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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 12TH, 1926

HONGKONG VOLUNTEER

DEFENCE CORPS.

CORDERS BY LISTT.-COL LA. BIRD, D-8.0-,.

"ADMINISTRATIVR COMMANDANT-]

No. 910

ARTESIAN WELL DRILLING IN

CHINA

It may not be generally, known thal the free falling or percussion mathad of drilling, wella originated in China 2.--ARMOURED CAR COMPANY

probably thousands of years ago, says The Miniature Range at Corps Head Mr. E. Forbes Bothwell, F.R.L.BA: quarters is at the disposal of the Armour-in the Shanghai Sunday Times. The ed Car Company on Monday, 15th March, Chinese, however, did not develop, the at 5.30 p.m.

BIFLE MAITING, APRIL ATH AND BIH." Entries are required for the Machine Gun Competition and other ovents at the above meeting.

Teams to consist of 1 N.CO. and 2 men Any N.C.O. who can get men may enter and he will arrange his own train- ing.

Entries to reach Headquarters by Monday, 15th March.

2-MUSKETRY COMPANY.

lides beyond the crude bamboo structures that may be seen in and around Shang- hai, nor was any advance made by them in the art of drilling wells in dificult formations such as quicksand, and other unconsolidated sirata encountered in many places throughout China

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The Chinese drilling rig consists of

a wooden wheel supported upon a bam- boo framework, a bundle of bamboo

Musketry Course Part I will be had at poles fastened together in the form off Stonecutters on Sunday, 14th March, 1928.

an archer's bow, the bowstring being

Only those who have been specially demade of rope. The tools are very crude even to-day. A piece of iron or steel

tailed will fire.

1.

Range Officer: 2nd-Lieut. R. R. Davies, rod is fashioned into a cutting tool with M.C., M.M

an eye at the opposite end for attaching Launch will leave Murray Pier at the flat strips of bamboo which are used a.. and call at Kowloon Pier. at 0.10 Dress: Uniform optional, but rifles, bayonets and pouches must be taken.

Arms Will be drawn from Headquar- ters on Friday, 12th March, between 8 am and 12 noon or 2 and 4 p. or and 6 pm, and on Saturday, 13th March, between 9 a.m., and 1 p.m.

3-SCOTTISH COMPANY

The Scottish Company, will find the Guard of Honour' on the occasion of the Investiture by H.R.H. Prince George, K.G., G.OVO., on Saturday 13th March.

The Guard will be in position on the lawn opposite the North entrance to Government House by 10.40 a.m.

All ranks in the Guard of Honour will wear review order dress and orders and decorations. The Commander will be Lieut. D. O. Logan, M.C...

No. 6 (Kowloon) Platoon will parade

to make the drilling cable. These strips of bamboo are fastened together by means of two fron slips to each joint. When it is necessary to lower or, raise the cutting tool the upper end of the bamboo is made East to the wooden wheel and a coolie enters the wheel and tramps the cable up or down as the case may be, treadmill fashion.

"Drilling is effected by attaching the end of the bamboo "cable" to the bow- string and pulling downward on the cable, thus striking a blow on the bottom of the well. The rebound of the bow raises the tool and in this fashion drilling is effected, the workman turning

the bamboo cable a little at each stroke

at the Dockyard on Wednesday, 17th in order to make the hole cylindrical.

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March, at 5.30 p.m., for practice in Guaril When it becomes necessary to remove the, on a driller's shoulders, ps a lack of ENCOURAGING PARENTHOOD. Mounting..

"Quarry Bar" Cup: Items 3 (Fire cuttings from the well the cutting tool knowledge may mean the loss of a Control) and $ (Guard Mounting) as de- is removed and a bailer or and bucket valuable tool and probably the loss of the tailed in orders of last week will be enmis attached to the cable and lowered into well peted for at Corps Headquarters on Thursday, 18th March, at 8 pm.

Drees for Competitors as detailed for Guard of Honour.

4-STRENGTH

The following are taken on the Strength

as follows

No. 1027 Pte. A. T. Braley, No. 3

Platoon, as from 3th March, 1026.

No. 1023 Pto. F. S. Gumley, M.I. Co.,

as from 8th March, 1920.

the well by the treadmill

The Chinz Deep Well Boring Com "On reaching the bottom the bucket pany, Ltd., "have in operation two is lifted up and down a few times.to fill modern drilling outfits, a standard|

FRENCH FIRM'S EXPERIMENT.

An important contribution to the study. of the birth rate problem, which so gravely concerns France just now, is made in L'Avenir by M. André Michelin, partner in the well-known manufacturing -

it with the cuttings. When this is done portable machine, pad an oil well rotary firm. M. Michelin tackled the problem the bucket is tramped laboriously to the rig, the latter outfit being in operation from the standpoint of a workman who surface and the cuttings removed. As at Rubicon Road, where a deep well is had to rely solely on his wages. His pay drilling proceeds a pipe is lowered into being drilled for the Shanghai Water proved ample for one person, quite com- the well until the skin friction prevents works Company. The well has new fortable for two, sufficient for three, if it being driven any farther. A size reached a depth of 760 feet and it is the economically spent, but for!

No. 1029 Pte. R. A. Jardine, M.I., Cosmaller pipe is then inserted inside the intention of the company to have the difficult to inake ends mit was

as from 8th March, 1926.

No. 1030 Pte. H. Y. Frost, A.C. Co.,

as from 8th March, 3rd, 1926.

No. 1031 Pte. R. Maclatyre, A.C. Co.,

as from 8th March, 1998.

No. 1032 Gr. T. J. McCarr, Arty. Co.,

as from 9th March, 1926.

No. 1033 Pte. J. C. Lyal, No Platoon,

49 from 27th February, 1926.

-APPOINTMENT.

The following is extracted from the Hongkong Government Gazette, dated 6th March, 1926.

H.E, the Governor has been pleased to appoint Company-Sergeant Major Henry Charles Macnamara: to be Second Lieutenant in the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, with effect from 3rd March, 1928,"

G-REVERSION:

No. 454 Corp. V. H. C. Jarrett, En gineer Co., is permitted to revert to the rank of Sapper at his own request, as From 8th March, 1926.

7.-TRANSFER.

No. 454 Spr. V. H. Jarrett, Ea- gineer Co., is permitted to transfer to the Beserve Co., age from 8th March. 1924.

8-LEAVE A

Co., is granted 7 months' leave from 1st No. 423 Sergt. G. T. Fadgett, Engineer April, 1996 to 31st October, 1928.

No. 525 Spr. C. F. Bord, Engineer Co., is granted 10 months leave, from 20th March, 1926, to 10th December, 1920,

No. 1002 Bugler C. R. Warren, No. 2 Platoon is granted 10 months' leave, from 1st March, 1926, to 31st December, 1926.

No. 789 Pte. E A Harlow, Armoured Car Co. is granted 12 months leave from 1st April 1926, to 31st March, 1997.

9.-RESIGNATIONS.

first pipe and pushed, deeper down until boring carried to about 1,200 feet. water is reached. In many cases the well

hardly possible,

for five

for six it

is abandoned and a new hole commenced Australian expert, Mr. P. F. Eardley and his brother therefore decided to en Under the direct supervision of their amounted to hardship. H. Michelin "The nutiva method of telescoping the Chian Deep Well Boring Co., Ltd, allowance of 75 a month to workmen courage large families by making an extra, pipe in a well is responsible for the con- recently drilled a well with their rotary with one child, 160f. for two children, tamination which in most cases exista outfit in Tientain for the British Muni 300f. for three children, and so on, 1001. in wells drilled by these methods. The cipal Council Waterworks, and were surface or upper strata waters enter the successful in producing a satisfactory tional child in a family. Further, to re-

a month being allowed for each add pipe at these joints with the result that flow of water from a six-inch diameter l'eve the workman's mind of economic the usable, water, if any, is rendered bore hole. The results obtained in this fears, it was provided that these allow unit for domestic purposes.

well demonstrates very clearly the dances should be continued to children up- "In marked contrast to the primitive vantage of using modern drilling ma Chinese rig are the several types of chinery operated by experts as against drilling machinery now in me through the native

tive methods. A well 12 inches out the world. Those most widely used in diameter was drilled by native in drilling for oil and water are, the methods at the Tientsia B.M.C. Water standard or cable tool method and the works previous to the six-inch well being fotary or hydraulic method. Both these drilled by the China Deep Well Boring methods are capable of drilling to great Company, Ltd., and it proved a failure depths when in the hands of trained on being tested, owing to large quantities drillers..

of sand entering the well. Finally the well sanded up.

is

The question of and entering a well rather serious one, apart from the fact that it ultimately ruins the well as

s source of water supply. To pump, or Bush large quantities of sand from a well in close proximity to heavy buildings is

may

The standard tool method was de veloped in the United States where Colonel Drake drilled the first oil well

From that time to the present day the at Titusville, Penn., in the year 1858

art of drilling has made tremendous strides, both in respect to technique and improved, methods. The numerous oil a "decidedly risky proceeding and fields that have been developed inion. With modern machinery and ex cause serious subsidence of the founda- America are responsible for the present erienced operators this risk is entirely high state of efficiency of both the eliminated. standard and rotary drilling methods Each field presented unusual difficulties

The risks associated with well drill- The following are permitted to resign which were overcome with improved

ing would fill a fair-sized volume. The from the Corps:

machinery and drilling methods. The from the cable or drill

matter of a boring tool becoming detach- as result to-day is that wells

or drill stem often are being drilled to depths that were impossible taxes the resources of the driller to the for the old type of drilling rig

utmost, and although there are numerous standard fishing tools available it is "In many branches of engineering offen

for the 'driller to

No. 653 Pte. J. Miller, A. from 8th February, 1926,

No. 31 Piper. A. Ferguson,

Platoon, as from 25th February,

1928.

10-STRUCK OFF

The following are struck off the strength, as from 26th February, 1926- No. 384 Pta E. Stock, Mounted In

fantry Co. No. 665 Spr. A H. Smart, Engineer

Co No. 300 Spr. §. J. Q'Sara, Engineer

Cp..

D. JOLL, Captain, Adjutant, H.K.V.D. Hongkong, 12th March, 1928.

lower

is not necessary for the engineer to be an impression block on the lost tool to come da artisan in order intelligently ascertain its exact shape and position to direct operations, but drilling de in the well. From the impression thus mands it. It is necessary to work with obtained a special instrument is made to an experienced driller to acquire the feel grip the lost tool. Very often a fishing that only comes with long practice job occupies several weeks; and in some This will be appreciated in view of the cases it is impossible to remove the heavy financial responsibility that reata broken tool, in which event the well is (Continued on next column) abandoned at a bezvy finansiel loss.

to the age of 10 years if the breadwinner

died in the meantime.

The results are strikingly shown in the birthrate for 1924 among Michelin work- men and other families, for the rate is as much ag four and in some cases -five as among their neighbours times as high among Michelin workmen Arguing from this experiment, M. Michelin lys could be induced to adopt this or some that, if employers throughout. France similar scheme for helping parente to make ends meet, the depopulation pro- blem would be effectively solved.

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