HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
Finance and Commerce
POWER COMPANY NEW PROJECTS
SEIZED
High-Handed Japanese Action In Chinking
FOR HUNAN
H.K. STOCK
EXCHANGE
New educational, productive and. There are good enquiries alightly | nealth "projects have been mapped below present levels. The under
out for Hunan, according to Gen-tone Is generally quiet, eral Hsueh Yqh, Chairman of the Human Provincial Government.
A university and a middle school | agriculture and engineering]
* CHUNGKING, Nov. 25 (Central) On the pretext of inspecting the electric enterprises in Chin- ktang, former capital of Kiangsu, will be established.
A match factory. # cement n party of Japanese officials from the Japanese-organised "Central works, a sugar refaery, and à China Waterworks and Power Workshop for the manufacture of Company," accompanied by Tang electrical supplies will be set up. Ching-po, puppet vice-minister of Other productive enterprises in- the Nanking Ministry of Industry clude the dredging of salt wells and Commerce, fordibly took over and shipbuilding for whigh $200,- the Chinktang Electric Light 900 will be raised, Company on Oct. 28, according to
Shanghal message
frang and the puppet magistrate of Chinklang made an attempt to demur to the Japanese move but
they were threatened with arrest and punishment on the charge of being anti-Japanese. They were given four hours to submit and they quickly yielded, thus placing the Chinklang Light Company under.complete Japanese control.
NO DIVIDEND
Child health contests and athle tic meets will be held to arouse
public attention to the importance of health, Public health facilities in the different halen will be im..
prayed and more midwives will be trained.
BURMA TEA MARKET
The Hongkong Stock Exchangé transacted yesterday received from
BUYERS
Bank of East Asia, $73, Providents, $4.80. Lands, $30.25. Trams, $18.40. Yaumati Ferries, $22 25. Cements, $18,50. Ropes, $8.40. Dairy Farms $17.50. Entertainments, $6.60
SELLERS
H.K. Banks, $1280. Docks (0), $1650. Watsons, $9.75. Vibro Piling. $8.
SALES Providents $4,65. Realties, $9.45. Trams, $16.50. Star Ferries, $58.
FINANCE & GENERAL
so
Refugees In Hollywood
BATA EXPERTS IN US. LOSE. PERMITS
Deportation For 59 Executives And Workers
The statement that only eigh- teen of the industry's 19,511 em. ployees are refugees, which has been made by the Screen Actors Guild at the behest of the Produ cers Association, was received with much scepticism that Guld Secretary Kenneth Thomson has sent a letter to Y. Frank Freeman, Charging the Bata Shoe Com- president of the P. A. asking him pany, one of the world's largest to recheck the figures for possible shoe manufacturers, with use of child labour, payment of 'low
and An Mr. Thomson felt. It was said, wages,
apprenticeship while the figures probably were.ac system that is utterly foreign te curate from the producers' under- this country," Robert H. Jackson. standing of the problem, they Attorney General, made" public re- might not reflect the situation in cently a ruling from the immigra- its entirety. It seems that the pro- tion and naturalization division of ducers overlooked day and free the Department of Justice, refus- iance workers who gain their living extension of visitors' permits ing from the industry but do notjof 12 Czech executives and" 47 employees, states the Christiah appear on permanent payrolls.
Science Monitor,
errors
The industry has been smarting under the attacks of G. Allison
The 59 included in the group
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shoe
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 1940. -PAGE
SAY
Gordon's
...and know what you're drinking/
GORDON
DRY GIN
DESTILLERY, LONDON.
NO COLOURING MATTER
NO
INJURIOUS INGREDIENTS
H
Phelps, a local broadcaster, and entered the United States from prepared the refugee list to refute Czechoslovakia in May, 1939, to his charges. Before issuing the help transplant the Bata speed-up statement. the Guild expressed method of manufacturing cheap some amazement over the Gures shoes in competition with bub Mr. Freeman assured Mr. manufacturers in Lynn, Boston,, St. Thomson that they were correct. Louis, and elsewhere. The company |
PROTECTIVE LANGUAGE.. set
1. $2,000,000 factory at KUNMING, Nov. 25 (Central) - RAUB AUSTRALIAN The Guild was anxious to co- Belcamp, Md. and operates a The tea market in Burma is now
operate with
the producers is chain of some 50 retail stores in GOLD almost completely dominated-by
MINING
silencing the criticisms for the the 'East and Middle West.
parents, entered into when the None of the Government) blea overseas Chinese traders in that
.CO., LTD.
good of the business, but feeling
The technical ground given. in youths themselves were legally too contain any evidence to establish country, according to statistics
that Hollywood might share the the order Issued for deportation young to make such an agreement that the Bata Shoe Company, or compiled by the interested circles Report for four weeks ended disbelief that was apparent in this that the company misrepresent-themselves." here. The volume of business Nov. 9. 1940. Period 565.
minds, of some, the statement was ed the character of the work to
Its affiliates in the United States Asked what would become of the are, at the present time, engaged during the current Heavy rains have
fallen couched in protective language be performed by the alien worker $2,000,000. Bata Investment, Mr.in subversive activites here, ac-", Messrs. year ly stated to have already throughout the period. Following which would permit the actors to and the methods of manufacture Jackson said that there was noth-cording to one confidential report Clarke and Som Brisbane," amounted to 10,000,000 rupees, a break in the bank of a nearby re-examine the matter if discre at the Belcamp plant, and that ing to prevent the factory from made by a cable in code and in translating With the Improvement of the creek
Government investiga- on 19/10/40, an abnormalpancies developed.
there was nothing in the process continuing if it employed "Amerl-tors. but there Is considerable same it reads as follows:-"Direc- quality of the Chinese, tea, It's quantity of water passed across The figures have engendered which required any skill unknown can methods." tors have decided not to pay divi- believed that the trade can he the ore' zones at Raub Hole Sec- considerable off-the-record discus- to American workers.
evidence Indicating that Jan. A. A still further and graver charge Bata and officials of the Bata or- ·-- dend present quarter."
tion Being in excess of the capa-slon, and innocent expressions of In explaining the order, Mr.is being made. city of the fuming. it caused a wonder are being received with a Jackson went verbally far beyond against the company, though this are persona grata with the pre
in Washingtonganization in the United States local flooding of the surface with auch resentment as open state the technical terms of the decision. was not mentioned either in the sent German government.
consequent collapse of oldments of disbelief Publicity de- He recalled that the company had official order or in Mr. Jackson's HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS workings and the flooding of the partment members polled in con- been fined for icw-wage payment verbal comment.
Jan A. Bata is president of the fiderice agreed that the ngure under the Wage-hour Act, and PERSONA, GRATA' WITH REICH Company is Bata A. 8. of Zlin. Bata Shoe Company. The parent Six Chinese employees lost their eighteen could hardly be applied that Ал injunction had been It is learned from unimpeach Czechoslovakia, now a protectorate
to a single lot, much less the entire brought against: it under the child able sources that Government DEVELOPMENT
Industry:
labour statutes.
of Germany. Development
investigators, after careful inquiry. footage for the
The conflict appears to have He charged that the chief have assembled data indicating t
Further, there is every reason to period amounted to 821 feet. arisen partly over the defnition of distinguishing feature of the Bata possible connexion between Bata believe that the Bata ganization $1975
Raub Hole Section:
refugee. The 110 feet" 272
Industry listed system was its apprenticeship, dor- interests and the Nazi economie in this country is a part of the £as development, The workings have those who arrived in the United mitory and rigid control of the system. Czechoslovalds, of course, Nazi, economic plan for trade ex-
been dewatered to No. 2 level and States after Jan. 1st, 1938. and who personal lives of workers, which is
now part of the German
parsion and that the Bata com- £25 work, recommenced in the various were on studio payrolls on Aus virtually, he asserted made young domain. The Bata company has a pany and its affiliates serve as a £10 development faces on Nos. 1 and 31st of this year. The question be workers the wards of the company, score or more of actories arating Germany, the report sald
source of foreign exchange 2 levels."
Ing asked is how day and tree under agreement with their the world." Anderson" Section: 102 feet de- lance people who are making their velopment. No. 2 level Stope living from pictures are to be re- Shaft is being driven further garded.
STOCK EXCHANGE,
Bayer Gallery
pushed still further,
SITAREBROKERS ASSOCIATION
Balan
Nomina
MONDAY
25 NOV.
the
lower levels of this section,
Ilves
Bayer
Bežurs Somi
Banks
H.K. Banks
Do. (Col. Beg.)....
£65"Do. (Lon. Reg.)
Chartered Banks...... Mercantila Bka. “A”. Mercantile H. "C".
Bank of East Asia...... $73
1980
£78-
125 210 1/16
$73
1. 4.
N. C. & 8. Banks......
******
Insurances
Union InsurEDOČE...................
$185 Canton Insurances.. 1395 $1
Underwriters
$180 H.K. Fires...
Shipping
$135 Douglas
$11
$100
€80
Steamboats
Indo-Chinas (Prol.).....]
Indo-Chinas (Def.)....
35/74 Shells
$8.00 Waterhonta
Docks, Wharves,
Godowns, etc. 150 H.K. & K. Wherrel... Providents.....
$4.00
$101
$18
$33
11/0
:
i i :.
$18.40
829+
H.K. Docks (Old).
FT. K. Docks (New)..... +Shanghai Deck......
Kailang
191 Raube
Hota
+41
$31
$7.20
$371
3
Mining
Hong Kong Mines......
Lands, Hotels and Buildings
H.K. & S. Hotal.................
2
#
H.K. Lands... *3}
·$100 Do, 4% Debentures.... $11 Shanghai: Lande........
$3.43 H.K. Realties.
Humphreysôn
$100 Chiness Eatste
$45
$185
444
Cotton Mills
Ewo (8.).
S'hai Cottona (8.).... Zoeng Sings (9.)......
Wing On Textiles (8.
Public Utilities
H.K. Tramways... $16
$7.40 Peak Trams (old)....
$3.70 Peak Trama (new)...
1874 Star Ferries.......
Y'mati Ferries......
$7
$6.5
Chins Lights (0)........
Chins Lights, (New)....
H. K, Flectrice (Oldi...
$37. K. Kloetsient New)....
$171
Macao Electrics (Old)
$104 Macão Electrics. (Now}] #11 Bandakan Lights...... Talaphones (old).......
$24
$91 Telephones (new)....
S'pore Tractions (Ord,)
,
Laduririsis
| 934.90| Cald.; Macg. (Ord.) 8.
$19
Call, Macg. (Prof.)S
#1
$16
$16.60
Cementa
$88
4%. Loan
$17
$1
:39
Lane Crawfords................
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3
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$3.45
£
20 ct.
$186
$390
80 ot.
$150
"$135
$100
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south to connect to No. 2 level of Bukit Hitam.
Mr Thomson has asked Mr. Freeman to have these lists check- Bukit Koman. Section: 270 feet ed to see it extras, bit players. development. Work has consisted, writers and assistant directors mainly, of the extension of de-whose relationship with the in- dustry . unique will alter the velopment commenced last period and on an average was satisfac- Picture any.
$1,00 35/71
$800, tory.
€89) $465 net
$18
14/0
$3.35
Derrick Section: 196 feet de- velopment. Work on No. 3 level continues satisfactorily. The re- mainder failed to disclose much of Importance.
Malacca Sretion: 143 feet de velopment Winzing below No. 2 level continues satisfactorily and driving on No 3 level is payable.
MINING.
A total of 6242 tons was mine! and treated during the period. This decrerte is due to temporary $100 suspension of supplies of soft ap-
per level are from Raub Hole Sec-" #tion.
$45
#190
$125
$7.40 $3.70
Meanwhile. Mr. Phelps has con- tinued to torment the producers. On the day the statement was is- sued he offered to provide a list of refugee employees with "addresses and salaries from one lot that was double the number given in thể industry compilation.
HONGKONG
SHAREBROKERS'
1.
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 WANTE
Announcements not exceeding 25 Words are inserted under this heading at a Fre-paid
Rate of $1.50 for THREE INSERTIONS.
TO LET
TO LET-1st Floor, Homartin Street, No. 23. Please apply Com- pradore Department, Mackinnon ASSOCIATION Mackenzie & Co. Phone 21881. Volume of Business Transacted " on Monday, Nov.-25, 1948;. SALES
Chins Lights (0) There was a small improvement China Providents in grade. This is accounted for
Star Ferries by the Improved production from Anderson and Bukit Koman Bec- tions. Raub Hole 1305 tons: An- derson 720 tons, Bukit Koman 1793 tons: Derrick 1986 tons; and Malacca 438 tons.
TREATMENT PLANT Battery
$23
Tons
$8.00
Ore crushed
$6.00
$57
Residua to retreatment
6202
837
Residue to storage
40
8241
Retreatment Plant Talings treated, current
ballings
€202
$9,60
Tailings treated, Et. Ko-
man dump tailings,
3892
Tailings treated,
Table concentrates
Cord
148
Total 10242
$16.65
$6
GOLD SHIPMENT-
1.
Cantor Iceman 50 otɛ.
H.K. Rapes......
HK. Gert. Loans
$94 31% n
#04 31%
*
(1934)..
(1940).
Miscellaneous
Dairy Fürma..............: $174-
Entertainments
$1.80 Constractions (old)
Constructions (new)...
Nanyang Tobacco.
$215 Binceres
Watsonsang
57. [Ch; 0,5% 1925G$Bdı
ILK, Wing Da..... S'hui Wing Un
Vibro Piling
7/8 Marsmana Inv. (Lon.)
9/9 Marinanı Inv. (H.K.
1.1 Wm. Powell
+ to Bhangha!
$6.80
$94
*
$1.85
30.10
Bullion Fine Au OZE OZL Battery
$10.26 836,06 Retreatment 800.67 897.02
1710.93
1553.08
GENERAL
626
100 $ 7.00 500 4.65
TO LET.—Furnished Room. North Point near bus; tram stops, Tele phone 32810:
100
58.00
700
The total value is $8,825.00.
་་
WANTED TO BUY
If Charges collected, $2.00.
· HOTELS·
RUSSIAN CUISINE MORE POPULAR EVERY DAY
METROPOLE HOTEL
POSITION VACANT
WANTED, European lady steno- grapher wanted immediately. Cân- didates should apply in person to
WE PAY HIGH PRICES the Chief Clerk, Colonial Secre for all gold and silver articles.tary's Office. gold bars, diamonds and jewels Apply China. Gold Refining Co. Pedder Building; 2nd floor, Room 6.
.628
OVERSEAS CHINESE * REMITTANCES KWETYANG, Nov. 25 (Central) -Overseas Chinese remittances to China during the current year WE OFFER HIGH PRICES for 2 CHAIR COOLIES most careful [have" amounted to $1,000,000,000, any amount of gold articles and eficient thoroughly recom- diamonds, silver, etc. No holidays.mended by Peak Resident. Avail- according to banking circles.
The remittances were largely Apply China Building, 7th flour.able from December 1. Chair also sent to Chungking. Cheng, Ki- Tel. 30727. Eurasia Gold Renning avaliable if required. Reply Box
820. HKD.P mina. Kwetyang, Kwellin and Co. khlukwan to invest in Industrial projecta:
Yunnan To Promote
Sugar Industry
KUNMING, Nov 25 (Central) Yunnan is taking steps to promote Sugar- įthe cane-sugar, Industry
cane seedlings are ordered from
WÄNTED KNOWN
ORDERS TAKEN for hand-made sweaters, Ladies' jumpers, Babies outfits, etc., at $5.00 each for workmanship.
Wool and model desired, to be supplied by customer.
Send particulars of address, etc., Java for experimental purposes. to Box 602, HKD.P.
di
Cash income received by, Cano- Thà "WE" have an outatand-. dian_farmers from the sale of ing assortment of latest American principă: farm products during dresses for all occasions and price Dewatering of the Raub Hole the period: January to July 1900 to suit all purses. Call at “Vanity $3.90 10.6% Section is proceeding steadily, the was 30 per cent greater than for Shop” (Lazarus), Pedder Street. 25% water being 30 ft. below No. 2 the corresponding period of 1939. —
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level. Cleaning up is sufficiently Each month from January to Experienced Book-keeper Wants far advaned to permit nearly all July of 1360 ahowed gains over students to form a class. Guarani- the working faces on this level to the similar months of 1949, with | tee students to keep a whole set of be re-commenced. Pram now on the tonnage and grade from this seau Jalg
Hon should more dosely awe
normal,
éses ofcurring in books after completion of a course ACETONETAN: Of the of 6 months. For Term and Paz-
ticulars. – Fieuse Apply tos—Bok No 463 0l0 HEDF
Just Received Stanley Gibbons
Postage
Catalomp
for
1941
Whole World. Part 1 British Empire Part II Foreign Countries Striplined.
GRACA & CO. Dealers in Postage Stampe Flowers and Vegetable Seeds Picture Books
No. 10% Wyndham Stree
TEA DANCES Tuesdaya
Thursdays
Saturdays Sandays
5 to 1p....
“INGRAVERS
Co
FEI FEI
Photo Engravers 18, Cochrane Street,
Telephone No. 22224.
AUCTIONTËRS
GRLA FENT
COLELA HON OF BARGAINS IN TOWN!
LYMMERTS AUCTION HOM tamaa. Endava.
27 Nepizten
AT
Jimmy's
BUTTERICK
Expert: Ladies Talior.
New Style Bundy, Made,' Dresses FOR SALE.
16, Wyndham Street:
Tel. 28615,
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