Registrar-Generals-Department-Annual-report-1959-1960 — Page 38

TABLE VII

COMPANIES REGISTRY

I--ANALYSIS OF COMPANIES REGISTERED ACCORDING TO NATURE

OF BUSINESS AND AMOUNT OF NOMINAL CAPITAL

Nature of Business

Amount of Nominal Capital

Over

$1,000,000 || $5,000,000

$5,000,000

Total

and over

$500,000

Under $500,000

to

but under

$1,000,000

Carriers (Air and Land)

5

4

1

10

Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals

13

7

3

23

Cinematographs and Theatres

6

6

12

Costumiers and Tailors

10

2

1

13

Garment Manufacturers

13

В

4

25

Hoteliers and Restaurateurs

14

9

4

27

Importers and Exporters ...

70

22

4

2

98

Jewellers and Goldsmiths...

3

1

2

Land and Building, House and

Estate Agents, etc.

15

25

18

7

65

J

Newspaper Proprietors (including

Publishers)

7

Plastics and Synthetics

14

4

4

22

Shipping and Shipbuilding

26

10

13

49

Textiles (including Knitting,

Spinning and Weaving)...

18

8

3

38

Timber Merchants and Paper

Manufacturers

8

•

Tourist Agents

13

I w

3

13

2

16

Miscellaneous Industries (including

Iron Foundries and Rolling Mills, Mining and Quarrying, etc.

Others

Totals ...

8

2

1

19

12

1

25

255

126

74

14

469

II-ANALYSIS OF COMPANIES REGISTERED WITHOUT

SHARE CAPITAL ACCORDING TO THE

NATURE OF THEIR OBJECTS

Nature of Objects

Religious

Trade Protection

A

Welfare of Natives of Particular Districts in China.....

Others

Total ...

30

Number of Companies

4

3

10

•

22