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DECISION RESERVED IN
LAND COMPENSATION CASE
The
The
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of
Hearing Of ShopDispute Continues
Board of Arbitrators at the Supreme Court tho yesterday reserved their decision on amount of compensation to be paid to own. ors of various lots of land in the Contral Districe which were resumed by the Crown. Board comprises the Chairman, Sir Leslie Gibson (Chief Justice), Mr. J. E. Richardson, Chartered Surveyor, and Mr. G. W. Grey, nominated by the Chairman on behalf of the former owners of the land in question.
The defence opened yester- Mr. William C. Low is Clerk on the subject, he went on, would day before Mr. Justice, Wil- to the Board.
be contained in the legal authority Hams in the dispute over the
question The Board was appointed in dealing with
with the occupation of No. 78, Queen's
Road Central. order to determine the amount covonance which runs
land. of compensation to be paid in Mr. Sva mald that it has been
/he The respect of the land which the agreed by the Crown that
defendunt, Dewanda: Crown resumed on January 13 Tensen in Wing Lee Street, withPartabrai, tanding as the King's this year.
the exception of No. 22, carried Silk Store, decupying the Western Mr. E. IL Sainsbury, Deputy no covenance to repair the wall portion of the premises was sued Regis rar General, was for the in question. This, he added, also for obstruction and interference with plaintif, Leung Sal-po, Crown.
Mr. M. A. da Silva ra- applied to Nos. 18 and 46 Bridges
trailing
the Sul Fong Company. presented the owners of 10 lots. Street.
The lots in question aro In After quoting several author-occupying the Eastern half of the Any objection to the pro- Bridgen Street, and are Nos, 39-00, itles on the matter, Mr. Silva shop, Leung sought a declaration at of the Court that he was a tennal posed change of name must be while the rest, in Wing Lee Street, submitted legal arguments sent to the REGISTRAR OF are Nos. 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20 and langth, aflet which L N. Chau, of the premises.
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At the commencement of yetion of land in Hong Kong, stater ода been
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The landlord of the premises Ho Kwan-sut, gave evidence yes terday that Leung noved into premises a year before the Japan. ese surrender.
Opening the case for the du fence. Mr. D. A. 1. Wright sald no trancy existed between Leung no rest from Leung. It his part- ner Mohan had received any rent,
it was without Dewandan then knowledge or authority,
tion and Valuation Ofeer. Who $1200, por xijuare foot was bad, Dewandas who han received had the day before testified as to having valuated the land accord- ing to previous Crown land valus- tions
Mr. A. H. MacBrkige, Execu- tive Engineer of the Ronds Office of the P.W.D., then testified that towards the end of May, 1048, an engineer who happened to see the condition of the retaining wall in the vicinity of the area of the lets concerned, reported to him that there was a dangerous par'
68-62 to the South of
Bridges Street.
Chau then submitted reasons an to how he reached the amounts for the valuations of the lote, and added that land value since 1932 had increased generally.
After Mr. Sainsbury and Mr. Silva had given closing submis sions, the Board reserved its de-
cision,
STUDENT HELD ON OPIUM CHARGE
As Caretaker
Leung was Mr. Wright said
.centrat partion of the premises in May allowed the use of the 1945 after a few burglaries and occurred, and he was admitted as a caretaker only. There was not
the slightest intention on the part of defendant to let any portion of the premises.
Among three defendants who came up before Mr. F. X.
When Dewandas went to India d'Almads at Central yesterday on holiday, he took in biphan as on charges of possession of a partner to look citer the busi- two opium pipes, three lamps ness during his absence. Mohan and a quantity of prepared had no authority to let the pre- gave Leung notice to quit before opium was a student, Wu Sai-mises. In fact he and Mohan both cheung.
he left for India, but when he two defen- returned he found One of the other
Leung stil dants, Chan Kon-yiu, aged 40,
occupying the shop. He refused pleaded guilty and was fined $4,- to accept rent from Leung und P
three months' again gave him notice to quit,
Outcome of Landslide After visiting the place himself, MacBridge continued. he reported the matter to the Director af On inspec ion, the Public Works, dangerous condition was found to Jandslide be the outcome of which was taking place, and which would endunger property and the North side of Caine Road.
Wi ness said that in his opinion the landslide was caused by the
Wu, who was additionaly charg- excavation · on 68-02 Bridges
ed with being landlord of the Street, during which the support
premises, and the third defendant, of the embankment existing at the Heung, an amah, pleaded not time had been removed, The
guilty and were rumanded until wall itself, he added, was in Wing June 25. Lee Street. It later collapsed due to the landslide,
on
Mr. Y. K. Kan represented all defendants.
SENTENCED FOR STEALING CHILD
boy
four
Replying
* question, Mac- Bridge told the Board that the si'e in question could not be deve- loped in its state at the time. To develop it, it would been neces- sary to remove, the debris there,
For stealing a which, in doing so, would increase years of age on June 2 at No. the dangers of further landslides.
Shanghat Street, Witness, went on to say that the floor, Chan Ching, embankment WAS subsequently
hored up early in June, immo-aged 34, was sentenced to six diately after the matter had been months by Mr. J. Wicks discovered. It was done before Kowloon yesterday. any question of resumption had fira been raised.
It was definitely an urgent Job, he added, as it had to be com- pleted before the summer rains came.
to three.
350
(rat woman
Mr., Wright contended that no and th. substance of the agreement be tween the party was that it creat- ed plaintif a licensee only, and not a tenant.
tenancy over existed,
Further hearing was adjourned to this morning.
DONATIONS ACKNOWLEDGED
Receipt of the undernoted Church at donations to the Union
acknow- Rebuilding Fund are ledged by the Treasurer: Defendant took the boy to a previously acknowledged $43,711 woman named Ko So, a relative, and placed the child in her house. The Twins After two days, defendant decid- Mr. & Mrs. G.E. Marden et not to sell the child and took In Memory of A. J. M. L
Canton the boy home.
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Mr. Silva then rose and opened The magistrate in imposing In Memory of late David
Mann his case, in the course of which sentence said that if she lind 8-14| he told the Board that the issues the child, she would have been 'b' concerned could be narrowed down glver two years.
regards Bridges Stree and Wine Leg Street he stated, the issues were the Crown valuation of the place and the valuation set forth by him.
Third Issue
The third issus, Mr. Silva went Building. 1st floor, Hong Kong.en, was one of law, as to whether the cost of the construction of the walls and the clearing of tho debris could be deducted in valua tion put by the Crown. The Inw
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well enough That all seemed
It seemed extra good
THEY MUST BE PLAYED BRIDGE HANDS are not auto- at first. matic machines, All the careful to him wher the heart 3 was led figuring in the world to ascertain and he saw the dummy. Play- the number of tricks which willing the A should limit him to Then be taken is theoretical. It is down three, he thought. worth doing, very much BO. But he saw the additional chance that to determine what actually hap- West might have led from the was the case, you have to realise that heart K." If that everal other factors are in op- the & play would limit him to cration.
is uncontrollabic down two, he estimated. So ha that the cards happen tried the Q East of course won, the way to be dealt to the other
rattled off three, clubs, led a hands. The other in
in subject to control fourth for South to ruff and West 10, after y either the decliner or the de- over-ruff with the fenders--the plays attempted by which the spade A and K and scored to give the one side or the other. In other diamond A
and put words, every hand has to be ac- defenders eight tricks
him down five, for a total cost tually played.
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and be down only three-n worthwhile 500 point sacrlilee 1 $45,431 against a vulnerable game.
North couldn't take any, then the opponents could make a vulner- able alam, he reckoned.
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