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China Competition Hits Hongkong Exports To Malaya
Singapore, July 29,
China was undercutting Hongkong products in
Malaya, the Straits Times said today. The paper quoted importers as saying China was selling its goods in Malaya at 10-to-40 per cent below the prices of Hongkong products.
40 PER CENT DROP
A spokesman for one firm importing sundry goods. from Hongkong and China said sales of Hong-
kung products had been falling since April. He estimated that Hongkong exports to Malaya this year would drop by 40 per cent on last year's Bgures.
Unless Hongkong manufacturers reduced their prices and improved the quality of their goods, they would eventually lose a big portion of their Malayan market to China, he said.--Reuter.
CHINA MAIL
Shad 1845
TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1958.
SHEAFFER'S
}}
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
Fight Two-Hour Blaze HONGKONGSCHOOLS From the Files
AS EVENING FIRE RECREATION CENTRES
GODOWN
1,000 Bales
Bales Of Cotton Reported Damaged
By A China Mail Reporter
1,000 bales of cotton stored in one of the Jordan Road Godowns of the HK and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, were damaged in a two-hour blaze which began shortly after 10
a.m.
Six fire appliances, including two from Hongkong, and the Fire Boat, Alexander Grantham, under the direction of Fire Brigade Chief, Mr W. J. Gorman, had the fire under control soon after noon.
The fire is believed to have started in number 38B Godown. Cotton bales stored in the godowns on either side of burning bullding were removed by 30 coolies. When the fire broke out, three appliances and the fire-boat arrived on the scene, followed later by the two Hong- kong appliances and a further fire-engine from Kow- loon.
A large number of private cars in the area were removed by the Police because they obstructed the work of the firemen,
Appeals Dismissed
Mr Morgan Points Need For
· Adult Education Facilities The Acting Director of Education, Mr L. G. Morgan, spoke about "the school as a com- munity centre" when he addressed the Teachers' Summer Conference at-the Wah Yan College, Kowloon, this morning,
A
25
years
AGO
1
now valuation of the whole Colony has been made and
the Rateable Value has thereby been increased from $37,437,726 to $30,941,273. The increase 1s the Praya East Reclamation and mainly due to new buildings on
would have been much greater but for the tendency to reduc-
localities. In Kowloon the in- Chinese
the use of various governmeal parts of the Colony and the de- schools in Hongkong as Adult Pression have led to there being
a number of Education and Recreation Cen-ships scattered throughout the vacant flats and
tres.
Chinese portions of the City
reduction of rent in these areas
Mr Morgan traced the some-villes, for mutual beneat," Mrsions of rental in a number of what limited functions of schools Morgan said. in the post, where the main con- School premises were often ease is due to new
was with the intellectual) unused during ovenings, week- cern
Lenements and semi-European development of children, to the ends and school holidays,
and nuts in Mengkok, European more modern concept that could be adapted without great fats and houses on Prince Ed- schools are concerned with the difficulty for use as Community ward Rund and European dala physical and moral well-being Centres. Moreover, teaching at Kowloon point. of children as well as with their staff were particularly suitable kstellectual progress.
The rapid development of the as organisers and leaders in Praya East reclamation together The alm of education today, school community centres. Mr
Mir with over-buliding in Mr Morgan
ollier sald, "s to assist Morgan concluded by describing children to develop all their potentialities so that they might lend as full lives as possible, Mr Morgan said, "that there are "IL · has become apparent,"
was Mr Morgan Ing Mr Justice J. R. Gregg dis missed an appeal brought by many vital needs of adults arrival at the school by the Verand, as a result, a dentand for
against his which cannot
Father, H. Dargan, Wong Kam-ting
la advance during the school Pravcipal of the College, Rev. has commenced, conviction for possession of period. Many adults have few Fr. M. J. Morahan, who or- dangerous drugo,
notganised the Wong was given to months real interests. They
Summer School, Cheng, L. Yang a: know how to make good and by Mr C. H. gool by Mr T.
leisure Principal of the Northcote time, and if left to their Kowloon Magistracy on June 13, satisfying use of their
own Training College. devices they will spend most of
There will be Iwo drugs
Appealing against conviction, their time and energy in fruit-
lectures this attentoon. Mr 5. less activities." pleaded that he was Wong
K. Cheung. Education Officer wrongly convicted and that he
(Adult Education), will talk "Broader was innocent,
Aspects of
At the Appeals Court this morn.
No casualties were reported. The exact extent of damage 1950 for possession of dangerous
is not yet known.
THREE HURT IN ACCIDENTS Army
Wong man. (12) of no fixed its junction with Tonnuchy Rond, abode, was knocked down by fat about o'clock lust right.
private car in King's Rond, The injured man, Ilving at Ter is junction with
340, Portland Streel, was ac Mck Street, at about 7.30 pm, milted to Queen Mary Hospital yesterday and he was admitted for treatment.
to Queen Mary Hospital.
A
woman, Chlu
was injured
Nga
Yuk-chun.
(2%) of No. 42. Chuk Yuen Village
Estate, Rere-tlement
about 10 n.. yesterday when she Was knocked down by bicycle in Chuk Yuon Street. She
ONE KILLED
A nine-year-old girl, Leg Lin,
of No. 220, Wanchai Road, was wus
by a bus In Wanchai
somited to Kowloon Hospital.
led
Road at about 5,50 p.m. yester-
A lorry knocked down and in- | day.
jured a 28-year-old mun, Chan She died on the way to Queen fing-fai is Hennessy Road, near Mary Hospital.
Letters To
Hongkong's Word
Sir, The articles appearing in the Chino Mall every Saturday under the signature of Mr R. W. Thompson must be of interest to
you
wonder if some comments?
The
Driver Gets
Month's Gaol For $100 Theft
Dianissing the appeal, Mr | Justice Gregg told Wong that
be prepared for
to
Little Purpose
Rey,
met
un
other
Adult
Rates for 1957-58 were ex-
pected to yield about $04 million incere, according annual report.]
La the inst
* ☆
TAXI FARES
There will probably be a fur-
Education." Mr Chau Yitt-sal, ther marked reduction in taxi-
of Ngaulaukok cab fares on the Mainland
There were many, particular-Headmaster
In his opinion he was convictedly among those in lowly posi- Primary School will speak on an application by the Blue Taxi tions. who found little purpose the "Educational and Social Cab Company to the Govern- In life and tended to lose their Activities of the Roman Catholic ment is accepted.
an clear evidence.
also dis- Mr Justice Gregg missed an appeal brought by Junk owner against severity of his four months' sentence pass- ed on hip for conveying illegal Immigrants.
The appellant,
self-esteem. Others were shut- it and did not know how to co-operate in joint activities or how to find a real place in society..
Mission"
hoc AWARD FOR
The community centre Ko Pak, 34,
much to offer such people, ploaded that he was an ignorant fisherman and he was induced
to commit the offence
His Lordship polated out to
Driver Clifford Dawson, 28 of 8 Coy RASC, of Whitfield Barracks, was sentenced to one
"The aim of those coMMAL- nity centres in to provide as far month's imprisonment by Mr A. L. Leathlean
as possible for all vital adult at Central Magistracy this morning for steal-Ko that the illegal act of bring-
needs intellectual, cultura), physical, and recreational ing a pair of trousers and $100 in cash at the ing people into the Colony was
centres give a serious offence, especially Moreover, such Missions to Seamen.
when the Colony had already a people the apportunity of co- Detective-Sub-Inspector, R. 1. very large population.
operating together in joint acti- Russell of Criminal Investiga- tion Department, prosecuting, told the Court that the com- plainant in the ease was Chris- uan Jorgensen, a boatswain of the Maersk Line, who knew Dawson by alght but not hy
Editor
some of the words he has been ( their attempts to pronounce the cataloguing, liko Roma Viteria's soft th car
Ciu) Tal-we dictionary and more particularly understand how this form of
Dalgado's Glosario Luso- pelling arose. Asidlice. Allow me to comment
the Choir is surely
good 432 a few:
English word from the sedan, the -term
being Redan-chair commonly used in Hongkong until quite recently. The
d
some of your readers, and 1 Calty. Dalgado gives many
would accept examples of the use of cate,
Ita variations, the earliest that Your contributor, comparative- | of 1514, in a letter by Rul de ly a newcomer, has doubtless Brito at Malacca. being intrigued by the peculiari-
Chop. The Portuguese;
YON, The int recorded
13
ነፍሮ
iles of pidgin-English which old] early as 1918, used the form timers still remember used by a chapia (with other spellings) in large percentage of Chinese the sense given by Mr Thomp merchants and shopkeepers. son Schooling here has led to the English language being master-
of this word to mean n mule ed, during the last generation or sent dates from 1511, in a two, by an extremely large pro- letter by
de Afonso
Albi- portion at the population cnd querque, the great governor of
been prac-india. pidgin-English has ically displaced, except perhaps
mong the older amabs.
Benzoin was used in a Portu-
heljolm, when Vasco da Gama Lisbon from India. returned
It is true that Mr Thompson tuese document. in the form acknowledges that the Portu- guere had something to do with many of the terms of this pidgin BUZOGY. Dalgado attributes
but in looking Into the origins of
Ulds term in the serve quoted the words he does not seem to by Mr Thompson to the Persian have gone deeply enough
Cantonese ictu is used for this conveyance, ch'e for a wheeled vehicle.
a
Chit appears in old Portu- gurse documents to mean signed voucher, receipt or note, the earliest recorded by Dalgado belug Gasper Correa's in 1583. Chusam. Dalgado gives the derivation as Dravidian and quotes an Afonso de AL- buquerque Jetter of 1515 as the carllest reference In Portuguese. Chunambeiro survives in Macae
to indicate the place where the ime kilns used to be.
Congre la another Portuguese word, canja means a broth with rice cooked in it, but there is
from
name.
On Saturday at 8 pm, the inspector
Dawson continued, canica on Jorgensen at Room 35, Missions 10 Seamen, весола floor, and was sitting nearby when Jorgensen changed, took
TRIAD MAN BURNS
BOY WITH
SMOULDERING STICK
out some money, and replaced A 17-year-old Trind Society member who burned
a $100 note in a suitcase,
Glass Of Beer
Having locked the door and wondows except the top part of the window on the verandah.
| Jorgenser lett with the defer-
uant to the China Fleet Club bar where over a glass et beer he told Dawson that he would cross the harbour and spend the night in Kowloon,
Jorgensen leit Arst, leaving Dawson in the bar.
the leg of an 11-year-old shoeshine boy with
a piece of burning rattan was remanded by
Mr I. Donnell at Kowloon Court this morning
pending his admittance to the Remand Home Training Centre.
The defendant, Yip Chong-defendant burst the shoeshine fong, alias Hung Teat; of 04 Man boy on the leg with a piece of Mo Lane, Kowloon Tsai, plend-burning ratton. After that the ed guilty to charges of being an bay pakd up.
Delive member of a Triad so- with clety, demanding money menaces, larceny and assault oc- casioning actual bodily harm."
Demanded Money
|
On July 13, defendant
took 50 cents from the boy. Defen- dant was arrested on July 18 and he admitted the offences,
He told Police he had paid $38.60 to join the society,
Mr S. Barros, Assistant Off cer in Charge of the Training
the
HK DOCTOR
The Royal Society of Health announced today that it has conferred a Fellow. ship upon Dr Teng Pin- hul, the Azxistant Diroo- tor of Health Services at the Medical Department, The Boclety has awarded the honour to Dr Tong in recognition of his note. worthy publie health work in the Colony.
Dr Tang carved a number
of yours in the Urban Council and also as the Senior Port Health Officer.
Man On Triple Murder Charge Remanded
It
was disclosed
that
Vesterday an application has been
made to reduce existing farca from 40 cents for the frat tulle and 40 cents for each sub- arquent mile to 10 conta for the free mile and 20 cents for each subsequent mile. This is for large INITS. For smaller cars prices wolil remain at 30 cents for the first mile and 20 cents for each subsequent mile. In Hongkong the fares remain at 50 cents for the frat mile and
mile thereafter.
40 cents d
SKYSCRAPERS
QLOCKS of buildings rising to
BLOC
14 and 15 storeys and separ- ated by wide clear atreels are visualised in a draft ordinance which is nearing completlon, in the hands of the HK Public Works Department, If carried ~ into effect it will transform the business part of the Colony Into rkyscraper blocks.
When completed the how headquarters of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank will dominate all”, buildings on Is own level by many feet-its own topmost point will be 200 feet A 40-year-old carpenter, charged high-but I cannot hope to re-
with tiple murder, was
tein its supremacy long in vlew manded three more days in of these new and far-reaching Police custody by Mr A. L proposals. Leathlean at Central Mazts- trasy this morning for further enquiries.
IC-
Accused, Ler Lam, of no fixed address,
alleged to have murdered three men, Pung
was
Hung-choi, Leung Chung and
PRESSURE
At a meeting of the Legisla- Pang Ying-choi in Lily Street, H. Kotewall will ask: "In view lave Council Tomorrow Mr h. Bay View, on Wednesday,
Detective Sub-Inspector Wal- of the complaints received that water does not reach the third
ter Boxall is prosecuting.
This Funny World
At noon on Sunday, he re- turned to the Missions to Sea- men and discovered that his
its contents and clothing, seat-. sustcuse had been forced open, tered over the bed, and that a pair of brown trousers and
Det. Sub, Insp. E. P..M. $100 in cash were missing. He Hunt told the court that at the Centre told the Magistrate the
June a reported to the police.
beginning of
young boy would be accepted at The inspector said that on shoeshine boy, Wong Men-yu, Centre.
on into plazahr mr padzely, the earliesta Concard equivalent of kangi, Sunday,
information, he was approached by defendant in the Portuguese influence. In recorded use being dated 1518.
Sanscrit Recording to went to Room 31, Missions to Nathan Road who said he was à Yulo and Burnell's Hobson-
Abacus would hartily be Dalgado, The mode of cooking Seamen, second floor where he nigmber of the Wo Ying Yee demanded Jobson, frequently quoted by called a pidgin word.
Шасти somewhat, but the found a pair of browns trousers Tad Society. He Mr Thompson, creation by the
carllest reference in Portuguese which Jorgansen identided as money from the boy. Portuguese of the lingua franca into use in the Hongkong polica
wore when Being afraid, the boy gave bim to this Asian rice porridge from the pair Lawson
sums of 20 cents to 50 cents on of intercourse, not only between and court records, In Englich,
1553. The word has been Incalling on him' on Saturday.
a number of occasions. European and native, but ecen- and can hardly be classified na
use in Macap for a long time, Brown Trousers
defendant On July 1, tho lonally between Europeans of a proper plugin word.
hence the notation in the Ao Bobbery, Allo (but hardly Men Chi Luch
On Monday, Inspector Russell demanded 50 cents duly different nationalities" is
the true English Ati), Cumsh4,
said, again on information he shoeshine boy. but as he was acknowledged. The authors go on to quote several English Blum, Cando, Catches are When Mr Thompson comes to went to 50 Jaffe Road, second short of money, he was,mable
found Dawson in a
to pay. wilters in the 18th century who good examples given by Mr classify his terms uccording to floor and sinted that "Europeans would Thompson of plagin
While the boy was asleep the words thtes it will be seen how they cubicle where on the wall hung And it difficult in many places coined by the Chinese at Canton evolved, progressively, from the another pair of brown trousers native into Portuguese, into which Jorgersen later identified Indo-English pidgin and then, as his own property."
Banislice. Thus tenn
came
to be well understood without having dealings with foreigbers.
ta
be
In the same class would be: The importance of this me- Plops, etc. Do: to mention word
Maskee Wanchee, Chances, dlum among the English
derived from Cantonese,ilko their dealings in Asla con
Fallee. traced at Surat and Bombay subsequently
WES used in the and other places, in Bengal (Calcutta, etc.) with Hongkong courts so long as this connections fully at Canton, form of punishment was, en- where men from Macao acting forced In the Colony and ap- as brokers and even as clerks, pears in English accounts of sorving likewise as Interpreters, early Hongkong. It was men- Were engaged. The services of toned by Fres Gasper da Cruz, there people in Hongkong are as a form of punishment among the Chinese, as long ngo as 1509, well known.
states Sidm, Mr Thompson Thus, Mr Thompson might enlince the value of his re- | that this is an erroneous Portu- search. by, referfing to the guese word but when we con- glomaries of old Portuguese sider that the form used by the
the derivation of Portuguese plonicera came from tor
Printed and published by PATER FLUBBLY for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndham Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong,
from
the
at Canton with Portuguese Inspector Hussell said, when GROUP GOING TO
Doneon had in his
$25. DAWBON,
Influence at first followed by arrested, words of Chinese origin and possession eventually how Hongkong camo added, had a Into the picture. The inquence longkong. of pidgin in Shanghai and Prking also has its place in a study of this kind.
y
he
clout record in TOKYO CONVENTION
A
Lieutenant V.C. Marsden of 8 RASC testified that Dowson had a very bad Army record, The Army Look Mr Thompson is doing in-serious view of the matter, teresting work and I wish him added.
Defendant was also ordered overy su CCCSI.
J. M. BILAGA. pay $25 as restitution,
EARLY MORNING ROBBERY
the occupants of cash and jewels, lery worth $1,200.
pocket knife, broke into No. Three men, one armed with a
Cash and jewellery worth 04, Fuk' Wah Street, second
$1,800 was also stolen from. No, floor, Shamshulpo at about 4.30 in, Henderson Road, between 9 a. this morning, and robbed | pm, and midnight löst night,
д
Dr E. Craig Brandenburg and members of the Evangelical party of 21\ Americans—ail
United Brettej, arrived" yes- terday from Manila by Hong- Kong Airways.
They intend spending four or five days sightseeing In Honge kong en routo to Tokyo where they will be attending" the 14th World: Convention on Christian Education, from August 6-13.
After the Convention, the group will brosic up-nome mom- born" returning to the States...... athors contimaine on & BOUnd world. tur,
“All right, all right, you can grow a mustache-
now let my alone!”,
and
sion to
Higher floors of many houses on account 01 in- sufficient pressura whenever restrictions are imposed, will the government grant permis- such property owners. a may apply for it, to have the water pipes taid first to the topmost
and floors
thence downwards, instead of from the ground floors and upwards, as at present? If not, what are the Government's reasons?"
PIRATES
SWATOW report sold the steamer Yu Shin of tho
| China Merchants S.8. Co. which Toft Swatow for Shanghal last Monday, marived back in port yesterday with her yellow funnel paintedt black.
It is reported that not tong - after beaving Awatow the 'was taken by pirates who wore 'tra= velling us passengers,, and was forced to run for Hias Bay. Some |$1,000 worth of cargo, part of the passengers) – valuables, and two hostages, are asid to have been taken.
It is also reported that the pirates were very poorly armed, seven out of the 'ten zwipe which they brandished belog dummies.