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CHINA MAIL
Marshlished 1949
THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1958.
AMBASSADORS
Claude Burgess's Address. To Hongkong Jaycees 'NEVER IN GREATER NEED'
overseas
NEW SHIPPING
ORDER
Not Likely To Benefit
Hongkong
By a Chino Mail Reporter
Hongkong, as a meeting place for the trade and intercourse
of many nations, needs unofficial ambassadors to state its case and explain its predicament, the Col- onial Secretary, the Hon. Claude Burgess, said today. Speaking at the monthly luncheon of the Hongkong Junior
Chamber of Commerce, Mr Burgess said that the Colony,The relaxation of the sale of which had always deponded upon freedom of overseas trade for its prosperity, was never in greater need of the sympathetic understanding and support of the world at large than today, with its bewildering economic changes.
"Hongkong is a city-state, but it rejects to the
sutural "Knowing that you are
all
also like to have some sugges tious about gresi lines of activity which you could pursue with your expanded membership,
|
British ships to China which was announced by the Ministor of Tranport in London this morning, is not likely to affect Hongkong a great deal, ac- cording to shipping firms in Hongkong.
Mr E. F. de Lasala, manager at John Manners and Co., said
this morning, he believed the re-
ANOTHER
SHEAFFER'S ACHIEVEMENT
THE POPULABLE PRICED
Imperial"
WITH
SHEAFFER'S
Cylindrical Gold Point and modern touch down filling. AVAILABLE NOW AT ALL LEADING STORES JA
NEEDED
CHINA MAIL SURVEY SHOWS:
Filter-Tip Cigarettes Becoming Popular
But Not Nearly As Many Sold As In Europe
by Andrew Sloan
There is a trend in Hongkong toward the filter-tip cigarettes,
according to a number of importers.
However, the executives of the tobacco business still hold that the local population are not unduly worried about the cancer scare at present sweeping America and other parts of the world.
Cigarette-smokers in America | said,
"Sales
of Alter tlter-minded as those countries,"
are gradually turning lo nikr elgarettes do cut represent more he said.
market."
tips which now represent some than nine or 10 per cent of the The manager of the Hongkong) thing like 40 to 50 per cent of
He added, "In America the the market.
acle of alters has gone up tre- mendously and represents more than 40 per cent of market sales, and as much as 00 per cent in Europe.
"Hongkong is certainly not 01
It is a remote, isolated and de-darktus ul associate member- such gluttons for work, I was pendent city-state and its for ship those grey-boards of two- not surprised when your Pre-
who, whijo eign relations are not in its own
their sident told me that you would score yearA hand. It is not always easy to advice inay at times merit con- in that sympathetic under-teneplation, no longer cap-
The alter-ip percentage of standing and support-parti-able of bearing the heat and
isxction came as a result of the the Hongkong market nowhere.
that cularly at those times and la burden of the Jaycee day.
resembles
figure. present strong position of hear
the importers and at which we just those plures
"Hongkong la a cosmopolitan
"Here are two simple sugges-Storing. He added that he did Some of
manufacturers I contacted this need it most," he suld,
place-but it is also a noticeably
which no not think this move would have morning place the figure at 10 gregarious one, Some of us do suggestions not, 1 am afraid, reach out very wily tie in with your existing any great effect on Hongkong.
per ccal, others slightly lower. far beyond our immediate circle projects, but which would also particular value p of acquaintances, our own to be of itscit
ts - Government in its social wel- stock. That in advised.
fare work:
Foremost Ranks
"We must therefore rely to a extent on unufell am- large
bassadors with recreditation immunity of cocked-Bais, if our Case Is to be stated and our predicament understood....You cun wil be proud to know that The Hongkong Junior Chamber of Commerce slands day in
the foremost rank of the Colony's
"Our own circle, our own "The first is the sponsorship dock, tends very naturally to be of a series of original, illustrated constituted of people like our-children's books in Chinese and selves, moving with a common about Hongkong itself-about is very limited farming and fishing communities, purpose within
But the real value and th simple terms about the friendship, in community
many Industries which make up
pastures,
unofficlat ambassadors overacas,"
Mr Burgess wished the Juy-in eres every success in their drive life, In human understanding our economy.
from association with for more members because, he comTICS
"If you are attracted by this sabl, "its sucress will mean on people who art
not like project, which would be a useful Increase Ins budy of citizens ourselves.
complement to the organisation of your Children's Libraries, 1 gion whom the Government can
Over-Production niways rely for enthusiastic and
can assure you of the practical advice of the self-sacrifeing support Iz 1s
"The Jaycee Movement hay, 1 support and
Director of Social Welfare and Town' schumes for the improve think, encouraged and entered
mam of serial conditions in the upon these extra-mural benefitsny other Government officers whom you may wish to roauit." Cotony,"
in two ways; ut,
Wide Influence
tho
live for some time been Whe 'attracted and impressed by
remarkable speed and assurance with which
Mongkong Junior Chamber of Commeren has established itself in tho fertile earth of our community.-1 any fertile, because we certainly do not luck associations and
Locieties devoted to community
as I have already suggested, it is inter-
i
One shipping company manu. ger said that the cable was not very clear. He said the way the cable was worded, it could mean anything. He referred to the phrase, with certain excep- cons," and "certain categories,"
J
Something New
Another firm manager said sounds as though general cargo be sold to China, ships can which was something new. Bui he added that it depended on the Interpretation of this cable by the Marine Department.
Mr Pang Kuk-sul, Managing Director of George Grimble and
national within Hongkong, our Handicapped People Co. sald, "China has never
cecond it is international in on
vehicle
The other new
scheme in altogether wider sense.
Jield which you "Certainly, with Hongkong's the welfare
to consider, and own pressing social problems night wish
which has an obvious fore. before you, caused-very largely
runner in your very successful by the sifting pressure of over- popdlution, you might have Mobile Library, is the provision
suitable motor ol # been forgiven if you had re-
which could be used by wel- pded the wider Jaycee Move-
for fare organisations for the truns ment solely Ds a vehicle fecussing the attention of other port on outings of handicapped countries on our own particular people. "One thinks of the really old-
Leeds and difficulties in Hong- "This is likely to be mort institutions the kong, established
expensive than the production Tung Wali Hospital or Po Leung
"But wisely, if I may say so, of children's books, since the Kuk, for example. They are
you have avoided this parochial | vehicle will have to be specially Rike those Banyan Trees
Nahtan Hond and elsewhere-iture, mad it is a real source adapted, for example for use by
of pleasure to me to think that cripples. since 1850, when the Chamber
welfare in one form or another,"
he said.
with traditions reaching right
"But I can assure you most back into the Colony's early
was founded, you have been sincerely that this would be a days, as firmly rooted, as bene-
able to act as host on two occu- really practical way in which Beent in their grandeur as ever, sions to the Asian Regional Con- you could help Dough everything around themference, to supply
organisations, a number of such as the Boy Scouts Associa has changed.
vice-presidents in the Juniorlon, to bring a illun added "But the Jaycee movement
Chamber International, and, as excitement, colour and fresh air reminds me of a particular
the culmination of your first | (with which this Colony is so Papaya tree which I grew from
efforts in the International renly provided) into the drab seed in prison camp. In eighteen
sphere, to sve In 1058 une of every day life of the blind, the short months (short in one sense
your own members, Mr Sales, deaf, and the mentally defce- and long in another) It pro-
become President of the Junior (tive, all of whom ure, by the vided the two gifts of every tree
Chamber International itself.very nature of their disabilities, of its kind-food to cut and
This was, I have no doubt, good full too easily forgotten in the shade trum the sun-and to me
experience for Mr Sules; but it pressurised day to day life of I was worth all other trees in
was also good for the world put together,
Hongkong this busy community." "This you have done. You Jaycees-and good for Hongkong have quickly rooted yourselves itselt. here; you have borne fruit - from which the community has alteady derived nourishment; --- and, most important, you have spread your influence widely o that It encompasses many na- tatalities, many races, many creeds and many kinds and con- ditions of men.“
True Spirit
"The one common denomina- Your member- tor is Youth. ship comprehends the most im- pressive segment of the humon life-span. It is on enurely practical conception.
"At the end it excludes the more precious manifestations of the Salad Days; and at the other
Some Suggestions
What
I particularly like
work is that about your local
you have eschewed the specta-
culur, ond chosen
limited but down-to-earth, common-SENSE
schemes of Social Service,
Thefts From Vehicles
at
the
of
Or
||
bought a British ship under her own registry. or had
Ministry approval of the Transport for the transfer mortgage of a British ship-il such an application has at all been made.
He added, "In my opinion, it
that the seems
of Ministry Transport have no objection to the sale of certain British ships to China."
The following is the text of the cable:
The Cable
The British Government today (July 30) announced the re- moval of restrictions on the sale of certain Brilish ships
Abroad.
Mr Harold Walkinson, Minister of Transport, sald in future he would give a general sane- ilon permitiing, with certain exceptions, the free transfer or mortgage of ships to all
countries abroad.
The
exceptions relate to the sale of certain categories of shilpa to countries in the Soviet bloo and China, and also to the sale of former naval craft to any foreign country, he said.
Ittherto the Minister's approval has been required for 41] transfers or mortgages of And Colonial ships
abroad.
British A ladies' handbag, containing projects which conter à benent cash, was stolen from a private
isproportionate
car parked in Canton Road their cost, and fill in those aching little bout 5.59 pm. yesterday. In the gaps left by The grander morning, 24 bottles of mineral water were stolen from a lorry "You have now completed Johnston Road, Wanchal. the Jaycee Shamshulpo Play- A man has been arrested fol- ground; you have urrangea lowing enquiries into the theft containing acrated beach picnics and parties for of a tray underprivileged children; there water from lorry parked in was your Traffic Safety Can-Nar Kok Road, near its junction palen la 1055/66, and your gift with Carpenter Road, Kowloon of wolding sticks to the blind. City.
Lazy Man's Grass For Sale
A lazy man's grass is on the market. It needs no cutting with A
said that one square foot
of the grass can multiply cover a four-square
foet.
Mr Wong brought the
here grass
from Formosa 12 years JAWA
ago and planted It on Shouson Hill,
* to
.
mower, all that is neces- sary is a quick rolling.. The result is a smooth carpet-like lawn!
"Well-known local jockey,
Mr Eugene S. Wong im- ported a six square foot patch of Korean grass in Now it has mul- 1946, tiplied to 20,000 square
аге
The Korean grase lawns familiar sights in Honolulu, Korea and Japan:
Mr Wong said this morning that the grass, sold by the square foot, was very ex- ponsive in America. He
foot patch in a year. The grass does not reproduce by seeding, but by the roots.
Mr Watkinson sald lic had also decided to discontinue the procedure by which the sale of ships abroad for scrap WILK allowed ouly if the British Iron and Steel Cor poration (Salvage) Limited was not prepared to matah the foreign price...Kegter,
WRIST WATCHES
STOLEN
A wrist watch, valued at $120, was snatched from a Chinese women pedestrian in Argyle Street, near Nathan Road, at about 9 o'clock last night. A 'wrist watch was alse stolen from janother woman' walking in Pol Ho Street, near Halton Street, at about 4 p.m.
Nearly Double
Ali American importer re- that thu this morning purted
of the filter-tip sales of one brands he supplies had nearly doubled in the two years it had been on the Hongkong-market-
The same businessman says, "Filters are coming up strongly, It looks like there is a trend towards fillers." He added, that
the Chinese smokers were aware of the cancer scare, but were not worried to a great degree,
Another Importer said that in the eight months his brand had been on the Hongkong market sales had been "rather steady."
believes
агс Europeans Ho gradually switching over W they filter-cigaretes, but as constitute such a small part of kas little the community this bearing on sales figures.
The cancer scure has
not
affected the Chinese as much as it tus affected the Americans," he said, adding_that_there was. still a "very wide gap" between sales of liter and ncu-liter cigarettes,
The British American Tobacco Company who import targe quautitles of cigarettes said this fnoming that the sales of Mler- tips have certainly gone up over the last two years, from some- thing like three per cent of the local market, to nine per cunt. A spokesman of the company
1
From the Files
25
years AGO
FLESHPOTS
Over 50 members attended the 40th annual general meet- ing of the Itongkang Football. Club held at the Club House, Happy Valley, last night. In the. absence of the President MT R. M, Henderson, the chair was taken by Mr R, Forsyth, The "apparent Impotence" of the avecer, elevens drete from Mr. Forsyth an admonition 10 members to eschew the fler pols and go into diligent train- ing for next season's Aztures.
UNMUZZLED
fined TIGHT Europeans were Tebacco Company, who both for allowing their dogs out import cigarettes and tobacco bumuzzled One lady, Mrs Hop- told the for the manufacture of cigarettes, as of 300 the Peak,
that "the dog went. sald that the sale of filter tips Magistrate
crazy had risen gradually over the nearly
with hysterin” was put on. last three years, but there is when the muzzle athi no comparison with sales It broke from the yard. It was of non-Alter tip cigarettes,
had three months old and never worn a muzzio before. She was told either to train the dog to wear a muzzle or get rid of
Mr Bernard Blegal, a prominent lawyer and leading citizen of Philadelphia, U.S.A. arrived hero this morning by PAA from Tokyo with his wife and two children, for a short stay. Mr Slegal is the city representative of Philadelphia, and a recipient of many professional honours. He is ple- tured above with his wife and children, after his arrival at Kol Tak.
|FAIR WEATHER AHEAD?
Fair weather is forecast by the Royal Observatory for the next 24 hours, with very isolated showers. Up to noon the Observatory had re- corded .001 inch of rain.
At noon the temperature was 86 degrees Fahrenheit
and the relative humidity was 75 per cent, There were no storm warnings.
The Governor grtela 16. Col. M. Jennings at the Marine Police jetty this morning,
At lets Commander L. D. Kilbee and at right, behind the Governor
G. D. A. Gregory—China Mall Photo.
Ex Commodore
GOVERNOR SEES MINESWEEPING
DEMONSTRATION OFF LAMMA
ם
the
His Excellency the Governor, Jannings, Acting Commandant, chored alongside each other in Sir Robert Black, this Royal Hongkong Defence Force St. George's Bay, Sir Robert
Cmdr LD, Kilbee, Commanding paid, an informal 'visit to moming wont out to officer, HIKRNVR: Cinde E. B. Wardroom of M.M.S-1579- watch minesweeping Tuncock, Sinff Officer, HERNVR; where he was entertained by demonstration by twbend Lieut Cmdr Ian Atkinson, the Commanding OMeer, Lleut vassols of the Hongkong Staff Officer of the Cominodore-enant Faber, and his officers before returning to a buffet In-Charge. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserva In the
Sir Robert left in a barge to lunch on the bridge of MMS.
Lfta inspect
minesweepers, 1858. Lamma Channel,
MMS1879 and MMS1858. Sir Robert, who was ac
out to watch Later he went an Ilonerary the demonstration
on board arrested for companied by Une theft of a gold bracelet, AD.C., Lleuf D. A. Hussey, MS1650.
wps mot at the valued at $150, from a woman HKRN.VR, re-
walking in Shek Kip Mel Streat, Marine Police felty, Arrenal near Fik Woh Street. A peres, Stoot, by the containing cosit
stolen Charge:
During the first year, Mr Wong said, it does not multiply very fast, but after settling in, it produces extremely quick- ly. In doing so it also kills off many weeda. .*
!
West
Mrs Hopkins:-My husband said it would break the dog's spirits,
Magistrale:-I am afraid you will have to pay. Eight dollars." Another lady, protesting at the orderTM applied to her throo Pekingese,
did
said her dogs not bite. But she still had to
| pay her fine "$20,
WE
SHING MUN
to A
E ure given officially
understand that after considerable amount of explora- tory
the
work in drilling for foundations the decision" has now been taken no to the pre- cise site and the type of dam to The be bullt at Shing Min site adopted is considerably; further down stream than alle originally chosen for ex- ploration, and is below the high waterfall in the gorgo proper. Thus in order to maintain the same top water level of the lake fixed, tho os that originally
40 foot dam has to be some higher than would have been the case had it been possible to build it above the waterfall, and it now becomes one of lic high- est dams in
und the world, it is believed actually, highest of its type so far
toy
do-
signed. The completed dam will the quarrying of necessitate about one million tons of rock. About half this quantity wlli ba crushed for use in the concrete section and also in part of the rock all, and the rest will bo used in the form of large stones four to five tons in weight.
HAPPY VALLEY
A
"Old Hongkong": Mr John Kerwick, a grandson of the lato Mr William Keswick, prin elpal of the firm in the Sixties, bas sent in the following inter- esting extract from A letter Written by his grandfather la 1050.
"East point, where the offices and house are, is the most beautiful spot on the Island. It is about two miles from the town, situated at the head of the Bay, and has high hills surrounding it except on the seaside, but oven here the high hills of the mainland can be distinctly seen. There is a very nice short walk near East Point
called the Valley, round which is Race Course; where the horses are taken in the morning for exercise. There is some ex- eltement there in the mornings now, as the Races Lake place on the 19th instant (February) and two following days, and
Happy
the
the horses that are entered to run are trained for about an kour every morning, and of course everyone makos bla way to the Course to sog bow the horses shape, and to make his betting book accordingly.” The author of the column adds: Incidentally it worth noting that Jardine's have been associated with racing in - the Colony since early timmer, and At a quarter to two the theft stables at East Point data Governor's yacht berthed along back a great many years. side and His Excellency left the mincaweopers to return to Hong- With His Excellency's per- kong. The Ships' Companies of Printed and published by mustered on their PETER PLUMBty for, and on Camodore-in-sonal standard flying in MM.S. both ships
went to the fo'c's'les and gave tiree .ro behalf of South China Morning G.D.A.1558 boli skipa
West Lamma Channel for their sounding cheers as "The Lady Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndham
Maurine drew away and sat Street, City of Victoria in the The Governor p.m.
was then la- minesweeping exercise. wroduced to Lout Col MT.N. After both sweepers had on course for Green Island. Colony of "Hongkong.
At about 12:45 am. yester day, a man was
@ womum. in Junction Creguay.
from 'Road yesterday.
nt pbout
WOR
11.30
Commodore