1935-07-31 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY

H.K. TRAMWAY'S 31ST ANNIVERSARY

ISLAND STOPS ON

LOCAL TRAMWAYS

A GREAT SUCCESS

Risk Of Accidents Reduced

*BIDMEAD" BEACONS TO

BE INSTALLED

The argument of trams buses need not be revived: but]

SERVICE STARTED TRAMWAY

14

31 YEARS AGO

570,000,000 PASSENGERS

CARRIED

WONDERFUL JUBILEE RECORD

at a time when dozens of Tram TT is 31 years to-day since electric tramcars

way systems are going over to; petrol bus, diesel bus or trolley

SERVICES IN

HONG KONG

Comfortable And Modern

WHOLE WATERFRONT MAY

BE TRAVERSED

The tra

The Hong Kong Tramways. 1 Limited, operate electric tram- way services in the City of Vic- first commenced operating in Hong Kong- 1016 miles. Most of this is

toria the total route length be bus working it is significant During that period Hong Kong Tramways double track and the total mile that large cities such as LiverLimited has carried over 570,000,000 passengers, age measured as single track is pool Edinburgh. Leeds and

Named The Electric Traction Company of Hong Kong about 18miles. Sheffield are not only relaying Limited, the Company was originally incorporated in London on way extends along practically tramway tracks (which have a November 20, 1902, for the purposes, inter alia, of constructing the whole length of the north- Tife. let us say of 20 years) and operating electric tramways in Hong Kong and undertaking lern waterfront of Hong Kong, but are actually laying down the powers and carrying out the obligations devolving upon the it from Kennedy Town to the new tramway extensions at con- Company by virtue of the Tramway Ordinance No. 10 of 1902 village of Shaukiwan as well as

Happy Valley. in the Ordinances of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong siderable capital outlay.

The first car ran through the City Nothing. recently, has given the The Company was formed with a capital of £325,000, di-

in 1904 amidst great excitement impress af permanency to the vided into 325,000 ordinary shares of £3 each.

The fares? Colony's excellent electric tram- The projected Tramways, as specified in the said Ordin- among the Chinese. way service so much as the conance and in compliance therewith, were duly laid down, con are at the flat. rate of 10 cents crete tramway islands which made structed, and set in working, opening for public traffic in the first class and 5 their appearance along many parts year 1904.

of the route last year. Although

this is an innovation in Hou Such losses were incurred in Rong they are extensively used in the immediately succeeding

Time Saved

many parts of the world. In years that, by necessary resolu Edinburgh there are 47. whilst in tions approved by Order of the Shanghai there are 43.

Court on December 13, 1910, it proved necessary to reduce the These islands have been a great Company's capital to £81.250. success and tramway passengers 15 shillings of the paid-up value at these favoured stopping places of its shares to the extent of may now board and alight with ani£243.750-being cancelled as easy mind and without having to lost, the nominal capital of the watch oncoming traffic In this Company then standing as at war time is saved and risk of 581,250 ir 325.000 shares of five accident is greatly reduced. Fur- shillings cach

ther it is safer for a motor-car|

1

HONG KONG TRAMWAYS

LIMITED

-

PASSENGERS CARRIED (Exclusively Of Monthly Ticket Holders)

cents second class --The rolling stock consists of 911 double-deck saloon-top cars hav- ing a seating capacity of 62; the tracks are of either the Peckham

or English Electric Company's

manufacture of the most modern.. type with a wheelbase of 8ft Gi the electrical equipment being the English Electric Company's throughout. The bodies were made at the Company's works, Hong Kong and are of teak. 39,012.033 They are exceedingly' neat. Not 45.972.235 only are they the only double- 39,342,860 deck cars in the Far East but 100.649.185

probably the most attractive.

5 YEARLY PERIODS

1905 to 1909

1910 to $14

1915 to 1919

At the same time the Com

1920 to 1924

to pass a stationary tram at an Pany's name was changed to The island than at a tram stop without Hong Kong Tramway Company, an island. There is: in force in Limited..

Edinburgh a by-law which forbids

First Dividend

1925 to 1929 1930 10, 1934

Total

127539.110

155,502,004

528,917,430

Monthly ticket passengers over the period and passengers for the 6 months ended June 30, 1935 amount in the aggregrate to about 42,000,000.

a motorist driving his car past #j The first field on their invest- stationary francar. There was a ment earned by the Company's similar regulation in Hong Kong shareholders was

a dividend of until two years ago. In Edinburgh 144d. per share, declared in 1913 however, this." by-law`does not in respect of the year 1912. apply when the tramear concerned On May 26, 1922, the pre-

been fitted is standing at an island, the sent company, Hong Kong Tram-cars will have island itself being regarded

the the most modern ft. Gin, wheel as ways Limited, formed for providing adequate protection to purpose of acquiring the under-base truck. passengers boarding and alight-taking, all the asset and liabili inx.

ties, of the Hong Khy Tramway

1

Excellent Permanent Way

The permanent way is exceed-

HEAT HUMIDITY HEADACHES

AND

DON'T ler Headaches lower your powers of resistance. Two or three

"ASPRO” “Tablets, taken with a drink of water, will banish most Head- aches in a few minutes. It's a mistake to think that because it's bot and humid you must endure a Headache. Even the most healthy suffer at times; bear, sun-glare, brmidity and sleeplessness all help to reduce physical resis- tance, with the result that a Headache attacks you. ASPRO will quickly clean it up before it bas timero sap your vitality, make yon listless, imitable, nervy and out of sorts. "ASPRO relieves in a perfectly soothing way, and is not harmful, because it is a pure medicine, containing no questionable or dangerous antidotes. Keep 'ASPRO' in the house to check Colds. Infinenza, Rheumatism, Dengue, Neuritis, etc. It is safe insurance against everyday summer ills, it gives quick, certain relief, and does not harm the heart.

་་

'ASPRO'

GIVES RELIEF IN 5 to 10 MINUTES

ingly good A certain length of OLD-ESTABLISHED

track is entirely renewed every year with the result that no part is. ever allowed to become defective.

PAPER DIES

250-Year-Old Sheet To Cease Publication

The rails used area special dwarf section weighing 106 lbs. per yard These,are made in Middles- borough and have proved a very

~CHINA MAILTM SPECIAL with grest success in Hong Kong-

Augsburg, To-day. They are laid on concrete founda- One of the oldest newspapers in tions with paring of granite setts Europe, the Augsburger Postzei- or esplaitum

tung, which at the end of this year.. Traffic statistics, for the year would have celebrated its 250-years 1934 are as follows:--

jubilee, will cease publication as Trafic Receipts Miles 'run

3.376.133 from after Jnly. 1,902,440 remarkable Passengers carried

$2,968,682

Remarkable Changes

Those residents who knew the ago,

the

•

Although the Tramway Com- is now exceedingly pros-

In an announcement to readers is stated that the paper, which was formerly the organ-of-the

The lighting has left much to Co., Ltd. as a going concern, was electric tramways 31 years be desired, in fact, was definitely incorporated under the Companor even 10 years ago, must be bad until the advert of the lies Ordinances of Hong Kong struck by "Bidmead" beacons on the Pedder with a capital of Hong Kong $1-changes. Street islands. It is understood | 625,000 divided into shares of the j In the early days there were pany that these beacons will now be same number, (325,000, of HK55 single-deck cars of the toast perons in spite of providing what Catholic. Bavarian Feople's Party, installed on, all tramway islands each) as the original Company, rack" tyre only. Then came the is probably the cheapest tram or will henceforth be published as a when

of nearly alwhich then as a result

became the holding double-deck car with a top cover bus ride in the world (ie. 634 weekly, and in its new form will year's experience. one or two of Company.

which was mostly canvaS and miles for 5 cents) its first few deal more fully with the intellec the islands have been lengthened Upon a later distribution to its was most unpleasant în wet years of operation were very dif- tual political and cultural problems or their locations slightly altered. members of the said equivalent weather:

ficult, anxious and hazardous acute at the present day.Trans- shares in the new Company those

Ocean Service. Then in 1925 came the present The Company was originally re- same members, on liquidation of restibule saloon top cover. gistered in England in 1902 with the old Company, became the

But probably the most strikingja capital of 325,000 shares of £1. shareholders of the present Hons change to an old resident return-jeach. In 1910 the financial posi Kong Company.

fing now after, say, a dozen years,tion was so bad that the capital would be the track between Ar-was reduced to $81,250 by writing only was senal Street and Shaukiwan. Not!of 15/- per share as lost. the tramway between! The capital is

AUSTRALIAN LADY PASSES

Remains Cremated

FUNERAL SERVICE READ AT HAPPY VALLEY

by birth, the deceased came to

Issued Capital Restored Such assignment and transfer

now $3.250,000

of title and of the undertaking as Arsenal Street and Causeway Bay made up of 650,000 shares of 35

*Consistent Dividend

CONSCRIPTION IN KWANGTUNG

Gen. Chen Chi-tang's

Proposals

conscription.

Canton, To-day.

a whole duly received the assent along the thea water-front but each jand approval of H. E The Gover the track between Causeway Bay Inor-in-Council, as

In order to arouse the people's required and The cremation took place at provided in the

and Shaukiwan was all single No dividends were paid until interest, in military service, Gen- the Japanese Crematorium, Soo-governing Ordinance No. 10. of ly round the sea-side of the Tai-paid a dividend every year since ding the adoption of a system of

terms of the track and parts of it, particular the year 1912 but the Company has era! Chen Chi-tang is recommmer kunpoo. of the remains of Miss 1902, on November 4, 1921. Delsie McKie, whose death occur-

koo Club, was exceedingly dan- that date. In the year 1925, out of undis- red at her residence, 31 Seymour tributed profits then capitalised drivers of other renicles when want to see something Road, in the early hours of yes!)

of the formmlated, one adult will be a new issue, pari passu of 325,000 the Company was able to aban-place we would give this advice. drafted in each village. The terday morning.

An Australian shares of $5 each was made to don this section of track, where Take the trams, and let them total number of men to be con- "Hong Kong many years ago. She the shareholders of the Company there was constant risk of colli.tarry you to each of the termini scripted will be 13,546.

was about 49 years of age. The tored to a total of $3,250,000,

The issued capital was thus ression round blind corners and on in turn Thus you will see the period of service will be one deceased, had been ill for about!

|a steep gradient."

whole of the great waterfront, yest equivalent, that is to say, to the three weeks.

Chinese and European aTERS The conscription will be held The fuzeral took place yester-original capital of £325.000 of

alike, right away past the bath-from August" 1" to- October 2- day evening, when a service was)

And now King's Road. A maging and pleasure grounds at Training of conscripts will be in held in the Chapel of the Resar-

Vast Expansion

nificent wide thoroughfare with North Point to the dockyard at charge of the New Soldiers Train- rection. Happy Valley, the Rev. C

Each year for the past 10 years a double tram track which, when Taikoo, to the quaint, if not al-ing Department of the 1st Group Brown officiatinzi-

the Company has purchased a completed, will have cost the together salubrious town of Shan- Army Headquarters, dozen new traction motors to re- Hong Kong Tramways Limited kiwan, with its fishing fleet and Press place. motors which came out $800,000.

might array of coasting, junks.

¡gerous. It was a great relief to To visitors to Hong Kong who According to the regulations

SANITARY BOARD

MEETING.

Inoculation Of Dogs Recommended

1902

$800,000 Expenditure

THE ROCK"

Central

with the original cars in 1904 In the recent Silver Jubilee ce You can take a trip around Happy

Incidentally, one dozen at £200 lebrations the

Company carried Valley race course, and playing each are due by the Blue Funnel approximately 1,000,000 passen-Selds, with their surrounding steamer “Deucalion” on Fridey gers in the eight days ended Maywalls of steep and lovely hills

Interesting Issue next). With these new and pow. The fact that this largel Ether by day, or in the evening. For August erful motors on the magnificent number of people were carried when you will see a fascinating new double track between North without an accident is a great close-up of the glittering lights. At yesterday's meeting, the Point and Quarry Bay very fast.

tribute both to the motormen and admired from the harbour, the hich is new to hand, is ag

The August issue of The Rock, Sanitary Board, by a majority speeds are possible and, in fact, conductors the former for their top of a tram is an excellent van-eminently readable vote of four to two, approved the whereas op to a few months ago careial driving through the dense tage point motion put forward by Mr E31 tramcars were necessary to crowds and the conductors for Lo recommending the compulsory provide a three-minute service on their care and attention to pas- inoculation of all dogs in the Colony the Shaukiwan-Western Market Benger against rabies, such furculation route, the same service a now travellin

Government being operated with only 28 can.

being done by the

free of charged

Those present were:-Mr. W

the

dent), Dr. GLOW

Officer of Kwong-ting

C. F. Bellamy

Basto, Dr

Roe (Secretar tseng Assistant Sec

We are informed, however, that meeting under the Tramway Ordinance

Presi- the speed of tramcars on

Gledical,Shankiwan route is limited to 207

ong miles per hour.

Mr. 1

The programme of entirely re- building all trame structed prior to

ing-been comple

the end oferta)

of whom

were

electric

time in their lives. point deser

Passer alles

Iproduced number:

The principal

As Mr. D. G 16 Betary addr

in his speech land Chair at the Annual China

the Company on

Bush,

all this, and at Red

the so

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