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FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1959.

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Comment JUDGE'S RULING IN SUPREME COURT CASE

Of The HK SHIP ORDERED SOLD Revolt

Day

Sequel The "Blitz"

Low Cost Housing To Wage

HE chief concern of the

Unolicinis in the budget debate on the question of housing was the need for more for those earning'an income of lean than $300. As this group makes up the

Claim

majority of the population Mr Justice Gregg, in the

its

accommodation

must

claim a high priority. Tois does not mean that ather forms of housing have now reached a singe where pro- grens might be regarded as į satisfactory.

Supreme Court today, ordered the motor vessel Golden City to be sold by public auction to pay a $17.846.96 wage claim by its captain and crew.

Dr 8. N: Chau points out that

despite the millions spent ship

The Golden Clly, a British

registered in Поляковк

run. It is owned by Taf Shing Shipping Co. Ltd, 65 Des Voeux Rod Wel, and is now tied up. in Barkong harbour.

The master, Captain Robert Wheely, ix officers, and 24 crew members, claimed;

Wages from December

# last year to February

0;

pa squatter resettlement. Wes on the Hongkong-Murao About 350,000 or more than the number already accom modated, still need to be resettled. And despite the $100 million upent each year by private enterprise on new domestic premises. 'standards still full a long below what is way

[s[ફે*****z[ generally desirable minimum. MORE NEEDED

TTOWEVER TR the

various schemes Heeds to be examined from time to time to ensure that all housing requirements in which Government funds

progress in

are concerned are receiving

Victualling allowance

for the offleers from

January 2 to February

G.

Two crew members who have

since signed off-claimed wage up to the date of their leaving. All the plainlifts were in court this morning except three crew members.

Captain Wherry told the court he claimed a total $3,023,20, which included $62 disburse-

the right degree fments made on behalf of the attention. Properly Govern- vessel from

December 9 Inst ment concentrates on the year to February 6. type of housing which

Auction Sale private capitul ignores. He sold the ship had been And since much has been articled on 'December, fast done by the Resettlement year for a term not longer than Department for squatters six months. It was on the And by the Housing Hongkong-Macae run, but is Authority for middle to articles provided for it to also lower income groups in run along the China coast.

are

He said

the wages

claimed And

their vast and impressive applied to both officers projects, notably at dave crew, but the victualling allow- Road where more than nees to the officers only, 12,000 are accommodated.

The crew was entitled to one more should be done now day's victualling, January 17, for the considerable num- he said. ber who

Captain neither

Wherry said ไปร่ entitled to resettlement nor sulary was $1,400 a month, and earning aufcient to afford vieluning $8 a day. the higher rents of the

Mr Justice Gregg gave judg- ment for the Authority estates.

amounts claimed, which, he said, would be can- Mention was made by Dr

firmed in due course by the S. N. Chau and Mr Ngan registrar. Shing-kwan of the Hong- He also ordered the sale of kong Housing Society's the vessel by public auction role in catering for this with the reserve price to

inbetween group". In its fixed by the registrar.

Total claims ten years of existence it

by the captain has

officers were:

Captain accommodated more than 15,000 and in estates Wherry $3,033.20; J. W. Doyle (clue!" officer) $2,246.64; James under construction and

Lee (chief engneër) $2,840.00; planned hopies to

housen Kuen-wah (second engineer) about another 60,000, But $1,400.00; Cheng Yul-bor (third could not the construction engineer). $1,165.00; Kwok of the type of chomhgbuwant remes=7755820+ accelerated by the grant of and Kwok Sau (secos pilot) more loan money? Also it $088.20.. Together with the 24 would help reduce the crew mem

Magraners, claims the total backlog in this category if, 15 $11,946.06.

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Mr Ngan said, the Housing Authority could in future give greater atten tion to the low income group.

measures

STIMULANT

OLONEL Cingue spoke of

the need for to encourage private housing development in the event of

decline in investment, These were outlined' in last December's. Housing Committee report and it only remains for Government to select, when necesitary those likely to be most stimulating. He also spoke of the high cost of crown land which has on Occasions failed to attract buyers oven at upset prices, Clearly this must not be

deterrent

COMB

building activity, even

to

望

Government has to accept A small lose in revenue,

partial

The renewed plea for

decontrol of prewar rents is one which will have to be considered soon, Dr Chau also suggests' that rates should be imposed on all new premises six months after completion instead of waiting for occupation. This would force property owners to rent or sell them more apeedily than has sometimes been the case in the past. There will be wide püblic agreement with this pug-} gestion,

and

be

The action was undefended. Mr Victor Gitlins appeared for the plaintiffs, instructed by Mr R. Dennis, of Brution and Co.

Of

Ilford Tories Win

Not aleve tie By-Elections

a film shot, but the heat and the struggle were very real.

"So*rpuetacular it could be a Express Photo.

Below: Today's picture of

the Golden City

doodle - bugs were dropping

on London has With Cut

the sky above |

Ilford

been

with

alive

flame smoke as

and

*it

Majorities

London, March 19. Conservative Government supporters hold two scats at by-elections today

In

Tibet

Bombay, March 19. Open demonstrations against the Chinese regime in Tibet have been reported by traders and travellers arriving in India.

The travellers were said

was last Mon- day night.) High Road, but with reduced major- | to have reported “great ten-

ities.

sion and uncertainty" in the typical

Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, suburban Lon

The result of the two polis, and declared that Khampas, declared around midnight, was in the southern part of the. don shopping.

seen by observers as likely to country, had been “rebellion centre through cool the ardour of those Con- bent" for some time,

scrvatives who have been which thou-

clamouring for a general cicction sands of cars in May or June. pass every At East Harrow, London, the day, was left Conservative candidate had a staggering in his party's margin of 3,022 in 2,200 majority compared with

the wake of a the 1933 General Election.

fire that tore: through

150

yards of shops.

The Commons

Deterioration

According to one traveller, a large number of Khampas went to Lhasa where they appeared to have been joined "en- thusiastically" by residents In the capital and neighbouring areas, according to Press Trust of India.

The exact reason for the re- At East Belfast, in Northern Ireland, the Unionist (Conserva-ported sudden deterioration in tive) majority fell from the 1935

the Tibetan situation was not clear, according to the agency.

Torn & ure of 13,807 to 6,200.

Twisted

This was the

xcene Ва it raged: torn “DTI ë k work, twisted gir-

ders, trolley

bus wires trailing crazi-

ly, debris and

water littering

the streets.

The by-elections made the stale of the parties in the 630 member House of Commons:

Information available did not suggest any prevalenes of vio... lence in Lhasa.

Demonstrations in the capital . Conservatives and their sup- and elsewhere were reported to porters, 340: Labour 270; have been peaceful but the Llborals 6; Independent 1: In-situation was one "credited with dependent Ulster. Unionist

1; explosive possibilities!"" P.T.I.

added.-Reuter.

Vacant seats 3-Router.

U.S. Contacts Venus

Westford, Mass., March 19.

U.S. scientists reported tonight they bounced a radar

signal of Venus for a space round-trip of 56 million milės.

And the The trip to Venus took slightly more than 295 seconds on familiar scene

where

Ilford

people shop

and jostle and wait for buses was suddenly swallowed by

the hunger of the fire.

Before the blaze had been finally extin-f guisha£15 million worth:

of damage had. been done:

Express Photo,

Frenzied Soccer Mob

Storm Stadium

Buenos Aires, March 19.

Thousands of. soccer fans forced their way into the Peru-vs-Argentina game last night without tickets, leaving other thousands of ticket- holders helpless on the outside, while hundreds of other eager fans climbed the outer wall of the stadium, like human fles to gain en- trance.

A single line of mounted and Death Of TV

At mid-afternoon, 10,000 faus | ripted in front of the offices of foot police tried to control the

tion

the Argentine Football Assocta

when ckets for the 120,000-seat bowl were sold out, and police had to charge them to

clear the street.

HUMAN, TIDE

mullitude. Those who, waved tickets were allowed; through and coon thousands more way- Ing pieces of cut poper got through too, pushing the gate keepers bodily, out of the way..

Another great tidal wave of humanity about to engulf the stadions goles was beaten back. AL B. pt. "about 300

by a abre chirge by the moun- fans

cd polico. Many fell to the charged, headlong into the sladium, brushing aside both ground but soon, with frenzied police and guards, and were enthusiasm, the mob reformed, followed by: about 2,000 mere only to mest new police charges, who rushed into the breach. Two doors were, torn off their hinges and iron bare bent with the fury of this human tide.

Two more groups of mounted pollco were brought from thelf Hearby barracks but the human" {sen › #walled' every-minute;

Announcer

The death occurred yester-

day of Mr Richard Louis Jeffrey of the Bon Line who was a popular televis tion and Rediffusion" an- nouncer in his spare time. Mr Jeffrey died of pallo ȧt Queen Mary Hospital. He was

27.

Mr Jeffrey was basistant to the manager of the Ben Line Storm- After three massive charges, re in Hongkong. He arrived in thousands of people managed to the Colony in November, 1997. break into the stadium, The The funeral service will take police. followed them. In. and place. at St John's Cathedral to fred-tear-gus shells at them. morrow at

No Berious; injuries were re- "ported but many people were

bruised. — U.P.I.

Mr Jeffrey who is unmarried in survived by his mother and father in England.:

February 10 and slightly more than 302 seconds on

February 12.-U.P.I.

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