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EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1933.
NEW SOLICITOR IN COLONY.
AUDACIOUS THEFT FROM I. G. P.'S OFFICE.
Mr. C. D'Almada Castro Admitted.
(Continued from Page 1.)
On Sunday, the defendant went to the Charge Room at Central Po- Mr. C. D'Almada Castro, young-lice Station and cooly took the keys. Lest son of Mr. Leo D'Almada e Caa-He wont to the L.G.P.'s office, un-
tro, Snr.. the well-known. local soll-
citor, was admitted in the Su- locked the door, took the Cup wrap- preme Court by the Chief Justice, ped it up in paper, and left after
MODERN BOYS AND GIRLS.
Education Neglects Simple Tests.
(Reuter's Special Mail Service.}
London. and giris of to-day, al-
Boys
Sir Joseph Kemp, K. C., this after-locking the door again. He put the though possessing good educational noon, to practice us a solicitor.
keya back at the Charge room, and, qualifications, are often unable
The Attorney General (Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K. C.) moved the fupplication.
In admitting Mr. D'Almada, the Chief Justice said the applicant bore an honourable family and wished him every success.
namic
to
on his way down from the com-pass simple tests in handwriting, paund, threw away the Cup's wood-arithmetic and English,
en stand, near the gates.
This what employers told a com-]
The loss was discovered on Mon-mittee appointed by Hornsey Coun- day morning. Defendant was suscil in North London to review public}
Mr. D'Almada, who is the young-pected and later arrested. He told education in the borough.
Now the committee has reported]
er brother of Mr. Leo D'Almada, the the Police that he had smashed the
barrister, was to have been admittcup up to bits and throw it in a that they agree with the employers' ed this morning, but unavoidable delay in preparation of the papers
dustbin. No part of the trophy statements "so far as handwriting caused the postponement.
could be traced. It was valued at is concerned, and believe it ie à $75 and insured.
The new solicitor is a popular athlete and is a member of the Club de Recreio hockey eleven. He was educated at St. Joseph's College, Hong Kong, and in England.
BRITAIN'S REVENUE INCREASES
common experience throughout the Defendant's reasoning was that
country. Because of the almost should something be stolen from tha I.G.P.'s office in the first week after universal use the typewriting ma- he had left, the new messenger chine for business correspondence would be immediately dismissed, there is not the same painstaking and he would be sent for.
effort to write clearly as in the Defendant's chief fallings, the past, and the art of handwriting haa Inspector said, were opium and degenerated. London, To-day. drink. He had a wife and two Great Britain's revenue from children.
We consider that the modern boy or girl reads more April 1 to November 12 was His Worship passed sentence of fluently, speaks more correctly, and £834,497,286 as against £829,-six weeks and one month's hard calculates more accurately than 138,398 in the corresponding labour the terms to run consecutive- those who passed out from the period last year, an increase of ly.
schools in pre-war days. £5,358,888. Reuter.
Inspector Chester-Woods added) "We have received no evidence to that the books were new, and in support the charge sometimes made these days of economy, stationary against the modern boy or girl of was particularly hard to obtain an increased lack of accuracy in from the stores.
calculation or attention to detall.""!
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