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CHINA MAIL

Established 1845

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1960.

SEQUEL TO FIRE ON BOARD HONGKONG FIR AT DOCKYARD

Foreman's disclosure at inquest

Forge should have been

New water Refugees buy clothes at sale.

pipes in

heated on deck NT tested

Tests have started on the new pipes built to take water from the Chinese roservoir of Shumchun to Tại Lam Chung Preliminary results WETU satisfactory.

A sub-contractor foreman, engaged in overhauling the Panamanian vessel, Hongkong Fir, which caught fire on August 20, said that he had received instructions that the forge should be heated on deck and not in the engine. The 00,000-foot aqueduel cost room, where it was found.

Wong Wan of Ab Hing Com- pany, was tesulying before Me T. L. Yang at Centaul. Court this morning at the inquest -

to the deaths of the five men

as a result of the fire.

He said the enke forge and were the ir blower which

found in the engine room after the blaza bolongest to his fem. They were used by rivelers in The engine room, he added.

That was not the first the that a forge had been used in on engine room of a ship, he suld.

'Verbal orders'

received He sall he had verbal orders from Europeans whom he did not identify. that the burning of rivets should be done on the open deck and

not in the engine room.

He said that a special pipe was erected above deck to send the mated ivets down to the engine room.

When asked why the foret was down in the engine room when he had orders to use it

above deck. Wong sald that he thought that the workers considered the distance

be

tween the open deck and the engine. was too great,

He said that he did not order

the forge to be taken up.

Sub-Inspector M. 1. Groom

is conducting the proceedings,

Mr F. G. Nigel of Johnson, Stokes and Muster, and Mr Poshing Woo of Hastings and watching Co., are holding u

the Government $10 million to completed last bulld. It was Tuesday!

The Chinese and Hongkong! pipes are expected to be con- neeted by the end of this year.

REGISTRATION Colony newspaper today

Reskints

gard talks between Chinese and bulding entity. Hongkuog delegates on the zures bearing registration terms of an agreement for the numbers e series 5,081 to supply of water from Shum-

their familie now chun "arost deadjocked." 5 and required Les re-register It But a Government spokesman accordance with the new said this morning that "the Registration of Persons Ordin- Goverment is not prepared to

was announced in the make ance, Government Gazette, Inday,

stage."

any comment

at

this

DGS girl wins

coveted HK

scholarship

The Shell Scholarship for 1960, tenable at the University

of Hongkong, has been awarded to Miss May Yuk. Mai-kuen, a student of Diocesan Girls' School.

Central road

reconstruction

Two roads in the Central brief for Talkoo Dockyard and Engineering Co of Hongkong District are to be reconstructed Ltd, and the ship's owner, Fir and resurfaced to bring them up to modern traffic standards, Line and Co. Ltd, respectively.

Hearings continuing,

Struck off

They are. Wing Lok-street between Des Voeux-road and and Cleverly- Bonham-strand

Queen's-road street between and Wing Lok-sireci. Tolepinto (Hungkung) has been struck off the Reconstruction of these roads register and the company dis- will start in about two months' solved. the Govenment Gazette time and the work is expected

notified today...

to be completed next March.

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Printed and published by TERANCE GORDON NEWLANDS PEARCE for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at.1-3 Wyndham Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong

A native of Kiangsu Province Yuk and 21 years old, Miks received her primary -school education at St Mary's Hall, Shanghai,

In 1952, she came to Hong- kong with her parents and on- tered the Chinese Section of St Mary's School where she studied up to Senior Middle I to joining Form 3 of prior, Diocesan Girls' School in 1955.

Head prefect

Jumble sales like the one at the European YMCA this morning are a great attraction for Kursian refugees in ilong- kang and these two refugees exprine

At this & Earment morning's sale.

Thes are two of about 300 While Russians, formerly living in China, now in Hong- kong awaiting transport for resettlement in other parts of the world.

The number in the Colony varies as ships bring fresh Kroups in and planes fly wait- ing groups out,

Most

wiib

of these refugees arrive in Hongkong "limited possessions,”

Whlie they are in the Colony the UN cares for them and maintains them while welfare

groups provide small sums of spend. Mail monty,China lag

photo.

Compensation Board

A Compensation Board com- Last year, she was elected prising Mr W. N. Thomas Tom, Mr A. V. Currie and Mr G. J. Head Prefect of the Schoo?.

Grover has been appointed to In this year's Matriculation Examination, she sat for three determine the amount of ecm, subjects at the Advanced level, pensation to be paid in respect all of which she passed, with of the resumption of a number a distinction in Chinese Lan of lots in Wong Tai Sin, the Gazette notiBed Literature. She is Government guage and entering the Faculty of Arts at today, the University.

Miss May Yuk Mul-kuen

Instituted in 1050 and valued at HK$5,000 a year for the duration of the course,

the Shell Scholarship is awarded airitually to a student who at- tains satisfactory placing in the Matriculation Examination of the year in question.

The candidate, however, must ratisty a Selection, Communities of five us to personality and character, In addition to academic ability.

Winners of the Scholarship for the years 1050 and 1957, namely Miss Patricia'Chen Tou-ping and Mr Richard O. Maher respectively, have ready graduated with Honours, While the 1956 and 1959 Scholarship holders: Mr Chau Wai-yin and Mhip Wol-ying are at present third and second year students in the Faculty of

Seicneo.

Auditors Board

The Government Gazette notl Bed today that the following have been re-appointed Memn bers of the Authorised Auditors Board;

Mesars D. Black, F. D. Hom- mond, Li Fook-shu, C. Mar Fas und Wong Peng-cheang,

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Imported dutiable goods

Threa" crew - members,・・ two man and a woman, of a fishing Junk, were sen- tenced to six months' Jail and fined $5,000 or another six months in prison in default by Mr E. Corbally at Central Court this morning for

From the Files

25

years

AGO

October 1935

A large number of dis- tinguished local residents col

importing dutiable com- lected at Queen's Pier at 10.16

modities from Macao.

The were Wong Lai (61), of um on Saturday to say fore- 91 Kat Hing-street, Talo well to Lt-General O. C. Bor Tsang Yuk-on (42), or 66 Sakrett who left the Colony at Chal Po, Tal O, Cheng Kau-noon by the P and O liner, kan, living in hut 3 Ping On Rajputana.

sircet, Tal D. They pleaded guilty.

Revenue Inspector K K. Leung told the court about 1.15

am on Wednesday defendants" junk was intercepted by a police launch at the entrance of

THERE

*

was laid

on

the table at the

Tai O Harbour, A search Legislative Council meeting

the Report revealed yesterday

in cigarettes, Education

Hongkong,

011.

aboard the junk 117,900 Macao 143 pounds of Chinese pre-written by Mr E. Burney, pared tobacco, 384 bottles of one of His Majesty's In-

Chinese wine, 1422 gallons of

Chinese wine in 25 jors and 25 Bpectors of Schoola, who few bottles of European Liquor on visited the Colony n which the duty had not been months ago for the purpose bald,

of making recommendations The defendants claimed that on local education. they were each paid $20 by someone to bring the goods from Among the recommenda- Macao to Hongkong. They ad- tions it is suggested that mitted that they did not have a permit to Import the goods,

Meters and car parks

cut down the

the School certificate. ex-

Insp Leung said the duty on amination be taken a year the goods was $6,238.77.

or two earlier, and that the syllabus be simplified so as to bring success in the examination within the reach of the average pupil; that in the British schools economies in staffing should be considered, as well as an increase of the fees charg ed; and that the vacant post of Senior Inspector of English Schools should be filled by the best possible candidate obtained from outside the Colony, who should in due course.be

Director of • appointed

car-cleaner brigades

Many car cleaners and their families have lost their rice Education.

bowls since coins started tinkling down parking meters in the Colony.

In Statue Square alone the number of cleaners has dwindled from 50 to 17,

Cheung Ker, who once head- ed a service of eight cleaners said, "I now have a staff of Ave only,

"When the meters went up,

"These coln-caters" drive our prospective clients away to park elsewhere."

ABC

Other cuts

Car Cleaning Service

At the conclusion of busi- ness in the Legislative Council appreciation was er- pressed by His Excellency, by. the Hon Sir Henry Pollock on behalf of the Unofficial Mem

SILVERMINE BAY today,

SEAWALL

bers, and by the Hon Mr S. W.

has cut down their staff from A 207-foot long seawall is to Ts'o on behalf of the Chinese four to three, said Ko Lo, their be built shortly at the popular community of the services representative at Statue Square. summer resort of Silvermine rendered by the Hon Mr R, H.

The International Car Clean- Bay,

some cleaners lost their jobs because the strict regimentation has left the motorists with lessing Service, parking spaces.

Dry cleaning

leas

"Of course,.

,parking spaces mean a smaller cilentcfe. "And, another point, we are not allowed to wash care in Government car parks where only 'dry-cleaning is permitted,

"Unlike dresses

the laundry, ears are not mada much cleaner with mere dust- Ing and wiping. So this reduces our business even further."

In

Man Kaan-chai, director of the Star Car Cleaning Service said: "I have reduced my staff from six to three.

which had six The seawall

| Kotewall during his 12 years will provide better workers before, is now only

landing facilities for

as a member of the Council. |one-man organisation.

ferries and small craft based and regret was expressed at at Silvermine Bay,

his resignation.

So is the Automoblie Clean- ing Service.

car

The only exception is the Automobile Association cleaning service which Над maintained a staff of tour des pite the installation of meters.

SHATIN VALLEY.

FLOOD PREVENTION

An additional reinforced con- crete culvert of about 100 feet long is to be built at Tin Shum, "As a hard-working lot, we, in the Shaun Valley, to prevent the car cleaners, have found the railway embankment and felds •from being our luck even harder since the adjacent Introduction of meters.

flooded during heavy rains, ^.

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