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Comment Of The
Day
FAIR WAGES
I
IN understandable that
disgust over
the abominably low wages that are paid to many in this Colony should give rise to demands for a minimum fixed wage and a Truck Act. No administration with any conscienco can accept the present state of affairs with equanimity, An Employment Bill has been promised but it is expected to deal with conditions and hours rather than waged.......... But critics smuld but there
fore assume that Gavern- ment is reluctant to grasp the nettle, The problem
complex and little that legislation could do at the mument to help-. other than appense those
there IN
who are calling for action. And on the whole thes seem to have little iden of the consequences of their demands.
begin with. Government
Trequires far more statis-
tical information than it possesses before it can assess basic or minimum wage.
The salaries com- mission claims 10 have come nearer than any other; Institution to deciding the fairest wages for certain categories of employers. But this offers a for from adequate basis on which to compute a group of figurea for the entire working population of the Colony.
The census bureau underį Mr K. M. A. Burnett,
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THIS IS SHEK PIK
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This photograph of the Shek Pik valley to be inundated by a new reservoir was taken by a China Mail camera- man who visited the dam site yesterday, This panoramic shot shows the doomed village of Fan Pui (circled) whose in- habitants were moved over the mountain to the new village Tai Long Wan-and in the foreground work on the water barrier of
the main reservoir.
NOT PERMITTED BULK POWER SUPPLY RATE COMMISSION TOLD
FILM STUDIOS 'PENALISED'
$300,000 Charges Paid New Dean $40,000 Worth Of Jewels Decline
In Last Five Years
Mr C. H. Barber, management consultant for four film studios-in Kowloon, claimed this morning that the four studios have been "penalised" to the extent of about $300,000 in the last five years in the payments of electricity charges.
Mr Barber made the statement in his submission to the Electricity Com- mission at a public hearing this morning.. The four studios he repre- sented are the Asia Pictures Ltd., Shaw Studio of Southern Co., Wader. Motion Picture and Development Co. and the Yung Hwa Motion Pic- ture Studios.
For St John's Cathedral
The Bishop of Hongkong this morning announced that a'new Dean has been appointed for St John's Cathedral.
He 13the Rev. Parry Dorn Barber described two incidenis Till. Dean of Jesus College,
Cambridge. is that of his dealings with the China Light and Power Co. He said as a result of the unnecessary delay by the electricity com- pany, his small business. more than $300,
Mr Barber told the Commis-, cant point in presenting these should be able to supple-son that each studio consumed charges for electricity ment existing data, but about 20,000 kilowatts of electri- the greater amount of these until then. only somewhat city per month but they were charges is for electricity supplied lighting rate and the arbitrary figures are possi- not permitted to have the bulk at the
lighting rate applicable in cer- power supply rate. ble.
thain cases is roughly three times It is the contention of China Light and Power at the the bulk rate."
electricity used for floodlights Mr B
Mr Barber said the contention
studios was that this electricity was used
TEXT question that arises
for supply of pay: A preliminary obsérva- tion is that there are still lighting and does not compare, for production in exactly the
electricity
actually
electricity used
with, for instance, too many people without aged for a sawing machine." regular work to ensure "I think this is an artificial adoption of a 'universal distinction," Mr Barber
Yet one ended. minimum wage,
LO
person has said that the Having presented
statement
existence wage for a family
of
the studios showing
the
as used for Sawing same way machine and the electricity be came part of the product,
In Singapore, he told the Commission, the electricity used in the production of the studios charged at the bulk was now rates,
Speaking
of four or five should be amount paid for electricity en $500 a month. How many sumed in the past few years, Mr. employers could afford this Barber commented: "The signifi- consumer
.figure,
unless the worker's
skills justified it?
It should be remembered that
one-sixth of the
Colony's
industrial workers are in factories which employ under 20 men. And few, if any, could pay a full basic. wage that would be regard- ; ed as adequate or decent. They exist on a shoestring vulnerable budget and are
in the extreme to the slightest increase in produc-
Individual
Josi
In addition, certain personnel of his staff were substantially affected adversely.
Control
He succeeds the Rev. F. S. Temple, now senior Chaplam to the Archbishop of Canter- bury.
Due After Easter
Mr T, who is married with three young children, will arrive In Hongkong after Easter, next year, the Bishop, the Rt. Rev.
In the United Stater, he said. R. O. Hall, announced.
Mr Till graduated from Jesus the elcetricity supply companies
Cambridge, in 1047 were under stringent control by College,
a first class honours in public regulations, and the car-wilik
could determine the, theology and was awarded the uners strunghards of service provided Lightfoot Scholarship, by the electricity company, Atter serving a curacy at the diocese of Man- "Sueli is not the case in Horg-Bury in
to Cam- chester he returned kong." he said. as an
Dean of VI electricity, Mr
"In the United States, pubile bridge as Fellow and bodies normally determine and his old college, approve the schedule or rates charged for electricity, the idea being that rates should not have been charged to consitmers until such rates had been approved, Such is not the case in Hong- kong."
LITTLE ROCK MAYOR
ARRIVES HERE ON EDUCATIONAL VISIT
tion costs, Yet these Seven American personalities, including the mayor
comprise three-quarters of the total industrial under- takings in Hongkong.
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of Little Rock, Arkansas, scene of bitter racial disturbances, arrived here this morning by JAL from Tokyo for a three-day stay in the course of a goodwill tour of the world. TNTIL the amalt concerns can, through the
There are two other city, the culprits was at the moment Kuidance of a Development mayors with are group,
in gaol and three others. had
omri Finance Corporation, be put
been apprehended The leader, Mr Milo Jolinoon, awaiting trial. on a very much Rounder
The group will remain in financial footing, preferably representing the mayor of San
three days and Francisco, said the purpose of Hongkong for the trip was to educate them-
Then will fly to Bangkok They
by amalgamation with other small
industrial
units.
it is impossible to talk
arc
With regard to the principle of ercharge, Mr Barber caid he did not believe that the factor of surcharge should be left out, "but I do believe it should be subject to regular central by a public body."
Earlier
WIS submission
В
made that the China Light and Company should have
Povrer
adjusted their rates when they changed their fuel from coal to oil subsequent to 1949,
pondy
Fuel Output
I was pointed out that cal produce approximately could 10,000 British Thermal Units per the cutout of pound, whereas
oil fuel per B.T.U...
pound was 18,000
The icmarks were made
the public hearing of the in-
selves and examine the LOT were met at the airport this ditions of municipal government ins by Mrs Dorothy Hart about basic wages except as of the places they visit and Baker, of Everett Travel Ser-quiry, ha a. distant objective.
create a better understanding vice. The Colony's economy is still between their own efties and the far from firmly based. It people of the ellies they visit, may be better to describe
Speaking on the integration
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it as precarious. To super-problem, Mayor W. C. Kooop, Impoar fair wage standards of Little Rock, suld reports of on the structure of industry incidents in Little Rock werd s it oxials at present terribly exaggerated. Ha CX- would mean driving most plained that where there is a of our smaller factories gathering of a mob in defiance business. And in of the law, some must surely out of
that event, the last state be "slightly hurt." He sold that would be worse than the majority of the people have insisted that the schools remain first.
opened.
BULAW-ABIDING
The only solution is through gradual reform and, this involves having in existence the means to create strong. He said they were mostly ipy- and would virile industry throughout abiding citizens the Colony. Our industrial everitually get accustomed revolution has far to go the Supreme Court decision on before the wages problem integration in achicola, cna be tackled with the thoroughness It deserves.
to
He spoke of his office being dynámilod od sold that one of
MR KNOOP
the Legislative Counell Chamber, by ME H.F.G. Dennis, of Brutton & Co., on bye- half of the Hongkong Cotton Spinners Association,
He sled four points of com- plaints Co application of
Link With HK Mr T has been for some years Cambridge representative Christian Colleges of the Asia
Association of London which
hus be supporting Chung Chi College in Hongkong.
He arranged a series of very successful meetings for Bishop Hall in Cambridge last autumn,
Two Killed
As Missile
Fuel Explodes
Missing From Plane
Singapore, Oct. 6. Jewellery worth UK549,000 airfreighted in a box from Hongkong to Singapore was today reported missing by a Malayan Airways (agents for Caily Pacific Airways) spokesman.
The plane which carried the jewellery made a brief stopover in Bangkok en route to Singapore.
It was reported that the Singapore police have asked Hongkong and Bangkok to help in investigationa.
The loss of the jewellery was discovered only when the The contents were checked against manifest in. Kingsport. owners identity and the type of jewellery were not deler- mined-UPI.
[Contacted early this afternoon, Mr R. V. F. Turner, Director of Criminal Investigation of the IK Police said that so far the Singapore Police had not been in contact with him regarding the theft.
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The Public Is
Sick And Tired Of Polls
And I Don't Knows'
The
Are Increasing
London, Oct. 6.
Daily Express said this morning that the public was sick and tired of polls, and that it had no confidence in its own poll.
The newspaper's public opinion poll showing the Sor- tunes of the parties in. the General Election, notes that ́sll pardes are down and the Daily Exprezy says this is because the public is fired of polls.
Today's retums show that the Conservatives have fallen from 45 per cent to 43; Labour from 40% per cent to 40: Liberals from Ave per cent to three.
But only the undeelsed- there replying "I don't know," —have increased frem nine per cent to 13 per cent. The. Ex-
the prees bays that while Doll suggests.
of a stirinkage voting strength of all partics, what it shows with far greater ccripinty is that the public is sick and tired of polls."
Kenvil N.J., Oct. 5. Two men were killed today when ал experimental missile fuel exploded at the Hercules Powder There are too many inycal-
ears, olding questions." Company here.
Three
others were alightly hurt
in the blast, which was heard 15 miles away,
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PRIVACY INVADED
"The public feels that its priv company, spokesman said vacy is being invaded and it de-
the fuel clouse," non-adherence the explosion occurred as the cilnes to disclose its intentions.
to rates in established schedule, frequency of power stoppage.
two technicians were mixing And it joins the fastest growing mixing shod by party in Britain--the party who say or pretend that they don't
and the need of concluding co-powder in
remote control. tractual agreements.
The blast levelled two bulld-know." Mr Dennis aid the "crbitrary diamissal of complaints" by the ings on the Hercules grounds, were Chinn Light and Power Co, had. The technicians. bodies given rise to a "genuine tense found in the rubble.
of grievance."
missilė
The Dally Express says that although its own poll was con- ducted with complete integrity An engineer said the powder and all possible efficichey, it has Called upon to address the being mixed was to be usext no confidenor in-its own poll.
tolls the Commission on behalf of the to power the "Minute Man" then
now stery of the head follster him- Hongkong Cotton Spinners As- intercontinental
Felt. Dr Henry Dunant, of Gallup sociation, Mr Dennis.said his under development.
More than 30 explosions have Poll. clients did not wish to amplify
When he was asked how he the submissions that they had occurred at the Hercules plant
here, whoop buildings are seat himself would be voting, Dr sent in...
The Duunt Fefused to my, mying But Mr.S. H. Yang, member lüred over 100% adres». of the executive committee of worst explosion at Hercules, oc he found the question the Association, and Mr C. T. curred in 1940, when five people pertit London: Exisvas
Service. (Conlan Pare 3, Col. E)
diod.Reuter.
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PANAMA TROUBLE
Panama City, Oct. 5. National guardimen used tear fas
tonight to conte bundreds of.
sit-down
strikers
Panama's from National Assembly chamber. 'The demonstrators, pro-
testing
unemployment in Culon, Panama's second largest city, occupied the chamber for more than two- and-a-half hours vowing not to esi after a 60-mile march across the isthuma.
Before the tear gái squad moved Io, demonstration leaders were arrested.
"We are going to make » government of the people, one leader shouted before he w*s, escorted from rostrum-UFI,
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In Polio Reported
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
A spokesman of the Medical
told Department
the China Mall this morning that the incidence of poliomyelitis was lower than in the Inst two years.
He said there were consider." ably less cases-reported and fewer cases had gone for treat- ment at elindes,
"The situation is more silis- factory now than in the last two years."
In 1956 and 1957, polio claim- There ed a total of 10 lives, was a total of 70 cases report- cd in the two years,
Laut year there was an abrupt rive in the incidence of the disease.
Forly-one people died srid. 202 cases wero reported. In June along 82 cases were re- ported. All but three of the deaths occurred in the under nine age-group,
The spokesman said that liter this month the quarterly report of 100 Medical Department I would be issued giving the latest figures of the incidence of the
disease in the Colony.
Monty: 'Vote For Labour And You Are Barmy?
London, Oct. 5, Field Marshal Lord Mont- gomery of Alamein told student audience tonight that anyone who voted Labour in Britain's.
election generat "should be locked up in a lunatic asylum."
The Field Marshal sata that anyone who wanted to replace Britain's present leaders when a solution to International probe - Iems was in sight was "absolute- ly barmy, completely off' him rocker."
Lord Montgvinery urged his audience to vote for Prender. Harold Macmillan and s・・Con Bervative Government.-AFP.
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No Arrest In Kowloon Robbery
· No afruat has been made, iso for in connection with the job- bery in which three men. stole |$17,000 from Mr Anthony, Y. C. Yoh, General Manager of the Hongkong Carpet Manufacturers, | Ltd. yesterday NEE Police investigations are stil proponding,'
Government Epokesmen raid tile, morning.