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ENGINEERS INSTITUȚE DINNER. H.E. THE GOVERNOR ON RECENT INTIMIDATION.

PRESENTATION TO MR. J. REID.

for the occasion.

In former years the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuildera of Hongkong have held in annual ball, but in view of existing conditions arising out of the strike and on account of the expense involved in the holding of a ball, it was decided sometime ago by the com- mittee to hold a dinner in place.

This dinner was held last night at the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel and proved very pleasant and enjoyable. The Roof Garden was attractively decorated An interesting feature of the proceed ings was a presentation made to Mr. J. Reid, Manager of the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company, and a very old member of the Institution of En- gineers and Shipbuilders of Hongkong, on the occasion of his retirement. This consisted of an illuminated address from the members of the Institution, in which it tribute was paid to Mr. Reid's fifteen years membership of the Institution. He was also presented with a Chinese silver salver, inscribed "Presented to Mr. James Reid, Manager of the Takeo Dockyard and Engineering Company, as a token of esteem on his retirement, 19th February, 1926.''

Mr. B. L. Frose (President of the In stitution) was in the chair, and among the guests present were the Hon. Pre- sident, HE the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.), Mr. J. Reid, the

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH, 1926-

99 by Mr. Murphy, a Fast Fresident of this Institution who died some years ago. The business was turned into a Limited Liability Co. in 1909 and somʊ ———— yours ago, Mr. Mendham, who was formerly with the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., joined Mr. Bailey.

Then there are the numerous Chinese yards, which, with the European owned catablishments, go to make up the great engineering and shipbuilding industries of the Colony of which wa can be justly proud.

PRESENTATION TO MR. BRID,

A RUSSIAN ADVISER FOR

KWANGSI. REPORTED DEMAND OF ARMS "AND" AMMUNITIONS FROM

SOVIET RUSSIA.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

vincial Government.

THE BOYCOTT. ANOTHER WINDFALL FOR THE STRIKE COMMITTEE.

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT]

The Canton Strike Committee, it is understood, will sell by public suction,

According to a report, the visit to instead of through private channels as Wuchow of Mr. Wang Ching Wei, chair is usually the case, 2,950 cases of kero- man of the Political Council, and the reccat arrival at Canton of Mr. Pak Sung sene oil recently imported into Canton by 3fr. Reid, on behalf of the members Heo, plenipotentiary of General Wong the Yee Chong Chan Firm. It is alleged of the I. of E. & S. of Hongkong 1 Shoa Hung of Kwangsi, are intimately that the kerosene came from Hongkong ask you to accept this address and related to certain changes in the future and in the eyes of the Strike Committee, those who persist in transacting business Chinese silver alver inscribed "Present.administrative policy of the Kwangs Pro ed to James Reid,, Esq., by memberi as

It has long been the desire of the with Hongkong are traitors. The consign- a token of esteem on his retirement 10th Kuomintang Government at Canton to ment will be worth something like $30,000 February, 1998. You, Sir, se a member bring the administration of Ewangsi and also as a past President of the launder its complate control and, as are to the Strike Committee. stitution have always taken a keen insult of the military conference recently terest in its welfare ever giving a help held at Wuchow at which the influential ing hand in its management when needed, Canten, military leaders participated, it and it must be a source of gratification now appears they have come to certain to you, Sir, that on leaving the Colony arrangements whereby the two Govern you should have seen the Institution risements will hereafter act conjointly in all to its present prosperous condition. Your name will be placed on the Absent civic and military affairs. Member List, so that if at any future time you return to the Colony, as we trust that you will do, you will rejoin the Institution during your stay, and here I might mention that the Committee have under consideration the acquisition of the premises of the Phoenix Club. We have not been able to do much in the matter to date, as there are many details to be gone into before the scheme can be put before the members, but I trust that in the next few weeks, at any rate before I hand over the Presidentship to another, the Institution will bo in posses

...

In pursuance of the reported arrange ment a Russian, who has hitherto been acting in an advisory capacity in the Canton Government, has been appointed as High Adviser to the Kwangsi Govern- ment, the post ranking on the same level; as that of M. Borodin at Canton.

Among other conditions demanded by: the Kwangsi General ware the contribu tion of $200,000 as military expenses and a supply by the Soviet Government of 5,000 infantry rifles, 200,000 rounds of ammunitions and a certain amount of shells for field-guns.

STRIKERS' NEW YEAR CUMSHAW.

Notwithstanding the frequent seizure of imperialist goods and the large proceeds realised from the sale of enemy property by the Strike Committee, each striker now being fed by the Committee has to subsist on a ration of 22 cents daily, but for holiday pocket money on Chinese New Year a sum of 82 each was given

THE CANTON SILK TRADE. [FROM OCA CHINESE CORRESPONDENT]

The Trade Commissioner in Canton is recommending the opening of a special bank to finance the silk trade, suggesting co-operation between the Government and the merchants in sharing the capital The silk trade is worth something like

Hon. Mr. P. H: Holyoak, Mr. R. M/Bion of the whole of the 1st floor of King's will in time bring about some important $70,000,000 or more a year, exports alone

Buildings.

The toast was then drunk.

Dyer (Chief Manager cf the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company), Mr. H. T.

MR. REID'S REPLY. Creasy Mr. J. S. Gillingham, Mr. J. Ormiston, Comedore A. J. B. Stirling, Replying, Mr. J. REID said he felt that Mr. R. B. Forster (Private Secretary to this was a stage in his life which be re H.E. the Governor), Captain Steele gretted to meet. He had looked forward (A.D.C. to H.E. the Governor), Captain to many more happy days in Hongkong, l'allot, D.S.O., RN, Engineer-Captain but it happened, they know what McKinley, R.N., Mr. Allan Cameron families were, that one had to leave the (Oriental Manager, C.P.S.), and Mr. M. Qui (Consul for tthe Netherlands in Hongkong).

It is anticipated that the new changes changes in the Kwangai Government's administrative policy. But whether the changes will be for the good and welfare of the country and its people or not remains to be seen.

taking from 30,000 to 60,000 bales, worth According to the 81,000 or more each Commissioner, foreign banks and foreign. merchants in Shamcen have practically controlled the trade and induence ita prica in the past. Since the boycott of Shameen, the conditions have been some- what changed. Recently the Canton Municipality recommended 'the establish- ment of a Silk Testing House so as to regulate the quality of silk before ship- ment

THE KUOMINTANG SPLIT. (TROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] Colony sometime or other. Be deeply

M. Borodin, Soviet High Commissioner felt leaving the Institution. He had made many lifelong friends. Many bad to South China, who left Canton a fort paid a high tribute to local Chinese the long rest. When he came out to lender of the Bolshevist clique in MORE

During the evening FLE. the Governor left Hongkong and many had gone to night ago for North China and Moscow, was accompanied by Mr. Tam Ping Shen, engineers who had shown courage in face the Colony in 1906, as a raw shipbuilder, of recent threats and attempts at inimi- he thought that Hongkong was an easy dation on the part of the Canton Strike place to live in, but be could tell them Committee.

it had not been a soft job in Hongkong. THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. It had been one of Le hardest jobs in the world, but thanks to the assistance After the löyat toast bad been honoured, the PRESILEST Bid-Your he had had from engineers in Hongkong, Excellency and Gentlemen,-It is with many of them had helped him and did

Kwangtung Province.

The Kuomintang press agencies admit serious conflicts between the Left, or Red, and the Right, or anti-Red, sections of the party, and state that one of the ob Jects of the mission is to bring about a reconciliation between these two factions. Red policy in Kwangtung has been failure.

HAMPERING OF TRADE

nuch pleasure I rise to ask you to drink not know it, his work had been much The pro-Bolabevist section claim that the tion for. duty and likin due to the Chinese

easier.

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AT CANTON. SENT TO THE “PICKET PRISON.

[FROM OUR CHINESE COLEMSPONDENT] In addition to regular Customs inapee Government, goods imported into Canton from outports and foreign countries will now be subject to examination instituted general success to the engineers and ship by a joint committee of workers and merchants. This committee has just builders of Hongkong,

opened an office on the Bund. Permits to import and applications for inspection upon the arrival of goods must be on forms provided by the committet.. This procedure has to be complied with until anti-imperialist the termination of the boycott" when the joint committee will be abolished and traffic and trade, especi be. restored. ally between Hongkong and Canton, may

to the future prosperity of the Engineer-

After speaking of his early youth, Mr. ing and Shipbuilding Industries of Houg Reid said he hoped he had benefited from kong, coupled with the name of Mr. James the experience he had gained in Hong- Reid, Manager" of Taikoo Dockyard &

kong. Since he had come here the Colony "Engineering Co..

FAILURE TO INTIMIDATE. It is now 41 years ago since I entered had advanced by leaps and bounds that

His Excellency, continuing, said he the profession as an apprentice to the one could scarcely foresee and be was electrical and mechanical engineering, confident that this Colony could produce and it was five years later that. I had ships and engines which were second to wished to avail himself of the opportunity of saying one word of praise and thanks my first introduction to shipbuilding, none in the world. (Applause.)

Referring to Chinese labour in Hong to the Chinese engineers of the Colony being engaged by Elliott Bros. of Lon- don, to ât electric engine room telekong, Mr. Raid said they awere at it at of Hongkong. For several days before graphs, helm indicators and revolution times and very often were annoyed with the Chinese New Year a determined at Committee, to persuade the members of indicators, to the battleship Superb at it, but he did not think they would find tempt was made by the Canton Strike

This committee has been considered Chatham Dockyard. During the 43 years better labour in the world.:

He hoped the Institution would con- the Guild to down tools. They refused

to do so, and had behaved with sound accessary because of the numerous com- I was with the firm, I fitted some 34

common sónge. Chinese engineering plaints that pickets of the Canton Strike of HM, ships at the Naval Yards of tinue as it had done in the past. Chatham and Fortsmouth, and also at! In conclusion, he returned thanks for labour was deserving of special praise Committee have indiscriminately held up J. & G. Thompsons (now John Brown & the kind expressions passed that evening and had shown great coarage despite, and consignments and confiscated goods for Co.) at Clydebank and Armstrongs Mit and hoped that some day he would come

This work back and find Hongkong even better than in the face of threats and attempts of the strike fund, after condemning them chells Yard at Newcastle.

worthlessness of Bolshevik propaganda. goods. Since the Strike Committee has often took me at sen w months at a time, shipbuilding industry here had become (Applause.) The Chinese leader of the the backing, being in fact a department, often took me at sea with the fleet, some- it was at present, and also find that the intimidation. They had been taught the off-hand as British or other imperialist find I was with the Channel Fleet of second to none in the Far East. (Ap-local guild and the Guild itself had get a of the Kuomintang Government, the mer fine example which others had followed chants had no other recourse but to de Stornoway in June, 1804, after a great plause).

The Chinese New Year had now: well mand that benceforth inspection of goods storm in the Atlantic when three cut of four of the battleships rolled so much

The toast the Hon. President" was begun and the victory over this last at: shall be made in the presence of a repre that it was impossible to open the main deck batteries H.M.E.S. Repulse, Royal entrusted to Mr. R. M. Dyer, who said tempt of the Canton Strike Committee sentative of the principal trade guilds of Sovereign, Empress of India and Re- he welcomed him to the first public meet had been complete. He hoped this mark the city; hence this joint committee has solution were the ships, and the first ing they bad had of the Institution since ed the beginning of the end of the trouble, coms into existence.

He which, through no fault of theirs, theymittee has exercised its own sweet will named was the only one with bilge keels; he had been elected to the office. she was rolling 11 degrees whilst the thought that in their Hon. President they had been involved in, and he thought in the matter for the last eight months. roll registered on the Royal Sovereign had a man who must think about the that in these days it was only right and was 47 degrees. Great strides have been things so near to the heart of them all proper that the Engineering Guild should

THE VISITORS. made in not only men-of-war, but all He had spent all his life in the public have shown the way. (Applause.)

service and a great portion of it in Hong-

Mr. J. Ormiston submitted the toast

THE HON. PRESIDENT.

The Strike Com

The Strike Committee's prize court-still Soma "three months ago A firm, Sun Hing Lung, has several big cases on hand. imported 230 cases of nails from Belgium, Pickets seized them as British goods. but retained as a sample for further hearing Dyer) would like to assure His Excellencye of the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak

Replying to the toast, the Hon. Mr. and investigation. The other day the prize court of the Strike Committee de that the shipbuilding industries in Hong Holyoak stated that it had been rightly dded against the firm and demanded the kong had every confidence in him. (Ap- said that shipping and shipbuilding was other 320 cases back or their equivalent plause.)

the life blood of the Colony. He did know

in value. Upon failure of the firm to that in his time in the Colony, from per- comply with the order, its manager and asnal observations he had made during a feki were sent to the picket prison in the past 25 years, he had seen ship after default.

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kinds of shipa since then, and to go down song, and he was a gentleman who put below in one of our latest warships or all his heart and mind into his work, as The Visitors," and coupled with it the later released all but one case which was | liners, and compare the engine rooms of every honest man should do, and he (Mr. to-day with what they were 40 years 250, gives one a good idea as to what the present day engineer requires to know compared with the men of those days.

The Colony has not been backward in

He would conclude by wishing him the the march of progress in engineering and best of luck in the uphill battle which was shipbuilding, Chinese owned some mud his at the present time. (Applause.) docks at Whampoa before Hongkong be

ship launched, one ship succeeding upon HIS EXCELLENCY'S PRAISE came a British Colony; The P. & O.

the other, with improvement following HIS EXCELLENCE THE GOVERNOR, in the upon improvement, and the launches THE WHAMPOA PORT PROJECT, Company used to dock their ships in those decks, and sent a Mr. John Couper course of his reply, thanked Mr. Dye that had taken place in the last twelve (then a carpenter in their service) to look very cordially for the way in which he months would equal any ships that could

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENY.] after their interests when ships were had proposed the toast, and the company be built in any part of the world. (Ap...; ** docked. These docks were later leased to for the way in which they had received plause.) He had no hesitation in pro

The proposed $5,000,000 Kwangtung Mr. Couper, and this was the first start it, for he needed all the health and phesying that, the future of the Colony Treasury premium bonds, which are to be to engineering and shipbuilding in strength they could wish him in order would be a bright one, and be bekeyed issued through the Kuomintang Central Hongkong. On 1st July, 1863, the Couper that he might surmount the difficulties of that the present position, due to influences Bank in Canton for the purpose of Dock and the Lockson Dock at Whampos his present taak

over which they had no control, was developing the port of Whampoa and The engineers and shipbuilders had mainly times that would pass. He be other state industries like the Cement was taken over on behalf of the Company, and on 11th October, 1866, the pre- done their very best for the Colony. The lieved that the Colony was destined to Works, Tannery, and others, are to be sent Hongkong and Whampoa Deck engineers had made the levels around and be infinitely greater in the next ten years put on the market next month Mr. Folk Co. was registered, taking over the along the harbour front where they did than any of them dreamed of. (Applause.) Chi Ting, a well-known Canton merchant, original company, so from small begin their daily business and had developed Referring to local shipbuilding, Mr. has been appointed special. Government. ninga what is now one of the finest equip the very wonderful industry of cutting Holyoak said he had seen ships that had agent to float these bonds.

Mr. Sun Fo,. Reconstruction Commis ped shipbuilding and engineering estab-down the hills and throwing them into been built in both yards that went even lishments East of Suez, has come. into the sea, which was so very characteristic beyond the letter of the contract, because sioner Mr. Soong Tze Ven, Trade and being. In 1909, Mr. B. M. Dyer became of Hongkong. They had made the Peak the workmen devoted themselves to the Finance Commissioner Mr. Chan Kung Chief Manager, and it is largely due to district accessible by tram and roads; defeat of the times and the conditions Pok, Agricultural and Labour Commis his untiring energy and foresight that they had built the Eine edifices in which they had to battle with Consequently, signer; and Dr. C. C. Wu, Mayor of they lived and had crected them in every notwithstanding that we had unforeseen Canton have been appointed by the Kowloon Dock is what it is to-day.

In 1908 Taikas Dockyard Co. was estab pook and cranny in which they could conditions to deal with, there had bee Political Commission to be members of lished the work of building the docks be placed. They had built the walls ships launched from both yards that had Whampoa Development Board. and premises having commenced in 1000 docks and railways; and had constructed surpassed anything ever launched in tho Mr. James Reid has been connected with the, telephones and the telegraphe. They previous history of the Colony

He did not speak as an expert, bift an Taikoo Dock from the time it started had stored up the water in this island of working, and now retires as Chief Man- fragrant streams, all for the benent of he did believe that the days through their growing population. They had lit which they were passing were to be of Both of these Docks, Howloon and the hills by electricity, so that one hardly a very short nature, and that, the per Taikoc, are monuments to the untiring knew where the lampe ended and the stars manent progress of the Colony had not[TROM OUR CHINESE CORIZAFONDENT.] energy and foresight of the British, und began. In a word the engineer had made heen interfered with and could not be are examples of what may be done with this barren island beautiful and bealthy; He thought that the principles which One of the Chinese New Year resolu Chinese labour properly handled, for while their colleagues, the shipbuilders, had made it great remained, and would tions in Canton is to put into effect the without the Chinese. these great under bad made Hongkong wealthy. For it make it greater still, and recently proposed surtax on Customs takings could never have been carried was the shipping of Hongkong which gave In conclusion ho thanked them on be duties so as to raise the $4,700,000, local it wealth and importance. He was very half of the guests for the cordial way in currency, required for harbour improve" Then there is another yard on the glad that evening to be in the company which they had drunk the toast of the meat and other immediate conservancy

up-to-date work is of men, whose craft hand made Hongkong visitors/pany then

most be intervated to learn what mehsures, leo done, that of W. B. Bailey & Co., what it was to-day, and to be their Hon. Ltd. It was started by our old friend, President. With all his heart he wished

the Inspector-General of the Maritime (Continued on next Column.):

Customs has to say on the subject.-Ex] Mr. Bailey, in 1887. He was joined in

ager

The company then adjourned to the Institute where an enjoyable, smoking concert took place

A CANTON NEW YEAR RESOLUTION!

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