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Monday, January 28, 1974
Heden Hok Lai-fong, of 40 Cheung Shui Street, ground floor,
Kowloon, was fined $4,500 after pleading guilty to three summonses
of storing dangerous goods on board parked and unattended vehicles
without valid licences.
Divisional Officer Li said that there would be no request for
confiscation of the goods in this, or any, of the cases as "we don't
wish to create a fuel shortage."
Hos Yu Shook-fai, of Tai Fat Hong, 464 Tai On Building
(4th floor), Shaukivan Road, Hong Kong, pleaded guilty to storing
400 gallons of kerosene on the pavement in front of No. 19, Block 6,
Chai Wan Estate, ground floor, Hong Kong.
Mr. Li told the Court that the defendant operated a retail
shop at Chai Wan Estate, but could not hold a licence to store dangerous
goods because the premises were situated near a domestic building.
The risk posed by storing this quantity of dangerous goods
in such an estate is extremely serious," Mr. Li declared.
iss Yu was fined $2,500. Mr. Blackwell asked her:
Mhat
would have happened if someone had thrown a lighted cigarette into the
kerosone? How many people do you think might have been killed or mained
through your carelessness?"
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