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ROYAL INTEROCI VN

SINGAPORE, JAYA

PORTS and

MACASSAR

"TJIBADAK"

"TJIBADANE"

"TJITJALENGKA'

"VAN HEUTSZ"

* Only

to Gingapore,

Penang & Belawan Dell.

6 MANILA, EAST & SOUTH AFRICA & SOUTH AMERICA.

"TJIPONBOK"

INES

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY,

JABY: 19, 1950,

HONG KONG WATERFRONT E

In my log

ARRIVALS SAILINGS This language dimeulty.

17th Feb.

1

in port

6th Mar.

Toth Mar.

21st Feb. sth Mar. 21st Mar.

"RUYS"

23rd Feb.

15th Feb.

"STRAAT MALAKKA”

16th Feb.

"BOISSEVAIN"

17th Mar.

3rd Apr.

JAPAN

"RUYS"

21st Feb.

"TJIPONDOK"

16th Feb.

"BOISSEVAIN"

1st Apr.

19th Mar,

Agents: HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE

EUROPE via MANILA

and MALAYA

"LANGLEESCOT"

"HEEMSKERK"

ARRIVALS SAILINGS

13th Feb. late Feb.

"HOOGKERK"

beg, Mar.

Through B/L Icaued

to

Mediterranean and Northern

European ports.

JAPAN

"LANGLEESCOT"

"HEEMSKERK"

"HOOGKERK"

13th Feb.

Late Feb.

mid Mar.

SAKING'S BUILDING, TELEPHONES:"28015 TO 28017-

CIUNT $1, ́AGENTSTUE, LONNAUGHT ROAD 6 TLÍN 3119, 25131 -

AMERICAN PIONEER LINE

}

to and from

Atlantic Coast Ports of the United States and Far Eastern Ports

NEW FAST CARGO SHIPS

ARRIVALS FROM ATLANTIC

"AMERICAN REPORTER”

"PIONEER LAKE"

"PIONEER WAVE"

Feb. 27 .Mar. 17. .Mar. 26.

SAILING TO MANILA

"AMERICAN 'REPORTER" (Fusan. Yokohama) "PIONEER LAKE" (Keelung, Fuson) "PIONEER WAVE" (via Yokohama)

Feb. 28 .... Mar. 18 .....Mar. 27 1

SAILINGS TO NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHÍA VÍA JAPAN & PANAMA CANAL

.....Arr. Feb.. 20 Sails Feb. 22 "AMERICAN REPORTER” Mar. 25 • Mar. 27

» Apr. 0

"PIONEER DALE"

"PIONEER LAKE"

1

"For rates," special Information coll

Apr. 8

UNITED STATES LINES queen's Bldg. COMPANY Tel. 28190

The above 1st indicates the principal ports of leading and discharge

as presently intended, but not their rotation. Far furiker informas flon se achedslo at the Company's Office.

U. S. ORIENT MERCHANT LINE.

SHIP

IA "CLEO"

"DINGWALL"

... "ANDREAS"

.. "AGATHI"

LR. "NORLAGO"

ARRIVALS

FROM

DUE

N.Y. & GULF PORTS,Discharging Buoy A-B,

NEW YORK.

GALVESTON.

EAST COAST/U.S.A.

GALVESTON.

Abt. 18th Feb.

+

23rd Feb,

1st Mar.

-14th Mar.

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

York Building

AGENTS.

Tal. 34105

DE LA RAMA LINES

S.S. DONA AURORA”

It is not new...and until, some- thing more feasible than Esperan- to comes forward, we have but to resort to the inevitable-the algu longunge.

This predlenment is often the Jelimotir of. Those little dramps that provide the tighter side of Our Beat.

Some times I is humourous; pametimes it in thought-provok- becomes ing and rometimes i most embarrassing.

We recall here Just a few incld- la to indicate what can generati- ly happen when you find yourself tongue-tied-us-and the remedy where possible,

...

•

Ons missed his taxi-the other

his fare.

Our attention was drawn to a Residursing European and a col stable outside the Marine Office Tate last week. They were a be- wildered pair caught in one of those awkward moments.

Notebook in hand and pen res- dy, the blue-serged córpuráľ smli- cd knowingly (2) ut times...then frowned, shook his head...and aventually gave it up.

They enlisted our ald. A fellow serlbe helped untangle the pro- viem.

In a nutshell, this was what hard happened.

The European Instructed his taxi driver to wait while he went Inside the Marine Offre on arrival from Blake Plor. He came out inter but there Was no taxi in sight.

f want this policeman to record that I have not deliberately tried to evade payment. I have waited for some time but the ririver hog not shown up," we learted...and subsequently the policeman. 100. We left the grinning constalle whose "gb" savoured more of re- lief than anything else.

(Evidently, the Shanghailander has still a long way to make the grade in his English lessons.)

Not deaf or dumb but only a Zulu. It was natural that we had to resort to the inevitable when we met Iris Ahmed, Somaliland-born Zulu seaman of Gobutt, Northi Africa, aboard the ss. Kvernass at Kowloon Wharf some time ago,

Now Alimed was no ordinary

landlubber- scaman. He was

Jongshoreman--who overslept in the ship's hold and woke up te And himself in the Mediterranean bound for Hong Kong.

He was introduced to S Rudolph. By the way, he was, in- cidentally, the first Zulu scaman to visit the Colony.

Our tete-a-igte only reached famillar ground when three word: came into play "Yes, savvy" and "no, savvy."

By various means-gesticula- 1 tions, smiles, grlindees and much head-shaking, we gathered:

Do you like Hong Kong?-Twa thumbs up and n display of pearl- white teeth (He must be.)

Do you like seafaring?-A wide grin and vigorous nods (No doubt about it.)

Do you like Chinese food? — clutched at hls Lean Bingers stomach and he screwed up his chony-black baby-face with mock pain.

That was all we know..Ahmed. alio made several other signa. . We are still trying to interpret them:).

4

•

BY OUR HARBOUR REPORTER

If this first attempt-storing general commercial cargo aboard the LBT Chung 106 ( picture) proves successful, Hong Kong's prevailing" soute cargo storage problem" will be eased

'China - Mere---- Application- by: the owners, to a certain extent." sideration. The LST

ow birthing alongside tha 100, now"

Wharf, West Point, is the firet of 11 laid-up CMBN ships to be offered to Hong Kong's businessmen for use a floating There "dra "at 'present, "according godowne, in an effort to help alleviate the storage shortage.

De. The Marine to conservative catimates, some 100 fald-up ships in Victoria "Harbour. partment considers vessels which do not clear port within a month da' being in that category. Taking an average of 2,000 tons for the capacity of each vestal these tald-up ships can ac commodate approximately 200,000 tons of cargo-representing five per cent of what is believed to be "surplus" cargo still awaiting storage in the Colony"":{"China"_Mall” Phota).

HK

PROFICIENCY OF SKILLED LABOURERS

How's your

harbour I.Q.?

These

**** |Skilled labour in the Hong Kong shipbuilding industry bas attained an unprecedentedly high degree of proficiency, according to the consensus of local shipbuilding circlos. PAREDGREENative

informants mentioned, as direct causes the installation of new precision machinery; the adoption of modern techni- que in shipbuilding; the urgent need for fit- tings not available from abrood; the change from steam to diesel due to present-day cir- cumstances ond the mechanisation of sailing Craft.

Do you know where this picture was taken? Burs you do!

Don't be puzzied...re. member where people often meet in joy and depart in corrow. Now you've got it. Turn the page around to ses whather' you're 'right."

DEN

TO HONOLULU & SAN FRANCISCO

yio JAPAN

"President Cleveland"

Arr. Feb. 25

Sails Feb. 28

President Wilson"

Air. Mar. 16

Bails Mar. 17.

„"General Gordon"

...Arr, Mgr. 17

Buils Mar. 18

TO SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES

vla JAPAN

"President McKinley.......Arr. Feb. 14

President - Taft”

Sails Feb. 15

„Arr. Feb. 20 - Sails Feb. 27

TO NEW YORK, BALTIMORE & BOSTON.

via PACIFIC COAST & PANAMA

"President Grant” „Ą............. Art. :Feb. 14 Salls Feb. 15 "Marlite Snapper"

Sails Mar. 20

Arr: Mar, 19 ROUND THE WORLD

VIA MANILA, SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, KARACHI, SUEZ, PORT SAID, ALEXANDRIA, “NAPLES, MARSEILLES,

"GENOA"-NEW-YORK-pad-BOSTON..

"President Polk" "Mount "Davis"

TO JAVA & STRAITS

.Arr. Feb. 20 Arr. Mar. 5

Sails Feb. 22

Salls Mar. 7

"President Johnson”.

Arr. Mat. 10-

Salla Mar, 11

Tel: 28172/5

BEN LINE

SHIP "BENALDER" "BENMHOR" "BENAVON” "BENALBANACH" "BENVENUE” "DENVANNOCH"

"DENLAWERS"

*"DENLEDI"

Ho har- been

As a result of this increased it,”

stated: an engineer efficiency, local shipyards have pointed to the numerous have cut down expenses, produced bour craft which

equipped with diesel engines. better work in quality and Above all, it is cleaner," dutability and saved time in added. carrying out orders.

quote a. prominent yara under official of Training schemes now

one of the Colony': way in Heveral dockyards under targest shipbuilding organisa-

Xpert hands will assure tha

tions, We are replacing former Culony of maintaining this pro-facilities with modern equipment ficiency in the future. "Appren- to place our yari. among the tides are being tutored in the best in the world." intricacy of modérnTM mechanism

and the application of up-to-date technique.

Hong Kong businessmen have

already voiced approval or post-·|

Welding

The most marked development

war repair work-which at pre-is the popular usage of the weld- sent the main activity in the ing method in local docks,

Welding workshops have mush- Colony's shipyards. They have

the Colony's ship- remarked on the punctuality of roomed In

the demand local shipbuilders, on their better building centres as

New

runchines precision Anish than before the war and rows.

have been installed. These have Krade of work,

the

Higher

A survey during the week reconsiderably augmented the pro- vealed that this post-war aspect. Aciency of Hong Kong's artisans, of the shipbuilding industry la who are being carefully tutored in tho operation of necessary `ap- of the few wow ironically the result

Ritza. We know him now"by "his" plain bourgeoß nickname "Bud dy".

ob-

"BENNATOW*

"DENALDER" "BENNATOW"

*"BENMHOR" ‚Í'DENVÁNNOCH

1"DENAVON"

ARRIVALS

FROM

U.K. via Bingapore,

SAILINGS

DUS

IN PORT 15th Feb.

on or abt. 25th Feb.

London, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg a Hyll

Genoa, Avonmouth, London, Rotterdam, Hamburg & Hull.

28th Feb,

12th Mar

goth Mar.

27th Mar..

7th Apr.

12th Apr.

Loading on or abt.

18th Feb. ~~10th Apr.

15th Feb,

24th Mare

28th Feb,

and

16th (Mar.

30th Mar.

Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, "Havro' 'Antwerp.

“BENVENUE”

“DENLAWERS”.

Accepts Cargo for Keelung and Japan, 3.Accepts Cargo for Japan.”

Via Malays, Colombo, Aden, and Suez Canal.

† Accepts Cargo for Port Sudan.

Accepts Cargo for Hull.

For Further Particolars, Apply To-

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

Telephone: 34185,

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.

York Bulldløg. method has proved to be copation of Hong Japanese occu-This method.

pation of one unprece-effective in ship repair and coh-

Hong Kong. dented influx of diesel engines.struction work. The procesa was greatly improved "uurfng the

Its advantages are. since the Liberation. This was a popular change from steam which war

vlous,"

the engineer declared. was necessitated by the shortage Today practically all repair of coal in the Colony, un omelal

work and Building involve 'weld- loutce declared."

The high cost of coal, the de-ing instead of the pre-war sys-

tem of rivetting. As usual we boarded the Ameri-mant for more cargo space bidem of

"We Hava Lima In can freighter after she had herthe quick delivery have been instru the evacuation days from Northexi,alcupsida: Kowlook:Wharf and mental factors, he reverted

forever the upkeep is one Chino. It still is today.

third-les-if-west.

1.

This is not so uncommon.

The sight of seeing one Chinese conversing with another through an interpreter was hot uncommon along the Praya during those tee

Our Arst meeting-aboard the Marine Snapper quite some time ago was a very brief one.

It was very embarrassing.

scrambled up to the skipper's

This is indeed thought-provok-domain Ing. It serves to rub it in that the fccessing of having a common dias leet in China is af prime impor- tance in the unification of the people:

We were attracted one day by a commotion outside Custodian Wharf after the arrival of the ss. Shengking from Shanghal and noticed a passenger and a coolie engaged in a verbal brawl.

It would have been to us just one of those occasions when fray- ed tempers would gradually friz zle to beneath-the-breath'sting ers" but for the interference of ̧aj European missionary.

Then a few chosen words-first spoken in Mandarin, repeated in Cantonese and later in English helped to smooth matters out.

We learned that the blatant mud-slinging was over payment of service one alleging he was be- ing exploited, the other was ada- mant in refusing to accept less than "normal" fees.

Woof a deep-throated growl echoed in the demolit pas sageway-above the companion“ - way. Straddled outside the Cap-

tain's cabin with Gaming

eyes,

added

The advantages – Diesel engines are not new

het

at

cortain phases of repair work. by feat-two-third The Knished jor

lasts longer and better animinds

The

he, asserted!...

Mega Method of wit wit

The high cost of transportation inund of the material itself and the uncertainty of delivery within' u

he was one mass of

of pitch-black the Colony There were quite specified period have together monstrosity.

a number of vessels so equipped led to local production of certain before the war. But it was shipchandlery by Hong Kon

We beat a hasty retreat without

as much as a "how-do-you-do"s Infancy stage here then, being allergie to canines.

It occurred to us that there's at least one language to beat them all!

And ever heard of this one?

A buxom American, lady, tourist disembarked at a Singapore Wharf for her first visit to the Orient and beckoned to. a rickshaw with the latention of sightseeing in a novel way.

Flashing a spacious, grin, the Chinese puller asked:

manufacturers....

Today there are 10 times. We have at present a wide

more diesel mechanics in Horia range of accessories produced lo- Kong than the "pla-war" "numu, cally, They Jnclude fittings. ber the source disclosed. Ho veftilators and lights," a schlor added that the figure 'ades

hor

official of a well-known ship-. 'Include the numárok, ¿pprin: chadalery store ́disclosed.

tices now undergoing training He asserted that some, of the quality In this field. With the change, products are better. In focal artisana have Improved than the imported ones, “G

**Gene considerably in technique in the rally, tocal manufacturers

Pro. "operation" and handling of

of the vide keen competition to their. apparatus.

foreign counterparts," he added." inborgting strid asserted that opted in. on the advantages

been ad- Now techsiique has of using

manufacture of cer- "Missy, piggy mana?"

"Instend Without ado, the brate wespan the installation

brass bx- producing consequently provides This lashed at the frail coolie wir tre storage space aboard. Fuel Ings we now Four glare never realising that is readily available in the Colony Pescate being used by parasol with a fery "how dare

or nickel-plated attings. When an aristocrat, said "woof" what the poor man said was.and costs Jess.

"It is easier to operate a diesel many docks not only in Hong The name itself is Indeedam-where dre you going, m'am?" in

engine: vessel and * to maintain

Rong but also in a neighbouring pressive Dane Crest Baron Von' Malay.

countries, though the latter se very few

the informant ated.

Certain shipping.organisations operating big decks of harbour utility craft are said to be using tocally-manufactured accessories exclusively

Pacific Far East Line In

DIRKT.

Fast Regular Trans-Pacific Servisp

OVERLAND NEW YORK-UINJAGG-DETROIT-TORONTO,

SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES · MONTREAIS AND ALL AMERICAN & CANADIAN CITUS.

dup 14th Mar. due 25th Mar,

CHEAT MJULIA

СКРИПАСИ"

ZEBA BERPENTH

· “CHINA- IBAR”.

M.S. "DONA NATI”

Arriving via Manila from

U.S. ATLANTIC & PACIFIC COAST PORTS

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

Agenta

„Ban Francisco, & Las Ängsha

Ban Francisco & Lou Anysios

́vis Inkwo, Kelly W. San Francisca & Lis

p cast "chrome.

The fishing industry-one which is linked up closely with

ம். shipbuilding has contributed ) the development of proficiency 1

the hattar.

Many fishing craft are being mechanised today. It has been

#realised, that with mechanical Mipropulsion, one can get a bellar catch, operate, more oficiently Fahd with a greater degree of ka- faty when out at scatter

Beveral fishing- vessels, under construction have:

Hanation of diast

itperative feature: The

valfon: has created:

of shipbu

M.S. "MORELIA"

LOADING ABOUT 816 MARCH,

for

ADEN, FORT SAID, GENOA,

ANTWERP, BOTTERDAM, HAMBURG, OSLO. GOTHENBURG & COPENHAGEN THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. Queen's Bldg. Zod floor.

Tel. 34111- & 24111

KLAVENESS LINE

SAILINGS

Direct to Los Angeles," in 16 days Thence Son Francisco,. Vancouver, Seattle & Portland, M.S. FRANCISVILLE” M.S. CASTLEVILLE?

Derricked news 28th Feb.

30th Mar

ARRIVALS FROM PACIFIC COAST

#CASTLEVILLE”.

“BOUGAINVIL

Salling

"CASTLEVILLE“?

TO LOS ANGE

Chir

HOO FOCK PIN

J'King'as

w

tenham,

atayış

23rd Feb

Vanks

LINE

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