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TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1960.
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Day
BACKGROUND
TO RENTS
ECENTLY the
China Malli
had ccession to deplore the "steamroller tactics" employed by Government apoxeeman in the budget debale, Today we go to the other extreme and
discuss an lasue on which they have been positively pussy- footed-hut this time with
good reason. We refer to the thorny queation of rent decontrol.
It was raised recently by Mr H. D. M. Barton, unofficial MLC at the annual meeting of Hongkong Land, Investment. He cald there was no longer justification for continuing control in any form in the central
of Victoria ber prea
cause of the greatly increased office accommodation available.
MR
R R. C. LEE, unofficiat MLC, In his budget speech pro- posed an amendment to the Landlord and Tenant Ordin- ance to allow parties apresing on compensation to contract aut from the provisions of the ordinanca to avoid costly and i time-consuming proceedings! before Tenancy Tribunale. And the Colonial Secretary agreeing that some modifica. tions along these lines might be posible, had thle to say on the Ordinance as a wholet
"Following upon pat year's
when debate
senior unofficial member suggested that the time was ripe for a roview of the ordinance, there has been close consultation
between
the
Government and
unofficial MLCs on various of ita provisions, including those referred to and ales the pocalble desirability 01 Betting
Feir up
Rent Tribunals."
Mias Former group officials
sent to prison
London, Apr. 4.
Louis Granville Gordon, 41, former Chair- man and Managing Director of the Mias Group of companies alleged to have liabilities of £465,000 was jailed for cight years here today for conspiracy to defraud and causing a cheque to be delivered by false pretences.
Lung cancer
victim sues
tobacco
company
Pittsburgh, Apr. 4. A man today, sued a leading tobacco company in the U.S. district court for his damages
claiming lung cancer was caused by smoking cigarettes.
Ofte Pritchard, 61. brought the action In 1954 against
& Myers Liggett
Tobacco
Company one year after un al- leged cancerous right lung was upon removed. Extensive research by lawyers delayed bringing the euse to trial. The cure dually began in court today.
THUS another year has passed i THU
without action on decontrol.
vento
It will be recalled that in- creased In prewer wore Jast permitted seven An attempt
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Three other men arut Mias Moldings Ltd, were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud,
Francis Thomas Duffy, 39. company director, and Denzil Gordon Coleman, 40, former secretary and a director of the | Mias Group, were each given
Three year jail sentences.
Arthur Rowley, 45, builder,
was jailed for two years.
All had pleaded not guilty.
INSOLVENT
During the trial, the prosecu- and tion alleged that Gordon hls co-defendants had fraudu tently represented the group as being prosperous and sucĊESS- ful when it was insolvent,
The group went into com- pulsory Equidation in 1958 with a deficiency of £405,000, most of it owed to small investors, the prosecution - alleged.
The judge told the accused today: "It was a fraud which was brazer, piliiess and callous, with practised ruthlessly and persistence until public pressure fureed its discontinuance,
"The misery and anxiety that you must have caused
must have been, tremendous.
"I have listened in vain for one word ut regret or rumcise or sorrow from any single one of you."
An American
Bald Society spokesman New York that about a dozen almllar actions have been started in recent years. But none ever went to court, He said that in some cases, the plaintiffs died before the could be tried. In others, he bulld sid, sult may have
been party
Counsel for Gordon had asked the judge to take the view that the Mlas Group was not con-
but that the ceived in fraud
been to suit original intention had
substantial pro- borrowed
Was
the case was thrown out on a technicality Just as trial about start,
29 a business
on
Airliner
develops
1956 when Government
withdraw dropped for insufficient evidence money.China Mail Special. forced legislation because of pubile or selfled out of court. In anc, opposition. Clearly Govern. ment cannot let this happen a
time second
though
SMOKED REGULARLY anofficial MLCA
favour
Mr Pritchard claimed he had changes to the ordinance.
smoked the firm's cigarettes re. The problem of grasping the gularly for 23 years.
ront nettle might appear far Ile nerused company of less formidable if Government negligence in design and manu looked at it in terms of scrap- facture of is product. and warn the public of ping the axlating Landlord and failure to
which the Tenant Ordinance completely, inherent danger as we suggested almost a year company know or should have ago, removing the anomalies known existed." which exlat, and replacing it with
entirely navi ordi- ПАЛСА, As Wo pointed out Barlier while Landlords of prewar buildings are restricted, there is no effective control an principal tenants who are free to charge what they want.
An
His le the major anomaly at the existing ordinance and If this is to be reatifled, sorne. thing more than just progres- sive decontrol is necessary. Another disagreeable feature of the Fant question is that postwar landlords are free charge what they want when In fairness to the tenant there ought to be some control. Not only are postwar landlords able to charge what they want but they seem able to bulld what they want and certainly this respect thera
In
Attornes James P. McArdle, representing plaintiff, told the Jury, "this is not a frivolous In cast nor an experiment law."
He said he would prove that tars in cigarette smoke can cause lung cancer over a long period. He added:
"It it weren't for those tars, what you'd be smoking would be hot air."—AP.
CONVICTS
HELP FIGHT
U.S. FLOODS
Chicago, Apr. 4.
ought to be much greater Convicts Joined troops and control than oxlets today. civilians today in the tense There are new apartments in fight to hold back the
Kowloon which have been ap-
waters of the Missouri and propriately described 28:
Mississippi Rivera. match boxes. Dome have no garbage disposal chutes, some
oxygen trouble
Paris, Apr. 4.
A hostess and a steward of an Air France Boeing 707 jetliner which took off from Paris for New York last night fell unconscious when the aircraft's pres- Aurisation system broke down at an altitude of about 23,000 feet, airport officials said here today.
The plane with 62 peoplo nboard-35 passengers and seven crew was 20 minutes flying timo trom Paris when the trouble occurred.
Tndividual oxygen maske were automatically released from their compartments over cach sest and the hostesses and stewards aided the passengers to don them as quickly as possible.
FELLED
Some passengers were slightly The Red Cross estimated) affected by the rarifled air.
persons have been 30,140
The hostess and steward were
have no servants quartors, and affceled by the foods those felled by the lack of oxygen be Rome buildings, oven though
forced to move or whose homes fore they could regain their they rise to more than mino
Save been damaged-In eight real and monks atoroye, hava no lifts, Govern. ment may foal that policy States. of minimum contrats is the proper one in rolation to privato bullding but there ap- pear to be eo many abe which call for attention that
polity indicated. In now tomorrow' Comment of Day we shall discuss soms of the absurd nooded.
tha
werd
They remained unconcelous for two minutes and revived More than 300 convleis were
after the pilot brought the air- sent into the battle along the craft down to 10,000 feet. Missouri river, Most of them
The aircraft turned back to algne to piling_up Paris but was forced to fly over
near Cedar Cily, the area
for four hours con- Missouri. About 40 Inmotes suming 10,000 gallons of fuel of the. Aigoa Reformatory were before making n landing. put do work on the Missouri faulty valve prevented the fuel shores near Hartsburg—AP. from being dumped-Router.
Turbo
Royal Navy
Navy to the rescue
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Mr Amory's budget proposals opposed
London, Apr. 4.
Twelve extreme right wing Conservatives went into open revolt
against the proposed budget increases today.
section of the abstained They
the power-an easy budget with unfair to that when
a vote plenty of tax concession before publie who are already contel- Fovertiment called for
an election followed by tough-buting so greatly to the National on the suggested increase in the
ness with the taxpayer as soon Revenue." tobacco tax.
Later Lord Hinchingbrooke, MI Conservative Independent, und leader of the rebel group, declared in the lobbies that the Budget had profoundly shocked the group.
Disappointing
He added that they had ex- pected a reduction of laxation both in industry and among the ilberal professions.
In fact The chancellor has advocaled an increase in those sectors.
Mr Hugh Galtsket), leader of the Labour Opposition, said the budget presented today would disappoint many who had voted for the Conservatives at the last general election,
But it was the usual pattern when Conservatives
were
In
as the election was over.
The loosening of the law on death duty would open
a loophole of stil further which people were at present faking advantage, he said.
erlileised Mr Galtskell also failure to give the old pensioner "a single penny' in. what the Government believed was a period of unparalleled prosperity,
Shocked
RKO
But the increased tax was welcomed by the Rev. Hubert Little, Secretary of the Na-
Non- for tional Society Smokers.
"We hope this will be a useful deterrent to smoklas." he declared.
Loopholes sealed
tax-
three schooner
the
A hellcopter from Briilsh Aircraft carrier Albion hovers near (ho salling masted
Georlando, from Naples, as the versel drifted helplessly over 100 miles south of Crete in the Medilerracan recently. The Albion, taking part in a Nato exercise, auswered the stress call put out by the whose schooner
siecting gear was out of actioD.--AP Photo,
GOVERNOR
HAS
OPERATION
woman
off bus
A 27-year-old Kowloon bus gateman, Ho Tung, who pushed a woman potion- gor off a moving bus was fined $100 by Mr D. Garcia at Kowloon Court this morning.
He was ordered to pay $75 compensation.
He pleaded not guilty. Wai Lai-ling aald that ON March 1, she was waiting to board a bus at a bus-stop at Tam Kung Road, pear Shan Road,
Last one on
She was the last person boord the bus.
Sun
When she stepped onto the platform, defendant rang the
bell and as the bus moved off he used his left hand to push her to the ground.
She said sho fell to tho
ground bumping her head cutting it.
And
The bus drove off but stopped after 30 feet. Then the defen- dant got off the bus and walked
back to her,
He looked
nothing.
at her but
sald
He then returned to the bus which moved off.
The witness said that a man came to her help, took her in a taxi to the police stallon where the matter was reported.
Later she was taken to Kowloon Hospital where doctors inserted stitches in a wound on the left side of her head.
the
She was detained in hospital for two days as a result of the fall.
Bus was full
Lau Chl-hing, spinner of Oriental Textile Co. testined that on March 1 he was walking along Tam Kung Road when ho RW the woman boarding the
He said he saw the gateman push the woman off the buM
moving.
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while it WAS
went to her help.
He said that although he call- ed out to the, gateman to stop the bus went on its way.
In mitigation, the
galeman denied pushing the woman off. He said that although he had told her that the bus was full, she had tried to get aboard and as tho bus was moving
off, she fell
He said that
he had asked her if she was all right and 'lo and replied that she was. He said he then returned to Bus.
tho
The Magistrate, in sentene- Ing Ho said he was taking a serious view of this case, He added that defendant had no authority to push anybody
The Governor Sir Robert Black underwent an opera-off the bus.
tion for spinal fusion at The British Governmera in Queen Mary Hospital this its annual budget today; hit at amokers, pleased wine-drinkers morning. The operation was and and sealed, a variety of loop- completely successful A spokesman for the National holes which have enabled many his condition is satisfactory.
of Retati Tabacconists people to laugh at the Union
This was stated in a bul- sald we are shocked by the collector.
It was cautious budget | letin issued by the Director increase in tobacco tax,
*The Industry Is heavily aimed at easuring that Britain's of Medical and Health Ser- penolised already by this vicious current era of prosperity will
vices, Dr D.J.M. Mackenzie, tax," he said, "and this inerea not collapse through lock
this morning. can only be regarded as most restrain!.-AFP & Router.
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London, Apr. 4. The British Submarine Narwhat tonight ran agrotină în heavy weather off the west count of Scoiland.
An Admiralty spokesman said there was no Immediate danger
to the 70 crewinembers.
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