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THANKSGIVING DAY
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DINNER
To-night 24th November
1932
Dancing Till 1 a.m.
DINNER DANCE WITH "THE REVELLERS' ORCHESTRA
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1932.
NEW
VEHICULAR
FERRY SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED
-DISTINGUISHED GATHERING WITNESSES- CEREMONY AT KOWLOON. DOCKS
ANOTHER LINK BETWEEN HONG
KONG AND THE MAINLAND
THE MAN KUNG, FIRST OF THE TURCE FERRIES BEING
BUILT BY THE HONG KONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD., TO THE ORDER OF THE HONG KONG AND YAUMATI FERRY CO., LTD., WAS SUCCESSFULLY. LAUNCHED YESTERDAY, AT THE KOWLOON DOCKS. THE LAUNCHING CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED BY MRS. W. T. SOUTHORN IN THE PRESENCE OF A LARGE GATHERING.
THE VESSEL, WHICH HAS BEEN BUILT SPECIALLY FOR THE CARRIAGE OF VEHICLES AND PASSENGERS BETWEEN HONG KONG AND KOWLOON WILL BE THE FIRST OF ITS TYPE
TO OPERATE IN HONG KONG.
ITH DIMENSIONS ARE:-LENGTH! OVERALL 130. FT., BREADTH EXTREME 4 FT, AND DEPTH MOULDED TO VEHICULAR DECK 12 FT. 3 INS. ON THE MAIN DECK A SPACE OF 21 FT, IN BREADTH AND I FT. & INS. CLEAR HEIGHT FOR THE FULL LENGTH OF THE FERRY 18 PROVIDED FOR VEHICLES. ABREAST THIS ON EACH SIDE, THIRD CLASS PASSENGERS WILL BE CARRIED WITH A SALOON FOR THEIR ACCOMMODA- TION AT THE END BELOW DECK. FIRST AND SECOND CLASS PASSENGERS WILL BE CARRIED ON A SEPARATE SHADE DECK
OVER
THE FERRY WILL BE PROPELLED BY TWO GARDNER " FULL DIESEL ENGINES, EACH DEVELOPING 400 B.H.P. AND, BY MEANS OF CLUTCHES, WILL OPERATE TWIN PROPELLERS AT EITHER END 'AS DESIRED WHICH WILL GIVE THE VESSEL A SPEED OF 10 KNOTS ON SERVICE.
IMPORTANT CHAPTER IN HISTORY OF HONG KONG
Mr. J. P. Warren, chairman off
Ladies and Gentlemen I would the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock ask you to rise and drink success Company, in proposing the toast to the Man Kung coupled with
of The Man Kung said Mr the name of Mrs. Southern the and. Mrs. · Southern, Ladies and gracious sponsor. (Applause.) Gentlemen-Firstly let mu thank you for honouring presence hore to-day.
us with your
HON. MR. SOUTHORN RESPONDS
The Hop. Mr. W. T.. Southorn in Mrs. Southorn, on behalf of the! Directors and Management of the response, congratulated the owners Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock and builders of thit new vessel, and
Laid-
his for the vehicular ferry service
is well known as one of our most
enterprising and succesful Con-
panies, and we have every confidence that in its capable hands the vehicu- lar ferry service will realize our fullest hopes. The builders too are known to all of us, and they have a reputation second to noua for the excellence of the work they turn out. Consequently we can put our faith in the Man Kung and when we drive our cars on to her in a few months time we shall know we have a well-built and well-run dip boneath us.
Mr. Warren, I thank you for your kindly reforences to my wife, who hay, as I have, thoroughly en- joyed this visit to the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock this afternoon, and Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you for receiving this toast so en- thusiastically. The Man Kung also thanks you for drinking to her success. She hopes to do honour to her builders and owners and she says that the best compliment you can pay her will be to travel on her as often as possible. (Applause).
MR. LAU TAK PO'S
ADDRESS
Mr. Lau Tak Pu, then proposed the toast of "The Success and Pros perity of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dack Company" by say ing
Mr. Chairman, Mr. and Mrs. Southorn, ladies and gentlemen; On behalf of the directors of The Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Company Limited and myself, I must thank the directors of The Dock Company for their kind invitation to the in- taresting ceremony this afternoon, and for all their good wishes.
Imust also thank Mrs. Southern, for the graceful launch of our now; ferry boat.
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not buy and which, we, the staff of "Ro- the
Dock Company can only, through our industry and crafts. manship, bestow.
Man Kung meaning spect for the Public is the 24th vessel in our fleet to bear the prefix "Man," meaning public. She is the seventh steel double-ended ferry
On behalf of the staff I return boat built for our Company by the
thanks. While talking about the Kowloon Docks. Our 81,800,000 or-, I feel I must refer to Mr.
Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you to raise your glasses and drink to the success and prosperity of The Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, I thank you.
MR. COCK'S REPĻY
Late Compradore.
Phone: 28151
REMARKABLE CHILD PIAMSTE
MISS PACITA LACAYO T VISIT HONG KONG.
Among the passengers arriving
Co, I should like to express to you
der with the Dock Company to our deep sense of gratitude for
Mr. Warren, Ladies and Gentle-build three vehicular ferries will Lo Chung Kue, our inte compra- by the 8.5. President, Cleveland always stand as a silent but impres dore, who passed away a brief time, from Manila to-morrow will be Mrs. your kindness in coming all this men,-On my wife's behalf I should sive testimonial to the ability of ago. He was at the time chairman Clara E. Lacayo, the wife of the way to assist at the christening of like to thank the owners and build the Dock Company, of Cock of The Hong Kong and Yaumati Hen. Consul-General of Nicaragu the Chief Manager, and his skilled the new vehicular forry boat era for giving her the privilege of and efficient staff to build good Forry Co. Ltd., and if he had sur- in Hong Kong, Mr. Trinidad E. Mán Kung a ceremony which you launching the first of the new abips.
vived, would have been a happy Lacayo, and their daughter Mi44 have just performed so gracefully, vehicular ferry boats this after-
man on this day, I now close the Nina Pacita Lacayo. and successfully. Nautical men
noon, thus bringing one step nearer
Miss Lacayo, who is only 12 have the reputation of being supers- the inauguration of that long de-
proceedings with permitting myself, two pleasures the first to hand this years of age, is an accomplished titious, and you have doubtless sired link between Hong Kong
momento to Mrs. Southern, and the pianista and has appeared in many heard of their aversion to going to and Kowloon. Motor cars have
second to offer you a final toast. concerts and given many solo re- sea on a Friday, especially if it now become so much a part of our
Hong Kong is a tribute to the joint citals both in Europe and Mexico. should happen to fall on the 13th daily life that we feel lost without of the month, and should a hitch them, and I cannot but think that Dock Company, then described the enterprice of the Chinese and our In 1930, at the age of 10, she gave acour at the launching of any craft, Hong Kong and Kowloon have been difficulties to be surmounted by selves, incidentally to our mutual her first recital in the presence of
ship-builders, and said-
beneat. May this happy co-opera- about. 5,000 people at the School of it is always taken as a bad omen' drifting further apart sinca motors
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentle. tion long continue, knit together by National Preparatory in Mexico and a precursor of ill-fortune, but became almost universal, for, un-men, I beg to thank Mr, Las Tak those shuttles of commerce-the' City, and met with such success that she was commanded to appear from the perfect way in which the less one can afford to have a motor
before the wife of the President of Man Kung took the water to-day, car on each side of the harbour one
Mexico, Signora Pascual Ortiz thero should be no doubt as to her always has a tendency to be on that acceptance. Now that I have you toast, is that of the owners of the Rubeo. future, thanks to the guiding hand side of the harbour on which one's car is. But now we can revise the old song-
which started her off in life in a proper and fitting manner.
f
Milestone of Progress. The launching of the first of the three yehicular Berries pertainly forms on important chapter in the history of Hong Kong, and definite- ly marks one of the outstanding milestones in the Colony's progress and development, and the Govern-*
"A boat, a bont, Haste to the ferry
i
Mr. Cock, chief manager of the
Po for so kindly proposing the toast of the Dock Company, and ships.. you, ladies and gentlemen for your
must strain your politeness for a minute or two while I talk about shipbuilders.
all corralled here, I
The Shipbuilders,
Ladies and gentlemen the final
ship-The Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Co., Ltd. (Applause).
MRS. SOUTHORN'S RESPONSE
In the same year at the farewell party given to the late Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, American Ambassador to Mexico, she was ask- ed to appear at the concert given at this event, where she again won the admiration of the distinguish-
Miss Lacayo's fame as a pianisto
sometimes persuaded that anyone
Mrs. Bauthorn, in thanking Mr.ed party. can build ships. Unlike the bridge Cock, wittily remarked that the builder who generally works with gift (cigarette-case) would do then began to spread, particularly straight materials, or the engineer nearly as much work as the Man ples and while passing through among the Spanish-speaking peo who exists almost entirely on, grome-
The Guests.
I believe the shipbuilder is too much taken for granted, and that And we'll go over and be the public and potential owners are merry,'! And in future we shall sing-
"A car, a car, Haste to the ferry
trical shapes, the shipbuilder is an Kung itself, and paid tribute to Europe on her way to Manila from And we'll go over and be merry.exponent of curvilinear engineer- the Glover contrivance by the aid Mexico, she was invited by the You will notice that forries are ing, and the building of a ship..
Nicaraguan Consul-Genoral in Bar- ment is to be congratulated on this traditionally associated with morri apart altogether from matters of of which she was able to officially colous to appear at a concert where new undertaking providing as it ment, so that we are justified in jointing of a lot of irregularly
design, comprises the shaping and launch the vessel.
many Consular officials and other distinguished people were present. will do, a regular and up-to-date our optimism as to the advantages fashioned, parts of rather unyield
Miss Lacayo first learned tho cervice for vehicles and passengers. to be gained from an improved ing, hard and generally intractable Guesta present at the ceremony piano, from one of the mast materiale, succouring and support. As an occupart of one of the ferry service, and with the introng one another while forming a included.-Hon. Mr. and Mrs. W. famous Mexican music professors, offices on the waterfront, I look duction of the vehicular ferry Isymmetrical watertight whole the T. Southom, Sir Shauson Chow, Sigher Manual Barajas, at the
of geven... upon the passing of the old motor leak for a greater appreciation of bull of a ship. And in this lick Hon. Dr. Kotewall. Mr. J. P. car lighter with mixed feelings. Kowloon by Hong Kong and in the difference I have indicated Warren, Commodore Laurie, R.N.. Lacayo will stay here for only a the craft of the shipbuilder, and
According to her father, Mias No more will the workers in Queen's greater sympathy with Hong Kong lies bis difficulty.
Hon. Mr. E. Taylor, Hon. Mr. R. short while, after which she will. Building be able to relieve the by Kowloon, and for & fuller in-
The trades involved in the build. M. Henderson, Mr. J. Owen go to Europe where she hopes, to monotony of their lives by watching terchange of ideas between the more ing and completion of the ship com Hughes, Mr. V. M. Grayburn and continue her studier. the fate of cars being hoisted on conservative mother and her very makors, plumbers, boilermakers, Hallifax, Mr. K. E. Greig, Hon. Jocs) charitable concerta will avail prise carpenters, joiners, pattern Miss Grayburn, Hon. Mr. E. R. It is hoped that organisers of and off the lighter, to say nothing modern and go-ahead daughter. coppersmiths, electricians, engine Mr. J. P. Braga, Comdr, G. F. of the adventures of the unfor-
Closer Relationship. tunate ponios which, perforce, have
stters, moulders, blacksmiths, rivet Hole, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. King, 1mselves of this opportunity to ters, caulkers, masons, as well as Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe, Mr. L.. G. acquire the servicos of this accom
plished young pianfete. other minor handicrafts, and per Dodwell, Mr. and Mrs. D. Purves, to cross the harbour from time to¦ Mr.. Warren made use of the exhaps I am not claiming too much Mr. and Mrs A Nicholls, Mr W time. On the other hand we shall, pression "all this way im his re-when I say that no engineering O. Lambert, Mr. and Mrs. N. Gar- have the advantages of a modern marks. By the aid of the Man structure has more individuality or land, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hall, Mr Bokupa Maru," Mr. Lau Tak Po, and much-needed service, which King and her sister chips were personality then the ship G. Swan, Mr. Felix A. Joseph, Mr. Mr. Lik Mui, Mr. and Mr
whether she be one foot or one M. A. Johnson, Mr. F. H. Crap- Philip Cockchin, Hon. Mr. T. N.. will be a great boon and convent hope to change that expression into thousand feat long. And when we Hell, Capt and Mrs. J. Krong. Chau, Mr. Lo Koon Hang, Mr. Lo ence to motoriste and lovers of this short distancs " and so bring are paid our sordid final instal- Moe, Mr. A. "Anderson, Rey, and Koon Kan, Mr. Wong Kwong Wa horsellesh.
ment and the vessel is handed over Mr. W. Walton Hogors, Mr. C. 3. Mr. and Mrs, Young Taun Dart, Hong Kong and Kowloon into closer to her owners as a nearly living Sargent, Headmaster D.B.B. and Mrs. Young Sayo, Dr. and Mrs. Mra, Southern, wo ali'know that; relationship both in business and thing she takes with her & bit of 20 Boys, Miss Gubbay and MissF. I. Kow, Mr. Li Tse Fong, Dr you are a very busy woman and we in pleasure." therefore appreciate all the more. your presence here today, and I
Ladies and Gentleman, I congra- ali conclude by thanking you once bulate the owners and builders of again for the service you have just rendered to the Yaumati Ferry Cote Men Kung on their enter and the Hong Kong and Whampoa prise. The Yaumati Ferry Com
pany which has obtained the Iran-
Dock.Co.
us. I am sure that I interpret the Muriel Gubbay, Mr. and Mrs J and Mrs. Kwon Sum Yin, Mr. feelings of the men, both Europeans H. Jessen, AH White, Mr. Wong Ping Suen, Mr. Chan Kam and Chinese who have shared in and Mrs. J. Howell, Mr. Lawrence Yung, Mr. Choy Wai Hung, Mr. the building of this ship when adooria, Sir Elly Kadoorie Wong Choi Hoo, and say that they feel that some of their Comdr. and Officers N.R.P. “Ad- Lâu Ta Po. Mr. Lau Chân Kwok,, personality-is-built into the vessel, amastor Captain and-Officers-Miss-Lau-Po Yee, Mr and Mr and that the Man Kung taken as Sui An, Scalaria" and Liang Shi Yi, Mr. and Mrs, Liang with her something which you eat» (Dontinued as foot of next-Column), Kwaf Din.