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HK TRAWLER FINDS
FISHING
GROUNDS
CROWDED
Fishing grounds in the Gulf
of Tongking were now too crowded with fishing vessels from Japan, Formosa and Hongkong ond yields there were much diminished.
Captain . Y. Fu, skipper of the Cape St Mary, said this after his rearn fin a trawling Survey in the Gulf yesterday.
However, it was still a very nood fishing ground, he said.
The
Government
240-100
fisherles research vessel came : back with 51,000 1 f Beh, 6 per cent of which were red i stupper. Prevell and rett cou i Ish.
Caught shark
During
fr 20-day voyage.
the crew members hused to Inkce and currents
besides amples of sea water catching fish, said the captain. 200
A w
shark weighing
1 and 20 rays wrighing 500 Both were caught, Instal Were thrown overboard breuse uf lack of plorare 1pace, said the captain.
senior D. nial, Mr J. afle of the Fisherley Research Station of the Co-operative
Fisheries Deyclopment and
partment sold that the Cape St Mary would set off en ad- other trip on Monday next. It wanhi go further south along the roast of Vietnam to explore new fishing grourufs,
More local news on P. 4 and P-5-
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"Concentrate on serious offences not trifling breaches of law" MAGISTRATE'S ADVICE TO POLICE
SEARCH CONTINUES
FOR NT WILD BEAST'
Police are continuing the search this morning for a "wild beast" sighted last Wednesday by a villager on Tai Tam Yang, a hill in the Pak Heung district south of Yuen Long,
VISIT OF SHELL COMPANY
FINANCE DIRECTOR
Mr E. Chester Peet, the Finance Director of the Royal Dutch/Shall Group of Companies, arrived in Hong- kong yesterday from Tokyo. He is accompanied by his wife and will be 'leaving for Monila on Wednes- day.
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This was the second report the discovery of a "will herst tentatively identified as a leopard-in the mountains of the New Territories in the last! three weeks.
At 5 pm last Wednesday, Chow Nami-cheon, 57, was lying on
ย
rock on the hill while his herd of goats was grazing on the slope
About 20 minutes later,
about 300 yards away,
he
heard a horrifying roar and then heard his goats stampede.
He sprang to his feet and sow
a brown coloured animal with
its teeth in the neck of a black goat dragging it towards
Mir Peet Is an Anwekcan! London to organise the finance citizen.
administration of the Rayal bush. He began his Shell career in Dutch/Shell Group 1919 in the United States,
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After holding various pasi-; tions, including a period be-i tween 1912 and 1944 on loan to the War Production Board in Washington, he was appointed in 1940 Vice-President Finance, in charge of all ßballclad and ne-i counting operations for the Shell Companies throughout the Unit.... ed States,
in 1652. Mr Peet to lake up on
was asked appointment in
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He released his black dog but the dog whimpered and ran nway with its tall between its legs.
Chow picked up a stone and throw it the unimal but it appeared unconcerned.
RAN FOR LIFE
it
Suddenly realising thal might have been the same animal which appeared on Tai Mo Shun a fortnight ago, Chow ran for his life to the village at the fout of the hill.
with When he returned crowd. the animal was no lon Rer there, but they found the body of the black goat.
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Chow found that the wound on its neck was "ns big as It rice bowl and clearly showed teeth-marks.
The shepherd said the animal
was
more than five feet long, -had-brown-for-and-a-thick-necke
and looked like a leopard.
the
"It was agile in movement and gloriog In the eyes," he uided.
Mc
to made a report Mr Chester Feet
police. The Fanling police station despatched a squad of Shell Petroleum Company, the Pakistani policemen to hunt for Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Com- the beast and he search has
BatBase pany and
Petrolum continued up to this morning. Mij.
"There has been no trece wife in also a director of Shell | found of the beast yel," said oil in the United States and of une reliable informant.
number of other Group !Companies,
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Assaulted
A woman was detained in Kowloon hospital after she had been atsiuited by man outside No. 50, Shunning-road yesterday. A man has been detained by police for ques- tioning.
ADMITS THEFT
A 10-year-old girl student was bound over in the sum of $500 for one year by Mr J. E. Dargan pt North
Juvenile Kowloon Court this morning when she pleaded guilty to two counts of impte larceny and larceny in a dwelling. The sum Involved was $255.
$2 million building scheme for Kowloon
A modern building costing $2,063,542 to replace 20 houses in Ki Lung-street, Kowloon, was the subject of an exemption application which opened this morning before the Tenancy Tribunal.
Mr. V. Rhodes, Tenancy Tribunal President, with ment Berg, Mrs V. 1. Chan and Mr A. . M. Rufeck, heard the ap plication brought by the Sbung Then Land Investment Con- Janv. represented Է A. C. Comber of Finstings !ard Co.
! More than
330 opponents of the houses, Nos 250-280, KI Lung-street, appeared at the proceedings concerning the re- placement of the present three- storey tenements.
tenants
Among the business were owners of weaving work- shops, machine works, ten hovies, rice shops, roasi ment dealers, stationers, Juss stick nnndfacturera,, tea nos tobacco shops, rattan furniture makeri, provisions and other stores,
Mr Wong Ting-ki, archllect. sold that the plans for the new nine-storey ziructure would increase the covered floor area from the present 34,040 sq ft to 124,370 sq ft in the new block, These figures did not include balconies,
The new block would provide 22 shops and 170 nits for
Most of the domestle tenants. bustress tenants had reached settlement when the President ordered an adjournment for dcussion between Counsel and opponents.
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13 people still detained
by Police
Driver fined $750
sequel to boy's death on road
From the Filos
25
'years
AGO
April 1936
THE local Chinese com-
of
lost 010 ita most public spirited
the death which occurred
Lai Yung, a lorry driver, of 6 Tai Fung-street, and most able leaders by
Yuen Long, was fined $750 with the alterna- tive of one month in prison by Mr I. T. Morris at Causeway Bay Court this morning for dan- gerous driving causing the death of a six- year-old boy.
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About 13 of the 21 people arrested for questioning on Saturday by the police
The defendant, driving д in connection with the
gooda vehiele, knocked down kidnapping of Wong Sik- and killed a boy on October 14 pun, the banker, and his along Connaught-road West at san, Wong Ying-kau, are the entrance of the West Gate still under police deten- in the godown area.
He told the court that at the tion, the Chinese press time of the accident he was said today.
The police would make no cemment on the Chinese press report this morning.
rash
ic
driving at between 15 to 20 mph. Mc Morris in passing sentence said that the defendant's action in not taking reasonable The 21 were rounded up on
precautions when entering Saturday in both Hongkong und gateway had resulted In the Macap. Some of them were re-death of a small child. leased after interrogation.
Would Individual "If every Those still detained at police stallons were arrested under the endeavour to carry out the sug Emergency Ordinance.
gestions contained in the High- is the In Macão, police made a late-way Code which really
safety night search of many houses on heart and core of roa Saturday and put three people and follow its precepts in let- would, in ter and spirit there under supervision.
my opinion, be an enormous reduction in death and Injury on the roads of this Colony," Mr Morris added.
Big tobacco
seizures
A revenue porty, acting on information, searched the Mai Po arca of the New Territories one day during February and found twelve sacks of tobacco, weigh ing 791 lbs. hidden in an “unattended-compan——————— A further haul of 784 lbs. of tobacco was seized when a re- venue party stopped and search- Yuen Long ed a lorry in the atca. The driver of the lorry was subsequently charged and Aned $50 and bound over to be of good behaviour under a bond of $500.
These two tobacco seizures were the largest to be effected during February, when preven- tive service patrois seized a total of 3,920 Ths of tobacco. The seasonal lull brought about by the Chinese New Year holidays was mainly responsible for the Call in tobacco seizures during the period under review,
CHINA COAST
CAPTAIN ON
RETIREMENT
SERIOUS
"The police would be well- advised to concentrate on action against drivers who have com- mitted serious offences such as that now before the Court rather than upon prosecutions technical breaches of the law." he pointed out.
for
"What 13 needed in the motorists Colony Is not that should be harassed over tiling offences but that the lethal crun- driver, whether through kenness. recklessness or incom- petence, who prove himself to le
menace should be
and with suitably dealt certain circumstances kept of the roads," he added.
not sending defendant to prison Mr Morris said that he was
because the latter had a wife
ad six children to support,
Mr Morris also ordered the defendant's driving licence to be endorsed.
Carlos Oliveira
dies in Macao
The death occurred in Macao this morning of Mr Carlos Maria Oliveira, an archivist in the Civil Administration Do- partment of the Government. He was 51.
Captain E. Histed, retiringheart attack while working
Mr Oliveira collapsed after a fr Commodore Master of the China Navigation Co, Ltd, left
the Administration Building. His body was taken to the St Rafael
with Mrs Histed in the P& Hospital. O-Orient liner Oeva at noon.
Oliveira leaves a wile and
today on retirement after 42eight children, with his eldest years with the company.
A large number
and colleagues went on board
bid farewell to the Histed
son and daughter working In of friends the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. He was an unclo of Mr AO-Sales-Honorary Consu for Spain
and in Hongkong nember of the Urban Council.
who intend to settle down on the south coast of England.
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CO 1 - BUT THEN
FRED'S ALWAYS
WITH THEM
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A POINT
TO DIRECT NEW CHINESE
FILM
Robert Chung. Managing Director of Mollon Picture and General Investment Co. of Hongkong, is to turn m director.
The Alm ho will direct for his company is "Educa- tion For Love." adapted from a best-selling Italian novel.
for
Mr Chung will tackle the task with confidence, apart from being an ex- Dert photographer. he has undergone a full course of fa training at Hollywood
of all phases
picture- making.
NC AND GOING
last night shortly before 9 p.m. of Mr Wong Kwong- tin, an unofficial Justice of the Peace.
The late Mr Wong, who
Was was 57,
a prominent businessman and was at one time the manager and direc- tor of the Kai Tak Lund Investment Ltd, a concern which was instrumental in
the reclamation of the Kai Tack Bund on which the Government aerodrome now stands.
He also took a leading part in the development of residential districts in Kow- loon City now called the Kni Yan, Kai Yee and other roads.
With the opening of the Kal Tack area, Mr Wong and his colleagues saw the necessity of improving the motor bus traille between Kowloon City and Tsimshat- sul and other parts of the Kowloon mainland, and in this connection he was one of the founders and later the manager of the Kai Tack Motor Bus Company which maintained for some years a fleet of vehicles running between Kowloon City and Tsimshatsui.
Mr Wong later became successively manager of the China Specie Bank, now
Mr Y. H. Pan, barrister and closed, and manager of the former magistrate, sailed in the Chinese Merchants Stock Orsova at noon today for the Exchange Mart. United Kingdom to visit his family.
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Mr T. Kavanaghi,
In later years his prin- cipal commercial interest was with the Kwong Tin Tyre Co and he was also compradore of Holt's Wharf. His best known work for Assimiant Director of Criminal Investiga- the community was as an tion, Hongkong Police, salled In unofficial member of the the Orsova at noon today on Sanitary Board on which he for a number of served years representing Chinese interest.
home leave.
His family icft earlier for the United Kingdom by the Corfu,
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Mr II. E. Alers, Secretary of Employers' Federation of Hong kong, sailed with his wife in the Orsova at noon today on home
leave.
Some years ago he was vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tung Wah Hospital and he was also Chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce.
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