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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1959.

FORMER HK

HK JOURNALIST

DISMISSED FROM PRESS OFFICE

By DAVID T. K. WONG

Singapore.

Ex-Hongkong newspaperman Gary Wong has been dismissed by the Singapore City Council from his job as head of the Council's 'Information Bureau.

The dismissal was made on the instructions of the,

Minister for Local Government, Lands and

Housing, Dato Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat. To Attend

However, Wang said in 1 Press statement he would take the matter to court and prove that the Minister had acted wrongly and that the action was "vicous, spiteful and politically motivated.

The Singapore City Council had deelded at a meeting on May & 10 recommend to the Minister that Wang should be summarily dismissed for "in- subordination and for deposit-

gale on the making of n Alin on City Council activities with outside Individunis withoul having obtained the necessary permission to do so."

Paid Salary

Wang was paid his salary up to the day of dismissal and his letter of dismissal gaya three grounds for the setlon. The letter alleged "Improper behaviour" in publishing a let- ter in the Nanyang Siung Pao on May 20 without permission; participation in political activi- ties without nuthority; and the rete:tion of a City Counc) Ale without permissioti.

Wang answered the charge that he had taken part in political activities by saying that since he was only a tem- porary officer and no: In the restricted class he was "at com- plete liberty to take part in political activities"

As for the allegation that he had retained a City Council le without permission, he said he had turned over one fle to the Acting City Secretary and an- other

the Senior Crown Counsel.

"I have retained no file," he said.

Filed Suit

MR CHEONG-LEEN

HK Needs

Record Convention

An

INDIAN

FINED $1,000

Driving Under The Influence

Indian merchant, Arjon Bhojwani, of 1-0 Bonham Road, third floor, who pleaded quity to driving under the Inflarnes of drink, was Qued $1,000 or three month■' xA0] by Mr L. T. Morrla at Central Magistracy this morning,

He was also disqualified from driving for a year.

ESI J, E. Collins, prosecuting, said that on the night of May.

Miss Frances M. do Silva, 26, he saw Bhojwan trying to Manager of the Diamond park his car in Hospital Road Music Company, left by and while doing so he collided PAA this morning for with two parked ears. Europe to attend the Mar- cury Record Convention to be held in Madrid.

She will then go to England to visit one of the biggest con plants to study the latest technique

for making records all the way from tape to stereo lung playing records.

Miss de Silva, who will be awny for three months, will also visit the United States 10 minke arrangements with re- ording companies to manu- fecture records in Hengkung.

Support For KNOCKED DOWN

Refugees

Hongkong's role in

A 34-year-old Chinese, Chlu

Chak, living at No. 98, Queen's

Mr Morris said, "This offence is very serious, and you are very fortunate that you are not on a more serious charge.

"Since the last hearing, I conaldered with some huve anxiety all the facts before the

decided have

to court and give you an opportunity of pay- Ing a line instead of serving a prison sentence,"

Mr Morris added: "If you come before the court again on a similar charge and you aro convicted, you will be sent to prison undoubtedly."

Bhojwani had two previous convictions.

$2,000 THEFT

Road Central; ground floor, was Thieves broke into the first knocked down and injured by a floor flat of No. 143, Reclama- the private cur in Belcher's Street, tion Street some time between

cash and stole

and

to a total value of

World Refugee Year, near Davis Street Kennedy midnight last night and 7 a.m. which opened yesterday admitted to Queen Mary Hos- Jewellery

Town yesterday, He has been today is two-fold, a Civic A100-tal for realment. ciation member said this morning.

$2,000.

Letters To The Editor

Firstly, we should combine forces In an all-out campaign to persuade our friends abroad that the Colony can no longer shoulder along the responsibili- ty of caring for the world's most neglected group of re-

Cruel Hollywood fugees and, secondly, it is Ume for us to review what has been accomplished, and to formulate Sir-With scarcely any justi- Fulier Anthony further programmes of refugee | lication, Mr integration, particularly the ex- reasserts in his "It Happened To pansion of employment oppor- Jane" review that hoars old tunities by utilising the tradi- myth that "Hollywood is type-

tional learnings rod which

Meanwhile, Chlet Ad- ministrative Officer of the City Council P. C. Marcus has filed a sult in the High Court claiming damages from Wang for alleged llbel.

The bel is alleged to have been contained Iri &

written letter dated May 20, 1950, written, corrected and signed by Wang, and thereafter dupileated and despatched by hand by Wang to the proprietors of the Nanyang Slang Pao for publication,

Both Wang and Marcus have been feuring prominently in the hearings of the Commission of Inquiry appointed to look into the working of the City Counell, Marcus had testified and had bven cross-examined for several days and Wang is also expected to appear as a witness.

the refugees brought with her.

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Western is but a Western", etc), Those critics who refuse to be bamboozled by a film'a form Physical genre would employ an exact but flexible standard and and they would allow that Valuate it on its basic merits the "falty-mory". can be fe-like skills cruellest town on earth", though and a Western can be art. Con- have he surely knows ita "eruelly" is demning a "fairy-story" merely conspicuous only by its publion the ground that it is allen to city. Also questionable is his

the critic's experience of life or BEFORE ROTARY question whether there is such a

arging a Western to conform to thing "R noble newsman".

formulated notions hardly These were the vlows whereby practically every news-

courages variety, or, for that placed before the Rotary man is denied this virtue,

matter, art, in the cinema. Club of Hongkong this morn- One would not like to argue

N. T. CHOW. ing, by Meliton Cheong-with Mr Fuller's "cynicism" if teen, a member of the Civic t were sincere, bui it seems Association. Ile was speaking (more like another of bla OC- to them op the subject of tensional excursions Into flip- Sir-Daily 09 I wend my "Hongkong and The Worldpancy. He, though, can extol | way home, I have in the palma Refuges Year at their week- so many other Hollywood "fairy-of my hand two little coiná for ly luncheon.

stories" ("Inn of Sixth Happi-exchange with a very precious He said that the Rotary Clubs bess", for instance") without a poper the China Mail. However, because of the high-

of Hongkong hed for many years quibble. Really, Mr Fuller, how Headlines are of course ly charged political atmosphere

outstanding com- can you expect your film criti-maller performed an

interest however here and the heated exchanges

munity service, "A shining cians to be taken seriously If scoptical I om that reporters which had been taking place

exumple of service," he said, "is they can't even achieve con-abroad could not really tross-, between the Commissioner the

the HK$200,000 Boys' and Girls' Įsistency?

mit actual events transpiring in large number of lawyers ap-

Clubs Headquarters, which has The emotionat conflicts in secret conferences for example pearing for one interest or on-

been built mainly through the "The Hanging Tree," according at Geneva, other and the wlinesses, the efforts of your Club.".

to Mr Fuller, come out very well My chief interest is the amily Commissioner had decided to He then suggested that in indeed, yet in the same breatheditorial. However_hard_on postpone the hearingsselbo-die-view of their International says that a Western is not editor tries, bois often the

affiliations, the Rotary Clubs of the best medium to get them target of criticism, May Dwindle Hongkong would, be eminently over. (Why no!, Mr Fuller?) easy jok With the dismissal of WinRARIOSACRALYZudy makes Home Aguirita do SALOMERY Ou 11

appears the City Councilong's cause during the World cliable with his high opinion of readily and sportingly conveyed such "prestige" Westerns ds the information that no sight Information Bureau set up by Refugee Year.

The Big Country" (which, in Was meant to uny royal the former People's Action

CONVINCED

his estimation, apparently jan't sovereign

but yet there Party Mayor, One Eng Guan,

He said he was personally hampered by its medium). i been further criticism. about 10 dwindle fnto

convinced that Hсngkng Blame the audiences, not the Once I saw accolle rummaging nothing.

stands on the threshold of a film, if they can't "associate" deeply into a dust-bin. I The City Counell Finance

dynamle era of economic, and these ingredients with a Western, Inquisitive. He was withdraw- Committee has now recommend-

social expansion. "The impact though Mr Fuller's implication ing discarded mail-envelopes to ed that five other members of

of the old, which we expect is a Western should cater more collect the postage stamps. It the Information Bureau be fired

to receive during the World to the public taste.

so happened that the stamp because their jobs are re-

Kefugee Year should aver us The aim a film sets for itself bore the portrait of royal dundant.

to redouble our efforts to im-For the attitude it attempts to sovereign. Some countries even prove the general standard of express isn't necessarlly negli have various saldis portrayed, in living of the people of long-gible becauso it fails to attain their stamps. Could it not be kong," he said.

By cataloguing films he doem't sacrilegicus? Could it not be in- "Hongkong is like a valuable go for on such restrictive terms sulting to royal sovereigns whose Jewel that needs to be adequate-and frowning of any effort portraits are wantonly dumped ly protected against being stolen verstep them, by refeeting the in disrespectable receptacles? or otherwise. Today, the jewel basic thematie validity of any Our Preas represents the valce gleams ever so brightly, and film that displeases him without of the publle or rather echoes thus it is in our interest to build | distinguishing intention from the voice but let us all havo a up a staunch reservoir of Interachievement, Mr Fuller shows heart to understand national goodwill and support he doesn't really take the editorial job is no easy thing. for Hongkong's right to exist, as trouble to exercise his critica! A privale latter of remonstra- The Wu Tak Land Invest-an couls of personal freedom, faculties but is content to make tion might have had more effec

in accordance tive satisfaction. ment and Loan Company, Ltd.,ndividual opportunity and pell his assessments

with cinematic conventions ("a who plan to demolish the existical stauility," he concluded.

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The Finance Committer, has recommended that the Informa- tiers Bureau be made into a one- man department.

Compensation Offered

ing four-storey building at 7-19 Pitt Street and build a nine- storey black of flats and shops on the slle, have offered com- pensation of the rate of $14 a

foot square

to tenants eubleles and $400 for a bed space.

Mr Gerald de Hasto, insiruct- ed by Mezera, P.H. Sin & Co., W.L. Cheung, PC. Woo and P.C. Wong & Co. appeared at the Tenancy Tribunal" "this moming on behalf of various sub-tenants in the building.

There are 283 tomilles in the walking.

The tribunal consisted of Mr J.G. Way '(Presiding), Mr KHA. Penn and Me AT. Dow,

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