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SHINYO MARU
SIBERIA MARU
20th February. Wednesday, Wednesday, 8th March, LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.
SUWA MARU.
FUSHIMI MARU
HAKOZAKI MARU
SYDNEY. & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
Saturday, Saturday, Saturday,
23rd February. 9th March. 23rd March.
Wednesday, 20th February. Wednesday, 20th March.
Tuesday, 26th February. Tuesday, 5th March.
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
KAGA MARU
TANGO MARU
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+ AKITA MARU
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
Mexico & Panama.
Saturday, 0th March.
BOKUYO MARU
SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) vla Singapore, Cape Town & Ports.
KAWACHI MARU
NEW YORK via PANAMA.
+ CALCUTTA MARU
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Geneva, Marseilles.
↑ DELAGOA MARU
Wednesday,
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
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FREIGHT INCREASES
CRITICISM OUTSPOKEN IN AUSTRALIA
LABOUR'S SICKENING ATTITUDE
Canberra, Jan. 22. The attitude of the Labour Party to- wards the question of increased ship- ping freights from Britain to Australla is criticised vigorously in the weekly bulletin of the Federal Country Party Parliamentary Committee.
"A sickening attitude has been edopted by the Labour Party," says the bulletin. "Instead of co-operating with the Government to find a solution of a Melbourne, Jan. 21. Brisbane, Jan. 21.
very difficult problem, it has followed Referring to the projected change its usual course and stood naide to four The freighter "Caualan Scottish** 15,334 tons), inword Leund from Halin the command of the Royal Austraat the honest efforts of a Government fax direct, grazed Smith's Rock, off llan Navy, the Prime Minister (Mr elected by the people. It has offered Capa Moreton, while entering the bay Bruce) said to-day that Rear Admiral no assistance mainly, perhaps, because The Hyde had been in command of the it has no ideas to offer and no construc- at 10.20 o'clock this morning,
vessel was preparing to pick up a Australian Squadron for three years tive thoughts. The Labour Party has pilot when the mishap occurred. The and was due for relief. As there was met the Governments' desire to put the Impact was not severe enough to im-ho Australian officer of suitable rank question on a firm and lasting founda-
available to relleve him, arrangements tion by an absurd indication that it' pede the vessel's progress for long.
Soundings were taken and water had been made with the British Gov- does not care whether the foundations was found in one of the forward tanks. ornment for Rear Admiral Evans, of are rotten or not, Labour's remedy for The pumps were immediately worked, the Royal Navy, to be lent to the rotten foundations is to build upon them and they more than coped with the Australian Navy for a period of two mare, so that they will be hidden from
The boat berthed years from May 18, 1929. inflow of water. about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. A diver will make an examination of the hull in the morning.
THE "AUSTRALIA" AT ST. VINCENTS
Monday, 4th March,"
Tuesday,
10th February.
ECHO OF A MUTINY
20th February.
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PENANG MARU
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
SADO MARU (Nogasaki direct)
Frling, KANAGAWA MARU (Moji direct). Sunday, HAKUSAN MARU
+ NAGATO MARU”
Monday, Sunday,
Friday, 16th February. Saturday, 2nd March.
15th February.
17th February,
18th February. 24th February,
† NAGANO MARU
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Sunday, 10th March.
HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & Colombo, Suez and Port Said, AMAZON MARU
RIO DE JANEIRO, 'SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES Via Saigon, Singapore,
Colombo, Burhan & Cape Town. HAWAII MARU
... Tuesday, 19th March.
BOMBAY-Via Singapure & Colombo.
SUMATRA MARU
SHINNOH MARU
(Calls at Fenang and Karachi).
Wodnesday, 20th February.. Wednesday, 6th March.
DURBAN, LOURENÇO MARQUES, DEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR
& MOMBASA-Via Singapore & Colombo, PANAMA MARU
Thursday, 28th February
CALCUTTA—Vis Singapore, Penang & Kangoon.
KASADO MARU
GANGES MARU
Tuesday, 18th February.
Monday, 4th March,
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER VI Japan Ports From
Shanghai.
LONDON MĀRU
Tuesday, 19th February.
MELBOURNE Via Manila, Brisbane & Sydney.
MADRAS MARU
BANGKOK-Viz Saigon.
HAIPHONGVh Hohor & Pnkhoi.
MENADO MARŲ ---
Friday, 8th Murch.
Thursday, 28th February 10 a.m.
NEW YORK-Via Japan poris. San Francisco & Panama.
JAPAN PORTS.
BATAVIA MARU
KEELUNG-Yin SWATOW & AMOY.
CANTON MARU
HOZAN MARU,
TAKAO SWATOW & AMOT.
DELI MARU
TAKAO & KEELUNG
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view. They howl now, and will howl more for the re-establishment of the Commonwealth shipping line, Το balange one knock on the head the Labour Party would give Australia a knock on the other side. Certainly, this is an easy way out of the position, but is it very effective? The Increased freights most certainly would be an additional burden on Australia, but avory farmer in the Commonwealth Sydney, Jan. 23.
must ask himself whether the Common- Professor Johannes Schmidt, leader wealth ships, which cost Australia of one of the most important marine £12,000,000 and gave nothing in return, visit the ware not also a burden. The ships The passing of Lieutenant-Comman-zoological expeditions to dor W. H. V. Edgar, D.S.C., from the South Seas, and a world authority on were sold by the Bruce-Page Govern- Australian Navy, per court martial,cels, arrived from New Zealand by the ment for exactly the same reason a
He was accompanied the Labour Premier of Tasmania sold hy his which Dr. Schmidt is the head, will Labour Premier they were reach Sydney next month on the reproposition and had no effect whatever search ship "Dana," which is en route in competition with the other ship en- from Auckland.
terprises. The Labour Government in H.M.A.S. "Australia" had put into
Dr. Schmidt said that investigations Queensland bought State cattle stations St. Vincent for coal, and during her stay in port, Lieutenant-Commander which had been organised by the to keep down the price of meat, fish Edgar, then warrant engineer, gave or Carlsborg Physiological Laboratory trawlers to keep down the price of ders to two stokers to blow tubes. This were resigned to cover oceanography fisk, coal mines to keep down the price The expedition of coal, and various other concerns to necessitated getting in very narrow and marine biology. space between bolfers under steam and was completely equipped for the col- keep prices down, but they had no working in a temperature of about 150 lection of data which would probably effect. The stations are for sale, the degrees. The stokers considered the prove of immense benefit to science, trawlers have been sold, and the coal order an imposition, unnecessary, dan- Observations of an interesting charac-mines have passed into privato hands.
"The freight decreases in Australia, gerous, and contrary to regulations laid ter had already been made over a
In the Steam Manual, and refused. large area, with particular regard to where the Commonwealth line operated, This refusal of duty resulted in theeran currents and temperatores. The wore less than in other countries where "Dana" is a world-cruise that will acna Government line operated. While offenders being pinced in irons.
marks the exit of a prominent figure "Maung The scientific party, of the State ships purchased by a non- |
in the little-known mutiny of the stokers on H.M.A.S. "Australia" at St. Vincents, Cape Verde Islands, in Jan uary, 1915,
Beven
a losing
the freights on butter, meat, rabbits, and biscuits from Australia to London fell by 108, wheat by12s. 6d., and flour by 158 from 1922 to 1925, the reduc- tions from Britain to Port Said fell, by
FREEMANTLE PORT 1., Barcelona 22., Algiers 438., the
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STEAMERS EMPRESS OF FRANCE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF FRANCE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF FRANCE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF ABIA EMPRESS OF FRANCE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA: EMPRESS OF ASIA
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Feb. 19
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Mar.
Mar, 12
Mar. 14
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Mar, 25 Apr: 16
Mar, 28
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May 9
May 19
May 25
June
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June 11
June-18
June 29, July 2
July 4
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June 27
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The ship was secured for sea, with cupy. altogether two years, of which everyone at their stations ready to up-four months have expired. anchor, when the word went round the messes and stakeholda to down tools Toola and go up on the quarterdeck. were accordingly downed, though many did not know exactly why, but all were dinantisfied. They remembered a legion of pin pricks-of having looked over the side at their native land for acveral days just before declaration of war
The progress of Fremantle as
What dictates the Australian positionese Republic and second only to the without being permitted to land, of
continual steaming port last year was shown not only must be discovered and remedied, and Yangtze in importance. This' magni- months' broken only by coal ships, and two in port statisties, but also in the re-the Gavernment is out to do it. Noscent trade route was opened to for- SUN. hours on shore at Suvs, a lack of con- construction of a portion of Victoria stopgap remedies, such as those pro- sideration and poor food. Their nerves Quay and the addition to the wharf posed by the Labour Party, will suffice.iga traffe in 1897, but how many were on edge. The time for a "show facilities of huge luffing cranes and The time has come for the complete foreigners travel on this important.
The returns sifting of the whole position, so that small mobile cranes,
waterway? The scenery along the down" had arrived; the stokera mutini-howed that Fremantle was visited ocean shipping may be placed on ed almost to a man, the one exception being in D. stakehold. The last man during the year by vessels exceeding sound basis for all time. By manny route is beautiful. We recommend it
the political advantage
to any person who wishes to spend a up knocked the exception out as he left. by 130,000 tons net register the aging
A couple of hundred angry stokers gregate tonnage of any previous year. Labour Party has placed itzak in the invaded the sacred and spotless quar- For the frat eitab Fremantle became extraordinary position, of being, the short and economical holiday. terdeck, demanding to see the captain, the largest fuelling port in Aus-champion of Importing interests, des Keren DERTLAN
cribed by the Labour leader (Mr. and refusing to go below until, the
The work of re-constructing the Scullin) recently as keen and wicked. stokers in irons were released. Rear- Admiral Hyde, then commander, angri-wharves is being undertaken for the The proposed increased rates are on was succeeded by Lord Inchcape, who COCKATOO ISLAND
of the imports to Australia. A few months was also the chairman of the British recond time in the history ly ordered them of and called on the Fremantle Harbour Trust. It is és-ago the Labour Party described the India Company. In June, 1016, the master-at-arms to have them removed. But uncomplimentary remarks were the timated that the re-construction of importer as the one person in the world company acquired the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Federal Victoria Quay will cost about £750,000 who deserved the roughest treatment only response.
In 1917 It purchased a controlling The position by now had assumed and will not be concluded until 1932. that could be devised, and now. it bases Steam Navigation Company.
Victoria Quay is completed its latest attack on the Government be
The "Financial, News," commenting serious proportions, as war-time con- When
there will be a shed floor space of cause the importer will suffer through interest in the Union Steamship Com-
and shortly upon an advertisement in its columns ditions do not permit a warship to re-
The Government pany of New Zealand, main in a neutral port longer than 24 340,000 square feet (approximately the new freights. hours and that period had almost ex- 80,000 square feet more than under bases its attitude on the welfare not afterwards the whole of the shares in offering for leass Cockatoo Island pired. The captain and admiral were the old arrangement of the sheds) and of the importer or any one section of the Hain Steamship Company, the Mer- Dockyard, says: "It follows logically
Nourse Ltd. informed and the stokers Interviewed, there will be about 165,000 square the community, but on the welfare of all cantile Steamship Company and James upon the sale of the Commonwealth The prisoners were then released, and feet of open wharf for cargo-stack- Australia."
tralia.
the stokeza invited to send a representa ing between the sheds. The provision tive from each mess to state their grievances, a promise of consideration being given. The stokers returned to duty and to their mess deck.
of railway cross-overe and a second main line will allow more expeditious truck handling on the wharf and make It possible for uninterrupted work to continue on vehicles loading into or out of sheds, whila trucks are being shunted. The three sheds which have
for
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London, Jan. 23.
line and we congratulate the Federal In 1919 the Australian United Steam Government on deciding to cut its Navigation Company, a subsidiary of lossen. There are fears though with scope for its profitable the British India Company, acquired regard to
Prospective tenderers control of the steamers and trade of development. the Eastern and Australian Steam may deterred by the fact that the Navigation Company, and in the lease is for the maximum term of only The arrival of Engineer-Commander
same year the P. and O. purchased 30 years." Crump-Johnson and Engineer Lieuten-
the Khedivial Mail Steamship and Gray- ant-Commander Lee (the senior engin cer) was the signal for a fresh uproar. been completed are as modern in de-
Particulars of the widespread inter- ing Dock Company and the Genera! Lee was ordered out by the stokers. sign and equipment us any in Aus-
Steam Navigation Company are given which latter company was hired, as 1884, one of the steamers far back "We'll talk to you, sir," they said to tralia and the bitumen Boors and ap-ests of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, from Crump-Johnson, "but we went have proaches give an appearance of clean- in the latest issue to hand of "Fair with which the, old Peninsular service anything to do with that
play." In May, 1914, negotiations were After the arrival of the ship in Ply- Modern Cranes Installed
entered inte by the company for, the commenced its regular operations.
In addition, the company has par mouth a store party was sent ashore. To serve the larger and higher ves-purchase of the British India Company, No one appeared to notice that it was sele using the port. it was necessary and when the deal was completed the chased the majority of the shares in shipowners' representatives at the pro-
¡ | Australia. made up entirely of the mess represento instal large level luffing cranes, late Sir Thomas Sutherland retired, Wm. Cory and Son, the Orient Line and posed freight conference, to be held in tatives selected by the stokers. While which are able to swing their loads after being chairman for 84 years, and the Strick Line. they were marching through to the
itness..
over the funnels and navigating
dockyard, marines of the Royal Navy bridges of the vessels. Those cranes. filed up on each side of the party, which were built by the State Imple and they were arrested, and returned to ment Works, are claimed to be an im Australia.
provement on the latest cranes bullt There was no further outburst when for the Port of London Authority and the atokers discovered the fate of their installed at the King George V. and representatives, there was just a deep Tilbury docks.
The small runabout resentment against what they consider
cranes, which were placed on
warda.
the
ed a breach of faith. Engineer Lleuten wharf during the year, run anywhere ant-Commander Lee was transferred to on the wharf shad or roadways and another ship and died shortly after have already proved their usefulness in saving time and Boor space. They D they generate their own power moye. It is the claim of the Fre- mantle Harbour Trust that when the prosent constructional programme is completed, the wharf accommodation and facilities at Fremantle. will be equal to any in Australia.
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The progress of shipping during the year was marked by the increase in number and size of the motor vessels that visited Fremantle. The vogue of
the motor ship Increased the import- ance of Fremantless bunkering Port.
During the year plans were prepared for the laying down of oil
pipes at overy shed along. Victoria Quay and as the work of re-construc Lion progressed all facities for the bunkering of oil were provided. When the work is completed, there will be 18, connections for vessels using-Vic- toria Quay The gil mains wera duplicated during fle year and, the
Increased by
the storage capacity was construction of a tank to hold 10,000 tons of fuel oll. The number of ves- sels that tookoll fuel at Fremantle last year exceeded any previous re- cord, and, in order to provide the oil for distribution, a record number of oil tankert visited the port. Recent ly the secretary of the Fremantle Harbour Trust Mr. FAW B. Stevens) stated that Fremantle had become the largest oli fuelling port in Australia. The only incidents that tarnished the year's record of progress were the sooks' strike and the waterfront.dis pate (both of
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