WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1931.
P. & 0.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian
Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
THE CHINA MAIL.
|NEW BRITISH INDIA LINERS.
Two More Additions
This Year.
Steam
The British India Navigation Co., Ltd., have this year added two now fast twin- screw linera to their fleet to take up their accelerated service in the Indian Ocean between India and ports on the East African Const. This service covers the important traffic between India and East and South Africa. The two ships Kenya and Karanja have been built by Messrs. Alexander Stephen and Sons, Ltd., Linthouse, Glasgow, carry first-class and second-class
Indian deck passengers, as well as cargo, and the ships are intend ed to run at a sea speed of 16 knots.
to
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA. PERSIAN GULF,passengers and a large number of
WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA,
AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
S.S.
Tons
From Hong Kong About
T 1931. 5,300 21st itus:
Naon 15,096 23rd May
Noon 30th May
$1,000 6th June 17,000
20th June 9,000 4th July 17,8:00
18th
July
TALIPORE
COMORIN
BURDWANY
+KASHOHR
KANTURA
†KASHGAR
RAWALPINDI.
*PERIM
+KHYBER
| 5,000
*SOMALI
1,800
!
5th 1
RAJPUTANA
17,000 15th
PADUA
6,000 22nd
+KARMALA
CATHAY
9,000 20th Aug. 15.000 12th Sept. Sept. 19th
*SOUDAN
KALYAN
7,700 25th July Aug. Aug.
Destination.
Straits, Columbo & Bombay.
Bombay, Marselites & London.
Hall Marseilles, Havre, London,
Hamburg, Rotterdam & Antwerp. Mars., L'en, Hull, R'dani & A'wers. Bombay, Marseilles & London. M'scilles, 'don, R'dam & A'werp. Bombay. Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre & Londen.
L'don, R'dam & A'werp
Tutt. Land Handburg,
Marseilles & London, Marseilles, Havre,
terdam & Antwerp.
Bombay. Aug. Aug.
London, Hull.
Hamburg, Rotterdam & Antwerp. Marseiller & Lanion. Bombay, Marseilles & London.. Marseilles, Havre, London,
Halt, Hamburg. Rotterdam & Antwerp.
9,000 26th Sept. Marseillo & London. Cargo only, Calls Casablanca. Calls Port Swettenham. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- antinople, Piveaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Judica! Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
TILAWA SANTHIA TALMA
1931.
10,000 30th May 9,000 16th June 10,000 23rd June
Their dimensions are: Length overall. 487ft.; breadth moulded, 64ft. depth moulded to shelter deck, 41ft.: gross tonnage, 9,990. They have straight ster, two masts and a single funnel, and have a forecastle forward and u bridge amidships extended as n promenade deck over the cruiser stern aft. Above the bridge are fitted a promenade deck, boat deck, navigating bridge and fly- ing bridge. The ships are built to Lloyd's 100 A.1 highest class, and to the Board of Trade's latest requirements for passenger vessels, including those of the 1929 International Convention for the safety of life at sea.
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. Destination
Steamer
Tiou via Stow & Shai ..KWAISANG Tiau via Stow & Sha!..HANGSANG Ttau vin Stow & S'hai..CHARSANG Tau via Stow & S'hai..YATSHING S'pore, Penang & Calcutta KUTSANG Hoore, Paung & Calcutta HOSANG S'pore, Penang & Calcutta YUENSANG Deaka via Amoy. Moji &
Kobe
"Moll & via Amoy, Moji
Sailing
.Sun.,
24th May at 7 a.m.
Wed,
27th May at 7 a.m.
Sun.,
31st May at 7 a..
Wed..
3rd June at 7 a..
Mo
Pth June at 3 p.m.
Tues.,
Кове
&
Kebo
Daaka via Amoy, Mojl,SUISANG
Sandakan
Sandakan
Mon.,
YUENSANG ...Sun. KUMSANG ....Fri,
..... Wed., .... Wed Fri.,
18th June at 3 p.mi. 22nd June at 3 p.m.
1st May at 7a.m,
**11.111.
Danka ris
19th June at
1st July at 7 a.m. .MAUSANG
27th May at Noon .HINSANG
6th June at Noon Ttain via 9'tow & Foochow CHIPSHING Sun.. 24th May at 7 .. Tinin via Stow & Foochow CHEONGSHING Sun., 7th June at 7 a.m. SUMMER TRIPS TO JAPAN.-Excellent Arst class accommodation on through steamers from Calcutta to Japan at the specially reduced return face of $225.00 to Kobe. These return tickets are available for three months.
For Freight or Passage apply to:- JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. Telephone 30311.
General Managers.
HONG KONG AND MACAO LINE in Good Speed
S.S. CHUEN CHOW
Daily Sailing from Hong Kong at 2.00 p.m.
Sailing from Macao at 7.50 a.m.
•
Sundays excepted.
Freight and Passage apply: -
CHUEN ON STEAM BOAT CO., LTD. 241, Des Voeux Road C.
STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS.
The P. & D. a.a. Alipore left Shanghai for this port on May 17 at 5 a.m., and is due here on May 20 at about 8 a.m.
The P. & O. 8.5.
Comorin left Shanghai for this port on May 19 at midnight, and is due here on May 22 at about noon.
The C.P.S. R.M.S. Empress of Asia arrived at Yokohama on May 20 (Wed.) at 7 a.m., left Yoko- kama on May 20 (Wed.) at 3 p.m.,
Hong
and is due at Hong Kong on May 27 (Wed.). She leaves Kong for Manila on May 28 (Thurs.) at 5'p.m.
Tel. 26061.
CAIRN LINE REPORT.
UNSATISFACTORY RESULT OF YEAR'S TRADING.
The report of the directors of the Cairn Line of Steamships Ltd., states that the profit on trading and interest on invest- ments, etc., including the balance. of profit from the previous year, amount to £25,173. amount should be deducted £915 From this
for directors' fees, £136 for audi- maintenance of the company's tors' fees, £4,473 for repairs and feet, apart from classification surveys, £11,846 for steamers' laid up expenses, and £3,319 for interest, leaving a balance of £4,482,
First-Class Accommodation, The first-class passengers are accommodated in a large bridge houve on the bridge deck with public rooms, observation house, promenade and sports deck on the promenade deck above. The first-class staterooms have 30 single berth cabins and 18 two- berth cabins, including four de luxe cabins complete with private toilets. All beds are of the cat type constructed by the builders, and all staterooms have Wash- basins with fresh water laid on. The accommodation and de- coration generally has been de signed for the Indian Ocean and hot weather conditions with large opening windows, light
PILOTS' AUTHORITY. panelling, and cool upholstery.
The sum of £20.000 has been The dining saloon is decorated in After reading B paragraph transferred from general reserve Georgian style with ivory-colour-headed "Heavy Responsibility," and classification account to pro- ed panelled walls, and can seat 77 I should like to correct the falee fit and loss account. This with persons at small tables. The idea of non-seafarers that whilst the balance of £4,182, makes an music-room is a large room de-
on board ship the pilot is in full available figure of £24,482, of corated in Wedgwood blue, and command, writes Master Mariner which the directors propose that
in a Home paper.
£20,000 be transferred to depre- vation shelter. The furniture in-
Such is not the case. The ciation account and £4,482 car cludes a piano and an electrically-pilot, whilst on board, is in an ad-ried forward. The cost of classi- operated gramophone. The
visory capacity only, and the cap-fication repairs during the year, is finished intain is still solely responsible for £11,698, has been charged to gen- polished oak in simple Eliza- the safe navigation of his ship, eral reserve and classification ac- bethan style with lattice win- and may, if he thinks fit, counter count, which dows, and abaft the smoking- mand
now stands at Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney room is the sports deck, a large action given or made by the pilot.
an order or remedy an £36,526.
The abnormal condition of the covered space suitable for danc-
The only exception to this is Canadian grain trade referred to ing, deck tennis or other games. the Hooghly river pilotage ser in the last report has persisted
The second-class accommoda-
vice, where the pilots take full and indeed been accentuated dur
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st the windows look into the obser- and 2nd class passengers.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). smoking-room
TANDA ST. ALBANS NELLORE
1091 7,000 30th May 5,000 3rd July
7.000 1st Aug.
& Melbourne.
1
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan tion is situated in the midship
and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:--- The Union 5.5. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via
Zealand, Vancouver. San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The P.&O. Branch Service of steamers to London vin Suez.
charge of the vessel.
HONG KONG TIDES.
ing 1930, continues. the report, and as no remunerative employ- ment was available elsewhere, it has been necessary to lay up most of the steamers of the fleet for considerable periods. In view of the consequent unsatisfactory result of the year's trading, and in the absence of any immediate indications of improvement in the
bridge. The rooms are arranged for two, three or four berths, and wherever possible the beds Neware of the cot type. There is a washbasin with water laid on in each stateroom. The dining
The time 'used is Standard, or saloon seats 130 persons and is mean time of the meridian of 120 dag. E.; 00h. is midnight, 12hre. is cream; the music-room and noon. The heights are referred to smoking-room are handsome rooms situated at the aft end of the datum of the largest scale Ad-quantities of cargo or the rates
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and decorated in a cool shade of
London via Panama Canal,
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
RANPURA SANTHIA
TALMA
KASHGAR
ST. ALBANS
*PERIM
TAKADA RAWALPINDI
*SOMALI
SIRDHANA KHYBER
10,000
9,000 5,000
1031.
17,000 22nd May Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
8,000 22nd May Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
4th Juna Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. 5th, Juno Shanghai, Moji, Kebo & Yokohama. 5th June Sha!, Mojt, Kobe, Osaka & Yhama. 7,700 10th June #000 7,000 18th June 17,000 19th June
6,800
מחרים
19th
Juneghal, Kobe & Yokohama
27th June
2nd
Kobe & Osaka Amoy, Moil, Ko
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 8,000 2nd July Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. D,000 3rd July Shanghal, Boll, Kobe 4 Yokohama. 7,000 6th
July
S'hai, Mejl, Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama. 10,000 10th July
Amoy, Moll, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama Amoy, Moll, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghal, Moli, Kobe & Yokohama. Aug. | Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
RAJPUTANA 17.000 17th July
NELLORE
TILAWA
SANTHIA
KARMALA
*NANKIN
2,000 80th July
0,000 31st July 7,000 1st
- Cargo only.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice.
Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses at Singapore while awailing the on-carrying steamer.
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans on Punka Louvre System free
of charge.
Steamers on London and Australian Lines are atted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 3 cu. ft. will be received at the Com- pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous to calling.
For further information, Pusange, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:-
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
P. & 0. Building, Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong.
Agenta.
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.
ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOFLER MAKERS, BRASS and: - IRON, FOUNDERS All work done in this establishment: fs, guaranteed. „We have over thirty years' experience. We own two, Clip, ways and can accommodate any graft of 200 feet long, Tora Office: 64, Connaught Hoad, Central, Hong Kong.” ⠀ Tel. 20459. Shipyard: Sham-shot-po, Kowloon, Hong Kong Kowloon Tel 67000. Estimates furnished un spplication. Hong Kong, April 1, 1924.
the promenade deck, and there are covered shelters and promen ades reserved for the second- class passengers, An informa- tion office or bureau is provided i for both the first and second- class passengers, as well as a dis- pensary and a consulting room and also a laundry.
The third-class or Indian deck passengers are accommodated on the lower and main decks, which
miralty chart of the place and should be added to the depths given on the chart unless preceded by an asterisk (*), when they should be subtracted from-the depths.
Thais #1
are fitted with sleeping platforms wid. capable of accommodating 1,700 passengers.
The ship carries a number of Mohammedan cooka and Hindu Pr cooks, as well as Goanese stew-
8 23 ards, in addition to the Euro- pean staff, and the offices pro- Bun. vided for the benefit of the In- |dian deck passengers include six galleys, sculleries and store- rooms, etc.
of freight obtainable, the direc- tors regret that they do not feel warranted in recommending the payment of a dividend.
5
VACATION
PHILIPPINES
FEA
An excellent opportun-
ity is afforded by the
PHILIPPINES TOURIST ASSOCIATION
To tour the romantle Southern Islands and Visit CEBU-ILOILO and ZAMBOANGA.
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES
AMERICAN MAIL LINE
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BARBER WILHELMSEN
LINE
THE PREMIER ALL WATER ROUTE TO NEW YORK and other U.S. Atlantic Ports via Panama.
. All vessels call at SAN FRANCISCO and LOS
ANGELES en route.
Passengers desiring to travel by this interesting route will find the accommodation provided well up to their expectations, and at a cost most reasonable.
42 Days To New York.
Fór Passenger and Freight information please apply:-
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Queen's Buildings.
Agents.
Telephone 28021.
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD., HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS:
KOWLOON, HONG KONG HONG KONG OFFICE 28024,
Telephones:
KOWLOON DOCK BB058,
Telegrams: "MANIFESTO, HONG KONG."
DOCK OWNERS, SHIP DESIGNERS ́ ́A. D BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, IRON, STEEL, AND BRASS FOUNDERS,
FORGE MASTERS, WELDERS AND ELECTRICIANS.
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May 20 to 26, 1931.
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· TO AUSTRALIA. Calling at Manilla (P. Is.), Thursday la. Cairna, Townsville,
Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne...
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ELECTRIC LAUNDRY, BARBER SHOP, SURGEON and STEWARDESS CARRIED. Enjoy Your Short Lacos: In Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong,
Sydneyla Days. FIRST CLASS FARE TO BYDNEY, 416 RETURN
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In No. 1 Dock. Dimensions:-6G6′0′′ Q.A. z 83′6′′ x 48′6′′ Mid. 26,000 tons Grosa.
The Company possesses Bix Granite Docks and Two Patent Slipways The dimensions of No. 1 Dock are 700′0′′ ≈ 88′0′′ x 80'6" over all, H. W. 0.8. T. Balvage Tug "Henry Keswick.” 2,000 LH.F. Wireless Call Signal V.P.BT. and Flag Call Signal T.H.Q.B. Sheerlegs capable of lifting 80 tons.
Codes Used: A1, A.BC. Fifth Edition: Engineering, First and Second Edition. Western Union. Bentley and Watkins
Kindly send enquiries to the Chief Manager,
R. M. DYER, B.Sc., M.IN.A., Kowloon Docks, Hongkong,
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