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May Appears In Own Defence At PWD Trial

Evidence in his own defence was given by Arthur Frederick May, electrical inspector Grade }, in the witness stand towards the close of you terday's hearing of the PWD larceny trial. This came after Mr. A. J. Clifford, May's coun

sel, had delivered his opening address to, the jury, during which Counsel remarked that the, jury might wonder how a sort of man like May with a good background should do the things with which he was charged for $70. Jointly charged with May is trical department for an emale Kwok Kwong, foreman, of the for the Pokfulam job, Askod if Ire did make any inquiries to Moy Public Works Department. They are standing trial on three about receiving any request of the estimate from the Head office, counts of larceny by public: Kwok told the court that, as a Fervant and three

counts of foreman, he had no power to ask

come or fol. Ta could only wait- for the request to come. stated.

Reminders

Today

HK Art Club sponsors lecture on art by Mr. Douglas Blond. PRO lesture.room, 5.30 p.m. Limiteri, general meeting. Shanghai. Dockyards

Jardine's Board Room, 11 am. Sino-Bellsh Giramphone Group,

rectal at Helena May In- stitule, 9.15 p.m., talk by Dr.

Uttley.

Old Boys Associa-

„fali-lüestion•o'; documents with | May about the request having

slipunk.mid |

intent to defraud the Govern- ment.

Mr. A.J. Clifford, counsel for Mny, closed. his cross-examina- tion of Kwok at the early part of yesterday's hearing. in the course of which Kwok stated that Moy had told him at Hunt flom to make an estimate of the Pokfulam Job.

Commencing his cross-exami- nation, Crown Counsel, Mr. A Tooton, put it to Kwok that he did say he thought the Pokfulam Government job, to job was which accused agreed. Since L had gone there and saw Dr Thomna, Kwok added, and know- Ing him to be Medical Director. thought the job was a Gev.

be

Government Property Turning to the lamp shades in- stalled at Lowbridge Shackleton and Company in Prince's Build- Ing, Counsel asked aegused whe

her he did agree that they were Government property.

Kwok replied in the affirma- live. Ho further revealed that he would not have been able to do the installing had it not been for May's instructions.

at

Roo Garden, HK Hotel 7 and 8 pm European YMCA Members' Coun-

meeting, 6 p.m.

Association League HK

Management Committee meet- ing 5.15 p.m.

·

Coming Events

Among other things, Mr. Clit- ford told the Jury the fact that right after the liberation,

Taped firmly all over, eight Mustang Sighters enterod port yesterday, unmanned and without wing tips and tall planes. They are part of the Royal Australian Air The accessories Force equipment belg và cuated from Kure by sea to Adšlķaljā. are kept in crates, over which the plaies are securely held on stanils.The Mustangs resume her journey to Bris- arrived here aboard the mv. Kafiristan, which is due to bano and Sydney on March 13. ("China Mail Photo).

Australian

Aircraft Evacuated

Eight more Mustang fighters arrived here yesterday aboard the my. Kaaristan from Kure, murk- ing the second last shipment of Royal Austration Air Force equip- cat being evacuated from Japan to Australia.

Some parts have been detached and kepi in crates, over which the planes are held surely on

1 special stands,

The Kafiristan brought more than 150 tons of cargo, Including trucks, jeeps and cranes, strewn wilitary equipment. There are

all over the deck.

Superior British Craft, Industry

Britain's nationalisation of industries has yet to prove that it is any better, if indeed as good as the old system of freo, entorprise, sajd Mr. D. S. Hill, Pråsident of the Hong Kong Rotary Club, in a talk on "Industry and Crafts". Mr. Hill addressed a gathering, at the weekly show

Since

of the British Council at the Helend May In- stitute yesterday. He said British craft and industry have long been respected, through- out the world and in certain lines have held undisputed Superiority.

Correspondence US$3,750,000,000

was not taken from the Lai Chi distribution and job reports there Mohave taken the opportunity tettéra bý correspondents, and by skimping

was no

question

Government.

Kok Job alone. In fact, he declar-Wove ed, the materials used at Pokfulam were materials from the stores for various other jobs.

TOMORROW HK Football Referees Association Diener, China Flect Club, Bp.p.

Con- In the course of further cross- Rotary Annual District examination, Crown Counsel nug-

ference at Macao, BUNDAY sted to accused that both be and May knew they were dis Toc H Club Classical Concert,

of Government posing

Talbot House, 60, MacDonnell property nment one.

Rozd, 8.30 p.m. when the lamp shades were in-

He added that:

Jequipped for such a type of Mr. Hooton then asked Kwokstalled. Accused denied whether

Peninsula It WOR because he Crown Counsel then it it to HK Light Orchestra, concert of

popular musle,

Rader, Pluto, Fido. Mulberry, production.

Britain can still offer a much thought it was a Government job Kwok that his defence as regards Hotel, 2 p.m.

Jet Propulsion are the products With Rotary

Annial District Con-

in the world. Government the counts of falslication that he had used

She will leave the Colony of of British ingenuity, craftsman-wider range of goods than any

the first other country

the United material on it. Kwok replied that which he was charged was that Torance at Macao.

Strangely cnaugh, it was not only because of that,

Crafts and industry have been States is an enger customer for but also because May gave him he had no intention to defraud the HK A Club sketching party, March 13 for Australia, calling fahip and industry in

members to assemble at the en route at Rabaul, Lae, Brisbane.place.

of them, Government because he thought Instructions

Kwok to do it.

it was quite proper to show

Kawloon Star Ferry Wharf, Sydney, New Zealand and the Fiji

Islands.

the saviours of Britain's economy.miny

There is como danger of crafts and agreed with Counsel that there

the

doing Chor

others

the end of the war at the 1030 am.

out through lack of fresh sable

Beginning of 1947, the country you Some have already reach- Market doubt that the was по

work at To Kwa Wan

they liqued to Li Chor for the work

was manufacturing for export

the only where the stage and other places, while was Government cable.

twice as fast as before the war. ed the

back the craftsmen left are in late middle Counsel then inquired whether were actually doing work

Pokfulam

to Agreeing

In order to pay this the drst being the Director of

loan from age or old age. he would be right in saying that Kwok declared that his Idea Public Works and the other

It will be a great pity to sco the lighting cable drawn for Lal

America, Britain was only half as fast then as she had to be, British saddlery and leather work, Chi Kok Hospital was sent to was, na the workmen were doing prominent doctor.

Anc goods,

furniture, Aaporis

optical The Ealtor takes no respon Pokfulam, to which Kwok, stated some Government job other than

diet, chinaware, of

glassware, that the cable used at Pokfulam that appearing in the daily labour

monotony sibility for viata expressed into work at this rate u

goods, disappear like those ex- of deceiving the

and entertainment then clothing taking materials that were no means necessarily agrees with perishing was a task for a racequisito wrought iron rates of the

Last

century which can no longer H. Holtmeyer,manager of Low- ing around, but instead, he de-them.

of supermen. Both Sides Shackleton and Company, vised forms for the gathering up bridge

Crafts and industries are served be made at any price.

"British Industry as a whole is materials who had already given evidence of all such electrical

Sir must congratulate you by some 7,000,000 people on whom live and vigorous and our native several days previous, and his and took pains to put them on

for your faimea in Publishing Britain's manufacture for cover inventiveness is as active as ever, clerk, were than recalled to clari- charge.

Counsel also recalled the Inci-

at the beginning ty certain evidence.

Kwok was then further ques- dent concerning the watch and both sides of the case in the latest | largely depends. Machine power with careful thought and

Silva,

enterprise is given tloned at length on the Castle pen given to May by someone, correspondence on hotel rate lacking. A good deal of. Land-best use of our resources there

control. Mr.

If free of production

British In- Further questioned, Kwok den- Peak job at the time and wiges both of which were handed over content in his original letter, es- Lease lools were specially do is good ground for sober optimism.

cause of truth. As signed for poused the led having over been asked-by sheets at Hung Hom.

to the PWD by May. Mr. Cult-

dustry and British craftsmanship Ford told

to meet the needs of a

back to the jury that they far as anyone with commonsense military stores and were unsuit-reasonable chance,

country May where the single cable au-

Cost Of Work

can lend the sprt of can see, he also paid a glowing able thorised for Lai Chi Kok Hospi-

peacetime economy.

concluded Mr. Hil ot Drosperity," British Asked whether he did ever on might wonder, whether

manufacturers tal had gone to. He further den-

May's instruction go to Pokfulam man like that could do the things tribute to the powers that be.

tools the maching

bearing world fed having been asked as

Mr. Charles Loseby on

were constrained where the single cable for the with Dr. Thomas to estimate the with which he was charged for

Among other things,

May other hand, has made sententiqus famous nomes gone to cost of the work going on there, Vegetable Market had

to export practically their entire Kwok replied in the negative testified that he trained the new utterances and spoken as it

order

receive either.

Replying to a query, Kwok adding that May only told him to stan of the electrical department was someone in high authority output

make An estimate in the office.

Bri- Untoward Interference by the told

the court that May went

Kwok also denied having been after the war under his new sysla the contemplation of Eriglish allocations of raw materials. tem with regard to the keeping law, all are equal before the

State has not helped much in Departures from the Peninsula into the stores at Hung Hom to

on Wednesday Hotel inspect the place very often dur- told by May to put men to work ing office hours every day.

at Pokfulam in after hours. Re

and that he devised such forms one sets himself up as a bogey industrial relations. Nationalisa- Kwok denied a suggestion from plying to a question put by Mr. as necessary.. May stated in reply man and tries to frighten, others tion of industries-excelit con! Mr. and Mrs. A.E. da Slive, Mr. a twlated interpretation of and electricity--has yet to prove and Mrs. G. H. W. Churchill, Cousins, C.L Counsel that he knew perfectly Justice Williams, accused told the

to a query that he considered his with court that the reason

JG, why new system more difficult to "gst law and ethics, it is time some that it is any better, if indeed, Messrs. C.C. Vines, S.D. As- well that the job at Pokfulam was

He dil he did do the estimate away with"

not

as regards

ards taking one told film where to get off.

Skartland, D.W. Pearson, private enterprise. nol a Government job.

This, I submit, Mr. Silva did, as good as the old system under kenalzer. unauthorised, at Pokfulam was because the job anything from the stores. not know it was

British Industry has recently Guallar, and M. Raymond. relate what splendidly.. May went on to

arrivals at accused declared, as May never had not yet been completed, and

he

Among the new to wall the job was happened to him after the war. hati told him that.

criticism from abroad-most of it As Mr. Silva said, the control come in for a good deal of Asked whether he had ever finished.

the gist of. Mr. Loseby's Jellor is previously done any Government

nent humbly subent, List if he does not like the laws of this Colony

Materials Recorded The drawing and issuing of the materials for the various jobs, hel stated, were recorded in the es- timate and cost sheet.

to

$70

ȧs was

he

and drawing of electrical stores, tish bar of justice. When some-

in

the

Was

sadly

the

Personalia

Q.

included

in the course of which he told the Mrs. Thomas was then recall court that after the liberation he of hotel rates hus become law extremely ill-informed. It deals the Peninsula Hotel on Wednes- job on the Hong Kong side while] cd into the witness stand for fyr" | worked for about 14 to 18 hours that he thinks it bad legislation, merity with Britain's coal pro-day were Miss E., Hamsen, Mr.

clarification of evidence

ho was at Hung Hom, Kwek re- ther plied in the negative. questioned, he disclosed that in the case for the defence and com- 10

Further, after which Mr. Clford opened

allan He eventually hed to op! nor its legislators, nor the frailties and easily availablo 'coal have .V, Basin,

not make him suspicious that it Mr. Clifford asked the jury

on

day putting the materials Government around to hospital onnecount of

to be

this respect the Pokfulam job didi menced his address to the jury.sentk. The result of this, he/of human nature here, no one is long been worked out. was not a Government job. He be particularly careful, the continued, was that he had to be pressing him to stay.

of

and Mrs. L. Bachroch. Mr. and Lieutenant duction and manpower.

Britain's best sources of good Mrs. R.E.A. Ward,

Lieutenant R.H.

M. Modem Dowell, and Mr. and Mrs.

make

Lecourie. equipment is

necessary to That the new ordinance relat any while progress in gel- ting what is left, a process both law has already been evidenced comments in the Press by the

•

never had any doubt about it, he career, home, and everything sent stayed there for about ing to hotel rates', control is goifficult and expensive. Wartime Trieu Lam, M. Soclet, and Truong

back to England in May depended on them. 1047 declared, as he relied entirely one person

He further stated that he would six months. upon May's responsibility.

Kwok agred with Counsel that call into the witness

from the head office of the elec- character and honesty

Messrs. Robert Choa, M. Eltsen,

stand two. When he came back, May-con- during the past few days, when my deburred modernisation | Tru! arrived in Hong Kong yes-

of "mines.

Britain

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WOMEN FIGHT

A fight between two women at

Mechimisation will terday

for has been he never received any request persons to testify as to the goodiinued, he was posted on Kow- Government oficiais concerned take time.

many of May och Bide. The PWD and Mr. wera pradsed for their wonderful

shop of the Brown of tib electrical depart. ment-fold bim not to overwork effort. Even the managing direc- yeux the lobbing

tor of a leading hotel hare hus world. Her Industries and crafts himself. After one month he was said so. I allerly fall to see are required to turn out a wide No. 18 Filkem Street, third floor, Riven an aditional job of taking what Mr. Loseby la driving at in variety of goods to meet what on Wednesday, using a themo Inventries of furniture lying suggesting it is bad legislation. about, the job for which should have been a full-time job, added.

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