1960-12-27 — Page 12

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MAIL

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1960.

Van plunges down hillside in NT

SHEAFFER'S

IMPERIAL, 11

Sheaffer quality fratures: at mobarate prices '

AGROUND CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS

1,599-ton Panamanian

freighter Amonea which went aground on Lumbucan Island. Balabak Strall, on December

14 was still hard aground yes- terday.

The Hangkang tuд Talkoo which arrived on the scene on Friday WOR undertaking the salvage operation. •

The freighter grounded when she was on her way to Kudat from Jesselton, North Borneo.

Voting for

+

"Miss Exhibition"

Voting for. Mia Exhibition start- ed yesterday at the 18 Exhibi- tion of Hongkong Products.

Each visitor is given a vole Ballot boxen will be closed on January 4. Results will or an- nounced the next day.

There are 15 condiJates re- presenting 13 different stalls,

COLLEGE DINNER

Two killed,

many

hurt

on roads

A man and a woman were killed and several

others injured, some seriously, in traffic accidents on both sides of the harbour during the Christmas holidays.

Two'small fres also occurre on Christmas Day,

crossing

suffered

private cor when Laine-road. So, who Ca Christmas Day

injuries, about head

had

attended

Namau 5.30 pm. a 50-year-old man was Midnight Mass at the

Catholic Cathedra). He was also knocked down by a private car while

King's-road, taken to hospital. crossing near Healthy-street East,

The man, Lee Cheng-leung, of No 1 Nelson-street, First Boor, died on the way to Queen Mary Hospital.

ne

Later, the pollee, through the radio, asked eye-witnesses the accident to report to Police. At 3.05 pm yesterday (Boxing woman textile worker Day).

wha talally injured when she was knacked down by a yan on The United College of Hong-Island-road near, Lot No. 156, kong held its annual

reunion Aberdten...

dinner at the Boy Scouts Head-}

The woman, Wong Choi-har,

quarters, Cox's-road. Kowloon' 27, died instantly.

Christmas Day.

At 6.15 am gn Christmas Day,

Prior to the dinner a swearing-¦ o small von belonging to n lex- In ceremony of the College's tock new committee members place.

Mr Tang Chung-yeung, chair- man of the outgoling committee gave a short farewell speech to this year's graduates.

CAUTIONED

Nine street hawkers charge: with obstruction and hawking without a Beente were caution ed and discharged by Mr E.

lle plant, went off Castle Peak- road, near Kau Wah Kart, Gla- | milestone, and plunged 100 feet down the hillside.

As the car went off the roal, two of the three occupants were thrown out of the von and seriously injured.

The van landed on its wheels about 100 feet below the road with its top and rear end badly dented.

The two seriously Injured,

43; and Chu Ah Chan Pun, kan. 1-year-old driver,

were admited to Kowloon Hospital.

AL

8.15 nm. Tsun Wan resident, Chen Poon, 21, sulfer"

ed corlous head injuries when he was knocked down by a prt- vale car in Castle Prok-road, near 942-milestone.

Then, at 11 pm the same day, a private car travelling towards Kewloon City collided with a lamp-post in'

Miss Hilda Noronha and Mr Reynaldo Lee Masts, after their wedding at St. Teresa's Church, Kowloon-China Mall Photo. Chatham-road

noat Unscoigne-road. A, parsen- er, 19-year-old Yuen Kong- yuk, suffered_head injuries.

On Boxing Day, a lorry carry- ing a load of earth felt into the ça of Kellet Island, Causeway Bay about 1 am.

Two labourers, Hui Kin-wab, 38, and Ng Sing. 33, who were on board, were slightly injured but were discharged from hos- pital after treatment,

The two fires, one in Portland- street, and the other in Con- both naught-road, West, were caused by electrical short cuits. They were put out before fire engines arrived.

A

cir-

Was

seven-year-old boy seriously injured when he fell from the roof of a house in Kwong Ming-terrace, Causeway Boy, about 11 am yesterday

At 1.15 am on Sunday, a 45- while playing with other chil

Corbally at Central Court yes-year-old church-goer, So Ying-dren: The boy. Lee Kwok-leung, terday.

wel was knocked down by was admitted to hospital.

LETTERS FROM YOU TO THE EDITOR

Honeymoon after 88 years

On the eve of a great Festival |

when every heart is warm with human feeling, it was, inspiring to read the story of one of the greatest love in history that even the larid imagination of Hollywood could never think up for a

That picture.

Story

Wax about the brido's honeymoon of waiting, after 88

ycara

issue of rublished In your Friday, December 23.

In this materialistic world of today when the sanctity of marriage is treated as a joke. and when Hollywood leads the world in changing spouses' AN one changes seasonal clother, and when one man's mate is another man's pas. sion, this record-breaking

love of 86 YCRT must eer- Cainly shame most of 139 whose ardour towards Our Joyed ones rupt cool off after the hennymoon stage, and to be able to remain welded for 50 years without Occasional tiff is retarded as unique, Yet this Ane couple of cen. tenarlins remain deeply In love with each other as oll the day they first decided to share their lots together through lite, and have tver since remalued true to their znarriage vow.

This fidelity should be recorded in letters of gold - and· el- abrided for generations to conie to see what true love means and the beauty ok loyalty, st aleadfastumas and of hope, for this loving couple have been living through 89 years of great hardship with one' object in lite to hope for the, ever- deferred honeymoon which their poverty would dot per- mit of them in the fall ploom of their marriago, day,

If over any ciilson devery to

* be honoured by his country

or his fellow "elligens

ماطة

dear

a great story of true love through nearly a century of marriage with never a single accasion for disagreement, never a moment, of doubt ar uncertainly

other's ot cach

fidelity. The shining example of this ageless couple should revive our fast despairing faith in :uman nature for they have shown that there is still in the world people who do bol make mockery of their marriage vow, who can ro- main true, and steadfast in the ever-changing pattern of life, content to remain con- stant in each other's lar love that is truly eternal as true love should be.

Let Hollywood and Nevada-bent married couples take note of this story, and cover them- selves with shame, that they cannot keep their marriage vown for even one-tenth the length of time of this faithful Darby and Joan who, though abfcolly poor in materiał possession, are rich in that Anfangible thing called Love it:at

can franscend all mundane things of life.

INSPIRED.

dear sir

Operation Santa Claus

splendid couple have moto The artiole which appeared in {Tuesday a paper under the "above heading "both" plokasć

› ihan snerllod the honour, and yet they, remain humble, un- i known and Milo regarded. Even the late: Bir Hair Caltin -gould not have producté zách

‚ and surprised twiej piensed, bon › osuse” tha responão to the Charity'Frondosat was wel

sir

Boxing Day wedding at

St Teresa's

Miss Hilda Noronha, formerly "Aunties Suo" of the Sunday Post-Herald Children's Club, was married vesterday to Mr Reynaldo Lec-Maxis in St. Torosa's Church, Kowloon.

The bride is the daughter of Mrs Delia Marin Noronha, of Kowloon and the groom, # sales representative, is the son of Mr Dionisio Lec-Mosts also of Kowloon

The bride's gown of whlje slipper Batin was embroidered with seed pearls and diamantes. siDaves It had three-quarter and a bouffant skirt of drapedį. nylon.

her head-dress featured * short, Anger-tip vell fastened to a coronet of seed pearls. She carried a bouquet of tea roses, The bride was given away by her uncle, Mr Raphael Tossan, In a ceremony conducted by Fr C. M. Odland, PIME The nuptial mass was celebrated by Fr Joseph Carra, PIME.

Christmas

in

Peking

CHRISTMAS CHURCH SERVICES

were

If Christ

born in Hongkong

today

"If Christ were to come to earth today, He would pro- bably be born in a bedspace in Wanchai. The first people to see Him would not be from the Peak nor even from Macdonnell Road. They would be poor, humble people, like the shepherds who hurried from the fields to seo the Boba of Bethlehem*.

From the Files

25

years

AGO

December 1935

BIRD'S Eye View: A re- cent Americans simile: As superfluous as mistletoe at whoopee party.

A

LFRED G. Vanderbilt

A tells a story of a groom

and a turkey, the, Morning Post reported.

"I had promised this groom," he said, "a Christ- mas turkey, but, somehow in the rush and flurry of December I forgot it. It was some days after Christ- mas when I remembered. Intending to make good my forgetfulness, I said to the The Very Rev Barry Till, world of love would ever work. groom, by way of a joke: Dean of St John Cathedral. Yet men of selence and psy- "Well Jenkins, how did you spoke on these lines to children chologists reported that child-like that turkoy I sent you?" and their parents attending the ran brought up without Family Service at the Cate- did. not develop, he said. AI "It was a very fine bird, the other end of the life span, sir,' said the groom. 'I came dral on Christmas morning.

was, acknowledged Young folk, eluding babies-lonstinens was one of the great very near losing it though.' la-arms, were present at the est evils of old age. Mr Small " 'How 80?' enid I. service at which a series of stressed that love was messages based on the Christ-essential factor of life.

the astonished. mas story were given by

In a short address to the Dean. These were interspersed children given earlier, Mrs W

tha

it

love

'thot

with the singing of simple, Chambers spoke on the theme well-loved carols including "Love, came down at Christ- "While shepherds watched mas". their flocks" and "Away. In a manger".

HIGH MASS Thousands The Dean asked the children

of worshippers to take their parents into the attended services of High Mass Christmas Exhibition in the Old and Holy Communion at Romar Hall where they would see the Catholic churches in Hongkong on Christmas

contrast between the comfort of and Kowloon their homes at Christmas-time | morning. and the crowded, noisy cond!-

tions where so many lived in Wanchal "in ali the numbness of poverty,"

NOT DEFLECTED

"Well, sir,' said Jenkins, 'Christmas morning came, and your turkey hadn't reached me, so I rushed right out to the express company, and asked the manager what he meant by not sending the bird up. The very politely, and took mo

apologised, manager

sir,

into a back room, where there were 10 or 15 turkeys

At the. Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception children hanging, and he said the labels had been lost off all with their parents paused at the Crib placed, at the entrance of them, and I'd just better to the nave to see the figure of take my choice. So I chose the Christ Child placed there at the largest, sir, knowing your generosity, and it was fine. I ate grand. Thank much indeed, you very sir?!

At the service of Mattinson-midnight on Christmas Eve. mediately following, the Dean spoke of the parable of the stable to a capacity congrega- tion. The Governor and Lady .Black attended.

He told them. that the real Christmas message, the wonder and meaning of the parable wes- that God, through His Son,! offered us His own character.

"God's purpose, not deflected by our disobedience, has been from

Returned from leave

11

Mr Donald J. F. Fraser, 'Or- Those who attended the ganiser of Music, Education open meeting of the Rotary Department, and Chairman of Club at the Hongkong Hotel the Hongkong School Music Roof Garden yesterday and Association,

from heard the recital of Charles'

Dickens's "A Christnias Mr Victor Ardy, of the Carol" were confronted with

Stores Government

Depart-the realisation that the Eng- ment. and conductor and Liah Christmas sentiments are founder of the Hongkong Con- just as simple and old-fash pert Orchestra, also returned ioned as they ever were. from leave by the victoria, Ho was accompanied by Mre Ardy.

returned all time, to make His children His sons, to give us His leave by the my Victoria from ewn divine nature, the right to Italy yesterday, become a child of God."-----

The Governor read the recond lesson from the first chapter of St Luke. The first lesson from Isalah, Chapter nine, was read by Sir John Kinloch

UNION CHURCH

Peking, Deo. 20. Christmas Day, cold but know- free, passed almost unnoticed hero by all but the Chinese capital's 20,000' Christians, Churches yesterday morning held special services at which the blue coated worshippers sang Christmas traditional Wester

His Excellency the Gover hymns in Chinese,

Western Embassies were en-

nor, Sir Andrew Caldecott. Look hia Beat Christ- joying

The Rev A. E. Small preach-

for the a traditional greater than anticipated, and

man, and the staff of the British of 10 3 crowded Rowoon Editor's mission at time as an Honorary surprised because under the

D'Allaires offle-who Union Church at the

the Rotary of "Tremendous sub-heading

Christmas Eve toured Bridesmaid

family themas morning Miss Margarita on

Thomas Support" mention was made

Mr Dick Wilson, Editor of liat "organisationa sadly Texier wore a full-length gown other embassises singing rois-He reminded the parents prominent by their absence of powder blue featuring a had a turkey and plum pudding children that it was not the the Far Eastern Economic Re- Southern, the Colonial Séere- view. Jeft Hongkong by PAA taru, returned after a long worship or a Baby born in a have been the Army and front centro panel of white dinner-Reuter.

for Rangoon on Sunday on the absence to lend an added touch stable, but the wonder of what RAF."

hand-painted flowers and puffed

God had done and was doing first stage of a four-week fact-of importance to an occasion elbow-length sleeves. She car-

fer the world that man should funding mission on behalf of the which embraced a large nuni- ried pink roses,

never cease to praise.

Colombo Plzn. He will write a

of membera There were those who denied booklet in commemoration of er that Christ's ethics of the Plan's 10th anniversary. and lady, friends.

In all fairness, and to clarify the malter of donations, permit me to enlighten readers vour esteemed vaper that IIM Forces and their families atalloned in this Colony up- port many charitable organisx- tians not only during feilyo seasons but all the year round. Apart from holding feles for the benefit of the underprivileged, the collection and distribution of clothes, foodstuffs and maney, also the Army schools here urge the children to being

along gifts which can be given to needy children," Since this must be known to the

writer, of the article in ques tlon, I fail to understand why he had to single out the Army and HAF, for their "notica- able absence in donating to Operation Santa Claus.” For my pari, being the wife of a member of the RAF, I can only say that in future I shall refrain from donating to any worthy cause in this Colony, na it seems to ma thad no mat- ter how much, one does try to zive to Bome organisations,

it is not appreciated unious one

PINK ROSES

Misses Cecilia Tossan, cousin of the bride, and Angel Loung were flower girls. They wore pastel yellow and pink full- length dresses of taffeta covered with nylon net.

Mr Paulino Cheng attended the groom.

At the reception In St Teresa's parochial, half, following the ceremony, another uncle of the bride, Mr Alberto Tossan, pro- posed the toast to her.

Churge

Fire kills

children

Langhorne, Penn. Dec. 28. Five children died; of suffocation In their bungalow:home while their parents were altending a midnight Christmas mags. Only one of the six youngsters of Mr and Mrs Richard Dupont For a honeymoon trip to survive:t intonan hent sent Macso the bride donned a silk-through the 161⁄2 storey house, by and-wool suit of kingfisher blue. à Aire storted, in a basement res With it she chose black palent creation room, leather hand-bag.

shoca und matching It took three fire companies only half an hour to extinguish the fire which contred around a television set,~AP,

GIFT PARCELS

for RUSSIAN -

REFUGEES

MAN ROBBED

A man and a woman return. ing from a Christmas party were waylaid by two men, one atmod with a dogger, in Tung Tau Russian refugee children and Tsun-road,

Hau Wong

near

takes part in everything that | old people in rooming houses Temple, Kowloon City, early is being “offered” at the time. | along the waterfront and in yesterday, morning.

..

P.§. As mailer of Interest I may Kowloon_City_had surpriss, gift; The two robbers disappeared add that a collection", among | parcels from "Mother Christ- after robbing the man of hli RAP families for lin. Opera" | mas” during the holiday senaon, wrist watch, and; $10. tion Santa Claras (commedased Four Bumpóan, ladies, their

World tour

before the Chida Mall was on cats loaded with gally-wrapped sale that day,

parcela: went to various parts of EL WA WILLIAMS, Hongkong and Kowloon to de Operation: Santasi Cuma lewas: liver packages of good cheer to

organised by Radio Hongkong. 220 families. As wall se Christ-|^ Me- Alên) Steveni, eldest son'} Commens by Hadio Houakaba mas"; mifta; and, hovelties, the of Mr and Mrs W. H. M; Slovaná and Gensions, were? merely parcela. E containda 2: Chosolute,) of Hongkong), larg today for Byd- reneeded in the ChiSA STALPM | fruit, new clothing, soep, lowali ney, Australia, on a three-month

and writing equipment.

round-the-world tour, y

Christ service. and

POP by God

YOUR FATHER WORKS FOR A GOOD FIRM WHO PAY HIM EVERY PENNY HE IS

WORTH TWAT'S WHY WE'RE 50

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