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ELECTRICITY IN SCOTLAND READY

AGRICULTURE

More Might Be

: Done

In view of the efficiency of the electric motor, it is unfortunate that its application to farming, operations is at present hamper- ed by difficulties of energy sup- ply. Although several branches of agriculture, such as poultry farming and market gardening. show a tendency to move towards urban centres, and thus to bring themselves into areas served by existing electric-distribution sys- tems, the main work of the far- mer must always be located in the open country, where, as yet, no mains have been laid. This. as the Reports of the Electricity Commissioners show. is, however, a matter which is received close attention; and the results already obtained in the Bedford and Nor- wich demonstration areas are sufficient to indicate that it should be possible to supply far- mers with electricity at a rate sufficiently low to render its em- "ployment economically attrac- tive. In the meantime, in view of the advantages that the elect- ric drive undoubtedly ders, it seems surprising that there are so few cases of farmers generat- ing their own electric supply, as this can be done very economic- ally if the load does not exceed that required for lighting and driving one..or two motors coup- led to pumps or barn machinery,

We are inclined to think that more might be done in this dir- ection, especially as plenty of sultable equipment is available for the purpose. In installing such plant, care should be taken to see that it complies with the usual standards of safety, voltage and frequency, so that advant- age may be taken of the public supply when it, in due course, becomes available. The driving of subsidiary apparatus, however, is relatively a minor matter, and the real problem will always be in the application of electric po- wer, to deld operations. Assuming that the farmer is fortunate en- ough to be within reach of the grld the opportunity presents it- self of careylo ng heavy field. work, such as ploughing, either electric self-contained by a plough with a trailing cable, or by means of electric winding en- gines. Either method involves wiring of a more or less tempor- ary nature to carry the supply from the tapping point to the ftelds, representing a very ap- preclable addition to the cost, and the possibility of trouble with the Board of Trade. There

are obvious objections to a trail- ing cable in this class of work. and it appears probable that any electric future development of ploughing will be along the lines of the winding engine. This met- hod has met with some success abroad, but is greatly handicap- ped in this country by the size

and contour of the fields on the

average farm.

가 Agriculture To Survive

If agriculture in this coun-

try

13 to survive

the

at all in face of world ...competl-

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 23. 1934.

THE ROYAL NAVY

Many Improvements Latest Appointments And

Scottish resorts face the. approaching summer season with greatly improved facilities.

Announcements

RETURN OF THE KENT H.M.S. Kent, Captain 1. B. B.

North Berwick, får instance,

(Special Air Mall Servico) reports increased accommodation 1: the Swimming Pool, and

London, June 6. commanded .the greater facilities for sun" bathing.

The Admiralty notified the fol-Albury. Additional illumination for even-lowing appointments recently:- ing galas has been installed.· Capt.-R. R. McGrigor, to Presi- More room has been provided for dent for duty as Deputy Director car parking at the east end of the town, and the Glen has been greatly improved by "bridges across the burn, by the planting of bushes and wild flowers and the

provision of new walks.

Montrose's beach has proved so popular of recent years that additional car parking · space in its vicinity has been provided,

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Famous Swimming Pools There has been great activity at Arbroath. centring on D new

NEW CONTRACTS

Messrs. The Hunslet Engine Co.. Ltd... Leeds, have received orders for five locomotives from the Chinese Government Purchasing Commission. "One" order. is for '& 0-8-0 type, 4-ft.. 81-in. gauge tank locomotive for the Nanking train ferry: the total weight empty will be about 65 tons and loaded, 83 minesweeper tons. The other order is for four 4-8-0 *type. TAMIL. 81-in-gauge locomotives with double-bogie ten- ders for the Hangchow-Kiangshan Railway. The total weight of en-, gine and terder when empty will on ber return to the China

be about 571⁄2 tons, and when load- for duty 25 Cmdra J. S. Hammill, to Mar- Station

flagship. ed. 764 tons. shal Soult, in command, June The Kent will anchor off sheer-

Messrs. J. and E. Hall, Limited, and, J. R. Macnair, to Shamrock, Portsmouth from Wednesday until supplying, or have recently com ness until Wednesday, and of Dartford Iron-works, Kent, are

Friday.

Her subsequent Lt-W. F. R. Segrave to Regramme is: Olbraltar, June 12-14; in connection with the carriage of pro pleted, refrigeration installations nown. June 7.

Cmdr-Engr. H. H. North- Malta, June 18-20; Port Said and frozen and chilled meat on board cott,, to Vivien, June 6. appt. to Suez, June 24: Aden, June 29-30; a number of vessels. These con-

· Colombo, July 7-9; and Singapore,

tracts.cover a total of over 5,000.000 July 15. The dag of Admiral Sir

cub. ft. of space in the Port Chai- Frederic Dreyer is at present dy-mers, of the Commonwealth and

of Training and Staff Duties Divi-Tower, D.8.C., is to leave Chatham slon, Aug. 20.

in command, June B.

Harebell cancelled.

·

Wt. Engrs.S. G. Morrell, to Drake. June 11: W. Metters, to

and very modern open-alt. swim. Sturdy, June 20;, A, J. Greenwood, Ing in the Suffolk, a sister ship. | Dominion Line, Limited, and her«i

ming pool on the sea front. A new promenade, fronting the Victoria Park and the sea, gives access to the clif scenery. for which Arbreath is "famous.

Troon's already famous swimm- ing pool will be in full swing again, but a new event will be the engagement of first-class bands to play on the shores from June to September.

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Millport.. standing on its own island in the Firth of Clyde. has modernised its 18-hole golf course and increased the accommodation of the club house.

Peebles has taken similar action, and £3.000 is being spent on the reconstruction of the golf course under the direction of a well- known golf architect.

All over the country hotels are being renovated and modernised. Altogether, a serious bld is being made to cater for all categories ot halldaymaker.

tions it will not be by arti- ficial restrictions in imports, how. ever much these may be justified at the moment, but by producing on truly competitive basis, and

it is almost certainly only a mat- ter of time before more attention will be given to the lay-out of farm land from the point of view of working it with maximum effi- ciency. Until that

time comes.

to Ark Royal. June 26: W. McC. Livingstone, to Sussex, and M. J. R. W. Norsworthy, to Ramilles, on rellet.

Promotions

Lt. Cmdr. (Retd.).—A. 8. Cum, ming, to rank of Cmdr.

ENGINEER COMMANDER

RETIRED

which has just been ordered to Japan from Welhaiwel, to enable the Admiral to attend the funeral of Admiral Togo, *.

BIRTHDAY HONOURS

The representation of the Royal

are

Navy in the Birthday Honours in- cludes officers of all branches, and the services for which honours are awarded W. J.

also

very varied, There is no award of the G.C.B., unlike last year, when it was con- ferred upon the retiring First Sea Lord, but three officers are make

K.C.B: Admiral Lionel. G. Preston,

two larger sister ships now build- ing by Messrs. John Brown and Company, Limited. and, Messrs. Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Limited, respectively; in three. vessels under construction

by Mesars. Harland and Wolff. Ltd.. for Messrs. Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, Limited; in two ships buliding by Messrs. Workman Clark & Co. (1928), Ltd, for the Federal Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.; in a vessel being built by Messrs. Vickers-Armstrongs Limited, for the Orient Steam Navigation Co.; and in two of the three vessels

Engineer Commander Bond who has retired at his own request, has had 25 years service, During the late War he served as engineer lieutenant in the cruisers Shannon and Yarmouth, and in charge of the machinery of the who is Commandant of the Im-building for the Blue Star Line, destroyer Rigorous. He was pro-perial Defence College: Vice-Admi moted to engineer commander in M. E Dunbar-Nasmith, V.C, who 1927, and was cngineer officer of is shortly to be relieved as Com the cruiser Cambrian in 1828-30 mander-in-Chief, East Indies; and and of the Berwick in. China in Engineer Vice-Adml. H. A. Brown. 1931-33,

who since 1933 has been Engineer- in-Chief of the Fleet.

EAST INDIES STATION

Ltd, by Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Limited. Refrigerating machinery is also being supplied to a number of fruit-carrying vessels.

Messrs. R. A Lister & Co., Ltd..

Gloucestershire, Dursley,

have furnished one of their automatic In accordance with custom. The cruiser Hawkins, Capt, T. 8.

Diesel "Lister-light" electrical three rear-admirals receive & Milli-generating installations for supply- V. Phillips, flagship of Vice-Admi

a Civil C.B. ing both power and light on the" M E. Dunbar-Nasmith, V.C CH,tary C.B. and one

Rear-Adml Noel F. Laurence is HM.V. show train, now touring on the East Indies Station, is-or- dered to leave Colombo next Fri-head of the Submarine Service the country for the purpose of ex- Rear-Adml: A. B. Cunningham hibiting the latest developments in day for a cruise to African waters

wireless reception and sound re- lasting until September 20. This commands the Mediterranean Des- troyer Flotillas; Rear-Adml. M. K.

production. The equipment com- will be one of the last cruises on the station both of the ship, which Horton is Rear-Admiral in the prises a 15-kW, 110-volt generat- Battle Squadron: anding set operating in conjunction Is. to be replaced by the Norfolk Second

with a small battery and requiring, early in 1935, and of the Com- Rear-Adml W. T. R. Ford has re-

It is stated. Little or no attention. mander-in-Chief who will be re-cently assumed command of the

Messra. The Whessoe Foundary Leved in December on completing Australian Squadron Col, W. H.

and Engineering Company. "Ltd. his term by Rear-Adml F F. L. Tripp, who is made C.B. (MI),

is Second Commandant of the 25, Victoria-street, London, S.W.1; Division, Royal have secured an order for a com- Marines; and Surgeon Rear-Amd)_

plete" blast-furnace, gas-cleaning plant for the Clyde Ironworks. P. T. Nicholls, who is made C.B. (Civil), is in charge of Malta Hes-asgow, of Messrs. Colvilles, Ltd.

Rose.

The Hawkins will visit Mauritius

from June 15 to 26, and then go to Durban from July 2 to 11. This is, of course, within the limits of the Africa Station, and a meeting will take place" with "the Darzet- shire, flagship of Vice-Adml. E. R. G. R. Evans, and the Carlisle, Capt. FR. Barry, of the Africa Squadron... The gar-

afterwards visit Kilindini, July 16 23: Dar-es-Salaam, July 23-Aug. €: Monitor Anchorage (Maña). Aug. 6-13. and subsequently Zan- zibar, Mombasa, and Seychelles,

Hittle more is likely to be heard of this the electric plough, but should not preclude the extended employment of electricity on 'the farm in other direction. It forms the ideal source of

power for dairy machinery, and offers con- siderable possibilities for small

"iri cultivators

market ders, where no serious objection can be offered to a trailing cable. for farm lighting, for driving "barn machinery, and 'for soll heating under cover. As point- *Farm ed out in

and Mac-" hine" of which Volume I has just been published by the Institute for Research in Agricultural' En- gineering of the University of Oxford, only some 5,000 out of approximately 379,000 farms are

Hawkins

will

Portsmouth

pital.

his

The appointment di Vice-Adml. Barry Domvile to be K.B.E. (M.) may be held to mark specially fin addition to other service) patriotic work in the organization of the Greenwhich Pageant last year Engineer Rear-Adml. J. H. Hocken, who becomes C.BE (MIL) has just retired voluntarily after four years as Engineer Manager at Devonport Dockyard. Among the GIBALTAR DEPOT

new O.B.Es are three executive Commander. Ivan Whitehorn, officers, one engineer, one pay- recently serving as Commander master, and onę R.N.V.R. oficer, D) of the destroyers in reserve Capt. Eric Eigood, who commands at Devonport, has been appointed the Mersey Division of this corps. to command HMB Cormorant, A remarkable career has been depot-ship at Olbraltar, and to be that of Captain Maxwell Anderson, assistant to the Maintenance Cap-E.C., R.N., who receives a knight- ply of electricity, so that the potain at this base, in succession to hood in the Colonial Office Hist. tentialities In these

Commander H S Bowlby. The He entered the Navy in 1892, and are really very considerable.

Cormorant is one of the very few as a navigator spent much time depot-ships which have not been in the Facinc Islands, to which 20 changed since, before the War, and years later he returned as Chief is one of the oldest vessels still Justice of Fi and Judicial Com- in use in the Navy. She was built missioner for the Western Pacific, in 1877 as a sloop, and was allo-

a post he still holds. He became cated for her present duty in 1900. a barrister (Middle Temple) in

at present connected to a sup-

directions

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The plant is to be on the Whessoe electrical precipitation system and will be entirely dry in operation, except for the small quantity of water used for pre-cooling. »'

The plant is to cool, clean and boost 4,000,000 cab. ft. of gas per hour, and the clean gas, containing less than 0.05 gramme, of dust per cubic metre, will be used for stoves, boilers, and steelworks purposes.

WATER POWER IN SWEDEN

Those who have followed the development of hydro-electric` power in Sweden will not need to be informed of the great part in it played by the Royal Board of waterfalls, which, as a Govern- ment Department, has not only nad control of water rights and other legal matters, but has itself bufit and operated a number of large-capacity stations. Its capit

latter activity amounts to £18,171,- 808 at par, and on it a return of 51 per cent. has been earned in recent years. On the other hand. its operations seem to have suf- fed from an undue amount of Government control, for at ceremony recently he in Stock- holm, to celebrate the Fenty-Afth anniversary of its foundation, the Director-General (Mr. Malm) re- ferred to a proposal that the Board should be formed into a joint stock manopoly company on the lines of those. operating in the tobacco and wine trades.

She files the flag of the Rear-1909, and during the War conductal expenditure, in carrying out the Admiral in Charge and Admiral-ed the claims for prize bounty aris- Superintendent of the Dockyard.

ing out of the destruction of enemy Commander Whitehorn received | ships of war.

The knighthood accorded to early promotion to this rank in June, 1925, when in command of | Commander G. W. Craven, O.B.E., the gunboat Cockchafer in China, for his services to the country in for his prompt and firm handling connection with the Vickers- of the situation when Mr. Hawley, Armstrongs firm will be very an American citizen, was murder- popular. He retired from the ac- ed at Wan Halen. His action led tive list in 1012 to Join the Vickers to the two men primarily reapon-staff, and became managing direc- Laible being brought to justice and tor in 1931, a post formerly held executed, and his conduct was by Commander A. Trevor Dawson, commended by the First Lord in who received a similar honour.

Rear-Admiral the House of Commons. He has Paymaster since served with the Australian Hamnet Share, who is made Navy, has been executive oficer | C.V.C., has been Secretary to

To appreciate what this means, of the cruiser Devonshire, and several distinguished Admirals

including Lord Jellicoe during the tricity supply industry in Sweden It must be recalled that the elec-

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has been built up, not only by the State, but by public utility cóm- panies and large industrial con- cerns, and that there has been both collaboration and competition network, which is also supplied by between these three classes of con- private concerns, and will shortly. cern. The State, with the re- be fed from the Vargon station, sources of the nation behind it, In which turbines with runners 8 has been able to develop power in m, in diameter are being installed. the sparsely-inhabited Norrland, In view of these activities, the | and has constructed the station proposal to separate the Board's | at Porjus, which has mainly sup- generating work from that of ad-plied a railway load. It has now, ministration is probably, a wise however, been decided to connect one, and we shall be interested to this station to the Central Sweden learn whether it is carried through

A without opposition.

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