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Engineering In The Far East
APPRECIATION OF
HONG KONG
UNIVERSITY'S SERVICES
VIEWS OF A LEADING BRITISH JOURNAL
A correspondent hud kindly forwarded us the following appre ciation in a leading technical journal "The Engineer of the services of Hong Kaný University to engineering in the Far East. An append is made to British firma to take advantage of the market, opened by China's desire to apply modern machinery to her traditional civilisation."
DRY AUGUST
Will There Be A Wet September
Mr. C. W. Jefferies, Director of the Royal Observatory, senda in the following interesting observations on August weather-the Drgest August on record:-
The rainfall for August, 1.73 inches, is the lowest recorded during that month at the Royal Observatory. The amount fell on 8 days with a total estimated dura- tion of 12 hours. At 10 am. yesterday no measurable rainfall has occurred for 14 days, which is a record in itself for the month of August. As might be expected the duration of sunshine (299.3 hours) is the highest on récord, the percentage of cloudiness (31 per cent) the lowest on record and the relative humidity (78 per cent) equal to the lowest on record for the month.
The dryest August previous to this year was in 1905, when 3.97 inches of rain fell on 10 days with a total estimated duration of 29 hours. An interval of 10 days without rain was. experienced. Corresponding figures for 1914, the next dryeat August, were "4.21, inches, 16 days, 17 hours and 3
In March, 1912, the University dental standards among that huge of Hong Kong was officially open population" means trade opper- ed by His Excellency the Governortunities for alert people through of the Colony, Sir Frederick (now, out the world. And there are Lord) Lugard. The "coming of eighteen provinces in China, each age" of this institution" presents a of about the area of Britain, and suitable opportunity for a review with a total of 400,000,000 Chinese of the progress made by this cen- ! We have been started by the tre of British influence in the Far, Changes in Japan during two East, particularly as it affects ap generations; but the advances in piled science in China. H.R.H. China, inevitable because of the the Prince of Wales, who received spread of knowledge about applied. The amount of sunshine during the degree of LLD. honoris causa science, will be more remarkable, the past month 2005 hours is the in person in 1922, sent a cable The primitive sedan offering his congratulations on the the man-power-rickshaw are be the record to date being 259.6 hours highest on record for any month,
twenty-Erst anniversary,
ing slowly but surely replaced by Instead of gangs
in October 1920. motor vehicles.
i
chair and
As British engineering firms as sisted very materially in the ear- of coolles carrying freight on their ly days, by presentation of valu-backs, as was the only method in able equipment, and look to China use twenty years ago in the cities for increased export trade, readers of Hong Kong and Canton, the of this journal may be interested motor truck and well-built high- in this endeavour to train Chinese ways now provide western meaUS engineers. There can be no doubt of" transport. that the countries on the rim of
Water supply electric power the Pacific, with their hinterland, stations, road, and other engineer. have assumed a new significance. ing schemes are being developed China offers an almost unlimited in spite of financial and political field for engineering development. difficulties. As Mr. Wells makes It is a tremendous potential mat-one of his Cockney characters say ket if the demand for machinery in another connection, "This'ere can be stimulated. The type of progress keeps going on. It's won- trade is changing: in the early dertul'ow it keeps going on."."- the days British merchants
The fruits of science are were chiefly interested in the exports, common property of all nations. the silk and tea in demand In The trader and the engineer are Europe. Then came the products the true cosmopolitans. No one of British mills sent out to China. can escape the machine age: it Lancashire now finds it more and impinges even the Chinese peasant more difficult to compete with in spite of the extreme denuncia- Far Eastern mills in textiles but tions of the greatest of its Wes- can make up for that by selling, tern and Eastern critics. The age- machinery. There are difficulties old silence of the desert and the in such trade, but there are great Jungle in Eastern Asia has been possibilities of developing the na- shattered by the drone of engines tural resources of the country.in the skys. You can fly between Even to-day foreign trade in two cities on the Yangtze Klang China is important. The Far in a fraction of the time it takes to make the journey by junk: the Eastern ports, of Hong Kong and Shangha! are now great com-service by air is, regular and less merical emporiums equalling in dangerous than that by water. trade value the biggest ports of Asia is listening to the roar of the Europe and America.
machines that have wings. *
The Economic Mission. The Far East has figured very much in the newspapers during recent months. It has been a
cause of anxiety in Britain, Dotn on account of political and com- mercial problems. The British Economic Mission was sent out (1930-31) to investigate the pos- sibilities of increasing Anglo- Chinese trade. That Mission re-
dars
It is remarkable., that following the dry August of 1000, 30.60 inches fell in September and following August 1914, 19.99 inches fell in September
•
"The Rainfall Analysed.
The Botanical and Forestry De- partment informs us that at the Botanic gardens 2.04 inches fell during August; or 1.9 inches more than just across the harbour. On the 3rd, 1.39 inches fell and there were appreciable amounts up to the sth,.
inclusive. On the Mth there was 14 of an inch and the next day
03. After that no rain felt;
TRAFFIC CASES AT
CENTRAL
European Motorists Fined
A number of traffic offerices were dealt with by Mr. Schofield at Central Magistracy yesterday.
Mr. E. L. Grome, of Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co., was fined $20 for driving his oar at a dan- gerous speed in Queen's Road East on 8th inst. Traffic Sergeant Wins lade said he followed defendant up Arsenal Street at a speed of 30-34 m.p.h..
Admitting the truth of the pro- recuting police officer's statement that he was going past Marray Politi, of Messrs. A. H. Potts, was Barracks at 30 m.ph. Mr. M. E.
fined 825.
A City Without A Wheel.
Twenty-one years. ago the writer. visited Canton. the most populous city in China, situated about 100 Kong. It astounded him then to miles up the river from Hong
find a city of more than a wall- Hion, almost without a wheel. Huge Wang Hung, the driver of a pri.. walls enclosed this amazing hive vate car was fined 85 for having no of primitive industry. There was appropriate licence, and B23 for ported on the tremendous feld for not a street wide enough for driving negligently.
rickshaw. To-day all that 13 engineering activity in China" and
A Nuisance. directed the attention of British changed. Motor cars, lorries, and
omnibuses run along wide high- "I heard him Bound his hom manufacturers to that fact. But the Chinese must be
A new reinforced concrete three or four times. He was look trained to ways.
bridge spans the river. There aing for his brother" remarked Initiate such schemes. The ever-
Hos Traffic Sergeant Clarke who was widening activities of the Hong now proper water supply. Kong University," which has been pitals have appeared. Radio is a prosecuting Leung Siu, the driver called a "Lighthouse off the coast popular recreation. Machinery is of a private car, for causing c of China," is highly gratifying to replacing muscular effort in local annoyance with his motor born in
Industries. There is a long-dis- Lockhart Road, tance telephone service to Hong and the Chinese it stands as a Kong. 'The huge city walls, symbol. It promotes a good un-symbol of a secluded community, derstanding and friendship be-
those for whose faith. In China
Defendant was fined 85. "Let Wheel Go" "When the girl was stopped, she tween British and Chinese, one of have penetrated into this ancient wheel go" said Traffic Sergeant B. have disappeared. New Ideas lost her head and let the steering the chief factors in improving trade between the two nations, and city of China.
The British were the pioneers of licenced driver, for having allowed it trains young Chinese in scienti-Western trade in Canton and in
G. Baker prosecuting A. Chang, a
fic principles,
an unlicenced driver to drive a car All of the progress of the Unt. China. They have a remarkable pn Shek O Road on August 31. They Chan Kam, a girl was charged with interest 10 driving without an appropriate..
versity has been due to the "com-
base in Hong Kong.
bined benefactions of British and the transformation that is going licence.
have 8.1 intense
to
extend Instruction.
in history.
facilities the
for
dium of technical training in British standards and in British factories, is one that very much is in the minds of British trade" organisations and individuals in- terested in Anglo-Chinese trade.
That, at any rate, is a very great advance on the state of affairs between 1912 and 1927." It has been brought about by s ceaseless en- deavour to Interest those most likely to benefit,
Chinese alike. Large sums have been subscribed in the endeavour on in China. It is true that
The first defendant was fined $30 political chaos in
the country and the girl 810. makes the development of big Amazing Changes.
engineering schemes difficult. But they must be carried out in time "The two great civilisation of Eastern Asia, China and Japan,
The Chinese Industrial Mission. are to-day in close contact, com A great fillip to British engineer- mercially and diplomatically, with ing trade with China was given the rest of the world. Those two by the remission of the Boxer In- nations, rooted in antiquity lived demnity money. A Hong Kong for centuries their own quaint life graduate, in an official position in amidst curious conditions behind Hankow, only yesterday Intormed closed doors. The engineer nax the writer that £4,000,000 has changed all that. Steam. radio, been handed over for the com- the talkies, and the whirling print pletion of the Hankow-Canton ing presses have created "a social Railway. revolution in the Far East in two At this time of writing there is As engineers, we believe that it decades that is without a parallel in England a Chiness Industrial is to the advantage of all nations Mission. It has expressed its keen that the natural resources of the The reaction of Japan to Wes interest in this problem of world should be more fully deve- tern influence caused her to move technical training for Chinese, in loped That is the only way to forward with rapid strides. Sir Britaini The China Indemnity raise the average standard of liv Alfred Ewing, FR.8, one of the (Application) Act, 1931, authorised ing. In the minds of many Bri- British ploneers of technical the use of a portion of the re-tish people the word Chinats education in Japan, is still an ac-mitted Boxer funds for purposes associated only with missionary tive member of four engineering connected with the education of enterprise. The chief obstacle to societies. He and his other Bri- Chinese students. Mr. H. T. Silcock efficiency in such work is the lack tish colleagues were no negligible has been appointed secretary to of inland communications and factors in the creation of modern the Universities China Committee the poverty of the peasant. It is Japan. They surely never visuals in London, and he has informed obvious that a low standard of lite ed the rapid transformation that the University of Hong Kong that must, make people Indifferent to has taken place in that country £500 has been allocated for stud- moral standards. Therefore it can through the introduction of scien- entships for engineers, but no se be claimed that the engineer and tific knowledge. China has moved lection has yet been made, as far more slowly, but there is to-day a as we are aware, Le great change going on in modes From all that has been written. of life and in methods of living In that country. And every small transition from Oriental to Occt
the doctor in China are doing mis Bonary service of great value.
There are therefore, many rea above it is clear that the subject sons why efforts should be made of increasing British engineering to develop the natural resources trade with China, through the me- of China.
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