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U.S. AND THE PHILIP- PINES.
How the Shipping Board is Bringing Money to the Islands.
Investigating benefits the Wait. ed States shipping board and Į shipping agencies bring to Manila, it was learned that expenditures in Manila by the Shipping Board And the four agencies run into big figures every month, hundreds of thousands of peras, perhaps,
"First of all there are the pay- rolls at the five offices," said rep- resentative of one of the bigger lines operating shipping bourd vessels. These payrolls are no mean items and virtually all the money is spent in Manila by the Americans and Filipinos who re- ceive it.
"Then, I think the records will show that more supplies are bought for shipping board vessels in Manila than for foreign vessels |--a good desi more. It will avər- age close to P1,000 a ship, and last year 192 shipping boint ships called at Masila.
"Besides the five offices, there is the fuel oil station. Figure the amount of oil that comes into the islands for this station: figure also the payroll at the station. No other such station exists here This station has a big place in the harbour development Manita.
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Again, note the frequency off passenger steamers in and out off Manila and the improved mail! and freight service. The ship- ping board boats are rendering good service and getting at least their stare of the passenger business Mora people are" com. ing to Manila than ever before. They are staying longer and spending more money.
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THURSDAY: MAY 18, 1922.
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HONGKONG HARBOUR.
Past, Present and Future. "The average number of ship- [By Captain Basil Taylour, ping board vessels calling &t|R. N., formerly Harbour Master alanila is above 16 per month jst Hongkong, in "The Syren and The daily payroll on a passenger Shipping."} Įship is around P.6:5 and on a freight boat a little less than P.200.
Here are other thousands jot pesos spent in Manils that
were never spent here before.
locked waters of Tolo Harbour. The idea is to utilize the land-
This scene was deafted by me in 1920, after over 20 years' ex- perience of waters of tiongkong and submitted to the Hongkong government on my lewing the Colony for good, as a part of a com. prehensive list of recommenda- tions for improvements in the After referring to the limited waters of the Colony. Although number of piers, due to the I have been refused permission to difficulty of obtaining proper publish the scheme. I think there foundations, the author proceeds: can be no valid objection to my The curious thing is that at giving the following indications of Another big item is repairs none of the piers or wharves what I have suggested :-- A rough check shows that ships are there any cranes or other of approximately a total of 820,- consentences for working cargo. 000 deadweight tons have been To remedy this state of affairs repaired at Manila, at a cost of there are at present at least two 335 cents per deadweight too. propositions suggested for the And isn't there something to improvement and expansion of say on the score of better inter the port. Of these, oae, formulat island service, some day? Aed by a landsman, contemplate- natural result of the shipping the teclamation of the wester.. board's boosting the Philippines portion of Hunghom Bay, in the will be that ships that aill invite vicinity of the goods sard of the tourists, not repel them, will ply Cantob-Kowloon Railway, and between the points worth seeing the erection thereon of extensive in the Philippines-more
pas godowns, with broad gauge rail- senger trafic, more appreciation way lines connecting with that of the islanes, more chances to yard, and a limited number of interest investors and more projecting piers, determined by money left in the islands by the space available, at which pleased visitors."
WOMEN BARRISTERS' COSTUME.
Despite frequent easterly and
at the back of the Rowloon Hills.
and more particularly of Plover Core, an off-shoot of ToloChannel. there are depths of not less than where the shores are steep and
5 fathoms ranging up to 15 fathoms, at a few yards from the beach. On the north side of the Island and torming the Cove. neck of load, ending in Harbour there are 18.030-ft of such beach hacked by tow hills, not exceeding to be tumbled down to form 300-ft. in height, which are asking
reclamations which will be faced eight more ships could lie. In with the granite of which those billsareformed. On these reclams- the plan as drafted. these pierstions, which need in but few spots are brought so far-to the south- to exceed 30 yards in width, it is ward that ships going alongside, or leaving them, would have to proposed to build godowns adjoin- No Theatrical Effects.
get right across and block the ingesch berth: to erect travelling electric cargo cranes on the wharf fairway, and as there is a strong edge and have a roadway and a The Committee of mere men cross tide at this spot the opera doable line of rails running from appointed to determine the stylation of berthing would of en take wharf to wharf, and along each of dress to be worn by women considerable time. The piers wharf, and continued to meet the barristers in Court bave compet-would be fully exposed to the public main road and the Canton- ed their delicate task. their commanding position as easterly gales, and no protection large goods yard can be made at south-Kowloon Railway at Tai Po. A Judges and Benchers of the Inns is possible except by building a most convenient spot on the of Court, they have merely "ex-long breakwater in deep water way. There are two alternative pressed a wish that their reg-of 10 to 12 fathoms, which would ready made sites for dry docks, ulations may be complied with, have the additional effect of with ample level ground adjoining without stating the dire pains blocking the deep water fairway suitable for the erection of the and penalties which might follow permanently. It seems a pity to necessary machine shops. Pro- if they were not. Of that, bow-commence a project which has vision is also made for coaling, ever, there could in any case belas one of its ains the provision and fuelling wharves, co question, even if the decisions of increased depth of water, by supply, lighting of the works and water of the Committee were not as doing away with the only deep approaches, etc.; and, foally, the eminently sensible as they are, water we hare. Then the scheme docks would be capable of exien- As it is they will be accepted is defective in leaving the Rumsey sion, when required, to the south without demur. states the Times Rock and the foolground surround-side of the peninsula, where, if They will preserve the dignity ofling it outside the reclamation not so well protected as on the the Court, and at the same time area, thus rendering the eastern north side, the berths would be provide against any chance of a wall useles for birthing par considerably safer to lie at in bad women barristers exercising un-poses, besides accentuating the weather than any spot in Hong- due influence on impressionable danger of these obstructions by kong Harbour. juries by virtue of the attributes restricting the ares of the bag, in of their sex. Their gowns, bands. which there is considerable traffic. and wigs (which must entirely Above all, once the original of mine is the only possible cover and conceal the hair ar scheme is carried out, there is no one, or that it is not capable to be those of ordinary barristers. room for expansion. The cost one to which I have been led of improvement, but that it is But there are to be no abort would be enormous, and there skirts or sleeves and po open would be very little to show for after much consideration and the collars, and no colour is to be it. The other suggestion is of intimate experience of the waters benefit of over twenty years' seen but black or the "subfusc"more ambitious and far reaching of the Colony, and in responsible hue prescribed on occasions of nature, but has the merit of pro-
I do not claim that this scheme
academic ceremony for the Ox-viding what is required, viz. per. charge of those waters. There ford and Cambridge undergradu. Vectly sheltered berths for all ships can be no doubt that some such ate in statu pupillari. Unlike the ever likely to use the port, at scheme as that I have here helf-hearted camouflage of the properly equipped wharves with sketched is necessary if Hong- Portias and Nerissas of the stage, deep water alongside and leading kong is to retain her position as the costume of women barristers up to them: power of almost in-premier shipping port in the Far will be such as to make them definite expansion as it becomes
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look like barristers without ceas- necessary; and provision for dry- But, after all, though it is a ing to be dressed like women. On docking and repair facilities on fact which is generally ignored. analogy of the various the spot, railway connections, and it is the seamen who use the port uniforms devised for women supplies of all sorts. The only who are not only the most con during the war (also by men de drawback, if it is a drawback. iscerned in, but are the best fodges signer), that is a wise and practi-that the site is not in the existing of, its efficiency, and I consider cal compromise. If the Commit harbour, though a short extension that before any such large pro- tee bad consulted Miss Ellen of the railway, provided for in the position is undertaken it is essen- Terry herself, she could pave scheme, would enable Kowloon to tisk that the shipmasters who will given them no better advice than be reached in under half an hour, have to use the port should have to bear in mind (as in effect theyThe new port could be entered at a chance of expressing their opin- bave done) the remark of a any time of the day or night and ion upon it, and it is for that fmons Judge during the trial of at any state of the tide. The ex-
reason that I have enlarged upon & cause celebre that "this Court is treme tidal range is 101⁄2-ft
the matter. not a theatre,"
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