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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1961.

Jack and the Beanstalk

SHAKY START, BUT THE CHILDREN ENJOYED IT

HE Garrison Players pantomime "Jack and

the

Hawker Force

told to act with courtesy

talk!

An Urban Councillor members of the Hawker Con- trol Force

passing out

at

Beanstalk, rot off to a shaky start just night at the one this morning, that they Missions to Seamen theatre---but there are a lot of "must act with unfailing cour laughs and plenty of good fun for the children.

WHAT WE

PLAN FOR

TOMORROW

Tomorrow the China Mail's Christmas issue goes to

press.

Don't forget to take hom

copy of this issue which on- Tains these major features:

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A special guide to Christmas shopping in Hongkong. How Your Hongkong people spent Christmas day twenty years 280-the day the t'olony surrendered The first of a Dew three- Dart comedy thriller ""The night the monster landed" These are only a few of the mans features which wt!! published in tomorrow's

Mad

Chits

Cemal interest and topica! ariteles on people. places Bril affairs ensure

weekend

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of enjoyable reading

And -- it you're planning a Valley LUMOTION aftematon any pinter will til you, you can't be without The Saturday China Mail tips.

Make sure of getting your Christmas issue of the China Mail tomorrow.

News from the Gazette

Sir Michael Turner, Mr H. C. Lee, MW C G. Knowles, MY K Kat Mr Shum Wal-yau have been appointed members of the Siz Robert Black Trust Fund Com

milter

The Director of Audit has also been appointed to be auditor en offler

The vesting day of the new Funut 1 December 10, 1981

cieties

be

A number

of criticisma can

member of the tesy to every public, including hawkers.

Addressing the parade at the Aberdeen, training school, Mr Hilton Cheong-tech their "OV LI→ told them that riding duty was to the general public."

"Hawkers ill-concealed alt

made. The stage was tuo, Brick Hill, small by far. The beanstalk ronsequently was inclined to be onebtrusive. Indeed I did not notierit antil Jack began hi <limb (up

Lacking"}

mes

Players al various seemed a 1tlle just. The chorus

on the

market road to sadly lacking in voice.

Over

comprise but one

section of the community," he said.

He then went on to tell them "You will have to guide your- and per-

was selves by experience, There hops

even by invoking the

was an unexplained obstacle traditional Chinese principle of left on the stage in one scene "Jan" or "human-heartedness,

among which one

in enforcing the law of the back-moving

not fell hawkers, most of whom do dancers, of course, almost

even carn enough keep them- The jokes were often Jate fla! and certainly well selves and their families al

mininum subsistance level. bove the children's heads.

Mr Cheong-leen was met or The play, in short, seemed in

by Mr B. D. Wilson, net of a few more rehearsals oriyal

Director of Urban Assistant Ved are critica) direction in

Scrvices and Mr C L. Scobell, the early stages

Hawker Con!TU) Commandani,

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i can Having sid all this, imagine that more than half the night's audience who saw last

how the younger haif and possibly a good many of the der half will heartly dis- agree with agree

me ท

were many laughs, paticularly when the cast came inting off the stage and chasing

the hall. round the

there

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The parade comprised mern-

the

Recruit Fifth bers Course.

the passing Best recruit of

was Constable Liu out squad Kei-chan, who received a sliver whistle.

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Baid-headed Mario Ferris as kung, Kowloo. Est und Nurman Roper ፣15 Chips got a gourd many well-ing deserved laughs while Odorouss played by Patricia Haynes, ked

hard in her wer- indigiant role.

played by Chris Barber, scerned to have an almost in- cidental rule. # was a night for the clowns and for their own part they were a clowning ROCCESS.

The giant was a wee bit tuo Ogrish and might give sorrie sigall boys and girls a scare.

member in Tientsin in 1934 seeing the same "parto" at the Church hall. But all we saw of the giant on stage was one

1 remember going huge bout. cut after wards and looking up at the roof for the rest of him

One compliment I feel I must puy goes to David Hall and Pe or Ryan who provided the tour legs for Claribelle the

cow

Their cha cha wax de-

The L'ommissioner of Pollec Bus [።

appointed Registrar ut So.

fightful, Commitasioner The sets were on the whole Assistunt Headquarters. the Staf Office:

excellent Licensing and General, the Director Do Assistant Directors of Criminal Hongkong Poltre Investigation, Force, have been appointed Assistent Registrars of Societies.

Acting sub-Lient (8D) (0) B. P Knott, of the Hongkong Royal Naval Heserve. has been promoted to the runk of Sub-Lieutenant (SDC)

Baron A. N. Van Aversen Beyeren has been recognised. Van Voshol

for the provisionally us Consul Netherlands at Hongkong.

Mr Gerald de asto has been ap pointed a Member of the Legal Ald Committee

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The names of Mr Chan Pak-keung and Mr Franklin Wong Kai-cheong have been added To the list 01 authorised architects

has been The Director of Audit appointed auditor of the Subsidised Schools Provident Fund.

The Indo-Asiatic Corporation TAK) Lid and the international Toy ; Manufacturing Co. Ltd have been struck off the register and the coni- panies dissolved.

Christmas Selection

of

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fashion appeal has

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16th & 23rd DEC.

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POP by God'

PARDON ME, BUT I THINK I LIVE IN THISH STREET.

COULD YOU TELL ME

WHICH HOUSE?

The Garrison Players deserved first greater suCCEES on their Tight. They had obviously put a lot of work and time into it. Tonight's and the succeeding performances will undoubtedly

1 more smoothly.

The children will enjoy them- selves and I recommend this as a good Christmas treat for them. -RH

Drain work

Sewers and stormwater drains, ranging from six inches to 27 inches in diameter, are to be laid near the Cosmopolitan Dock in the Taikokisul area of Kowloon.

The work, which is expected to start next month, will take

i out nive months to complete.

in Hong people living

and Tsun Wan who hoid Identity cards number- 340.001 to 350,000 should with the Commis- re-register sioner ut Registration for the issue of new-type identity cards. The (amilies of these people also

to re-register at the same i nt, said today's Gazette.

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Marble-road fire

A fire swept the entire first floor of No 9 Marble-road, North Point, shurtly after 11 o'clock this morning.

B paint The blaze broke out at 11,05 m right above store that contained large quantities of inflammable material. Firemen sent to the site in eight appliances, contained the blaze within the first floor, and brought it under control at 11.30 am.

By 11.35 am, the fire was entirely put out, leaving the paint store intact.

No casualty was reported.

The bullding is a four-storey concrete structure.

Letters from you to the editor

India and Goa

dear sir

been

To the extent that Dr Salazar

has been of Portugal

von- atrained to seek negotiations with India over the future of Goa, the show of military force

India has by worthwhile. Perhaps you and your readers are unaware that hitherto Portugal's dictator had turned bia

face against all negotia- Lo

under the fantastic

that

also fiction

Goa-as Macao and Timor, not to speak of Angola are "provinces of Portugal."

refusal

ta

It was in fact the

negotiate on the part of Ports- gai that compelled India to

diplomatie sever

relations with Lisbon. Ai present, the Interests of India are being looked after by the United Arab Republic, while those of Portugal are being cared for by Brazil. Some of your readers have advanced arguments for the retention

of Portuguese colonialism in Goa.

One of them is that Christianity came to Goa some 400 years ago. But then Christianity came to India far, far earlier. There have been Christians in India since the first or second cen-

Carlsberg

THE DANISH BEER

THAT

KEEPS YOU SMILING

SAIT

Kun Tong land to be sold

Two

Kun

From the Filos

25

years AGO.

December 1936

THE disosier on Saturday

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the Tast train from Kowloon

to Canton when three coaches were burnt out, is more serious

at first realised. A than was least twenty charred remains of bodies have been recovered from the wreckage, one or two have succumbed to injuries caused by jumping from the train, and some 35 persons are in hospital in Canton,

many of them critically il

It is thought that the fire was caused by some celluloid object. probably a child's toy, catching alight. The terrific draught of the express at a inned the fames, pakte broke out, and Diree couches were destroyed before the letra was given and the train stopped.

It is relieved that few if any Hongkong residents were in-

volved.

A full inquiry into the

rugedy is to be held.

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Macao.

The Macao Municipal Senate has decided to build a fine new

days.

This

| edifice 考える house the Масла Municipal Primary School, and work on the new building is to begin within a few

atructure wil occupy a plendid site, in the heart of Alucao.

Στι the

da Vasco Gama Gardens, close to the re-

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rently constructed Macao swtron ming pool.

ONE of

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lots of Jand In tury A.D.

The Christians of Teng, for Industrial or godown Kerala today are their de.

purposes, wi scendants

public awion It is said that Goa is culturally hands and Survey Office in tic Harlech-road rifle range of the

the

of rest different from India. So is Bengal, so is the Punjab, so in Tamilnad, so is 15 Maharashtra. Kerals, 60 There is no such thing as an all-India culture.

eul-

1

India consiste of various

tures, and that of Goa is one of them. 1 would seriously object to any suggestion that my culture is not Indian. for: my culture is that of Goa. speak Konkani, my family diety and holiest of holy tem- Shanta ples, that of Goddess Durga, is in Goa. 1 am pre- vented from going there be

Dictator Salazar bas cause conjured up

the fiction that Gos is Portugal!

cau

are

entire

It is not only my culture that is

Right skin to that of Goa. here In Hongkong is the In- dian Commissioner, Mr F.M. a Roman de Mello Kamath, Catholle himself, whose cul. ture is that of Goa, But he is an Indian. There are in fact six million Catholics in India

far more than there people in Goa, whose population is just half a mil- Hon When Nehru said that he would preserve the distinct per-

of Goa sonality and culture after it became part of India, he precisely meant that it would become

distinct political entity within India. There are such entities wilbin India even now. To wit, the Chief Commissioner's provin-

of Coorg,

the erstwhile French possessions of Fondi- oberry, Karikal and Mahe, and the North-East Frontier Agency. All these are separate

entitles. oulture "Bombay Dack” — which de- serves to be roasted says that if the people of Goa want Independence, they must quit Goa. Those who ought to quit | Gos are the Portuguese, for they are the allens there, no matter what arguments they may advance to whitewash their colonialist atrocities there.

te

Pablo memory is notoriously short, but those who.condemn

be sold at a Crown in the

Central Government

January 18.

two Chinese widows charged with stebling two

frames steet target Offices Hongkong

from the

Volunteer Defence Corps, was convicted by Mr J.A. 10,000 Fraser at the Central Magistracy

The lots measure square feet each and the upset yesterday. when she was sen- price is $300,000.

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