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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1940)
POLICE FORCE
ANNUAL LICENSING OF VEHICLES FOR PERIOD 4th JULY 1949
TO 13th AUGUST 1949.
Date of Commencing of Licensing.
Licensing wili commence on Monday, July 4, 1940 at
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Notice la hereby given to all shipping authorities and or ganisations that firing of gyns will take place from Stone-. cutters Island over the firing arca detailed below on Tues.. day, Wednesday and Thursday, 28th, 29th and 30th June
9 a.m. and will continue daily, closing at 4 p.m. Satur-respectively. days, Sundays and Holidays excepted.
2. Place of Licensing,
All licensing will take place at Central Police Station, Hollywood Road, entrance from main door in Hollywood Road.
3. Order of Licensing.
Vehicles will be licensed in commencing with Nos. 1-400 tinuing as follows:--
Monday, 4th July Tuesday, 5th July Wednesday, 6th July
Thursday, 7th July Friday, 8th July
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Monday, 11th July
Tuesday, 12th July
Wednesday, 13th July Thursday, 14th July Friday, 15th July Monday, 18th July Tuesday, 19th July Wednesday, 20th July Thursday, 21st July Friday, 22nd July Monday, 25th July Tuesday, 26th July Wednesday, 27th July Thursday, 28th July Friday, 29th July Tuesday, 2nd August
Wednesday, 3rd August Thursday, 4th August Friday, 5th August Munday, 8th August Tuesday, 9th August Wednesday, 10th August
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Pivate Cars & Motor Cycles
Mior Cars
Cycles
Cycles
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11} Mobr Cars
.. Cycles Mor Cars
Mote Cars
Cycles
Cycles
Moto Cars
Cycles Moto Cars
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1- 400 1-150 401-800 151- 300 801-1200 301- 450 1201-1600 451- 600 1001-2000 601 750 2001-2400 751 900 2401--2800
Cycles
901-1000
Motor Cars
2801-3200
3201-3600
3601-4000
7001-7400
7401-7800
78010200
8201-8600
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H.K. 1-H.K. 400 H.K. 401-H.K. 800 H.K. 801-H.K.1200 Commercial Vehicles Motor Logies 3001-5400 $401-5800 5001-6200 6201-6800 6001-7000 HK.5001-H.K.5050
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Owners are requestedto ensure that Vehicles are licensed on the day allotted and slow in the above table. Vehicles will NOT be licensed out of trn. Any Vehicle not licensed on the day allotted will le linsed on August 11, 12 and 13, 1949.
4. Fees,
The scale of fees for prite cars, motor cycles and commercial vehicles is as follo:-
Private Motor Cars (Unladerweight) Not over 15 cwt
Over 15 ewi, but not over 20wt Over 20 cwt but not over 25wt
Over 25 cwt but not over 30 yt Over 30 cwt but not over 40 v4 Over 40 cwt
Private Motor Cycles
$ 54.00
$ 12.00
$ 90.00
$108.00
$144.00 $180.00
Solo'
18.00
Combination
$ 24.00
Hand Trucks
$ 48.00
Commercial Vehicles (Pneumatic (re)
$ 54.00
Over 15 cwt not over 30 cwt Over 30 cwt but not over 45 cwt. Over 45 cwt but not over 00 cwt Over 60 cwt but not over 90 cwt Over 90 cwt....
$ 90,00
$135.00
$180.00
$360.00
$600.00
$405.00 $810.00
• Not over 15 cwt
Any Other Commercial Vehicle: Over 15 cwt but not over 50 cwt Over 50 cwt but not over 90 cwt Over 100 cwt commercial vehicle will ne licensed.
Owners should produce the vehicle e book and the appropriate fee should be paid in cash cheque. 6. Drivers licences will NOT be renewed the same time as vehicle, licences. A further press not will shortly appear giving details of renewal arrangeme
Hong Kong, June 20, 1940.
NOTICE
YUEN YUEN GODOWN
CONNAUGHT ROAD,
WEST.
169,
have cargo People who stored in the above godown are requested to take note of the fact that as from the 1st August, 1948, the classification will be changed from Class "A1" to Class "BI."
Owners of cargo are remind ed that Insurance Policles should be amended according ly,
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COMMISSIONE
POLICE.
NOTI TO ALL WIM IT MAY CONON.
which
whe
I, Richard Welf Altken- Quack, presently. Saigon, hereby give notice I ex- pressly withdraw ala every authority. Eleanor Fordyce AiQuack) may have at any telther expressly or by Impon or otherwise acquired atract for me or in. my nor as my agent or in any to pledge my credit, or at I will not be responsibi her debts whensoever or hever incurred.
Dated this 23rd day one, 1949.
RICHARD WERD AITKEN-QU
Firing Area
Note All Latitudes are N., and Longitudes E. Latitudes and Longitudes taken from Admiralty Charts Nos. 3420, 1406, 3005, 3280, 3279, and 1180, but longitudes from Charts Nos. 1180 and 3605 have been decreased by ".
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(a) FIRING AREA A:--
The area fncluded in this
is Firing Area bounded on follows:-
Robbery Suspects Face Court
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An armed robbery Des Voeux Road Central, first In which floor, on April 27, $23,000 worth of money and Valuables were. netted, had a sequel before Mr. Justice Scholes, Acting Pulsne Judge, at the Criminal Scasions yes- terday.
Accused are Chan Man alias Chan Ah-kau, and Cheung Chi- ming allan Cheung Chi-yuk, who are charged before a jury of four
three women men and participating in the crime.
Chan Is additionally charged | with possession of arms,
with
Mr. M. Heenan, Crown Counsel. is conducting the case for tho prosecution assisted by Detective Neither inspector T. Cashman. accused are legally represented.
The
men
Sat At Table According to the prosecution, Ave men In al entered the pre- occupied by mises which were
afternoon of two firms, on the
entered April 27. separately, sitting down with the reat of the
occupants at the table as guests.
the arrival of Shortly after the men, three of them stood
One produced a revolver: vp.
and another a dagger. All five! stationed themselves at various points
herded
the
By a line starting from High Water Mark at western and of Stonecutters Island (latitude 22 19′ 10′′ longitude 114 07' 48"), thence across to Green Island (latitude 22° 17′ 15′′ - longitude 114" 00′ 38′′), thence to eastern shore of across Laritau at latitude 22 17′ 45′′ 114 01 23", --longitude thence following High Water Mark along the eastern shore of Lantau to latitude 22′ 20′′ 13" longitude 114 03′ 20′′, thence across to Chung Hue at latitude 22° 19' 42"-longitude 114° 05′ 28", thence following High Water Mark along the southern shore of Chung Hue to latitude 22° 20′ 00′′ longi-with money and valuables worth tude 114° 00′ 20′′, thence along the castern shore of Chung Hue to latitude 22° 20′ 37′′- longitude 114' 00' 20", thence to the Island at latitude 22* 20′ 40′′ -- longitude 114° 07′ 15", thence to Stonecutters Island at latitude 22 19′ 37′′ 05" longitude 114 08′ thence along the shore Stonecutters Island westwards to starting point.
of
on the premises and occupants into a rear cubiclo. The robbers then proceeded to search the occupants and other part of the house. After tying and gagging the inmates, men left after 20 or 30 minutes,
about $2,500.
the
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
›COPIL 1949 BY WEA SERVIČÊ, ING. 2, M. HIỂ, v. a. PAT. OFÝ,
"Well, Waldo always says that when the car stops sud- denly, the first thing to do is look in the gas tank?”
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
*The Authority on Authorities“
The police notified about the robbery.
WAA eventually On
CARDS CAN BE COMICAL the declarer overtook the heart - two
PLAYING cards can be just us K and on three more hearts park- the morning of April 29 days
later -- one
ed the dummy's three top clubs, of the occupants camleal at times as the players of
the victimised house accom- who manipulate them.
Perlupa to unblock, then seared five clubs punied a Chinese police corporal they have a sort of sense of hu-
in the South hand. to the Kowloon Conton Rallway Station at Star Ferry, where they followed accused Chan Man, who boarded a train bound for Canton
after
mor of thele own, the anne people have. The pecullur things that are possible on certain deals are so far fetched that nobody Jumped From Train would think of them at first, and The man,
being some they become apparent only after time in the train, sensed that he quite a bit of study. 2. Firing algnals will be was being followed, and attempt. ed to make a break for it by dleplayed as follows:-
jumping out onto the track. He was eventually apprehended.
(a) by red flag flown at the gun site concerned.
(b) by a large red flag on Clearance the Range Vessels.
The second accused was arreste ed when a police party stopped a hus at Castle Peak Road on the
day sama
Both
men then made voluntary statements after being cautioned
and formally charged with the (c) by a red flag, with be- robbery. Late in the evening of low it, the International the 29, Chan took the police to Code Flag 'A' flown a place where revolver and u from Green Island dagger were discovered.
Both men were identified at an Typhoon Signal mast.
L. N. BROWNFIELD, Commodore, Hong Kong.
NOTICE
HONG KONG TECHNICAL COLLEGE
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Identification parade by some of
their victims,
The finger prints the first accused were also
SAQJ 10 R.K
D 10 0 8 T3 CAK Q
(7)
N WE S
(?)
S K
AQ J 10 K 5 2
CJ 10 9 7 4
Later it developed, upon study, that this method of play would have been necessary if the de- clarer, through some freak bld. ot. 7- ding, reached a contract Hearts, perhaps straining to score
the honours. To make that con- tract, he would have had to find the outstanding eight spades and
hearts cight
evenly divided, and would have been obliged to score the
spades first and then the hearts. With that situation, I he dummy's had tried to take the
clubs before extracting
three top
trumps, someone would have been club, since there sure to ruff a were only five nut.
Maybe such hands do not teach anything
10 directly applicable orilaury play, but they help whet our thinking capacity and give us a goodly portion of fun- East which after all is the main pur-
pose of the game.
(Dealer: Who knows? Kibitz- ers vulnerable).
South West
North (Bidding not reported).
of
A diagram of this odd assort- taken, and were found to coin-ment was brought into an ad- elde with the Impressions he was vanced bridge class at the High alleged to have left at the scene School in Tenafly, New Jersey,
of the crime.
Tomorrow's Problem
by Mrs. E. A. Storms who, with Corroborative evidence
was her husband, aspires to sill S 08 4 given by the occupants of the greater, skill 11 evoked plenty HKG house and by other witness, of fun."
DAKJ87 after which the trial adjourned,
CK 1 2 until Mondoy.
Parents Fight
A course in Mechanical En- Closure Order gineering, based on the Au- will tomobile Repair Trade. open in September 1949.
The number of students. ad- mitted will be limited to 25, and the fees will be $120 per an
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The parents of children studying at the four Hong Kong and Kowloon Schools
Workers' for
Children are forming an organisation to fight the closure order of the Director of Education.
The Reverend Mr. George She, The Course will extend over Manager of the Schools, has been three years and will include:-- | notified that the schools will have to be closed August 31, Gov-
on ernment proposes to accommodate the students at two Government schools not yet completed.
Mathematics.
Applied Mechanics, including Strength of Materials.
The Reverend Mr. She visited the school yesterday to console Applied Electricity, including the distressed teachers and stu- generation and distribution dents. He assured them that he and Bishop Hall would not for small, factories.
neglect the matter. Engineering Drawing, Includ- ing elementary machine de- sign.
Heat
Engines, petrol and diesel.
especially
Motor Vehiclé · Technology."
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NOTICE
CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LIMITED
Workshop, covering as far as NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN possible the full range of that the Twenty-first Annual fitting, toolmaking and ma-Ordinary General Meeting of chine work required in repair Shareholders of China Under- work gentrally...
writers, Limited, will be held i at the Offices of the Company, The Course is intended to 4a, Des Voeux Road Central, train youths as working super-Hong Kong, on Tuesday, the visors.
5th day of July, 1949, at noon, Educational Standard Requir- for the purpose of receiving ed-School Certificate Stand- the Report of the Board of Directors and a Statement "of Accounts far the year ended Students not in possession of 31st December, 1948, and of School Leaving Certificate electing Directors and Audi- will, bo - required -- to take a tors, special Entrance Examination the date of which will be noti- Aucikaneers, Surveyorfied later...
́and. Appraksts, Pedder Building. Telephone No, 10114.
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and The Transfer Books Register of Members of tho Company will be closed from Application forms may be the 28th June, 1949, to the 5th obtained from the Technical July, 1949, both days inclu- College. Wood Road, Wanchal, alve. and should be completed and urned before 10th July, 1949.
F. BUCKLE,
Ag. Principal, Technical Collego,
Order of the Board
of Director,*****
E. R. CHILDE, Managing Director. Hong Kong, June 23, 1949.
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When it was put on the black- board, the lecturer showed how a 6-No Trumps declarer could make an extra trick, after win- ning the spade lead with the A, running three more spades and then overtaking three top clubs, the the heart K and scoring the rest of that suit plus two more clubs, As actually played, however, ac lead with the club K, what should South do at once in his 4-Heart cording to Mrs. Storms, it fancler. After four spade tricks, contract?
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(Dealer: vulnerable).
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