese cloth,
and topper. which averaged less than for 1931-32. It, however, reaped some advantage from the recovery in spelter quotations.
Hong Kong Fire Insurances 20 European manufacturers in as
to $270.
Hong Kong Lands $714. China Lights (Old) 89.40. Electrics $741.
Buyers.
Hong Kong Banks $1,810. Union Insurances $580. Hong Kong Fire Insurances $280.) Douglases $344.
Benguet Explorations 30 cts.
Raubs $13.20,
Wharvės $115.
'Providents (Old) $2.70.
Ewo Cottons 8h. 813.
Chinese Estates $97.
Hong Kong Trams 8211. Star Ferries $89).
China Lights (Old) $91. Hong Kong Electrics #734. Macao Electrics $22) Watsons $6.30. Lane Crawfords 844. Government Loans 4 percent
"Premium.
Sellers.
Hong Kong Banks $1.830. Hotels 86.30. China Lights (Old) #p.35.
EQUIPPING CHINESE COTTON MILLS
Large Orders Placed in England
23
PROSPECTS OF PARANA
Special Air-Mail Service-
SHANGHAI RUBBER
NEW YORK STOCK
EXCHANGE
ASIA LANDS, LTD., QUOTATIONS. (INCORPORATED · IN HONG KONG).
Tel. 28380-Gloucester Building, Room 206.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)
New York: December 13.
Dow Jones Averages: High 1932
30 Industrials
108.27
20 Baile
55.53
87.73
60.07
20 Utilitäen
40 Bonds
Low: Dec, 19., Den, 13. 41.8% 101.64100.69 1393.49.47. .. 1653 24.37 65.78 83.12
Change .95 down 41.99 48 down 94.4308 up 83.31.18 up
Ásia Ganda, Tâmited, has received the following report form their New York correspondents, E. A Pierce & Co. There was nothing new today. The tone was heavy on the surface but there was no determined fallow through on the selling side.
Wheat: December liquidation induced local selling pressure of de- ferred deliveries and buying power was lacking. It is still dry, in the Bouth West
Cotton: There was an increase in price-fixing, which absorbed sell- ing from the Boath. Europe was a moderate buyer of distants. The mar ket action indicated that any improvement in general demand is likely to result in higher prices.
Silver: Activity was very spasmodic in voluma Small offerings continue to be readily available on bida.
Business, Done: 1,330,000 shares,
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SAB
1501
4
Canadian Pacific
1335
Div.
LAST SALE
FLIGH
Low PER SK
Dec, 19: Dec, 13.
106
30TM
200 Air Reduction
$1012
101
1494
4.00 Allied Chemical & Dyst
1474
148
对您
29
400 American" Can
971
American Smelting..
424
424
137
70%
9.00 American Tel, & Tol.
120
119%
44
5.00 American Tobacco "B
741
748
4
11
1.00 American Waterworks .....
10
191
**
Anaconda Copper Mining
141
1614
28/
200 Auburn
211
4+
Bendix Aviation s
18
1.80 Borden Company
201
마
13
13 1/2
1031
182
J. T. Caso
734:
48
0.50 Caterpillar Ce.
25
47€
178
14 Chass National Bank
184Bid 18 Bid
1.00 Chrysler Motors
B17
3.40 Consolidated Gas of N.Y.
Curtin Wright
B01
2.00 Da Pont de Nemours”
"761
3.00 Eastman Kodak
Electric Auto-Lite Co.
104
8% Electric Bond & Bbdre
14
13
Electric Power and Light.
0.40 General Electric
201
Rate on Rate on
301
6.12.37 13.12.33
401
198
1.60 General Foods
364
$5.25
84.40
341
..7
1.00 General Motors
342
$3
2.00 2.20
10% ∙1.00 Gillette Safety ...
-35
34
+971
48
10%
1.15 1.00
(38) 37
1.20 Gold Dust 6.60 International Harvester
International Tel. & Tel.
Myers "B
411
14
84
B 1.00 Loew's Inc.
324
38 37
Montgomery Ward.
92
91
201
2.50 National Biscuit
42
1.00 National City Bank
184B
187Bid
6,00 6.00:
1.20 National Dairy Products 0.00 Otis Elevator
134
16%
To Pacific Gas & Electric
18
Packard Motóm ........
QUOTATIONS
Supplied by Benjamin & Potts
London, November 22- With regard to the companies in which they were interested, the Kassala Cotton Co had experien- ced the same dificulties as those with which they themselves had had to contend, and its recently published: accounts showed only a small profit. In the case of Parana' Anglo Javas Plantations, with the potentialities Anglo Dutch of 3,000,000 acres. of first class Batu Anams
at higher Chemors land, increasing sales
prices and a railway which should Consolidateds Boon be showing an excess of re- "Kroewoeks venue over expenditure, he was Repahs
of opinion that that investment Tanah Merahs would be a good one... The post- Tebongs
tion of Sudan Salt Ltd, was great Zlangbes
ly improved, and it would appear
that the company should soon
40 40
50
reach the stage where revenue Canton Silk Market.
would more than balance expens diture.
The report was unanimously adopted.
Aret mill, which is now being con- Orders amounting to many structed, have been placed with thousands of pounds have been Messrs. Platt Brothers, the Oldi pined by the Canton Government ham firm of textile machinery, with Lancashire and Midland er manufacturers, and a Midland electrical geering firm's for the equipping arm is supplying the of a number of cotton mills which apparatus. The combined orders are being erected in the south of total about £250,000. ** China. The mills will include The Canton Government has spinning, weaving, and doubling engaged Mr. Harold Briggs, of Oldham, as technical adviserin Orders for the equipping of the connection with the project.
concerns."
From the Kwangtung - Raw Sik Testing Bureau, Department of Reconstruction, Canton
Canton Quotations,
Décember 12 Extra O.3. 13/16, HK, #57ON, Small Extra 08. 13/15 HK
46470N
Crack NS, 14/15 HK 8375N. Extra Extra 20/22 LR 1330P Waste NS. Open HK 855 Yokohama Quotations.
December 13, Bpot, Yen 585, Bourse 6 months, Yen 512
0.56 Pennsylvania Railway
Radio Corp.
Sears Roebuck
100 Standard Brands
Standard Gadis
100 Standard Oil Co. of New
Jersey
Bocony-Vacuum Corpn.....id 1.00 Texas Corporation
Trans-America
1.00 Union Carbids & Carbon
'27" 8.00 Union Pacifo
-United Air and Tra United Corporation United States Stee Westinghouse E-“
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