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PRIVATE VIEWS
EXPRESSED
On The Ethiopian Issue
QUESTIONS ASKED
London, June 11.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1936
ENGINEERING AND BUILDING
STEEL-FRAME BUILDING BIG ORDER FROM
CONSTRUCTION ·
Its Progress Analysed.
CHINA
Work For Kilmarnock Engineers
60 SETS OF FLOOD- CONTROL SLUICE
GATES
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London, May 26. An important contract has been placed with Messrs. Glenfeld and Kennedy, Ltd.. hydraulic engineers, Kilmamock, by the Chinese Guv ernment Purchasing Commission for the mechanical equipment of a control weir for the Hual River Commission China.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer was reported in to-day's papers as London, June 11.
having severely criticised in n The Commons debate on the speech at a political dinner budget triounal report was opened London last night the suggestions by the Prime Minister who en- that the League sanctiona mposed
The confidence of steelworkers Before examining this very plau- Italian phasised the difference between in connection with the
in their material and its possibillable contention, and before ad- the Judicial tribunal which par-resort to-war in East Africa should desi said once to have found em-vancing an alternative hypothesis, lament had
constituted for the by continued following the
phatic expression in the offer by it is but fair to state that Britisn purpose of inquiry into the budget lapse of Ethiopian resistance
representative of a famous Arm
engineers have an unsurpassed re- intensified. These disclosures and the ordinary court even
reports
to build a ladder to the moon,
cord of achievement in the field of were the subject of questions ad-
subject only to suitable guarantees private notice to the"
bridge building all the world over. aressed by
to payment. Mr. C. J. Kava- Prime Minister in House of Com mons this afternoon by the Leader Bush, in a paper entitled "Recent and from this fact it is not un- Developments in Steel Frame Con reasonable to Inter that had there of the Opposition
struction," read on the 15th uit. existed the demand in this coun- before the Institute of Engineers' try, our own designers could have and Shipbuilders in Scotland, did competed with success in the skys craper class. The traditional pre-
This contract follows an order not claim quite so much on be- hair of the British Steelwork Ab- ference of the British householder
received by Glenfeld and Kennedy direct from the Hual River Com- sociation, of which he is Director, for a cottage type of architecture, but his review of the remarkable and the business man's inclination misston last year for a series of to go on working in the offices of similar sluice gates. The present developments which have taken place during the past half cen-
the old firm, have placed an
contract includes the supply, dell- fury confirms the opinion that it
economic brake un any such pro-very. and supervision of gress here. would be indeed rash at the pre- sent time to predict, the upper mit of possible achievement in steel construction.
the distinction were overlooked and they were regarded as having been found guilty of a criminal. act. It was his responsible though distasteful task as Leader of the House to move that the report of the tribunal be accepted.
was
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Major Attlee asked whether My Chamberlain's speech represented the polley of the Government and Mr. Baldwin repiled the Chancellor had informed him the suggestions He said Mr. JH. Thomas whose he had put forward were deânite- long public career was well-knowny stated by him to be provisional and whose loyal co-operat on in the reflection on the Italo-Ethiopian Government of which he was now dispute which had occurred to him head he gratefully acknowledged. personally,
House had recognised the
Major Attlee then asked if the bound to accept the findings of the tribunal regarding which Mr. views expressed by the Chancellor Paldwin declared they all acknow-were considered the views of the ledged the sense of duty under Government. The Premier answered which it undertook its task and the promptness and thoroughness with which it discharged it.
In resigning from Parliament while maintaining as he had. £ perfect right to do that he was con- scious of no offence. Mr. Thomas had consulted his own dignity and
the dignity of the House and taken a course which deserved and would receive the full sympathy of the
House.
LEADERS AGREE
The Leader of Opposition. Major Attlee and the Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair associated them selves with the Prime Minister's express on of thanks to Mr. Justice Parter and his colleagues on the Judicial tribunal.
"Step)."
that no conclusions ca" these mat-teresting ters had yet been reached. Press-rharacteristic optimism. ed. by Leaders of both sections of he said, "is still on the threshold the Opposition to say "f the ex-
ot its full development; metallur- pression of private" new by agical science will yet evolve a more Minister was consistent with the nearly perfect building material tradition and constitutional usage methods of design and construc- and was no embarrassing to other ton." While these remarks can be readily endorsed, some may not Ministers. Mr. Baldwin replied. "I make no complaint myself at what be prepared to go quite so far with the Right Honourable gentleman Mr. Kavanagh in his attempt to
Pritish Wirelev;
shid."--
DUAL POSTS
London. June 11. The Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons that the Government had decided following the separation of Burma from India that there should be A separate secretaryship of State for Burma and also a new office
of State for Burma. For reasons
i
THE PROGRESS
In estimating the progress of
more
:
erection
of 60 sets of free roller sluice gates, each 10-metre span by 5-metres deep, equipped with independent operating gear and incorporating the firm's latest design of compen- sating roller paths on the gates.
Mr. Kavanagh, concluded his in-steel construction in this country, address in terms of one is apt to use the Forth Bridge
The gates are operated through as a yardstick; and to-day such a project would be regarded rather winding drums and wire ropes, balancing being provided by rein- as a political and financial pro-
forced concrete counter-weights. blem than as an engineering sen-
OPERATION OF THE GATES sation. This is sufficient tribute to the men who have followed Sir
Normal operation of the gates Benjamin Baker and have in reis by hand, but two Diesel-engine cent years, so much improved his Buxiltary gear units mounted on technique. Baker's resourceful trucks are being provided to in- and inventive genius cannot be crease the speed of operation if overrated. but his caution may required. perhaps be even
highly i
Normally by hand the gates are esteemed than his enterprise. I operated
at about WO feet per Magy of our great bridge works minute, and by Diesel engine at 10 have been subjected to adverse feet per minute. The in-criticism on the ground of unne This contract, the execution of cessary expense, and irresponsible which will provide a large amount pretenders are always anxious to of work for Kilmarnock, represents show how they could have done so the most important sluice-gate much more for so much less: but order placed in this country during British
always the present year. engineers have made the publle safety the first and only criterion of their designs. In this respect Baker followed ac- cepted tradition, but it is also well to remind ourselves that it is to
establish the advantages of steel over reinforced concrete as a me- dium of construction, for reinfor- ced concrete can lay claim to sue- resses no less renowned in their wpy than those of steel.
erest in
Mr. Kavanagh's paper tay rather to our mind in points he raised which closely concerned the design of steel frames and also in the obviously increasing portance of the continuous frame as the basis of design in construc- tion work.
FRAME CONSTRUCTION
im-
Rigid frame construction, whe-him, as Chairman of the Commit-
ther in steel or reinforced CON-
of practical convenience the crete, affords, unfortunately, a illustration of the pre- secretaryship and the under-secre- manifest taryship for Burma would for the sent-day dependence of our de- same digners on foreign inspiration. Mr present be held by the persons as 'secretaryship and Kavanagh bimeselt appears to be this short-coming. undersecretaryship for India and conscious of Burma Office would be housed for, in emphasising the advance in constructional methods walch India Office-
etcel has made possible, he says that much more might have been done in this country to explol;
Major Attlee said the two mem- bers of the House had been found by the tribunal to have acted in a manner inconsistent with post- tions they held in public fe. It was the clear duty to vindicate of Parliamentary Under-Secretary the honour of the House. They were proud of the probity of the public servants and rightly exact ed from rhem the
very
high standard and
could not they accept a lower one from members of the House or those who held high positions in the Governinent But they all deeply regretted Mr Thomas's long distinguished career should have had such an ending.
Sir Archibald Sinclair agreed Lue incidents disclosed in the tribunal's report were deplorable but happily they were of a kind rare in British public life. That was so, was not due to the fortult qus circumstances but to Jealousy with which they guarded the pro- bity of pubile life and the quick- hess with which they acted when- *Aver wus impughed."
It
That
British Wirniens. "
London, June 11.
Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, announced in the House of Commons. to-night two new offices; a Secretary of State and parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Burris.
These will be created following the separation of Burma from India.
"the present the offices will be attitude must be maintained for administered by the Secretary of
It was the greatest and the only State and Under-Secretary for safeguard against chrome scandals India
and festering corruption froin Heuter's "Bulletin Service. which other countries had found
It. difficult to purify their public
fer
British Wireless.
THE ONLY COURSE OPEN
RESIGNATIONS ACCEPTED
CHANCELLOK
OF EXCHEQUER'S KIND ACT
ducks lost his
tee which formulated the first steelwork speciäcations of what is now the British Standards Institu- tion, that we now owe that funda- mental regard for due stability which is and must always be our
guiding principle in structural
matters,
MILLION VOLT TESTING SET
FIRST ONE OF ITS KIND
Opening the new, high-tension laboratory at Queen Mary College, These great achievements of London University, recently, Lord British engineers in the field of Athlone stated that Queen Mary bridge engineering have been College was the first British univer the potentialities of steel 23 8 made under stricter control than sity college to install a one. milion constructional medium for com- bus ever been applied to building, volt testing set in its high-tension laboratory: The Principal of the mercial buildings," The blame, and it would thus be not unrea- however, he places on the opera-sutable to ascribe the slower pro-College,, Sir Frederick Maurice, re- tion of building acts and regula- gress in commercial building to ferred to the generous 'grant of tons, and the restriction of "old economic rather than to the legis- £10.000 from the London County which had made this and very often obsolete legal en-
lative" causes cited by Mr. Kava-Council
laboratory possible, and thanked Magh: ctments."
the two electrical manufacturers. Messrs Ferranti and the Metro- bolitan-Vickers, of Manchester, for their whole-hearted collaboration, Before the construction of the laboratory visits were paid to ex- isting laboratories in Germany and in the United States, and as a re- suit Queen Mary College has the most up-to-date testing set in the world.
THE FOUNDATIONS OF
WATERLOO BRIDGE
A report made by the Highways, ings on either side of the pler was
The use of a one million volt Committee to the meeting of the about equal to its height, except et testing set is not confined, in these London County Counch on Tues- the cut-waters, where the ratio of days of high-voltage transmission day, March 31, contains some de projection to height was greater. when the British grid works at 132. tails of the condition of the foun- The footings, generally speaking. 000 volts and a European grid at London, June 11,
ditions of the Afth pler of Water- were found to be broken away from 400,000 volts has been proposed, to "Newspapers report a pleasing in-
loo Bridge. It will be remembered the body of the pler, and the academic research. Mr. Johnstone cident in 8t, James Park to-day. While the Chancellor of the Exche-that this was the pier at which transverse timbers were also bro-Wright, of the Central Electricity quer was taking his customary walk the maximum, settlement of about ken under the rootings. In some Board, referred to many of the a small boy who was looking at 21. ft. occurred, thus causing dis- cases, alsu, the piles seem to have practical problems, such as protec- Hghtning surges, balance and fell ortion of the adjacent arches. It slipped from underneath the tip-tion against
was found that the masonry
which this laboratory would be bera. Of the 54 piles so far ex- over low railings. Into the lake: London, June 11. Mr. Noville Chamberlain leaned courses of the pier rested on a tim- tracted, 15 came out whole with able to tackle. Professor MacGre Mr. J. H. Thomas announced his over and fished the boy out of the ber raft. This raft consisted of the shoes attached, and the re- gor-Morris stated that the testing mainder in short lengths, varying set would enable valuable post- which the masonry from 5 ft. to 15 in. In nearly all graduate work to be carried on at Intention to resign Parliamentary water and after handing him over a continuous planking of 4-in representation of Derby when he wet but unharmed to his nurse timber, on
stood. It was itself laid on large cases the condition of the fracture the college, particularly research made a personal statement relat continued on his way.
baulks of timber trees roughly indicated that they had been bro into the nature of materials. British Wireless. ing to the report of the inquiry
hewn square) which were spaced ken for a considerable time. The into the budget leakage at the end
about 4 ft apart, the intervals condition of the planks was also being filled with squared blocks of poor. On Commons question time this afternoon, He said he had reach-sciously given away any secret stone tightly fitted in. Below these whole timber bearers were gener- ed this decision despite the support budget information.
baulk was a second similar series ally in good condition" internally, which he had received from poll- Mr. Thomas was followed by Sir of timbers, the spaces between though to some extent they had ical, associations in his constitu- Alfred Butt who also signified hils which were filled in with rubble, berished externally. The timber of pear to have adéquately spread ency and the loyalty of which he intention to resign his seat. The and these were in some cases spik- the plles was good where it was by the footings to the whole area appreciated.
resignations will recessitate by-ed to the piles. The piles them-buried in the clay, but had de- of the raft, and that the con- Elm, sequent concentration of weight elections in the Derby Division for selves, which numbered about 209: teriorated at the heads.
were generally round in shape, and beech and for had all been used, towards the centre of the raft was which "Mr. Thomas has sat con- tinuously since 1910, having been varied in length from 13 ft. to and this variety, as well as that of doubtless one reason for the sub- returned at the last two general to ft. Their diameters were from the pile diameter, suggests a some-sidence. Mr. E. H. B. Boulton, of elections as National Labour Mem- 10 in. to 14 in. at the top to from what haphazard selection. It is the Timber Development Asso- ber and in Balham and Tooting 7 in. to 10 th at the bottom. The also interesting to note that the clation, is of the ordnion that had Division which has returned Butt four lower courses of the masonry 1 limbers of the horizontal plat.orm more care been exercised in the
of
Mr. Thomas sald the House would agree that in resigning from the Government he took the only course open to him in his position. He did not propose to enter into detailed discussion of the report of the tribunal to the impartiality
A demonstration of half a mil- len and one million volt surges the other hand, the was given at the conclusion of the ceremony,
of which he paid tribute, but he a Conservative Member sines were each wider than the one were larger than the piles them-selection of the piles, there would
was entitled to declare before the 1922.-
House that he had never- con- British Wireless.
above, thus forming footings. The selves. The Appointed Engineers probably have been no subsidence. projection of each course or foot-state that the load does not ap- Engineering.
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