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CHINA
Established ́1945
THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1960.
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I notice that the Legislative
decision Council Football Pools has come before the notice of Houst of Commons. The question has been asked, I think Initially by you in a Comment of the day. whether Government bad originally sought the advice of the Unofficials when it first announced that legisla-
would tion
be introduced Into the Legislative Council to legalise pools.
corn-
I do not know whether Gov- ernment did but I think you will flad it instructive to read that the Unofficials who were almost unanim. uusly, opposed to the Pools In May on moral grounds. were in March obviously - relishing their introduction. In the Report of the Select Committee on the Draft Estimates of Revenue, and Expenditure for 1960-61 the Select Committee.
the posed of
Financial Becretary, the Unofficials all of them and the Colonial Secretary consider- ed the draft estimates. Inter alia, they recommended the inclusion of a Ggure of $1 million in the Colony's internal revenue as a token amount for football pool betting duty, adding that "it is difficult to estimate ac- curately how much this duty will yield in the first year of operation."
The committee goes on lo say
that the football pools business will involve a great in the number of increase letters being posted locally (how add, didn't one or two of them say it would not catch on in Hongkong?) The report continues: "There should also be an increased demand for postal orders for the payment of bets placed. We accordingly recommend the following changes in the estimates under Head 8:- Subhead 4-Postage: in- by $8,750,000 to Crease $41,780,000; Subhead 5mm Postal orders: increase by $140,000 to $200,000. This most illuminating report went on to express the view that the introduction of Football Pools was expected to more than double the volume of mall now being handled by the Post Office and to cope with this, the committee recommended the following additions to the Post Office estimates - no less than 262 new posts to cost no less than $847,000,
This brand new division of the Post Office was to be headed by a Controller of Posta or the princely salary of $3.220 -$3,820 a month and was to include 77 temporary postal clerks and 150 assist- ant posimen amongst others, Other charges recommended by this same committee for items such as fuel, light and power and uniforms, con- veyance of air mails, stores and equipment, running ex- pensea
of vehicles, new motor vehicles and stamp cancelling machines was to result in an additional ex- penditure of almost $24 million in the present finan- cial year. Now, how cau YOU, the Government or the Up-
officials explain this most extraordinary volte face. Or, to put 11 another way, what happened to make the Unofficials change their mind so dramatically-and don't tell me it was the Kalfongs.
PUZZLED..
dear sir
A
dear sir
which has been officially presented, with the remit that the bill was defeated by seven voles to nil with
11 abstentions." He also described the defeat as "a Lumilating defeat for the Colonial Government."
One would have thoughal that a Labour Member of Parliament Ernest Thorn- ton's view on publle opin- ion would be based on the wishes of the majority in- stead of advocating the old imperialistic steam-rolling method of enforcing votes which doubtless ble
•humiliatingly defeated' party exercises
its Dver members through Its Whips. Instead of being 'humiliated",
our Government has re- celved the praise of the reople of this enlightened Colony for its strict im- paruality by letting Lhe unofficial members rote according to their own in- clination, correctly advising the official members to abstain from voting, know- ing well that they were int the majority.
al-
Since the Labour Party today Is in such an unhappy state with Internal dissensions and
ignominy, external Ernest Thornton would do -better ta confine his tention to 'party politics his instead of extending sphere of influence' beyond his own Hnited capacity. We of the Colony are proud
of our Government which has no cause to feel asham- ed for the proper step It has taken in heeding public opinion instead of adoptler the British Labour Party's method of sing the Whips to force its members to vole collectively, Like shrep heading for the rhym,
COLONIST.
dear sir
On trees
It seemed as if the GoverTU- ment would be allowed to proceed on its career of tree- voice felling without one being raised in protest until
Man on carnal
knowledge charge jailed
for 9 months
23-year-old electroplating
worker was sentenced to nine
months' fall today after plead-
an excellent leader on the the subject appeared in China, Mail.
The tone of this article was carefully moderate. I will po further by declaring that the destruction of trees,
ir especially old trees. crime in any city, where they are needed to purify the air, but particularly in a tropical one, where large rhody 1700$ [not skinny gums and casuarinas) on the streets make a difer- ence of several degrees to the temperature and there- tore to the comfort of the general population.
Of course, those who are con- veyed by car from air- conditioned J'iat Wo air conditioned office and back home again, cannot be ex- pected to appreciate the point from personal ex- perience and one can only appeal to their aesthetic ∙sense, apparently conspicu ous for its absence in Hong-
kong.
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It was typical of Victorian vulgarity to pui utility be- fore beauty. 30 one is tempted to suppose that those who still do so have not enjoyed the benefits of liberal education, that they have never travelled on the Continent to see a beautiful city embellished with fine trees but are fami- liar, only with the hideous towns of industrial Britain or the tasteless cosmopolitan conglomerations by Shang-
hai.
Let the Government consider the future of Hongkong, twenty ar thirty years hence when it will be chiefly int portant as a Tourist centre, and plant instead of con-
inually cutting down.
Let them also supervise the design of new buildings, for it is another crime to make a town ugly and there is no doubt that Hongkong is becoming steadily uglier, all
visitors remark on. the fact.
Indeed it has got to the point that it would be an excel- lent idea if someone would run competition for the ugliest building tri the Colony-pre-War and post- War to stimulate public interest in the metter.
EUROPEAN.
$600 fine
..
for "widower'
A man already married with finad five children was $600 today for describing himself as a "widower.” His wife saw a notice which said her husband was to marry Another woman. She reported this to the police.
And this morning Ho Cheung 41, proprietor of a metal and plastic factory pleaded guilty to making a false declaration and. a false statement about his mar- rlage, before Central Magistrate, Mr T. L. Yang,
Ho lives at 44 Bun Hol Street, ground alcor.
Detective Sub-Inspector Ng Ying-fan sald Ho was married to Cheung Sun-ying, in Octo- ber last year.
On April 26 he went to the Registry and declared his inten- tion of marrying another woman, Shun Tal-foon.
In the statutary declaration Ho claimed he was a widower and that he had no children.
Sold heroin
in a nullah
A man who was found selling heroin in a nulláh in Tong Mel Road, Kowloon; was sentenced to three years, isil by Central magistrate, Mr T. L. YanE this morning.
The man, Yeung Chong-yuen, | 29, pleaded guilty.
The buyer of the drugs, Tong Tak, 29, was sentenced to six months' jail.
Tong also pleaded guilty.
Company fined
The Management of the Feng Brothers Textile Co Ltd was i this morning fined $2,650 by Kowloon Magistrate Mr Arthur Garcia when the company pleaded guilty to six summonses lor contravening labour laws.
Mr Dennis Chow Labour Inspector said that officers of his department visited two of the factories operated by the defendant's company and found women and young people work- ing there after regulation hours.
Lady Black
tells
HONGKONG
By Sylvia de Costa-Roque
Hongkong is incurring the wrath of American and British publishing companies, by not introducing legislation which would ban the importing of pirated books into the Colony from Formosa.
From the Filos
25
years AGO
June, 1935
At yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council it was slated that the Colony's de- ficit last year because of a falling off of revenue, amount-
An informed source, who wants to remain anonymous, said yesterday that pirated editions were being sold at fantastically low prices and causing losses amounting to millions of US dollars to the complaining pub.ed to approximately two mil lishers.
I was told that Hongkong was 4 base for being used as
dollar Formosa's multi-million book-piracy tràdé,
Most of the books came into Hongkong un-manifested
cargo aboard ships plying be- tween Formosa and the Colony.
The source said that once the books were in Hongkong, they
welfare
workers: 'you're wonderful'
"You people are wonderful, and we need many more like you," Lady Black told welfare workers of St James' Settlement, Kennedy Road, this morning.
Lady Black made a complete, rodin
and sequins dia
ing guilty to a charge of having tour of the settlement after tamborine dance for her. carnal knowledge of a girl having visited the Wor
under 16.
Memorial Welfare Centre, at the On her tour of the Settlement, Chu Chuen, of 142 Sal Yueng Southern Playground, Wanchal Lady Black was accompanied Chol Street, 7th floor, Kowloon, The 'Settlement looks after by the Warden, Miss Lee Hei- changed his plea from one of more than 400 boys and girls man, the Hon. Secretary, Mrs not guilty. He told Mr Justice from the Wanchai District: The June LI, and the Secretary, Mr W. A. Blair-Kere that he want children are given free break-Raymond LA
$1,780 STOLEN
FROM COOLIE
A 38-year-old woman hawker,
ed to marry the girl, but her fests, and are taught reading. At the War Memorial Centre, Ho Ying of 256 Reclamation
parents objected.
Mr D. E. Greenfield, Crown Counsel, said the girl went with Chu to a boarding house In Talpo on April 7
writing and arithmetic, besides learning trades like printing and auto-engineerig.
TO BE REPLACED
Lady Black was met by the Street 2nd floor, pleaded guilty Chairman of the Management to stealing a purse containing Committee of the Centre, Mrs $1,780 and an identity card J. Sanderson, and the Secretary from g Resettlement Area of the Children's Playground coolie and was remanded for. The offence was later reported to police by the mother of the The present building is soon Association, Mrs A. H. Kramers one day by Kowloon Magistrate
Mr E. S. Haydon this morning. to be replaced by a five-storey
She first visited will cost
the Young which Her exact age was not estab-buliding M P. Ernest lished, but she was known to be, enproximately $800,000. There Women's Christian Association'e Thornton has fried to either 14 or 18.
My also be a new worlato Play Centre where 38 liny meddle in colonial affairs
which will cost over $100,000 children danced for her
Once
zain
Labour
our
ignorant
when he is the least con- ' petent person to do so, and should confine himself to the work of his unfortunate. constitution who elected
him to mind their own
business and noi that fa
this
far-flung corner. of
Thornton's inaze questionin
girl.
The Settlements honorary
She was met by the YWCA
Subsidence in rchitect, br. 3 Feber showed President, Mrs Victoria Cheng
the Commons shows him up mo poorly when he asked such
an" "Imperialist', question: as
Lady Black models of the pro-
hd buildings, "
Caine Rd
When Lady Black arrived,
FAMILY WELFARE
case-workerS
the boys were engaged in print- Then she met. ing, rattan-work and wood-of the Hongkong Family
A yawning gap; seven feet carving. The girls were busy Welfare Society. She was
on Caine Road this ing
Bank secretary leaves
Mrs M. G. Larard, private secretary at the Hongkong
by Swissair for Zurich and
the British Commonwealth deep, greeted motorists and doing embroidery, and crochet-corted by the Vice-Chaitumn, Branch of the Hongkong and Mrs J. L. Marden, and the Shanghal Bank left here today London on six months hullday, Caused by a burst subterran. Lady Black was so impress-secretary Mias H. F. Tano.
stuck diso sam the ean drainage pipe, the road surd with the children's crochet Lady Black
While in the UK, the will this: "Why the Governor face in front of Number 146 that she asked them to Children's Library, the baby- and members of the Hong caved in at about 2 am. The make dozen crocheted table-care centre of the Hongkong visit her sons and daughter,
-mate for her,
Society for the Protection of She was seen off at the airport Kong Legislative Council hole about dye feet square. abstained from veling on the Repair work under the super-
Lady Black then sew the day Children, and the Boys Club, by her husband, Mr C. K second reading of the Fest- vision of the PWD is expected to masery, where four tile girls where she was greeted by Father Larand, of the Works Depart-
and boys beautifully dressed in P. J. Howatson
ment of Butterfield and Swire, ball Pools Belling Bill, 3964,"!" be completed tomorrow.
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lion dollars and the revenue this year is likely to be a mil- were collected by agents, pack- after March 24 this year. he lion dollars less than the ed up, labelled "Printed Mat- said, when the Nationalist Gov-original estimate: ter" and sent off to America. ernment banned the export of On arrival the packages were pirated books to America. never interfered with, as Hong- kong was not recognised as a
of the centre trade.
The Colony became the base for Formosa's lucrative trade
The ban, was introduced when American publishers complained that their market was being
THE last word the
Clive contro book-piracy
flooded by cheap editions of versy came with this letter: "This heat makes these novels and text-books."
Lady Black asks a question during her visit to the Southorn Play- ground War Memorial Centre this morning. In the background is school- mistress, Miss Wong Mei- yin.--China Mail photo.
POP
SO YOU'RE BACK! WHAT WOULD HAPPEN.
IF WE ALL STAYED AWAY
WHEN WE GOT A
CHILL?.
very
The flow ald not stop, how young philosophers ever, the operations were just hard to please. Just suppose; transferred from Taipei to Mr Editor, that some well-
Hongkong.
main
meaning film corporation
pirated decides to
The agents for the publishers are Chinese university students in America who distribute to the students catalogues of the books available.
screen Jullus
I was told that the American buyers of books were university students,Ceasar at the Queen's and who got most, or all, of their advertises how "Caesar text-books from Formosa,
cultured cohorts bashed the bareskinned Britons," would you consider it an affront and a danger to the brother, liness between Italy and Bri- England's home market is tain? I don't believe you not too badly affected by the would. Neither would “I. piracy, but most of her Asian Let's forget it and go to market has been lost to the sleep-ANCIENT BRITON, pirate publishers.
"When bocks are offered a such low prices, people really blamed for buying them," the scuroe said.
can't be
Developments are taking. place in the race for supre- macy on the airway of the
that ¡report
Pan-American As two examples of the very Airways will inaugurate its low cost at which the pirated
Two examples Pacific. Coincident with the
bocks are being sold, the source California-China air service in September, comes another mentioned the late Nevil Shute's novel "Trustce from report from Batavia, where' the Toolroom," and the En- Dutch air lines are said to be cyclopaedia Britannica.
busily preparing" to operate
The pirated edition of the two services to Hongkong. novel is being sold in Hongkong
at $5 a copy, while the original
edition is for sale at $18, The
original encyclopaedia costs TN the Honours List HK$1,600, while the pirated edi
tions cost between HK$400 and
$500.
published on June 3, appears the name of Mr
I was told that there were 10 William Edward Preston, firms in Formosa engaged in the lately chief manager of the piracy of books. They distri- Chartered Bank of India,
catalogues
their Australia and China, Lon- customers, and guarantee de don, who was granted a livery.
knighthood. The new knight As the Hongkong Govern- is well known in the Far
bute
to
ment would not co-operate East,
with the publishers, questions
would continue to be asked
in the House of Commons as-
Mr Arthur Rubinstein, the
to what aclien Hoarkong wis aking to stop the importing of the pirated editions into famous pianist, met with the Colony,
hearty support, despite the "Something has to be done, rather short notice, when he and quick", said the source. gave a delightful recital at A touch of irony, from the the Hongkong Hotel Roof American point of view, is that, Garden last night, There "the expensive photo off-set
equipment used in the produc- was quite a good attendance.. tion of the pirated editions was of music lovers who greatly given
to Formosa as part of appreciated the treat afforded
by the visitor. American Aid."
By Gog
Those
with
good
judge-
ment
Medrink
Carlsberg
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