1950-02-20 — Page 11

BUTTERFIELD &SWIRE

CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.",

"SHENGKING"

"POYANG"

"FENGTIEN"

"ANHUI"

"HUPEII"

"KWEIYANG“

"SHENGKING” "SZECHUEN"

"FUKIEN"

"HUNAN"

SHENGKING"

"KWEIYANG"

"SZECHUEN"

"TSINAN"

"FUKIEN"

"WUSUKH*

SAILINGS TO

..Keelung

Inchon & Tientsin S'pore, Djakarta &

Indonesia Singapore, Penang &

Belawan .Tientsin

Salgon & Bangkok Keelunk .Bangkok

Yokohama, Nagoya, Osuka & Kobe..

• Sails from ARRIVALS FROM

Tientsin

Keelung

Keelung & Kaohsiung Kobe & Keelung .. Korea & Moji ..... Indonesia & Straits RIVER-SERVICE Hongkong/Macao Dept. Hongkong

2 p.m. dally except Wed. & Sun,

3 p.m. 18th Feb."

5. p.m. 22nd Feb.*

5 p.m. 22nd Feb.

5 p.m. 24th Feb. .5 p.m. 25th Feb.

5 p.m. 25th Feb. 5 p.m. 25th Feb."

5 p.m. 27th Feb.

5 p.m. 5th Mar, Custodian Wharf.

21st Feb. p.m. 23rd Feb. 24th Feb. 25th Feb. 20/27th Feb. 2nd Mar.

Macao/Hengkeng Arr. Hongkong 7 a.m. Tues., Wed., Fri. & Bat.

5 p.m. Sunday

BLUE FUNNEL LINE

Scheduled Sallings to Europe vin Aden & Port Sald "AGAPENOR"

.Genoa, Marseilles,

Liverpool

&

Glasgow

22nd Feb.

"PELEUS"

North Africa

&

Liverpool

7th Mar.

"AUTOMEDON"

Genoa, Marseilles,

Liverpool, & Ghisgow

25th Mar,

ARRIVALS FROM

vin Straits

Manila-

&

"MACHAON"

U.K. vin Straits

3rd Mar. 12th Mar.

"PATROCLUS"

U.K. via Straits

14th Mar.

"CYCLOPS"

U.K. via Straits &

Manila

15th Mar.

"AUTOMEDON" ...U.K. & Rotterdam

NEW YORK SERVICE

"AGAMEMNON" Arr. from--USA.

via Manila

End of March

Carriers option to proceed via other Ports to load & discharge cargo.

AUSTRALIAN ORIENTAL LINE LTD./CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD. JOINT SERVICE

"TAIYUAN"

"TAIYUAN”

"TAIYUAN**

**"TAIYUAN"

SAILINGS TO

..Kure

Sydney & Melbourne

ARRIVALS FROM Australia & Manila .Japan...

24th- Feb.

18th Mar.

Noon 20th Feb. >

15th Mar.

All the above subject to alteration without, netice. For Passage and Freight particulars please, apply to

1. CONNAUGHT ROAD. CENTRAL Tel. 30331/8 Private Exchange.

50, Connaught Ad.. West, 25875. 32144, 24878.. Chater Rd., Cable and Wireless Bldg. 27160.

BRANCH OFFICES:

HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE

M.S. "HEEMSKERK"

LOADING 25th FEBRUARY

for

MANILA, SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, ADEN, SUEZ, PORT SAID, ALEXANDRIA, GENOA, MARŞKILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM, HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN, GOTHENBURG and OSLO

Agents:

ROYAL INTEROCEAN LINES

King's Building, Connaught Road. Tels. 28015, 28018. 28017.

SWEDISH EAST ASIA CO.LTD.

BOHEME"

LOADING 27th FEBRUARY SAILING 1st MARCH

ADEN, PORT. SAID, GENOA, MARSEILLES, TANGIERS, CAR LANCA, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, BREMEN, HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN, "OSLO, & GOTHENBURG Passenger accommodation 'available":

GILMAN & CO. LTD.

11190.

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY: -20, 1950.

HONG KONG WATERFRONT

In my log

Lest we forget "kung hey fat

choy"

It's Chinese New Year Season and they're all qut again--bla noloc, litle noise; strident, booms, muffled pults; all and sundry.

You hear and see them every- where.

Some people delight in the din: some denounce the Great Khan for propagating it.

when

We have our moments 'twas "elther or" during a week- end stroll along the Praya.

Big or little; strident or muf. plike-a fled; they all begin spectacular three-secand anima- tion.

Many cower before its potency, its but many too are thrilled by i resplendence.

Its purposes arc varied. Through the passage of time, It has developed from an instru- ment of amusement to a death- dealing weapon.

But tradition has preserved | original usage this side of the world-to scare the devils and to Bymbolise good luck.

That's when a Son of the Good Earth celebrates...and the fire- cracker just sputters

'and "bangs"

The firecracker.

•

It looks harmless as 1 1a this roll of red paper, alled with less than an ounce of sulphur with a protruding fuse.

We ran through a gauntlet of numerous bursting ones during our stroll along the Praya at the all. Deafened by the height of ear-splitting din and showered by myriads of

tattered red paper

(Good luck in Chinese eyes),, we plodded on with hardly any grim thoughts...after all it's the sea-

son-

But we shudder to think of the consequences should they burst on the windscreen and put the driver out of control; on an un- sheltered head when the unfor tunate is in between oncoming traffic and on the lap of a passen- ger in a rickshaw."

What, here too?

Quoi lel puss!? At least one French seaman admitted he wag under thought Hong Kong

Champollion the ss. fire when berthod. alongside Kowloon Wharf over the week-end.

BY OUR HARBOUR REPORTER

blog

Fire brought to a tragio and 23 years of service along the Bouth China Coast of the, Bri- tish steamer Sal' On-seen In' the picture in the preliminary stage of a surgical operation now under way to reconvert the charrad hutk Into a HK$2,000,000 Syxurious floating estabilahmant

FIRE-GUTTED HULK NOW UNDERGOING SURGICAL OPERATION

In the sheltered bay off Ngauchiwan, some 100 skilled artisans are today engaged in a remarkable surgical operation on a fire-gutted hulk, which Hong Kong will remember'as the British river steamer Sai On.

How's your harbour I.Q.?

**** | By May this year, the Hong Kong-Macao passen- ger service fleet will have another addition a sleek craft equipped with modern amen- ities and up-to-date navigational aids cater- ing both to travelling traders and tourists. Now berthed alongside the topment that would add credence Cheoy Lee Shipyard, Ngauchi- to the speculation, until the mid- wan, which is undertaking this ale of December when the hulk HK$2,000,000 reconversion „pro- was towed to the Cheoy Lea ject, the bulk is undergoing the Shipyard to undergo her current second phase of the operation, "operation," which began late in December last year.

До уан

know whera this ploture was taken? Sure you dol Don't be puzzled... 10- member the dome and fort. Now you've got it. Turn the page round and see whether you're right,

Coming from Salgon-scene of audacious hit-and-run terrorist') attacks one could not, of course, help being victim to the "nerves." We don't blame the visitor for ali, his apprehension. After many of us sometimes mistook 2015 bursting firecrackers for gun-

shots.

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Nearly 10 weeks of painstaking trimming and patching up have shaped the hulk Into what would be, nccording to the blue prints, a luxurious floating establishment,

Such "extravaganzag"" spacious dance floor with cock- tail bar, honeymoon suites, a broadcast system throughout the vessel and radio-telephony top the "features" list.

Special attention

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Reconversion

Within the first two months, the main deck was reconverted Into

a spacious steerage deck; for 1.000 pasangers and storage for some 1,000 tons of cargo. The Upper deak gradually taking

shape into four honey- moon vultes, dance floor flank. ed by seating accommodation to be modelled after suph de luxe upholsteries fitted on the B. President Wilson, pride of the "APL" trans-Pacific liners,

■ cocktail bar and first-class cabine.

Fire-resistanco paint is now douching the woodwork and plat→ Inge. More exits will be provided for every deck to cope with' ex- Igencies in time of fire.

The reconstruction work it- self will give special attention to modern sanitary facilities to servo 1,500 passengers on the four-hour trip to Macao.

Red The vessel will fly the Ensign with a British akipper at Most of the framework requird the helm,

new materials. The, only visible #ign of the tragedy · la à plate The Sal On hulk was taken to the boller casing which remains the Cheoy Lee Shipyard just at its original position. The bulge, before last Christmas for the re-caused by intense heat during the conversion, after most of her February fire, was flattened and (zoojmoy superstructure had been denuded the superfluous part cut off. Poeyx?}8)

of the charred remnants which

Furnishings for the interior will bore evidence of the tragic con- be specially ordered from abroad. sssssa | flagration on February 4, 1947 Glass bulwark will be an attrae- tive feature of the ballroom. This We stopped ashore..."a- sadder when 132 lives were lost.

was enables passengers to look out the hulk WAS It was while

mid-1949 being pruned in

thak into the sea irrespective of wea- rumours were circulated among ther A the Colony's shipping community

røystem serving : that, the Sai On was to be re- vantage points aboard will relay couverted into what was then oficial instructions or entertain- The bobbing household is plus described as a floating hotel. |ment during the trip. This is an tered with scarlet paper slips

Innovation which a few river The last few months of lust.vessels have_made_it_a_popular bearing every conceivable super- latives of Virtue and Good For-year, did not indicate any deve- | feature.

Tuys

and wiser man.”

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•

•

The "Tanka" diehards?

Undoubtedly, that chance re- mark made by a passerby along When "Tanka" family colo the Causeway Bay Praya seems to, echa what many will general- ly think at first sight-the Gen- eralissimo is still a favourite.

of

For conspicuously displayed among the elaborate array multi-coloured buntings and ban- ners blazoned with scarlet char- acters, the Kuomintang emblem flutters above every native craft at the "Tanka" centres in the Colony.

They may be tattered or brand new; large or small-but each ap. parently indicates the unanimity of "Tanka" political sympathy.

To get a deeper insight into this show of staunch loyalty, we paid "Now Year" visits to several floating households.

Wo

what quote here

our "Tanka" acquaintances. have to

at all

all. ΤΟ

brates Now Yaar ...

tune...

There seems to be a dearth of fowls afloat. Many craft have huge crates aboard which were Alled with plump clucking hens only recently...

Many a "Tanka" family step ashorn to rub shoulder with the This itinerary en- landlubbers.

new

tails extra expens-but |

sults and

other

Shanghai shipyard makes good in Hong Kong

which are never grudged..........

There's very litle work to be done, often none at all. The wo- of their men folks spend most time aboard splitting "kwa chi" (lemon seeds) and gossipping. Little is known of the Cheoy Lee Shipyard—a

Gambling is rife-afloat and ashore...

it's not just playing favourite. Many of us cannot afford ге newal of the flag...better t5 Meal time is something special hoist a tattered flag than nothing to the "Fanka" children. Rarely

would

one miss his New Year "To buy a

new Bag is not dinners or luncheons. Ma has very difcult. But how can I fly always something "new" for the the Five Star alone amidst all family...no more dried shrimps the KMT? Anyway, it makes no for at least a few days...

and difference to me as long I'm in

replicas of junks Paper Hong Kong...

sampans aro made on Very colour "If everybody files the Com- elaborate design and munist emblem, I will do like- schema. These are floated after wise. Until then, this one (point- normal rites to serve... the ing to a weather-solled KMT spiritual dignitaries of "Tanka" flag) will suffice."

life.

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Shanghai shipbuilding organisation which has, made good in Hong Kong-now undertaking 80 per cent of the-maintenance and repain of the Government fleet of harbour utility craft.

From the Ngauchiwan shipyard during recent after- Liberation years several innovations in harbour craft construction have made their debut in the Colony,

The "first of its kind" parade There are nine catamaran -life- of vessels includes the catamaran saving craft which will be distri life-saving craft, the "luxurious" buted to the local beaches during fiat-topped refuse lighter, the 45- the forthcoming summer season. foot Balling cruiser Orlon and They were built at the Cheoy. now under construction the Win-Lee Bhipyard, and wa slow-design foursum - yacht.

The design was the result of collaborative work by the Marino The Cheoy Lee Shipyard was Department Yaumati Blipway established in Shanghai some 60 Superintendent Engineer and the years ago. The Japancen damag-private shipyard personnel

ed its facilities in 1937 which led

Estimated" to cost about' HK$-

to the re-organation of the Arm 800 for each catamarang the In Hong Kong on the following year.

materials to

Cheoy Loc Shipyard · has ready, Only construction of light har-right's period...one wh |bour vessela (7 was carried out. This type of life-saving craft is After the Liberation, the ship boiloved to be the first of its kind yard turned out the Innovations, sech in the Far East. some of which wore designed in The pride of the shipyard is conjunction with the Maring. Der the 45-foot sailing cruiser Orión, partment, to set a precedence in-

each special type of work which has won many local races Today the shipyard busy and yachting events. Built last with the HIC$2,000,000,-reconver-year at Neauchiwan, the Oriori *** exclurivaly bullf-out of sion of the fire damaged Sal On

locally-made materials. The hulk and the building of the auxillary engine is the only "for Winslow-dealgn craft, which la due to be completed by the mid-Five luxurious refuse light-

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PASSENGER/FREIGHT BERVICE

OUTWARDS.

AL "CANTON"

LEAVES LONDON Balled

A "CARTHAGS" .th March

8th April

DUE HONGKONG

11th March

10th April

Bth May

Vis Bouthampton, Port Said, Aden, Bomber. Galombo, Penang &

HOMEWARDS

La "CANTON"

14. "CARTHAUT"

"CONFU"

** "CANTON"

"CARTHAGE"

-Port Bald & London,

Bingapore.

* LEAVES HONGKONG

25th March

14th Apeti

Fill Magr

gih June.

עם בד ‘ .

DUE LONDON

Žvik koril

18th Mar

12th Jane

10th July

sih Att

Aseptine Cargo for Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Domber. Adam,

OUTWARDS

ma. "BOCOTRAN

sa. "UUILLONG"

· m4 "ROCOTRA“ HOMEWARDS

* "BUYDER" MAUCOTEA"

FREIGHT, BERVICE

DUE HONGKONG

18th March.

1st April.

FROM

London & Continent.

FOR

LEAVES HONG KONG

19th March

Kobe & Yokohama

LOADS HONGKONG FOR

4th March

12th Apri

London Continent,

Acepting Cargo for Singapore. Port Gratienham, Panana, Colande bo. Aden, Port said, Genoa, Marodila. London, Hamburg, And. werp & Botterdam. With liberty to oil at Bombay if Inducement

TANKS AVAILABLE FOR CARRIAGE OF OIL IN BULL SPACE FOR REFRIGERATED CARGO, LIMITED PASSEN. DER ACCOMMODATION.

BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.

dus 10th Feb.

*. "BIRDHANA”

* "TAIREA"

all th Feb. dom 19th Mar,

La “HIRALA”

from Calenita via Kao- goon & Etsila. Гог Украд.

from Caleuita via Ran moon Stralta. valls 14th Mar. "for-Japan, dos 14th Mar.

mal's 19th Mar.

From Caletta ·vís Ran roon Bira!te. for Calcutta Biralt,

• These shipa hare Refrigerated Cargo somos,

P. & O./B.I. JOINT SERVICE

Ball 23rd Feb.

for "Japan.'

"MOORCOT" ..... due 20th Feb, from Bombay.

'MA, "TOWERGRANGE” doe `Xirl' Feb. '

=-4* "EVEOS"

dos 10th Mar.

from Persian Gulf, gia • Bamber & Birafta,”. from Persian Quilt vin Bombay Stralia. -

* Accepta cargo on through Bills of Lading for Yerrian Gulf Parts.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN S.S. CO., LTD.

1. "NELLORE"

sail 2013 Mar. *ails mid Apr.

for Japan, Zur Australls.

* Asoepia aires for Now. Bakland' & Paclß ·é Leland ports on through

billet Indias.

change or amendment

All vessels: bare liberty to sail at any ports on ve of the route, and the rootam and sailings are subject to within without totion.

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Telephone Nos. 27721-4.

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(Isthmian Steamship: Company, New York)

DIRECT MONTHLY SAILINGS TO NEW YORK

VIA LOS ANGELES AND PANAMA

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• Tanks available for. Bulk QIL ARRIVALS FROM. U.S.A.

2nd Mar. .13th Mar

3rd Apr.

19th Feb.

4th Mar.

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ARRIVALS FROM EUROPE

m.y. "NAGARA”

Balla for Kobo & Yokohama -10th Mar m.v. “HEMLAND” myTONGHAI”

7th Mar

Zist Mar.

24th Apri

SAILINGS TO EUROPE

"BOHEME"

27th Feb.

End Mar,

my, “NAGARA'

ADEN PORT BAID, GEN HA MACASABLANCA, ANTWRI KOTTERDAM, KMEN, →HAMBUBG, COPENHAGEN OSLOBA GOTHENBURG.

* Passanger

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