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DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1933
Kowloon Supplement The Hong Kong And Whampoa
Dock Company, Limited.
HONG KONG, MAY, 19, 1933.
PLANTING OPPORTUNITIES
were
no
HISTORY AND MODERN-DAY. ENTERPRISE
This old established Company is The workshops consist of Engine one of the largest Dry Docking, Erecting and Machine Shops, Boiler Ship Building and Ship Repairing Shop, Forge and Smithy, Irea, Companies in the British Empire Brass and Steel Foundries, Copper- outside Britain itself, its groundsmith and Plumbers, Brassfinishers," covering a total area of 58.49 nares,Patternmaking and Electrical of which the Kowloon Establishment Shops, Sawmill and Joiner Shop, all of which are efficiently equipped occupies 68 acres
with the most up to date tools and machines for work of every descrip- tion.
From this Company as a centro, grew up most if not all of the other companies dotted over the Far East and wherever one goes, Sandakan, Singapore, or nearer Home, will be found workmen who started with and were trained by the Hong Kong and Whompon Dock Company be fore they migrated.
Its first activities commenced with the acquirement of the Mad Docks at Whampoa in the Canton River, in July, 1863. In October, 1865, the Company took over the Lamont and Hope Docks at Aber deen on the South Side of the Island, then the property of a Mr. John Lament, and October the following year saw the Company re- gistered under the Companies Or dinance.
Opened at Kowicon in 1870, In 1870 the Company extended its scene of operations to Kowloon, acquiring a share in the property on which the now existing Nos. 2 hod 3 Docks are situated. Further ex pansion took place at Kowloon in August, 1877, when two slipways were laid down, and in 1880 the Company bought the property now known as the Cosmopolitan Dock at Shumshuipo,
A special remark should be made regarding Cast Steel. The metal- lurgy of Steel is the most com plicuted and highly technical of any branch of the science of their pro- ducta "have so advanced in quality that the Dock Co. is en Lloyd's list of approved makers of Steel Castings: A highly trained Steck Metallurgist is employed and the Company is equipped both with Staff and Plant for producing Special Steela,"
Welding by Electric or Oxy- Acetylene processes is also a feature of the Company's activities, and can be undertaken either in their shops or on ships, or elsewhere.
Diesel
arrd Engine
Turbine Machinery erection and repairs re- ceive the special attention of ex- perts in such work. Twenty vessels for service in Philippine Waters have been built and fitted with Diesel Engines since 1928. In 1090 the entire Engines were removed from the Motorship Haby Castle of 4096 gross tone, for an extensive repair, and refitted again, the opera tion being practically, repeated a abort time ago.
ONE hears so much nowadays about the depresion in the planting -industry, of the slump in rubber, Iton and coffee, that the suggestion that they should be cultivated in this Colony is unlikely to receive serious attention, even were such a project to be considered as practical possibility. Granted the feasability of growing these pro- ducts here, there should be difficulty in finding suitable mar keta, since, providing the tea" or of good coffee produced quality, it would undoubtedly find a ready market in Hong Kong. If growers of say, coffee, were able to produce crops at a comparatively low cost, thus enabling them to sell the beans at less than competitive prices, they should be able in time to place all they can grow in the local market.
There is nothing fantastic in this theory if one com pares it with any enterprise which hos sprung up in this Colony within recent years. Few imagined that locally-manufactured sugar would be a commercial success, until the Taikoo Sugar Company started its operations, and a great many sceptics to be treated with redicule the suggestion of operating a local brewery when first the idea was mooted; yet there is little doubt that before long many of us will be consuming locally-brewed beer, If there is a sufficient demand Among the local foreign and Chinese population for locally-produced and locally-grown commodities, we see no reason why coffee should not be marketed with equal success provid ed the soil and climate are suitable for its cultivation. A demand for
To provide increased fabilities for Any product can be created in time
The heaviest Boiler built at Kow- by skilful advertising, if the pro- docking the ships of the British duct is able to compare favourably Navy, the construction of the pre-loon Docks weighed 78 tons. with other commodities as regards acut No. 1 Dock was commenced in price and quality. That is
an 1882, and completed in 1888, mak- Argument which, we imagine, fewing the Company the largest British would be prepared to challenge. Establishment of its kind outside especially if they have had any ex- the British Isles. perience of commercial propaganda and its results. Yet many who will readily believe that a marker could Be created for locally-produced coffee need to be convinced that it can be grown in Hong Kong or the New Territories with even a faint measure of success. Such scepticism is natural and is generally due to the fact that, merely because no one has ever had the courage to take the initiative and experiment with the cultivation of tropical crops in this Colóny, and because the Government has given little or no encouragement to such a scheme, they cannot bring themselves to regard it as being even remotely feasible. It may be a surprise to them, therefore, to learn that for several years past Mr. BISHEN Son & former senior master at the Ellis Kadoorie Indian School, has grown annual crops of coffee with astonishing success in the school garden at Sookunpoo. The plants, which he obtained from India and Arabia, were of the finest varieties and yielded beans of excellent size and quality. In fact, every year he was accustomed to and later records show amongst. Thus led, the competent and in- make a present of a pound packet others, H.M.B. Terrible, the flag-dustrious Chinese artisang turn out of locally-grown coffee to the former ship of Admiral Sir Percy Scott world which is a continunk source of Governor, Sir CECIL CLEMENTI, who One of the largest jobs of the older satisfaction and even perhaps pride, pronounced it some of the finest day's was the reft of H.M.S. Glory (The above article was brondçast he had ever tasted Mr. Bight Kowloon. Coming to the pre- yesterday in connection with the SINGH is convinced that coffee could sent day we find the largest whip British Empire Fair.) - he grown on quite a large-scale in the New Territories, provided the docked is the magnificent, Empress
of estate were situated in a properly chosen part of the hills, sheltered
From that time until now the Company has progressed and kept abreast of the times.
Present Establishment. There are six Dry Docks, two Slipways for docking and repairs, and building accommodation cap able of laying down ten ships at one time, several of which could be 700 feet long.
The Sawmill and Joiner Shope are well equipped for special fear turce in woodwork. Part of the wood furnishings in the Hong Kong Hotel, Gloucester Building and Peninsula Hotel testify to the high class of work turned out by this Company.
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Salvage and Fire Fighting work is also included within the scope of the Company's undertakings The large ocean going tug Henry Keswick is specially fitted for such work, and 4. very experienced salvage diver and Chinese divers are kept ready for service at short notice.
The Kowloon Establishment hoa a sheltered sea frontage of 3,000 Finally a word on the Staff. feet with ample accommodation for Around a nucleus of the older Euro-
and
peans whose names are household berthing vessels alongside mooring buoys at convenient dis words in Hong Kong is built up a tances from the jetties. The berth gounger, active and keen generation at East Yard has a depth of water who will in the course of time leave of 40 feet this berth being con their marks as their fore rutiners tigudus to the deepest part of the have done before them. Repairs Harbour, Lyemun Pass excepted. are carried out with the utmost Before the construction of the skill and expedition and the design, Admiralty Dock in H.M. Dockyard, ing and building of special craft, the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock refleats, double enders, tugs as well Co. docked all the vessels of the as the larger cousters, liers and British Navy on the Chime Station, tankers is looked after by men including the old ironclads such as highly trained in their particular H.M.S. Iron, Duke, at Aberdeen, branches.
The Building
strendy ro
and machinery
from typhoons The experiments ferred to are well equipped with nil which he had conducted over a modern appliance number of years have left no doubt for ship building
in his mind that they could be Over 700 Vessels Büllt, carried out commercially with
The total of vessels built now promise of Considerable profit, since local labaits 12 cheap and the number 720, ranging from Rading soil, it prepared with fertilisers, Yachts and Motor Craft to Passen nossesses all the essential qualities ger Laners, Standard War Vessels for coffee cultivation. It would be ad Tankers of 8,400 tons dead
sting to watch the results of weight.
experiment were anyone attempt it toongh asking too much to enterprise to create
tories, however, and there is nothing to prevent those with capital, from tryi their hand at coffee
iply those
to take a risk.
VILLAGE MILITIA
"FOR PROTECTION AGAINST
BANDITS
The villagers of the oth Division of the Na Hoi District, at the invitation of Mr. Lo of Shek Ling village, called a meeting of the re- presentatives to devise ways and means for self-protection against Bandita:20 P
The meeting was attended by some hundreds of representativ was decided that comb should be taken as- Each village is to raise and a militia of twenty
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The tale of beach pyjamas at THE JADE TREE continues, this week," and "a few pairs of beach clogs are to be had at $1.00 a pair.
THE JADE TREE, Ltd.
18-81 HANKOW. BoAD
Golden
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Chinese Embroidered
Linens in the Colony. Ivory, Amber, Crystal
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Tel.
and New
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FOOK WENG 3 Co.
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Phone: 58743.
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Alex Ross & Co. (China), Ltd.
KOWLOON QARAGE
CHINA LIGHT & POWER Co. (1918), Ltd.
Aiding In The Development of Kowloon and the New Territories by PROVIDING ELECTRICITY.
for
LIGHT HEAT POWER
USE MORE ELECTRICITY
Economical--Convenient-Attractive
Head Office St. George's Bldg. Tel. 28537
Kowloon Office- 27, Nathan Road. Tel. 57677
The Blue Taxicabs Limited.
NOTICE.
Our Patrons are hereby noufaḍ that from the 1st, day ́ ́of May, 1933 the fares for taxicab hire will revert to 40 cents First mile and ten cente the old tariff-.. 40 for each subseqüent quand
In Addition the Company will run menail taxicabs from Nĺžil perry pier Stärkt at Jordan Road, Kowloon, the New
tarit to be 80 conts First nilé and 5 cents per
mlis for subsequent miles
Alen pubila care for hire Day and Night
Waiting
For large and small bei 57714 and car wil be sent
Office and Garage
67417, arch:
Corner Nathan Road & Market Street, Kowloon
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