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COMPANIES
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N. CO
PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE
Outwards "CORFU" "CANTON"
"OHUSAN"
Leaves London -
10th August
18th September
8th October
"CARTHAGE” 18th October
Das Hongkong In Port
18th October
5th November
16th November
Via Southampton, Port Said, Aden, Bombay, Colombo,
Penang & Blogspora
Homewards
*"CORFU**
"CANTON"
"CHUSAN"
"CARTHAGE"
Leaves Itongkong Das Loaden
24th Septembe
25th October
10th October
D November
Bth November
6th December
19th November
20th December
VIA Singapore, Penang, Columbo, Bombay, Aden,
Fort Bud & London
*Loading 22nd and 23rd September.
FREIGHT SERVICE
Outwards "BURAT
Arriving
En Port
From V.IC.
walls Zara Sept.
TREVETHOE"
t [ke!
"SHILLONG"
and Oel.
V.K.
(716.
Loading
Bomeward» "BINGAPORE” 301) Bry!
"BURAT
Malin
1st del
14th Oct.
Otaru, Yokohama
Balla For
& Kobe
Kura
Otaru, Yokohama & KUND
For
ten i am.
Singapore, P. Swet- Редаль, Colombo, Aden, Pori Satd, Genon, Marseillas Havre, London Ant-
Hotterdam werp, Hamburg UK. and Continent via Stra
after Miria With Uberly to call at Belawan before or
Ports and Bombay H inducement offer.
at
Tanka available for carriage of Oil in Bolk. Space for refrigerated cargo. Limited Passenger
accommodation
BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.
Qua 20th Sepi, from Japan
salli 2nd Oct.
"BANTHIA"
"WABORA"
pur Bil Gel. SAJE DE Oct.
"FULTALA"
sails 10th Det.
"SIRDHANA" due 2d Det
for Singapore, Penang. fangoon & Calcula
frosa Japani
Chitingung
على
for Singapore, Bangoon, Calcutta Calcutta, Chitta-
flangoon
trum
straila
for Japan
from Valeutta, Rangoon
& Straits
* 24th Oct.
for Japan
P. & O./B. I. JOINT SERVICE
"OLINDA"
tur Sith Clut
alls 2018: Det.
"OBRA"
due 1 Oct. Kuti Ucl
Trans Japan
for Singapore, Culombo, Kareli, Ügerah, Abadan, Khorramshahr & Kuwait frou Peratan Gulf Ports for Japan
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN S.S. CO., LTD.
"EASTERN"
"NELLORE"
for Bandakan, Rabaul,
Sydney
Luo 7th Oct, Alla Vth Oct.
from Japan
Brisbane,
Melbourne
die 15th Oct.
walls 16th Oct.
trom Australia for Japan
&
CHINA
HONGKONG PUBLISHED." DAILY. (AFTERNOON®);
HE CHINA
Price 20 cents per copy,
Saturdays 80 centa, Subscription: $8.00 per month.
Postage: China and Macao $3.00 per marith, UK.. Drikh Possomnionit and other countries $7.00 per mon LÈL. News contributions, alwaYN · WHS-
should be addressed" to the' Daitor, Business commandations and advertisements to the · Bécretary,
Telephone: 28411 (8 Lines).
KOWLOON OFFICE;'
some,
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MUSICAL
एम
1954,
First Moves In British Battle Swedish Undertakers
For Commercial Television
London, Sept. 28.1
First moves in the big business battle for British commercial television contracts were disclosed last night,
** Prince Littler, band of a large group of West End theatres, announced be had formed a new company which had applied to the Government's watch dog of commercial television — the independent Television Authority for a licence
put on commercial prograISLAITON.
present bag
The company has been forins | "The new company, through Broadcasting Corporation, which ed with £10,000+ nominal capita directors control, over a vast at
a television tal, but one of the directors empire of theatres, could be said here last night it can raise ahead of its competitors with £3,000,000 required; es. ""mini- mam working ospital”!,
TV relays from the stage.
monopoly.
The secret has been well kept When the B.B.C. were told yes Serday of Prince Litter's tulid Prince Litiler controls the If it gets a commercial licence up, an offelal made a one-word Stoll Variety circuit and Drury it may be able to take many comment Shattering."--Chine Lane's Theatre Royal,
With
the British Mail Special. him in tale felevision venture are the Palladium chiet, Voi Far-
JUST Arrived new and reopriditioned neil, two variety agents.” (Lew plands. fully tropicalised, under-
damper, overstrung, modern degna, and Lexile Grade), theatre price to suit all pockets inspection owner Stewart Cruikshank' and welcome at Mayfair Music Comnim men Phil and Sid Hyems. pany, 23, Chiu Laing Street, tele- phones 22835, 27313,
AVAILABLE few dilure set of complete Coronation Ceremony also Tchaikowsky's Hwan Laks Ballet, Dvoraks Slavisio
And
Gregorian Chania mung, by Muiks Choir of Baint-Pierre "do Bolomriés Abbey at D. Exsex, Añ. Der VõsuR Road, Room 1, and foor, tal. 20100.
WANTED KNOWN.
FOOTSORE? Foot Comfort
Consult Dr. Scholl's Service, Telephone
· BOX OFFICE NAMES...
These men can call on the services of the big box offics names in the British singe and film, world. · They also deal with British tours of American stars like Bob Hope, Frankie Laine and Johnnie Ray.
House (Mezzanine Floor) Hongkong NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES qualified Chiropodist in alpentance. Telephone 37181. Air-conditioned.
FOR SALE
"MILL" Finest quality English Mil Blotting Paper in buff, pink and green; 175 X 2A, Mđó cents per Cut to any site. short, #24 per 100. Available at South China Morning Post
WEIGHTS AND
MEASUREMENTS
of cargo exported from Hong kong and South Chiem, compiled by the Swom Measurers, (15 from the
8. C. M. Post,"
"ASTTANĄŻ*
Dutraged cargo ex this vessel will be surveyed by Moses, Goddard, de Douging at Hall's Wharf from 10 m. on September 24 and 23, 1914, and cormignees are requested
star
Адт
from
PENINSULAR
OQUIS NÓS SEPA
EPARABIL
Of
Accused Racketeering
Stockholm, Sept. 22. Charges of "racketeering are made against undertakers in socialist Sweden by the state Price Control Board which has just completed an eight- year survey.
More competition rather than Increased state control is the solution, the Board believes,
Swedish undertakers, it anys, undertakers argue. It enables ore, on an average, making a poor clients to shoulder, them- 100 per, cent; overcharge on selves the cost of a bereavement overy coln they sell. They instead of having recourse ta camouflage this overcharge by public charity, avolding charging their clients for a coffin only. Their billk always include "acrvices" as
& ORIENTAL well, and most of these services
havo just not been rendered.
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
R.M.S. "CORFU”
NOTICE TO PASSENGERS
SAILS:
to have their representatives pre- | BAGGAGE: went during the survey,
BUTTERFIELD 'S/SWİRE, -
Agenta,
Hong Kong Baptember 22, 1064,
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MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
P.O. Box 33 Queen's Building Tel: 26651
FAST PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE
Friday, the 24th September, at 1200 Noon for the UNITED KINGDOM via Strafta, Colombo, Bombay, Aden and Port Said.
Passengers are requested to send ALL BAGGAGE to the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godown at No. 2 GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, by Noon on Thursday, 23rd September.
SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packages carried by passengers themselves, ALL BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Co.'s Godown for loading on board by Ship's slinga only.
sailing Oct. 1st sailing Oct. 80th | EMBARKATION:
“VIET-NAM” "CAMBODGE"
FAST FREIGHT SERVICE Accept Direct Cargo for London
"IRAQUADDY" "PEI-HO"
safling Oct. 6th sailing Nov. 8th
All vessels have liberty to call at any ports on or off the route & the route & salling are subject to change or amendment with or without notice.
For full particulars apply to:-
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
OF HONG KONG LTD. Telephone Nos. 27721-4,
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
NIGHT AT MANORAKE'S HOUSE --
THAT WAS MANDRAKE! DARN IT- MISSED MY CHANCE WHEN HE PULLED DOWN THAT SHADE! AH--THERE HE IS --
he. t Oct, 2
FERDINAND
Penang
NANCY
Passengers should embark between 9.30 and 11.00 a.m, on Friday, 24th September, 1954.
SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE
|--NOW--
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
By Mik
By Erule Bushmiller
LET'S HURRY HOME ---IT-
LOOKS LIKE
RAIN
EVERETT
LINES
EVERETT ORIENT LINE
Fast regular freight-refrigerator- passenger service to Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indo-China, Siam, Malaya, Rangoon, Calcutta and Chittagong.
"LENEVERETT"
Arrives Sept. 28 from Singaproe. Salis Sept. 20 for Kobe & Yokohama.
"BRADEVERETT”
Arrives Salle
from Manila. for Singapore,
Rangoon,
Calcutis,
Chittagong
(Accepting cargo for transhipment Kobe/Pusan and Kobe/Okliawa)
EVERETT STAR LINE Fast regular freight-refrigerator... passenger service to Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indo-China, Slam, Malaya, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi and Persian Gulf.
"STAR ALCYONE”
Arrives
Sept. 30 from Japan.
Salle Oct. 1 for Singapore, Fort Swatten- ban, Colombo, Karachi, Basrah, Khorramshahr, Kuwalt & Bahrein,
Arrives Salls
Oct. 9 from Japan.
Oct. 10 for Singapore, Port Swetten- ham, Madras, Colombo, Bombay, Karuclii,. Basrahi, Khorramshahr, · Kuwait Bahréin.
(Accepting cargo for iranskalpenstä Kobe/Pusan and Kobe/Okinawa).
VERETT, STEAMSHIP. CORPORATION S/A
Eincorporated la tim Kertbills of Panama Chinese De
with Limited Klaki
JOHNNY HAZARD
WHAT? NO MORIE BULLETS? POOR BOULANA YOU ARE AT "MY MERCY, NOW!A
IPERATION JOHNRY | JUN: AT ESCARIE
LA FUTILE "GESTURE/ NOW, WITH ONE WELL-AIMED SHOT HALL BE OUT OF MY WAY.
注
By Frank Robbins
LAO
31206:
7.23
NOT DESIRABLES
The Bourd ́argues thas such' varying príoms are no desirable because they make it Impossible' to arrive at a Agure for • fair general price.
Detailed blis would only. partially remedy the abuse, the Board says. Over 270 different types of coffins are produced in Sweden and the lay
Moreover, the Board added, customer
tho undertakers would not be able
overcharga to judge Whether he was
more often than they under- getting the charge so that they gain by the right typo, at the right price.
The Board, therefore, the need for more standardisa- tlon and simpler specifications.mised to cease making different.
system. urges
A CARTEL
The Board accuses shroud, wholesalers of forming cartel to keep· prices above a fair level. They have a secret agreement by which no wholesaler may sell at prices. lower than those fixed by the Shroud Whole- salers' Association,
If any wholesaler sells below the fixed price, the Association fines him 1,000 crowns (about £70 sterling) for every delivery made,
Cartels formed to force up prices unfairly are forbidden by law. in Sweden.
The Board alleges-und re- presentatives of the undertaking trade
have admitted that undertakers often charge their clients what they think they can
clicrits
This is strongly denied by the undertakers. They have
pro-
the
:|charges and have invited price Control Board to whether the general customer will benest the system of
by uniform charges.
In is survey, the Board' sets out a scheme which it hás elaborated for calculating fair prices for-burials, -
The undertakers have refused. to accept the scherno on
tho grounds that the profit margins allowed on the commodities aro low, whereas the charges 'allowed for services are too
high.
too
J.
OPEN BOOKS The undertakerr' · central association has however, agreed that Iair tarik bo worked out and has pledged its members to open their books to a price-fixing com mission consisting of repre sentatives of the trade, tha siste and the public. Urged
by newspapers of all get their shades of opinion to thrash the matter out fully, the state price of Control Board, on which private
Citizens
es well as officials sit,
are sometimes
charged three times the fair value of a coffin, whereas poor clients sometimes, coffin below market price.
The "Robin Hood" sort trading
is praiseworthy, ' the,
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
| AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
*THE JAM THAT MADE TASMANIA FANGUS="
DAIRY BOX
MILK
CHOCOLATES
Liguel
Kes
intervened itself against atute
in the trade,
Whatever the price-fixing contumistice Board ST
This
says
may
tho
decido, best remedy is
petition
is already
conding from the trend towards
cremations, which are carried out by undertakers, and powerful benest
from
the
reeletics which
moet Swedes funeral costs in return for re gular contributions pald during their lifetime,
COUNCILS CAN HELP
The
town and county councils can also help to bring funeral costs down, according to the state Frics Control Board, by reducing their fees for burial, space In the cemeteries, for ring- Ing koolis and so on. Also, the council might stars, to buy, their own hearms and hire them out at cost price, In the meantime the contro- versy
between the Board-and- the undertakers is keen, One firm has been prosecuted for overcharging and other pro- secutions have been threatened.
The man-in-the-street-seems to have been most struck by the Pot that fact
the Board and the undertakers agren
that
GOO crowns (about £40 sterling) ไป the average price for a burial in Sweden
and This covers burint only, an does not include the costs of tha funeral service, the service, the wreaths, the funeral dinner and other, Incidental expenditure.
When
baby In
a woman can, hayo,
In a private, ward for as as: 150 eruwer, (just lover
£10) in Sweden, 800, crowns peans a lot to pay for dying China Mall Special.
Vertical Jets Will Need
A Colosseum
London, Bept, 32. The head of Britain's big na- fionalised international, mielinis, today pictured the airport of the futurg Nidoking
ancient colosseum of Rome, with circular walls to cut off the sound of vertical take on
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