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Tanka available
for carriage of Oil in Bulk.
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Limited Panachger
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BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.
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EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN S.S. CO., LTD.
"EASTERN"
due 11th Jan WHEN LA Jub
Australia
Trave
for Japan
2
All vessels have liberty to call ai any ports on or of the route & the roule & sailing are subject
to change or anebdment with or without notice,
For Full particulars apply to:-
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
OF HONG KONG LTD. Telephone Nos. 27721-4,
refrigerator
Calcula
Penang, Be
THE CHINA MAIL," MONDAY, JANUARY, 10, 1955.
CHINA
DESCHISE STATES
HONGKONG PUBLISHED DAILY (AFTERNOONB)
Price, 20 conta per copy,
Saturdays 30 cents, Bubscription: $6.00 per month.
Postage: China and Macs $3,00 per month, UK. British Possessions and other countries $7.00 per month.
New contributions, always wel- corde, should be addressed to the Editor, businem communications adid odver tlements to the Becculary,
Telephone: 28611 (5 Lines),
KOWLOON OFFICE: Balisbury Road, Telephone: 52838,
ENCOUNTERS ZARASAIAKONSHMANANANTHATENA
Classified Advertisements
ZO WORDS $4,00 for 1 DAY PREPAID ADDITIONAL INSERTIONS $2.00 PER DAY
10 cents PER WORD OVER '20 Births, Deaths, Marriages, Personal $5.00 per insertion not exceeding 25 words, 25 cents each additional word. ALTERNATE INSERTIONS 10% EXTRA
PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned as a colved instructions to sell by Public Auction at 10.30 am, Wednesday the 12th
| January, 1955, at his Sales | Rooms, French Bank Building, Basement, Hong Kong,
A very fine collection of Curios:-including Porco- Jnin Vaacs, Bowls, Plates, Figures, Ornaments, Jado
Two Int'l Trade
Fairs At Leipzig This Year
Berlin, Jan. 9.
The Soviet Union, “Communist China and Articles, Pottery, other Communist countries will take part in this Placques, Blackwood Fur-year's Leipzig Spring Trade Fair with an enlarged
exhibition, according to East Berlin radio.
niture, etc., etc. Full Particulars from Catalogues.
On View from today. Terms: 60% in cash on fall of Hummer and balance the following day.
A. E. B. de SOUSA,
Auctioneer.
|
Britain will also take a pro- minent place in the Fair.
France will be represented for the first time and the West German stand will be twice the size of previous ones,
Exhibitions by the Communist countries will be bigster
ever, the
Harry
will send
tions.
Odell
says
I feel highly honoured to be able to announce what I believe will be the most
If not prepaid a booking fee brilliant event of this decade.
of 50 conte in charged.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
י *
Mr F * FRANKLIN
PAA
WANTED KNOWN
LUIS CHAN STUDIO Painting fur nale Purtriturn undertakel, Individual tuction in painting given. iniapretion Invited jun Hannemy Road at floor
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SCROLLS Pout Couatori Sar- vivu. Tvieplone Blume" (Mezzanine) Hongkong plovites the expert olten. tion your feel deserve “by London. glenished ropodiat,
STAMPS
SOMETHING NEW and EXCLUSIVE Fresh stocks received of collecser packets of nasorted sinnipe From 20 cente
per pocket upwards. An entirely new eries. South China Murning Post ltd., Wyndham Street and Saltsbury Head, Kowloon,
than radio said, and they larger trade delega-
(There will be two Leipzig tairs this year, one in the 'spring and one in autumn, for the first lime since before the war. Thic Apring tair will be from
27 February
to March D) Router.
Safety Service In Bar
Wellington, Jon. §. A safety service for the benefi of motorists has been Initiated
by a Wellington publican.
DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE and SIR LEWIS CASSON, England's distinguished artists, will give a recital of Shakespeare and poetry at the EMPIRE THEATRE on Wed- nesday, 16th February, 1955, posters are displayed encourug-
9.30 p.m.
A limited ing drivers who have taken "one number of seats will be sold. keys at the office, where a taxi too many to leave their car
For further particulars call will be summoned for them. International
Ltd.,Their cars will be safely parked until the following day. China Telephone 21832.
Mall Special
at
Films,
In
the bars
of his hotel,
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
BIG TIMBER MILL
Dehra Doon Cattar
Pradesh, Jan. 9.
The Andaman Islanda in the Bay of Bengal hisa ond of the biggest timber mill in the world, report fourth presented
Congress
to World Forestry here stated,
the
An eight feet band mill, situated
Bort at
Blair, which is now nearing com* pletion, currently handles two hundred tons of timber a day, according to the re» рот
The Islands, covering an area of 2,508 #quare milies are well-known for their timber
resourca,
Andaman foresis,
cover
AD
The which
prea of 1,800 square miles, Field 65,000 tons of timber, giving an ADNAS), revenue of 1 million rupces ( & $37,500) ----Reg- ter.
End Occupation Appeal
Unfair Practices Alleged By Danish Retailers
Copenhagen, Jan. 9.
The more staid and more conservative Danish retailers, especially those, selling food in Copen- hagen, are up in arms against their more enterprising competitors who are using what they declare to be unfair and disloyal trading methods to attract custom.
Danes have good appetites and housewives are lavish, but discriminating buyers.
Some of the methods used to persunde. customers to transfer their custom from one shop to another are novel,
which
Lottery schemes, in the customer pays nothing for his ticket and his right to share in the prizes. are the most favoured,
ba
LOTTERY
For instance, a butcher
of ornob
Copenhagen's busiest shopping districts rutte lottery every week. The chief prize is a large Jotnt of pork. But he gives plenty of other prizes rang-
Ing from a blg Juley steak
to a few pounds of delect- ablo mungti.
*
Everyopo, en making a pur chase, receives numbered receipt. Counterfoils of these
After this, many shopkeepers started having what their com petitors culled "decoy lines, which resulted in items such as coffee being
Gold at often absurdly uneconomie prices. This method is attacked as disloyal,
also being
are
Lasting
Sono retailers Crossword puzzles and le for which booklets of puzzles, prizes are offered.
The Donish Jottery law stipulates that lotteries are only legal a purchase la mode a condition for taking part in it. But in, spite of this, owing to difficulties of interpretation, butchers and others who usc the numbers on their receipts as lottery numbers just czapo approved way and the butcher's the law. An appeal to a higher pretty 21-year-old daughter court might conceivably upset picks out the winning numbers. this position. These are displayed in the shop window for all to see.
numbers arc
mixed in
the
This butcher has found his scheme
and very successful,
Hc his rivals are complaining. replies: "Let them do the same if they want to. Nothing stops them."
fix
UNLUCKY NUMBERS
Other retailers placo lottery numbers on their goods and the purchaser is given the number when he takes away his joint of beer or packet of soup, or sumges, or whatever it is. Some- times numbers deemed to
bo lem tucky 'than others will result Lo certain articles being unsold,
Vienna, Jan. 9. The Austrian Chancellor Herr Julius Raab, today appeal P.O. Box 53
ed for an carly meeting of the Queen's Building Tel: 26651
Big Four powers to discuss the problem of Austria, FAST PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE
This movement started some In a broadcast, he said that months back when the Govern- sailing Feb. 25th solution of the Austrian problem ment issued a regulation for.
the sailing Mar. 25th-ending
occupation of
bidding manufacturers Austria-would probably be the the retail prices of their pro
step towards ducts.
The Association Ая д most important
result, retailers world peace. His country have since observed Πα uni-hagen Retallers has asked the w wanted to live in peace with all formity of prices, differ Ministry of Justice to alter the
the its neighbours and would always ences even in the case of small law on lotteries in such á attempt to "case tension among | quantities often amounting
that all lotá to sweeping fashion
teries several penice. them."--Reuter.
of any kind conducted by traders would ba for bidden.
"CAMBODGE" "VIETNAM"
FAST FREIGHT SERVICE "MEKONG" (1) "DONA?"
sailing Jan. 11th sailing Feb. 16th
(1) will call at London
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
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By Mik
NANCY
AW, SPIKE ---
LAY OFF WITH THAT PEA-SHOOTER
HE'S BEEN AFTER ME WITH IT ALL DAY
HAW--- HE CAN'T
BOTHER ME WITH HIS PEA-SHOOTER
IN HERE
By Ernie Bushmiller
EVERETT
LINES
EVERETT ORIENT LINE
Fast regular freight
passenger service 10 Korea, Јарап, Philippines. Indo-China, Siam, Malaya, Rangoon Calcutta and Chittagong.
"LENEVERETT"
Arrives Sails
Jan. 20 from Manila, Jan, 21 for Singapore,
Rangoon, Chingang.
"REBEVERETT"
Arrive Sails
Jan. 21 for Singapore.
Jun 21 for Kobe & Yokohama.
(Accepting cargo for transhipment Kobe/Tusan and Kobe/Okinkwa)
EVERETT
STAR LINE
Fast regular freight — refrigerator Japan, Malaya, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi, and
Persian Gulf.
(subject to Indacement for direct cali Korea),
"THAI"
from Japan.
for Singapore, Port Swetten- ham, Madras, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi, Basrab, Kuwait & Bahrein,
Jan, 23 from Singapore. Jan. 23 for
"Arrives
Sails
Kobe & Yokohama.
(LIMITED PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION) (Accepting cargo for transhipment Kobo/Pusan and Egbe/Okinawa)
EVERETT STEAMSHIP CORPORATION S/A
· (incorporated in the Republic of Panama Since with Limited Lianity
Chinese Department: Telephone 28293, Queen's Building, Telephone 31206.
JOHNNY HAZÁRD
HAND OVER YOUR PASSPORT, HAZARD/
| YOU WON'T BE USING
IT... WHY KEEP IT?
HOW CAN I REBIST WHEN YOU ASK 'SO
NICELY?
OKAY, CONTESSAA IF- YOU WANT IT THAT BADLY, by: YOU CAN HAVE ITus
Arrives Sails
Jan. 13 Jan. 14
Bervice
to
By Frank Robbins
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
IQAR
*TER JAM THAT MADE TASMANIA FAMOUS-
BLACK MAGIC
ASSORTED
CHOCOLATES
thin situa
Fan
Miquel
.
ot
Copen-
This would hit particularly, hard the
Christmas popular lotteries, in which the first prizes in Denmark are always guese.
The legislation, proposed by the Copenhagen retailers is 50 formidably drafted ihat would even stop the crossword puzzle prizes offered by the Danish newspapers,
These in some cases are very large,
Ono evneing newspaper has a crossword puzzle every Satur- day filing a whole' page. A fow Sunday newpapers do the saine.
Now lawyers are looking for formula which would condne the effects of this legislation to operations by retail traders and would exempt newspapers,
The majority of staid shop- keepers maintain that lotteries
and similar inducements to customers are nos straightforward trading
and
service, and that if pushed much further would lead to all sorts of com- plications and undermine the basis of retail trade, namely that for an agreed price the customer obtains an agreed article.
"Dividends" given, by co-
retall operativo
stores and many other shops are not yet openly attacked. Presumably the Retailers Association feels that it might be taking on too big a task to attack such a long established pratcice. It is
ob- viously
to attack enterprising minority.
casier
MAIN COMPLAINTS
The main weight of the
· complaints comes from the thousands of small shop- keepers who compete with one another for sometimes littletrado... Cone
RALLY'-' many of them
And it diflonit to make ends meet' and' have no money to spare to start lotteries,
an
In Denmark, anyway, ⠀ there: in little risk of many food to- The tallers going bankrupt,
that Intert dzures show the "average, consumption of food in Denmark is no less than 2,200 calories a day--roughly 500 calories, more than, "are nisedbod to keep all but the hardest manual workers, and there are few of these in Den mark, strong and
It estimated
Danos that f would consumo only) 6,000
calories a day, which would run leave thum ahead of all other European nations, they would save a total of $35,000 million calories
„equivalentí
Increase he food
1,000,000