THE
CHINA-SIAM
ss. "HIRAM”
HONG KONG-BANGKOK
LINE.
leaving Hong Kong. 28th March via Switow
HONG KONG-SWATOW-AMOY Kis, "HAI HING" leaving Hong Kong 31st March Accepting Passengers & Cargo for all the above metioned ports.
HONG KONG
SINGAPORE-PENANG-RANGOON
Regular Express Service
ins HAI LEB" laiving Hong Kong 20th March.
Accepting cargo for all the above mentioned parts.
Excellent passenger accommodation available.
For freight, passage" rates and all other information—Apply to 1- THORESEN & CO., LTD.
Tel. 30937:
General Agents,
'Queen's Building.
S.S. "BENDORAN"
JJ
Sailing for LONDON, ROTTERDAM, ANTWERP, HAMBURG, HULL and LEITH on or about the 9th April.
Cargo will also be accepted on through Bill
to the usual transhipment ports.
of Lading
Next Sailing for SHANGHAI & JAPAN
S.S. "BENGLOE”.
5th April.
For Freight and Passage apply to:-
Tel.
92533
W. R. LOXLEY & CO., (CHINA) LTD.,
York Building. Agenta:
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD,
CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.,
NAVY SHORT OF OFFICERS
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
THE EXCHANGE
MARKET
MESSRS. ROZA BROS.
Hont Kong. Mar. 18, silver prices rose 1/18 yesterda ̧' for both deliveries, the quotations being 20 15/16 for Ready and For- ward. Silver advices reported In- dia as having bought. Speculators sold. The market closed steady. After the official fixing the market was very idle. Prices were changed. American Eliver WAS higher at 45 3/4 for Spot.
בטן
The London-New York cross- rate was quoted at 488.60. New York-London was quoted at 488.- 21/32.
MARKET
Steady but extremely dull.
STERLING
FRIDAY, MARCH ·1937.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
New York: March 18.
(Through Renter's Berrics:
QUOTATIONS
New York/London Cross-rate New York Cotton-May New York Rubber-May Chicago Wheat -May Chicago Corn -May Silver-Official
Dow Jones Averages
30 Industrials
20 Baile
20 Utilities
40 Bonds
Los Today's High Low Close Closs ... Change
— 4.88-13/39 4.88-91/32 1/18 of 14.49 14.95 14,40 14.28 .12 o 24.08. 94.80 253 25.0% .vo api
139) 137) 137 138
1091 109 1024 unchanged
up
480
482
Mar. 17.
it p
1936. Higü Low Mar. 16. 193.38 86.51 199.95 63.79 27.31 83.06 37.79 16.42 38.84 100.01 84.86 10261
41.98 79.45 **
Business Done:—§,100,000-shareM.
High Low Close Change
11 Commodity Indez 81,87
Stocks Adams Express Allis Chalmers
No business was reported. There were sellers at 1/2 29/32 March-Amer, Can October, buyers at 1/2 15/16 for any delivery.
U.S. DOLLARS There were sellers at 30 3/8 March-April and 30 5/16 May- July, buyers at 30 7/16 March- May and probably 30 3/8 June- July.
SHANGHAI DOLLARS Nothing doing. There were sel- lers at 101 13/18, buyers at 101 7/8 for cash.
SHANGHAI MAKKET There were sellers of Sterling at 1/2 5/8, buyers, at 1/2 21/32 for cash. 0.3. Dollars, sellers at 29 13/18 March, buyers at 29 7/8 for
cash.
IN THE AFTERNOON. The market was quiet in the afternoon.
IN STERLING
*u་
Last Bale Mar 18 17 214 * 321 681
1091
55
68
267
Am. Car & Foundry Amer. Cyanamid
324 Amer. & For. Power 12: 117 Amer. & For. $7 pt. 59 Amer. Locomotive . Amer. Metals Amer. Hadiator Amer, Rolling Mill .. Amer. Smelting Amer. Steel Fdries. 644 Amer. Sugar
411 1001
491
24
Amer. Tel. Tel... 174 1732 Amer. Tobacco "B" 831 Amer. Waterworks ... Anaconda Copper ... 661 Atchison, T. & S. Fe. 84 35 Atlantic Refining Atlas Coran,
.181 · Auburn Motors ...... 293 Baldwin Locomotive
190.69 168.15'188.40 1.43 off
66,08 63.81 8446 1.30 up 33.38 $2.74 3297.
13 up 109.39 .23 off
79.88
.41 Ep
Stocks
LKING Sqla Mar. 16 17 Great Northern Rly. 52 531 Great Western Sugar 35 36 Holly Sugar Corpri Humble O.................... Int. Nickel Int. Tel. & Tel.
831
824
711
141
701 14
210442
Int. Dept Stores. 341 34 Kennecott Copper 851 60
Lambert Corpn....... 217 2111
Loew's Inc. Lorillard
781
78 241 241
McIntyre Porcupine McKesson & Robbins 463 Monsanto Chemical 931 93 Montgomery Ward 671 Murray Corpn.
47
172
Nat Cash Registor 373
87. 174 37
Nat Dairy Products 254 Nat Distillers
243
344
341
Nat Power & Light· 114 New York Central... 52% Niagara Hudson P.
Carpi.
111
151
542
154
$ cum, pt.
1171 1161 Baltimore & Ohio... 381 Barnsdall On
North American..... 271 271 Northern Pacifc 341 351
327
1004
161
No business was reported, finish- ing with sellers at 1/2 29/32 Bendix Aviation
March-October, buyers at 15/18 for any delivery.
1/2
"
: U.S. DOLLARS Sellers at 30 3/8 March-April and 30 5/16 May-July, buyers at 30 7/16 March-May and probably 30 | 3/8 June-July,
SHANGHAI DOLLARS Sellers at 101 13/18, buyers at 7/8 for cash.
PENINSULAR ANATION ENTAL Re-Employment Plan B. K. SHAREBROKERS
STEAMER CATHAY."
ARRIVED SONG KONG ON 18TH MARCH, 1937.
FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, GIBRAL TAK, MARSEILLES, "MALTA, PORTSAID, ADEN, COLOMBÓ AND BTRAITS.
YONSIGNEES of Cargo by the
above-named Vessel are hereby in. formed that their Goods are being laaded and placed at this 210x in the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Gödowo Company' Godowns at Kowloon where each Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and Delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed.
Optional Goods will be landed bare unless instructions have been given to the contrary Six Hours before arrival of the steamer.
Owing to the shortage of officers in, the gunner gunner (torpedo)
boatswain and
bran- ches of the Royal Navy it has been decided to offer employment beyond the retiring age of 50 to commissioned officers from war- ran rank in these branches.
com-
This announcement was made In Admiralty Fleet Orders. Commissioned Сиплета, missioned gunners (torpedo) and commissioned botswains may volunteer for re-employment, on retirement, under the following conditions:
Full pay to be on the ordinary scale without extension beyond the increment allowed "after nine Goods nal cleared within 8 days in years." eluding date of arrival will be subject to rant.
No Fire Insurance, will be effected by us in any case whatever. i
Damaged Packages must be left in "the lodowns for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's surveyors, Messie, GODDARD & Douglas, at 10 am, an Mondays and Thursdays, within the Free Storage period.
Consignees are specially notified that it is necessary for Revenue Officer to be present tat the examination of damaged dutiable
cargo.
All Claims against the Steamer mast be presented to the Undersigned on:02 before 7th April, 1937, or they will not be recognised.
No Claims will admitted after the Goods have left the Godown.. MACKINNON, MACKENZIE
Agents, Hong Kong, 18th March, 1927..
Co
[5133
MAKING SOLDIERS OF SUB-STANDARD, MEN
New Army Training Depot
A Special Army depot for the
Retired pay and promotion to lieutenant on the retired list to be suspended during re-employ- ment,
A bonus of 15 per cent. to be paid on full pay, exclusive of any allowances, in lieu of counting the period" of re-employment for increased pension.
The period of retention to be sub- the requirements of the Ject to Service and at the discretion of
the Admiralty up to a maximum of one year.
Officers of the branches iri question who reach the rank of lieutenant on the Active List are not fligible for this scheme, which will commence on April 1.
SİSTER SHIP TO QUEEN MARY
London, Mar. 17. The sister ship of the "Queen
ASSOCIATION BUYERS
Canton Ins., $315. Underwriters, $1. H.K. Fires, $200. Douglases, $36. Providents (Old), $2.30. Providents (New), 20 cts." H.K. Docks, $314, Realties, $52: Humphreys, $83. Ewos, $151. Trams, $15.10 Star Ferries, $87. Y. Ferries, $26.
China Lights (Old), $15. Telephones (Old), $304. " Telephones (New), $12. Ropes, $41.
Entertainmenta, $4.60. Lane Crawfords, $7.90. Nanyanga, $78. United Paracales, $1.60.
SELLERS Providents (New), $2.40. Realties, $5.85. Trama. $15.30.
SALES Providents (Old), $2.30, Lands, $36.
Trams, $15.30. Star Ferries, $89.
China Lights (Old), $149-15.10. Electrics, $59.
Telephones (Old), $304, Cements, $15.10. Ropes, $41..
Dairy Farms CD, $273. Lane Crawfords, $8. Watsons, $54.
United Paracales, $1.60.
EXTRA MANILA CLOSING QUOTATIONS
Hong Kong. Mar. 18. Extra Mania closing, quotations
Elizabeth" after the present Queen, according to an announcement! Ellis and Edgar.
building-up of potential soldiers Mary" is to be called the "Queen Agures kindly supplied by Mesara,
who fall to pass the physical
standard is, I understand, shortly made here to-day. The "Queen to be established, writes a Home Elizabeth" will have a displace-
Associated Mines military correspondent.
∙ment of 90,000 tons and will be Acoje Mining
Angela Dulong
Such persons' lack good regular the largest and fastest steamer in food and the absence of any the world.-.
physical exercise necessary for
Transocean". News Berview
bodily development have robbed
the Army of thousands of recruits.
Gold Creek":
Ipo Gold
The recruiting authorities decided
Gold River Mother Lode:
that something must be done togress in development as to justify Parscale Gold end the wastage so prevalent in re- | continuing their training at a re- Salacot, cent years.
p.m.
009 .000 22) 23 151 15.. 171 .18 .28 28.
281 .281 .08. 09.
LL
Bethlehem Steel Boeing Airplane Borden Co.......... 27 Briggs M'facturing 50% Brooklyn-Manhattan
Trans
Brooklyn-Manhattan
$6 cm, pl........... 087 Case, JI Canadian Pacific Celanese Corpn. of
America
1581
15
...
344
811
Cerro de Pasco CertainTeed P'ducts 201 Chesapeake Corpn. 85
བྷུབྷཱུ སྐུཀྐཚོདཿདྷརྒྱུུསྒྱུཨཱཨྰཿཧྲྰིནྣཨྰཿཨྰཿསྶ བྷུབྷཊྛོ, ཚོ9, ཨྰཿནཱ ཚོ8ཙྪཱནཱཊྛཱཙྪཧ ཙཀྐོཏྠནཱཝནྡྷོ 18 ཚ ཨྰཿཨྰཿཚོཊྛགྷ
Chesapeake & Ohio, 64 Chrysler Corpn. 127 1274 Columbia Gas & EL 164 Columbia 6% "A" DI. 100 Commercial Credit 604 Commercial Solvents 191 Commonwealth & 8. 31 Commonwealth
oum. p.
Pacific Gas & Elec. 321 321
13
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE
Sailings
President Liners" frequens satings and thair unique "topover privilege siten jou travel juan maactly as you choose, And Dohać Bisanship Line sad American Mail Lise werkwide down and agents are maintained to move you sadure in whatever place you (chanics to Do Make Fournext trip mare enjogahin, travelling “The Freddana Elur way!!
TO SAN FRANCISCO NEW YORK "AND BOSTON
Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokobams, Honolulu, San Francisco, Panama
'TO SEATTLE, VICTORIA "THE EXPRESS ROUTE"
Via Shanghai, Kobe and
Tokokāma
Canal and Havana. Pres. Cleveland M'night Mar. 24th' Pres. Grant M'night Mar. 28th Pres. Coolidge Noon Apr. 18th Prsa, Jackson M'night Apr. 8th Prew. Taft Ram. Apr. 21st Pres, Jefferson, M'night Apr, 93rd Pres. Hoover Noon May 1st Fres McKinlay M'aight May Tib "Pros. Lincoln 8am. May 19th Pres Grant.. M'night May Slat Pros. Coolidge Neon June 3rd Pres, Jackson, M'night June 4th
EUROPE, NEW YORK
MANILA
THE MOST FREQUENT SERVICE
Next Sailinga
Via Manila, Singapore, Patang, Colombo, Bombay, Suez Cana. Naples, Genoa and Marssilles, Pres. Adams 8. Mar. 31st Pres. Grant Pres. Harrison 6 am. Apr. 11th Fras. Adema Pres. Polk
pim. Mar. 20th 8. Már. Sist 8am. Apr. 15th Pres. Jackson 6pm. Apr. 3rd Pres. Pierce 8am. May 9th Prs. Harrison ám. Apr. 11th Fres, Van Buren 8am. May 23rd Fres Coolidge 8 p.m. Apr. 11th Pres. Garfield
8. p., Apr. 16G 8. June 6th Eres Taft
MOST FREQUENT SERVICE ON THE PACIFIC
DOLLAR - STEAMSHIP. LINES *AMERICAN MAIL LINE *
FEDDER BUILDING-BANG ZONG,
CARTON BRANCH -91, FRINGM CONCESSION, SHAMEEN.
BURNS PHILP LINE
M.V. "NEPTUNA
Pacific Lighting "..... 453 Packard Motors.... Paramount
45..
11.
11
247
241.
Pennsylvania R.R. -
481
797
Phelps Dodge
Phillips Petroleum ....
57
58
431
Public Service of NJ.. 434 Pullman Inc.
441
95 *
Pure Ol.............. 214
213
Radio Corpn of Am. 113 Republic Steel ....................... 45
114
441
Reynolds Tobac, "B" 521
521
St. Joseph Lead Co.
Schenley
Schenley 51% pi.
4+
501 507 973: 98
Sears Roebuck ....... 947 94
Shell Union Oil
321
317
Bocony-Vacuum
187
183
Southern Cal Edison 27
27
Southern Pacific... 637
$5
Southern Rly 6% 11. 584
584
Stand Brands ******* 154
Stand Gas & Elec.
127
151 12
$6
Stand Gas & Mec.
594
$7 pi,.....
68
671
Consolidated. Edison 407 Consolidated Ou Continental Of ....... Corn. Producta. ........... Curtiss Wright (C) Curtiss Wright. “A” 22
Standard OD of N.J.
731
721
17
Sterling Productë .....
66
661
441
Swift International
314.
318
69 . 691
Technicolor 23. 221
Texas Gulf Sulphur 399
Delaware & Hudson *22]
Del. Lackawanna &
Tidewater Assoc. Oll Timken-Detroit Axle Transamerica
251
164
Wester Distillers Corpa Bea-
grama
132*
291
20th Cent. Fox Films 304 20th Cent. For Films
pf.
391 201 201
214 161
30
491
481
Douglas Aircraft ..... 65 Du Pont
*** 188 Electric Boat ......... Elec. Bond & Share -- Elec. Bond & Share
$5 pr. Elec. Bond & Share
$8 pl..........
Un. Carbide & Car-
187
bon
1071-
106
137 234
Un., Paclio-
148
1471
United Aircraft...... 333
Passenger & Freight Agents :-
33
74 ** 74 *
811"
United
Un Airline Trans-
pors United Corpn.. .............. 61
Corpn. $3
214
227
F. & O. Building.
62
Joint Passenger Agents ----
cum på samm 42
42
Un. Gas Pprovem't 144
144
Nippon Yusen, Kälzha
King's Building,
Un. Light. & power
"A"
U.S. Industrial Alco-
원글
81
402*
bol .......¶¶¶
40
392
UB. Rabber
CONSIGNEE NOTICES,
67+
691
Gen. Electric) 424
UB. Rubber #8 pf. 1084
109
U.S. Steel
Vanadium
Warner Bros Pict,
Westinghouse
Youngstown
& Tube
Chase National BK 59+
National City Bank 554
Call Money ................com
1217
· 371 369 151 15 Elec. 148
1454 Sheet
******* 951 - $4
601* 581. 1%
121
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
THE BEN LINE STRAMERS, LTD.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON
AND STRAITS.
1 ex. 'div.
1%
* Bid
Elec Power & Light 234. Elec Power & Light
$7. pt. Firestone Tire & R Flintkote
Fen, Asphalt
40
421
Gen. Cigar .................... 59
Gen. Foods ....... 65% Gen. Motors
55
Gen. Railway Signal Gillette Safety Razor 271 Glidden
Gold Dust........... 482 Goodrich (BF.)"'... 488 Goodrich $5 p. 87 "Goodyear .............. 401
TIN RESTRICTION
London, Mar. 17.
The removal of the tin restric- tion was suggested by a questioner in the House of commons to-day
MORE BACON CURED
PASSENGER & FREIGHT SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA
Sailing Sunday, 21st March at 5 P.M.
for Saigon, Manila, Sandakan, Salamaus, Rabazi, Sydney & Melbourne.
First Class Fare to Sydney:
Single £47.10.0d. Return: £6.-0-5.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
Telephone No. 28081.
Tax 8.8. BENALDER.”
CONSIGNEE NOTICES,
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
BURNS PHILP LINE
20
Fick MELBOURNE, SYDNEY, SALAMAUA HAHAUL, SAND- AKAN AND MANILA.
THE MY
Mr. Ormsby-Gore replied that he B10cwt, an increase of 15,82 per from the wharves Delivery, mayands have left the Godowns, and al
thought the recent increase in the quota helped, the situation, and added that the abolition of the quota altogether did not concern
Britain alone but that it would
involve the legislation of« mans countries. Ranter
the
"NEPTUNA. YONSIGNEES, of Cargo, are hereby informed that all Goods are being ONSIGNEES of Cargo as hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous The British Bacon Marketing landed at their risk into the hazardous andjor extra basardous Godowns of the Board, in their annual report, state and/or artre hazardous Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and that the quantity of bacon cured Howa KoSD, AND KOTADOR FERAT Gorlows Com Lid, whoice and/or from in Great Britain in 1938 was 2,752- GODOWE CONTENT, L70 wance and/or the wharves Delivery may be obtained. be Ng Claims will be admitted after the cent, over 1935.
obtained,
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods The Board, it is pointed out, has Goods have left the God, and 23rd Mar, 1837 will be subject to Bank.
remaining undeliveres made a detailed examination of Goods remaining undelivered after the All Claims against the Steamer later. altuation created by the 25th Mar, 1937, will be subject to rent be presented, to the Undersigned collapse of the Bacon Pig Contract All Claims against the Steamer must before the 8th April, 1957, as they for 1987; and submitted proposals presented to the Undersigned on or will not be recognised,
before
the 8th April, 1937, or they will to the Government, from which it not be recognised,
Warehouse Regulations, consignees must To comply With the General, Bonded is hoped that an amended structure To comply with the General Bonded for pigs and bacon marketing will Warehouse Regulations consignees when damaged dutiable goods ars Bevenue Officer in attendance must have a Revenue Oficer in siton-examined. danon when damaged dutisble goods All broken, chafed,anč damaged are examined, and damaged. Good to be left the lodowns; where
Mar., 1987, at 10 AM by they will be examined Lon the 22nd Goddard and Douglas
the
.12 .12
261 .164
.061
DYT
gimental depot.
The thirty-three boys of mill- tary age who,, paving been reject
Batong Buhay: The development of the scheme. Universal Expl on a much larger scale is, there. Bued
021, .021
..35
381
i.
32
.35
Tokyo Move To Re-Open Textile Talks
·be evolved.
Dayaka
.251
251
19 .20
43
43
11t
12
24 24 .081 ..10 10: The negotiations have remained Steady. Strong. | at a standstill since the last meet
ed for the Colours, were recently fore, promised. given three months' training at It is suggested that the estab- Crown Mines Aldershot, were given a little | Ushment of a depot in the coun-Mambulao. above the ordinary Army rations and a course of athletic exercises. The result has been highly satis factory.
All but two showed such pro-
try where sub-standard recruits Syndicate Invest. could be fed and trained under Tinagao medical supervision would yield Santa Rosa
each year a conderable number Mine Operations, of recruits of the right' type. -
All broken,
are to be left in the Godowas, where
9 m. by Messrs. Carmiobeo!
With the current Indo-Japanese ing, on February 27, Foreign Once they will be examined on the Sird. Mar. trade negotiations facing a dead-officials revealed. It will thus be 1937, t lock, the Galmusho instructed the impossible to bring the pourparlers | & Clark, Japanese delegates to re-open the to a successful
No Fire Insurance has been effected. conclusion. byi, 084 pourparlers May be as
March 31, when the protocol at... LOXLEY& Co. (CHINA) LTD,
CBill of Lading will bedcunfereigned by tached to the present commercial agreement expires.
Hong Kong, 16th Mar, 1987,
BATS
༞
load
013.or
No Fire Insurance háu béen effet beck, Bills of Lading will be countersigneď. GIBE, LIVINGSTON & Co., LTD.
15130: Hong Kong, 18th
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