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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1958.
Catching Up On Winter
SOON WE MAY USE MORE ELECTRICITY IN SUMMER Pilgrims Die On China Mail Survey Shows How
Hongkong Ship
Thirty of the 2,200 Filipino Moslems now on 1 Hongkong ship stranded in Colombo, have died, according to cable reports from Manila.
Othe that Husted Press Internate al pe Forelan
an "epi- threatening With puts that the pilgums were re dete
urvak bat in the pilgrims' qpmin= Fun Iran Mecca on the ss. Lin when the drop sastres in Colombo, undered by us agner. to dock
charter of the ship.
The Foreign Secretary, Feuilx-
M
in Colombo pending-dollar pay-berto Serrano, Immediately.com- ments by the plans to the red-with-National integro
Commissioner, in fion
Aluste, un the wasons for the delay in paying the Hongkong
happing fr2.
The Philippine Erobne sy New Delhi also reported in the
Four Accidents
The alpine previously had authorized the Contra Bank release US$190,00m 14 "cover the jlgrim' fure.
But Me Alonto sud the Cen- Bank had refused to re- itace the money.
Four tradic arcalents, which four people were injured, fered in ongkong and Kowal Jazım yesterday,
A cyclist and a ne-year-old Lay were injured in two uther malle mishaps it Kowloon. They were admitted to Kowloon Hospital for treatment.
In Hongkong, two motor squa
injured when Hur aidera were
ther fell from their machines
33. The Central District. They
Me Alonter
M Moslen Congressman, Salipada. Penda. un, confirmed then! 30 of the pilis had died of old age, fever and sunstroke during the pawarka
Air Conditioning
Has Pushed Up Consumption
by Andrew Sloan
China Mail Reporter
In a year or so Hongkong may be using more electricity in
summer than in winter.
According to the two local electric companies, China Light and Power and Hongkong Electric, the summer consumption peak of electricity, which for many years has been well below the winter peak, is begin- ning to catch up, and in a year or so is expected to take the lead.
The reason for this change is due to the increasing popu
larity of air-conditioning and refrigeration. Since air-conditioning was first introduced to the Colony, prices have fallen, until now some air-conditioning units cost a little more than half the price they did three years ago.
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A gold necklace was reported to have been snatched from Chinese woman outside 60 Fuk Street, Shumshulpo, Wing Kowloon yesterday afternoon.
Party For Blind
One hundred bling children will be entertained to a luncheon They alra said that the ship's party at the Hindu Temple Pre- mess, where the Moslems takemises. Happy Valley, on Sunday, Hosts their meals, had cut down the August 17, at 11.30 am.
because will be Mr and Mrs F. T. Mul-
wun!.
the receiving Treatment In Queen! ration: to 40 per cent Mary Hospital.
of the delay.
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Mr C. F., Wood, Manager of China Light and Power Co. Lid., told me yesterday that if air conditioners con- tinue to be linked up the way they are uw, then the summer consumption peak will overtake the winter .consumption peak in a year.
BIGGER REFRIGERATORS
He pointed out other reason for the popularity of air-
SHEAFFER'S
Skrip
H.E. Sees New Housing Schemes
is Excellency the Governor (fourth from left) scen during this wurulug's inspection of the North Point Hous- ing Estate. Others in the photo from left to right) are MF G. T. Rowe, Mr C. G. M. Morrison, M2 Phillip Au, Mr W, E. Collard, and Captain J.F. Bunnell, ADC.-China Mall
Photo
GOVERNOR VISITS
HOUSING ESTATES
From the Files
25
years AGO.
THEY tell me
Hong- haa
that the Tung Yat, formerly one of the Big Five restaurants in hong's Red Light district, Kone out of cxistence, said "Onlooker" in the CBy Light column.
ems that the glories of Weat point are dying the gavishness Kal once made a show spot of the Enst is dis- appearing, a one by one Its lights are exünguished,
There will be not a little re- gret that West Point is on tho decline. Of course, the Govern ment never really approved of the carryings-on down that way at made things fairly un- comfortable for bally proprietors and patrona,
Government ban on licensed public houses, for instance, was a severe blow and so was the trade depression, Sing-ong girls, as such, uro now going out of business and many of them, I hear, have be- reme dancing partners In the "pcodemles."
There are mony who have condemned West Point for y alleged imunora) influence......_On_ the other hand, there have been many ready to stand up in its defence. You possibly remem“ be a well-known solleitor once toiling the Coort that West Point was a respectable place and many of the Colony's best there. Tis Suid people went that many taipens blushed,
of
Leaving Kai Tak perodrome at 5.45 am, yesterday, the Pas American Airways Sikenrsky seaplane imided in Manila 3.25 p.m. Allowing for a stop In Northern Luzon of two hours,
proximately 71⁄2 hours.
conditioning, and that was units can now be bought His Excellency the Governor, Sir Robert Black, the total firing time was agi
on hire-purchase terms, or for direct hire.. The terms are usually reasonable, and so many people, unable to meet the full cost of a unit, are able to afford the luxury through HP terms.
Un refrigerators, Mr Wood said that over the last-few-
years they have grown in capacity from four und ve cubic feet to seven cubic feet and upwards. This in itself ineans higher consumption of electricity Mr Wood noted that each year, the load of electricity has
risen, as Kowloon has expanded. But unlike other
spent the morning visiting the Housing Au- thority's estates in Cadogan Street and Java Road.
building, accompanied by Mr Captain J.F. Morrison and Bunnell, A.D.C.
PROTESTS in letters to the Press against the so-called Kusdan "invasiim" (illegal im- migrants from Shanghai and other parts of North China) of the Colony, remind
one that here www fears of a real
He was accompanied by the and the design was undertaken Hon. C.G.M. Morrison, Chair- by Mr T. 5. C. Feltham.
Incorporated man of the Housing Authority,
the five and Mr G. T. Rowe, Housing blocks are 638 flats, and when Commissioner.
the estate is completed the Russian invasion of the Colony in the Crimean Wor, It was said Ilis Excellency arst visited population will be just under
4,000. All buildings are orin Old Hongkong." A SOTL- parts of the world it is not a fixed annual increase. the offices of the
Housing reinforced concrete trame con- night after the arrival of Sir One year there may be a large increase, and the Authority in the Post Ofer struction.
John Bowring to assumo the following year a comparatively small rísu..
Governorship, news came of The flats are self-contained, ite sand that i future, the combination of air-condition-
The Goy- and of varying sizes desimed war against Russia, ing and refrigeration will be one of the biggest load
for occupancy between Ave ander immediately set off with Admiral Sir James Stirling for builders that has ever hit. the Colony, as far a
10 people. Rents very from Chusan, hoplug to intercept the the domestic supply of electricity is concerned.
$81 a month for a five-personnu slon Fleet. It proved a wild- During a 24-hour period, in the summer months, the con- sumption graph-continues in practically a straight line. Formerly, the caily consumption was high as The company supplied power for the many factories Authority, in Kowloon. Then in the evening when the factories closed down, the graph showed distinct downward curve, domestic consumption having little or no effect on the graph.
SIMILAR
TRENDS
J
On the other side of the harbour, the Hongkong Electric
Co., Ltd. report very similar trends.
The situation is practically the same, with air-conditioning
taking up more and more of the current. However, Mr J. F. Barron, ueting manager of HKEC, said that on the island there are many more large build- ings going up, and the consumption of electricity through air-conditioning, can be very closely tied up with building development.
Within the last two years, in the Central District at least 10 modern multi-storey buildings have gone up. All ure air-conditioned, sites for seven or eight more are being prepared and a number of others are still under construction. They too will be air-conditioned. Mr Barron said there was a definite increase in the use of domestic air-conditioners, but this is mainly by the richer people. With prices coming down, how- ever, they are becoming more and more popular.
VERY ECONOMICAL
Refrigerators, on the other hand, Mr Barron said, are also being widely used, but they are very economical and do not use up very much electricity.
All in all, he concluded, it can be agreed that due to air- conditioning the rummer consumption peak will catch up with and overtake, the winter peak, if not in one year, definitely in two.
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German Exhibition | Theft From Car
Murao, Aug. 13.
Two men have been detained An exhibition of contemporary by the Police for questioning Geniun Graphic Art was open- following the theft of a hub- ed in Maruo yesterday at the cap and an oil tank cover from Munlepial Hall In the presence a private car parked in Ma Tau of H.E. The Governor, Pedro Wel Reed. Kowloon yesterday Correla De Barros, many foreign | morning and three other casca diplomats, government officials of theft from vehicles
on the and the press.-France-Preszt, peninsula.
Partly Completed
Ilis Excellency was met at at to 5141 for a 10-person of rates and the Cadogan Street estate, now flot, exclusive known as Sai Wan Chuen, by water charges. members of the Housing
The estate is partly com- pleted. Sir Robert inspected model, after which he toured the site.
It consists of five blocks of nine storeys each. Two blocks will be completed at the end of August, one at the end of Sep-
Hoose chase, however, becouse o arrival there it was found that the Russians had left for unknown regions, Later thera The Flats
were fears of the Rusiano descending upon the Colony and nanje Each fat comprises a Hving these developed into a bedroom. 1 kitchen 8 ft by when Colonel Caine announced
ft, and a bathroom contain the defenceless
state of tho ing a flush closet and a tap for island and in hot haste ordered Bach Bat will butleries to be erected. Nothing washing.
game of the neare, however, as have a verandah.
The combined Anglo-French Each kitchen is fitted with Squadron kept the Russlars et
mains kong Inspired by these events,
tember and the remaining two concrete benches and a glazed bay on the Siberian coast, long- in February 1959. The total cost earthenware sink.
A
is expected to be about $7,875,- water tap is provided over each later raised £2,500 for sink. No flues have been allowed Patriotic Fund in London.
600. Funds have been provided for in the kitchens, as it is pro- from the Development Fund, pased that all cooking should be.
done by oil or electricity.
The Governor and Mr Collard, at the Cadoganı Estate.-China Moll Photo.
There will be refuse chutes at cach various central pointa In block.
Water points in each flat are provided from the mrins supply, but the flushing water supply for lavatories will be token from underground streams running through the site. Storage tanks have been provided for this pur- pose, aftunted on roots or on the hillside chove roof level
Socond. Estate
tho
now
The Government has ordered the removal of the Kowloon coal damp which has caused so much complaint by local residents, Meanwhile a matting screen lias deen erected to minimise the dust nuisance.
THE German Chancellor, Herr
Hitler, had a narrow escape from death today when motoring near the Austro-Bavarian bor- der. Detalls have not been dis- closed but It is known that a serious ocelden! betell the car immediately following Hitler's. His adjutant was hurled out of
received
This is the Housing Authority's second eruato (of 3% ucres), overlook the harbour near the car.. One of his arms was
he fractured and Green Island,
The steepness and natural dif- serious injuries. His recovery is Herr Hitler's nieco nculties of this site were pre-doubtful. dominant factors in the develop and sister were injured. There
The west side of the is no suggestion of foul play. tite is particularly steep, sloping
ment,
at on angle of about 45 degrees. was only possible to plan buildings of the most direct and straightforward type upon 14 10 extremely costly formation work was to be avoided.
North Point
The London Daily Mall understands that the estate of Sir Jolin Ellerman, the multi- millionaire shipowner, who died recently at Dieppe, amounts to between' £30 million and 240 million.
Sir John was probably the richest man in Great Britain
The Governor was also mui, at Mic North Point Estale in Jiva wealthier, some people think, Road by members of the Hous- than any man in this country Ing 'Authority, and by the arch;} has ever been.
Lect others.
He toured the sie, vin the assembly hall, clinics, school, post office and central course,
The estate was completed lost November at a cost of just over $33 million.
Mr Exie Cumine, and
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