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SHIPPING.
COLD STORAGE.
A VITAL ECONOMIC FACTOR.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
A SINGAPORE STORY.
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ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE.
GOVERNOR OPENS NEW CLASS ROOMS.
GARDENING NOTES.
The following notes were written for the Hongkong Horticultural Society, by Mr. H. Green, Surperitendent of the Botanical and Forestry Depart
Flowers-Chinese Balsam, Giaot Sunflower, French Marigold, African
Tagetes. Marigold, Sweet Alyssum, Verbena,
Yesterday evening HE. the Goverment:-
The following vegetable and dower nor Sir R. E. Stubbs KCMG), WORK FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER. St. Joseph's seeds should be sown in pans under formally opened the new class rooms that have been added College. Accompanying the Governor shelter in readiness for putting out Vegetables Celery, Lettuce, To- were Lady Stubbs and H.E.'s private In beds or in pots→→→ secretary. Mr. Eric Rice and amongst others present were:-Bishop Pazzoni, maro, Marrow. P. H. Holyoak and Mrs. Holyoak, the the R. Father Robert, the Hon. Mr.
a E. A. Ing) Prof. Middleton Smith,
The greatest care should be taken Direct of Education (the Hon. Mr.
The former may be easily the Insetor of English Schools (Mr. E. Raks), Mr. and Mrs. G. de P. to keep ants and mice from the seed avoided by placing the seed pan on Martin, Mrs. Perkins and Mr. W. pans.
The fisitars first assembled in the a flower pot which stands in a pan of Bro. water; the latter by placing a sheet buildings Jackson
Seeds of any kind sown in pans Marcian, the head of the teaching of glass over the seed pan. existing
Brother Marcian extended a hearty should be watered for the first time by staff opened the proceedings, welcome to the visitors, whose preplacing the pan in a shallow bank or water does not flow over the edge of sence, he said, was evidence of the vessel of water; at the same time
the pan. interest they took in the important care should be taken to see that the work of popular education. Joseph's College had passed through a crisis) which, he hoped, would be only a step on its path of further progress.
age of lightness in weight and adaptability to all constructional requirements. It can be simply ren- dered proof against vermin, rot and moisture. Evidence has been pro- duced both in England and abroad that granulated cork, solidified inta board form is the best material for
We are not up against" the local The cold storage industry, like cold storage insulation. Cork slabs! several of our key industries, may become on the market in two forms Merchant Service Guild in the slightest said to have beer advantageously (1) Impregnated cork, board made degree, and we do not propose to sit granules in judgment upon any of its actings, cork the by binding affected by the abnormal circum
(2) says the Straits Times. We do know, pitch
bitumen. or stances and conditions of the war with period; inasmuch as we have realised A ranch superior article obtained by however, that a man may fall under that the science of food preservation solidifying cork by means of the the disfavour of a trade unionwkhost the union has hitherto not received the atter natural binding resins contained in breaking any of the ten command tion it deserves. While in the United the substance. The latter is the basic ments, and that if States for many years prior to 1914 principle of the manufacturing pro is strong enough it can deprive the questions of refrigeration and cess which is in operation at one of him of the power to
actively the largest cork works in the king living at the business in which he has spent his life. A mariner who, food preservation studied, as may be judged from the dom.
This company, which is established, we understand, holds a Captain's volume, of the American technical literature on these subjects, we in Canning Town, London, kas inau- certificats, was a founder member of waited till the time when we were gurated a new era in the thermal the Guild, but he has fallen out with As a result no one dare appoint him thrown back to a large extent on our insulation industry in the country. it, and has been struck off the list. own resources and were caled upon AL rule of thumb methods have been to exercise every effort in the preser- thrown overboard, and the business as a ship's officer-no member of the vation of our essential food supplies.is conducted on sound scientific lines. Guild will consent to sail with an The fact has been recorded that Nothing has been spared to bring all expelled member. So Mr.is although England possessed many plant and machinery thoroughly stranded, and, as be has nothing to one up to date. Every possible labour de with planting, the unemployed capable of freezing meat until the saving devise has been called into funds can give him no help. He time of about the climax of the war. service. A healthy atmosphere is has a passport to Hongkong, and he when an existing cold storage ware- maintained for a staff of contented states that he is certain of employ ment if he can get there, but he has house was equipped with the reces workmen. sary refrigeration plant in anticipation
no money, and the passage will cost of an emergency necessitating the
him about $60. If sympathisers will is spent on the purchase of a ticket. freezing of hame killed meat to be
raise that amount we will see that it There is sure to be another side to sent to France for our troops in the event of our overseas supplies being cut off. Happily the circumstance
this story.
did not arise.
cold stores there was not
All these factors com- bined with a scheme of mass produc tion result in the manufacture of the well-known "Titan" cork slabs and pine sections.
where
St.
as representing the
The following seeds may be soWD Vegetables-Radish, Chinese Cab in beds in open ground bage, Spinach, Beetroot, Carrot, English Cabbage, Kohl Rabi, Cauli
flower.
To prevent the seeds being eaten by ants an edging of thin boarding, well tarred, should be placed round each bed.
The work needed the sympathy and practical help of the Excellency. public and they were thankful to His Government for the substantial grant to the building fund, and to the In the process of manufacture the
donors who had so generously con cork is cleansed from all foreign
He might add that the
A very light layer of straw laid on matter and then completely sterilised
Who would have thought that tributed.
each bed after seeds are sown will The importance of the cold storage and rendered rot pront during the trade cannot be overestimated stage of solidification through the the insignificant palm leaf fan selling donation list was not yet closed, as if we remember that most of our natural binding agency of the resins at from three to ter cents apiece, the bills were not all paid, and they save the young seedlings from being The following cuttings may be supplies are im-exuded by the cork during its pro culd yield such a handsome income would be glad to receive further con: burnt up by the mid-day sun.
Wui as tributions. Bro. Marcian mentioned:
pans well- year! exclaims the that the College still needed a recrea taken and put in ported and have to be carried gress through a carefully controlled to the district of Sau
half containing drained According then hot air drying oven. In this way $500,000 a
totion and assembly hall, and a labors. of miles
of black and one quarter each district of tory for elementary science. the stored before being distributed the maximum insulating value of Canton
our markets in perfectly fit con- cork is secured free from the dis-investigation, dition. Commencing with the crude advantages inherent in losse ma-Sun Wai where palm leaf fans are difficult question was that of staffing and leaf scil. All should be sheltered manufactured, exports more than The University and the business men from heavy rain and hot sun:--Helio- appliances afforded by the use of terials.
An important branch of insulaters half a million dollars worth of these of the Colony expected that boys sent trepe. Eranthemum, Salvia, and Mar fans annually, affording employment to them would be well prepared for selves voluntarily to this work of to reore than 20,000 women and their work. The Brothers gave them. education and did not look for big children.
essential food
thousands
on
freazing mixtures. cargo
same order of magnitude.
problems do exist
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and
the first
the
Times.
sides avoiding the consequent delay in the loading and unloading of perishable cargoes,
The temperature of a cargo in a refrigerated ships' hold may have to be reduced to 20 deg. to 30 deg. Fah. To maintain this atmosphere white the temperature of the exterior may reach 110 deg. Fah. for a journey of thousands of miles calls for reaily efficient and faultless Upon the same vital factor depends the successful conveyance of the cargo to its destination in wholesome condition to be eventually sold to the millions of consumers at a price which will be governed by the stern law of supply and demand.
fasulation.
"INDO MARU" OUT OF DOCK,
EXTENSIVE, REPAIRS SATISFACTORILY
COMPLETED.
A
guerite
sand
Bulbs of Lilium longiforum may be planted out in beds or potted.
Geraniums should be repotted but
teachers were on an adequate scale, Important: All seeds should be salaries, but, unless the salaries of still kept in shelter in wet weather. capable men would not generally kept in airtight tins and a small quan speaking, be attracted to the profes-tity of pepper put in each tin and well sion and education would suffer. He shaken up among the seeds, this will was confident that the Government prevent the destruction of seeds by and the public would appreciate this minute Insects which often arrive in fact and help the College substantial the seed packets. ly. The foundation was being laid of the success of the Colony depended, there of work on which a great deal Brother Marcian then requested His Excellency to declare the new
building open.
The company then adjourned to the playground where, at the entrance was presented with a silver key. to the new building, the Governor
HE The Governor said: It is always a pleasure to come to S. Joseph's and see the scool and th recognition of the excellent wor boys, and, in that way, to show which has been done by the school and by the Christian Brothers here
Spores of Adiantums (Maiden-hair the simple method of taking a leaf Fern) may now be sown in pots by bearing ripe spores and laying it layer of soil should be sterilised by back downward on the soil, the top baking it until black and a small sheet of glass should be placed over the pot until 10 days after seeds bave the top of each pot. Do not water
been scwn.
Corms of Freesia may now be potted.
Plant
Celery and out young Tomatoes when former are about 3 inches and the latter about 6 inches
In height.
Pianos in Paris are to be taxed,
after all, at the rate of 30frs. (normal,
for a grand piano. 151 4.) for an upright and 60frs-
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
6. $21.
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$1.25 per lb.
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of frozen meat arrived is the manufacture of a hard wear soundly from Australia about 40 ing, glossy facing composition years ago. With the development of "Insulite "---for the cork insulation economic precesses of freezing the then in situ. This material combin quantity of frozen produce carried ed the properties of wood and stone overseas increased rapidly, so that we in a remarkable degree; possessing find that during last year the quantity considerable elasticity, low heat con of imported refrigerated meat productivity, and being unaffected by duce amounted to 16 million cats. frost or moisture, brine or salt water. having a value of about £76,000,000. It is pre-eminently reproof and rot la addition we have to add vast and vermin proof, presents a white quantities of other food articles.com- glossy appearance, washable with prising fruit, fish, game and dairy hot or cold water and even steam produce, running into Egures of the and wire brushes. It eliminates the use of white paints, and gives
cold a
store that
touch As was observed above, the to scientific handling of the gumerous of sanitation and cleanliness which is problems of cold storage has only so much desired, in the handling of recently been commenced. That such food. This material is a most valu practical able adjunct to the insulation which difficulties and not merely academic it renders a rigid, enduring structure. questions will be apparent to even Insulaters' products have been stand the ordinary layman, if we recall the ardised by the National Physical frozen meat Laboratory, and have been certified fact that imported although it is perfectly fresh, does as possessing the maximum insulating not, however, possess the same co-efficients consistent with their wholesome taste as home-killed meat. general valuable properties.
A very important department of Here we are confronted by intricate
Early on the morning of August biological and chemical problems inselaters is its research laboratory bearing upon the processes of freez und the direction of a chemist of 27, the "Indo Maru* left the King's ing and cold storage temperature, hizh scientific standing. Here is con Dock, Keppal Harbour, after undergo- The answer to these and other ducted the scientific control of the ing thorough repairs to extensive cognate questions are being actively works processes, and in addition damage caused by a collision" end on" with the "Yokohama Maru," of sought by the Food Investigation | special attention is naid to Board, which was established in 1918 numerous questions arising in con Tohor Point, shortly after midnight by the Department of Scientific and nection with the requirements of on July 17. The "Yokohama Mat
The problems dealt with had to be thoroughly overhauled at Industrial Research. Another funda- clients. mental subject that is receiving include determination of the minimum Kepple Harbour before resuming her required for different voyage and when she came out of special study by the Board is the insulation
refrigerating installations, als: the dock after being repaired in every question of thermal insulation.
The maintenance of low tempera-study of the details of erection of respect to the entire satisfaction of
representative ture is rather a delicate operation, insulation to combine the minimum Lloyd's the cost of which depends upon the of cost with maximum of emciency classification, and that of her owners. the "Indo Maru," some six weeks ago. The and durability. efficiency of the insulation.
The interest of insulaters in cold took her place. Night and day the money spent on the latter should be
storage is not limited to the supply Singapore Harbour Beard have had of insulation, but extends to the com- their staff constantly working on her plete erection of the same. Whether and the expedition with which the China, because the importance of can be converted into solid cash is known for years that players are the work be in a warehouse, or a ship repairs of a considerable magnitude education here is not only local. We a matter on which I should, at the bought and sold by rival managers in
One case of plague, Chinese, was- present moment, hesitate to express the open market, and contract to play or other mobile vehicle, no hard and were effected can be guaged to some
an opinion. We have recognised for New York or Chicago in a way fast rules are followed as to the plans extent when it is mentioned that the
Last week four fatal yesterday. of erection, but the requirements of vessel was cut through the foc'sletion of China and that the foundations the work of the College by making a which would not be possible in English reported during the 48 hours ended each owner are carefully considered head, upper deck, main deck, collision being laid now in Hongkong are considerable grant to the new build county cricket, yet they were not as so that the smallest possible space bulkhead, and the chain locker bound to form the complete structure ing and I gather from the Director prepared for the revelations
grants, paid recently, have been con- law that the famous White Sox team cholera, and one non-fatal case of hair telt, cork, slags, charcoal, and weight shall be occupied by the bulkhead to the keel which necessit in the education of China in future of Education that the capitation being made in a Chicago court of cases of infinenza, one fatal case of
ated cutting out the shell plates on years, &c. all of which owe their power to insulation. In the case of ships and
It is impossible to exaggerate, siderably in excess of those in the conspired to "throw the world's Paratyphoid fever, all Chloeae, were their cellular structure; but from a other vehicles great attention is paid one side of the ship from the stem to practical standpoint the most valuable to the stress and strain exerted dar aft of No. 1 hatch, a matter of abouttherefore, the importance and value past. I hope we may be able to do championship series in 1919 to reported, also one tase of diptheria, of the work done by such persons even more in the future than in the Cincinnati for £20,000. Bill Burns, the Danish, and another of enteric fever, and efficient material is cork. In the ing motion, and every safeguard em- 60 feet. Besides this there was much
been to ployed to avoid injury to the insulinternal work to be done. The as the directors and officers of St. past though, as you are aware, the famous player, who turned State evid gave 2 dramatic past the practice has
David. Zeesler (of pack ation. When dealing with buildings repairs effected constitute another Joseph's College, and similar institu- Government has many claims on ence on a promise of immunity from loose material
walls the insulation is, whenever possible, creditable record for the Harbour ons, and I only emphasise and such income as it possesses, and its prosecution.
be was again the principal Desmoines) and himself as engineers chamber. incorporated as a part of the structure Board in general and for their Keppel endorse what Brother Marcian has endeavours to increase that income account of the alleged conspiracy Philadelphia).
said as to the desirability of the have not always met with the favour'} and
we had hoped they would receive witness. Burns seemed very nervous, of the plot and described fully how The packing of loose materials is both in ceilings and partition walls, there Harbour staff in particular.
community, the old bays, and the inefficient and unenduring. frequent by eliminating considerable cost of
renewals being brickwork and timber.
TREATMENT FOR DYSENTERY. merchants, who profit by the training from the general public. I have and spoke in a low voice. With matches were to be played and lost supervision and
Thus have insulaters evolved a HAMBERLAIN'S Colic and Diarrb- of the old boys, coming to the assist much pleasure in declaring this new the Court's permission he took off in "made to order" contests. White necessary in the case of mobile
and most people present followed for distribution amongst the players Bets were system of insulation which bus bedes Rextudy followed by a dose of asce et St. Joseph's and enable them building open and wish all success in his coat because of the extreme heat. Sax were to lose five games, receiving structures, such as ships, road and
castor Lil will effectually care the to carry on and extend the admirable the future.
The visitors then inspected the his example. Burns mentioned Arwold | £4,000 after each match.
said Burns, "to cover all rail vehicles and even in stationary come famous in the cold storage
trade for its permanency. The value stubborn cases of dysentery. It is buildings.
(a former boxer), Billy Maharg (of | requirements." of such a system cannot be exagger- especially good for summer diarrhee work they have done in the past. I
is entirely in sympathy with St. freshment before departure. ated, considering the great saving in in children. For sale by all Chemistr can assure you that the Government building and were entertained to re- Rothstein (of New York), Abe Arter cat, repairs and renewals it effects, be. and Storekeepers,
contracters.
a first cost only if the best materials are employed and erected by expert Whatever the cost may be, it will be justified if a permanent insulation is erected requiring na renewal and thus representing but a small annual charge.
Several materials are keen a good thermal insulators, sich
LISC
ing between
of
25 a double
the the refrigerated
Cork is the only material which fe at once one of the best heat insula tors and possesses the great advant
YOU'RE NOT GOIN' TO GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE - THE PLUMBERS ARE COMING TO TAKE
THIS BATH-TUB-OUT AND INSTALL
A NEW ONE AND YOUVE GOT TO)
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and elsewhere. It is a special pleasure to come here to-day and have the opportunity of opening this magni ficent building, the result of which, ! as sure, will be to improve it that is possible-the standard of education
any case, to make the life of the given by St. Joseph's College, and, in educationalists more pleasant than it !
"It seems incredible," said the has been in the rather cramped quarters of the old German Club. I Willesden magistrate when a mother bave been presented with a beautiful in-law told him that she had not symbol with which I propose shortly spoken to her daughter's husband for to open the door of the new building, two years, although she lived in the It is very fitting that on an occasion same house with him. like this the symbol should be a key
key to a new building represents the key to new learning and the
future, both of Hongkong and of Joseph's: but how far that sympathy
have to remember that education in Hongkong is refected in the educa
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WE'LL BE BACK,
LATER WITH THE
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Governor Chen Chinng-ming has issued orders that the wireless at Wuchow be completed at once. Construction work on the station has therefore been resumed. Governor Chen also expects to have more wireless stations erected in different cities in Kwangtung. The placra will include Shiuhing, Yeungkong and Kochow.
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