SHIPPING WORLD

USEFUL ADDRESSES.

For Admiralty and Board of Trade Addresses, See pages 264-266; and for Chambers of Commerce and Shipowners' Associations, See page 267.

Amalgamated Society of Engineers: 110, Peckham Road, S.E.-R. Young, General Secretary.

Associated Chambers of Commerce of the U.K.: Parliament Mansions, Victoria Street, S.W.-R. B. Dunwoody, A.M.Inst.C.E.

Associated Shipwrights' Society: Wilkie Chambers, Eldon Square, Newcastle-on-Tyne.-Alex. Wilkie, M.P., General Secretary. Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange, Ltd.: St. Mary Axe, E.C.J. A. Findlay, Secretary.

Boiler Makers' and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders, United Society of: Lifton House, Newcastle-on-Tyne.-John Hill, General Secretary. British and Foreign Sailors' Society: Passmore Edwards Sailors' Palace, 680, Commercial Road, E.-Rev. E. W. Matthews and Rev. A. Jeffrey, Secretaries.

British Corporation for the Survey and Registry of Shipping: 121, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.-J. Foster King, M.I.N.A., Chief Surveyor.

British Iron Trade Association: Amberley House, Norfolk Street, Strand, W.C.-C. J. Fairfax Scott, M.A., Secretary.

Bureau Veritas.: 155, Fenchurch Street, E.C.-P. L. Breslauer, Secretary.

Customs and Excise Board: Lower Thames Street, E.C.-Sir Laurence N. Guillemard, K.C.B., Chairman; F. S. E. Parry, C.B., C.M.G., Deputy Chairman; Sir R. F. Crawford, K.C.M.G., Sir A. J. Tedder, and N E. Behrens, Commissioners; J. P. Bryne, C.B., I.S.O, and E. C. Cunningham, C.B., Secretaries.

Documentary Committee, Chamber of Shipping: 24, St. Mary Axe, E.C.
-Henry Fernie, Secretary.

General Post Office: St. Martin's-le-Grand, E.C.-Sir A. F. King, K.C.B.,
Secretary.
General Shipowners' Society, London, and Chamber of Shipping of the
U.K. 5, Whittington Avenue, E.C.-Hon. Noel M. Farrer,
Secretary.

Imperial Merchant Service Guild: The Arcade, Lord Street, Liverpool.
-Lieut. J. W. Moore, F.R.G.S., Secretary.

Institute of Marine Engineers: Tower Hill, Minories, E.C.-James Adamson, Hon. Secretary.

Institution of Civil Engineers: Great George Street, S.W.-Dr. J. H. T. Tudsbery, Secretary.

Institution of Electrical Engineers: 92, Victoria Street, S.W.-P. F. Rowell, Secretary.

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland: 39, Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow.-Edward H. Parker, Secretary.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Storey's Gate, S.W.-Edgar Worthington, B.Sc., Secretary.

Institution of Naval Architects: 5, Adelphi Terrace, W.C.-R. W. Dana, M.A., Secretary.

Iron and Steel Institute: 28, Victoria Street, S.W.-George C. Lloyd, Secretary.

Junior Institution of Engineers: 39, Victoria Street, S.W.—A. Clifford Swales, Secretary.

Lloyd's: Royal Exchange, E.C., hours 10 to 4.-Rear-Admiral Edward
F. Inglefield, R.N., Secretary.

Lloyd's Register of Shipping: 71, Fenchurch Street, London, E.C.-
Thomas L. Devitt, Chairman; W.S. Abell, Chief Ship Surveyor; J. T.
Milton, M.Inst.C.E., Chief Engineer Surveyor; Andrew Scott,
Secretary.
London Authority, Port of: 109, Leadenhall Street, E.C.; Office for
River Department, Victoria Embankment, E.C.-Right Hon.
Lord Devonport, Chairman; Right Hon. Lord Ritchie of Dundee,
Vice-Chairman; F. Ayliffe, Secretary; C. R. S. Kirkpatrick,
M.Inst.C.E., Chief Engineer.

London Court of Arbitration: London Chamber of Commerce, 1-2,
Oxford Court, Cannon Street, E.C.-Stanley Machim, Chairman ;
A. Jerrold-Nathan, C.C., Deputy-Chairman; W. J. Eales, Registrar.
London Local Marine Board: Well Street, St. George's, E.-Sir A. A.
Walker, Bart., Secretary.

London Sailors' Home: Dock Street, E., and Gravesend.
Marine Society for the Equipment, Maintenance, and Instruction of
Poor Boys of Good Character for the Royal Navy and Merchant
Service: Clark's Place, Bishopsgate Street, E.C.-Earl of Romney,
President; Lieut. H. T. A. Bosanquet, R.N., Secretary. (Train-
ing Ship Warspite.)

Mercantile Marine Service Association: Head Office, Tower Buildings,
Water Street, Liverpool.-Thos. Scott, Secretary. London
Office, 90, Fenchurch Street, E.C.-Lieut.-Commander G. Threl-
fall, R.N.. (retired).

Meteorological Office: 63, Victoria Street, S.W.-Sir W. N. Shaw, LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., Director and Chairman of Committee; Commander M. W. Campbell Hepworth, C.B., R.N.R., Marine Superintendent.

Meteorological Society, Royal: 70, Victoria Street, S.W.—Major H. G. Lyons, D.Sc., F.R.S., President; Walter W. Bryant, B.A., and Walter Sedgwick, M.A., Secretaries.

Missions to Seamen: 11, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C. Stuart C. Knox, M.A., Secretary.

National Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Children (Incorp. 1904) and Arethusa and CHICHESTER Training Ships: 164, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C.-H. B. Wallen and H. G. Copeland, Secretaries. Navy League: 11, Victoria Street, S.W.-Lieut. Brian L. Hewitt, R.N., Secretary.

Navy Records Society: King's College, London.-Professor Sir J. Knox Laughton, Secretary.

North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders: Bolbec Hall, Westgate Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne.-E. W. Fraser Smith, Secretary and Treasurer.

Royal Alfred Aged Merchant Seamen's Institution: The Home, Belve dere, Kent; Office, 58, Fenchurch Street, E.C.-J. Bailey Walker, Secretary.

Royal Merchant Seamen's Orphanage: Dixon House, Lloyd's Avenue, E.C.-F. W. Rawlinson, F.R.G.S., Secretary.

Royal National Lifeboat Institution: 20, Charing Cross Road, W.C.George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary.

SHIPPING WORLD

Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen: 181 Queen Victoria Street, E.C.-F. H. Wood, Secretary.

Royal Observatory, Greenwich.-Astronomer Royal, Frank Watson Dyson, F.R.S.

Royal Statistical Society: 9, Adelphi Terrace, W.C.-R. H. Rew, G. Udny Yule, and W. H. Clark, C.M.G., Hon Secretaries. Segmen's National Insurance Society: 80, Leman Street, London, E.Sidney H. Godfrey, General Secretary.

Shipping Federation, Ltd.: 28, St. Mary Axe, E.C.-Cuthbert Laws, General Manager.

Shipping World" Offices: Effingham House, Arundel Street, Strand, W.C.

Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society: 26, Suffolk Street, Pall Mall East, S.W.-G. E. Maude, Secretary. Stock Exchange: Throgmorton Street, E.C.-Edward Satterthwaite, C.B., Secretary.

Suez Maritime Canal Company: 3, Whittington Avenue, E.C.

Thames Conservancy: 2 and 3, Norfolk Street, Strand, W.C.-Lord Desborough, K.C.V.O., Chairman.

Trinity House: Trinity Square, Tower Hill, E.C.-H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, Master; Capt. Sir H. Acton Blake, K.C.V.O., Deputy Master; H. G. Willett, Secretary; Sir Thomas Matthews, M.Inst.C.E., Engineer-in-Chief; Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, O.M., F.R.S., Scientific Advisor; W. J. T. Halliwell, Principal of Pilotage Department.

HIGH COMMISSIONERS AND AGENTS-GENERAL FOR THE COLONIES RESIDENT IN LONDON.

COLONIES.

Australia, Common

wealth of

Right Hon. Andrew 72, Victoria St., S.W.
Fisher*

Canada, Dominion of Right Hon. Sir G. H. 17, Victoria St., S.W.

New South Wales

Perley,
M.P.*

K.C.M.G.,

Hon. Charles Gregory
Wade.†

123-125, Cannon St.,

New Zealand, Domin- Hon. Sir W. T. Mac

ion of Queensland

South Africa, The
Union of
South Australia

Tasmania

Victoria

kenzie. K.C,M.G.
Major Sir T. B. Robin

son, K.C.M.G.†
Hon. W. P. Schreiner,
K.C., C.M.G.*
Hon. F. W. Youngt

Hon. Sir John McCall,
M.D., LL.D.†
Right Hon. Sir Peter
McBride.†

E.C. 13, Victoria St., S.W.

Marble Hall, 409-410, Strand, W.C. 72, Victoria St., S.W.

85, Gracechurch St., E.C.

5, Victoria St., S.W.

Melbourne Place,

Strand, W.C

Col. the Hon. Sir J. N. 15, Victoria St., S.W.

Moore, K.C.M.G.†

* High Commissioners.

† Agents General,

HIS MAJESTY'S CONSULAR SERVICE.

LIST OF PLACES AND COUNTRIES WHERE BRITISH CONSULAR OFFICERS RESIDE, WITH

THEIR RESPECTIVE RANKS.

Communications for such officers, unless of a personal nature, should be addressed to The British Minister, The British Consul-General, The British Consul (as the case may be), without the name being given. Addressing a Consular Officer by name occasionally • leads to delay in the delivery of letters, and their detention, owing to the transfer or absence on leave of officers so addressed.

[The names and rank of Consular Officers resident at Ports will be found in th Port Directory of this book, corrected up to the time of going to press.]

Explanation of the abbreviations used: M. & C.G., Minister and Consul-General; C. d'A. and V.C., Chargé d'Affaires and Vice-Consul ; C.G., Consul-General; C., Consul V.C., Vice-Consul; C.A., Consular Agent.