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VALUABLE
TREATY
CHINA MAIL
OLD HK,
PORT
STAMPS TO BE SOLD
More than £7,000 worth of old and valuable Hongkong stamps and more than £6,000 worth of treaty port and Macoo stamps will be auctioned in London later this month.
by a Me
The collection to be auellen- ed has been formed George E. Burghard of New York, and has been offered for sale by the order of Patrick C. Pearson and Balte Wellsted.
The auction wil be held in the rooms of Robson Lowe Ltd of Pall Mall on January 25,
HANDSTRUCK
The collection Includes a Hongkong 1842 handhiruck stamp made only two monthu after the Font Office opened valued at £200,
Another £200 tot going up for sale is a group of four 1863- 1874 18 cent tilac Colony stamps.
Another lot-t
ne tor £250 is a letter sont lo Lon- don in 1885 with a two-cent stamp overlapping 30-col
1 stami, both struck in 1903, and
a rure 1855 90-cent stamp, salą
to be the only recorded example on a letter.
FIRST FLIGHT
The collection for sale aino Includes stamps used on the first through Night from
Penang Hongkong lo
and London. Hongkong to Sun Francisco and Manila-Macao- Hongkong first-flight stampa.
Another unusual sel of stamps
to go on sale is a selection of letters and cards bearing stampa Issued during the Japanese ou- cupation.
Another valuabir handstruck stamp is one benring the mark "Boat Ofice. Macro 10 cents".
35. This is valid at 150.
Another oval handstruck stamp. valued at £250, says
New flats
and
for
Kowloon
Hongkong
Two new blocks of flats will add to the skyline of the Colony by the end of March as the building boom continues unabated.
Spanish train death toll
rises to 25
Barcelona, Jan. 9.
At least 25 people died and many others 'were injured when an express and freight train collided head-on at a railway junc- tion on the outskirts of Barcelona today.
Were tonight Rescue team! still searching through wreckage, piled as high as a house, for more dead and injured. Nurses through gaps In the reached "we could live for a year on debris to inject blood plasma drinks in France with the info wuman and a girl trapped amount of postage this letter, Inside cost me."
"Pald at Macao" 1844 and fet
an
extract
from the
ter to France via Hong- kong bearing the stamp says
demolished &
class couch.-Rcuter.
second-
$400 fine for driver, owner of unlicensed truck
Lee Sin-ling, who drove an unlicensed goods vehicle without third party insurance, was fined $400 by Mr I. T. Morris at Causeway Bay Court this morning.
The owner of the vehlele Lee Man-shing was also fined $400 for allowing Les to drive it. Both pleaded guilty to the sum-
manses.
Sub-Inspector M. 1. Atkin- non, prosecuting, told the court) that
collision took place another ventele when reversed the vehicle
with
Lev
out
of
1
building site
έπι Ming Yuen Terrace
on to a road on July 1 last.
A police inquiry into the ac- cldeni revealed that the vehicle was without a licence of any sort,
Boy charged with $400 cafe theft
A
15-year-old boy appeared before Mr J. E. Barzan at North Kowloon Juvenila Court this morning on A chargo of simple larceny. Sub-Irspector X. W. Elias galā that the boy stole $400 from a cafe at D Tokwawan-road, ground floor, on December 21, last year.
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,
He was arrested on January: 1 this year near the Shek Kip Mel Rosvitlement Arun.
The boy pleaded guilty and was remanded for seven days for a robert on whether he was ruitable for pimigion to a trala- ing centre,
One of them, the $6 million Tsimshatsui Mansion, will take shape at 61-71 Nathin-read op- posite the new Dairy Farm premises.
I will rise 17 storeys above a basement ground level with
car park underneath, occupying on area of 10,000 square feet.
ARCADES
floord
Пл
The ground and first will house shopping arcades which will be linked by escalator. There will be 80 shops inside with two parallel corri- dors running cast-west on each floor.
From the second floor onwards there are 230 railden- ual-flats ranging from $11,000 to $82,000 per flat.
Established 1845
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1961.
Fined for
abusing policeman
A 30-year-old
film actor Lok
Kl alias Lok Kwan-hung, of 43 Maidstone-road, third A typical flat consists of one
floor, was fined $200 by Mr to three bedrooms, on living- dining room, two toilets,
A. Garcia ai South Kowingn he was Court a sleeping space
leday when kitchen, and
found Kulity of disorderly for the servant.
behaviour white drunk,
FOUR LIFTS
Police Corporal Luk Sal-tong Four Ures will serve the testified that shortly after 1 am on November 17, 1980, the de- various floors,
fendant came to the Yaumati police station to ask for an in-
#
Available atzo will be a num- ber of bachelor flats containing
single spacious room, aspector. kitchen, and a bathroom.
The owners are Ming Man Land Investment Co Ltd, and the architect is Mr H. S. Tam.
The other new building will rise 12 storeys above a ground level car park at 31 Conduit road, Hongkong.
Called Arte Mansion, it will an million, occupying cost $3 area of 30,000 square feet.
144 FLATS
There will be 144 Bals with
DAMN YOU
The corporal sald that the
On hear inspector was not in. ing this, the defendant shouted loudly, "Damn you. You are a public servant. You should be polite to me and you have no right to stop me speaking."
The defendant then tried to lt the corporal. Being drank, he
away after
was taken
12 nats to each floor to be struggle. served by three lifts.
two
locata
Lady Bridges (second front right) and Mrs R. E. Lowry (right) vizited squatter area in Hunghom this morning. Here they v ich a young family having a meat. On the left la Mr J. P. iserappa. Next to him te By R. V. Chenalloy.- China Mail photo.
Lady
Bridges sees
squatter and resettlement areas
LAZE
SHEAFFER'S
IMPERIAL U
Sheaffer quality features. at maberate prices
ALLEGED FIGHT ON JUNK:
23 HELD
Twenty-three people Includ- ing four women who were alleged to have been in- volved in a fight aboard a junk
the
in
Aberdoon
On
Saturday, appeared before
Mr Derek Cons at Central
From the Files
25
\years
·AGO.
January 1936
Court this morning on a CUR Ceci Clementi, chorgo of disorderly
former Governor
bahaviour.
All pleaded not guilty with Hongkong, speaking
of
five
of
on
who the future of Hongkong be. exception admitted behaving in a dsfore the Royal Empire So- crderly manner but claimed clety in London said: "If at that they had Intention of the end of this century the provoking a breach of the peace. British lease of the New Mr Cons then fixed hearing Territory is allowed to ex-
for January 17 at 2.30 pm.
The defendants who appeared pire, let no one suppose that on bail of 150 coch were Leung it would be possible to re- An-kwok, Lee Kal-pang, Levert to the state of things Kai-kan. Leung Cheung-cho, which were obtained prior Leung Tung-wah, Wong Tal-tal (woman).
to 1808. Kam-look. Loung Young Ah-kiu (women), Leung Cheung-chin, Lai Cheung-hof,
Lai Chol-lin
"Hongkong and Kowloon (woman), Lat have now become indissolubly The Hongkong water Cheung-hop, Yeung An-shing, one.
Pak-lo, supply is now largely brought Lat King-chor, Lat Wong Wan-in, Lal An-line from the New Territory by (woman), Lai Yat-lec, Cheung pipe line under the harbour.
Lai Tang-ping.
Chin-cheung The Hongkong railway
Chow Chuen-lewong. Lin Yau-terminus is in Kowloon, the chei and Lal Ah-ngau.
Hongkong aerodrome is at Kai
Divisional Detective Inspector
J. Boxall is in charge of the Tak in the New Territory.
cuse,
He stole
a piece
of brass
at
The whole of Kowloon penin- sula has now become one large city destined to outdo the island in size and commercial importance. The land frontier, as it was prior to 1898, now runs down the middle of a motor road with upacious houses on either side,
ן
"Tho civil administration both of the harbour and of its shores would be quite impor sible if the northern half were Chinese and the British rule.
A 41-year-old man, Lok under
Ming, was bound over in southern under the sum of $500 for two Nor could the Naval establish- years by Mr Derok Consments and the naval drydock Central Court this in Hongkong be defended, if Lady Bridges, accompanied by Mrs R. E. Lawry,
morning for stealing the New Territory were not wife of the British Council representative, and
piece of brass worth $15, in British hands.
"Either, therefore, the New aboard a ship. Mr J. P. Aserappa, Commissioner for Resettle- ment, made a tour of squatter and resettle-chuk told the court Lok in perpetuity like the original Detective Sub-Inspector Kong Territory must remain British
ment areas this morning.
People living in overcrowded huts and shacks in the Valley- road aren of Hunghom, Im- pressed the visitors with their andwork produced for coltage industries.
Lacquer screens inlaid with one figures and mother-of- pearl floral designs were great- ly admired.
HUNGHOM
BUILDING EXEMPTED
Exemption was recommended by this the Tenancy Tribunal morning for 1 to 7, Winslow- street, Hunghem.
The buildings are in a bad condition and tenants are in the Many lowest income groups. have lived there 16 years.
was one of the casual workers Colony, or the Colony itself engaged aboard the as Darents will have to bo giyen back to off Ngau Tau Kole on Sunday. China. When Lok was leaving the chip
"I can see no other solutions. about noon the same day, be "Men of goodwill ought was stopped and searched by a foreman who found a plece of therefore betimes to sock a brass in his possession. Lok was settlement of this problem, then handed over to the police. and as I cannot believe that Saying that be knew he had the British Empire will ever done wrong. Lok asked
the acquiesce in the retrocession Magistrate for leniency adding of Hongkong to China, it
he had that
ars 80-year-old behoves
(the to offer mother and three children
to
better) terms Rooner, Jupon which the Chinese DAN
honourably
to agrce
the cession of the New Territory in perpetuity to Great Bri tain.
support.
Soviet jamming increases
the
"Therefore I very earnest-
By contrast, the resettlement estate at Wong Tai Sin with its Breproof and weatherproof con- crete buildinge was next inspret- ed. Many smiling faces greeted commented the visitors who
ex or- A typieni Bat vill contain The defendant said in an un- upon the individuality on to two bedrooms, a living-
he had rangement and activities shows awer:1 statement that dining room,
in the numerous cubicles bullt kitchen,
been drinking and was trying to tollels and a servant's space.
to an identical pattern. Inspector Lam, a an They will range in price from former schoolmate.
The total compensation grant- ed was almost $111,000, to the CROSSED HARBOUR $21,000-339,300 per flot,
tenants, all the harbour, 110 opposing After creusing
A BBC spokesman said today has de facto as well as de to the Boys whom ecoupled domesile space. that Soviet jemming of the jure control over the province and
A nine-storey modern building BBC's Rustian-language broad- of Kwangtung or -- to put Girls Club' headquarters in Lockhart-road. costing $400,000 will be erected carts had increased considerably the matter less diplomatical- The Rev. Father J. Howatson, on the site and be completed in since the "U-2" spy-plane incl {ly but perhaps oven inore Chairman BGCA,
wele med 16 months.
dent last May when an Ameri- accurately a government Lady Bridges and Mrs Lawry, The applicant, Mrs Sheung can reconnaissance plane was which is able to deliver the and presented Miss Josephite Wal-chun, was represented by shot down in the Soviet Union. Chan, General Secretory, who Mr A. Y; Hou,
It is owned by the Hongkong
He added that the Duty OM- Wah Yuen Investment Co. Ltd. cer had been very rude to him. a visit was paid
architect is Mr CC. Sub-Inspector J. A. James pro-
accuted.
The
Chieng,
CUBAN CONSUL'S REPLY
dear sir
Cuban Consul General At the
Ict in Hongkong I canno! pass, without an answer the article in your newspaper of Jan. G entitled "That man In Ilavana," that goes Ro far an to insult a Govern- ment and a Chief of State with which the United King- Government dom and its held cordial International relationship.
That
I have tried to explain to my- self the thought that could have inspired the mentioned Article. The time world is setually living in is ano of the deepest trauk- formation. Dolitical, economic. worial and ideological, and for that reason it seems that the revolutionary prootst `of changes of value and
TO CHINA MAIL
to
would have After that we
consider the historical truth- fatness of the quotations that a reasonable paper can offer to its readers, If we were to
mention the several
Judge Cuba and the United It is true that in the fight for
Association
of
London, Jan.; 9.
ly urge that as soon as thero exista a government which
He said the Soviet Jamming goods,' IIis Majesty's Govern- was sponsored by the British Members of the Tribunal were affected broadcasts dealing with inent should endeavour to Counell and the Asta Foundation Mr B.V. Rhodes (President). Mr controversial subjects much negotiate with it a compre- during her world tour made in W.LE. Miller and Mr D.W. more than purely cultural broad- bensive settlement concern-
1900,
The library section was well- patrenised during Lady Bridges periods visit and Fr Howatson pointed of calorisation, subjection, or out the popularity of historical and classical tales. He said the economical exploitations p! many of these same ovunities Club members were very studl
ous and would grasp any oppor- in Axla or other Continents.
tunity of learning.
In the nudio-visual
pro- grammes room the visitors its cconomical self determina-
pro- tion has had to knock against heard about the radio
and produced CNGFINSUM country
forces that have ramme writen
broadcasting by Radio tried with all their might to for puil down with dead silench Hongkong every Monday. the rebellious spielt of the Cuban people.
States under the bistorical point of view i would be very easy to siate that the in- dependence of my WAS due to the rebellion of the Cuban people, to their in- domitable resistance, to the ardent wish Free em÷ selves of all exterior demina- I Hor.
to
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the The thousands of patriols that died in the more than four- leen years fighting for ho liberty of their native country cannot be so easily forgotten. It would be remembered alam, without the least resentment. or lack of gratitude that that the time
the United States helped Cuba to got her treedom from the Spanish domination there existe state of war between United States and Spain. would like to mention example that the lives countring offer us about the transformation of international association. We could take the European countries with their consecutive wars and their" agreemans made OT broken in the last fifty, years for not going too far as
¡ economic sell determination thai Cuba le undergoing in badly understood by many. It is not easy to hurt established concerns or to chanre old Ideas without provoking pan- klonate arguments, bai the freedom of expression and of ́eriticism, "when" "It Is 'exerelaed- by a responsible newspaper and when they affect directly the honour of a Govrament and of a Chlef of Blais ovulá be perfectly maintained intellectual and ethics higher grounds,
02
A the
the political freedom of Cuba
CANDLES GIVEN Noodles were being made for do not know how far the
among public opinion of Itongkong distribution
Club
followed the ups and familles. There are now 13,000 downs of the struggle, but I families attending 210 clubs do know of many that live
here that understand -it-and
lend their help.
throughout the Colony, Fr Howatson said,
Other activities watched were
If the editor of the China Mail the sewing and tailoring classes,
-
or of
or the author of the artlela | the woodwork and carpentry, that has provoked this answer (dancing and games section and has simply intended to flatter fother handwork' sections such country all powerful, as_knitting and embroidery.
Miss Chan presented Lady Bridges with Kwan Yin candies in dellente pastel shades, made by the Club members, as souvenir of har visit.
certain please a
group economical interests. I can аккиге you that they have made a poor defence of the DAUSC,
The truth always ends coming the
up to the surface and if what of
was wanted was the judgment ́of the pubilo opinion or Hong- kour in relation with the liberation of Cuba, please lol
-Alumni-lunch-
A lunch was given at the me know and I shall be grato- | Stato Restaurant " this morning fut, but this time in a more | by the alumni of the McG{}Ï responsible way.
BOFIA DUUao,
Cuban Consul,
University, Montreal, in honour
of the Principal and Vica-. Chancellor, Dr Cyril James
Skinner.
POP by Cve
Ga
e77
I'M SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING GETTING A NEW
TYPIST
GOOD IDEA- THERE'S ENOUGH WORK FOR THO
OF US
casts-AFT.
ing the future of Hongkong.”
Carlsberg
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