12
DAILY SHARE. QUOTATIONS
Hong Kong Stock
Sujais
Exchange
Sailora Neler
Nomina
TUESDAY.
DEC. 14.
Sharebrokers-
Association
Bayern
Bellars Baies
Wantin
1 : 1 : 9
$2721
2131
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
THE EXCHANGE
MARKET
MESSRS. ROZA BROS.
Silver prices dropped 5/16 yes- terday for both deliveries, the quotations being 18 1/2 for Ready and 18 3/18 for Forward, Silver advices reported the market as be- ing steady. A small business was done. India and Speculators sold. American Silver was quoted at 44 3/4 for Spot,
£16
182
35
270
B015
Bit
$240
3/4.
The London-New York
rate was quoted at 49967.
York-London was quoted at 499.-
1516
$818
H.K. Fires
International Asson, S.
Shipping
Douglassa
1481
ed.
38
Sbe.cobrabe
$6
151
Indo-Chinas (pref.)
$51
143
Do. (def.)
$42
Shells .....
$9.30
Wintertwinte
$9.30
Mining
18/
Kailan
18/9
34.30
Dend
$116
༔
好
MARKET
Quiet. No business was report-
STERLING
There were sellers at 1/2 31/32 December-February and 1/2 15/16 March, buyers at 1/3 Cash-Febru- ary and 1/2 31/32 March.
U.S. DOLLARS
Sellers at 31 3/16 December, 31 1/8 January-February and 31 1/16 March, buyers at 31 1/4 Cash. 31 3/18 January-February and 1/2 March.
31
198
$100
SHANGHAI DOLLARS Sellers at 105 9/16, Buyers 105 5/8 for Spot,
at
***
$3
Venezcoa Qund Fla.)
Docks, Wharvad,
"Godowns, etc.
ti. K. & Wharves...
Providents {uld
(new) 25 es .K. & W. Docks Shanghat Docks S. Now Bugiaverinos - S. Lands, Hotels, and Bui dings
H.K. Hotels....... $5.10 d. Lands.......... Do. 4% Dabentures. Shanghai Lande...d. Metropolitan Landes
"$1,85 H.K. Reality.................. Chinn Du S. Do. Dubentures. Humphrys ne Chinese Batatos......:
Cotton Mila
Kwum
S'ist Cottonskuldj2. ¡news.
1
Party Suns 5.
Wing On fortiles.)
Ewo Cotton Rte. 8.
Public Utilitie
kel
$13.30 Tramways $13.10|
Peak Trams (old)...
$31 $10x
$4.75
18.40
$13) $77
$34
$40
SHANGHAI MARKET There were sellers of Sterling at 1/2 3/16, buyers at 1/2 7/32 for Spot. U.S. Dollars, sellers at 29 17/32, buyers at 29 19/32 for Spot. IN THE AFTERNOON
The market was a shade steadier In the afternoon, finishing with sellers of Sterling at 1/3 December and 1/2 31/32 January and prob-
WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 15, 1937.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
(Throngb Renter's Service!
New York/London Crate Now York Cotton-Mar.. New York Rubber-Mar. Chicago Wheat Chicago Corn
Winnipeg Whoat-May.
82.44 52.03 11 Commodity Index 53.63
Blocks Adams ExprESS Allla Chalmers Amer, Can
Am Car & Foundry Amer. Cyanamid Amer. & For. Power
Amer. For. $7 pt. Amer. Locomotive
Amer. Metals
Amer. Radiator
401
Amer, Rolling Mil Amer. Smelting Amer. Steel. Fdries"
201 Amer. Bugar. .....
*1492 Amer. Tel. & Tel... Amer, Tobacco "B" Amer. Waterworks. Anaconda Copper ...
Atchison, T. & 8. Fr.
Atlas Corpn.
ably March, buyers at 1/3 1/32 Atlantic Refining Cash-January. 1/3 February- March and 1/2 31/32 April."
U.S. DOLLARS
The market closed with sellers at 31 3/16 December. 31'1/8 Jani- ary-February and 31 1/18 March, buyers at 31 1/4 Cash-January, 31 3/16 February-March and 91 1/8 April.
SHANGHAI DOLLARS Sellers at 105 11/10 for Spot.
H. K STOCK
Auburn Motors
Baldwin Locomotive
$7 cum. pi Baltimore & Ohio... Barnsdall Ol
Benal Aviation Bethlehem Steel Boeing Airplane Borden Co. Brigge
M'facturing Brooklyn-Manhattan
Trans
Brooklyn-Manhattan
▪་
w
BANKS
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA
BANKING CORPORATION
Issued & Fall Paid-Up $20,000,000
G. Miskin, Esq.
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA' Incorporated by Royal Charter 1833
MANCHESTER BRANCH:
71, Mosley Street, Manchester
AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:
ALOR STAR ILOILO Deputy Chairman. ↑ AMRITSAR
SAIGON SEMARANG
Branches: 110110 Ipoh
Peiping
Penang
Rangoon
BOMBAT
BANGEOT BATAVIA
IPOH KARACHI
BEMBAN
CALCUTTA CANTON
KLANG KORE KUALA
LUMPUR
EXANGHAI
SINGAPORE
RITIAWAN
BOURABAYA
LAWNPOKE
KUCHING
TAIPING
MADRAS
YHETER
COLOMBO
MAMIZA
TONSKAR
DELHI
MEDAN
HAIPHONG
NEW YORK
TSINGTAG
HAMBURG
PIPINO
(Bhuket)
QUOTATIONS
Authorised Capital
$60,000,000
Banks
New York: December 14.
Reserve Funds:-
$1,500
£91
$1,500
E123
改
$80
M.X. Baar's
P (London)
Chartered Banks Mersatile Eks "A**
Ou
Bank of East Asia..
N, U. & S. Barks ...
Insurances
Cantur Lusarahaëtë vit e
Union InsamBOEN.
Underwritera
"C"
**
--May. --May.
Last Today's High Low Close Close
4.90-13/10 4.99$ 8,05 R.07 8.11 8.14
15.40 153 15.40 15 89*
911 1st 201
le 58 57 381 სმე. 116 113 114)
Sterling
..2 8,500,000
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON: 38. Bishopagate 5.0.2.
Changc
Hong Kong Currency
1/10 of
Besorve *****
.04 up
Reserve Liability of
.33 of
5/8 ир
Proprietors
$10,000,000 | paid up Capital..
Reserve Fund. $20,000,000 Reserve Liability of pro-
prietors
2$.000.0 £3.000.000
23.000.000
unda.
Silver-Official
113 443
7,8 up unch.
Head Office: HONG KONG.
cross-
Board of Directors.
E
New
1937
High
Low Dow Jones Averages. 194.40.113.84 20 Industrial
Dec. 12. 126.8 J
.:
84.48 29.15
20 Raile
37.54 19.54.
20 Utilition
31.36 81.97
106.89 91.54 40 Bonds
93.87
Bigh Low Close Change 125.88 18.38 192.83 4.00 off 12.01 31.27 31.30 106 off 21.89 21.41 -21.5) 4. ON
5381 43.13
Chairman.
Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson,
J. K. Bousfield, Esq., A. H. Compton, Esq.,
Business Done: -1, 20,000 shares.
S. H. Dodwell, Esq.,
J. B. Masson, Esq.,
K. S. Morrison, Bay...
Dec. 11 13
Stock
Dec. 11 13
##
81
Great Northern Rig. 26
Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, T. E. Pearce, Esq.,
!!!
!!!
14
Great Western Bugar 29
781 73
Holly Sugar Corpn.
·Humble Ou
621
231
2311,
Int. Nickel ...........
+1
41
6:18
35 rt.
221
21
$2,00
22)
21
Do.
301
2911
137
131
Tel. & Tel. Int. Dept Stores Kenuecott Copper Lambert Corpn. Loew's Inc. .....
8
117
371
141*
JAKKAR
49
201 481
19
Lorillard ........... 16)
Canton Übefoo
484
Mcintyre Porcupine
251
35.9
$32.
!!!!!!
1491
85 601
131
13
McKesson & Robbins 32 Monsanto Chemical 821* Montgomery Ward 34 331 Murray Corpn........
171" Nat Cash Registor
ï
1711
317 301
391
Nat Dairy Producta. 141 Nat Distillers .........
221
Nat Power & Light 81
73
New York Central
197
$81
7
38
Niagara Hudson "P.
185
1!!
$77
Corpa.
North American
123
113
Northern Pactic
214
141
137
Paciic Gas & Elec.
201
Pacific Lighting
371
56 541
Packard Motors
41
281 271
Paramount
113
171
17)
247 2111
074
3
Do.
(now)...
$3` 10
01.
$80
Star Ferries
4*
424
Yaumati Ferries
G.R. O.R.
$11.20 Chins Lights (old)..
$11,40
Do.
(new)...
$1,40 311.40)
A
24h CA $11.20
Pennsylvania R.R. Phelps Dodge Philips Petroleum Public Service of NJ. Pullman Inc. ....................
221
407
341
314
30
Pure Oll
114
$5,30
Do. Bus.
53/53
HK Electrics, servi
353)
. EXCHANGE
981
92
B
Radio Corpn of Am. Republic Steel
61
181
$20
Macao do.
Reynolds Tobac. "B" 411
น
Sandakan Lights...
161 15)
$261
19.31
Telephones (old)
Do.
(2 i
(DOW)
39
China Buses....5.
*02/6
23/9
Tractions *****
237
Do. (pref.)......
Industrials
YESTERDAY'S
OFFICIAL
QUOTATIONS
The market continued neglected.
Cerro de Pasco ... Certala-Teed P'ducta
401* 394
Chesapeake & Ohio 38]
Chesapeake Corpn. 477
451
374
Chrysler Corpn.
581
641
Caldbeck, Kursky 2.
Columbla Gas & E.
#
$1.70
Maogragorn (prof.)S.
BUYERS
Columbla 6% "A".pt. 77
773
Canton Loan
$170
H.K. Bank, $1500.
$12 85
Commerciai
Credit. 381
36
St. Joseph Lead Co.. Schenley Schenley 5% pr. Sears Roebuck Shell Union Oll Socony-Vacuum Scuthern Cal Edison Southern Pacific ....
141 Southern Hly 5% pf.
28
16 *
581
Hong Kong. 1st March, 1937.
181
154
21
BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.
M
13.80
$24
15
$1.00
$1.00
14
Cements
·Bopee
Miscellaneous
Dairy Farms
Ch. Etainmonte.....
Constructions, (old))
Da.
Lane Crawfords...
Nanyang Tobacco.
Sinceres
Watsons
787 Cu.G. 610250.9Bda.
H.K. Bank. £91.
$3.60
Canton Insurance, $721,
Commercial Solvents
77
Stud Brands
81
-
Authorised Capital...$10,000,000,00 Paid-up Capital
5,595,600.00
Douglases, $481.
Commonwealth & 8.2 Commonwealth
2
Stand Gas & Elec.
51
$6
Stand Gas & Elec.
Reserve and Undivided
Profits
$24
HK. & W. Docks, $28.
42
41
14
Providents (Old), $2
cum. pl.
37. PL.
261
H.K. Electrics, $524.
1895 ets.j
SELLERS
Consolidated Edison 241 Consolidated Oil
24
Standard Ol of N.J. 444
91
Reiling Products
57
$71
Bank of East Asia, $90.
Continental Ou.....
311 291
Swift
International 231*
Corn. Products ......
633 62
Technicolor
181*
$1.80
SALES
H.K. Bank, $1505.
Curtis Wright (.)
3
.. Enterprises
Unton Ins., $516.
Curtles Wright "A" 131.
13
73%
HK. & W. Docks, $28.
Delaware & Hudson 173*
167
prez
8. Gort, 4% Loans
1104
Del. Lackawanna &.
Texas Gulf Bulphur 401 Tidewater Assoc. Oil Timken-Detroit Axle Transamerica
..38
151
141
P.
101
Chan
prem
Do
31%
$1012
H.K. Electrics, $53
81
Western
30
Wallace Harper..
Cements, $127.
Distillers Corpo Sea.
$40
H.K Wtog Co
151
147.
S'ha Do
grams.
164
$6
91
4/6
Vibro Piling.....
Marsmans L v. (Lon.)]
is ets, Wm. Powells
· • Sales to Shư nghsi
LONDON EXCHANGE RATES
##
Я.К.
SHAREBROKERS'
ASSOCIATION
Douglas Aircraft .....
381
363
27th Cent. Fox Films 20th Cent. Fox Films
pt. Un. Carbide & Car-
*21+
271
1151
111
Du Pont
bón
748
(HK)
Electric Boat
67
Gu. Pacifc
851
176 'cts.
BUYERS
4
Elec. Bond & Share 11.
101
United Aircraft
221
AMDT
Paris
Genova
147-9/84
Berlia
Athens,
Mlinzi
21.803 12.40
95-3/16
21.601
12.39
05
(British Wireless Barvics)
Duc. 10.
Dec. 13
Providents (Old), $2.02).
147-5/84
Electrics, $52).
Entertainments, $5.
E.K. Banks, $1500.
H.K. Docks, $28.
Trams, $13.10.
Douglase, $483.
Elec. Bond & Share
$5 pt.
Elec. Bond & Share
$21
52)
Li
581
Un. Airline Trans-
port United Corp. **** United Corpn.
8
Ebay
Canton
-33
Talhoku. Ttenten Tokyo
Takod
Kobe
Bec Power & Light 131
13
cum pl.
322
CANTON
41
Elec Power & Light
Copenhagen
Constructions (New), 95 cts.
Antamoks, 80'cts.
Consol. Mines. 92 cts!
SELLERS
Cements, $12.70.
SALES
$7 p1.
Firestone Tire & R Fintrote
Gen. Asphalt
Gen. Cigar
Gen. Electric
Gen, Foods
den. MotorS........
454 44
Un Gas Tprovem't 107 Un. Light & power . "A"
31.
169
US Industrial Alco-
bol
Loans granted
securities.
on
approved
218
·22
21
U.S. Rubber
27
249*
241
US Rubber #8 på 554
431 414
US. Steel..********* 571
sharter periods in
317
31
Vanadium
161
Foreign Currencies on terms which
will be quoted on application.
SHOU J. CHEN "
Manager
Gen. Railway Signal 34.
33
Gillette Safety Razor 23+
221
254
25
Warner Bros Fiet, Westinghouse Youngstown
717
Bafe Deposit Boxes To Let
Elec. 109.
108
Shee!
29
27
& Tube
391
Goodrich (B7)
17 161 Chase National Bk. 301*
55.
55+
Hong Kong
Bombay
Montréal...
21
197
National City Bank 281* Call Money ... 19
18/
29.301
4.99-11/16 29.381
REICHSMARK
QUOTATIONS
(!
Stockholm Shanghai
19.40
New York
4.99Z
Amsterdam
*8.98-9/10
Vierina
*rague
4.99-11/16 8.981
142-3/16
Providents (Old), 12.05.
Madrid
Lisbon
33 cum, pt. Case, JI
Canadian Pacific Celanese Corpn. of
America
ནཙྩུཉྩ ཙཱཝནྟུམྨཊྛཱཏྟཱབྷཱཝཱ, ནྷཱབྷཱུ རཱཀྐཀྴ 22 3ནཱཊྛཤྩ ཚ #ཙྪཙ བྷཊྛོ ཙནཱ#ཝཊྚཎྞe;, ཝནཱིཡོཏྟབྷཱཝནཱཝཾ, ཨ, ནཀྑུབྷཱཝོཏྟཾ ནྟི བྷནཱ བྷ ཎྜ aནྡྷཏྟཨྰཿནཿôཡྻོ
',
a1བྷཱཊཀྐབྷནཱ །ཡྻུཏྟཱ ཊྛིཾzཀྑམོཏྟཱ, en88ཊྛོཝཏྟཊྛོ, བྷུཏྟཾLཀྰནཝཙ ཊྛཆྱེནཱཙྪནཱཉྙཀྑནཱ་ཚ༣ བྷནཱགྱིཀྐབྷཱ ཿ བློ ས⌘ ཿ བྷུཎྜ ཙ, དྷaaརཏྟཱ ཊྛཡྻོ
A. L Shield, Esq., Sir Vandeleur M. Graybara,.
Chief Manager.
Amoy Bangkok Batavia Bombay Calcutta
Colombo
Dairen
Saigon
San Fran-
cisco
Jobare Kobo Kowloon Kuala
Lumpur Shanghai London Singapore Sourabaya Lyons
Sungei
Patani Tientsin
Foochow Malacos Haiphong Manila Hamburg Muar Hankow Harbin Hongkow
Current
# (Johore) Tokyo
Tsingtao Mukden New York Yokohama
Accounts opened in Local Currency and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter periods in Local Currency and Sterling on terma which will be quoted on application.
Also up to date Safe Deposit Boxes in various sizes To Let. Hong Kong, 15th May, 1937.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK
HE Business of the above HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Rules
aay be obtained on application. "For the HONG KONG & SHANOBAI BANKING CORPORATION,
T Bank is conducted by the
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager.
2,776,793.78
HEAD OFFICE:-Hosa Kon
No. 10, Des Voeux Road, Central.
Board of Directors:-
(90
HANKOW
HARDIN
YOKOHAMA
(Peking) NICIAN GA
PENANG
HỒNG KONG #AR0O03
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.;'
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for Ono" Year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on applica tion.
The Bank's Head Office in Lan- dou undertakes Executor & Traster business, and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at any of the Agencies and Branches.
&W. ROBERTS,'
Manager.
门
THE CHASI BANE
.15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
HEAD OFFICE:
18, PINE STREKT,
NEW YORK.
TAY
An American Bank offering com- plate Foreign Banking Service in the principal Markets of the world.
laterest Rates on Application.
SATE DEPOSIT BOXES
This Bank. is entirely owned by THE CHABE NATIONAL BANE, Naw YORK, with Resources over U.E. $2,500,000,000.
.D. M. BIGGAR,
Manager
BANK OF CHINA
Specially Chartered by THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF CHINA AS AN INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE
BANK PAID-UP, CAPITAL $40,000,000.00 (BRANCHES ALL OVER CHINA) Owing to our numerous Branchea in China and connections in the Eaqprincipal Commercial Centres of
Sir Shouson Chow, Chairman - Li Koon Chan, Esq. La Lan Sang, Esq. Kwok, Esq. Wong Chuson, Esq. Wong Yun Tung, Esq. Kan Ying Po, Esq.
Ching Shel Fung Ping Wah
Esq.
Kan Tong Po, Esq., Chief Manager, Is The Fong, Eng., Manager.
BALATIN
Dalcotia
Branches and Agencies :-
Kowloon London
Penang Soirabays
SWALOW Bangdon Bajron
Bydney
Manila Melbourne Bad Fran.
Biasa Nagasaki. Halphons
New York desikle Uka Baahow Benclatu
Bemarang YanDOUTES Potis
Shangha Coping ngapore
the World, we are able to extend to our Clients special facilities for. Domestic and Foreign Banking and Exchange.
Head Office: SHANGHAI Hongkong Branch:
4, QUEEN'S ROAD, C
South China Offices:
Every description of Banking SWATOW
and Exchange business transacted, SHIUCHOW
KONGMOON
TOISHAN KINGCHOW
We also handle the issue of Bonds
Current Accounta opened in and other Public Funds of the Local Currency and Fixed De Chinese Government both at Home posits received for one year of and Abroad.
Local and
Brussels.....
Yokohama
Belgrade
Monte Video ......
Rio.....
2-43/84
Bucharest
Silver (Forward)
4.091
Silver (Spot)
18-13/10
2-21/32
18-3710 181
War Loan
On LONDON:
Closing Quotations
December 14, 1927.
34% 101-9/18
"Os Naw ZonE:— «
Bank Bills, on demand 3) 15/18 Credits, 80 days' sight. 31,7/16
deniand
554
Telegraphic Transford 1/8 ON BATAVIA
Bank Bills, on demand Credits. four months'
ON PANIB:
Bank Bills, on demand & o Credits, a month's sight 970 ÓN BÄrdon B.
On demand
right
1/3/
ON SHANGRAL-
Da Demand
1041
Or Bundirons:-
On demand
ON MANILA 1-
ON JAPANE:--
On" damaod
· On demand campa
1001
OK BANGKOK : --.
--On demand
Bask, on demand...........
Telegraphie Transfer Jes
611
140)
Sovetiank, Bank Buying G
Baba
Bar Aures, The Quin
1/2 1/21
JAPAN'S IMPORT OF
PETROLEUM
Figures Given In House
Of Commons
London, Dec. 13.
Japanese Imports of petroleum
Glidden
Gold Dust
Goodrich $5 pt. Goodyear
were the subject of a question in EXPORT ACTIVITY
the House of Commons by Col. H. W. Burton (Cons.), and in a writ- ten reply Captain Euan Wallace, Parliamentary Becretary to Board of Trade, stated that ac- cording to Japanese official trade statistica, Japanese imports of crude and refined petroleum for 13 months ended July 1937 totalled 1,102,500,000 gallons of which 62,- 800,000 were recorded as imported from British Borneo.
from
other
Imports,, if any. British countries were relatively unimportant,
Direct purchases of petroleum en the State account by service depart- ments were not included in these statistics. Separate particulars of Imports of petrolum had not ap peared in the Japanese monthly trade returns since last July- Reuter
Individual enquiries from over- seas visitors have also been ex-^! ceptionally numerous this year, the Countries, concerned being
Austins £2,000,000 Of most notably, India, Australia and
Overseas Business
Bouth Africa.
The Austin conceru also reports that its new Elg Beren and new Reports from the stands of lead-Eighteen aroused exceptional in- terest amongst overseas visitors in ing exhibitors of British cara at the Motor Exhibition, showed that view of their excellent performance- 4 large volume of trade enquires and generous dimensions in their were received from overseas, and respective classes.
This interest is perhaps not sur- the Austin concern, for instance, stated that it already had £2,000-prising in view of the 38.7 per cent 000 worth of export business in hand.
During the first two days of the Show, enquiries for Austin cars were received from trade represen tatives from Norway, Sweden, Po- land and Latvia, among other countries.
increase in Austin exporta record- ed for the last year.
Actually, over one-hundred-and- fifty main distributors and nearly five times as many dealers, are now handling Austin cars overseas in no fewer than eighty-two mar- kets.
KAN TONG PO,
Okief Manager.
was
quoted..
Berlin, Dec. 18. The Reichsmark without guarantee, as follows:--
New York, 40.32.
Paris, 1186.
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
LIMITED:
Capital (fully paid up)
Yen 100,000,000 në Reserve Fund. Yen 134,400,000.00
HEAD OYYIOR-YOKOHAMA
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES AT- Alexandria Honolulu Rangoon
Hainking Rio do
Bangkok
London Francised
Batavia
Karachi
Amsterdam, 12.455. London, 12.402.
Berlin Kobe
Janeiro San
"Paris Sterling, 147.15 to 147.20.“
Paris UA. dollar, 29.435 to
Pransocean. News Service.
Bombay
Calcutta
Los Angeles Seattle
Canton
Manila
Semarang
29,445
Dairen
Moji
Shanghai
(Dalny) Nagasaki
Singapora
Fengtien - Nagoya
Soɑrabaya
(Mukden) New York Bydusy
Hamburg Osaka,
Tientsin
Harkow Otarn
Tokyo
Harbin Paris
Tsingtao
SILVER AGREEMENT NOT
TO BE RENEWED
Washington, Dec. 14: The Lon-Hong KongPeiping Vinkow
don Silver Agreement of 1933 cat be "buried" on its expiration on December 31, it was said on behalf of the Administration. Nó conver-
has taken place. It was added: sations towards its continuance
Rexter.
Interess allowed an Currant - Ar counte..
Deposits received for Fixed Periods, at rates to be obtained d application.
"Y. KANO,"
-Manag 18. Hong Kong, 11th Sept., 1937,