1936-06-24 — Page 14

MOTORING PAGE

We want better car

Parks

America tries

slot-meters

says

A Motor

Correspondent

O

VER in Oklahoma City they have

started kerb-parking meters.

These

park-o-meters are set at intervals of 20ft. along the kerb.

When a motorist drops fifty- cents in the slot n green signal is raised.

After

une hour the algnal drops and any passing "cop" can tell at n glance that the ear has been over- . parked.

the

These meters were installed after an official investigation into parking problem.

It was discovered that 80 per cent..

People we all

know-

The bicycling errand boy who WILL speed past tram stops.

There must be a lot of money in

of the valuable parking places in the the parking business. city was being utilised by car ownera

as an all-day garngo.

Away

they in Oklahoma City pouched more than £2,000 in Afteen

At any rate, Oklahoma City darn days in the park-o-meters.

in recently by the authorities. At many of the beaches, expcelally on the

Arc conditions

almost mainland, chaotic, and are likely to become inore so this season with the enormous in. crease in new cars,

Government should place the car the most in- portant item in their propaganda for parking problem pa attracting visitors..

21 *

recognise the parking problem and is The parking problem is becoming Salt Road Carpets

trying to put

basis.

matters on d Bane acute at Hongkong's mainland and Away in Ithaca, N.Y., they are

We have our all-day parkera. They island beaches, despite good work' put making their road carpets of salt.

trust to luck. Instead of the meter

we have a polierman with a notebook,

By the day of the land, if you get away before he stops you the police- man has no ease. In big cities hun dreds of car owners every day play the game of dodging the policeman.

..

Inadequate Provision

Just as many chra are parked in unauthorised car parks as in official parking placer.

This is because the ellicial park- plages are totally inadequate."

Few authorities are taking the trou-

ble to assist car owners in this mat.

Why

fits the

the nut

bolt

NUTS sent to Hongkong

from Manchester fit →

ter. Meanwhile, the problem is be- bolts sent to Hongkong from coming worse every dny,

Hers is the view of the London Glasgow because of an accu-

you've one

and Home Counties Traile Advisory rate screw at the National Screw to thank

Committee, given in their report,

just published. For the year 194 Physical Laboratory just.

1936:

outside London.

Does

that

for it

•

"In our view, the provision of gar

sound strange? dically compared with the standard of ges and parking places of the

vehiclen

nuts and lengths which is also kept there. maybe Then consider how highway. where parked at reasonably low rates, is a

* * * inatier of arrest importance, and the bolts are made. promoters of schemes for their provi aion deserve every enco:ragement.

Firms all over Britain who

11 is not absolutely accurate with

dimensions of three parts in one

Sir Malcolm Campbell won the world's fantenk Jand speed record on the Salt Desert.

Fast and Safe

In a book just published, "Speed on Salt," by George Evalon and W. F. Bradley (B. T. Bataford, bs, net), they tell you that salt provides the finest possible surface, You can ret high speed on such a surface, and safe speed.

Sale is white-the ideal colour for making the most of your lamps.

Salt roads, according to the Ithaca experts, can be built for round about 90 a mile, compared with £300 a mile for an asphalt road.

But salt, of course, may be "cheap" in these parts. Anyhow, the idea is ingenious, and we want ingenuity in road-building.

We are fortunate in lingkong res garding non-skid ronds for our tra ille people and the P.W.D. have al- ways been fully alive to this' problem. But there are one or two places on the Castle Peak road that are still danger spots.

WAS IT TRUE? (Sot column Two)

1 Right Though it may some- timer kill poultry.

The

2 light, Bombastus Paracelsus, who lived 400 years ago, most famous doctor of his age and much given to bousting.

3 Wrong. For example, there la ono in the Sahara 180 miles long

4 Wrong. It never existed. It is half eagle, half Hon..

5 Wrong. The Emperor penguin weight 76 lba.

O Right.

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"In accordance with the policy to make nuts and bolts conform to the standard; it has an error in its Secretly and Quicitly which reference is made in our last report, we decided not to support at standard of accuracy which million. number of proposals for the appoint. Imits error in measurement to ment of public parking places where approximately two-thousandths It appeared that neighbouring gara of an inch.

were able to accommodate the Vehicles at resonably low charges."

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549

Excessive Charges

The experience of London motorists "T ́tet "Dhly park facilities-nre-poor-hut- garage charges are often excessive,

QUIET CORNER

Green shroud

for the pine

THE great pine crashed to enrth on a night of storm about seven years ago.

Ever since then its trunk has Join straight along the bank at the foot of the dense thorn tree above which it onco towered high. From its splintered base to its cleanly sawn head it is slowly becoming a part of the green bank on which it lies.

The moss which has has cropt over the wounds left by the torn bark merges with the young grass now lapping againt the sides of the prone trunk.

The bare stumps, where the branches were lopped, have turn- ed into little towers of ivy, and there will be nothing visible throughout the summer save a long green ridge, when the nettles have grown tali enough to hide. the last senrred wond from sight.

·COUNTRYMAN.

The nuts and bolts are made on lathes, and the accuracy of the cutting depends on the ac curacy of a long screw, called the leading screw, in the lathe.

Soon even that minute margin of

working to base standards of length. error will be lessened. Scientists are the wave length of light. The argin of error will then be reduced one hundred millions.

on

to n

breadth

few parts It

In comparison with such measure- ments as these the extent of a hair's or the proverbin! skin of your teeth becomes positively vnst. "This persistent air for exactness is essential. Every engineer's planA This leading screw is checked by contain measurements which people the makers of the lathe against their unskilled in engineering, could never own master leading screw, which, in visualise; yet success depends on their its tura, is correctly adjusted to em. accuracy. pare with the leading screw kept at the National Physical Laboratory.

Then the laboratory leading screw has to be kept accurate, so it is perio

Is It True?

Some of these statements are right. Some

180 wrong. Do know which? ··

1. The badger cats grass mainly.

2. "Bombast" is a word derived from the name of a doctor.

3. A desert oasis is never more than a mile long.

. 4. The griffin is an ex- tinct animal.

5. The vulture is the heaviest of all birds.

6. Henry VIII. was only nineteen when he became king.

(Answers in Column Four)

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Britain's greatest liner, the Queen Mary, has eighty-ton genr wheels in the engine rooms which were cut to ano-thousandth of an inch. The 200- ton gear cases are fitted to a limit of and a half thousandths of an

one inch.

Bridges, thousands of feet in length, are so carefully planned that when the ends meet they are per- fectly in line. Even in n tunnel five miles long the error, when the ends meet, amounts to less than half an inch.

So we do sometimes benefit from short measure.

The salt is either mixed with or road inserted between

layers of material and rolled to a firm sur face. Once the salt has crystallised on the surface the rond sheds water during rain and does not become slip- .pery or muddy.

Mr. George Eyston is off again to Bonneville Salt Flats, the great American salt desert, In the State of Ulul, to attempt, world's long- distance speed records and a record with a Diesel-engined motor-car.

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YOUR'S AIN'T SQ BAD, EITHER PAL!

KING'S BIRTHDAY RECEPTION

GOVERNOR AND LADY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1936:

ARRIVED!

CALDECOTT AS HOSTS BIG BROADCAST

Yesterday evening a reception was held at Government House, in place of the Ball which usually marks the Wan King's Birthday. Parmiesion specially obtained from leme to hold the reception, which was granted despite the fact that full Court mourning does not cease until July.

For the first line, King Edward VIII's royal cipher and crown alone over the fnende of Government House, the Illuminated sign being visible from the other side of the harbour,

Landy An previously announced Caldecott, who arrived from England a week ago, had suficiently recovered from indisposition to receive the guests with Is Excellency the Gov ernor though she did not undertako the strain of standing up during the holo time that the 2,000 guests, fled mis.

Thanks to adequnte arrangementa by the police the Immenso traßßle was dealt with amoothly. A telephong was put up on Murray Parade Ground and guests merely gaye the numbers of their cars at the door when leav ing.

An excellent programmnie of music was given by the bands,

The Principal Guests Among 1.) guests were:-Ill's Excellency Major General and Mrs. A. W. Bartholomew, His Honour Sir Atholl and Lady MacGregor, His Honour Mr. Justice J, J. and Mrs.. Hayden, the Very Rev. Father A. Riganti, Commodore and Mrs. C. G. Sedgwick, Brigadier and Mrs. II. G. Seth-Smith, Hon. Mr. R. A. C. and Mrs. North, Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabas- ter, Hon. Mr. W. J. and Mrs. Carrie, Hon. Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Taylor, Miss M. Taylor, Ion. Mr. A. G, W. Tickle, Hon. Sir Shouson Chow and Miss Chow, Hon. Mr. J..J. and Mrs. Paterson, Hon. Mr. W. 11. and Mrs. Bell and party, Ilon. Commdr. and Mrs. G. F. Hole, Hon. Dr. and Mrs. A. R. Wellington, Hon. Mr. T. H and Mrs. King, Miss King, Hon. Mr.

W. and Mrs. Ts'o,, Missca Ts'o, Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, Hon. Mr. M. K. and Mrs. Lo, Hon. Mr. S. H. and Mrs. Dodwell, Misses D. A. and Pamela Dodwell, Sir William Hor- nell, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Sayer, Mr. W. Schofield, Mr. E. W. Hamilton, Sir Robert and Lally Ho Tung, Mr. V. M. Grayburn, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Kolewall, Misses Kotewall. Wing Commander and Mrs. A. G. Bishop, Hon. Mr. A. F. D. and Mrs. Silva- Netto and Miss Silva-Netto, "Hon. Mr. M. T. Jolinson,

The Consular Body and members of all sections of the community's social, business and military life at- tended.

C.

By kind permission of Lt-Col. A.

Marsh and Officers, the Band of the 2nd Battalion, the East Lan- cashire Regiment (Bandmaster A. 1. Yule), and by kind permission of of Lt. Col. D.C. Wilson, D..., RA, and Ofteers the Pipes of the long-

HK.S.I.A.. kong Brigade,

(Tipe Major Muhd played the following Majos Mund) provided music in the grounds.

SONG & DANCE ALBUM

No. 7

FRANCIS & DAY'S 9th

SONG & DANCE ALBUM

TSANG FOOK PIANO Co.

Marina House. 19 Queen's Road Central. Tel. 24648.

OUR BRITISH crosswords

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IN

120

122

ACROSS

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1 A Shakespearean character about.

fifty shows coltrage.

4 Always in expensive fur, so can'

be cut.

8 Christopher catches military re-

ceptacles.

Examine carefully, and look out! It's hollowed,

19 Old-fashioned party.

Lay low with a number side of the day before. 12 Stem.

cach

15 Form of death that's much dis-.

liked.

16 Like the Bedouin.

Dance music WBS played he 18 Allled. tween 10.30 p.ru, and 1a.m. Light

refreshments were served on the roof garden and in the grounds, while supper was served from 11.35 p.m. below the ballroom.

CONSULS RECEIVED

In accordance with local tradition. His Excellency the Governor receiv-

21 "Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to on the lips" (Moore: "Lalin Rookh). Bund wire, B4 Counterpart.

23

26lle's no angel, but invaluable to

the croupier. 1

28 Docs rough metal bend in-this

French town?

engrossing.

bag

might

become

ed the Consular Body and their Your brenth is. g, often as not. ladies at Government House yester-30 Robin's day at 11.30 am. when all foreign -representatives-in-the-Colony-1--31-The walk-of-a-great-reader...

tended to pay their respects and to drink the health of His Majesty the King.

Ilis Excellency, proposini! the toast, said: "Ladies and gentlemen, 1 bellovo that in Hongkong alone out of all the King's territories will the first item in the celebration of Is Majesty's first birthday on the Throne have been a meeting. clusive and intimate, between Consular Endy and the Colonial

Governor.

Ex- the

DOWN

1 Is this a card-player's hobby 7

(hyphen, and 4).

2 Not the fact,

3 Aga.

4 Hang the solution!

5 Candidly, in a fly.

6. Blown up, but evidently keep-

ing up longer than the rest

7 Heralds

your clüb.

a bright futuro for

9 Entirely spotless,

13 Rigid part of the ship.

11 In

two exclamations

gets into a state.

17 involved and worried.

mother

10 Almost needles, as any dress-

maker will agree.

20 A novelist who can

tund.

21 Euclid's favourite sport? 22 A South Const resort.

mako us

23 Girl who embraces A whole

blooming family.

20 If you don't turn one, you re-

main undisturbed.

27 Way of mine.

Yesterday's Solution

C RÝ BABY TERMIN ODRUPALERULUBE N WET KANSPARENTE ATHY DUNÓNG AME REIDA TRPORTEREN DOCKETEI SOARED SKERE ELKE CEBWILL-ENDE DEM ISLA FEW IS THC TETALSI, UENDER UC STUDDED DE DEEDYE CILL

thefr sympathy with us in our re- loss, so do 1 I shall be told, perhaps, that this cent immeasurable

them 10 this singularity of ours is quite acciden- gratefully welcome tal and due to the transference of first pledging of the Royal toast to-

day. Our King's clefest, and pro-}· the military parade from the morn claimed desire is for world peace ing to the afternoon. That but nevertheless I choose to see in

Is so,

founded upon understanding, and

SUMMERHOUSE

DOUBT, ED ADHERED

PALESTINE CURFEW

JERSALEM-HAIFA ROAD FORBIDDEN AT NIGHT

Jerusalem, June 23.

In order to tighten precautions

curfew has been ordered between 7

our order of ceremony for this first can think of nothing more appro year of His Majesty's reign some-priate than that, this first delning

accidental but of his health should be by a gather against Arab snipers and ambushes a merely thing not symboilcat. I believe that nowhere ing so happy, so intimate of the rep.m, and 4.30 am, along the road from on earth do people of all nutions presentatives of so many nations and Jerusalem to Haifa, and no irtime

will be allowed thereon. live together in greater amity and peoples and gentlemen, I give you

goodwill

than here in Hongkong. believe that in no part of the Bri- could the re- tish Commonwealth lations between the Consular Budy and the Colonial administration be more firmly rooted in mutual re- speel, charitableness and fellowship than here in this Colony.

"And, so just as the Consular Body were amon!! the first to express

The Handy Clap

"WE CERT'NLY AIN'T GITTIN') HECK,NO! WE'RE SO` NO FURTHER APART, BUD! CLOSE T'GETHER WE COULD PLAY CHECKERS, ER SOMETHIN' !

The King,"

Pedestrians will not be allowed to approach within 500 yards of both. Sergeants "At Home" The Volunteer Sergeants Mess sides of the roud.

A bomb was thrown in the Jewish were "At Home" to their friends in the Mess from noon to 1 p.m. ye- Lerday, and many took the oppor-quarter of the city to-day but there tunity of visiting them on this spe- were no casualties. Another bamb

plode.--Renter's Bulletin.... cial becasion provided by the Khug's was thrown later but failed to cx- Birthday.

BEAN PORRIDGE.

HOT

By Small

BEAN PORRIDGE COLD

1994 BY MEA DERVICE,