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Vehicular ferry survey shows GOVERNOR Tenancy
cars still have long wait
A recent survey by a Hongkong organisation indicates that the
vehicular ferry service is still unsatisfactory.
ARMED ROBBERY
OF KOWLOON
GOLDSMITH
Police found an abandoned motor car in Portland Street shortly after a swift daylight robbery in a goldsmith shop in Laichikok Road last June, the Criminal Session was told this morn- ing.
#statement made today, In Mr G. de Busto, an executive Club, 1. Biber of the Reform
aid that survey showed that despite supplementary services the vehicular ferry still left very much to be desired.
Following numerous cum- plaints a survey was carried out i on Sunday, February 21.
Queue wait
the
I was discovered that time wasted through quenchy alone was well over 45 minutes at 11.45 M.
said.
INSPECTS Tribunal
dear sir Planning for FIREBRIGADE hearing
Fanling tiger
K., is in error in soying he saw the Fanling tæer of 1911 stuffed whole in the Musetan.
The skin was badly damaged i
Only
by the gunshots and decomposi- tion and was not stuffed. the head was mounted.
are almost all Police and re- Tom porters. Of the latter, Willin (hirled In Happy Val- tey), Knapton and Jones (went to Buenos Aires).
HENRY.
1
industrial Hongkong
The people in that picture A Government official today said his department was considering the setting up of industrial safety committees and a colony-wide welfare committee. He is Mr R. M. Hetherington, Deputy, Commis- sioner of Labour, who opened a second study course in industrial relations at the Univer- sity of Hongkong this morning,
Prostitutes
Sir-1 read in your "25 years thai in 1035 the ago" columizi Hongkong Government finally. tanned brothels in the colony.
11 would be Interesting to whether your renders know think that the moral tone of the colony has been improved as a Prostitutes now result of this.
The Labour Department had beca studying the two proponds
Од the industrial safety he saic, "The committees,
reduction of hazarda in factories "There is no justification for
is the constant concern of the such
Mr de Bastu delay,"
ly their trade in almost every Labour Department. We work with a comparatively small staff unnecessarily long bar and restaurant in the city;
sub- ene cannot walk in the streets and enforce relatively few re- waiting period could be
We rely R Breat by restrict- at night without being secosted; gulations. stanally reduced
of them!
deal on exhortation. was looking for and other goods one ing lorries
"Consequently, we would the clients in the dining room of a crossing vehicles from
elter hotel the
Welcome any move by a parti- harbour from 12 noon to 4 p.m. respectable
cular industry to set up its own. 09 Saturdays from Hongkong evening during dinner. It is B
examine bit much when one cannot even safety commitice to to Kuwluon and from 6 pan. to
postered. those hazards without being
which 8 pm. from Kowloon to Hong-t Kong, and on Sundays from 9 And then of course there is the peculiar to the processes it uses.
алу
give "We would gladly Hong-arms of pimps-Is there Chan's son a.m. 1 12 noun from
help and advice but we suggest them Outside the
and from 4 rickshaw puller who is not one? kong to Kowloon
from Kowloon who also live off and encour- kember o!
p.m, to 8 p.m.
age this trade. getting into a private | io Hongkong.
Failed to identify
Duemselves to gold On the front seat of the car help4 were lovo gold ornaments, forments from the counters.
Whn the men left, Mr katied as part of the stolen
property.
On trin before Mr W. A. Blair-Kerr
Sheath raid, Justter Teltowed
A LA Ping, shut, he
pople
28 who pleaded not pilty to Tabbing Mr Chan Ming-fong, car but he managing partner of the L them. Fung Goldmanilh Shop. (4), $39,000 Laichikok Road, of worth of gold brumments 12 June 30 last year.
Be is represented by Messrs Oswald Cheung and Churles Chung, instructed by Mr D. Q. Cheung, of Mears F. Zimmer und Co.
Mr G.
Revolvers
It. Sneath, Crown Counsel told us jury of feur met and three warmen that the rob bery took place shortly before 11 m. on June 30. A number 12 tram entered the shop. Two of armed with revolvers held up the staff and two others
Mr
Faw
a
The car was found at 12.30 pam. in Parland Street.
Some three months later, Mr Sheath aid, the accused was arrested and was picked out by Identification awliness of an parade.
Three minutes
Mr Chea Ming-fong, manag- ing partner of the shop, sald the
Jasted
three robbery
only minutes.
He sale! about 130 laels of gold! ornaments were stolen.
Cross-examined, he sud his shop hur keen insured against robbery,
Hearing is continuing.
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"Similar restrictions should be imposed
ou days when rcial events take place, 38, for
the Golf example. Tournament aiready men. tioned,
Notified
"Lorry drivers and trungpor- should be Talion companie: notified in advance concerning ali uch restrictions."
Mr de Baste said that a large sign should be proruinently dis- played Indicating the estimated waiting me for private cars.
fure
"Drivers then can decide be
paying the toll whether they can afford to wall that time," he said.
Life buoys
Mr de Basto ackled that during the survey it was also discovered that passengers using the ferry had no idea as to where the life buoys were placer.
"There is certainly an in sufficient amount of life saving equipment avaliable," Mr de
Basto zald.
"On the lower deck some torrles carried four life saving buoys whilst others carried only two.
At present most third-class passengers eltier stand, sit on
the floor or alt danceronsly on the side of the railing and a
It is your correspondent's cinler that the proper place for a prostitute Is Inside and not
arc
our
that the employers and em-
pinyces who are daily concerned with the processes of a particu- lur industry must play their port in advising on the elimination
of risks which they themselves
run,
Standards
outside a brothel, and the, SOON- er Hongkong and Kowloon's prostitutes are put back into the brothels where they belong the
"We also think that the eslab- cleaner and mere fundamentally mural-because less hypseritleal lishment of a colony-wide in- -will this city become,
VISITOR.
AIRLINE MEETING
Fourleen delegates from all over South East Asia and Austra- Ha will meet tomorrow for the annual Sales and Traffic Con- ference of C.P.A.
on
dustrial welfare committee might be well worth consider- (ing._
Its fume ion, I suggest, would be to collect and disseminate in- formation about industrial wel- fare in Hongkong undertakings for the purpose of raising indus- trial welfare standards through- nut the Colony,
"There is 011 appreciable number of progressive manage- ments in fecal industry, and I think that if they not unly pool- cd their experiences but
The conference will be held publicised the results obtained, the less progressive employers the eighth floor of the
would realise that production Gloucester Hotel,
does not necessarily depend sole- ly on the length of time spent attending machines but on more Intangible things."
The two-day conference will be opened by the Managing Director of CPA. Hongkong, Mr W. D. Rac-Smith,
New shipping service
Melbourne, Mar. 6. The China Navigation Com-
The course The study course will last for Ave days.
Like the first course held in December last year, it is spon- seed jointly by the Department. of Extra-Mural Studies of the University and the Labour Do- partment of the Hongkong Gov- ernment.
sudden joll from a passer-by puny will start a regular monthly New lecturer
could rally cause life," he added.
Improvements
of service to Okinawa from Syd- ney. Melbourne and other Aus- tralian ports, the Melbourne
Mies Barbara Jean Mallett, agents. John Sanderson and row assistant lecturer in the Company Proprietary Limited, pathology department of the announced tonight.
University of Hongkong, arrived
the RMS Cunu in maning from England to take up her post,
The statemen! concluded by stating "The company would do well to remember that publie relations should be maintained Sydney on May 25.-Reuter. at a high level and the com- pany will be unable to do this unless their cross-harbour ser- vice is vastly improved by a
The ship initiating the cer- vlee will be the Taiyuan leaving
fime,"
March, 1935
drastic reduction in waiting mill valued at $5 million BIG Shanghai cotton
was sold at auction yester-i day afternoon.
Pilgrim ship
leaves
The pilgrim ship Gunung Djali ter this morning for Indonesia to enrry pilgrims to
Mecca
The mill was named No. 7 Mill of the Sung Sing Colton Spinning and Weaving Foctory.
The sale was the result of a default on a first mortgage for 52 milion held by the Hong- kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
The purchasers were the Japanese firm of Dairen Kisen Kalsha.
up the case with the Dank.
From the Filos
25
years
AGO
this
The Governor, Sir Robart Black, inspected. Control and North Point, firo sta- tions this morning.
He was received by Mr W. J. Gorman, Chief Ofeer of the Fire Brigade, and tho Depuly Chief Officer, Mr R. G. Cox.
In the Control Room of the Central Station, Mr F. Jackson Ishowed Sir Robert the various map and explained the systems. Mr AE. H. Wood, Divisional onleer of Central, Mr H. T. J.
quarters.
Mr J. E. F. Dargan, Tenancy Tribunal President, heard plans for an eight-storey structure coating $270,000 to replace Nos 31-35, Buto Street, Mongkok, this morning.
Mr D. A. L Wright, 'Instruct- d by Mr H. B. Wong of C. Y. Kwan and Co. said that, the owner, Mr Shiu Chan-tieng, had Hurchased the property, in June 1957 for $225,000 on the under- standing that there
vacant possession. would be
Hutching and Mr W. C. Cheng accompanied the Governor Mr Steven Yue, architect, round the appliance room
said in his report that the three existing tenement houses The Governor also inspected were in a poor state of repair, offices and and that the the administrative
new building of A North Point Station, Sir our shops and 28 flats would was met by Mr F. M. more than double the existing
Acting
1 Divisional floor teas. and shown over the
Mrs E B. Ho and Mr R. A Millar sat on the Tribunal with Mr Dargan.
Nobert Watson, Omeer, buliding.
A broad picture of beat eur. rent practices in the field of industrial relations will be given through talks by industrial man
gers, University lecturers and Back from leave Government officers.
THEN AND NOW
Industrial
Opening the relations study course this marning, Mr Ketherlogich used an extrapi from tho China Mall to illastante Hongkong's fantastic growth.,
"Many of you may have noticed in the China Mali recently
A report In the column entitled 25 Years Aro' that gangs of cooltes were replaced by bullocks to pull refuse carts," he
ald
"This news item brought honie to me in a plolures- que way the astonishing developments in Hongkop during the last quarter of a century.
com-
"We have had our in- dustrial
revolution pressed into a fraction, of the time taken in Europe. Our commercial history, of course, stretches back as far as the beginnings of the Colony but it is only since the second world war that the tempo businesa has quickened in complex Ind olazer- knit world.,
of
"When the means of com- munication were not 50 rapid, it was possible, as in the earlier cinges of the Industrial revolution It Europe, for employers and employees to adapt them. selves slowly to changing conditions. There was stil time to correct errors and to modify methods.”
"In
present eireum- stances we cannot indulge in the luxury of a century
experimentation, We
of
have to learn quickly and to apply soundly the lea- pous and techniques which the rest and best of the
world can offer to us.”
"Today the Victoria Motor Car Company commences operations and Hongkong will be offered another method of reaching the higher levels. This consists of a Brasseue hill-climbing motor-car which will climb the steep gradients with a full load of seven passen- gers.
"The car has, wo undèreland, been tried na far as Bowen Road and later the Peak will be assalled. The car is 30 hp and la under the control of a Euro-
al
The sale aroused conalder-currently with the tenth pean chauffeur. Formerly 18,036-ton troopship able controversy in China and anniversary of his promotion. "It is powerfully built Empire Orwell, the had been on the request of Mr Wang Captain Henry R. Sawbridge, I equipped with special tyres in for the past three months | Ching-wel, president of the OBE, was dismissed his ship, order to enable it to tolte steep In Trikoo Deckyard under-Executive Yuan, telegrams were going a conversion,
sent to Mr Wu Teh-chen, mayor as the result of an adverse gradients. Only one car starts today, but another wil bo Of Greater Shanghai,_to take Court Martial.
He Waa in command of started later if the demand IIMS Renown when she justifies
"The cars are not to be run collided
HMS Hood
as a regular hill-service as was The last of "threo Courts | düring MANGCUvres of
at frat mooted. They will be Marital held as a result of the Gibraltar on January 29.
kt out for hire only.. collision between IIMS Hood The effect of the decision is and HMS Renown on January that Captain Sawbridge will es onded today when Captain be placed on half pay us from FT.B. Tower of the Hood was midnight. found not guilty.
Schools music festival
The 12th annual Hongkong Schools, Musical Festival started this morning at Queen Elizabeth School.
The adjudicator is Dr Leon
Forrester.
Just six months after ke
with
was appointed Captain of the TROM, the SCM Post's 25 Years Ago column: batlio oruleer Ronown,
con
The promoters of the pay are, however, alive to this possibilty in the near future. In the meantime it will be in- teresting to note the amount of ruecose with which the now our how for it will moth, and will sit a want is the Colony,"
Mr Terence
Shurlock, instructed by d'Almada Remedios; Mr. H. Suffiad instructed by Mr Peter Chan of Lov, Chan and Ko; Mr Peter S. Mr Alexander Cochrane, Wong: Mr W. H. Young: Mr P. 1 Hongkong Police Superintendent,¦ Lain rad Mr K. Y. Ta of J'Almade returned in the RMS Canton and Mason, appeared on behalf oÍ
opposing tenants. this morning with his family from home leave.
The case is continuing.
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