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THE CHINA MAIL,"
LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
DAVIE BOAG & CO., LTD.
We bog to announce that we have now ecoupled our former promisos :- Oliog
Chartered Bank Building, (1st floor).
Factory & Godowns-
Quarry Bay.
REGISTRATION OF
FISH BUYERS
"THORNYCROFT"
Our Branch Office has opened temporary premises at Stock Ex- change Building (2nd Floor- Room 24), and we shall be obliged if all prospective.clients will com- municate enquiries to that address during the present emergency
BRITISH MILITARY ADMIN- ISTRATION, HONGKONG
CUSTODIAN PROCLAMATION No. 10, ARTICLE 3 APPOINTMENT
In confor-
KONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1945.
THE CHINA MAIL
Registered Omeest Windsor House (1st floor) Des Voeux Road, U.
', Hong Kong Telephones: 03313 & 24054 Editor -- W. J. Hentes, Esq... ・・
period where they will be prompt-in exorcise of the poivronto MACAO'S WEALTH
ly handled and communicated to
our executive who is now pro-DAVID MERCER MAODOU-
aboyo-inontioned Proclamation, I.. ceeding to London to ascertain
and of our products;
Buyers of Bab, frosh salt, at the Hong Kong Fish Wholela Markot must rogister at the Contral Market and pay a doposit of $300. Owing to tho present shortage of the currency. huyora are permitted to delay pay inont of deposit to the ond of November 1945.
now
(2) Buyers who register as salt fish buyora may buy anlt fish only. Those who rogister as fresh fish buyon may buy frosh fish only. If one buyer withce to buy both st and fresh fish he must rogistor twico and make two de sits.
(3) Esch buyer must be giant- Antood by two other rogistorel buyors.
(4) Buyers are asked to register at the mrliest possible moment. No unregisterexi person will be allowed to buy fish at the wholeanlo tumkot
(5) The date the opening of the wholesale market, will be
Aamuwood in tho Press.
G. A. G. Herklots, Director of Fisheries, Hong Hong Govurament.
NOTICE
All persons who, on 8th Decem ber, 1941, were drawing pensions at the Command Pay Office, China Command, should furnish without delay to No. 10 Staff Paymaster, Wellington Barracks, the follow- ing particulars!
Name of pensioners; (2) Place of residence; (3) Rate of pension in issue and date when last drawn;
(4) Nature of pensjon-retired pay, disability pension, service pension, widows or dependents, Indian pension, etc.
Thorny problems-enough-de-
WITH THE R.A.F. AT KAI TAK AERODROME
(By A Staff Reporter)
SPITFIRES, DAKOTAS, SUN DERLANDS THESE WERE JUST-NAMES-TO-ME UNTIL YESTERDAY WHEN, AT THE INVITATION OF AN OFFICER OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE, I' PAID A VISIT TO KAI TAKA THEN THEY WERE NAMES NO MORE FOR E NOT ONLY SAW, BUT WAS SHOWN OVER THESE MACHINES, BEAUTIES, EACH ONE OF THEM, IN ITS OWN RIGHT—tha
full details and specifications with GALL, Chief Civil Affairs Offloor, mind and occupy the urgent
One of the pilots of a Spit- "The Wing Commander was not prices of latest models in all lines Hong Kong, HEREBY APPOINT attention of the Administra-Aro was so proud of his "little anxious to speak of the good work
REGINALD ANDREW WICKER- tion. Price levels remain de-
that nothing ship"
would that he and his fellow "Path SON to bo Assistant Oustodian of fiantly high, and the housing Property in the Colony of Hong problem which has been little satisfy him but that I climb Finders" had done, but from on- Into the cockpit and see how it other officer I found that it wan Kong and to be noting Custodian of more than tentatively survey felt to be inside
largely through their work that one of the the attacks on Germany met with Proporty.
ed, is destined
to become in-world's greatest all-round fight-so much success. - creasingly acute as time goes or planes.
REDUCED TO SHAMBLES Dated this 21st day of Septem-on, rising to a pitch of crisis
I took my acat gingerly, with bor, 1945.
when the European population
The "Path Finders", as the a feeling of awe, I might al- begins its return journeyings, most say, and then the pilot name indicates, were charged with which, we can well imagine, "closed the shutter" to give me the task of locating targets and
Vehicles-Petrol/Diesel Marine Engines--Petrol/Dic
sol Boilers-Water Tube Motor Boats & Water Craft
of all description Our Hong Kong & China office is a Direct Branch of:-
Messrs.
JOHN I. THORNYCROFT & Co., Ltd. Smith Square,
Westminster,
London,
CHINA LIGHT & POWER
CO., LTD.
Toruporury Tolophone Nos: The Manager Tel. No. 58044 (Mr.
D. W. Munton)
The Executive Enginoor. Tol. No.
58045 (Mr. P. C. Cloiso) The Distribution Engr. Tul. No. 60404 (Mr. C. F. Wood) Distribution Dept. (General) · Tel.
No. 67005
Night Complaints Tel. No. 56595
D. M. MacDougall, Brigidior, Chiof Civil Affairs Offcor.
NOTICE
!
08
military objectives. The Germans Government scarcely permits
were clever in disguising their itself at this stage, to contem- an idea of how it felt.
I had a curious feeling of towns and military objectives. plate. It is disturbing, there-
false aloneness, and remarked that I They even lit fires to lead fore, to find a new complication could imagine how lonely it the R.A.F. astray, but clever introduced, one, which could
nt camouflage, they easily have important influence must be "up there, all by your- they were
found the "Path Findoro more on prices, and which needs to self." but he only smiled and their match with the result It is notified for general in-
said, "Oh, one soon gets used
that be tackled before it assumes
thousands of tons of bomba formation that the offices of the more alarming proportions To
to that."
Much has been written about were rained on key cities, Lac-
torics and
impor- Military Administration. Kowloon,put it briefly, Macao specula World War II. Much more re-
plants and soon have moved from the 3rd to the tors may make heavy inroads waing to be written, but the whole tant cities and towns,
Germany
and German-occupied 1st floor of tho Peninsula Hotel, upon the Colony's depleted world knows, and acknowledges, areas, were reduced to shambles.
stocks of wearing apparel and that but for Kowloon.
the comparatively Spoaking of the "Wingco", similar commodities unless small number of officers and men of the officers said, "he is one of measure of control can of the Royal Air Force, who show the best blokes you can hope to bo devised. Macuo has acquired up magnificently in the
meet. result of the Battle of Britain, a different tale ed wealth an
Brigadier and Hond of Miltary Administration-Room 104.
Brigadier Major--Room 105. Civil Lágison Officer-Room 107. A.D.C.A. (Works)-Room 109,
By Order of
Military Authorities, Kowloon.
Motor Dept. and Consumors En-92nd Soptomber. 1945.
quiries Tol. 58005 (Mr. G. A. White)
REISS BRADLEY & CO., LTD. IMPORT & EXPORT MER CHANTS.AND ENGINEERS
Temporary Office: Pedder Building, 5th floor, Boom 4. Tel. 31660. Enquiries will receive prompt attention
NOTICE
(5) Awarding authority-His Owners of property in Kowloon Majesty's Paymaster General, are requested to arrange for their Minister of Pensions, Royal Hos-premises to be occupied by ten- pital, Chelsea; Deputy Controller ants or caretakers.
of Military Accounts, India, elc.
The military and civil authori-
(6) Serial or reference number ties cannot accept responsibility for preventing looting unless this
of awarding authority;
(7) Particulars of any docu-is done.
ments which may be in possession,
but not the documents them
dives;
(8) Until further instructions
By Order of
Kowloon,
Military Authorities,
have been received from the Unit- 20th September, 1945.
ed Kingdom and India no pen-
sions can be paid. This is mere-
ly a preliminary step, but every
NOTICE
effort will be made to expedite Whitfold Barracks Internment the matter.
MEDICAL NOTICE
Camp
Until further notice, no visitors will be allowed to the camp, nor]
A spend dontal alinio has been may any foodstuffs, clothing or oponedin Hong Kong, on the second medical comforts be passed into floor of Pedder Building. The the camp by friends or relativos clinic is open on week daya from 9 of internous. a. to 12 noon and from 2 p.m. to
4 pm, for members of Government
Departments. Essential Servicos
and of the Hong Kong Volunteer
By Order of Garrison Commander,
Kovicon.
Defence Corps, who wore formerly 20th September, 1945.
detained in prisoners of war and. Internment cams, and for their dopondants.
P. S. Bolwyn-Clarko, Director of Medioal and Sanitary Services.
FIREWOOD
Offers are invited for supplying Firewood to Government from outside the Colony of Hong Kong and New Territories.
THE CHASE BANK, HONG KONG
15, Queen's Road, Central, Marina House.
Tel. Nos. 32361, 33573.
NOTICE
We bog to annoimoo that wo Offers to be subraitted to the have today resumed praction and Fuel Controller, King's Building have occupied our former office:- (Ground floor) stating
(a) Quantity and details of
Timber offered and source
of supply
Price in Hong Kong cur
rency per picul delivered
either alongside Fraya at
2nd Floor, Windsor House,
Des Vooux Road, Central. Telophone 26494 PEROY SMITH SETH &
...” FLEMING, Chartered Accountanta,.
Hong Kong or Kowloon or 22nd September, 1945.
at a Railway Station in
British territory.
(c) Time required for delivery. Any further information may
be obtained from, the Fuel Con troller.
T. RAMSAY
Fuel Controller.
NOTICE
1
LIFT SERVICE
For the convenience of Electric Lift Owners and in order to assist in the speedy rehabilitation of the Colony the undermentioned firms are temporarily operating jointly a dopartment for lift service and τωραίτη.
Address all enquiries to The Jardino Engineering Corporation, Ltd., Jardine Building. Ground Floor, 16/18, Podder Street (Tole phone. 29941).
The Jardine Engineering Corporation, Ltd. (Agont for Schindler &
·Co., Ltd., Lucerno). Otis Elevator Company
COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE CO., LTD.
I have appointed Messrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd. to look after the affairs of this Company in Hong Kong until further notico.
R. L. S. WEBB, Local Manager.
22nd Soptember, 1945.
CARMICHAEL & CLARKE MARINE SURVEYORS & CONSULTING ENGINEERS.
".
Bome
HO
war in the Pacific. The hold- might have been told. crs of that wealth have for a long time past been assiduous-
of
tunes
PATH-FINDERS
So much for the Fighter Com-
Was
over
'one
Always ready to see the other fellow's point of view, he places the interests of his men be- fare anything else."
met the "Wing-
I
had only just
got after a few minutes' chat. "Make yourself at home", he said, the field is yours, and น there is anything you do not understand
don't be afraid
to
usk."
Just about this time I looked
'double","
nld.
are working at the
They
the Wing Commander
They were, tað.
8.P./10/25.
NOTICE
ly buying Hong Kong dollars mand. What of that equally gal.co" but that was the impression
the pre-1942 vintage at lant crowd of mon that made up rates approximating to Eight the Bomber Command? The answer Macao Dollars equals One Hun-was provided by an introduction to Wing Commander. H. P. Con- dred Hong Kong. The conse-
A.F.M. quences of the
restoration Dolly, D,F.C. (and Bayal
Officer Commanding,
Air of the value of the Force, Kal
who was formerly out of the "Wingco's office win- dow and saw a number of Japan- H.K. dollar requires no
ema "Path Finder" pilot, t
Esc prisoners-of-war at work, phasia. If the matter rested tresting to note that one who had cleaning up the place which, once there, no complaint could rea-done so much in connection with more, is beginning to look like an
be made. The for- the destruction of Germany is now airfield. Bonably
of war!--a deprecating tion work at the airfield here.
directing repair and reconstruc shrug of the shoulders perhaps,
Wing Commander Connolly said Unfortunately thousands of
the "Path Finders" were made up those dollars are now flowing from some of the best crews of the into the Colony and are being Bomber Command. It had a very used freely to buy up stocks of modest beginning, only one squa
was their so valuable not generally food- dron, but all kinds
for export to Macao, work that the number soon grew stuffs
they had 100 bombers and 50 mosquito bombere. The small craft bringing his about nese and Portuguese from the Portuguese colony are not what exactly was the work told it supplying goods and services to the
I asked the Wing Commandor
Companies firma and individuals turning empty.- -Communica-Path tions are sufficiently restricted blared the trail for the bombers Military in December 1941 and in at the moment to impose de- who followed in its wake to carry August and September-1945 before finite limits upon the scale of out the work of destruction more the return of the Military Forces. auch opérations, but unless the effectively. Bituation is carefully watched, the consequences may be seri- ous. It is, at all events, an Issue that needs to be borne in
VOLUNTEERS
mind when such questions are LEAVING --
as the extension of the means
of communication between the
The following personnel
of a
of
two ports. When the Colony's the H.K.V.D.C. will rendezvous greatest need is new supply, it at 10 a.m. at Queen's pier, to cannot afford to sit idly by day for embarkation:
Lt. R. Lapsley, Pte. H. A. while existing stocks are whit-
McKay, Sgm. K. M. Baxter, tled away.
Pte. G. A, Berendeeft, Pte. and Mrs. N. Morgenstern, Cpl. C. V.
W. Jamieson. Gnr. N.. Smeby, Cpl. and Mrs. E. O Murphy, Sgt. and Mrs. G. A. V. Hall and Family, Gnr. E. van Walree.
Old Friends Meet
Personnel living at Stanley at Stanley at wili rendezvous
WHEN THE DAKOTA 10 a.m. to-day,
If required, advances of pay. PLANE, CARRYING THE RT.
AND and clothing may be drawn Mr. A. W. Black, principal HON. J. J. LAWSON
PARTY ARRIVED IN KAI TAK from Volunteer Headquarters partner of the abova firm is now YESTERDAY WING COMDE at 8 a.m. in residence at the Peninsula H. P. DICKSON, SENIOR RA.F. INFORMATION OFFICER, Hotel, Kowloon, and will wel-SOUTH-EAST ASIATIC COM CHRISTIAN
PLEA MAND, HAD come any enquiries.
MEETING WITH AN FRIEND
GOVERNMENT PENSIONS
A
SANT
LTCOL SCIENCE OLD FRANK OWENS WHO WAS
ONE OF THE SECRETARY OF The First Church of Christ, STATE FOR WAR'S PARTY. Scientist, will be holding their -It is proposed to rosume pension Before joining the Air Force un services as from next Sunday volunteer Wing Comdr. Dickson on the first floor of St. George's payments to Government Pension was with Lord Kemsley's group of
these services Previously ers immediately and all pensioners newspapers while Col. Owens was Building, Chator Road.
"Evening are requested to report to the editor of the London
were held at Stanley, but, with Standard." Treasury Examination Branch not Just before the outbreak of the the Camp numbers decreasing lator than the 26th September, European War in 1939, Wing rapidly, it is now thought ad remove to Hong 1946, bringing with them their Comdr. Dickson toured America visable to for his group of papers, interview Kong.m pension papera, or in the absenceing the late President Roosevelt, The Bervice will commence at of such papers any other docu- Mr. Cordell Hull and Mr.
The Japanese looted the [monts which inay catablish their Stimson amongst
the trip rest right to pension.
It is
Dickson served with and the marble flooring and Air Marshal Sir John Marshall marble base for the rostrum in Burma and later he was under have been very carefully re Air Marshal Sir W. Coryton who moved to avoid damage? Some taught H.M: the King to fly.
others.
2 a.m; and all are welcome, “
· D.M. MACDOUGALL.. | Wing Costing to note that church in Macdonnell Road
Chief Civil Affairs Officer
19th Boptombor, 1945.
FUEL CONTROL OFFICE KOWLOON
An ooo has boon opened In Kowloon-Canton Ballway Station (Ground floor), where enquiries co Browood and Petroleum duals will be dealt with.
Tolophond No. 69359
I have roopened my Offoo in Room No. 280, Prince's Building. Firewood. Telophone No, 31186.
M. Nomaroo
Totophone No. 60196 Potroleum Produgbe.
OLD STORY
Thanks to the Navy, Stanley is getting electricity, but it in the same old story hot platea are boing-used a little too fred Proy and the consequence is that contain areas are being cut off for temporarily to avert overload ing. The power is being pro duced from a lorry alongside for the power station outside the
Gaol.
say the marble was used. In connection with the Mount Cameron Memorial and othere say that it was stored for future use by the Japanese..
QUISLING APPEALS
Oslo, Sent: 24. Qulaling has appealed:sealust the sentence of death passed upon him, pleading that the emergency laws and decrees issued by the rofugee govern- ment in London were wrongly applied to him, →→ Router, HRA
are hereby givon notice to render all outstanding demands by 80th November, 1945, in the following
1. To obtain from No. 10 Staff Paymaster. Wellington Bar- racks, Hong Kong, copies of A.F. P. 1922 and to enter thereon all details of demands. 2. To make demanda, in Hong
Kong dollars.
9. To attach to the completed
A. F. P. 1992 copies of all. dolivary notes signed by the -offioer rnooiving the goods or
services: NA
4. Whorever possible to tako
the A.F. P. 1923 to tho.. Offcor ordering the supplies or services and to obtain his signaturo to the appropriate. certificate on the reverse.
6. To forward the completed bills to No. 10 Staff Pay- maator, H.Q. Land Forces, Hong Kong...
6. Bills received by No. 10 Staff Paymaster will be held until 30th November 1945. After that date a Board of -military officers will be com
vened so that payment may bo considered. Full postal address of the claimant should be given, so that' notification may eventually be forwarded of the payments authorised
Where the bill reooivod.
in complete in, overy detail, Payment for services rond- orod in 1945 will not be hold up, but made immediately. Claimanta will rocaive nation to collect their monios-from- the Field Cashier, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank.
Whore choques had already. boon issued in 1941 by the then Command Caabior (Captain T.A.T. Thompson) those should be forwarded to No. 10 Staff Paymaster. The postal address of the olaimant should be clearly given and the nature of the Horvice or supply stated. No. 10 Staff Paymaster will lator forward authority for the monoy to be drawn from tho Fiala Cashier in tho Hong Kong Bhanglial Bank.