TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1933.
Aviation, Engineering & Building
BRITAIN'S FINEST
POWER STATION, . Prince George Opens
Sheffield Plant.
On April 6, H.R.H. Prince George: opened the new Generating Station of the Shefeld Electric Supply De- 'partment. This station, which is the finest in the country, embodies technical devices. all the newest Great cafe has been bestowed upon
SHANGHAI STAGES EXHIBITION
Engineering And Rail Display
NEW HALL
DEDICATED
THE CHINA MAIL.
THREE THAMES BRIDGES
All To Be In Use This Summer.
The new
Thames bridge Vati Hampton Court was 'portially opened for through traffic at mid- night on April 9.
.
SIDELIGHTS
ON WILLIAM
CORDELL HULL
Man Who Runs U.S. Foreign Policy.
HIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY
Washington.
It has been decided to begin demolition of the old bridge im To Mr. William Cordell Hull, mediately the new one was ready Secretary of State of the United Previously it had been States has been granted the oppor for traffic. suggested that the existing structunity, which comes to few men, of the lay-out of the premises, which; include grass lawns and a tree-lined Exhibition which took more
The Engineering and Railway, could be heard anywhere on the ture might remain standing for applying his favourite ideas on a
than campus. At other times, these some time. No date has yet been world-wide scale.
That may explain the single- Avenue, thus affording pleasant half a year's efforts on the part of loud speakers broadcast music. fixed for the official opening, of the setting in striking contrast to the the Chiao-Tung University to pre-Opportunity was afforded the-vs-new bridge, but it is expected that mindedness with which the tall. unsigthly surroundings usually as
himself to preparation for the sociated with electric power stations. para, for the purpose of bringing tors to examine some of the mathe ceremony will take place before Blender Southerner has devoted
before the Chinese public the fatest chines at close range. Airplanes, the beginning of June.
Built to the design of Sir Edwin World Economic Conference at This station, which is the fourth developments in engineering, rall- Linotype, locomotive, etc., could be largest in the United Kingdom, has way and administrative devices, reviewed at leisure in the exhibi-Lutyens, the Hampton Court bridge which he hopes the nations will seek been selected by the Electricity was formally opened on the campus tion.
replaces an ugly and narrow iron to put into effect the comparative Commissioners for a central posi- of the university on Avenue Halg,
The records of the exhibition structure dating from 1865. The free trade, principles for which he
been to har¦has been fighting for many years. tion in their "grid" system for the Shanghai recently.
shows a list of 12 rallways and architect's aim has
His creed is well summed up in The formal opening of the fair, 242 firms and manufacturing es-monise his design with that of The undertaking serves a popu- which lasted until April 8, was pre-tablishments. Among the latter Hampton Court Palace, and three the formal programme for that Con- lation of about 530,000 and supplies ceded by the opening ceremony of there were more foreign firms than ferro-concrete arches are therefore farence and a well-thumbed copy is manu being faced with red brick and always within his reach. Its six the power requirements of one of the $500,000 Engineering Building Chinese. Of the Chinese
A road inking main headings are monetary and the most highly developed indus-and the dedication of the newly facturing firms the most interest-Portland stone. trial areas in the world, covering built Administrative Hall to Dr.ing ones were those started by the Hampton Court with Esher will lead credit policy, prices, resumption of 78 square miles.
Yung Wing, who took 120 Chinese alumai of the University. The to the new bridge. Sheffield stainless steel. has been boys to America in 1872 and placed Chinese radio laboratory. the Sin employed throughout for all fittings them in different schools in the Chung Engineering Co., Ltd., and for which that material is suitable. United States. These students the Chinese Triode Electric Co.
upon their return aided in the mo- [dernization of China. ¦
Mid-East Area.
THE YOUNGEST · AVIATOR
Dijon,
I Large Structure,
The building had a floor space j
af same 42,000 square meters and
a volume of some 420,000 cubic
The youngest aeroplane passen-meters, of which about one-fifth ger ever to have gone up from belonged to a former building. Thei here is the 27-day-old son of M. total cost of the unit was around Roger Munier, director
of the $500,000, most of which was given aerodrome at Longvic.
Accompanied by his father. grandmother, and
by the Ministry of Railways.
The exhibition was one of the great-grand-fincat of its kind ever held in the mother, the infant thus kad his country.. Loud speakers were lo- aerial baptism on a "joyride" of cated at all important points of four generations.-Reuter.
the campus so that all the speeches
HONG
KONG MARKET
PRODUCE
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
Breast
N
#
Head
Corned
Roast
Soup
Steak
Steak Sirloin
Bullock's Brains
Tongue, fresh
Heart
corned
Hump, Salt
Kidneys
Tail
Liver
Tripe
Calves' Head & Feet met $1.50 $1.00
Mutton Chip
Shoulder
Saddle
Pig'i Chitlings
per set
Fort
Pigeons, Canton
FRANCO-GERMAN
AIR RIVALRY
"Mother" Ship In Mid - Ocean.
the movement of capital, restric- tions on International trade,' tariff and trade policy and organisation of production and trade.
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Time Saving for Traffic. Meanwhile work on the Twicken- |ham and Chiswick bridges is mak
ing rapid progress, and both will To Mr. Hull this is his big job] probably be opened for traffic in and on the success of the "statesmen June. They will afford au im- of this country and the world in portant new time-saving route out"putting it across" he believes, de of West London.
pends the economic future of all. Motorists will be able to avoid the nations. narrow bottle-neck of Richmond On Capitol Hill, his somewhat was often the only High-street, and the almost per-strident voice petual congestion of Hammersmith-one raised in the Senate in protest Broadway will bo considerably against any increases in the tariff. relieved. At the same time the Now he hopes that the world is present flow of traffic over Hommer-reaching a point where actual want smith and Kew Bridges will be in many lands will compel Parlia- greatly lightened.
ments and politicians to acknow Twickenham Bridge, designed by ledge that each nation cannot live Mr. Maxwell Ayrton, is notable for itself alone and to sweep away being the first reinforced concrete the unprecedented entanglement of bridge in Britain to have its sur-trade obstructions.. face carved by hand. It will be a Só intent is he upon his task that For some years Aeropostale, the rich cream colour.
often he is the last person left in French company, has been running
combined aeroplane-steamship bridges were:
The contract prices for the three the big, grim department building
Hampton Court, after the working day has ended.) service, and this was subsidised by £170,000; Twickenham, £191,206; Lesser employes quit at 4:30. Mr. the Argentine Government up to Chiswick, £208,284. the end of last year. The subsidy. however, will not be renewed un- less the service is run entirely by
GIANT PLANES TO BE CATAPULTED.
A determined bid for the South Atlantic air service is being made by the German air-tine company, Deutsche Luft Hansa.
a
May 29, June air.
1933 19 Cts. Cts.
3 834 78 8 229*8228888
30
As a result the famous French!
aircraft firm of Bleriot have built
a big flying boat a four-engined high-wing monoplane, of 2,560 h.p. When she has completed trials
DEVELOPMENT-OF PLASTICS.
Strong Material M
| Many Shades.
28 designed to prove her ability to The foundation for plastic de-
fy the South Atlantic, carrying a¦velopment was laid some years'ago certain amount of freight, she will in the invention of Bakelite, which 22 be put by Aeropostale into the in early days was handicapped in
not being transparent and in being)
service.
Launching A 15-Ton 'Plane, a brown shade. Recently more at- The German company has nearly tention has been given to the de- a velopment of plastics for small ar- 24 completed the organisation for 80 service from Berlin to Rio Janeiro ticles and to large-scale applica- to take four or five days, the plan tions. The new plastics come in
May 20, Jurk
1933 1918
Ct. Ct,
BUTCHER MEAT.
Beef Sirloin
Jb.
24
POULTRY.
(F
Prime Cut
23
142
"
24
Chicken Capone, Smail
Ib.
H
Largo
28
Duck
22
"
Doves
each 40
Sausages....
Eggs, Hen (cooking) per doz. 36
18
per set 20
10
Eggs, Hen (fresh)
38
25
10
oach
50
Fowls, Hainan
1b.
85
1.05
GO
Canton
1.80
ib. 20
Geese
each 45
each
Hoihow Turkeys, Cock
Snipe Pheasant Quail Partridges
29
16.
75
Hen
each
each 25
M
-FRUITS.
Almonds
Ib.. 1,00
36
Apples (California).
24
20
Ib.
15
(bride's)
15
Carambola
20
Coconuts
each 15
10
Lemons, China
16
10
1b, 50
-BO
Lichoes, Dried
25
Oranges (Canton)
Oranges
Feara (Canton)
31
"
Braint
Feet
Fry
Head Heart
Kidneys
Liver Pork Chop
".
Loin
Leg.....
Fat or Lied
16.
**
Sheep's Head & Fest per set
"
Heart
Kidneys
07 Liver...
Bucking Pigs, to
order
Saet, Beef
Buet, Beef
Th
Mutton
Sapsages
#
Barbel
Bream
No. 1
FISH,
Canton Fresh
Water Fish
Carp
Codfish
Craba
Dace
Cuttle Fish
Eela, Conge
Fresh Wate
Yellow
Froga
Garoupa
Gudgeon
Herrings
Halibut
Lobsters
Oysters
Mackerel
Mullet
Parch
Pike
Pomfret White
Prawne Roach
Salmon Shark
Pomfret, Black
Ekate
Shrimps
Snapper: Soles
Tarbot
each
1,80
3 CARREESBASSSHEHEREINERZEBROB3886 KG MENGBIN G4588888852885.8AJAASSENEK) NORANZSPNEHAUR
Bananas
61 providing for an aeroplane mother many colours, particularly in the ship in the middle of the Southlighter pastel shades, and are of pair 2.50 2.50 Atlantic. The ship is the West. strong material.
falen, now undergoing trials, at{ 1.20
Lamont, American each
Peanuts
Persimmons, Large
Purelo, Siam
VEGETABLES, ETC
Walnuts
Grape
Artichokes
Beans, Sprout
Long Beet Rpot Brinjale, Green
Red Cabbage, Chinese
(Shanghai)
Cauliflower (Large)
(Medium) (Small)
Celarity, Chinese Chillles, Dried
Rod
*
Carrota
Cucumbers
Ib
Green: Curry Stuff, English
28
Garlic Ginger, Young
10
40
Old
2.22
13
Horseradish, Shale Indian Cora
Lettuce
Okroes.
Onions, Bombay
Green
80
16
Pumley Potato,
American
Pumpl Radi
(Fresh)
Water Cress. Water Lily Boot Mush Room
Hull stays on until 6:50 and some- times later. At his hotel quarters
a few blocks away he often takes up anew the studies which have made him one of the country's best posted men on his favourite subject. -Beuter.
"BLIND LANDING” EXPERIMENTS
Solving Aviations Greatest Hazard.
RADIO BEACONS
Washington.
An experiment in serial naviga tion, which may solve one of An important offshoot of the aviation's greatest hazards-landing
the end of which she will proceed plastics industry is the production in
a fog is under way at the
to Bremen, there to be open for of synthetic resin for protective Newark, (New Jersey). Municipal public inspection.
coatings. Paint:and varnish of the Airport under direction of the U.S. She is fitted with a catapulting future, it is believed, will depend Bureau of Aeronautice.
A blind landing in the feat more and more upon these synthe- contrivance capable of launching a tie resins to replace the natural the new equipment makes possible. 15-ton aeroplane Into the air, and;
conducted by Government.
10 it is assumed that the type of air gums and waxes that have been as Success has marked experiments. so
craft to be used will be the sociated with this industry for far Dornier Super Wal.
10
The use of a catapult is made! necessary by the Atlantic zoll, which would often hamper the
thousands of years.
$1,000,000 HOTEL.
take-off of a flying boat from the Largest In Europe For
open-sca,
Blackpool.
pilota.
Radio beacons, in themselves- not a new thing in aviation have been installed at the Newark Airport and are available for any aircraft equip equipment. Ordinary seta which Iped with the necessary, receiving
enable the pilots to receive radio beacon signals, weather reports and
The Germans have for some time been employing catapulting apparatus on the ocean liners, A new hotel, costing about £1. other signls from the ground are the Bremen and Europa, but the 000,000, and to be named The Pem- principal parts of the blind land. weight of the aircraft used was broke, is to be built on the Northing" equipment. In addition, a only about three and a half tons, Shore, Blackpool Baths are to be plane must carry a small device
In England an aeroplane weigh-erected by the Blackpool Corpora weighing only 15 pounds, ***
The beacons give the aviator the ing eight tons has been catapulted, tion adjoining it, at a cost of £150,-)
(three directions necessary for the method providing for very 000. rapid acceleration and . a · very It is expected that half of the Bafe landing lateral, longitudinal By watching his and vertical. short run. The German method is hotel will be ready for occupation simpler, inasmuch as the deck of within twelve months, and that the instruments, a pilot may make a landing without even seeing the the Westfalen has been adapted structure will be completed towards ground. for a comparatively long run and the end of next year..
Such Inndinge have been accom- less rapid acceleration. ... ́... d. It is stated that the hotel will be pilähed by aviators in hooded the largest in Europe, containing
cockpite,
...
Wireless Station." The German air line will be about 2,000 bedrooms, and a red-
During the past year and a half
2 from Berlin to Cadiz (1,560 miles) taurant seating 2,000, a cinema ac over 100 "blind" landings with the
5 by aeroplane, Cadiz to Bathurst, commodating a similar number, and new radio system have been mais.
West Africa (1,800 miles), by fly a large garage in the basementReuter, Ing boat, and Bathurst to Peraam- The principals are the Harvey buco (2,000 miles), also by fying Consolidated Estates Ltd., of which boat, stopping at the Westfalen Mr. Arthur du Cros is chairman, Shalf way, g
Hammersley, Kennedy and Coy of
The Westfalen, incidentally, will Davies-street, Berkeley-square, W., be a wireless station.
DANCING DISPLAY®
have acted as advisers in regard to Under the patronage of His Ex-
60 By this system of comparatively the monopoly value of the fence, cellency, the Governor and Lady
short stages the need for loading and an unconditional licence, has reel, a display of dancing will be
an immense quantity of fuel will been granted,
be avoided, and the flying boat will
carry mode freight future
The Westfalen, incidentally, will QUALITY P
again this year Carry out a fort nightly service to South America, anti It is planned to run this al- |ternately with the fying boat ber- vice, thus providing a weekly serv
given by the pupils of Miss Violet Capelli at the King's Theatre to- morrow, commencing at 5:18 pm.
INTING Part of the proceeds from the dis-
play will be distributed among local charities and the London; Hospital. Nearly seventy pupils will take part, and Miss Violet Capell, her- self, will dance a duet with“ har Válater Miss Phillis' Ospell.
NEW HOSIERY
FROM
I. & R. MORLEY
IN UP
TO DATE
COLOURS
PRICES
FROM
$2.50
per pair.
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Present
THE
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INTERNATIONAL
REVUE
A TALENTED COMPANY IN
MUSICAL COMEDY
Greater Novelties
Funnier Situations
Newer Songs & Music
Bigger Scenes & Sets Prettier Girls.
Speedier Acts
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SUNDAY 4TH JUNE
PRICES AS USUAL.
1933
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