1957-08-26 — Page 10

THE BEESTON BOILER CO., LTD.

HEATING EQUIPMENT, BOILERS, -

RADIATORS, ETC.

ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD. HK. & Shanghai Bank Bldg. Tel. 27789

AFTER THE LAUNCHING

CHINA MAIL

Establebed 1845

MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1957;

THIS TUG WAS BUILT IN PUT'S

(Above) nf.er the launching, and (below) Mr Vaughan gives the tug a friendly pat before she allps down.

SENTENCE

REDUCED

A sentence

months for

of $1,000 or ax porscising heroin

A.D.

way reduced to $1,000 or three month by Mr Justice Scholes at the Appeals Court this morning.

The Judge pointed out to the eppellant, Wong Por, that the maximum sentence that could

be passed as an alternallye to * fine of $1,000 was three months.

THREE MONTHS' GAOL

But Wong has also to serve a consecutive sentence

six of months on another charge of offering to deal in dangerous drugs.

Wong was convicted of the two charges and sentenced by Miss B. K. Searle at Central on August 1. He was arrested on July at, la possession of 0.2 grammes of lierola.

FOR FORGERY

A Chinese youth, Leung Shiu-chung, 24, a partner of the Mei Chun Wo Printing Press at 61 Jardine's Crescent, was sent to prison for three months by Miss B. K. Searle ut Centrul this morning fer forging à docu- ment,

Aether appellant, Yu Wing-Police offered no evidence.

fat, doleed the Judge to reduce the sentence of two years im- posed on him for theft

Yi had pleaded guilty to picking $30 from the pocket of Kam Kuen at the Peiho Theatre cu July 22.

Dientissing the appeal, Mr Justice Scholés said that in view of his bed record, he did not think there was any reason for Him to intorfere with the sen- tenre imposed by the Magistrate.

Another charge of uttering a forged document was dismissed by the Magistrate when the

In 1955, a leence for the printing press was taken out iz the name of Leung's partner, Cheng Kam-bui.

to Eastern Police Station, where certain Inquiries were made. An a result of these Inquiries the defendant was arrested.

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RECORD

TIME

SHEAFFERS

Skrip

11-YEAR-OLD

DREAM COMES TRUE

A towing tug, built in And she joins the crew of the Yankee

record time for the Malayan Stevedoring and Transportation Ltd,

of Singapore, by the Pacific İslands Ship-

N enterprising

building Co., Ltd., was A mother who wanted

launched at Ngautaukok this morning by Mrs Collings, wife

her children to know a

about of Mr little bit more

than was W. R. K. Collings, Assis-geography

schools, tant Director of Marine taught in

cajoled, coaxed and (Ship Surveys).

Many attended the launch- pleaded with her three ing and Chinese workmen teenage sons to attend a burned the traditional joss lecture given by com- nticks and firecrackers as mander Irving M. John- Mrs Collings broke a bottle of champagne over her bow and the tug, Lirik, be gan to slip into the water.

Lirik is a tug of 500 h at 300

rpm.

Very Proud

son on one of his four around the voyages world on the brigantine, Yankee, one night cleven years ago.

This lecture on the world bi a speech at a reception and its people didn't arouse after the launching, Mr J. 1. much interest in the three Vaughan, Managing Diracle Rileys but it did Are the Prelle Islands Shipbuilding Co.,imagination of ponytailed

Ltd., said:

We are very proud of theen-year-old Lirik, and fea that she will be Riler. one of the rest efelct tow boots operating in the Orient.

"I would not say by any means the is a beautiful vessel, however, tugs are bullt for work and not beauty and I am quite sure that when in rough sees her master and crew will appre- ciate her broad beam and long superstructure far beauty."

more

then

gister

Absorbed

Pex

50 Peg was

absorbed by skipper Johnson's narrative of his island-hopping educational world tour, coupled with

reals and reels elaborate

the of Alms to she his story that "The heel of the Lirik was told tude a wish right there, and then to Join Commander John- May 20 this year and Jaunched today, August 20, mak-son as a member of his crow ing a total of three months and when she grew up.

An enthusiastic Peg returned six days which we feel is quite

and an- night a record, and I should like to tome that poft out that none of us are

nounced to her mother that taking any correspondence course one day she would sall in the brigantine, Yankee, 10 see the world.

Army Man Hurt from Henry Kaiser.

Corporat A. E. Oshiome

a

On July 23, this year, Loung Instructed one of his fokls 10 take a witten application to the Licensing Office at Police Headquarters, Land Forces, was the seriously injured shortly after Headquarters, king for transfer of the fence to his midnight last night when the

Jó He signed the document private car

was driving collided with the stone pillars in Cheng's name,

The application was trans- of the Unton Jack Club in ferred fem Police Headquartets Queen's Road East.

nome.

SPECIAL REDUCTIONS

OUR DAISY OPENS

AND SO DOES OUR

Dress

Swim

Hats

Coats

From

August':

22nd to

31ST

Lingerie

Blouses

Page

ANNUAL

Suits

Maternity

Wear

Skirts

UMMER SALE

"In the past two years we have launched a total of 163 vessels totalling approximately 33,000 Gross tons."

TWO POLICE CHARGED WITH THEFT

by Francis Boey

"You'll grow out of it, Peg." Miss Riley who is as pretty sald her mother. "Besides where as she is personable is a shapely are you going to get the $5,000 and unassuming girl of 21. She signing on fee?"

skipper Johnson to take you on as one of his crew, I'll put in my share,'

"I have been pestering skipper Johnson for the last eleven years. Fils ship, which is also his per manent home, moré aften ihan not is always anchored at Clou- cester, Massachusetts. I asked for an appointment over the phone and looking back in re- trospect it must have been the most incoherent conversation that the skipper had ever heard.

Pestering

"The mason wng obvious - I was hysterical. I tried to say so many things to him at the sama time for I was delirious with happiness.

"What started oul

# #k beautiful day for me that May moming, two years ago, when

I set out in high spirits and with a cong in my heart' ended with me in the most depressing mood.

"The skipper told me I was too young for him to take me on as a member of the crew. I was then 18 and standing 5 ft 10 us in my stocking feet. The only word of - encouragement which still kept my hopes alive was that he would consider my caze very carefully and that I would be notified" of his cision in a couple of months.

Depression

de-

dream

"In September, my world crashed down around me, just es hard us the depression that hit the people in Wall Stroct in the twenties. Skipper Johnson was still of the opinion that I was not mature enough to join him. 1 sulked and meds for months.

Mother, I mean it, I can do fold this writer that she left her or to social events. This job myself a nuisance in the house

odt jobs between classes and I'll save every penny even if it takes me ten years to ste my dream come true," she replied.

Personable

North

ship ai Sandakan, Borneo, to meet her parents who are now in Hawall en route for Tokyo to rendezvous with their globetrotting

daughter,

said

"I used to work as a baby- gitter when I was 12 for my Geighbours who go out to movies

brought me a regular Income so that in a short period I was

"A year later, when I thought own savings able to open my

there was not the alightest decsunt. A grew older. I chance of my ever seeing my worked in factories, hospitala

dream come true, my father rang camps

carn and summer more money.

me up one May morning at the collogo I was boarding at, and told me the wonderful news of my being accepted by akipper Johnson,

I

A Social Science student at the Sarah College, Connecticut, Peg stands near to six feet, She "My happlest day was when T had taken her more than my Gayings necourt showed a The other day a lanky Ameri ten years of picking up odd jobs deposit of $2,500 in my name. Charged with three can college girl stepped off o to raise the $5,000 to pay for I couldn't wait for my father to privilege of joining the came home to remind him of his counts of theft each, two plane at Kal Tak unobstrusive the

ly. Nobody in the Colony, not Yankee,

elove-year-old promise. Instead, Police constables were re-

even the Prozs, had an inkling "My father, Robert Riley, a I rang him up. manded for three days in of the strange odyssey this mechanical engineer jokingly "It didn't surprise. my father Police custody by Mr T. L girl was making in the Yankee, told me that if I could raise though, for he had bech follow- $2,500 he would pay the balance. Ing my savings baromeler which Yang at the Kowloon Magisaw at Bangkok.

All Her name is Miss Peg Riley, He sure did live up to his word I had set up in my room. tracy this morning.

known as Put among her ship or I wouldn't be speaking, to ho sold -wast Alright, Peg Defendants were Yip Tim-

mates.

If you can convince iwan, 20, of Ho Ka Yuan, Arst floor. Kowloon City, and Tscung Lam, 20, of 915 Canton Road, third floor.

It was alleged that the first defendant on August 15 end 16, at the Kowloon Magistracy sole a total of $30, the pro-

perty of Lam Shui-tong, Lee

Pul and Fung Yin-chin.

you now," she said.

darling

"For a moment I was speech- was too good to be less. It true. Thus, after years of hard toil, disappointment and frustra tions I was finally in as a crew of the brigantine, Yanket,

Tomorrow. Put tells about life on board tho Yankoo

DrP.H.Teng Off To England REQUIEM MASS FOR PRIEST

Bereaved

Mrs Teng Chye-siew,

The strand defendant was mother of Dr P. H. Teng,

also alleged to have stolen Assistant Director of Health

LOLA) $30, the property 0

Yu Mo-yin, Cheung Wal and

Liu Lam on the same days.

No pleas were taken.

Service and Vice-Chairman

of the Urban Council, died at Queen Mary Hospital early this morning. She

MAN CAUGHT was 68.

RED-HANDED

of

The late Mrs Teng, a native Fukien Province, мая married in 1909, and went to Singapore ten years later when the late Mr Teng Leo-teng be

A man taught red-handed came the director of a Chinese

picking the pocket of an eight-|rewspaper,

year-old boy, was sentenced to In 1933, Mr and Mrs Teng eight montba gol by Mias B. K. bettled in Hongkong. Bắt Teng Searle at Central this morning.died during the Japanese OC-

The defendant, Wong Chi-cupation,

Mrs Susie Yip, grand-daughter

hung, 28, an earth coolic, who Mrs Tena is survived by her of late Sir Robert Ho Tung_left kad 10 previous convictions, caly son, two grandsons and the Colony by the n Homburg,

similat, two grend-daughter.

with her four children yester-.

two of which pleaded guilty.

were

A religious service will be day. Mr Yip is taking her At about 7.30 p.m. on August | held at the International Funeral | children to the United Kingdom

24, a policeman on board as Parlour, at 3.30 pm tomorrow. to school.

East bound tram, saw the de-

fendant put his hand into the

A Requiem Mass was held at St Margaret's Church, Happy Volley, this morning for the lato Rov. E. Moulis, CM,, who died suddenly on Friday evening at his home 20 Beach Road, Stanley. The Mass WEB attended by Fathers and Sisters of various congregations and people of the French Community. The Rev. W. O'Hara, of Mary-

kell, Stanley, officiated at! the Mass. He was assisted by the Rov. M. Cantore and'

MODE

the Rev. L. Bolls both of St Margaret's Church,

Following the Mass, his Lord- ship Blahop Lawrence Blanchi, Bishop of Hongkong, gave tho "Blowing and officiated at the graveside. Wreaths were sent by the French Consulate, Mr. and Mrs Rudy Choy, staff of the Catholic Centre and the Rev. Charics H. Vath, Tang Cheong, Leung To-chuen, Cheung Ping-sin, and Wong Yin and many others.

ELITE BUDGET FLOOR

Room 12, 3rd floor, Kayamally Building (Entrance side lane Main Store, 22 Queer's Rd. C.)

STARTS TODAY for 4 DAYS ONLY

From 9.30a.m. to 5.30 p.m.

Icy trouser pocket of 2 pastile WENT FISHING IN No Information Ladies-Look at these Sensational Bargains:

boy and take out

wallet. He arrested him

the spot.

The wallet contained $8.

PROHIBITED AREA

An official of the United States -FINED $20 Consulate here said this morning

A Chinezá carpenter, they had no information, oletal

or otherwles, concerning the re each fined $20 by Mr D. L F ported release by. Chino of the Edwards at the Maxine Court

American turncoat, Scott this morning for taking their Leonard Rush. Air Commodore A. D. Mersen- samyan_Info à prohibited arta ger, Air Officer Commanding of the RAF anchorage at Kai

Хаја RAF aircraft this Tak.

AOC Leaves For welder and watclaman, were

left

Singapore

the

The coldler was captured in Korea in 1980 and elected to rec. min in China after the armis. tice. He had since married o Chinese wife.

morning for a three-day tour of The man told the court that temporary duty to Singapore, they went there to fish.

He was seen off at the Air-They were arrested by Col port by Group Capt. A. J. M. Howard of the NAF on Smythe, Station Commander night of August 24 and were RAJ, Kal Tak, and his ADC, subcoquently handed over to made known in his letter in

hla paretits in Ohio, F1-Eleut. C. Brookbacks.", the Marine Police, «

Rush's reported cloure was

,

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