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ROYAL

INTEROCEAN PINES

● SINGAPORE, JAYA

PORTS and

MACASSAR

"VAN HEUTSZ′′*

"TJIBADANE"

"TJITJALENGKA”

• Only

to

Bingapore,

Penang & Belawan Dall.

MANILA, EAST & SOUTH AFRICA &

"BOÍSSEVAIN"

ARRIVALS SAILINGS

18th Mar

19th Mar.

20th Mar.

26th Mar.

8th Apr.

10th Apr.

10th Apr.

1st June

SOUTH AMERICA

"STRAAT BOENDA"

24th Mar. 15th Apr.

"TEGELBERG"

13th May

21at Mar.

9th Apr.

31st May

23rd Mar, 20th Mar 17th Apr.

16th 'May

JAPAN

"DERLAGE"

"BOISSEVAIN"

"STRAAT BOENDA"

"TEGELBERO"

Agents: HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE

and MALAYA

EUROPE via MANILA

ARRIVALS SAILINGS

"HOOGKERK"

In Port

"MEERKERK"

early April

early Apr. early May

Through B/L issued

to

Mediterranean and Northern

Europeen ports.

JAPAN

"HOOGKERK"

*MEERKERK" ·

early Apr.

early May

17th Mar. early April

"KING'S. BUILDING, TELEPHONEST 2UMES TO PR017

CHİNESİ AGENTS, EL, CONNAUGIFE; HEAD, 0, - DIENA, A$1,2500$,

AMERICAN PIONEER LINE

to and from

Atlantic Coast Ports of the United States and Far Eastern Ports

NEW FAST CARGO SHIPS

ARRIVALS, FROM ATLANTIL

"PIONEER LAKE"

"PIONEER WAVE"

"PIONEER SEA"

SAILING TO MANILA

Mar. 17 .Mar. 28 Apr. 7

Mar. 18

"PIONEER LAKE" (via Fusan) .... "PIONEER WAVE”. (via Fusan, Yokohama) Mar. 29 "PIONEER SEA” (via Keelung, Yokohama) Apr.

SAILINGS TO. NEW YORK, BOSTON," BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA Ma JAPAN & PANAMA CANAL 'AMERICAN REPORTER Arr. Mar. 20. Sails Mar. 30 "PIONEER LAKE" *

Apr. 10 -Apr-24-..

"PIONEER WAVE”

via Tsingtao.

"

Apr. 8 Apr.-22

For cafes, special Information coll

UNITED STATES LINES

queens Bldg. COMPANY Teh 28106.

The above list: indicates the principal ports, af loading and dischargD is presently Intended, but mat their relation. For further informa

tinn sen, schedula at the Company's Often,

U.S. ORIENT MERCHANT LINE.

ВНІР

"NORLAGO"

ARRIVALS

FROM

GALVESTON,

do

LE "ANNITOA” - EAST COAST/US.A. Abt. KR “VASSILIS”.

DUE

14th Mar.

20th Mar.

9th Apr..

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

York Building.

Peninsular

AGENTS.

QUIS NOS

SEPARABIT

Tel. 34105

& Oriental

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

SAILS:

R.M.S. “CANTON

NOTICE TO PASSENGERS

BAGGAGE: 192

SATURDAY, the 18th MARCH at NOON for the United Kingdom vin Straits. Colombo, Bombay, Aden and Port Sald, ALL passengers. Baggage" must be sent to the Hongkong & Howlpon, Wharf Co.'s Go down at No. 2.Gate, Canton, Road Entrance by, NOON on FRIDAY, the 17th MARCH. SPECIAL NOTE. With the exception of hand packages car- ried by passengers themselves all BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Co's Godown for leading on board by ship's slings only:

LÁTION:

Will take place between 9.30 am. and *JE on SATURDAY, 184:28th MARCH.

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1980,

HONG KONG WATERFRONT

In my log

Learning the hard way.

Statistics record that as many ag 100,000 men, women and chi- the dren cross the harbour by Star Ferry system every day.

mathematical pro By a simple

that more CeLs, we know that halt n.million people shuttle across in one week; nearly 3,000,- 000 in one month, and so on...

Being what we all are, differen! in Individual temperament and mood, there is no refuting the Inevitable occurrence of the "hor- rors" we are likely to encounte In cur more or less compulsory meeting at the plers and aboard. take a water-taxi by yournali Take it with a grain of salt.. ...or perhaps the more caustic will admonish "why travel at all!" And many more kindred thoughts.

remedy Everybody has some

or other,

But suppose it becomes your misfortune. to fall victim to th "horrors-only then perhaps

would one become less apathetic And that's what happened to several commuters during recent days.

The worst things one can do....

First, let's recall a personal, ex- perience one day during the week at the Island pier-caught right

in the midst of an ever-anxious crowd of commuters.

the

Contrary to expectations, recently-erected "doltan" outside the embarkation gates proved to be most detrimental to a smooth flow of traffe,

Instead of facilitating passage

by channelling out the passengers Into the gate in an orderly man- ner and on to the platform, they seemed rather to impede

pro. gross and delay embarkation.

The crowd surged two-deep In places where there was only comfortable passage for one; of three-deep where they should| proceed two by two. Wedged in between two jost- ling passengers and a barrier, there was nothing more to con- the vince us of the futility o contraption.

We would not have beer "squeezed" so disrespectfully

we had another human to con-

tead with In our predicament then, instead of uncompromising wood.

BY OUR HARBOUR REPORTER

the summer

Cheung Chay. leland and some of its characteristio features can be seen in the picture. Some 1,000 native craft housing the teland's 5,000 noating population clutter in the harbour (left). On right the renowed beach to which thousands from Hong Kong Neck in "Monika"The Marine Police Station maintaining-civil-law-and-order-le-in-the-foreground. high on the circular summit of a mound("Chine Mali”, Photo).

Cheung Chau Island

Marine terminal

where East meets West for Los Angeles

"East is East, Wost is West”—they meet on Cheung

Chau Island, 10 miles West of Hong Kong, where some 150 Europeans and more than 15,000 Chinese load a common life of mutual harmony and tranquillity.

Through the naked eye, one sees 20th century West-

ern. "know how" vieing with age-old Chinese civilisation for prominence in the picturesque landscape; but beneath that vell of in- congruity one finds the rare common existence of both the East and the West which through the passage of time has been blended into a somewhat indigenous pattern.

one

A health, and summer resort of Cheung Chau Island has

waters renown in British

this of the best swimming beaches in side of China, the dumb-bell- the Colony, which never fails to of city folks shaped island of Cheung Chau, draw thousands or in its literal translation Long during the summer months. Island is one of the Colony's The quaint-locking island

divided

into clear-cut sectijns-- largest fishing centres.

горсан missionariarmers

is

and

Hong Kong travellers, on the "APL" round-the-world liners will soon disembark at the world's largest marine terminal at Los Angeles.

tho Assigned to

APL'

car.

global. passenge4,809,000. Fler floot, the project boasts of the most madeen in port design and construction 1400-foot long concrete, wharf, on which the transit shod. and the marine terminal will be erected. The terminal will be in services In the near future.

The

total

area, in eight ⚫ acres. The project, will pro

vide one of the longest ship- ping sheds ever constructed.

the village. Late In 1848, tidal wave destroyed numeroya native craft and dwellings, on the foreshore.

A visit to the. Island will pro vide rich food for thought for the sight-seeing tourist.

The Global Fieét

TO HONOLULU & SAN FRANCISCO

"Prezident Wilson" "General Gordon"

vio JAPAN

Arr. Mar. 16 J'Arr. Mat. 17 "President. Cleveland” ......................Arr. Apr. 14'

Salle Mar. 17 ~: Salla Mar. 18 Salle Apr. 15

TO SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES vio JAPAN

Arr. Apr.

2 Sails Apr. 2 Arr. Apr. 13 Balls Apr. 13

"President Harrison"

"President McKinley"

TO NEW YORK, BALTIMORE & BOSTON

via PACIFIC COAST & PANAMA

“Maxine. Snapper's

"President Johnson”

„Arr. Mar. 19

Sails Mar. 20

Arr. Apr. 15

Salls Apr. 18

ROUND THE WORLD

VIA MANILA, SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, COCHIN, BOMBAY, KARACHI, SUEZ, FORT SAID, ALEXANDRIA, NAPLES, MARSEILLES, GENOA, NEW YORK and BOSTON Acz, Mar. 20 Salls Mar. 21 Arr. Apr. 5

"Mount Mansfield" "President 'Monroe"

Sails Apr.

TO JAVA & STRAITS

Arr. Mar. 14

Salls Mar, 15

Tel. 28172/5.

"President Johnson”- St. George's Bldg.

BEN LINE

SHIP "BENVENÜB" "BENVANNOCH" "BENLAWERS" "BENNATOW". "BENNEVIS”· "BENCRUACHAND "BENWYVIO"

“BENVENUE"

The counterpart of our

Des

"BENNATOW"

J&

Vooux Road on the Island

Street-anatrow Hink

Lung dunty and fish-smelling thorough

Here

Incongruity fare.

itself prominently. nifests Jade by side are Amo

It is a little colony within the the European residential area on Colony where fishermen, small the Western side; the Hoklo Ast Eli-ing business traders,

the... Eastern ing community on "retired" portion; the "punti" or Cantonese Who's to be blamed?

foreign individuals and itinerant landlubbers in the middle

the Northern | Buy oh It

thought-provoking merchants mingle harmoniously. the Harbour Why

British bend. fundamentally because the victim under the aegis of the that time was, a woman, burden- flag. ed with her shopping,

The scene: One evening at the The Island Pier. The occasion: passenger inadvertently dropped a small article wrapped in brows paper from, among some other larger parcels.

observer

To the more casual the apathy of her fellow travel. lers seemed to have hurt her more than the temporary loss of “hor“ property,

►

on

Everybody was as usual bent ch being the flest to ga board. This mutual, anxiety way further confused by shril blacta of "Ready, to steam." The victim was in the unfor- tunate posliton of being sand- Wiched between the "island" and a surging crowd behind. Her parcel was kicked about by number of "heavles" and dainty high heels--miraculously it was not crushed.

She stooped and shuffled just the same. A frantie be-jawolled hand Jabbed through the gauntlet of shuffling legs. She missed. A boot kicked the polled parcel inte the middle of the "delta.”-

The parting victim retrieved it without ado...but not before disrupting traffic, in her efforts.

They would be like that.

It so happens that such things like a cricket bat or a hockey Etick generally became animated when they're in a crowd, espe- clolly at the feny piers,

This was no exception on, a number of occasions, when, temp pers were tested-come resigned to such "horrors some frayed a little but mule. indignation.

Not long ago, one week-end

a hockey stick, apparent elated over its recent victors, Iy

game of Indulged in that familiar pranks.

pro

(Incidentally, the incident. voked a thought akin to "How

hockey stick should be carrie in a. crowd. However, we bo leva. It's a matter of personal ! humour: and not venture to maka

It wil began when the "hook" ant in between two woolignolad legs which caused the owner sp step back in an effort to ex tricato, the stick from, undue hịu,

·lega

In doing so, ha

baknudged othere behind, which gained him, wither- ing glores. The victim, eventual ly, frõed himself with the assist- ança

int the owner of the as

The sequal War: The borne on the stick by the Solut efforts, carried. He forward against the spinae cord, of

of another passen gor whose auch!!”, betrayed he force of the

That Tiromentary crested a trafic jam

Fortunately

on

A quarter of the total populo- tion of Cheung Chau Island lives afloat in all types of native craft, which number a little more thau Certain sections of the 1,000.

fish- community ashore live by ing, working in small "home in- dustrial" and small-time trading In marine bye-products.

How's your harbour I.Q.?

Do you know, whare thin gloture was taken?. Bure you dal Who, doesn't know it's a.

• Star Porry landing platform. But do you know whigh elde? "Don't" "bo" puzzled., fa little ;

sants, of direction, will help, -Turn round the pago to vass whether you've been. right..

quotes and to spit pudoranas)

Landmarks.

·Characteristic landmarks - aro

the

e patented drugs

BENVANNOOH";

"BENNEVIB "BENWYVI8"

and

("BENLAWERS"

food-

multi

Chinese herbs,

tlus of Western the. "Pak Tal" temple. the stuffs and exposed saited marine Marino Police Station, the some by-products; and aluminium cut- 30 modern Bungalows doiting ||lery and crudo native-made

Western mounds, housing utensils.

the

ashore has made

acena

to

શ

the

the European community, and The street was the the "Haw Par Hospital

serious damage in the 1937 con- The livelihood of the Chlacre flagration. Most of the wooden community ash

a structures were razed marked change since after the ground. Today one can see con. Liberation; the precedent was-set-structions of-more-modern deslim. by travelling traders who infli- standing conspicuously here and trated Into

characteristic Japanese-occupląd there among the Cheung Chau Island to barter for Chinese-style wooden structures, marino food,

The Chinese temple is the must Today, more and more Cheung revered spot on the Island. "Pak Chau

cluizens have turned to the Tai is almighty in the fisher. more lucrative shore businessman's realm of Gods-the diety small-time. import and export provides his worshippers. withi trade with the West River vili-earthly wealth.

Onco a year "Pak Tal" As a result of the oxodus of given a mammoth Itinerant traders, boarding estab- lishments have mushroomed, which has given another form of employment to the fishermen,

**

feast when huge donations are made by thu fishermen, who believe that their "Investment" will bring bigger tormer "interes by being in the favour

of the delty.

With easy access to and froși The residente do not lack mo- Hong Kong and Macao-one hour dern comforts. They have cleg. by ferry to Cheung Chau Island tric power which serves a limited Medical treatment can be from Hong Kong this prototype area.

of

islands around

The mission societies are doing good work in enlightening the morals of the people.

·Industrial ́activity

of international trade has in-obtained at the hospital run by creased to the "benefit of the a Chinese philanthropist, A

Benevolent Society takes care at Island's future.

Cheung Chau Island came into the welfare of the needs. British possession more than helf a century after the cassion Hong Kong to Britain in 1841. It was among tho

groups of British waters that were taken on * 98-year-

Territories Now lease with the affected In

Br order to protect lah: Interests in Hong Kong.

The planeers were believed to ba Hollo fishermen who arrived

the

marine barren." Island: from the South Coast The Hokies have their own partikular, acction of the island today:

מס

The only noteworthy Jarga- scale industrial, activity in the «Island's, modern tannery. There are several local Industries, production : qf which include

by-products, like -- shrimp. paato, and-matchboxes order. To ensure civil law and ord the Hong Kong Marine Police operates a station on the Island. Communication, la effected, over *fa ita five-decade history, the ther Patrol launches

Several disasters

•

between Cheung Chau has had ck« shuttle -now, and then · perlanoad "several disastera: in Hong Kong and Cheung: Chau 1987 fira quitad; one-third of Island,

Pacific For Exit Live, Inc.

Fast Regular Trape-Pacif

DIRKOT DISCOS LOB; ANGALIA

CITIES.

ARRIVALS

FROM

U.K. via Bingaporą,

SAILINGS

London,

DUE

2.

18th Mar

on or abt 24th, Mar.

Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg

4. Hill,

Genoa,

Avonmouth,

Hamburg & Hull,

M

31st Mar.

117th Apr

20th Apr.

30th Apr.

9th May

Leading on or abt.

20th. Mar,

21st Apr

28th Mar,

„London, · · Rotterdam,"s

Roth-Apr

12th May

And

4th Apr.

ard May

Liverpool; Glasgow, -Dublin, Havra

Antwerp.

Vin Malaya, Colombo, Aden, and Buex Canal'

* Accepta, Cargo for Port Buden.

(Accepte Cargo for Rotterdam

For Further Parteslars, Apply

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

Agents

“York Building:

Telephone:- 741857-

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.

M.S. "KVERNAAS”

LOADING ABOUT 30th MARCH

for

ADEN, FORT SAID, GENOA, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, OSLO, GOTHENBURG & COPENHAGEN Tanks available for, the carriage of oil in bulki

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. Qucep's Bldg., 2ud don

Tel, 34141 & 34112

KLAVENESS LINE

SAILINGS

Direct to Los Angeles, in 16 days Thence San Francisco, Vancou 1, Seattle & Portland 4.5. "CASTLEVILLE”.

MS, “BOUGAINVILLE”

MS

ARRIVALS FROM PACIFIC COAST.

“BOUGAIN

FOOK

Batavia

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