1950-07-03 — Page 10

R. I. L.

ROYAL

INTEROCEAN

SINGAPORE, JAVA

PORTS and

MACASSAR

-TEGELBERG" *

"TJITJALENGKA"

"TABMAN"

ARRIVALS

LINES

SAILINGS

9th July

14th July

29th July

direct to Singapore, not to Java ports and Macaster

9th July

25th July

MANILA, EAST &

SOUTH AFRICA &

SOUTH AMERICA

ARRIVALS

"STRAAT BOENDA“ •.

"TEGELBEAC" • •

"TJIKAMPEK"

JAPAN

SAILINGS

6th July

9th July

In Porl

0th July

5th Aug.

ARRIVALS

4th July

8th July

SAILINGS

"RUYS"

nol calling Manila and South America

not calling Manila

"STRAAT SOENDA"

"TEGELBERG"

"RUYS"

3rd Aug.

16th July

Agents: HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE

EUROPE via MANILA

and MALAYA

"LANGLEEBCOT"

"MARIEKERK"

"MELISKERK"

Through Ba/L lued to

Mediterraneen and Northern

European ports.

JAPAN

"LANGLEESCOT"

"MARIEKERK"

"MELISKERK"

ARRIVALS

early July early Aug.

SAILINGS

9th July early Aug. early Sept.

Bth July early Aug. carly Sept.

early July early Aug.

#KING'S BUILDINGSTELEPHONESZ22801FETO SKONTZE

UNISIZAGENTSTERLECONNAUGHT RONDEGELISOWEPREZ

ISTHMIAN LINE

(Umian Steamship Company New York)

DIRECT MONTHLY SAILINGS TO NEW YORK

VIA LOS ANGELES AND PANAMA *AKTION" "GREENHAVEN TRAILS"

.24th July .2nd Sept.

Tanks available for Bulk Oil.

DJAKARTA (BATAVIA)

"STEEL SEAFARER"

"STEEL ROVER"

SAILINGS TO SAIGON, BANGKOK &

*STEEL ADMIRAL”

ARRIVALS FROM U.S.A.

"STEEL SEAFARER"

"STEEL ROVER”.

"STEEL ADMIRAL"

2nd July 23rd July 20th Aug.

Salls N. Y. Salls S.P. Due ПLK. Salled Sailed In Port Sailed 5th July 26th July 11th July 29th July 10th Aug.

GILMAN & CO., LTD.

Tel: 31140

Chinese Freight Agents:- HIN FAT & CO., LTD. Tels: 28823, 25553 & 23483.

SWEDISH EAST ASIA CO.LTD.

ARRIVALS FROM EUROPE

my. "SUMATRA”

m.v. "DUKAT””

m.v. "MINDORO"

9th July ...29th July 28th July

SAILINGS TO EUROPE

v. "SUMATRA”

27th July

m.v. "MINDORO"

............................Mid Aug.

FOR

ADEN, PORT SAID, GENOA, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, BOTTERDAM, BREMEN, HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN, OSLO

& GOTHENBURO Deeplanks available for Bulkell

GILMAN & CO.,

Tel. 3114#

LTD.

THE CHENA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 3,

HONG KONG WATERFRONT

BY OUR HARBOUR REPORTER

Sight-seeing along the Praya

NO. 2: Familiar scenes

Bacause it is inevitable that a tourist uses the Star

Forry during his sojourn hare, he seldom missos a scene like this (in above picture)- something that will be reminiscent of his Hong Kong visit.

Many a visitor has made casual appreciative com- ments about the Stor Ferry system and its. But modern streamlined fleet of launches. many too have frowned upon the evening. scene when hundredsmen, women and chil- dren-struggle desperately to get across the harbour.

Statistics reveal that 38 mony ns 50,000 people have crossed the harbour by the It is Star Ferry in one day. estimated that 500 passengers are normally ferried across in one trip in a well-filled launcil.

The Star Ferry operates four invdern Jaunches during the normal period on 10-minute and 15-minute schertules. During rush hours. five-minute service is maintained with the addition of another launch to cope with the flow-morning from Kowloon and evening from the Island.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

CONSIGNEES PER

STATES STEAMSHIP

COMPANY

The most crilical period is bo- 4.45 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. tween when hundreds of office workers throng the Island Pier ooger to

rush home.

The Island Pier more often than not resembles a besloged fort as seen in the above pleture. Traffic jams near this section of the Praya are not uncommon.

Police have sometimes been called to help supervise the crowd and vehicle traffic.

The situation is often aggya- vated when a Hong Kong-bound ferry launch discharges its pas- sengers, to increase the number of people crowding the Pier,

Another confusion" spot is the Custodian Whart, though the eight of struggling hunians Is seen only when a vessel berths alongide to disembark her pas-i sengers.

There the age-old maxim of "Might is Strength" manllests Itself when hundreds of men, women and children push and; squeeze through narrow .gang- ways to gat ashore,

Relatives and irlands anxious

8.3. "IDAHO" are hereby notified that their cargo is being discharged into the Hong Kong & Kowloon to welcome the arrivals throng

the

gatos frequently causing Wharf & Godown Co's godown traffic jams outside the Wharf. where it will be at consignees The usual furious squabbling. risk and subject to the Wharf's between passengers and coolics terms and conditions of storage, over payment of service often in- and where delivery may be creases the din. obtained.

In

the Prayn.

How's your

harbour 1.Q.?

Do you know where "this picture was takin Bure you da Don't be puzzled...re. member where most of our materials-food, dresses, fix tures and machinerymare firal landed before they reach us. Turn the pegs, around and se whether you're right.

(Javum voojmon jo sumop - po oyi so sind)

Fresh water

from sea for ships

Hetween 250 and 300 tons of fresh water are generally con sumed each day for boiler feed, and domestic purposes by al modern steamer on a voyaga through the Tropics.

Storage space for some 3,000 to 4,000 tons of fresh water has to be found. This will be, at the ex- pense of valuable cargo space.

To meet the exigency, a system

of distillation has been invented

WHO'S WHO:

Hong Kong’s youngest pilot

A l, alert Chinese youth stood calmly by the helm of i throug freighter to guide her Lytmum Pass aud thence lo he busy in midstream.

+

His bearing was unerring and

His masterly.

confidence

O' sofel; bringing the vessel in through the treacherous. pass wa: that of a veteran,

It was nɔt · surprising. Th young man was none other than Chan Yueit, the Colony's youngest the who joined harbour pilot,

after beln Jest May ranks licensed by the Marine. Depart

ment.

In his 27-month apprenticeshl

veterar with the well-known Pilot Cheung, Chan Yuen gulder in and out of harbour 822 shilps Since becoming a licensed pilot ho has already brought in and out of port 35 ships-since May 10.

Now Chun Yuen is working in conjunction with his "tutor" Pilot Cheung, who has been running a one-man pilot service.

ol

Chan Yuen is no stranger in the Colony. His father is one of the oldest Goverrunent servants. Chen Yuch is an "old boy" Ellis Kaduorie School, where the war interrupted his studies, and subsequently led him to Colony's premiere profession- harbour plicting.

the

At the tender age of seven Chan Yuen bagan his "Western" education at the St. Louis Indus- trial School. He won a scholar- ship which put him into the Ellis Xadcorie School, where he studied from Class 8 to Class 4 until the war, when school closed.

His taste for the sea dated back to his early years when he wa keenly hiterested in rowing swimming and sailing. His in terest increased when he be- friended Skipper K. Y. Young, master of the Wah Chung when he was in school.

Chan Yuen began to take oven- Ing "lessons"--when most of hi time was taken up listening Je the wonderful stories of the se und the technique of salting.

Mr. Chaq YusŋHong Kong's

youngest harbour pilot.

Rows of boats Damaged packages are to be A little further down the Praya left in the godowns for e-Westward, the visitor will be amination by Consignees and struck by the antiquated rows of the Company's surveyors, Chinese small craft, bobbing side Messrs. Carmichael & Clarke by side and hugging one another mutual sympathy, alongside ul 10 am. on July 4, 1960.

The general petivity of these To comply with the General Junks, sampons and motor boats

For a year before the outbreak Bonded Warehouse Regula servci as the mirror of water to make the stewher · self-sup•} of the Pacific War, he studied tiors, consignees must have a front prosperity. With good buri porting for all fresh water ser- navigation under the uscistance of Revenue Ofleer in attendance ness It

the first large passenger Skipper Young and other "ailor" isuel to see kundreds of vices, when damaged dutlable gooda crates, bales and drums being ship with turbine machinery: 10 | friends.

loaded and unloaded; with re- be entirely self-suficient in freth aro examined.

zularity day in day out. Coollen water is the "P, and O." Hima No claims will be admitted work overtime to rush delivery laya. after the goods have left the Aux ale of "good business" aya Sea water is given single dis steamer's godowns, and all as sweating coolles tell on-fired tilallon in evaporiore,

"good

money" pervades the Praya

newly goods remaining undelivered, but happy.

designed. The steam necessary after July 5, 1060 will be. Then there will come the sinck to provide the heat for this pur- In 1943, he was a deckhand of subject to rent.

days, when the empty craft, will pose is inken from the turbine, the my. Tal Tack, plying the roost idly and the "ellek-clack" after it had dons useful work in Kwangtung Coast. All claima against the of mahjong blocks shatters the driving the ship. steamer must be presented to lethargy no the crews while away!W the Undersigned on or before the hours. July 12, 1950, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be affected.

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Agenta

Hong Kong, Juno 20, 1000.

Pacific Far East Live Inc.

VIREUT

Fast Regular Trans-Pacific Service.

BAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELED

Vannet

"EURPRISE”. ↑

"WILLIAM LUC

MELTING 'BOUD STRAD

--DYERLAND 2. NEW YORKCÌUCADO-DESTROMÝTORONTO

·MOTRMAL AND ALL AMIERIGAN (M, DANADIAN, CITES

Arrive

Ders Franciaço

4. Rodin, Béročla

July

Tho

When the Japanese came Chan Yuen went to Macao, where practical use. He joined a motor he began to put his knowledge to launch service as a SEAIZIAD. -

Complementing his normal singlo-distillation water duties with night studies, Chan te, the Canadian flag is fast bo maintain the ablo's general water post aboard the ss. Po On, where On the brighter side of Prays), thus obtained is sufficient to Yuen eventually obtained a higher coming a famillar sight. Imprint- sorvice, and to provião a surplus

ed conspicuously on the alum which goes through a further dise, became a boatswain in 1944 nium steamers of the "Men" ulation process. .

Then as a quartermaster, he by fcat, the emblem can be seen' commutes on the Story The distling equipment is served on the us. Thibadak, my, launches day and night. The designed to produce 390 tons of Trio and Stedat Soenda after Die

Liberation. Men Hong Kong-Macao vessels fresh water per day, stocks being hear the Island Pier, it between aro, umod' up, trips to, Macnoi,

Coming more into the limelight: Many ships operating on shor-choosing

berth alongside Douglas Wharf, fuglenished by the plant as they By 1045, Chan Yuen had, alə

ready made his mind up about

profession. He

in the recently whitewashed ter runs, however;; do not find scrupulously studied local con Marine Office, now outstanding this type of equipment neccesary,ditions during his service aboard. among the drab-looking buildings) Besides, Increasing expenses, womb the various steamers which, were fronting the Fraya, Standing con space has to be allotted to the frequent visitors here, bpicuously in white from the Arst instalintion. Freighters plying floor upwards, the Marine Omen between ports diy close range find can be more edally identidek now It, more or less convenient to, ro

by the waterfront community allgat cach calli

HARBOUR PILOT SERVICE

By PILOT CHEUNG PROMPT-EFFICIENT DAY NIGHT SERVICE

ENQUIRIES WE

S

In February 1948, ho began bla

apprenticeship under Pilot Cheung Today, there are eight harbour pilots and mix opprentices, Des fore, the war, there were 21 Icensed pilots.

That the word "pilot" ja mish

loading to thosh - culside the

Waterfront corumunity was pro ved by an incidant, when, Chan Bruen" went for his medical tx4,

Bitination.

I was at first mistaken fór ait:

*Under Komis

vies of sight, testa,

The Global tech ́)

TO HONOLULU & SAN FRANCISCO JA

"President Cleveland”

"General Garden” "President Wilaun”.

via JAPAN.

Air. July 14 ** Arr. Aug. 1 Arr. Aug. 3.

Sails July 18 Ballo Agg. Sails Aug.

TO SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES

via JAPAN "President Taft

Arr. July 2 "President Madison"..................Arr. July 13

Salls July 3 Salls July 11

TO NEW YORK, BALTIMORE & BOSTON

via PACIFIC COAST & PANAMA - {

"Willamette Victory".......Atr. July 15 "Dartmouth Victory" ****** Arr. July 29

ROUND THE WORLD

Sails July 18 Sails July 30

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

"Marino Snapper" "President Johnson"

Arr. July 20 .Arr. July 21

Salls July 11 Balls July

TO JAVA & STRAITS

Arr. July 25

"Mount Davis" "President Fillmore"

St. George's Bldg.

.Arr. Aug. 18

Sails July 20 Sails Aug. 19

Tel. 28172/K

BEN LINE

SHIP "BENALDER" "BENAVON" +DENVRACKIE”

"BENVENUE" "BENDORAN” "BANLAWERS" "BENATTOW" †"BENALBANACH” *DENCRUACHAN”

"BENAVON" }"BENVRACKIE” "BENLAWERS" "DENCRUACHAN”

"BENDORAN"

*BENALDER" “BENVENUE" "BENATTOW"

gar es

FAB LAST

·ARRIVALS

FROM

„U.K. via Bingapore

SAILINGS

DUS

la Port 16th July

on or abt.

27th July

29th July

Gin Aug

14th Aug

27th Aug.

29th Aug..

12th Sept.

Loading on or abi.

Both Jaly

London Antwarp, Rotterdam, Hamburg

Stak July

17th Aug

Hull.

16th Gopt..

Ganga, L Havre & Liverpool,

13th Aug.

Liverpool,

Glasgow,

4th July

Dublin, Autwerp", Rotterdam,

ath July

312 Aug.

Accepts Cargo for Japen. ̧ · Accapta Cargo for Havre, > Omita Hull.

Via Malaya, Colombo, Port Budan, Aden, and Buez Canal,

For Further Particulars, Apply To-

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

Agonts

-York-Building.

-Telephones 3416%

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.

M.S. “MALAYA”

LOADING ABOUT. 10th JULY

for

ADEN, PORT SAID, GENOA, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM,

HAMBURG, OSLO, GOTHENBURG,

COPENHAGEN & GDYNIA.

Tanks available for the carriage of oil. in bulk

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. Quéen's Bldg, Zad, floor,

Peninsular

SAILS:

SEPA

*Tol. 24111 &"M113

& Oriental

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

R.M.S. “CARTHAGE NOTICE TO PASSENGERS

BAGGAGE

HAL NOTI

FRIDAY, the 7TH JULY, at NOON for the United Kingdom, via Straits, Colombo, Bom- bay, Aden and Port Said

ALL passthere baggage must be sent to the Hongkong, de Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godowas at NO, 2 GATE, CANTON, ROAD, ENTRANCE by. NOON on THURSDAY, the 20TH JULY

With the exception of Itand packages carried? by passengern-Thetnielvis ALE” BAGGAGE anitat past through the Whart Cow Clodown for Apadang vi koerd by ship's slings only.

and

place, between 9.90

FRIDAY, the 7th Tub

KENZIE & CO.

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