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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
Finance and Commerce
URBAN COUNCIL
MEETING
DAIRIES AND MILK
SHOP BY-LAWS
A meeting of the Urban Council will be held tomorrow at 415 p.m. ORDERS OF THE DAY Correspondence relative to the "proposed amendment of the Res- taurants, Eating Houses and
HONGKONG "
SHAREBROKERS ̋
ASSOCIATION
Volume of Business Transacted on Saturday, August 24, 1940. H.K. Electrics (N) ... 100 35.90
Ropes Providents
Y
500
500
1100
The total value is $8,065.00
H.K. STOCK EXCHANGE
Saturday, August 24. One small volume of business re- ported is well indicative of the 5.00 steadiness of the market and 3,95 prices.
Commencing operations in June. Food Stalls by-laws of Ordinance 1938. Medicine Hat Potteries now No. 13 of 1935; Correspondence manufactures more than 1,000 dif- relative to the proposed amend-ferent Items Including coloured ment of the sale of Milk gener-pottery, whitewear, ovenware, art- ally and Dalries and Milk Shops ware and stoneware. The plant is of a division of the Alberta Clay by-laws of Ordinance No. 13
Products Company, Limited, of 1935.
which Mr. H. S. Yull is president and general manager.
Minute by the Chairman 12- lative to the appointment of
the Committee to consider
pro- the posed changes in
Sanitary cal Services on the water supply
the of the Colony for
months Department Estimates for 1941
for No: 3.
Tung
June and July, 1949; -Rat- Return for the weeks ending 20th and 27th July, 1940; Health Bul- letin of Eastern Ports from the of Medical Ser- Hon Director
BUYERS
Unions Ins., $385. HK Fire Ins: $140. - Docks (Old), $15.80 Humphreys, $6.50. Trams, $15.35.
Yaumatt Ferries, $21.23.- China Lights (Old), $8.50. China Lights (New) $3.50. · Electrics (Old), $36.75... Telephones Old), $21:85,
RELLERS
China Underwriters, 10 cts. Providents, $4.
Trams. $18.60. China Lights (Old), 36.75.
SALES
Providents, $9.05. -Electrics (New)._$35.90.
HK, Ropes, $5.
Return from the barrels from the....
(fruit)
Le cancelled by the Council
the month of July, 1940; Lane, ground floor.
Regular Returns: (a) Report and Swine Returns for the from the Hon. Director of Medi. of July, 1940,
during Castle month
HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS
STOCK EXCHANGE,'
SHAREBROKERS' ASSOCIATION
Buyer
Ballers Salo
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FINANCE & GENERAL
IMPORTANT PART IN THE BATTLE FOR AIR
SUPREMACY
Sitka spruce from the Pacific coast of Canada is playing an important part in the battle for air supremacy In Europe. During the last war British Columbia supplied twenty-six mill- Ilon feet of Sitka spruce (or silver spruce as it is known in Bri- ̧tain) for aeroplane construction: and now the Canadian forests
are again being drawn upon extensively.
For the first two years of the to one hundred and fifty feet Last war the British government in height. purchased timber for aeroplane on account of the great size t construction mainly in the United this tree and Its clear trunk, it States; but exhaustive test show produces considerable clear tim ed the Canadian wood to nave, in ber suitable for the manufacture a superlative degree, the qualities of aeroplane wingbeams, struts, needed for this purpose and the posts and other parts. It does not later supplies were drawn largely splinter or shatter easily with in- pact. The tree occurs throughout from Canada.
the coastal belt of British Colum- bla. from Alaska to Oregon, but attains its best growth the Queen Charlotte Islands,
The tremendous expansion of the Royal Air Force brought about
The demands made upon aero- plane timber require qualities which only a few species possess, Wood for this purpose, says an announce- ment of the Dominion Forest Service, must be light in weight by the present war has already and at the same time strong. It
created an enormous demand for must have a maximum degree of wood suitable for aeroplane con- nexibility. As it is subject to sud-struction. Canada has considerable den and severe strains, a rigid or supplies of this valuable timber brittle wood is dangerous.
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well. It
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available.
LARGE AMOUNTS
It is found on Vancouver Island
MONDAY: "AUGUST, 26, 1940. -PAGE 9
ŞAY
Gordon's
...and know what you're drinking/
NO
GORDONS
DRY GIN
DISTILLERY LONDON.
COLOURING MÅTTER
NO INJURIOUS-INGREDIENTS
H.K. LIGHTING-
Amendment To 1914 Bill
CUSTOMS VIGILANCE ON BORDER
the
Application for a restaurant
I must also be sort in texture licence for No. 5, Aberdeen Street, first floor;
So that it will yield to the tm- Application for an eating house licence for the pre-
Crude petroleum and natural pact of bullets without shattering. mises on Shek Inland Lot. Nos vices for the weeks ending 20th gasoline production in Canada and it is essential that the grain and on the mainland in large 9 and 10, ground floors: Applica- and 27th July, 22rd and 10th Aug. during February rose to 855.58€ of the wond be straight, otherwisemounts. but the distribution is it will split when subjected to scattered. On the Queen Charlotte tion for an eating house licence 1940: Health
of Nations. for the side door of No. 118. Con- League
Eastern month's total of 486.859 barrels strain Sitka spruce has all the Islands, however, it forms one- naught Road Central: Applied Bureau, för the weeks ending 6th. and the February 1939 output of
qualities. It is light in weight, third or more of the standing
27 pounds
umber over considerable areas, is running about tion for a food factory (A) licence 13th, 20th and 27th July, 1940: 358.176 barrels, according to
reasonably close to the shore and for No. 7. Po Yan Street. third Mortality Return for Hongkong statement by the Dominion Bureau cubic foot, air dry.
thus easily available for water
Active measures are being taken floor: Application for a food pre- for, the weeks ending 28th June, of Statistics. During the first two
STRAIGHT GRAINED
transportation.
by the Revenue Department to serving licence for No. 149, 6th and 13th July, 1940: Sum-months of the current year, 1,142,-
In addition to the overseas de A Hongkong law which was see, that prohibited articles are usually and 445 barrels were produced... as
The wood.. 15 Island Road,-ground-floor: Ap-mary of licences-permits. plication for a food shop licence exemptions granted. refused and against 891,342 barrels a year ago straight grained, is easily worked mand for aircraft timber. Canada enacted 26 years ago when motor not finding their way to
accordance was in its infancy and interior of China in and takes a smooth, silvery finish. has her own requirements to meet, traffic
The announcement of the Minia which. as a result of the tre with the agreement. Of the 1,980 four and feed mills It takes nails without splitting: ter of Transport that a large mendous development of mechan- In addition to the establish- operating in the Dominion in 1838, and holds them
Stations at considerably more than half, or paint and enamel well. and also proportion of the planes needed ised transport has become inade- ment of Customs
other excellent
for the Commonwealth Air Train-quate to deal with modern road different points in the New Ter- properties. 644, were in Ontario. Their gross has
to be built in the problems, is to be amended, ritories, Revenue Department value of production was $66,783,154 The wood is practically tasteless ing. Plan are
Dominion will mean a still further out of a national total of $122,598,- and odourless
The draft bill amending the launches are engaged in patrolling Public Lighting 168. Employees numbered 3,189 of The trees grow to a height of expansion of the production of
Ordinance or adjacent waters to inspect junks the total of 5.778 for Canada with some two hundred feet and oc- aeroplane timber,
The most recent estimate. places 1914 is published in the Govern- for contraband.
The new Customs stations which Nomiast $alaries and wages at $3.223,184 of casionally attain a diameter of
the Canadian total of $5,163,351. over ten feet, though ordinarily the stand of Sitka spruce in Briment Gazette, in which it is de-
Columbla at nearly ten clared. that when the Ordinance have been established at Castle" Provincial four mills numbered they run from three to six feet tish
was passed, motor traffic was in Peak, Lo Man Chau, Fanling, Taipo 116' and those of all Canada 328, in diameter and from one hundred thousand million feet.
Its infancy and no provision was Shataukok, Sheungshui and Shatin made for the beacons and traffic are manned by European and officers. All vehicular control lights which are now such Chinese a common feature of street Hght-tramc, including private cars, are ing.
stopped at the stations at "Castle In view of this
doubts have Peak, Shatankok and Sheungshul been expressed as to whether the before being allowed to pass the WASHINGTON, August 25 section is wide enough to cover barrier... (Reuter)--The War. Department such additional lights which are, announced that the United States however, like the ordinary lamp- Com ander-in-Chief, Gen. G.O. post, Intended to give greater Ughts for the lighting of public and other of or private streets Marshall has invited the. Com-protection to the public use miander-in-Chief and one offter thoroughfares,
thoroughfares in Hongkong, it is from each Republic in South and To remove these doubts suitable added that this also applies "for Central America to visit the Unit, words have been added where the control of pedestrian and
vehicular traffic thereon” ed States in October so that they required.
Thus in section 2 which provides similar meaning is attached else- have to may become familiar with the seasoned United States military establish- that it is lawful for the D.P.W. to where in the section where the
of words or control” are added. ment, seasoned ed possibilty of dangerous de- troops, Marshall added, must be velopments in this hemisphere," made avaliable "to enable missions Gen. Marshall declared,
to be carried out without denuding
Buyer
Bales Sellers
Nominal
SATURDAY 24 AUG.
$1225
$1220
81230
*£68
£62
$210
193
Banks
H.K, Bauka............
Do. Col. Reg.)
Do. Lon. Bog.)
Chartered Banks.....
4284 Mercantile Rks. "A"
211
IM
Mercantile Bks. "C".
Dank of East Asia..
N. C. 8. Banka....... Insurances
Canton Insurances....
873
$210
£68
£82
£284
£1
U.S. President Sees Need
U.S. War Department
873
Announcement
50 ct.
$326
5140
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14
Union Insurances.
$370
*
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10 ct..
Underwriters
IM
[10 cta.
B
K.K. Fires.
$140
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Shipping
$120 Douglases ......
$120
#11
Steamboals......
810
$100
Indo-Chinas (Prof.)...
$100
$30
Indo-Chinas Del.)..
$100
32/6-
Shells
32/6
88.80 Waterbcata.......
$6,00
Docks, Wharves,
Godowns, etc.
900
H.K. & K. Wharves... 286
Providents
$3.65
TH
H.K. Docks (Old)
#16)
914
H.K. Docks (New)...
$149
Mining
$3.90 315,60
$4
!!
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8261 +Shanghai Docks
16/0
Kailan
$9.55 Raubr
3 ct. Hälg Kong Mines......
$262
16/0
184
Lands Hotels and Buildings
#3)
H.K. & B. Hotels.......
$31
IK. Landa................................
$30
83-11
$100 D. 4% Debentures....
$100
10.00 Shanghai Lands..........
H.K. Realties.
$3.10
Humphreys .....
$3.10 $3.30
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#301
$101 Chinese Estates..
Cotton Mills
$331 Ewo (8)
S'hal Cottons (8.)....!
:
A:
$57 Star Ferries........
$34 $210
Of Troops On Foreign Soil
WASHINGTON, D.C.President Roosevelt envisions the neces sity of sending regular army an National Guard troops outside the continental limits of the United States into other portions of the western hemisphere.
This was indicated recently in a formal statement by Gen.. George C. Marshall, Chief of the staff of the army, who defended the President's request for authority to call the National Guard into active service.
Mr. Roosevelt's recommendation said, the nation would to congress yesterday that he be have more trained and given such authority is a precau- chops quickly,
and trained tionary move against "a recogniz-
Such
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DEFENDS ROOSEVELT'S PLEA this country of ground troops in a The chief of staff. It was re- state of sufficient preparation to called, recently told a congress-meet 'unexpected eventualities in Ional committee that he opposed some other direction.” mobilisation of the National Guard
as long as it could be avoided: But the uproar in congress over section of the National Guard the President's message caused Gen. Marshall to hasten to defense of his commander in chief.
The
is department war -against-mobilisation of the National Guard's entire force and of 235,000 enlisted men 15,000 officers, Marshal said." By quickly building ap the present organisations of the regular army, such a move can be avoided, he remarked,
"Even if it were found necessary
to bring the National Guard into
cause" a
sufficient number
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In answer to the demands of senators and representatives that they be informed "what the President knows that we don't know, which would
of form a basis for the extraor present only a portion the tion, three modern European flats, dinary
authority requested, Guard would be involved," he con- taree rooms, two bathrooms and Nos. 172 (4th Gen. Marshali declared:
tinued, "however, it is essential in servants' quarter. "The President now has the au- these days that the war depart foor), 174 (2nd floor), 178, (1st) thority to call the National Guard ment, through the commander in floor), Nathan Road. Apply Chau into service, but under that call it chief, be in a position to act with Yue Teng Office, China Building. would be impossible to send any rapidity and to plan with the de-Tel. 26382. units of the National Guard to finite assurance that such plans assist a regular division in any can be made effective without uri-
possible situatione certain delays."
$210
Zoong Bings (S.))
-Wing On Textilen-(S.) $125.
Public Utilities
$15.35
#154
H.K. Tway $15.40 $16) | 8151
87.40 Peak Trams (old)..............
$B
$3.70 Peak Tramis (new)....
$4
307
8211
...
Y'mati Forries.....
8214
381
China Lighta. (0)......
83.40
China Lights (New)...)
$3
$37
H. K. Electrics (Old)...) $37
H. K. Electrica(Now)... $35,80
опе
of the
$17
Macao Electrics (Old)
810
Machd Electrics (New)
#11
Sandakan Lights.
Telephones-toidja
$94
Telephones (new)...............ïje) ....... S'pore Tractions (Ord.)}
$8.70
81 7.601
$90
Industrials
814.00 Cald., Macg. (Ord) 5.
$12
81
Cald., Macg. (Pref.)S.
Canton Icès........
Cements $15
H.K. Ropas
H.K. Gort Loans
$694% Loan
(31%
895 31%
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(1934).. (1940)
817.76
*Miscellaneous
Dairy Farms...
86.80 Enterinioments
81,00 Constructions (old)......
Constructions (new)........
81
$7.45 Lane Crawfords............
Nanyang Tobacco....... $3 $2.15 Bineeren
Yots-ant
35. Ch. G.5% 1923G$Bds.
339
#8
8/9
4/0
K. Wing On
$15
1100
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EXTRAORDINARILY which might arise in this hemis- URGES "CONGRESS TO STAY ON high prices for goid articles. Apply phere.
The presidential message Hong Kong Gold Refining. Co. TIME. CHIEF FACTOR strengthened the movement to Room 446, 10 Queen's Road Cen- Time again is the essential fac- Keep congress in sessioni tirough Wang Hing BuildingTM-Ath. tor in these matters, and the out the summer, recessing only for Floor. first requirement in any event the Republican and Democratic would be the opportunity for giv-national
conventiona It the
ing at least a portion of the guard emergency is so dire that the Pre-
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some degree of reorganisation." mobilize the National Guard, Sen- Experienced Book-keeper Wants
896
Under the present law, the Pre-ator Styles Bridges (RN.H.) de-students to form a class. Guaran- sident can call the National Guard clared, then congress should re-tee students to keep a whole set of to active duty in cases of Invasion main continuously fri session.
books after completion of a course
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or insurrection. Similarly, the Little, opposition was expressed of 6 months. For Term and Par-Messrs. Guard can be called out if con-to the remaining portion of Mr. ticulars. Please Apply to:-Box gress declares a national emer- Roosevelt's
yesterday No. 463. c/o HK.D.P.
message
88.20 gency. Officials noted, however, which asked for supplemental ap- $1.86 that the Guard could not be sent propriations, estimated at close to
out of the country..."
1 billion, 300 millions of dollars to
$2.10
88.45
26
10
$39
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Maramane Iny, (H.K)) Wm. Powells.....
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Marshall did not explain where hasten prompt deliveries of guna, Wanted to Buy 2nd Hand Type- trouble might be expected in the ammunition, and Bre control writer in Good Condition. Please western hemisphere during the equipment and also to train apply to Box No. 464 c/o The near future; He said, however, vast group of specialists for work HK.D.P.
that the army has only five in industry and in army and navy streamlined infantry divisions of service.
Chairman Andrew May (D., Ky.)
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8,500 men each available in the continental United States while a of the house military affairs.com- sixth is being organized at Fort mittes, said the necessary legiala Berring, Ga. In the event of tion would be introduced Monday what offer? Please apply to Box trouble in this hemisphere, he and quickly, passed
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