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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1929.

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Group taken in Shanghai last week whón Chineno and foreign offolals attended the ceremony at the Chinese Bureau of Foreign Affairs when Mr. Hau Mo formally succeeded Mr. Wunes King, who has been appointed Chinese Minister to Holland. A feature of the affair was an addreas delivered by Dr. C. T. Wang, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Other spankers were Dr. Alfred Szo, Chinese Minister to the Court of St. James, and Mr. Quo Tai-chi, former local Com- missioner, Foreigners present included Mr. F. W. Mazo, Commissioner of Custome, and Mr. W, R. Myors. Mr. Heu is seated in the front row and is the tenth person from the left.

Photos taken in the paddock during the recent Shanghai raco moeting. Mrs. Percy Lancaster loading in Ontario, win- ner of the Spring Griffins' Handicap, Mr H. Collaco up. E

Mrs. J. K. Brand leading in Crafty Bird, which camo second

in the Manchu Stakes, J. K. Brand riding.

Colonel Fitzmaurice, who was one of the airmen of the "Bromen," the only manhino which has orossed tho Atlantic from east to west; is now planning a double trip from the United States to Europe and back. Photo, shows. Col. Fitzmaurico in Now York, with his pet tor- rior, Rex.

Khajin jan

Photo taken after the wedding in Shanghai a few days ago, of Miga Tatiana Virbniue, and Mr. Nicholas Kooleeb,

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S.E. ENGLAND. ELECTRICITY SCHEME. BRITISH MATERIALS TO BE USED.

The whole of the material used in the contract placed by the Central Electricity Board with the General Electric Co., Ltd., for one section of the overhead trans- mission lines in the south-east of England, will be manufactured in Great Britain.

An official of the company stated that the contract, the value of which was approximately £500,000, would cover the erection of the 182,000 volt. line in the district north of the Thames,, stretching from Rending on the west to Peterborough on the north, and Ipswich and Colchester on the east. The total mileage of the overhead trans- mission would be 254 miles, and the total actual length of conductor would be 1,300 miles.

The contract would be carried out by the General Electric Company with the assistance of their associated company, the Pirelli-General Cable Works, Ltd., of Southampton, the latter company, carrying out all the actual erection work. The work of orection would take in all three years, and employment would be given In the actual erection work to between 500 and 1,000 men. In addition to that employment would be, given to large numbers in the manufacture of the steel towers, steel aluminium conductors insulators, and other accessories. The overhead. Hincs árò one section of the system of overhead lines covering, the whole of England and Scot- land which are being erected by the Central Electricity Board with the object of linking up the main generating stations throughout the country and affording a cheap supply of electric power in all districts.

IRELLI LIENERAL

Estimates for underground Cables up to $3,000. volts & overhead i Transmission schemes up to 130,000 voltą, given by

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THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., OF CHINA

Queen's Building, Hongkong.

Mrs. Jack Liddoli, owner, and Mrs. N. G. Harrie loading in Double Zoro, which was second in the Grand National

Steeplechase, R. N. Harris, the son of Mrs. Harris, up,

Photo taken at the Community Church, Shanghai, recently after the marriage of Miss Sonia V. Aubert-Tianguinsky, daughter of late Mr. and Mrs. V. Aubert-Tianguinsky, and Mr. Charles

Henry Brunner, of Marseilles,

If this odu plans, designed by an American, flies, it will have a greater lifting power per square foot than say 'ship now. The above photograph was taken on the world-famous beach at Daytons where Major H. made. The pear-shaped wings are expected to lift 51 pounds .O. D. Begrave recently rogained for England the world's motor speed record. Left to right:-- per square foot, compared to the average lift of 3 pounds. Capt. J. 8. Irving, designer of Segrave's record-breaking car the Golden Arrow: "centra Mr. Note how the propeller turns through a elit in the glant wing, W. E. Rootes, Joint Managing Director of Rootes, Ltd., London, and right, Major Begrave.

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