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BRITISH SHIPPING
FOREIGN RESTRICTIONS
FOREIGN OFFICE PROTEST,
THE CHINA MAIL.
Archibald Hurd writes in the Daly Telegraph-
the
measures
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COMPANY REPORT.
A B.. WATSON & CO., LTD,
Company for the year under review, after pro- viding for all bad and doubtful dobta, sinovat
.to
To which has to be sidded the balance brought forward from last year
Leaving available for
appropriation we propose To pay a dividend of 10
per cent. which will absorb
Place to Reserve Fund Write off Building In-
provements, Furniture, Fittings, and Utensils of Trade Write off Aerated Water and other Plant and Machinery.
Write of Launch, Lighter, Motor junks and Motor Lorries.... Pay to Staff Provident
Fand
And carry forward to
next account
$211,600.67
21,230,98
$232,891,66
$90,000.00 25,000.00
25,000,00
25,000.00
.6,000.00
5,000.00
57,831,66
$232,831.65
that there will be a good many protests, But we are poenliarly affected, because a score and more of British lines, trading to South Africa, South America, and the East. have been in the habit of putting into The Report of the General Manager Portuguese ports en route to the great of Messrs. A. Watson and Co., advantage, not perhaps of Portuguese Ltd., for the year ended October shipowners, whoare a very small body, In the report of the Departmental but undoubtedly of the Fortuguese 31, 1921, fr presentation to the Committee on Shipping and Ship. community as a whole, for they have shareholders at the 87th. Annual building, which was published to secured cheap een transport. The Ordinary General Mesting of the wards the end of the war, reference latest decros was to have been put in Company (since its registration) to be was made to the unfair treatment force on Jan. 1. To take one clause held at the Hobgong Hotel on which British shipping received in only, the insistence on foreign shipping Tuesday, March, 14 1922, at 11.50 the ports of some countries, Germany paying ita dues in gold would mean being a conspicuous culprit. It was that those shipowners would pay about.., is as follows:- hoped that, as result of the war, and fifty times as much as the Portuguese. The Net Profits of the particularly of the admitted services That is merely an illustration of the which the British mercantile marine extent to which this legislation would, rendered to the Allies, as well as to act in restraint of trade, at a time the United States, an unpleasant when it is suffering, goodness knows, chapter in international relations had from sufficient handicape as a result of benn definitely closed, and that no the war. And, after all, Portugal bas more would be heard of measures a comparatively small volume of which aim at the freedom of tonnage less than 300,000 tons. On the scas mader peace conditions. the other hand, she sends to the United For the phrase "freedom of Kingdom annually goods to the value Seas" is meaningless unless of approximately £7,000,000, which it connotes also freedom of the ports represents something approaching and freedom of contract. Those are one-fifth of bor exports. To penalise the principles by which we in this British shipping is to penalise country stand, and we go further Portuguese trade. than that and pasociate freedom in all
PROPOSED U.8. RESTRICTIONS. matters of ses transport with freedom It is understood that the Chamber of trade, treating foreign goods exact of Shipping of the United Kingdom is ly as we treat Britash goods. We do actively studying the position, and not even accord preferential treat small wonder! For the action of ment to our own coasting vessels. It Portugal may be regarded አዊ is to be feared that those hopes must symptomatic of the new nationalism be abandoned. The war left behind which is endeavouring to find it, as an unwelcome legacy, a highly expression in other countries, as, for sensitive and over-developed spirit of instance, in the United States. It will nationalism in some countries, and be remembered that what is known as that is finding expression in a number the" Jones Shipping Act "was passed of ways, which must prove not ouly some time ago by Congress. It has injurious to smooth international remained more or less a dead letter. trading, on which the economic salva-But soon, possibly within a few days, tion of the world depends, but must the President will state what is to be prove enormously expensive to done to make its clauses for those who put such machinery favouring American shipping effective. in motion. After all, if protective Mr. Albert Lasker, the chairman are applied to national of the United States Shipping Board,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS. shipping by any country, its tax in a statement pablished in the
The existing Board of Diretors. payers have to pay the bill in higher "Journal of Commerce Annual Re- prices for what they buy and lower view" (Liverpool), has stated that consists of the Hon. Sir C. P. Chater, prices for what they sell, though at the Jones Bill must be given life by C.MG., Mr. J. Foott Harston, and Mr the same time foreigners who are the present Beard." In bis opinion B. P. White, who now retire, but be- penalised, suffer. The one involves this measure is The Magna Charta ing eligible offer themselves for re- the other inevitably.
election. of America on the seas,” and so steps Portugal, our ally for centuries, are to be taken under its shelter sad conspicuously during the Work) simed to encourage Ameritaat ship- The Company's Accounts have been War, furnishes a conspicuous example ping and discourage foreign shipping, audited by Mr. C. Bernard Brown, of wrong thinking and wrong acting, which means, to a great extent, A.C.A., and Mr. H. Greenwood, and it is not surprising that the British shipping. That is a very | A.0.A., who offer themselves for re- Foreign Office should have lodged a serious development, because human election. protest against a course of action nature being what it is retaliation is which is calculated not only to dam- always the possible result of protec ego important British shipping intez-tion, whether it be applied to trada este, bat to menace those pleasant generally or shipping. We do not political, commercial and social re-like such cut-throat business, and do lations which have existed for po not believe that in most cases it pays. many years between the two countries; That is why we are all for freedom, patriotic, because it is a boomerang. and particularly for the most gederous interpretation of the phrase "the The bear are all one, and shipping is freedom of the seas,”
so international Industry. All re- But we are always prepared to straints on shipping" are bad, and Portuguese shipping. This measure learn, and we are temperamentally particularly bad for those who apply may be thus summarised;
fighters. If the shipping of this 1. Payment of port and pilotage country, which offers hospitality to charges by foreign shipping in sterling foreign and British ships in ita porta In the case of Americar shipping at par, and by native shipping in without discrimination, is to be any favour shown to that industry Portuguese currency, thus subjecting treated unfairly in foreign ports we must be paid for by the farmor of foreign steamship owners to charges may be driven to set against the Kansas, the miner of Arizona, and much higher than their Portuguese principles we have hitherto preached the industrial worker of Indians. And competitors,
and practised. And that conree in the and the American mercantile might lead to a remarkable develop marine would be a hothouse plant ment, for we in these islands do not instead of a healthy growth, and stand alone in the world. We are | might even find itself penalised in the 3. Preferential treatment to Por- one of a group of nations, which, with ports of the British Empire, as well tognese shipowners with respect to dependencies, have a population of as in other foreign ports. Mr. Lasker taxes, licences, and other charges, hire 440,000,000 people-four times as talks of the necessity of American or concession of ground, and cleating many people as are to be found even in exports being carried in Ameri from porta on the day of sailing. the United States. Now, if restrictive can" bottoms," and mach the same 4. Tax on all passage tickets issued measures are enforced against British language is sometimes used in other to foreign steamers trading to porta shipping there is always the possibili- countries, But American exports are in Portuguese colonies, provided a ty-I put it no higher than that-that other nations imports, and these service of steamers is maintained to all these nations, united as the world other nationals are as much interested theas ports by Portagasse lines. saw during the Great Wat in every in their carriage at the cheapest 5. Tax on passage "faren booked in not, might decide to co-operate in possible rates as the American pro- Portugal for porta other than those in peace in fighting for the existence of ducers. If the cost of transport is so Portuguese colonies. (This clause British shipping. We should not high as to affect the price to the applies also to Portuguese ships, but adopt any such retaliatory policy will buyer, why, the buyer usually has they would ot be seriously affected, ingly, and it would be bad for inter another market
which he can go, as Brazil is the only country outside national trade, but it is a develop and if he has not he can usually Portuguess colonies to which Portu ment that cannot be ignored if other create one. What British shipowners guese passenger ships at present countries are tempted to penalise generally may think of this spread of trade.)
any shipping except their own nationalism to the sea I do not pro
to their mutual advantage.
A PORTUGUESE DECRES,
A decree has been passed in Lisbon which is ostensibly intended to foster
2. Reduction in Customs duties on the import and export of goods in Portuguese bottoms.
AUDITORS.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, March 3, 1922.
them.
In a sense this is an international, on the mistaken ples that foss to say, but I can see most re rather than a purely British matter, they are thereby doing something markable possibilities, and in the end because all foreign chips" are which is patriotio. Of course British shipping and British trado treated alike, and we may asUMO SUO action is not really would certainly not suffer,
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UP
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DO: MISS JOLLY- OUT FOR A STROLL?
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 193
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
REDUCTION IN PRICES,
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We are pleased to notify our customers and the public that the following réductions in prices will come into force as FROM Ist MARCH -
ICE
from 14 cts. per lb. to 14 cts, por lb.
BUTTER
Daisy" from $1.10 to $1.00 per lb.
Dairymaid" $1.00 to .90
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All our other prices remain unaltered in spite of
the Strike."
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd.
AT WHITEAWAY'S
IMPORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENT
REDUCTION IN PRICES.
We have revalued our entire steak and bave re-marked the same in accordance with this low prices now ruling in the markets at home. This has meant a considorable reduction in our selling prices and we are now able to offer the public of Hongkong BETTER VALUE THAN
EVER,
DOUBLE ALARM CLOCK
Alarm Clocks Similar to "Illustration but without second band. Two belle, Good loud tone. Size of dial 4 inėles.
NOTE THE PRICE $2.50 BACH.
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