THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 13, 1938.
REMARKABLE
BRITISH TRADE
FIGURES FOR '37
London, To-day.
COAXIAL CABLE DEVELOPMENT
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London, To-day. Speaking at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Sir George Lee, Chief Engineer to the Post Office,
BANKS
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA
BANKS
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION
Authorised Capital ·.
$50,000,000 Issued and Fully-Paid-up 20,000,000 Reserve Funds:
£ 6,500,000
Sterling
Hong Kong Currency
$10,000,000
$20,000,000
£3,000,000 Reserve £3,000,000 Reserve Liability of Proprie-
-Engorporated, by Boyal., Charter, 1858. SHEAD OFFICE: LONDON: – 38 – Bishopsgate, E. C. 2. The preliminary figures of Bri-described the development of the Paid-up Capital
coaxial cable` by which four hundred | Reserve Fund telephone conversations can be car-Reserve Liability of Proprie ried at one time on one cable. Bri-
tors tish Wireless.
tish overseas
trade in 1937 con- firm the marked growth of the value of both exports and imports which was the feature of the year - now closed.
Exports of United Kingdom goods for the twelve months were valued at
with £521,594,000, compared £440,605,000 in 1936, and imports at £1,029,065,000 compared with -£847,752,000 in the previous year.
Re-exports are put at £75,167,000 in 1937.
of
than
MR. HSU KAN IN COLONY
Mr. Hsu Kan, Vice-Minister of Finance is reported t
to have arriv-|c ed here from Hankow yesterday by air on a special mission to call on Mr. T. V. Soong, Chinese ex-Minis- ter of Finance, who is now in Hong Kong.
In respect of exports, imports and re-exports, last year was the best trade year for the past seven years:
December values also showed an Mr. Hsu is accompanied by Dr. increase over the last month
J. Heng Liu, Director of the Na 1936. British exports: at:£43,882,000
tional Health Administration. were over £3,000,000 higher a year ago and imports at £94,828, 000 showed an increase of nearly £11,000,000. Re-exports were valued lower, however, at £4,979,000
against · · £6,200,000 in 1936.—British Wireless.
Mr. Foo Yu-lin and Dr. Andrew Lee, both of the National Economic Reconstruction Council, who came to
Hong Kong about two weeks ago, flew to Chungking, Széchuen, December
Tuesday morning via C.N.AC.
STEADY RISE IN WHOLESALE PRICE
London, To-day.
The Board of Trade index. of wholesale prices for the whole year, 1937, was higher by 15.1 per cent. than in 1936, following rises of 2.8 per cent. between 1933 and 1984, of one per cent. in the following year and of 6.1 per cent. between 1935 and 1936.——British Wireless.
TERRITORIAL RECRUITING
London, Today, During December, 3032 recruits were enlisted in the... Territorial Army. This is a record for December since the war.
~Moreover, recruiting résulte 1937 are themselves a record >pared with any previous year since the War. Recruits enlisted in 1935 numbered 24,634 in 1936 36,514 and in 1937 45,820.-British Wireless.
FAT MADE HER BREATHLESS
£3,000,000
Manchester-Branch, 71, Mosley Street, Manchester. Agencies and Branches:
Alor Star Amritsar
Bangkok Batavia Bombay
lcutt
Hoile
Ipob
Karachi Klang Bobe
Kuala Lumpur
Rangoon Baigon Bamarang
11
Canton Cawnpore Cetra Colombo Delhi Hulpbong Hamburg
Hankow Hong Kong Foreign
* Harbin
transacted.
Manila
New York Feining
(Peking)
Pabang
bazı
Seram Shanghai Singapore Sitiawan Bourabaya Taiping Tientain Tongkah
(Phuket) Tsingtao Yokohama
Zamboanga
are and Ganeral Banking "busines Exchange
Currant Accounts opened and Fixed Deposite received for one year or shorter periods us rates. which will be quoted on application.
tors
·HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
G.. Miskin, Esq.,
Chairman.
Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson,
Deputy Chairman,
J.K. Bounfald, Eng A, H. Compton, Esq.,
B. H. Dodwell, Esq. J. R. Masson, Esq.,
K. 8. Morrison, Esq..
Hon. Mr. J. J. Faterson,
T. E Pearce, Esq.,
A. L. Shielda, Esq.,
~Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn,
AMOY BANGKOK
1. BATAVIA
The Bank's Head Offins in London undertakes Executor and
business, Trastes
and claima Income Tax - overpaid,,, 09/0 recovery of Beltsh
Fits terms which may be ascertained at any of Agencies and Branches.
·R.W. ROBERTS,
Manager.
Hong Kong, 1st January, 1935.
on THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
Authorised › Gapital Paid-up Capital Reserve vand
Profits
Undivided
$10,000,000.00 5,598,600.00
2776,726.76
HEAD OFFICE “HONG KONƖ
10, Dee Vaux Boad, Central.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS :-
Hon
Fir Shon-son Chow, Chairman; -Li Kaon Chun, Esq., PK-Kwok, Eaq,, Wong
Always Tired and Ailing Tong, Pa., Chan Ching Shah Reg. Lan
This woman weighed 14 stone, and} her breath was so short that she thought she had asthma. She was never really well, and always tired,A typical case of dangerous overweight. How she reduced her weight and re- gained health and vigour is told in her
letter:----
"I have been using Kruschen Salts for about three months and find that it is most satisfactory. Before I started taking it I weighed 14 stone, never felt well, was always tired and could not walk for any distance. So short was my breath that I thought I was suffer- ing from asthma. Now my weight is reduced to 12 stone 2 lbs. T feel much better in every way, and I walk a lot and never have any ill effects. (Mrs.) J.LZB.
The formula of Kruschen represents the ingredient salts of the mineral any waters of well-known European Spas which have been resorted to for genera- for tions by the over-stout. Kruschen com- com-internal organs to perform their func- bats the cause of fat by assisting the tions properly to throw off each day those waste products and poisons which, if allowed to accumulate, will be con- verted by the body's chemistry into fatty tissue.
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of
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OBBO
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FOR THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHAIT |- BANKING, CORFORATION.
V. M. GRAYBURN,-
"Chist Manager.
HongKops: Int, Murphy, 1987.
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
LIMITED
"Established 1880
Capital (fully paid-up) Yen 100,000,000 Reserve Fund.
Yen.134,400,000
Head Office: YOKOHAMA Branches and Agencies at
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Calcutta
Canton
Dairen (Dainy)
Moji Nagasaki
Nagoya
New York Osaka
Otaru
Paris
Peiping
Fengtien (Mukden) Rangoon
Hamburg
Hankow
Harbin
Hong Kong Honolulu
Head Office; Hong Kong. 26, Des Voeur Road Central. Authorised Capital $10,000,000 LONDON BANKERS:— Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange, and every das Heinking cription of banking business transacted. Karachi Current Accounts and Savings AcTM Kobe counts, opened Pized Deposits re- London ceived at rates which will be quoted on Manila application.
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Deposits received for fixed periods at rates to be obtained on applications.
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Manager. Hong Kong, 11th September, 1937.
THE
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