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FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1958.
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ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
CANADIAN IMPORTED RUBBERİ FOOTWEAR
MPs Plea For HK Dockyard Workers INCREASED DUTIES
Naturalisation ESSENTIAL THAT THEY SIDE GLANCES
Granted
The Government. Gazette today announced that the following have been grüinted certificates of naturalisation:
Miss Lee Yo-yee, known es Therese Shak Ho-yen, known as Therese Shak Wal-hati, student, 10 Beltran Rood; Mr Chow Hor- shing, known as Ah Wan, chiet steward, 22 Hennessy Road; Mr Chen Kai-mow, company man- ager, 41 Chatham Road, ground fluor; Miss Ka Lai-yu, known as Lan Ying-plug, lm actress, 26 Prot Avenue, ground Boor; Dr Ong Huay-ling, medical practi- tioner, D Dianthus Road. 1st floor: Mr To-ming Chan, herbalist, 82 Johnston Road, Ist floor; Mr Leo Shing, architectural draughtsman, 148 Jaffe Iload, 3ru flour; Miss Lee Wal-ling, known 13 Winnie. Loe, known
LANG Wing-mel student, 79 Gran- ville Road, 3rd floor; Mr Tang Halang-chien, company dince- for, a Yur Ping Hond, 3rd floor; Mr Wong Yu-wing, company manager, 48 Village Road, 3rd floor; Mr Lee Yun-chul, known as Benjamin C. Lee. manezes, 6 Shan Kwong Road, 3rd floor; Mr Yang Tek-min. known as Yoeng Liong, mer- chant, 24 Caine Road, 2nd
floor;
hotel
ARE NOT THROWN ONTO SCRAP HEAP
London, Mar. 13.
Labour Members of Parliament made a plea in the House of Commons tonight for the workers who will lose their jobs by the closure of the dockyard at Hongkong.
DOCKYARD REPORT
London, Mar. 13. Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd, the Colonial Secretary, today gave the House of Com mons detalls of the dis- furbance in the Hongkong Naval Dockyard on March I when police were called in to restore order.
Member
Mr
A Labour Stephen Davies, had asked why the police, "armed with Thomp con sub-machine guns, tear gas bomby and other arms were
Mr W. J. Warde, a former Labour Civil Lord of the Admiralty, raised the subject in the debate on the Royal Naval Dockyards.
Te said 5,000 workers in the docks at tongkang would even- tually lose their jobs. It was thrown on the "scrap heap" essential that they should not be They had done a good job for the Admiralty.
Nothing could colonial relations it It should be be worse for thought abroad that the workers would not have the consideration due to them," he said.
Alternative
Mr Edwards usked whether the Admirally had considered alternative work for them in the Island.
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plea for sympathetic treatmeni of the workers.
"As far as I cop understand not being as generous as other the Admiralty at Hongkong are employers in Hongkong who have found themselves in the same position," he said.
The Trade Unions thought something more should be done. He asked what the terms were under which employment was beling
discontinued. What acheme had The Admiralty thought up for redundancy?
dealing with
something
Were they in fact doing cimilor for the As to the dockyard. itself, workers in Hongkong Dockyards ordered into the Dockyard. Miss Huang Ying-yu,
was it intended gradually
to what was being done for
discharge
Mr Lennox-Boyd said: "After evneuate and leave it to rot? Naval dock workers in Britain? notices had been Hud the Admiralty any ideas Lord of the Admiralty, replied Mr Thomas Galbraith, Civil Elven to 12 employees In the for another use that might Dockyard, a group of workers give employment for those that compensation terms were
known as Esther Huang, doctor of medicine, Lady Ho Tung Hall, University of Hongkong
Man Injured
A man, aged 24, sustained
injuries when he fell from private van near the Aberdeen Trade School at about 1.40 p.m.. yesterday,
The man, Lan Sử of 141 King's Road is receiving treat- ment in Queen Mary Hospital.
Mr R. J. Hardy has been appointed Member of the Board of Examiners as from March 18, recording lo the Government Gazette published today.
forced their way into the room made rexiundani by this clo-two week's pay for every yest
of a civilian officer and de ture? manded that the notices be lurn
"P,
"A large crowd surrounded the offee outside. The oftteer refused and was detained in
threatening manner.
When the crowd persistently ignored requests to disperse, the dockyard authorities asked for police assistance. This was given and order was restored without the use of force.
**The pollca carried no Thompson sub-machine guns or other automatic weapons." Reuter.
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and
A Conservative, Admiral Hughes Hallett, said. It would be a sign of some mismanage- ment if the facilities at Hong- kong did not pass into civilian control and immediate when the Navy had finished with them.
Use
"It is difficult to understand | why this dockyard does not become available to some civi-
of service. A MAJ could qualify after one year's cervice.
Associated
Mr Galbraith sald the
Colonial Government was asso- clated with the Admiralty in this matter and a local commit- tee had been set up to try and And jobs.
T
gelwith
By Galbraith
WOULD
AFFECT HONGKONG
Ottawa, Mar, 13.
The Tariff Board was warned today that an incroaso în duties on imported rubber footwear could be reflected in a cut of Canadian purchases abroad.
Briefs from the United King-"; dom, Hongkong and India noted that Canada sells more to those countries than she buys from shem.
The two other countries ex- porting rubber footwear 10 Canada - Ezechoslovakia And- Japan-were not represented at the Board hearing on the industry which concluded today.
Threatened
The Canadian industry, con- sisting of six firmas employing over 3,000 workers, claims the home market is threatened by Imports from low-wage coun- tries.
industry wants the board to impose minimum duty, leaving the present tariff rates practically unchanged 2-24
some foreign would make
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"I know it's my bedtime and I'm going right up! Just tell me one thing—are you going to marry him?"
Intelligence Man Found Floating In Tokyo Bay
Tokyo, Mar. 14.
Such
!shoes sell for a
higher prico than the
parable Canadian product.
A brief from
COTI
the Hongkong
Government
Appointments Gazetted
The following postings, transfers, appointments and promotions in the various Government. De- partments nounced in today's Gov- ernment Gazette:
wero
Administration
an-
Mr E. P. Ho, Cadet Officer Class 11, ceased to be an Assistant to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and assumed
Rubber Manufacturers Assocka-duty as Assistant Secretary, tion also emphasised the amount Colonial Secretariat. of raw materials purchased from Canada,
If the proposed
changer are:
Medical Servicos
Dr GAV, Griffith, Assistant
made in the rates, the brief said, Director of Medical Services, " will be due to the result of to be Acting Deputy Director prejudice aminal Hongkong rub- of Medical and Health Services ber products and will cause a during the absence at Dr G. hard blow an such imports to Graham-Cumming.
Canada,"
Dr S.H. Moore, Senior Medical
"The result will certainly meer, to be Acting Assistant have a bad influence on the Director of Medicnt Services mutual trade between Canadavice Dr Griffith,
Dr and Hongkong," It sald.
WI
Medical Wong, Officer, to be Acting Specialist (Radiological) during the absence of Dr HS, Rassim,
Unfairly
favoured nation
tarif
Dr Liu Saik-pen appointed from March 3.
"The information I have is that they have so for done quite laa
concern If the Navy is well." he said.
Mr Galbraith sold it was not The body of a 39-year-old US Army intelligence manufacturers were treated un- Medical Omeer on probation as
The brief and Hongkong finished with it.
Mr ΤΟΠΙ Steele, one of possible to use the Hongkong agent, missing since February 4, has been fairly, being granted most
found floating in Tokyo Bay, the Army said while India falls under today. The Army called it a possible murder case.
Government Tenders
Labour's chief spokesman on Dockyard 05 0 whole unit. Naval affairs, supported the There was still going to be a small Naval base there and for reasons of town planning the Jocal
council wanted to use that area for non-industrial purposes. The Admiralty was giving
A military-spokoaman saki gratuities in nccordance with the body, fished out of the bay wha: it understood to be good by a Japanese policeman on employer terms. would allow Wednesday, had
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been tenta- anyone to leave his job earlier tively identified as that of a than the usual term of notice if
Master-Sertcant attached to they had other jobs to go to and the Intelligence Support Centre The it was trying to find jobs for
at Camp: Zann near Tokyo. those who would be made re-
The Centre coordinates all US dundant.-Reuter,
Army Intelligence work in Japan.
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SUSPECTS ARRESTED
The
The name of the victim was not immediately released.
The Army spokesman said 1 preliminary autopsy indicated: the man was dend before he entered the water. There were bruises on the body and head. he sald, but these were not be
leved serious enough to caused death.
have
RED ACTIVITIES
Government Gazelte today published the fol- lowing particulars of ten. ders:
10.
Kal Tak development; airport lighting-General Electric Co. of England, $2,621,655.79.
Ngau Tau Kok service servoir, Union Construction Co., $1,084,320.
Wan
Construction of new Tsuen divisional police station and offleers' married quarters, Cheong
Hing Co., $1,005,023, Purchase of old locomotives, spare boliens, old wagons, and surplus serviceable and un- serviceable stares-Seven con- tractors, total of $383,093.
Three suspects, including a 16-year-old Chinese boy, have been detained by the Police for potty thefts. The offences in- clude the matching of a jade bangle from a baby in Canton Road, near Nelson Street, yester. Newspaper quoted the police day, the snatching of a wallet as saying the Sergeant was in- from a European woman
investigating Communist activities Chater Road and the theft of a ƒ in Japan at the time of his dis- fountain pen from a Chinese appearance; but the Army de-quarters and nursing school, Dear the Marine Department inclined to confirm this. Connaught Road, Central.
In another street theft yester, day, a Chinese woman had a sum of money stolen from her in Num Kok Road.
Sale Of Land
was
Piling to nurses' and sisters' New Kowloon Hospital.The "There is no dennite know-Hongkong Engineering and ledge that he was engaged in Construction Co., $390,500. cloak and dagger work at the Drainage works for Tsun Wan time of death,” it said.
housing scheme: Hongkong Japanese police, who were Housing Society Chi Fuk Con- co-operating in the investigaṁ | struction Co., $109,948. tion, told the United Press Site formation for
radio there was suspicion of murder. equipment at Mount Kellett The victim WIS dressed in Ajax Engineering and
Con- civilian clothes and his wallet.struction Co., $171,888.
missing raising. the pos- Construction of offices and Crown land of about 20,000 sibility that he was killed in a quarters for Co-operative and square feet at the south of robbery..
Marketing Department, King's Road, restricted for re-
Castle The Army said the soldier's Peak and sidential purposes only, is to be wife hed left Japan for the and Co., $74,011.10 and 100,092.- Tipo-Hein Chong sold by pubile auction on Mon-United States two days ago and 00 respectively. day, March 24, at 3 pun, at the salt attempts were being made Crown Lands and Surveys to reach, hee-United Press, Office, Lower Albert Road
The upset price is $140,000, and the bulkting coverinnt $750,000 in 30 months, lease term is 70 years with the option of renewal for an further term of 75 years at a re-assessed rent.
Wha
The lot is known as Inland Lot 7663, and is located near, Q.B.I.L. 5.-
Exhibition
An exhibition of Chinezo painting by Professor Chang Dal-chicby the most brilliant champion and exponent of Chinese contemporary arts; opoos today at Edit Arts. Com pany, 80 Nathan Road Rour Portion, Kowloon.
Site formation for a primary school at Cheung Hong Street, Hongkong-Hung Yus and Co., $77,784.20.
Demolition and removal of
Co.,
Urban Council Nissen huts at Kal Tak airport,
Union Construction
The Hon. C. G. M. Morrison $8,500 (payable to Government). has been appointed Chairman_of the Urban Council and an On- clal Member of the Legislative Council, vice Mr D. R. Holmes, according to the Government Gazette today. The appoint- ment is to take effect as from March 10...
Philippine Consul
Exemptions
The Government Gazette to- day announced that the follow- Ing-premises have been exclude A from the further application of the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance, subject to the stated conditions: Nos. 250 and 252, Sai Young Chol_Strect; Nos.' f and 9,- Queen's Road East, and Nos. 8 and 10, Wing Fung The Queen's Exoquatur - em=| Street "West; No. 90 Electric powering - Mr Jona· Foruler to Road; Nos. 196 and 198, Shang- Professor Chang, bocame a) not as Consul for the Philippines| hal Street; Nos, 198 and 200, well-known versatile painter in at Hongkong has received Her Bai Yeung Choi Street; Nos. bla early yours and his works Majesty's, algnature, wan to 11' (odd numbers only), Leo brave been widely displayed | notlled in the Government Tung Street, Now. 80, 88 and 20, throughout the world,
Gazette.
Johnston Road,
rates
the
Public Relations. lighter British preferential Mr B. R. Hart to be a Film
and Photographic Officer
category.
Social Welfare
The Canadian industry's briet, from February 4. presented at yesterday's opening session, clalined the industry was facing "extinction" unless imports are restricted,
Although
controlling over 90 per cent of the home market,
the industry claims foreign penetration is Increasing- United Press.
Company Dissolved
The name of The Shanghai Pharmacy Ltd, has been struck off the register and the company dissolved, it was notified in the Government Gazette today.
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MY D. W. B. Baron, Cadet Officer, Stall Grade, appointed Director of Social Welfare on March 10, vice Mr K. Keen who is proceeding on leave prior to retirement.
Justice
Mr D. N. E. Rea resumed his duty as Magistrate as from March 8 upon returning from leave.
Urban Services
Mr C. G. M. Morrison, Cadet Officer, Staff Grade, to DO Director of Urban Services on March 9 vice Mr D. R. Holmes on transfer.
Education Misa Jean-Baker to be a Sub- Inspector of Schools.
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