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Exishinkoð 1945
TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1957.
THE PROBLEM OF HONGKONG'S
EVICTED FAMILIES
From Condemned Houses!
They Go To _The_Streets, To The Rooftops
And The Nullahs
A
NOTHER problem has arisen with the demolition of condemned houses in Hongkong's slum areas the problem of the evicted families according to the monthly Warden's report of St James Settlement.
RADIO Hongkong
5.30 p.m., Time for Children, Intra- duced by Daphne; G. Time Signal, Programate Summary: 602, I feard Europe Sing Fulk Songs from Prugraining 2-laty Goeding (Vocali; Spain Cynthia 6.30, Milano and his Orchestra 7. "Spotlight on Song"-The Raberi First tearing Shaw Chorale:
and Spain"
presented by Decent; 7.02.
Weather Report; 8, Time Signol. The News; 1.09, Commentary: 815, Carthy- bean
Richardon Ody-Willy
visits the West Indies; 8.45, “The Muke Maker-Quartet No. 1 in
Minor ("From my
1
The Worden, Mias Lee Hel- man sale: "It is with goodwill that the Authority concerned permits stum hemes to be pulle ed down var.ous parts of Vanchal It is also a relief to many that at long last those dangerous and verminour quar- ters are to go away to make way for new attractive multi-storeyed bulldargs.
"Yet Jew are that chother problems already on the way— the problem of evicted fares."
Where do they go? Miss Lee gives these answers. They camp on the paye ment that is, with the permission
of the landlord
by paying all be part of thete compensation money, Some rebulk their home in obsecure alleys,
Smetana; . Special Tens Lotte"!, & a few lucky
commentary from Tront Bridge: 045, Letter Team Amertea by Alistair Cooke; 10. Roger Williams (Planu Solus & Dust With Strings and Orchestra: 100 "Look What I've Found"-A Record Miscellany pre- sented
10.38, John Wallace: by Werther Reward; 11, Time Signal, Radio New Feel: 11.13. Crickei-Eng land v West Indice-Commentarien on the 3rd Tem at Trent Netlogham by Rex Alston. John Arloti and Kenneth Ablack; Close Down
REDIFFUSION
1145,
3 pan, Musical Matinee; 3.30, Part-| ners In Song-Freddie Hell and his Beti Boys and the King: Slaters; 4. Tea Time lendervous: 4.30. Vocally Yout: Bub Mihanista Filzgerald: & Chlidren's Corner - Presented by Auntie Bay: 650, Pro- Kressive Jazz: 0, Toren Tones; 0.20, Birthday Malibog; 6.30, Bandrall Featuring Doris Day, and Elliot Lawrence and his band: 7. Person ality Parade-Harry Belafonta; 7,15, Summer Evening Serenade; 7.30. A Pregratame of Musie by Mantovani; 7.45. 2he Mystery Of Nurm Lori- iner; Time Signal and The News U., Weather Steport, Announce- ments and Interlude: &15, Strange
to
Two of the "Venturers" at Pui Ching School today.~ China Mail Photo.
SHEAFFER'S
ADMIRAL SHORKEL PEN
NEW PROJECT JOHN CLARKE'S
BEING EXAMINED
CASEBOOK
TWO-TIERED COVERED TALE OF
WAY TO FERRY PIERS?
BY A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
GOVERNMENT technical experts are considering building a
two-tiered covered way from Connaught Road to the new Star Forry piers it was learned this morning.
Deross
Original planz announced carlier this year revealed that a bridge would be built Connaught Road with a single- tler covered way running from Connaught Road to the pier.
Now the possibility of a two- lies way, which would take pussengers direct to the pier levele, is being examined.
Quite A Number
"There are quite a number of problems cozeeming traffe that have to be examined," a Gov- enment official said.
The new Star Ferry wharf en the Island will be completed for public use in November at the
Visit To Pui Ching School earliest
These Basketball
Players Also
Preach The Gospel
game.
By that time there will have been built in this new reclame- tien a three-tier public car park In front of the pier, a concourse for bus terminals and public and private cut
drives and covered way.
But,
Now But...
the
the new ferries
and
if necessary, pler could berth
discharge passengers now. Bal
BANKS: NO SELLERS
There
were 110
sellers of Shanghal Hongkong Bank shares on the Block Exchange this morning following the Bank's an- for of a one nouncement one bonus shares. Buyers pushed up their bid yesterday's from $1.700 t close, to $1,770 without attracting any sellers. Yesterday sales moved be- tween $1,050 and $1,700.
One broker told the China Mai this morning ho thought buyers' bids would climb to $1,800 today, With bonus shares in the
offing, shareholders - not keen to sell unless ther were offered a big price and the present price was Rot high enough for them, he added.
wero
Sce noon prices on pace 9.
Unfair Direction Of Jury, Counsel Claims
A SHIRT
EORGE was aúnning
GE
himself in St James's Park, sprawled on the grass near the lake, his shirt at his side, his privacy pro- tected by a nent official notice that forbade anyone to be where he lay.
Though his cyca were closed, George's mind was active. was working on the problem his shat presented. It was one of two he owned (the other was at the laundry) and its collar was good deal grimier than becoming for the linen of
new job about to start a George was due to do later that afternoon,
Д
16 man
INTERRUPTED THE sparkling lake a few feet
away seemed
to George
to prestat a possible answer to
to
his problem. If he were wath his collar in the lake the sun would try in ro
and....
time
George's thoughts were inter- rupted by a bellow behind him. crazy-jawed "Hey you," a
park-keeper cried. "Can't you Got out of ste that notice?
that enclosure,"
George roce, yawned, streich ed, pul his shirt, and moved off to another enclosure marked Presently the park- privato, keeper came upon him again.
"I have to take your name and address," he said, "going on an enclosure access to which is prohibited by the Ministry of "And George swore, using obscene Language, the r-keeper added, "come along
with me."
Mr H. L. Hu, representing four of six factory work-Work." that passengers It would mean would have an uncomfortable ers in an appent against conviction of rioting in Tsun walk to the roadway,
Wan last October, declared before the Full Court this It was intended to
morning that had the Trial Judge fairly directed the Jury. no reasonable Jury would convict Tong Hol-cheung, the second appellant.
arm near
use the
But it vas found that the new
CONSOLATION
the naval dockyard
A want a proper copper," ones buy or A group of hardy Americans known as the Venture when the first aim of the new
AW, chucks, George said, In due course he was handed rent a hut on roof-top with for Victory Basketball Team gave an exhibition at the Kowloon Pier was put in ure
Tong was alleged by the Pra- the the only money they have Pui Ching School this morning. They captivated an en-reclamation would not be clear
Judge's summing-up, I over to one such and at Bow One fandly for example
their thusiastic young audience of school-children with their ea rumciently to build the con- sccution at his trial to have should say that if the Jury were Street next morning he pleaded moved recently
directed, no course and the covered way ter been shouting among a group of fairly
reasonable not guilty to the charges against new home (11 x 5') on a
tjoters outside the Pao Haing | Jury could convict the
trespass and using second him of passengers. roof-top. This cost them
If the new arm had been wred Milla on the afternoon of appellant (Tong)," Mr Hu sald obscene language. $400. It is in fact a cubicle
The tear There school children u
comprises players
Hearing is continuing. then, passengers would have to October 11 last. walled off on three sides by around the court, perched on from all over America,
over rubble,
The other appellants were popoved thin ibre. One side la
To join this group they must walk
be ground which would be fully ex. Shum Yan-kit, Mok Ming, Chan opened, being partly fenced the slopes of the school grounds,
conditions: (2)
natural elements Fat-kan, Chan Wing-ewan and by rusty netting. So when peered out of class roem wla full three
good netive Christians (2) be posed 1 rates the cubicle includ.dows,
able to play basketball and (3) and there would be no transpe. Loung Yat-ming. be able to sing or play some tation facilities at
hand. anusleal instrument,
ing the bed is soaked.
Still oilers may drift from
OVER THE MIKE
trect Lo street, changing Prior to their demonstratico The present team comprises their residence every few on the 'How's it done in basket-four missionaries, teachers and days to avoid the attention ball, the team assembled in a some post graduates from eight
different universities
of the police or the Sanitory semi-are and sang hymns, pre Authority. This to what
of which they learned to sing lias happened to a
in Cantonese entitled "Come lo Jesus".
family of 8 camping in a nullah.
Nobody's
Responsibility
Miss Lee suid: "I believe that slum clearance programme or city building plan that brings
TAICA of Enatermain Episode these families out from the slums 836, Kendall's Corner: John ha
Episode Second Chance: 8.30, bloods In
or condemned houses into the open "resettlement problems" has a responsibility to them.
Munte 10, Musle Hall Variation: 10.33, Lawrence Welk Show 11, Date Wath Breamland; 11.16
"And the responsibility is the Cricket-England v. West Indies community's, including the hous Contentaries on the 3rd Test at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, by Rex ng managers, the landlords and Altan John Arlott and Kenneth the social welfare authority. At to be the Ablack; 11,46, Prelude to Midnight; present it seems 19 Midnight. God Save The Queen responsibility of nobody excepi Close Down,
the tenants themselves.
TELEVISION
Theatre":
Comedy; 0, Close Down! "Cronfalk" with Jon Clark
and
One of its members was here lest year with Billy Graham.
Following the hymns a * HE'S HERE
HE'S HERE
of the players took their turn
at the microphone and spoke on
Christianity and how they came
TO SEE
One of the players, 6'4" Joe HONGKONG
that
PROBLEMS
to the
GROUNDS
Now Tubes Of Opium
When
the Revenue Depart
A Covernment spokesman ex-
Shum was sentenced to ave plained that the new reclama tion was really a "hesd con-years' hard labour by Mr Justice struction site" for the building C. W. Recco at the Criminal of the two plers as ground was Sessions on April 20, the others
were each given four years. limited at Kowloon for the site
Mr Hu, Instructed by Peter ment carried out a routine raid to be removed to Tsimshatsui,
and Co. appeared for on a ship which had arrived Shum, Tong, Chan Fat-kan and from Dhakuria, they found 100 Loung Yatming. Mr G. R.
tubes of suspected oplum Sheath, Crown Counsel, repre-
SWISSAIR FLIGHT LEAVES
The new Swissair service
Sin
kenied the Crown,
Hon.
The Full Court comprised the the Chief Justice, Mr Justico M. J. Hogan, and Mr Justice T. J. Gould.
Crown of the
"I was only wanting to give me colar a bit of a wash,”” he sald to Sir Laurence Dunne, the chic! magistrate,
"Well look here, the parks are not there for washing your clothes in Sir Laurence sald. He offered George the alter- native of paying 40% or going to prison for 21 days.
"Time to pay?" George asked brightly.
"Certainly not," Bald Sir Laurence, and George, who had There no money, went away.
was one consolation. His other shirt should be back from the A man who claimed the tubes lourdry by the time the 21 days said, on questioning, that they were up. were tubes of toothpaste then again changed his story
ana
saying that it was grease for the
tubes,
both
about
to follow the call of God,
The grounds of appeal were englives. Grabill told his audience
that the Judge had failed to put The claimant of the he was born 25 years ago. He was normal "ike any
Jury concerning irregularities at in court this morning charged the defence adequately to the Leung Chi-shing, 31, appeared said he
other dd". He was also very
to Hongkong was described identification; that the Judge had with importation and possession fortunate to have a comfortable home and enjoyed some of the A 23-year-old Australian alle as "one more means of at-tailed to direct the Jury ca the of dangerous drugs. luxuries some folks didn't have.
farmer Is In Hongkongtracting tourists to Hong-discrepancies But he was no! satisfied with
- fact-finding tour of the was very empty, life and life
search he after a long until found Christ and was reborn a second time.
This time he was a spiritual
into the baby born
family of Christ and Ute was
so much fuller and he was happy..
TRIED BOTH
"We know only too well by previous examples that a service must be set up to deal with these evicted familles along side with the city redevelopment Another teuranate of his, Gary scheme. Otherwise we are simply Ausbum, the very swift and wily 9 p.m. Children's Hour Cartoons; creating more homeless people, cager in the No. 3 uniform sald 5.15. """Puppet
550, 730 while at the same time attractive in part that there were two ways apartment houses are left empty to live. One, with God and the Wong Kam-tong: 7.45, Newsreel et in many part of the city.
other with sin. Moxity compensation Js no He had tried both. "Until I found God." Gary said. "It was and their children a deleated life." trict Attorney-starring David where they Brian; 9.30, Evening Feature Film can call their own, their home. "Ezizon Girls 10.30, Late Night A place in the community where Final-News Headlines, Weather to
Ctore they will grow up and enjoy its
community life.
World End Colony Events:
Chinese Cinsical Music and Song
By Yuen Ching-wah 5.50. Lail solution. They want a place Folmer; 8.45, Calling Card: B. "Mr
port
Down.
Announcements.
China Fleet
Club Theft:
Man Remanded
Lam Sing, 36, a cleaner boy, who is alleged to have broken Into the US. Navy Purchaslug Brunch in the China Fleet Club
During the demonstrations, the school-chlidren were shown the trt of passing the ball correctly at shoulder height, overhead and They were shown the one- hand shot which commentator Teal Norman Cook sald wer very
are
He pleaded guilty to Far East he wants to know kong from countries whose evidence; that the effect of the charges and the magistrale, Mr already summing-up was such that mis- Hin-shing Lo fined film $750 or at first hand how Eastern populations
on the first charge carriage of justice had occurred; 2 months races live.
travel and air minded".
and that the verdict of the Jury and $1,500 or four months on Ile is James Lisle Mort, whe
This was sold by Mr S. W.
could not be supported having the second. arrived in the Colony recently: Clark,
mtoager of Travel
evidence and to the regard while I'm in Hongkong 1 want Advises Ltd, on his departure should be ret aside.
to get it contact with some for Switzerland on the return
Continuing his submission in people who will be able to elve | flight of Swissair DC GB alc- the ease concerning Shum, Mr me BOTC Insight into the liner this morning. problems and outlook of this Loid the Calony," Nr Mort China. Mail this morning, And to do that he's prepared to
take any Fosition going.
He comes from the Tenterfield district of New South Wales where he works on a 40,000 acre property called Green wood. He was educated, at King's School, Bydney, James left Tenterfield to travel to Manila on a cattle ship. "I
na attendant to noted cattle," he said.
He
Bu Bakl tha! four wlt- He and three other Hongkongnesses had testified that Shum travel agents left for A short had been working in his factory during the time of the rioting. One of the witnesses had testifed visit to Switzerland,
Me Clark told the China Mall that he had actually handed a he left just before card to Shum 15 minutes before before 9 am today: "welcome in- the end of the working day. deed the establishment of un other regular service by n foreign altline, The appointment
Mr Hu further subenitted that of popular British carrier, rere might have been some- Cathay Pacific, as their general thing wrong in the kerillen- agents, should have good results. on
"I sincerely hope that granting Shum.
"A housing project therefore sideways. should start
of landing rights to Swissair Just with
noL
arithmetic, but with
people the wealthy, the white
knowledge of the need of the effective at close ranges. collar class as well as the very dribbling and long range shoot-
low income group,”
There was also the hook shot,
ing.
He stayed there ten days and
then came to Hongkong.
After Hongkong, he is going to
Blangkok and then on 10
plans Calcutta. Ite
" trip through India before return- ing to Austraila,
COOLIE GETS 42 YEARS' GAOL
into the case,
Lam 3 alloged to have on
Judge
and 18 watch straps valued at
Judy & stolen 100 wrist watches morning.
WES
SOMETHING WRONG
with regartt to parado Referring to Tong's case, Mr will be followed by the accord-Hu sald Tong had been identi- Ing of similar facilities to cer-fed by two Police constables, when cross- tain other major foreign air- Both constables les, the restriction of examined were unable to say whose entry to date would ap- how Tong was dressed.
constable had pear not in the best economic One of the
three of testted that he was Interests of this Colony."
The Hongkong delegation on four yards away from Tong and Ho the Swissair DC 0B wili be that Tong was shouting. joined by representatives of had also said that he could not travel agencies of other cilles hear what Tong was shouting. along the roule to Geneva.
FINED $2,500
Mr Hu submitted that the Police constable should have heard what Tong was abouling it Tong was really houting at all.
SIDE GLANCES
罪
Higher Rainfall In June
The total
rainfall - recorded
normal rainfall for June which is 15.29 inches, according to the monthly repart of the Royal Observatory.
during June, 18.20 Inobes, was
19 per cent greater than the
However, this is by no mesos
a record for in June 1982, 23,49 inches of rain, tell and in Juno 1951, 22.08 inches were record-
cá.
By Galbraith
For robbing and wounding The complainant served the, Tse made a report at Ta
azıd when they had Wan Police Station. He 4 bean curd hawker, Chanmen and stoic goods totalling Saree Faf, alias Fan Tsal, an earth finished eating, all three took ment to the Maurine Grantham 413.15, wan remanded thres
out handkerchiefs to mask the Health Centre for treatment of
Another constable had tosti- days by him B. K. Searle at coolie of Yuen Long, was lower portion of their faces. his thigh wounds,
The accused was arrested on
fled that he saw Tong between Central this morning, for the sentenced to four and a half One of the men produced three
on information, and was "A 34-year-old embroiderer who 0.15 and 5.30 p.m. on October two of June police to make further Inquiries years by Kowloon District lives, handing over
identified by the complainant the changed her plea from not guilty 11, outside the Mills. Mills-Owen this them to his companions,
Mr to guilty, in a charge of dealing
pointed out that the Armed with a knife, one of following day. the robbers
In Court this morning the acin dangerous drugs, was this Prosecution's evidence was that tried to snatch' a
cured pleaded
guilty to the morning Aned $3.500 or eight the Police arrived at the · Milla | Chan, who was also ordered wrist watch from the hawker charge of robbery with aggrava- months by Mr Hin-ching Lo at around 8,30 p.m. $29,024, 47 finger rings and a
squatting on the under Police who was placed pale of bar rings valued at to be
Submitting further, Mr Hu! The defendant, Li Wel-eang, said li wes unfair to put only $7,860.05, 11 gold and fade neck-supervision for two years, caked ground, When he failed to doon, but denied the wounding Central Court,
so he stabbed The twice in the charge unit the complainant lacos valued at $1,867.20 and a to be allowed to carry on his nigh He succeeded in getting gave evidence. He then reversed of House 65, section 2, district 1, the points which were favour
Bennies Mill Camp, was arrest able to the Crown in the Judge's leather brist case valued at 241 work as a masons in prison.
fla pica. A 57-year-old woman Woon ID, T. Whociar salt that the watch the second me.
al. The rumming-up to the Jury. The cut the
complainant told theed during 'a' Police
"Judging from the discrepan- Bun, alleged, so have rebelved tires: Chinese stopped the corn shoulder strap of a money bag Judge that he recognised the ac-Pollen seized one lube one largo
Printed and bubllalba by Peten PLUSteve" "for "find small packets i cies of the Crown's evidence some of the stoles articles was plaiwal, The Ful-200 m Novem-which The was wearing and a cused as one of the three men, pocket and 17 also remanded three days for bar 0,last year in Taun Wat, to three made off with the band but he could not say which part which contained 4. grammos of against Tong, the defence not behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndham further inquiries.
buy, bean curd.
being fairly put to the Jury in Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, liho played. { $37, in it,
The other two men
heroin.
"I'll tear out the comlos for you, dear--the rest of the paper has a lot of depressing news that might spoll your vacation!"
on