HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS
· PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE undersigned have received
instructions
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
Friday, the 20th December, 1940
commencing at 2.30 pm.
kow Road, Kowloon,
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
FINANCE & GENERAL
$1,050,600,000 Worth Of A WHOLE Control Of-
Productions In 1940
The total Industrial and mining productions in Free Chine in the year 1948 amounted to $1,050,600.000, according to
Dr. Wong Wen-hao, Minister of Economic Affairs.
im Yunnan.
LIBRARY IN A TRUNK Tiny print, and a machine with
which to read it, can give us the world's literature at five cents a volume.
Prices
"Should Be Continued
After War
The view that price. controj" in Folded in my wallet where it Australia, if it continues to prove cccupied less space than my auto-as beneficial and successful in the mobile Hcence, is a 200-page book
•
ernment's Economie and Finan
Of this amount, productions of private-owned Industries occupied $255,600,000 which included 542,600,000 from metallurgical indus- try. 521,700,000 from mechanical industry, $11,800,000 from electrical Industry, $21,300,000 from chemical industry; $119,300,000 from 'textile
single sheet of paper, on each future as it has proved during the | industry, and $38,900,000 from provisions industry......
side of which have been printed past year, should be continued Productions of Government-, plant, an alcohdi distillery, a vege-100 pages in type too tiny for after the war, was expressed by Professor LF Giblin, formerly operated factories amounted to table ou rennery and a chemical human eyes.
This miniature book is not a professor of economics at Mel- $55,000,000, while mineral output products factory. totalled $740,000,000 including According to Dr. Wong, the cop-curiosity of craftsmanship, nor an $370,000,000 from gold, Irun, and per-mines in Szechwan, Bikong an example of microfilm, the photo-bourne University and now chair- coal and $370,000,000 from tin. Yunnan are
now being exploit raphile method now used for man of the Commonwealth GOY- at their Sales Room, No. 35, Han- tungsten, antimony, quick silvered. A company capitalised at $50,- compressing bulky records [cial Advisory Committee. He was
and copper
000,000 has been organised special. Here is a new process; originat-peaking at a meeting of the Altogether 448 factories have ly for the exploitation of the fined by a New York publisher. Al- Economic Society of Australia and been moved into the interior from mines
Meanwhile, Dert Beni, which can, at small New Zealand. the coastal regions. They are dis-plans for opening the tin mines in coat, eventually place the contents
He pointed out that contrui tributed 2.3 follows: Szechwan Hunan and, Kwangsi are betw of whole libraries in the average
121; Shensi, 27; drawn up. Most coal mines in Free reader's home. Will Durant has measures were dropped after the Kwangs, 23; and other provinces China are being developed by the called it "the greatest advance in at war with some very bad re-
sults. printing since Gutenberg," writes |Marvin Lowenthal in the Saturday Price control had met with. al- With the removal of the factor-
Review of Literature,
most universal approval and had ers, Washstands, Sideboards, Din-ies, 12,000 skilled labourers and the natural resources, several new
doing an extraordinarily Waggons, Dining Tables, 120.000 tons of machines worth
Boni's "microprint" is a revolu- been Chairs, Tables, Stands, Cupboards, $360,000,000 have been transported gwangs and Hunan and 12 new minute facsimiles are for the first
railroads have been constructed in tionary. step forward because the good job. Chesterfield
"There is a kind of tradition of Sultes, Hatstands,
inland from the coastal provinces,
wartime which time actually printed, on ordinary profiteering in Deska. Cabinets, Bookcases. Of the machines removed. 70,000 power plants established. Screens, Rattan Furniture, etc. tons. were transported with the
Indicative of the rapid progress paper, and can therefore be turn-makes people afraid of increases financial aid of the Government, of Chinese industries, all papered out in quantity at a surprising. th prices," he added. "These in- Carpets, Ruga, Perambulators, while the remaining 50,000 tons making machines in Szechwan ly low price. He has also develop creases occur in peacetime also.. Gramophones, Records, Cutlery. were handled by the merchants were made by Chinese factories.fed a magnifying projector, the however, and price control might Electric Table Fans and Heaters, themselves.
Two paper mills have already "Reader," by which they can be profitably be continued after the started operation while two more quickly and easily read.
commence production next
Comprising
Teakwood Bedsteads, Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, Chests of Draw-
ner
etc.
Brass, Glass and Porcelain Ware, Pictures. Clocks, Curios.
Oma-
ments, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc.
"
also
254: Hunan,
23.
Government.
To facilitate the development of
will
war ends.
4
2,000 WATT GENERATOR
ROWS OF RECTANGLES
ANOTHER TENDENCY Most of the factories and mines
spring.
On a sheet of microprint appear "Another tendency in wartime are operated by the Government.
Altogether 200,000 spindles have rows of indecipherable, rectangles, which has a nasty reputation is One of the largest is the Central
bas Machines Factory, which is pro-been purchased by cotton mills in three quarters of an inch long by inflation. Though inflation A QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD vided with a 2,000 watt generator Free China. Of the number, 160,000 half an inch wide, each represent the disadvantage of reducing the Others include electrical ap-are already in operation in 8zeching one page of a fullsized book. value of savings, it does ensure pliances factory, a metal refining wan.-(Central News).
FURNITURE
and
1 "R.C.A." Radio Set (1940 Model)
1 Electric Washing Machine
1 Cooking Stove
1 Exhaust Fan
1 Adding Machine
8
HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS
SHAREBROKERS ASSOCIATION
1 "Underwood" Typewriter 24"
*TOCK EXCHANGE,
Esper
Ballers
Balen Nominal
THURSDAY 19 DEC. Banks
Bayer
Bellera
81385
H.K. Banks
$1385
£81
Do. Cal. Reg.)....
£7A
Do. (Lop. Reg.)
£6
Chartered Banks
1 "Agfa" Projector 16 mm.
On View from Thursday, the 19th December, 1940.
426 Mercantile Bkı. "A" 210 Mercantile Bks. "C".
Terms: Cash on Delivery.,,
$74
LAMMERT BROS.
#150
AUCTIONEERS.
$395
$3971
Bank of East Aria..... N. C. & B. Banks.....
«Insurances. I Canton Intarse...... Union IcsTANCER......
$74
$395
815"
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Shells
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Ban
38/9
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Docks. Wharves,
Godowns, etc.
803
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36.61
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Raube
Monday, the 3rd December, 1940
commencing at 10 a.m.
#3)
at their sales Room, No. 2. Con- $33.60 naught Road, Central Room No.
205. Second Floor.
A SELECTION OF HOUSEHOLD
ELECTRIC APPARATUS, DAKIN
PATENT MEDICINE AND
SUNDRIES
comprising:-
1 B and L (Micro Photographic)
Apparatus
1.Switchboard
1-Impringer Machine
1 Heating Apparatus
1 Stand for Theodolite
1 Diathermy Machine
11
83.35
$61
173
$7.05 C.D.
$401
Samsons Electric Combination 130
Sandwich Toasters
and
Wate
Makers, Electric Coffee Makers, 810.30 Electric Cookers, Electric Hot Pads, Dakina Cod Liver Oã, Chemical Food, Carlsbad". Balt, Halibut 011. Tooth Brushes, Typhoon Lamps, etc., etc.
also
A quantity of Glass Dressing Syringes. Urethral Byringes, Eye Baths, Beakers, Drop Bottles and Empty Ampoules
and
Rheinmetall Portable Typewriter (almost new),
$18.20
#7
$1.00
On View from Baturday, the 21st #1048
December, 1940.-
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
* P
48
$37
Th
$5.60
H.K. Docks (0)8)...........] $18,10 H.K. Docks (New).... 317 +Shanghai Docka......
324
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Into a fourpage leaflet of micro-employment, which is a good
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1940. -PAGE
CHRISTMAS.
AND
4
NEW YEAR HAMPERS
NO. 4 HAMPER
I quart Lanson Dry Chiampagne Black & White. Whisky Gordon's Dry Gin,
Courvoisier. Three Star Brandy
11
Hunt's Old Brown Sherry
1
*
Hunt's Full Rich Port
1
11
Pommard Burgundy
I
Sauterne White Wine
13
Gordon's Sice. Gin
pint Gordon's Crome de Menthe
NO. 5 HAMPER
7 quart V. C. P. Champagne
Black & White Whisky Gordon's Dry Gin Courvoisier Y. O. Brandy. Sandeman Brown Bang. Sherry Sandeman Partner Port
Sauterne White Wine Pommard Burgundy Laubenheimer Hock Margeaux Claret Gordon's Bum). Shrub
1 pint Gordon's Creme de Menthe
-$55.00
-$70.00
Special Hampers made to suit Customers requirements.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
WINE DEPARTMENT
Queen's Building.
LEASING OF WAR SUPPLIES TO U.K.
print can be compressed a volume thing, and it would pay is not to A sheaf of leaflets no balkier than oppose Inflation should England the novel you slip into your pocket decide on controlled inflation. will contain the equivalent of a provided always that wages and NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (Reuter)———- large trunkful of reading matter. prices are kept closely related. Fresident Roosevelt's plan for The contents of a good-alźed
"This type of inflation would leasing way supplies to Britain is public library will fit into an al-not assist the war effort, however, sumated by experts as likely to
cove bookcase.
Telephone 20636.
S.A. Moves Against Fifth Columnists
PRETORIA, Dec. 19 (Reuter)— against. fifth column Measures activity in South Africa were an-
nounced by the Minister of Native
Affairs yesterday.
for only when prices rise more involve about $2,500,000,000 worth Pull out a narrow drawer in the rapidly than costs, including of aircraft, tanks, ships, etc. bottom of the Reader (which wages are greater profits possible This estimate is conveyed in a The Government has ordered looks like a large typewriter case), and therefore greater fields of message from the Washington the removal to other areas of 400 insert the small sheet of micro-taxation available to the Govern-correspondent of the New York German missionaries who entered print an turn on a light inside ment
Fost which also states that this the South African native reserves £281 the mar
"Should there be Inflation it would be additional to the $2,000,- after 1935 because some of the 1 there fishes & rec-would need an enormous effort to 000,000 worth of equipment already missionaries are currying on sub- At.
keep it strictly under control,” on order.
versive propaganda.
281
£7R
£*}
£101 plastic
tangle
12 ct.
Turn
$185
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80 et. $150
Onto a transparent
b. and there. comen into sharp focus a page from the book in the drawer, magnised to the size of ordinary type. With al Bick of the wrist, you can move from page to page, or skip pages ten at a time, forward or back-
་
TWO-INCH ENCYCLOPAEDIÀ
$135
ward
8100
8100
40'0
$7
692
The Readex, at about $150, is the most expensive item for the possessor of a microprint library, but quantity production is expect- $15.865
ed soor to ·reduce its price. $18,10/167... Owners of a Readex will pay aj
mere ave 'cents spiece for micro- print "books.".
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An encyclopaedia such as the dozen
aches
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Communities, of course, WL
reap
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The
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Wool and model desired to be supplied by customer.
Behind the development ayyi microprint lies" a story of faith, persistent research, and chance. Albert Boni, is neither a printer
Beud particulars of address, etc. nor a professional inventor, Ignor- to Box 503, HKDP.
ant of photography, and opticaj he had to learn everything from
$1,80
scratch
Thuc "WE have an outstand- Model after model was bullting assortment of latest American found wanting...
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