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FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1959.
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STERLING SILVER TIP
$20,000 Guarantee Lost
Court Dismisses Superintendent Fong HONGKONG
Returns To Colony
Claim
By Motorman
Mr Justice A. D. Scholes today dismissed a claim in the Supreme Court by a former motorman against the Everett Steamship Company for return of a $20,000 pro- tection guarantee.
of
Cheng Hsueh-kwong. former to the ship's detention-the No. 1 motorman up the m.s.presence of the 200 bars Bradeverett, claimed the return gold in the ship-arose and of the guarantee which he had exlabd whon Chesg and paid to the company when he the Chinese crew Were stili was art employed.
aboord the employed
ship although the ship was not detained until Inter; and that therefore, Cheng wos ilable under the terms of the ogree- ment for the loss on account of the detention.
Cheng said he had been dis- missed by the company on | September 12, 1957 and the com- pany had subsequently refused to pay him back his guarantee,
(The guarantee was given as
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"Some reasons for thinking that, on the balance of pro- babilities, what ccourted, ere 13 follows:
a prolecllon to the company against any costs it incurred through any smuggling or other real or suspected, malpractice, committed by Cheng
"The plaintiff did not chain the motormen employed under him). The civil action was the
return of his deposit for about five months after his discharge. sequel to the dnding of 200
It the plaintiff had a right to goli bors on board the m15.
the retumi of the deposit one Bradeverett on September 20, might have expected him to have 1057.
clatined it earlier,
The company stated that there was a nine-day delay of the ship at Chittagong by cus- toms nuthorities resulting from the gold seizure, and that under the term of the guarantee doct- ment. they were entitled 10 set-off the money due to them against thu by Cheng.
$20,000 deposited
Way
Smuggling Ceased
Mr and Mrs Fong Yik-fai aboard the ss President Wilson
today,
Mr Fong Yik-fal, Superintendent, Before returning from San
of Police, Hongkong, returned)
had spent Francisco, they to the Colony this morning In| four days in Hollywood, but the President Wilnun from did not meet any film stars, San Francisco, accompanied by his wife, Gilda.
"After the discoveries at Ran- goon and en route to and at Chittagong, the smuggling activi- | Mr Fong left Hongkong in ties in the ship ceased when the new Filipino črew had come en board.
"The hall mark on the bars of gold indicated that the bars were of Mecso origin, Macao being
31.
"Prevent Smuggling" to Hongkong.
"After the Chinese crew had In his judgment, Mr Justice been given notice of their dis- Scholes said that there
charge at Rangoon, one of the evidence that the guarantee depot agreements had been embers of the Chinese crew, was found introduced by the shipping com-he quartermaster, pany and made with the heads with 10 bars of gold.
"It is considered to be of three departments of the
ikely that the Filipino crew crew for the purpose of pre-
have constructed the vanting smugging and similar would
zcure! comparbrents in the ship inalpractices.
In the shore time they were on intention
the ship before the discovery of thes: compartments, especially 43 there were no smuggling
and the bars were found in SecTn compartment."
"I think
that the
Itist have been to prevent
snuggling and similar malprac tices not by the defendant but by the crew of the ship and that vitirs by this crew later on,
the agreement should be construed necordingly,
kart
Mr Justice Seholds sald been contended on behalf of
Casts
2.
the
"It was further contended on Cheng that the agreement had behalf of Cheng that the can been entered into in considera- any icduced the detention tion of him being employed on the ship on account of the ship board the ship, and that at the going to Chittagong after time of the detention of the ship discovery the guld. Cheng had already been dis- "The ship had cargo to un- charged and was no longer on tour and cargo to load at Chitto- the ship.
gong, and I do not think that It had also been contended the defendant was under a duty that the guarantee was not la to the plaintif not to proceed operation, and that the plaintiff with the defendant's normal was not therefore responsible trace on account of malpractices under the guarantee for the de- or smoggling that had occurred, tention of the ship,
and I think that the defendant was free-to do 30.-~~
September of last year to at« lend a senior course at the Patice Rylon - on « Dunsmore College, Coventry.
Eleven weeks later he com- menced a series of visits to police organisations in Europe, including France and Swilzer- land. Uc
FROM THE AIR
New Venture To
Attract Tourists By A China Mail Roportar
From the Files
25
years -AGO
ANADA, Germany and the United States are
represented by luxury liners which will visit Hongkong
within the next three weeks
on round-the-world cruises, The Matson liner, Lurline, on
In
Ker second annual cruise Pacle waters, will arrive ол
A group of 23 local press- Tuesday and will be followed monk had a bumpy ride on Saturday next week by the luxurious Empress of Britain, around Hongkong this largest passenger vessel ever to morning on CPA's first enter Hongkong harbour. round-the-Island flight.
The tourist season will clase with the arrival of the Ham- liner Renolute
Before the Bight Capt. G. F. Leslie, a senior CPA captain, burg Amerika told his 23 passengers on the en April 1,
would they
be
DC-3, that
lying between 500 and 1,000 feel "Not to get below the clouds, but because you cornot
se anything over 1,000 feet,"
With the clouds covering Lien's Reek and Kowloon Peak, the little twin-tagmei DC-3 look off.
Playing for University, A.M. Rodrigues knocked up 103 not out to give his team a big lead wor the Royal Navy. D.K. Samy took five of the Navy's wickets for 29· runa, H.d. Armstrong playing for the Cricket Club second XI In the 35-minute fight the scored 43 and J.E. Potter psengers were able to get a scored another 49 in their good view of Hongkong's tourist | teans's 118 for wine declared attractions-Aberdeen, Repulse apainst the Royal Engineers Bay, Silver Mine Bay and Hoy total score of 82. H.J.D. Lowe Ling Chatt.
took six wickets for 10,
Good View
Captain Leslie Buick after- wards."It was a bit rough, but
that is not normal. Most days 1OVERNMENT House, notice Hin for Thursday March 8: "We flew deliberately slow-Excellency the Governor and
Mr L. B, C. Baker, Superinteni is perfectly calm."
dent of Poller in charge of Personnel, went aboard the about 120 m.p.b., to give you a Lady Peel were present at the President Wilson to welcome boter look at the sights.” Mr and Mrs Fong on behalf of the Commissioner Police.
of
12 Booked to have CPA plan
Lon
held afterwards Government House.
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at
wedding of Mies Rosemary Lucy May, to Mr John Crowa His Excelleney three Richardson. Mr Four Yik-fol was the first round-the-Island trips a week, gave away the bride. A recep-
Chinese
Superintendent orch of about 30 minutes dura-on we Police be appointed In
The first commercial fight Hongkong. Before proceed.
will be on Sunday. 1 learnt Inz o leave. lie wae In
that so far 12 of the 28 seats of Kowloom City
bzen have already
laken for Divisional Police headquar-
This fight. ters.
Prices for the tight are $60 for a window seat and $25 for on alsle seat.
and his
charge wife returned to England and salled in the Queen Eilzabeth to New York o January 20. On arrival in the United States they went to Houston, Texas, to Mrs Fone's sister.
vtalt
Photo shows Mr and Mrs Fonr aboard the APL passenger liner President Wilson, before they disembarked,
TOURISTS ARRIVE
ON U.S. LINER
The American President liner, President Wilson
arrived here this morning from Yokohama,
with two groups of tourists, totalling 38
persons,
The first Is a
group of 22 Americans, cn ง round-the- world tour, who will ke in the Colony for the next six days. They are led by Mr E H. Hughes,-Up-tour/director-A "For these reasons, I am, of quick visit to Macao is planned the opinion that the defendant for the party. ******** 1. is entitled-forest-off $20,000-åftemikali-tour in the Colony,
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the plaintiff's claim will there- fore be dismissed with costs for the defendant.”
Cheng was represented by Mr Oswald Cheung, instructed by Mr A: Y. Hon. The Everett Steamship Co. was represented by Mr S. V. Gittins, instructed by Wilkinson and Grist.
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continue their world tour on through India, Egypt, Italy and before other points in Europe they return home.
A second group consists of wives of American military personnel based in Japan. The 15 tourists will spend six dayt here, before returning to Japan, Also on board the liner is Mr Eugene B, Thomson, who is on his way to Rangoon to take up the post of Assistant In- formation OfST: PL United Slates Information Service there. He leaves on Monday for Rangoon with his wife and daughter,
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Promotions
The Government Gazette no- tified today that the Hungting- Cian Air Transport, Ltd, in as- Bociation with Airwork, Lad, | have applied to the Hongkong
The promotion of Lieutenants Air Transport Licensing Author M.A.R. Young-Herris, MC, ly ter Hcences to operate a Mackenzie and J.H. Duthie scheduled flight of once a fort- the Hongkong Regiment night (to be increased to once a Ceptalos w approved, us week on demand) between nollfed in today's Government Hongkong and London.
Grzette.
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WOMAN WHO SOLICITED FROM CAR FINED $50
Friday 13th May Bring Luck In
The Sweep
☆ An interesting visitor in the of Mr John Jacob peraon Astor panned through the Colony on Saturday en route to Europe by the P and O liner Comorin. Mr Astor, heir to what is reputed to be the largest fortune in the world, is a member of the well-known New York family of multi- millionaires. He is the grand- son of the founder of the family fortunes, Mr J.J. Astor, after whom he is named.
HOR four years a well-
known and highly re- spected member of the Kowloon community, Mrs Julla Sager, proprietress of the Juliette Beauty saloon, How superstitous are you? Hankow Road, passed away Do you, for instance, worry yesterday morning at the when the calendar reads Friday the 13th Well, today is Friday Kowloon Hospital after a the 13th, the second of three brief illness. She died of such similar dates this year, the double pneumonia. She came next one falling in November. from Minnesota, USA.
To many, however, the day
and the date an id="org
nothing.
By noon
today, more than Last Respects
203,000-Mekuts-in tomorrow's last =rate=6wcop@were sold; bringing the total sales to over 030,000, The first prize for the sweep Just before noon stood at about $450,000.
Lily WORK, 20, who pleaded guilty to soliciting for immoral purposes while in a car, was fined $50 by Mr B. V. Rhodes at Kowloon this morning.
Defending, of 16A Mody Road, admitted the offenoe. Detective Sub-Inspector I. M. Forsyth told the Magistrate, ihal at obout 10.40 p.m. on March 11. ho was walking along Mody Road when defendant approached him in a pri- vate ear, No. AA1295, and asked him to "go for A drive,"
The Inspector went along and while they were tra. velling, defendant told him that they "could have a good time" at her home for $70,
The Inspector then re- vealed his idenůšty card and arrested her,
Death Of Old China Resident
t10 oldest French Peking American
0 residents in Chine, Madame remained there for School ond Madame de Villemera 'died
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more than in St Theresa's Hospital after Antoinette de Villemers, passed 15 years. She moved then to short illness. She will be fald away here yesterday at the age Shanghai where
she to rest of Sunday at 3 p.m. 02 79-
taught French at the Shanghal in the Roman Catholle Cemetery American School until the out-et 'Happy Valley. A ceremony Madame
a break World War II. will be held in the chapel of Traduste of
Madame de Villemors cama) the cemetery. Paris, went to Poking in 1915. to Hongkong only two years 1gð Madame de Villemers is where the was professor from Shanghai, Dospita Her survived by her only daughter, French at Peking University advanced age she still gave here | Mrs Pauline Low, and and Normal University. Later private French lessons to ad-grand-children, Manette, Milton. or sho taught French at the vanced students,
Jr. and Franklin,
de Villemers,
the Serbuang'
in
Three
Sule of Uckets will end an hour before the event,
22-Day Old Child
Died In Blaze
It has now boon established
For
Miss Kotewall
Last respects were paid this morning to the late Miss Winifred Kotewall by many of her friends and relatives at the encoffining ceremony which took place at the funeral parlour of the Precious Blood Hospital.
Miss Katewall, sister of the late Sir Robert Kotowall, 18 survived by three sisters. She passed away last Wednesday at the Procious Blood Hospital.
The Rev. D. Crary of St James' Settlement, efficiated
Et the ceremony,
Following the encoffining, the
that six people died in the cortege, lett the funeral partour fire which broke out two for the Kowloon Crematorium. days ago in a squattor
area near the Shek Kip One Killed,
Mei Resettlement Estate, Shum Shul Po. One was a 22-day-old, child.
Five of the victims were
Two Hurt In
members at the same as Road
They have been identified nå Tse Woca-cheong, a 48-your-
Road Mishaps
old man, Leung Lei-kuca, a 33- A 34-year-old man, Chan Yik year-old woman, Tro Sing-chun, of No. 129, Connaught chow, a four-year-old boy, Tre Road West, third floor, was Wan-chan, a five-year-old girl fatally Jnjured when he was and Tae Kwok-tan, a male in- knocked down by a private car fant who was 22 days old. They in Argyle Street, nearthlingt ved at hut No. 1, Third Lane, Road, late last night. The man Nam Young Leno, first floor. died in Kowloon Hospital early
The sixth victim was a 58- this morning. year-old man, Poon Shing, who A man and a boy, were also Bved on the ground noog of injured in traffic accidents a the same hut.
Kowloon yesterday,
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