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Use Green Island Cement

for

Constructural Work of Every Description.

HOW GREEN ISLAND CEMENT IS MADE

Green Island Cement is manufactured from hard limestone and clay. It is necessary that these materials should be finely ground in order that they may come into intimate contact with one another in the burning process.

The finely pulverised materials are mixed in a certain definite proportion, roughly one part of clay to three of limestone, and are fed to the Rotary Kilne.

In these kilns they meet the hot gases and flames generated by pulverised coal blown in at the other end of the kilns, and after various chemical actions have taken place, they combine to form Portland Cement Clinker.

The Clinker is ground down with a small percentage of gypsum to regulate the setting time, and Green Island Portland Cement is thus produced.

Although sounding so simple, in reality the process is an intricate combination of mechanical, physical and chemical operations, needing great "skill and care. Nothing but constant and accurate, supervision will yield the results so well-known with Green Island Cement, namely, strength, uniformity and reliability,

USE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT

Issued by the

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.

2ND FLOOR,

EXCHANGE BUILDING

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1931.

ENGINEERING AND

SOME MODERN BUILDING PROBLEMS.

NOVEL EXPERIMENTS TRIED IN RUSSIA AND GERMANY.

DEARTH OF HOUSES DUE TO GREAT WAR.

The end of the war found almost every country in Europe suffering froin great dearth of housing. It stands to reason that in a period

Slum Clearance and Villa PORTED* Building.

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Slum, clearance constitutes a very

BUILDING

there was a desort or an agricultur al plain, there must to-morrow oxist a completa city fit to house |-150 to 200,000 souls.***

The advantages of this state of affairs for the architect may well bo

A GREAT BRITISH ENGINEERING FIRM.

· EXPLORING" CHINA'S, REQUIREMENTS.

CHIEF CIVIL, ENGINEER IN SHANGHAI,

Considerable interest attaches to

SEVERN VALLEY

DEVELOPMENT.

MUNICIPALITIES IN COOPERATION,

Industrial development in Valley of the Severn stimulated in many directions, with favourable results for the

imagined. He is afforded an OP the presence in Chins of a repre volume of traffic on the river. The portunity, not of fitting his work sentative of the well-known British Govern, with the canal which links into the more or less harmonious

an of Steel Manufacturers and it with Birmingham, is an import-

frame still existing: he can make his own frame, he can fashion harmonious picture out of his whole work, and develop it without the slightest interference.

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Civil Engineering Contractors Dar ant means of communication be man, Long & Co., Ltd., of Middletween the industrial district of the

rough and London, England.

This gentleman, Mr. Frank R. Free Midlands and the onboard. Many man, M. Inst.C.E who is Chief efforts have been made to secure the

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Engineer for the Civil Engineering preservation of the navigation and

Department of the firm, has been

when the entire energy of a nation the doors of the big towns, if their parties; seem to be delighted. The intimately associated with the do. the development of the waterway

labour available

houses.

One thing may be said at the out. nt. So far, as Professor May's Russian work is concerned, both

Russians are loud in their praise sign and execution of all of their as trade route, but is has not of Professor May and his work; recent foreign and British contracts, been possible to unite the diversity and Professor May who went to The arm of Dorman Long has in of interests in common action and Russia unladen with any projudice recent years carried out a larger in favour of the state of affairs number of important bridge and overcome the financial difficulties. there, is every bit as loud in his and other contracts than any other. The problem is now being appron- praise, of Soviet Russia firm in the British Empire, and ched from a somewhat different

Is That Now Note tite Right One? probably in the world. They are

The average observer who listen-unique in respect of, the fact that angle. Six municipalities, Avo

in nearly all their bridge and other public utility companies, t work in recent years they bave hers of commerce, four private com- undertaken within their own repanies and one other public body sources practically every detail of

have joined hands in an organized the work, including the complete;], design of the super-structure, and attempt to develop the Severn Val- the fabrication of the steelwork, and from the knitting together of in- foundations, the rolling, as well asley. There is the possibility that the whole of the foundation workterests

important part of the work: It is little, use building garden cities at

in engaged in the pursuit of war, centre section remains a herd of un- or, in the case of neutral countries, sanitary overcrowding. But here in that of seeking to exploit, other considerations of finance, of ground people's wars to the utmost farthwnership and so forth, play at important and á mest unfortunata ing, there is little time and less role. In some countries, as in Eng. for constructing land for instance, ground landlords have succeeded in largely paraly sing the wellmeaning efforts of One of the first problems to which alum clearers. In Germany theed to Profesor May's lecture, how various governments had to turn large, powers enjoyed by the stats ever, had doubts spring up within and the municipality, as also theirs. This sort of now city he was fact that slum areas properly fashioning out there, of regular or speaking were rarer and Jesa: ex-

concentric blocks, with green inter tensive, hava led to a much mors spaces, like huge, agglomerations radical solution. One fine example schools, the works, the clubs, the around one section housing the of work well done is afforded by theatres, the stores: is it likely to that quarter of Berlin that be a pleasant place to live in? Is situated behind the Alexander there not the danger that it will Platz, where in lieu of crowded, sunless, airless houses that shelter ed thousands of unfortunates, broad, well aired streets of modern houses have been constructed.

their attention after the war was the provision of suitable housing.

It is a sad but nevertheless true fact, that in most countries, the problem, after twelve years attein tion devoted to it, is still far from having been solved Germany is an exception to a certain extent.

There is no country in Western or: Central Europe where so much has been built, and on the whole, where the building has been done so in telligently, as in Germany,

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onente, in the direction of a deadly dulness and monotony 1

This single-rule business, 'this oliminn

two cham

Heved that no and erection at the site. It is beterests which the movement is effect-

other firm in the ing the special problems of naviga world has resources to deal with tion may be simplified, every aspect of large contracts sin.

Endeavours this manner, and this direct control"

are being mades tog attract new industries to the Se tion from the city of all architec-of every detail of the gives a tural discrepancy, will it not result great advantage in the handling of vern Valley Int review of the The tendency, however, here also in the elimination of all charts their.contracte as practically all the progress made it is.star

that alec) materials employed are of their trification has been extended, in'. own manufacture.

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elsewhere, in to push out into the country, to build garden" cities, or

and picturesqueness?

It is therefore of more than loend interest to find in Berlin an Ex- hibition of Building and Housing; and the importance of the show has been acknowledged in the fact at least garden sections of cities that no less than 92 foreign coun- Either in the form of an agglomern tries have sent exhibits of some tion of small villas, each with its it is a minor objection. He claims kind or other: mostly statistical own plot of land, centring around that it is far more important to

and models

roughly divided "into two sections

und habitations are shown, most of them fully furnished'; and that in which smallscale models, illustrat-

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around a large garden. Both types

however, are almost without ex-

to this is that there is a great deal The answer Professor May gives of truth in the objection, but that

asked his hearers to bear in mind

Sydney Harbour Bridge. Probably the

many directions. "Works' designed for this purpose have been com pleted in the neighbourhood of bridge contract ever undertaken in Bridgnorth in and ground Wor the world is the Sydney Harbour ster at Severn Stoke, Upton-on-

ambitious

material, drawings, photograplig the common utility buildings, or have people live healthily, con Bridge, awarded to Messrs, Dorman Severn, and Tewkesbury, so t

The Building Exhibition may be ment, houses, usually disposed have them live in charming and of which is now satisfactorily comply of current for the xty miles in that of large blocks of apport*veniently, cleanly, airily, than song in 1924, the main structure. there is now a comprehensive sup that in which actual model houses are found in the Exhibition in picturesque surroundings. And hepleted. This is an arch of 1650 course of the river from Bridgnorth

various forms.".

that this Russian building of his railway track and a wide roadway; factures have been promoted t foot span, carrying four liner of to- Gloucester. Additional manu. The real sized models show, is, building for a state of society the truths carried being probably Stourpest, Kidderminster: › Wor- ed statistical tables and the like ception, not houses for the masses lective happiness is the main thing, bridge. clsewhere in the world, and and fartley At the last-named in which, not individual but col-heavier than on any other large eester, Upton-on-Severn, Gloucester but for the cleet. Villas, couptry. houses and the like. All distinor rather in which individual hep the span of the arch being conplace a trait canning factory was guished by the utmost simplicity piness is only to be attained by col-siderably greater than that of any opened recently, and such factories

lective happiness...

In such a society, everything traffic.

other arch span carrying heavy are "extending at Evesham, on the The design of the bridge. Avon, which is a tributary of the be subordinated to the public was undertaken by the firm'a "Cona Bevera

Everything, so far as possulting Engineer, Mr. Ralph Free onun basis. Libraries, collections, rend-whole of the steel was rolled in rooms, sport fields, music England and the steelwork many. rooms; these are not the privilege inctured in the firm's own yard in of the few, but the right of the Australia and the whole of the

attempt to slow clearly the nature of the problem and the manner in which its solution has been attempt.

ed. This latter section is from the of line and material, with as much secial point of view, of course, far air and windowspace as possible. the more important, though the The bungalow type is largely casual visitor and the layman favoured and it is noteworthy to

must

food.

the

doubtless find the first section far see how great a part in each model síble, must be done on a collective man, M;Inst.C.E. Almo South Africa, Australin, India and

more attractive.

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villa is played by opportunities for physical culture, for bathing and

for sport.

Russia Strikes New Note.

Among the countries invited to exhibit at this show was Soviet Russia, but after an initial accep- tance, the Russians decided that their Five Years Plan was giving them to much to do at home that

many. They must therefore be foundation, civil engineering work abundant, and they must be 10 and architectural features carried placed that they are equally acces sible to all.

Style of Tomorrow,

out with the firm's own staff and plant. The work will be finished within contract time, and in spite

South America, and a world-wide organization for undertaking any) "Onas (of-Constructional ior civil

sintering contracts.

Another aspect of Messrs. Dor- man. Long's business is the supply. of steel work for modern steel- framed buildings, and it will be

of the unprecedented magnitude of recollected that in many of the they could not afford to spend any regarding there problems, it is im and the entirely novel problems in

Whatever views one may hold every operation connected with it more important buildings of Shang- hai and Hong Kong the steel frame- time and energy on showing speci- pessible to deny that the work done volved in its design and manufac. work has been supplied by this mens of their building abroad. Any Professor May and by his ture the whole of the work has firm, among which may be men- effort was, however, made to re-umerous German colleagues in proceeded without any hitch or

tioned?-Snesoon House Metro- pair this omission, and Professor Soviet Russia is of great interest, accident.

polo Hotel and Yokohama Speciol Bank at Shanghai, and Gloucester Building, A.P.C. Building, P. & O. Building and O.S.S. Godowns at Hong Kong and

to have its

May was sent to deliver a lecture and that it cannvalopment of

The lecture attracted considerable

CARACİE the

the future.

Hugo Resources?

Resources

gears have carried out

contracts

Exploring China's Requirements.

The object of Mr. Freeman's visit to China is to study and disom » with the officials concerned on be half of his arm engineering require

on modern building activities is influence on the Soviet Russia,

building in the rest of Europe in The firm has unequalled Anan munism be adopted or not, this cul- of civil engineering contracts For whether Com-cial status and undertakes all forms attention, not only on account of the subject, but on

Jectivization of work, of amuse-bridge contadets, and railway work lecturer. Professor May is one of

ments, of intercourse, is growing throughout the world, and is pre Germany's lending architects, and pace even in the most conserve- fared to undertake works of this was for some years the expert in tive of countries, on a small scale, class of any magnitude, They have building, for the city of Frankfort service ate with common kitchens many contracts of such a nature in on the Main. In the autumn of and the like, are but a form of the progress, and during the last fivements in the country with a view last year he accepted"a commission

samo spirit

to finding in what manner the firm's from the Soviet Government to

In that scrap there is a clear con- exceeding £10,000,000 sterling pool of the Chinese Government resources can be placed at the dis proceed to Ruesia and help in the necting link between the German | Value. large peale, building operatious work seen in the Exhibition and

vain jaesisting them in the rehabilita. With their associated arms, tien of their railways and other forming part of the Five Years the work of the German architects Sesers. Dorman Lang posess the pubile work. We feal aurs that Plan. It is clear that conditions in Soviet Russia: More than ond largest and most modern equip such a visit must be productive of there are different from those in the link indeed, for in both cases there ment (including, their own col good relations between the two Test of Europe The Roonomie des the same tendency towards sim-leries, mines and rolling mills in countries and must result in the velopment of Russia is proceeding plicity, towards straightness of Great Britain) for the manufacture greatest mutal benefit to the Chi- at a pace unexampled in the history line, towards light and air, towards of all classes of heavy steel goods, nese and British engineering indus- of the world, and, since many of solidity and homogeneity of materias well as numerous by-products, fries, and the initiative displayed the regions subject to that develop als. So that it is not too much to Their capacity for the output of by the arm of Derman Long in ment were, hitherto but thinly say that we are probably after steel products. exceeds ones and arrang

many decades of wandering in the populated, a glows that Huge wilderness of experiments, embark one-half million tons per annum, sudden displacement of working ing upon a period of new archites and of bridge and a structural population mungu bo sy provided for tural activity that will hear the steciwork 200,000 tong per, andum. hallmark of its century as clearly This necessitates the building as the Gothic or Roman styles did The Brm has its own works in entire new cities. There yesterd

of theirs.

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sure, be heartily welcomed."

Mr. Freeman is established in the

Shanghai office of the firm's local!! agents, Messrs A Cameron & Co (Continued on nicat Column.) (China), Limited, 21; Jinkee Road,