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· THE ・ HONGKONG

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HARVEST-TIME

REALLY hardbitten akipper who has just steamed into port, with top shot catch of horring and has found the market "gone doad" on him in emphatically not the man to whom you talk of his "historie background" or of the romance of tho sen.

For him, his job is gruelling hard work with a lot of discom- fort and some real danger: but worse than these, he is not only pitted against his old enemies, ca'and weather; he is liable to astab in the back from-

economies.

Twenty-Ove years' close ac- quaintanceship with herring fishermen and their wives han taught me that they are not un- aware of this amazing background to the "great nulumn Naking " of Yarmouth and LowestofL,

There is some 900 years of con- tinuous, living history during which circumstance and to a cer- tain degreo latermarringe have ace and kept them almost as n race apart.-thr raw material of maritime strength, specially bred in the sea.

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UT since the war the longer view of history has been obliterated by the cruel pres- mre of economic disorder. The Almost astronomical Agures of me three thousand million-her- itu lauded in the peak year, 1013. fropped to one third in the worst year. 1931. But far more signif- Ant, the vital foreign market, upon which 80 per cent. of the tata! xalch WIEC concrafted, stamped sirkeningly

doad

FUL

remain tatistics leg less there can be put into The aid of the landsman (who ($ never sweated and cursed stormy autumn :hroughout. guch with fen nties of nets to Maud in

potue vivid klea of the men and the bouls who are the Herring material of the raw Fishing puttctit Llant Troni October 12 onwards this year gives us the day-lo-day progress of the fishing.

First, to get an idea of the im- mensity of the busine, vist the herring fisherman on board his itter: better, co nut for a briel trip.

sexa,

The stocky Bttle steamer liter- Ally stubs her nase on the racing Smoke stack far back, she appears to squat in the trough of each succeeding wave and take the impact on her rather higli, up- Hned nose. Forward of the funnel , the small wheelhouse, below it the "lid" of the hold and right forward the causlan.

The after-calm, the "best bed- zoom" that houses the seniors of The tiny crew of ten. Is reached mast both galley and engine-room doorway. My friendly skipper, on

-To-day's Thought. ------- THEY brave the dangers of

the deep To find our breakfast while we

sleep,

QUINCY.

CONSIGNEES NOTICES.

SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES

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The Steamship,

"FELIX ROUSSEL” No. 26 A/30.

Bringing Cargo from Marseilles etc., arrived Hongkong on Fridny. 30th October, 1930.

Consignees are hereby informed What their goods with the excepti of Opium, Treasure and Valuables re being landed and stared into the Cindown of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Gadown Co., Ltd., Kow- Inon, whence

obtained immediately may

be

after landing, All claims must be sent in to me n or before 10th Novem

or they will not be

1936.

Damaged Packages will be examin ed by the Company's Surveyor Messrs: Goddard and Douglas in the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 m. on Thursday, 5th November, 1936.

Cousignces nist have a Revenue Omcer in attendance when any duti- able goods are examined by the Company's Surveyors.

No Fire Insuranco will be effected. by us in any case whatever.

R. OHL. Agent.

Hongkong, 30th October, 1930.

CANTON AGENTS

for

Othe

Hongkong Telegraph.

WM. FARMER & Co.

Victoria. Hotel Building. Shameen, Canton. Tel, 13501.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1936.

with the HERRING

by Joari

Woollcombe

my first voyage of exploration, was tolerantly interested to see what an outsider, and one who, at best, boasted about neroplane experi- ence, would make of this sterner test.

The fact that he has known me since infancy, and still knows me as "gel-Joan," nude things caster when, almost defeated by the com- bined stench of fish, oll, far and briae. I announced my pressing need for fresh air, as we nat talking in his cabin

Almost entirely led with table, bunks, radio and stores, this cabin is apparently quite derokl of ven- Illation.

A

BLONDE Kinni, aged 18. talking of his early experi- ence. toki me: You are seasick and homesick and you have to get over

and both,

Your no one mollyroddies you. hands get raw with the ropes; but you have to carry on, or you'll never stand it...

And how old were you when you started?"

"Fourteen, Ma'am-when I left school.

As I came up on deck, a young- -ster of that age.or..so swayed in. front of the galley stove.

The technicalities of the actual fishing' are interesting. The nauti- cal school and the Board of Trade examinations test the acquired

Triestina

Lloyd

No romance of the sea" for them, but hard grualling work.

knowledge of the embryo skipper or his mate, but it is that vital in- herited knowledge, backed by the flaherman's fair, that make what. we call the "lucky skipper.**

How do you know when, and where, to go out?"

The six-foot of weather-beaten humanity, clad in a strange mis- cellany of sweaters and oilskins, has to stop and think.

T

STREN 11 transpired that moon and lides inust be just right as they are these first two weeks of October), that water must have turned milky showing the presence of the herring: that the appearance of whales and guls make the skipper decide to go oui,

Ile, and perhaps a number of drifters like-minded, steam out and shoot" their nets in rotu- tion. Most valuable of their gear are these 100 or so nets; most vul- nerable and so uninsurable, except In case of total lose of the whole vessel.

The reason for the name "drifter" becomes apparent when the detalls of the actual shing are described.

Herring swim near the surface of the water. Each delfter, there- fore, tralls some two miles of dell- cate nets, strung together inuch as are coaches of a train, or a series „ol hanging curtains.

The delfter theu-drifts. The herring swim across the net bar- rter, and are caught by the gills, When be judges it suitable the skipper orders this tremendous

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trail of nets, now weighted by lis, burden, to be hauled in.

This takes some four hours-as the fish are "scudded" of shaken free of the nel and "in bad weather not very pleasant," says the skipper, briefly,

The catch may be a "top shot" of many thousanda; it may be just few fish; the night may have been light and romantic; or Dis- It may be brutal weather. comfort, there will be: but this turns to real danger for each man: for once overboard and weighted by sea boots, his chance is neglig- ible,

Intered. So small.

that Jew Ashermen trouble to learn to swim. But the crisis as far as his livel- hood is concerned comes when th drifter gets back to port-the fear of too much supply. too littl demand.

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NTIL this year.. remember. the herring faberman had nejther regular wage nor if he was out of work) the" dole." The age-long custom of payments and division of profts has been tech- nleatly adapted to give him the security of unemployment insur ance and workman's compensa- tion,

both of which he often urgently needs.

Thus it happens, all too often. that the fisherman returns hone -at-the-end-of-the- season, -Christ-.. mas time, with next to nothing on which to keep himself, andt his family until the next season starts' with the Northern fishing in May or June. He may go trawling (deep sea fishing) in the interval. ho can get a job; but, theoretically, he depends on his herring flahing.

ROUND ABOUT by

T

The Showman

O the more esoteric branches

of study, such as Pure Matho- matics, there must be added,

It we are to keep up with the times, that of Pure Tol.

For example, one of our clever young men has been writing about money, Ho thinks that a wind- fall of £500 would mean happiness to nine out of ten of us (what about the tenth?) but £1,000,000, or £100,000, to a man who is earning, say, £500 a year, spells responsibility, anxiety, fear." I wish I knew why the clever young writers of to-day are so nervy and xo frightened of the world. They seem of a twillor to such an extent that it would be cruel to shove butterens under their china, even in fu

Shall I assure this young man, ou your

that bohal,

responsibly, anxiety and fear are the last emotions that a present of £1,000,000 would arouse?

Or should be not be allowed to know that there are so many stupid proplo About?

Fair Play for Men

MEN resent all these warnings to

girls about prospective husbanda, The Intest 13 based on a man's hand- Ang of a motor-car-if he does this or that, he is this or that sort of man, Observe him carefully, and bewaret There is too much of that..

We men are perfect, aren't we? The need is not for Uns about us, but for tips about women.

Test women on their reactions to Choose a wet broken appointments,

evening: tell one you will meet her at hall-past six. Then do not turn un until half-past seven. Listen carefully to what she kaya Observe her d meanoar.

She may smile sweetly and say. "Please don't begin to apologise, be cutie I know you must have had something very important to do. I felt - proud waiting for you, al so happy."

If she does. then you ture found a woman whom it may be be worth while moulding into the perfect wije,

Irrelevance

(NE of my revered contemporarica annoimees its possession of two reporters-on Ace reporter and at lea Importer.

At do hope that the Ace reportah has a nafce taime at his Ace Forkalı Job.

And I'd like ter fink as the Ice re porter-eat art a card!-lives up ter is fime.

A frum. At aven's got mixed up inike.

POOR FISH

MESSAGE has been shed round We world from Massachusetts that Mrs. Edith Longo' is suing for divorce brenuse Mr. Longo, an enthusi astle angler, pinched her three pet goldfish for bait,

NICEKAGO js The scading of this eminently Justified." said an American when you consider its legal authority. moral, which la-why marry for gold- fish when you can buy them? More Progress

"In the old days a man took a house and settled down. Intending to live there till his beard was long, white and wavy."

But nowadays we waive the beard. Also few authors can create with credibility so strained an atmosphere that in the opening pages of this book,"

But any of our. International gab blers could, just with one rumour.

Wags' Corner-

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