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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS.

SPARKS FROM THE PLUGS

LAND SPEED CHALLENGE

NINETY MILE BEACH. DESCRIBED,

* Wizard '' Smith repently at tached Sir Malcolm Campbell's

world land speed record of 240 miles per hour on New Zealand's

QUICK RESURFACING PERILS OF THE DARK

FOR ROADS.

SUCCESS OF A NEW

PROCESS.

While only a few motorists are conversant with the technicalitios of road construction, all alike must be interest in any method of road

PLACES.

NIGHT LIGHTS PROBLEM.

SHADOW AND GLARE."

A motorist is not only a motorist, ho ja, a walker and a taxi and bus user as well. When the criticises, he does so from all these points of viow.'

MUSICAL NOTES.

BROADCASTING LOCAL EN.

TERTAINMENTS-SOME ARTISTS WHO WILL VISIT THE EAST-WILL THEY PLAY IN HONGKONG?

[BY ALLEGRO. {

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EBRUARY 2, 1932.*

Rachmaninon will not be coming we have not got a big enough disappointment here by canalit Yet while and after him Goodness | musical public here to ort their performanos. Vasby Februa

entertainments of that led Por and Szegull (who recently played knows when there will be a chance,

hapa Mr. Podeli will put his hands of hearing puyone else.

in his pockets and arrange to bear all the expenses of an unprobable trio concert, just out of pure

everywhere in the Orient except in Hong Kong), are possibly coming out again in the near future. Here

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I heard from Mr: Podols a short charity In fact, I think of wit once mory it is impossible to wax time ago. He is the impressario,ing and making him to let my have enthusiastic until we see them ad that concert as a birthday prescut.vertised to appear in this Colony, "you'll remember, who brought the Martonots here and had some con- neotion with Szegeti's recent tour. Apparently he has several artists

they are not likely to reach us till "in the offing," so to speak, but

next. Winter

On 1033.

It has been suggested, that our. local Broadcasting Station should: include in its programmes every local entertainment! I on picture some of you shuddering at the ideal Ninety Mile Beach," the remark. abla course "which this natiole de jaweface laying which tends to sprod

The first one will be the famous Just think of some of the "onter-Fronch pianist, Robert Schmitz, scribest.

up that procent. It is soldo:n that

Is there a motorist who does not

tainmonte we have known here who had a very muccessful tour in My first impression of the Ninety- fifty-taile journcy can be under-agree with the views of Mr. W. Curiously enough. the suggestion the Orient in 1929/30, in which he Mile Beach was early on a still, taken without a series of irritating B., Purchase, the North London comes from one who admits that he haay morning in the late summer, writes a New Zealander. Leaving delays and one-way traffic sections

coroner, that there are places in

gavo 52 converta between the States go so tired of the recent Studio and Java. This did not include Abipra Bay, at the extreme sou-where construction is in progress. have not been adapted to the alter-concert

London where lighting conditions thern end of the bench, we gazed In this connection a new processed traflo oircumstances,

that, half way through it, he Hong Kong, for the Musical Society aliend at a long straight stretch of

buned in to Manila. Not only dogs did not dare to recommend Mr. sand that literally vanished over

the Greo-is' of interest. It' line

he consider that permission should Podoli to engage the Theatre Royal the horizon. This impression wasben employed for ten years past

be sought to broadenst every local intensified as our car aped north-in Amerian, but has culy recently

merits, but he thinks that the money known out East. He starts his ow entertainment, regardless of its for a pianist whose name was not ward at a good sixty-mile an-hour been introduced into England. It

for this could be raised if necessary gait, and on looking back we saw the same long and disappearing

cosity essentially of a read heater

season in Honolulu next September, by voluntary contributions. over another indefinite horizon.

mounted on a lorry which directs

following with engagements in Japan, Manila, Saigon and Singa- pore, which have already boon con tracted for. I wish I could my that he will be playing here. After Yours Guller's experience, it is doubtful if he will. In any case it does not look as if we shall have any Hall for him.

Many motorists will agree that not only in London but in towns, try street lighting is so out of date sitics and villages all over the coun-

that drivers and pedestrians, go from dazzling glare into blackness.

In London, and most big cities,

of light into a dim street in which nothing on the road, or on the pave ment (even the pavement itself),

can be seen,

On our right interminable.sand. binst of hot air down a fuanel on tons runs from a main road blaze too seriously, as the public are not hills loomed and quickly disappear. oa large area of rond. Althought ed like phantons, while to award no naked flame is employed the da unending rank of white-crested heat generated is sufficient to cause rollers Alled the air with their terred surface to burst into Aames thunder. Sea birds of many species. woth overywhere, and, in fact, were somewhat of a huisance to a fast moving car. Several birds crashed against the rudiator, and ons 'nar-

At a demonstration given on the Maidstone by-pass recently, it was. shown that a couple of minutes' it most was wded on the

of anrince under

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This proposal need not be taken likely to come forward with funds for this purpose. The listener who makes this suggestion in a contom porary imagines that a payment of Out of the Shadows.

$10 on 320 is quite sufficient to com- pensate for the loss of revenue on- Arrive in any good-sized town at tailed in' allowing a concert to, ba night, and, though, you may have broadenet. His estimate is a vary treat-good eyesight, you will find yourself modest one, But even if the sum rowly missed the windscreen. They rt, after which the old tar was bewildered by light vagarien. Eater-offered by the Broadcasting "Com are, an added and an uncaloulaleckasily raked off and the exposed as ing, you see what looks like a well-mittee as a fee were considored peril in Mr. Norman Smith's at phalt covered with a thin layer of lighted place, but you and that adequate by the concert promoters, new material. On this granite chip practically all the illumination is there is still the opinion of the per Ping coated with bitumen were going up into the air and not down formers to be consiered. spread by shovel." The whole was wards and on the roadway and hen rolled, and within an hour of footpath is a series of shadows, from operations being begun the new sur-

which people emerge with discon- face was ready for traffic. The corting suddenness. "great advantage of the process s that it enables fall to be made of the unworn underlying layers or' the road surface. This nons that a ton of asplul cun Fe made to cover as much as sixty square yards

tesapt, to cronte a world apeed re-

cord on this famous New Zealand

beach

Half-way up the beach stands the, Mangone Bluff, the only interrup- tion in the full length of the coastal highway of the Winterless North"

The inexorable rule o motoring on Ninety-Mile Beach is that on must never be enght in the shore-;

:

If you put on your headlamp you are blamed by the people you are attempting to protect by that fact. On a dry might the headlamps crente" dazzle-apots on the wind-

Helm May Winter Conourts. As We may take as an instance the

these recitals are not necessarily ran for a profit, it is probably immaterial to the Helena May Council whether they are broadcast arnot. Bis it, "does matter to a performer whether he or she is singing to a friendly gathering,

ILDBT. of the available. hall rendered

ward wash of a roller. The magni-superficial area with a consequent screen and vision is distorted. Alling

ficent sands are as firm and smoothi as a billiard-table when dry, but possess an uncanny suction when an

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"Black object (and most walkers are seats, lessening of the cost. "

Provided that the foundations of othed in soker garments in win half empty becuase many people

ter) are invisible 50 feet. nwy a road arr sound-addthis, "of

have preferred to stay at home to Fiston. Consequently, the Social Committee of the Institute leave to the organiser of saol convert the decision as to whether it shall bo

inch or two of water, has passedere, is sential for any succes over them. On one occasion I hapful carpeting process almost any pened to get caught when an excep- tionally large comber thundering surface can be this treated, and the

Pre-War Systems.

aahoru ran its questing fingers far amal gaination of the new materinbut generally the problem is little

in towards the sandhills. It just reached the near wheels of the car, which instantly sank axle deep.

with the cld is perfect. In many enace it ia presible to lay a new sur- Many Cars Burled.

face even over tram lines, thus Without a second's hesitation my friend and I jumped to the spades saving the cost of their removal. we always carry for such an emer- In this function at least the good gency, and dig like fiends to get wishes of all motorists will be with the car elour before another extra the Greco process, big wave came up to bed us down for good. We were successful, but many cara have been 'irretrievably lost to Enthor Neptune in this man-

ner.

A BUSY HORN.

pût "on the air," and in turn that

Improvements in street lighting have been made in some places, different from what it was in 1914.

lady consulta the artists. Only oncu Our street lights fait in their this season has the permission boon chief object of providing good given, as good andiences make visibility. There is neither an considerable difference to concerts avoidable of glare nor an even illa.of that kind. mination.

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I have reason to believe that the In, daylight a motorists can 800 ZBW authorities take great paina objects approaching at, possibly, to discover what suitable entertain- 100 yards, according to backgroundments are going to take place and One of the many attractions of

After driving for hours in this make suggestions for broadcasting the Ninety-Mile Beach is its my

The heat of the dames from, a visibility, he has to change his thom When you eliminate these riads of sen-birds which breed among the low sand-bills facing the

ear that was on fire in a garag, driving when darkness comes to cope which are suitable, those which are ocean. There are to be seen great Chester sounded the horn and with conditions which leave objects too costly, and those for which per flocks of the interesting little kuaka,

mision cannot be obtained, you or godwit, small bird of the snipe prevented a serious cutbrenk. The only visible at short distances. family. Every year the godwits garage staff was warned by the I believe a pre-war Departmenta! will find that hardly any worth- asamble at the northern tip of the hooting in time to call the fire Committee recommended that every while entertainment, is overlooked beach, and commence their annual brigade, and although the car was street should have sufficient illu- in the programmes, migration to Northern Siberia- most wonderful flight, made with destroyed, other vehicles were unmination so that a person of aver unerring instinct.

injured.

age height and build could be dis

Since writing the above, I per- tinguished at 100 feet and a childceive that the gentleman with the be visible at 100 yards. This was suggestions has declined to acceed | when horse traffic predominated.

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to a request that he give a list of In one of the London dock ronds, the type of entertainments he has some time ago,' I saw a system in mind. This is scarcely surpris- where the lamps were shaded in ing. All he oan say is that such a way that illumination was entertainments of one, sort or an projected in the direction in which other (including schoola' prize. the traffle was going. Most of the givings) are frequent Schools? lamps were fixed high up.

prizegivings By Jove, that's a great wheeze! And what, about relaying the Miniature Golf from the roof of the King's Theatre!

The Policeman.

One other point which requires consideration is the lighting of trafic control pointamun both for the sake of the safety of the con stable and the welfare of motorists.

Artists Who Might Visit Us. ̈ Judging by the outlook.'for' the

At present the lighting in the next several months, there will vicinity of those men is, in most be very little material for these cases, no incficient that the men Musical Notes No big artiste aro run grave risks to their lives.

on their way out to us, and even if Where a light is projected down, they come East, there is no guar” on the pointsman in his white anton that they will play in Hong gauntists he cannot be seen until Kong, Stroić'm bant artist, Taraw the motóriat iq at close quartos sinn, passed us by because there, and in other cases, motorists with was nowhere for her to perform, good eyesight often find it difficult and his next one, Bachmaninoff, |to see the constables at all. As for may or may not be considerød suf- #thede signals almost all of them aan- Boiant of s

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Besides Schmitz, Mr. Podoli is bringing out the Budapest Trio artiste lanve travelled extensively (violin, collo and piano).

all music-lovers kindly jot that in the Orient early in 1943 (Will in Europe. They start their season.

down in their little books?) Horo again it is impossible to count on their visiting Hong Kong. Visjons of the Schneider Trio concerts rise. up and one is forced to admit that

After the Sohnoider Trio, Mr. Maurice Maréchal, a great French

in 1839, 1936 or 1935, his biography I'm not sure whether that will be collist, "will come this way, but as

does not matter very much, at the | moment.

or rather until we see them actually appear on the platform. But it consoling to think, that Shanghai

ably get a treat. and Manila at any rate will prob-

Meanwhile we must go on manu- facturing our own music. There aro abour four more Helena May con There is a hint that the Sakha certs this season, and ZBW still roff Dancers (who caused a lot of goes strong (or doesn't it?)

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