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Hongkong Telegraph
PHOTONEWS
HAPPENINGS
AS SEEN BY THE CAMERA'S EYE
ONE-MAN STATION GOES OUT WITH
THE OLD YEAR
Jim Weller, signalman, porter, booking-clark and ticket-collector, locks up the Southom Railway Station on the Devil's Dyke, near Brighton, for the last time,
The railway which the station serves is closing down because of the lack of passengers. Bolow we show you a typical day in the life of Mr. Weller, the one man station staff.
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"THE" CHARTERED BANK" OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.
Dorporated by Royal Charter 2003 HEAD_OFFICE LONDOX,
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• SUWAD
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Dadras
Manila
Tongkah
Modan
(Liivakart)
Haiphong lasburg tankow
Pelping
Pelping
| Calcutta
Canton Cawnpore Cebu Colombo
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Foreign Exchange and General Bank- Ing business transacted.
Current Accounts opened and Fixed Deponita received for one year or shorter periods at rates which will be quà550, on application,
fne Bank's innd Omen in London undertakes Executor & Trustee husin emer nd claims recovery of Briush Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may bi ascertained ́at any of its Armcion de Branched.
B. A. CALIDGE,
Managet.
Hongkong, 29th June, 1938.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.
Authorised Capital
$10,000,000.DE
Paid-up Caplink ................................... $ 6,508,000.00 ileserve and Undivided
Profile ARAY
$ 2,770,726.79
HEAD OFFICE:—HONGKONG 10, Des Voeux Road, Central,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Lan Sang, Esq.
Wona Yua Toni Leo Wong Chu Son, ông Chang Chung Bhek, 184. Kan Ying Po, Esq. KAN TONG PO, Esq, Chief Managar. LI THE PONG, Fią,, Manager. BLANCHES AND AGENCIES:
Amoy
Melbourne
Shanghat
Steamers
RANPURA
17,0, 4th Mar. Noon
0,000 5th Mar.
Science Part Of Holidays Too
P & O-BRITISH INDIA (APCAR) AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
[Companies Incorporated in England.)
Taking Cargo on through Bile of Lading for STRAITS, JAVA & DUHMA, CEYLON INDIA, IRANIAN GULF, MAURITIUS, E. & 6. AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLU ING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, RED SEA, IGYPT, EUROPE, ETC
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Al vessels may rail at any ports on or off the route.-and the route and all waille: *
are subject to change or deviation with or without notice,
*NAGPORE *JEYPORE
RAWALPINDI {*BURDWAN
CANTON CORFU +*SOMALI CHITRAL CARTHAGE
• Cargo only
TALMA
SIRDHANA
SHIRALA TILAWA SANTHIA
Tons | From K'Kong about i
8,000, 10th Mar
17,000 18th March
6,000 25th Mar,
10,000 1st Apr. |14,500| 15th Apr. 7,000 21st Apr. 15,500 29th Apr. 14,600 13th May
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↑ Callà Casablanca
BRITISH INDIA APCAR
10,000 11th Mar.
Destination
Marseilles & London.
Straits, C'bo B'bay & Kehi. Straits, Colombo, Bombay & Karachi.
Marseilles & London.
B'boy, M'seilles, Havre, L'don. Hull, H'bg, R'dom & Alwerp. Marselles & Lenden.
Marseilles & London,
B'buy, M'seilles, Havre, L'don, Hull, H'bg, I'dam & Alwerp. Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. All vessels may call at bi mala
BAILINGS- (BOUTH.;
¡S'pore,ˆ _Port
Penang, Rangoon & Calcula
83. Apcar Lina Steamers have excellent accommodation fór lat de žna sisse passenger' EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN BAILINGS (SOUTH)
NELLORE
7,0001 4th Mar., 11 o.m. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane.
Sydney, Melbourne & Hobarı
7,000
1st Apr. 7,000 5th May,
Regular monthly saliloge from H'kong to Shanghai & Japan ♬ H'kona to Australia
Hong Kong to Bydney-15 days.
BAILINGS TO MANGHAI & JAPAN,
ROYAL INSTITUTION
A CLASSROOM——
With A Difference
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Schoolchildren hame on holiday watching demonstration by Dr. James Kendall, Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh University during his lecture on Sir Humphry Davy, the scientist, at the Royal Institution, W. The lecture was one of this year's-fle 113th series--of Christmas lectures for children. The series deals with discoveries made by young men of science.
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་
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8,000 8th Apr.
10,000 22nd Apr,
1,000 6th May
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DO.
Do.
DO.
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SIRDHANA
10,000
2nd Mar. p.m.
|Shanghai & Japan.
CANTON
10.000
NANKIN SHIRALA CORFU
7,000
3rd Mar., Noon. 4th Mar.
Shanghai & Japan.
Shanghal & Japan.
6.000 10th Mar,
|Shanjhal & Japan.
Shanghai & Japan,
•SOMALI
Shanghal & Japan.
CHITRAL
TILAWA
Shanghal & Japan. Japan.
14,500 17th Mari
15,400 30th Mar.
7,000 18th Mar.
10,000 30th Bar.
Carro only.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. pazonia mssekering not more than E eft. will be reotived at the Company's Offion un te Ber as the day previous to sailing,
For Prosage Rates. Handbooka, Freight, eta, apply
TE MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. Phone
Agente
He issues tickets from the booking-office.
Signals the approaching train,
Collects the passengers' tickets.
"OLIVER TWIST" PAGES AT Bridesmaids in crinolines and pages in Early Victorian 6ft. 7in. M.P.'s WEDDING at the village wedding of Mr. Lennox-Boyd, Parliamen-
suits with, top hats, followed the bride and bridegroom
lary Boorelary of the Ministry of Labour, and Lady Patricia duinness, at Klevedon, Suffolk. The bride-
groom is 6 foot 7 inches tall,
Left.-Couples the‘engine for the return journey. Sbove.--Back in his signal-box ffice to receive orders from the
flove headquarters,
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
Steamship
- "*MIN”
3 A AEO/89
Bringing Cargo from Dunkirk vio Haiphong, etc., arrived Hongkong on Monday, 20th February, 1939.
Consignees are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Oplum, Treasure stored into the and Valuables are being landed and Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd, Kow loon, whenco delivery may be obtain- ed Immediately after landing.
All claims must be sent in to me on or before 28th February, 1939, or they will not be recognized.
Damaged Packages will be examin ed by the Company's Surveyor Messrs:-Goddard and Douglas in the presence of the Consigneer at 10.00 a.m. on Saturday, 25th February, 1030.
Consignees must have a Revenue Umeer in attendance when any duti Jable goods are examined by the
Company's Surveyors,
Entavia
Nagsakt
Singapore
Bombay
New York
Sourabaya
Calcutta
Osaka
Bwatow
Capton
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
E, OMLA Agent Hongkong, 20th February, 1930.
COUNT: THERE TELEGRAPHS
EVE
Haiphong Hankow Honol
Kobe Kowloon
London
pinnila
Faris Pelping Penang Tangoon
Salgon
Ban Francisco Seattle
Semarang
Sydney Tallioku
Tientmin
Tokyo
Vancouver
Yokohama
Every description of Banking and Exy change business transacted. Loans grant- ed on approved segurition.
Current Accounts opened in Local Cur- rency and Fixed Deposits received for
One
Forester periods in Local and Currencies on terma which will be quoted on application.
Sale Deposit Boxes To Let
KAN TÜNƏ PO,
Adanaree.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
N. Y. K. LINE
(NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA.)
From EUROPE and STRAITS. The Steamship
"UŠIMI MARU," having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby In- formed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained,
Goods nut cleared by the 4th | March, 1039, 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 perlod. For the exhmination of damaged dutiable.goods, the con- signees must arrange for a Revenue Omeer to be present
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 fire Insurance has been effected. NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA. Hongkong, 25th February, 1939.
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