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Mrs Margaret McGann with Mr Aubrey Dimond, former manager of the Hongking Hotel,-Intpiar photo.

Colony

losing its

old-world charm

"Hongkong is losing lots of its charm with all the new buildings that are going up, really regret seeing Hongkong change so much," said Mrs Margaret McGann, an American visitor who has been here on a week-long holiday.

in my hotel I just did not want to go to sleep. I just sat at my window and watched the ghis. And lying into Hong- kong-1's breathtaking," she

She left the Colony on board President Cleveland thee

lo return to America after cruising the Orient. She was Deconi- panied by her daughter and son, who is working as a Yeoman | ardid enthusiastically. Purser, on board the ship during his summer vacation.

"I New to Hongkong from Japan so that I could spend

more time here," she said.

Mrs McGann recalled that in 1952 she attended a party in the old Hongkong Hotel, The cute

was April 30, 1952, the the last day the hotel remained open.

"When we closed the doors behind us, nobody else walked in. except of course, breakers."

The

She had attened the party with Mr A. K. Dimond, the

P McGan was seen off resterday by Mr Dimond, the former manager of the Hong- kong Hotel, and now manager of the Ritz Hotel, North Point.

Diplomats arrive

Mr Itajuba Rodrigues, First

then manage of the Hongkong Secretary to the Brazilian Em- Hotel, the late Mr T. B. Wilson bassy in Tokyo, arrived in the a former APL manager in themy Asia this morning on his way Colony, and Mr A H. Potts to Japan to take up his post. Hongkong Jockey Club Ste-

ward, und Mrs Potts,

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"Honging is fabulous, and

I said, I regret seeing it charge so much. I suppose the d must be replaced by The now, but I liked it the old way."

Also passing through Hong- kong was Mr John H. Lambert, First Secretary to the British Endxassy in Monier

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CHINA A MAIL

Big rush

for room coolers

The sizzling heat wave has started a big rush for air-conditioners.

Dealers, big and small, are do- ing a roaring business.

The rise in sales has almost cleared cut all stocks of room-

type Bir-conditioners in Colony.

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Mr Edwin Tao, Manager of The American Engineering Corp., said, "Sales have skyrocketed in the last two weeks.

"We have sold twice as much AS we expected to sell for this month. It has cleared up. our stock until the end of August

"In general the sale has been mere than 25 per cent higher for the same period last year." Another leading dealer In- temational Engineering Ltd. ex- perienced a similar rise in sales

of room-type air-conditioners.

Mr Wilfred Wong, Managing Director of the company, told the China Maß, "All our larger units have been sold out. The stock cannot be replenished until next year."

CANNOT COPE

"We simply cannot cope with the demand which has increased by 30 per cent compared with last year all because of the heat wave."

The rush, he added, has been on for the past two weeks.

Mr Y. F. Skum of Yee On Hong Co Ltd, said in the last fortnight sales had gone up by 25 per cent over last year. He attributed the increase in Eale to both the bot weather and new trends in housing.

"With the

buildings mushrooming in town all with low ceilings and inadequate air circulation, people of Hongkong have come to appreciate the use of air conditioners more and more."

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TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1960.

Beat the

heat sleepers

These pictures taken by China Mail photogra- pher Benson Lo show how thousands of Hongkong people spent last night.

Many have been street- sleeping for weeks, and will not sleep in their homes again until the cool weather retums.

Escaped

from

station

Law Sun (20), who lived on the rooftop of 253 Lockhart sentenced to 14

Road,

'was

months' jail by Mr D. Cons ar Central Court this morning when he pleaded guilty tu es- caping from lawful custody, stealing, failing to report while urider police supervision und failing to report change of ad- dress.

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Sub-Inspector A. G. White- head said that on July at about 10.15 am. Law was 60en pawning some clothes

Law told the police that the garments belonged to his wife. Law W25 taken to

Eastern Police Station.

Tokyo, July 25. new tropical storm was spotted in the western Pacific today while typhoon Polly continued to creep slowly to the northwest between Okinawa and Formosa. Tropical storm Rose, with 40 mile an hour winds, was located by the U.S. 5th Air Force 259 mles southwest of Marcus reported Law ran out of the Island, travelling west west at 12.

Typhoon

was caught about 400 issued on northern and eastern yards away. Formosa today on a forecast that Polly might sideswipe the Jaland. Heavy rains were pre- dicted early odsy.-UPL

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Tow does it come about

H

that those writers who

deal with Hongkong, apart from its physical aspect, look upon it as a joke, per- haps a solemn joke, but still a joke, asks a contributor to the North China Daily news.

He goes on to say: "Noel Coward associates it with mad dogs and Englishmen who go out in the mid-day sun and Peter Fleming, in his book 'One's Company' devotes

brief passage to the Colony but is not exmplimentary, while Stella Bensen dips her pen in gall and is bitter.

"In a recent book 'Mundos which is cleverly descriptive of the Island, the name being nien- toned on several cecasions, she attacks the social system, its exclusivenesA pretentiousness, end formalism with a vigour and understanding that ought to make the responsible inhabitant reflect on the situation,

"She compares the govern- ment and its functioning with the navigation of a ship.

"Within the engine room all are working to keep the various parts in good order, demanding only that plenty of all shall be provided for the purpose. The efficient working of the machinery comes to be regarded the end and purpose of government.

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"It matters not. at all it the propeler drops off, or if the helmsman is asleep. The only important point is that the smoothly engines should run and that those in charge should be allowed to discharge their duties without interference and certainly without criticism,

"The Colony is too small and the government too large. It is smaller than the average municipality in England and not nearly so wealthy and yet it is surrounded with all the tities, orders of precedency and paraphernalia of a great state. "There can be no free and natural intercourse, no honest criticism in these artificial con- ditions. The colony is too small and its life too intimate, so that its local problems assume dimensions of state importance. "Everything is near and with- out illusion, nothing is distant and romantic. The social oxy.......... gen, owing to cramped and con- fined space has long been used up, and left only a faded and devitalised atmosphere behind.

"New and invigorating blasts' from the wider open spaces pre needed for interests are much too narrow."

Tribunal hears of Japan holiday

Yaumati scheme

Some of the world's millionaire tourists would never believe it, but 19-year-emption for two 40-year-old-site at a total cost of $240,000.

in Yaumati.

A young local Indian student at DGS, Miss Sakina Hoosenally,"

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Seventy-seven tenants and They are owned by Mr Lee left here last night on board the sub-tenants gathered at the Yung, Ng Sau King, Ngau Tak President Cleveland for Tenancy Tribunal this morning Wan and Li Pui Sum, who want month-long holiday in Japan, to oppose an application for ex-to erect four new houses on the She was accompanied by her grandmother Mrs Abbas Hoo- senally. old George Corfino, an American college student, has been touring

They are 66-72 Shanghai They would contain dats nfį She is the daughter of Mr. Europe, the Middle East and Asia for the last six months at an average these houses with a shop on the upper floors and shops on

Street, a congested area of which Chinese tenement style on the Norman Hoosenally, a

the of Kayamally Ltd, a local daily cost of about US$1 (HK$5.70).

ground floor of each are typical, 3 ground-floor.

But it hasn't been entirely a hitch-hiking tour confined to cheap hotels, student hostels, temples, churches, and native huts.

George has been admitted to some of the plushest. :lubs, and been a guest åt coun- try villas and palaces, too. For George is also a ranking junior tournament tennis player in the United States,

HITCH-HIKED

It all started when a group of students at Stanford Univer- sity in California were chosen by competition to attend a six months extension course in Stuttgart,... Germany, where George majored in economies and political, science. During his Stuttgart studies he visited England, France, Belgium, Hol- Malaya, Thailand and land, Luxembourg, Switzerland Hongkong.. and Austria.'

GEORGE CORFINO

He's visited with many people, living in everything from native huts to hush country villas. He's slept in youth hostels, YMCA's, inexpensive hotels, churches and Buddhist temples.

PRINCE'S GUEST

Then he met Prince Kraising Vudhijaya and, since has been the Prince's guest at his palace in Bangkok.

From Hongkong, Corfino plans to visit Formosa, Japan, and Hawall before returning to his home in Los Angeles, California.

About his future plans: George will return home later this year and return to Stan- ford to finish his college studies, More travel? "Well," he said, “when I left California. I wasn't particularly interested in travel: now But now that I've seen a lot of the world I'd like to continue

He hitch-hiked whenever pos-on to thosd places I've not yet" sible and otherwise travelled visited. It'e not so much the That, it seems, gave him the third class train or, as a deck) sights, it's the people which 1 idea of returning home to Call-passenger on river and ocean interest me. If peoplo all over. "Tarnis "Wrough the, Far East and "stomers." He's Hidden in cars, the world one had a challet hom seeing how far he could get on lorries motorcycle aldecars, meet ther people I feel muca. his limited resources. Starting bullock : carte, rickshawn; and do our word jension today coul on January 21 this year George even a police prisoner wagon, be eliminated. Maybe I'll be went to Italy, then Greece, He's bounced along on a donkey, able to do my more, Wen.

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