1939-10-21 — Page 9

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Finance and Commerce

KWANGTUNG TO HONGKONG.

INTENSIFY FOOD

SHAREBROKERS

ASSOCIATION

PRODUCTION Volume Of Business Transacted

SHIUKWAN, October 20 (Cen- tral-Efforts are being exerted

of by the Kwangtung Bureau

Forestry in Agriculture and

in- tensify winter farming in order: to meet the wartime demand for food supply, Mr. Liu Yung-chi, Director of the. Bureau, revealed in a recent press Interview

on Friday, Oct. 20, 1939. H.K. Telephones..

(N)

500 $7.10

Consol, Mines ... 100,000 Ps. 00.375 Ewos

500 22.50* *Sale in CNC "dollars."

SILVER MARKET

LONDON SILVER

KWANGSI'S

SUGAR OUTPUT

KWÉILIN. Oct. 29 (Central)--- An elaborate plan for the increase of sugar production in Kwangal has been drawn up by the provincial authorities,

According to the plan, technical guidance and financial assistance will be given to sugar, producers. The establishment of small London, Oct. 19 (Reuter)

sugar refineries will be encouraged. Silver-Small bear cash cover-and the methods of sugar-cane ing. American trade sold forward. cultivation and sugar reining will Business small. Market quiet. In be improved.

the market was the afternoon at quietly steady, with small business

Mr. The province, according to Liu. has been divided into five districts in each of which agricul- tural experts have been appointed to supervise winter farming.

at the rate.

Spot, 22-13/18. Forward, 21-13/16.

NEW YORK SILVER New York. Oct 19 (Reuter). Official Price. 35-3/4.

The total winter farming area has been roughly. estimated 1,000,000 mow. Arrangements have been made with the Kwang- a Joan tung Provincial Bank for of $3,900,000 as capital for ex- ald of tending credit loans in winter farming. Meanwhile. $5,- 000 has been appropriated from the provincial treasury to pur- chise, improved seeds and ferti- lisers to distribute to diligent 30 bars. farmers as an encouragement, Mr Liu stated.

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RICE IMPROVEMENT

The Bureau, Mr. Liu continued.

paying special attention

to

the improvement of rice. A nuth-

BOMBAY SILVER Bombay, Oct. 19 (Reuter).

Off take Market-Barely steady.

Indian Mint Silver

Ready Nev, 4 Settlement Dec. 5 Settlement

58-11 53-12 59-00

ber of rice experts have been sent twenty districts in the northern, to various districts to undertake northeastern this work in

collaboration

A special bureau will be created to give technical guidance. The Kwangs! Provincial Farmers Bank will be instructed to extend credit loans to sugar producers.

Kwangs is one of the chief sugar producing provinces in China. It has

output

averaging. 500,000 plculs an- nually, which represent 10 per 'cent. of the total of the coun- try's sugar production.

The main sugar-producing cen- tre in the province is Kwelhsien on the north bank of the Yueh River southwest of Kwelping Other centres include Liuklang. Yungfu, Kungcheng. Lluchow and Tsohsien.

srid southwestern In Kwelhsien alone, there were, with parts of the province, and will be more than 13.000 mow of sugar- men of the Central Agricultural, extended over to 4.000.000, mow cane plantations and 200 sugar By the end of refineries prior to 1935, producing Research Bureau. A Rice Im-within five years.

3.0 annual increase some 400,000 piculs of sugar each provement Bureau has meanwhile that perfod been established to do expertmen-of 4,000,000 piculs in the output year. Since 1933, when the Kwangs! Provincial Sugar Refinery, capl- of rice is expected. tal work.

will tallsed at $885.000, was established. Improved methods of rice plant- Improvement of fertilisers

the production has been doubled. ing will be first introduced to also be undertaken.

HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS

STOCK EXCHANGE

Bayers Jarre

SHAREBROKERS ASSOCIATION

FRIDAY 20. xnomina

OCT.

$72 Bank of East Asia ...

N. C. & 8. Esaka

Insurances

$202) Canton. Insuranows ....

aion Insurançes Underwriters

$170 H.E. Fires

$365

811

RE:

!:

$125 Shanghai Docka 8. ...

Ranba

#4

13/9 Kails.o

Venezuela Gold Fids

4 eta, Hong Kong Mix ...

Lands, Hotels and

139

Humphrey.

$100 Chinese Estates

$2%

Cotton Mills

Eww (B.)

$175 B'bal Cotions (8)

$42 Zoong Sings "(8.)

$48 Wing On Textiles (8.)

Buytre Sallers Sales WomİDA

1.

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

(REUTER'S SERVICE)

London, October 19. The following quotations are the middle prices at the close of the market in London. All quotations are subject to confirmation and no responsibility is assumed" for errors in transmission...

Tientsin-Pukow Rly. 5%

Tientan-Pukow Rly. 5%

(German Stpd.).......... Tientsin-Pukow Rly. 5%

(Brit. Stpd. Supl. Loan) Tientsin-Pukow Rly. 5%

(Ger. Stpd. Supl Loan) 9

៩

Jap. 5% Ster. Loan, 1907 36 Jap. 8% Ster. Loan, 1924 411.

FINANCE

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1939 -PAGE

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HK. Banks, $1250." HK. Docks, $18. Providents, $4.

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Telephones (0), $20. Cements, $147.

H.K Ropes, $4.90.

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Banks

$1970 H.K. Banks

81270)

"£76

Do. (Col. Eng.)

£78

DW5

(Lou. Beg.)

£71

Chartered Banks

£201

Marcantile Bk. "A"

£104

Meremotile Bk. "C"

£201

£108

£

$79

180 ctx.

War Loan, 31% (Red

after 1952)

$200

Canton-Kloon Rly. "5%

911 9

81

Chinese 44% Gold Loan

$385

1898 (Brit. Issue).......

40%

8170

Chinese 5% Gold Bonds,

Shipping

1925-47

30

$87

Douglasm

$59

312

Steamboats

$15

Chin. 4% Anglo-French

$00

Indo-Chines

(Prod.)

$50

Loan, 1908

30

$30

Indo Chinas (Def.)..

800

Chinese 5% Crisp Loan.

88/10) Shells

86/104

1912 .....

174

88.10 Waterbosta

$8

Docks, Wharves.

Chinese 5% Reorg Loan,

1913 (Ldn. Is.)

1.

25

Godowns. etc.

Chinese 8% Ster. Notes,

$101

H.K. & K. Whares❘ $100

1925 (Vickers)

#4

Providenta

·Providents (3«W} \***

Chin. Imperial Rly. 6%

316

H.K. & W. Docks....

$18.

Do. (299) *****

Loan Honan Rly. 5%

43

aduna

10

$152

Hukuang Rly. 5%, 1911...

11

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New Engineerings 8. Mining

$14

Bukuang Rly. 5%, 1911

(German Issue)

11

13/9

$10

Lung Thing & U. Hai Rly.

8% 1913

8

34

S'hat-Wing Bly. 5%... 11

Buildings

(Brit. Btpd.j

$41

H.K. Hotel

$41

H.E. Lands ...........

$3%

Dr. 4% Debentures

par

Shanghai Landa B.

84.16 H.K.Besition

$7

$4.30 $7.90

$21

$162

$49

Ger. 7% Intl. Loan, 1924 9 Chartered Bank

71

860

ELK. & Shal Bank (Ldn.

Public Utilities

Rezi

75

$15 Tramwaya

$15

HK. & B'hal Bank (Col.

$7.40 Peak Trams (old)

$7.40

Reg.)

76

$3.70 Peak Tram (new)

33.70

$514 Biar Ferrion

$80

$22

Y'mati Ferries

#22)

Chinese Eng. & Mining

(bearer)

13/9

Do. (now)

13

$8

$4.00 China Lights (New)

Chins Lights Rt.

$4.86

$60 H.K. Electrica .....

$50

818 Macao Electric

$114 Bandakan Lights. ........

$20

37.80 Talephones (say)

你

29/-

Chosen Corporation ................. 5/6 Pekin Byndicate "................

'bai Elec. Constr. Co... Shai Waterworki “A”. 10 Union Insurance

19 Gula Kalumpong Rubber 15/7) Allied Ironfounders ..... 15/71 Asso. & Elec. Industries 36/3 Austin Motors, ord,

18/0

+

Cable & Wireless. New

Form, ord.

9.-A. Tob.. (bearer)

$1

Mercantile BankTM

48. 84/44 101

$141

Cammell Laird, ord.

6/9

$4.50 Mexican Eagle

5/6

$70.10

Courtaulds

$10)

Distillers i

Dunlop Rubber

28/6, 90 27/0

Pressed Steel, com. Vickers, ord.

#14

Gen. Electric (England) 72/6

13/9 17/6 57/9 26

Guinness (A) Son & Co

B7

$74

Hawker Siddeley Airc.... 15/4'

$4

$1.08

·Bristol Aéroplane

17/3

$8

Imperial. Chemical Ind. 20

20

Imperial Tobacco.......

113/11

38

Marks & Sp'cer "A" ord.

50

Western Holdings

Rub. Plant. Invest. Trust 29/10/ Burma Corporation Commonwealth Mining Maraman Investments... 11/6

35/71 Randfontein Estates

8/3

9

962

Rolls Royce ....

02/6

Sub-Nige!

185

$41.

Leyland Motors

Tanami Gold Mining

3d

Tate & Lyle

60/6

Anglo-Iranian ......

381

Turner Newall

74/75%

Burtah

62/6 84/41

United Steel

• 22/741

Shell Trans. & Trad

Smethwick Drop Forg... 14/6

(beater)

86/101

Armstrong Stevens, ord, 5/3

-Nominal

814

$1

Chins Light (9)

201

$10 Telephones (old)

19/0 Tractions

22/0 Traction (prof.) Industrials

Cald., Micg."(Ord.) B.

$18 Cald., Macy. (Fref.) 8.

Canton Ice

813) Caments

$4,90 Ropes

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Labs Crawfords

$1,80 Bincare

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$6.60

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Construction

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H.K. Gort: 31% Los

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9'hal Wing On

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Maremans Inv.' (H.K.)

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