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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE

REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND .

PASSENGER SERVICE.

LONDON SERVICE-

KF. of the GARTER 6th Juna HELENUS BURYLOCHUS TEUCER

(Direct)

London & Hamburg. 6th June London, Rotterdam & Hamburg -13th June London, Amsterdam & Antwerp 20th June London, Rotterdam & Hamburg LIVERPOOL SERVICE (Direct or via Continental Ports) EURYDAMAS 2nd June, Havre & Liverpool

YANOTSZE

PHEMIUS

IXION

TALTHYBIUS

20th Juno Genos, Marsailles, Liverpool & G'gow 2nd July Marseilles, Havre & Liverpaol

PACIFIC SERVICE

(via Kobe and Yokohama)

30th May- Victoria, Seattle & Vancouvar 20th June. J

NEW YORK

DEUCALION

ALCINOUS

PYRRHUS

SERVICE

(via Suez or Pabama)

3th June.

15th June.

viz Saer

Via Suez

PASSENGER SERVICE

21st June for Shanghai PYRRHUS 18th July for Singapore & London 15th Aug. for Singapore & London MENTOR

For Freight and Passage Rates and all Information Apply to :-

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

(JOHN SWIRE & SONS, LTD.)

AGENTS.

SIAMESE STEAMSHIP

COMPANY.

Sailings from Hongkong

For

BANGKOK...******** ***

Steamers.

To Sail.

Laen Samud ...31st May at p.m.

For further particulars apply to :~~-~

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

(JOHN SWIRE & SONS, LTD.)

Agents.

Tel. 36

KERR STEAMSHIP CO., INC.

Service to New York, via Panama Canal

S.S. "GRANDE GAARD"

For Manila and New York. sailing on or about

the 6th June.

For freight and particulars, apply to

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

Agents.

T. K. K.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA

S. S. "BIYO MARU” (FREIGHTER)

8,800 Tons Dead Weight

will be despatched on or about June 11th. For JAVA & NEW YORK (via Suez) Taking cargo for BATAVIA, SAMARANG, SOURABAYA

Tel. 2374 & 2375.

& NEW YORK.

Y. TSUTSUMI.

Manager. King's Building.

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE ADMIRAL LINE,

The Steamship

WEDNESDAY, MAY 31. 1922.

SINGAPORE'S HOUSING-

PROBLEM.

(Continued from Page 33

BRITAIN AS MODEL FOR

UNITED STATES.

American Industrial Specialists Advice.

It has been easy to convincə foreign legislative bodies that they had to guard the country against American competition, not from honest American com panies, but against American companies that through and through-as revealed by American authorities them. selves.

were crooked

not only to control the height of

Let us quarrel among ourselves sky scrapers, or limit the building | if we must, but should wa not try power of owners on town sites, as to present a united front when * INDEPENDENCE*

soms people might suppose: but dealing with the peoples-and aven to secure good roads and the markets-of other landa? having arrived from New York, plenty of them, "One of the Asts an industrial specialist in vis ports, on May 29th. con-moss impartant functions of the the Philadelphia Public Ledger, signees are bereby notified that Improvement Trust will always The character, the reputation, tha their cargo is being landed at their be to bring into being, by means standing of great Americans have risk into the Hazardous and/or either direct or indirect, more been too frequently crippled in Extra-Hazardous: Godowns of housing of every kind_required." their efforts to capture foreign the Hon Shan Godown Co., and We leave the Deputy Chairman's markets by the unfriendly at storod at consignees' risk.

article to speak for him. It be titude toward them by our own Consignees of cargo must pro-can carry the authorities with Government public bodies. duce an Import Permit signed by him and get permission for the

For example, when a foreign the Superintendent of Imports erection of cheaper houses, even legislative body has been discuss and Exports, Hongkong, before if they be of wood with attan ing proposed legislation that Bills of Lading will be counter-roofs is a temporary measure, he would affect American corpora. signed.

will deserve well of those who are tions, competitors of these cor All broken, chafed and damag now, suffering from baving to payporations have bsd foreign ed cargo is to be left in the Go-Jan undus proportion of their in-lawmakers stand up and read ex- downs, where it will be examined come in house tank. The contracts from governmental denun- at 10 am. on June, 5th. by the siderable number of houses of the cistions of the American corpora. Company's Surveyors, Messrs.better classes now being advertis- tions concerned. Anderson and Aah.

led shows that in the upper circles All claims must be presented the shortage is not so koon as it within thirty days of the steamer's was, and the facilities for secur- arrival here, after which theying accommodation other than in cannot be recognised. No Claims bouses, that is in flats and hotels will be recognised after the goods and boarding houses, are on the have left the Godowns, and cargo increase. True the prices asked undelivered on and after June, are very high still, but owners will 6th. will be subject to rent. soon come to recognise that it is better to accept a low rent rather than none, especially if the re-

American packers have suffer- fund of assessment on racsated particularly severely in foreign houses be confined to those which markets from this sort of thing. have been vacant for six months. Our own authorities have paint- For other classes of house, theed the packers as the blackest of small bungalow suitable for the black sheep. And these charges clerk in an office, the terrace have been used as weapons by house, or whatever form of build- foreign competitors. ing is decided on, there is an

Yet when the British Board of urgent demand. Can that demand Trade conducted an investigation be met by the means suggested into alleged coddemnable prac- by Captain Richards? Un-tices of American packers in doubtedly it can be in time, Brazil it could not find that these but those who oppose the packers bad bean guility of any present

withdrawal of res dishonourable conduct in South triction will bave the best of the America. The president of the argument, if relief cannot be given | Beard of Trade was fair enough soon. The Ordinance permitting to tell the House of Commons the realisation of the Deputy that no complaint had made of Chairman's dreams is

not yet unfair trading by American com- passed. When it is there will be panies beyond several cutting of &long interval before the houses prices for purposes of developing have their roofs on, and as for irade or clearing surplus stocks." fading money for aiding the

Standard Oil interests have building of those temporary suffered similarly. In their bat- houses that may not be an easy ties for foreign trade and for task, for the security of such foreign concessions in develop buildings, unless exceptionally oil properties they have encoun well constructed. will be small. tered opposition buttressed by the Given the land, there should be presentation of damaging state. no difficulty in persuading privatements made against them by enterprise to step 15, unless the American authorities. conditions of building are made Many have the idea

No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected.

Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature immediately.

PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO., United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation,

Managing Agents, THE ADMIRAL LINE. 5th. Floor. Union Building. Hongkong, May, 29th. 1923.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS,

LIMITED.

From ANTWERP, MIDDLESBRO, LONDON and STRAITS. The Steamship

2.1.

that

"BEN DORAN" Consignees of cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazar dons and/or extra hazardous Go- downs of the Hongtong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from the too stringent Captain Richard's America is such a vast, rich, fer- wharves delivery may be obtained. scheme. however, seems to cou-tile and populous country that No claims will be admitted template public provision of hous- there is no need for seeking to do after the Goods have left the ing accommodation, on the Kam business with anybody but pur- Godowns, and all Goods remain-pong Kapor land. It will take selves. Statistics are quoted to ing undelivered after the lat. long time to get through the show how large a percentage of June, will be subject to rent. preliminaries: meantime tenants our total business is done inside All claims against the steamer sweat in hovels. Public housing our own borders, and it is then must be presented to the Under-in Britain has been a failure and figured that the comparatively signed on or before the 8th Jane, the world there is rejoicing at the few billions of trade we do with or they will not be recognized. prospect of private operations be other countries is of oo conse-

All broken, chafed and damaging resumed, it being cheaper

quence. ed Goods are to be left in the now to build a house than to buy

This, of course, is fatally short- Godowns where they will be er one. Some such result may fol-sighted. No industrial -nation amined on the 1st, June, at 10 low here. There is one point on ever yet reached supremacy by which we should like again to lay confining its trading to its own No Fire Insurance has been stress, and that has to do with shores. Foreign trade and ships effected.

the difficulties of sites. There is have gone hand-in-hand with Bills of Lading will be counter-ample land in reasonable distance national dominance. And, great signed by

from the centre of the town which though America admittedly is, GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO., could be used for temporary she cannot hope to gaio" and housing; and much that ought maintain international commer. to be ased for permanent cial supremacy if she acts on the house property. It was bought assumption that it is a matter of in the land boom at boom ao moment whether we let our prices, and the OWD9%8 are foreign commerce delay or not. sitting upon it, waiting for the We, as a nation, might profit- HEALTH IS THE REWARD next boom. Meanwhile the town ably take a leaf out of Britain's of cleanliness inside and out. Tois starving for bouses Vacant book and Germany's book in keep clean and healthy inside use land, or even lead that is not this matter of getting behind Pinkettes when necessary. As being fully utilised, should be rather than in front of our assessment at an powerful business enterprises gently sa nature they dispel con- subject to stipation, regulate the liver, cure. increasing rate, sxy the addition when they sally forth to conquer of one per cent. for every year it foreign markets. British and biliousness, sick headaches.

financial, dizziness, clear the skin and purify lies idle. Land is down enough, German industrial,

it will be said. So it is, but it shipping, insurance and other com sell ought not to be allowed to lie idle panies could never have gained when so many people are looking the place they did gain in foreign for house accommodation which markets had their Governments the first essential is land. Singa- not accorded them the most pare Free Press.

sympathetic support.

LIMITED.

Agente. Hongkong, 25th. May, 1922.

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