MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1933.
Engineering & Building
SHANGHAI'S
LATEST
THEATRE
Metropol Nears
Completion.
TO BE OPENED SHORTLY
theatre the
Shanghal's newest Metropol, situated on Tibet Road, is rapidly nearing completion and according to present plans of the management wil be formally open- ed in the near future. The exact been date of opening has not yet announced but it is expected that It will be within a month.
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The Metropol, constructed on somewhat lavish scale, presents a pleasing appearance and boasts a front that is perhaps as attractive as that of any other seatre in the city.
a biark
The front is done in marble finish from the top of the facade to the roof. appropriately
heavy glas decorated
lumns which rise to the top of the structure.
All exterior construction work has been completed and the
task confronting
only
the builders is!
decorations
the completion of the
on the interior and miner instal! tations.
Another new theatre, the Irrle,
I now under construction on Pek- ing Road neroas from the old Pek- It is understood that ing Theatre.
this new theatre also will be pred
as a cinema.
Poised for Hop to Rome
Cesare Sabelli (left) and Captain George Pond pictured in the cockpit of their plane at Floyd Benneti. Airport, New York, just before they went aloft for a load test, in preparation for their non-stop flight to Rome. Sabell in a noted Italian Bier, and Pond is a former member of the United States Navy and Army air forces.
Machinery And Unemployment
Some Fallacies Exposed
CORROSION AND ITS REDUCTION OF HOURS OF LABOUR
PREVENTION
Properties Necessary In Insulating Material.
BITUMEN AS BASE
THE CHINA MAIL.
CHINA'S
LARGEST
LIBRARY
Nanking Building To Hold 1,500.
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ADDITION TO UNIVERSITY
The new library now under con- struction at Nanking as a part of the Nanking Central University group of buildings, will be the lar gest in China and will have accom. modations for 1,500 students.
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Construction on the library was started last summer and the work is said to be proceeding rapidly.
The university's present library, designed and constructed only ten years ago, already has proven in- adequate and the new building will provide seats for 1,000 readers.
The library at Tsing Hua Uni- versity which. seats 600, previously had the largest accommodation. The National Library at Peiping seats only 280.
The new library at Nanking wil also be open to students of other universities in the capital city and to the public.
Growth of libraries in China is comparatively recent. Less than 25 years ago, there was no univer. sity or public library of any size
uni- in the country. Now every versity and middle school hne moderate sized library and the de- mand is increasing every ear.
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The fact is significant that the newest libary also will be the lar gest.
BRITISH RAILWAY
ACCELERATIONS.
Seven Trains Timed At Over 60 m.p.h.
are
11 was Dr. Talmage, a preacher figure was higher than in 1907. It is important to hote that the inves Ipopular in America forty years nga,
As a result of the accelerations tigations made, in preparing this who in the course of a sermon de-
report, go to show that during the introduced in July the London Mid- clared thal Heaven would not past sixty years there have been land and Scottish Railway have nów readily pardon those who be their several occasions in which the un-112 trains in operation which
high scheduled to make start-to-stop rims Inventions were depriving the work. employed percentage was as
as it s to-day. whten it is estimated at an average speed of 55 m.p.h. or Three cena 4.6 per cent of the total popu-more. When dealing with constructional man of his livelihood.
Seven trains will be timed at over character, turies earlier a much greater per-lation. Malters have, moreover, material of a metallic
that 60 m.p.h. This is two more been aggravated by the fact N! Fation the trouble involved in
sonage. Queen Elizabeth. made A
last summer, the additions being immigration is now actually in ex- from natural sources provides
York, cess of emigration
expresses from Bristol to index of the tendency of the pre similar reproach to the inventor of
which run between Mangotefield and pared metal to revert to its sadami the stocking frame.
Gloucester at a speed of 61.9 mph. farm.
an
In the decade 1881-1891, 819,000 and persons left the country. On the Unem- present population the correspond- ing figure for the decade 1921-1931 would have been 1,181,000, while actually it was but 568,400, and in 1931 there were 71,982 immigrants + and only 34,310 emigrants.
As proved in the masterly
report on Metals more readily extracted are,,comprehensive As a rule, more
ployment just published by the En- permanent, while iron and stor illustrate the rapidity with which corrosion causes a de-gineering and Allied Employers' form Federation, it in. however, just generation from the metallic with 11- valuable constructive pro-those branches o trade in which
In some other countries the pro- unetesk practically parts to the
has been least in portion of unemployed in Imechanisation
much oxide form.
Sevidence which show the largest higher than with us. In America nf With the advent
It appears to be fully 10 per cent. comes the amination. In merhameni proportler, of men out of work.
of the population, and in Germany, Corrosion has therefore 1 no other industry has thle
per cent. strength. been well termed the "rat that eals been so serious as it is in shlo- steel." The process is one of slow, building, and mechanisation flameless combuation.
most certainly not been the
So widely divergent are the con- !
ple one.
Reduction Of Work Heura.
has
The compulsory establishment of rea- 46 hour week has been suggest
ment problem. The report quotes
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2,000,000 HOUSES
IN 15 YEARS. Britain's Building Progress.
than
The quarterly review of the Gar den Cities and Town Planning As- sociation, just published, contains the Information, based on official Agures, that since the Armistice to June 30, 1933, there have been built over 2,000,000 houses in Eng- land and Wales.
Difficulties of the Problem jponsible cause here. Indeed, ited as a solution of the unemploy ditions under which corrosion takes may be argued that the depression Mr. Colin Clark, statistical lecturer place that the problem of inhibition(bus. In fact, been deepened by the let Cambridge, as neserting that has not proved an altogether atm-persistent opposition of the ship-44-hour week would bring some 1600,000 more into employment, building operatives to the intro-while a 40-hour week would bring Theories of corrosion have been duction of improved tools and me-in no less than 1,300.000. This cal- lengthily thrashed out, and on the more practical side, scientific in-thods, and by their insistence on culation is based on the assumption AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE genuity has been exercised in the unreasonable rules regarding the that output would remain unaffect
.ed. endeavour either to change the com- demarcation of work.
Unfortunately, statistics cannot
fuence.
KING'S
COMMENCING WEDNESDAY
15TH NOVEMBER
ON THE STAGE.
position of the steel to impart cor- Whether the unions concerned be treated simply as a problem in rosion-resisting properties, or to so will prove less short-sighted with the rule of three; the basic assump completely cast the metal as to ex-regard to the introduction of weld- tion is exceedingly improbable, and clude every trace of corrosive ined work is as yet uncertain, thought in by no means unlikely that the
past history affords little basis for actual effect of a compulsory 40-| Not only must the applied layer optimism.
(hour week would be to increase exclude air and moisture, but it!
As one result of the shipbuilding rather than diminish the numbers must combine the properties of an collapse, marine-engins makers at work, electrical insulator with chemical were in March, 1833, employing Even an international agreement inertness to the metal. Adhesion only 28.8 man for every 100 they would probably prove infective, ACROBATIC TROUPE, to the surface to which it it up they had at work in 1928. On the since each nation puts its own in- plied must be accompanied by re other hand, corresponding figures terpretation on the terms. sistance to abrasion.
for trades in which mechanisation France is stated to permit of a 14-166
Thas
A degree of pllability will be has been specially prominent, show hour week, while still claiming to necessary to allow the protectiva an actual increase of employment comply with the terms of the coating to adapt itself to deforma Thus, in motor-car building, 109.7 'Washington Convention of 1919, tlons occasioned by temperature were at work lant March for every which was supposed to establish an changes or stresacs,
100 similarly employed in 1928, International 48-hour weed Bitumen Compositions
while the corresponding figure for Of course, past experie“ce war- electric-lamp makere was 159.2.`. rants the belief that ultimately a These desirable properties fnd Taking the engineering trades as shortening of hours will be one of effective combination in many prea whole, the numbers employed last the benefits made possible by in- parations with a bituminous base.March were only 73.3 for every 100 creasing mechanisation, but as mat- For eighty years or more solutions employed in 1928, which was rela-ters stand a compulsory 40-hour of this type have been very succeed. Uvely a good year in spite of week would be ruinous-Engineer- fully applied, not only in marine total unemployment roll of more ing. work, but for every type of land)
||than 1,250,000,' construction, such as pipelines, World Crisis Main Factor. cranes, bridges, gas holders, colliery An Important point brought out head gear and iron rooding in the report onder review le that In other directions, ita application ug till 1929 the total number én- to concrete-guarantees waterproof-ployed was greater than in any pre- ness and provides a aure care for war year. It was not until the damp walla. It is equally effective world crials developed that the ag- as a preservative for
tures,
·HISTORIC HOTEL AUCTIONED.
Sold For Frs. 689,000.
Obylously no instruc- gregate fell below. pre-war records. The historical "Hotel des Roser= |
and it is to this world crisis that voirs of Versailles, which was pre- preparation the report attributes 43 per cent, of seabed by Louis XV to his favour-
the pemployment Lo-day, og Ita, diarynias de Pompedantyfre». occupations covered centir want under the hammer for
can be expected to meat? widely varying conditions of viseering service, but vario positings cater för er service condition.
|the mum of-Fin,, 689,000; thé úighest
jonda jky a Varsatilan salicitor ||| fon behalf of an unknown clients.
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