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Headmaster On Trial

GIRL'S STORY OF PICNICS

Further evidence was heard by Mr. W. A. Blair- Kerr at Kowloon yesterday in the case in which Leung Ngat-chi (36), headmaster, and Leung Mong (32) clerk, of the Yeung -Tak Middle School are charged with conspiracy to falsify the accounts of the school. further First defendant is feharged on six counts of larceny ful chord funds. Mr. P. J

tivillitha is appearing for the defendants. while Mr. A. J. Cifford, Crown Counsel, is pro.

eration.

Mi Man Pang-yuen, daughter

BOX-HOLDERS WARNED

The attention of all box Itofer is drawn by the the Postmaster-General to Fast paragraph on Page 40 of the 1ong Kong Post Of

which Ilec Guide (1939)

reads as follows:

"1 private box may not he rente L 1

flelitlous 15.1 Or for an improper purpose. The Postmaster General may refuse to let or relet a box in any person without assigning any rea- son for such rofusal." *

Pastmaster-General The adviser box Holders that they may not transfer, sub- et and/or lu any way allow the use of boxes allotted to them without first securing perintssion from his.. aud

that fallure to abide by this rute with result in automatic coretion of the boxe(cs) for such improper pur-

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complainant (Mau Mak-om) gave evilence in support of one if the Crown's allegations that defendants charged against the funda payment for school's plenies which were actually made by the students themselves,

School Picnic

She declared that the school went for an outing at Diamond H. They walked there and back, she said, and at Diamond Hill alte was given a couple of pieces of bread. The students all brought their own bread. No refreshments were provided by the seliool asserted witness.

Referring to another picnic to 11-milo Bench, Mies Mau asid a lorry was used a transport, trips were The fares on both paid by the students themselves, as was the cost of refreshments. She herself was given, two slices of brend by the first defendant, Hearing will be resumed today.

The Yellow Dragon Is Out Again

While there was no tint that any further collapse was probable in Victoria Street, where a girl was crushed to death and others injured when three verandalis crashed on Monday, the authorities evidently are taking no chances. This "China BlaB" photo shows the buildings buttresseðl by a veritable forest of seaffolding.

KOWLOON COURT GETS A

THOROUGH FACIAL

There has been a vast improvement in the appear- anec of both Cotirls in Kowloon in the last few days with the completion of a new dals for the First Magistrate, dlocks (complete with brass rails) for the prisoners, new tables for prose- cuting and defence counsel, and pews for the Press.

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lo place of the make-shift | Mr. W. II. Latimer now has

nicely his chair and desk on barriers there are now varnished rails in both Courty non the floor as before. Bi witnesses, too, will give for the public gallery,

videne: In the witness stand. bebind a enst-away Court inter-

With these changes have also

OneR with

The two "enlapsibile" disks. of Oregon pine, have given wayang not is sturdy regular "pre-war" dek behind the Principal of pattern As the Acting

burnished | preter, Queen's College, Mr. N. Wil-brass rails, Inside euch dock is liamson. says in an introduce an iron gate for the passage disappeared the last yestiges of tion, "the

the Japanese cccupation and the Yellow Dragon ading down to the cells. breathes yet."

defence heBish use to which Kowloon Prosecutors An illustrated

was put to by the number, with the familiar artis counsel, used to gather and Magh-trney tic cover, and some seventy old dining-tables which, oft Japanese Gendarmes. pages of varied material in times, threatend to take a rest English and Chinese, has an on the four. These are now peared. This, the first of volum: replaced by henry teak tables forty-three, comes after a lapse which can easily withstand the of over six years.

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Last Vestige Of Occupation Representatives of the Press now have "homes" of their own |instend of having to serumble

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Hong Kong Rotary hold its. Christmas lunch at the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden yester day.

A copy of Hong Kong Retar- fan 1948 an attractive publica.

Queen's College now fists. every corner of the Old Japanese School in Kennedy Road with a $4.5800 neccssarily limited student body! academic 1.0830 of over 250 and an

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in- are of special

thoughts and events at Yuletide terest three staff articles: a re "Among the massumper whe!

Since boyhood days, and the pro- miniscent documentation by Mr. eft for Mani'a by CPA Beerdings were rounded off with a Crook, beadmaster. from 1925 tonday were Messers. My to of thanks to the speaker by

Jo Rotarian Dr. Montgomery

who to 1929; a poignant testimony Hamofia, L.G..Paralta. to "Those who Died," by Mr. Quin Lan, Vy Lian Tat, Cynia added some of his Christmas re F.K. Chang and a masterly ex-Chen, and Cia Bon Au. position of "Tones in Cantonese" by that well-known authority, Mr. Leung Ping Hin

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The President, Dr. Tseung Miss Haper Lambertion and announced that arrangements hod been made with the Hotel Man- Messrs. J. G. Dailey, Ma Chokagement to hold the Club's week- ling, Wong Sai-fing and Tanty meetings on the Roof Garden, Kiot Sin. left for Bangkok on it was like going back to the

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Steaming into the harbour, HMS "Vengeance" saluted the Vice, Commander-in-Chief,

"Mickey," as she is popularly! Kowken Inland Lut No. GooG Admiral Sir Denis Boyd, with called, "arrived in Hong Kong at Sung Wong Toi Road, Magons. A return salute of seven with an gun was fired by the C-in-C's from Japan about a year age. Tau Kok, Kowloen, Within that period she has be- area of about 60,000 sq. ft. will flagship HMS "London".

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Reminders

Today...

Children's Xmas Party, Kow

posted. Mish Clarke always took et the Office of the Superin- United Servic:s ficcreation Club every opportunity to indulge intendent of Crown Lands and her favourite sport-hockey. Surveys. Lower Albert Road.

C-IN-C GOING

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Vice-Admiral Sir.. Denis Boyd,. Commander-in-Chief, British Pacific Fleet, is leaving on January 6 for Bingapore in his dagship, HMS "London"

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