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KOREA MARU (Calls Los Angeles) Tuesday, 4th September.
Tuesday, SHINYO MARU
18th September. LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
Bingapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez,
HAKONE MARU (Calls Hull} SUWA MARU
Saturday, 8th September. Saturday, 22nd September,
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
TANGO MARU
AKI MARU
Wednesday, 19th September. - Wednesday, 24th October.
BOMBAY yia Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
BADO MARU
↑ NAGATO MARU
.Tuesday, 11th September.
Tuesday, 28th September.
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles.
Mexico & Paravin. BOKUYO MARU
Saturday, 27th September. SOUTH AMERICA (East Const) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports.
KAWACHI MARU
Thursday, 6th September.
NEW YORK and BOSTON via PANAMA.
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Saturday, 9th September.
13th September.
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Geneva, Marseilles. + LYONS 'MARU (Calls Glasgow).. Thursday, CALCUTTA via Singapore, Peng & Rangoon,
↑ AKITA MARU
+ MURORAN MARU
NAGASAKI KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
AKI MARU
Thursday, 'Sunday,
80th August. 9th September.
Friday, 21st September.
Honday,
3rd September.
+ HAKODATE MARU (Moji direet) Thursday,
6th September.
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SHANGHAI, KONE & YOKOHAMA,
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AMAZON MARU ................................ Monday, 17th September. BIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon, Singapore,
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BOMBAY VIA Singapore & Colombo.
HAWAII MARU
CELEBES MARU
INDUS MARU
Saturday, 29th September.
Monday, 3rd September.. Thursday, 20th September.
DURBAN, DELAGOA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZAŃzibar AND
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CHICACO MARU
Wednesday, 29th August. ... Friday, 28th September.
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Tuesday, 25th September,
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MADRAS MARU...
HAIPHONG...Vừa Hohon & Pakhol
MENADO MABU
Wednesday, 5th September,
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JAPAN PORTS
AMUR MARU
SANUKI MARU
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HOZAN MARU
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DELI MARU
TAKAO & KEELUNG
SANUKI MARU
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a port was a very much more im- portant port in respect of exports than imports. Their position was easily first in the matter of ex- perts in the country but in im- porta he wai, afraid they were second to London. They were ex- sentially an exporting port and it was wall for people to remember ed and used as dams. Hydrault. What struck him most was the of the cally-operated alufees are provid-miscellaneous character ed for controlling the discharge of trade that was carried on, and It NEW LOCK OPENED BY BLUE water into the lock for levelling was growing more, on the miscel
in staple ex- FUNNEL LINER
purposes, the influx being distri-laneous aide, than
there was a change buted over the whole length of the ports, and
In 1868 he found the! lock, in order to avoid disturbing going on. ships waiting to be locked through. maximum draft of any ship enter- The lighting is electric, and the ing the Birkenhead docks was 24 "In declaring this lock open, equipment includes beacon lights feet, in 1928 it had increased to 82 feet 6 inches, and although the may I wish 'God-speed to all ships 90 ft. high, which will remove all entrance in 1902 was an improve- that pass through it and to those difficulties attendant on the use of
ments on the old entrance just to who sail in those ships. May they, the lock, In the dark hours.
the north, there were only 144) in their coming and going. bring
It is worthy of note that this days in the year when a vessel to the country and the city and enterprise is the fourth large dock drawing 32 fest 6 inches could port from which they sail prosper-development with which Mr. T. M. leave the dock. ity, and to those who own them and Newell, who recently retired from Now there were 341 days for the those who azil in them."-Lord the position of engineer-in-chief of new entrance they were just going the-Dock Board, has been associat- to open. That was a considerable ed during the last fifteen years stap forward, and it was not only When the Blue Funnel liner Three of these development have the big ships that obtained that "Sarpedon," outward bound from been officially opened to traffic by great benent but also the smaller Birkenhead to China and Japan, the King and Queen, and the ships of less draft, which had a fourth one was inaugurated, re-very great advantage because they with passengers and cargo, pass- ed through the new 80 ft. river en-cently by the Earl of Derby,
were able to work on a much long- trance lock of the Alfred Dock,
MR. R. D, HOLT.
er period of the tide. There would Birkenhead recently, she opened a
on the en- Mr. R. D. Holt (chairman of the be 26 feet of water now chapter in the history of Mersey Docks and Harbour Board trance at half-tide; that meant and principal of the Blue Funnel that any ahip drawing leas than As foreshadowed by the speak-Line) presided over the luncheon 26 feet would have six hours an in which they could Hner prior to her departare, the proceedings, and among those pre-every tida
sent in addition to most of the come in and out of the dock, and utilisation of the new lock will members of the Mersey Docks and very frequently they would be able bring added trade to the Birken- Harbour Board, the City Council, save a whole day's work which and the Birkenhead and Wallasey they would have lost. These im- It was when the vessel slowly
Sir provements meant real economies Mayers and Councils, were steamed through the lock, to the Josiah Stamp (president of the for the working of the port and accompaniment of the cheers of L.M.S. Railway), Sir Aubrey they saved more money by such the thousands on the dockside, and Brocklebank, Lord Colwyn, the improvement than by any reduction severed the ribbons that Lord Lord Mayor of Liverpool
In the charges. They were doing! (Miss Derby megaphoned the message Margaret Beavan), Captain
the best to make their port as which appears above.
Nuttall, M.P.,. Sir Archibald productive as possible and they been carried out for the purpose of W. Norman Vernon, Lieut.-Col. G.tage of it.
The improvement scheme has Salvidge, Sir H.. M. Grayson, Mr. wanted more people to take advan giving much-needed increased faci- Rolls, Mr. W. T. McIvor (chairman, Lord Derby said his family had lities for the use of the Birken- Birkenhead Chamber of Com-j head docks by the large vessels merce), Commander
been closely connected with that E. 0. G. now engaged in trade with the Roden, R.N.R., Mr.
part of the world on both sidesį C. Sydney Far East consequent upon the wel-
of the Mersey for many generu- Lieut.-Col. Jones,
Buckley, come development of trade with D.S.O. (chairman of the Liverpool tona, and his only hope was that the Far East during the last de-Chamber of Commerce), and Mr. he would be enabled in his time to do all that he possibly could to cade or so,
J. W. P. Laird (Cammell, Laird The work has comprised the and Co.).
carry on the work which they fond 80 ft. provision of a
which providea depth
A
Birkenhead trade.
ers at the luncheon
head Docks.
Jock
on board the
new
of water of 40 ft. 4 in. st
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S.S. "TAI HING" [1,068 tone-Capt. O. B. Wilks.] SEPTEMBER.
2nd MON. 17th 7th SUN. 23rd
29th
SUN. FAI
WED.
12th
FRL
S.S. TAI MING" (649 tons-Capt. G. J. Spink] FRI 31st AUGUST.
SEPTEMBER. --
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WED. 5th MON, 10th
SUN. 16h
21st 26th
Faros for round trip (not including meals) $20. Meals & Wines are
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.
The Chairman, In proposing-they were doing for the benefit "The Right Hon. the Earl of of those with whom they lived. Regular Service of Fast, High Class River Steamers Having Good Ac- high water of ordinary spring Derby, K.G.," said they would not He was glad to hear the Chairman commodation for First Class Passengers. Electric Light and Fans in State- tides, as compared with a depth of readily forget Lord Derby's very say two things: one was that Mer-rooms and Saloon. The ss. "Tai Hing" is fitted with Wireless.
These vessels leave Hong Kong for Wuchow (via Samehui, Shinhing, of the great service to his country-the seyside had a common interest Takhing & Dosing) and return to Hong Kong (vla sama Ports) every fre 36 ft. 7 in. in the caso deepest previous entrance to the way he devoted his, energies to re-(hear, hear)-Merseyside was not days.
time of national four separate entitles, it was one, Birkenhead syatem. of dockacruiting at a namely, the 100 ft. Alfred Lock. peril, the way he helped them as and the more they could pull to The second part of the work em-Secretary of State for War, and, gether and the closer they could braced the closing of the old 50 ft. when he turned his energies from co-operate the better it was going and 30 ft. passages between the war to peace, the way he helped to be for all of them, for closer Alfred Dock and the East Float to consolidate the peace of the co-operation meant efficiency and and the provision of a new 80 ft. world as Ambassador at Paris. economy, which they would admit passage having a depth of 6 ft. be- (Applause.) Lord Derby was now was the one thing they required. Bay Datum, the previous Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire, He was glad to hear that the chair- above Bay and they would like to congratulate man also belieyed, that the unity depth being 1 ft. Datum.
low
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The Mayor of Wallasey (Alder- him on obtaining that very impor- of the four-was indispensable for man Joho McMillan) proposed tant office. They could not forget their individual prosperity. He "The Chairman of the Mersey Lord Derby's services to Liverpool, was also very glad to hear the Docks and Harbour Board." This and when he said Liverpool he chairman, with his intimate know-was seconded by the Mayor of The depth of the new lock en- meant the whole of the boroughs ledge of the trade and commerce Birkenhead (Alderman F. Naylor), aures that all East-bound vessels and county centred round the of the world, taking the view that who linked up the opening of the "Tanda" from Japanese ports were; from Birkenhead using the Suez Mersey. (Hear, hear.) Whatever they must look ahead, and take a new lock with the development Mr. G. R. Rouse, Mr. and Mrs. Canal can be loaded to their full they might say, it was one com-bread and farseeing view of the scheme of the Great Western Rail- F. G. Murdock, Mr. W. McKinnon, capacity before leaving Birken-munity; their interests were sub-possibilities of their trade in the way and the Mersey Tunnel, which Mr. and Mrs. H. Russell, Mr. and head. The Alfred is the vestibule stantially the same.. The points future rather than the more nar- would all add to the trade of Bir- Mrs. J. B. Herry, Miss C. H. Merry, dock for the whole of the Birken-of difference between Birkenhead row point of view which seemed kenhead, He looked to the Dock Miss N. M. Cain, Mr. B. L. Rumney head dock system. Hence, the im- and Wallasey and Liverpool and to appeal to them when they read Board to provide further facilities portance of the improvements Bootle were trifling compared with their morning newspaper. He to meet this increased, trade. effected. The new 80 ft. lock is the points of unison, and in the hoped it was that they ware The Chairman then formally re- on the site of the old 50 ft, and interests they had in common Lord gradually coming out of the slough 36 ft. locks, which were construct Derby had done many other things of despond into the sunlight. He ponded, after ed as long ago as 1866. The for them.
proceeded on (Hear, hear.) They was glad to think there were men scheme inaugurated recently was never appealed to him in vain, and[ke Mr. Holt and boards like the lower deck of the liner to witness "Tal, Lee," who was fined $250 at begun in February, 1928.
they were, indeed, deeply grateful Mersey Docks and Harbour Board dock and her trip across the Mersey The equipment includes three to him for the very many occa-who take this wise and long view, to the pairs of steel gates, each leaf stons on which he had put him and it was to them that the coun- where she embarked her passen- weighing about 210 tons. The self to considérable inconvenience try must look in the future for the gates are operated by hydraulle to help the boroughs on the Mer-return of prosperity. machinery of the most modern and key. (Applause:) serviceable type, similar to that at
. TRADE PROGRESS.
the recantly-completed Gladstone Docks, Liverpool. Gangways for Now he had come to declare pedestrians have been provided open the new entrance to the over two sets of gates. Special Birkenhead docks and to give them sills and quoins have been provid- the opportunity of making known ed, so that in the event of the lock to the world what they were doing requiring, to be dried for repairs, to provide for the trade of this the working gates can be revers-part of the country. There were BOMO statistics given in the brochure and he was interested in the year 1866, when the old en trance was opened, because that happened to be the year in which his uncle started · business to China with three steamers of 2,800) tons gross register, proceeding by the Cape. "Hề "Had no trustworthy figures for the. Birkenband trade In 1866, and his personal recollec- tion was rather uncertain-(laugh- ter)-but he did find that in 1902 the total tonnage of vessele, in what they knew as the Birkenhead, system, was 1,420,946 tons, where as last year it had grown to. 2,376,671 tons and that the eastern outward trade, which was, per- haps, the most important partyothi the Birkenhead, business had risen from 627,993 tons to 1,888,488 tons; that was not a bad increase for 28 years, and though they! might be going to face lean times he always felt cheerful when they looked at the trade of the world over long periods) because if they did it was imposible to escape the conclusion that things were real- Jy getting better. It was by tak- Ing-short views that they were bound to add themselves in des pondency.
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