From the pages of the South China Morning Post this week in 1960
A far-sighted Portuguese banker suggested Macau should develop tourism and promote gambling to attract foreign capital from around the region. Francisco Vieira Machado, governor of the Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Lisbon, and director of the Anglo-Portuguese Bank, London, said on an inspection tour of Macau that a direct phone link to Lisbon would be a definite asset.
The former Portuguese overseas minister emphasised that the decision about whether to take up his suggestions was a matter for the governor of Macau.
He was confident that good hotels, restaurants, amusement centres and, above all, a first-class casino with roulette and other popular games appealing to foreigners, in addition to the local games of fan-tan and ko-shek, would attract more tourists to Macau.
A magistrate's solution for workaholics was a whipping. B.V.Rhodes told a factory representative to whip his workers if they insisted on working more than six days a week.
The magistrate claimed that two women who were found by a labour inspector to be working more than six days a week had volunteered to do the overtime to make up for previous absences.
