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$100,000 FACTORY BLAZE Students
Cotton mill in Kowloon is damaged
By a China Mail reporter An estimated $100,000 worth of machinery
and cotton material was damaged in a blaze which swept through the cotton plant of the Elite Garmont Factory in Kowloon yesterday.
At about 7.30 p.m, when all the workers were off duty, thick smoke billowed out of the factory at 11 Larch Street, ground floor.
3 years for robbing
A
women
21-year-old unemployed man who had a clean record was given three years by Judge T. Creedon at Kowloon District Court this morning when he ad- mitted to three charges of aggravation,
Chief Inspector T. W. Wheeler sald the man, Ling Kam-cheung
these women as his victims on three separate occasions near the Kai Tak rifle range.
Ling rubbed a woman oỀ д gold ring on March 3. Ten days Inter
The fire raced swiftly through the mill piled ceiling-high with hundreds of bales of cotton quilts for use In lining cor cost which were to be export- ed to USA.
Firemen had to pull down the piles of quille ret at the fire inside,
Damaged Alro were two machines and six moters,
BBC Cy
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Fireman injured Four are engines, an emer- tender and 110 sim- Colantes arrived and the Are minutes later.
on the scene was put out 40
The Rev. Robin Howard, Mrs Howard and Katherine in Hongkong this morning.--China Mall photo.
NEW VICAR OF
CHRIST CHURCH
ARRIVES IN HK
Christ
9:nior Fireman Hul The Rev. Robin Howard, new Vicar of
Church, Kowloon Tong, arrived in the Corfu this morning to take up his new post.
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Mr Sum sustained injuries to the face by falling glam. He was sent to hospital and charged after treatment. The headquarters of the factory is situated at 90 Bedford Rond, Kowloon,
It is a member of the Hong- kong Garment Manufacturers' (for the USA.) Association,
Matriculated
he robbed another Mabel Lee Cheng, daughter of woman of $10, allowing her to of Mr and Mrs Hok-chow Cheng rep się to buy food. The same of 127 Boundary Street, ground day he tried a third woman, who floor, matriculated nt Pomona Califomia, nd ther mency nor wellery College, Claremont, in her home,
Holics arrested Ling 011 March 15 in. connection with his last unsuccessful exploit.
Police traced the other vic- tums who had not reported
with a major in physics.
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“APRIL AFFAIR"
WEDNESDAY, 6th APRIL AT 5.45 P.M. Proceeds to the Hongkong Jaycee World Refuges
Year Project.
Born in 1928, Mr Howard' was educated at Haileybury and Pembroke College, Cambridge. where he studied mathematics and engineering. He gained mathe- first class honours in matics.
he
He was ordained deacon in 1953 and priest the following year.
BOY KNOCKED
DOWN ON
CROSSING
Ma Lai-shiu, of 4 Hospital Rond, 1st floor, whose car knocked down and hurt a small boy on a pedestrian crossing, was fined $125 by Mr I. T. Morris at Central Court this morning. Defendant, who was found them and to make them pause gulity of failing to give prece- before reaching a pedestrian dence to pedestrian an a crossing,
donate coins for refugees
Students of the St Mark's
School, Shaukiwan, this morning prosented cheque for $500 to Miss
Q
From the Filos
25
years
AGO
April, 1935
Madge Newcombe, Socro-[CIR, Mr P. 3. Cassidy. tary of the Hongkong deserves the thanks of Council of Social Service, the Colony for drawing. the for the World Refugee attention of the Chamber of Your fund,
Commerce in' his speech at
<tudent and Chairman of the
The presentation was made by the annual general meeting Mr Johnson Yu. Form 4 yesterday to the deplorable Students Annual Gift Fund. state of the local share Accepting the cheque, Miss market, which he attributes Newcombe thanked. the students to two causes, the doings of for their contribution.
She said she would be going the professional speculators pedestrian crossing, was also "Furthermore, drivers of to England soon and would tell and the forced sales of loen! ordered to pay $100 compensa- vehicles must make every al-Hongkong House there that the shares to pay for losses in tion to cover medical expenses, lowance for children who do, people in Hongkong were not speculation in commodities, The boy, Lo Chiu-kiu, oged and wil continue to do the just sitting idle in the face of It only remaing to be sold sevim, testified that one morning most unexpected things on the refugee problems.
Miss Newcombe also received the sake of a handful of
that it is hardly fair that for he and, his elder sister wore on spur of the moment and with- a pedestrian crossing when he out thought of the consequences. a cheque for $200 from tho
scrupulous speculators making was knocked down,
"Much can be done in their Roy. Jamea Pun, the Principal a few thousand dollars, the in- homes and schools to make of the School.
vestors should incur losses of them look before they leap but Tho
students rafsed the millions in depreciation."
Could see car
He said he could see the car some distanco away when he crossed the road.
Yuct- His cider sister. Lo kwai,,told the Court that at 8,45
.m. CA January 23 she was lating the boy to scheci, and was crossing. Lockhart Road. The that knocked down her brother was driven by defend- ant.
Defendant, in evidence, sald the boy suddenly ran out from the side of the road "collided with his vehicle."
and
In his judgment, Mr Murris said at least one of the reasons
why roads were marked was to warm motorists what was before
MACAO NEWS
Macao, Apr. 4.
I think that drivers should tuka meney by day-to-day collec special care where children are tions of five or ten centi. concerned," said Mr Morris. They hoped that other schools
would follow their iden.
On Sunday morning the Dutch New arrivals from Chungshan | hockey team from Hongkong club that o few engaged a Macco hockey After a period in the Navy, county revealed
spent two years at the posters titled "recovery of main selection in a friendly match in
appeared In at land"
acveral which the teams drew three all. Clergy
Training School
localities on March 24.
In the afternoon, 48 rugger Westcott House, Cambridge.
The posters referred to the 12 players and acores of supporters martyrs who died in Canton in from the British colony swarmed the uprising against the Manchu into the Campo Desportivo to Former Johnson dynasty lo 1911, a few months give the local residents an exkl- before the repubile was founded, bition of Rugby football.
the Although The silhouette of Gen. Chiang
the placards popular here it attracted a big Kai-shek topped
see the "old Con and announced his re-election crowd to for the Presidency of Nationalist derians" play the "Neptunes
own XV.”—AFP, China.
For the last four years, he has been curate at Great 51. Mary', the University Church at Cambridge, part of the time under the Rev. Mervyn Stock wood, who is now Bishop of Southwark.
During his years in Cam- bridge, he was local secretary, of the East West Friendship Council which helped oversvas
Asia, students from
South America and Africa coming to England.
Mr Howard is accompanied by
his wife and one-year-old daughter Katherine,
He is succeeding Rev. T. W. Beaumont, who left five months ago for England, and who is new religious editor of the magazine Time and Tide In London.
A few arrests were made, the travellers added.
game
not
A tennis squad drawn from CHANCELLOR
the British community of Hong- kong and their supporters paid a visit to the courts of Tennis Civil and engaged a local alde tr a friendly encounter las week-end,
The visitors were later enter- tained at a cocktail party piven, by the British Consul and Mra Alexander Taylor at their TC- sidence.
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The famed French violinist Mr Howard
be M. Bernard Michelin was much will
durlis
concert Instituted at Christ Church applauded next Sunday by Bishop 1, 0, given at the Teatro D. Pedro
night, V, last Hall, The Howards were
met by spotworship Canon E. W. L Martin, who has Culture
Under the of the Circulo de Musical, this was M. been resident priest-in-charge Michelin's second concert in two for the last five mouths.
years.
Others meeting him were Dr
P. van de Linde, honorary seere-
This week-end two contingenta tory the Church Council, of Hongkong sportsmen visited
and Mr B. JMacao. Capt. J. Sinton Lucock, Council members.
BIG BAIL INCREASE
Two officers of the as Pros-
per and the proprietor of a local plastic factory, charged with dealing 'in' oplum, had their original bail of $2,000 each in- crensed to $10,000 in cash and $5,000 in surety each al Central Court this morning.
In an 'application for review of ball before, Mr K. A. S. Phillips, Mr D. N. E. Rea, Crown Counsel, sald bull for the defen- dants should be increased be- cause the quantity of opium seized on board the a Prostar I was 20 pounds and 10 ounces. The estimated value of the epiten was $30,000, he added.
Defendants aro Hunecheule Prichmataja, 01, a Thal, third officer of the sa Prosper; Chan Kwong-shing, 30, a Chinese, at Poom 8 Trul Fat Buliding, Gjuren's Hond: West; and Bjorn Hoyer Aresvik, 37, a Norwegian, chief officer of the sg Prosper,
OF THE GARTER
London, Apr. 3. The Marquess of Salisbury, former leader of the House of Lords, has been to Buckingham Palace to receive a gold badge, chain and satchel from the Queen.
Miss Newcombe receives a cheque for $500 from 5th
Ytte~Chias`. Mali, photo.
Kowloon Docks
to
spend $6.5 million The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd. would
1
have to spend an estimated $6,5 million in the next two or three years on improvements to the East Yard, the Chairman, Mr G. M. Gold sack said in the Annual Report.
In December 1950 the
un-
To my mind, a simple remedy les in the pasting of a bye-law by the two Stock Exchatges forbidding forward business without the insertion of 410 share numbers in the contract noles. This will effectually put a stop to the "bears" game and the sooner it is done the better. As to the wild gamble going on in commodities and which only benefits BOTIC "outalde ezganisation," as Mr Cassidy aplly puts It the Govern ment wishes to be consistent, it thould stop it at once. The calossal
incurred
losses
the resources
speculation In commodities constitute à regular Arain
of the Colony, unless the Government thinks tho Colony should contribute the National Recovery the Slates,
to
The girl who thinks - that being the richest girl in the world is no fun, is coming to Hongkong.
Her name until recently, toos Doris Duke and her |peraonal fortune is catimated
at £8 million.
Now she is Mrs James H. R. Cromicell, wife of the Ameri- can amateur sportsman, and they are on their honeymoon tour.
T
HE new Aberdeen In- dustrial School, built and endowed by a body of Chinese |public - spirited
Gentlemen, was formally com- accommodate the new and larger declared open by His pany entered into a contract for ships which trade in the. Far Excellency the Governor, the development of the eastern East." area of the principal yard. This Mr Goldsack also gave details Sir William Peel in the pre- involved dredging and reclama of recent land sales made by the sence of a large and dis- tion together with the building company.
tinguished gathering yester of a sca-wall and jckies at Referring to Aberdeen Decks, day afternoon. approximate initial cost of $1,5; he said "six small unused lots These were his insignia as million.
were sold and the total net pro- Chancellor of the Order of the
When this has been done theeeeds accounted for in the ap- Garter, one of Europe's oldest Directors have plans for the propriation account.”
Referring orders of chivalry.
devolopment of this land and of
to Cosmopolitan
Goldback Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, the that adjoining it, which will be Dock, Mr former Colonial Secretary, was ut considerable capital cost," he "Agreements were made to sell also received by the Queen and | said.
three areas of land at these invested with the insignia of a "When completed, the yard premises. One lot was paid for Companion of Honour for poll- facilities will be further im- | În full during 1959 and the net tical and public services.-China | proved to the substantial extent proceeds accounted for in the
Mail Special.
necessary to meet the need to Appropriation Account. Deposits aggregating $2,200,493 were re- ceived In 1950 in respect of the other two lots: expected com- pletions will be towards tho end of 1980 when a further not receipt approximately . $3.0
BRANCH BANK OPENED
The Kawicon Branch of the: Oversus Trans Bank), 146, in: Nathan Road, was opened this morning.
' Many usembers of the bank's clientele sti tended a cookiail piarty 35 celebrità the océsalon.
somed Bir Kwok Chan, Mr Chang, Ming-thien, Cindroma of lbs Heard and Mrs. Chang, KHÁ other guests. The above pilotura-shown Mirn Kats Book Bang, Mes Chang, Mr Kwok Chan
sald:
Death of ex-Shanghai
resident
*in Macao
million is due, with a final com- A former Shanghai resident, pletion about mid 1901 by which Mr JosD Miguci do Rozarib, date the final balance of ap-dod at St Raphael Hospital, proximately $4.0 million will Macao, on Saturday. He was 71 have become payable,
"Starmarised, the amounts still
years old,
to be accounted for aggregato The funeral, which took placa.. approximately $103 milion. In Macno on Sunday, was attend-| Mr Goldmck added that al-ed by a large gathering, fa- though there had been a slight|cluding many of the late Mr improvement in freight rales Rozarlo's friends in Hongkong. Leccatly, "I must difcit your
attention to the very low rates Mr Rozarlo had been in ji etill prevailing and of the diffi- helili for several years. | cullies "our" customery have in running their ships on a pro- fitable basis
Quite wrong
"It would be quite wrong for ths to give you an optimistle fcecenst of our prospects In 1060," he said
After a long period of servico with tho British - Almerican Tobacco Company in Shanghol, Mr Rozario ·retired just before the outbreak of the Paolße. War- in 1041.
With his family, he came, to Hongkong in 1951, and after a few months here, he left for Macao,
@also wich to point out that the land we have disposed of The late Mr. Rozario is ' BUT=' at Aberdeen, and, Tai Kok Tiul vived by his wife, Iza, sơn Quý wil inzo way affect our ship | -(Both; in Maono), daigislerm building or any repairing facili~ Gracie (Man 3 Asuncion, la ties as this. land had not, bem | Manila), Ethel, Irena And Con- lized for that purposo, for a illo: (in' the United States), and
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