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'ALL ABOVE SAILINGS VIA HONOLULU Air-conditioned equipment on C.P.R. Trans-Continental Trains. Frequent Canadian Pacific Atlantic sailings to European ports.
TO MANILA
Empress of Canada on Friday, April 7th.
Canadian Pacific
Union Building
SPANS THE WORLD
Telephone
20752
G. FALCONER & CO. (HONG KONG LTD.) WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS,
DIAMOND MERCHANTS, UNION BUILDING (opposite G.P.O.)
'Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES. KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE Direct from Manufacturers,
High Class English Jewellery
PRESIDENT LINER
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Vin
SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA AND HONOLULU
S.S. "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE”
8.8. "PRESIDENT TAFT"
8.8. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND”
8.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT"
8.8. "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE" · S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT"
SAILS APR. 10th at 6.00 A.M.
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APR 21st at 8.00 A.M. MAY 5th at. 8.00 A.M. MAY 19th at 6.00 A.M.
·JUNE 3rd at 12.00 Noon JUNE 16th at 6.00 A.M.
AND FORTNIGHTLY THEREAFTER NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA SUEZ
8.8. “PRESIDENT MONROE 8.8. "PRESIDENT ADAMS”
SAILS MAR. 30th at 4,00 A.M. „,... APR. 14th at 12 Noon
AND FORTNIGHTLY THEREAFTER
MANILA
S.S. "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"
8.8. "PRESIDENT TAFT"- S.S. "PRESIDENT ADAMS" S.S. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND"
SAILS APR. 3rd at
APB, 14th at 1.00 A.M. APRA, 14th at 12 Noon APR 28th at 1,00 A.M.
AMERICAN ✰✰
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KOUND WORLD
28171
EXPERTS IN SYNTHETIC OIL TEST
AN
THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 30, 1989-
OFFICIAL TEST BY A
ACE PILOTS
ARE FLYING TWINS'
THAT'S
BODY OF INDEPENDENT EX- FLYING TWINS". PERTS IS TO BE MADE SHORT-THE TITLE THAT AN AMAZING LY OF THE SYNTHETIC OIL CHAIN OF COINCIDENCES HAS PROCESS WHICH, IT IS CLAIM-EARNED FOR TWO YOUNG AIR- ED, WILL ULTIMATELY MAKE MEN NOW EMPLOYED BY IM- ENGLAND MUCH LESS DEPEN-PERIAL AIRWAYS. DENT ON FOREIGN OIL SUP- They are Capt. John Weir Bur- PLIES.
gess, thirty-one, and Capt. George.
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The scientists will report both Cyril Butler, twenty-nine, both sta- on the technical aspects of the pro-tioned at Hythe.
cess and its costs. Their investiga- They went into training together, tion will be made at the Bedlay then ut the same times became Colliery, Glenboig, near Glasgow, fiances, husbands and fathers. where a demonstration plant with
'Now Imperial Airways has chosen
a capacity of about 200 gallons a the two men as pilots for the Im- day has been working for some perial flying boats Aotearoa and weeks.
Austrialia, which are to be used in Mr. E. B. Whalley, managing the trans-Tasman Air Service. director of the Synthetic Oil Com- SONS NOT TO BE AIRMEN pany, said "By this process, motor spirit of 68 octane number can be produced which, with the addition of tetra-ethyl lead, can be brought up to 88 octane number, and so be suitable for aeroplanes.
Both captains were married ir 1935, within three months of each other.
"I acted as best man for my friend," Captain Butler said.
"He returned the compliment at my wedding, and later father to my child.
was god-
"Some of the gaseous products can be converted to iso-octane and so become available for the most "We thought our respec- modern military aeroplanes.”
tive wives would Octane is one
have had of the chemicalļa baby at constituents of petroleum. Different time, but Captain Burgess's wife about. the same blends of petrol can be arranged beat mine by about three months." in "octane numbers" according to Each wife had a son-and both the chemical formulae of each husbands and wives have decided blend.
to keep their sons out of the air.
"One airman, in the family is
Petrols with the higher octane numbers, are used for aeroplanes. enough," commented Captain But- The fastest military aeroplanes areler. iso-octane, which
is another sub-
"Burgess and I are very good pals. stance like octane but with special Tho appointment came as a most properties.
pleasant surprise."
An advantage of the new process
is that it produces a lubricating oil FLATS LEAD TO
for which special characteristics are claimed. On this point the
result of the official tests will be ONLY CHILDISM' watched with great interest.
"Small amounts of lubricating Flats and flat life, as produc- oil have been made from synthetic tive of "only. childism,' were stock," Mr. Whalley said. "They strongly criticised by Sir Walter have given good results so far as Langdon-Brown, Emeritus Pro- the chemical and virosity tests go,fessor of Physics at Cambridge:
University, at the, conference of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association and the [Cambridge_research branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England at Trinity Col- - lege, Cambridge.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auc tion on
Tuesday, the 4th. April, 1939 commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 35 Hankow Road, Kowloon, A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
·FURNITURE
comprising:-
Teakwood Bedsteads,
"Everyone here," he said,.. "must be oppressed by the feel-- ing that recent developments are: making successful co-operation in social life increasingly diffi- cult. Brought up as I was as one of six, in a rambling house with an old walled garden and a river, meadows and woods near at hand, I cannot regard flats,- Divans, even when equipped with swim-- Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, Wash- ming-pool and squash courts, as- stands, Chests of Drawers, Hat-homes fit for children to live in. stands, Chesterfield Suites, Dining "The increase in the number of Tables, Sideboards, Dinner Wag. flats and the fall of the birth-- gons, Chairs, Ice Chests, Desks; rate are not merely coincidental... Cabinets, Typewriter Tables, Rugs, Only childism has become a pre- Curtains, Mosquito Nets, Chair valent form of neurosis. Covers, Curios, Porcelain, Glass, The huge mushroom dor- Brass & E. P. Ware, Cutlery, Elec-mitories.springing up all round tric Table Fans & Lamps, Pictures, London produce problems of Ornaments, Cooking Utensils,
etc.
also
A Few Pieces of Blackwood Furniture and
1 Westinghouse". Refrigerator. 1 "Zenith" Radio Set. "
1 Teakwood Bed Room Suite,
their own. The negative side, the absence of communal life, of" social interests, of civic centres, lead to at deadness and dulness which must react unfavourably on the whole existence of the in- habitants."
Declaring that garden cities: were the answer to many psycho- logical discontents, -Sir Walter On View from Monday, the 3rd. remarked:"Since the war we
1 Teakwood Dining Room Suite,
April, 1989.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
have allowed a new problem to
usunawares. We have al--
um: which stunts the
by the slums'