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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY.

AUGUST 6.1930.

LUXURY LINER OF Japan, Empress of India and Em- 58 days, 15 hours and 7 minutes on

PACIFIC.

BANQUET AND RECEPTION ON EMPRESS OF JAPAN.

GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.

press of China had a gross regis- the ships and rails of the Company, tered tonnage of 6,000 tons, the statement being greeted with Their next new additions", to, the cheers DNA fleet, the Empress of Russia and, Once again he extended to their Empress of Asia were 16,000 tons. Excellencies and others present, on The latest addition to the fleet, behalf of the company and himself, the new Empress of Japan was a welcome aboard, not only that 28,000 tons gross register. The evening, but in the hope that they steps were thus taken at the rate might have the pleasure of seeing

them aboard often." of 10,000 tona, increase per step.

Early Days.

The s.s. Empress of Japan, the Referring to his own associa magnificent new vessel of the tions with the Canadian Pacific, Canadian Pacific Steamships

Mr. Cameron said that he joined which can truly claim right to the the Canadian Pacific in the early title of the "Pride of the Pacific.' held the admiring interest of summer of 1883. It was during nearly three hundred of Hong-that summer that the railway was being constructed westward on kong's leading business, profes the prairies, at the Average rate sional, legal and" official represen- tatives last night, when, at the of 314 miles per day-a record in Invitation of the Company, they railroad construction that had not attended an inaugural dinner on since been equalled. The prairies the occasion of the liner's maiden were then unsettled, and all material had to be transported voyage from this port.

many miles.

The dinner was succeeded by speeches, during which a retros pective review of the progress of the Company was made, and the toast of the ship and its company was given by His Excellency the Governor,

AN EMPIRE ASSET.

Speech of H.E. the Governor.

His Excellency the Governor said:

On

I rise to propose the toast of the Empress of Japan and the ship's company. I have had a hint that I must be brief and I accept that suggestion with readiness and I assure you that will faithfully abide by it I congratulate the Canadian Pacific on having built; It was conceived on a political such a magnificent ship and road, and brought British Colum sending her out to these waters. bia into the confederation, and had She is entirely in accord with the grown to be one of the largest pr tradition of that great company, a vate owned companios. That suc-

company which we all recognise cess was due to the courage. ability as one of the big assets of the Capt. S. Robinson, C.B.E., and integrity of its executives. presided over the gathering, and These men had recognised not only British Emaire. (Hear, hear and with him were H.E, the Governor their duty to their shareholders Applause). It is a company which (Sir William Peel), Mr. Allan and their employees, but also to operates a transport service with Cameron, H.E the General Canada and the Empire (Ap communications over, I under- stand, two thirds of the circum- Officer Commanding (Maj-General, plaust) Sandilands), Rear-Admiral R.A.S. When the Canadian Pacific conference of the earth... Hill, Sir Joseph Kemp, Sir Shou-struction commenced there son Chow, and the Hon. Mr. E. R.not more than ten small hamlets Hallifax. Others present included between the Ottawa Valley in the members of the Legislative East and the Pacific Tidewaters in Council, Government Officials, re- the West, a distance of nearly 3,000 presentatives of the Legal promiles. It was a dull outlook for fession, the Maxistrates, the traffic for a struggling railway Consuls, the Navy, Army, news-company to face. By reason of it being a pioneer railway in a new

I suppose as a landsman I have papers, and commerce.

country, it therefore necessarily suffered my full share of a long A Welcome.

embarked in subsidiary enterprises sea voyage. In addition to cross- giv. to encourage traffic and settlements.ing the Atlantic and going to Aus Mr. Allan Cameron, after

first great effort was tralla in my early days, I have ing the loyal toast, sald that it Their

the Government. was with much pleasure that he the settling of

free land the prairies and travelled from Malaya to England welcomed. on behalf of the Cana. then their own lands adjacent to afteen times, and I felt that each dian Pacific, those present board the Empress of Japan, the the railway. The result was that voyage was more dreary, than the latest addition to their fleet and it became a great colonization, land

and town site company. the largest and fastest ship ply- Pacific the ing regularly Ocean.

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on

He viewed their presence that evening as an indication of appre ciation of the Company's efforts

'

on

were

Irrigation Project. They built one of the largest irrigation projects on the American continent, the object of which was to enable settlers to make farms on to serve in the carrying of passen- from 40 to 80 acres of land, under gers and cargo, and he was, there an intensive farming system and fore. grateful to them for assist-doser settlement conditions. Other- ing in the inauguration of that wise the land would have been oc- good ship in th trans-Pacific ser-cupied under dry form conditions, namely, a settler to every one or vica.

When the dinner was conceived, two square miles. To convey some it was found that the seating ac-idea of the size of that project, be commodation was not sufficient to need only remark that they had to enable them to have the ladies dig nearly 5,000 miles of ditches.

Another subsidiary company was present, and it was with regret that they were not there. As it the Hotel company. There being was, the seating accommodation 40 capital available in the growing had compelled them to restrict the towns in the West for the construc-

Kipling has written of the liner "she's a lady by the paint upon her face." Canadian Pacific liners to the bave raised their status of Empresses and I am sure you will all agree that they are entirely justified as their liners} are truly regal;

attained that proverbial board- last one. Even as a youth I never ship flirtation and in my later years I merely ate and drank and come to read and slept. I have the conclusion that one of the brighter sides of retirement of a public servant was that I should. not go for any more long sca voyages. I feel however, that I must re-construct my idea as I feel that no passenger can find a voyage on a ship like this in any way dreary. Its table as you have scen to night is excellent; its accom- modation magnificent; its furnish- ing leaves nothing to be desired and offers every form of exercise that you can imagine and in every is fact it provides for

necessary luxury that for the comfort of its passengers. tion of a suitable hotel, the company A week or two ago, I happened to see entered that field, first in Van a picture in Punch of two sailors In the first place, the illustrat-couver, then in the mountains, and discussing a modern liner. One of ed supplements that appeared in from that it had grown to be the the sailors was saying that in a several of Hongkong's newspapers largest hotel company in the world. year or two no person will travel last week robbed him of practical Their President, Mr. Beatty, an-on board a liner unless they had a ly all of his thunder, and he nounced recently that the company cathedral and a dirt-track on board. therefore left all figures" regard- would build a hotel in London, the (Laughter). ing tonnage, engine power, dimen-site and the character of which had sions etc., with the supplements not yet been stated. and other publications; but would say that they had, in that ship,

invitations to the limit.

The Steamships.

A

My own experience of the Cana- dian Pacific is restricted to voyage on their rail at Montreal some twenty years ago and I look forward on my next leave to in-

the last word in furnishing and The subsidiary enterprise, how appliances for safety and com- ever, in which the immediate in-creasing my acquaintance with Che fort. The portion of the ship that terest lies, is the Canadian Pacific Company by travelling on one of the passengers did not see much, Steamships, Ltd. That also, was its ships and I hope it will fall to if any, of, was the engine room, entered into to feed the railway my let to strike the Empress of· the most important part of the company. It started with sailing Japan. ship there, also the latest had ships and chartered vessels, and been installed, and the speed was thence to the "White Empresses" all that was to be desired, namely and from that has grown to be the largest Canadian steamship com- pany, with services on the Atlantic and Pacific, coastal services on both Pacific and Atlantic coasts, and

23 knota.

Depressed Trade,

On behalf of the guests, I thank the Captain and his fellow officers for their hospitality and ask you to drink to their health and success. (Applause).

Captain's Reminiscencer.

I building a ship of that class, lake and river steamers in their Captain S. Robinson, C.B.E., R.D., the Company had indicated their interior waterways. Within the R.N.R, addressing the gathering confidence in the trans-Pacific last few years the Company had said: It is very dificult for me in trade. He did not need to dwell spent nearly 20 million pounds in an assembly like this to know what on the depressed trade conditions steamship construction (Applause). to say. I joined the old Empress both for the shipping companies The Empress of Japan, the first of Japan in 1894 and I see scattered and for the business" men, that of the three original steamships around the various tables to-night exist out here to-day. They view built by the company, was broken numerous faces of friends that I ed that as being only temporary, up a few years ago after having have known since that time. My or a "growing pain" in the general given good service to the company main object in addressing you of development, which they hoped and the public for 30 years: may course is to say how pleased I am. would not last long.

her mantle of service and efficiency to see you all here and particularly The company had endeavoured fall upon this the successor to her to thank your Excellency for your kind interest in coming here to this to keep step with the conditions name (hear, hear) and the requirements of the trans Mention was made by Mr. inaugural dinner. Pacific ever since their first Cameron, that Capt. A. J. Holland I thought, as I was coming out.

first ateamers. The

steamers (Staff-Captain) and Dr. Donaldson what the various ships that we

(Continued on Page 11.) they built viz: the Empress of made a trip around the world in

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