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Court Grants

Relief To

Urban Council Candidates

An application by the four Reform Club candidate, In the Urban Council elec- tion on March 8 for relief in respect of election expendi-

ture in excess of the pre-

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Established 1845

THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1957.

SHEAFFER'S

Skrip

NEW CHARTERED BANK BUILDING

1,200 Tourists Due Sept 30

scribed amount was granted Hongkong Is still proving !|- by the Senior Puisne Judge, self a 'must' for pleasure-seek- Mr Justice T. J. Goulding tourists seeking to spend the Supreme Court this their money at one of the most morning.

Flis Lordship also granted a second application for leave to file the return and declaration respecting election expenses out of time.

famous of the world's shopping ceniess.

More than 1,200 tourists wil be arriving here on September 20, aboard the Orient Line's

luxury liner, ss Orendes, in the The four applicants were Mr course of a 30-day Paclite Brook Bernacchi, Mr Woo Pukcruise. The cruise will begin chuen, Mr David La Sec-chalat Sydney, Australia,

and Mr Li Seung-gal,

MISMANAGED

relief in respect In granting of the two applications,

kis Lordship said that there was no doubt that the election campaign from the point of view of over- expenditure

mismanaged, but he had no hesitation

At present in the Colony, pro- furing for the arrival of the Orcades, are two representatives Flett, and Capt. R. II. Steinard of the Orient Line, Mr Harold VC. DSO, RD, RNR.

Mr Flett is the manager of

the Queensland section of the Orient Line and Captain Stap-

acceptbig the contention that hard is the Marine Superintend-

the four

candidates acted inent of the Company.

Their co- complete good faith. dust since the discovery of the over-expenditure

exemplary

hart been

Order for costs was

against the applicants,

The Hon. Les d'Almada, QC,

FULLY BOOKED

Me Flett and Capt. Stronard

are now visiting the ports of coll

of the Orendes, checking on the facilities for the ship and the They have been to

and Mr Patrick Yu, appeared Passengers,

for the applicants, both on them and when they leave the instructions of the Hon, Sir Colony they will be going to

Maalo. Man-kam Lo of Messrs Lo and

Lv.

AFFIDAVITS

When the announcement was ale that the Orendes was

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The Crown was represented making a Pacile cruise. said Mr by the Hon. the Attorney Fett, all accommodation for the General, Mr Arthur Ridehalgh, ship was fully booked within a QC, and Mr Stuart Collier,

Mr Flest added wee't.

that Crown Counsel,

Hongkong was 11 tremendous traction to Australians, and a This morning, Mr d'Amada

very popular port of call.

Captain caid that in accordance with the

Stannard Court's Indication at the lus.

stranger to Honghong. He came hearing further affidavits had here regularly on the Empire since been filed

Orwell. The Empire Orwell, he One affidavit was filed by Msaid, was Ministry of Trans- Philip Au, one of four election port ship but Orien! Line agelits appointed by the Referin manted and managed her as a Club candidates and the other troopship. was a further Jolni affidavit by the four applicants.

was

afidavit which In his ead to the Court, Mr Au said that due to his lock of experl- ence he did not warn his In the Inst cashler, who was compaign of 1956 and who was appointed to make payments, of the need for a careful check of Expenses,

Following the Attorney Gen- eral's reply, the Court granted The relier sought.

On Dangerous Drugs Charge

AWARDED VC

During? the wax Captain Stamani was វព command of HMS Arab, 11e was

then

Sir Alexander Grantham laying the foundation stone. -Staff Photographer.

Catalina Drama Off Macao Recalled

British Subject Released After Six

Years In Prison

Foundation

Stone

Laid This Morning

By

The Governor

His Excellency the Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham, this morning laid the foundation stone of the new Chartored Bank building in Des Voeux Road Central before a large gathering of bankers and distinguished guests.

The new building when completed in 1959 will be 244 feet high from pavement level and it is believed that it will be the tallest building in the Colony. There will be 18 storeys on the Des Voeux Road side and six storeys on the Queen's Road section.

in the

that is one of the reasons why. many of our banks today look very much like temples.

in

"The modern English banking system was given a trementious impetus in the time of Quorn Ez both with the expansion of foreign trade, 50 100 Hongkong and the Far East. The Increase in commercial transections in this part of th world led to banks being catablished here, because with- out the trade could not move freely. One of the first of these banks was the Chartered Bank. which, as Mr Small has

tell - you, was established n Hitllo over a hundred years ago.

In a vote of thanks to

other

"Without banka trade would stognate. Without trade Hong- king would be the barren rock it was 15 years ago. Therefore in serving trade the banks are serving the community, Perhops they might be likened to the hert that helps to keep the lifeblood flowlig in the body. In order to function properly they must be sound and they must have nicgrity. They must also, of course, be properly and elefantly managed. That has always been the tradition and Chartered its besteninuing interest in Hongkong reputation of the Welcoming the Governor and addition worthy of Lady Grantham, Mr A. D. architectural traditions, and one and its faith in the future of Bank, The new building when creeted will be fine, Small, Manager of the Chartered that will give it, to use a bank- the territory. It is also a symbol it is Bank, said the erection of the Iru expression, a more balanced of our confidence in the drive Imposing and sound, in

the and ability of

Chinese words, the outward and visible Bank's new building was a skyline,

who have made sign of the inward, Invisible clear indication of the Chartered

"The Des Voeux Road scelleninoustrialists Bank's keen

and continuing of the building will be eighteen such a notable contribution to spirit of the Chartered Bank,"

post-war recovery, interest in Hongkong and its storeys higa, and the Queen's the city's

im- Vote Of Thanks fofth

future of the Road section slx. The banking end who form such un

portant part of our clientele. territories

ball, or lobby as I believe our

the His Excellency in an address American friends call it, will To speak of Hongkong's post-

recovery and industrial Governor, Mr Banham sald, war said the new building, when run the length of the buitslag

"Before WN conclude the erected, would be line, Imposing between Des Voeux Road and development is to think of the and sound, "In other words, the Queen's Road,

morning's but until the person who has lent inspiration

I know you formal part of this outward and visible sign of the whole building is completed in to the process. inward, invisible spirit of the the Summer of 1950 we shall will all agree that we could proceedings, I wish on behalf of 10 thank have no more utting or respected the Chartered Bank

and

Lady not occupy the bunking hall, but His Excellency was thanked | will conduct our business on the

name on our foundation sicne Your Excellency

for honouring than that of Sir Alexander Grantham by Mr H. G. Banhoni, Sub- nist and second floors of the Des

with your presence at the Manager of the Bank, on behalf Voeux Road section as a tem- Grantham.

111 shall now respectfully ceremony we have just wit- of the Bank.

porary arrangement. When com pleted, the new building, which invite His Excellency to say nessed. You will hardly need me the ceremony.

will be air-conditioned through- few words to you, and there-] to tell you, Ladles and Gentle- that as Her Majesty's out, will allow of the transac-after to lay the foundation stone men,

Chartered Bank representative in Hongkong, His an 1on of banking business under of the new

Excellency the Governor is highly civilised conditions, and building."

has will provide first class office Governor's Speech

on his time. We many calls accommodation In the storeys

especially appreciate, therefore, hove.

his kindness In laying the foundatiori stone of the Bank's new building. We are con- Adent that when this new office is finished and open for bus- nces, you will consider it a building fully worthy of this great city.

"Hongkong

Chartered Bank,"

Lady Grantham also attended

Casket Buried

Captured off Macao by a Chinese Communist gun.

a copy of ago when his Catalina air- boat more than six years craft was forced down in the sea by engine trouble, a British subject, Mr C. L. Sun, was dramatically re- to his family in cutenant in the RNR and took leased recently and has returned

evacuation and Hongkong. The landings in Norway. In May, 1910, he was awarded the Vic-

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Bank's History

of

His Excellency the Governor sok:

extremely busy man, and

Before the eeremony took place, # bronze casket was placed beneath the foundation stone. This casket contained

"As Mr Small has told you, copies of the previous day's

the new Chartered Bank build- newspapers, IL сору of the

ing in Hongkong is going to be "Perhaps it may not be out Bank's annual report for 1956,

ง very One one Indeed. of place for me to say a few believe it will the Bank's

staff

be the tallest words about the Chartered Bankyet. magazine "CUTTY and Rice,"

and its concellon with Hong-hall not be here to see it, But My only regret is that 1 two Chartered Bank notes,

Xong Many

will you photographs of the old Char- tered Bank building and

remember that three years ago I am achieving the next best,

founded that is by laying the foundation we culebrated the centenary

name photograph of Sir Alexander

the Bank's incorporation "The stone and having my

the con.

regulā What trials, hardships and suffering Mr Sun under-and Lady Grantham,

Bank received its original Royal inscribed The Chartered Bank building | Charter from Queen Victoria this, as a distinct privilege. went during his long imprisonment in Canton are notis being constructed in two

on December 28, 1893, and a "I first heard of the derision known. Recuperating from the effects of his imprison-phases, and the Bank wilt, as a

number of supplemental Char- of the Bank to excet a new ana ment, he was not available for an interview,

ters were added during the imposing building some ensuing years, In June 1956 and a half years or more ago, For 12 months they were im- Britain had made a number

Bank a consolidating Charter, with Mr Gruntham,

Churman man gramme of tours of the island of protests to the Poding Gov-prisoned separately, but were

present Queen granted the when I was in London and was und the New Territories for the ernment and asked for informa- not ill-treated.

which had the effect of adapting of the Batik, and Mr Cockburu, Orcades passengers.

Mr Sun, they then heard, was may be demolished. However tion and for the release of Mr

the Bank's constitution to the now Sir William Cockburn The be Sun. Anal arrangements cannot

and

considerable changes that had who w38 being held because of "compli-

at the time Chief thank Taken place. made unul the exact number quests were ignored, persumibly cations in the charges of opium of visitors who wish to make the because Mr Sun, of dual nation- trafficking."

ally owing to his racial origin,

There has been no news of the trips is known,"

tate of the Catalina aircraft could not seek Erilish proce-

which is British-registeret. tion in Chinese territory,

toria Cross for conspicuous

bravery.

Leung Ka 29. of 386 King's Road, West, 2nd floor was re- manded seven days on a ball of $100,000, half in surety, by Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central Court this morning on charges of im-

and possession putation

drugs Worth dangerous than $400,000,

Mr J. M. Remedios Sr., repre- objected to sunting defendant,

Det Sub-b sold that

the heavy ball. Dr. Insp. Chu Chun-man

1bs

Cri

Mone

the drugs seized included 49.5 o morphine, morphine hydrochloride, raw and prepared

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SIDE GLANCES

Thomas Cook and Sons have completed preliminary arrange-

for providing menta

pru-

protests

re-

The Orcades is leaving Sydney of September 14, and after

Mr Sun bought a Catalina fly- visiting! Kobe and Yokohamna will arrive in Hongkong on ing boat in Pakistan soon after the end of the war. He en- September 30. After a stay of 20 hours the Orcades will con gaged the scrvlees of three Aus- Messrs Hos Bolimi. tinue her Pacific cruise with tralians,

and Willkom Manila as her next port of call. Dick Richmond

luxury liner, James, to fly the plone to Hong- The 28,000-ton ister ship of the SS Himalaya, kong. The four were the only the aircraft a cruising speed of 23 knots, persons on board Ifer itinerary Includes Rabaul when it was forced down,

DRAMATIC MESSAGE New Guinea, Yokohama and

took off from Port

The aircraft Kobe, Hangkong. Manba, Morty ad Gnally back to her Chittagong, East Pakistan, on December 12, 1950, on a routine starting point at Sydney.

navigational exercise and was due to land at Kal Tak airfeld the following day at 8.30 a.m. As a result of a strong tailwind,. the aircraft arrived over Hong- kong five hours earlier and the pilot, Captain Bohm, radlood the Control Tower at Kal Tak aloft that he would remain

Mura

By Galbraith

4-3

LOVE WHEÄ Davies, ina

"The hot dogs here are only 20 cents, Luoy, but they pure taste a lot better than that 76-cant minute steak!"

until daylight.

At 640′′ a.m.

Tower picked

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the Control a message from Captain Bohm saying: approach. "Hello, Honkong

This is VRHEV. My aircraft is slukking rapidly. Am being taken aboord A Communist gunbout. All crew safe."

The position et the alreraf; was not given and further al-

Bank Manager's Son Killed In Fall

1emporary measure, move to the Grs and second floors of the first perllon-on Des Voeux Road in March, 1958, in order that its old premises en Queen's Road The new bullding will contain approxi- mately 80,000 square feet for use by tenants, but this accom- │modation will not be ready for occupation until February 1959 for the Des Voeux Road section, and June 1959 for the Queen's Road portion.

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of

is a commercial city, ind Its prosperity is

011 generations. successful mercantile enterprise. We are therefore particularly fortunate, if I may say so, in having to Governor of tho Colony, one who takes such a close and sympathetic personal interest in the commerce and

of

and industry Hongkong maintains such cordial relations with the business community. "I only remains for me

H's Excellency,

to Lady

celebrate

cars came from the same part Radio Hongkong

centuries

in many parts of General Manager. They told me Grantham, and you, Ladles and the world during the interven- that the Directors had just taken Gentlemen, for your attendance ing yours and particularly in the firm decision to put up the this morning, and to express the the Far East, Under powers

new building. I might mention hope that you will now accept conferred by the consolidating

parenthesis that Nir a little hospitality to charter the name of the Bank Grantham and I are not related, the occasion." was shortened in December-·lust The Bank itself will occupy 10

so far as we can trace, though The Chartered Bank,' 10 four floors. The lower ground

the great relief of its clients: is not unlikely that our lote- floor will be used for treasury, The Bank opened its Arst aufe cepaalt and the Bank's office in the Far East in Shang- of England several garage

accommodation. The hai in 1858, and in the following | ago.

year a branch was opened here Banking Hall will occupy the main ground floor, while

will floor mezzanine

of died Waller

various departments after a fall

will Irom

high wall

Bank and the first floor Kadoorie Avenue

accommodate the Bank's import 5.30

and export bill departments.

The

Architects are Messrs

Eight-year-old Jeżemy

about yesterday afternoon He had been playing near is home. After the fall ho taken to Kowloon Hospital tuffering concussion, and djed shori- ly after 10 p.m.

Was

the house the

Palmer and Turner, and The General Contractors are Megars Paul Y. Construction Co. tiom

He was the only son of Mr G. G. Waller, Manager of the

Hotel Peninsula branch of the Hongkong and Shaughal Bank,

He was a pupli at Kow- toon Junior School.

A burial service takes place at Happy Valley, passing the main gates At 5 o'clock, this afternoon.

Lempts to contact Capt Bohm Crown Awarded

J

RAF

failed.

Late:

Sunderland flying boat sighted a Communist gunboat towing the aircraft,

A report from Macao the same day said that the pinne Wilg

forced down by engine trouble near the Communist-held Man Shan Islands.

OPIUM CHARGE The Catalina aircraft carried no canto, but the four men were charged with oplum trafficking by the Chinese Communists in Canton,

Nothing more was heard of the men until 20 months later when the Communists released the three Australians who dis- closed that they were falsely. accused of trafficking in oplum and sentenced to two years im- prisonment. They said that the trial lasted 25 minutes and was held on the eve of their release.

Gold Seizure

Mr Ha-shing Lo at Central Court this morning made an erder for confiscation to the Crown of 604,01 tacls of gold valued approximately

Vocux Road.

sircet.

Welcoming Speechrembs it what is now developed into what we would call now 'bi-lateral trade

HKT.

Harrison Matihawaj 7.16, BBC

4. p.in, Time for Older, Children presented "Banking and commerce can'

by, Elizabeth; 0, 20 wem. erogramine Summary; 0.02, in Hongkong with its premises get on withour each other, but

Portuguese Half Hour: 6.30, V. D. A unlike the unsolvable riddle of aren of what is now in the

Hi urado: 1. The Naturalist. In troduced by Maxwell Knight, Chinese Street, near the Central the chicken and the egg as to is no

renguins. Willem Bladen end Lo Market und abutting on Des which came first, there

This first office doubt that commerce came

Parado.

Arkry in Variety of ours in Hongkong was on before, In the very earlies

"Hello,

Playmatos"; 1.63. Short they's original

Story, "Mm Grinis Šuver," by Erlo waterfront, days of mankind on this earth

Roberts. Read by David. Следно for it was not until 1904 that I expect that there was a 7.Du, Weather Report; 8. Time BIR- the reclamation in the area was primitive form of barter from

nal. The News: 0.00, Commentary completed, transforming

ar Stop Press Des one human being to

1em; Jack another.

Benny Violin) plays "The Bee." Voeux Road Into an inland Then in the course of time this Ably Assisted by Lane Stern, Or

1878 we had moved

chestra conducted by Izler bolomon. Plano Accompaniment by Alexa der Zaki Incidental Misio com- No. 4 Queen's Road, and in 1890, when the

our agreement between one tribe

pused and Conducted by lilly_my: lease expired, Welcoming His Excellency, nomadic

tin Opera. 5. Time Signal. At and another. In those days, of continued progress

"Hansel and Gretel" and Lady Grantham and guests, with a further move to accom- course, they didn't have the dick). Acts 1 and 2. Erlauguls Mr Small said:

with the Philharmonia Orchestra: modation in Connaught House, argon that the economists of

conducted by Herbert Von Karajan (largely, the site of what is

now today employ Edinburgh House.

nspect, to confuse the minds (Sung in Germany; 10.05, Cy Walter

plays Richard Rodgers composi of inymen like myself). A A tions: 10.10, Australan Magazine; 10.30, Tavourites In Foxtrat: 10, stfi later development

was

Weather Report: 11 Time Signal. money, or at any rate tokens of

Hadio Newsreel; 11.10. Goodőigal exchange for that is one Music; 11.30, Close Dowa Cur Directors and General "Our present building in the main functions of money- REDIFFUSION Managers In London, when I Queen's Road was completed in cowrie shells, and such things, say how greatly honoured we 1804, the alle having previously But the earliest record we have are to have s Excellency the been owned and occupied by of banking goes back to about Governor and Lady Graufbum the old Chartered Mercantile 2000 B.C., for there are tablet at ils ceremony. I would also Bank of India, London and that have survived from the like to express special thanks China,

"It is extremely good of you io lend your presence and moral Support to this occasion, and I spank not only for myself and the staf of the Chartered Bank here in Hongkong, but also for

on

Long Association

Bank of

ΟΙ

of

"

(Humper.

pm, Romantic Cycles Selections from Irving Berlin's "Call Mo Madam", starring Ethel Mer- man: 330, Novatinio-Featuring_the Alrians felo, Les Paul and "Mary Ford, Hush Waddul and the Nova the forerunner of the days to all the ladies prescht for present Mercantile

Ume Trio: 4. The Story of Bottle of Babylon.

Castle: 4.30, Tea Time Rendezvous adding such a note of eleganco India.

"One of them, for instance,

430, Vocally Yours; 8, Children's and colour to

It must have seemed these rather

runs as follows: 'Warad-Ilsch, Corner-Frezonled by Auntis Hay: utilitarian rurroundings,

an unnecessary afletion. 10

Tarikum, has received 530 Then son of

Timo Presentad by Betty Soura; 6, Tropicana. €50, cilents of the two banks in those from the Sun Priestess, Ittani, "It has been an open secret far off days that in addition to

Birthday Mailbag: 6.30, Waliz Tumel nt HK$133,801 for some time past that some the mental effort required to daughter of Ibbatum, one shekel of silver by the Sun-God's which was seized by Reycaue / thing in the nature of rebuilding | cope with the vagaries of the balance. This silver is to be Programme of Merle by. Mantova

operations was taking place on silver market, an exceptionally Offers on board the et Lok Sang this site, and some of you may clear head was needed to re-used to buy sesame. At the have, seen in our present rather member which bank was which, time of the sesame harvest be

banking holl the

"The Chartered Bank has thus will repay in sesame at the ingy architect's projected now Chartered Bank for almost

impression of the been associates with Hongkong current prico of barier of this

century (98 years document.” buliding. Some other impres to be exact), and we are proud "Surely such a documents

on November 3 last year.

The application for consen- tion of the gold was made by Revenue Inspector L. Dunning,

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