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Reservoirs gain
from rain
Hongkong's reservoirs gained almost 500 million gallons as a result of yesterday's rain and supply now
stands at 8,522 million gallons.
Total capacity is 10,500 million gallons,
Three reservoirs are overflowing
Pokfulam and Wangneichong.
CHINA MAIL
CHILDREN HURTIN ACCIDENTS
Aberdeen,
Three
Hill streams are expected to continue feeding water into the Colony's reservoir system over the next few days.
U.S. visa for Miss HK
The American Consu- late has issued a visa for Cheung, Miss Vivien Hongkong 1960, to visit the United States to take part in the Miss Universe Contest at Miami Beach, it was learned today.
LOANS TO TYPHOON VICTIMS
The Fish Marketing Or
ganisation has issued $7,600 in loans to needy fishermen since noon yes- terday to help them re- place their boats destroy ed and gear lost in the recent typhoon.
This brings to $106,010 the arount given from the FMO's $500,000 Loan Fun, the Cont- missioner
Co-operative for wopment, Mr J. Caler, said
today.
In addition, the Vegetable Marketing Organisation
has
paid $88,290 of the J. E. Joseph Trust Fund, to farmers since Tuesday,
The FMO continued to dis- Tribule relief articles to fisher- men affected by Typhoon Mary
week.
At Cheung Chau yesterday, 715 tins of pork donuted by the Mennonite Central Committed and 2,872 pounds of rice from the Church World Service, were distributed and at Talpo | oncher quantity of 3,000 the of I rice
from the Church World Service was given to distressed Asherman.
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Widening of Brewin Path
527 feet of
About
Brewin Pah from Magazine Gap Road o I.L. 0377 will be widened in conjunction with new residen-
Cigarettes stolen development,
The existing madway will be Cigarettes, valued at $320, widened from eight to twelve new carriageway a shop at ❘ feet, The were stolen from 205 Hennessy Road, ground will have a six-foot wide fool- tuor, Wanchai, between mid- path on one side and a verge, night and seven o'clock, this two feet in width, next to the
culting slope of the hill, morning.
PAQUERETTE CLASSICS
children, ranging
from five to 13 years in uge, werd injured in traffic accidents yester- day. All were admitted to hospital for treatment.
The eldest of the three, a 13- year-old boy, Wong Chup Pul of 70, Stanley Street, third floor, was knocked down by a private car in Bonham Road near the St. Stephen's Girls' School shortly after five o'clock.
Two young girls were knock- ed down by passing vehicles in Kowloon in the afternoon. One of them, five-year-old Tsui Mel! Ling of 64 Kimberley Road, was hit by a taxi near her hom. while the other, Leung Sor Hang, aged nine years of 27, Bute Street, first floor, was struck by a bleyele in Nathan Road near Mong Kok Road,
Government
appointments gazetted
The
Government Gazette this morning announced the following appoint- ments, transfers, promo- tions and postings:
Mr A. T. Clark and Mr D, C. Barly to be Assistant Secre- taries, Colonial Secretariat.
Mr E. H, Nichols to net as Director
Agriculture, of Fisheries and Forestry, vice Mr W. J. Blackle on leave prior to retirement; Mr D. M. Corbelt to act as Assistant Director; Mr L. S. Smith to be Secretary of the Department,
Mr T, E. Cluate to be Assis- tant Commissioner of Police Mr F. Slevin to be Senior Super. intendent of Police.
Dr Soo Yol-sun to be Medical Officer.
Mr Ip Che to be a Deputy Commissioner of Census.
Established 1845
FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1960.
Sheaffer's PFM
Pen For Mon
THE BOLD NEW PEN DESIGNED EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEN
17-storey mosaic on side $750 fine
The mosaic on the side of the Ambassador Hotel, Kowloon-China Mall photo.
Dr Wu Mo-ping ceased to be CHILDREN GET PLAYGROUND
a Medical Officer of Schools; Mr Aw Wai-bing ceased to be Sub-Inspector of Schools.
Mr Lan Kwai-weng to be an Assistant Registrar.
MILE-LONG
TUNNELS WILL
CARRY WATER
Two catchwater tunnels, each about a mile long, are to be built in the hills of north Island for the west Lantao Shek Pik reservoir scheme. Construction work on these tunnels will begin in about two months' time,
They will bring water, from the proposed new catchwaters in north west Lantao to the Colony's biggest reservoir now under construction at Shck Pik.
One of the tunnels will be built from the Keung Shan area to the Shek Pik valley while the other will run from Sham Wat to the new reservoir.
POP
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IN RESETTLEMENT AREA
A large public playground, with edequate recreational facilities for children, is to be built near the Tai Hang Tung re- settlement estate in Kowloon.
Two plots of
vacant ground, about 26,000 square feet In area situated on either side of the nullah to the north of the estate, will be converted for the purpose.
The northern half of the play- ground will have a basketball court, a volley ball court and a general rest area. covered shelter will erected at the northern end.
A
be
New category
vehicles can
use parks
of new
hotel
From the Files
for driver 25
of scooter
rider
An unlicensed scooter
who nearly knocked down boy in North Point yesterday evening, was fined $750 or three months' jail by Mr I. T. Morris at Central Court this mornicz
three treffle charges.
on
A giant mosaic has been put up on the side of a new luxury hotel in Kowloon. Kunning practically the whole length of the new
Ko Ming-shun, 30, ot & Wharf Ambassador Hotel on the Road, ground floor, pleaded outside facade, it mea-guilty to driving without a valid .sures 143, feet long by licence, third party insurance,
almost 15-feat wida.. Rhing from the first to the top (17th) floor, the gigantio mosaic, done in Italian tiling. depicts. Confucius travelling over all the provinces in China.
APRIL ORDER
A local Chinese artist, Miss 8. F. Poon, did the original drawing which was enlarged and sent to Messrs Salvo, Italy, for manufacture of the
ules. The order was placed in Decem-
ber and the tiles were ship ped here in packages In April There are 400.000 pieces which have been put together in an area of 2,121 square feet,
THE COST The mural has a wide range of
colours: green, magenta, violet, 'white, biach. and chocolate, all ́characteris- tle of Chinese art tradition. The
and owner's consent,
He was also disqualified from obtaining a driving licence for 12 months,
years
AGO June, 1935
A front-page dispatch in the SCM Post said the Repulse Bay Lido is to be opened on July 12 at 6.30 pm, the cere- mong to be performed by Lady Southorn.
From the following day the Lido will be opened to the public. The Lido Building Sub-Inspector M. Atkinson which is situated at the said a police constable saw de- eastern end of Repulse Bay, fendant driving a scooter in has been designed on the zig-zag manner in Whart Road lines of the modern Continen at 9.20 p.m. yesterday.
tal style bathing, establish-
A boy had to dab back to the ment, pavement from the roadway to avoid being knocked down.
The present Lido is "unty part of an extensive scheme which will provide Hongkong no with a magnificent amusement centre such as may be seen in Europe and America,
When defendant was stopped and questioned by the constable, he admitted that he had driving fleece and that he had driven the scooter without the permission of its owner,
The original plan calls for another building. of equal
yellow, red, Bank Committee, a large swimming pool,
mural, completed last month, faces Nathan Road. It
cost $70,000 in all,
Mr J. A. H. Saunders has been appointed to be a member of the Banking Advisory Com mittee during the absence of The Ambassador. Hotel is ex- Mr G. O. W. Stewart, the pected to be completed by the Government Gazette notified to- end of this year,
day.
HK residents become
British
nationals
The Government Gazette Miss Chen Pul-wc, known notified today that the as Winifred Chen, typist, of 34
Hillwood Road, first floor. following persons have
Mr Sung Chi-fang, merchant, been granted certificates of 42A Kadoorie Avenue, first of naturalisation under floor. the British Nationality Mrs Lisa Kwok (nee Li), known as Li Li-sa, bank de- .Act, 1948;
partment chief, of 112 Tsat Tse Mui Road, third floor.
Mrs Chung Ip Wing-wah (nee 1p) of 34 Island Road, Repulse Bay.
Mr Tiu Siong-cheng,
as Chang Sung-cheng,
Mr Lee Chao-kwang, known 39 C. K. Lee, clerk, of 241 Prince Edward Road, sixth
as well as tennis, miniature golf and other sports grounds in the midst of elaborately. planned gardens and artistic floral effects.
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TAXTRACT from the SCM Post's 25 Years Ago column: Residents in Kow- loon ought in future to sleep peacefully at night for the prowling tiger bas at This was last been killed. the news which reached our office last night.
"It appears that on Saturday afternoon several parties set out for the New Territories with the avowed intention of bringing home the skin of the tiger £ there was such an animal any- where within reach of a gun,
They shot it near Tai Om.
"In its death struggles the animal dug a hola in the ground nearly three feet deep. Mr Lam Ping-kwan, known It was a powerful beast and
known known
floor.
as Sydney Chang, chaser of as Lam Kwan, merchant, of measured five feet one inch in Hongkong Aircraft Engineering Kal Kee Farm, 7 Milestone, length without the tail. Co., of En Yuen. No. 1 Wah | Shatin,
dark
Ching Chee, Diamond Hill,
Mr Joseph Imre Kunert, "It stood about three feet Mrs Wang Sa Shouten (nee known as Brother Vincent, high. Its skin was of a Sa), of Flat 1 CA, Hillview teacher (Missionary), of Si drown hue and it did not re- Apartaments, Kadoorie Avenue! Francis Xavier's College, Maple semble a tiger.
Mr Luk Wing-shiu, medical Street. laboratory technician, of 12 Hok Sze Terrace, second floor, West Point.
Mr Surg Pai-ping, known as Sung Pe-yuen, merchant, of 34 Java Street, ground floor.
Mr Chao Chiu-ping, assistant underwriter, of Yuen Ngai Street, first floor.
M: Cheung Ying-lau, known as John Cheung, salesman, of 22 Morrison Hill Road, first floor,
The Star Ferry Car Park and the City Hall Car Park are open to dual purpose vehicles and hire cars, two new Categories of public transport recently in troduced by regulations.
In a notification published In today's Government Gazette, the
of Commissioner
Police designates the two car parks as floor. those within the meaning of the 3
A children's play area, containe ing a cabin slide and three pairs of swings, will occupy the southern half. There will be benches and covered shelter nearby. Trees and hedges will be plant
ed and fower beds will be provided. Construction work on the playground will begin in August and take three months to complete.
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Mr Tien-pui Kwong, known as T. F. Kwong, company sales manager, of 1 Duke Street, first
Miss Lee Quay-ying known 'as Read Traffe (Parking and Daphne Lee, teacher, of 1 Park Wailing) Regulations, 1958, and Mansions, Macdonnell Road.
of these Mr Richard Karel Boele, notifies that the use car parks is limited to private mechanical engineer, of Quarry cars, goods vehicles weighing Manager's House, Mount Buder, not more than two lons, dual Mr Lew Shu-fan, clerk, of 73, purpose vehicles and hire cars. Chung Yeung Street, third floor. Mr Mak Chirk-nan, known as John Mak, passage assistant, of Healthy Village, Flat 609, Block D, King's Road.
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Mr Duncan Tak-keong Choy, known as Choy Kong, ofice clerk, of 7A Holly Road, ground floor, Happy Valley,
Mr Kwel Dyi-an, kalown as Chi Dyi-an, socountant, 1A Fort Street, ground floor.
Mr Chan King-chuck, known is Chan King-cheuk, known as Chan Cheult, commercial news- paper reporter, of Fiat 86, Block A Healthy Village, King's Road,
Dr Kwan-lun Hul, known as Kenneth Kwan - lun Hul, surgeon of Medical Officers Quarters, Queen Mary Hospital. Mr Tung Wel-lu, known as Patrick Tung, known as WL. Tung, Interpreter, of 17 Parkes Street, second floor..
Mr Cheung-yau Tso,, known a# Yuen-bo Txap, factory manu- ger, of "27"Canal Road West, top Bloor.
Mr. Kwan Ju-ki, mechanical engineer, of Block D third floor, Far East Mansións, Mid- dle Road, Kowloon
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Mr Yung Hung-chi, known as On Hung-chi,.company mana! ger, of 27 Cambridge Road, Kowloon" "Ton
"It is thought to belong to the panther species. The two | successful shots were fired by
Appeal Tribunal Sergt. Devney and Mr Gast.
The Government Gazette to day announced the appointment of an appeal tribunal consisting of Messrs S. E. Faber, Szeto Wai and Kan Yuet-keung.
"They are to be congratulated on their success and they will have the satisfaction of having relieved the minds of the re- sidents in the outlying villages of the New Territory.
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