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SHIP CLASSIFICATION.

"AI AT LLOYD'S "

EXPLAINED.

LAWN TENNIS.

YESTERDAY'S

THE HONGKONG

MATCHES.

com-

DAY BY DAY.

ELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1928.

The engagement is announced of Mr. A. E. Lissaman, of the PW. D., to Miss D G. Ranger, of the Asiatic Patroleum Co:

The late Mr. Douglas William Craddock, of Shirtles, Orpington. Kont, shipping agent, formerly of Hongkong, loft £12,674 (not por- sonsity £9,169),

Still favoured with good woather The Hon. Sir Claud Sovern yesterday, many of the presided at a lecture given in the politors of the tonals tournament Helena May Institute yesterday availed themsolves of the oppor evening by Mr. Walter Lang, oftunity and played off a number

of matobos. Lloyd's Regiator, who dealt very

Chief intorost contred in the interestingly with the aubject of the ship classification A1 at match between M.W. Lo and K. Lloyd's," and the history of this Yamasaki in the first round of the Open Singlas, which attracted famous institution.

a large number of spectators. Dealing with the dielinotion Yamasaki put up a stubborn flight A. party of police raiding ash- botwoon Lloyd's and Lloyd's and was frequently applauded for ing junk in Choangahau harbour Register of Shipping, Mr. Lang his good play. He held his own yesterday seized 71 atloks of pointed out that the former was in the first three sets and was dynamite and 54 detonators and designed primarily to facilitato the moating of insurance brokers unfortunate to have lost the took the junkmaster into custody. with the people undertaking the matoh by three suts to one. M.W. Lo, a well known exponent, whoso

rink. He said: At prosont ability needs no recapitulation

Last wook's health. return

there are alightly over 1,000 here, had to work hard to win and shows threo Chinees casos of undorwriting mombers of Lloyd's, had an attack of oramp in the corobro-spinal fever (two fatal), apart from the non-underwriting latter part of the gamo. He played two Chineno non-fatal cason of mombora and subsoribors, and the

a steady and all-round game and scarlet fever, and two deaths Committeo of Lloyd's inquire very carefully into the status and visited the net at avery possible each from antall pox, dipbthoris

mado his and typhoid, all Chinoso, financial responsibility of each opportunity, and

opponent do a lot of running. candidato for admission:

Yesterday he was not playing as

A

member has to deposit with the well as he used to but ho still A brown chow dog, bolonging Committeo, before his oloction, securition to the value of £5,000 player who will have to bo to Ho Chouk of No. 5 Macdonnell Every member, again, is legally reckoned with. The match oponed Road, was taken to Kennedy wore Town yesterday to he kept under very ovenly and there responsible for any ongagements ho may enter into under Lloyd's many long rallies. Lo won this plservation in consequence of set by 6-3. The second sot saw having bitten a postman, who policies to the full extent of all the Japanese to advantage. His called at the house to deliver a his worldly possessions: In other forehand drives and backhand letter. words his liability is unlimited."!

outs gave Lo a lot of trouble and

word moro

Attempting suicide by flinging

Tho facilition afforded by frequently passed him at the not. Lloyd's

extensive The got wont to Yamasaki 6-3. than moro dosks and rooms. The third sat was the best of the herself into the harbour from the There are agents and subagents four. Yamasaki oponad very Praya noar the To Yuen re- to the number of over 1,500 woll and led at 41, but Lo ralliad staurant at West Point, yesterday, thoa Chinose woman was rescued throughout the globe, and by: and managed to socure

next fivo, after somo telegram and wiroloss Lloyd's in

hard by some persons who lived in the

kopt informed every minute of strugglor. The last sot was Lo's vicinity. The woman was taken the day and night of the move-and bo gavo Yamasaki no chance. to the Governmant Civil Hospital. ments of all ocean going ships He ran away with the first five

organ.

I

and of casualties. About 4,000 games, conceding the next two, What might have resulted in a reports of vessels are received but won the eighth and the match. collision occurred when the Lok daily, aro sorted out and published

On the other side of the ground, Bun suddenly swung alongside in Lloyd's List, the official F. Grose and W. H. Choe made the Hangsang in the harbour

Messrs. Gilman & Co. their initial appearance in the

yesterday. This was attributed Bro Lloyd's agents in Hongkong. Championship, mosting D. Allfree to the carrying away of one of The intelligence systom, said the and G. Miskin, to whom they lost the anchors of the buoy to which lecturer, is unparalleled and by throe sote to Ono. Tho

the Lok Sun was moored. great deal of its information is

younger pair were indeed unfort- placed at the disposal of the unate in not goiting set earlier,

A searcher was to-day son- public. It was on Lloyd's that for they lost the first two sots with

ho British Government relied

out much opposition. In the third toncod to three months hard. for the export knowledge that not, however, Gross and Choa got labour, at the Kowloon Magis- enabled it to regulate insurance into shape and ran away at tracy, for theft of an opium pipe risks on a workable basis and to 6.2. The last sot was a good Ile went to mako. of British shipping the struggle, the games wont altor Reclamation Street, whore

man smoking opium, winning weapon of the War.

nately to either sido until eix all found a

As had boon called, whon Allfroo and whom he asked for 1 dollar.

do- Miskin won the next two and the the man had no money, match. For the winners Allfroe fendunt took the pipe instead. played the batter game.

Mr. Whitehouse was for the defonce, whon the cass before Mr. Hamilton,

Several other gamos Word played off, results of which will be found on another page.

THE REGISTER. Mr. Lang continued: "Next we come to Lloyd's Register of Ship. ping, whom I serve, and which is

Yow Man-toun and Ho Ka-lau gouorally acknowledged to be tho premier classification declety, mot their chib mates, H. S. Lee and T. C. Iu, on foreign ground Lloyd's Registor of Shipping and had not much difficulty in along with Lloyd's is the outcome winning by three straight acts. of the parent Edward Lloyd of whom more anon. This Society classifies and surveys ships and machinery for the convenience of merchants, shipowners, andor- writers, shipbuilders and ongin- oors and never from the beginning has it been a profit making con- corn, being worked on a puroly voluntary basis for the banofitofall affected by its operations, and fees are charged only to enable the Society to carry out its functions."

TO-DAY'S GAMES.

The matches fixed for tɔ-day are as follows:-

Open Singles.-M. K. Lo v. N. Trambitsky: W. H. Baume v. Lau Fook-sing,

+ now house in

OUR TYPHOID ENQUIRY..

bo

came

HOW SHANGHAI MIGHT BENEFIT.

The Hongkong Government's to ho asked to investigate the pre- valence of typhoid fevor in the Ilandicap Singita "B."-Capt. Colony. Important facta relativo meoling of the Sanitary Board last W. Bennett (reo. 3/6) v. R. to this disease transpired at a Melville Smith (owe 1/6).

who Handicap Doubles.-S. E. Greon week, when Dr. Koch, and 1. S. Green (owo 2/6) v. J. R.brought up the subject of an in Collis and S. A. Arthur (roc. 15).vestigation, pointed out that thoro Mixed Doublos.-Lieut. Col. was a steady and persistent timno ships and machinery are framed Fitzgerald and Mrs. Cavalier (scr.) prevalence of itin the Colony, and

statistics were published showing) to suit the normal type of vessel, A. Worswick and Mrs. C. Cook although from time to

an improvement, ho considered then as comforting but not a use- ful pleca of work.

Passing on to the matter of classification and Beaworth. ines, He pointed out that the rules for the construction of

HISTORY,

1

(rec, 3,6).

HOCKEY,

The following will represent

The caso as presented by thin siduous med el critic is that

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Temperature changes are rapid during theso spring days. It is not un- usual for the thermometer

to rise 10-16 degrees bo- tween morning and after- noch.

These rapid changes promote the growth of bacterial Germs and spoli food.

The safe way to keep. food staffs Is in a well- refrigerator. Ico

iced

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LOCAL CRICKET.

BOWLING.

O. M. R. W.

Railton Cornaby

6

1 45

...15

1 49

Hollands

3

0 44

Smith...

7

0 41

EWO.

but the buildor is not tied down to build, nor the owner to order, the normal type to get the vessel classified so that insurando may be procured, but Lloyd's Registor must be satisfied that the model of construction and the materials the Hongkong Hockey Club "A" both in Hongkong and elsewhere which the buildor proposes to versus 25th Heavy Battery, R. A.,the incidence of disease has been adopt are equivalent in strength at Happy Valley at 5 o'clock on greatly reduced as a result of Wednesday:-A, Bower, L. H.scientific investigation. In Hong: and efficiency to the normal ships Koczno, E. F. Stewart, L. A. R. kong the principal triumph in this of the same dimensions and proDuncan, W. G. Gorrard. L. M: S. rospoot has been in plaguo cases, portions before the charactor A

Lloyd, J. C. Faors, H. II. Rose, while elsewhere there is the sohiovod in at Lloyd's is assigned.

H. C. Mcnamara, A. R. Kinross wonderful work

Panama the

Canal zono and J. Wodlake (Capt).

which has boon froed from malaria. In fact had that' Passing on to the history of the brganisation, Mr. Lang dealt ex-

whether that great. tensively with his subject, from nows sheet called Lloyd's News work not been undertaken, it is

intol-doubtful

EWO v. A.P.C. the early days when attempts filled with commercial were first made to classify ships-ligones from British ports and enginnering feat could ever have

Tho full scores in the match about fourteen hundred years ago principal European cities of been accomplished. Furthermore The no-kind likely to interest shipown-the Straits Settlements are now

under- embarking on a campaign for the botwaon teams representing Ewo --up to modern times.

merchants and of to-day bears ors, menclaturo

and the A.P.C., played at the in provention of malaria. Incident- ovidong of the Lombard Influence writora, Those lists were in marino underwriting. "Policy" manuscript and probably passed ally Dr. Koch suggested asking Chinese Recreation Club's ground

hand. About for the loan of an oxport from derived from the Italian from hand to "Polizza" and "Average" is from 1726 it was issued as a printed the Rockefeller Instituto to make on Saturday, wore as follows:-** publication. The world famous the investigation la Hongkong. "Avaria".

Towards the end of the six-Lloyd's List, is nolther more nor toonth contury there was a vigo- less than a continuation of the rous body of insurance mon Lloyd's News which has appeared in ovidonco in England; but uninterruptedly for one hundred ward to the Government of the L. A. R. Duncan, b. Cornaby

Colony, and if carried out with M. M. Maas, b. Cornaby actual foundation of the and ninety-four years,

The lecturer traced the origin the zeal which Dr. Koch put luto M. S. Lloyd, o, Austin, b. Inaurance profession dates from the coffee-house conferences of of the term A 1, first apposring his resolution and romarka, a

One of those in 1775-6, and its application vory considerable contribution to H, O. Millet, l.b.w. b. Cornaby 1 modinoval timos.

H. 8. Forster, st. Galloway b. coffee-houses was Lloyd's, first since that period. He concluded the solence of tropical medicine D. S. Fitzgerald, b. Cornaby 15

Although Hongkong can give Smith eltuated in Tower Street, London, bis very informativo paper with an should be the result. and from 1692 onwards in Lom explanation of the tochutoal

Tho proprietor was Dautical torms now commonly to itself a certain isolation not 5. R. Wallor, not out possible for Bhanghai, there is D. S. Green, run out bard Street. a Weishman named Edward met with.

A hoarty vote of thanks was nevertheless a hope that anything D. G. Bruce, b. Railton Lloyd,

With a growing shipping con-accorded Mr. Lang at the con- that can be discovered there may notion to cater for he conceived clusion, tendered by Sir Claud bo of assistanco in combating the

North China Daily News. the idea of binding it to him by Sovern on behalf of the very ravagon of the disease hore.-- publishing three times a wook alappreciative audience.

is

tho

A.P.C.

In principle the Sanitary Board A. W. Ramsey,.o. Galloway,

b. Smith agreed with Dr. Koch, and tho resolution accordingly goes for G. Lee, b. Railton

Smith

Extras

214

H. E. Hollands, run out

W. Brackonridge, b. Loo

W. B. Cornaby, b. Leo

W. W. MacKenzie, b. Leo

19

R. M. Austin, not out...

59

99

W. Galloway, b. Duncan

1

F. A. Pollock, c. Waller, b.

Millett

་་

...45 IN. L. Railton, b. Duncan

W. L. Smith, c. Bruso, b. Loo 14 R. E. MacDougall, not out ...

Extras

(Total for 8 wkts).

... 12

1

2

25

...138

2

0

W. D. Jamie did not bat

BOWLING.

2

0

Loo

11 Lloyd

1 17

Duncan 190 Millett...

...13

3 38

0 12

O. M. R. W. ..16 346

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