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MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1959.
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Bankruptcy Decision RAIN
Reserved
Mr Justice C. W. Reaco, Senior Puisne Judge, at the Bank- ruptcy Court this morning reserved a decision on an applica- tion by a debtor for the approval of a scheme of repayment to creditors.
"This is the worst bankruptcy case I have ever seen," Mr Justice Recce remarked. He said the debtor, Chan Koon-pak, had borrowed money from people (amounting to $230,000) and originally asked the Court to be allowed to pay 25 per cent of his debt. After a public examina- tion and seeing the possible danger he was heading for, he was now offering 50 cents in the dollar.
"I don't think this man should be allowed seat-free." Mr Jus- the Revvy sald. "He is utterly untrustworthy. 1 feel strongly about this inni.”
very
socuted,
be rescinded and that applica-estimated his assets at $33,000.
being made for an However, tion was
after the public order that the debtor be pro-examination, more assels, in- cluding some shares inherlied from his inte father, and the total
ussels were found
to amount to about $95,000. abilities were $230,000.
Sisters' Security
one of
be
Mika Tang Po-king, Mr C. M. Stevens, who ap- the creditors objected to the pared for the Official Receiver, scheme. She maintained thut said that the scheme had been some of the
claims of the accepted by the creditors by a father creditors
may not vote of 11-1, and submitted that genuine. She asked that the it be approved as it would be debtor be adjudicated bankrupt benglizini. to the creditors and be dealt with in the normal Anancially. le, added that the way recording to bankruptcy Court had solute discretion to proceedings. approve or refuse the scheme,
Itending a report of the OM-
Mr Stevens, who read a re-
rial Receiver, Mr Stevens said port of the Orcial Receiver, the receiving order would but said the debtor
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The manager of a local fuel company returned to the Colony this morning after a six-month holiday, bringing with him, what is probably Hongkong's most widely travelled dog.
Mr L. C. Kemp, manager of Caltex (Asta) Ltd., and Mem Kemy, arrived back this morning by FAA from Tokyo, «fier a motor-lour of Europe, part of the United States and Mexion,
The dog, a NuЛy Pekinese Hamed Carmen, la 14 years old, Mir Kemp said Carmen had been with them on three world tours.
The couple bought Carmen just after the war in Bydney, "She is a seasoned traveller now," Mr. Kemp said.
He added they had had no trouble with customs, but
the dog would have to be examined in the Colony to ascer
tain whether she had picked up suy diseaseR,
Mr and Mrs Kemp left Hongkong with their dog sat October. "It was a wonderful trip," Mr Kemp said, "but I'm glad to be back in civilisation.”
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The report stated that the debtor's two sisters
had also agreed to give security for the total payment of $138,500 to onable a payment 50 cents
In a dollar. The $100,500 cluded the $95,000, estimated to be the value of the debtor's assets.
TRAFFIC
VICTIMS
DEAD
A man, Hung Kam-tak, who was knocked down on Friday by a taxi in Chatham Road; near Austin Avenue, died of his in- juries In Kowloon Hospital yesterday,
LIKELY
SHEAFFER'S
Resettlement Area Milk Bar Opened
|The first rainstorms of the wet season provided the Colony with just under The now bar is in Wong Tal three inches of rain.
Up to midnight yesterday the Royal Observatory re- corded 1.27 inches, and from then until 10 a.m., a further 1.52 Inches of rain fell.
There is a strong possibility of more rain later in the day, spokesman at the Observatory rald this morning. The Colony is at present lying on the edge of a belt of rain and showers.
The victim gave his address og No. 144A, Main Street, Tung Tau Village, Kowloon City
Another man, Chan Chung, Today's forecast is for clouds who lived as Hut. No. 354, Fuk and occasional showers, but to- Mei Village, New Street, Kow-morrow the outlook is unsettled. loon City, died in Kowloon Hos The rain brought a welcome pital early this morning from drop in
The 'temperature, Juries received on Saturday minimum today was 69.7 de- afternoon when he was knocked grees, the same yesterday, down by a commercial lorry in Kal Tak New Village Road.
Woman And Boy Knocked Down
and
In-
In view of Miss Tang's con-
A 43-year-old woman tention that some of the proofs a 17-year-old boy wero of debt may not be genuine, the Jured in two trafle accidents report continued, the debtor yesterday. They are receiving submitted another amendment treatment in hospital.
to his proposal that should the The
Ping-sun,
and the maximum yesterday Won 71.5 degrees. Today the maximum is expected to be in the region of 73 degrees.
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
proofs of debt be reduced and of No, 115, Argyle St Privilege Or Duty? the amount distributabic at thetoor, was knocked down by a rate of 50 per cent demand the private car near her home, total sum of less than $85,000, while the Ind, Shing For-nam,disagree with your "Comment Sir. There should be few to then the sum of $85,000 should who gave hlu address as No.
tion of their proofs of debt.
be distributable in the propor-71, King's Road, ground floor, was struck by a private car in King's Road, near Fuk Yuen Street.
New Spirit Called For
New York, April 19, Ciuletion church leaders in many areas of predominantly Mohammedan fulth in the world today called for a new spirit
of mutual respect and friendship
between the two faiths.
one
Branch Of
U.S. Bank
Set Up
of the Day of April 1 on: "A Cherished Insitution."
However, a minor emendation --purely sémantical at that, ng It must be, judging by the topic of your article-might perhapa be in order.
Contrary to your assertion, a
11.403
This morning. tha Church present there
World Service opened its
ollkiren. elsbih milk bar serving poor | Prior to the distribution of free familles of the Reseillement milk and biscuits at the · bar Estaten.
this morning, nupervised by Mr Blanley MoGeary of Church World Service, tickets had been issued to 761 poor families for 2,750. portions of milk and cookies, plus tickets to 1.500 pupils at schools on the root tops of the Wong Tai Bin estate.
SE Ressillement crtate, where so far 6,008. Families aro housed, with total population of 35,020.
Twenty to thirty children are
born each month here, and at i
Mr Thomas Hu (left) and
Ko Big-ban preparing milk for the children of Wong Tai Sin Resotile- ment area, Kowloon this morning, while eager faces out.
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the League Champions, HKCC; Playing for the Rest against
J. E. Richardson of the Civil Service Cricket Club Knocked up 81 to give his side a total af 174, to which the Cricket Club could only réply with 85. Bowling for the Rest, F. D. Pereira of the IRC took, fie wickets for 21.
PRETTY wedding took
A pince on Saturday
noon at St John's Cathedral when Miss Elsie Jane Andrews became the bride of Mr William Charles Excell of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. The duties of best man were carried out by Mr A; J Coales who was assisted by Messrs A. Jillott and H. Lewis as ushers.
After a respite for a few weaks the henchman's aze was again brought into action yesterday and more trees were felled in Nathan Road, Kow Toon's main thoroughfare. The part of Nathan Road between Austin Road going down the gradient and extending to a little beyond Po Hing Theatre
Murder Trial has been practically stripped
Adjourned: Judge III
morning
was
of foliage.
ABOUT 200 demobilised Jury summons is a duty. That A Portuguese youth, William
The trial of four Inmates of
soldiers of the former is ro, whether 'duty' ls under- Paul Christo, 21, of 7 Sky the Cape Collinson Boys Train Nineteenth, Route Army stood as an obligation imposed Room Terraco, top floor, Ing. Centre, charged with arrived in Hongkong on by law; a function, or a task
was fined $75 by Mr T. L. murdering one of their camp Saturday and were im (usually boring à connotation of an outside
adjourned Yang, of Central Mogis- leaders, compulsion-35
this mediately given temporary opposed to a self-imposed com-
until 10a.m. DA tracy this morning for wednesday when it was an quarters within the com- pulsion); as a moral obliga- obstructing ย police tion to which a person subjecta
officer.
nounced that Mr Justice A. D. pound of the Central Police. Scholes, was indisposed. and voluntarily binds himself
station. Inspector H.C... Chiu Bald
Mr Justice J. R. Gregg warned to respect in accordance with
They were in a ragged and Chrob was told by Staff Sor the all-male jury that during forlorn condition. Up to the geant Lee Ming-choung not to the adjournment they must not present about. 1,500 former zit on the rallings inside the communicate with anyone about members of the Nineteenth during the Hongkong Government Stadium the case other than themselves. Route Army, arriving in Hong-
KMB-Tung football match yesterday.
The four accused aro You kong in similiar, needy circum- Christo, who had a clear re-in-wab, 20, Ng Tak-wal, 21, stances have been helped by &
Chin Slu-kal, 20, and Chel To, local philanthropist... cord, ignored the policeman's 19. warning and continued to do so.
Delegates from 32 Christian church bodies in 20 countries The Hongkong branch of the dictates of his conscience, with large Moslem populations The Bank of American and morals. met in Asmara, Ethiopia, for International opened for the very fact that responsible In its more restricted pense, business this morning. citizona are called to sit on a Jury by a summons establishes, The bank's temporary pre without any possible doubt, that mises
situated on the second floor of Queen's Building (Ice House Street entrance) and Mr Edward De Jong, who
of the largest and most widely representative confer- ences ever held on the subject of Christian-Islam relation Reuter.
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a duty-not a privilege. fundamental or sacred right, A privilege, understood as a
guaranteed to all persons by a
Booking Cancelled the vecha la Constitution, falls short of duty
London, April 18.
establish
manager.
office,
its
on the moral scale in that Exercise is not compulsory In The Hongkong branch of the any way. It is in its absence of
Interna any
moral obligation that
.
duty,
Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, Bri Bank of American High Ambassador to Iraq: can-Conal, according to Mr George privilege is less then a celled his booking to fly back Curran, Vice
President and understood in Ita broadest Head of the Bank's Far East sense. to his post in Bagdad tonight,
REVOLT
Wah
(Continued from Page 1)
The Government had been beset by economis troubles recently and growing dissatis- faction caused by high prices
orders o •
They are charged with the murder of So Shlu-bor on November 17. last year.
'The offence is aliored to have been committed during an at- tempt to escape.
Boy Detained
A 10-year-old boy alleged 10 Disorders had broken
out have been in possession of a early last week in
important small packet of heroin at New centres of Bolivia's nationalised Street yesterday, was remanded tin mining industry because of for two days by Mr T. L Yong a Government decision to lift at Central Mogla racy thin The veiling-prices-of-food, el murning tarande pr one and clothing at miners' cammis-
caries,
He is 18 Ay sit on Tuesday Operations.www.estabaked here In your leading sentences you
Humphrey hins
of the Colony's in have sensed that sitting on having talks with the Foreigncreasing Importance as a world Secretary, Mr Selvyn Lloyd. --- trading
Jury was more than a privilege, and manufacturing Reuter.
| centre,"
but
with all due respect, you fall short again by calling it on obligation-To-pail it to another form: a privilege is what may do; an obligation is what one should do; a duty is what one must do.
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Trial By Jury
Sir,--Your editorial of April 26 no doubt made excellent reading but it would appear that the writer is unaware that Trial by Jury, accepting in eer- tain cases (le) murder, is no longer in Hongkong a privilege or a right.
Since the establishment of the District Courts, it is now the exclusive prerogative of the prosecution whether a caso la transferred to the District Supreme Court, and the defence cannot under the law role any objection or made claim for That by Jury,
or
It is also Interesting to note that notwithstanding, the elec- tion avowale of the varios par- jies, particularly, the two main unes who executives aro largely drawn from the logal profession, not one word of pro test was heard when the legisla- tion, depriving us of what was previously, a British subjects part of your birth right," wha- with es litile publicity in gons- blo-written into law. Inciden-.
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London, April 10,
·
Hongkong had is coldest April day for nine years when the temperature resched minimum of 55.1. The record lowest during April was on April 4, 1905. Meanwhile in London the temperature was 75 degree in the chade
"RÐAT=Erogress is being ☛ made in the laying of- the foundation for the now. buildings of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking. Cor-
President Slica Suazo WDS elected in June 17, 1950, for a four-year term of office. His National Revolutionary Move-i Police interrupted their ques-poration, which will occupy ment has been in power since tioning of John Hales, 22, about the old site of the Bank' It led a successful revolution of a larceny offonov yesterday with part of the City Hall April, 1952, that threw out a enough to allow Ilales to keep milliary junta regime.-U.P.L. - a dale to get married,U,P.I. sité.
This Funny World
Who is the KILLER?
THE
BARFLAKE
MYSTERY
MÜRDEI
The barricaded ares presents a
| scene of feverish activity, hɩmə dracs.of men working day, and night at high premura in "orden, to complete the building in the stipulated period of three years.
Following upon, John Bowry- man's "highly," "successful región [In Shanghai, ie rolit be of in«- terest to - Rugby -followers to
·learn that his brother, ERM. Bowerman (East Yorks., Regt) aleo Shanghai-born boy), gained hlá Army-cap in the match with the Royal Navy.
COLO
HOLONEL L. G. Bird's retirement from the command of the defence corps WLE
marked by a full parade of the corps and a presentation
fatiga the Parade Gre
rday, Major