1960-01-20 — Page 6

THE, CHINA. MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1080.

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The industrial

ALL it a windfall. Call it an accident. Or call

CALL

it a by-product of the changeover on the mainland!

Industry invaded the New Territories in the

last decade like a lost beetle that tumbled, stumbled and landed itself right

side up in a desperate attempt LO find

outlet.

It buzzed and fussed and made a lot of hum ming noise in our crst- while idyllic countryside to turn out a chain of products.

These ranged

otar-raudra

ingredients

of

revolution

Hongkong

our industrial revolution.

The outbreak of the Korean

bigrest 1950, the war in June. position of the trade embargo in June, 1951, and the subsequent from change in China's polley to by

bulk deals, matches to shipbreaking: pas Hongkong in from aluminumware, bat- senied the fate of our trade. teries, carpets, driwnwork, enamelware, and filing zippers.

The number of factories hcreased rapidly from just n handful to well over 200 today.

The bustle

These

milis. JG

Jertiliser,

The biggest

The decline of trade made a The

un

licen

near

лега

On Lamiao Island, a tex- zlik-weaving mills, 28 textilé mila under construction milis (two of which are spin-

while the real, spinners' on the northern tip, while an

and weavers). mino covering 50 bercy

10 enamelware TO has been applied plants, 10 foodstuff factories, for and a yacht building site thace wool spinnner and two in being considered by ship- cotton waste packing pinals. bullders.

On Peng Chau Island, there are a match factory, a tannery, time kilns, ceramic pointing and bamboo curtain works.

The greatest

There, one carpet factory has zi sile. while a applied for plastic plant, destined to be the

Asli in Southeast Im-

is also under consideration,

Topping them all in the por

$60,000,000 alt sibility that a rchnery, the subsidiary of American company, may spong up in the Castle Peer Bay area. In Hang Hau in nearby Clear Water Bay Road, Asia's biggest film studio complex

is bein The constructed.

$5,000,000 project comprising four big

On Lamuna Island there is a Bound

production, tannery stages,

while a $10,000,000 processing and administration. dairy farm on 1,000,000 square

stalk hostels,

fect of land and a branch for buildings,

a local well-known battery plant periences for senior personnel

be is expected to

completed are being contemplated. early this year.

In Sham Tseng, there are a movie spinning and weaving mill, a Meanwhile another studio is also being considered. brewery and a sulphuric acid

modern million plant. In Taipo, on dollar carpet factory sprawling over 80,000 square feet, has been in operation for less than a year giving employment. 300 workers.

new outlet Paramount extrepreneurs plunged in

foresight Justry with no more

faith. Soon their than sheer activities overflowed into the New Territories where they have been busy developing until

include 52 textile loday,

ta chamelmark, three

two sulphuric acuch

Tubber-wear, two cart and two plastle plants bestden two movie studios and a ship modern breaking yard.

Here then is the panorama of the Industrial development in N.T.

ultra- Castle Peak, an in

$16,000,000 vertical textile combine, self-contained for spinning, weaving, bleach- 1940

wasting and dyeing of colton goods Colony trien raw materials to finished, complete with refugees products and furni of workers' dorintiory and godown,

is taking shape

The bustle storied" i whten the industrial bug

the into catapulted

with the intex ut

in the Entrepreneu

from China, capital.

to

In Shatin, a big dyeing and finishing textile mill has just been constructed and brought Into operation.

There are also a carpet factory, three dyeing works, five much- ine shops, three foundries, four saw mills, two rubber footwear factories, three tannerjas, one aluminiuware plant, we cere

reld mic works, one sulphuric plant, two fertiliser plants, one curk factory and a plastic works, Then there are a nall and acrew works,

watch nylon band factory, a muvic studio, shipbreaking yard and 20 new factory sites under construction, all in all totalling over 144,

In Junk Bay, a shipbreaking yard and a shipbuilding yard will soon take shops,

illegal

THE NEW TERRITORIES STORY

By

DAVID LAN

miners' crawied OYCT hit in the New Territorios, digging for precious wolfram which fetched. $1,500 a picul.

Laice the digging stopped when wolfram prices went down.

This episode gave birth to a Mines Sub-Department in the Labour Colony,

Department of the

On a

"In the past 10 years, Talpo's years, in supporting a family of population has increased by 30 six by cultivating five dau per cent, yet the arable land chug of rented land. has not increased or cannot be increased in proportion. The re- sult is lowering of income and, living standard and-unem- ployment," said on official of a carpet factory there,

industry rescue. Talce, for instance the case of Miss You 19, of 24 Kam Shan Villape, a

ня соле

When you sce n big freighter, berthed in the middle of Tolo Harbour where few big shipa native of Taipo. go, you can safely wiger that It is there to load iron ore mined in Ma On Shan, and bound for Japan. The output was 107,986.94- tone in 1938-59, valued $4,000,000.

at

The

to the

shoe-string budget, he cuitivates three dau chung of rice for the total rent and two dau chung of vegetables for family expenses, without taking Into account

from dainage alorms and foods, and price variations during the year, for this in the nereage Sau tien,

the family without cun · manage to work hired labour.

Lau is now a skilled band in The hooking section, earning $130 a month of which "I give $80 to my family," Lay is glad now that he can have three meals a day while formerly "I had to go without breakfast.”

income

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Her father, 48, was a rice former, tilling eight dau chung of rented land (two crops You do not have to go fur to year) with the help of one man look for the granite rocks abun- who works 65 days a year for dant in the NT, for there are him at $0 per day. His total two huge samples on permanent annual gross from 48 pleuls of

harvested right in the Central graln display

total District-the towering buildings while his annual of the Hongkong and Shanghal was $1,412. Bank and the Bank of China.

The sheen

Subtracting

was

$1,080, cost

He is glad too he can nów afford the luxury of "more trips: 10 Kowloon,"

There are about 300 workers like this man and woman in the carpet factory, which means the total cost that at least 300 N, T. families which includes $560 rent, $792 have a higher standard of living labour, $30 fertiliser and $90 than ever before-and this on 80,000 square feet of land which sceds--the gross leaves him

could support formerly

only -nel income of $200 a year. "Relatively speaking, mining

Miss Thu's family consists of one farining family! In Yuen Long are 11

For a small area such as the rice small show compared with

eight members-parents, 1 fertiliser plants, other industries," said on in- N.T.,

a remarkable brother, four sisters and herself. we have mills, four

four formant. presses.

"Except in 1 few variety of minerals. Besides Iron seven printing

Fortunately they raise poultry

Nevertheless, those absorbed a matter and wolfram, there are graphite, and tanneries, three saw milis, seven enses, it is primarily

vegetables for domestic and lead ore, Eaolin, quartz, and consumption and live in a alone farms, So there it is-a-competi- into factories will be lost to the bellies and 0 foodstuff plants

glove of scratching

feldspar-and crowns of mountains." factory.

minute house-of their own. Because of Due to the Korean War, great mining rush took place

when thousands 1031-52,

By far the greatest concentra- tion of industrial plants is in Tsun Won where there are 19

The word's BLOODBATH!

DR

Johannesburg.

R RUDI MEIER, M.P., gazed out over his beautifully manicured gardens to the purple jacaranda trees which blaze across his stately suburb outside Pretoria.

We had just lunched graciously in his dining- room, liberally sprinkled with dark oak furniture and antique silver.

"Would you be prepared to give up all this and let

African

be as can If the violent as this now, how would blacks trample all over 117" he set if given greater freedom?

he asked me, waving his out

across

the

АГТ

this gilt-edged

township of swimming pools

and two-car garages,

"My wife and I were

Homeless.

Down at the Ministry of:

was born Bantu Administration I

with for, hours here. Lived here, all our lives, bombarded Our

My grand- father came here from Holland. *he British always talk of *going back home"

› For

parents too.

them there

Britain to

Over

by KENNETH

some day,

is

always strings of facts and figures to

and over

again they say it-until

it chills you

f

AMES

to when support the argument that the good That is retreat

the bloodbath comes.

"But

we Afrikaners

no other home to go to.

have to stay put," he

upine-chilling word recurred with

our

"Segregation is for his own principle. South African Government's It is clear and unequivocal.

"And we are prepared to have attitude towards the black man

We has been badly misunderstood defend it at all costs," added by the putside world.

does the

An Afrikaner lawyer zazed

How

African

garden, I met Jim Mableg, 15, a nightwatchman. His Meadow- lands home has three rooms,

He and his wife, Nelly, and from five children came to it one single room in Sophiatown, the most notorious slum area in Johannesburg.

very

in amounts guaranteed

"not

of start a gold rush!”

The contest

a quantities of gold and silver, in the negligible income, the father tion between industry and agri- to gove up farming altogether culture for inbour, often to the

loss of the latter! eight years ago. And it might be from the Sau-kuen registered with the lion to the problem of over- Industry seems to be the sciu- slivery sheen of the lend

carpet factory last year and worked at Mul Wo on Lantao after a month's training became smooth calling.

population, but

"I expect the white bosses will tell you how much is being done for the black man

"But nothing is done to give us a hand in running our own country."

I talked to many Africans as I walked ronnd Meadowlands, Again and again they spoke of the Indignities which are heaped on their shoulders.

Africans can be fined for bo ing out at night without a special permit. Frequently they are picked up by white police several hours before the official 9 p.m. curfew and threatened with a beating-up if they do nút pay,

Cluomas and theatres are off limits it your face is black. Apartheid works in every phase of tetrom the park bench to the area where you are allowed to live.

But what of the white man's argument that if the black mat is not kept down he runs wild? Atricone in What about those hospital, smashed up by other Africans?

asked tho I

people. Meadowlands those questions.

"Bloodbath," That was the

which apt.of his office window at the feel about alt this? I set £1 155, monthly for one room Ang their answer:

Of

Paul off to find out.

In the main square

terrible regu- top-hatted statue Intity in almost every con- Kruger versation I had In the Union. below. Strangely anachronistle

you con

Hoodlums

"Now we pay £2 12s, monta- little place," Jin ly for this oldin Sophiatown we paid

and share of a cold water tap in the yard. The water was shut Just outside Johannesburg off if we did not pay promptly in heart of advance."

"It is always a mali minority above "You foreigners belleve we main station as the

boomingest Jim cams £17 monthly at his of hoodlums who get into the the chink of elegant china and treat the blacks humanly," he Airlow's richest,

here boom-town.

witness, night job, a fairly average wage imelight. said. "Everyone arrive

call the Nightly for Africans in Ude area. Ho martini glasses, :

he has

the smart what they

"But if we were treated like Yet I could understand thinking

Shuffle in Union Square,

spends

four hours and two human beings instead of dumb answer to our problem, the fear that motivates it....

animals, that pent-up energy carler I had.

There, a massive crocodile of shillings daily travelling.

He chowed me round A Dow hour

defoced humanity

would be diverted elsewhere, modest home, visited an all-African hospital...

Cold water and The lighter you screw down There I found some of the

sewage disposal were laid

the salvo on a steam boller, he The house was lit by paraffin greater is the ultimate *x- carved up human wrocks which Europeans are is justification

Iampu. restric. alone for the tightest Lions on Africans,

Boycotted

reminiscent :

of 1,000 refugce camps chulfes wind Perlly along co u.night in the ready.

"Look around you at what has veen done to improve the lot

It is the rush hour queue for of the African, incapable of fending for himself. Millions second class buses which carry therisands of African workers have been spent on welfare and resettlement. Today he is beller back to their out-of-town coun- housed, fed, clothed,

and munities on the Rena. doctored than anywhere also in 500 over casualties during the week-end," the Continent."

Bootleg spirit

We admitted

a plamp, coal-black ward sister

auche Bantu - gets more pay

belleves, wity

His wage

Beating-up

it or

kis

on.

plosion,"

Bor

the

Tights

་

I had travelled over 65000 miles up and down Africa. The

Said a young intellectual: "We are not asking for moon, politically. We just want indication that the Lighting and power have to Nationalist Government' intends be provided independently by to give 13 equat the African tenants if they, was eventually."

can afford it." Each. told me, "All the results of and is better off than in the old- I dodged the police and house costs between £150 and blood feuds, payday battles, and, tribal days." He pressed his allowed my way aboard one of 175 to construct by scini Union was my last port of call.

wheezing fingertips carefully together. "If these

overloaded trained African labour illelt drinking,"

It is also: the most important "It is true that we live better keystone to the dramatic future Liquor, knives, and firearms conditions pro as awful as the mobile h-coops, Occasionally are all illegal to the African. world

The they are boycollea en bloc and than before Jim admitted

of Africa: "We are never short of 1000

Аосто, Loopoldille, price of

ot meatier

Lagos, Nairobi, and Shll busty clains,

and sharpened wheel Ing to enter the Union to work? miles dally to and from work.

"Ever since 1920 there har spokes do rubatitute,

The bus took me to Meadow has risen prom 18. to de, Bd-for yes to fomused on Bout develop Lands, one of the recottle 10 pounds since the Govern

"Arica The hospital was Hitterea with been plannest urban

ment controlled supplies, the natives; 107,000 ment areas which the GoveZIA-

What happens, in the next'fvo young men paralyses from the ment for

who were faces families

homoices ment has built for the African. we have as many clothes us preses in Port Elizabeth, Durben, waist down, or with

boot resoltled. In I looked out across rolling we head and my wife is lappy end Johannesburg will colour alichoa: beyond recognition, by Juve

Johanceburg alone £8,000,000 acres.

events elecwire," covered with soulless with our new home!! these weapons.

been bryant on slum rows of tin-roofed shocks,

"Bud", som › Jenowo, there

It may well decide whether European blood plasma stood ho

rehousing ̈ ̈ ̈ of More

than anything. It other important thenge in as there is to be a bloodbath bat in lottiod Town in the blood clearaJECT

reminule 'me of the drearicst. We are not really treated, un goula engult the entire conti- başit

strange Inpse in 250,000.

*You can “The truth'ls that the African: wartline mamy campu):

South Africans, like the rests Initor: peace that could last aparthela thinking.

to donate does not like living and worK- I stopped off at the gaterpt: Wechave no civion rigfate. Wardon pasturies. not get Africans Blood," a sustion "explained. Ing kinong shilfe-men,

one typlani holzke. "There, in film are not citizens at all.

But bootleg spirit, bleycle constant stream of Africané áry- Africans then go up to 20 though the

L

and

London Represe Bervice,

orc

it is not

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that Silver Mine Bay has a skilled worker in the hooking derived Its tille. Lead is also section, earning $140 a month, dustrial development in N.T. are Hurdles on the way to in- of which "1 give $30 o my lack of fat land, cost of site

mined, nt Lin Me Hang.

formation, shortage of water, education the requirement of importing all

Abundant high quality clay family and spend the rest on (kaolin) for porcelain, pottery, clothing, food, some and ceramic Iridustries can be for myself and more trips to raw materials. and luck of found widely in The New Hongkonge Territories.

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However, her brother, now a The overall picture of in- messanger boy earning $130 dustry in the NT. provides em- month, la married with a son, ployment for about 25 percent Sau-kuch works 10 hours ด labour force. day with an hour's rest for of the Colony's Over $400,000,000 or half of lunch. She also has a 15-minute Hongkong's output

communications.

Government has an eye on these problema and is particu- larly busy on reclamations."

The handicap race for the in- dustrial development of the N.T. against me and a-

food-in-

in textiles break" 'far the morning ang cressing pressure of over-popu- and enamelware alone-in pro- afternoon.

Iation is on. It is gaining ground the New

from the hills and the sea at duced annually

pace that is slow but steady. Territorios

SATURDAY..

Another worker, Lou Kuen- sung, a boy of 19, has been What effect has the industrial living in a wooden hut at Nan revolution on the N.T. villagers' Hang. Vüloge near Talpo for 13. standard of living?

years,

To find out the truth, let us. His select Talpo as an example.

father, an earth coolte turned farmer for the last two

THE

FIRST.

CLASS

PRE END OF

SIGN

TO THE WORLD

WRITER

THYL

DOOM

NEW

be the and permanrai) *

WANTED

Textiles....

LAYS

"Dut, "Mr. Brési Teu-diti's-háva ta cónvinon,más, you, dari Hak every, man in the house.

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