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DAILY SHARE `QUOTATIONS

Hong Kong Stock

Exchange

Sharebrokers'

Association

Bayats Balle

Sal Heads

FRIDAY.. DEC, 17,

Balleru

duyar

Bales

amlan

$1,208

Banks

H. Banks

Do. (London)..

Chartered Banks Mercantile Bks. "A"

Do.

"C"

Bank of East Asia...

201

£198

H

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY,

DECEMBER 18, 1937.

THE EXCHANGE MARKET

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

(Through Renter's Service)

QUOTATIONS

Now York: December 17,

Last

re-

New York: Loudon Cross-rate New York Cotton--Mar. New York Rubber-Mar. Chicago' Wheat --May. Chicago Corn Winnipeg Wheat-May. Silver Official

High Low Close

8.73 15.38

Today's Close

Authorized Capital

....... $50,000,000

TH

BANKS

HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA

BANKING CORPORATION

AUSTRALIA AND CHINA' Incorporated by Royal Charter 1853

Change

Issued & Fully Paid-Up $20,000,000

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON:

May.

031901 हैं 59 119 118 118

4.90-13/18 4.99-11/18 1/8 off 8.20 818 8.87 15.12 18 (35

998-

Reserve Funds:-

.08 up

Sterling

.......£ 8,300,000 |

39. Bishopsgate EQ.1.

15,33

.18 up

Hong Kong Currency -

0:000*

#1

1 off

Heserve

58...

1/4 of

Reservo Liability of

£3.000.000

117

3/4 off

unch,

Proprietors

Head Office:-HONG KONG

1837

High

Low Dow Jones Averages. 124.40 113.64 $0 Industrials

64.48. 29.15 90 Rails $7.54 19.54 90 Utilities 106.69 91.54" 40' Bonds

89.44 69.03

Dec. 17.

Bigh Low Close Change

184.09

31.38

12693 114.52 185.76, 1.66 uð

31.90 31.33 ·31.68

.30 up

21.46

93.15

21.88 21.45 91.57

83.4% .01 of 53.70 07 aff

.11 up

0

IPOH KARACHI

BAIGON 8KMABAND

JEREMBAN

KLANG

BHANGHAI

GALOUTTA CANTDE

KORT

KUALA

LUMPUR

SINGAPORE

SITIAWAN BOURABAYA

MESSRS. ROZA BROS:

Hong Kong. Dec. 17. The price for Ready Sliver was $1,610 unchanged yesterday but the For- ward rate dropped 1/4, the quota- tions being 18 11/16 and 18 1/18 respectively, Silver advices ported Bears covering for Spot against their forward cornmit- ments. After the official "axing the market was quietly steady owing to scarcity of stocks, Ameri- câ bought for Spot but business was small owing to lack of supply.. Subsequently forward sales by In- dia were accepted by the Contin- ent and America American Sil- ver was quoted at 44 3/4 for Spot. The London-New York CrOSS- rate was quoted at 499.75. New York-London was quoted at 499.-

180

215 183

N. C. & S. Banka ...

13

Insurances

1279 Canton insurances... 1170

1516

Union InsuranQOF ....

$515

514

Underwriters

11t

$248

H.K, Fires.mont

$240

Luteranuvani Amoo. 5.

+1

Shipping

(548)

18.10

Douglases

$48)

Steambos

•18.10

551

Lado Uhinas (pref.)

$13

Do:

(def.)

07/4

Sholls

19.30

Waterboute

SBI $43 97/6 19:30

$18/3

11/16

i

181

i

*** fi

$11.00 OR $11.00

$10.80 O,B.

$6.00

$10

$10)

18/3

18.10

8118

12

135 sta

$95

F

Mining

Kailans

Raubs

Venezuela Gold Fide.!

Docks, Wharvas,.

Cudowna, etc.

H.K. & K, Wiarto8.

Providents (old)

$2.00

Do. (ne) 25 et

H.K. &W, Docks Shangusi Docks S. New Engineerings S. Lands, Hotels, and Bui dings Hotels

35.80.H.

$39

$100

H.K Lands........... Do. 4% Debenturea; Shanghai Landa.... "Metropolitan Lands..

$1.85 H.K. Realtics.........

China Do

+1

$3.10

!!!

!!!

ID

!!!

$116

$28 $100

#3

131+ $102

$4.70

Do. DeboaturesS.

$84

Huapamy

$8,40

1H6

China Estate....

Cotton Mills

$12.93 Ewos. $77 S'bu Cottonefold)S.

Do.

(new).

Zoong Sings S

Wing Un Textiles(S.))

MARKET

The market was featureless.

STERLING There were sellers at 1/3 De- cember-January and 1/2 31/32 February-March, buyers at 1/3 1/32 Cash-January and 1/3 Feb- ruary-March.

U.S. DOLLARS

No business was reported. There were sellers-at-31-3/16 December January and 31 1/8 February- March, buyers' at 31 1/4 January and probably December, and 31 March.

SHANGHAI DOLLARS Sellers at 105 13/16. buyers at 105 15/16 for Spot,

SHANGHAI MARKET -

Blocks

Adams ExprOSS

11 Commodity laden 53.77

Allis Chalmers ... Amer, Can

Am. Car & Foundry Amer. Cyanamid

Cast Balk

Dec. 15 16

Amer. & For. Power Amer. For, 37 pt. 214*

amer. Locomotive

Amer. Metals......... Amer. Radiator

Amer, Rolling Milli.. Amer. Smelting

19 20

*. CHERE* *STEERAN 36.

Amer. Steel F'dries.. Amer. Sugar Amer. Tel- & Tel... 1451 Amber, Tobacco "B" Amer. WaterWorTM Anaconda Copper ... Atchison, T. & 8. Fe. 39+ Atlantic Refining

Atlas Corpn. ******* Auburn Motors ...... Baldwin Locomotive

$1 cum. pf. Baltimore & Ohio... Barrisdall OU Bendix Aviation ..... Bethlehem Steel

-137

"

The market was quiet in the afternoon and no business was re- ported

STERLING

The market closed with sellers at 1/3 December-Jamary and 1/2 31/32 February-March, buyers at 1/3 1/32 Cash-January- and 1/3 March and probably February.

US DOLLARS

"

The market closed with sellers

Brooklyn-Manhattan

Trang

Brooklyn-Mannattan

$8 cùm pt. Case, JI

Chesapeake Corpa. 16 Chesapeake & Ohio 371- Chrysler Corpn.

at 31 1/4 Cash, 31 3/16 December-Colambia Gas & HI..?

January and 31 1/8 February- March, buyers at 31 5/16 Cash, 31 1/4 January-February and 31 3/18 March.

148

Business Done: -1,030,000 shares,

ཨཊྚོ ཊྛིཾགཏྐatཙྩོ སྒྱུཀྐཎྞཧྲྰིན (ཀྰ བྷོཊྛཊྛལྤ ཚ 8g བྷཚęཎྞཱཝe, aགློནབྦོཝནཱནཱ ཙ ཀྐོདྷཏྟཱཝཊྛོ ྂ ཋཱནཱནྲྀ ཿ ཛྷནྟིཾ བྷིཀྑནྟི

Stock

271

Dec. 13 "16 Great Northern Rly. 24* Great Western Sugat 77} Holly Bugar Corpn. Humble Ou Int. Nickel

Int. Tel. & Tel

83

444 451

* Int. Dept Stores 111 101 Kennecott Copper Lambert Corpo Loew's Inc.

371 377 124 12 473 471 Lorillard........... 164 101

McIntyre Porcupine.

McKesson & Robbins. 324 Monsanto Chemical 82 Montgomery Ward Murray Corpn.

Nat Cash Registar 16 Nat Dairy Products 141

Nat Distillers

Nat Power & Light New York Central ..

Niagara. Hudson P.

Corpn.

84

331

www.w

15)

14

21

201

81

19+

77 211

81

28

Northern Pacific Pacific Gas & Elec. Pacing Lighting Packard Motors ...... Paramount Pennsylvania RR.

12:

123

28)

201

371

41

41

10%

21

Phillips Petroleum

Phelps Dodge

Public Service of N.J. 33

39

40

331

North American

ཝཱཧྨ1ཎྷཧཱུྃ॰ ཚཊྛཀྑིབྷཙ །ཚོ×ཚོ ཻRཚཐཱ ཙྪཱ ཙྪཙཎྜཤྩ ཙུཤྩi#=ཡྻོ ཙྪིནྡྷངྒོ་ྲསློཧྲྰིཡྻུཾན ཧྲྰིབྷཱô⪜#ཏྟཾ ཌཊྚ 8 d= e» བྷུཊྛཾ ཨཱ ཊྛསྶནྡྷབྷབྷཝཙྪཱ ནཏྠུནྟི

.$10,000,000 | Pald-up Capital.............

Reserve Fund......... .$20,000,000 | Reserve Liability of Pro-

Board of Directors. W G. Miskin, Eaq.

Chairman.

Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson,

Deputy Chairman.

J. K. Bousfield, Esq., A. H. Compton, Esq., S. H. Dodwell, Esq., J. R. Masson, Esq., K. S. Morrison, Esq., Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, T. E. Pearos, Esq.,

prietors..

23.000.000

'MANCHESTER BRANCH: 71. Mosley. Btreet, Manchester

AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:-

ALDE BTAP ILOILO AMRITSAR HANGIOI BATAVIA

BOMBIT

CAWNPORE KUCHING

BU

TAIPING

(Bhuket)

MÄDBAR

4

WIRKTSIN

AL Shield, Esq., Sir Vandaleur M. Grayburn,

Chief Manager.

COLOMBO DILEI KAIPHONG

MANILA

TONGKAN

MIDAN

NEW JUST

TILEOTAO

HAMBURG

PRIPING

HANTOW

41

Branches

HARBIN

Amoy Bangkok Batavia Bombay

Iloilo

Peiping

Ipob

Ponang

Jobore

Bangoon

Kobe Kowloon Kuala

Saigon

N

in

Calcutta

Canton

Chatoo Colombo Dairen Foochow

!

San Fran-

Lumpur Shanghai" Bingapore London

Sourabaya Lyons

Sungei Malacca

Patani Haiphong-Manila

Tientsin Hamburg Muar Hankow (Johore) Tokyo

Makden Harbin

Tsingtao Kongkow New York Yokohama

Current Accounts opened Local Currency and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter periods in Local Currency and Sterling on terms which will be quoted on application.

Also up to date Safe Deposit Boxes in various sizes To Let. Hong Kong, 12th May, 1937.

BONG KONG SAVINGS BANK

THE Business of the above

Bank is conducted by the. HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rules may be obtained-on application

For the HONG KONG & SHANGRAL

BANKING CORPORATION.

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager.

No, 10, Des Voeux Road, Central. Board of Directors:— Sir Shouson Chow, Chairman LA Koon Chun, Esq. Li Lan Bang, Esq. WongChacon, Esq. P. K. Kwok, Raq. Wang YanTong, Esq. Kan Ying Pu, Esq. Fung Fing Wab,, Chan Ching Shak,

Eaq.

Esq

Kan Tong Po, Esq., Chief Manaqur. Li Tee Fong, Esq., Manager.

Branches and Agencies 2---

Kowloon Penang Condos

Bangoon

Soumbays

Halgon gyday

Talor

Matbourne BO TAK

Purplez

o Tientsin

Tokyo Semarang Vancouver Shangha

Yokobama ngipare

TOKOHAMA

(Peking) mommyÄITALA PENANG

HONG KONG HANGOON

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periods at rales which will be quoted on applica tion.

The Bank's Head Offos in Lou- don undertakes Executor & Trucker- business, and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at any of the Agencies and Branches.

B. W ROBERTS,

Manager.

THE CHASE BANK

18, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

HEAD OFFICE:

18, PINE STREET,

NEW YORK.

An American Bank offering com plete Foreign Banking Service in the principal Markets of Åbe world.

Interest Bates on Application.

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES

This Bank is entirely owned by THE CHAST NATIONAL BANI, NIK Yox, with Resources over U.8. $8,500,000,000,

D. M. BIGGAR,

Manager.

BANK OF CHINA

Specially Chartered by THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF CHINA AS AN INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

BANK

PAID-UP CAPITAL:.840,000,000.00 (BRANCHES ALL OVER OHINA) Owing to our numerous Branches in China and connections in the principal. Commercial Centres of the World, we are able to extend to our Clients special facilities for Domestic and Forsiga Banking and Exchange.

Head Office: 8HANGHAI Hongkong Branch:

4, QUEEN'S ROAD, C.

South China Offices:

CANTON

Every description of Banking SWATOW and Exchange business transacted. SHTUCHOW Loans granted

Current

оп

KONGMOON

12

131

313

$77

There were sellers of Sterling at 1/2 3/18, buyers at 1/2 13/84 for

574

$34

$40

Spot. UB. 1ollars, sellers at 29 | Boeing Airplane "...... 1/2 buyers at 29 9/18 for Spot.

201

Borden Co...........

171

Ewo Cotton Rts. S.

4.

IN THE AFTERNOON

Briggs

Mfacturing 22

Pablle Util

$13.30 Tramways

$13.00 $13.10

81

$71

Peak Trains (old) ...)

18

"

Do.

(Dow)...]

13 10

281

261

$80

Star Ferries

$243

Yeumati Ferries ...

180 5:14

Pullman Inc. Pure, O!!

107

114

92

China Lights (old). 11.0)

CA

Do. (new)...$10,80

LA

Do.

Ita

H.K. Electrics --

$69%

19.30

57/9

+

કરમાં

Macao do.

Baudatan Lights Telephones (old)

Da,

Buves

China Tractiuna

(Cow)

Do. (pref.).

Industriale

Canadian Pacific Celanese, Corpn. -of

America Cerro de Pasco ...... Certain-Teed P'ducts

B

Radio Corpn of Am. Republic Steel.......... Reynolds Tobac,

51

1

181

183

411

423

161

301

St. Joseph Lead Co. Schenley

2011

25

Schenley 51% pf. ***

741744*

#264 19

Sears Roebuck

58. -

591

Shell Union Ou

17+

171

541

Bocony-Vacuar

14)

Hong Kong, 1st March, 1937.

53/6

Southern Cal Edison 211

211

Camenta

13.8 Rupee

Miscellaneous

Dairy Farma......

Columbia #% "A" pt. '75 Commercial Credit 36 Commercial Solvents Commonwealth & 8. Commonwealth

Southern Pacific

214

221

Bo thern Kly. 5% pt.

13

131

71

Stalid Brands

22

221

BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.

2

Stand Gas & Mec.

51

Authorised Uspital $10,000,000.00

$0

Stand Gas & Elec.

414

cum. pf

$7 pt.

251

261

Reserve and Undivided

Consolidated Edison

24

Standard Oil of NJ. 444

45

Proits

Consolidated Oll

.93

Sterling Products-

569 502

Continental Of Corn. Products

301

Swift

International 231

237

Paid-up Capital......... 5,528,800.00 2,776,720.76

HEAD OFFICE:-HONG KONG

61+

..Technicolor

18

18

prox. 6 PIPM. 147

Bincarea ....................... Watsons

Cu.G. 6% 1925G.3Bda.

Curtiss Wright (C) Curtles Wright "A" (41 Delaware & Hudson Del Lackawanna &

Western Distillers Corpo Sea.

grams Douglas Aircraft Du Pont Electric Boat

31

Texas Gulf Sulphur. 274

274

Tidewater" Assoc. On 151

151"

161

Timken-Detroit Axle

Transamerica,"

101

.71

29th Cent. Fox Films 201

211

20th Cent. For Films

15]

25L

27

pf.

362 37

Un. Carbide & Car-

1141

116

72

751

bon

01

On. Pacific

83+

84.

$5

4/0

141

Elec. Bord & Share Elec. Bond & Share

$5 pf. Elec. Bond & Share

$6 pí.

10%

United Aircraft

231

23

Un. Airline Trans-

521

7+

port

Amay

United Corpn.

3+

Bombay

59

United

Coryn.

W

(British Wireless Service)

Dec. 15

Dec. 16

147-19/64

21.00. 12.39)

147-17/64 21.61 12,391

Elec Power & Light 131 Ele Power & Light

$7 pi. Firestone Tire & R Mint ota

- 131

cum pf............... 32

321

Un. Gas Tprovem't 10

101:

Oaloutta. Chentun Haiphong Hankow

New York Sessile

Canka Pasji

444

Un Light & power

Kobe

34

3

TOISHAN...

16

US Industrial Alco-

KINGCHOW

(en, Asphalt

bol .........

201 214

24

Gen. Cigar

US.. Rubber

261 273

Docks, $281.

94-15/16

95-5/32

Hotels, $5.20.

Gen. Electric..........

43

securities.

US Rubber $8 p. 54

561

Accounts

Clen. Foods

301

US Stee! ...

571

58+

Gen. Motors

*31

Vanadiumñe

161 164

4.39-13/16

8.081

4.99-13/16 8.981

Gen Railway Signal Gillette Bafety Razor Glidden

221

Warner Bros Pict

7

71

shorter periods in Local and

Westinghouse "Elec. 1041

1061

Foreign Currencies on terms, which

237 2311

Youngstown

Sheet

will be quoted on application. -

approved

We also handle the sus of Bende opened in and other Public Funds of the Local Currency and Fized De Chinese Government both at Home posite received for one year of and Abroad."

SHOU J. CHEN

Hanaper

101

& Tube ......

Chase National BE 30* 301*

3B+ 391

Safe Deposit Boxes To Let

531*

20

National City Bank 26}*

Call Money

1%

1%

* Bid

REICHSMARK

QUOTATIONS

KAN TONG PO.

Chief Manager.

THE YOKOHAMA "SPECIE BANK

Caldbeck, Lord) .

Macgregora (prof.)8.

$1.70

Canton Ioss

$1.70

$122

$12.80 $12

13.80

$34

$24

35

Ch. Etainments......$6

$1,80

Constructions, (old)

$14

$1:00

Da. (neas cts.

10

Lane Crawford......

$7

Nanyang Tobacco...

$1.60

deure lar

S. C. Enterprison par

74%

79%

K. Hort. 4% Losus

Do. 3,%

3104

$1011

$6

Wallace Harper

$40.

H.K Wing Oo: ....... -*|

$40

*** Do

2

354

Vibro Piling

(HK)

21/Marmans Inv. (Los)

76 eta. W. Powolis

*Balos to Shanghai

LONDON EXCHANGE RATES

Berlin

Athens

Milan

Copenhagen

Stockholm Shanghai New York Amsterdam,

Vienna

H. K. STOCK EXCHANGE

YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS

The market was extremely dull during the week with some prices inclined to give way.

Far Eastern issues in London were little changed over the period 175 at whilst the Manila market displayed

signs of easiness.

BUSINESS DONE DURING THE WEEK

Hong Kong Bank, $1,505, $1,510, $1.505. $1,500.

Union Insurance, $516.

Steamboats, $8.20.

Tramways, $13.30.

Yaumati Ferries, '$24).

China Lights (Old), $11.30, $11.15. $11.20. $11.

"

China Lights (Old) Rights, $52. $5.30, $5.

Electrics. $531, $53.

Cements, $124. $12.85, $127.

Sandakan Lights, $141.

Gold Dust Goodrich (B1). Goodrich 35 pt. Goodyear

Paria

Geneva

Prague

Madrid

Lisbon

Hong Kong

Bombay

Montreal

Brussels

Yokohama

Belgrade

Monte Video Rto

Bucharest..........

Silver (Forward) Suver (Spot)

War Loan

On London:--

4.99-13/16

29.40

4.007 29.41

H.K.

SHAREBROKERS' ASSOCIATIONTM

}

261

1421

28-11/18 '.18-5/16-

31% 1011

Closing Quotations

December 17, 1887.

Bank Bills, on demand 1/2

On Demand

De Baron:--

On demand

On New York:—

18-11/18

18-1/16

34% 101-11/10

Bank Bills, on demand 2015/16 Credits, 20 days... sight. 31 7/18 ON BATAVIA:----

BB

On demand PARIS-

Bank Billa, on demand 910 Credits, month's sight 970 On Saigoni—

Telegraphic Transfer...

Credita. four 'months'

1/3

O SHANGHAI !**

104

On demand aimana

001

Oh MAWALA

DU JAPAN:-

On demand ********

61

Da demand

1001

INDIA:--

Tolographic Tranater.....

Bonk, or dezand.

10%

1401

1/2 1/23 18 11/16

On demands Hamme Bovezzions Bank Baying.

Babe ne Bar Attway. Der OIL

BUYERS

Canton Ins., $270. Underwriters, $i.. Steamboats, $8.10. Providents (oid), $2. H.K. Docks, $271.".. Trams, $12.80.

China Lights (old), $10.95. Cements, $12.40. Entertainments, $5. Constructions (new). 95 cta. Vibro Filing, $6. Atamoks, 78 cts,

SELLERS

Cements, $12.80.

"SALES Providents (old), $2: Providents (new), 25 cta. China Lights (Id), $11 CA. San Maurielo,-68 ots.

$ex, div.

PHILIPPINE MINING NEWS

BAGUIO GOLD MINING CO., meter. The engincer further stated has declared a 10 per cent dividend that two places have good indica- payable on December 20 to stock- tions, specially in the Asin and holders of record as of noon De- Tebbo placers." Mr. Tusheft recom-" cember 11. The books of the com- mended to the officers that ex- pany will be closed from noon Deploration of this property should cember 11 to the morning of De- be undertaken with a systematic

program

Cember 21.

UNITED ITOGON Mining Com- pany, Inc., announces that Boris V. Tubeff, mining engineer of the company, has completed examina- tion of the southern half of its Daluptrip. placer property in Itogon, Mountain Province.

The engineer in his report to the management stated that over 2,480.000 cubic meters of goldbear- Lig gravel are indicated whose gold content ranges in value from P.10 to high values per cubic

EXTENSIONS TO 40-HOUR WEEK SYSTEM

Paris, Dec. 15. Exceptional extensions of the 40- hour week system in trades and in- dustries working for national de- lays in delivery; have been un- animously agreed to by employers and workers delegations. Reuter.

Berlin, Dec. 16.

WAS The Reichsmark

quoted. without guarantee, as follows:

New York, 40.32. Paris, 1189.5"

Amsterdam, 72.485.

London, 12.387.

Paria sterling, 147.25 to 147.30. Paris U.S. dollar, 29.485 to

Transocean News Service.

29.475

LONDON'S NEW AIRPORT

LIMITED

Capital (fully paid up)

Yen 100,000,000 00

Reserva Fund Yen 134,400,000.00

1.

+++

HEAD OFFION:----YOKOHAMA

BRANCHES AND, AUKNOTES AT - Alexandria Honolulu

Bangkok sinking Bio: do

Bangcon

Batavia Karachi

nasiro

Berlin Kobe

Bombay

Ban London Francisso

Calcutta Los Angeles Seattle Canton' Manila Semarang Dairen Mojt Shanghai

(Dalny) Nagasaki Singapore Fangtien Nagoya Soarabaya.

(Mukden) New York Bydney Hamburg Osaka Hankow · Otaru - Harbin Paris Hong KongPeiping Finkow

Interest allowed on Current Ac count.

London, Dec. 16. The City of London Court of Common Council has agreed to pur- chase 1,000 acres of land near lord for a new airport. The site was a wartime air station. The land will cost £289,700, and the application. total cost of the airport will be

£600,000- British Wireless

Tientsin "Tokyo

Tsingtao

Deposita received for Fixed Periods at rates to be obtained on

Y. KANO,

Hong Kong, 11th Sept. 1997.