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CHINA
Will Submit Kaifongs Will Submit Proposals To
Electricity Commission
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Kaifong Associations throughout the Colony have canvassed opinions of residents in 28 districts and theso will be sent to the Electricity Commission of Inquiry.
The associations decided on the move after an exchange of ideas at a meet-
ing on Friday evening.-
As a sumple, opinions of re- sidents in Tsimshatsui district! wire collected an summarised into the following 14 points which will soon be forwarded to the Commission.
Cancellation of electricity to lighten the surcharge burden of factories, business nem and domestic residents.
Installation Free
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mers en premises wa power lines in the street,
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Reduction in charge for Industrial power.
Current for irons and electric fans be counted
ns Industrial power, particularly for shops using fatis.
Quick handling of ap plleations for installation
of power meters, particularly in new business and domestic 'pre- mises.
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Timely and prampt Installation Df power lines in ureun being developed either by Government Dr private coneerns,
fat.
A tale increase in interest on consumers' deposits.
More than une meler for formilies living in the same,
Government should op- point u permanent organi- | sation to receive and supervise all complaints regarding deetri city to iscilitate rensumable
settlement.
companies.
Government should fix a legal profit for the power Second warming for pay- ment of overdus electricity fee before cutting off the cur- rent (only one warning at pre- sent)
for u'e
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case
Meiers installed on con- struction rites be extended construction work cannul fulsh in thine be- cause of reasons beyond control. Public utilities should not cim al quick, big profits. The power companies should re- duce their charges if they have already made a reasonable pro- At. This will lighten the con- sumer's burden.
More attention should be paid to current supplied to big buildings where there are automatic lifts, abrupt stoppage of which may cause danger to users of the Ults.
One extra suggestion was for supply of power to squatter areas! to reduce Bre hazards.
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RIGHT: "I realise oye- brows may be raised ... but I hope people, will look upon it as a rustic - romance," So spoke a 45-year-old bachelor Church of England clergyman, announcing that he is to marry a barmaid. Ho is the Roy. John Elliott Roberts, vlcar of Whitwell, Islo of Wight, and brother of the Bishop of Malmes. bury-sho is Catharino Johanna Ling, 32, bar- maid at the Royal Hotel, Ventnor, throo miles away. A former Roman
Issue 2m New Shares Catholic, she has be-
Shareholders of the Hongkong Electric Co Ltd today agreed
to the Issue of two million new shares half bonus and half t $10 cash each,
The shares will be issued in the proportion of ond to alx. Mr G. T. Tags. Chairman, fold the meeting the now issur. would bring the issued share capiat of the company to $80 million.
This would help finance a programme of extensions. Mr Tark said dividends of $1.90 a share for 1989 on the existing $60 million capital, and $1.70 a share for 1989 on the 189 million caplin) would be xustaloed providing stel costs remained stable,
The resolutions were carried unanimously,
ART EXHIBITION
Expression
Kowloon Building
By Intuition Exempted
Mr C. K. Wong's paintings une an view in the British Council Gloucester Uuilding Library, until Saturday, September 20
Mr Wong hina developed his cwn technique of portraying "direct expression by intuition" which he considers the origin ef al primitive paintings In mielent culture,
He has studied expressionism and his work on view contains some of the heavy lines and vigorous emotion of aspects of this form of art.
The varied materials used In- elede drawing papers of various sextures, water colours and poster points; crayons, gouache and Chinese ink.-J. D.
European Hurt
A European motor-cyclist was Injured on Saturday night when he fell from his motor-cycle in Shick O Road.,
person. whose
The Injured surname was given as Homis, of 26, Leighton House, fourth floor, Leighton Road, was admitted to Queen Mary Hospital.
The latest word in
A
25-year-old two-storey building at 135, Pak Tai Street, Kowloon, was exempted by the tenancy tribunal this morning. It'
demolished will be
10 make way for a six-storey building, to cost $65,000. The applicant, Mr Lam Yee- cheuk, said the building would be completed in 12 months' time. There would be a shop on the ground floor and one flat on each of the upper floors.
Compensation totaling $10,550 was awarded to the 21 tenants of the existing buliding.
Mr. P. Remedios, of Philip Remedios and Co, neted for the applicant, and Mr J. B. Slack, of Hastings and Co., represented the tenants.
The tribunal consisted of Mr (president), Mr J. E. Dargan Albert K. P. Chan and Mr T. F. Я. Waters.
St Andrew's Mothers' Union
An invitation to any Mothers' Union merabers from other -countries now in Hongkong" to
attend the weekly meetings St Andrew's Vicarage WRS forward by Mrs Joy Eva at the annual general meeting of the branch held this morning.
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como un Anglican since meating her fianco, just over a year ago.
LEFT: Dick Turpin rides
again! Nigel
Holmes, 17,
is trying to repeat the highwayman's
200-mile rido from London
to
Welton,
Hull, on his
pony Judy.
Picture shows: Nigel Holmes
on Judy. Ho
weare block hot, black
mask, and a flowing yellow and red coat.
ABOVE: Marking the end of a Middle Eastern foud, King Saud and President Nasser pose for a domastic picture in Cairo. In Western dress aro Nasser's throo sons; three of Saud's sons are in Arab dress.
LEFT: Indian Premier Pandit Nehru welcomes the Prime Minister of Mongolia, Yumjagin Toedonbal at Palam Airport. Tsedenbal arrived on September 10 for a six-day Stato visit to India.
From the Files
25
years -AGO-
WITH time-honoured ceremony, Britain's super-liner, previously known as 534, took the water of the Clyde after being christened and laun- ched from her slipway by the Queen.
The
Ocean colossus will henceforth be known as the Queen Mary. Everything went off according to the shipbuilding -experla' calculations and the 40,000 tons of worked steel slid into the water without a hlich,
In A speoch before the | launching, King George, paid tribute to the progress made in recent years by the shipbuilding industry and referred. to the rise of the Cynard Line since lis inception dess than 100 years ago,
During the last ten years, no less than $841⁄2 million hai been erpended on public works in Hongkong. Last.
year the tofal expenditure was in excess of $8 million, the highest since 1085. This was revealed in the annual report of the DPW.
In 1958-59 alone, estimated expenditure totalled almost $250 million.
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ROM the SCM Post's 25 column: years ago "The Iden generally held with regard to the cause of leprosy is that propounded by. Sir Johnathan Hutchin- son, namely that it is caused by eating salt fish,
"But like the cause of malarial fever witten in the past has been generally attributed to the mos- quite, the real cause seems to be now in dispute,.
Dr Newsholme, the delegato representing Great Britain at the second International selenlife conference on leprosy at Bergen, states thint in Cyprus cases are found with equal frequency on the shore and island.
"it is currently believed by the Cypriots that the use of oliva oll in quantity as a food results In this disease, this being supported by the statement that the thief oil producing villages of Cyprus contribute more tepers than any other village in proportion' to population."
CAIR Robert Ho Tung who has been on an extensiva sojourn in Europe returns by the Lloyd Triestino · liner, Cohta Verdo next Saturday." Sir Robert, after visiting America underwent an opera- tion in London and has sinea been convalescing in Switzer-
land,
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no
every one
two alike
Mrs Eva who was elected for A further term as Enrolling Mem- ber (or chairman) of the St Andrew's Church Mothers' Union said that as they were the only Mothers' Union In the Colony it was up to the members to extend a welecme to new-
comers.
Meetings are held every Mon- day 10.45 a.m. in the Vicarage.
Other ofcials who renewed their terin of office weto Mrs Catherine. Huggins, Hon. Secre- tary and Mrs Margaret Barton, Hon. Treasurer.
one an exquisite Shipping Inquiry
creation!!.
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Man Returning
Mr H. R. Kemp, who recently served as a member of a ship- ping inquiry commission in Colombo, arrived with like wife In the as Canton this morning on the way home to Canadu ailer, completion of his tour of duty in Ceylon.
Mr. Kemp was a trade polley advisor In the Canadian De- partment of Trace and Com rncrce.
The Kempa were mot on Arrival by Mr C. M. Forsyth- Smith
Canadian Trade Com-
missioner here.
They will stay here one week before leaving for Canada by
ALI.
ABOVE: Forty-four-year-old ax-sergeant. William Welch, whom his friends in the USAF used to call Big Chief: Bill because ⠀ hu is a full-blooded Cherokan `Indien, has decidad never to go-back to the prairie, For Britain, and the British way of life (including lua and British, baor) have become so daar to Bill that he is settling down for øver in' Bavingdon, : Hertfordshire, now that he has retired
from the air force.
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This Funny World
Boody ROGARS
"Gee, whiz,' Mam-Don't you ever got sick and 'tired of this' UNEARTHLY poles?"
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