THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1929.
P.&O.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
OCEAN FARMING
THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
DEEP-SEA SCIENTISTS.
THE
CHINA MAIL,
[jandiman's problemis. Lang researches
bave gone to establish our present v
newledge of the age-analysis of fish
the patient marking of hundreds of fish
CONSIGNEES.
GLASGOW
NOTICE TO CONSIGNÉÉS:
GOGOVALE
and the collection of the data so ac- ANDREW CRAWFORD & CO., LTD.,'' quired. Elaborate instruments have been evolved by which it is possible to make a minute examination of the ocean bed at any given point, and to in- Recently, the International Couneilvestigate the elaborate chain of life of Steamship, for the Exploration of the Sea met in the sea, from the large food fish at the the Lord Chancellors' suite of rooms in bottom to the microscosms on the sure the House of Lords. Scientists, pro-face, and thus it is possible to discover
From ANTWERP, fessors, and delegates from Belgium, the state of the food supply of fish at Denmark, France, Finland, Germany different times and place, and even to
Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- Holland, the Irish Free State, Italy, prognosticate when and where the formed that all Goods are 'being land- Latvia, Norway, Poland,
Fortugal, fishermen vill have good and bad seed at their risk in the Godowns of Spain, and Sweden gathered in gonɛ. learned conslave to discuss the work As an example of the Ingenuity de- the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf Godown Company Ltd., at Kowloon, of the past year and to plan another maided Mr. Maurice spoke of a new whence, and/or frame the wharvas de- year'a research into the economics and kind of drift-bottle, invented by a livery may be obtained. sociology of the bottom of the sea. tish scientist, which, by showing the
Optional Cargo will be forwarded Founded in 1902, the International exact path of the currents, throws sonic antess notice to the contrary be given Council was probably the first example light on the migration of fish. It real before. 17th instant.
international co-operation of its consists of two bottles, one of which
No claims will be admitted after the The work of research into sinks after a 'given time, owing to the oceanography and marine biology is netion of an acid on the prk. The other Goods have left the Godown, and all divided among the various nations feats on. The floating bottle is picked
ked Goods remaining undelivered after the which are members of the council some-
All claims against the vessel must times by areas and sometimes by sub-up, say, on the coast of Norway. That 23rd Inst, will be subject to rent.
gives the general trend of the drift. jects. Thus there is, for example, a When a number of the other bottles, presented to the undersigned on or domestic arrangement between Eng each having been timed for a different before the 3rd July or they will not land and Scotland that the Scots shall period, has been picked up by trawlers be recognited.
All broken, chafed, and damaged baddock, while the English scientists sible to map out the path by which the attend to the cod, and, with the co more persistent bottles have made their where they will be examined on the
the herring way to Norway. operation of Sweden,
22nd inst. at 10 am by our surveyors Messrs. Goddard & Douglas, Among the nations which belong to the until there are no fewer than seventy marine biological stations, and thirty vessels are devoted to these researches,
of
kind.
STRAITS, JAYA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, direct their research to the life of the from the bottom of the seas, it is poGoods are to be left in the Godowns,
WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA,
AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with HM. Government.)
5. S.
Толя
From Hong Hoang About
Destination
RAJPUTANA 16,668 22nd June Baby, Marseilles & London.
Marsilles, "L'don, Antwerp & R'dan
•PERIM
*KASTIGAR
MIRZAPORE "ALIFORE
KHIVA
KHYBER
*Noɔa 1,048 20th June
nhd5" - 6th July 6,7159 July -5,273 1/10th July 913520th July
|9,114 || | 3rd Aug.
& llamburg, Marseilles, London & Hull. Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Strails Colombo & Bombay. Marscilles & London.
Marseilles, London & Hull.
Cargo only Calls Casa Blanca Calls Karachi...
Bigger Fish
In an interview with "The Observer"
Mr. H. G. Maurice, Fisheries Secre
tary
of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, who has since 1920 beeu
SWEDEN
President of the Council, explained the 51 SHIPS OF 215,400 TONS UNDER nature of the work that is being done.
That branch of it which has most aught the popular attention suggests vague possibility of farming the
CONSTRUCTION
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersign- ed by
DODWELL & CO., LTD, Agente. Hong Kong, 47th June, 1929.
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD, COPENHAGEN.
“DANMARK "
According to a report of the Swedish The Motor Vessel, ecean
This has reference to Committee of Lloyd's Register the famous series of experiments under Professor Garstang in which plaice total number of ships contracted with ace Swedish yards amounts to 61 of a com- were transplanted from the coastal
Of The tined gross tonnage of 215,400. grounds to the Dogger Bank
are hereby informed that all goods transplanted fish were marked and a these 36 vessels of a total of 164,0K having arrived, Consignes of cargo equal number of other plaice which gross tons are destined for classification are being landed and placed at their marked in the same way. It was found ter of the tonnage launched in the past hazardons Godowns of The Hongkong that the marked plaice on the Degree quarter it is stated that Sweden occu-& Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd,
is the third place among
countries, coming after Great Bri- tain and Germany.
as the goods are landed.
oxic year, as against 6 ms. on the
No claims will be admitted after the coastal grounds from which they were
The Swedish yards are so well oc- in originally taken, and increased
cupied with work for the immediate Koods have left the Godowns, and sil weight by well over three times, while
Mr. Gunnar Carlsson, goods remaining undelivered after the 24th June, 1929, at 4 pm. will be the fish left on the coastal grounds. only fulare that doubled in weight: Thic was not an Swedish shipowner, has entered into aiect to rent.
contract with Messrs. W. Doxford and isolated result, but was maintained Sers, of Sunderland, for the con- All broken, chafed and damaged with marked consistency through restruction of two motor tankers, each of goods are to be left in the Godown,
they will be examined by Frequent countion from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to scaled investigations over a period of about 13,600 deadweight tons, for de- where
Anderson & Ashe on the Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna, and other Levant l'orts by steamers of the eight years
Thus there remains no possible doubt livery within so short a period as the Messrs.
The vessels are said 22nd June, 1929, at 10 am. Khedival Mail-Steamship Co.
that transplantation can be effectively spring of 1980,
to have been chartered for ten years All claims against the resse) must managed, but there is unfortunately no
be presented to the Undersigned before reason to think, Mr. Maurice says, that by an American oil company,
the 27th June, 1929, or they will not it can be made an economic propoal
be recognised. tion. Transplantation is still in the laboratory stage and there seems small indication that it will soon be ripe for commercial exploitation.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
†GURNA
5,248
SANTHIA
7,754
TILAWA
10,006
TALAMBA
SIRDHANA
TAKLIWA
TALMA
26th June Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
£ p.m. 4th July 24th Jaly 3,013
26th July 1,245 29th July 7,936 8th Aug. 30,000
21st Aug. † Cargo only.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
B.J. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and
carry a qualified surgeon.
An agreement is reported to have been entered into by the Lindholmen Motala Company, of Gothenburg, for the modernisation of the cargo steamer Rio Azul," which belongs to the Thompson Steam Shipping Com Pary, of London. The ship, which was only built at Blyth in 1931, is to be equipped with the Lente engine, saper heater, etc., and the coal economy re- sulting from the improvements is guaranteed to be 25 per cent.
But it must not be supposed from this that marine biology is of purely aes deric value. From the beginning it has been a science with severely prac tical application. Its birth dates from the expedition of the Challenger 1373: ten years later the Fisheries Exhibition at South Kensington provid ed a fresh stimulas, and it was just about this time that the practice of trawling for fish was frat begun. the trawler went over to steam, it was very generally feared that there would for service between Continental ports he over-fishing, and that the fisheries and the Pacific coast. The same build-
On May 2 there was launched at Gotaverken the combined cargo and
"Samuel Bakke,” passenger liner sister-ship to the "John Bakke," com plated a month
Knut ago for Mr.
e.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by
JOHN MANNERS & CO. LTD.
Agents.
Hong Kong, 17th June, 1929,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
When, to make the revolution copies Knutsen, Haugesund. Both ships are From MIDDLESBRO, ANTWERP,
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). would before long be exhausted. Worseers have also recently completed two
ST. ALBANS 4,500 Eth July ARAFURA
6,000 2nd Aug. +5,956 30th Aug. 4,500 4th Oct. 6,000 1st Nov.
TANDA
ST. ALBANS ARAFURA
Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island,
Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne.
still, it was argued that the trawl drag ging along the bottom of the sea des troyed the sperm of the fish, and threatened the fishing industry at its
very root.
LONDON & STRAITS,
Their The Steamship.
"BENARTY"
motorships for Oslo owners: principal dimensions are: Length over- all, 281 feet 11 inches; length between depth moulded to maindeck, 24 feet. PP, 257 feet; beam, 3 feet 6 inches;
Consignees of cargo are hereby in Here were two very practical posers The deadweight capacity is 2,490 tena
The formed that all goods are being land- for the new science to answer. The draft of 20 feet 8 inches. first difficulty solved itself, for the use service speed is 15 knots; the tweed at their risk into the hazardous cf steam enabled the fishermen to go 6-cylinder, 4-stroke, single-acting Gota- and/or extra hazardous Godowns of further afield and the danger of over- verken P. and W. trunk engines each The Hong Kong & Kowloon Whird and fishing the North Sea was thereby develop 1,500 ih.p. at 190 revolutions Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from diminished. But the second problem per minute. Because of the high speed the wherves delivery may be obtained, demanded the attention of the marine the ships have been-given very
Research soon showed that lines; they have two complete steel since none of the food-fish except the decks and besides a wooden fruit deck herring lay their eggs in the bed of the Both-ships are the last word" in the Frequent connections from Australla with the following:- The Union S.S. Company's steamors to the United Kingdom via New ocean (while even the herring's egga West Indian fruit feet.
sre layed on stony ground which is un Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
suitable for trawling) the danger was purely imaginary.
to Australia.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong The E. & A. $.5. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, notlo, Cebu. Kolambugan, Tawas, Timor, Darwin, or other parts en route as in
-ducement offer
The P&O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal.
The P. & D. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape.
biologist.
A similar problem was faced much
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and more recently when the sudden develop London via Panama Canal.
+KHIVA
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
TILAWA SIRDHANA KHYBER
TALAMBA ARAFURA MALWA
TAKLIWA
Shanghal, Mojl, Kobe & Yokoham,
KASHMIR | 8,985 2nd Aug.
Cargo only. † Calls Tsingtau
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama,
Wei-hoi-wõi, *. *.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice.. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.
Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenser at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.
ment of trawling as a herring fishery.
commercial vessels
to
was found that, after all, the
caught by the trawler, though small, it
Scientific Work
HONG KONG TIDE.
SHIP WIRELESS
RULES
that
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 28th inst, will be subject to rent.
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 10th July, 1929, or they will not be recognised and damaged
All broken chafed,
Goods are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined on the 25th-inst at 10 am. by Mesars.. Goddard & Douglas.
No Fire Insurance has been effect
Bills of Lading will be countersign-
GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. Agents. Hong Kong, 19th June, 1929.
in the North Sea roused an outery SWEDEN AND THE ANTIQUATED Among the old drift net fishermen thal the trawler took immature fish. A widespread research was dertaken!
During the discussion of an interjed. naturalists and assistents salled on pellation in the Second Chamber of
measure and 9,135 21st June
make an age analysis of the catch. It Swedish Parliament it was submitted ed by,
behalf of the seamen fish on 4 pm.
been possible woakl kave 10,006 29th June Amey, Moji, Kobe, Y'hama & Osaka,
1,745 Brd July Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. was not immature. Once again a dan to have avoided certain casualties
to ships EO
SE
been they had 9,114 5th July
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.ger of panic legislation was averted.
provided with complete wireless equip 8,018 6th July Amoy, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka, 6,000 9th July
Moj, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama. The selentific work which forms thement instead of having only reviving appliances. English shipowners, it 10,980 19th July
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. necessary basis of these apparently was stated, have shown a greater un 7,936 19th July Amos, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. simple results is elaborate and difficult derstanding of the standpoints of the *KIDDERPORE 5,884 20th July Shanghai, Me & Kobe.
As Mr. Maurice says, studying the a TALMA
10,000 30th July Amy, S'hai, Maji, Kobe & Osaka. the bottom of the sea is a very differ-seamen than the Scandinavians, who ent matter from studying scientific in Londen opposed tooth and nail im provements in this direction, and were said to receive the effective support of the Swedish State's representatives.
The Minister of Commerce, replying, recalled the regulations which were fixed internationally at the London Convention of 1914 concerning safety. The tide table given below has been of life at sea. With the great develop obtained by aid of the Tide-predicting ment in radio techniques during the Machine which inclnder 40 compen past few years the minister said that ents for the better prediction of tides, the regulations in question must now from the result of the analysis of the be regarded an antlonated, and not the tidal observations, taken at the Kat least from the safety point of view flung tidal observatory under the were less satisfactory. Measures fr direction of Dr. Doberck during the bringing about an improvement had years 1887, 1888 and 1889dy been discussed, among others, during
The times and heights i Kre given for
the prepartions for the International Kaulung, but they may be used for Safety of Life at Sea Conference, which the Victoris Naval Yard and Aberdeen, wai now proceeding in London the differences being very mall. It was to be expected, the minister the conference the The Times of high and low-water continued, that
would must not be considered to coincide existing safety
represented there monid agree to extend the brea gulations concerning compulsory wire
Installations considerably. pend those contained in the 1914 con Pention On the ground of the ex pense, nowover, the minister stated that it was said to be fimpossible: to It compel small ships to provide them
selves with radio equipment ESE
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