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PILFERAGE AT NEW YORK. MOVEMENT OF SHIPOWNERS TO DECREASE THE DAMAGE.
Commerce.
BORROWED SEA PHRASES.
A writer in the Phily Mail sayII-- Perhaps most Britoni notice the strong nautical favour of their language even less than they taste the salt in their bread. Yet the conversations and writ landaman are besprinkled freely-
sea terminology. one might almost say-with
rlarded
It is not in the least degree surprising that all parties connected with the ship ping industry in New York should have made a concerted attempt to stop piller ing on the docks, says the Journal of In Sussex not long since I heard Lon
The only matter for surprisedon's wireless vioce ascribe a certain phenomenon to the effect of rain on aerial halliards, To how many, I wonder, did that word fath a vivid memory picture of the deck of a ship in full sail-a frigh teard ship caught in a hard squall, her crew lowering away at the sail halliards with argent quickness lest the unknown weight of wind to come out of that blackness should dismast her or upset her?
is that this action was not taken geurs ago. Although the evil may have grown more acute of late. certainly it is one VAA of long standing, one felt not in York alone, but throughout the world About three years ago a very serious outbreak of cargo pilferage occurred in Rritish ports, but was dealt with firmly, and although the evil can never be stamp ed out, at least its dimensions can be reduced. The worst side of the pilfer-
When people tell each other that by age business lies not so much in the something or other they were "taken amount stolen, but in the amount of shack," does this expressive sea phrase damage done in the process. The value cojure in their minds the vision of a of the article taken away may be gom square rigged ship stopped and thrown paratively neligible, for the removal of into fustered confusion by the breeze one article from a case may not me coming on the wrong side of her sails? very much direct loss, but in the fact Or when they talk of carrying on "till that the remainder of the consiguenti all's blue," does the vision come of old is open to further damage is a much wind-wafted galleons standing to seaward more important matter financially. from the colourful land isto the blue of
The unfortunare aspect of pilferage, as sky and the blue of
sea! the term is generally understood, lies in
On shore, men talk glibly of the bitter its being carried out by carefully-or-end" without knowing of what they ganised gans. These men, perhaps em- speak. Some notion they have of mean- ployed around the water front or evening figurative bitterness of finality. They engaged in the netu! handling of the reck not of a storm-trapped ship seeking | cargo on board the ship, operate on to prevent her anchors dragging by pay- well-thought-out plan. Before any ating out her cables to their lister ends. tempt is made to get away with the goods the ends secured on board to the bitt. the couditions on board the vessel or in the warehouse are carefully studied and the habits of those in charge given equal ly close attention. Anot uncommen method of diverting attention where other means fail. is for a case to be badly slung in order that it may fal out and sinush. The resultant damage canses all interested in the cargo to col lect at noe spot. Their attention thus diverted, the object which has been per- viously marked down for robbery is re-suggestive of some rather risky sort of moved.
proceeding to a countryman as it is to a sailor. And "All ship-shape trips easily off the tongues of many who are quite unaware that it survives from those an- vient days when the world's crack ships were the proud ships. of Bristol, whose slogan was "A ship-shape and Bristol fashion.".
For such wholesale pilferage as has taken place in New York recently the conspirators must include others besides the men. actually engaged in handling the goods. Even supposing that all the pilferage takes place upon the docks which is net by any means certain, the nature and extent of the trash if such it can he called, evolves the provision of a means of transport of such a char- heter as to be readily available about the locks and not to cause suspicion. The mere breaking open" of a casa and the extraction of some of its contents is not part of the scheme of these gangs... Much inre wholesale attacks are made.
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DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH. MR. RUNCIMAN ON SMALL INVESTORS.
"It's all plain sailing." says the land- lubber when his path is easy. He is merely repeating the saying of some by gone navigator. Except that what the latter really said was "plane sailing, which is the very simplest way of com- puting 24 ship's position.
Travel as far inland na you like in our islands and you will still find sea phrases hehiing folk to express themselves. "Sailing rather close to the wind" is ns
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM UNITED KINGDOM AND
STRAITS
THE Steamship
the
CARMARTHENSHIBE". baring arrived from the abovs Forts, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardens Godowns of Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Comp
spray, Limited, whence, and/or
and/or from the harves, Delivery may be obtained.
Goods not
cot cleared by the 8th May,
will be subject
Bent
Packages sre they will be
11 and dan TO 1
1925, at Al And left is er to be
examined in the
the Godowns,
Mr. Walter Runciman, M.P.. presiding at a meeting of the United Kingdom Provident Institution at Cannon-street Hotel on March 18th, said that wealth in Great Britain was now spread over ever- increasing areas.
That was the co-am adriance of Consignees by clusion to be drawn from data that, had just been disclosed in the official returns collected by three Government Depart-
1
In order to form reliable judgment
hi had asked in Parliament for the amount of deposits in the Post Office Savings Bank at the end of 1924, and the £250,000,000- figure given to him was ihat Fast sum was not the property of the rich half million, but of no fewer than 12,371,000 separate individuals. In Savings Bank the deposits 8,264,551, held Altogether
thehed a total of 8
rad
by another
perty of 14
2.282,100 persons.
they came to over £6,000,000, the pro-
14,582,109 small, investors.
Then had to add the National Savings Certificates issued the present time PT. of whom to about one million holder.
Mr. Snowden bail
they ca
they might take it, as mid last year, that at least 500,000 were small investors." The million poReCare therein
They
might safle Beiber £367,830,000.
In
estimate that £178,000,000 of these certificates were held by the 500,000 less well-to-do middle class and what was known as the working class,
As a most important addition to these liquid
Post Office savings the
depositors bought through those offices between 1914 and 1924 in new Government War Stock, £220,365,996,
addition to £19,184,489 already issued, making in all £230,580,1EL5. It was impossible to say how far these Savings Banks lists, but
new that. knew that. excluding the Savings Banks, the num- ber of stock necounts. in All classes of British funds was about 5,400,000, and probably about three million of these separate accounts were personal, as dia tinct from corporation accounts,
holders names also appeared in the
15,000,000 CAPITALISTS.
He had made no estimate of working- class deposits in co-operative banks, friendly societies and life insurance in- stitutions, all of which had grown in คน..
since 1900. If they left these out they still reached the remarkable result that savings bank deposits were nearly doubled in a generation, and National Savings Certificates were unknown at that time. Leaving all other categories out of account it small invest safe to assert that the alene by their per- severing accumulations
of
small KAY- had amassed and held the stupendous total of
in
ings
the firmest inancial 34,000
security in the
world, and the holders numbered than 15,000,000 of our people. Fifteen million capitalists: Capital had not been destroyed by labour, it had become, în its most gilt-edged form, to an amazing extent the property of labour as well as the bourgeoisie.. This was all to the good, Might heaven grant a rapid and continuous growth in the number of capitalists.
Dealing with the annual report of the Institution, he said that the mortality of their temperance members was better than that of the moderate drinkers, who com pused the general section. The fund, had A growth of £728,376 in the year.
increased to £14,004,84 had placed on
the books 4,778 new cases.
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Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
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