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THE CHINA MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1960.

FUTURE

THE KEY TO THE

THE population of Hongkong is increasing at the rate of 100,000 a year, which means that every year we need a new town as big as Tsun Wan to house the newcomers!

And can Hongkong offer 1,000 new jobs every month? It must-for that is the rate at which the number of new job-seekers have been and will be increasing, from 1957 to 1962.

with together For the next live years, from ments 1962 4 1087, the hereas of enlargement of the police force

will *these average ull

provide our job-seekers wit! 2,000 a month.

which means opportunities for Jobs, Hongkong will then have to provide 2000 new jobs over menih to keep down the pre- sent army of unemployed.

The pressure of our fal grow.up population has brought about problems of employment, water, food, clothing, housing, transport, lueat.on, sanitation, services, medlent eure, social

and even law and order.

Where will this pea of human- its inherent problems ity

In the averilow?

New Terri Lories es the obvious answer.

As Mr D. R. Hohnes, District

New

The

Territories story

-by David Lan-

would not be an unreasonable return."

The following day, Air Arthur Lawis (Labour} asked

in the House of Commons why the British Government would not take the initiative in dis- cussing with the Chinese Gov-

the ending of ernment

the lease of the New Territotjes, "Indispensable to the existence

1898 for

a period of 09 jumped from 29 million gallons years," he said,

In 1954 to 53 million gallons In 1958 arz increase of 83 per cent.

"What line is to be taken when the lease of the New Territories falls in? Is Britain

the

leased surrender territories?"

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Like compound interest, this

Increase represents an annual of more than ten per cent ovAT cach preceding year,

Mr Creech-Jones so asitta

At such a rate, '20 years 'from pussible

arrangemen's now the average daily ednaimp- "whai 'could be made with China and

tion of water for domestic, in- the United Nations

for the dustrial and agricultural

poses will be 350 million gai- lons-even on restricted supply.

Mr John Profumo, Minister constitutional development of

Affairs, that territory."

of Hongkong,"

the

But how long will N.T. main with us? The mutwer fur 37 more years.

10.

is"

Authorities on monies made available by Government is

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excessive and whereas, of State for Foreign

was quoted as replying, "I do originally, The ioana

not think it would be profitable now about to start talking events so far ahead."

Menace

The Art one to bring up In other words, the popula this problem was Dr Alison tion which created our probe Bell, an Elected Member DI Jems will themselves be put to

the Urban Counell, work to solve the problems.

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the

What would happen Colony in the NT. did not exist"

be Non-existent also would these pdvantages. The chaos in the

would be un- Colony

Imaginable.

Could this happen? Not as

Commissioner, New Territories, long as there are the New Ter-

put: "We must look forward ritories.

to the HT. for the inevitable. expansion.

We'll have indus

1: les lur employment and satel- Be towns for housing.**

Mr. Holme

said, ***Because! more and mare people are going to look for work and, because vur land will not get any big- ger, the majority of then must End employment with factories.

"Where are the new factorles Ring to be? Of course out in The New Territories. The na tural sites they will pick out will be where comielestians ་་་་་ most eonvenient by landi hy rea-such AS Trun

Wen."

This, he said, is why Govern- ment proceeding, with plans for reclamations to pave the way for satellite towns and in- dustrialisation.

will reclaim "Govermnent where it is feasible and econo. zeal to do su to relieve the

and shasinge," be declared.

This is the way the

will be brought in

N.T.

to redres

the balance between urban and j

suburban development." Mr Holine added.

Water

The New Territories are si-

gundy tackling the various tums of overpopulation admir.

ul.

A Breat deal of fresh meat. bah, poultry, vegetables and rice

has been increasingly supplied

by the N.T.

M

New lease

Speaking on "Housing and Health" at public meeting of He United Nations Association of Hongkong, on February 10 last year, she said:

"....The rate of interest charged to the Housing

being expitalised over 40 years, new

have loans now to be paid back tu 38 yOCTS, Next year it will be 37 UNITS and so on

"The sooner we negotiate a TAMO Leand jor the New! Territories the better, We skall, naturally, have to give a proper quid pro quo, "but ff. for instance, we were to

build an ofer to

industrial atomic power station in the N.T. to supply a lot of South China, a

which,

These are questions are being asked by thought- ful people today and which will have to be answered in the years ahead.

pur-

"Should such a proposal be put into effect, there will be a number of complex financial, administrative and technical problems to be solved."

"And it is our

view that the establishment of à Hong- kong Electricity Authority such as we have recommend- 做是 would facilitate the solution of such problems,” the Commission pointed out.

It would seem open to doubt whether such a nuclear plant Completions of 120 She would measure up to the one Pik and Plover Cove prudccta referred to by Dr Alison Bell, will being the Colony's folal storage cammelly

"But How many more times million Kaljons, which can the cost of a nuclear plant is lant for four of the seven dry the future of Hongkong worth?" manth (Oofober to April) asked one observer,

to

44,900

"It is believed the authorities will leave no stone unturned in

The nuclear plant proposui. however, is much more than o

each year at the said rate, Labour did not forget the distant diplomalle gambit. !!

On problem.

April 17, last has also been thought os cap- Event the mighty Plover Cove year. Mr Arthur Creech-Jones, able Labour. Secretary of State for problems of water and electric from now!

of solving the Colony's will be outpaced 20 odd years their attempt to find a solution.

the Colonies, raised the ques- supply. tion again during a debute in the House of Commons.

The water shortage is a per- petual menace in the Colony. territories were in the past five years the over- new 99-year lease leased by China to Britain in age daily consumption has

TTICAC

Behind the general is his wife...

and she speaks her mind in

this amazing interview!

From ROSALIE MACRAE

Paris.

[ME MASSU, wife of the paratroop general who sparked the Algiers crisis, told me: "It was an ambush and my husband fell into it." She was recalling how the general was sacked after a German newspaper quoted him as criticising President de Gaulle.

Auburn-haired Suzanne Massu, who is 43, walked aimlessly around her austere Paris flat and said: "My husband has been The bulk of the Colony's the victim of a wicked plot organised by the men who have water is supplied by the l wanted him out of sight since we went to Algeria five years ago.

reservolts t the N.T---the

Cnout Jublier. Tu: Lam Chứng

"He

ug Shek Pik. Even the interview

did not give 10 The

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German who works, lay almiessly in ireshwater-lakes-to-be, Plover journalist. Every word was her lap.

By the N.T.

Cove and Hebe Hoven, are all Juntrie. 11 whe all fixed but "My husband is sitting like a we are powerless to sue or do lost man in his hotel" she said.

about anything

It. No me "He reads the newspapers, every Town Wan, our "Lancashire" would heed us.

edition ay 1, comes in. People killed because they "And it makes ne very sad to are being think, that our comrades, the are loyal to my husband and Rouds, uus and ferry services men we fought side by side with want him back in Algiers.

will clothe the Colony's popu= | lace at reasonable prices.

have been Increasing over

the during

years, though somewhat slowly, this,"""

to facilitate transport and com-

munications.

The fifteen satellite towns in

the muking will

accommodate

the war could sel like

Crucifix

"My husband loved Algeria end understands it. But he has known for many years now that people wanted him out. of the WHY.

months ago he realised shoot.

Mme

Massu:

'If my husband

the

had only one bullet in his gun

journalist or

to

is

and the time to make wise invest- a Algeria

dangerous Madame Massu had come to Six

shoot the horrible and I shudder to think ments with their money. he would furnished that his time in. Algeria might. felizga several more milluns, provided her small, sparsely

“But I must

Lo back apartment in the ue Loio, in

be limited. He felt like warning journalist. That I can tell you, of what could happen,"

Then a friend of mine In the blood-bath which the unny advised me to come

Mine. Massu, her sunbumed Aiglers once again to say a Even cinemas and schools are the fashionable 18th District, to them of

warry, looked proper goodbye to my friends keeplay pace

they take shape soon enough.

with develop-make arrangements for moving would result if his command back to Parle as my husband face lined with

back there with her husband, was taken away. But he kept might want me by his side. I around the three-roomed flat and the dildren who call me

ment. There are 13 cinemas

their 11 - your old daughter quiet and this is the result. acuttered in the major N.T. towns, while four new cinemas Veronique, and their two adopt-

cd Algerlan children, Rudolf, are being built, one each in Yuen Long Tsun Wan, Shekret seven, and Maita, god 17.

0.

Pic and even Inr-off Tei

Medical services and Police Force are also being expanded in the N.T.

"Untrue"

said goodbye, to the 500 children again and said: "It was just mother.... in my

little do ambush and my husband`, orphanage th yaouleds thinking it was only fell into it.

"I took my little Rodolf to school Paths for the first Little dia I know. "There was nothing he could time the other day and the She moved round the flat "When the news of this now ou tevoir. straightening the white crucifix called report came out and that I would never play with do, and this could mean the end teacher asked him if he wanted the above the general's desk and Jacques was called back to Paris, then, and work for them again. of everything he has fought for, to be a soldier.

take it seriously. I "My husband wants only the Now we will all have to get used

"Ife looked up at her, his sorting out the linen. Then, I didn't

big eyes brimming with, prido with a weary shrug, she pulled thought he would be back in a best for General de Gaulle, to being chained here..

and sakd: 'No. madame, I As to the employment probe her camel-hair coat around her few days after explaining to the Neither of us wishes him any

Won lemm, Tun

alone has and sank down Inte

want to be a général illo my 5 chair General that it was all untrue. hat. We dought under him in

father!!! absorbed a quarter of Hong- beside her husband's boolocaso "This journalist thought be the Free French and we have

Madame Maru's eyes clouded kong's labour force,

a. bookcase filled with quiet, could make up words, words, ntways herpected and honoured Development of Industries, reflective books....the work words and put them under my him, Bul triondship to some "Jacques will have a reat ond over. "I fell like saying My

A -stranido |fken. I don't know roads, communications, reclama-ot Prount, of Catholic thinkers, husband's beret.

what will ron, my son... but what-la | He has been this shown. In

maxfaor and Wo can only happen to him. We are penniless. the usef Algeria is in his blood, tions and satellite towns with of Maugham and Oscar Wilde. very successful,

Jacques has always been in as it is with his "fither." mushrooming shops. and Her Hands, the blunt, n- it my husband had only one soddit ita

"This altuation in our beloved soldier and soldiers do not have

-fhondon-Baptors Rerulos), thousands of business establiski- 'manicured hands of A woman hullet ini bila mata and be hast-tó

'Penniless'

of

Solution ?

to the impending problem of the lense.

"It is unlikely that

any measure would escape their 1901, Government notice, particularly it it right Early in

the whether to help surmount

greatest will have decided adopt the Plover Cove project handicap to the development of

the dual-purpose

where the future of nuclear the N.T. plant to distill sea water and Hongicong Hes, and give it a almultaneously generate elec new lease on Ha,"

What does the public think tricity.

of the problem? The incis A well-known British en speak for themselves: gineering firm has estimated Householders and landowners that

nuclear power plant for, are busy buying property north dlatfling 60 million gallons of of Boundary Street at sea water and generaling 200 and prices about the same as milllow watts of electricity per on the south side,

day might

cost

renis

$15,000,000 How about the Industrialists? compared with $400,000,000 for in the remote towns of the the Plover Cove project.

There will be no fear then for

a lack of electricity and water supply as long as the sco with us.

NT. one can and them pushing shend with their plans for new factories,

sall

The fishermen 'set 18

on their stung trips.

The farmers sul plough

The tendency will be for Plover Cove to become more their land. expensive as Ume goes on. be. cause plant and labour costs

The spirit of Hongkong seems

(will riže, while a nuclear gla- to say "The show tion will become cheaper over on!"

the years.

Also it will require ten years to build the freshwater lake o Plover Covo. while only four. or five years will be required to set up a nuclear distillation plant-the first ever in the world.

The Electricity Inquiry Commission sold in its répart

that distillation recently

of fresh toater from ica,water le economical only combined with the production of electricity.

must go

Agoina! a beckdrop of sreen mountains and blue sea, the sun rises in the eart every day to raise the curtain on the scene-a scene which a handicap race being

apatnal puer. population and time, making slow but steady progress for the development of the land that f8

New called the Territories.

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THE END

"How long are we going toʻsland here before you after the

lady...your seat,”

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