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'70,000 DO NOT GET ENOUGH TO EAT AT HOME' Kowloon Dairy From the Filas Plan to feed 10,000 Kowloon admits

New Hongkong labour

bill welcomed

"The new labour bill introduced in the Legislative Coun- cil granting shorter hours of work for women and young workers, paid sick leave and six paid holidays ond is in a year is a step in the right direction

consonance with the social justice programme and policy of the International Labour Organisation“.

This was stated today by Mr Jose

J Hernandez,

Secretary of the

Brussels Tuesday {XORTA

and he attended the General Geneva where Philippine ICFTU Executive Board meet-

Trade Unions Council, Member ing and the ILO Coverning

of the ILO Governing Body and

the ICFTU Exerutive Board.

Mr Hernandez was for six

Body

years chairman of the Aslan Reade union seminar on workers

glonal Organisation of the Inter- national Confederation of Free

Trade Unions and at present its vice-chairman.

He arrived in Hongkong last

Accident

victims 'critical

condition'

He is at present conducting a

cducation

behalf on

of the ICPTU Asian Trade Union Col- leges for

members of affiliated

organisations of the

and Kowloon

Hongkong

Trades Union Coumeli, which is an affiliate of the ICFTU

Greater efficiency Commenting on the Chinese Manufacturers Association ob- provision which

jection to the

I will reduce the working hours

of women

and young from 10 to 8 hours Henendez

& DO

policy

persons Mr

a day, said that the idea

In

the reducing working hours was not to lessen but to give them for rest "so that

their wages ample time

their efficiency would be

The driver of a motor-cycle Ereater |

and a pillion rider serious-

road

"This does not mean that the women and young persons would

ly injured in the Toipo-receive less wages than they traffic accident used to, because the hourly yesterday were reported in rate would be increased to such "a critical condition" at Kowloon Hospital this morning. They are driver, and pillion rider.

Both men fractured skulls serious concussion.

Mr Lai Kwok-kee. Mr 16 Shi-shing

Both are 29

suffered from and legs, and

Shortly before 3 pm yester- day. the motor-cycle travelling from Kowloon Taipo along the Taipo-road

OVERTAKING

on extent that they would be able to earn as much in nine hours 05 they previously carned in ten. Mr Hernandez said,

The

shorter granting hours

work, six days holiday with pay and sick leave

Eddie Gong and his wife Sophie

BIG U.S. LEGAL JOB FOR EX-HK NEWSPAPERMAN

By OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

Miami, Dec. 3. A former Hongkong newspaperman, Edmund "Eddie" J. Gong, was recently appointed Assistant Dis- trict Attorney of Miomi on the recommendation of the U.S. Attorney-General, Mr Robert Kennedy, Mr Gong, who was born and raised in Florido, come to Hongkong in 1956 and worked as a journalist in the Colony for several years before returning to Miami. While in the Colony he married Miss Sophie Vlachos, a Hongkong girl. They now have three chidren.

New attempt to refloat grounded ship

with Preparations are in full swing to refloat the Panamanian

hall pay is long overdue and

should have been given to the freighter » Dennis which ran aground in the

workers in Hongkong a long time ago," Mr Hernandez said.

He said that with the passage

Tathang Chanael near Lyemun Pass on November 17.

wcre

Mr James Lec, Managing was of the bill into law, the Director of Australia Pacife Ship

10 efficiency

and energy of the ping Co (HK) Ltd, agents for workers would increase.

that they They the ship, said would became "good and repairing the damage, closing efficient workers" which would the bilge in the cargo hold and result in increased production, lightening the ship by removing anchor chains, fuel oil and Buying capacity water.

On reaching 10%-mile-Stone near Chung Chi College, eye- witnesses told police that the motor cycle tried to overtake a line of trac and collided with an oncoming private car

which was going from Taipo to. Shatin

The impact of the head-on collision completely shattered the windscreen of the private car and damaged both vehicles extensively.

"More money for the workers Though the ship has double will surely mean more circula-bottom. Mr Lee said "Both bat- tion and consequently will in- toms are broken. We are now crease their buying capacity and repairing the tank top that lies naturally this 15 good for between the bottoms." business as well as the manu- facturers," he said.

Manufacturers and business- men in Hongkong have had

of

rocks, she will go to Junk Bay for temporary repair to the damaged bottoms.

Finally she will be towed to one of the Colony's docks for an overhaul, Mr Lee added.

Car park to be closed

school children

A scheme to feed 10,000 under-nourished Kowloon school children from a central kitchen was announced today.

milk offence

Ordinance.

25

years

AGO

December 1936

A conviction was this morn- ing arttered to be recorded against the Kowloon Dalry Ltd, Henry House, Central District, on a quanmous of delivering. milk exceeding the tempera- ture of 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Kobe, The company had pleaded The more explosive aspects guilty through counsel before of the New Year celebrations Mr. T. Williams at Central have been ordered eliminated Magistracy

in Kobe as the Hyogo Prefec- Mr Williams, however, dis fural Peace Preservation Sec- charged the summons under section 36 of the magistrate's tion decided to heed the com- plaints of many pedestrians, Mr Leo D'Almada and Mr especially women, who dislike Charles

instructed Ching,

by the habit children have of F. C. Woo and Co represented hurling fire-crackers at them the Kowloon Dalry,

as they pass.

Notices strictly prohibiting biggest the use of fire crackers were distributed to all the police stations in the city.

The Chinese population in about the city, numbering 6,000, were exempted from the prohibition in aelebration of their own New Year. The exception was made in de- The lorries had to make about ference to Chinese traditions that "we are now feeding about 50 steps before delivering the following overtures by the

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The announcement was made that Hongkong's poorest child- in the December edition of the ren practically never got St John's Review.

normal sil-down meal. "How can they in bed-space homes?" he asked.

Writing in it. the Rt Rev. R. Q Hall, Anglican Bishop, sald that a family of five persons living on

"Even the simplest basic

in the resettlement food needed $200 a month for estates there is hardly room for food alone without counting a family of five to sit round a rent, clothes, travel or any small table even if they have a table luxury such as cigarettes, big enough." biscuits or a cinema ticke:-"so children cannot about 70,000 gel enough to eat at home".

Vital years

11

"This is a semi-official figure and is a minimum figure, Includes children between five and 14 years old--the vital years of school life," the Bishop said.

"Sample surveys show that,

The

revealed

Bishop then

1,300 children in various im- provised ways for the 200 school days of the year at a cost of 50 cents a meal.

"The child pays towards this 10 cents and the meal consists of rice, with meat or vegetables, sometimes fresh milk or fruit and always a vitamla pili.

for example, the average weight Hongkong scheme

of boys between 11 and 13 in a school for the children of Trades less Union members is 20 lbs

than the average weight of boys

"Meanwhile on the Kowloon side plans are on foot for feeding 10,000 children, in the first in-

of the same age in an Anglo- Chinese secondary school.

"Experiments in

in regular feed-in ing over two years at St James Settlement (a welfare centre in Wanchai) have shown a mark- ed improvement in the general health of the children,

The Bishop went on to say that investigation had shown

stance from a Central Kitchen.

"The meals will be delivered special insulated containers to schools and other centres.

"Hongkong Rotary Club have most generously promised to provide the van and its special containers. It is hoped a year later to open a second kitchen on Hongkong island."

Mr D'Almada said that the

was the second dairy milk supplier in Hongkong."

The company delivered 12,000 to 15,000 half pint bottles of milk daily, and the milk had to travel at least five miles to the nearest ferry.

Hot months

the

local Chinese Consulate. How- in ever, they may be used only and in Nankin-machi (Chinatown.)

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milk in question.

said that Mr D'Almada

was offence

committed August, and that opening shutting of the lorry doors in the hot summer months hud let in a lot of hot air which raised the temperature.

able to do so.

HAT Chinese in America

Tare feeling the effects

He added that when the new of the shipping strike along regulations were introduced, the with American shippers and company had tried to get re- frigerated lorries but was un-the businessmen, is revealed in news received from the Mr D'Almado said that the Pacific Coast. company had made every effort Mr Chin Fong, secretary to comply with the regulations. of the Chinese Chamber of

This offence was a lapse, he said,

company had been Commerce in San Francisco, operating for about 60 years, he has declared that 13,000 said.

Chinese in that city are now In passing the sentence, Mr virtually without rice from their homeland as a result of the trouble.

The

Williams said that the court had considered the excellent record of the company, and that the company was convicted of the offence on a plea of guilty.

Took cars without consent

JOY-RIDE SOLDIERS SENTENCED TO JAIL

Three of the four British soldiers who appeared on Saturday before Mr

J. E. Dargan at North Kowloon Magistracy on driving charges, were sentenced to imprisonment this morning.

on the

It is feared that if the seamen's strike is in effect much longer, the Chinese New Year celebrations in America will have to be carried out without the lavish paraphernalia that is annually imported from home."

Miss Grace Brown, a lower of Detroit, Michigan, passed through Hongkong en route for Manila.

She de making a trip around the world by air and covered

the distance by plane except the gap between the China Coast and the Philippines on which she travelled by the Em- press of Asia, j

One of the defendants Pre day his car was missing, and he is not a matter within the pro- The cat park it the formed. John Rigby, of No. 6 Coy RAOC reported the matter to the vince of this court but I ex- Miss Brown left Manila by Royal Naval dockyard, between who was charged with driving police.

pect you will have your wishes the Philippine Clipper for - HIGH TIDE

the western end of the 18th ex-

Later without owner's consent, driving

same day, a fullled and you will be ulti-Alemeda, California. She plans Mr Lee, who is also President bibition of Hongkong products while being disqualified and patrol car found the car parked mately discharged from the army to travel by plane across the

and the petrol service Kimberley Shipping Corp, site

risk, was outside the Dairy Farm in Tin with ignominy."

continent to her home in said that the

remanded six days on Saturday, Dennis I is ex-station, will be closed from mid-without third party pected to be refloated in about night tonight to 5

Kau, New Territories, with the pm tomorrow.

Pte Rigby was also charged three defendants inside. Spots- He said his concern was for Detroit. four or five days' time when Guests invited to the opening with aiding and abetting Pte wood admitted the tide is high.

ceremony of the Hongkong Pro-Daniel Spotswood driving car, The shipping agents have en-ducts Exhibition at 4 pm tomor without the owner's consent, and would gaged Universal Engineers Sal- row are advised by the Com- driving without licence and not diminish in any way pro- vaging Co, Ltd, in Hongkong to missioner of Police to alight at without third party risk.

their business," Mr do the refloating job.

the western end of the car park Hernandez concluded.

When the ship is free of the near the petrol' service station,

Five people were injured in-high pronts during the past cluding an 11-year-old boy, Wan year and what they would be Howwah, and his parents, who granting to their workers under were travelling in the private the new labour bill is

drop in the bucket

car.

The later three were treated and discharged from the bos- fits pital yesterday.

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"If you had in the course also travelled extensively by of your activities injured. any plans over China and Japan, The soldiers sentenced this In passing sentence this morn-person or property not one

Miss Brown is the second morning ave Pte Spotswood, Pte ing, Mr Dargan said that it was cent could be obtained from Brian Gibbons and Pie Stephen clear that the defendants took sou by way of compensation, 1 woman to travel around the Smith of No. 6 Coy RAOC Kow- this course of unlawful conduct must therefore impose sentences world chiefly by commercial 1000

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that would be likely to cause plane. The first woman world- Spotswood was charged with "You are all absent without persons similarly situated and girdler was Miss Dorothy driving a private car XX 4020 leave, and presumably you have inclined as yourselves to think Kilgallen, one of the parti without the consent of the acted in this manner to ensure twice before embarking on such cipants of the recent journal. owner, without a licence and dismissal from the army. That irresponsible behaviour." without third party risk.

Aiding, abetting

He was also charged with. ziding and abetting Ptc John Rigby in this offence. He was sentenced to a total of eight months.

Pte Gibbons, charged with alding and abetting Rigby and Spotswood, was sentenced to eight months.

Pte Smith who had a clear record, was charged with the same offences as Gibbons and Was sentenced to six months.

At the previous hearing the court was told that at 4 pm on November 28, the owner οι private car HK1562 Lee Kun- ming, left his car unlocked in Austin-road. At 1 am the fol lowing day, he reported to the police that his car was missing. Missing

At 10:30 am on November 30, "the" court- was told that Rigby way found inside another car parked in Haiphong-road. When taken to the police station he admitted he took the car HK1502 and 4ogether With three others,

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had

As for Spotswood, it was stated that the owner of car XX

4035 parked, the vehicle unlock-

ed outalde his house in

Boundary street.

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