1932-12-17 — Page 7

ENGINEERING AND

Notes From East and West

Cotton Mill Equipment for China.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1932.

BUILDING

Proposed Arsenal near Feiping.

The construation of an arsenal at Tungchow, about 40 miles east. of Peiping, has been deoided upon companies operating coastwise tantary Affairs Commission. Plane by-the-Peiping Branch of the Mili- kers of over 4,000 tons capacity,

experiment.

RUBBER ROAD IN SINGAPORE

RAFFLES PLACE TRIAL

NUMBER OF · PROBLEMS

SOLVED

Singapore, Dec.-B. Malays

COMMODITY PRICES IN

JAPAN

BIG RISE OWING TO FALL IN YEN

EFFECT UPON FOOD AND CLOTHING

MossTsardine Engineering along the lines of the Norwegian perte engaged for the purpose. The mure-than any other country has and the Governmente

Corporation Ltd., of Shanghai, have signed an agreement with the Chen Tung Cotton Mill at Trinas for the supply of cotton spinning machinery to the value of £33,700.

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Tire Launch for Danton↑

Canton. On account of the diff culty of transporting fire engines to the suburban districts of Honou ̈United Kingdom Production of fin time of fire, and the inability

Pig Iron and Steel.

of the Fire Department to cope The monthly memoranduma

with fire which may occur on river honts, the Bureau of Public Safety the National Federation of Iron has formalated plans for the con- and Steel Manufacturers, Caxstruction of a fire motorboat which tou House, Tothill-street, London, will be used as an auxiliary of the S.W.I. contains the welcome nows Fire Department. One of three furnaces in operation at the end Bunu of Public Safety will be of September than at the begin immediately converted in a fire ning. Even now, however, the launch, which will be ready for

that there were two more

blasty

motorboats

now owned by the

are being drafted by German...ex

Peiping Branch also appropriated a sum of $150,000 for the construe tion of an aviation field at Taing hun Yuan, which is near the Teing hua University west of the city.

Wanking Waterworks Loan.

A contract has been signed be tween the Municipal Bureau of Finance of Nanking and a banking syndicate headed by the Bank of China for a loan of $300,000 for waterworks. The loan will bear in the completion of the Nanking teres at 9 per mille por mensem, instalments. The work of installa- to be redeemable in seven monthly tion has been going on for some

culties progress has been retarded.

so much to gain from an extension of the uses of her prinsipal pro. duct that more than ordinary in terest attaches to the activities go- ing on at present id Raffles Place, in front of John Little'a.

All during this and next week the thousands of people who pass there every day will see a gang of coolies busily at work laying a road. The sight is so common in Singapore that normally it-need difference in this case this is no evoke no comment but there is a ordinary road, it is a rubber road ya has been fixing her fonded hopes for years as the most pro mising of the "now uses" and the most likely mathod of eating into chcie mountainous stocks which must be removed before prosperity returns to her hardest hit indas try.

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October 22 has been at least twent“, percent on the retail market, ti reported. As a matter of fach BOM of the retailors raised their price further a few days ago and there is no telling how much higher prices of general daily apparel will be raised before the year-end.

In the case of sitt to tile, phorey has been a twenty percent increase in price since July. The price of some categories of silk textiles have risen more than twenty five per

Department Stores,

Tokyo.-Commodity prices

are This is attributable directly to the -rising-rapidly, in many cases they you exchange-rate-in-that-Japan-eut

are soaring, as the natural result imports a large amount of meat of the fall in the yea exchange rate from Tsingtao where payments are

inflation made in foreign currency." policy. Prices hava risan anywhere i There was a difference of 1 sen from ten to a hundred percent, with par pound for refined sugar on the avery likelihood of a further aug local wholesale market compared mentation of this tendency, the with this time last month, but gen survey indicates.

eral retail stores have raised their prices much more than this. This due to the high tariff, the low an exchange rate and the relue tance of wholesellers to soll in view of their belief that prices will rise. Coal prices, naturally, have risen as they always do at the time of the year, but even then the price at the end of the year is expected so be about 20 per cent higher than it was last year-end.

In the opinion of the head of the Tokyo Prefectural and Municipal Market Association the greatest suf- forers, as a result of the rise in nors. In many cases their revenues commodity prices, are salary ear have been slashed in the face of rising prices, thus coming as

-double blow to them.

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Clothing Too.

The department stores have felt the affects of rising prices. -- A cording to Mr. N. Kitada, a dire tor of Mitsukoshi, dopartic stores may be grouped into th alasses. The first are made up the very wealthy. This class is not concerned whether prices double or treble and will continue to bay what they need. The second group. made up of the middle classes, im. mediately feel the pinch of higher prices and have already shifted from imported goods to home-mads. products because of the lower prices. The last group, that is the third class, made up of the average purchaser, which is the most im-

by the increase in prices. The de portant group to the department stores, has been the most affected

for the reason that it is plain the cerned, according to Mr. Kitada, purchasing power of the third class diminished with the rise in general of customers will be greatly commodity prices.

furnaces in blast in this country 1 service by the end of next January time, but" owing to financial dif- the type of road upon which Mala along the circle of the elevated ring As a result of the low yen exchange partment, stores are all greatly con total only 39. The production of it is reported. pig-iron in September nuaunted |

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Proposed State Cotton-MIII.

It is reported that the Miniary of Industry is planning the

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to 950,400 tons, compare with Canton Cement, 259,400 tong in August, and £19,200 i The demand for comont in Can tons in September, 1931. The Sop-it exceeds the supply and the co tember output of steel ingots and ment works in Honam and Sai ensting's totalled 430,300 tons, Churn are busily working to turn tablishment of a mill for the pro- ngainst 361,500 tons in August. I out sufficient products for the mar-duction of fine cotton when production was affected by ket. The two cement works under holidays, and 400,3 tone in Ser the Kwangtung Cement Trade Bu Bite for State Machine-Shop. Lember, 1991.-Eugiteering.

resu are manufacturing over 1,000

The The projected central machine- barrels a day, while sales amount tool works under the Ministry of to 95,000,000 a month. Steps are Industry will be built at Tano- being taken to increase the output hsichhsia, Hankwan, the land in both factories in order to meet selected covers an area of shout

Vinstinued at trot of next column the increasing demand.

Oil Interests in New York.

Oil interests at New York ar re ported to be considering the farm ition of a tankry pool nanong the

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

RE DAIRY FARM

The Dairy Farm beg to announce that there is no truth in rumour that Turkeys are scarce this year at least not so far as they are con cerned.

They suggest, however, that potential buyers would be well advised to place their orders as early as possible.

Watch this space for further details of their show.

THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD STORAGE CO. LTD.

present trial is of consider ablo importance from the point of view of the possibilities which its success will open up and it is of interest also as being the largest test of a rubber road over made in this country, 20 feet wide and stretching for 970 feet, from the end of Battery Road past John Little's to where Robinson's starts.

The work is being done for the Singapore Municipality by Mesars. Gammon (Malaya) Ltd., under the P.D.C. (Parry. Davis H. W. Cowl ing) process, Messrs. Gammon be ing the sole concessionaries for 'So- lar Processes, Ltd., the company formed to exploit the P.D.C. in ventions.

The original intention was for a stretch of road to be laid in Con- naught Drive, opposite the Cano toph, but the Municipal Engineer, Mr. K. G. M. Fraser, was of the opinion that Raffles Place would constitute a much more severe test beenuse of the greater volume of tralne. And, more important the considerable stress imparted. through the actions of braking. stopping and starting. In addi tion it is believed that the publi city value will be much greater for, apart from the thousands of Singaporeans who pass every day there is hardly a visitor whose steps, do not lead him past this spot; 75

"'"' On lave of Something Big."

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"I believe we are on the eve of something big in the way of rubber roads," declared Mr. H. W. Cowl ing

We make several claime, for our rubber road. It is less slippery than any other type: it absorbs vibration it is resilient; it is less. noisy than any other kind of sur face; it is non-abrasive; and it will wear longer. If you want proof of that last statement again go to Trafalgar Street and throw up a stone. When it lands on the rub. ber road it makes no mark but on the asphalt it leaves a definite in- dontation. We also claim that a rubber paving provides an abso lute waterproof surface, thus pro- tecting the Findersurface, and foun- dation of the road, and it is also quito free from dust,

130 mow Notification has already! been issued by the Nanking Muni- cipal Government ordering the im- mediate removal of all straw huts oy the site, so that construction of the necessary buildings may be be gun without delay

Railway-Pler at Nanking.

Tenders are being invited by the Ministry of Railways for the con- atruction of the Chungshan pier at Hatakwan, Nanking. According to plane of the Ministry, upon in- auguration of the railway forry across the Yangtze between Hsia kwan and Pukov, the Chengping wharf will be devoted exclusively to the loading and unloading of freight, while the Chungahan piér will be used solely for passenger traffic..

How Rallway for Kiangm.

The Kiangsu Provincial Depart ment of Reconstruction is, drawing up plans for the construction of a railway Hoking Haichow, on the northern const. of Kiangal, with Tungchow, near the mouth of the Yangtze River Tre" projected rail- way, which will pass Yentheng, Fowning, Kuanyuh, and other im portant cities in northern Kiang- st, will be approximately 200 miles Blong, wady nerve, an area almost de

void of modern communication facilities,' - linking up with the Hai railway at Haichow. Iveys, are, DAw being, conducted Vecurineer of the King Re construction: Departmen

According to the survoy just com pleted comodities, whose prices practically cannot be sold in the been marked by steady increases. were raised during the past month, municipal public markets districts

The price of clothing has also

way line around the city. These dously and this has tended to raise rate exports have increased tremen- include imported, canned goods and general prices. For instance, in the other such products..

As the public have generally ed several times during the past case of rayon, prices have been rais. come to believe that prices in the month. The total increase since municipal markets are as cheap sa they possibly can be made, the num ber of people patronizing these markets during the past few months has increased tremendously as a re- sult of the rise in commodity prices in general, but the amount pur- chased by each customer has de- creased.

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sales to each customer were 33 sen For instance whereas average in past months, this sum has drop- ped to 30 sen at present at the Kamata Municipal Market.

Orisis Possible,

In the view of the investigators there is likely to be a crisis next. spring especially if the yen ex- change rate continues to drop.

The price of rice, which in the principal staple article of food in Japan, has been raised thrice since November 1. Compared to the price at the corresponding time last] year, the price at present is at least 27 se higher, it is declared, per 10 kilogrammes, That is to say there is a difference of 27 sen per Ya Moreover, ali indications paint to further increases in the price of rice....

In the case of meat also there has been a marked rise in price.

There is

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