1940-11-15 — Page 9

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS

STOCK EXCHANGE

SHAR BROKERS' ASSOCIATION

Bayere

Ballers

Balan

Naminh}

01245

$71 £85

THURSDAY

Sellers Bayer

Bomical

£7: 9/16

14 NOV. Banks

H.K. Backs

Do. Col. Reg.) ..... Do. (Lon. Reg.) Chartered Banks ...... 295) Morcantile Bks."A” Mercantile Bb. "C". Bank of East Asia...... N. C. & 8. Banka................ Insurances

#135 | Canton insurancee...... $185

210 1/16

872

$390

!!!!

!!! 18

$10.10

$22)

STT

$8.60

$37

$371

$171

::::

8571

Union Insurances.......

Underwriters

$180 H.K. Fires......

Shipping

$138 Douglares

Пі

Steam beats

$100

Indo-China (Prat.)...

$80

Indo-Chines (Del.)

35/7

Shella

$8.00 Waterbosta

Docks, Wharves,

$390

321114

$4.65.

Godowns, etc.

H.K. & K. Wharven...

$4.60 Providents

$161 H.K. Docks (Old)...........| 816j. #16

H.K. Docks (New). $16

$341 +Shanghai Docks.

Mining

14/0

Kailans

891

Raubs

cts Hong Kong Mines............

-

Lands Hotels and

#3,

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

$3.40

831

.331

***

Buliding

H.K. Lands..

$100 Do. 1% Debentures....

11 Shanghai Lands.........

23.40 H.K. Ranilies.

$7.10 Tumphreys ........ 100 Chinese Estates..

Cotton Mills

842 Ewo (S.)

$165 S'hai Colloas (9.)... Zoong Sings (8.)......

Wing On Textiles (S.)

Public Utilities

H.K. Tramways....... 16

-Star Ferries.....

Y'mati Ferries.

*#*:*:

$1940

271-

£65

£7 3/10

£281

£101

378

BO SÉ

$150

$135

::

::

$18.35

$7.40 Peak Trams (old)....

$3.70 Peak Trama (new)..

$221

China Lights (O)....

China Lights (Now)..

#38

B. K. Electrics (Old)...) $374

$38

H.B. Electric Naw).....} $37)

$18

Macao Electrios (Old))

$12

#DI

IM

$16.00 Macao Electrics (New)|

Sandakan Lighta...... Telephones (old).

Telephones (new)..............] S'pore Tractions (Ord.)

Industrials

814,90 Cald., Macg. (Ord.) 8.

Cements..

,:

FINANCE & GENERAL

Finance and Commerce

NORTH BORNEO

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Mouthly Committee Meeting

PINE PLANTATIONS

BEING NEGLECTED

The uncertainty "of the Malayan pineapple industry has tended to curtail work on pineapple lands, and many areas are rapidly ben coming overgrown with lalang and jungle growth with the result that supplies to Johore have fallen off in recent months, and packers were unable to All their quota owing to lack of fruik.

There are 20 registered factories Minutes of Monthly Committee | Meeting · of The North

in Malays four of which are peel- Borneo Chamber of Commerce held in the ing sheds; nine factories and three Sandakan Club, Sandakan. on Peeling sheds are in Johore, five $100 Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1940,

factories are in Singapore, and three in Selanger, one being a follows: $8.90 Present-The Honourable Mr peeling shed..

$100

35/7

8331

14/0

18

are as

"Diggers" Become Nursemaids

F. W. Pinnock (Chairman), Mr.・ In Johore, owing to labour H. C. Johnson, Mr. J. K. S. Mal- troubles only one factory › operat- 890) colm, Mr. G.

Mavor, Mr. A. Eed during June. A settlement of Tough ALF. Diggers of the Phillipps, Mr. Lau Bul Ching and the strike early in July permitted Garlson Battalion, Bydney, "be- Mr. C. Bayer (Secretary),

the re-opening of four factories, came temporary nursemaids as Servicing of Radić Receiving but two of these closed down in they tenderly, endently helped in Sets (Flle No. 15)-A letter from the second half of the month the disembarkation of £ new Mesurs Harrison & Crosfield owing to the uncertainty of the shipment of Internees which ar- (Bornei, Ltd.. Jesselton, dated future of the industry. With the rived in Sydney recently and left- Oct. 11, 1940, was read stating end of the fruit season approach-later by train for an internment that events who are owners of ing only one factory; operated in camp. wireless receiving sets have, drawn termittently during August, In Many of the internees, who are j attention to the lack of facilities Selangor one factory and the peel.nearly all Germans, with a sprin- for the servicing of sets, anding shed operated up to July 15. kling of Itallans, are young mar suggesting Government might be The total of unsold stock at Diggers helped in the disembark- $3.40 approached to establish a tecluni- which packing should cease, says ation of all the essential parapher-!

cian in the State (for whose sex-lan ometal report, was increased vices appropriate charges, would from 300,000 to 450.000 cases. be made as a set off against the 4icence rees paid by owners of

sets.

All imports of canned pincap ples into the United Kingdom are now made through the Ministry of In-Food, but up to the end of August no orders had been received from that Ministry apart from those 17.40 (File No 10-A letter from the taken over on contracts existing in

early May. "

The Secretary was auly structed in the matter.

Labour Amendment Ordinance

13.70 Honourable, Mr F. W. Pinnock, dated Oct. 30, 1940, was read. stating that among Bills to be brought forward at the Legisia- tive Council Meeting to be held on January 25, 1941 is the Labour |Amendment Ordinance published in the Official Gazette dated May 1. 1940, and asking the Chamber $9.90 to formulate the attitude it wish-

led its representatives to adopt.

$241/160

$12

Cald., Macg. (Prof.)8.

$1 $17

Canton Ices.

50 cts.

€18.90

$670 H.K. Ropes

FB

$8.60

́HK. GÖT£. Loren

388 14% Loan

98).

(1934)....

H

394

31%

#94 31%

(1940).. Miscellaneous

Dairy Farms............................

#

**4

Fid=1

A discussion ensued and further consideration postponed until the next meeting.

MARKET REPORT

June restrictions were placed on the export of Mal- ayan" canned pineapple to Canada, and only shipments of Golden grade are now per- mitted. The restriction follow- ed the restriction of the im- port of Canadian canned. fruits into the United King-" dom with the consequent Can- adian surplus production to be absorbed in the domestic market.

ried couples, with "chlidren. The

nalis of babies,"

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1940. —PAGE 9

SAY

Gordon's

and know what you're drinking/

GORDONS DRYGIN

INSTELLERY LONDON

NO COLOURING MATTER

NO

INJURIOUS INGREDIENTS

"Deliberate Attempt" To

Cheat Exchange Control

The few people who saw the in- ternees disembark in the harbour and leave by train watched the veterans of the last war carrying baby carriages down gangways. from the ship to a waiting ferry and from the ferry to the what. When the train pulled out two

Lim was stated to have sent a ferent firm-Kwong Hong, and th armed Garrison Battalion guards draft for $1,500 (Chinese currency No. 8, New Bridge Road, Blga- shared the back platform of the equivalent to $210 (88, currency) pore-and it was accompanied by last carriage with two baby car to a

person in Shanghal "for a draft on the Overseas Chinese riages. In one of the perambula-educational

expenses for one Banking · Corporation for $1,500 tors, which a woman internee had year," while it was in fact a re-(Chinese murrency) to be met by carefully made up with mattress mittance for and sheets, slept a tiny baby.

Described by Chlef Court Inspector E. H. Tinn as a "deliberate and flagrant” attempt to sheat" the Exchange Control, Lim Mong Joo, alias Lim Cheow Song, who pleaded guilty to a summons charge of furnishing taisa information jo the Financial Secretary, was fined $250 by Mr. J. L McFall, the Singapore District Judze.

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the payment of the Shanghai Branch of that

Corporation

goods.

In a letter accompanying the In mitigation. Lim said that be draft there was reference to pre- had been in the trade for more lous correspondence and orders than ten years and asked to be and then concerning the draft, it pardoned for this, his First of- stated that the draft was 'made itence. oat in favour of a person on ac

1

Some of the younger women were conspicuously smart in their dress, and the men's clothing varied from smart linen suits, complete with 'to- pees, to heavy tweed sports."

"He has to pay for it," remark=" The kit and topcoats of the in-count of the Foreign Exchange red Mr. McFall referring to the RESEARCH WORK.,

ternees were guarded by a de-

igulations.

trouble Idm had given in a time Further Investigations were tachment of British. "Q" troops,

The facts of the case were that like this, and fined him $250, made into the pobility of using including kilted members of a on Sept. 3, a registered letter was FROM ROZA BROS,

-Lim was charted with attempt- locally-made rubber compounds famous. Highland regiment.

Intercepted in the post at Singa-ing to send out of the Colony for- Tuesday, Nov. 14.

for sealing cans, and over 300 cans

ALL ENJOYED TRIP

pore. It was addressed to. Ɛhang=eign currens without permistor Silver prices dropped 1/16 yea were sealed with eight diferent Internees and guards all locked hai and bore the chop of Sin New from the Fancial Secretary and, terday for both deliveries, the compounds supplied by the Rubber as if they had enjoyed their voy-Beng. No. 15. Lorong 24-A, Gev alternate with furnishing false quotations being 23.5/16 for both Research Institute of Malaya. age, which was attended by com- lang, Ready and Forward, Silver · ad-

Carming trials were carried out fort, which was probably unpre- vices reported Speculators as hav-to investigate the causes of varia- cedented and unexpected for some ing sold to a small extent. The tion in the final density of syrup of them. $2.90 market was quiet, American Silver in cans of pineapple. It was found was quoted at 343/4 for Spot that the two main factors affect- The London New York crossing the final density were the rate was quoted at 402.1/2. New ripeness of the fruit and the York/London was quoted at 404. weight of fruit in the can. Briefly. the results showed that the riper the fruit the less sugar is absorb- ed.

$7

$171

$6.60

Entertainments

$6.BU

$1.80 Construction

(old)..

$1.85

Constructions (LOW)...

$7.45 Lane Crawfords...

THE

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

$2.15 Sincares

$9.60

Watsons...ya, Coruncin

$9,65

35.

Ch. G.5% 1925G $Bda

***

$30

K. Wing On

T

B'hai Wing Un

Vibro Piling

7/6 Marsmans Inv. (Lan.

Marsmans Inv. (B.K.

35%

$30

814,

Quiet,

MARENT"

STERLING

Samples of pineapple jam were

There were sellers at 1/2.31(32) November-January, buyers at 1/3 made and canned, and it was

•2/0

$1

Wm. Powells..........

48ale to Shanghai

for Cash..

NEL OIL FOR JAPAN

..

H.K. STOCK

EXCHANGE

ed strong throughout the day,The what little scrip that was offered

U. S. DOLLARS A transaction was reported at 23.9/16 tor Cash and 235/8 end of December. The market closed

found that with the addition of a little citric acid or lime-juice a very palatable and attractive jam could be made.

Further trials were carried out

locally-grown pineapples of the Karawak variety. A simple process

evolved which produced

The market opened and remain- BATAVIA, Nov. 14 (Reuter)-at 1 pm. with sellers at 23.1/2 in canning pineapple juice from

Netherlands Oll Company for Cash, buyers at 23.5/8 for will henceforth be supplying Japan Cash; with over 1,800,000 tons of all and joll products annually,

being readily absorbed...

BUYERS

H.K. Banks, $1,250.

Bank of East Asia, $73.

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Union Ing., $390.

Trams, 316.40.

Yaumati Ferries, $22.25.

Lights (N), $6.60

Dairy Farms, $17.40.

Watsons, $9.60. Entertainments, $8,60.

SELLERS

Watsons, $9.78. Vibro Piling, $.

SALES

Trams, 316,30,

Yaumati Ferries, $22.50.

Electrics (0), 138

Roper, $5.50.

Watsons, $9.65.

Lights (0), $7.

RICE IMPORT. IN KWANGTUNG

The Kwangtung Provincial Gov- ernment has secured approval from the Ministry of Finance to extend the period of exemption of customs duty on the import of rice to Kwangtung to the end of the year.

rate of '780,000 tons annually and oll, products at the rate of 548 000 tons

SHANGHAI DOLLARS

was

נו

information, an offence under the DETERENT. FIRM..

Defence (Finance) Regulations. This cover contained a letter in and he elected to plead guilty to Chinese an letterheads of a dif-the alternative charge.

PRE-PAID ADVERTISEMENTS.

The following classes of advertisements are charged at the price given below SITUATIONS VACANT. HOUSES AND APARTMENTS WANTED.

HOUSES AND APARTMENTS TO BE LET. MISCELLANEOUS WANTS. - -.

Announcements not exceeding 25 Words are inserted under this heading at a Pre-paid

Rate of [$1.50 for THREE INSERTIONS,

WANTED TO BUY

WE PAY HIGH PRICES for all gold and silver articles, gold bars, diamonds and jewels. Apply China Gold Refining Co. Pedder Building, And Toor; Rödm 6.

Business was arranged at 399 Juice of good fresh flavour which The recently-initialled agree- and 398.1/2. The market closed compared favourably with "Ha ment provides that Japanese in-with sellers at 308.1/2, buyere at walian juice, porters purchase crude oil at the 398.

There was no change in 'acreag- es under pineapple, but the area AFTERNOON MÄRKET Sellers of Sterling were quoted under cultivation is likely to show at the opening at 3.47/64 and considerable reduction by the end This will be in addition to about last advices indicated sellers at of the year owing to neglect of the

WE OFFER HIGH PRICES for 494.000 tons of various oll products 3.49/64. US Dollars opened with plantations by the growers, The regularly shipped by oil companies sellers at 5.7/8 and

yielding capacity of, the older any amount of gold articles, closed at

lands is rapidly diminishing. diamonds, silver, etc. No holidays. noon steadler "sellers at 5.29/32

The quantity of fruit avaliable Apply China Building, 7th door, for Spot.

during the next canning season is Tel. 30727. Eurasia Gold Refining AFTERNOON MARKET

likely to show considerable de-Co. The market was dun in the crease compared with the small

season crop last year.

here.

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

LONDON, NOV. 14 (Reuter

On the Stock Exchange yesterday

afternoon.

BAAN STERLING,

There were sellers at 1/2.31/32

Industrials attracted the main November/January, buyers at 1/5 HONGKONG attention and good business was for Cash.

done at higher levels. Kättira on pea US DOLLARS

the whole made a good showing, Bellers at 23.1/2 for Cash" and whte rubber shares were in favour. 23.5/8 end of December, buyers Home zalls advanced on" good at 23.5/8 for Cath, Inquiry.

Most foreign shares are firm, es- pecialty Brazilian'issues...

Wall Street was irregular.

AUSTRALIAN WAR EXPENDITURE

SHAREBROKERS”.

ASSOCIATION

Volume of Business Transacted on Thursday, Nov. 14,, 1940, SALES

Bank of. East Asia

SHANGHAI DOLLARS Opened with sellers at 308 for Spot. Some business was done at 895. The market closed with sell-S.

ers at 394, buyers at 306,-

SHANGHAI MARKET

Watsons... |China Lights... (0)

Electrics (0)

The market was steadier- for

China Providenta both Sterling and US. S. Sterling HK. Docks (0) CANBERRA, Nov. 14 (Reuter)- Was quoted at the opening at Australia's war expenditure had 3.25/32 for Spot and US Dollara risan from £6,000,000 in July to at 5.15/16 Towards the close

The Ministry of Finance Bave £11,000,000 for October declared sellers for Sterling were quoted HK, Electrics (N) special permission to importa large quantity of rice free of duty MAW Fadden, the Australian at 3.51/85 for Spot and UHR Rents betweek May and August to relieve Treasurer. In a broadcast yester. Dollars at 531/32 for Spot,

He said that in order to raise

the shortage of the staple food in

day

Kwangtung

tands for war

the

Government won

Dm now the consignments

Imported are not

fixenantity

pansion with

Staxat

80 $73.10 275 9.55 500 7.00 1,000 7.00

500

WANTED KNOWN.

ORDERS TAKEN for hand-made sweaters, Ladies' Jumpers, Badler" outats, etc., at $5.00 each for workmanship.

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

Send particulars of address, etc.. to Box 502, H.K.D.P.

500 200 Chak WE" have an outstand

4.65 ing assortment of latest American 1,000 10.60 dresses for all occasions and price. 1200: 38.00 to suit all purses. Cull at "Vanity

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200

300 97.75

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