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MAN WITH GUN PLEADS GUILTY

Detained for medical report

John Spencer, 30-year-olr unemployen Eurasian, tonay pleaded guilty to theft of a police revolver and 11 rounds of ammunition from the quarters of a police sub-inspector. Judge W. F. Pickering at the Victoria District Court remanded him until

next Wednesday for a medical report as to his mental state.

Border village gets clinic

villages, this is the place to cone to sell their lish, livestock and vegetables, or to exchange the own good rice far. their cheaper Siamese brokens of the countryman's diet,

A modern Government clinic and maternity home was opened in the border village of Shataukok by the Director of Medical and Health Ser- vices, Dr D. J. M. Mackenzie, this morning. The new clinic, a two-storey the Laiding situated next to Pallee Post an Shataukok Road, Lad two ecsitting rooms, eight maternity beds in two wards

he 23ded. and modern factiiles for the

Shatoukok Market, like the more of mothers in childbirth,

other market towns in the New The Chairman of the Sha-

Mr Turritories, had been Krowing ukok Rural Committee,

Vuen-kun, LA

welcorned the stendily in size and Importance many guests present. Among over the years.

market is them were Chairmen of Rural Committees, Village Representa situated far from the centre of

j

"Although this

tiv Chairmen of Chambers of Government," Mr Walion said, Cuminerve in the New Terri-we are nonetheless planning to tories and senior Government

and expansion <liais.

endeavouring to provide it with matern facilities."

Tangible sign

In his speech at the opening teremony, the Director of Medi

Health Serviers paid

ent and

that the new clinic represented yet another tangible sigs of the Government's interest Ins welfare of the people of Sha- laukok,

the

He asked the villagers to Trois upon the new Government clinie

sa centre for learning more! about health in their daily lives, at home and at work.

meet

its

DCA official on leave

The Acting Chief Operationa Officer of Kal Tak Airport, Mr F. J. R. Lillywhite,, left Hong- kong by Air India this morning

The District Commissioner of The New Territories, Mr A. St., on home leave.

the November

G. Walton said that Stalackok Mr Lillywhite will return in wat the market centre for farmers of the villages fringing Starling Intet and Crooked Har- bour and for the shermen those waters,

people

"For the 15,000 some 34 shing

and

*fter louring the Continent and holidaying in England with friends and re- of lative.

He will join his wife in Paris of and they will travel together to

England.

farming

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Spencer claimed that he had been in mental hospital for two months just before laul Christ- mas, "am subject to acling which I cannot control," he said, He said he took the gun "al a mement's impulse."

fell that I could jun stora off to my friends but I became afterward and frightened I'd it."

Chief Inspector C. L. Smith said sometime last year, Sub- who Inspector V. Renard, Bved in the singles quarters at the Eastern Police Station, came to know the accused and the accused vislied him at hir quarters from time to time. On February 13, Insp. Renard

the

his CID that notified

olle revolver, 11 round of and a revolver missing from his

immunition holster were quarters,

the enquiries, Pellowing police recovered the revolver and ammunition from the accused's

but on the roof of 190 Hennes: Road, on March 21.

The accused, who was then in the Victoria Remond Prison, was interviewed and following à statement, he was cautioned charged. The

long accused had record of previous convictions, Insp. Smith said.

In July 1947, he was bound over on a charge of obtaining money by false pretences,

In August, 1940, he was sen- tenced to eight months for simple larceny.

In August 1953, he was given two years on two charges of two of obtaining larceny and gouds by false pretences and on! la forged document.

posses-

Since then, he had four more cunvictions for heroin Ision, one for smoking heroin and one for escaping from lawful custody,

was

dis-

Established 1845

THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1960.

Lai Yee finds

happiness

in a world of silence

By JILL DOGGETT

ITTLE So Lal Yee lived in a world of Le silence on Ping Shus Island.

Born deaf and dumb, she could see

together.

other children chattering and laughing

But she could only see and touch to make herself understood,

Now this is all being changed.

'HEARS' VIBRATIONS

The Ladies' Guild of the Union Church has been paying for Lai Yee to have the specialised type of education given to deaf and dumb children at the Hongkong School for the Deaf, At the age of four years Lai Yee began her education. That was in 1950,

The process of learning sound through vibrations is fengthy, requiring utmost pallence on the part of teacher and pupil.

Lai Yee has given all her energy and con- centration to her work.

Now she can talk to her teacher and her little playmates.

She can pay to her friends in the Guild "thanit jeg" with her 11ps, as well as her eyes.

FINED FOR ASSAULT

that

as one

1

More

that, she was chosen

of the "Three Little Maids" for a delightful little oelion play given at the

School

children

deaf the

Kay

SO LAI YEE

Pleads guilty

-charge dismissed

where yourg

under blossom guldance of Miss Li Lukiwa, the principai.

With her ttle tabby socks,

and colourful kimono, parasol, Lai Yee was in the cen Leslie Walter Talbot, 38, ue of happy setivity, Instead of foreman, of 6 Talkoo Club the frustrated outskirts she had Chambers, was fined $100 known since her toddler days, Mr 1. T. Morris at Contral Ori April 8 nt the Union

Court this morning dis- by Mr Derek Cons at

Church, Kennedy Rond. the Central Magistracy this Ladies' Guild is holding the an-

missed a charge of care- morning when he was nual jumblo role for

loss driving against Loung found guilty of assaulting charity projects of this kind. Shiu-yung of 90 Jaffe a taxi driver,

They hope their friends will

Road, who had pleaded Wu

Wai-mlag,

along and help in the The con- como

guilty. plainant, destined that at 3 a. good work,

Leung admitted that he had constable's on March 12 he was parking his

driven against 11 Bar

signal at the junction of Garden taxi outside the Broadway

Road and Lower Albert Road on December causing a police vehicle la brake violently avoid collision.

in Percival Street. His friend, Tong Po-chrung,

sitting Was next to him.

Complainant said be heard someone shout "Gel away", but he did not pay attention to him. Then he saw the defendant ap- pronching.

Without saying anything, he said, the defendant punched him on the right eye causing injury, After that the defendant into the Broadway Bar.

ran

This morning, Spencer pleaded not

The friend gave corroborative gulity to and

a second count of jeldenew. charged on possession of anns and The defendant told the Court ammunition without allcence that he only went up to the com- offered a plainant and told him to drive when insp. Smith evidence against him on this the taxi away. He denied having

count

xoulled him.

FIRST PHASE OF BIG HOUSING PROJECT READY

By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER

The first phase of the biggest domestic housing scheme

in the Far East, the $50 million So Uk estate in Shamshuipo, will be ready for occupation early next month.

No permit

to be in Colony

The first block will recommo- date 019 familles.

The entire estate, when com-

pleted, will take 38,000 people.

The 10-acre triangulor alte

for the 16-block housing scheme

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Divorced mother can bring her child to HK

London, April 6. The Court of Appeal today decided that a seven-year-old boy now living in "a happy home" in England should be allowed to join his mother, a teacher in Hongkong, who has not seen him since he was two.

The father wonted The boy adopted.

the

At the court's direction Identities of the various parties

were not disclosed.

tun

askn.

The mother, appealing against

court carbor Rejecting her application for custody, snid through her counsel that the father divorced her two years ago when she was 31, hnd remarried and been divorced by his second wife.

Pseudonym

Under the father's custody the boy hud spent various times in a children's home, with his father's parents, with the father and his second, wite and 1958, with since September,

given the faster Darenba pseudonym

hide

ما

in court Their foenuty of "The Jolmens."

The "Johnsons" wanted to

From the Filos

25

years -AGO.

April, 1935

LTHOUGH 24 typhoons occurred in the Far adopt the boy but the mother's East last summer, not one counsel said that she could pro-

with

to have a

vide a proper home for her son passed within 180 miles of In Hongkong and could offer him Hongkong. The maximum love and affection.

wind velocity recorded last Counsel for the father said it would be in the interests of the year was 67 mph which was boy now in a safe anchorage" reached on two occasions.

the Johnsons

This and other interesting In- settled home. thris

contained in the Allowing the mother's appeal, formation is Lord Justice Pearce said the pro-annual report of the Director

at the Royal Observatory. posed adopters who have two

The No. 10 signal bas young children of their own- were kindly, respectable peopic been hoisted in Hongkong since and the boy had been happy 1931, although the No. 1 signat with them,

wrg raised five times during Just year.

U.S. farm

experts

in. N.T.

to

Came to Colony When the marriage first broke down, the mother had tried to in mitigation, Loung sald support the chlid, Her heal that it was too late when he became bad and eventually she noticed the cars proceeding up decided to go to Hongkong. Garden Road as he emerged When the father wanted the boy cm the Peak Tram car park. adopted she refined her content and wanted the boy with her.

INEXPEDIENT

not

The saying that earthquakes are occurring all the time is amply illustrated in the report which states that 353 earthquakes were recorded in 1934 or three less than for 1033.

Post'a 25

In his judgment. Mr Morris In the circumstances it was said that owing to the extenuat-unlikely that any court would

From the SCM Thirlees. American agricuting circumstances in which the hold that she had unreasonably tural experts called on Mr E. Hoffence was committed, he was withheld consent or would make Years Ago: "Yesterday after. order in the noon the dedication of Crown land, to be used as a burial Nichols, Assistant Director of of the opinion that it was in an adoption

expedient to inflict any punish-face of her refusal. the Agricultural, Fisheries and

The father has no merits ground for persons professing ment. Department this Forestry

He further said that he had and has not distinguished him- the Christian religion, tools morning.

observed after long experience self as a provider," the judge place at Heppy Valley in the They hand # two-hour dis-

in court that he suspected there said, cussion on agriculturai papblems were very few motorists in the

No doubt it suits him that he presence of a large company.

markets,

such as water supply, irigation Cotony, who have not at one should be divested of his par- His Excellency the Governor, and Hongkong and American time or another broken the rules ental responsibilities. To leave who arrived at the cemetery met by the custody with the father is by special car, woe imposed upon them, and as a They were accompanied by Mr body "they have my sympathy." not giving the child the certain the Bishop and other minsters Brice K. Meeker, Agricultural

ty of real security. DUE NOTICE

at the gate." Oficer of the US, Consulate-

Continuing, he sald, "A motor-

Painful General here,

The Americus.

"On the long term view, the now1st, is compelled to drive arc

regret child may well bitterly making a tour of the New Terr.tween certain lines, gyrato round

roundabouts which do not alhaving had his ties with his tories.

ARRESTED

AFTER

2 a.m. CHASE

is bounded by Po On Rund on An Army man was arrested by

the south, Cheung Fat Street on the cast and a hillside on the northwest, Above it is the Carton Hotel,

Work on the big scheme stari Fan Chuan-hsion, 59, wased in March last year.

fined $150 by Mr K. A. S. Four private architect's firms Phillips ut Contral Court and three contractors have been this morning for. remain-working to a master development ing in the Colony without plan. " a permit. Sub-Inspector K. P

Clark

said the police discovered the offence when defendant went to the Registration Office on March 20. Defendant had an entry permit to Maceo ond Mexico. "We are in a position to send him back to Macao," Insp. Clark added.

Mies Jelen Lo of Messra D'Armada and Mason, repre- achting defendant, goitt her client was a con of a poor farmer in Tal Shan who caved up very hard so his son could go abrond. This was tho usual custom of the To: Shan natives who wished their sons to have a better life than themselves, Miss Lo added.

be-

ways appear to go in the diree-mother completely severed. On ANIMAL rabies, which

have been kept in check tion he requires. He has to give the short term view, it is painful in the Colony since the out- various signs with his hand or

to tear up the roots the child some mechanical device to in- has formed in the last 19 months break last year, have again dicate where he is going.

in a happy home, but I think broken out. Two mules of *lle faces many forms of the mother has something to the Hongkong Mule Corps lights either to stop or impede offer.

are the latest victims.

la progress. He must take tho

"Her financial position is not

due notice of many written einsstrong, but it seems sufficiently One has died and the other in situated on the roadside and

above him and give attention to many signals waved at him duty."

not always clear

by policemen on

WRY donations

the police after a chase early this morning in Wanchai. Three detccilves patrolling the district at 2 a.m. found two The Council of Social Service soldiers opening the door of u has received $70, proceeds from private car

the Dance held at St John's When asked to produce their Cathedrai Fellowship on March driving licences, they ran away, 25, and $103.20 from Mias M. Palice chased them and Mackie for the World Refugee caught and arrested one of them. Year.

Nasser calls Far Eastern

diplomats to Bombay

By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER

President Nasser, at present touring India, has called an urgent confer-

ence with his Far Eastern diplomats. The conference will be held, Uniict Arab Republic Ambts) – in Bomboy on, April 12, It was dor revealed today.

Diplomata from Peking, Manila Miss Lo said her client went and Japan met in Hongkong this to Mexico at the age of 19 and week.

showed little it any diplomatic significance.

"It would fust be a ply if our The three diplomats who left President was so close and we his morning: are:-Salem El didn't take the opportunity to Tarazi, Pekit Hussein El ace him," he said. Zawahri, Manila and · Yusef

Mr El Zawahri, the Ambassador

and worked very hard there! The three men lett Kai Takicj Mustafa, Japan, ever since. He was a widower this morning by Air India fof: and his purpose here was to Bombay via Bangkok. join his

solving in Hong- kong.

Ten pleaded gulity,

to the Philippines told the

At Bangick the diplomate China' Mall that the meeting of will be joined by the realdent the Far

Mr Zawahri however ad- mited that the meeting was collea at very short notice,

"But then ali decisions are made like that these days," ho

added. Egstora ambassadors.

sound to justify trusting her not expected to live. with the child's future. I am

a

satisfied by the steps she has Although there are no other taken in this case that the bona suspects. the Army authorities 77103- Ade wants this child who has a have, as a precautionary

Bure segregated 311 animals, very reasonable prospect of

They will be confined to their hropy life with her."

unti the Inoculation The mother was given custody etables of the boy and leave to have period is over. him taken to Hongkong. Coals were awarded against the father,

China Mall Special..

DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL CENTRE

AL

service

afternoon.

A government gazette h39 tannod the movement of "equines" from the New Terri toring

of the to other arts Colony, has ordered 'alk now out

into brought grazing to be siables forthwith and has for- bidden them to be turned out to Kraze in Kowloon and the Now Territorier.

་

Because of these new gulations, the Fonting Hunt and Ilace Club Steeplechase Moet- ing. which was to have been has been tomorrow. The Morrison Memorial Centre, held

which COMBÓNGrates the abandoned, 15021 anniversary of the During the firet six months arrival of Dr Robert Morrison of last year, the Colony ex- in China, will be dedicated perienced the biggest wave of on Saturday rabies that has occurred for

come ilme, Dr Morrison was the Brat Pro- Practically every traço - DE rables can be traced to the testant missionary to China.

The The memorial centre was put Chinese frondler, up by the Hongkong Counell of epidemic started at Bhataukok, the Church of Christ In China worked across to Camic Peak

The centro

spread will be ita per-end eventually manent headquarters. It is at Kowloori 101 Prince Edward Road.'

Boverni Chinese contracted The foundation stone was laid the dread disease, one dying in on December 6, last year.

circumstances of great distromy,

1934

Inlo

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