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There Is No "Paper War" In This Govt Department!
PWD Workshops At Caroline
Hill Get On With Job
(By NOEL CRAIG)
There is a department in Government where no "paper war" exists!
I found this unique branch this week at Carolino Hill where the PWD Workshops make and mend.
A chat with Mr J. C. Brown, Chief Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, Mr Ken Baker, the Mechanical En- gineer and Mr Eddie Greenwood, who looks after shops, provided the answer.
for
for
the
The saving in freight alone is about equal to the cost of the local body.
If they can't get a thing down This has effected an encrmous there they make it out of what saving us special bodies ordervi ever is available and avoid the in the United Kingdom are very paper fight which is customary costly. when dealing with engineers.
Engineers have Д natural hetrect
the and paper Browny. Bakers and Greenwoods are no exception to the rule.
Experience has shown, that The American embargo left
wooden bodies are worse than workshops without spare; parts and of the 792 vehicles useless in this climate. Where frames and and 150 mechanical piouts on possible all-metal
of panels are being substituted for their books many aro
woodwork, and new vehicles American origin.
To avoid "canabilisation" are all-metal. enting up one or more vehicles to keep others on the road-the engineers have had to pit their wits against the embargo. There is sufficient evidence at Caroline Hill to show that their objective has at least temporarily been achieved.
In four
years they a modern workshop bullt up and assembly line from the Junk heap below South China Athletic Association ground.
NEW BUILDINGS
saw a station waggon which had had only three years on the road whose woodwork had com- pletely rotted away.
The machine shop is rapidly up to date by being brough!
of lathes from the acquisition England and. America. Among have the present Installations are two obtained from the lathes Japanese reparations.
Like
Is
a
Training machinisis difficult task, and although it is
dual process, headway 18
made. ving been Having
taught one job, The present sel-up is not
men on mass production ideal, but by the end of the yearssembly lines, the mechanics new shops will be under cunt don't bother to look at anything struction on the same site.
else, but this habit ls being The building will be L-shaped broken down.
have three floors capable
and
The carpenters, on the other Puthand, are best left alone,, and
of housing the entire depart-
ment, including the electrical they are encouraged to get on branch now o Johnston Rond with the job in their own way.
Over 1,000 jobs are completed
each month in the mechanicai
A CHARACTER section, and last year the cice-
pul trical section
in nearly
There is one old character in 10,000 points
blacksmith In Government the
shop whose their other morning constitutional inkes lumm besides buildings
from Aberticer to Caroline Hlli. work.
Mr Baker said that they repair By way of an evening stroll h
walks all the way back. Chow and maintain very plcee cl
Lam from Governmen machinery
been with has been
the shops House wn mowers to ancient since they opened four years ago and he figures that the walk is steamrollers.
call on "nothing" moreover It saves The hospitals often
do crid jobs ruch im
$25 a month. about
He them to repairing scyllising equipment. nat never been known to arrive making splints and .on onc
weather. late, whatever the
Technical College stud
students cccasion a "walking machine" for
ward
lake advantage of their holl al
days to work at Caroline Hill where they get more practical training thon is possible at the
the physic Hospital. Queen Mary
With the ec-cperation of other departments this assisted in, the making of on artificial limb for a member #1 the Government service!
DOLLARS SAVED. The introduction of a panel besting and bodywork depart- ment has saved the public
thousands of dollars.
of
College.
CHINA MAIL
Extablished≥1845,
TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1951.
He May Become A King Full Court Rejects
Pictured here is Prince Hussein of Jordan, 16-year- old son of murdered King Abdullah's eldest son, Prince Talal, who may become King of Jordan. Prince Hussein was recalled from Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt, where he was in his last year at school, shortly before
his grandfather was slali.-AP Picture. :
10 Strokes Of Cane
Stealing Watches
Eight Appeals
Eight criminal appeals, involving ten appel- lants, were heard by the Full Court, comprising the Chief Justice, Sir Gerard Howe, and the Acting Puisne Judge, Mr Justice Scholes, this morning. All were refused.
In all cases, the appellants sppealed against severity of sentence. Mr M. Morley John. Crown Counsel, appeared for the Crown.
Sheung Shuet-chee, 33, un- employed native of Anhui, ask ed for a reductions of his sentence of 10
years' labour for possession of one revolver and six rounds of am- munition on May 10. He was
could be returned to the appellani,
The Court accordingly made au. order for the return of the snoes but refused the appeal.
A similar plea was put forward by Tang San, 24, who asked that lite sentence of six years and 12 strokes be reduced.
"I om quita sentence," he said, "but this is my content with my first offence and I have a family 16 support." hard
The Court refused the appear. TWO DANISHEED banshees atsa appeatra respective sentences of three years and six months hard labour for brouch of deporta-
on orders.
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found by Police outside the realdence of Sir Robert Ho Tung at @ Seymour Road in the early hours of the morning. On his arraignment at the Criminal Sessions on June 18, he describ- ed himself as "a special agent from Formosa,"
TWD
against their
Chung Chau sold he had non- | tention of returning to hongkong but was only passing rough on Colony only one his way to Macao. lie was in the night and was arrested the following morning.
order in two months of a deportation
Living Language
Why we say Oblige.
207-
When you're | "obliged” to do something you mean you've got to, and aro bound to do li. In Latin this word "oblige" mears "blod in the face of" and you can read In the Book. of Genesis (Ch. XLII v. how Joseph took Simeon from his brothers and "bound him before their eyes." They had to keep a promise and were bound; or obliged, bring back Benjamin, their absent brother.
HAD A TELEPHONE
FOR SALE
DAINK
Coca-Cola
Mail Notices
Registered articles and parcel malia close phe hour earlier than the ordinary, mail timer shown below.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10 By Air Malaya, Indonesia, Austraila.. New Zealand, Cerion. 3 p.m.. DD.A.C. Indo-China, India, Pakistan, France, French North & West Africa, Great Brilaid, Europe, pim.. Air, France.. Philippines, .N. Borneo, & p.m., C.P.A.
By Surftes Macao, 8 am. Men/Tak Shing
p.m.. Hu WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15 by Aur Philippines, Guam, Hewalt, U.S.A.. Canada, a.m., Via P.A.L. Malaya, Indonesia. Australia, New Zealand. 10 .m.. C.P.A.
Formosa, 10 a.m.. C.A.T. U.S.A., Canada, 1 p.m., P.A.A. India, Pakistan, Middle Mast. Africa, Great Britain, Europe. P... B.D.A.C.
Formosa. p... H... Airways. Japan, Korea, 5p.m., B.O.A.C. Slam, Durma, Malaya, Indonesia. Australia, New Zealand, 5pm.. P.O.A.B.
By Surface Macno, 8 a.m.; p.m.. Tu Men/Tak Shing,
Republic,
9.30
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Formosa. 2 p.m., Bhengking. THURSDAY, AUGUST 16 By Air
Sam Malaya, Indonesia, & p.m..
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The Chief Justice remarked that appellant had only Come out at A telephone acquired dúr- prison after serving one year for a similar offence, and the present was Ing the Japanese occupation his second breach
was the subject of a charge of unlawful against an elderly man Poon China People's Republic. Kau and a youth named, train via Canton. Tsang Man-suen before Mr chinese whose home was in Thailand Winter at Kowloon this kerk.
declared ho and said that if he was released, be promised to remain in Thailand for morning. the rest of he and not come back to Hongkong.
Appellant said his presence in the Colony was only temporary as he had instructions to pro cccd to the Chinese mainland for a
"I think you have to arrange your military purpose. It was therefore conceivable, he delle so that your iravals don't take clared, that he was
you through Hongkong," he added. not awareYou have five previous convictions the Colony's regulations. He in 1948-49, although it a try also pointed out that there was no evidence to indicate that he intended to commit arty offence with the arms found in his possession. When he was seized by the Pollee, he surrendered himself voluntarily.
were for minor offences,"
Appellant
4
Inspector Chan said that the The other bankaties. Lau Kuen, defendants were stopped by the, also said he was passing through Police in Argyle Street on the Colony on his way to Macao
the
a man
who
Hy. Surface Macao. a.m.: 8 p.m., Hu
9.30
Indo-China, 0 a.m., ss Hin Sang. Formosa, I p.m., as Olga Maersk Philippines, 2 p.m.. ** Aagte FRIDAY, AUGUST 17 By Air Canada, V.3.A... 8.30 a.m., Via C.P.A.Z.
Formosa, 10 a.m., C.A.T. Indo-China. Franco, French North & West Africa. Great Britain, 10
Siam, Burma, India, Pakistan.
Middle East, Africa, Europe, 8 p.m.,
B.O.A.C.
Malaya, Indonesia, P... B.Q.A.C.
Ceylon. B
Formoss. 8 p.m.. H.K. Airways, B.N. Borneo, Australia, New Zea land, p.m.. Q.E.A.
Appellant further asked the from China. He said he could not August 10, They boy was... Alf_France.
compassion on stay in China because he had been carrying a paper bag containing Court to have his family, saying the their military offelst under
the telephone which he said Nationalists. He had come To subsistence had been deprived Hongkong with his wife, but found he got from Poon Knu. Poon, in by the sentence passed on him. they hid
insuficient money to turn, sald he had obtained the proceed. He thought of seeing Instrument from Refusing the appeal. the trend in Kowloon City proviously, had, returned to the country. Chief Justice
he had loaned money remarked that with the intention of raising a lonn, appellant had committed ani Ite was waiting at a bus stop when The telephone belonged to the offence In coming to the Colony, the Police arrested him.
Telephone Company and had The Court pointed out that a been and had he aggravated that sellant had provious convictions for
Dequired · during . by using the arma breach of the deportation order a Japanese occupation. something entirely different well as for larceny. might have resulted.
For once
A 22-year-old youth Tam Iu-wing was given 10 strokes of the cane by Mr Winter at Kowloon this morning for stealing wrist watches from his sister and acousin.
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Both complaints pleaded
a
for leniency on behalf of the difendent who was out of em- ployment.
According to Inspector Jones, the defendant stole wrisł watch from his consin's dress. ing table when he visited her
g on August
02 at
Queen's Rood West The next day he
arrested
while offering It' for sale. As he could the watch belonged to his sister he was taken to her address by the Pallco in Nathan Road.
The rister, however, disclaimed the watch but said that she lost one previously..
was
Red Delegates
Back In HK
Three hours after some 230 overseas Chinese were trans ferred on their arrival this morning from the Titjalengka to the mv Lung Men in Kowloon Bay for the direct trip to Can- ton, the 16 Chinese Communist delegates, who were refused en- had try
at Djakarta last month, dia- embarked into a private launch It was found that the de-for the "Guest House" at Mount. fendant had stolen hers on Davis, August 5 and had pawned it.
A spokesman replied, "I don't know", when asked whether the group is returning to China to- day. He declined to make any statement.
Originally bound for Djakarta augment the persamel of the "Car thefis must be stopped," Chinese Communist Embassy, the old Mr Winter at Kowloon this group includes 13 men and three morning when he sentenecd girls. They were refused entry Cheung Sum to stealing a spanner
a month for by the Indonesian authorities. driver from car
No. 980 park- Wised in Hillwood Road on the DRIVE
"By the time our new bulld- ing is completed we will have the finest set-up in the Colony, if not in the Far East," said Mr Baker.
"The process has been slow and at times painful, but you can see for yourself that we All chassis, with the exception | have achieved a great deal,
cars, arc oxdered from "The new vehicles appearing United Kingdom and the on the roads of the. Colony bodies are built locally to speci- speak for themselves and ara flections which conform to departa credit to the entire staff," he mantel and Police requiremen's. { added.
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Tools Stolen
From Car
night of August 10,.
and screw
ย
Inspector Dewar said that the defendant was stopped by Policeman
on while he was lofter.
ing around a car park.. He with him the tools which had stolen.
S'hai Editor In Hongkong
had
FOR SCRAP IRON
A Chinese Press report states, that the Communists. In Canton' he have started a drive for the col-
lection of scrap iron.
Mr George Morris, who re- cently succeeded the late Mr | Peyton-Griffin as editor of the Nortif China Daily News arrived In Hongkong last night from Shanghal after a three-day over- land Journey...
Mr. Morris is a veteran Far East newspapermen and. hus spent many years in Shunghal. He is hoping now to settle in Hongkong.
Beating Retreat Rehearsal
It is reported that large quantities of the metal have been transferred to Canton from various parts of the province.
Merchants are encouraged by The authorities to indulge in this
trade.
: PATIENT TRIAL
Both appeals were refused,
Ng Fo, alias Cheng Tak, 27, JUNKS CAUSE
appealed against his sentence for
of six years' hard labour being found in the company of another person having in hi possession arms and ammuni
OBSTRUCTION
For causing obstruction by
the
First defendant told the Court that the Instrument belonged to This former co-tenant who owed | him money. This tenant défi and gave him the telephone, Having heard that a person wanted to buy a telephone, he was taking out for sale;
tion contrary to the Emergency Lying Inshore along the Praya charge against the youth who
between Pei
Prom Kau was fined $40 and the Magistrate dismissed the Regulations, 1949. He was af- Wall
Ho rested following A gun-battle Kwellin
and was the carrier. Streets at Fuk Chuen Street on
carly this the
morning, two junk masters, So evening of February 28, when Chuen
Chan, Koon-ying, End a polica constable was shot dead and
were fined $40 and $30, by Mr two other armed Alleged to have been on their W. Sprague at the Marine Court Way to
morning. a house in that thoroughfare, were shot dead.
The Junk which brought i
Brewood from Ng was wounded, in the ex-Wow, had permits to lie in-
cargoes 'change of fire.
rob
men.
this
to unload cargo but when shore to Asked what he had to say, the Polico boarded the vessels appellant decred he did
everyone aboard was asleep. know the other persons con- Slu-hang, Leung Kam and Pally Three other defendants, Pang
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cerned and had not been their company. He added that Hon, who also brought firewood.
from he was merely a passer-by at
Wuchow, were fined $40 each for lying Inshore without the time.
The
permits. Chief Justice pointed
Pleading that the excess out that appellant was only
they carried were passengers appealing against sentence, and their grandchildren, sons
and not against his conviction. Apnephews, two junk masters, pellant reiterated be had Lal Cheung-chol, 65, and Lal 1. la the U.S. nothing to do with the other Kam, 33,
were respectively borne troops people,
in fined $50 and $76 by Mr W.Europe. 2. Útah. 3, and the
"You had a very patient trial Sprague. at-the Marine Court 4. The Himalayas.
put very this morning,
Donizetu, 0. Chess. fairly to the Jury and the Jury found you guilly," said the Chief Justice, dismissing 4hc- appeal,
case was
DENIES CRIME
Ma Kwong, 25, unemployed, who had pleaded gulity at the Criminal Seations to robbery with aggrava Bon, appealed against his sentence of eight years and 14 strokes. He was concerned in the robbery of the Inmates or a hut in Waha Street, Hunghom, on the night, of April
20.
to"
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Macao. 8 a.m.; 8 p.m.. Hú Men Tak Shing."
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Stokes Heads For Success
the
(Contd from Page 1)
new
organisation which
would be set up..
This
exchange
of
notes would provide for consultation between the two Governments in future any dimculties should arise affecting the in- terests of the two countries In regard to Parisan of."
Today's meeting was posle poned from yesterday because, it was understood, Mr Stoker wanted time for last-minute consultations with the British Foreign Office before present-
Ing his draIL_
At Abadon, Mr Hussein Mökki, Secretary-General of the Commission, said that if the Stokes mission's proposals were "against the
the spirit" of the Persian Army's air-maxionalisation law, a settlement. Sielly and would be difficult. Connecticut.
Speaking to
correspondents, Mr
6. Gaetano Stokes sald, "The whole proposal
The forty-arat (D) In the
(2)Ngaw (3)man (2)kus' '(D)- series of lessons in Cantonese wah: Ngaw yecoo(3) (3)lawk
(3) doing Ah(3) be broadcast over Badlo (2)-daw(1) Appellant declared that though he Hongkong by Mr S. K. Lee will
ask hin: low much have I fu had sald to the Police he had be given this evening at 0.30.
on deposi stabbed one of the inmates in the
(3)daap (3)wah.
(2)icul
neck, he had in fact not done so. For the guidance of Ilsteners "{{1}M-{3}lon} rsy{3)-daw(1), dol The injury had been caused by wo publish below a summary answeriAny amount wil do."
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now...being considered by the Persian Government is without. prejudice to the rights of dire Persian or British Governments or the Oil Company." -
added that there was no discussion, and the delegailens agreed to adjourn
He said that the proposals were "not lengthy, but I did myself éndulge in a Lile explanation." Reuter.
Radio Hongkong
The Court refused Ma'a application. of the lesson. Summaries for Sentenced to aime, years, and 12 subsequent lessons will be pub- | mun(1)` The prics for scrap Iron has strokes of the cate at the June lished
4.00, Programme Summary: 0.12, In the China Mall | gulfah(3)7′′ dia 4t all right 17. "Time For Music" The BBC Variety jumped from JMP$5,000 to Criminal Sessions for a robbery with JMP$8,000 per catty, since the ravation at 10 Pak Tas ir, the duration of this radio fea-
every Tuesday and Friday for y, two hundred dollars on: de- (Scottish Orchestra Conducted by
Kemle Stephen With The beginning of this month.
atcond floor, Kowloon, on May 4,
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It is said that the authorities have collected about 80 tons of scrup during the last two weeks,
Fish
Marketing
In Kwangtung
All the appellants further. pro-culate. To give change.
mised the Court that they would reform themselves they were reledacd
Mr Justice Scholes cald there war counts.
no reason to interfero with the |20, Janu(3) £ain(), «To give 136, sentences, and dismissed the appeal change.
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posit. Pleading that he had an aged ceremony of "Bealing the to the fish markets set up in
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