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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1955.
Exemption Family Dispute
Order
Challenged
In Court
Over Taipo Properties
A family dispute over certain properties in Taipo was heard before the Acting Senior Puisne Appearing for the Li Judge, Mr Justice J. R. Gregg, in the Supreme Po-chun Estates in action Court this morning. against 17 tenants for the
and Tenant Ordinance, Mri
The suit was brought by Tang Chu-wah, other- recovery of premises wise Tang Wah, merchant, of No. 6 Wah On Lane, exempted from the Landlord Taipo Old Market against two of his brothers Tang P. A. L. Vine in the Vic- Min-wah, of 31 Yan Hing Street, Taipo Market, toria District Court this and Tang Tung-wah, of No. 4 Wah On Lane, Taipo morning called the defence Old Market, executors of the will and estate of "an attempt to get in by their father Tang Fan-shan; late of Fu Sin Street, the back door to ask the Taipo Market. Court to review the Exemp- tion Order.”
The Delince contended that the Order made by the Governor-In-Council Was null and vold because it did not Iollow the procedure laid down.
The defendants are represent- ed by Mr P, J. Griffiths,
The Po-chun Estates are seeking an order from Judge J. Reynolds for possession of pre- mises ut 02 and 93 Connaught Road Central and at 185 Des Voeux Road Central which are de- being occupied by the 17. fendants.
Plaintifs claim the premises form part of those concerned in an application for exemption in 1054 an exemption order,
and pursuant to Section 31 (1) of the Lam
Judgment with costs for plaintiff against the second da fendant in default of appearance was entered on March 19.
Plaintiff was represented by Mr Patrick Yu, instructed by Mr W. I. Cheung of Messrs Wilkinson and Grist.
Appearing for first defendant was Mr Oswald Cheung, instructed by Mr W. C. R. Carr, of Messrs Johnson Stokes and Master.
in
The statement of claim statce: 1-Plaintiff is owner of those pieces of land registered
District Office, Taipo,
aa sub section 5,6,7 and 8, Lot 4433 in D.D. No. 51 and the title deeds relating thoroto and is entitled to the possession of the same.
2.In er about. October, 1952, plaintiff deposited Bald deeds with his late father, Tang Fan-shon, to negotiate a sale of the said properties on behalf of the plaintiff.
3.The said Tang Fan-shan died on Sept. 13, 1953, without having cold the said properties and without returning the sald title deeds to the plaintiff and the defendants, as executors of the will of the estate of the said Tang Fan-shan, deceased, are in possession of the same.
4.- In
repeated spite Plaintiff's maintained that the requests
plaintiff the defendants falled to quit and and in spite of a letter by his have remained there as tres-solicitors to the defendants dated passers.
September 23, 1954, asking for the return of the said title deeds, defendants have failed to do so.
Plaintiff claims:
Landlord and Tenant Or dinance, made by the Governor- in-Council was gazetted on June 24, 1955. The solicitors of the plaintiffs gave notice to the defendants to quit and deliver up possession on August 0, 1055 which was the date of expira- tion of a month of tenancy and notices wore served June 20, 1955.
He was accompanied by Col., home he will visit Indo-China, RG. Forgusen, Col. M. G. Rose- Bangkok and Manila. borough, Lt-Col. E. F. Black, In an interview with repor- Li-Col. W. N. Mertasin and L-ters. General Clark said he was Col. A. A. Desmont,
the en a routine visit to the Far East- to confer with military advisers
The General was met at Kal Tak by Col. J. A. Dawson, Chief of Staff, British Forces, and
afterwards Inmediately
in- spected મા
of honour guard drawn up from the First Bat- talion, the Essex Regiment, under the command of Capt. P. Philcox. The Band and the Colours of the First Battalion were also present.
The General has been visiting Formosa and before returning
Reliability
Trial Ends
In Chaos
In Admiral Stump's group,
FIRST VISIT
He said he was happy to have the opportunity to make his first trip to Hongkong,
Replying!
a
of
the
DEFENCE DENIAL.
од
B)
43 to whether
The Defence denied that the China would be Nationalist
A declaration that the plaintiffs were entitled to pos able to defend the Island against
the session. In the alternative they said properties are
pro Communist attack, the
pleaded that because the properties of the plaintiff and that General. sald with the helpcedure laid which led to the ex- ho has a right to the title deeds.
United States, cluding of the premises did not
b) An order that the mid "we certainly could put up a
procedure laid down title deeds or their value bo re- follow good fight."
by Section 31 of the Landlord turned by the defendants to the,
plaintif and Tonant Ordinance (Chap. 255), the order purporting to ex- clude the premises was at all material dates null and vold and of no effect.
Asked if the situation in the Pacife had improved since the US and Rod China had begun talks. he said, "These talks are only preliminary, we must watch
fo further develop- ments."
He said the Americans were very happy over the release of American civilians by Rod China. "This question has been
U
Sydney, Sept. 12. The 1955 around-Aux-
great concern to the United tralia Redex motor race, a States for a very long time."
The General also mentioned 10,500-mile reliability test
that he was honoured at the billed as "the world's toughest motoring trial," airport on his arrival as the 1st Battalion of the Essex Regiment ended here on Sunday in was under his command with utter chaos and early this the British Commonwealth morning officials still did not Division in Koren. know who had won it.
Two
tough Volkswagens
The
Anished first and second, but during the night they were each penalised 500 points for super- ficial
damage.
decision made Malcolm Brook's 60 Van- guard
the apparent winner since his car was pronounced undamaged, but the Volkswagen driven by Laurie Whitehead
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c) Damages for detinue.
Costs.
the
PLAINTIFF'S CASE Opening the case for plaintiff, Mr Yu said that the The Defence
property in question was pur- that the order purporting chased by plaintiff in the pre- exclude the premises from the
sence of his deceased father, provisions of the Landlord and but with his own money.
also
claimed
to
father mid on his direction.
The loan of $20,000 which he cbtained from his father was subsequently repaid
Plaintiff said he kept the title deed, but some time towards the end of 1932 he left it in one of the drawers in his father's shop as his father was to negotiate a sale of the property. The sale did not materialise and he did not ask his father back for the retum of the deed,
It was not
the true that property was purchased on be- half of all the sons of his
alleged by the Do father, as
fence.
He signed as Tang Wah be- cause he did not want his other brothers to know that he had
to
buy enough money
the prepenty, in other
Wats to avoid jealousy on the part his brothers, he explained.
SHEAFFER'S
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ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
His Excellency the Governor tries his hand at the revolver range during his visit this morning to the Police training school at Aberdeen. Staff Photographer.
H.E. Visits Police
Reserve
Camp
"Missing"
Boy's Father Charged
His Excellency the Governor spent about 45 of minutes this morning on an inspection tour of the annual Police Reserve camp at the Police Training
The father of a ten-year- School in Aberdeen. Accompanying His Ex-
old Chinese boy, who re cellency on the tour was Mr K. A. Bidmcad, ported to the China. Mall deputising for the Commissioner of Police, Mr last Thursday that his son A. C. Maxwell, who is away from the Colony.
DENIES COLLUSION
that. Plaintif sald
he WAS ab- proached about this property by a
fellow villager, Tong Lam, on behalf of the first defendant.
He denied he was in collusion with the second defendant.
In cross-examination, plaintiff said
that his father was a very sucCENS- 2 biasinterman in Taipo. He was the sole agent for Shell Cămpany i the New Territories.
He remembered le and all his brothers gathered around his father's bedside about a week before he died. His eldest brother, Tang Yeuk- fan was also present.
His father was very i then and was dying at the time.
Plantin agreed that second da fendant was the actual pomon who was looking after his father'u bunk- ness.
He could not remember whether at al gathering his eldest brother asked his inther whether the tailst had any money In actual cash. In Atival fort altar hit father died, there was a sum of over $10,000 lett
by his fatlier.
Hearing is continuing,
Charged With Armed Robbery
I
Sir Alexander Grantham w mot at the Camp by Mr T. 0. Tso, Commissioner of the Police Reserve, Mr Mok Hing- wing, Superintendent of the Police
and Reserve
Camp the Commander conducting training of the auxiliaries, Mr Raymond Young, Adjutant of the Pollco Reserve, Mr W. Segrue, Staff Officer I in charge of taxillaries, and Mr W. Todd, the Police Commandant of Training School,
Lighthouse Keeper Held Up At Gun Point
was missing, was charged this morning before Mr Hin- shing Lo at Central with causing public mischief.
The father, Ang Sul-ching, alias Yip Chak-him, 47-year-old merchant,
at residing
DA drat door. Sheung Fung Lane, and Yu Yun-yec, 44, merchant, of 67 Connaught. Road, West, first floor, were both charged with the same offence and were remanded for 24 hours in police custody.
Nicosia, Sept. 11. Fifteen masked men, each
The remind
was ordered to carrying two pistols storm-allow in Amoy interpreter to ed the lighthouse on Cape come from Supreme Court
In the course of the inspection His Excellency Saw the 227 Greco, the extreme south-interpret in the case auxiliaries in four squads under-eastern point of Cyprus in defendants
going training for two wed broad daylight this after this dialect,
Defendants
in law, riot dispersing, drill, re-noon, volver firing and gêneral dis cipline.
The Governor talked with several of the officers who were teaching the auxiliaries.
After visiting the kitchen, Sir Alexander then went to the re-
volver range.
Committal proceeding began this morning balore Mr W. S. Collier at Kowloon Court against Chung Shing, alins Cheung Hon- Tenant Ordinance was not It would be seen from the hung on two counts of armed operative at the material dates pleadings, wid Counsel that robbery and possession of a re- His Excellency fred a few so as to deprive the defendants the price paid was $52,000. Ivolver and four rounds of am-shots, but the gun jammed. of their protection against
case of the plaintiff munition. was the that of the $50,000, $20,000 was eviction conferred by Section 5
DDI D. F. O'Brien, outlining (i) of the Ordinance; and that advanced to him by his father, the case, alleged that on August this Exemption Order, baing at but this loan was subsequently |11 accused entered the Chik all material times null and void repaid.
Shing villa at 10%1⁄2 milestone, and of no effect, the Court Jack-
Mr Yu said that subsequent Castle Peak Road and robbed ed jurisdiction in the premises to the purchase plaintiff had the owner, Fung Kul-cheung, of by virtue of the provisions of depostted the ile deeds with $100, the Ordinance.
LEGISLATIVE ACT
his father in order to negotiate Mr O'Brien said the evidence a sale of the
No
plainant's) behrly on his would show that the defendant
chhod demanded
SUCH
been
Fung Kul-choung was stated by the prosecution to have given the detendant $100, because that was all he had at the time.
The defendant allegedly told would the complainant that he return the following day for the
$1,000 from Mr. Vine argued that the Ex-sale, however, materialised and Fung Kul-cheung at the point
Kather plaintiff's
died on of a revolver. emption Order was made as a September 13, 1959, whilst the legislative act and, unless the said title deeds were still in his Defence said that no recom possesalon mendation for exemption was Plaintiff would say in evidence made, then it invested the Gov-
that he adopted the name of ernor-in-Council with power to
Tang Wah in order not to attract make that Order; further back notice of the other branch of the may still come out on top.
than that the Court could not
could not family, Le, the children by the remaining Volkswagen officials in Aus-
go. There tralia declared that legal advice
was a presumption arst wife of his deceased auther, toning 500, the prosecution that everything was done
that
defendant did not However, was being sought in the caSE
some ill-feeling on the part of turn up the next day, but do should have been done. That there having originally and the Orm is prepared to
placed the burden upon the De- fight the last-minute penalty to paper dated September, by fence to demonstrate
that branch of the family which
a letter to the villa ir- the your special Correspondent, can fence
any the Privy Counall if necessary.
father was favouring, which vered
a labourer, the letter and that any such he kindly oblige with. answers regularity
branch the through
of BIG OVATION
could Irregularity
was later handed to the Police. the plaintiff's give to a few questions?
ly Plaintiff's mother was family, Whitehead and his co-driver,
Mr O'Brien said on August 13 1. Wheelock
ignore the second wife and was living. received
Marden He Court the right to wrote "revision
piece of legislation which of contracts
In evidence plaintiff said that the defendant was seen by the from
the two defendants were
the gardener In a bus travelling with the Japanese resulting in the face of it was as regular as ramatta Park when they arrived higher returns to the company the Landlord and Tenant Or-executors of their father's will along the Castle Peak Road. His father had two wives, the The gardener followed defen- frat predeceasing him. Witness dant who slighted from the milestone. Ho and second defendant were, by bus at 10% the second wife, and Arat raked the alarm and a perty of defendant was by the first wife, detectives arrested defendant,
Ths' caso la proceeding: There
were four sons and a daughter by the first wife, and four song by the second, hồ added.
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Bob Foreman, tremendous ovation crowd of 30,000 persons at Per-
Drst on Sunday. At stake Is and "company should benetdinance liselt,
more than A£8,000 which they from revised payments in due will win if their victory is con- course." Such returns and pay-
ments being on account of Ire firmed.
Lance Perkins drove another terest on loan or additionally Volkswagen across the finish including part payment of loan? Une pos
second behind Whitchend 2. Hongkong Hotel: "Market and the company was jubilant, observers agree .............
inference foresceing large sales of the shareholders not likely to get Fmall car in Australia as a re-
bonus or an Increased dividend sult of the Redex showing. out of the $6.0 million windfall
But Chief
Dick has posàlbly Inspector
little & Hulls, who examined the cars disappointment in the market."
3. Metal
catised
Industries:
"Per-
The case is proceeding.
BEN YUSSEF ACCEPTS
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on
The word "Wah" appeared in the namics of all his brothers.
"It asks them to listen calm. It was a complete name in it-
and confidently
to the self, he said.
for damage during the gruelling Why is the balance $4,4 million ly test, later announce that both left out of reckoning? The 12 messages which will be shortly Volkswagens were penalised for storey building on
by Peninsula published
the highest "structural damage. Whitehead Court would not cost more than authorities. insisted that the officinis penal-
al-$7 million? lagd him for "chassis damage"
"It declares Moelf convinced when the only damage was to haps some people thinks. Motal that the solution It has adopted. most the is that which conforms a floor part listed as a replace- Industries are involved In
the highest interests of ment part and not a portion of prospecting for Beryl. Actually with work
It undertaken the chassis.
by Far both France und Morocco. The revisions gave second Eastern Prospecting and De is the only one which car renow
Ltd" Your the Franco-Moroccan brother place for the time being to Pitt velopment Corp. in a 72 Morris Oxford. Only correspondent is absolutely hood which has so often been 34 of the 170 startere finished right. But Metal Industries are mustered for the same cause in the three-week race and not all interested to the extent of a two victoriatie wors and 1 an the cats have yet been given sizable holding in the F. E. P. undeniable pledge of the com- their final damage Inspection and D. Corp.
mon death of the two peoplescht B.C. C. United Press. ·
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SATYAGRAHIS
STOPPED
nowa
Bombay, Sept. 11. A SORE THROAT
Indian police today provented His Lordship, here remarked
of Indian Satyn- two batches that ho could not hear clearly geshis (passive resistes) from due to the noise made by an entering Goa, Indiari overhead fan. Mr Yu said that agency reports rouching here as he had a SOTO throat he said tonight." could not shout in "the usual
(manner":"
oue
One
! He was rather notori- attemp was stopped, whars
to enter Gon: from us in that respect, he added.
Banda. This south by
Si-strong, sat off agadio (Laughter).
Plauft declared that ho but were inverted by musÇONS =
owned the property in quoation. sios of a ferry-ervice. The The deed of conveyance was offer aro 1 strong, wie sened by him under the name stopped while altempting to of Tang Wah, He denied arst enter Gos from the north nar Chuteodiet, W. Milansion, that he Majaline the report it said stgoed the name on babelt or file | France-Frang,
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Jud-Beve The. Gusen; Cione Dowci
to on both
only understand
are alleged on September 7 at the Ceritral At pistol point they forced Police Station to have made a the lighthouse keeper to haud false report to the effect that over the key and when they the furst defendant's son, out of the bullding some Julian Yap Ang was lost in came timo Jater they Looke the Queen's Road Central.. keeper with them. They TE lensed him later.
Polico and British Royal Mnzine commandos
the vicinity were informed,
There was no information here late tonight about what they did Inside the Ughthouse,
A telephone call to the light house at midnight brought the reply "all is well so fhr."
The keeper sald the police who pearched the building after the raid found nothing-Reuter.
SIDE GLANCES
Alleged Stowaway
A-18-year-old Fuklenese, Phoa Erig-hoa, of 306 Des Voeux Road West, second floor, who was found on board the Tylwangi between Hongkong and Singa pore on: September 2, was re- manded for three days in Police custody, by Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central this morning on a charge of being a stowaway, eq
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