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TUG SINKS IN HARBOUR LOOK WHAT I'VE GOTI
Heels Over
While
HK's Night Clubs Pay
Towing Ship Big Money For Stars
A tug belonging to the Hongkong and| Whampoa Docks Ltd "heeled over" and
by FRANCIS BOEY, CHINA MAIL FEATURE WRITER
sank 700 feet off the dockyards on Monday There is an undeclared war night, it was learned today.
He's Off To -London
Mr. D. R. W. Alexander,
Chief Staff Officer of the CAS, photographed this| morning before boarding a BOAC airliner for the United Kingdom on leave, He Wat
off by several membors of the CAS at Kai Tak,
#gen
The tug's name is Edith. Sho was towing and edging
the my Effie Maersk to the decki whon the accident occurred.
It was then about 8.30 p.m. The tug was said to have been caught "by the back-wash of the towing operation,"
She sunk in less than 10 minutos.
Safety
of
The tug carried a crow
eight. They all scrambled to safory, assisted by crow members of other tugs towing the Effic Mack. There were no casualties.
Edith, 55 foot long, is now fying on hor side under 45 foot of water.
Efforts are being made by
the company to re-float hor.
Mr J. V. Ramsay, Shipyard Manager of the Kowloon Docks, told the China Mail this morning that it was not
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uncommon
Rival
going on in the Colony's entertainment world.
night clubs arc desperately trying to out- bid each other for top singing stars.
The public spends thousands of dollars a night visiting tho Colony's afterdark rendezvous.
And big night clubs are never satisfied with just one class singer-having two is a double insurance: It gives them one more string to their bow-and their rivals have one less -but few can afford two big stars a night.
Smaller night clubs have found that singing stars are a draw, too, and they are competing for girls who have either done the round of Hongkong night- spots or are just launching out on a singing career, Of course, they earn much
MISS KUK CHI
Four-Figure Offer
To
less than the current stars,
Searching for a good singer ·
Is difcult. They never stay long in eno place. Good ones are either already engaged at n salary beyond the im- agination of the man-in- the-street or the price for two they demand hours' singing an evening) is prohibitive.
To add to the problems of night club. managers, there are tempting offers! and from abroad. KL other Malayan cities, Singapore and Bangkok frequently offer lucrative! contracts to Hongkong's nightingales.
Local singers can't be blamed for leaving. Be- sides
good getting a salary probably three times the amount they get here, they are often offered free board and lodging and taxes paid,
Singer
for tugt to If things work out according to expectations yet another. This is what Miss Kulk Chi has to say, "I took up singing
sink while engaged in towing operation but, he added, "it dous not happen everyday,"
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star Colony singer Miss Kuk Chi now singing in one of the Kowloon night-spots will soon be joining her many friends who have moved down to Singa-
pore.
Protty, petite 18-year-old, Miss Kuk Chi has been offered a four-figure salary by one of the largest night clubs there. The story of her meteoric rise is like one taken from the pages of a fairy tale. Here is a girl, born in Canton but educated in Hongkong at the Sou San College, who made good because she had an unshakable belief that she had a good voice and was prepared to wait for the credit she knew she
deserved.
Her friends told her she'd never make the grade when she took up piano and singing lessons. How wrong they were, for in less than two years she was on the road to stardom.
She joined the ranks of the professionals in 1956 at a starting salary of $400 in one of the ballrooms here, but since then her "take-home" pay packet has grova handsomely.
Why does a girl take up professional singing soon after
leaving school?
because I love to sing. Nothing makes me happier than to sing like a lark to express my happy mood." Endowed with a film star figure, a lovely face, and a dis- arming smile. Miss Kuk Chi draws rounds of applause with her highly plensing voice.
She sings in Mandarin, Cantonese, English or Spanish but it is her gestures and her eyes that tell the story of the songs she sings.
Will she accept the four-figure job?
"This is too good an offer to ignore. Besides I love to
travel," she said.
Apart from the job at the night club, Miss Kuk Chi also sings over Radio Hongkong and Rediffusion. At the rate she is going this singer may well break into local movies, which is one of her many aims in life. Look around the night spots and it is surprising that near- ly all night club entertainers are young women. asked the manager of a night club the reason why he did not employ male singera.
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And here is what he said: "Customers don't like to hear a masculine volce unless he is Nat King Cole's double. They prefer hearing requests sung by a girl who is a cross between Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly."
RECEIVING ORDER MADE Suspect Held
AGAINST BUSINESSMAN
Mr Justice C. W. Reece made a receiving order against Chang Ping-chong trading as Shing Chong and Co. after two creditors gave evidence of his debts in the Bankruptcy Court this morning.
The debtor, Chang, ordinatily Mr Remedies submitted that many occasions, but was unable resided at 338 King's Road there was provision under the to contact the debtor, fourth floor, and carried on Bankruptey Ordinance for deal- business at addresses In John- ing with suins not due and his calished both require- stan Rond, Tung Chow Street cheques and Tong Mel Road,
ments under the section.
Mr Remedios submitted that on this evidence physical acts had bcen CS- of bankruptcy tablished. As to intent to de- Icat
the or delay
creditors,
No WEA
Mr P, D. Remedios made the In any case, he needed only petition for a receiving order show, debts to the extent of $500 there would be evidence that in early July this year the debtor on behalf of the two creditors, and even without those two
that Chu Chi-ino of 344 King's cheques the debt exceeded that informed Chu Road and Fan Shou-san of 58 sunt, he added...
in a bad financial position and Homan in Street, both. mer-
try to had requested him to Mr Remedios aid that the chants.
ment with his creditors. At- Mr C. M. Stevens appeared clients alleged that the act of work out a scheme of arrange
bankruptcy committed by Chang temple were
they made, but for the Official Receiver.
was that he departed from his were unsuccessful and shorliy house or usual place of business afterwards The debtor dis- with intent to delay or defeat
appeared. his creditor,
WHAT HE OWED
Mr Remedios said he would prove service of petition, debt due to the creditors and an act of bankruptcy committed by the deblor,
He said that he had
plled with the Judge's order for Jibstituted strvice, As to the
UNABLE TO MEET
NO DIRECT EVIDENCE
Mr Remedios sald that In the second half of July although he had no dfree!
debi, evidence would be given unable
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What Chang ewed Ch 30,076.50 made enquiries and and. Fan $3,280. Both debu were for money tent. The debt due at the debtor had not been in for some days. He also mado Chu was evidenced by ea po-fenquirica
as to who her the count stated between the partics del for
had left any one in
Chung s
and chopped with the chop of charge of his business and was $300,000 and his
Chu cailed on many occasions evidence in the sense that the a. the house of the debler, at debtor had proclaimed an inter- com- his office and at his factories on to avoid his creditors, he
continued Mr Remedios On subinitied that from the pletur
there Occasions he WELS
Ho presented in this case, one must Chane meet
como to the conclusion that that Cold and 15 waa
He told the Judge that from was he intention. information obtained,
10 about liabilities amounted
assets wero roughly $100,000. Tola moant the debtor's arm.
answered in the negative, In the case of Fon it was Mr Remedios said that the that he would be able to pay evidenced to the extent of other creditor, Fan, called i
about four tunes the legui $8,189 by post-dated cliqués one of Charig's factories, when issued by the debtor. There one of his clieques was dia minimum, were a total of five cheques, honoured and was given the given evidence, Mr Justles Rece After the two crolitors bað Printed and published by
PETEN PMDLY for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndham two of which were dated some information as Chu. Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong.
also telephoned tile ofce on granted thele petition
September 4, 1057.
Ho
about 40 pir cent which Wha
No, this is not a new photographic competition: it's just a spate of snake pictures all of a sudden. The above photograph was sent in by Mr R. V. Rose of Manners Engineering Ltd. Its caption reads: A PYTHON? Dunno, saya Elizabeth, it's a snake. seven-foot Elizabeth Rose, 4, proudly displays a snake caught and killed on the lawn of 36, Isband Road, Repulse Bay, last week,
BID TO SELL JAPANESE MOTOR VANS IN COLONY
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER The expanding Japanese car industry is try- ing to break into the local market with vehicles for light transportation.
Some months ago a Japanese firm in Hongkong brought in a motor-tricycle van capable of carrying three quarters of a ton of goods.
LORRY HITS CRANE
This vehicle is built with s motor cycle cugino similar to a popular American moxicl,
The two-cylinder engine of 1,195 ce can do 70 miles a gallon, The market price is about
$4,000.
First Consignment
This Arst machine Was inspected and fleensed by the Trame Office a few days ago A lorry collided with a and it is understood that the crane inside the Kai Takimposters have ordered a first consignment of about 10 of these Airport development
area vans.
at about 8.18 pm yesterday. Tacy are expected to arrive fa Two men on the lorry were a month or two and a firm In injured in the collision. They Kowloon had been appointed as are Lee Kwai, aged 38, of Ping their diaributors, Shan Quarry, Ngnu Chi Wan, This Arm said this morning The Police lave orrested and Wong Fai-ying, aged 23, of that the sample model had at- suspect in connection with the 176D, Kowloon City Road. tracted much interest. theft of bottles of seralod
Both men were taken to Kow- water from lorry parked in loon Hospital, but only Leo the Tel Hang Tung resettlement Rwat was detained for further area yesterday morning.
I treatment.
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
Salbaith
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TAL Rig. 4.1. PAS DIL
<10) by A Berries, fas
"I'm so glad you're staying for dinner-thora's an old most loaf in the Icebox Pyo almost despaired of ever using!".
But as yet Japanese cars have
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not come onto the local market. The price of cars manufac- tured in Japan is thought to be. too hight to present any com- petition, after payment of "Tax.
Two In Use
According to п reputablo Japanese firm here, there are two Japanese-made cars now in use in the Colony.
One belongs to the Japanese Consul General and the other, to the manager of the Bank of Tekyo.
Without looking at the maker's name on these cars it 19 dimcult to tell the source of origin.
Remanded On :
$1,000 Bail
of
Charged with driving a prl- vale car for the purpose of hire.. a 30-year-old driver, Tam Mel- chuan,
153 Jaffe Road, ground floor, was remanded for three days by Mr Hin-eting Lo Central Magistracy this morning.
on ball
et
Defendant, who was
of $1,000, was alleged to have used a private car for the pur- pose of hire in Connaught Road Central at about 6.35 pm, an August 13.
Necklace Thefts
Two, necklaces
were santchod from woman pedestriana Kowloon yesterday. Ong the snatchinga occurred in Nathan Road, near Bute Stroet, The other took place in Talpo Road.