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The above picture shows part of the large drawing room of Rom Tong, Hall.- Ching Mall photo.
Hongkong stately home
to make way for flats
By DAVID LAN
For half a century, the 20-roomed three-storeyed house of Victorian period style at No. 7 Lower Castle-road has stood as a landmark.
Against the backdrop of the green mountain and blue harbour, the red- brick structure with the wrought-iron verandah has weathered the storms of two world wars as the residence of a well-known local! family.
Kom Tong Hall, built by Mr Ho Kom-tong, brother of Sir Robert Ho Tung, in 1914, has
now been sold to a group of Chinese businessmen,
The Louise is ming to change
hanids in April next year.
What will be the fate of a
building that surety qualiftes for thug title of Stately Home?
It is likely to be pulled down to make way for apart- nient Hats," I was told.
No Tong Hull occupies on mea, more than 10,535 square feel.
Handed down
has basement garage and To muriy a roof garden but it is
no longer use.
The base has hugo' handed class tur Mr Ho Kom-log's
lescendants,
The abi Mir lo started is
carrer
with Jardine's.
Then
he went into business an lijs
swn alld made a fortune,
He
was a racing enthusiast
owning a stable of
418
ponier.
Versatile, he was recopated
3 g-cut Candanese opera
singer,
E
doctor of
medicins am!
• Fang Shui".
expert
Cline-e on
A well-know. pallanturpist,
Mr Ito anted ficly to mas
charitable organisations.
Pa
Achieve
It was active in the work of Wah Leung Kuk, Tung
Hospitals, St John Ambulance and the Helens May Institute.
Kom Tung Hall was built to the design of an architect, Mr A. C. Little at Mesars Little, Adam and Wood,
It was constructed by Mr Li Bing, a noted contractor.
The architect, his company and the contractor have all retired, leaving the classical piece of archllecture behind which a coníemporary archi- teot han described as "eam- pradoric" in style.
It was built at a cost of about $300,000 before World War I.
Recently I was sold for about
$1 million..
Journalists
for Bangkok
Two British Journalists lett Hengkung today for Bangkek by Thul International after E over- night transit stop.
They were Mra Allee Hope, Home Page Editor of the Daily Telegraph, and Mr John Bulst, Forcie News Editor of Ph Times. They had been guests of Scandinavian Airlinca System
in the DC-BC transpolaT Inaugural Right froni Copen- hagen to Tokyo.
ای و
They spent a werk in Japan before conilatting their trip to Hongkong and Bangitok en roule to London
.
Another stews of the drawing ruan (above) and the colonnaded exterior of the building (below)-China Mail photos.
ISHER
Established 1845
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1960.
SHEAFFER'S
IMPERIAL TE
Sheaffer quality features at moderate priess
Crown JUNK CAPTAIN CLAIMED
wins appeal on theft
The Appeals Court ruled - today that a man can properly be charged with stealing from a person unknown.
So the case of Leung Kwan, 27, who was freed after plead- ing guilty to theft of a radlo from a car,
was sent back to Magistrate Mr E. S. Haydon.
Mr W. S. W. Davidson, net- ing for the Crown, told the Ap- peals Court that Mr Haydon had declared the charge bad because the owner of the radio was un- known.
He was guided by two earlier rulings by Mr Justice C. W. Reece who declared it was im- possible to convlet unybody of Stenting from a person unknown. IS VALID
Those rulings ran counter, Mr Davidson said, 10, the "Colony's Indictment Nules,)-
which state expressly that such
a charge is valid.
He Bald Leung was arrested with a transistor redio, and told police he had taken it from # car. But when he took them to the car, i had gone. Nobody ever clolmed the radio,
Mr Justice J. R.
Greg
A
HE WAS
WAS "DOPED"
Macao, Oct: 20. His "passengers"-oscopees from Chino very angry Chinese coxswain loft Macao in his junk today after claiming that he had been "doped" and brought to Macao against his will.
told the following story. Soon after leaving Canton, one of thom
Two of his crow of three left with him. The coxswain, Yip Yuen-chuan, said that ha had never intended to sail to - Macao.. His motorised junk normally travels from
Conton to Toishan and back. On the night of October 15, he took
aboard passengers in Canton bound for Toishan, but when he woke up he found his junk berthed in Macoo.
put sleeping pills in the coxwain's
tea...
Later when he complained of dizziness, one of the women passengers offered him some mere pills also sleeping
tablets.
The coxwain was soon asleep. The 11 escapocs had no difficulty in over-
powering
other the
threo and they diverted
members
junk to Macao.
crew the
They abandoned it when they arrived last
night.-AFP..
Car bumped
police van: driver fined
Acting Chief Justice, sitting A driver employed by a Hongkong barrister was
with Mr Justice W. A. Blait- Kerr and Mr Justice R. H. Ms-Ovena, ruted the charge was good:
Mr Haydon was directed "to deal with the case as he sees fit in the light of this decision,"
Drop of 5 degrees overnight
A sudden chill descended on Hongkong this morn- ing when the tempera- ture dropped by almost five degrees compared with yesterday morning, It was 00.9 degrees at about 5 am, today.
However, the weather is ux- pected
Hutc become to Warner in the next few days.
A Royal Observatory spokes-
cald
that the cooler weather today was caused by north-easterly winds.
Flick
He added that the tempera- ture would coon "level out" and that no great change is expect- ed in the near future.
"It should gel warmer later today when the sun breaks"
ut," he said.
Triad man jailed for a year
Tsol
Ping-bing, 37, rice shop cootie, of 67 Shanghal-rireet, Cround floor, was sentenced to one years" jul; by-Mr T. 0. Chan in Kowloon Cours ihla. morning for being a member of, a triad nociety.
n
Defendant icined the Chung Shun Tong triad society, hranch of Yee On Triad Bogisty
In 1952.
This triad socicly composed mainly of Chiu Chan people is very active and practically con- #rolled it one time the Kowloon Walled City.
The society became i- volved in gang lights, wound- ings and extortion. Detendant coliccted protection fees from brothels and divans for the zociety.
Defendant had one previous convielion for breach of a curw Icw order,
fined $40 at Central Court this morning on a charge of careless driving.
The man, Leung Tung-wing, 29, of 3A Arbuinnot-rond, third floor, employed by Mr Brook Bernacchi QC, appeared before Mr D. Cons at Central Court, re- presented by Mr A. K. W. Lui of Lo and La...
It was alleged that the cur driven by Leung bumped into u Police van on Albany-road near Its junction with Upper Albert- road on July 11 at noon.
The Police driver of the van PC Fung Chuen, testined that he heard bump af the rear of the van as he was waiting for a
clearance in the trame.
He said he saw Leung in the
driver's sent and that the car's bumper, mudguards and head. lights were damaged,
The rear door of the Police van was cracked,
Mr Brook Bernacchi, said that Leung had his driving licence before the war and he had always been impressed by his driving ability and the his careful way of handling the vehicle.
"I have absolute condence in him, otherwise I would not let him crive my 70 year-ey mother around," Mr Bernacchi said,
Leniently
After Leung was found guilty his lawyer asked the magistrate to deal with the case leniently. Mr Cons after taking into necount Mr Bernacchi's remarks, fined Leung $40.
Sub-Inspector M. R. Atkinson prosecuted.
Stole $1,
jailed for
9 months
2
A 32-year-old unemploye
mon who stole a wallet containing $1 from
Sol- woman patient at yingpun polyclinic Was sent to Jail for 'nine months by Mr Darek Cons at Central Court this morning,
door of a house, in Cage-street, Ng Cheung, living by the aldo
pleaded guilty to charges of zimple theft, escape from lawful custody, membership of a triad RETURNS TO HK Lociety, failing to report while tinder police supervision and A former Sowien Congul- Generne in-Hongkong, Mr Jean falling to report the change of while under police Ravillod, passed through Hong address keng today by Gwissair en his supervision. way to Switzerland for
Bub-Inspector Yip Tal-yala DEBignment after a three-woak raid on the mcening of July 10 holiday tour et Scuthazal Asia, Ng was seen by a hospital' at- Mc Revifold. wis Swiss tendant stealing a wallet from a Consul-General in the Caleny Javomán, who. was waiting for from June, 1933, to November, frestment in the hospital hall,
1685. Following his post here. He managed to escape from a he was transferred to Ceyloneelsetive la the, CID offico, Cen- BE Charge D'Affaires in Colomtral Police "Blation the
-C3
bo. He recently spent two aftempor
weeks vacation in the Colóny: (?
on la Southeast Asian trip.
He was met at the airport by Mr. Lucien Mosesz, the preset Gwim Consul-General 'in Hong- kong.
The
However, he was re-arrested Tuesday on information In Lockhart-road,“
Ng had 11 previous convic tlong,
FINED FOR
PENICILLIN
POSSESSION
Chan
(26) Chi-kwong proprietor of the Tin On Medicine Company, was fined a total of $2,250 by Mr D. Cons at Cen- tral Court this morning for possession of. quantity of Part 1 poisons.
Chan pleaded guilty. Detective Sub-Inspector R. P. Style told the court that he and a pharmacist Inspector executed a warrant under the Pharmacy und Poisons Ordinance #t company on Tuesday Chin's morning. Two cases of penicillin substances and Part 1 polsons | were found in the cockloft. Chan had no lieance to deni in either of these drugs.
DANGEROUS
Conductor who hit
passenger bound over
*
From the Files
25
years
AGO
October 1935
investigating an extra- HE Hongkong Police are
ordinary motor car mystery: involving a party of European 1 men, not permanent residents of the Colony.
Police are confronted with a remarkable conflict of cir cumstantial evidence.
Á nian. 100 killed, the car bore obvious marks of an ac cident; the party in the cur deny that they were involved in any accident and they seem to have a good alibi.
The party's story is that they spent some hours at 13 local hotel, leaving the ear outside....
Emerging after midnight they decided to go for a ran before returning home,
They proceeded towards Shek O but suddenly and in- explicably they ran out of petrol.
A conductor of the Kowloon
No petrol being available, Motor Bus Company as they are said to have sent 'onò
number saulted a passenger who of their
for help, settled tried to board a bus, with while the remainder
metal ticket-punchor down in the car to wait, and last week cousing cuts on fell asleep. the man's forehead.
Later a policeman arrived and awakened the party. Ho Inspector Wang Hoi-man saw that the front bumper of said in Kowloon Court the car was damaged and
[stains, this morning that the as- there was blos
the party, sault took place on the Hle question
October 15 but they replied that morning of when Houng Won per-had been no accident and they sisted, in his attempt to were at a loss to explain, the they had not board a fully-loaded bus, damage which
noticed. This morning the conductor
Remembering the sudden Hon Wat, 38, admitted shortage of petrol however, the charge of common they propounded the theory sault, and was bound over
that someone unahthorised In the sum of $200 for 12 had used the car while they months by the Magistrate, were in the hotel and been Mr T. C. Chon.
involved in an accident.
He was also ordered to pay $50 compensation to the injured passenger.
BRISK
there
Meanwhile it had been re- ported to the Police that hit and run driver had killed mun in Hennessy Road Wanchai, that night, Ap parently
a
witnesscs.
there were
BUSINESS HOffices
AT FAIR
type of offence was, very
Insp Style pointed out that this Brisk business
pre- Valent in the Colony at present And that it was dangerous for the people to use these drugs without proper medical super- vision,
no eve
Excellency, the Administering
the Government, has ap- pointed Mr David Kelvin. Stark to be Deputy Estate Duty Commissioner and As- Peking, Ust. 19.sistant Colonial Treasurer.
has been done
at the 1960 Chinese autame He has appointed Mr. J.-B. commodities fair In MacLaren to be Senior As export Canton since it opened an sistant Colonial Treasurer October 5, Peking Radlo re- and Assistant Collector of ported.
Stamp Revenue. “ Export deals the first ten days came to the equivalent of £17 million.
Licensed dealers were suffer ing because small, unlicenced
The Visitors, Including businessmen
Diocesan Girls School drugs companies sold Part 1 poisons and penicillin substances, from 30 countries End areas and expects to hold ita annital
of representatives the Inspector added.
overseas bazar on Saturday December Chan said, in mitigation, that Chinese businessmen and trade 14 when it is hoped that all there WB3 time when he circles in Hongkong and Macao, parents and friends, together could not attend to his business have shown great interest In
because
4
he was
sick The machine tools, textile machinery, with past pupils and present drugs were bought by the per printed cloth, silk, lacquerware, scholars, will allend so de, to son in charge who did not pollery Industrjai goods and help the occasion to be a suo know the regulations,
POP.
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