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Confidence in the future prospects of the Colony's trade with Chino was the key-note of Mr. P. S. Cassidy's speech at the annual mopting of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce yesterday.
The Chairman of the Chamber said that Hong Kong's trade will not collapse
as long as law and order. exist in the Colony.
He urged member of the public to join the Hong Kong Defence Force and expressed satisfaction with the efficiency of the Hồng Kông Polico Fórce.
His speech was seconded by 1538, the past year's values bo- Mrs. J. H. Warning whe stress-is, Ave and half times what they ed the urgency of a better air-wore in the latter year. imports field and the need of reason-creased. In greater, proportion
from the United States have in ably adequate housing accoin- and formed 10.6 per cent. of the modation for workers..
total inports for 1948.
Mr. Cusaldy said in part: "The remarkable expansion of the trade of the Colony during the past three years makes aji nimal review from this Chair a more complicated undertaking than in pre-war days.
"it is no longer the case of reporting on the state of the plore goods market, inakin Tow observations
about metals
and the passing on to the ex- port trade. Nor is the
main tople of Interest the truce with T|Chína, us In, the days of not so
long ago
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The Annual Report deals with oil the matters which have, en- Baged the pitestium of the Gen- eral Committee aided. In many
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putting into practice what had been worked out in Landon on the assumption that the Colony Was is a state of chaos and that the foreign population would be too exhausted to participate in the work of rehabilitation.
Appreciation
"We pre
of irritation to some of our mem bra by disturbing normal dualneso procedure.
"I do not doubt that the Depart- ment acts from the best of inten- tions in encouraging amalk, com mercial Arms and in assisting local the effect is manufacturers, but
to Interally competition and to hamper thoso, firms who, by long experience, realise the necessity of trading on conzervative lines.
"Wo have just been told that the Department must remain in being so long as trade with Japan
on its
its present basis, I should that it
ja
have thought, However,
could have been absorbed by the Department of Commerce and In- dustry with what remains of the appreciative of o functions of the ST and I. admin- that Admired Harcourt, and hisIstered by a sub-department, "The most notable develop coadjutators did on the service ment of the Colony's trade has ido as well as of the distance
by been with Japan- and o
rendered
members of the Korsa Civil Affairs branch under the There, was 12- flow of merchorasipa, Puke | briliant leadership of Mr. DM.
Commerce Japan Macdougall whose impending do- much of it was, dealt with parture we all deplore.
and
In this Colony, alther, an route "But I do feel that we should to oversens destinations or for not over. look the fact that the dlicharge here, and subsequent first impetus toward recovery re-sale to other, mackets. Most came from those who were here of the foreign firma established at the liberation.
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Industry. and
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As Chairman
Court Brevities
With three previous conviettorin against him... Yeung Yuen-fat, aged 20, returned to the Colony, | bringing about the fourth breach
of banishment order.
Before Mr. Blair-Kerr, Young was sentences to nine months' Imprisonment. and deportation. He was arrested on suspicion of In- bbing a returned banisher. spector J.H. Evans prosecuted,
"Watching the Bank is more important than attending a wed» ding party," said Mr. Binir-Kerr to two wntelimen charged with neglect of duty.
Inspector Evans told the count that Lau Dong and. Chau Man
· were two watchman employed at the Mongkok Branch of Hong
· Kong and Shanghai Banking Cur- poration.
A party of police was summon- ed to the bank premirer when the bank's alarm went off. Arriving. MR. P. 8. CASSIDY
the police found an unauthorised person in charge, who was al- Mr. P. S. Cassidy was re- leged to have "fiddlet with the
of elected Chairman the alarm not knowing what it war. of The man was asked by the two Hong Kong Chamber Commerce yesterday at the watchmen to hold the fort while Chamber's. annual general they were away at the wedding meeting.
served the Colony well and its scope has widened considerably aince the liberation. "The Superintendent, Mr. Him- aworth, has been most active on trade interests, and behalf of In Japan before the war have "So here we are, three years through his agency a much greater business later, congratulating ourselves on interest is being taken in what we recommenced there, and several of our mem- yet another
year's
Mr. C. Baker was elected Vice- prosperity can supply and what we purchase bara have also entered, what is The question is on it, last?
official organisations oversens, Chairman. by to the a new field of opera- "At the moment the position lok an advocate of greater pub- tiene.
is that margins of profit have come down very
for
more
1. N.
Lau and Chnu were ench Ened $150.
While a crowd of people were As no further nominations were gathered at a bus stop in Kow-
"In the case of Korea, ccrtalis
They man moving among them sug- appreciably ety for Hong Kong, and 1 aug. I received, members of the General focn, a Chinese detective kaw a
Igeat that Government should be Committee were relected. Chinese firms showed commen-
and that in good many liner prepared to give lils Department a'
are Menara. A. Morse, D.F. Lan- piciously. He was Luk Chi-sing, C. Blaker aged 35. After a search, a razor unble enterprise in chartering
deruand has fallen off, with the substantial vote for advertising date, P.S. Cassidy,
blade Axed to a plece of card You may think that domestic vessels to take mainly consumer result that there have been sales the Colony in other parts of the W.HE. Contes, H.J. Coller, E. R.
But, gen and political questions outweigh goods to North Korea where under replacing cost.
O.C. Marsh, E.G. Price bourd was found on him.
Lik speaking, the trade interests of the Cinni. they were bartered for local pro- | vrully
replurement
world.
Hons of the events of the A. Ritchie, John Robinson, 1.W. later admitted that the razor was ber, but you must bear in talna durts.
costs continue to rise, and where
for pecktt hunting purposen. the Shewan and W.A. Stewart. of your was the raising "The annual that we are the channel
trade
He be
have had to be statistics seasonal stocks
Among the members present at
sentenced to three Moratorium which hoped tween Government and the com- show that the experts to Korea carried over it is to be
T.13. months' hard Inbour by Mr. mercial cammalty and we have pmounted to $58,000,000 against that there will be no cause fer than three years had prevented the meeting were Mesars.
debtor Wilson, S.K. Young, L.C. Kote- Blair-Kerr, Inspector Evan pro- of Battlement good many imports of $42,000,000,
effecting sales figures anxloty
creditor transactions which had wall, M.C. Kings, E. R. Hill, J. secuted, mait is which,
not which cannot be compared with next season. Although
been entered into before the Dunby, E. . Childe, A.J. Bird, directly concerned with trade. the previous year, because there Discretion Called For
E.M. Mehta, P.R.E. Arnold, L.B. While school-boy stopped on affect your interests.
"Nevertheless, discretion i
Richie, the way to watch some others called for. With the decline
play marbles, he had one of his
roller skates stolen market, of the wellore"
brand new petition
by three youngsters.
Inspector Evans told the court that one of the boys kicked one of the roller skutes from owner. The other boy grabbed it
Gratifying Statistics
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WLs no recorded trade, in 1947.
But, despite the enlarged scope of our entrepot trade, most of
about
the
been
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means will be neglected, and (1 realise the siderable progresy during the past
the Mberation of the
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Later the three boys sold the J.H. roller skate to a marine dealer R.C. for $1.00 (the value of the article Air- was $18). When arrested, the C.E. three boys brought the police to the marine dealer who was con- victed on a receiving stolen pro- perty charge. He was fined $100.
Mr. Blair-Kerr treated the boys eight as juveniles and ordered sirokes of the cane for each of them.
Reminders
war. "Although the necessary legiala-Howell, D.H. Blake, tion had been presed in June, the H. Dreyer, Ko Wing-fung. "You wilt, no doubt, have us feel that our natural role is
chants Froclamation to implement the Chinn A.M. Alves, R.P. Young, civen, more than
I. E. Coates, C.B. Laker, W. passing in relation to China.
between merchants Ordinance was withheld pending has Intensified glance to the very gratifying
and there has
Simmons, C.F. Wood, N.Ó.C. Demands Outlet
An appeal to the Home Government Marth, W. A. Stewart, M.M. Lum, statistics which showed that for
been a tendency to relax the "Whatever the outcome of the
on behalf of certain partles affect- the year 1948 our trade had far
usual contract requirements.
ed. The way
ered.F. Kwok, J.W. Shewan, J.T. to now open the Brastus present political struggle. exceeded in value any previous
"This Chamber has more than tors to seek legal remedies in re-.. Robinson, J.ft. Mothergill, and made off with It.
Choy, P.F Kwok, A.N. Weng, year's results. Our Imports to outlet to foreign
MONTUU | produce of China must find un once asked its members to ob
their claims, gard markets, and
many Omar el Arculii, N.C. Hare, tain murgia In respect of for- talled $2,077,000,000 and our the standard of living, however ward contracts
by exports $1,582,000,000, the re- relatively low It may have sunk, credit
and to
which have been complicata keep
T.L. Marden, C. Brown, Japanese liquidation proceed Warning, 5.M.
Churn, facilities to a minimuni. *pective increases over
1947 demands consumer goods which it regret that this counsel of ber- ings during the occupation.
A Morse, H.C. being 33.93 per cent and 30.07 mainly come from outside.
fection has been more and more
industry has made con- Price, per cent,
-Ways and
garett. H.J. Collar, and The
outstanding feature of found to maintain the exchange reason why.
year. Many of the obstacles to
The meeting confirmed the the year's trade was the further of produce for goods, and al-
"But I do appeal to members economie production which existed electior, of 62 new members, ap- shrinkage of the proportion of though I may be necused of
to bear in mind what will happen during the first year or two after proved previously by the General trade with China in relation to wishful thinking. I still bellevo
If a slump does set in and the liberation have now been over- Commitee. other parts of the world, thethat Chind has greater need than
to ensure that
reasonable come, and at the close of 1948 perrentage of Imparts from that ever of the services which Hong safeguards ara taken so that the there were 1.169 registered foc- country, being 26.7 as compared Kong con supply and that she
effects of over-optimistic buy- torics in operation. The primitive Trachoma Clinic with 38 in 1938, and exports to will continue to look to us to China for 1048 being a mere 17.7
full our functions as an entre 18 are reduced to a minimum.
type of factory set up in a dwelling thuis "In per tent of our total
respect I have no house is disappearing, and is being 15 com- pot. pured with 45 per cent in 1938.
doubt that the Banks are scrutis replaced by properly-designed in- "We have now had three pros-nising more "Even taking into account
closely than ever dustrial buildings with modern perous years since private trade # substantii increase in the trade was once more permitted during the part of
requesta for credit facilities on
their more ven- with Marae, aut making allow
which
"The education of factory owners the military interregnum
turesome customers. ance for unrecorded movements followed
well as employeen has been in- "And now I feel I must ex- of merchandise, it obvious Colony. That great event is be press some views on the relation North who, with their wider teclin- fluenced industrialists from the
by that the sphere of our entrepot ginning to fall into perspective ship between Govenment and trade has widened considerably. Tamt 1 should like to place on
leal knowledge and experience, are "The trade of the Netherlands record,
community. Wo before it is forgotten,
served helping to enine the standard of East Indies and French indo that the first steps towards res are on the whole, well China has been disrupted by toring the
by officiats who rearse to the production here. Colony's economyfult the dependence of our pro
Successful Exhibit · politleni turmoil, and although were taken by men on the spot.
temporary Debiting and Discussion Group meeting, European YMCA, of trade. these countries still continue to
8.45 "I refer to those internees and Perity on freedom
"The successful Industrial Ex- and has bren voluntarily offereri
p.m. to the Club by members, until Nowadays freedom is a relative hibition organised by the Clinese such time as a site can be secured big market for our goodsprisoners-of-war who at once re term, and we have lo and important sources of supply, suumed
suffes Manufacturer' where they left off, in
Union will have there has been a considerable de- December 1943, Brd with the controls which are imposed from enlightened the public as to the Kowloon for the erection of
outside. cline from pre-war values,
permanent premises. wide scope of local industry, and whole-hearted support of Chinese South East and local staff, and in the abtrictions
go far as possible these rest is gratifying to know that Hong "Other areas of
applied Asia, however, have
with its prospered since of records drawing upon
we have Kong manufacturers are keeping and we have seen a marked ex-memory, made a start in the intelligence and
abreast of modern developments to bureaucratic pation in their two-way trade administrative servico And in Complaint
Moreover, our in high-handedness,
production. the public utifltes.
accessible and are
participation of local in- "The planners arrived shortly officials are Increase afterwards and, of course, they willing to listen to our arguments dustralists in last year's British over played a very important part in with an open mind although, Industries Fair was all to the good. Lear, they usually get the betler It brought several of those who attended in touch, with British the gave them "What we are concerned about buyers, and it
A dolly slaft of two trained
Toc is the continued existence of a
various fac-{ nurses and one male attendant is chapro o Government trading
to see for them; maintained from Club funds.
.. tion, the Supplies, Trade and In-selves the many processes which Nolices, Infonning the pubile of dustry Department (to be known are being used and the conditions; facilities provided by the Club in future as the Department of of modern employment. Supplies and Distribution), which There, is no doubt that local we had hoped would have been manufacturers are building up a wound up long before this.
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A trachoma elinle, providing free examination" and treat- ment for the public, has been opened at 391, Nathan Road. first floor, Kowloon, under the Ballot for beach huts and sites, auspices of the Rotary Club of Urban Council Chamber, 3 Kowloon.
p.m. Accommodation - Is
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HK Rotary Club, Closed Meet- ing. Roof Garden, HK Hotel, 12.30 p..
Official Opening of Rediffusion by
the Governor, 6 p.m. Bridge Drive, European YMCA,
Essential furniture and equip men for the Clinie was doŋated by Kowloon Rotarians and others in terested in the project.
Treatment for patients is un-HK dertaken daily, Sundays das excepted, from 3's and hol am, by Rotarian medical procli. orers and eye specialist con-
sultants.
8 p.m.
Tramways Limited, annual general meeting, Jardine's Board Room, 12 noon.
Coming Events
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H Club meeting. Talbot House, 50, Macdonnell Road, 8.30 p.m.
Combined Debate with Toc H.
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Trachoma Clinic, have been issued to various employers of Labour, Flug and posted in local road and
harbour conveyances.
The Clinic has been organised
"The origin of this Depart. good reputation in many world ment was the Planning Comarkets, and it is vital that the mities in London, and its useful-standard of these products should ness to the Colony in the early maintained with full regard to other strong competition from fully ntages of rehabilitation is acknowledged. It was, quite ex-sources of supply..
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Strong Protest
"As a Chamber, we took ex- ception, to the haphazard, inethod
of dealing with stocks, and we
British Induairies Fair and fortunately the scramble to gel exhibits to England will not be repeated as ample notice has been given and propara. tione have been in hand for some months past,
"We are glad that Mr. Grim- wood, of the Hong Kong Govern
mado: a very strong protest atment Office, London, has been able the questionable practice of dis- to visit us.. His co-operation in
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posing of unwanted foodstuffs
welcome, and I feel sure that by linking them to much want the manufacturers of Hong ed types of piece, goods. : UI-
will greatly benefit from his timately representatkins
from
"The Chisibber is arranging for the Chamber had their effect
Fita. Hecnetary to make a quick trip. to exercis. and we were ablə
ibe. Fuit, Roma sort of influence over the to Londou in time, for
and I have no doubt that his na sales of rendining stocks.
From this point onwards, resistants will be appreciated by lations between the Chamber, and those members who are allarding. the, Supplice, Trade and Industry I should like to take this op- have been in thost respects harm-portunity of expressing the ap- onioni, and the Director, Mr. Urociation of the Chamber for the Cowperthwaite, has worked in energy displayed by Mr. Hime- with us very closely. But I should interest of merchilats as well se worth in securing the support and not be giving you the full story manufacturers, and to thank I did not refer to the general an
Messrs. Owen Caniness 85 to the policy of the
Hughes and the representaures of Jocelyné, Department. Tam satisfied. Uliai.ü.
lot of the loose criticisms one hire Chamber on the Fair Com- heard are not justined. I bellave, mitten, for the flip, they have that a wrong intofgustation has devoted to the preliminary ar
Hangemanta, been given to some of the Do- partment's activities
The Chamber has offered Ite
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