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CLUB IN SOUND POSITION
Royal H.K. Golf Club: Ladies' Section
ANNUAL MEETING
The annual meeting of the Ladies' Section of the Royal Hong Kong Colt Club was held at the Helena May Institute yesterday
YACHTING
Mrs. L. Stanton And Miss H. Crawhall- Wilson Wins
LADIES' SERIES
The 8th Ladies' Race, 1st series, dis- was sailed yesterday over a tance of 7.5 miles. "Josa" enlled by Mrs. L Stanton won the "A" Class, while Miss H. Crawhall-Wilson was
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1936.
M.C.C. BOWLING TROUNCED
Sparkling Display By Badcock
SCORE OF 182
Sydney, Nov. 23. hava a sporting The M.C.C. chance of averting an innings des feat for the Australian eleven are ahead with two
marning and was attended by one successful in bring in "Widgeon" now, 255 runs of the largest gathering for many first in the Mixed Classes. years.
Course: Quarry Bay Mark (P), Channel Rock Mark (P), Rumsey Shoal Mark (P), N. Mark on Line F). Quarry Bay Mark (8), Club
Line.
After the notice convening the meeting was read by the Secretary. Mrs. A. E. Mackenzie. Chairwoman, spoke briefly on the Report and Statement of Accounts, Shé point-
"A" Class-Started 14.45 ed out that the financial position
Finished Pas, and the balance of was sound
16.38.40 B $394.38 shown in the accounts was Carpenter. Al.........
than the Club (Mrs. B. P. Eley). about $100 more
18.42.09
7 had shown at the end of Septem-Lobo, A2.
(Mrs. E R. Edwards). ber 1935. Expenditure throughout
16.38.06 5 the year had not been heavy, the Artemis, A4
for the main item being prizes
16.47.21
Spring Meeting.
The Chairwoman expressed the Club's thanks to
J. Mrs. D. Hon. Treasurer, for Valentine, having managed the finances so ably, and also to Mr. Donald Black, C.A.. for again auditing the counts.
COMPETITIONS WELL SUPPORTED
(Mrs G. H, Sheldon). Isabel. A7
8
(Mrs. M. Ellerby). Joss, A8,
18.31.09
1
(Mrs. L. Stanton).
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Gull, 49
18.37.05
3
(Misa M. Whitham).
#LC-
True Blue, "A1!
16.34.45
2
(Mrs. G. D. Adams).
Kittiwake, A12
16.50.04
$
(Miss P. M. King). Painted Lady, A14... 16.37.29
(Mrs. Booty),
4
Mrs. Mackenzle stated that com- petitions had been well supported, especially the knock-out events held during the winter months. The LG. U. Medal was not favoured with much enthusiasm. #perhaps due to the fact that they
had to be played at Fanling all the year round and there was a
Mixed Classes Started 14.55
Finished Corr. Pos
Dorothea. HS... 16.39.11 16.39.11 2
(Mrs. S. D. Reid). Heron. Y3...... 18.52.11. 16.42.11 3
(Mrs. E. Moore). widgeon, Y5. 16.48.55 16.38.55 1
(Miss H. Crawhall-Wilson).
lack of entries during the hot sea-Sirius. Y 17.00.41 16.48.48
son. The Spring Meeting had
(Mrs. P. Newman).
again proved a great success and Zephyr, Y8 16.55.05 18.44.28 4
the Club was fortunate in having
(Mrs. E. Sharp).
good weather for the three days | Owl, G11 during which it was held.
17.06.10 18.47.25 5 (Mrs. D'Arcy-Evans).
. COMMODORE'S CUP
SERIES
The final race for the Commo-
The speaker extended con- gratulations to all prize winners, and especially to Mrs. Newbiggin for winning the Ladies' Champion- ship for 1934, The Autumn Meet-dore's Cup's Serles took place on ing at Deep Water Bay was a very popular event and several players from the Bronze Division would be taking part in these competitions. The International Match, Scot- land versus the Rest. was won by Scotland.
OUTSTANDING EVENT - The Chairwoman then pointed out that the outstanding event of the year was the reconstruction of the Ladles' Club House at
The Saturday "last, November 21. race was sailed. in light and flukey airs. the only poor race in the In the other series of seven races. stx, the weather has been very kind and allowed really good racing.
Captain J. Krogh-Moe in his yacht "Jan" won the Commodore's Gup in the "A" Class; Lt.-CoL 8. D. Reid in "Dorothea" won the Cup in the "H" Class and Mr. F. C. Manning in "Stella" won the Cup
wickets in hand.
When the Australians continued their" innings this morning with the overnight score of 221 for 2
-first half hour produced only seven against the M.C.C. total of 288. the runs. A change then came over the scene when Badcock held the centre of the stage and scored 182, which included 24 boundaries, in Ave hours. He thus seems assured of a place in the Test team.
with Badcock in partnership Tallon put on 80 runs for the seventh wicket, and with Ryan he added 107 runs for the eighth wicket.
INQUEST ON
NORWEGIAN
Mount Davis Road Fatality Recalled
HEARING ADJOURNED
FORGED NOTES CASE
"Brother I Will Repay You"
PLEA FOR LENIENCY
An inquest was begun at the Ng Ping was arraigned before Central Magistracy yesterday, into Mr. Justice Hayden at the Crimin- the death of the late Mr. Oddal Sessions yesterday charged with Bruusgaard, who died from fatal uttering a forged $10 bank note of injuries received in an automobile the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and a forged accident on Mount Davis Road on October 24. Mr., W. Schofield sat $5 bank note of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and as coroner,
China, 'knowing them to be forged
Prisoner pleaded not guilty to and with intent to defraud both counts stating that at the time of altering the notes he did not know hat they were bad.
The late Mr. Bruusgaard was the
pany. manager of Thoresen and Com
The Jury
composed cf Messrs. C. E. Gahagan, D. F. Lopez and Chan Wan Pai
WILA
Mr. K. Larssen the Consul tər Norway, appeared in Court.
Mr. D. B. Evans held a watching griet for the driver of lorry No. 3287, with whom the deceased's, car collided, and Traffic Inspector Saunders appeared on behalf of the Police.
making
The jury empanelled to hear the case was as follows:-Messrs. C. L
G. M (Foreman), H. Farmer Xavier, A. J. Coales, J. D. Hum- phreys, M. Q, Hoosen, Matty Chang and Chow Ping-un.
Opening the prosecution's case, Mr. M. J. Abbott, Assistant Crown Solicitor, narrated that after 10 a.m. on September 27, the accused
After Mr. M. I. de Vile, land sur- Brown scored 71 in a little over four hours and he hit three boun-veyor of the Public Works Depart-
went had testined to ment. daries. He played with monumen- tal patience and offered three toples of the scene of the accident, chances which were missed. At Dr. G. E. Thomas deposed to hav- present it is his "highest score ing examined the deceased on Oc- tober 24 and that he found some ugainst the M.C.C.
abrasions, the worst being at the pit of the stomach.
The Australians at close of play had 544 for wickets- Reuter
SAMPAN AND CHICKENS
No Claimant-
But Admits
Stealing Latter
Kwok Sik, 42, unemployed of no fixed abode was brought before Mr. E. Hinisworth at the Kowloon yesterday. charged Magistracy with larceny of a sampan, valued $e the property of Leung Sam, 42, and unlawfully possession of two chickens at Yaumati.
Detective Sergeant Haynes said that on November 22, accused and another man not in custody boarded a sanipan in the typhoon shelter and alighted at Pit Street, Ths defendant was arrested, but man made good his the other
No internal examination was made as the widow and friends of deceased expressed the wish to have the body embalmed to be sent to Norway. An autopsy would have affected the success of a good embilment
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to the shop of Tang Tal Kee, a ship breaker, and bargained for a piece of wood and a pulley. The price was ultimately, fixed at $1.20 and the accused tendered a $10 note and received $8.80 change.
Later Tang went out to buy rice and was then told that the note was a forgery. He returned to the shop and placed the note in a wooden trunk.
ACCUSED RECOGNISED
On October 3, the accused again In his conjecture, Dr. Thomas came to the shop in the afternoon concluded that the fatal injury was and purchased a plece of wood for the bruise at the pit of the 30 cents, and asked Tang if he had. stomach which could have been any change for a $5 note. The note was handed over to Tang who caused by a sudden seyere pressure against some solid projectile, such in turn gave it to a fejl and told Deceased hum to buy cigarettes in order to steering wheel probably also had a rrtured liver obtain the necessary change. The and an internal hemorrhage, al-foki returned with the news that though the shock alone would have the note was a forgery and Tang
then recognised accused as been sufficient to have caused
man who had given him the $10 note previously. Accused made the death.
The arst to arrive at the scene of the accident was Mr. G. Fine-significant reply. "Brother, don't sen, a master mariner, who badake a fun. I will repay you." left deceased only a short time He asked for time in order to do so. Another man, a friend of the before.
"accused came, and all efforts to raise the money failed.
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Witness, the deceased" and an- other gentleman met at the Hong Kong Hotel at 1 pm, and after having had one gimlet, they all adjourned.
In returning to his residence, witness came upon the car of de- ceased and he endeavoured to enlist the aid of the truck driver but, not
the
The next man who appeared on
nese policeman, who arrested the the scene was a plain-clothes Chi- accused and took possession of the two notes.
When charged at the police station, the accused said that he
in the "I" and "Y" Classes.... Owl admited stealing the sampan and ; being able to speak Chinese, he had nothing to say in reply to both
unable to complete their race and will sail again on Saturday next.
Fanling and the members would to the light airs, "G" Class were find it a great Improvement when the furnishings have been tom- pleted.
Mrs. RoДey was then thanked for her tireless efforts in getting the furniture and furnishings for the Club House, as also the Gen- eral Committee for their general financial allowance towards it.
Only five out of the seven races count towards the total points, the best five races for each boat being taken. The results are as follows: "F" Class
Total
Pts. Pos.
4
10
The pleasure of visiting Fanling Diana (Mr. P. Ramus)...... 18 has been considerably added to by | Rolla (Col. E. St. Q. Kirke the introduction of the "Talpo Belle," and the luxury coach was very popular with the ladies on Tuesdays.
Thanks were then expressed to the following:— Mias F. M, Steven- son, Hon Secretary: Mrs. Shewan, geting-Secretary: Mrs. Sommer- felt, Miss Crapnell and Mrs. Mc-
Gowan, Handicap Managers; the General Committee, Col. Mat thews, Mr. Maunder, the Press and the Helena May Institute.
Regret was expressed for the death at Mrs. Miskin, one of the Club's members, and of Mr. Bulmer Johnson who presented the pre- sent Championship Cup.
On the proposal by the Chate- woman, Mrs. Cassidy seconded the" adoption of the Report and State- ment of secounts.
5 and Maj. W. M. Postle) giskin (Mr. WM Brown) 23
and
Aertel (Mr. T. A. Kemsley) Dorothea (Lt. Col. S. D.
Reid)
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"A" Class Carpenter (Capt. D. Eley) 328 40 6 Lobo (Maj. B. B. Edwards) Artemis (Mr. G. G. Wood). 35 Eve (Capt, H. Hopkinson and Capt. E. Bader)...... Jan (Capt. J. Krogh-Moe) Isobel (Maj. B. E. C. Dizon and Maj. H. F. Ellerby) Joss (Mr. Stanton)", Gull (Mr. B. Naess) Cleada (Lieut.-Col. A. C.
A vote of thanks to the Com-Painted Lady (Ma). F. C.
mittee for their work during the
mond
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care When questioned, the defendant
stated that the two chickens were taken from the stern of a boat, later ascertained as No. 1903. a cargo vessel. No claimant, how ever. could be found the chickens.
for
Accused was fined $10 or la de- fault, a month's imprisonment for the theft of the sampan. For the latter offence he was fined 35 or
further two weeks in gaol
£éééditéesandthriinaan
“ANYTHING WILL DO"
Amusement was caused in the Criminal Bessions yesterday morning when Yu Yin unem- ployed, was asked to plead in answer to a charge of the pos- session of 32,350 heroin pills and 60 ounces of pink mass
"Anything will do for me, my Lord," stated Yu Y from the dock. "I am merely a workman and was employed by a man to do this job."
The Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, recorded a plea of not guilty and the case will be heard later.
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True Blue (Mr. H. 8.
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"1" and "Y". Classes
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20
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for the fall semester.
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for contract cand players.
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vear was proposed by Mrs. Sheldon, which was seconded by Mrs. Red-Daphne (Maj. B. J. Scott.
White)...... Ailsa (Maj. W. Z. B. Dowl-
lag) Stell's (Mr. F. C. Manning) 42 Winkle, (Mr. F. C. D. Black
NEW OFFICIALS Proposed by Mrs Mackenzie. Mrs. Gilmore was elected Captain for the ensuing year, The "pro- posal was seconded by Miss Stevenson,
The following were elected to the Committee for the coming year: Mrs. A. K. Mackenzie, Miss F. M. "Stevenson, Mrs. D. J. Valentine, Mrs. Bodley, Mrs. I. Garner, and Mrs. F. A. Mackintosh. THOSE ERESENT
Among those who attended were: Mr AK Mackenzie, MISS Mra. Stevenson, Mrs, Valentine, Mrs
and Mr. B. 8 Carter)... 33 Heron (Lt. J. E. Moore,
R.N.) Robena (Mr. D. W. Wag
staff) Widgeon (Miss Crawhall-
Wilson) girus (Capt. J. D. New-
and Captain Thomas) Zephyr (Maj, T. C. Sharp)
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MacGowan, Mrs. L. Garner, Mr. Mrs. Ellerby, Mrs. Overy, Mrs. Maitland, Mrs. Greaves, Mrs. Blake, W.JE Mackenzie, Mrs. Forbes, Mrs Withington; Mrs. Simpson, Mrs. Grapnell, Mrs. Cassidy, Mrs. Mrs. Hayden, Lady MacGregor, Challinor, Mrs. Bleap," Mrs. Mac- MIA Harrop, Mrs. Dinsdale, Mrs. kintosh, Mrs., Sherry, Mrs. Hance, Wodehouse. Mrs, Morris, Mrs. Mrs. Roberts, Wolfe, Mrs. Sheldon, Gilmore, Mrz, Bkeet Mrs. Rimmer, Mr. Redmond and Mrs. Hopkins.
was unable to do so. Seeing the starter still in work- ing order, he tore the right door apart, and, with the driver of the lorry, pulled the unconscious man out and placed him by the side of the road.
Witness had known deceased for two years, and always considered him to be a very careful driver.
Mr. Evans: Did deceased tell you what he was going to do after lunch? No, he didn't tell me.
Did he tell you that he was late for Amn?-He mentioned about going home for tiffin.
It was disclosed that no words were said when deceased was be- ing carried out of the car, as he
was unconscious.
Ho Tin. the driver of the lorry, and who resides at No. 52 Tung Lo Wan Road, third floor, said that be was only a substitute for the real driver on the morning of Oc- tober 24.
He started driving at 7 am, and he had a passenger on the body of the truck, and another in the cab with him,
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The car was about thirty feet away from him before he saw it, 79 and it seemed to be in the centre of the road and coming obliquely towards him.
TWO PUPIL SCHOOL The world's smallest education
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Mr. Evans; you think that' it your lorry had not been there,, do your "suppose the car yould Bone around the corner safely at
al Institution, a school with the speed at which it was goingt student
ent body of exactly two pupils,No, I don't zo. opened in Aplly good this week The hearing was adjourned to
It is the Columbia studio school
the
When Gertrude Vizard, "one-women faculty" opened the door and rang the bell her stu dents-both of thein trooped in
The first was Edith Fellows, 13 year old player recently featured with Hing Crosby in "Fennies From Heaven"
The second was tiny 5-year-old Patsy O'Connor, starlet whose first picture has not yet been announ- ced,
And, of course, there are but two classes,
Edith is in the first year of "Junior High" classwork
Patsy, who has never been to school before, is in the kinder- garten.
November 25
MEMOBIAL SERVICE
A memorial Service in memory of the late Ex. Fun 8... in the form of a Bequiem Mass will be celebrated in the Catholic Cathe dral, on Thursday November 28 at 9.00 am-Advi
LOCAL ESTATE
charges.
A GOOD CITIZEN At the Folce Court hearing, the accused stated that he bought the notes in Canton at a corresponding value in
Canton currency. he formerly worked in the tin mine: in Singapore and came to Hong Kong four months ago. He was good citizen and he regretted that the matter had occurred. He had a number of children and pleaded for leniency.
Evidence was then called. The complainant gave evidence followed by Fan Sam, foki, Sergt. Kee, who arrested the accused,
to the Det-sert J. 8. Riddell, and the Interpreter who deposed accused's statements in answer to the charges.
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ACCUSED'S VERSION
The accused, giving evidence in bis own defence, stated that ori- ginally he went to Canton to look for work. He failed to and work and stayed there for about ave days. He met a friend who stated that he had some banknotes to $15. change. Witness changed Witness, then came to Hong Kong and after baying spent all his subsidiary coins he went to the complainant's shop to buy things.
Accused alleged that following his arrest he was assaulted by the, shop people and the police.
After a brief summing up by his Lordship, the jury retired at 9.55 p.m. and returned at 7.10 p.in.
The jury returned a unanimous yerdict of not guilty on the charge of uttering the forged $10 bank note. On the count of uttering the forged 5 bank note a unanimous verdict of guilty was returned.
Replying to his Lordship. Mr. Abbott said that forgeries had turned up but how they had gDE There around he did no know. had been no similar cases at the Sessions in recent months. He gas instructed to say that the offence was regarded as a serious
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Mr. Justice Hayden passed sen- tence of two years hard labour.
The late Mr. Hajee Mohammed Kajes Esmall, of 9: Village Road, who died, on May 17 last left localed to Abdul Rahman Esmall, The estate sworn under $100. Letters of administration have been grant-
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