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DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE

AND

AMERICAN MAIL LINE.

JOINT TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE A Regular Weekly Sailing

TO SAN FRANCISCO OR SEATTLE THE "PRESIDENT LINERS."

TO SAN FRANCISCO VIA HONOLULU, SHANGHAI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.

"THE SUNSHINE BELT”. „

PRESIDENT TAFT...

-PRESIDENT JEFFERSON

PRESIDENT GRANT

"PRESIDENT MADISON

PRESIDENT JACKSON

Tuesday, June 21st Tuesday, July 5lb Tuesday, July 10th

Tuesday, Aug. 2nd

Tuesday, Aug 16th

THEREAFTER FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS ON TUESDAYS.

HONGKONG TO EUROPE SPECIAL LOW RATES

Via San Francisco or Seattle

£120

£112

DIRECT CONNECTIONS WITH ALL ATLANTIC LINES.

Choice of railway lines acrose United States and Canada, with liberal stop-over privileges for sight-seeing.- Ask for information. Following are suggested itinerarios:

From Hongkong

June 21

June 20

July 5

July 13

July 19

July 27

Aug 4 Aug, 16 Aug. 24 Aug. 30 Bept. 7

Aug. 10

Via

Connecting with

Steamship

9au Francison Homeric

Scattio Loviathan Ban Francisco Majestic

Sentila Berengaria San Francisco Leviathan Seattle Aquitama San Francisco Majestie

Boolllo Mauretania San Francisco Olympic

Seattle Berengarin San Francisco Bumeric

Seattle Aquitain

Froa N. York

Arriving at

July 230'beg hmpta July 28 Aug.mth O'brg Aug Aug. C'brg S'hmpto Aug Aug, 10

20

Aug. 20 Aug. 24

I.

1

Aug 2

Ang Sept 'brg-'hmptu Sept. Sept. 5

Path-Cory Sep 12 Sept. 17 C'brg-Shmptn Sept. 2 Supt. 21 'brg R'hmpin Sept. 2

Chrg-S'h

S'hmpin - Oct. 6 Chrg-Simpu Des 11

Cet.

OCL.

1

TO SEATTLE AND VICTORIA VIA SHANGHAI,

KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.

"THE FAST SHORT ROUTE"

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY

PRESIDENT LINCOLN

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND

PRESIDENT PIERCE

PRESIDENT TAFT

Wed., June 29th

Wednesday, July 13th Wednesday, July 27th Wednesday, Aug. 10th Wednesday, Aug, 24th

THEREAFTER. FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS ON WEDNESDAYS

TO EUROPE AND NEW YORK..

VIA MANILA, STRAITS, COLOMBO, SUEZ- PORT SAID-ALEXANDRIA-NAPLES

-GENOA-MARSEILLES,

Thence to BOSTON and NEW YORK.

PRESIDENT WILSON... Tues., June 21st, 6.00 a.m.

PRESIDENT VAN BUREN

PRESIDENT HAYES

PRESIDENT POLK

PRESIDENT ADAMS

Tuesday, July 5th 8.00 a." Tuesday, July 19th 0.00 .m.. Tuesday, Aug, 2nd 8.00 a.m. Tuesday, Aug, 40th 8,00 a.m.

THEREAFTER FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS ON TUESDAYS.

TO MANILA.

PRESIDENT WILSON.

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY

June 21st, 6.00 a.m. June 21st, 0.00 p.m. June 271b, 8.00 p.m. July 5th, 8.00 a.m. July

5th 6.00 p.m. For Passenger and Freight Rates apply to

PRESIDENT JEFFERSON PRESIDENT VAN BUBEN PRESIDENT LINCOLN

:

THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.

GENERAL ACENTS.

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI RANE BUILDING, GROUND FLOOR

Telephones Central 2477, 2470 & 795.

HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMERS.

H

JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD., AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

CANTON LINE.

Sailings from Hongkong-Daily at 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. f. (Sundays). Sailings from Canton-Daily at 8 a.m. and 3 pm. (Sundays 13 pm. only). The

Canton (8UNDAY 3 p.m. Stoambr from (EXCEPTED) arrival in Hongkong borth

On

Wing Lok Street Wharf.

at

All Steamers will, as usual, leave for Canton from

the Hongkong Wharf.

MACAO LINE.

FROM HONGKONG: 8 A.M. and 2 P.M. (Wednesdays only).

FROM MACAO

BA.M. and 2 P.M. (Wodnesdays only).

CURTAILED SAILINGS.

From Hongkong

2.00 p.m. "SUI TAI"

Wodnesday 15th June.

Thursday, 16th June,

From Macao

8.00 am, "SUI TAI"

8.00 a.m. "SUT TAI" SUNDAY EXCURSION.

2.00 p.m. "SUI TAI”

On Sunday, the 19th June 8.6. "BUI AN" will

depart from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf ab 9 AM. and from Macao at 3.30 P.M.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WINES AND TOBACCO.

REPORT OF SUPERINTEN- DENT OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS:

15, 1927.

WEDNESDAY:

JUNE

CONSIGNEE NOTICES.

DAIRY FARM FILTER.

DISCUSSION AT SANITARY BOARD..

"

NIPPON TUSEN KAISHA LINE.

From EUROPE and STRAITS. The Steamship,

"HAKUSAN MARU,”

CONSIGNEE NOTICES.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.:

·COPENHAGEN,

Tho M. S.

"MALAYA"

CONSIGNEE NOTICE THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED,

From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO* ANTWERP, LONDON, STRAITS and PHILIPPINES

The Steamship,

"BENDORAN". Consignoos of Cargo are hereby

That a comprehensive series of The net revenue collected on experiments, which will extend having arrived from the above ports, having arrived. Consignees of cargo liquor was $1,186,312.55 as com-

over a period of at least twelve Consignees of Cargo are hereby in ate horoby informed that all goods pared with $1.140,925.07 in 1925, months, is being undertaken by the formed that their Goods are being are boing landed and placed at their informed that all Goods are being aays the report of the Superinten P. C. M. G. and a staff of experts, landed and placed at their risk in the risk into the hazardous and/or extra landed at their risk into the hazardons dent of Imports and Exports, in connexion. with the filter re- Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf, and hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong and/or extra hazardous Godowns of Hongkong, for the year 1926.

cently installed at the Dairy Form, Godown Company's Godowns at Kawand Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf as soon as the goods are landed: from the wharvos dollvory may be Compared with normal years the Pokfulam, was mentioned by Mr. loon, whence delivery may be obtained. Ltd., where delivery can be obtained and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or

Goole not cleared by the 19th June, No claims will be admitted after obtained, collection must be considered a N. L. Smith, the Head of the Sani-

No claims will be admitted after great improvement, considering tary Department, at yesterday 1927 will be subject to rent.

Damaged packages must be left in the goods have left the Godowns and the general business stagnation afternoon's meeting of the Board. the Godowns for examination by the all goods remaining undelivered after the Goods have left the Godoras, and

The filter had only been in uso Consignce's and the Co.'s representa-

the 20th of June, 1027, 4 p.m. will all Goods remaining undelivered after and great decrease of population

he subject to rent.

the 20th fastant will be subject to since 1925. While every other for two months, said Mr. Smith, tives on any Tuesdays and Fridays,

All broken, chafed and damaged roat. has shown and the report of the Government at 2.80 p.m. within the free storage goods are to be left in the Godawn, All cinims against the steamer source of revenue

the decrease, marked

Bacteriologiat which had been Period. collected in liquor duties shows a circulated to the members in con-

All claims must be presented within where they will be examined by must be presented to the Undersigned,

18th of June 1927 at 10 am.

will not be recognized. reduction of $48,000 only as com- pared with 1924 the last normal nexion with the Dairy Farm filter, ten days of the steamor's arrival here, lasers. Anderson and Asho on the on or before the 4th July, 1927, All claims against the vessel most! All broken, chafed, and damaged year. The increase of the rate of was for those two months. He after which date they cannot be zo-

thought it would be much better cognized.

bo presented to the Undersigned be: Goods are to be left in the Godowns, duty on Chinese liquor as recorded if in future, the reports were not

fore the 22nd. of June, 1027, or they where they will be examined on the

20th instant at 10 am. elsewhere made little difference to issued until the experiments had

will not be recognised, the amount collected under this

been completed. head.

were

amount

Collections from local distillerice were not very satisfactory, several detected" defrauding the revenue, including one large dis- tillery on the island of Hongkong and several small ones in various parts of the New Territory.

the

Extensive Fraud.

Mr. J. P. Brága remarked that! both Dr. Macgown and himself had minuted in reference to the Dairy Farm alter, which thought should be entirely free from suspicion.

he

No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.

No fire insurance has been effected,

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Hongkong, June 12, 1927.

TRAFFIC CONTROL.

The public should be protected. NEW DEVICE IN CENTRE OF continued Mr. Braga, from

THE CITY.

any

possible means of contamination of the Colony's milk supply, and

The now Aga traffic signalling

In May it was discovered that large distillery had been defraud-for that reason, it was his opinion, device was installed at the junc- ing the revenue to the extent of the water from the filter should tion of Pedder Street and Des $30,000 per annum. The method not be used for any purpose at- Voeux Road yesterday and dis- tramway standard adopted was to record about half terded by the slightest risk, until places the

nmount produced, and to the result of the experiments was which formerly stood on the apot The water should not be and the two traffic policemen. account for all spirit distilled as seen. being much weaker than it really used for cleansing purposes, by The standard has been erected be- was. The illegitimate profits ao which milk might indirectly be con-tween the two sets of tramway lines and consists of a white box made appear to have gone wholly taminated.

There was no other business of arrangement with a red light on to the managing partner, who had

each of, its four sides at the top. been robbing the firm extensively, public interest.

This system, does away with the and producing a balance sheet

necessity of traffic police, the sign- showing a large loss. To dispose of the spirit ombezzled from the stances prevailing in the Colony.alling lights flashing intermittent- Distillery, on which no duty was The boycott, and lack of means ofly from the four points by both day paid, the manager had opened a communication considerably re- and night. The system neccssi- Chinese wine and spirit shop near-duced the amount of snuggling of tates that driver of motor cara ete. must reduced their speed when' by jars of spirit which had been

high grade cigarettes. inspected by the Revenue Officer

A large amount of attention was approaching the standard and al- and duly labelled, were removed in the usual course with a uns in devoted to a local cigarette fac-ways pass it on the left, that is due order to this, shop, as soon as tory. It was discovered that the with the standard always on the Previously it has been necessary the jars renched the premises the returns submitted to this office labels were removed and sent back were extremely inaccurate to the distillery, where they were misleading and that the methods for two traffic officers to be station- re-used on jars of spirit which had used by those responsible for cold at the junction of Pedder hot paid any duty, and not been lecting the data in the various Street and Des Voeux Road one passed by the Revenue Officer. sub-departments during the course of the busiest. crossings in the Co- On proceedings being taken the of manufacture rendered it quite lony. This is the firat Aga device manager absconded, and has not impossible for the general office to be installed here and after it Guess- has been given a lengthy trial it since been seen. Civil proceedings to make correct returna. were taken and a considerable work, calculation and adjustment is possible that the system will be sum was recovered from the firm.in order to make the figures extended to other points in the Colony. It has achieved consi- Nemesls, however, soon after-balance, (in some cases this was derably success in other parts of wards overtook this distillery, it not even necessary) had been sub- the world, notably in America and being overwhelmed by a severe stituted for strict methods of food in July and the premises accounting for all material used, swept bare of everything. This based on accurate weighing. disaster compelled the firm to dis- pose of the ruins of the premises.

Experiments Fruitful.

As the result of my discoveries in the above case, a series of ex- periments was carried out in several distilleries, to ascertain the time taken to produce one jar of spirits from the usual quantity

and

Scientific Control. The work of controlling the manufacture of tobacco in all its various forms in this

off-side.

Sweden.

POLO.

the

what-

A European Revenue Officer and three Chinese assistants have now been stationed permanently at the factory, and a good deal of im

SINGAPORE DEFEAT F.M.S. provement has been effected but a careful stocking at the end of

Singapore defeated the. F. M. S. in the year showed that there was still considerable room for im- the match for the MacCrae Cup, which was played on the Singapore Six ground Balestier. provement. It is understood that Club.

at the Company have decided on a chukkers were played and the game good ground. The of fermented molasses and the general reorganization of the fac was fast on alcoholic strength of the product. tory, and it is hoped that the in Colony won by five goals to three, using the type of Carnese still introduction of some better system the secrera being Heal Seng Hye,

and Stoehr for Sloper (3), comunion use. It was found that of accounting will in the future Colony, and Dalley and Yuen (2) for once the furnace had been heated

obviate any future difficulties, the FM.. S. Messrs. H. Cooke Yar- up, one jar aoult be distilled off while at the same time consider borough and R. H. Onraet acted na in 35

minutes, and that the strength was 30 to 33 per cent of ably easing the work of proper re referees.

result venue control. The complete lack aleofol by wright This was completes at variance with of any scientific data collected

over a period of years made the in- There

evidence is no the previously accepted theories

on the vestigation extremely difficult.

ever that there has been any de- which had lines based statements the distillers them-

crease in opium smoking in the use of Colony, if anything the selves, and shows the danger of relying on statements made by the

oplum le more prevalent than it trade without thoroughly testing

ever was, the majority of the adult Colony Chinese who come to the Colony them out. Revenue Officers in charge of distilleries had been is made more difficult by the fact from China being opium smokers, warned of my suspicions, but they that hitherto it has been im- though very few to excess. had been unable to prove anything possible to acquire any useful text-

Dangerous Drugs. until this concrete case was put book on the subject of the mani- Only one large seizure of dan- before them.

It was thus proved that the Chin-Pulation of tobacco during the gerous drugs was made during the course of manufacture. The to-year. Several lines of investiga- ese type of still could produce dur.bacco industry, large as it is, istion, which were pursued falled ing the working day 40 per cent one of the few industries which to result in any success, there was more spirit and of a strength high- er by 5 to 7 per cent than it had seem to possess no technical litera- undoubtedly some dealing in dan- been the custom to claim. These are. There are a large number gerous druga going on locally, but figures give some iden of the of points on which an authoriteit is probable from the enquiries amount of spirit, which some dis-tive textbook would have been of made that they were more in the the greatest assistance. Prior to nature of smugglers elsewhere tilleries thought fit to conceal; and 1926 no scientific work had been seeking to find a market for goods dispose of without paying duty.

The small distilleries in the done here on the subject of to-stored elsewhere.

The only large seizure was that New Territory North still conduct-bacco and its manufacture; during eg their business in a very un- the year Dr. Lubatti, Assistant of 8,200 ounces of heroin, which was Government Analyst, who was at despatched from Zurich via Mar- satisfactory wy, and several con- victions

obtained, and tached to this department during scilies as passengers baggage, the were several were

cautioned, where the absence on leave of the Mono-intention being to get the drugs. there was no doubt that they were poly Analyst, devoted a consider-landed in Shanghai, and it is be defrauding the revenue. Evidence able amount of time to the examl-lieved that a large amount of druge collected in many instances went nation of tobacco of various kinds. had been in this way introduced to prove that these places had been Sumcient work has now been done into Shanghai, A Japanses who paying duty on only about one-third to prove the need of constant who was travelling with the drugs of their actual production.

scientific examination in order that was convicted and sentenced to 5

During the year another large complete data may be accumulated years' Imprisonment. Arms. distillery was compelled by public on various points throughout each The seizures_of arms were less remove to the year, so that it may be possible to than in 1925. There every renson Improvements to Taun Wan district where most of compare the physical state of the to believe, however, that the suug the larger distilleries aro now numerous kinds of tobacco used situated. There are only six dis-here at different periods of each gling of arms han continued on much tilleries now left on the Island of year over a series of years. Hongkong, and it is probable that

economic causes will compol some

abundant,

mainland very soon, where land is much cheaper and water more

Tobacco. The nett revenue collected tobacco during the

Oplum.

Grms

the samo scale. Vory fow enme from U.S.A., the majority being of European manufacture. The supply of second hand Mauser

of the others to remove across the The gross revenue collected on and Luger pistols from Germany opium was $2,900,082 as compared does not appear to bo ncur exhaus with $3,465,621 in 1925. The de- tion yet, and these formed the bulk crease must be attributed partly of the armas seized. Ammunition for these automatics is, however, tuore to the effects of general business and more coming from Franco whore depression, partly to a decrease in it is specially manufactured. From on population, but mostly to the great information which came to hand was ly increased number of persons there is a probability of Belgium $1,835,036,77 as compared with who took to the purveying of resuming her former place as one $1,796,868.52 in 1926. The collec-illicit opium in small quanti-of the chief sources from which arma

for tion must be considered satisfacties

more were obtained for the illicit arms tory, considering

clrcum-honest way of earning a living trade in China.

the

year

want of

EL

No Fire Insurance will be, effected, Bills of Lading will be countersigned. od by,

. JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.

Agenta. Hongkong, June 11, 1927.

THE

No Fire Insurance has bean effect

Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by,

GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,

Agents.

Hongkong, June 18, 1927.

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Genoa, Kavro, Liverpoof & Glangow Gonda, Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow Gonos, Huvro, Liverpool & Glasgow

"LIVERPOOL SERVICE "THESEUS" 18th June "OANTA"

20th July. "ATREUS"

20th Ang. PACIFIC SERVICE

vis KOBE & YOKOHAMA, "ACHILLES"

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2nd July, 23rd July

·2nd July.. 31st July.

Victoria, Vancouver & Seattle Victoria, Vancouver Senitie

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