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AL FRESCO FETE

The 50th Annual Fete'

of-the

SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL

will be held in the compound of the

CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL

on

SUNDAY, December 3, 1933.

Under the Distinguished Patronage of

H.E. The Governor Sir William Pool, K,C.M.G., K.B.E..

Admission:-$1.00.

Each admission ticket entitles the holder to a Souvenir (on the evening of the Fete only).

From

The Foto will be opon from 3.30 p.m. to 11 p.m. 3.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. excellent programmes will be staged of SPECIAL INTEREST TO CHILDREN, Tea and refresh- ments obtainable.

In the Grounds there will be a Toy Bazaar--Lucky Wheel~ Shooting Gallary and a lot of other attractions,

ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR

For

Kiddies and Grown-Ups.

COME AND HELP HONG KONG'S POOR.

SIMONDS

The

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Umpires Decision

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THE HOP LEAS

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1933,

The new building of the Changchow General Hospital (Stephenson Memorial Hospital) was de- dicated recently, Bishop Paul B. Kern officiating. The above photograph was taken during the core- many. The Hospital has accommodation for 144 patients and is four storeys high, built of reinforced concerete throughout and filed with electric lighting and all modern conveniences.

WHEN THE PIER ROCKS.

Failing to be satisfied by the one or the other, he feels he has not been well served, and starts to become inquisitive,

A STORY OF P.W.D. ENDEAVOUR THE MAGIC OF

FIGURES.

BY C.V.-L. FOR THE TELEGRAPH.

Figures will always have Catal attraction in those cases, and so it is that we imagine hear- IT WAS QUITE AN EXPERIENCE, the other day to ing a sort of triumph, as, having be on the new Vehicular Pier at Connaught Road Works Extraordinary, he comes delved into Estimates of Public

Central at a moment when one of the new boats was out with the information that up nosing its way into the V-shaped basin. The coxswain to date a total of well over a was one who knew his job. He judged the distance to axpended at least on paper, on the million and a half dollars has been an inch, expertly bringing the unloading end into con-pier. tact, and thereafter the process of clamping down, of

That is as well as it may be, he, disembarking and unloading followed as a matter of cavilling at a position return-

course;

ing quid pro quo. But after having further exceeded by nearly two lakhs the original estimate. It is indicated that the expenditure does not really

of the

No actual impact took place be. is a mass, essentially brittle for tween pier and vessel, and so the its bulk, being subjected to a

halt there. Further Consequences feared for the pier constant bulletting by man and in the condition It Is reputed to nature. The coxswain does not allotments are being, called for, be already in, were

not then require a request to be "careful": and these for the purpose of on

overhauling he may be relied upon to be as extensive demonstrated. Still, the signs of cautious as we have seen him that structure. a rapid deterioration were up- parent almost everywhere. In day. but conceivably there will In this, he had his first Intima- one part the pler had subsided. been in the past, when he canno!all was not as well as might have always be occasions, as there have tion from an official quarter that and in another the waiting are help giving it a forcible bump or been expected, the additional large rallings had staggered out alignment, the whole producing two. Then the pier rocks alarm-votes bringing the already huge an impression of the force of a

nely, and nervous passenger outlay to the best part of tw aubterranean epheaval,

begin seriously to doubt the solidity millions, being plainly a tacit ad- of the mass as a whole,

mission that much more will have to be done before it can be as well as expected.

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It la not left to him to under- stand what the character or form the further work will take, but the evidence has already been placed before him that it will be funda. mental, and as such, presupposes possibly, also inexpert design from an inexpert direction hnd. very

Recently formed cracks wer exposed behind the fenders, some" This is articularly true of the of which in their turn appeared to hour of high tide and swirling have been knocked off the percurrents, when the "orbit Fendicular, and fissures beginningscillation" becomes most marked, to show in the superstructure aug. and the dreadful thought is gested that this deterioration was engendered that the piles are extending to the summit.

sagging, that Instability is reach- ing down to the very foundations, Plainly something was radically

This "weakness about the legs" wrong with the pier for all this to is evident to the man who, using the beginning. have occurred within the brief space of six months of its exial.the pier, is not dispused, for ence, nore than maintenance or listen to the niceties of pler con- become apparent early on,

sufficient reason of his own, to Incidental repairs, reaching downstruction, much less to appreciate thoro-had-net-in a period of alter-- to constructional stability: in short to the fundamental prin- where that appreciation in

Its attendant difficulties,

nate tinkering and bolstering. As is ciples of pier design and construc- last enn be extended to affiency of down to the roots:

the case where the faults reach to the very the work when it has been put into fundamentals of location, layout, use. It is then to be feared that and design, it has no more than having paid for it out of his owcarried over temporary difcalties pocket, his outlook is circumer while leaving the actual solution of ed by this one demand for effi- the problem to be still probed by Here ciency combined with safety.

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SITUATION OF GRAVE CONCERN.

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