HONG KONG DAILY PRESS ·
HONG KONG WHOLESALE PRICES
AT A GLANCE
THE FOLLOWING INDEX NUMBERS OF WHOLESALE PRICES IN THE COLONY OF HONG KONG DURING THE FIRST QUARTERS OF 1938, 1937, 1936. 1935 AND 1934, AND THE FULL YEARS OF 1937,
Foodstuffs
Textiles
Metals and Minerals Miscellaneous Articles
Average
Benns
Bee!
zgs
Flour (Wheat)
Salt Fish
Frufta, Fresh Lard
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1936, 1935 AND 1934, HAVE BEEN ISSUED BY THE IM PORTS AND EXPORTS DE- PARTMENT (STATISTICAL BRANCH).
THE INDEX NUMBERS HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED
FROM DECLARATIONS. FUR- NISHED TO THE STATIS- TICAL OFFICE BY IMPOR- TERS AND EXPORTERS, THE YEAR 1922 BEING TAKEN AS. A BASE,
1922-100
1stQr. 1st Qr. 1st Qr. ist Qr. 1st Qr. 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938
1934 1935 1936 1937 94.3 85.4 113.3 136.2 85.9 74.2 99.4 117.7 97.4 .79.8 107.2 148.1 88.5 72.3 02.5 124.4
91.5 77.9 103.1 131.1 £5.8
94.8 85.4 100.1138.3 -144,0 98.0 78.9 95.7 113.2 119.0 101.7 83.7 101.9 121.4 157.5 81.3.1 78.3 88.5 108.8 131.7
81.5 $8.9 117.9 138.1
INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES ·
FOODSTUFFS
Milk (Condensed)
ist.Qr. Lat QF. 1st Qu. 1st Qr. 1st Qr. 1934 1935 1935 1937 1934 1935 1936 1937 1939 83.9 78.7 121.4 145.4 816 87.0 106,8. 138:3 181.6 121.3 128.0 181.1 188.9 124.1 113.0 181.5 213.0 175,9 88.0 73.8 83.0 107.7 03.3 72,0 97.3 97.3 120.0 75.8 68.3 101.4 141.2 75.0 €5.0 92.4 138.0 132,6 137.1 113.8. 07.5 106.9 140.6 131,7 103.3 94.2 115.8 233.0 201.5 .256.2 310.0 183.7 165.4, 198.1 215.7 308,4
78.5 82.7 113.2 146.2 77.8 87.8101.4
133.1 137,9 111.4 109.5 115.6 144.3 108.2 1149 143.2 116.7 172.7 183.7 136.4 1913 182.1 177.3
63.8 48.8 94.4 94.9 78.5 54.0 114.8 "128.7 162.4 73.1 84.7 131.3 £51.3 76.8 92.5 113.8 154,7 140.9 67.0 77.3 97.3 151.9 92.8 75.8 95.0 121.7. 148.3 71.8 60.4 83.0 102.8 82.2 59,3 93.2 49.6 153.9 63.8 88.1 02.2 124,7 89.1 85.3 96.2 113.5 131.4 68.3 68.6 103.0 133.0 59.3 69.9 88.7 134.6 135.1 72.2 71.4 106.3 123.5 74.2 69.3 98.5 130.6 122.5 60.5 43.3 71.8 82.2 61.6 43.1 79.5 83.8 101.1 45.4 46.8 55.5 58.1 52.3 56.0 56.1 58.3 75.0 86.0 63.3 84.7 112.4 83.8 65.3 813 94.4 124,4
TEXTILES
155.3
107.8
125.9
188.7
Mutton
Onions
Peanut Oli
Pork
Potatoes äna
Poultry ......
Rice (Broken) Rice (White) Sugar (Raw)
Vegetables (Dried etc.) Vermicelli
Cotton Yarn
Cotton (Dyed Plain)
Italians (Dyed Figured, Plain)... Shirtings (White 40/43 yards),
Hemp (Manila)
Gunny Bags .....
Hessian Cloth.....
Stik Piece Goods
Silk Yarn (Artiñcial)
Blankets (Wool and Union) Flannels
Sultings and Tweeds (Woollen).
Brass Sheets .....
Yellow Metal Sheathing
Coal......
Iron and Steel Bars
Iron and Steel Nails
Iron and Steel Plates
'Lead (Pig)
Kerosene
Of Fuel
Lubricating 01
Petrol
Tin
84.2 77.1 105.0 128.5 90.0 81.4 104.1 118.7 -123.4 $6.3 57.2 80.9 86.2 43.8 €2.3 66.7 79.7 101.4 81.8 67.3 69.2 109.2 46.4 45.7 58.7 100.0 100.7 51.2 38.9 50.3 69.6 58.2 47.0 47.8 70.2 75,1 64.7 61.4 140.0 180.2 67.4 47.4135.1 188.0 122,7 183.9 14.8 107.5 214.5 200.9 191.1. 206,7 935.6- 211.1 82.4 42.2 06.0 50.3 70.8 40.4 47.5 47.5 40.4 53.4 56.4 08.9 63.2 66.8 59.6 60.9 63.8 71,5 30.0 19.8 20.5 27.0 33.1 25.8 20.1 27.7 35.4 94.7 78.1 106.6 113.6 81.2 74.9 105.8 92.9 142,6 176.2 203.8 216.2 274.1 283.1 217.3 241.7 262.0 203,3 91.5 44.3 61.5 89.8 107.3 53.8 53.5 71.0 104.1 METALS AND MINERALS
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30.8 67.2 86.1" 145.0 96.6 71.3 75.0 108.4 150.1 88.9 73.5 103.9 145.9. 88.3 73.9 100.4 110.8 150,8 83.8 73.1 85.0 107.7 20.0 81.0 85.9 91,9 133.3 93.7 78.9 108.4 163.7 91.3 81.9 107.8 115.9 241.7 101.8 62,6 66.4 132.8 119.7 73.8 86.2 93.8 181,6 142.8 112.4 175.0 231.9 158.0 110.5 144.7 202.3 239,3 83.0 76.5 148.9 £14.0 85.6 65.0 145.6 1985 151.4 33.T 23.7 40.8 53.7 37.6 29.1 386 45.0 69.8 145.3126.5 148,4 178.3 141.6 137.9 138.8 151.2 192,1 81.0 89.4 70.8 74,7 74.7 76.1 86.3 720 87.0 26.9 19.0 33.4 39.7 30.3 22.2 30.3 34.7 40.4 203.3 188.0 200.1 266.3 207.2 181.7 203.8 225.4 246.9 MISCELLANEOUS
GENERAL
War Worries Of France Do Not Include Fresh Food Supplies
One worry France will be spared in the event of war is that of importing foodstuffs. In the main staples wheat, meat, butter, cheese, and fruit, she is self-sufficient.
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1938. -PAGE 11
The French eat much more served in the restaurant in the Clicquet
bread than the. British. The Argentine pavilion at the exhibi- average consumption per head is tion, and also at several popolar 405 pounds a year, which is ex- cafes in France. Frenchmen mm- ceeded by only three countries pled it as an erotic product, and in the world, Belgium. Italy, returned, not to their mutton, but and rather curiously, Canada, to their perpetual weal where more than one-third of the population is "French, but where bread-eating would tend to decline if the example of other new coun- tries were followed.
It is, as Mr. Hunter, points' ant, contrary to a widespread belief, but the area not used for agricul- ture in France is twice as large proportionately as in Britain. In As Nell Hunter points out in his Britain it is 18 per cent.: in well-documented work. "Peasantry France 36. But France has a far and Crisis in France" (London,greater area of forests and woods, Victor Gollancz), France normally amounting to 25,000,000 acres. The grows all the wheat that she finest beech woods in the world needs, and in good seasons some- are those through which you run times has wheat to export.
for ten miles going to the ferry at Caudebec on the Seine.
This is largely true of meat, though not to the same extent. While France has only 9,571,360 sheep, against 16.527,000 in Eng- land and Wales, France has 15,704, 430 cattle: compared to 6,680.000.
Beef and veal are the mainstays of the French meat cookery, when It is not a matter of poultry. And for those who like it, or cannot afford beef, there is horseffech to exe out the beef. France has 2,837,750 horses, three times as many as England and Wales.
Schmeling Off
For America
TO FIGHT LOUIS NEXT MONTH
Bremerhaven, May 6, There is a popular idea that the
The German boxing champion, French eat little meat. Their Max Schmeling, left yesterday for kickshaws are always compared the United States to prepare for with the roast beef and shoulders his forthcoming fight for the of mutton of old England. Or world's heavyweight championship they used to be-for good sold with Joe Louis. rounds of beef and slices of mut-
ton
The night will take place on June
have gone a Mttle out of fashion in England, and the kick-22 in the Yankee Stadium. shawa are spreading in an alarm-'| Ing fashion,
Schmeling told reporters yester- day that he would disprove the truth of the proverb, "Never come
In any case figures show that the average yearly consumption of back," and would bring the title meat a head in France is 100 back to Germany-(Transocean). pounds, compared with 126 pounds
in Britain. And while nearly half Britain's beef and mutton and Gen. Wang Tan-hs, a Sze- pork comes from Argentina, Aus- chwan army commander, hast been tralia., the Irish Free State. Den- appointed Acting Chairman of mark and elsewhere, the French Szechwan by the Executive Ypan. Import practically none.
Gen. Pan Wen-rua, another se- During the Paris Exhibition Archwan army commander, was ap- gentina made great efforts tapointed Deputy Pacification Com- popularise Argentine beef. It was missioner of Szechwan,
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WINTER CLOTHES
Women's, Men's & Children's
WANTED URGENTLY
COATS & UNDER-CLOTHING
HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
Monday & Thursday
ICE HOUSE STREET
10 to 12 Noon,
EXCHANGE BUILDING
DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL
HONG KONG.
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THE GLOUCESTER
Cement
Charcoal
Feather (Duck)
Firewood
45.8 42.3 40.4 48.3 41.9 48.7 43.9
02.6 38.3 37.3 32.4 33.1 97.2 33.4 34.0 31.0 38.7 102.7 90.1 119.2 196,7 93.4 99.7 108.5 158.2 159.4 93.9 80.0 74.1 03.2 102.0 $0.8 74.3 79.1 116.5 73.6 60.0 89.0 86.9 74.8 €4.0 31.2 80.1 81.2
40.0
Hardwoods
Hides (Cow)
Hides (Buffalo)
Leather (Sole) Paper (Chinese)
Rattans
Saltpetre
Softwoods
Soda Ash
Bulphuric Acid'
Sulphate of Ammonia
KAU SING TO BE SOLD
Eventful Career Of Government Rescue Tug
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147.0 119.0 208.3 322,8
146.4 125.8.178.3 .297.2 298.8 84.2 98.0 125.4 · 211.4 75,2 92.1 115.2 176.8 229.4 99.2 79.5 101.6 150.5 100.2 £1.8 83.1 141.4 150.3 52.2 64.0 50.0 78.7 80.3 67.8 .113.0
50.41 75.7 79.2 85.7 111.5 150.4 112.0 105.2 110.1 118.9 146.8
99.1
86.6 100.9 103.0 118.5
83.3
87.1 108.2. 129.0 150.5
63.1
99.3 78.8 05.7 107.6 919 78.0 106.2,140,4 80.2 85.8 81.3 81.1 81,4 152.0 67.9 83.9 102.3 139.9 58.2 52.7 62.3 84.9 -62.0
FLOCKING BACK TO
HELP CHINA
Bixteen overseas Chinese elec- trical engineers are returning to China from Bangkok, capital of Slam, to volunteer for service at the front. With them are four Chinese girl nurses.
€5.0 105.0 68.1
84.5 15.2 184.6 33.5 58.8 59.9 85.4
CHINA SQUADRON DISPOSITION
The following is the disposition of H.M. Ships in North China.
Shanghai: Sandwich. Tsingtao: Decoy.
The party is bringing a large quantity of clothes and other articles to be presented to wound-of ed soldiers (Central, Newa).
went UNCLAIMED
Damaged In the disastrous typhoon of last September, when many ocean-going vessels aground or were wrecked, the as Kau Bing, well-known Hong Kong rescue tug. is to be sold, and Gov ernment is considering replacing | grams, are lying at the offices of
TELEGRAMS
The following unclaimed tele-
the
Great Northern Telegraph
her with another vessel.
Tenders are to be called by ad Company:- vertisement for the tug as ste Mr. I. T. Yip, Peninsula - Hotel; stands.
Freshfood; Bowling Alkali; Chong- Built by the Taikoo Engineering soon; Engan Chongsoon; 5478: and Dockyard Co. at a cost of $250, chòt Sui Tong. 37 Bands St. 2nd Fl. 000 and launched in 1928, the Kau West Point, Chu Shiu So, Great Bing has had an eventful career. Easter Hotel 450; Il Mow Sing
The appreciation of the Chinese c/o South China Drug Co., Wing community for the services of the Lok Street.....
tug during the typhoon of July 22,
1828, was expressed publicly. It
was then stated to have rendered for work in the harbour during assistance to the sa. Pawnee and typhoons.
the ss. Contactus.
There was then some controversy On September 28, she towed the regarding the length of tune in 8.8, Bul. Tal to safe anchorage, which the tug should get up steam and the desirability of having, a stood by the ss. Tangistan and: the 5.5. Milton after they had ained Master in command of the collided and subsequently picked Kau Sing
up 35 people from junks.
The tug did good work in rescuing passengers of the sa
·USEFULNESS QUESTIONED Sunning when it went aground in Criticism was levelled at the Junk Bay during August, 1936.
Welhalwe Buffolk, Folkestone. Amoy: Dainty.
WARSHIPS IN HARBOUR The following are the berthings
warships in port:-
North Arm: Cumberland.
No. 1 Buoy-Eagle.
No. 2 Buoy-Medway,
No. 4 Buoy.--Duncan,
No. 8 Bucy-Thracian.
No. 10 Buoy.-Delight. No. 11 Bucy-Falmouth." No. 12 Buoy,Grimsby. No. 10 Buoy-Duchess, No. 20 Buby.-Daring.
No. 21 Buoy.-Defender,
No. 22 Buoy.--Diamond. No. 23 Buoy-Robin
Dock: Rover, Regulus, Regent, Westcott
FOREIGN MEN-OF-WAR American: Mindanao,
French: Lamotte Picquet," and Tabure.
Transports (2), Gunboat (1).
Chinese: C. M. G. Crainers (10),,
ON PASSAGE Birmingham to Welhafwel. Diana for Amoy...
IN RADIO TOUCH The following is the list of ships expected to be in wire- 'tug after the 18. Hein Wah went. Last" September, when over a less communication with Hong
ashore and sank of Wagian on score of large vesseli were ground- Kong Radio - January 18, 1928, because the Kau ed or sunk, the tug sustained an
Tak Bang, Wuchang. Hawall Sing was unable to raise steam in accident to her steering gear while Maru, Hang Bang, Chitral, Onet- time to go to her assistance and on duty and went aground. She senau. Potsdam, Hofhow, Chang to this her defenders replied that was not salvaged for several weeks On, Nanking, Bonneville, Santhia, the Kau Bing was intended solely but has now been renoated, Hellos, Crefeld.
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