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WIFE BRINGS CLAIM AGAINST DRIVER HUSBAND DIES IN ACCIDENT

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Evidence that the late Mr G. A. Neves of the Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd., who was killed in a traffic accident in Causeway Road in December last year, was a steady driver was given at the Supreme Court this morning.

Mr J

E.

over the post-war witness reldent The Jeckway Central | consed

damage.

yours. und Western district engineer of said that the impression he

He knew Mr Tong Tak-wan. the HEC, who was lealifying formed at the time was that the before Mr Jurice J. R. Greg damage was caused by the front a jointer of the Company and He had was present when Mr Craw- the torry. claim for damages brought part of

Man- a "rubbing" on by Mr Neves' widow, said that noticed

the fort, the Acting. Deputy there was nothing in the Com-bumper of the jorry, but apartager, took a statement from him no other through the Interpretation of a puy's recurds that Mr Neve frem that there was

Be heard Mr bed an accident over the post-nullecable mark on the vehicle, Mr Ribeiro.

Tong say so through Mr Ribeiro war years,

that he was sitting in front of the van at the time of the ac- cident.

Mr Jeckway sold he was Mr Neves immediate superior au on hearing the avellent e went straight to the scene and wis van which irespected the being driven by Mr Neves and lorry, as well as marks un the

road,

Negligent

mer-

The clum is brought by Mrs. Mille Neves of 73 Caine Raid

gobust Chain Ko-kok, a chant and former owner of a commercial lorry, and Lai Nee, the driver of the lorry at the time of the accident.

Plaintiff elalins that the deali of her hubend we the result of the negligent driving of La Nee, the lorry delver.

The defence denied that the recond defendant was negligent us alleged, and claims on the other hand that the deceased was negligent.

Mr Brook Bernacchi, instruct~ ed by Mr P... Who of Mesars P. C. Woo and Co. is appeur- ing for the plaintiff.

The defendants are represrul- ed by Mr Patrick Yu, instructed E. Moure of Messrs by Mr R. Deacons.

Mr Jeekway sak that เม van wideh was involved in the Recident was made of very ilgat material, some parts being o aluminium sheets, I bucki very easily.

Asked whether

any iden what

į

Recalled

Mr Jrokway said he recalled a long thick mark on the road, measuring some 30 feet. It ap- peared to him to be lyre mark foterd acts the road by some rxternal furce,

The two parallel marks on the rond at the time appeared to him to be skid marks of the win of the lorry that back wheels to braking He thought that the, braking of The lorry It had struck occurred after the ran.

Ft Street

Witnes said, in answer to a question, that he would taking

เนยจางงง the Hing wide, because of the pedestrian erassing. Unless he took it from out of the road he wout not have time to brake if he found pedestrian crossing the loud.

The while dots on the rond at the time of the accident re- presented the middle of that particular east-bound carriage way, witness went on. In other words trafle on both sides of theee dots Wes palug enstwards.

vehicle wanted 11

pass

another it would obviously de se the right hand side of ite dolted Hne.

had driven Witness sald he with Mr

Never four or five limes and he found him to hi driver. There Was a steady

he formed nothing in the Company's

could have record that Mr Neves had

dira

wilnes

Mr Bernoreki 191

had been suggested that that at the line of impact the whee of the van were in the air, amd all the lorry did was to hit the Lyre of the van If that were the true state of affairs, Coun- I asked what witness would expect to happen to the wheel, the tyre of which was hit by the

lorry,

VID

he

MONDAY, MAY 12, 1958,

Children Fall Into The Sea

Three children aged under 10 fell into the sea na they were board- ing the ferry Man Yan from a motor boat off Chik Wan in the New Territories.

of

They were taken by their parents on a pil- grimage to the temple Goddess of the Heaven yesterday.

Sallors of the ferry jumped into the sea and rescued the youngsters, who were cared for and new provided with à change of clothing by the crew during the voyage back to town.

Bombing Of

Panamanian

Freighter

+

SIDE GLANCES

Sheaffers

NEW BALLPOINT WITH EXCLUSIVE

STERING SILVER TIP

By Galbraith Bishop Hall. Wants More

1-14

6 1981 34 REA Burden, Ing.

"Say, this is quite a bill, Mr. Schultz! My husband isn't going to like it a bit, you letting our account got so large!"

OPIUM CONSPIRACY

CASE

Taxation

By A

STAFF CORRESPONDENT

The Anglican Bishop af

From the Files

25

years -AGO

Hongkong, the Rt Rev. PRILLIANT weather and good R. O. Hall told British round conditione marked the Telavision vicwars that opening of the Senior Lawn the Hongkong Govern-Bowls seuson on Saturday (May mont ought to raise more) when the Polleo Recreation money by taxation for Club provided the first scusation of the year by defeating Cral- welfare work in the

gengower Cricket Club, Insti Colony,

scar's champions. They were brilliantly skipped by S. Moss, W. E. Holland and W, Meir. Club de Recreio, Inst year's runners-up, won their frat en- counter while the KBGC and the KCC were also successful. CCC Juniors won their first match at the expense of Civil Service while the Indians were heavily defeated by KBGC.

Bishop fall, speaking on a Sunday afternoon religious pro Kramune on ITV, sald he felt three things were needed to

relleve helv

the plight

of refugees in Hongkong,

Tary were:

Defter relations between Hongkong and China. Hongkong was not taxed high enough Rnd more money for welfare work

The principal features of the might be rained this way. More help was needed-from weather in 1933, as mentioned in member nations of the Bri-the report of the Director of toere:- A Royal Observatory, Ush Empiro. Bishop Hall said before the drought lasting from the be

ginning

the of

year นร wer Canton and Hongkong used February 3 and,

absence of to be regarded as "almost one city" and he suggested that typhoons seriously affecting the

Colony. relations between the Colony and China improved a regular interflow of people be

NEW competition was in- Iween the two cities might re-

augurated on the Hongkong sume, thus reducing to some Football Club ground on Satur- extent the pressure of popula-day (May B) when, for the first tou in Hongkong.

ume in the annals of the Colony, teams chosen by the Hongkong Football Association Hongkong Chinese

Association Referring to his third point, Athletic Bishop Hall said: "We need decide which should be the Arsi

when

ADJOURNED were told that CASUALTY LIST

said that Mr Jeelway would expect the wheel to be "distorted in some way or that The gear ratio of the van was one of the shafts would be bent, very low, and he weald ant bu surprised if he when the

was Inspected after the nerident It was found to be in top gear, because drivers of such vans were in the habit of keeping them in top gears. In his ophalen, Mr Jeckway said that vans of that type could take

Street the

Hing Fal on top gear.

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Accused Taken Ill

Panamanian vessel More The marathon opium conspiracy case was confirmed in Hongkong

adjourned in the District Court this this morning that the Vessof was sunk during an

morning when an Indian, charged with air attack by unidentified

possession of the drug, was taken ill. bombers on April 28, in Donggala harbour, the

The man began to suffer Colebes,

aches and pains this morning and asked to see his

doctor, Mr John McNeill QC. said.

ů

They also announced that

und was killed quartermaster buried in the Palu, army cere- tery, two, crew members were hurt and in hospital, and seven fore"Mitsing.”

The owners here sald that in a cable from the representative they sent to the area to investi- gate, reported the rest of th crew safe.

The 549-ton Moro was 21017- ned by a Chinese crew of 33 under the command of Coplain The F. R. Wood, a Briton. Chinese crew were engaged in Hcgkong.

The casually list is: Cheung Ah-hing (quartermaster), died ashore and was buried in the

my cemetery in Palu. Cheng Ying (No. 1 treman) and Wong Ming (boy)

David Niven Arrives In Colony

David

Mr McNeil is appearing for Mohindra Verma 30-of-1B Macdonnell Road,

· OUTLETS NEEDED

and the Amateur met to

outlets for our young men. They holders of the cup. The Associa must be allowed to go to other ton won by 2-0 against a weak parts of the world to earn their Chinese team, greatly hand-

ilving.

eapped by the absence of South "We hove a lot of healthy China's brilliant forwards: Fung uble-bodied young men but they King-cheung, Ip Pak-wa and are so energetic that in South Tam Kong-pok. H.E. the Gover cust Asia the people are a little nor arrived before the dck-off frightened of them."

and the players were introduced One of the biggest problems to him before the line-up. in the Colony was the ander- nutrition of a large section of the population, Bishop Hull

sali.

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X

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It was mentioned in the health This could Bo seen in the report During Tuesday, (May children of poor families who there, was a clean bill of

-health_in_the Colonu. on the whole weighed süveînt pounds less and stood; several Niven, the well-

* ☆ known Hollywood movie. Verma and Put Sal-hung, 35, inches shorter than children of acter, arrived here from unemployed of 173 Wing Lok the same age coming from bei-FINES and the possibility of arrest are being faced by the Street West, second floor, have fer homes in Hongkong.

letter Chinese women

Feplay. Bishop Hall read a

ot Tokyo by BOAC this pleaded not guilty to charges of

former capital morning in the course of having

between from his daughter, Dr Judith Oficials of ine conspired

decided that It is un a five-month pleasure trip October last year and February Hell, who works in a Kowloon huve

resettlement area clinic, The becoming and also unnealthy to around the world. He was to deal in opium.

letter vividly described the mis-stru round the street attached accompanied by his They have also pleaded not crable stata of patients who to a chain at the other end of

which

Just what la having been Swedish born wife guilty

; queued dally for attention.

is a dog. possession of 1,070 pounds of the Church. Refugee Ald Sceioly, likely

The Director of the Inter- The particular form of disease Bjordis.

10 bo contracted by drug on February 22.

Miss Janet Lacey, speaking on stroking out with Fido instead of the same programme said the remaining at home with the pot. Society hoped to train young animal is something which is Chinese men in Hongkong for being debated in the tea shops social service work.

of the city.. According to the She said the Society was mosquito press, Pelping's proposing to send a full-time Chinese social world is buzzing man to reorganise the Hong-with indignation over the at- kong Council of Social Servier.tempt of certain officials to in-

terfere with the freedom OTHER WAYS

action by honest-to-goodness citizens, 1

Burt

to

Privilege Claim

in

The Alm star told Pressmen completed that he had Just

A movie called were making

"Separate Tables", a drame. alightly wounded nhei wern admitted to the Navy Hospital with Deborah Kerr and

Lancaster. But he added, the Judge H.HB. How ordered Leung Tse-on (chief officer).most la "Round The World in Verma to consult his doctor.

pleture he enjoyed working an adjournament today for Lae King-yu (second officer), 80 Days" in which he played a

Sun Tze-kong (third officer).

In Sourabaya.

Before the adjournment Crown This is his rat rip to the Prosecutor Mr D. E. Greenfeld For East. He added that he claimed Crown privilege on be- was sure that he would enjoy half of the Attomey Generad

Au Han-keung (purser), Ho leading part, Fu (second cook), Li Cho- (fallor) and Tung Ping-fong (greaser) were missing, pr sumably killed or drowned.

police officers.

of

The Society misa proposed his 10-day stay in Hongkong. for a statement made to the His next stop in this world trip Attorney General's office by helping in other ways we are

expecting to get money from It is announced in the Goversi 19 Bangkok.

churches and friends and Hong- ment Gazette that the Volunteer In evidence, Sub-Insp Chukong will get a large share of Ordinance of 1920 has been Chun-man said he searched Pul's it," she said,

mutilated by numbers of altera- pocket on February 23 and found

The volee describing the tions and amendments and to harrowing scenes that TCHOve these and other defects; were shown during the pro-it has been thought best to re Mr Richard Winter (for Pu) gramme was that of Miss Eliza-peal the existing Ordinances and asked Chun it lie had made beth Lec, daughter of Arch-to re-enact them in a re-drafted statement 10 the General's department saying he Miss Lee is a student of church had seized Pui's hand when ite music in London.

Mr and Mrs David Niven arrived in Hongkong today, This picture shows then at Kal Tak soon after leaving the plane, China Mail Photo.

a' notebook,

put it in his pocket.

many

Attorney deacon Lee Kau-yan of Kowloon, consolidation Ordinance.

Mr Greenfeld then objected that the police statements made

to the Attorney General were subject to Crown privilege.

YACHT

RAISED

GRAFFMAN

COMING

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TUIE Winter Return for April

notes that the rainfall for the month as recorded at tha

Royal Observatory was only 3.61

inches as compared with 8.438 inches during April last year; As the result of very dry winter and spring, further restrictions

In the well known American of water supply have been ime magazine Life on January 27 of posed on the island. This year this year there appeared a full during April, there was only a 10-hour dally supply in two page article on Gary Grafman,

a young planist who first came periods. In April, 1932, the to pubile attention os a child supply was full except that the prodigy, 20 years ago. After his rider main district supply was The motor yacht Kam Sang, debut he enjoyed a normal boy- through the street fountains.

this year,

there. which capsized cad sank

hood and resumed his career at in Kowloon short distance off the

north the age of 8. He is now were the same restrictions. In east corner of Queen's Fier on hailed in America as one of its April last year, Kowloon had al Saturday was raised and tales finest planists and is currently full supply. away for repairs last night.

A

SalvageTM operations were completed at about ' pra, yes

terday.

on a world tour which includes his recital in Hongkong at the Lake You Hall on May 31.

London-A reduction of 78,500 - Already becoming known for in the number of persons unen the excellence of his recordings,ployed in England or compared Mr Graffinan boasts a formid with the March figure la diss The boat, which belongs to a shlo techalque, which, how-closed in the return for the past Chinese

solicitor, sank off ever does not overshadow his month. The total unemployed Queen's Pier after having dis- artistry. To quote The Times comprised 2.070,814 wholly n charged seven, passenger fol- in ita review of his recent Lon-employed; 517418 temporarily Icwing a cruise to Lamma den recital, Mr Graftman is on stopped; 90,402 normally Island. It was thought that artist as well as a performer... casual employment. The total the stern of the boat had bump- Kis reellal hore is being on April 24.Included 2,109,129

boys; 08,854 cd against the concrete pier sponsored by the Mule Society men; when it was moving actern. of Hongkong.

women and 55,942" girîn.

The boat sank in 10 minutes;

the coxswain and two members

of the crew, however, managed †10 scramble to safety.'

tr

405,700

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