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TWO 15-KNOT JAPANESE CARGO LINERS, One of the most reinarkable developments in the already wide- As a result of the success of the spread use of asbestos-cement pro-six. 13 knot cargo liners built for ducts during recent years has been the Osaka Shosen Kaishn's service their adoption for pipes. Nown-between: Yokohama, Los Angeles days, this material is being increas and New York, two more similar aly atilised for soil pipes, rain- vessels have just been ordered, for water pipes, flue pipes and pressure completion in the early summer of 1032, so that the service may be In this connection the activities maintained fortnightly instead of of Asbestos Cement Building Pro on an 19-day basis as a present ducts, Ltd, and the manufacturing The vessels are 445-ft, b, with companies of which it is the selling a beam of 00-ft. -10s. organisation, are of particular, in-draught of 27-ft, 11-ins., and a lerest. In addition to the existing | deadweight capacity of 9,000 tona factory at Widnes, Lancashire, of Bell's Poilite & Everite Co., Ltd, a large new pipe factory is nearing completion there, representing an outlay of something like £150,000. It contains some elaborate and very costly machines for the manu- facture of asbestos-cement pressare pipes, which are unique in Britain, and some idea of the ultimate out.
and a
The machinery power is 7,200 b.h.p, giving a trial trip speed of 18 knots and a regular service speed of cvor
13 knots.
The order has been placed with the Mitsubishi Nagaanki Dockyard and the engines will be of the Mit- subishi-Suizer typo,
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SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1931.
CHINA'S TEN-YEAR and the cost of the additional the Shanghai-Nanking Railway.
(35,000,000 spindles would be The site has a navigable crock on " INDUSTRIAL PLAN. $1,800,000 at $10 per spindle, In one side and the river on the other, regard to other textile enterprises, so that ocean-going ships will be it is estimated that an annual ex-able to come right alongside the penditure of 0270,000,000 for ten wharf. Just across the river is | years' would meet requirements. Iron and Coal.
Finally, an annual expenditure The consumption of iron and of $100,000,000 for ten years is steel in China is absurdly low allowed for in connection with pur when compared with the quantities chases of other descriptions of used in other countries. The aver-machinery, including road-making age for a year stands at 4.3 lbs plant and fomestic appliances, such
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Pukow, the terminus of the Tien- tsin-Pukow Railway, by which route, supplice of coal, coke, and iron-ore can be made available. Estimates have been prepared of the cost. of establishing the Government's. model workshops at Nanking, and the principal details are as fol
per capita, compared with over as sewing-machines and refrigera
lows:-Land, $100,000; buildings, 1,000 lby, for the United States and tors.
These various items, when total 8818,000; machinery and plant, 50g for Great Britain. In the ten-
ear plan it is assumed that the con-led up, give an annual expenditure $1,103,000; foundations and shaft sumption of iron and steel in China on machinery for the ten-yearing $48,000; working capital, will increase to 00 lbs. per capita period of $1,120,000,000,-nfigure 2810,000. These items, with various per annum, or 12,000,000 tons. One which seems enormous, but is only incidentals: not here mentioned, hundred blast, furnaces of 300 tons one-seventh of the machinery pro-make capacity would be needed to meet duction of the United States, and this demand, costing $240,000,000, is therefore considered to be a con and steel-mills would cost another servative estimate. $885,000,000, making a total expen- diture of 8005,000,000 on, developing | the iron and steel industries. The mining and smelting of copper, zinc, tin, and aluminium would cz!] for machinery and plant costing $226,000,000.
Where the United States uses 4.89 tons of coal annually per capita and Great Britain used 4.85 tons, China's consumption is only 0.08 of d ton. The ten-year plan looks to an increase to 1,000 lbs. per capita per annum, ·· equal to 200,000,000 tons, as compared with
COAL IN CHINA. put of the factory can he gathered The Chai Tong coal mines ni from the fact that, even in an un-Hopei, neur Peiping, Chinn, yield finished state, it is capable of pro-both coking, bitumincus and an- ducing 17 miles of Everite ashen-thracite coal. A large $1771 of China's present output of 30,000,000 tos-cement pressure pipes a week, money was spit by the last opornt-tons, which would necessitate the apart from the other branches of ing company on a 20 mile railway, purchase of machinery and plant the business which are carried on connecting the mines, with the costing 3301,000,000. The annual in the same section.
Poiping Hankow Railway, but a expenditure on mechanical equip further big expenditure will bument in connection with the coal required to put the line into good and metallurgical industries is working order. It is considered estimated in the plan at 8130,000,000 that these mines will hold an in- for ten years. portant place in North China, due to their proximity to Peiping, Tientsin and the Tangku sea poris,
These works will, in due course, embrace the whole of the A.C.R.P. pipe business, but there are, of of courae, other factories of the various manufacturing companies, as, for instance, the Erith Works of the British Fibrocement Works, Ltd., and the Trafford Park, Man- chester, factory of Turners Asbestos Cement, Ltd.
SEASONING OF TIMBER,
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Government Workshops. The next question is how to meet this tremendous demand for machinery, and to this end the establishment of machine-shops is urgently necessary, There are many such shops already establish. ed in China, but they are small in size and poorly equipped, and un- able to expand and improve along modern lines. If a billion dollars is to be spent annually upon inachinery, the plans must be pro- vided capable, of supplying that, demand, therefore, the Ministry of Industries suggests the establish, ment in Nanking of a central works for machine construction-a model plant where mechanics could be trained under foreign supervision. In course of time men so trained in the Government workshops would become available to carry on tho subsequent expansion of China's. engineering industries, and take the lend in organising and conduct- lng new enterprises of thiả char- ncter. The Government workshops would establish standard of Agricultural Machinery.
efficiency for other plants to follow, Of the 700,000,000 acres of arable and would also carry on experi land in Chinn, only about one-mental and research work for the benefit of the industry as a whole. quarter, is actually under cultiva The products which appear to be In the construction of the fur- tion. After opening-up the sparse-most needed and offer the best pros- niture of saloons and cabins only populated territory in the north pects of profit development are steam-engines, boilers, and acces NEW SWISS POWER STATION.board ship, it is of vital importanes
that the timber employed shall have west, and re-establishing prosperity sorics, Diesel units for ships, mor- In view of the growing need of been thoroughly seasoned, other in those provinces which have been chant-ships and fishing-craft, re
wish the variations of atmospherie the Swiss Federal Railways "for temperature and humidity to which stricken with famine, it is estimated frigerators, machine tools machi- nery and plant for rond-making power for traction, it was decided it is being continually subjected that the area of arable land can by and constructional work, commer at a recent meeting of the Roard may cause it to warn or shrink. increased to 500,000,000 acres. Wide cial castings, tools and gauges.
The seasoning of timber is generalstretches of country in North China of Administration that the
ly regarded as being, lengthy struction of a new power station at process, but by a method which has are suitable for the introduction the Etzel, on the River Sill, in the been recently perfected it is clain of modern mechanical methods as Canton Schwyz, should be starteded that the complete drying and cinployed in large-senic farming seasoning procesa can be effected in the work will be concluded by the process is, of course, a secret, but it is apparently based upon the This new station will be erected use of chemicals in conjunction with an optical treatment, and what by the Federal Railways in coila-gives it an addell interest is that boration with the "Nordostschwei- it permits of the colouring of the zerische Kraftwerke A.-G.," one of timber, the colour not only extend
ing right through the wood, but the principal "power supply com being absolutely fast, fadeless and panies in this country. The plant impervious to acids. Using a fine. ly-grained wood, such as sycamore, owned by the railways will com it is thus possible to produce fur prise three single-phave generatura niture in accordance with the mo coupled to turbines of 20,000 p., dern fashion, in delicately-coloured while the "Nordestschweizerische shades, showing all the beauty of
the grain.-Shipbuilding. Kraftwerke A.-G." will have three three-phase generators coupled to turbines of 16,000 h.p. The cost is estimated at 2,000,000 Swiss franca The rock of Gibraltar is not such (£2,480,000) and will be shared by a symbol of strength to-day as it the railways and the power com-Britain frat fortified it, geological was when more than 200 years ago pany to the extent of 55 and 43 per experts in Paris declare. The rock is said to be crumbling and shrink- cent, respectively.
ing. The principal cause of this is declared to be the shattering effect on the majestic fortress of the fire' of Gibraltar's twelve inch land de fence guns. Spitting fire in peace ful practice for years the fort gung have recoiled on the rock and hasten completion of the shaken it severely. As a fortress
the rock has been for conturies r $1,000,000 irrigation project being garded as the mightiest in axistener constructed by the China Interna At the present time, it carries a tional Famine Relief Commission in gun of large or small calibre on every availablo inel along its three
cun-
this summer. It is anticipated that a few weeks. The nature of thi abroad. On the assumption that
autumn of 1934.
SUIYUAN CANAL. -
An army of 3,000 soldiers, arised with shovels and poles, has been enlisted, along with 2,000 farmers,
to
GIBRALTAR CRUMBLING
AWAY,
Suiyuan, so that the first water can mile promontory and the cannons flow through the main portion of are ofton cunningly concealed ise-
hind flowering plants. The ap-
processen,
Experts to Visit England. The plan drawn up by the Minis try of Industries also provides for the despatch to England of a nUM- ber of experts, whose duty it will be to study methods of factory or ganisation in order that they may be able to plan 'the' most effectivé. methods for application to the Nanking project. These Chinese experts will be also required to machinery plant which will the
supervise the construction" of
ordered from British manufactur- ers, and to engage experienced fore- men in England to be sent out to China to take charge of such work- shops and departments for which expert Chineao supervision is not. available such as foundries, ma chine-shops, Diesel-enging construc tion, and the making refrigera.
the annual expendituro under this head would be no more than 82 per capita, this would amount to the purchase of $100,000,000 worth of agricultural machinery and appli ances every year for ten years.
Next comes the ranchinery and plant necessary for milling and other manufacturing which it is estimated would total 8234,000,000, distributed as follows: Rice, 20 millions; whent, millione; beans, 20 millions; pea-
Site for Model Workshop. nuts, three millions; wood-oil, three
A site covering 250 nores has been millions; tobacco, 50 millions; already chosen in Nanking, situat- various other crops, 58 millions ed just outside the city wall and
operation in Assuming that there is already in about one mile from the track of
Chins machinery
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equivalent to one-fifth of this total; additional plant costing $203,000,000 would be needed, representing an annual expenditure of 820,300,000 for ten years. Thus on raising crops and treating them indus- trially there would be an annual expenditure upon machinery and mechanical appliances of $120,320,- 000 for ten years,
Chemicals.g Chemical industry in China is in
the canal in the middle of Juneproaches from land, from the north very backward, atate, and its The project consists of 42 miles of and from the sea from the south development is most necessary both main canal from the Yellow River and southwest sides have a guard of for the extension of industrial
powerful batteries. westward to the Black River (Hei Particularly
while there are also a series enterprise and national defence. The
Ho), with about 150 miles more fortified galleries with secret en divided among 14 laterals, making trances.
up about 200 miles of canal. 15
Slightly more than 250,000 acres KENYA RAILWAY EXTENSION, will receive rigation, with: 40,000
plan estimates that on machinery
alone an annual expendtiuro b $150,000,000 is necessary for ten years. Of machine-toola a billion
ten
The textile industry in China is
additional if certain widening pro- | In Kenya, the Yala' branch rail. dollars worth will be needed," essens are undertaken. By the end way and the extension from Naro which means an expenditure of of June the excavation of the main Moru to Nanynki wero opened. canal and the first nine laterals last year, and in Ugandan fine $100,000,000 every year for should be completed. The only rail and road.. bridge nernas the years. remaining work besides the last five Nile was constructed and the rail- laterals will be the building of away carried from Jinin to Kam weir and other special regulation pala, the commercial capital; its fairly well developed, compared work at the intake. Due to the extension from that point to Mu- with other branches of manufactur- depreciation in silver, there is not bende has been recommended by stent menry to fish all of tho a coramittee appointerborom ng nativity thaugh more than half last fivo laterals. It therefore will tectorate Government. While in the mills are foreign-owned and be up to the Saiyuan Government Europe on leave, General Rhodes.. and the people to dig there Inst five sonorni mannyer of the Kenya and there is annual import of pices- laterals. At the opening ceremony, Uganda Railways, discussed with goods amounting to $400,000,000 in in June, water will be admitted the Belgian authorities, the ques value. There is in the cotton in into the main canal up to the first tion of eventual railway connexions dustry 4,000,000 spindles in opera- check gate and the first five laterals hetween that British aystem and
tion, but China needs 40,000;000;1 above it.
the Belgian Congo.
tors.
" . total estimated cost of 83,103,900 for the whole scheme.
It is planned to spend about $9,500,000 of the Boxer Indemnity Fund to be returned", by Great
tural steel; machinery, etc., leaving Britain on the purchase of struc- į a balance of only about 8000,000 to be provided by the Government.
The Ministry of Industries, there- fore, urges that immediate provi- sion be made for earmarking this small sum, in order to allow ita! scheme to be carried out at an early date.-Chinese Economic Bulletin,
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