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CHINA MAIL
· Established 1945.
MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1960.
SHEAFFER'S
IMPERIAL. AL
Sheaffer quality features at moderate précis
NEW HAWKER CONTROL POLICE Hope to From the File
START PATROLS NEXT MONTH
First squad of
46 men
men now
under training
The first squad of a new police force will begin duties some time next month when 46 hawker control constables will complete their training.
They are the first of a force which will gradually be built up to a strength of 320. Their duties are to control hawkers in and around Colony markets and in the streets of Hongkong.
Mr C. G. M. Morrison, Diree- | Chief Inspector, eight inspec- tor of Urban Services, told tors, three staff sergeants, 20 Legislative Council when he in-sergeants, 42 corporals and 245 troduced a bill establishing the constables. new force:
Effective control of hawkers would mean cleaner streets, less obstruction and assurance of unimpeded passare for pedestrians and vehicles. "The tasks of the Tramc Branch of the Police will be cased and property owners should welcome or improvement in the access to their premises.
"Fire hazards in congested areas should be reduced and the activities of racketeers pre- judiced."
For the financial year to March 31, the Unit can recruit up to 214 men. So far only 46 have been recruited although
vacancies for the new unit were first advertised in December.
THEIR CHIEF
The present commandant is Mr V. M. Morrison, Superin. tendent of Police, who is on secondment from the Police Force.
Hawker
Control constables SECONDED POLICE
have to be 5 ft 5 inches tall and The first squad of the new
at least 120 lbs, aged between force is now undergoing training 18 and 25, and their pay will at the Urban Services Depart- ment's Training School at Brick run from $240 a month, in- Hill, Just beyond the Police crossing to $400 by 12 incre- Training School,
Training lasts 14 weeks and is being carried out by Inspectors and NCOs secended from the Hongkong Police Force.
When they appear on the street, the hawker control constables will be wearing - a distinctive uniform. In summer it will consist of grey- blue shirts and blue shorts, grey bells and anklets, peak caps with USD badge and a
ments.
Minesweepers
at Medan
Tokyo, Aug. 7.
Six British warships of the
104th Minesweeper Squadron
The five Hongkong children photographed before leaving Kai Tak for America yesterday.
Orphans
leave
for a new
America
life in
hawker control shoulder badge are anchored at Belawan por Five Hongkong children yesterday solemnly said goodbye
with a number.
The winter uniform will com- sist of a bluz sorge battle dress with grey belts and anklets.
24
Medan, for an
unofficial visit
to Indonesia, the Indonesian
news agency PIA reported to- day.
The minesweepers are
A
to the Colony and their lives as orphans.
new life began for the
Man snatched necklace, then
rode
away
Sub-inspector 1. W. Elias told a Kowloon Magistrate this morning how a young shoe-black snatched a gold necklace from, a 17-year-old girl while he was riding a bicycle.
Captain, shipping
company, guilty
Haydon.
Law Wau Keun, 29, of 256 Apliu Street, ground floor, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years jail by Mr E. S. Inspector Elias said that on July 29 at 9.30 am. the com- Lin-tal was plainant, Wong walking along Lok Shan Road when she felt someone snatch her gold necklace.
It was valued at $160.
Into pocket
She, turned around and saw Law, still on his bicycle, pul- Eng her necklace Into his tree ser pocket.
Wong cried out for help, and
recover
cost in
3 years
25
years -AGO-
August, 1935 MR. and Mrs Hugh Braga,
were married at St Mrs Yuen Ying-sui and her Andrew's Church yesterday 64-year-old mother-in-law morning. The bride who ar- though modestly admitting rived, last week from Hai- at the Tenancy Tribunal phong was formerly Miss this morning that they Nora Bromley. The bride. were not business women, groom is the son of the Hon stated that they expected Mr J. P. Braga, and is the. to recover the entire cost General Works Manager of of a new building from the Hongkong Engineering rants in three years.
land Construction Co Ltd. Miss Bromley was formerly They were applying for ex-a member of the Bible emption for two three-storey 25 Churchmen's Missionary So- year-old houses at 181 and 133 ciety and was a one-time Tai Lam Street, Shamshulpo, on the site of which they plan to resident of the Colony. build an eight-storey block.
It will cost $130,000 and will Playing for Craigengower. contain two shops and ten flais A versus Police in the senior the ground floor to $200 or less were A. E. Coates, A. S at rentals from $400 to $500 for division of the bowls league
on the top floor,
Gomes, D. Rumjahn and B. W. Bradbury; C. A. Summons. L. C. R. Souza, H. Beer and
The two owners said they had bought the building in 1948
with money left to Mrs Yuen U. M. Omar; J. S. Landolt, Ying-sui by her husband, A. A. Razack, R. Basa and R. F. Luz. Playing for the- They occupy one flat, and said Police team which was beaten at the Tribunal that Mrs Yuen's father and other relatives
in
by 72 to 47 were C. Perkins,
the U.S.A. sent US$400 a month.C. S. Fender, W. MacHardy for their maintenance.
and G. C. Moss; L. Glen dinning, W. S. Dall, E. G. Post Most of the opposing tentats and. W. E. Hollande, W. of the existing premises are McLeod, T. Tallon, F. Nolan agents for the defendang when he urned the domestic, though there is and J. Shephard.
The Hongkong Fir Line Co., gave chase but lost sight of the
Ltd
-Panamanian
ship Hong street corner,
She then made a report to kong Fir and its master, the police.
tives.
Located
Captain Harry Layland Dudley, Hoare, were found gulity but cautioned by Ellas added that on Saturday Mr C. Caims at the last the defendant was located at Marine Court this morn- Nam Cheung Street by detee ing for carrying excess
Law them admitted that de passengers.
satched the necklace from the They were summonsed for gir having carried, aboard the ship Sub-inspector Ellas said that 1,197 passengers, or 1,185 in ex- the necklace had not been re- cess of the number which the covered and that the defendant ship was allowed to carry.
had three previous cerviciozer
certificate.
Ine crown, canked the ship membership of a triad society, did not possess a valid passenger demancing money with
Captain Hoare was also cau- menaces and stealing. fioned or another summons forį falling to comply with the rules for lipsaying appliances...
18 MONTHS
JAIL the children shortly after they step-
Yuen-wai,
The children were Pal Hang- tung, 17 months old, bound for TRUNCHEONS? Initially the force will not be Houghton, Dertington, Doolas-ped on an Air India plane for New York, Yan
Goverment ton, Maryton, Fiskerton and the Tokyo because for once in their seven years old, bound for San 1 armed
Francisco, Lee Shui-hepaged spokesman told the China Mail Puncheston. The squadron is lives they "belonged."
Through the auspices of the six years, also bound for San today that provision is made for under the command of Com-
International. Social Service, Francisco, Fong Chok-lun, 11 them to carry truncheons, if mander S. J. Richardson.
both in Hongkong and America years old, and Au Kan-king, 2 necessary,
The minesweepers tre The full force of 320 men, scheduled to leave on Monday, these children whose ages range years old, bound for Chicago.
from
one and a half to 11 will consist of a Commandant, AP.
years have been adopted by families in New York, Chicago and San Francisco,
Mother to be
LOOKINO VERY PRETTY
IN "SWISS MISS"!
A completely lined dress of clover-leaf printed dotted cot- ton swiss with Uitle self-ruf÷. Des and a spaghetti tie, pretty nice "waiting" at nummer showers or parties. While with Aqua or Rose print.
MEZZANINE
FLOOR
Paquerette's
SHOP LATE MONDAYS
16a Des Voeux Road, C.
Tel: 21-157
From Tokyo the young team will go straight to America to ombark 011 a new life with parents.
Two of the children will be adopted by American families, and three by Chinese families.
The children were escorted by Mrs Agnes Tsang, a case worker of the International Social Ser- vice.
Begging your pardon Sir Beverley, but.....
"At heart I was a journalist, not a novelist, and my in- stinct was to deal with sub- jects in the news, not in the aura of the years," sayÐ. Sir Beverley Baxter: The true Journalist's instinct is
I
to
see
dear sir
how "subjects In the news" "In the aura of the years."
the novelist's....... Instinct really so different from the Journalist's? "Dealing with subjects in the news" is always the Journalist's excuse for writing "for the interest of the moment,” and that so much hack journalism has been welt- ten is as good as an ad- malasion of ila ephemerallly (which we prefer to call topicality).
But Sir. Beverley's theory is true only of second-rate journalists, and a degradu- - Ugn of. Journalizor "isself. The best kind of Journalism does have a permanent in- ́terest; Shaw's play reviews, for example, are still read. As often as not Whature”
supposed to be "subjects in 'the news" are not, the most important ones; and even -writing about trivizi-sub-
In the writer, who ought to recognize their relation to the central isanes of life,
Top-flight Journalists know to see beyond the surface aspecia of any subject and aim at more than news-value,whereas an inférine writer can only?” produce work, be it, fiction ́or · reportage, of passing
interest.
The real difference lies in the writer's attitude to bla work, not in his vocational Inclination (which is rather ideological than --Insing- Hyo),
How wrong Bir Beverley'i "Instinct” as a writer is is suggested by his observa- tion: "A writer must satisfy both the eye and the ear · quiis separated from the meaning of the words." In other words,,, style, for e its own sake. The writer with the right -sense-et-style-would know. that verbal music la the fusion of 'sound' and mean- ing that l' Inseparable, For example, the couplbigg
and" "moon”, le at once in interplay", of sound sad an interplag öf
N. T. CHOW
In his judgment, Mr Cairns
making the voyage, deemed it said that Captain Hoare, before necessary to ask the Consul General of Panama in Djakarta for a safety certificate and an exemption certificate to enable him to carry passengers Hongkong.
to
FOR STEALING
29 WATCHES
"Sucti Certificates were in fact Issued by the Indonesian A 24-7aar-old driver, Chan authorities at the request of the Panamanian Consul General and were approved by him, but there is ample evidence, to prove that the safety certificate is tar below the standards to which it purports to conform and for lyricson i cannot be accepi- ed as valid in Hongkong" Mr Cairns said.
grbeery store on the ground floor.
THE Chinese political
$450 bed space situation, is once more
made.
in the melting pot as it now Mr C. Q. Lim, President of the Tribunal, adjourned the case appears
that Mr Wang until this afternoon, to give an Ching-wei is prepared, under Opportunity for settlements to be certain conditions, to stay in office, continuing to hold He suggested that tair com- both his present posts of pensation for domestic tenants Chairman of the Executive would be $450 for a bed space Council and Foreign Minis- and $15 per square foot.
ter.
For
usual rate, there was between appears to be that Marshal business premises, the His principal condition $25 and $30 per square foot.
Representing the applicants is Chiang Kai-shek shall fot Mr P. T., Yu, of F. Zimmer have control over national and Co.
Wang expenditure, Mr The opponents are represent-Ching-wei has evidently ed by Mr H S. Lo, Instructed made a complete recovery by D'Almada and Mason; Mr
B S. McElney, at Johnson, and returned to Shanghai Stokes and Master, and Mr today by plane from Tsing- Francis Chalive,' of Edmund | tuo. Cheong and C6,
With Mr Lim on the Tribunal are Mr H, M. G. Forsgate and Mr Allen Ng..
CASH STOLEN
Meanwhile a great sen sation was caused at Nan king by the sudden return there, after eight months' absence of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek.
Marshal Chiang, who was accompanied by Madame Chiang, arrived by plane Cash totaling $885.. was from Kuling where he has stolen from a shop at No. 30, been in close consultation * Block, Tai Hang Tung with Mr Lin Sen and has also been visited there by a
Hok, of 186 Gloucester Road, first floor, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment by Mr E. Corbally at Central Court this morning for stealing 28 ladies' watches from a parked car and a man's watch from bouse. Detective Sub-Inspector Chan Resettlement Estate, early this Sic-kong said at 4.45 p.m. on morning. Saturday, Chan was interrogat-In Wanchal thieves stol number of leading officials. ed when he tried to pawn a cash, jewellary and clothing to It is expected that Mr lady's watch.
a total value of $525 from 42, Wang Ching-we will go to Mr H. H. B. How, defence
Wben searched, another 27 Tai Yuen Stroes, third floor Nanking shortly and have a counsel said the Hongkong Fir ladies watches made this particular voyage at ticket for a man's watch were the request of the Indonesian feladi. Transport Corps.
Excellent. -...
This transportation of Chinese repatriates was undertaken with no idea of gain, In fact the company was at present about $100,000 out of pocket and ex- pected to be reimbursed by the Indonesian Army.
The pompany did all they could have done, reasonably Mr.How. submitted, and they had no knowledge that the documents would not be ac- cepted by the Hongkong authorities.
Mr How said Captain Hoare was 'nosring the end of his career as a chip's master,
He said be had held a mas- ter's certificate for 39 years, and had an excellent record.
Capt. Hoare was a man who honestly believed the docu- mente were valid, and accepted them in good faith; Mr How continued:
Mr Simon 14, Crown Counsel, appeared for the prosecution n5′′ alated by Mr Kenneth Milburn, acting senior Surveyor of Ships. The defence, counsel war hi- structed by Mr. J. H. H. Golby (of Johnson, Stoker and Master.
Car missing
A light green Hillman is re- ported masing in Kowloon The can, was parked in Se Yee
son Street, Mongkok. But when Saturday
Sunday
POP
and a pawn yesterday morning.
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the Generalissimo.
the cases.
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