PRESIDENT LINERS
LUXURY LINERO
Ontsld's, Large and Adry
SEATTLE AND VICTORIA
Via Kobe and Yokohama
S.S. PRESIDENT GRANT Sails Friday, December 31st, 4 p.m.
NEW YORK AND BOSTON Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo Bombay, Suez Canal, Naples, Genoa and Marseilles. S.S. PRESIDENT VAN BUREN Sails Sunday, January 2nd, 8 a.m.
MANILA
S.S. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE Sails Friday, December 31st, 9 p.m.
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE
12, Pedder Street.
GRAND 1938
OPPORTUNITY
HENS ARE WORKED
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 29, 1987.
BRITISH BOOM
OVERTIME AND THEN SCRAPPED
IN SHIP
BUILDING
London, To-day. Shipbuilding has experienced a good year on Clydeside, which starts On the ground. that the system 1938 with 500,000 tons of merchant causes cruelty to hens, unemployed shipping on order as well as naval. men under the British Government-work to the value of $50,000,000. supported small holding schemes are For shipbuilding generally, 1937 expressing disapproval of "Battery" was made notable by the fact that a egg production."
greater number of cruisers were They say that hens collapse after completed for the Royal Navy than a few weeks from paralysis and in any year since the Great War. other ills, and at most live only about Seven cruisers, nine destroyers, 13 months.
three submarines, three minesweep- Under the "Battery system, hensers, three motor torpedo boats, as are shut in cages 17in. high by well as various experimental craft 17%in wide by 16in. long, fed on left the yards and joined the Fleet Stimulating food, and stand on this year.
wire tray raised at one end so that
Tyneside, which has just benefited the eggs roll down into a flat tray by two cruiser orders worth £3,000,- below. It accelerates egg produc-1000 has more than forty vessels of tion.
a combined tonnage of 330,000 tons The Ministry of Agriculture and under construction-British Wire- Fisheries denies that there is any less.
proof that hens kept under the sys- tem succumb to disease more rapid-
ly than those kept under normal con- ditions.
:
The R.S.P.C.A., too have been un- able to prove that undue suffering is caused.
They Are Replaced
JAPAN'S FINANCIAL OPTIMISM
Tokyo, To-day. At a Cabimet council meeting "The higher average egg produc-held yesterday, the Minister for tion usually obtained," said a Min-Finance gave an optimistic sketch istry official, is largely due to the lof Japan's present financial situa- fact that each bird's daily perform-tion. According to the Minister, ance is easily ascertained and sickly Japan's foreign trade has increas and unprofitable birds are quickly re-ed by nine per cent during the placed by more efficient egg-produc period extending from January 1 to December 1 and totalled 3,113- "The birds disposed of as suffer-021,000 Yen while during the same ing from disease are often too em- period imports were increased six aciated to be of any value for food per cent to 3,735,810,000 yen.
Trans-Ocean. purposes, but this is a matter for the local sanitary authority, who has powers to take effective action to prevent the offering for sale of any birds unfit for human consumption.”
ers.
LOCAL SHARE MARKET
XMAS PRESSURE ON POST OFFICE
London, To-day. Post office business over Christ- mas was Bo great that detailed
for a voyage home to England by the Palatial Cruise Liner Following is the list of changes and figures will not be available for some
"EMPRESS OF BRITAIN which is now on the enquiries in local share quotations this days, but it is already known that
Leave
March 14 March 17 March 22
March
April
April 6
following itinerary:—
Arrive
Hong Kong
Marila, P. I.
March 16
Batavia, Java
March 21
Bali, NEL
March 24
Sydney, Aust.
April 2
Melbourne, Aust.
April 6
Wellington, N.Z.
April 10
April 10
Auckland, N.Z.
April 12
April 15
Sava, Fiji, Is...
April 18
April 18
Honolulu TH
April 24
April 25
San Francisco:
April 30
May
May - 2
May
May 10
May
May 16 May 24
May 17
No Changes
No Transfers
way.
Los Angeles. Panama Canal New York Southampton
EMPRESS OF BRITAIN all
Fares on above itinerary from £153.7/-
Fares for other routings on application.
Good Accommodation still available--BOOK NOW
Full information from
Canadian Pacific
morning:
BANKS
many services were working at 30 per cent. greater pressure than last Hong Kong Bank 51425 b, $1445 5 year-British Wireless
INSURANCES Union Ins. $508/10 sa.
SHIPPING
Douglases $485 b.-
H. K. Stearabosts $8.20
DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS,
ETC
Providents (New) 20 cts: s
... MINING
Raubs $7 b
LANDS, HOTELS & BLDES. H. K. and S. Hotels $5 b.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
H. K. Tramways $1208 b., $13 s China Lights $9.80 b... China Lights Rights $4.35 by $4.35
sam
H. K. Electrica $501⁄2 b. $503%/%
MISCELLANEOUS Entertainments $5.20 5. " Constructions (Old) $1% b. Constructions (New) $1 b. Hong Kong Mines 13 cts. S
Singapore Raw Rubber
Messrs. H. B. Joseph and Co., have received the following quota- tions in Straits Currency for Raw Rubber:
Jan/March 23-34 6.
April/June 24-% b. down July/Sept.
AN AID TO PEACE
If Warmongers Went
Into Fighting Line
If warmongers were put in the fighting line in the event of war breaking out, the world. would take a big stride towards peace.
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This is the opinion of the Bishop of Ely (Dr. B. 0. F. Hey- wood), expressed in a letter to the organisers of Cambridge's Peace Week.
The Bishop writes: "We must not disguise from ourselves how great is the task that lies before us one in which success will not achieved by the mere renun- ciation of war by a large number of our countrymen.”
MS. Empress of Japan" left Vancouver for Hong Kong, via Honolulu, and Japan ports on Xmas Day and is due at Hong" Friday morning.