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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1958.
Fun And Games In The Children's Ward
This charang picture was taken
ty a Calma Mail cameraman bis morning during the Governor's tour of Latch!kok hospital,
hete the party, enjoys a joke 35
a young Chinese lad, hande
outstretched, organisex
table of syna
Around
the
tabir et la playmates,
From Irft
40 rigist, MILA Kathryn Black, Dr C. R. For. rest, Superintendent of the husplat De Mackenzie, Direc- ur of Alcoleal and Health Services and His Excellency the Goveruse,
This morning the Governor and Mi Black visited the lower
wards and upper
of The hospital They were met an arrival by Dr Furrent and the matron, Mi M. McGibbon,
During his tour, Sir Robert in. speeled some of the infectinus disease wartin, tuberculosis wards, the operating theatre, the dispelisary, Inberatery and X-ray departments.
The lower hospital has 206 beds and has a TB ward for 175 patients.
YOUNGSTERS COULDN'T
WAIT FOR CEREMONY
Undernourished children were eagerly re-1
ceiving buns and milk at the side TO END
door of the Lutheran World Service
Free Milk Bar in West Point this So Buns & Milk morning while the official opening ceremony was in progress.
conducice L, W. S.
The Mak Bar and Distribution, of Centre on Queen's Road West, service
the
Go Out Via The Side Door
which preceeded the young people were waiting at near Belcher Street, was one of opcating ceremony. Be referred the side entrance near to the 171 Genesis and buke house where a rich dough the five 1.W.S. Centres to be to, passages
relating the Rev. L. | Reviations
14 God's was being prepared for fresh opened juday by Stumpf, Duretor of LW S. message that He would provide buns. serves nuire than 3,000 families for His people. With incomes Iss 1 $40
flour, cum Stores of sweet monthly per person.
meal, rice, culton-seed oil and milk powders were slu
Mr Hobart Wan. Superia-
de nelet and Chief Field Onicer
A similar service and opening ceremony was held at the North Point Distribution Centre at Tsit The Mul Road, where over 1,500 the premises. Nearly 1.800 files attend for assistance.
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The number
3 storm olgnal to still raised at the Royal. Ob- servatory, and a tropical de- premtor is reported 410 miles Southwest of Hongkong. moving WNW at about live knols, The Rayni Observatory an- morning that nounced this showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop inter in the afternoon, No rainfall was re- carded by the Observatory up to noon.
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A.tropical sterm in the Pacifie bas now intensified into Cyphcon enlles Helen, und
was last reported moving WNW nt 11 knots
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Ata.m., its positions Was Liven on within 360 miles of Tap.
SHEAFFERS
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EVERYONE WELCOME Special Enclosures For Kai Tak Opening
Kai Tak airport will be "at home" to the public of Hongkong on Friday afternoon, for the official opening of the new runway by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Robert Black.
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"Everyone is welcome," an official spokesman said this morning.
.
"Large public enclosures are being provided and commentators will describe the sequence of events over public address systems in all enclosures.
"Full details of the enclosures and how to get there will be published on Friday morning."
Auxiliaries' "Debt To
Theft From Flat Employers"
Cush and property were stolen from No. 158 Rubinson Road, 4th floor between 7.30
Monday p.m., un
and 7.30 u.m. yesterday.
Regular Comet Service To HK
In 9 Months
Regular flights of Comet jets will not be using Hongkong's new airport for an other nine months, but the British jet will pass through Hongkong on training flights at the end of January, Mr Basil Smallpiece, Managing Director of BOAC said this morning.
Auxillary Folicemen must not The forget to acknowledge debt "owed to your cm- ployers for allowing you time off to attend camps". Mr Lee Tu-cheung said this morning at a passing out parade of four squads of non-Chinese Auillaries at Aberdeen.
The magnitude of your em- „ployers' sacrifice in sparing you from your regular occupations for a week or ten days every so ollen is always appreciated and is not taken for granted," he sald.
The parade was under the command of Mr Romang Young, Assistant Superintendent Police (Reserves).
of
Mr Lee, who later took the
salute, told the Auxiliaries: "The standard of every operation 1 have observed today would be a credit to a professional force and are all Auxillaries, your recom price worthy
when is remembered that you
plishment cre all the more
"No praise I can give can be teo preal for you young men who sacrifice your leisure time to keeping it avid training for ser-
ON A TRIP AROUND THE WORLD
CONCE
From the Files
25
years AGO.
DIRD'S Eye View: Correspon- ➜ dent objects to citizens of the United States being called Americans. But what are well to call them? United Statistics?
coal
Kowloon's so-called dump will not be in evidence after October 5 when the permit granted the
Mitaul Bussan Kafsha to store coal at Black- head Point terminates, Soon after the protests by residents in the neighbourhood were voiced, notice was served on the Compan that they were to vacate the area.
E betrothal of King Ghazi, new. King of Iraq,o his Cousin, Princess Aliyah. I daughter of the former King All of the Hedjaz, was cole- brated at the Palace last night in the presence of members of the Cabinet, Political reasons are believed to be responsible for the betrothal so soon after King-Feisal's death. King-Chaa! is only 21 years of age. He was educated at Harrow.
"Colonial" in Old Hongkong writes: "I am indebted to a reader for an Interesting con- tribution to this colums in the form of a bronze token issued about 50 years ago by the Hong- kong Hotel. The inscription implies it was good for "one "drink”, not specified, and leaving the modern historian wondering what
range that descriptorri covered-from water to cham-' pagne.
But it probably served jor nothing stronger, most of the
Above 12 riphteen-year-old time, than aerated water, as I find that the explanation for Sharon Drysdale who
Leruing this coinage runs at from Canada.
Reason for her presence to- follows.
"In the old days, when the BOAC will run a Hongkong-London Comet service to your delxow cluizens. This day in Hongkong: the was
surely is the highest form of elvic jufged the ost outstanding Hongkong Hotel did outside vice four times a week as from May next year, spirit to the commandy owes student in a forum conducted by Caring of interport cricket and Mr Smallpiece said they hope. gradually to increase this to daily flights.
Th Arst Comet 4, the most- tested British nireret ever pro- duced, will arrive tomorrow for the opening ceremories of the new runway, at Kai Tek.
Once the BOAC je od ješ- prop plan swings into action, cli the piston-engine aireraft will be taken out of service. This should come into effect by mid-1959.
When Hongkong is being regu- larly served with Cometa, BOAC will be able to provide a round- the-world service on jets or jel- prop aircraft.
Linked
Hongkong x}}} Then be linked with Honolulu and San Francisco, which will only bo 24 hours flying me away, and London, in the opposite direc- tion, only 22-24 hours,
London can also be reached RCTDSS the North American continent, and it is expected that
leave a passenger can Hongkong and be in London
in 30 hours.
Commenting on the runway, recently completed at Kat Tak, Mr Smallplece said "It is eer- tainly a wonderful piece of civil engineering, and the Gov- crument and the Department of Civil Aviation must be com- plimented on their far-sighted- ress."
However, he added, "I hope the Government can provide a terminul, to, match the runway as soon as possible."
The BOAC exécutive said be Was last here three years ago, at the time when the tender for the runway had just boon let and sold it was good to see
Upis
project com- enormous ploted in the contracted time.
The opening of the ruIway, be sold, will enable BOAC to fly the Comet into Hongkong, which they would not have been able to do otherwise.
Suspect Detained
The Police' havo arrested a surped following the theft of umum of money from a Chinoso podestrian In De Vobux Road Contral yesterday afternoon,
In the morning, a wrist watch wat matched from a Chinoso women in Cameron Road,
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Black Magic Does Not Help
Kampala, Sept. 0. Native murderers in Central Arica aften-resort to black magic In attempts to prevent police from solving their crimes, the anrust report of the Ugand Police Department suid tochty.
The report gives act instance charms where killers" buried
a very red deal,"
Children
Hurt In Accidents
ע
tukena
Washington radio station matches, regattar and so forth, tokens were sold to Her first prize was a round-the- these world trip.
petrons at the price, each, of a drink in those days. PTC- She left Vancouver on Sept, S for Seattle, then Honolulu and unit value for each coin. With sumably there was a definite Tokyo by Pan American,
a handful of these She stays in ifongkong for one patrons could secure their drinks day at the Attor Hotel (by courtesy of the Hongkong Lions quickly, as the giving of change Club, the Hotel and Pan Ameri- was avoided. It also simplified matters for the hotel, as the can) and she leaves for Bang- boys had only to account for the kok tomorrow to continue her
number of drinks
bu trip,
She arrives back in Vancouver producing the same number of coins, The last occasion on Two boys and a girl wore in- on September 24.
jured in soparate traffic She was met on arrival today which these tokens were used accidents in Hongkong Mr and Mrs Nelson H. Leo was in 1908, but 40 or 50 years of the Lions Club, Mr Gluard 400 they were often in vse ne and Kowloon yesterday. La and Mr Richard Sun of Pan special occasions." They aro
all recolving American. treatment in hospital.
One of the Inds, 13-year-old i Yue Ka-wing.
whose addreas
around the body of a stronged is not yet known, was hack Churchill Tank
Women.
Arrives
"Churchill
sold
TT appeara that President Roosevelt may decided to recognise the Bolshevik regime in Russia and thus take the necessary step towards resuming trade relations with the Soviets which American Industry sa greatly desires.
ed down by a commercial vari Nearby was a midcture but outside No. 00, Lal Chi Kok containing a gine made of Road. The other boy, eight- nail-parings and cly. This
of No. figure was supposed to bear the year-old Ma Yui-man
An Army 135. Third Street, 2nd floor, ful guilt for the killing.
was mocked down by a private crmoured recovery vehicle tank Four mun were gooted for
car outside No. 220, Qucen's was unloaded from the British manslaughter despite their pre- Rond, West.
vessel Bendoran at Kowloon cautions-U.P.I.
The girl, Li Sik-har, aged 7, What this morning. of No. 30 Shelley Street, 151 The tank is used for recover-have further replenished the floor, was knocked down by n mg vehicles which have been Colony's reservoirs and further private car in Hollywood Road, broken down. It was sent from modication of the water supply the junction of Shelley England to be stationed here. restrictions may be anticipated Street.
STOP PRESS
AIR DROP
Taipei, Sept. 10. The Nationallats are als dropping supplies to this .besteged Quemoy Istands prevent Communist strangulation, of thele Ilfeines, the Government disclosed today,
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Cargo planes dispatched from Formosa supply banča have been parachuting vilaty needed military stocks to the almost bluckaded falands off Clilna coast for some time. the Defence Ministry salda-- U.P.I.
London, Sept. 10, Chlaa's representative at Sino-American AM- bassadorial falke, Mir Wang Ping-sat, left Peking today for Poland after a five-day consultation with khu Gov- ernment, Peking. Radio re- ported.
bir Wang, 'who is also the Chinese Ambasador to
· Poland ́in spected to moes › bli opposita American Dum- bor Mr Jacob D. Beam. Unked Blates. “Ambassador `to Waraw.---Heater,
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near
WOMAN IS
BOUND OVER FOR THEFT
W V V
OF WATCH
woman.
WD
Pleading that she had stolen watch in Д moment of templation A 20-year-old
Lai Yin-ming, cautioned and bound over in $250 for two years by Mr Hin-
Lo at pling
Central this morning.
Lai admitted having stolen the watch, valued at $60, from the house of her fellow worker at 20 Peel Street, first floor, on Monday.
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The watch, belonging Chan Ho, mother of the de- fondant's fellow worker, was returned to the owner,
Vehicles Thefts
A bath towel was solen from in privalo car parked outaldo Union Churcts in Jordan Road *yesterday. In-anolbor,“case, property was stolen from a lorry parked outside No. 227, Sai Yee Street:
The recent heavy downpours
This Funny World
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