1939-02-21 — Page 11

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FINANCE

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GOVERNMENT

ASSISTANCE FOR

17

NEW INDUSTRIES

Twenty-seven new ventures have been given assistance under the Northern Ireland New Industries Development Act during the past twelve months. These new ventures will provide employ- ment, when in full production, for some 2,300 factory workers and nearly 1,300 home workers.

MARINE

ENGINES FOR

THE EMPIRE

The results of the year's work, people. The installation of a fur- states the first annual report of ther unit will depend on the suc-cluded for installation in bonts

Sir Roland Nugent, chairman of cess attained. the Ulster Development Council,

LANCASHIRE MUNICIPALITIES

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1939. -PAGE 11

8,000 Miles

To Buy

Two Pipes

Wilbur Wright, sixty-two year-

old bullder from Chicago, has made

LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS

G.

R.

the Journey to London-8,000 miles PUBLIC AUCTION.

return to buy two pipes and a tobacco pouch. ·

He recently showed the pipes he had chosen, and the pouch with his name on and told why he made the journey.

Wilbur Wright (no relation of Wilbur Wright the air plonecr) bad. a partner called George Empson. They built up a good business together, and each year one of them came :over "to... see. manufacturers in England.

An impressive list of orders for Thornycroft engines is in hand for shipment to various parts of the Empire. These in- clude the petrol, parafin and" Diesel types, although the last-mentioned predominate. “ In some cases the units are in-

being built locally to Thornycroft destgas. and among such craft is which administers the Act, have

HELP

a 72 ft. launch for the Calcutta shown the possibility of making

Municipal authorities are play-Customs, to be fitted with three definite progress with the diversing a prominent part in the at-Thornycroft Diesel engines, each of fcation of Ulster's Industries. Atraction of new industries to Lan- 145 h.p. Then there is, a 82 ft notable feature is the variety of

cashire.

launch for the Johore Customs products affected by the "Act, As the result of negotiatioris | under construction at Thomy- When Empson came which range from carpets to tin carried out by the Fleetwood Corcroft's Singapore Yard, and this always asked him to buy the pipes boxes, and milk powder to Indus-poration, two factories are being will also have three similar units. and pouch. trtal alcohol, as well as a sub-opened in Fleetwood for the use Two high-speed target - towing Their business was ruined ten tantial extension in our making-up of shoe and slipper manufacturers, launches for the Australian Naval trades in both men's and women's while at Burnley another shoe and Department are under constructions (Fears ago. They began. again, "As they struggled the joke between apparel..

slipper factory is to be established at Sydney, and each will be fitted them was always, "Walt until we Several "new" manufacturers of in a former cotton weaving mill, with a pair "of Thornycroft 12- women's wear are working to which has been reconditioned by cylinder petrol engines, each of can afford to go to London again

capacity.

"Government

the Burnley Corporation. Work 800 b.b.p. assistance." the will be provided for several hun-

A number of lower-powered"en- Chairman adds, "justines itself indred people.

gines are destined for Singapore, industry when it helps to release A site of six and a half' acres at New Zealand and South Africa. those progressive forces of the in- wythenshawe. Manchester's new dividual on which, in the long run. residential and industrial suburb, Industrial success depends.”

has been acquired by a firm The Development Council re-manufacturing centrifugal pumps ports that up to the present, 69 for the erection of a new factory.

IMPORT TAX ON DIESEL OILS

Wright's present to himself before he went back was always. two briar pipes and a new pouch bought from a little shop where craftsmen make them,

to buy those pipes."

Wright

The partners prospered. They were both wealthy when George Empson died nearly two. years ago,

His will set up a trust find pro viding an income of £200 a year "so that my friend and partner, Wilbur Wright, can go to London

THÈ Undersigned have received

instructions

TO SELL BY

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

THÖRSDAY and FRIDAY, the 23rd and 24th" FEBRUARY, 1939

Commencing each day at 9,30 am,

with an interval from 12 noon të 1.30 .p.m.

リ

At H.M. Naval Yard, Hongkong. and at Kowloon Naval Depot.

OLD AND" SURPLUS NAVAL STORES, &c

Comprising:

Steam Bont without boiler, Machinery for Steam Boat, Bollers, Wall Cranes.”

Old Tools, Canvas, India Rubber, Clocks, Leather, Electric Gear, Electric Motors, Lamps, Cars, Firewood, Blankets, Counterpanes. Carpets," Rugs, Coverlets, Beds, Wash Basins, Furniture, Electric Cable, Ol Drums, Dirty Oll, etc.

applications for Government assis- An engineering company has GOVERNMENT "HAS DECIDED and buy himself two briar pipes tance to new Industries have been bought land

Cordage, on Liverpool's new to impose a duty of thirty cents and a pouch once a year as long considered, of which 31 have been estate at Speke for the erection of per gallon on all heavy olls Im-as he lives." approved. 30 refused and eight are under consideration. Or the 31 approved four were abandoned or

funds

a factory. It was recently reveal-ported into the Colony.

ed that the acreage of the Speke

estate is 2.219 acres and the cost The new duty will come into postponed without loss of public £207,703. Of the area. 521 acres effect with the passage through has been allocated for hous-Legislative Council of the Hydro- ing purposes, 418 acres

to the carbon Oils Ordinance, which wil 290 Speke airport, and

acres be introduced by the Attorney

H.K. STOCK EXCHANGE

Tibe market though quiet, re- flected a very steady undertone,

to the Speke airport, and 290 acres General at the next meeting. has been leased or rented for new Duty will be payable all Among a few of the counters factories. The Liverpool Corpora-heavy oils imported into the showing unsatisfied demand were tion are spending nearly £400,000 Colony on or

Trams, at 16.20 ex.Div., Cements at $15.30 and Hotels $6.70.

after, commence-

NEW SCOTTISH INDUSTRIES Since the Special Areas Amend- ment Act came into force on May 6. 1937, the Scottish Commissioner for the Special Areas has made 36 offers of asstatance for the purpose of Inducing the establishment of on roads and sewers on the estate.ment of the Ordinance, and ап industrial undertakings in the

COTTON MILLS CONVERTED all heavy oils so imported before Special Areas of Scotland. The Former cotton mills in Lanca-that date and landed in the total. capital involved over shire are steadily being converted Colony after that date, unless, £1,330,000, and it is expected that for utilisation by incoming new in either case, such heavy olls the concerns benefiting will em- industries which are helping to ex-are not to be used as fuel for any" ploy approximately 2,500 persons. pand employment throughout the heavy oll road vehicle,

On the Hillington Industrial area. Here are two of the latest The new duty applies only to Estate, near Glasgow, the - total

examples

heavy.olls, used as fuel „in, heavy number tot lases signed zis, 77.

A former cotton weaving mill off road vehicles: For the pur- Exeven standard factories have which, until it was closed two poses of the Ordinance, duty will also been reserved.

ago, provided a livelihood be payable on oll used as fuel for Over 700 persons are employed for the village of Birch, near any engine with which a vehicle in the lay-out of the Hillington Middleton (Lancashire). is to be is equipped, whether for the pur- "estate and of three smaller estates reopened early in the New Year.pose of propulsion of the vehicle on the other side of Glasgow.

years

But it will be the home of an ́en-für not. Premises have been taken on the tirely new industry, for it has been Hlington Industrial Estate near acquired by a firm of electrical in-payable on light hydrocarbon ells A duty of 30 cents is already Glasgow by a frin of Viennese strument "makers

for business (petrol, etc.).

This duty was ori- origin for

manufacture of extensions. the

Reconditioning has handbags, suitcases, manicure sets begun, and operations are expect it was raised to 25 cents in 1931 ginally 15 cents per gallon, but and other bags and cases. Teed to commence in March. Work and to 30 cents in 1938. begin with, about 20 persons will will be found at the start for 150 be employed.

men, and the number will even- tually be increased to three hun-

red...

TROUBLE AT OIL REFINERY

A factory for the processing of goatskins into glazed "kid, used in the manufacture of women's shoes, At Kirham, near Preston, an was opened in Barrhead, Scotland, other part of a mill previously

MEXICO, Feb. 20 (Reuter). last month. It is the first factory used for cotton spinning and al Federal troops are patrolling Mina- in Scotland to engage in this work. ready accommodating a firm mak-titlan, seat of Mexico's biggest ofl- The works, which were formerlying rescreens, trays, table mats, refinery, following a collision of occupied by the Callco Printers" etc., has been taken by a firm of rival factions of the workers union. Association, cover an area of 11 sports goods and leather manu- A suspension work is feared at any acres, The first unit is expected facturers who expect, to employ moment.

to be fully active in March, when about 150 workers wheri in full

it should employ about 70 work- I production.

OVERSEAS

ORDERS FOR

BRITAIN

PNEUMATIC

CASINGS":

According to statistics released

since

Among recent overseas orders by the Rubber Manufacturers As-

Inc.. sociation.

shipments of received by John I. Thornycroft

casings "during the &Co., Ltd, is one for a feet of pneumatic 26-seated bus chassis, fitted with month of November, 1938, are es-

timated at 4,442,296 units." Perkins "P8" Light Diesel engines, for the Compania Internacional de This is the largest number ship- Transportes Automorriles B.A. This ped during any month company is a subsidiary of the August and represents an increase Buenos Aires and Pacific Railways of 7.2 per cent. over shipments Co., Ltd. who operate extensive made in October, and 17.8 per road service in Mendosa.

cant over shipments for Novem The Lourenco Marques Railway ber, 1937. are taking a number of the makers

the Ehipments to automobile cross-country rigid frame 3-axiej manufacture were considerably chiasis, with all-steel bus bodies larger than for any other mouth seating 9-Erst-class and 21 third- this year, and again contributed substantially to the increased class passengers.

Other ortlers in hand at the pre-sales volume during November. In- sent time include a substantial dustry sources indicate as .com- number of 5-tonners for the Engi-pared with October, they were neering Co. of Portugal) Ltd., and considerably above November 1937. further chassis, for export to The Association estimates produc- Colombo, Cape Town, Buenos Aires, tion of pneumatic casings for Johore, Larut (Singapore), Germis- November at 4,117,457 units a de- ton, Hongkong, Port Elizabeth, Rio crease of less than 1 per cent, na- de Janeiro and Sydney.

der October and 32 per cent, over November 1937,

MEXICAN OIL FOR GERMANY-

"MEXICO CIT%, Feb 20 (Reuter)——|

Pneumatic casing, in the hands of manufacturers October 31 are estimated at 7,924,114 units. A decrease of 3.8 per cent, under

It is persistently rumoured that stocks as of October 31 and 27.1 per cent. less than on November President Cardena is about to come

30, 1937. chide a deal with German Interests under which 30 Junkers planes will be acquired in exchange for Mexi can oil, to the t

financier, is reported to be the in Mr. W. R. Davies, the New York tërmediaz

TRADE AGREEMENT

MOSCOW, Feb. 20 (Reuter)The Soviet-Polish Trade Agreement has been signed.

CLOSING" QUOTATIONS. Buyers Canton Insurances, $210, Union Insurances, $482). HK. Fires, $175. Rauba, $8.

Hotels, $6.66. Lands,, $36.

-Realties, $54.

Trams ex. Div, $18.20. China Lights (New), $5). Electrics, $561. Sandakan Lights, $9.85. Canton Ices, $1. Cements, $15.30. Ropes, $4.

Wing On (HK) $38), Entertainments, $7.

Sellers Underwiiters, 63 cts. Electrics, $57).

Salos Canton Insurances, $220.. Union Insurances, $485, Underwriters, 60 cts. HK. Fires, $180. Trams ex. Div. $10). Electrics, $57.

PHILIPPINE GOLD MÍNING

**QUOTATIONS Antamoks Ps., 47 Atoks Ps., 384"

Bagulo Gold Pa., 261 Benguet Consol Ps., 13.80 Coco Groves Ps., 46. Demonstrations Ps.. .17 Paracale Gummaus Ps, .15 San Mauricio P., 1.82 Buyoc Cons. Pa., 22 United Paracales P.

HONGKONG SHAREBROKERS

ASSOCIATION

Volume of Business Transacted for the week ending February 17′

STOCK

Hongkong Banks Bank of E Ašla

Cements

Nanyangs Waterboats

*Hotels

Macao Electrics... Ewos

No. of Shares

Price

5"

$1,415.00

100

85.00

Canton "Insurance

100

Electrica

-800

220.00

57.00 to $56.75

Telephones (OLA)

100

23.25

Watsons

700

7.50

100

15.75

China Lights (Old)

400.

8.80

8.50

China Lights (New)

190

5.50

-Providents (Old)

2,100

6.30

8.70

Underwriters

10,000

70

56

100

3.20

280

9.00

1,000

8.75

50

17.00

1,000

$18.60

$20,000

par

2,100

3/2

12.104

PA.1.82

3/0 Ps.1.80

6,000

2,000

201 11

1,000

.10

50,000

000

500

049

8,000

„014

12,000

321

6,000

Coco Grove

1,000

· Mine Operations

2,000

134

Butong Buhay

25,000

022

Shal currency:

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Itogons

Buyoca

also

Old Metals comprising Zinc, Copper, Brass, Iron, Steel. Lead Old Battery Plates, etc.

Lots may be inspected on Wed- nesday, 22nd February, 1939. Terms of Sale:-As detailed in.. Catalogue.

LAMMERT BROS..

By Appointment, Auctioneers to the Admiralty.

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