1932-06-27 — Page 2

BANKS

HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

Authorised Capital

40 106,000 Lemand and Pully Palding mata" 20,001,800 Barro Funda:--

Berlagakanışı # #,100,000

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853.

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON.

"THE HO HONA' BANK, LTD..

(Established 1917) (19)

·HEAD OFFICE; SINGAPORE. Hong Kong Branch) 13, Queen's Rd. G.

Authorised Capital Straits $20,000,000 Issued Capital

8,000,000

Paid-up Capital ****

4,000,000

Reserve Liabilities of

Shareholders

4,000,000

Surplus

2,687,000

Branches, Agencies wad Correspon- dents in the principal cities of the

£3,000,000 world, .£5,000,000 Every description of Banking and

Exchange business transacted.

TAN ENG HOOI, .£8,000,000

Manager.

Agencies and Branches:

Reeve Liability of Propelsion

HEALT

$10,000,000

Paid-up Capital ......... Reserve Fund Reserve Liability of. Pro-

prietors

ALOR STAR

AMBITSAR

BANYIKOK

Вот.

BATAVIA BOKBAY

CALOUTTA CANTON CAWNTORE ORGU COLONDO DELHI HAIPHONG

HEAD OFFICE, BONG KOKO.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS—

Bon. Mr. J. ¿. Paterson.

Chairman

T. R. Poncon,, Ex. Deputy Chairman.

Hon. Mr. W. XL. Bali,

A. H. Gomagjon, Eng M. 2. Zabolos, tag.. 2. Maka, Bag

ANGI

BANGLOR

BATAVIA BONDAY

DALOUTTA

J. Hummi

J. R. Warrin, Boo

V. M. Graybum, Esq. Chiel Mager.

BRANCHEA

LONDON

LYONB HALLOCA

་

NAMBURO

KUCHING

MADRI

MANILA

NXW YORK

TEXAND

BAIGON

THE NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK.

HEAD OFFICE: 55, Wall Street. NEW YORK.

Capital. Surplus and

Undivided Profits U.S.#225,503,775.00|

MEDAN

PEIPINO (Peking!

BANGOON

BEMARANO

BEREMBAN

SILENOHAI

Branches in

HANKOW

SINGAPORE

HARDIN

SITIAWAN

ARGENTINE

LONDON

HỒNG TONG

BOURABAYA

BELGIUM

MEXICO

TAHO

BRAZIL

MANILA

IPCH

PANAMA

TIENTEIK

MUAB (Jekoras

KARACHI

TONGRAH (Bhuket)

CHILE

CANTON

MUKDEN

KLANG

TRINGTAO

CHINA

CH2POO

NEW YORK

YOKOHAMA

DOLOMBO

PEININO

KUALA KANGSAR

ZAMBOANGA

COLUMBIA

CUBA

DOMINICAN- REPUBLIC

INDIA

DATARN FOODHOW HAIPHONG KAKORO HARSOVE HARIN HONGLEW

ILOILO

Iro

JOGORZ

FORE

KOWLOON

EUALA LUMPUR

PENAKO

BANGOON

KATOON

FAX FRANCESCO

BHANCHAL

SINGAPORE

БОСПАЛУА

GUNGEI PATANI

TTENTAIN

TOR YO

THINGTAO

TOKOFIAMA

www.

Optroni Announts ope and la Local Curranty and Fixed Depoata received for one, Joke Of shortes, periode in Local Comping and Sterling

de term, which will be quoted on application.. Hong Kong. 6th April, 1999.

HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.

-

The Busines of the adres. Bank la conductal wska BONG KONG AND BELA VORTAJ BAXI- 140 CORPORATION. Balme may be ablained

spplication.

FOR THE TONOKÒNG AND ARANDBA SANTINO GORPORATION.

V. M. OBATBURN.

Chief Manager.

Hong Kong, 7th February, 1932.

THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD.

Established 1912.

Head Office:-Hong Kong. Authorized Osplía! (T.K. Currency)...$12,000,000 P12-Up Capital 8,065000 Bare Fund

1,100,000

BRANCHES

Below. Canton, Bhanghai, Hankow, Bangkok, New York and Ben · Francisco.

LONDON BANEEDS 1-***

The Lloyd's Bank, Limited.

CORRESPONDENTS

In all principal cítime of the World.

Foralen Exchange sad banking business of

arotz descriptick wanneled.

Bale Deposit. Bosga (1) ma simti) at a yearly

rental of the

LOOK POONG SHAN

Fi Chief Manager.

THE BANK OF CHINA. 行銀國中,

Reorganised October 26, 1928, under

special charter of The National Gov- ernment as an

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGĘ

BANK.

Subscribed Capit

Paid-Up Capital

$26,000,000.00 .$24,710,200.00

$ 8,820,503.82

Reserve: Funds

HEAD OFFICE; 'SHANGHAL

HONG KONG BRANCH: 4. Queen's Road Central

Owing to our numerous branches in China and large connections in the im portant, commercial centres of the world, we are able to extend to parf clienta special facilities for domestic

- and foreign banking and exchanges.

We also, handle the issue of Bonds

KOJE

KUALA LUMPUR

PERU

PHILIPPINE

THE CHINA MAIL.

MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1932.

Commerce and Economic Conditions

Finance

Playing Cards In The English Story

100 Years Of Existence Of De La Rue

The Arm

In Canada

An Upward Movement

Although still awaiting beneficial showed an increase in net earnings results from the Imperial Economic and 64 an improvement in liquid Conference, all the Canadian bust-capital.

ness, indices show a slightly up- Although wet weather has retard. ward movement. The Indices for ed seeding in some parts of Western the physical volume of production Canada crop prospects are reported in nearly all the main industries, as brighter than for many years. import and export figures, mining activities, the stabilisation of prices for most basic commodities and the index for the physical volume of

LONDON SILVER PRICES.

London, June 25. ' Closing silver prices in London

June 24. June 25. Spot 16% 16 Forward 18-11/16 16-11/16 The London-on New York cross

Thomas De La Rue packs bearing the name De La Rue general business all show an im- Find Co., Lt have reached the retains the old design, which in-rovement compared with the low to-day were:

points touched In February. one hundredth anniversary of the lades the Imperial crown and the

The following factors are indica-i grant of their Royal Warrant of words "Duty Paid." The Goodall

a alight in- Appointment for the manufacture Ace of Spades, on the other hand, tive of the situation:

crease in carloadings; considerably of playing-cards. The occasion is follows a design drawn by "Dicky" interesting or as makers of play- Doyle, which includes from 19 to better prospects for the coming rate was quoted 31-68.61%. SETTLEMENTS ing-cards a printers of monetary 21 aces. The honours cards print- Brain harvest in the Prairie Pro-

resistance vince, continued have had ed by the firm under either name pivotal Canadian firm document the numerous contactions with the his- depict in conventional form co-mining stocks to the influence of the shorter periods at rates which will be Commercial and Travellers' Letters tory and social life of more than tumes of the Tudor period.

Canton Central Bank notes were quoted on application.

of Credits, Travellers' Cheques, Bills a century.

King of Hearts is said to show weakness on Wall Street; a subquoted at the Chinese Exchange Exchange and Cable Transfers Current accounts bought and sold

Foreign Exchange and General

Banking business transacted.

Current Accounts opened and Fix-ITALY

od Deposits received for one year or JAPAN

J. STUART,

Hong Kong, 11th April, 1982.

Manager.

THE NATIONAL COMMERCIAL

SAVINGS BANK, LTD.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS. Cheques: Cashed in 15 minutes

while you wait. SAVINGS ACCOUNTS We offer good rates of interest. TOTAL RESOURCES $19,000,000

EFFICIENT TRUSTWORTHY-

RELIABLE-COURTEOUS.

144-150, Des Voeux Rd. C.

NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL-` MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V.

(NETHERLANDS "RADING SOCIETY),

BAJKERA

Established 1924.

Hang Kay (1, Queen's Road Central.

18LANDS PORTO RICO STRAITS

URUGUAY VENEZUELA

The

by

industrial and

CANTON EXCHANGE.

The business was founded in Henry VIII in his proper robes, and stantial increase in employment Inhere last evening at 54.1 per cent. and Savings Bank accounts opened and 1819 by Thomas De La Rue, who the Queen la a picture of Elizabeth the textile industries and the maid-while Hong Kong dollar notes in Fixed Deposits in local and foreign was born in Guernsey in 1793. He of York, the wife of Henry VIII. tenance of a liquid position by lead exchange for Kwangtung bilver currencies taken at rates that may be soon turned to the making of play. Until about 1855 the benours cards ing industrial and public utility were at a premium of $437 for each ascertained on application to the Bank.

are also able to offer our Cus-ng-cards by stencilling, the cus-bore only single figures, instead of companies, which show an aggregate the at tomers the services of the Branches tomary method of the day, and be the duplex figures now universal.

Types of Packs.

We

Manager.

net working capital of nearly 500,000,000 dollars, a decrease of only 15 per cent. In spite of the

& of the International Banking Corpora- gan to specialize also in security

tion in Spain and also of The National printing. He received his War- The familiar pack of to-day con- City Bank of New York (France), rant of Appointment as maker of lains 52 cards, not counting the exceptional difficulties of 1981. S.A., in Paris and Nice

But there are also packs made for the Imperial Economic Preparations are steadily being playing-card to the Royal Family Joker. on February 23, 1832, and at the of almost any number, from the 321

Conference, tha press generally same time he was granted Letters in the picquet pack (two of which Patent for the printing of playing- are used together in bezique) to the pointing out in editorial articles the opportunities for reciprocal trade cards by the typographic process. 68 used in Five Hundred a game within the Empire and representa- The original document conferring mostly played abroad. The tives of the Dominion Chamber of the Letters Patent, under which card pack is numbered UpCommerce touring Canada, address the first plated playing-cards in to 14, and most of the others ing public meetings and asking for England we made, till hangs in resemble the ordinary whist pack, the co-operation of all Canadian a room at 10. Bubhill-row which with certain numbers added or

Authorized Capital .1. 160,000,000 Paid-Up Capital Reserves

.1, 80,030,000 ..1. 20,015,000 |

Hen Doe-AMSTERDAM". Bastars Hand Omon:—BATAVIA.

BeadoongTM

R. M. MCLAY,

Hong Kong May 13, 1882. THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD.

HEAD OFFICE: Taipeh, Formoen.

(TAIWA GINKO.)

Incorporated by Special Imperial Charter, -1899,

Central Bank In Formon. Bank Notes aded Average amount Yon. 45,300,000 BRANCHES AND AGENCIES: JAPAN-Tokyo. Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka.

FORMOSA-biran, Ka Karenko, Kosiusz. Stakong Naato, Blachiku, Taicks, Talna,

63-

has been the firm's address since omitted. An exception is the Tarot industries to make the Conference 1834. It is a massive parchment, pack, used principally in Italy, success on the basis of mutually

beneficial agreements. beginning "William IV by the Spain and Spanish-speaking coun-

According to estimates compiled Grace of God," and sealed with the tries. In this there are as a rule.

by one Great Seal, some 5 in. in diameter. 48 cards bearing, symbols quite financial publications, the net earn- of the leading Canadian Takso, Tamaal. Toen, Helta. Tails. | CHINA?=8bonghai, Usakow,

The work of the firm as security different from those of the ordinary ings of 180 leading industrial and Amoy, Fooskow, Swalow, Canion, OTHERS-Hong Kong Singapore, Boerabaya, printers dates back to

the early pack.

public utility companies for 1931, aa Semarang, Batavia, Bombay, London, Ndays of the postage stamp. They

A great deal of information on shown in the annual repërta, York, Dalma.

printed one of the earliest issues the history and lore of playing amounted to 98,808,000 dollars com of the Old East India Company's cards is enshrined in Messrs. De pared with 171,000,000 in 1930, a The bank has Correspondante le ell, the principal Stamps.The head of the firm in La Re musuem in Bunhill-row, decline of slightly over 48 per cent.

the sixt was decorated for hi and flude some of the earliest Thirty-nine of sericest the new Italian Gover.- kodiva "examples of propagandist HONG KONG Central went to Ita 1888, ply-cards a pack en kaved with

LONDON BANKERS:

Barclays Bank, Ltd., Lloyds Bank. Lid. Midland Bank, Ltd., Westminster Bank, Ltd.

Commerolal Centres throughout the world.

K. XAQURA.

DRAMONT -

Hong Kong, December-04, 1981.

applied the country. Will Meet ugures associated with the plot of stampa and bank-notes, and Titus Oates. Perhaps the most brought Italian workpeople to Bun-recent use of cards as propaganda hill row to train them to produce is Illustrated by a pack from Soviet |these things in their own country, Russia, in which the honours cards De La Rue's also printed the stamps depict bishops, monks, and prieste of the Confederate States of Ameri- engaged in talding bribes or other

Some of these stamps respecta ca,

rau unseemly actions. * Specially in brilliancy the blockade successfully in the

LATEST INVENTION American Chemical Diamondi,

These diamonds squs to real diamonda in all

F

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The Arst English typographic

Messrs. Mustard & Co., U.S. are

of lustre, hardness, etc. Civil War, but a shipment of the the local agents for Thomas De La Breaches :—Bandjermanis,

Bombay

Can cut glass like real as. Bermuda was captured by Rue & Co. Calenila, Cheribos, Dimber, Disk diamonds.

Proof against fire, fle, Federal warship in 1862. Jakarta", The Hague", Jiddah, Kobe, Maksuar. Medan Palembang. Petstid, water, oil, etc. These diamonds longee, Penang, Bangoon, Holtardam, can be washed with soap and water Femarang, Shanghel, Singapore, Bows and can be used for more than 100 stamps were printed here about JOLES. Price per carat H.K.$7.50. 1880, and for the next 30 years the Terma Cash or C.O.D. Those who firm produced all the British post-- purchase diamonds to the value of

Sala, Gomalaria (Bolo), Tagál, Tiðakjap and Weltevreden",

Trom an téma Este Deposit Boxes 10 Lat.

LONDON-BANKERS :- NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK LAD,, Correandadenie, ali over, world, Banking Beal 'noni it "bedzy kosériplidh' transscled.

BROEKINK,

Hong Kong, 21st June, 1932,

THE

Manager.

and other Public Funds of the Chin-AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, esa" Government both at home, andį, abroad.

E.K.480 or more will get 20% dis-age stamps. To-day they print count. Send your orders direct to the stamps and bank-notes for 72 American Chemical Diamond Co., Colonies and countries and have P.O. Box No. 240, Penang, 9.8-

orders in hand at the moment for When ordering mention "China Mail" approximately 3,000,000, postage

stamps.

FOR SALE.

POSTAGE STAMP CATALOGUES FOR 1932

from

STANLEY GIBBONS

Distinguished Visitors. Many distinguished visitors, in- cluding nearly every member of

these

companies

QUALITY PRINTING

With Quick Service

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· Messrs. E. A. Pierce & Co. re- went there as a small boy with his tutor. In the year of Queen port:-Market quiet. Business Victoria's Diamond Jubilee the done: 500,000 shares. firm produced a special issue of stamps in aid of the Prince of

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SHOU J. CHEN,

Hong Kong, 5th March, 1981.

Head Office:--65, Broadway. (New York":

Part I. Part IL

Yvert & Tellier

Capital

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED,

Surplus Reserves

Established 1880,

US $8,000,000,00 US$1,882,882.04 .U.S.$1,458,118.78

BRANCHES:-

Amatoriam

Gunn

Micr KAPOO

„Ten 117,800,000

Hamburg

Berl Marria Bombay

HATTO Interiokon

Bosman Aicon . ' Liverpool

Engine

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

Head Office:-YOKOHAMA,

* Branches and Agomeles at:

· Alexandris

Hataria

Bombay

Canton

Dhirsti (Dalny)

Calcutta

Nagasaki,

NAKOYA

Newchwang

Now, York

Oaske

Fenetian (Mickden). Ely de ́s

Mashreex

Branches of American Express Come "pany "fa"Principál eltisi of Unlad Bang franciaco States of America and Canada?!

Semarang

All classes of Commercial Banking Transactions undertaken.

2. Bersonal inves

handled,

The Company ... qufers c

|Travailors" the use of ita?

Cheques” and Letters of: Grádite

In addition, : the wield-wide services

et its thoroughly, equipped Traval

$8.00 .$6.00

Scott Stamp & Coln Co. $8.00

GRACA & CO. Dealers in Postage Stamps, Garden Seeds, Philatelic Goods, etc.

No. 16, WYNDHAM STREET, PO. Box No. 60. HONG LONG

COASTWISE

“. ALGIE' · DENNETT.

An interesting book

of-Cartoons "Happenings China Coast.

PRICE $1.00.

New on sale at

LAIDLAW: SOOK STORE

Wales's Hospital Fund, and op one Air Reduction occasion King Edward VII, and Allied Chemical & Dye 46 Queen Alexandra the Prince American Can and Princess of Wales, B5 American Telegraph &

Telephone they then were-arrived with American Tobacco "B" 50% out notice and quite unescort-Auburn

ed, to see how the printing of these Borden Company stampa was going on... On another Canadian Pacific day the Prince of Wales had lun- cheon in the small dining-room Drugs, Inc.

Du Pont de Nemours Eastman Kodak General Electric:

here!

Founded in 1830,

The business of Thomas Goodall and son, founded in 1880, so, that General Foods

General Motors

the concern now represents two al-International Harvest- njeg most equally, old firms of playing

cards makera. The arms so International Tel

amalgamated make between them Tolaga three-fifths of all the playing-cards Los te Mzyza "B" 40 sold in this country, whether manu-Pacific Cat & Electric 201⁄2 factured at home or imported Fonnaylvania Railway - 8%

The distinctive lines of Goodall Radio Corporation

Sears Roebuck and Bon etill bear that names One Standard!. Olli Company..

difference which has been retained

fa in the design of the Ace of Socony-Vacuum Corp,

Spades, the most elaborats ear

any rack At one

[of Spades was printe |Honas, to ensure the

paid; and

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