10.
P. & 0.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian
Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND), MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, 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 H.M. Government.).
8.5.
Топь
*KHYBER
From Tour Trong About
1931. 1st Aug.
5th Aug.
8th Aug.
1- 9,000
*KIDDERPORE 5,300 8,800 | 17,000
16th Aug. 5,300 10th Aug. 6,000 22nd Aug.
*150MALI
RAJPUTANA
•ALIPORE
*IPADUA
*KARMALA
CATHAY *ISOUDAN
KALYAN
9,000 29th Aug.
15.000 12th Sept. 8,800 19th Sept.
9,000 26th Sept.
Destination.
THE CHINA MAIL.
CREDITS FOR SHIPS ARE LINERS TOO
FOR RUSSIA.
Mr. W. L. Runciman's Views.
REPLY TO LORD MAYOR.
BIG?
Question of Profits for Their Owners.
EMPLOYMENT IN SHIPPING.
Position at the Principal Ports.
FURTHER DECLINE.
In the North-
When Sir Walter Runciman, dur- Ing the course of a speech which he
Employment remained very bad The chairman of the North of made some time ago, remarked that England Shipowners Association, there was no necessity for large in the shipbuilding and ship- Mr. W. Leslie Runciman, has made sized liners (by which he meant repairing during May, and showed some trenchant remarks on the pro-vessels of the size of the mammoth a further decline in most districts, though in some of the ship-repair- posed safe of British tonnage to
Of course, he trans-Atlantic ship), he was saying centres there was a slight im- Russian buyers. agrees with the sale to Russia (or ing what was in the minds of a provement, states the Ministry of Timbuctoo) subject to satisfactory good many connected with shipping. Labour Gazette. prices and terms, but what he ob- shipbuilding and marine engineer Eastern division, and in Scotland, jects to is the idea which has been ing. Moreover, does the passenger and Wales, more than 60 per cent,.: fostered in Newcastle that the Bri- really enjoy a trip the more in the of the insured workpeople were re ago Bri Majestic, for instance, than in corded as unemployed. Compared tish Government should
to finance ship of equal luxury but of 20,000 with a year ago, when employment tish taxpayers' money
tons? A wide experience of travel
was already bad, there was a heavy the sale or building of tonnago which would automatically complete on all classes of liners inclines us decline, especially in the principul
to doubt it, says the Motor Ship.
shipbuilding districts. It is sometimes anid by shipping companies that their big liners pay best, bist it may only cause they are the beat liners and There is the not the biggest. question of prestige, but too much may be sacrificed for that, and one wonders whether a passenger liner Costing up to £5,000,000 on its own, without any extraneous factors, can pay its way.
with British merchant ships.
Mr. Runciman'expresses his view in reply to the statement issued by the Lord Mayor of Newcastle.
"Of course, ship, sale brokers are offering to the Russians Bri- tish-owned tonnage.
British ship-
bebe-
Seamen, Employment of seamen during May remained slack on the whole. The demand in the early part of the month was slightly higher than of owners--and managers--have often,
late, but after the Whitsuntide holi- both in public and in private, ex
days there was a general falling-of in demand. The supply of all
in excess of require sell pressed their willingness to
ments. Among Insured work- ships to the Russian Government
ratings was
subject, as the Lord Mayor right
In a
bad season, when it runs people-in-the-shipping-service the ly says, to satisfactory prices and half empty, the losses can easily be percentage unemployed at May 18 terms of credit being arranged,'
enormeus. The cost of laying up was 32.8, compared with 34.8 at just as they would to any other
for overhaul and repaira is far April 27, and 22.9 at May 26, 1930. mon on the different But it is a
The demand for Įpurchaser.
above that of, smaller vessels, and matter when the taxpayers' money any slight delay is equally expen: Thames was moderate on the whole, i used to finance what should be sive. There is a real argument but was somewhat quieter towards! On the commercial...operation, that good would be effected if all the end of the month. Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Ant a purely
would Tyne the demand was moderate in whoever the buyer may be. Those the Iner-owing companies werp & Hull.
who have had experience of that Straits, Colombo & Bombay.
the mammoth ship, and agree to subsequently; on the Tees it was sort of thing before know what call a halt in the construction of the first half of the month and quiet The demand at! troubles it brings with. It.
limit, their tonnage to something extremely slack.
quiet, parti- "To suggest. that British ship reasonable, say in the neighbour the Hartlepools was
And cularly in the middle of May; on owners an engaged in a sort of con-hood of 25.000 tons gross.
At Hull the spiracy of attempting "to control the it is specially unfortunate that in the Wear it was dull. Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Ant-carrying trade of another country almost all cases (except in Great demand was moderate until the last
werp & Hull,
week, when it declined somewhat.
Marseilles, Gibraltar, Havre, London, H'burg, R'dam, A'werp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits Colombo & Bombay. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg:
Rotterdum, Antwerp & Hull.
Bombay, Marsollles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam Antwerp. Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Ant
werp & Hull,
Cargo only. +Calls Casablanca. Calls Djibouti.
§ Calls Karachi & Port Swettenham.
Frequent connection frem Pirt Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khodiyal Mall Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
*SIRDHANA
*TILAWA SANTHIA
1931. 8,000 23th July Singapore, Perang & Calcutta.
3 p.m. 10,000 8th Aug. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 8,000 23rd Aug. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta,
Calls Port Swettenham.
at the expense of that country, and Britain) Government assistance is
at profit to themselves, is, with all afforded in financing the construc- respect, merely silly. Even if they tion.
had the remotest chance of succeed.
ing in such an attempt, it would be
Д
most short-sighted policy to adopt.
1
PASSENGER LIST.
ARRIVALS
At Southampton it showed an im- proving tendency until late in the month, when a decline took place. At Bristol the demand was slack; at Avonmouth it was fair, with in- ereased activity towards the end of May. A Commercial Question.
At Newport the demand was very slack during the greater "If the Five Year Plan is going the interna.
part of the month; at Cardiff and to bring Ruadia into
Swansea it was fair during the first tional market as a friendly buyer and seller on fair terms everyone Per 8.8. President. Polk from part of the month, but in the clos engaged in foreign trade will Shanghai on July 25:--
ing stages became quieter.
On the Meresy the demand. was welcome it, and shipowners, who
Mra. E. G. Blesi, Miss Helen B. fairly good until late in the month, live by the exchange of goods be Blesi, Mrs. Golda Bule, Mrs. S. Hwhen a substantial decline took tween natione, are the first to wish Douglas, Mrs. W. J. Garrett, Mrs. place; at Manchester it was mode such a consummation. Nor la it relevant to criticise the ways by Kneeland, U.S.N., Mr. and Mrs. rate up to the middle of May, but
less active subsequently. which Russia or any other country John S. LeClercq, Master Frederick Clyde it was poor in the early part may choose to effect her interas LeClercq, George Morris, Mr. and reorganisation. The question is Mrs. James M. Radford, Frank of the month, but improved subse
B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st not poiltical but commercial, and the continual attempt to import and 2nd class passengers.
political prejudice into it can only obscure the issue.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).
1981
NELLORE
„TANDA NANKIN
7,000
7,000 1,000
1st Aug.
2 p.m.
2nd Sept 2nd Oct.
& Melbourne.
and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong, to Sydnoy-19 days..
4.
E..A. Hottel, Lt. and Mrs. O. A.
Reedy, Mise Fannie Waddill.
.1,
On the
quently, and at the end of May was fair. At Leith it was quiet to moderate on the whole. At Belfast!
It was very slack throughout the
Dock Workers.
"But for the British Government here again, the use of British Gov-month. to lend its credit to the financing of ernment credits is open not only
Dock and riverside employment the sale of British tonnage to any-to the objection just mentioned, but body would have the effect, among also to the farther serious one that was very slack during May. Among Mazlla, Rabani, Brisbane, Sydney others, of reintroducing the ele-It would add more superfluous ton-insured workpeople in the dock, ment of an indirect subsidy to the nage to an excess that is already harbour, river and canal service Such 41.6 per cent., were unemployed at bayer, if not the soller. At this uneconomic and dangerous. time, when the damage that ship a policy could only recoil-later May 18,-as-compared with 411.per ping subsidies have done and are with added force upon the ship-cent. at April 27, and 87.1 per cent. Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan doing economically to shipowners builders and all those that work in at May 26, 1930.
In London employment remained and merchants alike has just begun the shipyards.
At Tilbury the average to result in their abolition, it would "Finally, the argument that if slack. be a grave misfortune if they were our Government won't someone else daily number of dock labourers The Union, S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New reintroduced, above all by the na- will seems very like that of a small employed during May was 807, tion which has had up to now one boy who, passing a tree of unripe compared with 866. In April, 1931, Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
of the cleanest records in this re-apples, reflects that if he waits and with 902 In May, 1930.
On the East Conat employment of his spect. No immediate advantage till they are fit to eat one
He, continued slack at the Hartlepools The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and (if such there be, for It has not yet friends may, gat in first.
a ladder from and at Middlesbrough.. Coal ship- been revealed) would justify the in therofore, borrows
Sunderland were London via Panama Canal.
evitable harm that would follow.his too indulgent parent and goes ments from
The result to his steady, and some activity was pro-" "If our shipbuilders can arrange for them green. suitable terms with any customer, inside in such cases is seldom bene vided at North Shields by timber: by all means let them do so, but, ficial."
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The P. & 0. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The P. & Branch Service of steamora to London via Suez.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN. Cheap Summer Trips to Japan, June to Sept.
SANTHIA KARMALA
1931.
8,000 81st July Amoy, Mojl, Kobe, Y'hama & Osaka. 9,000 31st July Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
Aug. S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Ornka & Y'hama.
7,000 7th
Bth
TANDA
•SOUDAN
0,800
CATHAY
15,000
14th
*TALMA
14th
*NANKIN TAKADA
KALYAN
1ST. ALBANS
Carga only.
10,000
7,000
Aug. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, Aug. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Aug. Amoy Moji, Kobe & Osaka. 27th Aug.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yotrbama.. -
7,000 28th Aug. Amoy, Moji, Kabe & Yokohama. 0,000 28th Aug. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 4,500 31st Aug. S'hal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama.
Calls Nagoya,
Calling Wei-hai-wol, Tsingtau & Shanghai on return from Japan
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notion. Fassengers for Rangoon must defray thole own Hotel expenses at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.
All Cabins are fitted with Electria Fans on Punka Louvre. Bystem free- charge
Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 8 cu. ft. will be recalved at the Com- pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous, to sailing.
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
cargoes. Employment was mode
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rate at Hull, fair at Lowestoft and Lynn, and slack at Grimsby, Goole, Yarmouth and Ipswick,
Agents.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
THE BEN LINE. STEAMERS, LIMITED.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO ANTWERP, LONDON, STRAITS AND MANILA.
*BENARTY"
At Liverpool employment con tinued very slack. The average weekly number of dock labourers registered at the clearing houses under the Liverpool docks scheme as employed in the four weeks end- The Steamship, ed May 20, 1981, was 11,606, com- pared with 11,258 In April, 1981; and with 14,255 in May, 1980. The average weekly amount of wages paid to these men through the four weeks ended May 28, 1931, compared with £28,892 in April, 1931, and with £88,000 in May 1980. W
Consignees of cargo,are hereby. In- the hazardous formed that all goods are haing land- and/or extra hasardons
clearing houses was £25,891 in the at their risk in Godowns of
The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained. No claims will be admitted after the ads bare left the Godowns, and all Although employment at South Goods remaining undelivered after the Wales was generally slack; there 27th inst. will be subject to rent, was some seasonal improve All claims against the steamer must ment at most porte. Con- be presented to the Undersigned on or
before the 10th
ditions remained quiet at Avon-will not be recognor they
mouth, Bristol and Glouces-All brokes, chafed, and damaged ter: At Southampton, Plymouth Goods are to be left in the Godowns, and most other south western ports where they will be examined on the 26th Inst. at 10 am, by Messrs. work remained thick, but
Goddard & Douglast Weymouth employment was good No Fire, Insurance has been effect and better than in April. Em edges mong gag ployment was moderate at Dundee, Grangemouth and Leith. It con tinued bad at Glasgow and fair at Bellast.
The time is coming plorer will vent unless be can be Ired triangle
Willem Ark
Bill of Lading will be countersign GIBB LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
ad rental p Hong Kong, 20th July, 1981. 1
irliament has sunk to little more electoral machine, whereby of the party
is to wield dictatorship for pelled Me Kamsay Muire
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