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Victoria
stop over if you and Vancouver in Canada's Evergreen play-
NEXT SAILING FROM HONGKONG SECOND WEEK IN JUNE
(Omitting Honolulu)
from
Fast through AIR CONDITIONED trains ship's side at Vancouver take you through the Ma- jestic Canadian Rockies-Lake Louise, Banff-600 miles of travel through Marvelous Mountain Scenery, Niagara Falls and the Great Lakes can be included as optional routes on your coast-to-coast trip. Stop over anywhere you wish.
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Then Montreal and Quebec, gay French-speaking cities on the famous St. Lawrence Seaway, and quick crossing to Europe by one of Canadian Paci- fic's Atlantic fleet.
NEXT SAILING TO MANILA THE FIRST WEEK IN JULY
For Full information Consult Your Travel Agent
Union Building
Hong Kong
Telephone 20752
OR
Canadian Pacific
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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 13, 1940
POST OFFICE
GENERAL HOLIDAY
On Thursday, the 13th June, the General Post Office and Kowloon Central Post Office will be open from 8 am, to noon, Sheungwan Branch Post Office will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and the other Branch Post Offices will be entirely closed.
There will be one collection from the pillar boxes as on Sundays, one. delivery of ordinary correspondence at 11.30 a.m. and one delivery of regis- tered correspondence at 11 am.
There will also be one delivery of ordinary correspondence at 11 am.. from the Branch Post Offices at Stanley, Taipo and Un Long.
The Money Order Office will be entirely closed.
The air mail service by Imperial Airways to all destinations is tem- porarily suspended. Air mail letters will be accepted for transmission to Europe by Pan-American service to New York and onwards thence by sea, at $2.80 per half-ounce for the air transport, plus 15 cents per ounce to Bri- tish possessions and 25 cents per ounce to foreign countries in respect of sea transport,
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended..
INWARD MAILS
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"-London date,
5th June
Shanghai Canton Sandakan Shanghai Manila Shanghai
Shanghai and Amoy
Japan, Shanghai and Formosa Japan and Manila
June 13.
June 13.
June 13.
June 13.
June 13,
June 15.
June 15.
June 16.
June 16.
June 18.
Canton
-June 16.
Haiphong
June 17.
Haiphong
June 17.
Air Mail by "Pan-American Airways Direct Service"-San
Francisco date, 11th June
June 18.
June 18:
June 18.
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U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (San Francisco date, 21st
May) U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Manila (San Francisco, date, 29th
May)
June 18.
June 18.
Europe via Suez and Straits (London date, 1st May) Japan
OUTWARD MAILS
Registered and Parcel Mails are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m., registered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day.
TRAVEL A.-O. LINE
то
AUSTRALIA
CALLING AT MANILA, THURSDAY ISLAND, CAIRNS, TOWNSVILLE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, ETC.
NEXT SAILING
END OF JULY, 1940.
For Freight or Passage, apply to :
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents
For
Por
THURSDAY
Date and Time.
Bangkok
Saigon, Straits and London via Long-
Sea-Route.
G.P.O. 4.K.P.O.
Ord.,
Parcels only for Tientsin
June 13, Noon.
June 13, Noon, June 13, Noon.
Shanghai, Japan, Canada, U.S.A.,
G.P.O. &. K\P2O.
Central and South America via Vancouver B.C., (Parcels for Can-
Par.,
Reg.,
ada).
Ord.,
Bangkok
Sandakan
Amoy
FRIDAY
Bangkok
SATURDAY
Shanghai and Parcels only for Tientsin. Bangkok
Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South
Africa, and United Kingdom.
Reg.,
Reg.,
Thur., June 13, 10.00 a.m. „Thur, June 13, 11.15 a.m. .Thur., June 13, Noon. ...Thur; June 13, Nnon. Thur., June 13, Noon. June 13, Noon.
June 14, 10.30 am.
June 15, 9.30 a.m.
June 15, Noon..
.G.P.O. & .K.P.O.
June 15, 5.00 p.m. .June 15, 5.00 p.m.
SUNDAY
June 16, 9.00 a.m.
MONDAY
Amoy Shanghai
Canton Haiphong
Canton..
Manila, Makassar and Sourabaya Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu and U.S.A., by the "Pan-American Airways Direct Service".
TUESDAY
Reg.,
Ord.,
Reg.,
Ord.,
June 16, 9.00 a.m.
June 17, 7.15 a.m. June 17, Noon. June 17, 7.00 p.m.
June 18, 8.30 a.m. K.P.Q.
June 18, 5.00 p.m. ..June 18, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O..
June 18, 5.00 p.m.
Hong Kong, China & Japan.
Tel. 30332
DO
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The China Mail
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