1935-10-10 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1935

New Bank Building Opened

Continued from Page 1)

where they may conduct business outside the bank privacy and despatch.

their machinery is installed, as the with whole building is" air-conditioned

The main entrance of the

in summer and warmed in winter. building facing. Queen's Road

The department of the chief There are also special facilities. the official address of the Bank is accountant is also housed on this provided by an emergency unit. to No. 1. Queen's Road, and the en-floor. Everything here is self-ensure an uninterrupted supply of trance facing the harbour, less contained and complete. Adjoin-electricity, even when the regular magnificent by design, is the back ing the office is a conference room; current supply fails

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ex-

way into the premises-is fronted where special clients may be inter- TELEPHONE EXCHANGE with a magnificent bronze doar,viewed: while also flanking the An automatic telephone which at this morning's ceremony chief accountant's main office is a change serves the whole building. was opened by HE the Officer safe deposit room for the storage By a special arrangement it is Administering the Government of securities and collateral of every possible for five speakers to con- with a special gold key manufac

fer at their individual telephones kind tured in England for the purpose.

23-TON DOOR

jab once, as if gathered round

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a

PO-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND It is built as a massive part This room is also guarded by a table. The chief manager is also

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES

MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS

TAKING CARGO FOR

Straits Java, Burma. Cerion. India Persian Gulf. West Indies, Mauritius. East and South

Africa, Queensland Ports, and Red Sea. Egypt. Constantinople, Greece, Levantine Ports, Europe,

callis. typifying perhaps the unas-assive steel door weighing 24 enabled to cut in on any conversa- sailable strength of the institution tons, similar to that which guards tion to speak to any officer of the whose entrance it guards.

the public safe deposit fault. In bank who may be engaged in a Immediately inside the main fact, all the strong rooms of the telephone call with somebody else." door is an entrance hall which acts bark are of the same degree of A Chubb's right safe, of

The doors vary in size.genious construction, has been as an air lock to prevent too rapid safety. ja leakage of conditioned air from but afford exactly the same pro-provided in the exterior masonry

the building itself, while before tection

near the main entrance for the

screen, through which one is another massive bronze) The same applies to the ceilings.[benefit of clients who desire to de-}

floors and walls of these various posit their daily takings in safety

entrance

PENINSULA & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS into the main banking hall is ob-chambers throughout the building. when the bank is closed to busi-

UNDER CONTRACT WITH HM GOVERNMENT -

tained

STRIKING CHAMBER

Bank's treasuries, to which access

All are specially reinforced by a ness secret process and embody the Almost the whole of the lower This striking chamber. 210 by very latest practice in works of ground floor is occupied by the PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS 95 feet, occupies an area of 14,600 this kind.

square feet, the height being 27 The public safe deposit vault is obtained from the cash depart- feet, rising to 48 in the barrel itself is one of the most imposing ment as well as by a pass-door vault over the public space. It is chambers in the building. There from the Des Vent Road in this chamber that the whole of is an ante-room, guarded by a trance.

SS.

+BURDWAN

*MIRZAPORE SCHITRAL SCATHAY **SOMALI

RAWALPINDI SCORFU

BANGALORE

SRANCHI İNALDERA

BHUTAN

CARTHAGE ... +BEHAR

SRAJPUTANA "SOUDAN

SCHITRAL

Cargo` only.

From

About

Tons Hong Kong

Destination.

000 th Oct B'bay, Mars, Havre, Lidon, Hbg

R'dm, A'werp & Hall

-;

7,000 14th Oc 15,000 19th Oct. 15,000 Nov. 7,000 9th Nov.

17,000 16th Nov. 14,000 30th Nov. 6,000 th Dec.

17,000 14th Dec. 16.000 28th Dec. 6,000 4th Jan.

14,500 11 Jan

6,000 18th Jan.

-)

Straits, Colombo, Bhay & Kavachi Bombay, Marseilles & London Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseiles, Havre, London, Ham-

Hull

Marseilles & London.

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham

burg. Antwerp, Rotterdam, &

Holl

Bombay. Marseilles & London Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseillies, Havre, London, Ham burg, R'dam., Antwerp & Foll Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-

burg, R'dam & Hall Bombay, Marseilles & London Marseilles, Havre, London,

burg, E'dam Antwerp & Hull 8th Feb, Marseilles & London,

17,000 25th Jan 7,000 1st Feb

15,000

++

† Calls Casablanca.

the actual banking business of the double grille and furnished with - GREAT STRENGTH institution will be conducted.

counters and shelves. The entry The treasuries. are of

great There is ample accommodation to the actual vault is through the strength and the burglar-proof for all the various departments, 24-toa door previously mentioned. doors are fitted with the latest com- All the special metal furniture, In the vault are over 7,000 safe bination Jocks.

has been executed to allow

masonry.

the guard

and re-

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PRESIDENT LINERS

11

LUXURY LINERS

Fast and Smooth Riding

Of all the many things that distinguish President Linams from the rest, none is more importanttiham the steady smoothness of these speedy ships...............Large and broad of beam, they harve incny times been called the finest riding ships on muy seal Han now to make your next trip "the President Liner way.

SAN FRANCISCO, NEW YORK THE SUNSHINE ROUTE 18 Days To San Francisco Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama and

Honolulu Fortnightly sailings: Pres. Daft Pres. Hoover Pres. Pierce Pres. Coolidge

Oct. 23, 6 an Nov. 2.6 1.2.

„Nor. 20; 6 am. Nov. 30, Koott

EUROPE, NEW YORK - *Inquire for round-trip tickets to Europe in connection with Lloyd Triestino Via Manila, Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Sues and the

Mediterranean...” · Pres. Van Buren Oct. 12, 8 `am. Pres. Garfield........Oct. 26,° 5° 3.3. Pres. Polk ...Nov. 9, 8am. Pres. Adams ...Nov. 2, 3 *- Pres. Harrison

Dec. 7. 82.3.

SEATTLE, VICTORIA. THE EXPRESS ROUTE 18 Days To Seattle Via Shanghai, Kobe and Tokohama. Fortnightly sailings:- Pres. Jackson ....Oct. 11, Maight Pres. McKinley .Oct. 26, 1' al Pres. Grant ....Nov. 13, I am Pres: Jefferson Nov. 23, I am Pres. Jackson ..Dec. 7, I am

MANILA

THE MOST FREQUENT SERVICE

NEXT SAILING Pres. Van Buren Oct. 12, 8 a.m. Pres. Taft .....Oct. 15, 6 Pres. McKinley ..Oct. 19, 6 pm. Pres. Hoover 1.Oct. 24, 9 pm

BOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES- AMERICAN MAIL LINE

BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE

MONTHLY SERVICE

To

NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES.

burg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & designed by Roneo Ltd. London, deposit boxes in five sizes, which The treasuries contain space for under the personal supervision of may be rented at charges ranging checking, counting packing and their special representative here. from $3 to $45 a year. The ceil- unpacking coin and bullion, which Mr. L. B. Woolley, in consultationing is of polished steel panels and may be delivered direct from lor- with a member of the Bank's staff, the ingenious contrivances which ries accommodated in a special the safe deposit boxes safety yard not exposed to public maximum of space. adaptability themselves show how thorough is view. A patrol corridor surrounds- and efficiency.

the protection afforded to clients. the treasuries and is so planned Those portions of the main hall

TWO KEYS NECESSARY

that all the doors will be under which

screened off

Two keys are necessary to open the observation of the guards day] are metal partitions safe deposit box-one held by the separated by

and night. which are built in sections and owner, and the other a guard key The intermediate floors between

held by the bank. Ham-may easily be removed

Neither one the mezzanine and the seventh, are erected anywhere in the ball with-can open the box without the designed as offices for letting. other. Moreover, in the event of They are served by fast lifts from out damage to the walls or

Below the shelves are a tenancy of a safe deposit boxeither the Des Voeux Road or the special Chubb safes for books and being relinquished by a customer, Queen's Road entrance. The ledgers. Br an ingenious ar the lock will be changed before building throughout is fitted with rangement grilles for the counters that same box is placed at the dis-the latest sanitary appliances can be affixed by means of a hook-posal of another customer, so that all lavatories. Steel doors are ing device, so that the marble sur there will be no opportunity for everywhere fitted, stove enamelled faces are not damaged or spoiled false keys to be used..

Office to a warm brown colour. Compradore's department-floors are laid with a special lino- The `main impression one gets situated on the main banking floor

leum of green marbled finish. with from the main hall is one of sober adjoining the central banking hall brown lintile covered skirtings... Singapore, Penang. Rangoon and magnificence. Enormous pillars of is also self-contained.

futed black marble form the main (prietors of the bulding offered to Architecturally, the general ap- supports. flanked by cream mar-have it decorated in Chinese ble columns of more slender aspect. fashion, but the offer was declined, pearance of the building is superb. San Francisco & Los Angeles Panama Canal New York It is a fine example of restrained vault is a huge glass mosaic, ared and modern appearance of the modernity, with its sweeping ver tical lines, its broad masses, and tistically designed and carried out. remainder of the building. displaying symbolic figures against

S Calls Tangier

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo 30 Constantinople. Piraeus. Symrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co. BRITISH INDIA

❤ULAWA

SANTHIA

TALMA

SIRDHANA TAKADA

APCAR

10,000 12th Oct

8,000 27 Oct. 10,000 8th Nov. 8,000 22nd Nov 7,000 6th Dec.

Calentta.

Calls Port Swettenham

SAILINGS

SOBER MAGNIFICENCE

The

The pro-

The whole roof of the barrel so that it also follows the restrain-

MASTERPIECE OF DESIGN

to

and

·PANAMA CANAL Parts. Next Sailing

M.S. TRIPOLOR"

onTM

18th OCT.

ARRIVAL DATES

12th & 14th Nov.

The special cash counting de- absolute lack of finicky embellish- DODWELL & Claw is the time to psit, Purations. The only eatenus de

Now is the а

a sky-blue background and con-partment is the only portion of the

appearance of the.

separate pieces, put together like xrilles. There is a

considerable typifying "Men of Vision" and is jigzaw puzzle.»

business each day in the changing "Strength," are in keeping with scalptured lions" heads typifying Here are depicted the progress and handling of actual specie, and the modern of transport through the ages in a grille is erected as a protection building itself, and add to the ef the Eastern and Western hemis-Jagainst the remote possibility of

fect. Altogether the new building pheres, while in the semi-circular attempts at theft or

is a credit to all concerned.

lands of Sunshine and Romance. "Down Under" you will feel -a new being and even if you are not inclined towards Surfing, Fishing.. Shooting or Mountaineering you will find that the Antipodes have plenty to offer you including 25/- for your pound.

On the way down your life aboard will be as you wish, quiet bectic for the E. & A. will humour your every whim.

And by the way, there is no additional charge for Deck Cabins and there is of course a Sun Deck Swimming pool, an Orchestra and a fine Laundry.

.

A Surgeon and Stewardess are at your disposal and last but not least we had almost forgotten-the cuisine will set you listening eagerly for the gong!

Regular Monthly Sailings from Hong Kong to Sanghai and Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

Steamers to the United Kingdom via New Zealand. Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The Union S.S. Co.'s

The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P. & 0. Branch Service of Steamers to London via Suez The New Zealand: Shipping Co.'s Steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS

NELLORE

TANDA

NANKIN

***,000 2nd. Nov. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, 7,000 30th Nov. Melbourne & Hobart. 7,000 31st Dec

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN

*JEYPORE

TALMA

RAWALPINDI

*BANGALORE

SIRDHANA

CORFU

TANDA

TAKADA

RANCHI

TILAWA *BHUTAN NALDERA

5,000 10th Oct. Moji & Kobe,

10,000 17th Oct. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan. 17,000 18th Oct Shanghai, Robe & Yokohama,

panels at each end are depicted STAFF ACCOMMODATION Eastern and Western banking. The manager's fat is situated It is noteworthy that, with the The floor of the public space is on the eighth floor, and two other exception of a few minor details.

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paved with travertine and Swedish flats for senior members of the only British material has

staff on the seventh. green marble, surrounded by

For the used throughout. counter of the same dark Ashbur-benefit of the staff the seventh jton marble as that used the floor also contains

main pillars.

in

tural during the daytime, while at night hidden., batteries of electric) lamps shine through the same!

room and

a

been

It should be a fitting memorial luncheon to its architects, Messrs. Palmer lounge

overlooking and Turner, Mr. G. L. Wilson, Large bronze layouts in the Queen's Road, a billiard room and FRIBA, FSI, being responsi- a squash court and changing room ble for the design. no less than to ceiling provide the lighting of the All these apartments are served the contractors, who had complete main hall The lighting is na-by a most up-to-date all-electric charge of the organisation and of the construction, direction kitchen, including the latest re frigerating and

Messrs. M. H. Logan and L. W. cooking 2p frosted glass panels, to provide altained by the Bank's own Civil Engineers, who brought out pliances. The kitchens will be Amps, M. Inst. CE, Chartered complete system of indirect light-

from England a staff of expert cooking staff Sydney ing without any shadows.

The basement, in which is the supervisors and special machinery Additional bronze, wall brackets, air-conditioning plant, the special for the purpose of the erection. most artistically designed and pro-electric generating station, the

MARBLE AND MOSAIC WORK duced, provide still more indirect only one of its kind in Hong Kong.

Persons entering the magnifi- lighting to turn night into day in

run in connection with the Colony's cent Banking Hall of the new this magnificent chamber.

installation, reminds one of noth-Shanghai Bank will admire its building of the Hong Kong and ing so much as the engine room of fine proportions and its decore- That very thorough care has a big liner. Most elaborate

tive scheme, and will be interest- been taken to design the building

6,000 31st Oct. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.

· 8,000 Jist Oct Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osalca. 14,500 1st Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,

7,000 3rd Nov. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 7,000 14th Nov. Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Ostica. 17.000 15th Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama 10,000 28th Nov. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.

6,000 28th Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama 16,000 29th Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama

ALL DATES are approximate and sub-

ject to alteration without notice. All Cabins "Clls well

are fitted with Electric Fans or Punks Louvré

steri Steamers on London and Aus- on the

tralian Lines are fitted with Laundries, Par-

cels measuring not more than 5 cu. ft. will be

received at the Company's Office up to NooD on the day previous to sailing

PEO

For further information, Passage, Freight," Handbooks, etc, apply to The Agents:-

FOR THE BROKERS .

with special reference to the na- SEASON TICKET OUT ed to know something about the

ture of the business to be tran- sacted therein is shown by a num- ber of relatively small points, which, however, add up in the main to an impressive total.

One of these is the nature of the accommodation provided for the use of brokers. They have

OF DATE

Official Fined Total Of Four-Pounds

London.

Queen's Buildings

Zone

22nd Nov.

CO

1gents

29th Nov.

LTD.

Telephone 28021

KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION HOUSEHOLD COAL

ANNOUNCING REDUCED PRICES

Peak District

$18.00

Bowen Road & lower level

$17.00

Pokfulam

$18.00

Repulse Bay

$23.00

Kowloon

$15.00

Shek-0 & Stanley

$23.00

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

Head Office: TIENTSIN.

DODWELL &.CO., LTD. Agents, Hong Kong.

marble work and the glass toons had to be enlarged first to mosaic which are its chief de-full size a tracing of which was made for the purpose of pasting corative features.

A

FOR SALE selection of the best varieties

Reliable and Tested FLOWER AND VEGETABLE

SEEDS

This work has been carried out the small glass stones thereon by Raoul Bigami's Art Studios. The time spent on the execution and the firm has supplied some of the mosaic work represents a 10,000 square feet of marble and speed record, for it is composed also 'fixed an additional 60,000 of over four and a half million A Ministry of Transport official, square feet supplied by Messrs small glass stones, and each one their own rooms, their own en-Francis Edward George. Reeve, of W. W. Jenkins of Torquay. It is had to be pasted on the tracing trance hall, and their own lifts, to Footscray-road, New Eltham, was interesting to note that the mar-by hand. carry them up but one storey of fined a total of £4, with £4 46. ble was fixed at the rate of over the building on to the same floor as costs. at Bow-street Police Court 450 ́i sq. feet per day, including in the Far East with the excep- Mesars, Arthur Istes & Có, Ltd.

tion of the one made by the same that which houses the office of the recently. OB two summonses pieces weighing

hum- firm for the King of Nepal. chief manager, the other managers for travelling and attempting to dreds of pounds.

JARDINE REFLECTORS:

close proximity which should make son ticket.

several

It is the largest mosaic work

from Messrs. Button & Sons. Reading

· and 200

Sydney

The opportunity of serving you

and the board room. All these travel on the Southern Railway The great mossic ceiling mea- The Jardine Engineering Cor will be a pleasure and your com- various departments are in that with an out-of-date weekly sea- suring about. 5,500 sq. feet de-.

paration, who carried out the mands will have our best attention. signed by Mr. Podjoursky under lighting installation for the new for the caller transaction of busi- He had been previously convict the direction of the architects, Bank building, also supplied the ar~ GRACA & CO. ness and afford communications ed of a similar offence Reeve was executed in the Florence flectors for the Banding Hall,

said, that he had been away for Studios of Raoul Bigazzi.

while; the: Laylight – frames. Weze The brokers have individual two days and forgot to renew the work was carried out by over 100 supplied by the General Electric cubicles,fitted with telephones, ticket.

men for five months, as the car-

MACKINNON MACKENZIE CO is a day

¡P&O BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL. HONGKONG

This

HAM STREET.

- HONG KONG