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Serenade For String

THE

CROWD SCENE

THE Galahad streak ratt string. But there must be some Tuted streak rats string. But there must be the world, he thought, was the poorer for being so short of maidens in distress and dragons to imperil them.

two fell to discussing woys and means, and the next thing, as Aubrey was later to recall, was that he looked up and found 11

crowd of people authered -like on audience round the doorstep, and a policernan addressing him.

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CHINA MAIL

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1956.

STRUCK OFF COMPANY RESTORED TO THE REGISTER

Mr Justice C. W. Reece at the Supreme Court this morning granted an application by petition for the restoration to the register of a company which bad been struck off and made an order in the terms of the petition.

The petition was made by Mr Kuan Ka-pack, liqul. dator of the Pack Yúc Co. Ltd., and the Pack Yue Co, of 82. Morrison Hill Roud.

in the

As he strolled through the quiet streets of Mayfair the

The petitioners were repre-¡ objection to the application for other evening, on his way to "You must move from here,”

sented by Mr Vietor Gitiba, the restortion of the company one of his elube, Aubrey was onlct the policeman Aubrey and instructed by Mr P. Chan, of to the regirler. perhaps dunking of these things the girl bolts rose, thought better Meere Lau, Chan and Ko. Mr Mr Gittine said the onus was

sub- jot il, and sat down again thinking of wint

W. K. Thompson, Deputy Hejia - on the petitioner to satisfy the alllules toxicabs and sports cara

"un going to urrest you.

(trar-General, appeared for the Court that he was carrying 20 made, as a means of transport, the policeman said, "for being Attorney-General,

respondient business at the time the com- -fog Caparisoned. charges? of drunk arid disorderly.

pany was struck off. He cited how feeble the neatest-furled

At that

young

Applications Mr Citi said Mr Kum and an authority and submitted that whom umbrolla "äuick the gloomest brief-

company was In EARCHTSTENE case

compared

Eastern, became, the poleeman bis Inother were the only two when

ybareholders ink! (rectors of voluntary liquidation, it sword or liner and hield

rate 111 Paw book, "hysterical," arul among other things she saint the company and the company's suffelently carrying on business operation under the to him, I have that eux look rule rivestment consisted of alor was in

of leasehold property ( section of the Ordinance. juff your face when I've got anla dece

situated on the waterfront, and I'm a came tour h with my embassy

of and she men- the purchase

well- Janelinery on the site. very

NOT COMPLETED

18-CARAT DISTRESN DERHAPS he was thinking so

when suddenly be upon a maiden who looked to be in genuine 18-carat distress. A slim, dark-haired young wornan, she was, neatly dressed In tailored slacks and sitting on the doorstep of an elegant pri vale huse looking as though she had recently run the gaur

#half-sqinl

let of authentle dragons,

Aubrey

stopped befur

cousin of

Bonest known.

aut

Someone

start disorderly

The swit

Kir). Hullo-ulio," he

Anything wrong of anellung

The pretty girl sighed In a dignited way and said som1- thing In A voice

Ital 30 ot Aubrey could not catch a word et B.

CAN I HELP?

NYTHING

I

she ter In

"Aked, and

make guze, this time of heur- ng, be sat down on the step ot the girl's side.

"String" she said.

'What's that?” Aubrey naked. "Have you a piece of string?

She held u4545 the girl naked,

bad Confe

porces that

from a wynpping?.

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ויי

lund

PROPER ORDER

was

The formal requirements | Laving been made, Mr Gittins continued, be submlited that this was a fit and proper case for Court's order for thu restoration of this company to

Hv said he and the Deputy fegishiur-General had drafted a form of under for the Court's approval s being the proper order in this case,

Mr Thumpeon sald the Crown

objection to the

TOOK IT AS A JOKE NEXT morning at Bow Street In 1941, t WON deeldeu 10

Aubrey

young wind 12 the company and a Che

was advertised in the women beth pleaded not guilty | nolice to the charge of being drunk Government cazette on cetober The register

P. 1943 hadn't it a

Wa. broke out ten months the to fear hours #wa: Just inter and the winding up was

club for one." satt¦ not completed KONAR

The reeds of | Aubrey infignantly

JUM

The commny were just ; thought this lady might be in The fiquidator and his brother

distrist, so I sat down beside were under the wrong impress no her. Then all these people inime sion that the company had been along."

fully wound up and applied for "We | the reconstruction of the records young woman subd

11. De company under the Comis as a joker when we were

(Reconstruction of Re- fsked to go away. I mentioned pany

Ordinance. th

Mr because I didn't cord 1 einbussy

rait wan!

142 furbed Poten's

Satiate

-

Nod

about thi," Mr Bertram fence, the PRAGA- strate a 10s each. please."

The couple left and the scowl! upon Aubreya handsome face.

enigmatic look

The upon girls, told their feelings, which they prudently kept to then- selves. No knihy or maiden ever got anywhere ARGUING with | dragons.

U

adrift

Sorry. he sold

at last,

hot

Oh, I see. STING Aubrey Semaine anti-climax.

adver-

Heation.

-

Mark Of Respect

Member of

the

Hongkong

Later, the Registrar tised in the Gazette in response Stack Exchange stood in silence for two miles this morning

to Mr Kuan and the company was struck off the register of February 17, 1950.

In memory of the late Mr Ezra Abraham.

As the Court wus aware, pro-

Mr Abraham, who died on struck jerly of any company

Zas vested in the Crown.

Monday, wis a founder of the This

was a rather valuable

stock broking ir of Tealer piece

walertroni

and Abraham. property and the Attorney-General was served a notive

ascertain whether the Crown had my

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REGULATIONS ULTRA VIRES

SUBMITS COUNSEL

Closing legal submissions were given by Mr Brook Bernacchi before the Full Court this morning in an appeal by way of case stated, involving the powers of the Governor in Council relating to emergency regulations.

The Full Court comprises Mr Justice M. J. Hogan, Chief Jus- Uee: Mr Justice T. J. Gould and Mr Justice C. W. Reece,

Feathertouch

BALLPOINT

DOCTOR TESTIFIES IN CASE AGAINST EUROPEAN DRIVER

A doctor giving evidence before Mr I. T. Morris at Kowloon Court this morning in a case in which a man is charged with driving while under the influence of liquor, stated that his im- pression of the driver at that time was that he was not completely sober.

He added that he could not say that the de- fendant was drunk, but he was not rowdy and his gait was quite steady.

The defendant, Bruce Munro- Smith, 45, of 205 Lyton House

is charged with

while under sirink

driving a car

the influence

rink on September

Junction

of

22 at the

ot Public Square

Street and Nathan Road. He is represented by Mr G. Hampton

of Hastings & Co.

Teoh Tiaw-peng a doctor,

suid

1a.m..

on

Shroff Sent

Tse

To Prison

to

Nang-lat, 28-year-old that about September 23, he examined the shroit, of 44, Homuntin Street,

floor, was defendant. Before doing so heirst

sentenced explained to him that he had nine months' imprisonment by every right to refuse examine My Hin-shing Lo at Central this tion.

But, he said, he received morning on three charges of written consent.

embezzlement

three of

and

He said that after a few pre-falsifying accounts. liminary questions he asked the defendant what the day and the A total of 162 additional charges of falsification against dme was, but the defendant was

He the defendant, were tikon intò not clear about the time. then asked the defendant if he consideration by the Magistrate, had been driving a car and hed been involved in an accident. The defendant replied that he had not been driving a car.

The

be to defendant refused further examined and tore up the paper on which he gave his

written consent to the examina-

In cross-examination witness agreed that person suffering

symptom of pletely rober.

from shock would show not being

somo

com-

Defendant pleaded guilty to having embezzled $85 on three occasions in November and to have falsifed the accounts by destroying three receipts belong ing to his employer, Messrs W.

S. Wong and Co. He also ad

mitted that he had destroyed re-eipts on 182 occasions be tween February 0 and Novem

ber 20

The prosecuting ufficer, in the previous hearing told the Court that the total amount of midney the gefendunt had stolen was not known as the receipts had been destroyed, but it was esti- mated to be about $20,000.

HIT BY CAR The inere fnet, he zuld, that Chlu Shu-yce, a foki of the power wils

tn Kiven make Sun Sai Fong tailor's shop, suid regulations did not mean that that he was standing outside the power was given to create a shop on September 22 at about

sel out

that The appellants are Li Bun, Li offence and

B punish-five minutes past eleven Nai, Chau Wal-lum, Leung Ying-ment.

night together with four others, Hu. Cho Tung and Leung Ko

LIMITED POWER one of whom was Wong Sek They nis represented by Mr That was brought about by poon. Bernacchi, Instructed by Mr the necessity of the legislature | Witness stád that Wong de- Magistrate this morning, how P. J. Grimths, of Wilkinson and having to pass section 18 or the cided to go for supper and cross-ever, he sold that he was unable

Interpretation Ordinance

buted the street on the pedestrian to pay the sum.

Crist.

24 last year.

Mr Desmond Mayne Crown Counsel, is representing the Crown.

some

Was

The deftadon't agreed to the gure mentioned by the Pro- secution and said he could make restitution of $8,500 before the

the In Possession

distance. The car stopped

The appellants were convicted the existence of section 15 suv crossing. When he was about a of attemping to export two Ply-ported his submission Counsel foot away from the traffic Inouth motor cars without a said, that

stid, Wong general power to island, Chu B leener at Stanley on December make regulations, however wide knocked down by a cor,

It may be. was not in itself a impact of which threw him power to create an offence.

One had to go on either to the obout ten feet from the place of further sections of the impact, he said.

itself. Ordinance

or to the in crose examination, witness provisions of section 15 of the said that he did not actually sec Interpretation Ordinance, Mr the car striking Wong but heard Bernacchi said. It was a fallacy the noise and when he looked to say that one could rely on

up he

saw him being thrown section 2 alone and Ignore sec-

some distanco by the car, Bon 2(2)(n).

continue Hearing will January 2.

INTERPRETATION

Mr Bernacchi this morning replied to the arguments of the Crown. He spoke about the in- terpretation of the wording of the various laws and regulo- tons concerned in the case.

He said it was

was the Crown's case that the Emergency Regula- Lions Ordinance enabica eri emergency regulation 10 be passed which could amend any enactment, whether it was pass- ed before or after the enactment of that Ordinance.

so, Mr Bernacchi went on,

he would say that that submis-

Hearing is continuing.

On

Of Heroin

1

For unlawfully possessing 120 packages of heroin (6 grammes). without a licence granted by the Director of Medical and Health Services, Cheung Ho-sung, 20, was fined $850 or three months. imprisonment by Mr F. X. d'Almada at Central Magistracy this morning.

Defendant, who had two

was also bound over in $500 for one year.

Death Of HK Suspect Detained previous convictions, one similar,

Solicitor

Mr

A Hongkong sollelior, sion of the Crown in itself Teng Man-yue of 24 Fort Street clearly made the regulations ultra vires. And that was what bad happened In the present

coec.

North Point, died early this morning nt the Queen Mary hospital after 好 three-week

illness.

a

emergency regulations, Counsel cald, purported to amend Mr Tong, aged 30, was sections, the form of which up partner in the firm of Peter Mo to the date of the amendment

and Co, whom he joined lost was as a result of an Ordinancn year after completing law ex- aminations in the United King- passed

in 1952. Mr Bernacchi said Mir Mayne to Mega Hastings and Co in dom. Before this he was articled had entirely failed to answer Hongkong. his submission that a regulation

two

man

The Police have detained A In connection with the theft of a fountain pen from another Chinese In Nathan Road, near Nelson Street, at about 9.30 p.m. yesterday,

(nsh was stolen from A Chinese

walting at the Jordan Road Ferry bus terminus at am. yesterday. A cheque und other papers were stolen from a pedestrian in Shanghai Street at about 7.30 p.m. yester- day.

woman

Radio Set Stolen

@

He leaves a wife and was not,

specifically young unites

children, The funeral

A radio sat was stolen from a provided for, an Instrument that takes place tomorrow at 4.80 parked car in Bonham Road be- created an offence and prescrib- | pan., at the Internationaltween 8.30 p.m. on Monday and ed a punishment.

Funeral Parlour, Wanchal, 0.30 am. yesterday,

A second charge of selling dangerous drugs (heroin) - was dismissed when the Prorecuifon affered no evidence.

Cheung WUS arrested on Monday when a Police party headed by a European Inspector relded

rooftop in Queen's Street.

Woman Assaulted

A Chinese woman was ascend- ing the staircase- of, No. · 208, Electric Road at abpuť 9.15 a.m. yesterday when she was accost- ed and assaulted by a man, who' was in possession of a paniculto. The assailant was arrested by the Polica.

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