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February 27, 1940.

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MODERN POWER PLANT OPENED BY GOVERNOR History Of Development

Of Kowloon Traced

Designed, to house approximately three times the plant now within it and which is adequate for all Kowloon's present needs, the Chinh. Light and Power Co., Ltd new power station at Hok Un was opened yesterday by the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote.

About 1,600 people attended, the inaugural ceremony, which was held in the huge new boiler, house, and were later given refreshments in the turbine room.

By turning a switch on the daia the Governor set the station in motion. Sented on his left was Mr. L. Kadoorie, Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors,

The now power station which stands on reclaimed land Inside a gravity pen-wall of massive granite blocks, was designed to accommodate approximately 40,000 kW. plant connoty. The boller house £ 220 ft. In length, nearly 52 ft. wide, and the roof Is 100 from the ground level," Mr. Kadoorle sold:

tions, the Instaliation of pump pils, to the Company's able and courteous and the construction of intake and Chairman, Mr. Lawrence Kadoorie, discharge culverts) in connection on his achievement in putting before with two further turbo-alternatorsus no simply and effectively his com of 18.750 K.W. and 30,000 W., res-plex and absorbing tale.

Doubtless, ns we listened to Mr. pectively--has been completed in readiness for the prompt installa-Kadoorie the thought struck alber tion of such additional plant as soon minds as well as my own: "What

Conditions warant its purchase.

would .Kowloon have been to-day high tension switch house DC had it not been for the vision and commodating the 6,000-volt switch the faith of Mr. R. G. Shewan and dear is 110 feet long, 38 feet wide his fellow-directors during the first and 17 feet to the ceiling. It is both 20 years of this century? Suppose jihysically and electrically sub- that instead of

of marching ahead as 'a divided into four sections separated standard bearer as they...

did--the by fire-walls and fire-doors, with flame barriers between the inter-local light and power company had connector switchos. Carbon dioxide cen governed by a cautious polley,

hesitating

or thrice before twice fire-fighting equipment and separate each step forward; would we have oil drainage are provided for each had on the Peninsula to-day the compartment All

In this FEAT

amazing development of

20 years

iu|

switch house was supplied by Messra. and fàetórica which the last tels

A. Reyrolle & Co., Ltd., of Hebburn- have seen and which is still. I am on-Tync.

in ripid

claimed from the sea, was required The history of the China Light and for the future development of the Power Company is the history of the power station, the laying out of an development of Kowloon. At the extensive cont yard and the provi-modates the multicore control cables time of its lease in 1868 Old Kow-ston of a well-equipped workshop.which are led through a reinforced loon had a population of a little over In addition, an air raid shelter cap-concrete duct of ample size, to the 800 people and it is recorded that is able of housing approximately 200 basement under the switch housa soll was considered so worthless that people has now been

provided. To-

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Exchange At A Glance

SELLING

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Bangkok TT. Saigon T.T. France T.T. Switzerland TT. Australia

30 d/# India ..

U.S. Crom rats in London 4.0231⁄2 U.S. Cross rate in N.Y...3.05%

H. K. Stock Market

The

were

following quotations issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar- ket this morning.

BANKS H.K. Banks, § CD.........1,480 s. H.K. Banks (Lon. Reg.) £

X.D. 19 n. HK. Bank (HK. Reg.) £

X.D. 01 n. Chartered £.. Mercantile, A. & B. £.

Next to the switch house and ad-think it very unlikely. The prov jacent to the turbine room is a five-

"light and of power. essentially story block containing, in addition to the Station

Superintendent's and fundamental, to sound progress and mess the inhabitants of Kowloon are very oller omces, a laboratory,

deeply indebted-perhaps some of rooms, conference room and control them in more senses than onel-to room; the last-named has been pro the China. Light & Power. Company vided with the latest

test type of Carrier he

An for what the energy and foresight of air-conditioning equipment. R.C.A.

com-Its directors have brought into being. loud-speaker inter-com-

So much for. the past: what of the munication system connects all parts of the old and new stations with this future? The building in which you best accom- And yourselves supplies the. room. A separate floor

this answer to that question. For vast room is designed to house three times the plant which is now within it and which is adequate to all Kow- loon's present needs; and the rest of the Station is on the same courage- it was thought to be not at even for tiny the Company's property at Hok

The new power station is in genously far-sighted scale. In the face of Un comprises an area of no less than the purpose of growing cabbages.

eral of steel frame construction, faced those facts can any of you doubt that Until the next census in 1941 the eight neres

with reinforced concrete Breadth of Vision

walls, the vision and the faith of the prezent population of Kowloon can only be guessed, but trustworthy estimates The selection of the new site designed to resist the high pressure of Board which sanctioned the huge ex-

complete

for such penditure place the present total at over 1,000,-peaks well for the vision of those spoons and to

wiler-lightness.

enterprise is na clear and as strong 000.

responsible. In a public utility un-

Messrs. Preece, Cardew and Rider. as those which animated the Com- of There are among our Directors dertaking of this nature, breadth

of London, were the Consulting pany's founders? There can be but those who well remember the days vision is an invaluable asset,

and

connection with the one answer. when

Kowloon went lightless by conndence in the future backed by Engineers in

Confidence in Future What is it that that vision foresees night in course of time its few the judicious expenditure of required plant and machinery.

The building was designed by our suburban roads narrow pathways capital ahead of time is essential. could be dignified by the term roads In this connection, the following Consulting Engineer, Mr. S. E. Faber, and on what does that faith rest? Mercantile, C. £.

who was responsible for preparing Obviously if is s to

manufactur a great were lighted by kerosene lamps comparison of our records for the For what is to-day Salisbury Road, financial year-1913-14 (the year befe drawings and specifications, and ing future for this town of Kowloon Light with its pride of place on Die water fore the Great War) with those for under whose direction the work was and its suburbs, that the China

avenue 1038-30 (the last

carried out.

& Power Company is looking, and I year of peace) in

Messrs. Davies, Breoke and Gran. readily take my stand beside them in skiried by two rows of banana trees illuminating, as it indicates develop of Hongkong and Shanghai, were the that confidence. It is with the same Interspersed with narrow granite ments not even thought of a quarter Consulting Architects and the Hong-end in view, that Government must pillare surmounted by oil Janterns of a

a century ago:

kong Engineering and Construction frame its scheines for the develop which shed their dim light for the

In 1913-14, the Company's Star

under the constant personal ment of the port, of the aerodrome few passers-by on their way to or

two Europeans, four supervision of its General Works ma of the town lizelf, and I am from the single-deck diminutive consisted of

to reflect steam launch alongside the bamboo Indians and 52 Chinese. At the Manager, Mr. Hugh Bragh, were the happy to be in a position to

close of 1938-30, the payroll com- General Contactors. pler at Kowloon Foint. This plerorised 58

ate about Indians bind In the co

the construction of the main did daty for the principal landing

undergo close

**12- 702

include, casual building and underground work, the Chi Extracons, 27 stage on the peninsula.

perts. labourers, the total number of Chi foilov quantities of materials were Shallow Kowloon Bay

But the future of Kowloon is too of structural steel. Kowloon Bay,

which

won very nese employees exceeds 1,000... shallow, had not been reclaimed; and

The number of consumers which (including 90,000 rivets and bolts; 350 (vast a scheme for treatment at a altempt-tho-task I endorse ..oh Jour not even the most lively imagination in 1913-14 was only 878 bad, by the tons of steel bars; 6,000 cubic yards moment such as: this and I will not

of reinforced concrete; and 2,500 tons behalf, indies and could predict that Banana Avenue end of 1938-39 Increased to 29,522.

The industrial load in 1913-14 was of cement supplied by the Green warm

Kadoorie s with its soft candy surface was lead-

warm praise whereas the corres Island Cement Co.

to given those

who have come, the terminus of land, aca and ponding figure

1 in the building of this air communications of the first im-horse-power.

removal of 20,000 cuble yords portahee in the Far East.

front, there was

15-4.

we

ing to a future city destined to be- 387 horse-power918-39 was 28,276 |

'that' all those

to

by

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which matiemen, the

The civil engineering work include power station."" pwill not

ed the

of

The Company's plant capacity in of earth and 5,000 cubic yards name again all those deserving and Formed in 1901 for the primary 1913-14 was 620 KW and its total solid rock. purpose of taking over a golnjí con- output that year 613,042 units. By cern supplying electrielty in Canton, 1938-39 the plant capacity had grown tractors, and resident representatives for a famous

ង៥ The Consulting Engineer, the Con-distinguished persons and firms of

technical Staff, have earned

spoke but it, following the lady novel

East Asia $.

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China Underwriter $..

H.K. Fire S..

SHIPPING Douglases $ Steamboats $ Indo-Chinas P$ Indo-Chinas D.$. Shell (Bearers) 's/- Waterboats

DOCKS ETC. Wharves $ Docks $... Providents $.. Sh, Docks Sh. $...

BILNING Kailan 8- 'Raubs $..

·Vénz, Gold :5. HK. Mines

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UTILITIES

10 n.

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.40 sa.

100

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Trams $.....

18/1⁄2 sa.

Peak Trams (old)

..8 n.

Peak Trams (now) $.

4 n.

Star Ferries

68 50.

Y. Ferries $

.28 8.

China Lights (old) $.

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the China Light & Power Co. in 1903 to 32,000 KW, while the year's but-of British manufacturers, as well as

I might single out one for began to operate the first power stu- put reached a "total of 87,044,850 the Chinn Light and Power Co.'s own

the mention, it would be Mr. Faber for tion in Rawloon. After a period of units as vicissitudes such as are often 1550The pald-up capital, which was thanks of the Board of Dlectors for the beauty and grandeur of his de- clated with plotcer venture, he $300,000 in 1915-14, had by 1838-39 the excellence of the work that has sign, which even Company sold Its Canton undertak-risch to no less than $11,000,000.

efficiency, person like myself con

Mr. Chairman been carried out with such ing to the Chinese in 1009, the money More Country Served

and Future of Kowloon thus obtained enabling it for the

I trust that Your Excellency and feel greatly privileged to have been In 1913-14 the Company served

Invited to open this magnificent as 'salisiled as time being to overcome the serious

Power-station and

to be the mouth- dimculties with which it was con-an area of about two square miles our guests to-day aro os fronted owing to Fan ‘irikuffièlency of of our business into the New Terri- station bellis the growlrig city or plece of those present, i assure you ¦ only. Owing mainly to the extension we are that this modern power

all of your guests

to-day working capital, **

tories, the area had increased by the Kowloon. Kowloon to-day has that Kowloon's first power sintion, end of 1938-39 to about 200 square į sijmjāgance; beyond that of merely a with me:in wishing all prosperity to i

and unpretentious miles.

suburban residential area. The early the China Light & Power Company declare building dest

tood on ground now occu- The extent of the Company's whole exemplary efforts of pioneers have and with those good wishes pied by the workshops of the Kow system will be realised when I state made, possible the establishment and your new Power-station open loon-Canton Railway at Hunghom.that there are now no fewer than development of projects that have

The Governor was presented wh Its equipment consisted of three

miles of mains and cables in gradually attained the size of large piece of silver plate by Mr. small sets of gas engines and generate OL, this total, 100 miles of und important' undertaking. It fa to Kadoorie as a souvenir.

för te- tors-two for use and one' serve. Upon the cathpletion of the underground mains are laid in Kow-be hoped that Hothing will prevent casion and Lady Northcote was pre- loon and 45 miles of cable (of which Kowloon from gradually developing ented with a bouquet by Miss Kowloon-Canton Railway in 1911,

of Laureen Clema,

some when great hopes were raised for the 23 miles represent the extra high into a manufacturing centre

Lighting

Arrangements in importance." future of Kowloon, the Company de-tension transmission line) are

in This fine new building is frankly The Station is equipped with three cided to scrap most of its old ma-service in the New Territories,

with an optiinistic view to district tystems controlled by pushi electricity plays its important part, the

very

chinery and to instal larger units

First Turbinek

In 1910, the Company's Arst tur bines two 750 KWB.TH. turbo- alternators were installed and put Into operation together with the necessary boller plant; these. turbines,

of the ex-

the general development of which dature and is symbolic of the faith operated switches in the Controll

120,000 lbs, was erected last year, their operation on power supplied by

borrowed oriey, "to pay for extens|world. \Both boilers 'werò ' summuuned and the spaces at present The rhting and single phase

China Lights (new) H.K. Electrics $.. Macao Electrica $..

Sandakan Lights Telephones (old) Telephones (new) $:. Tractions sim

Tractions (Prof.) s/-

INDUSTRIALS

1.20 1. .70 a.

.32.10 .s

.12.10 b.

.19/0 n.

19/0 n.

Cald: Macg. (Ord.), Sh. $..14.00 n. Cald: Macg, (Pref.), Sh. 4...12 n. Canton, Ices $.

..1 n. Coments $..

.20.20 B.

H.K. Hopes $..

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STORES, &c. Dairy Farms (old) $.

.23.60 b. ...22.00 b. Dalry Farms (now) $.. Watsons $..........9.60 b & 33. Lane, Crawfords $

7 n. Sinceres, 3.... Wing On (HK.) $.... Powell, Ltd. $....

COTTON MILLS Ewo Sh..... S'hai Cotton Sh. Zoong Sing, Sh. $.... Wing On Textiles, Sh.

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The new power station, which of the China Light and Power Co. In Room, providing the usual full standa on reclaimed land inside a the greater progress and development station lighting from the A.C., mains: gravity sca-well of massive granite of the Colony of Hongkong in general A.R.P. Ughting from A, C and D.C.

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emergency was designed to accommodate and

services; and thirdly Kowloon blocks,

and

the New Terri

lighting from the Station Battery or approximately 60,000 KW. plant torics in particular. It is interesting to add, are still in the boiler house is

Industries ranging in size from the D.C. Generator: In: a matter of 220 ft. in manufacture of foss sticks to the seconds the Station can be blacked service. In the same year, the Com- pany commenced to supply its first length and nearly 52 11. wide, while building of ocean-going steamers, and out with screened lights available different in thele nature as the at essential sections of the Plant, and large ladustrial load, as it then ap- the roof is 100 ft. from the ground nat peared about 300 KW.

level. It is arranged to house four preserving of ginger and the mining without the use of blinds or screens But altholith the Company's bust-boilers; one boller, with a capacity of of lead ore, are to-day dependent for for the windows.

Ample normal lighting has been ness continued to grow, shareholders received no return on their capital, and another 200,000-2b. M.C.R. this Station. It is only in proportion provided, varying from 10 ft. candies for nine successive years, that is, tri-drum water-tubo boller is in to the unhampered growth in the de- in the boller house to 15 ft. candles from 1910 to 1918, not because pro- course of completion. Incidentally, mand for power by these and other in the control room. The exterior

electric discharge lamps. ats had not been earned but because the travelling grate stoker of this industries that our foresight. can be of the station is illuminated by they were all required, together with second unit is the largest in the

unoccupied in this building be taken power wiring has been carried out in by the International Combustion, by newer and larger generating galvanized conduit throughout, with sions in all directions."[

up The conclusion of the Great War Lid., of Derby, England.

plant

substantial Ironclad accessories. Hure Travelling Crane

Outicis aro

tele- On this occasion we wish prosperity

provided for marked for the Company a mile- ո: Կ stone in its history. In the memor. The turbine room Tes parallel with to our many consumers, to whom it is

trol also has communication by able year 2010's complete reconstruc- the boiler House and is 183 ft, long, our constant endeavour to provide phones in all sections, and the con-

room with efficiency and with loud speakers with the boller opera- tion was carried out; the old station 100 ft. wide and 18 ft. to the ceiling service all was exchanged with Government. There has already been installed in whose success our future is so intors. An Indicator in the boilerroom for KMI 18 st Hok Un, upon it & 18,500 W turbo-alternator timately bound up.

operated from the control room When the supply is again switched which, after it had been reclaimed, supplied by Metropolitan-Vickers

Governor's Speech

shows the total lood on the plant.

jon, a relay throws a motor generator was created the power station which electrical Export Co., Ltd. of Man- The Governor vaid: "316

Synchronous cocks are provided on to the clock system which drives of the growl of this throughout, with 24 hour dials, he clocks of twice their normal how supplied electricity for light and chester Overhead is a 50-ion travel-

story power to Kowloon ever since.

crane manufactured by Messrs grent Company to which you have These flocks are provided with an speed, until they make up the lost Simultaneously with the growth of Herbert Morris, Ltd., of Lough just been listening cannot have falled intricate and automatic resetting time, when they revert to the normal the business it became necesary to acborough, upa

to make a deep tropression upon all device. Should for any renton the supply. quire additional areas adjacent to theIt will be of interest to you to know of you who were not already in the A.Current not be available," the The lighting, condult and clock power station building. This new that all the necessary underground know; and the first offer of congratu- clocks will stop and a mizler clock item wore installed by the Jardine land, most of which had to be re-work (such as the building of founda- tatton which I shall make to-day: le records the length of the stoppage: Engineering Corporation.

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