PO BRITISH INDIA· APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS
TAKING CARGO FOR –
Straits, Java, Burma, Ceylon, India, Persian Gulf, Mauritius, East and South Africa, Australia, Red Sea, Egypt, Europe. PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT
STEAMERS
ROYAL
UNDER CONTRACT WITH H.M. GOVERNMENT
All vessels may call at any ports on or off the route and the route and all sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice.
PENINSULAR
ORIENTAL SAILINGS
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From
8.3.
Tons Hong Kong
About
*BURDWAN
RAJPUTANA RANPURA
6,000
17,000
1st May
17,000
15th May
*MIRZAPORE. *SOMALI
7,000
20th May
7,000
22nd May
CORFU
*BANGALORE..
NALDERA
CARTHAGE
* Cargo only.
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 24, 1987.
1
POST OFFICE
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PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS POSTAGE RATES
The first flight by Pan American Airways from San Francisco to Hong Kong is expected to arrive at Hong Kong on Wednesday, April 28, and re- turn to San Francisco on Thursday, April 29, The postage rates for this service will be as follows:-
To Manila
To Guam
To Honolulu
To U.S.A.
35 cents per 1⁄2 oz.
80 cents per oz. $1.80 cents per 1⁄2 oz. $2.80 cents per 1⁄2 oz.
plus the usual fee of 20 cents for registered letters.
Letters intended for despatch by air to one of the intermediate points and thence by sea to a further destination must be prepaid at the usual foreign postage rate of 25 cents per ounce in addition to the air mail fee.
Time of closing this mail will be announced later.
POSTAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Insufficiently
Public are reminded that the postage on Printed Papers, Commercial Papers, Samples and Small Packets must be fully prepaid. prepaid Printed Papers etc., are not forwarded.
VIA SIBERIA ROUTE Letters, Postcards and Samples for Europe and South forwarded "via Siberia" if so superscribed.
Straits Shanghai
Calcutta and Straits
Shanghai
Shanghai and Amoy
Amoy -
Japan
Straits
INWARD MAILS
Bellerophon Burdwan
April 25..
April 15:
Kutsang
April 25-
Potsdam
April 25.
Taiyuan
April 25
Tjisadane
April 25,
Tsushima Maru
April: 26.
Malacca Maru
April 28.
Anyo Maru
April 27.
Imperial Airways Plane
April 27.
Mayebashi Maru
April 27.
Radnorshire
April 27.
April 27-
April 27.
Rawalpindi
*****. · April 28.
Destination..
26th Apr. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hull, Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits, Bombay & Karachi.
Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
R'dam, A'werp and Hull, RAWALPINDI.. 17,000 29th MayBombay, Marseilles & London.
14,500 12th June Bombay, Marseilles & London.
6,000 19th June Marseilles, Havre, L’don Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hull, 16,000 26th June Bombay, Marseilles & London. 14,500 10th July Bombay, Marseilles & London.
+ Calls Casablanca. all vessels may, call at Malta.
BRITISU INDIA
§ Calls Tangier.
Straits
Airmail by "Imperial Airways direct
Service" London date 17th April
Shanghai
Calcutta and Straits
Shanghai
Java
Straits and Europe via Suez (Letters and Papers) London, 1st April and London Parcels (London date, 25th March).
Santhia Tjinegara
OUTWARD MAILS
Registered and Parcel Mails are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m., registered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day.
For
Airmail for Canton and District
Per.
Saturday
·C.N.A.C. ̈ plane
Reg., Letters,
Kaying..... Kiungchow
Date and Time.
APCAR
SHIRALA
8,000 26th Apr.
TILAWA
10,000
11th May
SANTHIA
8,000
22nd May
TALMA SIRDHANA
10,000
5th June
8,000
19th June
Singapore,
SAILINGS
Port Swettenham, Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta.
Now is the time to visit Clustralia & New Zealand
lands of Sunshine and Romance, "Down Under" you will feel a new being and even if you are not inclined towards Surfing, Fishing, Shooting or Mountaineering you will find that the Antipodes have plenty to offer you--including 25/- for your pound.
Frequent connection from Australia with the following:-
The Canadian Australian Line to the United Kingdom via New Zealand, Vancouver, etc.
The P. & 0. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s Steamers for Sonthampton and London via Panama Canal.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILING S
Hoihow, Pakhoi and Haiphong Shanghai
Saigon, Mauritius, Reunion, Mada-
gascar and South Africa, Letters for “K; L.-M. Service."
(Due Amsterdam, 6th May).
Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles.
Due Marseilles 23rd May). Manila Straits, *Ceylon, *India, *Aden, *Egypt and *Europe via Marseilles.
(Due Marseilles 29th May). *Straits and **Culcutta
Parcels,
Sat, Apr. 24.
G.P.O. and K.P.O.
Apr. 24, Noon. Apr. 24, 12.30 p.m. Sat., Apr. 24, 1 p.m. ..Sat., Apr. 24, 1.30 p.m.
Sat., Apr. 24; 1:30 p.m. Sat, Apr. 24. G.P.O. and K:P.O.
Tinhow Hakone Maru
Reg., Letters, Hakone Maru
Apr. 24, 3.30 p.m. Apr. 24, 4 p.m. Sat., Apr. 24.
.Apr. 24, 3.45 p.m. Apr. 24, 4.30 p.m. Sat. Apr., 24, 4.30 p.m.
Sat., Apr. 24.
Apr. 24, 4.15 p.m. .Apr. 24, 5 p.m. Sat., Apr. 24. Apr. 24, 6 p.m.
Sat., Apr.
Reg. Letters, Pres. Hoover Burdwan
Reg., Letters,
Kumsang
Apr. 24, 4 p.m.
Letters,
K.P.O.
Apr. 24, 5 p.m. .Apr. 24, 5.30 p.m. ·
Reg Letters,
G. P.0.
Reg., Letters.
Air mail for Swatow, Amoy, Foochow C.N.A.C. plane-
and N. China (Via Shanghai).
Reg., Letters,
Sheungwan P. 0.
7p.
NELLORE.
TANDA
BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE
MONTHLY SERVICE
Pacific
7,000 1st May
7,000 7,000
4th June Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney 2nd July Melbourne & Hobart.
SAN FRANCISCO
NANKIN
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
SANTHIA
RAWALPINDI
TANDA..TA
29th Apr. 29th Apr. 6th May
8,000. 17,000
*BANGALORE.
7,000
·6,000
TALMA.
10,000
11th May *13th: May
Cargo only.
Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.
Shanghai & Japan
Shanghai & Japan
Shanghai & Japan
Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.
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