1961-12-02 — Page 12

For

two hours morning he is:

The happiest

man

in the world

THE textile titan, made a Justice of Peace recently, is a man of iron termination.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, - DECEMBER 2, 196L.

every

For two hours, he remains the happiest man in the world, forgetting about his $23 million spinning plant, $70 million annual turnover and all the worries that at- tend such a big enterprise....

Because he thinks "health is more important than wealth."

As a result of two years' rigid discipline, he has a slim figure, a rusy complexion and a sinewy, body bullt on a steely frame.

At 62, he looks a mere 371 And he

can

tumble like 2 youth of 24!

After a bath and breakfast, In a suit of Italian cut, he gets Into his golden Alyis sports ear (like the one driven by the Duke of Edinburgh), and speeds to his downtown office.

MORE DASHING quality

feur. your.

By 10

a. the

The vast Hongkong Spinners Ltd plant on Castle Peak-road. At left is the dormitory block for the workers. In the centre, the Football fields and gardens.

raw

and

is pari

and parcel of respectively of total Hongkong our responsibility. In fact, it is exports and 46% of Hongkong's our only way of survival."

total registered labour worked This, of course, is more dash- To achieve top standards ne in textiles, indicating how im- ing and less pompous than mill runs a statistical quality, portant the textile industry is riding in his air-conditioned, control department (research), to the Hongkong economy cocktail-barred Rolls-Royce continuously modernises its how much it contributes. driven by his unformed chauf, machinery, sends men abroad

"Yet incredible as it seems, for

selection of careful

techn- there is a shortage of labour in amiable, cotton, and despatches debonair tycoon installs him- clans Overseas to learn new this industry so much so that no less than 5,000 workers аге self in the Managing Direc- Lechiques.

to All the

gap. tor's office of Hongkong Sun-

mill was the first in still needed

advertisements in ners Ltd., in a skyscraper.

Hongkong to air-condition its Recruiting

on the screen Mr T. Y. Wong, the

entire plant, yogl-

"This not only the press and textileman.

Wis

born of 7 improves quality bat adds to have proved all in vain, lextile family 专题 Shanghai

workers' comfort," Mr Wong "The only remedy, in my where he attended St John's

Bald.

view, is to permit female workers on night shift. This is nothing new. In advanced countries like America women are allowed to do so.

the

de-

textil

Daily up at 7.30 a.m., he lies undis- turbed on the floor of his Peak Spanish villa, going through the paces of yoga.

Mr T. Y. Wong

The

University and later Nantung Employing 2,350 workers, the Textile College.

factory spends $750,000 annual- pence in a textile mill, he include After two years of practically on welfare services which free medical service, tuition weaving tac- free set up his own

English and for

in

1ory in China. Subsequently he Chinese, and free lodging became the General Manager 1,500 single men in two dormi- of the China Cotton Mills, Ltd. tories.

MPs and

"In fact, night work may not necessarily impair their health since they regularly work only seven out of the eight-hour shift with an hour's rest.

(50,000 spindles and 1,200 Many Brilish looms), one of his family on- American VIP' who visited terprises in Shanghai.

Hongkong with a view to find-

"Furthermore, this will create In 1947, the Wongs extended in collateral evidence on their

thousands of thra operations to Ilongkong charges of "sweatshop labour" jobs for

young could then spindes installed

help their hope women who

their families. support

Per- sonally, I feel that a

special ordinance is overdue permitting females to work at night so s to solve the problem once and for all."

with 7,600

with came away

in a mill named the Peninsula dashed. Spinners which Jater merged

Into Hongkong Spinners set up

in 1949.

"I shuttled between

NEW LEAF

Shang- The moment they entered hai and Hongkong fortnightly, Hongkong Spinners'

plant, the said Mr Wong. "We brought vistavision of the clean, sweep- ing, air-conditioned interior turned them 180 degrees around to approve of Hongkong's la-

down 200 skilled workers and technicians to traia local work- ers before the start."

CAPACITY

With foresight und

fortitude,

the mill was developed step by step over a period of two years, gradually gaining the condid-

ence of overseas buyers. "There then no local market tu Was speak about."

Hongkong Spinners which 30,000 began operation with spindles 1949, has now

bour condition.

WEST BERLIN

On restrictions?

I

*"The development 01 "Hongkong 1s hard hil be- Hongkong's industry in gen cause the restrictions came eral and textile industry in from USA and the UK-vur particular—from nil to 606,- biggest markcets. This city is 000 spindles and 20,000 teams like West Berlin today-with today in a little over a decade lots of refugees but no home turns a new leaf of Hte for market. The problem is getting the refugees," Mr Wong serious." said.

He went on to say, "We hope that the USA and the UK will make an

ΟΗΕ exception of case,"

In the

of restrictions prevalling, Mr Wong suggested steps for Government to

"With the total over $600 million, it ploys about 100,000 Many more depend on

investment now em- workers. textiles

two take:

51,000 spindles with a pro- for a living indirectly."

ductive

capacity for 28 mil-

Hon lbs of cotton yarn a year

on the basis

of 20 count,

valued at $70 million.

The mi won the conade..ce

of overseas

inarkets

FEMALE

LABOUR

through He said

"Statistics showed

one attraction of its products that textile exporis in 1859 and quality, which is the slogan of 1980 formed 53% and 54%

the factory.

Said Mr

must full

Wong, "That we

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When

your

man in

case

First, Government should ilmit Imports of textiles. "Pakistan and India, for in- stances, may sell their cotton yarn to Hongkong weavers and garment makers who ex-

Part 6 of

DAVID

LAN'S

TITANS

FROM

THE

NORTH

checked,

would eventually no paunch. My girth has re- ruin the existing industry, mained unchanged for years.. "For Hongkong's productivity

He smokes cigarettes, drinks has surpassed the market de- green tea but does not gamble.

mand."

PHILOSOPHY

Once in a while he sits down at 'n mahjong table "just to while away some time with friends."

Inclined to classical music, Mr Wong is a good amateur Chinese opera singer. "I went on Rediffusion for charity the other day."

He dances the cha cha, waltz,

Mr Wong who was twice elected chairman of the Hong- kong Cotton Spinners Associa- tion is concurrently member of the General Committee of the Hongkong General Chamber blues and Lango, "But I can't uf Commerce, the Feduration catch the rhythm. That's why of Hongkong Industries and the each time the musle strikes up. Hongkong Colton Advisory I always ask my partner what

rhythm it 9."

Board.

Busy as he is, Mr Wong 13 Mr Wong likes things beaut!- full of zest for living. He abides tul. He has six pairs of euft- by the simple philosophy of links, each mounted with dia- life "work while you work; monds, jade, rubies or sapphires play while you play which and a peari-tipped tle-pin. He makes him work hard and Hyr also has a small collection of oil the most paintings from France and Eng- even barder to get

land, out of life,

He likes o ponder at night And his home?

over weighty matters,

However,

From the peak, the light- two-storeyed he never stays up Breen-stuccoed,

has a structure with a big garden, an late. As the newspaper deadline for going to press su arched porch, a cement drive and has Mr Wong

out south over a a deadline for walk, looks going to bed which for him view of Aberdeen, Deep Water

Bay, is 12 midnight.

Lamma Island and the South China Sea beyond.

Upon the stroke of 12, he does not hesitate to "disappear" from a social gathering, however important.

WEALTH

YOGA DEVOTION the second floor tower where

Back on his favourite health subject-yoga, he said, "Its main function is to teach you tem- perance and relaxation. On the surface, it trains your body but internally, it tones up your vis ceras, or the vital organs. In

way, it rejuvenates,"

Better still. you can ascend

you can see both south and north, including Hongkong, Kow- loon and Victoria Harbour.

From his Berle, the textile ly- coon scans the land, the sea and the city whose economy his In- dustry has helped develop. "In the lofty lodge, he broods over the metropolfs, the people and what his wealth can do for them.

same de-

Results of his yoga devotion? "I'm now beginning to be able

Said he after to control myself,

"It is when particularly liberation, the body. (Which is the most wealth--not in the form of thing") Yoga brings cash but in the form of dimeult

part to America under quota,

the thus usurping

within my reach all human en- rightfal American share of

market joyments. for Hongkong cotton yarn."

"Now I can drink and recover fast though I take stronger than beer.

o growing Industry-con- tributos increasingly, as it

nothing develops, to the ever-better. Secondly, Government

living of humanity that it should control the unlimited expansion of Hongkong tex- "I can dance, non-stop it can be said to have served a

which, if un- necessary. And you see, I grow greater and better cause."

'file equipment

Paris Newsletter from Sam White

Rome

asks a favour...

PARIS.

DE GAULLE has re-

GENERAL

They promptly

did

are

Mirepoix, who is shortly to be Paris has corrected a widely de-Stalinized the Pails City come president of the Paris held misconception. There Council should rename the Jockey Club.

not 488 cheeses in HQ Place Staline..

square outside Communist Party France as is commonly sup- But this constituted recogni- tion of a foreign title and even posed, but only 290. so it was the first presidential intervention in such a manner since the 1870's when President MacMahon secured recognition

of a title and this tane also a foreign one.

Indignant

To do so in the case' of а

I. noticed Communist

French title and one which

Probably no harsher reflection on the mental processes of. generals has ever been passed then that which is reported in a recently published book here. This book, written in col Jaboration by the political and military correspondents of Le

that the French Monde, deals with last April's

Margaret's baby.

newspaper

putsch.

on L'Humanite has been voicing in abortive putsch in Algiers. so and this occasion would derive from dignation at the amount of space. It reveals an interesting plece the female and not the male the French Press has been do- of far-sighted planning by the despatched him to Rome, where line would create an interesting voting to the birth of Princess four generals who organised the he has been ever since 1957. It little uproar. is doubtful, however, whether

Their problem was what they de Gaulle can meet his friend's ceived a remarkable

The whole matter of titles in present request. It would add Republican

A more appropriate subject of would do with de Gaulle when France produces Indignation might be the tall they succeeded in overthrowing request from his Am- an unwanted touch of Royalism confusion. In fact

to a regime which is

the only ness of the space L'Humanite him already titles legally recognised with and its bassador in Rome, M. lending itself to satire for its the holder entitled to have

ugly duckling sister, it, Liberation, have been devoting There were various suggestions. allegedly monarchical man- Gaston Palewski: De,nerisms.

on his passport are those of a to the attacks on Stalin at the such as he should be tried by fistful of dukes numbering now recent Moscow Communist the High Court for reason, Gaulle would do a

only 33. All the other princes, Party Congress, What the request amounts to counts, marquises and barons great deal for M. is that de Gaulle should use his

with the exception, incidentally, of the French Pretender, the Palewski, an early influence to secure the transfer

of the succulent title of the Due Count of Paris, and his family, of special embarrassment as its Finally it was decided that a

exiled or simply allowed to finish his days in his country home,

For Liberation this is a matter hon

winnat

in London, and has in sons of the present Comtesse de The dural titles received fact done so in the by birth and a friend of M. the Republic as all set of Stalinisation is a painful one for palank past.

Pourtales, herself a Talleyrand recognition in the early days of Polewaith.

friend of his from the de Talleyrand-Perigord on the have no legal recognition of boss, Emmanuel D'Astier de la formal court martial should be Vigerie, is a Stalin peace prize followed by an equally formal old Free French-days bachelor holder to one of the

death of its present aged and their titles.

ceremony at which de Gaulle" would be stripped of his rank Altogether, the problem of de- and his decorations.

Party It was decided that the the French Communist which has been in the grip of ceremony should take piste at men hand-picked by Stall for the Invalides and that de - Gdulle's rank badges haj decora» tions should be ripped of, by in. Moslem NCO...

If this is not done, the title It was de Gaulle, for will become extinct with the example, then living in death of the present Duke. But

can it be done? retirement who hearing of his old friend's jobless

plight he had just lost An uproar?

his seat in Parliament. asked the then French Government to find him un Embassy,

courtesy,"

The Comtesse de Pourtales, 30 years. incidentally, will inherit some- thing like £7,000,000 on tho death of her grandmother, the Duchesse de Talleyrand, for=" merly Anne Gould, the daughter of the great American alway tyopon, Jay Gould, juurde

The plan THE CHANGING SOCIAL

SCENE: I have c Invitation to a party What to do, for example, with the French playwrigh

ail the streets named "after"

INCIDENTAL INTELLI- Stalin, by Commumletpalities? Achard whe

De Gaulle recently intervened GENCE: A cheese conference

to secure the legal recognition

A wit here surzeste that when

of the fille of Duc de Revise of present being held in these streets become fatally