Health-Giving Glass Windows

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HEALTH-GIVING GLASS WINDOWS

NOW BEING FITTED IN LOCAL RESIDENCES

A Glimpse at Corney’s Factory

(By A Special Correspondent)

It is a generally accepted fact that on of the most dramatic discoveries made by science in recent times is that ordinary window glass shuts out just that very part of daylight that is necessary to good health, but science, which discovered this defect, promptly set out to put it right and the result is the new health ray glass, or “Vita” glass as it is more popularly known.

The first thing that comes to mind then is that every house should have at least one room with windows fitted with this special kind of glass, and in this connection the public will be interested to learn that here in Hong Kong, quite a number of private residences have already been so equipped, thanks to the fact that the well-known firm of Messrs. R. Corney and Company, carry large stocks of this particular kind of glass which, strange as it may seem, cannot be put down as an “expensive luxury.”

This firm, however, only deals in “Vita” glass as one of the many side lines to its own extensive glass business, for in the Corney factory in Tai Hang, a very big business is carried out in silvering and bevelling mirrors, in addition to the many other aspects associated with this particular line of trade.

Over Thirty Years Old

The firm was established over 30 years ago, and thanks to the enterprise and energy of the present managing-director, Mr P.K. Hoe, it has gone from strength to strength, and is now a generally recognised fact that Corney and Company are not only one of the largest establishments of its kind in Hong Kong, but also South China.

Situated at the far end of Tai Hang, the factory is a modern brick building and within its red walls is a hive of industry, the 100 odd hands working from 7 a.m. till noon each day  and, after an hour’s break for tiffin, they resume work again till the whistle at 6p.m. announces that the day’s toil is over.

The factory

 

Source: The Hong Kong Sunday Herald 8th November 1936

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