RICE RETAIL SALES IN GOVERNMENT MARKET
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To ensure that the public will benefit from any
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sale of cheap Government rice, stalls will be opened in Government, markets in future for retail sale, said Mr. J. F. Nicoll, the Colonial Secretary, in Législative Council yesterday. Mr. Nicoll was answering questions asked by Mr. T. N. Chou in regard to criticisms in the Press over price of Government rice, and unavail- ability of cheap stock rice to the public from recent Government releases.
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in a long statement explain-, market without loss unless there ing Government's position re- is price difference of garding the rice ration and $10.00 rice supplies, Mr. Nicoll said: "The Colony receives an allo- cation of rice from the Interna- tional Emergency Food Commit- allocations come 1 and those
come Burma almost exclusively from rad Slam. The prices wo have to for these supplies are get- My sin our control, but we have uraloubledy beneßled in the past from the negotiations mode on CB2 petals and on behalf of other Clonies by the British Ministry
The sugkention may be imme tant the free market price should ¦ be controlled. This is undescalife so long as free market supplies are plentiful because a musimuta controlled price would tend to keep up the cost to enrumers so long as the natural price is below
price of ralloned rice.
HK Light Orchestra Singers' re- | of Food
heart, St. John's Cathedral hal, 7.30 p.m.
SATURDAY
thes
"Bulk purchases are made by Ministry for us, and the price we have to pay is agrees in ad- vance for periods of six months, "Both Siam and Burma Impor Socant Evening at Hea:karters
Lark Forces, Sergeants"xport duties on rice.
cent Mees, Queen's Road, Eust, koned that the cast of 15 per
broken Slam White Rice, which 4.30 pm.
the better grades we Bearb pregle, is one European YMCA
Silverstrand beach, 2.30 pm,ceive and is used to meet the Diocesan Boys' School Classical vice ration, is $51.28 o picul in- Into the Concert for Servicemen, 8.15 churive of all charges
godown in the Colony and the allowing for an average of six
3.m.
Summer School Closes
The Teachers Summer School at the Catholic Regitand Semin
any, Aberdeen, elised yesterday when further lectures were given. to primary school teachers.
Following a fecluse during yes i
by Mr. terday's morning session Wong Tak-fi, Prefect of Studies at Wah Your College, Mr. D. J. 9. Croses, of the Ethuration De- partment, proposed a vnite THE
thanks to the returer.
He congratulated Mr. Wong on:
irantha' storage charges.
must be added
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"To this ents per picul for coolie charges from stack to scale and weighing out the bogs when the ples is issued. The final cost is thus $51,52 a picul..
"On the other hand, when the natural price of free market rice rises, statutory control would.
No: could keep supplies away. an effective controlled
price be worked out because of the farge of varieties and gracles numbers of or rice available. Different prices for different grades would only result in the grades being mixed and control being evaded.
"Pump Priming"
to
"It
more eflective "pump prime" the free mari ket with Government stocks the force down and thereby markel price.
"Government is awiure that this method of "pump prbing in- volves a ime-lag of some days before it can be effective
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steps are being taken to ensure that my future rise in the free met by market price will be
of "The rice is then distributed swift
releases
Government on behalf
of Governant uy stocks. the firm of Wing We Hing to To ensure greater effective. more than 150 retail ration
of such measures, stalls will chopa. The distributer's gross | be opened in Government mar- commission in 90 cents a pleut.kets where space is available for or below two por cent of the direct retail sales to the public,
It is also proposed cost. The retailer's commission
reconsider is $2 a picut or under taur per
which the analysis of cents on cent. There are very resonable the price of vation rice is based margins on which to work at to see whether any reduction can they have to cover överbande be made, but I cannot hold ont as well as profits.
much hope of rellef on this scure. very .*We are dependent in a very autside large extent on factors our control. These are the f. 9. 5. prices in Slum and Burma. It is these not possible to abandon countries as cources of supply for we cannot rely on the continuity or the adequate volume of sup- ples from elsewher."
Basis For Price
analysis on "The cost
which
the time, care and great thought, these figures are based involve n that he had devoted to prepong few items which can only be es- his actress, and congratulated timates, such as storage charges the Etudents
Ue Summer:
of landing the cost
and and School on being privileged to
These
particular address so helpful literare.
Agmco
perhaps err on the side But in practice it has to the found that prior
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for their work.
Mr. Crosier said that he was
impressed by the enthurinsin shown by the
of caution,
N
1947-48 Government year tenchers for the
about covered what it expentled
course ho believed that it was
as
the mark of a good teacher always.n rice and it is not anticipated
to be working to be a better one, and of o bak 1 teacher
to be satisfied to remain as he is.
will show any different result. I is on the basis of these figures and similar
that fultire accounts
In the name of all the teachera caler
calculations for other grades of
present
Stumese and Burmese rice, that the ration price of 54 cents a
he expressed gratitude to Fr. Marahan, S. J. for enabling them to improve their work by ently has been arrived at. what they were
were learning at the
"Free market rice is inserted Summer School,
freely by merchants and is th ble "Such Tenure is particularly to market fluctuations in price. It
variety of useful in helping that profession.
us to realise
of consists
Thi
we are, members of it great and qualities but the must pop- In our hands rests ar and the one which is not the responsibility not only 4[
comparable to the zalica closely instructing children, but also of
gracles is Kam Fung Suel tenching them how to use this
grade normally sells at a retal knowledge, of teaching them how price below the relull price of to distinguish what is true fromation rice, and one effect of this
hus
That, been
post over the welve months,
the radon off- take has only been about 30 par cent of the theoretical ration re quirement except for two short perlods, one in April and again at the end of May and beginning' of June.
what is false. We are much - delted to Mr. Wong for the help he has given us today," he con- cluded,
Second Storey Work Afloat Yu Yiu, aged 20, unemploy. ed, of the hillside above Tat
"The period in Aprit, during which the free market price was high was short, and though pre-
three months' imprisonment aried for stealing by Mr. Hin-shing
uboul
European Seamen
In Court
were
James Cameron, of Scotland, aged 39, boatswain, and Vin- cent Zara, of Cardiff. aged 39, seaman, both of the ss. Fort Caribou,
yesterday brought before Mr. F. W. J. Skutil at the Marine Court.
Plending guilty to charges of disobeying a lawful order of the Chief Officer on board by refus- ing to leave a cabin, and being absent without leave, Cameron was fined total of eight days' pay and forfeiture of two days pay by the magistrate,
Zara was charged with being abeent without leave granted by the ship's master on July 18 and July 19, and with continued wil- | ful neglect of duty by absenting himself, between June: 4 and July 17.
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1949.
Fire Alarm
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In the
ovent of fire, re. aldents wEDE be able to call out the Fire Brigade by using using this rendaide tire alarm system. Erection of 50 stan ards have been completed in the Central District.
Cable and Wireless, in charge of the have installation, expect to the system working within
Mail** two weeks-("China Photo).
New Fire Alarm System
is now being Hong Kong equipped with a new and com- pletely up-to-date fire alarm system which will be put into operation. first in the Central district, in a fortnight or su Cable and Wireless Limited who are installing the system for Government, have been pushing the werkt ahead in an endeavour to complete the whole system by the end of the year.
Revenue Reward Fund Approved By Council
The establishment of a Revenue Reward Fund, to control the receipt of proceeds from sale of confircated contraband and fines, and pay. ments of rewards to informen, was approv ed by Legislative Council yesterday.
It was stipulated that payment of rewards to in- formers should not in any one case exceed HK$250 without the consent of the Finon-
to cial Secretary, and is not exceed HK$10,000 without the consent of the Stand- ing Finance Committee of the Legislative Council.
~~It was also súpulated--that-] "This-could-only-be-guessed-nip- In any application to the Fin- and as expenditure, has to be ancial Secretary or to the balanced by revenue, It is undi- sirable to swell the expenditure Council the name of the in
alde of the Budget unnecessarily former need not be disclosed.
by provisions which may never be required.
Explaining to necessity for the
Counci
stablishment
the
"I trust that Honourable Mem- of the Fund, the Financin!bers will agree therefore that time Secretary, Mr. C.G.S. Follows, balance of advantage lica in re. taining the present procedure of- smid:
meeting the payment of rewards "For many years before the- from a special fund."
Fund war
a Revenue Reward was in nxistence, into which were paid the proceeds of sule of con-
scated goods and fines inflicted
fur revenue offences, and out of which were paid rewards lo in- fermary, whose information_led to seizures or confiscations. When the balance of the fund exceeds the extely is a. certain figure,
Burir transferred to, Revenue, some years before the war money had to be voted to prevent the balance from falling too low.
"Recently the Director of Audit pointed out that the operations of the tunet were now on a much Iarger scale than was the case, by- fore the war. In these circums lanees he considered that, al- Though the authority
the the Secretary
State for
establishment Colonics
of
of
of for the of the fund must no doubt have ago, been obtained many yenra
bo such approval. should now confirmett in view of the greatly increased scule of operations.
repre-
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"As a result of these sentations by the Director of Audit the maiter was referred to the Secretary of State who con- siders that the present arrange- cats ensure adequate control by the executive though they do not of themselves provide the same degree of control by the Legia- Hongtature as would be the case it all receipts from the sale of cons. cuted goods were brought to ac- and all pay- cunt as revenue, tents of rewards were charges
an appropriate sub-head of expenditure.
When completed there will be 30
in olanın standards Kong and 50 on the mainland.
The erection of the standards in the street corners has arousedi no little
umong the curiosity populver.
The installation engineers, in- terviewed by the "China Mall," would not describe the working of the r-w system, until the aystem was actually working in the Central district, for fear of interference by irresponsible people.
SENTENCED FOR ASSAULT
to
Thai Official Assaulted
In Canton
Bangkok, July 20. The deputy Foreign Minis- ter-designale disologe today that a Thal Embassy official in Canton was badly beaten by approximately 10 secret Kuomintang police on June
23.
on
An announcement said that Field Marshal: Phibun Bong.
In his capacity as For gram, Bign Minister-designate, Monday called on the Chi- noso Ambasador to ask an Rssurance that there will be 'na recurrence of such an in- cident.United Press.
'Trademark Cases Heard
In Court
The Sam Hsing Factory was Wicks at summoned before Mr. Kowloon yesterday for applying a false description on goods.
Defendant was summoned on four counts of applying false description of goods, in whien Jardine Mutheson and Company
coinplainant. Limited was the and two counts in which Reiss Bradley and Company Liritud was the complainant.
was for Mr. F. D. Hommend Jardines, Mr. P. A. L. Vine for Reiss Bradley and Mr. A. el Ar- culli was for the defence.
"The Secretary of State salu however, that if the adoption of such a system would jeopardise the speed of payments and the secrecy of transactions he would be prepared to agree to the can- tinuance of the present arrange- ment, provided that the authority of Legislative Council was cl DSI Brawn said that on June. and that an annual audit-2 he and another police officer. tained
defen- executed a warrant on ed statement of the transactions.
dant's firm. and there seized a of the Fund was laid before the
quantity of labels.
A scaffolding constructor, Yan cow the Government is strong.
Yu, of 52, Shanghai Street was sentenced by Mr. F. X. d'Almada
four- at Central yesterday to months imprisonment for assault- ing a tram conductor. Inspector. Dewar,
prosecuting told the court that on July 10, the Luu complainant,
Man-kwong,
to
who was a conductor in the third class compartment of a tram ac- cidentally pushed against the do-it fendant,
Defendant became angry, took que a knife and sinshed at the con- ductor on the left wrist.
ly of the opinion that the Re- Verrue Reward Fund should be retained as a revetving Fund. it: considers that this is the only method of using speedy payment
ent which is so tasential, in adminia- and also secrecy tration:
"I such a fund did not exist, would be necessary to provide in the Estimates a sum culculated. to meet the maximum possible. poyment of rewards during the yenr.
Suspects Allege They Were Beaten By Police
In Court yesterday, Mr. W. I. Allegations that they were beaten up by the police.
He was fined six days' pay and torfeiture of two days' pay on the first wet made to take
count. He was given action the plans could the benefit of the doubt on the Fu Street, was sentenced to not be put into effect before the second count, and was cautioned
The next rige by the Couri. price again, felk in prices began in May, and ch Lo at Central yesterday.
the 10th
of that month The prosecution told the court 10,000 bags of Government rice that at 2.15 pro on Tuesday, were issued to retailers through defendant was found searching a the Rlee Merchant Association drawer in a desk in the cabin of and the Rlee Importers Asingla- Mr. Chun Pak-slim, second en- tlon. These Associations afet it gineer of the ss. T
Empire Jamaica. is considered, fully representa- Defendant had entered the tive of the trade. cabin by breaking the
crush
panel at the bottom of the cabin
door, When defendant climbed
out of the broken créel
crisli panel.
but
Various Grades
Evans, niaster of the ss. Fort Caribou, told the magistrata that
he wanted to pay off defendants. Mr. W. R. Hillyer, of the Mar- ine. Department, stated that after hearing evidence from the ship's master and the chief officer, and reading the account វព the ontdial
during their detention and forced to make certain statements admitting their guilt were made by two accused on trial before Mr. Jux- tice Williams, senior Puisne Judge, yesterday.
102, he had decided on bas, cure. The men are Wong Piu, alias Lo Shing, and Chan
It is, for the benefit of the owners and everybody concerned that these men be paid off and re- patriated at the owners expense as undoubtedly the two ratings had upset the complete working
"Various grades" of overn→ complainant: tried to detain him, ment rice were made available
was struck by defendant with a paint scraper. Defendant ther for retull sale at $57.00 $58.70 tried to escape, but was stopped and $48.15a pleuinived that of the ship..
the
"Complaints were
Tat, ship watchman No. 15. this rico was not reaching the by Li Tat,
During scuffle, complainant
a small chromium-plated public, so when a second
saw
issue
of nearly 11,000. bags was made dock falling out of defendant's on May, 20 It was arranged that clothes.
Members of the Askoklatkörn
Defendant was also found in should render daily stock and possession of an Indian half-
sales returns. threepenny apna, an English piece, the property of another officer on the ship.
A sultense and two desk drawę ers in complainant's cabin were found opened. Elght loen, notes of $1.00 denomination, and elglit ten-cent noths were found aest tered on the fidor.
Defendant had no previous re- -cord. The goods were ordered, to be returned to their respective
owners.
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King-san.
They are being tried before a jury of four men and three women on charges of robbery, possession of arms and am- munition, conspiracy to rob, possession of arms,
and Hooton, Crown Counsel,
conducting the case for the prosecution
Assisted by Este
of.
Lo Kung-mok, a director
Company Rels Bradley And Limited said that he was in charge of the blanket business of. behalf of the firm. The trade- mark was the "cross gun chop." The trademark was used by Brad- ley and Company since 1920 and in 1936 by Relas Bradley and Company. Limited Witness said that he had worked for the firm since 1919.
The blankets were imported from England and the chops air
them, sown on
Mr. Arquill reserved his cross examination of the witness until August, 18 ut 2.30 p.m. when the
card will come up again.
Knitting Factory ·
Tam Wun, of the Yue Shing Knitting Factory was summoned before Mr. Blair Kerrat Kow loon yesterday charged with the which a possession of vests to false trede description had been apped.
The complainant was Lau Yes- yan of the President. Knitting Mills at Chungshwan Road.
Mr. Y. H. Chan prosecuted while the defendant was repre sented by Mr. D'Alton.
On April 30, thai,mon `werd alleged to have reposted, the performance on another taxl
Lau Yee-yay said that he driver, and taken hie taxi in
was the managing partner-of the 'tha, seme manner, an *
President, Knitting Mills which On this occasion, however, the
Не was established in 1931. plans of the two.
wo dileged robbers that he purchased the trademark went awry
they were
from the Kwong Chow Knitting the Factory on March 21, 1938. He eventually apprehended by
could carry polico, before
said at that time, 300 düzen shirte were made in day. Lau con tinued that ho did not do any from business during the occupation
they
tive Subal chut are not legally out a robbery at the
their conducted
Chau and
reprence.
Rond
shop
Denying the und
US In 1948. he manufactured 150
The witness 'stand
Plu: told the
court that doser) vests a day and in 1949;
It is allered by the proto the time, the robbery af/ 300 dozen a day.
that bolh men q March, 25 took
ndjourned to August 2.
The Hong Kong dollar equi- "At the same time; the A-vilent of French franes for own. sociations were prompted by the payment of duty on toilet i Government Ja2 metounes that preparations and propelslary | part in an urined robbery at a Johnston Road took place, he was After several other witnesses whole bags would be
medicines shall henceforth be goidemith's in Johnston Road, at his home, at Shaukiwas with had given evidence the case. was. direct by thelf -Memoesa to in-
the official rate of exchange Wanchal, where 18 yold
triends, dividual consumers. There was at the date of consignment so gold banglets and 12 went t
Fins
to a boarding house. Hittle treinonse to this offer and instead of the present rate of pairs of gold earrings
Were loot-
later that evenlag, be
claimed In fact only 35 made were dis- poead, of in this waỹ..
two were further alleged Accused alleged that when he eventually detained for have
conspired together on The effect of these issue whe to bring down the free marker
questioning the policeman whom wert, Idispõeyor'
him up to make an ota- rèm to the
54 francs to the dollar.
This resolution was adopted by Legislative Counell yesterday on to
„MASSAGED, WITHOUT LICENCE
In the Justices of. the Peaco Court presided over, by MES, Y. KE
the motion of the Financial Sec- April 30 to rob the Chening Hing orice, and by June 3 it was $52.00 retary, Mr. C. G. S. Follows.. Watch Shop of 137 Des Voeux
which price. It a pleul around
Reason for the change, as ex-Road Central, and having arma, has with vet, silini fuétusfichs, pinned by Mr. Follows was that for that purpose in thele pones Chau Hingan siap medier Ank Mr. Ht. Cf Leesat remained Further issues could
exchange throughout that no longer be made. So long nk Kam Funk Sustle at a The Telecommunications. 100.00 a plone Jele
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