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SHIPPING COMPANY'S
Back From
NET LOSS OF HK$111,000 Fishing Trip
A net loss of HK$111,000 on operation of ships was reported at yesterday's annual general meeting of shareholders in the Eastern Asia Navigation' Company, Limited.
The Chairman, Mr. G. E. Marden, said that the loss was due to delayed receipt of accounts from certain ports as a result of continued unsettled conditions. Some recovery in respect. of the amount will be reflected in the current's year's accounts, he added..
Others present at the meeting shareholders representing 402.- were Messrs. C. Blaker. P. S. 204 shares Casaldy, F. J. Hovmun-Fisher. V. K. Song. (directors) and
Taxi Driver Intimidated
In Kowloon
The Chairman's report follows in part:
"There has been no change in the constitution of the ficel H1- though it may be anticipated that the situation will have changed when see meet next. in fact, 'a purchase was made with the in- tention of placing the vessel in the local are trade but the cost of reconditioning having been found to be prohibitive, she was resold at approximately her purchase price. There will be certain ex- denses in connection with the transaction.
Colony's Fishing
A Family Affair
"Your Board has under con- Along the rocky shores of Aberdeen Bay are little groups of fishing craft-some preparing for a trip and some unpacking after a successful
"Hall new drivers behave like this one there is some chance of stamping out gang law, as you put it," said Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr to Mr. P. J. sideration the acquisition of ten- | nago suitable for the Far East mul Griffiths at Kowloon yesterday, there is evidence of a definite fall Addressing Cheung Fal, nged in recond hand values which may 36. an ex-employee of the Blue make purchases possible. The Taxient Co., who
charged Lady wha
Wolmer operated wyth assaulting Ma Wing-hang, a satisfactorily during the period twirl new diver of the same company and has done better during the the ngistrate said, "You arei
current year. very lucky not to be charged with criminal intimidation."
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"It is clear that when you told! the complainant, You are a bad Why do you want to work when we are on striket If you are not careful we will kill you, you were intimidating him." the inglstrate added,
-Suit Postponed
"Our suit against certala nu-
ventura.
Shown in the above picture is one of these just re- turned from a week's fishing excursion, bring- ing to Hong Kong's 'fishing centre about 100 piculs of fish, with small sampons clustering round the "mother junks."
thorlties in connection with the Panamanian are has been further From the 71year-old family postponed by the defentants d
to the youngest Jad, is now expected to come to trial head
everybody helps in the drying in the spring. Defendant was found guilty and
"From the Proft and Loss Ac- of household things; the salt- and general Aned $30
of shrimps three months count you will observe that there ing pilzomasnt.
was net loss on operation of overhauling of the craft. Mr. Gruithe, prosecuting, said ships of $111,000. This was due to that nt 3.50 p.m.
December delayed receipt of accounts from 1. Ma was driving taxi 4151
certain ports due to the continued sling Wong Tai Sin Path, Kow-unselled conditions and there has kam City, towards Clear Water been some recovery in respect of Bay Road when, abati half way this amount which will be re-
GC51. coming dnection,
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A little commily by then-
selves, this group includes three allies, inter-related by several generations. Among the 22 persons are 12 women and girls, invat of
er the path, he SAW lorry flected in the current year's acthom as braway as their husbands
the opposite counts.
"The loss also includes the cost Complainant stopped his cab to or fitting out Lady Wolmer for permit the lorry to pass. Defen-trailing in the Orlent and an Hate, who was driving the other amount for depreciation has been vehicle, refused to proveed but charged ogulst her. The loss for set Mu to do ro, As argu- the year amounting to $100,000 'mcent ensued, and defendant got has been met by a transfer from eff his lorry, approprlied the cam- General Reserve. plainant who was sull
In the
No progress has been made) Axl al struck him a blow. with the Boyaca claim and none is Defunkent then went buck to anticipated until the Japanese sorry with the intention
of Peace Treaty cumes under dis- driving off but complainmit got cussion.
at his ear and blocked Cheung's "On the other side there is no Why Accused again Tom his vehicle and struck com- General Reserve
alighted change in respect of Capital, the now becomes Plant on the back with a hard HK$1,000,000 and there is object. Ma blow biz polke credit of lik$200,000 in respect of while to suminen help.
the Prošl and Loss Arcaunt.“
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The women are busy engaged in unpacking the sleeping kits and
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The girls wash and dry, Nut for
away the en since the bottos of their ft with grass are. *3*34* arctantulating fungi burned away, they then polish the smoked hull with grass mons.
Coroner Returns Findings In
Death Of Banishee
Hon Shek-choi, 20-year-old, life banishee, who was shot by PC 1906 Chu Fong at the Shum Chun Rivor bridge as he was attempting to escape Into Chinese territory on the night of August 7 fast, was the subject of an inquest conduct- ed by Mr. W. H. Latimor at Kówlóon yoster- day.
Dr. C. Rendall-Short of the Kowloon Hospital, in the course of her evidence, gave as her opinion that "if the deceased had been received earlier at the Kowloon Hospital his chances of sur- viving would have been much greater." She added, "I would not say that he would have recovered."
4t the conclusion of the in- | quiry, at which Divisional Superintendent N. B. Fraser and Inspector W. E. B. Howel (Officer-in-Charge of Frontier Stations) represented the police, the coroner returned the following finding:
Shipping Briefs
Bolt by bolt the Dutch pas- "Deceased was n life banishes senger cargo line: Melchior who had returned from the Chin-Treub is being broken up for
ese territories to the British ter-
ritories, and had been apprehend- the scrapheap as she lies in ed by the police at Man Kan To. the placid waters of Cheung He was in the charge room and Shu Won Bay. endeavoured to escape to a bridge leading to the Chinese territories which was only a few feet from this place.
and
Formerly Dutch Navy trans- port, the 3,342-lon vessel has been disposed of by her owners last month 'to local Chinese marine
"The police constable. In charge establishment, when it was de- This and many others mak the of the post was 1908, Chu Fong. cided that a refitting of the former natural harbour of Aberdeen, or|lle endeavoured to prevent the luxury liner would be too costly.
When her top portion has been the decersed, "Little Hong Kong"-the originat escape of site of the Colony thele sane- threatened to shoot If the de- entirely denuded, she will be tuary. At dawn, one can see the ceased did not stop. The de beached for the final breaking huge junks, surrounded by their censed persisted and, despite the
Sullt in 1912 at Rotterdam, and respective familles of
campana, caution given him, endeavoured vessel," the Dutch liner operated known then as fast, modern taking the breeze towards the to reach the Chinese territories With good weather through the barrier.
Line's the Royal Packet
Intra laland service in the East Indies. She was converted into a naval transport during the war.
open waters.
prevalling, the rising sun usually see an emply horboux.
Towards dusk, one can see them trickling into the placid waters of the Bay, and by nightfall, Aber- deen Bay in just one of the land hubbubs, complete with mobile hawkers La sampons. rowing musicians and of course, the shadowy ladies of the night.
Anti Rabic Inoculations Proposed
as ü
in the
A Triffe High
En roule to Hong Kong last "In order to prevent this escape month, the Melchior Treub was the constable fired a shot at the
severely battered by rough seas, escapee's legs which went a trifle A six-foot snake was discovered high and resulted in wounduz aux in one of her holds on her arrival, in the Intestines. It was from this here. wound and the resultant shock') that the deceased died,
"No blame is attached to the constable, who was only carrying nut his duty."
PC Chu sald that he was in- vited by the Chinese gendarmes to cross the bridge, after the shooting.
The 19 officers and 40 Indang- sian crew were repatriated after the sale, which was reported to reach as high as HK$300,000.
HMS London is due to leave for Shanghai on Monday,
Hung
On higher ground some of the girls. wearing wide-brimmed rattan topres, sort sheknps and
That the death of 27-year-old smail Ach, left over after delivers
Erik Nielsen, seaman of the at the Aberdeen markets, and salt
As soon as he was in Chinese Danish steamer Laura Minersk Some are for them separately.
territory, said witness, ho was held was a simple ease of suicide" was their personal consumption, but
Compulsory anti-rabic ino-by the gendarmes and, later, sent the opinion derived at after an most go to ready - buyers among
Consul, to Canton where he was delcathod inquiry by the Danish culation of all dogs Aberdeen's fishing community.
until November 9, Colony.
condition of
Konk
yesterday Well-To-Do Families
The seamon was seen by some licensing, was recommended by An exhibition of photographs! This group is one of the well-to-the committee appointed by the formed of the incident
at 11 a.m. on December 12 when the vessel -and-charts, showing the organisa-do fishing families, us evidenced Governor in March last to con- pan, and went to
was en route from of trade unions in Briinin, by the number of sampans and the sider control measures against Kam To where ho made efforts Manila to the Colony.mp
ta contact the senior genderine will open at the Public Relations size of the junks,
rabies.
officer lu
An hour of searching by Shum Chun. He was Office lecture roen on Saturday. Where the waters are shallow The committee added that the
permitted to cross over to Chinese launch was unsuccessful in find- The Saturday session will be for the thuther junks the sam-luoculations should be carried out territory where he interviewed in the boxy, open only to invited guests-ru- pans will venture forth and lines, during the period immediately
Mr. Nielsen halted from Copen- presentatives of the two Labour sometimes nets, are used.
before the hot weather between
hagen.
Lion
BUICK
once every few months,
DS Fraser said that he was in-
shortly colleagues jumping from the stern
In junter officer.
Mot
Nothing Could Be Done
a
run of the
Federations-who will be-shown i During "roosting time," the nets January and April It BUERS a special im made by the Union are hung up from the masts to that date fcensing should be
The British of Postal Workers in Briluju.
steamer Halyang dry. If time permits, some slier-altered from January 1 to May 1. On Sunday the exhibition will men will dye them agdla with The committee did not recoin- On this ficer telling him that has been specially chartered for a be open to the pubile between bank full for preservation, This, mend the compulsory inoculation nothing could be done that night trip to Shonghal, it was learned 10.30 am, and 12.30 p.m. and 2.30 however, is periodical, normally animals, which they did not con- asked whether the wounded nian
of cats and other susceptiblu about the pollen constable, witness yesterday. She is on her way, now. pum, and 4,30 pan.
She was formerly on the Fou- |sider practicable owing to the could be removed to the British chow-Hong
Kong dileulty of licensing
these territories and then to the Kow-Douglas Steamship Company, and animals,
icon flospital.
recently on the Swatow service. As regards monkeys, hotser und
"I pointed out that all Chinese The Halyang, according to local cattle, the committee considered wounded on the border, whether schedule, la due to depart for that as they were already under they be civilians or military or Swatow only on Decembeer 27, control generally, there is little gendarmes, were sent to the dunger of rabies among them.
Kowloon Hospital for treatment It was crumated that there are as there appeared to be no pro- Designed for modern sea-going 14,500 dogs in the Colony, of per facilities at Shum Chun for enjoyment, the sa. Media and as. which 0,250 are ilcensed. Four treatment of wounded men," said Parthia, described as the "ships of inoculation centres, two in Hong witness.
tomorrow," are the first new pas- Kong and two in Kowloon, were DS Fraser said that he waited senger liners to enter the post- recommended, Cost of έδιο until after midnight when,, not war fleet of Cunard While Star. schenie should be borne by the receiving a reply, he returned to The 13,350-ton public in the form of increased British territories, instructing, of measures 635 feet long with a 70- liners cach fees or licensing of dogs.
the site time, the ambulance to foot beam. They have only first The committee also recommend-drive back to its bosa.
class accommodation. ed, among other measures of con- "In trol, the thorough, elluinatien of
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Informed o publiefty campaign ta uruusg
by Inspector Howel that the public to a consciousness of the wounded man had been sent here from the Strails today with
to the Takuling Station." the danger of rables.
Immigrants en route to Swatow On August 9, concluded witness, and Amoy.
he saw the gendarme chief at
She has 644 through deck pas-
New Delhi, December 15 The Governments of India and Shum Chun, and discussed the In-sengers and 21 Chinese cabin Rumania have decided to estab-cident, but was told that the class. The Annul will leave Hong be released Kong.after a few hours in local
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