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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1960.
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200 huts go up in flames early this morning BLAZE MAKES 1,000 HOMELESS
Scene of the early morning squatter fire at Tai Hang which broke out at about 2 am. -(Staff Photographer).
AIR SERVICE Industrialists
TO MACAO NEXT YEAR?
The Macao Air Transport (HK) Ltd plans to introduce a passenger service between Hongkong and Macao carly next year,
UPSET PRICE®
FOR FLAT
This was stated this morning by Mr Rogerlo Lobo, one of the directors" of "the "company,-who said that an application 10 operate the service had been
made "the Director of “Civil" Aviation,
asked
to consider
the
Macao
One casualty reported: drug
addicts blamed
Almost 1,000 people were 'made homeless when a big squatter fire destroyed about 200 huts on the hillside of Lin Fo Kung, Tai Hang, early this morning.
One woman, slightly injured and
Mary to Quee Hospital, wns the only casualty reparted.
Local film to make debut in America
A local film will soon
make
its debut in America.
ment
seni
The Social Welfare Depart- Inmediately accom- modated the ire vicims in the the Tol Hang compound of Residents' Welfare Association (and proceeded with registration, Up to 9.30 this morning, a total of 948 victims comprising 200 families had been registered.
Hot meals
Depart The Social Welfare ment also served hot meals.
Ten fira engines and two Fin magnate, Mr Run Ru
the lite Shaw who has just returned ambulancey rushed to
shortly after from a
two and a half months which broke out tour of America, told the China 2 am.
Mic Mail this morning that Enchanting Shadow." of Cannes
across the squaltor area, stores Film
fame, will be Festival
exploded, sending Ecreened in every big city in of kerosene America in March
the flames skywards.
"This may well be the begin-
of ning
presenting
EVIDENCE
quality
in
As wind finned the fre
swept
Ian Kingsley (left) and Timothy Birch who are direct- ing and producing the Christmas operation.
Radio Hongkong
plans operation Santa Claus'
Have you ever felt at Christmas time that you would like to help in some small way towards making someone's Christmas a little more happy?
and
On Monday, Tuesday wednesday of next week there'll be a chance for you to do just this. Whether it's a dollar you have to spare or five hundred or even a thousand it will ali be welcome during Operation Santa Claus.
to
All you have to do is this: ring Radio Hongkong on 35000
TEC conflagration Hongkong Bims to the Ameri-aeroce, the aren from the first to
the sixth sections, can audience, sald Mr Shaw, He believes that people
For three evenings next week Roaring Bamer, screams of the United States now like
of human beings, Radio Hongkong is devoting its pig, cries films with Oriental background hum of engines, hissing sprays entire English programme "Your products ara famous
more and more as the craze for from water jets and collapsing raising money for the poor throughout the world,"
children of Hongkong at Christ- things crental grows
buts created a near panic. said Licut Colonel Jaime
mas time.
Between firemen rushed up,
9.16 pm and mid- Silverio............Marques...........this
As the -- He--quoted--as evidence the morning to members of tremendous succes enjoyed by the victims swept down the night on the 19th and 21st scur "The Flower Drum Song, and hillside hampering each other favourite music will be played Chinoso Manufac.
In exchange for your pledges of
-contribution-to-the-fund.- turers Association,
TV-series--such as--"Hawau in creape and fire-fighting. Eye," "Hongkong" in detective arles), and "Charlie Chan." He was visiting the Exhibi- FACTORY LAND would be operated by on Itahan tion of Hongkong Products, Mr Shaw belleves that a new or Europe Fen-plane which is due to arrive when he was welcomed by the market in America
new lease of life, in Hongkong in February.
President, Mr Chu Shek-tun will bring a
For the Deal Dlm industry.
Producers *in America also asked him to consider making aims in Hongkong with U.S. co- operation.
persing stay in Hollywood control at 3.30 am and was put
tastes of most listeners, to check convinced him that the equip-out about 4 om. ment in his new Clear Water
The actual cause of the fire, your choice from the list on this
page and Bay studies "is just as good as however, is still under invest-music played my ald of Opera- get your favourite theirs in Hollywood,"
Mr Shaw's tour niso took him gallon, accoring to a Cavern on Santa Claus,
ment spokes an this morning.
$1.9 MILLION
Two pieces of crown land In Sau Po Kong, Kowloon, will be sold by public auction at the Crown Lands and Survey Office In the Central Government Offices on January 10, ut 3 pm. The firet tot, about 47,400 square feet in arcu, is to be used for the construction of a Autted factory for use by small manufacturers,
prien a $1.9 milijon.
'The second lui, 14,820 square
feet in area, je restricted to in- dustrial purposes, and the upset pries Is $450,000.
SHOP
Mr Lobo said that the service
Tobacco fine
and members of the CMA.
A 34-year-old Asherman, Te more Yik, who had en board
"I have wanted particularly to come here today and spend time examining the saman, dutiable Chinese liquor, Marques.
his pavilons," said Lt. Col. Silverlo
fcbacco and Macao cigarettes, was fined
$75 by Mr Derek Const Central Court this morning.
The pleaded gulity.
I trust that my visit, will he of beneft not only to me but also to Macao and I have much pleasure in expressing the hapa
to Mexico where the film In-
This WRA
because
Many fleeing victims were heard swearing hard against tao yau" (diag addicts) whose smoking, they thought, had caused the disaster.
Under control
The Are was brought under
About the same time as the squatter are was sweeping up the Lin Fa Kung hillside, another
In a raid on his campan in that you will come to Macas to dustry is "very prosperous.” The upset | Aberdeen harbour, Revenue study the Industrial possibilities |
the Overs found 2.3 gallons of there and that your visit will Mexican fim industry was sub- Chinese liquor, 2 lbs of Chinese be brought about in the nearsidised by the Government. fre broke out and damaged trbacco and 220 Macco cigarettes future, when I shall certainly Mr Shaw said, "This is about 250 tons of serap rubber
Flim on which duty had not been reciprocate the warm reception Fothing new.
industries In Kowloon. paid.
you have given me,”
have been subsidised in the
A man and a woman were UK, France, Italy, and many Lizul
other countries. We wonder injured and sent to hospital for why the Hongkong Government treatment of slight burns in the open Are that broke out in has not pondered the matter."
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Colonel Silvério Marques, who was attended by his ADC Fight Lieut F. M. Botelho, then toured the Ex-| |hibitica, for more than half an
hour.
He was accompanied by Mr F. A. do Menezes Ribeiro, Vice- contul for Macno.
POP by God'
PARTIES
UP TO
20 CATERED ..FOR
249:
is not only entertainment but
also the prestige product of a Nine engines arrived and put nation," he said.
Mr and Mrs Shaw returned
out the fire after half an hour,
Waste paper and wooden cases
or 20822, pledge the emount of; money you want to give, name the music you would like played, give a dedication if you wish, and give your name and address (you can if you like: remain anonymous),
You can Eve the choice of
$50 TO START BALL
From the Filos
25
years AGO
December 1935
MR Donald Burlingham, who
acted as Inspector General during the absence of the Hon Mr T H. King on leave, is lu be invalided out of the Poller Force and.fs salling towards the end of this month for Home on retirement,
He arrived in 1912 and was sent to Canton to learn Can- tonese, and later after an attack on the Follce Station at Cheung Chau, It was thought advisable to appoint an ASP to take charge of the Indian pollee, in the whole of the New Terri tories and for this purpose Mc Burlingham was sent to India to | learn Punjabi and Urdu,
After war service in the In- diun Army he was later ADC to the Governor, Sir Reginald Stubbs.
While holding the post of ASP (New Territories) Mr Bur- lingham had the distinction of bagging the only tiger to have been shot in the Colony.
The beast had killed a Chinese villager and mauled European Sergeant and Indian constable, both of whom died from their wounds.
The head of the tiger now adorns the lobby at Polico Head- quarters, close to the Inspector General's office. It was former. by in the old City Hall Muscunt,
A dining room boy, aged 21. at the Hongkong Club was fined $15, or three weeks hard labour, when he pleaded guilty before Mr Macfadyen at Central yes- terday to the theft of a bottle of sherry, the property of his employers.
The complainant TUES Mr Kerr, Secretary of the Hang- hong Club. Defendant pleaded that the bottle contained rc- minants of other bottles and it Ta his intention to take home for his own consumption,
Mr Kerr stated that the prac tire was definitely not allowed. Del Sergeant Guild said there was quite a lot of this going on The China Mall has received 950 and the Club would like
ROLLING
hta
from a reader "to start the ball Worship to take a serious view rolling," for a Christmas fund-|-of-the-case-and-make"an ̄cæant= raising comaign.
ple of the defendant as a de- terrent to other boys.
The suggestion of such a cam-
Defendant had been employed Mall at the Club for the past four years and his wages were $21 a
paign was made by a reader In a letter to the China earlier this week. He suggested that
Hongkong month,
per
familles contribute fen cent of the cost of their Christmas pariles or celebra-
mude is designed to suit the The correspondent said If this HON
50.NUMBERS
1. Incurably Romantic
2. I Love you in the Same Old Way 3. Midnight Lace
4. I Saw Mommy Klising
Claus
5. Charming By
Look for a Star
Santa
7. My Heart has a Mind of Its Own D. No
D. I wish I'd Never been Born
10. My Girt Josephins
11. 1 Bay Teenia Weenle Yellow
Polka Dot Bikini
12. I'll Save the fast Dance for you
13. Melodie B'Amour"
14. The Clickity Clack Song
15.
10.
Tell me one more Time Romantics
13. To Kach His Own
18. Como nack, Silly Girl
10
to the Colony last Wednesday in a former timber yard were | 20. by air via Tokyo.
WELL.
HAVE TO GO HOME AND .EAT --- WE'RE OVER AGE!
also destroyed,
Carlsberg
BY
ANY TEST THE BEST
Come Back to Mio
Are you Lonesome Tonight?
Geod King Wenceslas
23. See Amid the Winter Snow
21.
The First Newell
2
13.
While Shepherds Watched
24.
Silent Night
24.
Adeste Fideles
Ave Maria (Gounod)
2B.
Serenade (Schubert)
20
30. I Walking Backwarde
Christmas song by Tom Lehrer
Christmas (The Coons)
31 White Christmas
for
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindoor Banta Daby
34. election from My Fair Lady
35. Belection from The King and I
AB.
Belection from Scutti Paclic
37. The Ding Dang Bong
30, Chitia Night
35,, Song, by Alleen Woods
40. Scoiland the BravD
41, Danny Day
42, Land of my Fathers
43. The Britishi, Grenadiers-
44. Mort Bahl '
4. Bhelley. Berman
40. Bob Newhart
47. The Coons
48, King's College Chapel Chole
40. Maybe it's because I'm a
Londoner
50. Air on a Q String (Bach)
Finals of contest
The finals of the 1000 Schools Oratorical Contest will be hold fùmcrrow ní 3 pm In the audi- forium cf the Queen lanbeth School in Kowloon. No numit- tance fro will be charged and the Tublic are welcome to altend the Finala - Twenty-fostr pupils from the Colony's Primary and Secondary Schools FARE -- „WILL compete for valuable
prized
* *
HONGKONG theatre - geora will have the opportunity were done the less worldly early next month of seeing caso endowed would be able 10 of the outstanding plays of the share
rejeleing of year, Lady Preckus Stream", Christmas and would appre- which will be produced by the clate the meaning of the cela- | ** bration."
Hongkong University Arts As-
the
All contributions received will rociation under the direction of
be passed on to the Ifongkong Council for Social Service, unless otherwise specified.
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