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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1957.
SHEAFFER'S
Skrip
Torn Document HOUSING ESTATE OPENED
Produced In Tenancy Case During cross-examination by Mr LB
McCallum af tenancy exemption proceedings this morning, a dentist, sub-tenant of No 95, Wongneichong Road, ground floor, produced a torn agreement said to have been drawn up with the principal tenant.
Xuvier,
MURDER BY
TRIAL
From the Files
GOVERNOR Two Killed 25
ADJOURNED Accommodation For Over
Hearing of the trial for
murder against a 13-year- eld farmer, Lee Kam-kiu, was adjourned to 10 a.m. on Wednesday by Mr Justice Scholes in the Criminal Sessions this morning to Counsel for the Defence to complete in-
of vestigation
the evi. dence for the defence.
Mr H. . . How, President, plans drawn up by Mr M. A. enable of the Pr.bunul with Mr D. L Prophet and Mr R. E. Deaf,
Mr A. Y, Bon Galered a short adjournment so
represented th the tucument could be eg. tenatits who had med opposing amined and chances of selfle: applications, 2214'367 Frched atween The partin
McCallum
Meta
Walamon Dvd Grist, was up! peaking fra the prinetpac tenant, Tu Kwok-on, Who did
but agter with the patpostbour fenomenallon elahmet by The dentist, Mr Lau. Yu's daiglater to have the 5.00
agreement during a quarrel.
Mr K. Y. Yung of Messes Zuthern and Compmy appQAT- ed on behalf of the applicants who we in demolish this pres sest ember and to erect on two 10-storey houres custing $650,000, according to
the site
Thefts From
Parked
Vehicles
Three ente: of penal, ears were
theft from! reported to in fee during the week-end.
A jacket was stolen from
Race car parked outside the concie on Saturday afternoon. Yesterday gone clothing
a
Was
olen from a locked private car in Pennington Street Borkoel what the sidelights and trafBy- adors were removed from a car Parked in Macdonnell Road.
Employees
Stole Wire
Four young employees of the French Dredging Com
ench sentenced any were to three months hard labour by Mr G. R. Sneath at the Central Magistracy this morning for stealing
A The accused is charged with the murder of Lee long, his fuki, on or about July 30, 1957, in the New Territorice.
Mr V.L. J. D'Alton (instructed by F. Zimmern and Co.), Counsel for the Defence. In an application for adjournment, said that the | circumstances were that very iate notice of the date of the trial was given and that some of the Investigation of the
yet been completed.
evidence for the defence had not
Counsel said that in view of the fact that this was a very grave charge and also in fairness the prisoner, he would request further thee to prepare the case.
100,000 People Is
Required Annually
In Road
Accidents
Two persons were killed and Elx injured in traffic neeldents in the Colony over the week- end.
A
years ∙AGO⋅
CHINESE
coolle was stabbed to death by two assallania in Queen's Road East
A 60-year-old Chinese, Teng at 10.30 mm. in full view of Chung-nin was fatally injured pedestrians. The essailante when he was run over by a esenped before the full signi- private car in Prince Edward cance of the affait dawned Jau Wong Road on the crowd. Earlier the Road, near shortly after midday on Satur morning the deceased had had day. He died shortly after ad- an argument with a cigarette
were clansmen of the
The second fatality occurred It is suspected that his assasi at about 1.20 p.m. on Saturday ants when a Chinese Kwanin
Any radical improvement in the Colony's housing conditions williston to the Kowloon Hospital. Full owner and beat litm up.
require the provision each year of sufficient housing for well over 100,000 peoplo, said His Excellency the Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham, when he opened the North Point Hous- ing Estate this morning.
With a problem of this size,
"The result of the application of these rules is, we hope
determine what should be its initial objectives and how it should go about, reaching them. Tengacs. should what stuff it when and where they should he CSCS, obtained and, in certain
ven how they should be train ed for the work that had to be done,
Woman, Lau vender. aged 30, was struck by private cur in Talpo Road near the Ten- milestone. She succumbed Towo younų Chincas were her injuries at the Kowloon Hospital that night.
Constable Injured
cach scutenced 10 Flx monthis hard labour by Mr Wynne-Jones at Central Polleo Court for possession of a packet of popper for an unlawful pur poe and loitering in Glengly with intent to commit a felony. According to the puller, special police patrols were being carried out by Chinese delec- "In all these matters they
tives on hill roads owing to the Poller Constable Chun Tak- { recent frequent highway took the wise view that it was
evenhol, attached to Traffe Branch, mhberies. One such better to proceed surely. though it might be slowly, In Kowloon, sustained Ferious caught the accused,
two colls of wire, valued ni Death Of Old the nikong Housing Au- early 2,000 families, establish the initial stages.
$100.
Defendants, Cheung You, 19. Vip Lo, 24. Yeung Shu, 27, and Leung Plug. 27. * pleaded pulity.
Resident
who
mave
Im
injuries when his motorcycle overturned in Argyle Street, near Stirling Road at about 1.30 p.m. yesterday. Constable Chun in being treated at the Kowloon Hospital.
Ne serious
patrol
Pulled shorewards by the streng
the incoming #teamer Fatehan which docked at a pan, at the Bund Wharf in
crushed Canton,
elght sam pans sending them to the but- tom,
No deaths have been reported.
"Secondly the Authority her it is obvious that we must cou- decided that their tenants should tinue to look, us we have done rot properly he asked to pay In the past, to the netivities of more in rent than one-fifth of private enterprise to provide their income, bebring in mind the major effort in a solution, the rates are payable in additfen. And to the local building In- Finally it is considered desir dustry to carry out that effort,uble that each resident should la added.
have a minimum of 35 square The North Point Estate, feet of living space and 350 čudir situated on Java Road, is one of feet of clear internal air. the most spectacular housing schemes in Asia. It is the Best howing project to be completed thority, which was set up by residents of the Colony, will
"I have often been into Hats avh.ch shortly Government in April, 1854 V
at rents they pressed, in rending reports of relieve the local housing short- will give them;
tido, fford, decent The Authority's progress, not can reasonably spe.
only with the care and atten- Mas Shingo Kacht Charring- i
The total cost of the scheme 404 healthy humes,
ita problems, "There will of course be many tion devoted to ton, 80, widow of the late Mr is just over $33 million, met by E. C. Charrington,
with small incomes but also with the very evident was a lean
Government applicants from the
and every retired Chinese Maritime Development Fund. The estate and large families who will not concern that each Customs Oficer, died at the cox
of their Kwong Wah Hospital
covers six and a half acres and be successful in this estate, member appeared to have for
is unfortunale, but it is the proper success 711 0.30
nclivities. comprises 1,855 Cats in 11- This this morning.
Morey blocks which will house necesVLY,
decided "The Authority Born in Japan, Mrs Charring- more than 12.000 people in thr
Rents Commercial Basis
enter for the white-collar class to ton first came
group. Hongkong tower-income
In their first schemes; it is A
Wai Lat-ing, aged 20, sustain- ONLY 40 of an inch of rain from Japan in a selling ship vary from about $60 to 5138 per
of the
ed serious injuries when bis very important section
was recorded at the local over 50 years ngu. Sueonth.
and Lady
community, which has found motorcycle and a comunerelas Botanle Gardens for the month murried Mr
111 Charringtont
His Excellency
particular hardship in nostwar van collided in Castle Peak of November. Canton and returned to the Greatham were met on arrival
living conditions in Hongkong, Road, near the Six-milestone D. R. Holmes, baris, and the rents must cover The defendants were arrested
the Hon. by Colony since 1827. ca November 23, on board the ; The funeral will take place Chairman of the Housing Com- the capital and recurrent costs and I do not thinic that anyone shortly before 6 p.m. yesterday.
there 15 Do
can quibble with that decision. The injured man Haiphong. They
Colonial mittee; Mr G. P. Rowe, Com- of the scheme; having stolen the two coils of Cemetery at 5 pm, starilag missioner for Housing: Mr Erie nucuns of subsidising rents, and nu point in offering wire but denied any knowledge trem the Hongkong Funeral Cumine. the Architect; Mr I there is
C. Lee, Miss E. Bedwell, Chief familles nccommodation which
Mr they cannot possibly afford. Housing Monageress,
To those familles, I can only Cheung Chan-lion, representing
point to the fact that the the contractors; Members of the
Authority is building more Consular Corps, members of the
and cheaper
elsewhere, andi Legislative Executive Councils and gh ranking Government officiels,
The Prosecution stated that on November 17, a report was The to the police by Mr C. A. J. Pollino, representative the French Dredging Com- pany that two colls of wire, un ecelylene torch, and some brass nttings were missing from the bucket
dredger, Halphong moored at Youmat Bay.
of the other articles.
1957
admitted tomorrow
1958
Home.
Paquerette
COLLECTION
of
COATS
Velour
Flannel
T
Mohair
in
and the famous
Austrian Loden Cloth
Siześ
8 to 20 from $195.00
the
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Welcome
In his speech, the Chairman of the Houshig Authority, the Hon, D. R. Holmes, sald: "It ts with very great pleasure that we of the Housing Authority wel- of Your the presence Excellency and Lady Grantham
come
**The Housing Authority oprates on a commercial
nots
that their applications will re- main under review, and that they will be considered in due course for any flat of the op- propriate size whose rent they
enn properly afford.
3
"A second estate at Cadogan Street, which will contain 010 Bats, will be ready about the middle of next year, and
So Uk in Kowloon, third at wilch will contain about 5,000 towards flats, may be ready the end of 3950.
Review
to
"I am aware that this is by no means a declaration of the objective. I Authority's final understand that the members are proposing to review their tenant selection policy carly next year.
cyclist, A 25-year-old
received Chung-kal,
other bicycle in Clear Water Injuries in a collision with an-
Bay Road, near Wong Tal Sin Road on Saturday afternoon, The Injured man was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital.
od-
mitted to the Kowloon Hospital,
Girl Knocked
Down
The maximum temperature · during November was Bi de- grees, while the minimum was 45 degrees.
is proposed to form a
in Hongkong dedicated to the service in the cause of interna- tonal good feeling and to which all creeds and races will be welcomed. The Echeme hus obtained the most influential support in the Colony, and is expocted to develop into one of the principal features of sociol ilfe here.
I Women's International Club
-.
A ine-year-old girl Lee Ling-kwal was knocked down *Indeed, I think it quite and seriously Injured by a Police likely that they will flad cause, į van la Yim Po Fong Street, near the connual changing | Shantung Street, at about" 3.55 conditions of modern days, top.m. on Saturday. The girl is keep their policy under con- being treated in" Kowloon Hos- stant review, to see how the pitni.
A boy of six, Fong KwDO- efforts they are making may best be directed towards the shing was knocked down by a good of the community.
private car in Queen's Road
here today.
East, near Luen Fat Street, of "The Authority's staff is still about 3.20 pan. yesterday. The "We are particularly happy "I now have, very great plea. that it has been possible to sure in inviting Your Excellency comparatively small, but it is lad was admitted to the Queen
a to de- being built up by design 10 Mery Hospital in serious thla ceremony. hold
before to speak, and formally Excellency's
Its departure clare this estate open."
Accord with Your
expanding condition. In Before opening the Estate His activities,
duc course 1 from the Colony, for we have
A seven-year-old girl, Cheng 11- sustained serious have no doubt it will become Lai-fen of Your Excellency said: been very conscious Excelicney's deep interest in
one of the largest, and certainly Juries when she was run over a the creation of the Authority
one of the most important, of motor scooter In Argyle Street, and the progress of its work.
the organisations directed to near Lomond Road shortly be "I is never possible to be
wards the betterment of lying fore 6 pm, yesterday. The girTIE Five - Power conversa- certain about the
the conditions In the Colony, is receiving treatment at
(Contd. on Page 8 Col. 1) Kowloon Hospital.
completion
More Difficult
10
SIDE GLANCES
"The Housing Authority was dates of such large projects as created in 1954. Its progress and this, ind we had at one time activities have often been com- hoped that this estate could be pared to those of the Resettle- opened at a rather cartier date. Rent Department. That com "Having said this I should partson is, I think, unfair perhaps add that the general both organisations. Though they building contract was signed on were both created in the same August 21, 1950. I think it year, they were designed to says much for the efficiency of meet very different necessities, the Colony's building industry "The Resettlement Depart that an estate of this size can ment was created to clear, re be built in 15 months."
settle, and improve the housing
"I should like to say a few conditions of those Hving in words about the people who squatter areas in circumstances will shortly bo living in these constituting a prave danger, from fats and about the manner off the point of view of fire Ind their Folection.
public health, not only to
"Applications have
The
Will
far themselves but to tho wholo been accepted from families community. whose incomey fall between $300
Resettlement Depart- and $000 month. This income nent therefore started with a level includes a large proportion clear-cut, definite objective. It of those known as the white was also able to make use of the collar class and the Authority experience of various officers in has felt that In some ways this different Government depart class has been particularly hard onta, who had hitherto been ilt by the post-war housing dealing with the different shortage.
aspects of the question, "Apart from this income "From this beginning it was limitation the Authority has 10 able to proceed with speed and far limited its applicants to efflency,
and no one those who have lived in the gamsay the remarkable progres Colony at least since the middle has made. of 1948, in the belief that tho
"The Housing Authority was older residents clearly have a created to improve the stronger claim than newcomers: ditions of those Hving in
gular houston, I think that on Basic Conditions
balance it was alven the more difficult task. It had no clear Jective was so wide that it was objeelive; or, at least, its ob- difficult to know where to start that it was not possible to pro- "It had no staff, to the sensa
vide at the outset
a body of officers trained and experienced housing: problems, who would be able to say what to de and basy to do it.
"These two bosle conditions Income and residence lave of | course been fulfilled by a very large rumber of applicants and selection from these eligible #ppucants has been based primarily on housing need.
"To this end we make use of A youn's system designed to give preference to those whose pre- tent houring conditions pre” the wort,
Con-
-1
By Galbraith
gothwith
10312".
"Too bad they had to outgrow the sensible nge when they used to play tiddlywinka at their parties!”
Pelited and published by Peri Pliner for and web "It was from this beginning | behalf of South China Morning Post, Lúmlied at 1-3 Wyndham that the Authority, not out. In Strech, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong,,,
Dr G. A. C. Herklots will. be the speaker at tomOTTOW'S meeting of the Rotary Club.. H& subject will be "Birds, Beasts and Flowers."
Itons between, Britain. France, United States, Germany and Italy with a view of bring- lug Germany back into the Disarmament Conference, were Initiated by Mr Ramsay MacDonald today, who talked at some length with Mr Norman Davis, the principal. American delegate, and M. Paul Boncour,“ the French Minister for War.
* * *
Although there was a slight decrease in the number of ine, trics in the New Territories. Agricultural Show held at Shek Wu ful, the quality of exhibits tvils better than that of lost Hear It was opened by the Hon. W. T. Southorn, Colonial Secretary.
*
WYLIE, General
M Manager of the South Ching
Morning Post Ltd., accompanied: by his wife and daughter, re- turned from home leave yester day, arriving in the affernoon by the Bluto Funnel liner, Menelaus.
A small landslide which oc curred in Waterloo Road, near" the Kowloon Hospital caused Injuries the head of one of the workmen of Sang Lee, matshad. The man wUITO, PO moved to Kwong Wah Horpital suffering from concussion,
THE
children's pantomine The Thron Dean, writes and, arranged by Mix D. C. Womack - will · bo", given.at - the.. Helens May: "Instituto ** * Tens: must be -- bocked.” In / Advance,
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