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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1954.

HE PRODUCTS ARE

HONGKONG

THOROUGHLY

ROM the rubna of a prosperous

prewar

Hongkong one of the busiest Far East- ern cities of entrepot trade

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thriving has grown industrial centre, which, in The space of a few short years is threatening

its

with

quality exports other Commonwealth markets

that had long enjoyed un- disputed supremacy.

Looking with helpless amaze sett at the Increasing JEZUSTATU of this upstart- whose products Gutauld their ut prices they

nut hope to rompete with Commonwealth manufacturers teoried to the nemrent weapon available

propaganda

"Hongkong goods" In in't you

know,

old Lay

made

Jupon!"

actually Hongkong

hasn't even

Innery

The props a Few

FOLK You compreet

made the

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Hese gloves to in

Exvn

*** These

cuinted zes that, & novcal articul

the world.

Ten Cases

Soca, even responsable Trader

afla o adere act

Jar y

Monde

tooling of

Honaggiorna

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Heads of indejon qua175

tl woral Barsing

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For the

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Carat Where goals, read and com

pop 15 16 CAULES.

proved

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within the la

tigis erand

DAPP

Winch

wilt

31% OFF TH

workels

2.300

worth of it goes to the Battest kangriom alune then years

taz

As every Honkong export kow, the trans maza pr

j dy the Governorat vach Hongkong product before may be expang Dong mukra pally Instale for BI

t

deragh copying or misrepresen-

CHECKED

By GEORGE

LIU

A Revenue Officer sealing a bole of cotton yarn before shipment.

Heqotibility for this system, pousthdy the most detalled in the world, rests with the busy Cere fleute of Crigin Ofee, a kaaneti of the Trade Development Diva

mom of Hongkong's Conserve and Industry Department

The offerads here, much an exe pert at his job, take the chane PS They start the sifting operation Jong before the manufacture of goods even bangaas

For

fatty Every

men to! Jaits rhe bay for expert * Grst apply to be gastered with thes the and Thats applien -

wald just be grater manale tute

tand

י

Every

one at the sufi reginrements. The Tachay premises are autorefed t

Tit srpen then by the nice Posteuse that a plane is suit-

...

make the goods is available... and the factory able to maintain a high standard as its output.

Should 12: proved,

Et

ten Nombor

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KING IN

aral

Registr

quier certin of

In apply origin of penal preference,

a tile con- ut the sain s

Ring POJATIN mi its future activities is operaci

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this is only the begin- hang. When an sophieation for

of the ertificates 15 ceived the second step of altting comes into operation.

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The ease of textile and garment there goods, each ap- phe dion is urcompanied by

ample of the finished product actual sample of the

itt

The machinery to label wave.

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After

cross, checking. and checking each of the details on the application form, and examining the samples, the Officer

Charge In

decides whether

corgo the

be to inspected, whother a fuller in- vestigation should be instigated -and if a certifleste should be granted or refused.

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depending on individual coun- trica.

Somo of the products, if they appear to be suspiciously out of the factory's character with capabilities are sent for chemical and physical tests by the Gov- ernment Chemist, who deter- mines the different types of yara that constitute the cloth.

Every articie marked "Nylon" undergoes these tests.

M

IS BRITAIN'S CHAMPION NO-MAN

—a rosy-cheeked Bishop with a playboy charm who is so often in the thick of it when it comes to a battle of words.

By MARY HEWAT

4.

до

ONSIGNOR JOHN They are not said to knock In 1998 he decided to go to CARMEL HEENAN, people down but to lift people Russla, "because I was tired of! hearing it was a worker's para→ 49-year-old

Roman up"

He got vian He certainly does not look like“ diso." Catholic Bishop of

Looda. Torquernado. A rory-cheeked psychiatrist, stayed a month, has earned himself the title man, with rimtons spectacles, he and was arrested for taking

photographs. of Britain's leading NO. has all the bladern charm of a

ne'er-do-well playboy ma

always forgiven.

1 tlla

you, with a broad have anile, that his baltics never been more than verbal ones, because "I am much tow charming for that."

And you have to believe han.

He has roused the wrath of The toak of the Government France by mying there was NO

them, Chemist is not an easy one-he night left in

that NO performs between 80 60 of civili ed nation should have to By legislation, the Director of the testa every month. more | ban the sale of alcohol between the Department

absolute than any other government de 5 a.m. and 10 am hum

granting of partment in the world!

The

discretion these certificates.

Should the Officer decide that there 12 romething shady about a cargo, severud of the 10 Revenue Vilicers and one Inspector attached to the Offee, are went to the factory and they subject the goods examination,

Before that he sald Tite. should havo NO invllation 19 But this is not enought, Re-

Britain; troop in Korea should Chargely the Ceriflente of Origin

нау NO

IN Income-tax; there Office has been forced into

NO religious taking extra precautions. Every authority in Britain outline the

practicnily spinning, dyring and weaving

Roman Catholic Church: factory registered with them

Catholle nurses have NO duty to now submit

complete must

deceive a dying patieni. of intake,

He said the BBC had NO periodical reports close production, sales and stock. tu A

right

"wrap the nation organised gloom" for a after the King died. And early this year, when he referred to religious intolerance in Northern Ireland in a broadcast, for which the BBC' apologised, he nuit NO apology should have been made.

sus-

vargy

fur

In Instances where it

ปอมเ

approved Ploted might later be substituted foreign goods after the inspec- Laza each cest contuming articles is sealed with the GoN- stamp. and rsenter aboard the ship in question.

On the date of saing, where It is thought necessary the seals are broken and the cargo again examined.

The Revenue Oners then make their

report to th Other in Charge of the C

of

V office, who sues the certi- eate without which the cargo cannot be exported,

Overworked

The number of these over- worked Hevenue Officers, who average svane 1,200 Inspection

be will shortly every month, merced to 30,

No Foundation

These records serve to assist the office in further estimating the productive capacity of the Industry on a whole and to check any apparent malpractice.

to

Belligerent

week

It has satel NO so often, he Russlan

who

He receives his visitors in wary office, with a massive desk covered with books and papers.

He talks be- tween puffs on

a bent-stemmed

with pipe, sécrol Amuse- ment, as if he shared a

pri- vate joke with the

world

A

ប

Jarge.

THE BISHOP He keeps

A cigarettes for special box

naya of Britain's visitors, Heensing lawa: "I wouldn't care if they abolished them altogether, If people were disciplined they are in Spain and Italy,"

This year, his third as Bishop, he moved from the specious shop's residence to the smoke- krammed gardenices house behind The Cathedral,

There, contrary

This hard-working section of the Commerce and Industry De- could partment have little thanks ur delegate to UNO if it were not recognition for the ouguitleent for hi biggest NO. NO appease- job they do. exp. perhaps, neat for the Communists, in the fact that more and more That big NO lay countries prefer their certifientes | uitaci

There France with the result that exports bitterness, among the Catholes hold open house, when any man,

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behind his

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of local products are improving aver the Indo-China settlement, #ach month.

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To illustante--the miniler nľ applications for Government certificates of origin periul preferece certiflentes have jumped from a mere 1.500 per month to almost 12,000, within the last 18 months,

NO

which let

Kroup of strong Catholics in the hands of the Vietnam Communists,

Saya the belligerent Bishop: "We are

"I

to custom for a Bishop, he took up the duties of parish priest, still finds time on Fridays

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The Russian Secret Polico thought he was trying to make prepaganda out of the poverty of the peasants which he was. But the

"psychiatrist," pretending

anger, took the flim out of his camera and threw it at them. thus exposing the

film and ruining the evidence. He was

released.

He has attacked State traat- : ment of ["nauseating").

roldiers' families local council

mancing of birth control work i ("immoral"); lock of religious schools ("growing teaching in paganism"); and the Left Wing of the Socialist Party ("some of them are Communists in all but name").

"Yet in one of his own books, The

People's Priest." Bishop Heenan wrote: "Except in those problems of the relations 170- tween Church and Sinto which from time to time call for treat! ment in our sermons, we should refrain from taking politics in the pulpit."

Has Enemies

What does he really think of the Church in politics? “I'm all ogningst it," he says, But he chuckles when he says it.

"Politicians." he says, are not

any creed ruined. Men in my pasillon are

WARMEN OF child of run crane and talk to him,

Jotun Carmel Hoonan was born in Essex, the son, it has often been sold, of a working

man. In fact his father was a civil servant ("He was a work- ng man," says the Bishop. "He cained a wage. I'm a working man too.")

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likely to be much better in- i formed. It is our duty to givới guidance. What am I supposed

to

do? Tell them what kind of incense to burn in the church?

That would be a fine job."

The Battling Bishop's sense of duly hus made him enemies. But study of his critics' retorta

Thoy

seldom reveals one thing. say his facts or his opinions aro wrong. They simply object to having him state them,

always giving way, ways appeasing, creating yet another Munich. Is that the way to get peace? The only way to deal with a bully in to square to him. no matter how

He was trainod for seven Perhaps if are of the crites p

to years as a Jesuit, learned condemn frightened you fee},” -who

ily

preach at Hyde Park Corner, But Bishop Hvern does not Hongkong's varied incosti rese Before any exporter is issued

was ordained at the age of 25, with the Hongkong Government could be persuaded to visit the consider blm elf belligerent.

made a parish priest 35, and a allcute the Oficer in Chargo Colony, and see for themselves tred of being regarded as a

of Torquemada (the bishop at 40, one of the youngest CM.U bibl-kind the at the annual must satisfy himself that

Hongking Products, founder

Spanish in the country. tion product contains 25 per cent of

During his Church life he has ex-factory

incurred in proof that Hongkong products inquisition)," he said.

Why then does he throw so lectured in America, conducted the case of on art etunily madhe in Hong- Hongkong. In

(1 motor the world would realise inmy brickbals?

chapel ip Britain, Imperial Preference certificate kong.

"The things I my are said to written u series of books, and Bishop Heenan did not any which allows for a reduced prit that the prejudicet allegations in Combinet:woulih countries-the made by competitors abroad protect people who don't know," sang the first High Miss ever Yes, But this time he did not

he said, "to protect my flock, televised here. perettage is the same, or higher, ure without foundation.

oast

uf

or the

I asked him if his second name of Carmel was significant, For it was on Mount Carmel that the Prophet Elijah declared to the pagan hordes: ", even

Prophet of the remain a

Day No.

This Christmas she'll always remember

if you present her with

a diamond watch

by

JAEGER-LECOULTRE

GENEVA

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