R. I. L.
ROYAL
INTEROCEAN
SINGAPORE, JAVA
PORTS and
MACASSAR
-TEGELBERG" *
"TJITJALENGKA"
"TABMAN"
ARRIVALS
LINES
SAILINGS
9th July
14th July
29th July
direct to Singapore, not to Java ports and Macaster
9th July
25th July
MANILA, EAST &
SOUTH AFRICA &
SOUTH AMERICA
ARRIVALS
"STRAAT BOENDA“ •.
"TEGELBEAC" • •
"TJIKAMPEK"
JAPAN
SAILINGS
6th July
9th July
In Porl
0th July
5th Aug.
ARRIVALS
4th July
8th July
SAILINGS
"RUYS"
nol calling Manila and South America
not calling Manila
"STRAAT SOENDA"
"TEGELBERG"
"RUYS"
3rd Aug.
16th July
Agents: HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE
EUROPE via MANILA
and MALAYA
"LANGLEEBCOT"
"MARIEKERK"
"MELISKERK"
Through Ba/L lued to
Mediterraneen and Northern
European ports.
JAPAN
"LANGLEESCOT"
"MARIEKERK"
"MELISKERK"
ARRIVALS
early July early Aug.
SAILINGS
9th July early Aug. early Sept.
Bth July early Aug. carly Sept.
early July early Aug.
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UNISIZAGENTSTERLECONNAUGHT RONDEGELISOWEPREZ
ISTHMIAN LINE
(Umian Steamship Company New York)
DIRECT MONTHLY SAILINGS TO NEW YORK
VIA LOS ANGELES AND PANAMA *AKTION" "GREENHAVEN TRAILS"
.24th July .2nd Sept.
Tanks available for Bulk Oil.
DJAKARTA (BATAVIA)
"STEEL SEAFARER"
"STEEL ROVER"
SAILINGS TO SAIGON, BANGKOK &
*STEEL ADMIRAL”
ARRIVALS FROM U.S.A.
"STEEL SEAFARER"
"STEEL ROVER”.
"STEEL ADMIRAL"
2nd July 23rd July 20th Aug.
Salls N. Y. Salls S.P. Due ПLK. Salled Sailed In Port Sailed 5th July 26th July 11th July 29th July 10th Aug.
GILMAN & CO., LTD.
Tel: 31140
Chinese Freight Agents:- HIN FAT & CO., LTD. Tels: 28823, 25553 & 23483.
SWEDISH EAST ASIA CO.LTD.
ARRIVALS FROM EUROPE
my. "SUMATRA”
m.v. "DUKAT””
m.v. "MINDORO"
9th July ...29th July 28th July
SAILINGS TO EUROPE
v. "SUMATRA”
27th July
m.v. "MINDORO"
............................Mid Aug.
FOR
ADEN, PORT SAID, GENOA, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, BOTTERDAM, BREMEN, HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN, OSLO
& GOTHENBURO Deeplanks available for Bulkell
GILMAN & CO.,
Tel. 3114#
LTD.
THE CHENA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 3,
HONG KONG WATERFRONT
BY OUR HARBOUR REPORTER
Sight-seeing along the Praya
NO. 2: Familiar scenes
Bacause it is inevitable that a tourist uses the Star
Forry during his sojourn hare, he seldom missos a scene like this (in above picture)- something that will be reminiscent of his Hong Kong visit.
Many a visitor has made casual appreciative com- ments about the Stor Ferry system and its. But modern streamlined fleet of launches. many too have frowned upon the evening. scene when hundredsmen, women and chil- dren-struggle desperately to get across the harbour.
Statistics reveal that 38 mony ns 50,000 people have crossed the harbour by the It is Star Ferry in one day. estimated that 500 passengers are normally ferried across in one trip in a well-filled launcil.
The Star Ferry operates four invdern Jaunches during the normal period on 10-minute and 15-minute schertules. During rush hours. five-minute service is maintained with the addition of another launch to cope with the flow-morning from Kowloon and evening from the Island.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
CONSIGNEES PER
STATES STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
The most crilical period is bo- 4.45 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. tween when hundreds of office workers throng the Island Pier ooger to
rush home.
The Island Pier more often than not resembles a besloged fort as seen in the above pleture. Traffic jams near this section of the Praya are not uncommon.
Police have sometimes been called to help supervise the crowd and vehicle traffic.
The situation is often aggya- vated when a Hong Kong-bound ferry launch discharges its pas- sengers, to increase the number of people crowding the Pier,
Another confusion" spot is the Custodian Whart, though the eight of struggling hunians Is seen only when a vessel berths alongide to disembark her pas-i sengers.
There the age-old maxim of "Might is Strength" manllests Itself when hundreds of men, women and children push and; squeeze through narrow .gang- ways to gat ashore,
Relatives and irlands anxious
8.3. "IDAHO" are hereby notified that their cargo is being discharged into the Hong Kong & Kowloon to welcome the arrivals throng
the
gatos frequently causing Wharf & Godown Co's godown traffic jams outside the Wharf. where it will be at consignees The usual furious squabbling. risk and subject to the Wharf's between passengers and coolics terms and conditions of storage, over payment of service often in- and where delivery may be creases the din. obtained.
In
the Prayn.
How's your
harbour 1.Q.?
Do you know where "this picture was takin Bure you da Don't be puzzled...re. member where most of our materials-food, dresses, fix tures and machinerymare firal landed before they reach us. Turn the pegs, around and se whether you're right.
(Javum voojmon jo sumop - po oyi so sind)
Fresh water
from sea for ships
Hetween 250 and 300 tons of fresh water are generally con sumed each day for boiler feed, and domestic purposes by al modern steamer on a voyaga through the Tropics.
Storage space for some 3,000 to 4,000 tons of fresh water has to be found. This will be, at the ex- pense of valuable cargo space.
To meet the exigency, a system
of distillation has been invented
WHO'S WHO:
Hong Kong’s youngest pilot
A l, alert Chinese youth stood calmly by the helm of i throug freighter to guide her Lytmum Pass aud thence lo he busy in midstream.
+
His bearing was unerring and
His masterly.
confidence
O' sofel; bringing the vessel in through the treacherous. pass wa: that of a veteran,
It was nɔt · surprising. Th young man was none other than Chan Yueit, the Colony's youngest the who joined harbour pilot,
after beln Jest May ranks licensed by the Marine. Depart
ment.
In his 27-month apprenticeshl
veterar with the well-known Pilot Cheung, Chan Yuen gulder in and out of harbour 822 shilps Since becoming a licensed pilot ho has already brought in and out of port 35 ships-since May 10.
Now Chun Yuen is working in conjunction with his "tutor" Pilot Cheung, who has been running a one-man pilot service.
ol
Chan Yuen is no stranger in the Colony. His father is one of the oldest Goverrunent servants. Chen Yuch is an "old boy" Ellis Kaduorie School, where the war interrupted his studies, and subsequently led him to Colony's premiere profession- harbour plicting.
the
At the tender age of seven Chan Yuen bagan his "Western" education at the St. Louis Indus- trial School. He won a scholar- ship which put him into the Ellis Xadcorie School, where he studied from Class 8 to Class 4 until the war, when school closed.
His taste for the sea dated back to his early years when he wa keenly hiterested in rowing swimming and sailing. His in terest increased when he be- friended Skipper K. Y. Young, master of the Wah Chung when he was in school.
Chan Yuen began to take oven- Ing "lessons"--when most of hi time was taken up listening Je the wonderful stories of the se und the technique of salting.
Mr. Chaq YusŋHong Kong's
youngest harbour pilot.
Rows of boats Damaged packages are to be A little further down the Praya left in the godowns for e-Westward, the visitor will be amination by Consignees and struck by the antiquated rows of the Company's surveyors, Chinese small craft, bobbing side Messrs. Carmichael & Clarke by side and hugging one another mutual sympathy, alongside ul 10 am. on July 4, 1960.
The general petivity of these To comply with the General Junks, sampons and motor boats
For a year before the outbreak Bonded Warehouse Regula servci as the mirror of water to make the stewher · self-sup•} of the Pacific War, he studied tiors, consignees must have a front prosperity. With good buri porting for all fresh water ser- navigation under the uscistance of Revenue Ofleer in attendance ness It
the first large passenger Skipper Young and other "ailor" isuel to see kundreds of vices, when damaged dutlable gooda crates, bales and drums being ship with turbine machinery: 10 | friends.
loaded and unloaded; with re- be entirely self-suficient in freth aro examined.
zularity day in day out. Coollen water is the "P, and O." Hima No claims will be admitted work overtime to rush delivery laya. after the goods have left the Aux ale of "good business" aya Sea water is given single dis steamer's godowns, and all as sweating coolles tell on-fired tilallon in evaporiore,
"good
money" pervades the Praya
newly goods remaining undelivered, but happy.
designed. The steam necessary after July 5, 1060 will be. Then there will come the sinck to provide the heat for this pur- In 1943, he was a deckhand of subject to rent.
days, when the empty craft, will pose is inken from the turbine, the my. Tal Tack, plying the roost idly and the "ellek-clack" after it had dons useful work in Kwangtung Coast. All claima against the of mahjong blocks shatters the driving the ship. steamer must be presented to lethargy no the crews while away!W the Undersigned on or before the hours. July 12, 1950, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be affected.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Agenta
Hong Kong, Juno 20, 1000.
Pacific Far East Live Inc.
VIREUT
Fast Regular Trans-Pacific Service.
BAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELED
Vannet
"EURPRISE”. ↑
"WILLIAM LUC
MELTING 'BOUD STRAD
--DYERLAND 2. NEW YORKCÌUCADO-DESTROMÝTORONTO
·MOTRMAL AND ALL AMIERIGAN (M, DANADIAN, CITES
Arrive
Ders Franciaço
4. Rodin, Béročla
July
Tho
When the Japanese came Chan Yuen went to Macao, where practical use. He joined a motor he began to put his knowledge to launch service as a SEAIZIAD. -
Complementing his normal singlo-distillation water duties with night studies, Chan te, the Canadian flag is fast bo maintain the ablo's general water post aboard the ss. Po On, where On the brighter side of Prays), thus obtained is sufficient to Yuen eventually obtained a higher coming a famillar sight. Imprint- sorvice, and to provião a surplus
ed conspicuously on the alum which goes through a further dise, became a boatswain in 1944 nium steamers of the "Men" ulation process. .
Then as a quartermaster, he by fcat, the emblem can be seen' commutes on the Story The distling equipment is served on the us. Thibadak, my, launches day and night. The designed to produce 390 tons of Trio and Stedat Soenda after Die
Liberation. Men Hong Kong-Macao vessels fresh water per day, stocks being hear the Island Pier, it between aro, umod' up, trips to, Macnoi,
Coming more into the limelight: Many ships operating on shor-choosing
berth alongside Douglas Wharf, fuglenished by the plant as they By 1045, Chan Yuen had, alə
ready made his mind up about
profession. He
in the recently whitewashed ter runs, however;; do not find scrupulously studied local con Marine Office, now outstanding this type of equipment neccesary,ditions during his service aboard. among the drab-looking buildings) Besides, Increasing expenses, womb the various steamers which, were fronting the Fraya, Standing con space has to be allotted to the frequent visitors here, bpicuously in white from the Arst instalintion. Freighters plying floor upwards, the Marine Omen between ports diy close range find can be more edally identidek now It, more or less convenient to, ro
by the waterfront community allgat cach calli
HARBOUR PILOT SERVICE
By PILOT CHEUNG PROMPT-EFFICIENT DAY NIGHT SERVICE
ENQUIRIES WE
S
In February 1948, ho began bla
apprenticeship under Pilot Cheung Today, there are eight harbour pilots and mix opprentices, Des fore, the war, there were 21 Icensed pilots.
That the word "pilot" ja mish
loading to thosh - culside the
Waterfront corumunity was pro ved by an incidant, when, Chan Bruen" went for his medical tx4,
Bitination.
I was at first mistaken fór ait:
*Under Komis
vies of sight, testa,
The Global tech ́)
TO HONOLULU & SAN FRANCISCO JA
"President Cleveland”
"General Garden” "President Wilaun”.
via JAPAN.
Air. July 14 ** Arr. Aug. 1 Arr. Aug. 3.
Sails July 18 Ballo Agg. Sails Aug.
TO SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES
via JAPAN "President Taft
Arr. July 2 "President Madison"..................Arr. July 13
Salls July 3 Salls July 11
TO NEW YORK, BALTIMORE & BOSTON
via PACIFIC COAST & PANAMA - {
"Willamette Victory".......Atr. July 15 "Dartmouth Victory" ****** Arr. July 29
ROUND THE WORLD
Sails July 18 Sails July 30
VIA MANILA, SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, COCHIN, BOMBAY, KARACHI, SUEZ, PORT SAID, ALEXANDRIA. NAPLES, MARSEILLES, GENOA, NEW YORK and BOSTON
"Marino Snapper" "President Johnson"
Arr. July 20 .Arr. July 21
Salls July 11 Balls July
TO JAVA & STRAITS
Arr. July 25
"Mount Davis" "President Fillmore"
St. George's Bldg.
.Arr. Aug. 18
Sails July 20 Sails Aug. 19
Tel. 28172/K
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SHIP "BENALDER" "BENAVON" +DENVRACKIE”
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"BENDORAN"
*BENALDER" “BENVENUE" "BENATTOW"
gar es
FAB LAST
·ARRIVALS
FROM
„U.K. via Bingapore
SAILINGS
DUS
la Port 16th July
on or abt.
27th July
29th July
Gin Aug
14th Aug
27th Aug.
29th Aug..
12th Sept.
Loading on or abi.
Both Jaly
London Antwarp, Rotterdam, Hamburg
Stak July
17th Aug
Hull.
16th Gopt..
Ganga, L Havre & Liverpool,
13th Aug.
Liverpool,
Glasgow,
4th July
Dublin, Autwerp", Rotterdam,
ath July
312 Aug.
Accepts Cargo for Japen. ̧ · Accapta Cargo for Havre, > Omita Hull.
Via Malaya, Colombo, Port Budan, Aden, and Buez Canal,
For Further Particulars, Apply To-
W. R. LOXLEY & CO. (CHINA) LTD.
Agonts
-York-Building.
-Telephones 3416%
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.
M.S. “MALAYA”
LOADING ABOUT. 10th JULY
for
ADEN, PORT SAID, GENOA, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM,
HAMBURG, OSLO, GOTHENBURG,
COPENHAGEN & GDYNIA.
Tanks available for the carriage of oil. in bulk
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. Quéen's Bldg, Zad, floor,
Peninsular
SAILS:
SEPA
*Tol. 24111 &"M113
& Oriental
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
R.M.S. “CARTHAGE NOTICE TO PASSENGERS
BAGGAGE
HAL NOTI
FRIDAY, the 7TH JULY, at NOON for the United Kingdom, via Straits, Colombo, Bom- bay, Aden and Port Said
ALL passthere baggage must be sent to the Hongkong, de Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godowas at NO, 2 GATE, CANTON, ROAD, ENTRANCE by. NOON on THURSDAY, the 20TH JULY
With the exception of Itand packages carried? by passengern-Thetnielvis ALE” BAGGAGE anitat past through the Whart Cow Clodown for Apadang vi koerd by ship's slings only.
and
place, between 9.90
FRIDAY, the 7th Tub
KENZIE & CO.
cal
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