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THE CHINA MAIL SPECIAL TOURISTS SUPPLEMENT.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1928.

SWATOW TRADING CO.

6 Pedder St.

Hong Kong

SILK

STORE

Excellent Drawnwork, Beautiful Kimonos

and Shawls.

THE FAMOUS “TOKUGAWA" SCREEN

TO BE SEEN AT

KOMOR & KOMOR'S ART GALLERY,

St. George's Building (near Hong Kong Ferry Wharf).

IN AND AROUND HONG KONG.

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Three Tours.

If time permits there is also the quaint little hamlet, Applichau, in a few Many suitable trips on

which can be reached

The return Island and in the New Territories minutes by sampan.

can be could be suggested to the tourist journey from Aberdeen "here for a day or so. The follow-made by launch, in which case the ing three are all easily accessible and have been drawn up so as to give the visitor a fair indication of the beauties of the Colony,

Tour 1.

The party should start at about 11.45 m. by motor car from the centre of the town and proceed past the Lower Tram Station to the Dairy Farm, and Upper Road to Repulse

Government House,

Bay.

Tin at Repulse Bay Hotel,

about noon.

Leaving Repulse Day at 2 p.m. and proceeding round the Island via Quarry Bay and Happy Valley arriving back in town about 2.45 p.m. Distance covered about thirly, miles.

Tour 2.

centre

of

Commencing from town, via Lower Peak Tram Station and s above to Repulse Bay, thence the Peak Hotel via Stubba' Road. Finishing with auto at the Ponk Hotel.

Small car (Four senter):-87 Stop over.

Large car (Six scater):-$10.50

extra.

From the Peak Hotel the ascent by chair to the Flag Staff should not be missed. Descent to the City may be made by the Peak Tram- Chair and Tram fares are way. not included in the above fures.

Tour 3. Distance sixty miles; Time 31⁄2 hours. Commencing ut Kowloon Ferry via Castle Peak, Fanling Golf Course, Talpo and Shatin, finishing at Kowloon Ferry.

scenery, fringing the harbour ap proaches will be found very re- freshing after the spell through the Chinese quarters of Aberdeen and Appliehau.

indulged in or watched, the prin- being at Happy cipal ground Valloy, which can be reached in a very short time by tramcar, taxi- cab, or motor car, not to mention the slower jiarikaba if time is no object. There is a fine Racecourse, The principal exchange banks where races are held at various are: The Hong Kong and Shang- periods from the middle of Feb- hai Banking Corporation, Charter- ruary to the beginning of Decem-ed Bank of India, Australia, and ber.

Chinn, the Mercantile Bank of India, the Banque de l'Indo-Chine, (International Banking York

situated in and the City National Bank of New Corporation)-afl

icon other useful information Queen's Road Central. concerning Hong Kong the tourist may be recommended to purchase a copy of the "Dollar Directory" published at 3a, Wyndham Street.

Inclusive Charges:- Travellers' cheques can be cash- ed and payments made on letters For one person

of credit issued by other bankers. For each of party of 2 by Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son, the C.P.R., and the American Ex- pross Co.

Of other sports to be had at ("soccer" and Rugby codes). appy Valley, there are football cricket, baseball, and tennis. The Kong Cricket Club opposite Murray home" of local cricket is the Hong It is Barracks in Queen's Road.

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BIRD LIFE

Kong's Fast Vanishing Fauna.

Every person who has travelled Islands at which I was present, in the British Isles or on the con-wagtalls, woodpeckers, sunbirds, and even the wonderful hornbili tinent of Europe and then visited (Buceros bicornis) were all in- China and Japan notices the great discriminatoly shot.

coun-

In the adjoining country of China ne "close season" for birds. is observed, nor judging by the disturbed condition of the try, is likely to be observed, for.

Bent rate of extermination China will be as bare of birds as the generations to come. At the pre-

once Sahara desert before any stable and effective wild birds protec. tion Acts are in force..

Bates for larger parties are re- on gulated by the number of parti- cipants and will be furnished application.

The above rates provide for three Should four coolles per chair. coolies be considered necessary by difference in quantity in the bird the Guide in charge, the cost of fauna. Japan is even worse than the additional coolie is payable to China; it is practically destitute of When on a walking tour him direct.

Tours of longer duration and birds.

Fares on ap days and covering varying types of including paseng by 8.a.m, steamer in Japan extending over twelve plication. may be arranged.

country the present writer wrote down a list of all the differ- ent species of birds met with. They For the tourist cooped up at sed

amounted to sixteen different many for days on end there are

The commercial Capital and A Portuguese Colony and the facilities for lunch (or tiffin) and

Shortly It is a dividuala even of those! dinner, including the Hong Kong most interesting City of South pioneer settlement of the Far East, species and not too many in Hotel and the Café Regent in China, is in direct communication being founded in 1557.

when at home in and picturesque spot at the mouth of afterwards Pedder Street; Lane, Crawford's with Hong Kong by steamer Restaurant, in Des Voeux Road railway. There are daily (Sun- the Canon River, with the ruins of Ireland a similar test was made: (along which the tramcars run); days excepted) services of steamers the San Paulo, Cambes

The journey is and Grotto, and Fan-ten Gambling more than thirty species were seen on a single afternoon without "stranger within the gates" may the King Edward Hotel, the Savoy both directions. find himself the victim of pro- Hotel, and the Alexandra Restaur- about 6% to 8 hours by steamer, Saloons.

moving more than 100 yards from fiteering.

the house.

Where to Dine or Stay.

this ground that Interport For the individual who cares matches are played, teams coming not for the joys of motoring once in two years from Shanghai casual walk through the heart of and less frequently from Malaya. the city will reveal much of in-

and statues, ings

including- terest in the way of public build- although some way out-the Uni versity of Hong Kong. There are taxicabs and jinrikiahas, not

to mention sedan chairs, but in the case of the two latter the lega! fure should always be ascertained beforehand £8. otherwise the

Chair and Jinrikisha Fores. For chairs the tariff is two bearers-15 cents for the first ten. minutes; 20 cents for a quarter of hour; 30 cents for half an hour; and 25 cents for every subsequent hour, For four bearers the fares are exactly double, with the ex- ception that every subsequent hour after the first is charged 40 cents.

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Jinrikisha charges are: 10 cents for 10 minutes; 20 cents for quarter of an hour, 30 cents for half an hour; and 40 cents for an hour.

Kowloon and New Territories. A reference to Kowloon has already been made in the third of the suggested tours-namely, to Castle Peak, Fanling, Taipo and Shatin,

A good afternoon's outing can be spent at Kowloon City, omni- buses to which run from the Star Ferry at Kowloon Point (10 cents fare from Hong Kong to Kowloon), ! En route a glimpse is afforded of the whole of the Kowloon Bay, with Lycemoon Pasa in the distance.

Eventually the granite wall of the old city of Kowloon will be reached, containing the old-time residence of the official representa- tive of the Emperor of China.

Round the Island. What has been well described as one of the most magnificent drives in the world is that by motor car round the Island. The route fol- lowed is from Queen's Road Cen- tral, thence into Garden Road, past Government House and the Botanic Gardens, along Caine Road, Bonham Road, past the University of Hong Kong, along Pokfulam Road, Aberdeen Road, and Repulse be purchased. Bay, where a stop can be had for

There is also a School for the Blind, where dainty articles may

Returning by a bus marked refreshments or the mere enjoy-"Yaumati" the tourist can alight uble timin., Leaving Repulse Bay in Jordan Road and spend an en- Hotel the journey is proceeded with joyable time in King's Park, where to Stanley Bay, Tytamtuk Reser- are laid out football, tennis, and voir, and Sai Wan Gap and thence bowls, grounds for various Clubs Within a short and institutions. to Shaukiwan. time Taikoo Dock is reached, and from there it is a very short drive back to the original point of de- parture.

As an alternative a visit may be commended to Kowloon Tong which lies off the main bus and motor road in Kowloon, namely, The entire drive covers a dis-

Nathan Road. This is destined to tance of 28 miles, but the scenery be a model settlement and garden

cannot adequately be

city combined, and the

on route

CANTON..

CAPTAIN FRITZ, KRUSE S.S.RESOLUTE

THE WONDER WORLD CRUISE.

MACAO.

The Hamburg-Amerika Liner s.s. "Resolute,," the Queen of the Cruising Steamships

is due in Hong Kong on the 28th March. All arrangements are in the hands of the local Agents, Messrs. Jebsen & Co., Pedder Building, Hong Kong.

ant in Ice House Street (directly opposite the Star Ferry wharf), also the Kowloon Hotel in Kowloon (a few minutes' drive from the Ferry In a jínrikisha).

described in mere prose. It has contained houses, each with a strip to be seen to be appreciated as it of garden, are a distinct change The deserves. Next to the ascent and from the row upon row of flats |

the vehicles descent of the Peak it is a trip that which

no

loon.

Gardens

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Steamers leave Hong Kong according to steamer and tide, and

week days at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., 41⁄2 hours by train.

On arrival in Canton clients of and Macao at 8 am, and 2 p.m.

HONG KONG HEIGHTS,

What is there then which can be done? Our duy is plain, Territory ought to be made an Hong Kong and the whole New absolute preserve in which no bird of any kind, game bird or other should be shot, trapped, decoyed, or snared. At present Hong Kong and the various Treaty Ports, along the China coast are simply dynamic centres of destruction owing to the possibilities of getting cartridges

To persons who have any real and the precision of the modern shot gun. If the whole New Terri- interest in nature birds and wild tory were made an absolute pre- serve it would be only too small for the salvation of the surround- ing district.

flowers form the great joys of the countryside. Their absence or their disappearance is an un-

If an absolute restriction were speakable and irreparable loss. pat on the destruction of all birds The countryside in China and there would be people of course the outery about the Japan is in this respect a blank to raise

damage birds do, and the danger compared with the British Isles.

from birds which are only vermin. The question naturally arises, This is always exaggerated. Any

what has caused this great dia-

who has opened and appearance of bird life? And it person

examined the crops. and stomachs So, can anything be done to pre-of birds knows how hard it is to

vent their extermination? It is extremely difficult to say with cer- bring chapter and verse for such tainty that any given species of an accusation. The magpie, the kite; the sparrow and a few others birds is on the decrease. No one

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really makes a sufficiently careful are local offenders occasionally. count of all the species each year They might be left to their naturai

enemies. to be able to give an absolutely

tho other hand the definite answer.

done by most birde be exaggerated, but, Its Involved and -naturė St escapes the

· of all except close Take 11 local in- Everybody must have

But about Hong Kong and good

cannot especially in the New Territory

to owing there seems to be good evidence subtle that most species are on the do- crease, If the bird lover reviews notice his experiences of the last sixteen observers. or twenty years he must realige stance. the growing scarcity of many noticed that about 60 per cent. of species. Ten or fifteen years ago the lichce crop is every year injur he knew of more places ed or made useless by a grub, which where the beautiful Kingafisher develops, in the fruit near the stalk. (Halcyon Smyrnensis) used to This is the larva of a fly, probably breed regularly or places where Drosophila. Perhaps the best the tailor bird (autovia autovia) local enemy of the dy is the white- was a regular and constant visitor eye Zosterops simplex. But the

and breeder; or the haunts of the

Oriole; or flats where the White Chinese trap so many of these Egret was abundant. These birds birds that they are becoming more The bird breeds freely may be seen still but they seem to scarce. be becoming decidedly less abun- here but every nest is robbed, and dont.

Chinese are constantly asking if There are many causes for this you know of any nests of the young Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son, are met! Passage 4 hours. Single journey gradual disappearance of these birds. No species could stand such and other birds. The Island and a drain on its reproductive powers by an experienced and competent $4; return $7.

being in addition to its host of natural There is also a spec‚al excuraton the New Territory are In Des Voux Road and other guide who has conducted the prin

constructed,

Another very useful local bird is streets there are many Chinese cipal visitors through this fas- to Macao every Sunday leaving steadily opened up: new road and enemies. restaurants for those who like to cinating City for many years. The Hong Kong at 9 a.m., returning at paths have been self-

tour usually embraces Chun-ka-chi 3.80 p.m., return 'fare $5; week-end motor-boat, steam launch and motor the Wa Mei. But again, this is a car have made many places easy of favourite cage bird of the Chinese, sample Chinese dishes.

Ancestral Temples; Temples of excursion, returns fare $6.00.

access which, fifteen years ago, Miscellaneous Information.

Radio Telegraph Omes the 500 Genil, City, of the Dead. pass in (above the Post Office in Pedder Kingfisher's feather, Work-Jade, Painters, pleture Pagoda, Jade Stone tourist should omit from his Nathan and other roads in Kow Street) is open day and night for Ricepaper

the transmission and reception of Flowery programme of sight-seeing.

Other Places of Interest.

radio messages and for reporting Street. Old Embroidery Shops and For the guidance of those whose Apart from motor. launches that

vessels entering the harbour. The Sei Hing Street, etc.

is limited, the following take the visitor to Stonecutters

charge to most vessels is 80 cents Island and numerous inlets, abound

per word,with a minimum charge time

itinerary is given.. of $3. ing In most beautiful scenery, Kowloon Bowling Green Club, in There are branches of the East Ons Whole Day in Canton, there is much to entertain, amuse Austin Road (off Nathan Road).

Extension, Telegraph Com- and instruct without resort to the Kowloon Cricket Club, and the era

Leave Hong Kong. vehicles. The Chinese curio ahops Kowloon Dock. Tennis can be bad pany and the Northern Telegraph in Connaught Road

9 to 10 a.m. and Indian stores cannot well be at many Club courts at King's Company

8.30 p.m. passed over by those in search of Park, at the United Services Club (facing the water front and just Arrive Conten novelty or for

souvenir of their (opposite King's Park), the Kow beyond the Hong Kong Club Leave Canton

40.80 to 11.30 p.m. { visit to this enchanted Isle. There loon Cricket Club, and the Kow. These are open day and night for Arrive Hong Kong (about): la "China Town," teeming with loon Bowling Green Club, Football the transmission of cablegrams to

The fare provides first class thousands of Chinese living in nur- fe played at King's Park and on any part of the world.

Cable rates are: To Europe via travel tickets, breakfast, lunch and row streets where one can almost the ground of the Kowloon Football stretch hands acrees the "thorough Club. facing the harbour in Suez, $1.50 per word; to America, dinner, service of competent pri Guide for sightseeing by fare, and where glimpses may be Chatham Road. Cricket is provid-$1.75 to $8.80 to Canada, $1 to vate had of typical Chinese life in all ed at King'a Park and at the Kow- $2.20; and to Australia, $1.25. sedan chair to City of the Dead,

Kvaried phases.

Lovers of lawn bowls are well catered for. Besides the rinka of the Club de Recreio at King's Park there are bowling greens at the

loon Cricket Club.

od combination le abip or by

to

Aberdeen

Sport in Hong Kong

.2 a.m.

For the information of visitors the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:

Island. Victoria Peak Signal Station Mt. Parker Mountain Lodge The Eyrie Peak Hotel

The postage rates are: Four Flowery Pagoda, Ancestral Templo, cents per ounce to British terri-etc. A torfes and China; 20 cents per For full information, réserva- the Island there is no end to ounce to America and other for tions and tickets apply to Cook's

were the reward of keen and good and many are decoyed and ingeni- Their pedestrians only. Many of these ously trapped by them.

the scarcity is largely to blame for the birds are nervous and shy; additional traffic and habitation abundance of pestiferous insects of

the grass hopper and other families. - drives them further afield.

Even if the New Territory and But there far worse than this.

sur adjoining Islands were made an ab- The whole territory and the rounding distries are being shot solute close preserve there would al- over to an ever increasing extent ways be a certain drain on many The regular game birds are pur species by persons who skilfully sued in season by sportsmen with evaded the clutches of the law- dogs, etc. This, of course, is only "Yellow Dragon"..

within fixed dates, (except for

snipe). But there can be no doubt

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Talkoo Sabatorium Mt Davis

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Bowen Road (alterbeds) 287 Feet Mainland.

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Taimoshan.. Kowloon Peak

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UNCOMFORTABLE.

There is even worse than this." It is a pitiable thing to have to Bay but nevertheless it is true::all sportsmen don't always play the If psychology could turn us all, game. Some shoot practically any into chin-thrusting, chest thumping thing that comes their way. Paddy personalities, we should be no bet birda, pigeon, etc. are shot and ter off and the world would be an given to the Chiness servants who uncomfortable place Dr. H. R Practical eat them eagerly. At one shoot Thoulessat Glasgow 1971ing expedition in the Philippino Psychology Club,