1941-01-06 — Page 11

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

PRESIDENT LINER

Sailings

fo SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES

ria SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT"

S.S. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND"

Jun. 17 Jan. 31.

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

via MANILA, SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO,

HOMBAY and CAPETOWN.

S.S. "PRESIDENT TYLER"

S.S. "PRESIDENT MONROE”

-Jan. 9

Feb. 9

To MANILA

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT"

S.S. “PRESIDENT CLEVELAND”,

Jar. IC Jan. 24

AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES

“ROUND-WORLD SERVICE”

AGENTS FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL & WESTERN AIR

AND UNITED AIR LINES

12, PEDDER ST.

1

TEL. 28171..

N.Y.K. LINE

SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Honolulu,

KAMAKURA MARU YAWATA MARU

Tuesday. 4th Jan. Tuesday, 28th Jan.

Saturday, 25th Jan.

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER (Starts from Kobe)

HEIAN MARU

SOUTH AMERICA (WEST COAST) via Hilo & San

Francisco.

AKAGI MARU (starts from Kobe) Wednesday, NEW YORK via Japan & Panama

• NOZIMA MARU

Tuesday,

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila.

SUWA MARU

• TOTTORI MARU

HAIPHONG, SAIGON

Tuesday,

& MADRAS

Sunday, (Cargo accepted for Haiphong & Saigon)

BOMBAY via Singapore & Colombo,

* MATUE MARU

HAKONE MARU

18th Jau.

21st Jan.

28th Jan.

19th Jan...

Sunday,

5th Jun.

Sunday,

12th Jan.

Monday, Tuesday,.

13th Jan.

28th Jan.

RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore

GENOA MARU

TOBA MARU.

KOBE & YOKOHAMA

KAMO MARU

KAMAKURA MARU

YAWATA MARU

* Cargo only.

Tuesday, 14th Jan. Wednesday, 2nd Jan. Tuesday,

28th Jan.

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TRAVEL A.-O. LINE

Tō AUSTRALIA

Calling at Manila, Thursday Island, Cairns, Towns- ville, Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne, etc.

NEXT SAILING MIDDLE OF JANUARY, 1841.

For Freight or Passage apply to:

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

Tel No. 28332.

Agents.

1. Connaught Road.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP

CO., LTD.

SAILINGS FOR SWATOW, AMOY & FOOCHOW & RETURN (Sailings temporarily suspended)

"KWANGCHOWWAN-HONGKONG SERVICE Weekly sailings from Hong Kong

For particulars of Freight & Passage apply to:-

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,

General Managers.

F.&O. Building, 5th Flour.

Tet Nos. 28037 & 28038.

BUS CONDUCTORS REFUSE TO GIVE FIVE-CENT PIECES SUCCESSFUL AS CHANGE FOR

FOR FARE TENDERERS

NOTIFIED Hoarding For New Year:

Copper Coin Shortage

CHANGERS'

ESTAB-

The following names of success- ful' tenderèrs are notified:-

For manire bins at Kennedy Town cattle depot-Messrs. Tung Shan & Co.

ON FRIDAY, DEC. 13, 1940, 20 MONEY

For A.R.P. report centre at Sal LISHMENTS WERE FINED. BETWEEN $100 AND $80 on their be- Yee Street, Mongkok-Messrs. Fook ing convicted on the charge of demanding from their clients aLee & Co. higher premium on changing ane denomination of Hongkong" cur- For alterations and additions to rency into copper coins than Government's premium of half of one public latrine near Main Street, per cent as published in the Government Gazette of July 25, 1940. Sai Wan Ho-Messrs. Kin Lee &

It will be recalled that, during the hearing of the case, Mr. F.W. Co., Shaftain, Assistant Director of Criminal Intelligence (Crime), asked For providing and fixing water the Maristrate to take a serious view of the ease 85 in issuing a storage tanks at certain medical premalam list daily, the defendants were openly defying the Govern Institutions-Messrs. Lee Yu Kee. ment's order. Mr. Shaftain added that the hoarding of the copper. For incinerator house at Queen coins by defendants had been the cause of a great shortage of these | Mary-Hospital-Messrs, Foot Lee & coins; and that their practice of charging a higher premium was not Co. only detrimental to business but also seriously affected the poor,

Money changers have to obtain Ticket sellers of the Hongkong licences to carry on their trade, and Yaumati Ferry Co. Ltd.. and they are only allowed to have received instructions not to

For Medical, Department contract one give change, to third-class pas-Messrs. Asia Co.. Messrs. Grand charge a premium of half of per cent or 50 cents per $100. sengers who tender 10-cent coins:

Magasin General, Messrs. Dairy Bus conductors, on the other hand, for a 3-cent fare, and not even Farm. Ice and Cold Storage Co.. are apparently permitted to carry for two of such fares, Tram con- Ltd. on their private exchange business ductors give back a 3-cent tram,

For transportation of Govern- without let or hindrance.

coupon and 4. copper cent as ment stores-Messrs. United De- change for a 10 cent plece on aivery Co., Ltd. 6-cent ride.. Bus conductors on For supply of tricycle number both sides of the harbour refuse to plates-Messrs. "Jardine Engineer- give any change whatsoever buting Corporation Ltd. simply demand the exact fare!.

With the approach of the Chi- nese New Year and the growing demand for 5-cent pieces (for use as "lucky money" or "laisee," the Chinese equivalent of candy money). the value of these coins gradually appreciate until it reaches 10 per cent (or 18 to the dollar) on or about Jan, 12.

During the intervening period, bus conductors reap in as many 5-cent coins as they possibly could None of these coins are given out by them, but are demanded in pay- ment of the fare.

For reinforced concrete wall and wire fence. etc. at Government Stores, North Point-Messrs. Hsin Chong & Ca

:1

As the export of copper coins speculating in the hopes-or off has long been prohibited, it would chance of Government rescind- be most interesting to knowing the order? There must be where the large number of these some reply to this question of Hongkong coins have disappeared shortage but what it is is known to. Surely, the hoarders are not only to the hoarders.

WEATHER REPORT Hongkong Royal Observatory 10 a.m., Jan. 5.

Humidity. 78 per cent. Wind Direction; E Wind Force (Beaufort) 5. Temperature: Maximum yesterday

80 F.

Every morning aunng the past week a reporter of the Hongkong Barometer, fat sea level) 30.17 Dally Press has noted that during

ins. the entire trip from Kowloon City Temperaturc, 70 F. to the Star Ferry wharf, the conductor of the bus he happened to be travelling in had refused to give change to passengers, At every stop the conductor repeated his parrot-cry, "No. 5-cent piece don't board the bus," even after he had been collecting these colna from some 15 or 20 passengers during | part of the tripl

Temperature: minimum last night

66 F.

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE

Data

From 6 to 12 Jan. 1941.

Low WATRE

Hong

Halght.

HIGH WATER.

Hong

Kong Standard

Kong

Standard

Time.

Time

h. m.fl

h. m.

Hola.

Moa. 6 Tues.

01 29.

48

08 04

2 7

16:38

5 4

92 48

140

0243.

4

0948

30

-17 18

8

0581

40

00 16

13 5

-17 54

6 0

10 42

3 2

Thar,

B

07 16

13 9

01.09

2 9

1897

16 4

17 30

3 4

Fri. 10

08 $2.

40

01 52

24

1859

a 8

12 22

13 4

Sat. ឃ

.Son.

09 07

4 T

02 97

17

19:37

73

13 08

3 4

12

09 39

4 4

03.06

12

'96 11

7 61 1362

13 3

Maximum temperature. 71 F. Minimum temperature, 66 F. Rainfall, nil

Ramfal for 24 hrs. ending 10th Wed.

today. nil.

Total rainfall since January

23. Against an average of, 0.11 ms. Sunset tonight, 5.53 pm, Sunrise tomorrow, 7.04 a.m.

5-CENT PIECE OR GET-OUT- In this connexion. it would be interesting to learn whether there Is" any Ordinance, or Section of

4 p.m., Jan. 5. an Ordinance connected with the

Barometer (at sea level), 30.06 ins. franchise, or any Government Or- Temperature. 67 F. der, which reserves to the bus Humidity. 78 per cent. companies (and other transportawind Direction, E tion concerns) the right not only wind Force. (Beaufort), 5 to refuse to give REASONABLE

change but also to ask a passen.

ger unable to produce the EXACT

fare to leave the vehicle. In other CHINA NAVIGATION

words, can a.person tendering a

10-cent coin for a five cort, ride be asked to leave the bus, or tram, because the conductor is unable or unwilling to give change?

OR

Perhaps the Police, or the Kow- loon Residents Association. could take this matter up with the Kow- loon Motor Bus Co. Ltd., 35 several occasions passengers - particularly men and women of the country bampkin" type have been ordered to leave the bus just because they could not produce the exact fare and the conductor was unwilling (not unable, for in all instances 5-cent coins had previously been collected by the conductor) to give change.

.COPPER CENTS ALSO While on the question of hoard- ing of rubsidiary coins, Govern- ment could perhaps carry out Investigations in connexion with the shortage of copper cents. This shortage has now become so acute that some stores are using coupons as legal change!

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MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1941, —PAGE 11!

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