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1930 ECLIPSE OF THE BACK TO VICTORIAN
SUN.
'ADVENTURE."
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Expedition to Tin Can Sir Ernest Benn's. Plea
Island."
for Sanity in Business.
The 190 solar eclipse, writes the Wellington, New Zealand, ·corres- pandent of The Times, will place on
THE
THE WATCH TOWER.
WHAT IS THE USE OF THE NAVY ?
PIRACY IN THE CHINA SEAS,
CHINA MAIL.
JOURNALISM.
LOCAL ASSOCIATION'S BEGINNING.
ENCOURAGING START,
By Comdr. H. M. Deny, D.8.0.1 The Hong Kong Journalists" During the past few centuries Association held An informal and also in the Great War, the fact opening in their new head- is universally recognised that the quartors In the China Build- British Navy has carried out in a ing on Friday. at 1 p.m. Many most glorious and efficient way the friends called during the day to work of the defence of our country wish the Association every success and our Empire, and also the ad- in its venture. vancement of the civilisation of the) world.
The Committee wish particularly to thank all donors to the Club, and There are some people, however, vite as many as they would have regret that they were unable to in- who appear-to-hold-the-mistaker wished to be present. They are idea that the usefulness of the very deeply indebted to the Hon. Navy has passed, and that other Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D,. means must be found in the future, mises.
for his assistance as regards pre-
Senior Service.
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for the carrying out of the duties! Journalists who are passing which have devolved upon our through the Colony are invited to call at the offices of the Associo- tion, which for the present are situated at Room, 16, third floor, China Building.
Let us consider this matter, first from the point of view of a war, and secondly as a problem of peace,
time.
Protecting Trade.
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It is hoped to have papers read at the Club on matters of general In any war in which Great Bri-greatly appreciate offers in this interest and the Committee would Modern methods were compared tain unfortunately became
en-direction. by Sir Ernest Benn at the opening ed by another Power possess-ferent schools of thought in the with those of the Victorian period gaged, the most volunerable sphere It is a direct aim of the Associa in which she could be atack-tion to get into touch with the dif- or the sixth Advertising Conven. tion, attended by more than 1,000 would be that of her Alerchant erally may present true and sympa. ing any respectable sea-forces Colony, in order that the Press gen. vertising Association, at Hastings chant ships which continually ply wide events. The Association will Navy, Those hundreds of mer-thetic accounts of local and world. Sir Ernest declared that the with cargoes to and fro between warmly welcome any help extended development of trade and industry different ports of the Empire and to them to this end. would mean a return to some of the Ideas which prevailed in the Vic torian period,
the maps of astronomers an incon- spicuous Pacific island which was thrust out of the sea some centuries delegates and members of the Ad- ngo by volcanic action.
Niuafon, or "Tin Can Island," in' the Tongan group, has hitherto ap- peared on charts and occasionally has had a line in tourist letters. This year it will be the temporary abode of a scientifle party.
New Zealand has been requested by the British Eclipse Committes to make all observations of the total eclipse which will occur on October 22, and Niuafou has been chosen for the observations.
to foreign ports, bringing food and Newspapers from all over the raw materials to Great Britain from world will shortly be on file, and avail itself of the privilege to con overseas, and without which we it is hoped that the public will
sult them as and when necessary.
In the course of an address on the could not exist; those ships would theme of the convention, "be the objective of the enemy. ereasing Trade by Advertising."
Merchant ships in days of old de
he went on to say that if they were fended themselves with guns on to develop trade and Industry they board and armed crews, but that needed less "safety first," a few more healthy, bankruptcies, and attainment and useless against would nowadays be impossible of revival of the old spirit of ad-even a small cruiser, as well as
The path of totality will traverse the whole of the Pacific Ocean in venture. south-easterly direction beginning! some hundreds of miles north of New Guinea and ending at the southern tip of South America, where the eclipsed sun will be just setti...
Victorian Sanity."
"I am up against the notion that we Victorians are all wrong and that your modern young people are all right," he said. "We have had
most uneconomical, considering that their space is fully occupied with commercial needs for cargoes and-passengers.
The Navy's Part.
now enough of both to be able to Who then can possibly undertake sift the bad from the good.
LESSON-SERMON
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,. SCIENTIST, HONG KONG,
"Love" was the subject of the Leason Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist on Sunday, August .3.
If we
In this long path there are only
their defence, if not the Royal The Golden Text was: "No man two specks of land-Nurakita, In
"There was certainly more Navy? Can the Air Force defend hath seen God at any time. the Ellice group, and Niuafou. economic sanity in the Victorian ships on great ocean trade routes? love one another, God dwelleth.in Nurakifa is low. nat, thickly wood-peroid than is to be found among At, or near, terminal routes, airus, and his love is perfected in us" ed, und difficult of access. More- us to-day, and there can be no doubt ships, aeroplanes, seaplanes and I-John 4: 12).
over, the duration of totality there will be less than a minute. Niuafou, though not on the main trading routes, is accessible, and 'totality will last there ninety-five seconds. So Niuafou has been chosen, and Dr. C. E. Adams, New Zealand Government Astronomer, is busily preparing for the expedition.
The Astronomer Royal at Green- wich has agreed to supply a 19ft. coronagraph of the sun, and a 12ft, coelostate-the delicate mirror made to follow the sun by clockwork These instruments were used at the Brazil observation in 1919, when people who could understand the Einstein theory' were looking eager ly for an evidence, bearing upon it that the eclipse might furnish.
as to the development of trade and flying boats have their functions, Among the citations which com- industry when 'Queen Victoria and can materially assist the naval prised the Leason-Sermon was the reigned over us. That time might surface and sub-surface vessels in following from the Bible: "He that be described as the period of sex times of daylight and comparative-loveth his brother abideth in the safety and economic adventure.. ly calm weather. But all aircraft light, and there is none occasion of "We are now in the period of are useless for defence or attack at stumbling in him. But he that what is imagined to be economic any considerable distance from hateth his brother is in darkness, fafety and sexual adventitiousness, land, unless they are borne in air both propositions being in my judg-craft carriers, and then, of course, ment rotten to the core.
they and their carrier are really part of the Navy.
**Change and Decay."
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and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, be- cause that darkness hath blinded his eyes. He that loveth not! knoweth not God; for God is love" (1 John 2:10, 11 and 4:6).
The Lesson-Sermon also included
"As a good Victorian you may The navit vessels escort- imagine with what fervour I singing convoys must have. that line of the good old hyran some convenient strategical point, which runs 'Change and decay in some force upon which they the following passages from the all around I see."
can fall back In case of Christian Science text-book,
"I don't believe that everything being attacked by overwhelming "Science and Health with Key to that, is new is bad. I only object forces, and there must be a "con- the Scriptures," by Mary Baker to the modern view that everything centration of force," stronger than Eddy: "Truth has no consciousness -old is stupid."
any likely combination of enemy of error. Love has no sense of Good Observation.
Lord Riddell, the President of forces, in such a position as
to hatred.
Life has no partnership Through the good offices of the Advertising Association, said make it extremely hazardous for with death. Truth, Life and Love H.M.S. Veronica a suitable site for although advertising had made the enemy to attack the convoys. are a law of annihilation to every- the observation has been selected amazing strides in quantity and This "concentration" consists of a thing unlike themselves, because at Miuafou. It lies 15deg. 32min. quality since 1924 and the nation fleet.
they declare nothing 'except God" | 4sec, youth latitude and 176deg. had developed an "advertising Far from such feets being ob- (p.243). 37min. 54sec.. weat longitude, sense," even now many business solete, they are more necessary now, Incidentally, the Sbservations made people imagined that the right than ever before to the inhabitants) by the officers of the Veronica in goods, properly marketed at the of Great Britain, for every year our determining this alte showed that right price, would sell themselves. parcentage of homegrown food sup on the charts made from observa. } "Manufacturing and marketing plles becomes less compared with tions in 1875 Nluafou was a mile without advertising is like kissing our overseas amounts; so our need and a half away from its true posi- your hand to a girl in the dark," he of adequate naval defence becomes tion. The now observations place added.
even greater. this island that distance nearer the centre of totality, so that the ob- severs will have a few seconds longer to do their work.
Empire Markets.
Policing the Seas.
our
аз to
SPINNERS' SCHEME. EGYPTIAN SECTION PLANS FOR BETTER RESULTS.
London, July 17.
The might disagree about fiscal Let us consider, shortly, the posl. formulate a scheme for the protec
A committee appointed to policy, but Lord Beaverbrook hud tion in peace time. The cities and tion of the interest of the spinners performed a public service by intowas of
lend require of the Egyptian section of the One of the difficulties to be over- fusing now life into the discussion police,
and no оле come in arranging the expedition is of Empire probleme.
He hoped the foolish
30 Lancashire cotton-spinning trade transport for. observers and ap. campaign would lead to a cluser would be possible to dispense pooling scheme and the fixing at
say that it have drafted
a plan Including a paratus. Niuafou ia midway be- study of all our markets, British wits civil police forces; in fact, malmum tween the main islands of the and foreign.
they have considerably increased in various classes of yarn to be added marginal rates for Samoan, Tongan, and Fiji groups. In a message read at the opening all civilised countries. No one The monthly inter-island steamer of the Convention, the Prime would say that the reduction of the
to the cost price of cleaned cotton. delivers the Nigafou mall in a Biinister said, "Clean and honest police would cause a cessation of opinion that if the scheme is The committee expressed the soldered tin can, hence the name advertising means clean and honest crime; on the contrary, a great re-adopted a striking advance will be "Tin Can Island," which is dropped business dealing, which affect the duction would unquestionably be a overboard in deep water and towed whole moral tone of our people." prelude to a large increase of of Egyptian spinners in Britain.
made. In consolidating the position to shore by swimming natives.'
The trading stations on the island are supplied by a small steamer which comes at irregular intervals
A new national effort, he added, offences against the person and pro.
was required to meet intensified perty. In the same way it may competition. To win and maintain fairly and boldly be said that the
our position in the world called for British Navy are the police of the turies ago, would once again send up premiums at Lloyd's to great
from the main island of Tongs... great development in the art of sens
The Astronomical Society of New Baleartanship, of which advertising In peace time the prestige, au- heights. Zealand has suggested that the was an important part. scientists and their apparatus might
thocity and force of our Naval ves-Piracy in China, be conveyed. In one of the New totality belt will pass between Suva and is so powerful for the protect the sole force which carries out this sole, is so universally recognised, The British Navy is practically Zealand warships, If this could be and Apia, both possessing wireless tion of those who pass on the seas continuous and peaceful control made to fit in with the 1930 naval stations, it is hoped that some use upon their lawful occasions, that for humanity; other nations seldom programme. Failing such an arful research will be made fnto the piracy and barratry are rare oc- render any assistance: though In rangement the Government island effect on the transmission of radio currences, and our shipping and China seas, where piracy still some steamer Maul Pomare might be waves.
that of all other nations is able to times raises its hydra" head, the used.
Weather recorda show that Octo carry out its work for commerce Japanese do lend us a hand in this ber is a favourable month for ob and communications without fear dimcült and dangerous job. servations. On 23 days out of 81 and unarmed. Reduce our Navy to Truly we may say that, far from weather is fins and clear between such small dimensions that it can being an "obsolete weapon," the 8.a.m. and midday. The total not guarantee such safety in time British Navy is now, an it has been eclipse will begin at 20hr. 50min. of peace, and it is certain that ad- for so long period, the “Sure. 48sec Greenwich Mean Time, and venturous criminals will take ad- Shield' of these islands and their end at 20hr. 62min 28sec,, approxi-vantage of such unprotectedness, people, and the greatest and most mately 9hr 9min. local time. Even as we have seen car-bandits efficient force for the preservation In addition to photographing the Although 800 miles east of the on the roads, so should we find that of that peace of the world which it corona, it is intended to photograph-180th meridian, Niuatou, keeps ship-robbers would be created, and lathe policy and in the true inter the flash spectrum and the spectrum Eastern time. In conformity with the piracy, which merchants suffer ests of all our peoples thro of the corona Fürd as the other felands of the Tongan grouped from so severely several con- the Empire to preser
The 1980 eclipse will not have the special interest that that of 1919 had, since the stellar position will not be favourable for observations similar to those made ten years ago, but it will be important as main taining the continuity of solar eclipso records.
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