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IN

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Any Local

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Wharves

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 4TH, 1924

TZL. 4630.

APPROX. YIELD

7% per unum.

HOUSES and Several BUILDING LOTS for Disposal HOUSES and FLATS

Required and for Bent

ASIATÍO BUILDING (A.P.C. dg.)

COMMERCIAL SITUATION IN STAM.

CHANGES IN IMPORT AND ·

EXPORT VALUES.

WEATHER REPORT!

July and at 18.10-Pressure has increased slightly over N. and contral Japan ata Chefog. It has decal slightly over S. Japan. Formosa, Toughing and Luzon, anul is nearly stationary

visewhere.

ups.

Lover S

The depressions over N.F. China is filling that W. China has deepened slightly. Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 19 hours, July 3m, 0 inch Total since January 1st, 53.2 inches, against an average of 10.63 incher,

In his report on the commercial situa tion in Siam as at the end of September last, Mr. T. 1. Lyle. C..G.. British Consul General, Bangkek, points out that some 80 per cent, of the foreign trade of the country passes through Bangkok. Figures showing ingorts or exports are therefore, mainly based upon those of the Customs Department, Bangkok, seeing Hongkong to Gap Rock that no trustworthy statistics are, avail)

About able for cther ports or centres. half the trade passes through Hongkong Singapore, which serve as gutripats for transhipment, a sireanstance; which ren ders it impossible in many cases to trace the foreign countries ultimately concem. ed. Broadly speaking, the goods arriving from Singapore nee European (amil speei-; ally British), white those consigned by, way of Hongkong are maiul, from China, Japan or the United States.

Theilforest for the 24 hours ending at 19 hours, July 4th is follows-

FORECAST DISTRICT Formosa Channel

Or

S. windbrate

to slight; fair.

પ્રીત.

do.

do.

1.

South coast of China between Hongkong and Lanocks South coat of China between

Hongkong and Faizan

HONGKONG PIDE - TABLE.

From July 4th to 10th, 1924

HIGH WATER

Stonte

Days of

Standard

H'Loug

Τύπος,

b. n.

Fri"

11

The basis for commercial prosperity in Sium is the production of price and the successful export of this commodity. When Mr. "Lyle was writing the previous Satar. 5m 10 3

Sad year's report, at the end of September, 1922, some doubt was 'expressed as to whether Siam's halance of trade. might Mou. not suffer by failure to find a market for the large surplus of this staple product. then known to remain unsold in the coun try, at a time when neighbouring rice-Thur 10 producing countries were themselves sini. larly well stocked. Thanks, however, to disturbances and scarcity, in China. Sian was able to dispose in full of a bounteons crup.

Taken over a period of normal years, the average ratio of exports to imports is 105;100. For the year ended March 31st, 102, the ratio works but at 112 :100, as against a ratio of 121:100 of the pre- vious year. This set-back is, in relation to the productive capacity of the country, more apparent than real, for, though ex ports at 180,058,80-1 ticals (£15,126,95) show a diminution in value as against the previous year's 101.06.030 cals

Turs.

m

Wed.

9 2 46

Height.

LOW WATER

Hong

Standard

Timk

པེ ཎ ! ཚ་ཋ་ཌ་ཌ་

ག པའི པ ཡ པ མ ཆ་

Height.

BOARD OF CONSERVANCY WORKS OF KWANGTUNG.

Wator evels in English Feet ab 10 A.M.

*1924

Place of Observation.

Fucho, W. River Kongmoon,

River Linkonghow, N. Liver

(17,170,776), the diminution arises almost River

entirely from a general reduction in the selling value of the rice exported, and not Iroin any lessening of the quantity ex- ported. In point of fact, the quantity exported at 21,079,561 piculs (1,254,785 tous)-slightly exceeds last year's record expert of 21,000,581 puls (1,250,035 tóns).

VALUE OF IMPORTS.

While exports have, in comparison with the immediately preceding year, filiên hy 14 million ticals, imports remain ac practically the identical figure of the pre- vious year, their total being 133,718,000- ticals (£13,470.697) for the year ended- March 31st, 1999, as against 133,723,000 ticals (£1,933,515). Allowing for the general diminution in world commercial prices, the present year's valuation figures represent in gost, commodities a consider able increase in the actual bulk of mer chandise imported.

Sterling comparisons are of less signi- fance, than those provided by currency values and quantities, for in the inst quarter of the official year there occurred a fall in the exchange value of the tical whereby the average value of the tial for the 12 months was reduced to 9.02 ticals equal 1, as against 9,58 tivals equals £1, at which the currency values of the pre- ceding year's report were converted.

As regards the export trade generally, rice fell by 12.1 million ticals, the fall being entirely one of values and not one of"quantities: teak fell by 1.4 million treals, both quantities and values being bere affected stickine rose by on8,000 terals (291,529); cattle and tobacco both increased, while other native exports, such as leather, dried fish,' sugar. rubies and sapphires (rough), and silk piece goods (black dyed) showed decrensed

SMALL PENSIONS. PROPOSED INCREASES.

An explanatory memorandum has been issued dealing with the cost of granting further increase of pensions, as from July Ist last, to cortain pensioners whose pen sons were increased by the Pensions (In- crease) Act, 1920. The object of the fur bill in the ther increases proposed le to raise the total increases,

especially regards the smaller pensions to amounts more nearly representing the

in the

Cast-of-living figures since 1914. The proposal is that, subject to an over- riding maximum in any service where new pensions are now increased in respect of bonus, the altered as follows inereusi should be

25

rise

(a) Where the pension existing imme diately before the passing of the Act of 1020 fúl not exceed £20 a year, from 50 per tant, to 70 per cent, ., an addition of 40 per cent, to the present increnen.

(b) Where it exceeded £65 a year but did not exceed £50 a a year, from 50-por cent. to Ca per cent,, ., an addition of 30 per cent, to the present increase.

(c) Where it exceeded £50 a year but did not exceed £100 a year, from 40 per addition of cont. to 50 per cent, if reaso 25 per cent, to the pront

will be granted

benefits

20

Correspondary Buchers by Order

to naval ural

in Council or Royal Warrant upon the

bill. proposed paseing of the

The present cost to the Exchequer under the Act 1920 is approximately £1,000,000 to £100,000 a year a year, in addition falling apan police funds, and some fur- ther expenditure from local rates of which figures are not available. It is cal culated that the cost to the Exchequer of the further increases now propowd will not exceed £300,000 a year.

-Higbeet,

W.Lever

recorded.

Lowest

W.L.ever

rocorded.

WL

July 1

Fret. Feat

Fout. Feet

+78 80} ‚—-242

+15.0+25.0

+11.7 +0.1

+16.700 +13.0+13.3

+ $7.00

+ 35.81 River- +423-5.12 (+*249, asbui, N.

+(515 DE heklung, E

River

+18+10.3 Engineer-in-Chief,

*Rising. HONGKONG SHARE MARKET CLOSING QUOTATIONS

JOLT 3RD, 1924, Hongkong and Shanghai

Banks

Canton InsurANCOS Union Insurances

3228 nominal Hoagong Fire Insurances... 557y b H.K., C. & M. Steamboats...$37 b.

Star Ferries China Sombined) Langkats

Kowloon Wharves HON Docks Whampoa

Docks

Hongkew Wharves New Engineerings.... Hongkong Lands Hongkong Hotels Humphreya Estates. Haro Latton Milla Ewo Cements

8257. L Tha. 19 b. 3195 b „159 she

Tiz. 944 1 .T. 196 b Tis. 6.10 b. ......31101b. $17 (old)

(now)

$221 (old) 5., 86) (new) 1.

China Provalenta

Bongbong Bopes 20 (old) $7 (new) nominal

$16(old) $5 (new).

$215 b. Farm ****

b

Dairy

Watsons TREZITE)

Hongkong Electrics China Lights $14) nominal 39 (ouw) b Hongkong Trams8 b. Peak TramvayS $18 b., $420 (new) b. b-buysti; 1.—sakori; sales.

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