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MAIL NEWS FROM CHINA

Railways, Mining And Road

Building

BRITISH LOCOMOTIVES

FOR CHINA

The Chinese Purchasing Com- mission has placed an order in Lancashire for 16 steam locom- otives and tenders for the Canton and Hankow Railway of China.

The locomotives, which are of a new design, will be among the heaviest non-articulated locomo- tives in the Far East, They will have exceptionally large will necessitate bollers, which special mechanical stokers.

Note. The builders of these locomotives are the Vulcan "Foundry, Newton-le-Willows, Lan-

cashire.

An order for fishplates has been Union of South placed by the Africa Railways and Harbours with the Lancashire Steel Cor- poration.

Among recent contracts secured by the British Insulated Cables. Prescot, are:-27 miles of 33,000-

three-core volt

super-tension armoured cable and 194 miles armoured telephone cable for the Capetown Corporation; 250 tons of copper rods for export to Norway; and a large order for electricity meters for South Africa.

NEW MOTOR ROAD OPENED

The new motor road linking the District of Kwangching with Ningtu District, in South Klangsi, has been officially opened for public tr fic.

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The road which has taken near- ly four years to build because of the presence of the Reds and Ningtu, is three miles long.

According to an official an- nouncement, the Central Govern- ment will first carry out its re- construction work in Kiangsi pext

year.

-TUNG KWAN-LOYANG

HIGHWAY *

Kaiferg, Dec. 27. An "agreement for a loan of one million dollars for the building of a highway between Tungkwan.

Shensi, eastern

and Loyang, north-west Honan, was signed yesterday by representatives of the Honan Provincial Government and the branches of the Central Bank of China and the Bank of China here.

The road is to be constructed in accordance with the order of Gen-

EXPERT FROM LEAGUF OF NATIONS

Inspection Of Highways And Bridges

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Loyang, Dec. 27. After inspecting the two im- portant highways now under con- struction in the North-west lin- king up Sian and Lanchow, res- pectively provincial capitals of Shensi and Kansu, and between Stan and Hanchung, in southern Shens, Mr. R. Coursin, technical

from the

of expert

League Nations, arrived here yesterday iron from Sion to inspect the bridge across the Lo Ho (River) and the dredging operations.

Mr. Coursin was accompanied by Messrs. Hsi Hsing-cheng, Head of the Communications Section of the National Economic Council, Feng Shu-chi and Wel Ping-chun, Assistant Engineers in charge ai the Blan-Lanchow Highway.- Kuo Min.

CHINESE CRUDE OIL *EXCELLENT

Taiyuan, Dec. 27. Analysis of samples of crude oil produced in Hunyuan and other districts in northern Shansi 'and sent to Nanking has been com- pleted by the Ministry of Industry. In a reply to the Shansi Provinci- al Department of Industry, the Ministry states that the quality of oil is excellent and will be very useful in industrial chemistry.

The Shansi Provincial Depart- ment of Industry is making detail- ed surveys prior to opening up the oil fields. Kuo Min.

TEA INDUSTRY TO BE REVIVED -

Nanchang Dec 28. In order to revive the industry in the famous. Wuling tea of Kingst Klangsi province, "the

Provincial Government has decid- ed to establish a tea plantation

Slushui. in at

northwestern Klangal. It is reported that this year's sales have improved. more. than 0.800 cases have already been disposed of

Kin Min.

There are about 2,095 kilometres

eral Chiang Kai-shek, President highways open to trafic in

of the Military Affairs Commis- slon, who during his recent in- spection of the two provinces, saw the need of a highway between the two cities in order to promote transportation.--- Kuo Min.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS' CONSERVANCY EXPERT

Inspecting Waterways.

of

Hupeh, and the average daily mileage run by the 103 buses is about 6,000 kilometres with a con- sumption of about 20,000 to 25,000 gallons of gasoline. These roads are run by the Provincial Depart- ment-of-Reconstruction. The pay senger tariffs, are calculated on cent per the basis of from one kilometre distance up to 2 cents.

Plans are being considered by the North China River Con- servancy Commission for the re- Peking-Tientsin .sumption of the

communications which water Pelping, Dec. 30. would entall the repairing of the North, Canal and the Tungwet Mr. A. Omodeo, conservancy

being Negotiations expert from the League of Na- River." tions, who recently returned here made between the Commission and the Chin Provincial Government from an inspection of the water- ways in western Sul-yuan, left. for carrying out the plans. The yesterday for Hualla, on the construction cost is estimated at Hopel-Charhar.border, to inspect $3,000,000 and work will be started conservancy work on the Yung as soon as funds are available.

ting Ho (River) at the Kuanting Area. He was accompanied by Mr. Wang Shantang of the North China River Conservancy Com- mission.

Mr. Omodeo is 'expected to spend a week at Huallat and will proceed to Tientsin on Jan. 5 to inspect the work on the Hal Ho. Kuo Min.

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A DOOR OPENED

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1935.

ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

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BIG ORDER FOR TECHNICAL MEN FOR

*CLYDE FIRM

Fifty Steel Bridges

For China

We are informed that the Motherwell Bridge and Engineer- ing Company Ltd., of Motherwell. have secured quite a substantial contract from the "Chinesa Goy- ernment Purchasing Commission for 50 steel bridges for shipment to China.

The contract comprises two 10-metre deck plate girder spans. four 12-metre deck plate girder spans: five 15-metre deck plate girder

35 deck spans,

plate girder spans of 18 metres, four truss girder 30-metre through spans, and the steel work invol- ved will represent about 2000 ⚫tons.

Keen Competition

The Motherwell Company have at present on hand for the same purchasers 16 bridges, comprising 10 18-metre deck plate girder four 18-metre through

spans.

CHINA

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Shanghai, Dec. 28. Since October 1. 1934, more than 50 boys in Shanghai have been equipping themselves the keen competition to be found to-day in the field of engineering and architecture the world over, Another 80 young people are en- rolled in junior classes and 620- zre

to devoting themselves evening-study in order that, from Shanghai, may go forth thorough- ly educated young men to take posts throughout China, with background as full as any foreign educated lad who starts up the ladder of success" with a diploma in his hand. The certificates these men will carry with them will bear the inscription of the Henry Lester School, or the Henry Lester Institute, through the generosity of one of Shanghai's most noted benefactors, for the late Mr. Lester, after making his fortune here, designed it, under

administration the

of capable trustees, to furnish every facility. for education for Chinese as- pecially, though he did not bar foreigners from his beneficences" in any way.

plate girder spans, and two 30- metre through truss girder spans.

The order for the 50 bridges has

The Henry Lester School, and been secured in

keen face of

Henry Lester Institute of Tech- With competition.

the order nical Education were built at a already on hard from the same cost of $1,000,000, and equipped purchasers, and with oil tank at well over $400,000, Efficient of work contracts recently booked, planning, plus a perspective full-time

bas school requirements which employment of the

consideration, the taken into Motherwell Company's works will

of contem- be ensured till middle

of next

amazing progress perary educational facilities. has year.

directed the, formulation of cur- ricula in what unquestionably is one of the finest and best equipp- ed institutions of its sort in the world.

DORMAN LONG

SCHEME

Shareholders And "Sacrifices"

---The-Training Provided

The Lester School, provides a cultural education with a techni- cal bias. Niner hours a week are devoted to the fundamentals of engineering,exemplified in the workshops. First-year students electing the three years' course spend three hours each week in (Speck) Air Mall Service)

the machine-shop, the carpentry, and the plumbing shops, London, Dec. 15.

At the ...end of the first year, the students The new capital reorganisation

are divided into three groups, scheme of Dorman Long and Co.,

each of which spends nine hours Ltd., in substitution for the pro- as the minimum requirement in posals which fell through a year

the shop in which he has proved ago, was further discussed before

himself best adapted to work as a Mr. Justice Eve, in the Chancery budding specialkt.

Division.

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It involves a reduction of the issued share capital of £11,248,146 to $2,007,271, a loss of £9.240,875.

The scheme is opposed by a hold- er of Preference shares and by two

Debenture holders, who are ap- pearing in person.

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MUes Mattinson, K.C., and the other members of the com- mittee of 51 per cent Debenture. holders support the new plan.

It was stated that over £2,000,000 was owing to the company's bank- ers, and that the scheme included provisions for meeting this in- debtedness

When the hearing was resumed yesterday Mr. Justice Eve asked: Where is the capital for carrying on the business.coming from?"!

Mr. W. P. Spens, KC. (for the reduction, company); After the and having regard to the improve- ments in trade. there will be ample capital for carrying on the business on the lines of the ar-

4! rangement with the banks.

The banks, counsel added. wete secured in respect of the loans by the deposit with them of shares in subsidiary and associated com- panies of Dorman Long and Com- pany.

“Shareholders, in Tears”

efficiency with a minimum of ac- cident.

Modern Equipment and Methods Classrooms are designed to convey the idea of contise, well- directed work. The laboratories are efficient, the class-rooms meat, well-lighted, and perfectly plann- ed, but the seats are stools on which the student cannot foll and luxuriate.

"The whole atmosphere. is exem- plified in the person of the Prin- cipal, Mr. Bertram Lillie, B.8.C. (London), AMI C.E

the

While the approach to building housing the new School and Institute is impressive, it achieves this through the simple device of excellent proportion and solid building. Its doorways im- mediately challenge interest. Whoever enters must at, once know that he is in a place de- dicated to setence. for bronze every castings, originated with attention to artistic principle, de- Ineate engineering and architec- tural subjects.

heating chambers

Even the have been planned to assist the students, for in them four boilers have been, installed which will be available for practical study. On the

great ground floor is the Assembly Hall, large enough to accommodate 500, directly op- posite the entrance. It is fitted with an orchestra 'pit and dis- appearing foot-lights

the stage. The the left are the plum- bers' shop the carpenters' shop; the metal-work forge and the wood-work machine-shop. AU

are equipped with machinery im- ported from England, and safe- guarded by a special safety de- vice which enables any person to stop every piece of machinery in the

room simply by pressing a button on the wall. To the right are located the engineering work- shop, the elementary chroistry jaboratory, and the materials laboratory.

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Latest Apparatus Available, Among other expensive and un- ique pieces of apparatus in the materials laboratory is one of the three fly-ton Avery testing ma- chines at present in use outside. England. One is in Africa, the other in Shanghai, where a third is likely to be within a few weeks," since it has been ordered by the National Research Laboratory. - There, too, is a machine design- ed specifically to test weathering compounds which are made to protect building materials from rain and other weathering pro-

cesses.

The Institute enjoys a college standard and is divided into three sections, although the work is common in the first year. The first section is devoted to civil engineering and bulding,' fea- tures of its three-year coursę. Only the barest sketch of the being such topics as building construction, strength of mate- rials, theory of structures, heat- ing and ventilating, water supply and sewerage, geology, and by- draulics. It is designed for those who wish to enter the building and allied trades in executive capacities

rent, high and low voltages, and various gasses are available from a central pedestal which elimin- ates the necessity for fixed benches always a disadvantage in an advanced laboratory.

WORK FOR INDUSTRIAL

ENGLAND

if

marvellous equipment at present installed can be given in the space available. It is sufficient to note that, in additior to bringing to Shanghai the latest models in machinery of the type necessary to instruct in the sciences out- lined, the School and Institute both boast a faculty of 'excep- Mechanical engineering is the.

Advanced tionally high calibre. ambition of the second section, experiments in physics will be with_hydraulles, theory of M12- carried on in a first-rate labora chines, heat engines, and metal-tory, where both ac, and d.c, cur- lurgy Included in a broad and in- clusive curriculum. Industrial chemistry is the subject designat- ed for the third section. There apart from pure chemistry and physics, students will And

According to the terms of the adderable time devoted to practi- cal work in experimental dyes, will all students are treated. experimental soap-making and equally, and no special privileges paper-making, tarning, and rub- for foreign students are available, ber technology. Every conceiv-

Iv- Although the School and In- able aid to the student will be stitute have been open only since available in laboratories which October, every class le led to are, in themselves, an education, capacity. Seven hundred or more for the most modern appliances students applied for entrance, 400 "took the entrance examina- are to be found. Lighting, ven- dilating, and heating, facilities. dion, and 54 were admitted to the have been calculated to enable Institute and 58 to the Day the school a maximum of School

con-

MD 7, 70. Arnold, holder of

Referring to the opposition to the scheme, Mr. Spens said the the 6 vqting at the meeting of per cent Freference shareholders. "Edinburgh, Dec; 15.

-was: For, £505,498; against, £99,- The decision of the Customs au 952 At the meeting of the 54 per thorities in London; to exempt the

cent Debenture stockholders: For, age, but now their £1,000 was make a greater sacrifice than any. Scottish Orchestra concerts in £3,139.543; against £37,431. At worth between £60 and £70. Ye; other class... Edinburgh from Entertainment the meeting of the Ordinary share the company would hot make one Tax has opened a door at which holders: For, £2,921,139; against, small sacrifice which would not £2.00 worth of 54 per cent De- there may before long be quite a

coat it a penny.

benture stock, also criticised the iong Six main trunk highways in iple was first conceeded to Sadlers

queue standing. The prin- £42,200...

The company had gone on ab scheme. At the meeting, he said, Kiangal, linking practically every, Wells and Old Vic Theatres in

sorbing other companies, and they were met at the outset with big city and all strategle points in London, and the concession to the Mr. Hammond, holder of 21,000 spending other people's money a pistol at their heads the an the province, are expected to be Edinburgh Concert Fociety marks Ordinary shares, said he was not There was nothing to stop it do- nouncement 01 a "staggering" completed and opened to traffic by its first extension to Scotland. Of opposed to reconstruction, but was ing the same again within the proxy vote in favour of the February. A big programme is course, charity concerts have all alarmed at the prospect of his next seven or eight years. The scheme, a being arranged for the opening.... along on certain terms been relieved interests being supplanted the business it did during the wAY

the One Debenture-holder of the fax, but in the form of Ordinary shareholders were make ought to have enabled it to carry meeting made the statement: "It The long distance bus service be- abatement, not exemption. Al- ing considerable sacrifices and on for years...

you want to know when a Deben- tween Peking and Kupelkow under ready a plea has unofficially been ought to be protected

Mr HD. Leather protested ture is not a Debenture go to Do the management of the Municipal put forward for the Reid - At the meeting, Mr. Hammond against what he escr ed as the man Long" (Laughter) Goverment was opening last Sun- uhony concerts in Edinburg which continued there were small share unfair treatm the holders Mr. Athold denounced the sche day At eight o'clock every mor Professor Tovey conducts and toe holders present with tears in their of the

me as "harah and oppressiv envy with which the dinburgh.

ellation

Mr. Ivan Bazing" anoth ning boss leave Peking torturally rearded like eyes. They had invested their phares. In the

benture.polder, Surged further muti Sekove Humellastar for ly to be insisted to applies money hoping that they would be their curgat

able to draw on it in their old they were bein called

ComifcetaMon of the scheme.

...

Some Splendid Orders

Mesars, Merryweather and Sons, Limited, Greenwich-road. Lon dan, S.E. 10, have received an order from the Borough Council of Hornsey, London, for a motor- turntable fire escape with all-steel ladder to reach a height of 85 ft.. and having telephone equipment, a powerful fire pump, and first- aid apparatus. The operation of the Are pump and all the move- ments of the ladder will be carried out by power from the petral - palling motor. Similar machines are on order for “Edinburgh, Exeter, and Wimbledon,

Messrs. Crossley Brothers, Ltd., Manchester. have received an order from Messrs. Longfield, of

Messrs Leyland Motors, Limited.

•Leyland Lancashire, for .30 Leyland-GEC, trolley omnibuses. of the six-wheel double-deck type. The complete electrical equipment for these vehicles will be manu- factured by Messrs. The General Electro Company, Limited, Magnet. House. Kingsway, Loridon, W.C.2, at their Wition Works. Birming- ham. Each omnibus will be equipped with an 80-hp. motor. arranged for fleld regulation, and all the necessary control gear.

Messrs. J. Browett Lindley (1931), Limited, Coborn Works Letchworth, Herts, have secured a contract for the supply of two 500- brake horse-power back-pressure

Great Yarmouth, for two three-steam engines to, the order of

cylinder, direct-reversing. scav enge-pump, baroneycle Diesel eng- ines of 75 h.p. at 450 r.p.m. These engines are for propelling a vessel similar to, but somewhat smaller than the Scarborough pleasure passenger motorship Royal Lady. the machinery for which also sup- plied by Messrs. Crossley.

Messrs. International Combus- tion, Limited, Derby, are supplying five additional bollers, each giving a normal continuous evaporation of 250,000 lb. pen hour and a peak duty of 300,000 lb. per hour for two « hours, for the Hams Hall gener- ating station. Birmingham; three are polverised-fuel fired and two are stoker fred. The steam pres- sure at the boller stop valve will be 375 lb. per square inch, and the température 730-deg. F., similar to the existing boilers, the temper- ature of the feed being 300 deg. F. The pulverised-fuel burners are of the Lopulco "R" short turbulent- fame type, while the stoker-fired bollers will be fitted with Usco travelling-chain grate "L"-type stokers, each being 31 ft. in width, and 20 ft. in length, supplied-with- preheated air.

The Nottingham Corporation has recently placed an order with

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Messrs. Agar, Cross and Company for Messrs. The Forestal Land, Timber and Raliway Companyis works in the Argentine. Other recent contracts include a repeat order for an air compressor hav- ing a capacity of 60,000 "cub. ft. of free air per hour compressed to 80 th. to 100 lb. per square inch, for a South African mine, and an 89/92 h.p. back-pressure steam engine crdered by Messrs. Le Grand, Sutcliffe and Gell, Limited, South- all, for driving alr compressors and permanent pumping plan; at the works of the Southall Gas Company..

So There!

After the locomotive had smash- ed a car at the crossing a flapper rose from the wreckage uninjur ed and powdered her nose. The gathered engineer and others round

"Why in the world didn't you stop when you saw the engine coming?”

The apper was indignant

"I sounded my horn before you blew your whistle." he said de-" fantly!

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