TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1931.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
DRAWNWORK & EMBROIDERIES
SWATOW TRADING CO.
Established 1910, MANUFACTURERS OF
Swatow Drawn Work'
AND
ART EMBROIDERIES
ANNOUNCE
The opening of a branch store At Gloucester Building Arcade
shortly.
Watch this, space for further Announcements.
SWATOW TRADING CO.
HEAD OFFICE:-6 Pedder St. Opposite Hong Kong Hotel 'Phone 23303.
ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
The Latest In Gentlemen's Outätting
AT PRICES TO SUIT ANY PURSE. PERFECT FIT AND RELIABLE SUITINGS.
WING HING CO.
Gentlemen's OutAtters
64. Queen's Rd. C.
Tel. 21417.
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
lat floor, 'No 74, Queen's Road
Central. Tel. 21255.
TANG YUK, DENTIST
Buccessor to
the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Agullar Sirest.
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES,
THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO., LTD. 72, Queen's Road C. Tel. 28270.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. §. BAILEY & CO., LTD.
Kowloon Bay. New Work & Repairs. Call Flag "L". Bole Agents for Kelvin Motors.
FRUITS.
AMERICAN FRESH FRUITS
Emperor Grapes
Pearmain Apples
Sunkist Oranges Sunkist Grapefruits Phillip Cling Peaches
EX 8.8. PRESIDENT HOOVER Arrived here; September 21.
WING
COFFEE CO.
Tel. 25809"
139 Des Voeux Rd. C., Hong Kong
SPORTING GOODS
ATHLETIC GOODS
REDUCTION SALE NOW ON Inspection Cordially Invited. THE LIANG YOU CO.,
70, Queen's Road C
AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY
ATH CROOK, OBE, MA
KAY, MA
L. HANDYSIDE, MA, BEɛ.
PRICE $2.00.
NOW ON SALE AT THE PUBLISHERS.
The Newspaper Enterprise
China Mall -Odobe)
THE CHINA MAIL.
RADIO TOPICS.
LITERATURE
A LISTENER'S LOG
Talk of Empire Broadcasting.
A ROOM OF WIRES
A Link With Everywhere.
BOOKS for All fam
Bibles, Pocket Testaments, Prayer Books and Stationery.
General Literature Presentation Books Children's Books a Speciality.
THE BOOK & BIBLE DEPOT Wyndham Street,
Next to King's Theatre.
Agente for
Britlah & Foreign Bible Society The Religious Tract Society and The League of Nations' Society.
GENERAL PROVIDERS.
We beg to announce that we have just opened at 193, Des Voeux Road C and have a fine selection of new goods
including LADIES' STOCKINGS AND HANDKERCHIEFS
SCENTS, TOILET WATER PERFUMES.
Our prices are very low, THE CENTRAL CO. 193, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. 27623.
HAIR DRESSERS
LEE YEE,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers. No. 12, 'D'Agullar Street. (opposite Queen's Theatre).
LIANG YOU
Gentlemen's & Ladies' HAIR DRESSERS. King's Theatre Building, (D'Aguilar St. Side). Tel. 20315.
260
MEE DICK
BARBER SHOP Ladies & Gentlemen's Hairdressers, No. 76, Queen's Rd. C., let floor. Tel. No. 20497.
LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S HAIR DRESSING SALOON.
ON LOK YAR-HING)
10. Wyndham Street, 1st Floor. Entrance On Lan St. Tel. :22317.
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY. 'Phone 22232,
58, Queen's Road Central
SHOES.
ROMANTIC PLANS.
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many of these will have to be in to put "plenty of juloo" on the stripped of their decorations in plate of the power valve; but do search of botter acousticar perhaps not forget that the grid biss must more than once.
be re-adjusted.
But the B.B.C. hope not. Savoy the wires In the place. When you Hill, that rather ramshackk make When a high, tonalon battery has remember that every studio has a shift of a headquarters, has taught been in use sometime, ita Internal microphone, a telephone, a syn-them much. They have planned resistanco increases and it is liable" chronised electric clock, power and built with Infinite care, and to give rise to howling and distort point for a vacuum cleaner, electric one thing is quite certain: the now ed reception.
many restaurants, hotels, and danc-
Living, as we are, in the tropics,
sets for noisy reception. It is quite a simple thing to find out at once whether static or outside inter- ̈ ference is to binme, or that thoro is
"Oh, yes it's the now B.B.C.lights with a secondary wiring sya-building will not be put into service bullding," you will hear people say had better not start, or we shall For it is meant, I believe, to serve listeners very often blame their tem for emergencies I think we until it is 100 per cent. efficient. Daventry has already won Euro-ins you walk from Langhamplace pean fame; now there are indica-into Portland-place, and glance at remember that the Control Room British broadcasting for aver. tions that the name of this some-the high, smooth, white walls that Hall, Big Ben, and the outside ADVICE YOU MAY NEED.
has to be connected with the Queen's what obscure English borough may now dominate the familiar candle broadcast ongineers alone know how be trumpeted to the ends of the extinguisher spire of All Souls' earth, It is stated that Mr. Church, writes a wireless corres-ing resorts, in the course of its filament of a valve test is not broken receiver. Just detach the serial Do not suppose that because the something not quite right with the Whitley, chairman of the B.B.C. pondont of the Evening News, is showing great interest in
it must necessarily be capable of lead from the set and if the receiver. an Sometimes you will hear them regular business.
Must be Right. Imperial broadcasting venture add: "They seem to be taking a
giving satisfactory results. This is alright all crackling should not which would make Daventry the long time about finishing it." But
Soon they will begin decorating will not be the case it the valve be heard.. starling-off point, as it were, of a these people, like nearly everybody the studios; one or two are already flament has lost emission.
begun: One wall of the Children's short-wave transmitter, else, have seen nothing but those Hour studio is already Improbably
It will repay you to take occa The plans, which are wrapt in outer walls. They can have hardly embellished with tiles of green power valve, or preferably a 'super-receiver and give the valve-logs a For quality loudspeaker work, a slanally the ket of valves out of the mystory, have yet to be discussed so much
as, a notion of the com-glass-quite a new idea. And then power valve, should be used in the scraping with a blunt knife. After at the Colonial Offĉë; ́ it can beplexity of construction, decoration will como the tests. Never mind last socket of the receiver.
that opinion is and installation behind them. The what a studio looks like it has got sald, however, hardening in
favour of locality outer walls are indeed complete, but to sound right, and it may be that transmission experiments na oppos-within them the most important and ed to the more familiar method of difficult work is "only; now begin-{ Juggling with the wave-length. It nlng.
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is believed to be quitò possible that, For this now hoadquarters of the while a transmission from Cheims- B.B.C. is many buildings in one: ford may not reach India satis-an office block, a theatre, a series factorily, signals on exactly the of concert halls, an elaborate same wave-length may get there. If electrict plant, all Ingeniously In- transmitted from, say, Derbyshire ter-connected, insulated, and atowed or, the Lake District.
within that one impressively almplo sholl, going up eight floors into the sky, and down three floors Into the ground,
Two Million Bricks. Having penetrated inside it, I am almost bewildered by the com- plexity of the place.
A mobile transmitter of the kind suggested Would first be tried out at Daventry, and would then start on a systematic tour of the country trusty observers sending in their reports from different parts of the Empire in accordance with a pre-ready for occupation: now," they arranged time-table. Such
attold me. campaign would provide intensely
In shape the huge mass is a interesting results; it would be like blunt-nosed flat-irad The ground a Saturday afternoon field day on floor of the nose is the entrance
as the "feld."
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HONG KONG MARKET
MARKET PRODUCE.
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
1981. 1918. 1914.
Ch. Cl. Cts.
lb. 33 24 12
Sept. 22, June, June,
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80 28 11
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Chicken Capona, Small Capons, Large
60
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30 35
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a grand scale with the whole world hall from which the entrances are on the general principle of "staff to the left, broadcasters and visitors to the right Above this hall is one These rather romantic plans are of the most striking rooms I ever not blinding the B.B.C. engineers saw, the Council Chamber, a high, to the necessity of improving 5XX, semi-circular place, entirely panelled which is now carning the rather in light oak, but as yet unfurnished. dubious title of "The Grand Old Man of the Ether."
In the centre of the curved side is a Cairos' Head & Foot .. 44FMM met $1.50 $1.00 $1.00 It is realised fireplace, one of the only two real Mutton Chop that, unlike France and Germany, fireplaces in the building. The Great Britain has only one long other is in a smaller room above, wave, and that in the European Sir John Reith's own office, whose battle for power she must make windows look straight down to Pig's Chitlinga the most of the available artillery.
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about to increase their power out The plan of the offices lo that of all proportion to their previous cach department has a whole floor normal output, it behoves Great to itself, ooo floor for Accounts, Britain to show quickly whether another for Publicity, and so forth. other countries are to be allowed! These offices are a ring running the to rule the ether waves without a whole way round the building, but challenge...
they are only a ring, thickest at the Pork Chop nose of the flatdrop, where are also reception-rooms; waiting-rooms, and During the last month powerful storerooms, all the premises, in fact, and well-modulated telephony trans-which are not directly concerned in sheep's Head & Feet missions have been heard Late at the actual business of broadcasting. night in France. These emanate For the core and heart of things! from the new 85 kw, transmitter at is contained in the colossal central Essarts-le-Rol, which is now under tower, sound-proof; cut off.com-sucking. Piga, to order going tests, and will shortly replace pletely from the natural light and guet, Bort the existing transmitter of Radio air, roughly rectangular in shape, Paris:
It is stated that regular and built of two million bricks. programmes may be expected short- ly.
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A correspondent writes to a honie listenera heard wireless trade journal: "Colonial Each has its own little cabla, Bream
priceless test with a glass window between it and transmission from
Canton Fresh Water Chelmsford the studio, for the engineer who }*(G.6SW) on Monday, July 27. intervenes, for every studio. broad-
Carp For an hour or more the engineers cast, between the microphone and were apparently trying to make the the control room. They are all transmitter stand on its head by ventilated, heated in Winter and gross over-modulation." There were cooled in Summer, by a plant which wild shouts and deafering hand is so elaborate that I can't begin to claps, 'hello'e' in many keys, and describe it, except to say that 200 finally a gramophone record which tons of special steel ducting has Dog Fish might possibly have been recognis been manufactured for its
Eels, Conger ed as 'Melody in F, punctuated by Concealed electric lighting is used pollte regrets for the distortion. throughout, and in the passages Finally, an announcement was made the light is to be "artificial day.
Froge explaining that G5SW was testing light," as a preventive of any feel,
Garosipa and, we fear, blasting!?"
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Gudgeon On the top of all, the studios EX- cept one, which is alongside it, is Herrings
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