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SHINYO MARU

SAN FRANCISCO`vin Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

... Wednesday, 19th February, Thursday, 27th February. SEATTLE, VICTORIA vin Shanghai & Japan Ports.

ASAMA MARU

کرد

Wednesday, 12th February. Friday,

28th February.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

SIBERIA MARU

SHIDZUOKA MARU

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez. KITANO MARU

Saturday, 22nd February, SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

KAGA MARU

TANGO MARU

Wednesday, 19th February." Wednesday, 26th March.

Tuesday, 11th February. Friday, 28th February.

سن

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

TAMBA HARU

✦ TOKUSHIMA MARU

Mexico & Panama. RAKUYO MARU

Sunday,

2nd March.

SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) vla Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,

KAWACHI MARU

Saturday,

8th March.

NEW YORK. BOSTON via Panama.

+ KUMA MARU

.

+ KAKO MARU

† DELAGOA MARU

13th February. 24th February.

Monday, 17th February. CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

↑ MALACCA MARU

Saturday, 16th February.

11th February.. 17th February.

Thursday, Monday,

Tuesday, Munday,

LIVERPOOL via Port Sald, Constantinople, Genoa.

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SHIPPING

SECTION.

DOCK FACILITIES

Progress of the Fishing Industry

The construction of the new dock

THE KING'S FUND amounting to £42,000 from the at Grimsby for the fishing industry

FOR SAILORS

general, H. H. Wills, and W. §: will begin early this year. Davidson Trust funds. Interim Mr. J. A. Wickham, chief docks grants paid in 1929 totalled £4,500. engineor of the London and North-] Again this year the amount devot OVER £46,000 IN GRANTS:ed to Samaritan Funds, in response Eastern Railway, will be the chief

YEAR'S WORK

to calls for relief of temporary dis-engineer, and has many assistants tress among seafarers, was less at work on plans and specifications. than in former years. The Wille Fund,

Grimsby has long been the lead- allocated in collaboration

INFORMATION BUREAU

space

The Duke of York (president) with Dame Mary Wills, was almost ing fishing port in the world. was in the chair at a meeting of entirely devoted to the relief of Seventy years ago it was a mere the president, vice-presidents, gan-aged and infirm seamen of the fishing village, but to-day it la a eral council, and honorary visitors Mercantile Marine. The aggregate of King George's Fund for Sailors, of the grants for

flourishing town of nearly 100,000 the year under held at St. James's Palace recently, all funds was £46,525, raising the inhabitants. Its port is one of for the purpose of awarding the total distributed since 1917 to the beat on the East Coast, with SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, main grants of the fund to the £648,251.

docks both commercial, and devoted Marine Bonevolent Institutions for

The Chairman of the

Finance entirely the present year.

to the fishing industry. Committee (Sir Frederick Lewis), The President, in opening the presented its report, stating that The present total dock area is ap meeting, said:

the total amount which the fund proximately 104% acres of water Last year it was our good fortune had received from all sources sine space. The two docks devoted to be able to make one of the its inception amounted to £1,499, especially to the fishing trade have largest distributions in the history 536, Of this amount 4921,488 had 13 and 16 acres of water of the fund. To-day we have to been permanently invested, bring respectively. They were opened in announce total allocations amounting in an Income of about £40,700. 1856 and 1870, and are the property ing to £46,500 for 1929. For the During the year a further £2,284 of the London and North Eastern current year the fund has made had been added to the capital ac- Railway Company.

hospitals, maternity count, being direct legacies received was extended in 188 and again in

The 1870 dock | homes, and similar institutions of for investment. If the annual dis-1886, when the No. 3 graving dock Rome £7,000; while it has also tributions were to be maintained at was also contructed. assisted orphanages of the Royal their past level they must look to and Merchant Navies, Institutions the public to contribute in sub-

These docks have for years been for aged and infirm seamen, and scription and donations about £12,- inadequate, states The Times, and various other organisations which 000 a year, apart exist to help the depondants of Referring to the economical ad-the Corporation, have continually from legacies, the fishing industry, supported by

officers and men of the Royal and ministration of the Fund, he said Pressed for extensions. The Lon- Merchant Navies, Practically all that from 1917 to 1929 the per- don and North Eastern Railway the funds and institutions concern-centage of administration expenses Company and the Corporation have ed have been visited and reported to grants paid was 111⁄2d in the £, therefore been able to arrange for upon during year by the and to the total income only about honorary visitors to the fund, and 41⁄2d. in the £.

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ATLAS MARU AMAZON MARU

Monday, 10th February. Saturday, 16th March.

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon, Singapore,

Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.

HAWAII MARU

LAPLATA MARU

BOMBAY-Via Singapore & Colombo..

SHINNOH MARU

GANGES MARU

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Tuesday, 28th February.. Friday, 21st March.

Wednesday, 19th February. Thursday, 6th March.

DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM. ZANZI-

BAR & MOMBASA-Via Singapore & Colombo: PANAMA MARU

CALCUTTA VI Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

Saturday, 1st March.

Tuesday, 18th February. Tuesday, 4th March.

grants to

to the fund.

on a

the

to

a new dock to be constructed by the Corporation and leased to the com- the case of each charity which has: Commodore Sir Richard Williams principal and interest

pany at a rent which will repay the applied for help has been dealt with Bulkeley presented the report of borrowed by the Corporation for on money after very careful examination of the Collecting Committee, showing the purpose. the accounts and reports submitted that the actual amount collected up ables the Corporation and the rail- The Act which en- to date during the year, including way company to carry out this ar The Fund has, this year, taken legacies, was £8,2811 There had

new branch of work, which been heavy losses by the deaths of Bent on May 10, 1929.

rangement received the Royal As- promises to be of no small utility. very generous contributors, whose By general invitation last year of places it would

The additional water space which be difficult to fill, those concerned, it undertook and it was hoped that new friends acres, and, as it will be joined to the the now dock will provide Is 37 act as a central bureau of informa- would come forward. tion for naval officers' charities.

existing Fish Dock No. 1, the total Captain Sir Arthur Clarke, de-water space in one area will be 63 This was done with a view to pro-puty chairman of the Fund, gave acres. The work, estimated to cost their work between the several central bureau of information for tion of a river wall or embankmeat moting greater co-operation in an outline of the scheme for £1,418,000, consists of the construc- associations, and, at the same time, naval officers' charities, in which, one mile and a third in length. assisting with advice and informa-he said, about 18 charities tion the individual applicants for co-operating.

were large area of land will also be re- rellet. The scheme, drawn up by

claimed, of which 39 acres will be available between the

ment, Including the provision of for industrial develop Lords of the Admiralty and the co- operating charities, came into being

works, offices, and stores essential a few months ago. It has, so far,

to the quick despatch of the fish when landed, and the coaling and proved satisfactory, and promises to be of value as it develops.

provisioning of ships.

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Japan Ports from mutual arrangement

KASADO MARU

CELEBES MARU

Shanghai

MELBOURNE Via Maulia, Brisbane

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Thursday, 20th February.

HAIPHONG-Vis Holhow & Pakhol.

MENADO MARU

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CANTON MARU

TAKAO-Via SWATOW & AMOY.

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I desire once again to commend Capt. F. C. Novik, master of the modern silpways upon which vessels The new dock will provide eight the work done by the Fund for s.s. Wong Shek Kung, was summon will be hauled, irrespective of the both naval and merchant service ed before Commdr. G. F. Hole at state of the tide, for examination charities to the generosity of the the Marine Court on Saturday and repairing. British public for their continued with unlawfully failing to de-being in addition to those in the These slipways, and increased support. We ask posit the register of the said ship existing graving dock, will provide that there shall be no falling off in at the Harbour Master's Office when a long overdue facility for "quick the amounts we are able to distri-entering his ship." bute. Though in some respects

turns" in docking or slipping. The After reading the charge, his new dock will also provide aix there has been a gradual improve Worship decided to amend the word-modern coating appliances, by means ment since the end of the War. ing, changing. it to "unlawfully of which trawlers will be able to there still remains much distress failing to deposit the register of the take their bunker coal direct instead among seafarers and

their depen- said ship within 24 hours of her of via lighter, and thereby shorten dants. We must bear in mind that arrival." the marine benevolent institutions,

the period in port. The railway the market, sold, packed, and placed Iceland, Greenland, White Sea, etc. which it is our object to assist, Capt. Novik admitted the offence, sidings will be designed to feed in specially constructed railway The total tonnage of fish landed at have to raise and maintain an ise said the Wong Shek Kung ar- these coaling appliances.

Tuns on the other side, and at once the port by British trawlera during rived in port on Monday, Febru come of our £1,000,000; I feel

The railway company will be sent to various parts of the country last year was 3,159,453cwt, worth sure that every one will agree that ary 8. He registered her arrival able to extend further the already for distribution. It will also be £3,942,829 and by foreign trawiera our record in the past has been the ship's register along with him. may be more quickly unloaded and already large fleet of trawlers.

on the same day but forgot to take large fish market, s0 that ships possible to increase considerably the 395,564cwt, worth £561,064. It is satisfactory. but we must not in He informed the clearance clerk of the fish at once placed on any way relax our efforts, so that, his mistake and promised to hand market for sale. Fish will be taken ing out of Grimsby to the fishing the present there are 580 trawlers salf. when those institutions, which do it over the next day. such valuable work, turn to

This was out of the trawler on one side of grounds of the North Sea, Faroe, Fund for assistance, we may be able to meet them with a prompt and adequate response.

£12,000 A Year Needed

this

greed to by the clearance clerk.

Clearance Office, told his Worship Mr. R. A. Bates, a clerk in the

that when defendant "entered" his ship, witness asked for the ship's The Chairman of the Distribution register but was informed that the Committee (Vice-Admiral G. R. defendant had forgotten to take It Mansell) presented Its report, re-along. Capt. Novik promised to commanding grants to the various take it to the Harbour Office the

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Saying that there had been a lot of trouble over that register, his Worship imposed a fine of $15.

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