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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

PRESIDENT LINER

Sailings

TO SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES

via SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT"

S.S. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND".

July 17

Aug. ⚫

Aug, 16

Aug. 94

* S.M. "PRESIDENT PIERCE"

S.S. "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE""

* Omits Yokohama.

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

via MANILA, SINGAPORE, PENANG COLOMBO,

B

BOMBAY and CAPETOWN

S.S. "PRESIDENT ADAMS"

July 21

S.S. "PRESIDENT HARRISON"

Aug 16

To SINGAPORE & PENANG

S.S. "CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO"

Aug. 19

S.S. "CITY OF LOS ANGELES"

Ang. is

To SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES

DIRECT

3.5. "CITY OF NORFOLK"

8.S. "CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO"

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TAXI MEN PRAY FOR RAIN

Singapore's cabbies

rub their hands with glee everytime they hear raindrops falling. for it means dollars and dollars of ex- tra fares.

Taxi cab company officials cal- culate that a single shower of rain lasting about half an hour, in the morning, at noon or in the late afternoon, will bring in $2,000 extra money for the day.

The average number of tele- phone calls for cabs from the de- pots is one every five mlautes, peak periods being in the morn- ing and in the late evening.

in the Yellow Top cab depot the average is higher, being 30 cabs every hour. "But let it rain," said an official of the General Transport Company who owns, these cabs, "and every one of our 70 cabe is out.. within 20 minutes And after that it is heavy going for the telephone operator who hard- ly takes his ear off the re- ceiver.

In

Singapore. taxts earn an average of $7 a day each. Mare than 700 drivers are employed and their total average earnings for their companies are a little less than $4.500 daily.

Malaya's Agricultural Trade: Official

"Malaya's agriculturists, may well sigh for the good old days. The country imports considerable quantities of the agricultural products needed for food, but for ten years, except for brief periods of sharp rises followed Immediately by a sudden fall, prices of home produced arricultural products have steadily declined. Today, except in the controlled industries, prices are mostly lers than half what they were in the days of 29.

same

In 1929 for example Malaya's try, is now growing much more of copra fetched $9.45, apicul. To the foodstuffs she once imported day you get $3.80 for the

During the 1938-39 season. the quandty, Malaya's off palm in- rice crop yielded ̈341,453 tons' dustry has grown considerably from 753,240 acres. Only in since its early beginnings in 1939. single abnormally productive sea- was son some years ago has the yield but whereas the price then £28.6.3 a tan, last year it was been exceeded, and the continued Just £13.17.7.

increase of rice land resulting Rubber's seismographic history from the opening up of new areas Is too well known, but rubber In Perak. Selangor and Negri growers can look at the figures sembilan, promises, bigger pro- of years ago and today with calm, duction figures next year. for they are about the same.

POPULAR CROP

Pepper? Malaya sold a picul of it at $57.31 in 1929 but today the Tobacco has become a popular pepper dealer receives only 38.1 crop with market gardeners for every time he sells a picul!

its suitability for rotation with For the past few years the mar vegetables and its ready cash re- ket prices for most of the export turn, The leaf is bought by local products of Malayan agriculture, Chinese-owned factories for mana- says Mr. D. H. Grist, agricultural facture into cheap cheroots which economist attached to the Agri-And a ready sale. amongst cultural Department, have heen Malaya's "thousands of poorer la- at a low level.

During the latter half of 1938 there was a sharp upward move ment of prices, but in the middle of the next year they dropped and have continued doing so ever since.

Rain brings griles also to Bin- papore's ricksha-pullers. One owner, who himself hires out 130 But there is one exception to rickshaws, calculates that the all th

total extra money earned by Singapore pullers during a shower amounts to more than $2,000.

PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY

Reorganisation put the pine-

fairly firm foundation and the Central Board of Pineapple Packers set to work and kept a fair balance between

It's an ill rain that brings ne-apple industry on a body some good.

WEATHER REPORT production costs and selling prices

by eliminating waste.

bourers.

Malaya is growing" more teu than ever but dry weather, too much of it, spotit, the crop last year. However there are signs of increasing interest in

this pro- duct.

Malaya grew more than 14. million pounds of tea Last

year

and exported 648,871 pounds of that quantity. "It is probable" says Mr. Grist, "that Malayan production 17 the future will still further bring about a reduction in the amount which is imported." That amount is" at present 3,533,806 pounds a year, With regard to the oil palm But of all Malaya's agricul- Industry where export prices of turists, the sago producers are 1929 and last year bear the most happlest today and face, a rosy astounding differences" in prices, future for the trade is flourish- there appear to be happier days ing, says Mr. Grist, exports and ahead, for since the outbreak of valyes being higher today

than Wind Force (Beaufort), 3.

war there has been greater in the average of the past twenty Temperature; maximum yesterday.terest shown in both of palm pears, Last year Malaya. pro- products and coconut oil, and duced sold 9,031 tong of sago and Temperature: minimum last night. prices have risen slightly but got $1,554,588 for it. (Malaya

stendfly as a result,

Tribune).

Hongkong Royal Observatory

10 tune 14. Barometer, (at sea level). 29.62 ina, Temperature, 87 F. Humidity, 74 per cent. Wind Direction, W/8.

91.

81. Rainfall for 24 hrs. ending 10th

today, 0.14 ins.

For copra, however, the cot- trolled price in the United King

www

Salesian House, Cowley, occupied Total rainfall since January 1st. dom leaves producers with the by the Battersea Salesian College, prospect-of-continued low prices. since they were evacuated to Ox-

78.37 ins..

Against an average ui, a3.38 ins. Sunset tonight, 7.11 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 5.43 a.m.

4 p.m., July 14. Barometer (at sea level), 29.61 ins Temperature, 86 F. Humidity, 79 per cent. Wind Direction, 8.

Wind Force (Beaufort), 3: Maximum temperature, 88 F. Minimum temperature. 81 F. Rainfall, mil

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 16 to 21 July 1940.

Date of

Month.]

Height:

Low WATER-

Hong

Kong

Standard

Time

Height,

If Malaya has been getting ford, was damaged by fire, the. small prices for most of her Don Bosco ball suffering the worst. agricultural exports, there has There are 20 evacuees of the been a balance in that the coun- college, of whom 80 sleep in.

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SINGAPORE PORT "SWETTERDAM and Pirano.

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Hong

Kong

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Time.

HAIPHONG.

CANTOF.

Mon. 15

b. m.

18 2 19 19

...

1301 19

Tues, 18

Wed. 17

G630 20 30 07 99

6 6 [41]

23 30

1355

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1439

Thur, 18

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2200

44

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Fri,

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39

Bal 20:

San. 21

4 1652

00557.3 29 48 0038 73

23 20 4-6

1014

23 54

146

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1024 10, 6

03 29 13.0

17.00 107

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