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HONG KONG. DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1932.

Engineering AND BUILDING

EAST AND WEST

passenger liners of several coun- STUDY OF WATER SUPPLY tries. Bucent orders for gavity idavits include the equipment. for

the Franch Line's new super-lle:

I de France and the Fumess, Withy

Line's Queen of Berunda.

New Fectories in England.

STARTED BY AMERICAN

TOWN.

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65 M.P.H.-WITHOUT MOVING

NOVEL TEST. FOR A CAR.

JUDGE'S TRIBUTE TO MACEDONIAN MURDER IN

BURGLAR

"YOU MUST BE A BOLD

*MAN **

Palmers Shipbuilding Report. The report of the Paliers Ship building and Iran Company states that there was a loss for 1931, i

Raleigh, N.C-Municipal and after providing for maintenance Ultimately expected to give em-

industrial water supply problems, of idle departments, of £73,757.ployment to 1.500 hands, a factary sewage disposal and other like ser le which has to be added interest is to be erected by Germath interests vices have been inaugurated in a road conditions as closely as posfordshire Quarter Sessions.

at Granthan for the mass produc-program of ground water study by Six per Cent. First Mortgage|tion of rabber shoes, previously im

the water resources and engineer- Debenture stock, £15,110. making a ported from the Continent,

ing division of the department of

total loss of £ss,587. This incren909

Another factory, in which United conservation and development, with Kingdom and Austrian interests the assistance of Mr. O. E. Meiner, the debit balance to be carried for.

are concerned, will be buile : Ifull chief of the ground water division for the manufacture of household of the United States Geological and will eventually employ 200 chiet engineer and professor of by wooden articles hitherto imported, Survey, department officials

nounced. Mr. Thorndike Saville, hands.

The City of Birmingham Idraulic engineering at the Univer formation Bureau announces that sity of North Carolina, will have

ward to £110, 8. The directers state that during the year the depression in the shipbuilding and iron and steel trades was unparalleled in its severity, and it is impossible to Assess the actual values of plant and machinery in shipyards and iron and steel works or of interests in subsidiary companies, especially when such assete are only partially, employed,

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Dabied et Cie S.A., of Neuchatel, Switzerland, is proceeding with the erection of a large factory in Bir mingham for the manufacture of extensive British market, will be muxtor tyre valves. In future its

served entirely front this works.

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Beyer Peacock & Co., Ltd. Vauxhall Rubber Company.

In is announeed that Beyer The report of the Vauxhall Rub- Peacock & Co. Ltd., the locomotive ber Company of Ceylon for the enginetas, hise recently acquired year ended June 30 last statis that from the receiver of the Agricultur- the consent of the Debenture-holl and General Engineers the works and business of Richard Garrett & der was obtained to forgo the pay Sons, of Leiston, Suffolk. The mmut of all interest due to June 30, directors propose carrying on at 1952. The loss on, working for the the Leidar works, originally us perr amounted to Rs.5,250, which, tablished in 1778, the business of has been written off from the re-general se sziniers under the title of

“serve account,

Ancient History.

The new Cunard liver, Lusitunin, has attained an average spred of 25.4 kuota on hou continuous forty- night hours' trial, and nu average od 20.45 knots on one ran of 120 miles. The awed stipulated in the

eaudrap! Was 24 knots on service. -

The Glasgow Herald "' of 25 VIPs ago.

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direction of the work.

an-

The state department, division, in cooperation with the national body, has been for some time obtaining

several points in the State. The records of ground water levels at

main purpose of such records, the engineers report, is for correla tion with stream flew and rainfall records for the most efficient use of the state's water resources.

AUSTRIA:

BULGARIAN KILLED BY

REVOLUTIONARIES

Vienna, Oct. 10-A. Macedonian "death sentence" has been execut- ed in Austria noar Frankenmark, where the fettered body of Kwan Dimitroff, a director of Sofia Corn Exchange, was found in the Vollk lar River. Dimitroff arrived here

from Sofin on October 1, but soon left his hotel without luggage in the company of another man. „Hej nover returned..

A test of 10,000 miles was rañ

"stationary" car at the by u Wolseley Company's works, Bir- mingham, when trying the new Fire- St. Albans.-Anthony St. George, wheel and clutch.

Faged thirty-six, a Liverpool The car was run on the dynamo-man, who rose to the rank of ́ser- meter, but a special system, of cams,geant-major during the war, and electrically driven, was introduced was sent to America to train Ame- so as to vary throttle and clutch rican troops, was sentenced to five and so simulate the most arduous years' ponal servitude at the Hert sible.

After the engine was started tha The man, whose correct name was cam gear opened the throttle until staled to be, Arthur Hazell, ad- 3,500 r.p.in. were reached, which is the road equivalent to about 85 mitted committing four specified

Letters found in the pockets of miles an hour in this model. Then burglaries and asked for twenty- the cam gear closed the throttle with six other cases to be taken into the dead man showed that the re- a snap and at the same time the consideration.

volutionary Macedonians enticed throttle was again opened the clutch was withdrawn. As the

Mr. R. E. Seaton, prosecuting, him to come to Vienna to attend an clutch was engaged, and this entire described him as an up-to-date and alleged meeting of landed proprie. burglar, who drove tors. As he was a corn expert the cycle of operations. was repeated systematic

The equivalent distance run un-about in a motor-ear and broke reason was plausible. A first-class 10,000 into houina first in one county and ticket to Vienna and back were en- der these conditions was

closed in one letter. miles, the average speed being 40 then in another. m.p.b. of day and night running, and House, the residence of the late The test occupied over 217 hours He related ovents at Aldenham during this time the throttle, clutch, and free-wheel were operat ad menrly twenty-eight thousand times.

every 28 seconds.

When dismantled the parts under test showed no excessive wear.

LORD SNOWDEN ON BUILDING SOCIETIES

"A ROMANCE OF MODERN TIMES."

native conl. It How stated that the Government has ordered the Spanish railways to use native coal only, regardless of existing con- tracts Experiments are also to be entries out by the Spanish Navy with Asturian coal, and briquetics are to be made from small coal, and, if found atisfactory, will Richard Garrett Engineering have to be used on Spanish mer- | Warks, branch of Beyer Peacock & jchant ships. If these orders are Co. Ltd. No frosh justo of upital strictly enforced, it will mean the is a paret involved.

I love rf an important market to South Wales. The matter is view. ed with concern, as Welsh pond has suffered so everely of late years In the first arven months of this from the restrictions imposed on importation by various ear the quantity of Welch coalits Sant to Spain was 39 per cent. European countries. The decision below the rate of shipments in 1931, to make the Spanish railways burn This heavy reduction has been caus-Asturian coal regardless of exist-greatest asset. Fed by the policy of recent Spanish ng contracts, has been taken up By the help which this institu- Governments compelling the use of by the South Wales Coal Exportion offers," he says, "about one- native coal, as a result of the con- ters Association, representations fourth of the houses in this country tinued agitation of the Asturian, having been made to the British are now owned by their occupiers. conlowners and mine workers. It Dovrinment to take the matter in

"The social significance of this fact is tremendous. It has given to this large part of the population a feeling of security and indepen

Spain and Weich Coal,

British Lifeboat Davi's." Lifehat" davits of a British type have been installed ka the new United States liner Manhattan.is already compulsory for the mail-hand, the fulfilment of castinctual They are of the Welia-Marlachlan ways, public services, and indus obligations being regarded as the gavity type, which has, of inte tries to use a certain percentage of first essential in business arrange years, been fitted in the principal (Continue on real Column.j ments.-Engineering.

No Home Is

Better Than

Its Roof

HAVING a "Roof over one's

head"-is the synonym of having a HOME. But if the roof is poor-the home is no better.

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movement

Hon. Vicary Gibbs, early in the morning of July 28.

Finger Prints.

powered

His enemies apparently over-

him in

motor-car.

threw his body into the river from a bridge in Upper Austria, and fled to Germany,

One of the persons in the house heard the noise of a door being forced and raised the alarm. It) · was found that the shutters of the drawing-room had been smashed and the window forced.

AUSTRALIAN GOLD. DEVELOPMENTS

NEW DISCOVERIES REPORTED

Austral Development state that

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CHURCH NOTICE.

ST. JOHT'S QATHEDRAL, Hong Long. NOVEMBER 19, 1032:-

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PEACE SUNDAY. Holy Communion, 8 m

8 am,

Holy Communion (Peak Church) Children's Service, 10 a.m. ̧ Mattina and Sermon, 11 ..

Preacher :-The Lord Bishop of

Singapore.

Evensong, 6.30 pu

Preacher: The Rev. N. V. Hư

war.!.

Wank Day Services. Mattins. Daily, 0.40a.m.

Intercessions for the Sick. Wednes

day, 10.15 a.m. Holy Communion. Thursday, 7.45 Choir Practice. Friday, 7.30

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FIRST CHURCH OF OHEIST, SOLENTIST.

(Branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass, V.8.4.) MACDONNELL Road, arlow Bow

ROAD TRAM STATION. NOVEMBER 13, 1939 ———

SUNDAY BRAVICE, 11.15 am.

Nubject:—" MORTALS AND

IMMORTALS." The Sunday School is held on Sunday Mornings, 16 o'clock.

Wednesday Evening Meeting, 6.00 pm, Heading Roomat above address opani ~-.. Tuesday and Friday, 10 am to 12 Noon Monday and Thursday, 5.80 to 7 p.

The Public la cordially invited to attend the services and visit the Roading Room.

UNION CHURCH.

* NOTICE.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 14:32,

PEACE SUNDAY,

Sunday School -

Kennedy Hoad, 9.30 am." Taikoo, 2.45 p..

Morning Service, 10.30 a.m," Evening Service, 6 pm.

Speaker at both services -Rov.

*E. G. Powell.

The Communion of the Lord's Sup

will be observed at the close of the vaning service.

The usual Social hour will be held au the Church Hali. ..

In a cupboard opposite the pri- vate chapel on the premises was o silver chalice on the inside of Granites West (N.L.) is the title of Viscount Snowden, in a message which was found a finger-print a new Company floated in Mel. to the National Association of Building Societies, describes the which Brotlandyard identified as bourne with a capital of 400,000 10%. progress of the building society corresponding with the left middle shares for the development of 190 movement as one of the romances finger of St: George.

agres on the line af lade discovered of modern times; a which deserves the support and en

This finger-print was also found 70 miles from Tanami in North- couragement of all who believe that on a deed box in Langleybury West Australia. The vendors repor individual character is a nation's House, which was broken into on ceived 53,000 shares, while 205,000

August 90.

shares were offered publicly and immediately. qubscribed. Of the

WESLEYAN METHODIST shares offered to the publie 110,000 were subscribed for by the vendors

DEUROE, Wanchal and 60,000 by the Gold Mines of (Opposite Royal Naval Hospital," Australia, the Company in which Queen's Road, East). the New Consolidated Gold Mines, The following are the forthcoming of housebreaking in all parts of the North Broken Hill, Electrolytic Services, etc. at the Wesleyan Method

Zine Company and Nationalist Church, Wanchai, Many of the residences broken Smelting Company are interested. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1932:~~ into were those of prominent peo- The Gold Mines of Australia have ple, including Lord Beatty's house heen appointed technical managers. goldmounted hunting crops were of Australia is also dealing with in Northants, from which three

It is understood that Gald Mines

stolen.

an adjoining group of leasca.

A further new discovery is raport-

dence.

St. George was arrested at Rick mansworth on August 9,

Particulars were given of the

offences

which outstanding

St. George asked to be taken into con aideration. They related to cases

country.

Previous Convictions.

"It has developed a sarise of pride in the home; a desire to make it a reflection of the character and taste of the owner which living in a hired house can never giv

"It has encouraged the praise worthy habit of thrift, for when the building society loan has been paid Superintendent Maskel! gave deel, states the cable, in the same off, saving is continued for the pur-tails of the man's provions convic-eighbourhood about 30 miles from pose of laying up resources for an tions, which included sentences of Schist Hills. The lode is vid to honourable retirement.

servitude for burglary and house-!| five years and three years' penal i traceable for over a male with in width of, about 0 feet and values breaking. He was discharged from showing in the outerop of 17dwt, prison en licence on September 18, to un nuner per ton. 1031. A good proportion of the property, stolen had been recover-¦| od.

"The building societies provide a safe investment for share capital for people of moderate means, who cannot afford the risk of investing their savings in speculative enter prises.

OUR SCOTTISH NEWS LETTER

(Continued from Page 1).

looks the River Tay. It will short- ly be available for the reception of war veterans, ex-servicemen from the navy, army and air force be- ing eligible for admission.

Scots Scientist Dead

Scotland lost a noted scientist when. Professor Thomas Gray, LL.D. D.SR., Director ond Profes- sor of Technical Chemsitry at the Royal Technical College, Glosgow, died at Elie on Sept. 20th. Con- nocted with the College for over 40 years, he supervised the chemical control of the extraction in the Scottish gas works of benzine and tollene for the Department of Ex- plesive Supplies during the war and also made extensive surveys of the furnace and coking coals of Scotland regarding their suitabi- lity for use in the blast furnace and for the manufacturé of coke.

Prime Minister and the Clans.

Wo hear the Prime Minister, will be the guest of the Scottish Clans Assuointion at their annual dimer November 18th. During the fortyodd years Mr. MacDonald has been in London, the only other Scottish organisation he has hon- oured with his presence at on an- nual festival is the Morayshiro Club.

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New "Royal and Ancient " Captain.

The Earl of Lindsay drove him- self into the office of Royal and Ancient Club captain in the time- honoured manner at St. Andrew's on Sept. 28th Ee-bit a glorious drive. The cannon boomed out that. the R. and A, had a new captain und there was an immediato rush amongst the caddies for the ball: It was secured by a young unem- ployed club" maker who emerged from the mass of humanity with the leg of his trousers in taittors. The new captain gave the customary golden sovereign in exchange for the ball and advised the recipient not to part with it under 28/77/0

Nerve and skin.

stand why he had adopted a pro- - Mr. R. I. V, Rippon, defending, fession of crime. said that his client was sentenced | to six months' imprisonment for loitering and stealing when four- You must be a bold and cour teen years of age.

'because ageous man," he added, you have committeed these burgla- ries throughout the longth and breadth of the land apparently by which requires great yourself,

Mr. Rippon asked that St. Geor ge should be bound over. "I give you my pledge," said St. George, that I will not appear in court again if you will not send me back to penal servitude."

norve and skill."

Passing sentence, the judge said Judge Sturges said the prisoner the Bereh hnd taken into consi- was a highly educated man, and ho deration the outstanding cases. The had held some prominent situa value of the goods prisoner had tions. It was difficult to under-stolen was, he understood, spine

(Continued on next column.) thing over £3,000,

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Morning Survics, 10.15 am. Evening Service, 6.00 p.m. (Babject: The Things that belong to our Peace.)

Preacher for both Services- Rev. Erris C. H. Tribbeck. ̈·· Morning Soloist: Mrs. G. F. Math.

ison. (There is no death" O. Hars) Evening Soloisti Mrs. W. S. Ball, "The Friend of Friends" Shen- ton.)

Sunday School will meet at the

Church at 3p..

Friday p.m., Choir Practice in

the Church

Friday 8 p.m., Prayer Meeting in

the Church,

BAILORS' AND SOLDIERS.

HOME," Wanchai, ・・ 29; Beaneasy Road SUNDAY (13th), 8.15 p.m.,Christian Social Hour conducted by the Chaplain.

The

Speaker-Rev. Frank Short

Subject: "Peace and MoNDAY 14th, 3.31 p.m.-Ladies

League

Church Aid Society meet.

8 p.m-Dance arranged for Mem-

bers of the Services.

TUESDAY (16th), Houze Committed

Hot,

6 p.m.-Fellowship Meeting. WEDNESDAY (16th), & p.m.-Lecture. "War ninus Martial Glory,- Lecturer Mr. M. F. Key.

THURSDAY (17th-Badminton Club

Meet

SAILORS & SOLDIERS' HOME: ASSEMBLY HALL,

A DANCE

Monday, 14th November, 1932 From € p.m. until 10.30 p.m.

Music by

MR. G.W. TRUE'S CHEERO BAND. Admission $1.00. (Ladies by Invitation)

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

`ADMIRALTY CORRECT AN

ERRONEOUS REPORT -

The Admiralty has made the fol lowing announcement?

"An article appeared in the Press announcing inter alia that Dartmouth College in to be closed.

It must be fresh in the minds- of the public that as recently as June 8 the First Lord stated in the House of Commons thatëhem reg: garded the continuance of the Col- lege as a matter of the first im "portance--

It is not the normal practice of the Admiralty to comment upon”, statements which appear in the Press, and they only do so in this particular instance because this statement, if allowed to pass un Inoticed, might cause doubt, and

anxiety in the minds of parents of cadots now at Dartmouth, and of those who might be contemplating a naval career, for their sons,