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The Uses of Goal.

lighting of Pall Mall in 1812, and Mr.. Issac Foot, Secretary to the has continued without a break to LOCAL GOVERNMENT! SHENSI OIL FIELDS conference of representatives of the past 120 years.

Mines Department, has called a light Westminster's streets for the

conlowners, the Minor's' Federa CONGRESS.

tion,, exporters, M.Ps, and others Fall in World Rayon Production.

The world production of rayon an HUGE DEPOSITS REPORTED interested to discuss the stops to he

taken to deal with fuel utilization the second quarter of 1033 estimat- in order to stimulate the use of conled at 32,500,000 kilogs, against 67,- and its products. In a momoran 346,000 kilogs in the Arst quarter. dum submitted to the Government. | The reduction is due to the almost the coklowners state that imported complete stoppage of viscose yarn uil is largely responsible for the production in the United States. coal and for the state decline in the demand for Britix during June. The total United ployment both in the coalfields and June reached only 11,193,000 of unem States production for April, May,

themselves and in ancillary accu-kilogs, against 16,270,000 kilogs in pations. The memorandum urges January, February, and March, that in the case of all imported oil¦ Britain and Italy compete hard for used as a source of heat, light, or second place among world produc power in one form or another! withers, the production in Britain be the exception of fuel supplied for ing 8,830,000 kilogs, against. Italy's the bunkering of foreign-going vos. sols, the Government should with draw the exemption at present granted fom the duties on import

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In connection with the recent In ternational Congress of Local Au- thorities that has been held at the Central Hall, Westminster (Lon- don) an Exhibition was arranged

of engineering and ether products likely to interest local authorities and their executive officers.

The Nanking Ministry of Indus- trics announces that the petroleum deposits, around Yonghang Hsien, Sheusi Province, are sufficient to supply the world with oil for 300 yeura The announcement is based on a report from an American ex- pert who has been investigating the oil fields in that area by request of the Ministry...

The petroleum belt at Yerchang Haien is well-known, having been

investigated once before by Japan. ese and American experts in 1915 for the former Peking Government. In the same year, the Standard Oil

Company, with the understanding

Economy of Traffic Lights,

8,750,000 kilogs, in the June quar tor and 8,700,000 kilogs and 6,835,000 kilogs respectively in the March quarter, Japanese produe. tion was a marked exception to the general decline, the output show- ing a 20 per cent. increase. French production was fully maintained, The introduction of five schemes but German output foll, of automatic traffic control in West- minater, S.W., including Piccadilly Minerals in Klangsi, China, considered by Westminster City, city of Tayu, formerly Nanan, in the and Trafalgar-square, je to bai

The cost is estimated at £8024, province of Kangsi.

Highly interesting in this connec- tion for tropical countries was tho display of the Paterson Engineer ing Co. Ltd. of London, who show ed-by means of working models and other equipment, including numerous. photographs-a wide range of their plant for the treat ment and complete sterilisation of towus water supply, and also the results, duo to a lack of transporta- but grants would reduce the cost European war this place was known operation of swimming baths, ontion facilities and banditry,

the latest scientific lines.

of the Peking Government, con-

ducted prospecting work in the belt but failed to achieve satisfactory

Council.

to Westminster to £3480.

The police hope that the number can be reduced from 30 to 10, with of constables new employed there a saving in cost of £0000 a year.

Shannon Fower Works.

Sihuashan is situated outside the

During the

as a great contre for tungsten are, and its importance may be compar district of Taehsing Hsien, Hunan ed with the Yaokangaien mining

province.

The most important mineral found in the Sihunshan district is wolframite, which is found in quartz veins associated with pyrite, thite, graphite and biotite. These molybdenite, bismuthinite, bismu veins are almost vertical, trending

metro or more, with a width of length may extend to half a kilo-

from a few centimetres to two

Provincial authorities of Shensi The whole question of the use of started exploiting the more favour chlorine gas for the sterilisation of able fields in 1010. They succeeded water, as well as of sewage and in obtaining 100,000 gallons of oil Lowage offluents, using the firm's, during five years, but the enterprise "Chloronome" apparatus has nów

again failed.

The Berliner Tageblatt states reached such a stage that over 2,-)

In view of the fact that China corn has received from the Irish

that the Siemens engineering con 000,000,000 gallons of water per 24

importing annually about Free State Government a supple hours are now being treated by this $100,000,000 worthy of foreign oil, mentary contract in connexion in a E.-W. direction, and their pothed in tuost industrial and the National Government is now built by it after the War to the with the Shannon power works semi industrial countries of the seriously considering measures to value of about 3,000,000m. ($150,- world, with many plants in the Far utilize the petroleum deposits so 000 at par). East. There include the Bowen that China may eventually become Road plant, and other Paterson an oil-exporting country in addi- equipment at the Elliott and Shing tion to removing the necessity of Mun plants, Hong Kong, and also importing a large amount of oil installations at Canton and Singa-

pore.

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SHELL-MEX BUILDING

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At the above. Exhibition both types of apparatus were shown, that is the Monometer" design, haying in the particular case a capacity of sterilising 20,000,000 gallons of water per 4 hours, and the Fulser" design, which is for smaller installations. In each case the principle is the same, a mea-

Walking over familiar "coun- anted trace of chlorine gas, gener-

try" between the Strand and the Embankment yesterday, I amounting to say 1-3 parts per million parts of water, being completely and unashamedly lost added continuously under accurate writes a London Daily Telegraph valve control, the apparatus being correspondent.. coupled up to cylinders of liquid' My expert and seasoned guide was lost too, and, to tell the

all

chlorine.

accomplish,

Was

All around you are acres of floor space-650,000 square feet of it. The pillars, and then out over the roofs vistas between the hundreds of of London in every direction, are startling and bizarre.

It may be stated in this connee-truth, he seemed the less surpris. tion that the Metropolitan Watered. For he knew something of the Board (London) installed in the formidable task we had set out to summer of 1917 their first "Chloro- nome," and the results were so suc-; cessful the same principles were

The Shell-Mex building, London's adopted in the early part of 1919 newest and brightest landmark, is for treating the river water at the almost finished so far as externala Highfield Plant of the Board, go. We, who were éxploring' its which has a capacity of 40,000,000 inmost vitals, found the skeleton a gallons per 24 hours, and was for truly gigantic and bewildering many years the largest gaseous one. There are, for example, solar chlorine installation in the United two miles of corridors. Perhaps, Kingdom. Since this time other it would be more correct to say, plants have been supplied to the there will be, because, as yet, they Metropolitan Water Board, parti- are without walls, and are rather cularly for example at the Walton colonnaded walks than corridors. Station and a considerable propar- The fact that you can see exact- tion of the whole of the Londonly where you are does not, how- water supply, "averaging about ever, prevent you being lost 980,000,000 gallons per 24 bours, is sterilised in this manner.

Included also was a scale model of battery of the firm's80 diameter closed pressure sand fil ters for the purification, of towns water supply, water softening, and the forest of pillars will have van.

In less than three months time) awimming" "baths, In the latter ished. Eleven hundred workmen connection the complete equipment who comprise the present army of consists of closed filters, aerators, occupation will give place to the and, the Chloronome with all the necessary accessories in the permanent inhabitants of the new

"city" in miniature. shape of circulating pumpa, pipes and valves, so that the bath water

Egyptian: Dining Hall, is being continuously circulated while being filtered, "serated, and

Five-thousand persons can com sterilised in such a manner that in fortably be housed here, each with twelve months about 230,000 bathers twice as much air space as the re- can pass through the same water gulations allow. They will be a which remains clear and sparkling self-contained community,

They and absolutely sterile,

will dat in a vast dining-hall- Mikizian | glimpses of Egyptian splendour are already appearing on its walls. more,

and, down below, the fresh They may garage their car in the colours of the Embankmeit gar 3.250 square yards reserved for the dens If that is not enough they PHFDON on the Embankment space and, if the boldest hopes weather. Bix giant boilers, two They may even enjoy their own realised, service of autogyro aircraft at their elbow floors below the Strand, will see It is understood that the con- that it is never too cold for them centration of Shell-Mex staffs in winter. Huge fant, tucked away which will take place when the in the great tower behind London's building is occupied, will leave largest clock, will ensure plenty of considerable office space available air in recesses of the building, and for letting.

it will pass through artifical bow- Sema of the most striking sta-ors to keep it clean and fresh, tistics connected with the new. quilding, which has been designed by Mossra, Joseph, and prected by Trollope and Colls, are:

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One acre and a third of external glass will enable the inhabitants of this city to appreciate the un rivalled views of the river while they sig at work. From a beight of nearly 200 foot they may see neroas, the bills of Surrey and Kent, the rival landmarks of Iron- don, a dozen Thames bridges or (Continued on Previous Column

The Lighting of Westminster.

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In its most prosperous days, the Sibunahan mining districts had 10,000 labourers at work, against has accepted the tender of the Gas ployed. The daily output of tung- The Westminster City Council the thousand or so at present em Light and Coke Company for the sten ore at Sihunshan is from 20 to lighting of about 65 miles of the 30 piculs; ht Sun Lung Kow (which streets under the city's jurisdiction is situated about seven kilometres for a period of 18 years, from north-east of Bihuashan), 20-30 January 1 1932. The previous piculs, at Pino Tang, about seven contract with the company lapsad picula. The total production of last December and, after somewhat tungsten ore for the whole district protracted negotiations over vois about 50 or 80 piouls, or four rious competitive tenders, includ- short tona a day. The output of tin ing those of electrical undertak ore is about one-tenth of the amount ings, the council, at a recent meet-.

of tungsten ore; The output of ing, decided to renow the contract bismuth and bolybenum ore with the Gas Light and Coke Com. irregular, and prices also vary pany. The Company first had the greatly.-Chinest Econòmic Bulletin,

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