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TAKING EFFECT ON TUESDAY
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VOYAGE RESUMED.
Hongkong Yacht Arrives
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1934.
VARIETIES OF GHEE
of the
TRAIN COLLISION,
THREE 'MINERS KILLED AND MANY INJURED
Lillo, Feb. 9:
Three persons were killed and
In buying pure gher.
"Ration Ghee,"
His Worship: Are you aware
that, outside your own business, there is a vast amount of adul terated ghee sold?
Mr. Arcull: I am aware of it. Mr. Cole: Is that sold under the name of nation gheet
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TWO IMPORTERS At Panama,
PROSECUTED
Hongkong yachtsmen will be What was described as an' Im- interested to know that the Hong-portant case from the standpoint forty injured in a rallway accident WEEK-END BROADCAST kong yacht Taimoshan, manned by of public health and from the near here to-day. a party of nayal officers, has re-point of view of the Indian com- A train filled with miners was aumed her journey to England and munity in Hongkong came up be-proceeding to Lille when a light by now passed through the Fore Mr. Hamilton at the Central engine crashed into it from behind, Magistracy yesterday afternoon, smashing the rear coach to places. Panama Canal.
Mr. H. S. Rouse, of the Public when two importers wero sum-Reuter. Works Department, who, with Mr.moned for contravention E. Cock of the Kowloon Docks, Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance. was responsible for the design of The defendants were Leung Loy- the yacht, has recolved a letter hau, of No. 73 Wyndham Street, from Panama, stating that the and B. Ditto, of No. 60 Hennessy Talmoshan reached there on Jann-Road, who were charged with ary 5,
selling to the prejudice of the The Taimoshan (54 foét over all) purchasers an article of food loft, Hongkong on May 81 last which was not of the nature, sub- year. Her crew is Lieut. R. E. D.stance or quality demanded, the Ryder (H. M. S. Olympus), Licut, article being gheo, Surg. Llout. C. Ommaney-Davis C. P. Francis (H. M. S..Otus), (H. M. S. Bridgewater). Lieut. London, Feb. 10.
Comdr. M. Sherwood (H. M. S. Britain has declared a Hermes), and Lieut. G. S. Salt trade war upon France. The (H. M. S. Oswald).
The voyageurs expected to reach
Mr. Whyte-Smith said the caan French Government is given England by the end of March, but for the prosecution was that what until Tuesday to change its are longer than expected on the was obtained from the defondante They renched Keelung was not ghee, and therefore the mind about its refusal to way.
0, June and definition of the word "gheo" restore full quotas to Bri-Yokohama (Japan) on June 20. was very important. At the cut tish goods.
They were reported at Nem-set he would like to submit that a very important The reprisals will consist of an mura (Hokkaido), in the nor the case was additional twenty per cent. duty theru part of Japan, on July 10. ono in view of the large Indian ad valorem on a wide range of Crossing the northern Pacific, they community in Hongkong and in made Dutch Harbour, Alaska, on view of the importance of ghee as French products.-United Press.
As was announced by the Pre-August 21, and Victoria, British an item of their diet.
Columbia on September 12. They sident of the Board of Trade in left San Pedro on November 2, and the House of Commons on January
reach Panuran by 20, His Majesty's Government expected to
Christmas. recently informed the French Government that unless the quota's for United Kingdom goods were fully restored they would be tom- polled to take retaliatory action by imposing additional duties on a range of French products,
ORDER ISSUED.
оп
FALKLANDS BASE
Mr. Arculli: No, Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, Assist-
Replying to a further question ant Crown Solicitor, prosecuted, sald: If I went into a shop my by the Magistrate, the witness while the first defendant was re-self and was given a pound presented by Mr. R. H. Cole, of of thea and was asked a good deal Mesure, G. K. Hall Brutton and
less than 80 cents I would be sur prised. I would have a good look at the article, and if it was mark- ed vegetable ghee I would at once rofuse it.
Co
Mr. Arculli added that some ghee. Good ghoo could be deter Europeans born in India used mined by friction. There was an essenen in the market put in vege- table sheo which gave it the taste of pure ghee, he added,,
Sanitary Inspector W. C. R. Lamprili gave evidence. He said that on January 4, he went to 78. Wyndham Street, ground floor which was
a compradore shop. Ho instructed his interpreter to
"Now, your Worship," said Mr. Whyte-Smith, "my submission is that ghee is clarified butter. Later I am going to submit several de: finitions of the word ghee, and these will show that ghee is clari-buy half-a-pound of ghoo. The shop assistant produced a quan- tity from a tin marked in English with the word "ghee," and wolgh- silver ed it. Ho tendered one dollar and received 65 conta change. He split the ghee Into three parts and put them in separate bottles. One he gave to the shop, ane he kept and the third be sent to the Government Analyst. On January 21, he re- ceived the Analyst's report and on the instructions of the Medical | Officer of Health, took out the
fied butter and nothing else. Now, just as we can go and buy butter or we can go and buy mar garine, so can an Indian buy ghee or he can go and buy a vegetable substance, or he might buy a sub- atitute composed of animal fat."
His Worship-You are offering an analogy?
Mr. Whyte-Smith.It is almost
a complete analogy, your Worship. Continuing, Mr. "Whyte-Smith
said:
summone.
Mr. Cole: When your sent the in- terpreter into the shop to buy the
Witness: Gheo. ghee, what did you expect to get?
REPORT DENIED BY ADMIRALTY
London, Feb. 10. As the quotas have not been: fully restored, an order has now The Admiralty has officially been made under Section 12 of denied Mr. Frank Reynolds as the Import Duties Act imposing tion, appearing in the Illustrated ad Daily News last Sunday, regarding a duty of twenty per cent. valorem over and above the exist- the fortification of the Falkland ing customs duties upon certain Islands as a naval base.-United
"Ches costs 30 conta a pound, classes of goods produced or Press. manufactured in France, with Mr. Frank Reynolds, writing in and the vegetablo substitute may offect from 18th February. the Illustrated Daily News, stated be bought for about 20 cents a The Order has been framed with that the recent secret naval pound. My figures may be a bit a view to effecting a reduction in conference at Singapore decided low, but anyhow, the vegetable the imports Into United Kingdom that a big naval base would be substitute is worth about a quar- from France as near as may be established in the Falkland Islands.ter of ghee,
He pointed out that the strategic "Now, I don't want to go into equivalent to the roduction in
value of the establishment was that the subject of food properties and United Kingdom exports to France there was a possibility of the vitamine. I don't know much resulting from the differential Panama Canal being closed to about them, and I don't think it quota restrictions which are still British shipping in the event of is necessary for me to say much
Called a war, and the Falklands could about it, but it is quite enough Classes of goods covered by assure the safety of Britain's that from the public health point the order are set out and include shipping, insofar as the base would of view, a great deal of harm can articles of apparel of all kinds, hold the key to an expedienten- be done if a great deal of people completo or incomplete,
imagine that they are buying ghee and trance into the Pacifle. shaped material for making into
when in fact they are only buying a vegetable substance. If they apparel;
think it is ghee in spite of the low prices, then I submit they are being dofrauded."
maintained. I
Boots, shoes, otcetera: feathers; foliage and artificial flowers; fruit; and articles incorporating them; fur skina; goods manu- factured wholly or partly of fur- skin; and goods made wholly or partly of silk-British Wircless.
CHINESE CONTROL
THE RETROCESSION OF SHANHAIKWAN
Peking, Feb. 9.
The retrocession
EXCHANGE RATES
Feb. 8.
77.29/32 16.86 13
Paris. Geneva Berlin. Helsingfors. 220
Ordo..
Athens Milan
Buenos Aires
.19.00
530 .58% .3014
Shanghai. New York.
Amsterdam
of Shanhai- | Madrid.
1/4 .6.01%
.7.62
Vienta Prague
.284 .103 .37
kwan will be affected to-morrow.
. This encouraging statement was
Bucharest Hengkong
Brussels..
.G16 .1/6 .22.09 .13.394 .22.40 100% .1/6.3/32 .44 .1/2.0/32 .37% .230
made by Chinese circles to-day. Stockholm. To mark the occasion ceremonies Copenhagen will be held at 11 a.m. in the Dis- Lisbon
triet
Government building, to Bombay.
mark the return
Chinese control.
of the city to Rio
Yokohama.
With the exception of a few Montevideo
gendarmes, all troops
of
Mr. Whyte-Smith quoted from authorities Feb. 0. several well-known 77.25/32 which defined ghee an "clarified
15:83 butter."
12.06
Stuff Analysed. 220
19.00
against 550 Leung Loy-hau were that Sanitary 58.3/10
3034 Inapector W. C. R. Lamprill, uc- 1/43% companied by an Interpreter, went to defendant's shop and asked for 5,0% 7.62 half a pound of ghee. The shop 28 assistant took a substance from a 103% tin marked "ghee" and charged 47,13/10
3/16 Inspector Lamprill 35 cents. The 91 inspector then told him that he as would have the ghes analysed and 21.00%
a loft the shop. 10.39
The facts of the case
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515 1/6
What do you 'understand by ghee 7-1 understand ghee to be clarified buttar.
Did you know then?-Yes. The interpreter gave corrobora- live evidence.
Expert Witness,
is an expert witness, Sergeant Major Banta Singh, of the Hongkong Police Force, said that he received the rations. Each man was rationed one-and-n-half pounds of ghee per ten days, Glice was clarified butter, but he had eaten vegetable ghee. The ghee which he received in rations was vegetable.
The Magistrate: How do you know?
Witness: I can tell by the smell, I always return it with a com- plaint.
Baid Continuing, the witness vegetable ghee could not be eaten except in curries.
The Magistrate: Why do you buy it? Because it is cheaper than pure ghee for curries.
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12.15-2.30 p.m. European recorded programme.
1 p.m. Local Time and Weather Roport,
2.30 p.m. Close Down.
4.30-7 p.m. Chinese recorded music. 7-10.30 p.m. European programme, 7-7.27 p.m. Dance Music. Fox Trot-Ball at the Savoy—I'll Show. You off. Waltz-Ball at the Savoy-I Live for Love. Tango-Tonight Give me an Hour.
of Love, Fox Trot-The Gold Diggers' Song. Witness: Vegetable ghee. What do you call the pure clari-Fox Trot-Learn to Croon.
Fox Trot Sweeheart Darlin',
Fox Trot-Moonstruck. fed butter?-Ghee.
7.27-8
Mr. Whyte-Smith: What do vou call it when you buy it?
Mr. Cole: Ever heard of a mix-
table ghee?
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(K. 387),
22,40 The stuff was taken to the Gov-ture of the pure ghee and vege-Quartet in G Major (Mozart) 100% ernment Analyst, and it was found 1/6.3/32 that the alleged ghee contained
4% 66 per cent. of foreign fat. 1/29/32 The first witness called was Mr.
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manager of Omar el Arculli, Messrs. Arculi and Sons, military 6.05% 19.13/10 contractors, who stated that he 10% supplied food for Indian troops in
102 Hongkong.
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Asked for the definition of the word ghee, Mr. Arculli said there could be only one definition and that was "clarified butter."
Witness stated that ghea was It is notified that the name of Inu a very important item in Indian an Indian has been diet, remarking that YET IT IS OF IMPORTANCE TO KEEP Shun Knitting Co., Ltd.,
would eat more ghee than a Euro- THE ANGELS IN THEIR PROPRIETIES, struck off the Register.
pean would butter. -EmorB011
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
WE ARE DISGUSTED BY GOSSIP;
One care of typhoid and three cases In the course of his business, of meningitis were reported to the witness supplied nothing else ex- Professor George Thomas Byrne, Incal health authorities on Thursday. cept pure ghee, but he had come M.Sc., F.IC, has been appointed an additional member of the Council of
The name of Mr. L A. E. Leong, across a substitute called vege the University of Hongkong for of the China Dispensary, has been table ghee, a largo quantity of period of one year.
added to the register of chemists and which had lately come from Japan. druggists.
Pure ghee would cost about 80 conta a pound, and the vegetable substitute about 20 cents.
His Excellency the Governor has accepted the resignation by Lieuten ant John Norrio-Owen
years.
this
The Hongkong University Graduates'
Mr. Arculli sald that if he wont of his Com- Association and the University Club mission In the Army Service Corps will hold their Annual Dinner at the Into a shop to buy ghee he would Cadre of the Hongkong Volunteer Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden
expect to get a substanco made evoning. at 8 o'clock. Defence Corps.
It is notified that at the expiration from the milk of cow, buffalo, goat He produced a book of of the or sheep. His Excellency the Governor has of three months the name appointed, provisionally and subject Aberdeen Kal Fong Motor-Bus and the Golden Health Library by Sir Transport Co., Ltd., will, unicas cauro Arbuthnot Lane and referred to to His Majesty's pleasure, the Hon is shown to the contrary, be struck off an article by an Indian Army Of- Sir William Shenton, to be an
Live the register and the company will be fear which he accepted no stand- the Executive dissolved. official Member of
dard. Counell for a further period of fiva
Cross-examined by Mr. Cole, The oflees of the Supreme Court Mr. Arculli said ho did not deal compound will be open daily from 10 am to in vegetable ghee or It is notified in the Gazette that the 1 p.m. during the Chinese New Year mixtures. In the courag of his
ap- vacation, except, on general following gentlemen have been
and business, though, various samples pointed
His Excellency
offices by
the public Holidays, when the Governor as the other members of will be entirely closed, and on Satur- were submitted to him. Eighty the Committee, the Chairman of which day, when they will be open from centa por pound was not a low Is the Harbour Master, to administer 10 nm. to noon, subject however, price, but the price for white ghoo the Mercantile Marine Assistance to the provisions of section 6 of the was a little higher than yellow Fund of Hongkong established by the Supreme Court (Vacations) Ordin ghee because of its scarcity. Yel- Mercantile Marine Assistanco Fundance, 1898, so far as it relates to the low whes was not a mixture. Tho Ordinancs, 1988-The Hon. Mr. J. J. criminal sessions. The Chinero. Now Paterson, Mr. L. II. V. Booth, the Rev. Your vacation will commence on the retail price for vegetable gheo G. T. Waldograve, MA., and Mr. W. 14th February, and terminate on the was 15 cents. It had never been
Kirby
18th February, (both days Inclusive), his experience to have dimculty
Witness: I have heard that shop- keepers do mix it and sell it.
Mr. Cole: And sell it at a cheap- er price.
Witness: The puro ghee.
Lener String Quartet. 1st movement—Allegro vivače. 2nd movement-Menuetto Allegro. 3rd movement--~Andante cantabile, 4th movement-Molto allegro. A same price as
Pm. Local Time and Weather Report.
I put it to you they sell it at a cheaper price. No.
How much do you pay for a pound of pure ghea?-You cannot get puro ghoo in Hongkong. There is the M.D.S. and Sree ghee which are the best qualities, but they are not pure ghee. M.D.S. or Sree is sold at $1.10 or $1,20 per pound.
Replying further, the witness said that if ghee was sold at 70 centa per pound he would not ex- pect to get a good quality.
Mr. Colo: I put it to you that mixtures of ghee, and vegetable ghee are sold and the people know what they are getting and are not deceived. The purchaser does not know.
Magistrate: Does he expect to with get ghee or ghee mixed vegetable gheot
Witness: The best quality of clarified butter. or, witness again said that one Replying to the Crown prosecut could not get pure ghee in the Colony.
Mr, Whyto-Smith: I am sorry, your Worship. I am afraid I will have to call more evidence.
Mr. Hamilton: The gist of his Indians evidence is that if the cannot get what they love they love what they can get.
Mr.. Whyto-Smith: You say that pure gheo cannot be got in Hong- kong: do you mean that it la dif- fioult in the Polleo?
Witness: In the Police the ratlon is not pura ghee.
The hearing was adjourned to February 18 at 2.30 p.m.
8.3-0 p.m. From the Studio. The Classical Trio from the R.M.S. "Emprons of Japan-Frank Harwood (Violin). Glen Morley (Cello) and Joseph Perry (Piano) nasisted by. Miss Hilda Binns (Soprano).
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Straus).
(a) Waltz Scherzo (Oscar (b) Romance Sans Paroles
(Daniel van Goons). (c) The Mill (Ernest Gillette). Songs:
(a) My Shipa (Augustus
Burratt). (b) Estrellite (Little Star)
(Manuel Ponco), Trio:
First Movement (Allegro Molto Appassionato) from Trio in D Minor (Mendelssohn).
Songs:
(a) Sylvin (Oley Sneaks). (b) Rose in the Bud (Dorothy
Trio:
Forster),
(a) Borenade (Pirani).` (b) Serenado (Widor). [(c) Minuet Pastel (Paradis). Songs:
(a) Slave Song (Theresa
del Riego) (b) Homing (Teresa del Riego),
Trio: Cloister Scene (Rove Angellqus).
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