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CHINA MAIL
MONDAY, JULY. 21, 1958.
VISIT TO RESETTLEMENT ESTATES
Governor Spends Morning
In
Kowloon
lis Excellency the Gover- nor, Sir Robert Black, spent about two hours this morning inspecting a resettlement factory and two resettlement estates in Kowloon.
Sir Robert Black inspects work at n resettlement factory this morning-China Mail, Photo,
01
His Excellency, accompanied by the Commissioner for Re- seitlement, Mr J. Aserrappa, and
Trades carried include Estate and the Lutheran Church his A.D.C., Captain J. F. Bun- nell, first visited the Cheung weaving, spinning, sow-milling. Primary School, which has Shu Won Resettlement Factory. carpentry, garment and glove proximately 200 pupils. ⠀ On arrival he was met by Mrmaking. and working with S. E. Alleyne, Resettlement metal, plasties, and rubber. Officer, Fatales; Mr N. Broad- Eleven unit on the second bridge,
Resettlement Oleer, floor have been reserved for a Mobile Whit; and Mr. Cheng canteen. Kwong-cho, Officer-in-charge of I
the factory.
He was their valued a
four of the five-g ut 45
factury
Ilivel-
Population
After the Inspection
-
The
Final Stop
'Simple Fight'
In
Results Man's Death
34,
The story of what was described ан a simple fight which resulted in the death of a garment factory worker was told when Wong Chol, appeared on trial before Mr Justice Reece in the Criminal Session this morning on a charge of manslaughter.-1
The sight
was said to have been the outcome of a quarte! over a small debt of a few dol- Jars allegedly owed by Wong to the decensed Lau Shui-wah. Int
the course of the fight Lau tell to the floor, hitting his head violently on it. He did Bol ap-move or speak again and was cerilßed depd when removed to hospital half an hour afterwards.
MD, E. Greenfield, Crown The ủnal stẹp of the mom- | Connset, ausisted · by Detrelivo Ing's tour MƯA CỤC TH Hung i Sub-Inspector Chan Cheukkei, Tung Resettlement Estate. Be
Accused was not papscented. fore entering the Estate, His | represented by Counsel. Excellency visited the Tai Hang
A jury of four women Sai Colligge Resel Jeina! Are
three men has been empanelled.
Divek. He saw workers at work party procbezed 10 the Kaifong Welfare Association, in the iwn Loong Gloves Face | Choip Uk Resettlement Estane tory, the Hip Shing
where the present population is 41.837, of whom 13,545 are children under 10 years of age
making Factory, the Yick Hing Rubber Factory, the Hung Yip Iron Works, at the Lak Sung - Weaving Factory,
Factory Block
The factory block was cùn- pleted and handled over to the Besettlement Department October 22, 1957. It contains 470 units, each of 198 sq. ft., and 48 units of 100top spaces intend yd for use in drying spaces.
There are 113 factories re- settled in this building occupy The a toll of 432 of the 470 units avaliable, and 34 of the 48 units of rooftop space available, Most of these factories were cleared from the Wong Tai Sin, Tai Kok Tsui and Shek Kip Mei squatter areas,
His Excellency entered the Mediend Department
This newly constructed build- Ing of the Association was con- Fleted and formally opened on July 2.
As Hts Excullercy was touring Clinic the Tai Hang Toig Resettlement where he was met by Dr Luke Estate, children were heard tell- J. II. 'Tchao and Dr. Choling one another, “Come, Come Man-king. Medical Oféers of and see our new Governor!" the Clinic.
Before leaving His Excellency pald a visit to të hawket no bazane in the Estate.
Dr Teho told. His Excellency that the Clinic attended to about
DISMISSED
SHEAFFER'S
NEW BALLEDOT
WITH ERG 42867
AVAILABOJE AT ALL
This is a photograph of and of the last of the Bunderia nds. The picture was taken over Changi where a Squadron of Sunderlands in sill operating, The Squadron will soon
be replaced by land-based Shackleton alrerail. (Crown Copyright Reserved.)
V
THE LAST SUNDERLAND
IN HONGKONG
by ANDREW SLOAN China Mail Reporter
L
The Sunderland flying boats which have been flying in and out of the Colony regularly for the last 11 years, will soon be replaced by land-based aircraft.
The Sunderland at present in Hongkong will be the last to visit
the Colony.
The "grand old ladies of Bri-
In 1951, the squadron was The planes which are replacing
STERLING SILVER TIP
BAR
From the Files
25
years AGO
BAMBOO GOLF
A
SHAFTS
WELL-KNOWN authority
over" for golf clubs is the bum- Loo shaft. Some playerg in Hongkong will remember that. sume years ago an American came through Hongkong trying- to push the sale of bamboo shafted clube. Naturally, that type wag illgeat until last year, he did no businesď hero, but he was credited with having
holed out on the old course at and that in the middle of the
Fanling in something under 70.
summer, was a very fine score.
*
| tisli nireraft," have been gradual- - gradually detached to Malaya them are Shacdeton, Mark 1's, SLOW"BOAT
ly taken out of service during where Ft. Li, Weaver, made which are descendants of the
the
FROM CHINA
in a spirit of adventure, sie of the Tungshan
and the last four years, and replaced numerous anti-terrorist bombing Lincoln's and Lancasters, by land-based planes, which can ralds. From tine time he famous war-time bombers,
The Shackleton is designed do all the things a Sunderland few Sunderlands to Hongkong on Is required to do except land routine patrols. He returned to for long-range reconnaissance Britain in 1951, and having a and air-sen rescue dulles. Like Mr Greenheld told the Jury on the sea,
A Sunderland nying boat wide experience of Sunderlands the Sunderland, it has a slow members that the charge urose out of events which occurred on the squadron had been based in was attached to Short and Har-air-speed, which makes it suli-Swimming Club in Canton, will re-able for the job of spolting. set of for Hongkong in a small evening of May last ot
Hongkong up to 1054, but it was land aircraft company who A
In May this year, the first of sampan on August according one of the first squadrons to be conditioned the many old Sun- garment factory in Kowloon,
the new aircraft landed into a report. The party expects The accused had for some disbanded when the Royal Air derlands still in service.
Malaya to begin the change to reach the British colony with. months before worked at the Forco began their cut-down 0
Lover.
in three days and to give tha factory and shortly before May Sunderland squadrons.
The complete changeover Chineso water polo team of this 5 he was dismissed as there was.
should take about 10 months. city a slig battle
upon their longer work for so many
Sunderlands are silil In ser-arrival. They will remain in people.
vice in squadrons of the Royal tongkang for two weeks, and New Zealand Air Force and the then make a return trip to Can- French Air Force.
ton, [Acknowledgement is made to Air Chres magazine, Tena which some f the information in ula article was taken, and also to the RAF Public Relations Office.}
The Tai Hang TORE Re- 240 patients daily, and during tellement Estate of 14 blocks accused wit back to the fae- Abou. p.m. that day, the the past six months total of way completed in April, 1958, tory to collect certain property 24,015 patients had been treated, and has a population of 39,204 "belonging to him, such as
tutπ- Replying to 13 question, Dr of whom 12,648 are childrening. blankels and perscual Tchao told His Excellency that under 10 years of age,
effects that he had left us the all serious cases, afler first nid The hawker bazner is one of premises, Crown Counsel ruid. at the Clinic, would be trans- the two in the Estate which The deceased was a clerk at ferted to the Kowloon Hospital. were opened in Mash this year, the faeory and one of his duties There are 200 stalls in one and wits to inspect parcels tarried by 150 In the other.
employees leaving the factory. Ite was at the time lying dowo on a camp bed and what the accused called to collect his pro- perly bc rose and carried out his normal job or lookirali
1is Excellency then visited u
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Mr Greenfield said that comu sort of argument arose between the two men and evidence would be called to say that deceased claimed that the accused had owed. him a few dollars, Ac-
In 1938
By the ne he wis sent back to Malaya in 1955, the reduction. of Sunderland squadrons was well under way. The Sunderland dying boat No. 88 Squadron had been dis- the RAF in 1930, and it has were reconded fest made her spycurance with banded in 1954 and the aircraft to the other served in many different roles Sunderland bases in Malaya. since then. In fact their record. But now the Sunderlands are has not been equalled by any getting old, in fact some of them other type of aircraft In the are over 20 years old, and it le The last Sunderland to felt they must be inken off. com
RAF.
the Short Brothers factory come off the assembly lines of
In
Rochester, Kant, did so 2001 after The war. and no new "boats" have been bullt since then.
the the
Hongkong first Sunderland shortly after war, when 88 Squadron, RAF, was based here. The squadron was then flying between Hong-
kong ητική Japan, ferrying
Dussengers and mail to the oc cupation forces.
The Hongkung Squadron
world events in the Far East during 1949 and 1950.
cased replied that he had not featured" in thres Important
ot any money with him just then but would bring it back some other time, whereupon it was said that deceased refused to trust him and said that he was going to keep his blanket 04 security UDUL the debt wns pald
OBJECTED
In the summer of 1940 news the world that fished around the British frigate, HMS Amethyst was being bomore ed In the Yangtsze River by the Communisis. A Sunderland from Hongkong left here on a mercy mission up the Yangisze tu land supplies There was a blankel In the a doctor and medical bundle and decensed 1äid hands for the badly battered ship. on it, atlempling to keep it Later in the same year, Shang- Accused objected very strongly hal was taken over by the Com- and forcibly and, cald Crown munisin. The Hongkong squa- Councel, the outcome
of the dron sent up her five Sunder-
malter was there was a quarreliance to Shanghai to help in the and a fight between them.
vicuation of British nationals
for at least 140 peopic,
Korean War
The following year, in July,
It was a simple fight with fists, from the port. They accounted Mr Greenfeld went on. They pummelled each other on the chest, exchanged blows, and It might have ended as thousands of such incidents did end, had it not been for the fact that in the of the fight deccesed either tell or was knocked down of the RAF, this was the first on to the stone floor, end from major operation since the end the evidence it would appear of World War 11,
course
| that he struck his herd in falling very violently on the floor. As a result of his head striking the floor, deceased died, Mr Green field said.
П
Hearing is continuing.
More Rain Likely
Tic-outlook for the next-24 hours is unseilled, but there is possibility of more rain, according to the Royal Obser- vatory this morning. There is a very active trough of low prez- sure south of the Colony, but information is scant at present. Se mingist 0.2 inches of
the Korean war broke out.
For the Far Eastern squadrons
and
They performed Bir-sea rescue duties as they had done during the world war, and in addition carried out weather forecasting, anti-submarine patrols, shipping control operations over Korean waters.
The Squadron's five alreraft alternated between Hongkong ond
three Iwakuni
being based in Japan on active duly, while two remained In Hong- kong resting and re-fitting.
Recently, one of the pilots who Bow into Hongkong as o Sergesni-plot on a Sunderland!
was based in 1947, and who here with 88 Squadron during the Korean war, returned in command of one of the "boats".
Emergency Duty
Since 80 Squadron disbanded.
rain have been recorded by the flying boats based in Singapore Observatory. At noon the tomay up to Hongkong, and com- They prrature was 80.7 degrees plete a two-week tour, Farenheit, and ite relative stand by on emergency while Humidity was U1 per cent,
Mr R. P. Moodie III
The Hongkong & Shanghai Banding Corporation announce, that because of the 'sudden ill-! news of Mr R. P. Moodle, the reception arranged for Wednes day, July 23, has been can- celled.
hore.
When the two weeks are up another flying boat artives 80 there, is always one flying bönt here. When Flt, Lt. Weaver left here on Thursday ho.com- pleted his last official trip to Hongkong.
He was one of the pilots who flew up to Shanghai for, the evacuation operations, and later, he saw active service with the Squadron in the Korean war,
These three, photographs show the evolution of Tying boats in the Royal Air Force. The bottom ploture is that ..of one of the eartiest 'Boaja', an F5, which was in service in : 1922.
The middia photograph shows a Arlar bast 15 year fater. It is the Short Singapore which was the predecessor of the Banderisad. The top photograph is the aircraft which will be replacing the Sunderlande, within the next ten mouths. The first of the Shackletons has already arrived in Malaya to begin 'the take-over,- (Crown Copyright Reser ved.)
M
HE DREW HIS ·
REVOLVER
CIOMETHING of a sensation was created in athletia
in circles
Swatow dur. ing a basketball match ta which the local players were engaging a team. from Amoy, A. riot all but broke oul when spectators disagreed with the decisions of the umpires and to quell the moly, an official of the Swalow Athletic Association crow his revolver, with which he threatened the crowd, but the arrival of a party of soldiers put the disturbance to an end.
THE SAME OLD
STORY
A young woman was charged before Mr Butters with unlawjui possession Df 10,000 heroin pills at No 540, Shanghat Street; The pills were found in a suitcase in her cubicle by Pottee. Defendant claimed that a friend had left the mitcaser in her cubicle and had gone away.. A fine of $2,000 or eight months was imposed.
|HK EXHIBITION IN LONDON
NOMETIME ago the Imperial Institute wrote to the Hong- kong Government asking for Baristanco towards improving the Hongkong Court at the Institute. The Government ob- tainei the co-operation of the Gencant and Chinese Chamboys of Commerce and as a result a typical range of Hongkong manufactures were sent to London-cach exhibit belha adorned by Chinese signs of th onamental character. In addi- Lion, a number of photographa of the Colony and of various native manufactures are being baken by Mr J, C., M. Grenham and these will be bent at a future date.
Mr H." W. Bird, a' former- re- sident in Hongkong, has interest; ^^
ed himself in the project and in
u letter to the General Cham- ber of Commerce, już to, band
Printed and published by PETER PLUMBLY for and on slates that the additions have behalf of South China Morning Post Limiled at 1-8 Wyndham improve the Hongkong Court
immensely. Btreet, Olty of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong.