JOHN HASTIE-
CO., LTD.
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NGINEERING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD. 208 Chartered Bank Building:: Tel. 27789
CHINA MAIL Sheaffers
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TUESDAY, JUNE
BANK TO BUILD IN KOWLOON'S Tropical GOLDEN MILE Proud Briton' controversy
storm latest
(Continued from Page 1). no schools for There were children today. By a standing order from the Director of
ita the Education
-school apthorities whenever a No. B
The Bank of East Asia Ltd plans to erect an 11-storey building
costing $1,300,000 in the Mongkok area of Kowloon.
This was stated by Mr D. A. L. Wright in the Tenancy Tribunal Court this
morning.
Mr. Wright appearing on behalf of the bank who are applying for exemption for 638 and 840 Nathan Road. The is instructed by Mr. Y. K. Kin
The bank plans to demolish
or stronger storm signal the two existing 4-storey build- helsted, parents are asked notings on the site, which is on the children to corner of Nathan Road and Nel-
son Street,
do
send their
schools.
The General Certificate of Oral French Education Examination scheduled to take place at King George V School today was postponed Friday:
students However, those scheduled to take part in the examination tomorrow will have to appear on time, provided the storm-is over.
Postponed also was the local School Certificate Examination.
Many thousands of pupils were due to take the exam.
Many social gatherings, and sports events this evening will have to be postponed.
The Pakistan Club dinner due to be held at Cosmo Restaurant tonight is cancelled.
Scanty
So for rainfall has been ceanty,
Observatory Royal The spokesman told the China Mail that rainfall from midnight untill 100.m. was only 0.42 of an inch. The total amount of rain from January 1 10 am today was 15.51 Inches compared with the average of 25.90 Inches,
The heaviest shower occurred between 9 9.m. and 10 am.
Cancelled
The meeting of the English- speaking Department of the Christian Young Women's Astociation, at which German films were to have been shown, this afternoon, cancelled.
has
been
Visitors see furniture exhibition
A group of 150 members of the American Institute of Interior Decoration saw an exhibition of modern furniture that was “different" this morning.
It was staged in the Conven- tion hall of the Miramar Hotel under the suspices of the Hong- kong Tourist Association and the Individual exhibitors.
Though Chinese influence pre- dominated, the items shown were a unique blend of what is best in East and West tradition ranging from a huge, hand-beaten brass gong, 46 inches in diameter, to exquisite copies of Ming furni ture in natural blackwood.
The new building should take
18 months to complete.
Great demand
Mr Wright described the Mongkok area of Kowloon as "Kowloon's Golden -Mile,"
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He said there was great de- mand for banking accommoda- lion in this area.
LOMBARD INSURANCE MEETING
Chairman tells of
two encouraging
·features
"In the last couple of years, The Chairman of the Consulting Committee
more than eight banks have been establishing in 'Mongkok," said Mr Wright.
the
The bank will 'occupy
Mongkok ES the same block branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
11 opponents
There are 11 opponents. They include the owners of a noodle restaurant and a spare parts shop.
The Tribunal consists of --- President, Mr Lim Chee Quan, Mr. Percival W. Mansfield and Mr Rudy Choy.
NEW BUILDING!
FOR KOWLOON
The Tenancy Tribanal was told this morning of a plan for 's new six-storey building Shanghai Street to replace the present four-storey wooden structures,
The plan was revealed in an application for exemption of 337-9 Shanghai Street from the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance, Mr. P. T. Yu, representing the applicant, Mr Leung Koon-iin, sald the new building, if the application was approved, would be completed in eight months and would cost $120,000.
of the Lombard Insurance Co Ltd noted at the annual general meeting this morning that there were "two encourag« ing features" in the company's opera- tion last year.
Mr H. D. M. Barton men- tioned that the first of two was that due to the continued gradual improvement of the Marine Account there had been no necessity this year to make any transfer to this account from profit and logs account since. 1054.
The other feature, Mr Barton added, was that the premium income in the accident depart ment had passed the $2 millon mark for the first time and had in fact more than doubled in the last five years,
Profit
net The company made a
After of $1,071,435. profit making allowance for transfers, the amount left for payinent of dividend of $2 a share totalled $767,848, and a balance of $801,- 517 to be carried forward.
The report and accounts were adopted....
New command
for Docker's
skipper
London, June. 6. Captain Hector Edward Tourtel, former master of
British Industrialist Sir Bernard Docker's yacht Shermara, is to command a Belgian millionaire's luxury yacht.
457-ton The yacht, the
15
by Mr owned Mathne, Maurice Solvay, who bought it recently.
Early last year Mr Solver chartered the 878-ton. Sheinara The following were re-elected for a six months world cruise. members of the Consulting Com-He was so impressed with Cap- mittee; Mr M. W. Lo, Mr 3.Dtain Tourtel's handling of her old structures, he added, were Clague, Mr D. Black, Mr L. that he offered him a job..
Kadoorie, Mr F. S. Li, Mr W. A.
built 33 years ago.
The
were
The Maline, which is 165 Thirty-six occupants of the Stewart-
feet long with two powerful present premises are opposing
Messrs Lowe, Bingham and oil engines, has for some time the application.
re-appointed been lying. at Marseilles. After They are represented by Mr Matthews
Mr auditors, Shurlock and Terence
on the in- Richard Winter, structions of Messrs Edmuni Cheung and Co., Hastings and Co., and Hon and Co.
The Tribunal comprises Mr B. V. Rhodes (President), Mr Mr C. H.. Henry Chang and Richardson.
Hearing is continuing.
MANAGER
FINED
This evening the group of Kwok Hing-dong, Assistant visitors will be entertained to Manager of Singwa and Co. at cocktails and will meer many of 37 Hing Lung Street, ground the Colony's leading architects.
floor, was fined $1,000 by Mr When it was learned in Hong-I. T. Morris at Central Magis kong a few weeks ago that this tracy this morning. group would visit the Colony
PICKPOCKET JAILED
29-year-old unemployed man, Ho Kau described by the Magistrate: a professional thief was sentenced to 18 months im-
prisonment by Mr E S. Haydon at: Kowloon Court this morning for pickpocketing.
a survey and reft. at Squthamp- ton, she is shortly expected to sall for the Mediterranean- China Mall Special.
Small church
offerings
Liverpool, June 6, John Heenan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, criticised - the
rages on
I think that the replies re celyed by you to the Bri
ton who said he was proud of being so, Indicate Just mshow wide the divergence
between the "eensins on both sides of the Atlan-
"When reading them replies it in dimenlt to believe that it was an American who once said “I disagres with what he says, but will lay down my life for his right to my
of or It is this ignorance -
disregard for the convic tons of others that makes "Life with (the) Father (-image) so dificult
OK
One of your repliès says that It was the U.. myral-sense
the Sues issue that caused her to align, herself with the Soviet Union against "Britain ́ ́at_thai dine.
This takes a little swallow- hig, especially when we read the following in a leading U.S. Journal (Saturday Evening Post) in recent weeks.
The Canal is essential to our defence as well as our economy and it will be 24 long as warships sail- the sewe cannot give a little bere da little there, until finally all our and power **rights,*-**
authority" are gone. Some
day soon we have, got to dig our heels in and make a Band." *
+
In this Britain speaking on Suert No. It is the US, on the critics!' situation in the Repable of Panama. Where Is this great moral ́sense- Another correspondent in
attempt to Justify the -- US. U-Z Insident attémple
“You "too" lós by refer ring to the Commander Crabb mystery. However, he fails to con
tinus the equation so let us do it for him. The Grabb Affair: was never the sub- Ject of several contradle- tory oficial statements before being announced by the Head of State as Blate policy and that it would continue, TN MA
It was not conducted from "allled soil Current
dils. publications
closures would "all seem to allege that this too was "reconnaissance?" or-
ganised by another coun try.
•
Yet another "democratic Bar- respondent subtly(7) hints, that your circulation might
dear
sense-le could well be done' without.
Mr Truman In the Istest “Look” magasine says that some
British generals
"found it hard...to have af American general but in complete command of silled forces" and that this led them to give mig. leading versions of "eventa in their books. May we ask why it must il- way be an American in complete commend?
sir
tionalities) have not yet learned. When, they have marked, learned and in- wardly digested it, we might have rome chance of Hving in a peaceful world.
EBORACUM.
dear
Slander
SIT
of
The prond Briton should have learnt the difference and criticism between alander before making a bin of public display haired and his envy of the Might that is "America to [day.
In all sincerity are we asked to believe that the wealth of talent available in the United States automatical- *ly" astres 'this?
Are
to believe we asked that such selections are of s "made on the basis 'dispassionate · survey generals of all the allies, purely on their records of ability, battle experience. and and leadership, that encouraging 'publie opinion and support is never considered? We have got used to reading that Britain' must now ac- 'custom · herself to playing a secondary role in world. affairs, but how long . must we wait for the US. to get used to playing the primary role? En
How long will' it be before Vahé -sets with a sense of responsibility towards her allies, and shaira, ber awareness that her actions may well affect their very existence? "No taxation without re- presentation" today has been "changed" ta'read' "No privilege without respon- sibility" CHANG SAN LEE SSUJ
dear sir
Bad manners Please allow another Briton
who is proud of it to ten-
der his public apologies to Mr Hazzard and the group of ladies at the Peninsula Hotel for the offensive and, I can assure them, totally unrepresentative picious- nes displayed by your previous correspondents in their lamentable display of
bad mannert.
* TIGGER.
suffer il you permult free Not yet learned
speech. In your "columns, This appalling piece of in--
pertinence and complete misjudgment of how democratic country should rua its newspapers, de serves swift consignment to the waste-paper bas- ket'. As 'support for the moral * aforesaid
great
"absurdly small offerings Girl who stole
received on collection plates.
Inspector Wong Hei-man said that on Sunday the defendant was walking along Mongkok be deliberately Road when bumped into the complainantna pastoral etter read at all He, pleaded guilty to two and picked a pen trom his pocket his churches, the archbishop
ring goes
can wage-earners put coppers on probation
three
in the course of a sightseeing summonses for falling to He was arrested by the owner, sald; "How in good conscience tour of the Far East, the exhlbl furnish business profits tax Mok-King-sau
Defendant, who had 19 pre- tion, was arranged to show what returns for 1958/59 and 1959/
or four shillings for vious convictions was ordered on the plate when they pay Hongkong offered in interior de-80. *****
A 21-year-old girl who stole coration.
-Kwok admitted he received to be placed under police super-
adamond ring from her girl "At one time threepence, of During their stay the group notices from the Inland Re-vision after his release from cigarɛktes? -
friend and pasimed it to fence a will be
be shown. round various
sixpence was quite a generous razon Boat Festival celebra- factories which made the ex-venue Departament in March & prison.
last year and this year asking
offering. Today It Is
tion we ordered to be placed hibits. they saw today.
absurdly small gift.
under probation by Central They will go to Bangkok and him to send in the returns
“I cannot help thinking that strate Mr. Derek Consthal New Delhi before returning to within one month but on both
If Roman Catholics wil, did their occasions he had not done so, the United States.
Replies to correspondents N. T. Chow; Don't understand you-3d,
Mr. R. H. J. Braat, Manager of
THE NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY
regrets that due to the prevailing weather condition, the Cocktail Party at the Reception Room Gloucester Hotel this evening at 6.30 p.m. has been postponed to next Tuesday, 14th June_18.30__to_20.00 Gloucester Hotel,
the
an
duty there would be less reed-morning and p
to seek money from game of Yu Lai-chi, of 19 Lower Lane, chance of even second callers Kal Yuen Terrace, hadi plended Hons China Mak Special
Macao Bishop
Singapore, June 14t The Roman Catholle Bishop of Macao, the Rev. Policarpo da Costa Vis, was expected to return here from Malačen He will end two here before re #Macarth The Blib
gully last Monday and was re- manded until this morning for a: probation officer's report:
Yu also made restitution to the owner of the ring morning.
FACTORY FIRE
amall quantity of camphor damaged in a fire which in a factory In Chal esettlement Area at noon,
The last wordia of Edith Cavell before she was shot by a German firing" squad in the first world war were, "Patriotism is not enough."
This is a lesson that most people (Proud Briton and all the proud of other na-
POP
REMUNERATION
IS COMMENSURATE
WITH QUALIFICATION,:. OF COURSE ***g
Does he not realise that if President Eisenhower held office for so long it was solely because the people of the United States want- ed him to and he did so solely on his own merits. Britain's greatness is now a 'matter of the past and it may well be that a third rate power should in all humility drop the bogus prefix.
Mr Editor; why is the proud Briton not so proud of his name assuming that it is a legitimats one?
mentality is so His kind
typical of the Chins Fleet Club crowd that I cannot help thinking the proud Briton is
A seventeen-
year-old malelot with the usual: empty pockets" who is out to spite the Ameri-
tor
43 R a little drink or a cigarette which he may have failed to get out of an American sailor.
'ANDERSON, HARDY. -
dear sir dear
Wanchai fight
I regret to have to write to tell you that the story of thegunfight in Wanchal China Mail (Monday Page 8) is inaccurate in many reapeela.
Gleaning, facts from Boom
plète recorda la noi good A better plature could have been got from reports of the subsequent trial.
write not to esep but in the interest of the accurate presentation of Hongkong history.
By Gog
FINE- AND WHAT --ABOUT
LOLLY?
H
Navest
BALL POINT PEN
From the Files
25
years
ACO
June, 1935 A labourer receiving the
YEAR ago only a dock
American equivalent of the Hole" today heavyweight. champion of the world, and assured of fame fortune.
.Such is the meteoric rise of James J. Eraddock, who at the Madison Square Garden tonight, staggered the boxing world by outpointing the champlon, Max Beer, in their 15-round contest.
He thus becomes heavyweight- champion of the world,
The following appointments have been made, according to the Government Gazette: Miss Mable Wilkinson Neweholme. tu be a senior mistress, Educa- tion Department; Miss Mable- Blanche Hall to be a senior mistress, Education Depart. ~~ ment, Dr George Hewitt Henry to be a Medical Officer, - Miss Margaret Scott Mc Guffog to be an assistant-mia- tress, Education Department,
THE
Sikorsky giant Oriental Clipper, own ed by Pan-American Air- ways has successfully ac complished its first flight to Midway Island 1,000 miles west of Honolulu, thus completing the survey of another step along the pro- posed route from California to Hongkong.
Because China has refused Pan American Airways' per mlasion to land trans-Pacife plaves the organisation.
proaching Hongkong authorities to make the Colony, its terminus. Hongkong may also become the terminus. for French Air Orient and British. Imperial Airways service from Europe
is a result of China's refusal. to allow foreign planes over its territory a refusal attributed to the fear that China would have to grant Japan similar con cessions.
At the annual meeting of the Youmati Ferry Company it was revealed that a nero. vehicular ferry is shortly to be built. The vessel will bo an electrically-driven one and the construction will take place at Kowloon Docks.
This will enable the com pany to run an expedited aor vice for the conveyance of molor cars across the har bour.
What's in a name?
San Bernardino, Calif.,
June 6. John R. Pigg and James Dean Hogg met on Saturday night on a highway,
Hogg left with a trade, cita-
· higiewny tion from Pigg," patrolman-UPL
What the Taipans
aw in their favourite club...
Carlsberg