1959-10-29 — Page 10

GEORGE KENT & CO., LTD. WATER METERS, STEAM METERS, OIL METERS CAS METERS. CONTROLLERS & RECORDERS,

ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD. 208 Chartered Bank Building. Tel. 27789

CHINA MAIL

· Established 1845

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1959.

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NEW

VAYA VENDE

Hardy Sheaffer

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umren PAPER DG, STI

PICTORIAL PARADE

From the Filas"

25

years AGO.

THE new Hongkong and

ing, which is in the course of erection, is gradually taking shape. After several months, the steel work is nearing completion and an- other month will probably see the whole steel work finished.

Poured Boiling Oil Over Woman

The Officer Administering the Government, Mr Claude 1. Burgess, is shown a chart i ke Kai Toy control tower during his inspection this morning. Painting out a feature Is Mr R. E. Downing. Ale Traffic Control officer-China Mail photo.

Mr

Burgess

Kai Tak

Visits

The Officer Administering the Government, Mr Claude Burgess this morning paid an hour-long visit to tho new airport of Kal Yak.

Mr Burgʻ tour lock him Burless was introduced to Mr through the temporary terminal. F. Hamilton, Alrport Com- mandant, Mr F. E. N. Wills,

Ko Tong, aged 39, whoulding in which a housed the

attacked

1

arrival hall, the airport res- woman taurant,

VIP and Press room, immigration offices and the de-

After touring the building ha went up onto the roof to obtain

with a chopper severe- ly wounding her, and parture hall. then poured boiling oil over her as she lay on the ground, was sen- tenced to four years' gaol today.

The veman, Chew Wai-ying. 30, came to the District Court with great difficulty.

Hall her face was paralysed and her spine was affected by deep lacerations caused by the chopper.

The man, pleading guilty. sal committed this art when I was angry; I had been drink- log was wrong."

The Prosecuting Officer, Chief laspector T. W. Wheeler, said that the accused "was a 'clansman

of the victim and formerly was

in business with her.

The partnership had ceased

nine months ago.

had

Since then the accused worried the victim by asking her

for a loan of money,

She was a chicken dealer by trade and it was while feeding her chickens that the man at tacked her after she had once more refused a lean or some chickens.

The case was heard by Judge B. J. Jennings.

The man had no previous con- viction.

a better view of the work go- ing on around the new' airport.

Control Tower

He was then taken out to the runway by Mr M. J. Muspratt- Williams, the Director of Civil Aviation, Following this he in- the Hongkong Fire spected Falgade's Airpuri Fire Station.

Mr

weral | Burgess Anally over to the Control Tower and watched technicians al work

aircraft white

departure was in progress.

an

Mr Burgess was accompanied by Capi. J. F. Bunnell, ADC to the Governor.

On arrival at

the airport with Mr Muspratt-Williams, Mr

Lecture On Addicts

Dr Carl C, Gruzhit, lecturer in pharmacology at the Unlyer- rity of Hongkong, will speak on "The Problem of Narcotics In Hongkong with Special Re- af 10 fa Treatment ference Addicts" at this evening's meet- ing of Association.

Assistant Airport Manager and Mr Michael A. Funk, Asst. Airport Manager.

ABOVE: The procession of the Roman Catholic feast of Christ the King which was held at the SCAA Stadium, Carolina Hill, this week,

ABOVE: Pretty starlet May Lam posing for photo. graphers at the Hongkong Festival of the Arts centre on Tuesday.

M M M

From the

SCM Post's 25 Years Ago column; “Arrange- ments have been made to hold a Church of England service in the British chapel at Macao at least once a month. It may not be generally known, ob- serves Church Notes, that when Hongkong became a British Colony the registers of the British chapel at Macao were subsequently deposited in the safe at St John's Cathedral where some of them still re- main."

ABOVE: The uncle of the Aga Khan, Prince Sadruddin Khan, arrived recently with his wife on a private visit. Seen at the airport are (1-t) Mr Patrick Cha, Mr and Mrs G. M. Hughes, Prince and Princess Sadruddin Khan, Mitr J. Fawer and Mr K. K. Tso,

Questioning Of China Light Boac Complaint

Continues At Commission

(Continued from Page 1) Mr Wood: "I suppose it's mine ..basically partially

connection with the mine Bourd,"

In

Mr Edwards: "But I some-

newspapers and you don't men tion to the directors, would it not be a point of criticism?"

Mr Wood: "No."

attention to it?"

Birth Notice: FROST: On November 8, 10934, at the Shameen

Home Nursing (Canton), to Patricia, wife of R. Y. Frost, a daughter, (Mr Frost subsequently became general manager of the Shell and Company in Hongkong left with his wife and daugh- ter, Rosemary, about troo years ago).

On Eagle Flight R

London, October 28. Bone revealed on Wednesday

another air company

IS

Herbert Austin. pleading the case of the "poor harassed motorist"

line, the island round-about, and at the same time he has to watch perambulators, dogs, pedestrians, and horse-drawn traffic, catile

Murray Barracks other motor cars,"

Inspection

that it had complained about when he presided at the of the Bying annual banquet from Hongkong to Society of Motor Manufac- reduced it true to say you make a dis-passengers Mr Edwards then asked Mr plus surcharge was

turers in London recently. Mr from 30 cents on June 1 1956, count to correct the clause? Mr London for £136 - 205 chea- Kadooric if he was aware.

said: Kadoorie replied it was not to for Kowloon and from 39 cents Laufer: If you will excuse me, per than the normal tourist fare. to 37 cents for the New Terri- that is not what 'have been his knowledge,

The aircraft, owned by inde- "He has to watch the red light, saying. I have been saying that Mr Edwards: "There were tories.

pendent Eagle Aviation was the green light, the amber light, He said that before the sur-this fuel clause was not applled tying home a ships crew and the yellow beacons, the white headlines in the newspapers. -

in In practice. What was applied Would not

someone in your charge was levied lighting thing tenportant appeared in the Company see it and draw your Kowloon was 32 cents, now it is then? - A practical adjustment. found it had seats vacant.-Lon-lae, the herring bone crossing

31.01 cents (including sur-In the whole of the time between don Express Service. charge). In the New Territories the period when this old clause Mr Kadourle; "I am not sure." Earlier, Mr Kadoorie correct-it used to be 42 cents before the was drawn up in 1946 and the surcharge was levied and now time when an adjustment first ed a wrong impression,

Referring to the Commission's it is 39,01 cents (including sur- became necessary for indus

Irial power it was at the begin- observation that la most coun- charge).

Mr Laufer said that redue-ning of 1952 no adjustment tries of the world and in the

fuel tion in the basic rates were was made. Therefore the United Kingdom the average price of fuel was declared at the end of a financial year to en-

the actual price of fuel within the limits in that tuet took the, salute at e parade of able consumers to check on a

ckuse and although the thermal 85 officers and men of the 27th surcharge, Mr Kadoorie

value improved the improvement Signal Regiment at the annual that his answer at the last hear-

inspection way taken care of by reductions administrative

following medical in the basic rates. ing "may have given a wrongs that savings through thermal

Murray Barracks this morning. lectures arranged by the impression."

efficiency have been passed on to consumers. Do you mean all

Brigadier

is the China-Hong Kong Section, consumers

or only industrial

to explain this more fully, but commander of the Hongkong | International College of consumers?

the Chairman decided that the and Kowloon Garrisons.

Surgeons will be open, to the clarify it Mr Laufer: I was referring Commission would

Later he inspected the freshly- General Medical Profession to all

This after- the reductions which laler when they came to ask painted barracks. have been made in all categories. China Light questions so that noon he will visit signal stations and to all Medical Students:

Mr Mould then said he would Mr Edwards would not be inter- of the Regiment at Stanley and re to get it clear from Mrrupted in his cross-examination. i Lysmun.

Commission the

Nothing On File

Continuing, Mr Wood said he did not think the Company had anything on file regarding any complaint from the public or Individual consumers, apart from the letter tabled.

Mr Edwards: "Even when the surcharge had gone up to 23.1 per cent?"

Mr Wood: "As far as I can

sald

He said "The average cost of fuel for the month, has, for some

been shown on months

the Chinese Medlea!ollect, on the correspondence bulk consumers' bills, but there

side, no."

'Home Leave' Prisoner

Wrote To

H

Say 'I'm Off To Macao

A prisoner of Stanley Prison who had been sentenced to four and a half years' gaol for rioting in 1956, was this morning sentenced to another year in gaol by Mr T. L. Yang at Central Magistracy when he pleaded guilty to escaping from lawful custody.

He was Chon Shu-wing 33. Sub-Inspector T. Y. Yip, pro- secuting, sald tho defendant was

д prisoner of Stanley Prison serving 4 years for rioting.

The defendant was granted home leave in accordance with The Prison's Ordinance, froart 9 0.m. October 17 to 9 a.m. October 20.

Wrote Letter Chan did not return on the ex- piry of his leave and he wrote a letter to the Prisons Deparl- ment saying that he was going .1o work in Macao,

Yesterday morning, acting ba information, the defendant was Sal atented by a detective in Tau Village, Kowloon City.

Inspector Yip said he was due

to be discharged from prison-on

December 14 this year and that he was previously granted homo leave in July and August thin year.

Chief Officer George Knight of Stanley Prison told the Magi- strate to take a serious view of this case.

In

Again For 32 Years

· Leung Lam pleaded guilty to four burglary charges in the Victoria District Court today and was sent la gaol for 31 years.

Mr Edwards: "It is very strange that in a public outcry, nobody wrote to the company, Don't you think so?"

Mr Edwards said when it was announced on March 0. 1057 that the surcharge had been in- ereased from nine per cent

to

in

18 per cent, there was consider- able public correspondence the newspapers.

Mr Wood: "I am not too sure,

I was on home leave."

you."

Mr Extwards: "But do you agree with me that there was?" Mr Wood: "I'll agree with

Mr Edwards: "And articles in the newspapers?"

Mr Wood: "I don't know."

Petition

Mr Edwards; Government?" Mr Wood: there was a petition."

oil,

made by the Board at various chuse was in abeyance because

WRS Brigadier J. M. A. Chestnuti,

umes and for various categories of consumers. On what cate gories, depended on the Board. Mr Edwards: You have told

is not shown the breakdown of the proportion of coal to nor is the calorife value stated, since from these the preferen- Lufer."As til rates which we pay for the understand it, both the

tuci oil could have been calculated" clause in the bulk contracts and

Another feature of

this also the

surcharge collected morning's hearing was an In-more than the actual increase dication by the Commission's in the cost of fuel and you are Chairman, Mr John Mould, that saying that the excess amount he intended 10 question is returned to the consumer by Chins Light on the apparent adjustments made in the basic disparity between the money rate?"* collected through both the fuel clause and surcharge and aetual increase in the cost of fuel.

This point arose in the course I have been saying.

Mr Laufer: That is not what of cross-examination of China

the

To Certain Limits

Light's statistician, Mr E. Lau- He explained that tre praclien fer by Mr Winston Edwards, the fuel clause was never ap-

but the Chairman said he

pited becauSS

the very large

Mr Laufer asked to be allowed

Chestnutt

Four Years Gaol

For Chopping

Woman's Wrists

would clear it up later so a discounts which had been set off A man admitted in the Victoria District Court to- not to interrupt the trend of against it made the adjustmen:

"Petition to

Mr Edwards' questions,

Most Costly

"I don't know It

in

definitely less than what the fuel clauso would have been

Mr Mould; But can the con- Mr Extwards wanted to low Burner cheek how much less? the price of fuel for every How does the consumer

know

the

Laufer

the

It the consumer Mr Laufer: were able to go, into all the technical points he could check to certain limits the actual ad- Justment.

day that he attacked un elderly woman heroin seller and chopped her wrists as she sat count- ing her money.

Judge B

Jennings Ben!

"vicious

Whe saying it attack."

Chief Inapoctor C. L. Smith told the court Ho was sumploy ed by the woman, Leung Kum

32.

stall owner, A cooked-food Yeung Sam, who saw the inci- dent picked up the blood-ctain- ed chopper, recognised it as his, washed it and cecriod on his business.

Nearly Amputated

Chlef Inspector Smith said Ho

Mr Edwards: "When you came back froz Jeave, you surely picked up the shresin."

Mr Wood: "That was in 1987, month of financial year, he is getting the proper adjust-Ho Hang to, gaol for four years,

he said seemed ment? since then I have done a lot of 1056-67- which, work. I don't have a first clans to be the most costly year.

Mr

said that memory. You say it was in the papers, 1' agree with you." maximum price rose to about

wir Weld agreed that there $180 per ton and gave the was a reduction from 18 per cent figures of every purchase, to 15 per cent in marcharge

He said that on March 1, 1057 the surcharge was raised He went on to describe how August 1957.

Mr Edwards, Were you aware from 8 per cent to 18 per cent. this calculation could be made Washed Off Blood

on October 4. from ite retail price of that a group of organisations had but on May 1 the surcharge on The houses burgled are in cable to the Secretary of lighting by the New Territories published by the oil companice

**Loung we takes to the' hos- doctora Tung Shan Terrace,

Chief Inspector C. L Sinith State for the Colonies while the war reduced to the same amount and the actual fuel cost given September 28 Leung was sitting plial and at oris time

were going to amputate her toid Judge B. J. Jenntags that Governor was in London in per unit as it was, in Kowloon, by his company on bulk con-in an armchair outside 33 New

There was also an adjustment sumers. bilis. By such means market Street counting her hands."

the ccosumer

whea. Ho suddenly could get, somun- | money,

Ho told Judge Jönnings Leung Leung had only been released consultation?"

in favour of industrial rabes, from gaol fast June:"

On August 1 that year the thing very like the true cost

ment had scolded him for gambling attacked her with a zurcharge was reduced from 18 Mr Mould: What We just can cleaver and slashed both her and he had attacked her 'in ä per cent to 15 por est: bi not, understand" is why now wrist.

"moment of 'anger". Me Laufer said that the pet- are obviously operating a fuel Went lghting: rate of 29 canta clause which is overcharging./Ta

Mr Wood: "I was ric aware. 1. was on leave."

Mr. Edwards

When did

Printed and published by Tanxuce GORDON NEWLANDS PRANCH yo; bacome pere?? for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Mr Wood: "I only just became Wyndham Strew, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong," minice,

At

........

about 8.10

Ол p.m.

He then Bed, and threw away the chopper.

had been arrested in Kowloon

He added he had been" "Tem Ismbed from geol last April,«

NOTICE

MEDICAL LECTURES

at

The

1.

2,

3.

I At the Hong Kong Sanatorium, Happy Valley beginning at 8.30 p.m. Oct. 29th,

or

"Hornia Inguinal Incisional" by Dr. Ralph

F.A.C.S Coffey, M.D.,

F.L.C.S.. Director of Burgery, Kansas General Hospital.

"The Jewett Brace for Fractures of the Spine". by Dr. Eugene Jewett, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.I.C.S., Orlando, Florida.

A movie dim showing new developments In ra- habilitation of severely paralized people by Dr. B. L. Compere.

II At the Pathology. Build-

ing, Queen Mary Hospital' on Friday October 30th 1959 at 8.30 am,

"The Prevention of Non- Union in the Treatment of Fractures" by Dr. E. L. Compere · M.D., F.A.C.S., F.L.C.S., Pro- fessor and Chairman, Department of Ortho- paedic Surgery, North- western University Medi- cal⠀⠀ School;** President United States. Section, International College of Surgeons.