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SEATTLE, VANCOUVER via Shanghai & Japan Ports. .
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HEIAN MARU
HIKAWA MARU
Tuesday,
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80th June.
28th July.
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KATORI MARU
Saturday,"
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15th June.
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Sun.,
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SHIPS FOR RUSSIA. WATCH GERMANY.
MR. RUNCIMAN ON BRITISH FOLICY.
The seventh dinner of the Baltic Exchange Golfing Society was, held at the Hotel Motropole in mail week.
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·HER NEW “LUXURY”. FLEET.
country to watch just now than There is no more stimulating Germany, says a Daily Express shipping correspondent.
The secret of her extraordinary Mr. Walter Runciman, M.P.; post-war recovery is not in the proposing the health of the so-making of cheap clock-work toys ciety, said that we had heard dur- for the world's children, but in ing the last week or two of the the building of large fast liners effort of the Russian,Government for the world's travellers. to become large shipowners. He was not sure what was the exact number of the new ships they proposed to build in Britain, but we were assured they were to be paid for by advances given by the British Government. To ad- vance' money for the building of ships might be a good thing for some shipyards, but it would be an extremely bad thing for the British Mercantile Marine..
Passenger traffic figures show that the modern German luxury ships at, sea, notably on
the Atlantic, pull the international travellers like magnets, and ob tain most of the business.
Line
an-
panies of the other three leading. While the chief shipping com- maritime
Britain, countries, U.S.A., and Japan, have passed their dividends for the first time in history, the two German, con- "We cannot afford," said Mr. cerns, Norddeutscher Lloyd and Runciman, to have brought into Hamburg-America the trading world a great mass of nounce dividends of eight and shipping, provided, not by the six-per-cent-respectively. capital of the ultimate shipowner At the end of 1930 Germany but actually by our own depleted had, in a surprising way, regain. Treasury, for it would create ed her place as fourth shipping artificial competition, and the nation of the world, with a fleet only effect would be to hurt newer than any other. those very shipyards which ex- pect to obtain some temporary benefit from the scheme.
"If the Russians want 50 ships at once, old or new, large or small, there are plenty of ships for sale. Let them buy some of those ships if they like, and when they pay for them I hope they will pay in
A SHIP ON LEGS.
"AMERICAN" DREDGER BUILT IN BRITAIN FOR FRANCE.
The atrangest craft ever built | on the Tyne has left the river per dredger built by Hawthorn, for Havre. The vessel is a dip Lealie and Co., Ltd., for the Havre port authorities to the de- signs of the Bucyrus Erie Co., of Milwaukee.
She is the first vessel of the kind to be built in Britain, and all machinery has been shipped from America. She has no pro- pelling machinery, but her re- markable plant enables her to raise herself several feet in the water by means of four huge legs, cach 70 feet long, which can be operated rapidly, and which jab into the river or sea bed.
The dipper can tear into solid rock and scoop up ten tons of material at a time. steam engines aboard and the The five
whole of the plant can be operat- èd from the bridge.
HULL DOCK STRIKE. Owner's Right To Employ Direct Labour.
Hull, April 28. The strike of Hull dock work- collapsed to-day, when,
Her defeat in the compelled her to hand over her ers
war had
old ships to her enemies who with comparatively few excep found them mostly "white ele- tions, the men returned to work. phants," while she, combining Some delay was caused to the and rationalising shipbuildng on unloading of a number of steam. an intensive scale, produced a ships with important cargoes, brand new fleet. Since then Ger- but the work of discharge is many has passed Japan and is now proceeding as usual..
CANADIANį
PACTFIS
STEAMSHIP
FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1931,
EMPRESS OF CANADA
Sails for
MANILA
At
5 P.M.
On
FRIDAY,
JUNE 12th.
Passenger Department: Tel, 20752. Cables: "Gacanpac." Freight and Express: Tel. 20042. Cables: "Nautilus."
CANADIAN PACIFIC
WORLDS GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEXT
sterling — but not our sterling." now one of the Big Three mari- The strike originated through BRITISH WUCHOW LINE
He hoped we were not going to follow in any respect either the politics or the finance of Australia. We could not go on living on borrowed, money. The attempt to live on borrowed money to support, for instance, the unemployed, only meant that we were postponing a little long- er the Nemesis, which was bound to overcome us..
time powers. #
Two Fastest Liners. The average size of British ships launched in 1930 was 3,074 tons gross. In 1928 the German averago size had risen to 4,647 tons gross.
This included the two fastest liners in the world, the Bremen and Europa (46,000 tons each), the liners which won the Atlantic Blue Riband back again from Britain and the ships that car ried the record number of pas- sengers over the Atlantic last year.
Germany has become the third motorship owner in the world, with 431 ships (British Empire 800 ships, U.S.A., 495) and boasts the best motor liners from Southampton to the British West Indies. There is no British line competing with her on this ser-
Tyne steamship Rajahstan being discharged by direct labour, al though drawn from the usual trade unions of the port, but without these men being employ ed by local master stevedores. It was clearly proved at a con- ference of the Joint Port Work- ing Committee (comprising re- presentatives of all parties con- cerned to settle dock disputes) that the shipowners and ship- ping interests were fully entitled | to make their own arrangements for the discharge of the cargoes of their ships without contract- ing with local master stevedores or any combination of master stevedores, so long as they ob- serve the port rates and condi- tions as agreed between the trade unions and the employers.
. The result of the strike is of
He had doubt the arrange ments we had made for support ing the unemployed-those who through no fault of their own were out of work-were good ar- rangements on the whole. But the 10 millions of scandals, ac- cording to the figures of the Treasury, ought not to be paid for by the public. The effect of paying a great many claima which were unjustified, and which were sometimes accelerat- ed and augmented by arrange
importance, for it has established ments made by employers, vice.
the right of the shipping inter- simply meant, that we were add-
The German companies lost no esta to use direct labour without ing so heavily to the burden of time in coming to grips with the suffering any intereference from the genuine unemployed, and worst depression the shipping in-stevedoring combinations, which that sooner or later the Treasury dustry has suffered, by was going to find itself in a state cats, reorganisation of the ad ministrative side, and the profit able combine between the two great concerns, Hamburg America Line and Norddeutscher Lloyd.
of embarrassment.
_POLISH_MERCHANT FLEET.
Transference from Government Control.
·
wage
Hard work has infused into the shipping combines of Ger- and it has been done by the men miany a new progressive force,
at the top.
Another State shipping fleet is to go by the bourd. It le announced that the merchant fleet owned by
The Germans have been quick the Polish Government is to be transferred to a private undertak to realise that giant floating ing. The inference, of course, is hotels are not profitable to-day, clear that under State control the and they are concentrating on results have not been satisfactory, the building of smaller luxury
states the Journal of Commerce. Thus, Poland's adventure into Stato shipping has gone the way of Canada, Australia, the United States and several other countries. This fallure to run ships by the
DRY DOCK:
THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
OF HONG KONG, LIMITED.
SALVAGE TUG “ TAIKOO”
Wireless Call
VPGN. 600 Meters
Length 787 Feet Length on Blocks 750 Feet.
Depth on Centre of
SIE (H.W.O.S.T;) 84 ft. 6 ins THREE SLIPWAYS
Capable of Handling Ships Up to 3,000 Tons Displacement, Electric Crane at Sea Wall Capable
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RE
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linera.
Recovery at Hand.
The directors of the great lines assert, in their annual reports, that they look forward to the future with confidence and op tanism, because the bottom of world depression is in sight and recovery is near at hand..
A glance at their efficient fleets and their satisfactory divi- dends makes this no mere pious
hitherto have been claiming that
right. It has also established the right of the men to work direct without being engaged by master stevedores.
STEAM PROPELLED VESSELS,
Record In Economical Running.
H.M. Torpedo-boat Destroyer high- Acherton, fitted with pressure turbine machinery and boilers, has just. completed a series of trials on the Firth of Clyde, and has established' in fuel economy a record in naval work for steam propulsion, the oil fuel consumption on the full power trial being 6081b per shaft horse-power, for all pur- noses. The boiler pressure is 500lb. per square inch, with a steam temperature of 720 deg. F. This installation marka an im portant stage in the progress and development of steam propulsion The contract for this vessel was placed by the British Admiralty with the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, Limited,, at
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26th SAT. TUES. 30th THURS. 2nd. WED.
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