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TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1951.

Falf the post-war industries in Hongkong which have made what might fairly be described as dramatic pro- gress, cotton spinning takes first place.

The textile trade, in fact, has become one of the Colony's biggest absorbers of skilled labour, and the success or otherwise of this industry impingas itself sharply on the general welfare of Hongkong.

Here bɛlow, then, our staff correspondent who is writ- ing a series of special articles on local fight industries, tells readers something about

COTTON SPINNING IN HONGKONG

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trees

Until 1947 there was not Japanese and other ports, had, hundred are engaged in running through, the workers' quarters, in cultivating a single cotton spinning by negotiation, come

the Mrássy slopes, planting of the fact that the and flowers, in running the barber In spite mill in the Colony. That Mills were losing at one period shop, canteen, loundry, and other year saw the completion of or the crisis, full production Mekeeping services, one very small mill of some was maintained in all the spin- Shanghai Workers

¡ning mills. 4,000 spindles, but by No-

Having led over one dim- The skilled workers were, in the vember, what Was to culty, Hongkong textile, indus-first instance. drawn from Shang- hai or in the districts further north, trialists are become one of the largest danger of their markets being the Japanese during the war, who now facing the where they had been trained by cotton mills in Hongkong

"baffed". Japan who, before from Europeans before the hostil

in turn, acquired their knowledge and equal to the best the war, was operating 11,000,-

Hles were begun. These workers esch mill. formed the nucleus in equipped cotton spinning 000 spindles, had most of her

scrapped during the but proving troublesome as a re- More than 6,000 registru- and weaving mills in

rult of thèle : political differences, every split net about, training Can- tion of persons forms were world, had begun to make spindles had reached the com- once workers to replace them. Mr Justice Scholes in handed out in two hours in its appearance.

parative low. level of 3,000,000 The Nanyang Cotton Mill was cre spindles. Now, however, all of these. The former position when the Supreme Court this Kowloon this morning, and The Nanyang Cotton Mill restrictions have been removed, poried, has now been reversed. Foo two thirds of the workers were im. was designed to and, with her raw cotton sup-ising, however, morning gave judgment for another 4,000 were issued for instance.

appears to run contain masses of machinery plles

being

by satisfactorily on A nity-fifty basis. subsidised plaintiff with costs. in a at

Road Hennessey

from America. brought over

ไป increasing Training new workers presents its were started America, Japan claim brought, by.. Li. Yin- Government School in Hong- The foundations

technical schools in the Colony for In November, 1947. By April, her spindleage rapidly and will dieuities as there are insufficient bun, of 15, Connaught Road kong daring the

soon be in a position to export texule engineering, the factories 1949, the Mill was in partial har

her textile

into Roods Central, first floor," against period.

the themselves arrange for the training. operation and by August of that market of Southeast Asia

which besides losing valuable time Mak Sik-kay and Cheng) Sau-chun, trading as Messrs tunity for

This week is the last oppor- Same year 20,000 spindles were low prices. Like Japan, here in

made. Frequently after, an expen- revolving at 11,000 times per Hongkong we must buy our members

apprenticeship of three to minute. Since then another 5 raw material from abroad, cater eighteen months, these trainees are Chung Shun, otherwise general public who have not

spindles have been added for a comparatively negligible

by the known

hitherto registered to obtain the together with a complement of amount of the finished products haps, the incentive for each

uffer of higher wages. Ketill to Shun Chung Loong.

necessary forms,

for local needs, and depend outde the other in providing their the Nanyung in size; they are bulk production of yarns

other mills outdo upon export to dispose of the employees with as many amenities DE possible, resulting in Hongkong and being noted for

in its progress the Hongkong Cotton Mill with plece goods.

welfare werk. Only one factory 38,000 spindles and the Kowloon

provides no accommodation for its staff.

The Nanyang Cotton Mill has the asentje beauty of perfectly planned machinery operating with electric

near perfori

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to vacate the front garden de- spite repen.ed requests,-

Defendants were not present and were not legally represent

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Only two

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pression under

The claim was for possession Registration will br completed of 17, Sands Street, and it was

01: Friday. alleged

that the defendants

The total number of Kowloon were squat ers and had falled

who

Textiles, with about a thousand Truc it is that the pastiion in' applied residents registration papers at the Kwong less in number. There are now Hongkong has become a little

thirteen cotton Wah Hospital yesterday wastaf

spinning mills, easier since Shanghai has ceas- about 12,000 said an official of operating some 200,000 spindles.ed to export her cotton yarns the Registration Department this duly established, all of them and piece goods to Hongkong-ditions, space, deanliness of

located in Kowloon, stretching one competitor out of the way, morning.

whether up the Castle Peak Road as far but

permanently, is Wan Village their anyone's gitess. Tsun official at the Hennessy normal capacity being doubled i Road Government School sold by workers operating two shifts, the registration of persons in so that the spindles turn day the Colony had been conducted and night. in three stages, the last of which hud now been reached.

ed.

Mr Peter Me appeared

for

the plaintiff who gave evidence in support of his claim.

GAVE FALSE INFORMATION

For giving false Information to the Police in order to collect $34 reward, Wong Kam was sentenced to two months by Mr Winter at Kowloon this morning.

were

Inspector Jones suid that on July 27 the defendant told defectives at Yaumat that he knew of four Chinese who had three revolvem and who meeting at a teahouse that night next to conspire to commit an armed robbery. party of

or

the

A

of Police walled the at the

teahouse for two days, but in vain, while the remainder of the

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This picture gives a good idea of the vast number of spinning frames In use in one of Hongkong's largest textile factories.

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Living Language

Why we say Glamour.

To say that a girl has glamour is two-handed compliment. In Icelandto folk-lore a glamr is P ghost which lays a charm the dyes. This charm causes the beholder to see thiites Alferently from what they really are!

"Glamour" is also be- Heved

have to

sprung obsolete Own

mean. word "gramarya,” ing magic. And what is glamour but magic-magic any giri, can make? "A touch of powder, a dab of

paint, makes a giri what · she ain't."

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STOLE ARMY

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Two Men Charged With Robbery

Two men, Pun Hung, 31, and Law Chung, 19, were arraigned before the Chief Justice, Sir Gerard Howe, at the Criminal Sessions this morn- ing, charged with robbery with aggravation at a hut in King's Park on March 7. Both pleaded not guilty and a Jury of five men and two women was empanelled.

Accused were charged with the Police went to the Hung- robbing Lau Klu, Lam Shlu- hom Government Quarry where hon, Chu Kwai-ying and Wong they took second accused into Yuk-kwai of a quantity, of custody. household articles, jewellery and money.

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the

statements

Mr Hooton said that the Crown evidenco against the Appearing for the Prosecution, two men was contained in cer- Mr A. Hooton, Crown Counsel, lain statements which they had who was assisted by Det. Sub-made, but he was unable to Insp. Chan Wal-man, said the reveal what but was occupied by a widow, contained until they had been Lau Klu, who lived with her admitted in evidence, son, two daughters, a grown-up

In evidence, Lam Shlu-hon nephew, Lam Shiu-hon, and a woman friend. On the night of į sald that both armed men were March 6-7, all had retired to masked with handkerchiefs, and Clothing worth $600 was bed, leaving a kerosene lamp after he had been bound ho stolen by men fron an army burning in the room.

was covered with a quilt. camp in Talpo on July 27. Two

The 'trial is proceeding, Some time after midnight, two days later, after the arrest of strangers entered the hut. One Vital Factors LI Po-ahing, $500 worth was re-

was carrying

gun and the Cotton is selected for its quality, {'covered from a hillside.

other had what appeared to be lengths of staple. cleanliness and Before Mr Winter

They ordered the al Kow- a knife. factors de- i loon

occupants not to move and pro- this morning Inspector count approximately explan stored in bales lodged in a fire the Police last Sunday offering of Lam Shlu-hon

to be

being Jones said that Li was seen by ceeded to blow out the lamp. They next tled the hands proot warehouse, the raw coton army clothing for sale in Soy intimidating the others began and after

Rome, July 30. the hut. ransack

They Tho Regent of Iraq, Prince hour there and then left with Clampino Airport here today en spent about a quarter-of-an-Abdul Illah, stopped briefly, at various articles of property. to three

route to London, Ho was The nephew managed to free companied by a number himself and a report was made Iraqi Government officials. to the Police.

An official of the Regent's entourage said the Prince was Foing to London only to see his nephew, young King Feisal' of Iraq. The trip had nothing to do with the situation in tho Middle East.-United Press,

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the

fineness of spun. From

with

city, as one follows the well-or- dered operation of highly intricate mechanisms.

A total of 20 workers are eiti- ployed most of whom operate 300 kolodies or sixteen weaving looms each. do all the plecing of broken threads or prepare the bobbing for One thing is, however, certain.

the weaving process with the nimble caused by

and expert touch world the The problem

born at long Thirty-one per cent of

Jack of colton now

practice. no longer Colony's registered workers are exists. Seventeen milion bated, In the textile trade, some 8,112 which, if good weoliter prevails, people are alone in the cotton old easily be increased in eighteent spinning mills. By the end of mon bales, is a Agure which the Americans expect to harvest short- March this year thirteen newly-September or October will can

an. securzis weaving sheds were in opera-firin tlon...

amount.

Brazilian," "Argentine, Pakistan and Indian cattan, America by herif grows more than half of the world's production

rhe Tenda tha From this remarkably rapid markets with the lowest compara- progress, one may judge how ive prices.

Hongkong's chief problem serms fast the textile industry could

to be one of belar able to pru- leap

It not ahend were

fortably adapt herself to new K. ob-velopments and trends in the world seemingly insurmountable stacles

cotton Industry, in its path.

When America set

word about China, who embargo on up

her already large production of raw CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE against the export of raw cot-training every effort to increase

ton, amongst other commodities, cotton. to

an extent which wi which with Egyptian types make her self-sufficient. She has the machinery to manut:cture far of the best in

her needs. but is facing a serious provide some the world, there was, for

shortage of raw material at the for this present time because of the dim- which

culty of arranging for zultatale material. row

Was

transport to

from from

carry supplies inally obtained

many Pakistan, her chle source. other small sources sach as The probiren of shipping has Pakistan,

farcid the Chinese Mills to close East Africa, Turkey, Brazil and Burma. but not

down for a month and even now the machines are not inning the without paying prices can-

full number of days per week. siderably

It is Interesting to compare the cotton milk in ing in.

China with India could sell hered in the Colony. Although workers of those establish- Whereas 20s count of yarn for HK$700 here have to be paid a higher wage, per bale in June and July of things seem to balance out fairly

locally last year,

manufactured everly yam was selling at HK$1,200 Stainland. per baie. Indian

Answera

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Yaumati CID staff stood by at and Africa. 3. Franz Liszt, 4. the station, The defendant 4 to 6 p.m., and 8 to 8 p.m. time. a frontle quest could not be found until yester-5. species of mackerel found day when he confessed that he in European seas. 0. A. wit- had told a lle.

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About The Mills

And now

went up $1.700 in October and by De- cember had reached $1,750 compared with the local pro-

As regards the Mills duct which was selling for themselves, A few have some used $1,000 in September, $2,200 in machinery from Shanghal, but most October and back again to $1,- of the Calany's cotton spinning and 40 | weaving factories are equipped with December. Britiah. 050 per bale in

American and Japanese No wonder, when expenses į machines. The differences in price were high and other manufac-are staggering For instance, turers did not

whether ese machinery coats boul US cents per spindle, whereas Ame- they were coming or going. rlean-machinery will work out at This unpredictable factor of double the price. One mill has

complement

Bwiss costs caused many of the smal-large

machinery, which perhaps is the ler manufacturers in the weav mnat costly of all." Sunk In the ing Industry to close down and average cotton mill in longkong la before the border was barred of between len and twenty millon Hongkong dollars, depend- last November, many workers ing upon the number of spindice had returned to China because and fooms installed. the cost of living was reputed

This sum

however, includes the to be cheaper, without, how-provision of everything, from

conditioning factory machinery. ever, affecting the number

canteens, Tving quarters for the akllled workers available

for workers, and so on, bringing the reputation of Hongkong Mills up to employment In the larger fac

a level equal to any of the most. modern milta in the world.

of

of

Talha

The the

BOY KNOCKED DOWN BY BUS

and

A small boy was injured and taken to the Queen Mary Hos- about 9.30 today when

to

moreover

None of the occupants could identity ofther of the men, as the robbery occurred at night

lamp had and the been blown out.

About two months later, on he was knocked down by a May 3, the Police arrested first

in west-bound bus Queen's accused in the street. He was Road East, The accident oc- taken to the Police Station and curred near the Grand Theatre. three-quarters of an hour. later

pital

taken and blended together other types.

confessed that he It is cleaned through Street. He the "blowing" and "scutching" pro- | had, stolen the garments tears and made into laps of a set took the Police, to recover the weight. From there it passes on to the carding or combing department rest. going through very Ane wires

Li was sentenced which, acting like the teeth of months for larceny.

fibres into s comb, ting the parallel direction. The drawing points complets the proces at thorough blending, the alivera are "roved" and finally spun pre-determined

with a number of turns per inch,

Most of the machines in the pre- (paration department are so arrang- ad that the machine stops automa- Ucfly if thread breaks. fuffs of cotton setting on machines and upon the operators look like mow, particularly when they adhere to the hair and clothing of the workers who wear nose and mouth maske os a protection against cotton particles, Spindles whirr at 11,000 revolutiona

per minute. twisting the yarn and winding, it From there the on to bobbins, thread i wound inte

cones, 01 chosses or reeled into hanks required. Forty ten-pound bundles of yam are passed Into a which are shipped off to Indance'a. Indo-Ching, the Philippines, the Malay States. Pakistan. Durma, Holland and the United Kingdom.

When America stopped, export- ing sleel knitting noedies to Hong- kong, many small concerns were forced to close down. Within a short time. however, two enterpris ing groups had started factories and manufactured needles so that the knitting industry which includes some 233 Tactaries, were placed in a position which enables them to become Independent of Imported needles.

Woollen Mills

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Emmoderately high prices for, and carrity of wool,, have caused the woblion mille in Hongkong · to r- duce operations considerably,

Indlyded in the Textile "Industry are bleaching and tyring works.

lace lactories and a rile mill. cordage, rope, twine, tapa and aluse

27vera Aye numerous back-room and cottage work-rooms, which are unregistered__and which spring up wherever there is an industrious Chinese Community, but which, nevertholem, employ thousands of

other workere.

tories

Ali told, "Textiles" employ direct= Jy moes 28,300 of the Colony'a 96,000 Having laid in stocks, of cot-

Although Trade Union is a registered workers not to mention ton at ceiling. prices, which the congratively recent Introduction | the living provided for a large countries mentioned above 1 für au light industry is concerned, member of the workane" dependemia. It is safe to state that nowhere, in Perhaps the best answer to the were demanding for their raw

the world is as much done volun- material, the prices in America army for the workers as the wel in the fact that the latest cotton. querilon of Hongkong'a outlook les have come down with a bang, fame werk Instituted by the owners, mill-The New Chins Texile Lidi forcing all other growers to do of the cotton mills for their em was orgy completed last year. There ilkowise and leaving Hongkong react favourably, a lesser number maintaining find. production, but a ployees, most of whom. in turn, | may have been ups and downs in Industrialists In a. decidedly carrying out a volume of work, fara conditions allow, those be awkward position.

which, under les favourable · con hind the industry are determined On the other hand, it would. it would require greater to forge ahead. It is eenerally have been equally worrying tomber of workers. A highly ruce aspeed that anything might hap

example of this private e**- pen".. and that "The :" "end" of "the have been loft without stocks, topprise la- die, Pao Rising. Cotton | Korean war will bring in own dif- facing a position of possible un- Mill.

ficulties. "Cautious optimism" Jar an There there employment on a considerable operated by 940 skilled workers in ing, the train of the cotton In-

11,000 spindles reliable a phrase se any for convey scale. Fortunately, most of the Hi ·Another, sixth workers, - which dustrialfate an vegards, the, futurm "or" American cotton, off-loaded in I make "ine, fatal, complement ; tame qlvečer › İraduatuor.

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By Galbraith

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Radio Hongkong

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0.00, Programme Summary: 0.01, London Studio Melodies. (BBCTS); The Melachrino Orchestra With Helen Clare And Ted Hockridge; 6.30, "Cantonese By Radio" Given By Miss Leo Wai Lan, and S.K, Lee. (Studio): 0.80, Rawicz And Landauer On Two Pianos:- 7.00, Orchestral selections: 730, "Down Memory Lane". Presented By Alleen Woods (Studio): 8.00, World News And News Analysis. (London Re- lay): 8.10, Box 200" Bert Gillette At The Console: 830, Hong Kong Social Welfare. The Glission To Lepers Hong Kong Auxillary: A Talk By The Secretary Of The Hong Konst Auxiliary Arranged By Council Of Social Service. (Studio); ' 8.45, Vocal Recital By Roy Hender won. (Baritone): 8.59, Weather Re- port: 9.00

"From The Editorials" Recorded Relay): 0.10. Interlude: 9.15, Relay Of The Fourth Test Match.

England v South Africa. (From London); 9.30, The Kentucky Minstrels: 65. Letter From America Dy Alistair Cooke. (Recorded R- LAY): 10.00, London Studio Concert. (BBCTS); The BBC Northern OF chestra Conducted By Joseph Post: 19.30, British Sport. Boxing. A ten- ture Written By Maurice Gorham. (RUCTS); 11.00, Radio New Reel. (London Relay): 11.10. Cloodnight Music: 1.30, Weather Report; God Bave The King: 11.30. Close Down

Woman With Raw Opium

Anne br. $3,100 or 'six months was imposed on a woman Two Ying by Me Winter at Kowloon today for possession of 5.5 Louts of Taw oplum and an plum pipe which were found In her house at 80, Yu Chate Sirect, yesterday. The defendant had, a previous conviction for keeping, en, opium divan enk