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ROYAL E

INTEROCEAN

LINES

JAVAPORTS and MACASSAR

"TJIBADAK"

***TJISADANE"

"TJITJALENGKA"

"THBADAK"

"TIBADAK"

"RUYS"

"PASMAN"

TIPONDDR"

"STRAAT MALAKKÄ“

"BOISSEVAIN"

SAILINGS

3rd August 18th August Jat. Sept ...15th Sept.

MANILA

SAILINGS

3rd August 10th August

4th August

7th Sept.

5th Oct.

1th Nov.

• no passenger accommodation.

ARRIVALS

4th August

18th August 1st Sept.

ARRIVALS

24th Sept.

SINGAPORE, PENANG and BELAWAN DELI

SAILINGS ARRIVALS

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1949.4

HONG KONG WATERFRONT

In My Log

To the curious who wonder at the absence of this column last weck...

Nature was not, very kind re- cently and the last few days of what was a non-working work knw yours truly counting the seconds in ..bochent-stricken after a full day's exposure t Repulse Bay.

However, it's fine to be on the job apabil

BY OUR HARBOUR REPORTER

"LASMAN" | "VAN BEUT52" 6

"VAN RIEMSDIJK"

&

9th August

16th August

4th Sept.

8th August 26th Aug.

To Singapore and Penang only

Passengers accepted to Singapore only

EAST & SOUTH AFRICA & SOUTH AMERICA

"RUYS"

"TJIPONDOK"

STRAAT MALAKKA"

"BOISSEVAIN"

SAILINGS

ARRIVALS

16th Aug.

7th Sept.

22nd Aug. 24th Sept.

5th Oct.

4th Nov.

Calling at Mombasa & Marques Direct. Transhipment cargo accepted on through Bs/L to

"RUYS

PFJIPONDOK"

Dar-Ex-Salaam and Zanzibar.

* no passenger accommodation.

"STRAAT MALAKKA“

JAPAN

SAILINGS

34th August

* no passenger accommodation.

ARRIVALS

7th August

4th Sept.

4th Sept.

Agents: HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE

EUROPE via MANILA and MALAYA

"RIJNKERK”.

"MARIEKERK

"MOLENKERK"

SAILINGS

End Aug.

End Scot

End Det.

ARRIVALS

8th Aug. 'Fariv ̃Sept.- Early Ort.

Transhipment cargo accepted on throngh Bs/L to India, Mediterranean and Northern European ports.

"RIJNKERK"

"MARIEKERK"

JAPAN

SAILINGS

14th Aug.

Early Sept.

ARRIVALS

End Aug. End Sept.

KING'S BUILDING: TELS: 28015 to 28017 CHINESE AGENTE: 82. CONNAUGHT RB. C. TeLs: 31196-25133

DE LA RAMA LINES

ARRIVING FROM U.S. ATLANTIC COAST VIA LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO ·

AY. "BENARES"

Early Sept.

SAILING FOR U.S. ATLANTIC COAST VIA SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES

m.v. "DONA ANICETA" (calls Japan)

Mid Aug.

THE DE LA RAMA STEAMSHIP CO., INC.

(Incorporated in the Philippines)

CHINESE SHIPPING OFFICE Tela, 2378820153

MARINA HOUSE Tels. 23676--22675

BEN LINE

SHIP

*"BENCLEUCHTM

"FENCRUACHAN"

"DENREOCH"

"BENALBANACH"

**BENNEVIS"

"BENMACDHUI"

"BENAVON"

"DENWYVIS"

SHIP

"BENCRUACHAN"

"DENREOCII"

BENMACDHUI

HENALDANACH".

**BENNEVIS"!

"BENDORAN"

"BENCLEUCHI""

"BENAVON"

ARRIVALS

FROM

U.K. via Singapore,

- do U.K. (Direct) .U.K. via Singapore.

do

SAILINGS

то

London, Antwary, Rotterdam, Flam burg Huži..

OUT

3th August.

10th August. 29th August. End August. Early Sept. 1st half Sept. 2nd half Sept. Early October.

LOADING

Early August. Early Sept. 1st half Bept

2nd half Sept. Early October.

Liverpool, Glasgow, Ist haff- Aug,

Dublin. Havre.

End AugusĚ Antwerp, Rotterdam End Sept.

& Hamburg.

via Malaya, Colombo, Aden, Port, Sudan and other, way ports.

Accepts cargo for Japan.

Omits Hamburg, calls at Leith.

Calls at Genoa,

For Further Barticulum, Apriz Nem

W. R. LOXLEY & CO. (CHINA) LTD.

Tori Haflding:

At last!.

Joe and Fred-hoth Everett walked down the aisle

at St. Margaret's Church yoiter-

and

Club renched the Lusitano to entertain guests ne Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Antonio,

The happy bridegroom's part- ing remark: Drop in nt Repulse Bity to see us, old man!

(As if he really means it!)

*

He's here ngater.....

This time "Being 'Em Back

Alive" Nor Husefull did

These haberdarhers are lucky enough to locate a favourable spot on the aft deck to dis. Seen here are Norwegian seamen doing some play their wares without being in the way.

Belleville which was lying alongside at Kowloon Wharf during the shopping aboard the ma. week. ("China Mali" Photo).

VENDORS HAVE GOOD TRADE ON SHIPS

bring ferocious orang palings or A common practico, but approved only by certain

hissing cats. flig consigutnen enneista Jabaly <if monkeys, birchy and snake.

local shipping agents, is to permit haberdashers CSU 'Hostel'

to sell aboard their ships in port.

But this visit is marked by the Business is reported unanimously to be very lucra-

fret pregnant elephant ever to be shipped to the United States.

Me, Rarefell plans to go alunt- ing again in the Butelt End - sle na soon as he completes his work he relative to the Ship meat.

tive nowadays as more ocean-going ships are frequenting Hong Kong waters.

Favourite

vendors ore

hant of theerkets foreign Imported articles abuard Norwegian, mostly--and indulge In playful Dutch nul Swedish ships. This mud-singing before making any inay we because only angerits fur [eal

nel!

issue periodeal Vesela permits to sell aboard their ships, As a pale, however, verdot are taboo 01 net ships flying the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack,

The trek to the US is again in full swing

During

Incai the week the office of the American President Line, St. George's Building, was besieged practically everyday (rom morn to

Ihne closing by returnees who booked passage fiderations are for the States aboard the Presi- dent Wilson and General Gordon.

stand.

With the incentive

provided

Permits to board the ships to carry on business are very diff- cult to obtain. Numerous cun- token to ac-

have

for

count before bona fide applicants are accepted.

Interestect parties-and there great pains in A favourite among Chinese are many-lake students, especially

for the way of time and expences to going further studies in American uni-

procure one.

The vendors onerate aboard versities, the General Gordon is

ship as they would whore. due to arrive here on August 4.

As soon

as the Palice Bookings on this transport have heen very henvy, it is under-completed the routine check-up

on an arrival, a scramble the gangway ensuta.

The ship's guards evidently by the Communist advance into recognise the heavily-burdenod South China, more people aro vendors and normally let them

more than making inquiries to return to through with no

frown-whether of suspicion or is very difficult to annoyance

You can see pig-tailed women with huge cloth bundles on their bent backs gingerly ascending the quivering gangway, hard on the heels of the male vendore, Here and there several teen-nged girls with new perins struggle to

through get

first with smaller

the US.

Ladies on the High Sez...

Ask any of the todles working aboard the Norwegian motorship Belleville why they go to sea.

The answer is three-fold but unanimous-io be with their bundles.

husbands, to see the world and to earn more money.

According to Mr. J. Andreas- sen, master of the ms, Lidiot, this practice of having women aboard ships is a favourable one.

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inside

nefarious

Business is permitted only at certain times. Vendors have to quil-by dusk.-

Whi

wharves, the wharf police maintain stringent vigilance against any activity. Bundles and bags are

carefully searched

by the au- thorities concerned before ven- dors enter or leave the premises. Vendors, however, abide by the regulations faithfully and it is very rare to hear of any offences.

Bince, the Unprecedented concentration of Chinese ships

In port, the Chinese Beamen's Union Office at Hill Road, West

the Point, has been

much negotiationa Econe of and a favourite haunt of the waterfront community.

Labour disputes come and

constant regularity Bio with that keep the staff on their most of the time. toes

And today the CBU faces their toughest problem-how to house and maintain some 35 Chinese seamen involved

labour strife.

Meanwhite, every available space in the CSU Office la be- Ing used a bed space for the dissident segmen.

"Wan Tor" Trawler

(Editor's Note: This is the first of a scries of pic

with the nublic torial features to acquaint the general numerous types of small native craft operating in local waters and their varied usages,

Through the courtesy of the Marine Department, it has been possible to identify the craft individually and obtam the necessary particulars);

The

normally

This is the "Wan Tor" East Coast type of deep soo fishing trawlor, of which there are about.30p operating in the harbour today to maintain one of the Colony's important sources of food. solted dried fish. Characteristic features of this?

"Wan Tors"

fish out- craft are the blunt bow, the operate in pairs and quaint grass matting sails and side local

for days. waters Fifteen persong comprising some- the detachable rudder.

The wooden rudder when times three generations

of one Then you notice the men raised above the water, as scen single family manage the craft, heaving massive camphor-wood in the above picture, enables the boxes up the gangway, which at vessel to sail into shallow waters. The catch varies from a "few DA 4 ouncer" to 300-pounders. All are times sways and creaks dan- When lowered it serves

salted and dried for the logul gerously.

The one in the picture re-markets. presents the typical, type--mea- suring 50 feet in length with an They work in pairs by primi- and weighing tive methods of fishing-still un- dignified 18-foot beam

large about 1,000 piculs

tainted by modern selence.

Watches And Pons

mare

"Norway lacks manpower to-

Finally, day especially with the rapid

hier development of

group-oach carrying morchin! maring fleat when

bulky leather bag follows be more and

hind. Some sell watches, foun; more ships are being producer. Women coo

handle the lighter

tain pens and jewellery or omo cater for clothes, usually work better." the veteran Nor-

representing some shore tallor wegian skipper remarked.

Ing cutablishments.

Önce aboard, the vendors dls.

(Perhaps the numerous malo unemployed in town will rejoice to hear of some openings aboard perse all over the deck and e- local ships made available to our losses who seem to have intested most offices here!)

Better than anything elas.es That, we feel sure, was the general conscrtus minong the re- inforcements arriving here by the troopship Empire Windrush dur- ing the week.

And they meant, the bottles of sparkling orange squash specially provided for the parched-dry ar- rivals.

Who wouldn't think so under the sizzling heat!

(But we did hem someone; or the whart -ask-Wot,`no band

welcome the troops time?")

to

That reminds me...

this

If others had thought that the arrival of TNT“ Empire. Wind- rush was Just Fanother of those "Trgonslijpa", thoro's 'ht-least somej one who thought otherwise

Lablish themselves at vantage points.

Business goes on amidst much hagging in different languages and vociferous sales talk...

The bog-carrying sulesman at will-usually visiting the cry

first before toking "chances" with the lower-salari- od samen. Sometimes they are warmly welcomed. But more often than not they receive a cold reception.

"Go away, I'm too busy?-and an officer will brush aside an intruder. Then you know he is [no_stranger høre,

Others will spend some time

keel,

The "Wan Tort, type of deep man fahing trawler of which

admiring some "unusual" tring 300 operate in Topal waters.

Pacific For Exis Lime Pac

Fast Regular

DIRECT

SAN FRANC1800, 1,08 ANDELI

AXO

WWW YORK-CHICAGÓ DETROPE/TORONTO

AMERIČAN & CANADIẨM CÍTIES.

· Ban Franclico & The Angeli

1

The Global Fleet

TO HONOLULU AND SAN FRANCISCO via JAPAN

"President Wilson"

"General Gordon"

Arr.

Art.

jy 31

Ball Aux. 4 Sail !

TO SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES

"President Madison"

"President Pierce"

via JAPAN

Art. ...... Art.

Aug. 10 Ball. Aug. 11 Sept. 1. Bail Supt. 2

TO NEW YORK, BALTIMORE & BOSTON · via PACIFIC COAST & PANAMA

"President Wilmore"

"President Tyler"

Arr. Aug. 10

Arr....... Sept. ROUND-THE-WORLD

Sall

Aug. 11

Ball

Sept.

VIA MANILA, SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, KARACHIL, BUIZ

PORT SAID, ALEXANDRIA, NAPLES, MARŠKILLES,

GENOA, NEW YORK and BOSTON

Art. ......

"President Buchanan" ... Aft... Aur. > Sall...... Ans. 11 "President Harding"

Aug. 21 Sail. Aug. Zi TO SOERABAJA, BATAVIA & SOENGEI-GERONG "President Grant"......... Arr. ...... Aug. 20

Sall..... Aug, 2 "President Johnson" .... Arr. ...... Sept. 24 Sall... Sept. 24

Tel 28172/5. Opposite Star Ferry.

AMERICAN PIONEER LINE!

to and from

Atlantic Coast Ports of

the United States

and Far Eastern Ports

NEW FAST CARGO SHIPS

ARRIVALS FROM ATLANTIC

"PADUCAH VICTORY" ........ "PIONEER TIDE" "PIONEER MAIL"

Aug, 13

Aug. 18

Sept. 4

SAILINGS TO MANILA

"TADUCAH VICTORY" "PIONEER TIDE" "PIONEER MAIL"

Aug. 14

Aug. 19

...............

Sept....G

SAILINGS TO

NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE PHILADELPHIA vía JAPAN & PANAMA CANAL "PIONEER SEAT

"PIONEER COVE". -“PADUCAH VICTORY"

"PIONEER TIDE"

Arrives July 28 Baits July 26

Aug. 10

PAVERS ***

Tr

S

Aug. 30 » Sept. 1

Aug. 12

Sept. 4

Sept. 6

For rates, special Information coll

UNITED STATES LINES

Queca's Bldg.

COMPANY

Tel. 31281

The xbere ilat ladienise the principáš, perta, of. Suuding,and dlacherye as presently intended, but not their rotation. For further infurma

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THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD

OF COPENHAGEN

M.S. "MONGOLIA"

LOADING ABOUT 18th AUGUST

for

ADEN, FORT SAID, GENDA, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, HAMBUNG, OSLO, GOTHENBURG AND COPENHAGEN, Tanks available for the carriage of oil in baik.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. Queen's Bldg., 2nd Boor.

Teb 34111 & 34112

KLAVENESS LINE

**** SAILINGS **

Direct to Los Angeles, in 16 days Thence San Francisco, Vancouver, Seattle & Portland M.S. BOUGAINVILLE AZ... Loading, 2õik Au

ARRIVALS FROM PACIFIC COAST

M.S. "SUNNYVILLES M.S. "FRANCISVILLEZ

21st Au www.21st Se

Sailing to Singapore, Fort Swettenham

ing: Belawan &

MS. "SUNNYVILLE!