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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1934.

MACHINE TOOL TRADE IRON AND STEEL

A pleasing feature of the annual dinner of the Machine Tool Trades Association, held at the Trocadero itestaurant, London was the pre- sentation of a handsome silver tray and tea set to Sir Alfred Herbert, K.B.E, the late Pres, of the Associa tion. The presentation was made by the new President, Ex-Provost W. B. Lang. J.P., who occupied the chair, and in the course of his re- marks, sald he was conscious of the regret felt by many members when they heard Sir Alfred's resignation was final. The Association had be- fore it the most important exhibi- on it had ever held, and Sir Al- fred had given his assurance that his great experience and valuable Co-operation would be at his, the new President's, disposal. In the course of his reply, Sir Alfred said he appreciated the gift the more

Was because his retirement

the result of a difference of opinion, and it showed that the members were big enough not to allow that to affect their personal friendships, For twenty-two years he had been Chairman and President of the Association, which had grown to à position of great importance.

Common Interests

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Reorganisation Of The Industry

One of the Arst acts of the newly-constituted British Iron and Steel Federation wis to draw the attention of the Import. Du- ties Advisory Committee to the desirability of an early announ- cement regarding the duties on the products with which they are concerned. It will be remember- ed that in April, 1932. a duty of 33 per cent. was imposed on im- ported material for a period of three months, and that this was accompanied by a statement calling attention to the necessity" for a considerable measure of Internal reorganisation. This pe riod was extended for two years from October 26, 1932, thus giving the industry môre scope for tack- Jing a problem the difficulties of which at once become apparent. " Fortunately, a solution. which everyone hopes will be successful, has been found, and to mark its approval of what has done the Committee last week made an

The members naturally many interests in common, could take, united "action for the benefit of the trade, although, competition was valuable in busin- ess, Mr. J. H. Goddard proposed the toast of "Our Guests," and mo the course of his speech expressed approval of the Trade Agreement between this country and Russia. and of the work of the Depart

of Overseas Trade. RA- ment sponses were made by His Excel- lency Mons. J. Maisky, Ambassa- dor of the US.S.R.. and by Sir Ed- ward Crowe, K.C.M.G. Comptrol. ler General of the Department of Overseas Trade. The latter in the course of a most felicitous speech. invited the members to make more use of his Department. When the overseas ofcers of the Depart ment travelled round the country. he said, the members should take steps to ensure an interview with them as they could considerable assistance. The De- partment might also be of serviceOrder providing that the duties In connection with the exhibition to be held in the autumn.

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ess compelling" character than that submitted a year ago, it is on substantially the same lines and has the support of the great - bulk of the industry. Its ultimate success, it is added: will entirely depend on the vigour and single- mindedness with which the ma chinery of the reorganisation scheme is applied."

New Central Body

It cannot be denied that during the two years that the duties have been in force the industry as a whole has benefitted. though there have undoubtedly been some exceptions to this general statement. Now that per. manency is assured, it should be possible to go forward with sche- mes of extension and as an ear- nest of what can be done in this direction, attention may drawn to the announcement that Messrs. Guest,

and Keen

Baldwin's, Limited, are undertaking the re construction of their Cardif a cost of £2,000,000.

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Development Of The North-West

9th

Nanking, June 23.

meeting of the Standing Committee of the National Economic Council was held here yesterday under the chairmanship of President Wang Ching-wel and with General Chiang Kai-Shek, Minister H.H Kung and Mr. T. V Soong in President Sun Fo attendance.

was unable to be present as he had to preside at the regular weekly meeting of the Legislaidve Yuan..

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After the meeting was called to order, Mr. Soong... made detalled report on the results of his recent tour of the North- west, with special reference to water conservancy, highway con- struction, public health and rural reconstruction.

A report on the work of the Council during the past fiscal year and the receipts" and dis- bursements as well as the budge- tary estimates for the next fiscal

made year was then

by Mr. Chin Fen. Secretary-General,

Mr. Soong's Proposal Adopted The meeting then proceeded to, discuss the various proposals ón the agenda, the most important being the one submitted by Mr. T. V. Soong "recommending the. revision of the Council's original plans for the development of the North-west. This proposal was upanimously adopted.

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Mr. Soong's proposal was based on the results of his personal. inspection in April of the North- western provinces. including sind Kanau, Ninghala Shensi Chinghai- (Kokonor). It recom- mends that the appropriations originally

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1933) be modified.

Other Resolutions

The meeting also approved and adopted the following regula-

tions:

(1) Provisional regulations governing the organization of the Engineering Bureau 'for the Chinghui and Lobul Irrigazion Canals

(2). Provisional regulations governing the organization of the Engineering Bureau for the Pin- sheng Irrigation Canal.

(3), Provisional regulations governing the organization of the Central Cotton Improvement Sta- tlon, and the provisional règula- itons governing the organization of the various Provincial Cotton Improvement Stations.

Cotton Cultivation The proposal of the Cotto Control Committee for the allo-

cation of $150,000 from the Cot- ton Cultivation and Control Fund for

ed.

the improvement of cotton spinning and dyeing was approv-

The meeting also decided to establish a branch office of the Council in Klangsi-immediately, with Mr. Halao Shun-chin as Director.

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According to another resolution adopted, Mr. Cheng Chao-ching, " technical expert of the Hydraulic Engineering Bureau is to be promoted as Deputy Director of the said Bureau. His Dost "as Chien-len technical expert will be taken by Mr. Wang Hu-ches, Tsien-jen technical expert and concurrently Chief of the Plann- ing Section of the said Bureau.

The proposal, containing mea- sures for highway construction in the North-west was adopted.

On the motion of Minister H. H.

to Kung. the meeting decided despatch experts to shans! immediately to inspect the work

SAFETY OF THE BROKEN ROADS

ROADS

In a „memorandum submitted to the Ministry of Transport, the Automobile Association put forward suggestions for redu- cing the number of road acci- dents. Among these, the most im-, portant are that more attention should be paid to the education of all classes of road users, that "the roads" should be developed along more progressive Enes, and that the off-side rule should be Immediately adopted.

In the course of the memoran- dum, it is stated that any pro- for posals which might have their object the creation of new laws to harass the motorist are

be to

that deprecated, and actually, the source of most of the suggestions for new and re- pressive legislation may be trac ed to the anti-motoring atmosp- an insidious here created by form of propaganda, rather than " to any conclusions as to the of the Increased actual causes number of accidents. This statement appears to evade orie of the most important issues that have led to the present strained situation between the various classes. of road user. No statistics. but only an elementary power of observation. is needed to arrive at the convie- tion that a large number of mo- tortsts exhibit a distinct lack of imagination when at, the wheel of their CETS, Little objection can be taken to the main pro- posals put forward by the As- sociation, although the proposals for road development, which in- clude the removal of level cross- ings on all important roads, and❤ the extended provision of "foot- paths, demands a heavy expendi- ture for which funds are hardly Ilkely to be available for some considerable time.

has

been

ment of materials transported here.

The total outlay amounting to 8300,000 will be appropriated direct by the Ministry of Com- munications. Work is to be com- The pleted within" two months. services will be under the direct control of the Ministry. Kuo

Min.

HIGHWAYS IN CHEKIANG

Hangchow, June 24. An agreement for a loan of $800,000 from the Four-Province Farmers' Bank

Нопал, (for Hupeh, Anhwel and Kiangai) in Hankow for the construction of

of water conservancy in that pro-highways in Cheklang province vince.-Kuo Min.

LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE

Foochow, June. 25. Work for the installation of a long-distance telephone network linking up the Important cities of Foochow, Yenping, Changchow

and Amoy is to be started im mediately. The Ministry of Cum- munications has despatched Mr. Chao Shih-chlung. Director. of the Telegraph Engineering Bureau for Shanghal, and Mr. Hsiang Sung. technical expert, to the Fukien provincial capital to make Preparations. A large consign-

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has been signed by representa- tives of the Bank and the Che klang Provincial Department of Reconstruction, it is learnt.

8400,000 will be immediately remitted to the Provincial Depart- ment. The revenue from some of the highways in eastern Che- kiang will be earmarked security.--Kuo Min.

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CANTON AND CHANGSHA

Nanchang, June 25.

The Klangsi Provincial Highway Bureau is planning to penetrate into the bandit-infested areas for .. the construction of the Kiangsi, Hunan and Klangsi-Kwangtung Inter-Provincial Highways 50 35

How The Difficulty Is Overcome

One of the most important problems in connection with the increasing mechanisation of the Army that of improvising roads in broken or undeveloped. -country. A demonstration-of-the

latest

this, developments in direction was included in a dis- * play given by the Royal Eng- The first Deers at Aldershot. method shown was that of lay- the type of netting ing down commonly employed in reinfor ced-concrete road work the net. ting being covered by about 3, in. of soll While this expedient would enable a convoy of lorgles to cross a patch of boggy ground or soft sand, it is obvious that it could in no way take the place of a metalled or concrete road. the An efficient substitute for latter, however, was demonstrat- ed in the form of road construe- tion known

Traction, The essen-

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as "mix in place." A length of completed road was shown, capable of withstanding a

while a further heavy trafic.

'con- length was shown under struction. The majority of the plagt in use was provided by Messrs. Roadless Limited, Hounslow. tlal operations consisted to pre- paring the ground by utilising ‘a single furrow plough drawn by a followed by a Fordson tractor. Garrett grader drawn by a Gar rett tractor, and then covering mixture of the surface with a soll and tar emulston, the mix- The ture setting "very rapidly. plant in use included a rotary

scoop

made by Messrs. Joha Allen, Limited, drawn by a Ran- some: Rapler tractor, a disc har- row of Messrs, Ransome, Sims and Jefferies' construction, and an emulsion tank lorry and pres- aure sprayer, lent by Messrs. Co- las, Limited. 11

The scoop

was employed to supplement the grader for even-- ing off the "ground" undulations, and the harrow to obtain matë- "iz for mixing with the emul- ston. Terolas emulsion was em ployed, which will combine with practically any kind of soil, ex- cept clay. Two gallons were used per square yeard of surface and it was stated that after a few days the road would stand " up to pneumatic-tyred tráme for two years. On the type of in the demonstra/- ground used tion, a party of 40 skilled men ahould be able to construct about the 1 mile of road per day, amount of emulsion required being 60 tons. The display re- ferred to was arranged for showing new. equipment and mo- dern methods of feld engines- ring, and was watched by many officers. It included bridge work both by means of portable girder construction and Boating boats. service hutting, a demonstration of portable power tools, and of emer. pump for obtaining an gency water supply Displays were also given of the construc- tion of various types of trench." azd 0: defence work against armoured cars and tanks,

to link up Canton and Changsha. -Kuo Min.

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