1949-08-22 — Page 10

ROYAL

INTEROCEAN

LINES

JAVA PORTS, and MACASSAR

SAILINGS

ARRIVALS

"TJITJALENGKA"

"TJIBABAK"

"THSADANE"

*THTJALENGKA“

**TASMAN"

"TJIPONDOK

"STRAAT MALAKKA"

BOISSEVAIN”

STRAAT SOENDA”

.31st Aug.

16th Sept. .28th Sept.

2nd Sept. 16th Sept.

MANILA

SAILINGS

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1940.

HONG

KONG WATERFRONT

In My Log

BY OUR HARBOUR REPORTER

ARRIVALS

29th Aug. 15th Sept.

A trip to Maono...

During the week we took time off to visit our Portuguese neigh- hour.

41

In less than 30 minutes after horting the Kwong Sal bound

WL experienced Jar Macho nusly oue-80 cents for a bottl of Watson's sarsiparila.

(Wonder

whether the Price Controller knows whout, JL^).

7th Sept. 15th Sept.

Sil Ort.

30th Oct.

17th Sept.

20th Nov.

16th Oct.

no passenger arenimadalinu.

SINGAPORE, PENANG and BELAWAN DÉLI

"VAN RIEMSDIJ

"TASMAN"

"YAN HECTSZ"

EAST & SOUTH AFRICA & SOUTH

**TJIPONDOR":

"STRAAT MALAKKA"

"BOISSEVAIN”

"STRAAT SOENDA"

SAILINGS

ARRIVALS

40 Sept

21st Sept.

26th Aug. 31st Aug. 12th Sept.

SAILINGS

AMERICA ARRIVALS

150: Sept.

5th Oct.

25th Aug.

30th Oct.

17th Sept.

Buth Nov.

16th Oct,

Calling at Mombasa & L. Marques Dicert. Transhipment cargo accepted on through B./1. to

Dar-Es-Sainam and Zouzibar.

no passenger recommmerfàtion,

*TJIPONDOK"

"STRAAT MALAKKA'

"ROISSEVAIN"

"STRAAT SOENDA"

JAPAN

SAILINGS

26th Aug 18th Sept 18th Oct. no passenger accommodation.

ARRIVALS

12th Sept.

8th Sept. 29th Sept. 27th Det,

Agents: HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE

EUROPE vio MANILA and MALAYA

"RIJNKERK"

* MARIEREUK"

"MOLENKERK"

ARRIVALS

An age-old Custon)?

The next shock to the stranger was that so-called China Coast Traditional "courtesy" of serving 1031,

A notier in buld crimson Chi nese letters tells you a pot of tea, wet meleni Breda, olives and Towel as for St.

But all we got was at Insipid pot of lea,

(Fook of what you can walls a packet of tea on the high KENND)

Flood Relief Fund

Hong Kong meanwhile, wi

tlik as the but a hazy

kamer.

slows

Look for the black and white masts of a exlling junk and carrying you will find the "Pak Ho trading junk, which sand for the Government, which uses 40 of them. The other ply between. Castle Peak, and Victoria ferrying bricks.

Editor's Note-This is the fourth of a series fof, pictorial fcanoes to accuaint the general public with the numerous types of small wutive craft operating in local waters and their raried usages.

Department. it has neen possible to inenfe the crest individually and oblóm the necessary particulars).

Through the courtesy of the Marine

"Pak Hoi" Trading Junk

A

'Yeung Kong' Trawler

FJ4

Sir-With referencs. In your "Waterfront News" while re-· cently visiting Cheung Chuu, observed some Yeung Kɔng typ. trailers, some of which carried rather antiquated cannons. Ix this so? Or are they just orna- mental?

Cannons,

G. W. Tompkins mesity

antiquated and of various types, are s carried on shing and trading Junks with the approval of the local authorities.

These cannons are used only at very close quarters. parlleu- larly at night when they can br aimed and fired in the direction of any suspicious craft that comes too close.

Before the war weapone car. rled on alling craft included old-style armaments such

blunder. muiketi, ginaris,

But burses. pikes, and spearS. during the last war and since then these are being replaced by modern weaponk, like rifles. shot guns and revolvers. Some of the cannons.still seen

Some

ive Chi-

nuta,

PRESIDENT LINES

The Global Fleet

TO HONOLULU & SAN FRANCISCO

President Cleveland" General Gordon" "President Wilson"

Otherwise commonly known as the Government aboard fishiru junks have sech sand junks-identified by the black and white service in the old-time foreign bands on the masts-50 of this type of soil-ling vessels.

nese made. ing craft operate in local wäters.

Besides the cannons, there are The and thus. consist of nastal shallow water salt-trict..from which the craft de-powder, fuses shots usually unit with a pointed bow rives her name. an allost pointed stern,

The Pak Rol junk has a int Fattom

l 2 comparulively which is slightly broader and higher, the Pak Hm trader jaballow drought, The rudder 5

Seen in the harbour:imilarly constructed for shallow is often

De ander

water navigation, is droppe l either being torvedi sail when there is a favourable perpendicularly down from alings

the at the tip of the stern (as in wind.

picture) with the lowest portion In the Forty of this type earry sander the Blade not deeper Jer the Guvernaient. The ongert enter than the keel of the vessel of the black-white inden! Micalicn

The

Shortly, vociferous character direks accompanied Brded the

Brees by youth rarrying a

"South China wooden box with Find Relief Fund" inscribed on ing and one inle. Henties, apparently amusta his munience for ripples of laughter bidfered the trumuters However, 14 minutes later, two passengers contributed $1 each, That caught on, and soon there were at least $38, including our $5 in the wooden hoN.

SAILINGS

Early Sept. End Sept.

In Yurt Early Sept. Early Oct.

་

Vendors on the High Seas

make hay while

End Det.

Transhipment cargo accepted on through B/1. 10 India, Mediterranean and Northern European ports.

JAPAN

SAILINGS

Early Sept.

"RIJNKERK"

"MARJEKERK“

KING'S BUILDING:

ARRIVALS

End Aog. End Sept.

TELS: 28015 to 28017

CHINESE AGENTS; 82. CONNAUGHT RD. C TELS 31196-25133

DE LA RAMA LINES

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

m.v. "BENARES"

6.5. DONA AUKORA"

Mid Sept. Mid Oct.

THE DE LA RAMA STEAMSHIP CO., INC.

(Incorporated in the Philippines)

MARINA HONAR Tel. 23076-22675

CHINESE SHIPPING OFFICA Tels, 23738-20153

BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE

M.V. "TUDOR"

LOADING ABOUT 30th AUGUST

for

MANILA & CEBU

Par Freight And Further Particulars Apply

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Bldg.

Tel. 28921/6

Australia-West Pacific Line

EXPRESS. SERVICE

S.S. “TORONTO”

LOADING 30th AUGUST

for

FREMANTLE (direct)

thence

Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane.

PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE TO FREMANTLE ·

Transhipment-cargo accepted for Filji & Now Zealand.

་ -

General Agents:

DODWELL & CO. LTD.

Telephones: 28021/0

HONGKONG / MACAO

DAILY BAILING.

FROM HONGKONG FROM "MACAÐ HOI-ON-WHARF: No.-18-WHARE

T.S.S. “CHEUNG HING”

8,00A.M.

Farther Particulars. Please Apply? TA HING Co. (ILK.) Ltd. Et, fieorge's Bldg. Tel:"11234, 3125) Bubject to alterations Without Notice,

$1

The lat bottom keeps the craft

musts is to help th This category of fellow-travel-authorities to pick ut intruders from heeling over when she is al

where other some beaches, 31 sand craft are prohibited,

Jers evidently the sun shines.

Their sales talk was as good as out welfare worker. But the prices who of emirse on the high

cares-and SCHN vendors!

mean the

AND THIS IS MACAO...

The okient Foreign colony in the Orient, which ᎿᎥ Ꭿ given away in gratitude by China to The Portuguese, who cleaned up the area of pirates in the middle where of the 18th century

siner 400 years ago thousands have flocked for shelter and re- fuge... the only spot in the Far East not occupied by the Japa- the cnvirons nese... where breathe of antiquity,

And beneath the tranquil old- world atmosphere treacherous

undercurrents are slowly and gradually galning momentum 40-| day to drug the colony into the Communist fold...

Help Wanted

orge Thompson; 19-yese. old Belglan experienced dieart engineer, speaking and writing English and Chinaso (Cantonese Alld Mandarin) desires employment where, preferably on a ship. (Replies. may be sent to the "China Mail.")

any.

balts and other serup iron con- famed in a rattan bag.

beach taking sand left "stranded" when the tide ebbs. The personnel normully con- To enable the craft to with- heists of 10 persons, who are hired stand "rough" treatment during by the contractors. net work. special hard wood is used for her hull. There are two The remaining Pak Hol which Normally 13 "Yeung Kong"

ads--"Iiums Chai Mug" and are not engaged on Government | enrries two

сайполз or, three *Kits

found wurt, ply between Victoria and with 20 lbs of powder, 100 s. Muk"--which abundantly in the Palt Hei Dis-Castle Penk ferrying bricks.

of mixed shots and .20 lbs. of fuses. A large number of fish- Ing Junks have such armaments

aboard.

FIRST STEEL SHIP READY

(Arrangements may be made to hoard the "Yeung Kong" trawler in the Harbour for u closer inspection.)

gers in three classes. Cargo will be carried in three spacious holds.

interior The

dekorations,

prcially ordered, from the United States and England, are now being installed. For the cabin

One month from today Hong Kong's first steal river ship fitted with latest navigation aids, including radar and aid-conditioning, will be launched at Cheung Sha Wan to mark ah-bulwark. holoplast the first us- other shipbuilding feat in local waters.

The

age of its kind in Hong Kong-- will be used.

The Tai Loy has an overall

700-ton motorship Tai negligible. No major accident has length of 198 feet with a 38-foot Where streamlined 20th cen-Loy will be launched with her heen reported.

tury

arelsitecture

contrasts shar

ply with old forts bristling with culverins and antiquated cobbled -stone streets and ricksha coo- lies seem to be more honest than shopkeepers who flirt erratically with prices when dealing with strangers...

triple con H. P. diesel engines incidentally, the first attempt

of its kind in the Colony.

Eighty per cent of the work on the HK$5,000,000 project has been complete. The remaining

Taoist 'Rites

beam. She has a specially shal- jow draught to enspie her to navigate. In Mocao waters safely, nt low tide.

Her propellers are specially de- It was at dawn on September 16 that the Tal Loy first took signed and made in America.

No details of the September shope, jier keel was laid at the wing On Shing Shipyard with inunching are matiable yel..

It is understood, however, that solemn Taoist rites, disproving Kipling's "East is East, and West it will be a European ceremony. is West, And never the twali The master of the Juxurious pas-

is expected to be done within the meets the 20th century senger vessel has not been bli

Where you can make a for lune overnight or be a pauper month.

st any of the legalised gambi

Ing establishments...and bag. The three Beto of 600 H. Pligion went hand in hand towards ne is British.

science auct age-old Oriental re- cially named. But it is believed

making the project a KUCCESS, gars are few and local issues diesel engines were installed last seldom seen in streets...

May. The total length of the The hour and day was special. Buses have curtains and girl shaftings for them is 150 feet-ly chosen by fortune-tellers after an outstanding feature of the two-week research of the conductors...where the pollee- vessel. Maximum speed expected Boroscope. The time--8.30 san. man is more a friend than a stern from them is 15 knots, but

1948--was disciplinarian of the low and who cruising speed will be about 13. on September 118,

chats with friends and strangers at duty posts good-naturedly.

and the first light house (Guin Hill) of the China Coast was

built (1804)...were smuggling

Movie Shows

Modern amenities for travelling

been made special

a

Lelected because It is believed that it was the lucky moment to begin work as 'it will bring cali salling to the Bhip and good fortune to the owner.

Ten priests in their ceremonial

Notice To Consigaces Consignes Fer States Steamship Company

5.S. MONTANA”.

are he by notified that their cargo being discharged into

& thengkong

Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co.'s godown into or out of Chinose territories between Macao, Canton and Hang

where it will be at, Copaignees seems to be child's play (it takes | Kong hitve

the gat-risk and subject to the Whorf's only 20 minutes to cross into the Teatures of the Tai Loy. They scarlet regalla headed

include air-conditioned enbins, hering in the ceremonies. 1 mainland by sampan...

terms and conditions of stor- lounges and dining rooms, and

age and where "delivery lay Sacrifices in the form of roast Where In the Protestant movie entertainment facilities.

pigs, buns and fruits were offered be obtained, cemetery Hes the grave of the grand plonter.missionary...fo. The Tai Loy is also the first in the Sea Goddess Tin Hau

Damaged packages are to be left In the bert Morrison, who was instru- locally-built vessel to be equipped who is the patron saint of the

godowns for Chinese seafaring community. mental in translating the Old with radar,

Consignées Joss sticks were planted on examination by New Testaments and, in and

Company's Surveyors, Chinese. first

Work on, the Tal Loy has been both sides of the peel blocks and and complling the

since progressing rapidly English dictionary...

the firecrackers burst over the keelMesars. Carmichael Clarke keel laying ceremonies. More to drive away evil-spirits,

at 10a.m. 26th August. And where today more than than 300 labourers-stilled anit

The Tu Loy will be on the

To comply with Geperal 300,000 people await stolcally tie | unskilled-are cugaged daily on

Macan-Hong Kong service. She Bonded Warehouse Regula results of complete Communist 10-hour schedule. control of China.

Loss of working time has been can accommodate 1,000 pasten- tions, Consignees must have a Revenue Officer in attendance when damaged dutlable goods ́are examined.

Pacific For East Line

Fast Regular

Ban Franci

rans-Pacific Service

QYERLAND

NEW YORKCHICAGO-DETADIT:VOROMEO, ONTEBAL, AND ALL AMERICAN & CANADIAN CITIES.

Sept. 10

No, claims will be admitted after the goods have left this Steamer

HOROWD, and fall goods, remaining undelivered after the 7th August, 149, will be subject to rent.

All claims

steamar, FauANÉ:

the Under

.the, 3rd

they will

the

via JAPAN

Arr. Aug. 28

Sait Aug. 20

Arr. Bépl. 15

Sall Sept. 10

Arr. Sept. 18 Sall Sept. 10

TO SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via JAPAN

"President Pierce"

"President McKlufey'

.Arr. Sept. 6 Suil Sept. 7

Arr, Sept. 20

Sall Sept. 21

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

"President Tyler" "President Grant".

Arr. Sept, G Sall Sept. 7 Arr. Oct. + Sail Oct. 3 ROUND THE WORLD

VIA MANILA. SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, KARACHI, SUEZ, 'PORT SAID, ALEXANDRIA, NAPLES, MARSEILLES, GENOA, NEW YORK and BOSTON

"President Harding" "President Van Buren"

TO BATAVIA

"President Grant" "President Johnsän“

Opposite Star Ferry.

Arr. Aug. 21 Sail Aug. 22 Arr. Sept. 4 Sail Sept. 6

& SOENGEI-GERONG

...Arr. Aug. 20

Arr. Sept. 24

Sall Aug. 27 Sail Sept. 25

Tel. 28172/5.

BEN LINE

SHIP

ARRIVALS

FROM

¿NALBANACH U.K. via Singapore

Japan "BENREOCH" "BENMACDHUI" U.K. vin Singapore "BENCRUACHAN UK. (Direct)

"BENCLEUCH" **BENNEVIS"

*DEKAVON"

**BENWEVIS"

"BENLEDI" "BENVENUE”

SHIP C'DENREOCI{" ""BENMACDHUI"

BENCRUACHAN"

S BENALBANACH"

"BENNEVIS' "BENLEDI"

"BENVENUE"

BENCLEDCIP”

vin Malaya,

Заран

U.K. vin Singapore

do

SAILINGS

TO

London, Antwerp, Rotterdam, flain- burg & Hull.

Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Havre, Antwerp, Rotter "dam & Hamburg.

DUE

Fit port

23rd August

28th August

29th August

31st August

Early Sept.

10th Oct:

2014 Oct

2nd halt Det. End October

LOADING 23rd August *** 30th August 31st August

Mid Sept. 20th Sept. Late Oct. Early Nov.

31st, August 15th October Mid, Nov.

Colombo, Aden, Port Sudan & other way ports,

Accepts cargo for Japan.

Omits Hamburg, calls, nt Genon & Leith.

Calls at Dar-es-Salaam.

Omits Hamburg, calls at Leith.

For Further Particulars, Apply To--

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

Yark Building.

Telophone: 34165.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.

M.S. "MALAYA"

'LOADING ABOUT 2nd SEPTEMBER for

ADEN, PORT SAJD, ALEXANDRIA, GENOA, TANGIER, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, 'HAMBURG, OSLO,

GOTHENBURG & COPENHAGEN

Tanks available for the carriage of oil in bulk.

FOR PACIFIC COAST

8. "NIKOBAR" BS "SERAMPORE"

loading 21st Sept

20th Oct

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

Tel. 34111 & 84112

KLAVENESS LINE

SAILINGS

Direct to Los Angeles, In 16 days Thènce San Francisco, Vancouver, Seattle & Portlanti MIS. BOUGAINVILLE”

Loading 29th Aug

ARRIVALS FROM PACIFIC COAST

INNYVILDE"

22nd

Singang

enang, Bela

Bătav

NKT

CHINA