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FROM YOU TO THE EDITOR

Let's have a referendum!

Instead of all this useless

argey 'barger about whether Hongkong wants constitutiona}

changes,

why don't we have referendum on the ques- tion immediately.

If the majority of our 20,000 odd volers think it necessary, the Civis Association

and

the Reform Club will have a mandate for their talks.

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If the voters repudiate it, the Joint delegation caN be saved the expense of going to London and Government can get on with the business of governing, content that It has the approval of the majority of the electorate.

SHANGHAILANDER.

dear sir

Half answer

Your leading article "Where will it all end?" asks a very potent question but only Faves half the

answer.

If our present form of Gov- eranient 13 allowed to contline where will that end?

Th Colonial Office is to be

closed down and

we

have no right to assume that the UK will continue to nurture us indefinitely, especially after the Net. Territories lease comes to an end,

As time goes on recruit- ment to the Hongkong Government Service will become dificult as the younger people in the UK Civil Services will see no permanent future in coming here; we may well get a very second- rate bunch of rulers in another 10 or 15 years. Are we perhaps already being led up the garden path and what is at the end of it?

in giving your answer, re- inember that the object of Government is the happiness of the people and not the short-term protection of a few pro- fiteers who will in any event be "on the boat" at the Arst sign of trouble.

R. S. SHELDON.

dear sir

Dangerous

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions," is a irus saying in regard to

L

dear sir

the doubtless sincere de- sire of the organisers of the visit to the United Kingdom to seek stitutional refors

the Colony...

cost- for

Let it be understood at the

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outset that 'the people of Hongkong do not lack confidence in the mem- bers of both the Reform Club and the Civia Asso- ciation in their earnest efforts to obtain for them

DEZIOTE of self revernment which is in fact misnomer,

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for there can never be self- government but a delega- tion of power only, for self-government would mean anarchy, all for self without regard, for law or order.

Let it be supposed, for the sake of argument, that the British Government In the United Kingdom

socedes to the appeal of the Reform · Club-Civil Association Delegation for reform of the existing Lerialation Council by the election, not selection or appointment, of say. half the number of mem- bers

the composing Council,

of

What assurance have we the native barn people of the Colony that by the clever manoeuvring position the Communista or other 'undesirable' people will not oust the Reform Club/Civic As- soolation's members zi an election due to the innate apathy of our people who are either too lazy to go to the poll and thus

lose their vote by default

or too easily swayed by the glib longues of well trained political agita tors?

At the outset these un- welcomed people will le

A.

low, but ke the keen- eyed eagle they will at once swoop down to grab their prey when they. think the situation safe for them to venture forth

to snatch the prize.

yesterday's Your 'Comment' "Where will

it all end rightly says: "What

guarantee

has

the public that within a tow

yours of getting

what they want, one of their number will not stand up and declare that "we

are a sop to

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the principle of elected representation," and that the Legislative Council mual become a proper Parliament with resi power and real respon- sibility or else' pack up.” It is always then tile nibblings sway of our freedom that can be so dangerous to the apathe- tie, and Hongkong always well known for its apathy in political matiers.

Countries that now 'enjoy' political independence 'freed from the shackles of ' *Imperialistic heel- grinding rules lost their real freedom almost overnight, and, too, late, regret having yearned for the mirage, that was

the In fact

quicksand thst

them dragged underneath.4.

Before setting sall or em

planing for their misaton, let

self-chosen 'emissaries' remember

-our

this that they” are try- ing a dangerous, experl- ment, producing • Frankenstein that will destroy them as well as ourselves.

Remember that "hell; is paved with good inten- tions" and we true citizens of Hongkong certainly have no desire to be led to hell! Although we would like to mission wish the godspeed and road tuck. we must frankly advilt desiring to with it s complete failure! We are not ashamed to con. fess that, we prefer. * siste of laissez-faire' instead of this dangerous experiment.

CIVICUS.

Ertiblikad 1845.

FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1960.

Sheakers PEM

THE BOLD NEW PEN DESIGNED EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEN

Government WOMAN GETS SECOND

appointments

gazetted

The Government Gazette an- nounced today the follow- ing appointments, pro- motions, transfers and postings:

Mr B. G. Hook ceased to be an Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs and, assumed. duty as Assistant Secretary, Colonial Secretariat

Mr E. W. D. Gore to act as Senior Education: Officer, vice Mr Woo Hing-tak on leave prior to retirement."

Mr LL. Stanton and Mr. L. T Musson' to, be Senior Estate Surveyors.

Min Winnie Wong, Miss Winnie Chan and Miss Violet Wong to be Nursing Sisters.

More flats

dear sir for Chinese

in

Clogghead

Your cartoons "Meet Mr Clogghead" are excellent and just the thing we need would Hongkong. It however serve little purpose until these wonderful pic- tures of yours are also made available freely to the Chinese press, as most of the clapps one meets on the road are my compatriots. M. P. SHEN.

Defence Force commander

civil servants

The Island Gardens, a newly- completed $2,300,000 housing estate for Chinese civil... Kervants, will be opened by the Governor, Sir Robert Black, next Tuesday afternoon."

This estate consists of 100 fata in five blocks constructed on 50,000 square feet of land situated on Island Road just above the Salesian School in Shaukiwan

Each Bat has a living room,

a kitchen, front and reat

Lieut-Cal M. T. N. Jennings has been appointed acting. Com-two bedrooms, mandant of the Royal Hongkong bathroom and Defence Force during the balconies. absence of Brigadier L T. Ride, the Government Gazette notified

today.

The Island Gardens estate is the third housing scheme to be sponsored by the Hongkook Chinese Civil Servant Associa

The Gazette also announced that Lieut Commander J. B. tion. Hart, formerly of the Hong-

Feng Royal Naval Reserve, nas The new estate will be

been posted to the Royal Hong-owned and manaved by thei

EVICTION

The Tenaner, Tribunal, this morning, recom-

mended that $1,050 be, buld as compensa. tlom to a woman who was making ber second appearance before the Tribunal in a

..

HANDOUT

up and that 'the', building' had sunk well below street level and was Gifting to one side.

There were sloven tenants, Nine agreed with

$1,650, the terms of settlement offered by the land-

A year ago, Chân Kim-ying received $1,650, as compenmtion when the building: shoWRE

- Hving'in was exempted from the Landlord -|-

and Tenant Ordinance.

Now, a three-storeyed building #4 Nos:5:andl - ",

Cedar Street, Shamehulpo, where she has her cablele, is up for exemption, The owners, Trang Chenk-nam, and: his, aúnt, Fung Ying-yung, plan to demolish the exist- ing structure and erect six-storeyed Chinese tentment building on the `slie. In his report, the architect Mr Steven 8., L

Yue, wild that the wall of No, ́5 was shoved

lords. Two opposed the sation,

One was a bus-conductor, Teng Kwok-kee, who asked for compensation - of $5,500. The Tribunal recommanded that he should re- ceiva $3,500. The other opposing tenant waa the woman, Chan- Kim-ying, Appearing for the applicants was Mr F. T. Ya of F Zimmern and Co. Mr C. K. E. Tung inalructed by 8. C. Mok of 8. C. Mok and Co, appeared - for-Teng. Tribunal members were, President, Mr B. V. Rhodes, Mr Charles A. Wright and Mr John L. Marden.

Three crocks and a junk

Three

on crutches and a seudding junk. These strange symbols were painted on the side of the cockpit of the helicopter which flew the Governor to Chenne Cháu on Wednesday.

mid-air south of the Hong- kong coast on December 22. Twe pilots baled out and came down in the sea. A Chinese Junk rescued them. The helicopter hovering over

hes took the pilots aboard and brought them to Kai Tak.

The junk and the three men Thus the rescue from the Junk

with their arms în siings and | legs in bandages" "were records:

was commemorated on the helicopter's side.

of rescues made by Helicopter The junk was soon joined by

korg Defence Force Reserve Island Road Co-operative It all started in 1958, when in of Officers,

Building Society, Lid.

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the three men on crutches.

The first appeared, shortly after June 26-East year, when the same helicopter, evacuated an injured man from Oustic Perk to Kowloon Hospital (gyak The pecond mado ^` hiz-"-ap- pearance atler Márch. 4, this year, when the helicopter rescued an injured man at Shek Pik, Lanies and brought him to Hongkong,25g/ The third", min was Ching Ding-ylu, 15, who was 11- Jured in an explosion "as Shell, on" April-11;"this" (year.

Less than an hour later, the helloopter· Landed - Ching” – oki the playground of the Hong- kong University and from 'there an ambulanse took him to Queen Mary Hospital,

- Tho- artist ✨, who' painted ɛ the "signs"in blick" and "while" wAA Me" "MA Greefs, Flight Mechanio, of the Hongkong

Government member

As time

Dr Judith

Hall leaves for America

Dr. Judith Hall, daughter of Bishop and Mrs R.O. Hall, left. Hongkong › today - for the United States.

She

has been

been offered a ship to study at

University.

1

From the Eller

25

years

AGO

July, 1935

THE appointment to the

now vacant Governor- ship of Hongkong of a statesman of pre-eminent qualifications who would assume the duties of rapporteur to the British Government on events in the Pacific, for due guidance of British policy 18 suggest- ed in a leading article in the North China Daily News of August 2, PAN

It is contended that · his relations could be adjusted so as in nowise to diminish the authority of the Ambassadors in Nanking and Tokyo.

Hongkong has close, contacts, uncertain in their definition, with China through the Kwang- tung Provincial Government,

Properly directed the Colony's policy could be a valuable um- bassadorial inspiration to both fellow-countries. It is impossible to Chicago gnore, geographical facts which bring this island with its main- land appendages into such in-

Dr Hall's fellowship is intimate association with China, paediatric haematology.

[yet with a muddled sense of” de.calm and ⠀pelf-sufficiency, She will be away for a year Hongkong, under the direction and will be staying at the of Whitehall, manages to per University hospital in Chicago. |form "that impreme act of

Dr. Hall, who was partly myople aloofness.” educated in Hongkong and was

A student at Diocesani. · Girls The administration of Hong" School, has been working at Stikong calls for no special quali Thomas's Clinic in Shek Kip Mel ties which cannot be secured by since she returned from the the appointment of an officer United Kingdom where she under the 'Colonial Office. undertook her medical studies;

Dr Hall was also warden of A vigorous polley of op women students at St John's operation between Hongkong: College, Hongkong University.

and China is the urgent need, Dr Hall was seen off by her and it is essential that Hong- parents and a number of friends kong's important interests and at Kal Tak today,

the benefits which it can con fer on the Far East, should be brought within the scope of active Sino-British friendship.

Licensing Justices

For that purpose Great Bri- Mr S. G. Dark has been up- tain requires statesmanship on pointed Secretary to the Board the spot and the requirements of Licensing Justices for the may be best met by inducing a New Territories, except New man of pre-eminent qualifica Kowloon, vice Mr R. W. Prim- tions to assume extended rose, the Government Gazette responsibilities in association | notlited" today..

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