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REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING FROM 283 TO £120 ON SALE

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghal, Japan Ports & Honolulu. Thursday, 20th May. Thursday, 12th Juno.

CHICHIBU MARU

TENYO MARU

MISHIMA MARU

SEATTLE, VICTORIA vla Shanghai & Japan Ports.

SIBERIA MARU

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez. SUWA MARU

Friday, Saturday,

20th June. 6th July.

Saturday, 31st May at 8 am, Saturday, 14th June.

20th May.

24th June.

27th May.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

PUSHIMI MARU

RAGA MARU

TANGO MARU

Tuesday,

Tuesday.

Tuesday,

THE

CHINA MAIL.

SHIPPING

HAMBURG RECOVERS

SECTION:

DOCK CHARGES.

U.S. Studies of Foreign | Safeguard for Traders

Ports.

After Stabilisation,

BRISTOL PORT.

Increased Foreign Arrivals in March.

Compared with the same period

a year ago, there was an increase

in the number of foreign arrivals

7

at the port of Bristol recently,

but a decrease in the register ton-

nage represented. In the coast- wise section decreases were re-

A report on Hamburg, prepared A decision of a House of Com- corded both in the number of by Mr. Ralph 1 Schneider, assist-mons Select Committee, makes arrivals and in register tonnage. ant head of foreign port survey, permanent the present railway The principal foreign arrivals at Bureau of Operations. U.S. Ship dock charges, which are 60 per ping Board, has been issued as cent. above the charges in force the City Docks were from near the second in a series of studies in December, 1913, with certain Continental ports, principally of foreign ports, the first of modifications in the case of tip-with general cargoes. The Medi- which concerned Liverpool. ping charges for coal.

terranean fruit trade brought With a commerce exceeding Authority to stabilise the 20,000 tons a year (valued at existing charges was sought in a half-a-dozen arrivals, while five BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

more than £240,000,000) Ham- private Bill" promoted by the steamers with grain were also ac- CALCUTTA MARU SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angelesburg is one of the great trade L.N.E. Railway Company, and commodated.

gateways of the world. Accord the Select Committee gave pro- ing to figures furnished by the visional approval to it, subject to thing like so prominent as usual "At Avonmouth grain was no- Shipping Board. 51 ports of the the relevant clause being in the list of foreign arrivals, SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) vin Singapore, Cape Town & Ports. United States were engaged in amended as to give effect to the only half-a-dozen steamers being trade with Hamburg during the principle that on application be dealt with during the month. A ing made to the Minister of fiscal year 1928. Their total com merce amounted to 2,990,000 Transport for a revision of the busy time was experienced with cargo tons, of which 2,302,000 charges the Minister should have fewer than a dozen docking dur- oil tankers from overse38, по were exports.

to call on the railway No major port of the world has company to show cause why their ing March. This is the highest had a more interesting commer- charges should not be submitted total for this class of traffic for

a long time. Hamburg, for revision, the information thus Indies and Central America, five From the West cial history than

supplied to be accessible to the ap- Fyffe liners arrived during the plicants.

Mexico & Panama. ANYO MARU

WAKASA MARU

Sunday,

.. Monday,

NEW YORK, BOSTON vin Panama.

ASUKA MARU

Monday,

LIVERPOOL vla Port Said. Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa.

† DAKAR MARU (Calls Saigon) .. Sunday, CALCUTTA via Singapore. Penang & Rangoon.

MORIOKA MARU

1st June.

2nd June.

26th May.

5th June.

Friday,

30th May.

SHANGHAL KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

TOTTORI MARU

Monday, TANGO MARU (Nagasaki direct.. Friday, HAKUSAN MARU

Monday,

19th May. 23rd May, 26th May.

† Cargo only.

For further information apply to:- NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

Telephone 30201..

(Private exchange to all departments.)

0.

S. K.

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION..

power

Twice during the last 150 years its commerce has been entirely

month. The Australasian trade This amendment was suggest- stopped-once during the Napo leonic wars, and again during the ed to meet the objections voiced either to discharge or load, while was up to the average with liners World War. Its subsequent by a number of coal trading in-five berth liners from U.S. ports, meteoric recovery has been one terests that the clause, as pro- two from the Pacific, and one from of the wonders of the commercial posed by the company, would

Canada were accommodated. world.

shift the onus of proof on to the In 1919 only 1,543,000 not re- traders and put them under the foreign arrivals recently, with

At all three docks there were 90 gister tons of shipping entered disability of having to prove A the port, and its trade, in terms case for revision of the charges pared with 81 arrivals last year register tonnage of 188,022; com- to but without having avaliable neces-with a tonnage of 192,588; or an 2,343,000 tons. In 1929 the cargo sary statistics relating to the increase in arrivals of nine, but a handled totalled more than railway company. 28,000,000 tons, valued at slightly The railway company consider- more than £600,000,000, a figure ed the point raised by the Com- and counsel on their mittee,

the value of the foreign behalf submitted

terms trade of the United States for the of an amendment to the clause to same period.

carry out the principle.

of cargo,

amounted

LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore equal to approximately one-third

Colombo, Suez and Fort Suid.

ANDES MARU

Wednesday, 11th June.

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

Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.

SANTOS MAKU.......... RIO DE JANEIRO MARU

BOMBAY—Via Slagapore & Colombo,

SHINNOH MARU

CELEBES MARU

Tuesday, 20th May.

Friday, 13th June.

Monday, 10th May. Tuesday, 3rd June.

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

BAR & MOMBASA—Via Singapore & Coloniba.

Sunday, 1st June..

CHICAGO MARU

GANGES MARU

CALCUTTA—Vin Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,

the total

Hamburg is the outstanding. example of successful scation of the free port principle. Here all available space is utilised, and the port authority, well organised and highly efficient, is contiually ZANZI-experimenting with modern ap pliances for the efficient and rapid despatch of cargo. Because of Germany's pheno-

Industrial menal

recoveryTM

VICTORIA, BEATTLI TACOMA & VANCOUVER-Via Japan Ports from and the attending increase in

Shanghal.

ARABIA MARU (from Kobe)

Sunday, 1st June.

Wednesday, 28th May.

Friday, 6th June.

MELBOURNE-Via Manila. Brisbane & Sydney,

SYDNEY MARU

RAIPHONG-Vin Holhow & Pakkol

MENADO. MARU

Thursday, 12th June,

NEW YORK-Via Japan ports & Panama.

HAGUE MARU

JAPAN PORTS.

TACOMA MARU

TAKAO-Via SWATOW & AMOY.

DELI MARU

Sunday, 1st June.

Wednesday, 21at May.

KEELUNG-Via Bwatow & Amoy,

Thursday, 22nd May, goon.

Tuesday, 10th June,

M. TAKEUCHI. Manager.

TAKAO & KEELUNG,

BATAVIA MARU..

For further paricular: please apply to~~-~-OSAKA SHOSEN KAISUJA.

Tel. 28081.

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HAKATA HARBOUR.

This was approved, and the Bill passed for third reading. Tr des cision also governs similar clauses in Bills promoted by the L.M.S. and Southern Railways.

NEWCASTLE QUAYS.

£200,000 Extension Proposal.

decrease in tonnage of 9,556.

ALL-ELECTRIC SHIP.

New Fruit-Carrying

Vessel Launched'

Messrs. Workman Clark (1928), Ltd., have just launched, from their North Yard, Belfast, the Messrs. Elders and Fyffes, Ltd., 9.8. Musa, built to the order of for passenger and fruit-carrying service between Central America, West Indies, and Europe.

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MONDAY, MAY 19, 1930.

Introducing A New Empress

S.S. EMPRESS OF JAPAN.

Twin Screw Oil Burner 26,000 Gross Tong Length 666 feet. Breadth 87% feet Largest and fastest steamship on the Pacific. Maintained a speed of 23 knots on. trial trip MAY 11th.

Sailing from Hongkong August 7th on her maiden voyage.

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Passage for round trip....$20.00 Meals on board Lodging on board

Total

16.40 2.00

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Kingston.

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FRI. 30th

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| Kingston. This development will

at the shipment of grain from upper make Kingston an important transfer point in connection with

Great Lakes ports, consequent upon the expected completion this year of the new Welland Ship Canal.

ocean-borné traffic,

The Musa, which is the fifty-| energetic efforts have been necessary to

fifth fruit-carrying vessel built by A construction scheme involv- the firm, is a finely modelled yes- keep the port's facilities abreast ing a capital outlay of of the demands of shipping and £200,000 for the extension of four decks and, in addition, long over sel of about 6,000 tons. She has trade. Extensive improvements quays at Newcastle-on-Tyne, has bridge, poop, and forecastle, have been made, not only in just been approved by the Un-

is excellent and the accommodation modernising existing facilities, employment Grants Committee, every sense of the word, for elec

The Musa is an electric ship Incomfortable; once you try you will re-

commend it to others. but also in constructing and one of the bodies set up by the tricity is being employed for her equipping additional

basins, Lord Privy Seal, Mr. J. R. propulsion, and wherever, possi-

CANADIAN LAKE quays and sheds.

Ample facili- Thomas, for the purpose of pro-ble for the many and varied auxi- ties have now been afforded for viding work for the unemployed. liary services necessary on a ship New Grain Elevator expansion.

Sir Nicholas Gratton-Doyle has of this type. The main propelling received authoritative informa-machinery is of the most recent tion from the Government offf- type, supplied by the British cers concerned to the effect that Thomson-Houston According to reports from this large unemployment relief Rugby.

Co., Ltd., The Canada Steamship Lines, Nagasaki, the improvement of scheme has been definitely sanc-

Ltd., has awarded a contract to Hakata

When the new canal is ready It is of interest to note that the the Carter-Halls-Aldinger (Fukuoka), tioned. Official intimation to this 8.8, San Benito, which was the Ltd., of Winnipeg, for the con- freighters will be able to proceed Harbour

Co., for traffic large upper Lake www.s | Japan, is now under way, The effect is to be sent to the New-first vessel built in the British struction of a

difficulties in the way of the pro-castle local authorities shortly.

2,500,000-bushel ject have not been so much tech-

Isles to to be fitted with turbo unit to their grain elevator at through Lake Ontario to Kingston The scheme as approved by electric machinery, was construct- Kingston, Ontario. It is under-and to discharge their cargoes to nical as financial, and while it is the Unemployment Grants, Com-ed by Messrs. Workman Clark stood that the elevator is to be smaller vessels which will take said that no real

construction mittee is to provide quay exten-for the United Fruit Company, of ready for operation by September the grain to Montreal through the work can be undertaken until sion costing over £200,000, and it Boston, U.S.A., in 1921.

St. Lawrence canals to Montreal. larger funds are available, the is estimated that it will give em-

A similar development is taking assignment of engineers to the ployment to 150 men for two-and-and it was arranged that the ma- Canada Steamship Lines involves the Dominion

The ship is fully experimentai | The complete project of the place at Prescott, Ontario, where work by the Home Department a-half years.

chinery could be removed if it did a total expenditure of between building a huge elevator and Government is and the surveying now being In view of the size of the not prove satisfactory. It is still four and five million dollars at docks for the transfer of grain undertaken, indicate that the scheme, the Government have in use as fitted. project is ultimately to be carried been able to give it the speelal

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