1931-12-24 — Page 11

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1931.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

ATTRACTIVE TAILORING

The Latest in Gentlemen's Outfitting

AT PRICES. TO BUIT ANY PURSE.

PERFECT FIT

AND

RELIABLE

SUITINGS.

WING HING CO.

Gentlemen's Outfitters

64, Queen' Ra, C. Tel. 21417,

Very Nice Woollen Materialu

For

Making Ladies'

DRESSES

&

-OVERCOATS

Ala

FURS &

SILK

HOSIERY

Expert Tailoring

Deperiment.

LEE MOW

Chinese Silk Hosiery Store No. 1, D'Agullar Street

DENTISTS.

HARRY FONG, Dentist,

1st floor, No. 74, Queen's Road

Contral. Tel. 21255.1

TANG YUK, Dentist.

*Successors t

the Inte, SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street. TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.

DRAWN-THREAD WORK AND

EMBROIDERY

Make Worthy

Your Buying!

BIG SELECTION OF BEAUTIFUL LINEN NAPERY BILK COATS & PYJAMAS, BELOW COST

an

CHRISTMAS

SALE.

at

FOOK WENG & CO.

(One Price Store) CHINA BUILDINGS.

ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS,

W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,

Kowloon Bay. New Work & Repairs. Call Flag "L" Sale Agents for Kelvin Motors.

FRUITS.

Now in season CALIFORNIA PEARMAIN APPLES

Just Arrived $9.00 per box.

This is the most famous apple in' the Orient. Quality: Crisp, Juley, sweet and highly aromatic. Excellent keeping quality. Try a bax

WING COFFEE CO.

Tel. 25869 139, Des Voeux Road, C."

PHOTO-SUPPLIES

Kodals and Cameras.

Flims, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging, ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES

Price Moderate.

A Trial Order la Sollefted.

A. SEK & CO.

Tel No. 23459. 20A, Des Voeux Road, C.

HAIR DRESSERS.

LEE YEE.

Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers.

No. 12, D'Agullar Street. (opposite Queen's Theatre).

LIANG YOU

LADIES & GENTY HAIRDRESSERS.

Also

MR. ST. OUEN, PERMANENT WAVING

THE

CHINA MAIL.

and

Commerce

Finance

BOV AUSTRALIAN BIRTH OF THE GAS INDUSTRY.

ESTATES LTD.

Improved Outlook..

Presiding at the twenty-third { annual general meeting of the Estates Ltd., Bovril Australian Lord Luke (the chairman) eald on their largest station, Victoria Downs, they had about 160,000 head

of cattle.

introductory Price $20. chief dificulty was the remoteness

King's Theatre Bldg.,

Ground Floor.

Tel. 20315.

ON LOK HAIR DRESSING SALOON FOR LADIES & GENTLEMEN.

Ja fitted with the latest devices for

in hair dressing. Expert - Barbers.-

цве

CLEAN & COMFORTABLE 10. Wyndham Street, 1st Floor. Entrance On Lan Su Tel. 22817.

OPTICIANS.

THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,

*Phone 22232.

53, Queen's Road Central'

SHOES.

Pair

Black or Brown Shows from $8.00. Black or Brown Boots from $8.00.

Children's Books or Shore from $2.00.

Best styles, most complete stock of all sizes, Repairing a speciality. WONG SIU WOON 21, Pottinger St. Phone 21474,

SPORTING GOODS. ¡

ATHLETIC GOODS

AT

70, Queen's Road Central

Gas began its, career as an in- dustry with the granting, in 1812. of a Royal Charter to the Gas Light and Coka Company, under an Act of Parliament passed in 1810.

smoulder in heaps.

at

BANKS.

HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

Autorisad Expital

bard and Fully laid-up - 30,000,000 Be Fund

. Silvar www

#10,000,000 Beerra Listiity of Proprietpes « $300,000,000 HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS—I

Hon, C., 8, Mackle, Chairman.

AMOT DANGKOK BATAVIA BONDAY

Iron, Mr. J. J. Paterson, Dopoly Chaleman,

CALCUTTA

CANTON

CHEFOO

1. E. Pero, Esq.

3. A. Plummer. Eng. T. 11. R. Abu

Engi

J. P. Varro, Esq.

Chief Manager.

V. M, Greyburn, Ex.

DRANCHIES

LONDON

LYONE

HALACCA

MANILA

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853.

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON.

Paid-up Capital Rosarvo Fund

11

THE HO HONG BANK, LTO,

(Einblimbed 1917.)

HEAD OFFICE:-SINGAPORE. Hong Kong Branch: 15, Queen's Rd. C.

"Authorised Capital Strelta $20,000,000

Issued Capital .... h Pak-up Capital

Renorve Liabilities

af Shareholders, Surplus rata

.£3 000,000, £4,000,000

Reserve Liability of Pro-

prietors

Agencies and Branches:

ALOR STAR

ANRITHAR

RUMING

#

8.000.000

4,000.000

4,000,000

2,637.000

Branches Agencies and Correspon dents in the principal cities of the world.

Every description of Banking and £3,000,000 | Exchange busthoss transacted.

TAN ENG HOOL

Manager.

DANGKGR BATAVIA BOMBAY . CALCUTTA ·

CANTOK CAWNPORE CEBU COLOMDO

DAINEN DELHI

BAIPHONG

HAMBURG HANKOW

MADRAS

MANILA

NEDAN NEW YORK

PESING (Ping}

DENANG

RANGOON

BALOON BESARAND

BANQUE DE L'INDOCHINE.

HEAD OFFICE:

96, Boulevard flaxsemana, PARIS,

Capital folly paid up .Fra. 120,000,000 Reserves (31.12.1030) Fra. 118.568,484 BRANCHES:

GEREMBAN

RITA KOHAL

BING FORH HETIAWAN GOURADATA

BANN

HOND KONI

TAIPINO

ILOILO

TIENTSIN

TOKYO

MUAR (Johor).....

KARACHI

TONOKA (laskest】

MUKDEN

NEW YORK

KLAND RODE

TSINGTAD

YOKOHAMA

Indo-China. China

Other Places.

KUALA KAKONAR ZAMBOANDA

COLOMBO

PEIDING

KUALA LUMPCE

Saigon

DAIBEN

Bangkok

FOOCHOW

RANGOON

HAIPHONG

HAMBURG

FAN FRANCIBOO

BANKOW HARDIN

SHANGHA

KINGAPORE

BOURADYA

The fact that the heat treatment of certain claates of coal produced alterations in the coal substance. Il Doll, Eng... yielding coke, tar, &c., had then.. Compton, Ea

F. Sander Comb, Yaq. It is been known for many years.

0. Miskin, Raq. WBS well authenticated that coke produced from pit coal in Eliza- As he had mentioned before, the bethan times by allowing it to This method, from a suitable market, the nearest which followed on the lines pre being the West Australian Govern- viously employed for the making of ment works at Wyndham, to which charcoal, is still extant in India. they had in most years sent a large, In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth proportion of the steers available. Centuries, various patenta were The market in the Eastern States; granted for the improvement of the

Most of them aimed over 1,000 miles off, paid a much procesa. better price, but, of course, after treating the coal in brick chambers a walk of hundreds of miles, the to conserve heat and obtain better) control over the process of car- cattle took a while to refaften.

These chambers werej bonisation. He had no doubt they would see additional reciprocal arrangementa entered into between the Dominiona and this country, with, he trusted, advantages to industry here, and to primary product producers in the Dominions, but so far as cattle were concerned, they must keep in mind that they had not to consider the question of an annual crap, but of an animal that took over two years to grow up.

the direct forerunners of the beehive coke oven, and thus of the metall- urgical coking industry, the sister of the gas industry,

and

Up till 1781, the smoke vapours given off during the process had been neglected, but in that year the Earl of Dundonald secured a for coal coking aparatus patent

for the re which included means covery of tar pitch, o'ls, &c. was not till the end of the next

were

It

to

HONGKEW #MILA

JORE FOUR KOWLOON KUALA LUMPUR

PENANO

SAIOON

SUNDEI PATANI

TIENTAIK

TOKYO ****TRINOTAO-

YOKOHAMA

Cura de apaned in total : Currency snd Piard Deposits recind for one your or sharter periods in Local Currency and Sterling og term which will fe quoted application. Rong Kong, Decstible 7, 1903,

HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.

The Turizm of the shoes Rank ji conducted by the ROND ROYO AND RITANGHAI BANK-

on application,

་

FOR THE HOVOROSO AND BHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chisi Mazagor,

og og. 19th July, 120.

BANK OF CANTON, LTD.

THE

Established 1912.

Head Ofte:-Hong Kong. Authorised Capital (IL.E. Currency) Peld-Up Capital zoo

Australia was probably the most suitable part of the Empire Ingentury, however, that by-product GORPORATION. Rules way be obtaland which development could take place recovery was to be adopted seriɔaa- as regarded cattle, but the improve ly by the furnace-coke industry. ment in stock would take a long Contemporaneously with Dundonald, time each generation in the stage other experimenters were baking or improvement taking, say, three small batches of coal in iron pots years. The quality which had and examining the various products been attained by Argentine cattle, resulting from the operation There to take the top few million head in were Dr. Clayton In Britain, Lé Bon that country, had taken thirty years in France, Mink'ers in Belgium, and

Int:reated to achieve. All this pointed to others. All the desirability of an immediate find that, in addition to various start being made by way of the condensible fluids, a quantity of "in- air," or "carburett d purchase on a large scale of good flammable bulls from this country for export hydrogen" gas was yielded. to Australia.

This they collected in bladders The Share Position,

and with the and similar vessels, As to general conditions In Aus- lighted contents performed many tralia, thoughtful Australiana were diverting philosophical experi- more hopeful than they had been ments," not entirely free from at any time during the last two alarming and unintended explosions. years, but real prosperity would It was, however, the good senze of not come in a night; it was bound a Scotsman, William Murdoch, to be a slow growth,

| which led to the practical applica-

The chairman mentioned that tion of these "diversions." Murdoch the additional 7 p.e. Preferred realised that this gas could be tran-j Ordinary shares had been taken up sported by pipes and paid for in cash by Bovril Ltd, facturing plant to any desired point

from

manu-

Fund....

BRANGUES:-- Caston, Rhanghai,

100 An

3.100,000

Hanków, Hwalow. Bangkok, New York and Han Prancisco.

LONDON BANKERS:~~

The Lloyd's Bank, Limited. CORRESPONDENTS

In all principal elissa of the World.

Foreign Bangs and banking betonas of aves, discriptian Ustaarted.

Safe Depot Base Evasione aitaižjat a yearly puntad of from §5 la ȘIA

LOOK POONG SHAN,

Foreign Exchange and Danking business transacted.

Canton Battambang

Cantho

Fort-Bayard General

Current Accmants opened and Fix-

ed Deposits received for one year or shorter periode at rates which will be quoted on application.

J. STUART....

Monagor. Hong Kong, August 17, 1981.

NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL- MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V.

(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY)

BANKERA.

- Estabilnod 1835. Hong Kong Offer:-11, Quees's Road Central.

Authorinad Ongija) ...................... Galldara 150,000,000- Fold-Up Caplial status, Quilders 80,090,001- Basara Fund... Galiders 40,010,000.

Dok.

Head Offer :—AMSTERDAM, Eastern Elsad Office :-DATAVIA, Anasbes:-Baadjerzwanie, Eladong Bombay,

Ceruijs, Cherthos, Dr. Jakara", The Hague“, Jiddah, Robe. Puka Makaust, Mydaný Filoménage longan. Papang Bangon. Reiterdam”, Bemarang. Shanghal. "Singapore, Barth bala, Boerakarta (Holo), Tagui, Tyle and Weltevreden".

↑ Thess oñions have Sala Depeši Doral to Let.

LONDON BANKERS :-

NATIONAL PROVINCIAL DANK LTD.

Correspondents all over the world. Bathing Buil (som of evory description transacted.

!

A. STOKKINK.

Hàng Rondo 20 Bicember, 201

THE

Nanager.

Haiphong

Hanoi

Thanh Hoa

Hur

Hankeon Djibout!

Mongtze

Nam-Đinh Peping

Prom-Penh Quinhon Terrane

Vinh

Hongkong

Noumea

Papeete

Shanghai. Tientain

Pondicheri

Yunnanton Singapore

Every description of Banking and Exchange Business transacted

Interest allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposits according to ar *angemanti

Safe Deposit Boxes to let. Travellers' choques issued.

A. BONNAUD.

Manager.

5. Queen's Road Central, French Bank Buliding. Hong Kong, 1st November, 1981.

THE NATIONAL CITY BANK

OF NEW YORK..

„HBAD ÖFFICE: 65, Wall Street, / NEW YORK.

Capital Surplan and

Undivided Profits..U.S.$226,037,892

Branches In-

ARGENTINE

BELGIUM BRAZIL CHILE CHINA COLOMBIA

CUBA

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Chief Manager. AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY. INDIA

THE BANK OF CHINA.

行銀國

THE LIANG YOU CO. the redemption of the £05,940 of use, and, further, that the effect Reorganised October 26, 1928, andor Debentures, which represented of the combustion of the gas, a ter special charter of The National Gov- their bolding. The total issued passing through fine holes or fets, ornment as an Preferred Ordinary shares was resulted in a light, not only superíor INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE therefore 500,000 58 shares. The to that obtained by burning it at original, issue. was 195,586, upon the open end of a pipe, but vastly Subscribed Capital.. wash the dividend was cumula- better than the contemporary means Pald-Up Capital tive, and the directors recommend- of illumination by oil or candl^s.Į

Reserve Funds ed that a dividend be paid for the Translating there ideas into prac amount accured up to January 31, tice, he I't his own house at Redruth,

Cornwall, in 1702. 1930,

Six years later, He then moved the adoption of on the completion of his duties in

TYPEWRITER DEALERS

C

L

F

A

the dividend, which was seconded pumping plant, he returned to the

N

I

N

G

HOP SING & CO.

28. Pottinger St.

Tel. 21420 CANTON—113, Sun Kee Sal Rd.

the accounts and the declaration of] Cornwall in, connection with mine-

BANK.

.$25,000,000.00 ...$24,710,200.00.

- $ 3,820,509.82

HEAD OFFICE: SHANGĦAL

HONG KONG BRANCH: 4, Queen's Road Central

by the Hon. Ian Lawson-Johnston headquarters of his firm, Messrs. Owing to our numerous branches in and carried unanimously.

DORMAN JONG MERGER RUMOURS.

INC.

Head Office-65, Broadway, New York.

}

Capital

Surplus

Reserves

Amsterda Antwerp Albena

ماعيل

.................. . . .U.§.$0,000,000 ..U.S.$1,672,454 ..U.S.$1,308,2208

Naples Pirasun

Pol. Penent

BRANCHES:---

GeDDA Glagow

Nios

Наумов

Hamburg

Berlin

Hayra

Biuerits.

Interlaken

Bombay

Bremen

ξεμαρσία

Buenos Aires

Calro Caloutta

Torpan! SAVerve

Lugano.

•

1/sor

Marmeleo

Cannes

Jejusalem Lido Ionilin

Colombo Constantinople Monte Carlo Copenhagen Hatails Finburgh Munich Floreson

Hontreux

Milea

Peking Pourina Rotterdam Jame Sarabout Ahangba Bouthampton Blog pare 81, koris

Vacan Venton

Yokohama

Xorich

Boulton and Watt, in Birmingham, China and large connections in the important commercial centres of the and there introduced an 'nstallation world, we are able to extend to our of gás lighting. in 1802, a public ellents special facilities for domestic display in St. James's Park of the and foreign banking and exchanges. Branches of American Express Com. now light was made to celebrate the We also handle the issue of Bondspany in Principal cities of United and other Public Funds of the Chiu- Rumours of a merger between Peace of Amiens, and thereafter the Government both at home and States of America and Canada. Dorman Long and other Iron and installation, of gas-lighting plants tread. steel interests on the North-East in factory buildings and largel Coast, persist, though official con- Drivite houses became part of the firmation is still lacking. Two firm's activit'en. In 1803, Murdoch Hong Kong, 5th March, 1981. ·· years ago Dorman Long acquired delivered a lecture before the Royal the undertaking of Balckow, Solety on Gas Lighting-Sir David

RELIABLE PRINTING Vaughan and Co., and it was then Mine-Watson in Engineering.

no order

too small

'THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE LTO.

ZNINA MAIL BLDG, • SA WYNDHAM ST.

Do Not Wall! Buy Your Presents Now!!

TOYS, DOLLS Christmas Cards and Children's

Picture Books

also LARGE SELECTION · OF

STAMPS

which will be a delight to any Stamp Collector to receive.

GRACA & CO.,

No. 10, Wyndham Street. P. O. Box 620.. Hong Kong.

rumoured that this merger might be j followed by à further grouping of Iron and steel interests in the North-

Fuet Coast district.

Other interests in this area in-

ALEXANDER

Phone 25169, Fedder Building (1st Floor)

clude Consett Iron, South Durham INSTITUT Steel and Iron (which controls thej DE BEAUTE Cargo Fleet Co.,) and Pense and Partners. Apart from South Dur- ham, none of these has paid divi- dends on the Ordinary capital for somo years. With regard to Peaseong and Partners, a scheme of arrange ment was sanctioned by the Court last June.

pposite Entrance to

Kong Hotel

ITALY JAPAN

LONDON MEXICO PANAMA

PERU PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PORTO RICO BTRAITS

SETTLEMENTS URUGUAY -VENEZUELA

Commercial and Trivellers' Letters of Credits, Travellers' Choques, DIL of Exchange and Cable Transfers bought and sold. Current accounts and Savings Bank accounts Брелест and Fixed Deposits in local and for- taken at rates that eign currencies may be ascertained on application to theBank.

We are also able to offer our Cai. tomers the services of the Branches of the International Banking Cor- poration in San Francisco, and Spain and also of The National City Bank of New York (France), S.A., in Paris and Nice.

F. McD. COURTNEY,

Manager. Hong Kong, June 15, 1981.

THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD. (TAIWAN GINKO.).

HEAD OFFICE:Talpeh, Formou.

Incorporated by Special Imperial Charter, 1899.

Central Bank in Formosa,

Bank-Notes med Average amount...You. 45,200,000 BRANCHER AND AGENCIES (

SHOU J. CHEN.

All clansea of Commercial Bankding JAPAN:-Toght, Yokohama, Koke, puska, Manager. Transactions undertaken.

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED.

Established 1880.

Capital (fully paid-up) Yen 100,000,000 Rakerve Fund

.Yen 116,200,000

Head Office:---YOKOHAMA

Branches and 'Agenda at: Alexandria Batavia

Berlin

Bombay

Lustrous Oil Permanent Hair Waves Calcutta hich are Large, Soft and Natural. Canton

A CHARGES MODERATE.

Harbin

Honolulu Kal-Yuen Karachi Kobe London

Hong Kong

Arilatie Finger and Marcel Wares, (1) Gam freatment, Shampooing, Henna Park Dairen (Dalny)

Changchun Excluding the capital of the con- any colour), Hair Cutting and Mani Fangtion (Mukden) trolled undertakings, these concerns cure for Ladies and Gentlemen, Con-burs hava an aggregate share and De-lentious, Artistic Work by European Hankow

Expert, Mr. Alexander, benture capital of nearly £30,000,- 000. The market, valuation, bow- A VISIT WILL CONVINCE YOU, ever, is much lower. In some quarters a complete merger of all these undertakings is regarded as Improbable, except under the pro- teqtion of a high tariff wall,....... It is thought quite possible, however, that there may be some regroup- Ing of interests on a geographical and horizontal basis on the lines

of the Guest, Keen-Bäldwin · àlli- anco.

Job Printing

REASONABLE -

PRICES

THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE LTD.

Los Angelos Manila

Nagasaki

Nagoya

Newchwang

New York Osaka Paris

Peiping

Kantoon

Rio de Janeiro San Francisco Вап Seattle Semarang

Sheki Singapora

Soerabiya

Sydney

Tionisip Tokyo

Tsingtan

Interest allowed on Current Ac counts.

Deposits received for Axst periods atiralen to be obtained on 'application.

H. MORT,

ifanager. Hong Kong, 11th September, 1981.

Personal investment accounta

bandled.

The

Company offers to intending Travellers the use of lù "Travellers Choques" and Letters of Credit and, In addition, the world-wide services of its thoroughly equipped Travel Department.

E. W. DUGGAN,

Manager.

FORMORANO, Kai Karako. Kesians, Makoca Nalu, Skleshiku, Talon, Turer, Takeo Tamul, Town, Hulle. Telio." CHINA 1—ökakgial, Bankow, Amoy, Fashow,

Siratow, Canton,

OTTIERE:-ling Kong, Gagapore,

Bernering. BRATI Bombay,

New York, Dainan,,

LONDON, BANERES (

Borcabays,

Laddon,

Bvclays Bank, Lid., Llujos Dank, Lid, Midland Bat fat. We inloder Bank, 144.

The Bank has Compongule to all the prindpel Comcotrofal Denizsa throughout the worlde E. NAGURA.

Mang

HONG KONG BRANCH 1.

Dos Yeux Hood Central. Hoop Kons. 19th January, 1929.

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.

Established- 1918.

HEAD OFFICE:

10. Des Voeux Road, Centrál HONG KONG.

Capital and Surplus Total Resources

over H. 8,600,000.00

over H.$30,000,000.00.

Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted.

F

Current and Fixed Deposit Accounts in local and for-

·eign currencies opened för clients.

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

KAN TONG PO, »

Chlof Managor.