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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1959: '
Industry Chalks Up Another Triumph
American Family On Home Leave
Mr and Mrs G. P. Bruno and their five children lef! Jas night in the sa President Hoover for Sun Francisco, un four months leave. They were seen off by a great many friends.
Mr Bruno, who speaks fluent Cantonese, In Foreign Service Officer, Department of State, Washington, DC, 18- signed to Hongkong.
This family group, taken aboard the President floover before she salled at midnight shows (front row), left to right: Mrs Bruno, Robin (2), Susan (0), Mr Bruno and Bar- bara (12). Standing: Carol Ann (15) and Peter (9).—Inlpiar ploto,
Admired Her Money
Kuula Lumpur, July 14. A pretty Hongkong netrees told) reporters today she had come! aeross a new type of admirer amung Malaya's thousands of
Miss Linda Lou Sing sakk "I
get hundreds of letters a day. from Fatty who enjoy my acting. All
them want either my autographed phota- Graph or a word with me.
ان
A new one admires my bank
All he wants is my money.
But my admiter who refused to be put off so easily called again and again, though I declined to
World's Busiest Ship-Breaking Port Now
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER Hongkong industry chalked up a new triumph today with the report from London that the Colony has become the world's busiest ship-breaking port. Lloyds agents reported that at the end of June there were 47 vessels, totalling 257,000 tons being broken up while a further five vessels, totalling 29,000 tons, were awaiting break-up
berths.
Quoting the Lloyds report, an AFP cable
further Bak that sales to Hongkong breakers during the last week included the Dutch nwned Laagkerk, fur £59.000.
leld the China Mall that in the there hud lust eight months been a steady increase of five vessels a month for break-up.
"This industry is coming to a climax." he said. "Ten rolling mls produce steel bars from the scrap iron. At present the market for breakup
According to a spokesman for a big locul tron works the total value of vessels last year stood at a little below
£3 million ($48 million).
Expansion
This year the total value wil
C# mition (HK$64 be about million), he said.
for
There is plenty of room
the ship- expansion in both breaking industry and the steel rulling mills; he said,
With construction work going c in Hongkong at an un pro cedented rate, there is a de- mand for 10,000 tons of steel bars a month.
The maximum capacity of all rolling mills together is 0,000
consists of Britain,
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Sir-Who wants MF N. I. Chow's views or opinions att anything? It would appear that all Mr N. T. Chow does is waste. the proclous space
your
From the Files
25
years
AGO
ROM the SCM Post's 20 Years Ago. The much
of disposal Cunton plant China Light and Ltd to the
column with his unintelligent, talked bul indefatigable efforts at bo- the coming Journalist. We are the
of of
A man who drove on just about fed up with both his Power Co
child-like views, and the way in after knocking down a which he must search the dis- Chinese is at last un fait five-year-old girl wastomary for the longest words he accompli. Mr R.'Shewan of can And. no doubt, imagining Messrs Shewan Tomes and today fined $150 and himself as a second Pasternak. Co, general managers of ordered to pay $100 He describes The Old Man and the China Light and Power compensation to the the Sea as ‘unimaginative and Co. Ltd, assured our repre-
plailludinous', which, well It
child.
may have appeared to a person sentative thut, although the with the infant8c Intelligence Chan Wing-gang, of 46-A Po Mr N. T. Chow. The did of sule had not been actually completed, arrangements Major General Frank O. Kwong Road, Tung Tau Village, and the Sea was, as Anthony
(above), US Army
pleaded guilty to driving with-Fuller aptly put it, was a mus towards that end had been Bowman
licence, valld
with terpiece. The genius of Ernest made, and there was every Д veteran (retired) who held top cul
Insurance and Hemingway's novel, the superb prospect of the company's executive ports with the Allied out third party
11 and falling to stop after an accident. acting ability of Spencer Tracy plant changing hands within Forces in World War
received from General
Lim at Central who held one spellbound, the Mr C. Q.
this
a month. morning also brilliant
and photography, Alexander the high award of Magistravy
The Chinese had already de- the Commander British Empire for disqualified him frem holding a magnificent direction made this
fim Orst class, intelligent, adult posited $100,000 towards his distinguished services, leftdriving licence for a year.
Another charge of falling to entertainment.
price. ng madaleht on the sx President
ownership transfer of
Shareholders of this company Iloover for San Francisco, notify
Hoping that you will be kind will be pleased to was taken into consideration.
learn that having completed his mission in
in your the price pald Sub-Inspector P. P. Yeung, enough to spare space
by the Chinese Котел.
told the court that on July 13 column to print this, as we for the concern. clears off prac
any leally the Chan drove his would like to hear from
whole of the That mission-the General's at 12.45 p.m.
Landaleather anti-N. T. Chows." eyete along
debtedness of the company first top assignment of its kind motor
E. GLASSON & P. BURR. the Rialto outside in June, Street, retirement
and since his
debentures and otherwise, 1950 was a construction con Theatre and knocked down and
leaves them with the Kowloon tract, a fertiller Diant set up injured a five-year-old girl, Lau REPLIES TO
electrle worles practically free International Shiu-kam, and then drove on.
CORRESPONDENTS of cost. In Korea for the
reported The girl's mother Co-operative Administration,
the matter to Eastern Police Station and a teleprint message British of Hit and Run' driver
And now the General, whose asacciation
with the
Was
Japan and local consumption."
"Our scraps are also sold to Bangkok, Singapore, Prampenh, forces has given him A per. circulated to all police stations and fermerly even to Now ceptible English accent superim- to locate the cyclist, Zenlaud, and Africa," he added.
posed upon that of his native Nine hours later on the same The price of vessels for scrap
Missouri, is bomeward bound, day, Chan reported the accident fell to as low as £8 a gross planning further engineering to the Traffic Enquiry Office,
on from 1955 to 1958 when
cxploits and achievements In a His driving licence had ex- there was a slump in the ship | strictly nan-strategia role.pired on January 22 this year, plng industry, he said.
Intrlar Photo.
The Biggest
But this year, the price had gone up and now it stood al £10 arcs ion, te vakdi.
The biggest vessel to be Hongkong, was broken up In the Armudel Castle, he said.
Displacing tens of steel bars a month and
10,200 tons, the Arundel Castle was now being conference the industry is said to bc she and 2,000 fan letters await-operating at this rate at present, ing her replies-Reuter.
talk to him."
She
tolel
Coal Thief
Imports
Of the 6,000 tons, 5,000 weed
into col consumption whito
1,000 were for export, leaving
broken up.
An official of the Marine De- partment cakl it took about six months to break up a vessel of 8,000 tons which was tho avcroge,
The official sald Hongkong
of freizhiers,
senger linery.
tankers or pas-
The same official attributed the growing tonnage and number of vessels bioken up each month in Hongkong to the "good profit In The industry."
it was found.
Says
Hawker
Police Demanded $40
ing in a case against two policemen, accused of corruptly receiving before Mr E. Corbally at Central Court this morning, said she had been asked by the two men to pay them $20 each before they released her..
the local market short of 5,000 shipbreakers tackled any type An unlicensed vegetable hawker, Lee Kuk, bestify- London, July 14. tons. This was met by import- Garbage wasn't all that gar- | ed producta. balance more than my acting.bge in Charles Hill calleeled. Most of the steet bars were made from scrap. This and "He phoned me one night at police at Pelsall said today.
vessels are Kulim (Kedali) and asked for They found seven tome of coal the fact that ave Ikian. I told him that since in his garage and cellar, when waiting for berths to be broken the prospect of I was touring under contrad, they said he admitted illetly up point to
since further expansion at the slip- I did not curry
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Ships are bought generally at an average price of £8 to £11 a Kila kas, And the prot margin of the proceeds realised from scrap ranges hum 10 to 20 per cent, depending on the in- dividual vessel, he said.
23 In Colony
There are alløgether 23 ship- breakers in Hongkong. Some are newcomers inexperienced at assessing! prices and thereforu
they
than cared less
they should have, he said.
Newcomers keep joining the industry, but the trouble with Hongkong is that there are not enough places far breakers operate.
to
At present most of the work is carried out at Ngau Tau Kok and Cheung Sha Won, but re- elamalion may soon take place at this latter area and displace
breakers yards.
The pressing need therefore Is for more spare and a bettør: locally in which the ship- breaking industry can expand, he said..
The industry believed that Gin Drinker's Bay was the ideal place for their need.
The advantages of Gin Drink- ers Bay were:
it offered natural shelter;
Water was deep enough for lange vessels;
There was a huge area for beaching of vessela;
It was close to Hongkong
FRIDAY'S CRIMINAL SESSIONS
The July Criminal Sessions will begin on Friday when Mr Justice R. H. Mills Owens will take pleas of four accused in the Supreme Court,
The following are the accused and the charges laid against them:
The defendants were. Cheung King-fal, 25. PC3317 and Young Sai-ddu, 27, PC4376, both at- thehed to Shaukiwan Polles Station.
Appearing for the first and second defendants were Mr
Peter C. Wong and Mr F. X. D'Almada respectively. Detec- tive Sub-Inspector W. M. Ross prosecuted.
Sell. Chickens
Wounding Charges
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THE BOOMERANG: You protest that bankrupts
A SCMP teador commented wing several hundred thousand dollars on previous ventures on a statement by the general are in business again operating manager of the Peak Tran under now names, but the rest Company to the effect that the of your letter not clear. .fine would be extended to Perhaps the Commercial Crime Queen's Read "provided the Department of the Police Force and can he acquired, the en- In the best place to report lomm
gineering dificulties. DIET. Ed.
13
RESERVOIR SWIMMERS CAUTIONED
Three leen-aged boys found swimming in a re- servoir in which
eight people had been drowned in the last year, wete cautioned by Mr PFX Leonard at Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
Mr Leonard said seven deaths had cccurred in the roservoir-known
Slu
Bal 'Wu-last year, and al 18-year-old boy had been drowned there this mouth.
The Polloo
suld that many complaints had been received by the Pallee from residents in Howloon Tong about children using the reservoirs.
Fatal Injuries
A four-year-old girl was man, Char Tung-yuen, of no knocked down and fatally in- |fixed abode, who was previously
No 233 Valley Road, died in
come and the cost is not pro- hibitive."
These were three very big ifa, said the leader.
The leader said the exten- sion plus the adaptation gi the
would crossing place probably be very expensive and the Prak resident reould probably complain if he was asked to pay higher fares.
it some "Discussing
siz years ago, we had the anzia- tanes of a correspondent who usote anonymoney but who nude the suggestion that the cheapest and easical route ta Queen's Rd 8 not down Garden Road but down the nullah behind Murray Bar-· racks, a` route · which, ko thought could avoid the
bar- racks and would require little in the way of viaducts or re- construction of the military quarters."
Mr
manager
G. Piovanelli, of the Peninaula Hotel was
cautioned by Mr Hamilton, in Central Magić- tracy for failing to keep to the left hand side of the road when rounding
a bend
Mr
R. P. Edwards who was driv
Lee testified that at about charged with attempted murder, lured by a bus in Chatham Road near Wuhu Street yesterday. 10 a.m. on February 7 this was today charged with two The girl, Lee Yuot-hel of Huling the other way was foread year, she had gone to Shaukl-counts of wounding instead.
to pel mu to the footpath to wan to sell three chickens. The defendant was remanded Kowloon Hospital last night. avoid a collision. She said that while she was attempting to make the sale she Lee Yuk-fal-throwing cor- was approached by the two de
fendants. They asked for $20 rosive Auld with intent.
cach to release her.
Chau Shul-wan-two counts of murder (of Yu Mel-chu and of Chan Wu-Uk); Cheus Bheung and Lam Chi-kin- conspiracy:
storebreaking and larceny; and possession of arms (against Cheung only).
ACTIVITY IN SHIP MARKET
asked for
Witness said site was later taken, to a police' post near the Should won tram terminus and
defendants again money.
Witness told the defendants that she only had $7 and asked to be released.
Borrowed Money
Later, witne continued. she saw another woman, Chan Bam-mul, whom she knew and borrowed $13 from her and pald $20 to the first defen- dant. Winers' said that after Payment of the money, whe was told by first defendant to go and carry on hawking. Later the samo day witness said she reported the matter on fentificationigarade at which,
Ideaded the she fendants.
Hearing is continuing.
for three days by Mr T. L. Yang at Central Magistracy this morning.
Chan is alleged to have anlaw- fully and maliciously wounded ue Kam-lin, with Intent to cause bodily harm on June, 20 at Lee Tung Street.
He is further alleged to have unlawfully and maliciously wounded Cheung Chol-kom on Detective Sub-Inspector. 11 Mük-wah prosecuted."
the same day,
LONDON FIND
London, July 14. After a period of comparative quietness, Far Eastern buyers to the Polke med also attended of New Zealand House, being
have become active again securing war-built vessels trading purposes,
in
For
The Fort-type steamer Temple
harbour and therefore Bar has been purchased by
two
London, July 14. Part of a leg-bons of a rhino- cares that roamed in what is now London's West, En 100,000 years ago fina boen dug up on the site
creeted at the corner of
Mail. de-Haymarket and Pail
China Mail Special,
The
transport costs were lower; Hongkong buyers for £10,000 Leave In Japan Tea Preference
Dvaitable.
electricity were wise the Nondwind, recently
Help Nooded
This Funny World
"Your clerk.wllt 'bo'right back, Madam
ho Just stepped.
out for an aspiria bresk.
Kold to Wallem and Co. of Hong- Mr Robert W. Middlebrook, kong has been resold to the Re- Vice-President, Pizer Corpora
London, July 14. public at China for the reported tion, Hongkong, left with his Alina Correa Ribeiro, 17, of sum of £62,000.
wife and their daughter Lesile Brazil'said yesterday on com- Meanwhile war-built diesel (8) on the us President Hoover pleting two years at a anishing tonnage values have shown a last night for Yokohama. Mr school here: that she now likes further fall in the sale of the Middlebrook 15 on a business tea much better than coffer. Avonmoor to Far Eastern buy-trip and his wife and daughter But she's not sure whether she'll j
Printed and published by Terence Gordon Newlands PeaRŰE The spokesman who is also er at £116,000 compared with an on a vacation: They plan brew any when she gets home. a position to speak for the ship- | £142,000 pald for the Trowid to return to the Colony on
Her father is one of Druzil's for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited; or, 1-3 breaking Industry, as a group ten some time ago,AFFJ
August 1.
leading coffee producers.--UPI: | Wyndham Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Itongkot.
The spokesman zaid the in- dustry hoped that Government would "give us the necessary | assistanco,"