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HOW GREEN ISLAND CEMENT IS MADE
Green Island Cement is manufactured from hard limestone and clay. It is necessary that these materials should be finely ground in order that they may come into intimate contact with one another in the burning process.
The finely pulverised materials are mixed in a certain definite proportion, roughly one part of clay to three of limestone, and are fed to the Rotary Kilns.
In these kilns they meet the hot gases and flames generated by pulverised coal blown in at the other end of the kilns, and, after various chemical actions have taken place, they combine to form Portland Cement Clinker.
The Clinker is ground down with a small. percentage of gypsum to regulate the setting time, and Green Island Portland Cement is thus produced.
Although sounding so simple, in reality the process is an intricate combination of mechanical, physical and chemical operations, needing great skill and care. Nothing but constant and accurate supervision will yield the results so well-known with Green Island Cement, namely, strength, uniformity and reliability.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1931.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
IN SINGAPORE..
(Continged from Puge 1.)
From an inquiry circulated among captains of steamers running in the East, it appears, that the bulletin in clean can be picked up on the whole run, Suez-Yokohama, as well ne along Colombo-Sydney route. To emphasise the grave con sequence of a lack of information at sea, we quote the case of the
INDIA'S CIVIL SERVICE.
NO CAREER SOON FOR ÁBLE YOUNG MEN?
ENGINEERING AND BUILDING
SPEED OF MODERN
WARSHIPS.
ACCELERATION AND THE
FUEL BILL.
A RESERVOIR'S DEFECTS.
PROBLEM FOR BIRMING HAM.
PORTUGUESE PORT
PROGRAMME. ·
IMPROVEMENTS AT LISBON AND SETUBAL.
Speed 'records op fand and in the
During the year 1030 progress The trouble in the new Bartley
was made on the Portuguese port air havo attracted so much atton Reservoir on the southern outskirts
improvement programme for Portu- of Birmingham has not been dogul announced in 1999, providing 8.2 Hawaii Maru (April, 1925)
tion in recent years that the sen has been affected by the craze also.fnitely diagnosed, says The Times.
for a total expenditure of approxi.... carrying emigrants who were allow ed to land in Saigon, although this
Apart from dncing motor-boats Exploration by boring and other mately 12,000,000 over a period of port had been reported as infected line of drastic, not to say revolu. like Miss England, whose only means suggests that the leakage 100,000,000 escudon. (84,500,000) was amounting sometimes to about half fonted during the early part of a million gallons a day, may be | 1830.
onnected with a seam of sand un-
with cholera, the captain having been unable for two successive weeks to pick up our broadcast in clear announcing this outbreak..
Outbreak of Cholera.
On both tensions of the weekly broadcast the shop was lying in
Sir Patrick Fagan, Inte Finan cial Commissioner, Punjab, con- siders that under the proposed con. stitutional changes in India there will be no place for an Indian Civil Service of any such type as has existed up to the present.
In an address before the Royal Empire Society, Sir Patrick said that the Round Table Conference had left with us the vaguest out
tionary constitutional changes, which went far beyond anything contemplated so recently as a year ago, and in which administrative considerations appeared to have played little or no part.
"As regards the Indian Civil port, when the radio operators are Service under the latter scheme, not on watch. The result was that this much may I think be said,
"If in future cholera broke out on board five days declared Sir Patrick. after leaving Saigon, causing 17 the whole administration is to be deaths and necessitating & stay of carried on by ministers under full 20 days at Bingapore Quarantine responsibility to so-called popular Station, involving both expense legislative bodies, both at the ces- and delay. This could not occur tre and in the provinces, subject, now that our bulletin in clear in it may be, to certain more or less broadcast daily.
transient safeguarde, then it is The urgency of notifying "next quite impossible to see any place porte of call” of the imminent for an Indian Civil Service of any arrival there of ships having on such type as has existed up to the board cases of infectious diseases present. was early realised, and put into function by the Bureau. The fol. lowing case will show how necesanry this policy is. A tramp steamer was hound from Singapore to a
neighbouring port having had small-pox on board and no doctor; on arrival, the captain-claimed to have lost his Bill of Health, but, thanks to information cabled by the Eastern Bureau, the Port Health Authorities were ready for him with ali ̧ defensive and offṛusive measure.
The number of ships in the Enet on which plague, cholera or small- pox occur is hardly realised, event in shipping circles; 74 such ships were reported to the Bureau in 1928 and 66 in 1929,
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No Prospects,
"An inevitable corollary of such system as is apparently suggest- ed would seem to be administration by completely provincialised staffe under the orders of popular local al governments, and entirely ar most entirely Indianised, with per- haps До modicum of European agency in advisory and technical posts and the like.
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function is mood, the warships of certain navies are getting faster
and faster.
three years.
An internal loan of
Contracts Awarded for Setubal and Lisbon Port Works.
The British navy has so far re-derneath the reservoir. Such a fused to be drawn into this race,
Bids were invited on a number scam, some in. thick, was discover- Our shipbuilders have frequently;
of port works, and contracts were od in a wet area outside the cm-awarded for important improve- shown in the past that they can bankment about a month after the mente at Setubal and Lisbon. build machinery to drive a ship official opening of the reservoir The Setubal contract for about faster than anybody else if acces last July. It appeared as if the 81,200,000 was obtained by a Danish aary, but the policy of the Admir
seam might extend under the dam firm, in the face of British, Ger and possibly outcrop somewhere in man, Spanish, Dutch, and Portu guere competition. The contract the bed of the reservoir. The in- for the port of Lisbon was secured dications obtained from berings by an Italian company, on a pointed to its occurring in the bid amounting to approximately marl somnowhere below the founda. $2,180,000. In each case the suc
cessful bidder is reported to have tions of the core wall. In a ra
Bubnitted prices well below the port to the City Council it is stat
cost estimated by the Portugueno ed that the investigation has not yet supplied the information souga:"
alty to-day, so far as warships are concerned, is to avoid freak ships and bulid only those that will do their job which is to keep at sea in all weathers and fight all conditions. The pre-war record for warships' speed was held by Britain with the destroyer Lurcher, which did 35.3 knots in 1812. The immediate post-war record was held as to the extent, depth, or inclinn- by us also, with the destroyer Furtion of this thin bed of porous ma- quoise, which did 39.0 knots in terial through which, apparently, 1019. Since then, however, foreign the escaping water is coming. It builders have put out several ships will probably be necessary to pur that have sel psed that speed.
Government.
Progress on Other Port Works. Work at the port of Villa Real de S. Antonio, at a cost approxi mating 8300,000, is being done by a Portuguese firm. It is expected that names of successful bidders. for the work at Avoiro and Viana suo boring operations for a can-do Castelo will soon be announced. Tho absoluto world's record is siderable time before the direc- According to reports, these con- hekl at the moment by the Italian tion of the flow can be ascertained tracts will go to Portuguese firme.
Tenders have not been invited If it is found that the water is flotilla-loader Alvise Cadamost),
for work on the Douro-Leixoes pre- which touched 15.5 knots while escaping through this seam or someject at Oporto, which will involve running her trials in February other porous stratum in the marl, an expenditure of about $7,300,000. this year. This is only a decimal
In 1929 a British, firm of consulting engineers was engaged by the Government to examine and report on its proposals respecting improve- ments at Leixoes. This project, involving the construction of a new, dock, will necessitato the diversion of the Leca River, considerable. dredging, and the extension of the
point below 50 miles as hour. In cement will probably be forced cidentally few people som to know down into the unsound place for how to turn knots into m.p.h. The the purpose of making & water- seeret is a very simple one. The tight barrier. nautical mile equals 1.15 miles. A contract for the further combined Multiply the knots, which are a ploratory borings has been let and "distance" and "time" boring has begun. It is quite im. measure, by 1.15 and you have the possible, the report says, to give cuqivalent in miles per hour. The any estimate of the cost which will
Every effort is existing mole. Cadamosto's record was made, it be involved. The circumstances is generally understood, under most
that have arison have prevented being made by local interests of Opetta to. hastea Government favourable conditions, and that the reservoir from being complete.. speed was not kept up for
action on the project. nyly filled and tested. The water
Not only would there be little place for the young Englishman, would scarcely attract the best pro- but the prospect of such a career
ducts of our Universities.
"Further, there is, I believe, grave doubt whether such n far- reaching administrative revolution, Serum Rushed to Shanghai.
however much it, may be demanded On receiving notification of the by a reformed constitution which is serious outbreak of cerebro-spinal being imposed from without on the meningitis in Shanghai (April, vast rural masses of British India
fied, from the reports of their proximately $480,000 for the con- 1920), we took steps to send out by will rommend itself to them:
Other high speeds attained by experts, that no water is escaping struction of a belt-line railway wireless rapid information on the whether, indeed, they will not warships in the last year or two through the dam itself, or, subject around the city of Oporto was re-
progress of this epidemic as well
keenly resent it."
ns on the sporadio ensès notified by other ports. This enabled the Chief Medical Oficer of the French ence has enabled them to frame Squadron to order by radio, whilst | their defensive action' in'dug time, at sc, n stock of anti-meningocoe and the Bureau's weekly message cus, serum froni Saigon to be rushed gives them a feeling of confidence up to Shanghai.
quite unobtainable before," to quote Having dealt with contaminated | the Principal Medical Officer of ports and infected ships, our next British Scanaliland. aim was to secure information re garding outbreak of infectious dia casce in the hinterland. This has been accomplished, and the bulk of information emanating from 35 fected for a period of 14 years
Regarding enforcement or cancel- lation of quarantine restrictions, a marked improvement is notiocable; parts are no longer considered in-
length of time. Her average for committee express themselves satis "A contract amounting to ap="
four hours was 41 knots.
are:-
Knots. Niccoloso da Rocco, au
Italian flotilla lender... 41.501 Dison, French flotilla
leader
41.2 Giussano,
7 cruiser
An Italian
Lion, French flotilla
leader Verdun, a Freach flotilla
lunder
40.7
40.0
40.1
Rioja, an Argentine des-
troyer Codrington,
Botila leader
39.4
British
38.0
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TIN CAN FACTORY IN TIENTSIN.
to anything further that explora-cently awarded to ̈ & Lásbon firm. tion may reveal, from under it. It is recalled in the report that when the dam was being constructed the earth slipped and the foot of the bank spread on either, side, movement was stopped at a cost of £123,000, and since that time- September, 1920-there has been no recurrence. The cause of slipping has not been definitely ascertained
I've
15,000 CANS PER MONTH.
Although there are a number of food canning, tea, and other fac tories in Tientsin which utilize tin containers, there is only one com
the ship's fuel consumption jumpsmercial tin cat-factory in the city, Against these speeds the Atlan- in the ratio of from 2.7 tone par This factory supplies tea merchants,
Eastern countries is sent to the owing to lack of information, as tic record of 20.04 kaots looks pret- hour to 18 tons per hour. That provision dealers, dyestuffa distri
Elak of Infection.
Burenu by post-unless its nature has boon the case in at least one and localisation' are such as to re- Eastern country, quiro its being forwarded. by tele gram-and is compiled in Weekly Fasciculus, a publication which is circulated to Health Ad-
our
ministrations, Port Health Offices
and Consulates in the Orient.
Results Achieved.
The whole quarantine policy is now mainly based on data supplied by the Bureau. When a risk of infection has disappeared, the in- criminated port in declared free with a mimimum of delay. This means less trouble for shipping and saving of time for passengers, and
Since April, 1026, the Eastern Bureau has been functioning as a regional centre under the new cargo, International Sanitary Convention. Farther, our intelligence service
ty small, but it must be remember- represents an increase in the fuel butors, dispensaries, and other ed that all these high figures were bill of something like £43 an hour, manufacturers, and dealers with attained by quite small ships of or more than £1,000 a day if the containers. Food canners and vari- ous other users manufacture their 2,000 or 3,000 tons, as against the ship were driven at full speed the
as she conceivably own, usually by hand methods. 30,000 tons or more of an Atlantic whole time, liner, and that they are crowded might be in a long-drawn-out as The Min Hsin (Star)} Can Factory with machinery and boilers. Mom tion. The total fuel capacity of was established in Tientsin in over, these high speeds jaro Mot a destroyer is between 400 and son January, 1930. averaged over a run of five days, tons. as in the case of the Atlantic ro all that in twenty-four hours at parison with these in the United cord, but over a run of four hours high speed and then what use is States. The sheet tin, which is all at the most. There are two things she to the Commander-in-Chief, 500 imported, is stamped and cut to to remember shout freak records miles from his home base and need the required size by machine. The
Fing-destroyer-protection-against-tins-are-rounded, bent-or-folded-by-
She can burn pretty woll
Methods are not modern in com-
By notifying the Eastern Burena has been considered suficiently re-in-warships:
1. The chip does not accelerate submarino attack The destroyers other machines. No mechanical of the outbreak of pestilential dis-linble by several great European
conveyor methods are used be cases the Eastern Governments are Powers to enable them to do with- from cruising speed to top speed at Jutland; for example, were exempted from any other obliga-out the health reports formerly sent by the simple expedient of stepping away from their base more than tween different steps in the manu
facture. After the cans are bent tions or diplomatic formalities re-in by their Eastern Consular offices.on a pedal... It. takes quite a long sixty hours. quired by the Sanitary Convention, An even more drastis step was taken time to work up from 25 knots to The British navy has come to the or folded to shape they are solder- thus inaking for convenience and in January, 1930, by, Australia, who. 35 knots and on to the ultimate 40. conclusion that although these red by hand Printing is done by decided that, in view of the excel- 2. Fuel cosumption increases out cord speeds may be very useful to machina after designs are engraved simplicity.
We will now put forward some lence of the intelligence service for of all proportion as the speed rises advertise the shipbuilding yard, on a "printing, stone" and trans- of the results achieved by our inwarding information regarding the Most of the engineering figurch on they are unnecessary in naval tac-ferred to rubbor rolls. telligence service. The fact that presence of quarantinable disease this subject are confidential, but tics. So our destroyers and cru Health Administrations are now in other countries," the production I know of a case whore, in order sqrs to-day are built with a re supplied with up-to-date intellig- of Bills of Health by overses vessels to get eight knots more speed, sonable speed that is not too ex- (Continued on next Column.)... travgant in its use of oil fuel," (Continued at foot of next column,) was no longer required.
rea-
The factory produces about 15,000 cans per month, which are sold by the factory direct to consumers.
Far Eastern Review,
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