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COMMERCIAL AVIATION FOR

HONG KONG.

LINK IN EMPIRE AIR LINES.

QUICK AND FREQUENT, COMMUNICATION,

ADDRESS TO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Mr... Vaughan Fowler, Adjutant of the Kai Tack Aerodromie, who has a long experience of aviation, gave na interesting adirees of the prospecta of commercial aviation to the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.

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He proved from statistics the safety and rapid growth of com mercial flying since the war, and paid a tribute to the light aéro- plane clubs, which would eventually make inen regard flying much as they regard motoring to-day..

In his view the airship and the aeroplane would never compete, us the commercial range of an airship was about 3,000 miles, while an aeroplane's range began at about 200 miles.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 1928.

INCOMPETENCE AT VLADIVOSTOCK.

MANCHURIAN PRODUCE HELD UP.

THE CHINESE EASTERN RAIL WAY IN DIFFICULTIES.

MURDEN, Feb. 8th. Brans piled up and stored evory. where, beans and beancakes held up all along the line between Har brn and Vladivostock, beans and

conceivable

north shurian produce stocked out in, tht open, at the mercy of the elements These are some of the difficulties confronting "the Chinese Eastera

every

Man-

SHING, MUN VALLEY.

REMOVAL OF VILLAGES.

COST OF THE OPERATIONS.

HOMES PROVIDED FOR THE

PEOPLE ELSEWHERE.

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The Government have issued} details of the plans, which havė been prepared for providing other accommodation for those villagers in Shing Mun Valley who have to be removed to make way for the new water supply scheme.

About 853 Hakka Chinese living in eight villages are concerned.

CHINESE WOMEN AS BARBERS.

SHANGHAI Y. W. C. A.'s EXPERIMENT.

SUCCESS OF THE INNOVA. TION.

SHOKA, Feb. 18th The Shanghai Y.W.C.A., during. the past few months, have at tempted an interesting experiment in vocational education for Chinese women, and during a period of three months 20 Chinese women on un average a day have been learn- Railway management, to the andig- nation of north Manchurian ship

Ting the arts of professional barters, pers who consider they have been a hallow in the hills about two: Considerable success has attended very badly let down. The Chinese miles imrond by two and a half the experiment, according to a res Fastorn Railway has always enden- youred to make the port of Vladi, long, formed, by Tai -Mo Shan, cent report by the YW.C.A. rostock popular with shippers of Grassy Hiland Nedles Point, and in Chios are difficult to solve, the Employment problems for wo IDMNE north Manchurian produce, and towards this end it has spent large stoping from Lead Mine Pass sums in propaganda efforts. With southwards to Pineapple Pass and report continues, and unless wo- the assistance of the Ussuri Rail Taun Wan, the anhabitants of these way, everything posible has been done to emphasize Soviet aggres villages own to acres of agricul education which may find profes The average cruising speed of a

administrative tural land, 1,180 acres of forestry outlet, there are few occupa commercial acroplane would be ability and Vladivostock has alrights and acres of pineapples.

tions open to them. Clerical and ways been painted as a 'rival port shout 90 m.p.h. but in such a case

The whole of this area will have

commercial occupations are occupi Shanghai, in the teeth of a 30ties and a bright future. All sorts

the journey from Hong Kong to to Daires, with unbounded facili

Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, Major Since would be opened out to made to shippers in an effort to "Lieneral C, Luard, and Comped of 120 m.p.h. and so the have them route their cargoes ei

Vladivostock modore J. L. Pearson. The address ground speed could be retained. was given imder the auspices of the Hong Kong Genera: Chamber of

Come To Stay.

Though generally more expensive than surface transport in this part of the work, there were some route on which travel by air would actually save money as well as time. Among those present at the City Hall yesterday to hear Mr. E Vaughan Fowler speak on the Pro- spects of Commercial Aviation in the Far East were H. E. the Gover nor (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.O.31.G.),

siveness

and.

men Bre possessed of academic

to be evacuated, and after carefuled by men en attend to shops and conduct business. The clothing

HE S 3iles Lampeon, Admissfm.p.h. north-east monsoon the enel of inducements and promises were search in co-operation with the trades are in the hands of men.

L'ommerce.

villagers, suitable sites have been formed to accommodate them. All will be moved above Pineapple Pass."

A further sum of

Every single year has shown an Cargoes Piled Up At Vladivostock. which shows that business people business has been getting keener increase of passengers and freight Now, competition in the produce are gradual beginning to use the and keener these post-war years, village sites is an Crown Land. Mir. R. Vaughan-Fowler, as the

The greater part of the new Chairman, the Hon. Mr. D. a. Mmercial flying has come to stay, ly smaller, so

airlines, and that means that com- with profits getting corresponding Bernard pointed out, had been also

every dofar It has been necessary to purchase Adjutant of the Kai Tack Aromachipes now being built there is preft to the shipper. Hence, dur eluded in the sites, at a total cost with the big 3-engined saved in freight means a dollar a small area of private laid in drome for the last year, and had a long record of civil and military pe room to house pasecagersing this produce season, north Bying in different parts of the

and freight, and to provide warm Manchurian shippers decided to of $1,035.31. ing and cooling apparatus. world.

give the C.F.R. trial, and with 82,783.80 compersation for fruit Early Daya.

Local Conditions,

what disastrous results! Cargoes trees unavoidably invalveil brings were piled up in Vladivostock, the port authorities showing groes in this figure to 83,830.31, adlity to cope with the situation, trains were bold up everywhere and lost sight of. The management de tailed experts to Vladivostock to straighters things out, but the con fusion is still evident. It will not be before April that the tongestion will be entirely done away with, and during the interval -anything might happen with

the cargoes standing out in the open.

Af the opening of his address, China lends itself to the dying Mr. Vaughan-Fowler went back to boat, the serplane, and the sea the legends of very early, times tagised machine, but owing to the show that the question of flying had large number of mountains and

The cost of preparing the sites

Except in alls, where women's more delicate handling skill is necessary or where," in factories, work demanding manual dexterity

arising from long practice, can be muller wage-women can find littlə as effectively done by women for

have been the personal attendants outlet. For many years women

the intricacies of the toilet. Thus in homes, assisting mistresses in the idea was evolved to rain them a barbers.

Scissor practice in volving drill by the hour; lectures.

always held a place in the minds paudy helds on and the waterways in some instances they have been for the new villages is shown in method; lectures and discussion

of men. Coming to the first years of the present century he reminded his audience how in 1802 the Wright brothers constructed an aeroplane which climbed to a height of 3 feet, while nearly ten years inter Blériot flew the English Channel in a machine which he designed and built himself.

In 1912 the Army began to take an interest in flying, and progress became more rapid, so that at the beginning of the war we Had machines with a speed of 75 m.ph.

capable of lifting three men.

The Commercial Side:

If it had not been for the war there would he no commercial aviation to-day, said Mr. Vaughan Fowler. At the end of the wer niroraft factories were faced with more or lese a ceration of activi

ust be used as much as possible. The country is especially suited to flying boats, and seaplanes. Kow loon Bay for instance to an idea! place for these machines. Reclama tion work for aerodromes was very expensive, and it followed that it sto seaplanee that the main atten tion should be given.

No one has yet operated a route calling for the us of seaplanes and flying boats, but last year the Air Ministry-sent two of its big gest flying bonts to cruise-in-the Baltic and the results were very watiefactory. One of the boats was at the buoy or flying for 12 months without any barm, which showed how capable they were of standing the weather.

The Safety Question.

Changes Against U.E.R.. This exhibition of gross incom- prtener is not going to help the Chinese Eastern Railway next set- sou, for merchants have a long memory and do not forget things as easily as the average newspaper, end. To make matters worse for the C.E.R., whispers have been heard of unwarrantable preference having given to particular ship ments. A railway line is not sup- posed to show favouritism and the matter of accepting deniale, here Russian public in stubborn in the all the statements of the C.E.R. management to the contrary not withstanding, the public persists

the

Kum Tin

$ 5,000.00 1,300.00 10,000,00 500,00 1,000,00

following table:-

Tsat Sing Kung Pun Chúng

Shek Ku Lung

Ping Kong...... Wo Hop Shek Nam Shui Po Fung Yuen.

1,700.00

$,000,00

831,300.00

7,000.00

in health and its relation to clean" tiness and sterilization of instru ments; these had initial attention. Trying It On The Schools. Then rane the "question of 'patiente "

upor whom the skill might be developed. Hair, groW comparatively slowly, and members of the class soon exhausted each This_work-will-be-dons-exclusive others' need! There would accord- ly by Government, and provisioningly be seen women, in pairs, is has been made the 1918 Estimates viting the occupants of home to to cover the expenditus. The cost submit to free treatment. Schools. of making eight walls is 92,100.

welcomed the "traines." Distri- bation of leaflets to the effect that free haireus could be "available

attention.

Free sites are given in exchange for land on which houses now stand A single-engined seaplane could

and the question of compensation day next Saturday," at the be found for their products. In even if there were engine failure,

Man should not arise. The existing brought or applicants for tonsorial Lies unless another "channel could be used here in perfect safety, fee

far building land resumed at Shing W.C.A. in Haining Road, 1018 there were in" existence, bomb- a thost uncommon thing with the ing planes capable of lifting a ton very reliable British engine, there

dwellings at Sting Mun have been and traveling at 130 m.p.h., and are many eheltered bays for and

aured and it is necessary to the simplest method of competing ang Speaking more generally of in believing these rumours of provide for the enaction of build- commercialy with other nations was the question of safety in commer favouritism.-North China Dailygs of the same cubic content in

these craving, Mr. Vaughan Fowler News.

the new villages subject only to to put bigger engines into machines. But to put commercial quoted the following extract from

approval of plans. It is proposed aviation on a sound economie basis, the Air Ministry report published of meteorological services, of wire the lecturer said, there must not be in April, 1927;----

For the second consecutive year jess, of bases and landing grounds. ing in accordance with the follow- Three Cantonese girie obtained more than 33 to 16 hp per passe British Air Transport has a record / Not only must every port be a ship- ing table, for

ger.

The cost of a trip from London to Paris in August 1919 when the ft two companies began opera Lions was £ and the operation cost per ton tie was nearly $1. Now the fare is, about £4 158 and the operating costs $1 per tou-mile

of no accidente resulting in death or injury, and the accident rate ance the services began in 1919 is there fore still further improved. A total distance of 3,271,000 miles has now been flown with only four accidents casing the death of passengers. This is equivalent to

such accident in a distance flown cor respoding to se times round the world at the equator,"

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The Commercial 'Planu. The case of these high early Costs and subsequent reductions was mainly that at arst, the com panies were operating with old feant fact that the freight insur- He also pointed out the signi- army. machines, and t was not ance from London to the Continent until after the formation of In-

transport than for surface trans- was in every case for lower for air

perial Airways, Ltd., on April 1st, 1824, that these were scrapped 'and machines desiqued and built for commercial work were used.

port.

The Time Question.

stations" and

the business of the Government to ping port but an air port. It is

see that air services get every aid from meteorological from wireless, and to see that there is co-operation between all nations in this part of the world, so that the field is clear for commercial aviation when it does come.

Flying Clubs.

In this connection, flying clubs are not merely sporting movements but are essential for familiarising people with air travel. There were land, and others throughout the already twelve such clubs in Eng-

world, while a consignment of de Havilland Moth seaplanes bad The table, printed at the end of already been dispatched to the new The necessary qualifications of commercial machiner were

this report, is sufficient proof of the Bring club at Singapore. Business that they must be reliable, and practic immense saving of time that would men must use the line when it ah guaranteed against a forced be brought about. Further than comes, and send letters and valu landing they must carry a paying trie, it must be remembered that in able email freight and documenti load and provide

long distance trips passengers could by it. maximum of comfort for passengers and pilot; spend the night ra comfort at they must have a good top speed, hotel, while a car would take them an economical cruising speed, and a to the aerodrome in the morning, reserve of power as they have to and also au air fibe would give a operate in all parts of the world, far more frequent service than any and in soUTE parts aerodromes surface transport in this part of were as much as 2,000 or 1,000 feet the world. above sea level.

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Multi-Engined Machines.

There were two methods of ob taining this reserve of power, either,

Airunes are actually in existence or are coming soon throughout the British Empire and the world. We have got to have our link in the air lines of Empire, or if we do not, it will be an extraordinary pity.

Baže To Be Avallable.

Ultimately 19 members of the The mem- class were graduated. bers found varying types of em-

their own houses, Government pay Service Centre in Museum Road. to allow the villagers to construct ployment. One in the Y.W.C.A.

foot. 3072

(1) Dwellings, by contract (con-employment with a barber already tractors engaged by villagers) established in Nanking Road. Two As the work proceeds, at a have gone to Wusih The others flat rate of 15 cents per cubic are in private practice from their (2) Outhouses, roughly construct- tomes. There has been insistent ed by the villagers themselves, demands from other women for the at their value as they now opportunity of auch training, but stand in Shing Mun"

the Y.W.C.A. preters fr to There being now 200 dwellings, follow intelligently the placement this works out, roughly at 8850 of those already trained. It is as house including temples, and yet uncertain as to bow far women should ensure a good type of build- can be absorbed in this trade. This ing throughout.

must be proved by observation.

agricultural resumptions at Shing to $15 pas month with food allow The fallowing is a résumé of barbers now receive varies from 87 The wage rates which these women

ance-North China Daily News.

Mun

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1325

3:12 acres 1st class padi at 1 cent a square, foot ..................... acres 2nd class padi ∙at i cent a square foot ..................... 436 aores 3rd class d

at cent a aquare. foot

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1,339.06

43,205.92

0,467.49

There are 4914 - ALTEN · under pineapples, in 4 holdings, each holdtog suludivided into smaller Icts. Compensation will be made by Government at the evacuation $30 per 1,000 growing pine apples, irrespective of age, and in Agricultural

order to encourage the owners to 179-22 aures

land all classes 884,129.47 carry on the industry elsewhere, they will have the option of re- In default of exchanges, as there moving the plants. The new Approximate Costa. Turning to the important ques the lecturer, the Chairman said that tural land in the vicinity of the sited with reference to their suit In moving a vote of thanks to is very Ettle unoccupied agricul villages have where possible been tion of costs, Mr. Vaughan-Fowler it was pleasing to know that Hong new villages, cash compensation ability for pareapple growing, and said that the journey from Hong Kong had already started to deve will be paid, to enable the villagers their proximity to and suitable Kong to Shanghai would probably lop an aviation base which would themselves to purchase privately for forestry and grass cutting to have a twin-engined machine cost about $170, or twice as much be available for commercial, powned land in place of their old Graves will not be interfered which was capable of flying with u us the fare on an Empress boat.

On the other and on the Hanroses. If anyone should want for holdings. With this end in view, with, except where they are within and Peking routes the air service could get in touch with the lecturer added to the usual resumption they will be removed by the ther information on the subject, bean ez gratis payment of † cent was the area to be inundated, when would have a big pull, and whereas direct or with the Secretary of the rates for agricultural land in re villages. No new graves will be by surface transport it cost about $148 to reach Hanków, by air it

mote parts of the Territory and allowed. would only cost $120 and would

Times To Hong Kong.

included in the above figures. In

Extra travelling save an immense amount of time. The following tables of times to all cases the new village sites are connection with the move and pay

The freight figures, which were Hong Kong, were given by the a more populous neighbourhood ments to fungshui doctors for their worked on the statistics of Euro-lecturer:

than the old

services in gibing wells and houses pean air routes, would be about 10.

are estimated "at" (100." cents per lb. per 100 miles, while letters would go by air mail for one London cont per 100 miles, that is 9 cents Shanghai to Shanghai and roughly 31 to Tokyo

full load on one engine, or to have

Chamber of Coenmerce."

a nalti-engined machine with com- paratively the same qualifications

Experiments with a wind tunnel mado, it seem probable that a 3-engined machine would be most antisfactory, and such machines had been built and were in use both in

· England and India. These machines could fly, and even climb, on any two engines, and so had ample re serve, while in the air they could be throttled down to their most economical speed. The last 300 r.p.m.- giving an extra 40 b p. or London If only a commercial aero- Hankow so meant big extra consumption so plane could regularly carry a full Peking that engines which, running fall out | load, about 4,000 lbs. of mail it Macao And a cornumption of 21 to 22 gallons of petrol an hour when throttled down used only between 15 and 14 gallons, widle apart from that the life of the engine is much Jonger.

would be every paying proposition. Canton

Whole Hearted Support, Bangkok

It coupmercial aviation is to he a Rangoon success it must have wholehearted Calcutta support. It must have the expport Singapore (Continued on next Column) Karaoli

The total cost is therefore:-

Besumptions for sites...8 6,439,31 Site preparation

Air

Each of the eight villages at Transport. Shing Mun bas s forestry area ou 12 days which it plants pine-trees.and holds 1 day grass cutting rights. The total

area thus covered is 1178-0 acres. Wells

3 days

7 hours Just before or after the actual Houses

*4*4*

14 days evacuation of the inhabitants, the Agricultural resumptions 54,122.47

Surface Transport.

24-30 days

61 hours

Bà dạy

31,500,00 2,400.00 170,148,00

4 days

18,340.00

3 dage

34 hours

13,250.00

4 hours

++

7 days

2,185.00

93 days

days

eventually be inundated, convert

Incidental expenses.......

700,00

194 days

3 days

4 daye.

2 days

8Y96,896.78

15 days

5 days

30 mins. growing bees will be valued and Forestry resumphione

1 hour bought by Government, and the Pineapple resumption 8,429.00

11 days part of the area which will not Fung Shui or fruit trees

to a Government plantation. The cost is estimated at 15,250.

(Continued on next Column.)

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