CROSSLEY BROTHERS LTD. MARINE, STATIONARY & AUXILIARY MARINE DIESEL ENGINES
ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT-CO. LTD, 208 Chartered Bank Building. Tel. 27789
40,000 to
CHINA MAIL
Established 1845
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1960.
be accommodated
BIG TSUN WAN HOUSING
PROJECT
Work will begin towards the end of May on the first stage of the construction work on the new! resettlement estate which Government is building at Tai Wo Hau, in the Tsun Wan area of the New Territories.
The new estate, situated at the junction of Castle Peak Road and Texaco Road, will cover an aren of about 450 acres and provide accommo- dation for some 40,000 people.
W
forastation begren 1: Sile
Tauf
NOW well advanced, thus enabling a start. to be made an the constriction of the resettlement building:
The initial phone of the Building; pugramme calls for the of 13 blocks of resettlement boning, each seven, storey, birth, as well as a Aves The 13 sley hated factory, reselilement buildings will have u total of 6,800 units for housing about 32,000 people.
Hawker markets
Two hawker markets, con- tuling about 500 stalls, will be built within the estate. Provision Is made for a recreational area, Three schools, each switht
classrooms, will Twelve
In latex on the ground floors of Three blacks while a social wel- fare entry is planted in an
ther binck,
The ground hours of the re- mining nine blocks will
met mainly is shops,
!
and nmps will be provided. There will also be covered area on the root for use as a cantren.
Tendera for the construction of the 13 reshment buildings factory re 12:<! Uve Batted called for in today's GovTÜMEN
The bulletings are ex- Gazette. pected to be ready for occupa-
ion within 18 months. !
Mein
Shek Kip police station
Aww
-divisional
police
quarters for station and iselilement Department staff are built in the Shek Kip Mel ms of Kowloon,
Government appointments gazetted
The following appointments,
postings were onaounced in today's Government Gazette:
NT gets first
bank exchange
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
transfers, promotions and The first exchange bank in the New Territories, the Tsun Wan branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, will be opened on Saturday,
Miss R. A. Thomas, Miss F. I. Holmes, Miss B. E. lowland, Miss B, John and Miss Louise Bio
L-ing to be Nursing Sisters; Mr
Dr J. M. Titras and Dr W. J. A. Craig to be Medical Officers; Miss M. A. Grant to be Act- ing Principal Matrum;
Miss C. M. Leadbetter to be Acting Matron, Clary 1:
Sheaffer's PEM
Fon For Mon
THE BOLD NEW PEN DESIGNED EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEN
Chauffeur drove on wrong side of
of road
Wong Lok-poon, a chauffeur, of 36 To Tak Street, found guilty of careless driving, was fined $750 with the alternative of two months' jail by Mr I. T. Morris at Central Court this 'morning. His driving licence was also en
dorsed,
Mr Christopher Stanley Cop. dell, of the Prisons Department testified that about 0.435 p.m. on
from
January 29 he was driving his car towards Shaukiwan
Stanley.
Whlie turning a
(X) camer Island Road, near Tai Tam, Re- servoir, he saw a car approach- Ing.
Wrong side
The car was on the wrong side
R. B. Moore, Manager of the new bank, told the Chinn
Mail this morning that the branch will have a staff of the road, the headlights were
of 50, and will be fully mechanised with modern accounting machines.
The
stofr will
Include
The
bank's Deputy Chief
Big fine
for drug
pedlar
From the Files
25
years AGO
April, 1935
CCOMMODATION
A three banks
оп
for the
ground floor with lattable office space of almost 97,000 square feet on the four upper floors, will be contain- ed in the new building which the Hongkong Land Invest- ment Co is to erect on the site next to the Hongkong Hotel off Queen's Road Cen- tral.
The Chase Bank have already entered Into an agreement with the Land Investment Co for banking accommodation on the Queen's ground floor facing Road, and a number of applicy- tions have been received for
Miss W. A. Woodline to be Chinese, Portuguese and Bri-Manager, Mr G. O. W. Stewart and then saw a culvert which A coolto who admitted pos- iomce spure on the upper Alvors.
Acting Matron, Class II.
Mr C. A. Steynberg, to be Land Surveyor.
Mr A. P. Targett-Adams to be Mechanical Engineer (Marine),
Mr J. T. Mallorte to be Acting Chief Architect; Mr C. R. J. Donnithorn, Mr A. Fitch and Mr D. G. Farrow to be Acting Assis- lant Chief Architects,
Mr M. K. Lane to be Acting Divisional Officer (Fire Brigade): Mr Lee Bin-chik to be Secretary (Fire Brigade).
Mr M. D. Sargant to be Secre- tary (Cu-operative Development Dept)
The station, a four-storey
Mr E. S. Hewson he building, will be siled between Nan Chang Street and Tal Hang Yong Road. Two other build- Ings, both three storeys high. will be constructed in the sta tion compound as quarters for police personnel,
resumed duty as Chief Operations Officer and Acting Deputy Director (Civil Aviation).
The Beesterey dated fac- tay, to las crected opposite the
settlement
will
have 4 work units of 200 septor food ch thus malding available alone 16,000 ZLAT
of workshop space for the
mall industrial under-1
fakirpt
Resigned
Flying Officer R. B. Johnston In 18 months
has restined his Commission in The fatted factory will have Hongkong Auxiliary Air Force, esch according to the latest Governe at eriss balcony round
121. acerinte staircases, ment Gazette.
Hour
Mr F. R. J. Tallywhite ceased
to" Bet as Chief Operations
Officer.
Mr. Winship to be Acting Director of Civil Aviation.
Mr. E. Downing to be Act- ing Chief Operations Officer.
Ujuh.
will officiate at the opening cere- occupy The bank will
themony on Saturday. of the ground and first floors building
entirely. owned by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
LC which
Service
The banking service includes current accourds, savings, im- perl and export, bills payable, and securities depart- draft ments.
A said Mr Mcore
safely drposit department may be set up if demand arises.
ореть for The bank will business on Monday.
The building also accommo- Trun dates the District Office,
uther Wan, and a number of
Departments Government the second and third floors,
Staff quarters
MAN ON
DRUGS CHARGE
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full on and I was being driven very fast; witness said.
Witness said he pulled in to left of the rod the extreme
to swerve compelled him little to the right.
tho The road was wet at
car akidded and timo, His struck the retaining well on the right. The front wheels of the we!! car crashed through the and stopped.
Sub-inspector 1. P. Hyde, of Stanley Police Station, told the Court that he went to the scene of accident and saw that the Mr Cordell's front wheels of
car were off the road and over hanging the hillside.
The vehicles had demolished A 54-year-old unemployed,
Yuen Yoc-hing., of 7 Po about 10 feet of a brick wall, he
Loung Now Street, first said. floor, Hongkong, appear- ed before the Victoria
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sessing four grommes of herein and three grammos of barbitone was senton-
An eight-year-old maio ced to two years' jail and:
child standing barely two feet also fined $20,000 or an
in height and described as a additional 12 months' Jail Freak was brought before Mr by Mr K. A. S. Phillips at Aaafadyen at the Central Control Court, this morn-Magistracy yesterday when ing.
two men were charged with Tam Sang, 28, of 331 Shang-causing unnecessary suffering Street, ground floor, pleaded to the child by prodding him guilty to two charges of posses with a stick and compelling him to perform acrobatics at sion of dangerous drugs.
Defendant was holding
the Chines recreation ground, packets of heroin wrappedght Hollywood Road.
hand. Police said.
40
in his
Inspector K. W. Andrew of Skid mark
He threw a tin away contain- the Secretariat for Chiness Sub-Inspector Hyde sald heing 81 packets of barbitone prxt Affairs said that at this this was found by the police-ground a booth was being run District Court this morn-examined the road immediately on
tha vehicle and dis-men. bohind
and
the ing
of
child per- inaide chargo A
Tam had 14 previous convic- covered a slid mark.
formed somersaults. possessing 4 lbs 14 ozs The mark indicated that the tions, including three for drug
The accond defendant had a of barbitono,
vehicle had negotiated the left offences.
atick in his hand and at the haust bad on its correct side.
end of each somersandt, ho Witness said be. also found brake marka
of defendant's
prodded the child with it.
Andrews sold Inspector These marks imaleated that the vehicle had been driven
people paid 30 cents to see the shore. its wrong side of the road.
Defendant, in evidence, denied
well-dreened any the allegation.
people were present, the boy an extra was made, to do | somersault and ask for money. Witness saw two propie give the boy money and the the second defendant take money from him.
and two
He pleaded not guilty, A portion of the ground Boor a now Post will be taken up by
Police Constable Let Ying Other doors will beyun testified that he Office. used as quarters for the staff. other plainclothes pollesmen Mr Moore, formerly of the aw the accused behaving in a Registrar, Hongkong office, had been tupleious mater in Morricon according to the latest Govern-manager of the bank's branch in Street, men! Gazetie.
Sungei Patani. Malaya,
. Mr Lew Hong-cong has been
printed Arsiskini
PICTORIAL PARADE
ABOVE: Posing for a group picture during a "welcome back" party for Mr J. C. McDouall this wook were 11-) Mr S. Rafook, Mr Parkin Wong, Mr McDouall, Mr Y. C. Tse, Mr C. N. LI.
ABOVE: Soon at the Chargeurs Rennis cocktails ot the Hongkong Club last week (I-r) wore Mr.S. F. Hui, Mr Duhamel, Madame Fabro, Mr F. C. Fabre.
They followed him, and saw him walk down the street look- ing on either side of him as he went. They stopped him at the junction of Morrison Street and Queen's Road Central,
Brad a search of a bag he was carrying revealed
containing a parcel white powder.
The constable said he then arrested Yurn on suspicion of possessing dangerous drugs.
The hearing continues before Judge W. F. Pickering. Chief
L Inspector C.
Smith prosecuting.
EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Miss B. M. O'Rorke ceased to be a member of the Standing Committee on Technical Educa- tion and Vocational Training upon the return to the Colony of Mrs Soo Mak Sau-ha, it was notified In the Government Gazette this morning.
LEGAL AID
Mr Woo Pak-chuen seasod to be a member of the Legal Aid Committee upon the return OF Mr F. D. Hammond who has also boon appointed Chairman of the Committee, vice Mr J. McNeill, according to today's Government Gazette.
Hongkong_prepares for three-day Easter holidays
Hongkong begins the three-day Easter holiday tomorrow.
and one wit close on Friday and Saturday.
11 am to 1 p.m. tomorrow.
ear.
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Finding defendant gullty, Mr Morris said he felt defendant had driven his cur on the wrong side of the road at high speed.
Ample evidence
"There is ample evidence before the court to indicate that he omitted to use reasonable
Licence
new
for
type of radio
When
Inspector Andrews said the
precautions when negotiating a A new type of Inter-offico child was treated like a train.
bend. Had he done so and had dipped his lights I am convinced. that this accident could have been avoided," said Mr Morris.
communication
system, ed bear, known as induction com-
The child 1068
allegedly
munication, has recently given to the first defendant by a beggar woman in Canton because she could not support him.
bogn Introduced inte Hongkong.
The system consists of a
Two new unemitter working into a loop
barristers
admitted
Two
barristers WOTO ad- mitted to the local courts this morning by the Act- ing
Chief Justice, Mr Justica J. R. Gregg,
aerial which Is fod round a building from floor le floor and
operated on a low frequency,
Sing to
NIX more animals belong- the Hongkong been
It does not provide com- Mule Corps have munication outside the building. destroyed on having shown
This system has a application
symptoms believed to be in- dications of rabies.
in hospitals and
large buildings for paging staff.
A new form of licence cover-
in this system is provided for
Last week, two mule: were
destroyed and on Sunday and
six more were killed
In new regulations which have Monday been made by the Governor in on showing symptoms believed
to be those of rabies. Council,
An Indian sepoy who was Theo regulations como into
bliten by one of the mules, is They pro-
precautionary
effect immediately, vide for the issue of an Indre- now undergoing tlon Cortmunication Licence by treatment.
They are M. Chee-kwong Eg- the Postmaster General at an ber: Tung and Mr Shum Cheuk-annual fee of $50.
Undor the Telecommunica-
yum.
The Acting Attorney General. lost Ordinance, a licence is re- Mr Arthur Hooton, QC, Bald Mr quired for the operation of any Tung was the eldest son of Mradio communication station in Kwok-hel Tung. Born in Hong-the Colony. kong, he had been educated at the Diocesan Bays" School and at University College, London, where he had graduated with an LLB degree in August, 1958. Mr Tung had been admitted to the Middle Temple at Lin- coln's Inn in 1953 and had been
400 paintings exhibited
The Most Rev. Lawrence
called to the Bar on February 9 Bianchi, Roman Catholic Bishop last.
and the
Struck off
Highland Trading Co. Ltd., the Swań Restaurant Ltd and Trans- Asia Enterprises (Hongkong) Ltd have been struck of the Companies Register.
Auditor
Mr J. G. Oliver has been ap
of Hongkong, opened an exhibi-pointed an Authorised Audlior, tion of 400 paintings and photo according to the latest GovETTI graphs at the St Louis School, ment. Gazette. Salyingpun, this morning.
Students and teachers con- tributed exhibits.
Union registered
Mr Shum was the son of a retired merchant Mr Shum Yat- chor, of 40 Stubbs Read, Hong- kong, Mr Hooton-continued.
Educated at Queen's College
Among visitors, who WETE University of Hong- kong, he had studied at London received by the hoadmaster, FT. University and obtained his M. Láng, were Mr Michael F. The Hongkong Ship' Waleb- LLA degree in 1955,
Grimth, Inspector of Art, of the men's Union has been register- and and Fred under Trade Unions Admitted to Middle Temple at Education Deportment Lincoln's Inn, London, he had Charles H. Veth, Director of the Trade Disputes Ordinance,
corrding to the intest Göyem- been called to the Bar in June, Catholic Centre. 1050.
ment Gazette.
Government offices, kandes, The Hongkong Regiment Band | today. Good Friday, Faster
will play at the King George V Saturday and Easter Sunday. Memorial Park, Kowloon, from
On Easter Day at 11 am, the -Right Rev Dshop R. O. Hall
Mr Justice Gregg sald he was wlil dollver A The Police Band will perform
sermon at the
picased to welcome them In the Botanic Gardens trwan festal matins at St John's, local practice, and wished them the best of luck in their careers. The ferry companies advice 530 pm, to 7.30 p.m. on Sun- Cathedral. boʻlday-makers to buy round-day,
Beginning from today, Macao ferrica wil! additional sec- vlera unili Monday,
trip
ilckota to avoid
being
stranded in case ticket nenipers should ngain, become native in Macno.
CHURCH SERVICES
The Rev. J. W. Foster will Good conduct the three-hour Friday afternoon service,"
ta
Union Church
Registered
Air application
GC-
Johnson Construction Com- pany and Thompson Construc- Malayan Airways Ltd hovo Hon Company have been in applied to the Government 10 cluded in the Contractors Re-operate a servien from Sluga- gister, according to the day- | pore to, Hongkong according to
the Government Gazette.
Atdhe .Roman Catholle After Chinese New Year thou- And the Royal Air Force Cathedral, there will be "Uto
Mr W. W. C. Showan, Meernment Gädoite." sands were stranded bocouge (Far East. Air Force). Band will Way of the Cross" di 10 nm. on A. R. Reland De F. R. scalpern bought up rolurn tickels play at the Argyle Street plays Good Friday and Blahop Athlon have been appointed and demanded higher prices, ground from 030 pm to 7.30 Lawronco Dianeti will emelete Trustees of the Union Church,'
Thren bands will perform pn, on Monday.
at the Pontifical High Mars al
acording to the latest Clovem Church services will be held 10 D.m. on Easter Sunday. during the holkinyu,
ment Gapolio.
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