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Haig

SCOTCH WHISKY

JOHN HAIG & Co.Ltd.

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ENGINEERING AND

AND BUILDING

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and TWO LONDON SCHEMES.

Auto-intercommunication, call and reply systems also figured on the stand, while another feature NEW HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER of the display was the new Geen-

BUILDING,

The Ontario Government has ap- proved, plans for the construction of a large addition to the present Ontario Hydro-Electric Power: Commission building on University Avenue. The new building, which: will cost approximately 81,500,000, will adequately house the present bead office organiation of 800, of which only 240 are accommodated "at present in the Hydro building, the balance occupying temporary

parters in the vicinity.

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DREDGING THE ST. LAWRENCE.

A powerful new addition to the dredging flect, used for deepening operations on the St. Lawrence ship channel, is the Midland," launch ed April 19, at the shipyards af Canadian Vickers, Maisonucuve The Midland," built for the Canadian Dredging Co., is of the dipper type and equipped with two buckets, capable of handling eight cubic yards of heavy material or ten cubic yards of light material in a single operation. It is said to be the largest craft of its type now in Canadian waters.

Iphono hand combination telephone, which follows the design of the new Post Office pattern instrument. The " Magnet" "luminous signalling system, which emplyys small olee- tric lamps to sign to employees and staff instead of bells, was also exhibited.

IRON BRIDGE FOR THE WHANGPOO,

ALDERSGATE-STREET

WIDENING.

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Business houses, shops and the Metropolitan railway station are affected by a scheme for widening "Aldersgate-street to 10 feet, which is to be placed before the City Cor- poration shortly. It is estimated As part of a comprehensive pro- that the scheme will gramme for the reconstruction of

The scheme applies to about a Greater Shanghai as a business con- tre in compolition with the Inter-quarter of a mile of street, the national Settlement, plans for the

object being to make the narrow building of an "iron bridge over- the Whangpoo River from Tung part of Alderagate uniform with kadoo wharf in Nantao to Pootung, the wide end near St Martins-le- which requires an initial capital of Grand. G.81,000,000, have been completed by the Reconstruction Commission of the municiplaity,

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It was stated at the offices of the City Corporation to-day that no Mr. Kung Cheng Fang, member details of the scheme are yet avail of the Reconstruction Commission,able, as the Improvements Commit stated that the draft contract for

tee have not yet made their report. the construction of the bridge to be made with the Shanghai agency of

German contractor him been sub mitted Monday to the municipality for consideration and sanction; According to the draft, the contract is to be signed with the German agents in Shanghai on February 16, 1032. The building of the bridge must be completed in a period of 24 months

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THE

ELEPHANT" SCHEME.

The London County Council will & Home be recommended, Bays. paper, to approve an estimated ex penditure of £1,850,000 for the

The bridge will be 48 feet wide

Elephant and Castle improvements and 1,200 feet long. In the middle scheme. The Improvements Com- of the bridge, a tramline space of mittee will also recommend that, about 18 feet in width will be built, the allowing a space of 16 feet on both

оп the understanding that the

A DIAMOND STUDDED SAW.

A huge disc saw has recently been supplied by Edgar Allen & Co., of Sheffield to Messrs. Ander son-Grice Co., Ltd., the stone cut- ting experts of Carnoustie, Scot land. The saw disc, which is largest of its kind ever handled at sides for 'buses and other vehiclas Minister of Transport makes a 75 the Imperial Steel Works, has a The sidewalks for pedestrians will per cont, grant towards the cost diameter of 102 inches. The many be 6 feet wide. As there are always from the Road Fund, the schema difficulties, which are naturally big steamers and gunboats passing should be undertaken: presented in the manufacture of a disc of this kind, were all auccess fully surmounted; and when the disc had been finished as a saw it

on the Whangpoo River, the bridge: will be capable of being lifted up A sum of £850,000 is to be expend-

to allow passage of these boats. Alled on the scheme during the 1931- safety facilities should be provided 32 financial year, and £330,000 dur to avoid collision of vessels coming ing each of the four succeeding

and going out under the open:

was fitted with & series of sockets in the rim, each containing a com mercial diamond, for the purpose in

they

of saving through large blocks of ing of the bridge. The bridge will years. The committee add the

from 18 to 20 fest high above have not yet completed considera-

stone.

A WELDED STEEL BARGE,

be

the water surface so that junks and tion of the whole of the scheme. small cargo oats can sail back and forth under it.

Coal and Iron Mines Near

Nanking.

To facilitate the early "opening of the Pukow Iron and Steel

The all welded steel barge, con- structed by the Italian Naval

The sum of G.81,000,000 is to be Authorities, has now been in servies paid to the contractor by the Recon- for several months. This vessel was struction Committee by instalments, specially designed in order to ob- once every six months, beginning tain as much information as pos- on the day of completion of the sible concerning the application of construction of "the bridge. After welding to ship structures. The the first payment, 8 per cent. in- harge, which was built to carry terest per year will be given for ashes, is 11 ft. long and 13 ft. in all the succeeding payments. breadth, and in the work carried out by Lockyard welding, Belfinish electrodes, manufactured by Murex Welding Processes of London, were used throughout. In order to ob- tain the maximum strength with the minimum of weight, the frames and the fora and aft stiffeners were constructed from special "L" shaped beams rolled for the pur- pose. These beams were attached direct to the hull plating, thus eliminating angle bars and obtain- ing the required stiffness and strength with the minimum of steel. FOR BUSINESS EFFICIENCY."

Works, the Ministry of Industries has dispatched. Mr. Wang Wen Hao, techuical expert, to conduct. a.. careful survey of the colliery at Leichiakou, and the iron mine at Fenghuangshan, near Nanking. It is estimated that a daily output of"} 1,500 tons of coal and from 600 to 1,000 tons of iron can be obtained from the two mines.

Manchurian Iron Works,

Permission to establish an iron-

and steel works at Shenyang- (formerly Mukden) to supply

The great labour saving value of properly designed telephone systema in offices, Factories and institutions was demonstrated by the Reliance material for the various railways in Manchuria is Bought by Tolephone Co. At the Business Efficionoy Exhibition held in Lon- the North-eastern Communications don. Models were shown working Committes, in, a memorandum sub- on the G.E.C, automatic private mitted to the National Government, The petition explains that largo exchange system comprising 25,.-25 and 30-line units; and another ex-purchases are made annually from hibit on the same stand, which at abroad. Appropriate means, there- tructed considerable attention, was fore, should be adopted to manu- the Reliance loud speaking tale facture at home. The coat of run- phone. With this telephone conver-ping the factory will be jointly. sation can be held

borne by the Kirin-Changchun and Kirin-Tunhua Railways, according to the proposal.

necessity of

enking into a mot

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