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Importance Of HK As Currency Market
New York, July 28. Hongkong's free market is one of the most important trading centres of currencies of the globe, nccording to a noted authority on interna- tional currency.
Franz Plek, in his 1957 cdl- sion of Pick's currency year- book, sild that the British Crown
Colony had become tho focus of most free dealings In Japanese yen, Taiwan dollars. Philippine pesos, Indion rupees, Intlonisian rupluhs and Viet- namese plastres, as well as resi- dent sterling.
SHRINKING
Transactions in Chineze bank- notes dwindled during 1050 and were mostly conducted in other Asiatic centres, Pick said. He explained that Hongkong dealers were unable to place their existent large supply of Jen Min Pino of constantly shrinking value.
THE CHÌNÀ MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1987.
TELEVISION NOW ALUMINIUM HOUSES Here's The
TALENT TIME
By JOHN LUFF
The entries for this forthcoming TV programme now number. Chinese 270, European 100.
Among the fatter are poveral Servloo groups who have formed thern- selves into Skiffle Bands
with an Oriental slant, 1,6, using an Abacus in place of the ungal scrubbing board.
"This programme is soon to be telecast but there is silli time to enter. The act mandy a belter chation of being televised, if it'in good to see as well as to hear.
FOR
COLONY
by a China Mail Reporter
A Hongkong firm is hoping to sell thousands
of economical ready-to-assemble houses within the reach of working class people,
The houses are made entirely of aluminium. There are two-unit types for $3,000 and four-unit for $6,000.
The four-unit house would | Colony. So far only a few have suit a family of five to six.
been erected in Hongkong.
The aluminium House is an entirely new product in
PROMENADING AT REPULSE BAY
the
The main virtues of the houses are:
they
built
can be speedily
in a few hours without having to employ skill- că înbour. The prefabricated building requires very work except assembly according to step-by-step instructions, Tools are provided with every unit bought and this incluries bolts and nuls to fasten the joints together.
are attractive and ★ they
require no annual white-
THE Hongkong Concert Orchestra conducted by Hongkong's free matkel is Victor Ardy gave their Summer Season Pro-wording or painting. one of the most important sup-menade Concert last night at the Repulse Bay If not prepaid a booking fes ply centres of American bank-
of 60 cont le charged.
DEATHS
LOPES-Luciane F. prused awKY uddenly on 20th July, 1057, at
notes for the mainland, he said.
his raidened in an franciscing to Pick. California. (By cablej.
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In accordance with the Hongkong & Yaumati Ferry Company (Services) Order, 1967, the following SPECIAL VEHICULAR FERRY TICKETS will be on sale at nur monthly ticket office, Jubilee Street Ferry Pier, on and as from the 1st August, 1967:-
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His
entire Alattel Hotel,
showed thai
Concert Orehistra, Zender
As always, the Hongkong Fred Carpio, deserves high praise for tra has the greatest enthusiasm, their performance. This orches-
★ they are
bult und den sioned for practical Nving. They can be extended by erecting more rooms. They can be taken down and moved to another site.
Most Popular
Tarnover of greenbacks in the One cannot help comparing piece although musically, I fear, Crown Colony exceeded a mil-this setting with their usual one it has little more to cominond lion Hongkong Dollars per day: the Ritz, First, and perhaps it. in 1950 and were mostly hand- led by Chinese dealers, accord-most Important, the Repulse Bay Hotel has no air-conditioning and in spite of some very ener- selle work by the ceiling fans, we were hat; in foel it was so
The most popular units over- hot that many people left early a fine sense of timing attack and seas are the two-room units
Then the orchestra were not
precision which always makes which have a celling height of arranged in tiera so that they their
performances a joy to a feet and a 15 x 25 feet span. would not be seen at all well by listen to. Their enthusiasm is The net weight of this unit is the majority of the audience; in catching so that everyone is only 007 lbs. fact several of the players were brought into the circle. hidden behind pillars at the end of the hall.
figures trading of gold and silver in Hongkong's free markets ever- aged about $1,500,000 a working chay in 1998 and during the first part of 1957-United Press.
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Buried Object Explodes
Macao, July 29. 14-year-old Chinese boy, Ho Tung-cheun, was seriously injured while trying to dig up a half-buried object in a side lane here yesterday. It exploded.
Ho, who had four of his right hand fingers severed and other burns was taken to hospital in a critical condition,
The
The four r1027. unit which Last night was to some extent weighs 1,320 lbs cost $0.000 with disappointing, as I have already a span of 25x30 feel-celling greatest
We redeeming sald,
missed the more nine-feel. feature of last night's setting serious item which this orches was that there was much more
tr usually includes in its pro- The houses are said to be able space and a higher celling than gramines. We also missed the to withstand winds of hurricane at the Ritz, Tills gave us more
Music
from the Shows" and strength and these houses can be space between the tables
and the community singug, al- erected on ang level foundation meant that the music was not though owing to the heat this earth, wood wall-bearers or continually overpowering and last
welcome floors, concrete sub-walk oppressing us.
glaba.
omicsdon.
WILS
perhaps a
or
Acoustically this was one of The high standard of per- The aluminium houseg are the best conceris of this orche-formance
and the informal viso cool.
make these stra, but then people do not go atmosphere always
the conserts enjoyable. In spite of Heports by the a concert to hear ncoustics of the auditorium.
to
The Programme
I am sorry to say that the programine last night was not very inspiring and not nearly so ambitioun as we have come to expect from this orchestru. I should like to hear at least one more serious work at énch conctal, and this orchestra is quite capable of playing it.
Perhaps the only item that ever approached a more serious vein wag Purcell's "Trumpet Tune and Air''. Tho solo
trumpat was played by Silverio Yaneza who gave rather
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"romantie Interpretation this work; the individual notes and phrases could, with great advantage have been more clear cut and precise,
Aluminiyan
all the disadvantages, last night || Laboratories Lidi Baniлury, was really
of no exception and England on the resistance provided us with an evening of aluminium to gun heat recorded pleasurable entertainment,
the average interior temperature during the ten hottest days of May and June wes 90 in a gulvanised Iron house while it was only 86 in an aluminium house.
R. A. BONES,
NZ Cruiser
Expected Tomorrow
Arriving from Singapore at 11.30 am. tomorrow is HMNZ
cruker Royalist under the com- mand of Captain G.D. Pound, DSC, RN.
Royallst. A modified Dido-
The maximum temperature recorded was 88° and 90° respec- tively.
In addition to biuminlum houses, aluminium factory units and garages are going on to the local market
Workmen Hurt
Three
class cruiser of 6,000 tons, has
Macao, July 20. recently been reconstructed and
masors, doing fepar modernised at Devonport, On work in the building of St completion of her modernisation, Joseph's Seminary, were injured New Zealand Navy. the was transferred to the Royal | when an inside wall collapsed.
Silverio Yoneza was joined by P. Heming in a duet by Hans
HMNZS Royalist will stay in Promptly extricated by fellow. Mainzer, This was a most va- Hongkong ill the end of August workers from the debris, the usual piece in ternary form. The when she will all for Penang three masons were taken to Arst subject gave the soloists a
to take part in the nation-wide | hospital for treatment, but were chance to display their virtuosity celebrations but the second subject seemed to attainment of independence.
to mark Malayu's discharged shortly afler.- bear no relation to the first at all
France-Presse,"
and
was completely out of mood
with it. The whole plece was attack and precision by soloists nevertheless played with great and orchestra.
The only other interesting The object is believed to be item in the programme was a an old hand-grenade uncovered | new overture called "Mari- by erosion caused by the recent | narcila" by Jellus Fucik. This heavy rains, -France-Presse.
I was quite light and tuneful
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Sharks Seen Off Waglan
A number of sharks were seen)
off Woglon Island over the weekend swimming around on the east side of the Island. Sharks are common around this area and it has been reported that sharks up to 18 feet have| been seen
New and again Police Jaunches go out to Waglan to shoot them,
This was very lucky for a skin- diver one summer, Ho wns diving on the east side of the Island when he saw a shark
Inom up in front of him. The skin-diver hit the shark but it did not swim away. Then he found that the shark was dead-shot.
Dead sharks do not rise to the
surface.
According to ore of the men stationed on Woglan Island, before the war Hongkong sharks were not man-eatre, but
bodies goating with around the area during the war, sharka have changed. their appetites.
Jane Roberts tells you
What's On Tonight
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Designing Woman": Career girl Lauren Bacali marries newspaperman Gregory Peck and the fight is on. With Dolores Gray, Alvy Moors.
KING'S and PRINCESS: "A Place In The Sun”: A re-issue. Montgomery Clift murders the girl who stands in the way of his rich marriago, With Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters. METROPOLE and STAR: "Huk": Americans and Fillpidos band together to rout the Huk terrorists in an outlying province of the Philippines. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA : "Calypso Heat Wave": Musical Wrapped around the latest song and dance craze. Johnny Desimond, The Tarriers and The Trentera.
ROXY and BIDADWAY: "The Passionate Stran- ger": A lady novelist relives her story. Margaret Leighton and Ralph Richardson.
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First
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This picture, taken by a China Majl photographer last week, 'shows one of the first aluminium prefab houses put up in the Colony at Ngauchiwan. It is the, Christian Book Room.
TODAY'S COMPETITION PICTURE
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or
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Tomorrow the China Mail will publish another entry in the competition—what about sending in yours?
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