1940-03-22 — Page 3

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS

LAMMERTS" AUCTIONS STOCK EXCHANGE

SHAREBROKERS' ASSOCIATION

Bayuru | Bullern Bal

Nemta THURSDAY 21.

*MAR.

Buyers Bellam Baionomiast

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Banks

THE Undersigned have received

instructions

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

on

1⠀!

£02,

$100 H.K. Banks

Da. (Cal. Bog.!

2421 Do Loa D

£9 Chartered Banka ..... £31) Heresztāls Bks. "AW £125 Mercantils Bks, “ga Bank of Kari Aria ... N. C. & B. Banks

Insurances

Canton IngoTRBORE ...

$1500

£93

£31

£122

$71

$71

50 sts.

82324 $500

3T

Union Insurances ... Underwriter

#2381 8308

90 cts.

$1871

$150

$100

$120 78/0

Shipping

Docks, Wharves,

$101

Godowns, etc.

$108H.K. & K. Wharto $107

Friday, the 29th March, 1940 commencing at 230 p.m.

at their Bales Room, No. 35 Han- ków Road, Kowloon.

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A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE

رف

CURIOS..

Comprising:—–

Old Porcelain and Pottery., Han Bronze and Jade Ware, Carved Ivory and Jade Ornaments. Ivory and Jade Inlaid Cabinets and Screens, Silk Embroideries," Em- broidered Pictures, Scrolls, Lac- quered Ware, etc., etc.

$187 H.K. Firs

$150 Dangla m

$10 Steamboata

$100 Indo-Chines (Prel)

$40 Indo-China (Del.)... 78/0 Shells

Watiebonta

On View from Thursday, the 28th

March. 1940.

$5.20

$23

$5.20

$38

$4.95

+

!!!

€7.40

9.09

$5.80

Provideste

Providante (new)

B.K. & W. Docks... დავი

'Do. (new)

$23.40

830 Shanghai Docks 8.

Now Engineerings 8. Mining

19/0 Kalana

19/0

$960 Raubs

$101

$4 Vabezpela Gold Flds

$39

cts Hong Keng Mine

Lands, Hotels and Balldings

$5 H.K. Hotels

{HE. Landa kemuß.

$10 Do. 4% Debarizren

$16.10 Shangbai Lands B

H.K. Baltiem varemer

#105 Chinese Estable ............

Cotton Mills

$42

Ewo. (8.)

#170 Bbal Cotton (8.)

$66 Zoong Sings (5.) .... Wing On Textiles (8.)

巴克

: :

$5.63

$38

Thug

838

៖

$100

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

AUCTIONEERS

H.K. STOCK

EXCHANGE

$421 3178 $85

$48

$100

Public Utilition

#18

$18

Tramways

$17.80 18.10 $18

88

Pook Trams (old)

$4

Pak Trams (new).......

$98

Star Ferries

$3

$68

$37

mati Ferries

225

$261

Do. (new)

Possibly due to this being a short business week, interest has been-33.30 lacking and consequently the mar

$8.20

China Lights (0)

88.30

China Lights (New)

Chine Lights Eta.

ket has been devold of anything noteworthy.

$63

$68/631

$22

Macao Electrics

BUSINESS DONE DURING

$11

THE WEEK

H.K. Bank, $1500. $1490, $1495,

130 $1,60

#304830

$1.70

***

H.K. Electries

Bandakas Lights ....

Telephones (old) ... Telephones (new) ....

2018 Tractions

23/0 Tractions (prof.)

Industrials

$14.90 Cald., Mang. (Ord.) 8.

312

81

Cald., Macg. (Fref.) 8. Canton Io

$19.50 Comenta

X.D. 86.65/100... Bopes

Miscellaneous

..

$30 15/25

$11.70

#

20,0

$1500.

Canton Ins., $232).

Unton Iris., $501; $510,

H.. Fires $187.

Wharves, $106, $1061, $108.

$19.55 $19.75

Docks, $23, $23.10, $231.

$8

Providents, $5.20, $51, $5.20.

Lands. $38, $373. $37.90, $38.

$23.10

$221

Dairy Farm (Old)

223

Realties, $4.95, $5.

$7:40.

Dairy Farm (New)

#22+

Tramways, $181. $18.20, $18.15,

$18.10, $18.

812 91

Ch. Etainment...... Constructions

$7.40

(014)

$1.85

Constructions

Star Ferries, $68.

China Lights (0), $8.30,- $8,35,

Nanyang Tobao00

$8.20.

$5.30.

$101 H.E. Gori. 4% Loss

H.K. Electrics, $68. $681, $68).

190

H.K. Govt. #4% Loan

Telephones (0), $30, $301.

841

H.K. Wing O

Telephones (N); $11.70 $11.

N'hai Wing On

$11.70.

Vibro Pilingonnen

14/8

Cements, $19.60, $19.80.

47-

Hopes, $5.90, $8.05,” $6., $8.05.

Ropes ex div.. $5.55, $5,00

Dairy Farma (0), $23,10.

China Lights (N), $5.40, 51. $5.35,

871 Lane Crawfords ......

81.80 Bincares

$10.6 Watsons

51. c. 0.5% 1025€ güde,

$10.85

FINANCE

Substitutes For Imported

Oil

LONDON, Mar. 21 (Reuter) In the House of Commons yesterday. the Secretary for Mines, Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd,

said that the effective use of home-produced substitutes for Imported oil, was of such im- portance that he had asked a number of leading represen- tatives of industry, finance and science. under the Pre sidentcy of Sir William Bragg, President of the Royal Society to make a rapid survey,

ACTION TAKEN

WHAT THE WAR COSTS BRITAIN

Ministry Of Supply Spends £1,500,000 A Day

LONDON, "Mar. 21 (Reuter)—Mr. Edward Bargin told a conference yesterday that, since the beginning of the war, the Ministry of. Supply had placed orders for matèrials, munitions and stores to the total value of £508,000,000.

The Ministry was spending £1- 500,000 daily...

ORDNANCE FACTORIES At the beginning of the "war, there were nine Royal Ordnance The body had completed the

factorles the country. Now survey, within a month and six there were sixteen and thirty-. specific questions were now being seven more were planned. the investigated simultaneously.

majority of which would be in

Action taken on the interim production next year,, employing a report had resulted in obtaining labour force of more than a quar- 32,000,000 gallons of substitute forter of a million.

imported fuels.

The report on crude benzole in- dicated that this was being re- covered at the rate of 1,000,000 gallons yearly and the extension of the voluntary effort should secure a further 12,000,000 gallons yearly.

SUPPRESSION OF OPIUM IN HONAN

D.E.I. RUBBER

7

FOR GERMANY LONDON, Mar. 21. (Renter)--In the House of Comms yesterday, Mr. R. H. Cross, Minister for Economic Warfare, replying to a question

by Mr. John Parker

(Lab) gave an assurance of the fact that there had been a con- siderable increase in the export of rubber from the Dutch East Indies, to Vladivostock since the war began and that the likelihood were re-exported to Germany had that part of the consignments

not been overlooked.

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SILVER MARKET

LONDON SILVER London, Mar. 20 (Reuter). Silver: Little general buying.

CHUNGKING, Mar. 21 (Central) -The Hunan Provincial Govern- ment has decided to set March 31 as the time limit for the com-. pléte eradication of opium in the province thus bringing the six- year Opium-Suppression Pro- gramme enforced since 1935 to an earlier conclusion,

The Ministry of Finance, It is but not much selling. Business learned, has ordered the abolition small. Market quietly steady. In of the Honan Oplum-Suppression the afternoon, the market was Directorate and its affiliated or-düll with small sellers at the rate gans by the end of this month.

but buyers were reserved.

Spot, 216. Forward, 21d.

The Ministry has issued a simi- lar order to the Sikang Oplum- Suppression Directorate. The time limit for the complete suppres- sion of oplum in private posses- sion in that province expired yes- terday."

1

RICE SHORTAGE IN TOISHAN TOISEAN, Mar, 20 (In-The foodstuffs problem is becoming more acute owing to the shortage of rice, which price has soared to

a catty and a half for one dollar Many people

national currency,

have to eat congee, sweet potato

$36

$2

51110 190%

93%

or tard..

841

$12

881

$1,

NEW YORK SILVER New York, Mar. 20 Reuter). Silver. Official, 34-3/4

HOMBAY SILVER Bombay, Mar. 21 (Reuter). Market-Steady. Offtake '50 bars.

Ready

Indian Mint Silver

Apr. 3 Settlement

May 1 Settlement

57-01

57-01

57-05.

י

CHARTERED BANK

DIVIDEND

"The Chartered Bank of India,

the

Some poor people are eating Australia and China yesterday re- even grass "and ahrubs, while celved

following telegram many fruit trees and vegetable from their Head Office in Lon- plantations are exhausted of their don production.

On April 3, at the annual, meet- The famine is due to the diffing of shareholders, Directors will culty in importing rice via Chung-recommend a Final Dividend at the shap county and the lack of rice rate of 10% per annum subject to fields in the Sze Yap counties Income Tax. $35,000,-added to Sze Yap residents in the outports Pension Fund, and carried forward are requested to send relief. €182,442.14.1d. ··

FRIDAY, MARCH 22,

SAY

Gordon's

...and know what you're drinking/

1940. -PAGE

GORDONS DRY GIN

DISTILLERY LONDON

NO COLOURING MATTER

NO

INJURIOUS INGREDIENTS

MAERSK LINE

Fortnightly Express Sailings

APRE

AST

LINE

SER

SHANGHAI and JAPAN

LOS ANGELES, PANAMA, NEW YORK, BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE,

NORFOLK & SAVANNAH

Through Ba/L are issued to Central and South America, Gulf and Caribbean Sea Ports.

EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION FOR PASSENGERS AT MODERATE RATES.

For Freight and Passage please apply:-

JEBSEN & CO.

Canton Shameen, B.C.

Tal. 10916.

Agenta Hong Kong, Pedder Building

Tel. 31205-6.

"SPECIAL

SALE'

AT LOW PRICES

New Laid Leghorn Eggs

FROM THE

Diamond Leghorn Farm

Sole Agent

HUNG CHEONG

66, NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON TELEPHONE 57108

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Watsons, $10.65.

Govt. 4% Loan. 101.

BUYERS

Docks, $23.

Realties, $4.95,

China Lights (0), $8.20. China Lights (N), 25.40. Ropes, $5.45.:

Dairy Farms (N), $22), Entertainments, $7.40.

Hotels, $51.

Lands, $38.

SELLERS

A

Tramways, $18.

Telephones. (O), $30}. Telephones (N), $114. Dairy Farma (0), $23),

SALES

FK Bank, $1500/1490. Providents, $5.20. " Lands, $38.

China Lights (0), $8.20/30:. H.K. Electrica, $68.

Telephones (0), #301/30,

Telephones (N), $11.50/.75,

Ropes, $5.60.

Govt 31% Loan, 964.

SHAREBROKERS'

ASSOCIATION

Volume of Business Transacted on Thursday, March 21, 1940.

-EK. Banks ........ 10 $1,500.00 1

8.30

Maramans Luv. (Lon.)

Maramane Inv. (H.K.) Wa Powallart #Sales to Shanghai

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

(REUTER'S SERVICE)

London, March 20. S'hai Elec. Constr. Co. S'hat Waterworks "A" Union Insurance

The following quotations are the middle prices at the close of the

15

152

28

market in London. All quotations Gula Kalumpang Rubber 20

ara subject to confirmation and no responsibility is assumed for errors in transmission.

1

War Loan, 3}% (Red

after 1953) Canton-K'loor Rly. 5% 15 Chinese 41% Gold Loan

1898 (Brit. Issue)

Chinese 5% Gold Bonds,

1925-47 ...

Chin, 44% Anglo-French,

Loan, 1908

Chinese 5% Crisp Loan,

1913 (Ldn. Is.).

Chinese 5% Reorg. Loan.

1912.

Chinese 8% Ster. Notes.

1925 (Vickers)

Chin.. Imperial Fly, 5%

Loan..........

Horan Fly 5%

Hukuang Rig. 5%, 1917...

Hukuang Rly. 5%; 1911 -

German Lastre)

Lung Tsing & U. Hal

Rly. 5% 1913

8be- N'King Rly. 5%

23.25 | Tientsin-Pukow Rly. 5%

Allied Ironfounders

14

£

Asso & Elec. Industries 41/72 Austin Motors, ord.

17 Cable & Wireless, New

Form, ord.

81

98-11/16B-A. Tob. (bearer)

101/3

Mexican Eagle

12-5/8

|Cammell Laird, ord.

7/44

58

Mexican Eagle

4/3

"

Courtaulds

36

513

11

Distillers

67/6

Dunlop Rubber

33

Gen. Electric (England)

B0/1

Gulpness (A) Son & Co. 78/3

Hawker Siddeley Airc.

̈13/41

| Bristol Aeroplane limy

15/3

Imperial Chemical... Ind. - 31/42

Imperial Tobacco

118/9

Marks & Spicer "A" ord.

51/9

Rolls Royce

91/3

57

Leyland Motors

75/3

54/8.

15.

19

50

20

30

104

ླ ༔ ཤྩ ྴ ཏྲྰཾ ཤྩ སྐུ "ཀྰ་ྭཀྰneབྷྲ ཾསྐྱུ

Tate & Lyle.........

Turner & Newall

United Steel

23/1

17

Smethwick Drop Forg.

15/3

Armstrong Stevens, ord. 18.

13

Pressed Steel, com.

17

China Lights (0)

HK. Docks ......

100 *34

20

Vickers, ord.

18/0

Woolworths

85/44

HK, Electrica

100

33

23.25 (Brit. Stpd.)....

13

Anglo-Dutch

24/1/

Rub, Plant. Invest. Trust

33/3

Telephones (0)

⚫ 200 100

Telephones (N) *200

68.20 68.00 30.25 11.70:

Tientsin Pukow Rly. 5%

13

Burma Corporation

9/41

Commonwealth Mining

T

14/6

500

11.75

38/9

Tel. No. 97478,

800

11.70

15/3

100

11.60

Sub-Nigel

188/3

Tanami Gold Mining

Bd.

2,000

Anglo-Iranian

52/6

3,000

5,000

意

Burmah

71/101

Shell Trans ́ & Trad.

Übearer)

7879

-Nominal

.Antamaks

Atoks

Masbate Con. North Camarines · 3,000 Ban Mauricio 5,000 Mine Operations 20,000 United Paracales 13,000

53,177

(German Stpd.).........

Tientsin-Pukow Rly. 5%-

(Brit. Stpd. Supl. Loan) 13

Tientsin-Pukov Rly. 5%

(Ger. Stpd. Supl. Loan): 13

Jap, 5% Eter. Loan, 1907 501

Ps. 0.12. Jap. 6% Ster. Loán, 1924 55

0.16

Ger, 7% Inti. Loan, 1924 74

0.074 "Chartered Bank

-0.06 HK &-8hal Bank (dn.

Reg.)

• 0.75

0,094 H.K. & S'hal Bank (Col. 0.25

*Sales on Wednesday, March 20, The total value is $56,557 175..

Reg) Chinese Eng, & Mining

924

19

(bearer). Chosen Corporation .... 8/6 Pekla Syndicate

1/6

Maraman Investments

Randfontein Estates

Western Holdings.

i-ex-dividend

65/101

LONDON GOLD

London, Mar. 20 (Reuter): Bar Gold, Fine per oz, 168.

SHOE CO.LTD.

HONGKONG BUPPLIES ALL

KINDS OF

· FOOTWEAR

BASTER HOLIDAY, GOOD FRI- DAY 22ND, EASTER MONDAY 25TH, DON'T FORGET TO BUY EASTER EGGS PRESENTS FOR YOUR GOOD WIFE CHILDREN AND FRIENDS, 15. POTTINGER STREET.

INSURANCES

The National Mutual Life Association of Australasia offers you the best conditions for a fund for old and your family in case of your deaths Annuities and educational policies are also issued. Insure now, Office :--d, Der Voenz Bd. Central (6th Boor Boom No. 66), Bank of Canion Build- ing, Hongkong

Resident Secretary,"

H. R, WELLS.

LONDON METALS

EXCHANGE London, Mar, 20 (Reuter). ouverz sellers TIN

Standard, Cash 248-3/4 240 Standard,

3 months 247-1/4 247÷1/2 Standard,

Set ment Price :249 Straits

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of

Gladioli and Begonia

direct from

Holland

obtainable at GRACA & CO.

Dealers in Garden Seeds, Postage Stamps,

Picture Books etc, etc. No. 10. Wyndham Street.

Hong Kong /

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HOTELS

RUSSIAN FOOD COOKED IN THE

RUSSIAN WAY

TABLE D'HOTE $1.00 ALSO A LA CARTE AT THE

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1940 ZENITH

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