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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1954.

SHATIN BUND REPAIRED

Before the breach was repaired in October.

Yesterday

the breach plugged.

Indonesia's Warning To Holland

On West New Guinea

United Nations, Nov. 24. Indonesia's U.N. delegation said tonight the West New Guinea question of sovereignty might result in bloodshed if it were ignored by the United Nations.

over

Indonesia is pressing its claim to the adjacent island territory, now administered by the Dutch, in the current debate by the General Assembly's Main Political Committee.

dispute

The donesia was termed

D

"This would be against all the

Nations,' the Indonesian rules of the United

Works Department

The Breach

Plugs The

Government has plugged the breach in the broken bund which, since the end of August, has allowed water from the sea to flood many acres of rice fields at Shatin daily.

Battering seas caused the breach during the passage of a typhoon close to Hongkong. The gap was big. The water poured in. Verdant fields became a miniature lake.

When the storm passed, the

APUNT

Ixick The

cerded.

But it gaine

day 13 high tide, HK Residents

ence-green 1:ce or the

felda gradually blackened, Uz- Come diety and ugly,

A correspondent asked why Government did not repair thes bund despite the daily flooding nid the consequent worsening condition of the flekin.

MOVED RAPIDLY

The China Moll sent a re- porter und photographer to invorigate. And on Deber 25 we published a story and photo- graphs showing this breach and the extent of flooding.

Return

From Leave!

The Hon. D. J. S. Crozier, Direstor of Education, ac- companied by Mrs Crozier and their daughter, Corin, returned from leave in the Italian liner Victoria from Since then, Government has

Italy

Mr this morning. moved rapidly. Surveyors were кета to Shalin. Then come Crozier and his family left workmen and truckloads of sand. for the United Kingdom

Today, the breach no longer early this year.

exists.

FARMERS HAPPY

to

are

The farmers concerned happy because it gives their land an opportunity to recover.

Government has not confined itself

Just blocking the breach. It has, in fact, under- taken mejor repair work. It is

the raising level of the whole bund, part of which had eroded to the stage that it is nothing more than a slope leading to when the the lip of the sea

tide is high.

1

BLOCKS OF GRANITE

This

was

Also returning from leave was the Hon. C.E.M. Terry. Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council, and General Manager of the Hongkong and Kowloon

Whart and

Godown Company, who has been away since March

He lost. accompanied by Mrs Terry.

While on leave, Mr Tery re- presented Hongkong at the Inter- national Cango Handling Co- ordination Associhlien's technica} conference held in Nuples in May and Juare. He was also a member of the United

Kingdom delegadon to the International Labour Organisation Conference et Genova in June and a delegate as the Conference of Parliamen-

Bon

Blocks of granite transported to the spot indicate that Gov-tarians for World Government ernment intends to convert the belt in London in Septimber.

SINGAPORE VISITORS sand brund into a solid break- water,

Other local residents retum- The correspondent also coming from leave included two plained that a sea-wall adjoining well-known solicitors, Mr P. the bund was inadequate and J. Grimths, Mr A.S.C. Comber, there was flooding of a and their families: Mrs Diana that residential area whenever there Armstrong, wife of Mr H. was a storm.

Armstrong, the well-known defect has now been solicitor, and her

and remedied, too, and an existing | daughter; Captain and Mrs L. granite wall is being extended Borea and daughter: and

that was others,

Prominent visitor from Sing- formerly a sand-bank.

@pore included the Hon. John Laycock, Member of the Singapore Legislative Council, and Deputy Leader of the Singapore Progressive Party, and

Laycock; Mrs

and Colonel Lee Haushik Member for Transport of the Federation of Malaya.

between Ing discuss the West New

10 the Netherlands Guinea question with the in- "explosive" ut JCATCHŠITAS. news conference presided over Dr Abu Hanifah, vice- by chahman delegation. He was assisted by said the Indonesians. "It we are Ambassador Tjondronegoro, permanent Indonesian delegate, and Dr L. N. Palor, adviser to the delegation.

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of

nald.

ге

COVET BO

to maintain the U.N., we should Lord

at least be true to it. Other- wise, why should the UN. re- main in the world? That alti- tude could be the beginning of

the League of Nations.

"Our people are prepared to the end of the U.N. as it was of Bight"

They

fighting. Alinking in terms of but our Government may no, we are going to negotiate,

PEOPLE ARE ANGRY

"The people of Indonesia don't at all like the altitude of the Dutch today. They are angry. If something happened in the U.N. to give more food to the sentiment of our people, I don't know. That's why our govern- ment is so anxious to settle the dispute peacefully."

The delegation was asked if

it believed that failure to rettle

"The way Dr Luns put it is How can we very dangerous, accept that statement?"

CONFUSING TERM

aren

Lindsay

Attacks U.S.

China Policy

Canberra, Nov. 24.

Also arrived were Mr John Dowrick Vice-President of the American Express Company, Mrs Dowrick and their daughter Mr F. Hoerlimam, Manager of Zuillig Company of Manila.

En route to China was Mr Lord Lindsay of Birker, off-Karunakara Menon, new Indina elal Interpreter with the recent Consul for Shanghai, who was Both the Dutch and the Aus-British Labour Party delegation accompanied by his wife fralians

have argued in the In Communist China, said today | child. Committee debate that should there could be no relief in the Indonesian sovereignty over tension between China and the

be

the upheld, the territory

U.S. while America pursued its New Guinea natives would be

present Formosan polley. to determine denied the right their own political futrue,

Lord Lindsay told the Can= berra branch of the Australian The Indonesian delegation ex- Institute for Foreign Affairs:

that plained

"self-determina- "Extreme opinion in America is

tom" won 4 confusing term. playing Into the hands of doc- the Indonesian-Dutch differenseThey contended that West New trinaires in Communist China."

might lead to war,

can handle our people it wo can convince them that we've done all we can.

Guinea is rightfully part of

gained independence.

"War is a big word, but may- Indonesia and should have been It was unreasonable, he be it would be something else." freed by the Dutch in 1949 added, to expect any govern- Chinn to was the reply. - "We think we when the rest of the country ment of mainland

tolerate the Formosan situation "where it is prevented from "It's like asking whether the taking Formosa while. No- people of Texas in the United tionaillat forces are permitted States hove the right of self- and encouraged to attack the determination," J said. "By Chinese mainland”. question of bring

us.

VERY SENSITIVE

"The explosiveness is not just bringing up the a thing between the Dutch and self-determination, you Southeast Asia is very into the disputa -sensitive today. Now a new matter altogether." colonial problem has beca

ndled. Not only ourselves, but

Lord Lindsay sald the United a different States should adopt the follow- ing course to remove Chinese distrust:

It was explained that under other Asians as well, consider Indoooxda the West New Guinea West Irian (West New Guinea) people would be free and to be a part of our country,

would have all the gralitical "Southeast Asians feel that tights that other Indonesian

The delegation soldi they have boen double-crossed.”

The delegation was asked what Indonesia definitely would all. States of Southeast Asin not agree to take over a U.N. were behind them on the Wert truaicoship arrangement

West New Guin100, Now Guinea problem.

for

1. Change policy.

Formosan

2. End the American trado embargo on Communit

China, the

3. Permit Communist

China's entry

into the United

• Nations, ... A

Ho termed 'the trade_embargo

"completely unreasonable” and In reply to Dutch and Aus-said it had "defested its own frullan charges that Indonesiario |⋅ purpoen”.

Yes, I untnico," was the reply.

have infiltratod the territory "While I was in Japan" re- The Indonesians took issue with recently, the Indonesiana wich sati. I found Japanese, busi- Dr J, MA. II. Laine, Duch the specific allegationis WORD | NCRISTIRT", more anti-American Foreign Minister, who had told being investigated by Diminta because this embargo cut them UNA correspondenta yngridedkar | and there was no information, or from the Chinese market, khot him, country would never......United, Proms.

ho saide

United States should

delegation. "to und Aby. WILLIAM. AlzcH. GRETNAM SOF" the raxti Peking (peace comes

China Morning Port Limited at 1-9 ference, the,, recituumend Victorian in the Colony, az, Bonannon: Unknek

end

Cobbler Acquitted Of

Murder

Yan Tah, 47, a cobbler. charged with the murder of Man Chau-fun,

A woman,

4

wlto of Chan Yay, follow-epaul, at 271 Yu Chan Street, first floor, Shamahu ipo last AuguNÉ, was mequilted by à Jury of four women and thred- men 21 the Criminal Sessions shortly before lunch-time today and was dircharged by Mr Justice

J. Reynolds.

The Jury, asked for an alternative

verdiel, also socused not guilty of

found hter by a majority

of 6-1.

Agreeing with the Jury's verdiet, Is Lordship ex- empled them from further service for three years.

The

died woman

in hospital on August 28, after she had been rashed in the abdomen by the knife, redly during a three- allegedly cornered struggle between her husband, the socused and herself on the night of August 27.

The fight developed from n quarrel between 46- ceased and Chan Yan's wife. I was alleged by the Crown that there had been friction between the two families for some time prior to the incident,

Mr W.

Blair-KerT. A. Senior Crown Counsel, ap- peared for the Prosecution, And Mr 0. V. Cheung, Instructed by Mr F. Zim- mern, of Memes †. Zim- mern soi Co,, was for the Defence.

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VOTE ON HOTEL CLOSING HOURS

CAUSED A SHOCK

!

By H. King Wood

Sydney, Nov. 19.

Big shock of the week was the tremendous swing to later closing of hotels in last Saturday's referendum.

At no stage in the campaign was there any fire in the fight and it was no secret that hotel keepers, least of all, wanted later closing of their hotels.

then

of

dusty

At the moment they get a touches lo displays huge consumption of beer be- Shop

and the Early advic tween 4 and 8 p.m.; the bars are be accepted without question,

sveta to emptied and more or less clean- The beginning of December, ed up by 7 pm, and they areyes; but can't we just anticipate

free to go to the dogs. It during November? trote or enjoy such home life as BOOM AT MT 18A hotel keepers may have.

Out in the backblocks Why should they have to Queensland is the hot, battle with staff problems, spell mining centre of Mt Isa where their nights and all the rest of the earth continues to yield a It by keeping open until 10 p.m. fortune year after year. on the very doubtful assump-

This year

made a net profit tion that their bar taking will of £2,090274-nearly half a million greater than last year of them even refused to when a recession hit the world display propaganda material in metal markets. their bars.

it will

Available at

All Good Stores

JOHN CLARKE'S

CASEBOOK

Early one morning

THE early morning sun THE

shone warm and strong, mocking the calendar and all those Londoners whose drawn curtains proclaimed that they were still in bed. streets of the West End, office- cleaners, "Mrs Mopps," hurried to their work. A cheerful crew gether as they were on

and chortled who crowed

Briskly, along the wide, quift"

way

wid

their

art

ከEr

Cuff, banter, badinage the small coin of the cleaners' conversation. A cleaner silent or morase seems a contradiction in terms. Such a one. Modgo

SELF-HELP LUMLY she walked to

work through the sparkling MorTANK. A

womin youn with mouse-coloured hair, 'who' was humble and scared, and for whom all days were overcast by grey clouds of wony.

Sho pushed through the doors of the airways offer she was to clean, collected the tools of her trade and began her work.

When it took her near a etT- rose from ther desk she So the State went to the palls dividend of 20 per cent which the desk.

This year

pay a knees. She opened a drawer in In the drawer she Saturday with everyone

compares with the company's found a 10s, note. She took it, realising that it was a forlorn hope, and that we were fated to even 20 per cent is among the

best rate of 25 per cent but put it in her pocket and resumed

her work. with our on

six o'clock big-time in Australian dividends. SWAnd what shocks there were

On

STATE OPERA HOUSE

The N.S.W. State Government

when early returns gave the 10 has Anally decided to bulld p.m. closing a lead, and the State Opera House-on a site to shocks have continued as the be selected. counting has› more or less re- mained even through the days, At the time of writing, 6 pm

by less than 10,000 votes

leads

bo

Although this is the masi positive statement yet to made on this long-felt want,

a small enough margin when it experts sadly realise that it does not mean that there la going to is realised that some 2 million be any sudden rush of bricks

votes have been counted.

Most worried people about it and mortar,

First the Premier, Mr Cahill, ali is the State Cabinet and in

Is to call conference of in- spite of the fact that the 6 pmterested

to dis- organisation is likely to win in a photo finish, it is almost certain that it will as the plan. This conference smill, expert decide to bring down legislation will appoint

committee to examine suggested to extend our drinking hours.

This wo

would be in

In accordance

The Chairman with the

of the Eliza- recommendations of:

bethan Theatre the Liquor Royal Commissioner, Commbs, said the Government's Mr Justic: Maxwell,

decision to build an opera house

and

in

any case, the Government na-

Trust, Dr

nounced

that the referendum was "splendid" but added that the building would take some was only to be an

expression

y cars. of opinion.

The Premier, Mr Cahill, has promised that liquor and hours will be debated in the House before Christmas.

who becamy--Inigo

Local authorities and leading ses artists who have visit- od this county have all striased the need for an opera house.

PEEPING TOMB Policemen INIGO. JONES' DEATH

a? Melbourne Barracks There died in Brisbane this Police

have been week a grand old man who for complaining bitterly that since bedroom the blinds on their 62 years was the centre of mild

windows were take away four Jonce famed throughout monthe

been ago they have world 09 long-range staging a nightly strip-tease act

for the local

Jocal girls. Policemen "lving in" say women come to stand ing was that weather repeats it that wir in cycles and whatever across the street and stare at might be the rights or wrongs the windows.

Some police claim that they of this, there an be no doubl

Geen women in nearby that he had a demendous follow-have

offices train binoculars on the windows!

tho

weather of forecast-

The Jones

50

con-

This can't be staid old Mel- bourne, surely!

Some people were vinced of his accuracy that they Would ask his advice before

The blinds were 15 years old planting crops; country women would phone him weeks ahead and were taken away for repair, to ask about the weather for No one seems to know when

fotes

scores

of they are to be replaced.

Meanwhile, Russell Street ap parently, is filed with red- faced cope.

and so on;. Queenslanders fixed their wed- ding dates and annual holidays only after a weather check from Mr Jones and most Australian dadly newspapers printed his forecast for Christmas,

NEW SOURCE OF “BUNS' In the last three years two

fain

MÄRKED MONEY

THAT

was not the first time Modge had stolen from that drawer.

Once she had helped herself to 30s, left there, on other time had taken £1.

To her this third time differed only

from the others in that there was less to steal. She had no way of knowing that the 10s. left deliberately to catch a thief note was marked and had been

her.

Madge was caught with the note in her possession.

In tears she admitted, then her other thefts. The police

a

came and she made statement that she signed,

At Bow Street, next morning, Madge pleaded guilty to two for another to be taken into charges of stealing, and asked consideration.

DINNER FOR THE CHILDREN KOHALL I read

her state

«

1 and

ment?" a pollocmun anked the magistrate, Mr Bertram Reece. Mr Recco nodded.

live with my husband

They are

Rged our children, five, four, and three years, and the youngest is 16 months old," the statement began. "I took the hard-up money because I was and wanted to buy dinner för the children. I spent the last money I

acy I took on sugar and things....

Then, in her statement, Madge told that her husband

earned and

27 10s, a wock as a book, gave her all he could of that, And that her work as a cleaner brought in another 274, 6d. With the children's allowances added. their total income was over £10.

LESSON LEARNED WHEN the rent was

Bald And hire-purchase instalments, there was 26 11a. Od. a week left to feed and clothe the family

of six.

"This stealing's boon preying Madgo's state- on my mind.” ment went on... “I've not been

able to sleep at nights, 2,

The officer stood down. The Mr Jerses himselt issued

boaters with the hat magistrato asked Madge "what" own bulleting for big events backs of 30 different Sydney to say.

whisper.

his dealers have bought 700 | ...

lesson"

She

such as the Melbourne Cup. schoo's,

"SOTY, could only State weather experts were

They have bought the hats at think she's leamed her rather inclined to frown upon Railway auction sales.

said Mine Hamilton, the Mr Jones theories, but Inigo They said, this week that they probation officer. The magistrate himself, in 62 years, had never believed this solved the great glanced at Madgo and nodded suffered from self-doubts. His

question: How ad

school agreement. bulletins bore the hallmark; of youngsters lose so many hats.

one thing in your authority.

The dealers said they removed favour," he wold to Medge. His work is to be carried on the school bunds, cleaned the "You've been quite frank about but there can be no doubting his and they sold them say 29. tfits, shall discharge you con

the foot that a ilute of its heart each.

has also gone with the 81-year-

old weather prophet.

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dillorially," Madgo presently set free.. Free to, yo back and look after her family, and food and clothe and keep | warm`nli ́aise of them on an in- come reduced now to £6.44, 0d, a week.

was shown out, and

Fined $400

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