1940-10-30 — Page 9

"HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Finance and Commerce

WHEAT CROP OF Canada's Hog DEATH PENALTY

CANADA

Production

Canada's hog production in 1940) SECOND LARGEST will be the greatest ever recorded.

IN ANNALS

According to preliminary esti mates, the 1940 Canadian wheat

This year's spring pig crop was

greater by 30 per cent. over that of 1939 and an increase of 2 per cent in the number of sows ex-

FOR OPIUM

ADDICTS

PATUNG, HUPEM. Oct, 29- (Cen-

tral-Despite the war. Hupeh is making good progress in the fields of administration, reconstruction and opium suppression work, ac-

Hupeh Provincial Government.

FINANCE & GENERAL

ALASKA'S NEW

NEW RUSH

Days Of '98 Recalled As War Bases Rise, Settlers Prosper

crop will be the second largest in pected to forrow this fall has been cording to a high omelal of the to be the new headquarters of the see is not

the Canadian wheat production.reported. The increase in the spr This estimate plates the yield ating pig crop resulted in a gain of

561,104,000 bushels, which closely

than the third estimate of the 1930

crop, although the final estimate

37 per cent, in the number of hogs

Since the enforcement of the

have

been

Army.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1940 —PAGE 9

BLACK & WHITE

are

AFINEST QUALITY IN SCOTCH WHISKY

SKAGWAY, ALASKA-Alaska is in the midst of a boom, the like of which it hasn't known since the gold rush days of '98. New defence measures centering in Alaska are bringing thou- sands of soldiers and sailors into the country and work on the new air bases is giving employment to thousands of men,

Three dally shifts are speeding ground in Canada's British the construction of an Army air Columbia as it does in the terri- base at Fairbanks. There 15 an, tory of the United States. equal rush at Anchorage, which is The Alaska that most visitors the Alaska of igloos and Eskimos. Rather it develops At Seward and Kodiak navy air into a country of· fjord-strewn approaches the record crop of 586.-on farmis at June 1, 1940, which, new district administrative system bases are being constructed: a" beauty similar to Horway. On 720,000 bushels in 1928, This year's amounting to 5,882,000, was the in some districts in western Hupen.

landing field is being completed both sides of results satisfying

narrow inleta crop is 71,481,000 bushels larger highest ever recorded

The Increase in 1940 is a con-achieved. It is planned, the om- on Annette Island. The Chilkoot snow-capped mountains covered

Barracks

Haines, once at

the with clouds. Sometime the moun- tinuance of the upward trend in Cial stated, that beginning from for 1939 may be raised in view of hog production which commenced January next year, the new sys- sole and therefore an important tains are rugged rocks; often they the unexpectedly heavy market in the spring of 1939. Two years item will be extended to all dis- defence post in Alaska, is now a are thick with pine forests. Many

comparatively quiet outpost, since glaciers nestle on the ages. Ings which occurred at the end of of relatively favourable prices for tricts in the province,

Some of the glaciers, for 171- hogs and an abundance of low In the field of reconstruction, there is no air activity there. the crop year.

'The government expérimental stance, the intensely blue axu

settlement farm The Prairie Provinces are credit-priced feed have stimulated hog the omcial further stated, special

project of which moves six feet a year, reach raising. ed with a yield of 534,000,000

As a result of the large pig crop,

of handicraft indus- Matanuska Colony, at Palmer, is the ocean. Obligingly they break bushels of the 1940 crop. Manitoba and Alberta each has the largest marketings will reach new highs tries, such as spinning and weav-thriving on this boom. The colony off ice fragments at the whistle.

Alasks Railroad line of a boat. crop on record, with 71.000.000 during the remainder of the yearing. soap-making, and leathers on the

The Summer temperature und the early months of 1941, An tanning. The output of these in-linking Fairbanks and Anchorage

dustries is not only meeting the and supplies-farm-and-day-pro-surprising between 60 and 10 de increase of over 40 per cent is ex

civilian needs, but also contribut- ducts to towns along the way.

there is no midnight pected.

ing to the military requirements.

Started with 200 families in sun, Light lingers, however, until Anti-opium regulations have 1935, the colony is now operating around 10 o'clock at night, and been strictly enforced in the as a co-operative. It has its own, the sunsets brilliant with LONDON, Oct. 29 Renter) province, according to the

vegtable cannery. chicken hat-smoky reds and dusky golds. It la authoritatively stated that In order to chery, dairy (including a cheese- LAND OF TOTEM POLES German losses in aircraft over thoroughly exterminate the making plant) and powder house. The section from Prince Rupert Britain during the week ending evil, the Provincial Authorities There are colony schools. for the in British Columbia to Skagway midnight on Oct. 26 totalled 29 have taken stern measures to"

children of the settlers and social In Alaska 13 totem-pole land, of which at least eight were shot suppress both oplum traffic centres for recréation.

Among these tribal family trees down at night. and smoking: As from Janu-

is to be found such folklore as British losses were 18 aircraft leagues in collaborating with the ary 1941, any person found guilty of opium smoking will be punished with death, the official concluded.

bushels, respectively.

:

MARKET REPORT

OAT PRODUCTION The uat and barley crops are also larger than in 1939. the total oat production being estimated at 105 095,000 busheels, an increase of 20.688,000 bushels over the 1939 Crop The total barley crop is estimated at 110.538,000 bushels, an increase nt 7,301,000 bushels terday for over last year.

FROM ROZA BROS.

Tuesday, Oct. 29. Silver prices dropped 1/18 yes- both deliveries, the quotations being 23.7/16 for Ready The 1940 flaxseed crop Is and 23.3/8 for Forward: Silver estimated at 3,490,000 bushels, un advices reported a quite market Increase of 1,321,000 bushels over with a small business done. the previous year's drop. as a re- American Silver was quoted az sult of larger acreage and a better 34.3/4 for Spot. yield. The 1940' crop 01 hay and

The London-New York cross-

attention is being given to the promotion

same

official.

clover at 13.718,000 tons shows an rate was quoted at 402.1/2. New HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS

increase 01 339,000 tons compared York/London was quoted at 404.

with that of 1939.

WORKS CRYING.

Quiet,

MARKET

STERLING

There were sellers at 1/2.31/32 October/December. buyers at "1/3

OUT FOR BONES for Cash"

A ton of discarded household bones, worth £3.10s at present rates, will yield 15 cwt of vital products of much greater value.

Yet, until recently, bones were wasted at the rate of 25,000 tons a year by being thrown into dust

Today 20,000 tons of bones

bins.

U.S. DOLLARS Sellers were quoted at the and opening at 23.3/18 for near 23.1/4 for December leading to a small business at 23.1/4 for Cash, At the close at 1 pm, there were sellers at 23.1/8 and prob- aple buyers at 23,3/16 for Cash.

have to be "Imported at the risk of life, the cost of currency and the occupation of shipping space, at 375;

SHANGHAI DOLLARS

The market closed with sellers Some business was done

because housewives do not save 10 378 and also: 380. At the close bones. It is calculated that if every there were sellers at 3811/2

housewife did so and if every focal

authority collected them this state;

of affairs would vanish.

ARE ESSENTIAL

SHANGHAI MARKET Opened with sellers of Sterling at 3.31/32 and subsequently the rate rose to 4d. The market closed

at noon with sellers at 3.29/32 Dollars opened

Bone products are essential in for Spot. U.S. the prosecution of the war, Glue] with sellers at 8.1/8 Later the is used in the making of aero-rate rose to 6.3/16. At the close planes, shell cases, camouflage the market was a shade easier paints, matches, A.R.P. requisites with sellers at 6.1/32 for Spot. and paper, Grease is a component | of soap, glycerine, candles nad a thousand and one other articles) of use on the battlefield and in the home,

This factory is "crying out for bones Bones from butchers' shops are the most valu^ble. Those from the household tab. come next in value. One hundred tons of house

AFTERNOON MARKET

The market was quiet in afternoon

at

STERLING

the

*

grees, and

arc

18

NO IF OR MAY BE IT'S THE SCOTCH.

German Air Losses For Week

N.E.I. PILOTS LEAVING SOON FOR ENGLAND

LONDON, Oct. 29 (Reuter) Puots from the Netherlands East Indies are shortly leaving. Batavia for England, according to Batavia wireless yesterday,

The pilots will join Dutch col-

R.A.F'

the

East A Dutch

Indian legion will follow shortly to join the Dutch Legion already in England.

South African Planes

CRUISE INTO CANADA The usual cruise does not reach the legend of the Raven Tribe, and nine pilots. this far north Dr West.

And At the top of the pole the carved paradoxically, the "Alaska cruise bird flaps its wings. He symbo-phratry." from Seattle covers as much lizes the founder of the tribe why. INDIAN STOREKFEPERS

when the great flood descended Today the visitor does not see on the world, was changed into the Indian in his hut with his A raven. He had done kind deeds "coat of armis" before his door. and the treat Spirit, to show bis Most of the Indians that are seen. ́SHAREBROKERS"—ASSOCIATION appreciation, performed this act are running curio shops. But the to save him from drowning bo old poles are preserved. Their in- Sa ominshe flew

LONDON, Oct. 29 (Reuter) to the top of a high tricate carvings are in parks or on

A successful attack on a military mountain, taking his wife, mother town streets, their colours some encampment tu Abyssinia is and mother-in-law with him. what weathered for the most part,nounced in a communique which

This is pictured in the carving but no less fascinating for the of three squatting figures. The toll the years have taken on their lower symbol is a frog into which brightness.

-STOCK EXCHANGE-

Buyers Sellers

Nominal

TUESDAY

29 OCT

Banks

Buyer Baliers

$1230 H.K. Banks

$1230

£67

Do. (Col. Reg.) .....

£87

£62

Do. (Lon. Reg.)....

£62

£6

Chartered Banks

£67

29

Moreantile Eka. "A".

$10

farcantile Bka. “C”

150 ct

#176

$387

ment

*

$72

Bank of East Asia.....

N, C. & S. Bank...... Insurances

$175 Canton Insurances..... $387 Qston Insurances....

$1

Underwriters

$150.K. Fires.......

Shipping

Shells

$6.00 Waterboats

Bomb Maji

an-

says that or October 26 South African aircraft attack Maji, Abyssinia, which was bombed and machine-gunned.

Direct hits were scored buildings, causing tires and large explosions.** *** ***

feel the raven was changed so he The 'surrounding tree-clad £10 could live in the marshy lands mountains and the rush of fish- $73

after the fluca.

filled streams provide industries As tribes intermarried, or as the for the section. All along the braves performed great deeds, the coast are fleets of fishing, boats, poles standing before their huts cold-storage plants and cannerles received new carvings. L

The Kyan for the fish" are at Juneau, Ket- - $150 Pole in Ketchikan is

surmounted i chikan, Wrangell and. Prince scathed by a crane, below which is the Rupert. $125 Kyak, a fabled bird of the moun--- There are paper mills at Ocean"

.8100

a

Despite heavy anti-aircraft and machine-gun

from

were ground, all

fire aircraft

the

ut-

tains. and farther below is the Falls and Powell River. At are mining and lumbering activi $100 grizzly bear. Thus the people Wrangell there is a sawmill cut-ties. The "Alaska Juneau mine. 35/0 reads, "T am à member of the ting large quantities of Sitka located in the capital city of the $6.00 Crane clan and am married to spruce for aeroplane construction.Territory, has the largest gold

members of the Kyak

Bear And all through this district there milling capacity in the world.

$125

Douglases

11

Steamboats......

$20

$100 Indo-Chinas (Pref.)..

Indo-Chinas (Def.`

35/0

Docks, Wharves, Godowns, etc. H.K. & K. Wharva...

$28

$4.60 Providente

$4871

$16

$154

$27

14/0

$8

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The market closed with sellers $30

1/2.31/32 October/January.

buyers at 1/3-for-Cash.-

Some

U. 8. DOLLARS

business was done

at

23.1/8 for Cash. At the close there

hold bones will produce 50 tons were sellers at 23.1/8 for Cash, of feeding stuffs and fertilizers. buyers at 23.3/18 for Cash.

121 tons of glue and 12) tons of¦

grease,

北

SHENSI ENFORCES

ANTI-OPIUM LAWS.

831

***

!!!

་་་

the

SHANGHAI DOLLARS .Business was arranged in afternoon at 383.1/2 and also 384. The market closed with sellers at 383.1/2 for Spot,

SHANGHAI MARKET

SIAN. Oct. 29 (Central)-(The Opened in the afternoon with oplum suppression work in Shensi sellers of Sterling at 3.57/64. Last advices indicated sellers at

is making satisfactory

progress.

In order to thoroughly exterminate 3.7/8 for Spot. U.S. Dollars"open- the evil, the Shenat Provincialed "with sellers at 6 and last Government has circularised the advices indicated sellers at 531/ district governments throughout 32 for Spot,

the province enjoining strict en- "forcement of the anti-opfùm re- gulations in regard to both oplum traffle and smoking. Poppy cul- tivation in the province has al ready been suppressed.

HONGKONG

SHAREBROKERS"

ASSOCIATION

Volume of Business Transacted

on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1840. SALES

China Lights (0)

500 $6.75

Cements

200

H.K. Electrics

16.10 50 -37.00 100 37.00

HK Lands

H.K, Telephones (0)

200 30.25 100 23.50

100 23.70

1,250

The total value is $22,915.00.

HK. STOCK EXCHANGE

The market continues steady with more sales reported than yesterday.

BUYERS

Iands, $30.25.

Yaumati Ferries, $22.25.

· Lights (0), 56.70

Telephones (O), $23.25.

Entertainments, $0.45,

Lands, $31

SELLERS

Yaumati Ferries, $22.75.

Telephones (0), $24. Cements, $18.25.

Vibro Ruling, $8.

Lands, $30.25

SALES

Lights" (0),'" $6.75.

>F'ectrics ((0), $37,-/

Telephonea (0), $23.70.

፡፡

8002

$16

H.K. Docks (ota)... $15 H.K. Docks (New)...." 827+Shanghai, Docks.....

Mining

114/0Kailans ...

201 Raubs

1 cte. Hong Kong Mines.

Lands. Hotels and Baildings

$3.20 H.K. & 8. Hotels.

R.K. Landa......

$100 Do..4% Debentures..

$10.60

83.36

$7.10

Shanghai Landa.......................

H.K. Banlies..

Ilumphreys

$100 Chinese Estates..

837

8180

Cotton Mills

Ewo (8.)

S'hai Cottons (8)

ii!

:

83.30

$304. $100

$3.40

37

$37 $190

Zoong Sings 18).......

Wing On Textiles (8.) Public Utilities

$125

816.

HK. Tramways....................'

$10

87.40 Peak Trams (old)....

18

$3.70 Peak Trams (new)... $594

Star Ferries.....

$59

*222

Y'mati Ferries..

$221

123

$17 $16 $11

$9.66

$6.10 $8.40

$12

#1

$10

#101

China Lights (0)...... 10.40 China Lights (New)... *636#

H.K. Flectrics (Old)...

$36.K. Electrical Now)...

Macno Electrica (Old)

Macao Electrics (New) Sandakan Lights......... Telephones (old)....................... Telephones (new).................] ... B'pors Tractions (Ord.) Industrials

$14.90) Cald., Macg. (Ord.) 8. Cald., Mueg. (Pref.)8.

Canton Ices..

$163 Cement......

HLK. Ropes.....

H.K. Gort Loans $99 4% Loan A $80 31% #35 31%

(1984). (1940).. “Miscellaneous

$171 Dairy Farms...... $0.60 Entertainments

$1.80 Construction (old).

Constructions (new)...

$7.40 Lane Crawfords.....

Nanyang Tobacco...... #3} Sinceres

CH. G.5% 1925G$ Bds.

1.K. Wing On

B'hai Wing On"

Vibro Piling******

7/6 | Maramatta" Inv. (Lon.)

9/9 Mareman Inv. (H.K.)

Wm. Powella... +Sale to Shangha

$2.15

$8.00 $9.10

Watsons acces

$9.20

:

$37

$23

$8

895

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ORDERS TAKEN for hand-made

60 pts. sweaters, Ladies' jumpers, Babies' outfits, etc., at $5.00 each for workmanship.

Wool and model desired, to be 98% supplied by customer.

Beud particulars of address, etc.. to Box 502," HADP.

Tha "WE" have an outstand- ing assortment of latest, American, dresses for all occasions and price to suit all purses. Call at "Vanity 20 Bhop (Lazarus) Pedder Street.

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