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MAIL NEWS FROM CHINA

LEASE OF LAND

Foochow, Sept. 28. The request of the China Nä- tional Aviation Corporation to lease a piece of land along the Foochow - Mamoi Highway, near the coast, for the construction of A small station for its Shanghal Canton Airway has been granted by the Fukien Provincial Depart- ment of

The Reconstruction. lease will be for a period of ten years

Kue Min.

AIR SERVICE

Nanking. Sept. 20. Marking the inauguration of the Sian-Chengtu Air Line of the Eurasia Aviation Corporation, the glant Junkers airplane, Ju 52/3m. which took off from Stan, provin- cial capital of Shens!, yesterday n:oming arrived at the Capital in the afternavn. via Chengtu, pro- vincial capital of Szechuan. Re- gular air service between Shang- hal, Nanking. Chengtu and Stan wil henceforth be maintained by the giant plane

Auo Min

LAYING OF RAILS STARTED

Sian, Sept. 30 Paving of the road-bed having been completed on the Slan-Blen- yang extension of the Lung-Hai Railway, the laying of rails will be started to-morrow. This section is 17 miles long and will be opened for traffic at the end of the year. Kun Min.

SILK TEXTILES

Canton, Sept. 30. For the purpose of expanding the silk textile department of the Pro- vincial Cotton Mill, an official en- terprise, the Kwangtung Provincial Government hus ordered the Pro- vincial Department of Reconstruc-

on to mark use of the premises of the former Honam Cement Fac- tory, on the southern bank of the Pear River. 500 additional weav ing machines will be installed in the silk textile department.

BRITISH CLAIMS

Nanking. Sept. 30 The payment ($19.800), on the British claims in connection with the unfortunate Nanking In- cident of 1927 was remitted to the British authorities by the Ministry of Finance last week.

YOUNG PEOPLE IN INDUSTRY

WOLFRAM MINES

Nanchang, Sept. 30.

the wolfram The output of mines at Tsungy!, Tayu, Nanking and Shangyu, southern Klangsi. has been increasing rapidly. Since measures for readjustment were instituted by the Klangst Provin cial Clovernment a few months ago.

Arrangements have been "made between. the Provincial authorities and Mr. T. L. Soong, General Manager of the China Develop ment Finance Corporation, for the Joint operation of the mines. The adreement for joint operation will be brought up at a meeting of the Provincial Government Committee shortly.

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It is also reported inat China Development Finance Cor- poration is planning to invest in the exploitation of the coal mines at Talho, Ki-an district. rentrai Klangst.

Nuo Min.

CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY

Hankow, Oct. 5.

The Planning Committee for the Improvement of the Canton-Han- kow Railway held another meet- ing here yesterday.

the Ministry of By order of Railways, the Pelping-Hankow and Canton-Hankow Railway Adminis- trations are to arrange with the Planning Committee for the in- stitution of through traffic tween the two lines by operation of a ferry service across the Yang- tsze River between Hankow and Wuchang.

Kun Min.

DIRECT TELEPHONE-

SERVICE

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Nanking, Oct. 5. Trial tests un the newly-com- pleted Nanking - Hauchow Long- distance Telephone Line, which is part of the projected' Nine-pro- vince Long-distance Telephone network. were made yesterday with satisfactory results,

According to Information from the Ministry of Communications. a direct telephone service will be made possible between Shanghal and Hauchow upon Inauguration

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1935-

ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

WATER SUPPLY POLICY

Gradual Improvement In

Legislation

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The annual meeting of the Bri- tish Waterworks Association held on Wednesday, June 26. in the Senate House, Cambridge. when

Professor C. E. Inglis, the Pres!- dent, occupied the chair.

In the opening of his presiden- tial address, Professor Inglis brieftv

sketched the origin of Cambridge as a place of education, stating that this work probably began eight centuries ago through the visit of some Itinerant friar. who (found himself in the town for the ancent Stourbridge Fair, and con: ceived the idea of giving a course of popular lectures.

In the main, Professor Inglis's address was devoted to a conside- ration of the history of Govern - ment policy in regard to water supply. The president stated that his summary, while intended to be thoroughly impartial, resolved it- self mainly into a record of much varefu}_thought and disinterested

service on the one hand, stultified and brought to nought by a policy of masterly inaction on the other. Of the early inquiries the most im- portant was the Duke of Rich. « mond's Royal Commission 4421 Water

Supply. which reported finally in 1869, This report was remarkanie, since it formulated 60 years ago that water resources should be conserved for local con- sumption. It recommended that no town, or district, should, be, al- towed to appropriate a source of supply, which nuturally, and gen- taphicaliv belonged to some town, or district, nearer to it, un- less speela; c'rcumstances justified such appropriation

WATERSHED AREAS Further, it was suggested that when any region was supplied by a tine, or conduit, from it, provision should be made for all places along. that line. Another proposal was that when a provincial water Bill was introduced, the attention of Parliament should be drawn to the practicability of making the mea- sure applicable to as extensive a district as possible, and not merely

of the new line. The cost for at any particular town. An idea call between the Capital and Hsu- chow will be $1.20; and between Shanghal and Hsuchow $2.40. Kuo. Min.

WIRELESS STATIONS FOR KABUL

In the course of his report on We understand that the Govern- the first six months of his ex- ment of Afghanistan has placed a perience as Commissioner for the contract with Messrs. Marconi's Special Areas of England and Wireless Telegraph Company, Wales, Mr. P.M. Stewart says that Limited. Electra House, Victoria- all boys and girls should be taken embankment, London, W.C.2, for out of industry up to the age of the supply and erection of five 16, except boys under a definite in wireless stations in the most im- denture of apprenticeship and portant centres of Afghanistan, girls urgently needed at home. The most powerful of the stations Apart from these and those who will be located at Kabul, and the others at Malmana, Khanabad. continue their education at secon- dary schools, all boys and girls Khost "and Diyazungi. The Kabul between 14 and 18 should be given compulsory practical and physical training under a special Govern- ment Department. Medica, super. vision should be provided. There should be an addition to the con- tributory pensions scheme to pro- vide a pension, payable at 65. of 'such a figure as would make re- tirement at that age possible with

station will be equipped with a Marconi 8.W.B. 11 type transmatt- ter covering a wavelength range from 15 m. to 80 m., and having an output, to the serial feeders, of 5 kW to 6 kW on telegraphy and 3 kW to 4 kW on telephony: Two receivers, one suitable for the reception of high-speed, tele- graphy, as well as telephony, are

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EMPLOYEES: PROFIT-

SHARING PLAN

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Messra. Vauxhall Motors, wmur- ed, of Luton, have introduced profit-sharing plan to enable some 7,000 employees to participate in the future earnings of the com - pany. The scheme consists, brief- ly, of the estabusnment of an Em- ployees' Profit Sharing Fund, to VALUABLE REPORTS

which will be credited annually 10 Almost immediately after the per cent, of the net profits of the European War, the futile process company,'” „üfter a' ducting 5 per of appointing water commissions cent. on the net capital. The fund and pigeon-holing their reports re- will be allocated on a salary basis, commenced. The Water Resources

a percentage or dividend over the Committee proposed the establish- total remuneration during the year nient by Parliament of a control-being paid to those eligible for the ling Water Commission: and that scheme. Eligibility is governed by powers should be conferred on the length of service, new members of Minister of Health to make orders the staff becoming eligible - authorising schemes, which in the mediately on the completion of one absence of opposition should take year, Long service employees are effect without confirmation by

to benefit by a weighted basis of Parliament. The report was doom- distribution in the form of an in- ea to failure. From 1920 onwards

crease of 21 per cent for each year It was possible för a careful obser-

in excess of five years with E ver to detect a gradual improve- maximum addition of 25 per cent. ment in the prospects of water- Retroactive from January 1, 1935. works legislation. Firstly, out of the fund will participate in the the old Local Government Board prants for the current year, and the Ministry of Health was evolv- distribution will be made in cash ed, and it was not long before the within one month of the publica- Minister found he could count up- tion of the final accounts, next on the British Waterworks Asso- March clation. the Institution of Water

Engineers, and the Water Com- panies Association for expert ad vice, thus making. Royal Commis- sions or Select Committees no longer necessary, A11 Advisory Committee was.. recruited from these bodies, to work in co-opera- tion with the Ministry, and before its suspension in 1931. the Advi-

Committee sory

had produced three valuable reports. dealing with some of the glaring anoma- les of waterworks legislation. Since the drought of last year. the initiation of Regional Advisory Committee had been recommend- ed, as well as legislation to im plement the three reports referred to A comprehensive inland water survey had brea instituted and the Advisory Committee had re- cently been re-established

TOWN PLANNING-

In a report on town planning. which was submitted by the Town Planning and Building Regulation Committee to the London County that it was desirable to set up Council on Tuesday. July 16, it is some authority superior to the lo- pointed Dut that certain basic cal authorities, and that the coun- principles such as the use, height try should be partitioned inte of bullding, proportion of plot watersned areas, was mooted by which may be covered by build two later Commissions on River Ing. and the permitted duiramg. Pollution Prevention, but, It figured line, have to be determined before even more prominently in the Re- any applications for leave to carry port of the Royal Sanitary Com- out development under the Town mission, published in 1871. A and Country Planning (General county had a conventional boun- Interim Development) Order, 1933, dary, largely fixed by the limits of can be considered. It is therefore jurisdiction of a

feudal early in desirable that applicants should ancient days, while the boundary obtain a decision on these basic of a watershed consisted in the principles before preparing detail very nature of things. Parliament ed plans. Such preliminary sub- took up steps to implement tre mission is particularly desirable in recommendations of the

various the case of applications relating to commissions it had convened, the lay-out of estates, where the In 1878. King Edward. then setting out of roads and the siting Prince of Wales, by a powerfully of the buildings should be sane- worded letter, caused the Society tioned before working drawings of

the building are commenced.

ADVANTAGES

Some idea of the value of this concession, may be gauged from the fact that, assuming the 1935 profit-earning of Vauxhall Motors. Limited, to be rougnty equivalent each eligible to that for 1934. member would receive a tus divi- dend, equal to 5 per cent of his yearly wage, or, in other words, 21 weeks' extra pay. The directors state that this pront-sharing plan has been devised" to give everyone in the service of the company a direct interest in keeping the com- pany in a healthy and profit-earn- Ing condition, with the attendant advantages of steady, employment and mutual co-operation. With so large a number of employees, this united Interest, It is believed, will foster a determination on the part of each to aum at continued pros- perity and further growth. "We hope." the directors add. "the scheme will be appreciated in this simple and helpful way."

"L" HEAD COUPLING

PIN

A new self-locking dredger- bucket coupling pin, of the "L" head type used in placer dredgers, has recently been introduced by Messrs. Hadfields, Limited, East Hecla Works, Sheffield, who pos- sess the sole rights of manufac ture and sale. The Blackie "pir, as it is called, has some interesting features, and it is claimed that it will remain tight in the bucket eyés Indeânitely. Designed to over- come wear on the pins and in the bucket eyes. such as often occurs when pins having a radial head with paraffel sides are employed, the head of the new pin is wedge- shaped, and it fits nugly in a re- cess of corresponding shape in the bucket. The sides of the recess are slightly undercut, and radial portion of the pin head is. dovetailed to correspond, this be- It is also recommended where a ing done to prevent the pin mov- the ing endways in the bucket eyes. departure. is proposed from

new or When the buckets are coupled to- primary use zoning of existing buildings, where the pro gether in line, their weight, bear-. posed density or proportion of site ing on the pins, forces their heads the wedge-shaped recessea, to be covered by buildings exceeds in that prescribed, where non-con- Movement in the forward direction. tormity with provisions other than is rendered possible by the shapë those as to

use is contemplated of the bucket eyes, which and where it is desired to develop elongated in order to enable the

which areas for

the pin to travel the necessary dis-

UNNECESSARY LABOUR

the

of Arts to institute à conference to the question of national discuss water supplies. Again, the idea of watershed areas figured promila- ently in the discussion, and a prize competition was arranged for es-" says dealing with the general sub- ject, and the sub-division of Erig- land and Wales into districts" on a watershed basta, for the purposes of the control and co-ordination of waterworks organisations. Mr. F. Toplis proved to be the winner and suggested the sub-division of sites in the country into twelve watershed primary zoning has not been de tance. This shape of the holes,

of termined. #body

are

The report contains moreover, allows the pin, to be

to be installed at Kabul, which will be able to communicate with the principal capitals of Western districts; eacn with Europe, as well as with Moscow, commissioners, who should be particulars of the exact Informa- pushed backwards sumciently to

given powers to acquire all existing waterworks their particular district;

Tokio. Shanghai and New York, by

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out dependence on other resources. Retirement should be voluntary, but it should be a condition for receipt of this additional pension Social services, designed to main- ain or improve the morale of the

tion that is required under all enable the head to enter the dove- means of directional aerials, and

these headings and should obviate tailed recess. The wedging action unemployed in the special areas.

with Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town

a great deal of unnecessary labour is facilitated by the presence of a should be continued and streng-

and Melbourne with òmni-direc-

the early stages, especially it slot in the radial portion of the thened. Unemployed youths in the

TOTAL ABEYANCE › tional aerials, Automatic trans- special areas who have a good re-

The vast amount of valuable and the sound advice of consulting the head; which permitti the two sides

during then to

spring in slightly. Further- cord should be given preferential mitting and high-speed recording

authoritative information relating Council's officers

more, this springing action enables treatment for employment up to apparatus, designed for a maxi

to water resources that the Society early stages is, taken per

the head automatically to adjust, the age of 21, through a voluntary mum speed of 200 words

itself and compensate any we system on the lines of the King's minute, will be provided for one of Arts accumulated deserved a Better fate than the oblivioh to transmitting and Опе receiving

that may take place on the head channel. The other four stations which it was soon consigned. From

of the pin or in the walls of the SHORTER HOURS

are to be equipped with Marconi 1878 to 1898 new legislation was in

recess. We understand that care. E.8A transmitters, and will be used abeyance, and not a single Com- Shorter working hours, Mr. ate for internal communication. This mission was appointed to deal wart says, cannot immediately be transmitter can be employed for

with the matter, or kindred sub-

Roil.

COAL INDUSTRY.

The production of Polish coal ful observation of the new pin, during the first four months of working over long periods of time eppiled successfully to industry telegraphy and telephony on wave jects. Twelve reports issued by 1935 amounted to 9,863,000 tons, as under actual service conditions, lengths ranging from 20 m. to 80 first ter years of this century ing the same period of 1934an ment of the head in the recess of various Royal Commissions in the compared with 9.291 000 tons dur- have falled to disclose any move- m.. its rated capacity being 500 watts on the former and 250 watts reiterated with monotonous an

animity their faith in central au- thorities as "the remedy for the evils they were asked to consider Further efforts, ficluding that of Lord Desborough in 1916, of intro ducing a Water Supplies Protec the Bhi, came to nought,

generally, bai in suitable indus tries the Government should offer a tapering subsidy for three years to meet a portion of the cost of re- ducing hours without reduction of the standard of living of the workers, the balance to be borně by industry. The

on the latter.

Government sory for an workers continuously should consider making a full In the same employment for a week's holiday with pay compul- year.

increase of 0.77 per cent. In the any tendency for the pin to come current year. On the other hand, out of the bucket eyes. It is exports during the first four stated that although brimarily months of 11635 amounted to designed for dredger tickets, the 2,802,000 tons, as compared with pin can also be successfully em 3,252,000 tons during the corres ployed for coupling together the ponding period of 1934a fall of links of elevators, conveyors, 10.78 per cent, in the current year. moving tracks:

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