WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1929.
RADIO
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OF
LATEST PRODUCTIONS
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, picu, and altho.)
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HORIZONTAL i-Precious stone 7-Storehours for hay B-The lowest ebb 10-An Indestructible
unit
11-Ta strop
18-A worm-eating
mammal
14-Bafore
18-The god of love
(Gr. Myth.)
13-A wing-like part
18-Riold
20-A polf terra
21-Plunder
24-To Bew
28-Covered with wax
27-An Item in one's
property
30-Feminine name 33-A latter of the
alphabet
34-Number
36-Observe
© the interNATIONAL SYNDICATE,
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) | 37-Ireland (poetic) 139-Point of compass
(abbr.)
40-Joyous
41-Growing out
43-Native of Greece 45-Famous English
Bohool
46-A dwarf
47-Daughter of Laome-
dón (Gr. Myth.) VERTICAL
1-Native of Denmark
2-Masculine name 3-Mountains In
3. America
4-Attack
5-Enanare
8-Venture
VERTICAL (Cont.) 13-Treatment sonalet-
Ing of kneading the body
| 15-Narrates
17-Bollad
22-Freeze 23-Fondle 24-hodct 26-Augment 28-To wither 29-A river le
N. W. Francë
31-A little faland 32-A large East Indian
tree
34Numbers whose
names end in teen 35-Native of Afrion 38-Masculino namo
{abbr.)
7-Pertaining to a bole 40-Masculina nama
Elemente
| 10-To cast off 112-Dard
(short) 42-Part of body 44-Propel
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
AUGUST RAIN
OVER 20 INCHES AT BOTANIC GARDENS
At the Botanic Gardens in August the rainfall registered was us under:-
August 1
2
¥
Inch.
.36
1:05
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
F
CORDS LEAKS MCP URGED RAG CAVERNS PILOTED LECACO DEFINITE
EE RIVER ERS CERISË, GAMES CUR LES PR ED RAGED SALUTARY OSER
CENTER FASTENS YET ERE WENDS
STANDARD TIME.
.04
.36
,32
G
48
7
.01
8
.00
.36
10
.00
11
.00
12
2.33
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY
13
.25
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4.32
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TO-DAY'S RADIO
BROADCAST BY Z.B.W.
ON 360 METRES
THE CHINA
ÁIR PORT
MAIL,
CONSTRUCTION OF 'PLANE
SLIPWAY
WORK DONE IN 1928
In the annual report of the
Department Public Works
We
LOCAL BUILDINGS
WORK UNDER THE ORDINANCE IN 1928
GREATER ACTIVITY
A further increase has to be record- ed in the number of new works, dealt with under the Buildings Ordinance in 1928, as compared with the previous year.
The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Gov- crument Broadcasting Station read:- Z.B.W. on 850 metres:
Several plans were prepared by 5.30-6.30 p.m.Programme of the Architectural Office in connec-
The number of domestic buildings Chinese Music. (Records supplied tion with the Layout Scheme for completed at the end of the year also shews an increase over the figures for through the courtesy of Sincere Co., the, Air Port.
A contract was let on September 1927. In most districts the works Ltd.).
re-20, 1928 to Messrs. Sang Lee & Co. which were in progress at the end of for $310,250.00 in connection with 1925 is an indication that the number 8 pm. -- Evening Programme. the work being carried out by the of houses completed during the year 1929 will probably be even greater than General Works Office.. (Columbia Records supplied through The work has been divided into beddings, the number actually com 1928. As regards "non-domestic" the courtesy of Anderson Music Co.the following sub-heads and
undernoted progress has been made
7:48 p.m.-Evening weather port.
Ltd.):
Tales of Hoffmann" (Offenbach),
The Band of H.M. Grenadieron each.
Guards. "Ave Maria" (Gounod), "Chanson Triste", 'Cello Solo,
Giuseppe Di Silva. "By the Old Red Mill", "When It's Sunset in Miami",
Daeltists Mason & Miller.
the
pleted at the end of 1928 was less than
Plans The following is a tabulated state.
the previous year, but a considerable amount of work was in progress, so (a.) Resumptions. Permanent that the figures for 1929 will probably and temporary resumptions were show a corresponding increase, as in made and crop compensation agreed the case of domestic buildings. upon for the purpose of laying a light railway track to the site of ment showing the number and type of the cutting face, over a. length of buildings, in contection with which approximately 2,000 feet.
plans were deposited during the year, Estimates,
$1,186,250.00 the figures for 1927 being given in a Expenditure.
$1,091,579.10 parallel column for purposes of com- (b.) Ferming reclamation icparison:- Emile Luther,cluding completion of sea walk. Buildings, etc.
nullahs, surfacing and drainage. New European houses.. Under this head approximately 600 New Chinese houses.. lineal feet of centre pier were built New Buildings and
Structures other than in No. 2 nullah and approximately
the above 6,000 cubic yards of earth surfacing Alterations and addi- deposited on the reclamation.
tions to existing build- ings
"Trio in "(Beethoven), "A Bright Morning on the Alps",
Violin, Flute and Harp Trio. "By the Waters of Minnetonka" "La Rosita" (Dupont), Organ Solo,
"Truly Rural" (Marcus), "Mrs. Scott", Comedienne, "Community Songs Selection"
Lily Morris.
The Band of the Royal Air Force. "The Rose of Persia-Drinking Song", "When Britain Really Ruled the Waves", Tenor Henry Millidge. "The White Rider" `(Wright),
Carlisle St. Stephens Band (Cumberland).
"Angel's Serenade" (Braga),
1
THE
HONGKONG
PENINSULA HOTEL:
11
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL:
PEAK HOTEL
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTEL:
MAJESTIC HOTEL
HOTELS,
LIMITED
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lita, Peking.
ADELPHI HOTEL.
SINGAPORE
REMODELLED AND REDECORATED.
Large Cool Airy Room with Electric Light and
Ceiling Fans. Each Room with its own Private Bathroom, fitted with Modern Sanitation.
The Only Hotel in Singapore so fitted.
UNSURPASSED CLISINE. EXCELLENT WINES.
TEA DANCES, DINNER DANCES, GRILL ROOM ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS, ROOF GARDEN CINEMA, LADIES' LOUNGE, PALM COURT.
1927. 1928.
89
201
170 63%
281
350
2,427 151
2,045 674
37
199
6
Areas
Piers, (including
pairs) Wells
10
5
47
88
Telegrams and Cables :-ADELPHI
Total..... 3,219
3,098
(c.) Covering of nullahs-All steel for the reinforcement of the Verandahs decking to nullahs was received Balconies from England and about 600 lineal Sunshades
laid on feet of decking were Violin, Flute and Earp Trio. November 2 nullah.
Estimates, "Prayer" (Hasselmans), Harp Solo,
$275,000.00 Marie Goossens. Expenditure,
$104,339.15 (d.) Sea Plane Slipway-This work which is being carried out by
"Nagasaki",
"It Goes Like This That Funny
Melody", Comedians,
The Two Gilberts.
"Canzone Vesuviana”
(Chanson Napolitalne), "Vieille Chanson "Espagnole",
Jean Lensen and His Orchestra. "Rocking My Baby to Sleep", "Cuckoo Song", Yodler
"Kilima", "Alaha Oe"
Harry Robinson.
"Clowns in Clover",
Cicely Courtneinge and Chorus. "The Egg Song", "Follow a Big Cigar", Comedian,
Mark Daly.
The number of plans (covering the the Port Works Office includes the buildings in the tabulated statement construction of a slipway 380 feet above) deposited during the year was in length and 40 feet in width, at 2,885, as compared with 2,158 in 1927. The number of plans approved dur
a grade of 1 in 20, having at its
Certificates The following Certificates for new. buildings were issued:
246 unde; section 204 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, covering 606 domestic buildings, of which 145 were Euro- pean and 361 Chinese dwellings, and 94 covering 107 non-domestic build ings.
All Departments under expert European
Supervision.
THE ADELPHI HOTEL, LTD.,
Entirely under new Management.
REPORTED SPREAD OF EPIDEMIC IN JAPAN
Tokyo, August 29. The epidemic of sleeping sickness in the south-western préfectures continues to spread. The total number of cases to date is now 349, of which 136 have proved fatal.
outer end a depth of 6 feet of watering the year was 2,929 as compared SLEEPING SICKNESS at L.W.O.S.T., the diversion of with 2,481 in 1927. nullah on the west side of the slip- way site and the reclamation of a Linn Milford and Hawaiian site for aircraft sheds. A contract
Players.
was let on July 10 for the construc. tion of the work less the erection of the sheds. The work executed up to the end of the year included the dredging of 12,500 cz. yds. of silt overlying the hard, the depozi- tion of 15,800 cu. yds. of pell-mell rubble to provide foundations for the slipway, nullah diversion and reclamation sea wall and the manu facture of 353 concrete paving blocks for surfacing the slipway. The blocks varied in size from 6 feet 8 inches x 3 feet 6 inches x 2 feet to 5 feet x 3 feet 6 inches x 2 feet. Approximately 57,581
"Les Millions D'Arlequin”, "Carmen", Intermezzo,
Circolo Mandolinistico Giuseppe Verdi of Leghorn. "The Parson and the Squire”,
Descriptive Sketch by
Rupert Hazell and Chas, Penrose, "Wagneria" (Air From Wagner), "Chopinata" (Airs From Chopin),
Piano Solo Clement Doucet "Beautiful Pay-Day"
Cu
form the site for the seaplane sheds. Total Estimates.....
Those Good Old Times",
Comedians...The Two Gilberts. yds. of material was deposited to "My Blue Heaven", - "The Song is Ended",
American Duettists
"Cavalleria Rusticana",
Layton & Johnstone.
May Blyth, Marjorie Parry and Heddle Nash with the British Netional Opera Company's Orchestra.
10.30 pm.-Close Down.
LOCAL SURVEYS
SOME OF THE WORK DONE IN 1928
PRAYA EAST RECLAMATION The following passages are takes trom the section of the annual report of the P.W.D. for 1928 regarding! aurveys:-
These figures show an increase of 47 in the case of "domestic" and a
At Takamatsu, in Kogawa Pre- decrease of 11 in that of "non-fecture, there have been 151 cases, domestic" buildings. Of the 145 European houses completed and cer- tified, 42 are on the Kowloon Tong Estate,
CASE OF SUICIDE
FORMER MISSIONARY ON TIBETAN BORDER
of which 67 have proved fatal. Yesterday there were 28 fresh cases and ten deaths from the dis-
ease.
A 7,000 miles tour to the United States and Canada was begun by 10 members of the Royal Institute of |British Architects, when they sailed from Liverpool in the Cunard liner "Laconia." On arrival in New York they will be entertained by the Institute of American Architects. Three days will be devoted to the Members of his family said that study of skyscrapers, after which poor the party will leave for Washing- boundary of the reclamation in he had been worried over order to give access to the works health and financial trouble since ton, where special opportunities will at the Eastern end of the reclama. his retirement from the mission be given for members to visit the
various Government buildings. field a year ago. United Press. tion.
·Los Angeles, Aug. 28. $275,000.00 Expenditure to 81.12.23, $ 60,502.78
James Egden, 51 years of age and (e.) Roads. A length of road a former missionary at Estaren, on 20 feet wide and approximately 800 the Tibetan border, committed sui- yards long, was surfaced with dry cide here to-day. macadam along the North-East
Estimates, Expenditure,
$65,000.00
$ 2.796.45
SIR A. COBHAM
LURID LANGUAGE BUT NO CRASH
A RECENT MISHAP
"I want to impress on the public
Sarveys were made for plans to be attached to Crown Leases of 312 lots. Boundaries of numerous lots were set oat for the Drainage, General Works and Hoads Offices. In Hong Kong 43 that I have had forced landings frontage lines to streets were checked before, but never a crash, and I and in Kowloon and New Kowloon 159. have escaped so far without Boundaries of 112 lots in Hong Kong scratch.
In these words Sir Alan Cobham
and.156 lots in Kowloon and New Kow- loon were defied and in addition in referred to the incident when he the latter neighbourhoods 30 areas was compelled to make a forced were defined which were to be let on landing from a height of £0 feet permit for various periods and 224 at Cramlington Aerodrome, North-
sites for pigsties.
On the Praya East Reclaration, umberland.
"I never had the slightest doubt
roads were set out to a length of over 8,000 feet and permanent marks were we would get down safely," Sic left by means
of piles which were Alan went on. "It was a forced driven into the Reclamation. A nail landing under perfect control, but was driven into the top of each pile not a crash. I took her straight and valued so that any future setting ahead to preserve flying speed, out can be readily undertaken. Con crossed one fence and was alewing siderable time was lost on setting out round to avoid another when I
lots in this locality as it was found that banged into the barbed wire, pull- pickets, even when surrounded by con- eret, were
pulled out of the loose ing off a wing. The undercarriage ground and many times had to be re-
was damaged. placed.
"My passengers, mostly women,
A conteur survey of Waglan Island were not a bit scared. They were Sunrise and Sunset in Hong was made and plotted to a scale of 20 most sympathetic to me, though 1 Kong for Sept. (Standard time of feet to one inch with vertical intervals am afraid my language at the tims of 6 feet. This survey also included was rather lurid. All they wanted
1.84 the 120th Meridian, East of Green-detail of all buildings and high and low to know was when I could continue 1.70 wich), are as follow:-.
An area of 20 acres at Cape D'Agul- lar was also contoured.
water marks.
Sunrise Sunset.
am. 6.07
p.m. 6.38 6.07 6.37 6.07 6.88 6.08 6,35
6.08 6.34 0.08 0.08: 6.32 6.08 6.81
6.09 6,30
.69
19
47 September
20
.00
21
18
22
3.02
23
.01
24
.00
25
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26
02
.01
.00
12
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6.09 6.29
03
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6.10 6.28
1.93
15
6.10 6.27
16
6.10 6.26
Total
20.07
17
€11 6.25
18
6.11. 6.24
In the year ended March 31 last the rates collected in Wandsworth totalled $1,587,938 150. 8d., and the rates lost were only £961 19s. 101, 06 of the total due.
-6.11 6.24
20
21
6.11. $6.28 6.11 6.22
6.12 $.20.
B.LE
6.19
6.12
6.18
6.19. 6.17
6.18
A five years' treaty of arbitration and conciliation between Hungary and Bulgaria "was signed" Budapest.
the flight.
"My engine did not cease, but a faulty patrol gauge cut off my sup. Mount Collinson Forestry Reserve with an area of 328 acres was defined ply of juice. the chainage being 3.8 miles.
50 Flights a Day Various surveys were carried out in "In three weeks I have visited connection with the transference of 17 of the 100 towns I have mapped land between the War Department out for my aerial tour of Britain, and the Hong Kong Government, the I have made some 20 to 50 fights total area surveyed being 59 acres. every day and have carried 6,000 Fifty neres were surveyed and con- adults and between 2,000 and 3,000 toured between Argyle Street and the children. Kowloon Cemeteries. The "measured
"The greatest enthusiasm is
mila" in Kowloon Bay was checked for being shown, and I hope that as a the Harbour Department and the result of my campaign 500 sero marks defining same proved to be in dromes will be erected throughout their correct positions.
The reservoirs of the Kowloon Tong the country.
Estate and she catchment area apper "The greatest drawback to flying taining therete were surveyed the area in England is the lack of landing being about 63 acres. An area of grounds. The establishment of bcit 72 acres adjoining the catchment sufficient of these will give a great was also surveyed.
A survey of Kowloon Bay Reclama impetus to flying.”
6.16 tion was carried out and a plan pre A large part of the business
6.14 6.15
614 6.14 014
pared showing the area and the vill-
ages, etc., up to the foot-hils on a scale section of the town of Wainwright, 6.18 of 32 inches to one mile, the area sür- Alberts Canada, was destroyed by
yeyed being 183 cros
6146.18
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