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IT'S
A RIGHT GOOD SHOW
Here are the Garrison Players, right bang in form with their current production, "Fly Away Peter" a domestic comedy filched from the heart of Streatham. The audience, the largest the Gar- rison Players have bad for a first night for some time, loved it. The reason is not hard to find, for the family on the stage is the family everyone knows back home.
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From the rising of the zurtam fully varied tones. Mr and Mrs we see ourselves on leave in Hapgood are so sincerely your the room that hau grown in neighbours credibly small since we've been nway, and we are reminded that every ment means someone has to wash the dishes afterwards,
thak It is the asstalgi 20 sphere of the play that entered
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night's per- Taking Har mullence. formance, It was highly suerte. 5-
First
it
ful for the following reasons.
the
choice
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Howe and Junct Howes). Stanley Oliver, a trife youn for the part of John Neilson, rings to the performances with the promise he has shown in some recent productions. HIS BEST YET John le Marc 15 Tex! 14:30 June Armstrong-Wright 19 Myen, the younger children
gave the He solute is thet an- the Hapgood family live un
happily wereav Crowd
of pleur
play.
irng-haatest!
pet als what agine that art entst be 17.0 Gutmoded busmens of spater bourgeois. This ang isa og
Streatham, and
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HI«༡F that
domestic drama live behind the next ear- Laine of semi-detached vla
This is oil to say that the play is so well within the grusp of the Talented tie simpatiy The Gas- rison Players have subsledd that they make a fine job of it
WELL PRODUCED
Then the play is well order wi and has much more Anish Than some recent productions of the The set 15 Clariison Players. good, the actors well rehearsed; there is an atmosphere of ease about the whole thing which breaches the gap between stage mud nudience
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interesting performance because
ky thrit them at the end school age and slay with them long enough to witness their of Bling fascinating adventure inte
Roger Nvedel played his best yet as the elder son of the family while Ellenor MacCullum Stewart as Dandy makes a sunti i but excellent vitry.
or
That leaves us with Georg"
'pleface' if you Uke, the awfully dee at fellow we overt at the local tennis club, lan Mackintosh takes this part aret walks off with it.
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So there you are, and KUMTA, KS a right good show
JOHN LUFF,
CHINA MAIL
Sotablished 1945
'FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, · 1956.
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"I wish they'd get married-just waiting for them to come in nights has made me 15 pounds overweight!"
Official Appointments
The following appointments, approved by the werd by Gladys Rog-rs, Governor on instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, were published in today's Government Gazette:
HANDSOME TIP
We are introduced to newcomers 10 the Hongkong
San Diego. Deg. 7 Stage; that is a good thing, and A customer who took a 10 evnt. it this production n very good Jeup of coffee every morning for thing, for the voices are varied the past six months in a San in tone, a point to many pro» Diego ente hauled the waitress, ducers are, inclined to neglect.
Mrs Gerda Olson, an envelope | like! in particular Die | containing, he saki, a small tip melodious voice of Phyt (Jane as he walked out yesterday. The Wright) whose lines were seus envelope corsiamed
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SHEAFFERS
Skrip
KEAY LOSES APPEAL Sentence Of Two Years New Road To
Ordered To
To Stand
William Murray Keay, former Superintendent of Mines, who was sentenced to two years for corruption on September 28 by District Judge W. T. Charles, today lost his appeal against conviction.
was not
Crown Counsel, Mr Dermot Rea, appeared for the Crown,
The Full Court judgment reads:
dict.
10
section.
Was
Cost $1,436,039
Construction of the now Tin
Hau Temple Road at North and will be hailt by Messrs Lun
pint will
cost $1,434,039.50
Sang and Company, Limited, whom the contract has been
the ward of the contras, is
among many others counced in today's Government Gazette. the Included in the others are construction of an access road for Tai Lam Chung catchwaters, Northern
A and E, Group $600,000 awarded to Mosers Kuma On; and the construction of a new market building Kansu Sreet, Kowloon, award- to Mosers Winsome Con-
building pany; the
will cost $622.744.30
Construction of the Garden Rond Staff Quarters, et $80,- 987.92, has been awarded 10 Construciora Messrs Yip Lee Conpurry.
The Full Court, comprising the Chief Justice, Mr Justice M. J. Hogan, and Mr Justice C. W. Reece and Mr Justice A. D. Scholes, gave a written judgment this morning, dismiss- ing the appeal. They ordered the sentence to date from his conviction.
Keay, who
legally Crown Counsel has Invited us result of receiving the money, represented, appealed on the also to express an opinion on the take or forbear to take action in rome matter in which the pub- ground that Judge Charles mic views indicated by the learned directed hunsoir in holding that trial judge on page 6 of the re- Be body is concerned, he com-
an offence Section 11 of The Prevention of cord of the reasons for his ver- | mits
against tha Corruption Ordinance Cap. 218 applied to the charge on which "Whilst the construction HARD TO ESTABLISH he was convicted.
by the trial Judge on "It seems to us that in such Section 3(1) of the Prevention | cineinstances it would probably of Corruption Ordinanec has not be difficult, despite the wide prevented hian from finding the ambit of the section, to eslab- aapelinni. who had failed
Ben that the money in question "Thi charge ita
question rebut the presumption raised by
received corruptly De on alleged
inducement to, that the
Section 11, gulity of the offence Appeliant
or reward fur. or otherwise on account of the whilst engaged as Superintendent charged the Crown contends that of Mit by
or forbearing employee Inking the Hongkong the trial judge's construction of Government, corruptly
to take such action. received Section 3(1) is unnecessarily res-
"It is not necessary for us to $28,000 as a reward for
make a final decision on this favour and forbearing to show distavour
point in order to decide the pro- a Syndicate in relation to the issue of certain
sent appeal and stice too free Tac Fuk of 8 Tin Po Street, Use of the opportunity to Wenchai was fined a total of the Syndicale and
make 'obiter dicta' can give $450 when he pleaded guilty to the subsequent transfer of the
riso to difficulties we do not
truffle offences three separate feel that in the present instance before Mr I. T. Morris at Kow- APPELLANT'S CASE
we should go further, in loon this morning.
031 "The Appellant argues that
respon to the Crown's request The changes Serion II ĐÃ Cup 239 lại Ex
to relate, pressed
and relates
person holding Or steking obtain a contract and that a prospeeling or mining licence under the Mining Ordinance, 1954 is not a contract. 11 may well
to
Hences to saldi licencts.
Dr James Cook to be Senior Ponsford who is on leave priorly, to a transaction with Specialist, effective from April | (o retiremunt.
Mr Ki lu-woon, Senior Health 1956;
Inspector, to be
Acting Chief
vice Inspfetor. Healt
De Ho Hung-chlu to be Senior Specialist, effective from April,
1, 1950: and!
Miss Moira Gruve Connolly to be Nursing Sister effvelive from November 21, 1958,
LOCAL POSTINGS
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The Governor has approved
the following appointments.
trasters, promotions and post-
Morris;
Mr M
Williamo,
Mr
Sub
Inspector of Police, Cessed act LAS Assistam Super- Intendent of Police;
SUPT OF PRISONS Mr G. V. McGrath,
Chier
Mr C
F.
ings which were also pablished | Officer, Prisons Depertinent, to In today's Government Gazette: ke Superbitendent of Prisons:
Mr J. Moore, Stape Intendent !
T
McDonald, Officer, Prisons of Police, to be Acting Senior Assistant Chief
Department, to be Chief Officer Superintendent of Police.
Chervice Mr McGrath;
Mr E. M. Geminell, Principal Department, to
Mr G. H. A. Morris, Health Inspector, to be Acting Superintendent al Assistant Sanitary Services, vice Mr E. N.
Radio Hongkong ¦
HK T
Öfkeer, Prisons be Chief Officer;
Mr K. W. J. Topley, Cadet Officer Class 11. ceased to be Labour Officer and assumed chuly as Assistant Secretary, Colonial Secretariat:
Mr
F. F. Warburton, Chief to be Acung
Health Inspector endent
the
4 ม. Children's Programme, I Asabunt "Looking at things" -Sul More abuut The Cintestia" DUCTS); 6.44, Sanitary Services during
absence of Mr A. W. T. White: Block Market Report; 6, Time Signat, Popularity Poll presented by Ted
Mr Leat Kee-leung, Senior Thana. 6.30, Rhapsody in Rhyn played by Geri Qalian and his Heath inspector, to be Aeling Caribbean hythm Boys; 0.45. The Chief Hearth Inspector vice Mr XVIth Olympic Games, A recorded silustrated report from Melbourne, with commentaries on some of the Highlights of the day's events; 6AD, Weather Ieport; 7. The Signal.
Warburton.
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to
thought
that the mischief which Section 11 is designed to check would arise equally really in - nection with the acquisition of
from the Fights
Government other than contractual rights
or
tricted and invites this Court to say Go,
The trial judge has said that, in his view, Section 3(1) of the Ordinance.
'contemplates sich an Intention as is shown by the use of the words 'gift', "loan", 'beo', 'reward' and advantage", as the object of a reward. A person cannot, I think, in ordinary parlange be said to receive a gift for a long unless the porson delivering the object of the gift or loan intended 11 tọ be such, while to talk of receiving a re- ward as a reward seems to be a waste of words unless the object was to make bolli the intention of the River and the receiver mate-
Drove Car With Faulty Brakes
were that
ho
hand
for guidance, than to say that drove a private car co October 0 had it been necessary new to with inefficient foot and decide this further issue each brakes of us thinks that we would have (Megring. Bound
ac- some difficulty In cepting this argument of the Crown.
"The application for leave to appeal is dismissed."
CROWN CONTENTION "If we understand him pro perty, Coutssel for the Crown contenda
the it is quite im- wital material
Interiou the maker of the payment may have New Powers For since the only cantat matter is the intention which cerver has in regard to the par- Board Of Review ticulik payment, irre to
irrespective of
any
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therefore be strictly construed.
whether
the
IC-
he has communicated
that intention to the payer or An amendment to the Places
due from
Public
Entertainment
Wax
and with Inadequate
Defendant
was driving his vehicle along Castle Peak Road when he was stopped by a Police officer. By the appear- ance of the vehicle, the Police officer suspected the car was not in fit condition to be driven on the public highway. He took the car and the defendant to the Office In Kowloon where the vehicle was examined. It was that the storing 1ts component ports were all badly worn. The foot brake was found to be al- most useless and the hand brake was totally useless.
On each charge the defendant was fined $150 or seven days,
DEFENCE FORCE
And that limitatlon of the opération uf the sectic 10 those
holding or seeking obtain a contract, is somewhat illogical, but that is the effect
as enacted and not.
hat of that Counsel maintaina of the sections the Appellant argues it cannot
there may be an
ver Ordinance (Chapter 172) innocent
cent payer properly be extended to
and a guilty receiver und that published in today's Government
Gazette that the section will apply where an
giving the Board of other than relationship falling strictly within the term
Review individual makes a payment to
power to postpone "Contract" cxpression
an employee of a public body decision on any appeal. this is a penal statute and
fully believing that the sum Regulation 10 of the principal highly penal sections and should which he is paying is lawfully regulations of the Ordinance him has been amended to enable the
The Government Gazette and properly phs Appellant contends that ruch as an amount claimed flis decision on any flim for an 3. H.
Board of Review to postpone announces that Flying Officer tax or as a "en by the govern-
Ware, of the Royal a mining or prospecting licence
may initial period of not less than Hongkong Defence Force, has by any ordinary s'andard is not ment, and that the payer a contrast ая
what-six months. ordinary peopic | have no guilty purpose would understand the word, and ever in making
been permitted to resign from the payment The Board is also empowered | the Reserve of Officers. therefore the section should not but that if the receiver, who to postpone its decision for any Acting Lieutenant J. C. Faber, may by his own false represen- further periods but the total is confirmed in the rank of be held to apply to it.
tellen have induced the "It seems to the Court how-
paly-postponement shall not in any Lieutenant with original seniori- It 13 ty of October 1, 1982, in the ever, that, without departing in tent, receives it with the in-case exeted two years. any way from the construction tention of unlawfully keeping also authorised to reconsider Hongkong Royal Naval Volun
the whole OF the appropriate to a penal statute,
after conferring a a pass for exhibition within three benefk on the payer in o mat- years before the coming into In question and see what sort of sights itter in which the pubile body is operation of the regulations.
concerned, although this Inter
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The New; 7.09. Cominciatary: 7.35 Staircase Holdupe must look at the substance self and the Part of it for him any flim which it has refused to teer Reserve.
Memories of the Oper and Ballet (UBCTS). "Peter end the Wolf". Attenborough Narrated by Richard with the Orchestra at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden In-
1.48, Going to the Pictures, Critics
C1C
of the transaction
A Chinese woman was nt-really creates and that we would conce troduced by Madame Marie Rambert: tacked and robbed of $40 in cash be wrong to allow ourselves to tion is entertained only by the Then she was ascending the stair-be guided exclusively by the receiver end is not communi discuss the Pletares they case of her home at No. 109, Label which has been attached catett in any way to the payer to geen thin Week. Chairman: Timothy Birch: Music of the Catchik Street, 3rd floor, at about to the document establishing the then the receiver is gulity of the
offence contemplated by Momeni, Featuring Hit Song of 0.20 p.m. yesterday.
relationship between the parties. section.
MUTUAL RIGHTS
today andi textiotrow Compiled The ussaliant Biruck the and presented by Illary Green; 130 woman on the head with a piece London Pride. A Tour in worde
and Music Devised and Presented of wood and robbed her of a by Ronald Decent: . Time Signal. wallet containing the money.
The Newe; 1,00, Home News from Police enquiries are proceeding
Britain: 0.10. Appeni for 10
| Marianne Reicht aid in kepem Grotip.
By Mr A. Sommerfelt, President of the Martone Heichl Aid to Lepers Group: D20, Music Lovers" Hour= Classica! Requents presented by
Alicen Dekker: 10.00, Caterina Valente Sing 10.30, BBC Jazz Club
Snatchers Active
A purse was snatched from a (DBCTS), Johnny Dankworth and Chinese woman walking in Ice His Orchestra: 10.50. Weather Report;
1. Time Signal. Radia News Reel House Street at about 10.40 a.m. 11.16, Goodnight Musle; 1120, Clowd yesterday.
Down
THO
REDIFFUSION
"A perusal of the document itself and of the terms and conditions which are imported into it by the Mining Ordinance,
No. 33 of 1954 Indicates clearly
trom
has
this
NOT SUPPORTED "Counsel for the Crown han decided case in support of this not been able to produce any
proposition and the only ap- a mining or prospecting proach to an authority which ho Licence creates mutual
itual rights
been able to find is in the and obligations of a contractual address of Cassells K. C. to the nature between the holder and Court of Criminal Appeal in the
It is the Government.
truc case
of Cheshire, Lucas and that the Ordinance limits the
Bottom,
20 CAR. p.50, where Gold of negotiation between
counsel criticised this This eminent them and ensures that certain
tain the summing up or the Judge prescribed rights and obliga- the jury in the court below on tions would always spring up
the ground that t was not when mich à licence is issued, pointed out to them that there but that does not provent these might be a corrupt giver but an rights And
Innocent receiver obligations being contractual in nature and
"Even assuming that this there is freedom under the
the Ordinance which
brief passage would cover bas
been corollary, of an innocent giver exercised in the presont 180, and a corrupt receiver we doubt to add terms and conditions if it really carries much support over and above those prescribed for the proposition put forward by the statute.
by the Crown in the present "The Judgment of the Judicist case. Instances can be imagined Committee of the Privy Council where a misunderstanding could in the case of Glenwood Lamber result in one párty acting in- AC, to which Crown Counsel The dates for the Criminal Company Ltd. v. Phillips (1004) nocently and the other corrupt
Ly: where,
BUKA Was has referred, shows
the the payer
boll
that thats ranking character of the
correct and innocent but the receiver Newman;: 0, Time Signal and the March 22, April 28, May 174 Monship, established is not mavment.
Ma questions of words but of thought, mistakenly; that the News: 9.18, Appeal for the Marianne June 21, July 10, August 18, substance... "and", by that mo Belebi ar to Lepers Group by Mrs September
money was, with the knowledge Mommarfait, President of the November 22 and December 20relationship created
20, October 18, criterion It seems to us that the of
the payer, being fald to him Karianno Raichi Aid to Lopera
by the as a
and he received documents Ismaed to the Syndicate in the present chewThis, however, falls short of does properly fall within the establishing the proposition that orbit of the wood "entruct as where an employee of a bubile In Section 11 of the Pro- body knows and believes" that
Guest-Presented by Betty: 028,
A 14-year-old boy has been detained by the Police in p... Variety Cails the Tune: nection with the theft of a gold 3 Musical Matinee: 3.30, Strike up charm in Tam Kung Road yes-
Band: 4. Romances of the terday morning. Weld-Marie Louise; 435, Tha far
The gold charm was snatched Musical A.D.C., 4.30, Children's Corner-Presented hy from the wrist of a baby girl Auntie Pamela 5.30. Friday Re- who was being carried in the Birthday Mailbag: 630, Another arms of her mother at the time Up Show; 0.40, The House of Peter McGovern 7, Time Signal and the Nows: 7.09, Weather Report, An- nouncements and Interlude: 7.10. Showtime Gerenade; 7.30, Cuke Time: 1.45, The XVI Olymple Game Recorded Report from Melbourne, Hlustrated With COITI. mentaries on some of the highlights of the day's events 8, Personally Sesalons during 1957 were pub- Parade-Lillion Roth; 0.30, Fiesta Time: 830, Passing the Buck- Jaked in today's Government Conducted, by Prof. Wimple with a Gazette as below: panel including Paul Drew, Stephanie Tyler, Jerry Lewis and
Daphne
• Group: 9.20. Symphony Hall Excerpts from "Requiem Mars in. D Minor" by Morert-Sung by the Westminster Choir, conducted by Dr John Finley, Williamson; 10, Redir{•
1957 CRIMINAL
SESSIONS.
January 10, February 15,
CLASP TO E.D.
ston Spotlight Interview with Dr
the
John Firdey Willendon, the founder Captain AP. Pereira of thevention of Corruption Ordinance, money has been paid to him in Conductor of the Westminster Choirs Royal Hongkong Defence Force -10.15, Magic and Moonlight: 10.30,
nocently but decides in his own or some of Molode Had been awarded First Clasp-torbet fat the only point roisse mind that he will use the money, concerning pa, the ite of: Alexander Bile, written by Godfrey award,'.
David Efficiency Decoration : The by the Appollent and the con- for a uniawful purpose not con- mon il Dale with Dreams Clovernor, was announced in to runcient to campore at the up the receiver grown personal authorised by the blukiors Wethave reached on 12 ir templated by the payor, eg for 11303 Pretude to Might 13 Mid, Government Gazettes pour iplication for leave to appr
God Save the Cures,” Close Down
•lut | bendit; and, that he willjyma
Sergeant Willam Purvis is promoted to Second-Lieutenant in the Hongkong Regiment,
creates the newly gentle calf
pump the fair lady look for important occasions...
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