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LLOYD TRIESTINO

FORTNIGHTLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE FOR

BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE

Taking Cargo on through Bill of Lading to Flume, Genoa, All Taking Italian, Adriatic, Levant, Black Sea and Danube Ports. Passengers to London Overland via Brindisi, Venice or Trieste NEXT SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG

M.V. "VIMINALE"

*M.V. "FUSIYAMA"

*M.V. "HILDA”

M.V. "MONTE PIANA”

* Cargo steamers only.

For Shanghal

'& Japan

For Singapore

& Europe

May 31

June 16

June 24 July 9 July 24

† Refrigerated Space available for perishable Goods.

All dates are subject to alteration without notice.

For Freight and Pasanges apply to

Queen's Bullding,

Tel. 28021.

DODWELL & CO. LTD., Agents

NY KLINE

THE CHINA MAIL.

OUR SEAFARING. TRADITIONS.

SHIPPING.

MASTER MARINERS' COMPANY BANQUET.

SECTION:

sailing ship is still incomparably the best school of training. Alas! the obstacle is economic.

COALING INTERESTS

AT CANARIES.

AGREEMENT FOR POOLING

OF STOCKS.

Active steps are now being taken to put in early operation the full effects of the pooling arrangement arrived at between the several cos).

re-

"I once had a talk with Joseph ing interests in the Canary Islands. Conrad. The quality of toughness Overlapping and overstocking have was very present to him, and he been the subject of protracted ne- sent me a memorandum on train-gotiations out of which has been ing which deals cogently with the evolved a sound economic basis for MOST IMPORTANT CRAFT,problem of training. I wish some- the working of a common pool of thing could be done to bring the stocks from which individual sup Striking speeches by the Deputysailing ship back into our curricu-plies will be drawn.

The agreement secures the Master, Sir Burton Chadwick, MP., lum: It could be done, if we all and the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, chose; If it is done, it must be tention of the identity and activi- Mr. Lawrence D. Holt, were made done on a broad basis. Without ties of the several companies, but at the annual banquet of the Com- doubt it played, and could still alms at the elimination of those pany of Master Mariners in the play, a valuable part in building factors which have reflected ad- versely upon the common good. It Mansion House, when there was up those human forces which go is anticipated that as a result of present a large gathering represen- to make the maritime spirit of our tutive of what Sir Burton describ- people. No greater danger besets the pool personnel will be consi ed as "the oldest, and to this coun- us than to lose its constitutional derably reduced; indeed, several officials have already been recall- try the most important craft of basis.

ed to the London headquarters of all, seacraft."

COTT come of the participating Panies. Overhead charges will also be considerably reduced, and lead, ultimately, it is hoped, to re- duced bunkering charges.

The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, in propesing "The Honourable Com pany of Master Mariners," enrich- ed his speech with a broad selec- tion of literary quotations from Shakespeare, Conrad, Hardy and Manefield. Reflecting on the causes of our maritime success, of which the Hon. Company was the latest expression, he found those causes were at once dynamic and func-

REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING tional.

FROM £83 TO £120 ON SALE

SAN FRANCISCO ein Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

TENYO MARU

TATSUTA MARU

MISHIMA MARU

Thursday, Thursday,

12th Junc. 19th Jung,

20th Juno. 5th July.

SEATTLE, VICTORIA vla Shanghai & Japan Ports.

Friday, Saturday,

SIBERIA MARU LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez. FUSHIMI MARU

HAKOZAKI MARU

Saturday, 14th June at 8 a.m. Saturday, 28th June at 7 a.m.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE vla Manila & Ports.

TANGO MARU

MANILA.

TENYO MARU

Tuesday,

Wednesday, Friday,

24th June.

Friday, 6th June at 4 p.m.

11th June. 29th June,

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo,

SADO HARU ....

"The virility," he said, "of our race, reacted upon, by the allure- ments of adventure and the cir- cumstances of our history, carried us out into the world at large, and the skill of pur sailors, fed by our sea-roving origins, and by our island environment; has been wrought by generátions of conflict and experience into a widely shur- ed racial instinct and aptitude. Apportion cause and effect, as you will, these gifts of ours have brought to this little island, poli- tical dominion and foreign trade.

"In maritime: story. as in all other atory the past gives way to the present, and the present in turn will give way to the future.

position? As the writer of that great epic, The Dynasts, puts In-

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Change is busy ever. What is our

+ TOTTORI MARU

Mexico & Panama, · BOKUYO MARU

Friday,

SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports, to the mouth of the dying Nelson,

WAKASA. MARU

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.

+ TATSUNO MARU

Thursday,

Wednesday,

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genca.

+ DAKAR MARU (Calls Saigon).. Monday,

29th June.

5th Juno.

25th June.

Dth June.

Sunday,

Sunday,

8th June. 15th June.

Saturday, Tuesday, Tursday.

7th June. 10th June. 10th June.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

† HAKODATE MARU

+ MALACCA MARU

† GENOA MARU

KITANO MARU

+ TOYOHASHI MARU

+ Cargo only.

For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

Telephone 30291.

(Private exchange to all departments

0. S. K

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

LONDON,

HOTTERDAM & ANTWERP—Via Singapore -HAMBURG,

Colombo, Suez and Port Suid. ANDES MARU

Wednesday, 11th June. ALTAI MARU

Saturday, 12th July.

'Hardy, how goes the day with us, and England"?

Spiritual Values. "Moreover, men must experience spiritual values in their work. The, immense, scale of modern business tends to destroy this, and it is in education and in vocational pride, such as is fostered by this Honourable Company, that we must look for some measure of compen. sation. Men must be tied to some- thing they feel it worth while being tied to. It is the quality of men that matters.

"As Conrad sxy: 'A snip's safety, apart from the Act of God, rests in the 'hands of the men who are aboard of her, from the highest i to the lowest in their different de- grees. Machinery, per se, will not make a ship more safe.....

It is said that Mesars, Hull Blyth and Co., Ltd., will be charged with the responsibility of maintaining and working the pooled stocks and with the general supervision of the new arrangements.

LEGAL WORK.

Activities of Nautical Society.

These

ac-

The varied nature of the legal "The pursuit of this inner soul work, on behalf of their members, of our national calling of the sea in which a representative society is both an imperative national duty such as the Imperial Merchant and a condition of human advance Service Guild is engaged, is de- Service is not only the monstrated by the accounts which ment. direct road to honest gain, but it have recently been before the com- is capable of being transfigured in-mittee for their consideration and to s mighty agency of creative subsequent approval. purpose and of liberating those counts have come from the lawyers in men in ports fur afield, and include the spiritual enthusiasms which give to life both the satis- following:- fying thrill of adventure and the inspiring nobility of achievements. If our civiliantion, as we know it, is to succeed, it must find anew this secret of human power and fellowship,

of

A long-drawn-out claim of a master for pay, &c., due to him in respect of his ship seized for debt in a Continental port; refund of legal expenses to a member in con- nection with a Customs prosecu- tion in a foreign port; expenses in "This Honourable Company Master Mariners has by its very connection with a charge brought incorporation proclaimed itself in against a member in the East In- a special degree the keeper of the dies, and also advice given at same, sacred flame of British seaman-port to another member in respect ship. (Cheers.) You will not fail of his agreement; costs in respect When Philip's of legal defence of a member in in your trust. Great Armata was sighted all a Canadian port, arising out of the Britain was alarmed by countless stranding of his ship: costs. fires. It is for you-and all who connection with a marine inquiry comprehend this trust to keep in an Australian port: costs prepared a beacon of watchfulness connection with the defence of a member at an inquiry in a South African port; legal advice to member in a home port, arising out of a serious charge made against him, &c.

Our Shipping Position. Referring to our position in world shipping. Mr. Holt said that in 1918-4, the British Empire had 18,000,000 tons, and foreign coun- trles 16,000,000 tons of ship-

per ping. That gave 52.9

cent. British.

In 1928-29 the British figure was 20,000,000 and the foreign figure 35,000,000 (or 36.4 per cent. for Britain). In 1929- 30 the figures were 20,000,000 for the whole nation and, when the British and 36,000,000 foreign. time comes, to pass on the torch Our percentage had fallen to 35.7 to those who follow."

per cent.

Those were facts which spoke for themselves. He continued: "I

-

MARINE SOCIETY.

a d

am not going to hazard an opinion 70,000 Boys Trained for

as to the meaning of these figures. Their meaning is largely in the womb of our acts and lives. To us in this hall ships occupy a first place in the corporate life of Britain.

(Cheers.)

British Ships.

Captain Sir Arthur W. Clarke resided over the quarterly court of the governors of the Marine "Politically, shipping is for us a Society, held in a society's offices prime natural function, upon at Clark's place, Bishopsgate. whose health the security of the The report showed that 59 boys

in

in

4

These few cases give some idea! of the importance to members of

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon, Singapore State dependa; economically, it is were admitted to the Warsnite and otherwise, as, for instance,

Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.

RIO DE JANEIRO MARU

MONTEVIDEO MARU

BOMBAY-Via Singapore & Colombo.

CELEBES MARU

SUMATRA MARU

Friday, 13th June.

f

Friday, 18th July.

Tuesday, 3rd June. Thursday, 19th June,

DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES, BEINA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZI-

BAR & MOMBASA-Via Singapore & Colombo.

CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,

PANAMA MARU

TACOMA MARU

MADRAS MAKU

the profession of having the sup port of a representative society- for which a small annual subscrip- ton only is payable in the event of trouble of any kind arising, and they also give a good idea of the varied riska to which a seafarer is subjected. The Guild a slats members in many other ways, legal and must remain a source of re-turing the first, quarter of this compensation cases in giving skill venue, not of expense. Policies ear, 12 were drafted to the Royaled logal assistance where it in re- that ignore these truths strike at Navy, and 20 to the Merchant quired. In this connection, the case of an officer has recently been the roots of British leadership in Navy. The Admiralty prize of

(Continued at foot of preceding £2, awarded to the best boy for

·Column.) the year 1929 in the group' War. apite, Indefatigable and Lanca- hire Homes, was won by Mr. W. T. Parish, an ex-Warspite boy. Messrs. F. T. Everard and Sons,

the world.

"For their vitality full scope is necessary. Needless nursing and needless restrictions are like a hindrance; self-reliance and creative prosperity exist to-day, as

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Japan Ports from, they bave ever been of maritime Ltd.. had presented the society

'Bhanghai.

AFRICA MARU

SYDNEY MARU

Monday, 7th July.

Wednesday, 18th June. Wednesday, 2nd July,

Friday, 1st July.

Friday, 6th June.

MELBOURNE-Via Manila, Brisbane & Sydney."

HAIPHONGY. Hother & Pakhok

MENADO MARU

Thursday, 12th June.

NEW YORK-Via Japan porta & Panama.

JAPAN PORTS.

BORNEO MARU

ATLAS MARU ....

KEELUNG-Yin Swatow & Amoy..

CANTON MARU.

HOZAN MARU

TAKAO-Yla. Swatow & Amoy.

DELI MARU

TAKAO & KEELUNO.

BATAVIA MARU

Tel. 28002.

Friday, 6th June. Wednesday, 11th June.

Sunday, 8th Jane, 8 p.m. Sunday, 15th June, 8 p.m. Thursday, 6th June, Noon.

Tuesday, 10th June.

For further nariculars please apply to—OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

M. TAKEUCHI Manager.

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of Britain. Since the time of mission in January last. Elizabeth it has been manifested

In moving the adoption of the and fostered by her seamen-report, Sir Arthur Clarke said

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CANADIAN PACIFIC

STIAKSHIP

-LWES

TUESDAY, JUNE, 3, 1930.

EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

will sail

6.00 A.M.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 4TH

for

SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, VICTORIA,

VANCOUVER

Passengers should embark the previous evening.

Next sailings to Pacific Coast.

EMPRESS OF ASIA ....LAYAR EMPRESS OF CANADA vivim. EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

JUNE 25th.

JULY 10th. JULY 23rd.

HONG KONG to MANILA

EMPRESS OF ASIA

JUNE 17th. EMPRESS OF CANADA ...-...JULY 2nd.

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not take the opportunity of the Whitsuntide Holidays to make a trip up the West River. The round trip only takes four days and it costs you less than $40 including meals & stay overnight an board at Wuchow.

...,:

The two comfortable steamers 3.1. "Tal Ming & ..Tai Hing" go up there from Hong Kong re- gularly.

JUNE SAILINGS. DEPARTURE HOURS:

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▼

7th MON. 23rd SAT. 28th

THURS. 12th TUES.

17th

S.S. "TAI MING" [649 tons-Capt. G. J. Spink.] JUNE. 4th 9th 15th

WED. MON. SUN.

FRI. 20th WED. 25th MON. 30th

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STEAMERS

FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.

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...........will sall from Colombo 10th Aug.

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courage.

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it to take? The channels of peace was the main thing, and with the all lead to the service of man. No help of the general public, they guiding principle could sarva to hoped to be able to continue to do promote better the maritime spirit 60, although, as was well known, of our race. Just as the scale of they could také 300 boys if they business has grown until we think had the necessary support. In terms of gigantic joint-stock

The Marine Society started combinations, national or interns the first training ship in the tional, ac our conception of service world, and had trained and sent must enlarge Itself in order that nearly 70.000 British boys to kuman self-respect and purpose of the 130 piles required for the

British ships. He stated that 60|| may grow in stature. The very qualities thus needed are the ew landing causeway abreas qualities native to the son. As the Warspite had now been Masefield makes the sailors say of driven, and a large number of well-wishers had contributed the skip

To mind her, day and night,uma for that purpose. Al together. it would cost about £2,000 to build the causeway

management convinces me that the torily settled who received. les In the course of He has now TG-

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