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THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1958.

Trolleybuses-And The Problems They Pose For Hongkong-

Opium Case Adjourned

For A Day

Victoriu. District Judge H.H.B. How this morning postponed until tomorrow his ruling on the ad- missibility

certain of evidence on handwriting Identification in the opium conspiracy trial.

The accused, Mahindra Verma, 30-year-old merchant, and Pul Sai-hung, 35, unemployed, are charged with conspiring to deal in opium between October last year and Februay Bus year and possessing 1,076.25 pounds optim on February 22,

of

In certain circumstances trolleybuses have many advantages over tramcars. But according to the Manager of the Hongkong Tramways, these circumstances are mostly ruled out by traffic situation in Hongkong.

Mr C. S. Johnston was commenting on a letter in a morning newspaper, in which a correspon- dent said "Is it true that we are the only modern city with these contraptions still run- ning in our streets? Can they be converted to trolleybuses?"

He said:

the

is not on the ontalde of are more wheel, but sandwiched between Trolley buses a anoeuvrable, being able in the construction. They have to pull into the kerb.

{about ten car runing s They can travel very fast, funder experiment. up to 50 mph.

Wider

Another

the point against conversion would be the fares. At present, 100 million ten-eval But on the other hand, they passengers are carried by tans are one foot wider, and would

annually. It is unlikely that therefore lake up more valuable my other form of transport

could operate sunce in our narrow rands,

aschenply Secondly, it was very doubtful that, MP Johnston added. If whether it would be safe to trolleybuses were to be brought have a vehicle travelling o1 60 in, tures would have to be mph, especially a trolleybus full raised to 20 cents,

Its Bonuur was scheduled to passengers, rule on the evidence given by a If Hongkont possessed double Prosecution witness, Mr La Wai-carringe roads, then perhaps Bin, an employee of Verma, who speeds like this could be utilised, had textibest about handwriting said Mr Johnston. alleged to have been

that of

Vet me documents.

Not Finished

Mr Johnston said there were any European cities sull run- ng troncars, and many hud recently introduced therm. In many

they werd

dourishing.

number

of

"ገግ " 7 " wore a point against the conversion

of trucars to trolleybuses dite

This morning, the Judge in dicated t

at not get Anished

preparing his juling. He said he thought it could be completed during the morning,{e the traffe situation in the but that it had still to be typed Colony. Mr Johnston said,

Traffic accidents in Dtl.

which trani are involved ure kept because of the pre- down denine path of the tram along the tracks, “O knows where the tan will go, but this is not the case with a frolleybus."

Judge How asked Mr. V. L. J. D'Alter Crepresenting Venna together with Mr John McNeill, Q.C.) in Mr McNeill's see whether be preferred a verbal ruling to be given ter in the daye written derision being available at a subseptetit stase - that the hearing be ad- journed until farmorrow.

replied that M Mr D'Alton McNeill had lokt him he would an adjournment in the preter Pircumstances until tomorrow if it did not inwonvenience the

Court

Hailsham On HK

(Continued from Page 1)

"Obviously come contraction is ging o take place, and obviously seene lines previously prontable will not be profitable in the future.

Many Extra

So may extra vehicles would be needed if a conversion were during rush made, especully hours.

Impersonator

is

Sent To Gaol

For 2 Months

Malaya

University

Sportsmen Arrive

A sports contingent of the

of University

Malaya arrived here from Singa- pore this morning in the Dutch Inor Tjiluwsh to compate in this year's Inter-Vanity Games with the University of Hong- kong.

The Contingent comprises 12 players, four supporters and two oficials, Mr Rahim Kadir, Presi- dent of the University of Maluya Athletic Union and manager of the contingent, and Mr Chet Sugh, assistant manager.

The University of Malaya originally planned to send over 70 students to participate in the Games, but many of them were Singapore by up in

examinations.

They still do business but time is reuning out -China Mall

Photo.

NOW THEY ARE

BACK TO WHERE

THEY STARTED

By CHINA MAIL REPORTER

Lin Say-lud, Captain A Chinese family who built up a large business badminton tram, wil fly here later to join the contingent after selling electrical apparatus from a very humble he finished with Thomas Cup

beginning will soon be forced back to where matches.

they came from.

The sports programme for the,

The familiar noise of radio, floor of the block in which they static and commentaries which live.

Shell House is being demo- were heard by patrons of

SHEAFFER'S

JJ

ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN

Witness

Warned

About Answering

-Questions-

In the Supreme Court this morning a witness was warned that he need not answer any question about the evidence he gave at a hearing last year which might incriminate him.

in

Was

that Chu The witness, Au Chak-chuen, enust have thought

Ale told Counsel for the deterdunts

4 Ichling

when ease before the Senior he said in the witness box that Pulsac Judge Mr Justice he had paid you in full?

(that he C.W, Reect,

Mad testified at an OJ artien as year that he was not a partner of Ng Hu-fal in an agreement with the defendants, Hang On who Tal Building Contractors.

Gover had sub-contracted a ment job to the witness and NE for the laying of servicing water pipe at Taun Wan.

Witness: Prior to the hearing of the case I was present when Chu and Ng Ho-fat consulted together. Chu had said that it Ng should lose the case then Chu would tell the Court that Ng had collected all the money from Hàng On Tal.

Do you know whether your partner Ng Ho-fat made receipts in advance? I know but I had

Au alleged that he had been tougla to give the evidence by no proof. Chu On-lai, mannging director of the defendant firm.

Mr Oswald Cheung, Counsel for Mrs Kwok Sin-hung, the plaintiff in the action, then asked itis Lordship to warn the wit- |ness accordingly.

+

Indebted

Mrs Kwok is aulng the de- fendants, Hong On Thi Building Contractors of 132 Wing Lok Street concerning n debt of $28,000.

Mr Gerald de Basto, instruct- ed by D'Almada Remedios and de. fendanta. Mr Cheung Is

I put it to you formally that this alleged conversation at Hang On Tal's office never took place.

said it dich

Witness sald that neither ho nor his partner had taken pro- creslings against defendants for the recovery of the alleged debt, Three Payments

Au said he accepted that the first three payments mado by defendants were received by his partner. Asked if he wero admit that his prepared to partner had received the fourth Coppering for th

and final payment, witness sald that it his partner had received exceed instructed by Mesas Deacons.

It was stated by Mr Cheung money which did not yesterday that plaintiff in an the money payable by the Gov-

would ac➡ · olher action In November last ernment, then he A 32-year-old unemployed inter-Varsity Games will com-

year was awarded judgment] cept 11 as being paid.

Following further questions man who impersonated mence this Saturday. Four

against the witness, Au Chak- chuen und Ng Io-fat.

and the warning Issued by the on Urban Services De- allelal mateher and 11 friendly

The sum sued was not paid Judge, witness declated that ho hockey, crickel, coollo and matches partment

Tootbril, bradminton and femis wandered into the garden have been arranged to be played the King's Theatre when they fished, but they still have a and plaintiff applied to attach a himself had never received any

single out by the Wyndharn

the Garnishee order nisl to the de- money at all from Hang On Tai beside couner of three private rosi-

during the rest of this month,

tendants whom the Street exits will no longer be buliding and plan to hang on

Judgment under the contcost.

Witness further denied that dances in Boundary Stract

PROGRAMME

heard.

as long an possible. The most debtors (Au and Ng) alleged

a certain sum his evidence before the Court was this morning sent to The programme of the ofl-

they can hope for is two or three had owed them

I could not be believed. makhes are: Hockey-

of money. days. prison for two months by clal

Hearing is proceeding. In the present trial before Mr | pan. on Saturday, June 14, at

Ariss Chu Kiu, one Three years and three months Mr P. F. X. Leonard at

Justice Recce the issue is whe- The University Pavillon. Tennis nga the Chu tainly rented a family who is in charge of the Kowloon Court.

ther or not the defendants were -0.30 a.m. to 12.30 pm and 5

sall space beside the wall of counter at present, god with a

in fact indebted to Au Chak- to 7 pm on Saturday, June 21,

Shell House along Wyndham smile, "Naturally we are un- the University Pavilion. Street.

chuen and Ng Ho-fat at the time they happy about having to leave, Year by year

the order nisi was served. Badminton 7.30 p.m. on Thurs-

worked hard and the business but there is nothing at all we day, June 20, at Loke Yew grew until they had 13 or 14 can do about it, We will have Officer and lawful posscaun 工长兴程。 Soccer 0 p.m. on Sun people working there. They to go back to the office, and that of Urban Services Department ¦ day, June 29, at the University | bought and sold the latest elec- is very small," clothes,

The defendant, Chu Yui, of 234 C Block, Shek Kip Met Resettlement Area, was charged with impersonatingg

Public

at

Pavilion

Leame

Small Space

Trolleybuses had rubber tyres a much lighter springs than a mer. Subsequently during peak hour standing passengers were prohibite upstairs.

There were two types of A small angle-

Constable Detective Police Tralicy buses. Heck four-wheeled bus, and the Chang Chi-kin, discovered the the U.S.D. double-defendant wearing lurger sly-wheeled Becker. The single-decker andoren at 3 pm, sa June 9, vt. carried 40-42 includlig standing side 175 Boundary Survel, De- Its larger counter- fendant peeped into the house passengers, part carried about 80 passengers and walked Inside the garden held every two years, In 1980, where they could open, again. in utt, with standing

egain. He reported this in the it will be the turn of the Uni-But in downstairs only.

gurdens of house numbers 177versity of Malaya lo be hosts. District this was like searching

Booked around and came out room

with rub

and 179.

When approached by a detec-

tive he claimed he was a seaven-

Eer coolie employed by

น

trical apparatus, and beene The visiting contingent are very well known in Central being accom;nodated In two District. University hostels,

nnd May

Thun recently they were l

Shell House was Langard Hails. They will return formed that

they to Singapore on July 2 in the being pulled down and

would have to move. They be- my Tjiliwah.

gan a search for a new place

The Inter-Varsity Games Is

Worker Buried

the crowded Central

sidewalk

of the

HE TRICKED

WOMAN.

GAOLED FOR

A tramenr on the other hand and carrloc

for the proverbial needle. had 1 seats,

The days went by, sud u few standing passengers both up and down stairs with safety during

days ago #wooden

rush hours.

was erected around Shell House, and three-quarters of the Mall had Lut we shall stand

The Tramway Company by

U.S.D., saying, you don't A Chinese worker Wod in came down. The equipment was Lancashire, and we are prepared hem expertinenting

Lelieve me you can phone my Jured this morning when he was all move back to the family to be judged by the results of her wheels for trancars superior, inspector Lam, in the buried under น quantity of our policy..... "Keuter.

the last two years. The rubber

Western -Markel, Hongkong rubble at 10 Humphreys Avenue ore in a Central District sie A

The whole family live side."

this morning in a building col- there, and with the addition of Defendant said he went into lapse.

all the electrical apparatus and the gardens for a "look-seo". The building was under de- equipment the immited spac However, he could not prociuce a molition, He was extricated by has become very crowded pass when usited to do so by the the Fire Brigade and sent to The Chu's have decided to iry detective.

and operate a stall in the ground

The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican

His

He was a Priest. name: Hugh O'Flaherty. His birthplace: Killamey. Throughout the last two years of the war in Italy tho ha openly defied Nazis in rescuing from under their noses nearly

5,000 Allied Prisoners.

The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican has been written for the Sunday Post Herald by ERIC WILLIAMS, the. man who was himself a Prisoner of War and who wrote the Wooden Horse, "Slowly, from many sources", says Williams, "I have learned Monsignor O'Flaherty's whole fascinating story. It is one of the most exciting hidden chapters of the Second World War."

It Begins Exclusively in

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Hongkong vs Lancashire

COMPARATIVE COTTON COSTS "INACCURATE & MISLEADING'

London, June. 12.

6 MONTHS

Still Owing

:

It was alleged by the judg- ment debtors that the defen danis still owed them, a sum of $20,000 being balance of pay- ment for work done in connee- tion with a Government contract for laying a servicing water pipe: at Tsun Wan.

Defendants have denied all Hability.

Au

Chak-chuen, a witness called by the plaintiff, told Mr Basto in cross-examination this morning that he could not say whether his firm had received three sums of money from the defendants, without seeing the) beals which were books relat ing to his partnership with Ng Ho-fal

Witness said that be met Chu

# the

casual worker of Talkoo Dockyards, Lo Chi-man, or-tat the managing director allas Kung Chai, 22, of an of the defendant firm

or so be- unnumbered junk opposite latter's office a week Po Man Street, Shauki fure the hearing of the

action in October.

the work done,

wan, was sentenced to six He remembered that Chu had months hard labour, by stated in evidence that he had Au for Mr K. A. S. Phillips at fully paid himself and

and that the Central Magistracy this defendants had been fully paid morning for obtaining by the Government. money by false pretences. Mr Baslo: If you thought that He was also fined $500 with Chu owed you $28,000 then you the alternative of one montle's

imprisonment for breach of SIDE GLANCES

bond,

It was stated that on May 24, Lo met a woman friend, Leung Słuchun in Factory Streel Leung told Lo that she was not working and asked him to help her find a job.

He ogrood, and when they

The director of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners today wrote to

the Financial Times, u London daily, pointing out "Inaccuracies and tgan on June 1, he handed misleading statements" in previous correspondence about comparative cotton costs in Hongkong and Lancashire.

of

The director, Mr C. Henniker- the conversion cost, plus a working out the task which Hunton, said it had been stated file colton. the labour coat might be 45 Jow as 20 per cent, while cotion might consulate 70 per cent of The cost of spun yarn.

"This may be true, but it is Irrelevant," he said. "Every- body has buy colich and most countries, Including Hongkong, can now buy it at world cost

"Wha; matters is the conver- elop cost for changing the cotton into yarn, and labour costs are a very high percentage

of this."

MINIMUM PRICE

saying

her a Taikou Dockyard pasa that he had obtained employment for her us JA woman worker. He also asked her to pay $10 as deposit which the ald

Loung then went to the Dockyard where she wvoe pom fused entry when it was found out that she was not employed there.

should be allotted to each En fuck in 1950, the latest worker, or the number year for which figures have machines which he or she should reached us, Ilongkong import- tend using the best methods," ed 1,312,800 hundredweight of cotton from more than dozen countries, biggest quantilles came from director commented "Collon defendant on June 10, at Kam the United States of America prices are adjusted to those Wah Street near Aldrich Street, and from Brazil, deliveries ruling on the day.

On how the minimum price She then reported the matter scheme worked, the Association to the Police who arrested the

the and

special

a wage

the fall

Queen's Birthday Observance

from theso countries słono "When collon prices go down, outweighing deliveries from yarn prices will also go down alf other sources,"

both in the United Kingdom An "absurd statement" had and throughout the world, been made that

operatives unless there pro working for seven days in ckroumstances such as Hongkong would only produce increase greater than | alx days" output.

In colfon."

Hongkong is observing the II. had been slated that the

The year 1951 had been re-birthday of Her Majesty Queen Hongkong manufacturer was Mr Henniker-Heston com-ferred to, when tho raw cotton Elizabeth T in a quiet way to restricted in the range of cotton (mented: "Fall In production commlesion was in xistence,day. he might purchase owing to per hour of a seven-day week and world prices for cotton At noon, HMS Tamer fired a the need for ensuring ang against a six-day week were not always operaivo in 21-zun Royal palute, and Her mlainium 25 per cent of Cem- would be only marginal.

the United Kingdom. This Majesty's ships and men-of-war

MARGINAL

monwealth content in the yarn. "Piece work is seldom used reference won five years out of all nations in the harbour He commented: "This 25 per|for ring-spinning and motion of date, Me Hemikers Heaton are dressed overall, throughout cent is very easily reached by study remains invaluable in commented.—Reuter, ·

the day.

a

STOP PRESS

EUROPEAN

INJURED

A European sustained serious injuries when the private car in which he was travelling crash- ed against a lamp pole in Stubbs Road, near the Ling Nam Middle College at 2.50 a.m. today.

The European, Mr Norman Hutchfield of 35 Deep Water Bay Road, is receiving treat. ment in Matilda Hos-.../ pital.

By Galbraith

"Oh, I guess ha'll pass this year nil'tight---b

to have plenty of trouble in the seventh

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