TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1934.
P.&O.-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 & ORIENTÁL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS.
(Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
4.8.
From
Tons Hong Kong
About
1934.
CORFU **BANGALORE
35.000 10th May 4,000 26th May
*MIRZAPORE
MANTUA
*ALIPORE RAWALPINDI
+BHUTAN
KAISAR-I-HIND +*BEHAR
RAJPUTANA +'SOUDAN
RANCHI CARTHAGE **BURDWAN
RANPURA CORFU **SOMALI
MANTUA
* Carge only.
7,000 30th May 2nd June 11,000
500 12th June 17,000 16th June
6,000 23rd June
12,000 30th June 4,100 7th July
17,000 14th July 6.700 21st July
17,000 28th July 15,000 11th Aug. 0,000 18th Aug.
17,000 25th Aug, 15,000 8th Sept. 7,000 16th Sept.
Destination
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Hatre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
S'pore, Penang, Colombo & Bombay. Bombay. Marseilles & London. S'pore, Penang, Ceionibo & Bombay, Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,
Hall
THE CHINA MAIL.
Here is The last solemn rites for Queen Mother Emma of Holland were held in the Now Church at Delft, Holland, where is located the inausoleum of the House of Orange, in which she will rest seen the body being removed from the Lance Voohout Palace, in The Hague, for removal to, and in- terment at Delft.
FEWER CRIMES IN NEW YORK STATE
Murders Still Average 13 Per Week.
MORE POLICE EFFICIENCY
For
Warm Welcome
Wandering Yacht
Narrow Escape From Shells. At Sydney
Thought Target Was Pilot
on
New York.
further Last year witnessed a decline in major crime in New Felonies numbered York State. 46,442, against 52,492, a decline of 112 per cent. In 1931 there were Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & 58.166 felonies.
Murders in 1933 averaged 13 a
Sydney, N.S.W. Captain Brisson, with Edgar Bombay, Marseilles & London.
After wandering about the Lucas as liis only companion, Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London week, a decrease of 42 per cent.,
Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & while the value of property lost or Pacific since the beginning of left San Pedro, California, Hull.
stolen was nearly per cent. lower on August, the French 37 feet August 1, and sailed to Tahiti. auxiliary ketch, Bissy Girl, ar-There Dr. Deane was holidaying, the year at £1,320,000.
Increased police efficiency and rived safely in Sydney Harbour, and on the apur of the moment better economic conditions are con-after a warm welcome at Sydney pursuaded Captain Brisson to sidered the chief reasons for the Heads, in the form of a screech-allow him to join the ketch, Cap- also encountered improvement. Crimes reported but ing shell, a crash, and a pillar of tain Brisson
Nickey Tauariki in the islands, unsolved last year numbered 26.768 water on the starboard bow.
The Ketch in charge of the and decided to add him The Department of Correction, in owner-skipper, Captain Victor personnel.
crew of three its report for the year, stresses the Brisson and a
landfall several miles significance of the figures in view made
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Landon Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Bull
.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marsellles & London,
Marseilles, Havre, London, Bomburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &
Hull Bombay, Marzelles & London Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp.& Hull. 31,000. 22nd Sept. Marseilles & London.
+Calla Camblanca.
.
a decline of 53 per cent.
to the
Sail Used Throughout From Tahiti, the Bissy Girl of the natural increase in the south of Sydney and crept up sailed to Raiatea, in the Society way of the population and the fact that more the cost, unaware that shell Group, thence by
was uninhabited Kermandec Islands stationa were reporting practice from the forts police
central bureau in about to commence. When near to Russell, New Zealand, where crimes to the
Auckland Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengera and Cargo to Con- 1933 than is any of the previous ing the Heads she saw a small the party attended the Waltgogi
vessel steaming South and head-Treaty celebrations.
was next visited. The voyage tantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the four years-Reuter.
ed for it,
from The crew thought it was the to Sydney commenced Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
pilot steamer. Instead, it was Wangaruru Bay, and was un- eventful. Sall was used through-| the tug towing the target.
The Bissy Girl was built last out the voyage, and nearly five year, and her timber was new, gallons of petrol is still in the but nothing else was. As Cap-tank.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
1934.
*TILAWA
10,000 27th May
8,000 10th June 8,000 24th June
Singapore, Penang,
Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
Rangoon
DO
17
Calle Rangoon
SANTHIA SHIRALA
TANDA NANKIN
1934.
7,005 2nd June 7,000 30th Juns
VELLORE TANDA
7.000 7,000
1st Sept. 7,000 29th Sept.
Melbourne.
IN DEFENCE OF THE 40-HOUR WEEK
(Continued from Page 8)
periods hour. These changed to spells of 1 hour minuten rest, with an
tain Brisson put it, she has
Captain Brisson has complet- "junk from every wreck in the ed nearly 60 years in the French Pacific" among her fittings. Cap-marcantile marine. He sailed were tain Brisson himself has, wan round the Horn at the age of 16, 201dered many times round the and is intimately acquainted arrange world, has commanded many with the navigation of the is master Paccrew which was entirely made explorer, anthropolo- B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for ment of spare "hands" which ob-curious craft, and
viated any break in the work of mariner, 1st and 2nd class passengers.
were said to be murderers. the machines. The girls' output gist, curio collector, and student up of convicts, four of whom Collecting curios for various The crew comprises Dr. United States museums is one of EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, was increased by 60 per cent. and of philosophy.
they were able to earn about 60
Thomas Deano, son of a wealthy the Captain's hobbles. His chief per cent. more wages,
business man, study has been the history, cus The rest pausce must, of course, United States be gauged so that they are not too Doctor of Medicine by profes-toms, and cultural development 3rd Aug. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney a short to have any beneficial effect, sion, and wanderer by inclina of the Polynesians. He can speak or so short that it takes appreci-tion; Edgar Lucas, son of the 14 different island dialecta, in able time for the worker to "get Harbour Master at Tahiti, whose addition to French, English, and ambition is to join the French German, and, he adds, “Ameri up steum" again.
During the depression, which Navy, and Nicky Tauariki, anacan, Australian, and Chilean ex- Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and JADED Bome blithe people now call "re-tive of the Taumotu Islands and pletives, picked up as a "bucko
cent.," the wages question was the adopted son of Captain Brisson.
U.S.$3,500 Craft. chief obstacle to the wider adop
Bissy Girls was originally de of sharing out what work there signed by E. B. Schock, a Los
Extensive Library. WAS. Usually, when the system Angeles naval architect, for a for young German, who intended to
Catain Brisson's library is not wages, as well as the hours, was sail round the world in her. The spread over the greater number of keel had hardly been laid before only extensive, considering the workpeople. But the trade unions the German crew tired of the size of the yacht, but curiously Volumes on naviga- Cap- assorted. project and abandoned it, have strongly opposed the general tain Brisson purchased the blue-tion nestle against the philoso adoption of this practice.
while dog-eared claim that industry could work a prints for U.S.$60 and set to phic treatises of Plato and Bene 40-hour week without wage cuts: work, with the aid of Edgar Descartes,
NANKIN
and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney 18 days.
Freqsent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vja New❘tion of a 40-hour week as a method Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mall Steamers to London and
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez.
The New Zealand Bhipping Company's steamers for Southamptor and was adopted the fixed London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
*BHUTAN RAWALPINDI
SANTHIA *BEHAR KAISAR-I-BIND SHIRALA NANKIN
SOUDAN
UTANA
ZORE NIZAWA CARTHAGE ⚫BURDWAN RANPURA SANTHIA TANDA
1934.
6,100 10th May 17,000 17th May 8,000 18th May 6,100 30th May 12.000 31st May fat Jung 1st June
8,000
7,000
3rd June
5th July
12th June 8,700 12th 1000 14th
June 8,000 15th June 7.000 29th Jans 17.000 28th June
7,000 10,000 13th July 18,000
6,000 11th July 27th July 17.000
8,000 27th July 5th Aug. 7,000 7,000 7th Aug.
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Kobe & Yokohama. Sheobe & Yokohama.
&Dinka. Amoy, Shal Moji, Kobe & Osaka Shanghai, Kobe & Tokohams.
Amoy. S'hal, Moll, Kobe &
Ouke.
Bum
They
He was agreeably sur mate," pised, on arrival at Russell, to find that he could make himelt understood by the Maoris,
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Fortnightly salinga:— Pres. Coolidge Pres. Wilson Prez Hoover Pres. Lincola
EUROPE
May 19, 200, June 6, 8 sm. June 16, 2.m. July 4,16 km.
NEW YORK
Via Manila, Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Brex and the
Mediterranean
Pres. Harrison Pres. Hayes Pres. Johnson Pres. Monroe
May 26, 8 m.E. June 9, 8.a.m. „June 23, 8 a.mu, July 7, 8 a.mEL.
SEATTLE, VICTORIA THE EXPRESS ROUTE 17 Dayu. To Seattle Via Shanghai, Kobe and
Tokoham
Fortnightly alliagad-
Pres. Jackson....May 26, 8 a.m. Pres, Jefferson June 8, midnight Pre Grant.....June 25, 8 mm. Prea. McKinley July 7, 8 a.m.
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In 1918.
and that the step would be mora Lucas, to build the craft himself. books of adventure are crammed The completed ketch cost him between anthropological works than justified by increased pur about U.S.33,500, the bulk of on the Polynesians. Here and chasing power and an increased which was laid out in first-class there a modern French novel in- demand for commodities.
timber. Her foremast was once trudes rather incongrously. One The problem is particularly dif-the mizzen mast of a large Ger-of his most cherished posses-1 ficult where firms are manufac-man yacht on which the Kaiser sions is an elaborate private Bissell's of Harvey. turing for expert. Even the Wash and Crown Prince had often been edition ington Convention for 48-hour guests. The yacht had been sold "Cruising with the Wanderlus
With characteristic ná-tralian to his sister. week has been ratified by only in San Francisco, and the rig ters," an account of adventures S'hai M
Mol, Kobe, Osaka, & Yokohama few countries and, unless the 40 changed, and the mizzen mast of the yacht Wanderlust on a
after the armistice; ME Little Amoy, 8'hai, Mell, Kobe
hour week were in all cases to of Baltie pine,, lay forgotten in a five years' cruise of the Pacific tive adaptability they were soon then about to be repatriated Romance In Family was stricken with scarlet fever, have the results shown by the junk yard until the proprietor Islands and the East Indies calling him' “poppa.” Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
Soon after the Bissy Girl and Mlle Brisson nursed him Wolverhampton firm, the competi-presented it to Capt.. Brisson. It Captain Brisson was in com Shad, Kobe & Yokohama.
tive position of the high-wage was too large, but a shrug of the mand of the Wanderlust and a
the exclamation (large part of the book is devoted moored in Watson's Bay, Mr. E. ing. He remained in France and countries would be worsened in shoulders,
Bissy Girl is named Little, a member of the New graduated in arts and law, at the world market.
"n'importe" and it was set in to him.
after Mr. Bissell's small daugh- South Wales Bar, boarded the Sydney University before enlist- A general answer cannot be position.
ketch, and was embraced with ing. He remained in France and. given for the whole of industry. The bell is curious. Captain ber. The proper length of the worldng Brisson found it in a junkshop Captain Brisson whimsically true French fervour by, the skip- eventually graduated. In both day varies with different condir recognised it as an old Spanish refers to Nickey as his adopted per, Before Mr. Little carried those feculties at Parks Univer- All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. tions in different trades. The one mission bell, and bought it for 50 son, but It would appear rather Captain Brisson away to his sity Returning to Australia, De Bar. He met Mlle. Brisson again All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans or Punka Louvre System.
conclusion possible is that a 40-hour cents, A marine engine was that Nickey and two younger home at Eastwood, he related he commenced practice, at the Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring mot more than 8en, ft. will be received at the Coro week is within reach of a great picked up for the equivalent of brothers adopted Captain Bris- the following story.
podmeny more industries' that are £2 and installed, together with son had become friendly. The A member of the A.LF, Mr. in Tahiti, and, after she had -->any's- Ollos up to lose on the day, praziqnt to calling.
For further Information, Pastare Freient Handbooks, ete, apply to operating it; and that it will graa petrol tank, with a capacity of Chieftain and his wife both died Little met Captain Brisson while returned to France, they decided MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. dually become possible for the five gallons. By the end of July suddenly, and the three children on leave in Paris in 1916. Cap- to marry. They were married
sought out the only friend they tain Brisson introduced the Aus- in India in 1929 Reuter the ketch was ready for nea
*SOMALI
* Cargo only.
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