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DEVELOPMENTS IN NAVIGATION

CLYDE CHANGES

THE WORK OF THE NAVIGATION

TRUST

NATIONAL ENCOURAGEMENT

At the annual dinner of the Clyde Navigation Trust special references were made to the coming retirement of Sir Wilism. H. Racburn, Bart, the chairman.

Among the speakers was the Right Hon, Will am Adamson, Secretary of State for Scotland, who appealed for the support of business mon in the great task of reorganising the indus- try and commerca of the country, so that the necessary changes might by made and prosperity restored.

After the loyal tomats the Arst was that of "His Majesty's Ministers, proposed by Sir Robert Stewart. Much W3S being said, hoty Sir Robert

about stated, industries were moving south, but now it was a case of the English com- ing north, and soon it would be the old Macgregor ery of "Landless" in the north. The fact that some of th Scottish industries had gone across Border was to be deplored, because so far as the industrial classes were con cerned there were no better

workmen than those of the Clyde, (Applause)

SECTION.

now gave as the toast of the evening, coupling with it Sir William's name. (Loud applause.)

The Future of the Docks

at no time were thaxs two qualities more necessary than to-day, when taking one itera alone, labour: conditions at foreign parts, not ex- cluding Colonial ones, might make all the difference between a profit and a loss on voyage.

Turning to the subject of ship- buliding, Mr. Hird said that so great was the progress there that, in 1813, the output on the Clyde was larger than that of any foreign country, and it constituted one-third of the now British tonnage for that year and one-half of its engine, power, Since the war times had been diff- Sir Willam Raeburn, in reply, said cult, and the world had, for the pre- that five years ago their inspection sent, too many shipbuilding facilities. was directed to the site of the Ars. The rule of the survival of the fit basin of the Shieldhall Dock, which test worked slowly in this country. they had visited that day. They met but until there was some arranges at the Elderslie Mansion House, and ment or elimination the financial re- were shown a map of the proposed covery of the industry as a whole dock, and the ground was marked off would be slow. by a series of flings showing the pro. While much excellent work was be posed and width of the docking done on the Clyde, and the ton- In the following year they saw a great nage this rear looked like reaching differencs, though only a faint ides of high figura, pricos received for new what the construction of such a dock tonnage were atf' inadequate.

The entailed.

shipbuild-r was at a great disadvan- tage compared with the shipowner. The capital of the former was fixed, realisable of assets. and it was one of the least-äasily

Year by year they had seen the progress, till that day they had wit itself, and a considerable portion of nessed the completion of the dock

the sheds on the east side. Then they got a fair idea of the wonder- ful addition to the width of the rivor near the dock entrance, and new river tidé quay well. He had hoped the formal opening of the basin would happen before his chairman ship of the Trust came to an end. but to all intends alm and ambition he had for years and purposes tha -to see the most important addition ever made to the harbour-had been

realised.

The shipowner

on the other hand, moved his canital to that

part of the world where, normally, he might hope to employ it profitably. If he wanted to realise his assets, he had some one in the large international shipping world as

potential buyer.

Shipbuilding Difficulties Mr. S. R. Beale, president of the et Commerce, in Glasgow Chamber

remark by replying, referred to a Mr. Adamson that he was surprised Basin No. 1 was but a portion of at the amount of work going on in the who. Shieldhall scheme. What yards on the Clyde, and pointed out it would be necessary and expedient that shipyards full of work taken at to proceed further th

an unprontable figure, did not repre- seen, and though it might be shipbuilding must depend on ship-

Bonta hes.thy state of affairs. D temptation to go on to the next basin while evidently the Government would be prepared to give subston tial help in the way of money, he

remained to be

Pink, so the problems of one person reacted on the demand that the other received for his

In this part

The Right Hon, Wm. Adamson, reply had no hesitation in saying that it were all too conscious and they ing, and the task which lay to the would be folly for the Trust to add and the

of the wo id that the demand for ships hand of H's Majesty's Ministers was

prices obtainable for them

a very dimeult one, and they wou'd further to the harbour and increase were rot what they should ha

need all the encouragement and help which it was possible for a gathering such as that to give them.

There was a part of the work of th Government that was of special in terest to Scotland and the Scottish people. In no part of the British Em- pire had the af ermath of the war lef Broblems of greater complexity than It had left in Scotland. Although th

their heavy financial burden when there was no prospect for years ta come that such accommodation would

be used.

West of Scotland-of all

The population of Glasgow and the the area which could provide traffic for the port of G.asgow-was not likely Increase by leaps

and bounds, no trade likely to make

Was

such

to-

Many of the great firms there and elsewhere were highly specialised to the production of naval requirements, While, probably, none of them had of various British Government anything but approval for the efforts wards world peace, and while they recognised that, to achieve this end. as well as from motives of economy, it was unlikely that the production

turn to the normal pre-war level, it was idle to ignore the fact that the side their control. result of this condition, entirely out- had had a very

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nopulation were three times higher Scotland then for any other part of the United Kingdom, there was still a higher percentage of unemploved in Scotland of men and women than in any other part of Great Britain. Th ware facts which provided all of them with food for thought.

The Economic Standpoint The task of reorganising the econo- mic life of the people and putting it

on a sounder basis was of vital interest

ail of those present, whether th

to

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them to add miles to their

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which, when the new dock was open, would be more than enough. But be that as it might, the ground war there, the plans were there, and a few years would suffice to complete

the work.

an

ed

real na- or not, continued

to

rent deal to do with the continued depression in the shipyards, and the If the Trust were able to face the high level of unemployment in dis- consequent unhappy persistence of a initial cost and subsequent burden htricts such as tha, where sh'pbuild- should like to see another dry dock ing was a predominant industry. -a duck capable of taking the larg

it was of any Whether eat ship oficat, That would mean tional advantage

and mous capital outlay, but some day it would have to be fac Mr. Beal, for the vessel which he'd

the cross Atlantic speed record be of British constraction and own- There were suveral schemes of less | of view of shipbuilding, iron and stee.,

he did not know; but he did coal mining, agriculture, or shing magnitude which he thought it would know that many shared with him the

ership, which we a their staple industries. be advisable to proceed with. Th

hope that some great British firm of Whether the reorganisation mean. time was opportune. for the Govern shipowners might give a great Bri- changes in methods of production, oment we anking dock and harbou tlab firms of shipbuilders the oppor- marketing p.oduce, in transport, o: authorities to see what they could tunity of regaining the r-cord for do to lessen unemployment and wer this country; and, should this oppor- changes in international business re lations, they cou.d not stop short o showing a nosition to afford con; tanity be given, they all sincerely siderable monetary assistance. Of making these changes in the economie life of the people.

course, it would have to be proved hoped the lot would fall on one of that the promoset work was really their Clyde yerds. (Applause.) justifiable and necessary. That, h was sure, they could, and the matta- was now receiving the close attention of the Trustees.

The Go.erament, and particularly those of him who were responsibla for the administration of Scottish affairs, had all these things In view, and it wou d be their constant endea. vour to make the necessary changes stop by step.

Sir Robert Bruce, LLD, proposing the toast of The Clyde Trast, ni

In one of his expansive moods John described the Thames as "iquid Burns history." What else bat history was

Was it not Д Acroll

Vast Changes Since 1887-

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMER

- The C.P.S. R.M.S. "Empress of feet, as he did, an intense interest in Kong, via Japan ports and Shanghai, He could not expect anyone to France" leit Vancouver for Hong the vast changes since 1887—the yea. Although it he entered the Trast might appear strange, it was A fact that the citizens of Glasgow had

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ministration of the river and docki | cal powo? Take a ita

ente chapters

entailed an immense responsiblity on the Trust EL, and he imed that correlate there with the country' these had accomplished their tank state. Just a l'tle over 100 years ag

with credit and success. But there

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of up till now would not be

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In the years to come.

GoDigne

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And so with each succeeding chap- ter. Upon the scrolf had been written decade after decade an epitome of the country's progrcas aye, and of the country's paril, for the Clyde also had its aple chapters, punctuated-in overv line with the clang of hammars upon great ships of war, And "Finia" wa not yet The scroll as it lay oper read. To continued." Ho spoken of the Trustees' robust faith was a faith born of the conviction that soon there would be added othe chapters, another epic punctuated with the clang of myriad hammers of peace. (Applause.)

Distinguished Chairman

To one man had been given the privilege of writing much in the chap- tars covering four decades, the most ferred to their distinguished chairman. stirring decades in the scroll. He re- (Applause.) For d2 years Bir William Raeburn had been a member of thi

ago, but he conceived the idea that delivery of their goods which will be

as the Government were offering to subject to rent after October 25. help dock authorit'es to undertake new work, they should make a stari with the Shieldball scheme, and when that projet was launched he felt a strong ind cement to ase the task accomplished and then there came the certainty that they would have to go to Parliament for a new schedule of rates. He then made up his mind to 580 these two undertakings thr through, and now that the tasks were finished he craved a rest for the closing years of his life. (Áp- plause.)

not often he got an oppor tunity of facing such an assemblag of their constituents as that. Every trade in the port was represented.. and here troubled with a.gality

funk saying word about the Bill for which they conscience he might had such stri

strenuous fight in Par- llament lest summer. In some quer. ters. he was told that he had fallen

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that he had so lamentabl

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He was worry ** he had lost favou among his fellows, but, somehow h voted years, of his life to shipping did not believe he had. He had, de interests, but when a shipowner be came chairman of a dock authority he had, if he was fair-minded and as to consider every class of duss payer. Now that the Bill was in operation he hoped it would prove

to be acceted. But they could dis- cover no adequate reason for such a in outlook in temperament, he ranked. with the youngest amongst them. If there wasny difference between him and many of them, it was in his large endowment of sagacity. (Laughter.) that been looked But since when

an enfeebing, handicap help to many trades and no appre (Laughter and

clable burden to any. The schedul They could only acquiesce, and f the set pay tribute to services as not the new powers would be used with was a Just and reasonable one, and able as any ever rendered by a busy man of affairs to this great community AT KAKAV park.

fairness and discretion Those services-had, written his name

Wonderful Progress.nl indelibly upon that other scroll which Mr. Norman L.. Hird, who propos, bore, the record of Glasgow's bens"ae":"ed "Shipping, Bhipbuilding and. Com- tors they offered him the C'ty's mercial interests, dealt with the de thanks, thanks for all he had been ablé | velopment of the trade on the Clyde. | to achieve in the public Interest, thanks. Since the eighteenth century, he for the example he had given of »suld, when trade, with"; AmericaTÁR lofty discharge of the obligations tobacco and sugar gava Glasgow.1h|||||| olvié dute, ed they made acknowleds renly starts pro-rest-medy ha

bean tefoli. Although nevers in

mántsant they took leave of hom

Irman of their deep an56"

(Applauss,), Might: any

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