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THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE

REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND

PASSENGER SERVICES

LONDON SERVICE

(Direct).

"LAOMEDOŃ! 13th July · London, Antwerp

& Hamburg --19th July · London, Amsterdam & Antwerp

London, Rotterdam & Hamburg London, Amsterdam & Antwerp London, Amsterdam & Antwerp

MENTOR" TEUCER " 11th Aug. 'TEIRESIAS" 16th Aug. ATREUSTM - 30th Aug.

LIVERPOOL

SERVICE

Direct or via Cohtinental Ports)

** EURYDAMAS "

YANOTSZE

.

* GAMEMNON **

** BURYPYLUS"

10th July Genoa, Barcelona & Liverpool 16th July Willes, Havre, L'pool & G'gow 26th July Liverpool & Glasgow

5th Aug. Ganos, Mars-illes & Liverpool

PACIFIC SERVICE (via Kobe and Yokohama) -

"TYNDARBUS" 6th July 'PROTESILAU3" 3:3 Aug.

** IXION"

NEW

**DEUCALION **

Victoria, Seattle & Vancouver

SERVICE

24th Aug

YORK

(via Suez or Pasama)

. 5th July.

** MENTOR"

19th July

**TEIRESIAS "*

16th Aug.

..

ASCANIUSTM

7th Sept.

vis Suez

ON LOK YUEN CO LTD. THE POPULAR CAFE

LIENG OFFLINE CHOP SUBY

at all hours. Clean, Delicious & Appetising, Once Tried Always Asked For European Menus « fa carte at All Hours Teas, Ice Cream,

Cold Drinks, Cakes, etc., Special Dining Room for dinner parties, accommodating 40 per Book, with Drawing Room at tached.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

THE Steamship

"SHINYO MARU." From SAN FRANCISCO, vin HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS &SHANGHAI,

(Booklet B) in, which are gİYEN some interesting Egyrex' regard- ink the number of entries-of udlours to the British Marchant Service. The figures are given in support of the polloy of the League, that entry of officers Into the servicx be enstrolled and regulated." The following para- graphs appear in the booklet in sondestipa with the subject

we have spent some oonside ablo time in investigating the very meagra (bãi quite suf ficient for the purposs) available statistics on the subject. The last year for which these statistica ware compiled and published by the Board of Trade was 1911, has| as it so happens these figures ke more suitable, for our purposs than thosa of recent years would be by reason of the fact that 191' was a perfectly, normal, average year. The following is the result of our investigations.—

Masters and Mates:-The num- of Masters and Mates in actual The above named Steamer ar-employment in the Foreign Trade

HOMEWARD PASSENGER SERVICE rivad on Thursday the 30th inst, on April 3, 1911, as 15,817 678

for London

for Londoa

for Liverpool

For Freight and all Information Apply to

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AGENTS,

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Bale Ajuste

Mangkang & South China.

USED CARS FOR SALE!

SPECIAL OFFERS.

Dodge, 5 seaters,

Elgin, 5 sealers,..

$1 600 and $2,000. $1,600 and $1,700.

Overland. Model 90, 5 seater...

.51,700.

Willys Knight, 5 seater,

$2,000.

Willys Knight, 7 seater,

.$3,000.

Hudson, 7 seater.

$3,000.

Hudson, 7 seater..

$4,000.

Chandler, 7 sealer,

$3,500.

All these cars are in excellent running order, most of their have been newly painted and overhauled. Suitable for private use or garage service.

THE DRACON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

TELEPHONE 482 & 3552.

24. Des Vœux Road, Central. AGENTS FOR

TELEPHONE. 482 & 3352

Locomobile, Mercer, Chandler, Cleveland, Hudson,

Essex and Dodge cars.

cent, Only of whom employed in sail) The of Scour d Mates'

Consignees of cargo are hereby per notified to present their Bills of ware Lading for countersignature, and number take immedjate delivery from certificates issued by the Band alongside steamer or the Cem-of Trade during that year was

FORGE MASTERS.

OXY-ACETYLENE AND ELECTRIC WELDERS.

MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL

"DRY DOCK-

OF HONGKONG, LIMITED

TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMP

ENGINEERS.

LENGTH 787 FEET LENGTH ON BLOCKS 750 FEET

DEPTH ON CENTRE DE

SILL (HW.OSTJ 34 FT. 6 INS,

-THREE SLIPWAYS

CAPABLE OF HANDLING SHIPS UP

TO 3000 TONS DISPLACEMENT.

ELECTRIC CRANE AT SEA WALL CAPABLE OF

LIFTING 100 TONS AT 70 FEET RADIUS

TEL, ADDRESS:—“TAIROGDOCK" PONGIONS

TELEPHONE 183. ZIE

CALL PLAS: "*" OVER-ANS, PENNAME

pany's Godown, where all cargo 829. These ata the figures. Now certificated 1.111, or seventeen Impeding immediate discharge for the analysis. Assuming the per cent. more than employment will be landed at Consignees risk.sex-going life of an officer to be was available for.

Storage will be assessed on forty years, one fortieth of the cargo remaining undelivered after 7th July, 1921.

All broken.chafed and damaged packages will be landed into the Company's Godown, where same will be examined on Thursday. the 7th July, 1921, at 11 a m.

No claims will be recognised

arrival of steamer.

This may, at first sight, appear total number of officers (345) will to be, relatively, a more favour- require replacement each year | able position than that To this figure1345) must be added in which the navigators were two per cent, of the total number.placed. A moment's reflection, (276) for death and permanent however, will convince anyone disability rate, making 621. This acquainted with the conditions figure, then, represents the num-that it is not one whit batter. It ber of new officers that were re- | is well know that it has bẹẹn,

after the goods have left the quired in 1911 to meet the needs and still is, the practice 'to carry | of the Service; and it will be a greater proportion of uncerti- steamer or Godown, and none noticed that we have made, no ficated officers in the engineering will be entertained if presented allowance for the fact that, althan in the navigating branod. later than three weeks after though tonnage, was increasing. Indeed, under the existing ex- No fire insurance whatever will the total number of ve-s is fail-amination regulations, this pract ing and steam) in the Foreign¦ico is a necessity. Thus, owing Trade was steadily d creasing at to the fact that the entry of these the rate of eighty to ninety per uncertificated officers is uncon Manager.annum. Yet 826 new officers were trolled, the cerdficated engineer manufactured; thirty-three per finds the bottom knocked out of cent more than employment was his market in just the enme de- available for.

grees the navigator.

be effected.

Y. TSUTSUMI.

Hongkong, 30th Jude, 1921.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

From TACOMA via YOKOHAMA, KOBE, MOJI

& SHANGHAI.

THE Company's Steamship

ARABIA MARU " baving arrived from the above of Cargo Consignees ports. are hereby notified that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, whera delivery can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.

Goods not cleared by the 5th

But acother factor existed in July, 1921 will be subject to rent.

Damaged packages must be the case of engineer officers at left in the Godowns for examin-that time (1911) the supplsating of ation by the Consignees repre- sentative and the Company's Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, a: 10 am. on Wednesday and Saturday. All claims must be presented within Ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be re- cognized. No claim will be ad- mitted after the goods have left the Godawas.

No fire insurance whatever will be effected.

Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignatures immediately.

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,

Y. YASUDA.

Manager. Hongkong, 29th June, 1921.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

1912

Second Mate.

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HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN.

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Engineers-In dealing with the There was nothing abnormal case of the engineer officers we about the 1911 figures we have must include the statistics of the quoted. In every way that was Coasting and Home Trade in normal year. The full figures addition to the Foreign Trade for the two following years (the because the same examination last two cothplate ppe-war years), applies to both. trades. The reware they available, would show turos shew that on April 3, 1911, that our conditions were getting the number of engineer officers fa instead of better. Here are the actual employment was 17,589. numbers of new officers created The number of Second Class certi- in those two years. ficates issued by the Board of

Second-Class Engineer. Trade during that year was 1.111. One-fortieth of this number (440)

1270 will require replacement each

1351 year. Add two per cent. of the 1913

Even the most perverted casual- total (352) for death and per- manent disability rate, and weist's reasoning could not justify obtain the figure of 792 as being the state of affairs disclosed by the number of new officers for this analysis of the figures. Yet whom employment was available this damnable system has been going on for generations, and is in that year.

still with us to-day. This is the cause of permanent unemploy ment: this is why your employ- the sailing ship by the steamship, ment carries no guarantee of although nearly complete, was contingity: this is why your salary still going on. This would render has always been insufficient to sion owing to their inability to Even

ankwer to that is: Bosh!to be "reduced to the "rule of necessary, assuming no surplos provide margin: this is why meet the standard required, our of candidates for examination What about the number of three some would still fall existed (a false premise), the your standard of life is nearly

after year,These things adjust themselves. creation of a surplus of officers submerged; and this is why it is

had to relinquish Were the examinations made sa sufficient to meet the expansion more than time that the engines boys who, year of the steamship carrying trade. were reversed, for at the rate have

our standard it on account of their inability to stiff as medicine, and competi going We will not quote here the ex-we haustive calculations by which of life will very soon be driven pass the examinations! At least five, the requisite number of we have arrived at our conclu- beneath the surface altogether.thirty per cent. of the apprentices spprentices would still roll gaily

enrolled on indentares never be-up, and they would have ba mast examinations sions (they would be tedious), but The officers can take it that our throttled, and entry to officers, come certificated officers! These higher standard of intelligence.

As regards the engineering figuras are fairly reliable. An rank in both branches must be statistics, ample surplas for the year 1911 limited to the number the industry available. We do not say that branch, there is no argument all of the thirty per cant. fail to against the establishment of an would have been 160; so that, had can give employment to.

As regards the navigating pass the examinations. We are examination of entry as Think no surplus of officers existed at that time, which was known not branch, if the argument againat aware that a good number of in-Class Engineer. It is a reforem to be the case, no justification this remedy is that it would react dentures are cancelled before "ex-long overdue which would not whatsoever, existed for the crea- unfairly on those boys who, after piretion. But we do not think only solve the present problem, tion of more than 952 engineer four years' Bea-service, would be we are far out in saying that but many other knotty problems officers. Yet the Board of Trade obliged to relinquish the profes-about half of that thirty per cent. which it has hitherto been

fail to pass the Examination. impossible to cope with.

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