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MONDAY, JULY 25, 1960.
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gave diamond broker CS tells teachers
An Indian merchant told Judge, P. R. Springall in the Victoria District Court this morning that he had given four parcels of diamonds worth $64,000 to à diamond broker “on approval."
He explained that the term "on approval" meant that the diamonds still belonged to him until he issued a "sell note" to the broker. He denied that the broker had purchased the parcels of precious stones from him.
The merchant, Mr. H. M. On July 19, Mr Mehta went Mchin, of Madhusudan Co., Cen- to a police station and identified tral Building, was testifying at a 2.41 carat, diamond as one of the trial of the broker, 48-year- those he had banded to Yuen. old Yuen Chung-kwong, who From a total of 135 other faces six charges of larceny by stones, which were of lesser bailee and simple larceny of die-weight and purity, he found a monds worth more than $400,000 number of stones similar to those in January and February, last he had given to Yuen. year.
defence Cross-examined by counsel. Mr Oshwald Cheung business of Madhusudan Co. in Mr Mehta sald he had learned
1958, from. September,
from his nephew that Yuen
Mr Mehta said he took over the
his
nephew, Mr M. Chopsi, who is had had numerous dealings
the sole proprietor of the firm.
with
the firm. However, he
He said he had known Yuen himself had never seen any LS a broker since 1856, but prior to January 1959, he him- actual transactions between his helf did not have any business nephew and Yuen. dealings with Yuen.
Two parcels
On January 20, 1959, Yuen appeared at his office and asked for some diamonds "to try the
market."
A few days prior to January 20, Yuen had asked for some diamonds and he, Mr Mehta, invited Yuen to his office.
Mr Cheung: "I put it to you (Yuen) bought these he diamonds outright. There was never any question of Yuen returning them to you."
Mr Mehta denied, adding that the approval note stated that the stones belonged to him
I gave him two parcels "an approval and Yuen signed an approval note for the stones, The value of the stones was until he issued a.sell note, $25.265," witness-sald:
Normally in such cases, the
slones were to be taken for one
Outright sale?
Apart from the approval note,
or two days or even for a longer the had never discussed with
period if there was no im Yuen about the conditions of imediale demand for them, Mr approval, he said, Mehta said. On this occasion, Mr Cheung also suggested that Yuen asked for a few days in on February 12, there was an which to see his customers. "outright sale" of the diamonds.
Yuen had never paid for Mr Mehta replied if he had there diamonds, Mr Mehta said.suld the diamonds to Yuen, he Yuen would have made out a "sell On February 12, 1959, again asked to see more dia- note." monds. Out of a few parcels of precious stones, he chose two parcels worth $38,802.30, Yuen also asked for 35 days "bo try the market."
Identified
An approval note was issued and it was agreed that if Yuen could not and gay buyer he was to return the stones, Mr Mehta Bald.
On February 18, Mr Mehta said, he attended a meeting of merchants at the Chow Tai Fuk Jewellerlos having learned that Yuen was missing.
Mr Cheung suggested that the approval note was made out to give Yuen 35 days of credit as he could not pay for the dia- monds immediately.
Mr. Mehta denied this. Hearing is continuing,
Policeman returns
Mr A. L Gordon, Senior at Police Superintendent (Special Branch), returned with, his family in the Carthage this morning from leave,
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Your 'Comment' of Friday, July 22 on Legal Aid' de- serves more than a passing alance, as it is a subject fre quently discussed and often revived without any tangible result. Also, it is not a new subject but one brought up as long ago as the late 1930's when the suggestion was first offered to one of the mem- bers of the · Legislative Connell who considered it worthy of attention, and prased it on to his Junior colleague for comments. After waiting a month or two and several reminders 'to him he replied that It wa 'premature to give the idea serious consideration. This question of feral aid for the poor affects a majority of the people of the Colony, to be con- and you are gratulated for bringing it up "again"t at this opportune moment when public atten- tion is focussed on 'the pro- jected enlargement of the Legislative
Conniall and
overhaul of the machinery of government.
The concluding paragraph of your abovementioned 'Com- ment' should receive the serious, attention of those charged with the respon. sibility of
representing
public opinion. It is an im» portant point". that should not be overlooked, as it has a direct bearing on the main question involved.
Apart from providing legal ald. for the poor, it might also be considered possible to
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Sheldon in Friday's issue of
the general public through The letter by Mr R. S the channel of the Secret- ariat for Chinese Affairs for which a separate sub- department might be es? tablished, as it is principal- ly the Chinese who need legal advice concerning their everyday life, and most of them are too poor to consult a lawyer.
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Apart from the Tenancy Tri-
bunal Office where it fa ben“- lieved that people might seek advice on matters of rent
of
tenancy, there does not. seem to be any department of government that caters fo the need of the people in the offer of, free legal advice on common law.
As ignorance of the law is no.
exouise for an offence, the public should be kept on-j lightened on legal matters that directly affect them selves or their: daily. · life" For litigation and other legal
disputes requiring the ser vice of a lawyer, the people: can be advised seek the opinion of a solicitor through the usual channel, but · Ẩm all other respects free legil assistance should be pro- vided them.
CIVICUS.
: the China Mail raises the question of staffing the senior, posta of the civil service with local people. This, of course, is a matter which is not in any way con- cerned with constitutional changes though it has been the custom of all newly
governments independent
to move out the expatriates and replace them with local men and women as mon as possible.
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ANA SA MR. BURGESS
From
25
years
July, 1935
Four Chinese were found guilty at the Criminal:Sessions yesterday of making", conters i feit coina in Koilom, myndDISPOS Police evidence"war to the effect that they bought the prizonêra redhanded, "thighha act of coming
The defence was that they 'had come "to" the
for money due for à furniture. removing Job ¿
| there they
The Colonial Secretary, Mr Claude Burgess nothing of what was going on said today there was nothing essentiallyThey accused a man who
bad in pop songs, fan clubs and crazy lived on the same floor of framing the case, and the dances.
police of extracting state- ments by threats.
He made his statement today situation honestly and critically, to a gathering of school teachers, if you yourselves cannot see
Conference
The Judge in passing sen-
at the opening of the Education Hongkong in its world perspec- tence said that they were the and Exhibition in live, if you yourselves cannot worst gang of liars and the Grantham Training College. detect our great achievements, 8coundrels it had ever been kis
"The world of Elvis Presley is that his like our skyscrapers misfortune, to deal with:
a world that is very much with above the daily mistakes and
us and I don't see how we can remaining needs, how cars you,
either decry or deny it without hope to instill to your "pupils sloughing our ówn respons that enthusiasm by which aloneILLIES blities in emulating a particularly prud
THE Bishop, the Rt. Rev.
the one case, or the momentum can be maintain-0. Hall, has gone.
ed?
ish cstrich in the other," said "But beware of complacency. Mr. Burgess,
The enthusiasm 1 have in mind north to Kuling to discuss Even when pop songs and is a positive driving force. Com-Church problems, says the crazy dances seem to us to reach placency is a standstill, go-slow current issue of St John's Whether Hongkong gets self- new depths of futility, "youth, sort of smugness.
Review, which adds that, it -
"There is certainly no room is a great misfortune that government
with its Midas touch, Iraasmutes or not, the problem will still exist, them to something living and for complacency in any sphere.
China laughable"
in Hongkong. But there is abun-no place in South' dant cause. for enthusiasm. offers opportunities of re Our two races have mixed laxation of a similar kind without tension. We have more smiling faces to the square mile than any country I have visited NATURAL BEAUTY" E "We live in a place whose nù« tural beauty is perhaps more sp- parent to our visitors than ours selves.
As Mr Sheldon says, Hong-
king cannot expect to con tinue to get the same high calibre expatriate officer for local government. In- definitely.
The problem of "localisation" of the civil service is one that exists now and que the Hongkong which Government has only just began in a very casual way, to deal with,
Samuel Pepys.,
Mother kisses baby
- then
drowns
A young mother left her baby on the deck of a ferry and then fell
to her death in the harbour yesterday,
The tragedy occurred when and a joint search was launched.
the ferry, Man Wah, on its way from Wanchai to Jordan Road pier, was off Tsimshatsul at about 4.30 pm.
The woman kissed the baby twice. Tears were falling from der eyes.
by the crew and Marine Police," but the body of the woman could not be found.
A letter
The baby-a girl-left; arying en board had a letter in her ap-clothes.
A middle-aged woman proached her and naked, "What's happened?"
It said: "whosoever takes charge of the baby will please feed her with two meals of world ป
congee and two, meals of milk,
"Nothing. The hard. the young mother had replied. She would not say
anything more,
The young mother ldssed her baby for the last time before disappearing overboard.
Then I shall be satisfed even though in another world" The letter was signed, There was no way to Identify the woman.
The body had not been found The ferry came to a stop as up-to-noon today, the Marine soon as the alarm was given Police said.
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QUOTE
by Mr. Burgem "It is a well-established and useful function of the press to criticlae say fin-. bertection wherever it may be found, ALI
"It may even be that if
• we achieved perfection, and then, were reminded that it was impossible to JUICES perfection. ́unless you, had some imperfection- to judge it' by, we should not be without newspaper
• correspondentu to decry our Inhumanity and to urge upon us a moderate, controlled degree of imper». fection."
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"We are enjoying a degree of
The Bishop left on July 22 and will return to the Colony about the middle of this month, a
prosperity that enabled nearly. Barking dogs prevented a 40% of our annual expenditure Chinese from.
entering
to be devoted to positive achemes Shek-O. the residence of Me ut social service and social ad-E, J. R. Mitchell, in the early vancement.
We all have plenty of work to
hours of Tuesday," when" Mr
do, and we have the willingness Mitchell found the man stand. to work, and the Inspiration of ing in the grounds near the the willingness to learn in our verandah, chlidren, my
Brought before Mr Schofield,
We have good devoted people at the Central Magistracy the who have organised themselves man was sentenced to two into effective groups for the re-
lief of suffering and need. We months hard labour, for being have a great modern metropolis found on private – promises bullt with cur own hands. - We without being able to have a new generation, better satisfactory, abcount schooled, better housed, better "There is nothing essentially bed and we have, you, the
aelf. bad in these things the point teachers, on whom we rely for
is rather that there is so much so much, for so very much." that is better, better and, through a happy accident of time and place, not far to seek. Mr. Burgess said Hongkong's
HK teacher in young people had the blood of
America
China in their veins and the Inescapabe environment of the Western world all about them.
"Given their age and situation what is more natural than that they should reach out for novel, precocious, easy, light-hearted- things?"
Chang Sum Ng of 50 West- ern Street, Hongkong, is
Speaking on the need for the among some 40 high school teachers taking part in the first enthusiasm in the teaching pro- Biology Institute at the Summer fession, Mr. Burgess added. "It Saxico at Rutgers University enthusiasm that the child will. only by your positive
Ng teaches at come to know that there are Ching Sum Hongong Baptist College in better things, both in its native Kowloon. He holds a bachelor's culture and in its Western degree in biology from Soochow environment, than the tinsel melancholy of twitching troubadours."
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d by Mr Burgess "Hongkong has its own bewildering pace. Some times it is like a life où togter-skla; demanding, s múch concentration, 30- much maintained efforts, "that" the hill-shapes - and the sea-shapes "pass" trich hardly a glimpse of their obvious beauty, and even the sense of purpose and direction are lost in the „effort to keep going..........
Tobias of 17, Fatt Villas, was the subject, of a sum- móns heard by Mr 4. A A) Macfadyen at the central Magistracy, yesterday" the complainant being test D. W Morley lecturaraz the Hongkong University; a and living at 11 Felix Villas, Mrs Morley testified that the dog had bitfen d great many people. ALMA
The summons was disc missed. In another case, Mr E. J. E. Mitchell, of 9 Shek-O was fined $10 for allowing The dog bit a man as he his dog to go out unmuzzledy
Mr Burgess said Hongkong More than 400 teachers from had its faults and failings but all over the Colony this morn these should not be allowed to ing heard Mr Burgess, give the came out of the water from
sprech
a swim
| impair" "our" pride in what we ofis taking place at the
In Colony
have done well s
Labour conditions In some Grantham Training College, factories we are told, are Kowloon, and will end on Friday, damnable, But rice queues, According to the Secretary of abject poverty, and idences are the Organising Committee of the much more damnable.
conference, MA. Godman; "This "In our engrosament with the is being beld to really show the present we forget perhaps the teach how to tea salient detalls of our history The conference red, which es since (the
BABE REMARKABLE
With that ba
remarkable and a sotil "great", pride," that we have
rion queues, Httle abject pOY: and no serious unemploym
It is true that, in one sense, we live in an atmos need. We need mia more clinics / ROOTS Housing, zufre saccine
conists of 11 lectures on educa- tion problems, will last until 3.15 p.in. on Wednesday, when the closing address will be given by the Directors, of Education, Mr DJS Crozier
The exholton; warn
four main sections, will last untli
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