THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3,
1936.
Garden City
City Envisaged On Site Near Shing Mun BIG DEVELOPMENT SCHEME TO START ON MAINLAND
COUNTRY CLUB, GOLF LINKS, TROUT FISHING IN LAKE OF GIGANTIC DAM
SHING MUN, NOW HEALTHIEST PART OF COLONY, WILL SOON BECOME GREAT SPORTING CENTRE
"Telegraph" Staff Representative. WORK will commence at Shing Mun shortly on the big- gest garden city scheme ever envisaged for this Colony.
When the project is completed, Hongkong's tired business man will be able to drive 14 miles into the country from the Star Ferry and
Play golf, on a 9 (later 18) hole course that will be among the most beautiful in the world;
Swim in a full-size fresh waler swimming pool;
Play tennis and similar sports;
Fish for rainbow trout in the Jubilee Reservoir lake;
Relax in a first-class country club that will be the acme of comfort.
Adequate capital to load the ambitious scheme has, 1 learn, already been secured, and there is every reason to believe that work will start in the near future.
I understand that the Hongkong Government has approved in principle the details of the scheme, and has made known its' cond)- tions governing the proposed development.
The scheme was originally conceived in order to salve a con- siderable amount of the preliminary and other expenditure in- curred by the Hongkong Government in connection with the Shing Mun Valley Water Scheme.
This expenditure included construction of the access road from Tsun Wan to Shing Mun, the money spent in the construction of drains, ele. in connection with anti-malarial work, the cost of bring- ing electric lights and power to Shing Mun and the cost of water supply and sanitation.
Once constructional work
the Jubilee Reservoir was com- i
pleted there was no further 180.
Photo
of these preliminary Exhibition
Was
for any
and Government works, faced with a total loss insofar as they are concerned.
——A}}--of· Ute works. however, will be used in the development scheme outlined in this article..
It de proposed, firstly, to build a will ntre-hole golf course, which ultimately be made an 18-hole course. Construction of these links will necessitate approximately 750,- All. 000 yards of excavation and Estimates show that it this work is done which exist at Shing Mun are re- moved, the cost will be most moder- ate.
the now, before facilities
On Monday
VER five-hundred--at-the-berl- pictures entered in the sixth an mal Amateur Phulographie Campe- tition sponsored by the Telegraph
be on view at the Gloucester will Hotel, top floor, from Monday to Friday, both days inclusive.
The Exhibition will remain open all day, and admission will be free. All interested in amateur photo- graphy are cordially invited to see this big display, the standard of which
with! compares favourably The scheme for building the golf that of amateur exhibitions in any course also envisages the construc- tion of a club house. It is proposed to run the golf club in a manner similar to that employed at existing clubs in the Colony. At the same time, facilities will be extended to tourists.
In addition to the Golf Cluh house, the plans call for the con- struction of a first class country club, which will be open to real- where dents and tourists, and unsurpassable residential accommo- dation will be available for week- ends, etc..
There will also be many beautiful
part of the workl
Attention is also drawn to the fact 5.30, that on Tuesday evening, at Dr. F. Bunje, one of the Competi- tion Judges, will give a talk at the in whieh he will deal Exhibition, with the exhibits, their. aud defects,
qualities.
AIR RACE WINNER
A recent photograph of C. W. A. Scott, winner of the Johannesburg air race and £10,000 prize. Photo courtesy. Ilford's Ltd.
BAN ON PUBLICATION OF NEWS TO BE RELAXED CENSORSHIP of Chinese newspapers in Hongkong will, as an
ticipated by the "Telegraph" last month, be considerably modified in future.
Information to this effect was received by the Telegraph" from a most reliable source this morning.
Following disclosures in the "Telegraph" of the unwarranted censorship of innocuous items appearing in Chinese newspapers, the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, is understood to have re-opened the entire subject, despite the fact that the Le- gislative Council voted with only two dissentients against removal of censorship.
be
-While-censorship of Chinese-nova--|-- It will be recalled that the Tele-. papers will remali, the Government graply" Censors will, it is understood,
to cut rensorship to a instructed minimum, and will be requested in conlinie deletions to:
(a) anything subversive of loyalty
to the British Empire: (b) anything Ilkely to damage Hongkong's relations with Japan or any other friendly nailon;
(c) communistic doctrine; (d) matter likely to incite breaches of peace and good order in Hongkong:
(c). Indecent matter in contraven- tion of Ordinance No. 15 of 1914.
The Censors have been informed that, in future, censorship must not be used, as in the past, to keep un individual's name out of the news- papers.
declared that the Chinese censors had not only deleted the names of the leading parties in recent sensational stabbing altray, bat had alsu deleted all reference to this incident and thee censorship in a subsequent reference.
Chinese newspapers in future wil}, subject to the exceptions (n) to (c) outlined
to above, be allowed publish fecely, everything publish- ed being subject to the ordinary Jawa of libel, as with English newspapers. It is understood that inforination to the above effect will be conveyed to all Chinese newspapers next week. In the meantime, those responsi- ble for the preparation of a petition protesting against the censorship are being asked not to proceed. with their idea, in view of Government's to restrict the powers of decision the Censors,
THIS MORNING'S POSTBAG
WHEN Tommy Rose broke they done and the machine being re- London-Capetown record, I liable, is safer than motoring, but the human factor Is what counts. Similarly Wo soared above reached Mount Blanc, 15,780, and
the 17,300 once by altimeter over Rhone Valley
sites available for the construction wrote and pointed out that al- of private residentials of a superlor type, for such Hongkong residents though flying was considered by who care to live in this prettiest dis-most people to be the meticr of a trict in the Colony.
young man, many records had facilities
will include been broken, and meritorious Sporting fishing, for the plans include
who flights performed by men scheme for stocking the Jubilee re-
Torce during the war, 60 could had seen service in the Royal Air
not be considered young men,
servoir
а
truly be lake with rainbow trout, the spawn imported from Canada.
AL
own
A full size swimming pool will draw its crystal clear supply of I have recently received a letter, fresh water from the Reservoir it-trom a gentleman I do not know, selt.
which not only bears out my previ- beyond A recent visit to the site, which ous statement, but proves
acres, shows that doubt that there is no age limit, covers many
within reason, to which a man can when this scheme is finished, WH provide one of the most at- fly, provided, of course, he is tractive and beautiful recreative Not only has he flown his and residential centres the machine, over the Matterhorn, 14,- world.
700 feet, and Mount Blanc, 15,780 Throughout the year, the climate feel, but at the age of seventy with nt Shing Mun is glorious. Since the a friend of sixty-seven he finds intensive
anti-inalarial campaign, serobatics stimulatingi
The following is an extract from started In connection with the con- struction of Jublice Reservoir, thehis letter to me: district has also become the Colony's "I am sending you this note for two reasons. First I want to thank
healthiest.
The golf links will be at an al- you'henrlily for the great help af titude varying from 400 to 600 feet forded me by your book...
at
He goes on to speak about the machine he has, and others which he intends to try..
Roads, opposite the Peninsula Hotel, would seem to be une admirable for this purpose, and would require no clearing. The children's playground next door could be incorporated in the
the scheme. Alternatively, Kowloon Marinu would provide a magnificent site.
P. B. P.
I think that this should settle "Taipo Belle" Tip
ance and for all the question of age In connection with private and should also answer the ques- tion I have
asised: so often been "Do you think I could learn to By?" Practically everyone can do so if he Is At, which should be encouraging to some of our young men In Hong- kong who are, perhaps, hanging back because they think I might bo a waste of time and money.
of
Aying. WHI
WHILE congratulating the K.C.R.
"Talpo
Belle" and the promise
of an air-conditioned car next year, I think they should take a tip, lift up the carpet from the bar-room "Talpo Belle" and substitute something that will stand up to the ravages of spirits and cigarettes. Otherwise, it's going to cost a powerful lot laying down a new carpet every now and then.
FANLINGERER
I make the usual disclaimer that I have no connection with the Fly- Ing School at Kai Tak. I have had,
and still get, a great thrill out of Picnic For Blind flying and so would like others to enjoy the same experience.
AVIATOR, WILL. you please give publicity in *Globa
your columns to the follow- air-trotter C. W. A. Scott, winner nj Melbourne,; Ing:- Johannesburg air races, was born in 1003.
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above sea level, and will commund Heston In 1934 when I was already Plea For Playgrounds. beautiful views in all directions. 60. It led out the terse admini-,
Even in mid-summer, cool breezes tions of Copt Baker and Davy
at mere rule-of-thumb flyer is of no Shin Mun, both from the north-value. east and south-west during the res
nrc
at all times experienced
THE officlul suggestion for two open spaces on the Government Civil Hospital site and near Jordon
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The Kowloon Tong Group of the V.D.M.A. acknowledge with grate- ful thanks the following donations towards the Pienic for the Blind which is to be held on October 24.
Anonymous No. 1 $20;
Well Wisher $10; "A" $5; K. C. Tsang $10.
Offers of Cars-Oscar May; Mra A. W. Hayward; Anonymous No. 1; I shall be very glad to receive Would it not be possible to have, further donations and/or offery of
loans of cars.
"I have since enjoyed vory inter-Rond will, I am sure, meet with the esting work in the Alps and now at approval of all. But these are ad- pective seasons....
old Jacent to congested Chineso areas residents, the 70 I find aerobatics with an- For Hongkong
and undoubtedly will be used scheme will provide an amenityfriend, who is 67, stimulating. I
tirely by Chinese. that has been long-wanted. For take my blind course tourists and other visitors to the (blind dying course). You Colony. It will be not the least of Capt. Baker (who does not, how the manifold attractions Hongkong ever, approve of my Alpine work) has to offer.
made it clear to us that dying enne
June,
and
In addition, a garden in a European. quarter? The kite bounded by Salisbury, Nathan and Middle
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12.15. a.m. Close Down.
Joins Race Around The Globe
DR. B. FALCONER TO ARRIVE OCT. 28
Travelling independently of the three New York journalists who are racing around this world via ine Atlante. Dr. Bolivar Falconer, Foreign Correspondent of LIC Washington Star, is setting out from San Francisco on October 21 in an attempt to make a tour around the world in record time.
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Dr. Falconer
Jeave San Francisco by the Pan American Air- ways' Clipper plane on October 21 and will arrive in Hongkong on October 28. He will leave here by
Airways". Dorado Imperial
on flight October 30, continuing his around the world by Imperiul Air- ways to Europe and then across the Atlantic by Graf Zeppelin. 1
This Dr. Falconer's second at- tempt to create a world's record, *hla previous plans having abruptly to terminated at Hongkong owing the refusal of Pan-American Airways to take him across the Pacific before their regular service started.
EX-MARINE
HERO. DIES FOR MURDER
x-
Florence, Ariz., Oct. 2. Roland Cochrane, An marine, twice decorated for. bravery during the Nicaragus fighting, was executed in a polson gas chamber to-day for a hold- up and murder which netted him. $2.45.-Uniled Press.
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