CLARK CHAPMAN & CO., LTD, Steam & Electric Maring Winches, Pulverized Fuel Equipment, High Pressure Steam Batters. Electric Motors and Generators.
ENGINEERINGS EQUIPMENTS COZELTD" H.K. & Shangħal Bank Bldg. Tel. 27700
HK & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD ANNUAL MEETING
The plans for the rebuilding of the Hongkong Hotel have been agreed in principle, and work will
· commence as soon as certain problems of light and air have been settled with the Building Authority, said Mr Horace Kadoorie, Chairman of the Hong- kong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., when he address- ed shareholders at the Company's ordinary yearly meeting today.
in the accounts
The balance of the working account for the past year, he said, had increased by $500,000 over that for 1951, as although the restaurant side of the business still continued to decline, the revenue from lodgings had shown a marked improvement.
A dividend of 65 cents per been includect share, free of tax, was declared,¦ under review,
Before presenting his report, Many of the rooms on the Mr Indoorle referred to the upper floors have already been fleath of Mr F. C. Barry, former air-conditioned by the use of In- Managing Director, who "always dividual units, an amenity which devoted Jumself wholeheartedly has been much appreciated by to the furtherance 01 the our guests, interests of the company.
He continued The balance of
The main kitchen which Working
Account for the past
Covers an area of no less than your amounts to $1.778.533.54 an
5,900 square feet, hus had to be increase of some $300,000 when
as renovated completely. The compared with 1951. Although whole floor has been re-laid, the restaurant side of
pipes changed and cold storage the bust- ness still continued to declines reconstructed and imodern- the revenue from lodgings show-red so as to allow for the de- mands not only of the hotel The itself but of the catering depart-
the
ment.
were
ed a marked improvement, restrictions Imposed by the Hotels
Ordinance 1948 Gnally removed In September and, freed
from
these, the management was able to purruc a more realistic policy and to bring room rates and charges la a more economic level.
The Hongkong Hotel
was Anally closed on 30th April and handed over to the lessees who of $10,000 now pay us a rental
month during the first two agreement. As a years of our result the accounts under review have benefited to the extent of $80,000 which amount is in- eluded
Rents figure the received." Therer is a further saving fron this under the
"Rents,
per
In
#
Rates used
and "Insurance."
"The clos
Hongkong retrench- ment of the Company's staff which cost $483.783.95 and which appears in the second part of the Profit & Loss Account.
The posi
Hotel necessitated
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OUTSIDE CATERING
Your empany
is now in position to undertake large-scale outside entering, both of Euro- pean and Chinese food.
For instance, may mention
such varied examples as all catering at the New Territories Agricul- Aural Show and several large receptions held recently.
These services were carried out to the entire satisfaction of our clients.
of
The electrica! Installation the hotel has been overhauled and rewiring undertaken where- ver found necessary.
As regards the building itself, the exterior is being thoroughly cleaned at
al present and all defec- five plaster
work repaired. bedrooms are king repainted Publie ooms and many of the
and renovated
Astor House so far as the has been written off against the
Re-
An expenditure of $300,725.20
Extraordinary Hotel, Shanghai is reserve for concerned is
ed is unchanged. The
second part of the Pro- fit & Loss Account shows erdit balance brought down of
a
$1,110,107,04 ... an increase. of
CHINA MAIL
Established 1845
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1953.
LAST NIGHT'S HARBOUR DRAMA
There was excitement and drama in the harbour shortly after 8 o'clock last night when A Chinese passenger jumped into the water from a Star ferry. Two of the ferry crew. men immediately went to hla assistance. The ITAD Waŏ dragged out of the water, half drowned, but prompt appll- cation of artificial respiration him back his life. A IRV China Mall staff photographer Chu
aboard the ferry when the incident occurred and he Above Look these pictures. shows Wong Moon and Chan Hing the two rescuers, apposite, Chan Hing applying articial respiration.
was
Big Crowd
and
Greets Cugat
Xavier Cugal, King of the and his 31-number Rumbo, show arrived here this morning by PAA, and were given a warm Welcome by a large crowd of fans.
Amongst those who met him
the airport nt
were
many
Pairs and Renewals, as also has schoolchildren, an 11-piece band' the cost of renewal
of piping and members of the Musicians completed last year amounting to
Union and their wives. $180,807.25.
of
and his star singer, Cugat mobbed by a large crowd Abbe Lane, were very nearly autograph hunters nwho sur- this rounded them when they came
I should
le to express our $681,048.02 over the previous dents and transients, who have
thanks to our guests, both resi put up with the noise and general Inconvenience caused by
year.
QUARTERS SOLD
Our staff quarters in Welling-wark, which has been largely out of the Immigration Office. ton Street were disposed of at a necessitated by
$260,992,75 which occupation..
profit
the Japanese
The Cugat Show, which will at the Lee Theatre tonight, will end on which reference has already ment for their cathusiasm and March 25 when the troupe will
Leave by a special plane
amount partially offsets the cost I would take this opportunity make its debut
of the staff retrenchment to to thank the staff and manage-
been made.
the hard work they have put in,
for
It is hoped to arrange to ac- which has played such an im- Guam, where they are to give commodate the staff in the new portant part in bringing about two shows,
building itself.
the improved results shown. In Unclaimed dividends in re-this connection I would like
Hotel
spect
Repulse Bay.
has
Was
DANG
Banishee's Misfortunes Told To Magistrate
·
A banishee, Kung Kwan-fuk, native of Shanghai, who has twice entered Hongkong illegally and who has lost his house, property, money, wife and seven children at Communist hands in Shanghai, appeared in Kowloon Court today. This was his story as sketched in Court by Sub-Inspector Pilkington.
In 1950, he tried to get a pass- where he
Threw Stool
At Man
of the years 1936-47 ure make particular mention of Mr the balance of $1,259,975.31 dealt with in accordance with Sommerfell on whom
so much available at the credit of the Article 150 of the Company's extra work, some of which was
Pront Loss Account Articles of Association. Thorn of a complicated nature, has been little
or no movercent fallen as the result of Mr Barry's dividend of sixty-five cents per ahore, free of tax, be paid on in these balances during th death.
In the accounts under review,382,022.45 be transferred to the 1,193,867 shares; that a sum of ́past year.
Turning next to the Balance provision has been made for the the Reserve for Extraordinary Ife was born in Shanghai and ment to China would mean cer- Sheet it will be noted that the Chinese Staff and this was duly Repairs and Renewals. thereby came
payment of a bonus to the
to be the master of the tain death. value of the Fixed Assets is re
He was cautioned. duced by $930,003.52; deprecia. paid at Chinese New Year; the making this Reserve $416,000, Sam Yee. Building Contracting Communists Llon
to the accounts for more than usual bonus of 10%
and leaving a balance of $101, Company. When 339.31 to be carried forward to came he was told they wanted 50% of this reduction and the Foreign Staff has also been pro-
him on a rich man and property balance is mainly due to the vided for and I trust that you 1953.
awner, so he left Shanghai. He closure of the Hongkong Hotel,
will approve of this.
A SUGGESTION
arrived in Hongkong in 1949 Chairman's report The where the book value of the REBUILDING SCHEME Building and the balance of the
seconded by Mr J. H. Seth who with US$8,000 and tried to start cost of Installation of the Air- Shareholders will no doubt sald: The Chairman has dealt a business here. He failed.
with the year's working at conditioning Plant, have been wish to know the present posi-
"Young man, you must not written off against
the Special tion in regard to the rebuilding some length and there is little
left for me 10 say except to Po to go to Japan
tose your temper," Mr Hin-shing Depreciation Reserve which la of the Hongkong Hotel.
Lo warned Tse Kam-kwong, 21, cessful.
was It The construction of a building express pleasure at the im-thought he would be more cue- refused. In thus reduced by $430,847.49.
results Dehlevest, an Stocks show an increase
of 18. Western Street, ground 1951, therefore, he stowed away of of this nature falling as it does proved some $137,000, the major por within the categories of a doncs expression of opinion which with US$2,000 in the B & S shipi floor, when he fined him $50 for amongst Shanst to Jupan. His project in common assault at Central this tion of which representa furn-tic and public building has pre-feel will be general
morning. ture from the Hongkong Hotel sented certain problems of light thareholders. which is at present stored at and all which have not yet been seconding the accounts of this back to Hongkong in May. He pay compensation of $50 to the
On a previous occasion, when Japan falled. He returned again
as a stowaway in the scene ship Defendant was also ordered to scitled with the Building
Company. 1 sounded a note of had (US$1,300 left.
complainant, Tae Kam-kwan, a The cash position is consider-Authority.
restrict The plans for the scheme, warning as to the future, i
the above address. clerk of was arrested on arrival, Both men were bound over in ubly improved and shows an in-
ed as were then by the
pro- allows which
for Reception crease of $420,026,63 compared
deportation and Was with 1051.
Rooms, Dining Rooms, etc., on vialons of the Hotels Ordinance. ordered the firm three floors, office ac- Happily wiser counsels prevailed pent across to Chinese territory $250 for one year. REPAIRS
The Prosecution revealed that of EXTENSIVE
the In Shumchun. That same night middle and the restrictions in the Extensive repairs to the commodation
took
a train to Shanghai, on March 3 the complainant dis- Peninsula Hotel could on longer section and bedrooms on the Ordinance, repeated in 1951, have he
day he found that the covered a typewriter belonging
the his to that the
shop damaged. be deferred. Much thought was upper floors, have been agreed now been finally removed, with Next
Company Communists had confiscated his to in principle. modernisation which, Elven 10
Enterprise during the latter portion of the house and his wife and children suspected defendant was res-
ponsible and a when completed, will serve to
quarrel started. maintain this establishment as Limited. have engaged the ser. year has been able to work on aj were "inst", presumably dead. Defendant then picked up a
more economie hails.
His friends told him that the Tsun vices of Mr Fung
DA I rarely visit Kowloon, but, if Communists
and the Anest hotel in the Far East
stool
threw it at com- still wanted him rench me, are and advised and one of which the Colony Architect, and Mr S. E. Faber
reports, which
him to rolurn to plainant, injuring his head. can be justly proud,
as Civil Engineer. We have accurate, the Peninsula Hotel The programme includes the appointed Messrs Spence, will soon compare
Hongkong. favourably
INTELLIGENCE TEST--- He
from went to Canton outclass many a central plant Robinson & Partners as consul with and even Installation of
̈ ́SOLUTION : where he took a ship to Macao to air-condition all bedrooms on tant architects to care for our first-class Hotels elsewhere,
and from Macao he took
Lat the first rubber be 13 100%, ' the 2nd and 3rd floors in adul interests.
If I en in order. I should like
and the original wakes n shfilings, tion to the extensive receptioni As I do not think that there to suggest for considerailon of motor junk back to Hongkong,
PT 100 rooms and enclosed verandah are any other matters which the Board that, in addition to landing here a few days later. was undetected and has for comment. by myself, the usual portions served at the He on the 1st floor, and also the coll restaurant on the ground floor. I now formally proposa the various grills, mall porions be been working as a cook in the .of the Hongkong The total cost of installation adoption of the Report and Aavailable at say 70% of the cost employ amounting to $208387.40 has counts as presented. That from of ordinary portions. My capacity Textile Company.
average arrested the day before yester- may be analler and I have frequently had toy. Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICK GAINHAM for choose one of two dishes for fo pleaded in Court that and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-8 comfort, instead of indulging in the Governor Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong. "both.
his deportation order as banish-
Messrs Local
the result
then
He
Ho
www
*should rescind
Alleged
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Contempt Of Court
HEARING FIXED FOR APRIL 7
Hearing of a case for alleged contempt of court was fixed for
10 a.m. on April 7'on an application by Counsel for first respondent before the Full Court, comprising the Chief Justice, Sir Gerard Howe, and the Senior Puiane Judge, Mr Justice E. H. Williams this morning.
Respondents were Terence James Sheridan of 30 Braga Circuit; The Standard Press, Ltd., of 20 Ice House Street; and Lo Sau-lai, 77 Wongneichong Road, and director and general manager of The Standard Press, Ltd.
On March 6 the Full Court granted an application by Crown Counsel on behalf of the Attorney General for an order that the respondents appear to day to show cause why writs of attachment should not be issued against them for contempt of Court. The application' was made as a result of a complaint that an article entitled “Trial by Jury” in the March, 1953, number of the magazine “Outlook" was in contempt of court.
The article was then read by { not been able to give him (Me d'Almada) full Instructions that this case required, because he had not been back In his chaní- bers until this morning.
the Crown Counsel, Mr G. Ř. Sheath, which was a comment upon the new District Courts.
This morning Mr W. A. Blair Kerr. Crown Counsel, appeared for the Attorney General.
First respondent was repre- sented by Mr D. A L. Wright, instructed by Mr P. A. L. Vine, and Mr Oswald V. Cheung, on the instructions of Mr A.W.K. L121,
second appeared for the
Counsel said it was necessary to file certain offldevits in these proceedings, which were rather
and lengthy,
It would he necessary for Counsel to
title these affidavits. As the matter was one of considerable Import- unce, In Counsel's submission, it third respondents,
would be of considerable assist- Making his application for an ance to the Court and consider adjournment, Mr Wright midable advantage to his client to that the pom: involved in the have Mr d'Almada to argue case was one of considerable before the Court.
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Mr Wright said that he was supported by Mr Cheung in
for
importance and the Hon. Leo d'Almnda, QC, had been taihod
to load the prosant cuse. Mr Wright application said that Mr had been ill for a week past
Successful Fashion Show
-The blend of sartorial and liquid cocktills mode a novel and enjoyable evening yester- day for more than 600 people who crowded the Skyroom of Luna Park for the Cocktail Hour Fashion Show Hongkong
and Boys Camp,
adjournment School
the
Sca
in ald
Tenining Stanley.
'd'Almeria / and he understood that Crown The event was organised by a
Counsel had no objection.
Mr Blair-Kerr informed the
and his instructing solicitor had Court that he had no objection
Consecration Of Catholic Bishop
to
ndjournment.
Hearing was then fixed for 10 a.m. on April 7.
Mr Cheung said that he
wished to mention two points.
first The
committee
of eleven ladies under the Chairmanship of Mrs M. D. Gilpatric, and it was Lady Grantham's Arst appearance at
function for
several weeks.
She is Patroness of the Comp.
The 25 models Included four was that second teen-agers and eight tiny tots, respondents were called The and the creations paraded werd Standard Printing Press, Ltd, all chosen with a special eye but there was no such Company. Spring and Hongkong, so that The printers of this periodical nothing was shown which could were The Standard Press, Ltd, not be suitably worn here dur- who had instructed him to ap- ing the coming months. Pre- dominantly French and Ameri-
pear on their behalf.
Asked by the Chief Justice can, the styles put decalm and silk The consecration of the Most whether he had any objection if shantung in the limelight for Rev. Josephi Truong-cao-Dai.
who has been appointed Titular Crown Counsel made an applica-warm weather, fashions, though tion to strike out the word glazed cottons, silk gauzes and Bishop of Sila and Apostolic printing, Mr. Cheung said he organdies, and variations on the Vicar of Halphong, took place amidst a solemn and impressive had none. In fact he mentioned nylon thome played a big part long evening ceromony at the Roman Catholle point so that the Crown could There were few
dresses, ballet length formals” | put the matter in order, Cathedral this morning.
Continuing, Mr Cheung sald and every-day casuals being to The Consecrator was HE the that the second point was that the fore. Imagination and much Most Rev. John Dooley, SSC, DD, third respondent was not the good taste were shown in the Archbishop of Mara, and Aposto-printer of the
Chinese lie Delegate to Indo-China. The director and general manage: of
periodical but a wearing of gorgeous
of fabrics.. assisting bishops were His Ex-the second respondent company. cellency Lawrence Blanchi,He mentioned it now so that the Compered by Mrs Elsa Tal- Bishop of Hongkong, and His Crown could deal with that paint
bot, with John Wallace Excellency Peter Ngo-dinh Thur, also.
Master of Ceremonies, yester- day's was the most accomplish
then applied
►
Bishop of Vinh-long. A sermon Mr Blair-Kerr was given by His Excellency for the word "Printing" to be ed and smooth-running of any show held hera Adolf Parchang. MM, DD, Bishop struck out from the name, The such fashion of Kongmoon.
Chris and his Standard Printing, Press, Ltd," in since the war. Bishop Joseph Dal was born the notice of motion.
Band, new to, the Skyroom, An-lap, North Vietnam,
Me Wright offering no. objec- gave the show a musical swing the application was and entertained cocktail-sippers
in the intervals.
in
in 1913, and received his first tion, schooling in the parish of Luc-granted. Thuy before entering the Minor Seminary of Ning Cuong, from where he went to the Pontifical Seminary of Nam-Dinh,
On entering the Dominican Order in 1935, he pronounced his simple vows in 1930 and his solemn vows in 1939. He finished his theologicat aludies In the Domini- can
House of Studies It Rosary Hill, Hongkong, in 1940, Bishop Dal was ordained priest in May 1940 in Hong
and after three years, kong, obtained the degree of Doctor in Canon Law in Manila. He was proclaimed the Titulor Bishop of Sila and Apostolle Vicar of Haiphong on. January 8 this year.
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Tiria Sigma), World News and News, Telk (London Relay); 1.15, Wenck Cracies- field and his singing atrkigs; 7.50. "Down Memory Lane" presented by Adeen- Woods (Studio); 7.06. Weather Report; 8. Tame, for Musta The DBC Scotital Variety Orch. cond. to Guy Daines with Janetto Sclanders Boyrano) (BOOTS); 0.30. First Notesrval with" Bernard Fraden, Barbara Kelly, Denny Lee, Pearl Care, Torald Fletcher. Mas Temple and Hill Orch. (EDCTS); 9. Sports Berkow by Brig Young (Studio); B.15. As the Opens-"Don Carlo Apter 3 & 4. (Veral); wias Principal, Members, Orchestra and Chorus of stadia, Itahson (lonso), cond. by ronndo Prevital; 10.30, Mundo of the Twentell Cantur: 10.00, Weather Report; LI, Badka News Reel (Recorded London Relay):
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
11.10 Goodricci Bag George: “I'd better buy dad a cheap corncob pipe for his birthi
Boulanger and the Orchestra: God Dave The Queen; 113), Close Down,
day--already he thinks I get too much allowance!"!“