Blakeborough & Sons, Ltd. Steam, Water & Oil Valves.
Plied For Hire
In.
A Private Car
An increase in the num- ber of private cara being plied for public hire was ASP Tom reported by Cashman, Superintendent of Traffic, this morning when he appeared at Cen- tral to prosecute a private car driver for the offence.
In asking for the maximum sentence of 52,000 or six months 23, of Poon Hing-chung,
on
344 Ma Tau Wei Road, ground pointed out floor, Mr Cechman
that Poun. Was arrosted 'roine
ime lust year for the
come
kind of offence, but sub- sequently jumped his ball.
The Magistrate, Mr Poon Yan- hnposed the maximum
npl..
penalty,
Defendant
was; arrested on
the night of July 15 outside the China Emporium, when he was found to be carrying paying passengers in a private car.
Mr Cashman told the Court that when the defendant was arrested in August last Arst year for a similar offence, date of hearing of the case was fixed November. Hail for
Was
allowed. However, he foiled to turn up on the day, and a war- rent for his arrest was issued,
The Traffic Superintendent said it had come to the know
of the ledge
Police
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FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1952.
Tourists See How Beer Is Made Robbery Is A "M
SEAMAN MISSES
HIS SHIP
report
the
that Pleading guilty to remaining slip's agenta to offerices involving the use of In the Colony after ship's de mutter and the latter in turn
on porture, Carl Johan Hansen, Informed the Police, private cars for hire were
Able Bodied Seaman, the increase. This,
said, 20,
was sentenced was seriously damaging business Danish,
not Imprisonment
he
to public cars and taxis.
had
the
same
made for
Kwok Ng, 22, Junk master, to was fined $250 by Mr Low for exceeding using his boat for the purpose
that
had convictions for similar offences. arrangements
his repatria- The Proscaution stated
.defendant's boat was intercopted by a Police launch when seen
The defendant, he went on, one month by Mr T. B. Low of conveying women for pros- previous conviction of at the Marine Court this morn-titution. He had two previous
kind
dating back to ing, until
for. which been January
1951,
tion. offence he was fined $100.
In asicing for the maximum Anc, Mr Cushman pointed out wilfully or negligently remain
Defendant was charged with that it was most dmcult to
ing in the Colony on July 17, catch the culprita, since passen-after the departure of the ss Court as witnesses,
defendant's crew member. In view of the
of guilty, plea
Mr Cashman said he was "not offering any evidence in relation to the old charge in which connection he had jumped bail.
The Youth Argosy world tourists at present in Hongkong yesterday pald visits to a modern textilo factory and the San Miguel brewery. Picture by a staff photographer shows some of the visit- ors studying beer being mechanically bottled and capped at the Castle Peak Road brewery.
Appeal
Dismissed
stearnship Tsinan mooring at leaving West Point for the
Buoy 8 yesterday afternoon: The Pelice found on board the boat
females who In In the Supreme Court the presence
Wicks, dismissed an appeal
it's
WATSON'S
A first for thirst "
Game
"Mug's Judge Tells Offender
99
24 STROKES OF THE CANE SENTENCE
JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK
Behind Her Mask
"Having regard to the prevalence of the offence of robbery I am going to make you and all other members of the public realise that this M is a mug's game, a waste of time.”
Thus declared Mr Justice Reece in the Criminal Sessions this morning when
he sent Lee Man, aged 89, to prison for four years and ordered him to receive 24 strokes of the cane. Lee, and another man, Lal Shing, 28, pleaded guilty to robbing an amah, Wong Ah-keung, in Kowloon Tong with aggravation on May 25. They stole her gold ring.
Attacked Wife With Chopper
Prison And Cane
·For Constablo
1. Lai, who was declared to be
unāt medically
for
nogging, was also sentenced to four years,
For the prosecution, Patrick Yu, Crown Counsel, said that the, amah was em-
Me
ployed at 7, York. Road, and
was robbed on her way home by the two sccused whom she had seen. squatting on the pavement, near Rutland Quad- rant. The men were caught on the
and spot by bystanders handed over to the Police.
Neither had previous con- victions but the second man had been expelled ta June last year as a destitute.
In
his
In sentencing a Chinese con-
passing sentence, stable to six months' imprison- Lordship said that the offence was a very serious one indeed ment and twelve strokes of the
and the maximum penalty was cane for attacking his wife with a chopper, which had rendered imprisonment. It was an
offence the permanent loss of her lett
which appeared to be eyt,
the Fuise Judge, Mr too prevalent in this com- Justice Reece, at the
the Criminal munity Sessions this morning said, "The only redeeming feature want it to be brought home to about the whole matter of the moment is that you have seen fit everyone in general that you
to plead guilty. You have no cannot use sharp-odged instrat- ments on people and then come lucky thing for
previous convictions which is
Shing, you
the have been declared by doctor to be mat for flogging but as to you, Mr Lee Man, the doctor says enough to ma to receive the you are fit and you look at maximum and that is what I am going to give you";
to Court' and expect to get away Justice Recce. It added Mr
with it."
The policeman, Chim Keung, aged 28, pleaded guilty to A charge of wounding his wife, Chu Lin-tong on the night of May 17 last.
cers were muctant to come to Hulda Maersk of which he was five Chine of defendant all this morning. ·Mr Justice to malm and this was accepted i
It was stated by the Prosecu-
tion that the Huida Maersk left
for Bangicok at 7 a.m. yesterday morning and defendant missod the ship. He then went to the
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admitted going to the steamer for
prostitution.
the purpose of
CORRECTION
The siccused pleaded not gulity to wounding with intent by the Crown,
Mr Patrick
Yu, Crown
Trafficker
brought by Taui Chan-shi, Counsel, prosecuted, assisted by In Morphine
Del-Insp W.B. Semgg.
Sentenced
Living Language
Why we say To balk.
"Balked" means bailed or frustrated, and finds its origin in the barring of a door by throwing a large beam of wood across it. and fitting it into the door-post. A balk or baulk still means beam of wood, while "baulk" is used in the
· game of billiards to In- dicate a limit line.
Notices
A
The
TURIEL is one of those I briak businesswomen of, whom it is hard to imagine they have or desire. to have any private life at all. One pictures them working late night after night, absorbed by, and de- voted to their work and, when the office closes, fret- fully counting the hours until it should open again.
her Hor clothes are neat, manner is competent; and it she tends to speak in the lan guage of a business letter, that Only reinforces the general im pression of perfection that the gives. And all this, although she is only 20.
+
If it is difficult to imagine such a one os Muriel having a private life. It la impossbio' to belleve that if she did it would not be as neatly and tidily ar the AB ranged
columns of figures in her ledgers.
Yet the fact is that Muriet and does have a private life, it is a tangled and complicated as a teenagers,
ALL her adult life, Muriel has
worked in offices, and last January she took up a job es bookkeeper-clerk,with a firm in the Knightsbridge area. And, no
firm doubt the
-congratulated themselves upon buying auch faultlessness for just over 28.a week, and no doubt Muriel from the first gave them entire satis- factions
the
One morning recently, Muriel arrived at work in the normal The latest "timer"of" "posting. shown below are, those, for un-*
way; and during the course at registered correspondence posted
morning, on some pretezt as G.P., Hong Kong.
or other, she walked out of the Inters poging times isewhereoffico. She did not come back 'which, fag ginurki, sit, surther
pha ta đRO, H Cho that day, nor on the next. ascortabed by enquiry as 120
sbe local Fico,
office
The Jatrat poiling times for
· registered ·astičles are generally one hour earlier that the times show, below.. Particulari, 'res garding parcel `minŝta-can be u certained by enquiry at any post omics. п
.
India, W.
Europe, 4.30
rent for more than 30 days while abilned employs Kowloon Court that defendant was con- | India, 4.30 pm 3.0.A.C.
of
D.
licence, Lau Wan, 45, boatman, trading as the Ting Kee
For failing to take out was fined 830 at the Marino firm, against the Tenancy Court this morning, when he Tribunal decision refusing
SUSPICIONS AROUSED pleaded salty to the chargo
Crown Counsel said that the It was stated by the Prosca- the ejectment of the Hwe on that defendant's boat was Long Company and all used and his wife lived to caught by a a Royal Naval patrol
· Chan Hing-cheung alias Chan had been in the Hongkong Xiu-chung, 40, unemployed, boat while underway off Pillar occupiers of 229 Wing Lok gether at Pak Tin Vilinge. He Point on Wednesday afternoon.
Street West, first floor. Police Force since 1949 and had northerner, of No. 3 Chatham Defendant was in possession of
“Mr V, L, J, D'Alton, Instruct- | a good record of service. He Wal, was sentenced to six
FRIDAY, JULY 18 a licence book which had ex-
cd by Mr P. L. Lam, appeared was
posted
at Tun Wan months and fined $5,000 or an-
By Air pired in July 1950.
for the appellant while the re- Station and only returned to other six months by Mr K, Y. Formoen, Japan, a p.m., C.A.T. spondents conducted their own his home now and again. Yung
Tommosa, Okinawa, Japan, Seattle, ot Kowloon this morning canada, 8.50 Mr Yu said that case.
D.m.. A.K.A./ wife for possession of four ounces of NW.AL the Appellant claimed that the could not 'get
very well
Blam Burma, respondent was
be Pakistan, Middle East Africa, Grant arrears with | with, her father-in-law and so
was also ordered to aha looked for
Brilala, work
and expelled.
B.O.A.C. the respondent, pleaded that. the
with La
Det. Insp. P. Lowe told the Malsyn,...Indonesia, Cesion....: W.. We have been asked to correct rent due had been tendered
European family in a false impression which
"By Surface In the course of his judgment, She left the village but did not nected with another group WAY have been given in part of the Mr Justice Wicks, said that it tell the accused's father,
drug offenders who wore ro Hong/Tak Shing
Macao, 1 pan. 6 p. report of the Inquiry into the was argued on behalf of the When the accused returned cently dealt with in the Cen- sinking of the Whiteson,
appellant
that the
home his father told him a story tral Court. The defendant was offer Our report stated that when money at 9.30 pm was not
which aroused suspicions about actually seen in the Court room ship was surveyed at the proper tender that to con his wife.
when that Case Was Choi Lee Shipyard it was found stitute
being effective tender the
On the third night after the heurd. that part
part of the holds, engine money should have been offer had obtained employment, thi10 The Police believed that he room and forepeak were flooded. od not later than 8 pm. His wife came home and the accused was one of the morphine distri- Actually what was stated in Lordship found no merit in was there. He had been drink butors and asked the Court to
ing and appeared to be under take a serious viow. ments were deliberately flooded at a time
fofluence of alcohol.
A party of Police led by Det. when the appellant under the instructions of the was in the course of conduct-
had ing his normal 'dally' affairs, exchanged,
the house yesterday afternoon and ending with accused grabbing a chopper and four one-ounce packets of mor- striking his wife 30 times with phine were found. it.
The morphine was valued at She was seriously wounded | $2,000. and at one time was declared by the doctor to be in a very eri- tical, condition, but she pulled through.
the
of
д
They
Court was that these compart- this as the money was offered the inner and thea words were | Trip Lowe ralded defendant's
surveyor.
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·T. M. Stat. 11, §., PA, ON
14
By Galbraith
"No, I can't swim, but I'm not going in the water just because you passed your life-saving test and haven't rescued anybody yet!!!'
When the accused realised what he had done, he shouted
to the Police Station 40 whole
Mr Yu added that the
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family were dependent on him Benitor J. B. Armstrong độn HX.T
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the
went into the of the firm's directors, One of the lie is from perfection, took out the account books Muriel had been handling.
The books failed to balance. A sum of £30 9, Bd.- seemed to be missing.
THE director, went round to Muriel's address, hopeful and confident, probably, that she, for all the recent oddity of her behaviour, would be
able
to straighten the matter-out. There was no answer to his ringing at Muriel's door, and. there was not uch left for him to do
but to
the sorry
business to the contacted
The police in heather home. They took
to the police station and charged her there with stealing £38 9s. 04. from her €73- ployers, and next morning at Great Mariborough Street
charge pleaded guilty to that before Mr Paul Bennett,
VC.
sho
'6ŸT/HAT have you got to my?" when he had heard the story in the magistrate, asked her,
detati.
were
She seemed as if she golog to begin "Dear Sir," for she checked herself, then said: "I regretfully confess. This was due to an emotional upheaval. There is no precise reason It., I have been living above my means." And she came to
Stop
for
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upheaval?" the uslood the
magis policema
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Senator Armstrong from "Maritana" (Wallace), Binger ved, with her husband since woman, and she has not STATEMENT
stated that he is here on a Noble, Hoddle Nash and Members of
Miriam Licette, Cara Bereña, Denni "purely private!
1941. I gather, there has been add-the Chorus and Orchestra of Colum business In a statement from the dock ing that because of the import-bla Light
some trouble between her and Opera Company: 7.30, the man whose name the the accused said that he had ance of Asia to Australia, he is Permane presmted by the British
hag been told that the whereabouts making this tour to obtain dist Reports 8.00, Time Sina), World
Council (Bisdio): 7.69, weather taken.....” of his wife were not known hand poifiical information: News and News Talk (London deavour to repay the money air, Muriol put in: shall en- That night he had a bottle of The Scuptor, wh
is making Relay); 8:14, Andre Rostelánetz and medicinul wine and he had in his first trip to Hongkong, will Orchestra: 6.30, Come into the if I might be given a week tended to beat his wife with a leave for Talpet next Thursday Northern Ireland, (BBCTE); m
Parlour, Music and songs from ten days," bamboo sticit. He did not re- where he wil
confer
with Burla Lovers Hour Classical - alize it was a chopper he held in Generallesimo Chisag Kalahek qurts presmed by Curtis Finden hand until he savy blood. He will then proceed do Manila the Third Tret, England V. Badies
10.00, of M MR.Bonnett remanded her in The sight of blood, he said, where he has
an appointment
„Blanchester. brought him back to his senses.
With
the Philippines President. Com Old krattord
Commentaries" by John” Arioli and Addressing The
socused, his The Senator, who was met W..Bwanton (Recorded) * 10.10. Lordaisi p
Goddess Mother that: Crown At the airport by Mr H. Wrigley, Fortrait of Mount Everest (BCTS), of the South. A Counsel had put up A most Australia Trade Committer complied and produced by Kaward spirstad
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The Queen: 41.20. Clos Down. said into con
consideration, ha wall
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On
as the fact that accused had.
a good Police record. What his that if I do not I would be wife wanted done was not a falling in my duty
Sassions At 9 a.m.
custody for a week, and they led her away. She was still the 'personification" of "2001 efficiency but everyone knew now that she was something whom the sea of insecurity was clso besides, a woman about beginning to breaks, and who was frightened for what the future, might, holding
Mr Justice Reece, in the INTELLIGENCE TEST SOLUTION
material, aspect of the case at "But I am also going to order all and was beside the coin
point. a flogging for you hm. I want it Your have been subjected to to be brought bomb to you and Criminal Besdons this morning discipline in the Force and you to everyone in general that you counced that, ag tay nghịa should know better how to cannot use sharp-edged insiru Court was concerned, it would ouritel, yourself aided the ments on people and then come sit at 1010 on Monday an Judge, I cannot refrain from here, and expoot to get away from Tuesday, conwards, at 9 am senting, you to prison; -I- fesi) with it.7
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