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EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1932.

"MY HAIR STOOD THE MAN WHO

UP ON ENDS.”

Mr. A. Stevenson Has Narrow Escape.

BENCH TAKES SERIOUS VIEW.

"I can assure you that it made my hair stand up, on end when I' saw the car veer towards me," re- marked Mr. A. Stevenson, Manager of the Dairy Farm Co., Limited, in the Central Police Court this morning, when he appeared before Mr. W. Schofield to prosecute Lau Tat-sam, the driver of a public motor-car, for dangerous driving, in Pokfulam Road.

KNOWS BEER.

Yet He Is A Strict Teetotaller.

حي

Tea-And Still Thirsty.

MEN WHO TASTE BUT NEVER DRINK.

London, May 28.

WALLACE HARPER FINED $10.

Improper Regulation Trade Plate.

DRIVER CAUTIONED.

Mr. Wallace Harper, Manliging Director of Wallace Harper & Co.) Ltd, authorised Ford dealers, ap- peared before Mr. Schofield in the Central Police Court this morning, A man who makes a comfortable summoned by Traffic-Sergeant Mc- income from drinking tea told me Innis for allowing a motor lorry to to-day that he had not had a cup, be used in Wyndham Street on June of tea for thirty years.

18 without two proper regulation The driver This is because drinking, or, trade numbers-224. more accurately, tasting tea is his of the. lorry, Cheung Yim, employed As a member of the Automobile | profession, Tea for him means by Mr. Harper, was also summoned

for driving? Association Mr. Stevenson request- business and not refreshment.

Both defendants pleaded guilty,

ed his Worship to make an ex- Tea-tastera-you will find them ample of the case, as it was an in-around Mincing Lane--are men stance of very bad judgment on with sensitive palates Blindfold Sergeant McInnis said that there the defendant's part to pass other a first-class tea-taster, place a leaf was only one regulation trade plate, cars on the arc of a bend. Cases of tea on his tongue, and he will the other having been made by the The fee for a pair of of this nature, he stated, were fre- tell you the name of the plantation company. quent, but there was not one so from which it came. outstanding as this particular one. All day long the tea-taster sits His Worship-Is the Government

Mr. Stevenson, giving the facts, beside his kettle and tea-pot-with defrauded of any money?

Sub-Inspector Saunders stated he was driving from, town odd rushes to his bonded ware-

plates was $120.

-The

In a westward direction. On near- house. It is a hard life, sometimes fact remains, it is insisted on by the ing the western gate of the Uni-even a thirsty one, for he tastes, I.G.P. that these motor companies versity along the Pokfulam Road, but, never swallows what he tastes. use only regulation plates.

three cars approached him in a The Art of Wine Tasting.

Mr. Harper explained that the line in the opposite direction. On Even more fascinating than the loss of one of the plates was not the arc of the bend, the defendant, tea-taster at work is his colleague reported to him, and he only be whose car was last, overtook the who deals in wine.. Tasting winecame aware of it when the sum

Issued. He had since two front care. Fortunately the is a profession that calls for some-mons was road was wide, and Mr. Stevenson thing more than a sensitive palate. made application for another plate, was able to swing over to the left, The wine-taster must have a good and had given instructions for the but even then a collision was only nose, too,

plate T 224 not to be used.

Sergeant McInnis-About the in- narrowly averted.

Before tasting, the wine-taster One previous conviction for "noses" his samples. A good structions. I saw the plate being negligent driving

proved bouquet, he says, means probably used in Nathan Road yesterday against the defendant.

a good wine, Next he notes the afternoon, on a car.

waz

THE AMERICAN OPEN.

His Worship imposed a fine of colour by holding the thin crystal His Worship-Apparently your not $30, and directed the defendant's glass to the light. rotating it with instructions, Mr. Harper, are

being carried out. licence to be dealt with by'suspen-a skilful wrist.

Replying to the Bench, Mr. sion.

This done he takes a mouthful, rolls it upon his tongue, ejects it Harper asserted that the Improper The moment has arrived to taste. plate might have been used for This is done by drawing the air in about a month. The driver, Cheung) (Contimied from Page 1.) ·

through the lips. The taste buds Yim, knew nothing about it. of the tongue then give their var- Accepting the explanation, his Worship imposed a fine of $10 on but after encountering difficul-diet. ties at the twelfth where he was Although the wine-taster actual Mr. Harper, and cautioned the birdie he became unsteady, and ly drinks practically nothing, a Chinese driver. returned the disappointing score morning's work leaves him of 76.

often than not with nausea. But Billy Burke, the holder, show-it is nothing to the sensations of ed good form throughout without the conscientious taster of cognac. in any way extending himself. Cognac-tasting la bard work. It is Walter Hagen, who was unable to exceedingly unpleasant, too, leav compete in the British Open is ing the tongue furred and the head out to break the world's record heavy. for wins in Open events, and his caused form to-day must have

of satisfaction.

The Beer Expert.

more

There is another man who knows

CEMENT COMPANY

ACCIDENT.

Empty Truck Falls on Coolie.

his supporters a certain amount more about beer than any man in

Whilst pulling an empty truck the country. For 80 years he has backwards at the

Green Island! Macdonald Smith, the runner bean tasting beer, and no impurity Cement Company's works at Hung- has ever been known to slip past hom. at 3.15 a.m. to-day, Ko Hung up in the British Open, proved a disappointment as did Tommy his all-knowing tongue.

(26) a coolie living at 202 Ma Tau

Armour. Horton Smith, known Ask him to take a glass of beer Wet Road, fell from a height of ter as the "Cotton of America," was with you and you receive the reply feet off a raised platform. also in poor form, and he does not that he is a teetotaller when off

The truck fell on to pof him, the seem able to get out of the rut in duty. The best-known gin-taster coolie sustaining severe abdominal which he has been for the last six is also a non-drinker, strangely injuries, causing his removal to the months.

enough.

The following were the leading scores:-

Olin Durtra (USA.) Leo Diegel (USA)

-And Even Water. When measures LOMO before Parliament. affecting water sup- 69 plies the quality of the water is 78 always a point of importance.' ... Gene Sarazen (U.S.A.) 74 This is where yet another pro- Billy Burke (U.S.A.)

76fessional drinker comes in the Walter Hagen (U.S.A.) 75 water-taster.. A well-known T. P. Perkins (Britain) 76 geologist. for many years gave bis Von Elm (USA)

79 services for these occasions. He Horton Smith (U.S.A.) .... 80 boasted that a single drop of water Macdonald Smith (U.S.A.) 80 upon his sensitive tongue was sufi-" Tommy Armour (Ù.S.A.) ....... 82 cient to give away ita merita and

Reuter's American Service. betray the source of its origin.

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