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Mr. Cleminson had given him the credit of having been the means of putting the Chamber of Shipping on. its feet, and making it a live wire. It occurred to him at the present timă that it was absolutely too live a wire. certain
Laughter). One might feel A amount of sadness that at the end of 40 years' service on the Clyde Trust he, a shipowner, should have the position of nearly all his zellow ship- CLYDE TRUST DUES further spread, and also of his friends in Glasgow and Liverpool and
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SIE W. RAEBURN AND THE TRUST'S CRITICS
HEXAGGERATED NONSENSE"
The .8. "Tung Ting" (Butterfield Glasgow."Exaggerated nonsense" and Swire) strack the rocks between was one of the phrases used by Sir Kiukiang and Bankow on Saturday.
Clyde Navigation Trust, a
in spirited
DWNOTE
the shipbuilders; but it did not maka him sad at all, because he felt the Clyde
Trust would have in the chair- man, who had to conduct this fight, who knew something about ship. ping in all its aspects, and had had 50 years' experience not only on the Clyde but
but throughout the world.
one
and sank with no loss of life, accord.am H. Raeburn, chairman of the criticise: it took much longer to an- !
shipowners,
It was very easy to get op and pitad swer the criticism. If the Clyde to a Naval Wireless message. reply to shipowners' recent criticiens Trust existed entirely The message further states that the of the Trust's proposed new scale of then certainly he could see some rea ship went down in six fathoms of dues on shipping. The occasion was
wasan into any
burdens
being water and, in view of the rise of the annual dinner of the Glasgow put on
but other traders had water already overdue, it is probable Shipowners and Shipbrokera Bane heen at the Trust time and again. The that the ship with cargo and malis volent Association the leading social iron trade, the steel trade, the coal function of Clyde shipowners thich trade, and many other trades-always took place in the Central Hotel, Glas
impressing apon them that the ship- grow, recently,
owners were far too well treated, and always pressing them for some re duction in their dues.
will be
total lose. a H.M.S. "Aphis," from Kinkiang, and H.M.S. "Gnat," from Bunkow, were sent to the assistance of the sunken vessel but they kays now returned to their respective stations.
Further Details
Sir William Raeburn has been on the sick list, and it was reported that he was present against doctor's orders. ALB it was pretty generally known that
Mr. Cleminson asked if the shifting of the burden from one shoulder to he intended to reply to the hard hits another was in Scotland tantamoun: to Hankow, Yesterday:
of the past few days by his fellow The Butterfield and Swire s.8. "Tung shipowners, there was
He did not know of any economy. an electric economic views of that sort even in Ting," which left Shanghai on March atmosphere about the after-proceed-Scotland. But that was not the point.. 24 for river boats, struck an unchartings of the dinner, and this was not The point was: Had those who had ed rock off Low Point in the vicinity jessened by some further pointed been bearing the burdens been bear- of Split Hill yesterday.
ferences by speakers who precoded The Captain tried to beach the ves-Sir William. sel, but she slipped off the mud and
Mr. T. L. Duff, president of sank in thirty-six settled, and slowly feet of wat
water. Only the funnels and Benevolent Association, presided over an attendance of about 270, while Mr. masts are showing."
W. F. Robertson, vice-president, act no loss There
of life. H.M.S. "Aphis" is standing by. The were Lord Provost Sir David Mason ed as croupier.. Among the guests and foreign passengers are and Mr. H. M. Cleminson, of
the
was no
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the
ing them equally and proportionately? He said they had not. He was a ship- owner himself, and he said that Glas- the gow was the cheapest port in Kingdom, and it was the
port where the shipowner paid the last proportion that he, as chairman of the Trust, of the whole total. Now, the policy adopted in the framing of this schedule, was to try to get the burdens more equally borne.
Exaggerated Nonsense
Reuter lighter
8. "Tang Ting" is a twin Association and Shipping Interests," (The B
Th chairman in proposing "The steel
steamer of 2,086 ret ton said that if the good old times had He saw a flaring notice in the papers, is owned by the Ching page. She Navigation Company, is registered at the association would not have been night, which he would have answered been as good as sometimes painted. when laid up in bed on the Monday London and flies the British flag. She
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They had expended in bene-at the Clyde Trust meeting the follow was built by Messrs. Boyd and Com-volent grants during the year the ing day had he been able to attend. pany Limited, Shanghai, in 1900, and
"said the
the chairman
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has a length of 270 feet, a breadthe sum of £1,181, or in other words "Serious menace," of 42.1 feet, and a depth of 17.2 feat. nearly all their annual income, and adf the Shipowner's Association. The Her engines develop 140 nominal have notis amount of happiness must vice-chairman said:"A great blow horse power]
into the homes of to the prosperity of the Clyde ave old
and some shipping friends. Coming to
What oxaggerated non- deal with shipping interests, he sald Glasgow," he thought he was safe in saying the would all be replied to at Westminster, sence! (Laughter). In due time that outlook for shipping and દર્શન many but he was not going to give away trades depending on it was brighter is ammunition that night. (Laugh- than it was when they met together ter). Nothing would delight him more, last year. Shipbuilders had booked a
he assured them, than to see these two great many orders, and he was assured respected friends of his under the that
a great many more orders, were cross-examination of Mr. H. P. Mac- being held back until owners could raillan, make up their minds which method of
He had tried and he thought his propulsion to ently that a great all the negotiations and short summer holiday. Take a trip to FRI
colleagues
would give him credit for A new economical way to spend a SUN. He noticed
LINER'S MISHAP
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During a dense fog the 17,000 ton
Hague,
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Hong Kong 5.30 p.m. Wuchow 2.00 p.m.
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APRIL
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17th-
MON.
7th
12th
MON. 22nd
28th SUN..
2
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APRIL
4th
Anchor liner "Transylvania," when op- proaching Cherbourg after a six shipbuilder advised owners that now deliberations to be as fair as he could: Wach w and báck Only requires weeks Mediterranean cruise, struck was the time to build. This was at to all the varied interests they had our lays. See all the sights of the the inck of La Coque of Cap De La lunch after a launch, and the same to attend to in the
Clyde Trust. The West River. It costs you only $38.40 early
morning. The remark had been made at every burden on the shipowner, which he and can be done in five days. Your 1640 tons-Capt. G. J. Spink]
launch and trial trip since Noah built said he was not able to hear, he might budget:- to the excep the
the Ark (Laughter). Tramp owners illustrate by just a very simple ex
BAT. tionally strong
20th THURS. $20.00** Passage for round trip
9th THURS, 25th this particnlarly dangerous portion of were paying bigger prices for higher
Mealy on board
16.40
15th TUES: 30th the Normandy Coast. The vessel had speeds in steamers. This was doubt ample. He had prepared, and he was
2.00 Lodging on board
For information apply to- 300 passengers aboard. She sprang less due to the fact that facilities quite willing to show these examples leak and began a
many Shipping, list of what it really was ports were better, and that the time going to mean to ships of all sorts and sistance was summ list and ag.for loading and discharging in many any shipowner or the Chamber of
was
to
Total
STUES.
MON.
KWONG WING E
87, Connaughty Road West, Phono Central 893.
Dolley
....$38.40 By jettisoning 600 tons of oil fuel spent port was less. These owners kinds, large and small, trading here, in excellent and the accommodation Why not make a trial? The cuisine and
by akikul handling, the "Tran- he was sorry to say it in the pre- there and everywhere, and, he was knopfortable; once you try you wi". res sylvania
make Cher- sence of Sir William Raeburn pre-prised that some of his fellow ship commend it to others. able to bourg Harbour without help and with- steamers to the Clyde or Bristal Chan- tions had never taken the trouble to ith sumably did not intend to trade their owners on the two Glasgow associa out any injury to passenger or crew. Perfect order was maintained and the el-(laughter) where, barring grain, see how the new schedule would work resource of Captain Erskine was high-the loading and discharging occupied out for them.
£146, did thy mean to tell him that, There were forty-two quite capable Wy praised by all. It was his last trip just about the same time as it did 40
He asked one of them the other day
day, Harland and Wolff were going to be citizens of Glasgow and the neigh- years ago. in command of the "Transylvania" and
"I am not blaming the "Do you know this schedule is gcing deprived of an order? The thing was bourhood on the Clyde Trust, and let he was due to retire on reaching Eng Clyde Trust," Mr. Duff added, amid to be of advantage to you?" He did too absurd for words.
bim tell his friends that he had no land. British Wireless Service,
laughter, "I am telling the facts."
not know it He (Sir Willam) What he felt about it all was this: each pride or vanity in his mind as Watching Dock Legislation thought he had convinced him it was He really honestly did not believe that to suppose that he could tax forty. Mr. H. M. Gleminson, who replied, true. He said to another shipowning the opponents of this bill had proper one of these members to his way of
friend,
If thinking. Neither would they, the "Do you know what this incansly considered the whole question, recalled that it Sir William
to one of your big boats. The dues they had properly considered it they whole of the forty-one put together, "RESOLUTE'S" TOUR the Chamber of Shipping ought to be schedule will incur for you are equal heavy one, and that it was a fair ex-ed to be right
Raeburn who in 1916 thought that
on that boat in and out that this would see that the burden was not a turn his mind from what he
thinking. ing. reorganised, and came and sought him
to about one first-class fare, and are change of the burden that had pre- It did cause him no small regret DEPARTURE FROM COLONY out of his shipping lawyer's office and
you going to
Lell s
Committee of vailed from 1858 till now. Would that they should be getting into this FOR THE NORTH
put him in charge, where he had done. his best to make the Chamber of
of Ship-
Parliament that if you sailed with one anyone say that in the interval from fight. He and done his beat to try Duri
passenger less in the cabin out and in 1858 to 1929 there had been no change and prevent it. He had been willing After staying here for three days, ping a real live thing.
ring the
that was going to ruin you?"? These in the affairs of the world?
and was willing still to pat, all his the H.A.L. round-the-world tourist first seven months of 1928, he con-
were the points to answer.
Tried to Prevent Fight
Oras on the table.
They had had liner, the 3.6. "Resolute," left yester- tinued, the freight roarket was worse
He was at the launch of the "High- It was no argument to say that be- many deputations. One would say the day evening bound for the Northern than it had been since 1925, when the
land Hope" the other day. That was cause for these seventy years ship-Trust were
ere treating them badly and ports of China to complete her world bottom was knocked out of it because
vessel of nearly 600 feet long, a very owners had got off very lightly and treating the shipowners too well. An- cruise.
coal, exports fell by 20 million tons.
her, from. the shipowners, would say - On her way back to America the During the past five months there had expensive ship. He did not ask the other commodities had been rated high other,
continua
that
policy. their trade
was so oppressed they call at Keelung, Shanghai, been a great improvement in freights, price, but he fancied it would be at ly they should.
least one half a million. A vessel They had forty-two members on the were at the end of their tether, and Chinwangtae (side trip
Peking, but if they looked at the whole twelve
like that needed - Tientsin and "The Great, Wall");ttle better off than they were before.
deepened and widen Clyde Trust. One of their rospected the Trust must put no further bur- months the total result left them
very
ed Clyde a properly buoyed and young managing directors asked the dens on them. Were there no other Chemulpo, Miyajima, Inland Sea of There were at present encountering
to go other day who were these Clyde trades? He knew he would rather be Japan, Kobe, Yokohama (side trips to tendancies, but all they could do was
down to the Tail of the Tokyo, Nikko, Kamakure), Honolulu, enda Hilo, San Francisco,. Los Angeles, to be thankful that for the moment Balboa, Colon, Havana, and Now York, conditions were definitely better in the
framp
shipping industry. (Hear, hear).
Dealing with the work of the Cham- |ber of Shipping he remarked that one of its functions was to watch dack legislation, and they wanted to |con- centrate on rotting reduced charges, er, of course, increased efficiency, and.
liner will
to
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cessful. Now, he was sorry to say, a Provisional Order had been promoted by the Clyde. Trust which had broken that desirable principle. The sugges tion was not to effect economies, but merely to transfer the responsibility from one shoulder to another, and whether that was economy
in the Scottish sense or not he did not know. The point was all the more poignant because the Chamber of Shipping as of
it now existed was really the baby Sir William Raeburn, sud Sir William was, he was told; the promoter of this scheme. Sir William was only one of forty-two, and it
it would seem that he
had espoused a cause which perhaps in other circumstances, if there was a bit more balanced- might not have adopted.
he.
* Mr. John Craig, C.B.F, gave the toast of "The Clyde Navigation Trast,” That ships could come into the heart of the city to bold, and be launched within ffaw, hundred yards of the. city was a remarkable performance for somebody, and he thought - the Glyde Trast was entitled to the credit. (Applause).
Cheapest Part in the Country Sir William Raeburn, who had a cordial reception, said he had to thank those in charge of the dimer for their great courtesy in always. putting their list the toast of the Clude Navi- gation Trust.. He had replied to it time and
but that night there again, a certain peculiarity In the occa
sion, for it was the last time at that
banquet he would reply to the toast (voice, no, ad) He felt that at that hour of the night, and in an as- sembly such as that, it would be abso- lutely out of place to reply in anything a full way to the criticisms that had been passed. He was told before he came that the toast was to be pro- posed by Mr. Gleniusod, and it was a very piquant position.
averred and widened channel Trustees who had the arrogance to shipowner to-day than a coalmaster
they know what the builders were pay upset the incidence of the rates and for a steel or irpamaster, and there ing the Clyde Trust for all that? It to say that shipowners could bear were other things such as timber and was £45. Suppose they raised that to more burden than they had now grain.
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