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BANKS

HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION

Authorised

Capital ------550,000,000 Issued and Fully-Faid-up. 20,000,000| Reserve Fundaz

Starling ......$ 6,500,000

Hong Kong Currency

Reserve

Eeserve Lisbility of Pro-

HEAD OFFICE. BONG KONG.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA

- Interparated by Rayol-Blache, 2018,

Agencies and Branches:

Ipa

Bang

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON

Paid-up Capital

$10,000,000

Reserve Fond

ES,000,000 £3,000,000

0,000,000:

Esserve Liability of Pro-

prietars

$3,000,000

Alor Hote

Bangkok

Bolivia

Самока

-Manila

| Calho

New York

Facing

-book] Salagios

Zamboanga

SOLED OF DIRECTORS.

Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson,

Chair

G. Miskin, Esq.

Deputy Chairman.

J. E. Masson Esq.

A. E. Compton Eaq, T. E. Pearce Esq, Dalhe

Hoz. Mr. S. M. Dodwell,

1. A. Piumar Eaq,

Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson,

A. 1. Shields Esq. V. K. Gaybum, Esq.

MOT BANG SOK

BATAVIA

COLO DAREN

HALFBONG

KAMBU DO

KANKOW

HARKIN HUNGILT

பட

JOBORS

KURZ

KOWLOOX

BRANCHES.-

KGALA LUMPCZ

LANDON LYOKS

MALACCA

MUAK (Johor)

CAR

SEW.TORI

PELPING

PENLIG PANOOR SAIDOS

SAN FRANCISCO

SHANGHAI

SINGAPORE

BULELRAYA

SUNUKI PATANI

TIENTSIM

NXTO

TRUXUTAO

TOKOHAMA

Currena komunin opened in Lesel Carmany mod Pited Ducati pontved for one yer vr shorter. de in Level Corsary Docking on sovins

BAFE EXPONIT Box

Hong Kong, 24th February, 1938.

HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.

The Breakdown of the above Bank in youðurs. SONG XONG AND FRANGEL BASKING CORPORATION.

ahminst en application.

FOR THE BONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BAXKING CORPORATION.

V. GRAYBURN

Hong Kong, 24th February, 1936.

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.

Authorized Capital

Carina 2zoka NS ZAM,306,27

HVAD OFFICE BONG KONG.

10, De Four Bewd, Conten).

BOLED OF DIRECTORS 20 Hon. Sir Shoti-son Chow, Chairman,

Li Koos Chun, Eat P. L. Kook · Eng. Wong Tun Tong, E- Chiên Ching Ebok. Egy Li Zma

Lg Wong Cho Son. Zap and in. Y

10.

Xua Tang Po. Eng., Chint Manager fo

Tong. Req. Mangat.

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-

Hanila

طبيق

Lady

Batavia

Malbour

Bombay Calenda

New York

Settin Semarang

Singapor Sourabay

Baiphong

Pane

Hawkow tocolul

Taiping

PADARE

Bangoon

Kowlane

Loado

Hang Long

Changhai

Kaula Lumpur Singapore Smoking

Pareiga Buchungs and General Banking business Aceste opened and Fised - Dupcaisa {PRONG 202 me year or aborsie periodo di China,

wheck wus be guosad on appliquent...

The Bank's Hand Utos in London nodurtakas Immer and Tranter business, not claims mory of British Inc. Tax everpais, os terme which may be mearíaimed at pag of im Agocios and Devonkus.

A BREARLEY,

Manager. Hong Kong, lat january, 1985, 0)

THE CHINA & SOUTH SEA BANK,

LIMITED

(Incorporated in Cmna) Head Office-Shanghai

+$7,500,000.00 Capital Reserve

.$1,500,000.00 Branches-All Important Cities in

Fargo Exchange and Gecerni Barking Busines frameseted.

China

Cuaca and Sering kestole opened and Zized: Depronita zmeníend loc una p902 de chache painte jet mies which will be quoted_on_upyžiantiem.

NOU A CHF 23.

HONG KONG BRANCH: 36, Des For Road, CastenĂ. Manager's Ofna samanta Foreign Exchange Dept. wenn man GENE OGOS

Center's Or

THE WING ON BANK, LTD.

.

Head Office: Hong Kong

26, Des Voeux Road Central Authorised Capital $10,000,000

.

LONDON BANKERS:— Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and every dea cription of banking business transact- jed.

Current Accounts and Savings Ac- Fixed Deposits re- counts opened. ceived at rates which will be quoted on application.

Trusteeship & Executorship under- taken Safe Deposit Boxes for hire.

PHILIP GOCKCHIN, Chief Manager.

THE

THE CHINA: MARS

«BER:12:"1936°

Commerce and Finance

LOCAL SHARE MARKET

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS

The following was the list of local share quotations issued to- İday.

Banks

HE. Bank $1.675 b. HK (Lon. Reg.) #1061⁄2 n. Chartered Bank 15% 1. Mercantile Bank A and

$324 D

Mercantile Bank C. 94% 2 Bank of East Axia $83 n..

Insurances

Canton Ins $265 1. Union Ins. $600 n.

Ching Underwriters $1 1. FK. Fire Inx. $255 n..

B

THE TIN QUOTÀ INCREASED

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

E

PUBLIC AUCTION

PARTICULARS AND CONDI

TIONS of the Sale by Public

SURPRISE MOVE BY Auction to be beld. on MONDAY,

COMMITTEE.

the 16th day of November, 1936, lat 3 pm, at the Office of the Pu- blic Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Goremor of METAL BROKERS AMAZED

Jane Lot of Crown Land at Kow) London, To-day. loon Tsai in the Colony of Hongj The tin quota for Malaya, the Kong for a term of 75 years, com- mencing from 1st July, 1898, with' Netherlands East Indies and Nigeria has been increased to the option of renewal at a Crown ¡105 per cent. of the standard Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor tonnages for the last quarter of of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 24 years less the 1996. Some 90 per cent. of the last three days thereof. increased quota may be attri-

Intending bidders are advised buted to the international quota that immediately after the dis and the remainder to the arposal of the lot the purchaser will rears already surrendered by be required to deposit with Bolivia, which in the last quar authorised officer who will be pre-

·EMPRESSI

CANADIAN PACIFIC

OFFERS YOU

2 WAYS

HONG KONG

TO

PACIFIC COAST

1 DAYS HONG KONG TỪ TANGOUVER

via the Direct Express Route

18 DAYS HONG KONG TO VANCOUVER

via Honolulu, "the Paradise of the Pacific”

International Assce. Sh. $3% nter will export 90 per cent of sent at the sale, the sum of two DAYS HONG KONG TO UNTIED KINGDOM (via direct connection)

Shipping

Douglases. $30 z. HK. Steamboats $6% n Indo-Chinas (Pref.) $35 1. Indo-Chinas (Def) $36 Shells (Bearer) 120/- n. Union Waterbosts $10% 0.

Docks, etc.

HK. and K. Wharves $110 sa. HK and W. Docks $14 n. Providents (Old) $2.10 1. Providents (New) 20 cts. n. New Engineering Sh.$4 a. Shanghai Docks Sh.4811⁄2 ne

Mining

Kailan Mining Ad. 13/6 n. - Raubs $12 b.

Venz: Goldfield $61⁄2 b.

Lands, Hotels, etc. HK and S. Rotels $6.30 n. HK. Lands $39 3.

H.K. 4% Debentures 105% n. Shanghai Lands Sh. $13 m. Metropolitan Lands Sh.$10 2. Humphreys $9 n.

HK Realties $51⁄2 n. Chinese Estates $78 n. China Realties Sh.$4 n. China Debentures Sh$60 1.

"PHILIPPINE MINING

Closing Rates -10 3.73

in Pesos

Franciace

Every desciption of Banking and Exchange Zuze vracasted. Los granted, as approved

Carrees Locate opmel in Zom! Currency | and Fixed Deposita received_fur one Ja shorter periode is Lovst and Forsign Cursocia pet wink will be quoted on applessiou

Set Deposit Bones to th

TONG TO.

AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY,

INC.

Antamoks Atoks

Interporated with Limited Liabilay in Us Big Wedge

Head Office-65, Broadway,

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK LIMITED

Established 1830

Capital (full paid-up) Yen 100,000,000 Reserve Fund

Capital Surplus

Reserves

Amsterdam Auvay

Athena

Berlin Bombay.

Yen 130,900,000

Bead Office: YOKOHAMA Branches and Agencies st

Calotzita

Colombe

Druskin Edinburgh Forme

Ge

Alexandria

Bangkok

Batavia

Nagoya New York Ossica

Berlia

Bombay

Calcutta

Canton

Dairen (Dairy}

Kon Nagasaki

Paris

Fengtien (Maiden) Rio de Janeiro

Hamberg Hankow

Harbin

Hot Bong

Honolulu

Elanicing Karachi

Kobe

London

Peiping Easgoon

San Francisco, Seattle Semarang

Sourabaya Sydney Tentsin Tokyo Tsingtan Yongkow Interest, allowed for Current Ac-

Los Angeles Mamil

Deposits received for fixed periods at rates to be obtained on applica tion

G. KISHINAMI,

Manager

Hong Kong, 11th Sopimber, 1986.

THE

SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS BANK LIMITED. (Incorporated in China)

Capital geld up

Benecres

Capital

Savings Dept. $300,000,

Estes

the international quota plus hundred dollars, $200.00 in cash. their share in the Bolivian This sam will be refunded on pay- under-exports.

Kanjoon

No, of Hate

Rogśalvy No.

Localiis,

Boundary

potente la

Akugal Rantal

ment of the purchase, price. A look of blank amazement ap- peared on the faces of metal- PARTICULARS OF THE “LOT brokers when the announcement was made public. The session had opened with tin easy, owing to the baliday in the United States and the consequent lack of orders; so that the market appeared to be ripe for the inevitable reaction when the quota bombshell was de- Evered. Theoretically the increase releases an extra 5,300 tons in the current quarter from Malaya. Ni-i geria and the Netherlands East] | Indies, but some quarters express; doubts regarding their ability to produce this full extra amount. It is generally assumed that the jextra quota accorded to Bolivia will be ignored, since her ability (to produce it is most doubtful

Many circles are inclined" to suspect that United States pres-i sure has been brought to bear on

PAR

· per ania plani 20,000 m

PUBLIC AUCTION.

■ARTICULARS AND CONDI- TIONS of the Sale by Public cans felt that the 40 per cent. rise Auction to be held on MONDAY, in price within the last three the 16th day of November, 1936, months called for drastic action at 3 pm, at the Office of the Pu- by the committee, whose task it blic Works Department, by Order is to maintain the stability of the of His Excellency the Governor of inetaL-Reuter.

one Lot of Crown Land at Island Road, Pokfulam in the Colony, of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years,

LAID FOR BRITISH with the option of renewal at a

in Pesos Curency

.40

P. 3.70

J

51

Baguio Gold

29

Benguet Consol

13%

Benguet Explor

.17

Consolidated Mines

03

Demonstrations

40

New York

Ipo Gold

-24

LX L

1.65

_U_S_$6,000,000.00 Itogons

2240 76438

1.70

Mashate Consol 897,612.65 Northern Mining

.47

Paracale Gumans

BRANCHES.

San Mauricio

245

Suyoc Consol

Mostl Milan

Sales Pizzakas Pazia

United Paracales

51 1.50

Genos

The Engin

Hamburg Katre 16Mbarg Juteriakan

Indon Liverpool Luccio Lagabo

Konte Carlo Nauka Manish

Bome

shanghai Southampton

Singapore Tintin JEDDA

Yakobama Zurich

Branches of American· Exxpress Company in Principal cities of United States of America and Canada.

All classes of Commercial Banking Transactions undertaken.

led.

Personal investment accounts hand-)

The Company offers to intending Travellers the use of its “Travellers Cheques and Letters of Credit and, in addition, the world-wide services of its thoroughly equipped Travel Department

C. EL BENSON,

General Manager.

LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY

Silver Prices Up

The local dollar is steady, opening on demand this morning: at 1/2 ...

"Spot" silver rose 9/16 to 22-7/16, while forward" also rose

Eeserts Savings Dept. $800,000.9/16 to 22-7/16.10.

Lead-Office-Shanghai

A Bank having saita zužusion

the industrial development on Chies and the fostering af ber commercial relations abroad

Hong Kong Ollo

4, Queen's Rand Central':

Promos 21116

The London on New York cross- zate was quoted at US$4.88,

as compared with £ US$4374, while the New York on London

Pablic Utilities HK Tramways $12.30 n. Peak Trams (old) $61⁄2 n. Peak Trams (new) $2% D Star Ferries $93. Yaumati Ferries $25 s. C. Lights (Old) $141⁄4 n. C Lights (New) $10% n HK Electrics $5331⁄2 m. Macao Electrics $20 n. Sandakan Lights $8.30 n. - Telephones (Old) $29 n. Telephones (New) $10.65 China Buses Sh.$114 n. Singapore Tractions 27/- n. Singapore Pref. 27/- n.

Industrials Cald., Macg. (Ord) Sh$191⁄2 Cald., Macg (Pref.) Sh$15

Canton Ices $2.20 n. Cements $11.60 n. FK Ropes $3.90 n.

Stores, etc. Dairy Farms $22 z. Watsons $4.85 m. Lane, Crawfords $6 m. Sinceres $3. n

Wing On (HK) $50 ̊n.

Cotton Milis

SHIPPING

ANOTHER PLEA TO THE GOVERNMENT

•

Crown Bent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.

Intending bidders are advise that immediately after the dis- posal of the lot the purchaser will be required to deposit with 20 The serious position of British authorised officer who will be pre- shipping as a result of foreign sent at the sale, the sum of two subsidised competition was raised hundred dollars, $200.00 in cash. in the House of Lords yesterday This sum will be refunded on pay-

London, To-day.

by Lord Lloyd, who appealed to ment of the purchase price. the Government to assist Pacific] PARTICULARS OF THE LOT shipping and also shipping in In-

dfan and Far Eastern waters. He said that the Bombay Japan traf- fie not many years ago was

Itirely British and was now 80 per

(cent. Japanese.

Lord Essenden, the shipowner, asserted that if nothing was done the line between Canada, Austra- bia and New Zealand was likely to go. He said that the Japanese companies were receiving subsi- dies which enabled them to deal with four times the amount of their own trade.

Lord Templemore, for the Gov

_No. of Sale.

Registry Ko

Toexity.

Boundary

Mosatzenmesta

L

Aquare feet,

htt

about $$

A

persalepian. 25,000-

ernment, stated that the report of EEYORE'S the Imperial Shipping Committee.!

just received, was being sent to WEEKLY MISCELLANY

the Governments of the Domin- ions as well as the British Gov- Dernment's views, in the hope that

Zoong Sings Sh. $16 n. Wing On Textiles Sh$25 TL-

Miscellaneous Entertainments $2′′n.294 Constructions (Old) $1% n. Constructions (New) 421⁄2 cts.

(Continued from Page 6)

agreement would be reached on The Newer English

its recommendations--Reuter.

RAW RUBBER

A

LONDON paper quotes some excellent examples of the new (language being coined in America

in connection with television!': The

Latest Quotations From New York Times says that “Presi-

Singapore

Spot

Jan/Mar Apr./June Dec.

30% 30% 30

Market:Uncertain

dent Roosevelt and Governor, Lan- don were telecast over the New Messrs. H. B. Joseph and Co-describes a film made or used for York area,” while telefilm" now have received the following broadcasting. It is also a verb, Ewo Cottons 3h 10.70 n. Shanghai Cottona (old) Sh.76 n. quotations from Singapore in Shanghai Cotton (New) Sh$43 Straits Currency for Law Rubber:so that faces are "telefilmed."

The paper also refers to the Buyers

29 Up picturesque phrase "ironing the dbugs out of the transmitter," fwhich, it surmises, must mean the elimination of black and white "spots on the screen. I must say I like that. It is terse, vivid and **[Continued from Next Colum) to the point, as all the best slang should be Consider that really Iwonderful word "blurb,” which, if any slang expression deserves the eris-hemour, should be "taken pazzma- ently into the language. It ex- presses all the wush, sinals and nal(gush which publishers" notices on re-book-jackets always contains It is

Farwhale of a'rword."-

Continued

Vibro Piling $5.30 sa... Ch. Govt 5% 1925 G‡Bds.

This Week's Gem

“Hankow, Nov. EK: Govt 4% Loan 8% premtence here. of a charity

which more than HK Govt 34% Loan 9% prem. windows, “are

Wallace Har

cent

The

-foot-of preceding Cal.

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