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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
Opening Of Oversea - Chinese
Bank In Alor Star
With the opening of a new branch at Alor Star, the Over- sea-Chinese, Banking Corporation, Ltd. has now a complete chain of branches running from North to South of the Malay Peninsula.
A large
The official opening ceremony took place recently at the premises of the bank, No. 42, Jalan Raja, Alor Star. and representative gathering was present.
WAS
the of
Oversea-Chinese A party was given, and among : Office thos who attended. were the Bankmg Corporation. Ltd.. British Adviser Kedah, the Assis and many had asked if it was m tant British Adviser, Kedah, Mr Shangnai Its actual place was "de Moubray, the Adviser. on in Singpore.
Lands; Mr. Tan Eng Kheam. the Bank's Managing
Director,
The authorised capital of the of bank is $40,000,000, with $10,000,000 Singapore: Mr. Yeo Thiam Stew paid up and customers' deposits Manager of the Oversea-Chinese exceed $45,000,000. These figures Bank, Penang; and several others show the confidence of the publie
Toasta were drunk to the suc-In the banx. cessful venture of the new bank, j the health of His Highness the Sultan of Kedah and the pros- perity and development of Kedah.
Mr. Tan Eng Kheam, who first. addressed the gathering, gave a short talk on the close relations between banking and business
He referred to the war. in Europe and stressed the point that Malayans, especially those residing in Alor Star. should contribute freely to the Malaya' Patriotic Pand. The. Oversea- Chinese Bank in Singapore. which is the Head Office, was receiving contributions from the Chinese section. Mr. Tan hoped that the Alor Star branch would do the same. Mr. Yeo Thiam Slew, Manager
of the Penang branch, thanked the British Adviser and all the others present for their attendance in gracing the function
Same people, the speaker went on did not know where the Head
There are at present alto- gether 32 branches of the Uverses--Chinese Bank spread all over the world. The nom ber in Malaya 'has now come to twelve with the opening of the new one at Alor Star.
The bank has modern banking facilities and Kedah's State capital is sure to be greatly benefitted."
Kedah, being the State produc- ing the largest quantity of rice. which is Malaya's staple food, is
Oil Supply
Is Germany's Weak Point
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 31 (Ren- ter)-in a long war, Germany's all supply will be one of her weakest points. This is the opinion of Dutch all experts, the report commenting on from the New York correspon- dent of the "Telegraaf". that. in the view of the majority of American Army and Navy ex- perts. Germany has only suf- Acient high-grade petrol for
months' big scale
two attacks.
sir
The Telegraaf report Jug- gests that after such a period, Ger- many will have to use synthetic spirit, which is unsuitable for modern warplanes.
American experts place the 1939
production synthetic petrol
at 25,000,000 barrels and believe that Germany will need 52.000.000 in peace-time
and nually in wartime.
..
150,000,000
ar-
an important place, and the open- LONDON STOCK
thg of the new bank will do much
to further develop the country.
Mr. Lim Cheng Chye, who was formerly attached to the Penang Branch, is in charge of the new branch at Alor Star.
LONDON GOLD
London, Oct. 30 (Reuter). Bat Gold, Fine per oz, 189.
HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS
Banks
$1315)
$1325
H.K. Bankto
$70
£78
$70
$1330
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EXCHANGE
(BKUTER'S SERVICE)
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London, October 30. 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,
War Loan, 3% (Red
after 1052).,,
911 Canton-Kloon Rly. 5% 9 Chiness 44% Gold Loan
1898 (Brit. Issue)..... 40 Chinese 6% Gold Bonds.
1925-47
STOCK EXCHANGE
Резужую
Salen
Nomina
SHAREBROKERS' ASSOCIATION
TUESDAY 31.
30
OCT..
Roger eller Sandga
Chin. 43% Anglo-French
Loan. 1908
........ 30 Chinese 5% Crisp Luan,
1912 Chinese 5% Reorg Loan,
1913 (Ldn. Is.)
17
26
Chinese 8 Ster. Notes,
1925 (Vickers)
Chin. Imperial Rly. 5%
£201
Loan
£11
Honan Riv 5
$72
Hukuang Rly, 5... 1911...
11
160 cts,
Hukuang Rly. 5% 1911
(German Issue)
11
$203
Lung Tsing & U, Hai Rly.
$1
$400
5% 1913
8
$170
Shal-N'king Rly. 5%...
11
Shipping
Tientsin-Pukow Bly. 5%
367
(Brit. Stpd.)
9
$16
(Prot.)
Tientsin-Fukow Rly. 5%
$50
$20
(German Stpd.)
9
85/71
Tientsin-Fukow Rly. 5%
85
(Brit. Stpd. Supl. Loan)
>
Tientsin-Fukow Rly. 5%
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Do. (Col. Reg.)
Do. Lon. Bag.) ... Chartered Banks
274 Marcantile Bk. "A"
#11
Morcantile Bk, "0"
Bank of East Asin .... N. C. &. Banks... Insurances
$90 Canton Insurances... $400 Union Insurances
| Underwritem
8175. Firm
Douglas
Steamboat
'Indo China
$3 Indo-Chinas (Del.)...
85/71 Bballs
$8.10 Waterbosta
211
2+8
31
114) Naw "Engineerings 8.
(Ger. Stpd. Supl. Loan) 9 Jap. 5% Ster. Loan, 1907 43 Jap. 8% Ster. Loan, 1924 48
Docks, Wharves,
Godowns, etc.
$101 H.K. & K. WharvOS
$100
Providenta
$3.95
•Providants (new)
|$1810 H.K & W. Docks... | .918)
Stat
Do. (saw)
Ger, 7% Intl. Loan, 1924 9 Chartered Bank
71
8175 Bhangbai Docka B.
$169
H.K. & Shai Bank (Ldn.
Re.....
78
Mining
B.K. & B'hai Bank (Col.
13/9 Kailas
13/9
Reg.)......
79
810
Chinese Eng. & Mining
34
(bearer)
13/9
Chosen Corporation
5/6
Pekin Syndicate
S'hal Elec. Constr. Co. ..
S'hal Waterworks “A”,
Union Insurance
10
10
98.
DAT
19
822
$60. Baubs
#4
Vanezuela Gold F
4ets Hong Kong Mines... Lands, Hotels and
Buildings
$ H.K. Hotels.....
13:10 HE. Lands
Do. 4% Debentures Shanghai Lands B
4.10 H.K Realtime
37 Humphreys an
$100 Chinees Estados
Cotton Milla
Ewo (8.)
#175 S'hai Cottone (1.)
$42 Zoong 8ing (8.) ....
$48 Wing On Textiles (5.)
Public Utilities
¿Tramways
8:10 Peak Trams fold) ... $3.70 Peak Trama (new) ... 3814 Star Ferrios
Y'ati Ferries
Do. (new)
Chins Lights (0)
#41 China Lights (New)
China Lights Rte.
H.K. Electrice
$19 Macao Electrics
911
Sandakan Lights m
$20.30 Talephone (öld) .....
$7,80 Telephones. (DOW)
19/0 Traction **********
Tractions (peuf.)
Industriais
Cald., Macg. Ord.) 8.
Q
$16
8:0
$7.80
$32
$4
€2
15
::
14
Gula Kalumpong Rabber 18/10) Allied Ironfounders
15/74 $7.90 Asso. & Elec. Industries 39 ·
Austin Motors, ord.
17/6
:80/104 11.
FINANCE
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1939-PAGE
Hongkong Daily Press CLASSIFIED
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Germany Very Short Of Raw Materials
LONDON, Oct 31 (Reuter) As a result of the blockade, 128 lorries were delivered with- out tyres.
As regards rubber, the 1937
totalled import
118,000,000 Reichsmarks and the entire supply is now cut off,
Covers The Buna substitute one-fifth of the peacetime con- sumption.
As regards tinplate, one-third of the iron-ore imports are cut off. Sweden supplies two-thirds of not could the remainder, but cover even Germany's peacetime requirements..
TEXTILE" TRADE
As regards textiles, the stoppage of export trade should have left a surplus equal to about one-third the total production. Inability to supply textiles, therefore, presumably due to a shortage of raw materials and suggests that sur- plus stocks were limited at the cutbreak of war, a
Was
Russia Bupplies of cotton from are relatively inaccessible. More- over, it is estimated that Ger- many's wartime requirements of cotton are equal to two-and-a- half times the expected maximum Soviet output for 1942..
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27/74
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64/8
27/41
Marks & Sp'cer "A" ord. 49/9"
96/3 ***... 88/11
Tate & Lyle
$22
3163
Cable & Wireless, New
Form, ord.
484
$42
B.-A. Tob. (bearer) ..
$80
Mercantile Bank
Cammell Laird, ord.
$15.85
$15.00
Mexican Eagle
$7.40
Courtaulds
$3.70
-Distillers
#60
Dunlop Rubber
Gen Electric (England)
74/3
Guinness (A) Son & Co. 88/6
$7.80
$42
Hawker Siddeley Airc.... 15/14
Bristol Aeroplane
16/101
$60
Imperial Chemical Ind. 29/3 Imperial Tobacco
· 115/7/
$20
$7.10
Rolls Royce
22/
Leyland Motors ́.....
22
Turner & Newall
$14
United Steel ......
59/9 75 22/104
18
| Cald., Macg. (Prof.) 8.
#1
Canton Iow
81
Smethwick Drop Forg... 13
$14
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Armstrong Stevens, ord. '5/3
$4.90
Pressed Steel, com.
14/71
Miscellaneous
Vickers, ord.
17/71..
20
Woolworths
58/6
#191
Anglo-Dutch
26/8
Rub. Plant. Invest. Trust 30/61 Burma Corporation
9/3
Commonwealth Mining...
$1.98
$3
30
98/
Western Holdings. ..... Bub-Nigel
$974
H.K. Gork:
% Lan
96%
Mariman Investments... 12/6′′] Randfontein Estates 35/71
10/6 197/6 Tanami Gold Mining...... 3d
$41
|H.K. Wing O
841
Anglo-Iranian
S'hai Wing On omis
$10
Burmah
42/6 84/41
48)
Vibro Filing Lamin
12/6
Marsmans Inv. (Les)
Shell Trans & Trad.
(baster)
85/7
-Nominal
ex-dividend,
$90
#24 Comande
$4.90 Ropes
Dairy Farm (Old)
$191 Dairy Farms (New)....
$0.25 Ch. E'tainmente
$1.50 Constrootions .........(all) .
霉素
{Construotions → (new)
Lane Crawforda
Nanyang Tobmooo...
$1.80 Binosres
$7.90 Watsons
3 Ch. G.5%, 1995G #B46.
$100 H.K. Góti, 4*, Lanan
$71
4/0° Maramana Inv. (H.X.)
Wm. Powali mes
to
$6.60
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H. K. STOCK EXCHANGE
The day's trading was on extremely small scale.
BUYERS
HK, Bank, $1315,
Cements, $14. †
Dairy Farms (Old), $19.
SELLERS
Tramways, $16.
HK. Govt. 31% Loan, 97.
BALES
Docks, $18.
EK, Govt, 4% Loan. 100.
PHILIPPINE GOLD MINING
E QUOTATIONS
20
Atoks 14 8, Antamok 13 s Baguio Gold 13 b, Batong Buhay 0095 5. Benguet Consolidated 10.20 s, Big Wedge 18 b,"
"Coco" Grove 14 s, Consolidated Mines. 0035 a, Demonstration 07 s, L. X. L. 35 s, Ipo Gold 12 b, Itogon Mining 22 8, Masbate Consolidated 171⁄2 8, Mindanao Motherlode 74's, Mine Operation 074 b, North Camarines 13 s. Paracale: Gummaus 16 b. San Mauricio. 73's, Surigao Cón- solidated 17 &, Buybe Consolidated 11 8. United Paracale 27 s. Mam- bulao Consol 03 b. Byndicate In- vestments 018 6,-
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