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DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS

Hong Kong Stock

Exchange

Anyar Ballon

Bale Nomiss);

$3,445 £871

Sharebrokers'

Association

Buy an

Jellars

T

THURSDAY.

DEC, ZU.

Banka

H.K. Banks

Bo. (London)

Chartered Banks

Mercantile Bks. "

Do

"A"

"C"

Bank of East Asia..!

N. U. & S. Bankı ..)

Insuranoca

**** NO

£19 £330

£16

164

$270

Canton lasirancos..

1510

Union Insurance .......

314

Underwriters

$35

H.K: Fires......

International Aasre, S.

Shipping

RAJI $8.20

Douglasennu

#481

Steamboats

38.90

301

Indo-Chinas (prof.)

143

361 +43

95/7

Shell

201

FU

13 cts

I

16/8

55

#:13

32

Do. (def.).

Waterboats

Mining

Kailan...

Itsaby

Venezuela Gold Fide.

"Hongkong Minua....

Docks, Wharves,

Godowns, ets.

+

HK & K. Whacvas.

Providents (old) ........

$190

$108 $9

20 cia.

199

:

Do: (now) ots.

#26)

B.K. & W. Docks Shangosi Dock S. Now Engineerings 8.

Buildings

H.. altins--| $4,40 | #13

$1,448 £87)

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1937.

THE EXCHANGE

MARKET

MESSRS. ROZA BROS.

Silver prices rose 1/4 yesterday for both deliveries, the quotations being 18 7/16 for Ready and 18 3/8 for Forwards, Sliver advices re- ported some bear covering. India operated both ways. After the official axing America bought. The market was steady, American SI- ver was quoted at 44 3/4 for Spot. The London-New York CROSS- rate was quoted at 499.90. New York-London was quoted at 499.-

£13

177 32

1970 #51

$235

7/8.

Steady.

MARKET

STERLING

Some business was reported. at 95/71/3 1/32 for cash. There were sel- lers at 1/3 December-February and $9.30

1/2 31/32 March-April, buyers at 1/3

1/32 Cash-Feb. and 1/3 March-April.

$18/9 871

114

!!!

$100

13

$12 183

CD

- $34.

$37

U.S. DOLLARS

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

(Through Renter's Services'

New York: December 3

New York/London Cross mite Now York,Cotton-Mar. New York Rubber-Mar. Chicago Wheat--May, Chicago Corn -May. Winnipeg Wheat-May. Silver Ufficial

st Sale Dec. 28 29

Great Northern Rly, 211 Great Western Bugar 251 Holly Sugar. Corpn. Humble OU .......

Int. Nickel

Int. Tel. & Tei, ......

BANKS

HONG. XƯNG AND SHANGHAI THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA

BANKING CORPORATION

$50,000,000

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

Proprietors

⠀ AUSTRALIA AND CHINA” Incorporated by Royal Charter 1953

HEAD OFFICE, LONDON: 38. Bishopsgate E.C.2.

....$10,000,000 | Paid-up Capilta!........

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

Head Office—HONG KONG

Board of Directors.. G. Miskin, Egy,

Chairman.

Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson,

Deputy Chairman,

J. K. Bousseld, Esq., A. H. Compton, Esq., S. H. Dodwell, Esq.,

J. R. Masson, Esq.,

E. S. Morrison, Esq.,

Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson,

T. E. Pearce, Esq.,

AL Shield, Esq.,

Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn,

Chief Manager.

QUOTATIONS

Authorised Capital

Last High Low Close

4.99)

Today's Соне 4.90€

Change

Reserva Funds:-

1/8 bp

Starling

£4,500,000

3.25 8.18 H.30 1478 14.07 -1494

8.19

ill. off.

Hong Kong Currency

14.0

.34 of

Reserves.**.

892 91

អង្គ

I off

Reserve Liability of

FOR 61

unch.

4182–117) 118

5/8 of

"

443

442

unch.

1937

High Low Dow Jones Averagen 104.40 113.84 50 Industrial

B4.48 29.10 20 Raile 37.54 19.24 20. Utilities 106.80 91.54 40 Bonds

BR.44 52.03

Dec. 28.

High Low Close

Change

118.93

"1100 117.71–190.15

1.29 up

26.91

19.07

99.74

.4 up .09 off 92.80 31 of 52.93 11 Commodity Index 63.32

.39 off Business Done: ~2,480,000 sharOS.

39.45; 28,53 199. 5 20.11 10.49 19.85

Stocka

Dec. 28 29 Adams ExprOKÉ

81 ..81 Allis Chalmers ....... 454 Amer. Can Am. Car & Foundry Amer. Cyanamid

Stocks

691

212

Amer. For. Power Amer, & For. $7 pí. Amer. Locomotive ... Amer. Metals Amer. Radiator

31

31

101 19

Int. Dept Stores

Branches:——

Amoy

Iloilo

Peiping

287 12

i

Amer, Rolling Mill.. Amer. Smelting

172 451

· 161

Bangkok Batavia Bombay

1pob

Penang

Johore

Rangoon

-Kube

Saigon

Caloutta Kowloon

451

Canton

Kuala

Amer. Steel Fdries.. Amer. Sugar

Chatoo

Lumpur Shaagliai

241

Colombo

Loudon

Amer. Tel & Tel... Amer. Tobacco "B" Amer. Waterworks Anaconda Copper... itchison. T. & S. Fe, Atlantic Refining Atlas Corpn. Auburn Motors ...... Baldwin Locomotive

1441 59

1431

30

Dairen

Lyons

Foochow

Malecos

102

-

Nat Cash Registor.. 151

144)

Haiphong Manila

..281 34

Nat Dairy Products 13

Hamburg Musr

Nat Distillers

191

201

Nat Power & Lighs

74

72

New York Central

101

33

31

Niagara Hudson "P.

Corpn.

71

North American

$ eura. pi.

Baltimore & Oblo.....

92

91

Northern Pacifc

Barnsdal OU

13

Benalx "Aviation ..... Bethlehem Steel Boeing Airplane Borden Co. Briggs

54

291 18

Brooklyn-Manhattan

7

Brooklyn-Mannattan

$6. cum, pf...........

21

Case. J.I.

83

A transaction was reported at 31 5/18 for cash. There were sellers at 31 1/4 Dec,-Jan., 31 3/16 Febru- ary and 31 1/8 March, buyers at 31 5/16 Cash-Jan. 31 "1/4 Feb-Mar. and 31 3/16 April

SHANGHAI DOLLARS Sellers at 105 3/4, buyers at 105 15/16 for Spot.

SHANGHAI MARKET There were sellers of Sterling at 1/2 13/64, buyers at 1/2 7/32 for Spot. U.S. Dollars, sellers at 29 9/16. buyers at 29 19/32 for Spot.

IN THE AFTERNOON The market was quiet in the afternoon.

STERLING

The market closed with sellers at 1/3 December-February and "1/2 31/32 March-April, buyers at 1/3 1/32 Cash-Feb. and 1/3 March- April.

U.S. DOLLARS

The market closed with sellers at 31 1/4 Dec.-Jan., 31 3/18 Febru- ary and 31 1/8 March, buyers at 31 5/16 Cash-Jan., 31 1/4 Feb.-March and 31 3/16 April.

Trans

M'facturing 18

៩៩ ៩កង់ថ្មី គឺថ្មីវីឌីនីគីនគឺ

91

331

103

411

151

Kennecott Copper

Lambert Corpn.

Loew's Inc. Lorillard

McIntyre Porcupine

McKesson & Robbin# 29

Monsanto Chemical 831 Montgomery Ward

Murray Corpit,

@ 8--8¤#21888 222 F-118

10+

Pacific Gas & Elec. 264

Pacific Lighting

Packard Motors.

ã 1 8 7 7 7 7 7 51817 88-

Hongkew

Tientsin

prietors

£3.000.0 £3.000.000 £3.500.000

MANCHESTER BRANCH: 71, Mosley Street, Manchester

AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:

ALOR STAR ILOILO

IPO

AMRITSAR

BANGKOK BATAVIA

BAIGON

SEKARANG

KABAGI

MEMBAN

KLANG

SHANGHAI

KOAK

KUALA

LUMPLE

BOMBAY CALCUTTA CANTON CAWNPORN. SUCHING

DEESMAURIZIOTERA

BU COLOMBO

HAIPHONG

HAMBURG

HANIC

HARSIN

BINGAPORE

BITIAWAN

SOU RABATA TAIPING

TURTHIK

MADRAS

MANILA

TONGKAN

NEW YORK PRIPING

TSINGTAO

"TBhuket!

ads. Hotels, and

H.K, Hotels

10

131

H.K Landa......... B.

131

3500

Do. 4% Debentures

3102

Shanghai Lauda....

Metropolitan Landa..

China Dolls.

Du Douenturos S.

$81

Humphreys

$8.10

$88

Chinese Exta lega

Cotton Mills

$12

Exce

S.

355

news.

de

Wing On Textiles.)

Ewo Cotton Rtx, S.

Public Utilities

Tramways 12.50

Poak Trame (old) ...

161

131.

Do (DOW)...

33 10

$80

Star Ferries

18U

$24

Yaaniati Forries....

323

$9.90

China Lights (old)... Ju sa

$1,40

31.35

$13.80

12.20

$0.20

:

A

|12.20}}|

S'hai Cottonafuld)S.

Do Lasiog Sigge

$141

Do. (new)...

Rts. Do.

HK. Electrics .....[ $004. Macao do.

Sandakan Lights ........

Tolephones (old)...)

Do.

126

$0

(new)

China Buses................§.

23/9

Tractions

"Do. ̈ ̈ ̈(prof.)....

Industrialı

$1.71-

Canton Icss

***

Cements

$12.30

Las

83.80

$13

Ropes

Miscelaneous

Dairy Farma.....

Ch. Ebainment

Constructions, (old); x11

Do.

Lane Crawforda....

Nanyang Tobacco...

Watsons

*

!!!

18

81.70

93.80

$23

OFFICIAL: QUOTATIONS

The market was steady.

BUYERS

HK Bank, $1445.

HK, Bank (Lon.), £87).

Canadian Pacifc .... 71

Curtiss Wright (C) Curtis Wright "A" 14. Delaware & Budson 14

** **** * *** ** ******* ******* *** * ** 5 * **88* * ***

Southern Pacific....

San Frad-

cisco

Singapore Saurabaya Sungei

Patani

Bankow (Johore) Tokyo Barbia Murden Tsingtao

New York Yokohama

in-

Current Accounts - opened Local Currency and Fixed Depoulis 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 rarious sizes To Let. Hong Kong, 12th May, 197

T

HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK

HE Business of the abova Bank is conducted by the HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPOBATION, Bule

may be obtained on applisation.

For the HoNG KONG & BHANGHAI

BANTING CORPORATION..

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 1st March, 1937.

BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.

Authorised Capital 10,000,000.00 Paid-up Capital ...

5,598,600.00 Reserve and Undivided"

Profita

2,756,790,78

HEAD OFFICE:-Hong KƠNG

No. 10, Des Voeux Road, Central.

38

41

Paramount

81

9

Pennsylvania. R.R... - Phelps Dodge

201

21

Phillips Petroleum Public Service of N.J. 314 Puliman Inc. .......... Pure Oll

37

381

31

101

101

Celanese Corpn. of

$503/31

H. K

STOCK

123

EXCHANGE

%

America Cerro de Pasco ...... CertainTeed P'ducts

138. 131

35

Chesapeake Corpn. 421..

41+

Chesapeake & Ohto 331

-

29/8

YESTERDAY'S

Chrysler Corpn. ..... Columbia Gas & EL.

481

48+

Radio Corpa' of Am. Republic Steel ....... Reynolds Tobac, “g”. 421- St. Joseph Lead Co. Schenley Schenley 51% pf..... Sears Roebuck ..... 541 164 Shell Union Ol...... Socony-Vacuum

6

153

43

221 72

221

71

55+

151

14

Southern Cal Edison 211

中心

Columbia 8%, "A" pt. 73

181

Commerciel Credit 30

Commercial Solventa

67

Commonwealth & S.

1

17

Commonwealth

$0

80 thern Kly 5% pt. 111. 8tuad Brands Stand Gas & Mec. Stand Gas & Hec.

Ti

44

4.

40

391

cum. pf..***

$ pl......

21

22

$6.20

Consolidated Edison

22

Standard Off of N.J.

441

Consolidated Oil....

(DOW)

Douglases, $484.

Continental Oll

29

18

371

HK. Steamboats, $8.20.

Corn. Products

694

591

Sterling Products Swift International 22 Technicolor

41

223

15

16

..$4

417

Sinceres ...

Raubs. $74.

31

31

$1.40

HK. Tramways, $12.80.

Texas Gulf Sulphur 26 27 Tidewater Assoc. On 144

148

141

8. C. Enterprises

China Lights, $9.80.

741%, Cu.G.5%1996G.5Bda.|

prem. b

H.K. Gort 4% Loans

78%

prem.

Do, 31%

$104

宇都

Wallace Harper

$101

$40

H.K Wing On

Constructions (New); $1.

Shai Do

354

H.K. Govt. 3% Loan. 1% pm. SELLETS

Del Lackawanna &

Western Distillers Corpn Sea. grams************ Douglas Aircraft. Du Pont

67

127

B

Timken-Detroit Axle Transamerica, “ki 20th Cent. Fox Films. 20th Cent. Fox Films

pt.

101

104

194

191

201

251

357 371

18/9

Maramana ly v. (Lon,

H.K. Mines, 13 cts.

*18

(HK)

175 ote,

A.K. Realles, $42.

SALES

Electric Boat .... Elec, Bond & Share Eice. Bond & Share

$5 pf Elec. Band & Share

$6 pf.

108 · 1104 ·

71

8

Un Carbide & Car-

bod... 73 Un Pacific

712

81

814

21

United Aircrafs

24

254

Un.. Airline Trans-

514

port

64

United Corpn.

3

3

55

United Corpn.

Elec Power & Light 11

111

3. Cuma pí.

291

291

Amey! Batavia Boutbey Caloutta

Kowloog

London

Halbourn

Sas Prin

Elec Power & Light

$7 pf"

36

37%

Un. Gas Tprovem't 10 Un. Light & power

"A"

103

Canton

Xayrink!

Haiphong

New York

Bankow

Osaka

3

Homolafa

Parle

Бор

Palping

Filetkute

147

141

--

-i

Gen Asphalt ........... Gen. Cigar

19

224

221

401

454

Loans

30+

532

securities.

308

19

Vanadium Warner Bros Piet, Westinghouse Elec. 98 Youngstown Sheet

143

Current

99

& Tube

351

37+

Chase National Bk.

291*

291*

National City Bank 25 *.

251*

Call Money

1%

1%

2 Cz. div.

* Bid

Paris

Geneva

Berlin

Athens

Milan

i

Vibro Piling

176 ct. W. Powells

*Sales to Shangbsi

LONDON EXCHANGE RATES

Dec. 29 147-19/64 21. 612 12.401

Copenhagen

tekholmn

Shanghai

New York

(British Wirpices Service)

Dec. 28

147-0/64

21.62

12.401

95

95 1

Amsterdam

Vienna

Prague:

6.00-7/16 8.98*

1421

4.99-29/32 8.98-7/16

142-5/16

Madrid

Lisbon

Hong Kong

Bombay

Montreal

Brussels

Yokohama

Belgrade

Monte Video Rio

Bucharest

Silver (Forward)

Silver (Spot)

War Loan

On LONDON: --

4.99-11/16

29.45

5.00-9/16 29.461

25

2-9/16

181

18-3/18 34% 101-9/16

Closing Quotations

December 30, 1937,

Telegraphic Transfer.

Bank Bills, on demand 1/2

Credits four months'

right

i8-7/16 181 31% 1011

$40

ON NEW YORK:-

Bank Billa, on demand 2015/18"! Credits, 80 days' sight. 31 7/18 ON BATAVIA:

On dezuand ON PAR15:-

Bank Bille, on demand 910 Credits, 4 month's night 970

ON BAIGON:-

1/28

O SHANGWAL:-

On Demand

104

On demand

· De Singarde#;-

On demand

581

ON MANILA-

On demand

#13

Du Japal:-

On demand

100

OF BANGKOK÷-

On demande

140)

BOVEEEIONS Bank Buying

· Rats

11/4

Telegraphic Tran

on, di

BAR SILWER, dar Os' inummer (18 7/18

Çements, $12.20.

Entertainments, $5.20

Constructions, (Old), $14.

China Lights Rights, $440. H.K. Electrics, $501/3 Cements, $12.20/ł.

TRUST-BURSTING Firestone Tire & R

MOVE BREAKS N. Y. MARKET Gen. Electric

Den. Foods

Gen. Motors

All Recent Advances Gen. Ballway Signs! 197

In Price Tumble

New York,.Dec. 28. Prices on Wall Street took one of their worst tumbles for weeks to-day. A wave of gloom enveloped the market. Traders rushed to sell and at the close most of the mar- ket's recovery since mid-October was wiped out

attack.

Gillette Safety Razor

alfader Gold Dust

191

Goodrich (BJ.) Goodrich $5 pf.

Hiodrear

13

40

182

ין

US Industrial Alco-

.bol

US. Rubber

US Rubber $8 of. 451

UB. Stee! one mein

PHILIPPINE MINING

BULACAN MINING

NEWS

3}#ཨྰཿཀྰa;, མིིcdངྐོ¢## #78 ཙནཱ,, ཨཱུ ༤, ཐཱཊྚཱ nin ̈དྡྷིཝ྄ཡོ༔ ཊྛཎྞཡྻོ

Board of Directors :—

Bir Shouson Chow, Chaixian" Lá Koon Chun, Esq. Li Lan Bang, Eag P. K. Kwok, Esq. Wong ChuSon, Esq. Wong Yan Tong, Esq. Kan Ying Po, Esq. Chan Ching Sher, Fung Fing Wah,

...Esq.m.

Esq

Kan Tung Po, saq, Chlef Manager. Li Tas Fong, Esq., Manager.

"Branches and Agencies :--

Pabang Bourabaya

FancooD Выгод

OVECOM Bydasy Tilhoku

soo Tiental dsactio Tokyo- Semarang Vancouver Shanghai Yokobana

Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted.

grunted

Accounta

од

YOKOHAMA

(Peking) AMBOANGA PENANG

HONG KONG RANGDON

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for Ons Year or aborter periods at rader which will be quoted-on applics tion.

of

The Bank's Head Office in Lon don undertakes Executor & Trustee business, and claims, recOVSKY. British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at any of the Agencies and Branches.

B. W. ROBERTS,

Manager.

*

THE CHASE BANK

15, 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 the world. Interest Estes on Application.

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES

This Bank is entirely owned by THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK, Nax YORK, with Resources over U.S. $2,500,000,000.

D. M. BIGGAE,

Manager.

BANK OF CHINA

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

BANK

H

PAID-UP CAPITAL.. 840,000,000.00 (BRANCHES ALL OVER CHINA) 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 Foreign Banking Bart Exchange.

Head Office: SHANGHAI Hongkong Branch:

4, QUEEN'S ROAD, O.

South China Offices:

CANTON SWATOW SHIUCHOW

KONGMOON TOISHAN KINGCHOW

We also handle the issue of Bends

and other Public Funds of the approved

Chinese Government both at Home opened in and Abroad.

SHOU J. CHEN

Local Currency and Fixed Do posite received for one year or and shorter periods in Local Foreign Currencies on terms which will be quoted on' application.

Safe Deposit Boxes To Lot..

KAN TONG PO.

Chief Manager.

NEW RAILWAY.

IMPROVEMENTS

Manag**

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK·

1.

LIMITED

Capital (fully paid up)

Reserve Fund ...

*

Teg 100,000,000 (A Yan 134,400,000.00

HEAD OFFICE:----YOKOHAMA

Leading issues tell as much as

BLANCHES AND AGENCIES AT: five points, many touching new low

Alexandria Honolulu Rangoon London, Dec. 29. levels for the year or longer.

Railway companies' programmes Bangkok Heinking Rio de was the The primary cause

· Karachi Batavia

Jancing for 1938 will include a number of,

Berlin Kobe speech of the Assistant Attorney-

San Company,, pitalized to continue the encourag- extensions of the improvements General, Mr. Jackson, which

Bombay

London Francisco started fears that Government Inc. reports that exploration on its ing work on the property from its already carried out to the signalling Calcarte

Los AngelesSeattle Manila Semarang was contemplating a trust-barsting property of 50 claiths in Nor-original capital stock of P100,000, equipment of parts of their sys- Canton

zagaray, Bulacan, is well under way. all paid up at a par value of ten tems, with a view to reducing still Dairen Moji Shanghai. is its lowest The firm has recently been reca- centavos per share to P1,500,000 at further risk of human error and (Dalny) Nagasaki Singapore Steel, production

a par value of one centavo. Officers increasing the safety of railway Fengtien

Nagoya Soerabaya since Beptember, 1934 at 19 per cent.

are Ciriaco Taszon, president; | travel. The substitution of colour- (Mukden) Now York Sydney of the nation's capacity, while the inued at the same price as hereto Raymundo Kagahasian, vice-pres-ed light signals for the semiphore Hamburg Caska

Tientsin poorness of the motor industry fore, which is about 45 cents andent; Pedro Ocampo treasurer; type is one of the principal im Haukow Otaru Takya was emphasised.

Tsingtao Antonio Bautista, Pedro Angulo, provements. On the Great West Harbin Paris Reuter.

Hong KongPeiping Yinkow land Dr. G. F. Fernandez, directors.er line, a device invented by mem-

Interest allowed on Current A Dr. Ramon C. Donato" is the bers of the staff for automatic

DO ĐIỀ secretary of the corporation. trein control in áiready in use over ACME GOLD MINING Company. a considerable length of the routes, inc.. held its annual" stock and will be extended to the whole holders meeting recently when its of the main line routes, amount- new board of directors for the ing to 2,840 miles. ensuing year were elected.

British Wireteas..

SILVER AGREEMENT

Washington, Dec, 28.

ounce.

The understanding represents a stop-gap, pending negotiations for a permanent agreement, which, it A tentative agreement has been is understood, cannot be reached concluded between the United until President Roosevelt has an States and Mexico, under which nounced the domestic price and the United States purchases of silver | policy of silver for next year, through January next will be con- Reuter,

Deposita received for Fixed Perioda at rates to be obtained on application.

Y. KANO,

Manager.

Hong Kong,-11th Sept