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YORE BUILDING, Obater Road.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1931.

ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

RAILWAY ORDERS FROM HOUSES IN MODERN

CHINA.

The London. Purchasing Comnia-- sion of the Chinese Governmedt have opened an office in London

JAPAN.

whore thep will show with the this DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF A TYPICAL

JAPANESE HOUSE.

result in a type of house ecramen- surate with the advanced «life of new Japan...

ridors, halls, verandahs, kitchens, and invatories are floored with board bare of "tatami." In most of the principal rooms is found a tokonoma," with an ornamental tier of shelves beside it This tokopoma "corresponds to the mantelpiece in a western house not all the ornaments of the room are

centered there. On the wall of the "tokonoma" hang pictures, or poems, maxims, and famous phrares in the hand-writing of illustrious scholars, statesmen, priests, eto,

posinf of the £3,500,000 representing part of Grost Britain's share of the Buxor. Indemnity Fund allocated ad to them. The greater part of

We are making stendy progress, and a bed room. The passages, cor. this, mocy will go to the purchase in housing architecture, but still of British railway materials, for the find it difficult to produce style Chinese railways, but the purchases quife congenial to the now life of will be spread over a considerable moderu Japani, writes Otohiko Hom period as the duty of the Commis ma in Present day Japan. It is sion will be to deal with orders re- hoped, however, that tho afforts of wived from China. The British those engaged or interested in thin members of the Commission are Birling of work will bear fruit, and Basil Blackett, Sir Arthur Balfour, Sir Ralph Wedgwood, and Mr. W. T. Charter. Their first meeting was bold a few weeks ago, but al Our present houses, both Japances ready one order for railway matori- and so-called European, are too al has been received from China slavish to set form, oving on the amounting to £300,000, and to All one hand to the Western mode of this will be the first work of the life increasing among the people, Commission." The material requir-the influences of which is felt in od for this order COVORB a wide house construction nowadays, andal objectá The "tokonoma " ta range, from ♫ locomotive to & on the other hand, to the force entirely for ornamental garpoeet, school. It is expected that the or- of old conventions in housing mat and there are scores of established ders will include locomotives, pastora, which are still very strong in forms. senger and freight vehicles, and a this country.

In most cases the rooms are divid considerable quantity of stoel rails

The principal materials used ined from one another by "fusura," and steel for bridges. Dr. Ohing our house building, are pine, cedar, which are sliding doors covered Chun Wang is the Director of the cypress and hamboo, The walls are with layers of paper. Shoji," London office, which is in the build-made of clay, sand and lims. With which are also paper sliding doors, ing of the Federation of British In such materials, all of which are are the most characteristic" of all

Tothill-strert, West-

obtainable near at hand, the Japan-Japanese house Attings. They ad· ose have learned by hard experience mit of light, but are not transpar. through long years to produce aent, and are therefore largely usi ine and comfortable dwelling...

for shutting windows and openings. The feature of our building There are one, two and sometimes the joining together of vertical three grooves on the heads and stills, posts and horizontal frame work and in these grooves are set the

dustries minster.

in

EUROPEAN HARD-ROCK TUNNELLING RECORD."

Messrs. The François Comenta- tinu Company, Ltd., the contractors. of contract B. Haweswater Scheme, Manchester Corporation Water- works, carried out fine piece of work by advancing the Yowbarrow Tunnel 181 ft.in one week in June last. This, it is claimed, broke the existing European hard-rock tun- nelling record by 12 it. We are informed that this record has again been broken by the firm, who haya succeeded in driving the tunnel 220- ft. into solid rock in a week during September. The Towbarrow tunnel, which is of horse-shoe section, is 9 ft. 3 in. high, and 9 ft. 3 in. wide to the arch haunch, and the achieve- ment involved the extruction of 200 tons of rock a day. We understand that the compressed-air plant om- ployed consisted of Diesel air com- pressors, supplied by Messrs. Robey & Company, Limited, Lincoln, who also provided forced-lubrication, horizontal, totally enclosed Diesel engiper for generating electric light and power. For all drilling opern- Lions, "S.L. 16" drifters, mani- factured by Messrs. Holman Brothers, Limited. Camborne, Corn- wall, were employed.

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SHIPYARDS BUSY.

TWO YÉSSELS LAUNCHED.

Two steamships were launched

Gate..

In front of such "hangings are usually found flowers arranged in vases, and Viricus other ornament.

Garden'

"Steri

Mats ROOM ROOM

Vestroule Front!

Hal Sitting

Room

Roin

Central

Ream

Earthen

Kitchen

Hall

310-MA

Tsugi-Private Room of Master of

House

Beth

Broamental Shesy

Desertive

Wi

Sture Roord

GROUND FLOOR AND GARDENS,

from the shipyards of Swan, Hun by means of carpentry. The posts, Ear and Wigham Richardson at which are set up vertically on the Sunderland and Wallsend on Nov.

COMPLETE ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS

roith

C. M. A. CABLES.

that

fusuma" cr shoji," Lo they can be alid to right and left freely. By removing the "fusuma," adjoining, rooms can be made into que big room at any time, "Shoji” are more often used for shutting | rooms against the open air, rather. than for dividing rooms..

11, and an order for another vessel, foundation, which consists of an- placed with the Burntisland (Fife)tural stoñes, are joined to the beams Shipbuilding Co., was notified.

and other parts of the frame work by skilful carpentry without the aid of rivets or nails. The square skeletons thus prepared are clothed with clay walls, with openings foz The skeleton of a "shoji " is made windows, doors, etc. in former at slender pieces of wood, over days, it was the pride of architects which is pasted a single layer of that they could make the skeletons. thin pure Japanese paper, which without using any metal. Lately, is translucent, and admits of the howover, in order to prevent dispassage of air, while shutting out junction of the frames in time of the cold and moisture. Lately, how- ever, glass doors are largely em- grost earthquakes, the use of me tallic work to strengthen the join-ployed where in former yeará ing is required by police regula."shoff" were exclusively used, but tions, and thus one of the charts when the merits of paper doors are teristics of the old Japanese ar fully recognized, glass doors will chitecture is Bacrificed before gradually be replaced by the old utilitarianism. Another feature of" shcji" to a considerable extent our house is that they are devised In summer time, in order to ob for protection against the heat of tain better ventilation, bambor summer rather than to keep out the screens are used in place of "aboji." cold of winter, except in some parts.

As partitions of rooms, “shoji"* of northern Japan.

are used only where lighting is

while in required,

other

Advice and Estimates given. free on all types of

LIGHTING & POWER INSTALLATION

by an experienced

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

retained at our Hong Kong Branch

The General Electric Co. (of China), Ltd.

QUEEN'S BUILDINGS,

HONG KONG

The door is constructed one or two feet above the ground, and most of the rooms are covered with tatami," thick, mate. Ene sits on a cushion placed on the "tatami," and it in the peculiarity

tatami" rooms that ope and the room may serve as sitting rcom, dining room, drawing room

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by the Japanese style. In Japanese of filin boards out architecture, the windows serve the

haring the way, purpose not only of ventilinting chase doors are kept in a box at lighting" and giving views, but als oh aide of the opening, an» «l as criamants: Fancy windows of night or when the day is story.quilt shapes and of various E they are one by one taknir out of are opened in the walls There are the box along a groove, and pulled many instances in Europe of all across the opening. Lately glasswood house, bat la Japanesá doors have come to be largely used | hounds, olay, walls play an import in place of board deors

ant part The inside of the wall In Japanese houses the windows is a work of bamboo sticks tied: and openings are quite free. They up. with straw ropes, and this is Are very wide, indeed and whole thickly coated with clay, with an side, and often two or three sides, outer cost of fine sand or other of the house are opened. The air materials. The walls are in many

Bay

Window

Ornainental Shelf

Alcove

Smaller? Drawing

Room

[Ornamental

Alcove

"Decorative

Windor

Closet

[Cibset

Drawing

Room

THE FIRST FLOOR.

Window

Omamental

Alcove Shelf Clos

is particularly damp in this coun instances yellowish brown. Fax try, and therefore bousos require ornamental walls, metallic duat to be specially well ventilated. When gold, silver, white, black, red, green, the "shoji" are removed, the wholeate, and powdered shells mixed wit side of the house being open, there sand or clay are coated over alt maide and outside of the house, of a Japanese house is produced by is nothing to stand between the to give it graet. The basic colour and the rooms and the garden make the original colours of the wood and lately been largely taken into Wes- colours as will harmonize with these a perfect whole. This feature has green tatami," and such other

tern architecture, probably after are chosen for various purposes.

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 materiale are mixed in a certain definite proportion, roughly one part of clay to three of limestone, and are fed to the Rotary Kilns.

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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 Taland Portland Cement is thus produced.

Choperations, needing great

Although sounding so simple, in reality the process is an intricate combination of mechanical, physical and skill and careg

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

"fusuma" are used exclusively. GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.

#147

in

The frames of "fusuma" similar to those of "shojí.”

fusuma," many layers of paper are pasted on both sides of the frames, while in "shoji" the layer is single and on one side only. In

"fusume many cases, on painted or printed flowers, birds or animals

что

2ND FLOOR,

EXCHANGE BUILDING.