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HONGKONG & SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION.

Authorized Capital

Issued' and 'Fully Paid-up'...$20,000,000 Reserve Funds:-

Sterling

$50,000,000

.2 0,500,000

.$10.000,008

Reserve Liability of Pro-

prietors

..$20,000,OGE

Hong Kong Currency Re-

serve

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.

Hon. Mr. J. J. PaterBON, Chairman.

W. H. Lock, Esq..

Deputy Chairmen.

A. H. Compton, Esq..

L. 4. Davids Ex..

G. Miskin, Esq..

R. 8. Morrison, Esq. Hon. Mr. T. E. Paaron,

Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell. Hon. Mr. A. L Shield, Bir Vandeleur m, Grayburp

Chief Manager.

BRANCHES —

J. E. Bousfeld, Esq.,

Ipoh

Bangkok

Jobors

Batavia Bombay Osicutía

Kobe

Kowloon

Lyons

Manila

Malacos

Bangoon

Baigun

Canton Cheloo

Dotow be iitima Poochow

Isiphons Hankow Barbin

Wolla

San Francisundi

Bhanghai

Kuala Lumpur Singapore

London

Bourabaya

Bungei Pand

$WSW

Tienta

Muar (Jokore} Tokyo

Mukden

New York

Peiping

Penang

CURRENT

Local Currency

Talogtas

Yoknkamo

ACCOUNTS opened

DEPO and FIXED SITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Local and Other Currencies

will be quoted ferma which

on

application.

00

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES of various sizes To Let.

TRUSTEE and EXECUTOR businesN undertaken.

Hong Kong, 28th February, 1941.

HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.

The Business of the above Bank te conducted by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

FOR

AND

THE HONG KONG

V. M. GRAYBURN.

Chief Manager,

DURING THE FIFTY YEARS that Miss Annie Rules may be obtained on application. Tandy has worked at a manufacturing jewellers in SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Vyre Street, the Hatton Garden of Birmingham, hundreds of thousands of wedding rings have pass-Hong Kong, 1st March, 1837. ed through her hands.

But, at the age of sixty-three, of the rings I have sold for gipsy she is still wearing her engage-weunings nave weighed just un- ment ring. Her lance died in der 202..

marry.

1913 after they had arranged to Wings On Rings

Showing me her engagement "Heart-shaped wedding rings rng, which she has recently had were once the ruge, nud to-day remodelled in modern style, she engagement rings are being inset said:

with

R.A.F. wings and Army "I first came here when I was badges. thirteen, and have worked under "Many now prefer white gold to three generations of my employ- the yellow gold. My firm remodel- engagement ring, re- colouring it to white gold and re- setting the stones for me.

ers.

I am now cashier and book-led my keeper

"I have seen all the fashions in wedding and engagement rings

"I have helped in making rings during the past fifty years. Some for royalty.

LOCAL SHARES

By Schunan

$2.60

77

James Hilton

Moore

1.60

1.80

Bank of East Asia $70 b.

SHIPPING

Undest

2.00

++

BANKS

Stuart Cloete's.. 2.00 !

Indo-China (Pref.) $80 b. DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS, ETC.

Providents $4.85 b., $5 s. LANDS, HOTELS & BLDGS. H.K. and S. Hotels $2.80 b.

PUBLIC UTILITIES

H.K. Tramways $15.60 b., $16 s. China Lights (Old) $5.70 b.,

$5.90 s.

"Me are very fussy about the'r | signet "rings. Only yesterday a man came in and asked for his ring to be recoloured in white gold to match his wife's wedding ring."

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1833,

Paid-up Capital Reserve Fund

Reserve Liability of Pro-

prietors

£3,000,000. £3,000,000.

£3,000,000,

MEAD OFFICE: LONDON: 38, Bishopagate, E.CZ But-Agencies in Londoni 117/122, Leadenhall Street, E.C.1. West End Branchi 14/16, Cockspur Street, S.W.L. Manchester Branch:

62, Mosley Street, Manchester, 2

AGENCIES AND BRANCHESL

Alor Bhar Amritsar

Bangkok Batavia Bombay

Karachi

Hankow

Pensag

Boog Long

Bangoon

Bollo

Saigon

Ipok

Beremban

Bhanghai

Calcutta

Klang

Bingapore

Agenoves:

Kobe

Bitiawan

Cave Sirens Eumia Lunipar

Bourabaya

Fairlie Place Kuching

Talping

Canton

stadres

Tientsin

Cawnpore

Manila

Tongkah

Medsa

(Bhuket)

New York

Pelping

Talogia Tokokame

INDUSTRIALS

H.K. Ropes $6.10 sa.

STORES, &c. Watsons $9 s.

Lane, Crawfords $71⁄4 s. MISCELLANEOUS

Entertainments $6 b.

LAST DAY'S SALES 118 Hotels @ $2.80

150 Macao E'ectrics @ $17 500 Ropes @ $6.10

2.70

Green Light

"

Douglas

1.80

For Whom the Bell Tolls

11

Earnest Hemingway

2.60

H.K. Electrics Rights $134 S. Macao Electrics $17 b.. $17

sa.

Inner Asian Frontiers of China

By Lattimore

2.70

Peach Path

Kuo Chin Chiu. 1.50

The Fields of Paradise

Bates

2.00

"

Lowell Thomas

1.80

•

Tabor

3.00

"

Churchill

2.20

Bigland

2.60

3.00

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The World's Great Letters

Schuster

3.40

D

Cities of Sin

Leeuw

1.20

The New Concise Pictorial Encyclopedia Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

3.40

5.00

Die Methoden Der Organischen Chemie

Pagant of Adventure

The Star-gager

All in Fun

Into China

Richard Halliburton

By Ven Dr. J. Honbens 50.00

Obtainable at—

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JOINS UP

The world's champion long-dis- tance dog-sleigh driver has left his huskies to learn to fly a long- distance bomber,

...

Leland, Abbott, who made the longest dog-sleigh trip on record when he drove his seven dogs from the Canadian Arctic to New York. 3 800 miles. In September. 1938, to attend the New York World's Fair, has joined the Royal Cana-. dian Air Force.

He has sacrificed a £10 a week touring job in the United States and sold his huskies.

"I felt I had to come back to do my bit," he said, an

THE A.B.C. SECOND-HAND BOOK CO., LTD, NO LARGE HELPINGS!

37, Queen's Road, C. (1st Floor).

"Not as an order, but as a re- quest," the Ministry of Food is asking catering associations not to 'sorve large grills or large portions

of meat, poultry or game...

Many, restaurants have already cut out grills.

George J. Hecht, president and

THE of publisher PARENTS' MAGAZINE, presen's to Frank Lloyd Col- producer-director of umbia's "The Howards of Virginia" the award given the picture as the outstand- ing family audience pro- duction of the month!

" THE HOWARDS OF VIRGINIA“ Starring Cary Grant and Martha Scott, from Eliza beth Page's sensational best-seller "The Tree ; of Liberty" was directed by Frank Lloyd, three-time Academy Award Winner, and 'director of such out- standing screen hits "Mutiny on the Bounty",

Cavalcade", "Under Two " & "It I Were King", and you will want to geć this picture opening to. morrow at the

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KING'S THEATRE!

Cebu

Colombo

Delhi

Haiphoog

Hamburg

(Baking)

FOREIGN FYCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periods to local or Other Currencies at rates which will be quoted on application.

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with in- terest allowed at rates obtatoable on application.

The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor and Truster, busk

*WEATE

and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which

at

of the Ray may be ascertained Agencies and Branches.

W. H. EVANS THOMAS,

Manager.

THE WING ON BANK, LIMITED.

Head Office: Hong Kong. 26, Des Voeux Road, Central. Authorised Capital.......... $10,000,000 LONDON BANKERS-- Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and every description of banking business transacted.

Current Accounts and Savings Accounts opened. Fixed Deposits received at rates which will be quoted on application.

Safe Deposit Boxes for hire..

PHILIP GOCKCHIN,

Chief Mandner.

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