NEWS BY MAIL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12610, 20 July 1935, Page 11

NEWS BY MAIL

NORTH RHODESIA'S NEW CAPITAL. Lusaka-, the new capital of North* cm Rhodesia, built- in a clearing in tlio juiigle-like buMi,. wii-s cerbiiiomally opened on May 28. The capital cost £i,000,000 to build. The interests’of people scattered over territory three and a. quarter times the site df Great Britain will be dontrolled from Lusaka, in the heart of Barotseland, which id being built to planii made by Professor S. Adshcad, of London University.’ The removal of the capital from Livingstone was originilll.y proposed nine year.; ago. The first brick of the new city was laid in August. 1931. The palatial new Government House (says a Reuter merisage)' contain-; thirteen ♦bedrooms, eight bathroom;, a receptionroom with a spring dancing-floor, a billiard room, large loggias, and courtyards with fountain.* playing.

AN UNDERSEA “£YE.“ An important stage in the constructions of the Cunard-White Star liner Queen Marry will be reached at the Clyde shipyard when the electrical power from the -ship's generating machinery will be on. The engine-rooms, boiler bolds, ami crew s 3 quarters will then be lighted from tlio ship's generating rooms are complete (says the ‘Sunday Times'* of May 19), and milch of wires and cable; are being laid throughout the gant vessel. They will carry enough power to cook 15,000 meals a day, supply light, operate 21 express lift;, and -send electrical impulses to heat the crow's nest.and automatically control the steering gear. In addition the electrical equipment will control the electric “eye" with which the Queen Mary will .be fitted. Oh the lead line -striking any projection on the ocean floor the echo will be carried along the line to apparatus below water-mark, where it will be transformed into sound wave; and transmitted to tlie bridge-house. Here the waves will set- into motion ' sensitive needles operating a stylo pencil which will automatically draw a graph chartgiving tbe po’iiFon c? the projection.

FINDING WORK FOR INTELLECTUALS.

Much mirth and no little indignation are being cau/ed in New York (says the correspondent in that city dr the “Morning Post") by tbe light which an aldermanic investigation is throwing on fantastic scheme.; to provide unemployed intellectuals w.th something to do and an income. They include projects ranging from a “chicken survey," to cost taxpayers .220.00 c of studies of peoples in the Tvecond millennium and experiments designed to determine the learning habits of adult;. One witness employed cii the chicken survey, with 100 others, said that he was disgusted by the job. which involved examining housewive; about the size of their family, the number of their servants and boarder;, and their purchases of chicken, duck, or turkey, aiid eggs in the week preceding the call. Dr Casper Kraemer. pr-ofe /?or of classics in New York University, desscribed the v-ork done under his direction by 200 perronmost of whom were paid £5 a week. Some had translated a Russian book on Roman trade relations; others a German one on Mediterranean geography. They had also made a map of the distribution of Greek dialect?. “In a city with terrific taxes and great- depression I am wondering how much the distribution of Greek dialects will help us here," said Mr Lloyd Stryker, counsel for the committee. Dr Kraemer told about studies of the -second millennium which Mr Stryker thought meaut some future period of history, but which meant the professor explained was the period from 2000 to 1000 B.C.- He said the geographical distribution of the chief type-? of fibulae had alto- been explored, and informed an alderman that fibulae were not bones in the leg, as Mr Stryker suggested, but Ancient Greek safetypins.

MINIATURE TRAIN BUILDERS.

Founded 25 years ago the Model Railway Club, whf.cli held an exhibition in London recently, claim:- to he the first club formed for the.ee interested iii the making of models of railway material oif every kind. It now has some 300 member.?, drav\ n from all social grades, whcuo common interest is the making of working models railway locomotives - and rolling-stock, signalling apparatus, and complcto miniature railway systems. In this most democratic of club*.; professional and buoinesy men pursue their hobby in company with artisans (says “The Timed"). A model which attracts interest at- the exhibition may liavo been made cither by a Guards officer or a joiner; by a prosperous -wharfinger or by a railwayman from {lie footplate. Nor do the members get together merely for their annual exhibition. Twice monthly they have club, meetings, at which they inspect and criticise each other's work; and models are often the product of co-operative effort. That the gcutlemcn haul with mariners, So to speak, ft demonstrated by many exliilMh. til this year ft display. One of them, a liiodel of a. luxury safooii rad way coach, is tlie joint handiwork of a earpfcnter arid a. baronet. Membership of the club may begin at 14, and there is rib ago at> which a. potential member is too old. A septuagenarian exhibits annually the developing model of a superbly built locomotfvo chaesin, which liq advances a-stage further each ytar. It is not surprising that this enthusiasm has proved .infections. Frenchmen have caught it, and the Am eciatam Francaiso Amis tics Cliemib do Ht the loading French Model Railway Club—is represented at the exhibition by a display of its member!?', work.