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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
KOWLOON MATTERS FAILED TO NOTIFY
DISCUSSED.
K.R.A. FAVOURS' LAICHIKOK BATHING SCHEME.
TRAFFIC DANGERS.
The monthly meeting of the General Committee of the Kowloon Residents' Association was held in St. Andrew's Church Hall on Monday, the following members being present:-Mr. C. M. Man ners (President), Mr. F. C. Mow Fung (Vice President), Mr. E. Abraham (Hon. Treasurer), Mr. C. E. Terry (Ilon. Secretary) and Messrs. I. Cock, B. W. Tape, T. T. Laurenson, B.. Wylie, F. J. Easter- brook, W. J. Stokes, F. W. Staple- ion, R. Pestonji, I. Un, J. M. Alves, W. J. Brown, C. B. Riggs, E. C. Tregillus and W. Golden- burg.
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Playgrounds.
The minules of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, a'report from the Chil-
SMALL-POX.
CHINESE THOUGHT IT MERE SKIN DISEASE.
FIFTY DOLLAR FINE.
On a charge of failing to notify the authorities of the outbreak of two cases of small-pox at his house, a Chinese occupant of No. 12, Tai Nam Street, was fined $50 by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
The defendant pleaded that he only returned to his house on an averago twice a month and was not aware that his wife and child were suffering from small-pox.
Evidence of discovery of the Cases was given, and Sanitary In- that the other occupants on the spector Sinton told his Worship floor had stated that the defendant returned to the house every even- ing. The cases, continued the with- ness, were obviously outbreaks of small-pox.
It was also given in evidence that the child was on the way to dren's Playgrounds Sub-Commit-recovery. Ten days before the tee was rend.·
After discussion it was decided "that the lack of adequate super- vision at the Chathani Road Play- ground be again brought to the notice of the Government,
It was further decided to re- quest Government to provide faci lities for the use of the vaennt piece of ground between Safron Street and Jordan Roud as a play- ground for the children in that congested area.
Bathing Facilities.
Å letter from a group of Kow- loon residents, enclosing a scheme for the development of Lab Ch Kok beach for dinthing 'purposes. which had previously, been Bube. mitted to Government and not ap proved, was youd and diseased.
It was decided that. Die scheme as presented was sound and fou sible, and that the Association should uncertain if possible the Government's - reasons for disape .proval.
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LATEST PHOTOGRAPH
OF THE KING.
No Fewer Than 150,000 Coples Sold.
London, Mar. 22. The first exlition of 150,000 postcards of the intest photo- graph of the King has been sold out,
Cabled orders have been received from Malia, Gibral- tah, East Africa and South Africa.
A second edition is being printed.
This is the photograph which appeared in the Telo- graph Art Supplement last Saturday,]
visit was made by the authorities, the child was in an advanced condi-
tion.
The defendant stated that he did A letter from the Association not know his wife and child were frum small-pox, He to the Director of Public Works, suffering pointing out the dangerous cond-thought it was some ordinary skin tion of the rocks on Signal disense. He did not call in a doctor, and requesting that steps be as he had no money. taken to obviate the danger, was rend and approved.
It was stated the rocks in ques- tion had been inspected by nine members of the Committee at dif- ferent times and it is apparent, that unless something is done the first heavy rains may cause a sub- sidence with fatal results.
Castle Penk Rond.
A simline position with regard to rocks overhanging Castle Peak Road was also discussed.
A letter from the Association
to the Government pointing out
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1929.
PORT OF LONDON PROMISSORY · NOTE | KOWLOON MOTOR
PROGRESS.
CLAIM.
ENORMOUS TRADE GROWTH IN NO PROFITS SHOWN IN THE
RECENT YEARS.
DOCK FACILITIES,
London, Apr. 9. Statistics issued by the Port of London Authority show that the trade of the port has grown enor mously in recent years.
Passenger
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trafliè has
increased considerably.
BALANCE SHEETS.
KEEN QUESTIONING.
THEFTS.
CHINESE SENT TO GAOL FOR FOUR MONTHS.
| P.W.D. OFFICIAL'S LOSS,
Further ovidence relating to an The arrest of 4 man who has item in a book which defendant been stealing articles from motor. said he was unable to explain, cars parked at the Star Ferry was given in the Supreme Court Wharf was effected yesterday by a this morning before the Chief Chinese detective, with the result 'In 1909, the value of foreign Justice (Sir Henry Gollan) when that the man was brought before imports And exports was the promissory note case was re- Mr. T.. S. Whyte Smith at the £320,000,000 while in 1927 it was sumod.. Lam Ting-on, of the King Kowloon Magistracy this morning £700,000,000.
On Tong Arm is suing the Ma Pak The defendant was charged also Leung firm of Hongkong for $4,698 with larceny of an electric torch About alleged to be due under a promis-which had been stolen from the sory note, but the defendant motor car of Mr. H. S. Rouse, of alleges it is a debt incurred by the the Public Works Department. NEW AMBASSADOR. Ma Pak Leung firm of Fatshan There was a further charge of and Canton, which is separate being in unlawful possession of from the Hongkong,firm..
a pair of spectacles and a leather caso, Yesterday Mr. F. C. Jenkin, The defendant pleaded guilty counsel for plaintiff, referred to to the first charge and admitted, an item in the book relating to an answer to the second, that he payment of $1,008 as "interest to had atolon the spectacles from the plaintiff but Ma Chung-yu, another car, defendant, denied it was paid ns interest and said the entry had been made in his absence by his jmanager,
General Charles Dawes, who is to be the new United States Ambassador to Bri-
tain.
Mr. C. G. Alabaster, KC, to gether with Mr. Eldon Potter K.C., is defending.
Ma Pak-shiu stated that he had been the manager of the defendant firni for 18 years and had been em ployed by the firm since its incep- tion. The partners were Ma 'Sau- fung and Ma Chung-yu,
Mr. Alabaster:--it is sald by the plaintiff that the Ma Pak Leung of Hongkong is a branch of the Ma Pak Leung of Fatahan. Is that S07-It is not. Hongkong is in- dependent of Fatahun.
Does the Fatshan firm send Fat- shan balance sheets to Ilongkong every year?No.
Does the Hongkong firm send 260,000 seugoing passengers now arrive and depart in a year, which their Hongkong balance sheets to is one-third more than the num-Fatshan?-No. her of a few years ago.
Manager's Explanation.
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Detective Sergeant Humphreys, who prosecuted, intimated that the defendant was found in Mr. Rouse's car by a detective. The police asked for a heavy penalty in view of the prevalence of these petty thefts from motor cars.
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three months hard labour
On the first charge, sentence of laposed, with a further month on the secon 1 charge.
For failing to remove an illegal the cockloft of partition under
No. 303, Lalchilkok Road, the principal tenant was fined $10 by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kow- loon Magistracy this morning. Mr. T. W. Carr, who prosecuted, stated that the defendant had been given three reminders after the service of the first notice.
His Lordship remarked he did! not think Mr. Alabaster was entitled to have the character of the letter described.
The combined water area of the Witness. was then referred to an King George V Dock, the Royal entry in the defendant firm's own Albert Dock, and the Royal book to the effect that the sum of Victoria Dock, which is one huge $1,068 had been paid by the defen- dock divided into three sections, is dant Arm to the Fook Kee firm for gif acres, and is the largest sheet them to pay to lam Ting-on assenger whom he did not know,
Document Sent Back. Witness then said that a mes- arrived with the letter and wit
of dock water in the world-Explaining this entry, witnessness paid the amount. The mes-
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WANTED TOO MUCH WATER.
tion on the evidence given and im-
His Worship registered a cnavie.CHINESE FINED FOR ASSAULT
ON CONSTABLE. posed a fine of $50.
L.
SALESMAN SENT TO PRISON.
THREE-MONTH SENTENCE FOR EMBEZZLEMENT,
TWICE GUILTY.
said that between June 11 and 12. 1922, he received a letter from the Fook Kee stating that if the Chai Ying Company presented a letter from the Fock Kee requesting the Ma Pak Leung to pay the money over to the Chaf Ying Company for Lam Ting-on, they were to do so. The letter, said witness had been
schger chopped a receipt with the chop of the Chai Ying firm.
Asked by his Lordship if he had that document, witnean replied in the negative, saying that he had sent it back to the Fook Kee at Canton in order to get reimburse- ment for the amount. The Fook Kee, he said, was a banking busi-
ness.
A Chinese was brought before mislaid. Major C. Willson this morning on said that he had looked for the let-witness aid that he had full
Replying to his Lordship, witness
Cross-examined by Mr. Jenkin, a charge of disobeying the regu-ter but had failed to and it. lation to the effect that no-one
authority during the absences of Mr. Jenkin stated that if the Ma Chung-yu, who was frequent- should draw more than three letter could not be admitted, and it ly away from the Colony, Wit- buckets of water at a time was not referred to in the declara-ness was quite familiar with the from the public standpipes, tion of documents, then witness's liabilities of the firm.
It was stated that defendant evidence could not be admitted. had five buckets, and, when cau-The entry, he continued, had always existence which would show the There was, he unid, no book in tioned by an Indian constable, he been a matter of very great im- accumulated profits of the busi- struck, the latter on the shoulder portance, and it must have been ness. To get that figure he would with a bamboo pole.
known to the other side.
ment.
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The magistrate inflicted a fine) Mr. Alabaster replied that the of $25, or three weeks' imprison-witness was the man who had made this danger, and suggesting that In detailing a charge of en
the entry and he was giving an ex- these rocks be used in the work of | bezzlement against Pong King-
planation of It, as Ma Chung-yu raising the road bed now in pro- pang, travelling salesman of "the that a moderate anticyclone has
The Royal Observatory reports could not explain. gress, instead of rock taken from Cheng Hing Leong firm. of Nodeveloped over North China and away, Mr. Alabaster naked "Ia Putting the question in another aites well off the rand, was read alt, Lal On Lane, before Mr. E. W depression covers North Japan. consequence of a letter what hap
Hamilton at the Central Police The Court this morning, the prosecut-
southern depression has pened?A letter was delivered to Ing police officer stated that Pong. Apparently filled up. Moderato me and I paid the amount. The fact that the "control in in the middle of last month, was the Coast and over the North was a "Sort of demand draft."
Witness explained that the letter mortsoon may be expected along Chatham Read opposite the Chili-sent up-country to do business for
Mr. Jenkin pointed out there his arm.
no reference to that
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approved.
Trullie.
dren's Playground was not being
abserved by motor vehicles was brought to the notice of the muct ing, and it was decided to request
action in the matter.
China Sea.
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From Shekki, he wrote a lotteri The Forecast Will noon to-had been to his employers. stating that he morrow is:N.E. winds, moder-before. had collected $290, but had lostate; cloudy, drizzle or mist.
the money, by what precise means the police to take the necessary he refrained from revealing. Again, on arrival in Macao, he wrote to the firm making a pro. mise of refunding the money. He was instructed to return to Hong- kong.
It was also decided to request that "School signals in erected in Austin Road in the vicinity of Kowloon Junior School,
Other correspondence having been dealt with, the meeting closed at 7 p.m.
New Members,
matter, the Inspector at the No. 7 In an endeavour to readjust the! Police Station was appealed to, both parties Jaying their case be fore that official on the 21st of last month, There Pong renewed his The following new members promise to reimburse the firm in have joined the Association:-- the full amom, and the matter Musara, A. E. Silkstone, D. J.was composed for the time being. Evans, A. A. I. Botelho, A. C. However, Pang went to Maeno a Jeffreye, D. W. Munton, G. E. P. few days afterwards, when it wat Thompson, A. Annetta; J. M. da found that, prior to his departure. Rocha, W. S. Lake, W, C. John, he had collerted a further $40 of R. T. Nelson and T. B. Wilson. the firm's monles, without the Members are reminded that knowledge or consent of the firm. their subscriptions for 1920 are now due, and should be sent to the Hon, Treasurer, Mr. E. Abra- ham, c/o Tester und· Abraham, Exchange Building, Hongkong.
NEW NIGHT AIR SERVICE.
CONNECTING LONDON AND THE CONTINENT.
The first rogular night. air service connecting Britain and the Continent was successfully in-
warrant was issued for the arrest That being the last straw, of the delinquent salesman, and he was brought back to Hongkong and prosecuted in respect of that latter um.
His Worship passed sentence of three months' hard labour.
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augurated when a machine left the British Government, General Char- Le Bourget aerodrome at about a les Dawes, the originator and au- quarter past one this morning and thor of the famous reparations!
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reached Croydon about four
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"I guess you want me to chuck my job and be's waiter
just so I'll always be dressed up."
have to make calculations from cash books from the beginning of the business. There were, in the ledger, entries of profits for the year but not for six months. The ledger was the only book in which those entries occurred.
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No Profits Shown. Witness agreed with Mr. Jenkin that profits would be shown in a balance sheet. A book was hand- ed to witness, which contained balance sheets for a number of years, and he was asked to point to a figure on one of them which showed the profit for the period.
To this witness replied that the balance sheet was in the handwrit- ing of his predecessor: He
further stated that none of the balance sheets contained in the book were in his own handwriting, Mr. Jenkin asked witness to point to any item of the balance sheets which declared a profit for any period.
Witness spent several minutes In looking through the book, the silence being interrupted by Mr. Jenkin asking "Can we take it that there are none?"
Witness replied ""I must work it' out," and when Mr. Jenkin again suggested there was no such entry witness agreed.
Hidden Co-Partner? Further questioned witness suid It was an omission on the part of'
a clerk that the profit was not shown in the balance sheet.
He was also questioned on the wording of the accounts with re- gard to payments by partners, Mr. Jenkin suggesting that only in family partnerships were the partners described as frat, second or third son. Witness eald be had never seen partnerships de- scribed this way unless the part- ners were related but he had seen few partnership documents of any kind,
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NIGHT.
There was a gratifyingly large Mr. Jenkin: On that language the only fair reading is that those and, most appreciative audience at the Theatre Royal last night, whon two men are related to someone the A.D.C. gave their second per
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much pleasure, but the characteri- sation is all that could be desired. Withort a doubt, "The Dover Road" must be classed as one of the big gest successen ever staged by the A.D.C., and those who fall to wit ress one of the remaining perfor mances will be missing a big trout.
There are now only three mora who is interested as co-partner informance of A. A. Milne's light performancos do come, these being the bualness1-That is not sa.
to-morrow, Friday and Saturday. After brief. re-examination by As on the opening night, the play | Seats should be booked without de- Mr. Alabaster, His Lordeliip ad-was splendidly interpreted, all the lay. Above all, let it be remem journed the case until Thuraday characters being very capably bered that 50 per cent of the pro- morning when counsel, will ad- handled. Not only does the enter fits of the season are to go to tha dress the Chief Justice,
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