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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1931.
MAD MARRIAGÉ.
(Continued from Page 9.)
on Jim had provided the opportu- nity Marcia was watching for.
Oh, but now she understood! Now she would take precautions).
Twice that afternoon there were loug, serious moments when Gypsy asked herself what she would do if Jim himself came to her and asked
NATIONAL POWER
SCHEME.
500 MILES OF THE GRID IN OPERATION.
A MIGHTY WEAPON.
The proposals of Lord Weir's committee for the complete elec-
CITY BUILT 4,000 YEARS AGO.
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SIR FLINDERS PETRIE ON DISCOVERIES.
for his release. That would be entrification of the British railway | immense importance as it
tirely different. That would be- oh, why think about it! Jim would system are bound up with the na- tional distribution of electrical nevar do such a thing.
under the auspices of the Central Electricity Board, the first in- ar-big contribution Lowards the
reconstruction dustrial
this country being the formation of this National Power Scheme. Board the initiation of
and
the
Sir Flinders Petria has returned to London after spending six months in the Holy Land, where his latest excavations have brought to light the ancient City of Gaza.
"I regard it
of iscovery 15
said Sir Flinders, "moro the first City of the Shepherd Kings Proof to be found in Palestine. That evening she made an effort
of this was found in many amulets to look attractive when Jim
bearing the names of the kinge. rived home. They had dinner served
The size of the elty surprised me, on the screened porch. There were cool drinks and an iced dessert:
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acres, showing that it It covers was twenty times the alze of Troy. Gypsy studied Jim's face covertly. The scheme has already made part of Palestine has yet to be "Whether Abraham lived in this substantial progress, and an at-proved, but it is now quite certain thority closely in touch with the he never lived in ancient Gaza. activities of the Board has been
was abandoned many years...pos- good enough to describe, an In-sibly a thousand-before he went to terview with an Observer repre: the place, and if he found anything Bentative. the main points of
decided that he was tired.
"Have you made any more plans for your vacation 7” she asked, "Don't 1 you think you really need n rest?"
take some time off next month. It the was out of the question for present.
of
ruina.
It
He said vaguely that he might achievement during the past thron of Gaza it could only have been
years.
"Curiously enough it was aban- 1,000 Miles of Transmission Line.doned more than 2,000 years B.C. The national re-organisation of for a similar reason that its ex- electricity supply was initiated." he cavators, 2,000 years A.D. had to recalled, "by the Electricity Supply prestane operations--malarial trou- Act of 1926. The Central Elec-le. The area is still desperately you'd like to go up to the lakes for tricity Beard, which was the body afflicted with malarla, with the re- a couple weeks or some place else created to give effect to that Act,ult that 100 of my workers had to was formed at the beginning of be taken to hospital, and we could
“Listen, Gypsy," he said, "there's here no reason you should stay scorching just because I mast.
if you'd rather ahead!”
The girl said quickly that she would rather stay. Somehow Jim's enthusiastle dismissal of her was alittle depressing. Later in the evening he spoke of an engage- ment with some business nesunin tance and drove away.
wilted.
autumn, when we resume excava-
tions, it is hoped the district will have been cleared of the dreadful discuse.
1927.
The first six months or so not start excavating until January, wor were devoted to preliminary or. ganisation, so that it has
more than two months after our really only been active for about three
arrival. years and a half,
"It was also necessary to dig a "In this time the Central Board anal three miles long, past the city. has constructed more than a thou-down to the sea, into which to drain sand miles of overhead transmis-the malarial infested pools. By the wassion lines operating kt 132.000 volls and 66,000 volts, while it has obtained way-leaves for a total mileague of 2,300 miles. That is the position to-day. At the end of another twelve months it will have completed all the preliminary work of surveying main transmission lines and of obtaining way-leaves for the construction of the pylons. When one considera the highly | conservative nature of this coun- try, and realises, tos, that the public had really not seen a pylon
remarkable.
The second week in July searching hot. All day long the sun beat down anceasingly on the (dry earth. Walter, McGrail
The lawn whirl Sam had worked so faithfully to turu into thick green velvet became singed and brownieh. The garden Jim came home to dinner looking worn and weary. Several times he complained of headaches, Gypsy tried to keep the house reol and inviting but there were daya when not a breath of wind wha stiring.
Throughout this ordeni sho was tighting to keep up her courage, It was Abbie Manley Abbie who would never intentionally have harted anyone who brought the news that was the last straw for Gypsy.
To be Cantimwi.)
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"We had only To dig down eighteen inches to come to the tops of the walls of the first houses we well pre- discovered. They were served, although 4,000 years old, brick. nut made of a very hard yellow clay With the aid of 400 nativo workers we uncovered eighty roonis. IL is impossible As vet to how many houses there represent. 12211 it 1s
before 1927, these results are quite is
clear that we are in suburbia
of the
"The Board is authorised to of the older Gaza. We came across upper layer older spend up to a total of £50,000,000, nothing in the this figure covering the constructhan 2,100 B.C., but we have yet to tion of the grid and the cost of the examine the thousands of craps native standardisation of frequency. At now being packed by the the end of last month The Board workers for shipment to England. had placed contracts with British "Some of these may tell us some- manufacturers, amounting to a thing, about Abraham, although
doulit. it. The discovery most £20,000,000, for the con- BRITAIN'S RAMBLERS.struction of the grid. while ex-city is important chiefly because it penditure amounting to £5,500,000 provides the hostorical background was authorised for the standardis needed for a study of that period. PROVISION FOR HOSTELS BY tion of frequency, giving a grand we can hardly hope to find any- CARNEGIE TRUST. total of £25,500,000, which is nothing reliable about Abraham until inconsiderable sum. The Boad we know something of the civiliga-
time. The fall im London, June 8.
has already in operation about 500 tion of that The Carnegie (United Kingdom) miles of the grid, and in certain portance of the lust excavations Trust are making à grant of £10,- areas the scheme has been instru- have still to be decided, but the dis- covery of the City of the Shepherd 000 for the provision of hostels inental in reducing the cost of elec
tricity to the consumer.
Kings is of itself of first connexion with the Hamblers
The
electrification of the sentence," movement
Great Britain-Southern Railway system in
from British Wireless.
London to Brighton and Worthing
GOLE
C.A. WHITCOMBE, CAPTAIN OF THE BRITISH, RYDER
CUP TEAM, PLACES HIS TEE SHOT SO THAT THE BALL WILL
as
the STARS Play it
BE IN A FAVORABLEI
POSITION FOR THE SECOND.
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was
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tricity supplied by the Central of the British National Power Electricity Board. This may serve scheme. That map, accompanied as an indication of what could be by a description of what has achieved under the National Power factually been constructed, Scheme if the proposals of the revelation to South Americans. Weir Committee for the electrifica- "All these things go to show that tion of the whole of the British we have already in this country railways become effective.
Business-Like Handling. "What, it may be asked. has been the preliminary effect of this whole national iden? It has shown first of all, to great industrial countries that we are tackling a very difficult public utility problem
experienced the benefits of a gen- uinely big scheme carried out in a big way, and they are benefits. which affect a wide range of in- dustries both on home and export account.
Programme of Development, "A main factor in the scheme. in a thoroughly scientific way too, is the contribution il will When one considers the simplicity make In accelerating industrial of the British scheme of national | development and in strengthening co-ordination carried out by the movement towards the electri- single body, acting with the confication of manufacturing pro- sent and with the support of the cesses, which has now begun in whole country. with the chaotic this country. At the present time mess into which both Germany very extensive survey is being and the United States have drifted made of the industrial configura- -co-ordination in those countries tion of Great Britain which will appearing to be quite impossible, serve to guide an ambitious pro-
owing to the conflict of interests gramme of development in the
and authorities-one can see that future, and to permit of the Na- In this achievement alone a real tional Power Scheme being linked contribution has been made to the up with every effort that is being restoration of British industrial made towards a great industrial prestige.
revival.
"In three years' time, when the scheme is completed, Great Britain will possess one of the most power- Cul weapons ever forged by any country determined to re-invigor ate its industries and create for itself again a dominating position in the world's economic, scientific, and engineering progress.
Which is the most important "it is very signißeant that Ger- man aml American economists and shot in golf?
Walter Travis claims the putt is engineers are studying very care the all'important shot. Jerry fully British practice and British Travers, who started to play the methods in this respect. We have game at the age of 6 summers, gut the lead at this point, and there won his titles with his uncanny is every prospect that we shall be able to retain it for a very can- Harry play at the short game, Vardon favoured the long iron, siderable time. and Willie MacFarlane the long drive off the tee. These stars won titles on their strong depart ments of play, although erratie at times in other parts.
Let me quote the emperor-capable of carrying out efficiently about by economie and scientific We are Bobby Jones, of course. I he- and with economy. one of the most progress in the world. lleve he has the best, answer for ambitious schemes in history. the above question:
"Consider,
too, the psychological fronted to-day by an enormous- ly powerful Germany carrying on When pinying
hole, the effect upon the visitor to this coun-n vast scheme of rationalisation second shot depends to a large try of those lofty lowers which of her basic Industries and by an extent on the success of the Brat, span the Clyde and the Forth in enormously and that of the third on the ame-Scotland and will span the Thames using her inwerful United States at Barking before the end of this obtain hold on tho rincipal cess of the second."
There you see that one shot year, There is nothing quite so markets. Against this combina depends upon the other and all imposing anywhere else in Europe. tion of rationallaation and financial are equally Important. So if the "Another point of importance is strongth we can only plt the stop to think just that the scheme has allowed those British capacity for rapid technical player will where to place his shot so as to engineering industries to manufac adjustmont and for combining now be in a favourable position to play ture in bulk, cut down their coals and ellcient design and manufac his next, he is bound to change of production, and Improve their ture with a low level of manufac a G to n and a 6 to a 4.
export position.
turing costs and seiling price. In Remember this tip-Keep your One of the most interesting the achievement of this aim the head still, but don't forget to ex-exhibits at the Buenos Aires Ex-National Power Scheme is of ercise what la in it-AT KHENZ, hibition, which was opened by the fundamental Importance."
Industrial Efficiency & Economy, "The construction of the grid is: "The second advantage of the the first pluse-and it la an essen- scheme has been to show the whole tin! phase in the conversion of world that our engineering and industrial Britain to the new con Iron and steel industries are ditions that have been brought
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