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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1960.

GOC-in-C attends Confirmation service at St. Andrew's

More than '50 candidates, including severol mom- bers of the Army, word confirmed by the Right Reverend R. O. Hall, Bishop of Hong Kong, at a confirmation service at St. An- drew's Church, Kowloon, yesterday morning.

A large congregation, in- cluding Lieutenant-General Sir E C. Robert Manseigh, GOC- in-C, attended the service. Sir Robert was accompanied

| by his Aldr-de-Camp, Lieuten- ant-Colonel T. H. Spears, and. Lieutenant-Colonel Maddoc, OC 42 Commando.

the

von-

The Lessons were rend by Sir Robert Mansergh and Mr. James

Wicks.

Exhibition of Chinese banknotes

are

They

A hundred

years ago

Talos told. in "China Mail " files. A sour Indlan nate on famous diamond-

The Dahl Gazette Intimates that the Queen has declined to receive the Koh-i-Noor

PERSONALITY PARADE No. 5-- Ruler of the Princely Hong

Mr. Landale «talks with caso and competence on many sub- iny sociology.`)

The Jardine traditions die many occasions by heads of Jar-Chinese call the Princely Hong," hard, but the men who guide dines by virtue of their role as mainly because of this policy.

the leading local businessmon.. the policies of the largest and oldest commercial firm on the China coast are people who move with the times. Only heads with local governments In International outlook

The association of Jardine Infinite tact and initiative will Hong Kong and Shanghai has

British policy | Jesta, but "ho is mostly interested

keep Jardines on the summit often led people to suspect that

prize, and suggests a special sub-cell and confusion, is another 1920

Scotsman In

of

His Scottish ancestry fong-ago

It now occupies a slight re- ultimate British polley in Chino lost the battle it fought with his laxing, a slip in command, a determined by what they think international outlook to preserve is best for their business. Mr. the insularity of a Dumfriesshire may well prove of incalculable Landale denies this on the plea tad. Mr. Landale is at levoted Gulding the destiny of this ed in politics only in commerce. by inclination and character he significance.

that Jardines was nover interest to Robert Burns and haggis, but great enterprise, in a period of

He was married in London in

truly belongs to that contracting After a short holiday he circle of people known as "the scription in

a long ling in all parts of Her

Old China Hands. returned to China with his witc distinguished forebears Majesty's dominions for the pur- Dumfriesshire.

from to settle down in Hong Kong behaviour in the

His reserve extends from blu On pose of purchasing the jewel and

the Hon.

ofice to his presenting it to fer as a token David Fortune Londale has fol-

social obligations, and be prefera of the loyalty and affection 01 lous immediate course of his the task of piloting the peri-

to work anonymously. Although Her 'subjects.

ale contributions to charity are large, they are done without a Bourish of trumpets. No edlice has been erected to. commemo- rate his gifts, but it is well- known that his financial support of many local charities and good causes aro most generous

Jen

on

He did not serve in the forces during the first world war, being then in Chinh, but he spent most of the second with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He was belied on HMS Quees: Eliza

and very often the action was intense and dangerous.

Jardine's demands tax 60 heavily on his time that· Mr. Landale has few opportunities to Jadulge in some of his hopplest hobbles, like yachting and tennis. He has one of the finest yachts in the Colony, but I mbatly Jonhed out to his friends and

members of the Jarding staff.

He served

on the Legislativa Council for a number of years, but recently asked to be relieved of this duly because of pressure of other business. However, he re- tains his seat a an Unofficial mem-

Fond of music

there La

Arm which began more than Morning Prayers were

Double

money 100 years ago on a shoestring among the aristocracy ducted by the Reverend J. K.

and others whose interest lies in and is now the giant in its field. Ogilvie, Vicar of St. Andrew'r Hundreds of thousands of dol-, keeping things as they turc, în-

Many of the qualities which Church. Mr. S. G. Hemery, or-lars in banknotes are being ex- cluding the heavy charge

Dr. Willipus Jardine and made 01 gaulst and choir master, was athibited at the Chinese Chamber royalty, to buy the bauble an. their dimeulties when the firm Mr. James Matheson overcome Commerce, 64 Connaught place it as the brightest jewel in Road, Centre by the one as the British Crown. But such a bearing their name was first es- K. M. Yuan of Shanghai,

tablished on the mudbanks of not would be no proo Khu

of However, the banknotes

Canton in 1832, continue to pre- loyalty of the people at large. The Reverend I. E. Morris, Chinese Paper money

It could only be given to and their

vall Her

In the men who all their Senior Chaplain of the Forces, face value is worthless.

rolc. In Her capacity of Queen and prosented the Army candidates for represent the collection of three Biller of the British Empire; and sensed the immense potentiality In 1832 these two Scotsmen confirmation.

hit present, both at home and fry In a short and inspiring address, Renerations of the Yuan family.

This is the Arst exhibition of the colonies, there is too much content to build on foundations of the China trade, and were Bishop Hall told the congregats kind in the Colony and the mismanagement and consequent which were by no means certain. tion of the responsibility and exhibition privilege of young people in join- and tomorrow.

will continue today suffering to allow of any large The Imperinf Viceroys were

ding upon the loyalty and affec ing the Fellowship of the Chris-

over tion of the sufferers."-Madras were hard and long, and there ricky and sinister, negotiations Altogether there arc tian Church

4,000 specimens, the oldest of Crescent,

were no precedents at all which a 1,000 Sen note of the

Sandwich Island Princes dogged people who were inspired which to rely. But they were

Canada steamer hos by the grandeur of the prize, and brought to England she Hon. G. P. lived long enough to see the Judd, American Mininer to His acorn they had planted slowly Hähness the King of the Send-emerge into the oak it now is.

Dut the war with Japan in The Landales have four children 1942 badly hit this prosperous three daughters and a boy, beir-pre- Lihihi panied by Alexander

firm, and when Mr. Landale re- to the Kawallan Ihr aumplive

throne,

Now 45 years of age, he la onu cal condition of Jardings had redines has ever had. been lost, personnel scattered Mr. John Keswick, in Shanghai, With Sir turned to what it was in 1832. John Buchanan-Jardine and Mr. Millions of dollars in assets had W. J. Keswick, in London, and

Mr. Landale lives, quietly with and disorder reigned.

he guides the fortunes of his firm his family in a pleturesque, from a roomy.office in the Jar-rambling house at Shek. O. He in dine building on Pedder Street. fond of musle but choses olassical moustache. Trained from child of leisure.

A tall men, he sports small rather than jazz for his few hours hood for an executive position, He says that from the point of

wich". Islands,

The Hon, D. F. Landals

Frederick David Rhodes y over 40 years ago by Mr. Yuan's 3 and his brother. Eat a turned from England the physis of the youngest executives Jar.ber of the Executive Council; ^

MOBS.

All Saints Church: Chay Shin Ki Leap and Chan Mel-chun.

Holy Trinity Church: Dorothy King and Mimi Wung.

to Hong

the

QUEEN'S COLLEGE

OLD BOYS

are

on

he disposes of his duties with view of adventure hip life has ease and decorum,

been uneventful, because His staff And him a man of course was mapped out for him

the

Those confirmed included: St. Andrew's Church: Frances Sung Dynasty which dates back Elizabeth Alison Stewart. Jessie to 700 years ago. Margaret Christine Stewart, Rus-

Most valuable notes of the sell George Symons, Myrtle Jean collection are banknotes issued Symons, Margaret Blenkinsop, in 1904 by the Tung Shan Bank Hillary Hale, Jeannette Margaret and the Shin Yen notes, Lasued Davies, Beatrice Frances Tanner,

Fanner,by the Bank of Cheklang. Shiela Cree Belton, Grace

The collection was started | www. Evangeline Becker, Thelma

ley, John Victor

grandfather. Mr. Yuan the pre- Bollom Rhodes ley, Donald Dunne, Michael Sal- length and breadth of China. 10 They speak Engilsh with pleasing

sent

has travelled the The brothers owner

About 17 and 16 years of age. ter, John Staddon Davis, Andrew order to Oui. Shirley Read, Lilian White- complete the collection. Because

obtain specimene correctness, giving every evidenco head, Mildred Joan

Read,

Mar

of the entry of the Communists The youngest has been selected of good manners and education, garet Sandra Chan, Henry Frank into Sheoghal, Mr. Yuan had to Farmiloe. Ertiest Ralph Alexan bring his collection

Three men left by his uncle the King to succeed fler, James Thomas Knowler, Kong.

him should he himself die child- There were only three mon left Gordon Jeffery Hudd, John Ed- He expressed the hope that less,

on the staff, the building ward Clork and George Charles he may be able to take

This, however, is but a remote Pedder Street was stripped of all

married an collection abroad to show to the probability, as he is

moveables, and the laborious St. Mary's, Church: Wong Fung-people of the world.

is only 34 years of age. The work of a century had been vir- chi and Wong Fong-roun.

Princes have been received attually undone. Nuw. York with becoming dignity. Into this chaos stopped Mr. considerable understanding, but from youth and all hu’had to do and will no doubt meet in Eng- Landale. He returned fresh from a meticulous employer who is was to follow his star. Tand with similar

miliar respect,"

war service with the Royal interested in every phase of Jar But the people who work for Naval Volunteer Reserve, but severe, not conducive to familia They realise the importance of hid

dine The Queen's College Old Boys' The condition of China the herculean nature of the rarity, and he is usually very re- task, and the manifold respons!- activity. His appearance is him at Jardines know better. Association held its 23rd annual

All the monthly meeting of the construction appalled him. For served. But ne Jardine executive bilities which are his. A meeting at Edinburgh House on March 31.

England, man accustomed from birth to

From Kung Kong this giant Dr.. Gutzleit, the Chinese travel- the unruffled comfort of an as-in history enjoys a greater. re The following oficials for 1950

encompasu fer and chief interpreter to Bri-sured role, the task was not easy. Putation for democrate idealism. firm spreads out to were elected: May

Mr. Landele tesided early in China and Japan. It sells every But ahead was the incentive of tish establishments Mr. Hin-shing Lo (President)

Chine, ever presented tabular statements re-aghting qualities of his predeces

even greater expansion, and the

Liberation

that the Imperithing from tooth-picks to tractors, C. Lee and H. Messrs:

alist tendencies of N. Williamson (Vice-Presidents): garding the topography popula

frum aviation Mr. Lo Chi-chin (Hon. Socre- tlon, government and revenue more. Today, despite the periis not do for the future. According

asserted themselves once operations of the past would ping.

all, with system of the Chinese Empire. tary) and Mr. Henry H. L. Kwqk

Over t

other directors in

Hong Kong, presides "The principal effect of the of a difficult future, Jardines is iy, he embarked on a policy of Hon. Treasurer).

bigger then it ever was. The ex- reconciling his staff to the Im- thiaminn whose mother Pheforte Committee members comprise learned gentleman's memoir was

astute recon mense capitalism represented by her marriage wna ironically cell- Messrs: Mok Ying-kwal, Mak the removal of nearly all apparent pansion-which New Botanical Gardens yester- Fook-ling and Lee Hin-leong.

Kai-hung. Pun Sbill-luen, tp ground for the incredulity with struction made Inevitable--is a Jardines, by a wider distribution od Miss Fortune. His mode

which the accounts hitherto given tribute to the man whose work of profits and benefits. In recent regardless, the influence of Mr. years no labour strike of any Landale's personality is felt in made it possible. Conductor C/Sgt. C. E. Packer

of the population of China havgi

David Fortung Landale is a importance has disrupted the every received li been commonly chose

where a pleasing selection

more than 100 smooth functioning of what the of Jardine filles. Scotsman. Io marches, waltzes and dances Hebrides-Fingal's Cave (Men-Europe. It is said to amount to

Jardines has which were well-appreciated by delssohn); William Tell (Ros-in desuription of the financial ever been anything cise. One of

*lni); Naila (Delibes) The concert included the Entry Sanctuary of the Heart (Ketel- conclusion that China is approach-me a tradition like

andaffairs of the Empire leads to the the coincidences which has since the of the Gladiators (Fucick); The boy).

a crisis very similar to that Andrew's Day is the

hoggis which is ing bas

cate Dumfries- which

again and heralded the political revolutions shire origin of the Jardine execu- of European/States...The mos insist on an Old School Tic-but lives. Enguah organisations may remarkable

result of these finan-Jardines simply say you must cial difficulties the consequen cofne from

and embarrassment of the Government family. Belag Scottish alone is a Dumfriesshire

Diocesan Girls School: May Auyeung, Alverne Geon, Bertha Lam, Esther Lam, Patricia Wong, Minnie McInnes, Mary Romany. May Kwan, Coralie Gilber Shirley

Prognell and Progueli.

BAND CONCERT The band, pipers and dancers of the King's Own

Scottish Borderers entertained p large crowd of music lovers at the

day.

the audience.

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In

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no head of

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the flag

on St.

ss. Hanyang loads cargo

for Tientsin

Ordnance men honoured at dinner

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the appcarniice of something very like a domberalte

not quite enough. movement

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Loading of general cargo, con

A dinner given by staff

He was born in Shanghai insisting mostly of newsprint, des- members of the Ordnance De- among the vement others, we1905, Into a family already well fined for Tientsin delayed the pot, Mechanical Transports-

With this are told, are also apparent, of a known along the China Coast, Baling of the ss. Hanyang yes-tlon Section, Kowloon Tatif.

His father had been associated terday. less regular and more dangerous with the firm since 1888, and the

in honour of Captain HT. character --- communism

Harris and Mr. H. T. Lay- Only one of 10 European pas-rence, who are leaving for the being Landates maintained a large and preached from the text so much magnificent establishment in suster is one for North China United Kingdom, was held at affected by anarchists ncarer

He la Mr. D. E. Baillie, home, that the poor are get-gous old Treaty Fort.

After early schooling the young

the Hotel Nainen "lest oven- poorer and the rich Langale was sent

sant to Elon, and

The other foreign passengersing. ticher every day, and that all from there to Balliol, Oxford. He are all for Inchon. They include The dinner was attended by ascial ills are to be qued by finished his education with dis- Miss 6. J. Irwin, Miss. A. 4. re-distribution of

the wealth of tinction, but did not return to Mehjabb, Mr. H. Laidlaw, the more than 30 members of the the community. In short, the China immediately as his father Beverend H. W. Lane, Mrs. J. staff of the Dend polities of the Celestial Empire was anxious that he should stay pang, Miss M. Lane, Marler : D.

Captain Harris, Chief of the were described is now bearing; a and work for timp in Londone, and Mr. and Mrs. G. S. 5. Depet, came out to the Far East very close reemblance to those When he did come back, it was up.

of other countries in which to hølda: minor position. In Central despolism has, under our | Shanghai. The elder Landale was More than 80 Chinese passen own eyes, fallen into retrievable chairman of the Shanghal Muni- Kers have booked passage on the ruža before a financiqi, deficit." cipal Council, an office held on steamer for Noria China.

BEGGARS ROUNDED UP

rald was carried out by party of police and the Happy Valley, district to round up-beggaks

In 1847. He served two years in Singapore and came to Hong Kong last year. He joined the Army in 1927 and

SAW active service in Egypt, the Sudan and Palestine wiring the worl

Lawrence, Assistant at the and unlicensed hawkers yesterday: Swire vessel's general cargo be-Depot, who was transferred here, During the ral, je Police visit-side newsprint are calculating in 1948 served with the Army St. Margaret's Church" and machines, steel bars; copper wire, In West Africa during the war. outside, arrested six beggers, in-acetic acid, soda powder, causatle He lecturilor to London by cluding cripple and two sada, gunny bags, rope, and the Empire Hallidale foreigin

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