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INEERING EQUIPMENT

New Chartered

Building

CHINA MAIL

Bank

To Be A Skyscraper

Another skyscraper is to be erected on Hongkong's "Bankers Row. Early next year demolition squads will move into 3 Queen's Road Central and set about destroying the Chartered Bank.

From the ruins will rise a new building which will contain 18 floors, including upper and lower ground floors and mezzanine.

The Bank, to be erected in two phases, will extend from Queen's Road through to 4 and 4A Des Voeux Road.

The Des Voeux Road side- the main entrance to the building tower 244 feet above the pavement to the top of the parapet surrounding roof.

about $15,000,000.

It is estimated that the entire structure will cost The first phase (Des Voeux passenger lifts travelling to the

Road) will take two to two and a half years to complete, during which period the Bank will continue to operate from the Queen's Road sidė.

On completion of the mala part the Bank will move in and the second phase is expected to take a further nine to twelve months..

fourth foor.

Amezzanine runs around three sides of the 'banking hall and this will accommodate the remainder of the Bank's staf *and services.

The Brst 10 the eleventh loors inclusive will contain office ac- commodation for rent to outside tenants. The twelfth floor will centair, some office space End The Bank will occupy the the

manager's suite; the upper and lower ground floors thirteenth floor will be occupied by the Bank's officers, mess; the and the mezzanine door. The main entrance will be in the fourteenth floor will consist of centre of the Des Voeux Road quarters for the resident engine- frontage at the lower grounder and fitters; the Afteenth floor

will

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1965.

Dr Ng's Retrial Complainant Concludes Testimony

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BAILEY REPLIES TO THE CROWN'S SUBMISSIONS

His mai submissions in reply to the arguments presented by the Solicitor-General yesterday were made by Albert Francis Bailey, 34, mer- chant, this morning when hearing of his appeal against his conviction on three counts of defamatory libel were concluded before the Full Court. Judgment was reserved.

From Our Files

100 Years Ago

In another column will be found, in -a esridensed form, the

census Returns of Hongkong for 1854. According to the Chep- would appear are only ihat the present population the island, including the poof

population, is 55,715, of which 62) pro. Chine, leaving.

1645 as, the sum of the rest the inhabitants, consisting

Brid Americans, Europeans country-born Portuguese, etaris, Malays, and Allens.

other

Evidence of accompanying her cousin, Tam Shun," the

Bailey is prosecuting the appeal in person. He was found guilty complainant in the case, to by a Jury on January 27 last after a trial lasting six weeks and was sen- the accused's clinic O'LL August 27 and 28 last was fenced by Mr Justice J. Reynolds at the Criminal Sessions to nine months given by Tam Tim, 84, hard labour, concurrent, on each count. He was allowed bail of $5,000 widow

when hearing of the on April 14 in order to prepare his appeal. Way of Dr Ng Yük-kin, The Tall Court comprises Mr ten whom it was realised that the Jury to consider each coz 49, medical practitioner, on Justice T. J. Gould (acting the notes of the trial went to separately, and added that there a. charge of rape continued Chief Justice) and Mr Justice over 700 pages. The Solicitor was no question of separations 7. R. Gregg : (Pulsne Judge)", "| General had further said the of the three libels of his parti. before Mr Justice James

Trial Judge had to condense cular type, Wicks in the Criminal Ses- Appeating for the Crows the in his summing-up and had sions this morning.

(respondents) are Mr Arthur doce a very good job. Bailey Earlier, the Defence Counsel, Hooton this crental agmoed the Trial Judge bad a Mr Brook A. Bernacchi, (who was absent this morning), hard and dimcult job but sub OBTAINED cluded his cross-examination and D. NE Rea Crown mitted that it was laid down in Squire and is postigned on its of the complainant, which be. Dudman, of the Cant-ming-up was required to be not

Counsel,

with Det. Sub-Insp. the authorities that every sm mercial Crimes Branch, present only accurate but adequate

I do think the Trial Judge for the Police.

The appeal has been brought did a remarkable job, but on 27 grounds. It is in sy there were inaccuracies and fourth day of hearing today. Referring to the Solicitor General's submission that the

A woman, who oblained Attorney-General's authority to

under false pretences "196 For it to club Europem with le ex-officio information come om elatute bere, Bailey said it. Bailey next dealt with his meals for herself and her americans, Cout had the thority defence of justification, and sub-family in the course of a understand but mely Bratish, sh

Solicitor-General month from the Maplect whatever their curbed bught him on this point. He said there was bound over in $500 for returns are not made other duties had not adequately replied to Street Social Welfare Centre, other rope and Americane

Trial

centre line

The design of the new build- ing is on sirople lines and is modem in expression. It retains the formity and dignity tradi- tionally expected in: baric archi-

despite Lecture, radical, but nevertheless wel come 10

“introductiori, "of colour email aus buildings devoted to high finance. The boniting hall with its lire

ably

of "big windows

pressed on the east side of the building and the tasterally designed Del Voeux Road eleva- tion with its enriched, bronze main entrance doorways and

The architects' impression of the new bank.

gan late on Monday afternoon.

The accused 13 charged with caping Tam Shum 23-year old spinster, at his clinic in Nathan Road,

on August 28, 1954. Bernacchi, instructed by

Appearing for Dr Ng is Mr

Mr M. A. da Silva:

The Crown is represented by Mr. W. A. Blair Keir, Senior Crown Counsel, and Mr DF

O. Mayne, Crown Counsel

Detective-Inspector W. Watson was present for the

Continuing his FOLDE tion from yesterday, Mr Benace chi asked Tam Shun whether she recalled, when she came to evidence about personal details, the learned Magistrate in the Kowloon Court asiced if she would like him to clear the Court of spectators.

Tam Shum said she recalled

that and further that her answer was in the negative, that she did not wish the Magistrate to clear the Court,

RECORDED ANSWER

1.

scrutinise

submission.

that the

hom

196 MEALS

"

Inadequacies in his summing BY FRAUD

up and I. should not be made to suffer for them, be com mented.

JUSTIFICATION

the

Portuguese couby-born. amount to 319, or nearly a third of whole 1,043, Europeans and Americana, powicie bakar only. 17; and while, the latter have 'deccomment by 145 since 1948, the former hava notadously increased, "but by hoor many cannot be made out froin, thes jurable, returns at the Regtere General Hongkong can thus hardly be called a British settlement, - which indeed it censed to becorae, when Sir George Bonham et made the dow of gland to encourage · Zind- subbing, PorHUKUERO, J.

CLUBBED TOGETHER

Why the Registrar: General kar and Portugboro :" with And · Maliyak, we cannot"

Indians

have been given separately from separate from both. Probably the care, and Mr May's

such ex-officio inmitted formation and to remove it from the fle. There were numerous

was a misdirection by the. izred, reasons for stating that he de Judge in telling the Jury that one year by Mr T. Creedon may not afrord han leisu to hove

wund cfted from the bis (Balley's case stood or fell, at Kowloon this morning. autrocitiest

In the pre

·on,

Mr Justice Gould said he thought the Trial Judge did tell

Earlier this morning · defede

them

amended. The totals of the comparative table shew · renille at Variance with the ascertained prin- ciples of population, which - we are hardly to be explained—at least

the sallfactorily →→ by alleging migratory, habits of the Chinese. -Se the classification of 'stope, too,

there are numbers which must have run his eye over the first ten lines,

stated.

been set down, at random, for po bne acquainted with the place will

the shops have been greatly

Mr Creedon and defendant the case was then reviewed Fished that under words bound over, sfter" ; husband said he would pay $98 the cost of the meals.

the present case, he went depending on whether they it "must be taken for thought he was telling the truth, common scund that criminal This, he said, suggested to the dant, Lau Sau-mal, 33, was sen information for libel must be Jury he was not telling the tenced to three months im

He also submitted tha: prisonment for the offence, but filed properly. The Solleitor-truth. General had submitted that the Judge did not tell the Jury an hour later her husband nobody could go late the reasons to consider each count against to refund the cost of the meals, | tamed up at 'Court' and offered for the delay in the filing of the him separately, and that they er-ocio information and it should not allow one count to effect, he was saying that the influence the other. Attorney-General could do as he liked Balley declared it was bis submission that this proposi tion, was wrong, and - that authority was not to be abused in this way. It was merely through his office that the had the Attorney General

file

ex-officio authority to information and, Bailey sub- mitted, this was contrary every rule and concept Q She further agreed that some natural justice.

1 time afterwards the stood up and did not sit down again although asked if she would not prefer to be seated. ****

M. Blair-Kerr said that the answer arvording to the record way" did not matter. "Mir Bernacchi said he was prepared to accept that from his

Jesmed friend

Wkness agreed that yesterday the learned Trial: Judge offered her a chair in the witness box.

Mr Bemaschi suggest to you, madam, that you are the whole time bola in this. Court and in the lower Count corsi- dering the effect of your evi-

19 Mhe pìbic and on the

and gentlemen alber Tem Shim That is not the 1 Witness denied a surrasion by Defence Counsel in the reason she did not resis was because shp was a consenting She further denied that after the Fullce had sent her to Row- loon, Hospital she decided that 1to save herscht 'trum skame "sho "hed to allege that she did not

comgent:

1

· AMAH-IN-BOX- Tam Tim in evidence, said she was $4 years of age, a widow, pod was the cousin of the complamant. She was an Femal

She said that on August 27, 1954, she was one of those who accompanied her cousin to the accused' clinic. Tam Shim was suffering from a stomach complaint, she added.

After the consultation.

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H

Alleged Tax

Default

Lui Chor-wan, manager

He further submitted that the the Tai Ho Chol Troupe, resid

information shoulding at 20 Cheung Lok Street,

Mr Crection was told that de fendant registered with the Centre as a victim of the Chemshawan Bre on Jamary, i

is year...

this

Lau's fraud would have res mained undiscovered, the Cours was told, if her husband had not. reported the matter to the Social Welfare Office.

Hawker Robbed Of Earnings

been removed from the Bie first floor was summoned be- fore Mr. T. Morris at Kow- a long time ago and invited the Court to rule that the Attorney-loon this morning for default in General, should not do likewise payment of tax and

penalty in the future." ***

amounting to $2,825. The tax was in respect of the years of -"I've

been robbed walled assessment of 1952-64.15 34-year-old In Pul-shing as he The defendant pleaded not stood before the Shroff's-coun guilty saying that the firm had in der at Central Magistracy this fact suffered a loss. He requested morning and taped all his an adjournment of one month pocketa "Iralde-out "in to lodge accounts with the It Some $30, which he had earned and Revenue Department.

COURT MISLED Badley also dealt with the Solletor-General's arguments concerning the debiting of his account in the bank, and sub mitted that the questions asked by the Solicitor General of a Mr R. Hardy, appearing for Yesterday, had vanished

Vait

Lo, a hawker, tearfully told

"SHOCKS HUMANKEY”"

These returns show a great differ- ence between the male and female Curso children and the Register which has favoured us with vo consecutive articles on thembjaGE, holds that it is "easily to be mo counted for, but it has to be done Sway that shocks Humanity" and the way it has to be done," according to this authority, it, by alleging Uzat, "intenticide, and copte clay female zstanticide, is a very common crime among the poorer "Clama "in China.". Such - we' know is a very common belief Out of China, but experience disposes us to

the popular relegate it "among fallacies Tearried-at-_hoow," which some folks never unlearn, abroad;-

but we have not yet, in the coutEO

of our reading or intercourse, found an. individital, who, Krom__aks.....OWA personal observation, or from any- thing better than hearsay, could a "ert that infanticide is proportionally greater in China than in countries Bearer home.

STRIKING FACT

It is not China, however, but the British - settlement of Hongkong t China, which is in question: Here the cHASIM TURNDs - shew, the male and female birthæ so beren, the proportion of 6,220, tó 65

for fact, if it be son, The Begin hewing more faith in the mor her Begetinter Gessed Have, holde that it is sov stik anadang-

in handdder a the rears ag

ROYONG-u belie that about two thousand cases occur

22 this be so, it Words another, and ne badancholy - proof of the in

i proved try thaler CHE Super intendent (who, ta" addition, tokia other duties of treat (and, incolte, in compler of the population) gretaria y

witness called in this segard the Inland Revenue. Department misled the Court at the trist and stated that, the defendant had brstooders his story in the that he was trying to repeat his not appealed to the Commit Shanghai dialect. He had come performance in his arguments sioner of Inland Revenue within Up to Central to collect what before the Court of Appeal. the limit provided in section 64 retined of a $10 ball, after

Dealing with the evidence (1) of the Ordinance and that being fined for hawking out concerning his purchase of awd #ppication for ad- Coleoding the refund. he placed frog' ciruenference of the inland. restaurant business, Bailey said journment by the defendant it in His coat pocket ons to

appeared to fall within the Solicitor-General stated the vince of soeting: 75 (75 due, pro- find that the rest of his, money efficiency of the pobeg for Whße i

whereby had disappeared. What remain restaurant was sold by one the Court, might grant an ad- en was a four-inch clean, slit in Leung Fat to Mao Chan-shan journment to enable the defen the pocket lining, ang mg

here was no evidence to this dant to submit on appeal to the Taken to the Police Charge that the most thatrat unirons receipts which had been" pro-

All the Commissioner, effect, he submitted.

'Room by sympathisers, The summons will come be admitted that he had travelled duced showed that Leung Fat fore the Court again on May 21. received money from Mr P. H Sirs (who was then acting as

solicitor), Bailey's

Balle agreed that Leung Fut had dealt with Mao Chan-shan but had never claimed that Mao was the

Yee-run paid fd voor her of the restaurant. And

Complainant

My money bought that restaurant, and Sin put It Into Mao's name. That is why I say there was fraudulent conyes alon Bailey declared.

the record and said there was

Mr Justice Gould referred to

simple se substance

Solleter-General's submission.

ZAVALUELESS

the

floor level," through, a large will house the pumps, tanks and canopies will form the most fa- vestibule to the main lobby from lift motors)...

mportant elements of the design.

asked to which a short but broad flight of Fluers above the fifth Boor,High up on this main facarie will agáin the next day. stairs ascends to the main bank-being, in the tower," will er be constructed an imposing and Winter said she took com-

facilities on `ing

the upper tend only over the north end of ornamental balcony which will plainant to the clinic the follow ground floor.

the building, Offices will be

bestand out as a centre of interesting day. She was requested by Accommodation that will be cated around three sides of plain fushes. The soft of the sulting room as the accused mid

against “ol

of comparatively, the accused to leave the Com the west central provided on the lower ground.

STVICE section

to give injectiozes floor includes the safe deposit,staining the lavatories, lifts Canopy over this balcony will be he was going

and staircases,

decorated in Italian -- glass | to cumplainant, total tensh vaulte securities vaults,

A typical upper mosties. staff tiffer rooms and other tower floor will contain

She walled in the reception room for about 15 or 20-y The service and storage rooms for approximately 3,750 square feet

minutes. architecta and evil en the Bank. There will also be 2 of rentable office space

gineers for the Bank are and tried the knob of the door

leading to Altogether, the toto rentable Messy Palmer and Tulner

the consulfing room. Bailey said he had called two large covered yard at this level

office.

said The door, did not open. After - witnesses, (both of whom ice, accommodation available near the rear of the building with access to the private lane for prospective tenants will be appear to an article to be again with the same result, Al be the owner of the restaurant, The technical details win some time she tried the koob Leing knew Mao was never to almost 90,000 square feet. east of the site,

Jamain Bank To the right of the main

The architects carefully con published in the Hongkong this time, the nurse and mother citing from various passages in Builder in about two weeks, Water were in the reception | Leung's evidence, Bakey sub- entrance will be an entrance to sidered the new Building

room, she said,gi SALE Med Emitted that it was valueless, the upper floors relation to the Hongrong Bink the offices

LOOKED DROWSY

Beverting again to the ques through a vestibule and lobby and the Bank of China and de-

Shortly afterwards the con-dom of

information, containing three passenger lifts. sided that the new Chartered

and cone Bank should! Liend with Bebing the lith lobby, and con-

sulting from door was opened Bailey and Kthe 2 Solicitor by the accused. She went In General had submitted that ex nected with it, will be the service other two banks to form a

more

„arida, and, saw Tam Shurs, standet cascio iné

was only a a service staircase or less balanced

lobby with

D

compost

the

Bob Hope For British TV

· ing "up" beside a hod. She told | cam

and Hit- and its "own" entrance, the height of the car key lang

the right of way west of Bank was therefore, made as building.

from

The

proximately the same as that

London, Apr. 26. days ther of China. The fizish- Comedian Bob: Hope; that: Over sixty por cent of the -ed effects, as can be seen-from [[signed a contract for special dp. nperin ground floor will be the photography, will be that of pearance on Britain's Commere Decipled by the banking hall; 4 bread, massive building dank- Television Network, Fit-was

where 13 be a secondary ed

Elegant and stender annor

Architecturally, the Road Central at the Hongkong Banks will howev or main ground door still dominate the comp 153 where there will to a certain extent by other, entrance to the the fact that extends, along **means** of two the southern

level, from

also be

Printed and publishetk chy - Wi and on behalf" of "Solath Eh

Wyddhim

to

her cousin to lie back, odd

that she was going to cal

Aaam. Khin's own fölký to the

returned

mployer

SIDE GLANCES

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by tram earlier in the morning, detected and punched cover indve

By Galbraith

are perpetrated wrtisin. the bounds. of police, to the amount', af- mope tisan five a-day, "the" crime. js. not yours. We cannot call- to mind'a Kogle instance, in double that time: Cand judging from the proceedings of the axpreme Cosat, infanticides: mkat be clameda à...very-rere, tráme, ka Bonglong, instead ng paking, cont ing to the Census vektZDA, NA ŠATERS preted by our contemporary of more éréquent, OCCUSTEnce, that «mÁL: other critics" put together

WHERE THE BODILE And what becomes of the match ed infant? "Ons naver, hears of that bodies being discovered" of slagt water, though;nduits “toundi are the staple of our Coroner's queste and, if the bodies of Intenta, sro, so found the tidig Instepensare carefully conce

that, it should be startled with the som total of discrepeticles betweeTI the taunber" of, male» mod Chidren

exhibited › byther oficial who, in addition to damnaes duties of Police Hoperintendent, his commisions::buring

and Collector -as: Potion- Bates, sane to suberid “aom:ally “to an dulgent Goverztbent i redom of the population, 2000tly a made-t bringing out results spperer/

In short, we hold it to be a more": radicinal mode of accounting for the disproportion between

Kéraste-infants, to doubt the accurats of the census that, to alter that l Hongkong between five", and ste discovered murders, urE: DET?

Charged With Ghastly Crime

tired out tonight, Móm-l vesterni Thoris that, would liven him t

them