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HONG KONG-CANTON branch exchange operator would not EAST AND WEST.
TELEPHONE.
REGULATIONS, CHARGES AND TYPES OF CALLS.
TO BE OPENED BY GOVERNOR
ON SEPT. 1.
The following regulations, charges and types of call in connection with the new Hong Kong Canton Tele phone trunk service, which will be officially opened by H.E. the Governor on September1, are issued by the Hong Kong Telephone Co., Ltd.:--
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Any subscriber who desires to use the service is required to de- posit the sum of 820. He will then be registered and given a refer ence number, the use of which is explained below. This sum will be retained by the Company as a special deposit and will be refund. ed to the subscriber. (less any out standing charges in the event of hia not requiring trunk-facilities any longer.
Üharges.
"know the details of their calls and [ if the trunk operator had to call back, the private branch" exchango operator would be at a loss an to how to completa the call.
Such private branch exchange subscribers should see that their operator is fully conversant with the method of making and receiving trunk calls in order that no delay.
or annoyance will be caused to either themselves or their corres- pondents.
Trunk Call Offices.
For the beneft of non-subscribers. who wish to make an occasional call to Chaton, facilities will be provided at this Company's officen
Bozal'cail: fec.
£200,000. TUBE CONTRACT.
Two new moving staircases are.
Tubo Station, and the station ro to be installed at Knightsbridgo
constructed at a cost of nearly 200,000, Work will begin in two
works' time.
The steel tunnels and the other,
tabuur, and equipment will provide work for 100 men over a period of many months Me
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NAUTILUS REFRIGERATION
EQUIPMENT.
It is interesting to note that
on the 4th floor of Exchange Build-among the various preparations that ing and in the offices in Telephone have been made for convenience and comfort in the Polar submarinė Building, Nathan Road, Kowloon, whereby they will be able to make Nautilus, is the installation of a call during ordinary office hours on
B.T.H. electric refrigerator. This may sound like taking, coals to New." prepayment of the ordinary per castle, but with the vessel being away from "recognised means of communication for long perioda it is essential that food should be pre served at a constant temperature if it is to remain fresh. There is no method which complies so exactly with these requirements as electrio refrigeration, hence the installation,
Timing of Cails.
Type of Call. "AB," Station-to-Station"... $2.00 20.85" Personal 2.70 0.90
Calls will be timed, in the case Booked. Calls ***** 2.70
0.99of station-to-station calls from the Leased Lines (rates quoted on-ap-
plication.)
time that any person on the call "A"-Charges for first three number speaks to the caller, and, on personal calls from the time that the person required speaks to the caller. The subscribes will not be interrupted for, the purpose of in- forming him of the time that has elapsed since the commencement of the call. AUKEYES
minutes or fraction there- of.
or
B-Charge per minute
fraction thereof over three minutes.
How to Make a Station-to-Station Call
Debit Moles for Trunk Servios.
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CHINA'S CAPITAL CİTY.
weekly
Commerce Reports a survey of foreign trade issued by the Bureau of Foreign and Domes. i Commerce. Quited States Do- partment of Commerce, writes their of Nanking,
A plot of ground 100 acres "in extent, lying near the water front of Nanking, China's capital city, has been designated by the Chinese Government as a site for industrial and commercial development pur poaus.
Dial *0. When the operator answers, give your own number, your reference number and the num- Debit notes for trunk service will ber you require in Canton. You be rendered periodically, dependent will then be requested to hold on upon the usage of the service by❘ or told that you will be rung later.the subscriber. These bills are due. The call will be timed to commence upon presentation, aal the Company directly anyone at the required sub-reserves the right to withhold trunk scriber's telephone speaks to you. telephone service facilities until
payment is made. How to Make a Personal Call Dial O." When the operator
Bubscribers' Responsibility for auswers, give your own number,
Calls Made.
Nanking's location is considered your reference number, the number
ideal as a commercial and indus- of the Canton subscriber and the
The Company will hold subscrib trial center. It is about 200 miles name of the person you wish to or responsible for the payment of up the Yangtze River, offering dock- speak to (if there is an alternative all trunk calls originated from anying facilities throughout the entire person, give bia namo also.) If the telephone rented by them and ro year, either at Nanking itself or person whom you require can be gistered for trunk facilities. To at Pakow on the opposite side of obtained, the charge for the cull avoid abuse, subscribers should take the river. It lies in the heart of will be as shown above. II, how care that the reference number be the Yangtze Valley, which "repre- ever, it is impossible to obtain the given only to responsible and satho-sents the backbone ef economic and person you require you will be rised persons. asked if you wish to speak to any-
Telephone Directories... one on that telephone. If you state that any person will do, the call
Canton telephone directories will will be put through and charged be available in English and Chinese for as for a station-to-station call. for subscribers on the Hong Kong If the person you require cannot system, and all subscribers, who be found and you do not wish to require trunk service, should ob- speak to anyone else at that num-thin a copy for their use as other- ber, a report charge of 85 cents will wise, though it will be possible for be made.
How to Make a Booked Call.
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the Hong Kong operator to. And
out the number required, it will only result in delay and, if there
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General.
.. Dinl O." When the operator in any difficulty in tracing the per- answers, give your own number, son required, in non-completion of your reference number and the tho.call. number you require in Canton, and the time you wish the coll to be put through. Every endeavour will The foregoing has been compiled be made to put the call through to to faollitate obtaining trunk connec the time you stated. At least half tions, and subscribers are earnest an hour's notice will be required. ly requested to read these instruc The charge for this type of call will tions. carefully and adhere to them be as for a personal call. The Comas by their co-operation mistakes pany may withdraw this, class of and delays will be to a great ex call at any time without notice if tout obviated. Subscribers requir the exigencies of the service re-ing any further information should quire it.
get into touch with the Secretary who will give them such information as they may require,« me Besponsibility for Establishment of
Connections.
Leased Lines.
Under certain circuinstances sub- scribers will be allowed to Icase a trunk line for daily calls of not 'less than ten minutes, duration, and for at least five days in a period:
Though the Company will make
of one week, and the Company will every effort to establish and mRİ- tain the communications required by give a discount for this type of subscribers, who are registered as service. If any subscriber requiros
this class of service, he should make requiring trunk service, it cannot a written request stating the period accept responsibility for any delay or periods he would require daily or loss that may be caused by the and the approximate time of the non-catablishment or the interrup day at which he would require his tion of any such enlla
call to commence. The Company
will then inform him as to whether
such times can be granted and the in China, and probably no other discount applicable to that parti, waterway represents greater pro- cular period. Early application tentialities in hydroelectric power should be made for such leased than the upper Yangtze Rivor. lines as the time, available for this
class of service is strictly limited.
The Company reserves, the right OIL STORAGE AT ABO to cancel any such lensed line ar rangements at its discretion if the exigencies of the service, demand auch cancellation....
P.B.X. Subscribers.
With the growth of the part of Abo the oil storage tanks are now vory close to the harbour Iny-out.) Accordingly, as the lesser have ex- pired they have not been renewed, In large offices where private and a now oil storage harbour is branch exchanges are fitted with being built - about skm, from the soveral, exchango liner, it will be town, with which it is connected necessary, to avoid confusion, for by a new rond. There is n good the operator on the privato branch depth of water at this point, raš azehango to handle all trunk calla ficient to allow fairly large tankers in order that, if the call is not to discharge direct to the storage -established-on-the-first-nttempt, cisterns. The frm of Nobe), has the trunk operator, when recalling already contracted for, the erection the subscriber, will always get into" of storage tanks with a total caps touch with the person actually hay city of 15.000 tons, and Maent and ing a knowledge of the call requin Suomen Naftha, a Soviet concern, "od for example, if on n large are also to treat taks of a similar priváty branch exchange two of capacity. From the new danôt the the extentions requested to be put i whole of Finland west of Helsing- through to trunks, the private fors is to be supplied: “hard plati
industrial Ching, and is a natural center for the radiation of rail ways, airways, roads, and other communications. Ralf of the popu lation of China resides in the Great Yangtze Valley Basin, which is likewise the most fertile region | (Continued on-previous Column.)
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£13,000,000
APPOINTMENT.
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£40,000,00
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