PAGE 10--HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
LIFE AMONG THE ESKIMOS
(BY TA-DE-WIN)
BOSTON.--At Tanana, in that part of Alaska where sime is reckoned by the rising and setting of the sun, where modera Aon Files, a New England cooking methods are not in vogue.
bringing cheer and girl is living with her parson husband,
This print. practical help to a group of Indians and Eskimos.
tive village is in the very heart of a country where rivers are is the Yukon, along which highways, and Tanana's main street
watery thoroughfare Mr. Files' parish dalies take him a hundred miles st
anore
When the Indial arted that dogs. Wilfred Flo was about to bring dians
1 bride Among them, they
gave!
FINANCE & GENERAL
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1941.
| FOREIGN MARKETS & QUOTATIONS
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
(REUTER'S SERVICE)
London, Sept. 19. The following quotations are the i middle prices at the close of the market in London. All quotations are subject to confirmation and no In responsibility is assumed for errors
in transmission.
SUGAR PRICES
New York. Sept. 19 cuter),
NEW YORK SUGAR Law Sugar Centrifugal. ship- ment from Cuba, e & 1. New York duty free:
Spot
3,60n
Raw Sugar Futures (Contract No. 3)
MONEY AND EXCHANGE
CLOSING QUOTATIONS SEPT BER 20, 1941.
> London:-
Telegraphic Transfer, 1:2 7/ Bank Bills, on demand je 7/8 Credite 4 months' sight
HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS
STOCK EXCHANGE,
iwers
Hallora
Y'any's
Shida
Linst Hale Elentil.
81470
SHAREBROKFES- ASSOCIATION
SATURDAY
Burer Bollers
Balen
Wonstan
20 SEPT
Banks
81480 13.K. Banks
$1490
286
€79
Do. (Col. Rog) Da. (Lon. Reg.)
£85
$70
£9
Charter ad Banks......
23
| Mercantile Bka "A"
£234
การ
Mercantile Bk. "Č".
£111
$70
Bank of Eant Adis
876
18 ch.
Small and manpart, since day heating is a problem to be reckonea wal Just wond wt it far north, the bowe
bas
“រ
serimovoda wheed
porch living room, and keben
from this sam
4 at alt surprised to Hud, up JAY STgate that the fish wheel
When he went 10
3.63
in the affermos, however The latchstring of this are tive tong 1 aut for any Tudian went plenty of salmon that or Ekime
and gavel milles away 15 a Jected the largest ne
kutter villag WIT!!
The Joseph and I trading post ,A
1 Sam 200 Inovins But Indians enam to the parsanage the next to Tanana rom as far away as 60 morning and asked, very contrite miles. sure of finding "welcom 11 11 there was any work be could written o LIK doormat
the
and he spent the day cutting Files log cabin
However, grass Needless to say the nort
there La
taci oderstandings were taken from the wheel, that the Flieses are not lau la dia.. There are serious problems even turbed at mealtime. whenIn primitive Tanana
Or
For example. there is serious work to be done the he trader is sture jas But when there is a imp 5 Odprices, one for the whites and
for THI
Gove
or at other hours during much higher daytime
they are privileged. Although the practice is forbidden. Tientsin-Pukow Rly 5*
14 enter and enjoy the games and, the trade preters to give Indians
selal activille,
which are available here.
MAIL COMES ONCE A YEAR
beg Mr
Files to ask the trader Bui
Tenisin Pukow
the king salmon
the
keep for themselves
Sept.
2,63b, 70a
tam
atin at Minto
But us. A
wher
ter
dwelling
brink Jeverles! i Bad
OLD SAM JOSEPH Fules Lells 8 story abuui
Mint wh TE the place
Sam Joseph, ar, old Indian, bu
How ter busbar by wished to live and the cabin illustrates
suitable 'manages his
Bam parishioners WHA
transport Joseph, who bad had to reinad ed the logs by strutheout to Tala. behind when the other men set te
dashing trip. was seen Da, and built their present Boone ve himsel!
Corn up
Jan
2.78b/79a
in Shanghai:—
£
Mar
2.78b79a
On demand
.... 180
War
(Red Loan, 3% after 19521)
May
2,806 838
in Singapore.-
105-13 16
July
2.83 86a
On demand
52 3/4
$440
Defence Loan, 1%
Canton Koon Rly. 5% Chinese 41 Gold Loan
101 13
Sales for the day:-20 lets
Jo Japan:---
#1
On demand
102 1/4
$1874
$1874 И К
$442
N. C. & B. Bauke.
Insurances
8239 | Cantor Innorances
Union Insurances Underwriter
Fires
1236
$440
17 cts.
#187
נ,
1898 (Brit. Issuer Chinese 5 Gold Bonds
44
Raw Sugar Futures (Contract No. 4)
Ja India:----
Shipping
Day
Mr Flies Was
1926 47 Chin 4% Anglo-French
45
Mar
May
2.144h 15h 2.094b/10 2.096 091
Telegraphic
and demand
Treffer
Ja2 67
$120
Douglases
$420
$10.80
VI
Steamboats
$10.80
J New York : --
890
ludo Chions (Prel.
$90
Bank Bills, on demand 24 15/16
$70
Iado Chinas (Def)
$70
53.9
Loan. 1908
46
July
2.10b Joja
Credis, 60 days sight 25 6/8
$6
ther
Ther
Chinese 5% Crisp Loan
1912 Chinese 5% Reorg Loan
1913 (Lan Is.) Chinese By Ster. Notes
1925 (Vickers) Chin Imperial Rly 5%
Loan
294
38
asked
Valune ut business done
Jobs
N-.rl B. via 3
WINNIPEG WHEAT
260
Jo Baluvia:-
On demand
46 8/4
13 Paris:-
Bank Bills, un demand Nom.
9974 87.38
$97
hella
Waterhota
Docks. Wharves, Godowns, etc.
53/9
#61
.KA. K. Wharves.
$974
Credits 4 months og NoBL
$7.55 $7
19.86) $18.0
Providents
€7.30
$7.50 $7.45
H.X. Docks (Old)
H.K. Docks (New).
10
Sept. 20
n Saigon:-
838 +8hanghai Dooks...
$12.66.60...
8384
per bushel
On demand
... 100
Mining
60
Honan Rly. 65, 1905
==
Oct
728b
in Manila
18/6
Kailana
15'd
14
Dec
7416
On demand
49 7/8
$7
Raubs
$7.19 X.D.
bee
14
Hukuang Rly 5%. 1911
(LP. NY Issue) Hukuang Rly 5%.
German Issue)
May
782 782
Jn Bangkok:- -
2 cts.
Hng Tong Mines
15
On demana
148
1911
CHICAGO WHEAT
Jo Sterling Notes
13'
Sept. 20
Bank Buying Rate...
Now.
(4)
$4.30 64
twLurg Tsing &
Hal ET
per bushet
dar Silver per os.
23 1/2
Rly 5%. 1913
a
བ་
Sept.
11717
S ha N'king Aly 5%
17
De
Indians
May
1203/1197 124/1231
(Brit 8tpd.}
13
Highest Dec)
arts Equor in change for their wares JAS seems difficult for the In- Chats to say "no," they sometimes
Rly 5% (German Stpd › Tientsin-Pukow Rly 5% (Brit. Stpd. Supi, Loan> Tientsin Pukow Rly 51
Lowest
1204
1182
13.
13
13
271-313
Out
7
Dec
Bept. 10 Opening Closing
17.19/19 18.96/98 17.41/39 17.18/15
93
Jan
17.45/45 17,21/21
H.K.
Pat
Banking Corp. Lam. Reg.)
S'hai Banking Corp. (Col. Reg.)
& Mining Chinese Eng (bearer)
Mar.
79
May
July
17.50/50 17.39/41 17.70/08 17 58/53 17.71:71
Friday's sales: -17,857,000 bushels
NEW YORK COTTON
Market Report
FROM ROZA BROS
Saturday, Sept. 20.
Silver prices were quoted at the same rate yesterday, Ready at 23.
and Forward 1/2 American Silver 34.3/4 for Spot.
London-New The
at 402-1/2 New rate was quoted York-London was quoted at 4031.
...
a
$4.20 94.15
| 88
$100
36$
at 23.7/18. was quoted
At
York cross-
$18.30 H.K.
Lands. Hotels and Buildings
| H.K. & 8. Hotels....... 838.K. Lauts.
$976D 1% Deventiues $20
252
Shanghai Landa H.K. Realtim
Humphreys
Chinese Estates
Cotton Mills
Ewo (S...
8305 8'bai Cottonn 18.).
Zooug Sings 18.).
Wing On Textiles #8
Fablie Utilities
Tramway....
64.20
8378376
$97+
$4.16
98
$62
$308
$120
$18.15
831
Peak Traton (old)... Pook Trams (new).....
$3
$61
Y'mati Ferries.
Star Ferries..............
164
$94
MARKET
371
87.30/ 20
17.53:53
Quiet.
85
Spot
17.00
STERLING
824
$23.80
Highest (Dec.)
17.41
15/0
Lowest . }
17.18
5/6
TT on Lundon
4.03-1/2
There were sellers at 1,3 up to October, buyers at 1/31/32 for Cash.
Chins Lights (0;......
82.86 China Lights (New)
H.K. ElectricaX.R.(0);
83.K. Electrics(New)...) 813 H.K. Electric (Rts.) 818 Macao Electrics
87 25 $7.30
$2.45 $2.45
$24
824
$22)
$13 601
Silver Oficial Rate
unquoted
Macao Electrics
with drinking water.
There
be
1325.372
white it a
dia, £$, "C"
11}
MOU
1/
U. S. DOLLARS
Selling rate 1.20
$13.10) Sandakan Lights........
to Merchants 25,-
9248
$24) Telephones (old)...
$261
$9.40
др
Telephones (now)..
tuł
Industrials
13 9
there
and the liquor
S'hat Waterworks "A"
15
SHANGHAI DOLLARS
845
ald, Maog. (Ord.) 8
Union Insurance
22
Shanghai Dollar 518,
¥35
Cid, Macg. (Prof.)2
$1
Canton Icos.........
75 ots.
Oula Kalumpong Rubber Lon, Mid
15
Tia.
A Scot. Riy
15
Price.
401
sellers.
324
SHANGHAI MARKET Official rates, sellers of Sterling
and U.S. Dollars
8161
$17
Cementa
$10,80 H.K. Ropes
17 $10.30
$17
1.K. Gort, Loans
al
101 4% LOAD
8101
91.3
383
$99 84% BDS
(1994)
*99
rl
13%
(1940)
sellers.
Miscellaneous
treated
in
same way
Though thers
ate 220
Cows er
affair
Japan Chronicle).
BROKERS
LOANS
10/0
Ind
317!
23/7!
#19.35 #61
819 36
Dairy Farms.
801
Entertainmsuts
81.6
Constructiona (old)
$19.40
#7 $1.85
58/9
......
cta.onstructions (now)...
776
17 9
Sub-Nigel
143/9
help vary their winter diet.
Up to
Shell Trays & Trad
бearer
53/9
• bid
i ex div
London
New York
Japan
Indla
Paris
Hongkong
Opening
0/3-5/32
$6.10
16 20
ane Crawfords
$6.25
Nanyang Tobacco.
$3,70
5-9/32
#21
Sinceras
82.40
unquoted
$13.56'45
Watsons...................
13.45 $13.45.
17-1/2 unquoted
$49
Ch. G.%. 1925G SBds,
432
$39
21
M.K. Wing On
8'hui Wing UD
17.20 Vibro Ping
Maramans Inv. (kon,}]
$42
$14
864
Although mall trives by pisze 47 to give them any liquor.
once a montà, supplies come ally since there is more profit for the (Ger, 8tpd. Supl Loan'
1.M
Duce ä year the fast stranur trader p such
..
a fransaction not Jap. 6, Ster. an. 1914 Defore fize Treize up
Bruch headway has been made in Ger. 7% Intl. Loan, 1924 rocessed Bgs that arrive in Sep
remedying THE situation. Then Chartered Bank
t ở hai food supply is low H.K.
mber can be used for cooking to wher: the May, there are any jest and the land is cold. Indians like to be 4&y-pou id lots of buster in brine, arrested and sent to jail. where will keep down cellar until eaten.ey have nothing to do all day Canned
beel and sausage lung, and where they find a place on the Fileses men, and well fed whee Fath Tr:
Summer Hard
The Fileses definitely assert that Chosen Corporation river get water provide the they are not trying to transform Mercantile Bank of In
are WAIT)
clumite compensates for Rather they art training Indian Pekly Syndicate Hy lu સ Ichty refrigeration, leaders to help their rate face the S'hal Eler. Constr. Ce Haldwars, high beyond the
reach future At Tauana already of dogs an are eest that needs are embryo Indian teachers
Au Fil bakes & Held do delusting
workers Oner one time plenty of cakes, bread. question is settled the Pileses ar Cookles, treezes Theni, and stores confident their Indians and Eski Great Western Riy
hem in that ice chest in stilts. thas wil become useful citizens National Bank of In
kawin native when she wants a
leaders capable of B. A. Tob. (bearers
own Dunlop Ruther
Thuth
bread, example she take managing their people's
out the night before, thews it, is as trish as a newly baked loa!
bread, Meats are
goats the short sunumer w kind to
Bristol Aeroplane Imperial Chemical United Steel Woolworths New York, Sept 18 Reuter) Marsman Investments Loans on securities to brokers in Western Holdings
their truck garden and Ann FilesNew York
is proud of raising vegetables to
Wk ended Wk ended Wk.ended 11/9 41
18.9/41 12 9:40 now the Fileses have not been able $285,000,600 $445,000,000 $336.000,000 to persuade the Indians to turn to Agriculture, nor do the Indiana
take kindly to canned food
constant visita
Once # week any Indians win with may come to the Files home to sew and do carpentry work. They do a life bead work and carving, but mak ing snowshoes, sleds, tools and Give baby-baskets is a necessity. an Indian woman a blanket and some string and baby soon has a hammock, while the men make canoes, today using canvas instead: of birch bark,
Ang Files is a
in Indian humes
Ann Files was a busy field work
U.S. Cost Of Living Rises: Fantastic Peaks Feared
An overwhelming majority of Americans endorse the all- out national defence programme--and they are already paying for it handsomely in higher living costs.
begrudge the $40,000,000,000
In
Few
the Government persons plans to spend on defence in 1941 and 1942. Most economists
inherent dire dangers bave even ceased their warnings of Successively mounting budget defielts, although the perils of in- flation are occasionally stressed.
But the average citizen, who upon imported raw materials and knows Hille of economic theory, foodstuffs, while the United States,
er among Indians before her mar. has already begun to feel the in comparison. is largely self-con- riage, but her days are no less full-pinch which the war and the U.8.tained.
-
Arn
are exerting Much of the latest increase in
of
LONDON METALS
EXCHANGE
Lockton, Sept. 19 Reuter).
Standard, Cash
Middle £256 buyers: £258-1/4
Tin, Standard, 3 Months, Middle at 3.5/32 Price, £259-1/4 buyers, 259-1-2 5.5710
Market quiet
H.K. Stock
Exchange
Saturday, Sept. 20. BUYERS HK. Banks, $1,475. H.K. Steamboats, $10.80. Realties, $4.
Chinese Estates, $100.
Yaumati Ferries, $24.
Electrics Rts., $12.95.
Telephones (New), $0.40.
Wm. Powell, $1.80. Entertainments. $8.75.
SELLERS
Docks, $19.65.
Providents, $7.50. Hotels, $4,30. Trams, $18.20. Lights Old $7.40. Electrics Rts., $13.25. Watsons, $13.50.
SALES
Docks, $19.55, Providents, $7.40. Hotels, $4.25.
Shanghai Exchange
Shanghai, Sept. 20 (Reuter).
Official T.T. Bates
Silver Duty Rate
The Central Bank of China's
rate on Lordon at 10 am
was 1/2-1/2d.
Inday
The Equalisation rate was 244 рег сеп
India Rupee Paper
Bumbay, Sept. 20 (Reuter). Ct. 34 per cent. Rupec, 98-0-0
SILVER MARKET
BOMBAY SILVER
Bombay, Sept. 20 (Reuter). Market Steady. Offtake 150 bars,
Indian Mint Silver
Reaa...
Oct 14 Settlement
718
1/0
Maramans Inv. (H.K.)!
$14
Wm. Powells...
814
NA. Chemicals (HK) +Sale to Shanghai
585
FEDERAL
RESERVE SYSTEM RETURNS
New York, Sept. 18 (Reuter),
• Bills Bought
U.S. Securities held
Federal Reserve Ratio
1940
1941
1941
Sept. 12 Sept.11
Sept. 18
1000's Omitted).
$
$
$
2,434,000 2,184,000 2,184,000
83.41% 91.113
90,98%
Federal Reserve Credit Outstand-
83-00-3
ing
the
Realties, $4.05. Lights (Old), $7.25. Electric Ris, $12.05. Cements, $16.00. Watson, $13,40.
Nov. 15 Settlement
63--00-6 A3-01-0
Monetary Gold Stocks Industrial Advances
2,485,000
2.318,000 2,255,000
22,741,000 20,981,000 22,733,000 .8.630,000 9,701,500 8,896,000
now. Although she is no longer a defence programme scheduled worker, as the wife of on his pocketbook. His cost of domestic commodity prices is at- the "parson" her duties may range ving, since the start of the war. tributed to Administration legisla. from pulling a tooth to welcoming has gone up as sharply as that in tion establishing loans of 85 ner a new baoy into the world. And Canada and Australia.
cent, of parity for basic farm pro- when Wilfred Files goes
ducts. "REAL SPENDING" Itrick,
A drastic retardation Journeying with us
This result has been reached takes over the Sunday service in with the expenditure of only about general price advance will depend one quarter of the $17,300,000,000 partly upon the stabilization of the church.
Wilfred Files is decidedly not a which the Government bas car wage rates around existing levels, minister who sits aloof in his marked for defence this year, as well as upon the judicious ap sindy. When his parishioners When the "real spending" begins. plication of government controls. camp out by the river during the the pessimists declare, living costs Some legislators have been pro
freeze prices, fishing season, he goes with them, will svar to fantastic peaks unless posed measures to ilves in their tents and shares government price control measures wages and rents.
NOT TOO LATE their bill-of-fare, which is dried prove effective.
HONGKONG
INDO-CHINA
SHAREBROKERS STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD
ASSOCIATION.
Volume of Business Transacted on Saturday, Sept. 20, 1941. SALES
In an editorial discussing rises China Lights (0) Ash one day and alto the next. During the first year of the war But as An Files says. "Wilfred the wholesale price index of the in leading price indices the New China Lights (N.) has an easy-going disposition and Bureau of Labour Statistics ad York Journal of Commerce said. fortunately likes dried fish," Invanced only 3 per cent. Then It bo- j
"A continuation of the present the summer he follows his flockigan a rapid rise, and by mid-June polley of proceeding drastically to
and price in by boat; in the winter, by dog was 15 per cent. above August, check some cost teams.
1939 Indices of more volatile creasca, while ignoring or even en- HK, Docks When Wilfred Flies is home, bla commodities have climbed almost couraging others, is likely to pro- HK Tramways assistance is of the practical au!25 per cent in the same period.
well as the uplifting sort. For in- stance, he often helps the Indians
CANADIAN INDEX
Operating Services for Cargo and Passengers
TO-
SWATOW, SHANGHAI, TRINGTAU, CHEFOO
and TIENTSIK
KOBE and OSAKA
BINGAPORE, PENANG and CALCUTTA
SANDAKAN
HAIPHONG
10.50 All steamers burtli alungeitie
700 $ 7.30
1,000 2,40
Cementa
50 17.00
China Providents
60
7,50
37 7.45
2,000
7.40
300
600
18.08
duce a persistent rise in the genHK. Reallys eral price level, in continuation of NA. Chemicals (H.K.) the trend that has asserted itself
A.8. WatseILS
500
4.05.
"the French Concamion at
200
6.85
500
13.40
and cargo pra landed.
emphatically during the past few K. Telephones (0)
100
25.00
5,937 -
The comparable Canadian whole. empty their fuh wheels, a task sale index is about 28 per cent,
months. which must be perfomed twice higher than at the outbreak of the
"What we have witnessed is not daily, One woman whose husband war. Available data indicateri was away looked up very much Australian wholesine prices have the fature of price stabilization surprised the first time Mr. Ples risen by less than 20 per cent. efforts, but rather the ill efforts of appeared to help her take out her since. the war began. Great Belthe absence of a consistent, cour- salnion, Three hunded fish are tain's wholesale price level has ageous and single-minded pelley to an average day's catch. Tha arisen by more than 50 per cent achieve stábliity,
The Total value is $51,055.05.
policy that báid produce the re-
ver salmon are set aside for the but Britain is argely dependetit | It is not too late to adopt. "nsults desired.”
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Shanghai, whore passengers
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