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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1931.
SAD STORY TOLD IMPERSONATED
IN COURT.
MOTHER FORCED TO SELL CHILD.
A harrowing story was related lo Mr. Williams at the Central Police Court this morning, when two women and D man Wor charged with being concerned In an illegal transaction involving the salo and purchase of a minor, a girl 12 years of age, who is the daughter of one of the accused,
Inspector John Murphy, 'who
prosecuted for the Secretariat of ness and abfect poverty had caused
Chinese Affairs, stated that nick-
were
woman
the widowed mother to sell the girl through a go-between who was not in custody. The two other accused
married a young living at it. Wo Hop Street and a man who was her uncle. The former bought the girl after her relative had been approached by the go-between,
A sum of $120 changed hands, and it would be pleated that the money represented a mortgage by which the girl was pledged until the mother could get well enough to-work and redeem her, The
·S.C.A., stated Inspector, Murphy, } recognized the special circum- stances in favour of the mother in the case, but at the same time I hnd to be stressed, for the benefit of ethers, that such transactions were highly undesirable, no matter what objects they served.
In this instance, the prosecution was taken up upon a complaint arceived by the Society for the Pro- tection of Children and after the Attorney General had been con- } sulted.
The mother of Dw girl was fined nominal sum of $10 and cutitioned, while the other two accused were cach Oned $76, Alternative charges of harbouring in their ense were withdrawn.
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LOCAL EDUCATION
POLICY.
MR. KOTEWALL WANTS INQUIRY.
ANOTHER MAN.
YOUNG JAPANESE SENT TO PRISON.
BOGUS PHONE CALL.
A MAGISTRATE'S FORMER PET.
DOG WHICH WAS NOT MUZZLED.
A dog formerly the property of a local Magistrate cost Its present owner $5 this morning when Mr. Williams at the Central Police By representing himself As a Court, imposed a fine on a sum- person authorised by Mr. Simons taken out against Mr. E. 0. Hachiuma to secure certain small Priestley for allowing the dog loans. young Japancae, S.
Sut large without a muzzle. Tomonaga, aged 25, succeeded in When the summons was called sbtaining smali
small sums of money and his Worship was told that the from two shop-keepers in Hennessy dog was a little one, he smilingly
do- on Saturday last, but his
remarked that it lnd formerly ception was subsequently discovered belonged to him, he having risen and he was arrested.
it to Mr. Priestley. When brought before Mr. Grant-
the Central Police Court before his Worship for allowing his Mr. 1 Westlake was summoned ham, at thin morning, two counts of obtain
dog to be at large without brought against the man. ing money by false pretences were muzzle on two separate occasions.
He was alleged to have obtained 83 from On being fined $4 on each count, Mr. Miyamoto, of 115. Hennessy
the defendant remarked that he had Rond, by pretending that he had recently shot his ang.
Road on
1
On entering a ples of guilty to
been sent by Mr. Machiuma, while from Mr. Papa Seto, of 41 and 43,4mmo accusing him of having allowed his doy to be at large with- out a muzzle, Mr. R. G. Gordon, of EZETESTANTE:9023606760364, The Peak, was fined $5.
CUTS IN PAY OF SHIPPING MEN.
NATIONAL BOARD IN ENGLAND AGREES.
London, Dec. 16.
The National Maritime Board has agreed to a reduction of ten per cent, in the pay of naviga. tion and engineer officers of the Mercantile Marine with effect on January 31, 1932.
The proposal for a reduction in the pay of sailors and fireaven and the entering staffs will be considered in January.Rentry.
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Hennessy Rond, he secured a lonn of $7 by telephoning and intimating that he was Mr. Hachiuma seeking a low.
The defendant pleaded guilty to boths enuuts.
Detective Inspector Rozeskwy In- formed his Worship that al 3.30 1.m. on Saturday the defendant went to Mr. Miyamoto, and, repre- senting himself as having been sent by Mr. Hachiuma, obtained a loan
VISIT OF CANON STREETER.
TALK ON SCIENCE AND RELIGION.
inst..
On Friday next, 18th Canon Streeter, Fellow of Queen's | College, Oxford, who has an inter
aution reputation as a lecturer and writer, will address a public meeting in the Cathedrai Hall at 16.15 p.m. His subject will bu The Bearing on Religion of Re-
Thought." cent Scientific
The meeting is open to all,
Canon Streeter is on his way to England after a lecturing tour in Japan.
KING HAS A DAY'S
SHOOTING.
MANY BIRDS FALL TO HIS GUN.
London, Dec 15.
H.M, the King, accompanied by
motored
from
A1 to-morrow's meeting of the of $3. Font hours later he tele the Duke of York and the Duke Legislative Council, the Hon. Mr. phoned Mr. Papa Seto and, intimit-of Gloucester, RH. Kotewall, C.M.G. LL.D. ing that he was Mr. Hachiuma, said Buckingham Palace to Windsor will ask the following questions, had found he did not have sufflelentering six guns had a good day's
he had been purchasing records but Great Park, where a party num With reference to the remark money to pay for his purchases sloping runde by the flow. Colonial Secre- He asked for a loan of $7 and sus the King, who is an expert shot.
Many birds fell to the gun of fary at the meeting of the Legis-gested that he would send a messen lative Council held on the 22ndger for the money. Mr. October. 1931, that the Govern agreed and the defendant called at must would give serious Con the premises, where he was given sideration to my suggestion
that
a committee be appointed to e- sider the general education policy of the
Government, will the Government state--
Seto British Wireless.
Continuing, the offlcer said the the mo
defendant had been in the Colony 24 was pubsequently discovered for a period of twelve months but that Mr. Hachium had not mul had once been sent either of the two requests and the Japanese Consul refused to have away. The
defentiaal WIS
orrested. There anything to do with him and in- was a list of 24 similar offences aisted that he be brought before the against the defendant, who had Court. bern obtaining money from His Worship passed sentence of Government propose to take to Japanese nationals both in Hong- ont month's hard labour on ench give effect to the object in view?kong and in Krawloon.
1) Whether such a commit will be appointed; and
(2) If not, what step does the
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