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FEBRUAHY. 15TH, 1923.

MARINE INSURANCE. UNDERWRITERS BAD YEAR.

The Daily Telegraph's Marine Corres- pondent writes:-

HIGHWAYS, IN ENGLAND. SOME ULD ROMAN AND SAXON ROADS IN EAST KENT.

NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

AND

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, OCKAN STEAMSHIP CO, LTD. CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION: 00, LTD.

per

Is has always been an anomaly and a source of grost annoyance to motorists, and in fact all road, users, that no direct road exists to Margate and the North Kect and Thaust coast towns. For ex ample, the distance by road, from Faver.JONSIGNEES Company's Steamer sham to Margate is 24 miles, whereas the are hereby noticed that the Cargo will be actual distance is less than 13 miles, and discharged into Holt's Whart, Kowloos, where from Faversham to Whitstable is actually it will be at Consignee's risk and subject only five miles, when by road it is eight bo terms and conditions of storage at Hold's miles. Again, Herne Bay is only seven Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery miles from Birchington, but by road the from Godown on and after 19th February.

Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice distance is 13 miles.

has been given prior to Steamer's arrival

All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be axamined on any Tuesdays and Fridays tire hours of a.m. and Noon between within the free storage period

No chime will be admitted after tha to left the Steamer's Godown, and all dools remaining undelivered after the 21st Feb. will be ambject to

rent

All Claims against the Stommer must be presented to the andersigned on or before the 7th March, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be affected

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents. Hongkong, 11th February, 1993 ·

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEIS. Frox NEW YORK AND YOKOHAMA.

THE

Despite the fact thas the past year has been one of the worst ever experienced by underwriters from a financial point of view, it has, nevertheless, ben one of progress, and one in which much has been done that will be of benefit to the business in the future. The failure of imany cotapanies, some thirty having dis appeared from the market during the past eighteen months, has cleared away a great deal of weak security, and has left the market in a healthier, if im

As things are at present. Faversham, poverished state. The enormous reduc tions in values, which has done so much Whitstable, Hence Bay, Birchington and to reduce premiums and also to increase Margate, are all ent off from each other claims has been necessary to destroy the by road except by ridiculously inflation that was, the inevitable out roundabout way. The rend from London cone of the scarcity of tonnage, during to Margate us far as Faversham is fair the war and the unwarranted shippingly direct, and when the work of widen boom of the early months of 1991 The ing, straightening and hugthering now heavy losses which underwriters have proceeding on the Roman Road between experienced have themselves been not Dartford and Rochester is completed there wholly a bad influence, since they have will be an excellent highway into Kent. made the market consider wh: measures

NO INSIPERADLE DIFFICULTIES.. of reform are urcessary to place the business once more on a profitable basis.

It is, however, with the reads, east of The actual happenings of the year can be briefly chronicled. The first develop Favershamn that this article deals, and by ment was the reduction of the amounts glancing at a road map it will be seen at permitted by the Disbursements Clause, one how strangely isolated the const Upou leaving Faversham, tha which is the clause limiting the total towns are.

road to Margate leads off at once to the loes insurances placed by shipowners.

south-east, while hetually the required Formerly 15 per cent. was allowed on disbursements and 95 per cent, on freight, direction is almost north-east. The road c.; and the new clause made these limits continues in the wrong, direction uathi 18.8. MOORISH PRINCE" 10 per cent. and' 15 per cent. respectively, Canterbury is reached, and the motorist boring arrived

then has the long and tedious passage of These percentages apply to the insured values, and the limits imposed have the that ancient city to negotiate, Many effect of keeping insured values approxi users of this read havo obtained the mately level with intrinsic values. Later impression that, although it, is inco in the year the institute cargo clauses venient and a long way round, it is the were amended to allow 100 per cent, to only possible one and must be put up be paid on theft and pilierage claims, with It may be said at once, however, instead of 75 per cent. is before. The that there are no difficulties that modern cause of this was partly the abatement of ront engineering cannot overcome in the the pilferage evil and partly the weakness making of a Dew highway along the of underwriters, who were unable to resist north east coast of Kent and Thanet the demands of the assured owing to the Putting in hand the construction of such too, frequent, breakage of the 75 per cent.

a highway would, moreover, provide a theft agreement. Another change in practice was the rearrangement of the much needed scheme for relieving un-W additional premiumus payable for British employment in the district. EARLY FERRIES. North America trade, a more flexible ad- justment of premiums being obtained

East Kent, more

than any other thereby. Progress was also made in

the broader legislative matters, new county, is still dependent for its main Hague rules and the problem of the im-highway on the old Roman and Saxon When these roads were built munity of States vessels from legal proce- ronds. dure being descussed by the Comité Thanet was a real island, and had to bo Maritime International when it met in reached from Kent by ferry. London, and some helpful resolutions sequently the roads graviated to the were passed to the Diplomatic Conference ferries, of which the two principal ones at Brüssels for consideration.

were the Grove-Sarra, ferry and the The legal cases of the year were largely Each End Ebbsfleet ferry, and even to- concerned with those instances in which day the two great highways that lead foreign vessels had been deliberately from Kent into Thanet are the roads that scuttled with a view to defrauding under fed the ferries in years gone by, and which once re-echoed to the tramp of the writers, and practically every case was won by the latter. Two cases in which Roman legions."... the lower courts decided in favour of

the near

Con-

The earliest known ferry was that be

above Ports, from the Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whart and Godown Company Limited, risk and Kaloon, and stored at

Conngases

expense.

All broken, chated, and damaged goods are to be left in the godowns, where they will be examined on Monday, 19th Feb., 1993, at 10 AM.

All claims

must be presented within 15 days s of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized.

No claims will be admitted after the goods bare left the Godowns, and all Goods remai ing undelivered after the 20th Feb., 1923, will

sto rent-

Consigne es

of .cargo are hereby notified' that they must produce sa Import permit signed by the Buperintendent of Imports and Exports, Hongkong, before Bill of Lading can be countersigned..

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bils of Lading will be countersigned by FURNESS (FAR EAST), LTD.

St. George's Building. Hongkong, 13th Ferruary, 1923. [381

THE

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RICKMERS LINIE.

NOTION TO CONSIGNEES. FROM. HAMBURG AND ANTWERP.

THE Staamahip

"SOPHIE RICK MERS innocent mortgages were won by under tween Each End in Kent and Ebbsfleet in having arrived from the above porta, Con- writers on appeal, but unfortunately not Thanet, and travellery making for the in- ignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their on the main issue. This is a matter that, terier of the island would go by way of Goods are being landed at their risk into the will probably receive close attention in Ebbsfleet Lane, which is of great anti- Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon

future. Another important case was that of the Geelong, by which quity, and is still extant, almost as far Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kowloon and

as the village of Acol near which are the stored at Consignees risk and expense further light was thrown upon the remains of a Roman camp. Now Eachstructions are given to the contrary before Optional Goods will be carried on unless. tion of what is a war peril, as distinct End was the terminus of two road, built

oon to-day. from a peril of the seas. A feature of

All broken, chafed, and damaged goods. OFFICES in UNION BUILDING-For the year has been the unsatisfactory re-by the Romans, and these must have been

sults revealed by the published accounts about the first they constructed in Eng are to be left in the Godowns, where they of the marine companies. In nearly land, one going from Dever and the other will be examined on the 19th inst, at every case the amounts set aside the pre- from Canterbury. Both these roads are 10 A

All claims must be presented within fifteen vious year to meet outstanding liabilities mentioned in the Tabula-Pantingerian; had proved insufficient, and the "tail" they led into the castle of Richborough, days of the steamer's arrival here, after which No claims will be admitted after the of delayed claims settled during the year which in Roman times became the focus they will not be recognised. has been enormous. It is hoped that this of the maritime traffic and the chief port Goods have left the Dodomas, and all Goods

Inst, will be subject to rest. 【NFURNISHED, No. 1441, THE PEA matter of delayed" claims is nearly at from which the agricultural and minera remaining undelivered on or after the 20th

ncar the Barker Road Tram Station an end, and that 1923 will show a great products of the country were exported

The Canterbary-Eath, End road leaves! Consignees of cargo are hereby notified that improvement in this respect. It has been noticeable that 1929 has been a fortunate the former city by the Longport, the name they must produce an import permit signed year for underwriters in the matter of suggests its original purpose, and passing by the Superintendent of Imports & Exports, total losses. Two of the biggest, the Ash on the way, is now carried through Hongkong, before Bills of Lading can be Filtshire and the Egypt, left the hull to Sandwich, though in Roman times it countersigned. market untouched, the vessels being terminated at Each End, where the uninsured, though the Buy carried a Romans had a landing place. The reced valuable cargo of speeie which brought a ing waters of the Wantsum Channel deft

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hear, the loupantes also in the bed dry, and over this the road is particular, the companies also having now carried. It passes through the town certain amount of interest in it. Nat by way of the Barbican, where there is till late in the year did a big hull loss occur, bat in November and December then on due north, using the old Stopar a drawbridge over the River Stour, and several of considerable importance helped Beach

a foundation. This is the to level matters up Despite this freedom

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from loss it is to be feared that the breakwater that enabled the Romans to market has made little if any profit, use Richborough as a harbour. however. Until October the cost of ship way north the road passes the side of repairs was so high that no chance of the town of Stonar, the new Richborough. profit existed in the hull market. The decks, and on the left Ebbsfleet Lang, removal of the last 10s of the shipworkers until it reaches Cliff End, where it war bonus has helped to reduce this cost,divides, one branch going to Ramsgate, but it is still high.

Fand the other to Margate,

THE OLD GROVE ABER FLRRY,

Turning to foreign relations, no better state of affairs is revealed American business has been plentiful, but unpro The other principal ferry," the Grove fitable Spain and Norway have ceased Sarre ferry, started on the Kent side, sending the bulk of business that used near where the Grove Ferry station on to come to London, chiefly owing to the 8.E. Railway now is, and the Thanet legislative restrictions. Greck risks have terminus was to the village of Barra been guspect, owing to the large number This road to Margate leaves Canterbury of Greeks vessels deliberately, cast away by the Sturry rond and continuice along Italy and France have reduced the the high ground to the north of the amount of premiums given to London, if

not the number of riske: while Italy Great Stour valley, passing Upstreet on managed to interest London in at least the way and then descending rapidly tho It then crosses one had loss on a German staamer, by until it reaches Wallend close to Grave means of a reinsurance contract. Japan Ferry station.

No Fits Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

CARL BODIKER & CO.,

Aktiebolag, Agents, Rickmers Linie. Hongkong, 13th February, 1923,

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