1940-11-18 — Page 9

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS

STOCK EXCHANGE,

SATURDAY

SHAR BROKERS'

ASSOCIATION

Bayre

Sellers

Bam Numinal

Sellen Bayer

Bus

Jaruins!

"16 NOV.

Banks

AK. Banks .....

278

Do. (Col Reg.)

266

Do. (Lon: Rog.)

www.

£71

Chartered Banki.......

E25

£10 1/16

Mercantils "Bks. "A". Marcantile Bks, "C"

813

Bank of East Asia...............

$1996

$390

N. C. & 8. Banks..... Insurances

$1250

$1275

£79

188 Canton Insurances...

ID.

Union InsurancÖBLJAN

$390

$305

Underwriters

$180

H.K. Fires.....

1:1

$11

37/6

$6.90

$90)

$4.80

$18

$18

833

11/0

291

$3.30 83

IH

311.20

12 13

Shipping

$135 Douglas

$100 $80

Steamboats

Indo-Chinas (Pref.)..

Indo-China (Def.)

Shells ****

Waterbolts

Docks, Wharves,

Godowns, etc.

H.K. & K. Wharves...

Provident ........................ $4.80

H.K. Docks (Old).....

H.K. Docks (New)..........

+Shanghai Docks......

Kailana Rasbe

Mining

cte.Hong Kong Mines.....

Lands, Hotels and Buildings

H.K. & 8. Hotels... $3.30 H.K. Lands

$100 Do. 4% Debentures....

Shanghai Lands..

$3.40 H.K. Realtion.

$7.10

lumphreys ...

$100 Chinese Estates....

Colton Mills

-$41†Ewo (8)

$186 S'hai Cottens (8.)..

Zooug Sing (8.)......

# 1

£96

£251

£10)

a

50 ct.

$185 I.D.

$1

FINANCE & GENERAL

Finance and Commerce

Chemists Told Of A New WRENS" DOING

Synthetic Rubber

A new American "synthetic rubber, made of oil refinery.

gas,, a rubber that stretches better. but bounces less than the" natural, Was

to the American Chemical Societa. Detroit, by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. ·

announced

The rubber Is

is odourless and, of butyl 15 to 20 times slower $150 tasteless It is so pure it looks than through natural rubber.

Kre fresh snow. It is made on a Butyr's Lenslie strength test 1 $136" new chemical principle, indicating weaker than natural rubber. but science will soon make many kinds gets better with age, until after a. $100 of rubber instead of just

ane. couple of years the synthetic be- $100

Each kind will be suited to comes the stronger. 37/6

$6.90 special use.

18.60 $16

8331

14/0

$3

$31.35

$100

$3.40

$7

The rubber is the "buty"" whose nature has been * guarded secret since the bars fact of its discovery was an- nounced last June to Standard Oil stockholders

In

MEN'S WORK

DOVER'S JILL OF ALL TRADES

between air-raids, I saw something of the work done at the Dover naval base by the Women's Royal Naval Service writes the Dally Telegraph Correspondent. All branches of the Royal Navy speak in the highest terms of the Wrens fine practical work of the in helping to maintain the effi KESISTS THE AIR. SUN Sharp road objects do not aut ciency of the base. butvi as easily as natural. "Dynamo Week"

A

as the week strip of natural, flexed 3,000,000 of the Dunkirk events is called- times, broke in two. But a simi-is regarded by the Wrens them- lar strip of butyl was still whole sclves as a landmark in the his- after 4.000.000 flexes. The butyltory of their branch of the Senior

tests did not wear Service.

||

The report was by Dr. Per Kn laboratory Frolich. director of the chemical down as fast as real rubber.

Naval officers who had been division of Esso Laboratories. In nitric acid natural rubber engaged in the important techni-. Elizabeth, N. J.; R. M Thomas, dissolved and disappeared in five cal work of chart plotting were completely urgently needed elsewhere during

I. E Lightbown, W. J. Sparks and minutes Butyl E V. Murpare

Dr. Frolich said a whole group

of chemists has worked 10 years on the new rubber.

ARMY STUDYING IT

This buty gives the United States tour different kinds of

unaffected.

was

"Dynamo Week" and there came a call for Wrens capable of filing their places temporarily. Never before had women been given the opportunity of taking such a direct part in naval operations

An important quality of the new rubber is resistance to oxygen of the alr and to sun-

weakens light Oxygen

and cracks all natural rubber. The new chemical principle of

QUICKLY FOUND synthetic rubber, all home-made butyl explains the oxygen resist- for war emergency As the Nation ance. It is what chemists call Volunteers were quickly found, uses half the world's crude rub-saturation. A saturated chemical and these proved so efficient that ber, and 75 per cent of this for has no affinity for other chemi- they will continue at chart plot- tires, and gets it almost all from cals. Natural rubber has a lot of ting for the duration. It is prob- half-way around the world in the affinities, including the bad one able also that they will be em- $7.40 East Indies, U.S. military authorl for oxygen.

similar ployed at other ports on $3.70 ties are studying the new butyl. In butyl the scientists made a work, so relieving officers. Almost Its tire uses are atili secret rubber with scarcely any unsatis-the entire clerical work of this But one of its properties in tied affinities, except for carbon base 13 BOW 173 their capable creased strength as it gets hot. black, the stuff which makes tires hands. Heat is a problem in heavy, high-strong. Butyl will take up cne- 637 speed military transportation.. third more carbon black than will

Air leaks out of an inner tube natural rubber.

-8414- €100

Wing On Textiles (9.))

$125

Public Utilities

$18.40

$184

H.K. Tramways... $16.40

$7.40 Peak Trams (old).............

$3.70 Peak Trains (new)..

$57 Star Ferries........ Y'mati Ferries....

$7

---

$22)

$37

$1600

#17}

$6.65

* !

*:*:

Chine Lights (0)

$3.60 China Lights (New)..

$572 #221

$8.90

$38

#37

11. K. Electrics (Old)... K. Electaics Naw)....

$18

Macno Electrics (Old)

$12

$24

191

8941 $9.90

Macao Electrics (New)

Sandakan Lights...... Telophones (old)....... Telephones (now)................) S'pore Tractions (Ord.

Industrials

$14.90 Cad., Macg. [Ord.) 8.)

Canton Iem.

Cements ....

$8.70 H.K. Ropes Vers;

HE. Govt. "Loans

·888*~ |4% "Iran”

#94 31%

$94 31%

(1954).... (1940)..

Miscellaneotis

$1.60 Constructions (old)...

:

:

TENDERS INVITED

Tenders are invited for Med

cal Department contract for the

VEHICLES AND

·TRAFFIC REGULATION

IC

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1940. -PAGE

If you Value

your Health-

Insist upon

Gordon's GIN

NO Colouring Matter No Injurious Ingredients

GORDONS

DRY GIN

KASTILLERY LONDON

"MALAYAN'S MOUSTACHE INSURED FOR £200

more

approachable' Interno. much so that I had the ar=" perience of measuring hig treasured possession.

From end to end it spread roughly “ 76 inches and he informed meš that it was still growing!

Malaya is of course famous all over the world for its rubber and tin. but did you know that Malaya was also famous as the home of the owner of the longest moustache in the world" Well, this is a fact, and its proud possessor is Mr. A. Malaithanglar, ~- an Indian, writes a Malays Tribune reportér. The last time I met him was about two years ago, at a wedding reception In Seremban, and be- Hleve it or not he was of ΠΟΤΕ Wrens margery man The Dase Interest to the gathering at the accountant's office. Thus more ¡reception than the newly-wedded naval writers are made avalable couple. He definitely stole tbe for work afloat. There are “no show. longer any men officers ordernes at this base. All these duties are i now done by Wrens, who have also replaced ratings as cooks in the barracks. (Transport driving ... 13" another of their tasks, an

the

He was an amiable sort #1 personality, and became still

He told his admiring audience that he had insured his unusually valuable moustache for *£200, being afraid that one day be ranks on the basis of ability might make a mistake while.

lighting a cigarette and find the smoke. Wrens handle all the tremen-whole thing going up in dous traffic, which flows through It was also rumoured, I remember the Naval Telephone Exchange quite well, that he had been work-

alone

The ages of these girls and $6,60 supply of:-White Leghorn new In exercise of the powers con women range, between 18 and 45,

laid eggs, fish. fresh fruit and ferred by section 3.0f the Vehicles and a number served in the last switchboard. They distribute all ing at a Government office and vegetables, groceries and pro-and Traffic Regulatico Ordnance, war. Between 60 and 75 per cent. naval signals between the port was "ordered" to shave or regian sions, meat, poultry and game, 1912, the Govertor in Council rice, sundries, patent foods and hereby amends the regulations recruited locally and many and the Admiralty: they do cod- with a pension and he resigned

htinging, tele-printing and ciphering. When I met him two years ago.< meat extracts and Indian food-made under, the said Ordinance have husbands in stuffs, required

Their Jobs are often, if not al-It was widely rumoured that he locally by the appearing on pages 723 to 803 of services.

Equal opportunity is opga to ways, dangerous in this frequently was going as an “exhibit" to the Medical Department, for a period volume II of the Regulations of

town: No Chicago World Exhibition of three months from January to Hongkong (1937 Edition) as fol- every Wren for promotion to com- raided "front line"

lows:- March, 1941.

their sangfold is a by- February, 1939, after which missioned rank. The general rule matter, is to promote Wrens from the word.

was going touring Europe.

$12

Cald., Macg. Pref.)8

$1

130 cts.

#18)

$16

*98*)

395

Dairy Farms.

$17.80

Entertainments .... $6.60

$11.85

$1

Constructions (naw)....... i

$7.46

Lane Crawfords... ...

$7

Nanyang Tobacco....

831

$2.15 Sinceres

35

$20

S'hai Wing Un

814

18

Vibro Piling

7/0

Marsmans Inv. (Lon,

2/9

Marans Inv. (H.E.)

81

Wm. Powells....

་་

+Bale to Shanghai'

Watsons

-35% | Ch. 0.5% 1925G5Bds.

$39

I.K. Wing On ......

IMPORTATION & EXPORTATION

H.K. STOCK EXCHANGE

€3.20 $9.65

There is little to report due to

OF STRYCHNINE the short morning session. Banks

The Government Gazette, con Electrics, Trams and Lands re- tains the following:-

main firm while Ropes, Cements

BUYERS

In exercise of the powers con- and Providents were slightly ferred by Sections 3 and 4 of the easier. Importation and Exportation. Or- dinance, 1915, the Governor in Council makes the following re- gulation:

*

No person shall, except under a permit issued by the Superinten dent of Imports and Exports, im- | port or export

(a) Strychnine and its salts, (b) Brucine and its salts," and (c) Caffeine.

Provided that such permit "ahall not be required (a) when ́ ̧ such articles are carried into the Colony by water and are, without tran- shipment into any other vessel, to be carried out of the Colony on the same vessel on which they were carried into the Colony, and (b) when preparations or admixtures

Lands, $31,

Humphreys, $T.

Yaumati Ferries,” $22.50.

Macao Electrics (New), $16.60. Entertainments, 58.65

SELLERS

Watsons, $9.75.

SALES

Trains, $18,50 Electrics (Old), $38. Macao Electrica" (Old), $17.75, Macao Mectrics (New); $18.76.

HONGKONG

SHAREBROKERS

ARP, REPORT CENTRE Tenders are also invited for ARP. Report Centre at Sai Yee Street, Mongkok.

WATER STORAGE TANKS

AMENDMENT Regulation 147 is amended by the deletion therefrom of the full- stop at the end thereof and by the addition thereto of the fol-

Tenders are called for provid-|lowing:--- Ing and txing

water "storage

"But a véhicle so licensed shall

tanks at certain Medical institu- not be used for the carriage of tians. The work consists of making goods for hire or reward."

and fung galvanised mild steel

emergency water storage tanks at WEATHER REPORT

four hospitals in Hongkong', and one hospital in Kowloon Total 55 tanks with all necessary fittings. wooden supports, and concrete, "bases, etc.

Flongkong Royal Püservatory. 10 am, Nov. 17. Barumeter, (at sea level), 30.20

L AND E. ORD. Wind Direction, NNE

APPENDIX

The Government Gazette pub-

Kishes the following:---

Ins. Temperature, 71 F Humidity, 50 per cent..

Wind Force (Beaufort), 3. Temperature: maximum yesterday

Hi F.

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. If Charges collected, $2.00.

WANTED TO BUY

WE PAY HIGH PRICES Temperature; minimum last night. gold bars, diamonds and jewels. for all gold and silver articles,

66 F. Rainfall for 24 hrs ending 10th Pedder Building, 2nd floor, Room 5. Apply China Gold Refining Co.

today, nil

117.32 is

In exercise of the powers con- ferred by section 3 of the. Regis- tration of Imports and Exports Total rainfall since January 1st. Ordnance, 1922, the Governor in Council hereby amends the forms Against an average of, 83.40 ins. in the appendix to the regula Sunset tonight, 5,39 p.m. tions made under the said Ord- inance and published 3r the Gazette of 21st March, 1930, as Government Notification 170, as follows

Sunrise tomorrow, 6.38 a.m.

4 pm, Nov. 17. Barometer (at sex vel), 30.11 ins. Temperature, 76 P. Humidity, 46 per cent.. (1. Form: 1. is amended by the Wind Direction," NNE addition, under the word "Value" Wind Force (Beaufort),

AMENDMENTS

in the heading to the sixth Maximum temperature 76 F. column of particulars required to Minimum-temperature. 66 F

ASSOCIATION be declared of the words "(cf. Rainfall; ni.

Hongkong)."

Volume of Business Transsucted containing such articles are im- on Saturday, Nov. 10, 1940. ported or exported in a form fit

SALES

or intended for use as a medicine HK Fleectrics (N.) 45

GRADE 2 OPIUM

SALE PRICES

in exercise of the powers Com-

ferred by section 3 (1) (a) of the

HK Tramways HK, Lands

400

100

545

2. Form 2 is amended by the addition, under the word "Value" inthe heading to the Aixth $37.75 column of particulars required to 18.50 be declared, of the word "to.b. 31.35 destination)!!!

The total value is $11,433.75.

Opium Ordinance. 1932, the Go- EWO COTTON MILLS

ernor in Council hereby deter INTERIM DIVIDEND mines the prices at which prepared

·HONG-KONG TIDE TABLE From 18 to 24 Ngv. 1940.

HIGH WATER

Note The above amendments are intended to specify more clearly, and not to amend, the particulars required to be declar ed. They reproduce the effect of two notes which were formerly Mon 18 printed below the forms in the

appendix as originally enacted

oplum known as Grade 2 opfum The following telegraphic but omitted in subsequent amend Wed 10 many be sold to the public as fol formation has been received in regard to the Ewo Cotton Mills,

low

2 mace tube: $3.80; 2 candereen Ltd,, by Messrs.. Jardine, Matheson

& Co. Ltd

ment.

7′at CN$28.00 per share in the tube 38 cts.

The prices so determined are Interim Dividend of CN$150 proportion of 1 new share substituted for the prices set out payable Dec. 9. Transfer Books every 4, old shares held; pay in Government Notification No. closed Dec. 2 to 7, Issue of 337 by shareholders Shanghaf Dec 859 published in the Gazette 500 new shares to be made to 20, Hongkong Dec. traordinary of the 31st July, 1940. shareholders on the Register Dec. East Feb. 28.

outside Fal

Hong

Kong 18tandard

Tizné.

~LOW WATEL

Hong

Kong

Standard

Height

Time

WE OFFER HIGH PRICES for" any amount of gold articles, diamonds; aliver, etc. No holidays. Apply China Building, 7th floor. Tel. 30727. Burada Gold Refining co.

WANTED KNOWN

ORDERS TAKEN for hand-made sweaters, Ladies' jumpers, Babies" outits, etc,,,at $5.00 each for workmanship.

Wool and model desired, to be supplied by customer,

Bend particulars of address, etc., to Box 502, EKUP.

The WE have an outstand-

the thy mining assortment of latest American $121325.0 06 315 dresses for all occasions and price 16 16 3-8 to suit all purses, Call at "Vanity 06 1614 Shop (Lazarus) Pedder Street. 18.40"||4′′ 1′′

155 10 *18650 £8, 0702 |16

1 of 16 18 Experienced Book-keeper @wants 101 1705 16 students to form a class. Guaran 71, 0855 80.

1800 tee students to keep a whole set of 16 0950 books after completion of a course: §4 3136% 47 of 6 months. For Term and Par 84108302-5 ticulars, Please Apply to Box 189 788 28 141 No. 462 ^e/o HKDP, ~

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"Zor, a pair of trousers;

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1941

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Thursdays

Saturdays

Sundays

5 to 7.30 p.m.

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