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FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1961.
It all added up to "Australia Night'
WHEN THE VISITING MODELS PUT ON A CHARITY PARADE
By Sylvia da Costa-Roque
Australian models, Australian clothes, Australian decor, Australian food and wines. They all add up to what can be called "Australia Night" at the Miramar Convention Hall last night.
The Rev. A. E. Small shown on board the Loos with Miss E. Jenkins (centre) and Mrs L. Ferguson.
Rev. Small leaves for further work
The Reverend A. E. Small, Pastor of Kowloon
Church, left in the French liner Laos this for Bechuanaland on missionary work.
Aver 12 yrs in Holony.
Mr Sall he ben transfered;
1 Leaders Malonary So
elety name of a shornge of
muonary workers in Africa.
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Me Shad har alzad bcen World Cup
Church Serve, Vig-Chairman of the
Hereke ng Christion
Chaplain
Stat!, Kai Tak,
Council
the RAF
Back here
Mr R. C. Trail, Maier Olli- new, relisened th Mr
fitt
in the alan lace Asia this 1.601 seven-month
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Union morning
News from the Gazette
parade
the
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It was a gala charity fashion organised Ly
Mission *. Australian Trade
Hongkong in aid of funds for The Anti-Tuberculoris A. Pult- LIGI
i
Stars of the show were the Four Top Australien Models of 16, and their chaperone und compere, June Dally-Walkins.
Tight of the show was the all-Australian wardrobe which consisted of 84 garments, rang- Inst from swimsuits, to to fathlons, Australiaa wool Frand evening gowns.
Art It ull went to show that
1: the work of fashion and wines, Australia has
left behind.
not been
All the clothes are available to buyers in longkong, and they Are all the type of clothes that wilt into any woman's word. robe extremely wearable, fresh i and pretty.
THE COST
The total cost of the wardrobe is over £3,500 and it has been provided by Anthony Horderas of Sydney, although designed by fashion houses in Melbourne and Sydney
The evening began with an all- | Australian dinner Kangarco- tai soup, Sydney fish, duckling named after the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales, peas named after Melbourne's Yarra
than the
River.
The sweet was Peuch Melba, which was created more 50 years ago in honour of great Australian soprano, Dame
Nellie Melba.
Mr
Lorraine Knight
an
Patricio Duffie
Hawker Force
men
to be
told
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ולבו
Telephone Co clerk jailed for corruption
From the Filos
25
years AGO
May 1936
TH THE Harbour Office, dur-
A clerk of the Hongkong Telephone Company, Wai ing recent periodie in- Sau-king, 40, of 2 Danner-road, fourth floor,spection of the moorings of was sentenced to six months by Mr K. A. S. the buoys, has made a very interesting discovery on the Phillips at Causeway Bay Court this morning bed of Hongkong harbour- when he pleaded guilty to a charge of corrup-n wreck which so far no-one tion.
Coolie jailed
for snatching from beggar
was
Detective Inspector Lam Muk-sing of the Al Corrup- tion Branch, proseculing, said that in August last year de- fendant, a clerk attached to the Stores Section of the Hongkong Telephone Company, approach; ed
a subscriber, Leung Kin fook who wanica_ta_remove his phone from 81 Parke-street ground floor, to 202 Temple street, saying that he could have it done for a consideration
1 $200.
Leung had previously 11p- tied to the Telephone Company of his phone
to six for the removal
and had been refused.
A 35-year-old coolio Lea Kwong of no fixed aboda
sentenced months jail by Mr T. C. Chen at North Kow-i loon
this Magistracy morning for anotching o pair of gold earrings and old from an pursc woman beggar.
а
A TRANSFER
In September last year the defendunt succeeded in making
the transter and was paid $200 by Leung at his bakery in Parke-street.
has been able to identify, and which must have sunk well over 30 years ago.
The wreck which may be that of a steamer or a sall- ing vessel, is built of steel and lies bottom up. It pro- jeets about six feet above the bell of the harbour be-
tween buoys B2 and B8- where the normal depth of water is about 32 and a half feet. The wreck will have to be removed, however, and a Chinese firm has agreed to attempt to salvage steel hull for scrap.
level the luarbour bed.
*
the and
Hongkong is a place of wel-
comes
and alan, good-byes, Insp Wong Hei-man said the
The case was brought to light Regret is always fell when a complainant Lau Yuk-hing
when Leung wrote to the Tele- popular aud well-respected 60-year-old beggar, was walking phone Company inquiring about older resident bids farewell, along Kaitak-road near Chol his bill for the first quarter of Hung-road on, the evening of 1981.
This morning Mry George March 3 when the defendunt
An engineer of the company Grimble in leaving home in her from brhind investigaung approached
found that the the Blue Framel steamer and snatched a pair of earrings phone had been removed |to|Menelans. After more than valued at $25, and her purse Temple-street by means of some 42 years residence in Hong- containing $25 and ran away. 320 yards of overhead wires. kong Mra George Grimble has A report was then made to In mitigation defendant, sald earned i well-deserved title the police and the defendant that he had a wife and nine Wan arrested on May 24. He children and that he had served among many, of being the told the police that he had sold the Company faithfully for 14
kindlient and most helpful of the carrings to a woman for years. He requested Mr Phillips friends. Her late husband
spent all the to let him off with a fine,
was the founder of Geo Grim- $25 and had money.
In passing He later helped the pollee Phillips said that the maximum |
sentence, Mr ble and Co, recover the pair of earrings,
Ang he could impose was $1,000 Mr Chen ordered the pair of and that was not enough. earrings to be returned to the owner. Mr L
honest
Brook Bernacchi took the salute at a march past of men of the Hawker Control Force at a passing out parade this morning. Thirly-eight recruit constables
before Mr paraded
With Mr Bacok Bernacchi on Bernacchi, his Inspection were
(On the same day in London, Janusle being provided by the music lovers paid tribute at the Band of the Hongkong Police Covent Garden on the 100th Foice. Fanniversary of the birth of Dame Nellie Melba, calling her
the greatest Australian donna to make her mark in Europe.)
Mr
Bernacchi spoke to
Power, Inspector of Police, the parade commander; Mr A. J. Shephard, Amistant Director of Urban Services, and Mr C. L. Scobell, Commandant, Hawker Control Force.
Staff Sergeant Chan Tze-dun was also a parade commander, and squad commanders were Kai-wah nd the Sergeant Chan
The best recruit of the No. 3 course, Constable No. 04, Lui prima Yiu-chu, and the best recruit of No 4 course, Constable No. 131 silver Chan Yiu-wah, received Each course was accompanied whistles. by the appropriate wines.
Around the walls were big men
25 Chairman of the, Acting Corporal Yu Kwong-fal. mural-like binck and white Hawkers' Selcel Committee
Staff Sergeant Pun Wal-hing and the Urban Council.
conducted the. Police Band, Li The Quren's Exequatur power. photographs of Australia
M1avid Bean to get an Australian Hite. At the back of
11ong being the Drum Major, fur the United States of Atario at Bangkong has received the stage was a huge mural of Der Majesty' siputure.
Sydney Harbour and the Sydney Director of Horbour Bridge. Mr Peter Bandhur, Fluation hau berm appointed to Bean Dietat Member at the Legislative Council,
ing Free
The followist aftleres have been pacted in the Royal Hongkong De Fener Force Reserve of Offlcerat Mainr Lent T. N. Leigh-Bennett, 31. P. Keyes Stubble.
o - 1,
comfortable
DAINTY
une Lieul ...
and practical
BRUNCHCOATS
AND
FREE TRIP
Also on stage were fresh green gun tip, young branches taken from the tail Australian guin or eucalyptus trees. They were brought to Hongkong along with the food and wine by Cathay Pacific Airways,
The airline has also provided a free round trip for the fashion team.
The parade itself was AI enormous success with the audi- ence warmly applauding Cach ensemble.
The four models, former In dustrial chemistry student Patri- cin Duffle. Sunday school teacher Lorraine Knight, cham- pla equestrian Judy Lindsay and Australian-born ItaBai Lace Carmagnola !clothes with style and ease.
showed
the
A commentary spleed with glimpses of Australlan e--the surt of hat you can see on the bench at Bond!....Just the suit for the luxury resort of Surfer's Paradise....just the thing to wear for a luncheon in Sydney" --was given by June Dally- Watkins, known as Australia's Top Model.
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THE GUESTS
Wis
Present at the function the Australian Trade Com- missioner, Mr George B. Patter Sun and Mrs Patterson, Sir Sik- Prin Chau, Chairman of the Anti Tuberculosis Association, Air Commodore and Mr P. L. Donkin, the Portu- guese Consul, Dr Joso De Ollveira Pequito and the Australian Trade Officer, Mc W. Ludwig and Mra Ludwig.
Tomorrow, the fashion team is going to Mneso to give a parade there at the invitation of the Macao Government,
Hongkong will have another clothen
and the models this afternoon
OF THE PUBLIC
of!
Former Hongkong
manager of APL
He asked the теп to cu- operate with the Urban Counci! in the endeavour to make into a belter place. Hongkong He told them they should ai ways remember that hawkers
Mr A. A. Chase, former man- were members of the public, as ager of the American President well as other people; and that Lines here, arrived with his wife they should control their tem in the liner President Hoover pers and establish a repulation this morning from Japan en
honesty and uprightness
route to Honolulu on a transfer of post.
for
second to none.
He said:
alike.
"Even if you make mistakes at first, you will ul.imately be accepted, liked and looked up to by public and hawkers provided you are known to be Incorruptible, and provided you are known to give the same fair treatment to all."
POP by Goats
when they give another parade
395
0,30
in the Miramar Hotel at
pm,
WIS
Mr Chase had spent 11 years with the Horgitong office be- transferred 40 fore he manage APL In, Kobe.
He will leave on Monday by plane. Mrs Chase will go Honolulu later in the ra Pre- sidert Cleveland.
'BATEN HIS TICKET? THEN YOULL HAVE TO BUY HIM A SECOND
KELRING
to
Insp Wong also told the magistrate that the defendant had four previous convictions, three for drug offences and one
of membership for society.
Defendant admitted snatching offence.
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Identity cards
triad
the
All persons living in Hong- keng, Kowloon and Tsun Wan who hold Identity cards bearing ja the registration numbers
are
Mrs Grimble was a staunch Imember of the St John'a
Women's Guild "Those who go on corruptly Cathedral's
Think they taking money
Can and she was also on the coun- buy their way out when they eil of the Helena May Inati- are caught." he added.
tute for more than eight years.
No matter shine or rain-
You will look smart
in a cool wearing
series 230,001 10 233.000 now required to re-register with weather coat Modo the Commissioner of Registra- tion for the issue of new-type Elito has just re- identity cards.
The familier of these people | coired— also have to re-register at the same line.
A Government order stated that this does not apply to holders of identity cards bearing
"A" suflx
S the re- the registration of persons with these Idently cards will take of toly place at a later date.
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