ENGINEERING & BUILDING
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1932.
improvement
Argentina's EDWAYL
FAR AND WIDE.
tion
tion to
camer who, act high idea);
past, and I thought, I could if I got into the Army
The Magistrato-Do not talk non- sensu, “han, Oúr Army horeni composed of respectable men
M'Eoan was remanded in custody wait a police escort from South Shields,
Sterndalo Bennett. It was fed and cared for, and gradually recove its strength,, Ac last when the If and when another heat wave turned to a favourable quarter, the comes along the elephants on duty bird circled above the garden a low George Robert di Lean (28), of at the London Zoo will be made to times and thea hegued west. The South Shields, was charged at the to wear sun hata Elephants are very exhausted birds formed part of a concealed for Ai: illegal purpow in The road building programme in
7" | Dublin Distriut Court with being¦ Argentina, like so many other sensitive to sun-stroke in spite fight of 2,000 recently released from confessional in the Church of A 70-years-old pensioner, Charlest things, is a alting better times a 10 in thick skull. The polar bears Le Touquet to fly to Bristol. They Immaculate Heart of Mary, City Henry Molntyro, was charged with Meanwhile there is an agreement dr port. The actual position in that, between the Government and the are reported to like the hot v
encountered a severe storm in the August 5, bigauty at Newcastin poro
Quay, between 9 and 10 pm, on y
^and was remanded" on
EAST AND WEST.
Engineers' Dividend,«
makers, have declared an interim an excess both of use and misuse,
The directors of Clarke, Chap. while the Rail suffers from under-importers and producera of ganother most while the only animals Channel, and only fifty-two arrive) - A report from the South Shields baig until Monday, Patrick Joseph man & Co engineers and boiler employment, the Road undergoes line whereby the latter collect who do not benefit from the heat to schedulo, kuny more will have police was put in, and M'Lean told Hartley, 31, linuzo porter, of Glou
centavos por liter in the city all m Buenos Aires, and 3 contaros per are the fish. Fortunately the water
returned sinco however, for the Magistrate that he wont to Ire cester-street, Holborn, was com dividend of 21 per cent. on the The Réport prescribes certain steps liter elsewhere for the Government, is kept: at just the right tempera wherever they fall noor habitation Valand to join the Free State Army.mitted for frial at Bowgat
ture for them thanks to an exten- they were cared for and, one ty not imagine that you would be a Miss Alice Mary Vicke The Magistrate-Surely you did charged with bigamous sive refrigerating plant.
one, resumed their jearney.
cepted in the Army hare. A
Stillroom maid at the Lean-I wanted to forget the Register Office un Dec 8 last
Ordinary shares.
for redressing the balanco, such as
Future Housing Prospects.
The building industry in Ger many was only 18.4 per cent occu
that the heavier commercial vehi- This is the same aa a year ago,cles should pay a much higher when the interim was followed by licence fee for the wear-and-teatpied at the end of April, 1032. It a final at the same rate.
Petter Engines.
There are a number of Petter
.. GIRLY
Engines working in Syria, perform ing various kinds of operations and we were interested to hear that of the smaller engines; a 6 3.H.F. 8 type, which is driving a dynamo, is giving its owners great satisfaction, says Petter's Munthly News. They have found it most economical, "the cost of running showing a very definite saving on the charges of the public supply. We also continue to hear good re-
ports of the 30 B.H.P. Petter Ato anie Diesel Engine which is working in the Philippine Islands The en gine, is driving a rice milles, and is giving its owner the greatest
satisfaction,
Remarkable Agreement,
A unanimous Report from the evenly-balanced Conference on Road and Rail is more than the most could have hoped for, sanguino says the London Observer. The pub lic interest lies in the best and ful- lest use of both kinds of trana
they cause.
One Pocket and Another,
The "cheapness" of road transport is to a considerable part artificial, deriving from the subsidy to road maintenance and from the motor- owner's freedom from that regula tion of wages and conditions which makes railway management so ex- ponsive. What the user gains in fares and freights he loses in rates and taxes.
British Patents for 1831
formed among the congregation of A guild of watchers has been iratimated that in the prósent year only 2,000,000,000 reichsmarks St. Luke's Church, Holloway, to (about $478,400.000) will be spent keep vigil between services when it on new, construction, or about one- half of what was spent in 1801. The is re-opened. The church has been prospects, therefore, ato not rosy, kept locked recently owing to thefte particularly in the case of new both there and at other North Lon housing construction.
don churches when
There is no housing shortage of consequence in Germany to day, but there is a decided demand for cheaper dwellings~
collapsible Case and Box-nailing
chine
Machine. J
*
A motorist was fined £10 at Guild- ford for allowing a cloud of smoke to coupe from the exhaust of his car. It was stated that as the car was being driven through the town so much smoke escaped from the exhaust it was impossible to seo across the road Alderman Bir George Collins, the magistrate, said
number of unemployed in Germany Official figures. show' that the
or Aug, 1 was 3,393,000—a drop of 99,000 since the middle of July.
Five leaders of a body of fanati cal farmers who attacked the Mexi can town of Maltrata, killing the mayor and his son, have been ex- ecuted
Australian revenus for Jaly" ers cooded expenditure by nearly £1,000,000 while compared with tho previous July the improvement ex- coeded £800,000,
Lord Blediales, Governor-General of Now Zasland, unveiled st Christ- church a statue of Capt. Cook, the vigated New Zealand and charted explorer who, in 1789, oircumna it for the first time,
has approved in principle a British Reval (Estonia) local council offer of a loan, of £70,000 for four years, to extend the municipal elec tricity works. Equipment will bo ordered from England."
Miss C. E. Bates, lecturer, on
A patent has been, issued recent ly in Germany for a new type of collapsible box and a new box-nail- The rapid pace at which in- ing machine. The folding case vention is proceeding in Great Bri-built so strongly that it can be ur ed for a great many shipments. tain is reflected in the annual re Hitherto all folling cases could that any man poisoning the atmos port of the comptroller-general of only be inid out Dat and patents, designs, and trademarks, gether by hand, as no suitable mare in such a way was a public
nuisance. was known. These containmen recently issued. A larger numberers, therefore ware considerably
While reboaraing at the Duke of of patents was granted during 1931 more expensive than rigid cases.
The box-nuiling machine differs York's Theatre where he was taking than in any of the previous 10 from existing types in that it ope-a leading part in the Grand paychology, New Zealand, who in years. The total was 21,849, com-rates quite automatically, Any pared with 20,705 in 1920 and 18,937 size of box can be made and any Gaignol plays now running Mr giving a series of lectures in the thickness of wood can be usoil. The Russell Thorndike was accidentally Inat month on the subject of "Qua--
M'Lellan Galleries, Glasgow, spoke in 1980. This is especially inter lumber is fed into the machine at stabbed in the head with a knife.iities of Power and Its Develop csting in view of the decrease in one end and the finished cases are After trentment at Charing Cross ment." She said that mankind as a the number of applications for pa- turned out at the other. The tents from 39,550 in 1939 to 38,117 machine produces 960 cases in an Hospital where
whole could be divided into two- several stitches in 1001 Great activity has been 8-hour working day..
typen the imaginative and the were put in his head, he was able practical. The man of imagination to go home. The accident was ex- could easily vision the thing that plained by the fact that Mr Thorn he desired, but seldom had the per dike threw back lis head when tinacity and practicality to bring he thought the property knife it into expression. On the other had reached his back, but he was a hand, he more material person had little too soon the knife was still little imagination, and necessarily, in the air and it caught the back therefore, worked on the plan Jaid: of his head making a nasty cut. down by the maio Imaginative. The ident was a combination of the two
THE CHILDREN'S CORNER
FIRST AID.
edited by UNCLE JACK.
PETER PENGUIN
Many of us I am sure have, no- Peter Penguin was so sad He ticed the St. John's Ambulance A cried such a lot that a lobster came sociation: badge worn by police up out of the sea, looking very men, railwaymen and others," "This little round badge signifies that its cross indeed. Do stop crying, wearer has passed an examination Peter Penguin be said "You enabling them to render first aid
to the injured, Candidates for the haven't stopped now for fourteen badge have to attend at least five days, and you are making the sea lectures given by a doctor on medido salty with your tears, that it 18 cial subjects, and must become ne. quainted with elementary anatomy, giving us all indigestion down
Immediate there!"
and understand · the
treatment of burns, soalds, · and ¦' poisoning etc. Added to this aft
#1—I can't help it!" sobbed
knowledge is required of bandag-Peter."All the sea-gulls laugh at
ing and how to act in cases of me."
drowning and suffocation. The St.
John Ambulance Association was
Yes, we do. Ha! Ha!" ang u
founded in 1877, and many corta-sen-gull, flying by with that horrid ficates of proficiency in "first aid" laugh of his You're such a funny
cases have been granted.
TELL FATHER THESE.
Quite Fresh, "This sponge cake is very tough Mary H
It shouldn't be, mum. only bought the sponge from the chemist this morning!"
A Haircut,
"Do you want a haircut, sirt" asked the barber..
No, I want them all cut! snapped the irritable customer,
Any particular way, sir?" Yes, off
Just Like Him,
They were on a farmhouse holiday, and after the first night Smith was a hit out of Boris,
I've had practically no sleep" he complained to his wife Those beastly roos
tors have been crowing out them in the barn -- kincs dawn
Well, darling, murmur ed his wife, sweetly, - once when you get up early, you crowed about it for at least a week!!!
Nobody can ever laugh at me
, he thought
bom swim beajatifully, an
that Kunny
very frat penquin
learnt to swim, you know
an all do it now! 80 the sea
dan never laugh at the pengú
thing! Why, you can't swim and you can't fly! You can only wha- dlo
SAUCE FOR THE CANDER
The boys of one of the professor's classes got a goose and tied it scourely in his chair sad, pashed the chair under his desk just before. his expected arrival. He en- tered, pulled out his chair, and say the goose occupy- ing it.
I beg your parden, gen. tlemen," said he, I didn't know you were having a class meeting!!
LET'S LAUGH:
Biz First Day,
"Well, and how did you like your first day at school, Bobbie asked his father, i
Well, why don't you learn to fly, Peter said the lobster. If I' were you, I'd go to the top of the. cliffe and take a jump and well, want me there There are plenty you won't be able to help flying
"Ob, all night, daddy," said { Bobbie, :** But I don't see why they
will you
3
What a perfectly beautiful des" eriod Peter, and then the lobster hurried back into the sea to get on with his breakfast.
So Peter waddled up to the top
of other children.
Batiling Good Car.
He had bought car from a cond-hand dealer, and his friend was asking, a week or two later about the new purchase.
"Oh, that, he said disinterest about it
of the cliffe. "Than he waddled edly: why, everyth right to the very, vera edge, and made a noise, except the hooter. took a long braath Ho know if he
stopped to think about it he
What's In a Nattes ?
would never do it, so he blinked pretty goo
forty times, said his A B C back-f
wards, and then frontwards, and.
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Viscount Chelmsford has been ap pointed chairman of the British Industries Fair Site and Buildings Committee, in succession to the late Sir Gilbert Garnsay. Viscount Chelmsford was chairman of the committee which was set up in 1930 to consider what means could bo adopted to increase the Fair's utility..to British trade, and it was as a result of a recommendation of- his committee that the present-in-
vestigation into the quection of providing a permanent home for the Fair is being undertaken. It was with this fact in view that the government invited Viscount Chelmsford to rerve na chairman of the committee for the congiuding stages of its work.
What appeared to be the deliber ate suicide of a "monkey was wit nessed by sightseers at Upton Park Zoo, Chester, recently. The keeper. said that in all his considerable, experience he had never known an animal deliberately commit suicide. The monkey at first caused mild amusement by gnawing off oft of the rope in his cage and then tying one end of it to a tree in his cage. He then proceeded to make a knot with the other and into which he
slowly inserted his head. Pulling
the knot tight he climbed as high as the rope would allow and daunch- ed himself off the tree. Death was naturally instantaneous: The keep- er returned a verdict of Suicide, there being no evidence of the monkey's state of mind." AT SER
A dentist at Woking was recent ly found not guilty of 21 charges. of embezzlement, falsification of so counts and of making false entris in a daily account. He pleaded not guilty and denied the whole of the charges. - It was alleged that while in charge of a dental surgery at Woking he did not account for certain súms received from patients, He was discharged,
Following the Ottawa Conference, the White Star Line announce that the Laurentic is to be placed at the
Arm Ji Watch & disposal of British 'business, meņi for the development of commercial relation with Canada. The com Early & panien representatives in their
then he said "One two three Still another is Att
Then he jumped off the top of
that high cliff, but he didn't fly 1 Another is Doo & Daret
Canadian offices wi
od of those firms who
Oh, nol Although he slapped his But the best of all is Grin & Bar Arms and Importers in
| wings as hard as ho could, he-felt;
himself going down, down-and then suddenly plomp He had dived right into the sea
Down he went below the waves, and there, he saw his friend the lobster still having breakfast,
here Ferted the "I didn't know you could
Pet
"advis
biting on the Laurentic, and will
anada in vitations and letters of introduc tion together with details of the ex- hibits that are being sent. Support. to the enterprise is also ing given" by the home rnment and
Canadian
and Com fall on
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ROYAL OBSERVATORY'S DAILY WEATHER REPORT.
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