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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER

THE

HONG HONG

PENINSULA HOTEL;'

1932.

HONG KONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL:

PEAK HOTEL

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.

PALACE HOTEL,

HOTELS,

LIMITED

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Elts, Peking.

MARBLE HALL

11. Nathan Ed, Kowloca",

Tel. 57989,

A Select Private Hötel furnished, with an eye to the comfort of ita Tenants. Eingle and double unites of rooms with private bathrooms attached.

"RICKSHAW BRAND

CELEBRATED

CEYLON TEA

SOLD BY ALL COMPRADORES

AWARDED GOLD MEDALS

FOR PURITY, STRENGTH

AND FLAVOURS

Sole Distributors-

DAVIE, BOAG & Co. Ltd.

MAN LOONG. PRESERVED GINGER MANUFACTURERS.

NEW SEASON PRESERVED GINGER Best Quality Prompt attention to Exporters. Office:2. Dundas Street, Kowloon. Tel. 57088. Factory:-2, Godown, Prays, Dundas Street, Mongkok.

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THE CHINA MA

ENGINEERING. BUILDING AND

ENGINEERS OBTAIN America Seeks More

NEW STATUS.

Legislation Is Finally

Passed bork.

MUST BE LICENCED.

The Legislature of the State of New York has recently passed a measure enacting that no one may practice the profession of engineering, until he has sub- mitted evidence of his qualifica tions and has obtained the re

Flying Speed

155-Miles An Hour In Cruising Ships

Commercial Progress

air

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AVIATION

U.S.A. READY-MADE STANDARD LIGHTING

HOMES EXPORTED.

Portable Dwelling To Have Big Future,

GIVE GOOD SERVICE.

Los Angeles

FOR AERODROMES.

Development Of Night Flying Noted.

IMPORTANT RULING:

With the Increase in night flying

"Exports of "ready-built” homes, an important phase of the building Industry of this city, are growing rapidly with indications that they may some day have a wide dis- for military, commercial, and pien

suze purposes, which is này tak- tribution throughout the Pacificing place, it is important that ade

ares.

total for 1931.

and held responsible position for Ltd. is testing some single-motor-mer. In addition to dome lighting that it will revive.

ed.

dividends.

Single Engines Gain,

San

be

Lighting

WOOD PRESERVING [ing area. The location of the aero-

DISCUSSED:

One of the largest firms produc- quate lighting should be provided quisite licence. As a necessary Commercial

transport, it is expected that several of the ing this type of portable dwelling, for the guidance of the tramit, and In America and abread new transports will be seen in the which consists of completed unita, since this traffic is international in corollary, it is laid down that both

and New such as walls, roof, flooring and all scope it is no less desirable that e again undergoing changes, akies above New York any person using the title of en-and

accessories, quickly and easily the lights and other signals. "used again Europe is bor Jersey early in September.

fitted together, are now sending the world

should be standardised throughout gineer without a licence, or em- rowing from American experience Details of Now Planes

As is well know, this questich has playing any device indicating in flying long distances with pay; The Armstrong Whitworth, with their houses to several other coun- tries. Recently, they established that he possesses such a licence, loads. Imperial Airways has or-its 1300 horsepower spread among

International Commission: in Illi- when in fact he does not, is dered eight 120-mile an hour mone four engines, is to have a pay load, an agency in the Hawaiian Islands. been under consideration by the guilty of an offence.

planes from the Armstrong Whit- it is contended, of 4,000 pounds. Its Within the past six months this

mination, and, with the approval of "After many years of en-worth company. Someti

wing span is 90 feet. The new concern's exports are said to deavour, engineers in New York

**** | Lighting Committee of the British Meanwhile, in United States, 120-Boeing has a span of 74 feet, its half again as much as their entire the Air Ministry, the Aviation have therefore obtained the same mile-an-hour planes are considered two supercharged Wasps will de Attractively constructed, both of Standards Institution, which forme status as architects and will be far from fast enough for the develop 550 horsepower each and with

stucco and wood, these homes have a Sub-Committee of the British protected, so far as the law can mands of service. The Post Office two pilots, fully equipped and a gas given excellent service even under Committee of the former body has protect them, against any inter- Department objects. The opera-load of 200 gallons it will have a ference with their rights and tors themselves are beglaning to pay load of 2,400 pounds. The the trying conditions of the tropics, now issued a Guide to Aerodrome This explains in non-technical from unskilled competition. The feel that some sacrifices must be cabin is built for ten passengers They are easily packed and shipped licensing will be effected by a made for more speed. In place of and their baggage and 400 pounds and their cost is said to compare Board of Examiners, appointed the buffet in the great British ar- of mail and the engineers have favourably with the coats of language the uses of the various simple specification of the minimum by the Commissioner of Educa- gosies American planes have a promised a service ceiling with load building such structures in the types of apparatus, and contains a tion, and consisting of at least smoother fuselage and more horse of 19,000 feet: The interior height various countries of the Pacific

A somewhat similar industry, it requirements for the information of of the cabin is six feet. In cold three American engineers resi-power. dent in the State who have been Still the lines want more speed weather it will be heated by hot is understood, has been tried in local authorities, aerodrome owners, As far as night, flying is con in practice for at least ten years Transcontinental and Western Air water and will be cooled in Sum-Canada and for a time met with a aircraft operators and pilots.

degree of success. It is likely

cerned, lighting is essentially re Cyclone-powered Fleetsters there are individual reading lamps at least half that time.

The "ready-made homes" are quired to locate an aerodrome from This Board will have power to similar to the machines used to sup- beside each chair. compel the attendance of wit-plement the Stinsons on the New The purpose of this new equip inexpensive and largely used as a distance, to define the exact line.ment la to make possible a twenty summer cottages. But some have shape of the area on which it is nesses and to takke evidence on York-Washington-Norfolk

been sold to young married couples safe to manoeuvre, to show the oath. To obtain a licence a can-American Airways has quietly been three hour schedule between

pilot of the presence of dangerous didate must be an American developing a plane which it in hop- Francisco and New York and some in country and suburban districts direction of the wind, to warn the obstacles and to fepd-light the land- citizen of good moral charactered will outperform the Pilgrim, a thing slightly more than a five-hour of Los Angeles. and more than twenty-five years development of the Fairchild, ex-schedule between New York and

drome is indicated by a beacon, the of age. He must have satisfac.ceedingly comfortable for passen-Chicago.

While airlines here and abroad

signal from which may be coloured toirly completed an approved gers but too slow and expensive for.

are making changes for the sake of

to render it more conspicuous, and educational course, have had at

greater speed and longer range, one least eight years practical ex-

in any event it is of such a charac- The trend to the single motor is of the pioneers of high speed, cross-

ter as to identify the particular perience of, a grade and char-

place without possibility of mistake. acter satisfactory of the Board mared, much to the delight of country transport in this country is

The safe landing area is enclosed by and have passed the prescribed Grover Loening and G. M. Bellance getting ready to demonstrate the

A useful summary of the methods a "hedge" of orange "dighing lights examinations, conditions which who for years have been declaring value of speed with load in his own

which are now being employed to spaced at equal distances. The do not err on the side of leniency, that there is a good deal of bunk dramatic way.

· Still More Speed.

preserve the timber, used in struc direction of the wind is indicated by Until the beginning of 1937, in the argument for multi-motored a

Lieut. Commander Frank Hawks turee from deterioration, due to an Illuminated T placed hofmontal- the Board may, however, exempt planes as a safety measures. In this graduates of colleges or schools connection GaM. Bellanca's air will be flashing across country such agents as dry rot, ants and the ly and slightly above ground level, of engineering from the ex-bus, carrying from 10 to 15 pas soon in a new Northrop the Texas teredo, was given in a paper read so that ite "head" always at right amination, and each complete sengers with a single engine at Oil Company has purchased for him. by Mr. M. Ferguson before a recent angles, to and facing the direction of Advance Infofrimfation on this meeting of the British Wood Pre-from which the wind in blowing. year of study at such institu- cruising speeds far in excess tions may be accepted in lieu of many of the multi-motored ships, ship, which will be powered with serving Association. Landing must therefore be effected "Much attention, he said, had parallel to the "tail" and towards one year of practical experience. is receiving serious consideration the new Wright tendem radial of

by a number of operatora.

fourteen cylinders with geared pro been paid during the last few years the "head" of this sign. Obstruc- The Board will have powers un- The new American Airways plane peller, indicates a cruising speed of by British and American bodies to tions round the landing area are der certain conditions to issue

of marked by red lights and the Bur- temporary permits to foreign is an all metal, low-wing machine 200 miles an hour with a range of the causes of the destruction

exempt from resembling the Junkers and power- 2,500 miles. For shorter hope the marine pilling and other harbour face of the ground is illuminated by engineers, and examination an applicant who ed with a single Cyclone engine. plane will carry a pay load of works, but unfortunately many of one or more flood-lights. holds, a licence from a similar No reports on its performance have several hundred pounds. The new the test places had given poor or The guide describes the appara body in other parts of the been received yet, but tests are pro-craft is a low wing, smooth-skinn negative results, with preservatives tus required for these purposes and ed, full cantilever, all metal mono- which might be useful on a large lays down the limits of their per- ceding. United States...

Acting on the experience of many plane. It has a span of forty-eight scale. Creosots especially had formance, besides reproducing ex- Licences will be renewable ati-millions of miles of operation, feet, a total wing area of 865 square proved unsatisfactory, although tracts from the appropriate inter- nually and can revoked for. various causes, including the United Air Lines has decided, like feet weight empty of 3,160 there were many thousands of national regulations. It is added the British, that the air traveller pounds and a gross weight of 7,000 creosoted piles standing up old and that à British Standard Specifica commission of a felony, aiding wants more speed. But in the place pounds. It is similar in many resound in some of the most active tion of detailed requirements le be-- and abetting an unauthorised

of 120 miles an hour the new Wasp spects to the plane Northrop is

particular preservative had outdis- seeking expert advice on the sub- person in the practice of en-powered Boeings are to cruise at building for Lincoln Ellsworth and waters in the world. In fact this ing prepared, while the necessity of gineering and fraud, deceit or 155 miles an hour. This machine is Bernt Balcaen to use on their trip tanced all others in effectiveness, ject is emphasised. The guide (No. gross negligence. Complaints will be investigated by the to have a top of 175 miles an hour, acrossthe Antarctic continent next Board, and prosecutions will be Developed from the Boeing bomber year. conducted by the Attorney- General on their application. In- spectors may be appointed to see that the provisions with regard to licences are not being violat ed. Public works" may only be carried out under the super vision of licensed engineers.

Though many engineers in this country will consider the end that has been attained in New York desirable, we should not be prepared to cavil, if they ques-

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JAPANESE CITY IN

LOS ANGELES.

Artistic Construction Encouraged.

August: 81. is, of the 1208 Chamber of Commerce for

tioned the wisdom of the means, concentrating the commercial and We understand, however, that cultural interests of Los Angeles Japanese in a district made attrae- attempts are being made to pass similar statutes in other states, tive and beautiful by the charac while possibly the approval of teristically artistic architecture the Federal Authorities may be and atmosphere of old Japan, may sought at a later date. En soon be realized. gineering)

DERELICT GLIDER LANDS SAFELY

Comes To Earth Alone When Pilot Fails

Leading members of the Japan Chamber of Commerce hera, fed by their ent K-Mu

AMERICA'S BIG OIL PIPE MILEAGE.

Supplement Storage

ities.

city

thu the

the case

Various Methods Are Tested.

and its cost could be reduced by C.C. 7881), which can be obtained

recovering a considerable amount from the Publications Department, of the total quantity usedand. by British Standards Institution, 28 combining it with petroleum fuel Victoria street, London, S., at a oil, so that the mixture would still price of 28. 2d is well compiled and contain sufficient active antiseptic should excellently fulfil the purpose properties and might be as effec-for which it is intended. tive physically,

"Care was, however, necessary in making the mixture, and a special knowledge of the qualities of re compoents and of their behaviour equired. Crude a coal tar

form valuable the for

parent, and while purposes the bitumin- tar might improve erties of the wood,

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