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THORNYCROFT
JOHN. L. THORNYCROFT & CO., LIMITED,
SHIPHUILDERS AND ENGINEERS,
LONDON, SOUTHAMPTON AND BASINGSTOKE
Shanghai Office: 65; Szechnen Road.
15 B.H.P. 30 BHP, 50 B.H.P. Engines
in Stock
For quotation apply:
"RICZ"
БАСЅ
悲
K. RL ROXBURGH,
Manager for China, HONGKONG HOTEL.
Shape as illustration in Light or Medium Grey and Light Fawn, with dark contrast bands. Excellent value
$5.00 each.
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A WHITE RACE, IN TROPICAL "AUSTRALIA,·
GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S VIEWS.
KING GEORGE'S FUND..
A YEAR'S WORK FOR THE BRITISH -
SAILORS
have terminated their activities during the
The third annual report of King George's His Excellency the Governor-General |
Fund for Sqilor contains this wontenews (Sir Ronalt Muaro Ferguson), in acknow. In view of the fact that many war fund- fdging the citizens' address of "farewell in the Town Hall, at Sydney, said his only girt on leaving these whores was one from which every Governor-General will inevit ably suffer, and that was that he had not
year, the General Council wish to state that. King George's Fund for Sailors, al though inaugurated during the war, is a permanent fund, now incorporated under Royal charter, and that it is hoped to en *** Indeed," added his Excellency,istique its activities in parpetuity." would be only by the help of a magic carpet The fund's income last year was £254,269, that anyone, even if he had no official ties, v
en auch of Australia as he could wish
A
could visit every corner of this great con- the support from all parts of the British other quarters of sinent. In time, aeroplanes will take the Empire and from many place of the magic carpets, and my the world being most encouraging. successors will fly from end to end of this duninion as easily a 1 have crossed and number of applications were received from recrowed Sydney Harbour in my case,tarine benevolent institutions. In this con- the necessity of being constantly at hunds nection the Contribution of the Fund was
narters, owing to the war. scarcity of
shipping," influenza barriers which kept out 91, and of these 64 were allocated grants everything except the miscrobe (laughter) monating to £40,190. The General Coun- --and the presence of distinguished visitors, "el continued their policy of encouraging upset many of the travelling schemes
rejoice, however, to save been able to visit the judicious. - extensions of institutions any important d'atrices in each State, and where found necessary and of advantage ta inv just returned from a most delightful
In this connection the
(THIS MARK IS A SYMBOL OF PROTECTION IN THE EXPORT TRADE)
THE AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS CORPORATION,
WOOLWORTH BUILDING, NEW YORK, EXPORT SPECIALISTS TO THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY.
THE
A. P. C. As the Associates? Export Department of the following Factories
Automobile Division:-
-The ALLEN 4
The METZ MASTER SIX,
Motor Truck Division :-
The HALL truck—13, 24, 33. 5 and 7 tons. The ACE truck-2 und 3. tons,"
The KEYSTONE track-standardised 2 con model. The OSHKOSH wheel drive-2 tons..
The ARQADIA tailers--all capacities and models.
The WARD electric truck--1.000 lbs. to tom
The MILBURN electris Automobile.
The KABRI LODE electric industrial truck—-2 tons.
Agricultural Power Machinery Division :→→
The TIOGA tractors,
The LEADER tractor,
The WISCONSIN 'tructor,
The BEEMAN Garden tractors, LA CROSSE plougha, UNIVERSAL threshers, etc.
trip to Northern Queensland, I cannot, the seafaring community and when th attempt to summaria my impressions of Council had examined the plans and enti what I have seen; suffice it to say that I mates, and were satisfied that the new Electrical Vehicle Division:- have rarely been in any part of Austalia scheme would be carried through with econo shat i did not feel a longing to acquire mical expenditure and management, anil large interests and settle down there per without overlapping the activities of exist- maneatly. At this, momsat I am full of ing institutions. the agar-growing possibilities of Northern General Council made the following grants Queensland, of the pastoral and agricul during the year: £5,000 to the Henry Rad ural richness and beautiful character of cliffe Convalescens Home at Limpafield, Surrey; £2,300 to the Seamen's Hospital the Mitchell graw plain, and of the 65 Society: towards the establishment of ableland behind Cairis. I was also sorely Santorium for Seamen suffering from con tempted to invest in one of the-lovely is lands that bang like jewelk about the coast sumption; £2,500 towards the establishment of Northern Queensland, and which Will of the King George Merchant, Seamen's some day become the pleasure resorts of papital at Malta £2,000 to the Committee the teeming population of the mainland, of the Marseilles. Hospital; £1,000 to the I left the medical profession discussing, in Port Said Hospital towards the purchase Brisbane, the possibility of making North- of a new site for further extensions, and ern Queensland habitable for the white grant of £500 towards the extension of race, and I went there to find a happy, the Alexandra Maternity and Children's
Homes | healthy, prosperous population, and the schools full of fine, bright children whos one schoolmastey said, were going tu árolve a type superior to any to be found in Austriantion of hostilities was that of afford. ing assistance to sporadic cases of distress trafia or the other country. I came to arising out of the war. which were not to the conclusion that the problem in most be met by admittance to tho, bensñts of a parts of Northern Queensland is more an
L NEW FEATURE.
A problem which became urgent with the
economic than a climatic one, and that the hospital, orphanage, aged seamen's home, necessities of the case may be summarised or other beneficent institution. Such crises, under three heads: Good housing adapted of officers and men and their dependents in to the climate more domestic help for the the Royal Navy and in the Merchant Ser- women through increased population and rice, having heen brought to the considera- tion of the General Council. it sanctioned the introduction of labour-saving devices,. also ample provision for medical and nurt at expansion of the Fund's policy of allocat ing avistance, especially again for the ing grants to various institutions as approv ed agents for examining claim for direct women all of which, though necessary relief and for mooting these established. everywhere, is absolutely exential to family The institutions selected and undertaking life in hotter climates." (Applause) “ this work report to the Council with a re- And al your own great Stato, pecdless commendation of the amount of relief con- In this connection to say, I carry away a store of rich and sidered necessary. varied collections, of which this fins city £1,000 in nil was allocated during the year. and its beautiful barbour, on which her to widows of merchant seamen through the Excellency and I have spent so many happy Pension Fund administered by the Royal day, will always be the central feature. Alfred Institution, and £1,000 was placed But if I may be pertaitted to wander from, to the Samaritan Fund of the same Society; Sydney and its famous waterway. I would £1,000 was grated to the Grand Fleet like to pay a tribute to the wonderful pro Emergency Relief Fund for reliet in con ductiveness of the northern rivers, to the energy and enterprise of its inhabitante, and to the progressive manner in which they are developing their industry on co operative fines. Nor does my enthusiasm for that part of New South Wales exclude the warmest appreciation of your great pastoral, Jucerne, and whoat areas of tho irrigated lands, and the rich Bouth Coast. The mother State is indeed a land of pro mine aad of fruition. When Flinders left it in 1903, he noted the growth of the town and mentioned that herds and flocks were being - formed," and made the comment that the energetío spirit of enterprise whị characterises - Britannia's”, children seem to have thrown out vigorous shoots in "the new land.” We, a little more than a century later, can say that Britannia's children have in that short time far sur passed the most glowing anticipations that ever crossed the mind of the first circum navigator of the continent,"
*** The only advice I would give to you is that you rest not satisfied with one harbour, however beautiful, nor with one city, however prosperous and highly populated. A country cannot have too many such harbours and such cities, while the over-concentration of patienal life and interests in a few cities is not altogether bealthy Perhaps one of the greatest de siderate for Australia, is the development within every province of numerous organi- sed communities to be the urban entrer of its rich and prosperous rural areas. Nothing will be more conductive to this end than a through railway systesa, and the opening of fresh harbour, having diret. communication with sheir respective back couitries, t
action with the men of the Royal Navy, and their dependents, and £200 to the De stitute Fund for merchant seamen in dis- tress of the Sailors! Home and Red Ensign. Club. Grants to the amount of 22,500 were allocated to the charitable funds of the Trinity Corporation for the relief of aca faring men, their widows and dependents.
The report is full of details concerning the sources of the Fund, the institutions assisted, and people who have helped. The headquarters are at Trinity House, Tower Hill.
....
MR JOHN ROSS DUGGAN:
**ff And now in truly biblien! style I have |
loft the best to the last, for among the Mr. John Boes Duggan is an automotive enduring impressions that will always be engineer of long experience especially in with us is that of the kindness and has regerd, to truck transportation: Moreover, pitality of the people of Australia. You ho served throughout the World War with have done your best to make it difficult the New Zealand Engineers The Auto- for either of us to leato. you without a motive Products Corporation with whom pang. The last days among you have he is associated have been long recognised been sorrowful with the thought of parting as specialists in the development of the and I can assure you that when our official commercial side of the Automobile industry, connection has come to an end there will especially as applied to track transporta always remain a strong interest in all your tion and tractor cultivation of farm lands. concerns, and a lasting affection for the In this connection they have had notable beautiful land and warm-hearted people of access in introducing such well known Australia!!
trucks as the Hall, Aco, Keystone and Oshkosh, Amongst the tractors that hava made good in the war prodaction of food- stuffs are the Twin City Tioga, and The thirty-six bishops who took part in Leader. In the matter of truck develop the Great Lambeth Conference have it ment, Mr. JR Duggan has been already cluded in their report of the proceeding, caled upon by the authorities in Tokyo to which were not open to the Press, & long-
chapter on the ethics of love-making prepare so exhaustive report upon the They urge that courtship should be lifted very vexed question of the utilisation of to a higher level, and in particular that motor trucks in that city, discriminating betrothal should be presented to young between the logical spheres of the electric people as a bighly serious matter. Clergy truck sad the geolingytruck and assigning men all over the world are urged to make an important Function to the trailer, Mr. special visits to people who have become Duggan, who is at present staying at the engaged, and impress on them the gravity Hongkong Hotel, will, in the course of a of the step they have taken, the respon few days, proccod on his way to the Straits Bhinties of marriage, and the sacredness Settlement, Dutch East Indico and of the union they are contemplating.
Australasia.
Accessory Division :—làcluding
The PHILADELPHIA storage batteries,
The 8.R.B. annular ball bearings,
The UNIVERSAL unit lighting planta−), 1. 4, 10 and 20 Kwa sata,
The NON-GRAN bushing metal,
SAGER bumpers,
SWISS.magneto,
GILL PISTON BINGS, AUBURN SPARE, PLUGS, etc.
Application for the exclusivo agency right for such of the above lines, an ara"not
already cloud for Southern China, should be made to :
JOHN ROSS DUGGAN,
A.P.C. Factory representative,
HONGKONG HOTEL.
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