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H. K. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.

(Orders by Colonel L. G. Bird, D.8.0., 0.3,E., Command- ing H.K.V.D.d.)

1.-Parade.

(a.)-Battery: i

1.--The Q.O.C.'s Inspection will taka place on Tuesday, April 11. Every member will parade as this is a compulsory parade, in order to qualify for their efficiency for the year.

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INSPECTION

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For details of parade, see General Orders,

Dress: Uniform. Helmet, jacket. breeches, puttees, hoots, bandoliers, white lanyard, rifle and sling.

-There will be no parade on Thursday, April 13. (b.)-Engineer Company:-

Parade at Miniature Range at 3.30 p.m. ca Monday, April 10

Annual Inspection on Murray Parade Ground on Tuesday, April

11.

(c.)-Oorpa Signals:--

All members must attend the am nual inspection on Tuesday, April

11.

List of Evente. - Team Evenţa!--- T Blake Shield Competition.

2 Francis Cup Competition. 3 Tild Competition,

Attack, Coinpetition, : Individual Events:-

5 Corps Championship.

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6 Tyro Competition.

7 Mücketry Competition.

8 Reservo Challenge Cup. Revolver Competition

(Corps).

10 Revolver Competition

(Open).

All teams will consist of four

men.

Entrance fees:-82 per teags for events 1, 2, 3 and 4. #1 per man for events 5, 6, 7 and 8,

Team competition will be fired on Friday and Individual Events Saturday, with the exception that the Musketry Competition will be fired in conjunction with the Blake Shield Competition, and the Hong Competition will be fired in con- junction with the Corps Champion- ship and the Tyro Competition,

The Corps Revolver Competition will be held on both days.

The Open Revolver Competition will be held on Saturday, April 13, only

Competitors will make their own arrangements for tifin.

LECTURE AT UNIVERSITY

THE HISTORICAL DEVE LOPMENT OF THE ARCH"

PAPER BY MR. BOXER

1.

Under the auspices of the Hong Kong University Engineering So ciety, a lecture on the above sub ject was delivered last night by Mr. Stanley Boxes, B. Be The lecturer pointed out that in the first place all structural architec ture resolved itself into one of two essentially different types: trabe ated, where beams were used and arculated, where arches or vaults were employed. The earliest form of architecture was trateated. All Greek atructures standing to-day consist of lintels resting on columns, the accumulative effect of which must have been very effective, but which were of course very extrava- gant in material. It was not until the Roman period that the arch first appeared in common use and than it did so not so much as a

simple arch B3 barrel-shaped vault. The Romans lived a differ ent type of life from the Greeks. They required large halls for their assemblies, and the multiplicity of columns of the Greek type of build. (d)-Motor Machine Gun Section:

ing rendered this type quite un- Parade at Volunteer Headquar

suitable for the purposes for which ters at 5.15 pm, on Tuesday, April

Entries will be, received up to the Romans wished to use their 11. for G.O.C.'s Inspection.

barrel vaulted noon on Monday, April 10, address buildings. The Parade at the Miniature Range atod to Hon. Secretary, Rifle Meet-building (roofed, it should be not- 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12,ing, Headquarters, and accompanied, not in masonry. laid up in mor

at Headquarters,

There will be no parade on Mon day, April 10.

(6.)—AATA. Company:—

All Sections will parade at Head- quarters at 3.30 p.m. on Monday, April 10.

| (f.)—Portuguese Company:-

Parade at 6.30 p.m. sharp at Headquarters on Tuesday, April 11, for the Annual Inspection. Platoon Commanders will please see that all members of their Platoons are in

possession of full details regarding

the Annual Inspection."

Company Orderly Officer for the week ending Sunday, April 16: Lieut. J. V. V. Remedios.

Musketry and Lewis Gun Classi fication.-Stonecutters Range will bo available for the Portaguese Company on Sunday, April 9. All members of the Company who have not classified, with the exception of recruits who joined after October 10, 1939, are warned that this is the last date on which they will be given facilities to comply with the requirements for efficiency.

Range Officer: 2nd-Lient. E. P. Sequeira,

Revolver Instruction. On

the

The Canteen will be in attendance on both days.

by entrance fees.

Entries for events 3, 6, 7 and 8 will be received after that date at double entrance fees.

Launches. A launch will leave Queen's Pier as 7.45 am, on both days, but will not call at Kowlooa.

A second launch will leave Queen's Pier at 8.30 am. and will call at Kowloon at 8.45 am.

9.-Leave.

tar, but in Roman cement) was marrow for its length. Consequent ly the ides occurred of having two or three barrel-vaults side by side, and arching the intervening walls It was then discovered that by hav- ing vaulta side by side the burst- ing thrust of the one could be counteracted by the bursting thrust of the other, so that apart from the walls at the extreme sides pt the building, walls could be made lighter. Finally transverse barrel vaults were used, and the columnar

No. 1681 L/Cpl. A. E. Arnold, Machine Gun Troop, leave extend-effect much lightened. ed to September 30, 1933.

No. 1711 Tpr. E. K. R. Bovill,. Machine Gun Troop, leave extended to September 30, 1933.

No. 1528 L/Sgt. A. C. Beck, Machine Gun Troop, granted seven months leave, with effect from April 1 to October 31, 1933.

No. 1742 Pte. C. J. D. Law, Armoured Car Section, granted 19 monthe leave, with effect from April 8, 1933, to April 7, 1934.

Lieut L G. S. Dodwell, A.L.C. Cadre, granted eight months' leave with effect from April 9 to Decem- ber 31, 1933.

Never Stinted Material, The Romans were never stinted

for money or material, and were able to build on much an extensive scale because they could afford to do so. They resisted the bursting stresses of arches, vaults and domes, by sheer mass of weight in the abutment walls. When the Roman Empire disintegrated, the Christian Church took up the matter of church building; but funds were scarce, and they could not employ the expensive methods of their forerunnera In Eastern Europe, a style known as Byssutine sprang up, where the essential feature was the dome. The Romans had em

circular wall. This was unsuitable for covoring a church whose plan

No. 1623 Pte. J. G. Meyer, A.S.C.ployed the dome, but only on a Oadre, granted nine months' leave, same date Revnivor instruction will with effect from April 1 to Decem- be carried out for Officers, N.0.0.ber 31, 1933. and Nos. 1 and 2 Lewis Gun, Sec- tions.

10.-Struck off the Strength,“ Having completed three years

was a Greek cross. Such a croiB could be divided into five squares, and the Bysantines evolved a me

A Regular Instructor will be pre-service-No. 1486 Bdm. C. H. Rod.thod of making a circular dome

sent.

Launch will leave Queen's Pier at 8.30 am. and Kowloon Police Pier at 8.40 a.m.

(g.)The Officers Commanding the undermentioned Units will issue their Orders separately to their Commands:---

Machine Gun Troop. Armoured Cor Section. Machine Gun Company. Anzac Company:-

2.-Promotions,

¥

rigues, Corps Bands, as from March 9, 1933.

Having left the Colony-No. 1890 Pte. D. Clow, A.8.C. Cadre, as from April 6, 1933.

Permitted to Resign:-No. 1603 Pte. H. A. Kekwick, A.S.0. Cadre, as from April 6, 1933;

11.-Strength.

The following have been taken on the Strength:

No. 2010 Linson. Off. J. H, Jesson, Jebaon & Co., Tel. No. 20661, A.S.C.C., as from March 30, 1939,

cover a square space, and by hav ing five such domes covering the five squares referred to they were able to stone-roof an entire church. They moreover were able to resist: thrust by thrust instead of by sheer mass, and so economise material.

Architecture in the West.

In the west however architecture developed along a wholly different line. There must have been much disappointment among the would- be builders as vault after vault fell in. But experience taught them at last, and in teaching them, H.E. the Governor has been

the marvellous beauty of Gothic pleased to approve the following · No.2011 Liason Off W. H

Architecture appeared, not as ta promotions in the Hong Kong Lebert, J.O.J. Lijny Tel. No. 28015,thing deliberately sought, but as a Volunteer Defence Corps: [*]| A.S.C.O., as from February 2, 1933, necessary condition for Gothic con-

Second Lieut. Martin Ingram De No. 2012 Lipson Of. W. J. Han-struction.

the The Bysantines had solved Ville, The Battery, to be sen, John Manners & Co., Tel. No. Lieutenant with effect from 24721, A.S.C.C., as from March 30, square spaces were concerned, but

problem of vaulting as

far 19 March 21, 1933. Second-Lieut.

No. 2013 Pte. A. J. La Paine, Hol- that square spaces were not suit the early Gothic architects found land China Trading Co., Tel No.able for their style of building, 30343, A.S.CC., as from February and tried to vault rectangular 6, 1933..

spaces, a thing the Romans had No. 2014 Pte. T. W. Brunger, not attempted to do. All sorts of Netherlands India Com. B., Tel. complex problems presented them- No. 23157, A.S.CO., as from Feb-selves, even in the vaulting of a Fitary 6, 1933.

square space. For the Gothie No. 2015 Pte. A. J. Hesseling, builder had advanced thus far he Netherlands Trading Society, Tel. yond the Roman that he was at No. 27487, ASCO, as from Erb-with light infilling between, u rauch tempting to build his roof of ribs,

Andrew Walton. Brown, Scottish Company, to bo Lieutenant with effect from March 23, 1933. Second-Lieut. Thomas Perkins Saunderson, Scottish. Com pany to be Lieutenant with effect from March 5, 1933. 3.--Olassification of Signallers.

1033.

No, 1777 L/Sgt. J. S. Beach and No. 1324 L/Bir E Moses classified at this Annual Classification ofruary 7, 1933 Signallers on March 24, 1033, and No 2010 Pte. FK. Nicholson, ure entitled to wear the appropriate Deacona, Tel. No. 38027, No. 3 badge for one year.

Platoon, as from March 31, 1933.. 4.-Drawing of Rifles and Bayonets. No. 2017 Ete M Borgaust, In order to prevent delay on Thoresen & Co., Tel. No. 30237, Murray Parado Ground on Tuesday, A.S.C.O., as from February 2, 1833. April 11, for the G.O.C.'s Inspec- tion, rifles and bayonets should be drawn from Stores, Headquarters, before 6 p.m. on Monday, April 10. 5-Allotment of Peak Range. The Penk Range is allotted to the Armoured Car Section on Sunday, April 9.

6.-Allotment of Kennedy Road Range, The Kennedy Range in allotted to the Scottish Company on the follow. ing days:

Thursday, April 13. April 20. April 27. May 4 Band President.

Lieut. D. L. Strallets will take Undition of Band Erstaunt from Major Mitchell

more scientific and economical pro- cess than solid vaulting. Now if two semi-circular or barrel vaults intersect, their intersection is an ellipso. The medieval architecu knew nothing of ellipses, and could not set out the diagonal riba. In- stend, they set out semi-circular

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No. 2018 Pte. P. Kristofer ribs diagonally and round the still could think of no better way making use of much of the space Thoresen & Co., Tel. No. 30237, A.S.C.C.,

space to be vaulted. The resulting of forming the diagonal than by which the Romans would have dis- us from February vault was somewhat dome shaped using semi-circular, ribas. But in carded. Frequently also flying but- but not a dome in the Bysantine stead of having semi-circular tresses outside the building carrying

1980.

No. 2019 Pto, J. A, Van Doraser, Noderlandsche Handel Maatschappij Tel. No. 20578, A.S.C.C., a from February 10, 1933,

sense at all. It was twisted also, and difficult to build.

stresses too high up to be dealt with by the above method, ali eventually being brought down to the grunnd or to massive buttresses. Grace and Beauty.

longitudinal and transferse vault ing, they hit on the plan of form Mode of the Arch,

ing their arch of two segments meet When however the space was rea

ing at a point; and by suitably No 2020 Pte. B. de J. de Jong,tangular, obviously

either

the selecting the radius of these J.C.J. Lijn, Tel. No. 28016, as from crown of the arches had to be of segments they could raise the point

The main point to consider, how- March 3, 1933.

different height, or else the arch to any height they liked. The me had to be stilted, so that the thod was of course, a compromise. ever, wee that the Gothic architect springings of the smaller arch was The true shape to fit in with the had produced & framed structure, higher than the springing of the semi-circular diagonal rib would strong where strength was requir larger. In the latter case, which have been an ellipse. But it worked, the rest being simply infilling. was the method adopted, specimens ed, and it has given us the glorious The result was grace and beauty, of which may be seen in many pointed arch of Early English not deliberately sought, but the re-

ward of fitness. goble Nortran churobes, such as ecclesiastical architecture. Durham Cathedral, the interse. The thrust of such vaulting had Window openings followed the tion of the two barrel vaults was of coutes still to be dealt with general lines of the interior. When Wavy iim and cherously this be Gothic architect had brought walls for longer needed for piscoll not be employed as: 8. rifit the princivlegal concentration of structural strengths, they could be Then came the wonderin in-trailer along fibg tid town pigfood to algions any extent, and spiration which has given us Gothic elutions to perfection. He proto that, and to the need in a nur architecture as we know it. The codes do show his further economy the climate to admi rather Semmelink,rebilecte wanted the two wwwas gi, material by carrying thẻ than to keep out sunlight, wo,

45.00 of the vault to be nearly thrusts of the main

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No. 2021 Pic, K, Kern, Keller Kern & Co., Tel. No. 23120, A.S.C.O., ne from March 10, 1933.

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No. 2023 Pte, N. O. Chriestonsch, John Manners & Co., Tel. No. 24721, 2.8.0.0. We from March 10, 165

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