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via SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU

S.S. "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"

5.8. "PRESIDENT PIERCE"

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT"

"

Fob. 93 Mar. 0 Mar, 19

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

vis MANILA, SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO,

BOMBAY and CAPETOWN

S.S. "PRESIDENT GRANTO

8.8. "PRESIDENT JACKSON"

9.8. "PRESIDENT HAYES"

Mar. 23 Mar. 23 Apr. 20

To MANILA

S.S. "PRESIDENT PIERCE"

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT"

S.S. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND"

Feb. 36 Mar. 11 Mar 26

To NEW YORK and BOSTON via SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES and

PANAMA

* 5.3. " PRESIDENT BUCHANAN "

+8.8. "PRESIDENT JOHNSON"

Mar 27 Apr. 13

S.S." PRESIDENT FILLMORE”

* Cargo only

May 8

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SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Honolulu.

TATUTA MARU NITTA MARU

Tuesday, 26th Feb. Tuesday, 11th Mar. SEATTLE & VANCOUVER (Starts from Kobe)

HIE MARU

Wednesday, SOUTH AMERICA (WEST COAST) via Hilo & San

Francisco.

"

SANUKI MARU (starts from Kote) Thursday, NEW YORK via Japan & Panama

Thursday.

12th Mar.

20th Feb.

20th Mar.

Wednesday,

28th Feb.

23rd Feb.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila.

* AWATA MARU

HUSIMI MARU

SAIGON

* DAKAR MARU

Sunday, (Cargo accepted for Saigon), a BOMBAY via Singapore & Colombo.

ANYO MARU

++

Saturday. 1st Mar. RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore

* NAGATO MARU

KOBE &

YOKOHAMA

TATUTA MARD

ATUTA MARU

NITTA MARU

+

Cargo only:

Friday,

21st Feb.

Tuesday,

25th Feb. Monday, 3rd Mar. Tuesday, 11th Mar.

Complete Information From Your Agent or:

NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA General Passenger Agents in the Orient for CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE

N.Y.K. King's Building ?

BUDGET

NEW P.A.A. · TRANS-ATLANTIC

ROUTING

Change Necessitated

DEBATE TOMORROW

Estimates Slashed Down

The

To $52,483,294

record budget for $63,389,776, inclusive of $12,306,274 specially classed as war expenditure, introduced by the Financial

By Strong Headwinds Secretary (Hon. Mr. H. B. Butters; at the Legislative Council meet-

new trans-

maugurating Atlantic air route via Africa, the Dixie Clipper, with Wendell Wil- kle aboard. recently returned to New York from a scheduled west- bound Atlantic flight.

ing on Jan. 16 has been considerably cut by the Select Committee appointed to examine the estimates.

At the meeting of the Council tomorTEW, at 9.30 4.11... the Financial Secretary will move the first reading of a Bill to apply $52,483.294. to the public service of the flaancial year beginning on April 1, 1941, and ending on March 31, 192, and also to apply an additional sum not exceeding $832,000 to the Waterworks Re- newals and Improvements Fund for the service of that Fund in the said financial year.

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This new air routing is to con- tinue through the winter months in order to avoid the constant The Ordinance may be cited as Department 4.725.389; Miscellane- headwinds which beat upon each}

the Appropriation for 1941-1942' ous Services Europe to America westbound Ordinance, 1941, and the specified 2.846,000; Ponce. Force 1,205,845; 2,845,000; Pensions fight over the North Pacific. To expenditure is as follows:- Post Office 912203; Wireless 488,- overcome this, westbound Clippers' His Excellency the will, for the remainder of the $182,747;

Governor, 215; Broadcasting 97.955; Prisons Colonial Secretary's Department 1,096,322; Public winter months, be routed home.

Office and Legislature 308,275; Works Department 1,973,654; wold via Africa.

Audit Department 111135; Botani- | Waterworks 300,000; Public Works The Clippers on this new rout-cal and Forestry 184,201; Agricul. (Recurrent) 1,859,500; Waterworks mg leave Lisbon in the afternoon. ture 119,286; Charitable Services (Recurrent) 1,039.115; Royal Ob- flying throughout the night down 619,648; Volunteer Defence Corps' servatory 121,364; Sanitary De- the west coast of Africa,

past 150,000; Naval Volunteer Force partment 1,437,425; Secretariat for Morocco. between the Canary Is-10,000: Air Raid Precautions 288.- Chinese Affairs 138.509; Labour lands and Spanish Sahara, past 599: District Office.. North 71,824: Office 62,171; Stores Department Gambia into Balama. Portuguese District Office: South 51,523; Edu- 1.983,026; Treasury, etc.. 333,801: cation Department 2,606,024; Fire Public Works (Extraordinary) 3- Africa- flight of 1,917 miles.

Brigade 774,543; Harbour Depart- 829,594; Fisheries Research Station ment 1,566,171; Air Services 140,- 180,054; War Expenditure 12,300,- 210; Imports and Exports. Office 274: Immigration. Department |1,585,378; Supreme Court 217.863: 203,225; Total $52,483,294.

Magistracy, Hongkong 77,247: Ma WATERWORKS EXPENDITURE gistracy, Kowloon 64,420; Kow- loon-Canton Railway 917,341; Le gal Departments 263,168; Medical

Refueled, the Clippers push westward to Port of Spain. Trinidad, on the longest non- stop operation ever attempted by commercial aviation 3,180 milles. This fight is 700 miles longer than the fight between San Francisco and Honolulu " on the trans-Pacific service.

In spite of the lengthy trip. prevailing, easterly

Pokfulam District Supply $7,000; Reconstruction of waterworks de- pot and replacement of plant 45,- 000; Replacement of plant, water- works workshop. Hongkong 45,000: Bowen Road conduit reconstruc-

trades push COLONY HEALTH ton 200.000: Remove and re-erect

then on to New York.

BULLETIN

sixi

Bowen Road rapid gravity filters

at Eastern 65,000; Reconstruction

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1941. -PAGE TI

& O. S. N. CO. Passenger & Cargo Sailings

to

Straits, Ceylon, India, East & South Afnca

&

United Kingdom.

B. I. S. N.. CO. LTD.

Passenger & Cargo Sailings to Straits, Rangoon and Calcutta.

E. & A. S.S. CO. LTD. Monthly Sailings to Rabaul, East Coast of Australia and Tasmania. Also frequent sailings to Shanghai and Japan. - All vessels may call at any ports on or off the rate and the route and all sailings are subject to cancellation change or deviation with or without notice....

.but restricted.

Passengers are requested to register their requirements under present circumstances sailings are perforce

Details may be obtained from

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE.CO

of Bowen Road. service reservair | 9.50 BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL. HONGKONG, 215,000; Reconstruction of Albany service reservoir 145,000: Over-

the Clippers along with loads. twice as large as could be accom modated on the North Atlantic

The following is the Return of routing. From Port of Spain the

notified 28 flight again turas northward an-notifiable diseases other 1,600 miles to Bermuda and having occurred in the Colony seers quarters at Eastern 45.000; during the week ended at mid-Reconstruction of Kowloon Tong night on Feb. 15: Cholera,

service réservoir 10,000; Replace- cases (Ave deaths); Small-Pox, one ment of meters 45,000; Total $832,- death; Diphtheria, 10 cases (eight cou deaths) Enterle Fever, 13 cases (one death); Measles, 15 cases (four deaths); Chicken-Pox, two cases; Cerebro-Spinal Fever, severed an additional $10,000 as a re- cuses (two deaths); Dysentery. 44sult of the review by the Select cases (9 deaths); Puerperal Fever. Committee one case: Tuberculosis, 207 cases $100,000 appears under the head (128 deaths and one imported of Miscellaneous Service. case).

Trans-Atlantic route mileage is now 3,200 miles eastbound be- tween New York and Lisbon and 7,200 miles on the return trip via Africa.

PASSENGERS

DEPARTURES. FROM THE COLONY.

The following passengers left Hongkong by the Pres. Coolidge on Saturday:-

Mr. Parsram Alldas, Mr. Louis Bartholomees, Miss B, M. de Sousa, Miss F. Dumayuga, Mr. H. G. Mc- Neary, Mr. Max Nathan, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Preston. Mr. Seltaro Sakae, Mr. Dalip Singh, Mr. Gas- ton Willoquet, Mr. Antonio Wilson.

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE.

From 19 to 25 Feb, 1947.

HIGH WATEL.

Bong

Telephone 38291

TRAVEL A.-O. LINE

To AUSTRALIA

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

NEXT SAILING

EARLY IN MARCH, 1941.

"For Freight or Passage apply to:-

· BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

Tel. No. 30332.

Agents.

Connaught Road.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.

BAILINGS FOR SWATOW, AMOY & FOOCHÓW & RETURN (Sallings temporarily suspended)

KWANGCHOWWAN-HONGKONG SERVICE Weekly sailings from Hong Kong

For particulars of Freight & Passage apply to:-

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,

General Managers,

& 0: Building, 8th Floor,

Tel. Nos. 28037 & 28038.

Dats of

Month.

Kong.

Standar Time.

Haight.

LOW WATER

Bong

Kong

Standard Time

Height

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--DAILY RETURNS Returns for the 24 hours ended: at midnight on Feb. 17 are as fol- lows:-Diphtheria, one case; Mea- sles, four cases* Cerebro-Spinal Fever, one case; Dysentery, Ave cases: Tuberculosis, 46 cases.

MORE FOR CHARITY

Charitable services have receiv-

and an additional

The Harbour Department has suffered a cut of $600,000, the Me- dical Department just over $100,- 000, and Public Works Extraordin- ary $1.150.000.

The Financial Secretary will also move the following resolution:-

That this Council approves the carrying out of the works set out in the Schedule attached at an

WEATHER REPORT estimated cost of $4,416,407.84 and

Hongkong Royal Observatory

10 am, Feb. 18. Barometer (at sea level), 30.04 ins. Temperature, 63 F. Humidity, 93 per cent. Wind Direction, E/N Wind Force (Beaufort), 6. Temperature: maximum yesterday,

67 F.

Temperature: minimum last night,

63 E.

Rainfal; for 24 hrs, ending 10th |

today, 0.02 ins.

of the expenditure in the financial years 1940-41 and 1941-42 of the sums set out in columns 3 and 4 of the schedule, the cost to be met from a future loan and meanwhile to be charged as advances from the surplus balances of the Colony. pending the raising of a loan,

MEDICAL ORD.

At tomorrow's meeting of the

Total rainfall since January 1st, Legislative Council the Attorney-

6.99 ins.

Against an average'ni, 2,29 ins.

h. m.

4.12

b. m.

Wed. 19

Ther. 20

03 25

4 5

DR 03

3 1

16 22

6 0 22 47

24

007

4 1

08 65

3 5

Sunset tonight, 6.21 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 6.53 am..

16 34

€ 2.

Fri.

91.

(16.54 4 1

Snt 22

00 18 17 47 6 4 10 21 US 00 4 3 01 20

2 0 137

Sun 23

Von. 24

Tues. 25

18:53

6 6 11 52 45,020

08 55 10 4 6 12 56 09 28 4 6 02 42 20 37

70 13 47

09:47 49

03 14

21 20 17 0

14 32

4 p.m., Feb. 18. Barometer at sea level); 29.99 ins. 18 Temperature, 62 F. 3 7

Humidity, 97 per cent.

3 Wind Direction, WNW.

Wind Force (Beaufort), 4.

33 Maximum temperature, 65 F.-

| 13 ||Minimum temperature, 82 F.

20 Rainfall. 0.36 ns.

General "will move the first read- ing of a Bill to amend the Medi- cal Registration Ordinance, 1935, and a Bill to amend the Hong- kong Corps of Air Raid Wardens Ordinance, 1940.

The Attorney-General will also move the second and third read- ings of a Bill to amend the Places of Public Entertainment Regula- tion Ordinance, 1919, and a Bl to amend the Entertainments Tax Ordinance, 1930.

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