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BANKS

HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

Anthodist Capital winnin

Taval and Polly Pudeg soma... $30,991,000

Benen Fands 2-

-*7* $16,000, 103

Morena Kalut, (by at Propelatuen 9 $96,990,566

'HEAD'ÉPICE, HOBO KONG.

WARD OF DIRECTORS :--, Hon Mr. C. 4. D. Mankia, Chakrash.

on, Mr. J. 1. Pelareon,"

Дерију Слабекова

F. Ball, E. Ponroe, M.

. . Cemplan, Eng. J. A. Plummsay, 'Bay

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853.

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON.

Patd-up Capital Reservy Fund

£3,000,000 £4,000,000

Reserve Liability of Pro-

priators

.£3,000,000

Agencies and 'Branches:

ALUR STAB

BATAVIA

MEDAR

NEW YORK

RUCHING

AMRUTBAH 7

VANDEGR

"HEADBAH''

MAKILA

M., Larfor Lowrie,

Esq. 7. H. R. her, M.

GUHBAT CALCUTTA DANTON

CANTORE

©. Marla, Bou.

COLOMBO

DAIREN

DELIL

HAIPHONG

ANOT

BAYUKO

BATAVIA

WOKWAT

CALOUTTE

ANTON

unroo

OGLAMBO DARBI

ro uew

HAIPHONG HAMBURG

WNKOW

J. 5. Warren. His

Chist Mon

*. Grayburn, Mag.

ANCHES:-

LONDON

TYONK MALACJA

MANILA

NUAR (Joh

MURDEN

NEW YORK

PKIPTHO

PENANG

BA NOOON

SALOON

HAN FBANGINO

SHANGD

BINDAPURE

WARRIN

LONGEEW

ILOILO

GOURABAYA BUNGEI PATANI

INIL

TIENTUIN

TOKTO

门簡

TSINGTAO

KWLEKIN

KUALA LUMPUR

YOKOHAMA

Deal, Asalita opios In Josesi Qurrunay.

ked Fired Deposits ired for a fur

'chez perioda In Lock Ourrency and uring

w me which will be quoted on' appěstian.

Lime Kong, 18th Pibruary, 1901, 7

·HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.

The Bustnom of the sbor Bank le sonduct ed by the HONG KONG AND BRANGIA WANTING CORPORATION, Busty b

abeled on run AND. SHANGHAI

FOB THE BANKIMO CORPORATION.

V. M, GRAYDOEN,"

Thin? ManagW.

Etrog Kong, 14h July, 1990.

THE BANK OF CHINA, 行銀國中

Reorganised October 28, 1928, under

special charter of The National Gov.

ernment as SU

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

BANE.

Subscribed Capital...$25,000,000.00 Paid-Up Capital $24,710,200.00 Reserve Funds

.$3,320,608.82

HEAD OFFICE: SHANGHAI.

HONG KONG BRANCH:

4. Queen's Boad Central.

Owing to our numerous branches in China and large connections in the im- portant commercial centre of the world, we are able to extend to our clients special facilities for domestic and foreign banking and exchanges.

We also handle the issue of Bonds and other Public Funds of the Chin- -ené Government beth at home and -abroad.

SHOU J. CHEN,

Manager.

Heng Kong, 6th March, 1981.

THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD. Established 1912.

Head Office-Hong Kong,

vid Capital (E.K. Currency}" $1,100,000.

8,45% BOS Flip-Ospětil mannenanntes COR THE

P-UNAIDUS JERIA ANDASAN (1,100,000 DNANDHES :-

Bagarra Fund so

Onion, Baghai, Hankow, Unsww, Bangkok, New York and Han Fanolive.

CORRESPONDENTS

LONDON DANEĦBA :--

The Idoyd's Bank, Limited.

In all principal oilies of the World.

Foralga ashange and backing blame of every description treated.

Safe Depois Boina (varloom sizes) ni a yearly

mala) of from 5 to $10.

LOOK POONG SHAN,

Chief Manager.

HAMBUNG BANKOW

HABBIN

HỒNG KONG

ILOILO

IDE

KABAGHI

KLANO

KUALA BANGFAR

KUALA LUMPUR

PEPING (Peking) PENANO BARGOUN BAIGON SEMARANG SEREMDAN

BILANG HAI

BINGAPORE

SITIAWAN

TUKTO

THE

THE HO HONG BANK, LTO.

(Established 1917.)

HEAD OFFICE:-SINGAPORE,' Hong Kong Branch: 13, Queen's Rd. C.

Authorised Capital Straits $20,000,000 Issued Capital

8,000,000

Paid-up Capital

4,000,000

Reserve Liabilities

1,000,000

of Shareholders

Surplus

CHINA MAIL.

Commerce and Finance

time for dinner that same evening; while the same can also be done in

2,687,000 AIR TRANSPORT AN

AÏD TO COMMERCE connection with cities such as-roa

Branches, Agencies and Correspon- dents In the principal cities of the world.

Every description of Banking and Excbango business transacted.

TAN ENG HOOL,

Manager.

BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.

HEAD OFFICE:

#6, Boulevard Hamann, Paris.”

Subscribed Capital Fra. 72,000,000,00 Paid-up Capital. Fr. 68,400,000.00 Reserve Funds ....Frs.102,000,000.00

BRANCHES, Bangkok Hong Kong Quinhon

Saigon Battambang Hue Cantho Mengtze Shanghai Canton Nam Dinh

Numen

BOBBAHAYA **

TAIPINO

TIENTBIN

TOFUKAI (Bhuket) |

TRI90140

YOKOHAMA

ZAMBOANGA

Djibout!

General

Fort-Bayard Papeete

Haiphong

Hankow

Foreign Exchange and Banking business transacted.

Current Accounts opened and Fix- ed Deposits received for one year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on application.

J. STUART,

Manager Hong Kong, 17th August, 1931.

NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL ~MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V.

(NETHERLANDS TRADING 60012TY)

DANKZIE

Established 184,

Bong Kong Offe1-11, Qusen's Bowl Oil

Authorised Capital

Pald-Up Capital

Emes Pez

Guildar 10,000,000-

(Z12,630,90%,1 Dallders 80,640,208 (4.609370) Duliders 40,838,000

Read Mos-AMṆTERDAM- Eastern Head O-BATAYZA-

DHANONE Baadjarmasin, Bandang. Bombay, Caloutta, Cheriban, Dumber, Diak jakarta, The Hague®. Zudde), Kobe, Kota-Badļa, Makassar, Medan, Padang Palembang, Pakalongan. Редак Pontianak, Bangoon, Botiandam Bestand,

Bibale „Bhazghai," (Sumatra), Singspice, Bourbain Boerakarta (Solo), Tegal, Tjiinjap and Weltevrodig

» Timis tone hava zadu dopoult bosas ia las." London Bankers-National Proviolet Bank

Correspondants all are the world

Banking businau of start description transected.

1. STOKLINK,

Flong Kong. 10th August, 1988.

THE

Hanoi

Singapor Thanh

Tientsin Peking Tourne Pnom-Penb Vinh Pondichery Yunnanta BANKERE:

Generale.

Interest, allowed on Current - Ac-

Time-Saving That Means Money-Saving. Only those constantly in touch with air transport, or those in in- dustries which, on such a growing scale, are using the airway regular Is for the dispatch of urgent loads, can appreciate the extent to which the aeroplane is now aiding modern commerce.

sels, Antwerp, or Amsterdam. As for destinations farther afield, it is now possible to enter one of the air

expresses at the London air-station

in the morning and, in a day, fly to cities as distant as 'Berlin, Zurich, Prague, and Malmo (Sweden).

On the England-India, route of Imperial Airways, goods now ranch Egypt from London, by the acceler

ated service, in not more than 3

days, and are in India in only an

Among the many instances that hour or so over 5 days; while urgent can be adduced of the commercial loads are air-borne from London to utility of the airway, none could be the heart of Central Africa in Just

over 6 daya. more conclusive than one which has

Remarkable is the variety of the just transpired. A party of motor-

merchandise consigned by air. Ists who were in Africa, not far Take, for instance, such a case as from the Juba station of the Im-

A quite small may often arise. perial Airways African route, had a

but vital piece of machinery may breakdown with their car which

need replacement in a powerful mining-plant located somewhere far-distant along the Indian.or Afri-

IN FRANCE: Comptoir National prevented them from continuing 'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonsale: their journey until they could ob- Banque de Paris et des Pays-Ba;tain a spare part from England. Credit Industriol el Commercial; So-

They cabled immediately to the can, air-lines, and until that spare part can be obtained, and placed in IN LONDON: The Nationa! Provin-manufacturers In this country who position, the section of machinery at & Union Bank of England, Ltd; in less than 15 hours, managed to involved may have to stand idle, and Comptoir National d'Escompte de rush the part required up to London Par; Credit Lyonnais.

not only the machinery itself IN NEW YORK: J. P. Morgan & and on to the out-going African air but perhaps a number of men as Co., French American Banking Cor-mail from Croydon. puranos: Guaranty Trust Co. of New The result was one that amazed well. Here is a case in which time is money; and here, therefore, you York.

these marooned travellers, and gave have the value of the speed which them an Illustration, which they say the airway providos, because the they will never forget, of what mo- additional cost involved by air ex- dern high-speed transport can ac

press transport-and which is based complish. For, though they were on the actual time-saving obtain- 5,000 miles from London, and in aedis very well worth while if it remote locality, where, had it not means so many fewer days" idleness been for the air-mail, they must for some vital portion of a big have waited weary weeks for what

plant, they wanted, actually in not mere

Again and again, in such circum- than 7 days from the dispatch of their cable to England the essential stances, air transport proves a beon. Essential parts are ordered by part they needed was handed to them at the Juba-air-station by an cable, and sent out by airway, with

such rapidity that prolonged, idla-) official of Imperial Airways.

counts and Fixed Deposits according

to arrangements,

Every description of Banking and Exchange Business transacted. Safe Deposit Boxes to let

A. BONNAUD,

Hong Kong, 1st May, 1981.

Manager.

THE NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK.

HEAD OFFICE: 65, Wall Streel. New York..

Capital, Surplus and

Undivided Profits ..U.S.$226,037,392

Branches In>----

Mag.

ARGENTINE BELGIUM BRAZIL

AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY,

INC.

Head Office: 65, Broadway, New York.

Capital Burplo

Reserves

.U.S.$6,000,000 U.S.$1,672,454 U.S.$1,008,209

BRANCHES:-

Kamajaelam Antrop Athona But

...004

Darkn

Miamita

Botabay

Br

Brande Buszce Al

Calio

Call

Colesbe

Casentinople

Glagow SAVEZA Hamburg Havre Interlaken Jeruzalem Lido

London Liverpool

Lugano Белот

Karnetilis Kol: Carlo Сорелати ..Masila

Palabra Flop Gowns

Munich

Milan

Nice Napler Pirma

PADAN Faking

Fiberdam Bema Bimbout

scuchampus Bagapor B1. Mock Таміл Viva.c

Valon Yokohama Zurich

Branchea of American Express Company in Principal cities of Unit- ed States of America and Canada..

All classes of Commercial Banking Trasactions undertaken.

Personal investment.

handled.

accounts

The Company offers to intending Travellers the use of its “Travelers || Chequea and Letters of Credit and,

of its thoroughly equipped Travel De partment.

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, in addition, the world-wide services

LIMITED.

Established 1880.

"Capital (fully paid-up) Yen 190,000,000

Reserva Fand

.Yen 116,200,000

Head Office:-YOKOHAMA

Branches and Agencies at:

Akandria

Patavin

Berlin

Bombay

Sakatta

Centon

Changchun

Dairen (Dainy).

Nagasaki

Nagoya

Newchwang

New York

Osaka

Paris

Pelping Rangoon

Foation (Mukdea) Rio de Janeiro

Hamburg

Hakow Harbin

Kong

Hone Honolulu Kal Yeon Karachi 1 Esbo A

Leade

Los Angeles

San Franciaco

Seattle Semarang Shanghai Shimon weki

Singapors Soerabaya Sydney Tiental Tokyo

Tsingtau interest allowed on Current As-

Deposits received for fired perioda

at rates to be obtained on application,

Monger.

WTH, MORI Hong Kong, 11th September, 1981

Affiliated with

THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK Resources..Over G$2,500,000,000

C.-H. BENSON,

CHILE

CHINA COLOMBIA CUBA DOMINICAN

REPUBLIC

LONDON

MEXICO

PANAMA PERU

PHILIPPINE

ISLANDS

PORTO RICO STRAITS

SETTLEMENTS URUGUAY VANEZUELA

JAPAN

Commercial and Travellers' Letters of Credit, Travellers Cheques, Bills of Exchange and Cable Transfers bought and sold. Current accounte And Savings Bank accounts opened and Fixed Deposits in local and for eign currencies taken at rates that may be ascertained on application to the Boak

We are also able to offer our Cui- tomers the services of the Branches of the International Banking Corpora tion in San Francisco and Spain and also of The National City Bank of Now York (France), SA, in Paris and 'Nice.

In a letter just received. in Lon-ness for essential pieces of machin-! don from one of the members of this cry is obviated, the time savings party, he says: "It revolutionises involved being in many cases a mat- one's ideas of time and distance to ter of weeks rather than of daya. be able to procure a vital spare part It is a mistake to imagine that only thousands of iniles from England, small, light articles can be carried and to receive this in the heart of by air. Loads weighing appreci Africa, only a week after the tele-able amounts are regularly, air- borne nowadays in the large and graphed request was made."

are powerful craft employed, while in using the air service. whenever the the case, say, of any piece of ma- time factor is important, on'a rapid-chinery which, if sent in one) ly-increasing scale. Often, at the present time, a motorist on continent will cable to London for some spare part for his car, and across this goes to kim immediately

Motor-car

manufacturers

the

the next air express, frequently effecting a saving not merely of hours but of days.

Articles dispatched by air from Croydon at mid-day are delivered in while afternoon, Paris the same parcels collected in London at the close of business hours are flown across the Channel and delivered. £8 soon as business' houses open the. following morning. Goods dis- Manager.patched from the provinces during

F. MED. COURTNEY,

Hong Kong, June 16, 1931.

THE BANK OF TAIWAN, ^LTD.

(TAIWAN GINKO.) ·.

HEAD' OFFICE:-Taipeh, Formosa

Incorporated by Special Imperial Charter, 1899.

the morning by the recently-estab- ished air-ruil service, and which arrive in London during the after- noon, are collected at the railway termini by the airway vans, taken immediately to Croydon, and flown to Paris on the evening service,. being delivered the first thing the following morning. It is also pos sible, in a single day, to effect the aerial transport and delivery of Central Baskin, Fermons. Bank-Note weled Average amount wXen. 44,00.000 packages from London to destina.

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES 1

tions such as Brussels, Cologne, and JAPAN:-Tokyo, Eckobama, Kobe, Oras FORKOSK 1-diran. Kap Karenko,

Berlin. £04281 Halons, Nanto, Shinchik, Taleks, Talaan, Business men who have urgent onlNA1-Bagh, Helow,

Tak, Tamsul, Town, Balto, Talia.

Amoy Fooshow, appointments can, thanks to the OTHER)-Hog Ibag. Hingapore, Horabara speed of the modern airway, fly in Samaran. Batavia, Bocabay. Olathe morning from London to Paris, have plenty of time in the French

Swatow, Canton.

London, New Yor

LONDON BANKERS 1

The London County Weister and Pare's Jack capital for matters in hand, and The Back has Gemapoodanti in all the prisolant then fly back again to London in

Cousimardial Contess throughest the world.

HONG KONG BRANCH:

General Manager.

K. NAGUNA.

Manage

18. Den Faux Bond Central. Claes Lang, 19th January, 1990, 1.

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.

Established 1918.

HEAD OFFICE:

10, Des Voeux Road, Central. HONG KONG

Capital and Surplus

Total Resources

THE HERCANTILE BANK OF

INDIA, LTD.

· HEAD OFFISGE:

15. Orsechurak Barmel, Landon, &.C.A.

Authorised. Capital ....£3,000,000 Subscribed Capital ... 1,800,000 Paid-up Capital * 1,050,000 Reservo. Fund, and Rest 1,668,845 MANKERA The Bank of England & Midised Book, “LUJ, BRANDHEJ: Ipoh

Bangkok

Bateria

Bombay

over H.$ 8,000,000.00 over 1.236,000,000,00

Calculia Colombe ¿Delhi

Hang Long Kownsh

Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted patr

Current and Fixed Depozit Accounts in local and for-

eign currencies opened for: clients.

Savings Account and Safe Deposit Boxes... Branches and Agencies all over the world

KAN TONG PO,

Chief Manager.

Kota Bharu Kuala Krai

Kuala Lipis

·Kuala Lumpur

How York Hanking

Port Louis

De Fleumeision):

Iangoon

Himla...

Kumulan (Fateng) Hagapore-

Bouzluja.

HONG KONG BRANON.

Ewary ducibilon of Banking and Erokanga toad-

ness trametidi

Travaliers Chequer, Enepad.

Trusted and Excentorships ander- taken.22

"INTEREST: «llowed. Con Oand. Andmeble and Fized Dayodie ai Bator, ihil any be saderielek on application.

זי

CL. SANDES,

Manager.

Bose ITC, 29th April, 1961.

(Continued on Page 8.).

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1931.

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1931

EDITED BY

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