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Ciɛ der MESSAGERIES MARITIĢIES,
3, QUEEN'S BUILDING,
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28th, 1928.
SINGAPORE'S AIR BASE.
A 600 ACRE SCHEME.
EIGHT MONTHS' PROGRESS AT SELETAR.
HUGE AERODROME IN THE MAKING,
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY **
PASSENGERS,
PROMINENT-PASSENGERS.
Among passengers aboard the s... President McKinley, in addition to Colonel Stimson and party were: Mr. George F. Toller, Oriental Manager of John Wanamaker and Sons of Now Fork and Philadel phin returning to Hong Kong,
When the four Supermarine fly-] This is a levelling and turing
The following were bound to ing boats of the Royal Air Force scheme of a magnitude hitherto un Manila:-Mr. J. M. Goodeno, re- fight alight on the Straits of | known in Malaya."
presentative of Standard Oil Ca Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Selph, a pro- Johore at Seletar on February 27th
Land And Bez Planes.
minent Manila attorney: J. they will be the first to use the The air base will eventually be George L. Tosusend who is con Latest British air base in the Farj used both, for landplanes and ea nected with Fairbanks Morse & planes and two hangars are to be Co.; Mrs. Edgar Willis Burr, and Ent.
erceted. These will be steel fram- two children, Mr. Scott Lintner Singapore is taking its imperialed structures, 250 feet long, with with the Atlantic Gulf and Pacifie destiny very casually, and it is re-sliding doors at each end giving a [ Co.. | Mr. Wm. 1. Fitzgerald, markable that the Royal Air Force clear opening of 190 feet by 30 feet Inorganic Chemist & Assayer with base at Seletar should have reache in height. One haugar for the the Syndicate Mining Co.; Mr. and ed the stage at which it is at pre- land machines will be situated near Mrs. Otto Pruessman and daugh sens, without the busy city on the the landing ground, and the other ter, Far Eastern Manager Inter other side of the island realising for the senplaces will be opposite national General Electric Co
ither the progress that has been the slipway on the bench. For the Captain W. Bartholf, Captain U.S. made or the real scope of the former structure 40,000 tons of Navy returning from Shangbai; scheme. It is otherwise with the earth have been excavated, and, as Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Calhoun, Miss naval base. That is an interna- an indication of the difficult Virginia Rosenstock, daughter of tional question, and there is some
nature of the foundations in some prominent Manila merchant; Dr. danger of its becoming a local one, parts of the site, it may be men- Fredrick M. Loomis, prominest tioned that the seaplane hangar surgeon of Oakland o world will rest on concrete piles driven tour; Major and Mrs. Theodore A. forty feet into the ground. A tem- Secor, Major U.S. Marines porary per carrying a Sve-ton route from Shanghai. travelling crape and a metre-guage railway has been built and in a few weeks time this equipment will be used to land the eight bundred tons of steelwork which will arrive for the hangars In the meantime it makes possible the transport of other heavy material to the base
that Singapore can really be said to take an intelligent interest in the activities of the Admiralty at Seletar.
Concrete Slipway.
But the popular idea regarding the air bare hitherto has been that it is a sort of offshoot of the Ad-] miralty operations and of very motor interest. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In the first place the air base is an entirely arparate scheme under the direction of the Air Ministry in London, | by sea. and, secondly, it is a project the Imperial and local importance of
The senplane slipway is finished, which can scarcely be Over- emphasised. It would be difficult and it will be used for the first in these sensational days to ques-time when the Far East flight ar tion the wildest of Wellsinn pro-rives this month. Built of can crete, and sloping gently into the phecies of aviation development, and when the R A. F. base at water, the sipway is forty fect wide, and it runs 5 feet out into Seletar is completed in about three years time Singapore will be well the Straits. Later on, when dredg equipped to face its future as ed, it will be lengthened to 300 feet. ing operations have been complet. strategic and civil airport.
The construction of this slipway considerable engineering feat, for it had to be speeded up owing to the expected arrival of the R.A.F. flight, and it was finish- ed in six weeks, the engineers work ing between tidea. The big Super marine flying boats draw three feet six inches of water, and they will be hauled up the slipway and ac commodated on the concrete road way which already runs for some 200 feet along the water front.
It is possible that when the four
machines RAF.
from return Australia and Hong Kong they will be stationed permanently at singapore, and a fifth lying bont arrived a dismantled conditina recently for
It will be assembled at machine. the base, and a special shed is now being built for this purpose.
A Wonderful Bite. The Straits Settlements gave the site for the adr base, and it is a truly wonderful ore. Imagine an aren of six hundred acres, roughly triangular in shape, undulating in character, cleared as cleanly as golf course of the rubber, coconuts, and part of the mangroves which formerly grew upon it, and with a two miles frontage upon the Johore Straits, and you have the air base site as it is today. For the reader who is hazy about the geography of the Admiralty and Air Ministry operations along the Seletar shore it may be useful to that air is situated about six miles to the east of the naval base, and it is bounded by the Sungei Seletar and the Sungei Pas, two, tidal creeks which run some distance.. inland from the Johore Straits. On a clear day, with a cool breeze blowing over from the hills of Johore, and the blue water of the Streite in the foreground, there are many worse places on Singapore Island than the R.A. F. base.
Eight Months' Progress. The scheme started on May 31st of last year. Before that time hundred acres of land were clear- ed And essential anti-malarial ditches made, but that is the date to which the engineers in charge of the base look back to us the be ginning of serious work. It is amazing what has been done since that time. There is A staff of seventeen British engineers and supervisors, and a labour force (ne commodated in coolic lines on the site) of 1,300 Chinese and Tamils at work, but, having regard to the way these things are usually dope in the tropics, it is quite certain that the main lines of the general scheme would not be taking tape as clearly as they already are if there had not been a steady, une mitting drive behind the multi farious operations, in it is equal- ly certain that the British taxpayer who is paying for the air base at Seletar is getting his money's worth and more as the work is being executed at present,
Million Tons Of Earth. The main feature of the scheme in the landing ground. This will occupy two hundred acres, "and it'
Was
It
use as
reserve
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
PENINSULAR AND OBIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION Co.'s
STEAMER "KALYAN,”
AIEND BONG KONG C
24TH FEBRUARY, 1928.
Frox BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND
STRAITS
ONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above
named Vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being sodel anil placed at max in the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com- Consignment will be sorted out Mark. pany's Godawas at Kowloon, where each by Mark and Delivery can be obtained ne the Goods are landed.
Ferrian Golf ex BLAN. and B. & P.S.N. This Vessel brings on Cargo from Co, Steamers
unl Instructions have been given to the Optional Goods will be landed here contrary 6 hours before arrival of the Stamer.
Goods not cleared within 8 days including date of arrival will be subject to
Fire Insurance will be affected by us in any case whatever.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
"
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M.V. "RABY CASTLE"
- Sails on/or about 15th March
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£72.10.0. £80, 0.0.
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From Hong Kong. Sails ou/or about 1st Mar ........... Sails on for about 29th Mar. Sails on/or about 26th Apr.
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From Hong Kong.
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Baile on/or about
Sail on/or about
3rd Apr.
jat May...
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BS.
FROM CALOUTTA & COLOMBO TO
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Agenta.
Telephone: Central 1030.
Damaged Packages must be left in the HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,
Godown for examination by the Con- sigaen, and the Company's Surveyors, Masers. GODDARD & DOUGLAS at 10 a.. or gongs and Thursdays, within the Free
against the Steamer must before 15th March, 1928, or they will be presented to the Undersigned on or
not be recognized.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown. MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co.,
Agents. Hon Kone, 24th Feb, 1928. [5919
Other building operations which are in hand are quarters and messes for the works staff, barracks to house 50 airmen, and temporary wooden offices, dining room, guard- room and store for the base party HONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL of the Far East. Flight. Eventual- ly parade and sports grounde will be constructed.
REGISTER
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COMBINED FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE, CO CABIN CLASS ACCOMMODATION FOR 50 PASSENGERS ** FARE FROM HONG KONG TO GENOA-£73, 0, 01,
OUTWARD.
Flight consists of three officers and
The base party of the Far East Hong Kong Observatory, February 27th. Sailings from Europe for Shanghai and Northern Ports
airmen, whose duties are to
assist
the machines' crews at various points on the route of the Barometer.. fight in repairing and overhaul Tempersiare
engines and machines, and who Hamidity. are generally responsible for the Wind
round organisation of the fight. The base party is an integral part of the Far East Flight, and at present their duties are only directly connected with the estab Hishment of the air base.
Anti-Malarial Work,
The anti-malarial treatment of
the site has been very successful. The main valley, running from south to north has been used as the catchment area for the smaller ravines, whence the greater portion of the surface water is conducted by way of open channels and cul verts to the sea. The result of the extensive works carried out is that the whole area is well-drained, and the health of the labour force has been excellent
Previous On Dalejon Date
-Day
at
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at 2 p.m. 6. p.m.
'8.8. "EMIL KIRDORF"
M.S, HAVELLAND"
90.07 20.06
67
60
30.03
61
8.A." HAVENSTEIN” 8.8. "BOHRER"
£3
100
97
8.8. "CARL LEGIEN B.8.
ADOLF VON BAEYER"
Calm 0
0.00
Direction Calm
◊ Force..... Westher... OR ́ORM
0.36 Bain..
Highest open-air Temperature, 16th: Lowest, open-air Temperature, 27th: --"
Drizzia; F-Fog; L-Lightning; 3-Blue sky; C-Clondy; D-
Mist;-O-Overcast; P-Passing bowers; Q-Squalls; R-Rain; T- Thunder.
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE.
From February 28th to March 6th, 1928
Kox Wazn.
Date of
Hong
Kong
Standard
Time.
ti
Low Warer.
Height
Hong
Kong
Standard
Timo.
Height
hh. m.in. 45m 8 9 35 2.41 80 10 242 3 1m 8 36 3 U
50
17 31
Roads have proved a difficult pro blem. There were none to speak of on the site six months ago, and now there are over a thousand should be finished in twelve months of firm main roads, aparte og
Iroi temporary roads." time. Already it is & most impres considerable portion was construct. Wed. 29m 5 32
Quite a tive achievement. On an ideal site ed over what was mangrove swamp it would have been shaped us until recently, and no less than Thur square of a thousand yards each fifteen feet of Bling had to be done. way, but the engineere have had to in one place, while the action of the make it into an oval outline to fit the nature of the ground. Through tides had to be counteracted by an
arrangement of drainage pipes. Sat. out the air base very considerable The land erahs of which Sir Fer- amounts of filling and cutting have cival Phillips wrote recently still Ban to be done, and on the aerodrome continue their operations, and piles Do less than a million tons of earth of loose carta like molehills Mon. are being drifted, the average mysteriously appear in stretches of depth of cutting being about eight carefully prepared road formation.
Miner Thrills.
feet.
As one stands above one of these
10 11 8 ~9–38--|-0-
m 8 47 4 2m 1 24
6 296 8 ml1 29°
81 7 0 0333 0 414 6m 2 41 0°
Em10 446m 3 14 0.9
8 237 2 1 2936
9 9072) 218 No3 2
HOMEWARD..
tine bera on or about the, Tet Mfar. dne here on or about the 4th Mar. dee here on or about the 7th Mar, ...dhe hern on or about the 19th Mar, dos here on or about the 90th Mar, dne here on or about the 3rd Apr.
Sailings for Europe via Manila, Singapore
Colombo & Port Said:-
Bailing from here on or about the 15th ... sailing from here on or about the 29th Mar
IT.8. "BAARLAND” ISS EMIL KIRDORF" * M.S. “HAVELLAND" (Omitting Maolla)
...mailing from bere on or about the 1st Apt.1 *6.8. "CARL LEGIEN". 2. Miling froze here on or about the 24th Apr. 8.S. "ADOLF VON BLEYEB” sailing from here on or about the 1st May *8.5. “PREUSSEN "
aailing from here on or about the 15th May Calling at Genos, Marseilles, Rotterdam and Hamburg. Calling at Genos, Botterdam and Hamburg,
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THE DEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
FROM LEITE, MIDDLESBRO": ANTWERP, LONDON, STRAITÉ & PHILIPPINES.
The Steamship "BENLAWERS,”
NONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby..
Tel. 0.2 Tel. 0. 4754
PRINCE LINE. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM NEW YORE,
THE Motor Versal
THE
CHINESE PRINCE" having azrived from the above Port on 24th instant, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the of the Hong Kong and Wharf and Godown Company landed at their risk into the hazardous Limited, Kowloon, and stored : 16 and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Consignees wax and expense.
informed that all Goods are being gowns-a
ахревле.
Kong and Kowloon Wharf · and All cuttings to-day one sees a wide ex- The area originally, consisted of may be mentioned is thet munici Godown Co. Ltd, whence wodfar from Goods are to be left in the Gotowsk panse, smooth as a football pitch about fifty acres of coconut trees, pal water is now available on the Claims fill be admitted after the Thursday, 1
where they wil Delivery may be obtained.
be examined bea No
at 10 a.m. 12 298,49 and sloping gently at the required a hundred acre of mangrove site, having been brought from the
and all
All Clai Janet angle of one in sixty, and the posts swamp, and the rest was rubber. city along the Yio Chu Kang Road. Goods have left the Godowns
be presented within af the engineers far back in the Ninety-five per cent of the clearing The Royal Air Force base 01 2nd March, 1923, will be subject to Rent here, after which date they cannot be Goods masising medalivered after the Fiftam days of the Vessel's arrival lallang and away to the Sungei immediately in view has been com- Singapore Island is a great and
the of the aerodrome. The surfacing are being tackled more gradually, any amount of thoroughly aged before the 16th March, 1928, or they will Goods retaining undelivered after Seletar marking the eventual limits pleted, and the mangrove swamps inspiring undertaking, involving be presented the Undersigned on ar
Agron be admitted after the ndong Goods have left the Godowns, and has been very earsfully done, the but the whole of the latter will slogging by the engineerged not be recognised and damaged Goods and March, 1928, will be subject to Rent. procedure being to remove the top eventually be drained and filled in it, and it is one that Singa- ONG KONG HANGARD BE. THERAPION No. 1 soil, which is a fine, black foam, to One bandryad and two pythons poreans should know something are to be left in the Godewas, where.
Lady No Fire Insurance has been effected. H PORTS of the MEETING THERAPION NO. 2a maximum depth of twelve inches, have been met with during the about, both because their Govern- be
be examined on the 1st March, 1928, 02 the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THERAPION NO. 8 stack it in various convenient course of the work, besides & nuth-ment gave the land for the project, at 10 am, by Mrs. Goddard & Donate
places until, the necemary, cathing | Ver of black cobria, while a cobra and because the air base will play 14% for Machor Chater, MA 3 de Tune & and filling a completed, then, was found among the papers in a great part in the future of a para a pagament, Pran, mi pedig a paf Gand spread it again to a depth of four the chief enginee's office on one port strategically situated in the
MIT inches, and finally carry out spot occasion. One other pedŝt which centre of South Eastern Aña.
turfing" with locai buffalo, grass. (Continued at foot of next column) | Straits Tmice.
ON BALE.
ar the Beation 1927.
Hevised by PRICE
TER - HAY PRIBOR - KENZOR,
All broket, chafed
No Fire Insurance has been affected.
· Dils of Lading will be cotitóralosed. Þy GIBB, LIVINGSTON &
[à00% IND: Akzenta Hong Kong, 24th Feb, 1928, ↑ [6020′′
by
of lading will be countersigned
"
FURNESS (FAR EAST)," LTD
Spênd Floor, King's Building, A
Connaught Road Telephine No. 3166. Hong Kong, Zitha Tab., 1978. [5918.