25 years ago
A THIEF was charged with sacrilege for stealing $14 from an alms box and an electric fan from St. Margaret's Church. He was caught after four priests and a policeman chased him from Happy Valley to Causeway Bay in a taxi. His three accomplices managedto escape. THE Ping Shan Police Dog Unit hopes to expand its current force of 26 alsatians and is appealing to the public for alsatians aged between one and two years old. If found suitable, the dogs will undergo training at the Police Dog Unit, where the donors would be welcome to visit.
THE American Women's Association donated $22,200 to the Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association headquarters in Lockhart Road, Wan Chai. The donation will go towards a new library and club room. THE immigration authorities will not bar hippies from visiting Hongkong if they could give satisfactory answers to their purpose of stay or show visible means of support. However no hippy has applied to visit Hongkong.
The authorities made the comment in relation to the Thai government's action of expelling 2,200 hippies. THE Government has given approval in principle to the establishment of a Department of Law at the University of Hongkong. The object of the new department is to train students so that they may, with suitable extra lectures and practical training, be able to practise the profession in Hongkong.
An annual intake of 40 is aimed at by the department and the first batch of students are expected to be admitted in September 1969.
The Government believes that the department will fill a real gap in the educational system and would enable Hongkong to satisfy a large proportion of its growing need for lawyers within the next 10 to 15 years.
45 years ago TEMPERATURES over the weekend reached a new high, breaking a 55-year record of 91.4 degrees Fahrenheit, set in May 1893. Royal Observatory officials measured maximum temperatures of 91.7 degrees on Saturday, 91.9 degrees on Sunday and 91.8 degrees on Monday. The soaring temperatures, meanwhile, are wreaking havoc on the fisherfolk. Without cold storage facilities, the fish cannot be kept in good condition and the fishermen are being forced to sell their fish at lower prices, some by as much as half the price. NINE young Chinese women were fined between $100 and $250 for causing obstruction by loitering in the vicinity of Johnston and Lockhart Roads.
SOME 538 applications were made by members of the public for 77 bathing beach huts at Middle and South Bay Beaches. Eighty-five of the applicants were non-Chinese.
75 years ago A RURAL building lot situated at Repulse Bay was auctioned off at the Public Works Department office yesterday afternoon. The lot, which comprises 150,000 square feet, was sold to the Hongkong Hotel Co. at the upset price of $3,000. It is reported that thehotel intends to build a country resort there for residents and visitors. A THRICE-banished man who returned to Hongkong was yesterday sentenced to three years' of hard labour. Chan Shing, alias Chan Lee, was first banished for five years in June 1915, andon January 1916, he was banished for life. He was again banished for life in October 1916, on being found in Hongkong.
