1929-06-26 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1929.

THE HOME-MADE RAINFALL.

RICKSHAS TO BE ABOLISHED.

NEW MOTOR FERRY USE OF HOUSE AS SHANGHAI RIVER

VESSEL

FOR SERVICE ON CHEUNG CHAU RUN.

LAUNCHED AT TAIKOO.

WORKSHOP.

Argument on the MEANING OF "INMATES."!

POINT CLEARED UP.

Cheung Chau residenta will be The definition of the word assured of better and faster com- "Inmates" provided considerable munication with Hongkong as the argument at the Central Magis result of the launching this morn- truer this morning, when a Chinesa ing, at the Taikoo Dockyard, of the was summoned by the Sanitary new ferry boat, Sun Chau, o steel Department for using the lower twin-screw motor vessel 126 feet storey of No. 26, Leighton Hill long, capable of holding 350 paa-Rond as a workshop. sengers. The vessel has been built, for the Hongkong and New Ter- by Mr. A. E. Hall, while Dr, H. A. The defendant was represented ritories Ferry Co., Ltd. to ply be Faweelt, Medical Ofeer of Health, tween llongkong and Cheung Chau gave evidence of visiting the house and finding it unfit for human habitation,

Island.

There was a large gathering of European and Chinese well-wishers at the launching ceremony this

Dr. Fawcett stated that it was morning when Mra. Hole, wife of particularly unfit as the shop was the Hon, Comir. G. F. Hole, Har-used for printing and it there- bour Master, performed the naming fore involved the use of lend type. eeremony. Those present included Moreover, the place was only five Mr. and Mr. Wynne-Jones, Com-feet high, with about 30 square mander and Mrs. Byron, Mr. J. A. feet of window space on to the Fraser, the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabas external air, and about 23 Aquaro ter, Mr. H. E. Goldsmith, the Hon, feet in the rear. Mr. R. I. Kotowall, C.M.G., Mry Li Yu-tsun, C.B.E., Mr and Mrs.word "inmates"? M.K. Le, Mr. Li Yick-mul and sey. eral others.

Brief Speecher,

Mr. Hall: Why do you use the Dr. Fawcett-Have I used the word?

Mr. Hall:-Yes, in your

mons,

sum-

only the people who work there Dr. Fawceti:-The word, covers

during the day..

COLLISION.

FREIGHTER CRASHES INTO A EFFECT OF SMOKE AND HOT FEW YEARS' GRACE GRANTED

RIVER BOAT.

VESSEL DAMAGED,

FACTORY GASES.

RECENT EXPERIMENTS.

IN RANGOON.

A MOTOR BUS ERA.

Rangoon, June, 11.

Shanghai, June 21. In a paper by Dr. J. R. Ash- -Tide and wind were responsible worth, of Rochdale, read before yesterday for another river mis-the Royal Meteorological Society, doomed to disappear from the It seems that the ricksha le hap, the s.s. Illingworth of Messrs. some Dalbeish and Co., Newcastle, and given in support of the theory Users of other means of transport remarkable, results were strecta of the Burma capital. the N. Y. K. river steamer Feng-that the rainfall of industrial have been after the blood of the yang Maru being the principals in areas is increased by the discharge contemplative yet capricious rick- a collision that took place at the of smoke and hot gasce from sha-puller for a long time and they American Consulate." latter's mail wharf near the factory chimneys,

have authority on their side, while

9 a.m. while the lingworth was fall can in any way bo influenced burden" score.

the politician bloment The solitaion accurred at about countenanced the view that rain-rickshas on the "human beast of Meteorologists have usually dis; against abolition, as they object to is nut

proceeding down river en route to Miki, Japan. The Japanese steam-possibly by the creation of des- by human agencies (except er at the time was docked at the]

Now the week another nall has truction of forests). On theore been driven into the ricksha's mail wharf, loading cargo.

A strong wind was blowing at with every confidence that such one ricksha shall accommodate one ical grounds it may be asserted coffin, by the police. decision that the time and a flood tide was just agencies as gunfire and broad-person and that the frail vehicles coming in. In addition, the pres- ence of a number of junks added casting, which have been blamed shall not be used, as they often for wet summers, could not have been, for transporting tim- possibly affect our weather.

ber, market-garden produce, pro- jecting Iron rode and othor awk- ward and dangerous freights.

SAFETY FIRST.

EMAKSUDJEL

We may get more rain, but it's safer to economise in the use of water now.

BARÐARBÍ

Statistics Lacking.

The sponsors of such beliefs have never been able to produce statistical evidence for their state- ments, and when submitted to scientific analysis their falsity has invariably been revealed. Dr. Ashworth's theory belongs, how ever, to a different category. Ilis conclusions are based on a careful

In a brief apeech, Mr. K. Greig, manager of the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co., Ltd., congratulated Mr. Li Yay-

After some argument on the taun of the Hongkong and New meaning of the word, Mr. Hall to the difficulties of the Bling-scrutiny of rainfall data, and for Territories Ferry Company on his pointed out to Dr. Fawcett that in worth's skipper and despite all that reason are entitled to serious enterprise, emphasising that tho the, aanmons, sub-section 2, efforts, the ship collided more or considération. Sun Chu is equipped with the Section 2, of the Ordinance was less broadside with the Fengyang bust machinery by a highly-reputed applied. Remarking · that anb-Maru.

Dr. Ashworth begins by calculat Company and that with the put-section 43 of the Ordinance would With the exception of having ing the average annual rainfall on ting on ran for Cheung Chau of /be more direct, Mr. Hall asked why considerable paint scratched off for the ten years 1918 to 1927. ench day of the week at Rochdale this fine vessel a prosperous future)

it was not applied,

her port side and being slightly He finds that for the Ferry Company could be

Continuing, Mr. Hall said timented, the lingworth escaped average rainfall for the year is on Sundays the anticipated.

Inspector White stated that when without further damage, The speaker later presented a he went round to the house in Japanese ship, however, suffered day of the week. The mean daily. The appreciably less than for any other gol brooch to Mrs. Hole e a question, there was nobody in the damages to her bridge, a number ruinfall on Sundays worked out to momento of the occasion.

shop except a small boy who was of stanchions being twisted and be 13 per cent. less than the average Mr. J. A. Fraser, District Officer doing anything. There was broken, while some plates were of all days, (North); also said a few words, evidence to show that the workshop commenting on the courage and was in operation after the Bumi- A call for assistance brought a Applying the same calculation tɔ enterprise of Mr. Ll Yau-1sun,mona was issued and therefore it tug from the Shanghai Tag and the rainfall data of Stonyhurst who, despite loen) jealousies and could not be said that the defendant Lighter Co., Ltd., and the ling- College the corresponding difference many dificulties had succeeded in had not complied with the mutics worth proceeded to sea and cons only 6 per cent, and, moreover, providing better accommodation et lo kim by the Sanitary tinued her journey to Miki. The Sunday at that station was not on and comfort for travellers to

Department to cease using the local agents for the Illingworth the average so dry as Friday. Cheung Chau. The speaker look plice as a worshop.

Iin Worship, in

register- ]] conviction, said there Kreat difference be- tween 21. man who stood

ed forward to the good servico of the Sun Chau in the not dis- ing tance future and the continued was auceens of the Ferry Company.

It is understood, according to and admitted his guilt and a man Mr. Li Yau-taun, that the move who knew he was guilty and yet ment to provide better communica-Instructed his solicitor to deny the tion between Hongkong and charge.

Cheung Chau and the building of Mr. Hall, however, admitted that the Sun Chau are prinelpally due to he was to blame. In looking up the encouragement and advice of the

dented.

are Messrs. Dodwell and Co., Ltd.;

MYTHICAL BOOT BUSINESS.

Factories Play Part.

Now Rochdale is a typical indus- trial centre with numerous fac- tories which are active on weekdays but not on Sundays. Stonyhurst is similarly situated, moteorological- ly, but has no factories in ita im- CHINESE COMPLAIN OF BEING Inediate neighbourhood. We have

DEFRAUDED.

here, then, a strong indication that the factories of Rochdale play a part in the rainfall of that town.

Some time ago the Corporation decided to give the rickslins a fow years grace and then clear the streets of them altogether. Indeed, with so many against them the only wonder is that they have sur vived so long. They have only been kept on the road by the fact that the poor used them to go about their work, for nobody walka in Itangoon. One imagines that people would rather starvo thàn stretch their legs and the only real walking is done us a "constitu- tional" by Europeans."

The phenomenal extension of many as four miles for one anna, motor bus services, running s

last excuse for existence and their likely to rob the rickshas of their total disappearance is to be anti- cipated.

1

"DRY" EMBASSIES?

GENERAL DAWES SETS AN EXAMPLE IN LONDON.

New York, June 25. The action of General Dawes

go

in refusing to serve wing at the United States Embassy in London, according to Press reports, is in- terpreted in some quarters to in- dicate that all United States Em- bassies and Legations may "dry," in deference to Mr. Hoo- ver's appeal for a more exact ob- case, he was struck by ils Two men, named Chow Kung-The fact that Sunday in Rochdale sorvance of the law by United Mr. Wynne-Jonen, who took a peculiarity in that sub-section 23 hop and Chut Tsui-ch, living at is on the average drier than other States citizens, despite & legal keen interest in the development of and net sub-section 43 was used. Whiching Lane, have reported to days of the week was confirmed by opinion that the United States Cheung Chau during the time te Wahing to clear the point, he the police that they have been analysing the returns for the thirty Legations are not affected by the

pleaded not guilty" in order to defrauded of a sum of $400..

or years 1898 to 1927, though the eighteenth amendment allow the prosecution Lo explain invest $200 in

Persuaded by a friend to each difference for this longer period Volstead law-Reuter's American The Sun Chau is constructed of/90 that he would no longer remain turing business, it was left to thein

a host-manufac-was only 6 per cent.

Service, steel, texted to the Lloyd's require in the dark about the matter, to discover afterwards that thei In Imposing a fine of $26, his at 320 revolutions per mhute, and Worship amade an order for the de- is equipped with an air-compress-fendant to cease using No. 25 Ing and dynamo let driven by Leighton Hill Road as a workshop. Gardner heavy oil enging and an alectric-driven vertical ram general service pump. Its speed

was District Officer.

Cost $120,000.

ments, has 152 B.H.P. running

is given as 11 knots and the dimen alons are. 126 feet length over-all: 120 feet between perpendiculars; brondth moulded 231⁄2 feel; depth moulded, 10 feet. It lins cost the Hongkong and Now Territories Ferry Company $120,000 for con- struction alone. The Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Coni- pany is to be congratulated on

WAGES OF COTTON WORKERS.

UNITED OPPOSITION TO A REDUCTION.

London, June 26. United opposition to the manu-

business was a myth. The friend vanished and it is presumed that he has gone to Cunton to enjoy his Il-gotten gains.

Some Striking Results.

clusions, it should be possible to If there is any truth in these con- detect the influence of factories on the rainfall of the working houra of the day, as compared with the night hours, when the factories are Hanol, June 25. closed. Dr. Aalworth, therefore, Wang Shao-hung, Pei Chung-examined the records of a record- hai and his staff are taking re-ing rain-guage which has been in fuge in French territory.

operation for two years at Roch- They motored from Longtcheou dale. He took the total of all rainy vin Fangson to Hanoi, where they intervals of not less than fifteen arrived on Tuesday morning; and minutes duration for each hour of intend going to Hongkong. the day for all days and worked Their departure neems to mean out similar figures for Sundays that Kwangai will abandon the only. He found that from about 7

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the turning out auch a smartlyfacturers' demand for a 12.8.per struggle.-Reuter. built vessel.

cent, reduction in the wages of It is understood that the Su cotton workers was volved at a Chan will he put on the run in meeting of the Legislative Council about ten days' time when there of the United Textile Factory will be a slight change in the Workers' Association, representing schedule of the Cheung Chan-half a million operatives. Hongkong ferry as follows!--

Departure from Hongkong, & am until it is learnt whether the am- Further action was postponed

1 p.m., 530 p.m. and 8 pm. andployers are acting jointly.-Renter. departure from Cheung Chau 3

a.m., 7.40 1.m., 3.20 p.m. and

6.45 p.m.

VIVID DRAMA.

D. W. GRIFFITH'S SUPERB

. PRODUCTION.

SYNTHETIC NITROGEN

PRODUCTS.

ANGLO-GERMAN SCHEME FOR

CO-OPERATION.

London, June 25..

D. W. Griffith, the famous direc-

It is announced that an agree- tor of such noteworthy productlens ment has been concluded between as "Way Down East," "The Birth the Imperial Chemical Industries,

of a Nation," "Intolerance" ete, Ltd., and the German Dye Trunt

achieved another

screen providing for co-operation in the

has

success in his latest picture, "The production. marketing and pro- Lady of the Pavements," which paganda of synthetic nitrogen pro- will be shown from to-day to ducts-Reuter,

Saturday at the Queen's Theatre.

The story is a vivid drama of

. the struggle of two women, for the

love of a man. Set in the back-From the suspenseful setting of a ground of Napoleon's brilliant notorious cafe the story plunges court, with ita Intrigues of love deep in the dazzling splendour of and state, it is said to be one of Europe's most colourful court. · the really great pictures of the your.

Boyd is in the role of Erich von William Boyd carries off the Miss Goudal portraya Simone, Arnim of the German Embassy; leading role as a dashing young mistress of Napoleon the Third; attache of the German Embassy in Miss Velez to enst as a cafe singer; Faris, with Jetta Goudal and Lupe Fawcett is chief of the German Velez struggling for possession of Embassy, while Conti impersonates him.' George Fawcett, Albert

Conti, William Bakewell and Henry the French Chamberlain,

Armetta complete the cast,

Miss Dorls Woods will render

The picture is one of the most special vocal effects during each spectacular of Griffith's career, 'performance,

WEST END LUMBER CO. LOFABER-COAL- CONCRETE - MARBLE

CATAL

OMIENIA SERVICE (ARU

"If you haven't got that rent tomorrow I'll throw you right out

in the street."

the

fall duration recded those on Sunday by an up- am to 6p.m. the figures for rain- on weekdays ex-

preciable margin. During the re maining hours there were no sya- tematic differences.

LIDAY

Sunday Results.

Again, it was found that at Rochdule there were on the aver- age (for all days) 14 per cent. more hours of rainfall during the day than during the night." On Sundays, however, the difference was in the opposite direction, there being 14 per cent. fewer hours of rainfall during the day than during the night. Compar- ing this result with similar calculations for Stonyhurst it was seon that the average conditions at Rochdale on Sundays resembled those for all days at a station where there are no factorles,

Another striking result obtained by Dr. Ashworth was that the variation in the average rate of rainfall on different days of the week was very similar to that of the average rate of deposition of amuke particles. The average rate of rainfall was found to be lowest on Sunday, rising to a maximum on Wednesdays. The same result was found for smoke particles.

It is always unwise to general- ise from an isolated collection of facts, but Dr. Ashworth's results certainly suggest that the climate of an industrial locality may be appreciably affected by the dis- charge of smoko and hot gases into the atmosphere. Wo know thai dur rainfall is mainly due to the condensation of moisture from air cooled by being caused to rise: The upward currents associated with the discharge of hot gusca from 'chimneys many conceivably add. their quota to the upwar movements induced by geographic- al features or otherwise aufficient- ly to affect the records. 'The 'formation of cumulus clouds, and even showers, as the result of forest fires has been observed. Dr. Ashworth's theory does not, there- fore, vitiate the fundamental principles of meteorology, though, It must be confessed that the effects attributed to local indus- trial influences are much greater than most meteorologists would have thought possible..

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