A
Report Assesses Blame For Wing On Tragedy
Bill Passes
Reading
The Inland Revenue
(Amendment)
1949, which
Prime responsibility for the loss of life-ostimoted
at 173 men, women and children—in Wing On's West Point godown on Septembar 22 must rest with the persons who accepted film scrap for storagz in a godown connected with domestic premises.
clarifies ambiguities and re-This. conclusion is included in the report of the
pairs errors in form in the principal Ordinance. passed
its first reading in Legislative | Council yesterday.
The Attorney General, Mr. J. H. Grimi, drew nitenilor, to the re- trospective aspect of the Bill,
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Commission of Inquiry appointed by the Gov- erhor to ascertain the cause of and assess the responsibility for the loss of life and damage, estimated at more than HK$20,000,000.
The proximate cause of the stored in buildings partially used Are, added the report, was the for commerted with domestic
n CO-
He also said that a new section, violent combustion of washed premises, We do not consider Pan, had be added which de-celluloid film scrap in Godown that a legal requirement to this clared that charitable, ecclesinati-
telfert is cal and educational organisations No. 6, on Des Voeux Rond,
Justified. "We recommend that shall be exempt from the pro-West. The most accepted ex-
mittee of qualified prisons be of how the scrap visions of the Ordinance, unless planation
appointed to consider whether, Ifj they tarry on trade or business caught fire in the self-ignition our proposals for registration of of a small quantity of unstable all godowns is necepted, the Chief Oncer should be empowered to "It has always been the inten-film, said the report. tion that such bodies should he The report Accted Elmi the take it a condition of registra-
for prent.
exempt, but the existing Ordin- members
of
commence-sto
the drums in the godown. "We consider that the
washed Alm rerup restel
prime for safety in storage
and
out
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THE CHINA 'MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1949,
New Site For Navy Hospital
Tho transfer of the Naval Hospital from the Queen Mary Hospital at Pokfulam to the former War Memorial Hospital on the Pouk was completed yesterday.
At the Peak, the White Ensign was hoisted at the War Memorini ospital at 8 m.m.
At the Queen Mary, the Inat Naval patient was put Into Ал ambulance for transfer to the Tenk at 10 am. when the White En- sign was lowered and the Union Jack raised by an officer of the HK Govern- ment, with traditional ceremony,
British Summer Schools
A
Anti-British Boom
To Be Cleared
109-year-old badm' • 'originally constructod
· against tho British Navy ndar Canton will be officially cleared on Sunday when the se. Fat- shan, a British vessel, sails from Canton to Hong Kong.
The opening ceremony will be performed by Madame T. V. Soong, wife of the Governor of Kwangtung., The boom was created in 1840 to prevent the British Navy from sail- ing up the Pearl River to the Kwangtung capital.
Large wooden junks -fully loaded with huge rocks were sunk in Elliot Passage, be- | twcen Hadding Island and the mainland, some eight miles from Canton.
Elliet passage was the only why throurth which ships of heavy draught could navigate. At present heavy vessels reach Can- ton by the shallower channel on the Southern side of Haddling Island.
Unsuccessful Attempt
ro-operation Conservancy Board, resumed the operations. weeks ago at the cost of
The work was completed a few
Than HK$300,000,
Personalia
The Chinese staff of Butterfield & Swire, one of the lending Bri- fish firms in the Colony, Intend to re-establish their Club, which will be called. "The B & S Chinese
lub."
A Preparatory Commalttee has
formed and in der to ob da ruggestions and support front olleagues, Committee will be holding a ten party for all them-
of the Chinese staff
uk Kwok Hotel, Wanchai.
on
that the Commission— tion
alterations in major Mr. Justice Reynolds, Messrs. structure should be carried mer gives power day to xem. D. C. Marsh, Kwok Chan. A. E by the owners, only in specific cases, thus re-N quiring
"We recommend they the Fire rach to go to the Gov- Lissaman and Lo Min-ung--are
The Japanese attempted to elem the passage during the war but ernor-In-Coenett, The new clause of the opinion that at least some Brigade, the General Chamber of will give general exeraption to members of the Kodown staff Commerce and the Chinese Chum-
During six weeks in July were unsuccessful. In July anFriday, night, January 21, at the charitable, ecclesiasticat and were aware of the contents of ber of Commerce should co- and August of this year sum-year, the Economic Co-operation enuentional bodies, with retrospec-
operate in promuinting measures mer schools will be held at will: the Pearl River
Administration tive cheet from the
the 10 British Universities, rang mest of the principal Ordinance responsibility for acceptance of legal requirements which nring from Edinburght in the with designed to secure safety of life North to Southampton in the Wong Tong and his store-keepers, and property.
South. all of whom are dead," said the report.
Mariame Soong will go to Ello' These Schools will cover wide passage Chinese
bay
worship. atron be given to providing the and profound fields of study such There she will perform the open- Director of the Wing On Com- Fire Brigade with Additionalfas "Morfern European Civilisa-ing ceremony.
at Oxford, "Twentieth She will return to the warship the Wing On Company for the "During the course of our in-Century English Literature" of after the Fatshan navigales Ellio good conduct of its godowds, he quiry, added the report,
"Shakespeare and Pass, and go back to Canton, London ani ort, "it be was responsible for the issue of cante clear that in addition to his Elizabethan Drama" at Birming- proper instructions to the staff concern with the extinction
of ham.
in May 1947, sukt Mr. Griffig.
Object of the Ordinance, sold the Attomey General, was le rg- pale errors in form, and also to expinin ambiguities.
The Commission airo consic, red AS Mr. Lam Wan-kur.
is
that
Retrospective operation rincessory because in reliance on the Till, the operation of the Ordinance for the year of assess anent 1948-1949 has proceeded on the assumption that the Bill, which was prepared in its present in March last year, would be he- ⚫fore Council when the principat
Ordinance was ermeted
Ur the acting Colonial Score- tory, Mr. K.M.A. Barnett, second- ing. the motion was carried unni- triously.
SHIPPING AMENDMENT
Amendments to the 50-year-old
Merchant Shipping
Measures For Safety
"We recommend that considera-
pany, was directly responsible to|jan-foot turntable ladders."
as to what goods should or shouldfires, the Chief Officer has con- not be accepted mud for the carry- ing out of those instructions.
administration of the lawi
do-
ti
This is the second group siderable responsibility in the summer schools to be stranged,
the main demand coming from. signed to prevent their occurrence students. andd
post- No Instructions
especially Jand the safety of persons handling graduate students, from colleges The Commission's report saldangerous goods,
In America. that Mr. Lam gave no bstructions
"Wa suggest that a Fire Ad other
then not to store com-
The School nt Edinburgh visory Board, on which might The Tradition modities which might subject
which owners of goods to a higher rate of insurance or which might in- Validate
lidate insurance in the event of a destructive
fre
the responsibility for the fire," "He must bar'a tarde measure Ordinance added the
report. Bill
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Some desice of responsibility.
1899 were contained in which passed its first reading in sold the report, attaches to the Legistative Chanell yesterday, Chief Manager of the Wing On Company, Mr. L. P. Kwak, for not ensuring that the member of his stuff
enacted,
responsible for
of
Bomb Causes Serious Injury
to use
Departures from the Peninsula Volci cn Tuesday Included Mr. P.E, Shoudy, Mrs. and Mrs. OF.T. Soul, Mr., and Mrs. U Chin, Mr. and Mrs. A. Boodt, Mersin, 13.A. Jaffe, P.Y. Chen, J. P. Hughes, W.G. Lamb, C.W. Torr and G. Galletti.
Among the new arrivals at the Peninsula Hotel on Tuesday were
Reeve Viesara. W.E.
J.P. Rad A.T. Tan, B.D, Homer, C.L, Yuan, 5. Turner, J. Ulrich, F. Motil tin, N.D. Jones, D. Hannan, and Miss RM. Beattie,
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Captolu W., Duncan, ndviser to Dr. T.V. Soung, Governor of Kwangtung, has arrived in the
A bomb which Leung, So Colony. Asherman, was about
Messrs. A.P. Kolonie, M. Chif- exploded prema on for fishing
ford,M, Scott, M. Yolle, M. Girard, European turely, and caused serious in-and Mr. and Mrs, Pulseux arrived 120 places will juries to one of his fokis und Gil, the Marine Department, the coincide with the first week of sight injuries to another, at France. Pubile Works Department, the the Festival of Music and Dramo, 5 a.m. on January 11. Chambers of
of Commerce
and now approaching its third year.
be represented the Urban Coun Culture with
the Fire insurance Association |
would be
In addition to these academiche be of great atsistance to:
Council ta
here from Salgon yesterday by Alr
Air
Leung brought the two men to Mersrs, R.P.L. Vircondeiet and Kowloon Hospital. The Vuntie True Thien left Hong Kong the Chier Officer in matters of studies, the British
Water Police was notified and a for Sulgan yesterday by
the France. policy and administration con-arranging some 40 short courses Chinese detresive sent to nected with fire prevention and of two or three weeks' duration ospital to make inquiries,
Questioned by Detective Sub- Mr. and Mra, de Boodt, Miss A. the composition
Fire rack, covering a variety of topics inspector W. D. Scragg, Leung Lemming. Mrs. M.A. Poderson Brigade,"
such as Factory Welfare, Local told a story of how the three of and Mr. J.S. Geldart left for Government, Education and En. theglish Literature.
them were fishing at Chu Lai Kok Shanghai by the se. Shengking Mwill run throughout the year.
These courses that morning when another hont yesterday.
(approached theirs, fired at them.
of
the
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Introducing the Amending Bill, the Attorney General, Mr. J. B. Griffin, explained that the amend
The Conumission, recorited ments had been made necessary by management of the Company's C. E. Terry, Assistant Government
the evidence of 54 witnesses. the changes which had taken pure godown was thoroughly familiar Chemist, in his report
Mr. K.M.A. Barnett, Acting since the principal Ordinance was with the regulations for storage Commission said that all theories modated in Colleges, hostels of
10 the The students will be accontand then threw a hand grenade
at them.
Colonial Secretary, was sworn in of cinematograph im and dan-electrical theory For
instaner, increase
The story' soounded "a bit tall," as a membem at yesterilny's ces- in all
of origin, in todgings and will be brought penalties attached to breaches of
gerous goods.
ignition by material descending into close touch both with her but the police had to believe it sion of Legislative Council.. the Ordinance hast beer made, as Minor Responsibility
and circulate the report to ull human academic colleagues and with outlying stations. Police launches flug-pipe, ignition by the old penalties were based on the
Mr. A. J. Clifford returned from The Commission's report sald agenty, ignition by agency of the people and life of Britain were diverted to Chu Lu Kok and Saigon by Air France on Tuesday. old value of money,
that the Fire Brigade did att that calcium cynamide, and ignition today. Several thousand are ex-Mawan, sold DSI Scragg, to in- The motion WALN unanimously was possible to save life once the by impure caustic soda--were perted.
Lieutenant-Colonel Brasier-, approved after it was seconded by are had
vestigate. started. The Com-Investigated and discorded owing
Most of the students will be Mr. K. M. A.
At 2 o'clock the same afternoon, Creagh will speak on "Repre-" Barnett, Acting mission however, considered that to contrary evidence. Colonial Secretary.
from America or from European defendant admitted that the story sentation on the Municipal Coun- minor degree of responsibility In Mr. Terry's opin
opinion the fre
The authorities are he toll countries. for the fire rests with the Chief was caused by self-ignition of a junxious.
0 nm, that day wasil" at the Y's Men's Club meet- however, to attract untrue had that the actual facting today at the Hong Kong Officer of the Fire Brigade for part of the washed film scrap. students from distant countries] was that a fish bomb had ex- Hotel,
in a hot climate; It
edst of travel to
United so invented the story, small propor-Kingdom from Hong Kong will Charged by DSI Serang before "We should have felt watls- tion of unstable celluloid.
make it possible for only
few Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr yesterday. fled that all possible stops to The Commission's report was persons to take advantage of defentiant was sentenced to four save property had been taken tablet at yesterday's Legislative these schemes.
months' hard inbour on the count the Acting Chief Officer or Council meeting by Mr. K. M. A. The British Council will bo of making a false report to the
Deputy
Colonial Secre- prepared in certain circumstances police. ap.sary. Mr. Barnett sald
the to
to meet the cost of fees in part, members will
or in whole, a contribution to the
Property Rights
his fall
failure to ensure adequate This, self-ignition was produced and the For Enst, in particular. ploded prematurely. He Was pubilelty for the regulations for by long tainers, of washed is appreciated" that the heovy jafraid to report the true facts and
storage of dangerous goods and in closed Comellufold.
An amendment
to tho panies Ordinance 1032, allowing companies
incorporated oukide
the Colony in acquire, hold and dispone of immovable property as contained in Bill before Legislative Council for first read. ing yesterday.
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The Attorney Genera!, Mr. J.B. Griffin,, explained that at present It was necessary to obtain the consent of the Governor-in-Coun eli for such acquisition, posueraion or disposal.
The motion was seconded by
whe Acting Colonial Secretary and '
carried unanimously.
Donations Received
film containing a
another responsible Fire Brigade
ade Barnett,
the
No./tand that the cochon expon which will be of some
APPOINTMENTS
گرده
officer, who could have Rracisted
the importance 21 early Ingress Into Godown No. 2, had been
from spared rescue sive report requires consideration slanincance, especially in the six
The Standing Law Committee operations during earllest with three different departments weeks summer schools. These for 1940
the
composed
the stages of the are to maintain of Government and with a num-cost from to £05.
[Attornoy General, Mr. J. B. Grifin general supervision of the fire; Ber of Hon-Government
Chinese
other persons not (chairman) and 'Sir Man-kam Lo normally resident in the United MIT. T. N. Chau, Mr. Leo d'Almada the rear of the Des Voeux Road companies. He added that it Kingdom would be eligible for e Castro, and Mr. M. M. Watson promines,"
added tha
Com will not be expected at this early consideration. Full information). "mission's repoTE,
date that Government should about the courses and methods of
area and especially the area in tions, for example, Bre
£55
and
appointments were an- "We recommend", said the rest ounce what stops it is taking plication can be obtained from nounced in Legislative Couhell by
the Brigade and to implement the special recom- the Hong Kong office of
the the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. and, mendations made in the report. British Coudell in. Statue Squate. K. M. A. Barnett, yesterday.
Vic Matine
rtment where necessary, the Department
of Imports and Exports should interchange Information about the arrival in or removal of
wollowing is a lot of the donation to dangerous goods from the Colony the St. John's Cathedral 'Dejan Pond received up to January it which have "We consider that sufficient
Hot yet been acknowledged in the press, surveillance of the movement of
··Mis ·D. - Mow Playin' metasty
of Ertient Fincher..
Mr. Naner Ritchie to memory
of her husband · Richard.. Anonymona..................
Chief Inspector and Mrs. J. Forest Anonymous la memory of the
Tate Mr. Piston
Shiu-poon
Wong
dangerous, goods can be effected
10.00 by Buch co-operation without amending the regulations, except lo "provide that the arrival of
110,00 100.00 25.00
200
+ 130.00
.... 1,3.04
Received up to December 10 and
airendly acknowledged
Total donations received up to
January 12
**2001,440.00
Donations maybe beat to the Hon. Ternativers, Menors, Post, Marwick, M- "efel)" und "Còmpang.' Exchantrebaming,
-
cinematograph Alm should be notified to the Marine Depart- inent.
"We recommend ithat im- porters should endeavour to have cargoes offdangerous goods labelled at, source – by their "suppilors in--xocordance with Hong Kong regulations and that the system of tabetting should "B"pálended to "čbild, and
cinematograph" films. "
Required To-Register "We recommend that
tensing
Following set of the donations to plates should be re-introduced as
the BL John's Cathedral Restoration Fund soon as possible bild' that' licenses received up to January which have not for storage of dangerous goods yet been acknowledred in the press
Mfx 0.11. Boott-Monerleft..... ing should be required to be pro-
Mr. M. PE
MK Langford
Nhs E. Alkine ....
Mar EMR. Duckland
A.J.W. ETIS
6.8, Wilby
D. 'Wien,
0. Skinner
BD. "Becer
Brock Barnseehl
"MCM. In memory of alias "Vara
Handrelda
*Restoration Box
Recared up a December 18
25.00 displayed in places of
20,00
4:00
10.00
20:03
recommend that all go- 10.downs and places of storage above certain size to be specified by should be required by law sobe to register with the Fire Brigade, 1000 and that they should' bo open to 10.00 Inspection by authorised
omcers
1000 law
15.00 140.25
of the Fire Brigade."
"We recommend that'a sta
n'staff br qualified inspectors' Bo addad to
'izás |the strength of the, Fire Brigade,
so sthat. Ture / ragulations for the
and allvady acknowledged 19.121.81 storage of dangerous goods and
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claumatograph film may be
adequately EDI recommend Kinh nho là
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