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EDINBURGH

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH,

"D. C. L."

MALT EXTRACT

COD

LIVER OIL

Is made from the finest selected Barley and malt- ed with the greatest care on the Company's own premises by the most.

of scientific methods manufacture.

THE DISTILLERS COMPANY, LTD.

EDINBURGH..

LOST TRADE CAN BE REGAINED.

SELL THE FOREIGNER WHAT

"HE WANTS.

[BY BIR WOODMAN BUBBLDGE, BART.), Great Britain is joning annually no less than about £30,000,000 worth of orders from South America owing to the antiquated and inefficient business methods in vogue among most British firms which aspire to trade with that continent.

This startling revelation suggests the further inquiry: What is the aggre gate of this yearly loss?. If this is hap-

HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE. CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

Nova 131, 1925. Hongtong Bask

$1,115. Do

Loaden.........£150.com. Chartered Bank.................. nom. Mercantile Bank, A. & R... nom.

Do,

Q...... £13 дом. P.&O. Bant. East Azia Canton Insurance Chias Underwriters..... North China Insurance......

Insurance ..

Bank

Fire Insurance

£9) nom

$50 Bom..

3630 nota.

禁止nam.

11. 140 nom.

„135 anion $95 buy..

60 nom.

$40 Rom.

pening in one country or one continent, Fire Insuranco.. ..$500 nom. what must be Great Britain's total loss in the markets of the world? If South H... U. & M. Steamboat... now,

Hoogkong Tugs.. America is an indication, we may take Indo-China (Prof.)... $53 m. it that at least £200,000,000 a year is de- Da (Del), London...$70 nom. liberately thrown away by the British

Do.

Hongkong$70 cum. manufacturer and trader because of hir Shell

89% buy- Trasports inattention to the essential requirements | Btar Ferries,

Waterboats....

of modern business.

or

PRIOR-Per 1 lb. Jär...$1.00

aba Per 2 lb. Jar...$1.80

AGENTS:

GANDE, PRICH & CO., LTD.

SOLE

TEL. CENTRAL No. 135.

ST. GEORGE'A BULDINGS, ICE BODSI STREET.

G-DRY GLEAM-2 GLOTHES fay US

You will always" be smart and well-dressed if

you avail yourself of

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UP-TO-DATE

DYEING AND

DRY-CLEANING PLANT IN THE COLONY,

하

delicate . The most

fabrics renovated with all the original bright- Bess of colour revived.

STEAM LAUNDRY CO.

HEAD OFFICE & WORKS: YAUMATI Tel. K. 31. HONGKONG DEPOT 16, Stanley street, Tel. C. 1277, KOWLOON HOTEL DEPOT.

PEAK HOTEL DEPOT.

KOWLOON DEPOT: 19, Canton Road. | HONGKONG HOTEL : (Visitors only),

The Original Mackay

CLDEST

TRADE

60-YEARS AGO The Firm of Mackay

were the first to introduce

LIQUEUR

WHISKY

Ita access has led to the existence of many inferior Brands offered under similar titla MACKAY'S THE ORIGINAL LIQUEUR WHISKY combines in rare age and obcion Bouquet the perfection of Highland Whary, AE÷Al Mui Tonic Station and leaves no araving. Used in the leading clube through,. out the world, Corte no more than ordinary whinky, Obtainable from all the Leading Stores in the Colony, WHOLIBALZ ÅGET-BRADLEY & Co, Ltd..

KEPLER-

Cod Liver Oil with Malt Extract

za 4565

ENABLES a mother to nurse her baby

in the natural way. Taken for several months before the birth it ensures an adequate supply of rich milk and helps the mother maintain 17th under the strain her strength which nursing throws on the system.

hottien af to SEE *HAZELINE SNOW”

(Trade Mark)

Keeps the skin cool and fresh.

At all Chamline jak Saište

BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO. LONDON AND SHANGHAS.

All Rights Rasviss

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buy.

950 num. $37 num.

343 nom.

$à nom.

"

48/. nom.

TL. 181 buy, & sa

Tha. 18 buy.

Tis. 5 nom.

Ths. S nom.

8/ DOW

$140 0.

What is the remedy First before Oriental Navigations we can expect to ace foreign trade revive Chins sugars. we must get rid of that all too persad. Malabon sugars.... ing feeling that it is "too much troubla Benguets......

"not worth it to change an, eld Kailan Mining As.

Lang kals (combined) method to please a foreign customer.

(single) CAPITAL OUTLAY NEEDED

Shanghai Explorations. The necessary changes may at first in. Shanghai Loans

Baubi volve the expenditure of a certain amount of capital, bat this will be far Ural Caspians.

Tronoh Mines outweighed by

the increase in the HK. Whals.. volume of orders, and therefore the H&W. Docks profits, that will result from the increas

Hongko ed efficiency and selling power brought New Engineerings. about by the improvements.

Shangbai Do Amusementa HK. & S. Hotela (old) Hongkong Lands

buy,, 63's. Hongkong Realtys (c.p.)$5.nom. B.K. Teritorials (f.p.)....$6 sel. Humphreys E-tates... Prin Prince's Building.. Rural Lands

It may be taken sa a general axiom that the post-war decrease in the volume of British trade with South America and elsewhere is mainly due to two causes one economic and 'one-racial.

To the racial cause, or rather, the dogmatic insularism of the average British trader may be ascribed the majo: portion of the loss. He seems unable to visualise the prevailing conditions and tastes of any country other than his

DWD.

He sends but his representatives bound hand and foot at every turn by arbitrary restrictions imposed by the home firm.

Dok

wo Cottons Orientals. Shanghai Cottons (all) Canton Ices...... Cementa (combined)

Do

SUSA bay. Tis, 170 nom. Tls. 71 bay. 165, 1141 buy..

$10 buy.

$16 nom.

$150 nom.

sel.

9 bay, & sa. 3 bay.

(new). T. 27 Lay.

Do. (old).... Do.

(now).

974 rel

Stö sel.

$13. nom.

$3 zom

TL. 104 bay.

They are not allowed to sell goods except Chirs Buses...... according to the manufacturer's speci. China Lights (combined)....322 sei. fication. They are not allowed to depart

from the pre-imposed restrictions that

Do. (cld) $15 nom.

Do.

(new)... 913 num.

hom.

not only hamper but positively stifle China Providents (comb)$4 active trade.

Do. (old) $ sel

Do.

The economic factor has also to be taken into consideration, Without enter- Constructions ing into controversy, it may safely be Dairy Farms.... said that the South American buyer will Des A Wing (Ep)......

Do. (p.p.) buy British goods-it he can; but in-

Hongkong Electrius evitably he comes up against the que Macho

$9.10 nom.

3

SIPH sel. $10 num.

$56 vel. $40 20.

n

..30 pt. bay.

tion of price. The difficulty of course, H. St yo

is the unduly high production costs of British wares.

IRRITATING BUYERS.

From another point of view, too, the Briten is at A disadvantage compared with other countries. He pays far too little attention to the advertising. side of his business.

It is useless to pretend that the 'me tality of the English and South Ambe ricans are the same; and therefore follows that the advertisement which has been so successful in England will Hot necessarily be useful in another country. It could almost be laid down as a general- rule that catalogues and advertisements should only be drawn up by a person itimately acquainted with the country and its people.

Then, again, there is the really appal ling laxity which is daily "shown in the appointment of men to represent British firms in foreign countries. In many cases they have to knowledge of the conditions, and too often they cannot speak the language, speak it so badly that they cannot be readily understood. And nothing irritates a potential buyer so much as long-winded discussions in which the buyer and seller are at sixes and severis.

Ropes Do. (od) Do. {u e

Hongkong Tramways. Land rawfords...... Mackintosh...... Pesk

Taxis

Тралы (010).......

(new) (c.p.)....

Cried Asbest_s. Watsons (cd).....

Do. (new) William Powelle

buybuyers;

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$15) nom.

$81 nom,

www.sal.

- пот. 8 nom. ..$15.10 buy.

I.um.

$20 nom. Sid meli

...$15 HA.

SID EC.

ellers; sa—maica ;

WALLS OF LONDON. FINDS IN PRIORY OF THE BLACK FRIARS.

The remains of the 13th century

dominican priory of the Black Friars, which have been unearthed by workmen who are excavating in the rectangle of ground surrounded by Churchentry, Car- tor Lane, Friar Street, and Ireland- yard; between Queen Victoria Strees and Ludgate Hill, E.C., are to be reassem- bled in the garden of St. Dominic's Priory at Hampstead, N.W.

We can regain our lost. foreign trade, but only by strict attention to details such as these. We should try to sell The Rev. Dunstan Sargent, of St. the foreigner what he wants, not what we Dominic's Priory, has been on the site of have on hand to sell. How often has it the old priory keeping a teen, watch for happened that

the buyer wante our any further portions of the original goods, but wants some slight alteration stonework which might come to light. mado in the method of packing or mann-beneath the picks of the workmen. facture-and we have not had foresight A cartload of fragments of pillars enough to accede to his wishes? And which once stood in the church of the one more customer and one more ancient priory, and other stones, has market has been lost to DS

already been removed from the site to Hampstead.....

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THE ENGLAND OF ASIA."

BISHOP OF TOKYO ON MODERN

JAPAN.

Father Sargeant pointed out tó á Daily Mail reporter portions of pillas which are at the moment deeply embed- dod in rubble and flanked by large dark- coloured stones which archeologists state The Bishop of Tokyo, preaching at Canoriginally belonged to the old Wall of terbury Cathedral, paid a warm tributo to the work that England had done for Japan, bath throughout modern times and, more particularly in connection with the recent earthquake at Tokyo.

London,

ROMAN TILES.

In addition to the remains, the ex cavators have also found a considerable number of Bomian red tiles, and Tudor bricks, the blood-red colour of which is almost as bright as when the bricks were made....

Referring to the growth of modern Japan, be said they had tried to get the best that the West possessed, but they had been in such a hurry that they seem-

Father Sargent id: There is no ed to be getting tares as well as wheat doubt that, having found the Roman In spite, however, et many mistaken, they tiles when they were making the founda were satisfied with the results that they tions of their priory in 1,278, the Black had obtained in the last half-century Friars decided to use them. There is What they had tried to get and what they believed to a large extent they had plain evidence, too, that theyded for secured, was Anglo-Saxon civilisation, their foundations rubble which the They were to day called the England of Romans brought to this country se Asia. This might be because they were ballast in their ships. both island countries of about the same... A good deal of it has been unearthed size, and that they had strong monarch on the site here, and it is so hird that ical government, but more than that, even the pick-axos make very little im- was because they had a similar type of pression on it.

government, only different in degree, not. It is very different rubble from that in kind. For all this he felt he ought to used in the piers of St. Paul's If Wren thank them in England in the name of, had used material like it there would Japan.

Bob have been nothing wrong with St. Paul's Referring to Christian progress in to-day. Japan, he said that the 900,000 Christians in that country included Roman Catholics, Russian Orthodox, and all the Protestant members. In the Anglican communion; Japan had, about 20,000 baptised mem- bers. They had to day 180 Japanese recovered there are clearly to be seen priests and 58 descona. They had their the marks made by the chisels of the own translation of the Bible and their Briers who shaped them nearly 100 youra Prayer-book and hymnal.

ago.

He added that the Tudor bricks were apparently the remains of buildings erected on the ruins of the old priory,

On soms of the stones which have been

1925

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Best Portland Cement.

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GENERAL MANAGERS,

HONGKONG.

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE COMPANY, LTD.

Advances made on Landed Property, Goods, etc

Trustees of Estates, Executors of Wills, etc.

Warehousing of Goods of all Description.

For Terms and Particulara

Apply at the Head-Office...

"St. George's Building.

Telephone: C. 781.

Telegraphic Address : “RELYAT."

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THE HONGKONG TUG & LIGHTER Co., Ltd.

Single packages and small consignments received

and delivered by Motor Lighter.

Motor Boat and Launches available for Conveying

Passengers and Baggage to and from Steam- ers in Harbour.

Stevedorage and Lighterage Work undertaken. Tugs and Lighters available at all hours.

For terms and particulars apply at

HEAD OFFICE-St, GEORGE'S BUILDING.

Head Office Central 781.

TELIER MES : `

Uhinese Branch Office-Central 4885.

Night, Bunday or Holiday King up Kowloon 622.

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(Property Owners, Estate Agents,

Land Valuers, etc.)

WILL UNDERTAKE THE

Development and Improvement of Landed Property and attend to all Branches of Real Estate Business

TELEPHONE C. 781.

For terms and particulars

Apply at the Head Office,

St. George's " Building.

Telegraphic Address: "ESTATES.”

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Tel C. 7811

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