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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1930.
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SHINYO MARU TATSUTA MARU
HIYO MARU
22nd October. LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM vis
Singapore, Penang. Colombo, Suez. SUWA MARU
PUSHIMI MARU
Wednesday,
Saturday, 1st Nov. at 11 a.m.
15th November. Saturday,
21st October.
18th November.
27th October.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Porte.
AKI MARU
KITANO MARU
+ TOTTORI MARU
Tuostlay,
Tuesday,
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
Monday,
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Mexico & Panama. ROKUYO MARU
Saturday,
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KANAGAWA MARU'
NEW YORK. BOSTON via Panama.
LIVERPOOL vis Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa.
20th November.
Saturday,
18th October.
†TSUYAMA MARU
Sunday,
9th Novembor.
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+ TOYOOKA MARU
Thursday,
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↑ RANGOON MARU
Wednesday,
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
CALCUTTA MARU (Moj direct) Monday,
+ HAKODATE MARU
Monday, Friday,
29th Octobor.
20th Octobor.
27th October. 31st October.
HAKUSAN MARU
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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO Alteration. LONDON, HAMBURG, HOTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore
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AMUR MARU LONDON MARU
Monday, 10th November. Sunday, 14th December.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Vis Saigon, Singapin,
Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.
SANTOS MARU
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RIO DE JANEIRO
BOMBAY ---Vin Singapore & Colombo.
BORNEO MARU
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Thursday, 30th October. Friday, 28th November.
Sunday, 10th October. Monday, 3rd November.
DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZAN-
ZIBAR, & MOMBASA-Via PANAMA MANU
Bingapore & Colombo.
CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
SEATTLE MARU.
HIMALAYA MARU
Wednesday, 5th November.
Saturday, 18th October. " Saturday, 18 November.
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER.
ARIZONA MARU (from Shanghai) Monday, 20th October, AFRICA MARU (from Shanghai). Thursday: 13th November. MELBOURNE-Yin Manila, Brisbane & Sydney. 、
MELBOURNE MARU
HAIPHONG-Via 'Hoihow & Pakhal.
Thursday, 6th November.
NEW YORK-Via Japan porta & PanRIA.
TRANSPORTATION.
The Welland way from west to east has been a principal link of communication for the past hun dred years, and the new construc- tion is only the last of many structural improvements which have been made, under various Governments, to cope with the increased traffic from the rich prairie provinces to the St. Lawrence, with its Atlantic out-
Installation and Bapaits of Diesel Engines and Motors for Marine and Stationary a speciality,
the time required for a PRICE OF TANKERS. vessel to pass through the present
or old canal. The actual length
of the new canal is 25 miles, or Blightly over 27 miles from the AND THE AMERICAN SHIPPING
SITUATION. end of the new breakwater at Port Colborne, on Lake Erie, to the end of the breakwater at Port Weller on Lake Ontario.
It is unders-
The bulk of the orders for Canada's latest, and perhaps greatest, engineering feat is com-
A spectacular feature of the motor tankers placed with Euro- plete, mail week seeing the open-new canal is the three pairs of pean yards during the past nine locks in flight, the twin locks, months has been contracted at a ing of the new Welland Canal.
Nos. 4, 5 and 6 at the escarpment, price varying from £14 10s, t with a total aggregate lift of $15 108. per ton deadweight for 1891ft. They are similar to the vessels between 9,000 tons and Gatun Locks on the Panama 16,000 tons d.w.e Canal, which, though of some-stood that the contracts for the what larger dimensions, have an nine large tankers which were aggregate lift of only 85 feet. ordered by the Standard Oil Co, well ilus last month were given at a slight. The great height is trated by the height of the con-ly higher rate, but their speed is crete wall at the north end of lock somewhat above the normal - In America No. 5; this from the coping of namely, 12 knots. lock No. 5 to the bottom lock No. the corresponding figure is in the per ton 4, amounts to 130.8ft. The Horse neighbourhood.. of £26 Shoe Falls at Niagara are 168ft. deadweight for ships of equal specification to those built in Europe.
let..
Longest in the World.
A new waterway runs across the Niagara Peninsula about ten miles west of Niagara Falls, con-high. nects Lakes Erie and Ontario, and
The enormous saving which a difference of over At the Lake Erie and Lake overcomes
The 25-mile Ontario ends of the new canal, the owners effect by building in 325ft. in level. length of the canal has seven some difficult and costly engineer Europe is apparent, for the dif locks of a uniform lift of 46%1⁄2ft.,ing works were found necessary. ference is approximately $10 per and the culverts have been So Port Weller, at the Lake Ontario ton deadweight, or £1,458,000 for America, constructed that a lock chamber end, is an artificial harbour form- the Dine ships. Had the vessels can be filled or emptied in eighted by the construction of two been constructed in minutes, thus enabling a loaded embankments extending into the therefore, it would have been vessel to pass through the new Lake for a distance of 114 miles, necessary. canal in eight hours a little The entrance is 400ft wide and more than half the shortest time widens out to a bottom width of 800ft. at the harbour. The har- previously taken.
bour is slightly over a mile long, and covers an area of about 150 acres.
'LOS ANGELES, PANAMA, NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, AND industrial future.
PHILADELPHIA.
SANYO MARU
JAPAN PORTS.
NITTO NARU (via Keelung}
TACOMA MARU
BATAVIA MARU
KEELUNG-Via Swatow & Amoy. TAKAO Via Swatow & Amoy. TAKAO & KEELUNG.
BATAVIA MARU For further onrieniar
to your
Saturday, 25th Octuber.
Tuesday, 21st October. Friday, 24th October. Monday, 10th November.
Monday, 10th November. please apply camOSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA
SEAMEN'S ACT.
LEGISLATION WHICH PROVED
M TAKEUCHI "Manager
ticularly when it was employed indiscriminately.
Under the Act the master and the surgeon were the only people
to debit them with annual standing charges for in terest, depreciation and insurance (say 15 per cent. on capital cost) to the extent of £220,000 more than will be the case in the exist- ing circumstances.
CANADIAN PACIFIC
Kobe
Yokohama
Vaasourer
"Arriva
Nov. 14. Nov, 20 Nov. 29 Dec. 4. Dec. 121
"QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC. 12.DAYS FROM CHINA AND 8 DAYS FROM JAPÁN TO CANADA AND U.S.A.
Shanghat Hoar Keng
LARTO Krepress of Canada Oct. 30 Nov, 2 Nov. 4 Nov. 6 Empresa of Russia Nar. 12 Nov. 15 Nov. 18 Empress of Japan Nov, 27 Nov. 30 Dec. 2
Dec. 18 Dec. 27. Dec. 10 Dec. 13 Dec. 16 Empress of Asia"
Jan 1 Jan, 9 Empress of Canada Dec. 23 Dec.. 23 Dec. 30 Empress of Kussis" Jan. 7 Jan. 10 Jan. 13 Jan. 15 Jan. 24
Feb. 5 Empress of Japan
Feb. Feb. 10 Feb. 12 Feb, 20 5 Mar. 14 Mar- Feb. 25 Feb. 28 Mar, 3 Empress of Aria" Empress of Canada Mar. 12 Mar. 15 Mar. 17 Mar, 19 Mar. 27 Empress of Russia Mar., 25 Mar. 28 Mar., 31 Apr. 2 Apr. 11
Apr. 9
Apr. 17 Empress of Japan Apr., 1 Apr. 4 Apr. 7 Empress of Asla Apr. 17 Apr. 29 Apr. 23 Apr. 25 May 4 May 17 Empress of Canada. May 2 May 5 May 7 May
June Empress of Russia" May 15 May 18 May 21 May 23
June 6 June 14 Empress of Japan May 30 June 2 June 4
*(Call at Nagasaki the day after departure from Shanghai)
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Arrive
Hong Kong
Manila
Emp. of Canada Oct. 22 Emp. of Russla Nov. 4
Oct. 24 Nor. &
Telephones: J'assenger 20752 Freight.20042
WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM
BRITISH WUCHOW LINE
short and economical holiday.
OCTOBER SAILINGS.
DEPARTURE HOURS:
Hong Kong 5.30 p.m. Wachow 2 p.m.) 8.S. "TAI HING" (1,068 tons-Capt. Trott.] OCTOBER.
TUES.
21st
MON.
27th
9.S. "TAI MING" [649 tons-Capt. G. J. Spink.}
· OCTOBER. 18th
SAT. THURS, 23rd
WED.
29th
KWONG WING,
29, Connaught Road, West,
Phone 20893.
The Sai Kong for the West River) The whole achievement, which has cost the Government some-
is the third largest river in the Chin- ese Republic and second only to the thing in the neighbourhood of
It is thus not difficult to under- Yangises in importanc. This magni- £24,000,000, is one of the most At Port Colborne, at the Lake
end of the canal, it was stand why American-built ships
Acent trade route was opened to for remarkable in modern engineer- Erie
eign traffic In 1897, bat how many ing, and has involved reclamation, necessary to construct a break-in competition with those con-
foreigners "travel on this important bridge building, electrification, water which is over 2,000 ft. structed in foreign yards, nor terminal construction, and a host long, and formed by sinking re- why they demand subsidies from
waterway? The scenery, along the Fer information apply to of other big enterprises, and inforced concrete cribs on a pre- the Government if they place stands as yet another monument pared bottom, and covering them their orders with home yards. route is beautiful. We recommend r to Canadian industry and skill with a heavy concrete Buper There is no indication of ship-to any person who wishes to spend a and the Dominion's faith in herstructure. Near the Lake Erie ping being an economically self- end of the canal, the great guard supporting profitable business in lock (No. 8) at the village of the United States and that it Eight Locks Instead of 26. Lock No. 8 at the Lake Erie Humberstone maintains the summust continue indefinitely to be end of the canal is 1,380ft. in mit level of the canal from Port assisted by the State.
Through words, it must live to a certain ex issue we record the adoption of visualised in the past, when most tength, being the longest canal Colborne to Thorold. lock in the world. Lock No. 8 this guard lock, which, as stated, tent upon other industries, and airless injection with two types builders were opposed to airless- controls the level of water in the is the longest canal lock in the possibly the wide-spread indus of engines that have previously injection engines.
exbeen manufactured as a blast. This change of opinion is large- canal from Port Colborne (at the world, ships will be passed from trial depression now being Lake Erie end) to the top of the the constantly fluctuating level of perienced in America may cause injection design. The first is a ly due to the continued success Niagara escarpment at Thorold.Lake Erie to the regulated sum-a halt to be called to the further Sulzer motor, and the second the achieved by the one or two Diesel The canal has eight locks, less mit level in the canal extending projected subsidisation of the Fiat engines ordered for some of engine manufacturera who staked United States mercantile marine. the Standard Oil Co.'s tankers. their reputation and business life than one-third of the number of north to Thorold.
TANKER POSITION,
In other
AIRLESS INJECTION.
Both of these classes of motor auccess upon airless-injection ma- the old canal, which was operated
are of the two-stroke type, and itchinery. At first it was consider- with 26. The usable length of
may now be stated that theed that such plant would not the locks is 820ft, the usable
majority of the leading Diesel prove so satisfactory as engines width 80ft., the depth of water
It appears that nothing will engine manufacturers of the with blast-air injection, but ex- on the sills 30ft., and the lift of the locka 46ft. The width on
In view of the rapidly fluctuat-stop the rapid adoption of airless world are standardising airless perience has shown this idea to The result was, the bottom of the canal prism is ing conditions both in the oil injection for Diesel machinery. injection engines, for the most be fallacious. in the ship who were to be allow
industry and in shipping, it might the motor tonnage now being quantities than those of the blast-ately demanded the adoption of
Already probably 50 per cent. of part building them in larger naturally, that shipowners ultim ed to serve without being in pos 310ft. The present navigable be almost true to state that there built will be fitted with compres injection type. This is a position similar principles by other session of a ticket containing water depth is 25ft., but it is cap is no tanker "position." To On September 5, 1844, the name and description and being able of increase to a depth of 30ft. attempt to forecast the future is sorless machinery and in Merchant Seamen's Act was pass-numbered in series by the Board The Niagara escarpment interpos- altogether too rash in the pre- ed with the idea of establishing of Trade.
A FAILURE.
200ft., and at the water line it is
ed between Lake Ontario and sent circumstances, and all that
a general and accurate register of It applied to British seamen Lake Erie will be overcome in the one dure do is to put forward the
·
facts and let each draw his own conclusion....
'Many are inclined to the view
British segmen.
inly, and seemed to promise seven-lift locks. The total lift is The Press Gang was still the that the old trouble of alien sea- 36%£t. law of the land and the recognis-men in British ships would be The time cstimated for filling a ed method of raising seamen stamped out.
lock in the new canal is eight when they were wanted in war The Aet, however, was not minutes, and the estimated total that tanker construction has been time, but it was beginning to be drafted as carefully as it should time for passage through the en overdone, and it is possible that realised that it was an exceeding have been, and in practice it was tire new canal from Lake to lake they may be able to justify this ly dangerous weapon to use, par- a failure.
is eight hours or less than one-opinion in, say, 12 months' time, when a distinct fall in tanker
SHIPBUILDERS,
SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND
ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.
DRY DOCK
THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
OF HONG KONG, LIMITED.
SALVAGE: TUG “TAIKOO”
Wireless Call
V.P.G.N. 600 Meters.
Length 787 Feel Length on Blocks 750 Feet
Depth on Centre of
Sin (H.W.0.S.T.) 34, ft. 6 Ins..
THREE SLIPWAYS “
Capable of Handling Ships Up ement.
to 3,000 Tone- Electric Crane at Sea Wall, Capable of.
Radluse? 100 Tons
IRE
DODOCK HONG KONG.
AND PENNANT
TỔNG CÔNG
HINA & JAPAN
freights may occur. It may,
this which could scarcely have been builders.·
BANK LINE LTD
AGENTS FOR
however, be a temporary justifica ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO., LTD.
tion." The cessation of tanker construction for a period, com- bined with the almost certain increased demand for tonnage owing to the improvement in world trade that should then have developed, will lead to a rise in freights, as it has always done before.
There are, too, other facts. which cannot be ignored. In spite of the enormous tanker tonnage that has been ordered during the past nine months and the tendency of freights to drop, Bome of the largest companies are now contracting for big tankers. Such a policy could not possibly | bo justified...were those firms, with their unrivalled knowledge of the oil position, not fully con- fident that these new vessels would be needed by the time they were completed, and it is signi ficant that some of them will not be in service for two and possibly- three years hence
It is evident, therefore, that those who are most closely con- nected with the industry have absolute confidence: In- future
the extent
which fear the bensit for a long
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