Kwangsi Regional Office For JCRR Programme
Reminders
Today
Lawn Bowls League matches, ab
all clubs.
VRC-Eastern
^^ Inter-Club Swimming Galn, 9.30 p.n. USRC Swimming Gala at Euro-
pean YMCA, 7.30 p.m. Bathing Picnic to Silverstrand
beach, Europeni YMCA, 2.30, p.11.
Int.guration of new
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1049.
Airborne Pilgrims Visit HK
Dr. Paul C., Ma, fecently appointed Kwangsi Ro- gional Roproientative for the Joint Commis- sion on Rural Reconstruction, arrived at Kwailin yesterday to set up the Regional Office and to arrange a fullor implementa-headed tion of the JCRR programme.
Catholic pilgrims from Spain by Monsignor Jose Lopez Ortiz, Bishop of Tuy, after participating in the 400th
An official announcement yesterday said that seed unhlversary of Saint Francis
multiplication, rinderpest control and fertilis-Xavier's landing in
er demonstration projects financed out of a previous U.S.$20,000 allocation are under way in Kwangsi.
In addition, 250
tons of
now
Rosary medical supplies have been Another Fatal
Church Club, 20 Chatham Ioad, 0.30 p.m.
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Coming Events
TOMORROW
Club, Classical Concert, Talbot House, 30, Macdonneli Itod, 8.45 pin. HK Art Club, Sketching Party, members to Assemble at Queen's Pler, 2.30 p.m. Beach Picule to Silverstrand bench, European YMCA, 2.30
p.m.
MONDAY Whist Drive, European YMCA,
8.30 p.m.
Crown Land Sale, PWD Offee,
3 p.m.
TUESDAY
Bridge Drive, European YMCA,
on
shipped to Nanning for dis- tribution to various medical institutions in Kwangai and Yunnan and for use In the rural public health programme sponsor in JCRR plans Kwangsi.
to
A water buffalo purchasing project, two Irrigation projects and pasture Improvement pro- Jeet are also being considered for assistance. A total of US$230,000
the has been earmarked for pro- jects...Final approval depends on clarification or project details following Dr. Ma's talk with persons concerned in Kwangal
the
The Kwangs Provincial Gov- emment, on behalf of the bene
atted localities, has guaranteed to match JCRR funds for hssistance in the water buffalo and irriga
8.30 p.m. HK Rotary Club, 181k
"Forestry by Mr. Tamworth, tion projects.
Root Garden, K Hotel,
12.30 p.m.
Urban Council meeting, GPO
Building, 4.15 p.m.
Deported For The Sixth Time
Grant-In-Aid
The JCRN funds will be a grant-in-ald to the people of Kwangel. To the Individual re- elplant, however,
funds
and
the
Furat Local
will be fant, To stimulate con. structive Attention nesds
encourage articipation the JCRR plans to Kwangs Rural Re- construction Foundation posed of men who have made Outstanding contributions in re- struction work,
com.
The loans will be repaid to this Foundation.
The funds will bo used exclusively in Kwangsi Pro- vince.
Rabies Case
A Further fatal
of CHRO animal rables was recorded during the week ended June 4. according to the weekly Health Return réleased yes. terday.
Thle brings the total cases of rabies since the beginning of the your to 10 fatal caser
human --two
and aight animel.
The Return Alsa showed an
increase of measles In the Colony. Ten casas, with and death were registared. In the Samo week, there were 64 deaths from tuberculosl
Total deaths from al causes during the perled under review was 340 as againit 817 births.
DISPUTE
OVER HOTEL
ROOM AIRED
The Waldorf Hotel, 6 Cause- way Road, was awarded judg- been deported five times, came funds were lent out to projects at Mr. Justice Scholes, Acting before Mr. Thomas Tam a six per cent interest a year. The Puisne Judge, at the Supreme Central yesterday on charites of loaris
an action against are to be repaid to the Court in Jarceny from person and breacl: | Hunan Rural Reconstruction John J. Holland, an occupant of deportation order.
Foundation, to
to form a revolving of the Waldorf. fund. Loans may then be made by the Foundation year after your to individual farmers or organisa. tions for the improvement of the Janners' welfare.
A 16-year-old boy who hadi In Ilunan, similor grant-in-aidment with costs yesterday by
Defendant was sentenced to six months on the first charge, and 12 strokes of the cane and re- deportation on the second,
Independent Body
An
The prosecution stated that on Thursday, complainant. Don
The Hunan Foundation in Brown, a sailor USS St. Paul, independent, non-government or- was walking along Queen's Road ganiation. It was established as Central, opposite the Hong Kong Hotel.
Plaintiffs claimed the sum of $728, being rent in arrears be. tween April 22 and June 13. The action arose out of the type and consequent size of room which Holland occupied, which was dis- puted by both sides.
Japon
mada a two-hour stay in the Colony yesterday before re- turning to their homeland.
Bishop Ortiz who arrived at Kal Tak at 2 pm, from Jupan by way of Marila brought with him the original crucifix of Saint Francis Xavier, a holy relic of the Roman Catholic Church and patrimony of the Royal House of Spain.
by the "Chlat Interviewed Mall" at the airport the Bishop sold that the traditional Japanese
is now religion
on the down grade, However, the Catholic faith which has been surpressed by the Japanese Government fo- the past few hundred years is now gaining the confidence of the people, he added.
He sald that ever since the liberation an Increasing number of Japanese have become Catho- 1ica.
Biggest Delegation
Sentenced
Extortionist
To Ten-Year Term
"You have pleaded guilty to two of the most des-` picábla offences,” declared the. Puisne Judge, Mr. Justice. Williams, at the Criminal Sessions yesterday as ha sentenced Law Kwai, alias Law Chung-on, for demanding money with
manacos.
Accused, charged with one count each of uttering a letter demanding money with menaces and possession of a threatening letter demanding $3,000 from Lau Choi-kwai on April 14, was given 10 years' hard labour. According to Crown Coun- sel. Mr. A. Hooton, who pro- secuted, the old lofter was addressed to Lau Chol-kwal in the Ping Shan District, New Territories, on receipt of the letter complainant handed if over to the police. The letter also hinted at what complain- ant would get if he did not comply with its demand.
Collector Shot
The letter, further stipulated a time and place where the money should be delivered. Consequently the police set men on watch on that date, After some time, a nat called to receive the money in question, On receiving a signa: from the complainant, the police- men immediately closed in on the man, who started running.
The police fired and, hit; the
The religious leader also said that the Spanish pilgrimage was the biggest delegation among all the nations attending the anniverfugitive, who eventually died.
sary".
The delegation has the distinc- tion of being the first religious party to made a round the world prigrimage by Bla
The party arrived in Japan on May 28 where atter attending the anniversary they made a 20-day tour of Catholic shrines in South. cra Honshu and Kyushyu.
The delegation left Japan for Maria on June 13. During their short atny in the capital of th Philippine
Republic they were received by President Elpidio Quirino.
They
left for Calcutta at 4 p.m. yesterday by PAA en route to Madrid.
The acensed wor arrested on April 20 in Kowloon City. His handwriting was found by a hand- writing expert to coincide with that on the threatening lotter.
Got Money
By False Pretences
Official Notices, aged 25, charged with obtain-
Appointments
Sequel To Fatal Accident
A traffic accident in which a tax was involved and which resulted in the death of its oc-
upant. Miss Nellie Lee, aged
28 and serious injury to the driver, hnd its sequel before Mr. Blair Kerr at Kowloon yes- terday.
The defendant, Yip Ko, driver, of the Peninsula Taxi Co, pleaded emit? to a charge of driving with- out due care and caution and was fined $500. Hls driver's le- enec
suspended for months.
was
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According to the prosecution at 4.30 p.m. on June 5 defendant was driving taxi No 4346 along Taipo Road in the direction of Taipo. The taxi, was hired by Miss Nellie Lee at Nathan Roul and the driver was told to take her to Talpo.
Forty-Foot Drop
After passing Shatin Vilingr the taxi was approaching a bridge at Mau Lui. While making a turn the taxi plunged off the rond onet
A sentence of one year's fell 40 feet below. The accident hard labour and re-banish-was not discovered until two ment was passed on Wong hours later when the driver Kwok-hung. alias Wong Yiu, crawled out of the tax),
taxi When the
was located, Miss Lee was already dead. The ing money by false pretences,
driver was seriously injured on burglary and breach of a de-
the head and was taken to the portation order, by Mr. Hin-Kowloon Hospital. He was de- shing Lo at Central yesterday. Įtained in hospital until Thursday. The name of Mux Quang has The prosecution stated that on At the place of the accident the bren added to the List of Author-May 4, defendant went to a street road was only 15 feet wide, nar- Ised Architects.
the hawker, Chan Yinz-poon, at Bel-rowing considerably from cher Street, and obtained $50 width of Taipo Road. Mr.
Defendant was travelling at 22 Berhard Joseph Burke from him by falsely protending Morahan has been appointed Or-that he was an employee of the miles per hour. At that time an- ganiser of Physical Education
Department, and that other vehicle was coming fram with effect from January 1, 1847.
could get Chan a job as a sani- the opposite direction and defen- dant slowed down to 20 Bes Miss Marjory Ann, Grant has
tary coolle.
per hour. Defendant was not well been appointed a Senior Nursing
It was further revealed that on
Defendant is Sister with effect from March June 3, defendant broke into the cuainted with the road,
a married man sanitary coolles quarters at Bel with three children and is ex- cher Street, and stole clothings pectine a fourth. He had no mones valued at $87 from several aani for bail which is $1,000 and his Amployers put up the ball for him.
The Waldorf Hotel was repre- sented by Mr. C. Y. Kwan, The condition of assistance, to defendant was not legally repre- Hunan projects in the contract sented and conducted the defence between the Hurinn Provincial
person. Defendant came from behind Government and the JCRR.
1048. Mr. Kwan told the Court that and extracted $45 from the com Dr. Paul Ma will discuss the es- the defendant occupled room plainant's pocket. Complainant tablishment of such a Foundation, classified as "C" type, for which noticed defendant's action, and with Kwangsi leaders as well ar he had to pay $14 a day. Holland Immediately cought hold of his new programmes for future con- however clained that he did not sideration. These programmes in-occupy a "C" type room, but one This was seen by Mr. F. X. d'- clude projects for the limitation of of a "D" type. Defendant also Almada, magistrate of the Cen-land holdings, land rent reduc-maintained that the area of the tral Magistracy, who immediately tion and strengthening of farmers' room he occupied was less than
to the associations. over
Dr. Mo.
a native of Kwangsi,
amm.
handed defendant police.
Victimised Street Stalls
100 square feet.
Mr. Kwan revealed that a "C" type room was permitted to take in two occupants, but
that tho
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Misses Eva May Hill ad Edith Townsend and Mrs. Elizabethitdry coolles. Ellis have also been appointed to be Senior Nursing Sisters.
Mr. Robert John Mistit has Бост Appointed to be Defence Secretary with effect from Surte
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Defendant has one. previous conviction, and is a returned banis hec.
AMÁH'S BAIL ESTREATED
ball of $10 estreated,
a graduate of Nanking University
Mr. Raymond Henry Woodman A. 30-year-old mah, Ho Chu, and a Ph. D. in Agriculture from
has been appointed, to act as an hud her Cornell University in the United person at $7 a day. Counsel moin-
"D" type was only for a single Executive Engineer with effect when she failed States. He formerly served Senior Expert in the National tained that the room defendant fran May 13. Agricultural
pocupled was over 100 square feet Research Bureau where he worked on the breeding in area.
Floor Measurements Yuen Chuen, allas Pin Tau-ot better wheat, sugar cane and
Evidence was then given by manager of the
chuen, and Chan Ha, allas HaHe was later, Director of the Yu Kol-leung Tsai, were sentenced to one Department of Agriculture in the Waldorf Hotel, in the course of year's imprisonment each by Ministry
of Agriculture and which he stated that when the Mr. F. X. d'Almada at Cen-Forestry. Dr. Ma has been lent defendant came in he took a room tral yesterday when they wore to the JCRR from BOTRA where of the "C" type for $14 a.day, found guilty on charges of de- he is Director of AMOMO. manding money with menscca.
PICKPOCKET GAOLED
Witness denled
ho
Messrs. Yung Shou-wing and Wai Chit-ming have been ap- pointed to be Food Omeers.
Mr. Leon T. Garela has been provisionally recognised as Vice- Consul for the Republic of the Philippines at Hong Kong.
consscated..
on Thursday, were ordered to be coniscated.
Ball of $10 was estreated.
Defendant had a driver's licence for more than 10 years.
WATCHMAN CHARGED
The case of Wong Tal, walch-
When defendant failed, th
the money.
After Chan Lam and Chan Chuen had given evidence thi case was adjourned to Monday,
to answer the man who was charged on three charge of importing. 20 tacls of hunts of obtaining money by gold valued at about $2,800, be- false pretences was heard before fore Mr. Hin-shing Lo at Central Mr. Blair Kerr at Kowloon yes-
terday. yesterday.
Defendnot on the pretext of She was
searched on board the getting employment. for Chau ES. Kwong Tung at Yuen On Lam. Chan Chuen and Wong Hi Wharf on Thursday. The gold was obtained $187 and stated that he found hidden in her choo9.
enuld get them employment as The gold was ordered to be watchmen at Kai Tak, it was, al-
·leged. Twenty, facts, also valued at Mr. T. R. G. Fletcher, Chad about $2,100, found that it was a
on a cook. diun Foreign Service Officer..has Liu Chan, of the las., Kwang Salcomplainants asked him to return D" type room.
Witness further sald
that
been appointed Canadian Govern measured the door and found Itment Assistant Trade Commis
sloner at Hong Kong with ellect to be. 103.8 square feet.
Holland said in evidence that
from June 19. For picking the pocket of a he himself also measured the According to the statements man at the counter of the Kow-room and folind it to be only '94.3 made by defendants, they had loon Godown, Teang Hung, aged square feet. He maintained it was
collecting money
28, was given ning months, by Mr. a "D" type told the Court that | Limited, 'will be struck off the from various: fish and neat stalls in Blair Kerr at Kowloon Festerday.
On Thursday, at the counter of he had agreed to pay $14 a dog Centre Street amounting to $75 the Kowloon Godown, defendant because he had week... for the past, four to five went behind a crowd of people hotel's word that the room was
accepted months: They said the money and extracted $30 from a man's "C" type. But when found it was would go to members of the pocket. The man caught hold of not so on measuring the area, he police for protectión;"
him arid, defendant throw, the stated, he contested the rates. money away. Defendant had no right to be in the promises.
Defendant was also recom- mended for deportation.,
Prosecution revealed that defen- dani were arrested on June 18; dri information received.
beca
"This matter is at prosent under investigation," said the prosecut- ing off/cor, Inspector Thomas.
In
First Aussie-Built Jet Planes For RAAF
Sydney, June 16.
The first Australian-built jet plános will fly with the Royal Australian Air Force shortly, the AiriMíñistol) Mr. A. S. Drakeford, announced freretet
The RAAF ordered 50 jet Vampire aircraft of the latest design and among the fastest jets in the world.
Exports regards the Australian-
Defendant
room.
the
The Built-In Cupboard Mr. Kwon then brought the Court's attention to the tact, that there was a built-in cupboard in the room in question. If this was taken into consideration;. Ha ádd- ed, the entire area of the room would comprise more than 100 rquare feet In bred.
Holland admitted that he did not take that, into account the built-in cupboard when he mea- sured his room, “
Giving his deckion; Mr. Scholes
Unloss cause, is shown to the contrary within three months, the Ping Sing Knitting Company.
Register of Companies.
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CEMETERY CASE ADJOURNED
The case against Clementino Maria Alanario, aged 60, sex- ton of the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley, and Margaret Tse, aged 48, a mar- rled woman, was brought-be- fore Mr. Hin-shing Lo at Cen- trál yesterday.
First defendant was charged with. forgery of butial certia- eate on February 18, and posses- sion of the forged document; while second defendant was charged ruled that a definition of a floor with alding and abetting. did not include built-in cup- Mr. A1, Artuin represented boards, but was increly the area both defendants. on which people walked. Con- After, evidence was given by sequently, the room, occupied by Detective Sub-Inspector, M. Saul. the defendant was less than 100 the case was adjourned to June square feet and was a "D" type 24.
1 Defendants are on ball of $1,- room, chargeable at 37 a day.
He owarded judgement in 000 and $500, respectively. favour of the Waldorf Hotel in [the sum of 6304-and-costs of the
actfor
SIX MONTHS FOR ESCAPE
BBC TECHNICIAN TO VISIT MACAO
Mardo, June 17,
A British Broddcasting Corpora- tion technician is expected here from London shortly on the invi- tation of the Macão Propaganda Department.
He tans born invited here lo
Air Force pilots have trained' A naval spokesman and that for three months on British lets the Australian light aircraft car
Preparation for the Vampires, rler, HMAS Sydney, might pos- Rolls-Royce sibly be equipped later with det Nowered with
enginee, the fighters will Seo Vampires produced in Aus- leave the production line at a
a. De trailo. Havilland factory in Sydney | at the tale of one a month The
On a charge of coping from Austrailan Jots can be fitted with bullt bets, as a marked advance in legal custody, Chaung Woon was Tou-tange talks, bomb and roc-aviation Industrial pochnique for given ex months by Mr. Blair
thly counter. Filztenlly Ita not Defendant eposped · frem, the study len poelbility of increa In March later yeter" vám- begin"large-scale manufacturing Talpo Police dion on June 1 the payment, the Macho Radio Birds sample of nutude of plages until World War II The polles received Information Club (dtation. radio, or 59,291) Photo Thaka bih when 335 33 progliced mode ether of defendant's whereabout and ho, The Station, recently received
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