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THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY OF HONGKONG, LIMITED.

BUILDERS OF ALL CLASSES OF SHIPS.

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Under Special License

From Messrs. Sulzer Bros., Winterthur.

Licensed To Manufacture Lanz Perlit Iron, Specially Suitable

For Internal Combustion Engine Working Parts.

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SLAUGHTER HOUSE PLANNED FOR NANKING

Improvement Of Meat Supply

MODERN EQUIPMENT

Nanking: More sanitary porx. beef and mutton are promised to the local populace as the Nanking Municipal Slaughter House 13 laid dewn plans for improving the administration of meat supply in the capitul.

Foremost lu the improvement". programme is the construction of a large butchery

Spectators at last Saturday's race meeting exchange views be

tween events.

along scientific FIGHT AGAINST

lines. It will be built outside the Hanchungmen gate on a lot of about 50 mow al a total cost of more than $100,000. Construction work will be started shortly and is expected to be anished by the end of this year.

The abattoir, when completed, will be one of the best in China. It will be equipped with a number of electric slaughtering machines, the use of which will not only speed up the operations but also mitigate the pain of the animals as well as a score of instruments for the detection of sick cattle. There will also be a special room to segregate sick cattle, a big stove Lo cremate rotten carcasses and a large cold storage to preserve met.

EXAMINATION OF MEAT

WHITE ANTS

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Special Wood Preservative

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The art of wood preservation can be traced back to ancient times.

There is sufficient evidence to prove that the Egyptians as far back as 2.000 .C. employed some preservative agent, probably bitu- men, on the wood used by them in constructional work.

Enormous damage is done even For the examination of meat| tofday by white ants and termites turned out by private shambles.") in spite of architectural advances a number of offices will be estab- in construerion, of houses. plan- lished in the city as well as aning etc. Halakwan, Pukow, Shangsinho, Hsiaolings and Shanchaho out- side the city,

The annual consumption of meat has been steadily increasing in the capital with the gradual in- crease of the population. Statis- tics show, that while only 98,554 pigs, 12,993 oxen, and 5,084 sheep were slaughtered in 1931, the figures have lumped to 157,109 olgs. 14.768 oxen and 5,147 sheep during the current year.

It is for this reason that we draw the attention of all to the special qualities of "Silvertown" special wood preservative.

BRICKS MADE OF GLASS

Novelties At The Building Show

HOUSES WHICH ARE "AIR-CONDITIONED

Those who wish to live in glass houses may now do 50. Semi- vacuum glass bricks admitting 80 per cent, of the Ught are one o: the most interesting novelties of the 20th blennial Building .Exhibition, openedar Olympia recently by Earl Stanhope, First Commissioner of Works.

the

It is the largest ever held by

last industry, which

year created a record by erecting build- ings worth £114,900,000. Nearly 400 firms have taken stands, and

great amount of ingenuity has been: employed in devices to im- Prevention is better than cure! prove the amenities of hame life. The "Sivertown" Wood Preser- Sheltered behind her glass walls vative is a special preparation of which, though only one brick heavy coal tar oil, with other in-thick, keep out, the cold as effec- gredients. It has very little smell tively as an ordinary nine-inch and gives on ornamental appear-wall-the housewife of the near ance to the wood, etc. For these future will walk on floors floated reasons. It is invaluable for the

on rubber to reduce noise. The number of cattle slaughter-treatment .of Timber to prevent ed varies also with different sea- rot and decay. In cases where im- son". In autumn and winter, an pregnation with ordinary, Creosote average of about 770 cattle are Is nadmissible. slaughtered daily. while in spring and summer · a slightly smaller average is recorded. Ventral News Agency.

BETTER CONTROL

OF TRAFFIC

Separate Passenger Platforms

by

COLOURED GLASS-

From her kitchen she can see television the goods she is ordering bye telephone. She will wash dishes in a plastic sink. The Manufacturers are able, as coloured to suft her decoration tar distfilers. to supply this pie-scheme. paration at a considerably lower figure than other similar preser- vatives now on the market.

The air she breathes will be Whereas ordinary paint merely

conditioned by a plant costing coals the surface. "Silvertown"

.only £20. Her bathroom will be‚Ì Preservative penetrates in. the

Hined with coloured glass which. wood, stops up the pores, acts

can be bent round corners. She generally as an Antiseptic, and

can listen to a radio set built preserves the timber against the

into the mantelpiece and leave ravages of the white ant and the

her house by a front door pre- tected by a brick canopy cantil- evered out to the almost incredible extent of ové feet.

destructive influences of a tropical elimate. *

The colour imparted to the wood varies from a medium to a dork

Com-

Changsha,-Fur better control of Oak atain

Messrs. trame, a general "connecting" sta-

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Pentreath and

For the third time, the Housing Centre has co-operated with ar- technicians in 201 exhibition at "new homes for old." By posters and photographs it urges public opinion to demand that the rebuilding of Britain shall provide a more Ctting back- ground to the national life.

tion with separate passenger plat-pany. Alexandra Building, are the chitects and forms and freight godowns will be local agents. built at Chuchow, which is Ljunction of the Canton-Honkow Hallway, the Pingslang-Chuchợw section the Cheklang-Kingsi Railway and the Projected Hunan- Kwelchow Railway, it is announ- ced.

of

SEALING CLAMP

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FOR LEAKING GAS

OR WATER MAINS

REDUCING NOISE

A series of pictures of hapha- Zard and ugly development shows how chances are being missed owing to public apathy. Two- thirds of the population of Great

The project will cost one million dollars. Representatives of the The ordinary lead. Joint for, gas Ministry of Railways and the three and water mains, the lead being Rallway Administrations, atter run in to a socket against a hemp making an inspection trip to Chu- ring, while being simple to make chow, decided to organize a spe- | is" apt to fall when excessive Britain. it is stated, live in towns consisting of one ground movement accurs, a con- where the requirements of health,

and representative each from the Min-| dition nowadays, „when so much convenience

beauty have. istry and the three Railways, to rebuilding and building is go- scarcely been considered.

constructioning

The exhibition points out how, from tritancy to age, planning and building can be. Improved..

cial committee,

take charge of the work. Į Kuo, Min.

CHINESE SALT PROMOTION

means

-in-

no on, by frequent. The remaking or caulking of such a lenky joint is often a troublesome matter, and

Solutions of the noise nuisance the Johnson clamp. has bee are provided by the Department developed as a readily-appled re- oi Belentine and Industrial Re- remedy by Messrs The Victaulic search, which has installed work- Company, Limited, Dean Stanley ing models to show the effect of street, Millbank. London, S.W.1.

By pressing a sound insulation The clamp consists of two fangey

button and listening through a held together by bolts, the tighten stethoscope one can hear differen- ing of which compresses a stri Mr. Tang Hsuan, director of the of heavy section rubber compost treated rooms.

ces in sounds in treated and un- Salt Revenue administration re- tion up against the socket end Canton. by aeroplane containing the lead Alling. The turned to

fange bearing on the packing in

Canton Man Talks With Finance Minister

last week.

vince.

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It is understood that during his made with a recess to hold the desired, with moulded bitumen. stay in Nanking, he had a series

packing and fits close to the It is stated that maintenance costs of consultations

with Dr. Espigot end of the pipe. The other are considerably reduced by the Kung, the finance minister, on the dange is narrower as it has to use of the clamps. Another new promotion of sales of Kwantung at the pipe socket. Both hanges product of the firm is a Johnson salt and schemes to effect coppers are well ribbed to ensure stiffness coupling fange adaptor, a device tion-with salt organs in the pro- and are made in segments, the for coupling a p'ain-ended steel number of which varies with or tron pipe to the fiznge of a the diameter of the pipe. The pump or valve. It permits segments are connected by lap small amount of misalignment or joints through which a bolt in-movement, thereby reproducing a the standard dependent of the tightening bolts, characteristic of

which coun'ing passes. The packing strip is con- Johnson pipe tinuous with a single butt joint allows as much as 7 deg. dedec- It will be clear that both the ring tion, and in this condition has and flanges are easiivros into been tested to a pressure of 1,000 place on an existing blog The Ib. per square inch without leak clamp is made in a number of age. This pipe coupling is sup- up to 4 in. In diameter" and piled in diameters ranging from after assembly can be covered, II 2, in to 25 in..

TAX ON CHINESE

CEMENT.

It is announced on Saturday in Canton, by the Consolidated. Tax Bureau that tax on native, cement will be collected as from Septem- ber 18. The rates are $1 on one drum and $0.80 on one "bale in Standard National Currency?^

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