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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | Trick Tried
ANNUAL MEETING
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The representatives of His Ma- 'Ship repairing has been carried jesty's Government, in consultation out in considerable volume, and
Three Times
FOURTH ATTEMPT
FRUSTRATED
attempting to steal and theft Pleading guilty to four charges
GENERAL
APPEAL BY
INDIAN P.C.
DISMISSED
Assault Incident Recalled
with Chambers of Commerce in all the benefits to shipowners of large of parts of China, have been most and up-to-date docks in Hengkons by trick, Chan. Piu, 26, unɑmploy" | Hongkong Police, who was sen-.
was sentenced to 12 weeks
frest at the Central Court yester-
helpful in passing on the views of can well be understood when one traders and these with investiments remembers the recent collision be-ed, in the country. The Hongkong tween the "Canton" Government authorities have also | “Marechal. Joffre” " in the China taken a keen Interest in the dim-Sea. Both vessels
day. were able" to culties under which trade is being reach dry dock within a day of carried on, and we wish to record, the collision. on behalf of the mercantile com- munity, our thanks for all that is being done to assist us."
an immediate reduction in the volume of trade. Nevertheless, as
you all know, the effects have not been as serious as probably every one expected. A fair volume of business has been done.
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Constable Banta Singh, of the
and the hard labour by Mr. R. A. D. For Central Court recently to four tenced by Mr. T. J. Houston, at the
months' hard labour for attacking Constable Tang Yung with truncheon because the latter turn ed up late to relieve (duty, brought an Eppeal against his sentence before the Chief Justice. Sir Atholl MacGregor, in the Appeal Court yesterday. The appeal was dismissed.
Chan had devised an ingenious trick to defraud stall masters and bad been successful on three occasions. His fourth attempi was detected and was the cause of arrest.
him from
Although there is evidence that the Colony can carry on reasonably well under the pre- Daring the greater part of the sent conditions of restricted year under review Hongkong ex-
The method was described by trade, we are all anxious for perienced brisk trading conditions,
Detective-Sergeant T. . "Coshammm, the re-opening of the river. which were realised to be temporary
who prosecuted, Chan split a
Appellant was represented by Mr. IMPORTANCE REALIZED and due to the diversion of Yang-
genuine $10 note tato "head" and Hing-shing Lo, instructed by Mr. J. The importance of this is fully "tail" and glued the two one-sided M. Hall, while Mr. J. B. Prentis. tze Valley and North China ship-realized by the authorities at home banknote into halves. He entered Assistant Crown Solicitor, appeared ments to this. port.
and we may be sure that, amongst a stall to purchase some article for the Crown. In October. Canton fell to the their other preoccupations, Japanese. The closing of the Pearl Far Eastern situation has an im-310 note of the same bank.
the and tendercd a good and complete
Mr. Lo said the Magistrate must have accepted complainant's story River and of the Chinese section
portant place. Meanwhile Our When the stall holder had in-of his having been struck and of the railway naturally produced sympathies go out to the "foreign spected the note the accused would stamped on in its entirety, other- community in Canton, marooned pretend to change his mind and wise he would not have imposed most entirely from on the Shameen and cut off al-jask for the return of his money. such a severe penalty. the outside He then substituted the good bank
The complainant had also stated world. t:
unprovoked note and tendered, this time, the that the assault was The Empire Air Mall scheme split note, and preyed on the care and that his ankle was injured as was extended to Hongkong in lesmess of the shop master, who the result of having been stamped September, 1938. As the Commit- would think the second note was on while lying on the ground, but tee remarks in its report, the com- the same as the first and accept medical evidence revealed that it pulsory carriage of all first class without further Mispection.
was unlikely that such an injury mal matter by air is not an un- Tseng Mul, shop keeper, on whom could have been caused by stamp- fmixed blessing. because heavy defendant had attempted his tricking. It might have been due to
covers, such as shipping documents for a fourth time. was not BO complainant falling down, and Bills of Exchange, are now careless. He took a careful look His Lordship pointed out that carried by the most expensive at the banknote which he received the charge against the appellant a haven or refuge to the Chinese method.
the second time and discovered was not assault, but malicious whose influx in large numbers has The documents are not required the fraud He detained the de- wounding, which carried with it a set dificult problems for the au- at destination until the steamer fendant and summoned the police. maximum sentence of three years. thorities but at the same time carrying the relative goods has Defendant admitted the first three
Mr. Lo agreed and went on to stimulated local trade,
arrived. Very old-established cus-instances which were reported to submit that his client's plea of Manufacture of goods for Empire toms, such as the drawing of bills the police.
having acted in self-defence, al- markets under Imperial Preference at four months' sight, have been Mr. Forrest ordered the defen-though described by the Magistrate was well maintäined during the upset by the new method of dant to repay $10 to each of the as a tissue of les was more human year, thus demonstrating the use-postage, with resultant curtallment three victims.
than complainant's story. fulness of the scheme for promot-of credit. ing trade within the Empire.
The Chinese, as we all know, have a marvellous ability to find means of trading under diicult circumstances.
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INTERNAL STRENGTH Events have demonstrated the internal strength of the Colony. Hongkong has crice more served as
Local shipyards have had a busy year. Talkoo Dockyard launched four ships in 1938, and early in 1939 launched the "Breconshire." the first of two ships now building for the Glen Line. The "Brecon- shire" is a 10,000 ton cargo and passenger motor vessel, 475 feet in length.
ever
It is the largest vessel ever bullt in Hongkong and-with the exception of two ships built in Australia shortly after the war--the largest vessel bullt in the British Empire outside the United Kingdom. Her sister-ship, the "Glen- orchy," is now building in the same yard. The construction of these large ships places Hongkong yards in the first rank for building merchant tonnage.
The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company built 15 ships in
The most striking anomaly is that letters between Hongkong and the Western Provinces of Canada must travel three- quarters of the distance round the globe, instead of by the nearest route.
regard to this it is necessary to say that conditions out here make such action impracticable and undesirable.
Mr. Lo said that his client had been in the force for three years. and had borne a fairly good re- cord. There had not been any ill- feeling between the complainant and the appellant, and the attack was only an outcome of bad tem- per.
To give an example, the Board of Trade would like to have the. The general public benefits by whole of стем
accommodation HK, TO FIGURE IN the air mall scheme, but the bust amidships craft, but in the Far ness community Is
contributing East we have to provide against MARCH OF TIME” substantially to an air mail sub- the danger of piracy-a problem sidy, to which the taxpayer also which does not arise elsewhere. Camera Unit At Work makes a grant.
In The Colony
tion.
TWO SUBJECTS
Anti-piracy regulations are based on the segregation of the officers At the last annual meeting, two and crew in the forward part of subjects were referred to the in- the ship, which is converted into coming Committee for 'considera- a citadel, capable of being defended One was the desirability of against an uprising of pirates who extending the hours at which embark as passengers. letters are accepted at the Post Office for despatch by air mall. The Committee persuaded the Government to make the necessary staff re-organization to enable closing times to be extended from
5 to 7 p.m.
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1938, including the two fast coast-
The other subject concerned the ing steamers, "Wing Sang" and "Tai Sang" "for the Indo-China inconvenience caused in offices in Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. Two of the Central District by tramc the remainder were atted with noises: The Committee has sug- B & W system engines constructed gested that there should be by the Dock Company under licence speed limit of Afteen miles per from Harland & Wolff, Ltd.
hour in certain areas, which should be made silent zones, notices in ..FAVOURABLE IMPRESSION
English and Chinese to be posted It is interesting to note that the up requesting the co-operation of cast steel steam frames and other pedestrians in observing the traffic structural castings for these vessels
{ signala, were made by the Company, and both Yards have continued building vesela principally for the Straits, the Philippines and for Australian watars, where the product of Hong- kong yards is creating a very favourable impression. The con- struction of smaller coastal ships, which the yards i e been carry-" ing on for many years, has been continued.
These representations will doubtless be given careful con- sideration by the Commitfes recently appointed by the Government "to undertake the drafting of the necessary legis- lation for the inprovement of the existing laws and regula- Hons Riecting vehicles and traffic in the Colony.” 7 note that legislation has been intro-" duced in Singapore prohibiting the sounding of "horns in cen- tral districts,
SHIPPING QUESTIONS
Another aspect, which has always to be borne in mind, is that only to British shipping pena-- lise unfairly the trades in which this Colony is chiefly interested. Generally I would remark that the times are not propitions for adding to the difficulties which local shipping has to face.
requirements" applicable
PIER LEASES
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Hongkong, will figure in a forth- coming "March of. Time" picture. A caméra unit, under the direction of Mr. V. Jurgens, has been in the Colony for about a month filming various aspects of daily life here. Yesterday, the unit was engaged in making pictures of the Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank.
It is expected that the "shoot- ing" will be completed within the
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where appropriate running com- mentary will be added.
POSSESSION OF
An enjoyable outing was held by the boys of the St. Louis In- dustrial School on April 26 when, headed by the school band, the
and Victoria Road, to Aberdeen.
A related subject is the pier leases which expire at the end of DUTIABLE TOBACCO boys took the road, via Pokfulam 1949. The Government stated in October that it is dot the present intention to renew them, but to months' hard labour was imposed
A fine of $750, or, in default, six On reaching their destination consider whether the harbour is on Chu Yat-kong, when he ap to be developed by Government, peared before Mr.. R. Edwards at by an independent corporation | the Central Court yesterday such as a Port Trust, by private charged with the possession of enterprise, or by some combination dutiable tobacco on board the s. s. of these methods. It Is promised Sun Chan on Sunday.
deen Industrial School and were they were the guests of the Aber-
received by the Very Rev. Fr. Bernadini, Director of the in- atitute.
After dinner the boys of the two institutes fraternised and in-
that po-avoidable delay in deciding The tobacco, 112 lbs. in weight, dulged in games, and later, the this vital question will be per-was packed in four cases and was visors took the homeward road mitted and that expert advice will entered in the ship's manifest as by way of the Peak.
be taken.
Months have passed without A further public statement. I lake this opportunity of repeat- ing what I said In the Budget, debate last November: there. can be, little development of existing facilities unty Gov- ernment polley is known, so that the sooner the experts ar rive the better,...
four cases of paper.
When the
steamer arrived at the King Kee Wharf on Sunday, revenue officers went on board the ship and dis- covered the true contents of the packets.
AGED WOMAN
This work was carried on during
HAWKER ROBBED a period of great activity in local ship repairing. The most impor-
Leung, Hau, 60-year-old teniale
tant repair carried out by the
hawker, was admitted to the Kow- Appearing before Mr. R. Edwards loon Hospital yesterday suffering Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Go
at the Central Court yesterday from serious injuries to the head during 1938 was on the Lloyd Sexeral questions concerning
charged with having snatched a said to have been inflicted with Triestino ship "Conte Rosso," for shipping came up for consideration which the whole of the bow for during the year. Government au-
gold bangle from a baby at Con- some heavy Instrument by two 25 feet had to be renewed after thorities, both Imperial and local, When they do, we shall hope to naught Road Central on Sunday, men who entered her hut at Tong Tang So.. unemployed, was con- Tau village, New Territories in she had struck an island on the frequently seek to apply to Far persuade them that the develop-victed and was remanded for 18 the early hours of the morning. way to Shanthal. The work was Eastern shipping rules drawn up ment of the Harbour, should be hours for medical examination for A sum of $15 was stolen from completed in 21 days.
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