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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
DOMINANCE OF PLANT LIFE IN TROPICS.
LANTERN LECTURE BY DR. G. A. C. HERKLOTS. Illustrated by 40 lantera slidon prepared from photographs taken In the jungles of Java, Malaya and a lecture WEB the Philippines, given last night by Dr. G. A. C. Herklats, nt Union Church, Kow- 100л.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1931.
TRAFFIC IN WOMEN.
THE LEAGUE COMMISSION
IN SHANGHAI.
Shanghai, Mar. 10.
whip 115
The
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
OCEAN STEAM BHIP CO., LTD. and
CHINA MUTUAL STEAK NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
**TEUCER"
The League of Nations Commis- Consignees por Company's Vossel, on onquiring into the traffic in women and girls in the Far East
From SEATTLE, VANCOUVER and has arrived here, to study the con-
VICTORIA vis JAPAN. ditions in Shanghal.
are requested to take delivery of The Commission has alreadyFlour, and Lumber shipments as soon visited Sium, Indo-Chinn, Hong-ns the vessel is ready to discharro kong and the Philippines-Reuter.} and are hereby notified that if their Dr. Herklots said:
lighters are not placed alongakle the The stranger to the troplos
afenmer as required, their shipments will be discharged into Holt's Wharf always associates in his mind the 600 feet; they are abundant in
Kowloon, at their exponse, where the tropics with jungles and jungles certain types of wet Jungle. with ravenous beasts of prey lie leaves of there paims have cargo will lie also at their risk and- Ike extensions expense and subject to the terms and is correct in his first impression long
armed with re-conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf. but very far from correct in his which
arranged in
Steamer will cominence discharge on Becond. In regions of the world curved hooks where the temperaturn is high and cireling bands like collars. These the 7th March, 1931. the rainfall 80 or more inches a look are really terrible and ono year plants grow at a most alarme avolds rattans more than any other | where it will lie at Consignees' risk
a colossal size. jungle plant. A companion may ing rate and to
a part of rattan 20 foot These conditions hold for the equa-touch torial belt and result in the de ahead of you resulting in a leaf tip velopment of dense rain forest. A bending down and catching you visitor to tropical jungle, unless ho in the face. One once hooked me wild in the nose and on several occasiona is especially bent on seeing animals and orders his path ac- has my topee been lifted from my are cordingly will probably see nothing head. Unfortunately rattans
to photograph larger than a monkey, and nothing extremely difficult.
and as yet I have not managed to Bercer than a scorpión.
get any good pictures,
Of course, there are animals in almost every stretch of junvi ilgers and leopards, elephant and tapir, deer and wild cattle, but the Avoid man and are rarely seen ex- cept by accident. No, the things to be feared are the spiny rattana, the poisonous and stinging planta,
sninil blood sucking parasi and the tes. The visitor must protect him- self against these lesser evils by wearing apecial clothes, if he does Hohe enn forget about guns and revolvers and the like.
Khaki shirt with pockets, long trousers, canvas boots and puttees, and an old topes
suitable form clothing. A cost need not be worn at one can move much more freely without one. A haversme or tin vasculum for specimens, a camera and stand and a heavy knife parang for hacking a way through the sometimes very dense under growth, and one is ready for the Tray.
or
1
on-
Palme other than rattang often hinder one's progress, e.g. Pinango, Licuaia and Onchosperma apecies. onc Some are very spiny and
been "pecies of Onchosperma has
Very obvious called herrida for reasons.
Climbing bamboos in the Philip- often form very plue islands serious obstacles to progress these are absent from Malays and ог at least those regions Java, where I have entered.
but
General cargo will be dischar ed into Holt's Wharf Kowloon,
and subject to the terms and condi tions of storage at Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from the Godown on and after th March, 1931.
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in. the Godowns, where they will be examined on any the hours of 10.45 a.m. and Tuesdays and Fridays between
noon within the free storage period.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's
and
General Cargo all Godawn, remaining undelivered after the 13th March 1931, will be subject to rent.
A Claims against the Stepmar must be presented to the endorsigned on or before the 27th March 1931, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected,
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agesta. Hongkong, 7th March, 1937.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS.
LIMITED..
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO. ANTWERP, LONDON and STRAITS.
On the sandy shores of Big Wave Bay, Shek O, Deep Water Bay, and other bays, are a number of plants called screw pines or in Latin, Pandanus. These have relatives
Malayan jungle which have The Steinship. in lenver with toothed edges as bar- barous as our native species. Somo of these relatives are climbing like leaves plants and their saw
the linng down ready to lacerate face of the unobservant botanist,
The forest paths are always in- teresting. On their banks grow In this short talk it is of course ferns closely related to the forn impossible to describe any particu-which we call Hongkong bracken, B lar feature in detail. Ali I can do species of Gleichenia. Occasional- is to describe some of the outstand one is lucky enough to get a view
First Impressions,
or in other words
growing
"BENAVON" Consignees of Cargo are hereby are being informed that all Goods landed
their
risk into the hazardous hazardous and/or extra Godowns of The Hongkong and Kow- loon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 12th March 1931, will be saljest to rent.
ing features
of a group of tree ferns, perhaps to record first impressions. With the most beautiful of all jungle All claims against the steamer the exception of mangrove swamp forms of life. Tree ferns are most must be presented to the Undersign jungle, which tiers considerabundant in wet jungle high up oned on or before the 26th March 1931, ably from lowland and mountain the mountain sides; I have seen or they will not be recognized. forest, all types of tropical rala them
in Juxuriantly forest have many things in com- Mulaya, Java and the Philippines, mon. These photographs were different species but all very almi- taken in Malaya, Java, and the lar.
the last two Philippines during years.
The fewness of the very large trees at first seeins wrong, there S perhaps but one glant to an uere, but this is due to their enormous I have seen canopy. In Malaya these giant trees 150-220 feet In height with perhaps not a branch for the first 100 feet. Only at the edge of a jungle clearing la It pos- sible to photograph such a giant
tree.
The impenetrable inture of the undergrowth is most striking and
Jungle Glants.
struc.
top
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 11th March 1931, at 10a.m., by Mears, Goddard and Douglas.
No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bill of Lading will be countersign-
ed by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
Agents. Hongkong, 5th March, 1931.
WILH. WILHELMSEN.
THE NORWEGIAN AFRICA & AUSTRALIA LINE.
The motorship,
Jungle giants often have strange and complicated roots. Frequently they thicken considerably in two Planes forming plank like tures. I have seen a table made from a portion of a single buttress root such as in shewn in photographe. At other threse times, especially in the case of Og trees innumerable prop roots are produced some of which grow straight down into the soil, others
"TOURCOING" is due to tangled masses of vines, tree presents a very strange ap having arrived from Norway vla of which encircle the trunk. Such
porta on the 6th March consignees rattans, gingers, ferns and the Pearance.
Here, and there, while following of cargo are hereby notified that all Cutting a roots of large trees. path through this sort of stuff is a path along the side of a steep goods are being landed at their risk Ja mountain one is lucky enough to into the non-hazardous, hazardous Ket 2 magnificent view. Some and/or extra hazardous godowns of times mile after mile of multi-the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & coloured forest canopy in the val- Godown Co., Ltd., whence delivery leys and plains below reminds one may be obtained. Goods not cleared after the 12th March will be subject of a map with the counties marked rent. out in various colours. At other times the view is of mile after mile of rubber plantations a dull drab monotonous green but with the sea
extremely fatiguing work. necessary to blaze a trall otherwise one can get lost extremly easily and within but a short distance of the base camp.
Sometimes the lianes present a most curious appearance. Here is one like an immense drawn spring. Here
is a colossal loop connecting two trees which is com- parable to an enormous steel rope made up of many twisted strauds, These lianes are very strong and one the thickness of a man's thumb will bear a man's weight easily, The chief snag about swarming up such a liane is that one cannot be certain that its apex is firmly fixed to the branches perhaps 60 or 100 feet above. Also auch lanes often serve as bridges for very ferce and large warrior antal
A
Climbing Palmas. The ratlank are group of climbing palms whose stems grow sometimes to a length of more than
„General Manager:
BRANDT A CO,
Bt. George' Butike. Chater Rond,
All broken, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the godown where they will be examined on the 11th March at 10 am. by our Sur- in the distance. Perhaps it inveyors, Messrs. Anderson & Ashe. evening and the view is punctuated with the glow of fires from native encampments or where jungle being turnt
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No claims will be admitted unless
notified and/or application for survey made in writing within seven days after landing of the goods, or in any cake before the goods are taken de. The slides shown by Dr. Herk-livery of.
Claims will not be recovɑrable unless lots included the Raflosla patma, a flower of the size of a cabbage complete accounts ors sent in within which tooks like, and smells of rot-fourteen days of final discharge of ting flesh, two of the many apecies vessel. of pitcher plants (the Malays call them monkey-cups) which found in the jungle. They are ed by insectivorous and live partly the ants and flies which enter the pitcher and die and are digested tlorin,
Balding & Repaite of Glesma
and Motorhipe of every (374)
are
on
No Fire Insurance will be effected | by us in any case whatever,
Bills of Lading will be countersign-
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