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INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG CLUE,

NOTICE.

N EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL AMETING of the Members of the HONGKONG CLUB will be held in the LAROE DINING ROOM, on FRIDAY,! the 31st May, 1819, ut 8.30 r.M.

Business-To confiris the Resolution passed on the 18th inst. as posted in the Hall of the Club,

By Order

E. DES VIEUX,

Becretary.

Hongkong, May 17, 1919.

INTIMATIONS

NOTICE.

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ROCK and WAGLAN will oxbibit and after the 1st June, GAP their Proper Lights from sunset to sunrise.

C. Y. DECKWITH, Commander R.N

Harbour Master, &c., &c., &c.

Harbour Department,

Bongkong, May 35, 1918.

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THE STAR FERRT COMPANY,

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. Να

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTIETH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE MATHgson & Co. LTD on THUESDAY, the 30th May, 1913, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statemento! Accounts to 37th April, 1918.

The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from Friday, the 9th May, to Thorsday, the 30th May, 1918, INCLUSIVE

By Order of the Burd of Directors.

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[to 4,000) h.p. having been lifted.

INSTITUTE MEETING.

shops,

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usally a heavy-timber gantry is built felt thas an institution of this sort might newly elected President, in the course of

oter the engine, the weight being taken very beneficially interest itself in super. hia aldress the members of the

by legs fitted each side, and continued vising and examining the rising geberi. Institute of Marine Engineers recently through the double better on to the dock tion of magine engineers, and I respect-- said-I am very sensible, of the great hottom. The engine is then slung trora bonour you have done me by electing me the lifting screws by means of chain Falls gest that your executive take this

matter into their serious consideration. your President for the current sessiou.stings. To the benda of the lifting screws I feel is not only for rayself, but because which pass through a strong timber beam I see in it à recognition on your part that on the gantry are fitted ratelets on ball London is still considered an engineeringbearings, and by these means the whole port, and, as a member of the old estaḥ-weight is lifted and lowered; blocks being lishment at Blackwall Yard, I am very Atted underneath the cagina on the rise proud that you should have offered the and removed on the lowering. To

compliment method has proved most successial and Thaares engineers so high We have become no longer constructors, avoided the much larger jcb of lifting the but reconstructors, and I venture to think engines out of the ship. that the technical problems which we are facing every day as repairers of ships and their engines and boilers are no light text of our skill as marine engineers..

With regard to boilers, repairs are con- of the tinuous and heary, and one o difficulties is as a rule, the very limited amount of time at the disposal of the

repairer, the work generally having to he

The raising of ausken vessels has long been a speciality of Messrs. Fletchers, carried out while the ship is discharging. though we have also had a good dest of and loading cargo, and therefore having experience in the same line. So branch one or more of her boilers under stean et marina engineering offers vite inter- all the time, esting problems and I levik hnex to some

of my happiest days spent down the river, working in all seasons of the year.

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The repairing trade in Londen justifies our claim to be still considered as an important marine engineering port, whers

I cannot conelade by address, without paying my tribute to the profession of marine engineers who throughout the war have shown auch splendid examples of self-series and devotion to duty, Ba they Royal Naval Engineers or members of the Marcantile Marine, they have one and all been subjected to the perils of the war ut sca, and one and all have without exception splendidly upheld the tradition of the British race of devotion: to duty, evers to the sacrifice of life.

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Ewould much rather get people.to believe that in looking at a monkey or authropoid ape they were not looking..

atcct.

I need not say that since war broke out the largest and most intricate jobs cat the immediate ancestor, but at a some of our staff have gone through some be successfully undertaken. I would degenerated failure from their ancient. exciting times when engaged on this class suggest to this Institution of Marine of work in the Downs, subjected to serial Fagineers that they could materially attacks from enemy aircraft during the assist us in taking soms work of interest operations,

The size of modern steamera has made apprentices now at their trade in the port. It has been a matter of considerabia dificulty or on employers in the past to

the work of repairing quite an important branch of naval architecture, as the colli sion or grounding of one of these big vesels opens up very extensive structural considerationis.

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