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INQUIRY ON SHIP CHINA FIR BEGINS 25
Tribunals hear TEA FOR OLD MEN
plans for 2 new buildings
A new Shui Hing department store adjoining the Peninsula Hotel is featured in plans recom- mended by the Tenancy Tribunal comprising Mr J. R. Oliver, President, Mrs Rosa Loseby and Mr Andrew Tse.
Central Jubilee-street,
The mortern structure to col, 14-86. Des Voeux-road $4,500,000 has been designed by and Nos 14-15,
$1,200,000.
Mr DS. Phelps Chief Architect, by a modoru block to cost about Harrin Realty Co Ltd. and Mr Go Ponti, talinn urchitect, has been retained as voru ultant.
Me Wright suk! that the new balding would provide
storage, ground basement for
restaurant,
floor shops, Hers of
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lee accommodations and a panthoats. The scheme wald take approximately
abs to complete.
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Occupying the site of the pre- Fent & Hotel, Swinden Bouc- and the Nation Kattan piote Company Lad, the 12 Morey block envisageti will embnly the latest stop planning design
and in Europe pgzlar
Mr K. M. Hsia, authorised ar- United States.
There
a capete chaters, produced the plans ap will be absence of structural enlining: proved by Buildi
the
that impede potential shopping artu su the store will be air conditioned throughout.
lifts and Two passenger service lift will serve the store whfel i to take up the first Offee will be the letting 1211
four doors.
available for
upper fluors and there will be petitou a brick.
FLOOR AREAS
Mr Leslie Wright appeared for
the pitcents, The Shui
Hing i
Conaty, wwners of Nos 20/23. ; Nabit-rod Tsianshansul.
Rattan
Tenants who had led up- Including applications, $25!
Furniture The Nathan Campony, were reenmmended to retrive $180,000; the Star Hotel to receive $295,000; the Swindon Beck ('empany to re- letal com- erive $140,000 and pensati amounting proximately $500,000.
-
Authority,
that will herence the floor areas
14.050 square feet from 61,788 square four-Korey
foot, if the five Chinese tenements are demolished and replaced by the modern structure.
Compensation settlements with nant who have filed opposing
comline 10 applicati !discussed.
Traffic charge against three
be
Three pers--Chan Shing 36, of 2 Davis-street, 6th lar Lau Yin-chuk, 35, cf 905 Top Nam-yuen Teirace; and an 11-1 3 war-old boy-pleaded not guilty to charges of driving a private car for hire and permitung car to be used for hire on May
near 23 in Visto: in-road
the
Gold
Silver Swimming Embroidery demy Pavilion before Mr K. A. S.;
Philips at Costruž Couri this
Other LasĪBUSS iron in
fear-storey hotses many changer,
chupa y, art
the
UT
plestie factory, waten and ivory companies.
It estimated that the faulti- ingrual will take 14 months
is ap at the trennunendation proved Council
Plans
LY
the
Governor-in-
ON ISLAND
for a new
19-storey building An Des Voeux-road Central were ind before Mr W. Aneurin
morning.
Defendants are being repre- sented by Mr A. 5. C. Cember.
Hearing afternoon.
is continuing
VISITING
this
Jones. Tenancy Mr C. E. Oliver Manager, Far Tribunal President, sitting with Fast and Fuelfie Islands, Qantas members, Mr A. N. Braude and Sydney, is visiting Hongkong for Mr Tong Shiu-lab. heard an business discussions with igipfication brought by the Sino- Qantas ocial General Sales European Investiment Company Agents, Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd, for the replacement of Nus Lid.
Paquerette Limited is pleased
to
as
announce their appointment
exclusive sales agents for "Imperial House" of Japan.
the
PURE SILK AND COTTON
DAY DRESSES
NOW ON
DISPLAY
AT
Paquerette's
Ten ok men are shown having tea in their temporary Quonset quarter at Aber- deen where the Little "Begging" Sisters of the Poor are huliding a free lomme for the Aged. The gala premiere of Ben Rue at the Hoover Theatre on Tuesday evening June 20. «pon- sored by Caritas Hongkong, and organised by the Chinese Catholle Club will be held under the patronage of The Governor, Sir Robert Black. Birs Lipton Chuang is general chairman of this charity event to help raise the more than $500,000 atll needed by the Little Sisters to complete their new home for aged and chronically ill men and women, without regard to faith.
Vessel went aground on Apr. 18
years
AGO.
Juno 1936
Mr Sydney Boden, of Glas- booked 1100 gow, secretly berths in the Queen Mary.. a ear ago. On May 25 he wan married at Cazton Hall Re-
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A Marine Court appointed by the Governor to in- gister Ofice to Miss Phyllis vestigate the stranding of the British freighter Jackman, of Batternco, and China Fir, which went aground on the easternailed in the new liner in
honeymoon-business trip. approaches of Hongkong harbour on the night
Mr Boden is a member of the
of April 18, began hearing this morning in the firm of Rowan and Boden, Legislative Council Chambers.
biggest sub-contractors to the Queen Mary.
CZ-
The signals were turned on The Court consists of Acting
when the visibility was below Nobody knew he had booked District Judge W. F. Plekering
berthe four-and-half miles.
in her. Nobody even Bre anch three basessors, who Masters of the British Mer- He added that it would take new he was going to be mar cantile Marine:
Capt O. about 15 minutes for the sound-tried. He announced his Work, Extra Master: Capt J. Ring equipment to be ready for gunement on Christmas Day. And when the hornis months after he had book- Mariner; and operation. Torrible, Master
Lawson, Master began tu operate the visibili'yed his honeymoon Cant G.
would be about four miles. Mariner.
Crown Counsel W. S. Collier, assisted by Mr K. Wilburn, pro-be fessional officer for the Marine Department, is conducting the proceedings,
I.
Mr H. F. G. Dennis, is repre- senting the Master of the China Fh, Capt G. C. Walker.
Captain J. W. Jones, Marine
of Superintendent Marden, was evidence.
Wheelock
give
Ørst to
that he He said
was very tamiller with Tathong Channel,
as well as the topography of the
area.
When
usual
asked wh was 's Practice when
clearing the channel, he replied he would Art Lave Lyemun Pass, passing; · the turning buoy on his part side and ten head straight for Waglan. He added that he would only do this when the weather was clear.
THE WEATHER When the weather was in clement, he would wait on t it cleared, the Capt said.
He also said that in his carty passages to and from Tathong Channel he would make his course on a chart and then the course would be in his mind.
"If there were any alterations of course by the currents would take the necessary action," he said.
At
Ruite. least a score of other honey- THE SIGNALS The range of the signals would mooners were aboard with Mr
about two to three miles in and Mrs Boden. Tathong Channel and in Wagian the range would extend to nhau: nine miles, Mr Courtney said,
☆
UT of a multitude of
Conflicting
opinions
Mr G.C. Hill, of Jahnson, Stokes and Master, is represen- which arise when reference ting the owner of the China Fir, is made to the delectable The Fir Ling Ltd.
"birds" nest soup",
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Mr G.S. Stevenson, of Stewart diah and Co, is appearing for thecomes statement from Chief Engineer of the stranded Victor E. Ambrose, Chief ship, Mr James W. Lively.
Hearing is continuing.
VIOLENCE,
DEATH
AT
Steward of the American
Mail Liner
President
McKinley, while his ship was in Manila a short time Manila ago, reports the Bulletin.
"Birds Nest Soup", tra- ditionally famous for its nutritive value, both in the Orient and in our own coun-
DARTMOOR try, is not actually made of
birds' nest, Ambrose de- clared; "The word 'nest' is Dartmoor, June 11. a misnomer; it probably was A knife fight broke out et originally used in a figura. Dartmoor jail today, while tive sense and was the re- prisoners were watching aault of distortion when the movie about a manhunt actual status of this delicacy for a police-killar.
was very vague in the early One prisoner was stabbed to stages of its introduction to
othere were in-China". death, three
Huarda were jured and two kicked in the face before order was restored,
"Bird's Nest" is a gelatin- ors substanes found in and there Guards guid
was naround the nests of swallows Questioned as to whether the passage was one of pilotage or shout and a scuffle in the dark- on the rocky regions of Indo- a pr-China and the South Sea navigation before he had passed ness. Then a sercam ne Tathorg Channel, Capt Jones soner fell to the floor fatally
Islands. The substance is replied that it was pilotage. slabbed, The prisoners were
" do not take bearings un-promptly herded back to their derived from fish and cer- tuin sea foods which the He added that he had the The Dartmoor fight was the birds carry to their nests na fortune of not encountering any
latest in a wave of prison riolsprovision for future use in and strikes throughout Britaithe period of feather shed- in the past two months,-UPI. ding.
less the weather is hazy." Photo taken
A group of 24 prominent Hongkong businessmen have arrived in San Francisco aboard a Pan American Jet Clipper. They are travelling around the world. upon arrival at the San Francisco International Airport shows (left to right): Mr Dick T. Yee of San Jose, California: Mrs Yee: Mrs May F. Chan, Pacino Travel Service; Tour Conductor Mr H. O. Ts'o; and Mr Willam Jack Chow, director of Chinese Chamber of Com- merce and the six companies.
'Wearing apparel'
turned
gold bars
to be
out
During a routine examination of air freight at Kai Tak Airport, a parcel declared as wearing apparel was found by customs officers to con- tain just over 41 taels of gold.
Heung Yee Kuk
councillor
is elected
Soviet trawler enters Boston for medical aid
A
ano
bad weather during his passages out of the Channel.
Asked whether his practice of navigation of a vessel in and out of the Chatime was generally adopted by mariners in general. Capt Jones replied: "I believe So,
KEPT RECORDS
cells.
Some chemical change evidently takes place while
Occupational eg, carried by the birds
hazard!
und during storage in their environment. When prepared for soup it is used in small bits or in filaments and is Mr TV. Courtney, Super-
Michigan City, June 11. intendent
offers transparent and colourless. of Lights in the A nutel owner who
tentifies free television in each Department. Marine
He said that at Waglan there were also fog horn signals.
room
+
London.
Mr Neville Chamberlain told
afternoon that the Government has approved the application by the Cunard-White Star Line were missing next morning for funda to build a sister ship China Mall Special.
to the liner Queen Mary.
Boston, June 11. Soviet fishing trawler that he had kept records of was brooding over the occupa- sailed into Boston harbourlights in various parts of harbour tior ai kazards of business today today seeking medical aid which go on and off.
in Indiana after he replaced Оп April 18, the lights at a set fer a guest who complained the House of Commons this for its skipper and
Wagian were turned on at about the screen was too small, seaman. Both were trans-
0 pm, and were turned off at Both the guest, who said he ferred to a hospital.
about 3 am on April 20.
had bad eyes, and the TV set, The Coast Guard said the 150- foot fishing vessel dropped an- chor at mid-morning, hours be- fore her expected arrival, an On another occasion a search that a party of immigration, party from the Preventive Ser-customs and polk health ser
Acting on information vice officials went aboard. Found 31 transistor radio sets. Dr Kari Kebler o! the in aspectully constructed hid Public Health Service Hospital place on an outward bound in Boston, who went nboard, liner in April,
confinned that the skipper and The radio sets have not beea scoman were "seriously " and elahined, states the Director of ordered than transferred to the Cornmerce and Industry,
hospital. The nnture of their
vice.
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Two small seizures of norca- ncaa wan of disclosed-UTI. ties were made in April despat the efforts of search parties
RAW OPIUM
Three and a half taels of raw
pum were found in a ventila- He shaft of a vessel entering
Mr Yuen Tsing-pak, of Luk Tel Tong Village, Mui Wo, was elected to the Houng Yoo Kuk as a harbour, Another vessel, when Special Councillor for the searched, yielded nine mace of Southern District of the raw oplum hidden behind soms Now Territorios this morn-electric wiring.
ing at the District Offico
Ninety-eight actions were con-
of Sai Kung and Islands, cluded by the Preventive Service during the month under review.
represented an Mr D. R. Holmes, District The total Commissioner, New Territories crease of nirin cases over the preskled over the election at preceding month. which six candidates compried Fines imposed totalled $7,400 for the post.
as compared with $14,210 for the previous month. The One were Out of the 31 elcetors, 30 cast all levied under the Duttable
commedkler ordinance.
Twenty-two prople were Ballot counting was Printed and published by TraRKCE GORDON NEWLANDS PRANCE Rupervised by Mr Ho Chien-ylu.arrested and three were sum for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Chairman of the Heung Yee-mened in connection with all
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Stowaway jailed
A 27-year-old carpenter, Ng Sul-yung, of 42 Ko Sing-street, second floor, who stowed away
to Taiwan to look for a job.
was sentenced to 2 months' in-imprisonment by Mr D. Cons at
Central Court this morning.
Inspector Ip Tal-you said that on June 5 defendant was found on board the 58 Han Yang be tween longitong and Keelung, Taiwan, Defendant was confined in a police station in Taiwan for two days and then chipped back to Hongkong on board the same Ng had one similar conviction ship.
two months ago,
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