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NOW THAT WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF HOT WEATHER MOST PEOPLE FEEL THE WANT OF A GOOD RESTFUL HOLIDAY. Here is a good selection of trips which we offer..
EX-OFFICER WHO
STOLE FIANCEE'S
Good Doubles Game GOLF CLUBS SENT
Promised
TO BORSTAL
The Colony Hardcourt Tennis Championships, under the auspices
An ex-public school boy and of the United Services Recreation
R.A.F. officer, Neville Club, commencé to-day, weather former permitting, when several interest-George Clevely Heath, 21, pleaded ing matches should be witnessed. guilty at the Old Bailey recently of charges, which The best match to-day will pro-to a number
of golf bably be the doubles encounter included stealing a bag between E. C. Fincher and A. V. clubs, belonging to his fiancee and Remedios and Paul Kong and stealing valuables worth £51 from Tennie Kwok, which the former pair the house of a friend. are favoured to win.
TO-DAY'S MATCHES
to-day's fix-
The Recorder,, Mr. Gerald Dod- Borstal for son, sent Heath to three years and told him: "This is a tragic record. There were such bright prospects, but now you have spoilt it all.
The following are tures:
Court No. 11.-Wong Fook-nam v.| Major F. T. Baines.
Court No. 12.-S. A. Gray v. Major you and that is your own instincts.
L. A. Newnham.
"There is only one
chance for
Court No. 17.-E. C. Fincher and A. to do right. I cannot believe you V. Remedios v. Paul Kong and Tennie have lost all of them at your early Kwok.
age."
Court No. 18.-I. Agafuroff and J. Pengelly v. R. C. S. Allin and J. R. R. Jenkins.
Mr. J. Burge, prosecuting, said that in February Heath stole "a car were 25 cheques, Court No. 19.-Pang Oi-lam and Mok|
in which there Fuk-in v. H. W. Lee and S. W. Liang.
Umpires must be found by the from a woman at Pevensey Bay, first-named player or pair in each Sussex. He drove about the coun match, who will also be responsible try and obtained lodgings and. for handing in the result to the various artícles in Sussex, Somer-
U.S.R.C. member of the
Tennis set and Leicestershire. Committee on duty.
If matches scheduled for
He stayed at an hotel in Rich- and ob- any mond, with his fiancee,
day have to be postponed, owing to tained credit to the extent of £12. the weather, they will be played Afterwards he went off with his
fiancee's golf clubs. ·
on the first following day which is fit for play and schedules for suc- ceeding days' play will be altered accordingly.
Play must commence at 6.15 p.m. sharp.
each day
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FORGED BANKER'S DRAFT
draft in He signed a banker's the name of an officer in the R.A.F. whom he had known at Duxford, and obtained clothing from a firm: of tailors.
Heath also broke into the house- at Edgware of a man he knew and stole jewellery and other artioles. worth $51. The friend holiday at--Brighton at the time, and next day Heath coolly went to stay at the same hotel.
was. on
In a statement Heath said that after leaving the R.A.F. in 1937 he was convicted for obtaining goods. by false pretences and afterwards found it difficult to get work.
He got a job with a well-known firm under an assumed name but had to leave.
"I have no excuse for what I. have done," the statement conclud- ed.
Detective Briscoll said that in November, 1937, Heath was bound over at Nottingham for attempting to obtain a motor by false pre-- tences, and eight other offences at
and Peter-- Stamford, Cambridge, borough were taken into considera- tion.
public:
He was educated at a school and in March, 1936, joined the R.A.F. as an officer. He obtain-- ed a commission as a pilot officer, but was dismissed by a court mar-- tial after his civil conviction, în1 1937.
LOCAL DOLLAR
The demand rate on the Hong Kong dollar to-day was 1/2. "Spot", silver was quoted, London at 19-5/16 and forward |10-1/8"
The London on New York was quoted at £-U.S.34.8787 the New York on London rate
LU.S.3487-5/16.
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