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25th, 26th and 27th Nov., 1948 at 9 p.m. Balcony $10 & $6-Ställs $6, $3.50 & $2.40
(Special prices for Servicemen)
For Kowloon Residents a Ferry will run from Police Pier, Kowloon to the Fenwick Rd. Plor (opp. Theatre) at 8.25 p.m. returning Immediately the Show is over. Fare 'for. return Journey $1.
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THE CHINA MAIL; WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1949.
FILM IGNITED
ITSELF,
GOVT CHEMIST SAYS
'Strathnaver' Undergoing Reconversion
The opinion that a section of washed film stored inside the Wing On Godown ignited stypif and started the firo, which swept the godowns and claimed more than two hundred lives on. Sep- tember 23, was voiced by Mr. Richard Terry, Assistant Government Chemist at the Supreme Court yesterday,
Mr.
Terry was giving evidence before the Commis- The 22,600-ton former, troopship Strathnaver is now
sion enquiring into the cause of the fire. undergoing reconversion
The Chairman of the Com- Mc. Lain stated that various Belfast for her normal Penin mission is Mr. Justice Reynolds goods, known to be inflammable sula and Criental's India-Aus- while the other members are were kept in the No. 5, Godown tralia service, after complet the Han. N. O. C. Marsh, In observance of the Wing On In- ing nearly nine years of Gov-Messrs. A. E. Lissaman,-Kwoksurance Company's regulations,
Chan and Lo Min-nung, Mr. totalled 10 per cent of the value.
The cost of rent in this godown ernment service.
T. D. Sorby is sitting as Serre- fary.
Gave Warning Watching briefs for the Wing
It is expected that the oting will take about a year and that the vessel will be back on
her run by October next year. On Company and the Fire In- Wilneas then said that he al
When her reconditioning is surance Association of Hong Kongways warned his chief foreman completed she will carry 573 first are held respectively by Mr. and the people in the general cinss and 400 tourist passengers. D.A.L. Wright Instructed by Mr. office to be especially careful In Another feature of the new ship Y.K. Kan, and Mr. D. D. Evans;
mis cccepting goods to be kept in the will be her single funnel, instend Giving evidence, Mr. Terry
zodowan of three.
stated that the No. b Godown had resisted the hoot very well, though Its fron door leading to the scavenging lone was bulged as if by a blast from the inside, and the granite pillars supporting the age care outside were llaked from the arcat hent.
Contents Of Godown
i
some
Questioned by the Chairman, wliness said he had had complaints from some of the tenants of the godowns, as they were uppargally aware that the pround
ficors were used for storing certain goods.
As to the specified danger label on certain drums and goods which were stored, Mr. Lam said he was not aware of any such things ta| his godowns...
Reminders
Today
ders Hong Kong's Wealthy
Urged To Meet Needs Of University
... Light Orchestra,
Dress
Rehearsal, St. John's Cathoritie
drol I, 0 p.m.
House, 50 MacDonnel. Road.,: 8.30 p.)
Reception for Rev. Mr. Stevenson, 'Garrison School, Garden Rd, 5.30 p.m.
Toe 11 Club meeting, Talbot A suggestion that the leading spirits of a wealthier Hong Kong` might help the University and at the same time honour their own names was put forward by Mr. D. J. Sloss, Vice-Chancellor of the University yesterday ovening. The suggestion was made by Mr. Sloss in the course of a speech covering the development and 'ex- pansion of the University, delivered at a meet- ing of the University Court.
Third International Salon of Ple- torial Photography, St. John' Cathedral Hall, 10 n.m. to 5 p.m.
aren
al
Kal Tak Dramatic Society
"See How They Chinn Fleet Club, B p.m. Christ Church council meeting
Church hall, B.30 p.m. Whist Drive 3.30 p.m.
Kowloon Unlo Church
D.
European YMCA Debating and
Discussion, Group, 8.30 "That Hong Kong has th Government it deserves," Referees' Sub-Committee Meetin,
at HKFA at 5.45 p.m. HKFA League Management com
mittee Meeting of 5.15 p.n. Meeting of Representatives 。 Chinese and Non-Chines
Addressing those present, experience how willingly sacri- Mr. Sloss sald in part:
Aces are made that children may "At a recent meeting the Court go to school. called for a statement on pre- "Government hab in and a
war projects of development in large scheme of dove opment of tro Univer ity that now, wo may popular, educalon In Chinese and ope, are possible of achievement in English and thi throws upon will leave out, on this occasion, he University increared respon- Changes that are in mind to im- | ibfity for the irdiping of coin- prove both the amenities for stu-poleni teachers to stoff au increas- dents in their living in thng number of schools, the work Unien, and to provide wider that was done before the war facilties for game).
must be greatly extended and A later occasion will be inker | modernised. Higher, teaching in . Clubs at HKFÅ 5.15 p.. to report on this. I propose how Colonial schools cannot continuo Hong Kong Songsters Musicale ato limit myself to the development to depand so largely on people
St. Stephen's Giria College of studies and reaching In the recrulled from overscas, 8.30 p.m.
University. Malaya Services Cricket XI » HRCC at Chater Road i 0.10.
Caming Events
Art And Science
The new education policy gives the University a desulte objec-
five, namely, to train selected "We have come to the conclu-graduates to become teacher, of sion that at no distant date
all the subjects dealt with in th should be possible to reduce the senior classes of the Alded and
school ordinary 'pass, degree courses Government
Of tita Kowloon Rotary Club luncheonArs und Science from four to Colony.
TOMORROW
Engineering & Architecture
There are still three other P. and 0 passenger linera under- going reconditioning. The Corfu ls due to join early January, 1948, the Canton and the Carthage on the Chinn run. Being fitted for the
carriage of settlers to Aus- tralia, the Chitral should be ready by about the end of the year.
An investigation of the contents The Strathmore is expected to
gervice In of the No. 5 Codetyn shownd that return to her regular Tune next year, to join the there were among various other Asked to relate his activities on Stratheden on the United King-things, caustic soda, disinfectan the morning of the fire,, witness
Screening of "Refreshmen | three years, dom-India-Australia run. The dyestuff, glycerine resin, cellulose Laid he was going Wes from
through the Ages" Peninsul "We know that school work ha Hotel, 12.30 p.m. new Himalaya. is also due to be lacquer some allin scrap.
so far developed that a consider- Causeway Bay abourd the tram- ready by
Lay about Jung.
Mr. Terry went on to deal with car when, near, the Central Dia-Ye Mon's Evening Meeting aable number of students should b "Before the war the University
in three years the decided that for economy The P
P. and O's "migrant ship,"
Cosmos Club 7 p.m. Speaker able to do the electrical theory of origin. rict, he heard word that the
No mechanisms the Ranchi, is entering exclusive-
CX-effectiveness It must concentrate Miss Margaret Watson, Prin- range of work which however tr Wing On Godowns were on are.
elpal Almoner, Medical De-ins st that four years shall waving ineenanical and coctrical migrants to Australia from ukest anything suspicious were that was at about 9.45 n.m.
over four.
on the training of civil engineers, the United Kingdom. Two other discovered in the godown, he said When he arrived at the scene of
partment, P. and O. ships, the Maloja and
be spent on three years work is engineering to be done in centres ho disaster he net, ASP Thomp-
FRIDAY the Mooltan, have been converted
and both of them went to K. Light Orchestra Concert in clearly uneconomical from every where industry has been develop to one-class tourist ships and are
ald of Earl Halg Fund, China of ordinary courses to thre and with more modern
With the reduced on more modern: Nechniques paint of view. look for Mr. Brand, Acting Chief
equip- Fleet Club, 9.16 p.m. Fire Officer, now running to Australian ports.
years, we can, develop, (for the ment than we can hope to and in During her war services, the
hepent of the abler and more in- Hong Kong. There is however. no Strathnaver carried 128,792 Ser-]
dustrious studenta) Honours lack of factities for the training vice veropane) and strómed
Courses lasting four years and Bo of Civil Engineers, 332.443 miles.
-
1940, envio cis, she was engagén in carrying troops from England to Suez for the Middle East cam- paigns as well as to India.
ALUMINIUM SHIP DELAYED
Mr. Wilkie Lam, Director of th Wing On Company, who was ir charge of the godowns at the tim- of the outbreak of the fire, stater that he had been in charge since August 1, 1940.
On
one
H.
Kowloon Week-End Proves Costly
now
and
More Needed по He pleaded gulity yesterday to] "Other developments are clear-
mado to train shidents, for a de- gree in architec.ure a
"It is difficult to ee an end to
As to the keys of the godowns, Mr. Lam
said they were always He was responsible for the locked up in a box situated inside storage of goods consigned to the of the godowns, and thol.
enn help to train the men who in "The work of the civil engineer One of her first big tasks se si mndowns. But actually responsible there was only cre
key to this
the future the Government 1s and the architect are in many transport was the curringe from for the godowns was a foreman, | box, His chief furgman had
kely to choose for its senior ad respects closely Sydney in January, 1940, of part who had perished in the fire.
aliled, go thoir possession of the key at that
time.
ministrative serviet for important training also is. It is necessary at of the famous First Australian In reply to a querry from the Asked if he knew the where-
Forte in its professional depart-once to build new Civil Engin er- Division for the Middle East,
Chairman, Mr. Lam said that abouts of Mow Shu, a coolie, wit-
ments,
and Drawing ng Laboraturics After sho made two more he did not check the stock books, ness answered that an result of
"To meet the need it is propos-Office; the old ones were com=" voyages from Australia to the often, but had book-keepers do it. the fire the latter had to go else.
their Middle East and from November, He himself seldom looked at them where to reside, but that he did by two teeth and HK$180 as mistration Chami try, Phy-spal, addition, and almost inevit
D. McDermott was the losered that Honour nurses in English, pletely destroyed, with
Chinese Eennymics and Public &quipment,. It di Grelatively Mr. Lum denied having any not know the address. knowledge of the Dangerous Asked by the Chairman whether a result of a week-end in- xlés, Mathemates and other sub-able that preparations should to Goods Ordinance, ond said it did he knew the properties of causticcident at the Kowloon Hotellects should be given,
ot occur to him that any of the soda which was stored in Godown Bar. substances stored in his godown No. 1; witness said he had vere inflammable and dangerous, kilowlege of its properties what the charges of malicious damagely needed. Hong Kong is not rich building'ami rebuilding in Hong
Asked if he ever inspected the cover.
to a showcase of the Kowloon in prundy products bus, in itng; there is need of more train- godowns. Mr. Dem fuplied in the The next witness, Mr. Benjamin Hotel, assault on Mr. F.J. Sliva seas, it has a source of very great work shall be well and
ed architects to ensure that, the Biliramative. A routine inspection
LEC
of the and Assistant Manager
n bar boy named Keung, | wealth. We do not yet know micully done. was tonde byice h, weck · and China Travel Service, testifled using profane and abusive, cheek was made as to the space that ort September 21 a shipment
Ian enough about the life of the seas
Medical In these parts. The my. Chee Men, one of 1st time he went into the godown drums arrived from the U.S., and fine of $150 with an order to pay sity (lo train the men who will leaching of students in hospitals
needed for new.consignments. The of some scrap alm totalling 141 go and resisting the pollen."
Mr. W.H. Latimer imposed a It is the tie ire of the Univer "Moré accommodation for the was on Saturday, September 18,
that he had the cargo transferred 30 compensation for the show-form ut a later time the research has long been needed. was aware of the Cinema Film
Asked by the Chairman if he into the Wing On Godo. Lee!
ataft working towards an end that mand for trained medical men in Replying to a query,
It was alleged defendant was in should material y nsalst to private practice and in Govern- Ordinare, Mt. Lom said he was said he was aware that the fim the Kowloon flotel bar on Satur stabilise and develop a major in- ment service is greater than ever not.
scrap was dangerous, but he had day night
before. We know that a good with two British dustry of the Colony, Retailing the inspection made left it to the godown management soldiers. Within half an hour the Attempts are being made in Jocter is produced not to much in by the Chief Fire OMeer, Mr. to decido upon whether to fuke had Smith, carly in 1943. Mr. Lam the goods or not.
consumed four rounds orbito. Anepica and Great Britain class-rooms and laboratories an in said he and Mr. Smith made
drinks, after which McDermott 16 co-ordinate and stimulate the the horpl'al wards.
"The Government of Hong Kong tour of the No: 5 godown. Mr.
rocketed the chits and eventually study of the history, economica, Smith did not ask him
made for the door. Keung, the anguages, and social anthropology has given us all the accommoda- many
tinn at It possibly can in the bar boy, stopped him at the top of the Pacifle area.
"There is a task for every cen-Queen Mary Hosp'tal, but it has of the fairs and demanded pay-tre of higher studie, oss the Pacl-been far from sufficient to allow ment. An argument developed Into a fight.
ic cous's.
s to attain what now is demand- Americon, Canadian,
nine aluminium super-struc- tured Canadian-built vessels, which was due to arrive in Hong Kong today to begin a new river service, has been delayed by bad weather in the Straits.
The local agents, Kli Tal Shipping Company, reported that the my. Chee Men, which will be the only one operating from here, questions as to the goods kept in- may arrive, sometime between side the place although he saw November 24 and November 26.
them,
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SMOKED IN COURT
Two men, Chan Muk and Chu Kow, spectators in Mr. F. X.
coxė.
ecati-
1
The de-
d'Almada's Court yesterday, were Summers happened to be passing aireddy At work and. the "We have, therefore, negotiated
Dotective-Sub-Inspector W. R. and Australian Universities are led in the training of doctors, seen by the court sergeant to be by and went in investigatele Universities of China, In the few with the Trustee of the lung wmoking.
found defendant bleeding at the Peaceful years they have enjoy-Weh Charly in order that in co- Promptly they were brought be- mouth and abutsng all present.
widi,then the Tung ed in this lost generation, have Wah Hospital may be developed
operation fore the magistrate, who, after D81 Summers managed to per-produced notable studies. admini tering a lecture, fined them suade him to go to the police s central in an area of enormous which the building is admirably "The University of Hong Kong into a leching hospital, a use for
economic importance about
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fret was to biglory, prople and economies.
and was to be detained. which little is known in scien- The programme of develop-
However he refused to go into the the way. We hope to sed an ex-ment will mean expenditure of cell and after the police got him pansien of the Chinese Depart money en new books, laboratory In
after
much difficulty, he put his rent of the Universlty so that 11quipment, additional staff. The foot in such a manner as to pre-ney include rot merely a literary Government of Hong Kong has Vent the grille door being closed. study of Chinese, but all of those done its part make the work of DSI Suntimers said it took him other studies on whlel so much in the Univer ity possible: by a four and a half hours to complete the future progress of this ares grant of. $4 million for rebuilding the work which could be done depends.
and re-equiping the Univesity on within 15 minutes.
Public Responsibility the 1940 standard and by increas- McDermott
solt declared that he
"The new Colonial policy wining its grant to enable us at least was a well known customer of the Kowloon Hotel and was only go indure a broader and deeber to maintain the standard of teach- ing to the telephone when the bar rea isation of pubic responsibility ing of that date.
"Wa Helleva. that we can look boy thought he was trying to for tho improvement, of the social o'newhere: for, finds, to men the Jehve without paying. When he environment in which the prople
cost of new work. I have.mert- found himself mínus two teeta.
of the Colony live.
Experience in the U.R. and is load slready lone project the he osted in self-defence.
America overwhelmingly Has conver jon, of a general hospital proved that adequate return from we hope that we may ch'ain into n taching hospital, for w`lch pub le effort to improve social funds, through the Colonial Uni conditions demands workers train-versities Gran's Committed, from cd to this end.
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"For this reason the University the money earmarked in the proposes in the near future to dind for higbar, aducation. This Colonín Woʻtire and Development labil h couries of study in the fund can be used only for capital Foglal, sciences, and in public ‘ab-
expenditure, hat to meet annual ministration.
If arge, sums, of pubile maupymintenance chards or saʼa)lés. are to be spent, it clearly is neces in the University, by the greasury "A Prant of £23 bin was made sary to have trained worker as affat safe-quard against waste charges. The Couped of the In the settlement of war-time "The history of education in Universty has recommended that the Colony shows that from the this film should be sent during a beginning people have been period of from 10 to 15 years for concerned that their children
should receive the best available University development. education's and one sees in daily
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