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MASON'S DELICIOUS

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Hongkong Daily Press.

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N. LAZARUS Ophthalmic Opticians.

No. 22885. NIT**** M*A**** HONG KONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1931. Я ⠀★#♬¶**** Price Single Copy, 10 cts.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE,

On and after MAY IND, 1931, until Further Notice (all previous

Time Tables cancelled).

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No”

14

23 10218-1-24 25 4x, Noon r.x. PM FAN, ROLFM, PA.

UP TRAINS

ETATIONS.

No. Wei No. No,

ச ..3

10 (420) A A.M.

19 8

D

.....Dep.) 6.40 8.05 | 8.28

0.35 10.10 12.00 1.18 2.36 4.09) 4,√ 9.24 10.212.09 1.26.

5357.40 5.48 7.48

Shatin

Dep 7.00

9.87 10.36 12.20 1.88

5.02 5.55 8.00-

Taipe

De 7.14

9.84 10.50 13.83| 1.41||

5.15 0.08 8.18:

Taipos Market.. ..Do 7.18

9.87 10.8432,87; 1,56|

10.00) 11.04:12,47)-2,08

5.19 0.19 8.17 6.99 8.25 8.27

"Kowloon

Youmati ............ Dep. 6:49.

Faniing Dep. 7.30

Sheangabat. Dep. 7.36

Shumchun

Canton

*0.06",20,14-11:00) -13.52) 2.103.14.16.34 8.27 8.83

-A72 | 7,41|.8.44 0.11 10.20 11.13 12.48 3,18) 3.20) 4.40) 6.40 6.838.38

STATIONS

·Chaton ............ Shumahut. *Sheungshui Tanting2447 Talps Market.. Taiyo Shatin

Yazati.....

Kowloon

11.92

5.40

DOWN TRAINS

Dop.

No. No. No. No.

17.28

87 5.

No. No. 15 17

No. 19

No. No. No. 24 | 15 | 23

Doy 7.17 8.08 0.55 Dep. 7.24 8.10.10.08 Dop, 7.30) 8,14) 1906; Dap: 7.40) 8,98)-10:18)

· Dep: 7:45] 8.80) 17,29)

....Do 7.58 8.43 10,50

Dop. £118,58 10.49

so

...415

10.84.21.88 2,85 4.28 8,107.01.7.1}

11.45 2.43 490'|8.17 ...

7.18

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***

11.502,15 4,85 |6,22) ... 12,01 2,58) 440

6.32...

12.00 3.02 4.40 6.88)

2.12.2016 5.0 6.49.. 14.329,27 15,14 7,01) '...

*

8.179.01 10.54 13.121938 3.33 5.207.07 7.39.7.54

• Sundays and Public Holidays only.

* For First Class Passengers only. Will stop at any station on request,

Sunday and Public Holidays excepted.

Further information may be obtained at the Railway Office, Kow loon or Canton, from Mosary. Thos. Cook & Son Ltd., Bang Kong, The Amercian Mxprear Co., Hong Kong, or The China Travel Service, # Queen's Road, Hong Kong,

By Order,

GEO. A. WALKER, Manager,

BRITISH SECTION, ! KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY

HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMERS,

JOINT SHUTION OF THE HONG KONG, CANTON AND MADAG STEAMBOAT CO., LTD., AND CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

HONG KONG-CANTON LINE. SAILINGS From HONG KONG-Daily at 9 a.m. and 10 p.m. (Sundays 10 p.m. only). SAILINGS From CANTON-Daily nt 8 am and 4.80 p.m. (Sundays 4.80 p.m, only).

HONG KONG-MACAO. LINE,

SPECIAL SERVICE.

(Sundays 9 a.m. only).

SAILINUS From HONG KONG-Daily at 8 a.m. and 5.30 p.m.

SAILINGS From MACAU -Daily at 3 am, and 200 p.m.

(Bundays 4 pm. only),

EXCURSION TO MACAO :---

ON SUNDAY, 29rп NOVEMBER. 1931. 6.8. "SUI AND

will depart from the Company's Wing Lok Street. Wharf at 9 .. and from MAOA at 4 p.m. SPECIAL SALOON FARES.

WEEK DAYS-Bingle: $3.00 Return: $6.00:

SUNDAYS and EXCURSIONS,-Single: $2.50; Return: $4,00 Not-All Steamboat Company's Steamere ara etted with Wireless,

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(November 27.)

Tennis Finals of Ladies' Open Singles Championship, 2.15 pm, U.S.B.C. ground.

St. Andrew's Ball, Peninsula. Hoto!

Auction of Chinese Objets d'Art for Charity, City Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Hockey Radio Sports "Club "vi Club de Recreio

World Theatre:

Nellie Farren's Whoopes, Giris at Peninsula Hotel, Rose Room.

Queen's Theatre:

Just A Gigolo."

Happy Days." Star Theatre: The Kiss" Central Theatre! "Holiday." King's Theatre: "An American Tragedy."

Canada's Big Wheat Havests.

POSSIBILITIES OF THE NEW SEA ROUTE TO BRITAIN.

GRAÏN TRANSPORTED DIRECT FROM HUDSON BAY TO LIVERPOOL."

The wake of the s.8 Farnworth, the first ship to carry wheat direct from Hudson Bay to Singapore, is that of a pioneer. By reaching her borth in the Merscy docks with a cargo of Saskatchewan wheat, she has blazed the trail of the Hudson Bay Trade Route, bringing the Tea Dances at King's Restaurant prairie provinces of Canada a thou and Hong Kong Hotel: Dinnersand miles closer to the wheat Danco at Hong Kong Hotel.

European Mail:- Inwardr

market of the world "Loerpool. Europa in Siberia (Empress of Canada).

Anjestic Theatre: "A Connecticut Yankoe."

H

Fides:-High at 11.10 and 10:00

Low at 4.50, and 3.10.

SATURDAY,

(November 39,)

Memorial Service for the late Miss Helon Davies, Ying Wa Girls' School, 3 p.m.

Boxing.-Hong Kong Boxing Association Tournament (Theatre Royal).

Cricket-First Division: Hong Kong C.C.. Indian R.C. (F.): Second Division: Kowloon DC. R.E. & 9 (L.) Indian R.C. Hong Kong CC (F), Navy u. Queen's College. (F.).

Football: Shield Competition (Senior): S.W. Borderers v. Kow- loon, Argylls 2. Navy, Police

Churchill River, approximately 110 miles north of Port Nelson.

Canada has always been sharply. divided over the project. Vested interests. in the Enst could scarcely regard with enthusiasm the con- struction of a railway, and port (at heavy cost to the State) which would deflcot normal traffis from ita great waterways and harbours,

Dazzled by the spectacular saving Hud her "consignment of wheat in mileage on the now trade route,, been carried to the Mersey by the its champions have turned a blind ordinary trans-Canadian route iteye to the practical commercial dif- would have been freighted by rail ficulties. What cargoes are vessels 1,142 miles from Saskatoon to Part to discharge at Churchill in readi; Arthur, thence shipped by lakeness for their burden of grain i steamer to Montreal, there tran. shipped to an ocean-going vessel, and on final arrival at Liverpool have travelled a total distance of 8,213 miles

With over a thousand miles rail haulage and with two tram-ship ments, it can well be understood that the farmer of the Middle-West groaned under the hard of heavy freight charges.

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Turning his eyes to the north, St. Joseph's, Recreio v. Club he found that by building a railway Junior: Police v. Argylls, Recreio

Borderers.

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Anthracite coal is probably the most the tariff walls round Canada, the auitable commodity, but the higher

less likelihood of Churchill succeed- ing. The interesting suggestion has bean put forward that Churchill should be made a free part of entry for certain classes of British mer- chandise as an encouragement to shippers. This would materially aid the farmer to export wheat at lower

cost.

Heavy Insurance Premiums.

The other salient problem con cerns the insurance of vessels which

. R.A.F. "Second Division: Uni- to the western shores of Hudson versity, Navy, R.A.0.C. v. S.W. Bay, and by chartering vessels to

Racing-Twelfth Extra Rece eroas sub-Arctic waters, he could are to ply on the route. The St. Meeting (Happy Valley).

not only save a thousand miles of Lawrence waterway, with all its im- Hong Kong Benevolent Society distance, but could diminish railway Provements,, long years of usage, Jumble Sale, City Hall, at 11 am freight by approximately 300 miles and aids to navigation still requires

Meeting of Hong Kong, Society for the Protection of Children. and eliminate trans-shipment costs, an extra insurance premium from

Queen's Theatre: Du Barry

the underwriters of Lloyd's. Un- Woman of Passion."

Hudson Bay Hallway. familiar to mariners, ice-strewn and So long ago as 1884 the Hudson foggy, the Hudson Bay route com- Buy Railway had been in contem Lloyd's, and cannot but continue mands a high rate of insurance at

plation, but it was not until shortly to do so until statistics from a before the war that. a start was underwriters to re-assess their risk.

large volume of traffic enable the

made with its constructnon. Abang On the other hand, so long as the doned during the war the project premium remnina. at its present was later revived. Heavy and abor-level, the volume of traffle will be tive expenditure was incurred in endeavouring to transform the open roadstend of Port Nelson into the

World Theatre: Happy Days" Star Theatre: "The Kisa." King's Theatre: "An American Tragedy."

Central Theatre: "Holiday."! Majestic Theatre "A Connecticut Yaukre,"

Dance at Craigengower Cricket Club: Tes Dances at King's Res Lauraat, Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.

European Mail:- Ioward: Europe id Negnpatam (Fushimi Baru), Outward: Europe in Brindisi (Gange) à p.m.; Europe

Tidea:-High at 12:43 and 10.34;. Low at 5.30 and 3.32.

meagre.

During the last three

the Canadian Government has con- structed wireless stations and bea- cun lights along the route through Hudson Strait as a safeguard, to terminal harbour, and on the adnavigation, has studied ice condi- vice of Mr. Frederick Palmer, the tions and has improved charts. As British harbour expert, it was a result, last winter the under

writers agreed to lower, the hull

ria Siberis (Pres. Jefferson) 6p. finally decided in 1927 to construct premium by 12 per cent. Even so,

a harbour at the mouth of the the insurance rameing henvy,

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Per Month, $3.

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(STEEL COULSONS)

STANDS UNCHALLENGED NOW TRY

OUR DRAUGHT STOUT

FROM THE SAME REPUTABLE FIRM AND SOLD IN

THE ST. FRANCIS HOTEL

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INTEGRITY AND COMFORT.

WE HOLD EXCLUSIVE 'SALES RIGHTS FOR STEEL COULSON'S IN HOTELS IN HONG KONG,

INSIST ON STEEL COULSONS.

YOUR SEARCH

For Fine Coffee ends here

Hills Bros

Trd Can

The Original

Vas vum Pack

COFFEE

SOLD BY ALL LEADING PROVISION STORES.

Lane Crawford's Cake Dept.

More New Lines

Edinburgh Mince Pies

Short crust crammed full of mincemeat

Just like "MUVVER " makes

$1.80 per doz.

Fresh Cream Layer Cakes

Two flavours. Cherry and Walnut

$2.50 per lb.

Devonshire Cream Layer Cakes

A butter sponge with layers of Fresh Cream

Strawberry Jam and Chocolate Icing $1.00

Suitable for a Tea, Tiffin or Dinner Party

For Indoor photos

use

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REQUISITES

Flashlight Capsules Flashlight Powder Flashlight Lamps

JUPITER-HOME-LAMPS

with 500 watt Nitraphotlamp.

Type Ï¡ small and handy Type II: with special large

reflector.

4.

For prices and particulars ask your dealer or “ Defag," Prince's Building, Chater Road,