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MISHIMA MARU
Monday, 1st July. Monday. 29th July.
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
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HAKONE MARU
AKI MARU
Saturday, 29th June. 13th July. Saturday, SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
Wednesday, 26th June. TANGO MARU.
Wednesday, 24th July.
27th June. Thursday, Thursday, 11th July.
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Tuesday, 9th July.
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LIFE-SAVING
BOARD OF TRADE AWARDS
THE CHINA MAIL,
SHIPPING
SECTION.
WINDJAMMERS' RACE
THIRD SUCCESSIVE VICTORY OF FINNISH VESSEL
Considerable excitement was caused in shipping circles at Falmouth by the arrival of the Finnish four-masted bar. que "Herzogin Cecilie," which had been competing with two other 'sailing ves
This
THE BOILERMAKERS in a race from Australia.
ANNUAL REPORT SHOWS OVER- DRAFT OF £147,000
is the third time in. succession that the Finish vessel, which is commanded by Captain de Cloux, has proved the win-
nef.
baga
A
The time occupied was 104 days, as The Board of. Trade' have award- The ninety-fourth annual report of compared with 84 and 36 in previous ed a bingealar glass to William Isaac the Bollermakers Society states that races, the, cause of the excess being Arnold, District Officer, H.M. Coast since 1920 the number of men employed the calm weathers met with, particular ly the close of the run. The "Her- zogin Cecilie" was becalmed at the guard, Hope Cove, South Devon, and in the various branches of the ship. a vellum testimonial to. the Hope building and boiler-shop industries has Cove Rocket Life-saving Apparatus fallen considerably. There were 13,898 month of the English Channel for a Company, together with monetary members looking for work, while many week, the wind being to light that she awards to the members of the Bolt thousands had gme to cther industries could not get into Falmouth Bay, and had cast anchor of the Manacles and
breeze. Await a
The Head and Hope Cove Coastguard or to other countries to find a means
Hertogin Cecilie, which and to the members of the Rocket of livelihood. The flow of apprentices
left Port Lin- with was checked, and the net loss of mem coln
of
· cargo
2,600 Apparatus Company who were pre
"Deventia" bers last year was 2,206. sent when the steamer
of wheat
18; on January was wrecked off Bolt Head on Febr: 66,101 members, as against 38,307 at Beatrice," which had a week's start, At the close of the year there were
saw nothing of her. rivals, the the end of 1927. The contributions in
or the "Lawhill," whith sailed thirteen the past year were $157,481, as comdays previously. pared with $166,975 in 1991, an in- crease of £506. This was atributable to the better employment of members The general on the year's working. fund shows an increase of £37,144, but
The recent cases which have been the superannuation fund a loss of heard in the Courts regarding deck 836,164, making a net gain of 80 cargoes on what may perhaps be call-
expenditure amounted
ed for convenience local shipping," 436,568, a decrease of £790; and death have brought to the front a matter benefits to £14,818, a slight decrease which has been a source of irritation It is also on the previous year.
for a great number of years. The funds were:-General, £146,487 annoying, apart from anything else, if 15s. d.; and superannuation. £118,498 British shipowners find that they are 16s. Id-making a total of £232,996 ander trading disadwalages as com- 31s. 6d., from which there was deduct-pared with foreign rivals, merely be- cd £146,099 0s. d. general fund over- draft at the bnak-leaving a net total of £115,937 10. 11d. In 1926 the bank overdraft was £205,819, and at the end of 1927 it was £154,588.
not
Sickness
to
circumstances, it was remors so small the
DECK CARGOES
PLEASE DON'T
WASTE WATER
matter
Soon after midnight on February 12-13, signals of distress were ob served from the vessel by the Hope Cove Coastguard, and an advance party from the Rocket Apparatu Company, carrying light life-saving gear, set out in a motor-lorry, and located the vesse! at about 2.30 am The remainder of the company fol lowed in the waggin conveying the full rocket apparatus: This gear had then to be carried by the company for a mile along the top of the high eliffs. They had to make use of life- fines to aid slipping over the edge of the cliffs, for the cold was intense and thr
covered with a thin Ergund coating of
ice, and the gale that was blowing was accompanied by driving snow. Al the acetylom lamps, except one, had frozen, and it was only with, the second racket
In the past year £94,401 was paid in which was fired at 4 am, that cor tact was established. The ship was
was superannuation benefit, compared with The then hauled out by those on, board, 90,472 in the previous year. and the breeches: buoy sent out a total number of superannuated mem- the ship. Owing to the
Obers was 4,566. The funds had not en- cause they have to amply with rules intenso darkness and the failure of the abled them to pay in full their affilia- which apparently do not affect in equal for those tion fees to the Labour Party, bat an degree the shipping under foreign flags. lamps, it was impossible
This is not a peculiarity to this part instalment of 200 had been paid. on shore to see when anyone enter--! There had been a long and severe that there was a gap in regulations in the world for America discovered ed the breaches huoy from the
depression in industry, and, in all the and, owing to an overbangin the
of the "Vestris" which safely hard it to the the loss in members has been so small caused considerable annoyance when it it top of the cliff where they were working. All they could do was in the lean years Retrenchment had was realised, and that gap is likely,
been necessary, and sacrifices had been is understood, to be closed by amend- keep the buoy sufficiently long on the ship for it to be entered,
haul it
made, but the swiety still gave supportment of the United States law. The to-7,400 members at varying rates of point involved of course, was not the
'Britain' ashore to a point 50 feet from the
same
the only top of the cliff, and hold it there benefit, rising to £23 per member per
general circumstance that sufficiently long for any person
shipping
plying.
and to land it was found at daybrank
out of any port. foreign to i na- that three members of the crew of
tional registry is not always under the the "Deventia" had been saved in
same restrictions as the national ship- this way. The nistor-lifeboat from
ping of that port.. It comes then Plymouth then arrived, on the scene
રી question of commonseDNA else and, much anything and took off the remaining 10 mem bers of the crew.
leaving aside all the technical subtleties it is plainly absurd that the trade of any nation should be at a disadvantage in its own parts vis avis the trade of foreignera, This is a principle of international application and there could be no objection raised by any foreign trakr to its treat ment. If the position as regards cer- tain clases of trade in this part of the world is that the home trader is suffer- of the outside trader, to the benefit of that should be remedied. It would, we imagine, be quite possible so to amend any rules or regulations which exist as to deal with such a circumstance, and in justice to our own registry, any necessary action should be taken, if a sufficient enquiry establishes, as popu lar opinion has always held, that a genuine grievance exits.-"Journal of Commerce."
FLOATING DOCK
TO LIFT VESSELS UP TO 15,000 TONS
in it
Two unita
been com- have now pleted of a three-unit floating dock, which is at present under construc- tion at the Government Dockyard and Engineering Works. Walsh Island, Newcastle, N.S.W. Ordinari- ly the centre and how units will be coupled together to form one float- ing dock which will then be capable of docking vessels up to 11,000 tons or, alternatively, the third section,
Any two of the sections will be able to lift the third..
When the third section is complet ed, which, it is anticipated, will be in Sepember next, it will ordinarily be used as
a separate unit, suitable for the quick docking of smaller ves aels up to, say, 4,000 tons capacity,
wil be It
to possible, however, couple it up to the two other units, so as to form a deck with a lifting capacity of 15,000 tons, which could the new Australian accommodate cruisers "Australia" and "Canberra" which are 680 ft. long. The length overall of the third unit will be 212
SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports it, and it will have a clear width
KAMAKURA MARU
Toesday, 9th July.
NEW YORK, Boston, Havana via Panama
↑ TATSUNO MARU
Thursday, 4th July.
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Constantinople, Genoa.
† DURBAN MARU
CALCOTT via Singapore, Penang & Kangoon.
† TAMAGATA MARU
† GENOA MARU
SHANGHAL KODE & YOKOHAMA,
AXI MARU (Nagasaki direct}
FUSHIMI MARU
+Cargo only.
Saturday, 20th July.
Saturday, 29th June. Monday, 8th July.
Thursday, 20th June. Monday, 24th June.
Reduced 1st Class Excursion Rates quoted between Manila and Australia,
For further information apply to NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Tel, Central No. 292 and 8897. (Private exchange to all departments.
O. S. K.
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP-Vis Singapore
Colombo, Sier and Port Said ALTAI MARU ................
Friday, 12th July,
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Salzon, Singapore,
Colombo, Dubau & Cape TOWEL MANILA MARU
BOMBAY Via Singapore & Colombo,
CHIFUKU MARU
Thur
27th June.
Thursday, 4th July.
DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM. ZANZIBAR
MOMBASA-Vía Stuganers & Colombo
Sunday, 7th July.
at the entrance of 82 ft., the depth of water over the keel blocks being 16 ft.
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HAMBURG
PROVISION FOR THE FUTURE
As a two-unit structure, the dock will have an overall length of 420 ft., with the same width of the en- trice-82 ft-but the depth of water over the keel blocks will be 28 ft. With all three units coupled together, the overall length will be 630 ft Both the larger and the The port of Hamburg during the past smaller units are self-contained, the ten years has ohibited one of the most electric azergy for operating them striking examples of commercial being produced on board by diesel-vitality which it seems possible to con
ceive, Just before the war it had driven generatora.
The dockyard and works cover in built up its overseas traffic to a level area of 145 acros with a
wharf verging on 30,000,000 tons of shipping that frontage to the southern arm of the entered and clured per annum, zo river of 2,000 ft. The yard was criit ranked immediately afer: London ginally equipped for ship-building and Liverpool as chief European sos- and ship-repairing in all its branches, port.
was
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in
CONSIGNEES NOTICES
burt
!
$.8.
Consignees of
ел cargo reminded to take. "Gogovale" are delivery of their goods which will be subject to rent after June 23.
Consignees of cargo ex. M.V. "Danmark are reminded to take delivery of their gods which will be subject to rent after June 24.
Consignees cf cargo "Benarty" are reminded
to take delivery of their goods which will be subject to rent after June 26,
ex 2.8.
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMER
The C.P.S. E.MS "Empress of Russia" arrived at Manila on June 20 (Thurs.) at 8 am, leaves Manila on June 21 (Fri.) at 4 p.in., and is due at Hong Kong on June 23 (Sun.),
at 9 ..
THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1929.
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WARSHIPS HERE
exhausted excheaner and
preciated
currency, to resuscitate the
- oversent trade of the port levels and raise if to even higher. I than before. The pre-war tonnage of shipping was surpassed in 1928, with The following are the warships fu 30,963,228 tom entered and cleared, and barbour
the returns have since guse on
sberdi ly increasing until in 1937
they re
reach Basin HMS. Tamer,
red 89,558,800 tons. """Bruce,” “Sepoy" L15, and L19. This rapiny expanding volume of
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