1932-04-08 — Page 2

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DANKS

HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

Athorized Capital

$60,000,000

Issued, and Fully Puldian. 90,008,900 Reserve Funds—

Barking.....

$18,000.00

Hessere Giability of Proprietorn mom 130,196,000

READ OFFIOR: BONG KONG.

BOÁRD OP DIRECTORS:-

Hon. Mr. X. J. Puturnom, Chairman.

J. 4. Plasmar, Kay,

T. 2. Pours, Esq. Deputy Chairman.

Hon. Mr. W. G, Dell, A.. Ocampion. Eng. M. T. Johnson, Esq. 0. Miskin, q,"i

T. II. B. Shew, Bog.

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VANGXOX

BATAVIA

LOMBAY

CALCUTTA

CANTON

J. P. Warren, Esq.

V.M. Graybitu, Kag. Oklat Masage

BELVOIES

LONDON

unroo

COLOMBO

DAIREN POOGNOW HAIPHONG

HAMBURG BANKOW

BABBIN

BONGXEW

ILOILO

IPOR

JORDEB

KOAR

ROWLOON

KUALA LUMPUR

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1858.

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON.

Pald-up Capital

Reserve Fund

Reserve Liability of

pristors

Pro-

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE HO HONG 'BANK, LTD.

(Established 1017.)

HEAD OFFICE:-BINGAPORE. Hong Kong Branch: 13, Queen's Bd. C

Authorized Capitaí Straits $20,000,000 Imaxed Capital Paid-up Capital

Baterve Liabilities

་.་་

14

8,000,000 4,000,000

4,000,000 2,687,000

of Bhareholders. Surpli

Branches, Agencies and Correapon' .£3,000,000 denta in the principal cities of the

£4,000,000 world.

Every descripHơn of Banking and .£3,000,000 | Exchange business transacted.

TAN ENG H001,

Agencies and Branches:

ALON STAR

AMRITSAR

BANGROX DATAVIA BOMBAY CALOUTTA САНТОВ DAWNPORE CEBO COLOMBO DAIREN

DELHI

HAIPHONG

BAMBURG

KODB

MADRAS

KUCHING

MANILA

MEDAN

NEW YORK

PEPINO (Paklog) PENANG

BANGOON

SALOON

SEMABANO

SEREMBAN

#HANGHAI

KINGPORE

SITIAWAN

SOURABAYA

Maunger

THE NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK.

HEAD OFFICE: 55, Wall Street, NEW YORK.

Capital, Surplus and

Undivided Profits U.S.$226,347,466.11

Branches in:-

Commerce and Finance

THE MODERN

POWER STATION

A COMPARISON WITH 20 YEARS AGO.

At

FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1932.

IMPOUNDING THE MONSOON

WATERS

FOR IRRIGATION OF RICE CROPS.

In Madras.

The Cauvery River, 492, miles) in addition, 301,000 acres of new long, rises in South India in the irrigation. For the latter, new canals and branches are being ex- Coorg Province at Bhagamandala,

cavated. where the watershed is about 5,000 The N.E. Monsoon is sometimes The Boiler-Makers' Achievement.

ft, above sea level, and the average complete failure but the S.W. rainfall is 200 in. per annum, with Monsoon is regular and depend. The changes from year to year in the new Battersea power a maximum of 400 in, fallingjable, and the Metur Reservoir will power station practice are not gen- station the bollers are rated at over chiefly during the S.W. Monsoon, store the excess flow during the

per hour, and we ander- June to August,

succeeding period. By this means, erally great, and it is only when the 300,000 unit of time is expressed in de-stand that the stokers will work auct Fifty miles from Ita source the the crops in the Tanjore Delta, enters the Mysore State, totalling 1,801,000 acres, will be cades instead of in years that pro- cessfully over a range of 7 to 1-a river

In no flexibility which makes any form of where the average rainfall is 35 assured of an even gress becomes impressive.

and regular in., falling chiefly during the period supply. thing is the advanco made more heat storage unnecessary. striking than in the boilerhouse.

Unfair Criticism.

extending from July to October. Crops Hitherto Subject to Damage. As is common knowledge, there The least rainfall is 20 In., occur. Hitherto, these crops, from time Some Afteen or twenty years ago an evaporation of 3 lb. or 4 lb. of has been violent criticism of the ring at Coimbatore, in the Bhavani immemorial, have been subject to steam per square foot of heating Battersea station in the daily press, Basin, and falling during the N.E. damage by submersion alternating surface per hour was.considered to characterised, as Mr. Robinson Monaoon, in October and November with failure due to drought, ac- represent advanced practice, and says, "with that little knowledge and reaching the Cauvery by way cording to diverse conditions of outputs seldom exceeded 50,000 lb. which le so dangerous."

of the tribulary known as thej flow in, the river. of steam per hour,

Alarming pictures have been Bhavani River.

The Cauvery river branches into Hence, steam turbines of what drawn of the wholesale destruction' On the Madras seaboard, the two at the Upper Anicut about 9 would now be regarded as of wrought by sulphurous fumes dis- rainfall averages 45 in. per annum. miles upstream of Trichinopoly. moderate output required a whole charged with the works. The com- It falls chiefly during street of boilers to supply them. In pany concerned has, however, been Monsoon in October and November. Coleroon River. Ten miles below Commercial and Travellers' Letters spite of their moderate steaming able to satisfy the chemists ap- Great Variety of Rainfall. Trichinopoly the Cauvery River is of Credits, Travellers' Cheques, Bille rates, boiler efficiencies weré by no pointed by the Government of the

Thus there is great variety of barrage known as the Grand of Exchange and Cable Transfers

baselessness of these fears-En- rainfall in the catchment area, and Anicut where the head sluices of bought and sold. Current accounts means high.

(averages or maxima are liable to be the Tanjore Delta are situated, 130 The boiler-room, again, was gen-gineering.

upact by abnormal rainfall in more miles down stream from the Metur than one part of the catchment at Dam.

ARGENTINE

PHILIPPINE

LYONE

BANEOR

HARRIN

MALACCIA

HONG. KONA.

TAIPING

MANILA

ILOILO

TIENTSIN-

LONDON

MUAB (Jekon)

ĪPOй

TOKYO

MURDEN

KARACHI

TONGKAR (Bhukel)

BELGIUM

MEXICO

KLANG

TSINGTAO

BRAZIL

PANAMA

NEW YORE

YOKOHAMA

CHILE

PERU

PEIPING

KUALA LANGBAR

ZAMBOANO A

KUALA LUMPUR

CHINA

Gotoral

CITA CUBA

COLOMBIA

ISLANDS

DOMINICAN

STRAITS

REPUBLIC

INDIA UTALY JAPAN

PENANO

RANDOOR

BAIGON

AN FRANCISCO

BHANGHAI

RINGAPORE

HOURABYA

SUNGRI PATANI

TIENTSIN

TOKYO

TRENGTAO

TOKOHAMA

Current counts operad la Loni Ory

sal Fixed Deposita road for del

er pads Lu Loval Currency and

a terme which will be quoted on application.

Hong Kong, 5th April, 1932.

HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.

The Buslow of the shore Bank is conducted

by HONG KONG AID BHANGHAI BANK ING CORPORATION. Bules may be abisinad w application.

FOR THE MONGKONG AND BELANOMAI BANKING CORPORATION.

Y. M. GRATHORN,

Uhlat kisanger.

Hong Kong, 17th February, 1932.

THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD.

Established 1912.

Head Office-Hong Kong. Authored Captial (ILE, Outreang) --,811,000,000

Up Dapital ----

1,100,000

DRA NOTES:-

E

Centon, Shanghai, Kankow, Bwakow, Bangkok, New York and San Francisco,

LONDON BANKERJ :——

The Lloyd's Back, Limited. CORRESPONDENTU

În să petuolpał olilee of the World.

Forsign Exchangs sal bailing boatsass of

every descripilon transdale,

Sale Deposit Boxes (Ticious ainet) Bà B 2901ĖJ

-natal of from 58 la 240,

LOOK POONG SHAN,

Foreign Exchango 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, August 17, 1981.

NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL- MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V.

(NETHERLANDS TRADING BOQIETYŰ

BANKERS.

Estabilabad 18:24, Hoog Loox Office:-11, Queen's Road Castral.

P

Authored Capital Caldera 180,000,000. Peld-Up Capital on Guidera · 80,330,000. Barry Fuad.............. Oulidarn 40,014,000.

Had Office:-AMSTERDAM". Esten Band 0800:-BATAVIA. Branches:Bandjarmasin. Besdong, Bombay,

Daloutta, Charbon,

Djember, Djok Jakarta", The Hagos), Biddah, Kiba, Makamar, Medan, Palembang, Pu Longan, Penang. Bangoon, Botterdam", Becharang, Shanghai, Bingspam, Soar hafa, Boerakaria (Bolo), Tegal. Tillasjag and Weltamedan")

* The oo hars Sale Deposit Boxes to Cal.

LONDON BANKERS ;-

NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK LTD.

Correspondesia wit over the world. Bankdag Basl Dem of every description transected,

A. STOKKINE,

Hong Kong, In December, 1981

THE

Manager.

Chief Manager. AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY.

and

PORTO RICO

SETTLEMENTS

URUGUAY

VENEZUELA

Savings Bank accounts opened and Fixed Deposits in local and for-erally dark and invariably dirty, oign currencies taken at rates that since clinker cannot be raked out may be ascertained on application to and quenched on the stokehold floor

the Bank.

Present Day Output.

boiler have risen up to 1,270,000

the N.E. the left branch being known as the

WATSON'S ANNUAL REPORT. one time. A case of this kind oc- At the Grand Anicut the water curred, for instance, in July, 1924, in excess of requirements for ir- We are also able to offer our Cus without an accompanying deposit

The profit for the twelve months, when the hitherto recorded maxi-[rigation is turned into the Colaroon, tomers the services of the Branches of grire all round. of the International Banking Cor-

ended October 31, 1931, amounts to mum flow of 250,000 cubecs was and the Cauvery, by means of ita poration in Spain and also of The

$201,824.62 which together with exceeded by a flood amounting to three head sluices, divides and sub- National City Bank of New York To-day, outputs from a single the carry forward of $30,133.13 486,000 cusecs, an increase of 74 divides the supply all over the Tan- (France), SA, in Paris and Nice.

jore Delta. The branch which re- lb. of steam per hour, which was $281,457.75 available for appropria-

from the previous year, leaves per cent. R. M. MCLAY,

Fortunately this flood came down tains the name of Cauvery enters Manager. recorded during a test at the 14th

tion.

at a time when the work of the the sea in the shape of an insigni. Hong Kong, March 1, 1982.

Street Power Station, New York;

The Directors will recommend at Metur Dam had not been commenc-ficant stream about eight miles and what is more remarkable is the forthcoming annual meeting ed and advantage was taken of it South of Tranquebar. THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD. that modern high outputs have been of shareholders that this suma be to revise the proposals in regard to Arguments of 60 Years Ended.

attained with an actual gain in allocated as follows:- efficiency.

(TAIWAN GINKO.)

HEAD OFFICE:-Talpeh, Formosa.

Incorporated by Special Imperial Charter, 1898,

Capiral Bank in Formous. Bach-Noise Lestred Average amount ...Yen 15,000,000)

BRANCHES AND AGENCIEST

His outputs were, in fact, uttained years ago in the case of water tube boilers on destroyers, but the boiler efficiency diminished rapidly as the demand for steam increased,

The Improvement has been main- ly due to the greater proportion of FORMOSA-Gla Kal Karako, Kostung, the heating surface to which the

JAPAN —Tojko, Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka,

Makong Nasto, Machiku, Talebs, Tainan, heat is transferred by radiation in Takao," "Tammil, Toen, Halló, Taito, CHINA-8, Hantow, amoy, Foochow, place of by conduction; but it is of

Blow, Dexion.

interest to note that one OTHERS-Éoog Eco Bingapore, Boezabaya,

firma Bemarang, Batavia, Bombay, London, New Continental

js develop- York, Bairan.

ing 白孔 idea put forward by the late Professor J.

LONDON BANKERS:

Barclays Bank, Zid, Lloyds Bank, Lid.,

T.

To pay a Dividend of 80 cents per share which will absorb Place to Reserve Fund Transfer to Exchange Flac-

tuatica Account ...... Transfer to Chinese Staff Superamuation Fund ... And cany forward to next

account

96,000.00

The decision to build a dam at surplussing arrangements for the Metur Reservoir.

Metur was only reached after very Such a food is certainly abnor-mature consideration. Arguments mal and hardly kely to recur in favour of a proposal to build a 50,000.00 within a hundred years, but on the dam across the Bhavani . River 50,000.00 other hand, such an experience instead of one across the Cauvery, might recur or even be surpassed, were put forward as long as 60 5,000.00 at any time.

30,457.75

$281,457.75

years ago, and were only settled in Huge Storage Reservoir. 1910 when Government adopted the At Metur, in the Madras Presi- scheme of Colonel Elis, R.E., to dency, the stadras Public Works build a dam‘across the Cauvery at, Department is now constructing a Metur.

ILD. CERTIFICATES, storage reservoir on the Cauvery| Negotiations with the Mysore River, 275 miles below its source. Government were followed by Messrs. A. Goeke & Co., local to hold 93,500,000,000 cub. ft. of cessation of all activities due to agents for the Societe Inter- water (2.14 million acre It.) This, the outbreak of the Great War. Nicolson more than twenty-five nationale de Placements, Basle, ad-storage will be used for the irriga-Eventually, however, terms were. The Back has Correspondpute in all the principal years since, Professor Nicolson advise us that the latest official quo- tion of 1,000,000 acres of existing concluded with the Mysore Govern-

vocated the adoption of very high tation in Basle' is £2-14-0. rice crops in the Tanjore Delta, and ment in 1926.—Engineering.

Midland Bank, Lid., Westminster Bank, Ltd.

Commercial Caniw throughout the world.

K. NIOURA,

INC.

THE BANK OF CHINA. 行銀國中

Head Office:-65, Broadway, New York.

Mungu.

gas speeds, an advice which was

HONG KONG HAYCE1

3. Des Vanax Bood Central Hong Kong, Desember 2, 1591.

based on Osborne Reynolds's theory

Reorganised October 26, 1928, under

special charter of The National Gov- ernment as an

Capital

Surplus

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

BANK.

Subscribed Capital .....$25,000,000.00

Pald-Up Capital

Reserve Funda

Reserve

Amsterdam Antwerp

U.S.$6,000,000 .U.8.$1,572,454 U.S.$1,903,209

How

BRANCHES:-

.$24,710,200.00

..$ 8,820,503.82

Beale

Barlia

Marria

ODOK Glasgow Elara Hamburg Harte Interlaksa

Nos

Naples Pirsaus

Paria

Po

Paking

Beenbay

Bremen

Besal

Busana Aires Calro

Jerusalem Lido Londan Liverpool Lucerne Д

HEAD OFFICE: BHANGHAI.

HONG KONG BRANCH:

4. Queen's Road Central.

Owing to our numerous branches in China and large connections in the Important commercial centres of the world, we are able to extend to our ellents special facilities for domestic and foreign banking and exchanges.

Calixtla

Cannes

Lator Colombo Marie Comateloopla Moose Carlo

Marlia Munish

Montreux Kilan

Palermo Rotterdam Boma Stamboul

Shanghal BoulCampion Singapore St Morita Tisatsio Vienam

Vasion Tokobama Enrich

Copenhage Basebut Florence Серата Branches of American Express Com-

Just Received.

YVERT ET TELLIER POSTAGE STAMP CATALOGUE

FOR

1932

At $6 Each.

GRACA & CO.,

of heat transfer from a fold to s wall.

Air Speeds Employed.

In the work now in progress air' speeds of over 600 ft. per minute are employed, and it is claimed that this will permit of very large reduc tions in the heating surface re- quired.

It may be noted that in the case of blast-furnace tuyeres where' the air speeds go up to some 1,000 ft. per second, rates of heat transfer of as much as 100,000 B.Th.U. per square foot per hour have been re- corded. This is, possibly, as high a rate as can be attained in purely radiation heating.

No Drastic Changes.

It is somewhat remarkable that

We also handle the lasue of Bonda pany in Principal cities of United Dealers in Postage Stamps, Religion/boller-makers have been able to

and other Public Funds of the Chin-

ess Government both at home and abroad.

-

SHOU J. CHEN,

Manager. Hong Kong, 6th March, 1981.

States of America and Canada.

All classes of Commercial Banking Transactions,undertaken.

Personal

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, handled.

LIMITED.

Establimbed 1638. Capital (fully paid-1) Yen 100,000,000 Reserve Fund

.Yen 117,800,000

Head Ones:---YOKOHAMA.

Branches and Agencies at:

¡Alexandria-

Batavia

Barlin

Bombar

Calcutta

Nagasaki

Nagoya

Newchwang

New York Osaka

Bangtien (Mukden) Rio de Janeiro

(Dainy)

HamburE

Bankow

Harpia

KODE

San Francisco

Shangha chimonl Bingapore Boerabaya

Sydney Tientsin Tokyo

investment accounta

The Company offers to intending Travellers the use of its “groveller Chequer” and Letters of Credit and, in addition, the world-wide services of it thoroughly equipped TravA: Department.

EW. DUGGAN,

Managez

Goods, Pictorial Post Cards, Toys, etc.

No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, P.O. Box No. 620. HONG KONG

Bring Your PRINTING. Problems toll""

THE NEWSPAPER- KISTERPREEK" STIL

• FBR WINOKAR ST.

meet the demand for high pressures without drastic changes of type, but the weldless-steel drum has made this possible.

Such drums are, however, ex- pensive, and may ultimately be re- placed by electrically welded ones. One Brm, Mr. J.V. Robinson states, in the latest of the contributions on power stations which be has made for some years past to the Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, has installed X-ray ap- paratus for testing welds, the rays having a penetration of 81⁄2 in. of steel.

In any case, Mr. Robinson anti- cipates in the early future consider able reductions in the cost of high- pressure boilera. Whilst, however,

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD. old types have been successfully

Estabilehed 1918. "HHAD - OFFICE:

HÓNG KONGWAY

ad, Central

Capital and Surplus Total Em

H:8,000,000.00

Every description

・Banking and.

Current and Fired Depost 'Accounts is local and for.

an, opened for rebenta: 25

unt and Bafe Deposit B

adapted to new conditions, much work is in progress in developing now types. WWKU

The Benson and Loeffer bollers have now been built in units yielding 150,000 1b, to 220,000 15. of stam per hour.

Automatic Stokers,

Whilst for the 'very largest out: puts pulverisad fuel tring - is re: quired, there has been a remark able de stokers.

ALSO PACKED IN PACKETS OF

10

WILLS'S

GOLD

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

Congo 11th: March,

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