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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1930.
ilon of No. 6 Tin Lok Lane, Happy WHERE THE MONEY “GOODS SUPPLIED.”
Valley, as a dairy was approved yesterday by members of the Sanitary Board at their fortnightly meeting.
Kwan Chung (46), workman em- ployed at the Taikoo Dockyard, was yesterday removed to the Govern- ment Civil Hospital auffering from multiple injuries received through accidentally falling into the No. 2 tank of the s.8. Natica which is be- ing overhauled in the dock.
THIEF BREAKS
ANKLE.
GOES.
Supplementary Votes of Nearly $50,000.
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WATER POLICE STATION.
At the meeting of the Finance Committee of the Legislation Council on Thursday the following Supplementary Votes will be con-
HISsidered-
HOSPITAL, COURT, AND JAIL.
A young Chinese name Au Lai who, on May 22, broke into the first Hoor of 44 Bowring Street, and then jumped over the veran dah and broke his ankle, made his appearance before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on the charge of the theft of clothing and a gold watch, after being in hospital for over a month.
Two previous convictions were proved against defendant, and his Worship passed sentence of six months' hard labour.
Defendant asserted that he broke his ankle while learning how} to ride a bicycle.
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'PEEPING TOMS."
soon find that he would become notoriously unpopular with the entire service.
As to asking non-official mem- bers of the community to serve on
Miscellaneous Services:-Other Miscellaneous Servicos: $2,075..
Provision made in Estimates: $55,000.
has
$10,000 for Latrine. Public Works
Department:
A MARKET VENDOR'S CLAIM.
NO MORE CREDIT!
this
Ah Tal, described as of "c/o Pratt Building, Kowloon," was to- day at the Summary Court, sued through her husband by Koo Kee, a vender of 11. Kowloon Market for fruit, vegetables, and eggs supplied a sum of $80.95, the price of fresh
during August and September, 1929,
Mr. P. M. Hodgson appeared for plaintiff, and described the manner in which the goods were supplied. Pass books used in the transactionE were also produced in Court.
The Secretary of State for the Colonles
approved. that
Defondant claimed that her debt honoraria
of $1,500 be paid to was only $37, this being for goods Mr. W. J. Carrie, of $500 to Miss supplied last July.
She stated that V. R. Harrison and of $75 to Mr. she finally ceased. dealing with Un Ting-fan, as recommended by plaintiff in January this year, and the Salaries Commission.
had given up the passbook system Jast September. Further she alleged that the entries in the pass- Hong Kong, Buildings. Erection books as regards August and of a Public Latrine in Davis September were false. Plaintiff, Street, Kennedy Town: $10,000. she added had taken away Provision is made in the cur-another book which she kept, as a rent year's Estimates for a public check on her purchases, on the plea latrine in Rock Hill Streat, and of looking into his own accounts. although a convenience will b
A Clear Case. required at that location within
Mr. Hodgson asked when this the next year or so, the Head of other book was taken away. De- the Sanitary Department considers fendant replied "At the end of a similar type of latrine is more August last year." urgently needed in. Davis Street.
·
Mr. Hodgson was proceeding with It is therefore proposed not to his examination when His Lordship proceed with the former building (Mr. Justice J. R. Wood) signified this year.
but to erect the con-that he was satisfied as to plaintiff's venience in Davis Street instead. calm.
New Furniture.
Judgment would be given
in his favour, with costs.
Public Works Extraordinary:-
Ah Tai and her husband here New Furniture for all Depart made the plea that they only re- ments. Kowloon, Furniture for ceived $20 per month ench, but His All Departments: $2,500.
Lordship refused to make any addi Provision made in Estimates: tional order, stating that the case $5,000.
was quite clear, and he To meet the cost of furniture sympathetic. for rented quarters in Kowloon
THRONE ROOM RECEPTION. ecoupled by officers of the sub- ordinate staff entitled to free furniture, Government Quarters London, Yesterday. not being available for the hous- His Majesty the King to-day re-ing of all such officers. ceived the delegates to the Im- Water Police Station. qualifications would be expected perial Press Conference and their Public Works Extraordinary:-
a Retrenchment Committee, what
BON VOYAGE.
LORRY ACCDENT,
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TWO VICTIMS IN A CRITICAL CONDITION.
:
of them before consenting to wives in the Throne Room at Kowloon, Buildings. Huts and serve at the request of His Excel-Buckingham Palace. Each one offices, Tsim Tea Shui Police Sta- leney the Governor? A business was introduced to the King, who tion $33,000.
In regard to the lorry accident was accompanied by H.M. the
In the 1930 Estimates, a sum of near the 'distillery at Aberdeen man head of a firm could Queer-Reuter.
335,000 is provided for the erec-(reported in yesterday's China naturally estimate the labour
tlon of a new deportee shed In Mail), only 12 of the 26 injured · needs of his own particular office;
Kowloon. It has now been found persons were detained at the Gov-, possible temporarily to make other ernment Civil Hospital. The others but how could be assay the labour
arrangements for housing de-were allowed to return to their needs of a Government Depart-
portees, and the shed will not be homes after their brulses had been ment whose routine is worse than
erected.
dressed. Of the 12 in hospital Against the resulting saving. four are men. and eight women. Greek: to him? One might as well HON. MR. AND MRS. SOUTHORN the Inspector General of Police The two reported yesterday to have expect a member of the Board of
GO ON LEAVE.
requests a supplementary vote of been seriously injured were a man, Education to be the last word in
$33,000 for urgent improvements named Leung Tong and a woman ut the Water Police Station. education--to be an expert in
Of named To Sze. They are at pre- excelsis!
went on
.
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NO BLASTING WARNING.
two Chinese stone blasters, for fall- Ing to take necessary precautions before blasting at Taipo Road yes- terday, Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning
A quiet but sincere atmosphere this amount, $28,000 is for the sent in a serious condition and for Who but a postal ex- prevailed at the Queen's Pier this provision of hatments for 84 sea- the next two days it will be very pert, for instance, could say morning when the members of men and housing room for the hard to say what their chances of whether or not the Postal Depart-the Legislative Council, the staff Chinese Police, the accommoda- recovery will be. Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 25, 1930. ment is overstaffed? Who but a cf the Colonial Secretariat, and tion being now very unsatisfac- It is proposed to expend nautical man could assert that the large number of friends gather-tory,
ed to wish "Bon Voyage" to the the balance of $5,000 on the ex- Harbour Department is or is not on. Mr. Wilfred T. Southorn, tension and improvement of the
which overstaffed?
C.M.G. (Colonial Secretary) and office accommodation
In imposing a fine of $25 or three now totally inadequate. at the weeks' hard labour in default, on Southorn, who Will the members of the Re- Mrs.
Home leave, by the R.M.S. Em-Water Police Station. In view of the vast sums in- trenchment Committee be expect-
Hansard Reports. ress of ABİA. volved in additions to the salaries ed to sit a whole day in each of
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Southorn! Colonial Secretary's Office and of Government Servants no one the Government offices to satisfy arrived at the Pier a few minutes Legislature:- Hansard Reports:
and after 8212 will greatly dispute the appoint themselves that there is no slack-before elaven o'clock,
|shaking hands with all present, Provision made in Estimates: intimated that he was inclined in ment of a "Retrenchment Commiting that no eyes are perpetually they went out to the Empress $1,800.
a case like this to summons the tee" to ascertain how decreases on the clock instead of on the liner on the Government launch,
This vote covers the following company or the firm. Had it been a few intimate fixed charges:-$760 per annum the foreman who was charged he may feasibly be made in the per- desks? Will they be expected to accompanied by
for the reporter,: $60 per annum | would have imposed a much heavier sonnel of each Department. The make "surprise visits"
to the friends.
The liner sailed at 12 noon.
for proofs and $50 per annum penalty. question, however, is an extreme various Departments to catch ly delicate one.. No head of a Government employees "on the Department would be expected to hop"? If a head of a Depart- #imit for one moment that his ment asserts that he is not over- Department is overstaffed. In staffed, will it be the primary the presence of a Retrench- business of the Committee of 'ment Committee he would "peeping Toms" to collect suf- taels of non-Government prepar Royal Observatory:-Special Ex- ever be on the defensive, seeking ficient evidence to warrant the ed oplum, on behalf of a Chinese, penditure, Meteorological Confer- A Chinese man named Wong Sal- chuen (22), and a woman famed to justify this, that, and the allegation that he is a descendant Mr. J. M. Remedios, at the Kowance: $1,489,TRA
Icon Magistracy this morning, ask- Expenses in connection with a Cheng Tee (42), described as other member of his staff being of George Washington? And, ed Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith to treat Conference of Directors of Faz widow, have been arrested by the retained. In the end, whilst an even so, who is. finally to say defendant. as a smoker, and not as Eustern Weather Services held at Police on a charge of kidnapping a official assurance has been given which is right? There's the possessor of opium for sale. Hong Kong from 1980 April 25 young woman named Chu Yee-mut that the Retrenchment Com rub.
mittee when appointed shal!
be given free access to all Depart ments and all Departmental data, the result of the Committee's labours might well be nugatory.
News in Brief
On June 24 two Chinese cases of typhoid fever were notified.
A HEAVY DRUG ADDICT
for covars=$860 per annum in all. Sergeant Bentley stated that the Besides this. the printing.is paid defendants did not fly the red flag for at the rate of $3.50 per page, or even beat a gong to warn people The 1929 Hansard comprised within a radius of 500 feet of the 829 pages (as against 121 in 1828 blast. . and 170 in 1927), which at $3.50
In pleading guilty to a charge | page = $1,151,50 causing an ex- of the unlawful possession of two ceas on the vote of $211.50. *
He
KIDNAPPING CHARGE.
A
added that defendant was to May 2, to discuss the possibility (21) at Yaumati on April 18. The greatly addicted to the drug. of adopting uniform codes for kidnapped woman is stated to be at
His Worship said that he would visual storm signals throughout present in Kongmoon." assume that man to be a smoker the Far East. This Conference and not a trafficker, and Impos was proposed at a Conference of ed a fine of $150 on one month's Jail in default of payment,
MR. G. H. ARNOLD'S DEATH.
Ten Years Ago,
[From the "Chins. Mall.”. June 25, 1920.3-
To-day's dollar la worth 3/-
Empire Meterologists, held at Lon- don in August, 1929, and, at the, International Conference of Direc tora of Weather Services, held. at: Copenhagen in September, 1929; the proposal was approved and Mr. Claxton was appointed convener. The local office of the Vacuum The cost of the necessary print-74d Oll Company received by cable this ing is not yet known and remains
The number of applications re- morning the Bad news that their to be met. The aum now asked for Chief Accountant, Mr. G H. Is for entertainment and segreceived from men in the Navy and Arnold, had passed away in Canada tariat expenses. on Sunday
Equally delicate and difficult is the task of selecting the person nel of a Retrenchment Committee.. It would be unthinkable that, the head of one Department should be permitted to sit in judgment on the head of a rival Department, There is already sufficient rivalry between Departments without side off the Talpo Hoad, a Chinese Mr Arnold was on holiday with
amongst heads of
And even if al
other than thi
Yesterday afternoon the body of a Chinese female child of about. Idar years of age was found dumped near a bus stopping place in Taipo Road.
prod
Hit by a flying piece of rock dur Ing blasting operation on the bill
his family, for whom much syra-k
Army for warder jobs in the. Victorla Gaol strikes us like a blow in the face. Does the Gov ernment: honestly think that In
risking the generating of that boy named Li Wah (18) of 58 pathy will be extended. He leaves Five motor cycles which were dicates the attractiveness of the rivalry into a vendetta or encour Wing Chau Street was yesterday a wife, two sons and a baby daugh being taken on a lorry to Coventry warder's Job and pay. We lead aging Carnera-like tendencies taken to the Kowloon Hospital aufter to mourn his loss. Mr. riders at Lea Bridge Speedway, the Government gently Into a 'quiet fering from injury to his right leg Arnold had been connected with Leyton, N.E were destroyed when corner, we take hold of its long ear the Vaccum Oll Company In Hong the lorry caught fire bear Fenty as fit were a telephone.
thingammy, and we whisper this Kong for five years. Stratford, Buckinghamshire,
The elder son, Mr. G. W. Arnold, en de We can't speak for the Navy, hav 1s of the staff of the Vaccum Oll Mr. Harry K. Thaw, the million ng got rather out of touch with Comp
aire who served a long sentence in the lower deck lately. But the an American asylum for the murder Army drinks with us and confides in Chief of Stanfor
The Army is fed up with the Plymouth
port to the Police yester
that
Lor
r, en Fonte Army That is what the applica
alons from the Army mean that
but
and tie word