1951-11-22 — Page 8

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

BAILINGS TO

keelung

"BINKIANGI"

Bangkok

"PEN"

Tient In

"SHENGKING"

"SHANDI"

"FUNING"

HANYANG "KWEIYANG" "SHENGKING"

SOOCHOW"

"POYANG "SZECHDEN"

SILANSE

KWEIYANG'

SOOCHOW" -SHENGKING"

"TOOCHOW**

SAL BUEN"

Bangkok

Djakarta & Sourabaya Tientsin

Singapore K Penang

the

Yokohama, Nagoya,

Sity aptor & Manglen

10 am. 24th Nov.

10 um 24th Nov.

Noon 24th Nov.

5 p., 28th Nov.

3 p.m. 29th Nov 10a.m. 30th Nov.

10a.m. 1st Dec.

Noon ist Dec."

Kobe Penang

5 p.m.

1st Dec

01h ber 2 p.m. 10 a.m. 10th Dec.

Sails from Custodian Wharf

ARRIVALS FROM

Suapo e

Tweeter

Sibu

Bangkok

Djuka. & Sibu Kobe

25th Nov

25/28th Nov 26/27th Nov 28th Nov.

7 m. 29th Nov.

2nd Dev 5/6th Dec

A.O. LINE LTD./C.N. CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE

HANGTE"

"ANKING'

"TAIYUAN”

"TAIPING"

CHANGSHA”

"ANKING" "CHANGTE"

"TAIPING"

**TAIYCAN"

"CHANGSHA"

Syd

SAILINGS TO

Japans

Sydney & Melbourne Japan

Sydar A Meitoune

29th Nov. 30th Nov.

8th Dec 8th Dec.

16th Dec,

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ARRIVALS FROM

Au raba & Nauru Kobe

26th Nov

28th Nov

Australia & Manila

4th Dec.

Yokohama

6th Dec.

Yokoju.ma

13th Dec

of 50 cents is charged.

BLUE FUNNEL LINE

Scheduled Sailings to Europe via Aden & Port Bald

Genoa, London

Scheduled Sallings from Buróps

ASTYANAX"

Hulland

VIA Manta

22nd Nov

"CLYTONEUS”

Casablancp & Liverpool

24th Nuv.

"PATROCLUS"

Marseille, Liverpool &

Glasgow

0th Dec.

"AENEAN"

Liverpool & Glasgow

via Manila

7th Dec.

Sas Liverpool

Ballo Rotterdam

Sailed

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do

Vu

du

S. "ASCANIUS"

4. AENEAS"

G

SAGAPENOR"

PERSEUS

S. "AUTOMEDON"

MYRMIDON"

S. ATREUS"

G. "PYRRHUS"

28th Nov

S. "BELLEROPHON"

4th Dec.

12th Dec.

17th Dev.

18th Dee,

Arrive. Llost Font 26th Nov.

6th Dec.

lith Dec.

15th Dec

25th Dec.

5th Jan.

11th Jan.

17th Jan.

23rd Jun.

G. Loading Glasgo w before Liverpool.

N. Loading Awansea before Liverpool. Carriers' option to pro ceud via other ports 10 load & disc harge cargo,

DE LA RAMA LINES

ARRIVING via MANILA FROM

U.S. ATLANTIC & PACIFIC COAST PORTS

"BATAAN"*

"DONA ALICIA"

ران

If not prepaid a booking fee

FOR SALE

WEIGHTS AND MEASUREMENTS

Ігол Exported Cargo

Hong- kang and South Chine, complied by the Sword Measurers. $15 from the "S. M. Post."

CHIVALRY ANTIENT SCRIPT AD Ditractive stationery af distinction. In baxes of forty y sheets and forty envelopes OF eighty single elects and furty envelopes, $6 per box On sale at 8. C. M. Post."

"DEVON VALLEY" Blotting Paper While in sheets 171⁄2" x 22" "cut to any uze, 25 cents per sheet $20 per 100. Avaliable at South China Morning Post.

WILL FORMS. Power of Attorney Forms, Телапсу Agreement Forms on sale at S. C. M. Post.

COLUMBIA COPPERPLATE FEN- CES. HB and B $32 per gross,

sale per dozen, 0,30 each on

9. C. M. Post."

102 Annual Return

THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE

Forms are un

sale 81 "'S. C. M. Post."

NOTICE

CHINA LIGHT & POWER COMPANY LIMITED

Notice To Shareholders

Notice is hereby given that the Directors of China Light & Power Co., Ltd. intend to recommend al the Annun General Meeting

final dividend of 60 cents per

ย

share, free of tax, on fully paid shares in respect of the year ended 30th Septembar,

1951

Dividends will be paid on

4,000 Women In

Queue For Cheap Carpets

London, Nov. 21.

Four thousand women, in minks and out of Daimlers, in head-scarves and out of buses, queued in Mossley, Lancs, to buy carpets at 1s. 4d. a lb.

Men were there, too, outside an old mill off the main street. And there were vans, carts, traps,

a pro rata basis in respect of prams, and barrows to take the carpets away.

partly paid or bonus shares.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

P. W. A. WOOD, Secretary & Chief Accountant

Hongkong, 20th Nov., 1951.

DON'T

WASTE

WATER

one

Crocodile of The

would-be He had already sold 800 for

£2,000. Of the buyers stretched for four streets

1,000 left, he and was controlled by police. sald 500 were "derelicta."

Six women It began at midnight, was 3,000-

Den and four

carpets. srong and 60 yards long by helped him show the am; and at 9 a.m. when the And he would say: "Here's one doors opened, it was a quarter with six holes, but it might do for cutting up and patching of of a mile long.

"I wouldn't buy it, but Peter Twenty-seven-year-old Sheldon, from a Bolton cotton-you might have a use for it. was' firm, was selling 1,800 You, madam? All right, take it

weighing 36 carpets,

tons, away. Leave your blue cle1 aleratel from a ship which and pay at the weigh office down- caught fire in the Thames.

The

80 AN HOUR system was to admit 20 buyers for

at 10 minutes

He sold like this at the rate time. Each was handed a blue of 80 carpets an hour. Some- to times he warned "This one is numbered ticket, which had

The rotten. It rps at a touch. pile has gone."

મ

allowed

be given up when a carpet was bought. Nobody was more than one carpet.

"DERELICTS"

stars."

From the sales room purchases were lowered to the weigh were

office, where a girl registered

and cost

Mr Sheldon rarely had a good each sale The heaviest carpet £8 word to say about his carpets, weighed 100Þ.. He reckoned they cost £2,500 13s. 4d., of which £1 13s. 4d. after paying for drying and, was purchase tax.

Mr Sheldon broadcast to the transport.

not many queue: "There carpets left. I advise everybody in the last 100 yards not to walt any longer."

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS

OWING TO ADVANCE RESERVATIONS, NO FURTHER ADVERTISING SPACE IS AVAILABLE IN THE "SUNDAY POST-HERALD" FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER. A LIMITED AMOUNT OF SPACE WHOLE OR HALF PAGES EXCEPTED IS AVAIL- ABLE IN THE "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST** AND THE "CHINA MAIL".

THE ABOVE DOES NOT REFER TO GOVERN-

NOTICES. MENT

SPECIAL NOTIFICATIONS AND CLASSIFIED

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

20th Dec.

25th Dec.

WE'RE TAKING YOU TO THE | IF HE'D ONLY! POLICE, SWAMI. YOUR WIFE'LL HAVE TO COME,

100.

LISTENED

TO ME --

NOW THAT YOU'VE I CAN'T KEEP: CAPTURED HIM, ƒ ́HIM HYPNOTIZED WHY ARE YOU FOR THE AEST

STILL WORRIED, MANDRAKE?

OF HIS LIFE,

NARDA--

ADVERTISEMENTS.

are

Some women left the queue to bid for carpets which buyers wene willing to resell. A woman paid £5 8s. to a man for a carpet bundle which he said he got for £4 158.

She said: "I have waited a long time for this. I am satis- fied."

5,000 Years Old

P&O B.I. E&A

COMPANIES

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N, CO.

PASSENGER /FREIGHT SERVICE

Outwarde "CHUSAN"

"CORFU" "CANTON"

Arrives Mongkong 30th November

17th December

14th Jomar"}

Leaves London

2nd November

15th November

13th December

Via Santhampton, Port Said, Aden, Bombay, Colombo,

Penang & Singapore

Leaves Hongkong Bur London

23rd

31st

2nd November

December

December January

18th February

Tomewardi "CARTHAGE"

“CHUSAN”

"CORFU"

"CANTON"

4 December

21st December 21st

Ikin January

Accepting cargo for Bingapore. Penang, Colombo, Eom-

bay, Aden & London.

Outwards "SOMALI" "TREVOSE"

Nomawards "SINGAPORE”

Accepting Penang,

FREIGHT SERVICE

ERTEO

Due Hongkong

11 December

Frus

London & Continent

For

20th December

Leaves Hongkong

London & Continent 11th December

for

Fort Swettenbam, Singapore, Colombo, Aden, Gchon, Marcelles, London, Hamburg, Antwerp & Rotterdam, with iberty to call

at Bombay it Inducement offers. Tanks available for carriage of oil in Bulk. Space for refrigerated cargo. Limited passenger

accommodation.

BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.

"WARLA"

due 23rd Nov. sas 24th Nov.

from Japan

for Singapore

& Chittagong

"TAIREA"

due 8th Dea. sail 7th Dec.

from Japan

for Singapore.

Penang, Rangoon

& Calcutta

(Tuese vessels have refrigerated cargo space)

Soria, Nov. 21. Don Teogenes Ortega, Com- missioner for Archaeological the Excavations, has reported discovery of 150 primitive rocks near here. paintings on They are believed to be 5,000 years old.-Reuter.

"OBRA"

"ORNA"

By Lee Fall and Phil Davis

ONCE I LEAVE HIM, NO JAIL CAN HOLD AND THE HIM, NO GUARD CẦN HANDLE HIM. MASCAL BECAUSE HE'LL STILL HAVE HIS KNOWS IT! POWERS!

LOOK AT HIM GRINNING.

YOU SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE GUARDING HIM? BUT NO ONE

ELSE CAN--/

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

due 30th Nov.

sas ist Dec.

due 01 Dec. sails 7th Dec,

from Karachi, Bombay, Colomba

& Bingapore for Jagan from Jupan for Singapore, Colombo. Bombay & Karachi

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

"EASTERN"

Bails 28th Nov.

for Auckland, Wellington, Port Chalmers & Melbourne

All vessels have liberty to call at any ports on or off the route & the route & milling are subject

to change or amendme with or without notion.

Sailing for Kingston, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphin vin Japan, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Cristobal,

"AGAMEMNON“'

12th Dec.

Tathay Pacific Airways Ltd.

Batte

K/Bangkok/Singapore (DC-4)

IK/Hano/atphong

(Connects

(DC-3)

(DC-4)

¡DC-3)

1h/Sugen/gDDOE MK/Manila/B.N. Borneo

Departs Hongkong

Arrives H.K.

(on reture)

€ 00 am Tics. Fel. 8.13 a.m. Wed. Sal.

1 Bangkok with U.S.A. to Rangoon! 10.00 Tues. 2.13 p.. Wed

4.15 p. Thurs.

12 Noon Wed.

8.30 am. Wed

3.45 p.m Thurs.

All the above subject to Alteration without antice. For passage and Freight Particulars please apply to

1.CONNAUGHT RD. C. Tel.30331 8 BRANCH OFFICE:50 Connaught Rd. West. 25875, 32144, 24878.

BENLINE BEN LINE

SHIPS

"BENCLEUCH" "BENWYVIS" "BENVORLICH"

"BENCLEUCH"

FRON

TRI

ARRIVALS

FROM

U.K. via Singapore

--do

www.do

- Japan --

"BENLOMOND" .U.K. "BENRINNES" “BENVENUE" "BENYORLICH"

"BENCLEUCH"

**BENWYVIS"

"BENYORLICH"

“RENCLEUUK"

**BENĻOMOND",

“RENRINNES"

"RENVOELICH"

"RENVENUE"

VIA B.N.D. .U.K. vla Bingapore UK. via Singapore

Japan -

SAILINGS

Yakuboms.

Kobe & Avonmouth, Havre & London. Kobe Yokohama. Direct to Singapóro, (hence Liverpool, Hamburg, Antwerp & CHUIL.

Havre, Liverpool, Glasgow 14 Avon- mouth Avonmouth, Havre d ****Lon-lon,

[Direct to Singapore, thonco London, Ham- {burg & Hull,

Direct to Singapore, thence Liverpont, Emb."

Hin. Hamburg & Hall,

DUE

la Peri

27th Nov.

on or abt. 19th Dec.

*

26th Dec,

P

28th Dec.

18th Jan.

20th Jan,

29th Jan,

Leading on

or abi.

K/Whart

2nd Dec,

23rd Dee,

26th Dec,

21st Dec.

1

24th Jan,

29th Jan.

17th Fell

Via Singapore, ` Port: Swattenham & Pork Budan.

Calls Manila, Tawau, Bandakan & Jesselton, K.

# Calls Manila, Cebu, Tawau, Sandokan, Jemnáljon & Labuan,

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

York Building,

Agents

Telephone: 84105.

FERDINAND

Poor Fish!

By Mik

mik

Dine

10-4

NANCY

HEY, BOZO--

STOP CHASING

CARS

ONLY

Leading A Dog's Life

I TOLD YOU

NOT TO DO THAT, YOU LITTLE SAP

DOPES

CHASE CARS

JOHNNY HAZARD

· BROTHER,,DID YOU SEE THAT GUY JUMP #

YAN! NA! KA! HE THOUGHT/T WAS SPECIAL HORRIBLE FIGH, WAL

WELL, PAL...CO HAR GO GOOD! WE'RE A TWO-MAN NAVAL OPERATION/ ❘NOW FOR THE MAIN CHĻJECTIVE... TABAYZ HERSELF J.

Cer. 171 by United Footyme Syndicętu, Ing.

BUT HOW TABRIZ·

| STAYS CAFELY.ON

} THE BEACHLLOUPT

·OF OUR REACH ?

By Ernie Bushmiller

CLANG

By Frank Robbins

NOT FOR LONG, INT LOOK.EVEN NOW SHE'S GET- TING THE BAD TIRINGG "BOUT: US! AND IF I KNOW TABRIZ A

· CHE'LL COME TO UG/

At the

For full particulars apply to.

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.

Telephone Nos. 27721-4.

P.G.

For

Reservations Tel: 27880

COGNAC

CIRARD

BRANDIES

V.V.O.P. “Ovar 10 Years

·GANDH, PRICE &

CO, LARG Hongkong TAI WAH 100%. Macao.

ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES CERTIFICATES

Application Forms för Essential Supplies cates, may be obtained from South China Maming Pest Limited.

10 CENTS EACH.

Rector Now A Red Indian Chief

London, Nov. 21.- The Rector of Gravesend, Dr R. D. Daunton-Fear, who hes spent a month in the U.S. talking about his church and its links with the early settlers In Virginia, has come back an honorary Red Indian chief,

He addressed 80 meetings and broadcast six times to tell Ame- ricans that his church, St

denger

George's, was in being closed, They should be interested in

in the church, he told them, because the Red Indian Princess Pocahontas, who visited England in the early 17th cen

tury and died at Gravesend, was buried in the building,

The rector, who preached in famous churches in the Eastern States, visited Richroond, centre

Пога of Pocahontas in Virginia. There he was made an honor

chief of the Matopony tribe. Princess' own people, Fle visted New York and Philadel phia, where he was called "The Focahontas Parson" by sym- pathipers,

mazing”

"The response was amazing he said "The future

18

considerable

church is Basured, Already there has been monetary response to my mis sion, and there will be much more when the results of the tour make themselves felt

It is planned to convert 8t George's Church into a chepel of unity in which people of su nations and ail) denominations can meet and worship.;.

Mrs Roosevelt May Visit India

Mrs Eleanor today, that isbe zaay invitation

Indian anhnar to

India

•home

the Unite

"

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