TIKEL 77
RAJPUTAN
CREENOCK
PεO 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 ROYAL
STEAMERS
UNDER CONTRACT WITH H.M. GOVERNMENT
and the route All vessels may call at any ports on or off the route - and all sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice.
PENINSULAR
& ORIENTAL SAILINGS
Tons
From Hong Kong
About
Destination.
26th Apr. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hull. Marseilles & London.
S.8.
*BURDWAN
6,000
KAJPUTANA
17,000
1st May
RANPURA
17,000
15th May
*MIRZAPORE..
7,000
20th May
Bombay, Marseilles & London.. Straits, Bombay & Karachi.
*SOMALI
7,000
22nd May
RAWALPINDI..
17,000
29th May
CORFU
14,500.
*BANGALORE.
6,000
NALDERA
CARTHAGE
Cargo only.
12th June 19th June
16,000 26th June 14,500 10th July
Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
R'dam, A'werp and Hull. Rombay, Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, L'don Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London, Bombay, Marseilles & London.
† Calls Casablanca. all vessels
may
BRITISH INDIA
SAILINGS:
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 26, 1937.
POST
OFFICE
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 11⁄2 oz.
80 cents per 1⁄2 oz. $1.80 cents per oz. $2.80 cents per 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
Public are reminded that the postage - on Printed Papers, Commercial Papers, Samples and Small Packets must be fully prepaid. Insufficiently prepaid Printed Papers etc., are not forwarded.
VIA SIBERIA ROUTE
Letters, Postcards and Samples for Europe and South America - aro forwarded "via Siberia” if so superscribed.
Swatow
Shanghai and Swatow Straits
Straits
INWARD MAILS
Airmail by "Imperial Airways direet
Service" London date 17th April Shanghai
Shanghai
Calcutta and Straits
Java Manila
Straits and Europe via Suez (Letters and Papers) London, 1st April and London Parcels (London date, 25th March).
Shanghai
Bangkok and Swatow Japan
Shanghai
U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Shanghai
(Seattle 10th April)
Japan and Shanghai
Saigon
Straits
Straits
Shanghai
Straits Straits
§ Calls Tangier.
Shanghai
call at Malta.
Australia and Manila
Japan
APCAR
SHIRALA
8,000
26th Apr.
TILAWA·
10,000
11th May
SANTHIA
8,000
22nd May Singapore,
TALMA
10,000
5th June
For
SIRDHANA
8,000
19th Junėl
Hoihow
Tjinegara
April 26.
Kwangchow":
April 26.
Malacca Maru
April 26.
Anyo Maru
April 27.
Imperial Airways Plane
April 27.
Mayebashi Maru
April 27.
Radnorshire
April 27.
Santhia
April-27.
April 27.
April 28.
April 28.
Tokushima Maru
April 28.
Kalgan
April 29.
Nellore
.April 29.
General Lee,.
April 30.
Pres. McKinley
April 30.
Emp. of Asia
1
· Rawalpindi
Rajputana
Porthos
Terukuni Maru
April 30,
May 2 May 3. May 3. May May May 4. May 5.
May
Calchas
Houtman
Jean Laborde
Van Heutsz
Antenor
Tanda
Manila Maru
May
Port Swettenham, Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta.
Now is the time to visit Australia & 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. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s Steamers for Southampton and London
via Panama Canal,
E a 5 TERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS
NELLORE.
TANDA
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 clase at or before 9 a.m., registered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day.
Swatow and Amoy Japan
Anshun
Per
Monday
Kutsang
Tuesday*
Taiyuan
Date and Time.
Mon., Apr. 26, 1,30 p.m. Mon., Apr. 26, 3,30 p.m.
Manila, Macasser and Sourabaya Tisadane.Tues., Apr. 27, 8.30 am.
Amoy
Haiphong and Batavia
Swatow, and Foochow
Wed., Apr. 28, 3.30 p.m. Tjikambang Wed., Apr. 28, 4 p.m.. Tai Suen Hong.. Wed., Apr. 28, 5 p.m. Thursday
Shanghai, Japan and *Europe Via
Siberia Swatow
Rawapindi Thurs., Apr. 29, 10.30 am. Prominent Thurs.,
29, 3.30 p.m.
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
TO Panama
BALBOA (Panama)
Atlantic NEW YORK
NANKIN
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
SANTHIA
RAWALPINDI
TANDA..
*BANGALORE..
TALMA
29th Apr,| Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.
29th Apr. Shanghai & Japan
8,000
17,000
7,000
6th May
Shanghai & Japan
6,000 10,000
11th May
Shanghai & Japan
13th May
Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.
* Cargo only.
For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to
The Agents:—
MACKINNON MACKENZIE.CO
P&O BUILDING, CONNAUGHT
LOS ANGELES CRISTOBAL (Colon) BOSTON
NEXT SAILING
M.V. "TAI PING
ON
18th MAY
EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION
FOR 12, PASSENGERS
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AGENTS
ROAD CENTRAL. HONGKONG
Phone. 27721
Hong Kong Bank Building.
Telephone 28021