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RUMJAHN APPEAL DISMISSED
Three-year jail sentence confirmed by Full Court
An appeal by Abdul Aziz Rumjahn, 56, against his recent con- viction on corruption charges in the Victoria District Court, was dismissed by the Full Court this morning. The court also dismissed his appeal against the three-year sentence imposed for the three corruption charges, which involved land transactions at Tsun Wan.
Censors pass bare bosom
ballet
London, Aug. 15, The censor gave the all- clear this afternoon for twelve girls of the Ballets Africans from the Re- public of Guinea to dance bare to the waist at Piccadilly Theatre today.
Until then it had been doubtful whether these teenage native girls from Jungle villages would be allowed to go through their programme of folk-dances in their usual costume- full- length cotton-and-bead skirt without lop.
The censor, Brigadier Sir Norman Gwatkin, -assistant | comptroller of the Lord Cham: berlain's office, had been invited by impresario Leon Hopner to settle the question.
After spending
hour watching part of the show, In- cluding a wedding scene featur- ing the star 15-year-old Nalo Camara, he expressed himse "perfectly satisfied."-Reuter.
Capetown, Aug. 15. Time stops for no man here. Plasterer . Hartley's watch drupped while he was working {}}} the new railways head quarters here and dropped 11 storeys to the ground.
thei
When he went down to pick up the remains he found none. Except broken glass watch was as good as ever, tick- ing away merrily.-UPI.
A
Fined for false
statement
Mr Patrick Yu, appearing for Rumjahn, said the appellant had been charged with making corrupt offer to Mr Hilary D. Miller, District Officer at Tsun Wan, "for doing or forbearing to do something."
Counsel submilled that this meant the offer had to be made before the officer did anything, and not after he had done it.
Not offered
35-year-old merchant,
The evidence in the earlier Ngai Hong-ki, of 373
case had shown that Rumjahn Queen's-road Central, had not offered anything to Mr second floor, was fined Miller until Mr Miller had said $1,000 by Mr E. Corbally, he was willing to allow certain at Central Court this land conversions to take place.
Mr Justice C. W. Reece, sit- morning for making anting with the Full Court, pointed untrue statement to pro- out to Mr Yu that there was
proviso contained in each of cure a British passport.
written by Mr Sub-Inspector Yip Tai-you two letters to d the court that Ngai applied Miller. that he was willing to recommend to the Colonial to the Immigration Office on
Secretariat that the land be September 17, 1956, for
converted. British passport
to Singapore.
He falsely stated in his applica- tion that he was bom in Hong- kong whereas he was born 1 Swatow.
OL
A passport was issued to Ngai in Ocuber the same year, Ngrí was interviewed Police Headquarters yesterdny and admitted he had made an untrue statement in the applica- Mon.
Exemption
this
The Tenancy Tribunal morning recommended that two 35-year-old houses. at 208 and 210 Apliu-street. Kowloon, be exempled from the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance.
The President of the Tribunat, Mr B. V. Rhodes, also recom- mended that $54,206 be paid to 26 opposing tenants.
. Nine other tenants agreed to terms offered by the applicant, Mr Hồ Chung-yeu,
Civility or Servility?
Your 'Comment' of Saturday, August 13, on Rudeness
behind the counter", echoes ihe feeling of the public who have experienced the unpleasant rudeness shown them by most of our sales- men and others catering to the public in one way or another. as this insolence, often amounting.almest to truculence, is not confined to shopkeepers and their assistants alone.
This
cause—a
studied rudeness by those who are charged to serve the public may be traced to one psychological one. It is a sense of inferiority on the part of the 'servant' who is too ashamed of his lowly position and
so tries to cover up his self conscious 'Ignoble' life by a show of or haughtiness arrogance,
own
or of false pride, to pre- tend to be what he is not. These people are more lo be pitied than condemned, and this curious behaviour is often seen in the larger concerns or more public places where large number of people are found, for poor souls like these in- feriority-complexed nut- ferers hate to be seen by their relatives and friends holding ositions which they consider unworthy of their
exaggerated talents.> Even in some of these so- called 'under British- management' concerns one oflen comes across rude clerks or junior assistants who are painfully sclous of their humble. station in life and try desperately hard to pre- tend to be something or someone considerably high- er, and so this show of In- civility and boorishness that only confirms their lack of decent upbringing or proper education. There is another aspect to
this curious sititude
con-
to
dear sir
wards the customer by the salesman or anyone whose duty it is to serve' another in public places. Most of the employees today be- long to some sort of unten or another, and they know that unity is strength', that L their 'boss' sacks them or rebukes them hey can always threaten a walk-out and be sure that their action will be sup- parked by their brethren' of the union. Many
an otherwise stern 'boss' would turn a Nelson blind-eye to this misbe. haviour to avoid undesir- able trouble as one can see from the constant Comm plainis volçed through the columns of the correspon- dence in the press against the rudeness of conductors and others. Uniil employees are taught that there is no shame in Bervice, that there is a great difference between dvility and servility, they will continue to be rude and arrozant to their cus- lomers, and Hongkong will continue to have a bad re- putation for incivility which is not entirely un- deserved, as li is rampant slmost everywhere, not the feast in our government service. Nevertheless, you are to be heartily congratulated for bringing this poisonous fest before the notice of the powers-that-be, and whether this complaint can be or will be oured is up to those whose dufy it
is to offer the public better,
and more satisfactory ser- vico,
CUSSED STUMER
Man with
a taste for apple pie.
un-
Wong Ting-sing, 30-year-old contractor living in an numbered but af Tal. Po-chat, today pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing two pieces of apple ple.
New Colony cinema groups Far East
The King's, Lee, Princess, and Broadway cinemas have now decided upon an arrangement under which they will screen films in the future.
The old Roxy and Broadway combination is to end and the King's and Broadway will pair to screen United Artist productions.
The Lee and Astor combination is also broken, and the Lee will pair with the Princess in the near future. They will show Rank Organisation films.
The Roxy has not yet paired off with a Kowloon cinema
to screen 20th Century-Fox films.
Man who recruited
for Okinawa
Kowloon magistrate Mr E. S. Haydon
dis- cautioned and charged him.
Sub-Inspector L W. Elias szid that on August 15 Wong WS seen taking two pieces of apple ple worth $1.50 from the air. men's mess at Kal Tak Airport,
14 months
jailed for 14
ANOTHER A 30-year-old unemployed man facing_six
MUSICAL
FLOPS
by Anthony Fuller
*
I could not be ruled out that the offer was to induce the
cilicer to g: the deal put Hongkong is the graveyard
through the Colonial Secretariat,
of Hollywood's big musi- cals.
Mr Yu said that according to the record of evidence, Mr "Porgy and Bess" is the Miller himself had admitted he made
latest Todd-AO produc- thought the offers were
tion which the Hongkong public has shown little interest in.
use result of his converting the land, and not in the hope that he would..
Decision reached
After a short discussion with Mr Justice Recce and Mr Justice W. A. Blair-Kerr, the other members of the Court, the Senior Puisne Judge, Mr Justice . H. Gregg, President, said the Court did not wish to hear Mr G. R. Sneath, Crown Counsel,
sion.
This follows the compara
tive failures of "South Pacific," and "Can Can." The MGM "Gigi" which is still taking record bax office figures all over the world scarcely survived two weekends in Hong kong.
as they had reached their deci- "Porgy and Best" was trail- ing the five first-run filmo' shown in Hongkong yet. terday, with "Messalina" and leading the field, "Shaggy Dog" well on it tail.
Mr Justice Gregg said the court did not propose to dispute Mr Yu's contention on the word- ing of the charge and of the act under which he was charged, and they did not wish to give a decision on that point,
They did And that Rumjahn was guilty of the charges, how- ever, and they were therefore not interfering with the decision of the District Judge. -
on the
Mr Yu's application for # reduction in sentence, grounds that it was manifestly exessive, was also dismissed.
Mr Yu was instructed by Mr Messrs F.
D. Q. Cheung, of Zimmern and Co.
Mr Sneath appeared on be half of the Crown.
BONUS ISSUE
APPROVED
A resolution authorising a bonus issue of one new share for every three existing shares was at an extraordinary approved meeting of Nanyang Cotton Mill Ltd. this afternoon.
The bonus issue paid by
would be capitalising HK$5
million from the capital reservės
Peeping
Tom jailed
charges of obtaining money by false pretences was sentenced to 14 months' jail, by Mr Derek Cons this morning at Central Court.
Siu Sheng-kung of Flat D,
7th floor, Majestic Apartments,
↑ King's-road pleaded guilty to
all charges.
Defendant said he was recruit-
ing lorry drivers and labourers American Lieutenant- for an Colonel called Smith.
in
be sent to the They would
base American military Okinawa.
Boys stole bicycle
Obtained $2,000 for re-sale
He thus obtained in January,
some
money
further
marketing centre in Colony
From the Files
25
years
AGO August, 1935 Cett, the 68-year-old COLONEL Percy Harrison
Fawcett,
British explorer, who has been lost for ten years in the Eastman Kodak Company of Brazilian jungles searching U.S.A. plans to set up an for a "city of gold," will re- office in Hongkong as the turn to civilisation within Far East marketing centre six months, a missionary for the company's chemisaid in New York today. cal products,
The Rev. Patrick Molloy, announced today.
Roman Catholic missionary, Manufactured by the com- said the lost explorer was in pany's factories in Tennessee the Zinqui River district. and Texas, the products com-
He said he learned this in- formation from an influen- tial Indian chief.
prise
it
was
MR GLADE
fibres. chemicals
and
the
A new School of Foreign Mission Sisters of St Dominic, known as the Mary- knoll Sisters, is being erected on a site covering over 200,000 aquare feet and situated at the junction of Waterloo Road and Boundary Street, Kow- loon.
A
Nunnamed beneficiary
under the will of the. late Lady Chaber, widow of Sir Paul Chater, Hongkong's "Grand Old Man", is now believed to have been traced in the person of Mr Peter John Bennett, of Vancouver, BC.
It will be recalled that in plastics.
her will Lady Chater left on The Hongkong office is part of their worldwide expansion trust a sixth part of her re-
estate scheme for sales and service of siduary
"to
my those products.
brother, whose name I can- Mr Paul Glade will be in not remember, and whose charge of the Hongkong office as whereabouts I have not been the Far East sales manager.
April and June a total sum of Two boys, one aged 14 and money amounting 10 about the other 11, appeared $2,000 from the members he recruited.
betore Mr J. E. Dargan at
Mr Glade told the China Mail aware for many years, but Kowloon Juvenile Court
this morning that the office in whose last known place of this morning charged with Hongkong will be opened some abode was Vancouver, BC."
time next month. stealing a bicycle. pre-
The olaer boy was charged with stealing two quaer picyles,
H, Inspector
M. Wong prosecuting, told the Court tha at 11.50 pm on August 14, the older boy was sedi riding bicycle in Soya-street by a police party.
his son do
Defendant also admitted that he had received from Wong Pong-cheang tending that he could introduce a university in America.
Detective Inspector Lai Kim- hung of the Commercial Crime Office prosecuted.
Man who
embezzled
fails in
escape bid
a
Stole letter: Wiliam
man jailed
He was also seen carrying the for 18 months
frame of another bicycle.
He
stopped at No 84 Fa Yuen-street
A newspaper representa- tive who approached Sir Shenton, senior partner of Deacons, on the matter, was informed that there seemed little if any doubt that Mr Bennett is the brother referred to.
A large crowd witnessed the
and there offered the bicycles A 25-year-old unemployed man final removal of squatters
for sale.
ACCOMPANIED
When questioned by police the boy admitted that he had stolen the bicycles from outside No. 20 Pak Ho-street, and the second defendant had accom- panied him in one of the thefts. He then took the police party
Yee-street
who stole a letter from a man, from Crown land at Wongnei- was sentenced to 18 months chong yesterday, when mem- fall by Mr E. Corbally at bers of the Public Works Dé- Central Court this morning,
Chan
partment completed the work
Chung they began a fortnight age and Wing, of 4 Sau-street West, pleaded guilty cleared the area of the huts Cheong-fai at the Reclamation stood by while the operations to taking a letter from Cheung and their inhabitante. Police site in Connaught Road Central were carried out with the aid on August 4.
of lorries and PWD coolies.
the heading Bradbury",
ner.
on
U"Brilliant
to No 20 Fak Ho-street where the second defendant Was ar- rested.
Detective Sub-Inspector Chan The first defendant further Sik-kwong sald several detec- A man who embezzled $396
from his employer tried told the police that he had also tives patrolling the Reclamation to escape to Macao but stolen another bicycle from Sai site on the night concerned saw
Chan acting in a suspicious man- the Morning Post reported was arrested by police The second defendant was detectives at the Hong-dismissed by Mr Dargan
that B. W. Bradbury the The detectives then kent Chan Craigengower Cricket Club kong-Macao Ferry Wharf. condition that he would, never under observation. Yiu Fu-keung, aged 19 of 10 steal again and never again Chen was later seen taking representative qualified for Main-street, ground floor was associate with the first defen-out a letter from the rear trouser the semi-final of the open charged of embezzlement and dant.
pocket of a man and was imme-bowls singles competition The first defendant was re-diately arrested. fraudulent conversion before Mr
when he beat H. Overy of Chan had 17 previous con- Corbally this morning at manded in police custody for Central Court.
seven days, pending a probationvictions since 1950 including the KCC after an exciting
finish by 22 to 20. four for picking pockets. The incident occurred at Wong
Yiu was employed by a firm officer's report. Marshal 122 Tal-sin where the Sha To Vin Lockhar-road, lage Committee was holding answer to an advertisement in a Chinese opera shows.
newspaper on August 10.
A Kowloon Magistrate was told this morning of a young Urban Service De- coolie who partment offered a police constable $2 not to arrest him for peeping into a woman's lavatory,
+
So Hung-lit, 128, was sentenced
Two days later he was asked
to three months jail by Mr to deliver five lots of woollen
E. 8. Haydon for offering bribe to a police officer and
further
three months
breach of bond.
of the company, reported Mr The sentences were to
C. D. Salas, secretary.
Those present at the meeting Included Mr D. Benson, Chair- maa, and the directors, Mr G.M. Goldsack, Mr 5. J. Cooke, Mr H. Kadoorie, Mr Y. C. Wong, and Mr H. C. Yung.
for
מטרת
He
material to certain firms.
to collect the was also told money for the material.
However, he did not return. Defendant admitted he had spent the money on a wrist- Watch and in gambling.
consecutively. Sub-Inspector L W, Ellas sald that Bo had two previous con.
He was remanded for seven victions; one for indecent as days for o report from the prob- sault on a woman,
and the ation officer.
Sub-Inspector other for membership of a
Yip "Tai-you prosecuted, triad society.
'Milked' petrol from lorry:
man bound over
A driver who stole three gallons of petrol from a lorry and put it in his own car was bound over in the sum of $350 for two years by Mr E. S. Haydon at Kowloon Court this morning.
He was
POP By Gog
Hul Fuk-hing, 22, morning, he discovered thel He admitted stealing the petrol of 187. Kilung-street, drst floor; three gallons of petrol was with a rubber tube. ;* j
Sub-Inspector I. W. Elies sald missing from the petrol tank, Inspector Ellas sald that be had one previous conviction for He told the police,
carrying excess passengers. 147 Later that day, police, peling Mr Haydon said: "This is your his lorry outside 89 Ha Heung-on information, arrested. Hul first offence of dishonesty. I road and went home.
at the Kowloon City Ferry, cone will give you a chance but do
on August 13 at 5 p.m. the com
plainant Yip Chi-ching parked
When he returned the next
COLLING.
not do it again,”
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