12.
DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS
Sharebrokers'
Association
Hong Kong Stock
Exchange
Buysa
Beltora
Bles
(Naminal
MONDAY. SEPT. 21.
Banks
B.K. Banks
Bo. (London) «
Do.
Bank of East Ani
N. O. & S. Bark... Insurances
$70 Canton Insurazon.
Barat
Ballers
! #2 !!!
Sale #amio
<d
$467 1960
$30 $3.90
$30
$1,600
$1,00
18013
213 Chartered Banks
c.d
es
Mercantile Bks. "4":
e d
£14
£31 8141
$80
#78
$370
31
Union InsurÅNDSG ....... Underwriters,
1575 BO ata
$462
Chine Firerock.
::
3236
H.K. FiresAUTION!
13 International Asses, 8.
Shipping
$30
Douglases
dis
Steamboats
$30
Tadios (pret.) usuno
320
Da (dot.)
131/3
Shells
Waterhout
Mining
24 cla,
Balatoca
40 sts
Gold Creek......
19,20 (ets.
Salacota
1.
Kailans
834
Langkata (single).
Explorations.......
لال
$11.35
laubs
141
Venezuela Gold Fili.
Docks, WhaETIS,
Godowns, ota
H.K. & K. Wher16 $11
Do.
(old)
HE
Do.
19. Gold Biver
Shanghai Loss S.
(new)
32.34
$1.30/. 35
::::
$113
20 ot
$131
$51
$4
$180
Providents (old)«... 2,38
Do.
il.K&W. Docki
"S. Chinn Motors 'A Shangai Docks S.
New Engineeringst
Hongkere.....8..
Lands, Hotels, and
Buildings
Do. 4% Debentures
Hetropolitan Lands..
H.K. Realties...
$2.35
180 111/3 312
12 ota
152 ęta.
19 ots
10-
K
-$3.55
12.30
$11.30
SAL
16 ota
31&
Fat 14
$0.14
H.K. Hotola
8,2
3105
H.K Lands............i8.
$105
811 $10
113
Shanghai Lande.
15.00
$0.40
น
thina Dự
150
Do. Debouturas.
t
Humphreys
$9,65
$78
Chincas Estate......
Cotton, M
B. $8.30
S.
EwLan
Shai Cottonful)S.
Du
Zoong Sings
-Wing On TextiliS.)
Public Utili
Tramways ****
Poal Trame (old) .........{
Da, (now)...
Yaunati Ferris ....
China Light (old)...
125
$12.40
19.40/
行业
$21
3941
Star Ferrion
112
$18.60
112
15.60/80
1043
BUSI
::
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1936.
PORT OF
LONDON'S
RECORD YEAR
Tonnage Increased By 800,000
REVENUE BALANCE OF £1,500,000
PHILIPPINE MINING
NEWS
Four tunnels are dow being dri- ven. No. 1 has reached a depth of 25 feet: No. 2, 12 Teep: No. 3. 10 feet; No. 4, 18 feat. Semples are being taken, and assays made, at regular intervals of each three-
WORK PUSHED
An enormous tonnage of bow grade ore is indicated by super- ficial examination of the San Felices group of the Manite Min- ing Association in the Ble61 region. according to J. H. von Heiber, con- sulting engineer for the associa-foot advance, tion, This tonnage can only bé proven by extensive tunneling and rigid sampling, Mr. von Helber states in a monthly report released. The Port of Landon had a cord year last year. With an into the Bulletin this week,
of 800,000 tons in the ton- Crease tage of
the ships arriving and departing and a balance of ra venue of more than £1,500,000 on the year's working.
rt-
These facts are revealed in the twenty-seventh annual report of the Port of London Authority- issued recently
The tonnage of the vessels using the port in 1935 was more than double that of the immediate post-
war years.
The total net register tonnage of vessels which arrived and de- parted with: cargoes and in ballast and from foreign countries to and Brits.h
and possessions
end- coastwise during the year
ed Dec. 31. 1935 was 59,752,150. compared with 68.947.842 in 1934.
substantia}
There
was also
laerense in goods imported and
transship
exported. The total timports. for- eign. coastwise and
the 12 months ended ments, for March 31. 1936, were 33.648.623 tons. Compared with 32.396.921 tons the previous year, an increase of 19 per cent,
The figures for exported goods. foreign and coastwise. Was 7,240) 202.tons. The total for 1935 being 6.537.858. ari increase of 99 per
cent.
RIVER DUTY TONNAGE
The total nes register tonnage of vessels-including deck cargo tonnage which, not being within the exempted classes, was liable to river duties of tonnage, inwards or outwards, during the year end ed March 31 was:
Foreign inwards
tons
tous.
The Manito property consists of a group of 32 lode claims in the barrio of Kawit, municipality of Manito, Albay, Two groups are now being prospected, the Sun Fe- lices and the Inang Maharang.
SEVERAL OUTCROPS M. von Heiber reports that sev- eral large outcrops were exposed during the month on the Sun Fe- lices group, and that trails are now being built to other outcrops. Ex- amination of these outcrops show an enormous tonnage of ore of the silicifed hydrothermal deposi- tion. which is characteristic of this region. Assays, while low, are of quite uniform average, Mr, von Heiber states.
USE OF CATGUT IN OPERATIONS
IMPORTANCE OF PROPER STERILIZATION
effelently
The importance of sterilized surgical catgut is em- phasized in a memorandum Issued recently by the Ministry of Health. price 2d. It is stated that the re- cent occurrence in rather rapid of several groups of succession
of tetanus infection after cases
surgical operations in which catgat had been used has called parti- rular attention to the dangers of 21.958.398! Inefficiently sterilized catgut. 21,339.258 compared with
Outwards. 10.607.285 tons, agains: 9,996,393 tons.
The patient for operation into whose "body "is introduced catgut cold as "sterilized surgical atgut" (1... catgut manufactured or im- Coastwise. Inwards: 8.553.916 ported under licence) may be re- tons (8,198,074 tons); outwards 2.875,088 tons (2.788,863 tons).
The total figures represented an increase of 4 per cent.
The stocks of goods at the end
garded as adequately safeguarded trom tetanus infection from this hospitals source, but in many
catgut is still in use which is uot controlled under the Therapeutic
In nine cases (of which
o last March in the warehouser Substances Act. but is bought as controlled
Authority raw catgut and 18 "sterliized" in by si the amounted to 406,432 tons, com- the hospital. Itself by a process pared with 578,695 tons for the which may or may not be satis-
de factory. corresponding period 1935, a crease of 82,283 tons.
The export traffe handled on the dock quays increased by 62.404
ons to 677,995 tons.
18)
$70
$31
$18
$70 430+ $14 $98.
$12.30
15
124
12'
$283
Du
312
(pow)...
H.K. Electrics ....
$201
W
Macao do. Jicrova
18.30
Sandakan Ligais...]
$11
$11.00
1
Telephones_(old) .......
130)
$311
Do. (Dox)
11.40
$114
China. Buses
907-
Tractiun
25/
287-
144
119 Caldbeck, (ord).
$15
Macgregors (pref.)B. |
$3.50
Canton Icas...
812 30
Cement ****uiá་ **
34.10
Ropes
92.15
$4
The
Miscellaneous
$221
Dairy Farmas
$221
$3
Ch. Etainment
$3.20
Constructions, (old)|*
(now) 45 cta.
182
Lane Crawford.
$1.00
$5.90
8.
D. (pref.)......
Malabon Sugar....
Industrial
Amtisementa
Do.
Mackintosh
**+
Nanyang Tobacco... | 13.90
Sincered
Warsubs
Wm Powells
M. Greyhounds..
Enterpris
Ok.G.6119250.3Bd.
4.85
40 ct.
$2
$1.35
S. C.
prom.
par
$60
8.10 4.
Da. 31%
Wallace Harper ......
HLK Wing Ou ..... ... 140
S'hai Do
Vibro Piling
ཕྱི་
・
150 ves
$109
Other tunnel sites are being laid out, and the work will be increased 89 fast as crews can be obtained.
On the Inang Maharang group. large outcrops have been found of the same nature as those of the San Felices group. A preliminary working plan, has been laid out, and work has been advanced to the point where three tunnels may De started. Good progress is be- ing made on the starting of these tunnels, Recording to Mr. von Heiter
Samples from the Manito pro- perty are assayed at the essay of- fice of the Bicol Mining Associa tion under the personal supervi sion of Mr. von Heiber."
The general superintendent of Marito is J. W. Ganshorn.
PASSENGERS
Pres. Taft Arrives From Manila
The American Mall liner Prest- dent Taft arrived from Mandia yesterday morning and berthed at
The follow-❘ the Kowloon Wharf, ing passengers disembarked here:
Mrs. Anabelle Bachrach. Mrs. Dorothy Cavender, Mr. Richard I. Cherrill, Mlle. Germaine Couraut, Rev. Raymond Goggin, S.J., Mrs. Frances E. Hobbs, Mr. Francis W. Kenda 1, Mr. Lien Wan Tu, Mr. Genzo Matsushima; Mrs. `Flora "L. Oftedahi Mr Jose Orozco, Mrs. Elizabeth Rodgers, Mr. Burin des Rozers, Miss Angelita Trillo, Mrs. Anita G. Trillo, Mrs. B. W. Wilson, Mr. James F. Wright,
Kirangkra!
Through passengers were:- For Shanghal-Mr. Chataram Tirthdas, Miss Yu Sua. For Kobe;-Lieut. Ingavaniaja.
For Yokohama:-Captain Clay Anderson, U.S.A., Mrs. Edna An-
For Casim'ca.
:
derson, Miss Mary E. Anderson, Mr. Tomas V. Dizon, Major Henry Krafft, U.S.A, Mrs. Esther Krafft. Mr. Ben Ohnick.
Bayani Honolulu: -MI.
Mr. Cornelio Gorospe, Mrs Purification Gorospe, Master. Constantini Gorospe. Miss Hono- rato de la Rama. Mr. Fortunato
Francisco:-Mrs. Frances S. Abiston. Miss Agnes F. Crees, M ELS M. Davis, Mrs. Irene K. Davis, Mr. Donald B. Kelly, Mr. Keith Koons, Dr. Arthur J. Maleske, Mr. John H. Robertson. For Los Angeles:-Mr. Perpetuo de la Luna.
Soto,
For
Sah
BANKS
HÒNG KONG" AND SHANGHAI THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
BANKING CORPORATION
*$150,000,000
Apthorised Capital Issued & Fully Paid-Up #20,000,000 Reserve Funds:-
Sterling.
Hong Kong Currency:
Reserve....
Reserve Liability of
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1533.
HEAD OFFICE: LONGUN"
8,300,000 gald-up Capital
Reserve Fund $10,000,000 | Reserva Llability of Pre-
Proprietors i........................$20,000,000
Head Office:HONG KONG
13
Board of Directors, Hon. Mr. J. 3. Paterson,
G. Miskin,
Chairman.
prietors.
2009- $3.008.90d
£3.600.000
Agencies and Branches:-
ALOE STAR ILOILO " AMRITSAR IPOH BANGKOK KARACHI
eputy Chairman. CANPOR
Hon. Mr. W. I. Ball. A.. H. Compton, Esq., Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell,
Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson,
J. R. Masion, Esq.,
K. S. Morrison, Esq..
T. E. Pearce, Esq.,
A. L. Shields, Esq.,
V. M. GRAYBURN, Esq...
Chief Manager.
Peiping Penang Rangoon Saigon Kowloon San Fra Kuala
cisco Lumpur Shanghai, London Singapore
Branches:
Amoy
Iloilo
Bangkok
Ipoh
Batavia
Johora
Bombay
Kobe
Calcutta
Canton
Cheloo
Colonibo
Dairen
Lyons
Foochow Malacca
Haiphong Manila
Hankow Harbin
Hongkew
Hamburg Muar
Sourabaya Sungei
Patani Tientsin
(Jahure) Tokyo..
Mukden
Tsingtao
New York "Yokohama
SAIGON
ERMARANG
KREMBAN
SHANGHAL
LINDAPORK
LITERWAN
BOUMAKAYA
TAIPING
BATAVIA KLANG BOMBAY CALCUTTA. KUALA CANTON
KORI
LUMPUR
CEBU COLOMBO
KUCHING. MADRAS
TIENTEIN
MANILA
TONGKAH
MEDAN
HAIPHONG
NEW YOKE
HAMBURG
PRIPLKO
BANKOW
DELHI
HARBIN
(Bhuket) TRIKOTAO
YOKOHAMA
(Paking) AMBOANGA PENANO
HONG KONG MANGOON
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened. and FIXED DIFOstrs received for One Year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on applica tion.
The Bank's Head Office in Lon don" undertaken Executor & Truston business, and claims recovery of British Income. Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at any of the Agencies and Branches.
A BHEARLEY,
Manager.
Current Accounts opened in 13. Local Currency and Fixed Deposits receivert for one year or shorter periods, in Local Currency and Sterling on terms which will be. quoted on application.
also up to date Safe Deposit Boxes in various sizes To Let.
Hong Kong. 3rd July, 1036.
HONG KONG HAVINGS BANK
TH
"
HE Business of the above Bank is conducted by the HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rules may be obtained on" application,
For the Hong Kose & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION,
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 4th February, 1936.
BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.
THE CHASE „BANK -
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
HEAD OFFICE:
'18, Pi STREET,
NEW YORK.
An American Bank offering com plete Foreign Banking Service in the principal Marketa of the world.
Interest Rates on Application.
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES
This Bank is entirely owned by THE ORASE NATIONAL BANK, NEW U.S. YORK, with Resources over $2,027,000,000,00
D. M. BIGGAB,
Manager.
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE· BANK
LIMITED
Capital (fully paid up)
Yan 100,000,000 00 Reserve Fand Yen 130,900,000.00
HXAD OFFICE:-YOKOHAMA
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES AT: Alexandria Honolulu Rangoon 10,000,000.00 Bangkok Hainking Rio de
Karachi
Janeiro 5,508,600.00 Batavia
Berlin Kobe San
Francisco
Semarang Shanghai
Authorised Capital Paid-up Capital Reserve and Undivided
Profits.......... 2,685,395.59 Bombay Calcutta Canton HEAD Cyric:-HONG KONG No. 10, Des Voeux Road, Central
five proved fatal) occurring in three groups which have recently come to the notice of the Minis- try of Health the evidence pointed The balance of borrowing powers very strongly to such "home cured" unexercised at March 31 was catgut as the source of infection
memonrdum adds, that £4.482.042 of the authorised total The
Dairen £45.000.000. The capital ex- there is good reason. to believe that some cases of postoperative tean- infection never come to the notice of the Ministry of Health. especially those cases in which re- corery occurs. "Tt is clear, there
of
penditure amounted to £288.558. "STOCK CANCELLED
on the
powers conferred Authority by the Port of London Stock Regulations have been ex-
10d 3 cellation of £113.937 138 p.c. "A" Port Stock, 1829-99, re- presenting Investment of moneys standing to the credit of certain redemption fund accounts.
The amount
powers.
standing to
the
173
catgut,"
ercised by the purchase and can-fore, that the dangers to the public from the use of inemciently steri- ized surgical catgut deserve very serious consideration by all bodies responsible for hospitals in which surgical operations pre perform- ed." It is polited out that the credit of the stock redemption whole question has been discussed in considerable detall in a paper funds at March 31, 1936. Was £488,563,
and the investments recently published, "Sterilized sur- by Sir Weldon these funds gical held on account of standing in the books at a value Dalrymple -Champneys.
"AN ERRONEOUS BELI【ER * หา of £190,555, leaving a balance of
It is stated that catgut is often $298.098 for investment, or to be
sterile" or $101sed in excercise of borrowing sold as "internally
"partially sterilized." and as its not called "sterilized surgical caigut" or claimed to be ready tor- surgical use it does not come un- der the control established by the Therapeutic substances Act. Un- fortunately, purchasers of such internally sterile" or "partially sterilized" catgut are apt to assume that this product requires less sterilization than "raw" catgut. and some of the wound infections after the use of catgut sterilized by hospitals for their own use are probably directly attributable to this beller, which experiment has shown to be erroneous.
HONG KONG TDE TABLE
HONGKONG MENYOROLOGICAL
From September 11, to 28, 1926
HIGH WATER.
Hong
Height
LOW WATER.
Kong
Height.
Hougang ervatory, Sept. 21.
Previous On Date On Date
Day at
at I p.m.
29.66
The capital redemption account now stands at £4.029,860, an la crease during the year of 211 909.
There was a balance of revenue amounting to £1.585.925 on the year's working, the total revenue being £5.868279, and the expen diture "£4,082,354.- ...
EXTRA MANILA CLOSING QUOTATIONS
For Havana-Mrs. C. H. Zwone- check, Master Herbert Zwonecheck, Mas Sharon Zwonecheck
For New York:-Mr. Frank. B. Couch.
SINGAPORE RAW" RUBBER
Latest Singapore Price
A. B. JOSEPH & CO.
Monday, Sept. 21. Messrs. H. B. Joseph & Co. re- ceived
the following quotations Singapore in Straits Cur- for Raw Rubber;
from rency
Spot
Oct-Dec.
Jan.-Mar.
Buyers
April-June Market: Nominal.
Board of Directors >
Sir Shouson Chow, Chairman Li Koon Chun, Esq. Li Lan Sang, Esq. PE Kwok Leg WongChuSon, Esq Weng Yun Tong, Esq. Kas Ying Pu, Esq. Chan Ching Shak, Esq.
Kan Tong Po, Esq., Chief Manager. Li Tso Fong, Esq., Manager.
Branches and Agenzies 2----
Karison Parent Bourbaya Condoo
Boo
Awaterm
Mantis Salgus Byuday
·Melbourna Ban Fran Tahoka
elsco. Tientalis
Andy
Bombay DNetts Caste Kaiphong
Jew York Beaccip
Hental Sobe
Park
Palping
Tokyo Basarang Yagoonyer Abanghel Tokoban Bingapore
Every description of Banking Exchange business transasted. Loras gi sated on approved Lecurities
̈and
Current Accounts opened in 26 unchanged Local Currency and Fixed. De- 261 unchanged posits received for one year or
Local 27. unchanged shorter periods in 27 unchanges Foreign Currencies on terms which
will be quoted on application. Safe Deposit Boxes To Let. KAN TONG PO
Chief Manage
JAPAN'S POLICY IN- CHINA
London
Los Angeles Senttis
Manila Moji
(Dalry) Nagasaki Singapore Fengtion Nagoya Sourabaya
(Mukden) New York Sydney
Tientsin Hamburg Osaka Hankow Paris Tokyo Harbin Peiping Bong Kong
Tsingtao Yinkow.
Interest allowed on Current A counts.
Deposita
Fixed received for Periods st rates to be obtained ou application,
G. KISHINAMI,
Manager. Hong Kong, 11th Sept, 1938.
What do
you want ?
If there is anything you want to buy or seli,
A try
amell Classified advertisement.
25 words $1.00 prepald for 3 insertions.
presents special problems. Serious danger attends the use of raw Internally catgut, or so-called sterilized catgut, to which sterfil-
that he did not feel that every- ing processes of doubtful: efficacy
thing done by Japan was right, are applied in the hospital. Many
nor was everything done by China, brands of efficiently sterilized
Differences between the two cou- eatgut controlled under the Thera--
Mistakes Admitted
tries could be remedied only by a peutic Eubstances Act are avail-
sustained attitude of conciliation able. Postoperative tetanus, gas- "There are many problems con-
Tue, comerence of the Institute of both sides, Unfortunately nected with sterilized urgical gangrene, and other infections.
af events had occurred in recent, catgut which require farther in- from surgical catgut can be pre-of racine Relations meeting
bech years which had caused strained Centavos vestigation, including its fate when vented by the use of catgut mahu-Yosemite, California, has
261 introduced into the human body. factured by licensees under the surprised by an admission from a relations He deeply regretted the conditions under which micro- Act or of other catgut sterilized former Japanese Foreign Minister, tala situation, and hadome to organisms which have survived in by methods similar to those em-Baron Yoshizawa, that Japan has Yosemite in the hope of improv- in hering it and contributing towards been gulty of mistakes its interior mar multiply and 1-ployed by licensees.
Extra Manila closing quotations ngures kindly supplied by Messrs. Ellis & Edgar,
Days of
lopth.
Hong
Kong
Standard
Standard
Time
Timo
Taca] 29"
Fed 23
h.m.
1350
re, So
h.
the Love
17.29 178040 0800-13 9
Force..
Temperature Humidity... 65 Wind
Direction
Weather
at 4 p.m. 20 4.00.
Batmeter...) *9 89 $29.96
A#
81
63
Agnor Placer
Ambassador
011
Cocogrove
2.35
Consolidated Mines
.08)
East Mindanao
Equitable
30.
10 20 27
"Gold Creek
.37
Ipo
.,24
Fri. 85 Bat. 28.
0221
1135
Mambulagonudamer
.50
08 50
06 15
Mineral Resources North Mindanao. Balacot
431
∙.111
19 39
10. 1381
Pesos. 121.00
Bun 27 Mon. 98
12 25 2.9
1804 180
1340 19
06.95 7100E
19 5565)
Highest open-air Temperature, 20: 8 Lowat open-air Temperature, 21: 7
B=Blue sky; O=Cloudy; D. Driale Yog; I-Lightning;" M-Mist; O-Overonat; P=Pansing Show; - J=8qualia; BeBeing F-Thunder.
Banta Rosa'
"Univershi
Marsman
In reply, Chinese delegates
40 fect the patient's tissues, and the "It is clear, therefore, that the policy towards China, In the Are the re-establishment of friendly
best method of ensuring the steri-authorities of all hospitals in years since the Japanese drive feeling. lity of the catgut while preserving which surgical operfactured should in Manchuria began such a con those physical properties open bovestigate carefully the origin of cession bas never before been said that, in order to resume full friendship, Japan would which its usefulness to the sur- the catgut and any method of made.
It had been rumoured that the have to eradicate two ideas from geon depends. In the meanwhile sterilizing it which may be em- the following conclusions can be played in their hospitals in order Japanese delegation intended to Chinese minds that Japan - drawn from our present know to prevent fatal effects of the use walk out because of the attacks tended to contine aggression, in ledge of the facts: The efficient of catgut containing the tetanus on the policy of their country China Indefinitely and that the sterilization of catgut for surgical psellus or other dangerous micro- made during the conference, sought the actual subjugation of
Baron Yoshizawa, however, sald China. purposes is far from simple, and organisms.”