LLOYD TRIESTINO
FORNIGHTLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE FOR
BRINDISI,
VENICE & TRIESTE
via Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Suez & Port Said Taking Carge on through Bills of Lading
to Fiume, Genoa, Alt tallan, Adriatic, Levant Black Sea and Danube Ports
Passengers to LONDON (Overland).
NEXT SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG
*S.S. GANGE
SS: MONCALIERI
S.S. CARIGNANO
*S.S. PILSNA
S.S.
VENEZIA"
• Passenger Vessels with
mediate Clays Accommodation,
For Shanghal
For Bisgapore
& Japan
Dec. $1
& Italy Dec. 25 Jan. 8 Feb. 8
Jan. ទ Jan. 30
Jan. 24
Mar. 10
First, Second &
Second Inter-
+ Particular attention is drawn to the as. Gange which will make the journey Hong Kong-Italy in 24 days.
Salling Dates subject to change without notice
For Freight and Passages apply to:-
Queen's Building,
Tel. 28021.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Agents.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
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NEW MOTOR-LINER LAUNCHED.
Features of the Worcestershire.
In mall week Mr. Harold Bibby christened the Bibby Line's new motor-ship Worcestershire, when she was launched by the Fairfield Shipbuliding and Engineering Co., This ship is the fourth Ltd. motor-liner which these builders have turned out since the War for the Bibby Line's India and Burma service. While not a duplicate of her predecessors, the new ship closely resembles them in her main features.
REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING be engaged in the Eastern trade,
FROM £83 TO £120 ON SALE
SAN FRANCISCO vla Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolula.
TAIYO MARU
Sunday: Thursday,
21st December. 1st January.
TATSUTA MARU SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Ports.
HIYE MARU (Leave from Kobe).. Wednesday. 21st January. LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.
Saturday, Saturday..
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
HAKUSAN MARU
HARUNA MARU
ATSUTA MARU
KAMO MARU
"Thursday" Tuesday,
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo,
† TOKUSHIMA MARU TANGO MARU
Sunday,
... Bunday,
27th December. 10th January.
25th December:-
20th January.
28th December. 11th January,
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
Mexico & Panama, RAKUYO MARU
.... Saturday, 20th Dec. at midnight. SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) vla Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,
Monday,
KAMAKURA MARU
NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama,
†TATSUNO MARU
22nd December.
8th January.
LIVERPOOL via Port Sald, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa.
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
Monday,
+ DURBAN MARU
Sunday,..
† MALACCA MARU
Monday,
+ MURORAN MARU
Tuesday,
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
† DELAGOA MARU
† RANGOON MARU
KASHIMA MARU
+ Cargo only.
18th January,
29th December. 6th January.
23rd December. Tuesday, Wednesday, 24th December. Saturday, 27th December.
For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
Telephone 30291. (Private exchange to all departments.)
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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
LONDON, HAMBURG. ROT- Andes Mara........
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS) Montevideo Maru
BOMBAY via Singapora & Hamburg Maru
MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-
Wed.,
Tues.,
24th Dec,
30th Dec.
20th Dec.
Shipping
Intelligence.
CUNARD'S NEW VESSELS.
Agreement with Government.
Details of the Government con- tract with the Cunard Steam Ship Company for the insurance of its two new vessels were published on November 4, £9,000,000 is re quired to insure the vessels,
o! for the building rangements which have been made.
ar-
SHIPBUILDING IN THE STATES.
The Cost of Future
Construction..
од
That more than 40,000 workmen are employed in American ship- yarde and allied industries orders embraced in the 1930 ship- building programme, which in- volves ал expenditure of
report
A White Paper issued by the $75,000,000, is shown in a Board of Trade in explanation of forwarded to President Hoover by the Government's plan to partici- the National Council of American pate. In the insurances of the two | Shipbuilders, Activity of the in- new giant Cunard liners gives, for dustry in the United States, the the first time, authentic informa- report points out, is in marked tion as to the probable amount of contrast to the dearth of employ insurance required. The amountment and the low ebb of activity is placed at £4,500,000 on each in shipbuilding abroad.
vessel.
|
Most of the work now under way,
Ja
The principal dimensions of the Worcestershire are:-Length, overall, 602 ft.; breadth, moulded, 64 ft.; depth, moulded, 36 at. 6 in.
Before the Government is to bo it is added, is the result of the to upper deck. The vessel is of called upon to make up any de- Merchant Marine Act of 1923. the poop, bridge and forecastle Aclency, the capacity of the open With the vessels now being built
cruiser type, with
atern and market must be exhausted. and and others to be built under the straight stem, and is built to this applies to both the building Act and the miscellaneous vessels certain Lloyd's 100 A.1. Class "Full Scantlak and to the full marine policy, and small craft that are ing Vessel," rigged as a fere and says the Financial Times of No to be built definite assurance aft schooner with four raking pole vember 5. The rate for the build-seen that the present shipbuilding masts and a single funnel amid- ing risk is fixed at 1% per cent., activity will continue at least until ships in keeping with the ususi which is, presumably, to be the the end of 1934. practice of the Bibby Line.
market rate, but the Government When complete the vessel will is to receive an additional 21⁄2 per cent. on the premium for any pro enlling at various ports on route portion of the risk it may under with passengers and cargo, etc., write, to India and Burma. The accom- modation, which is for first-class passengers only, is disposed on the four upper decks amidships, principally in deckhouses, giving the maximum light and air, ar ranged for one. two and three berth rooms, there being a large number of one and two berth rooms. Staterooms are arranged on the Bibby cabin principle with cot berths throughout the accom- modation. A washbasi with fresh water laid on is fitted in all staterooms, A large room is reserved for nurses. and a room
for ayahs.
Public Rooms, The public rooms-which con- sist of a drawing room, lounge, verandah and smoko room-are large and airy apartments situat- ed on the top decks, while the dining saloon is in the bridge house forward.
The 40,000 workmen mentioned, according to a statement by Mr. H. Gerrish Smith, president of the Council, will receive for their sør- vices during the present year a The rates on the marine policy total of $60,000,000, or 80 per cent. are to be "reasonable," that is of the annual expenditure for mer- either rates similar to those fixed chant ship construction. One-half by the market for the ship or of this large percentage, of rates fixed with reference to mar- $30,000,000, will be expended on kot rates for similar riska, but labour within the shipyards, the again the Government is to re- other half, or $30,000,000, On celve an additional 2% per cent. labour
necessary to provide The policies issued by the Govern- materials and equipment purchas ment are to be subject to stamped by the shipbuilders. duty in the ordinary way.
Market Capacity.
Division of Cost.
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CAN
PACIFIC
STEAMIRIP
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1930.
EMPRESS OF CANADA
Will sail for
VICTORIA & VANCOUVER
Via
SHANGHAI & JAPAN PORTS
on
THURSDAY,
25th DECEMBER
at
6 A.M.
Passengers will embark previous evening.
Passenger Department: Tel. 20752. Cables: "Gacanpac." Freight and Express: Tel. 20042. Cables: "Nautilus."
CANADIAN PACIFIC
WORLDN GREATENT TRAVEL SYSTEM
BRITISH WUCHOW LINE
S.S. TAI HING" [1,068 tons-Capt. Trott.].
DECEMBER
SAILING DATES FOR DECEMBER, 1930 (Subject to change). DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 5.30 p.m... Wachow 2 p.m.
S.S. "TAI MING" [849 tons-Capt. W. H. Lawton,] DECEMBER. WED. 2418
soth TUES. Regular Service of Fast, High Class River Steamers Having Good Electric Light and Fans Accommodation for First Class Passengers.
-MON. 22nd SAT. 27th
In Staterooms Saloon. The as "Tal Hing" is fitted with Wireless, These vessels leave Hong Kong for Washow (via Samshul, Shlu- hing, Takhing & Dosing) and return to Hong Kong (vis some Porta) every five or six days.
Fares for round trip (not including mania) $20. Meals & Wines are to be ubtalned on board.
Hong Kong Arrivals and Departures from Tal. Hing Wharf.
or
For informatiar apply to
29, Connaught Road, West, Phone 20803.
KWONG WING
Co
Only about 10 per cent. of the On the whole the terms on which the Government preposes total cost of a vessel, Mr. Smith to participate in the business ap-states, is represented by the in- paar to be acceptable to all con- trinsic value of the raw materials cerned, since they offer every In-In the mines, forests, and fields. ducement to underwriters to cover The remaining 10 per cent. covers: as large amount as possible at the cost of insurance, taxes, trans- reasonable rates while protecting portation, and miscellaneous items. exces- These totals, the report reads, the shipowners from any sive demands brought about by a show a countrywide application both of employment and invest shortage of cover...
of the forty- ment, in that each eight States is producing at least three of the major items used in the construction, operation, maintenance of a vessel.
The report, it is stated, was complied, as a concrete refutation from both
but all the States are to vague foreign and domestic sources that and each of the four years there- yards
benefited by shipbuilding. Inas- the passing of the last several after. months had brought a cessation of "To this should be added. con- much as 80 per cent of the cost activity in homo shipbuilding and tracts of the value of approximate- I of a vessel is expended in Indus- ly $20,000,000 per annum tries outside of the shipyard and consequent unemployment.
craft, each State contains essential ship. "By reason of the mail pay and for miscellaneous smal}
annual building industries, it is evident construction loan fund provisions which will result in an
not less than that workmen in every section of- of the Act," says the report, "con- expenditure of tracts of the value of approximate- $75,000,000. This programme of the country, are benefiting by the shipbuild- ly $140,000,000 of the con- shipbuilding does not include the annual $75,000,000 struction of merchant vessels for replacement of our present Heating programme of this country."
The report concludes with a chart showing the States in which foreign trade have been executed of cargo vessels which are rapidly. and it is anticipated that ad- becoming obsolete.
Many States Participate....... shipyards are located; 22 are sea- Arrangements for building the ditional contracts will be made of
value... of $185,000,000, "Every State of the Union cons, board States, six great river States, first of the new liters on the Clyde the have been made. The extension which will mean an expenditure of tains industries which produce and five Great Lakes States, and it is pointed out that these 88 States Д five-materials and equipment used in of the Government insurance 8275,000,000 during agreement to the second vessel is year period from January 1, 1980, shipbuliding, and therefore not represent 88 per cent of the
or $56,000,000
1930 only the States containing ship country's population.
The hope is expressed in the White Paper that the market will The drawing room is a hand-be in a position to take a large some paintod apartment in the part, if not all of the riska in
and since Adam period, fitted with an elec- question,
to up tric replace, grand piano and fur- £4,000,000 has previously been niture to harmonise. The lounge covered on a building risk in is a spacious room, decorated in foreign yard, there is no reason the Georgian style, with grand why the risk while under con- biano and furniture. to harmonise.struction should not be wholly and having walls of polished covered in the market. mahogany with dall gold orna-
So for as
the marine risk in mentations, while the smoke room concerned the largest amount pro, panelled and furnished in oak viously placed on any one vessel of Jacobean design, access to the 's about £2,000,000, but it is some verandah is through aft end of time before negotiations will be the smoke room. Suitable offices started with regard to the marine are provided in the vicinity of the risk on the first of the new public rooms.
Cunarders, and by then if may be possible to place very much more than this amount.
made conditional on the Board be- Ing statisfied that her keel will be laid within six years of the execution of the agreement, Establishing a Fund.
The verandah is open at the aft end and is fitted with an orna- mental teak ballustrade, with fur- niture of teak of a suitable de- sign, and large windows give a clear view over the ship's sides. The dinning saloon, of Jacobean design, is panelled in polished oak, with oak beams and white panel- Both Det. led celling. Seating accommoda- tion is provided for the full com- plement of passengers at one alt- Hog
It la stated in an official Large open spaces are provided memorandum that for the purpose 5th Jan. for promenadlag, dancing, and of carrying out the agreement it deck games, including deck tennis, is proposed to establish a Curiard etc., and skittle alleys, specially Insurance fund, into which re Arranged in the forward well. Aceipts will be paid and out of suitably appointed barber's shop which..any claims will be met. So la conveniently situated amidships far as the fund may be unable to unbridge deck, and surgery meet: any such claims they wil with up-to-date equipment la-fit-be paid to the extent of the de- ted adjacent to doctor's room. ficiency from the Consolidated For the convenience of passen- | Fund.
TERDAM & ANTWERP
vis
Singapore,
Colombo.
Suez & Port Said.
& BUENOS AIRES via
Saigon, Singapore, Colom-
bo, Darban & Capetown.
Sat.,
Colombo,
Kague Maru
Tues.
DURBAN, LOURENCO
ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR Mexico Maru
Mon.,
5th Jan
& MOMBASA via Singa
pore Colombo,
MELBOURNE via
Manila, Brisbane Maru
Mon.,
Brisbane & Sydney.
CALCUTTA via Singapore &
Rangoon
VICTORIA SEATTLE,
TACOMA & VANCOUVER
Mia Japan Ports,
NEW YORK via Japan ports, Kwanto Maru
Thurs.,
8th Jan.
Los Angeles & Panama.
Call Direct at Boston.
Philadelphia & Baltimore.
JAPAN PORTS (Freight Ser- Himalaya Maru
lea).
HAIPHONG via : Hellow; &| Menado Maru
Pakhoi (Fortnightly)..
Wed..
Thurs..
KEELUNG via Swatow & Canton Muro
Sub..
(Every Bunday Hozan Mara
TAKAO via Swatow & Amoy
(Fortnightly), NA
For further particulars please apply to:—
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
Telephone 2801F
WARSHIPS IN PORT.".
The following Brillsh warenipə
were in harbour to-day:—
Berwick-West Wall: Dock
Brute No. 7. buoy, Cicala-In decken. Cornflower North wall.
· Herald-No. 4 buoy, has
Iroquois East Wall Marazion--In dock, su Melway--North arm.
buoy
24th Dec.
25th Dec.
gers, a large laundry fully equip The accounts of the fund will ped with the latest machinery is be audited each year by the Comp.) 21st Doc situated on promenade dock aft.troller and Auditor-General, and 28th Dec.The
passengers, officers and will be laid before Parliament-to- crews accommodation is, ventilat gether with a copy of his report ed by an arrangement of electric thereon. The agreement and any supply and exhaust fans, also by supplemental or other agreement natural ventilation. Numerous with third parties necessary for electric fall fans are fitted in all giving effect to such agreement public rooms, also a cabin fan to are to be exempt from stamp each stateroom. A system of duty and are to be exempt steam and electric heating for the | from the limitation applic":{ public rooms, staterooms and able to ordinary marine-id- cray's accommodation is Installed.surance contracts that they Adjacent to the dining saloon shall not run for more than one are the kitchen, pantries, har. bak-year The policies issued to the er's and batchor's shops, etc., at company or the builder by or on ted with electrical and coal fired bebalf of the Board of Trade will cooking appifances of the latest attract the ordinary" stamp duty, type Refrigerated cargo cha and will be subject to the ordin- bers are situated on lower deck law applicable to policies of their aft and well equipped refrigerat character. Consignees of Cargo ax, a.a. Bened shore rooms are installed amid- venge are reminded to take dell-chips on middle deck for ship's their goods which will be use. The refrigerating machinery December 25, at forward end of shaft tannel is
Suffolk No. 8 buoy. Tamar—Basin, e- Thracian--South wall
Foreign Man-of-War. Argus-French gunboat,
CONSIGNEES NOTICES
STEAMER'S MOVELLENTS,
during
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6th January, 1931.
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15th January, 1981. ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE
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Loading for Mauritius, Reunion, Delagoa Bay, Durban, East London, Algoa Bay (Port
Bilzabeth), Mossel Bay and Capetown.
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