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CHINA MAIL
100 Boys Get Rare
Treat On
On Board Visiting U.S. Carrier
Over 100 boys from the Children's Garden in Wu Kwai Sha, this morning sampled US Navy hospitality when they visited the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La.
The party, which comprised pit of an aeroplane where de
of teachers and boys from each tailed, Information on the con- of the Garden's cottages and trols was given by helpful guide, officials of the Christian
the An added attraction to Children's Fund spent two hours visit was the serving of lec aboard the carrier inspecting cream ond cookies on the both the flight and hongar hangar deck, a rare luxury for decks:
the boys.
rooms on
A landing craft conveyed the
Heard The Band group from Kowloon Public Plar where they were met by Small parties later proceeded
four Ready two officers of the ship. Lt/Car to the
carrier wherd detalled Donald Hanson and the Chief the Yoeman, chord Cullen.
descriptions of plut's briefly and clothing. was given by an officer.
the parly As
disembarked they were able to watch. a Marine
Guard of honour mounting for a visiting Admiral and hear the ship's band play him aboard.
Shopping Tour
L/Cdr Hanson has a part!- cular Interest in this Chlidren's home as his adopted son, Fan Ting-ching liver there,
Yesterday "father and son" met for the Arst time at the Children's Gardon and this after- noon the boy will be taken on a shopping tour and for tea.
Clothing Stolen From Car
Once aboard he carrier the children broke
up inlo
smail groups and were guided over A man has been arrested by modern jet Birçarft und the the Police 01 suspicion of Ready rooms by members of the having stolen, some clothing yesterday from a private car -Each child was given an parked in Kal Tak Road, Kowe opportunity to sit in the cock-loon City.
crow.
Chatham Road
Camp:
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1958.
POLICE
STOP
Sheaffers
KWALLPOINT WITH EXCLUSIVE
STERING SILVER TIP
Bank Sued For Alleged Refusal
JUNK: 96 To Meet Cheque
ON BOARD
The Police intercepfodan lighted motor junk two miles off Nine Pins at 1,30 this morning and found on board 96 "illegal immi- grants from Macao,
No Comment At Central Magistracy this
Police today refused to com. ment on a report that tho inmates of the Chatham- Road compound had re- fused to cat their meals.
PRO statement: "No further comment."
morning, Chan Ping, 44, master of the fishing junk, was Aned $1,150 with the alternative of three months and 20 days' imprisonment by Mr Hin shing Lo for carrying illegal immigrants into the Colony, carrying pasen-| gers without a permit and being underway without navigation lights.
Contacted at the Compound, G. A. R. Wright-Nooth, Assistant Commissioner for Kewloon who was visiting the detention area refused to com- meni on the report. He re-He pleaded guilty. ferred inquiries to the Govern-Charged with aiding and ment Public Relations Office.
abelting Chan Ping in carrying illegal imml. grants into the Colony, three crew members were Ained sums ranging from $250 or one month to $300 or two months, each ac. cording to their records. They were Kwok Pak-tai, 37; Chan Hol-tung, 48; and Kwok Kan, 44. They, too, pleaded guilty.
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manslaughter:
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Novel Act
By Women Beggars
Four women were fined by
A claim for $46,451.61 and for damages for alleged wrongful refusal to meet a cheque and for alleged libel was brought against the Neder- landsche Handel-Maatschappij, N.V. (Netherlands Trading Society) before Mr Justice A. D. Scholes in the Supreme Court this morning.
Notices
The start Upes of posting shown below are those för un- registered correspondence ported it (P.O., Hongkong. The intest posting, times elsewhere which, in general, are curling than the G.P.0. Um can be ascertained by enquiry as the local office,
The latest posting times for registered artlites are generally one hour earlier than the times shown below. Particulars regard- ing parcel malis can be Recer tained by enquiry at any port ощев,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1` By Air
Malays, Indoneala, Australia, Zealand. 3 p.m.
Hawaii USA, Canada, & p.m. Formosa, Koton, 6 p.m.
By Surface N. Bonso, p.m. Macao, & p.m."
Lace,
4
THURSDAY, JUNE 1 By Alr
tit,
Japan, 8 am..
Plaintiff in the action was Mr- Karily Nilakanta Sekar, mer- chant, trading as Sekar Brothers of 24 Printing House. Duddell Street. He was represented by
From the Files
25
years AGO
THE local weekly Journal the Critic includes several ccntributions in lis issue for last Saturday (May 27), particularly referring to local needs anti prob- ? lems and the dealings in shares carried on in Ice House Strest.
The shorter comments include a note on tea-growing in the
Further the defendants falsely Colony. and maliciously. whole on 4 memorandum which THEY
annexed to the cheque of and It is revealed that about. 200 concerning the plaintiff in the prisonera have recently been re- Mr Brook Bernacchi, Instructed way of his business the words leased from the local gaols be by P. Mo and Co.
"not In accordance with fore serving the full period of published their sentences owing to lack of Mercantile accommodation.
Mr DAL Wright, instructed | arrangement" And by Wilkinson and Grist appeared the words to the for the defendants (Nederlands- Bank.
che Handel-Maatschappij N.V.). By these words defendants
Complicated
meant ond were
undersloodHE third best Balance Sheat in the history of the com-
at the 52nd annual
Mr Bernacchi told the Court to mean (1) that the plaintif that this was a simple enough had not sufficient funds atanding peny was presented to share- claim, "although not unnaturally to the credit of his account withholders the defence endeavours to make the defendants this as complicated as they can." cheque; (1) that the
the type He said that he could not do was better than to read the statement would draw a of claim to the Court to show large sum of money
to meet the general meeting of the Canton
plaintif Insurance Offco, Ltd, held you of person who terday (May 25). A surplus of over $1,400,000 on the " year's cheque for A
without working was disclosed,
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the bris of the claim plaintiff sufficient funds standing to his was making.
eredit and, alternatively,
must constitute a re-
Element of claim as read contrary to his arrangements Word in the open lawn bowls
was as follows:
That at all material times the plaintiff was a customer of the defendants.
with the defendants, and, alter-
singles championship was the or without natively,
having defeat yesterday (May 31) of F. made any arrangements with Normington of the Hongkong the defendants to meet the
bo
Kowloon Docks by 21-1.
Brown, who is an interporter and one of the stalwarts of the
Kowloon Docks team, met with
No opposition whatever from
On September 20, 1956, plain- cheque; (ii) that he was the Electric by J, C. Brown of the tiff Enve to the defendants type of person whose financial instructions regarding the dis-etending was unsound; (iv) that Newposal of funds receivable by the he was the type of person to
behalf of the whom credit should not
given; (v) that he was not the the second division player and scored almost how and when he another liked. Normington opened with business
ja single on the first head and falled to register another shot during the next 10 heads.
China, People's Republic, 8.30 am Tamiland, 9 amT
Philippines, 1: pal
Malaga, Indonesia Australia. New Zealand, Ceylon, Indis, Middle East, Africa, Great Destan, & Europe,
U.3.A.. 8 p.m.
Malaya, Indonesia, 6 pm.
By Burtes
Chine, People's Republic, s.m. Philippines, Rabms, 11 a.m. Italy, France, Belgium.
Netherlands,
Bellum ermany
Genes, Belgium & Cyprus. Parcels
vis Marellies),, Noon.
Burma, Noon
Macao, 1 p.m.
of person
defendants on plaintif
On March 4, 1057; plaintiff type by letter revoked his previous others, instructions to the defendnuts bank, of September 20, 1954. ant dealings. instructed the defendants to credit
sum representing 25. per cent balance on an invalcë dated December 27, 1956 and quated 19 US$9,150 to the peepunt of the plaintiff.
Drew Cheque On March 11, 1957, defendanta complied with the plaintiff's instruction March 4, 1937 and credited to the plaintiff's account with the defendants the sum of HK$52,473.11 being the cquivalent of US$9,150,
with
whom
In particular should have
By reason of the premises the plaintiff has been greatly tu jured in his credit and reputa- tion and in his business and has muffered damages.
Defendants further wrongfully allege that the plaintiff has only a sum of $60.18 standing to his credit with the defendants whereas in the premises further sum of $48,451.61 Is due and owing by the de- fendants to the plaintiff.
that the
Chater Bungatoio · and provi perly sale by public auction at Lammert's sales room di 3 p.m. on June 28. One alte fronting to Nathan Road (for one house) and three alter fronding to Hwood Road (each site for a pair of semi-detached house),
☆
BY
Y desire of the Council of S
Andrew's Church, tha........ method of taking tre collection was referred to the electorate.
Mr E. Corbally...at. Centra |ˇBODY, Great Britain & Europe. for $50,000 payable to Sékür" | défondants have wrongfully d Only 65 members voleti, ika-ro-
Magistracy this morning for begging.
One them protonded to be on the point of giving birth. All four pleaded gulity. The pregnant woman, Toul Mei, 30, appeared to be in great pain, leaning against a wali outside Hennessy Road, at 10 am, yoɛ- terday, when she was spolied by policewomen.
-The Claims ·· The plaintiff clans; (a) A declaration bited the plaintiff's account, with sult being: For the new method $40,431.01 and that this sum istions will therefore continue to (38), against (27). The collec- due and owing by the defendants be taken at the conclusion of
to the plaintiff.`
On March 11, 1957, plaintiff Maava Lexional Aden, i drew a cheque on the defendants werd & Parcels, PA: Letters & Brothers. of Packets, 9 s.m. (0 June, 1958).
On or about March 12, 1957, MACHO, 6 p.m.
the cheque was presented by the Mercantile Bank Ltd to the de- fendants for payment and al- (b) Further or alternatively, the notices, immediately pre- though there were sufficient $48,461.61 being money payable ceding the hymn prior to the funds standing to the credit of | to the plaintif by the defendants sermon. the plaintiff with the defendants for money lent by the plaintiff out of which to pay the cheque, to the defendants, alternatively, defendants
The heavy rain on Friday wrongfully and in
as money had and received by (June 2) resulted in a landslide breach of their duty os plaintiff's
for the use of in the West Point aren, where bankers' dishonoured the cheque, the plalatiff,
On or about March 14, 1957,
houses in Ya: Fuo Street have". (c) Damages for defendants been endangered. Although the defendants negligently and wrongful refusal to meet the slide is of mild proportion, alternatively, or, in breach of plaintiff's cheque.
nevertheless tenants have been
The other three defendunts asked passersby to help. They said Toul was about to give birth and did not have the money to pay for an ambulance to hospital, When the crowd getfiered around the women, four woman
Went Begging
Inside
U.S. Consulate
police constables in plainclothes GIVEN 14 DAYS
upproached them and begaD making inquiries, the court was told.
the defendants
the plaintiff's instructions (d) Damages for the libel warned to leave as there are debited plaintiff's account with contained in the answer on the caid to be rocks in a perilous $46,451.81, purportedly pursuant memorandum annexed to the to the plaintiff's Instruction of cheque.
IMPRISONMENT Mei-kwal
WPC
Cheung testified that when sho asked the defendants what was the matter, Poon Ying, 33, Chan Chun, 97, and Lau Yung, 30, the other three defencants, enid they need an ambulance to convey Tsui to hospital but had not the money.
They asked for $15.
We're The Law!
Witness sald she then revealed that she was a constable and
she could call the ambulance without payment.
At this point, the other three women changed their minds and said they did not want an ambulance.
"They tried to get away, from
the crowd, stopped.
native of Malaya, David Tang, who was found begging inside the American Consulate General on Monday morn- ing, was given 14 days in prison by Mr Hin-shing Io at Central Magistracy this morning.
|A__ 50-year-old
fixed address, was sentenced to The unemployed man of no another two months' imprison- ment for breach of a deporta-
tion order.
Sub-Inspector Young Po-chi said that as a result of a com plaint received from the
But they were American Consulate General
that defendant had been causing Taul Mel, Poon Ying and Chan trouble to members of the Con- Chun were fined $10 or two days' sulate staff by continuing to beg imprisonment each and Lau for alms in the offices, defendant Yung, who had broken a bond was arrested.
for good behaviour, was fined He had been warned to stay. $28 or Ave days for mendi- away but he took no notice and cancy.
continued to cause a nuisance, In addition, Poon Ying, Chan Inspector Yeung added.. Chun and Lau Yung were ined The Inspector told the Court $15 each or three days' imprle that defendant had five preylous sonment, for provoicing a breach convictions in Singapore' and of the pes.CG.
two in Hongkong.
Three Suspects Detained
The Polles have detained three
following a number of
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Boy Injured In Accident
boy,
istract: thefts yesterday, in which
twelve-year-old #61-your-old woman lost a paie Chung Cheo-man, lving at No. of earrings in Shek Kip: TW | 3. Hul Road, third floor, was Street: near Chiang She Wani kurocked down, and ⠀ seriously. Road, a fountain pen was stolen injured by a privalo car yester- from a pedestrion ....... In-Waterloo day in Polchuur - Rond," : Demr Rded and a weles, watch the Police station. The boy analobed from a woman whilst i was schnitted io – Queen (Mary shey walking in Wong Chuk | Hospital where he is veontving
September 20, 1958 which
4.5 Mr Bernacch! next read the defendants well knew had been statement of defence, which revoked.
position,
denied every allegation in the result of St Andrew's Church Children's Annual By reason of the premises the claim.
Festival Services held on May plaintiff has suffered teranges. Hearing is continuing.
27, a total donation of £15:19:24 has been forwarded to Dr Bar- Dardo's Home, London,
SIDE GLANCES
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By Galbraith
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**The girls In my olub think you are won
de pledged two pints of your blood to the blood
betrais Bouth Chirm Street City
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A bla gun-maining enterprise le believed to have been nipped in the bud when one of the biggest recent hauls of arms and; is reported, also of opium, was made by revenue oftorrs who boarded the OSK liner Dell Momi on its retum here from Canton. Over 100 brand-new- eutomatica and
under- mentioned quantity of oplum were acived.
THE Philippiacs Independence
Mission! will arrive Hongkong by the Lloyd Triestino sr. Conte Romo, today (June 3). The party composed of Hon Manuel L. Quezon (President of the Philippine Senate -and: Chairman of the Nacionalista Party), Hon Sergio Ornene, Hon Manuel Roxas, Hon. Ruperto Montinom, Hon Emiliano T. Tiro and their. rezoective families and adylanra, They expect to stay in Hong- kong for.about, "a week during, which the local Pilipino Club and the Filipino Communal bije sedil be their hosts at a chanquat' at the Peninsula Hotel,
FLABORATE
are being made by My 11. E, Maughan who has been ope pointed captain of the Hongkong Lawn Bowls ↑ Associatio
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