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Extebinked 1845
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1961.
MR BARTON REVEALS PLANS AT FIRST ANNUAL MEETING
Hotel contract to be awarded
MAN TELLS COURT OF CHOPPER ATTACK AFTER MONEY QUARREL
A 36-year-old man, Chan Kam-sing, recounted in Causeway Bay Court this morning how a man chopped him on the head, body and limbs after a quarrel over money.
He was testying during com- premises, and when he refused mittal proceedings before Mr Yung rushed out and returned after with a chopper. shouting "I will chop you lo death."
Chan gold Yung was stopped by a foki.
Theatre manager Yang against 31-year-old shortly
Yung Yung of JA East-street, Quarry Bay, ground foor. Yung
Mr Ernest Turnbull, Manag was charged with wounding i Ing Director of Hoys Theatres Chan with Intent 10 murder of Australia, accompanied by him.
his wife, leaves for Sydney on Chan said he had known Wednesday after having spent yung for several years. During a week in Hongkong.
I this time he had lent Yung
money frequently in sums of about $1. On September this year near the Kam Sing mahjong school at 39 Sai Wan Ho-street, Shaukiwon. Char tried to borrow $1 from Yung. Ile refused.
Mr and Mrs Turnbull recent
arrived after a visit to Rome in connection with the filming of "Cleopatra".
Prison fair
The
Prisons Department Sports Association annual autumn fole will be held at the tobat ground, east of Stanky Prison on Saturday next.
The fair will begin at two o'clock. The Police band will play during the function.
SKIRTS
Bad language
Chan reminded him of previous him ocecalons when he teni money which was never repaid. Chan sald a quarrel started, He said he used bad language lowards Yung.
The following day while play- ing mahjong in the school Chan Bald Yung told him to leave the
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Chinn did not return to the mahjong school until Septem- ber 7. At about 9 pm that day outside the school Yung cume up to Chan and repented his carller threat that he would chop him to death.
Suddenly
"Then he suddenly pulled out 4 chopper concealed in his right trouser leg and chopped me on the head," Chon said.
Chan, after being wounded! on the body, left leg and both anns stamped: In the ground. Yung stepped over him and re- peated "I'll chop you to death," At that point someone arrived and shouted to Yung to stop chopping. Yung man, Chan said. This person, who turned out to be a ploinclothes polleeman, pulled out a gun and gave chase.
Three shots
Chan sald he fired three shots hul Yung kept on running inte Tal Ming-street. Chan tried to follow firem but collapsed
on
the way. He was later taken to Queen Mary hospital.
Det Insp R. G. Ibbitson prosecuting.
Hearing continues,
POP by Gogi
Est
Attitudes
of prayer
This China Mail photo. graph, taken at yesterday's celebration of the Feast of Christ the King де the Government stadium, shows group of nuns in atitudes of prayer during tho recitation of the Itosary.
I
More than 40,000 Roman Catholics attended the gathering and all roads teading to the stadium were clogged with pedest rian and car traffic.
this week
The main building contract for the Queen's Hotel will be aworded this week, Mr H. D. M. Barton, chairman of City Hotels, Ltd., said today.
Speaking at the Brst annual. general meeting, he said a pre- of the tenders liminary study received Indicates the hotel will upen for business early in the autumn of 1983,
Mr Barton sald "encouraging progress has been maintained" with work un the site the building, which will contain 044 bedrooms and suites, spacious public rooms and shops and offices on the lower floors.
Ranking
Senior management of the hotel would be in the hands of "key personnel with wide experi ence in operating famous Euro- pean and American establish- ments."
Every effort would be made, Mr Barton said, to ensure the hotel ranked as one of the Brest in the Pacific aren and would ploy a lending part in attracting tourists and businessmen to Hongkung.
E
The meeting approved dividend of 25 cents a share on 320,000 shares for The period ended June 30, 1061.
They also re-elected Mr H. D. Benham to the board of diree- tors and re-appointed Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company as auditors.
BANK BRANCH OPENED
Culture
with
a zip!
By. D, E, GRAY
ATRONS of the Joey PATRONS Variety show had no cause to make tho usunl complaint of bad acoustics of Queen's College
Sheaffer's PEM
Tou For Men
THE BOLD NEW PEN DESIGNED EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEN
Stabbing
charge
denied
A metal worker. Kong Kam.
27, pleaded not guilty the Criminal Beisions this morning to a charge of stab- bing a fellow worker to death on June 29.
It was alleged by the Crown that he stabbed Yim Kai four times in the heart and lungs following a brief argument in Ng Tau Kok
the Yui Wah Metal factory at
Mr D.E, Remedius,, for the Crown, sald Kong WRA over- heard asking Yim why he had gossiped about him to the fac tory proprietor's wife.
When Yun denied this, Kong was acen to stab Yim and then run away.
He was chased, and was
IL L'Hu..
From the Filos
25
years
LAGO
October 1936
London.
LORD Lugard, who in
1907 was Governor of Hongkong, gave an addréss on colonial last evening problems at the opening session of the Royal Empire Society.
A problem in which he
caught by the factory proprietor was deeply interested was near the RAF Kal Tak entrance, the part which the Hong- Kong is represented by Mr kong University should play in our relations with China. For his part he thought that that portion of the Boxer Indemnity which had
Mr Justice R. H. Mills-Owens la hearing the case,
Sent to jail for UniversitiesChinat
A
having drugs
to the Com-
mittee might be better ex- pended in endowing a Chair in the Hongkong University,
28-year-old unemployed in addition to grants for Hall last night for what man, Ngan Cheong-ming of 304 post-graduate study in Eng- "A" Block, Li Cheng Ukland, than in the creation of with amplification added to Resettlement Arca, wps ben professorship in Chinese an already sparkling show,tenced to two years and three
no one could hear the groan months jail by Mr J. F. Dargan at Oxford or Cambridge.
Magistracy
Chinese students could be and screech of Hongkong's at North Kowloon
this morning on two counts of trams outside.
better educated in their own possession of dangerous drugs. This variety show. sponsored Defendant was arrested on environment with the aid of In association October 27 in a police raid in Chinese-speaking Europeans by Harry Odell with the US. International Shek Kip Mei Village with 60 than by coming to this coun-
Cultural Programune, gave us, packets of dangerous drugs in
for on hour and a half last his possession. Ho pleaded try while still immature
much-publicised guilty.
the
All-Star
night, Buddy Rich and Jazz Orchestra, a magician with six doves, a vocal trio (twins plus one), four nero top dan- cers. a balloon novelty, pan- tomime, and lastly Buddy Rich on the drums, solo.
The entire show was held to- gether by Joey Adams himself, as master of ceremonies and a very good job he made of it.
his bright with
New World patter. and his off-the-cuff com-
The 14th branch of the Can-ments, ton Trust and Commercial Bank Lid,
was
opened in
The jazz orchestra, on slage 279 throughout, provided an excel- Lalchikok-road, Kowloon by Sir lent background for the turns' Taun-nin Chau, Chairman, this as the re-
Extra policemen and policewomen were assigned to control the roads, made more Dimoult by pairs to Leighton-road and the one-way traffic Caroline Hill-road,
In
Chinese antiques, paintings to be
put on display
An exhibition of Chinese an- tiques, contemporary oil paintings and Chinese paintings will be held at the Peninsula Hotel, from November 1 to 4.
which will
The exhibition,
be in the West Verandah on the nrst noor of the Peninsula Hotel, will feature some 250 stems of antiques and curios.
morning.
they unfolded. The pace was Cast and the style crisp. This was variety in the Ameri- Mr Chan Chi-tak 18 the can tradition, and since it is the branch manager,
objective of the American: sponsors of this series lo export bits of their cultural scene, I thlok the show care of last night, not only because of its zip, but because it did give us Americana.
A cocktail party mark the occasion.
REPLIES
was held to
Mamma's darling: Try to be brief. The subject does not warrant the attention you give It-Ed.
For those
the who missed show last night there is another tonight at 0 In performance
Keswick Hall, Kowloon,
Tribunals hear plans for
3 new buildings
The antiques collection in A 12-storey building for Kennedy Town was the
cluding pottery, porcelain and bronze dating as far back DS the Sung dynasty, belongs to Mr Wang Lee-kong, who has taken 40 years 10 amass the collection.
The majority of the oil paintings are by Mr David Cheng, who is organising the
exhibition.
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subject of plans put before Tenancy Tribunal comprising Mr W. Aneurin-Jones, President, Mr E. Cumine and Mr Tsao Yao, this morn- ing.
In order
cost- BK
Mr Lau Lal-tong, represent- 30/41, Sands-street,
to redevelop the site by erect- ed by Philip Remedios and Co.
structure applied for exemption of Nosing a modern
ing mord than $600.000 designed by Mr H. S. Tom. The floor areas will be Increased from 4,000 square feet to 20,000 square feet If exemption is granted.
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Houses in hamshulpo were the subject of exemption tip- lications heard by other Tenancy Tribunals today.
Two others
of
Mr C, Q. Lim, President
comprising Terancy Tribunal Mr M. S. Angus And Me Lau
to Mon-tiem, latened plans prepared by Mr P. H. 19. architect, concerning the pro- posed replacement of Nos 160/ 100, Yeo Kuk-street, at the re- quest of the owners, Mr Leung Sul-ching and Mr Chan Fing.
The owner were represented by F. Zimmern and Co. They propose to build an eight-storey block costing $220,000 that will more than double existing ac- commodation space,
Mr J, Oliver, Tennney Tribuni President, sitting with Mr K. A. Miller and Mr Wilkin Lum, heard the appilention Me Choung Po-kwond, repre- wented by Mr Zimmern, planning, a nine-storey building
of
to cost $230,000, designed by
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