1940-08-21 — Page 9

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Finance and Commerce

RESERVE

U.S. RUBBER

CANADIAN

TOBACCO

ACREAGE

STOCKS FURTHER

AUGMENTED

REDUCED

NEW YORK, Any. 20. (Reutel > According to the first report on ----United States reserve of rubber the 1940 commercial crop, of leaf stocks for National defence pur-tobacco "in Canada, a considerable poses are to be raised by 180,000 (réduction in acreage is indicated tons to over 400,000 tona.

ļas compared with the acreage of The Rubber Reserve Company (91,035 acres planted in 1939. (which was set up for the purpose Reductions are general for all of establishing such reserves) an-types of tobacco grown in Ontario, nounced that it has agreed to the greatest change being in the purchase 180,000 tons during 1941 flue-cured crop, the area of which at a price ranging from 17 cents has been reduced by approximate- to 18 and a half cents per pound one-third from the

62,550 acres in 1939.

Decreases are also indicated for the cigarette and cigar leaf types

F.O.B.

This, additional to the 150,000 tons already agreed upon to which must be added 85,000 tons of bar- ter rubber.

HONGKONG

SHAREBROKERS'

· ASSOCIATION

Volume of Business Transacted on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 1940, HK. Electrics (N). ... 100 $35.75

H.K. Tramways

Humphreys

Union Ins.

HR Lands

HK. Lands

Yaumati Ferries

200

250

in Quebec.

area of

Following the recommendation of the Burley Marketing Associa- tion of Ontario that a 12 per cent, reduction in acreage be put into effect, in 1940, it is anticipated that the acreage planted to burley tobacco will be approximately 8,600

[acres,

The acreage of dark tobacco un- der contract in Ontario will show a reduction of at least 35 per cent. 15.30 There will probably be a decrease 6.75 of five to ten per cent, in the area

H.K. STOCK EXCHANGE

Trading today was on a more generous scale and embraced a better spread.

BUYERS

Union Ins.. $365. H.K. Fire Ins., $138. Docks (O), $15.25. Providents, $3.60. Hotels, $3.45,

Trams, $15.10.

Yaumati Ferries. $21.25. China Lights (O), $6.40. China Lights (N), $3.25. Telephones (0), $31,75, Cements, $14.90.. Dairy Farma. $17,50. Watsons, $8.30.

SELLERS

Lands, $31. Cements, $15.50.

SALES Union Ina, $387.50. Hotels, $3.50. Lands, $31/30.50. Humphreys, 56.73. Trams, $15.30. China Tights (0, $6.50 Mectrics (0), -$37.- Electrics (N), $35,75. Cements. $15/15.10.

10 367,50 planted to cigar leaf types in RAUB AUSTRALIAN

30.50 Quebec.

100

100

198 21:75 the acreage planted to the pipe

D58

¿

The total value is $22,404.00.

30.50 Not much change is indicated in GOLD-MINING CO.

Raub Australian Gold Mining Co report is as follows:

REPORT NO. 56% Fine Ounces 1455. Proft $22,000.

varieties, production of which is also limited to the Province of Quebec,

HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS

STOCK EXCHANGE,

Buyer Ballors

Balm

Nomia11.,

"Statement for quarter ended June 22, 1940" (consisting of three SHAREBROKERS ASSOCIATION four-weekly period).

TUESDAY 20 AUG.

Banks

1.K., Banks......

Do. (Col. Rog.} Do. (Lon. Reg.). Chartered Banks

81920

£08

282

£6元 $22

9713

N. C.

:

$362

$136

8210

10 cts.

8136

Mercantile Bka. "A"

Morcantile Bks. "C".

Bank of East Asia......)

8. Banks.......

Insurances.

Canton Insurances...... Union Insurances.......

Underwriters

H.K. Fires..

Shipping

$120 Douglasea

$11

Steamboats

$100 Indo-Chinos (Pref.).....)

280

FINANCE & GENERAL

HARD CONDITIONS IN HARBIN: LACK OF BREAD: TYPHOID

DIFFICULTIES EXPERIENCED BY HARBIN were related to the North China Daily News by a Shanghai resident, who res cently returned from a "holiday trip to the Manchurian metro- polis,

This person, who, was born in Harbin and lived there for many years before his arrival in Shanghat, said that. Harbin had changed tremendously in the past few years and none of the glitter and carefree abandon, so often associated with the city in the past, remained.

The present war in China and either rented or bought by Japan- the events in Europe, have left the ese, he said. The large influx ́of elly without flour and great dif-Japanese to the north China re- ficulties are experienced in ob- sort and their willingness to pay taining bread.

high prices for the villas, forced a BREAD LINES ·

crisis of accommodation in the Bread Unes are, so avers this city. Prodteers have taken advan- person, far longer than the rice tage of this and charge high lines seen in Shanghai during its prices.

worst crisis. At times, he had to

the bakeries.

DRINKS EXPENSIVE

walt over three hours to buy a The presence of the U.S. Asiatic loaf of bread, which at its best, is Fleet. In Tsingtao presented "an- yellow since corn flour is used by other opportunity to cabarets to raise. their prices and a whisky There is also lack of sugar in and soda is sold at $4. No for- town and, on several occasions, heleign-made, beer can be obtained in had to go to the Chinese part of the cabarets or stores, since the town to get a pound of it. Japanese companies have mono-

TYPHOID EPIDEMIC polised the market, Harbin at present is passing through a critical stage for an

TH

epidèmic of typhoid fever has BRITISH SUPPLY

4.

BOARD

broken out in the city All the hospitals are full and very few people have managed to best the, disease. The majority of those The Canadian Department of affected are young men and wo-Munitions and Supply will take men. In one day, on July 8, no over the work previously done by less than 100 persons, of all na- the British Supply Board and wil tionalities, succumbed to the place orders direct for the British dreadful disease.

Government, according to an an-

yet.

many.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1940. -PAGE 9

BLACK&WHITE

MATURITY WITH PURITY

YOUR FIRST SIP TELLS YOU

IT'S THE SCOTCHL

Satisfactory Response. To Call For Nurses

"Satisfactory response to the recent call for European nurses to help in the formation of an Emergency Nursing Service Unit for service in Malayan military hospitals during the war,' has been made by European women all over Malaya.

To combat against this calam-nouncement by Hon. .C.D. Howe, ty, the city authorities have issued Minister of the Department. orders that no vegetables or fruit, The arrangement will expedite unless disinfected in carbolic acid, the placing of orders for British

The response has been so good Required for whole-time duples, are to be sold at the markets or requirements and generally speed shops. The authorides, however, up the production of munitions of that it is now considered only a in the event of their applications are lax in preventing the spread of war in the Dominion.

matter of time before the unit is being acceptable, the women will the disease and the population of The work of the British Supply

formed.

be provided with accommodation the city has not been inoculated Board in Canada has been con- The matter now. Hes in the and will receive other privileges. cerned mostly with the production hands of the War Office in Lon- granted to nurses in Britain. Very few amusement places re- of shells, explosives and ships, and don, from whom further instruc- Their rates of pay, though not yet main in town now, while American since the outbreak of the war, tions, as to its formation, are ex

finalised, win, in all probability, and British films have not been orders in the amount of approx-pected shortly.

be, on "similar lines to those paid More than twenty applications to nurses shown in the theatres for several imately $75,000,000 have been plac-

sent from the United years now.

Only two theatres ed and commitments up to ap-have already been received and Kingdom.

another show foreign films, but these are proximately

Accepted $50,000,000 this number, the authorities con-

applicants will be the old ones from France and Ger- have been undertaken,

sider, is "satisfactory."

liable for service in any part of It has also "exercised a large Most of the applications come Malaya, but, for the time being. When returning to Shanghai, measure of control over the par-from Singapore, but several are they will be stationed at the mag- No. of Ounces of Fe Gold res this man stayed a few days in chasing activities of the British from Johore and other up-country nificent new hospital at Alexan-

Tsingtan and his observations Purchasing Commission

the towns

dra to be opened very shorty. there should also be of some in- United States.

Main reason for the formatiun As in the case of most emez-.. No. of Tons treated, 32,614 tons, tefest to Shanghailanders who in-

of the unit is to avoid the neces-gency organisations, the period of No. of Ounces of Bullion pro-tend to spend their summer hol- Production of Canadian leather sity of bringing into the Colony engagement will be for the dura. duced, 1,771 ounces.

day there

footwear factories in the Arst qualified nurses and sisters from tion of the war. HIGH PRICES RAMPÄNT - quarter of the current year totall- the United Kingdom,

Further applications will be Profiteering, such as was never ed 6,595,846 pairs, compard with

welcomed, an gificer told, me, and noted in the north China resort in 5,586,003 pairs in the correspond-

these should be addressed to the the past, has gripped the city and ing period of 1939..

Medical roms are rented out at exorbitant made in sizes for women is of first

As nurses are urgently needed Assistant Director of

Services, Malaya Command, Fort prices. One

In Britain, it is considered that of the boarding importance, its palrage represent- houses, catering especially to the ing 48 per cent of total production Women, qualified in nursing, who Canning, Singapore... American Navy men, renta cut its Second in order of quantity is rooms. at U.S. $40-U.S. $60 per footwear-for-men, with a propor- Malaya, should be utilised here. Fopulation of Quebec province month-and that, without, board. tion of 31 per cent.

says the Malaya (Tribune.

in 1938 was 3,118,088, recording to Some better known boarding

This unit will thus offer quai-a report tabled in the Legislature

Buser Selist Sales Morsial

$1200 268

Battery Tonnage of Ore raised. 21,421 tons.

No. of Ounces of Bullton pro- duced, 3,243 ounces.

£62

£64

covered 3,090 ounces.

£25

Retreatment Plant

$73

40 ct.

$210

$303

10 ots.

K

$136

2120

810

$100.

$100

32/6

$8.00

Indo-Chinas (Def.).

32/6

Shells.....

86.90 Waterboats.................

Docks, Wharves,

Godowns, etc.

800

· 33.60

H.K. & K. Wharves... 882 Providents

$3,55

$101

H.K. Docks, (Old)...........| #151

8143 $288

18/0

3261

$3.36

23 1098:30-

815.10

.:

#3,35

::

$15 30

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$143 H.K. Docks (New)..... +Shanghai Docks....... Mining

[10/0 Kailans

$0.55 Raubs

5 cta Hong Kong Mines..... Lands, Hotels and Buildings

H.K. & 8. Hotels.......

H.K. Lands...........................................] 11006. 4% Debentures.... 19.90 Shanghai Lando.........

H.A. Koalties.

802

Hamphreys *********

$10 Chinese Estates.....

Cotton Mills

833 Ewo (8.)....

8210 S'hai Cottons (9.).

Zoong Sings (8.)....!

Wing On Textiles (8.) $135

Public Utilities

H.K. Tramway...........

$7.40 Peak Tram

(old))

$3.70 Peak Trams (now)....

2

No. of Ounces of Fine Gold re- covered, 1,461 ounces.

Value of Gold from all sources, £37,402 Sterling...

Working Cost, £27,910 Sterling. Capital Expenditure, £230 Ster- ling.

Mine Profit for Quarter (subject to Depreciatior-), £9,492 Sterling

LONDON STOCK

EXCHANGE

1

houses demand as much as US

$2.50 per day. "..

in

Footwear

have

NURSES UTILISED

taken up residerite în

Under the auspices of the pre-led nurses, who have previously by Hon. Oscar Droum, Minister of vincial Department of Agriculture, left their profession on account Municipal Affairs, Trade and Com- This year there have been fewer dairy herd improvement in Nova of marriage, an opportunity to merce. The population of urban foreigners holidaying in Tsingtao, Scotia in 1939 was promoted by 58 render valuable service the municipalities was reported as: REUTER'S SERVICE) while the number of Russians has local associations with a total of country.

1,784,633, and that of rural muni- London, August 19.

decreased by half, since rooms in 6,933 cows under test compared Nurses who have not got tie cipalities as 1,321,449. Farmers The following quotations are the

Russian boarding houses, pre- with 51 associations and 6,623 cows necessary qualifications, but who numbered 146,885. Total number middle prices at the close of the viously rented out at $40 per in 1938. "Average total milk pro- have some Voluntary Aid Detach-of municipalities was 1,500. The 'market in London. All quotations month, are now offered at $200. duction per cow was 6,071 pounds ment training and experience, report announced the establish are subject to confirmation and no Most of the villas, previously which tested 4.3 per cent for but-have also been invited to sendment of 11 new municipalities dur responsibility le assumed for errors used as boarding houses, had terfat.

in their applications.

ing the year.

SHOE CO.LTD

HONGKONG SUPPLIES ALL

KINDS OF

FOOTWEAR

Hongkong Daily Press CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS

$16.30

เค

1912

$4

$57

Star Ferries.............

256

Y'mati Ferries...

8911

$8.45

Chine Lights (0)..

$8.50

$3,35

China Lights (New)-

$3.40

$3.35

in transmission.

$31

$100

મ

War Loan 31%

(Red

白

after 1852)

100-3/8

292

Canton-Kloon, Rly. 5%

Chinese 41% Gold Loan

1898 (Brit. Issue)

834

$200

Chinese' 5% Gold Bonds,

1925-47

35

Chin. 41% Anglo-French

Loan, 1908

Chinese 5% Crisp Loan.

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30

44

12

Chinese 5% Reorg, Loan,

1913 (Ldn. 18.) .... Chinese 8% Ster. Notes,

18

1925 (Vickers)

937 H. K. Electrics (Old)... #364

Chin, Imperial Rly. 5%

235. K; Electrica(New)...]

$357

"Loan

38

817

Macao Electes... (Old)

Honan Rly 5%,

龜13

Macao Electrice (New),

8214 8221

$8.60

811Bandakaa Lights

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

S'pore Tractions (Ord.))

“Industrials

| $14,90 Cald., Madg. (Ord.) 8..

Telephones (old).

$22

Hukuang Rly. 5%, 1911

(LP. N/Y Issue)

Gula Kalumpong Rubber 13/9

12

$8.50 Hukmang Rly. 5%, 1911

B.-A. Top. (bearer) ......

74/44.

Mercantile Bank

11

(German Issue)

11

Lung Tsing & U. Hal

Dunlop-Rubber

Bristol Aeroplane ..........

-2879- 9/7

Rly. 5% 1913

#:

$14.00

II.K. Bopos

HK Govt. Loans

$804

1

Cald Macg (Prof.)8.

81

Canton Icas.

Cementa

$4

14% Loan

831%

895 31%

(2094). (1940)...

Miscellaneous

$17.80

Dairy Farms.

$17.70

$17.60

8'hai-N'King Ely, 5%

60 ot.

$14.00

$15

Tientsin-Puków Rly. 5%

(Brit."Stpd.) "

$4

TOO

$85

Tientsin-Pukow Rly. 5%

(German Stpd.)...... Tientsin-Pukow Riy. "5%

. (Brit: Stpd. Supt Loan)---8-- Tientsin-Pukow Rly. 5%.

(Ger. 8tpd. Supl Loan) 8

86.20) Jap. 6% Ster. Loan, 1924, 261 $1.85 Ger. 7% Intl. Loan, 1924 49

Chartered Bank.....

Woolworths

Marsman Investments

16/0 56 8/9

Western Holdings

8/3

Sub-Nigel

165

Shell Trans, & Trad.

<bearer

.62/8 Nat Defence Bonds, 3% 100

| Londen-Midlands-Scot-

tish, 3%

12.

Great Western Rali- Nat. Bank of India. 3%

WAY, 3%

e

28 247

86,60 Entertainments

#1 80 Constructions (old)...

$1

Constructions (new)...

$7.40 Lane Crawfords..

$7

Nanyang Tobacco...................| #3}°

82.10ginçeren *******

12.10

HK & Shai Bank (Lán.

Reg.

08.30

$8.20

Watsons...................

-$3.30

3. Ch. G.5% 19250 $Bds.

36%

HE. & Shal Bank (Col

Reg)

£129

.K. Wing On

139

4. B'hal Wing On

814

"

#8

Vibro Filing

Chinese Eng & Mining

(bearer)

$8

8/2

Maramana Inv. (Lon.}}

Chosen Corporation"

40

Marsmans Inr. 1.E.);

Pekin Syndicate

201 Wm. Powells...

+Sale to Shanghel

8'hal Elec. Constr. Co. ́

Bhai Waterworks “A”.

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