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LICENSING SESSIONS
IT, IS, HEREBY, NOTIFIED. that. a. meeting of the Licensing Board, will, he held in the Counell Chamber on Friday, the 25th day of November, 1949, at 3.30 pm, at which the following applications will be considered under the Dutiable Commodities Ordinance, 1931. All applicants for leences, and persons objecting to such applications, must appear in
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Name of Applicant
Description of Licamen spplied for
Sign of NauM
Namation st
Haus
1 Emend Workers Patrick What #Neistars, Hone BAG a
PubKean's
Lice Be
Sheerhai
Hata Kald)
do.
Hong Kong Hotel 1. 24. JA Fodder Street and 23 a 15
Queen's Real Central
Whether the arsti- cent has had Domienial / thá anatu kind sa mal Digwee de, the Calory and, m for.. how lang.
Repuls Bay Heter
R.KI 14 Renula llar
2 years.
Lo
Penicul Hotel
R... JON Broch Road, Repulse Bay
KL. 141 Sathbury Rose
Norman Endres' Wati
Pamile Inudan
مل
Claurentes HAN DIS Reline Stems, atth foars and “
10-15 De Varux Road C. Seth Loore
Twar & e months.
3 years
Since 4.4.4.
Lai Shay Chi
Kowloon Hotel
• Hankow Road
Pin-thun Tepa
Sunning Rou
VH Hyman Avenue
Hrv. Foderick Williare
Weaver
7.
Yerkant
Un-numbered lume,
Chatham
Since 164,19
✓
Themal Anime Whì
Publican's
Navy Club
Cale Wiseman.
formerly Kowloon Football Cisk)
Cleanor, without ar
14h Vorut Pai C. Frust portion
Triphone Romans
syran.
Parisian Gr
Queen's Bond C., ral. £r. W Hang Building]
+ years
4 years
12.
1 W Line Ah Hay
via.
Cork & Pullt
Retaurant
Roza 448 $ Room * Hirtzanine Mar Wang Ring direi
No. - Thaddell Street, red, flat
2 ума
23
Your MATT
Victor'
MÃ Doin's Bend C..
Restaurant
Kround & Mezzanice tout
14.
timurys Mane (Berzelar).
S
KUKAROMALAY
No. 11 Palker Street, thus
1 YPAT
Dairy Farz Io £
Lo Khu
Full Stange Co, Ltd)
de
دانه
Metrosir Burit Quen's Road C. Sib-th
توبر
2 Fath
Sibek-O
Retrohet Pavilion
Date of Crown Land faci un ft. at Sík-O under Permit No. 1326 CU
1 year.
Hong Kong Airpati Terminal Defe Adminstration Faiblings, Kai Tik
174175 Nathan Bod. 3. Coor
+ year
Airport Have
Itussian
VOLT.
ז <
17.
Ho
Chantel
Restaurant
18. John Ceil Condes
Blue Inter
Marthon Root
19.
Edward Francis Ginti-
dr.
Citale's Azure To Nathan Road, grd, floor
3 year.
Chang Sis
V.
Red Lion In
12 Hankow Ravi, prd, & let floors
21.
Andre Peur Tkachenko
៩.
Tarbeko
2 Hankow Bond, wed. 2
1000
Restaurant
2...
Di Car Cit
do.
New York Cale
5, 56 & Lockham Read, grå. Cons
Chan Chun Sing
do.
24. Carken Manuri Agon
G
Hotel Mirr
White Home Cafe 12 & 40 Lakları Road, and Plane
Kimstring Humil
1 year.
var.
Charks Gorge Grzy
40.
Lane Park
R.P. Inland Lot 43 King's and
New application,
Chan Cheuk en
Hotel Kerper's
2. Cheung Wing Kwong
Adjunct Liver.ce"
Great China Hotel (1912) Cotraught Pozi C, and 207239
De Veux Head C.
New Asia Hotel 296, 15, PA. 24. 214, 214A, B
Bad C.. Intarib ikura
Luk Kok Hotel Cream Glauser Form
dis
Vera
25,
Chan Chuck Tin
25
La Ying
do.
Shan Kay
1 Shan Kwong Pad
+
Heref
EL.
Taci Kam Hatz
IIcket Asia
#
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Hui Yrong Shing
du
Sun Kuung
Hotel
*
Loi Seul Re
•
4.
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126-227 Cont
be 24 251
I C., Jated:
:
125 Cincaught a Crd-4th floors, Road G. whole
& 2 Day Voux foers.
Tunk han iboel 27-89 Connaught Road West
19-18) Conaught Road C. & 121 Dem Vorts Road C., around to th Boor
26 Nathan Ron, whole beur,
Nathan
Kand Isto four, 207 Nathan Hood, 2nd-3rd oors
Nathan Boad
-378 Nathan Road
No. 6, LA, 7, TA, 9 & 16 Chachumu Donel
Sun Sea Hotel
Bar Hotel
Yavid Cherang.
Chan Pak Cheong
James Bouner Gardicer
Luf Chak Chiș
19. Tvui Mia C
Luis Framta
Fotel Naikin
10.
Chan Wai Ksen
42 Tony Ta! Lui Kam
C. Les Landan
42. Shan) Yem (Kwong-
41.
Chan Wai Chisen
Grorté Mane. {Seergan,
Cold. Spenge. Ca. L.14.)
47.
Sam, Bhour Won
43.. Young Chor
49,-. Kamoki, Lab-Stabel.
20 Your Wine Fi
Retaurrak-
Adfunet Lirpor
& Nathan Road
geant &
I month.
14 years.
1 year.
23 years.
12.
yram
4 youth
I year.
Harbour View
Hotel
Fuze Hat
2 years.
Waklar! Hatel Now. 2, 4 && Catimorers Rost
Parimouni Kotel Shan Kwong Road
Union Bod * Ice House Street
Crand Hote
2 years
14 Carnarvon Band
- Jimmy's Körben - 212 & 2X Queen's Road C, erd. Br.
(China Buddier)
2 year.
I month.
10 gram..
Canadian. Cafe
se Queen's Board C., . .
A.B.C. Cafe.
15-17 Queen's Road C. Mezzanine 'foor
- (Marina Kong)
14 PATS.
Soda Fountain
Broadway Boda
Fountain
12 Des Vortx Ebad C. ground 'and
·Meaning Boo Windsor House)
KIL. 1287 Nathan Road ground and
lat fours (Broadway Building,
Kowloon Com
fectionery Co.
ECE, Refresh K.C.R. Kowloon Station
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVÉ
Correspondence
The Editor takes no respon sality for vigins... ezmessed, in lessers-by-correspondents, and-by no means necessarily apress színky Report Of Tenancy Case
Corrected
Sir, shall be glad, if you will kindly rectify a very inic- curate report in today's "China Mail" entitled "Permission to apply to Tribunal granted.”
in-
(1) Mr. Bernacchi was structed by me. Mr. Chen by ASK Lau Co
(2). No order for a re-hearing was made,
(5). Mr. Chen's application was to raise certain issues of faci on oppes).
(4) Mr. Bernacchi spposed this and contended that the only issue open to Mr. Chen was
one of the law, which should be ma
a case stated by the Tribunal...
· (5) ..., Mr. Chen's application
was dismissed, with, costs,
(6) Mr. Chea was then pant ed: leave to obtain a case stated) out of time. This Mr. Bernacchi did not oppose, ru
WOO & WOO.
Solicitors,
were
(Wah regard to Point 5. as given above, we are asked by ASK Lau & Co. to state that costs amounting to $100 awarded for the day to the m spondent, but no payment is to be made until the appeal on the case stated has been heard.—Ed).
Retirement Of Revenue Officer
A three-piece set of Tien- tsin Rugs and a silver tankard inscribed with the names of his colleagues, were pre- sented to Mr. J. W. Mcintyre Brown, Chief Preventive Of ficer, yesterday evening on the eve of his retirement
The presentation was made ztj a cocktag party at the Revenue Department Cantren, Fire Brigade! Building, by Mr. W. Keen, Direc tor of the Department of Com- merce and Distribution.
Making the Presentation Mr.
Keen said that Mr. MrIntyre- Brown, after 21 years of faith- ful service to the Hong Kong Government, was going on a well: deserved retirement to Australia. He first met Jr, Mcintyre Brown in 1940 when they were both in the Heng Kon Volunteer Defence Corps. That acquaintance ripened following a period of involuntary allachment in Shu.cshuipo! camp. Mr. Mcintyre-Brown
resumed bis duties in 19461
af
BER, 19, 1949:
Firewood, used by the majority of the local population has increase from HK$7 z picul to HK$12 following the cutting aff of Tupplies from the China Mainland. Hong Kang now depends on supplies from Borneo and Malaya "China". Mall" - Photo.
Firewood Supply From West River Area Cut Off
The Government of Hong Kong is contemplating measures to cope with, the situation arising from closure of the West River supply of fire wood for the colony, an official of the Depart ment of Supply. and Distribution told the "China Mail" yesterday.
The official estimated that the average weekly importation of firewood from the West River district before the fall of Canton was 3,000 toris.
Since Hong Kong is now: get-
fter recuperating from his ill-ting no firewood from that ness, but he had never fally re- area due to the Nationalist covered from the privations, he blockadoma, shortage of 12 to suffered during the enemy occupa 14 thousand tons
tion, and it was a wonder and alias developed.
credit to the man that he had!
Describing this
per month
situation as
succeed in patting his departaricus. the official said, never-
sound footing over ment on such
theless,
the last three years
Mr. McIntyre-Brown, visibly affected, sail he was grateful for tribute paid to him and for the the
co-operation that he had al ways received from his colleagues, He asked, them to give the same co-operation to his successor, Mr. E. Tuck,
Milne Pleads Not Guilty
A plea of not guilty, was en: tered by Andrew Mine, of the RASC when he was arraigned at the Criminal Sessions yester: day on a charge of rapz.
Milne's trial is fixed for hear will be heard by Mr. Justice Gould, Puisne Judze.
that increasing supplies Bad are coming from Boraco Malay
The incentive for these more commercial than being municipally altruistic, prices have. shown some inercise, he added.
The market price for cut fire- wcod, he explained, has
risea frem, about $7 per picul a month
-to-$12. per-picul
Export From
Banned
HK
Government yesterday ban- and ned the export of firewood
charcoal from
Hong
Kong..
Sources of firewood and -charcoal on the China main-
land have been severed. since.
Nationalists. abandoned Canten and other places in Kwangtung, ...
tha
Scotch whisky has also, teen placed on the List of Prohibited Exports.
serve are large large enough, he emphasized, to cope with any sudden further drop, in importations.
So far importation of frewoos remains free and prices are al- lowed to find their own level- whith
unhindered means the cperation of the law of supply and demand. But the Govern- ment is wary and the situation is under constant, review and congling is going on and that:
He supposed that some smug- tro?.
trickle of West River Brewood continues to find its way. here.
Several Chinese organisations
ing at 10 am, on fonday. and are understood to be preparing to But the quantity is not.. large i
Mr. A. J. Cford yesterday that he was appearing as behalf cn- the instruc од tions of the Bar Cocasil
CHENNAULT
RETURNS TO, HK
Petition the Government to ration firewood, but the official said this issue has not yet arisen.
Reserve On Hand
enough to influence. the market, and for all-practical purposes the. supply, from this source remains dead
The Government, the Depart - The official added that he sup ment, official disclosed, „has: #posed prices of firewood in Can- substantial emergency reserve ton are even higher than in Houg of firewood, which remains un King. The shortage there should i tapped and which will militats even more acute than here, against any spectacular price l'ind the means to cope, with it upheaval,
Asised if the Government plans initely more problematical
Tenching on coal, he said that
SHIPMENTS OF PETROL TO RED CHINA
Drums of gasoline and high octane lubricants for aviation are being purchased by independent commercial, quarters, for, shipment to Com munist China, according to unofficial but reliable information secured, by the "China Mail" yesterday.
Despite the blockade and the unpleasant experi
ences of some ships trying to run it, subston; tial quantities of petrol have successfully reached their destination,
ton.
According to Chinese re-personal inconveniences whatever. ports, these destinations are The offics in Hong Kong, he said, Tientsin, Shanghai and Can-was keeping a watchful eye on
developments there. Theth large in themselves, re- But neither Mr. Hudson nor liable figures made available to theory of his American.coutezparts "China" Mail" showed that the were willing to discuss future sum total of petrol reaching the operations of foreign oil cont- Communists amounts to a fraction Danies in China, of what they require. Good prices are being paid for deliveries. in currencies other than Jon Min Piao
Political Issue
All ̈stcered away from thr-issue, saying that being essentially businessmen they could not talk Querice ca. this aspect of the shout subject co fuadamentally oil, situation yesterday all foreign-political They did not even know operated oil corporations in Hons whether recognition of the Peking Keng made clear they had nothing government would help the oil to do with any trans-shipment of trade. supplies from the colony.
They were emphatic is stating Mr. E.E. Hudson, Manager of that since the blockade no foreign the Asiatic Petroleum Company tankers had gone into Shanghai. Limited, a subsidary of the world. At the same time they gave the wide Shell organisation, said it impression that with virtually all was quite possible petrol was go- the world's oil under the control ing to the Communists through an Anglo-American-Dutch in- Hong Kong but his company-temational cartel, the Communists being purely commercial-lost, he would be hard put to it to. keep terest in the ultimate disposal of their motor vehicles on the road stocks once they had been bought without ultimately obtaining some and paid for,
sort of working arrangement
with
It was not Shell's policy to there For the time being, how- inquire from paying customers ever, negotiations for supply have what they intended to do with not begun..
he said.
..
their purchases. They could just| On the issue of low-grade. Rus- as well keep it in their back-sian oil being shipped to Com- yard or send it to Timbuckton, murist China, Anglo-American oil representatives in Hong Kong sain they knew nothing. Unofficially. Activities In China
however, the “China, Mail" learne To a request for information oned that indeed such supplies were Shell activities in Communist getting into China via Manchuria. China at present, Mr.
Hedson
Alternatively, the Communists said they were static. Shell, un were embarking on a largescale Like American counter-parts plan to convert petrol-run cars continued to maintain large staffs and lorries to propulsion by char- in Shanghai, Timtsin and Canton, cal. This was a throwback from Although Mr. Hupson said he the Japanese era, independent re- had no information on the matter,ports said. the China Mail" earned from In contrast with, condition's in' recent arrivals that in Shanghai China. Mr. Hudson painted a cil companies. voluntarily restricted operations in Hong Kong
are carrying on glowing picture of the oil business Distribution at and are meeting expenses by present, he said,
whs the highest putung oil and kerosene stocks on ever b the market.
He gave che set-of 5gures as When the rate of exchange be-indicative of the rapid expansion tween the People's Bank Note and of consumption. La January. - the American dollar was JM4,000) cences for all-motor vehicles to USS), oil companies were "au- sctalled 8,000. In. September the thorised to sell perrol at JM7,000 ngure had risen by, 50 par. cent. per galion, JM3,000 of which weat] amounting to exactly-11974. The to the Communists in tax.
Agures for November would be In line with the eighth paint even higher..
Incred when the
of Mao Tse-tung's proclamation This licence incrčase, coupled Liberation with the growing demands of the Army entered Shanghai and armed forces, indicates an unpre-. Canton, infermania told the cedented volume of business. To "China Mal!!! that all petrol meet it has meant equitable re-
stations, stocks and Installations turns.
wers, not touched. - Foreign sil Asking whether the suspension companies were ever allowed of CNAC and CATC has resulted to violate currency restrictions in the dwindling cf aviation cil by dealing in dollars-this pre-Luziness, Mr. Hudson said closure. sumably to encourage
future of the two Chinese air lines has been more or less ofset-in terms According to Mr. Hudson, Shell of oil business by na increase in personnel in Shanghai, Canton and international traffic under other elsewhere have encountered. no tags.
impertation.
Woman
oman Kidnapper Gets Prison Term
Five years hard labour was the penalty imposed on a 38-year-old Chinese woman et, the Criminal Sessions who on three different oc- casions counted on the trust of a child's parents to kidnap and self the child by trickery.
police eventually took away the child from the house after en- quiries
General: Claire L. Chennault, Head of Civil Air Transport, re-
and here yesterday from Seoul to offset the shortage of firewood coal stocks in Hong Kong, are with Mr. Kim Yong-sik, Korean by any long-range campaign to ample and prices, remain under Mr. Justice Gould, Puisne Consul-General la
in Hong Kong, persuade the Chinese masses to Government.control at the lowest Judge, told the accused, who, in a CAT aircraft.
accept-alteratives such as gas or possible level. The source of the pleaded guilty, in reply to her General Chennault efused to kerosene, the official said that in Colony's coal supply is outside plea for leniency that though Turning to the next occasios, comment on his meeting with his Opinion this shortage was the orbit of Chinese internal she had a child of her own Mr. Hocton said that Wong Chong General Douglas MacArthur. temporary and did not call for politics.
When asked by Pressmen any extensive future planalig
she did not consider the fecla four-year-old boy, lived with, ings of other parents when shein Ngau Chi Wan, Keyloon. It his parents at on numbered hut whether the CAT is planning to
Besides, he added frewood re- operate between the Colony, and
the cheapest fuel despite Izains the
was in September, Korea, he said that at present
and the se recent price, increases, and the
child's parents. One day she
was then CAT has no plan to operate in Chinese population of Hong Kong,
living with The
managed to get the child away and sell him, telling the buyer
Corea
are so traditionally used to it that any coppaign to boost the
Personalia
Departures from the Peninsula
committed the crimes..
Chan Shui, alias Wong Shui, the prisoner, was not legally repre- sented.
Having pleaded guilty to three that the child's parents were dead,
merits of other alternatives would Hotel on Thursday included Lieu- counts of fraudulent taking with | aad-that-she-needed money..ur
be
Bless probably tenant and Mr RA Long.. intent to sell, Chan was discharged gently, The,boy, was sold for $39.4.
Hong die
HK AIRWAYS TALPEH SERVICE The Hong Kong. Airways
show that many mid-Lieutenant and Mrs. PC. Thomp on three alternative counts of Inaugurate its regular
Bolts Brassinne, Mears. E child-stealing, class Chinese famules, now, Revell JD Hicks, Dy C. Lee, Kong Taipeh Service at 830 exhibit a preference for sas and Lar Pacts, and Mrs. C. Welts 1 to longers in the
are quick to forget the amenities Among the passengers inaugural flight will be Mr. Hof Breweed us soon, és 1
Trom their native Chief of
houses to new lingos Tong, forement In
thousands au and his wife.
66 Nathan Road, ground door
13 years.
the
metit Room
Henry's Cale
21 Chung King Arcade, Seloos
·1% yeas
(Mrs. Henry, Legcock)
149-15 Lockhart Bond, round Foor
*Restaurnal
Golden Earle
Temple Surret, ground flobe
New application.
Restaurant
KONG MAN TSUN, Secretary to the Licensing Board
Chinese
formation Barreau
SERVICEMEN
ENTERTAINED
ing fuck
.......
Eventually, the child was, dis- covered by his aunt who later re- Mr. A. Hooton, Crown Counsel ported the matter, and had him told the Court that on the first recovered.
On the next, occasion, the ac- occasion in August, the child two-year-old girl named Wong cused manage to take; along a Nu-stayed with her father and child from Bywocians on a mother in a junk. At the time. The protext and sell him for $100- sectised also stayed in the jurik, This time it was Man Mel-ching, .
It so happened that the parents who was gix months old. of the child one day decided to`go In all the occasions, Mr. Hooton for a walk On leaving the child pointed out, the parent from in the custody of the accused for whom their children were taken The Very Reverend Father T.
an hour or so they returned but knew Chan quite well enough to Ban SJ, will address the found no one left aboard the junk trust her with them
Chan was a widow, whose huse The same day, Chan took the
during 11
the Japanese child to a house in Reclamation band died
that the mother of that child
was The accused asked for leniency, ili, and required some one to look stating that she had a child and after it. The next day, however, an aged mother dependent on her zie fold, the person concerned for living/ that the child's mother had died
Among the new arrivals at the is un-Peninsula Hotel on
Toursdar The Hong Kong Airways is dangercus, and firewood holds is Wong King-fang, Messrs. M knowny kerosene regarded as, too were Mr. and Mrs. G. Fing Lee, preparing to operate another service between-ite Colony and the fort as the unconquered cook Morgan, S. C. Holmes, and
Lord J. Forester." China. This tight will be-be- tween the Colony and Chungking. | .. Every individual migration:9% one family into a rundem apart- thent
in recent months been counter-balanced by the faflis of a handful of refugees tuistes, oné-Long Totary Club on Tues which reflect this tricongruity, in-at the Roof Garden, Hong
Kong Hotel His subject held at the Hong Kong Wainen's progress made by Hong Kong 1 International Ch on Thursday other directions the "position: of| for Servicemien.
firewood as the leading (Upl- in Light refreshments, viere, served the colony has suffered, no con- Mer, Minty officiated
those who left for 20|| traction by any The prize winners bere: Leer choice stale trans- Ypkohara yesterday by BOAC wire: Mrs. H. 1: Hagg. Mrs? Forg Seeman Willcock, Mazine, Roemeen
Lake: Moon-lan, Miss: Fong: Ducke Linsey Col Bira BAF
Some Smuggling- and CFN
Dien, Messrs Barkshire, Albert Powell REMA
The officiah would
Lee, Mr Gandi, M. Binks, R close the extent of Hong Kong's EA Remiphay Grand P.-Carez stockpiling Brewood, but at A, J. Kane, G. H-Mabbani, G... D conceded that supplies in re-1 Jack and H. Y. Hau,
A successful Whist Drive was evitably show that despite the "The Hong Kong Bow ill be Street. She told a person there occupation...
Next: Thursday there will be a dance for the Forces from 7.30. pim. to 10 pan
Among
Child. Handed Over
Mr. Gould, in passing sentence told her. The crime of kidnap ping is a despicable-cne in all cit
A cumstances, the more so when it After some discussion, $69) is practised with small, children. was handed over by the person You say you have a child of your to the accused who gave up, the own; but you did not consider the child. On September 21, the feelings of other parents,"