HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received Tstructions
to sell by
· PUBLIC AUCTION
HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS
STOCK EXCHANGE,
Buyers Sellars
Sales
Nominal
SHAREBROKERS' ASSOCIATION
MONDAY 12 MAY.
Do. (Loa. Reg.)...
Chartered Banks .....
Bager
Ballers
141
Banks
$1305
H.K. Banks
£78 1
Do. Col. Reg.)
£71
Erg
£22) Mercantil "Bks. "A"
£11
$70
Marcantile Bks. "C" Bank of East Asia..............
#701
A
N. C. & S. Banks......
Insurances
10 ct
Shipping
$222) Canton Insurances...... $420 Union Insurance......
Underwriters
H.K. Fires
$138 Douglases
Steamboats
Indo-Chinas (Prof....
$80 Indo-Chinas (Dol.)....
от
$1
$176
ID.
Tuesday the 13th. May 1941. commencing at 2.30 p.m.
$61
$80
at their Sales Room, No. 2, Con- naught Road, Central, 2nd Floor.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
Comprising:-
Bedsteads, Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, Chests of Drawers, Chester- field Suites. Sideboards, Dining Tables, Chairs, Desks, Bookcases. Cupboards, Garden & Corner Beats, Rattan Ware, Porcelain & Glass Ware. Gas & Coal Stoves, etc., etc.
معلم
$85.K. & K. Wharres..
Savut
C.D.
FINANCE & GENERAL
Stamp topICS:
HONGKONG IN PHILATELIC Ngulna, LIMELIGHT: NEW ISSUE
BY U.S. TREASURY DEPT.
81313
£781
£71
183
£
$12 $415 80 cta $187
Hongkong comes into the philatelie limelight this week on the arrival of a most attractive set of six pictorial stamps. each printed in two colours, writes Frank L. Wlison, in the Christlan Science Monitor.
I.
The stamps are well designed
and each bears a portrait of . M. King George VI in a crowned oval frame In addition to the stamp design
A DESCRIPTION Each stamp also bears the dates that the Indicating $1171841-1943
stamps commemorate the centen-
Price Level In Rural
China
Despite the spectacular rise in
to the British. The value of the the price level in most big cities stamps are in both English
Chinese
and in the Interior, the prices of com-
modities in thousands of small;
The desim of the 2. value is in towns and rural communities bright orange surrounded by a throughout Free China show only $4.90 frame of brown, and it' netures a minor increases.
$80
ary of the ceding of the island.
60
40Mb Shells
40/71
#6.55 Waterbände sin
Docks, Wharves, Godowns, etc.
8951
$4.85
$1.00
Providents
$16
H.K. Decks (Old)..... H.K. Docks (Now)........
$24
Mining
Kailans
12/8
Rauba
$8
The
.::
$34 Shanghai Docks.....
19/6
$8.
1 cts. Hong Kong Mines.... Lands. Hotels and Buildings
H.K. & 8. Hotel......
$19.60 Shanghai Lands.
H.E. Roaltios.
26.70 lamphreys .... 100
Chiccon Estate.......... Cotton Mills
32.85
$30.65
#304
H.K. Landa
1973
}}
Do. 4% Debantures...
New Canvas Canoe
$2.70 82.90
&
Rubber Air Mattresses (new)
1 "Frigidaire" Refrigerator
1 Large Porcelain Filter
Tiental Carpet
1 Tentsin Rug
"Philco" Radio-gram
On View from Monday
the 12th May, 1941.
$34) Ewo (6.) $200
9'hai Celtons (S.)... Zoong Sing (8.)........ Wing On Textiles (8)
Pablic Utilities
H.K. Tramways. Fesk Trams (old)....
$1490
$2.86
$30)
#97
$3.00
#
to ap-
TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1941. -PAGE
SAY
Gordon's
...and know what you're drinking/
GORDONS
DRY GIN
DISTILLERY LONDON.
26
NO COLOURING MATTER
NO INJURIOUS INGREDIENTS
EPIDEMIC CHIEF
LUCE ENTERTAINED
busy street scene. The 4c. value Rice price in most parts of in- has a dark red border and purple terior China where the population design. The design pictures a mio-is well scattered is low. The rice in dern liner in comparison with Changsha is being stabilised by Chinese junk, while in the back- the government at $15 a picul of 1,100 cattles. On March 15, 1941, the ground is a view of the harbour.
The Se. value presents a view of Kinhwa district food control com- the University at Hongkong print-mittee was ordered by the Cheklang ed in black with a border of bright provincial government green. The 18c. value shows a prove a petition by the rice mer view of part of the city and in the chants to raise the price to $25 a distance a glimpse of the harbour. picul for ordinary rice and $38 a The design is in black and the pleul for glutinous rice.
The 25c, value The Hupeh provincial govern-
Mr. Henry Luce, editor and pub- fraine in carmine, shows the modern. Hongkong bankment on April 1, 1941, decided on a the Central Epidemic Prevention lisher of the American magazines in brown colour with a frame of list of prices of daily commodities Bureau, arrived in Kwelyang from Time, Life and Fortune, and Mrs. $200 deep blue. The $1 value pictures for the province, According to the Chungking yesterday to inspect Luce were entertained at dinner a clipper ship under full sall. an prevailing market prices at that epidemic prevention work in Kwel-by the Foreign Minister. Dr. Wang
time, rice was sold at $40 à picul, chow province. $125
old junk, and a modern seaplane.
Dr. C. T. Wang, President of the Among the other guests invited STAMPS FROM OTHER LANDS
Dr K. C. Wu-Mayor of at 5 cents a catty, pork at $1.10 National Red Cross Society of were BRAZIL-A 800-rola stamp at the Hermes type in orange colour catty and chickens at $1.20 a catty. China, who arrived in Kwelyank Chungking and Mrs. Wu, Mr. H. J. and a 20-reis stamp of the Aviation The wage of a carpenter or stone-on May 3 to inspect the Red Cross Timperley. well-known Australian Service and Kwelyang journalist and former China för- type in violet have been added to cutter was fixed at $2 a day while Medical 5.76 the current" postal set. $1.30
#34
eggs at seven cents each, vegetables
Mr. Tank Fel-fan, „Director m
Chung-bul,
Mr. Tuan, Mu-Isn, Director of the American Affairs Department of
16
$13.80
Peak Trams (De
573
$3
353
Star Ferria.
$50
$23
'mati Ferrios....
123
$5.70 China Lights, (0).........
817
China Lights (New)..
X.Rts. $23
E.K. Flectrics (Old)... IR.
8231
Terms: Cash on Delivery
$22
H. K. Hectics(New)...
$297
$12
H.K. Electric (Kts.),
#191
1+
SURVEYS MADE -
the price for a uniform made to branch has left for Kwangst en respondent of the MANCHESTER
to Hongkong. (Central GUARDIAN. na order was $5 without lining and $8 route FRANCE-A ̈ special stamp been issued picturing Frederic with lining. Mistral, the eminent French poes
Newa
#18
Macao Electrica
LAMMERT BROS.,
319
Sandakat Lights.....
AUCTIONEERS,
322
89
830
$25
PUBLIC AUCTION,
THE Undersigned have received
instructions
to sell by
·PUBLIC AUCTION
on
Wednesday, the 14th May, 1941,
commencing at 5.15 p.m.
at their Sales Room No. 2, Con-
naught Road, Central, 2nd Floor.
A VALUABLE COLLECTION
OF. POSTAGE STAMPS.
Terms: Cash on; Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
$8.10
189 18
Macao Electrics
Telephones (old).
Telephones (now).....
Industrials
Cald., Macg. (Ord.) 8.
Cald., Macg. (Prof.)8
$1 Canton Tces..........
$18
Cements...
H.K. Ropes
HK Gori Lowan
$974% Losh
8941 31%
$94 31%
H
#17
801
TRAIL: ! 1 !
(1834)
(1940).
Miscellaneous
Dairy Farms.....
| Entertainmenta
$1.60 Constructions (old)....
$1
Constructions (zaw)...
$7 Lane Crawfords.
***
#221
*B
75 cts
814
$81
97).
and
The value of the stamp is 1-franc For the past few years, the Na-ing power, of the farmers in Kwel. the Foreign Office, and Mr. Edward the colour a rich brownish tional Agricultural Research Bureau, chow, Hunan, Klangsi and Fukien Bingshuey Lee, Secretary, were also red Frederic Mistral whose works of the Ministry of Agriculture and provinces represented a general in- present-Central New were written in the Provencal dia-Forestry has made intensive sur-crease between 1933 and 1937| ---
leet of southern France and were veys of farm production and rural Others showed both increases and Kansu, Hupeh, Hunan and Kwang- Instrumental in promoting the conditions in different parts of decreases during that period. tung was lower in 1940, while that renaissance of that language as a China. According to its latest sta-! With 1937 as the basic year, the In Shensi, Szechwan and Kiangsi
purchasing power terary medium, helped win for tistical returns from fifteen out of farmers
in was steady. The purchasing ability him. Jointly with Jose Echegaray 86 places covering fourteen pro-Yunnan from 1938 on showed some of Sikang and Fukien farmers was the Nobel prize in literature vinces in interior China, the pur-increase although that in other marked by both increases and de- RUMANIA-Two new semil-postal chasing power of farmers, based provinces was marked by a general creases. In a few places the far- stamps have been issued,A-7-let upon their income and expendi-decrease. In 1940, only farmers in mers have been benefited by the plus 7-let value stamp and a 15-let tures over a period of eight years, Tunnan and Kwelchow enjoyed rise in prices. In most places the plus 15-let value show pictures of show only a mild decrease in most higher purchasing power over pre-farmers are not as adversely affect- Vastle Marin and Ion Mota, two rural communities in Free China vious years. The purchasing power ed as people in the large cities. vouthful' Tron Guardists who were since the war began. The purchas for farmers, in. Ningsie. Chinghai, (Central News). $1.65 associated with Gornellu. Želea
B41
#173
$61
$71
$2.20
Nanyang Tobacco....$3.95
$2.18 Sinceres
$9+
Watsons................
28 Ch. G.
3.5% 19250 $8dx
$39
TEL
K. Wing On
S'hai Wing Un
$7.20 Vibro Piling
8/3 Moramaus fùv. (Lon.)
2/1 $1
Marsmans Inv. (H.K.)
Wm. Powell..
Lights Rts...
+Balo to Shanghai
Codreanu M the disturbances leading to the German, invasion of Rumanie.
$91 YUGOSLAVIA The secunɑ zhi- 28latelic Exhibition, to be held in the $42 near future at Zagreb, is to have two special stamps issued in. Its honour. The values are to be 1.50- dinars plus 1.50-dinars and dinars plus 3-dinars.
$14
$61
314
FOREIGN BEGGAR PROBLEM IN SHANGHAI: DRUNKARDS
AND DRUG ADDICTS
The foreign beggar problem in the Central district has been more or less satisfactorily solved, with foreign indigents being rarely seen in the area, which, but a few weeks ago, teemed with mendicanta, not- withstanding the fact that numerous hostels in the city, established by the Salvation Army and Russian benevolent organisations, were willing to take care of them.
MANY LETTERS
..UNITED STATES"
4.
PRE-PAID ADVERTISEMENTS.
The following classes of advertisements "we 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.
The Treasury Department haa recently Issued a complete new series of documentary revenue stamps in red and stock transfer stamps in bright green, on which are pictured 25
TO LET-Unfurnished from 1st men who were prominent in the public life of the June, 300 The Peak Six roomed- in Bluff Fath Fifteen nation and were Secretaries of the house Treasury under the first 16 Prest-minutes from Tram. Reasonable Hastings & Co. Marina dents of the United States The Rent revenues will be valid for tax Du poses during the fiscal year to end On June 30
Dr. Wing Hsin-kung, President
House.
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WANTED TO BUX
These mendicants, mostly. Rus- A Russian official said that they WUHAN UNIVERSITY THE Undersigned have received sian and zipsy, had been "working" had two hostels for the poor, one
WE PAY HIGH PRICES nstructions
in Nanking Road, the Bund and at 222 Tongshan Road and the of the National Wuban University, for all gold and silver articles. Yuen Ming Yuen Boad.
other at 588 Avenue du Roi Albert. is visiting in Chungking to confer Jade diamonds, jewels, watches, These were full up. In addition to with officials of the Ministry of fountain pene. Apply Far East these two establishments, the Rus Education on the matter of hold-Diamond and Gold Refining Co. S.M.P. Headquarters
received glans keep a dining hut in Reng joint entrance examinations of many letters about beggars in the Bourgeat, where about 50 persons the Wuhan, Central, Southwest Room 621, China Building, 6th Central district and went to work are issued with free meals every Associated and Cheklang Universi- floor. (Btore will open on Sun- to clear the area. The first two to day. About fifteen Russians are ties for the next semester.. be given a home were two Russian also housed by the Salvation Army,
days and Holidays). women, frequently seen on Nanking at the recommendation of the Rus has been reached to hold the ex- It is understood that a decision Road near the Palace and Cathaysian Emigrants' Committee. Hotels, begging from office workers
aminations at nine different places. during the rush hours. These two 100 RUSSIAN BEGGARS
(Central News)
Thursday, the 15th May, 1941
commencing at 10.30 am.
at their Godown, No. 2. Wood Road
(Basement).
50 Bundles Paper
4 Bundles Old Rubber
1 Case Dried Cells
4 Bundles Iron Bars
1 Bag Betel Nut Pulp
2 Cases
Ware)
Mercandise
2 Cases Wood Ware
and was too young for the Russian Detachment
General Agent: Chan Che Kee. No: 4, Lyndhurst Terrace. Tel 26402
If Charges collected, $2.00.
WE OFFER HIGH PRICES for any amouni of gold articles, diamonds, silver, jewels, etc. No holidays. Apply China Building,, 7th floor. 30727.
Tel.
EURASIA GOLD REFINING CO.
"FÖR JADED APPETITES!
HOTELS
REAL RUSSIAN FOOD
Tiffin $1.20 •
Dinner $1.50
METROPOLE HOTEL
BUTTERICK EXPERT TAILORS FOR LARIES”- GARMENTS,
were placed in a charity establish- There are approximately 100 Row- ment in Yu Yuen, Road.
slar beggars in Shanghai, but the
WE PAY HIGH PRICES || The position with male beggars difficulty is that the majority are
for all gold and silver articles, was far more complicated, since drunkards and drug addicts. These
Some of the beggars are violently gold bars, diamonds and Jewels, the majority of them preferred to two faults have closed the doors of
inclined and there have been Apply China Gold Refining Co. 16, beg rather than stay in hostels, hostels to them. Some of them have several cases when windows of Pedder Building, 2nd floor, Room 6. while others were not acceptable to been known, however, to be "veter- various hostels because of their ans, who refuse to go to nostels, downtown food shops and restau- rants were broken by beggars, preferring to earn their meagre (Bamboo passion for drinking and drugs.
angered at being refused a meal In living by begging.
All cases, the beggars said that Gipsy beggara originated locally
6 Packages Rattan ..
1 Case Lead Seals and Wires
and
A QUANTITY OF SUNDRY GOODS
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
NO NEED TO BEG
"
were hungry. Jimmy's restaurant in
WANTED KNOWN
Experienced Book-keeper Wants
books after completion of a course
ticulars,
No. 463
Please Apply to:-Box elo H.K.D.P
When the police started to clear in Wayside, where they were at they had done so, because they students to form a class. Guaran- the streets of these beggars, the first allowed to use à vacant garage. Nanking Road had its window tee students to keep a whole set of Salvation Army and Russian' offl-Gradually, however, they came into cials were approached with a re- the Central district in large num- broken a while ago, but the pre- quest to take these men in. An off-bers. They have been rounded up serice of an Indian watchman has of 8 months. For Term and Far- cial of the Salvation Army stated by the police and none remain averted repetition of this.
Beggars, who are not shy of |that their hostel fm. Chaoufoong there now. Road had 58 beds for indigents, very many of the Russlan beg-work, have found the Tongshan who were also supplied with two gars are young men who have come Road hostel a good place to live. meals a day. The official stated here from Manchoukue in hope of They are, however, asked to do that there was no need for men to anding work. A youngster was re- their bit and various Jobs are beg in the streets and that these cently brought to the station and taken on by the hostel ranging imen, if their conduct was not too proved to be an old offender. Asked from repairs of toys to plumbing
LAMMERT BROS.. objectionable, could be accom- why he did not go to work, he said There are about 80 indigents liv-
AUCTIONEERS.
,modated in the hostel.
that he knew no one in the eltying at the hostel.
WANT-ADS ARE SURE!
NEW STYLE READY MADE AMERICAN DRESSES
FOR SALE. Wyndham Street.
ENGRAVERS
Tel. 23615
FEI FEI & CO.
Photo Engravers
18, Cochrane Street. Telephone No. 22224.
AUCTIONEERS
GREATEST COLLECTION
BARGAINS IN TOWN!
018
c!
LAMMERTS MULLION GOCM Enson, fit 100
1-
TEA DANCE
DAILY
EXCEFT MONDAYS $ to 730 PM.
Jimmy's
Help Your Friend and his Hobby by giving
POSTAGE STAMPS
for
his COLLECTIONS and SEEDS
for
his GARDEN We can supply the goods of his and your want
GRACA & CO.
Dealers in postage stampe and "garden seeds etc. No. 10 Wyndham Street. Established 1896 HONG KONG
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