CROSSLEY BROTHERS LTD. MARINE, STATIONARY & AUXILIARY MARINE DIESEL ENGINES,
ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD. II.K. & Shangbai Bank Bldg. Tel. 27780
WATER SUPPLY CUT
A leak developed yos- terday in one of the tunnels bring- ing water from Tai Lam Reservoir. Water was being lost at a rate esti- mated at about a million gallons a day.
Waterworks Engineers who aren lazt night nurveyed the recommended
that the tunnel
be put out of aclion immediately
so that a full investigation can be made and necessary repair work put in hand.
This means that it will not
be posible to draw any water for the time being from the Təl Lam Reservoir and that the Colony will have to rely for
Red Patrols
Intercept Junks
Macao, Apr. 24. Local Nahing guilds' and "Jana" reported today that during tho week, ⚫ight Mabing Junka have been intercepted by Communist patrol launcher In the vicinity of Macas waters.
Bome of them have been detained
taken And
10 Lappa taland, but others were only warned to Jola the Government co-opera- tives
face the con-
sequences.
Those detained were later
the released after masters had Floned A declaration, which tien them to the, co-operativas. -France Protke.
GOVERNOR
VISITS
MEMORIAL
CENTRE
supply exclusively on the old His Excellency the Govern
reservults.
але
er, Sir Robert Black, paid visit to the King George V Memorial Centre in Hospital Road this morning to see the social welfare organisa- tions there.
Supply hours
П Whereforu being reduced immediately and with effect from tonOTTOW there will be only one supply period daily of five hour from 4pm to 9 p.m.
STATEMENT
According to a statement by the Director of Public Works, the Hon. A. India, the leak. developed near the mouth of ono..of...the unnels near the Son Miguel Brewery at Tsun Wan.
damage The extent of the cannot yet be assessed but. says the Director, the tunnel must be put out of action and Tepairs started
Immediately otherwise there is clave danger landslide which block the funnel completely and COUSO damage which might take months to repair.
of &
Its Excellency was accom- panied by Mr. D. W. B. Baron, Director of Social Welfare.
CHINA MAIL
8 APPEALS DISMISSED BY COURT
Five appeals against sen- tences and three against convictions were dismÍBS- ed by the Full Court this morning.
The Court comprised. Mr Justice T. J. Gould, Act- ing Chlef Justice, and Mr Jusilee C. W. Reece, Mr D, E. Greenfield, Crown Counsel, represented the Crown. The first case involved three appellants, Wong Kal-tin, 34, unemployed, Chu Fal, 12,
mployed, and Chow Noy-ho, 41, general braker, They ha been given two, four and three years respectively for conspiracy, In connection with the seizuro of a quantity of forged Amock- can banknotes.
L-
Chu and Chow had also been convicted respectively of posses- sion of forged banknotes and possession of Implements of
forgery..
A FAVOUR
A
reduction
Asking for sentence, Wong said he
Of
had
a mother, two younger brothers and a pregnant wife to support. Chu call that because the third "appellant had previously found him a job, he did kira a favour by storing the counterfelt notes for him. Chow asked the Court
to consider his clean record.
Mr Justice Gould told the appellants that the crimes they had committed were serious, and that in fact the sentences passed
and
Lee
The Centre, ndministered by Mr Justice A. D. Scholes for the Hongkong Council for robbery. The third was sen- Social Service. houses the teneed to three years for re- Sockety for the Profection ofceiving stolen property. Children, the Family Welfare All three appealed against Society und the Boys' and convictions, and denied the Girl Clubs Association,
allegations that had been made. against them. Hou applled, in addition,
for the corporal punishment to be struck spying he had been injured a year ago in a motor accident and was not At for caning.
His Excellency was shown around the Centre by Mrs M. Palmer, Secretary of HKCSS, Mrs M. Meakins, Secretary of SPC, and Mrs E. L. Ellas, and could Mr F. Yeoh of the Family
Welfare Society.
could or
Before going to the Centre, His Excellency, accompanied by.
"It is impossible," said Mr Mr Baron, visited the Southorn Inglis, "to say at this stage bew Playground, where he was mel long it will take to repair theby Mrs 1. L. Hail, Secretary present damage but it
of the Children's Playground take three or four weeks
Assaelation, even longer. This is merely u preliminary FLESS We won't know how long the job will actually Inke until the engineers have been inside the tunnel and have tracked down the source of the leak,
"We don't know what we are going to find Inside, Again
Euessing, 1 think it is probable That a fault developed in what to all appearance was solid rock -and-that-the-water-found-n-
weak scam.
"As most people know, the
mcks of this Colony vary from the extremely hard rolld rock'le rotten rock, largely composed of clay and sandy inaterials. Even the solid reek is frequentlý variable in texture and fracture and faulted by seams of softer material,
FRACTURE
"The Increased pressure caused by the water may have caused such a fracture in the tunnel walls to expand and thus a leak has developed.
"Until the leck has been re- paired it will not be possible to draw any water from Tal Lam Chung and consequently we shall have to rely on the old reser- voirs.
PRINCESS
VISITS
FACTORY
the
Betsklubas 1945
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1958.
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
310
✪ 1989 by NKA Garries, Ina,
"You wore elected publicity chairman of our, Jolly Gypsles club membership dříve--your father being a retired advertising man!"
Defendant Denies
Part In
Tsun Wan Robbery
SHEAFFER'S
NEW BALDEANN
WITHENE I shar
HAMARABLE AT ALL,
DOOR STONES
STERLING SILVER TIP
DAIRY FARM NET PROFIT UP BY OVER SIX LAKHS
The Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Co., Ltd made a net profit of $4,696,948 in the 12 months ending December 31 last year and the Directors recommend payment of a final dividend of $1.25 per share in addition to the interim dividend of 55 cents per share declared payable in October 1957.
D
of the
because
rod
la
The Directors' report present during 1957 owing mainly to, complex problem ed by the Chairman of the delays arising out of the Suez the necessity for ensuring that
The basement and there we choli be able Board, the Hon. S. N. Chau, crisis,
to maintain recommends that a sum of portions of the ground and first our operations at their tulless $379,080.70 be transferred to floors
new building capacity throughput any Provision for Staff Retirement covered by the agreement had, buliding that may be necessary. Scheme, however, been completed and The study of this problem is and Superannuation
to the Company not yet complete but has pro- $500,000 to General Reserve, handed over
for occupation by early January gressed to the $530,340.33 to Provision
point where it for
1958 and consequently it seems now seems that sultable pro» Corporation Profits Tax.
report at this grimme can be decided upon After these
and appropriate to transters
time that the deed assigning the In the fairly, rear future and payments of dividenda it is re- property to Henry Fox Estates meanwhile such work na commended that
SUM of
Lid was executed on January immediately necessary has been $322,211.10 is to be carried for-
10, 1958 By the terms of the for is being carried out, ward to the next @naucial year. galo and purchase agreement In view of the progress being The Hon. S. N. Chau, in his Henry Fok Estates Lid have ac-made in the construction of the statement to shareholders, which quirod the site for $900,000 and now airport at Kal Tak, it will will be presented at the 58th your Company hus leased the shortly be necessary
for the Annual General Meeting to be basement and the major part of
Company to construct a per- held at Windsor House on May the ground and first floors on manent building within the air- 2, sald:
very favourable terms for the port perimeter in which to house duration of the Crown Lease
our aircraft catering operations, which expires in 2030, The re- mainder of the ground and first These are, at present, housed in a temporary building nearby The year was a very sails-floor areas has been rented by
which Was erected in Novem the the factory one and but for
Company at commercial uf foot verlous outbreuk
and rates to provide for the possible ber 1955 to enable us to con mouth disease in DULT herd future expansion of our business,tinue to give this service to alt which occurred in the early in the meantime this section craft pending the allocation to part of December the result has been sub-let to The Shuius of a permanent slie. would have been even belter. Hing Co., Ltd as a department Slace 1954 the herd has been store, Your Company's new
Review Of Year
-
over
to the
on them were rather lenient.
Another case involved three others,
Kot Sto-yuc, 31, Hau Shlu-chi, 22, Hu-san, 25, all unemployed.
Accounts The fist two were respectively given six years and 10 strokes
The Working Pronts for the and five years and 10 strokes by A denial that he took any part in the robbery was vaccinated at regular intervais retail store on the ground floor
made by the first of three accused unemployed against the A and types of of this building was opened on year, $5,814,085.89, was
foot and mouth disease out un- October 2, 1957. It is operated $827,000 higher than in 1950, men, when he testified on his own behalf be- fortunately there is no vaccine as a self-service store although Owing to the number of addia
available from any source for provision is made in a separate tions to capital amets during................ fore Mr Justice J. R. Gregg and a Jury of six the type Asia I wrich Infected section of the premises for sales both 1956 and 1957, the aggres
gate
amount charged men and a woman in the Criminal Sessions our herd. There are, of course, on a credit basis and with de
other types of the disease but livery, it required, at the slight-Proft and Loss Account for the this morning,
these thrce
thocely higher prices which apply in types are have lo contend our other stores for such sales,cur under review in respect of nocessarily which we
Depreciation was On January 8, 1958 with in this part of the world,
our new considerably higher than in 1950. its restaurant on the first floor, the has now run The disease -course-and the farm is com- "Golcen Phoenix," was opened. Nevertheless the Net Profit for the-year, at $4,000,048.85,—was A milk from this seats approximately 200 nearly $647,000 greater than for destroval people, and facilies have the previous year, In view of pletely clear, infected Cows was but the lesses in calle through provided the disease were, fortunately, relatively small, only 20 having died or having had-to-bo destroyed. The possible after- effects of foot and mouth disease are difficult to assess but at this date a number of cows are we
Hau said he did not mind if bis sentence was increased if the corporal punishment was remitted.
CORRECT FINDING
working
Ip
was
person
The first accused, Yu Ching- oulin, 27, who is jointly charged
with Kwan Luk, 24, and Keng. 24, declared he
at a food stall when the robbery look place,
It is alleged that the three accused with another not in custosky catered A. STOLETY shop in Castle Peak Road, Tran Wan, shortly after nudnight on January 3, on the pretext of Euying some commodity, and i then robbed the proprietor of a fountain pen; a bangle, Ave rings, and ở sum of $1,830 in banknotes,
The Acting Chief Justice told the prisoners that they had told their stories to the Jury and they had found them guilty. Having read the record of the Irial, the Full Court was satis- fed that the Jury were correct in their Arding.
As to Hou's plen, His Lordship said the appeil had only bean against conviction, but in any event the Court did not con- sider the sentence imposed nu Huu to be excessive.
At Food Stall
Prosecuting is Mr Desmond Mayne, Crown Counsel, assisted by DDI G. Fergus,
In
Arsl
woo that ho
the state- Witness said that ment made by the first accuse! was available if he (first ne eued) wanted it. In answer to the Court, Mr Fergus sald that the Interpreter who took that statement was dead. Hearing is continuing.
Structure Of
HK Business producing as milk than
on
of
Thefts From Fisheries & Forestry and
Vehicles
and
to
for dancing in the
in Net Pront evenings. It is some years since this increase the
promised its your Directors have recommend- Company
Final Dividend of $1.25 per customers in Kawloon that our od shop and restaurant Zacilities share in addition to the Interim would be improved and we are Dividend of 65 cents per share confident they will agree that declared, payable on 18th Octo the new shop and restaurant ber last, making a total dividend now available to them in Kow at $1.80 per share for the year. loon oro second to none in the As is shown in the Accounts, would normally have expected.
the other appropriations of pro- Furthermore the possible ad- Colony. Plons
att recommended by your Direc for development A Presidential Address
verse effects on our breeding
Aberdeen "The Structure of Business in
rather tors aro progressed
transfer of $500,000 not yet Tully Hongkong and the Problems of programme are
more slowly than we had hoped to the General Reserve and an known, These factors may Business Education" by Prof. E.
Government
Stalt Retirement S. Kirby, BSc (Econ.), PhD compel us to consider importing but towards the end of the year addition of $379,000.70 to the
gazetted its, pro-Provision for some new slock later in the (Lond.), President of the Econo-
posals to
grant certain exten- and Superannuation Schemes to mies Society,
Our thanks are due to sions to our property there os bring this Provision to a figure University of year.
Consultanta Dur Veterinary Hongkong, will be delivered to-
well as to Aberdeen Permanent which adequately covers the through
whose efforts
the Pier No. I which, as reported in Company's In evidence, Arst accused morrow at 5.15.p.m. in Room
current accrued effects of the discose on our 1950, your Company has pur ability declared he took no part in the 211, University Main Building.
in respect of thesa Chan Man-lung, olles Chan robbery. He was working at Members of the public are herd were minimised and it is
chased. These extensions have schemes. desired to record our apprecia- now been approved and we ex- Kwan, 32, unemployed, appena food stall on Bowring Street, cordially invited to attend.
The Profit and Loss Account Port Of Spain, Apr. 23.
tion of the help and assistance pect to finalise matters with includes a charge of $118,400 to ed against the sentence of six and of the time of the crime ho
given to us throughout by the Government in the near future, provide a bonus to staff which by Princess Margaret today years passed Mr Justice was at the stall,
Director
Auriculture, We are pleased to be able to toured
Common- Scholes for six counts of house- First accused said that he
has been approved by your the report this as Shareholders are Directors. wealth's biggest sugar breaking and larceny. He said resigned on January 5 to return
Government Veterinary Officer aware that it has been the Com- he had showed repentance, and to the country, so he had
In the Balance Shoot, the production factory hare that this should have been received a letter asking him to
The demand for
fresh milk
main Items which have accounted and saw sugar processed taken into account by the Trial go back.
recombined "Blue Seal" pany's intention for some time
to extend its facilities at Aber for the increase in Fixed Assets milie was a strong as ever and deen. Enquiries for from the cane into bags Judge when sentence was im-
cross-examination,
Ice plant are the purchase of the 44 Yea with a capacity of up to 60 tons Wo Street property, new East posed. of the finished product.
accused alleged
A Chinese has been detained ice cream sales reached a new
two record total. The turnover of per day have already been made Point Dairy and Mr Justice Gould told Chan threatened by the police when following the theft of
Cold Storage manufacturer Plant prospective Despite heat-wave sunshine that the Trial Judge must have he signed a confession admitting boities of mineral water from our retail shops and restaurants
and Machinery, · BGW xit the.
fendency and building-work is expected Kowloon Ice Plant which melted for on the roads, considered the number and no- the robbery.
Tal On Increased He ruld the lorry parked in
equipment, to commence shortly. This in- sho managed to look cool in a ture of the offences, which were police wanted to get a convic- Street, near Main Street West, soward lower profit margins in
and new short-length, yellow and well-planned
this section of our businċsa, *gainst him, possibly Shaukiwan, on Tuesday,
creased production now planned and the cost of fiting-out the forget-me-not blue silk spotted and also his previous convie because one of their informers" Another Chinese was arrest- which was mentioned last year, at Aberdeen will further streng Company's Manson House pre-
mises. dress.
of has continued to affect trading then the Company's position in tions.
bore him a grudge,
ed yesterday on suspicion
The value of Stocks on Hand, He agreed he did not make having stolen
quantity of results.
the ice business.
together with Goods in Transit, such allegations during com-tooth-paste from a van parked The lease of the Gloucester
some $1,515,000 higher then Total Cost mittal proceedings, because he in Des Voeux Road Central. Lounge was renewed for
at the end of 1080, when, it will his defence reserved
at the
further period of five years from
be recalled, the figure was o Tsul Mon, 30, unemployed,
The premises at 44 Yee Wo low
one, The main increases On her 20-mile drive from who was given three years by trial.
A handbag containing cash July 1, 1857. The new rental. Earlier
Company Mr William
are in stocks of frozen meats Port Of Spain to the factory, District Judge R. H. Mills-
Me and property to a total value of though a reasonable ood for Street, which your
· for many years,
and of dairy slorés. All stocks the Princess passed through Owen, for breach of a deporta- Police interpreter testified that 3276 was stolen from No. 52, this location, is considerably has leased
came on the market during the villages along the taland's west tion order, asked for reduc-he took two statements from the Leighton Hill, fifth floor yester-higher then the previous rental
at the end of the year, were Rd to cover it this restaurant year and were purchased by conservatively valued and com coast where crowds of Nag on so that he could go to second and third accused,
will have to mainisin a high | at a total cost of $132,283. This priso fully marketable goods waving schoolchildren were Macao where his mother was answer to a charge of robbery. gathered.
turnover, He denied beating up anybody
property la and where he could earn 'd
on a well located during the taking at the state- Hving.
Sales of frozen meat to the alte measuring 1,081 sq. ft, and and stores in good condition.
Debtors and Sundry
Debit markets were brisk during the
4 storey building, Balances are at a normal level comprises a He said the only reason why ments. sugor
first dx months of the year, but in the ground-floor of which he returned to Hongkong, fal- lowing his deportation was that
very large quantities of live we operate a retail store, while and call for no comment except to say that the Reserve for he intended to go to Macsa,
cattle and piga were imported | the upper floors are used as Bad Debts, unchanged at the during the second balf of the staff quarters. Mr Justice Gould said the
Azure of $75,000, is considered year and thereby considerably Full Court did not consider the
During the year there has ample to cover any debts which curtailed the demand for frozen been a considerable increase may presently ba thought sentence to be too severe,
meat The abandonment by the Company's exports of quick drunkful. Government of the Import, quofa frozen Bak, as well as is" tho Under the heading · "Capital control on frozen meat with processing and quick freezing and Reserves" in the Balance effect from July 1, 1857 resulted of prawns for export by other Sheet, shareholders will : noto in a conddderable increase in the local concerns, Your Directors an increase in the Cattle Re- number of conceros Importing have now under consideration serve of $140,000. This repre- this commodity, some of which plans for the expansion of our sents the excess of monthly existing quick freezing facilities charges for cattle wastage je- which are now rapidly be bited to Working Account over coming Inadequate for the the book value of cattle sold volume of business which is or died loss amounts realised
She also wore a matching mushroom-shaped hat in pleat- ed spotted slik.
"There is no cause for alarm because at eight o'clock this
Cone-cutters in the morning, the old reservoirs con- tained 2,017 · million gallons, plantations dropped their cut which is a good deal more than † losses and dashed to the road- we have had at this time of the skle as her car pussed.-Reuter,
occasions sines 1940.
year on many
"But **
cannot maintain putting this scheme into effect present supply bours without as from tomorrow and will ba the Tal Lam water in the now supplying water only between
the hours of 4 pun, to 9 pm, Altration plant at Tsun Wan.
and distribu
"The diiration
tion capacity of the old resI=
PROVISIONAL
deliberate, tion
EARN LIVING
Exhibition
An exhibition of oil paintings
volra is only about 42 million callous a day. Over the last few days, with supply at ten "I should perhaps emphasise and water colours by Mr Luis hours daily, consumption has that these hours of supply are Chan was opened by Mr and averaged 62 mlition gallons a provisional day.
and subject change. It will obviously
to Mrs Fung Ping-fon at St John's Cathedral Hail this morning.
on
how things go during the next It is therefore obvious that few days.
the supply hours will have to be
"The public can rest assured
to
cut for the time being in order that we shall do our best
to reduce consumption to restore normal supply at the Agure which our plant can carliest possible date. handle-something 13
the
neighbourhood of 40 million
"We have already cut off the
in day.
POCKET CARTOON by OSDERT LANCASTER [In America)
Mr Mayne; Are you in the habit of beating people up?
Witness: Never.
Objected
The second accused had ob- fected to the statement, alleging
-treatment by, the witness. After evidence was taken in the absence of the Jury, the two were adiltted m statements evidence,
The accused. admitted th their statements, which were read to the Court, to having taken part in the robbery. The exhibition, consisting of
Mr G. Fergus, 63 oils and 48. watercolmars, will
DDI TSUB close on Saturday "afternoon.. Wan at the relevant period, said he was present at the time of charging the second and third accused. Mr Ma, the last witness, was the interprober,
Mr Forgun declared no duress on the whatsoever was used accused before they mada thr almbomenim in mouwer to thi charge.
BICYCLE STOLEN
A Chinese was arrested on Tuesday and is being ques-]
gallons a day. Wo think this flow of water from Tal Lam into can be done by reducing supply the tunnel and will give the very tioned. about the theft of a hours to fivo dally and, as an highest priority to the repair bicycle from Stanley Terrace
on April 3.
emergency
menture,
we
are work"
*Just forget l'in a prevess,
·Mr. Pulvermacher, and think of me, de d, warm, kuman, emotionally under- brivileged personality,"
are new to the trade.
It was a good year for our cold stores, which were full for moet of the time and our ice sales once
moro reachod Agures.
record
offering.
from sales of carcases. Your
A great deal of, consideration | Directors consider it prudent to * Shareholders will recall that has been given during the permit the Caffle Reserve to a sale and purchase agreement year to the question of the re- increase in this manner in view was concluded on September 31, pair and/or reconstruction of of the possible effects on the 1958 with Henry Fok, Kotales the older portions of our East recent outbreak of foot, and Lick for the development of Point property. This is a very mouth disease.
your Company's
properly
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