1950-09-15 — Page 3

's first Probation Hong Kong’s

Officer takes up his duties

Reminders

Today

Cheero Services Club, amateur

night, 7.30 p.m.

NAAFI Club, Kowloon, dance, 8

p.m. to 11 p.m.

Talk

Coming events

Hong Kong's first Probation Officer, who will tackle the problem of juvonile delinquancy, Mr. Donald Peterson, an Austrälion, has or- rived in the Colony and is now taking up his job in earnest. He will be the Colony's Principal Probation Officer attached to the Social Welfare Office, with a staff of three assistant probation officers, all Chinese, under him. His work' will be to help to prevent crime by work among the Colony's juvenile delinquents.

problem

Principal job

Union Jack Club, danco, 8 p.m. Nine Dragons Services Club,

Following is an official state- public's greater interest and sym- tombola, 7.30 p.m.

ment on the appointment, isu-pathy in the work. The second is "Early คท

Portuguese

Government yester to train the probation officers who ed by Traders In China" by Prof.

also to assist him and Hre to T. T. Chang, Club Lusitano, day:-

train for constructive and useful *Delinquency is n 5.30 p.in

rightly given high work the staff required for any

Institutions which Europcon TMCA Swimming Gala which is

Government in all Social Welture and presentation of Laneford priority Cup. 7.30 p.m.

Services, and, in many countries may approve.” the methods of dealing with de- inquents have become the sub- ject of the mort careful legisla- tion

and

administrative OT- Speaking at a Press conference ganisation.

yesterday Mr. Peterson raid his begifining Cheero Services Club, tombain,

"Since the winter of 1947 Cov-principal job at the 7.30 p.m.

ernment has been doing Its at-will be the training of prolation Nine Dragons Services Club, tom-most to engage & quaiified Pro-jomcers, which will be a formid- able proposition. Probation work is a specialised technique, and the care has to be taken in utmost the selection and training of per- sonnel.

TOMORROW

bola, 7.30p.m.

BUNDAY

Toe 1 classical concert, 50, Mac-

donnell Road, 0.30 p.m.

Ninc Dragons Services Club.

gramophone recital, 7 p.m. him show "Ghost Ship", B p.m.

NAAFI Club, Kowloon, snooker

tournament, 7 p.m.

Armchair group, European YMCA, lim Dust and. Destiny", speaker: Mr. G. Blair, 8,45

p.m..

Constitutional reform questionnaire

MR. DONALD PETERSON ("China Mail" photo)

tisenayed

Afr. Peterson is not in Hong Kong. Compared with ehewhere the people of Hong Kong are comparatively ΣΠΟΓ law-abiding, as far as he has been able to see since his arrival here last month.

"The principle of probation is the same here as elsewhere in the world, though conditions may

not be the some," said Mr. Peter-

son who added he arrived here

THE CHINA `MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1950.

Sir Christopher Cox visits Sacred Heart School

Bir Christopher Cox, Educational Adviser to the Colonial Office, vieţind the Sacred Heart School, Catne Road, yesterday. He was conducted on an inspection of clauso by the Hoad. mistress, Mother Angelica, and Miss E. M. Gray, Inspector of School Education Department. —{"China Mall" photo).

Y's Men hear forecast

"If

of world situation

there is wisdom in Peking, there is littlo dan-' ger-of a world war from evon'ts in 'Asia'....... Peace is possible— I put it no higher than that."

nly very recently and has been So declared Mr. W. V. Pennell, Managing Editor

unable as yet to form any con- sidered judgment on the local

| problems.

T

of the "China Moil," to members of the In- ternational Y's Men's Club yesterday.

Mr. Pennell,

He would be working in close

who was the enllaboration

exictine with the organisations dealing with social first foreign journalist to enter problems and if public interest Mukden after the incident of 1931, and could be aroused, he felt sure September 18, the Juvenile delinquency in Hong watched the Sino-Japanese quarters, was war at close speaking at the weekly lun- chem of the Club at the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden on

Below is the ninth them on bation Ofeer who would come to Kong could be tackled success- the questionnaire now being Hong Kong on a three year enn-fully. circulated by the Chinese Retract possibly renewable for form Association.

faurth year. is duties were to include the building up of a Publication of the reference modern and effective

probation notes does not necessarily imply servian ugreement by the "China Mall"

of the views expressed.

with the ohjeet of the

Ustrive

of crime through work with and for delinquents. addition his

responsiomies cover all other activities

would

Siam policy toward Peking Gov't

ein.

Court Brevities

charged with attempting to ex

The case. bgainst three men "A forecast of the world sifun-pert-prohibited motor fuel oil was adjourned two days by Mr. Hin- shing Lo at Central yesterday.

tion."

A request for bail made by Mr. J. I. Prior on behalf of defenduntu was refused pending further in- vestigations.

Defendants, who were alleged

Shortage of small

money

Unscrupulous money market manipulators are blained for the current shortage of suhe sidiary currency in the Colony, which has sent the premium on 10-cent and five-cent coins and notes up by 15 per cent,

"Shopkeepers, small traders, and housewives are the principal sufferers. The tradesmen have s pay an abnormal premium for the small cash which they must have for change,

and

Among market pcóple hawkers there are two sets of ¡ prices-one, where D customer pays in coins or subsidiary notes, and another if he pays

In one

dollar or bigger denomination notes. a a difference of about 20

per cent.

SA

the

So far the shortage hus 1101 extended to the trams and buses; though conductors' tuy l small change they collect is in- variably paid out when passen- fers tender one dollar notes in Dayment,

Reports are also current of wholetale hoarding of the now coins, which according to these reports, are taken

acrece the border to China.

Coins scarcer

Whether this is true or not, it 16 nevertheless an undisputed fact the new coins, reen to get cearcer on the market and peo-| Fote show a distinct preference for the coins when they are tender-

thelr change.

ad

The present circulation of 60.- 000,000 pieces of 10-cent coins and 29,000,000 pieces of Bve-cent colns, оп top of the paper sub- idiary currency, should be more than ample for normal needs.

Wind steps are being taken by Government to meet the "current

shortage are not revealed, but it is learned from reliable sources that new issues of coins will be made to prevent the

shortago setting out of hand, as it did to- wards the end of the last Junar year, when people had to resort and tousing postage stamps coupons to replace small change.

AIR MARSHAL FOGARTY TO VISIT COLONY

:

Approaching his subject from three angles, the guest speaker Hsted them as follows: lessons Firstly, the

and con- Therefore should we. Inhabit-potential or actual unts of the Colony of Hong Kong. In

trasts of the prelude to the Second World War; strive all the harder for the im-

Air Marshal Sir Francis J. materialisation of Strțin countfection with the prevention

Secondly, the

Incls of today to have attempled to expert the Fogarty, KBE, CB, DFC, AFC, the mediate

There is no immediate pos- and the major trends of the time, controlled commodity on Septem-Commander-in-Chief of the For Mark Young's reform of giving of delinquency, except of course, us the right to cleet our own re- any duties or functions which are sibility of Slam's recognising mid

ber 9, are Kwok Ming, alias Kwok East Air Force, will arrive by air properly

"Thirdly, the influence of the Kl-chen, lorry driver: Lee Lol, on a short visit to Hong Kong on reserved for Magis-the new Chinese Government} presentation?

trates, Judges, the Police or

Peking despite. India's two great ogres athwart the path alias Lee Fot-loi, shop foki; and Monday. Reference Noto;

Prison

Authorities. Government championship of such a cause, of the Little Man--the modern Yip, Muk-ki, alas Yip Tai-shor,

The Ale Marshal, who will be accompanied by Lady Fogarty, Should we wonder from this has now, succeeded in obtaining the "China Mail" learned yes pilgria-in his painful progress shop foki.'

Mr.

toward the semi-celestini city

will stay with the Air Ofteer terday. Timate distance why London dilly for this work the services of

and the Four Freedoms: Historl An 18-year-old unemployed Commanding. Air Commodore A. Donald Peterson, and has up- dally about promulgating time

The new Slamese Cansul-Gen-cal Determinism, and Economic youth, Szeto Chiu, who had 14 D. Davies, at Air House and will Municipal Council Ordinance, we pointed him to the pest of Prin

eral in Hong Kong. Mr. Chalii Determinism must try to look carefully at the cinnt Probation Omeer in the 83-Yongsunthon, made this position

previous convictions for breach of visit all RAF units in the Colony, Mr. Pennell declared that war un expulsion order, was sentenced The Air Marshal will leave for disclosures made in the Commons cial Welfare Ofice.

"Before leaving the

to six weeks' imprisonment by Singapore on September 23. United clear in an interview in which is not inevitable. on May 10 when the Secretary

Peace possible

Mr. J. Reynolds at Central yes- of State of Colonies replied, "I Kingdom last month, Mr. Peter- he also declared that the Gov-

terday. ernment in Bangkok unreserved- 501 Look An am afraid I can say no more than

intensive and y

"Europe is for us and for the United Nations, in history of our times-with Ger- supports that the whole constitutional

specialised which months

tentions in position in the Colony,

the fateful fulcrum-the Mr. Choll

in sunthon arrived many perts in the Colony five days no te vital centre. Peace is possible

of course at the Home

several

ONICE,

is very complicated, is being studying the English probation studied in consultation with the system and meeting such experireplace. Mr. Sunga Sukhmbut, the, but it no higher than that” suld on a mendicancy

the speaker. It is just because as Dr. Hermann Mannheim and former Cansul-General, who has

Governor."... Hong-Kong is allowed to see to ite own-affairs in this respect that we leave it to them and do not impose upon than some form af Government before they are 1eady to receive 1."

Ho

#189 sisg

bren

appointed Sinmese

"But you

may ask, if war does occur where will the main battlefields be? ̄ ̄All ̈ ̄1"need"say on this is that there seama to Justice in sort of rough those ware which have plagued my generation. "Areas that escaped or got off lightly in the first took the brunt of the second.

Defendant, who was ordered to be re-expelled alter serving his

charge. На terni, was firs: expeiled in 1942 returned each time before five- year period was up.

Sentence of three months hard labour was imposed on Ngal Man- sheung, aged 85, unemployed, by! Mr. J. Reynolds at Central 'yes- terday for the attempted larceny of $111 from: the pocket of Paul Ho at a tram stop in Des Voeux Road, Central, on Wednesday,

:

mar

For keeping unlicensed massage

Chinese and a Chinese woman were each Aned $250 by Mr. James Wicks at Kowloon yesterday.

Margery Fry, Miss studied methods used by the Innow stitute for the Scientific Treat Trade Commissioner hare.

The Consul-General said Slam's ma ment of Delinquency, the Howard

vis-a-vla China is pris

Refornt Prison

League, id position

different from that of India and various After-care organisations, Burma inasmuch as there is no

"Mr. Peterson is a qualified sa common Sinm-China border. If we do not take advantage

eial case worker. und has been of the presence of the Governor

the work of i cllnleat Recognition and UN in London, where consultation doing

for the past four Blam, he pointed out, lo a may be held whenever it is con- psychologist

studied under

"By this criterion, I should having vonlent between them, for an all-years,

member of the United Nations think that China will fare better Dawson at Sydney When Communist China laadthau she did in the long war with out effort to obtain such reform, Professor

harder and University, Australia, He look it would become

mitted Into the United Nations Japon--but not necessarily Man- harder to do so later on:

the Diplomo in Social Science at

the time would be opporting to churia or the great North West, estants wo To do nothing would lay our Sydney and then trained Inten- confor recognition upon Peking where flussin remains a decisivo selves wide open for the accusa sively on a case worker with the Political considerations in Slam

factor," said Mr. Fennell. tion that the gift solemnly offered Australian Red Cross Society, are

by the country's sup- Dr. P. K. Liang thanked the by Sir Mark Young is declined Later he was appointed a coun- port

United Nations and the 01

guest speaker. Remarking on the en our behalf by others because sellor under the scheme for re- Western democracy, he sold,

utcome of the last wars, Dr of our failure. to appreciate habilitating ex-servicemen by the Speaking of Korea he declared what goes on behind the stage. Į Australian Department for Past that the Government's attitudk | Liang said that the economic and her premises were, raided on

political problems following each war scemed to become greder The power to give

and greater,

Mr. Wellington Hsic presided at yesterday's meeting.

SOLDIER INJURED Private R. R. Abell, King's col-shropshire Light Infantry, was injured yesterday when a petrol he was fighting cooker which cxploded. He was sent to hos plial for treatment.

The acellent occurred in the. New Territories.

or not to War Reconstruction. To broaden which is one of support for the give does not rest with the re his experience he went to Eng-position of the United Nations ciplent, but we must never be land in 1948 and played on uchas found favour. with the

party to make plausible the tive part in the development of marses, excuse that it was really we who the Industrial Rehabilitation A volunteer contingent is being declined the gift, just a the Units for disabled people.

formed, and will be sent to Koren previous Secretary of State for

when it is ready. the Colonies, Mr. Creech Jones, rold thint Hong

Kong was opatlictic toward wanting to manago ile own affairs,

of

Best technique

at an

Seamen in trouble

A

develop Insight Lawrence Pringle, aged 21.

Mr. Chall Yongsunthon will be formerly presented to his "Mr. Peterson, who is 33, has leagues In Hong Kong We, the Hong Kong Chinoso broad interests. In his youth he oficial reception after he has has Reform Association, always abldo was at one time a professional paid a call at Government House, kangaroo shooter and n keen by the rule that we do our part

He studied singing regardless

what. others horseman.

under Harold Williams and sang may or may not do; and will

in amuteur opera. the leading on

rolcs continue to stand Arm

WDS ground that we are the indigen- At Sydney University he

science ous inhabitants of permanent secretary of the social domicile with inalienable Inter-student body, whose aim was to crts and relationship with long arouse public interest in social Kong, that we cannot afford to problems and to follow, blindly and Imitate the into their couces and cure. He is seaman, and Mille Houkinsor... -ing and outs of the local British convinced that intelligently con- aged 29, Finnish seaniun, were Bojourners their state of Bux ducted case work is the most im charged before Mr. James Wicks whenever emergency occurs, j'.

60cial technique to It is still fresh in our mentory emerge from democratle thinks at Kowloon yesterday with be the British women and children, or it dins at helping indivi having in a disorderly manner evacuated, the able-bodied mobi duals to see themselves as res- when drunk, malicious damage of a window in a hotel and lised while the rest of the popula-ponsible units in society.

"Moreover trained casolsorderly conduct. workers are in a botter' posl

arfested on The men were tion than most people to assess Wednesday night after they had the true value of social wel- visited the Kowloon Hotel and fara organisations and to dia- damaged the whadow, with a carn whather and in what way

ted In Hong such organisations should from

how we were dismayed to scu

Dr

tion are left to shift, and fend for themselves, with nothing as objectives for their ** allegiones, although It was against enemy at war with the Chinese. The next calamity may find his tory repeating Itsolt with in- -creasing vengeance, aggravated by the confusing issues of Nationalism and other Ideological

miliation.

portant

way bottle.

time to time be enlarged, over. Kong, were

Ara

hauled, or allowed to, tapes. In The prosecution said that a View the way in

in which they part of the Emergency Unit had the probleme to be mobilised to apprehend the

damaged

"window",WEB

Lackling which hrought them. Into being. pair. In the progromnia for the

"Mr. Peterson arrived in Hong current year adopted at the; Second General Meeting, we are Kong at the end of August and vplued at $2.50. charged to follow the Proces has been spending a very busy Defendants were each Aned $20 duro Bon Essential Tasks, that time making a preliminary up for behaving in a disorderly, once presentation is made, it will:quaintanceship with local neeila manner when drink and au- be followed through to its logos and local conditions. He feels at orderly conduct.

conclusion and will not be drop- present that there are two major Each defendant was aldo or peduntil the reforms is accom initial problems which he has to dared to pay the Kowloon Hotel:|:

Apung my face. The Arsh is to develop the compensation of #146

Ling Watt, aged 25, the woman, was arrested by the police when Wednesday night.

The man, Chun Shu, aged 26, was arrested fi a similar manner on the same night

G. F. Semon, aged 20, of 35, Field Squadron, R. E., Tai Lam. New Territories, and J. McGill, aged 25, of 40 Fortal Unit, Kow- discharged by Mr. luon.. were James Wicks at Kowloon yes- prosecution terday when the witness failed to be present in Court..

They were originally charged; with. common assault.

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