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The Duke of Kent's portrait, does not appear on many pontage. stamps.
He
BURIED
TREASURES
OF THE EMPIRE
INCALCULABLE WEALTH IN BRITISH LANDS
METALS MAY REVOLUTIONISE INDUSTRIES
(By W. Shepherd, F.G.S.)
A portrait of the Prince of WRlea has appeared several times, both on Newfound- land and Canadian stamps. made his first appearance on a Canadian sot issued in 1897 for Queen Victorla's Jubilee. He was shown as a small boy, very Ber E live on the slag-heap of alimparts to them'a very low melting- ious-looking, in a white rinafore W
London.
When mixed with other metals it
vast smelting-furnace. The point. with embroidered collar and a continents are the earthy refuse head of curls.
dross-eating on Д semi-maiter,
Cadmium And Manganese Though formerly imported from Next year we are to have a new metal bi
The United States, cadmium is now eet of stampa 'for the King's 'Ju- Our puny mining activities are produced on a large scale in Aus bilee. Sir Kingsley Wood might but the scratching away of a little tralia, where even richer deposits' of consider the accasion an oppor-rust from the surface of an almost the ore are being exploited. tunity to give the Mother Country limitless quantity of mineral wealth, Yet another valuable metal in a worthy set of Royal portraits, over half of which is most easily modern industry is
accessible within the boundaries of small quantities of which are added manganese, the British Empire.
to steel for high-speed tooling. An The continent of Africa is esti-alloy of it has been used in making A Portuguese doctor presided mated at 23 miles thick, but even the 35-ton propellers of the Queen over the session of the League the top mile contains sufficient Mary. Manganese steel, being ex- Council at which the Jugoslav-metallie ore to supply the world for ceedingly tough and hard, is em Hungarian dispute was consider-many thousands of years. Though ployed extensively for making bar- led.
the exploitation of this prodigious glar-proof vaults and armour plate,
RETURN OF A DOCTOR
He was Dr. Augusto de Vascon- store has hardly begun," it has al- and enormous deposits of various celos. He was Portuguese Min-ready provided us with countless manganese ores have recently been Ister to Great Britain just after household conveniences and luxu- discovered in India. the war. He has been a more or ries.
In 1933, India produced as much less permanent delegate to the League- since 1923.
The Wealth Of Africa manganese ore as all the rest of the His chief Interest in medicine, enr, bicycle, buttons, taps, and other Russia, whose figures are doubtful. Most of the chromium of your world put together, excepting only of which he was once professor at fittings come from South Africa About 67 metals are known to Lisbon University. He was fam-and (more particularly) Rhodesia, science, apart from the numerous ous as a surgeon before he turned which was a few years ago furnish-alloys possible, and of these only to politics.
ing three-quarters of the world's about twenty are well known. The Presidency of the League form of commerce before the Council is governed by strict Rules gold of British Africa are likely to fringe of the rich metallic garment supply. Even the diamonds and Science has so for touched only the "bill of exchange" was invented of Procedure. by the bankers of Lombardy Under them, if the representa more useful minerals, such as "blue wears-and which she
be eclipsed by the untold wealth of which Mother Earth weaves and Hong Kong, Saturday, Dec. 29, 1934.five hundred years ago. That tive who should act as President asbestos," a more valuable variety shamefully allowed to become cakeď
there are exceptions is only a considers that he should decline than the asbestos which once came over with mud and cinders. proof that there are still to do so, the Secretary-general solely from Quebec. remnants of greater scope (and must apply to the last President|
Alloys Of The Future freedom. One of the leading to act in his stead.
But Canada can well afford to lose! Who can guess what strange exceptions is our
own Empire. Dr. Benes having expressed Ontario and Quebec are by far the into common use within the next its monopoly of asbestos, for in both alloys may not be made and put
We have already adopted stainless metal furniture,
National Economics
Yesterday we noted that one of
idea that there
The drift has
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than aluminium and so hard that it suggested as a practical proposition. will scratch glass, the metal beryl-The very latest metal to find its lium is likely to prove of inestima-way into the ordinary household is ble value in the construction of air-rhodium-one of the platinum
heat.
(the outstanding features of the which has touch with so many wish not to preside during consi- largest known deposits of beryllium few years? year that will end next week has/different parts of the world that deration of the dispute, this duty workable on a commercial scale. been the dissipation, or at any sterling is still able to do much fell to Dr. Vaconcellos as the last White in colour, a third lighter while cloth of woven metal has been rate the weakening, of the old of its old work; but we are rather President
noting the main drift of things was anything than the details. solid or permanent about money been towards a balance of trade It is filtering down into the public between any particular pair of consciousness that any national countries, rather than a balance jcurrency is under the control of
"I suppose you can get any distance craft, It retains a high polish in metals. It is rarer and dearer than the national Government, and of payments between each coun-with your wireless," said the typist to air indefinitely and hardens with platinum, because it is capable of takes its value merely from the
try and the world. in general. ¡the clerk.
being deposited on aliver in in "Or course I can." said the valve ex- reputation of that Government The worst effects of this drift port proudly, "Why I've had complaints A Wonder Metal credibly thin sheets, and is a pre- for probity and efficiency, This are that policies that were either from people three streets away." result is in direct contradiction to to be, have once more become finevitable, or at any rate seemed
Its chief ore is the precious stone, cious metal itself. It is being em- beryl, from which it takes its name, ployed for rendering silver, abgo- the former policy of the financial world, which has aimed at pro practical applications of the
popular. We see on every side "Here's a real example of gratitude." abundant deposits may very easily
and the nation possessing its most lutely untarnishable.
Rhodium is a by-product in the fecting finance from the instahi-Mercantile Theory," which refund for a man who broke his engage.
"A wealthy woman creates a trust find itself one day in virtual control refining of platinum and nickel, and lity of political parties; and the
of the world's aircraft.
comes to us in about equal propor- full effects of the change have garded all purchases as loss, by ment to her 20 years ago." yet to be experienced..
looking at the money paid rather
This wonder metal is already tions from Canada and Russia, than the goods bought; hence the How is everything at your house?" not only employed regularly for the Africa are known to
coming into industrial use, for it is though New South Wales and South Meantime we may notice that maze of duties not merely pro-asked the friend of the
its posseas the result of the destruction of tective but vindictive and prohi-groom.
bride-"windows" of X-ray tubes and the ores. any international "yardstick" bitive, backed up by quotas and "Oh, ahe's all right," responded the electrodes of neon signs, but a light, Molybdenum And Its Uses such as the pound sterling used absolute exclusion.
young husband, happily.
"What is it?"
*
Hm-m!
The Bargain
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new
strong alloy of it la being used for| Molybdenum is another rare to be has been an enormous in- The fallacy of the whole sys-
the pistons and connecting rods of metal, compounds of which are en- crease in direct political interfer-jtem is that people forget that
petrol engines.
ployed for colouring leather and ence with finance, and industry. "the other man" can hit back. "Is your new son-in-law nicely off?": The mineral wealth of Canada is rubber. The ores of this grey It need not be supposed that the Every restriction hurts some-in gloves. I pay for everything else."
"He can just about keep my daughter only beginning to be discovered metal occur in Australia, Canada, advocates of particular interfer-body, and with the conception of "Then he deceived you as to his cir- Its long enjoyed world-monopoly of and in smaller quantities in the. ences have a double dose of the absolute sovereignty of the cumstances."
It is nickel is but a foretaste of the vast United States and Europe. The fact is that National State the man hit looks for her band." original sin.
remember he merely asked hoards of treasure concealed In its used for hardening steels, and the there have always been innumer-around for some means of doing
rocks. It is already known to be gas cylinders which were made re- able theories on these matters, a disservice to the man who has
the lucky possessor of the world's cently for the experimental omni- but they have never been able to hit him.
largest oilfield.
buses run by the Birmingham Cor- poration were made of nickel- It is estimated that in the bitu- chrome-molybdenum-steel,
.
"No.
CURTAILING ARMY EXPENDITURE
Provincial Finances Overstrained
GENERAL CHEN CHI-TANG DECIDES ON. CUT
Canadian Riches
¡minous sands of Northern Alberta
Though, the walls of these cylin-.
an inch
there are fifty billion cubic yards of ders are only a fifth of oil-enough to supply the world for thick, they can stand a pressure of five hundred years at the present inch!
well over 3,000 pounds. per square rate of consumption. This is a buried treasure which has so hardly been touched.
In Southern Alberta there
far
are
It has even been suggested that In outlying villages, where oil is still used for heating and lighting,
make much impression on the What ray of hope there is practical man as long as inter-comes from the fact that the national trade and exchange were results of Economic Nationalism a working system. To-day in are becoming so obvious that its Germany, Italy, Poland, and reign is not likely to be a very many other countries the pay-long one.
A devaluated currency ment of a foreign debt is under gives a deceptive appearance of the control of the Government prosperity until it has found its and subject to chances and stop-level and now supplies have to be pages-that-no-private trader can bought A-"fighting tariff" is prophecy. The issue of loans to only effective so long as there is foreign Governments is in many trade and market opportunity to
large supplies of helium-the non- bottled gas may prove a boon. Canton, December 21, inflammable gas used for airships Quite a moderate-sized bottle of cases forbidden; and in all, even be used as a bargaining counter. In view of the great stringency in the natural gasfields, and the as we thres tot stove going for in England and America, subject If a man does not want to sell to approval. The reason is very in that market at all he is indif in the provincial finances,
separation of the helium by liquefy-two or three months, if economical- simple, that there is no use in-ferent to the tariff. It is clear General Chen Chi-tang Comman-ing the other gases present has ally used! Such a project would be creasing an indebtedness until now that only the free English der of the Kwangtung Provin-ready been begun on a semi-com-an utter impossibility except for
the extraordinary properties there is some prospect of old market enabled many countries cial Forces, has decided to cur- merelal scale.
Canada and the this alloy, all four constituents of obligations being met. This of to maintain their Protection tail the military expenditure of United States possess the only con-which are found within the Empire. course applies to ordinary com-before the War, and they are the province as from January siderable supplies of helium in the mercial debts; war debts, have now willing to compromise on <ung has an army of 60 Regi-
next year. At present; Kwang- world.. been consigned to limbo; though basis of reciprocity.
On August 6, a gigantle plenie, thirty years ago they could have but little hope of general Confer ments.
was held on the Great. Bear Lake by been borne with only a little ences which produce much bleat According to tentative plans Yellow-knife Indians, Eskimos, and strain and economy.
ing and little wool; but we feel decided upon, a sum of $16,000 is miners. They were celebrating the The new conditions are very certain that there will be much to be reduced from the cost of discovery, of what are probably the much more powerful than any more bargaining in the New each Regiment and it is estimat- biggest radium deposits in the
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arguments; and it is the new con-Year. It does not seem likely saved monthly by these reduc
ed that over $900,000 can be world
ditione that have brought into that any country can reap much tionsChekiai Agency. action many of the old discarded advantage by any further cur theories. If the "three-corner-rency manipulation Italy was
ed" exchange operations are hoone of the first to grant big sub-
CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY
Profit Of $1,100,000 Declared
of
These were detected by two air-
Canton, December 21. men who were prospecting over Anett profit of over $1.100.000 Mackenzie, when they noticed some has been made by the southern unfamiliar rocks in which were section of the Canton-Henkow
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longer easy and often impossible, ventions to shipping, but these appears likely that we have pass-streaks of glassy deposits, irides Railway during the past 11 we are reduced to the simple pro-are now looking very like milled the apex of restriction and cent with gleams of red and green months, according to information position that a country can only stones; the Corporative State has that there will be a gradual trend and yellow.
received from the Railway trade with another when the recently seized the foreign cre- towards leaving trade to follow Cadmium is another metal which Administration here to-day. The. goods they send to it are practi-dits in the hands of private citits natural channels as between was once considered, a rare scienti- total income of the Railway for cally of equal value with the zens in order to hold the one country and another. What fic curiosity, but it is now coming the year, however, represents a goods they receive from it, in exchange steady. It would be the Governments will do within into use for plating. Its bluish-white slight decrease as compared with fact we have returned to direct tedious to enumerate all the their own frontiers is another colour resembling chromium. It la the receipts of the previous year. barter such as was the ordinary other bits of evidence, but it question.
rue falso used for making fusible alloys, Chekiai Agency,
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