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HONG KONG'S COMMERCE
Statistical Review Of
Year's Trade
CONSIDERABLE DECREASES
SHOWN
The Statistical, Office of the Imports and Exports Depart- ment reports that, during the year 1934, the combined values of Imports and exports of merchandise amounted to $741.0 millions, as compared with $904.0 millions in 1933, and $1,095.9 millions in 1932.
Imports of merchandise into the Colony in 1934 were declar- ed at $415.9 millions," as compared with $500.9 millions in 1933, and 624.0 millions in 1932.
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Exports of merchandise were declared at $325.1 millions, an compared with $403.1 millions in 1933, and 5471.9 millions in 1932.
In terms of Hong Kong.currency the values of imports of merchandise in 1934 showed a 'decline of 17.0% as compared with 1933, and 33.3% as compared with 1932; whilst exposla showed a decline of 19.4% as compared with 1933, and 31.1% as compared with 1932.
Sterling values of Imports of merchandise in 1934 amount- ed to £31,7 milions, as compared with £33.9 millions in 1933, and €41.0 millions fa 1932; whilst exports were valued at £218 millions, as compared with £27.4 millions, in 1933, and £310 millions in 1932.
In terms of sterling, vaļues the import Agures for 1934_zé-" corded a decline of 6.5% as compared with. 1933, and 22.7% as compared with 1932; whilst exports declined by 9.5% as com- · pared with 1933, and 20.0% as compared with 1932.
Imports of Treasure during 1934 amounted to $78.1 millions, as compared with $38.1 millions in 1933, and $85.3 millions in 1932; whilst exports totalled $128.5 millions, as compared with " $134.1 millions in 1933, and $140.6 millions in 1932.
The following tables show total imports and exports of merchandise and treasure during the past three years:-
Merchandise
Treasure
„“Total
Merchandise
Treasure Total
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1935.
THE SERVICE ADVANTAGE
The Development Of Defence
RHK GOLF CLUB
Results Of Shield And Cup Ties
The following are the results to date of the Stubbs Shield and the
Just as in the day before torpe- does and bombing airerafs the struggle existed between projectile | G. M. Young Cup:— and armour-plating in naval war- fare, each in turn.improving itself until it had temporarily got the better of the other, so was (and continues.to_bel_the_fight between. the server and the receiver at lawn tennis. It is some years since a really new variety of service was invented for the discomfiture of the receiver, but when Arst Intro duced the varieties of the Ameri- can service, as exemplined first by Beals Wright. and developed by McLoughlin, proved to be devastat ing in their effects, until the proper counter to them, discovered by Parke and Wilding, robbed them of much of their terror. The possession of a breaking service is. nowadays, by no means a guar- antee of victory; but the inventive-. ness of the young Americari brain, assisted by the length of the young American body and arms. has developed the "cannon-ball”, service which, like the "smash," quite frequently scores a point outright from its slider pace.
STUBBS SHIELD
2nd Bound (Concluded) HK. University beat Canadian
Pacific, 3 and 2. Dodwell & Co. beat Gilman &
Ca, 1 up.
3rd Round University beat A.P.C., 3 and 2 Chartered · Bank beat Gover-
ment Medical Dept., 3 and 2. Jardine Matheson to play Dalry.
Farm Co,
To deal with this variety of service by standing right in to it. and taking it almost on the half- volley-the method which proved effective in the case of the "breaking" service is beyond the power of ninety-nine men out of a hundred. Consequently the de- fence against it being, apparently, undiscoverable so far as `the humari element is concerned, an agitation is springing up to deal with it by other methods. It has been laid down, with probable truth, that the area of the service` court, available for the successful use of the can- non-ball service is only the last eight inches of the court's depth. That is," that every ace-winning service successful by pace alone pitches somewhere along the width of the service Hre within eight Export. Agures show increased inches of the line itself. It does shipments of liquor, machinery, not require any vast ingenuity to minerals and ores, and nuts and suggest that if the service line seeds: machinery exports, in were brought six inches nearer the particular, jumping from $1.9 m net, the margin of the cannon. llons in 1933 to $5.8 millions in ball's efficacy would be so consid 1934. Exports of building materi-erably reduced as to render it als fen $895,000 tr 1934 às com-
IMPORTS
1933
1932 500,938,794 - 624,047,600 85,272,403 709,320,003 EXPORTS
1933
1932 403,092,170 471,859,706 134,132,584 140,013.831 537,224,751 611,873,537
1934 $15,918,522.
78,080,869 493,999,391
83,113,252
539,052,046
•디
1934 325,184,653 128,479,528 453,584,181
From the tables of quarterly values of imports and exports of merchandise it will be seen that. in terms of sterling values, both imports and exports increased in the last quarter of 1934, as com- pared with the last quarter of 1933 hidtily on account of higher exchange but values in local cur-pared with 1933; chemicals and renty recorded comparative de clines in each quarter.
drugs. $524,000: 'Chinese medicines $390,000; dyeing materials $832,000: foodstuffs 351,432,000; fuels 81,038,-
K.-C. Railway to play Dodwell &
Co.
G.M. YOUNG CUP «
2nd Round (Concluded) Union, Insurance w.d. Löwe, Bing- ham Matthews (scratched). A.P.C. best Dodwelt & Co.
Semi-Finals
Union Insurance to play A.P.C. Jardine Matheson to play Char-
tered Bank,
regard to the very few players whose service counts for anything vital at the expense of all the rest of the millions who play the game all over the world. The ordinary player finds it hard enough to keep his service within the limita tions of the service court as it at present exists: take away nearly a thousand square inches of its sur- face from him, and he would either be reduced" to a dismally soft service, or present his oppon- ent with a luxuriant crap of "doubles.”
Carrying this suggestion into effect, therefore, would ruin the game from the ordinary player's point of view; and it is the ordin=" ary player not the "champion or the would-be champion who ought. to be considered. At present, the reliable defence against the "can- non-ball service is only in process of being discovered: that it will be found, the history of the develop- ment of the game shows us. And practically harmless. This suggest must always be remembered tion has, in fact, recently been put that the expenditure of energy forward.
necessary to produce the "cannon ball may very well tend to the To carry. It into effect would | defeat of its user in a long match,
"Doubtful Benefits
As regards imports the most 000; hardware $317,000; fertilizers undoubtedly, deprive the "cannon as has been evident at Wimbledon
noticeable features were the con- sistent increased shares of the trade enjoyed by Japan and China, and the steady decline of
imports from the United King dom. The share of Japan. In- creased from 5.0% in 1933 to 8.8% in 1934; China from 31.0% to 35.2%; Netherlands East Indies from 1.8% to 83%; USA. from 6.2% to 71-% and British Malaya from 1.3% to 1.3%. The share of the United Kingdom fell from 12.3% in 1933 to 10.4% in 1933, and 7.8% in 1934: French Indo- China, Siam, Germany, India and Belgium also accounted for de- creased shares of the trade. ». «
$5,808,000: metals $2,595.000; olls and fats $4,647,000; paints $351,000: paper and paperware $1,081,000:- plece goods $8,820,000; tobacco $890,000: vehicles $19.000: wearing
apparel $1,000; and sundries $7,818,000.
From the tables of Treasure movements it will be seen that, with the exception of Bank Notes and Hong Kong Silver Dollars, all items recorded an excess of ex- ports over importe in 1824. Cop- per Cents recorded an excess ex- port of $107,839; Gold Bars $56,- 155,681; Gold Coin $528049; Gold Leaf $238,108; Silver Bars $5,616,-. 128; Chinese Silver Dollars $7,943.- 052; and Suver Subsidiary: Coin $206,887. *
The following comparative tables show the quarterly values of im- ports and exports of merchandise. since 1924 in E's millions.
Imports
China took's considerably amal- ler proportion of the exports from the Colony, accounting for only 48.0% in 1934, as compared with 56.3% in 1933: the chief countries increasing their shares being Bri- tish Malaya from 5.3% to 76% French Indo-China from 8.0% to 74% Japan from 3.2% to 3.5%: 1st Quarter £19.3 16:3 85 7.1 Blam from 3.6% to 45%; USA.j
$165.4 139.7 132.8 95.8
1924 1925 1933 1934
from 4.8% to 5.7%; and the 2nd Quarter, £17.1 14.5 8.5 7.1 Netherlands East Indies from
$144.0 128.0 128,1 99.7 8.58.1
·$161.7-- * £221 108.6
24% to 2.8%. Exports from Hong 3rd Quarter £19.2 Kong to the United Kingdom have
at no time assumed any large pro- 4th Quarter 16.5 portion.
.
Of the various groups of import-
ed commodities there were slight increases recorded of liquors,
machinery, nuts and seeds, and ↑ paper and paperware. Impurts of live animals in 1934 fell $2,181,000
$130.0
8.4 9.4 119.9 113.8
Total 2721 30.8 33.9 31.7
“$607.7-288,6 500,9 415.9
Exporta
1924 1925 1933 1934
as compared with 1933; bullding 1st Quarter £18.3 15.2 8.8 6.8 materials $2,093,000; chendieals
$156.8 130.3 1053 77.5 and drugs $964,000; Chinese medi 2nd Quarter 215.2 14.1 7.2 5.7 cines $1,070,000; dyeing materials
ball" server of nearly all his pre- sent advantage, but would it in prove the game? In the first teration of the rules governing the place, it would necessitate an al-
measurements - of the court rules which ever since the game began about seventy years ago have proved both acceptable and adequate.
on several occasions when the winner of perhaps, seven or eight service aces in each of the first
much out of himself that he was four sets of a match had taken so
completely exhausted in the fifth. This problem, lite others "In the game, ought to be left to work itself out. In the meantime--no tinkering with the rules,, states a
Next, it would be legislating with ' home paper."
Fuels Hardwere Liquors .... Machinery Manures Metals
Minerals, and Ores. Nuts and Seeds Oils and Fats Pabits
Paper and Paperware
Railway Materials
Place Goods
Tobacco
Treasure Vehicles Wearing Apparel Sundriés
Total
13,352/11,064 *9,852 2,046
13,713 14,664 13,979 11.403
5,549
5,156 3,970
2,937- 4,569. 3,741 3,769
3,916
9.248 6,142 5,644
6,943
44,572 38,540
38,081 33,172
3,165 580
-1,885 41,100
8,883
54.250
'52,201
2,704
6.975
5,8146,101
35,615 33,902
2,472) 2,09,2 - 1,440
· 18,179 15.667 9.389 9,732
131,739 | 107,325, 75,077
289
12,856
66,551
523 352
:354
6,384
9,475 6,539 68,057 85,272 38,113 78,081 4,029 4,550 4,188 3,374 8,315 1370- 4,117504,041 90,255 71,526 - 64,021 53,190
-803,797|769,320, 539,052 493,999
EXPORTS
(3'000'a omitted)
1932 1933
Animáls, Live Building Materials
4.3
433 314
300
9,570
$8,5844757
3,972-
Chemicals and Drugs
4,612 4125
· 3,849
3.325.
18,524 13,581
12:179
6.434 1-5,033
9,855
1979
2473
Chinese Medicines Dyeing Materials
Foodstutis Fuels Hardvere Lique Machine
Manur Metals Minerals
201,2002 185,186:153,802-102,
1,990 2,806 2437
2120
1,632
0234
1,019 = 933 $728 1,648 €1.952 5.833
16.264 10,095 0.328 3,520 34,627 50,204 33.650
$128.0 125.3104.2 79.6
$593,000 foodstuffs $40,389,000; 3rd Quarter £146
fuels 32,516,000; hardware $1,033,-
$122.0
009 fertilizers 37,816,000 metals 4th Quarter £153 $4,589,000; minerals and ores. $785,000; olls and fate $1,713,000;
$128.3
866-1 *35.5 80.5 68 72 901 07.5
Total
$8,526,000
$562,000 plere goods tobacco $155,000; vehicles $812,000 wearing apparel $75,000; and sundries $10,831,000.
The following comparative tables shows the total values of Imports and exports (including treasure) by main groups of articles in 1931, 1932, 1933 and 1931
Plece Cloods Railway Materia
£63.6 29.3 27.4 24.8 $838.0_256.3.403.1 325:1
31,055
1981
Nuts and Seeds
€209 5,565 3,849
No statistics available.
Olls and Fate
43,376 37.111 30,400
$,753
Paper
2.628 ··2,079 1479 11,368
10,073
5.185 (295
1931 ∙1632.
$1934
Attrtals, Live
19 201
12,572 11,404
9,223
Materi
leals and Drug
yeing Materi
15.295 8335
$12.910
9,355
7.202
6,016 0.688
6.724
28,887. 19,130 17,295. 4,033 8,882 241424, 211,773 188,928"
4.389
16,826 3,096 126,537
THE BILLIARDS LEAGUE FANLING RACES
Royal Engineers
Engineers Lead
As a result of recent matches "the Royal Engineers Sergeant's Mess have regained the premier position in the league.
The following are the results to date:---
Sergt.' Mesa, E. Lancs, v. RA. Sergt.'s Mem
0.8M, Elvin': ............
CQMS. Thompson Sergt. Crossley. Bergt. Malone Bergt. Benson Sergt. Gavin
Sergt. Crossley.. Sergt. Malone Sergt. Fenrier. Bergt. Benson
RE. Sergt.'s Mess v. St. Patrick's Club
L/Bgt. Hodges
L/Bgt. Grossmith Q.M.S."Staples
Capt. Regan
150
150
150
150
150
9/Sgt. Harris Sergt.--Hollingworth
150
150
INT
150
Total
900.
143
121
Mr. Parkinson
66
99
́Mr. Oldfield
123
Mr. Funnell
71
Total
810
Mr. Balley.....
109
Sergt. Wood
Mr.Trowt
61
99
Bergt. Blodmifeld M.G. Longman
Mr. Lewis
150
90
Sergt. Reach
Total
490
150
Sergt. Symes
150
Sergt. Revel-Burroughs
130
Garrison Szt.'s Mess v. R.A.
Total
Sgt's Mess
789
9/Sgt. John
127
C.S.M. Elvin made a break of 517
Sergt.'s Mess, E. Lancs. v. St. Patrick's Club CAM. Elvin........
S/Sgt. Flood
104
S/Sgt. Williams
150
Sergt. Smith
99
150
Sergt. Ransom
150
C.Q.M.S. Thompson
101
Sergt. King
69
150
150
Total
699
150
150
Sergt. Finkil
150
Total
851
*Sergt. Resch
150
Sergt. Burroughs
35
130
Bergt. Wood
150*
150
Sergt. Symes
143
Mr. Parkinsoni Mr. Jordan Mr. Tròwi Mr. Young
85
Sergt. Bloomfield
150
128
P!
118
Total
778
105
Sergt's Mess, E. Lanica, v. R.E
Totál
714
Serrt's "Mess
CEM Elvin.....
65
C.QMS. Thompson.
150
123
Sergt. Grossley
79
150
Sergt. Malone-
150
150
Sergt. Benson
150-.
E.R.A. West ECA Kitch Sgt. Finey, R.M.
150
L/Sgt. Gaythorpe
104
150
150
Total
690
Total
873
L/Sgt." Hodges
150
L/Sgt. Grossmith
150
Q.M.S. Staples
150
114
Capt. Regan Gary
114
113
S/Sgt. Harris:
141
Sgt. Hollingworth
150
73
36
Total
837.
Total
555
Contiased on Pare 11)
Mr. Bailey Mr. Funnell
C.F.0% Club V. Sergt.'s Mess, E, Lancs. E.R.A. Sargent...... Shpt. Yeomans. 6. P.O. Rose
CSM Elvia C.Q.MS, Thompson Sergt. Crossley Sergt. Malone Sergt. Benson L/Sgt. Gaythorpe
When
you have guests-
Programme For Next Meeting
The following is the, programme for the next meeting of the Fan- ling Hunt and Race Club which is taking place on Sunday, February
No. 1. THE SUN KUM SHAN HANDICAP. A Steeplechase of Miles for Australian Ponies not exceeding 14.3": Winner-A Cup: 2nd. $30: 3rd. $20. Entry $3. No. 2. THE FAT CHOY HANDI-
CAP FURDLE RACE 1 Miles. for China" Ponies. Winner-A Cup: 2nd $30; 3rd. $20. Entry $3. No. 3. THE DIANA CUP. A
Handicap Hurdle Race of 1 Miles for China Ponies, bona Ade hunters, winners of any race at Kwan Ti this Season barred. To be ridden by Ladies. Winher-A Cup: 2nd. $30; 3rd. 820 A Souvenir will. be presented the winning rider. Eritry $3.
No. 4.
THE FOX HUNTERS RACE Light Weight Division. Over a country" commencing and finishing over hurdles on the Race Course, For China hunters.
Ponies, bona. fde
Catchweight 160 hs.
Winner: "
of the Governor's Cup in 1934 10 lbs. extra. Winner-A Cup: 2nd. $30; 3rd $20. Entry 83. No. 5.
SHUI
THE SHEUNG STEEPLECHASE
A Handicap
of 14 Miles for China "Ponies. Winner & Gup; and $30; 3rd. $20. Entry $3:
No. 6. THE FOX HUNTERS
RACE Heavy Weight Divi- slon. Over a country course finishing on the Race Course over, hurdles. For China
áče Potsies, bong
Kunters. Catchweight 175 lbs. Winner. of the Governor's Cup in 1934 10 lbs. extra Winner-A Cup; 2nd. $30; 3rd. $20. Entry $3. (N. No rider may compete. In both race No. 4 and Race No. 6.)
Entries close at noon on Tues- day, January 29th, to the Secre- 132 tarles, Messrs. Thomson & Com-
pany, York Balldings...
Quelle Delicatesse!
In deference to the Censor the original title of last night's play.
"Fig Leaves." was altered "French Salad,”
-have CAPSTAN
75,8372-66,899 55,523
21,774 140,014
2,102 —–—– 1,410~2,058
13711 12,784 8,488 8,437
14,783
60.228 157.1.2
29,346
683,824 : 811 874 – 127:225–483,684
CAPSTAN
the preferred cigarette
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