THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1932.
LOCAL ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS
H.E. THE GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS.
011
Hong Kong As The Engineers'
Paradise.
CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
In
THE TRAGEDY OF DON ALFONSO
A REIGN DOGGED BY ILL-LUCK: PROMISE THAT ENDED IN DISASTER.
Why Revolution Was Inevitable.
[By Viscountess Dunedin.).
fore that he will give the necessary 'ill-luck, always at the mercy of ing pageantry of the Court cere-i
of money is included in this year's estimates for continuing the new hundred foot road to Shaukiwan,| and I hope to be able to supple- ment this provision. Owing to the financial position, it was deemed necessary to curtail to some ex- tent the votes for road mainten-) ance, but of course this is not right- ly a sound economy. I may say that, with the improvement of the] financial position, I propose to sub- mit, a supplementary budget to the Finance Committee, and thereafter to the Secretary of State, which will contain amongst other things additional proviston for road maintenance, and the further ex-
His father, the late King, had not writes Viscountess Dunedin in John tension of Kowloon Hospital.
wished him to be called Alfonso, O'London's Weakly. The heir to the acknowledging my despatch on the because he thought the number throne is a chronic invalid," the
unlucky, Estimates for the current year, the thirteen
Indeed, all handsome, clever Don Jaime a deaf- Mr. E. W. Blackmore, in a speech modern brewery installed in close Secretary of State has noted this through his years in Spain, Alfonso mute; and beneath the brilliant so intention, and I am confident there. XIII. seems to have been dogged by cial life of Madrid and the glitter- following his proposal of a toast proximity.
On the whole it has been a year, of II.E. the Governor, Sir William'
circumstances beyond his control, monies, there has always been the Peel, who presided at the annual of very considerable achievement approval.
Year's Shipping.
from the first bour of his life, when, menace of revolution. dinner of the Institution of En-in all branches of engineering, but
Spain, made up of such widely As I have already stated, Hong in the Audience Chamber of the gineers
Thursday night, time will not permit me to enlarge! outlined the work done by En-further on the subject."
Kong has suffered with other parts Palace at Madrid, "the Prime Min-different provinces, each with its of the world from the trade depres-¡
ister appeared bearing a golden tray own traditions and history, has gineering science in Hong Kong The Governor's Speech. during 1931.
His Excellency in his reply said: 'sion, particularly in regard to its with a red velvet cushion on which never been welded together. The "The past year," he said, in spite "Hong Kong still continues to effect upon shipping, ahip-building reposed unprotestingly the baby stronger the effort of the Govern- of trade depression, has been show considerable progress. Any and allied industries, but we per Majesty of Spain," to the last tragie ment to centralise, the more "the sulted in almost continuous rebellion reasonably prosperous one for the one seeing Hong Kong to-day would haps have been more fortunate moment when, on the Principe opposition to this tendency has re- Institution, many new members find it very difficult to realise that than other large shipping ports. Alfonso, he sailed away to exile. have been enrolled and the period it has been described as being, at Over 14 million tons of shipping! The two blographies that have re and dissatisfaction throughout the "Don Alfonso Peninsula." "It is not by accident,” has been financially successful. the time that it came into British were dry docked during the year at cently appeared,
Talkoo, and hands, a treeless, barren block of
Whampoa Dockyards, XIII," by H.R.H. Princess Pilar of writes Princess Pilor, that the In the realm of engineering and granite. That such wonderful re-and though no large vessels have Bavaria and Major Desmond Chap-rebellion against the Monarchy first shipbuilding the year has seen sults as we see today have been been launched a number of smaller, man-Huston (Murray, 214.), and expressed itself through the Muni- some notable records. A number achieved is almost entirely due to vessels of up-to-date designs have Twenty-Nine Years: The Reign of cipal Vote, and it is safe to say that of fine new ships, the Carthage, our engineers. Hong Kong has been built for local trades, and for King Alfonso XIII. of Spain," by the Corfu, Empress of Japan and been described s an
Engineers' North China, India, the Philip. Mrs. Steuart Erskine, with a dis against the principle of monarchy the Marquess of as against government by Madrid."
The Inevitable. Revolution. the motorship Felix Roussct have Paradise, and its engineering feats Pines and New Zealand. Our name creet preface by
It is always so easy to be wise visited this port and we have are said to be the envy of many Far stands high in regard to ship Londonderry (Hutchinson, 12s. ed.);
Physical diff-building, docking and repair, and are written too soon to heard of, if not seen, a number Eastern countries.
I think we can confidently look more than a comment on passing after the event, to criticise the of Engineering jobs such as Syd- culties have been overcome in a ney Harbour Bridge. It is, how-marvellous fashion, and I think forward to a considerable Increase events. But future historians, for Spanish Army, the politicians, the ever, chiefly of local achievement that the Prophet Isaiah must have in work in our dockyards before that very reason, will find them of conduct of the Morocco campaign,
As your President has re-
value, for both writers give an inthe Dictatorship, so easy to make a that I would say a few words to-seen a vision of Hong Kong when long. night.
he wrote the words, "Every valley marked, several fine new linera haveteresting impression of modern scapegoat of the King, or to blame of any one man have stemmed, the In the field of public works we shall be exalted, and every moun-visited the port during the year, Spain and a life-like picture of the his Ministers. But could the action
such as
the P. & O. steamships last Spanish King. find that improvements to safe-tain and hill shall be made low."
A Lonely Child.
rising tide of revolution In Spain? Corfu, and Carthage, the new Pre- guard our water supply are being
Princess Pilar, a near relative, The up-heaval of the World War, carried out at Aberdeen and else); There has during the past twelve eldest liner President Coolidge,
and a number of smaller months or more been a tremendous and the new large Canadian Pacific naturally gives a more #timate and which affected neutral as
of Britain. prejudiced study than Mrs. Erskine, belligerent countries, and the result- proicets have been completed dur-boom of land sales and building in Company's Empresa
This liner of over 40,000 tons gross whose book is more in the naturalug economic disturbance, the well- ing the year. A spacious hangar the Colony, the depression and un- has been built at Kai Tak Aero-rest in China tonding probably to and 70,000 horse power is a worthy of a simple, well-arranged chronicle financed Bolshevik.propaganda from drome including space for public further development under example of engineering progress of chief events in Spain from 1885, Moscow, the glorification of Demo- Sho may truly be described as when the Regency was inaugurated, cracy that has produced, mediocrity, use, and we now see the vehicular stable conditions which we fortun ferry scheme well under way. utely have here. Sales of Governoating palace and would appear to the present day. Both books and the helpless confusion of mass rule were all contributory factors. ment land realised the record figura'to be the last thing in seagoing make interesting reading, and bries There were forces at work beyond Dock Enlarged.
¿vividly before us the personality of A notable engineering job has of nearly three million dollars. We luxury.
this most romantic of dethroned human control, and the King him-
self had become but ane been carried out by the Hong Kong cannot expect this to go on in-
monarchs.
of the A hydrographic survey of the & Whampoa Dock Co., whose No. definitely, and I should like to
As a child he must have been pieces on the chequer-board with 1 dock has been enlarged and stress the fact that such receipts harbour is being carried out, but rather lonely and precocious, this which Destiny played. improved to accommodate the lar- should be regarded as of the nature it is not yet sufficiently advanced descendant of Joan the Mad and
Many years must elapse before gest ships on the Pacific Ocean of capital revenue, and should to gauge accurately the changes, if Philip the Fair, in whose veins. flow-stirring scenes of Spanish history trade and the Empress of Japan therefore be devoted to expenditure any, which have taken place in the ed the blood of two of the oldest can be viewed in their proper per-
where
Local Achievements.
Boom of Land Sales.
the
Harbour Depth.
a
serve as
reaction was not so Much
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of the Dock are as follows:
Depth of Water over sill 30'
Breadth at Cope 93' 10".
Breadth at Floor 88' 0".
Length 700 ft.
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STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
last year. The present dimensions unsound to devote special revenue following estimates have been made Bourbons and
the Hapsburge, and good things that he did for his of this kind to recurrent or main-'which may prove of interest:
who heard himself called Majesty country in his twenty-nine years 6".tenance votes. For this reason I The total area of water providing from his cradle. His mother, the reign will be remembered, and King am of opinion that the new Govern-'a depth of 30 feet and over is near- excellent Maria Cristina, was a Alfonso XIII will take a worthy ment Civil Hospital should be paid ly 6% equare miles, while the area quiet, reserved woman possessed of place in the long line of Spanish İfor from such revenue rather than providing a depth of 36 feet and
a strong sense of duty. She took rulers and in the hearts, even of his The works took about 18 months from loans. Meanwhile a com-over is nearly 4 square miles. to complete and ships were ac-m mencement has been made on the The question of dredging is be seriously; and he certainly owes to
the upbringing of her son very most rebellious subjects, because he
loved Spain: tually docked during 321 days project of a new "gnol as a loan,ing carefully considered by Govern her unceasing care during his early years of extreme delicacy the phy- New Kowloon Wharf:
Only Exceeded in 1924, to the Imperial Shipping Com-sical strength and endurance be A new wharf has been built by The numbers of plans and build- mittoe, a most valuable body, in
later developed.
The Ben Line s... Beuvorlich the Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf ings completed during the year were regard to the depths which should
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from Leith, Middlesbro', 'Antwerp, and Godown Co. of a length of 800,only exceeded in the great building be provided in a harbour of this
A great part of his boyhood was London and Straits left Singapore ft. width 60 ft., and there is 30 ft. boom of 1924, and it is estimated nature, having due regard to pro- passed in the Royal Palace of for this port on March 22, and is of water alongside, to better ac-that buildings valued approximate bable future dimensions of ships. Madrid, where he was the centre of due to arrive here on March 28. commodate the larger vessels call-ly at twenty million dollars were
The Vehicular Ferry. existence to the small world in ing at this port.
under construction. Among those The scheme for a vehicular ferry, which he lived. Constantly remind That great boon to many of the which were in hand may be men is progressing satisfactorily, and a led by those around him of his great business houses having (interests tioned the female prison and tender for operating the service re-destiny, he might well have become in Canton, the telephone line to warder's quarters at Lalchikok, ceived from the Hong Kong and priggleh and imperious; instead, he that City. has been put into ser- the new police station at Praya Yaumati Ferry Company has been remained a high-spirited and na- vice with excellent results. East, the maternity block, Kowloon accepted. The Company has placed tural healthy boy, the joy of his Hong Kong has seen the com- Hospital, and markets at Salying an order with the Hong Kong and mother and the hope of his country." pleting or near completion of pun and Kowloon Tong.
Whampoa Dock Company for three several new buildings, notably thej
The first years of his reign, read | motor. driven vehicular War Memorial Hospital, Glouces Further development and im-vessels, which it is hoped will give triumphant Royal progresses which ferry like a fairy tale. In the series of ter Building, National City Bank, provement of our intricate system a satisfactory fifteen-minute ser- he made throughout his kingdom, he Jockey Club Stables and a Semi-of waterworks have been and are vice. There is reasonable expecta- was everywhere received with un-
being carried out.
Two new re-tion that the new service will com-bounded enthusiasm. His youth, Green Island Cement. servoirs were added to the Colony's mence operations at the beginning his pleasant manners, and his sunny In Kowloon, the Green Island water supply, namely the Kowloon of next year.
There have been amite won all hearts, and when fa Cement Co. has now put into ser- Byewash Reservoir and the new criticisms of this scheme, but I 1905 he sailed to England and fell vice two new rotary kilns, cap reservoir at Aberdeen, each im think it will be found that the in love with a golden-haired English able of producing 120,000 tons of pounding approximately. 175 mil revenue received by Government princess, the fairy-tale should surely lion gallons. Preliminary investi-will provide adequate return on have ended by his carrying her off
mary at Aberdeen.
The Waterworks.
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Great building activity is seen gations for the now large gorge the money expended, while there to his castle in Spain, and living in Kowloon. The residential area dam in the Shing Mun Valley were can, I think, be little doubt that an happily ever after. But the evil in the region of Prince Edward completed, and the site was visited improved service for the convey fairy who must have attended his Road is increasing rapidly. The by the consulting engineers, who ance of vehicles between the inland christening came uninvited to the La Salle College is now opened, reported favourably on the scheme. and the mainland has become wedding festivities, and the horrible work is proceeding on the site of It is hoped that the commencement absolutely essential the Central British School, and of this work will shortly be made.
incident of the bomb thrown at the Green Inland Congratulated, in fact the development of this Meanwhile I take this opportunity I congratulate the Green Island flowers, that killed the horses of the King concealed in a bouquet of region is most remarkable. As you of congratulating Mr. Creasy, Mr. Cement Company on its successful Royal carriage and stained the know further new schemes are Henderson and other officers who Installation of a new plant, the ma- young bride's wedding dress with under way.
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