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THE GROWTH OF WANCHAI

COLONY'S BIGGEST CHINESE RESIDENTIAL AREA

RAPID CHANGES IN PAST FEW YEARS

(Special to the "Dally Press.")

If there is one district in the Colony that has grown beyond re- cognition during the past three years it is the Eastern district, which ambodies Wanchai and Happy Valley.

hotel is in process of construction while tum up-to-date motor service stations stand at the junction of Johnstone and Hennessey Roads

As for the shops, there are now so many of them in Wanchai that it looks very much as if this area is going to be the shopping area for the Chinese, very soon. A few

Unless one has recently made a tour of the place to study the changes, one can hardly realise what a big city, by itself, Wanchaiyears ago many things were unob tainable in Wanchai. For instance, has become and what tremendous anyone wanting a roll of films would areas for residential purposes have have to come into the city for it been developed at Happy Valley, There were one or two photograph Wanchai If we were to put the clock back ors' establishments in

find then, but none modern enough to ton years what do Morrison Hill was then covered deal in roll films. Now things are with trees and shrubs and the first very different and there are at least stages of the Reclamation that was half a dozen places, where, not only to change the whole aspect of Wan-1 can films be purchased but negativos chai were beginning. A year later, can be developed and printed in a the hillside had been ahora of its few hours, foliage and the work of carving it down had begun A little steam railway puffed proudly along Mor- rison Hill Road to Bowrington Canal (now a huge nullah) towards the waterfront, carrying behind it anything from ten to twenty truck loads of earth.

Gradually but steadily the work of filling up the bay at Wan- thai progressed. At first the ro. clamation was a waste of uneven earth, covered with creeds,, kad no one who saw it then could have visualised the populous district it was to become.

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Thousands of Flats.

Dispensary Wanted,

For a long time, one of the things that people in that district could no: obtain without coming up to the city, was medicine. To-day there are many drug stores all over the place and any enterprising person starting a dispensary in that district is sure to do well. Many doctors live in Wanchai and Happy Valley and there seems to be no reason why a dispensary close at hand should not pay

It is however, the night life in Wanchai that has undergone the most change. As in all Chinese districts in the Colony shopkeepers A lost the huge work was 'com-keep open house until 11 or 12 mid pleted and houses began to spring night and the whole pince is bright- up, at first slowly, but later, very ly illuminated not only by electric rapidly. The new houses with flush lights but also by numerous Neon- system installed in most of them, lite signs.. In spite of the many proved very popular with the Chi- new houses the area is becoming bese and while at first rent was rapidly congested and many people cheap on the Reclamation, the posi- take to the sary and wide roads in tion was reversed in a thort while the evening and early in the night and houses on the Reclamation com- to enjoy the fresh air that is prob-

ably denied them at home. manded better rent than houses 10 other area in Wanchai.

VOID DEED OF SETTLEMENT

SPECIAL CASE IN COURT

Before Mr. Justice Wood at Supreme Court yesterday, a special case to consider points of low in regard to delivery and cancellation ́of a deed of settlement was heard.

The plaintiff was Hormusjee Rut tonjes, of 3 Haiphong, Road, Kowloon, who was represented by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, and the de- fendants were Jahangir Hormusjce Ruttonjee, a wina merchant, and Baños Jehangir Hormusjee Rut- tonjee, a married woman, both of Hong Kong, Dhun Jahangir Hor muajee Ruttonjes, Shanghai, and Dinshaw Sorabjee Paowalia, ́of Hong Kong.

In the absence of defendants the case proceeded ex parte,

Mr. Sheldon mentioned that a settlement in the original case had been reached in Chambers and there now remained two questions for decision. The first was whether the indenture of settlement made on June 21, 1930, batween the plain tiff of the one part and the defen- dants of the other part was void and of no effect, and the second if the said indenture be not void whether there was upon the term of the said indenture any obliga tion on the plaintiff to assign the properties referred to in the In denture to the defendants for the purpose therein mentioned.

After reference to numerous au- thorities, Mr. Sheldon submitted that the indenture of settlement was void and of no effect his Lord-

ship, accepted. Mr. Sheldon's con- tention.

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Detective-Sergeant Fitches said

the that the complainant had just come out of Sincere's, when defendant snatched the bag from bend The complainant and her amah gave chase, and the defen- dant was arrested by a Chinese constable. All the property

The complainant had recovered. recently been married, and carrying all her jewellery in the bag.

CHINESE YOUTH IN TROUBLE

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Most of the Japanese shops in this district have been moved to The defendant admitted a pre- Several thousand flats on the Re-

new houses on the Reclamation and vious conviction, for which he had danation to-day are all occupied at one spot à row of Japanese re-boen sentenced to fourteen days im- and there are hundreds of new staurants and shops are to be seen.

prisonment. shops in the area. One may well At one of these places the following ask where did the people come from interesting sign, may be seen in i to fill up these new houses? The conspicuous place over the entrance: trath of the matter is that living | "This is a 'respectable Japanese conditions in Wanchai are so much restaurant, kindly treat it as better for the Chinese than in the such" The closing of the "red Central or West Point districts that light area in Wanchai has ren- many familice have moved from dered that particular aresį „vory these places to Wanchai. The area much less noisy than it used to be, used to be a dismal and dreary one, but it is to be feared that street with shabby houses, but now the soliciting is on the increase, new districts dwarf the congested area between the old Prays and the lower slopes on the billside south of Queen's Road East.

At one time Queen's Road East, through which the Hong Kong Hotel Bus runs was considered the most desirable locality for shops; but Queen's Road must now give pride of place to some or the wide and well constructed new roads on the Reclamation. One of the biggest department stores in Hong Kong (Sincere's) have their branch dollar store in Johnstone Road and here one can buy almost anything.

MAGISTRATE SHOW'S CLÉMENCY.

When a young Chinese electrician smployed by Mesars. William C. Jack and Co. Ltd. admitted the theft by bailes of a quantity of insulating wire, he was bound over by Mr. Wynne Jones, who in do- ing so, said, “I will give you a chance."

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KWANGTUNG BUREAU OF

A Very Changed Place,

To anyone who has been away from the Colony for a few years, Wanchai will certainly prove to be a very changed place. Barber shops for ladies, restaurants in Inspectar Brennan stated the de- plenty, modern cinema, playing fendant was entrusted with the areas for children, wide roads wire to take back to the office on brilliantly illuminated at night, Saturday from a house which was garages everywhere, motor show-being re-wired. rooms, and numerous departmental tempted to sell the wire. stores where anything from gramo phone needler to a complete suite of furniture may be obtained, are some of the things he will see to-day which were not there a few years ago. When one consider the rapid New buildings have been, and development that has taken place still are, going up and a modern in the district one is amazed at the theatre (Oriental) has made its ap magnitude of it and because we are pearance on reclaimed ground. Aapt to blame officialdom when any- new, and commodious Police Station thing goes wrong, we ought to be has been built on the waterfrmt equally ready to give them their replacing the old No. 2 Police Sta- just dues when things turn out so tion which is now used as quarters splendidly as in the case of the

CANTON, May · 12 · for Chinese firemen attached to the growth of Wanchai.

Acting under the authority of Wanchai Fire Station. The Seamen's responsible for the launching and the Kwangtung Provincial Govera

the Institute, building which stood carrying out Reclamation ment, the Bureau of Information

Now Bulidings,

The people

INFORMATION

DEVELOPMENT TRADE AND COMMERCE OF THE PROVINCE.

(from Our Own Correspondent.)

at No. 26, Shakee Road, near the East bridge.

o the waterfront before the re- scheme in Wanchai should have has now opened its principal office clamation work whe commenced, has their namen perpetuated when the now been discarded for a very much history of Hong Kong comes to be bigger and more modern building written.

on the waterfront. A large' Chinese

TRICKING THE PAWNBROKER

CHINESE WOMAN JUMPS BAIL

B.H.

Inspector Smith said he thought the fine might be 820, He did not know at the time that she had had two previous convictions. She ap. peared to be repectable,

A Chiness woman, whose name

The Magistrate suggested issuing was called yesterday at the Central Magarsey to answer a charge of a warrant for har arrest, and ask giving wrong name to a pawn Apart from the fact that she broker and with attempting to ob gave a wrong name, are there any

other suspicious circumstances !" tain 816 by falsely representing à ring to be pure gold, failed to Inspector Smith-When she came Eppear to answer the summons to the Station, she was a pack o Her ball was $25,"

Mr. Wynne-Jones remarked that the bail was rather light.

nerver.

His Worship decided it would be sufficient to estreat the bail.

Its purposes are, to furnish in- formation and data whenever pos sible, regarding the trade, com. merce, industries, reconstruction Works now completed, and the projects in hand, ar outlined in the programma of the Three Year Plan of the Kwangtung Government.

With the view to encouraging and promoting foreign trade relations, a monthly Bulletin may be issued. by the Bureau in the near future

Tourists and visitors are welcome to apply for information and ad- vics in regard to sight seeing, local purchases, travelling in the in- terior, and all details as to pass- port regulations.

The Bureau is ander the charge af Mr. Lee Fong, who prior to 1998 served many years in the Foreign Office at Peiping was under General Chan Ming Bhu that he was appointed director the Canton New

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