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INTEROCEAN
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SINGAPORE, JAVA
PORTS and
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"VAN HEUTZ" •
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ARRIVALS
19th Sept
⚫ only to 'pore, Penang & Dei Deli
O MANILA, EAST &·
SOUTH AFRICA &
SOUTH AMERICA
"BOISSEVAIN”
"STRAAT MALAKKA”*
"STRAAT SOENDA"
"TJIBADAK"
"TJISADANE”
ARRIVALS
In Part
14th Bept.:
20th Sept
20th Oct
SAILINGS
11th Sept. 24th Sept.
SAILINGS
11th Sapt. 10th Sept. 9th Oct. 12th Oct.
not calling Manila and South America
ARRIVALS SAILINGS
JAPAN
"STRAAT MALAKKA"
"TJIBADAK"
"STRAAT SOENDA"
"TJIGADANE"
EUROPE via MANILA
15th Bost,
9th Oct. Bth Oct.
21st Gept,
22nd Dept. 22nd Oct.
Agents: HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE
and MALAYA
"MELISKERK"
"MEERKERK"
ARRIVALS
SAILINGS
Barly 'Oct.
12th Sept. early Oct, early Nov.
to
"AYNKERK”
Through De/L lotured
Mediterranaan and Northern
European porta.
JAPAN
"MELIBKERK”
"MEERKERK"
"AYNKERK”
11th Sept. early Oct, early Nov.
11th Sept. carly Oct.
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(Isthmign Steamship Company, New York)
DIRECT MONTHLY SAILINGS TO NEW YORK
VIA LOS ANGELES AND PANAMA
“STEEL SURVEYOR”
......27th Oct,
SAILINGS TO SAIGON, BANGKOK & DJAKARTA, (BATAVIA)
"STEEL AGE"
"STEEL SEAFAKER”
.22nd Sept. .21st. Oct.
'ARRIVALS FROM U.S.A.
“STEEL AGE" "STEEL SEAFARER"
GILMAN
Salli N. Y. Sails S.F. Duo FL.R. Sulled Sailed 21st Sept. .12th Sept. 29th Sept. 20th Oct.
Co.,
LTD.
Tel: 31146
Chinese Freight Agents:- HIN FAT & CO., LTD. Tela: 28823, 25353 & 23483.
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ARRIVALS FROM EUROPE
mv. "TONGHAI"
4th Oct.
SAILINGS TO EUBOPE
*
mv. "BENGAL" m.v. "TONGHAI"
FOR
2nd Oct.
..29th Oct.
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Dooptanks available for Bulke!!
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Tel. 31140
THE CHINA MAIL, - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1950.
HONG KONG WATERFRONT
ABY OUR HARBOUR REPORTER
Originally trained in the ancient craft of all making, these veterans are spending more energy and technique in producing lifebuoys and Ille Jackets, which are more in demand t- day. Dy a systematic process division of labour, boards of cork are out into places, carved in the desired shapes, glued together and finally sewed into canvas jackets in one work. Ing day. two life Jackets or one lifebuoy can be made by one worker. ("China Mail"" Pasto).
SAIL MAKING IN COLONY
A DYING TRADE
How the ancient craft of sail making was first introduced into Hong Kong is still a matter of conjecture but it is known that the founder of the Colony's oldest sail making shop toarn- cd it from European seamon aboard visiting windjammers some 90 years ago in Victoria 'Harbour.
Since 1860-when one Yip Woon founded the "A. Lung Sail Making Company," the first in Hong Kong-the trade has seen many pros- perous periods. But the general consensus now is that sail making is a dying craft due mainly to the current depression in the local shipbuilding industry.
to
is
Today. It is believed that labour preparatory
Alting! there are eight sall making them together and covering with establishments in the Colony. canvas to complete the work. The largest establishment Owners of most are said to be
believed to be the "Wal Kee Com- pany" whose owner was once an former partners
pany" Lung"
organisation.
apprentice of Yip Woon, Found- have made production of lifed nearly 40 years ago, this arm buoys and jackets their main work, instead.
of the "A. Many
employs the most number of "Tekis" and boasts of the biggest output in lifebuoys and Bite- jackets.
New model yacht
Three new-designed yachts arc now under construction In local shipyards.
Known as the "Lion Class" type, they are one of the re- cent models coming out from the United Kingdom to make their debut km Hong Kong.
Most of the equipment is locally manufactured. ·Car- tain fixtures, however, are specially ordered from tha UK.
The first of this 35-footer type is expected, to be in operation in local waters early next month.
Jap ships already on foreign runs
American
end
shin Orient
AN HONEST LIVING--THE PEANUT VENDOR
for
Selling thousands of brillantly- olled pennuts-roasted and salted the palate is u business generally undertaken by a voci ferous young lad whose strident eries are a familiar sound along the Praya in the noon hours,
Favourite "lit-bl{" of the waterfront community, this cn- terprise is another of the nume "honest living", one-man rous businesses to be found in the Colony's cradle of industry- stretching from Connaught Road, Central, to West Point.
Though it is not actually a full-time job-usually starting in the afternoon-the peanut vendor can at best earn as much as $5 a day, which entalis not more than five hours of work.
few
His capital is meagre- dollars for the raw ground nuts (several cattles), oll, firewood and tin, of table salt. He sells at
$5 a day from peanuts ("China Mall" Photo)
(about 10 five cents a spoontul nieces of nuts) and 10 cents for three scoops.
(During the 10 minutes-before and after the picture was taken- the vendor seen below sold two
three five-cent, and
10-cent spoontuls of peanuts.)
this type
Why
According to a recent survey, the sall-making business today is less than 20 per cent of the
of business Its 24 craftsmen can produce average pre-war level. Orders 140 life jackets a day or 25 life-plag eireles are following with thrives in the afternoon hours since the war have been few buoys a day,
special nterest the progress of can perhaps be explained by the owing to the limited building of "Business jsì this the-life-Japanese ships making their fact that these little calory-rich nuts scrve well as afternoon sailing craft.
buoy and fe jacket-is quite first foreign trips since the end "snacks" to a hurried labourer or Shortage of canvas and its re-normal nowadays. The harbour of the war. sultant high cost have also pro- utility fleet is back to strength ved detrimental to rehabilitation of this once-profitable business.
in
as tasty tit-bits" for the idling person.
and demand for such necessitles Already 5,050 tons of cement
Success depends on the unique has been favourable in recent from Japanese ports have been
delivered Following the dearth of orders mouths," said an officint of the Straits and Calcutta by the ss.itles include crispness, degree of to the Philippines, method of preparation--for com- petition is quite stiff. Special qua- for salts, the recruiting of ap-Wai Kue Company." prentices the backbone of the Supplying sails mostly to local Daikal Maru of the "OSK" Line, saltiness and the "just right" industry who are to prolong the yachts and sampons, the Colony's
A 1,000-ton freighter left for blend of oil and salt. existence of their chosen craft-premier sail making establish the United States late last month hawker, the peanut vendor has to Because he is an unlicensed slackened tremendously Jaiment is also "making quite a lot the first Japanese vessel recent years,
out of lifebuoys and life jackets.m
be alert with his eyes as he is trans-Pacific trip make the Conservative estimates give
Good domand
nine years, Two tankers nying gilb with his tongue--he is liable: about 100 experienced and up- Salda veteran: "Very few the "Rising Sun" flog are expect to be arrested and have his pro- prenticed persoris engaged in this trade at present-20 per cent be because
orders for sails come nowadays; ed to follow suit the 2,000-ian perty confiscated if caught in the drag-act during a hawkers' raid. very few yachts are Nichinan Maru some time next Compare built.
is is a problem not easily ing under training.
But febuoys and life week and the 14,000-ton Ryuho solved. The majority voice with the pre-war figure, it is B Jackets are in good demand and Maru lale October.
common complaint--the difleulty drastic reduction in recruiting.
we are making quite a lot of To make ends
Japanese shipping received per- of obtaining a licence for this ends meet, many sall
kind of business......... making establishments are today them
"Flag making was once a pro- mission from SCAP mid-August
So rather than undergo patient producing lifebuoys, lifejackets,
Business is not to enter American waters. But,
waiting and routine screening, flags and vanvas covers--and perous. business.
according to a wor, but it
survey, only seven many of these peanut vendors vessels are available for inter- take to the street with an eye for quite normal
normal under current cir
national shipping. A target of a customer and the other for the cumstances." he added.
100 has been set for 1951.
orters for these necessities are not lacking.
Cutting cork
More energy and technique are
turned in this direction, which,
like before the
JA
The informant, who has been in the business for more
thon
three decades and who is one of consequently, pushes the parent tho Yip Clun, disclosed that since craft more into the background. the war the sails produced over- "Fokis" are now trained more aged, 1,000 yards a month com- to cut boards of cork into repared with the pre-war average quired shapes for lifebuoy or of 5,000. lifejacket, curve them by manual (Continued On Col. 5)
If you meet a
meet a shark!
What would you do? Swim for your life?-perhaps that would be the inevitable Impulce.
The alternative perhaps would be for you to have it out -as veteran skin divers normally do.
Thay know that the carnivore "la somewhat blind and depends mainly on its powerful sense of smell. They know that before it attacks, the shark will dive in, turn on ita back and sweep up for the "kill." They know, too, that the under- side of this dreaded denizen of the sea is soft and easily penetrable,
50 when face to face with a shark, grab any blunt material that can cut or place flesh. wait for the fin to disappear ,. thận dive in and wait for that dark form, rushing to. wards you, thrust your weapon as near it as possible (four out of five times you'll draw bloed).
And
Ilke the veteran akin divers to whom such an oc- casión is part of a regular day's work, you must, of ozuree, be a good swimmer (you have to be, otherwise you would not swim out får enough to be andangered) and, above all,. you must keep a cool head.
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.sr
M.S. "KVERNAAS”
LOADING ABOUT 27th SEPTEMBER
ADEN,
for
PORT SAID, GENOA, ANTWERP, HOTTERDAM,
HAMBURG,
GRA GOTHENBURG & COPENHAGEN
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.
Queen's Nidg, Ind flow.
TOL 34111 & 14122
"FLYING SCUD“
SWANSEA HOUSES
ed.
COLLAPSE
prowling polleorman.
An honest living, but...!
STORM DAMAGE IN MOROCCO
Swansea: September 2. Seven people, Alva of them
Casablanco, September 0. children, were killed when three
Two Moroccans were reported houses collapsed here early today. drowned and a third killed by Ten others were seriously Injur-lightning today in violent storms sweeping the Midelt orca of The bodics were recovered Morocco between the high and from the debris of bricks, furnl- | middle Atlas mountains. ture and kiddies, toys. The houses, Dry river beds turned suddenly on a main road with their backs into torrents by torrential rain to a slope, crumbled, leaving only have swept away 21 houses, 861 the front walls standing.
sheep and goats and 18 horned
The caving in of some old cattle, and devastated. 500 hec atables under the houses was betares of crops.-Reuter. lieved to have caused the fragedy, ---Reuter.
(Continued from Col. 4) A man working on a large-1 alzed sail of about 60 yards will; In his opinion generally make two to three yards of Bnished pro- duct a day. The normal period will be about five to six days to complete the arder if five men are assigned to the job.
An experienced worker will finish a lifebuoy in one working day. He can completo two life Jackats within the same period.
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Pres.
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Arc.
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SAILINGS
DUE
25th Sept.
16th Oct.
29th Oct.
7th Nov,
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20th Nov.
12th Bopt.
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London, Antwerp. Rotterdam, & Hamburg
London, Antwerp, flot- terdam & Hull.
Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Antwerp 'Rotterdam,
18th Oct.
16th Nov."
25th Sept.
28th Sept.
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Agents York Building.
Telephone: 34165.
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FOR
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