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LONDON IN A.D.2000

By ALFRED C. BOSSOM, M.P.,

the British architect who.

designed several of New

York's skyscraper's.

japart. Her bridges average one-

third wider again than ours;.. values on either sido of their river aro similar; ours would be TE ail hope London in the if we had made the appropriate

year 2000 will still be the land long overdue viaducta

travol. city best worth living in.

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index, is to be its norm, should be And, determined by Parliament. finally, Mr. Keynes urges that the day-to-day policy of the Bank, its statistics, its technique and its im mediaté aims and objects, should be. as public as possible, and should be deliberately

exposed to outside criticism., At the same time, ho thinks that the less direct the de- mocratic control, and the remote the possibilities for par- During the week-end, one case of llamontary Interference with bank-diphtheria, from. Kowloon, was re-.

Paria for pleasura; New York A grent many thoroughfarea ing policy, the better it will be. Aported to the health authorities.

The quarantine restrictions imposed for rush; Rome for romance, but must be "unkinked;" planned economy will be imprac

vlow of this by Formosa and Indo-China against London has, soived the problem of ments will have to be cut away ticable, in tho

arrivals from Hongkong on account of living with the greatest success. and footpaths pushed Inside the the cholera have been removed.

But London is changing.

present bullding frontages, economist, unless there is

in the

-Modern Invention, commercial now at the corner of Piccadilly utmost decentralisation

Mr. J. R. Hinton, manager of competition, human relationships and Rogent Street, while the ro Messrs. Butterfield and Swire in will cause one-sixth, C handling of the expert controls.

galar pavements will be on sus- One point on which Mr. Keynes Canton, arrived back with his wife quarter, of London to be remade. ponded platformas projected ever ideas on transportation, the trailic at the first floor levels lays stress is that it has been the from their honeymoon over the week-New mora m.p.g.

housing, hospitalisation, fresh air, with bridges ever roads at con- recent policy of the Bank of Eng-

and open spaces, and will the so-gested crossings. braking

Our railway termini-will they During the absence on short leave called progresses are converging land, rather than its powOTS ing..

structure, which has been at fault. of Mr. E. 1. Wynno-Jones, the dutica thoir irrestible forces; remodelling continue as at present? I doubt

of second magistrate at the Central acceleration

it! Surely all our great trunk lines is inevitable. Its independence and its prestige Police Court are being carried out by super springing.

How vitally we need a London will become carriers almost exclu- Shipton

plan cannot be over-emphasised. sively of heavy freight and excur- lower body lines

are assets. Nor, in spite of its Mr. G. S. Kennedy

In a motor accident in Des Voeux Sir Christopher Wren made the slon crowds, and all will conncet performance

fact origins and the opportunity for in-

continuously London proper. This outer circle everything a light Six, can give terested motives on the part of the Road, near Centro Street, a young firat, and since then amateurs and with an encircling line outside

its public spirit man, Taung Slu, of 12, Sai Yuen professionals have yet the saloon (with directorate, can

Street, received injuries to his head attempted solutions of this over will connect to a spoke-like under- ground system, bringing every sliding roof) costs only £295.

over the last decade be called in and legs through being knocked down growing problem.

by public car,

must A plan for London

be point of the city within easy reach question. The demand for its sub-

more than just city planning, without the annoyance of having jection to the democracy largely

Whilst working in a trench during Whilo devising possibilities of free huge railway tormini at unusuat arises, in Mr. Keynes' view, out of the course of the laying of water passage in all directions it must placca without any regard to each

pipes in Gascoigne Rond, yesterday, a peculiarities of recent years which waterworks coalie, Cheung Tai, aged scrupulously preserve, almost all ether.

Long before the express trains will not characterise a normal re- 65, received injuries to his legs, caused of our historic buildings, charm-'

which the city, their groat dirty glass characteristics gime. More often than not since by a quantity of earth falling on him. ing vistas, homely places, and in-aro banished from the heart of

takon was

Kowloon dividual

have given to London its personal caverns of stations will have been flavour. the war the country has possessed | Hoaplial.

replaced by complete buildings. With electrification 25 feet will be no defined standard and not even a

Despite the counter attractions River Amenities defined monetary policy laid down the attendance at the weekly ser- The Thames caused London, amplo height for any depot, and by Parliament; with the vice whist drive at the Y.M.C.A., and any plan must give the river up from its telling to the limit allowed by the London Building quence that the Bank of England' Kowloon,last night wag well main- first "consideration. Will any eX\Act will be filled with profit-mak- tained, 30 tables being occupied. cuse suffice if; when Father Time has been loft free to exercise. Prize-winnera were: Ladies-announces the arrival of anothering offices, hotels, flats, or garages been loth to Mrs. Hyde, Miss Temple. Men-century, there has not been built and topped with air tax! parks, complete embankment for plea-from which our children and our exercise, a wider discretion than it Mr. Scott, Mr. Rox.

sure and passage on both the north grandchildren will fly to ought to have or has had in the

According to a report made to the and south sides of the river for dromes situated in a green belt it meanders that will surround the metropolis, past or will have in the future, on police, motor lorry. No. 2514 collided its full length as

and from which high-speed aero- with another lorry, No. 2694, in through the city? matters which go far beyond the Mongkok Road, near the Wo Yuen

planes will take them about the Unfortunately till now the practice of a technique for the at-Chan timber yard, causing the latter Thames has formed an obstruction world at speeds double that com- tainment of a purpose, the general veliicle to run into a stack of timber to the equal development of the mon to to-day's commercial avia-

and also to knock down a man, Lal character of which has been laid Lin, aged 04, of 11, Pine Street. The city on either of its banks. Motor-tors. down by higher authority.

This wido grcon strip will pre man subsequently succumbed to his cars have made passage over the Speedler Transport

river more desirable than ever. injuries.

But we find land south of the vont London's uncontrolled growth The Shape of the Earth. Quite a commotion was caused on Thames is worth 108. to 20s. a from Brighton to Bedford."

We may envisago as being a the Shakee Bund, opposite the British foot, while on the north 510 to £20 Most peraus-always excepting Bridge, Shameen, yesterday when a in the value, due to the absence of certainty before the 3 ear 200 wide Mr. Kipling's villagers, who do jerry-built wooden roof and fixtures abundant accessibility from one arterial roads striking from the hinterlands right through the city not hold with scientific vanities caught fire in between two garages, side to the other.

a circular Fortunately the adjoining houses: Hence the cost of running Lon-to the river bridges, will be interested to learn that the were of ferro-conergic, so that the don, is ill apportioned. If

equal railway at which all our electric- exact shape of the Earth is still brigade, which sent out three main development had formerly taken ally equipped main line railways

appliances and a chemical tender,

a series of a matter of investigation. Every uring a bad outbreak, did not have place a lower common rate charge will torminate, and

ch

trouble in extinguishing the would have produced the needed aerodromes surrounding the city revenue to the benefit of every one. to care for the high-speed travel- blaze..

lers. More Bridges

For instance, practically every This spoeding up and codifying structure In the segment formed of transportation will be reflected by the river and above a line join-in the simplification or rather the ing the southern ends of Lambeth flattening of our buildings, but the,

for height will not be indefinitely in- and London Bridges shrieka rebuilding, but this cannot materi-croased; 150 feet from the pave- the also until several

motor-mont will most likely be The following cable at the close carrying arteries span or ploree maximum we shall ever be allowed.

market yesterday below the Thames.

Boing latitudinally level with not has been received by Messrs. Pen- Part of the answer to this is, Labrador, and in a country warm- and treath and Co.

while retaining historic Waterloo ed, almost at times steam heated. London Terminals.

Bridge, to build a bridge at Char-by the Gulf Stream, frequent fogs, ing Cross, and that quickly. whether soot-Inden or otherwise, March 1983 6/-% up d. May 1983 6/21⁄2 up/d.

By driving a free flow of pros-will always be our lot.

to the High winda will not come August 1933 6/6 no change. perity-providing traffic into

out, blow this damp blanket from us, December 1933 6/8 up %d.

heart of this largely worn

area, and the sun can never reach a Buyers at above prices, sellers very congested southern

much of our city would blossom height onabling its rays to pierce asking d-d more..

with new bulldings, offices, facand purify the air in the tories providing work, creating made canyons that would occur if new wealth and benefiting every-we allowed skyscrapers in London.

Coal by Wire

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The

Thongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1932.

BRITISH BANKING

CONTROL.

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It will be recalled that at its schoolboy knows that the world is not a perfect sphere like a billiard recent annout conference the

ball, but that it is slightly flatten- Labour Party passed a resolu-

ed at the poles, with just tion in favour of bringing the Bank soupcon of a paunch about the of England under public ownership equatorial regions. (After all, it was!) and control, advocating that the is not as young as it once Governor of the Bank should be But it is a little surprising to hear appointed by the Government and that, despite all our modern in- be subject to the general direction struments, the precise measurement of the sugar

for

of the Earth's curvature is of a Minister of Cabinet rank, who

yet complete. Mathematics should in turn be responsible to the Astronomy can do a great deal, House of Commons banking but apparently they cannot absolve policy. On this occasion, the con- us from the obligation of patiently ferenco left in abeyance a former surveying the surface of the Earth

triangulation. A proposal to nationalise the Joint by

cursory Stock Banks, presumably because glance at the schoolroom globe it la felt that control of the Big reveals the obvious fact that the which Five, otherwise than through the longest and meridian of Bank of England, is not necessary the measurement is feasible is the 30th, which runs from Norway to for handling the vital controls. In South Africa. The task of pre- any case, as one authority has cisely surveying the Earth's crust pointed out, the proposal to over this famous are was begun nationalias the Big Five is first-half a century ago by the Gover class if conceived as a piece of nora of Natal and the Cape; to- irritation policy, but is not at this day an officer of the Royal Eng- stage serious business.

ineers in engaged on the Tangan- When we turn to the future of vika section, and when his work is finished Southern Egypt and the the Bank of England, it is

Soudan will be the only uncom- well to remember that the

pleted. link in the chain. So our Labourites are not alone in their children at least may look forward desire to sep it placed under public to a definitive report on the shape control. Mr. 3. M. Keynes, the of the terrestrial globe—always noted economist, strengly favours provided that no cataclysins occur the idea, and goes so far as to meanwhile to ruin its symmetry. outline five propositions which he In applauding the perseverance of thesa Burveyors, one must express regards as essentials. In the first the devout hope that the earth- place, he thinks the interest of quake demon will not be tempted private shareholders in the profits to spoil their beautiful maps, and of the Bank, nominal though it now that their passion for accuracy

should | 18,

altogether cease. will not reveal any appreciable Secondly, the Bank should be ex-errors in existing boundary lines.

national It would be distressing, for pressly recognised as a institution, from which private ample, if some dweller on a far- profits and private Interests are flung frontier of the Empire found himself flung still further. Hap entirely excluded, the Directorate to be selected on public grounde. pily, there fa little fear of such a tragedy, because modern surveys Thirdly, the management should be with the most delicate instrumente ultimately subject to the Govern-have often only served to ment of the day, the higher, ap-phasise the extraordinary accuracy pointments to be subject to the ap-achieved by the old-time pioneers. proval of the Chancellor of the

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am-

Exchequer. In the fourth place, As result of leaing control of a the principles of the currency bicycle which he was riding, Teo system, o.g., whether or not the Chol, aged 19, of 39, Lower Lascar Raw, collided with a stationary lorry standard should be gold, or whether in Western Street yesterday. Ho Civil stability of wholesale prices or of received injuries to his face and was

the Government takon to cost of living or of some other Hospital for treatment.

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Further, a maximum and largely Paris faced this problem years! ago. She now has a bridge apan-uniform height to all buildings Boning the Seine about every 600 will add much to the safety of air ¡yards; ours are nearer 1,200 yards (passage over the city. Air taxi

"Tut, tut, Mr. Simmons, your're not in love with me.

That's just those sardi nes you had for lunch."

landings will not have to be under- taken only on a five to one gamble of hitting the roof of a towering tonoment or falling foul of BT adjacent factory chimney.

Surely in those day's we shal have given up the fouling of our life-providing atmosphere, with soft coal amoke from every pos sible heat maker.

Our coal will literally be ship ped in by wire; it will be trans formed into elcetric enargy at th pit mouth, brought into the alt on underground cables, distribut ed everywhere to do our heating cooking, lighting, unaccompanie by the present soot-dospelling In fluences.

To-day's bugbear, e servar problem, will have almost passe in 70 years; Inventors and bous wives will have devised ao mar gadgets that, except for the infan Invalid, or vary, agod, all w easily be able to cara for the regular needs themselves. W smoke's dirty influence remove roads hard-surfaced, and comm sonas in costume and diet, se provision will form a elmp lexercise rather than tryl

boredom.

Electric Flats

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We shall then be living larg In electrically equipped fla directed from switchboards, a fod from semi-public restaurar

The millennium will not b been reached. London, I am 4 we hope, will still be largely same dear old London we all lo but some of the knots will boon untangled, though life sibly will be a little more sir jous, due to added speed! (Continued on Page 0.)