1934-06-20 — Page 24

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GEORGE SIDNEY, CHARLIE MURRAY

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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, ¦ JUNE 20, 1934.

THE ALBANY JAPANESE PLANS INFLATION

SOLD

FETCHES PRICE. OF $187,000

AN OLD HISTORIC BUILDING

FOR CHINA

Finance Corporation Scheme

IN CANADA?

AUTHORISING BILL INTRODUCED

Shanghai, June 20, Local Japanese. financlar and businessmen hold a meeting inst!

EXPANSION OF evening to discuss the develop-

GOLD COVER |ment of Japanese economie ontor- A property deal involving one prison in China. It was resolved

Ottawa, June 19. of the first buildings to be that a corporation be catnblished erected in the Colony after the with a capital of $15,000,000, A substantial increase in British occupation has been con- tablished at Shanghal, and branch.

The headquarters will bo os the Canadian fiduciary issue cluded by the sale of the block offers at Hankow, Tiontalt, Can- is apparently contemplated known as The Albany, altunte ton and other trading ports in by the Bennett Government, on the mid-levels.

China. The corporation will be

BANKER FOUND GUILTY

P

of

The Government has tabled Bill in the House of Commons, which authorises the issue notes up to a total of $120,000,000, with a twenty-five per cent. gold

The property has been disposed Jointly financeit by the Japanese leading to expectations of of by the agents for the owners, Government and individual Japan. the development of an in- Messrs. Linstead and Davla, the ase.-Central New

flationary policy. price fetched being $187,776. It was acquired as far back as 1862 by Mr. Charles May, on his retire- ment as Captaîn Superintendent of Police, a post which he held from 1844. Ever since, it has ro mained in the family, having pass- ed to Mr. Mny's son and then to his two grandsons, both of whom ated in 1931. It has now been sold in connection with the wind Ing up of the local estate.

Mr. May, it is interesting to note, was the Colony's first Chief of Police, and he brought out from Home the first European contingent for the Force.

BUILT IN 40'S

MISAPPLYING FUNDS AND FALSIFYING

coverage.

tho

Any neten put into circulation in excess of this sum must be co- |véred dollar for dollar with gold.

New York, June 19. Until now, only $50,000,000 has Mr. J. W. Harriman, former been statutorily, covered by President of .the' Harriman 25 per (nt. margin which the National Bank and Trust Com-World Economic Conference do- pany, was found guilty to-day by cided was ample coverage for n Federal Court jury on charges domestic purposes. of falsifying the records and mis- applying the funds of the bank.

Mr. K. H. Bennett. the Prime A. M. Austin, former Vice-

Minister, explained that if the Government President of the bank, was

Issued $50,000,000 acquitted on similar charges. worth of notes beyond the present circulation of money, they would still have a gold coverage of 31 per cent.-Renter

ANNA

re-

The Albany, which is still re, identially occupied, was named after the Duké Albany. It was built in the late forties by the military authorities, along with Reuter. other military establishments, and was for many years known as "Albany Barracka,” being used as | Government, The property officers' quarters.

mained in Government hands until The property later passed to the 1862, when it was purchased by Government, and in 1858-59 one Mr. May, of the Government offiéinis occupy- The names

the new paire ing No. 1 house was the Trade) chasers have not beeri disclosed, Commissioner. In 1860, the twu nor the purpose to which the It was stated to-day that Tyne central houses, Nos. 2 and 3, were property will now be put, but it coul shipments have increased by used as a Chhose girls school, in reported that a block of fats nearly 750,000 tons

over last no rent being charged by the may be erected on the site.

year's total.—British Wireless.

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