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CHINA MAIL
50mph CHASE
Frenchman
fined $600 on driving
summonses
Jacques Arnoux, a 29-year-
old Frenchman, living at: 45 Hankow-roud, Flat H, second floor,
pleaded guilty to summonses of! driving without • valid licence, and third party insurance.
i was fined a toin! of $800 by Mr T. C. Chan at North i Kowloon Court this morning. He wh. also disqualified from hot- ing and obtaining a striving Hence for one year.
Sub-Thrpenter R. Sturgeon, al- card to the Tree Offer, toli
Driver fined $3,000, banned
for
a. year
A determined police officer chased a car in the streets of Wanchai and Happy Valley at speeds of more than 50 miles an hour in the carly hours of October 23.
The long chase was described in the Causeway
Bay Court this morning when L. B. Melwani, driver of the car, pleaded guilty to three summonses of careless and dangerous driving and exceeding the speed limit of 30 miles per hour.
Mr 1. T. Murris, the Magis- rate, imposed a fine of $3,000 on Melwand, who was also dis- qualided from driving for months.
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Inspector M. R. Alkinson. prosecuting. said that Chicl Inspector J. Hidden Was. the driving his saloon near Grand Theatre in Queen's- read East about 1.45 am on Ortoher 23 when he WAN overtaken by another car.
الي إراة
The Cot that a 2.07 pm Inspetor liddes noticed £2 August 26 this year, Stuff-
Work on the wrong side of the Calung while esti
102d and was travelling motor vele patrol saw a 1:1- attended car parked on the road- very high speed. He gave chase side at Hanko-road near Had shortly after lead that nis
b-rand.
The Ster-Sergeant had
eive information two auth.
parento isty that the ear
was win
speetlometer was reading 45 iniles per hour.
Outside Wah Yan Collège, when the inposter was about 10 yards Echlad the hit ce
showed the pedemeter Jk per hour and a: Jockey registered 60 miles per
kwir a
erally driven by Arnoux en hold a valid lenee.
the SUPAMUK Faw woman Lata, ing the ear followed Ly the defendant who rat ut the whol AS The defendant sorted The e the sergeant stopped hura.
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The twa errs passed thren roat innetions and the car he was following never stopped at may of them, Inspecter Atkinson Bait!.
When I finally stopped cut- Pool-road, No 17 Blus
Arnoux side
After questioning. admitted that he had his wild
cum..
De dont hal two shitar previsus rany Jesjons 14 yo,
4% #4 J.
HEAVY RAIN
MrC-S. Stevenson-ni-Stewart-
Ch, suit! 13 mitigali: a be half & Artix thi! the caner el the whole was Mie: Maan Dry! who was at the wheel on that dy with Amoux sitting beside for.
Devel of the previous he vy hain, rh. eouki at sert the engine, s Arnoux offered to help. The cer was parked b! and thei tween two other cars cadrarely object was to the car out of at dificul
polos ler her.
As to defend nt's two pie- vinus convictiuas, Mr Slaveason
sed that there were mitigat-
ing circumstances.
Me Chan, before äning the delcdent, W
they wire an
Traini
1 bim that
offraCEA.
Pupector. Identi appiozeted the ear and fund the lender who was the driver and three other passengers in the car.
Melwand, of 346, Tai Hang- rozd, had four previnus convie- Eas for traffic ¿fTentas, Inspec-
or Afkingen said.
DEATH OF
FORMER
RESIDENT
Mr George Thomas Palmer,
a former resident in Hong-! Kong, died at St Joseph | Hospice, London, yester- day, after a long illness. | He was 57.
Born in Wales, Mr Palmer came to the Far East more than 30 years ago,
Hongkong
He was with the Volunteers when war broke out and was a PW.
Alter the vor, he joined ! Shewan, Tonies and Co. d. and was manager of the con- ! tracting and metals department and later taught at the Melwani English Tutorial Schuot before he was taken ill three years ago. He then returned to England.
He is survived by his wife Katle, in Hongkong, and (Wo daughters. Marilyn, who is in Hongkan, and Mrs Isabella Costergo, who
h1 Dutch Gulana,
DROVE
2 SOLDIERS
SOMEONE'S CYCLE HOME. FINED $350
Two young soldiers of 1st Battalion, Royal North- umberland Fusiliers, Stanley Fort, were fined $350 each for taking a motor cycle to drive back to Stanley after being stranded in the čitý.
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The soldiers, Frerick Alex- ander Skelton, "wid Kenneth John Mainwaring, both aged 22. pleudecă Builty 10 driv ing a motor cycle without a licence, without the owner's con- sent and without. third party in- surance.
Established 1845
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1960.
THROUGH
Sheaffer's PEM
Fon For Mon
THE BOLD NEW PEN DESIGNED EXCLUSIVELY
FOR MEN
WANCHAI
PICTORIAL PARADE
ABOVE: Lt-Gen Alexander D. Drummond chatting
with a patient, Pto Hatha- way, during his visit to the Bowen-road Military Hos- pital.
RIGHT: The St Andrew's Ball was held at the Penin-: sula Hotel last weak, Seon (1-1) are Mr J, F. Scott, Sir Robert Black, Mrs Scott, Lady Kinloch and Sir John Kinloch.
Hawkers tell
LEFT: Among, the many who attended the cocktails on, board the my Tjiluwah were {l-r) Mr R. Schoo, Mrs J.E. Bust, Capt J.E. Bast and Mr and Mrs J.8. Kite.
BELOW: An Auxiliary Medical Service team scon in action during an exor cise at Fuk Wing-street Government School.
From the Files
25
years
·AGO-
December 1935
MOMMENTING editorial-
ly on the Government's... decision to ullow the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinn Squadron to live in Marble Hall, the SCM l'ost said the Colony was pain- fully conscious that the attitude of the Admiralty (as distinct from the China Station personnel) towards the Colony had not been marked by great genero- sity.
It said the accommoda- tion of Admirals abroad was a fair charge upon the Imperial Naval vote.
Government's decision meant that the Admiralty had a perpetual free lease on the building.
"Sir Paul obviously in- tended the house to be used for some purpose beneficial to the Hongkong public- perhaps as a museum hospital or
official !sidence.
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"Apparently it is not considered suitable for any local purpose; it is difficult
think that the Govern
to
munt tried very hard to find a use for it.
"Whether useless or not the house is an asset of value, demanding the quid pro quo." The Admiralty might have been persuaded to allow Chater Road and Queen's Road East to be connected through the Naval Yard,
"However,
as well 18 being restrained by con- siderations of hospitality, the_critic_is_alao gagged by the fact that the gift was made, without consul- tation of the Legislative Council, as far back AH 1927.
"Since then two Governors have gone, and it is hardly fair to call the present officials to 1c- count. In the face of the fait accompli we can only hope that the habit of 'souveniring" the public property or quietly giving
eradicated."
it
of paying St John's College away has by now been
money to collectors
Iwa
The
Alumni ball
Co
☆
NOMMENTING on the in- crease of beggars in Colony, the SCH
St John's University (Shanghai) Alumni Association the Announced yesterday that their Post annual Christmas Ball this year
WH
be held on December 22
called editorially for
తె continuous rounding up
Several unlicensed hawkers who had been operating in the Sung Wong Toi area near Kowloon City said this morning they had paid money
at the Paramount. There will be and deportation "not apaa- to collectors so that they would be allowed to continue hawking. a. full programmc In addition to the fines, they
of music, modie as at present, "but shows, Christmas carols, games. a full-time job for a special were disqualified from holding o driving licence for one year. They
questioned whether he had paid said: this at Kowloon, lam and said she paid money to
patrol," Sub-Inspector B.
The Secretary, Mr Sam Woo, Wobster Coul when they were giving him. She said she had been money to anybody.
He said he had been paying who is also in charge of book and railway companies "ta It also called on shipping told the court on Sunday night evidence against seven men and hawking for more than 10 days the defendants were out playing live policemen en a charge of in August or September and she money
people on five ing, told the China Mall that
ball is meant for tombola and had a few drinks, conspiracy
The exercise greater care in selec- money had paid money only on three occasions. On three occasions he the receive
occasions. corruptly,
pald 30 cents and on two others, alumni, their friends and relo- tion of passengers for Hong-
tives. Only one witness inade u post-
he paid 50 cents each.
} kong." On the first occasion she gave i tive identification of cre of the the collector $1.50 and on the nen-police accused.
second and third occasions $1. The defendants who came be- fore Mr. E. S. Haydon
Asked why she puld the were
others native, As
pala,
As it was late they tried to find lodgings without success,
WATERFRONT
to
It was then about 3 um an ir they wandered along the Lai Young 40: Wong Shi-nan, money. she said "I had no alter-
waterfroni
in Connaught-road. 24; Tse Sik-mea, 20; Lo. Wing- did L Central, they saw a motor cysleman, 24; and Lip Chung-kwong, nour Pottinger-street. They took 21. all policemen, 11 and intended to drive fi back to Stanley Fort.
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She added that the collector The others were Lam Ping, told her that if she refused the allas! Chun Pie, 23; Or Ming, would be unable City on home Skelton, who had held Ai allas Ple Kwat. 17, Lau Ping, trade Reence in England, drove the 20; Wong Wof-lum, allus Wo cycle while Mainwaring sat on Shuung, 24; Yick Ping. allas She said the, nollector was the rear seat.
Pang Pang, 21: Chan Cheung, collecting beat meney", The next morning, they were 4B and 16-year-old juvenile, Another hawker, Ho Shiu, questioned by the military Chan Foon, an unlicensed said he also authorities about the use of the hawker, pointed to Wong Watcollectors,
paid money to cycle the previous night and
both admltied they and tolcen from the waterfront. A re-
part was made the police. Woman dies
Insp Webster said both de- fendants were Nailonu Service- men and had been in the anny since February this year earning approximately $49 a week. Skel- ten bad to send money to his Wife in England and Mainwar- ing to his mother.
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New Delhi, Dee, 5.
An old Sikh woman died in New Delhi yesterday aged 190.
One of the
old woman's grandchildren is already himself,
Blanket donations grandfather
The Council of Social Service reknowledge with thanks two donations of $30. Baeli
Printed, and published by TERENCE GORDON NEWLANDS PEARCH blankets from Mr H. G. Robin for and in behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 11 son end Miss Frederika G. W. Wyndhara Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, van der Windt.
When asked to identify the collectors, he said: 'I cannot reccznie ciarly".
"Because I had only a quick gisace of the ecllectors I doubt whether 1 could rzecznise kay ut them."
Allor anaing around the court he pointed to Lam Ping 1 saw him and sold "I think twice."
people |
He added that many vere paying money,
Another hawker Choung Luk lerat,niid · That,"1 cannot Teing- She remembered the conquest nize any of the 12 defenderatë? of the Punjab by the British Cose ir continuing y when Maharajah Ranjit Singh Another street, hawker, Tan was ruler of the Punjab, She Bhiu-pong, who was hawking had retained good eyesight and in the same area and on the her own. teeth until her death night of September 2, ho, wat
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