P¿O 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
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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
8.S.
From Tons Hong Kong,
About
Destination.
CORFU
*BANGALORE..
NALDERA
CARTHAGE
*BHUTAN..
RAJPUTANA 17,0001 RANPURA
17,000 *MIRZAPORE.. 7,000 20th May *SOMALI
7,000
RAWALPINDI.. 17,000 29th May
14,500 12th June 6,000 19th June
16,000 26th June 14,500 10th July 6,000 17th July
1st May
Marseilles & London.
15th May
Bombay, Marseilles. & London. Straits, Bombay & Karachi.
22nd May
Cargo only.
Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
R'dam, A'werp and Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, I'don Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hull Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp and Huli.
† Calls Casablanca. all vessels may call at Malta.
BRITISH INDIA
TILAWA
SANTHIA
TALMA
SIRDHANA SHIRALA··
10,000 8,000
10,000
11th May 22nd May 5th June 8,000 19th June 8,000
Srd July
APCAR
§ Calls Tangier.
SAILINGS
Singapore, 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 yon-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.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS
NELLORE,
TANDA
THE CHINA MAIL,‘APRIL 27, 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 (To-morrow) Wednesday, April 28, and return 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 1⁄2 oz. $1.80 cents per 11⁄2-oz.. $2.80 cents per 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 Public are remi ded that the postage on Printed Papers, 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
Java
Manila
INWARD MAILS
Anyo Maru
Straits and Europe via Suez (Letters
and Papers) London, 1st April and London Parcels (London date, 25th March).
Shanghai
Bangkok and Swatow
Tjinėgara
Commercial Insufficiently
America are
April 27.
Airmail by "Imperial Airways direct
Service" London date 17th April Shanghai
Imperial Airways Plane Mayebashi Maru
April 27.
.April 27.
Shanghai
Radnorshire'
April 27.
Shanghai and Amoy
Newchwang
April 27.
Calcutta and Straits
Santhia
April 27,
April 27.
Emp. of Asia
April 28.
Rawalpindi
April 28.
Tokushima Maru
April 28.
Kalgan
April 29.
Nellore
April 29...
General Lee.
April 30.
Pres. McKinley
April 30.
Rajputana
April 30.
G. G. Paul Doumer
May 1.
Porthos
May 2.
May 3.
Houtman
May 3.
Jean Laborde
May 4.
Terukuni Maru
May
May 4,
May 5.
May 5.
May 6.
Japan
Shanghai
U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Shanghai.
(Seattle 10th April)
Japan and Shanghai
Haiphong
Saigon
Straits
Straits
Shanghai Straits
Straits
Shanghai
Australia and Manila
Japan
Calchas
Van Heutsz
Antenor
Tanda
Manila Maru
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 pm, on the previous day.
For
Tuesday
Per
Tjisadane
Manila, Makasser and Sourabaya Air Mail for Canton and Districts. CAN.A.C. plane
Amoy
Air Mail for Swatow, Amoy, Foochow
and North China (via Shanghai)
G.P.O.
Date and Time.
Tues., Apr. 27. „Tues., Apr. 27.
and K.P.O.
Apr. 27, Noon. Apr. 27, 12.30 p.m. Tues., Apr. 27, 5 p.m. Tues., Apr. 27.
Sheungwan P. 0.
Reg., Letters, Kiangsu C.N.A.C. plane
Reg., Letters,
Apr. 27, 5 p.m. Apr. 27, 7 p.m.
G. P. O.
Apr. 27, 5 p.m.
Apr, 28, 5 p.m.
.Apr. 27, 5 p.m. Reg Apr. 27. 5.30 p.m. Letters,
Wednesday
K.P.O.
Reg., Letters,
Amoy
Haiphong and *Batavia Swatow, Amoy and Foochow
Taiyuan Wed., Apr. 28, 3.30 p.m. Tjikembang .. Wed., Apr. 28, 4. p.m. ... Tai Suen Hong. Wed., Apr. 28, 5 p.m. Thursday
Shanghai, Japan and *Europe via
Siberia Swatow
Rawalpindi. Thurs., Apr. 29, 10.30 a.m. Prominent...Thurs., Apr. 29, 3.30 p.m..
BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE
MONTHLY SERVICE
7,000
1st May
Pacific
7,000 7,000
4th June Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney 2nd July Melbourne & Hobart.
SAN FRANCISCO
NANKIN
SAILINGS TO {
SHANGHAI & JAPAN
8,000 || 29th Apr.| Amoy, Shanghai & Japan..
SANTHIA
RAWALPINDI
TANDA.
TALMA.
17,000
29th Apr.
7,000 6th May
6,000 -10,000
Shanghai & Japan.
Shanghai & Japan
*BANGALORE.
Cargo only.
11th May
Shanghai & Japan
18th May Amoy Shanghai & Japan.
For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to The Agents
MACKINNON MACKENZIE.CO
P&O BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD" CENTRAL, HONGKONG
Phone. 27721
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