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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional vhonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
17
18
SAFER MOTORING.
9
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CO-OPERATION OF THE PEDESTRIAN.
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one.
محمد
smaller, safer, and more efficient Motor-cars are becoming cheaper, day by day. Year by year more pleasures of motoring, and thus the people will be able to afford the number of motorists will steadily and infallibly increase.
New and safer roads have been constructed; others. are being planned; existing reads are being widened and made as "safe" as possible.
According to an article in the The firm of Carburants et Pro- Every one la a potential motorist. "Roadbuilder in Australia," there duits de Synthese has been organ- I imagine that there are faw is some agitation that the Main cesses for the manufacture of ton of being able to afford a motor ised in France to develop pro-people who, if placed in the post- Roads Boards of several States of, motor fuels and similar products car, would prefer to be without the Commonwealth should adopt from native raw materials, coal, unsurfaced cement concrete for and lignite. It has been incor all forms of road construction.porated with a capital stock of This propaganda,, the article increased to 25,000,000 francs by 5,000,000 francs, which can be claims, will seriously injure the a vote of the Board of Directors. cause of good roads throughout Practically all of the coal mining Australia if it is successful. It is concerns in the north-east of admitted that the purpose of the France are said to be interested, article is to oppose this propa- these having an annual production ganda, the writer claiming that of 37,000,000 tons. At the organ other types of road might be more ising meeting M. Cuvelette, gen- useful.:
eral manager of the Lens mines, who aspire to become motorists, If pedestrians, especially those The writer states that there who is chairman of the new com- would study road problems while are three main arguments ad-pany, said the coal industry was they are yet pedestrians: if they vanced in favour of the type of undertaking the highly national would learn when and how they can road he is opposing. These argu- problem of the manufacture of assist motorists by signalling them ments are (1) that the largest motor fuels from raw materials over cross-roads or round a dan- percentage of Federal aid roads in under its control in a spirit of co- gerous corner, they would not only the U.S.A. of types higher than operation with other industrial be performing a most useful ser- water-bound macadam is cement groups. The word monopoly had vice to their fellow-citizens. but concrete; (2) that cement con- been used in connection with the would be laying up a store of use. crete is everlasting; (3). that undertaking, but he wanted it ful knowledge against the time cement concrete is less costly understood that the promoters drivers.
when they themselves become than other forms of road. These realised that difficulties of all arguments he deals with seriatim. kinds were to be overcome, and Figures are invoked to show that if there was to be a mono- that cement concrete roads from poly it would be a monopoly of 53.6 per cent. of those under dis- risks. cussion and bituminous types 35.2 per cent, and that three Ameri-
know something of the difficulties To do this, pedestrians need to which confront the average motor- ist of the present day and of the dangers which beset him in various circumstances.
Every Monday morning
one
can States are responsible for the GERMAN INDUSTRY.reads of the toll of accidents over
high mileage of concrete, Cali- fornia, Illinois and Wisconsin having about 45 per cent. of the concrete mileage. There are other roade than Federal aid roads, and it is claimed that of these 54 per cent. is asphaltic and 5 per cent. concrete. Assuming that there were 40,000 miles of concrete road in U.S.A. at the end of 1925, the writer states that there was nearly three times that mileage of asphalt road construct- ed between 1910 and 1925.
CAR STATISTICS FOR 1925.
In 1925 the German Statistical Bureau started anew the collect- ion of statistics regarding the activities of the German auto- mobile industry, and the figures for that year have been publish- ed recently.
the week-and. The same thing applies only more so-after a Bank Holiday. Pedestrians, I be lieve, could do a good deal. to minimise these occurrences.
I have already noticed with con- siderable personal satisfaction an increasing effort on the part of pedestrians to help the motorist to the best of their ability by signals. Some of the signals are weird and wonderful, it fa true, and one is sometimes at a loss to know what The German automotive indus- information the signaller intends to Nevertheless, it is a tries in 1925 comprised 235 convey. It is claimed that asphaltic undertakings, including 43 motor kindly thought, and the principle is roads are thus popular because cycle works, 90
right. automobile
At present one cannot perhaps cement concrete without resilient works, 73 motor-boat works and place undue reliance on such help. asphaltic wearing surface cannot 29 aircraft and engine works. although it depends to some extent last, and that with such covering They employed together more on the appearance of the signaller. concrete roads will be found to be than 86,000 persons with an One can usually tell, for example, much more expensive than the aggregate annual income of whether he is à sensible kind of usual form of asphaltic surface 178,000,000 marks. The value of man who is really out to help, road. In England, it is claimed, raw materials and semi-finished whether he is the fussy type of man the primary use of cement con- and finished products used in the whose passion in life is to inter- crete is in the foundation of industry amounted to 384,000,000 fere in other people's business, or roads.
marks. Of this 87 per cent. was whether he is the kind of youth The longevity of cement con- used by the automobile industry, who will blissfully wave one over crete ronds is considered by the 6 per cent. in the motor-cycle in- see some "speeding," entirely re- a cross-road because he wants to writer to the exaggerated by ad-dustry and the remainder in the gardless of the fact that there may
The total probe danger from unseen traffic. vocates of that type: He quotes other branches. an inspection made in Canada and duction had a value of 771,000,000 So it does not do to rely too much the United States of five year old marks. The share of the auto on these signals at present, and concrete roads. This inspection mobile industry was 86 per cent, while acknowledging the kindly showed that heavy traffic concrete that of the aircraft and engine thought of the signaller when he roads up to an age of nine years industry 7 per cent., and that of waves me round a corner which is could safely be surfaced with the motor-boat industry only 1 visible to him and not to me, I always prepare to meet another car asphaltic mixtures, but that be per cent. yond that age their utility as Production in the automotive or even a charabane or a hoy cart. In many cases the signal has been foundations for asphalt wearing industries included 38,988 pas decidedly useful; on other occa- surface was extremely doubtful. senger cars, 940 motor buses, sions one's caution proves to be Light traffic roads could be safe-9,364 trucks and delivery wag-well founded. ly covered with asphalt up to an gons, 7,142 special vehicles, What we motorists ask is that the age of 18 years. The utmost 18,591 chassis, 43,733 motor- limit of usefulness would be from cycles, 7,197 small motor-cycles 13 to 15 years. English investi- (pedal cycles with auxiliary en- gations were claimed to show a gine), and 15,068 engines. useful life of five years after which it was necessary to impose an asphalt surface.
A committee of inquiry
pedestrian should study carefully
the orthodox road signals so that his efforts may be readily under-.. stood and acted on. In this way they will not only help other people to avoid accidents, but will benefit greatly by their experience when they themselves come to drive a
car.
The writer says in conclusion By the South Rhodesian Bud. that for city streets the element get statement, which was pre-
I look forward to the day when of suitability exerts a greater in sented recently, preference of 50
one will be able to act as readily. fluence in the selection of types cent, on motor-vehicles and spare on the signal of the average pedes than it does in the case of country parts manufactured in Great Bri-trian as one does now on the signal roads and that for that reason tain and Ireland. will be allowed, of a policeman or scout. engineers in Australia are accept the new tariff rate being 20 per But it is not fair to ask the non- ing the results of experience else- cent, on foreign and 10 per cent. motoring public to co-operate with where and covering streets with on British motor vehicles.
motorists if the latter do not them- Aelves co-operate. It must be a | strong foundations of cement concrete. A cost analysis for
ap-"fifty-fifty" business. Too many streets of this type, it is claimed, pointed last year by the Japanese are motorists they have prior claim motorists think. that because they would show a substantial saving Government has made a report in on the roads at all times; others in favour of the asphalt surfaced which several measures are sugare unmannerly enough to treat road with concrete foundation gested to promote the develop with scorn the well-meaning assis- over the unsurfaced cement con-ment of an automobile industry tance of those on foot, Politeness crete road.
In Japan. These include an in- is just as cheap to motorists as it The accompanying illustrations crease in import duties, relief is to the rest of the community- show the first and last stages of from taxation of firms entering Lord Cottenham in "Daily Ex- an asphalt surface road construct- the industry, preference given to press.” ed by the Victorian Country Japanese products by Government Roads Board. This road consists departments, and the Army, and of three feet of Portland cement production premiums, It is concrete shoulders between which likely that the financial crisis is lald 15 feet of roadway, and which has set In'in Japan in the nine inches of consolidated 2% meantime will interfere with the inch metal, on which is placed carrying out of these plans, even 2in. asphaltic concrete mid if it should be favoured by the sheet asphalt wearing surface. Government.i
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(abbr.)
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(The solution of the anave cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.) HONGKONG HEIGHTS.
For the information of visitors the following list of some of the Mainland is published: highest points on the Island and
Island. Victoria Peak Signal Station
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The Eyrle Peak Hotel
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Taikoo Sanatorium Mt. Davis ... Bowen Rd. (filterbeds)
Mainland.
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LEVEN AD
237
ASIA GAS
Taimoshan.*.* Kowloon Peak .......
8124
1971.
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