1939-11-10 — Page 20

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AT THE END OF DECEMBER

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Agents

Hong Kong, China & Japan.

Tel. 30332

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Sailings

1940

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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 10, 1939

LOCAL SHARES

Following is the list of changes and enquiries in local share quotations to- day:

BANKS

Hong Kong Bank $1340 b., $1350 s.,

$1345/50 sa.

Bank of East Asia $71 b.

INSURANCES

Canton Ins. $205 b.

Union Ins. $397% b., $400 sa. } SHIPPING

Douglases $70 b. DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWN8, ETC.

H.K. Docks $18 Providents $4.05 b.

b.

LANDS, HOTELS & BLDGS. H.K. Lands $323⁄4 b. H.K. Realties $4.30 b.

PUBLIC UTILITIES H.K. Tramways $15.95 b. Yaumati Ferries $221⁄2 b. China Lights (Old) $7.60 b. H.K. Electrics $491⁄2 b. Telephones (Old) $201⁄2 b.

INDUSTRIALS

Cements $154 s.

STORES, &C.

Dairy Farms (Old) $20 s. Watsons $7.95 sa.

MISCELLANEOUS

Entertainments $6 b.

H.K. Govt. 3% Loan 97 s. Marsmans Inv. (Lon.) s/- 15/- b.

MANILA SHARES Antamoks Ps. .15 sa, Atoks Ps. .19 sa. Baguio Gold Ps. .16% sa. Batong Buhay Ps. .013 sa. Benguet Consol. Ps. 10.80 b. Big Wedge Ps. .23 sa. Coco Grove Ps. 19 sa. Consol. Mines Ps. .003 b. Demonstrations Ps. .072 b. I.X.L. Ps. 39 sa. Ipo Gold Ps. .15 sa. Itogons Ps. .24 sa. Masbates. Ps. .091⁄2 sa. Mine Operation Ps. .09% sa. North Camarines Ps. .15 sa. Paracale Gumaus Ps. .171⁄2 b. San Mauricio Ps. .75 sa. Surigao Consol. Ps. .161⁄2 b. Suyoc Consol. Ps. .13% sa. Syndicate Inv. Ps. .02 b. United Paracales Ps. .31 sa.

LOCAL DOLLAR

The demand rate on the Hong Kong dollar to-day was 1/2-7/8.

B. B. C'S WARTIME QUARTERS

London, Oct. 12.

In its wartime quarters, far away from London, the B.B.C. is gradually settling down to normal routine. Pro- grammes may be expected to improve correspondingly.

The 75-members of the symphony orchestra rehearse and broadcast daily in a room over a local store. On the roof,

have established soldiers machine-gun post.

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Sir Adrian Boult, music director of the B.B.C., told me to-day that more soloists, and the first wartime guest conductors, will be taking part in B.B.C. concerts from this week on- wards. Sir Henry Wood, Sir Hamilton Harty, Mr. Warwick Braithwaite and Mr. Julian Clifford have been invited to conduct.

The players in the B.B.C. orchestra are billeted on local householders and seem to have caused a great revival of amateur musicianship. In certain streets at night the sound of every kind of known instrument may be heard coming from various houses.

NO GERMAN MUSIC BAN Sir Adrian said that there would be no ban on German music except in so far as it would be necessary to restrict payment of copyright fees to living German composers.

The B.B.C. has taken over six pri- vate houses to provide office accom- modation for the evacuated staff. Three hundred office workers and aritsts were transported to this centre and are living here for the duration of the war.

In one of the strangest studios the B.B.C. has ever had, I watched Mins Gracle Fields broadcast last night. Microphones were slung overhead on festoons of wire and the stained- glass windows, frame in Gothic arches, were blacked out with cardbroad.

VANISHING ACT BY R.A.F.

At nine a.m. an R.A.F squadron arrives "somewhere in France » At five p.m., it has disappeared behind camouflage.

Every officer and man has been bil- leted, lorries, searchlight, ground equipment, repair vans, petrol and everything else. have been,, hidden away

The French have been greatly im- pressed by the wonderful ground or- ganisation and the really uncanny.me Spot silver was quoted at 23-1/2 thods of camouflage capable of de and forward at 23-5/16.

The London on New York rate was quoted at

ceiving an observer not more than a cross hundred feet away. £----U.S.$4.02 and New York on London £-U.S.$391.

An observer being shown the effects at of this camouflage was taken to a vast

expanse of ploughed land.

Nowhere in sight was a runway or a road and yet 'planes suddenly ap- peared from nowhere and petrol lor- ries loomed up in the distance, run- ning smoothly over invisible roads.

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The ploughed field was an up-to- date aerodrome and its runways, constructed from portable sections of steel, were splendid places for taking off

Such steel runways and roads can be laid down anywhere and built large or as small as necessity requires,

Outdoor Health for the Indoor Man.

Sunlight and fresh air are two of nature's most important aids to all- round manly fitness. How often though your work demands long hours spent Indoors with the result that your health cannot be left entirely to na- ture's care.

Internal cleanliness is essential to health, and to ensure this an occasional dose of Pinkettes is usually all that is needed. To dispel constipation, liver- ishness, biliousness, to purify the breath and prevent fury-tongue', to Increase energy and jole-de-vivre, take Pinketten, the tiny laxative pills for men and women. Obtainable t -all-chemists

PINKETTES

EEP YOU. APELL