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From the Files
Across the ocean by junk 25
Spend $35,000
on
Ying Hong'
By DAVID LAN
Two British marine officers in Hongkong are building a Chinese fishing junk on which they will sail for San Francisco via Japan at the end of next month. Michael Briant, former Chie! | 92-foot junk being bullt at the Officer of SS Fenglein, and Colin Hu Sang Shipyard in Aberdeen ORA, former Second Oficer of ¦ for the venture,
the hip and for three weeks the Chief Oncer of SS Talping. are spending HK$35,000
461
More land
to be reclaimed
Work is about
to start on
the roclamation of 17 acres at Tsun Wan.
Fi will be provided from 4 hill near the police station. 1,
The hi is being levelled to provide some 200 sites which will in due course be offered, by
of exchange, WDy
to vingers now living in other parts of the Taun Wari lay-out area.
Nearly half a million cuble yards of earth will have to be moved in this work, tenders for which are called for in today's Government Gazette.
The work is expected to talte about 15 months to complete.
News from the Gazette
Lieut-Cmdr O. IL Turville bas been appointed te act as Command
Officer Hongkong loyal Naval Reserve,
absence during the Chatr. A. J. Dowden.
of
The Queen's Exequatur empower- Mr Chol Moon-kyung to act v9 Consut-General for the Republie of
Michael and Colin are bath 24, brought up in South Africa, graduates of the Cape Town South Africa Nautical College "Grneral Botha." and have been int sea for several years.
'The Hero'
called
The junk, tentatively "Ying Hong" (Hero), will be equipped with three sails and a -48 h.. diesel auxiliary Cor
enter Rency.
After the launching sometime | in June, the two will put aboard 200 gullons of fresh water, lota of timed fond, three magnetic ecmpa.ses, an electric signalling 1omp. pyrotechnle distress signals and fire extinguishers.
They will also bring along a small petrol engine for charging 12-volt batteries and operating bilge pumps if necessary.
Aboard also will be a trans- Istur receiver and a radio trans- mitter.
Sald Colin in the interview, "The time we set sail will be the typhoon season, but We reckun we should have sulllelent warning to make shelter with the engine aboard.
"The Orst few weeks will be the
dangerous. And the worst. will be the stretch of
ferm water
Japan eastwards where ther is no sholter but where typhoons whit threaten."
some
Briant said the most beauti- ful part of the saling will be the land sea of Japan and the mild-Pasiir
three to four week away from Japan.
we Can expect fair calm vers, and good winds. weather in general.
"It will take two weeks to reach Japan
ten weeks and more to Son Francisco." But they hope to spend a few
Two British merchant mariners, Michael Briant (left) and Colin Oge (right) plan to cross the Pacifle in sununer on Chinese fishing Junk they are buliding in Hongkong. They will set sail towards the end of June on the yet-to-be-cum- pleted 42-fool vessel they call the "Ying Hong" (Hero).
Mr
Tenants to
Government
appointments
The
'years' -AGO-
May 1936
Southampton, May 27.
gazetted To the strains of "Rule
Britannia" pinyed by
on
Queen
following appointments, a Royal Marine band promotions, transfera
the and the quayside, postings were announced in Mary left Southampton at today's Government Gazette: Mr A. Todd, Mr G. T. Howe and 4.34 p.m. today carrying Mr T. . Korby to be Adminstra-2,000 passengers and
ve Officers Staff Grade B.
Mtr . K. Sufiae to be Secretary.
Public Works Department.
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crew of 1,000 on her
Dr Lau Chee-chin to be Medical maiden voyage to America. Onleer of Schools, fr Tang Wong She moved into the main Sul-ying to be Assistant Medical channel gracefully and
Ulcer of Schools: De Lee 1500
Awok-yun and Dr Busana Chen With the most perfect pre-
censed to be Amitant Medical Oneers; Bir Yeung Sze-yuen & Pined
cision, to the cheering of
to be a Medical Officer of School: the greatest crowd that M: F. C. W. Edge ceased to be an pector of School; Mr Ng Kwok-
Education Officer.
ever thronged a quayside yaen censed to "cl Senior at Southampton. It bade Mra Yeung Chun su-ying to be her a tumultuous farewell, SIRE Chuen-shen to get an Principal Aeroplanes swooped low Medical and Heath Deer Port over the liner's crowded
Leath.
Nursing Sister Psychiatric); Dz
Br 8. C. Rondhead to be Secretary,
Urban_Services Department.
Atr K. C. Dawson to bêé Treasury Accountant,
on
decks and a quarter of a million people clustered every vantage point hir d. A. H. Tilley to act as Senter both sides of Southampton Water and took up the cheering us she drew slow-
Legal Assistant in the Hetrur General's Department,
get Court orders
compensation
Brian V. Rhodes, Tenancy Tribunal President, an- nounced the decision to recommend exemption of Nos. 67-77, Woo Sung-street, Youmoti.
Compensation to tenants of the six houses will be about $152,000. The gure has been embodied in the tribunal recom- mendations.
The application was brought by Mr Yue Pok-hing.
the Mr Yue plans to replace existing 35-year-old tenement with
i modern 10-storey Structure comprising six shops und $4. flats.
Mr Steven S. L. Yue, architect, prepared the plans for the new building which will cost bbuut $600,000.
Members of the tribunal xit- ting with Mr Rhodes were Met Anne Rutonjce and Mr A. J. C. Threlfall.
Jailed for
missing ship
Kuren at Hongkong hus received! weeks in the Japanese inland John Faget 28, deck hand of the
Her Majesty's signature.
Me Sant P Gilstrap has been re- Leegled provisionally AS Consul
General for the United States uf Amerien at Hongkang.
:
Mr Haymond van toy has been recognised provisionally as Consul for Belgium at lingkung.
Ur Walter Svobodn hos been Caint- appointed Australian Trale missioner i Hongkong.
Mr. Cumming vensed to act na Member of the Pubile Servirea Commissions,
Tone will he sold by public natio
of industrial land in KUA
at the Crown Land and Survey Ville on June 10
Plan Trad ensures about 20,000 And the upset price ta square feet $600.000.
Another piece of land at Tal Hong- read, about 13.300 square feet in area. I will also be roll on the same day, The land is restricted to privufe residential purposes, and the upset price is $200,000.
scas,
In America, they will sell the vessel to make a small profit or "mosi likety to Just break
even."
Keel laid
The keel of the junk was laid on May 10. The junk is now two thirds completed.
It is built of oil-rich turedo- worm-resistant yacal wood be low the water line and of teak- wood above.
What will they do after sell- Ing the junk in America?
M.V. Ivanhoe, appeared be- fore Mr R. Woodward at the
Primary
school
for estate
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for
A primary school with
standard classrooms 1,080 pupils in two ses sions is to be buist in the Tung Tau Resettlement Estate in Kowloon.
A small single-storey onces- tral hall for the Ng Clan will also be constructed next to the school building to replace the existing Ng Clan ancestral hall which has to be demolished to make way for the construction of a multi-storey resettlement block in the estate.
Piling and site formation work is already in progress and Marine Court today for re- the new school and the ances- maining in the colony after tral hall are both expected to his ship had sailed for Singa-be completed by January next pore on May 17,
wax He pleated rulity and sentenced to one month in prl- son. He told the judge that he was drunk at the Ume.
Inspector M. W. Yip told the court that the defendant was notified of the ship's salfing Line before he went on shore,
Next morning the defendant went to the Sun Hing Shipping Co the agents of the ship and gave himself up. He was then handed
to the Marine
"We'll probably cross the US On land and Buen take passages to England for home." | Poliec,
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(Continued from Page 1) Kowloon where she is being held in custody.
Other cases went ahead ng scheduled, including the opening
accused examined
ly abreast of them.
50 YEARS AGO From BCM Pust 25 years ago column.
"Hin Excellency accom- panied by the Hon. the Fat, charred with shooting Colonial Secretary and the with intent to murder Lee Hon, the Director of Public Ying on Feb. 15 and wounding Works, inspected the new Gov-
with Intent, was ordered by
Air Justice W. A. Blair-Kerr ernment offices on Thursday at the Criminal Sessions this afternoon end then proceeded morning to be examined by sto the new Low Courta, psychiatrist before trial be-where they were joined by the cins.
fon. Mr H.E. Pollock KC, fits Excellency, with the was taken this Director of Public Works later made a series of inspections in
When plea morning, the charges Were read to him in Cantonese but when the castern portion of the City.
he was asked to plead guilty or
not ulty. Ho Fat remained dient.
including the
stitute
Seaman's In- (where the Rev. C. E. Thompson showed them over The only time he said any-the building) the Public thing was when he was asked Worka
Department Storer his name and be replied, "Ho Yard, No. 2 Police Station, Fat."
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The Traffle Department of the Hongkong Police announced early in the morning that all traffic tests scheduled for today ure cancelled. Condidates who wese due for testing today wil be noulfed by the Traffle Once about a new date for their test.
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