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Colourful HK Decorations For Communist China's National Day
By A China Mail Reporter
Preparations for the celebration of the
Tenth Anniversary of the People's Republic of China on October 1 are well under way in the Colony.
Decorations, arches, strings of light bulbs, panoramic pictures of contemporary life in decorative China, phoenix and dragons, lanterns, peare doves, flagstaffs and giant characters are going up on the facades of many banks and union premises in Kowloon and Hongkong.
Dinners, vocktails, ten parties, garden parties and meetings have been scheduled to be
October held in conjunction with the festivities
The Biggest
The biggest decorations so far to have gone up are on the front of the Bank of China In Des Voeux Road, Centrul.
The stone lions are now watching the entrance within the framework of a built-up arch coloured rest, gold and yellow.
The work, started on Saturday, is expected to
be completed today.
Eight strings of light bulbs run down the whole length of the towering building on its four corners and dozens of togstats mount the ledges.
Riding across the arch are niste glant characters
saying "Long Live the Solidarity [ Chinese Peoples."
Higher up, n tiree-storey-high
.
white
dove is poised above the middle line.
Illuminated
the
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S Wgher up are the Egures 1949-1959, the ten years the People's Republic has been in power,
The
whole is topped off by four giant illuminated charücters readirig "Celebration of National Day.'
There are also decorations on the other three
sides of the building.
Along Queen's Road Central elvenratiuns are also going up, on the facades of the Chinu State Bank/Lid, the Kwangtung Provincial Bank, the National Commercial Bank, and the Sin Hua Trust, Savings, and Commercial Bank Lid.
All in yellow, red and gold, the panoramic paintings deplet achievements in agriculture and industry during the "Big Leap For ward" and people enjoying the frufts
of Jabour.
The Parties
This year, phoenix and dragon motifs hove
added to the splendour, "signifying peace. prosperity, and muspleious future.
A big celebration was held on Sunday by the Chinese Reform Club al the Kam Ling Restaurant Other parties are being ganised by trade unions.
The Hainbun Nows Agency will give a reemption on the 8th floor of the Gloucester Hotel on Wednesday.
in Macao, préparation for the celebration has
stepped up in the last few days
Kalfang Welfare Associations advanced their ecle- bration by holding a big dinner party the Grand Hotel, second floor on Sunday night, followed by full programme Insting Into Into the right.
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ABOVE: These throo pictures illustrate the preparations now going on in Hong- kong for the October 1 celebrations, The top picture shows the Bank of China building, and the pictures below show workmen eracting decorative facades on the street fronts of other mainland Chinose banks in the main business area of Hongkong.-China Mail Photos.
$300 Fine
Letters To The Editor For Young
Bad Taste
stand-in
Sir-Why all this fuss over
Apprentice
Established 1845
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1959.
SHEAFFER'S
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
PICTORIAL PARADE
ABOVE: King George V School's athletes put on a' show for the school's Parent-Teacher Association re- contly. Hego a student vaults over two of his school- mates kneeling on a vaulting horse.
ABOVE: Glamorous, MP & GI film star Joannette Lin Tsui toorts her husband, Mr Chun Kim, at the Panin- sula Hotel: recoption after their wedding at 'Rotary Church fast wook. The nowly-weds are'now on route to Europe' for their honeymoon.
From the Filos.
25
years AGO
A wedding of interest was celebrated on September 27 at the Registrar's office whọn Miss Ethel Smith becarto the bride of Mr William Halfred Thompson. The bride is the daughter of the late Mr S. B. Smith and tho aister of Mr Arthur Smith of Chino Light & Power Co. The bride.. groom is a member of the solicitor's arm, P. H. Sin and
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TIS Excellency the Gor- has appointed
Hernor
Mr Arthur Jackson to act Government Analyst
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during the absence on leave of Mr Victor Cecil Branson, Dr T. W. Ware has beeŃ appointed Port Health Officer and Inspector of Emigrants.
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The stag and students of. the Diocesan Boys Sekool are giving a concert, in celebration of the Double Tenth anniver- sary of the founding of the Chinese Republie on "Gotober 10 beginning at 2.30. p.m.
ABOVE: Members of the Hongkong Round Tabla Na, 1 watch the Yano Circus with some of the 300 bays and girls SIXTHOM
from the Children's Garden at the Wu Kwai Sha Orphanago, New Territories, who were entertained by them and the circus last week.
LEFT: Mr D. Benson lays the foundation stone of the new Ebenezer Home
and "School for the Blind
in Pokfulam Road. Stand- ing beside him is Mr Y. O. Lee, the architect. RIGHT: Count Serge de Roblano, Acting Belgian Consul-General, was re- contly awarded the Gold- on Insignia of Merit by the Austrian Government for his sorvicos to Austria during the Brussels World Fair last year. He is seen hore (right) with Miss M.C. de Roblano and Mr F. De Jong after the presentation..
'EXTREMELY THIN CASE HONGKONG MINING
VASWANI'S BARRISTER
TELLS DISTRICT COURT
the review of Mr Jan Peerce's An apprentice mechanic who No Crown witness had directly implicated Lucky
Sir-Were it not for the sheer reeltal, as the end of a review, facetiousness of W. Byrd'a", bei of music, drama or litera- Your parody on the Jan Peerce tree- tur, Is to entertabat, for all, your
would critle's review has managed to have violated the very sence, rusy "Araised." hasn't it? of good taste by taking cover under the pseudonym of one of Britain's most distinguished composer-musicians of his day.
Had the author of the Peerce i write-up known his cubject, he would have known that Willarn Byrd, son of a member of the Chapels Royal of Edward VI and Mary, was "bred up to musick under Thomas Tallis" (the Thomas Tallla) of Immortal
memory,
I may exer permitted to
quote Fellowes "William Byrd: [
A Short Account of His Life and Work," here will be found ovi- dence that conftars the judg-
N. T. CHOW.
1,000 Pay Homage On Confucius
went for a Joy ride In Elm uncle's car early this morning was Uned. $300 or six weeka in prison by Mr F. L. Yang at Central Magistracy,
He was charged with driving without
Licence, without third party insurance and with- out the owner's consent.
The youth, Leung Cher-lau, 18, et 18 Marble Road, third floor, who pleaded guilty, was ls disqualified from driving
Dayaran Vaswani as a co-conspirator in a A conspiracy to juggle wage books to obtain fraudulently imperial preference certificates, Mr Brook Bernacchi said in the Victoria Dis- trict Court today.
GROUP TO VISIT
NORTH AMERICA
group of mining engineers and geologists from Asian and Far East countries, including Hongkong, are to four Canada and the United States to study geolo- gical and mining methods and equipment.
NIXTEEN-year old Mrs Green left
month Pennsylvania last because she found that American men "weren't ft to be husbands; they woren't romantic enough".
The announcement followed 'a quarrel with her husband whom she married after a whirlwind courtship.
So she set out on a world tour to look for the ideal man.
She passed through Hongkong on Saturday on the President Grant.
Asked if she had found any." one to her liking in her brief stay. in Hongkong, she sniffed and said "I should say not. From what I've seen of the Hongkong men, they're a pretty mouldy lot. "You" are as bad as the | Americans, you've got nothing".
Mars
cheering headlines
·prosted the readers of today's newspapers, The Morning Port announced that the Catalonian revolt had buen crushed.
"For a few brief hours! Catalonia storm centre of Spanish politice, was an, in dependent State.
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Inspired by that fiery re- Sonor Manuel polutionary Azane and President Com
panys 'the volk of Madrid' was thrown off, but the artillery of General Batet, quickly forced The group consists o2-18 men The group come from British the rebels to throw down their fron 11 Asian and Far East Borneo, Hongkong, Ceylon, For- arme and sue for merey. The
mosa, India, Indonesia, Iran, Catalonian cabinet was arrest countries. They begin their four Japan, Korea, Malaya and the, ed and the fate of its personnel with a trip to Ottawa on Thurs-Philippines.
I was uncertain." and day
He was making his final ad- Vaswani, but purely a mess uc- dress to Judge B. J. Jennings, count.
tho Friday. There "It la my submission that it defending Vaswani, a 20-year- old merchant, who pleaded not is even prima facie an extreme-group will inspect the Federal guilty to having conspired with ly thin case," he said,
Mints. Department research any vehicles for 12 months. others to obtain the certificates
facilities. Sub-Inspector Yip Tai-yau between January. 1 Jast year and sald that the delendont was the January 30 this year. nephew of the car owner. He He is director of the Vaswani had asked Leung to wash the Trading Company, which owns Mr Simon Lá, Crown Counsel
wheels and repair the front lights of the car yesterday.
The car owner never gave; him permission to drive his car,
About 3 aan today, Loung was found driving along King's
different sections of the Chinessner.
Anniversaryoter Zip salt
the International Clothing Fot- tory In Kowloon.
The hearing Is continuing Mr Bernacchi is Instructed by Mr R. F. G. Dennis, of Brutton and Co.
Is prosecuting.
The Judge reserved his 'de- The Crown alleged the fac- cision until 11 a.m. on October tory's direct labour costs had 12, heen inflated.
Not Required
ment of Byrd's contemporarico, More than 1,000 people from Road in a very unsteady man. Mr Bernacchi said the goods
Morley and Baldwin.
in question had been sent main-
required.
"If we consider Byrd's ver-community Shin afternoon He was stopped by a polleely to places where certificates catlity alone; and the fact that celebrated the 2,510th amlyers man and asked for his driving were ho produced work of the highest sary of the birth of Confucius licence. He did not have one. class in every field that he ex- at the Confucius Hall, Carolino || plored, it becomes clear that he did stand above mil
abundently H
his contemporaries, Like Tho function was sponsored Palentrian, he wrote magni- by the four local Confucius cently for the Latin rites of the organisations the Confucius Church Lake`. Bull, Gibbons | Association, the Confvelus Hall, and Gilos Fornaby, he wrote tha Confucius Acaderiy and with exceptional fertility of the Confucian Association of invention for the keyed in-China. struments of his, day
UN Representative Leaves HK
The Vaswani Trading Com- pany appeared to have had tila!
or no motive to juggle with the
The group's tour will igat u weeks. Follow- total of seven ing their Ottawa visit they will travel to Montreal to look over McGill University, says a Reuter cable from Ottawa.
New Six-Storey Building
Plan For Kowloon
A six-storey modern struc- Mr Yu Chi-tal, of 202, Yos Kok books of the clothing factory, he turme containing two shops on the Street, Kowloon, and Mrs Ng ground door and Avo flats cbove, Ngal-ching, of, 73, Shun Nin will be built in place of two Road, Kowloon, who wil' Be badly cracked 45-year-old jointly mansible for the cree- houses, at 600 and 602. Re-tion of the new building. clamation Street, Kowloon.
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three- Exemption for these storey buildings was recom- mended by the tenancy-tribunal
Appearing for the applicants was Mr P. Chan, of Lau Chon & Co. c
Mr A. Zimmern, instructet
Lucky Vaswani also had no particular tangible'molive either, because since 1953, the company had paid no, dividend on shares, Mr and Mrs. Walter C. Jan- and the sindli measure of profi ney, Je, and their four sons left, would have been-ploughed back by Swissair this morning for Into the overall concern..." Lad by the Chairman of the Geneva.
"Crown evidence shows there
by Peter C. Wong and Co., Mr It may have been fun and
Completing a three-year tour, was no question of Vaswani In-
C. H. Wong, of P. C. Woo azıd games for your "W. Byrd to ambly, Mr. Young Wing-hong, have taken the mickey out of they bowed three times before of duty here in the Colony as specting the factory's accounts, this morning.
Deputy Representative, United antt people dealing with the fae- The cost of the new building Ce.. and Mr J. C B. Black, of the huge portrait of the great Nailons Intergovernmental Centory did not suggest he had will bete the recital, which load its dignityChinese philosopher.
$155,000. It wil be Hastings and Co., acted for the when Mr Pearce issued enDOVÉH
opponents. completed in one year. mitten for arropean Migration, anything, to do with their trans-
- Compensation totalling $70,030 The tribunat consisted of ME right, left and centre; for sincere In a brief speech, Mr. Young Mr Janhey has been transferred actious with the factory," mald
will be paid by agreement to 3. E. Daryan (president), Mr mumle patrow it was in sheer reported on the achievements by to re now assignment as Assistant Dir Bernacchi. bad taste.
the four organisations in the to the Director of the Com=) A bank account in the United Uie 40 opponents of the applica Orman Badick and Mr M. M. FRANCIS BYRD. educational Beld.
́mitted in Geneva.
Bank was not pervonal:ope for 'tion by the two co-applesats," " Neshati.
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