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Lin Dai Off To America

Mirs

Dal, Liw

(above) Popular Mandarin Alm star, left by PAA this morning for a month's vacation in Mono- Jutu and Los Angeles.

Seeing her off were Pro- fessor N. 1. Halung, playwright, and Mr Robert Chung, mana- ger of Motion Pictures and General Investment Co., Eld.

CHINA * MAIL

Betablished 1945

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1959.

Moon Festival Tomorrow Big Round Arranged: And

Round Of Parties Round-The-World Honeymoon Ends

Prices

Are Lower This Year

The Mid-Autumn Festival, the 15th day of the eighth Moon,

takes place tomorrow.

Firms, banks, schools and Government offices will all close for a holi-

dlay,

The longest holiday will, br enjoyed by the Colony's tea houses whose union has already eirculated a notice for a three- day vacation as fun tonuria. However, the Chinese com- munity will begin observing the Festival as from tonight,

Three Nights

The Foak Trun will extend la service on Festivul night until 1 a.m. the next morning.

From tonight, for three nights it strevasion, fireworks will be dlyhyed in Repulse Bay.

Among the many parties that live ben arranged, cruises with. balls, and tuli programmes, will be held tonight in the harbour · they the Chinese YMCA, the St John Ambulance Brigade Statt Club, the Shamshulpo Kaltong

Association, Welfare

Welyang Traders' Association, Yangklung Clan Association

many others

They will "welcome" moon this evening, appreciate" her tomorrow night, and "Chase" after her the night after before letting her 30,

Chinc

nbarve the

and will Festival by holding partles, balls, and frauds at home, in the graden, ut in the countryside,

up on the peak or cruising in y the harbour by night.

All Live

the

Vehicular Ferry Co. avaliable for renting have been hired

Cut.

!

On Sampans

the roof garden tonight with a full programme.

Residents in the New Terri torica, particularly those near the wilers in Candle Penk. Tulpo, Tolo Harbour and other lets, will also cruise on sam- pans and junks tomorrow night.

Residents In

Mr and Mrs Lachu Melwani (above) return this mor- honeymoon, ning by PAA from a 45-day round-the-world Tung Chung

Mira Melwant is the former Miss Gun! Mohan, daughter Lantau Island, will put on a

af Mr D. S. Mahan, df Messrs Mohan'a Lid., and Mrs Mohan. Cantonese opera show for four days and five

from nights as morrow.

Purchase of Festival goods is expected to reach a climax today.

Moonenkes this year are sell- ing ke hot cakes at tenhouses and stores all over the Colony. Some of the shops have long sold out their stock,

Lanterns such ss the merry

lotus, pesch, and rabbit have kept steady prices to the joy of the children.

The IM Leung Kuk, which has ven well deenrated since yes--round, Jammehes ut.

day, will hold a garden party night when the board and staff celebrate the Festival with the lumates who will receive mooncakes and pastries at the "Lumby reunion.“

Additional services to outlying

suburban areas have beens ar- ranged by the two bus com- Pies and the Vehicular Ferry Co.

The Chinese Chamber of Commerce will hold a ball on

that new

A

An exceptionally welcome feature of the Festival this year is the overall drop in prices for poultry, hogs, and fruits.

Big Shipments

One week before the Festival, big shipments of them converged on Hongkong.

Altogether 18,500 pigs arrived from Indonesia, Thailand. Okinawa, Cambodia, Taiwan and

China in shipped the

gest lot, 11,000 head, a record

for the half year.

Such Was the volume that although Hongkong and Kow- Joon slaughter 2,000 pigs a day, the influx has forced the price down from $223 per picul (100 cattles) to $198 per picut-n fail of 15 per cent.

During the week over 10,000 cages of chickens arrived from China every day. Chickens also came from Salgon and Taiwan. Now the total stands some- where ni (50,000. Price plunged to three chickens for $10.

SHEAFFER'S

ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN

$10,000 Fine For Drug Possession

was.

| A 30-year-old woman

fined $10,000 with tho alternative of one year in prison, when she pleaded

From the Files

25

years -AGO-

guilty to charges of deal-WEATHER permitting ing with dangerous drugs the covering and possession of heroin, will move into residance at at Kowloon Court this Government House early in morning.

The inagistrate,

Mr B. V. Rhodes, Magistrate,

Sentenco imposed the

on Zu Mel-king, unemployed et 204

October after spending the summer months at Moun- tain Lodge.

Queen's Road West, second This

four.

☆ ☆ ☆

is the story of the Det. Insp. W. M. Rosa, redateline 1881, and retold for missing Hongkong court clock, secuting, sald that during á

another drawer

a further was fourkl, willi

palr cook.

raid at 311 Shanghai Street, the readers of Shanghai's third floor, on September 14, premier prewar paper, the defendant was found putting North China Daily News. the heroin into small packets. "It appeare that wayis-

Two tins wLTC found in a trate while in neazion dressing table. They contained morning found the time pass- 20 large packets of heroin. La ing very slowly, and, wanting in his lunch, tout ce up at the of court clock and noticed that it had stopped. He asked the Chinese nalier what 1005 told "No po wrong and was

whereupon ho Proper

in- stracted him to have it re- paired. Meanys Falconer and Co. were in charge of the Government clock and direc- they

Former Employee

Employee $43,990 In

Compensation

Denies Retaliation Ordered

In Vaswani Case

FORMER employee of the International Cloth-

ing Factory denied in the Victoria District Court today that books containing false wages statements had been submitted to Government as retaliation against dismissals.

NEW RESEARCH

VESSEL DUE

NEXT MONTH

▲ now vessel will be joining the Hongkong Univerally's Fisheries Research Unit soon after its arrival here in the

first week of October.

The

vessel is the Cape St. Mary,

that

Forded home ha

Ten People

hour later Chinees tered the Court with a ladder. Asked what he wanted he said

10708 the clock man and placing the ladder against the wall he removed the clock and

Compensation totaling $43,600 walked off with it. It was not

was awarded by the tenancy tribunal this morning to the juulil kome

receks later that

ten opponents of an applica- | the magistrate noticing the for exemption for three 75 aburnce of the clock remarked year-old houses at 55 and 57, that the Jardines Bazaar Blacksmith's Lane.

And

3.

(2

repairers long time about the job and ordered inquiries to be made. tribunat in response to the up-complaint had ever been made Exemption was granted by the It was then discovered that no plication by Mr Wong Sun Hing, to Mesars Falconerr and Co. of 400, King's Road, who intends about the clock and that they to replace the three existing had never sent anyone to take Lam Chin

houses with Was giving two-storey

it away. The clock was never against storey modern buildings. case evidence in the

There will be two shops on Larky Dayaran Vaswani, 25,

seen again.” director and biggest shareholder the ground floor and flats chove, of the Vuswaul Trading Co. Lid, and the total cost of the three

which owns and runs the cloth- ing factory.

Varwani has pleaded not guilty t having between January last year and January 31 this year conspired with others

to obtain fraudulently Imperial Prelorence Certificates from the Department of Com merce and Industry.

Cross-examined by Mr Brock

11x-

new houses will be $100,000. They WDi be completed In twelve months' time.

☆☆

MISS N. Wentworth who

a member of the

Mr K Y. Yung, of F. Zimmern and Co. acted for the applicant. staff of the Diocesan Girls Mr Terence Shurlock repre- School, is returning to the sented the ten oppiments, and Colony on October 3 by the Wes

and O liner Rajputana.

instructed

by

Messrs

Deacons, M. K. Lam and Co and

D'Almada and Mason,

The tribunal consisted of Mr J. E. Dargan (president), Mr Bernacchi, for Vaswani, Lame. A. Richardson and Mr W. T.

salt he was dismissed from the

clothing factory in January this

year.

He said he had not discussed his dismissal with cry of the Chinese staff,

Chicken Prices Local chickens, that used to feich better prices, are seiling al $5 or $6 vach as compared i with $10 wo months ago.

Prices of fuck dropped from $2.50 a catly to $1.80 today.

Frults also joined the occasion. American, Japanese and Chinese shipments arrived in fine, Prices are cheaper than lust

decided that the Indian manage- year.

ment was not acting fairly when China has

research vessel shipped berg

left they racked Lam, and other 100,000 cases of apples ond Georgetown, British Guian to Chinese staff members. 30,000 baskets of pears during to Hongkong on July 1.

the last week.

a 238-ton research trawler. A message was received here this morning from the Cape St Mary saying that she had just left Colombo and was heading across the Indian

Ocean for Penang.

Th

He disagreed with Mr Bernaç- chi's suggestion that it had been

begin 15,400-mile journey Severance Pay

Supplies aplenty make

The Cape St Mary, which the

"I considered my dismissal Festival this year for more has been carrying on sheries fair because a month's salary enjoyable for the citizens of rerearch off the West Coast of | was given to me as Beverance Hongkong.

Africa and British Guiana, was pay," said Lan The only exception Is liquor built in 1950 for the British Mr Berniceli: "As a result of which is a little dearer all round. | Government, al 21 cost of discussions among the Chinese

£94,050.

staff

was decided there was to be retaliation for the dk- missals of you and others?"

Lam: "No."

Fall Feeling Singapore

is prominently featured in the latest shipment at

་་

Paquerette's

a wonderful selection of new

Fall cotton dresses

lovely new lingerie

and

the terrific cold water soaps

to enhance your whole wardrobe!

"Woolite" and "Lastic Life".

16a Des Voeux Rood, C..

only at Paquerette Ltd.

Tel. 21-157

Singapore Search For

Bans

Prisoner Leads

Troupe From To Discovery Of Hongkong Radio Station

Singapore, Sept. 10.

A travelling troupe of movin

stars from

flonskor has Veen refused permission

to

perform here and been told to leave.

The 13-member troupe arrived

A search for an escaped pri-

soner led to the police dis covery of an Wegal radio sla- tion, it was stated in the Cen- tral Magistracy this morning. The man, Char Kuen, 38 of was finect

In Singapore on Sunday and had 2 Symour Road

been scheduled to give the open- $500 or two months geol by Mr ing performance on Friday at T. La Yanz

the Victoria Memorial HáN,

Police said they found the

had

from

Mr Bernacchi; "Further, it was decided that Ng King-lun should take the wages books and certain papers Telating to rolamas to Goverment authorities?".

Lam: "I am not clear about this."

Re-examined by Mr. Simon Li, Crown Counsel, be denied he had instigated Ng to send the papers to Government authorities.

Hearing continuing.

Mr Bernacchi is instructed by Mt B.. P. O. Dennis, of Bration and Co.

Criminal Sessions

On Friday

Tho {roupe loader, Alan man at Good View Hotel, Bay Yourg, sald the Singapore View after earching all the Government gave no reason for boarding houses in the Colony. the ban on his performers and Earlier in the day-Septembér his attempt to see the Prime 10-10

egenpert

Only two new cases are on Minister and the Minister for Victoria prison.

the list tor the September Home Affairs was unsticcessful. Another man Leo Wing-tat, Criminal Sessions which opens Young sold his show was not 30 or 400 Fortland Street on Friday at the Supreme Court "yellow culture" or political. pleaded not gulity to setting up at 10 am, when Mr Justice A.D.

The troupe will leave To- & railio station without A Scholes will take pleas. morrow for a tour of Malayaleenice. UPT.

The cases concern and person, Mr Yang fixed September 20 Hong Shag-sam who faces on and 29 for hearing.

Indictment for murder and an-

A 28-year-old Japanese, Yu 50, 43, of 30 Lion Rock other Involving two counts of Shigeru Takag charged with Rond, first floor pleaded not wounding with the alternatives entoring the Colony on Septem- quilly to aiding and abetting of assault.

ber 0 without permission Le

Two other murder casus, ad- was remanded for three days It is alleged that on Septen Journed from the last Seastons by Mr T. L. Yang at Central ber 18, at room 42, Good View are also on the flat. They con- | Magistracy this morning.

Hotel, Leo established a radio cern Lam Ming-kwai and Chau station without a licence.

Shui-wan.

No plea was taken.

Stanton.

Jewels Stolen

*

Preceded by thunder and lightning, a peculiar storm

broke over the Colony for ch short period yesterday even ing. Seenes reminiscent of the 1927 floods were witness- Thieves broke Into No. 31, ed in Happy Valley, where Robinson Road, second floor the greatest rainfall occurred, yesterday afternoon and stole a but there was little rain quantity of jewellery valued at other parte of the city and

mainland. The rain was par-

ticularly heavy on the east side of the inland and Stubba Road, immediately abovo Happy Valley was covered by Mr C. Y. Kwan, this morning at least 12 inches of water. took the sale at the passing 'he waterfall at the top of out parade of 144 members of Village Road, presented the Hongkong Auxiliary Police, 'magnificent sight.

$827.

Police Parade

This Funny World.

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