Equipment to be Bought in Great Britain London, Jan. 11.
The Chinese Government Purchasing Commission is calling for tenders to the value of £100,000 from British firms for machinery and equipment for an engineering workshop to be erected in the vicinity of Shanghat.
The workshop, it is stated, wil manufacture large {ron and stea! tubes as well as various types of commercial machinery. The erection of the workshop, which will be a state concern, 1s expected to commones next summer.
Tenders are required to be submitted within a period of two months Exhibition held in. Melbourne the auspices of the Victorian Salon of Photography in' connection with the Melbourne centenary celebrations, Mr. J. H, de Carvalho, the Hon Secretary of the City' Bank Club, achieving this honour. The exhibition was of a world wide character less than 82 countries. particip Ing, and as many as 1,200 prints were submitted, of which number Jonly 300 were found to be of sul ficient merit to be hung on the walls.
Mr. Carvalho is a keen ant Jenthuslastic photographer and was mainly responsible for organizing the City Bank Club's various photographic exhibitions held in recent years, which attracted a great des for interest and attention in lock photographic circles and were very favourably commented upon.
Mr. Carvalho's pictures were ae cepted and exhibited by the Royal Photographic Society of London, of which he is a member, the Camera Club of New York, and other photo graphic organizations in Scotland and. the continent of Europe, and were printed in their journals. His recent success fs the highest he hay earned,
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