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8 folders of routine annual account sheets:
Box 1: Hong Kong and Canton Wharfs accounts: Canton Line Working accounts; Shanghai Ledger Balances; Estimated profit and loss as at 30 June 1937
Box 1:Ledger Balances: Balances for year ending 31 Dec 1937
Box 1: Shanghai Accounts: statements for year ending 31 Dec 1937 including a long covering letter from Butterfield & Swire Shanghai to John Swire & Sons describing the effects of the war in China on China Navigation Company finances and damage to ships; list of names and salaries of staff, 1:3:30; Passenger with smallpox, 1:3:47; 1:3:61 Statement of bad debts Jan/Dec 1937; spare ship gear held, 1:3:94-101; statements of foreign staff salaries and leave expenses for 1937 throughout
Box 1: CNCo Agency Working: Working accounts additional to the outport balances
Box 2: Shore Properties: Working accounts for full year. Also covers Chinese wages; costs of housing refugees; cost of painting a 25,000 sq.ft Union flag on a godown's roof
Box 2: Outport Ledger Balances: Balances for half year Jan-Jun 1937
Box 2: Hong Kong Ledger Balances: estimated profit and loss accounts as at 30 June 1937.
Box 2: Hong Kong Accounts: Accounts sheets for year ending 31 Dec 1937, including earnings and Disbursements of FATSHAN. Also mentions impact of Sino-Japanese hostilities upon migration and rice trade
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