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LONDON IN A.D.2000
By ALFRED C. BOSSOM, M.P.,
the British architect who designed several of New York's skyscrapers.
E all hope London in the WED 2000 win still be the
japart. Her bridges averago "one- third wider again than ours; values on ofther sido of their river are similar; ours would be if we had made the appropriate and long overdue, vinducts
Lor.
Itravel.
city best worth living in.
Paris for pleasure; New York A great many thoroughfares for rush; Rome for remanco, but must be "ankinked;" our pave- London has solved the problem of monts will have to be cut away living with the greatest success. and footpaths pushed inside the But London is changing.
present building frontages, as
TO-
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Index, la to be Its norm, should be And, determined by Parliament. finally, Mr. Keynes urges that the day-to-day policy" of the Bank, Ita statistics, its technique and its int mediate aims and objecta, should be as public as possible, and should be dellberately exposed to outsido criticism. At the same time, ho The Canadian Pacific liner Empress thinks that the less direct the de- of Asia will arrive from Manila at
7 am. to-morrow. mocratic control, and the more }
During the week-end, one case of remote the possibilities for par- liamentary interference with bank-diphtheria, from Kowloon, was
ported to the health authorities. ing policy, the better it will be. A
The quarantine restrictions Imposed planned economy will be imprac-
of this by Formosa and Indo-China against ticable, in the view
arrivals from Hongkong on account of la the cholera have been removed. economist, unless there
Modern invention, commercial now at the corner of Piccadilly In the utmost decentralisation
Mr. J. R. Hinton, manager of competition, human relationships and Regent Street, while the handling of the expert controla.
Messrs. Butterfield and Swire in will cause one-sixth, if not a gular pavements will be on Bus- One point on which Mr. Kaynes Canton,, arrived back with his wife quarter, of London to be remade. pended platforme projected over on transportation, the traffic at the first floor levels lays stress is that it has been the from their honeymoon over the week New ideas
housing, hospitalisation, fresh air with bridges over roads at con- recent policy of the Bank of Eng-
and open spaces, and will the Bo-goated erossings.
Our railway tormini-will they During the absence on short leave called progressca are converging land, rather than its powern or structure, which, bas been at fault. of Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones, but their irrestible forces; remodelling continue as at present? I doubt Itt Surely all our great trunk lines of second magistrate at the Central Its independence and its prestige, Police Court are being carried out by is inevitable.
How vitally we need a London will become carriers almost exclu- plan cannot be over-emphasised.sively of heavy freight and excur are assets. Nor, in spite of its. Mr. G. S. Kennedy Skipton.
In a motor accident in Des Voeux Sir Christopher Wren made the jaion crowds, and all will connect origins and the opportunity for in- terested motives on the part of the Road, near Centre Street, a young first, and since then amateurs and with an encircling line outside man, Tsung. Slu, of 12, Sal Yuen professionals have continuously Lotden proper. Thla outer circlo directorate, can Its public spirit Street, received injuries to his head attempted solutions of this ever-will connect to a spoke-like unders ground system, bringing every over the last decade bo called in and legs through being knocked down growing problem.
A plan for London must bo point of the city within easy reach question. The demand for its aub. by a public car.
more than Just elty pinnning. without the annoyance of having jection to the democracy largely Whilst working in a trench during While devising possibilities of free huge railway termini at unusual
pipes in Gascoigne Road, yesterday, scrupulously preserve, almost all other.
Long before the express trains peculiarities of recent years which waterworks coole, Cheung Tal, aged will not characterise a normal re-05, received injuries to his legs, caused of our historic buildings, charm-
by a quantity of earth falling on him,ing viatas, homoly places, and in-ara banished from the heart of characteristics which the city, their great dirty glass gime. More often than not since e Was taken to the Kowloon dividual
have given to London its personal caverns of stations will have been replaced by completo buildings. the war the country has possessed Hospital.
flavour.
With electrification 25 feet will be no defined standard and not even a
Despite the counter attractions River Amenities
The Thameo caused London, ample height for any depot, and by Parliament; with defined monetary policy laid down the attendance at the weekly acr
tho conse- vice whist drive at the Y.M.C.A., and any plan must give the river up from its ceiling to the limit quence that the Bank of England Kowloon,last night was well main-first consideration. Will any ex-allowed by the London Building talned, 30 tables being occupied, cuso suffice if, when Father Time Act will be illed with profit-mak- has been left free to exercise, Prize-winners were: Ladies announces the arrival of anothering offices, hotels, flats, or garages though it has not bein loth to Mrs. Hyde, Miss Temple. Men-century, there has not been built and topped with air taxi parks, a complete embankment for plea- from which our children and our to anro- exercise, a wider discretion than it, Mr. Scott, Mr. Rex.
sure and passage on both the north grandchildren will fly ought to have or has had in the
According to a report made to the and south sides of the river for dromes situated in a green belt It meanders that will surround the metropolis, past or will have in the future, on police, motor lorry No: 2514 collided its full length us
and from which high-speed auro- planes will take them about the matters which go far beyond theo with another lorry, No. 2004, in through the city?
Mongkok Road, near the Wo Yuen Unfortunately till now the practice of a technique for the at Chan timber yard, causing the latter Thames has formed an obstruction world at speede double that com- tainment of a purpose, the general vehicle to run into a stack of timber to the equal development of the mon to to-day's commercial avia-
and also to knock down a man, La! character of which has been laidLin, aged 04, of 11, Pine Street. The city on oither of its banks. Motor- toru, down by higher authority.
This wide green strip will pre- man subsequently succumbed to his cars have made passage over the Speedier Transport
river more desirable than aver. injuries.
But we find land south of the vent London's uncontrolled growth
a from Brighton to Bedford. The Shape of the Earth. Quito a commotion was caused on Thames is worth 10s. to 208.
We may envisage as being a the Shakea Bund, opposite the British foot, while on the north £10 to £20° Most peraons-always excepting Bridge, Shamean, yesterday when alls the value, due to the absence of certaluty before the year 200 wide Mr. Kipling's villagers; who do jerry-built wooden roof and fixtures abundant, accessibility from one arterial roads striking from the hinterlands right through the city not hold with scientific vanities caught fire in between two garages. side to the other.
a circular Fortunately the adjoining houses Hence the cost of running Lon-to the river bridges, will be interested to learn that the were of ferro-concrete, so that the don is ill apportioned. If equal railway at which all our electric- exact shape of the Earth is still brigade, which sent out three main development had formerly taken ally equipped main line railwaya a series of appliances and chemical tender, a matter of investigation. Every fearing a bad outbreak, did not have place a lower common rate charge will terminate, and
trouble in extinguishing the would have produced the needed serodromes surrounding the city It will be recalled that at its schoolboy knows that the world isch
revenue to the benefit of every one. to care for the high-speed travel-
Iers. not a perfect sphere like a billiard blaze. recent
More Bridges annual conference the
This speeding up and codifying For instance, practically every ball, but that it is slightly flatten- Labour Party passed a resolu
ed at the poles, with just
structure in the segment formed of transportation will be reflected tion in favour of bringing the Bank soupcon of a paunch about the
by the river and above a line join-in the simplification or rather the of England under public ownership equatorial regions. (After all, it
ing the southern ends of Lambeth flattening of our buildings, but the for height will not be indefinitely in- and control, advocating that the is not as young as it once was!) THE LATEST CABLED. and Landon Bridges shrieks
rebuilding, but this cannot materi-creased; 150 feet from the pave- QUOTATIONS
bo the jalise until several more motor-ment will most likely Governor of the Bank should be But it is a little surprising to hear
The following cable at the close carrying artories span or plerce maximum we shall ever be allowed. appointed by the Government and that, despite all our modern in-
level with market yesterday (below the Thames.
Being latitudinally be subject to the general direction (struments, the precise measurement of the sugar
not has been received by Messrs. Pen- Part of the answer, to this is, Labrador, and in a country warm- of a Minister of Cabinet rank, who of the Earth's curvature is
while retaining historic Waterlooed, almost at times steam heated, should in turn be responsible to the yet complete. Mathematics and treath and Co.
Bridge, to build a bridge at Char-by the Gulf Stream, frequent fogs, Astronomy can do a great deal,
ing Cross, and that quickly. whether soot-laden or otherwise. House of Commons for banking but apparently thov cannot absolve
By driving a free flow of, pros-will always be our lot. policy. On this occasion, the con- us from the obligation of patiently
the High winds will not come perity-providing traffic into ference left in abeyance a former surveying the surface of the Earth
heart of this largely worn out, blow this damp blanket from us,
arca, and the sun can never reach proposal to nationalise the Joint by triangulation. A cursory
very congested southern much of our city would blossom height enabling its rays to plorco Stock Banks, presumably because glance at the schoolroom globe
with new buildings, offices, fac-and purify the air in the man- it is felt that control of the Big reveals the obvious fact that the
tories providing work, creating made canyons that would occur if new wealth and benefiting every-we allowed skyscrapers in London. Five, otherwise than through the longest land meridian of which
Coal by Wire Bank of England, is not necessary for handling. the vital controls.
any case,
VAUXHALL CADET
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1992.
BRITISH BANKING
CONTROL.
the measurement is feasible is the 30th, which runs from Norway to İn
South Africa. The task of pre- as one authority has cisely surveying the Earth's crust pointed out, the proposal to OV this famous arc was begun nationalise the Big Five is first-ha
a century ago by the Gover-
accuracy
class if conceived as a pleco of nors of Natal and the Cape; to- irritation policy, but is not at this day an officer of the Royal Eng- stago serious business.
ineers is engaged on the Tangan- When we turn to the future of yika section, and when his work is finished Southern Egypt and the the Bank of England, it ia
Soudan will be the only uncom well to remember that the
pleted link in the chain. So our Labourites are not alone in their children at least may look forward desire to see it placed under public to a definitive report on the shape control. Mr. J. M. Keynes, the of the terrestrial globe--always noted economist, strongly favours provided that no cataclysms occur the Ides, and goes so
far as to meanwhile to ruin its symmetry. outline five propositions which he In-applauding the perseverance of theno aurveyors, one must express regards an essentials. In, the first place, he thinks the interest of the devout hope that the earth- quako demon will not be tempted private shareholders in the profita to spoil their beautiful maps, and of the Bank, nominal though it now that their passion for 18. ebould altogether ccase, will not reveal any appreciablo Secondly, the Bank should be ex-errors in existing boundary lines. pressly recognised as a national It would be dlatressing, for ex institution, from which private ample, if some dwoller on a far- profits and private interests are flung frontier of the Empire found entirely oxcluded, the Directorate himself lung still further. Hap to be selected on public grounds.pily, there is little fear of such a tragedy, because modern surveys Thirdly, the management should be with the most delicate fastrumente ultimately subject to the Govern have often only served to, om- ment of the day, the higher apphasise the extraordinary accuracy pointments to be subject to the ap- achieved by the old-time pioneers. proval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In the fourth place) As a result of losing control bf.a the principles of the currency bicycle which he was riding, The system, eg., whether or not the Choi, aged 19, t 80, Lower Lançar Row; coillded with a stationary lorry standard should be gold, or whether in Western Street yesterday. He stability of wholesale prices or of received injuries to his face and was Civil taken to the Government LOOKSYDE livingzóra of some other Hospital for treatment.
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Paris faced this problem years Further, a maximum and largely dgo. She now has a bridge span-uniform height to all buildings ning the Seine about every 600 will add much to the safety of air alyards; ours are nearer 1,200 yards passage over the city. Air taxi
no
"Tut, tut, Mr. Simmons, your're hot in love with me.
That's just those sardi nes you had for lunch."
landings will not have to be under- token only on a five to one gamble of hitting the roof of a towering tenement or falling foul of adjacent factory chimney.
an
Surely in these days we shall have given up the fouling of our life-providing atmosphers with soft coal smoke from every poa [sible heat maker."
1. Our coal will literally be ship Iped in by wire; it will be trans
formed into electric energy at the pit mouth, brought into the city on underground cables, distribut-: ed everywhere to do our heating, cooking, lighting, unaccompanied by the present Boot-despoiling In- fluences.
To-day's bugbear, servant problem, will have almost passed in 70 years; Inventora and house-. wives will have devised, so many gadgets that, except for the infant, Invalid, or very aged, all will eaally be able to care for their. regular needs themselves. With smoke's dirty influence romovod, roads hard-surfaced, and common sense in costume and diet, self- provision will form a simple laxercise rather than a trying- Iboredom.
Electric-Flats :
We shall then be living largely Id electrically equipped flats, directed from switchboards, and fed from semi-pubilé restaurants.
The millennium will not have: boen resahed. London, I am sure wo hope, will still be largely the same dear old London we all love, bat some of the knots will have been untangled, though life pos sibly will be a little more strenu..." jous, due to added speed,” which. (Continued on Page 9
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