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THIS
CMA EXHIBITION OPENS
AFTERNOON
taken by our
cameraman this
morning
This photograph shows the frontage of the CMA exhibition of Hongkong Products, which is Excellency the Governor, Sir Robert Biuck opens klein afternoon.
In the background is a display of another kind of Hongkong penduct. New skyscrapers are rising to give the Kowloon penin-
sal a new skylinn
In the CMA exhibition area of a little less than two peres there will be inure than 1,200 stalls, Cost of the exhibition rung at more than $1 militon.
CHINA MAIL
:AAGDANA KOMOENER
CoAhead New Bid To
For New Building
Mr. M. B. How Presi dent of Teasley Tribunal wilt Mr B. T. Fisuagon
Mr. Liang, this morbing Announced The Tebunal's decision to re- commend the application to replace Now 39-41 Des Vous Ho Central with lock costing a 15-slurry
5885 400
li
Leslie
Mr. K. Chui, the ap. whu Was repre- xcnted lay Mr Weight instructed by Lo and 10, is the owner of the Jam Fair department store which occupies the whole of Nu. 39 and the second four of No. 41.
The new buliding plan- ned by Mr H. S. Tam, architect munt be Com- picted within 18 months from the goxetting of the Governor's approval of the scheme.
New Pakistan Envoy To
Get
Established 1945
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1958.
Get Tax
Rid Of
Touts Airport
The Director of Civil Aviation, Mr M. J. Muspratt-Williams spoke of "positive steps" to get rid of touts who waylay incoming passengers at the airport.
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lastaral at which h (just been released he said:
"Que diaturing aspect of the urport was the increase activi- |tes of Louis gathered at the en- Trance to the restricted area why, In spite of supervision by the police and airport ukletais, per- Uld 1 efforts to waylay th coming passengers and to divert them from their hotel bookings and approved travel agen's.
"It is hoped that are positive stops can be taken to erase this bul most undesirable procilce, tu do su will require full co-
between the Depart- operation munt, the Police, the approved travel agents and of course the airlines and ahline frame han- dling agencies."
More Passengers The number of incoming pas- sengers during the year was 115,000, which was more than last year. The number of out- was 120,817
China Arrives on passengers
Pukin-
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10
Dr A. M.
Malik, ton's Aunbassuder Desigante Chuma arrived this morning by PAA
to Peking on route sume is post. Prior to this appointment he was Ambassador to Switzerland and also Minister in Yugoslavia. He was met at the airport by Mr A. ab, Trade Commissioner For Pdustan in Hongkong.
Dr Malik will leave by train
o Decrniber 6.
Dr Mailk 19 pielu: ed below (right with Mr tab.
or 22.821 more Un last year.
were received and certain minut modifications made by the de- portment.
"Following the subinission of
pud the plans to Government the Airport Progress Cotnanittee, with a preliminary estimate cost, the department was culled upon to produce further traine statistics, potential traille statis- Movemen ties and time and
charts to substantiate the scale (of the building proposed by the
consulting architects.
"At the e ut the perfod under review, discussions were still being held and no decision tuul been maie."
Christmas Party
For Children
Mr Muspratt-Williams said the Two thousand children
Dr
civil commercial orphanages number aircraft on international flights supported by arriving and leaving the Colony dren's Fund during the year was 8,885, and gother 1,005 or 12 per cent more than lant year,
More American military air- craft were using Kai Tak. They were carrying mainly service- men on leave,
On the Terminal, the report bed this to say: In July, 1957
in
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the Colony Christian Chil- will rally for a Christmas Party on Monday, December 29, to be held at Children's Garden, Wu Kwai Sha, New Territories.
This is an annual treat for large proportion of Hongkong's needy children. The two tamu- children enjoy entertain- sand ment and refreshments and day at the 50-acro water- attractive side orphanage fronting upon the Tolo Harbour, operated by
Christian Children's Fund.
the 1/16th scale drawings pre-tipend a happy pared by the consulting architeel
The Hongkong community customarily helps to bring these of orphan children this form
extra cheer at Christmas, and gifts for the children, whether
money or kind, are again
ANOTHER
SHEAFFER'S ACHIEVEMENT
THE POPULARLY PRICED
Imperial
WITH
SHEAFFERS
Cylindrical Gold Point and modern touch down filling.
AVAILABLE NOW AT ALL LEADING STORES
Three Charged From the Files
With Assault 25
Three workers of a mining company in Lontoo istand ad- taltted unlawfully nasulting two fellow workers and were cau- loned and discharged by Mr Hin-sting Lo at Central Magis- tracy this morning.
The defendants, Yeung Chuen, 23, Yeung Chik-kin, 39, Chan Yat-tal,
24, were
and 20
bound over in $300 each for one
year.
A
years
-AGO-
STORY told by Pro-
fessor G. Middleton Smith was greatly en-
Inspecteur Fung: Shul-lunk.joyed by a Rotary lunch
prosecuting, said the defendants
ussaulted their fellow workers, party one December day Lam Yuk and Lam Tai-chuen, in 1933: "A certain Mr following a quartet
over Belilios built a house on cigarettes yesterday.
Youth Hurt In
Collision
An 18-year-old youth W.B
the Peak called "The Eyrie'. He imported a camel to carry supplies up to his house. I sup- pose that even in those days they had water restrictions and a camel
injured when the bicycle he was can laugh at such orders. riding rollided with a military | vehicle in Chatham Road, near its junction with Cooks Street at about 4.45 p.m. yesterday.
The youth, Chon Shul-chat of 15 Cornwall Avenue, 2nd four. rear block, is receiving treat- ment to Kowtoon Hospital.
Tax Dodgers MECHANIC FINED FOR
Pay Up In Penalties
One source of income for the Inland Revenue department Was the penalties paid by tax dodgers.
J.
During 1957-58, the Commissioner for Inland
Mr W. Revenue, Drysdate, said in his annual report just ra- leased that a total of $272,365 was collected this way.
a
Most of this camo in
of single penalty $200,000 imposed for wilful evasion of cor- poration profits tax.
A company which wil- fully evaded business profits tax received a $10,000 penalty.
A single cato of salaries tax evasion ro- suited in • $25,000
ponaity.
Penalties totalling $18,490 were imposed for 31 cases of under-
■tatemont
incomo of tax returns, and penal- tios amounting to $18,- 875 were imposed in 433 cases of failure to submit rotuEYTIR.
PRACTISING DENTISTRY
Court Hears Of Cheung Chau Raid
"But one day a typhoon blew the camel off the Peak Road, and killed the poor beast. Un- fortunately the camel fell into a catchinent uren and there was, in consequence, much excitement in the ever-watchful Govern- trent departments,
"They feared the carcase would contaminate the water. The Water Authority said that It was tol for his minios lu move a dead camel.
"Mr Belitios sald that he could not lift up a dead camel, and the Government veterinary surgeun saki it was not his job to shift dead camel. And 60 tho merry-go-round in Government departments went on.
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"In the meantime the camel began to disintegrate. Finally t was, 1 think, the ever obliging Sanitary Board who dug a hole, lined it with lime ana, in tha
darkly at dead of night',
Cheung Hung, a 30-year-old dental mechanic, pleading guilty to
practising dentistry without a certificate, was given a $50 fine words of the poet buried him or 10 days' gaol by Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central Magistracy this morning.
He was also ordered to sign abond of $150 for one gear.
that
do
Detective Sub-Inspector M. T. Police Kung. of the Marine Stations, told the Court yesterday he raided the fendant's house, 30 Tai San Street, first floor, Cheung Chau with a party of detectives,
The defendant was seen at- tending a patient. He admitted be was not registered dentist.
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Equipment Seized
A quantity of dental equip- ment and medicine were seized, seld DSI Kung.
The defendunt explained co the Court that he was a dental mechanic and assisted his cider brother who whe a qualified dentist. When his brother died he took up the profession.
the Court LO He also asked take a lenient view of the case. as he had to support his aged his sister-in-law, and nother, hir brother's children.
SCHOOL GOES
ON DESPITE
THE SHELLING
Taipei, Dec. 4.
needed, said a spokesman for All of Quemoy's 22 primary schools have resumed
the Fund this morning.
EUROPEAN
ARRESTED
A European has been arrested
by the Police following the theft
of a sum of money from a taxi driver at the Stanley
miņus yesterday.
bus ter-
A wrist watch, valued at $30, was snatched from a Chinese woman in Shauktiwan Street yen- terday.
Crown Jewels
For Malaya
Cuala Lumpur, Deo. 3.- The Federal Legialaiive Couns
classes despite China's alternate day bombard- ment of the offshore islands, the official Cen- tral News Agency reported.
Reopening of schools was delayed while shelled classrooms were repaired and emergency bomb shelter were dug for the children.
About 3,000 children are at
tending schools from the third to sixth graden.
Mr H. P. Gale
Children below the third grade oro remaining at home Mr Hollis Powers Gale, n
Director of the na a safety measure.
American High Burenu for Medical Ald
The entire Quemoy
School
students
to
of mare than 1,000 Talwar, is expected to arrive in from Manita Oti was Hongkong and teachers evacuated to Formosa in Octo- Saturday.
ber, for the current school year," Mr Gale will stay' week and while fell alleni
Malpland shoro guns mean- will then fly to Talpel.
aloux tho Mr Gale was with the Ameri- eff is being asked to approvn Quemoy front today after can Red Cross in Hongkong in expendituro” of $(M)80,000 on bombarding the nationalist out 1911 at the outbreak of the war. crown jewels for the Queen of post Inlandn with 615 shells yes. Subsequently, he was with the
terday.
1.8. Government in New York The Communists have fred on and later. with Unrra in China. the Quemoys only odd-numbered Mr Gale o frequent visitor days of the month since Novem-to the Colony on "ir round- bet 1U.P.I.
the world trips.
Malaya
The jewels comprite # din- mond tiarn and a necklace, and will be made, up in Singapore. —Näuter..
Modern Flats Replace
Shanty Huts In KL
Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 4. Kuala Lumpur, Malaya's fast growing capital, is moving its shanty and slum dwellers into 11-storey blocks of modern flats.
possible scale at the lowest pos gole cost. few refinements.
Therefore, there are
For from luxurious by standards, these are, Western
nevertheless, gotung labourers, hawkers, small tradesmen pud
Interior walls do not rise a clerks out of the dark vermin-
the celline and there ure no Infested dwellings, known
"cubicles," doors Inside the flats. Each flat Malayan cities
has ils own kitchen, but there is and away from shacks truddled
ne sink, and only one tap, which crazlly together on waste plotes in the bathroom. of ground.
us
The floors are of plain con-
"Some future Dr Heapley or Proicssur Shelishcar, 200 yenis hence, will flnd that skeleton and discover that the famous water buffalo of South China bad an ancestor In Hongkong with bunLE like those of & carnet."
"You
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are
a rotten little liar" said Mr Wynne-Jones angrily at the Kowloon Magistracy to a 14-year-old girl who charged a woman named Yeung King with kidnapping her on Decem- ber 4. The case was dis- missed.
THE
a
HE sum of $2 million
is claimed by
Chinese girl whose solicitors have
though local
The first of the new dwellings, crete with finish, and the walls
are devoid of plaster, comprising two blocks of li- etcreys and one of three, were opened recently by the Prime Minister, Tunku (prince) Abdul Rahman.
they have been given a coat of
me.
chief just filed a writ for Government breach of promise to
In the words of the architect of the
They contain a total of 374 Housing Trust, Mr R. H. Hmarry against a member fats, for people who earn less Davis: "The aim is healthy than $M300 a month.
Jiving conditions, and low rents,
which
Ranging in size from ons lo three rooms, they aim at pro-
of a Singapore million- wo have attempted to aire family. The girl is achieve by keeping standards of Miss Leung Kin-ying of viding tenants with sound and finishes and amenities to a bare 53 Lee Yuen Street, Vic-. healthy housing, on the biggest minimum."--China Mail Special toria and the defendant
This Funny World
"Your mother and I think it's time you started thinking
of marriage now, whicli, collego do you think you'd, profer?
is Mr Loke Yung-lok, described as a "gentle- man" of Singapore, at present residing in Hongkong.
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Property worth approximate- In $500,000 was destroyed by. a fire which burned out the huge va-storey godown bo- tonging
to Mackenzie and Company. The conflagration was one of the most extensive which the Settlement firemen have been called upon to tackle in recent montha,
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