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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD. Te). Central 286.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14TH, 1926
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With INDEZ Frice-$7,50,
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LOCAL RICSHAS.
DECREASE-IN-NUMBERS:
Some interesting figures are included in an article on the decline of public rieshasin-the-Colony-by-the--Aung Sheung Tai Po (Industrial and Commer- cial Daily Press), which has been making inquiries on the subject.
HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
AUGUST 19TH, 1920.. $1,100 bay.. 1,110 sm.
QUEEN'S
Hangkong Bank
Chartered Bank Meronatile Bauk,
Don •London.......£les nom
Do
P. & D. Bank.
at Aria Bank Canton Insuranc China Underwriters
The number of ricshas in Hongkong North China Insurance and Kowloon is given as:-
1916
1922
1093
1924.
1925
1926
Union Insurance *******
Yangiare Insurance
1,500/1,600 over 1,300 about 1,190
China Fire Insurance
+
1,080
same about 1,020
In 1918 the Colony had the record num- ber of ricshas, it is observed. With the advent of motor traffic, the Police De partment has followed a policy of gradual reduction.
POLICE POLICY.
20 buy. £onom U......£13 nom.
est bay...
...84 ba7.
..3630 sol
11.30 Day.
Tla. 145 non. ....389 BL
...38 bay,
....$200 buy.
Hongkong Fire insurance ... nom. Douglases******
...............25 buy a Hike, U. a A. Num. nom.
tongkang Tag................. ... nom. Indo-Chinas (Pret.)
Do.
Star Farnas...... Shell Transporta Waterbosts... Luna Dugars
Malabon Dug■59* ******** Banguel.......
Kaid Mining A.. Langkat (combined)
Shanghai Explorations...
Do.: (angle) shaya La
* HORL
$40 num.
03/- mom.
$67
l
$15) nom.
34 wel.
3d bay.
„šlà nom.
40-
JS buy.
The 1% nom. Tis. 7 nem .....Ta of nom.
The
Kaats............om
Sinom.
Since 1923, ricshas (the drivers of which have had three convictions re- gistered against them for offences, have been withdrawn from off the streets. numbers thus taken off are given by the Aung Sheung Fat Po as ren in 1923, 100 in 1824, none in 1925 and over 60 in, 1996. A factor not mentioned by the verna cular paper is the permission of public ricshits on the upper levels a few years ago, but this addition is possibly includ ed in the figures quoted above.
The licence for a public riesha is 872 a year, it is stated. Including the licence fee and the hire charged by the owner. Developments. for farmer"), the coolies pay 45 cents n day for the privilege of drawing a ricah. The man on day shift pays Si cents and the right shift man paya 30 cents.
Tronoh Mines antenas.07% buy. Ural Caspians....... H.K.& K. WharÉM.......... H.K., & W, Dock"", hongkowa .....
AIR TAXIS AT 2/- A MILE.
THE TRIP FROM LONDON-TO
PARIS.
TRAFFIC STEADILY INCREASING:
LONDON, July 12th.
$120 now. $34 bay.
Th. 17i bay.
-TH: 3.90 buy,
... 109.bay. ...$101.nom.
New Lugiacetings........ Shanghai Docks. H&S Hotels Hongkong Resitys (f.p.)......$7† buy., 8 séi, "Hongkong tanta HK Tarntoriais
Humphreys states. Prince's Builungs....... Bural Landa
Ewa Cottons............ Orientalengkeskeares
$5 nom.
15 cts. 1.
$13 nom
yu nom.
1 buy.
י
1. 9.15 buy, 24 du.
Tla, buy,
Shanghai Cotton (old), 62 buy. Do. (now)......Tis. 27 buy. China Buses
Hongkong Tramways Peak Tramas (eid)
DE (HOT).... Singapore Tractions ས། ་་་་་་་ར་་བ་ Amusements Canton leas
Cements (combined)
10. bo.
(old) (now).
Tie. 101 buy..
........ nom.
$7.00 nom.
...199 buy, 12/. sel
... bel
10 buy: $7 nom.
..$15) nom.
Si nom ..$1; com.
A man walked into the traffic manager's Chin's Lights (combined)....$19 buy.
an aero-
office at Croydon Aerodrome one night last week and said, “... I want plane, please, to take me to Paris for dinner.".
Lia
Do. (old)
Do.
$ij nöm. ......$if nous.
$5.30 bay.
... nom.
..Biot nom
(new) China Providents......... Constructions
****ནམསྣུམམན***** Dairy Farms............... The official in charge showed no sur- Der A Wings prise. Such incidents are by no means Hongkong Electrics alībā sol. a startling departure from the ordinary Macao Electrics .......... routine of London's Continental air port.. Bopes (combined).
You can taxi "in the air to any part of the Continent for 28. a mile there and back. A private aeroplane for the journer to Paris and return, with the privilege of keeping it.one night, costs about £40. The excellent daily service of public aeroplanes enables a week-end tourist to visit the Rhine by air with léss exertion than he requires for the land journey across England.
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Croydon is the meeting-place for many nationalities. From 7.55 am, when the first Paris aeroplane takes off ""with. passengers for Zürich and Bale, air ex- presses are ascending and arriving all day long.
Normally there are 11 or 19 out of Croydon and as many in, but extra machines have to be added daily to deal with the increased goods and passenger traffic. Last month more than 3,000 travellers passed through the Customs. The Man in Control.
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-From-this-landing ground radiate-three- great airways to the Continent. You can go aloft at Croydon and reach Mos- cov, Copenhagen, Berlin, Prague, Bâle, or Marseilles, according to the direction in which your air express is flying. Trafic junctions at Amsterdam, Cologne, and Paria hold together this broad net- work of European air services.
Its nerve centre in England is a control tower perched high above Croydon field. Here, at the top of a step iron ladder, aits the telephonist, who talks with every pilot in the air and the control officer with his traffic chart of Western Europe pinned to the desk before him. Flags sbow the position of the aeroplanes in Bight. Ten minutes after they leave a foreign terminus they are reported on the way. Every ten minutes thereafter the Alags go forward with their progress. The control officer sees each aeroplane through its flag. He follows it across the Chan- nel and until it is over Kent. Then a watcher on the balcony- outside, who is like the forward look-out in a ship, scans the horizon with his officini glasses, for the first glimpse of the seroplane winging its way downward to the alighting field.
Five minutes later it drops gently in front of the control tower. High steps are carried to the cabin door, the passen- gers' climb out, smiling a little awkward- ly, with the air of explorers who have. unexpectedly reached another world. They are gifted quickly through the Customs and the passport barriers, while Scotland Yard weighs them with an ex- perienced eye. Within ten minutes they are driving rapidly down a pleasant country read towards London-two and. a half houre from Paris, two hours from Rotterdam, an hour and a half from Ostend still rather dazed by their sudden transition.
TRAVELLED WITH LIVING- STONE.
Mr. W. Trenwith, for many "years" resident of Galle. Ceylon, passed away in his 80th year on July 21st.
$35 no,
sei Do. (old)
...$10 Bel Iaus Urawfords....
(now)..... ... sel.
issinom Hackintosha, veessa.com.Diag acid. diocaresias United Anbestos . num. Watsons (old).................. 134 nom. Wm. Powells....................5) AULA,
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Yokohama
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1764
12.11
0.42
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34.40
Helsingfors
193
Buenos Aires.
45.2
Shanghai
2/9
1/118/18
4.881
25:131
1474.
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22.14)
1841
31.88
73
2/2
281
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