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We want better car

Parks

℗ America tries slot-meters says A Motor

Correspondent

VER in Oklahoma City they have These started kerb-parking meters,

park-o-meters are set at intervals of 20ft, along the herb,

When a moterist drops afty- cents in the slot a green signal is raised.

After are hung the signal-drops and any passing Feop" can tell ut a dance that the ear has been over

The e gobera wote installed after licial investigation into the

parking prtıbılıın.

It was discovered that 80 per cent. of the valuable parking places in the rity was being utilised by car owners as an all-day garage.

People we all know

The bicycling errand boy scho WILI. speed past trant stops..

There mug lự a lot of money in the parkdug business,

Oklahom Chy they Away in patched inore than 12,000 is fifteen

At any rate, Oklahoma City does day in the park-o-meters, recognise the parking problem and is The parking problem is becoming

trying to put. basis.

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FLEX

We have our all-day parkers, They trust to luck, Justead of the meter we have a pollenan with a notebook. By the low of the land, if you get away before he stops you the police man has ne case. In big cities hun- dreds of ear owners every day plny the rane of stodging the policeman.

Inadequate Provision

Just as many ears are parked in unauthorrer! car parkstras in atrial parking places.

itu

Thi because the official park-

in recently by the authorities. At tany at the beaches, especially on Use almost conditions mainland. chaotic, ami are likely to became more so this season with the OFBOs in- frease in new ears,

Government should place the car The most 1- parking problem as portant item in their propaganda for

tacting vidtora.

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Salt Road Carpets

A why Brute at Bangkong's mainland and

in Ithne, N.Y.. they are island benches, despite gesond work pat making their road carpets of salt.

Why

the nut

bolt

fits the

plures are totally inadequate. TUTS sent to Hongkong

Few thorities are taking the trot

ble to twist var ewners in this mal-

NUT

from Manchester fit. O you've one

Jer. Meanwhile, the problem is be- bolts sent to Hongkong from Here is the view of the London Glasgow because of an accu-

conning wor: « every day.

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

Comtuitter, give their repart. jet publi-hef, 1985:

for the year 1934: Physical Laboratory just

"In our view, the provisum of gur. age and parking plan off highway, where vehicles

outside London, “

for it

•

th

Does that sound nay Then consider how

strange? deally compared with the standud et nuts and lengths which is also kept there,

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parked at rowionby low rates, is n

master of great importance, and the bolts are made,

promoters of sebenes for their provi

son deserve every entouragement,

Firms all over Britain who

It is not absolutely accurate with

dimensions

tion.

Sir Malcolm Campbell won Whe world's fastest land speed record on the Salt Desert.

Fast and Safe.

In a book just published, "Speexi on Salt," by George Eyston and W. F. Bradley (B. T. Inisford, Ts, not), they tell you that salt provides the finest possible surface. You enn gep. high speed on such a surface, and safe speed.

Salt is white--the ident colour for naking the most of your lamps,

"Salt rods, according to the Ithaca experts, can be built for round about 190a inile, compared with £300 a wile for an asphalt road.

But all, of course, may be cheap. In those parts. Anyhow, the idles is ingenious, and we want ingemity in' road-building.

We are fortunate in Hongkong re- warding non-skid real for our tru fie people and the PW.D. have' al- ways been fully alive to this problem. But there are que or two places on the Castle Peak rand that are still danger spots,

WAS IT TRUE?

(Stv column Two)

1 Right: Though it may some times ki poultry,

Right. Bomhastus Paracelsus, who lived 400 years ago. The most famous doctor of his age and much given to boasting.

3 Wrong. For example, there is one in the Sahara 186 miles lang.

4 Wrong., 1, never existed. It is half eagle, half lion."

5 Wrong. The Emperor penguin weighs 75 lbs.

Right.

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"I arenrdance with the policy to make nats and bolts conform to the stand; it has an error in its Secretly and Quickly which referener is made in our last report, we decided not to support a standard of accuracy which mush of proposals for the appoint. límits error in measurement to ment of public parking places where approximately two-thousandths it appested that neighbouring gara of an inch.

were able to accommodate the vehicles at resonably law cha rites."

Biker

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Excessive Charges

The experience of London motorists _is_not_only_park facilities are pour bur garage charges are often excessive.

-QUIET CORNER

Green shroud

for the pine

..

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

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Ever since then to trunk has lain straight along the bank at the foot of the dense thom tree above which it once towered high.|

From its splintered base to its cleanly sawn hend it is slowly becoming a part of the green bank on which it lies.

The most which has has crept over the wounds left by the torn! bark merges with the young now lapping againt the sides of the prone trunk.

KYANG

The bare stumps, where the branches were lopped, have turn: ed into little towers of ivy, andi there will be nothing visiblo throughout the summer save a long green ridge, when the nettles have grown tall enough to hide the last scarred wood from sight.

COUNTRYMAN.

"

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

of three paria in one

♡ Soon even that minute murgin of error will be lessened. Scientists are working to base standards of lougth 071 the wave length of light. The margin of error will then be reduced 12) G few parts in une hundred. millions.

In comparison with such measure- ments as these the extent of a hair's breadth or the proverbal skin of your teeth becomes positively vast,

This persistent air for exaciness is... essential. "Every engineer's - plans This leading screw is checked by contain measurements which sple the makers of the lathe against their unskilled in engineering could never own master lending screw, which, in visualise; yet success depends on their ils turn, is correctly adjusted to com, 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

wrong. Do you - know whicht

1. The badger ents 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 tinct animal.

5. The vullure is heaviest of all birds.

ex-

the

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

(Answers in Colamy Four)

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

in

Bridges, thousands of fert length, are a carefully planned that when the ends meet they are per- fectly in line. Even in a tunnel ve miles long the error, when the ends meet, amounts to less than half a inch.

So We de sometimes benefit from short measure.

The salt is either mixed with or inserted between layers of rond 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 Byston is off again to Bonneville Salt Flats, the great American salt desert, in the State of Utah, to attempt world's long- distance speed records and a record

with a Diesel-engined motor-car.

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COUNT THE

KING'S BIRTHDAY RECEPTION

GOVERNOR AND LADY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1988.

ARRIVED!

CALDECOTT AS HOSTS BIG BROADCAST

Yesterday evening, a réception was held at Govermont House, in place; of the Ball which usually marks the King'e Birthday. Permission VGA specially obtained from Home to hold the recuption, which was granted despite the fact that full Court mourning does not cease until July.

For the first time, King Edward Vill's royal cipher and crown shone over the facade of Government House, vix!bja the illuminated sign being from the other side of the harbour,

As previously announced

"Lady Caldecott, who arrived from England a week agn, had suficiently recovated from ludisposition to receive the gucate with His Excellency, the Gov- ernor though she did not undertake the strain of stamling up during the whole,tipio that the 2,000 guests filed past.

Thanks to adéquate arrangements by the pollee the immense raffle was dealt with smoothly. A telephong -wis pul up on Murray Parade Grond and guests merely gave the numbers of their ears at the door when leav ing.

An excellent programme of music was given by the buds,

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The Principal Guests Among the guests, were--R Excellency Major General and Mrs. A. W. Bartholomew, to Honour Sir Atholl and Lady MacGregor, His Honour Mr. Justice ງ.

J. and Mrs. Hayden, the Very Bey, Father Riganti. Commodore and Mrs. C. C. Sethwick, Brigadier and Lirs. H. G. Seth-Smith, Hon. Mr. R.

Mrs. North, Hun. Alr. C... and. Alabas- ter, Hum. Mr. W. d, and Mrs. Carrie, Hon. Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Taylor, Miss M. Taylor,

Hon.

C. w.. Mr. A. Tickle Hon. Sir Shougon Chow and Miss Chow, Hon. J. J. and Mis. Paterson, Hun. Mr. W. H. and Mrs. Bell and party. Hon. Commdr. and Mr. G. F-Hole, Hon. Drand "Mrs. A. R. Wellington, Hon, Mr. T. H. and Mrs. King, Miss King, Hon. Mr. S. W. and Mrs. Ta'o, Misses Hon. M. T. N. Chau, Hon. Mr. M. K. and Mrs. Lo, Hon. Mr. S. H. and Mrs. Dodwell, Misses D. A. and Pamela Dodwell, Sir Willian Hor- nell, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Sayer, Mr. W. Schofield, Mr. E. W. Hamilton, Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung. Mr. V. M. Grayburn. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Kotewall, Misses Kotowall, Winr Commander and Mrs. A. G. Bishop, Hon. Mr. A. F. D. and Mrs. Silva- Netto and Miss Silva-Netto, Me. M. T. Johnson.

Hon.

The Consular Body and members) of all sections of the community's zuela, baiten und military life al-

:+tId,

By kind permission of Lt-Col, A. C. Marsh and Oilleers, the Band of the 2nd Battalion, the East Lan- enshire Regiment (Handhaaster

A.

B. Yule), and by kind permission of of LLALL D.C. Wibon, p.8.0., R.A.. and Olcers the Plues of the Hong- kong Brigade, TIK.S.R.A., (I'l Major Mulid) played the following Majos Mahd) provided music in the grounds.

be-

on the

Dance music

pinyed WA tween 10.30 pm. and I am. Light refreshments were served roof garden and in the grounds, while upper was served from 11.15 jan, below the ballroom,

CONSULS RECEIVED

In accordance with local tradition, His Excellency the Governor receiv- ed the Consular Body anch their

SONG & DANCE ALBUM

No. 7

&

FRANCIS &_ DAY'S 9th-

SONG & DANCE ALBUM

TSANG FOOK PIANO Co.

1.

Marina House, 19 Queen's Road Central.

Tel. 24648.-

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1 A Shakrapearean character' about

tify shows, courage.

4 Always in expensive fur, so can

by cut.

& Christopher entches military re-

reptacles,

9 Examine carefully, and look out!

It's hollowed.

10 Old-fashioned party,,

11 Lay hw with a number se of the day before. 12 Stem.

ench

15 Form of death that's much dis-

likel

16-Like the Bedouin,

18 Allied.

21 "lead Seu fruits,

that tempt

the eye. But turn to on the lips" (Moors "Lalla Roosh"). 23 Bend wire.

21 Counterpart.

26 He's no‘angel, but invaluable to

the croupier.

Dees rough metal bend in this French town?

Your breath is as often as not.

enrossĺzug.

ladies in Government House yester- H0 Robin's bag might become day at 11.30 am, when all foreign- representatives in the Colony 0-81-The walk-of-a-great render.. tended to pay their respects and to drink the health of His Majesty the Kink.

His Excellency, proposing, the toast, sald: "Ladies and gentlemen: I believe that in Hongkong alone out of all the King's territories will the first item in the celebration of His Majesty's first birthday, on the Throne have been a meeting, 1 arone clusive and intimate, bulween the

ex-

Consular Body and the Colonial

Governor.

but

DOWN

1 Is this a card-player's hobby?

(hyphen, G and 4).

2 Not the fact.

3 Aga.

1 Häng the solution!

5 Candidly, in a fly.

Blown up, but evidently keep-

ing up longer than the rest.

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السنة

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7 Heralds bright future for

your club.

Entirely spotless.

1 Rig part of the ship.

11

LWE exclamations mother.

gels into a state.

17 Involved and worried.

Almost needless, as any dress- maker will agree.

29 A novelist who can make us

mind.

23 Euclid's Tavourite sport? 192. A South Coast resort.

23 Girl who embraces

blooming family.

1. Wholu

25 If you don't turn one, you res

main undisturbed.

j27 Way of mine.

Yesterday's Solution CRYBABY TERMINTM

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their sympathy with us in our re- PALESTINE CURFEW

luss, so do I cent immeasurable

thein to this

pruce

"I shall be told, perhaps, that this singularity of ours is quite acciden- gratefully welcome tal, and due to the transference of first pledging of the Royal toast to- the military parade from the morncialmed desire is for world

day. Our King's chiefest and pro- Ing to the afternoon. That

founded upon understanding, and but nevertheless I choose to see in our order of ceremony for this first year of His Majesty's reign some thing not merely hccidental symbolical. I believe that nowhere on earth do people of all nations live together in greater amity and

than here in Hongkong, Rodwill believe that in no part of the Bri- could the re- tish Commonwealth lations between the Consular Body und the Colonial, administration be in mutual re-

JERSALEM-HAIFA ROAD FORBIDDEN AT NIGHT

Jerusalem, June 23.

precautions

can think of nothing more appro- In order to tighten priate than that this first drinking against Arab sulpers and ambushes a of his health should be by a gather curfew has been ordered between 7 ing so happy, so intimate of the ream, and 4.30 am, along the road from presentatives of so many nations and Jerusalem to Haifo, and no traffic

will be 'allowed thereon: peoples.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you }

The King."

Pedestrians will not be allowed to approach within 500 yards of both Mess sides of the road.

Sergeants "A Home" The Volunteer Sergeants' were "A Home" to their friends in the Mess from noon, to 1 yes-

A bomb was thrown in the Jewish

“TELEGRAPHS"spect, charitableness and fellowship terdus, and many took the oppor-quarter of the city to-day but there

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

EVERYWHERE

than here in this Colony.

"And, so Just as the Consular Body were ainong the first to express

The Handy Clap

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

tunity of visiting thein on this spe- were no casualties. Another bomb cial occasion provided. by the King's was thrown later but failed to ex-

plode.-Reuter's Bulletin, Rirthday.

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