Cetablished 1647
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1959.
Mosquito Breeding Ground
Campaign Against Diphtheria Begins T In HK On Monday
With the onset of the period of increasing infection
from Diphtheria,
anti- a Colony-wide Diphtheria campaign will swing into action on Monday.
Dr S. H. Moore, Assistant Director of Health Ser- vices, told the China Mail this morning that inoculation teams will he sent to schools and inoculation centres will be set up throughout the Colony.
Government Appointments Gazetted
The following appointments, transfers and promotions
in wore announced The Government Gazette this morning:
Mr Lam Po Hon, to be Gr#$%! Manager, Kowloon-Conton Rad- why.
Mr J. J. Robson, Assistant Director, Public Works,
Mr Arthur Atkinson, Eduva tion Oller.
Mr R. Capeting. Bink Surveyor. PWD),
MG Pauline Young, Mistress, Education Departmest,
Mr Derck Horan, Education Officer.
Me Charles Chatwin, Architect, PWD.
Mr Robert Cameron, Elluga- tion Officer.
Mi Elizabeth Mair, Mistress Education Department.
Mr. J. F. Pickering, Air Trame
Control Cerr, Class 1.
!
Meanwhile six days have been Mark off for advance anti- Diphtheria conferences umong the schoolmasters to pave the way for the drive omong the tehool children,
Childrens other thon Fentol tudi mny receive inocula- tets of temporary rentres
Widely Distributed
Lit Palitres, pictures, and films: T Ther origin infection,
th Symplant rainen: disease will be widely distri buted and shown to the pubile,
Dr Moore sak! the ineidence of Diphtheria in the Celony has ban on the increase during re-
wo years.
Numbers of vases nolifted (with deaths in brackets) were 714 (79) i 1956. 1,236 (129) dra 1057 and 1,555 (134) b 1958. For the week ending August 22, the number of cases noti- Beil was 27 otel of which five patients died.
Water becomes stagnant after rain and immediately it becomes a breeding' ground for mosquitoes. This photo-
graph shows a member of the staff of the Urban Council examining mosquito larvae in 4. Fool of water On A building site. The hollow bricks in the background also collect water and become a breeding ground for mosquitoes,
Builders Told How To Eliminate Mosquitoes
About 100 building contractors and building trade represent- allven attended the lecture al the Sanitary Department lecture hall this morning to
(rath how to eliminate mosquitoes at construction
men,
It was the second lecture and
LITY Chung-haten,
More than 20 schoolmasters | peeler and principale attended an ad-
i
Pest Control Ofleer, safe this
vancy conference yesterday morning's attendance was good the Yu To San Memorial School and an improvement over the Aerone Inst month, when about 70 attended.
in Hongkong. Previous confer-
¦ ences held were in Yuen Long and Sai Kung, New Territories. This afternoon at 2 pum, lan- kathar conference will be held
at Talpe Government School.
Children Scared
The advance meetings are
Mir Watt on Kee and Ir.ag helt to pursuade more
Reynold Chrung-Lren tu le Alr Traffic Control Offers Class H.
Mr Li Yon
students to be inoculated.
During the last years, school children have been scured
Inspector Lam sold there were about 800 site-foremen in Hong- kong and the lecture will be res peated again..
been
Two hundred invited to cuch lecture, he said.
Shek O Land
of i GUB, resnimes
duty by Assistant Controller of Posts.
Mr J. I Woodier, ceased to net i Asistant Controller of Posts
hir Elizabeth Cheung to be Action Health Sister.
Mr A. Haluz to be Arting Setor Education Offer.
Mr R.. W. Primrose to be District Geor, New Terriuries. Air rung 5k itung. to be Acting Chief Health Trispuctor.
Mr H. C. Ma Quari #ion to be neting Deruly Registror, Kowloon District "Court. ·
Major A. J. C. Threlfall of the Horking Regiment has been
Jsted
to The Royal Boogkong Defence Furce Reserva of Officers as from August 24, according to
The Government Gazette Today
Just
the pain and after-effects of
the inoculation. But there are j tto after-effects,
For Sale
1t Wus considered A good A Crown land lot about 8,050 achievement when 800 out off square feet in area in Shek O 1,000 students were inoculated. will be sold at a public auction Any senol requiring the ser - at the Crown Lands and Surveys view at an incelation tean may Oflee in the Central Govern- send in a letter to the Medient Office (East Wing), Lower Department telling the muniber Albert Road, on Monday, Qetri- of students to be inoculated, |ber 5, at 3 pan.
The land, Shek O Inland Lol No. 71, is restricted to private The
Chinese Consul sidential purposes only.
On Way Home
apset price is $41,700,
There is a building covenant
of $20,000 to be completed In 18 months.
Mr Yang Hsu, Chinese Con- sul in Bombay, arrived with his wife in the my Vietoriu
The Association of Wamen this morning en ranite to China | Fducation Officers hps on leave after a three years'
with registered tur of duty in the Indian elty, of Trade Unions.
the
Registrur
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THE EDITOR
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Sir-The report on the front page of yesterday's China Mall by "A China Mail Reporter" on the current prices of Toilot Preparations and Proprietary Medicines is, lo say the least, misleading. Who
the "rellable authority" from whom he "learned" his Information? Why could be not have obtained the information required for his report personally by interview- Ing Importers and
retailers? That is the Job of a reporter, surely, not to rely on second- hand information which máy well be slanted to suit the "reliable authority's" purpose.
The report lays all the blame for the non-reduction in prices, n thore comparatively tow cases where no reductions have been made, at the feet of the importers and agents, but is this tair? There are in Hongkong very few Instances of agreed retail prices. and therefore those cannot who sell to retailors control their selling prices—so even when an importer or agent has reduced his prices there is nothing to stop the relailer pocketing the extra proft-ir he can get away with it.
It was
a well-known fet in the trade that retailers pleaded for prices not to be reduced so as to avoid losses on their own duty-paid stocks.
It should also
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be explained
Mr Ralph Winship, Deputy Director of Civil Aviation, returned with his wife and daughter Penelope (above) in the my Victoria tila morning from a six-month home leave. 'ile was met on arrival by Mr E. 8, Hewson, Acling De- puty Director, Mr F. R. J. Litlywhße, Chief Operation Off- cer, Mr P. Wood, Chief Telecommunications Ofeer, A. 8, Henderson, Airport Fire Officer and others.
Mr
From the Filos
25
years AGO. FROM the SCM Post's 25
Years Ago column: tho "On September 12, Right Reverend Bishop Lan- der, Bishop of Hongkong. will conduct the ceremony of dedication of St Peter's Church, of the Reredos and Pulpit, the gift of Sir Paul Chater, also of a very handsome brass Loc tern, from an anonymous giver, and a brbas altar rail presented by the Church council. The pulpit and reredos are the work of Messrs Leigh and Orange,
Six Months' Gaol For and are of a decidedly artis-
Assaulting
70-Year-Old Mother
that only a small proportion of Yam Wai-kam, 41, of 10 Shelly Street, Brst floor, who medicines
dutiable 13
pleaded guilty 10 Assaulting his 70-year-old and {Proprietary Medicines
mother, was sentenced to six months' gael by Mr therefere an all-round reduction
T. L. Yang at Central Magistracy this morning. in prices should never have been expected.
Sub-Inspector T. Y. Ip, pro-; and a world economies and controlled inda-couting, cald at 4 ym. yester for commun tion, costs and therefore prices day afternoon, defendant asked for possession of heroin. are continually changing (usual-his wife for a dollar to buy some
In
of
expanding
ly upwards) and this fits been wine, but she refused to give it
truc
to him. Defendant then turned mother for the money, bûl was also refund. pricese became angry and started to throw chairs and cups around by the local
tire house.
of both medicines and
cosmetics. Your reporter gives and asked his the impression howover that the
F.O.B. Increases in were Instigated
Importers.
With 80 many Proprietary Medicines and Tollet Prepara-
tions concerned, how can
Hit Daughter
A few minutes later, without
selectlan of three of each be any reason, defendant struck s sold to be a conclusive "authori-daughter with
the defendant,
His a broom,
Hls mother and his wife then made it report to the police and defeadont was arrested.
Defendant had nine previous conviellons, seven for drunk
totive survey" and pray what
mother and his wife-tried to stop are 70% and 90% of three him but were also aguulted by respectively. when applied to individual items?
The majority of importers, agents und retallers have, no played fair with the doubt, public in the matter of the re- moval of duty on these items 50 that further immediate reduc Uons in all their retail prices cannot and should not be ex- pected as a result of your "exposee," for the majority of prices have already been nd- justed for the removal of ad- valorem duly, (Items contain-
Licensed For Weddings
Ing alcohol, Incidentally, are The Aberdeen Baptist Church stilt subject to duty on their at No. 11, Aberdeen Reservoir) alcohol content, so that duty en Roud, and The Pentecostal Holl- at Tollet Preparations and Pro- ness Church, Talpo Branch, prietary Medicines Was not No. 11. Wai Yi Street, Talpo, entirely abolished by the New
have been Territories, Budget). Those who have not licensed for the celebration of
disorderly
conduct,
one
assault and
one
tic design."
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Appearing before Mr E. I. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on 1 charge of allowing a dog out in the street without a muzzle un August 18 at 3.90 p.m., Mra D. F. Fletcher of 1 Knight Street, pleaded that she had on that day arrived from Wei- haiwei and had taken over the house and den.
His Worship said: "That's bad luck. I'll
accept your story, but will you take care
of the dog in future?"
This Funny World
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you've probably been wagging your tongue all day.”
"It's no wonder you're dog-tired--
greatest hosiery development in 20 years!
de Nascimento yet adjusted their prices should marriages, as notified in today's
be encouraged to do so (there Government Gazette, Brito Filho has been recognised. Is no obligallon to do so, so far
14 Provisionally, Consul for
as I can sec) by the public com- beenBrazil at Hongkong, according paring prices from shop to shop to the Governmcat Gazelte ta- and against bills for the same day.
Items bought six months or so The Gazelle also notified that ago. They will obviously buy the Queen's Exequatur cm- from the retailer offering the wering Mr Thomas A. Kelly lowest price and if it is apparent to act as Consul for the United that the importer or agent has States of Amerien at long- not adjusted his price without kong has received Her Majesty's good reason (increase in basle cost or that the Rem was never dutiable
Proprietary then they should measures against Medicine), nrrivals from
competing brand turn to a Calcutta, adopted in Murch, 1956, were This is, in-fact, no doubt being
which has passed on the beast. cancelled as from August 20, done by the minjority 1959, according to the Govern-shoppers.
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eignature.
Quarantine
ment Gazelle today.
of
TRADER.
New Type Training For British Army.
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
The salling of the yacht Xarifa, The crew numbers 18 alto-
from Singapore harbour last Tuesday morning, marked the beginning of a new type of training for the British Army. Although
gether with ten officers and eight privates. None of them with the exception of the skipper, Captain Ernest Goodler-Page, the scheme has been
have bed much salling experience. going on for some ime, it is only recently that it has been brought into the limelight
and given more publletty.
The forecast when they left was good with no heavy weather.
A certain amount of money has Latest report from Lt. Charles
been Det azidu by the authorities for this purpose, the idea of which is to promote Initiative, drive and
spirit of adventure.
It will also enable many young men to do and to sitempt to do, all sorts of things which In civilian life they might not have the chance to do,
The Karifa, is a 250-ton Ber- mudon-rigged yuchi which has been chartered, from her
C. Kirkman who is the only Hongkong representative aboard,
that everyone
SUM
was selling down very well. Delaro nd lett Singapore he bought some fishing tackle, "to catch sharke'and any other large fish," he wrote hopeful- ly. Lt. Kirkman is stationed with 6th Field Regt, Royal Artillery at Funling,
The : Korifa : should Teach Djakarta, · today, where, ati
owner Dr Hans İlom, : the } · British-ambassadors they will
underwater expert, by the
Army, Her
bemitiful lady,"
means,
hold a cocktail pariy on board to entertain the Indonesian Navy.
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