1937-02-15 — Page 7

THE

HONGKONG⠀⠀ TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1937.

MALAYAN AIR SERVICE TO

TO START IN MAY Singapore-Penang Six Days

Days A Week

TWO MACHINES TO

OPERATE

Named Governor Raffles And Governor Fullerton MALAYA's first commercial air service is to begin operations on the Singapore-Penang route with the opening of the great new Civil Aerodrome at Kallang on Coronation Day, May 12..

The service is to be operated by Wearne Bros., Ltd., pioneers of the motor industry in Malaya. Two De Havilland Dragon Rapide passenger machines, famous on a score of the world's airways, have been ordered and are expected to be delivered in Singapore shortly.

The planes, which are to be called the Governor Raffles and Governor Fullerton, will operate a six days a week, dally return service trip being done in about three and a half hours,

Full Government approval for the service has been given and the planes have already been allotted their local registration num- bers-VR-SAV and VR-SAW.

IN the initial stages the internul air service is the one for pas sengers and freight, but negotiations are likely to begin shortly for the carriage of inter air mails.

"The object of the company," said Mr. E. W. Slight, a direc tor of Wearne Bros. who has been closely identified with the pro- fect, "is to provide the greatest degree of safely and comfort for passengers coupled with a fast service.

"Special care has been taken in choosing a type of machine particularly suited for operation in this country-the D. H. Dragon Rapide, a cabin biplane powered with two Gipay Major engines, giving it a cruising speed of over 130 m.p.h..

NEED OF MORE AERODROMES

ULLY loaded, the machine has # one-engine calling of 4,500 feet, giving a wide margin of safety In the event of cygne trouble. It is operating as a ten-seater on many airways in Europe, but we propose to make special study of the com- fort of passengers and accommoda- tion

will be so distributed as to allow the scaling of Ave besides the pilot, ample space for light luggage and a lavatory.

this

*

sories from Singapore to their branches in Malaya,

EARLY INTEREST

Mr. C. F. F. Wearne and his brother have been interested In aviation for many years and as early as 1020 they purchased a machine and brought it to Maloya, but many diMculties necessitated It being scrapped..

In 1935 the company again ap- "It should be possible under proached the Government in regard arrangement to carry about to the provision of an Internal air pounds of freight and when service and received a request for arrangements have been concladed further information. In connection with the carriage

400

Planning and preparation has con-

*general meeting of the company on Dec. 10 last Mr. C. F. F. Wearne

of mails this figure will according-tinued ever since and at the annual ly be redneed.

"Both machines are to be fully was able to announce that the com- equipped with night and blind-fly-pletion

ing Instruments and consideration May

of the civil aerodrome in would remove the principal

is being given to the installation of obstacle and that only the permis wireless equipment, which will per-

mit communication

the with

principal aerodromes in this coun- try end-the-receipt-of-weather-re- poris from the meteorological stations.

MAINTENANCE

en-

'Fully equipped maintenance staffs, under a chief ground gineer, with the requisite qualifica- ilona, and three assistants, will operate at Singapore. Kuala Lum pur and Bayan Lepas, Penang, and Our organisation throughout the country will be at the service of the machines

to

to

"Steps have already been taken procure pilots with consider- able experience of flying on com- mercial air routes and they will

opportunity be given overy famularise themselves with local conditions and thoroughly test the machines before the operates with passengers,”

£10,645,548

Tobacco Profits

The great Imperial Tobacco combine which has assets of more than £81,000,000, made bigger profits than ever last year and is distributing a 25 per cent. tax-free dividend to its Ordinary shareholders.

This means distribution of £9,390,762.

Total profits for the year are likely to be about £10,-

645,548, an increase of £367.- 000.

A Week Return Service

When this fire at Haifa, seen from Mount Carmel, Palestine, was first discovered near the Iraq Petroleum Company's pipeline terminus it was feured the pipeline had been maliciously ired. Later it was found that the company's workers had deliberately lit crude oil, leaking from the pipeline during repairs, to prevent it from spreading to the ields. It was from Mount Carmel that Elljah called down fire from heaven to confound the prophets of Baol.

Pacific Fleet Based at Singapore?

E

MIERE

Sydney, Feb. 10.

has been much

Com-

Germany Makes Half Her Petrol

DE

ment in Australian nowi- \ETAILS" of Germany's progress papers of the suggestion that in producing substitute raw Singapore will eventually become materials are contained in the firsi the headquarters of a new British | number of a new periodical, “The "Pacific Fleet."

Four years Plan."

'It is agreed here that the Em- pire as a whole should, without delay, face the question of a com- prehensive defence plan.

Or 2,000,000 tons of petrol used by Germany in 1935, 925,000 tons, of 45 per cent., were produced al home. This percentage is increas The Sydney Morning Heralding month by month, and in a year's time the country's entire petrol re- to Japan's peaceful pene- quirements should be tration of North Australia. her produced. capture of the pearllar industry, and her Iron-ora schemes, ta which agreed.

refers

RADIO BROADCAST

Dance Music From Hongkong Hotel

Z.E.K. PROGRAMME.

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. оп д wavelength of 353 metres (845 k.c.'s). 1.40

(0.52 m.c.'s).

metres

12.30 Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra.

1 Time and weather.

1.02 Songs by Malcolm McEachern (bass).

1.18 Rence Chemet (violin). 1.30 Reuter Press; Weather, time

and announcements:,

1.40 Variety.

2.15 Close Down.

by

8.25 A running commentary Frank V. Read of the Soccer foot-

ball match between the Shanghai Football Association and Combined Services Teams. Relayed from the Sookunpoo ground. .

5 p.m. A Relay of Dance Music from the Roof-Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel,

6.30 p.m. Welsh Songs. David of the White Rock; The little thatched cottage (are. Osborna Roberts) Leila Megane (Con-- Iralto); Y Delyn Aur... Rhondda Welsh Glee Singers; Dear Wales; The Village Spring (arr. Osborne Roberts) Leila Megane

6.50 Milltary Band Selections. The Binck Domino Overtura (Auber, arr. Winterbottom); Washing- ton Post (Sousa); Stars and Stripes for ever (Sous); Silver Trumpets- Grand Processional March (Viviani, arr. Godfrey); Under the Banner of Victory (von Blon); El Abanico. (Javeloyes, arr. Hume).

7.15 Memories.

Rale p.m.

da Costa

Waltz Romantique; "Words and Music Medley; True; A thousand goodnights.

7.30 p.m. Stock and Exchange Markets,

7.35 p.m. Concerto in F Major for Plano and Orchestra (Georgo Gershwin), played by Paul White-

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8 p.m. Time, Weather nouncements.

and. An-

6.03 A Relay from the Ko Shing Theatre (Chinese).

11 pm. Close Down.

8.05-11 1.m. European gramme from Z.E.K. on a fre quency of 640-kilocycles.

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8.05 pm. A Light Concert. Pianoforte Solos-Mazurka in A Flat Major, Op. 59, No. 2 (Chopin); Mazurka In D Major, Op. 33, No. 2 (Chopin),.... Ignace Jan Paderews- home: Soprano Sole The Almond Tree

(Schumann)

Elsie Suddaby: Instrumental-The

of the rose (Jessel, ar mhby Solos Morgen (R. Strauss)

Increasing quantities of heavy oil Western Australia has fuel are being extracted from stone coal, brown coal, and peal, and soon Germony's Diesel engines will be. independent of foreign supplies.

DIVORCE GRANTED

service sion of the Government was now re- FOR DESERTION

quired. That permission has since Mr. Slight said that his componymercial air servir

been given and Malaya's Arst com- is well past the had decided to concentrate on the

embryo stage. Singapore-Penang route to begin with and extend its operations to other parts of Malaya in due course. "Our machines will probably leave Singapore not later than 8 a.m. an every week day and after stop of about quarter of an hour at Kuala Lumpur should reach Penang about 11.30 am1.

private charter."

But Wearne Bros, are not the only company anxious to provide Malaya with an internal servian planes for Imperial Airways,

of

in conjunction with Alfred Holt and the Straights Steamship Co., Ltd., have similar plans.

n new

Wife's "My Escape From Tropics"

J. H. Squire Celeste Oclet; Tenor

Songe my mother taught me Dino

Violin Selo-Madri

Yvonne Curti; gale s Tenor Solo-A Brown Bird Singing that expressed (Royden Barrio Haydn Wood) "buna," or synthetic rubber made at Richard Tauber; Orchestral-Walde- home,

SYNTHETIC RUBBER

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Satisfaction is

is proving more serviceable | slust

(arr. Schlesinger); Wiener

in many ways than the natural com- Prater Leben (Translateur) modity. The process having been Columbla Salon Orchestra.

simplified, buna" is to be pro-

+8.38 on a far wider scale than

duced before.

The

national drive to collect rags, boncs, and waste products for conversion Into raw materials

has begun. More than 20,000 col lectors are at work, 3,000 in Ber- iin alone.

Each

.

special is supplied with a 66]//[INE is the old, story of a armband,

must and together they -young woman who falls in love visit every house in the city once

of

Searchlight Tattoo, 1936. Played by

p.m. Aldershot Command

the Musaed Bands of the Aldershot and Eastern Commands.

8.55 pm. London News and An- nouncements.

9.15 p.m. Violin Solos by Efrem Zimbalist.

Burlesca (Suk); Persian Song (Glinka); After Sundown (Scott); The Zephyr (Jeno Hubay)..

9.28 p.m. Variety.

Jack

Phoenix Park, West Two Children Too Humorous Diggin H "or" Ies

Few

At the annual general meeting of with a man home on leave from the a week. "The plane will begin its return Imperial Airways Ltd., In London trapies, becomes gripped by the so- journey from Bayan Lepas about in November last, Sir Erle Geddes, called glamour of the East, and lives 3 p.m. and reach Singapore about the chairman, stated that

to be completely disillusioned.” 6.30 p.. Thus Singapore business-company, to be known as Malayan In these words Mrs. C. Watkins men will have ample time to trans-Airways, would be formed as a re- Baker, act their affairs in the Northern ult of an agreement between Im- Square,

Scarborough, discussed Settlement and get back to Singa-perial Airways, Alfred Holt and Co., with a

London and the Straits Steamship Co.

reporter the de- pere the same day.

"This company," sald Sir Eric, the Kandy District Court, Ceylon.

cree nist granted to her husband by "The machines will be used on

"will this trip on alternate days, so that

have for Its objective the It was granted by Judge Dias, a one should usually be available for slighe peninsula and voining Sinhalese, on the grounds of malic GERMAN ARTISTS MUST the Malay and ous desertion only, and the case la territories in that area."

No subsequent statement on the the first of its kind since the Indlan

DRAW FOUR and Colonial Divorce Jurisdiction progress of Malayan Airways and

Act of 1928 became applicable to the new Ipoh nerodrome, their plans for a service has been Ceylon last year. When which is likely to be among the made. finest lu Malaya, is removed from the list of emergency landing grounds and gazetted as a regular commercial aerodromo, It is proba- ble that the new air service will in- clude Perak's principal, town. Mr. Slight also, suggested that Malneca would probably be a stepping place

IPOH SOON

Ford Sees His

when the proposed nerodrome there.j : 25,000-000th

is completed,

An

The "proposal"" to ̧‚'create' serodrome at Kota Bahru, Kelan

to serve the Penang-Hong- kong - Imperial air: mafi servica and defence requirements, also opens up the posibility of a

Motor-Car

Dearborn (Michigan), Feb. 10.

weekly commercial service from MR. HENRY FORD recently saw

Singapore to Kelantan by way of Kuala Lumpur

car

his twenty-five millionth leave the assembly line, and was In the initial stages, and until driven in it by his son, Mr. Edsel

Ford, to the company's exhibition

on

Berlin, Jan. 30. NO GLAMOUR

It has been brought to the notice of the Reich Chamber for Classic Mrs. Watkins Baker, an attractive, Arts by the department of the Na- dark-haired woman of about 35. tional Socialist Party, whose tasic to said, "I knew the case was pending, safeguard the purity of the German but took no steps to defend it. race, that pictorial representations of met my husband, who went a German family frequently show at out to Ceylon in 1005, In Scar- most two children. borough in 1920.

"I

A

The Chamber deplores this for "He loved the country and told

most me wonderful stories about it. Wa National Socialism combats

the two-childrea were married and left for Ceylon. energetically

"My husband's Interesis were in aystem, which means the inevitable the country, though I know that ruin of the German hallon. ' Na- as far as I was concerned it was tional Sociallam demands, the Cham- `a life sentence in the tropics. ber adds, that there shall be at least "We were quite happy together, four children in each family. Even but I could not stand the country it that modest demand is complied. with the population will be main- and in 1934 I came home."

Mr. Waticing Baker was granted fained only at its present level. custody of their son Michael, aged 12, who is at school In England Jurisdiction. of Mr. Watkins Baker hnd declared that Ceylon was now his permanent domlele.

Malayan businessmen and the public building me vehicle took its place. Judan Dias, held that the court had that when graphic artists portray a

become familiar with the advantages of the transport of freight by air,

There Wearns Bros will probably utilise with other historie models, including mirplus space in the planes for the Mr. Ford's first, experimental motore carriage of spare parts and acces« car.

The Chamber requests, therefore, German family they should show at laust four children as belonging to

Plano Duets "King of Burlesque" Medley; Three Hit" Medley

Wilson and Jimmy Leach;

Flanagan and Allen; Orchestra--- "Happy Memories" "Selection New Mayfair Orchestra; Vocal Fantasy from Film "Black Roses": To-day I am happy.... Lilian Har-

The Winter Waltz .... Len Fillis,

10 p.m. Big Ben.

(Soprano); Orchestra-Rosetta;

Dance Music.

11 p.m. Close Down.

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