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ARE CONCUBINES
IN HONG KONG?
Is concubinage, permitted by the Chinese Mar riages Ordinance of 1841 but abolished'in China many years ago, still legal in Hong Kong? Does a concubine have the same legal status as "Chinese women married ac- cording to the custom of their country”?
these two
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Judgment READER'S
For Defendant
LETTER
"Not Hell On Earth"
Str,—I do not wish to com- ment on the main part of Per- manent Resident's letter yester- day. 'That is between the |Debtors and the Financial Secrs- tary, But I would like to pro
The action brought by Ng test against his statement in the Ki-yuk, plaintiff, against Chan last paragraph: "A community
Latest arrivals from England Kwong-kec, defendant. for (Hong Kong) which in loyalty by DOAC "Speedbird" flying $1,000 damages for alleged to the Crown and the Empire boot are Mccurs. PM. Ryan: wrongful-removal-of-a-shelf cadured greater sufferings dur- Rivera, A. Chang, J.A. Ferguson, from the right portion of the g the last war than any other
Fraser-Harris, W.A. ̧
Mrs. B.ground floor woll of 210 part of the British Empire sove Brand and Mrs. E, M. Gumble Queen's Road Central, resulted England herself."
ton.
M. W. A. Blair-Kerr at for the taking of a concubine had Garden Party in celebration of Kowloon yesterday was asked.been compiled With
King's Birthday, at Govern ruling on for
The relationship between Yiu
ment House, 4,30 p.m.--- and the girl was all that could Y's Men's Club luncheon, inlk by points by Mr. A. I. Clifford and Mr. A. S. K. Lau after be expected until the wife raised Mr. C. Loseby, Root Garden, objections and the girl had to be her had given
H.. Hotel, 12.45 p.m. Wong Nai
asked to move out of the Nullah Art Exhibitions, Chinese YMCA, evidence-in-chief in the case
Sirect address,
Bridge's Street, wn! $1. Abond the same aircraft ware in which Ylu Po. 38, manager
John's Cathedral Ball, Gar-Mr. R.T Leong (front Mar- of the Good Earth Co., was
seilles); Mr. P. Hard Larsen und charged with having cornal
Mr. D. Battell (from Calcutta): Mr. Higham and Capt. A.A. Mac-| knowledge of a girl under 16
kenzle (from Bangkok). years of age, and Wong Sze (40) concubine, and Li Yingfully entitled to take a concubine
(42), alias Ho Kon
widow, and there are he had no case to with procuring.
No Casa
Under the Chinese Marriages Ordinance of 1041 his client was
answer.
Mr. Lo so that he would First defendant is alleged to carry Mr. Clifford's submissions with Wang further and ask the Magistrate have been intimate Nutt at the Sun Sun Hotel and al for aula that a concubine en-
floor, 26 Nullah. Rond, seconli
joys the sume leral status as between December 25, 1947 and(Chinese) women married ac- 10 the custom of thele March 31, 1948.
cording
accused, country. Second and thirt charged with procuring out" Dre 25. 343, ore represented by air
After Wong Nul had given hier evidence, Mr., CHHford zubmitted that the giving of $1,000, the pur- chase of clothing and lines, the renting of a that and the furnish- ned the payment for fr of t household expenses by Arst de- fendant showed that formalities
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Arriving in Hong Kong by the Kowloon Rotary Club Luncheon,
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Cleveland" Peninsula Holel. 12.30 p.m. June 18 are Mr. and Mrs, O. H. H.K. Teachers' Association meet-Ritter. Mr. Ritter is an Execu ting. lecture on "Trade tive Vice-President and Comp Unionism" by Ken Baker, Si.
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According in the prosecution, conducted by Mr. A.C. Tribble (Acting Aust. Social Welfare Offeer), and Wong Nui, the girl | ❤e
during an orphan kidnapped
and brought to the Occupation Tung Koon.
girl and an amah to 28 Nullah Road where he showed them a room above the second floor.
Wife Objected
The
of
in judgment by Mr. Justice E That an unnecessary mar H. Williams (Chief Justice),tyrdom for the permanent re- yesterday in favour of defen-sidents to take upon themselves. For over a year 1have talked, dant with costs.
and listened, to those who were in Hong Kong during the war- Mr. Chlaese, Eurasian, European, and
neutrals.
The plaintiff was represented by Mr. C.A.S. Russ, while P.C. Woo appeared for the do- fendant.
the chop of the
who were
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in-
Their stories have left me feeling that the occupa, ilon of Hong Kong was more a Mr. great inconvenience than a great Following arguments by Russ and Mr. Woo yesterday on suffering. Both inside and outside. the question as to whether plain and Stanley Prison and the other
internee IT, who held
campa there was shortage
of food, of amenities, firm in which he was a partner, there were restrictions, "preased was entitled to sue in his own labour" and sometimes humilla- name, Mr. Justice Williams held
tion, but all these were certainly that plaintiff had no such powerless than the aufterings endured Russ by other Occupied colonies and An application by Mr.
таноя. talanda. Stanley for leave to amend what was
Prison itself technical error in the writ of was no doubt extremely uncom→ Kummons was also disallowed fortable and unutterably dreary, by Mr. Justice William
but it was not the hell-on-earth wedding
that many Wilhelm said that as the partles
of the previous Gerardus Van Zeggeren, Master represented by solicitors, it could males like to consider it-not Mariner, ss. "Tunan and Joan not be Bald that the Writ was judging by the standards of Dorothy Smart, took place yes not properly drawn up.
Mr.iving In Hainan, on the Burma erday at the Marriage Registry,
Justice Williams also remarked Sam Railway, or the mines of Supreme Court, in the presence that he could not see that there Japan, all of them near at hand. B. A. Wilbpink and A. Jwas anything wrong in the de- Has this Permanent Resident fendants putting the shelf away, ever read the story of Malta. as defendants were not required, which had no physical conqueror, of by the terms of their tenancy but whose people
lved under- Mr. Frank Piper, Seamus, Kin-mises.
keep the shelf
on the pre-ground, and near to starvation. for months on end?. Or heard the tale of the Channel Islands during the war? Has he ever read Boout
Darwin, Australia's inst muinlond outpost which was bombed continuously for During that period. I was (General Gaston Eugene Dolle. An Exhibition
Chinese two years for the shipping in fallégeit, "You called on the girt Mr. and Mrs, G. Beer, J.A. Fer-paintings by Prof. Kao Chien-fu, the harbour, long after Darwin oner every three or four days, guson, Mrs. A.C. Bates and D.T. Chen Shu-jan, Chao Shao-ang, as a town had been obliterated? and that kuring his visits the Luscombe,
Yang Sienum, Kwah She Has he ever heard-and here is ntah had to sleep out in the
yuet and Lal Kot-man is now D very true parallel-of the being held at St. John's Cathed-plantation owners in New ral Hall and will continue to Guinea, most of whom were Saturday under the auspices of shot out of hand in the outlying
lons, which took years to build up, were destroyed forever?
He furnished the room, It was alleged, and give the girl $100 to purchtise bedding, cooking and household utensila. Later he gave her another $100 for household expenses,
She returned to the Colony last year with a woman surnamed Li who handed her over to the gare or another woman (second cused), whom she knew as “Ah Surn,"
at a hut near the Husi Wunk Temple, Kowloon City.
On Dec. 22 lust, a man namad Ah Bo and first defandant call» ed at the second
accused' place and asked her and the girl to accon:pany them to Shanghai Street, where they wont to a flat cocupled by Ho Keo (Li Ying. the third ac. H. cused).
Komen.
The forthcoming
wedding
On Jan. 8, continued the pro- secution, Yiu toki the servant that berley Hotel, Kowloon, and Miss his wife abjected to the giri and Josephine Verda Wai, Steno. that she was going to move the grapher, Standard
Co.. Torture out. He advised them Shanghai, has been announced.
to move, Tins they did on Feb.
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“After exunkilur the girl and appraising her as "fairly good," Yiu Po, it was alleged, left the hose, Buying that he would this- eus inutters luter in the evening, passtgeway,
Peninmula departures: - Mrs. This conference took place that Dr. A.HR. Coombes of the Paul Josselyn, JH. Flayer,- Mra: evenhug between the three areen Mary Hospital declared M.P. Caswell, Mr. and Mrs. R.M. eused in the verandah, out of the that as the result of an X-ray Williams, M. Bags and Count de the Hong Kong Working Artists islands, and whose huge planta- girl's hearing.
formed! the Troudon. opinion that the girl was under
Gave Har $1,000
she
Lon
16 years of age.
Hearing was adjourned to the afternoon of June 21.
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Prepared To Take Delinquent Back
On Dec. 25, it was alleged, Yiu Po called at the Shonghot Street address while the girl and the cscond accused were there. He gave $100 to a "Chun Tse" to go cut with the gir) to buy elothes for Wong Nul. He also brought a gult of clothes for her,
Poon Kung Buil, of No. 64/08 When
the Gloucester Road, was summoned returned to houre, the prosecution contended, before Mr. Hin-shing Lu the two women were sent out to Central Magistracy' yesterday for the verandah by Yu who said allowing a wireless receiving that he wanted to talk to the girl station to be used for purposes elone. He then gave her $1,000 other than
permitted
by the wish instructions to hand it to the Broadcasting Receiving Licence recitat uusted. She did so, and granted to him under the Telo Weng left the house.
communications Ordinance ut Yiu and the girl left by car No. 04/08 Gloucester Road, for the Sun Sun Hotel whore Defendant, represented by Mr they ilved together for five days J.C. Stewart, was remanded a during which Intimacy took week.
occasion. place on three
At D.B.L. Grow, Radio Lireneing the end
of that period, (Dec. and Inspection Officer, of G.P.Oof $1,000 31), first defendant brought the appeared as complainant,
HAD $1.85 FOR $10,000 ORDER
Two Chinese, who appeared at Central Magistracy yesterday charged with larceny by trick, tried to order $10,000 worth of nylon stockings, sharkskin and handkerchiaves from the India Emporium when they had botwcon them pre- cisely $1.85 in cash.
Detective Inspector prosecuted, while who pleaded not
stockings,
represented guilty, were not
any
Double-crossing by Liu Chung-shui (32), coolie, was responsible for Patrick Castro, 30, clerk, Liu, and Ma Yiu-shing (23), coolie, appear- ing before Mr. W. H. Latimer at Kowloon yesterday charged in connection with the thoft of 234 pairs of Nylon stockings belong. ing to the Reuben Import & Export Co., Ltd. Castro, charged with coun-ftale, Castro-made inquiries and selling and procuring the two ound that second accused was at 180 Matauwel Вода, coolies, was sentenced to a fine ving
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think it is about time both the Reservations Outside Stanley's and Inside- Stanley's Tett their little hich perches and came down to the common level of realiilex. few isolated instances of cruelly and maltreatment suffered by civilians---or
that matter: military personnel-in Hong Kong under the Japs do not warrant. the lag of "greater suffering.... than any other part of the Bri- tish Empire sayo England her- self."
IMPERSONAL.
for
OBSTRUCTOR SENTENCED
ог three months' hard labour after Mr. Reuben
At 7 p.m. on June 4, Castro For obstructing a police con-' in the execution of his had testified-as-to-his-charac-went with Ma and others to the atable
and duty, Leunig Hung Hom Police Station
Kam-lin was sen- ter. Liu and Ma were sen-
reported that Llu had stolen same tenced to four months' hard tenced to three months' hard stockings from him. Liu was ar labour
and recommended for labour without the option of rested and 40 pairs of Nylons banishment by Mr. F.X, d'Almada a fine.
found in his possession. He told at Central Magistracy yesterday. the Police the whole story and Castro and Ma wero arrested, They admitted their part in the larceny.
In passing sentence on Castro, Mr. Latimer sald that the count| against him was a very serious one and that he was responsible for the crime porpetrated by the other two. There had been so much thieving from ships that the Court must take a serious view,
In view of what Mr. Reuben had said the Court was inclined “to take a lenient view-of-the-case but could not do less than pass the same sentence as it did on a the other two. But, added Mr. Latimer, in the present case he would give defendant the option uf paying a fine of $1,000 with the alternative of three months' hard labour.
The story was told before Witness sald ho made out Mr. F. X. d'Almada.
bill, but defendants still stalled Charged with larceny by trick of payment. of 10 dozens nylon
M. Hiramand, proprietor of the Tong Wing, 20, unemployed, and Chan Muk-kwal, 24, travelling India Emporium, sald that he trader, were
lo 12 gave specific Instructions to his
Exceeded Instructions Bentenced
not to allow men
order months' hard labour and recom- me
According to Det. Sub-Inspec- without immediate cash payment, mended for banishment.
Castro, was H. C. Ha and studied the two men as they tor W.B. Scrogg,
employed as a shipping clerk by defendants. Backed what they had ordered.
He saw second defendant about and it was his duty to look after Reuben Import & Export Co. Ltd.
to leave with B basket and the transportation of goods. On stopped him. A search revealed June 4, he was sent to Kowloon 10 dozens nylon stockings.
Godowns to take delivery of Defendants, both of whom had defendants came to the shop and three previous convictions, denied three cases of Nylon stockings. ordered goods to the value of the allegations made by witnesses. $10,000, including nylon stock They said that they would have handkerchieves and shark-paid given the chance to get
money: from their home. “Several-attempte-to-demand-A-police-witness stated that money from them proved futile, when he searched defendants the defendants explaining that the first man had $1.80 while the they would pay and assuring second had only ave cents. the salesmen not to worry as Mr. d'Almada In convicting they would be able to pay If defendunts remarked that he was the whole amount dtd not "more than sailsfled” · with the after he had hidden them safely exoned $30,000.
C. Shamdas, Salesman of the India Emporium, told the Court that at 5.30 p.ni on May
CENTIZÁL PARK LOOKT
-THE CUTE
evidence before him....
He employed second dafen- dant and Instructed him to take out 10 dozen pairs from the cases while the cargo boat-was en route to Hong Kong, Liu
exceeded hia Instructions", and took out 254, pairs, in the pre- sence of Ma.
Liu told Castro that the stock- ings had been seized by Import and Export Department officers,
with a relative. Not belloving this
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THAT ONE ON THE [GLED! HE LOCKE
soon.
DG) Scragg, added that Cestro hae a wife, and three chlidren with another expected Castro, he said, stated that he needed maney for his wife's: confinement.
Mr. Reuben told the Court that Castro had been in his employ for 10 months and was drawing
PC 850 was arresting a haw- ker selling chestnuts outside the Chinese Recreation Club when a crowd gathered. Defendent in- torfered with the constable which led to the escape of the hawker.
Court yesterday he pleaded that Defendant was arrested. In
he had a pot of rice and was about to pick it up when arrest- ⚫ed.
Force
King's
Happy
lay of $750 per month, He had been entrusted он several occasions with goods worth about craft of the Royal Alr
Sunderland and Mosquito nir. $20,000 and had always brought will fly low over the them back safely to the office.
Birthday Paride at Mr. Reuben went on to say that Valley to-day. The aircraft will he found Castro a very hardly in line astern with intervals working man, and that he was of fifteen seconds, for the flying prepared to take him back if the boats and ten seconds other managers had no objection. Mosquitos.
Lor the
Irrigation Scheme Didn't Pay Off
Holding that as defendant-stood-to-benefit from
the crops on the field which he claimed to have sub-let to one Cheng Tim he should also be liable for what Cheng did; Mr. W. H. Latimer at Kowloon yesterday fined Sun Sang (44), former and village elder of Sang Tsin Village, $500 for diverting water from the catchwater at the Jubilee Reservoir and for taking water from the catchwater, In imposing the maximum penalty for both offences, Mr. ↑ Lathmer: "çommented on the inadequacy of the fines and recommended that Mr. G. D. Wolgard should bring his view that, the Ordinance should be amended to $1.000. to the proper authorities....
which was snowfy,, constructed. and which conveyed the water to paddy fielde about a quartar of a mile away.
The matter was reported to Inspector Roberts who visited the scene on June. B. Heference to the records showed that the
fendant.
paddy fields belonged to de-
According to the prosecution, Damago to the channel and conducted by Inspector F. Roberts, pipe, added Mr. Wolgard, was and to evidence tendered by Mr. estimated at 237.07.2
Wolgard, defendant dug a hole
Deferidant denied all respon
in the dry weather flow channal, sibility, stating that s The rented
near the 13,000-foot mark-of-the the fields to Chang, Tim in March catchwater, to allow water to on the terms that he would; get How into the 9-inch pipe
half share of the crop. Cheng the channel ve
ceft two or three
¿days ago, maldi The (WALEP, entoring the pipe accused, who, added, that the was discharged, 25 fost further majority of the sub-leitings were "down into Wa --ourth-channel agreed on-verbally desigualm
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