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Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.
KATORI MARU
ATSUTA MARU
Saturday,
Saturday,
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
AKI MARU
MISHIMA MARU
+ SETYO MARU
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
TAMBA MANU
8th August
28th July.
11th August,
25th July,
Wednesday,
Wednesday,
22nd August.
Friday, 27th July.
Saturday, 11th August..
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
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ANYO MARU
BINGO, MARU
Saturday, 18th August.
30th July.
Wednesday, 1st August, NEW YORK' und/or BOSTON via PANAMA,
+ TATSUNO MARU
Monday, LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Geneva, Marsellles,
† DELAGOA. MARU (Cals Glasgow) Friday, 17th August CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
† MALACCA MARU
Wednesday, 8th August. NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
MISHIMA MARU
Friday, 20th July. SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
† MURORAN MARU (Moji direct)... Thursday, 10th July. HAKONE MARU
Monday, 23rd July.
†Cargo only.
Subject to alteration" without notice. For further information apply to~NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Tel. Central No. 292 (Private exchange to all departments.)
SINGAPORE DOCK.
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SHIPPING
WHY DUTCH TUGS ARE BEING USED.
TOWAGE PROBLEM.
SECTION.
DOCK'S TRANSFER,
SITE FOR GENERATING STATION.
LIVERPOOL PURCHASE.
a recom
MOTOR SHIPS.
BRITISH YARDS' CONTINUED ACTIVITY.
LARGE PRODUCTION,
London, Yesterday.
The continued progress of in- ternal combustion engines is in- dicated by Lloyds Shipbuilding Returns for the quarter ending June 30, not only from the fact that 1,500,000 tons of motor ships are being constructed throughout the
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As, of course, is well-known The Liverpool City Council world as compared with 1,139,000 (writes the London correspondent agreed unanimously to
tons of steamers, but this pro- of the "Free Press"), there has mittee to apply for permission to sixty-six motor ships of 8,000 tons of construction includes mendation of the Tramways Com-gramme been considerable indignation ex-borrow $1,680,600 for the acquisi- and upwards aa contrasted with pressed in connection with the con- tion of the Clarence Dock site and twenty-one steamers of a similar tract for the new Singapore float- the erection thereon of the first size. Ing dock not having been given to tion and the installation therein of yards at present is 1,208,000 tons, stage of a capital generating sta- The total construction of British SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) yla Singapore, Cape Town & Porta membered that It was essential to with the necessary boilers, trans-tons as compared with the previous a British firm, but it has to be re-two 50,000-k.w. turbo-alternaters, representing a reduction of 288,000 employ the Dutch because they are formers, switchgear and acces-] quarter.
Bories. the only people in the world who
Britain is now producing 45 per Alderman Wilson said the advan- cent. of the world's ships na have tugs that could undertake the tage of the scheme, would be thefagainst 57 per cent, before the war. job. For a long time past the reduced cost of the generation of-Reuter. Dutch have had the cream of the electricity by using river water for big ocean-towing business. At first would get the benefit of the huge condensing purposes. Liverpool they got into it because their scheme. The Commssioners had] labour conditions permitted them shown their confidence in Liver- to quote very low prices, and they pool by seeing the excellent results are still able to underbid any tug-pool would benefit from the fact at the Lister-drive station. Liver- owners in the world. In addition, that the interest and sinking fund A large majority of vessels Dutch tugmen are willing to work charges on the capital would be ordered by Australian shipowners Very long hours and they do very guaranteed by the Central Board. In the past year or two have been well out of it on sharing terms.
One-advantage of having the supernil-engined craft. Several have; station in Liverpool was that it been constructed for the Adelaide The business of towing an un- was in the centre of the great load. 9.S. Co., one for Burn, Philps and wieldy object like the floating dock Details of the Scheme.
Co., another for the Western Aus- over thousands of miles of sea, in
The Dock Board is also to give tralian Government, in addition to all conditions, calls for the very chase the site of the Trafalgar owners.
the Corporation an option to pur-some small coasters for various highest degree of skill on the part Dock at the same price per square of all concerned, from the two yard as that for the Clarence. with coal, and here is one instance Oil is not cheap in comparison commodores downwards. Such skill can
only be obtained by Among the works carried out by where the superiority of the motor practice and the Dutch are About the Corporation will be the provi- ship does not rest solely-or per- the only people who have had son of a screening chamber on haps mainly upon the qucation of much real experience of this work. the site of the river entrance to the fuel economy.
Clarence Half-Tide Dock, intake Their ships are specially designed and discharging culverts, and a tageous for all purposes, for there Apparently the type is advan- for these jobs, and the eight tugs wall across the entrance to the are small coasters, moderate-sized which are to take out the dock in Clarence Dock, two portions, include five of the the cost of a new river wall will passenger craft, and now a vessel Three-fourths of cargo ships, small mixed-cargo and most powerful private-owned tugs be paid by the Corporation. in the world.
similar to the largest type of pus- From the engineering point of senger and cargo ship used on the Many of these are normally sta-view, the site is satisfactory. Australian coastal trade la being commodation for First Class Passengers. Electric Light and Fans in State- tioned in foreign ports for salvage There is ample area for the erec-built as a motor ship, whilst others rooms and Saloon. The as. Tal Hing" is atted with Wireless
Regular Service of Fast, High Class River Steamers Haring Good Ac work. A suggestion was made to tow the dock out with naval tuge kwe, with an adequate supply of the near future,
tion of a station up to 320,000 will very likely be ordered within These vessels leave Hong Kong for Wuchow (via Samahul, Shiching, of high power, but these ships circulating water from the river, The services
Takhing & Dosing) and return to Hong Kong (via same Ports) every five were designed for quite a differ- without any excessively expensive totalling some thousands of miles, Involve voyages
days. ent purpose, and would probably. have failed to complete the 8,500 difficult civil engineering works; but the distance between the porta mile tow.
the connections with the rallway of call is not exceptional, so that When this idea was lines over which the coal is brought from this standpoint the trades in abandoned, the underwriters made are good, and there is ample space question are not particularly in it quite clear that they would have for coal storage. Sir John Snell, favour of oil-engined craft, but one
O. S. K
SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
LONDON, HAMBURG,
ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore Colombo, Suez and Port Said. ATLAS MARU
Thursday, 9th August.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon, Singapore,
Colombo, Durban & Cape Town
MONTEVIDEO MARU
BOMBAY-Vis Singapore & Colombo.
BORNEO MARU
HONOLULU MARU
SUMATRA MARU
CANADA MARU
Friday, 10th August
Thursday, 10th July.
Friday, 3rd August,
Sunday, 19th Augnat.
DURBAN, DELAGOA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND
MOMBASA Via Singapore and Colombo.
CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Penang and Rangoon
SEATTLE MARU
Sunday, 5th August, ............................................Wednesday, 25th July.
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Shanghai and
Japan ports
LONDON MARU (from Shanghai). Monday, 23rd July.. MELBOURNE Via Manila, Brisbane & Sydney.
HIMALAYA MARU
BANGKOK-Vin Saigon.
HAIPHONGY! HỎIHOW & PAKFOI
NEW YORK-Via Japan porta, San Francisco & Panama
MENADO MARU
HAMBURG MARU
JAPAN PORTS
TAKAO MARU
KASADO MARU
KEELUNG Via SWATOW & AMOY
KISHU MARU
HOZAN MARU
TAKAO Via SWATOW & AMOY
DELI MARU
TAKAO & KEELUNG
TAKAO MARU
SOURABAYA MARU
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Friday, 20th July,
Friday, 20th July.
Sunday, 22nd July.
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JULY
JJULY SUN. 22nd
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FAI. 27th
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to charge a very high rate if the chairman of the Electricity Com-of the main problems with which work were given to anybody but the missioners, and Mr. Kennedy in the Australian shipowner is confluence on their decisions. If, for experienced Dutchmen, as stood to lose about £900,000
spected this site, and expressed fronted is that of Inbour. Troubles thing happened,
any-their agreement as to its suitability with the crew or staff are seldom When the con- as a site for a new capital generat-absent throughout the whole year duced to something a little over a instance, an engine and boller- tract was given to the Dutch, this
room staff of nearly 50 can be re- whole sum was satisfactorily plac-
ing station.
and, apart from the loss involved ed on Lloyd's at very reasonable son of the cost of generation by these repeated difficulties is dis- The engineer made a compari-to the owner, the irritant effect of
dozen, the prospects of labour rates, but some
troubles are minimized to an even of the underwrit-the use of farther plant installed turbing to continuity of trade. ers have reinsured their risks, or at Lister-drive, and the erection of
greater extent than the propor-
London, Yesterday. part of them, abroad. It has been
With the motor ship, not only
tionate reduction, because the en- decided by the British towing com- Dock, and found that
generating station
at Clarence are the stokers dispensed with an grade and less liable to be em first of the new B class cruisers at gineers remaining are of a higher panied by the Duke, launched the
The Duchess of York, accom panies that in view of their labour cost at the dock site station would cause of considerable difficulty- the works element that is very often the conditions It would not be worth be lower than at Lister-drive, al- but the less frequent bunkering
broiled in labour conflicts. their while to build big tugs for though the capital charges in the also reduces the liability and
Jarrow-on-Tyne, II.M.S. "York," ! which is of 8,400 tons and is arm- long ocean towa in competition early stages would be slightly whilst the introduction of the unnumbered sampan, reports that ter
Tang Kam-sing, master of an ed with six eight-inch guns.--Reu- with the Dutch, but the Germans greater, but any extra cost would motor ship, naturally does not he, accompanied by three other men are making every effort to break be borne by the Central Electric eliminate labour troubles, it cer- in another sampan yesterday, were their monopoly,
tainly reduces them. It would not, fishing at Stanley when the sampan It is hoped it will be possible of course, be true to say that Aus-lost its balance as they were stand- to have the frat stage of the sta-tralian shipowners are almost ex-ing on one side of it and they were lege, will sail from England on the Mr. Wallington, of Queen's Col- tion on the dock alte in operation clusively adopting the oil-engined thrown into the water. One of the 8.8. "Ehyber" on September 20, so for the load of the winter 1930-31, drive because of this factor, but it inon, named Wong Fook, and, if suitable arrangements are certainly has a very marked in- drowned.
was that he will arrive back in the made for the winter of 1929-80, It
Colony by the end of October. will be possible to avoid the in- stallation of further plant at Lis- ter-drive beyond the three new boller units now under construc tion,
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS: - The Ben Line s.s. "Benmohr from Leith, Middlebro', Antwerp, London, Straits and Phillipines due arrive here to-day.
The P. & O. 1.s. "Rajputana" left Singapore for this port on July 15 at 9 a.m. with the outward- Eng- Hah Malls, and is due here to morrow êt about 6 a.m.
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