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2.
TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1933.
Aviation, Engineering & Building
2-MILE HIGH OFFICE IN 75 YEARS.
Architects Dream
Of Future.
New York. -
Three architects, Reinhard, Hofmeister and Harrison-men
who helped design Rockefeller
THE CHIN
FLYING 20,000 MILES FLYING IN SEARCH
ON BUSINESS
TIME AND MONEY SAVED BY AIR
EMPIRE TO LESSONS
OF FORTUNE.
Thrilling Romance Of
Kakamega.
GOLD RUSH BY AIR.
NEW HALL AT OLYMPIA.
Ample Accommodation For Exhibits.
BETTER BUILDING.
Rugby, the new exhibition As a contrast to days of old, hall at Olympia connecting the when those seeking fortune in present build by a subway and the Klondike gold rush, or in galleries is to be erected on thef those in Australia and Africa, adjoining site of 7 1/4 acres at a had only the most primitive total cost over £1,500,000. Center, eat the other night A London business man, repre- many bookings to arrange, by all transport on which they could The new building is 625 feet dreaming of things they should senting a number of enterprises sorts of different routes, to say rely, prospectors who are hasten-long 350 wide and 120 high. :-* like to have done in the center, with connections overseas, Mr. nothing of delays while waiting ing to-day to Kenya Colony.in The present grand hall at
F. A. Kettle, has just returned for connections; whereas from a the latest gold rush in the Olympia is 425 feet long. and considerable speculation oc from a remarkable flying trip, flying point of view I obtained Kakamega territory, can bring The two galleries and the new curred as to the influence this during which he has paid aerial from Imperial" Airways "one to their aid the speed of the hall is each to be twice as wide group of buildings may have in calls on clients in the following through ticket covering my en-modern long-distance airway. ns the galleries of the present the development of future dis territories:
tire tour air fares, hotels, "Many air passengers at the hall.
The two buildings combined tricts and entire cities.
Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, motor-car connections, and prac- present time," explained an official J Uganda, Kenya. Tanganyika, tically everything. There is this of Imperial Airways: "are book-provide., one million feet of] This angle of discussion led to Northern Rhodesia, Southern point, also. To cover any big ing through to Kisumu by our show space exclusive of the re- the city of the future, cities of Rhodesia, South Africa.
territory by surface travel, par- African service, in order to hurry staurant's office accommodation. seventy-five years hence, The The journeyings of this "flying ticularly in a country like Africa, from there to Kakemegn, which three Reinhard, Hofmeister and ambassador of commerce" took you may have to make long de-lies only 38 miles from Kisumu:
roundabout, trips: him over approximately 20,000 tours and
"Engineers and business men, jopening, offices there. As for Harrison-having in mind Rocke miles, and the time occupied by whereas the airway goes straight as well as fortune-seekers of all the gold-seekers themselves, feller Center and the progress it air, with the cost entailed, are in from point to point. Your mile types, are attracted by the lure many of them are camping out!:
If you fly to in cars or lorries; while others represents, agreed that the city the table attached contrastedge, therefore, is lessened if you of Kakamega.
with a similar journey by suchy. There is, furthermore, this these new gold-fields they are are living in tents. of 2008 would be much different first-class surface travel as would important point. When flying only a seven days journey from constructed grass huts. Natives or quickly-
claims- in in every way from the city of be the equivalent of the high-you travel so quickly you have London; while for those flying help them on their
speed de-luxe accommodation ob-simply not the time to spend northbound up the African route, "panning," or rough-washing for money on all those incidentals they can be reached in not more gold in springs or streams; They all concurred in the belieftainable when flying:
which crop up in long journeys than 4 days from Cape Town. while many of the newcomers by boat and train.
"The other day we had a party wander farther afield, prospect- Saved 120 Days.
of fortune-seekers who had hur-ing for gold-bearing reefs. ried across the Atlantic from "Lions are often encountered; "Actually, when I returned to America by ocean-liner, and who but many of them, nowadays, London, I worked out my tour in then went on by the African air-seem to exhibit curiosity rather the following way. By flying 1 mail from Croydon, thus mana-than fierceness. In one had saved 120 days, and had on level and nothing would be "It was a surprise to me," says my air trip spent approximately ging to accelerate by many days just recently, for example, the This city that Mr. Kettle, "to find that the total 50 less than I should have done and, of course, the time-factor is spectors, came upon a family of their arrival in the gold-fields;[motor-car of some of the pro- fifty or seventy-five years will expense of surface transport, had I made a similar tour by
Important, seeing that it is a lions on a distant road. bring will be very interesting, reckoning in each case first-class land and sea; while from my own extremely impressive, a city of travel by the fastest routes, view-point as a business man, I case of 'first come first served seeing the car the big lion of the wide streets, parks, boulevards, would exceed that of a through estimate the value of cach of my with likely-looking claims being party made off, followed by the female, and all the cubs save one. hanging gardens, lofty apart-booking by air. The explanation working days at, say, £3. There snapped up rapidly.
Amusing Sequel.
This last-mentioned youngster, ments and cloud-piercing to lies partly in the fact that, when fore the 120 days. I saved by air wards that will be greater in making long tours by land and represented to me a value of a there tell amusing stories of the loss and full of curiosity, trotting "Our officials who are out however, appeared quite fear- every respect than are some sea, moving from country to proximately £360, Thus, reckon-effects of this latest gold rush after the car for some distance
country, one finds one has
sing the saving on travel costs. I
Not many before turning back and rejoin- have written myself down as be on local conditions.
months ago Kakamega consisted ing its parents. ing more than £400 in pocket just of a row of small shops. "But lions, as people out there through having adopted the trading with the natives. Now tell you, are now an old Kenya aerial form of travel.
it is already a centre for streamsį story. The new story is gold, "Nor does this tell the whole
Garages are and experts who are on the spot story. Far from it. I found that of motor traffic.
to-day.
that buildings would be higher, By and one of them advanced the thought that within seventy-five years business offices would be By located 2,500 feet above the street
thought of it.
cities to-day.
Air:--
£800.
Time Occupied . 60 days. Cost (Approx.) Surface Transport:-
Time Occupied. 180 days. Cost (Approx.) £360.
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
Apr. 3, June
1933 1918 Ctx. Cls.
BUTCHER MEAT.
Beef Sirloin
Prime Cut
Corned
Roast
Breast
Soup
lb. 34
Stenk
Steak Siriola
Sausages
Bullock's Brains
Tongue, fresh
"
Head
Heart
corned
Hump, Salt
Foel Kidneys
Liver
per set 20
Trine
case
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Apr.3, June to drop in' in clients from the air ing provided.
opening up. New shops are be-jexpress the belief that this
1933 1918 proved a most efficacious way of Ct Ct promoting business. A good many of them, according to ar
rangements we had made by
30 (cable, came out to meet me at
28 stations where the air-liners were
28 scheduled to halt; and, while the
2 big machines were re-fuelling,
242 we adjourned to the aerodrome
18 hotel for a meal and a chat over
business. They Baid thought this an excellent iden.
POULTRY.
Chicken Capons, Small ...
Ib. 04
OF
60
Large
64
H
Duck
Н
44
Doves
cách đó
each
85
1.05
40
Eggs, Hen (cooking) per doz. 36 Eggs, Hen (fresh) · Fowls, Hainga
88
25
lb. 50
35
1.80
Canton
70
H
---
Grese
each
10
The
13
Pigeons, Canton Holbow Turkeys, Cock Turkeys, Hen
30
1.80.
G
Snipe
set $1.50 $1.00
Pheasant
Ib.
26
Quail
20
Partridges
1. 75 70 each 28 pair 2,60 2.50 each 35 1.10
20
FRUITS.
1b, 1.00
22
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Calves' Head & Feet
Mutton
#
Chip
LAE Saddle
Shoulder
Pig's Chitlings
Braine Feet Fry Head
Heart Kidneys
Liver
Liver
Pork Chop
Loin
Leg
Fat or Lard
per set
Sheep's Head & Feet per set 90
Sucking Pigs, to
order Suct, Beef
Buet, Beef
Mutton
Heart
"
Kidney's
Liver
Tezl
#
Sausages
No. 1
FISH.
Barbel
Bream
Canton Fre
Water Fish Crabi
Codfish -Crabs
Cattle Fish
Daco
Eals, Conger
Fresh Water Yellow
พ
Frogi Garoupa
Herrings
Malibut
Lobsters
Mullet
Mackerel
Oysters
Perch
Pinice Pomfret, While Pomiret, Black
Pike
Prawns
Roach
Balmon. Bhark
Skate
Shrimps. "Snapper"
Almonds Apples (California)
Lemons, American
114 44 24 oach 45 80
1b,
Bananas (brido's)
Carambola
cach
10
Coconuts
each
10
Lemons, China
16.
sach
Lichees Dried
lb. L20
Orange
60
21
Oranges
(Canton)
80
Pannula
Pears (Canton).
12
20
Fumelo, Slam
Grapes
lb. 25 26
34 20
33
20
20
cach
32 22!
Persimons, Large
VEGETABLES, ETC.
Aftichokes Beans,. Sprout
***Long
Best Boot Brinjal, Green
Red
Cabbage, Chinese
(Shanghai)
Caufidower (Large)
Carrots
(Medium) (Small)
Celerity, Chinese
Chillies, Driet
Red Green
Curry Stuff, English Cucumbers
Garlic
Ginger, Young
Old..
Horseradish, S'hai. Indian Corn
Lettuce
Okroca;
Onions, Bombay
Green
#
Bhanghat Pursley Potato, Sweet
Japanese American
Fumpkin Radish Rhubarb (Fresh):
Spinach Tomatoes
(Long)
127 Vegetable
>Water- Créés'
Water Lily Root
each, 10
lb.
cach
they
Solicitors, stock-Kakamega area will develop into brokers, and accountants are a highly-important gold field."
STANDARDISATION OF IRON AND STEEL,
J
European Conference In Germany.
out tests, the shape of the test
pieces, samples, tensile tests, (yield point, elongation, limits of compressibility, Brinell hardness, į bending and notched-bar tests and specifications for machines The International : Federation and apparatus used in carrying
mittee.
45 DELEGATES.
We saved time, getting to the of National Standardising As-out acceptance tests; structural crux of our affairs promptly.sociations, whose codified de-steel sections, rods and flat These air-station interviews also signation is. I.S.A., held a con- billets; material for screws and had the effect of side-tracking ference at Dusseldorf from Janu- rivets; unalloyed steels for use 29 such formalities. as are apt to ary 9 to 14, at the invitation of in machine construction, both 61 prove irritating, sometimes, in the German Standards Com-with and without restrictions as
the more hackneyed routine.
Forty-five delegates, to purity, and including case- Reflects On Business. representing the National Stan-hardened materials; and alloyed "Doing business by air intro-dardising Associations of cleven steels. duces new and helpful factors countries, viz., Austria, Belgium, We learn that the delegates into trade relations, and I have Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, reached virtual agreement on all returned to London satisfied that Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, these subjects, though it was I have accomplished far more, Sweden, and Switzerland, took found necessary to appoint. sub- by flying, than I should have part, the proceedings being con-committees to deal with certain The done had I been content with ducted under the charmanship outstanding questions, slower forms of transit, Air of Dr. Bunzli (Switzerland) with next Conference will be held travel is up-to-date. It impressed Mr. Huber-Ruf, the general secre- within the next twelve months, those with whom one is dealing, tary of the International Federa- when draft regulations relating They recognise that time is tion, in attendance.
to delivery and acceptance, which money so far as you are con- The Swiss Standardising As-have already been tentatively pre- cerned, and they themselves, in sociation, which forms the secre-pared, will be discussed. En- consequence," are "in a frame of tariat of the Technical Com-gineering. mind which induces them not mittee of the International, “ only to do business quickly, but Federation which deals with fron also to take an optimistic view. and steel, brought forward a
BRTARKA3||1829 ||
POLAND'S BUILDING PROGRAMME.
It is a question of psychology. number of proposals relating to The speed and novelty of air standardisation, which were bas To accommodate the 20,000) travel, with all the possibilities ed on resolutions passed at a increase in Poland's urban po- it opens up, create an atmos- Conference held in Prague in pulation during the second phere in which it becomes easier October, 1928.
quarter, 481 new buildings were to do business.
These proposals were fully dis- completed, seventy-two exten "Certainly, from a personal cussed, the following points find-sions and additional floors were view-point, flying is ideal. Acrossing a special place on the agenda: provided, construction was be- Africa, I found, it makes simply Classification and marking of gun on 1,607 new buildings all the difference between com-iron and steel: symbols and de- and 191 additional floore, and fort and discomfort. Flying in finitions of the marks used in forty-two houses were demolish- 10 one of the big air-liners, you es
the proving of sections, rod and ed to provide rebuilding sites.
25 cape heat, dust, fatigue; which sheet; testing and acceptance Of the 481 new - buildings means that when you reach including the method of carrying erected, 424 were dwelling 18 your journey's end you are fresh
by houses, 42 industrial and com- [mercial structures, and 15% of Tother types. The new dwellings include 1,286 apartments, of which 157 are one room, 647 two room, 291 three room, 213 four
and vigorous, ready at once to plunge into the business on hand.
The modern airway is also so re EDITOR TELLS ARCHITECTS
liable that there is a golfer in
TO RETAIN IDEALS.
45 Africa who says he times. his
games, now by the passage Benjamin F. Betts, editor of and five room, and 28 six room overhead of the service from “American Architect,"? : warns and larger according to reports England, punctual to the minute against a possible let down after flying thousands of miles, professional ethica. Many
On all counts, I can say in no doubt tempted to cut fees, Shangh conclusion, the air tour scores, make free sketches and ent
You save time. You save money, Into practices that are harin
You avoid fatigue, You beneff to the individual
in health and mental outlook the profession
from a fascinating experience, said:
and you return with more busi-high"
pese in your books than you could mal
posably hope for if you
Invoke, the assistanc open sesame of air
red by the United States rtment of Commerce in
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