G. & J. WEIR LTD.
WEED PUMPS, CONDENSING PLANTS, EVAPORATORS, reed water heatERS, MARINE AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT.
ENGINEERING. FQUIPMENT CO.,-LTD, 208 Chartered Bank Building. Tel.. 27789
FOUNDATION STAGE
Hotel designed to attract American tourists
The new luxury hotel sited on the old Murray
Parade Ground, and now in its foundation i stage, will be called "The American Hotel”.
Government appointments gazetted
The
following appointments, transiers and promotions were nutified In Today's Govern meni Gazrile:
Mr. F., Van laght to be Estate Surveyor PWD; Mr Chro Acting Astoni Talog-kwap t on
get Hunting Surveyor.
ML Lea to be Senior Ad- munistrative Officer: Mr M. D. A. Clinton to be Acting Secretary
Mr. Fowell censual (z net
a strastet General
Mr. Hp to be Assistant Dis- triel Umeet, NT.
Ta ze sul to be Acting Assistant registrar
be Crown
This name has been selected by the owner, Wynneur Ltd. because the building will be the only American owned first glass hotel in Hongkong and also because the choice of J maine which Is already in: existence may be undesirable.
It is entled "The American Hute also because it is de signed and equipped to attract American Visitors to Hongkong. and it is hoped that the name will have a popular appeal to ; citizens of both the North and to South Americans who plan visit the Far Eust. The res- tuurants within the hotel will seek to cater for all tastes.
A strata or layer of treacherous and poor load-bearing soll well below the surface. presented a piting problem, which has enured delay in the construc- tion of the reinforced concrete ra foundation,
'PRE-LOADING' Fortunately, this problem has been solved by introducing
of the method
"pre- bree Wat-lim, Nr Vik, Yeune compressing"
Kinch ut the
Mr G. 1. Willis, Ja Counsel.
ILWLK-KEURK.
Prattels
Mu
or "pre-loading" 1127 piles with a
Toung, Raphael Wattp Chur-it, machine carrying the con-
Daniel Wong Kam-fan, Yuen Sze Ring. Chen Pak-yune. Chan King Pan, Yeung Ma-ire, I'd Cheung-kans. Mak Hay-man, Ximon Wang Kamisket, * Lake Ste-kong, Jay
Chi-chrunt. Cheung Wan, 'Stoop Peng-loen. Yang ellen-pal. Chan Wing-kin, Thres Fong-yan, Lawrence front Tak. shing and Muk Chang tu be f
sideruble load of 200 tons made of steel billets. This machine on speelal steel rollers and travelling on slout thinber sleepers latel
the site 15 hoved from pile to pile by means of geared winchis.
This "pre-loading sy: 1e
Medical and Henith Officers: Mr F. | will ensure that all piles will be
1. Edimanu craved Monet se Sentor
tadiograplur.
Police School to have
more facilities
uniform and of equal bearing capacity with the minimum settlement.
The foregoing process hid the whu approval of Government,
have been co-operative and ia ky mathy with the dieulties encouriered and the consequent delay. To save the paramount factor of the, another 200-tun loading machine is now being i made and will be operating the site within a few days.
TESTS MADE
on
Not unnaturally, tests had to
Additional training facilities L #nade after pre-landing.
and barrack accommodo- | tion are to be provided at the Police Training School at Aberdeen.
Site formation for the dai tional accommodation will start shortly. The work involves the cutting and levelling of part of the hill behind the administra- flon block.
Piles are selected “at random, and up to date the plles chosen have stood up to the test satisfac- torily. The stage bay now beep feached whereby Paul Y Cón- ruction Company wil start work or the reinforced Mon- erule before the end of this month.
An authorative Fource said that Wynncor Ltd has requested its Architects, Mesars Palmer Construction
additional and Turner k
the to announce quarters, lecture halls, kitchen and dining ball will begin as soon us the site formation work is completed.
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aet that the building will gu ahead as originally planned, and will be constructed to the approved height of 26, storeys,
Paquerette's (of course)
Ita Des Voeux Rd., C.
Tel. 21-157
CHINA MAIL
Established 1845
FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1961.
A NEW DAY
DAY DAWNS
With the break of dawn. another day begins for these Colony waits shown, sleeping on a Wyndham-street pavement. Soon they will pick up their boxes and go in search of shoes to shine.
Life among the waifs
-on
a Colony street
a
There's nothing like a comfortable night's sleep after a hard day of
work.
These wails you see in the 1 They have one thing in com- picture are still dreaming mon-they are all parentiess: sweet dreams as the first light and homeless.
upon
from
of another day downs them in Wyndham-street,
There are eight of them, ages ranging from 13-15 — all shop shine boys working by day in Central District,
Though they
they share different families, much of their lives as ir. they were brothers by working, play- ing, fighting and gambling together and even sleeping together.
come
Hotel boy caught with drugs
1
!
A beli-boy of the Ambas- sador Hotel was sontoncod to 12 months jail by Me N. R. Wylie at South Kowloon Magistracy this morning for possessing 0.2 grammes of heroin and 0.8 grammes of barbi-
tono.
Defendant, Michael Charles Rocha, asked for merey because, he said, he had a good Joli ai the hotel.
Inap A. Lew, prosecuting, sald the defendant was arrested with the drugs on July 20 at room 317 Honour Hotel at Pilkem- street.
Defendant had three similar previous convictions,
Gift for refugees
A gift of E07.108, Od for Chinero refugees in Uis Colony has been sent by the Crown Agents of the British Virgin Islands to the Hongkong Council of Social Ber- vice. The money collected from residents of the Talmudds will be used to help those seeking refuge in Hongkong.
Some of them
are refugees from China and others, orphans. of Hongkong
No doubt it's bad that seme- times they gamble. away their hard day's curning among them- selves.
Chartered Bank branch opened
in Hunghom
The second branch of the Chartered Bank in Kow- loon: was opened in Hunghom by Mr.O. W. Reynolds, General Mana- ger this morning.
Still they maintain a standard of fair play-for those who win always treat the losers to meals Bo that no one goes hungry.
When tired, they go to bed | He said that Hunghom was a at about midnight on the pave- very busy part of Hongkong, ment in Wytham-street on fine days,
and he hoped the branch could
be of assistance to the people On rainy nights, they sleep on there. 331ake's Pier where there is shelter.
Trking
life's hard punches the easy way, they keep no office hours, for sometimes they sleep right up to 9 am.
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MY WIFE IS
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SHEAFFER'S
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Sheaffer quality features at maberate prices
Jailed 18 months ADDICT FORGED PRESCRIPTIONS
TO GET DRUGS
An addict who uttered documents and forged the signature of two doctors on documents pur- porting to be prescriptions for a quantity of dangerous drugs was jailed for 18 months by Mr K. A. S. Phillips at Central Magistracy this morning.
Census papers destroyed
Every form and return completed during the pilot land census taken on Oct.
25 last year was destroyed by berning on July 7, Government reports.
A certificate to that effect has been given the Officer Administering the Government by the Census Commissioner under See- tion 14 of the Census Ordinance, 1960.
Identity Card holders told
to re-register
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The 28-year-old unemployed Tarung Ching-wal, ad- mitted two charges of ultering forged documents and three of forgery.
From the Filos
25
years -AGO.
July 1936
The frat regular flight of the Canton-Hanoi air lie under the auspices of the South-western Aviation Cor- poration (to connect with "Air France" at Hanoi) took place on July 10, 1030.
The plane left Canton early on the morning of the tenth, letters being backstamped with the Hanoi cancellation at Twelve additional charges, 10.50 o'clock (4.50 pm), the six ench of uttering forged same day via Wuchow, Nan- documents und forgery, were ning, and Lunchow.
consideration. special cachet was used in the Tseung committed there offences familiar form of an aeroplane between November lost and July this year.
propeller super-imposed on a circle.
taken
into
Theung had two previous convletions,
Detective Inspector R. P. Style, prosecuting, told the court Tseung was a drug addict. He went to a free clinic In Des Voeux-road West on a day in January and was introduced to Goetor, Pun Kwok-fat, by a friend employed in the clinic.
MADE COPIES
Treung requested the doctor to issue a medical prescription for him for a three-day supply of tablets of Physeptune, a dan- Lerous drug. Tseung
☆ ☆ I
HOLLAPSING before a
poured into him by two armed robbers, Chiang Hule- an, Nantao policeman, was taken to hospital in Shang- hai with 10 wounds in the body.
Four of six bullets which entered the body were ex- tracted
Greater at the
Sub- Shanghai Hospital. then
sequently doctors stated that they despaired of his life.
Went to a street printing store in Bonham-strand East and made 100 copies of the prescrip- tion,
Insp Style forged the doctor's signature well as the quilty of the
said that Tucing
ed, Treung
of his
Chjung was ΟΠ patrol duty at the intersection of Li Yuan and Shan Kwan Tang Roads early in the morning, when he challeng ed two Chinese men dressed
All persons living in Hong- kang, Kowloon and Tsun Won who hold Identity Cards bearing registration prescription, on the forms. numbers in the series On July 11; Insp Style add-in working clothes,
sent one ta 253,000 are "addiet" friends to the Colonial 243,001
In reply to his challenge now required to re-register Dispensary in Gloucester Build- the two men drew their with the Commissioner of ing to obtain 100 tablets of pistols and told Chiang to Registration for the issue Physeptone. After that her hand over his service gun.
peated the Torgery, and obtain- of
Identity now-type
ed 100 tablets from the same Chiang drew the weapon Cards.
dispensary.
and opened fire, but the two According to an order made
men beat him to it and the the by
Governor under the Registration of Persons Ordin-
policeman collapsed. Before stice. 1985 and published in
making their escape, the the Government Gazette today,
men took Chiang's pistol the families of these people
and made good their get also have to re-register at the
away before the Li Yuan · same time.
Road police appeared on the
PREVIOUS ORDERS
Was arrested 01
Treung Monday afternoon.
MORE FOUND Insp Style said three forged doctor's prescriptions were found on Tseung
This order does not supersede There was 4150 another the previous orders made for prescription bearing the name the re-registration of all holders of Dr K. C. Mak. It was found of old Identity Cards bearing that Tseung used to work for registration numbers In the Dr Mak but had left in June, series 1,001 to 243,000 together | 1850. with their familles. Such per- sona who have not yet TC registered should do so as soon as possible.
Also, this order does not apply to holders of Identity Cards bearing the suffix "" as the re-registration of persons with these Identity Cards will fake place at a later date.
ROBBED
were
A
women man and a robbed of two watches and cash A cocktali party was held to a total value of $116 by two Biler a long string of fre- men, one of them armed with a crackers was let off to mark the knife, in Bowen-road, Hongkong, ocension.
last night. The branch manager is Mr A man has been detained by Chiu Iu-man,
the police.
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THE CHAMPION
BEER
Mak
Insp Style stated that nine more prescriptions bearing the forged signature of Dr were recovered from a medicine store in Queen's-road West.
Tseung admitted the offences.
Mode
scene.
Air Commodore A.W. Ted- der, who is at present Director of Training at the Air Ministry, has been appointed Air Officer Commanding the Royal Air Force in the Far East. The appointment will date as from October,
Elite's
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SHOE SALE
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$5 to $10 Summer straw bags. & plastic bags 1/2 prico Now plastic beaded handbags lois 20% All Now Summer Dresses & Beach
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lern 20%
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