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DRYSDALE & CO., LTD.

CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS.

ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD. H.K. & Shanghal Bank Bldg. Tel. 27789

CHINA MAIL

18:49

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1959.

SHEAFFER'S

ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN

INDUSTRY TAKES THE LEAD

Judge Orders Counsel

To Withdraw

Remark

Mr Justice A. D. Scholes in the Supreme Court this morning ordered the withdrawal of a romark by Counsel represent- ing the Everett Steamship Corporation about a motorman formerly employed by the company.

The Judge upheld a protest (fection against any aud ubjection raised by Mr

detention

or delay caused to the vessel

Orwald Cheung, appeurlig for by customs authorities as a

malpractices in boards real or suspected.

Cheng Isuch kwong, Cx- result of any motorun No, 1 of the m.s. Brad vtrett.

Mr Gitting submitted that the

Mr Victor Clins, represent-absence of any claim by the ing the company, had observed plniatur for some five months that his

not hald alter his dismissal was in itself ellents did Cheng "Love Auspicion" in come evidence that he appre- connection with the seizure of a clated his abilly, "even though evidence number of gold bars on board there was

no dirert the vessel by Burmese authuri- against him." tes last September.

$20,000

to

At this point, Mr Cheung told the Court that he wanted dis-make it clear that there was no evidence at all, direct or in- hts ellent, to direct, against connect film with the gold found on the ship,

Cheng, who had been missed from the ship with some others, is suing the company for the return of $20,000 which he had paid as cash guarantee upun employment.

HAD CONTROL The defence states that there

Mr Giltins said that although was a nine-day delay of the Bradeverett at Chittagong by there was no direct evidence, Custom Bar in September the gold was found in a part resulting from the gold seizure, of the ship over which plaintiff

Children

Injured In Traffic Accidents

Money Pours In For Local Products

By COLIN RICKARDS

London, Feb. 25.

Young Lee Man-sung's £ prize for his paint- ing has dwindled into insignificance beside the money that is now pouring in for this small deaf Hongkong boy and his school mates.

В

First there

the was

Mr magnanimous gesture of John Koon, 32 year old

of bachelor proprietor London Chinese restaurant for £700 to enable Lee and his teacher Miss Li Luk-wah to come to London to collect the prize.

THE POODLE

walters

Then the

biggest together to

in Mr restaurant present

An eleven-year-old girl, Chow Koon's Chiu-yu of No. 200 Tung Chol clubbed Street, rat flour, was knocked him with a tiny poodle-named down and injured by a private Ling Fa (Louis) as he stepped car Nathan fload near its off the plane. Junction with Mongkok ftoari. And when the Chase com- munity in London heard he

opence coming, they 1st night.

Two other children were in-fund for him." Mr Cheung said that the de-juised in trame uceldents yester-

61) fence case

the pleadings day. that The plaintif V-115 that The defence claims

no default thelable through under the Term

members of his guarantee document signed by his own or

and tint The Company had bad control or access. Buffered loss mounting to $100,098.

entitled

A

of

was of

Ching, the company were department on the vessel.

to sitt of this

"No charge of fraud or dis- low against the

plaintiff honest activity of $20,000

any kind was made," he continued, "and

had deposited.

Today,

Mr Giftins Gualt with the details of the guaranice document while putting for ward the defence case.

IN ADVANCE The document, he said, pro- vided for a cush guarantee to be paid in advance as a pro-

Technical College

Head Back

Mr S. J. G. Burt, Principal of Technicat College, returned with his wife and daughter In

object to any further sug- the

throw which gestions slightes! shadow of dishonesty nerois my client's namo."

Mr Gittins said, "No allego- thera tion was made because

but was no direct evidence, think that the case for the com-

that. clear indication pany is

hey don't

plainur hold the above suspicion."

withdrawn.

PROTEST

They were Chan Chiu-fu, an boy of No. 561, eight-year-old Shanghai Street, second floor, who was knocked down by private car near his home, and Leung Man-chi, en eleven- year-old girl of No. 476 Chatham Road, sixth floor, who was hit by a bicycle in Ma TOR Wel Road.

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are re-

was

Well over £100 has been collected and it is hoped this will be doubled before the fund closes at the weekend.

"Lee has indicated that he wants the money to be used to primer for use at the school," buy a deaf children's speech Mr Koon said.

LEFT OVER

"But as this will cost only about 100 there will be a bit left over for him."

children All three

Mr Koon is determined that celving treatment at Kowloon Lee should not

back to go Hospital.

Hongkong without a deaf aid. "His family could not afford to give him cre," Miss Li said, "but It would help him enormously." When Be visita Hongkong

ARMED ROBBERY

Darly next year Mr Koon plans

Deaf Boy Artist

'PRESENTATION COSTUME

Now More Than Entrepot In Export Trade

By ́A China Mail Reporter

Industry has taken over from trade as the main economic function of Hongkong, The 1958 Annual Report," released yesterday,

makes this clear.

From the Files

25

years AGO

HE theory that a young

THE

British sailor from HMS Whitshed, had com- mitted suicide is discount- ed by the latest action on the part of local naval

authorities.

Yesterday morning a warrant

was issued for his arrest, onla charge of desertion. The man, aboard the ship at 7 a.m. when

Ban was last named

he went off duty.

seen

It states that there are today more people em- man sold they had heard

..

ployed in industry than in trade.

"The number of persona directly or indirectly dependent on industry is estimated to be about 1.4 million or 50 per cent of the total population" (which the Report now estimates an 2,800,000).

EMPLOYMENT

employing less than 20 work- -ern tai theve mall factories employ only 10 per cent of the labour force. 322 fro- forles employ more than 100 only employees each twò employ more than 2,000,

HEADLINES

The rising industrial poten. This year the Annual Report tial is also reflected lå the devotes its main review to the Increase in the value of pro-growth of the Colony's industrial

wholly ducts

or principally economy. It and its attendant of local origin. In 1952, this problems made more headlines ratio was 25 per cent. Last than any other Hongkong story

in 1950,

year it was 42.2 per cent. And

the January, 1959,trade in figures, it was more than 60 per cent. Employment

figures a150 peint to the boom in industry.

industrial

The reason for the prominence given 1-by the Annual Report is threefold.

FIRST, it erens its prominence of achievement

Companions of the missing

splash at 8 a.m. and a scorch revealed that one of the ship's |þuckets-had disappeared.

Divers who were sent down to retrieve a case of ammunition. which had earlier fallen over- board from another ship along- side HMS Whitshed, discovered the missing bucket with Bain's

it, and

tila belt attached to gave rise to the suleide theory.

*DAL

78 years old. Left to mourn their loss are six song

One of the oldent and best- known residents in the Colony, Mr W. E. Van Eps, passed by the recor

away at the Government Civil Hospital •carly yesterday In 1958 almost 180,000 were during the year. employed in 4,000

SECOND, in the words of the morning. He has been in the undertakings. In 1957, 163,000 report, it will help the over-Colony for 48 years, in 1891 were employed tn 3,373 under-cas reader to understand why he took over the firm of Brown, takings.

Hongkong continues to have Jones & Co undertakers, He The report continues: "This faith in its economie future.” is however for from the com- THIRD, alma to establish in the minds of everyone that plete picture of industrial em-

our industrial development ployment.

"15 estimated that there genuine. are more than 150,000 people working in unregistrable, small scale and collage and handicraft industries, as outworkers, and In the underemployed indus- trial fringe,

"A further 130,000 are em- ing construction, $4,200 In the

to visit Lee at his uncle's home. Before he left Hongkong,ployed in building and engineer-

Miss Li has not been idle on young Lee (above) posed for

A man, armed with a knife, Mr Cheung: "1 must protest held up und robbed a Chinese and I ask that that remark be of a sum of money at the Fuktor she has

the trip her second to Britain China Mail photographer in the firing industry, and 21,000 in

already visited costume he planned to wear at public transport." Either a charge of fraud or dishonesty is specifical-Sing Cotton Yarn Shop. No. 1, several institutions and schools the prize-olving ceremony,

Apliu Street, groundi floor, for dea! children. ly made nd if such a charge

alter- yesterday be made, , should Shamshulpo, going to

NEW METHODS have been months ago before noon. the pleadings were framed.

A suspect was subsequently hat not having been done, arrested. these suggestions must not be made in open Court, of indeed anywhere else,"

Mr Giltins conceded that he

the italion liner Asia this morn-was taking no specifie allega- BRITONS SMOKE

tion, but pointed out to para- graph 3 of the statement of

detence concerning the dis-MORE & MORE

covery of 13 gold bars from the quartermaster's cabin.

J

num- "I've been sals to e ber of new teaching methods in se over here," she told me, "And before I return on March 5, I hope to see a lot more.

"That way I feel that I am best ue of Mr Koon's kind gesture in bringing. us here."-Express Service.

making the

ing from Europe after a holiday in the United Klugdam

During his leave, Mr Buri at- tended the Oxtora conference on technical education In the the international colonies and seminar at Birmingham on technological education.

He also visited all former students from the college at works there. He said that the tudents, most of them employed HEFC, Were Cellar Favor Vakraw of Wilkinson-and-Board-ofradebliche ECONYERT

well and successful.

New

Ilis Lordship ruled that the sentence regarding suspicion of the plaintiff be withdrawn. This was done accordingly.

Hearing to proceeding

Mr Cheung is instructed by

London, Feb. 24. Figures given by the British manufacturers tobacco

show that cigarette smoking Increas ed in Britain by one-arik be. tween 1051 and 1958,

the

Mr A. Y. Hon for the plaintiff Parliamentary Secretary to the

Grist, is Instructing Mr Gitting-litoägers, said bades

Shipment Of

Hauser

TAPERED SLAX

many new fabrics

lovely colours

all sizes

at

Paquerettes-today

your house of fashion

Cold Spell Continues

According to the Royal Observatory, there is no in- dication at present that the weather will warm up,

Cold weather is forecast for tomorrow, accompanied by light drizzic but na to how long the current cold spell will last, the He spokesman could not sly. did add, however, that there is no indication of temperatures { falling any, lower.

The minimum temperature recorded at 6 a.m. today was 52.2 deg. F. Yesterday's The minimum was 51.7 deg. F

57.0

maximum yesterday was and it is expected to be around about the time today.

From midnight to mid-day today, 01 inch of rainfall has been recorded,

Fire Brigade Officer Back

Mr Alfred E. Wood, returned with his wife and daughter in the my. Asia this morning from Europe after leave in the United Kingdom.

Mr Wood's now Acting Divi- sional Officer, Kowloon Fire Station.

!

He

was presented with his cheque and a paint set in Lon- don yesterday.

£5

The majority of our torles-66 per cent-are amali, Publications

Government

Bureau, $7.50,

The first baby to be born in Talmawan, Lantao,

I was christened this morning at the Catholic Cathe

dral. He is eight-day old Gerald Christopher son of Mr and Mrs T. Garner of the Prisons Department. Fr. J. Collins. officiated. (Staff Photographer),

Goldfish Dying In Colony

Some Colony goldfish breeders have complained that their nah have been dying during the part mørth.

Two theories have been ad vanced by breeders. One is the appearance of :block spots, presumably a fungus, and the other the effect of

the cold weather.

A spokesman for the Fisheries Research Unit of Hongkong University sold that- If the fungus is the cause of death this might be averted, by placing the Ash in lightly warm water and adding some

Ho mold that "If the fish are làtʊ- 1 in for about five minutes the fungus should be destroyed.” The spokesanan agreed that a drop in temperature could also cause ill effects? "But”. he added "It would have": to be: a very severe drop ELE

1s

And this story is told griphically in words, figures and excellent diagrams and graphs,

Gone forever is the China trade on which this Colony's economic prosperity once de peaded-and that statement holds true even if the embargo is completely. lifted.

The report adds:

DIVERSITY

"The Colony's future' pro- sperity rests upon ila sucocks, first, in adapting its entrepot facilities to serve the world as a whole and, second, in estab- fishing lia own ludustrica on a secrire, and prosperous foot- Ing by the development and diversification of ils prodącts and the winning of as many new markets as sulesmanship, price and quality can attrach.“

COMMUNICATIONS WITH AIRPORT CUT

All="telephone com=” munications with Kat Tät-Airport and the -RAF Station-were-cut-

this morning.

The cause “Is 'not known, but it is thought that a tractor may have damaged the cables.

and three daughters.

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LASPED

cach

other's

arms, Mr. and Mrs. Emilo Philippson, parents of Mes William Grooch who recently crashed

to death with her two children from a, Shanghai apartment-house roof, were found dead in their New York home today.

A letter telling of their suicide pact was found on a table in the bedroom. "Wyo stand the pain any longer -Emil”, il read..

Neighbours who were close friends of the couple told the pollon that their death' wis due to their grief over the I trágfe and på "their" daughter und two grandchildren”,, in Shanghai, Mr William Grooch wis a CNAC pilot,

The Hongkong Rugby teamr drew three all with the visit- ing Australian Rugby team on =thylpikaturn-encounter, Happe kong won the first match. But for missing a conversion in the last few minutes, the Hong- kong taom rodidld", havis 'ton, Australia missed a number of chances of scoring earlier by bad handling.

This Funny World

Til neo-soul god cales you'd dickel,?"

Prusitus. Glókoda NewLands

South China Morning Post. 'Idmited to 1-3 (Victoria) in the Colony of. Hongkong,

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