1948-10-26 — Page 3

Medicine Dealer Found Guilty Of Drug Swindle

Hearing In Ammunition,

"Streptomycin is a curative for tuberculosis,

In

this case, there is the terrible possibility that members of the public, suffering from a dread disease and placing themselves in the hands. of medical people, may be treated with a use. fess powder."

Arms Case The foregoing was part of the comment's made by

Hearing was continued be- More Mr. F. X. d'Almada al Central yesterday when Kwong Kong, aged 22. and Li Yak- lin, aged 21, spinster were jointly charged with possession of arms and ammunition.

Detective Sergeant Lnu Pool; Bald that at 4 a.m. con May 22,

inspector accompanied by

par

Mr. J. Wicks at Kowloon yesterday after he had: found Lee Shing-chuen, 22-year-old medicine deoler of Siam, guilty on four charges of pos session of dangerous drugs, and one each of applying a false trade description and of con- spiring to defraud the public.

of

T. Giving judgment, the 'magis-and Wong Ching-mo, were re- Cashman and party, he went to trate said, "The necused ts teased on Geptember 2 when the No. 24 Lipper Station

Street, found guilty of participation prosecution withdrew the churgo ground floor.

in one of the most heartless.gulus them, and turned King's In response in their knocks and

evidence against Lea Shing chuon. the disclosure of their office, they conspiracies that could be con-

Filling Bottles were let in by the woman defenceived.

According to evidence given by "The ccused admitted in the dant.

After making known their visit, witness box that streptomycle is the two men, they were engaged the treatment of In filling and capping and bottling recond defendant and

it had used for

that the the buffles by defendant's god- nothing to do with her and pros tuberculosis, and also duced from under a shelf

power placed in the boltles was father, Lee Hon-yee, before he

left for Slam. dollar. eel which opening revealed one worth a fraction

Soon after the arrival of ag Mauser pleto, two revolves and Bereas the price of streptomycin cured from Sinm

on or about is rounds of annuition.

is at least $10 a bottle.

the

July 11, the godfather left the terrible PICTO Bhe said that the parcel, which,

that

Colony, but accused was left on members the conlentility were left there by a Kong Chat publle, suffering from a dread dis the premises, occupying a bed

gase and placing themselves in space in the parage-way. (first defendant),

Kwong Kong fold the court how the hands of medical prople, many woman, sald one of the witnesses, after the liberation he Just work by treated with useless power.cupted the front cubicle where

(most of the drugs were found.

Defendant. denying knowledge Not Traced

evidence is of the presence of the drugs, ad: It was while working in the The u celinus

Some white 90 of miltted that He put Noeul Yord that

of about be met psoral) that three oft

60 bottles. This defendant, They berane on good these bottles were left on the powder Info

powder was certified by the Gov-

calcium-chlorido..

she did not know

ed in the Nučal Yard, later join- ing the sa. Wing Bing.

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pox-

of the

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THÊ CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26,-1048.

12,807 Snails. Collected

́Al' average monthly colles- tlon of 12,807 Giant African Balle was madeʻlast year try the Gardens Department

The 1947-48, annual report of the Superintendent said. that a total of 183,093 snails, weighing, 10,603 pounds,' was collected and destroyed in the pärlöd- under, review,

In the seven months of 1946, the total way. 82,609 analle weighing 6,425 pounds.

The Glant" African, Brail made a dramatic appearance In the Coigny ¡A'1942′ and has bean Increasing steadily, it has become a majar, pést of culūvķtions In the Colony.

There are no recorda that the post has spread to the New Territories...

The collections referred to were made at the Bontania Gardena, Government Hours,

Spekunpop Nursery and at the Protestant Cemetery.

The Department's report seld that solla aldehyde mola 30-50 powder mixed with parts of dry rice bren and scattered freely where snaila abound has baan found to be 'an effective method of con. trol.

It's Friendship!

Court Dismisses Appeal Against Tribunal's Verdict

Judgment was passed by Mr. Justice Gould of the Supreme Court yesterday on an appeal against the decision of a Tenancy Tribunal, in respect of an application for an eviction order.

Mr. Charles Loseby was for "I therefore confirm the order the appellant Lal Mo-kon and of the learned, magistrate and Mr. Arculli for the respondent, dismiss the appeal with costs,"

Hin Shi.

The gist of the judgmont was Chan Feo ran into p. policeman ng follows.

just after he had mintelied HK$5 "The appellant argues thut from 19-year-old girl in Shang owing to the reversal of the rhai Street.

der of the words "by grunting": Brought before Mr. W. and "reffising to grant", in 150 Latimer; at Kowloon yesterday proviso to section 19, Landlord he was sente.iced to six months" Rod Tenant Ordnance, 1947, the imprisonment and recommended (711 of proof is alio reversed for deportation. nud is therefore upon the land- lord. This is an interpretation which I think I must accept as being correct,

"Or this assumption Mr. Lossby argues that the existence of - ternative accommodation for tho

Reminders

Today,

10

Exhibition of Paintings by Mr.,

Douglas Bland, St. Johri's Cathedral. Hall, 10 am. Bridge Drive, European YMCA,

4 p.m.

tenant must be proved by the landlord, and that as the magis trale had found that thoro was no reliable avidoncé

he on which

| could find

8. fact that there was avaliable alternative accom- Lị Sun, aged 80, and Li Kom-modation for the tenant and mem- cheong were friends, but that did bets of his family,

the landlord not prevent La Sun from entering has failed to discharge the onus his friend's unnumbered hut atplucod upon him by the nection 21 Uk Chuen at 3.15

Literary on and accordingis his application October 24, and scaling a sult of should have been dismissed. European-style cotton clothes. "The position under the Land- He was, however, seen by Lilord and Tenant Ordinance, 1947. Kam-cheong's wife who woke her is entirely different. It is not a

was caught pad brought to the of the orrier for possession that Mr. P. L. Lam appeared for the police station,

the Tribunal should be satisfied defence.

that alternative accommodation is available to the tenant.

4.IT

ing is that those bottles have not /rnment Chemist to be dextrose- Rusband up. The one-time friend necessary condition to the makingj

terms with each other, and had tour, and what is more distress- ktimate relations.

While he was on the Wing Hing been traced." second defendant dkk a lot of Defendant wha sentenced 40 smuggling by his boat.

Does totalling $800 (or four Their intimacy ended when he nths bard labour) on the four d) covered that she was golug posses ion counts, and 12 months' about with another musaggler. burd laborır on the conspiracy to

Second elefondsins

charge. A cro-defend

Concurrent examination of test detendani | peunlty of four month hard challenged him to prove she Lad labour was imposed on the falso

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OFFENDERS OF SANITARY LAWS ARRESTED BY SD

Intimate relations with him and inbel count. He was also recom- Following the warning issued

requested the court to adjourn del fer banishment, the case that she might be ined- ically examined,

Hearing wan then adjourned to November 3. when a peceat certifiente will be produced.

FIRE DESTROYS. SQUATTERS HUTS

A Bre which broke DILET

When Ll Sin wae charged be fore Mr. J. Wicks at Kowloon yesterday, Sub-Inspector J. H. Evans revealed that he was ex- pelled on October 24, 1947, Kor larceny.

Accused was sentenced to 10

Greater Hardship-

-"It is only necessary to satisfy { the Tribunal that greater hard-

months hard labour and record-ould be caused by refusing

mended for banishment.

to grant the order than by grant- ing it. And in deciding this ques- tion of hardship, the existence of alternative Accommodation both

for landford and tenant is only one element, thought, no doubt, un important element, to be con aldered by the Tribunal.

OPIUM OWNER GETS 6 MONTHS Revenue Inspector Redman was complainant before Mr, F. X, d'Almada at Central yesterday, "In my opinion, if the landlord when She Mo-lin, aged 39, was shows that the premiers are ren

required, then it is charged with being in possession sonably

Tae case, which lasted six hen-- (by the Public Relations Office ings, arose out of a raid made by on Saturday that the law goy. Detective Sub-Inspector C. Pope, erning the throwing of rubbish Detective-Corporal

Chan LID, will be more stringently and Detective Tse Ping-lem, at enforced, the Sanitary Depart 515 Canton Itond, second floor, an ment was out in full force last July 20, and the ding of two night roping in offenders in bottles of stryclusine-nitrate, two Kowloon. bottles of lejuified, phenol, two

Men and women, young and old, Bultes and 849 ampoules contain- log a solution of ferric ammonium were arrested by the S.D. squads

Many of of xodit. encodylate, and two at the police stations. but bedret for sisters battles of power containing use them, unable to raise the ball of huts before it was brought under tradle Isbel of streptomycin.

$25, were forced to spend the control by some of the inmates At the time of the mild accused night in the cells, to be brought of the Chinese "Y", who guard was not on the premises but, ar- before the magistrate this morn-Inside the vegetables.

cording to police evidence at the fog. tetal, he returned about midnight. it was questioned and, with two ther men, takes into custody.

The two men,

YMCA, about 7.50 p.in yesterday, i

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Exhibition of Paintings by Mr.

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Peninsula Hotel, 12.30 p.m.

of 16 taels of raw oplum on board obvious that some hardship will H.K.

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the order, and According to Inspector Redman, fusing to make

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FRIDAY weg: sintended to aix the caso greater hardship : woulę Their offences included dumping months' imprisonment and re-not be caused by refusing to rubbish into the streets, leaving recortumended for banishment, grant the order than by granting refuse lying about, and relieving The opium was ordered to be con- it, such finding would have been Lee Kam-tong themselves at bank lanes.

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