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"FRIDAY, JULY 1– 1982...'.-
VILLAGE ROAD MURDER CASE.
Evidence of Finding of
White Glove.
THE HYPERDERMIC SYRINGE.
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH-
Successful Anti-Rat Drives in 1931. 23,015 SANITARY NUISANCES DEALT WITH.
Latest Admiralty civil appoint- ments include Mr. F. Sellwood, first class draughtsman, to the electrical department Hong Kong dockyard.
Tong Kam-fut, a driver in the
Dr. G. W. Pope, Medical Officer Mr. D. Chan See has resigned his and Cheung Ka-mow, master of his Office during 1981 as follows: employ of the Hong Kong Hotel, of Health, reports on the work of position as Manager of the Sincere tallor's establishment on Company Limited, and Mr. Ma Manground floor of 17, Man Chung The number of sanitary nuisan- fai, sub-manager, kas taken over Fong, were called by the Crown cas reported during the year was give evidence yesterday 23,016, and of this number of cases afternoon, in the Central Police
his work.
to
the
On the motion of the Colonial Court, on resumption of the pre in which, action was taken almost Treasurer, the new Tables of duties liminary trial of Cheng Kwok-70 per cent. were abated after re- on liquors were brought into effect vau, the son of a wealthy Ipoh caipt of a letter. In 112 cases & at yesterday's meeting of the
family, who is charged with the legal notice failed to produce Legislative Council.
instigation of the murder of
March 24 last.
summonses Votes totalling $746,950 for die George Fung, at Village Road on compliance. Of the
which followed, 106 secured con- tribution in the Public Works efį As in the case of the driver victions, four were discharged and the Colony, were approved at the Tsui Yung-shum, whose evidence two withdrawn. meeting of the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon,
Mr. W. H. Edmonds, M.B.E., of the P.W.D.,. has reported the" loss of a water meter from 549 The Peak during the past three weeks. The meter is valued at $25.
Mr. J. D. Butcher, Manager of
gave a sensational turn to the The routine work under the by- proceedings, Mr. G. K. Hall laws for the Prevention and Miti- Yaa Brutton, for the defence, reserve gation of Epidemic Diseases ed cross-examination of these carried out
year. during the two witnesses.
House cleansing Was carried Tong Kam-ful, replying to on continuously .five morn- questions, said that he lived at ings A week throughout the 26, Yiu Wah Street, first floor, year by the staff. The privilege of where he was visited by Taui. permitting certain occupants of
ing at their own convenience was
ад
the Hong Kong Electric Company, On one occasion Tsui was ac-premises to carry out house cleans has reported to the Police by letter, companied by Ah Lau.
Witness såld he knew a man continued and further extended the loss of six copper covers from named Cheung, and when the during the year. The terms and the electric lamp post at Magazine man was brought into Court the conditions under which this con- Gap, to the total value of 260.
witness recognised him as being cession was granted were, general-
Limewashing.
Mrs. Hazelrigg, wife of the the master of a tailor's shop at ly, complied with. Crown Solicitor, has reported to the Happy Valley, He had been to Police, on behalf of Miss Cotton, the the house, No. 17, on four occa- isions on two of which he had seen loss of a green leather handbag Taui there. He had also seen Ah by the Domestic Cleanliness and The usual limewashing required between the Law Courts and
miscellaneous articles.
LOCAL DOLLAR RISES.
Yesterday.
་
Queen's Gardens. The bag contain-Lau there or three occasions. He Ventilation By-laws was carried ed a silver cigarette case and other had met another man there by out during the year.
the name of Ah Wong.
Departmental limewashing at The Hyperdermic Syringe. fines the American 'attitude. The
the request of owner and where' On being shown a hyperdermic necessary under By-law 4 was car- economic depression and the dis- tress of many of the European
syringe witness said that he saw ried out throughout the year. No Hong Kong, Friday, July 1, 1932. nations, attended by the conse-
a closed tin box on the bed at complaints at to the quality of the No. 17. Witness had never seen work done or of injury to property quent slump in world trade, edu- cated most Americans to the
it open and did not know who were received..
During the year action was taken had put it there. realization that the war debts
Mr. Lindsell: Do you remem-in 280 cases of mosquito nuisance payments were not benefiting them, not even indirectly, and the Slight Advance Recorded ber the 24th March? Yes I do. or potential mosquito nuisance.
What did you do that evening? 497 licensed premises were in- A report, the true significance move for cancellation gained im- petus. The more enlightened of
-I went to the stable beyond spected by Officers of the Depart- of which is not at first apparent, the American public still retain ··
Village Road, but before I reach- ment with a view to the issue of ed there I met two friends. I now licences. Routine inspections is that yesterday cabled, from that view, but the depression has Chicago announcing that the now hit the United States with
The Hong Kong dollar rose 1/8th of Ah Lau, whom I had met. He made throughout the year.
waited at No. 17. at the request of 2,117 licensed premises. were full force and the millions of yesterday to 1s. 3.1/8d., but there went away and later two men ran On Dr. Pope's own motion the Demócratic Convention had
unemployed, and the millions of was a slightly easier undertone to adopted as
a Party plank a poverty stricken in the vast agri- the market, very little business into the house through the back Sanitary Board, on February 3
door, which was open.
1931, rescinded its resolution of straight-out declaration for Pro- cultural districts in the Middle passing
West and the South have not
Before they came in did you 1918 which restricted the discre In London, silver was up 1/16th. hibition Repeal. The Platform only become resentful but have China bought and there was small hear anything?--I heard police tion of the M. O. H. to cause the removal to isolation of persons Committee of the Convention also narrowed their views to the business on a quiet market. After whistles being blown.
Who were the two men who suffering from small-pox also urges a stand against the short-sighted attitude that they the official fixing, the market ruled
will relinquish no rights. Why, quietly steady, with small buyers theft before?-One was Ah Wong. came in ?-Had you met either of
Rat Catching. cancellation of war debts, and they ask, should America forego at the quoted rates. "this decision was, of course, debts
Continuing witness said that Thirty members of the Cleansing when the Government
New York reported a rise of Taui alighted from a motor car Staff were employed during the year very much expected as any other cannot balance the Budget, and 1/16th in silver, on a steady and went into No. 17.
Later this setting. traps, bird-lime boards policy would undoubtedly injure when the unemployed are left market.
party went to witness's house. and rat poison, also, collect-- without adequate financial sup- the Party's prospects among the port?
Mr. Lindsell: On any of your ing them to the public-mor- As a consequence,, few
LONDON SILVER PRICES.
visits to No. 17 did you ever see private premises, etc., and -tak- farming fraternities of the Mid-candidates, no matter what their
anything like a gun there?—Yes, I ing. then to the public mor- dle -West." The importance of own views, will be courageous
.London, Yesterday.
did.
tuary of the pro
Spe- enough to risk and dare - · Closing silver prices in London these decisions can be appre- the opinion of so many million to-day were;
Where did you see it? I saw it cial campaigns in March and Sep- ciated when it is realised that voters. The position is regret-
in Wong's girdle,
tember were undertaken when rat June 29. June 80.
A Loan. the Democratic Party is almost table - in fact it could well be Spot
poison.was distributed throughout 16-11/16 16%
In the second or third moon did the urban districts. The total nu 18% 16-11/16 certain to be swept into power at termed deplorable - and the effect on, the Lausanne Confer-
The London on New York cross Teui?-On April 6 I got $250
you ever receive any money from ber of rats caught was:) (22) the forthcoming. elections in ence now in progress is unfor- rate was quoted £1-G$8.80%. America: Already the Demo-tunate. crats hold the majority in the
CANTON EXCHANGE. Prohibition comes under a dit House of Representatives, and ferent category, although it is
Canton Central Bank notes were the reaction against President no less important. Primarily it
is a domestic question, but the quoted at the Chinese Exchange stated that on the night of the Samples of fresh milk wers sub Hoover, who was unfortunate effect is not confined to the here last evening at 55.9 per cent murder witness was in his work-mitted for analysis under section enough to occupy the White United States, and the world while Hong Kong Dollar notes in
shop. At 8.80 he saw Taui and 12 of the Food and Drugs || Or exchange for: Kwangtung, silver House during one of the most (reformers excluded) will sigh
premium of 440 for each enter the cubicle, saw them re-dinance, of which 54 were found. severe periods the United States with rellef when: Repeal of there at a
$1,000.
emerge in a few minutes and saw to pass the standard and 16 to be ill-famed Eighteenth Amend
them leave the house by the front below standard, photokomja has ever experienced, is expected ment is effected. Apart from the
door." Two minutes later, To In eight of these CASES BUCCESS- to "awing "the Democratic. Pre-social improvements that will
came back alone without the other. ful prosecutions followed, in one sidential nominee Into office, result, such as the purging of
He went into the rear of the floor case a warning was issued, in the with a majority in both Houses bootleggers, restoration of re-
and then re-appeared and left by remaining seven cases no action the country of gangsters and}
the front floor.
wasitaken as the amount of adul- of Congress. And during the spect for the law, and removal of
Melbourne, May 31.
Nothing happened in his house teration was so slight as to be in next year American policy will the distrust and suspicion that Armies of mice, which for months the evening of March 24. About all probability due to accidental play & tremendous almost exist in all classes of the com- past have been infesting the wheat p.m. he went to the shop next contamination. dominant part in world affairs.munity, Repeal will provide a section of North-Western Victoria, door to visit a friend who kept. The following samples of Food
much-needed stimulus to business re blamed for the death of 12 a carpenter's shop there. The and Drugs were taken In very few places does public and not only America, but all the horses, injury to sheep and the de- friend, Cheung Lin-hok, half-an- opinion sway administrations to world will benefit: Prohibition is struction of big stores of wheat and hour after he had been in his shop,
a failure, and its sole merit lies hay,
showed him a white glove which
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Forward
MICE KILL 12 ́HORSES.
. Hong Kong
.: Kowlcons
.88,787 71,091
from him. This was considered to be a loan from him. I had not Of these none were found to be received any other money from plague Infected.". Taui or from anyone else.
The witness, Cheung“ Ka-mow,
and returned it-to-Lin-hok.
The next time witness saw Taul was when he visited him at what
the extent it does in the United in the fact that it will stand as in the Warracknabeal district a he had picked up from the rear States and American opinion poignant warning to all adminis number of horses have died from workshop. Witness examined it nowadays has an immediate re-trators who would interfere with form of meningitis, which is attri. action in all European capitala. the liberty of the individual. buted to the pollution of chaff and When the major problems, as American public opinion is 80 Press.
It may be unfortunate that hay by the mice-British United
war debta, reparations and dis-powerful in world affairs, and it armament, are interlocked the will be earnestly hoped that the views of the creditor nation are months will not include over- campaigning of the next few
almost paramount in the discus much propaganda, and that the sions between the world's states-successful Party will not be com- mitted to a foolish programmie men. By attaching conditions to
which had been adopted merely An enclosure in which a sacred her proposals the United States to catch utes. The elections, crocodile lived In Ancient Egypt empting to dictate the deck which take place early Novem has been found. The discovery sions on all issues and President ber, will hold almost as much was made by the Italian Arch260-
until ri
THE CROCODILE GOD.
Cairo, May 81
gical Mission during excavations the sanctuary of Saknebtonia, the
Food Examination.
Condensed milk 8, Bread 21, Tea 17, Flour 8, Blacufte 41 Sugar 9 Cheese 14, Cream 13, Butter Choco lates 2 Tinned awahl Ty Tinned fish 6, Tinned chadash 1, Tinned mushroom and Chicken 1, Tinned boiled crab 1 and Shell-fish 8
he understood to be the residence of Ab To on the first floor of 26,
Of the above, one sample of tes Yiu Wah Street Taui handed failed to setlary the legal require him 180 for the rent of the rean ments. cubicle at 17, Man Chung Fong Under Section, 82 of the Publis The hearing was adjourned to Health and Buildings Ordinance Monday
the following foodstuffs were belz ed and destroyed. vyko
NOVEL PENALTY.
The novel course
who
Tinned vegetables 128 tin Tinned sardines four case
fruits for Case, Tinne).