Account Working Papers

Scope and Content

File 1:

2 folders (number 2 and 3) of detailed but rather miscellaneous accounts sheets of China Navigation Company finances - 1 folder containing Ledger Balances as at 31 July 1942; details of steamers' earnings, receipts and payments 1 Aug 1942-30 Sep 1945;

File 2 includes: breakdown of freight costs; Compradore deposits; stewards' accounts; Tientsin rice claims; smuggling guarantee deposits, with names of Compradores and Stewards etc

File 3 includes: breakdown of freight costs and shippers' names; named Compradore deposits and claims not recovered from Compradores' books; Tientsin rice claims; smuggling guarantee deposits; Charterers' accounts

File 4: Detailed current accounts

File 5: Shares and shareholders' accounts; CNCo Managers' Report for the year 1940; AGM 27 Jun 1940 with Chairman's remarks, 5:24; Summary of CNCo Agency balances, 1939, 5:25; Taikoo Sugar Refining Co Ltd, profit and loss, 5:30-Chinese porcelain packing list for insurance purposes, of GW Swire; 5:108-110

File 6: Current accounts and insurance accounts

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