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MONDAY, JULY 11, 1955.
Stevedores More Evidence SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
To Take Legal Action
Liverpool, July 10.
Liverpool members of the
In Alleged Swindle
National Amalgamated Evidence of the making of two rubber chops Stovedores and Dockers for the accused was given before Judge J. Reynolds Union, who recently joined at the Victoria District Court this morning in the Hix week strike to recognition of the union in case against a 39-year-old Mauritius salesman northern ports, alleged to have swindled a firm of $58,800.
Britain's
the union.
win
They were told that a writ of
res rains, had beers delivered to their union's London headquar-
+
were told at a mass meet-; The accused is Joe Francis Gerver, alias Jean ing here today that legal Franz Ang How, alias Chiu Wai-fat. He was action had been started to charged with obtaining, on December 24 last year, prevent their expulsion from with intent to defraud, from J. Kundan and Co., a cheque to the value of $2,000 by pretending, together with one M. Mirchumal Hotwani, that he was the proprietor of a firm called the Swan Gar- ment Factory which manufactured rayon jackets. The stevedores union, which is "Gerver 'was further charged with obtaining on officially recognised in London, decided to expel its northern January 8, this year, from J. Kundan and Co., a cheque nembers the advice or to the value of $56,800 by pretending, together with lunders of the eight million. Hotwani, that a quantity of rayon jackets of a description strong Trades Union Congress, and value specified in a bill of the Swan Garment Factory, which ruled that the members delivered to J. Kundan and Co., had been shipped to in the northern ports had been
(rom! the rival Australia.
ters.
Union,
0J1
and General Worktтs-
../
Boy Who
Disappeared
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THE ALTERNATIVE The effect of the proposed expulsion order on the 10,000 dockers in the northern ports would be either, to force them to return to the Transport and General Workers Union or to
An applita.io to presums the which death of her 17-year-old son who become non-union- men, might prevent them working in went
Ju; one day during the the docks.
Mr Peter Kerrigan, chairman Japanese occupation of Hong
nan (kong and was Lever Been ur of the mass meeting at Liver- pool, sald the dockers had been heard of again was made by a widew, Liu Ol, to Mr Justier much encouraged by a recent case in which a judge confirmed Scholes in the Supreme Court
worker's right to join the union of his choice, even if t went against the order of the Union Congress. Trades
Similar meetings of members of the stevedores union in Hull, Birkenhead and other northern ports today also resolved to defy the Trades Union Council order in their union. coting of members of the A stevedores union in Manchester was told that as from midnight tonight they could be no longer regarded as member? of the
union.
MOVE ENDORSED
today.
Mr Patrick Yu, instructed by Messrs d'Almada and Mason, who represented the applicam, said the boy, So" Ming-ko, lived with his mother at 282 Ma Tau Wei Road on January 17, 1914. He left the house at 1 p.m. that day, saying he was going for lunch In town and he never re-
turned. Extensive enquiries had been made but without result, The boy was never heard ngnin.
of
"During the Japanese occupa- lion people had been known to have been taken off the streets by Japanese gendarmes and and Yu.
Accused is en ball of $5,000. He is represented by Mr Y. H. Chan of Messrs Lau, Chan and Ko.
Mr D. E. Greenflold, Crown Counsel, in proceuting.
The first witness this morning Was Le: Chuk-kan, of 301 Des Vcoux toad Central, first boor,
He zid that in December last
Stationery shop at 35 Queen's year he was employed at Read Central. Ha knew accused to be working at the Queen's Dispensary at the time,
About the middle of Decem- ber accused asked him to have There were to be English and
two rubber chops made for him.
Chinese words on these chops."
Witness sale he placed this Stamp Shop, Tants incived the two chops from that shop and gave them to accused, who returned one of the chops, Buy-
wanted ing he
alteration made.
order of the Wah Shing Rubber
an
ALTERATIONS
This alteration was done, but the following day accused re-
The men were also told of never heard of again," said Mr turned both chops to him for the legal action planned by
the Liverpool dockers. they endorsed those moves.
to
A
spokesman
more alterations. The chops Mr Justice Scholes made an were passed to the rubber stamp order that So's death may be shop, and duly returned to in Liverpool worn to have occurred on or
accused, said the union headquarters i since January 17, 1944.
Once again, witness con- London had until Wednesday
inued,
accused brought back the two chops for yet another
them. It was On December 23 when accused was given back the chops for the last time.
On the first occasion, eccused wanted the word
"Hongkong"
reply to their writ ot
restraint.
If their reply was unsalis- factory
they would apply to the high court for an injunc- union
ter.
HK STUDENTS change on
GRADUATE
tion to restrain the
Two students from Hongkong headquarters from carrying out their expulsion threat, Reu-were Among 103 granted bachelor of arts degrees at the [62nd commencement of Pomona College, i Claremont, Cali- Hornia
Richarly.
Water Pours Into Reservoirs
S. P. Hsi, son of Mr and Mrs Y. T. 1st, 3 Norfolk Road, Kowloon, was graduated magas cum laude. He majored The reservoir storage in in chemistry at Pomona, where Hongkong Increased by 372.53 he was designated
1)
million gallons in the 24 hours Scholer and
and elected to Phi Beta ended at 8 o.m. today, it was Kappa, has been vice pre- announced by the Water sident of the American Chemi- authority this morning.
The cal Society Student Amillates
T. 1. Fog, U. 1. PAS OFL.
|--C29), 1954 by KKA Bergen, ins,
"Wo didn't have too much to eat at our picnic, doctor-- but he spent the day visiting all the other plonics on the beach!"
Communist Strike Call Ignored
SHEAFFER'S
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
Sydney's Big Newspaper Strike
FROM H. KING WOOD
Sydney, July 6.
From Our Files
100 Years Ago
Mr Caldwell has sent in his
| resignation to the Government, and it is not likely he will be induced to recall it, for he hus found out that his knowledgo. of tho Chinese and their language can be turned to more profitable account than in the
The strike at the afternoon paper The Daily service of the police, He takes Mirror, which at first looked to be just another of command of the Beamer Eoglet,
which has been purchased for, those little industrial flare-ups that occur in the $40,000, in shares, chiefly by best of establishments these days, has now deve-Chinese, who, under the direc loped into something which could very easily in- tion of Captain Caldwell, will, volve all Sydney newspapers.
we have no doubt, find they
The strike, now getting around a fortnight old, has no signs of ending, and the men concerned have adopted the most unusual step of rejecting out of hand recommendations from their Union and from the Disputes Committee of the Trades and Labour Council that they return to work.
or
their money, have made a good investment of
On a former occasion 'when' Mr Caldwell contemplated going
to California, an offelal, himself of the best of our Chinese rekoiars, to whom we mentioned the eircumstance, mudo apt use of the Duke of Wellington's question, In that case,
Govern
ignored the famous
houses
on one
Pro-
Meanwhile, the other evening ments completely paper, The Sun, is also carrying committee, the Mirror banner, which is Mr Waterhouse sald the How is Her
Her Majesty's causing quite a lot of heart-Department of the interior had to be carried W?" It is burning in the newspaper game. recently submitted plans for 147 not therefore from ignorance of The Sun also has some sort of small wooden
their importance that Govern gentleman's agreement with the Canberra site. The committee net has lost Mr Caldwell's Mirror not to print additional did not like the plans, but sug value put upon his unequalled tee services; but because the money papers during the strike with the result that crowds wait on one or two
gosted to the Department that
of the houses beak as an interproter, and as street corners for the delivery vans, and the papers they knew the contract had been hunting up pirates, has been paper erected first. The next thing ding counsel to the Navy, in sell literally like hot cakes.
let for all of them.
£400
per annum. What Not 50 per cent of the people
Chairman of the Senate Com- portion of that sum was paid on now have a paper to read in the mittee, Senator McCallum: de-joint Superintendent of Police, of his being likewise as account of tram train going home at scribed the houses as "undestr night and those who have are
we do now know; but we do know ablo". tolerant about the passenger
ww that the other joint receives Secretary of the Department next door reading it at the same
of the time. Saigon, July 10.
Interior, Mr W. A £500, though no one will pre- McLaren, was pretty down-to-qualifications. Mr Caldwell, we Lend that he possesses the same AFTER 10 YEARS Most people here today ignored a Communist
earth about Canberra. A 78-year-old man dropped organised stay-at-home strike, aimed at turning out of the limelight this week cultural buildings in Canberra plications for an increase of pay
He said that talk Saigon into a "dead city" as a protest against❘ but is able to look back on 50 seemed people have suggested Krant it, possibly under the Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem's Government,
Thousands of people in Saigon and its "China- town" Cholon, thronged the streets and went to football matches, swimming pools and cinemas in defiance of Communist orders not to leave their homes from noon to midnight.
Walters and cooks in several Saigon restaurants answered the Communist call to stay at home but the customers were not downhearted.
They good-humouredly served themselves
with
cold beef and salad, and sipped cold drinks.
elsewhere, the waiters were
Question Of Domicile
Further evidence on the ques-
Also, the Chinese tens to reunite the partitioned | for desocal practitioner of
was
was
on one of the chops changed-to--North Vietnam to "Kowloon".
for "company" character elianged to "factory".
Corroborative evidence given by Ng Kam, the master of the rubber stamp shop, and his foki. Chang Chun,
Hearing was adjourned until this afternoon.
H.E. Visits
AGITATORS
this
years
of work that few will ever equat
Tho man is Str Norman predent of the Lawn Tennis who has retired as Association of Australia. It was he won the first of his three 50 years almost to the day since Wimbledon singles tournaments and
1 began his 15 ybars' domina- tion of the game.
tion
when
the
of great pre taid, recently made an up-
to him to be unrealistic. but his employers declined to
that we should have an opera impression that he was house here, but even Sydney dependent on them as they upon hasn't got one.
him-a mistake which they have Senator McCallum: But this discovered when it is too late, is the National Capital.
Do
The
FALSE FACTS
INSURGENTS'
11-
"CURIOUS CURIO" Mr McLaren: You could re- gard the national capital as a
Port Philp people-at any rate the ignorant and. form of curious curio. A lot of these things would be white principled of them are work- It was 29 years since he first elephants,
ing themselves into a great became LTAA president and He also criticised this talk of excitement about the Chinese pradually made himself ezar of Canberra as a "city of Trees" immigrants; and California has Australian tennis
He said he disliked the group- as yet produced nothing in the He has had more critics, per-ings of big blocks of Govern- way of false facts and falso haps, than any other leader of ment buildings in reserved areas reasoning to equal these adduced sport in Australian history but separate from homes and sur- at a meeting at Melbourne re- even the most bitter of these rounded by parks and trees. He ported in the Argus of the 21st on duty as usual. A demon- tion of domicile was heard be-critics have admitted that he
said that if houses were allow April, The proceedings are far stration by about 150 Vietnam-
has had the courage of his con-
ed near Government buildings too long for our space, and as ece outside the Majestic Hotel fore Mr Justice T. J. Gould in
victions and very often could it would "give a bit of hummuity published they are adorned with was thought by political sources the Supreme Court this morn-
to the place",
a letter from a certain Joseph here to have been an attempting in a divorce action concern justify his actions by results.
Senator McCallum said he Parker, of whom we have not He was the centre of to scare the hotel's wallers into ng Dr
stormyked the trees controversy in 1953 when he But the wailers teang wa Mrs Patrick Pih- stopping work.
before heard, but who professes "It all depends whether you 15 have had eight years' ex- was involved in breaking Mrs Lally L Wu, is the de
the worked on.
fendant in the issue of whether Hoad-Rosewall doubles combina want a city or a park," said the perience in China, for which The strike, was intended
tion in the Day
Davis
secretary. Cup. When the force Diem to hold talks with or not her husband was domi-
if we read Bedlam, there might elled in Hongkong
One point to come out of all from the on August new pair were wiped from the Communist
some palliation for government of
the petitioned court by the Americans there this discussion was a suggestion ignorance, mendacity, and extra- prepare elec. 21, 1954, when she
of their marriage.
was a new wind wither gutburst that a zoo should be established
The Dr. Wu,
criticism waned abruptly, in Canberra for Australian wild vagance of his letter, in which country next year.
The Communists,
Marina House, is the plaintiff however, when Hoad and Rose life. Senator McCallum thought he announces that the Triads are who have the majority of
in that issue. He claims. that wall won Victnam's
the remaining two it "an excellent idea because of recent origin, and have been under their rule in he is of Chinese nationality and singles matches next day and many species of wild life was in set in motion by Russia! which Population
|danger of becoming extinct. thus proposes to over-run Aus the north, believe they could was not domiciled in Hongkong Australia retained the Cup
Canberra has been.
tralia with its creatures, Soma.“ battling win with ease these elections in
In 1905 Norman Brookes be- August, 1954.
first "foreigner" ever along, now Just on 30 years, and of the speakers thewed more Plaintiff in lald down in the Geneva agree-
In represented by Mr came the
win the Wimbeldon all-n spite of committees it seems sense, but they were of course ment which ended fighting Oswald Cheung, Instructed by to
destined to battle, for another outvoted, between, the north, and south. Mr F.H.B. Wong, and the de-comers' singles title. He wand 30 and not improve with age. fendant by Mr Lawrence Loong. again in 1907 and in 1014 and
BIG WOOL ULIP Meanwhile, Mr Diem hat instructed by Mr M. A. da Silva, also took many other inter-
national titles.
When the hammer teli co the Wu Mra been dealing with agitators
concluded
her
With New Zealander Anthony Anal lot of the 1954-65 wool clip the Pinang Gazette of 9th June. We copy the following from within his boundaries. Yester evidence
morning after Wilding he won the Davis Cup this Week It left unsold stocks
by day, police raided the Salgon cross-examination
Mr
No wonder that, with much for
and to Australian Australasia in 1907
stores nearte to Headquarters of Vietnam's ite- Cheung,
they held it for
the bare boards than at any gentry in their neighbourhood, Evidence
years. was adduced from volutionary Committee
the honest traders have, as which
the the
John Prime
Wilding did not play in 1912 season's end for many years. Paul Potter, estates
IL British Isico regained and the
marked the
papera tell us, in- clearance of haction by the surveyor of the Public Works
largely in arma and year it went to Just about the biggest wool clip It. The next
for their States but Also receiving a B.A. degrez |the roof, pupils of the Primary his entire Cabinet.
United
the fourth big- voyage to China, HMS. Ratiler, return of Lam Wco and Co., They in-partner
Wilding combination gest An inch of rainfall was regis, was Enrique Chan, son of Memonstration och Chineve vestigated documents and ales, bading contractors, about Mre got it ba
leven of the fall in prices over pression of piracy, may probably tered at the Observatory and Mrs S. Chan, 17,
negotiations
got it back in 1814, The government announced to- between 1 am, and noon today.
Ute scason. Circuit, Kowloon, n 1950 gra- singing and dancing to His day that heavy fighting was Crown Lands Office for
REIGNED SUPREME
have occasion to overhaul this An estimate this week placed The heaviest downpour occurred ['düşle of
Boys' Excellency the Governor, Sir continuing
1926 he National Bidential sito with a 20-year
turned to the ΣΠ between
side between 11 a.m. and noon when School. He majored in physics Akxander Grantham, when the army troopa and forces of the restriction on parting
became private army of the rebel war-possession. lord Ba Cut near Rachgin on the
supreme until this week. He cheques His Excellency was visiting, Gulf of Slam.
1952-53, knighted for his services million; the
million school, which is one of a
to sport and steps down with
and 1953-34, Admiral Felix Stump, United
milion. group of six run by the Tung States
the satisfaction of knowing States Commander-in-Chief In
The new stagon's sales will have arrived here within the Inst Wah Hospitals, to scc the the Pacific, lett hare by air to-
that method of teaching. This is
already few days. They are heavily an after A briof new school which was opened day for Manila
weekend visit to Saigon where In February of this year.
him? A 57-year-old throwd way The Governor was very
In the falled with the American- backed Prime Minister and the
businessman, Don Ferguson, of terested in the pupils' work. American military aid comman-.
NSW, becomes the second pre- He examined their books and der, General O'Daniel.
Ploeding guilty to causing an
sident of the LTAA M nated if one of the boys could
obstruction in a public place by He has won no tennis honours, Admiral Stump arrived here playing with a ball at the Shek read to him. The boy then read last night after the closing of beach, Wong Wan-yuen, 22,
he has not "represented", but he a short passage in Chinese.
the conference of Tung
is a man who has given, many 100,000 Wah School has 1,200
military and Cheung Kan-hung, 21, were years to the running of tennis, advisers to the Southeast Asia each fined $10 by Mr Hin-abing who uses commonsense and who pupils in all which 'come at three different times-morning. Treaty Organisation held
in Lo Central this morning.
at Bangkok.
loves the game, People who but afternoon and evening. This is
Six other men, who pleaded know say that Australian teħnia SUSPECTED', BOMB designed to give Jeasone to as
week notu National army engineers late when the
Word LGBT can do nothing Prosecution
but maintain I many children as possible,
today removed a heavy pack- evidence against them.
high place under the leadership age believed to contain a time
of Don Ferguson Bardtary Department. Overseer bomb from the staircase lead Khan told the Court that at
SLOW PROGRESS ing to the flat of the United 11.30 am, on Sunday the saw a
leave For States Embassy security
Senate Select Committee has said This is invling thieves
total storage at 8 o'clock was this year and active-in the In- 4,876.87 million gallons.
Relations Club. He ternational
won a teaching nasistantship has w
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he will start
INCH OF RAIN
nt
In September.
76 points of an inch of rain-fell, at Pomona,'
the Diocesan
Meet Me
at the
Gloucester
FIAT 600
School
In the music classroom
visited morning.
of
their school
has
011
this!
Ca
threatened with
If he dosa
does not change Department and Lom Chik-ho,
with
the
# IC-
Hearing is proceeding,
Kho
.four
the chan which gives some now on this station for the sun
of tentia the wool cheque at, about £3500 fleet before, it reaches with administradent and reigned | million.
Played Ball
On Beach
110
Was
ho has put Australia on the tennis map.
And the man
The
three higher were-1950-51, 2636 part of the insurgent feet at Several large junks, formerly £404.7
Amoy, but whleh for some time. £390.7 past
it is supposed
tieve
'been emplaying themselves in pirating,
open in August and
who replaces wool from the outback is on ita ed, with large crews and are
to store, de
SHEEP STEALERS ·
of the activities
year.
commanded by some of the prin
Bro said
Woolgrowers are again comcipal men who conducted the operations before Amoy. There platning
can be little doubt, that on sheep stealers, and claim that leaving this they will pirate their in one area of the State alone way back to China, packing up this activity is casting straziers whatever prey they come acres more active in this department, There are no legal metos" by
Police are becoming more and
lo" contemplate They again proceeding to a Force official said this which" "Lese: Vestein
that graziers could do meddled with her as long as they to prevent sheep stealing behave themselves quietly, and police could,
yet we believe few people can In maky
CANCH farmors will doubt what will be the course flocks
unattended ́arid: din-lot..
leaving
Argoy
can
́ ́many months · nów i weinfurt for many montha,” hat procoodfast-bea 7 of the....
Singapore,Tala
The Tung Wah Hospitals are hoping to build a new school in Bhaukiwan to replace · the present one which is too small and too near the tram for
in Salgon, Mr Robert W. Henvy, the defendant playing with a comfort.
His Excellency was shown is dat is in the same build rubber bail, Having been warnment of Canberra and we mis. round the school by Mr. B. C. King as the United
Slates In-od they all went into the water pect that the members, must Hawkins, Secretary for Chinese formation Service Library into Half an hour later, be returned fool that they are getting no-
and Me: K. Tung, which terrorists recently
burled to the scene and found - the where fast. Chairman of Directors Tour- gronasto
(3) merne, people still-playing ball. teen of the Directors, were alto He discovered the package of He then took them to Stanley present.
Senate the stairs himself. After i had Police station and-chargečk Before loaving t the Governor been," removed, armed police them shkakt was given tea and cakes in one mounted guard over the bulid=1; The bell was ordered to be that of the large classrooms.
ing-Neuler.
chlof crowd of people, including all been inquiring into the develop-to talce pollos-fold flinger of our port has bean":
4Me
dimin" of the Nation
otters than not
Tho mame
to the notice of the add Indian Government, but they
no measures have been to cover, and it wae mod pombe opted or to pr for them to be every
aaware, thought of, for Repre
policometo districte one or the apparently think this revol
had hundreds of