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38. "FIUME-L"

8.8. "VENEZIA-L"

**M.V. "HIMALAYA"

M.V. "VIMINALE"

* Cargo steamers only.

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Apr. 30

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THE CHINA MAIL.

TRAINING MARINE

ENGINEER.

N.E. COAST INSTITUTION'S INVESTIGATIONS.

".

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SHIPPING ·

SECTION:

THE MASKEE.

Adventurers Return to

the Colony.

SAFE AT PORT."

The Maskee arrived in harbour. yesterday. She is now moored in Value of University Degree. the cumber of 'Holt's Wharf, and Whatever the distribution be- is the centre of considerable in- tween academical instruction and terest. On har Lourth attempt, practical work may be, the com-the Maskec, In favourable, steady mittee regards the obtaining of a breezes, came here from Swatow. university degree in applied The junk, which is specially con- science as assuring a satisfactory structed, is manned solely by standard of scholarship and as three Englishmen:-Mr. L. J. the normal road to officer's rank Stevenaon, F.R.G.S., Mr. Stanley in the engineering profession. R. Banks, and Mr. John C. W. Technical colleges give instruc- Grenham. tion, possibly of university stand-

To all appearances the Maskee ard, in engineering theory and seems to be very capable and sen and the allled sciences; exceptional worthy.

A paper entitled "How should an engineer be trained?" was read before the North East Coast Institution of Engineers Shipbuilders in October, 1926, by persona may attain to a high de The hows are brightly painted Sir Theodore Morison, K.C,S.I., gree of scholarship by private in red, and, most prized of all by then Principal of Armstrong Col- study, but the instructional re-the crew. is a piece of red-joss lege, Newcastle-on-Tyne. This sources of a univeralty should be paper. This is stuck to the bow- ted to a close investigation of the ogre varied, and extensive both sprit. There are also two eyes, subject by the Institution, and the in personnel and material than painted in green and black, with result is the publication by the those of any technical college, white edging, on the starboard Education Committee of that hody and there is a quality which is and port sides. of a report dealing with the train- supposed to inhere in university She has a foremast, main ing of persons for positions of education that is not obtained mast, and a lug sail. Immediate responsibility in engineering or elsewhere.

ly behind the main mast, Is the shipbuilding works.

Whether or not scholarship in crew's sleeping and general quar- has since its engineering science can be The Institution

obters, which is quite roomy. foundation in 1894 given almost 'lained elsewhere than at a uní- continuous attention to the ques- versity, there is no doubt that a

The Masked is a three-masted tion of engineering training. Its university degree is the label by

not report of 1903 for many years which persons

possessing vessel, with a length of 42 feet, formed the basis of the system of scholarly attainment are enabled a beam of 11 feet and a depth of training of pupils and trade an- lo recognise the possession of six feet. She has only one cabin, REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING prentices in operation. in the bulk scholarship in others; and in this besides two store rooms.

FROM £83 TO £120 ON SALE

NY.KLINE

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

ASAMA MARU

Thursday,

1st May.

TAIYO MARU

.. Sunday,

11th May.

SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Ports.

MISHIMA MARU

Friday,

20th June.

SIBERIA MARU

Saturday,

5th July.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.

KASHIMA MARU

Saturday,

HAKONE MARU

Saturday,

3rd May, 17th May.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

KAGA MARU

Tuesday,

20th May.

TANGO MARU

Tuesday,

24th June:

"28th April"

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

Monday,

↑ RANGOON MARU SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,

Mexico & Panama.

HEIYO MARU'

A.. Friday,

2nd Mny. SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Porta

HAKATA MARU

I

Three-Masted Vessel.

of the engineering and shipbuild-way a university degree is the She has two water tanks, each ing establishments on the North | best assurance to its possessor of containing half a ton of water. East Coast. In 1917 it published the kind of ofhcers' rank under Mr. Stevenson Informed our re- presentative that the tanks were a further report on the education consideration. of apprentices which dealt exclu- To allow time for practical filled in Swatow when they set out the committee is of on their first attempt on April 9 sively with the training of trade training, apprentices. *

opinion that the qualification for and since then they have been The present report has only matriculation should be obtained dipping liberally into the tanks been offered after collecting and at as early an age as possible, for cooking and washing purposes considering the opinions of many and that at least one year's prac but there still remained half the representatives of the engineering tical training in the works is amount of water they had taken and shipbuilding industries on the necessary between leaving school on.

The Maskee has three and a on the other, of and going to the university. It one hand and. those bodies concerned with the is extremely desirable, as a pre half tons of sand ballast.

All communications concerning! various branches and stages of liminary 'to entering the univer

of the venture should be addressed technical and general education. sity, that

some

experience

WARSHIPS IN PORT

In view of the important bear-handling and fashioning actual to P.O. Box 341, Hong Kong. ing of engineering efficiency--on-materials, and of seeing-what-en- of Bri- gines and ships and their parta the industrial prosperity tain, the carefully considered look like in different stages of views expressed in the report their construction, should be ac

quired.

British warships in port'this moru- should be read with interest.

Such experience should enable

ing were:- the student more readily to, sec the practical application of the

Basin of R.N. Dockyard: that technical part of his university Tamar, Somme. self-evident seleatific knowledge and scholar-training and should prevent him

West Wall: Hermes. North Arm: Víndictive. ship give the engineer an increas-front regarding it merely

In Dock: Seamew.. ".

A Serious Bar. "The report reads in part as fol- lows:-

Monday,

NEW YORK. BOSTON via Panama.

+ TSUYAMA MARU

Thursday,

6th May.

1st May.

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Constantinople, Genoa,

† TOYOOKA MARU

lt R

not.

Thursday,

15th May.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Kangoon.

PENANG MARU

Tuesday,

29th April,

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

† HAKODATE MARU (Moji direct) Saturday, FUSHIMI MARU

SADO MARU

26th April Monday, 28th April Wednesday, 10th April

+ Carge only.

For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Tel: Central No. 292, 3821 and 3897. (Frivate exchange to all departments.)

S. K.

as a

cd potentiality of attaining posi-matter of scholarship. Moreover, tions of high responsibility in the as a boy associating with work- more of the profession, since, many who have men, he will learn In the past heen deservedly pre- secrets of their skill and more. of eminent in engineering have been their real attitude to their work. men of either a wide professional and to foremen, officials and man- knowledge nor any pretensions to agers than he would learn in a scholarship. In fact, a too aca- much longer time of association demic outlook can be a serious with them as a young man ob- bar to the attainment of previously just about to become an eminence in engineering. as in official. other spheres of human endeavour where success depends so direct-

The Only Objection.

On this point, amongst others, of a

ly on co-operation, initiative and the committee, by means leadership.

In

No. 6: Buoy Cumberland. No. 7 Buoy: Sirdar. No. 10 Buoy: Sopoy. Foreign men-o'-war in port ware:- U.S. gunboats Mindanao, Helerin, Jason, Heron, Avocet.

Portuguesa Cruiser Adamaster. French Gunboat Argus. Chinese Cruiser Hai Kung.

PIRATES ACTIVE.

Tokyo, Yesterday. questionnaire ascertained the According to reports reaching thei An-engineer-in-practica_is_con views of a large number of local Navy Office, Chinese pirates raided the tinually engaged in co-operating firms, and the opinion here ex-

freighter Kamiyoshi Maru, Japanese freighte In some process of design or pro- pressed is in agreement with that which grounded on Sunday night off

Swatow. duction which must be carried of the majority of the firms who out in the most effective and most replied. The only objection rais-thirty, are missing, and Japanese war The Japanese crew, totalling about ed in some of them to the period craft are searching the nearby shores LONDON, HAMBURG. ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP-Via Singapore expenditious way with the per.

practical training, between and islands for signs of them.-Reuter. Colombo, Sues and Port Bald.

sonnel available and on the basis of AMUR MARU................

Thursday, 15th May","

of the knowledge existing at the leaving school and entering the moment, derived both from experi- university appears to be that dur- ence and theory and always more ing this period

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210 DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES Via Saigon, Singapore,

Colombo, Durban & Cape Town. BUENOS AIRES MARU

SANTOS MARU

BOMBAY Via Singaporn & Colombo.

HONOLULU MARU

Friday, 28th April.

Tuesday, 20th May.

Sunday, 4th May, Monday, 19th May.

DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES: BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM,

BAR & MOMBASA-Via Singapore & Colombo.

Saturday, ard May. CALCUTTA-Via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

SHINNOH MARU

MEXICO MARU

SEATTLE MARU

HIMALAYA MARU

Monday, 5th May. Sunday, 18th May,

students' habits

The committee, however, con-

or less imperfect. He is essen- may be weakened,, and knowledge tally, a man of action, and his acquired at school may be for scholarship is only of full advan-gotten. tage to him if it does not lessen ZANZI-bis capacity for making up his siders that the knowledge acquir

mind and for learning from ex-ed at school is not more likely

to be forgotten in one perience.

or two The committee considers that years before entering a university the risk of dlaqualification for than that acquired at the univer

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER VIs Japan Porta from the career of a practical engineersity is likely to be forgotten with-

Shanghai

AFRICA MARU (From Shanghai). Tuesday, 29th April,

MELBOURNE Via Manila, Brisbane, & Sydney,

HELBOURNE MARU

Tuesday, 6th May.

HAIPHONG7in Rohor & Paral

MENADO MARU

.........................” Thursday, 1st May, 10 am, NEW YORK--Via Japan ports & Panama.

ARGUN MARU

JAPAN PORTS.

GANGES MARU NITO MARU

KEELUNG-Via Swatow & Amoy.

CANTON MARU

HOZAN MARU .......

·TAKAO-Vis SWATOW & AMOY.

TAKAO & KEELUNG.

..SOURARAYA MARU

For farther pariculars please apply Tel Central No. 4688, 4089,. 4090.

Saturday, 10th May.

Thursday, 24th April. Friday, 26th April.

Sunday, 27th April, 3 p.m. Sunday, 4th May, 8 pm.

Sunday, 11th May.

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through excess of scholarship is in one or two years after leaving. likely to affect only small In either case, knowledge so eaal minority of those who undergo a lost is not of much use to the high academic training and that engineer in his career.

For a in general the degree of scholar atudent who had qualified for ly attainment which should result matriculation by passing a pure- from a liberal education is as es-y linguistic examination, sential a part of the qualification who would, if he remained at for "officer's rank" as is pro- school, still continue linguistic ELLERMAN ficiency in the branch of engineer-stadies, this Interval of practical ing in which the officer is engag-training between the school and the university should be of ad- Aiystem of engineering train-vantage, not only for the techni ing in which university classes cal knowledge to be gained, but to—OSAKA SKOSEN KAISHA.and works training are carried on also for the opportunity it would M. TAKEUCHL Manager. concurrently has been developed give for the study of mathematics at the University of Cincinnati, and selence in evening classes U.S.A. Under this system, the concurrently with the practical university in effect accepts res- training in the works. ponsibility for the technical as

Period of Training.. wall as the academic training of The committee is of opinion its undergraduates, and sends that the minimum time for pupil- them to different industrial cage in the works should be two tablishments for different parts years, plus the interval between of their practical training. The the university sessions, from pupil is thus not connected with which it would result that the any one firm and his practical total period of training. In the training la not confined to the In-works and in the university, dustrial operations or to the pos- would normally be not less than sibly Imited types of engineering Ave years, there ar product of that firm during the The training of the engineer in period of his pupilage, its widest sense is, obviously, not The possibility of adopting such completed when he first obtains a system could be adequately dis-responsible employment, but after cussed only by a joint committee that he is no longer recognised as representing the University, the a subject for training by educa- Institution, and the shipbuilding tional organisations, and no rules and engineering firms of the dis or recommendations can be laid trict, and, though the educational down for this vitally important advantages would seem to be obpart of training Experience will vious, the committee is not add to his knowledge and teach specially qualified to deal with him the right use of that which

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