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INEFFECTIVE RENOVATION
The work of renovation in Westminster Abbey follows simi lar work carried out recently in Southwark Cathedral by Mr. J. K. Comper.
aspect..
A DOUBTFUL CONCESSION
AIR-CONDITIONING
FOR ALL
THEY MAKE THEIR OWN WEATHER
LUXURIOUS CONDITIONS IN PRESENT-DAY HOMES
(By A. P. Luscombe Whyte)
"
At Southwark Mr. Comper used Jan effective grer limewash in the
New York hours equal to that obtainable Lady Chapel, thus removing the TOT for nothing has it been from nearly 1,000 tons of ice. grime of centuries and restoringi
said that Americans can
Cost Recovered the chapel to its original medieval find a cure for anything except Often the cost of installation their own politicians. They is rapidly made up by the in- The creamy-coloured limewash have cured the weather-by creased efficiency and health of which is being used at Westminster making their own.
employees. One company found below Thirty storeys is far less effective, especially in
my that conditioning its New York comparison with the weathered room shirt-sleeved pedestrians offices improved efficiency and rey stone of the Abbey as it was denied even the comfort of per-freedom from illness by one- before.
spiration by the super-damp third. Another firm discovered fair, were recently crawling ex that the blanketing of the ap haustedly. There were six heat palling traffic noise by closed deaths in the streets of this double windows. only possible The Swiss Legation, announcing city alone But where I was with conditioned air, was res- new facilities for motoring "in writing the air was dry and ponsible for another 21 per cent. jump. In offices high up Switzerland. states that British cool. drivers can now take" their cars Far down in the basement in the Empire State, RCA and into Switzerland, as into France, great machines draw in the Chrysler buildings, often hid on presentation of passport, Eng-sticky fatigued atmosphere, den in thick, damp clouds, the lisa driving licence, and car regis-filtering it through oil-saturated freedom from colds has been Since the filters bar the pas-- tration book without other papers, blankets of spun-glass, washing striking.
What is not mentioned is that it in water sprays, cooling it
con-sage of pollen grains, sufferers this arrangement covers 3 stay of with refrigerating coils, only 20 days after which the densing out its excess humidity from hay-fever find instant re- usual triptique or carnet de pas. (which makes for a large pro lief in conditioned buildings.
Business Doubled sage is necessary. In France the portion of the discomfort of!
The public is refusing system covers a stay of three hot weather), and sending it up!
to me in an insulated pipe the patronise shops. restaurants mouths.
In any case, the average travel- jolliest. briskest air you could and amusement places which
on are not conditioned One res ler prefers the tristique system, find anywhere except
taurant owner told the manu otherwise he may have to endure mountain. »
Major Craze
facturers that his business had The China Mailsafety if employment is to be considerable delay at the frontier
more than doubled since he while necERSATY particulars are Air-conditioning has become installed an apparatus. Rather remarkably, the long laboriously copied from his regis-a major craze here Not one "What good is it all going to" Hong Kong, Monday, Sept. 16, 1935. chapter in the annual report tration book.
good hotel or apartment-house, do me may be the attitude upon
the socialisation of the
not a cinema nor theatre. and of the ordinary man. I visit coal industry had no echo in the
very few bars or shops of imed a well-known company to
being built find out. The manager point solutions moved at the Con- gress. The actual proposal;
Your Daily Smile! portance are now
without conditioning apparatused to what looked like a numi- made. which was to nationalise
Between 5.000 and 10,000 ber of radio-gramophones. coal fix the miner's wage at a
he existing railway coaches have "Portable conditioners,"
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In general the Trades Union level "taking into account the The absolute secrecy in which Miss been converted. and every ex explained. made for private- Congress represents the organ-unpleasant and dangerous na- Garbo departed for her native Swe- press coach building is being houses and offices, like these. ised workers of the more ture of the miner's work." and den is represented by the fact that equipped. The railways, fight-Just the same as the big plants. moderate political school. The then determine the price, was some newspapers put the store in ing against the competitive but they don't need long pipes. inclination to avoid extremism possibly not altogether welcome side. was emphasised this year by to the workers in industries. the action taken to exclude that have to purchase coal on the de- these terms It is a truism Commmists Land: bý nunciation in the amual report that coal, even in these days of of the General Council of the oil is the life blood of British activities of Fascists. While manufactures. Its future pro- there would appear to have duction and distribution cannot been unanimity in hatred of be treated as if it were a mat-
As a general thing, it is wise to like a hot damp thundercloud. Thousands of these installa- Fascism, the endeavour to setter concerning exclusively the up a barrier against the cap-coal-getters. Various commit. get your advice from those who have But the air conditioners knewsons have been sold to shop- ture of the unions by what tees of the Congress were! were stigmatised as "disruptive stated to be drafting: "a organisations" was challenged thoroughly workable scheme It's the way you show up at the it has increased its 1929 figures rooms costs about £100. It by a number of trades, includ- which can be implemented showdown that counts. Jing the engineering unions and quickdy by a Labour Govern
the locomotive engineers and ment. A difficulty in any such
cheapness of the coach and the only one from the outside. speed and cleanness of the The conditioned air flows Just A Fick Town.
aeroplane, are abolishing noise gently upwards from this grille A bick town is where most of the and soot and advertising fresh-on top and is later drawn back
shots in the city who have made ness and comfort.
again by the opening at floor good came from.
Six years back the industry level Simple, automatic and was toddling. Then came the cheap" depression to wilt the country
Good Advice
failed and know the reason why...
It Shows
Won't Grow
Thousands Solde
to deal with clouds. It how was one of the few big indus-keepers, doctors dentists, and private householders. A model" tries to forge ahead. To-day which will serve two living
at the
right
by over 1,000 per cent
will be less. Running costs are Lucky Tenants
about the same as those of a once Tenants of modern buildings I have seen several houses
domestic refrigerator. firemen. The preliminary res-plan is so to adapt it as to an author declares that he
from ponses received
the retain the foreign market but kept an idea of a novel in his head do not have to think about affiliated unions, however, sup greater will be the difficulty of for fifteen years. It is not long heating or cooling. Air is kept equipped in this way. One had conditioners painted to tone automatically ported the idea that the Germa
it acceptable to the enough. eral Council would be streng whole community. As the
temperature and humidity by with the walls They took up thened in the action it took to scheme stands, its prime as-
instruments which keep a con- no more space than small book-
shelves. bar Communists as delegates sumption is that those who at the International Spiritual tinncus check of conditions and and officials. If trade unionism want coal must pay whatever Centre, Naarden (Huizen) Hol-themselves adjust the controls. The private owner can instal either complete units of this is shown, both by the annual the miners choose to demand. land, and are going to show a It is heated and moistened in report and by the resolutions
of winter.cooled and dried sort, which he can wheel from room to room, or use a number submitted to the Congress
|summer. Jon September 2, to be inclining more strongly to the Socialist view, the bulk of Labour opin- ion resents the continuous effort to inoculate British tradé unionism with the virus Moscow.
-
of
moving film of the activities the Centre.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
of the steamTM launch
No concentrations of heat in of plain inlet and outlet units, Cheung Kun Kuam, coxswain a wilderness of cold or the re-one in each room. commected by verse, but even, draughtless air, pipes with machinery down- blown up dozens of storeys and stairs. This is more
when houses are bought Wo, reports that about 11 p.m. yest squeezed gently through grilles taken on long leases
Fung
usual
Ng Tang-sze, aged 43, a female terday, while towing two cargo in the ceiling, while the ex- passenger from Singapore by the boats through the northern en hausted air is drawn through Compulsory In Future? ss. Anshun; committed suicide on trance of the Taumati typhoon sher floor openings. No radiators The boon has reached the A middle attitude does the voyage by catting her throat ter, he collided with a small hawker ino,fans.
middle-income, man Soon in- exclude a desire for sweeping
Some of the plants are increased production and lowered reform in the British social The body was removed to the Kow-boat containing a Chinese. The system. The General Councilo Mortuary on the ship's arri- boat capsized and the Chinese was mense. The one which keeps prices will make it available
val here,
thrown into the water and drown-comfortable, the tens of thou for those below him Already in its report details efforts
jed. The body when recovered had sands of people in that great tenement builders are forced to" made to secure a 40-hour work-je
skyscraper town of amusement, instal refrigerators. Some au- shopping and business, the thorities, foresee compulsorily Rockefeller Centre, gives a conditioned tenements in the Suramer cooling effect every 24 near future. A visit to the theft of an. East Side tenement block on a hot afternoon would Isidetrack critics of the
ALLEGED SALE OF founded pampering
WOMAN
Case Dropped
ing week with the mainten A Whist Drive in aid of the a severe gash in the abdomen." ance of the standard of living." funds of Union Church, Kowloon, Various resolutions moved in will be held in the Reading Room
Believed to be consumptive, Congress re-affirm the de- of the Koirioon Dock Recreation married woman, Wong Taze, mand. Yet there was recogni Club next Wednesday, at 9 aged 51 years, was found dead tion that without an inter- Admission $100. Service men 50 in the stairway of her house, national convention regarding cents. Tickets may be obtained at 40-42 King Kwong Street, Wong Thours little progress can be made the door.
neichung district; * yesterday In an age of mechanisation, the
morning. She had apparently re- belief that shorter working
party Chnea Ping. Fong, 25, unem-turned from mab jong hours should be possible is not]. confined to members of Labour played, who pleaded guilty before in the early morning organisations. It is general. Macfadyen at the Central lapsed. A police report states but while trade is international Magistracy on Saturday to a there are no suspicious circum- and goods have to be sold in charge of obtaining $3.50 by false stances. other than a home market, no pretences by pretending to be in one country can make a sweep a position to obtain employment ing change without disaster to for six persons at the Royal Naval this morning sentenced to four gardener named Che Wai, who was its own workers To shorten Dockyard, on August 27, was sen-weeks hard labour, by Mr. Q. Acused of having harboure
eks hard labour tenced to six hours and at the same time]
wages requires a
rket Without that change must destroy dad leave many worker
ch to the
Members and.
Lodge
On being informed that the Se- cretariat: for Chinese Affairs pre- fers not to prosecute, Mr W M
Chio Hong, unemployed, was Thomson discharged a vegetable
A Macfadyen Police Court for
the gold
Rob
Centralfried roman, Chi
of actween May 12-and
gold the Kowloon Magistracy this
alleged that