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These photographs, taken by a China Mail cameraman today, show (top) the three special vans which will be used by the Commissioner of Registration later this week to help in the work of re-registering the population for the issue of new- type identity cards. The picture below shows the interior of the vans with a desk, fan and lights.

LETTERS FROM YOU TO THE EDITOR

MANNERS MAKETH MAN?

If it's true

that manner

maketh man, then we are beasts of the lowest order. for we have no manners at all, no, nol any.

Watch the people jostling to get on a iram or a bus, each for himself. See how they behave, shoving, klek- Ing and elbowing, heedless of the fair sex, of the old or the young, self-centred, all for self, like wild animals in the jungle fighting to claim prey.

how

Look at the passenger skiing beside you,'how he occupies more than his fair share of the seal, with his fat thighs well spanned out, leaving you hardly enough room lo sit at the edge. almost toppling over. Then, see

he smokes. blowing the smoke every- where he pleases, heedless of the inconvenience or dis- comfort caused to others, but enjoying himself selfishly. to gratify his craving for the without weeds. fragrant which he would apparently

expire

water.

Enter

dear sir

of

of Britain thousands miles from the Motherland.

If our manner is representa- tive of Brijkl culture, then it's high time the Colonia! Office in the United King- dom did something or dis- owned us altogether! We are 2 disgrace to civilisation. and whatever the howl this accusallon may arouse, lis a just stalement, without exaggeration.

You did right to bring this subject this problem of "Manner matters"-before the attention of the public in your

candid "Comment

of yesterday, and we can do with

more of these honest self-searchings to rid us of false pride, our smug- and complacency. For good service we owe you much thanks.

TRODDEN.

our

ness

this

oul of as a fish

a restaurant,

a shop,

where you will, and civilly 1.sk for service, for some attention to be paid you and see the ugly, frowning face that glares at your im- pudence for daring to in- trude upon the sweet-reverie- of the 'supreme being' be- hind the counter,

Need one go on dwelling spon mannerless mules who the stubbornly hold to their rights, yielding neither to the devil nor the ulni? Hongkong likes to claim to be a place of culture, of re- fined breeding, or gendilty. and yet our behaviour, or rather misbehaviour, is a disgrace to the fair name of the Colony which has always prided. Itself on being the brightest jewel. In the colonial crown, this tiny bit

dear sir

Hair-splitting

Without wishing to prolong the controversy on the ex- tent to which tocrit neus- papers help to promiote culo ture in Hongkong, I must make two or three points in, reply

Mr H. T. Chou, who 10 I feel, is being unnecessarily argumentative

and half splitting, First, his reference to profes

sional theatre. This makes no sense unless, he means that no professional group ever comer here. But if that is not the fault of the

local press or the quality of their critica. Surely the

only answer is that there is insufficient demand for a professional group and no amount of lamentations by the press will make any difference.

can

Second, the reason for the lack

revient of local book though there are excellent ones in the Morning Post-

only be the

low and of generally poor quality literary cutput locally. The critics would materialise in direct proportion to the im- provement in quality and numbers of works by local authors. Ditto local radio. Ditto TV. Finally

it is hard to see how...

local

culture can be assisted by more detailed information on the British or American theatre and its achievements indeed, feet that by doing so it only helps to promote the frustra- tion of the local person who will never have a chance to see it, except when the Stage · Club or the Garrison Players, presents it locally five or ten years hence.

Your

SATISFIED.

dear sir

150 words

correspondent"Nau- scated", yesterday, wrote a sentence: 150 words, ong [without_g_full-stop and 12 commas. Out to set a new Olymple record?

ME TOO.

RIGHT: Brig. W..P. L Lawson seen taking the salute at a passing out parade held at the Police Training School in Aber- deen last week.

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BELOW: Mr and Mrs Frederick S. Ramsay seen

during their wedding re-

ception at the. Peninsula

Hotel last week.

The

bride is the former Miss

Joan Sheila d'Azevedo.

JUNIOR CHAMBER MANTEW

Jailed for

DEATH OF CHINESE › BUSINESSMAN attacking man

with chopper

ABOVE:

Mr Peter Mc- Intyre, an artist who has been painting local scenes for the Hongkong Tourist Association, seen at work. His pictures were display- ed at the Hongkong Club yesterday,

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LEFT: Professor Harry L Hansen addressing the gathering at 3 Jaycee luncheon meeting held at the Paramount Restaurant this week.

Public meeting

A joint public meeting will be held at the Miramar Hotel,

Kowloon, today at 5.30 pm. Official speakers will be Dr

P. F. Woo (Civic): Dr Alison Bell (Reform); Mr Cheung Wing-In (Civic): Dr Raymond Lee (Reform).

Those members of the public A 35-year-old hawker who who have written in indicating chopped a man following a dis-, their desire to speak at the pute over the use of water, was meeting have been invited to do today found guilty of wounding so and, if time permits, other and sentenced to three months members of the public will be Jail,

He was Wan Kwong, a hawker

of a tea stall at Health-street.

He was sentenced by Central Magistrate, Mr E. Corally.

REPATRIATES

FOR CANTON

About 400 overseas Chinese Chinesepatriates, mostly young people, Mr Ng. Hol-Jam, manager of the Asian Football left by a special train for Can- Fools, lid, and prominent location this morning.

They arrived from Indonesia" businessman, died this morning

17,890-ton Gumun the

LIT

at Central Hospital after a short Djati on Sunday.

'illness, He was 58,

The late Mr Ng wis a direc- Another group left for Can- tor of Choy Brothers & Co, Lid, ton yesterday. Most of the

at the time of his death,

repatriates were from West

He is survived by his wife, 13-Java,

children chilidres.

and "four", grand-

TRIADS IN

FILMS

Hongkong triad societies are to faure in a film "The Terror of the Tongs", now being, com pleted in the quiet Thames side! village of Bray.

BB's CAR STOLEN

Paris, Aug. 22.

A thief today made off with about the best known caria France — the grey convertible of Brigitte Bardot,,,

The film star herself walked the neighbourhood police The aim which stars Chris-station near her apartment to topher Lee and Yvonne Morlar file the complaint. She raid Is concerned with tried activity the car had been parked in in Hongkong in 1910.

front of her house.--AP."

From the Files

25

years

AGO August, 1935 Od connections with

NE of the few remaining

early British efforts to trade in China is disappearing from Macao with the demoli- tion of the old building, known as the house of the "sixteen pillars", the re- sidence at one time of the Superintendent of the Eng- lish East India Company.

This edifice, made famous through a sketch by the celebrated British painter, George Chinnery, has a long history, and was consider ably over a century old when it was decided to pull it down a short while ago

The building and the grounds passed into the hands of the Salesian Order, who established their cele brated industrial school on the premises.

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The School having extend- ed. its sphere of activity during the past few years several buildings have been constructed within the grounds, until a further edifice being required, the Fathers eventually decided to erect a new building on the spot where the fine eld house had stood for so many years.

The original garden wall was pulled down and re- placed by one on more modern lines some ten years ago, and the disappearance of the building now marks the end of an association which embraced not only early British trading in China, but also close connec- tions with the AmericanS and the French, for in these premises the American am- bassador had his residence for some time, to be follow- ed by its use as "the hou pital" for the American fleet in China, being later used by the French for the same purpose, and afterwards by Mr Gideon Nye, American Consul for Canton and Macao.

In later days the old building passed into the hands of the well-known. firm of Herbert Dent and Company.

the

CIR Malcolm Campbell's Bird broke record today for allowed to speak from the floor. land speed, Ruaning over the Mr Brook Bernacchi, QC (Re-saltbeds at Salt Lake City, form) and Mr Hilton Cheong- Leen (Civic) are already in London and the first talks at the Colonial Office are scheduled for September 8.

Another representative from the Civic Association, Dr Peter

Sir Malcolm covered the measured mile in 11.88- seconds which works out at 304.311 miles an hour. His mean average speed for the

C. Y. Lee, will be leaving for two runs was 299.875 miles.

London on or about September 1, an hour.

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HAVE YOU ASKED THAT CHAR TO MOVE HIS LORRY FROM OUR FRONTAGE

YET?

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