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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1936.
Shum Chun Hotel Ball Room
TEA DANCES
Mondays,
on
Tuesdays, Thursdays
and
Fridays
p.m to 7 p.m.
From 5
Admission:
得
H.K. $1.50.
Partners available, no extra charge.
Miss Jenny Querubin
Famous Philippino Actress
will give
Special Performances
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW ROADS
Due To Increasing
"Accidents
A DUAL CARRIAGE-
on
WAY
London. Aug. 11.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
New York: August 19.
(Kurongm Monist's Mamour"
QUOTATIONS
New York London Cross-enta New York Cotton-Oct. New York Rubber-Sep. Chicago Wheat -Sep Chicago Core Silver Official
Bop.
The Kingston bypass nine mile stretch
London-Portsmouth road, one of the first of the great be constructed on bypasses to roads out of Londer. soon after the war Is to be reconstructed. The road which cost £400,000 and took four years to bute has, since it came into use in 1927, acquired Pa bad reputation for number of accidents. The proposal is to re- construct it with a dual earringe-Am. Light & Trac. Amer. Locomotive... way separated by a central re- Amer. Radiator ***** serve. Lighting will also be im- Amer. Roling Mill... proved. The work which will be-Amer. Smelting
AMY, Sugar Redning 1754 gin on the two miles section west
Amer. Tel & Tel... 1021 of Surbition wll be put in" baad | Amer. Tobacco 'B'
immediately.
Great Increase of traffic has necesatated the rebuilding of a Atlas Corpn.
་
structions, The number has grown Borden Co.
secure uniform observance of oneway working of each of two Carriageways. →→→
The recent decision of the Gov- ernment to place trunk roads under the central authority of the Ministry of Transport will facilitate measures of modernisa- tion such as plan for Kingston bypass. The urgency of the mac- ter is emphasised by the number of new motor vehicles registered each month. The figures for June at 38.536 were more than 6,000 in excess of June. last year—" Fritish Wireless.
$6 cum. pf. 102 Case. J. I... 172 Canadian Pac. Rly. 12 Chase Nat. Bk.
Corpn. 821 Chesapeake Chesapeake & Ohio 681 1191 Chrysler Columbia Gas & E.. 23 C. G. & E 6% 'A' p. 107 Commercial Credit 730 Coml, Solvents..... Comm. & Southern
\ord.}
THE INCREASE IN Curtiss Wright 'A'...
Laat Today's High Low Close Class Change 5.016.01-13/3 1/32 GE 11.78 11.70 11.67 1177 10 up 18.30 1813 18623 1518b 07 of 110 1081 110 1093 It off 100 103
WFC
unchanged
Montgomery Ward....484
"B"
དྷཱཨྰཿཡྻཨྰཿཎྜཏྟསྶ ཙོ⪜བྷཡོūཏྟཏྟཊྛཱནྡྷནཱ ཨgཏྠ ཚ ཚོཚོaxཚོགྷོཧྲྰིཧeཏྠe#ནྟགྷཊྛི ༦ ཚ, ༤ཛོ༧
1836
Aug. 11,
Dow Jones Averages.
High
its So Industrials
90 Baile
20 Utilition
40 Bords
170.15 143.11 186.80 36.09 40.68 $5.38 138,06 28.23 36.56 103.90
11 Commodity Index 87 68
98.82 103.89 65,68 06.36
Lów Ang 10. High Low Clao, Change 189 08 187.20 167.58! .04 off
50.43 14.85 64,91 33.74 36 18 36.35 103.87 64.08
47 off 3 off
f of
.30 oft
Business Done: −1,100,000 ahazEO,
Last Sale
Last Sale
Stocks
Aug. 10. 11 131 13$ Adams Express ......
1231 Amer. Can............. Amer. 'Cyanamid 'B' 341 Am. & For: Power Am. & For. P. $7; pl
Stocks
Aug 10,
1231
à Western Sugar ... Humble Oil
857
35
Int. Harvester Co.
84
7
71
Int. Nickel
624-621-
38
341
Int. Tel & Tel
122
301 30
Kennecott
471
231
221
Loëw's Inc.
541
36
273
Lorillard
231
89
871
McKeason & Rob-
521
53
bing Inc.".
434
176)
Monsanto, Chemical
99 100
1023
26
251
Nat. City B......
45*
Amer. Waterworks...
401
391
Nat Dairy Prods.... 261
Anaconda Copper.....
87
86
Nat.. Distillers
28
Atchison, T. & S. Fe.
281
271
Nat, Power & Light 121
14
143
New York Central...
421
number of comparatively roads and dual carriageways are a growing feature of these recon-Boeing Airplane Co. 294
new Auburn
321
321
North American
341
Baltimore & Ohio... Bethlehem Steel
221
Northern Pacific
23
59%
.60
Pacific Gas & Elec.
301
291
Pacifc "Lighting
551
317
314
Packard Motor
101
so rapidly the Ministry of Trans- Bklyn port is issuing special regulations regarding their use in order
-
Manhattan Trans Corpn.
Paramount Picture
52
52
Incor
77
to Bklyn Manhattan
Pennsylvanis R. R. 371
103
D
Philips Petroleum 431
1681
Pure Oil Co............ 47
121
Pub. Service of N.J.. 188
50 *
491.
Radio Corpn.
11
831
Radio Corpo
663
1191 22 1071
$5 of Reynolds Tob. "B.... Schenley Schenley 51% pf........
100 *
561
40
981 ·
731
Sears Roebuck
847
161
161
Bocony-Vacuum
144
3
Sihrn. Cal
Edison
31
3#
31
Sthrn Pacific ....... 422
Comm. & Southern
Stand. Brands
154
(ord., $8 cum, pf.
76
-75
Stand. Gas Y Elec
71
Consolid. as of NY.
441
43
Stand Oil of NJ....
83
Consella, O11
121
121.
Sterling Prods. .......
734
Continental 01
311
311
Swift International
311
Corn. Products ......
67
661
Technicolor
28+
7
67
Taxas Gulf Bulphur, 381.
Curtiss Wright (C)
191::
191
131
WIRELESS SETS
Delaware & Hudson
461
+452
20th Cent. Fox Film
Ditulers Corpn. Sea-
Comm.
273 27
grams
224
231
20th Cent. For Flimi.
Douglas Aircraft
731
73
pt.
Du Pont de Nemours 1641 Electric Boat ......... 14"
1641
Un. Carbide & Car-
14
boa
ITS WORK IN THE POLICE FORCE
Elec. Bond & Share
242
24
Un. Pacific
Elec. Bond & Bhan
Un. Aircraft
London, Aug. 11.
$5 pl.........KAMBARYJNE Elec. Band & Share
36 pr.
742
744
Un. Airline Trans...
841
841
Un. Corpn.
(New) 267
Un. Corpn. $3 etim.
Elec. Power & Light 19
161
pt.
341
33
Un. Gas Improve-
65#
65*
ment
47
471
V. 8. Inaus Alcohol 35
39 # 39
U.S. Rubber
681
881
U. 8. Steel
441
441
Vanadium
13
13
Warner Bros. Pictr. 12
211
221
Westinghouse
23
231
Call Moles
421
curiosity among the buying public
this year to see the television sets
Last Sale
which the wireless trade is likely
Stocks
14
Aag 4 11
Stocks
to be showing in anticipation of Am. Steel Foundries 35 the opening of the television ser- Am Waterworks - 38′′ vice. The widespread utilisation Dr.
40
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107 1072
of wireless for Police work has Briggs Manufactur- . taken a new form in Lancashire
ing Co. where the first Police horse has Bristol-Myers been equipped with receiving and Cudahy Packing .... transmitting set to be used for Delaware, Lacka--
534
541
Nash Motors
49 *
*******
50%
Owens Tilinots Glass 155.
364"
38
Peninroad
Corpn....
Radio Corpn.`of' Am.
19
191
'45' 'B' pt.
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ཋཱཡྻོབྷཱཏི།
དྷ མཎྜཧྨ#ཙ
ཎྞཱ ཚཛྷནྡྷབྷབྷཱའོ
བཻདྡྷཨྰཿཐཱ
ཞཱaཙ
Raybestos Manhat-
tan
1051
1054
257
254
Republic Steel Co.... Simardona Co.
211
221
35 t 371
-237
244
Texas Pacific Land
61
EK!
Trust
101
Hercules Powder 'Co. Int. Cement .....
Tidewater Assoc. 011 171 United Bisenit
2611
ter div.
537 551
**Bid
UA. Rubber $8 pf.... 154
.174 262 74
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The total number of Wireless Fitkote Co. in the United Kingdom at the end dem. Cigar "... of July was 7718,557 as compared Gen. Electric with 7,145,329 a year ago... The Gen. Foods .. increase indicates the continued Gen. Motort growth of public interest in wire-Gen. Rly. Bignal... less and large attendances are ex-
Gold Dust · pected at the Radio Exhibition Goodrich Tyre Co.. which opens at Olympia in a fort Goodyear Tire & R night's time. There is speciale. Nther Rly. pf. 43
traffic control. The equipment
wanna & Western weighs only six pounds and the Eitingon Schold Co. transmitting set has its own call-Firestone Tire and sign and range of several miles.
Rubber 8% pt. Lancashire Police is the only Police Freeport Texas Force in the country which has a Gen. Asphalt two way wireless telephonic aya- | Gen. Mila tem working in connection with a Goodrich (BF) feet of Police cars--
British Wireltan.
GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND
London, Aug. 11/
It la announced in Berlin to-day that Herr Von Ribbentrop who has acted as Herr Hitler's special dip- tomatic emissary on a number of occasions has been appointed German Ambassador in London to succeed Herr Von Hoesch who died here in April.
from 'Berlin state the appoint
PROFESSOR OF ANIMAL PATHOLOGY
Mr. J. Basil Buxton Appointed
London, Aug. 11.
Elec 145 1431
(com.)
Int. Mining Lambert Co. McCrory Stores 'A'
Murray Corpn.
Last Sale
Aug. 4 11
1%
152.
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UNIVERSITY AIRMEN
In Camp On The Slopes Of The
Chilterns
From Major F. A. de V. Robertson
London, July 27,
The three University air squa- drons (Oxford, Cambridge, and London) are now all in camp, but London, being the youngest, may claim chief interest this year. The squadron was only started fast winter. and for its first year was only allowed to enrol 25 mem- bers. Next year there, will be 50. 1.12 the following year 75. Naturally it is difficult in a non- residential university to select 25 out of the large numbers available, but the instructors, who are all R.A.F. omcers, seem to have chosen wisely and well.
and
men
Actually 23 members have gone to camp for a fortnight, with seven instructors and twelve Avro tator. machines, at Halton, on the wes- tern slopes of the Chiltern Hills. under The squadron is living canvas, but instructors and mem-- bers have their meals in the pala- tial officers' mess, which once be- longed to one of the Rothschild family. By now, all but two or three of the members have been judged it to ffy solo, although only one had learned to fly before he joined the squadron. Most of the men have made flights across country to other aerodromes:
It is not gonerally recognised that members of University dir squadrons undertake no military obligations and they do not wear London, Aug. 11.
uniform. These squadrons repre- sent one way in which the Air. Gibraltar Dress, message" gives
Ministry tries to make Britain a denial to the reports in foreign newspapers to the effect, that the nation of airmen. None the less. Бетел members of the London British Naval Authorities have Squadron are applying for per established virtual blockade in the Straits of Gibraltar and have for-manent commissions in the Royal
Air Force. bidden naval action in the Bay of Gibraltar with the result of
the
Mr. J. Basil Buxton, Professor hampering the action of Pr258 messages
of Animal Pathology at Cambridge Spanish naval forces against the has been appointed to succeed Birinsurgents from Morocco, Herr Frederick Hobday as Principal of only action, it la stated, which the
ment is regarded there as indicat
The
NEW OFFICER
London, Aug. 11.
ing the importance which Hitler attaches to the maintenance Royal Veterinary College on the British Naval Authorities at Gib.
Great latter's retirement which will take raltar have taken is to request the Mr. Harford, the Administrative of good relations with Britain, the new Ambassador being place after the completion of main spanish Government not to send Omcer of Nigeria has been ap- on block of the new College buildinga. warships Into British waters or pointed Administrator of Antigua From the end of September Mr. to take action liable to endanger and Federal Secretary of the Buxton will take up duties"
as British life, shipping and proper-Leeward Islands succeeding the
late Mr. HE. Bader.
one of his closest advisers
foreign political questions, Rib bentrop who is already well known in London is 43 years of age.- British Wireless
Acting Principal.
British Wiretenz
British Vardhaan.
British Wirdleri.
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