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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1952.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES Chain Of New Ports Taipei Plans
M
Artising Leaving
"LAKE, MICHIGAN"
"DOCTEUR YERSIN” ...May
"TIR HAKEIM"
{"BEAUVAIS"
**FELIX HOUSSEL"
M Decline In Coming Into
Ontwered TAT
May
}
D
May May 13
A
Japan
Ralgon
June 18
Juno ZZ
Japan
Homeward For
..MAY
....May
10
3J
J
May 20 21 May
5 June
R. Afrien à Europe
"LAKE MICHIGAN” ... June
June
July
Rubber
Futures
Singapore, May 6,
0336-0412
$3-03
of Tubber futures Prices tarkoines via Manila closed today as follows:-
Number 1 rütber, per lb. N. Airton Europe † freight for Saigon, Alexandria, Tunis, Genoa, Marseilles, Algiers, Oran, Tangier, Casablanca, Havre, Dunkirk, Antwerp, Rotterdam & all Mediterranean ports via Marseilles.
Madagascar by Transhipment in Saigon or Djibouti
Bubject To Change Wut Notice.
CIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES P.O. Box 53, Hongkong
Queen's Building (gr. floor) Tel. 26661 (3 lines).
Operation
London.
Throughout the world, a whole chain of new, specialised docks and ports are coming into opera- tion. 67%-8012 104! 14-0412
Number 3 rubber, June. 504 Number rubber. June.
Number 2 rubber, June...
60 -60 117 -122
Spot rubber, unbaled Blanket crepe No. I pale crepe
-United Prest. NEW YORK MARKET
New York, May 6, Prices of rubber futures closed lower with sales totalling
contracte.
September
October
November
Dreember
February
244
30.60-30.20 26.03 nomins! 20.47 nominal
28.00-20.00 28.00 nominal 20.30 nominal 28.00 namiņai
January (183āj
EVERETT
E
LINES
March
Anri
May
Junt
July
LONDON MARKET
London, May 8,
today as follows
Number 1 rubber.
in pence per 15. June
2015-20
2012-0
July/September
272-28
October/December January March
264-27
EVERETT ORIENT LINE
Fast cargo and passengers service refrigeration space available for Korea, Japan, China, Philippines, Indo-China, Siam, Malaya and East Coast Indian Ports.
"RET EVERETT"
Arrives May 8 from Singapore. Sails
May 9
for Japan.
"BRADEVERETT"
Arrives May 12 Sails
from Manila. May 13 for Singapore, Penang, Calcutta. & Rangoon
• EVERETT STAR LINE Fast cargo and refrigeration spaces available for Koren, Japan, China, Philippines, Indo- China, Slam, Malaya, Ceylon, West Coast Indian and Persian Gulf Ports.
FIRST CLASS PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION
M.S. "NORDSTJERNAN"
Loading May 12 Sailing
May 13 for Singapore, Bombay. Karachi & Persian Gulf Ports.
M.S. "THA!”
Loading May 19 Sailing
May 20
for Singapore, Madras, Colombo, Bombay, Kara- chi
Gulf & Persian Ports.
EVERETT STEAMship corPORATION S/A Queen's Building, Telephone 31206. Chinese Department: Telephone 28293. OFFICES AT
TOKYO-YOKOHAMA-KOBE-OSAKA SEOUL PUSAN
Eastern & Australian S.S. Co., Ltd.
S.S. "NANKIN"
direct for
PORT MORESBY, BRISBANE, SYDNEY, DUNEDIN, LYTTLETON, AUCKLAND.
LOADING 11th MAY SAILING 12th MAY
For Freight and Particulars please apply MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
OF HONG KONG LTD. Agents.
Telephone: 27721—4,
PATTISON ORIENT LINE
LIMITED
S.S. “LAURE PATTISON”
Due From:
Japan
May 8th.
12-14 Queen's Road, Central
Saila For:
DIRECT Руван
& Kobe May 12th.
CHINESE AGENTS:
Tel. 25346.
OVERSEA CHINESE STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.
48, Bonham Strand: West;'"` Tels. 20127, 31118 & 31119.
Prices of rubber tutures closes
Some of these are extensions or adaptations of existing docks. Others have been constructed at isolated sites along stretches of uninhabited coastlands.
1
But all are iniimately bound up with the `world's Insatiable demand for more and yet more petroleumti pro- ducts: they are the new tanker terminals spritiging up everywhere as the flow of all between nation and nation increases.
One of the biggest of the new Meanwhile, a £4.000.000 pro- at 27.24 nominal terminals is the Mena al Ahmadi ject is now well in hand 47,40 nominas 27.10 nomina installation on the Kuwalt coast, Eastham, on the Manchester Ship embodies a T-head Canal, where a new oil dock is 24.60 nominal This port -United Press. pler, three-quarters of a mile being constructed at a 178-acce
long, whose construction incorp-
site,
Fürther south on the Thames 5rated over 65,000 different pieces of structural steel and three Estuary, another now of jetty is
and board
of timber, ft. million
cost taking shape at R which accounted for a total of £300,000, And right on the
000 tons of material. 38,000 tons
And to south const itself, off Southamp breakwater make
for
the ton Water, yet another now more than tanker terminal is in being. adjoining harbour, 130,000 cubic yards of stone were while 250,000 quarried locally cubic yards of silt and cural are being dredged from the harbour bed.
234-2614 United Press,
LONDON TIN MARKET
-London,May 6, The tin market was ouict and steady this morning. Turnover was 45 tons of which five tons were for cash. Prices closed at the end of the official morning ression as follows-
Spolu, buyers
Spot tin, sefers
Bussiness done at
Three-months tin,
961
9041
96412
DOS!!
0031%
0036-4
United Press,
Three-munte tin, ses
Business door at
Settlement
"Cotton Prices
Lower
1
New York, May 6. Colton prices switched back although the downgrade, several attempts were made to keep Monday's rally going.
10
Buyers also lost coufidence in the fave of the increasingly favourable ténor of the new isp news. Planing was reported one to three weeks ahead of last year with indications that growers will meet the Govern- ment's goal for 28,000,000 acres, the most since 1037-United
Press
of
No wonder that Mena al Ahmadi able to accommodate up to six tankers-of--the new "super" 31,745-ton type and to load each of them with crude oil at the rate of nearly 3,000 tons per vessel por haur-is reckoned to be among the outstanding marine engineer- achievements of post-war ing
years,
Another new Middle Eastern
timo tanker port-this
on the Mediterranean --- 18 the Sidon terminal of the Trans-Arabian pipeline system. Here, at four offshore leading berths, tunkers now. being loaded at the rate are now. of nearly 100
a month.
road- The tanker anchorage stends themselves cover an area approximately two miles long by one-and-a-half miles wide, while the terminal has a frontage of just over a mile and extends in- land for about the same distance. Through this terminal, now that Arabian pipeline the Tran - system is in full operation; will pats approximately fifteen million
metric tons of oil a year..
IN DRITAIN TOO
Subsidies
ROYAL INTER
The
Talpel, May 6. Government formulating a new export auboldy
"TASKALO
satem
to
"BYRÅAT
control
“TEGELBERG"...
of the
~TJIKANPER"
encourage, foreign trade.
Under the present
foreign exchange
programme, con
be
most popular items like tea and camphor. cannot exported because
of Ule high eort of production.
Tue
plan will cubsidios cothe of the exports with a special fund sei for this trurpose, fr will allow exporters to use part of their foreign exchange to Import
urgently goods needed in this island,— France-Pressé. «
HONGKONG
SHARE MARKET
(From Our Correspondent)
Business continued slack an the Stock Exchange this morning.
volume
only total
bring $00,756,50. Noon quotations and
MAKASSAR"
"RUYA" "TJIWANO!"
“EASTWAŻ!
TEGELDERO"
"TJIDODAS"
May
May
STEROCH
SAYLINGs.!!!!
May 10 May 16
May
23
-May, 23
Jund
June
Jube
Jane 10
June 14
**TŠÍTJALENGKA" June 23
"TIWANGI"
July
"TJIPONDOR"
"TJIPANAS"
"BUY"
**TJILUWAHM
UTSIKAMPEK"
*TIWANGI"
July
July
7.
July D July 16
*TJIBODAS"
"STRAAT BANKA"
July 25
AUE.
2
.Aug. 7
Aux.
B
Aug. 14
"TJITJALENGKA”
"TASMAN" "TJIPONDOK" "BTRAAT
of
HK Banks.. 3305
the morning'a transzations: SHARES ULYERS BELLERS SALES BANKS
10 1900
MAKASSAR" TEGELBERG".
*TJILUWAN"
East Anlagen
141
INSURANCES
71
2 @ 300
1.85
Thus, as the new glant tankers come into commission, so the new all docks are waiting to receive them: all part-and-parcel of the extremely cotriplex-but equally efflelent supply system dis- tributing petroleum or its pro- ducis throughout the world,
Grain Prices
In Chicago
Chicago, May 6, Wheat futures closed today to 1% higher and soybeans to 2% higher. Wheat-price per bushel
תומיס
2.49 nominal 2.4715-9
2.381-2.37
2.38-3.39
Brich XD Underwriters DOCKS. ETC. K. Whart
ዝቡ 마 300 @ 30
12 500 & 11.80
N. P. Whart 6.40 4.00 Dock XD Provident ... Shol Dock 1.70 Wheelock ... 413% LAND, ETC.
HK, Hutz, HK Land
7.43 7.00
43 181 @ 433 (13) 4036 10 Stumphreys, 24.80 135 S'eat Land UTILITIES
Tramin Frak Tram
(0)
Star Ferry.. C. Light io) C. Light (N)
Mectric
Maczo
Electric
15 10.30 1000 @ 15.20
0.40 85 5.55 5.00
21 21.20 1300
1802).10
10.30 305
Téléphone ..15.10 15.40 500 15.30
Spot May "July
September December March
2.15
STONES, ETC.
Spot
1.84%
Dairy
May July September December
ByD MAY
1.60-7 1.821/2-15 1.7814-30
1R) 2.05
L. Crawford
July
Data May
July
1.0834 bld 1.05%
20 -79%
New York Rour-per 200 ib. Sack. $12.15-United Press.
Watson
COTTONS
Ewa
500 v 15.20
16.70 17 703 68 10,00.
22 23.30, 2003.20
771 F
33 334
245
Exchange Rates
Business was done in the local unofficial exchange market this morning at the following a64975
V.S. dollar iper 81). Sterling ngle ipar 1) 2.
But one need not only look to NY Pepper Market Indonesia guilders (per 100)
zee. such'
ex-
Siam ticals (per 100) Singapore (Siraits) FIC plastres (per 100).....
15.00
3.03
29.50
3,745
12.00
JAPANESE BONDS.
Middle East to
New York, May 6. the
The large-scale development.
pepper markey showed Up at Loch Long, on the west
increasing Itemness, paced by coast of Scotland,
higher Iulian cables and re- Seeds And Oils Admiralty jetty has been ex luctance of sellers to part with
panded into a substantial new oil New York, May 6. Prices in the seeds and ourport-from which point crude oil med supplies avaliable ha
5pct material was quoted being market closed unchanged with is now
transported by
by nominally up to $1.30 a pound, Scotland to afloats pipeline across the following-exceptions
and May activāls at pound. refinery at Grangemouth, on the $1.30, and June $1.38
This arrangement in shipment position, May was York. 14 cents.
Flax seed, per bushel, F.O.B. has freed the tanker berths at quoted at around $1.25 and June
for the handling $1.20 a pound, all on an ex-dock | Consols Minneapolis. $3.90. United Grangemouth
basis. United Press. of finished products only.
Peanut ait, per ib. F.O.B. New
Press,
east coast,
BEN LINE
TAX
FAD FAST
FAST SERVICE
TO UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT
"BENLEDI"
Loading Hongkong 16th and 17th May
DIRECT TO SINGAPORE THENCE
LIVERPOOL, DUBLIN AND HAMBURG. -
W. R. LOXLEY & CO., (CHINA) LTD. Tel. 84166 & 38710. York Building,
PETER MOK HIM YICK HONG
MACAO MANUFACTURERS' REPRESENTATIVE Agent for AUSTIN GARS
M.V. LEE HONG
Mall Patributor China
33 RUA V.P, ARCOS TAL 600
Cables: Peter Macao Agencies invited:
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LINES
KARANTIN¶priven;" - •semarang,
Burakala & hincaisaT tanil Singapore,
8. Africa & S. America
Japan Singapore,
Djakarta,
· Surzbkia & Maenezar Djakarta, Tjirebaji,
Surabala, & Macassar
Japan
Mauritium,
Bertarang,
KABATANE,
Singapore, Djakaria, Semarang,
Nurabala & MarDatar,
Bingapore, fabant, & Delawan' tieli' MAGPAT darspore, strin
5. Africa. &B. Amorlen Djakarta, Tjirebon, KOTTINTANK,
Burabala & Markiser
·Singapore,. Djakarta,
Surabala & Macassar
Japan
Bemarang,
Singapore, Djakarta,
Hurabala da Macaniar Porta TJireban, Semarang.
Surabala di Marauar Manila, Singapore,
E. &. Atties
MANILA, Singapore,
Mantiling,
8. Africa & 8. America
Djakarta, HETORTARS, Bingapore,
Surabala Macassar. Djakarta, Firebon, "Hemarang,
·Hemarang.
Hurabola Mucatkar
Bingapore, Djakarta,
Burabila & Macamar ©
Djakarta, ThrPhan, Semarang,
Kursbals & Macassar
31anita, Singapore, Mauritius.
8. Africa & 5. Amarica
Bingapore. jakaria, Bennatengs
Hurabala & Maensaar
ARRIVALS
In Port
In Port
Ae Fort
MAY
&
12 May
*$
- From
America, B. Africa, attritius, Singapore, Dinkarta & Manila Surabala, Nemarads. Djakarta & Singapore
Macassar,
General Agents,
HOLLAND EAST ASIA LINE
SAILING TO EUROPE
"KIELURECHT"
"AAGTEKERK"
“DIATAR"
May
Suno
July
"ALMKERK"
ABS,
Satis
SAILING FROM EUROPE
Rotterdam
Arrives Hongkong
"AAGTEKERK"
Sailed
Apr.
Alay
14
Apr.
June
May
Jnly
July
A02.
AUK.
Sept,
"ULITAN"
"ALMKERK"
"ARENDSKERK" THEO LIN
PENINSULAR
& ORIENTAL
QUIS NOS
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
R.M.S. "CHUSAN"
NOTICE TO PASSENGERS
London, May 0. Japanese bonds,
"A" (4s. of 1800) "B" (4s. of 1810) "C" (5s. of 1907) "D" (5s. of 1934) PER (51⁄4ás. of 1934)
SAILS:
85%
6715
1362
9014
145
80% -United Press.
BAGGAGE:
MAERSK LINE
FAST FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO:
NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE & PHILADELPHIA vis SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES AND PANAMA.
NEXT SAILINGS
M.S. "LEXA MAERSK"
M.S. "LAURA MAERSK❞
M.S. "LEISE MAERSK”
ARRIVALS FROM U.S.A.
M.S. "LEISE MAERSK” M.S.
GRETE MAERSK"
M.S. "OLGA MAERSK"
SPECIAL NOTE:
THURSDAY, the 8th May at 12.00 noon for the UNITED KINGDOM via Strults, Colombo, Bombay, Aden and Port Said.
•
i.
ALL passengers baggage must be sent to the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf Co's Godown at NO. 2 GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE BY NOON on Wednesday the 7th May, 1952.
With the exception of hand packages carried by passengers themselves, ALL BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Co's Godown for loading on board by ships's slings only.
EMBARKATION: Will take place TIIURSDAY, the 8th May, 1952 between 9.30 a.m. and 11.00 a.m.
May 18 June 2 June 17
PENINSULAR
May 14
June 7
June 16
For Freight and Further Particulars please apply to:-
AGENTS:
JERSEN & CO.
Pedder Building.
AQUIS
& ORIENTAL
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
R.M.S. "CARTHAGE"
Tel: Nos. 36066-9.
SAILS:
Pacific Far East Line, Inc.
Fast Regular Trans-Pacific Service
DIRECT
BAN FRANCIяco, LUB ANGELES
OVERLAND
NEW YORK-CHICAGO-DETROIT-TURONTO MONTREAL AND ALL AMERICAN CANADIAN, CITIES
Regular Servies direct or with transliphienk
Guam, Marinaa Islands, Altcronesian Islands
From
Vouse!
- Arrives
Batta
"CONTEST". *HAWAR BEAR" -"HAWAN" DEAR“
Bon Francisco
San Franstroo stunita
May 11. May 22
May 13
Juna 0
May 23
June
For
Ban Francisco di Lor' Angelés.
| Penang, Singapore & Manila
San Francisco, & Los Angel
via Japan
For full particulars all United Blates Lines Co., General Agents, Queen's Building, Tel: 28196,
NOTICE TO PASSENGERS
BAGGAGE:
SPECIAL NOTE:
FRIDAY, the 9th May at 12.00 noon for the UNITED KINGDOM via Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Aden and Port Sald.
...!
ALL passengers baggage "must be sent to the. Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf Co's Godown.at No. 2 Gate, Canton. Road, Entrance by Noon on. Thursday the 8th, May, 1952.
With the exception of hand packages carried by passengers themselves,' ALL BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Co's Godown for loading on board by ships's slings only.
EMBARKATION: Will take place FRIDAY, 'the 9th May, 1962 between 9.30a.m.) and 11.00 a.m.