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Colonial Secretary's Office,

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Hongkong, 12th August, 1914. Sen, I have the honour to inform you that for some time just this Government has had under consideration the question of acquiring moorings for peenn-going vessels in Victoria Harbour,

Captain Basil Taylor mooted this subject in the interests of the improvement of the uneommodation for ocean-ging steamers as long ago as the year 1902. He reverted to the object in 1904 and correspondence ensued- with the Chamber of Commerce without any definite result,

Owing to the increased and increasing size of ocean-going steamers the question has now become urgent, and I have therefore to submit proposals for dealing with it.

The arstem that has grown up in this Colony is for the Harbour Master under Section 8 (2) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinanco to permit steamship companies or their agents to lay private moorings at their avu dxpose in Victoria Harbour for the use of their steaters subject to the regula tions to be found in Table 0 (a) of the Ordinance.

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In view of the excessive amount of foggy or misty weather and heavy rains which are experienced here for so large a part of the year, my Committee do not consider any system of signalling from the Harbour The fact that each vessel is to be met by Master's Office or from any other point, such will take his instructions as to moorings, is houses, could be relied upon as a sure means a Harbour launch from which the Masters, for example, one or other of the light- bound to lead to delay and confusion, for of informing the Commander of a vessel occasions are frequent, especially after the entering this port as to which buoy ko is to lifting of a fog, when several vessels are make fast entering the harbour at one and the same time...

The scheme would also appear to imply compulsory pilotage, to which both in pris- The result is that the old established tiple and from the point of view of expense shipping firms, many of whom employ all shipping companies are averse. steamers of smali tonnage engaged in the My Committee desire me to ask you to be coasting trade of China or in local trade with good enough to supply the Chamber with a the Philippines, Japan and Sinm, monopolise tariff of the charge Government proposes to many of the best bertha in the deepest water, make for the use of buoys. I have the

(Signed) E, A. M. WILLIAMS,

Becretary:

to the prejudice of newly established linea honrata to be, Sir, your chedient servant,

The Colonial Secretary.

of steamers trading with Europe, Canada and America, which employ vessels of heavy tennage and deep draught Many of these The Honourable have to lie at a considerable distance from the business centre of the City, and complaints have been made in recent years by the Agents of some of the largest vessels frequenting the Port that they are forced out into distant and inconvenient parts of the harbour, Suggestions have even been made that to meet the demand for berths for deep draught vessels, the dredging of name of the more remote portions of the anchorage should be resorted to.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 10th November, 1914, In--I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of year letter of the 29th October, and to inform you that it is proposed to classify the moorings as follows:

A class for vessels 800 ft, in length. B.."

450 19 C.

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-To remedy this unsatisfactory condition and to jupon fees of $8, 80, and $4 per dion and to avoid recourse to dredging, I have to respectively-I am, Sir, your obedient ser, recommend (a) that the Government exercise

vant, the power conferred by Section 3 of Table O (a) to require the removal of all the 43 private moorings at present laid ie Victoria The Secretary, Harbour; (b) that it nequire by purchase 89 of these buoys which have been valued by a Committee consisting of the Acting Harbour Master, the Government Marine

Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.

Hongkong, 17th November, 1914.

Government.

Failing this a very expensive system of fast steam launches would have to be main- tained or the Shipping Companies would have to engage pilotes to take the ship to her moorings.

As you are no doubt aware, the Slipping Community here have always been opposed to the use of plots for taking vessels to their moorings as an unnecessary expense

The

whole selemo if carried out would, my Committes comider, not only be satis factory in its carrying out, hut would entail 趄 considerable and quite unnecessary increased tax on the shipping

It is well understood that the shipping industry is not in a flourishing condition And every care should be taken, especially in suo port as Hongkong, to do nothing which should tend to increase the charges on vesse's visiting the port, and thus to discourage their culling here.

I may here remark that this point has bean frequently referred to in the corres pondence of this Chamber and at their meetings, and the question was very fully dealt with at the annual meeting of this Chambor held on 23rd April, 1909.

My Committee n w beg to suggest that, as

(Signed) CLAUD SEVERN,

a counter-proposal to the Government's Colonial Secretaryscheme, such a relaying of moorings be made as to meet the real arcessities of the Shipping trade, the cost of this relaying to be shared by the Government and the Shipping Companies benefiting by the change, but that those of the regulai Ship- ping Companies who make use of the Port continuously should be allowed to own their own moorings as is done at present,

Surveyor and three local experts appointed SIX-1 bare to acknowledge receipt of by me to investigate the matter; (c) that it your letter of 10th instant and note the re-arrange and where necesary relay these charges it is proposed to make for the usa moorings in accordance with the scheme of the moorings after their acquisition by the illustrated on tho accompanying charts; and (d) that the owners of the remaining three moorings, which are useless for the purpose of the Government; be required to remove them. They can dispose of them as they may think it. If they have vessels that

As you are aware, the Chamber of Com- merce have from the first opposed the schema in what they believe to be the true interests of the shipping of this Colony........................!

As the matter was fully discussed in the require porings their vessels can be Legislative Council on the 5th instant in accommodated at Government moorings. the debate on the appropriation bill for 1915, may mention that this action has already my Committee desire to place on record their been taken in respect of one of then mour-sympathy with what was then said by the ings whose owners have now no ships to unofficial members, who, to show their dis agreement with the proposed purchase of the moorings, voted against the Bill.

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My Committee would now ask that their views be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies in order that both aides of the question may be before him.

The Committee of this Chamber are of opinion that the proposed change is not Recessary in the true interests of the trade of the Colony; briefly their reasons are at

My Committee believe that this would not only prove much more satisfactory to the Shipping generally, but it would also result in a far more economical working of the moorings then the proposed new scheme.

My Committes would now beg to as that a copy of this letter be sent to the Secretary of State for his consideration.I bare the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,

(Signed) E A. M. WILLIMA,

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The salcon passengers then promptly of them have their wives and families

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Volunteered to act as lascars, and their with them. There are two well-known offer was gratefully accepted by the German professors amongst them, both of C. -20 bertas for vessels 300 feet in

The second salon followed whom took their places on the deck. suit. It was then decided that the Amongst the passengers in Sir Charles And to distributo these moorings with due

passengers ehould look after their Lucas, the Commissioner of Sind, who | regard to the depth of water and to the fallowe --

respective portions of the ship. On has been invalided home, but who in requirements of trade, eg, moorings for

Sunday morning a sight that was spite of his infirmity volunteered for The alleged harm done to certain shipping vassols engaged in the rich and coal trade

distinctly gratifying but at the same time work. The episode reveals a remarkable A correspondent on the Morea recently most amusing was witnessed on the phase of the British character. The will be nisced in positions convenient for companies with Jarge vessels calling at this

At 6-45 a.m. the call went ladies, of whom there are a number on: such trades. The moorings ir ill be assigned port, vessels, I may remark, which in nearly sent the following to a Calcutta contein Horea,

every instan dy an Aloo flag, is, we con

round and within a few minutes the deck board, were alio anxious to aid the men. through the locul pilots or by signal to sider, much exaggerated.

was taken up by a large party of grey- incoming vesels by the Harbour Department.

Never in the annale of maritime history headed,

The following were amongst the British grey-bearded My Committee are not prepared to state

professors Association Scientists and other It will thus be possible to make full use of whether the $250,000 asked for will be con has a vessel voyaged under such remark Knights, Colonels and others young and tinguished passengers who were doing

dis.. all the moorings and to avoid having many sidered a satisfactory sum for the purchase able conditions as the P. & O. mail boat old, with brooms, buckets, cloths and lascar work on the fored-Bir Oliver of vessels of firma which own them. 1 of their property by the owners of the 30 sets the Morea, which left Bombay for other cleaning utensils. Everyone was Lodge, Profesor anticipato as difficulty whatever, in berthing of moorings referred to by His Excellency England on Sunday night, September the arrayed in was too funny for words. Mass, Dr. E. Fraser, Dr. H. Borus, Sin Kirkaldy, Professor. soon hard at it. The attire they were Sallas, Profesor E. Coles, Professor vocals to the satisfaction of all concerned but they consider that in view of the financial

The Morea arrived in Bombay Some were in priamas tucked up to the Edward Thurn, and the sew arrangement should prove of condition of this Colony so large a sum should from Australia and Ceylon on Saturday knees, others in shorts, others in lung. Professor Vetchagoff, Dr. Tains, Profes- Professor Green, not be spent on a scheme which is opposed morning, Septembar the 26th: From 29th November to Eth December, 1914. great advantage to the trade of the port. by the British Shipping, the Chamber of diately after arrival, the lascars stated either swabbing with a broom or busily sor Patton, Professor Morgan, Professor

Imme etc. To sc aged, distinguished scientists Comazance and the unofficial members of the they did not intend proceeding further, engaged polishing rails and paint work Herdman, Professor Gonner, Professor Legislative Council

and as according to their agreement they with a rag and bucket of water was very Steggall, Professor Meredith, Professor The sum of $10,000 for annual up-keep are at liberty to leave a boat immediately instructive, whilst Colonels, with Luiggi, Sir Charles Lucas (Commissioner renewal, repairs, and running expenses it puts into an Indian port they could monocles fixed, presented a pene fit for of Sind), Sir Thos. Hollan Professor appears. far too low, especially when it is not be detained. Nothing remaired but a Punch cartoon. And what is more Hicks, Professor Penck, Professor Leith,

Inducements were they did not require much telling as to

Professor Jacobsen, understood this is to cover the cost of raising to let them depart.

Professor Hall Hongkong, 29th October, 1914.

ench set of moorings oner in four years only offered to them to stay on, but without how to do their work.

Professor Duff, Professor Mrs. The deck and Minchin was also a passerger, and Dr. SI, directed to acknowledge the

The charges for the use of the moorings avail, and, to make matters worse, no fresh other work was probably more thoroug Macfarlane, Professor Howe and

crow were procurable. The firemen were done than ever by lascars. The volun- recsipt of your letter of 14th instant informas proposed in your lotter under reply are fortunately prevailed upon to stop 6.teer crew proved too big, and as there Hon. T. Keenan. 1m 9 154 8 m 2 43 2 ing me that the Secretary of State for the presumably calculated to bring in suficient The lascar crew consisted of some 70 were not sufficient brooms, etc., it was 7 547 4 1 Aya 35 Colonies had granted his sanction to a revenue to cover all expanses including odd hands. The boat had to depart decided to split them into two gangs, each 2 za 10 647 3211 8 scheme for the sequisition by Government of interest on the capital invested."

and to help the company out of the working on alternate morninga The 8 187 K 28437 the Private Moorings for Ocean-Going Vessels So far as my Committee can work this out difficulty, 24 Royal Engineers, Sergeants last report was that the work was being 3m 10 544540 14 in Victoris Harb-ur set out in an extract these charges, even if maintained, will result and others who had embarked at Ceylon most efficiently and quickly carried out

2.30 3.8 from a despatch addressed to the Secretary of in a considerably heavier annual expenditure and were on their way to the front The list below will give some idea of 444 444012 State by His Excellency the Governor, to the ships using the moorings than is now volunteered to do lasear work. These what a distinguished lot of individuale

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His Excellency is, of course, aware that incurred under the private ownership system were duly signed on with the permission the deck bands consisted of. The profer- my Chamber is absolutely opposed to such It, as my Committee are inclined to believe, of the military authorities and received sors are the members of the British transfer for reasons fully set out in past the annual expenses have been much under Payment for their work. Twenty-four Auciation of Scientists who have been correspondence u the subject, and they see estimated, they fear that before long the men however, were not sufficient for the to Australasia and are now on their way work necessary on a boat of the Marca's back home. They include worthy men no reason to change their views.

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