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DODWELL & COMPANY, LTD.

FOR NEW YORK AND BOSTON via SUEZ.

M/V "TORONTO"

THE CHINA MAIL

SHIPPING

SECTION.

Sails at Noon on the 20th Oct.

PORT- RIVALRY

USUAL CONTROVERSY IN 'UNITED STATES

LLOYD TRIESTINO

FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIP3TE (FIUME). REGULAR MONTHLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE

TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING TO : GENOA, ALL ITALIAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANT, BLACK SEA AND DANUBE PORTS. REDUCED PASSAGE RATES.

BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE

LONDON

NEXT SAILINGS.

£72.10.0 $80.0.0.

OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJL

M.V. "VIMINALE"

M.V. "ESQUILINO"

M.V. ROMOLO

From Hong Kong.

Sails on/or about 11th Oct. .Salls on/or about 8th Nov, Salls on/or about 6th Dec,

HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE.

M.V. "REMO”

M.V. "VIMINALE"

M.V. "ESQUILINO"

From Hong Kong.

..Sails on/or about 16th Oct.

Salla on/or about 18th Nov. ...Sails on/or about 11th Dec.

NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS

FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.

S.S. "UMVOLOSI" S.S. "UMZUMBI" Regular Passenger and Cargo Service to South African Ports, Through Bills of Lading issued from Hong Kong.

Sails from Calcutta about 20th Oct .Sails from Calcutta about 20th Nov.

For Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply to:--

DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents.

Telephone Central 1030.

NYISLINE

THROUGH BOOKING TO EUROPE AT REDUCED RATES, £120, £112, £110, $102, £83, via San Francisco.

G$440, G$420, via Japan and Seattle.

BAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

TAIYO MARU

TENYO MARU

ZKOREA MARU

Wednesday, 17th October, Tuesday, 80th October. Tuesday, 18th November,

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez

HAKOZAKI MARU

HAKUJAN MARU

................ Saturday, 20th October,

Saturday, 3rd November.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

AKI MARU

Wednesday,

MISHIMA MARU (Calls Zamboanga) · Wednesday, BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

AWA MARU

+ HAKODATE MARU

**Thursday, Saturday,

24th October.

21st November.

11th October.

27th October.

4 CLAIM SECOND PLACE

|

MANCHESTER

RECONDITIONING TRAFFORD ROAD SWING BRIDGE

PORT. FACILITIES

• The following table shows the

Trafford-road, one of the busiest position of the principal ports in arterial highways leading out of rospect of Lexport and import ton- the city, crosses the Manchester nago during 1927:--

Ship Canal to the west of Pomona Export Import Docks, by the Trafford-road swing New York 11,484,523 18,404,899 bridge. The bridge awings to New Orleans.. 8,620,293 4,177,355 let coastwise shipping in and out of Baltimore ............$1,922,1944,452,418

Port

Tonnage

1,849,289

Rivalry among the Atlantic, Gulf Los Angeles... 5,868,401 510,857 those docks, and as it has awung and Pacific ports of the United Philadelphia ... 1,921,895 2,541,099 upon its original rollers ever since States for second, third, fourth and San Francisco.. 2,208,158 861,510 the opening of the Ship Canal,

Houston... 2,006,647 192,811 theas now call for renewal, y lesser positions on the list in which

Boston

258,163. - 2,214,400 The Ship Canal Company, New York holds first place by an Norfolk

1,909,461 undisputed lead has led the ad- Galveston vocates of the several ports to seek Portland, Ore.... 1,644,285 804,899 means of proving by statistics that Seattle,.

Port Arthur, their own particular port excels the

Texas

1,082,579 others in one respect or another. Newport News,

Vi Developments in this perennial

Charleston, S.C, controversy are the subject of an Mobile article in the Port of Baltimore Bulletin, which states:-

850,664 357,821 647,047 -586,986

726,678 154,589 J.419,140

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Tacoma St., Tampa, Fla. Portland, Me... "The port ranking controversy

Savannah rages unabated and new

tonnage Fall River, Mass figures for the calendar year Beaumont, Ter.: 705,545 1927, add further complica- Aberdeen, Wash 520,845

Port San Luis, tion. At least four ports con-

405,874 tinue to claim second place, and | half-dozen others are in the race for second or third position by virtue of their own selected methods of statistical compilation.

Cali. Jacksonville, Fla.:...

120,710 Key West, Fla. 269,700

444,702 | realising the importance of the 598,766 highway, have arranged to carry 125,729 | put," the work with virtually ano 454,984 Interruption to road traffic, which throughout the whole operation is 37,880 not likely to be suspended for more than a few hours. To change the 161,967 rollers and Ax new roller paths it 668,795 will be necessary to jack up the 346,188 bridge, which weighs 1,800 tona, → 891,821

some six inches or so. While the 176,009 bridge in its temporary position 648,185 will be free. for vehicular traffic, $20,486

it will not be able to swing open 719,877 to water traffic, and arrangements will therefore be made to accom- modate constwine vessels at the large docks..

6,929

B

Preliminary work is now in progress, and the actual work: 326,503 of reconstruction will begin take 147,867 shortly. The work will

Jue

to

and

the

orders

A similar operation was suc- cessfully performed recently upon ¡the Barton Aqueduct, which carried the Bridgewater Canal over re- the Ship Canal a few miles below

announce-

the

have

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1928.

FAST LUXURIOUS

SERVICE

-to America

and Europe

RAVELLERS bound for vic or Europe avail

themselves of speedy and com. fortable service. when they go Canadian Pacific.,

The White Empresses are the largest, newest and fastest liners. on the Pacific. They cross from. Yokohama to Vancouver in 9′ days; from Shanghal to Van- couver in 14.

These ships connect with the summer. trains, "Trans-Canada Limited" and -“Mountaineer," sit Vancouver, enabling passengers to make the earliest salling

· of a Canadian Pacific Atlantic liner.

CANADIAN PACIFIC

Corner Pedder Street and Chster Road HONG KONG

WORLD'S

Telephone Central 762.

GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM

BRITISH WUCHOW LINE

SAILING DATES FOR OCTOBER, 1928 (subject to change), DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 5.30 p.m., Wuchow 2.00 p.m.

S.S. TAI HING”.

8.8. TAI MING" [1,068 tons Capt. 0. B. Wilks.] [649 tôns Capt. G. J. Spink]

OCTOBER.

OCTOBER. MON.. 8th WED." 26th SUN SUN. 14th

MON. 29th FRL 19th

7th MON. 22nd

12th

FRI

WED; 17th-

SUN. 28th

·FRL-· 2nd

about forty days, and while it de in progress the weight of loads using the bridge will be limited to "Among the popular methods of ·SHIPS FOR ABROAD.

twelve tons, and the speed of determining the port rank are the

vehicles to four miles an hour. Congratulations are figures of short cargo tons and Mesars,

The new work will be carried out Swan, Hunter

under the supervision of the com dollar valuations released by the WighamRichardson od Board of Engineers for Rivers and success which they have had pany's chief engineer."

this year Int booking" Harbours, which include foreign for ships for foreign owners, coastwise, bay and river and local culminating in harbour traffic. The bureau of re- ment, that they search of the Shipping Board pub-ceived a contract to construct node Wheel.

than ten Canadian Lakes lishes statistics in long topa of vessels for the Paterson Steam- export, import and intercoastal ship Company and other concerns,{ says the "Journal of Commerce”, cargo handled by Individual ports. This is a notable order, and is, in-

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C a most accurate system, but not incidentally, in point of numbers the

Construction of the first unit of Regular Service of Fast, High Class River Steamers Having. Good Ac- cluding coastwise data.

largest ever received by Tyne "The Department of Commerce yard. Though Messrs. Swan, the Pacific Coast terminals at Newcommodation for First Class Passengers, Electric Light and Fans in State-

rooms and Saloon. The ss. “Tai Hing" is fitted with Wireless. Westminster, B.C., has been begun, These vessels, leave Hong Kong for Wuchow (vla Samabul, Shlubing, Issues reports of foreign trade Hunter have been prominent in

securing orders for foreign ar- the opening ceremony taking place Takhing & Dosing) and return to Hong Kong (vla same Forts): every five valuations by port customs districts, count the same builders recently in the presence of the Hon. Dr.daya, and these frequently are used by obtained contracts to build threg Health, Thornton, president of to be obtained on board.

J. H. King, M.P., Dominion Minister rival ports. Others employ customs vessels for: French and two the Canadian National Railways. figures of vessel entrances; and have also been successful in The project includes the pro- clearance, with net ship tonnage, this respect, so that on this vision of a cold storage building the Agures

of the four storeys in height; and the ex- while some ports have been known account!

shipbuilding output for the year tension of the wharf of the Fraser to use the value of customs receipts should be especially interesting, River Dock and Stevedoring Co. on dutiable import cargo as the for it is felt it is a very good sign Ltd., acquired by the new concern, This will give à measure of their relative position. for the prosperity of the industry by 1,000 feet.

The Correct Standard

for Swedish owners other firms

if there is being built in Britain total berthing space of more than

48 large a percentage of tonnage 3,000 feat.

"None of these le strictly accurate for foreign owners as there was Another interesting project in The Agure for connection with the development of as a ranking medium for actual port before the war.

1909-13 was 22.4 par New Westminster as an important activity. This burenu uses all of the years

cent. of the total output-in 1923 acean shipping port on Canada's them for purposes of general in- it was as low as 2.9 per cent. By Facific Coast is the building of a formation, but restricts the Balti last year, however, it had risen to million-bushel grain elevator by SQUTII AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, more ranking claims to the Ship 21.8 per cent, and the figures for the New Westminster Board of

Mexico & Panama.

Monday, RAKUYO MARU

ping Board tonnage figures on for the first two quarters of this year Harbour Commissioners on which 12th November,

showed that the precentage was construction has been started. SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports. Jelga and inter-coastal cargoes increasing. With the now orders This will be the first elevator on the

KANAGAWA MARU

Tuesday, 9th October.

assigning this port separate pool that have been lately recorded, it Fraser River, and ample ecope for tions in overseas commerce and In may be hoped that 1928 will equal, development of the expected grain trade with the Pacific Coast. Long if it does not surpass, the pre-traffic is provided on the south experience with the controversial war percentage an indication not side of the river, where 12 acres of situation has developed this source that Britain still builds the best land has been reclaimed, the site as the most indicative for freight ships, for that requires no proof, also including 60 acres on shore, movement in specialised branches, but that she builda ships as Two ships will be able to berth at and it is hoped that a coastwise de cheaply as can her competitors.

the 1,100 feet wharf, where there will be a thirty-foot depth at low partment soon will be added to com plete the port pleture. -

water.

NEW YORK and BOSTON via PANAMA.

"TOBA MARU

Sunday, 21st October.

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Geneva, Marseilles.

↑ LIMA MARU (Calls Glasgow)... Sunday, 21st October, CALCUTTA via Singapore, Perang. & Rangoon.

Monday, + GENDA MARU

8th October. Friday, 19th October.

Thursday, 18th October.

Monday, 15th October. Tuesday, 16th October.

† TOKUSHIMA MARU .......... NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

MISHIMA MARU

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

HARUNA MARU

† TRURUGA MARU

†Carro only,

Subject to alteration without notice.

For further information apply to-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Tel. Central No. 292 (Private exchange to all departments.)

O. S. K.

BAILINGS FROM HONGKONG BUBJECT TO ALTERATION;

LONDON, HAMBURG,

ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP~--Vía: "Singapor Colombo, Buer and Port Bald.

ALASKA MARU ALITOARE Wednesday, 10th:"October, RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES VLa Saigon, Singapore,

Colombo, Durban & Cape Town

ALAPLATA - MARU

Friday, 26th October. BOMBAYVI Singapore & Colombo, cando su

BORNEO HARU (Calls at Penang). Friday, 19th October. DURBAN, DELAGOA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND

MOMBABA-Vis Singapore and Golombo,

PANAMA MARUFYA KAMIENIU Thursday, 1st November. CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Penang and Rangoon="/

SEATTLE MARU BRZA

*Thursday 25th Oct

- VICTORIA, - BRATTLE TACOMAS VANCOUVER Via Shanghal- and

ALABAMA MARU" (from Kobe))

MELBOURNE Via Manila,. Brisbaste

BURMA MARU SATURAT

HAIPHONG H. Hohen I p

KERMENADO MARU N

Bunday 17th Octob

Tuesday, 9th Octo

BydnoySp

Thursday,

NEW YORK-Via Japan porta, Ban Francisco: &.

JAPAN PORTSELANG

ANDES MARU

ASADO MARU

KEELUNG VIA-SWATO

HOZAN MABU✨

POS KISHU HARU..."

TAKAOVIC SWATOW:&AM

THIS DELY MARUAST TAKAO KRELUNG

“SOURABAYA, MAR

"Dealing with foreign trade, New York's leadership is unquestioned, It is always 15,000,000 tons of cargo ahead of the current second port. The latter position was held

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS

The Ben Lines.s. "Benmacdhui" from Middlesbro', Antwerp, Lon by New Orleans in 1922, 1928, 1924 don and Straits left Singapore for and 1925. Baltimore added by this port on Sept. 30, and is due to 5,500,000 tons of abnormal coal arrive here today movement in 1928, and with other

general increases, secured second The M.V Viminale" (D. & Co.) position in 1920 and maintained it is due to sail from Singapore to- In the fiscal year 1927, Baltimore day, and is expected here on Oct. 11. had been fourth part in 1922 - and

third port in 1928, 1924 and 1925, The Ben – Line 8.1. "Benraoch" "In the calendar year 1927-Balti-from Europe, Straits and Philip. more, fosing her coal, but showing pines is due to arrive here on Oct. a cargo gain of 12 per cent over the 1252 last normal year, 1925, dropped to

third port. In total foreign cargoes. The C.P.S. R.MA. "Empress of New Orleans went to second place, Russia" left Vancouver for Hong although, showing severe declines in Kong via Japan

all branches of foreign trade, but hat, on Sept. 27, yielded to Baltimore second, posi- on.

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tion in import traffic, a ranking we Manila on Oct. 16 at 5 pm,

before held. In 1922 we have never ranked seventh as an import ter minal, de

Los Angeles, the dark borse

| among foreign trade ports, rose

Fares for round trip (nat meluding meals) $20,- Menis & Wines ́ azo

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