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266
Do. (Lon: Rog.)
www.
£71
Chartered Banki.......
E25
£10 1/16
Mercantils "Bks. "A". Marcantile Bks, "C"
813
Bank of East Asia...............
$1996
$390
N. C. & 8. Banks..... Insurances
$1250
$1275
£79
188 Canton Insurances...
ID.
Union InsurancÖBLJAN
$390
$305
Underwriters
$180
H.K. Fires.....
1:1
$11
37/6
$6.90
$90)
$4.80
$18
$18
833
11/0
291
$3.30 83
IH
311.20
12 13
Shipping
$135 Douglas
$100 $80
Steamboats
Indo-Chinas (Pref.)..
Indo-China (Def.)
Shells ****
Waterbolts
Docks, Wharves,
Godowns, etc.
H.K. & K. Wharves...
Provident ........................ $4.80
H.K. Docks (Old).....
H.K. Docks (New)..........
+Shanghai Docks......
Kailana Rasbe
Mining
cte.Hong Kong Mines.....
Lands, Hotels and Buildings
H.K. & 8. Hotels... $3.30 H.K. Lands
$100 Do. 4% Debentures....
Shanghai Lands..
$3.40 H.K. Realtion.
$7.10
lumphreys ...
$100 Chinese Estates....
Colton Mills
-$41†Ewo (8)
$186 S'hai Cottens (8.)..
Zooug Sing (8.)......
# 1
£96
£251
£10)
a
50 ct.
$185 I.D.
$1
FINANCE & GENERAL
Finance and Commerce
Chemists Told Of A New WRENS" DOING
Synthetic Rubber
A new American "synthetic rubber, made of oil refinery.
gas,, a rubber that stretches better. but bounces less than the" natural, Was
to the American Chemical Societa. Detroit, by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. ·
announced
The rubber Is
is odourless and, of butyl 15 to 20 times slower $150 tasteless It is so pure it looks than through natural rubber.
Kre fresh snow. It is made on a Butyr's Lenslie strength test 1 $136" new chemical principle, indicating weaker than natural rubber. but science will soon make many kinds gets better with age, until after a. $100 of rubber instead of just
ane. couple of years the synthetic be- $100
Each kind will be suited to comes the stronger. 37/6
$6.90 special use.
18.60 $16
8331
14/0
$3
$31.35
$100
$3.40
$7
The rubber is the "buty"" whose nature has been * guarded secret since the bars fact of its discovery was an- nounced last June to Standard Oil stockholders
In
MEN'S WORK
DOVER'S JILL OF ALL TRADES
between air-raids, I saw something of the work done at the Dover naval base by the Women's Royal Naval Service writes the Dally Telegraph Correspondent. All branches of the Royal Navy speak in the highest terms of the Wrens fine practical work of the in helping to maintain the effi KESISTS THE AIR. SUN Sharp road objects do not aut ciency of the base. butvi as easily as natural. "Dynamo Week"
A
as the week strip of natural, flexed 3,000,000 of the Dunkirk events is called- times, broke in two. But a simi-is regarded by the Wrens them- lar strip of butyl was still whole sclves as a landmark in the his- after 4.000.000 flexes. The butyltory of their branch of the Senior
tests did not wear Service.
||
The report was by Dr. Per Kn laboratory Frolich. director of the chemical down as fast as real rubber.
Naval officers who had been division of Esso Laboratories. In nitric acid natural rubber engaged in the important techni-. Elizabeth, N. J.; R. M Thomas, dissolved and disappeared in five cal work of chart plotting were completely urgently needed elsewhere during
I. E Lightbown, W. J. Sparks and minutes Butyl E V. Murpare
Dr. Frolich said a whole group
of chemists has worked 10 years on the new rubber.
ARMY STUDYING IT
This buty gives the United States tour different kinds of
unaffected.
was
"Dynamo Week" and there came a call for Wrens capable of filing their places temporarily. Never before had women been given the opportunity of taking such a direct part in naval operations
An important quality of the new rubber is resistance to oxygen of the alr and to sun-
weakens light Oxygen
and cracks all natural rubber. The new chemical principle of
QUICKLY FOUND synthetic rubber, all home-made butyl explains the oxygen resist- for war emergency As the Nation ance. It is what chemists call Volunteers were quickly found, uses half the world's crude rub-saturation. A saturated chemical and these proved so efficient that ber, and 75 per cent of this for has no affinity for other chemi- they will continue at chart plot- tires, and gets it almost all from cals. Natural rubber has a lot of ting for the duration. It is prob- half-way around the world in the affinities, including the bad one able also that they will be em- $7.40 East Indies, U.S. military authorl for oxygen.
similar ployed at other ports on $3.70 ties are studying the new butyl. In butyl the scientists made a work, so relieving officers. Almost Its tire uses are atili secret rubber with scarcely any unsatis-the entire clerical work of this But one of its properties in tied affinities, except for carbon base 13 BOW 173 their capable creased strength as it gets hot. black, the stuff which makes tires hands. Heat is a problem in heavy, high-strong. Butyl will take up cne- 637 speed military transportation.. third more carbon black than will
Air leaks out of an inner tube natural rubber.
-8414- €100
Wing On Textiles (9.))
$125
Public Utilities
$18.40
$184
H.K. Tramways... $16.40
$7.40 Peak Trams (old).............
$3.70 Peak Trains (new)..
$57 Star Ferries........ Y'mati Ferries....
$7
---
$22)
$37
$1600
#17}
$6.65
* !
*:*:
Chine Lights (0)
$3.60 China Lights (New)..
$572 #221
$8.90
$38
#37
11. K. Electrics (Old)... K. Electaics Naw)....
$18
Macno Electrics (Old)
$12
$24
191
8941 $9.90
Macao Electrics (New)
Sandakan Lights...... Telophones (old)....... Telephones (now)................) S'pore Tractions (Ord.
Industrials
$14.90 Cad., Macg. [Ord.) 8.)
Canton Iem.
Cements ....
$8.70 H.K. Ropes Vers;
HE. Govt. "Loans
·888*~ |4% "Iran”
#94 31%
$94 31%
(1954).... (1940)..
Miscellaneotis
$1.60 Constructions (old)...
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TENDERS INVITED
Tenders are invited for Med
cal Department contract for the
VEHICLES AND
·TRAFFIC REGULATION
IC
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1940. -PAGE
If you Value
your Health-
Insist upon
Gordon's GIN
NO Colouring Matter No Injurious Ingredients
GORDONS
DRY GIN
KASTILLERY LONDON
"MALAYAN'S MOUSTACHE INSURED FOR £200
more
approachable' Interno. much so that I had the ar=" perience of measuring hig treasured possession.
From end to end it spread roughly “ 76 inches and he informed meš that it was still growing!
Malaya is of course famous all over the world for its rubber and tin. but did you know that Malaya was also famous as the home of the owner of the longest moustache in the world" Well, this is a fact, and its proud possessor is Mr. A. Malaithanglar, ~- an Indian, writes a Malays Tribune reportér. The last time I met him was about two years ago, at a wedding reception In Seremban, and be- Hleve it or not he was of ΠΟΤΕ Wrens margery man The Dase Interest to the gathering at the accountant's office. Thus more ¡reception than the newly-wedded naval writers are made avalable couple. He definitely stole tbe for work afloat. There are “no show. longer any men officers ordernes at this base. All these duties are i now done by Wrens, who have also replaced ratings as cooks in the barracks. (Transport driving ... 13" another of their tasks, an
the
He was an amiable sort #1 personality, and became still
He told his admiring audience that he had insured his unusually valuable moustache for *£200, being afraid that one day be ranks on the basis of ability might make a mistake while.
lighting a cigarette and find the smoke. Wrens handle all the tremen-whole thing going up in dous traffic, which flows through It was also rumoured, I remember the Naval Telephone Exchange quite well, that he had been work-
alone
The ages of these girls and $6,60 supply of:-White Leghorn new In exercise of the powers con women range, between 18 and 45,
laid eggs, fish. fresh fruit and ferred by section 3.0f the Vehicles and a number served in the last switchboard. They distribute all ing at a Government office and vegetables, groceries and pro-and Traffic Regulatico Ordnance, war. Between 60 and 75 per cent. naval signals between the port was "ordered" to shave or regian sions, meat, poultry and game, 1912, the Govertor in Council rice, sundries, patent foods and hereby amends the regulations recruited locally and many and the Admiralty: they do cod- with a pension and he resigned
htinging, tele-printing and ciphering. When I met him two years ago.< meat extracts and Indian food-made under, the said Ordinance have husbands in stuffs, required
Their Jobs are often, if not al-It was widely rumoured that he locally by the appearing on pages 723 to 803 of services.
Equal opportunity is opga to ways, dangerous in this frequently was going as an “exhibit" to the Medical Department, for a period volume II of the Regulations of
town: No Chicago World Exhibition of three months from January to Hongkong (1937 Edition) as fol- every Wren for promotion to com- raided "front line"
lows:- March, 1941.
their sangfold is a by- February, 1939, after which missioned rank. The general rule matter, is to promote Wrens from the word.
was going touring Europe.
$12
Cald., Macg. Pref.)8
$1
130 cts.
#18)
$16
*98*)
395
Dairy Farms.
$17.80
Entertainments .... $6.60
$11.85
$1
Constructions (naw)....... i
$7.46
Lane Crawfords... ...
$7
Nanyang Tobacco....
831
$2.15 Sinceres
35
$20
S'hai Wing Un
814
18
Vibro Piling
7/0
Marsmans Inv. (Lon,
2/9
Marans Inv. (H.E.)
81
Wm. Powells....
་་
+Bale to Shanghai'
Watsons
-35% | Ch. 0.5% 1925G5Bds.
$39
I.K. Wing On ......
IMPORTATION & EXPORTATION
H.K. STOCK EXCHANGE
€3.20 $9.65
There is little to report due to
OF STRYCHNINE the short morning session. Banks
The Government Gazette, con Electrics, Trams and Lands re- tains the following:-
main firm while Ropes, Cements
BUYERS
In exercise of the powers con- and Providents were slightly ferred by Sections 3 and 4 of the easier. Importation and Exportation. Or- dinance, 1915, the Governor in Council makes the following re- gulation:
*
No person shall, except under a permit issued by the Superinten dent of Imports and Exports, im- | port or export
(a) Strychnine and its salts, (b) Brucine and its salts," and (c) Caffeine.
Provided that such permit "ahall not be required (a) when ́ ̧ such articles are carried into the Colony by water and are, without tran- shipment into any other vessel, to be carried out of the Colony on the same vessel on which they were carried into the Colony, and (b) when preparations or admixtures
Lands, $31,
Humphreys, $T.
Yaumati Ferries,” $22.50.
Macao Electrics (New), $16.60. Entertainments, 58.65
SELLERS
Watsons, $9.75.
SALES
Trains, $18,50 Electrics (Old), $38. Macao Electrica" (Old), $17.75, Macao Mectrics (New); $18.76.
HONGKONG
SHAREBROKERS
ARP, REPORT CENTRE Tenders are also invited for ARP. Report Centre at Sai Yee Street, Mongkok.
WATER STORAGE TANKS
AMENDMENT Regulation 147 is amended by the deletion therefrom of the full- stop at the end thereof and by the addition thereto of the fol-
Tenders are called for provid-|lowing:--- Ing and txing
water "storage
"But a véhicle so licensed shall
tanks at certain Medical institu- not be used for the carriage of tians. The work consists of making goods for hire or reward."
and fung galvanised mild steel
emergency water storage tanks at WEATHER REPORT
four hospitals in Hongkong', and one hospital in Kowloon Total 55 tanks with all necessary fittings. wooden supports, and concrete, "bases, etc.
Flongkong Royal Püservatory. 10 am, Nov. 17. Barumeter, (at sea level), 30.20
L AND E. ORD. Wind Direction, NNE
APPENDIX
The Government Gazette pub-
Kishes the following:---
Ins. Temperature, 71 F Humidity, 50 per cent..
Wind Force (Beaufort), 3. Temperature: maximum yesterday
Hi F.
PRE-PAID ADVERTISEMENTS.
The following classes of advertisements are charged at the price given below:- SITUATIONS VACANT,
HOUSES AND APARTMENTS WANTED,
HOUSES AND APARTMENTS TO BE. LET. MISCELLANEOUS WANTS.
Announcements not exceeding 25 Words are inserted under this heading at a Pre-paid Rate of $1.50 for THREE INSERTIONS. If Charges collected, $2.00.
WANTED TO BUY
WE PAY HIGH PRICES Temperature; minimum last night. gold bars, diamonds and jewels. for all gold and silver articles,
66 F. Rainfall for 24 hrs ending 10th Pedder Building, 2nd floor, Room 5. Apply China Gold Refining Co.
today, nil
117.32 is
In exercise of the powers con- ferred by section 3 of the. Regis- tration of Imports and Exports Total rainfall since January 1st. Ordnance, 1922, the Governor in Council hereby amends the forms Against an average of, 83.40 ins. in the appendix to the regula Sunset tonight, 5,39 p.m. tions made under the said Ord- inance and published 3r the Gazette of 21st March, 1930, as Government Notification 170, as follows
Sunrise tomorrow, 6.38 a.m.
4 pm, Nov. 17. Barometer (at sex vel), 30.11 ins. Temperature, 76 P. Humidity, 46 per cent.. (1. Form: 1. is amended by the Wind Direction," NNE addition, under the word "Value" Wind Force (Beaufort),
AMENDMENTS
in the heading to the sixth Maximum temperature 76 F. column of particulars required to Minimum-temperature. 66 F
ASSOCIATION be declared of the words "(cf. Rainfall; ni.
Hongkong)."
Volume of Business Transsucted containing such articles are im- on Saturday, Nov. 10, 1940. ported or exported in a form fit
SALES
or intended for use as a medicine HK Fleectrics (N.) 45
GRADE 2 OPIUM
SALE PRICES
in exercise of the powers Com-
ferred by section 3 (1) (a) of the
HK Tramways HK, Lands
400
100
545
2. Form 2 is amended by the addition, under the word "Value" inthe heading to the Aixth $37.75 column of particulars required to 18.50 be declared, of the word "to.b. 31.35 destination)!!!
The total value is $11,433.75.
Opium Ordinance. 1932, the Go- EWO COTTON MILLS
ernor in Council hereby deter INTERIM DIVIDEND mines the prices at which prepared
·HONG-KONG TIDE TABLE From 18 to 24 Ngv. 1940.
HIGH WATER
Note The above amendments are intended to specify more clearly, and not to amend, the particulars required to be declar ed. They reproduce the effect of two notes which were formerly Mon 18 printed below the forms in the
appendix as originally enacted
oplum known as Grade 2 opfum The following telegraphic but omitted in subsequent amend Wed 10 many be sold to the public as fol formation has been received in regard to the Ewo Cotton Mills,
low
2 mace tube: $3.80; 2 candereen Ltd,, by Messrs.. Jardine, Matheson
& Co. Ltd
ment.
7′at CN$28.00 per share in the tube 38 cts.
The prices so determined are Interim Dividend of CN$150 proportion of 1 new share substituted for the prices set out payable Dec. 9. Transfer Books every 4, old shares held; pay in Government Notification No. closed Dec. 2 to 7, Issue of 337 by shareholders Shanghaf Dec 859 published in the Gazette 500 new shares to be made to 20, Hongkong Dec. traordinary of the 31st July, 1940. shareholders on the Register Dec. East Feb. 28.
outside Fal
Hong
Kong 18tandard
Tizné.
~LOW WATEL
Hong
Kong
Standard
Height
Time
WE OFFER HIGH PRICES for" any amount of gold articles, diamonds; aliver, etc. No holidays. Apply China Building, 7th floor. Tel. 30727. Burada Gold Refining co.
WANTED KNOWN
ORDERS TAKEN for hand-made sweaters, Ladies' jumpers, Babies" outits, etc,,,at $5.00 each for workmanship.
Wool and model desired, to be supplied by customer,
Bend particulars of address, etc., to Box 502, EKUP.
The WE have an outstand-
the thy mining assortment of latest American $121325.0 06 315 dresses for all occasions and price 16 16 3-8 to suit all purses, Call at "Vanity 06 1614 Shop (Lazarus) Pedder Street. 18.40"||4′′ 1′′
155 10 *18650 £8, 0702 |16
1 of 16 18 Experienced Book-keeper @wants 101 1705 16 students to form a class. Guaran 71, 0855 80.
1800 tee students to keep a whole set of 16 0950 books after completion of a course: §4 3136% 47 of 6 months. For Term and Par 84108302-5 ticulars, Please Apply to Box 189 788 28 141 No. 462 ^e/o HKDP, ~
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TAILOR
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"Zor, a pair of trousers;
Just Received Stanley Gibbons Postage Stamp Catalogues
1941
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Part 1 British Empire- Part I Foreign Countries
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Picture Bookd
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Thursdays
Saturdays
Sundays
5 to 7.30 p.m.
·ENGRAVERS
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Telephone No. 22224.
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