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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1933.

Aviation, Engineering and Building.

A NEW SPINNNNG

RING.

Twice Speed Of Ordinary Spindle Attained.

An invention which. it is claim- ed. will greatly change the spin- ning of highly twistd colton, silk and artificial silk used in the weav-j ing of crepes, voiles and other fabrics will be of considerable ad-

THE CHINA MAIL.

Municipal Airpot For New York

Artificial Island To Be Created

vantage to Lanenshire firms in PROVISION FOR LAND AND

competing with rivals in other i

countries.

The invention has been dis- cussed among experts in Lan.

been attained.

up to 100 turns per inch,

£250,000 TOWN HALL FOR BRIGHTON.

Big Building Scheme Sanctioned.

SEA PLANES

water.

OXFORD STREET CHANGES

Big New Building Scheme.

BLOCK OF SHOPS AND FLATS

The western end of Oxford- street, which has been changed al-

most out of recognition in recent years by the erection of a number. of big buildings, is about to see another important change.

and Cubitts Ltd., by the erection of

an imposing block of shops and

A lease has been granted by the cashire when it was stated that it The proposal of the Community (jacent channels. The amount of

Portman Estate of the prominent consists of a new spinning and Councils of the City of New York all required was computed to be rectangular site of $1,000 sq. feet doubling ring which is fitted to for an airport to be created by approximately 19,430,000 cubic bounded by Oxford-street, Old existing frames and that twice the building an island in the upper bay yards. An artificial drainage sys- Quebec - street. Bryanston - street, speed of the ordinary spindle has out of Governor's Island was re-tem is to be installed to keep the and Portman-street. This is to be cently made the subject of a design field dry at all times, the field to be Already, under tests, it has competition. The winning design is raised to ten feet above mean high developed by Holland & Hannen worked at eighteen thousand here described.

ro- volutions a minute during which it

The proposed New York Muni-: Long Landplane Runways. has doubled together ten ends of cipal Airport to be located in upper

Four sets of runways are pro-flats. very fine cotton or silk and inserted New York Bay lies approximately vided; N.S., 4,350 feet long; N.W.- 14 miles south of the Battery and is.E., 3,000 feet long; E.W., 3,000

Demolition of the existing shops 2.000 feet off the Brooklyn shore. feet long, and N. ES. W., 3,900 and houses has commenced. The The terminal has been designed as font long. Each runway consists main frontage

land and acaplane base to the of two landing strips 176 feet wide cupled by the shops and business is at present oc- specifications of the Aeronautics separated by a take-off strip 160 premises, mostly with two storeys Branch of the Department of Com- feet wide. Take-off strips are of over, numbered 606-540 (even), Ox- merce: the landplane bare meets concrete: landing strips of a reall-ford-street. There eighteen seta the requirements for an A-T-A lent pressed composition mixture of premises were largely built in rating, while the seaplance base to absorb landing shocks. qualifies for an A-1-A rating. The

the early part of last century, when Seven hangars are provided for the small shopkeeper held sway in design has been dictated by the the use of landplanes, each A proposal for a new town hall twin necessities for efficient hand-feel by 225 feet, with 20 feet hoad-when the great stores and other 176 Oxford-street, as elsewhere, and has been approved by the Brighton fling of flying equipment and for room. General Purposes Committee, which low construction and maintenance divisions of the city fire depart-either

One hangar is to

house modern buildings that now occupy comprises all the members of the costs on the airport itself.

side of the thoroughfare town council.

ment, police department, and an were andreamed of. Facilities for reaching the site complete first-aid-apparatus and The hall. It is estimated, will cost and provided in a proposed subway Thie hanger is to be equipped with ing will be completed at the end of It is expected that the new bulld- £250,000. It is proposed to demo-line, vehicular tunnel and ferry emergency lish the present building and ad-services linking Manhattan, Brock-facilities for coping with any pos

crew and ambulance.jnext year, jacent property so that the newlyn and

Staten Island. Facilitiessible emergency.

A Spacious Garage. hall will have a frontage to the for a power boat ferry between the The terminal building has been ford-street, Old Quebec-street, and On the ground level, fronting Ox- airport and the Battery are also designed to accommodate branch Portman-street will be spacious offices of operating transport com-shops with basements. Above the The landing area is approximate. panies, ticket offices, rest rooms, building will raise to eight storeys, Fill for the site is Department of Commerce and Cus-devoted to small service flats. The jen obtained by dredging the ad-toms offices, waiting room, lunch-jentrance to the flats will be in

room. emergency ward, field man-Bryanston-street. aker's office meteorological and There is to be built also on the rooms, and traffic-control Bryanston-street frontage a large tower. The building has two floors garage for J. Lyons and Co. Ltd., rising 35 feet above the airport to be used principally for private level; the tower is 70 feet high.jcars. Résidénta" in various blocks The roof of the building may be of flats nearby will doubtless find employed as an observation plata garage in mich mealtion of form or open-air restaurant. great convenience.GAL

éca.

It is also proposed in construct & provided, police court on the fruit market

alba, opposite the new municipally 20 acres. buildings.

HONG KONG

MARKET PRODUCE radio

APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.

Sept. 5, Sept.

1933 19

Ch. Ctà.

BUTCHER MEAT.

Beef Sirloin

Printe Cut

Corned

Roast

Breast

Steak

Sausages

Bullock's Brains

Ib. 34 24

20

Pigeons, Canton

Seaplane and Dirigible Bases.

The new block will have the Cumberland Hotel, now nearing

The scapland basin is an artif-completion, on the other side of 30cial harbour created by an

gclosing sea wall with the west side 34 32 22 open and marked by a series

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approximately 300

of

feet

Old Quebec-street, as its near neighbour, Immediately opposite | fa the building erocted for Gamares (West End) Ltd., which, ander the The sub-terminal building pro-is to be a wholesale buying contre name of British, Industries House, vided for the seaplane and dirigible for home and Empire produce.. connecting it with the main ter are the architects who have. pre- Sir John Burnet, Tait and Lorna 2minal building. The aub-terminal pared the plans for the building

based has

foot and molor

ways

80 building is in the form of a section shortly to be commenced. When

Sept. 16, Sept.

1033 1018 Cla.

Cta.

POULTRY.

30

Chicken Capone, Small 28

Hb.

50

58

28

27

42 23

Large

60

*

34

Duck 24

Doves

each

Soup

PH

30 22 buoys

MD

34

20

Eggs. Hen (cooking) per doz, 28

japart.

18

Steak Sirloin

30 Du

Egg Hen (frosh)

40 }

26

30 24

20

Fowi, Hainu

per sel 20

10

Toague, fresh

each

50

Canton

04

"

17

corned

1.05

650

Geete

Head

H

40

1.80

Heart

Ib

cach

20

35

Hump, Salt

220

Hollow

Feel...

Each

12

10

10

Turkeys, Cock

រង់

28

20 af an annulus.

76

Kidneys Tall

15

10

Hea

70

81

Liver

ཙི॰ ་

Snipe

Tripe

1.80

Pheasant Quail

+

Catver' Head & Feet set $1.50 $1.00

Partridget

rach 25

each 40 1.20

Facing toward

this is completed there will remain the seaplane basin, the front of the sub-terminal tle further room for development, on a large scale at least, on the

Mution

Chip Leg

b. 46 20

"

20

FRUITS.

Shoulder Saddle

28

M

►

#

*

*

Heart

Pig'i Chitlings

Brains

Feet

Fry

Head

Kidneys

Liver

Pork Chop

Loin

H

Almonds

Ib. 1.00

85

27

per net

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Apples (California)

30

24

Bananas

"

(bride's)

4.0

Carambola

}

€

30 16

Coconuts

OACH

20

Lemons, China

lb.

12

16

10

chees

American each Dried

Ib, 1.20

Bears

Organes ******

Oranges (Canton)

is rampe,

N

#

Leg

30

60

Peanuts

Peara (Canton)

Fat or Lard

21

Sheep's Head & Feet per set 00

60

"

Heart...

Pumelo, Slam

each 15 B

79

Kidneys.

Liver

Bucking Pigs,

order Suet, Beef

Buet, Beef

Mutton

•

10 12

i "26

Ib. 25

Grapes

#

►

25

20

Veal

"

20

Baum goa

No. 2

FISH,

Barbel

Bream

Canton Fresh

Traffic Control.

Carg

Codfish

Crabs

Water Fish

Guttle Fish

Carrots 34 15

10

Chillies, Dried

18

Red

1.

Dace

28

Green

Eels, Conger

20

Curry Stuff, English

Yellow

..10

Cucumbers

Frogs

28

Garlic

Garoupa

B2

Ginger,

Gudgeon

Young

Old

Herringe

develop

space for

Mullot

Gyatera

Fearch Pike Plaice

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ASPRO

1 It Relleves Headaches in 5

to 10 minutes,

2 It Brings Sweet Sleep to

the Sleepless.

3 It Relieves Rheumatism in

one night.

4 It will ease the nagging pains of. Neuritis and

5

to Relleve

6 ASPRO taken according to directions will smash up

. Cold or Flu attack in 24 hours.

7 It Brings Relief without

harming the Heart

Boothes

Away Irrit ability.

-8 It

9 It speedily reduces Ten-

perature.

ONLY

THE GENUINE CAN STAND THE TEST OF TIME,

The public are well acquaint- ed with the scores of medi eines, for which all sorts of claims are made, that keep coming on the market from time to time. They come and go.and fade out one after an- other. The reason is obvious. No public service or uillity can exist indefinitely, uninse it really serves. With ASPRO It le a different story.

For

OVOR

Afteen years ASPRO | progressed all over the world, and the reasons are:

'ASPRO' fulls all claims made for it. 2. "ASPRO' meets all requirements of the standards required by analy tical

tests. Furthermore, ASPRO conform to the standard of Purity laid down by the British Pharmacopoeia (the guiding authority of the Medical Profession), reports of an Eminent English Analyst -published in this an- nouncement, and always keep 'ASPRO' in the home ready for any emergency;

Read

10 The stabbing

paine

of

Sciatica and Lumbago can. be hunted out with 'ASPRO.'

11 It can be taken at any Tram, Train, at

Business-any-

time, in

Home, at

where everywhere,

12 It gives great relief to women at their time of periodical depression,

13 It relieves ill after-effects

of Alcohol

14 It relieves Dengue and

Malaria by reducing

thi Fever.

16 As a Gargle, "ASPRO' is

wonderful for

Söre Throats, Tonsilitis, etc.

ASPRO is Woman's Best Friend

of

The PURITY of 1

ASPRO

The purity of ‘ABPRO' cenfurms 14 the standard laid down by the British Pharmacopoeia, --the gulding mathority of the Medical Profesion. - With "ASPEU there ji no Pere Salleyflo ácid, thorsford, It dome not harm the Heart, 'or' hate any Injuries after-effects, sucks in pa........ pitations naisnon, digestive or other tran Wes. Belaguard your health' ând bǝeri by always inakaing «« 'ASPRO'.

EMINENT BRITISH ANALYST'S 'REPORT ON 'ASPRO.

Dear Sire,

London, S.E.1

For some time past I have examined every consignment of the raw material used for the

manufacture of your. 'ASPRO' Tablets. I have also arranged for this to be the in- variable practice in the future.

Possibly the greatest users of 'ASPRO' are women, för whom 'ASPRO has a special charm on account of the varied periodical experiences with which all women are familiar. I have in every case found it... Tisey surely know Just what a to be of the highest possible"?" wonderful soother and pain standard of purity-containing no traces of any impuritica dispeller "ASPRO' In... Milliona

women throughout the whatsoever. I have not, on World now

say single, occasion, found the regularly take

minuseit trace of free Salicylic 'ASPRO, the safe, sure andAeld, which Jn, as you know, effective medicine, to relleva their pain and socompanying physical depression, who be fore had to resort to danger- ous drugs, narcotics or oplates. The understanding woman use 'ASPRO.

DODWELL & Co., Ltd., Distributors, Three. Packings: 5's, 10's, 27's.

the particular impurity object ed to in inferior brands of this important substance.

Yours faithfully, _(Signed) B.Be.F.L.C., F.C.S. (For reasons of professional otiquette wo are unable to publish the

those

*

name, but for interested, it

may be obtained ́on application to Nicho -- las 13y, Lid, 10. City'

Road, South Mel burne, B.C.4.)

Pomfret, White

Fanfret, Blac Prawni

Boach

almen

Persimmons, Largs

Walnut

pair 230 2.50 building is of steel and glass con-north side of Oxford-street at the

each

VEGETABLES, ETC.

each

Artichoker

Beans, Sprout

Long

Beet Root

Brinjals, Green

Red

Cabbage, Chinese

(Shanghai

Cauliflower (Large)

(Medium

(Small) Galery, Chinese

17

Horseradish, B'hal

Indian Dora**.

Lettuce

Okroek

Onions, Bombay

Grien

Purley Potato Sweat

Pumpkin

American

struction, allowing an interesting Marble Arch end.

treatment for a waiting room, rest

roome,, a lunch room, amusement: accessories and any other depart ment necessary,

Three seaplane hangers are pro- 4vided for servicing and storage, These hangars are of the same 26 Jaize as those on the landplane base 10 except that the headroom

25 twenty-five feet. Two

seventy-five feet wide with a slope

£3,000,000 NEW ROAD

From Liverpool To Manchester..

The new £3,000,000 read from

of one foot in eighteen feet, are! 10 provided for hauling seaplanes out

of the water. They also afford a Liverppool to Manchester has been means for amphibians to taxi up opened unofficially, It is 27 miles to the sub-terminal building. Along, including 25 miles' within the small dosting dock for handling administrative county of Lancashire power boats and for loading of and two miles within the city of smaller seaplanes on the water Liverpool. It begins at Hall has been provided. There are dock Avenue, Walton, Liverpool, and ends facilities for handling yachts and at Irlams-o'-th'-Height, small freighters,

Swinton. The dirigible base is equipped cupled four years, and at the peak The work of construction has oc with a fixed telescope stub moor-period of two years 2,000 men ware ing must.

jengaged on itSMSANT

The roads almost dead The lighting, has been designed straight in accordance with the Department through any intermediate towns, and does not. DAKE of Commerce specifications for an though it skirta a portion of St. 10 A rating. Three floodlights are Helens. For two miles, the width provided so that two of the three between fences is/120 ft The cen may be used to light the area effi-tral carriage-way measures 40ft ciently without blinding the pilot with 4 stone kerb on each side, and a 107 While landing on any runway, verge is left for Boundary and obstruction lights mant, with are inicated on the plan.

below fra

It was not thought necessary to install runway marker lights gincs the flood lights will be sufficient to make the runways stand contrast and, nullify the' any lesser light on the

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