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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1932.
ENGINEERING AND BUILDING
EAST AND WEST.
Cardiff Engineering Exhibition.
The cleventh annual Engineering Exhibition will be held at the Grey- frines Holl. Cardiff, under the aus pices of the South Wales Institute of Engineers, from November 23 to December 3 next. The exhibits will include steam boilers and engines, electrical-engineering plant, Air Compressors, welding plant, ma chine tools, metallurgical plant and qolliery installations and acces- sories. Full particulars regarding the Exhibition can, he obtained from the secretary of the Institute, Parw place, Cardiff,
Sydney and Brisbane Railway..
On May 3, the first through ex- press train arrived at the Central Station, Sydney, New South Wales, from Brisbane, Queensland. Through communication between the two cities has been rendered possible by the completion of a bridge across the River Clarence. Prior to this, passengers had to be ferried across the river by means of launches. The completion of the bridge has saved an hour on the jeurney, which now takes 21 hours 18 minutes from north; to south, and 20 hours 30 minutes from south to north. The line is standard gauge.
Launch of H.M.S. Diana.
H.M. Destroyer Dinna was Inunched from the Jarrow shipyard of Messrs. Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Limited, on The vessel, which has June 16 been built under the 1930 pro- gramme, has a length of 317 ft. 0
COMING SHORTLY TO THE KING'S AND ORIENTAL THEATRES
MAURICE!
CHEVALIER
LUBITSCH
IMAN ERNST
PRODUCTION
One Hour With You
A Post Netice
with Jeanette MacDonald
in, a beam of 33 It., and a stand- ard displacement of 1,375 tons, on a mean draught of 8 ft. 6 in. Her propelling machinery, constructed
Jarrow, will have, an estimated horse-pawer, an full-power trial, of 30,000, at which the vessel will
londed to her standart displace- ment Tho Armament includes four 4.7-in. guns and one 3-in. anti-aircraft gun.
JAPANESE CHARGED. ST. ANDREW SOCIETY IN
LONDON.
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The plaint is often heard that "I should like to explain to you Scots have little interest in their THE ZUYDER ZEE NOW AN why I have selected a small item. national history. The Committes
INLAND LAKE.
AN 18 MILE DYKE,
NURMI QUALIFIES FOR MARATHON.
There are really two reasons: one of St. Andrew Society was grati- is the atm is easily, proved and an-fied, therefore, when a large gather- other is that it is not sufficient for ing of members visited Westminis. me to prove a general doficiency in tor Abbey to bear Mr. Ian Stewart, order to establish a case of embezzle F.S.A.-Scot., horaldic writer to the Society, speak on the historic build- It is not often that the engineerment. works on such a scale na to neces-"}
"The accused was paid for the ings with Scottish associations, nitate the revision of maps, but the accounts due to Gande Price in special permission having been ab- at the builders' engine works at completion of the Zuyilor Zee ro-three different ways, sometimes by tained from the authorities. Mr. I clamation scheme, an important crossed cheque to Gande Price, Stewart gave a very comprehensive step towards which was made on Sometimes by a compradore order ontline of the history of the various Saturday, May 28, will certainly payable to bearer, and in other articles of Scottish connection in attain a speed of 38 knots when affect even small-scale maps in the cases, by cash. As you can quite the Abbey, after which tea was on-
Case: where joyed at the White Heather Café. mediato future. The step just understand, in the alluded to was the closing of the crossed-cheques were paid, there) main dyke between the one-time wus no defalcation as he did not island of Wieringen and Friesland. do anything "with them. Where The North Sea is now definitely compradore arders were given to denied entrance to the centre of him or where cash was paid, then Holland, and that part of it, he failed to account for what had famous in history and celebrated in been given him.” popular song, and known as the Zuyder Zec, has now lost its iden- tity and has become an enclosed Thu Talkiefone is a British in-body of tideless water, the Yssel- vention approximately the size of lake, which is to be itself reduced by further extensive reclamations wireless an ordinary
set. The
enclosed area, of land in the cinema model is about the size of an ordinary portable wireless, get Although the dyke, some 18 miles while the studio model is divided in length from shore to shora, is
now continues, it must be under into two parts in order that the
stood that it is not completed. weight may not be inconvenically The core only, of piled-up boulder heavy. They are both priced in the clay, has been closed by dumping United Kingdom at 5 guineas the clay in the final gap by means of The apparatus comprises everything floating grab cranes, and the fac necessary to make a talking picture
A Cinema Invention,
The success of the cinema and the development of the talking picture has given rise to a demand for home cinema apparatus.
The ease was adjourned.
WORK OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.
FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES.
Viiupri, Fin., June 7-Paavo Nurmi has served notice on the world's best marathonera that it will take record time tu stop him in the Olympic Games by running a ahort marathon of 40,900 meters (approximately 25 miles, 40 yards) in 9h. 22m. 45
The distanco ho ran is over a mile short of the Olympió distance
London. The peculiar difficul- of 28 miles 383 yards; but at the ties under which the missionary clip Nurmi was going he would societies are labouring at this time have finished out the distance under of funncial crisis were discussed the Olympic record of 2h. 32m. 45 fully and frankly, but in a most 44s., set at Antwerp in 1930 by optimistic spirit at the annual Hannes Kolehmainen. Nurmi aver- aged around six minutes for egel of the 23 miles ho ram
jag of it, together with the conconference of British Missionary
Societies which was held at Hod desdon, near London.
on dise, and has attachments to fitstruction of a railway and road on to any type of camera projector the top, yet remain to be done.
16 or nim.
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A comprehensive account of the complete scheme will be found in Engineering, vol. exxix, ou pages 665, 750, and 821 (1930), and the
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By his victory, won in the final The essential problem at the mo. Olympic trials here yesterday, ment said Mr. Wilson Cash, the Nurmi qualified to represant Fin secretary of the Church Mission land at Los Angeles. It will be his New Copper-Refining Company.
The catablishment of important views given in this of, the rinsingy Society, was not the balancing fourth venture in the international works at Prescot (Lancashire) of the final gap of the main dyke welfare of the churches abroad.
of the north-west polder, will convey a good idea of the opera
tion.
Matal Production in Canada.
Toronto, Canada.-Output of gold from the mines of Canada in the present year will have a value of more than £12,000,000, according to
of the budget at home but the gaines.
at
the same time the societies had a special responsibility for evangelis- ing England. "Bring the pagan people of England into the chur. NO ehrs and vitalise them," he said, and you will at the same time be enlarging the missionary con stituency."
foreshadowed by the announcement of a new company, Messrs. British Copper Refiners, Limited, for the purpose of producing high-condite.' tivity copper for electrical purposes. The company, it is stated, is close- ly associated with Messrs. British Insulated Cables, Limited, Prescot, and it is claimed that the refinery will is the first works of its kind in Great Britain. At the outset, the maximum output of the plant will be 1,000 tona per week, but provision is heing made, whereby Metallurgy, in an address at Sud-sions, while another declared that a extensions to buildings and mnbury, in the mineral area of North- chinery can be easily carried out. ern Ontario.
A start has already been made on the site, and it is anticipated that the new works will commence pro duction before the end of the year.
F.M.S. Tyre Importa.
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COMBINE'S LOSS.
DIVIDEND FOR GRAMO-
PHONE COMPANY.
It is a sign of the times that Electric and Musical Industries,
The estimate was quoted by one the gigantic gramophone combine, speaker that not more than 20 per will not pay the dividend on its pre- the prediction, made by My E. cent of those already in the churference capital for the six months thes were recruited into the army to July 18, a matter which calls for of those who support foreign mis-
Carlyle, Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Institute of Mining and
contribution of two shillings from every member of the church congre gations would wipe out the deficit of the missionary societies.
no more than £13,800.
of the Columbin Graphophone Com pany and the Gramophone Company (H.M.V.), and has an issued capital of £6,265,649, of which £5,805,640 is in El ordinary shares.
The company comprises a merger
Mr. Carlyle added that Canada now was producing its own refined metals and was in a position to
It was cheering to hear from the undertake the production of com- Secretary of the Conference that
So recently as the year ended binations of metals. He expected contributions during last year to June 30, 1930, the combined profits enormous development in the next the chief societies had gone down of the two undertakings totalled ten years in the making of newby only 3 per cent. On the other methis and the finding of new uses hand he spoke of the constantly rent fiscal year, the directers state, £1,422,000. Operations for the cur tor metals and alloys,
widening gap between the work will result in a loss. undertaken and the income raised to carry it on For in the last twenty years while the number of worker's sent out by the five chief | societies had increased by 30 per cent the aggregate only 18 per cent
Complete 1931 official import statistics showed that imports of ngumatik tires inte British Malaya.
Officiul figures of the Dominion declined by approximately one-
Bureau of Statisties show that third in volume and nearly 50 per Canada stands fourth in world pro- ‚cent. 'in value, as compared with duction of Icad, copper and zinc, 1030. Total net imports of pineu and second in aluminum. In nickel mutie outer covers amounted to Canada leads the world, producing 103,197 units valued at $81,108,740, 51,884 short tons out of a total of against 151,601 unita valued at 59,300 in 1930, the latest year for S$1,986,492.
which complete figures are avail- (Continued on next Oolumn.) abic.
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HONOLULU TRAGEDY.
Honolulu. Alejandro Boctot, 43, in the first ten years of income of Filipino, to-day stabbed his wife to those pocieties had increased by death and then attempted suicide,
that period, and there had remain- ed practically stationary.
RE-BUILDING MANILA.
WORK STARTS ON NEW
DEPARTMENT STORE.
slashing his own abdomen, while his children looked on
He was sent to a hospital in a eritieni condition.
The couple recently planned to return to the Philippines. How- over, the wife changed her mid and began a suit for divorce. Boç tot evidently was enraged by this and killed her in a crazed moment. The divorce summons showed, the
Demolition of the old Gutierrez Building on the Escolta between couple married in Cebu, P.I., in the Lyric Theatre and the Crystal August, 1913.
Arcade, will start to-day, says the Manila Bullin of July 18, to give way to a modern store and office building which will house the Brias. Roxas department store.
In two weeks it is expected that DONT FORGET
the foundation of the new struc
ture will be laid. While no figures have been given out, it is estimated that the new edifice will cost about half a million pesos. According to Enrique, Brias Roxas, general man- Ager of the Brias-Roxas concern, the new structure will be completed carly im February, next year, when he will mova the greater part of, tha Bries-Roxas establishment there."
The old building which will bei demolished was purchased by the Brias-Roxas interests some months ngo. It was erected in 1900 and for many years was occupied by the defunct Manila Times.
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British people are buying more Empire produce.",
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The annual report of the Empire Interesting light is thrown
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