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SAILORS FAIL TO APPEAR IN COURT
Police should not have released Royal Navy men, magistrate says
A magistrato suggested to the police this morning that they should not release Royal Navy personnel, who have been arrested, into the custody of the Royal Navy without some writton security.
FRAUD CASE!
ADJOURNED
The case against a 48-year- old merchant and pro- prietor of Nelson and Co of conspiring to defraud the Hongkong and Shang- hai Banking Corporation of $93,000 was further adjourned for three wooks by Mr Derck Canx at Central Court this morn- ing.
The defendant, Iwang Huang-ise, of 4 Electric-street, Wanchal, ground floor, appeared on ball of $45,000.
Applying for the three-week remand, Mr W. S. W. Davidson, Crown Counsel, informed the Magistrate that the co-defen- dant, Denis Mao Chien-hon, in the case was still in Bangkok and should be brought back to the Colony in three weeks.
It In alleged that during December and January, Hwang Mao Dentis conspired with Chien-han to obtain by fraud from the Hongkong and Shing- hat Bark a letter of credit to the value of $U3,000 on the of false representa- strength tions that 300 long tons mixed steel scrap were to delivered by Nelson and Com- pony to Lee Hing Co (1K) and by Inducing the bank to make. payments on the letter on the fulre strength of
representa tions that the steel scrup waa received by Lee Hing Co.
No plea was taken.
of be
Hwang was represented by Mr P. T. Yu of F. Zimmern and Co.
Small fry thief
Mr T. L. Yang sold this at Causeway Bay court when two British sallors, James Charlton,
25. and Keith William Emb Driving tests trial
ton, LA, both of HMS St Bride': Bay, charged with
disorderly
conduct, falled to rppear In court.
were
given to understand that the two 'defendants released on the word of the
Navy X$e! Royal
that no security had been signed," sail.
SERIOUS VIEW
he
He added that the court look
defen a serious view of the dants' absence today as the Royal Navy must have known should that the two defendants
appear.
He pointed out that an in-
formation given, the two de- fendants had put out to sea- this fact the Royal Navy must have known loo.
He said "The police are partly to blame as well for, If they received no written security, on whom can they fix the blame?"
The two British sailors were alleged to have engaged in a fight wh a 19-year-old bar boy, Chun Yee-sam on June 5 nl Luard-road near Lockhart- route, The third Chan who appeared at court this morning was fined $25 by The magistrate.
defendant
Lecture on automatic controls
Mr
Herluf
A
Christensen, technical expert of Danfoss Company, Denmark, gaVO lecture on
A
Butomatic con- Irois in industrial refrigera- and air-conditioning tion
at the plants this morning Gloucester Ilate).
Mr Christensen later discus- sed individual technical pro- blems with the engineers who attended the lecture.
3 witnesses
had 'motive'
for evidence,
defence says
Three prosecution witnesses had an over-riding motive when they gave evidence for the prosecution in the driving tests conspiracy trial, Mr Henry Litton, à defence counsel submitted at the Victorig District Court this morning.
Mr Litton, submitting for Chnu Fat, a merchant and one of the five accused, referred to the evidence of Ip Chi-kwong, Young Man-so and Poon Patt, self-admilled members of a syndicate called Tai Kung Sze.
Councel said that not only the evidence of these three witnesses did not establish the prosect- beyond reasonable tion's case doubt, but that on the evidence disclosed by them, the Court
to the could come
conclusion that these three necomplices had every motive to lie and had fled.
IMPLICATING OTHERS
One over-riding motive was to spread the burden of gulit by implicating others in the vigour offences so that tull would not be directed against them, Mr Lition sald,
The
five accused are Tang He was introduced by Mr R.Kon-ning, a Government clerk; Fung King-wal, on insurance W. Gouch, Manager of the re-
Chau Fat; company employee;
frigeration and air-conditioning Yuen Pul-hang, a woman;, and department of Gilman & Co.,
Ip Lan chiên, sponsors of the lecture.
instructor.
London, June 4. The Essex River board is bunting around for a "thlef proat hatchery after approxi-
Mr Christensen who arrived mately 7,000 young salmon were niched from Its experimental last Wednesday will leave
Singapore tomorrow.
hulchery.-UPI.
Maternity Matchmates
in
"PLAYTIME" SPORTWILL COTTON
The wonderful look
of summer
in sun/sational
separates of crisp, washable
cotton Sportwill
at
SHORTS CAPRI PANTS
SKIRTS TOPS
Paquerette's
(SHOP. LATE MONDAYS)
16A Des Voeux Road, C
Tel. 21-157
for
driving
The prosecution alleges that! they were members of the Tai
Kung Sre, said to have been formed to fix driving tests for candidates who paid $300 each.
Hearing is continuing.
Six-storey
building
planned
Houses more than 40 years
ald and with wooden staircases, described as a grave fire hazard, were the subject of exemption proceedings heard this morning by Mr C. Q. Lim, President of Tenancy Tribunol.
i
Mr Alfred Hon of Hon and Co, presented plans prepared by Mr K. K. Chan, architect, for the replacement of Nos 182-154, Shanghal-street, Yaumati, by modera six-storey buliding to cost approximately $107,000.
The owner, Mr Yuen Pik-sai, will nearly double the usable
fotsålished 1543-
MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1961,
Assigned to new
to new post
Mr Loren E. Lawrence, of the Special Consular Services at the American Consulate- General in Hongkong. left the Colony last night on board the an. President' Cleveland on re- ssignment. Mr Lawrence, who has served a total of five years in the Colony, sald he would go to America ou leave prior to being re-assigned to the American Embassy in Tel Avly. During their term here, Strs Barbara Lawrence was an activo and popular member Alm critios pro- of the Garrison Players, and contributed regularly to Radio Hongkong's gramme. Photo shows Mr and Mrs Loren Lawrence with their three children, Christopher, B. Timothy, 5, and Kevin, one,
YOUNG MINDRU KATZ
'In the very
if
front
rank of pianists'
By D.E. GRAY
The "Times" described the playing of pianist Mindru Katz in these words: .... tonal beauty and clarity of texture gave his brilliance a poetical radiance very far removed indeed from mere technical prestidigitation. His cantabile tone was of exceptional golden beauty, his phrasing has an aristocratic sublety and refinement."
Boy stole gold
finger rings
from mother
Any planist is limited by the ed to the composer by the instrument he is supplied with, contering of a horse-gave the and nothing less than a Stein- plantst ample scope to portray way is goed enough for Mindru his deep mustetanship and tech- Kaiz-but making all due al nical prowess. How sparing the lowance for the piano he played true musician is with the right on in Loke Yew Hall on Satur pedal! What a joy to have real
think the "Times" elarity of texture! day, I description of his playing most appropriate. Mr Katz, although comparatively young, is in the very front rank of pianista world stature.
than
·
SECOND HALF
of The second half of the pro-
of gramme consisted
small
the one in E flat is the anest these compositions
Were
The
We have seen a remarkable works, Of the three Kabalevsky procession of fine planista pass Pretudes, An 11-year-old schoolboy through Hongkong during the probably
who admitted stealing two tast few years, but 1 doubt if modern gold finger rings from his there were more
twe played magniferally. mother appeared before others who held the Hongkong planist found no dificulty in Mr J. E. Dargan at North audience so spellbound, Kowloon Juvenile Court this morning.
The student was bound over
BELL-LIKE TONE
switching bls mood to the por trayal of the most beautiful of Faure's Nocturnes (No. 6 in D lat), and his choice of the He played Bach's Hallan "Pagoda Empress" from Ravel's played arresting and in the sum of $100 for one year Concerto as Bach should be Mother Goose Sulte was a very holding thoughtful choice of a miniature in his mother's surety.
the attention of the audience for a Hongkong audience. Insp . W. Eltas said on the
beginning, without evening of June 2 the boy was from the
It was wonderful to hear the (ho Jn scolded by his mother about his any undue romantle tempering
and portrayed conduct in school after a com- with tempo. And what a lovely Chinese 5-note scale plaint from his schoolteacher. singing bell-llko tone he pro-hunds of Ravel
The concert At 7 am the following day duced in the Haydn Arietta, by Mindru Katz
ended with the Toccata, Pavane the boy went to school and which followed.
His main item was the Sonata Baurree, by Enescu (a com- afterwards went to a goldsmiths
planist) and this shop and attempted to sell the No 17 (The Tempest) Op 31.No patrio of the
Was glyen a superb rendering. jewellery,
2 in D minor and 1 have of the goldsmiths never heard it played better.
and I felt that in ahop suspected that the two gold The opening movement, full af formance,
und the most speaking of all Beeth Loke Yew Hall, for rings were stolen properly informed the police. The boy ad-oven's sonorous and passionate hours of the concert, music for mitted to the police that he had recitalives,
Expressive the plano had reached another stolen the rings from his mother adagio, and the allegretto spun orbit. with the intention
the 1tle four-pole of getting out from money for the movies.
germ said to have been suggest.
The foki
the
This was
the two
SHEAFFERS
IMPERIALI
Sheaffer quality features at maberate priem
dear
Parking lots
I would like to thank you for the leading article last Satur- day in which you took to lask the irritating habit of legiil- muto pabilo parking - spaora being rod sa showrooms used-car dealers.
by
It is enough of a headache try- Ing to find a parking space in Hongkong-la Talahatul, where I live, it's practically Impossible.without having As mány so 20 cars (for sale or being repaired) Brmly in- stalled day after day in the marked off by the Traffic Department in front of my apartment block.
From the Files
25
years AGO
Juno 1936
HE idea of selling beer in sealed cana is not a new one in Britain, says the (London) Times.
.
Just a few days ago I thought I
had come into an unbelievable It has been put into plece of luck. Driving slowly.
in practice successfully near my
searching, homo without much hope, for America, but the critical space to squeeze into. I spot-English beer drinker has ted one of the parked cars been slow to accopt a substi being started up.
tute for the bottle. Now,
I most have broken some kind however, difflculties have of a record when, with snarl-been overcome and at least ing engine and screeching four British breweries are. tyres, I triumphantly skidded
into position to take over the offering beer for sale in space just as the other car was cans. begining move out.
Was I, for the first time in two
residence years'
in that apartment block, at last able to enjoy the luxury of park- Ing in front of my home? I grinned happily at the pros- Deck
But wait! The driver of the
other car (whom I recognised
as the manager of a garage on
*
50 YEARS AGO
Extract from SCM Post 26 years ago Column.
"A statement compiled by r P. P. J Wodehouse, the
the ground floor) had braked oficer in charge of the reaent
to a halt while still within the conatis, gives a rough outline parking space. Glaring angrily, of the results obtained, he waved me away!
It was some time before I graAP-
The
total non-Chincas
ed the meaning in his frate population for the Colony is ahouts. "Go away," he yelled 13,167 of which 7,757 are In Cantonesc. "Go away
most
..males, Probaby the. I'm giving this space to my curious feature of the returns, ather car." Ele motioned be and the most welcome, is the hind me. Turning, I saw for lar
the first time, a sports car with large increase of the female an overall-clad mechanic at population,
now corre@!»
the wheel patiently waitina Ponds vor to the sum-
get out of his way.
for the eager idios (me) to ber of male inhabitants,
ing the decade the female population of the city of Vic- Eve ser amped out to argue teria alone increased by 275. the malo
the point, I know it was use-
less. Possession is nine-tenths Strange to
auv,
of the law, they say, and the population in the same time driver of the parked car, decreased by 198.
muttering something under his
breath about the stupid stab-
There is no accounting for
bornness of some simpleminded this, unless, as some may hold, elots (me orals), reversed, re- the women
parked his vehiclo and glanced
are ousting the
up insolently at me as if to men in certain lines of busi- say: "What are you going tonces life. At the Peak the male and female populations are As I drove away, defeated, to being
about equally
there
do about it now?"
park at the Star Ferry, I saw
balanced,
394 males and 320 increases of 49 and 73
him move out and motion tively. The Hongkong
sports car into the vacant spot. They were laughing gi the idea
tried to take Over THEILL parking space!
which are Aberdeen, Little Hongkong, population i Government servants, 120 malos and
that someone had actualan, etc., and where the "something feeble in allowingnes
You, Bir. aurrest that there is
204
the car dealers to get away females, increases of 8 and 48 with " My neighbours and respectively, still bringing out
bave complained
strongly
several times. But were quick the fact that the place is be- with the ly brought
coming popular bato ine by
ladies. mysteriously Rattened tyres and dented fenders.
DISPLACED
ENLARGED
London, June 4.
18
In no part of the Colony, however, the increase of norc |non-Chineas poulation
marked that in old Kowloon, the popular suburb across the harbour. The introduction of the railway and a number, of -doubt res-
The Marquis of Excier has industries are no an exciting per-purchased a new ceremonial hat ponsible for the increase of in which to carry out his duties nearly 25 percent recorded Mayor of Stamford after there.In Old Kowloon there is complaining that the 35-year-old now a non-Chinese population model used by previous mayors of 1,762 males and 1,377 was too small. UPI.
females, or a total of 3,129."
Gog
Hongkong cotton POP by G
exports to UK
The latest recorded figures for licences issued by the Commerce and Industry' department in respect of cotton exports to the United King- dom during the month of April are as follows:
floor area by the redevelopment Plecegoods planned, if exemption I ap- Grey cloth (Allocated) proved.
About 44 tenants appeared at the proceedings and Mr Francis Chaine of 1. Cheung and Chaine represented some of them.
Finfthod
Yarn-dyed and towelling
Total Made-up roodu -
Information has been re- |
Shipped from February 1 to April 30, 1961 (Bquare yards)
10,500,050.
880,878
6,837,004
20,293,190
10,743,400
Not shipped by April 90, 1901 (Square yards)-
3,085,001 : 457,707 10,000
4,323,368 $1,500,685
Of this quantity, which is outs
ceived that Importers' In the side the quota, established by voluntary undertaking, 33,441,029 - aquiere yardı had
Billing with the President Untied Kingdom have, to date, the were Teammy Telbunni mom-
berg, Mr Le L.. Wong and Mr declared or given undertakings been shipped by the end of G. T. Harden, The proceedings to the Board of Trade to re- Aptll, 1991.
Those Agures are cumulative!
ibe, berlining of the undertaking.
Printed and published by TERENCE GORDON NEWLANDA Pearce | Wero'edjourned so that ocupent export 38,893,482," squanro Farda for and on behalf of South China Morning Foot Limited at 1-3 mation settlementa could be dis- which have been or are to be since
quered,"
Imported from Hongkong, Wykin Street, City of Victoria in the Colbry of Hongkong.
FRIGHTENED
IT'LL ESCAPE?
АБ
Carlsberg
On the ball
with the
beer...