THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1948.
Smuggling Ordinance Outlined Crown Witnesses
Colonial Secretary Speaks On Restrictions In Council
An indication of the formidable list of restrictions, which Hong Kong, a free trading community, has imposed on herself as a voluntary act to assist a neighbour-China-was given by Mr. D. M. MacDougall, Colonial Secretary, at the Legislative Coun- cil meeting yosterday.
Mr. MacDougall said the list is unprecedented.
The climax, he added, is reached with the presentation for its First Reading of the Smug- gling Into China (Control) Ordinance.
The Colonial Secratary spoke to move the First He said that Rooding of the now Ordinance. the various measures which have boon adopt- éd to help China are costing the taxpayer, in administering the various acts, more than HK$250,000 annually. Speaking up new Bill. Mr. Marlougolf sail.
"I will be perfe That the
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supreement was brought onto Torre From Justiary 26 the year 201 Jar by that war precable withenti legislation by Has Couchert,
really in
Farewell Given For
Fryers
Inspector George Fryer onli Mrs. Fryer were given a great sond-off when they left Cheung Chatt Island on Monday on transfer to the Upper Levels. Police Station.
As the popular couple left the police station for the Jauneh, the forced In China's favour, Smug route was Hned with hundreds gled goods cannot be recorded on Cheung Châu reskients who ships' manifests and therefore cheered them to the echo, Folk have been confiscated by us belowing them was a "dragon" and fore leaving for Chinese
ports
Alion" parade.
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Testify At PWD Larceny Hearing The installation of two fluorescent lamps in the
offices of Lowbridge, Shackleton and Co., Prince's Building, first floor, was 'the principal subject touched upon by Crown witnesses of
· the continued hearing of the PWD larcony case yesterday.
Kwok Kwong, 46-year-old foremon of the Public
Works Department electrical workshop at Hung Hom, Austin Spary, aged 49, Grade I electrical inspector, and Arthur Frederick May, 41-year-old Grade | electrical engineer, are being separately charged on 12 counts of con- spiracy, fraudulent conversion of Government materials, and falsification of documents."
Kowloon.
ay this year 10 assist in firing of the club preymires.
thu
He brought uo materiale with imate was paid for the work, which was done during his work- ng hours, as usual,
He was instructed hy Ngau Pui to work at the Kal Ink offices of the CPA, and, was there for two days, and witness. On the second day he went there on a Hung Hom Workshop lorry ba
Loft In Car
The Chinese Maritime Customs A long line of samparin Rid Mr. A. Hooten, Crown Coun- in Bowling Green on a Satur ure permitted to maintain exami- limka, with strings of crackers nation
officers at the Kowloon blazing away, followed the Pollen sel, assisted by Detective Sub- MacPherson, pro- Railway Station and they are in lunch as it steamed slowly out Inspector
secuted. Mr. J. M. d'Almada ndallion supplied daily with of the Cheung China bay. list of planes leaving for certain
represented Kwok | Prior
departure. Remedios Cheir Chinese cities in order to vent smuggling activities on the spector and Mrs. Fryer were Kwong: Mr. V. L. D'Alton, in- of honour of the structed by Mr. P. J. Grimths, the guest
C. planes. Hecently aisa a mensure Cheung Chau Chinese Residents for Spary; and Mr. J
whereby all Association at a farewell party Stewart for May. fuulat on the issue was happily
The com- linched by the very distinguished manifests of ships are chopped by at the Ho Tai Shun Restaurant,"
mittal
are being proceedings In the course of his peech taken before Mr. J. Wicks at Diretor-General of the Chinese the Imports and Exports Depart
Service,
Changment before leaving for China, Customs
Mr.
Mr. Chu Pak-sang, the Chairman
which there was a coil, of wite, Fu-yun,
of the Association, referred to the when he paid us
Export Control the
H. L. W. Aftklus, foreman of the The wire was taken from tlic and onour of a visit the other day.
Under the financial agreement, genial personality, kindless
and E. Branch of Royal Naval Dock-tores at Hung Hom tha Cloverument awes 14:
Effective Date again with an eye solely to our sympathy of their
the gratitude and yard and formerly a Lieutenant- tr responsibilities
our Xpressed
Commander in the R.N.V.R., an Compwal on expintuition of the de- "Nevertheless, both parties had inurl
respect of the residents for
He left Hung Hom Workshop expert witness ralled by the pro- lay which he emcee Mored their eye on January 20 as neighbour, we have imposed an partiendas Fe 1 duck, on view of in effective starting date of the export control over eight major inspector and Mrs. Fryer,
"On leaming the news of the seeution, testified to having visit some time after 8 a.m. on July |23, last, anid witness, In a car lo and exporta
ell various places in company The tone of some of the reports | Agreement
be exported
ted Inspetor's transfer," he shit the and statement nechuch have ap; | nltially for one year, and if commodities cannot feared the at prem, in China from | Cugncil accepts the present BALL
Team Hong Kong unless the ex-Cheung Chau Chinese Residents with Detective Sub-Inspector V, which were Lai Kwun und Kwok M. Morrison, and to having made Kwong, and went over to an of
fier ai tre House Street. On m cicetrient- in- Terase tamme Ououghout sprink will at the bont be near the porter can produce a certillente Association sent in a petition 10 valuations of the
rival at the building shortly after and sommer
end of October before it passes of origin issued by Chinese authe Honourable the Commissioner Into law.
At M. Davies, he said he found am.. Lai and to were told by thorities showing that the foreign af Police asking for the retentionstallations found there.
or Inspector Fryer in Cheung one of the two houses he was for May.
by Kwok that they had to wait "The Chinese Government have exchange proceeds have been sur-
Chu, but regret to say the rendered to the Central Bank of the petillon wor of no avall, | therefore
taken to completely wired, and "After" waiting for about two Kuggested-and uggestion seems to us very rea-China.
We are indeed very sorry to the servants' quaciers of the ad- hours, said witness, a man spoke "In recent weeks we have taken onable that
good-bye to Mr. and hire. Joining building also wired. Theo Kwok Kwong and they went might fairly we take secount of the time lag re-
We hope in the days to total value of the installation upstairs where he was told by steps in Hong Kong to lend all y
Fryer. presented bay M two dates, support to the new Chinese Gold came they will continue to Help here was, in his option, $1,210,- Kwok Kwong to wait while Lai and Kwok went back to Hung January 20 and the end of Octo- Yuan currency. Banks have beea Cheung Chou," said the speaker, 16, inclusive of labour.
On the same afternoon forbidden tp remit to China or lo ber!
oflum to fetch the Buorescen liver then presented a
August 24, he went to the Ceelin lumps. The inmps Wert even- Schjert to Council's approval purchase from China Gold Yuan fulver, Inscribed with the Jour
Beauty Salon and estimated the ually installed by 5 p.m. se proposed to give an under- except through banks authorised
Chinese characters incaning electrient installations there at Government 10 Thoroughness in work and har
Witness identified Heitmever, we will not exercise by the Chinese
$544,02, including hbour cost. inking that
Tsang, and Leung, as the three mony among people, to Mrs. The two ceiling fans there were men he saw in that afflec. He eur right to give three months' undertake such transactions rotice of termination of
the China, Agreement until one year after
"In a word, to put the matter Frankly, we have been prett
tadig and I wont be departe stast team the truth at Id not tell
That you
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"A recent regulation also has Freyer nk a token of the A-socin-worth about $489 for the pair. Jollected the $70 from Leung, he
"Which happeuert we qante 90- ple the Agebeinent le, at etmerged in Nanking under the zonat adama- ture of the (investments of China and Great Britan ented by some neapar neelent at Szap showing the probabutral
stadfererat Deep Bay
the present mill has had its third prohibited persons bringing into from the probibuted area agreeń
rending and been passed into law..g Kong from Chira or taking on the spot in Hong Kong
In other words, we undertake to
nta Cirn from Hong Kong more tuve been 41 next
a minimum thun 26 Gold Yuan and where very series offer pe I should give the Agreciment
several triat period of 15 months begin persons have been found carrying hundred mutually cerptable de- ning with the date on which this sun in excess of, this figure it hus been consented in the local the B has its third reading, areation lines other tizan
should “
the courts. So far an amount of about explain that and agreed { one actually homen
Customs
has been so Agreement contains a 10,000 Gold Yuan whitch waiddel turke „erved the
which enables either seized. purpose of both punti, equally provision
party to give three months' notice The foregoing is an indication well;
But the antonishing fact of termination should the opern-of the formidable list of restric- that the litre which appeared tin of the Agreement be found tions which a free trading.com-
working 10 thut party's
lisad-munity has inflicted on itself, as a
initiates That there are
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Final Confirmation Peak without crossing
the demarcation line and enter Ing a forbidden area.
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tion's appreciation and a souvent he said. He also went to 19 Hausaid, and handed R to Kwok of the departing couple's stay at Wong Street, first floor, where he Kwong at Hung Hom on the day Cheung Chau.
volued the Installation there Inspector Fryer's position DS $255.74. officer-in-Charge of the i Lanc
The value of the electrical wir
Axtures At 20 Cross Street. first floor, was about nice in taken by Sub-Inspector in and
$240.10. He called at that ad- dress on Siember 2. CPA Job
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Kwok Hop went on to say that he went to 24 Hankow Road, third floor, th September or Octo her last year to repair some elec ric. lights and took with him about 50 yards of Government wires from Kwok Kwong at the Hung Hom Workshop.
After Lal Kwan, another PWD had corrobornici
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On August 24 and September 6. he went to the Cathay Pacific electricion,
he Kwok Hop's evidence. further Arrivals by CPA yesterday from Airways at Kal Tak where
Florence Ng examined the electrical Installa-hearing was adjourned to Included on what may call the Nanking (antage. So what is proposed is voluntary act to assist a neigh-Manila
engine shop. air morning of October 12. possible out of all the lines was the one we were that as from the dule of the third bour. It is, I venture to say, un- Han-eng, Yap Tal, Teh Lan, rations in the
conditioning room, and electrical But the climax is Tenz, and Lim totally unable to accept. it out reading the Agreement will run precedented.
shop, and placed them at $7,295) our sea communications within for one year, any date after reached with the Legislation now
Departures from the Peninsula 40.
DSI' Morrison pointed out the Colony so that you
could which either side may terminate before Council,
at three months' notler.
"It is worth while examining, Hotel on Tuesday included Mr. not all from Yuan Long to
what the present Bill gives to and Mrs. Auewogber, Mr. and him some small installations at
Shanghai Castle
Street, a gold- China and what it does not, for Mrs. E. H. Grinim, Captain and 663 The fire in Deep Buy now there have appeared in the press Mrs. Inch, Mesars. P. E. Shaouy, smith's shop when they visited the premises on August 25, said "A this took some time to go! mutually agreed with Mr. Chang from time to time a number of L. H, Chow williams. J. J. Carey | fotal value of these new wiring
T. C. G. Pearson, B.
witness. He would say that the Fu-yun and designated in the suggestions that the powers of B. Hamer, G. straight setti there were 27118-
present Bi is subject to final {the Chinese Customá in Hong and H. H. Wang,
was $60. On the same day they understandings in both sides; but confirmation by the Governments Keng are to be wider than is in
of China and Great Britain by fact actually contemplated and i Among the arrivals at the Pen- went to the Tokwawan Market- where ho found Installations worth about $205/70.
On the Castle Peak pier, which he visited on September 20;-he found four PWD workmen
dig- ging a trench two inches wide by three inches deep and about 29 feet long
which, they
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in Nanking by the appropriate representative-authorities.
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"The First Reading of this Bill
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understanding confirmation will be forthcoming and in order to avoid further loss of time. But the Second and Third Readings, which would normally be moved
hence, must 13 fortnight wait the actual confirmation In Vanking of the new Deep Bay
provided for in this Bil.
insula Hotel on Tuesday were Messr, Frank Smith, D. D.. Gar "Let me any straight away len. A, Roche, B, B. Dionne, D. that the Custome Agreement. Thurber and Chen Teh-tann. wiil
No not stop amuggling. agreement and no legislation yet devised by the wit of man
Not Stop Smuggling............ Captain and Mrs. R. Papanie.
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trench about 44 feet long. He found no material on the job. and estimated the labour cost at $208,
in and Axing the electrical
NEW ORDINANCES was for an underground cable has been able to do this. It has Two new ordinances were add. for a navigation light at the end not stepped it in Amerien anded to the Colony's Statute Book of the pier. There was another
yesterday. They were: it will not stop. It In China. ! "Nor does the agreement or this An Ordinance to amend the Banking Ordinance 1910 which Ine. If, as I hope, Council votes present Bill give the n favour of the First Reading Maritime Customs power to requires banks to file coples of today, the dates of the Second search ships in Hong Kong, al- their balance sheet with the Fins and Third Reedings will depend though they have reason to ancial Secretary.
An Ordinance to authetise the in the speed with which the ex-suspect that unlawful contraband
British Ciganottee Company change of letters to which I have is on a ship about to sail for Limited to convert their capital referred can be completed In China they will be able to draw Nunking.
the attention of the Hong Kong Into Hong Kong currency. "Tho proposed Custom Revenue Officers, to this fact and Agreement is the latest in the Hong Kong officers will take series of steps we have taken action accordingly. to help China to this difficult "The Chinese Maritime Cu and dangerous post-war
tomis will not have the privilege Perhaps because she was in the of setting up stations in the New war longer than any of us and Territories, although trafle leave longer endured occupation and ing the Now Territories for China plunder of her economic nerve will be directed to points where centres by the common enemy, Chinese Customs stations exist. she emerged on the day of vic-
"What the Agreement does do tory with her economy strain is to institute a system of control compatible with Hong Kong's
or
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The fluorescent amp he BOW, at the Hung Hom Workshop was definitely a Navy lamp and cost the Navy $100. The cost of wir-
points at the Lalchikok Hospital would be about $1.491.53, while that of the Water Police Station was about $3.503.40. Electrical wiring and bell pushers at the Kowloon Magistracy were estim inclusive of_celling 'fans; ated by witness to cost $6,823.05, Horst Heltmeyer. manager of Lowbridge, Shackleton & Co.. and a brother-in-law of May. said that in July he consulted third defendant about improving the lights in his office in Prince's TRAM COLLISION Building: May, he said, was kind
enough to advise that fuorescent About 10.30 am. yesterday, light be an improvement and war and inflation and communica- the movement of commodities Tramcar No. 79, which was going
suggested the make that he should have! Europe and an adverse balance these
ed and all but exhausted.
To this was then added civil sovereign status which will limit
The wedding of Lieutent Colonel Francisco Mapa Gomez, of the Feninsula Hotel; and Dr. (Miss) Fajardo Villanuevo, Francesca took place at the Supreme Court Marriage Registry yesterday in the presence of Mr. Jullo M. Mapa and Mr. Jose O. Pelayo.
tion difficulties undreamt of in from Hong Kong to China to East towards Causeway Bay along
thing has built up to the present economic situation of which this Council is only too well aware.
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A Chinese man came shortly of payments leading to restric-Kong has control at this end and Road West, collided with the rear after the conversation took place tions on Imports. And the whole the Chinese Customs at the other of a lorry.
and inspected the offfee, during which visit witness showed him end. The effect must be to reduce muggling to a minimum and to
where the lamps were to be x- make it a yet more precarious satisfaction of standing by
afcd. operation, yet more unprofitable neighbour and of delag what is feltmayer aald that he was
Great Burden "This is the time above all
right and decent-the jackal role not in the office all the time that when China needs and is entitled · "The measures which I have is not for us. And the accond is the lamps were being installed, to ask all the help her friends can outlined have imposed a great the knowledge that by our, pre-as he came, late, that afternoon. give. Her problems will certainly burden
administrative sout setions we are contributing He received a bill for 570, paksed be solved primarily by her own start. I estimate the cost to the to the possibility of re-establish- through the books, and bad it efforis, but by the support also of taxpayer, in. administering these ing in the Far East the conditions Bald by the cashier.
Did Not Suspect various Facts af more
aru' ordered trade than of peacótul great and powerful friends,
Helther great placed at the "Wa
In reply to Crównť Còunkét, HK$250,000 annually. We have without, which our Colony Has no
of China
witness said that he never disposal powerful but we are a friend and
We We pro in truth one world pected that the trankhelion was we have done to the utmost, what our adımlarative capacity,regi, or useful fúttiré at áll. lay within us to do to help, Over have
Burrendered
red with Asia and. In these days of rot lawful. Fo. saw his brother femrights at a economic difficulties which over-in-law again after the lamps the last 18 months in a series of some of our measures both legislative and ad- Ume when sovereign: rights are shadow so many countries it has were installed, and thanked, him ministrative we have set our face being ever more jealously hoarded become in some measure fashion for his helpful suggestions. resolutely
Tranz Wing, cashier of the those against
who in other, parts of the world
to share able for those to have would seek to feed upon cur "But yet we have undertaken with those who have not. We are, im; seatinted to having paid the neighbour's. distress.
We are a all these measures willingly and as I have said. previously, only a $70 to a man who signed himself free trade port and by freedom is reusonable to ask what we small Colony and we have not a Kwok Tlop on July 31 of trade our citizens can their in Hour Tong: receive in return LEYES 107/ditioners av stale wrote down the name of Kwok daily bread. Yet ships leaving for all of this. We whop life is comparable with more richly wong and the telephone hum
wtion to With
communicatie Hong Kong for Chinese porta in free trade, have to our ships endowed continents. Tot what we ber 67017 as he wanted to know must have their manifests chop autorever uphragmattait can do wonder contributienas the lamp: 86 wronk -THE ped by our Marine Department and all, but smothered lour: long beenWoraló making prior to thein departure-in-order suiteringen kader wily Dude of Vand cats with the faith and bill bare the chop of the Kwong to cheurg: that a true manifest, is roumas ir teroranter
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