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CHICHIBU MARU ......

TATSUTA MARU

ASAMA MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.

Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday.

12th April 26th April. 10th May.

20th April 22nd May.

HEIAN MARU (starts from Kobe). Saturday, HIKAWA MARU (starts from, Kobe) Monday, LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez.

HAKUSAN MARU

S4Furday,

HARUNA MARU

Saturday,

KATORI MARU

Saturday.

18th April 29th April 13th May.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

KAMO MARU

Saturday,

22nd April.

KITANO MARU

Saturday,

27th May.

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang. & Colombo,

TANGO MARU

Tuesday,

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Saturday,

11th April. 15th April

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Monday,

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CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

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SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

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Thursday, 13th April.

Saturday,

Saturday,

KASHIMA MARU

+ TOKUSHIMA MARU

KITANO MARU (Nagasaki direct)

Saturday, Thursday, Friday,

8th April 18th April.

15th April 20th April. Zist April.

† Cargo only.

THE CHINA MAIL.

"Government Offices And

Things

"(Continued, "from" Page 5.)

they agreed to call it a draw and left us on our Crimean overtime. You might suppose that an Office of this kind could lend little per sonality to the conception

CONSIGNEES.

LLOYD TRIESTINO.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

of Steamer

"CONTE ROSSO." I was glad I didn't go there, Government. As a fact our De because I had the extraordinarily partment had more personality From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI, good fortune to be appointed al-than the whole of Whitehall. At PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMBO,

AND SINGAPORE. most immediately to the most popu, firs sight it looked like the count- lar of all Government Offices one ing-house of Dombey and Son. At CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby of those dear delightful Dickens second sight the Impression, was informed that all Goods are being landed, at their risk into the Godowns. Mike Departments that Boy Clerks confirmed. (Laughter).*. dreamed about. This Department Seventy-ye per cent of the staff of the Hong Kong and Kowloon

Lid Wharf & Godown Company |was a branch of the Admiralty, but had long white beards and belong-bon-whones and/or from S

delivery all not be landed

be obtained. Optional Cargo

ed.

·

for some reason or other the Ad-ed to a class called Temporary miralty couldn't be bothered with Writers, long since extinct. They It and dumped it on the Board of were so temporary that some of here, unless notice has been given 43 Trade for administrative purposes them had been there fifty years. hours prior to vessel's arrival, - bút

carried on

on from port to port to the while retaining for themselves die The doyen was an aged man named final part of call to which the option elplinary control. Naturally the Balter. Those of you--most of you, extends.

No laima will be admitted after Board of Trade regarded this as an in fact who hang around the bar Intolerable affront and thrust the of the Hong Kong Club must have the Goods have left the Godown, and care. noticed a fine steel engraving at all Goods remaining undelivered after Department forth from its

the 7th instant, will be subject to separate Depart- the entrance`enitled "The Banquet rents against the vessal must i They gave it a

the Peninsular Veterans. All claims mental name and left it to find to

it Underneath is a key plan, one of be presented to the undersigned on ar office accommodation where

the 16th instant, or they will before could, with the proviso that it those things where all the faces

All broken, chafed, and damaged should be as far as possible from are left unintelligently blank and not be recognised. the Board of Trade. (Laughter), numbered a very excellent idea Goods are to be left in the Godawas, The only accommodation available by the way, that might well be where they will be examined on the was in the basement of the Custom applied to photographic groups of 7th stent, at 10 am. by our sur In the case of dutiable cargo, Con- House, close to the Tower of Lon- people who play golf. (Laughter). Hesra Goddard & Douglas,

The plan would so often show signees are requested to Inform the |don..

Apart from the landlordly con- more faltbful portraits than the Imports & Exports Office that they

laughter). have aneh goods for examination. (Loud trol excrcised

Custom photograph." by the

No Fire Insurance has been effect. House, subject to the administra-Well, to get back to my friend

Bill of Lading will be countersigne tive control of the Board of Trade Salter. It was not unusual a cen- and the disciplinary control of the tury ago for the artist of a picture ed by

DODWELL & CO. LTD. Admiralty, there was a certain of historical interest to include his

Agenta. measure of departmental control own portrait somewhere, and a re-

Hong Kong, 1st April, 1932. this claimed by the Fisheries Board, ference to the key plan on though It WEB never very painting. will show "The artist, Mr.M clearly defined. Also a very exclu-Salter-modestly standing in the Club and the free-for-all football sive body of charming old gentle-doorway of the banqueting hall at scrimmages that surged along the men, mostly admirals, belonging to Apaley House benignly regarding War Office corridors after office a kind of Masonic Lodge called the generals of the Peninsular hours. Things are not the same nowadays-I suppose they never The Elder Brethren of Trinity War. House stirred themselves into ac- There was another very aged and were. The Sanitary Department tivity when, on rare occasions, we delightful Writer who was a mine here struck me as being singularly He devoid of amusement during the fell foul of their Trinitarian prin-jof information on Theology.

would discuss for hours the essen-short time I was on the Board and [ciples.

Salary Complications. tial points of difference between some of the corridors there were You must realise that all these Predestination and Justification by obviously designed for football..

one unfortunate (Laughter). Departments were concerned only Faith. He had

was B spirited I left the Civil Service because with our official activities. Other failing-his life Departments interested themselves protest against the errors and ex-of Alf Simpson (Laughter).

was a Naval Reservist who was our personal affairs. The travagances of total abstinence.

entitled to £6.0.0 per year in quar- Passage Football. 9th Apr Treasury controlled the salaries of

Before he could At five o'clock precisely the old torly payments. the permanent staff and the Civil Service Commissioners those of Chief would comb his beard in a draw his money he had to report the non-pensionable grades. Now pocket mirror, clap on a high felt at a Shipping Ofice with a certi- 21st Apr. this control of pay was no light hat of the type made familiar by ficate signed by some responsible matter. You might suppose that a cartoons of Winston Churchill and person who knew him and could man getting £360.0.0 per annum stalk majestically to the door leertify that he was still alive, Alf his hat, (shipped round the Horn or some- would get £30.0.0 per month, but Here he would remove

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Al

Was

he didn't. He got just so much a glare at the staff and say "Good where and failed to report for a This was year. He then applied for four 6th Apr. proportion of his annual salary afternoon gentlemen!" 6th May each month as the number of days the signal for me to lay the tea quarterly payments. Being called from the 23rd of one month to the table and the next half hour or so upon to explain why he had not at consulates 23rd of the next bore to the num-was passed in quiet and pleasant reported himself ber of days in the year (Laughter). discussion of art, literature and abroad he replied that he

'gen'elly too drunk' which seemed Leap Year was the very devil.the drama.

After tea the Writers pottered to me a very reasonable explana (Laughter). only complication in pay, because off, each pausing at the door to say tion indeed (laughter) so I ticked "Good afternoon off his application as being all in although we only worked till five ceremoniously

1 WAS carpeted for o'clock we were paid for working gentlemen!" and we juniors then order.

an hour's passing Alf's application for, four 19th Apr. eight o'clock (Laughter). The settled down to half

ressen for this was that during the football practice in the Office. payments on the production of only

one certificate. Crimean War this Department was (Laughter).

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4th Apr.

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Was This office football

not:

23

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ment Office is a serious matter. It Magazine the reminiscences of could get (Laughter),

Well, gentlemen, my time is up cannot be undone except by an- Major General Brackenbury who other order and so many Depart-took up an appointment at the War and I thank you for your courteous monts had become mixed up in the Office about this time. He record-attention. We live in drab times control of our Department aines ed bis amazement at the afternoon and it is pleasant occasionally to the Crimean War that not one of tes, the literary debates, the Book recall more colourful days, [them would assume the responsi-

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