BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
BAILINGS TO
keelung
"BINKIANGI"
Bangkok
"PEN"
Tient In
"SHENGKING"
"SHANDI"
"FUNING"
HANYANG "KWEIYANG" "SHENGKING"
SOOCHOW"
"POYANG "SZECHDEN"
SILANSE
KWEIYANG'
SOOCHOW" -SHENGKING"
"TOOCHOW**
SAL BUEN"
Bangkok
Djakarta & Sourabaya Tientsin
Singapore K Penang
the
Yokohama, Nagoya,
Sity aptor & Manglen
10 am. 24th Nov.
10 um 24th Nov.
Noon 24th Nov.
5 p., 28th Nov.
3 p.m. 29th Nov 10a.m. 30th Nov.
10a.m. 1st Dec.
Noon ist Dec."
Kobe Penang
5 p.m.
1st Dec
01h ber 2 p.m. 10 a.m. 10th Dec.
Sails from Custodian Wharf
ARRIVALS FROM
Suapo e
Tweeter
Sibu
Bangkok
Djuka. & Sibu Kobe
25th Nov
25/28th Nov 26/27th Nov 28th Nov.
7 m. 29th Nov.
2nd Dev 5/6th Dec
A.O. LINE LTD./C.N. CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE
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"TAIPING"
**TAIYCAN"
"CHANGSHA"
Syd
SAILINGS TO
Japans
Sydney & Melbourne Japan
Sydar A Meitoune
29th Nov. 30th Nov.
8th Dec 8th Dec.
16th Dec,
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ARRIVALS FROM
Au raba & Nauru Kobe
26th Nov
28th Nov
Australia & Manila
4th Dec.
Yokohama
6th Dec.
Yokoju.ma
13th Dec
of 50 cents is charged.
BLUE FUNNEL LINE
Scheduled Sailings to Europe via Aden & Port Bald
Genoa, London
Scheduled Sallings from Buróps
ASTYANAX"
Hulland
VIA Manta
22nd Nov
"CLYTONEUS”
Casablancp & Liverpool
24th Nuv.
"PATROCLUS"
Marseille, Liverpool &
Glasgow
0th Dec.
"AENEAN"
Liverpool & Glasgow
via Manila
7th Dec.
Sas Liverpool
Ballo Rotterdam
Sailed
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do
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du
S. "ASCANIUS"
4. AENEAS"
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SAGAPENOR"
PERSEUS
S. "AUTOMEDON"
MYRMIDON"
S. ATREUS"
G. "PYRRHUS"
28th Nov
S. "BELLEROPHON"
4th Dec.
12th Dec.
17th Dev.
18th Dee,
Arrive. Llost Font 26th Nov.
6th Dec.
lith Dec.
15th Dec
25th Dec.
5th Jan.
11th Jan.
17th Jan.
23rd Jun.
G. Loading Glasgo w before Liverpool.
N. Loading Awansea before Liverpool. Carriers' option to pro ceud via other ports 10 load & disc harge cargo,
DE LA RAMA LINES
ARRIVING via MANILA FROM
U.S. ATLANTIC & PACIFIC COAST PORTS
"BATAAN"*
"DONA ALICIA"
ران
If not prepaid a booking fee
FOR SALE
WEIGHTS AND MEASUREMENTS
Ігол Exported Cargo
Hong- kang and South Chine, complied by the Sword Measurers. $15 from the "S. M. Post."
CHIVALRY ANTIENT SCRIPT AD Ditractive stationery af distinction. In baxes of forty y sheets and forty envelopes OF eighty single elects and furty envelopes, $6 per box On sale at 8. C. M. Post."
"DEVON VALLEY" Blotting Paper While in sheets 171⁄2" x 22" "cut to any uze, 25 cents per sheet $20 per 100. Avaliable at South China Morning Post.
WILL FORMS. Power of Attorney Forms, Телапсу Agreement Forms on sale at S. C. M. Post.
COLUMBIA COPPERPLATE FEN- CES. HB and B $32 per gross,
sale per dozen, 0,30 each on
9. C. M. Post."
102 Annual Return
THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE
Forms are un
sale 81 "'S. C. M. Post."
NOTICE
CHINA LIGHT & POWER COMPANY LIMITED
Notice To Shareholders
Notice is hereby given that the Directors of China Light & Power Co., Ltd. intend to recommend al the Annun General Meeting
final dividend of 60 cents per
ย
share, free of tax, on fully paid shares in respect of the year ended 30th Septembar,
1951
Dividends will be paid on
4,000 Women In
Queue For Cheap Carpets
London, Nov. 21.
Four thousand women, in minks and out of Daimlers, in head-scarves and out of buses, queued in Mossley, Lancs, to buy carpets at 1s. 4d. a lb.
Men were there, too, outside an old mill off the main street. And there were vans, carts, traps,
a pro rata basis in respect of prams, and barrows to take the carpets away.
partly paid or bonus shares.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
P. W. A. WOOD, Secretary & Chief Accountant
Hongkong, 20th Nov., 1951.
DON'T
WASTE
WATER
one
Crocodile of The
would-be He had already sold 800 for
£2,000. Of the buyers stretched for four streets
1,000 left, he and was controlled by police. sald 500 were "derelicta."
Six women It began at midnight, was 3,000-
Den and four
carpets. srong and 60 yards long by helped him show the am; and at 9 a.m. when the And he would say: "Here's one doors opened, it was a quarter with six holes, but it might do for cutting up and patching of of a mile long.
"I wouldn't buy it, but Peter Twenty-seven-year-old Sheldon, from a Bolton cotton-you might have a use for it. was' firm, was selling 1,800 You, madam? All right, take it
weighing 36 carpets,
tons, away. Leave your blue cle1 aleratel from a ship which and pay at the weigh office down- caught fire in the Thames.
The
80 AN HOUR system was to admit 20 buyers for
at 10 minutes
He sold like this at the rate time. Each was handed a blue of 80 carpets an hour. Some- to times he warned "This one is numbered ticket, which had
The rotten. It rps at a touch. pile has gone."
મ
allowed
be given up when a carpet was bought. Nobody was more than one carpet.
"DERELICTS"
stars."
From the sales room purchases were lowered to the weigh were
office, where a girl registered
and cost
Mr Sheldon rarely had a good each sale The heaviest carpet £8 word to say about his carpets, weighed 100Þ.. He reckoned they cost £2,500 13s. 4d., of which £1 13s. 4d. after paying for drying and, was purchase tax.
Mr Sheldon broadcast to the transport.
not many queue: "There carpets left. I advise everybody in the last 100 yards not to walt any longer."
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OWING TO ADVANCE RESERVATIONS, NO FURTHER ADVERTISING SPACE IS AVAILABLE IN THE "SUNDAY POST-HERALD" FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER. A LIMITED AMOUNT OF SPACE WHOLE OR HALF PAGES EXCEPTED IS AVAIL- ABLE IN THE "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST** AND THE "CHINA MAIL".
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
20th Dec.
25th Dec.
WE'RE TAKING YOU TO THE | IF HE'D ONLY! POLICE, SWAMI. YOUR WIFE'LL HAVE TO COME,
100.
LISTENED
TO ME --
NOW THAT YOU'VE I CAN'T KEEP: CAPTURED HIM, ƒ ́HIM HYPNOTIZED WHY ARE YOU FOR THE AEST
STILL WORRIED, MANDRAKE?
OF HIS LIFE,
NARDA--
ADVERTISEMENTS.
are
Some women left the queue to bid for carpets which buyers wene willing to resell. A woman paid £5 8s. to a man for a carpet bundle which he said he got for £4 158.
She said: "I have waited a long time for this. I am satis- fied."
5,000 Years Old
P&O B.I. E&A
COMPANIES
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N, CO.
PASSENGER /FREIGHT SERVICE
Outwarde "CHUSAN"
"CORFU" "CANTON"
Arrives Mongkong 30th November
17th December
14th Jomar"}
Leaves London
2nd November
15th November
13th December
Via Santhampton, Port Said, Aden, Bombay, Colombo,
Penang & Singapore
Leaves Hongkong Bur London
23rd
31st
2nd November
December
December January
18th February
Tomewardi "CARTHAGE"
“CHUSAN”
"CORFU"
"CANTON"
4 December
21st December 21st
Ikin January
Accepting cargo for Bingapore. Penang, Colombo, Eom-
bay, Aden & London.
Outwards "SOMALI" "TREVOSE"
Nomawards "SINGAPORE”
Accepting Penang,
FREIGHT SERVICE
ERTEO
Due Hongkong
11 December
Frus
London & Continent
For
20th December
Leaves Hongkong
London & Continent 11th December
for
Fort Swettenbam, Singapore, Colombo, Aden, Gchon, Marcelles, London, Hamburg, Antwerp & Rotterdam, with iberty to call
at Bombay it Inducement offers. Tanks available for carriage of oil in Bulk. Space for refrigerated cargo. Limited passenger
accommodation.
BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.
"WARLA"
due 23rd Nov. sas 24th Nov.
from Japan
for Singapore
& Chittagong
"TAIREA"
due 8th Dea. sail 7th Dec.
from Japan
for Singapore.
Penang, Rangoon
& Calcutta
(Tuese vessels have refrigerated cargo space)
Soria, Nov. 21. Don Teogenes Ortega, Com- missioner for Archaeological the Excavations, has reported discovery of 150 primitive rocks near here. paintings on They are believed to be 5,000 years old.-Reuter.
"OBRA"
"ORNA"
By Lee Fall and Phil Davis
ONCE I LEAVE HIM, NO JAIL CAN HOLD AND THE HIM, NO GUARD CẦN HANDLE HIM. MASCAL BECAUSE HE'LL STILL HAVE HIS KNOWS IT! POWERS!
LOOK AT HIM GRINNING.
YOU SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE GUARDING HIM? BUT NO ONE
ELSE CAN--/
P. & O./B. I. JOINT SERVICE
due 30th Nov.
sas ist Dec.
due 01 Dec. sails 7th Dec,
from Karachi, Bombay, Colomba
& Bingapore for Jagan from Jupan for Singapore, Colombo. Bombay & Karachi
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN S.S. CO., LTD.
"EASTERN"
Bails 28th Nov.
for Auckland, Wellington, Port Chalmers & Melbourne
All vessels have liberty to call at any ports on or off the route & the route & milling are subject
to change or amendme with or without notion.
Sailing for Kingston, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphin vin Japan, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Cristobal,
"AGAMEMNON“'
12th Dec.
Tathay Pacific Airways Ltd.
Batte
K/Bangkok/Singapore (DC-4)
IK/Hano/atphong
(Connects
(DC-3)
(DC-4)
¡DC-3)
1h/Sugen/gDDOE MK/Manila/B.N. Borneo
Departs Hongkong
Arrives H.K.
(on reture)
€ 00 am Tics. Fel. 8.13 a.m. Wed. Sal.
1 Bangkok with U.S.A. to Rangoon! 10.00 Tues. 2.13 p.. Wed
4.15 p. Thurs.
12 Noon Wed.
8.30 am. Wed
3.45 p.m Thurs.
All the above subject to Alteration without antice. For passage and Freight Particulars please apply to
1.CONNAUGHT RD. C. Tel.30331 8 BRANCH OFFICE:50 Connaught Rd. West. 25875, 32144, 24878.
BENLINE BEN LINE
SHIPS
"BENCLEUCH" "BENWYVIS" "BENVORLICH"
"BENCLEUCH"
FRON
TRI
ARRIVALS
FROM
U.K. via Singapore
--do
www.do
- Japan --
"BENLOMOND" .U.K. "BENRINNES" “BENVENUE" "BENYORLICH"
"BENCLEUCH"
**BENWYVIS"
"BENYORLICH"
“RENCLEUUK"
**BENĻOMOND",
“RENRINNES"
"RENVOELICH"
"RENVENUE"
VIA B.N.D. .U.K. vla Bingapore UK. via Singapore
Japan -
SAILINGS
Yakuboms.
Kobe & Avonmouth, Havre & London. Kobe Yokohama. Direct to Singapóro, (hence Liverpool, Hamburg, Antwerp & CHUIL.
Havre, Liverpool, Glasgow 14 Avon- mouth Avonmouth, Havre d ****Lon-lon,
[Direct to Singapore, thonco London, Ham- {burg & Hull,
Direct to Singapore, thence Liverpont, Emb."
Hin. Hamburg & Hall,
DUE
la Peri
27th Nov.
on or abt. 19th Dec.
*
26th Dec,
P
28th Dec.
18th Jan.
20th Jan,
29th Jan,
Leading on
or abi.
K/Whart
2nd Dec,
23rd Dee,
26th Dec,
21st Dec.
1
24th Jan,
29th Jan.
17th Fell
Via Singapore, ` Port: Swattenham & Pork Budan.
Calls Manila, Tawau, Bandakan & Jesselton, K.
# Calls Manila, Cebu, Tawau, Sandokan, Jemnáljon & Labuan,
W. R. LOXLEY & CO. (CHINA) LTD.
York Building,
Agents
Telephone: 84105.
FERDINAND
Poor Fish!
By Mik
mik
Dine
10-4
NANCY
HEY, BOZO--
STOP CHASING
CARS
ONLY
Leading A Dog's Life
I TOLD YOU
NOT TO DO THAT, YOU LITTLE SAP
DOPES
CHASE CARS
JOHNNY HAZARD
· BROTHER,,DID YOU SEE THAT GUY JUMP #
YAN! NA! KA! HE THOUGHT/T WAS SPECIAL HORRIBLE FIGH, WAL
WELL, PAL...CO HAR GO GOOD! WE'RE A TWO-MAN NAVAL OPERATION/ ❘NOW FOR THE MAIN CHĻJECTIVE... TABAYZ HERSELF J.
Cer. 171 by United Footyme Syndicętu, Ing.
BUT HOW TABRIZ·
| STAYS CAFELY.ON
} THE BEACHLLOUPT
·OF OUR REACH ?
By Ernie Bushmiller
CLANG
By Frank Robbins
NOT FOR LONG, INT LOOK.EVEN NOW SHE'S GET- TING THE BAD TIRINGG "BOUT: US! AND IF I KNOW TABRIZ A
· CHE'LL COME TO UG/
At the
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10 CENTS EACH.
Rector Now A Red Indian Chief
London, Nov. 21.- The Rector of Gravesend, Dr R. D. Daunton-Fear, who hes spent a month in the U.S. talking about his church and its links with the early settlers In Virginia, has come back an honorary Red Indian chief,
He addressed 80 meetings and broadcast six times to tell Ame- ricans that his church, St
denger
George's, was in being closed, They should be interested in
in the church, he told them, because the Red Indian Princess Pocahontas, who visited England in the early 17th cen
tury and died at Gravesend, was buried in the building,
The rector, who preached in famous churches in the Eastern States, visited Richroond, centre
Пога of Pocahontas in Virginia. There he was made an honor
chief of the Matopony tribe. Princess' own people, Fle visted New York and Philadel phia, where he was called "The Focahontas Parson" by sym- pathipers,
mazing”
"The response was amazing he said "The future
18
considerable
church is Basured, Already there has been monetary response to my mis sion, and there will be much more when the results of the tour make themselves felt
It is planned to convert 8t George's Church into a chepel of unity in which people of su nations and ail) denominations can meet and worship.;.
Mrs Roosevelt May Visit India
Mrs Eleanor today, that isbe zaay invitation
Indian anhnar to
India
•home
the Unite
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