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Comment Of The Day
RESETTLEMENT
I
CONUNDRUM
7 seems that as Hongkong'a
resettlement
gathers
programme
momentum,
in
the
terms of units built,
waiting list in terms of un- housed
Aquatters, grows Jonger. But the conundrum Govern- han an
explanation.
ment's trouble may be that it is being too successful in rehousing the homeless,
or too generous in fixing low rents, or not vigilant enough in determining whe the squatters really are.
The Governor ln his review
of the year's events at last
THE WEATHER
· Moderate · gusty' asst-winds.” Fresh" In "exposed! places. ---Cloudy with-patches-of-light rain and coastal fog patches or mist developing this evening. Noon Temp: 78' deg, Humlii 87 pɔs,
CHINA
No. 37603
Established:1845
LATE FINAL
1980. WEDNESDAY, MARCH
Price $20 Gents
Fly
PAN AM JETS
to EUROPE 6 Flights Weekly
For Resurections Phone: 37031.
Tenancy Tribunal agrees to Nathan Road skyscraper Two big upsets BIG KOWLOON BUILDING highlight this SCHEME APPROVED
$1
million
compensation to be paid
The Tenancy Tribunal has approved a giant 17-storey building scheme in Nathan
Road, Kowloon and has awarded $1 million in compensation.
Wednesday's Budget meet-announced its deels on on
had
and
Co; Mr Henry Hu, Instructed by Stewart and Co; Mr A. Zim- mem instructed by Brutton and Co and Mr W. H. Young.
This morning the Tribunat į M. K. Lam and Co; and d'Almada the and Mason; Mr Benjamin Liu, ing suggested that an official first phase of the $14 millon instructed by C. Y. Kwon miscalculation
project which aims to demolish the existing Wing Lok Building curred: entller it was
W35-39 Nathan Road, and replace lieved that Government had it with 85 shops and 749 dats reached the half-way mark
In a new building. with about 300,000 re- settled and the same num-
awaiting ber
Accom Now almost modation. doublo this number, Or early 600,000 people are found to be shanty dwellers. How could such a large discrepancy occur?
HERE may be a more cou-
At the same time the Presi dent of the Tribunal, Me J. E Darzan said the Tribunal could not assume the duties of a Town Planning Board and will probably come as a surprise to members of the public to hear that such an importa:i scheme has not been before u
Planning Town
Board, The
bean
ap
Tvincing explanation of the plans have merely one -
big increase in the wide publicity that the resettle- ment scheme has received in recent months. One hun- -dred blocks,
Achemo unique in
it Asin, rock-bottom rentals: these are a few of the outstanding features of the programme which have mado headlines in the local press. And many who were not squatters previously but lived abominably with their familles In outrageously small bedspaces may have been lured to build huts in the hills in the hope that within a few years they would be resettled in the ubiquitous concrete H- blocks.
thority," said Mr Dargan.
He sald that the elbunal Magistrate and two comprised
lay members, (Me Au-young Yick Fung and Major, A. N Braude) drawn from the busi ness community, with no speri- alised town-planning qualinea- tions whatever.
They had to be satisfied that the project was in the public interest Mr
of the Dargan spoke strenuous opposition raised against the scheme proposed by the Ming Man Land Investment Ca.. represented by Mr Leo d'Almada QC and Mr D, A. L. Wright, instructed by Mr Y, H. Chaa of Lau, Chan and Ko.
Not surprising
DARING
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY
By A China Mail Reporter |In a split second, a prospec-
---tive customer-turned-into-
#snatcher and escaped with two expensive watches worth $1,210 in broad daylight in tral district yesterday. About 12.30 p.m.,'s 'debonair Chinese gentleman in 'n ghey Europcen-wyle suit walked into Brodoway Watch Company at 172 Dea Vocux Road Central,
cen-
"Would you mind showing me that $005 watch In the show- care?" he asked shopkeepw Tam.
Tam obliged, taking out tho watch with the white dial sur. face. The customer scrutin ised it for a while.
"That the tenants should be They may also have been en-
loud in opposition is not sur-
"How about the one with the couraged to do so by the prising. They enjoy very valu announcement that while able property at very low rents.black dial surface?" the man inside the Government plans to re- The premises are centrally pointed at another house alum dwellers at the situated in the busiest part of showcaso,
and sre in good Tam took it out. The prospec- rate of 20,000 a year, re-Kowloon
tive customer looked over in accommodation structural condition, arttlement
"An application to knock accond watch carefully. only slightly inferior and
"Any down such bulldings clearly
discount? 1'd Uke to strong anus on the buy one if the price is cheaper," shoulders of the applicant com- he said. pany. They have to satisfy the Tribunal that the scheme is in the public interest, and we must look on the scheme as a whole. "We are told that there will
at lower
Tam raised the alarm.
Made for door Scarcely had Tam apologised and refused, than he sav his prospecuve cant. pocket the be 85 new shops and 749 flats, two watches and make for the the latter designed to suit the door. white-collar population of the $500-$700 income group. There A chase began with Tam and is a demand for accommodation rather shop assistant pursuing of the type proposed.
the thief through crowded "The hardships to tenants to siroets-out of Des Voeux Road can be vartly Central into Wing Lok Sercot, be dispossessed
Wing Sing Street in alleviated by payment of pensation.
renta, is to be places a built to house five times that number each year. We assume it is Govern- ment's firm intention to end the evil of these unhygienic, rickety, inflammable settle. ments as soon as possible and it might be wisest to employ the Census Bureau or the Resettlement Depart ment to make a survey of the squatter population, list the names of every individual squatting, "freeze" the waiting list, resettle them area by area, and finally announce that newcomers will be left on the hills.
HERE must be a limit to
This type of accommoda
commodation and
com- then
Hero of blaze
Two terrined women stood on a foot-wide lodge as flames shot from windows of their London home last · Baturday. One woman plunged to her death as ladder with rescuers - wavered beneath her. The other woman, Mrs Joyce Symes, was saved, by a workman, Lonard Ford. Plotuto shows hero · Ford (in shirt-sionyes) handing over the rescued woman to frémen as two other occupants of a South Kensington flat wall to be rescued. A man also died in the same blago, Express Photo.
Co-existence in HK
impresses TV director
By CHINA MAIL REPORTER
pre-detective joined the chase.
Queen's Road Central where a Co-existence in Hongkong was a model for the world, an Australian tele
The three were about to calch
vision director said today.
something
"While we should have ferred a mere dignified buld- ing, providing more specluus ac up with the snatcher at the
He is Mr Gerald Lyons of the [lem but I was, amazed to.600] "The barbed wire has been more suited Junction of Wing Sing Street Australian Broadcasting Com- everything working cut a well. I removed. This is to Tsimshatsui, nevertheless
and Queen's Road Central when mission' who has just completed we do not propose to refuse muddenly the gentleman-thief directing a television documen- the progress here in Hongkong kong don't know..
"It's nothing now to my that that most people 'even in Hong- exemption."
darted acrOSS Queen's Road tary called "Hongkong Dateline is tremendous......... Central at lightning speed,
1000", Iminnydiately after, a lumbering
moved lorry
down Queen's
This building Road Central, blocking
ponoctul
co-existence an important and
that I have noticed was my tourist centre
path the pursuers.. into
When the lorry passed, the ong, Mr Lyons told the China greatest impression of Hong- snatcher had vanished into the Mall today. aldelance and was nowhere to
Counsel appearing for oppos tion and most will feel that ing tenents had described the after another 600,000 have flats as "concrete match-boxes' been found places the limit and said will have been reached. For would turn
attractive there will by that time be
slum.
that the
as many as $50 H-blocks. Opposing Counsel were Mr
in
the Colony. There are still many on slightly higher Income levels, ,, waiting for rehousing in superior type 'buildings and the Colony like to so greater would
themade in demolition
of old wooden tenement dwellings which cover such a wide area of residential Hongkong.
An it is the 400,000 squatters for resettlement re-
the
R. W. S. Winter, instructed by
Peter Mo and Hastings and Co
be seen,
The
"But what many people don't realise is just how well
the European and Chinese popula- Som live Logother.
"I know the Australian public will be surprised to see the separation merely a bridge with a wooden gate at the end," he added.
Mr Lyon, will leave with the rest of the television team for this Australia tomorroW,
the
WELL HANDLED
"My impression is that trend is just creeping on "Naturally before I came
population without either #ide tory behind the refugee prob really noticing it," he added.
Mr Gerald de Basto, Instructed The man is still at large here. I heard all the usual his
by Peter C. Wang; P. C. Woo; today.
Case of the blushing burglar
New York, Màr, 1.
Colony's entire population, Mira Marzot Woriams, 41, had and
waiting one-fth of They are increasing na turally at the rate
of
20,000 n year.
Immigration from
China is certain to add to the number. Unless the Colony proclaims a time limit for this scheme, it may be faced with a never-ending squat- ter problem.
ashufflag polo in the foyer opened the bathroom Suit time for a leisurely bath door to great, her chlidren,
before her young daughters But Instead of her daughters would return. home from school for lunch.
ghe: unlatched the door of her **Manhattan apartment on hionday so they could walk thon ·climbed right in and tnto the warm- bubble bath. A Mort: Mine, later she heard-
the startled.... haustreife Was
by confronted
handene -man, in his 20m who blusheti | profusely at her nudity and
shyly averted his glance. Be quiet and you won't get !`huri?" - he' amid in. true-under- world faultfor and then) VÉDo pollte burglar imidly assisted 1.
Dies Wertanian into a house coat. After she was clothed to hle milsfaction he ordered her
bedroom where bound and gagged her. Leaving her on the bed he ran- sacked the apartment arid walked off with $209 In cual
:: and '$1,000' in 'Sowellery.
Mr Lyons whose film dents UK's missile
mainly with the "true picture of the refugee problém in Hong- kong” believes that the situation is being handled -- better than anywhere else in the world.
Mr Loomed Enveral scenes at the border to China.
"But this time, there will be no wild dromašising' of the situation," he said.
costs up by
£39 million
London, Mar," 1.
Tiso estimated cost of I hope that in my flming. I developing one type of guided have created a true and accurate missile increased in M Jurs picture.
from bolwoen 21 million and: €1% 7 million, to 2,40 | million' necotiding to the civil
• "I'm 'stroming in my film that appropriation, noccinte public- there is no tension build-up on, på hero today, the border.
NO TENSION.
Dire Wortanian freed herself and ⠀ "I found the Commuadit bor
berder guard to be formus but there natifled, pollos :. Kefpre daughters esme - komik '16 | WA10, trace of antipathy: be-
"tween the guards whatrouver. UPI,
The accounts were recording mims granted by Panilement for. the civil services in the secr ended March '81, 1959 - Neka JNE //
morning's races
The second day of the Annual Race Meeting opened under ideal weather conditions at Happy Val-
ley this morning.
The slight rainfall of yester- · day merely...... laid, the dust and the going was firm.
LADIES' PUNSE
Race No. 4.—For ponies Cissa
Considering it was a mid-4. One mile. week event, the attendance was indrly Targ
·
Backers got off to a fine slätt when K. Kwok-scored a pom- fortable wit on the favourile, Peculiarity, in the first race do pay a win dividend of $12.70.
The second race, however, provided a surprise when the two top favourites Nego Boy and Gigha could
do no better than place third and fourth. Johnny Cruz brought Manx Mist in with a strong late run in the Inst furlong to win easily by lengths and pay the handsome dividend of $65.50.
The Biggest upset of the morning" came in the fourth rage when Polaris came in first to pay a win dividend of $121.00.
Results
Following: are the resulls of this morning's races;
VALLEY STAKES -
(First. Sectiony
Race No. For ponles of: 1960, Six furlongs.
P. K. Leo ad P. C. Lova PECULIARITY, 147, K. Kwok
K. H. Yun's HARMONY II,
147, T. H. You
Y. K. Lau & B. K. Lou's POLARIS, 140, I. K. Hung
Chang Chung-tm's" "VIEW- POINT, 146, T. H. You.. Charlie's CAROLA, 144,
CY, Wong... Won by 1 length, 2 lengths. Time: I min. 46.2 sec, Winner::$121.80.
3
Places: 1st $32.70; 2nd $21.50; 3rd $20.10.
CASH SWEEPS
No, 1939
No. 3414 No. 4098
RACE 1
$3,273.00
035.00 458.00 Unplaced ponies. ($100 each) Nos. 695, 170, 2402, 4510.
RACE 2
No. 2702
No. 3198
$3,574.06 (1,022.08.
510.00
No. 685
Unplaced ponies ($100 each)
Nos. 4009, 390, 3743, 3150..
RACE 3
1
Ne. '2530
$9,045.40
No. 4009
1
No. 5089
Dr A. P. Guterres MARO-
TA, 147, P.Phumbly.3 Won by: 6 lengths, 10 lengths. Time: 1 min. 17.secs, Winner:- $12.70.00000000 Places: 1st $7.00, 2nd $0.90,
GRANDSTAND, HANDICAP
(First Section):
Race. No. For poules Class 7. Six furlongs. 20 Mr & Mrs J. D. Clague's
MANX MIST, 143, J. M. " do 'Cruz'
The Pearl Fisher's HALL- MARK, 148, H. M. Eotel- hq
NEWallem's NEGO
BOY, 140, Chun Kit
8
Won by: 2 lengths, one length. Time: 1 min 18.1 seca.
Winner: $03.30.
Places: 1st $10.10, 2nd $8.20, 3rd $7.10.
་
VALLEY STAKES
(Second Section)
Race No. 3-For ponies of 1960. Six furlongs, Wat Lam's SAFETY FIRST, 147, C. H. Rentnow... John Pell's CONNEMARA,
147. P. Plumbly
Lo Chi-chiu's FLYING
FILLY, 147, H. K. Hung Won by length; 8:lengths. Time: 1 min; 16 secs. Winner: $20.00,
$.
2
3
Places: 1st $0.30; 2nd $0.10; 3rd $7.70.
STOP PRESS
Unplaced ponies
Nos. 3001, 2182, 3814,
1,043.00
081.00 ($100 each)
* RACE 4
RACE-NO:-4-
No. 1652
No. 1168
No. 1001
3,025.00 1,092.00 847.00
Unplaced ponies ($100 each)
| 109.. 3704 4400, 5536). 603,
4888, 20, 4301, 1706.
Over 5,000 casualties in quake
Rabat, Mar. 1. United States aircrews re- turning from the scene of the overnight earthquake which practically razed the Moroccan coustal town of Agadir reported tonight that total casual- tles in dead, injured and missing were now put at about 5,000.
Many victims were feared among the foreign Lourists South packing Agadir, in Morocco, In search of sunshine.
The earthquake, which began shortly before midnight last night, was followed "seconds (". inter by a hugo, tidal'wtva · which swept 300 yards into tha ́ low-lying town. It VIILS the worst quake. ever, experienced in Morocco.
The aircrews, based at Nouaceur, *near Casablancé, quoted Crown -Prince... Moulay Hasan of Morocco, who 18 directing resous į operations, 'CIL the spot, per
Tonight they started a round- the-clock
mercy friik) with eight, transport aircraft
Router
Britons among
survivors
Vistunt
nephew
of
Maugham,
night
Casablanca
London, Mar. 1. Robert Maugham,
author
TOM
.Somerest
reported to
to be in hospital In following the Agadir earthquake, Vi
The Foreign Omer'said the Ambassador's report listed Ave other Brillah survivora, "while
·lourist" agencies said at least fver other Britons were - 'be- Hoved on holiday in Agadira UTI and AP.
Mars (595 Pako 3).
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