HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
FAILED TO OBTAIN PASSAGE
JUDGMENT FÖR
WOMAN
An, action claiming the return of $1,000 was brought before Mr. Justice E. H. Williams at the Sum- mary Court yesterday. -
JAPANESE SOUTH SEAS
MISSION
Visitors arriving in the Colony yesterday included 12 Japanese princes, counts and barons, who are en route to the Philippines. Netherland East Indies, British Borneo and the Japanese Mandated Islands.
The party has been sent by the Japanese Government to carry out the annual general inspection tour of the South Seas.
GENERAL
GOOD DEMAND FOR GOVT. TRADE SCHOOL GRADUATES: 175 ENROL FOR NEW, TERM
THE
Special to the Hongkong Daily Press
its
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THE DESIRABILITY OF HAVING A GOVERNMENT TRADE SCHOOL IN THE COLONY; which was emphasis- ed by many prominent personalities in the local building trade, even before the founding of the School now situated. in Wood Road, Wanchal, has been more than proved now by the demand that is existent for youths who have com- pleted courses of training at the School.
Since
first classes COMPARATIVELY SLOW |
were GRADUATES started three years ago, the School that has been possible in the few has served a very useful purpose years of the school's existence has in preparing, trained men in wire- telegraphy. building and been met so far with a demand for less
the Chinese | motor-car engineering. Many more trained men.
particular being students have obtained immediate Government in desirous to avail itself of school employment on completion of the trained men from the Automobile courses. Engineering and General Building
The plaintiff was Chan Shuk- nan. married woman, who was re- presented by Mr Alfred Y, Hon. The officials, Prince T Maeda, | OUTPOURING She obtained judgment against Ng Count N. Mizoguti, Viscount M. Cheung-kan, trading under the Ikeda, Baron A. Myebara: Baron Army, name of Tung Cheong Shing, M; Akasi, and seven other Peers of No. 2A. Pottinger Street, for were entertained by local Japanese $1,000 which she had paid to the organisations yesterday and are defendant to purchase passage to leaving for Manila today. Peru.
Mr. F. H. Loseby, who had ap-
peared for defendant, told the CHINESE PLANES classes.
Court yesterday that he had re celved no further instructions and applied for permission to with
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» draw from the case. The request
was granted.
SUM AGREED
IN SHUMCHUN
OF
PRACTICAL TRAINING
a
Good practical training is given, GOOD DEMAND
and students receive practical in- Interviewed by the Hongkong 'struction in the electrical work- Unconfirmed rumours state that Daily Press yesterday, Mr. G.shop and installation, and have several Chinese aircraft flew over White, B.Sc. (Eng.), A. M. I. Mech, access also to a machine work- blacksmith's, carpentry territory Japanese occupied
in E, Principal of the School, admit- shop," a
ted that there was quite a good and brick-layer's shop. There is Shumchun area on Monday.
demand at present for youths who also wireless laboratory for Mr. Hon stated that in Novem
It is stated that the planes had completed their courses of students of wireless telegraphy. ber last year, the plaintiff was in-dropped leaflets warning, the P-training, and stated that “on the troduced to defendant who said he pulace to evacuate the areas as whole there does not seem to be could obtain for her a passage to Chinese forces are contemplating Feru and the necessary passport. series of offensive actions in the The zum agreed upon was about near future. $1,400, of which $1,000 had been paid and the balance" was to be given when arrangements been completed.
had MERCANTILE BANK
Two months after payment was made, the defendant had failed to obtain the passage and at a meet. Ing he promised-settlement but falled to refund the money.
Judgment was given for, plain tiff with costs.
DIVIDEND
The Mercantile Bank of India, a telegram Limited, has received from their London Office to the effect that the Board of Directors has declared an interim dividend of 6 per cent. less income tax,
any prospect of satisfactory Trade school graduates failing to obtain employment on completion of their courses at the School."
Mr. White said that the ma- jority of Automobile Engineering students, who had completed the three-years instruction course, had obtained good appointments with! the Chinese Government.
BUILDING DEPARTMENT. Building Department students had also received offers of re- munerative employment with the Chinese Aviation Corporation in
ROUND THE POLICE COURTS the South-West
AT CENTRAL
Sanitary Insp. Lai Kee-leung said he inspected the premises or a complaint by a resident of an PORTUGUESE CONVICTED..
upper floor and discovered the Admitting the charge of obtain-presence of mosquito larvae... ing ..$600 from Ha Fuk-kuen“ on: A notice was served on defen- subsequent visit August 12 by falsely pretending) dant but on a
found in the that he could purchase cargo space larvae was again for complainant or steamers ply-premises. Ing between Macao and Canton,
The value of the training being given at the School to students of Wireless Tele- graphy has been recognised by the Hongkong Government, and a number of students who have completed the course of instruction are already serving on ships making voyages as distant as to the port of Lon- don.
There were 34. graduates last term: 14 in Automobile Engineer- Ing. 11 in General Building and nine in Wireless Telegraphy.
The enrolment for the new term to start next month lists about 175 students, 7 in Au- tomobile Engineering, -80 in General Building, and 25 in Wireless Telegraphy.
NEW CLASS
A new class in, Automobile En- gineering will be started after the Chinese New Year. For the pre- Building Department seat, new students are being enrolled. The requirement for this entrance course is an ability to write Eng- lish fluently and correctly.
The minimum, standard of Eng- 11sh acceptable is Class III Eng- lish, but preference is given to better educated candidates. It is réquired also that candidates be physically fit.
Candidates for instruction in Wireless Telegraphy must be British subjects by birth DI naturalisation.
REQUIREMENTS
Students who will complete the
Students Appearing for a similar offence course in the next class will now Jose Pancracio Batalha da Silva, Ng Ping-lit, of No. 7 Main Street, be eligible for a full Second Class 30, was sentenced to two months Saiwanho, ground floor, "wes Aned Post Master General's Certificate hard labour. by Mr. G. T. Lowry $30.
and not merely for a restricted yesterday.
certificate as previously.
BRIEF HISTORY
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who have reached Matriculation standard are giver. AIRPORT NEWS preference in enrolment for this course, and the minimum school requirement is that candidates will have completed Class II."
It is also desirable that can- The School was erected in 1936 didates should have passed ex- AFTER BEING DELAYED BY by the Government of Hongkong, aminations in Heat, Light, Sound, BAD WEATHER, Imperial Airway's in conjunction with the Building Electricity and Magnetism in the inward
plane, the Delphinus Contractors Association. Mr. Tam Education Department or Matrica- (Capt. M. Brunton and F/O 3. A..
It is re- Samuels) arrived at Kai Tak this Shui-hong, then Hon. Secretary lation examinations. and formerly Chairman of the quired also that candidates be morning with 177 kilos of mail, Association, played a major part physically fit for work, at sea as 56.192 kilos of freight and one in the supervision of the building wireless operators. The course ts passenger-Mr. M. R. A. Ray, from of the School.
of 10 months' duration.
Baghdad-for Hongkong.
RECEIPTS NOT STAMPED Mr. H. C. Lee, for "the prosecu-
Several principal tenants. of tion, applied for an amendment to the above charge. by putting in flats were summoned before Mr. the Tai Sang firm instead of Ho Sheldon yesterday for giving re- Fuk-kuen as the complainant. ceipts, above $20, which were not
Defendant said he had received duly stamped.
Cheung Mee-chi, principal from the Tai altogether $1.958 Sang arm to ship a cargo of rice tenant of No. 80 Lockhart Road, from Macao to Canton. He was ground floor, appearing on eight drunk and spent all the money in summonses, was fined $40.
Mr. D. McCallum, for Cheung Macao.
Mr. Lee told the Court that admitted all the summonses and there were various sums but de-aid that defendant had pleaded fendant was only charged with ignorance of the law and had
been left to look after the rents in Bank, of No. 18, Des Voeux Road TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS of air mail services between Aus- one particular sum.
Central, for fallure to keep the Ho was the manager of the Tal the absence of her husband. Sang firm, Importers
Chau Ah-ho and Tang Yan, iron grilles in his money changer's and Strand, principal-tenants of No. 180-Lock-shop closed during business hours exporters, of Bonham
tí
and on August 3 he asked hart Road, ground floor, and No. on Aug. 13. defendant if he could get cargo 198 Lockhart Road, were fined $20
the
IN COLONY..
This is the first plane to arrive under the new bi-weekly schedule
trala and Hongkong and Durban and Hongkong.
In the Colony of Hongkong in-. The Delphinus brought the first cluding the Island, Kowloon and air mail from Hongkong's eva- Mr. S. NE Quian pleaded gulty New Territories during the week cuated women in Australia.
The next. inward service, is ex- space for Arm. Defendant and $35, respectively. The first on behalf of Tsang and said there ending at 8 a.m, on Saturday, Aug. was given $800 for this purpose defendant appeared on four sun-were two grilles. The inner one 24, 1940, there were altogether 63 pected in Hongkong and was to receive $3 per freight monses and the second on seven was closed, all money having been traffic accidents as the result of afternoon.
removed from the outer grille. He which 25 persons were injured: ton as commissión.
similar summonses.
tomorrow
An outward service by Imperial Da Silva 'said he knew that he Li Wing, of No. 85 Lockhart asked that defendant be caution- Of persons injured, 19 were Airways left Kal Tak yesterday or two counts ed as it was not a serious offence pedestrians who were struck by morning taking mails from Hong- owed the Arm $1,958 and promised Road. summoned
and оде passenger-MI. to pay $500 and $50 monthly to of issuing receipts of $22.60 with but a case of carelessness.
out them being duly stamped, was Sgt. Weir sald he visited the vehicles while crossing the car-kong complainant.
Mr. Lee remarked" that defen- fined $30. dant-lived-in-Macao-and-did-only-
odd Jobs.
Det. Sub Insp. J. O'Donovan was present for the Police.
BURGLAR IMPRISONED
premises on Aug. 13 at 3.45 pm." Sgt. R. Grainger, of the Inland and found that both grilles were Revenue Department: prosecuted. open and he could walk in with
out being noticed.
UNREGISTERED FACTORY
For using No. 13 Main Street,
Two months' imprisonment was Shaukivan, as a factory without registering the premises under the Factories and Workshops Ordin-
imposed on Li Wah, 38, unemploy- red by Mr. H. G. Sheldon: yesterday for the larceny or various articles, ance, the manager of the Wah
Mess, Queen's Road, East on Aug.
M.S. Diamond.
Sgt were
finished.
AT KOWLOON
den und-assaulted her,
rlageway.
Of 83 accidents. 23 were colli- lons between vehicles; 27 were
collisions between
vehicles and
Park.
pedestrians: 13 accidents were due CLIPPER DELAYED
to other causes.
to
He was seen by a Chinese police-
man who arrested him,
BLACK-OUT OFFENCES
AGAIN
Pan American Airways China Clip- per has been delayed again and
UNCLAIMED
TELEGRAMS
#
INDECENT ASSAULT from Mrs. L. Frommer, of No. 30, will not be arriving in H.K.. until
Nathan Road.
tomorrow afternoon. The Clipper is shin Wing-cheong, 27, actor, of Nam Electric Plating Company including a wall clock, from the
Defendant was sentenced to four bringing. U.S. malls, dated San Royal Engineers W.O. and Sgta, was summoned before Mr. Shel-15, Wenchow Street, appeared be-
don yesterday.
fore Mr. E Himsworth yesterday months in prison and six strokes Francisco, Aug 20, and will leave be expelled from the on her return trip, on Saturday Mr. E. C. Drown, Assistant In on a charge of Indecently assault and
morning.
The complainants
spector of Factories and Work Hng Tsang Suk-ying-spinster at Colony after, imprisonment.
Mrs. Frommer was walking at The Galifornie Clipper
on Tuesday Sgt. shops, said that the Health Officer 300. Prince Edward Road during Lewis, L/Sgt. Homburg.
the junction of Nathan Road and scheduled to arrive 4 recommendation Tuesday's black-out.
when" defendant next, Sept. 3, and will leave the Shipp. L/Sgt. Hogarth and C.q.had refused
for a permit to be "issued. Defen- Complainant was in her garden Granville- Road Insy, Portallion said on August dant had been warned to cease watching the effect of the black-came from behind and snatched following morning. 20 at 5.30 am. defendant was seen work and the time given had been out at about 8.15 pm, when the the handbag.... by a constable at the bottom of extended but yesterday, morning defendant sneaked into the gar- the staircase with a parcel. When work was still in progress.
A representative of the manager On being attacked complainant the constable approached defer-
The following unclaimed tele- dant ran away. He was chased said that there was a job to be screamed for help and Mr. 8. A.
A fine of $5 or five days in prison Fowler who happened to be across and caught.
Mr Drown pointed out that the street rushed to the scene and was imposed by Mr. Q. A. A. Mac-grams are lying at the office of the Defendant entered the rooms di
was the excuse on the previous the defendant running away. fadyen yesterday on Lai Tal, 21, Great Northern Telegraph Co. the barracks by an open door occasion when the Protector of Mr. Fowler gave chase and finally junemployed, for failing to obscure] (Ltd.);
a kerosene arc lamp at Reclama- Tsun Fok-koo, David House, 64, Labour had been very lenient with caught him. MOSQUITO BREEDING
defendant.
Mr Himsworth, remarking that tion Street, Dear Waterloo Road, from Shangbal; Chiu Hang-hong, c/o Chung Wah Co., Queen's Rd. Summuned for failure to comply
Mr, Sheldon adjourned the sum-such an offence was especially during the black-out.
Lui Tal, 26, car cleaner, was C., from Shanghal; Tai Sak-ching, with a notice served on him by mons for a week and warned the serious when it happened during the Urban Council requiring him defendant's representative that a black-out fined defendant $100 fined $1 for a similar offence at 66 Nathan Road, 2nd floor, from Shanghai; Hu Pok-ming, Luk to destroy mosquito larvae and to work was still being carried out or two months' imprisonment. - take such steps as would prevent next week the maximum fine, Det-Sgt. C. Dowman prosecuted. Five other men, Wong Po, 28, Yu Kwok Hotel, 210, from Shang- Kuon, 28, Bhun Chung-tah. 20, hal; Durgadas, passenger, Pres. " PRISON AND EXPULSION
from Mok Yich-spm, 27, and Cho. Kau, Harrison,
Kobe; Corona, Ing. Lam Yee-chuk, manager" of
Yokohama: the King Sing Flashlight Factory.
Chan Kok-wan, 18, unemployed, 27, charged with showing lighted Aberdeen, from No. 69 Leighton Hill Road, ground A fine of $20 was imposed by appeared before Mr. Himsworth cigarettes during the black-out in Chenowalfu, 6 Picea Road, 2nd fl., floor was fined $50 by Mr. Shel- Mr. Sheldon yesterday on Thang yesterday. on a charge of snatch the Yaumati district were caution, Hung" Hum, Kowloon, from Yokd- don yesterday.
Yuk-shun, of the Kau Kee Native ing a handbag containing $17.50 ed..
Li had two previous convictions.
a recurrence of mosquito breed-$250, would be imposed.
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