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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21,

TALLER

BUILDINGS

IN ENGLAND

Skyscrapers Not Anticipated.

1933.

CORRESPONDENCE,

PICNIC FOR BLIND GIRLS

[To The Editor "China Mail"}

FIRE AND FOUNDATIONS PROBLEMS

Sur,

The Committee responsible

London

for

THE CHINA MAIL.

H. K. BROADCASTING FO-Day's Short Blogg

DILEMMA

Ultimatum By Local Music Firms.

HOW THE DEFICIENCY CAN BE SUPPLIED

three

THE

MIGHTY

WATER

By Francis Gribble.

M'summermatter told me the and down the valley.

our

to talk

old friend Christian from which one could look both up

An ultimatum from the

We climbed up to the hotel by al the organisation of the piena for

dealers in the story as we walked up the tire-

had

lunch the Girls of the Blind Home, Pok principal music

will

no Gietroz, so called. from the brought out to us on the terrace, Building in England are shoot-fulam, wish to thank all those who Colony, stating that on and after some stretches of the Val du rough path, and

assisted in any way to make it the November 1 free records

longer be available for broadcasting glacier which overhangs it, for a and then Christian began ing upwards towards the sky,

Conccil, happy event it was.

"This is the place where Ins The London County

Engineen molor cars, kindly leut purposes has come as a bombshell short distance, in its higher again.

to the local station, ZBW, and a parts. for instance, has just consented

It is one of those long, dark, nar- father was on the night of the great to the erection of a building at by friends, left the Home at 3 p.m.,

row, winding lateral valleys which flood," he said.

"A good place to be" 1 answered, a greater height than that pre-for Shek O via Tytam. On arriving likely to cause a serious curtailment

at Brook at Island Bay some girls preferred of European programines.

Notification of the cessation af Act.

the glacier streams have furrowed

carelessly. "A sort of Swiss Ara-) scribed by the

went supplies of free records by Messrs. on their way to pay their tribute to rat for a Swiss Noah's ark"; but House, Park Lane. Upper Brook-to sit on the rocks and chatter, while

the more venturesome ones

Perhaps it is the street,

"I do not think that was the same Meanwhile, several provincial paddling led by withng helpers. Montre and Company, the Anderway

discussing the This was perhaps the happiest part Music Company and the Taang darkest, narrowest and gloomiest of Christian had a literal mind.

kind of flood," he answered simply." corporations are relaxation of certain restrictions of the picnic; their joy and laughter Fonk Piano Company was conveyed them all. In a few pinces the floor

"But it was like it in one way," made one wish it were passible to to the Broadcasting Committee this of the valley widens, and affords a patch of level pasture, covered with

"All the he added, after a pause. n building height.

Interviewed yesterday. Mr. W. Jowers in spring; but such places people were warned that it was com But, in spite of all this, it is take them to the sen more than once

Carrie. the Postmaster General, are very rare indeed.

ing. It was my father who warned extremely unlikely that England in year.

In the meantime our Chairman,

stated that he was still conferring i In the main, the valley is as con-them." become a country of will ever

with the help of two scouts those of rivalling skyscrapers

dealing with tea-urns. It was only America.

Englishmen are never likely to the promise of ten that enabled us walk like human ants beneath to get the girls out of the water.

Tea for our Blind Guests follow sach giant structures as Amered by tea for helpers, and then there to the suggestion. ica's Empire State Building of 1.248 feet (and 85 storeys), and distribution of gifts of stockings,

towels, handkerchiefs avop,

vided.

**as

and

week.

Carrie said.

me

dia.

MONDAY'S STORY

with the retailers in an effort

"How did he know 7" I asked. stricted as a railway cutting. The obtain an extension of time. Two

"First of all because of the signs, of the retailers had replied. how.walls, thousands of feet high, ara

steep that one can climb them and then because he went to look," only here and there.

was the enigmatic reply to that; and stating that they could not

A feature which struck as then Christian went on to tell me Supplying The Deficiency. "There need be no fear that curious was the immense quantity about his father.

"He was not a mountain guide, as the Chrysler Building of 1,046 sweets, brought the picnic to a close.

ZBW will have to close down ajof boulders and rock debris

He was a fect, or even the now relatively We drove back to the Blind Home result of this sudden move," Mr. persed over the surface of the few I am; there were very few mountain

flat strips of pasture which we pass guides in those days. low Woolworth Building of 750 where a supper of chicken was pro-

chamois-hunter, in the season, and a "We have already made tentative jed. feet.

"They were left there by the great crystal-seeker; and he also kept the Besides such monsters Lon- Thanks are gratefully extended to arrangements to meet the situation. don's building height limit of 80 those who so kindly donated money The Management of the Hong Kong flood," was Christian's explanation little ina which used to stand just feet (sometimes permitted to and to those who lent cars for the and Shanghai Hotels Ltd., hus when I questioned him, but he volun-where this hotel is standing now. more frequent teered no more, and we tramped on It was quite a small inn, mostly for rise to 100 feet) and England's occasion, to Lt. Col. Robertson for agreed to allow

seem almost providing cake and boiling

broadcasts by their orchestras, and juntil we came to the hotel at which peasants, and. I think, for amug water

glers. 10 storey building ludicrously small.

for tea, to Mrs. Keaten for aand-other tentative arrangements will we were to stop for lunch.

Broadcasting The structure of the valley at this Many Drawbacks.

wiches. Miss Buckwell for apples, probably involve the But there are very good rea-Mesara, W. R. Loxley & Co., for a Committee in an additional expendi-point was peculiar. It was narrow, but it was cut in two by a hillock! 1,000 feet sky-case of toilet soap, and to the long ture of $400 a month. Rons against

"Arrangements are also being quaint execrescence Among Kong Hotel for the loan of kettles. scrapers in England.

Donations were received from the made to secure more frequent studio some two or three bundred

citadel them, it is explained by Mr.

broadcasts by the Cheero Band, the high, which slood like Urqu-

The hotel- H. B. Bryant, secretary of the following:-Mrs. Rouse, D.

I also guarding the passage. Building Industry's National hart, K. C. Tsang, H. A. Allen, Mr. Merrymakers, and others.

have in mind the possibility of it was only a mountain pension- Council are:-

Quist, E., Lady Lotlock, B. C. 1. Owing to the different al-Randall, J.S.B., Maj. H. B. L.. Dow broadcasting dance music from some was built on a convenient flat area

1of the local cabarets."

near the summit of the mound, with titude

RUD. sky-buggen. W. Ailen,

One of the nutcomes of the situa-ja thin clump of scattered pine-trees "It was for them that my father scrapers in London would Naval Yard, R. Baker, anonymous tion that has arisen, Mr. Carrie add-behind it, stretching up to the top, made the look-out place on the pine- nam rel as much light as M. and J. Booker. F.R.G..

Jed, would probably be the inaugura-and the highest pine of all had been tree, which you have seen, so that Jefford, M.T.Y., Mme. Drouik, those in New York;

they could admire the view.

Inn Lo- 2. Foundations in New York, Directors of the Tung Wah Hospi-tion of a subsidised ZBW Orchestra. hacked about so as to serve as

and my mother kept the After a certain depth, are tal, Mra. Hooper, Miss Newsholme

Iron stanchions had been driven gether, without any servants. practically on rock. In Lon-and the Rotary Club,

Motor car were kindly lent by PHILIP WATERTON'S into the trunk, so that one could was not at all afraid to be left alone don they are on blue-elay

TRAGIC DEATH.

climb it, and there was a platform there when he was out on the moun- which is not so solld, and Hon. E. D. C. Wolfe, Mrs. Richie..

taina, and he was not afraid to leave therefore special precautions Miss Ruckwell, Hon. H. ft. Kotewall,

ther." would have to be taken to Capt. Valsey, Messrs. Jefford, Pad- prevent skyscrapers "mov-gett, Kirk, Bitzer, Tam. Smith, ing";

Randall, Cresey, Low, Petrie, May,

of

the

3. Elaborate measures against Strellet.

possible fire must be taken

Friends in the

Mrk.

We are again indebted to Mr. B. with skyscrapers and in New C. Randall and the Flying Squad of York where precautions the Police Reserve

for escorting

are very good-there may the party to Shek O and back,

be a fire on the top floors

and people below may know nothing about it.

"There is really no question of skyscrapers the American

on нство

here,"

Mr. said Bryant.

over

D. Booker.

Hon. Sec.

N. V. Haiward. Chairman,

St. Peter's Group, V.D.M.A.

"I do not think we shall ever H.K. AND CANTON ICE them. It would simply MANUFACTURING CO

one thing, that the mean, for higher you made your building The more you would starve a cer- tain area

beenuse of sunshine here the sun strikes at a higher angle.

London's 80-Foot Limit.

Loss Of $1,825.52 Last Year.

the Hong Kong and Canton lee!

Castle Peak Road

Crash Inquest.

VERDICT OF DEATH BY MISADVENTURE

view-point.

A

of

rock,

feet

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She

Welcomed At Cathedral pleasant touch of simple vanity,

"At Home."

He continued t some length, drawing the picture--a picture of a straightforward, primitive man,” as simple-minded as himself, but one who, as Christian insisted, with s

"knew the mountains and the signs."- At the inquest held yesterday at the Kowloon Magistracy into the

It was on the day on which old Summermatter returned death of Philip Waterton, who died

A largely attended "At Home," Caspar as a result of an acriedni on the given by the members of the Cathe-from some expedition longer than Castle Peak Road on October 8:

dral Church Council to members usual, which had kept him two or ¡the jury returned a verdict of death of the Electoral Roli and their three days away from home, and by misadventure, the Coroner, Mr. friends, was held yesterday in the noticed a very strange phenomenon. Wynne-Jones, expressing the sym: Cathedral Hall to ewlcome

back The Fohn had been blowing; the pathy of himself and the jury with the Very Itev. Alfred Swann, D. S. mountain snows had been melting:

concerned.

C. M. A., Dean of the Cathedral, the rain in the valleys had been streaming down in sheela; and yet

Dr. J. B. Mackie, medical officer The Right Rev, B. O. Hall, Bishop

B

the roar of the torrent which formed

at the base of the rock had ceased,

stillness. The cataract, in short, causing an unusual and unearthly

a feeble stream of muddy

bed.

water

in charge of Kowloon Hospital, Dr. of Hong Kong, presided. P. F. S. Court, of the Kowloon Hos.:

Owing to a sprained ankle, Lady pital, and Dr. K. H. Uttley, who acted as anaesthetist when the boy Pollock was unable to be present Subject to audit, the Directors of was operated on, gave evidence as at the function. Tea was served, had almost ceased to flow, and only

to the Injuries and the cause of Mrs. Thwaites being in charge, as- "The maximum height for Manufacturing Co., Ltd., will redeath, while Mr. O. de Souss, driver sisted by members of the Cathedral trickled in the middle of the rocky buildings in London is 80 feet commend that the loss of $1,826.32 of the car which, with Mr. J. L. Women's Guild.

Those present included Mrs. B. Telley's, who involved in the acci

Old Caspar's wife had already plus two more storeys in the roof made during the year ended July dent, his uncle, Dr. B. A. de Sousa, O. Hall, Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolle noticed this. The sudden cessation above that, but under certain 31, be deducted from the sum of

in Cathedral noise had awakened her, the conditions the L.C.C. have power 88.718.01 carried forward from last who was his passenger, Mr. J. L. and Mrs. Wolfe, Rev. N. V. Hal of the customary companionable to give some classes of building year's ecounts, thus leaving

Tetley and Mr. D. W. Waterton, ward, (who acted

Unable to father of the deceased, gave con- Chaplain during the Dean's absence middle of the night. authority to go beyond the two balance of $6.802.69 to carry for ficting evidence as to the accl- and is now Priest-in-Charge of the sleep again, she had dressed, and Kowloon Tong Anglican Church), taken a lantern, and gone down the "In America the limit la im- Buildings and Machinery have

The jury, composed of Messrs. F. Rev. and Mrs. N. L. Evans, Boy hill to look, and, though she could posed by "Zoning" in certain been depreciated to the extent of

W. Simmonds (foreman), A. A. and Mrs. G. K. Carpenter, Bev, Lnot understand anything, she places that means that the $10,000.00, while the BUTA of

L. Nash, Bev. E. W. L. Martin, Rev. frightened: height of the building is con- 10,816.80 was expended under the Alves and H. Overy, without trolled by the amount of sun heading Repairs and Renewals dur- pressing an opinion as to the cause AK Mackenzie, Mr. and Mrs. What is it, Caspar? What does Do you think it is the It meant of the accident, gave a verdict as Schofield, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Thom- that can reach a certain leveling the year.

jas, Mrs. and Miss Dowbiggin, Miss, end of the world that is coming?"" Hancock, Miss E. Hayward, Messrs, she asked her husband, with i T. H. King, F. H. Crapnell, F. E superstitious terror; but Caspar, Baskett, A. 5. Abbott, B. C. Han knowing the mountains and the {dall, D. G. Stewart,

signs, was able to tell her what had happened.

storeys.

from the foundation.

"London's limit of 80 feet!

ward.

our fire

dent,

jstated.

News In Brief.

LORRY DRIVER FINED $25.

Mrs. Labrum Thanked For Giving Evidence.

WAS

"If the water does not dow when the mow is melting," he said, "there can be one reason only. Somewhere the stream is dammed. When the dam breaks, then the water will flow again."

The thought did not trouble him. He went to bed and slept on it, as he had a right to do, being cold/

does does not apply in the pro-improving immensely vinces. In some towns there are fighting facilities and there are, limitations, but it is largely alan it were, two schools, of matter for the local authorities. thought regarding fire, one says "That capital punishment should "The fact is that in England we should put our eggs in the be abolished" will form the subject tall buildings have not been de-basket of fire-proof buildings; of a debate to be held on Tuesday signed, so that in the case of and the other says our egge next in Room K of the main provincial bye laws and Acts the should be in the basket of more building, Hong Kong University, possibility of them has not been fire-fighting appliances.

Messrs. Woolley and Y. S. Chan provided for. It has been a "Preventing fire by fire-proof representing the proposers, the sumed that they would be the buildings is very expensive. On Hong Kong University aris Associa ordinary height of 70 or 80 feet, the other hand fire fighting in tion, and Mr. S. V. Gitting and Dr. "Manchester and Glasgow are London and the provinces is very N. P. Karanjia the Hong Kong seriously considering tall build largely limited by the pressure University Graduates' Association, On the evidence of Mr.V. C. and wet through and tired, No doubt, he thought, a small landslip ings and there is possibilty of which exists in the waterfains the opposition. The meeting, will Labrum of 87 Waterloo Road, a much higher ones in future, and by the power of the portable be open to the pablle."

lorry driver, Au Man, was fined had somewhere blocked the torrent. With all this rain it would soon Various other provincial corpora fire fighting appliances. It takes

$26 by Mr. Wynne-Jones at the wath its way through, and the tors Lions are also giving it attention a very great pressure to throw

Kowloon Magistracy yesterday rent would flow, as before. There and whether they will impose a water 100 feet. That is about

Mrs, Labrum said that, she was would be a bit of a flood, but nothing limit or how they, will tackle the the limit."

driving, her car behind another much bette question is not yet clear,

Curiously enough the 80 foot,

vehicle in Waterloo Road when the Morning, broke, however, and "But the bye laws of all local building limit is attributed to

The Building Fund of the Cheero defendant's lorry cut in between there was no flood as yet. The de- authorities, outside and inside Queen Victoria. It is said that London, have to be confirmed by she was looking out of her win Club will benefit considerably on and in front of her car. She had luge of rain continued, and the the Ministry of Health who are dow at Buckingham Palace when Thursday next if there is good to brake violently to avoid an ac- Forn still, sighed through the trees; but there was no modne of Tushing watching the matter very close-she saw Queen Anno's, Mansions "house" at the 9,50 performance of cident

The Magistrats thanked Mrs. water, and the bad of the torrent "gi #"Ballory', '" Luck”- at..." the – King * towering over London, S Problem Of Fire.

She consequently insisted on a Theias, the management having Labrum for coming to Court to was still nearly empty. Caspar lit "Fire is an aspect which must height limit being included in promised the side of the process rire evidence, I wish more peo- his pipe and ruminated."

(Continúed on page-13.), of that performanos to the Fund, ple would do so, be Be considered. We are the Building Act--Reuter.

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