HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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EXPAND RESEARCH IN
PULP AND PAPER
An expanded programme of research in pulp, paper, "and re- lated products is provided for in a new agreement entered into by the Canadian the Federal Department of Mines and Resources with
University. Under the Pulp and Paper Association and "MeG!ll terms of this agreement the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association HE Undersigned have received undertakes to provide greatly increased support for the extension of studies aimed at the improvement of production methods and the reduction of manufacturing costs
structions
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
Thursday, the 3rd October. 1948
commencing at 10.30 a.m.,
The first agreement for such.co- operative activity was entered into twelve years ago. at which time the Association erected a special research, building on a site pro- vided by McGulf University.
The Dominion Government has
a very definite interest in the pulp
and paper industry as, in addition
to occupying a leading place in at No. 7, Tung Cheong Building the country's export trade, this 2nd Floor,, Kowloon.
industry provides employment for thousands of high-skilled as well as unskilled workers.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
also
Fine Bronze Figures
1 "Zenith " Radio Set
Likewise the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association is fully aware of the necessity of research in order to maintain and improve"the industry's position in the highly competitive markets of the world. and has manifested this interest
On View from Wednesday, the 2nd by substantially increased appro-
October, 1940.
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS.
priations for the operation of the Pulp and Paper Institute.
McGill, as well as other Cana- dian Universities. Ands through the pulp and paper industries a broad field of employment for graduates in engineering, chemis- try and other related sciences.
Thus the Pulp and Paper In- stitute is an outstanding" example,
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H.K. STOCK EXCHANGE
Monday, Sept. 30.
FINANCE & GENERAL
Government Drive To Make Malaya Self-Sufficient
The great support, given to rice cultivation by the Malayan Government in recent times has already resulted in Malaya producing about forty per cent of the rice consumed in the country-am approximate increase of ten per cent, within the last five years.
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There is confidence. among members of the Agricultural Department that when the padi- cultivation schemes which are being prepared at the moment are producing rice at full capa- city, the gap between the rice grown in the country and "Im- ported rice will further be reduced, says the Malaya Tribune.
Mr. W. N. C. "Belgrave, Director
of Agriculture, S.S., and Adviser, FMS, who was in Singapore over the week-end, said, In an inter-
This week's market opened with view, that he was satisfied with quieter undertone, resulting in the steps now being taken in the small volume of business at country with regard to rice cuiti.
vation. lightly lower rates..
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BUYERS China Lights (Old), $6.80. Entertainments, $6.80.
SELLERS
Trams. $16. Cements, $18. Ropes. $6.10.
SALES
SCIENCE FUND
"ESTABLISHED
KINHWA, Sept. 30 (Central)-
To encourage. scientific research and
inventions the Cheklang Speaking of the Sunge! Manik Provincial Government has appro. scheme in Lower Perak, and the priated $120.000 as a Science Fünd. Panchang "Bedina scheme in the An additional $20,000 will be ap Kuala Selangor District, Mr. Bel-propriated yearly in the following grave said that when these are ten years, completed another 60,000 acres will be under padi
Canadian exports of planks and Together with the Mersing and boards in June were valued at Endau schemes in Johore, and
comparison with $8,644,000 other schemes in other states, the $4741.000 in June 1939. Purchases area underpadi cultivation in
by the United Kingdom amounted- Malaya will be increased by about to $4.374,000 and by the United China Lights (New), $6.80 call 100,000 acres. "At present there
States $1,688,000. paid.
are only about 330,000 acres cul tivated.
Wharves $91 Providents, $4.40/35.
Ropes, $5.
GOVERNOR'S GESTURE RIĆE PRICE SOARS
Jonore making great strides IN SHANGHAI in the cultivation of padi. Quit
recently: Chinese financiers stu- CHUNGKING, Sept. 35 (Central) died the question of intensive rice
and of the value of effective co-opera--Owing to manipulations
cultivation in the State, and to- tion between government, Indus-hoarding by unscrupulous mer-gether with improved irrigation, a PUBLIC AUCTION. and educational institutions chants, the price of rice in Bhang-larger area is being brought under
In employing' material and human jhai has again soared to $90 per padi. resources to advance the country's pieul. The poor class 1g Industrial and social welfare.
THE Undersigned have received
instructions
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
on
Tuesday, the 8th October. 1940 commencing at 5.15 p.m.
at their Sales Room. No, 2, Con-
naught Road, Central.
205, 2nd Floor).
(Room No.
A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF
POSTAGE-STAMPS
Including:-
Hongkong. Bermuda, Seychelles,
China, etc.
also
Straits Settlements (with some rare provisionals)
and
A Collection of Silver Jubilee and Coronation Stamps.
On View from Thursday, the 3rd October, 1940.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
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LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS.
HONGKONG
SHAREBROKERS
ASSOCIATION
Volume of Business Transacted
on Monday, September 30...
A. S. Watsons
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HONGKONG SHARE
hard
QUOTATIONS
SHAREBROKERS' ASSOCIATION
STOCK EXCHANGE,
Boyu Bellery
Baler Nomitasl
MONDAY 30 SEPT
Banks
Reyer
Balleri *Sales
#
#
£72
£67
Do. Lon. Reg.)
£0
fil
273
#1305 H.K. Books".
Do. (Col. Reg.)
Chartered Banks
27 Mercantile Bks."A"
Mercantile Bks. "C".
Bank of East Asia...
N. C. & B. Banka.
Insurances
200 Canton Insurances.....
Union Insuratices..
Underwriters
8160 HK. Fires.....
$405
$1.
'$1
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In years past, the cultivation of padi has been a Malay monopoly in the Malay States. Sir Shenton Thomas, in his drive for mare padi cultivation, put an end. to..' that monopoly.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1940
SAY
Gordon's
...and know what you're drinking/
GORDON'S
DRYGIN
RESTILLERY LONDON.
NO COLOURING MATTER
NO INJURIOUS INGREDIENTS
Over 2,000 Observers On Insect Survey
Invasion of the forests of Canada by foreign insects or sud- den development of large scale infestations by native pesta
to constitutes a continuous merisce
one of the principal natural resources. "Ceaseless vigilance is necessary to discover Insect outbreaks in their initial 'stares, in order to avoid or at least reduce widespread losses which may seriously affect the national economy
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SPRUCE SAWFLY
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FOOD SHORTAGE IN MANCHUKUD
That Manichouikuo is experieno- jing food abortage, recently report, in thn North-China Daily News, kmed by a report from Dairen which states that the Japanese authorities have launch-" et a targe-scale drive for the con- | suraption of rabbits and whale men as substitutes for more con- veptional forms of meat and hih The report says that 10,000 pedi gree rabbits are being Imported from Japan, while many whales that are caught off the Linotung Feinsnta will find Manchoukto at ready market.
A thoroughly organized, intelli- been received up to the In his speech at the opening of gence service, known as the Forest last July, the M.A.HA. extulbition last year Insect Survey has been put into Momina in Kuala Lumpur, he announced operation by the Dominion Gov..
The survey shows that in 1940 that Astatics, other than Malaya. ernment for the express purpose
the territory invaded by the
A Shanghai lady, who his co- were to be encouraged to take up jot keeping unceasing watch over
has in-cently visited Manchuokuo, relates notorious spruce sawfly $1305 padi cultivation.
the fluctuations of the insect
creased somewhat in a westerly having conditions there de-. It was in Perak that there was population of the forest .272
direction, new records being ob-teriorate dally. It is impossible to: £87 the greatest
response. A larg
Not only the Dominion govern- |tained from Muskoka and Lake get white sugar in Harin is: number of Chinese were settled ment but the Provincial Forest Nipissing. Ontario and Pontia the only available on the market
opened Services, the forest industries and County
£68
EXT
$11
on the land In newly
areas
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50 ci
largest `paat
$190
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--- sherluge-pf Hour and the people. are forced to eat yellow corn fout bread.
and Papineau County, rifled and brown. Bread is the protective associations take an Quebec Parasites will be liberat another article that is becoming Kelantan and Kedah are the active part in this project. Over ed in these arcas as soon as pas a rarety, for there is an acute
producing states. 2000 observers, stationed in all sible Kelantan will soon have more parts of Canada, make regular re- Another important result of the $400 land under padi than rubber, but ports. on conditions in their dis-survey consists in the reports on
having the densest population tricts?
the steady increase of the spruce most of the padi grown is con
bec budworm and the Jackeine boe. sumed in the State Itself; Kedah, on the other hand, is in a posi-operating with increasing effec-worm in many districts of central 8tion to export rice to other partstiveness and success since 1938, and eastern Canada,
In 1939 over 8.000 reports were The latter outbreaks are
observations Races other than Mamys have received in Ottawa Since the be- under class 88.00 been reluctant to take up padi ginning of 1940, notwithstanding every avenue of control is
the
unfavourable circumstances carefully investigated." On cultivation because they thought.
10
$750
Shipping
$120 Douglases,
$120
313
Steamboats.
$10
$100
Indo-Chinas (Pref.).
Indo-Chinas (Det.
3100
35/74 Shells
35/7
BRO
36.90 Waterboats
Docks, "Wharves, Godowns, etc.
1
$92
1592
1.K. & K. Wharys.. Providents
$162
H.K, Docks (Old)...
84.45 $16.40
$16
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*35*
14/0
180
$7.-5
Rasba
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$301
$160 Do. 4% Debentures....
$100
$12.60 Shanghai Lands....
$16) H.K. Docks (New)......
tShanghai Docks..
Mining
Kailang
1 cts. Hong Kong Mines......
Lands, Hotels and Buildings
H.K. & 8. Hotels..
$31.40 H.K. Lands.......
83.00 H.K. Realtim
$7.15 Humphreya ****** 101 Chinese Estates.
Cotton Milis
8441 Ewo (8.) $181
S'hai Cottone (8.).. Zoong Sings (S.)) Wing On Textiles (S.)
Public Utilities-
H.K. Tramways..
$7.40 Peak Trams (old)..... $3.70
Peak Trams (xiero)....}
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of the country.
The
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bas organisation
it unprofitable. It was suggested brought about by the war. by the President of the M.A.H.A.4.500 samples and reports Dato F. W. Douglas, that a bounty
be paid to growers of padi.
HIGHER STRAINS
A very encouraging feature of rice cultivation today is that there is an intelligent demand among rice cultivators for higher yielding, strains
Partly due to the better yielding strain, the amount of padi predpe- ed has increased by 27 per cent. since 1923 in Malaya.
After seventeen years, Malaya has brought production to nearly; $44f forty per cent. of the amount of $210 rice consumed.
Java has become self-support-
Larch sanity, as compared the records of 1999.
Bronze birch-borer continues t de a serious pest in the Maritime now! Provinces.. This insect seems to
and be rapidly mcreasing in numbers. beins in the eastern sownahipa of the the province of Quebec and is quite throughout, central
over other hand, there seems to be prevalent have little change in the status of the Canada
PRE-PAID ADVERTISEMENTS.
The following classes of advertisements are charged at the pries given kelga SITUATIONS VACANT.
HOUSES AND APARTMENTS WANTED."
HOUSES AND APARTMENTS TO BE LET. MISCELLANEOUS WANTÉ.
Announcements not exceeding 25 Words are inserted under this heading at a Pre-paid. Rate of 81.50 for THREE INSERTIONS. If Charges collected, $2.00.-
WANTED KNOWN
ORDERS TAKEN for hand-made ing in rice after seventeen years sweaters, Ladies' jumpers, Babies" with a population that rose from outnts, etc., at $5.00 each for 343 millions to 441 millions.
workmanship.
This is an uchievement that Wool and model desired, to be Malaya can emulate with the supplied by customer. schemes that are in progress.
Bend particulars of address, etc.. Belgrave, discussing the to Bax 502, HX.D.P. quality of padi grown in Malaya,
3125
$15.00 $16
$15.90
$8
300 $8.80
$4
200 8.80
300
Star Ferries....
$00
China Proyidents
500 4.35
$22
mati Ferries...
8221
China Ligs. (N) C. Call
211
6,60
$0.60 $800
China Lights (0)
$880
Mr:
400
6.60
call paid
Chins Lights (New)...
$6.60 cali
pd
$39
HK. Tramways
100 15.75
50 24.00
$17
1761
$241 $10
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H.K. Telephones (O)....
The total value is $9,422.60.
Canada is the world's leading producer of asbestos. Shipments by Canadian producers in April amounted to 30,449 tons as com-. pared with 24,921 in March. Dur- ing the first four months of 1940 shipments aggregated 103,347 tons as compared with 86,605 during the corresponding period in 1999.
H. K. Electrics (Old... 988:
$38, K. Electrics New)... $38)
Macao Electrics (Old)]
$16 Macao Electrics (New)]
Sandakan Lights......... Telephones (old)........ Telephones (new)....... S'pore Tractions (Ord.) Industrials
814.90 Cald., Macg. - (Ord.) 8.|
Cald., Macg. (Pref. 8. Canton Ites..........................
(1940)
8:21
$10
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said that the local grades "com- That "WE" have an outstand- pared favourably with the Ran- ing assortment of latest American goon grades, and, as a whole, with dresses for all occasions and price most of the Java grades, but to suit all purses. Call at "Vanity could not be compared with zice Shop" (Lazarus) Pedder Street. grown in certain parts of Javby
MISSION TO THAI AND INDO-CHINA
Experienced Book-keeper Wants. Stadents to form a class. Guaran- tee students to keep a whole set of He added that Government had books after completion of a course, sent an officer of the Agricul- of 8 months. For Term and Par- 86.10 tural Department, Mr. C. Burticulars. gess, to study rice cultivation in No. 463 Thailand and Indo-China, withi emphasis on Inter-seasonal plant- ing.
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His report had not been sub-
$12
$1
30 ots,
$16
Cementa........
$15.90
$620 H.K. Bopes
+
HR. Gort, Loans
$99
4% Loan
100
196
31%
(1934)
$35
895
34%
Miscellaneouts
"Production of crude petroleum | 817,60 $18
$18
Dairy Farms.......
XD.
in Canada was increased in April } #8.00-
Entertainment (
+4
$1.60 Constructions (ald)...
$1
with 570,131 barrels in March, and
Constructions (now)...
17.45 Lane Crawfords.
$7
Nanyang Tobacco.......
$2.10 Sinceres
$8.80
$8.65
38.80
30% Food
$39
$134.
to 634,869 barrels, as compared
559,368 in. April 1938. Output, dur- ing the four months ended "April totalled 2,347,445, ́88 compared with 1,835,983. In the same period of 1939.
Swordfish are taken in Cano- diar waters off the Atlantie
Coast. The fishing season opened in June and will continue until
September.
Watsons so.........
30%, Ch. 0.5% 102NG 3Bds
LK. Wing On
S'hai Wing On
Marsman Inv. (Lop.)
Maramans Inv. (H.K.)
$1 Wm. Powells......
Vibro Piling
6/0.
2/9
+Bale to Shanghai.
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Please Apply to:-Box c/o H.KDP.
WANTED TO BUY
WE OFFER HIGH FRICES for any amount of gold articles.
$6.80 mitted yet Mr. Belgrave: sald diamonds, silver, etc. No holidays 1.85 that he did not think that Malaya Apply China Building, 7th floor. would be affected if suppiles of 30727. Eurasia Gold Renning rice from Indo-China were to be Co.
$2.20cut off.
Discussing
the "Grow More We pay high prices for all Gold campaign and the allot- & Silver articles, Diamonds, Jade ment schemes just introduced in and Gold dust. Apply China Gold the Colony, Mr. Belgrave said that Refining Co. Pedder Building 2nd Bingapore should be able to grow noor, Room 8...
|a fair percentage of its food fon
the Island The Department of Wanted to Buy 2nd Hand Type- Agricultora was advising on the writer, in Good Condition. Please
apply to Bor No. 484 c/o The HKD
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