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Government Appointments Gazetted
The Government Gazotto this morning announced the following appoint. mants, transfers and promotions:
Mr A. Hoolon, Q.C., Sulleitor General, to be Aeting Attorney General
Me M. liceuan, Senior Crown Counsel, to be Acting Solicitor General
Mr H. A. de B. Botelho, Tratamed duty as Senior Crown Counsel, on return from leave.
Mr D. N. Whitelegge, to be Code Officer, Class 11, and Assitant Secretary, Colonial Secretariat.
Mr Paul K. C. Taul, who was
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1959.
SHEAFFER'S
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
CLERK AGREES TO PAY $9,928
+
Judgment In Breach
Of Promise Action
A clerk who refused to marry a girl after she had flown all the
The Two Great Cuisines In The World:
way from Portuguese East Africa consented to judgment of One Is Chinese
$9,928 against him for breach of promise this morning,
The settlement was recorded by the Senior Pulsne Judge, Mr Justice"The two great cuisines in the world
C. W. Reece, in the Supreme Court.
The girl was Yan Choek-yee, a resident of Beira, a Portuguese territory.
authorities for her to come to the Colony to get married.
The wedding was to take place!
She is at present living with relatives at 152 Java Road, North Point.
The defendant, Chon Ting- In her statement of claim, kwok, or 80 Nanchan Street, Yan sold that in March 1937, second flour, Kowloon, filed no the and Chan agreed to be defence, but appeared in per- mereled, and that same month ah engagement ecrcinony was Mr
held in Beira,
Chan obtained permission from the Hongkong minigratios
Patrick Yu represented appointed Cadet Officer, Class, the plaintiff, instructed by Mr 1, rcased to be an Assistant to P. C. Won, of P. C. Woo and Co. the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
Mr D. W. A. Diye te bo Trea-
kury Inspector,
Dr A. D. Per to be Eduen-
tion Officer.
4. J. Russe!!
Education Officer.
Labour Officer,
to be
Mr Won Tat-wo, Assi-ingl Acting lu be
Labour Officer.
Mr F. Shanks resumed duty na Commissioner of Hating and Valuation.
Mr A. V. Currie, Assistant Commissioner of Itating and Valuation, ceased to art as Com- missioner of Ratin Valuation.
und
Mr N. Cooke, Rating and Valuation Surveyor, censed to
Bet as Assistant Commissioner
of Rating and Valuation,
Mr G. C. Heward to be Estate Surveyor, PWD.
Mr W. J. Dyer ceased to be
Senior Inspector of Schoris.
Mr Anthony Kwan Hui-chuen cessed to be a District Registrar of Births and Deaths.
RELINQUISHED POST
The relinquishment
appointment of
of the
Mr V. C. T.
Davis as a Assistant Super- Intendent of Police (Specia}} hts been approved,
Lleut. -G. B. Godfrey has been posted 10
Royal the Hongkeng Defence Force Re- serve of Oncers.
NZ Envoy Leaves
The New Zealand Ambassador to Japan, Mr John Stanlope Reid, left the Colony this mo ning by All for Tokyo after a short stay here. He arrived in Hongkong recently from New Zealand where he had been holding consultations with his Government, for six weeks.
Smart
Visit Of Archbishop of Canterbury
MRS FISHER ALSO COMING TO HK
Mrs Fisher and Dr Geofrey
London, Jan. 18.
Dr Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, will be ac- companied by Mrs Fisher, when he visits Bangkong and Icter
the centenary
uttepa
celebrations of the Anglican Church in Tokyo in April, is announced today.
He wil be in Japan for two
weeks Iram April 6.
The Rev. Canon C. Sansbury, Warden of St Augustine's
t
Exclusive styles in
College,
Canterbury, will
on December 12, 1957, the state- ment of claim alleged, and she arrived
in here
November. Shortly after, she placed orders for a wedding trousseau at a cost! of $1,500.
However, in the beginning of December, 1957, Chan told her verbally that "he wes no longer prepared to marry" her.
Yan claimed $8,742.40 nas the
cost of air passage from Beira and back, and the cast of the
trousseau.
Women
Acquitted Of Theft
Charge
Two women, You Wal-lai, 26, and Leung Fong, 38, were acquitted of stealing $1,800 whun Mr I. T. Marris ruled they had no case to answer at Central this morning,
The complainant, Leung Suk- ying. said on December 25, after travelling by lift to the Dress Circle of the Lee Theatro she discovered her handbag open and wallet missing.
Inside was $1,800.
She called an attendant and pointed out the two women she accompany the archbishop as suspected who were sitting next chaplain
Dr Fisher has also accepted an
invitation to
to her.
They all
went down
Police
to the were
be in Calcutta Manager's Office.
summoned.
for Good Friday and Erster. On his way to Calcutta he will
On Miss Leung Police found stay a few days in Karachi.abnat $200. Dr Fisher's four will also in.
clude Church in Korea.
Under cross-examination Mrs
a short visit to the Leung said the two women He wil might have been with her in the return to England at the end ift. of April.-Reuter.
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Mr Morris said the evidence for the prosecution was dis- tinctly weak.
"The case against the defen- dants at its strongest is merely che of suspicion; there is no direct evidence against them and I hold there is to case to answer," said Mr Morris.
Miss Yau and Miss Loung were represented by Mr P. T. Yu of F Zimmern and Co.
Resettlement
Housing At Lo Fu Ngam
today are the French and Chinese; and the Chinese is better because it has more variety, nutrition and is cooked with greater imagination.“
This was the opinion of an American food expert who arrived in the Colony this morning. She is Mrs Charlotte Adams, food editor for number of leading American magazines,
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She is now circling the globe ( "This however, could be im- gathering material for her ninth proved," she added.
book
October this year.
due to be published in Summing up the cuisines of Mrs Adams flew into Hong-
the various countries she hus
kong this morning from Tokyosited, Mrs Adams said: by AL where she spent right dnys.
tour of
After on extensive European countries sampling eulsines, the American gourmet arrived at this conclusion: "in many European countries there fuo much starch aid_nal enough fresh vegetables and proteins in their diet.
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BRITAIN: "British food is the ita interesting food the world. I don't mind calling it so because muny Britishers have agrced with me."
RUSSIA: "I spent four days there last September and found Russian food
MRS ADAMS
below standard, with too much starch and too little protein. There is variety but too little nutrillon."
GOOD NEWS FOR FRANCE: "The most im-
800 POLICEMEN
Quarters for more than 800 Police rank and file and their families will soon be built on the reclamation at Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon.
Salesman
Charged With Embezzling
A former car saleeman, Lam Sre-wang, 45, who is charged with embezzling $1,100 from 1025 East Molors Lid was remanded until Monday by Mr Derek Cuns at Central this morning to enable him to make restitution.
Lam is also charged with the breach of a deportation order.
Detective Sub-Inspector R. L Russell sald Lam joined the Far East Motors in September 5, as a car salesman at a monthly salary of $200 plus commission, Next month. he arranged the acle of a used Hillman car to a Chinese man, Lee Dai-yee, for $1,300. On October 13 at Kim- berley Restaurant in Kowloon, Leo gave Lom a cheque for $300 as a deposit. This was wit- nerved by a car broker who in- troduced the two parties.
Inspector Russell said the sales manager did not receive the $300, from Lam.
On the following day, Lee gave Lam 9800, and Lam gave
receipt.
Werk will begin soon en the construction of four blocks of him resettlement housing at the Lo Defendant said this morning Fu Ngam Resettlement Estate, he was prepared to make resti Kowloon.
The Magistrate re-
tution.
When completed, they willmanded him until Monday.
provide accommodation for about 14,000 people.
Three of the blocks will be
| seven storeys high and the
fourth six storeys.
Building work will begin in the middle of March and will take about four months.
Two More For Li Cheng Uk
Two more seven-storey re- settlement blocks, capable of
SIX DEGREES
COLDER
Today will bs #ix
colder than yesterday, bul the outlook for tomorrow le Warmer weather, according to a spokesman for the Royal Observatory today.
The quarters will consist of Ave eleven-storey blocks, form- ing a U-shape building. The site, which will occupy about four acres of land, will be bounded by Cheung Sha Wan Road on the north and Tonkin Street on the east, where the main entrance will be located.
In addition to the quarters, there will be a primary school, a medical clinle and a guard- house.
There will be a total of 826 self-contained flats, each with lavatory, open private kitchen, verandah and space for drying clothes.
The school will be of the standard 24-classroom type, housed in a five-storey building constructed in the open com- pound formed by the U-shaped quarters. The school will pro- vide accommodation for 1,080 pupils a session.
Tenders for the .construction of the new Police quarters are called for in today's Govern- ment Gazette.
The buliding work should start in March and take about 18 months to Anish,
Cotton Export Regulations
The Government this morning released new regulations governing the export of Hong- keng-made cotton products to the UK.
The regulations provide that with the exception of yarns end threads, sacks and bags, stock- ings and sucks, knitted clothing, gloves and footwear, ilcence will be required for the export of any cotton manufacture.
The regulations come into effect on February 1, and are current unul January 31, 1802
Trotters' Leave
The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team left Hongkong today by JAL för Singapore
games at the Hongkong Football Club stadium.
ccecmmodating about 3,000 At 7 a.m. the Observatory atter giving a series of three
people, will soon be constructed
recorded
minimum tem- at the Lf Cheng Uk Heseta-perature of 52 degrees, and ment Estate, Kowloon.
they expect tho maximum Building work begins in temperatura, today should be March and is expected to be about 62 degrees, complefed by the middle of the colder, spall was caused August, Tenders for the con- by an intensification of the struction of the two blocks of Siberian anti-cyclbye, ' resettlement housing are called
Local News
Today's forecast is gusty to Also On P 2.
for in today's Government strong winds, but the weather Garaits.
should be Ane this afternoGE,
From the Files
25
years ACO
POOCHOW is now in the
hands. of the 'Nanking forces, the last of the 19th Route Army having been | driven from the city after a sharp engagement; with Centrul Government marines. Leaders of the Fuklen revolt, some of whom have arrived in Hongkong, Mr Eugene Chen amongst them, it is re- ported, relato in detail the events of the past few weeks. Among other things they declaro that the strength of the 19th Route Army is unaltered by re-
verses.
The Colony won a hard fought game against the Aue- tralian Universities touring Rugby XV yesterday by 11 points to five. For Hongkong Lammert and Martin scoring. Lloyd converted one. Lloyd also scored a penalty. In the halves Forbes and Turner (now the Hon. Michael W. Turner) combined well.
Hayim has re-
Mturned to Shanghai
portant food country out- side China. I love French from Europe after a most food because it has good interesting journey. Mr variety, and to my mind, Hayim flew from London to
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Singapore on December 23 JAPAN: come from there. In eight and landed in Singapore on days I visited 18 restaur the morning of January 2 I like almost all of just in time, to catch, the the Japanese food except Conte Verde which left on the raw fish."
anta.
Mrs Adams has been food the same evening. He was raitor on a number of American the first passenger of Im macazines including Lock,perial Airways to fly be Collier and Charm. For a time tween the two cities and sho worked with the Associated the journey from London to Press.
She will spend one week here Shanghai took only 17 days before going on through South in all. East Asia, the Middle East, Mr Hayim now lives in Hong- Greece and back to America.
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