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KOWLOON DAILY SUPPLEMENT

Hongkong Daily Press.

Registered as a Newspaper at the General

Post Office in the United Kingdom,-

·ESTABLISHED 1857

Issued Gratis with the regular Edition cf, the “ Daily Press."

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Portuguese Sausages... Smoked Eels, Italian Australian Cheese

and

etc.

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Wine and Liquors Served with Meals.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1933.

Kowloon Supplement

Hoya Kosc, JUNE 6, 1939,

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THE VEHICULAR FERRIES

A COMPARISON OF THE OLD CAR ·

SERVICE AND THE NEW

Owing to the fact that "the passenger ferries operate, on the same wharf, traffic is slightly con

geta out. more gested as one especially on the Hong Kong side. but apart from that everything is very well kept,.

BACK TO WORK

The Vehicular Ferry has only I was on one of these boats been running for a matter of a yesterday and I found it exceeding- To-day the Colony resumes couple of weeks, but in this short ly comfortable. The cars are park- time it has proved itself to be aned in the "hold and the owners toil; the clerks go back to their indispensible that I am beginning to are comfortably seated. There is ledgers, the stenographers to their wonder why the scheme was not no driving on to a platform to be adopted years before. I do not lifted into the lighter, and what typewriters and the Taipans to their mean this as a slur on the trusty is more, the drive from the wharf to the boat is kept exceedingly neat swivel chaire. To most of us the old lighters that used to convey our long week-end came as a welcome cars across the harbour butal and clean,

though they did their work well, relaxation for in his weather no

one begins to feel now that they one need feel ashamed of being were a great waste of time. It used lethargic. Indeed, we keonly symto take one fully half-an-hour to get one's, bus over the harbour but pathise with the

comedian in all this is changed now. It would "Hollywood Lights" the other not be a bad thing to compare the evening, who thanked the audience two methods-just for the sake of

comparison and nothing else. at the King's Theatre for this

In the old days when one wanted Turkish bath." The medical pro- to drive out to the New Territories, fession has not. to our knowledge, one had to make all sorts of yub invented an apparatus for men-arrangements especially during week-ends and holidays. There was sucing the beneficial effects of holi- quite a lot of bother as one some- days, but it would be interesting times missed a lighter and had to wait for at least half-an-hour for to know whether these welcome the next one.

Yesterday, Sunday and Saturday breaks in routine really help to`re-

Then there was the disadvantage-the three holidays which have charge our energy and increase our of having to pay a fairly good gone to an end too soon-saw powers of resistance. It all deprice-I think it was 50 cents if great business done and even as

pends, one imagines, on the manner in which the holidays are spent. One wonders, for example, what possible benefit the young men and maidens 'could have derived who spent the week-end in rushing around the New Territories in high- powered sports cars, or acquiring red and blistered backs at Castle Peak. Will these scilsame juniors return to their offices with renewed vitality, or will they come buck grumbling and weary, having ex- pended "their daily energy in riotous exercise! On the other hand, the less agile who spent their vacation in bed or in a long deck chair, gradually drift ing into a state of semi-coma; will i they return to their desks with re- freshed minds and bodies, or will they, too, slouch back with livers villainously warped? Alas, it is to be feared that the benefits of a holiday do not reveal themselves in renewal of effort, but merely serve to increase that sullen resent

1

reserves

of

one wanted to travel in the lighter,, There was quite a lot of bother to in regard to getting the bus into the lighter for this entailed no small amount of tacking, et

If a man did not want to travel on the lighter, what was the alter native Cross the harbour on the ferry and then wait for about 20 minutes on the opposite side for the arrival of the lighter.

Bat all that inconvenience is We have done away with now. to-day modern vehicular ferry boats running regularly between Hong Kong and the mainland. There need be no trouble regarding "booking," for all one need do is, to drive up to the wharf, pay the fare, drive onto the ferry boat and in ten to fifteen minutes the boat berths on the other side.

FORMER BANGKOK

RESIDENT

The scale of charges is as fol lows:-

.:

Cars under 1 ton

60 cts.

over 1 ton

10

Yiver

2,tony

1.50

"

Ver 3 tons

..2.10 The fare for each passenger, ac- companying a car is only 5 cents per head, and for comfort and con- venience, there is really no room for complaint.

£

late as 8 p.m. there was a very big demand for space.

Enquiries from the ofre elicited the inforination that since these ferries were put into service they have been constantly used by motorists, quite a number of cars being conveyed across the harbour every day.

The following is a time-table for these ferries:-

Vehicular Service.

From

From

Hong Kong Jordan Rond Every 20 minutes between. 3 .m.-10 p.m. 8. a.m.9.40 p.m. Followed by 10.34-10.36 p.m. 10.06-10.18 p.m. 11.00-11.19 p.m. 11.38-11.45 p.m.

10.42-10.34 p.m. 11.18-11.30 p.m." 11.4 p.m.-12.

midnight

WEDDING

LIM---RIBEIRO

A pretty wedding took place at the Rosary Church, Kowloon on Bunday when Miss Marie Eugenie de Lourdes Ribeiro, "daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Ribeiro was married to Dr. Michael N. S. Lim. The bride who looked charming

BANGKOK, May 4. In London on May 14 the death took place at the early age of 48 of Mr. L. Brewitt Taylor. He came out to Bangkok as a student interpreter for the British Con- sulate in 1906, and later joined ment which so many unfortunately the Bombay-Burmah Trading Cor feel towards the job that has to he|poration, rotiring in 1928 after in a dress of white chantilly lace done. Perhaps the happiest man is several years as manager. In the trimmed with orange blossoms and war it was mainly due to his on-tulle veil designed by Madame thusiasm that Britons in Siam by Leite, was

remitted father. small subscriptions £32,000 for war loans.

he who works during the holidays, for he has at least the satisfaction of being regarded as a minor super-

The Catholic Mission has lost man. Surrounded by blistered and

two of its teaching staff, also dur exhausted wook-enders, he alone ing the week in Bros. Calasana can scornfully reject their half and Bernarda Maria, both of whom hearted enthusiasms about the came from Spain. warmth of the water, the splendid.

state of the roads or the fascination

of the tennis courts. He knows the illusions that these make-believe no rights if we persist in ignoring joys are, and he can declare with the basic purpose of these festivals; grim exultation, "I was at my desk we proept something for which we throughout the holidays!" Such have not paid the price, The a man must be regarded with awe; remedy, if we are to preserve our he will go far.

given away by her She carred a bouquet of arum filies and white roses, and was attended by two 'bridesmaids, Miss Susie Law and "Miss Evelyn Ribeiro who wore dresses of white net with blue satin slip and white flowered berêts to match.

The Misses Irene, Doreen and Phyllis Kennedy acted as flower- girls and looked very charming in dreases of white ne, with blue satin slip, while the bride's mother was dreped in fawn lace with hat and veil to match.

maa.

After the church ceremony which was conducted by the Rev. G. Spada, a reception was held at No.

Mr. C. J. See, was best man and self-respect, is to secularise these Mr. F. T. Kennedy was grooms holidays and to regard them! Yet it would be a sorry decree as legal and proper benefits to the that abolished all holidays, lost worker. If, by an Act of Parlia though their origin is in the miste ment, our holidays were regulated of antiquity. A holiday, by an on- and fixed on the calendar, we might SALLEH RADIO SERVICE written law, is part of the heritage, have less of the unreasonable con- Knutsford Terrace where the of the race, though it is-shameful troversies which has led to a split health of the newly married couple to realise that few of us ever con- of Church parties. At any rate, it was drunk. Later, the couple left sider, as we bathe, golf or drive, is useless to argue whether holi- for their honeymoon which is being ing away dress being of pink lace that the day which liberated us days are necessary, or not; to dept at Singapore, the bride's go- from our desks was a festival to prive humanity of them would lead with hat to match. commemorate some vital event in to a swift rebellion, for the worker,

The the history of the Church, or whatever grade, is sometimes a danger of it is that we take too philosopher and

or the factory, and out" East the much for granted something which futility of spending the whole of was bestowed on the people for the his life in carning his board and need of regulated leisure hours is observance of certain rites; indit- lodging. Men bust have leisure in

even greater than it is at Home. ferently we scorn the rites but de- which to develop that part of them With there thoughts uppermost in mand the rights. Actually, we have which they leave outside the office our minds, let us look forward to (Continued at foot of next Column) (Continued at foot of next Column) › the next Bank Holiday ! -

Radio Sets and Parts For Sale

JOHN LO & co.

HIGH CLASS SHOE-MAKERS' 224, Nathan Road, KOWLOON. Latest design, best workmanship at very reasonable prices.

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STANDARD CARS

Agents

Alex Ross & Co. (China), Ltd.

KOWLOON GARAGE

CHINA LIGHT & POWER Co. (1918), Ltd.

Aiding In The Development of Kowloon and the New Territories by

PROVIDING ELECTRICITY

for

LIGHT-HEAT POWER

USE MORE ELECTRICITY

Economical-Convenient-Attractive

Head Office

St. George's Bldg.

Tel. 28$37

Kowloon Office 27, Nathan Road.

Tel. $7677

The Blue Taxicabs Limited.

NOTICE,

Our Patrons are hereby notified that from the 1st day of May, 1938 the fares for taxicab hire will revert to the old tech-Le, 40 cents Firat mile and ten öenta for each subsequent Quarter i

mile.

In Addition the Company will run gmail taxicabs from New Ferry Pier Stand at Jordan Road, Kawigon, the tariff to be 40 cents firet mile and 5 cents per quarter mila for subsequent mileagS

Also public cars for hire Day and Night?......

4 senter car at $2.40 per hour.

7

n $5.00 $4.20

Waiting time at half charge.

For large and small cabs or publlo cars Ring 87417 and 67714 and car will be sent immediately from nearest stand.

Office and Garage

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