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MAN KILLED IN TRAFFIC MISHAP
WALLPAPER FOR Christmas Day accident
FASHIONABLE
OVERSEAS HOMES
BRITON ON
by Sylvia da Costa Roque CARELESS
The wife of the firm's owner, Mrs Hou working on a wallpaper panel, She is put- ting a white base to the pattern before colouring it"in Airs lok learned her art in Peking.
From the Filos
25
years
·AGO-
February 1936
THE MAN WITH
200 HARMONICAS
TO GIVE AWAY
By BOB COUSENS
They are known in London and their work can bo
scen in the elegant and DRIVING
"arty" homes of the most exclusive suburbs. A tow
· months aga # feature article on them appeared in the London Times,
In America, which last year gave them more than 11K$100,- 000 worth of orders, they are known in practically every state and by practically interior decorator.
Here in Hongkong. where they have been established for eight years, hardly anybody has ever heard of them.
Refugees
CHARGE
A man was fatally in- jured in a Christmas Day traffic accident in King's-road, Mr I. T. Morris was told at Causeway Bay Court this morning.
Appcaring on a charge of careless driving was an officer of the British "Merchant Navy. Robert Porter, who gave his address as Butterfield and Swire officers Mess, Quarry Bay,
not
Forter, wito plended guilty, is represented by Mr R. H. A. Hindmarsh of Stewart
Company.
Who are they? A group of artists, refugees from China, who produce exquisite hand- painted silk wallpaper. The firm, which has its office in Mody-ard road, Kowloon, was started by a bunker from Peklog. Mr Hou Wash and
arilst his attractivo
wife.
reca
The article in The Times was enduled. I went to Hongkong for wallpaper." The author had the dellcately painted paper in an interior decorator's shop In London's Belgravia. But when she orrived here, the only person who knew of the firm's existence was a publletty officer in the Government In- formation Service,
I found them through an advertisement in the Hongkong Trade Bulletin, the only adver- tising medium they use.
RUNNING
Mr Julian Holmes Gomersall, I fellow officer who was in the car driven by Porter on the day of the nceldent. testified that they were driving from Wan- chal towards Shaukiwan along King's-rond on Christmas Day at 5.35 pm.
Mt Gomersall said that when they were at the junction of King's-road and Healthy-street East they saw a mon running from left to across the road right, slightly towards them.
Capt. J. F. Wilson handa-a packet to a girl at this morning's party on board the Pioneer Mart'-China Mail photo.
KOWLOON
CHILDREN GET NEW YEAR BUILDING
TREAT ON U.S. SHIP
He added that the man was Twenty underprivileged children spent a happy
car
was
about 30 yards ahead in front
car. The of the
at
speed of 30 travelling mph and wus travelling very near the tram line.
hour on board the American steamer 'Pioneer
Mart' this morning.
from
Individual
They were guests .at Regular advertisements in the When the man, who was about Chinese New Year party or Trade Bulletin gave Mr Hou 35 ft away from the pavement, ganised by the ship's master, his first orders. Now he gets almost reached the tram lines Captain J. F. Wilson and his most of his business through he turned around and doubled 55 crew. personal recommendations.
back.
Led by Sister Margaret Lum Mr Gomersall said that the car of French Convent Orphanage Eut Americans, with their hit the man after he had taken and threa Social Welfare off- A man with magic in a little black box is in Hongkong current craze for all things two or three steps. He also said cers, 13 of the children came
this week.
Oriental, ате The firm's best that Potter had applled his from the orphanage and the re- customers, and supply 90% of brakes and swerved to the right mainder Whea he opets it, he can prodire a viclin, a French horn,
Just before the impact. the orders,
! families. The man fell on the bonnet of a flute or an oboc to delight
During the visit the children the car and shattered the wind- musicul nu Jenees,
were given refreshment, and shield.
tach received gifts including toys and candy, and a parcel. for Chinese New Year.
The Pioneer Mart, which ar- Manila last night. rived from
for Formosa and will leave Japan tonight.
"One day someone bought me chromatic barmonica and some records of Larry Adler.
music "I was amazed that And, although he hates to like that could be played on the dini it, he .can produce a instrument, and I decided that re-plano accordion.
I wanted to the same.
IMPERIAL Airways Ltil
expects, to open gular air service between Singapore and
All this is done with a tiny
much-underrated and
iralry Hongkong meat called a harmoniener, early in March. Experi-it you prefer, a mouth organ.
MASTERED mental lights indicate that conditions
extremely are
with
The man who is one of only favourable and negotia three in the world who have mastered this very difficult tions are progressing in Instrument, is Larry Logan. very amiable manner
He is dedicated to raising the regard to the question of hurmonica what he believes Is rightful place among the crossing Indo-China.
family of museal Instruments as an equal with the violin or the piano.
It is learned that King Ed- ward 18 continuing hit viparans life, despite the duties of Kingship. Ou Sun- dag, garbed in running shorts, han three miles in the royal prounds near Windsor.
"The big trouble with the harmonien being accepled on a Egitimate rerlous instrument is that it is so young," Mr Lagan paid today. and stuce
"It was only invented in 1818, then so Tew people have mastered t that s widely unknown.
93 artists
Mr Hou has about 93 artiste
SKID MARKS In the last six months, 40 "I started playing in New
Amertenna have signed the Insp M. R. Atkinson, prosecut- Orleans night clubs for no pay. and gradually
started giving guest book in Mr Hou's moderning, In a brief outline of the case office, mast of them being either said the car left skid marks that concerts," he said.
of measured more than 100 ft. or representatives Now he is in the Far
East artists
Mr A. II. Sufflad instructed by Interior decorating mTLS. under a specialist's grant from
Thomas Wong and Company is the US. State Department, and
keeping a watching brief on be- Hongkong is the second city on
working for him. Half work on half of the deceased's wife, he J.S.C. Neel his itinerary after Talwan.
scrolls and pictures. The rest Wong Fung-chan, "I have found the harmonies
work on the wallpaper. extremely popular in the Orient, and I am amazed at the amount
Working from 8 am to 5 pm of talent both here and in For-with shiftwork during the very mosa," he said.
busy periods, they can produce 150 panels of wallpaper, mes- suring 4 x 10 feet, a month.
INEXPENSIVE
"Boys and girls here start playing the harmonics for en-
A set of four panels, painted tertainment because it's
os silk in a basic Chinese pat- inexpensive instrument to buy."tern of flowers, birds, trees or he explained.
landscapes, will cost appro- "In America, by the time kids ximately $400. You can have are 14 or 15 they are driving your own design, but the price large cars.
will rise if the pattern is very They have
so much that complicated. "But I believe that In 30 years they don't want to waste time the harmonica will be is con- playing a hormonica," he said N February 1914, a squad-ventional in serious music as the
The wallpaper itself is made IN
by laminating pure silk onto a ron of German warships viel or the piano is today," he
regretfully.
"When I was a kid and had s paper background, The lay at anchor in Hongkong, salah.
15 or 20 cents to spend I would silk, originally cream, can be The cruiser Karlsruhe, which
buy a harmonica rather than dyed to any colour, getting candy.”
UNEXPLORED
is due here today, will be He said that Vaughn, Williams the first German warship end other leading composers had written works for the harmonica, to avail itself of the including using the sole instru- Colony's hospitality since ment In concertos. that day,
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In the current issue
"The hormonico is an unex- plored instrument and playing It is new art," Mr Logan said. He said It was more dißcull lo play than the violin or of
conventional wind Instrument,
Oriental Affairs, a suggestion
A
because it was the only instru- ta made for sulving some of ment in the world that Was Hangkung'a probleme by played while Inhaling as British purchase of the rever- | as exhuling. sion of the New Territories.
"Everyone in the neighbour- The arists do occasionally hood used to have a harmonica paint on plain paper, but the then."
Löllk gives a much loveller effect. GIVEN AWAY
To encourage local talent, Me Lugan is carrying with blm 200 chromatic harmonicas, which are bolh expensive and hurd to obtain.
Specialises
in
Hearing
March 6.
was adjourned
Lecture on Tibet
to
The Hongkong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society oro holding, a lecture this evening at 6 p.m. in tho Hongkong Club, at which Mr Hugh Richardson, will as it speak on "Tibet
WOS. The lecture will be illustrated with slides.
on
of
Mr Richardson is one of the neknowledged authorities Tibet, and has spent most his lie there since 1936 when he Arst enteral the Indian Civil Service.
He was appointed to the post of Bellish Trade Agent, Gyanise |and Officer-In-Charge British
Mission, Lhasa in 1996.
Each artist specialises in just He conducts "music clinics"
one aspect of Chinese art, and to help those interested in Im-
it is very rare to get a panel proving their playing, and gives painted by just the one person. well the harmonicas
One artist may specialise away to the
During the war he served ́in best students.
painting birds, another flowers, the North-West Frontier Policy But the range of colour was All this, he hopes, will teach
imott:ur bamboo,
and later In Chungking and The journal argues that as far greater tban mas other people that the liarmonien docs
Delhi. All the work on the wallpaper the Central
Provincial instruments.
not belong with the street- and
When the takes place in a small rooms on returned to his former post in WAT WAS Over he
Gournaments are in argent
of this fact he gave a most corner musician, but in a proud
the third floor of u tenement Tibet, and when India became need of funda, a
convincing demonstration, vary place with full symphony mutually Ing from Hach to gipsy music and orchestra.
house near Kal Tak Airport. drdependent he was asked to satisfactory agreement could from Debussy to jazz in a
The nrtists themselves sit remain with the Government of be reached between Nanking moment, and every me
Cround two large trestle tables India as Officer-in-Chargo and Canton regarding the ap-ducing Incredibly sweet
surrounded by tins containing dina Mission, Lhasa. portionment of the money. to the ears of someons who is
Emall forests of bamboo brushus, He retired from Government Cension in rejected an deroga-used to hearing the mouth organ
and a brillant collection of service in 1950. tory in Chinese opinion, but used in vaudeville nets,
points....
Richardson will elso ́lec- "There
ture for the Insiitute of Oriento) could be nothing
Their lovely derepalory
Me Logan explained that this
work which Studios at the University of about
plain
The directors of Hongkong business transaction such as himself.
wrs netually how he started Electric Co Ltd. announen that, enhancing homes throughout Hongkong, Room 202, Main at the meeting of shareholders America arid England is pro- Building, on Friday, at 9.30 pm. would be involved in the sale "I have been playing the on March, 0, they will recom-uced in an atmosphere thick The lecture will be open to of a perpetual loans to the harmonica since I was seven," mend a foal dividend of $1.10 with the fumes at foss sticks the public, and will bo British Government,”
and the wall of Chinese music. § illustrated with slides,
n
he said.
SINCE SEVEN
pro- TRUM.C
Electric Co dividend
a share.
In
donation
Departure of Mr J. F.
Saunders
The United Kingdom Trado Commissioner, Mr J. F. Saunders, left yostorday on the Canton for his new post in Ceylon
A Cambridge graduate, Mr
career in the Indian Civil Ser-
Saunders, now 50, began his
At the annual meeting of the vice. Association of the Chartered
He was Trade Commissioner Inautute of Secretaries In
in Pakistan and Vancouver be- Hongkong held on Wednesday, fore
coming to Hongkong on it was decided to send a dona- April 30, 1959. tion of twenty-five guineas to
The Chartered Institute of Hi3 new post is United King- Secretaries in London in memory com Trade Commissioner In of the late J. S. C. Neel, who Ceylon. was a Fellow of the Institute and
a past Chairman of the local Association.
POP by Goa
296
WHAT'S HE GOING .TO DO WHEN HE GROWS AS BIG AS HIS POP ?
His successor hus not yet been ofcially announced.
SUM,
I HOPE!
PROJECT
Mr J. R. Oliver, President of Tenancy Tribunal with mem- bera, Mr R. Sicap and Mr Wang
Chang-lin, this morning beard on application to replace 138- 1-10, Laichukok-road, Kowloon with # modern six-storey structure costing $140,000.
The applicants Mr Yu Tam and Mr Ku Kl-yau, were re- presented by Mr Leslie Wright, instructed by Lo and Lo. Mr P. H. 17, architect, produced plans for the re-development of the present site,
Tenants in the four-storey, 25-year-old houses were *- presented by Me Terence Shur- jcek, Instructed by Seu, and Long; Mix Victoria Wha of P. L. Lam and Co, and Mr Peter Wong, of Peter Wong and Co.
Hearing continues
Land auction
A residential tol with an aren of 4,000 sq ft at Wang Chuic Wan Au, Salkung, was sold for $20,000 at pubile Auction at the District Office, Salkung, this morning. The upset price was $2,300. The purchaser was Miss Feng Suk-kum of 72, Ewo- streel, ground floor.
Later another residential lot measuring 4,000 sq ft at Tso Wo Hang. Saikung. was sold for 421,000 to Ns Tra Shui of 194 Auslin-read Flat D, third floor. The uper price was $3,000.
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