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KOWLOON DAILY SUPPLEMENT

Hongkong Daily Press.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1933.

Rotuloon Supplement FUTURE OF KOWLOON

HONG KONG, Manon 4, 1933.

KOWLOON'S POST OFFICE

II. FINE ROADS AND GROWING

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INDUSTRIES

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Kowtoon is getting more and more discontented with its Post Office. So beautifully laid out and so, houses and contingent, buildings Perhaps not without reason. The perfectly surfaced are the principal where refreshments are served to present "rabbit hutch," local resi-throughfares of Kowloon, that the picnickers to Castle Peak Bay.

road systein of the Peninsula has

Industrial Development. dents atfirm, is quite unsuited to the been hold as a model for admira

Subtantial and costly buildinge necks of this large and growing tion by all visitors from near and

far to the Colony. These perfect bear evidence of the faith among neighbourhood. Kowloon is As roads are not constructed within industrialists of the possibilities of town-conscious as its sister across city limits only. They penetrato the New Territories as an indus

The wealthy Texas the water.

It has civic pride and far beyond and into the remotest trial centre. civic ideals, and it feels that it de villages of the New Territories, ex- Oil Co., following the lead of the the farthest point of earlier pioneers of the suppliers of tending to serves a bettor building than the one British territory to the Sumchun bulk oil in Hong Kong, have erected the Government has seen fit to give frontier. These roads provide the their magnificent installation at easiest and the feat means of Tsun Wan... Thoy built a road con- it. Perhaps if some of the "big communication, which is a most necting Castle Peak Road with the noises of the Civil Service were valuable asset in any progressive roil depot. A few miles beyond a com-new industry is making steady head- to descend from their heights and commercial and industrial live in Kowloon, they, too, would munity. But for the fact that roads way in the production of coal bri- wore built with the idea of carry-quettes for steam and household begin to demand a nobler institu-ing heavy traffic, suburban districts purposes. The Puro Cane Molasses. tion for the receipt and despatch of His Majesty's maila and the sale of stamps and postal orders.

Some time ago we were promised a new Post Office. Like all Govern- inent promises, it was shrouded in mysterious verbiage. We still have our miserable rabbit hutch,” how aver, and it looks as we shall "have to put up with it for years to conie. Ferhaps the root of the trouble in that the Government still regards Kowloon as a rather strag gling village; and the K. R.A. as sort of unofficial parish council. Surely the time is ripe to stage some form of demonstration; in which the leading members of the K. A. will parade the streets with brave ban- ners fluttering in the breeze") inscribed with the words "Down with the Post Office,”

Of course, it should be demolish-

ed. If it were it would give Salis-

in the New Territories might never have been opened up for residential purposes to the extent that they are to-day..

Co. of London have their tanks for storage of molasses in bulk on the reclaimed shores of Sham Tseng Bay. Nearby, the Brewers & Dia- tillers Co. of Hong Kong, & new Country Houses.

concern, have now completed their brewery which bids fair to become Starting with Shatin, then on to a thriving now' industry in Hong Taipo, Fanling, and Sheung Shui Kong Nearer Old Kowloon the seekers of serenity and tranquility extensive reclamation of the Stan- from business distractions have derd Oil Co. of New York in Lai- built quite a network of the most chikok Bay sees within its boun- beautiful country residences, to boderies enormous-sized tanks for the seen in the drive round the circular storage of millions of gallons of road of the New Territories for a oil. At the foot of the hill at Lai- of nearly sixty miles. | chikok foundations for the new distance There are palatial residences of Women's Prison have been com- Chinese magnates at Fealing, pleted and the erection of the build- Sheung Shui and Kam Tin, and ing is proceeding apace. The re well and prettily built bungalows clamation of Cheung Sha Wan Bay with gardens in the districts beyond, is getting on with a rapidity that to Cantle Peak, where the bathing is commendable. beaches are now provided with rest

(To be continued.)

RICKSHAS IN KOWLOON

bury Head at least another twenty Reduction Opposed By more rickshas could with advantage

feet, which is what the authorities

want. This would satisfy the Police,

the Railway authorities, who regard

their property on the opposite side with jealous eyes, and the K. R. A. Possibly the Railway would be only too delighted to pay for a new post

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1.G.P.'S REPLY

The assertion that the number of rickshas at present in service in Kowloon is barely enough to meet If ever the dream comes true, and the requirements of the residents, Kowloon is given a new Post Office, made in a letter addressed by Mr. perhaps it would be wiser to build. E. Terry, Hon. Secretary of the Kowloon Residents' Association to it in a more convenient spot. The the Hon. L.G.P., is quoted in the present building is just where no appendix of the Association's an- body wants it. The buses pass it nual report for 1039. coming and going, but they never stop there. If anyone wants to post

be placed in service in some of the outlying districts at present only -served by the main bus routes. We submit that any decrease in the number of these veliicles would re-, sult in considerable inconvenience to residents, particularly in hot or rainy weather, and we would there- fore urge that no such reduction be instituted until such time as it can be shown to be justified by lack of patronage.

To this letter Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe replied that, having regard to the fact that the new Vehicular Ferry would be opened early in the New Year, he had decided to spread the reduction of the number of ricksha The letter states: "The fact that playing for hire in Kowloon over all rickshas new licensed have been a period of two years. Hence the on hire during the past year and number would be reduced by 60 as

a letter he has to walk or take a ricksha; this is inconvenient. A that the hirs has been regularly better plan would be to erect a Post paid supports this, opinion, and from January 1st, 1933, and by a Office in the Nathan Road,

the Ommittee consider that even further 50 as from January 1 1934.

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