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SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

Tuesday. Wednesday,

SEATTLE, VANCOUVER via Shanghai & Japan Ports.

9th June. 24th June.

2nd June. 30th Juno.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

TAIYO MARU

CHICHIBU MARU

HIYE MAKU

Tuesday,

HEIAN MANU

Tuesday,

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez. HARUNA MARU

Saturday,

KATORI MARU..

Saturday,

30th May. 13th June.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Porta.

ATSUTA MARU

Saturday,

KAMO MARU

Saturday,

27th June. 25th July,

MANILA.

TAIYO MARU

Monday,

1st Juno.

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

KAGA MARU

Thursday,

HAKODATE MARU

Saturday,

11th June. 27th June.

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) vin Jamn, Honolulu.

Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama," GINYO MARU

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

Wednesday,

24th June.

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama,

†TAKETAYO MARU

Sunday,

14th June,

DAKAR MARU

Monday,

16th June.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangeon.

† BENGAL MARU

Friday,

29th May.

† PENANG MARU

Monday,

8th June.

SHANGHAL KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

+ DURBAN MARU

Thursday,

TANGO MARU

Friday,

HAKONE MARU

Friday,

28th May. 29th May. 12th June.

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LONDON, HAMBURG, ROT-

vin Singapore. Colombo,

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS | Monteriden Maru ... Fri.,

BOMHÁY via Singapore. Sumatra Maru

26th Junc

TERDAM

ANTWERP

Suer & Port Said,

&

BUENOS AIRES via

Saigon, Singapores

Chium-i

to. Durban & Ennetown.

Tues..

Belawan Deli & Calombo.

DURBAN,

LOURENCO Chiengo Maru

Fri..

9th June

5th June

MARQUES, BEIRA, BAR- ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR |

& MOMBASA vin Singa- pore & Colombo. MELBOURNE vin

Manila Sydney Mara

Fri..

Brisbane & Sydney.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Tacoma Mara

Mon..

5th Jun

1st Jun

Belawan Dell & Rangoon.

VICTORIA, SEATTLE,

TACOMA & VANCOUVER

vin

Japan

Ports.

NEW YORK via Japan parts. Kinai Maru

Mon..

Call Direct

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Boston

Allas Maru

Sun.,

Menado Maru (under)

docking)

Hozan Maru

Canton Maru

Thurs.,

Sun.. Sun.,

Deli Maru

Thurs.,

Lo Angeles & Panamin.

Philadelphia & Baltimore.

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1st June

THE CHINA MAIL.

Mee Shipping ~

•JOKA TEX RETU1.

Intelligence.

EFFICIENCY OF THElective thought as it is giving RETIREMENT OF MR.

SHIPYARDS.

Hard Work and Fair

Trade Motto.

SIR A. M. KENNEDY'S FAITH.

now to our competitive capacity, and I think it is true to say that all that the industry can do to put its own house in order will be done. "We

are subjected. of course, to competition from for- eign countries with lower stand- ards of living, but we are not without hope that by putting our backs into our work we wil be able to contribute our share to the expansion and consolidation of British trade.

As soon as British shipowners, who are the most experienced owners in the world, feel that improvement is taking place, our industry will begin tu move "So far as works efficiency is slowly upwards.

The point of concerend, the wisest trader does time for such imaginative anti- not employ capital on new enter cipation may not yet have arriv-prise at the top of a boom, but ed, but the fall in prices of pri- at the point where depression is mary commodities does look like changing into improvement in de- coming to an end, and one hopes mand.

As soon, therefore, as that the turn of the tide is not British shipowners, who after all too far distant.-Sir Alexander are the most experienced ship owners in the world, feel that Kennedy.

improvement is taking place, our industry will begin to move slow- The point of time for such imaginative anticipation may not yet have arrived, but a in the prices of primary

commodities does look like com- an end, and one hopes that the turn of the tide is not too far distant.

The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd., inunched from their yard at Govan, they upwards. steel paddle steamer

Jeanie Deans, built to the order of the London and North Eastern Ruil- full way Company, for their service in the Firth of Clyde. The naming to ing and the launching ceremony was performed by Miss Rhoda Forbes Whitelaw, daughter of Mr. Wm. Whitelaw, chairman of the railway company. The vessel will be made ready for taking her place at the end of this month.

Miss Whitelaw was presented with a diamond and platinum wristlet watch by Sir Alex. M. Kennedy, chairman and managing director of the Fairfield Ship building and Engineering Com- pany, who presided over the sub sequent proceedings,

In

common

with

G. F. SHEE.

21 Years' Service for the Lifeboat.

Mr. George F. Shee, secretary of the Royal National Life-boat! Institution, will retire at the end of September, when he will have completed 21 years of service. He has already passed the retir- the committee of management to ing age, and, though invited by continue, has for reasons of health felt obliged to decline.

time

been

Life-

tary to the institution, in Octo- Mr. Shee was appointed secre ber, 1910, being at that secretary of the National Service League, of which he had secretary and organiser since its foundation in 1902. He came to the Life-boat Institution at very difficult time. The boat Saturday Fund, which for nearly 20 funds for the institution.

years had collected

dissolved at the end of 1910, and the first duty of the new secre tary was gradually to absorb into the institution the branches and voluntary workers of the fund, and with their help and the help of the existing branches of the institution itself, to raise the whole of the funds needed to maintain the service.

Was

Shee's

The 21 years of Mr. secretaryship have seen greater period of the institution's his developments than any previous tory. During that time half the institution's fleet has been con verted to motor power. In 1910 there were nine motor lifeboats on the conat. There are now 95 in a fleet of 191 lifeboats, and the motor lifeboats of to-day are as great an advance on the lifeboats of 21 years ago as these boats were on pulling and sailing lifeboats.

motor

"At the same time it would be wrong for us to minimise the gravity of our industrial posi- tion in Britain, and the need for every class in the community to concentrate thought upon ways and means by which Britain can improve her position. gone on spending and theorising, We have always hoping that the tide would turn; we have hardly realised that our position was actually worsening all the while. It is all In the course of his speech Sir the more necessary, therefore, A. Kennedy said: "Besides the for us to face up to the facts that finishing of Jeanie Deans ansi the

we have reached a critical stage: St. Seiriol, which we launched at

once our people grip that there the beginning of last month, we can be no doubt of our national have on hand two torpedo-boat courage and determination. destroyer.

"Let any industry be ever so every other shipbuilding estab-efficient we cannot really regain The increasing use of motor lishment in the country, ultimate prosperity without go- power has of necessity greatly in- bying through a period of still fur-creased the cost of the service,

ther sacrifice. The only alterna- tive to a competitive standing in world markets is extinction, and what we need is a national policy which will enlist public, co-opera- tion and harness all our will power to the task of finding our feet in the world markets. National policy must be concen- trated not only upon revitalisa- tion of industrial enterprise, but upon the restoration and effec- tive guidance of public confidence. Once public confidence is re- created we shall be at the begin ning of the way to recovery, for we shall be ready to take our fair share in world improvement.

"In re-creating that public con- old theories will fidence,

to be adjusted the facts of to-day's

Un.

we are sadly affected the

con present deplorable dition of the industry. fortunately, too, there is little immediate prospect of any mater- ial improvement, for shipping conditions are exceedingly bad. Our industry has passed through a year which is, I think, - paralleled in our experience year in which a new order has been J very rare occurrence. During the last six months, in- 11th June deed, there has been less than a quarter of a million tons of new shipping ordered.

14th June

31st May 17th June

4th June

Donations and Subscriptions must

now be sent to the Hon. Treasurer,

Mrs. H. E. Goldsmith, 525, The Peak.

HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

SHIPBUILDERS,

SHIP REPAIRERS,

BOILER MAKERS,

FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND

ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.

to

situa-

No Eclipse of Industry. "This position is, of course, a direct reflection of the complete collapse that has overtaken world trading. Shipbuilding is one of the industries of the country need which has to bear the full blast of world depression; at present tion, and we will need to re- three-quarters of the shipbuild turn to the truly British path of ing berths are unoccupied, and I hard individual work and a fair do not think it is possible yet for trading chance for our own' us to discern any signs of im- people. Given, these I believe we provement. If one were to be in the west of Scotland can build lieve the stories which are dis-up our basic industries again on sound founda- seminated by critical writers a permanently not all of them American or tion." French that Great Britain in- dustrially is suffering a complete eclipse, one would indeed give up hope of there being improvement, but the idea of eclipsed enter- prise

The Ben Line 8.8. Benlomond or eclipsed industry in Britain is, I believe, funda- from Middlesbro', London, Straits mentally wrong, and we in the and Manila left Manila for this port west of Scotland are not likely to on May 26 afternoon, is due to Buccumb to any feeling of fatal arrive here on May 29 morning. ism. At no time has our industry given so much individual and col-

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STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

the

and the growth of the financial | side of the institution's work has}| kept pace with the development] of the fleet. During the 21 years of Mr. Shee's secretary- ship

number of the institution's branches has in- creased from under 400 to over 1,100, and its income, which was under £100,000 in 1910, has been more than trebled.

;

Having been rejected for mili- Lary service on medical grounds,¦ ! Mr. Shee remained in charge of the lifeboat service during the War. In spite of its depleted staff and crews, the service car- ried on with conspicuous success, and over 5,300 lives were rescued. Mr. Shee also served during the War as honorary secretary of the Central Committee for National Patriotic Associations and of the Royal Horticultural Society War Relief Fund.

WARSHIPS IN PORT

The following British warships were in harbour to-day:--

Bruce--South wall. Hermes-No. 1 buoy. Odin-In dock.

Otus-In dock.

Seamew-in dock Sirdar-West wall dock. Sterling-West wall dock. Tamar Basin. Thracian-In dock.

Foreign Man-of-War. Mindanao-American gunboat.

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Arrives

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Leaves Wuchow

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Leaves Hong Kong

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Swatow :. Manila

Foochow

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Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius. B. & S. Africa, Aden, Egypt & Europe via Marseilles

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Taurine

Manila, Rabaul, Australia & New

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4.30 p.m.

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10.30 a.m

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3.30 p.m.

3.30 p.m.

1 p.m.

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SATURDAY,

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