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Hongkong Telegraph
PHOTONEWS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1939.
HAPPENINGS.
AS SEEN BY THE CAMERA'S EYE
ONE-MAN STATION GOES OUT WITH
THE OLD YEAR
Jim Weller, signalman, porter, booking-clerk and tickot-collector, locks up the Southern Railway Station on the Devil's Dyko, near Brighton, for the last time.
The railway which the station serves is closing down because of the lack of passengers. Below we show you a typical day in the life of Mr. Woller, the one man station staff,'
BANKS
THE CHARTERED BANK OF
· INDIA, AUSTRALIA & UHINA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter 1817 HEAD OFICE LONDON, 33 Bishopsgate, M.C.L.
Paid-up Capital
23.000.0
Reserve ability of Proprietare $3,000,0 Reserve Fund ................................................ £3,000,000
MANCHESTER BRANCH:
11 Mosley #1, Mancherler. AGENCIES AND BRANCHEN:
Alor Star
Amritsar
Bangkok Eintayin Bombay'
| Calcutta
Sitiawan
Jpoh
Saleon
Iloilo
Bemarang
Karachi
Berembas
Kinna
Shanghal
Koba Kuala
Lumpti
Biore
Bourabaya
Kuching Madras Manila
Taiping
Tiental
Tongkah
Medan
(Ehuket)
Palping
Tungiao
| Hamburg
Peining
Ypkobama
Hankow
(Peking)
Cantua Cawnpore Cebu Colombo Delhi
Haiphong
Rangoon
Science Part Of Holidays Too
P & O-BRITISH INDIA (APCAR) AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
(Companies Incorporated to England.)
Taxing Cargo on through 1910s of Lading for STRAITS, JAVA & DURMA. CPYLOR INDIA, IRANIAN GULF, MAURITIUS. E. & 9. Africa, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUD ING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTU, RED SEA, EGYPT, EUROPE, TE
OPNINGULAR & DIUENTAŬ FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT HOYAL MAIL. STEAMERY (Under Contract with I.M. Government.)
al vessels may vall at any ports on or off the route.—and the route and all seilings Gure subject to change or deviation with or without noire.
*JEYPORE
RAWALPINDI BURDWAN
CANTON CORFU
+ SOMALI CHITRAL CARTHAGE
Tons From H'Hong about
6,000 4th Mar.
6,000, 18th Mar
∙17,000) 18th March 0,000 2511 Mar.
10,000 1st Apr. 14,500 15th Apr. 7,00 21st Apr. 15,500 200. Apr. 14,500, 13 May
Calls Casablanc,
Destination
Marseilles & London.
Strait, Cho D'bay & Kehl, Straits, Colombo, Bombay & Karachi.
Marseilles & London.
B'bay, 'seilles, Havre, don. Hull, H'bg. R'dam & A'werp, Marseilles & London.
Marseilles & London.
B'iny, M'seilles, Havre, L'don, Hull, bit. I'dám & Alwerp. Marseille & London.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. All vessels may cull at Atmita
BRITISH INDIA APGAR BAILINGS (80UTU)
10,000 11th Mar.
S'pore, Port Swellen Penong, Rangoon & Catenta
ROYAL INSTITUTION
A CLASSROOM-
With A Difference
Schoolchildren home ut holiday watching demonstration by Dr. James Kendall. Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh University during s lecture on Str Humphry Davy, the scleullst, at the Royal Institution, W. The veture was one of this year's-the. 113th series-ot Christmas lectures for children. The series deals with discoveries made by young men of science.
Steamers
RANPURA
*NAGPORE
17,000, 4th Mar. Noon
• Cargo only
TALMA
SIRDHANA
10,000 258) Mar.
SHIRALA TILAWA
5,000 8th Apr.
10,800 22nd Apr.
SANTHIA
£1,000 6th May
TANDA
*NKIN
DO
DO.
1
Do
DO
83. Apear Line steamera havo excellent accommodation for 1st & Tad clNAN LAMEDY
KASTERN & AUSTRALIAN BAILINGS (SOUTH.)
NELLORE
7.0001 4th Mar. 7,000
1st Apr. 7,000 5th May.
...
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane Sydney, Melbourne & Hoba
Regular monthly sailings from Ukong to Bhanghai & Japani & 1okong to Australi
Hong Kong to Sydney-IS GAJE,
BAILINGS TO BHANGBAI & JAPAN,
SINDHANA
CANTON NANKIN SHIRALA CORFU
*SOMALI
CHITRAL
TILAWA
10,000) 2nd Mar. p.m.
16,000 3rd Mar,
7,000 4th Mar. 0,000 16th Mar. 14.500 17th Mar. 7,000 18th Mar, 15.500 30th Mar. 10,000 30th Mar. Cargo only.
Shanghal & Japan,
Shanghai & Japan.
|Shanghai & Japan.
Shanghal & Japan.
Shanghal & Japan.
Shanghal & Japan.
Shanghai & Japan. Japan.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice, parcela measuring bot more than 8 eft, will be received at the Company's Omen up to nee an on day previous to sailing.
For Passage Raine, Handbooks, Freight, etc, apply
** OF MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. Phone
roseinsight. HG
Agele
He issues tickets from the booking-office.
FIR
Signals the approaching train.
Collects the passengers' tickets.
"OLIVER TWIST” PAGES AT Bridesmaids in crinolines and pages in Early Victorian Bulls with top hats, followed the bride and bridegroom 6ft. 7in. 'M.P.'s WEDDING, at the village wedding of Mr. Lennox-Boyd, Paritamen-
tary Secretary of the Ministry of Labour; and Lady Patriela Guinness," at · Eleveden, Buffolk, The bride-
groom is 6 feet 7 inches tall,
Loft-Couples the engine for the return journey, Above.-Back in his' signal-box ffice to receive orders from the
Hoge headquarters,
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIEB MARITIMES.
Steamship
"MIN"
itarbin
Hongkong
Penang
Foreign Exchange and General Bank-' ing bumer transacted.
Current Accounts opened and Fixed Deposita received for one year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on
Pcation.
3*AEQ/30 Bringing Cargo from Dunkirk vla Halphong, etc.. arrived Hongkong on Monday, 20th February, 1939.
Bank's Itend; Omes in London undertakes Executor "&"Trùstea busines and claima recovery of Dritza Income Tax overpaid, on terma, which may be.
certained at any of it Agencies & Branches
*
1. A. CAMIDOR
Tongkang, Sil: June, 1938.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.
Authorised Capital
... $10,000,000,5/ Paid-up Capital ......................... $ 6,581,000.00
eserve and Undivided
Consignicca are hereby informed that their goods with the exception. of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored into the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kow- loon, whence delivery may be obtain- ed immediately after landing.
All claims must be sent in to me on or before 28th February, 1930, or they will not be recognized.
Prolita ....................................$9,720,720.30
HEAD OFFICE:~HONGKONG 10. Des Voeur Road, Central BOARD OF DIRECTONS:—
Ble Shouses Chow, Chairman,
Li Koon Chun, Esq.
Damaged Packages will be exomin- ed by the Company's Surveyor Messrs: Goddard and Douglas in the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 an, on Saturday, 26th February, 1030,
P. K. Kwok, FBC.
Fung Fing Wah, Esq.
Li Lan Saug, Z.
Wang Yun Toni Lao. Wong Chi Sop, tra Chang Chung Snek, Esq. Kan Ying Po, Esq. KAN TONG 10. Est, Chiet Manager LI THE FOÑU, EM, Manager, DRANCHKI AND AGENCIES:
Amoy
Balavi
Bombay Calcutta
Canton Haiphong Hankow Honolulu
Kobo
Kowloon London Manila
Consignees must have a Revenuo Officer in attendance when any dutf- [able goods are examined by the
Company's Surveyors.
Melbourne Nagasaki
New York
Oraka
Paris Pelping Penang Rangoon
Baigan San Francisca Seattle Semarang
Shanghai
Singapore
Bourabaya
Swalow
Sydney
Talboku
Tientsin
Tokyo
Vancouver
Yokohama
Every description of Banking and Ex- chango business transacted. Lorna grant. ed on approved securities,
Current Accounts opened in Local Cur- rency and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter periods in Local and Foreign Currencies on terma which will be quoted on application.
Note Deposit Boxes To Let
HAN TONG TÔ,
MERHABAT.
CONSIGNEES NOTICE.
N. Y. K. LINE
(NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA)
From EUROPE und STRAITS. The Steamship
“RUSIMI MARU,” having arrived from the above ports, Consignces of Curgo are hereby in- formed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong und Kowloon Whorf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained,
No Fire Insurance will be effected' by us in any case whatever.
R. OIL, Agent. Hongkong, 20th February, 1939.
COUNT THE
"TELEGRAPHS
DAM EVERYWHERE
Goods not cleared by the 4th March, 1939, will be subject to rent. Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consigner's and the Co.'s representa- tives on any Tuesdays and Fridays at 2.30 p.m. within the free storage
For the examination period. damaged dutiable goods, the signees must arrange for a Revenue Omeer to
be
present.
of
con-
All claims must be presented with-
in ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized.
No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
No Are. insurance has been effected. NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA, Hongkong, 28th February, 1939.
THE "TELEGRAPH" will send a Staff Photographer to all events of public. interest. Requests should be addressed to the Pictorial Editor.
COMING SOON!
M-G-M'S GREAT HIT!
THE
GREAT
WALTZ
LUISE
RAINER GRAVET
FERNAND
MILIZA
KORJUS
QUEEN'S
ALHAMBRA
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