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CHINA MAIL
Kowloon accident
A car ran into a motor scooter in Ma Tau Wei Road, Kowloon soon after 9 a.m. today. No one was hurt. This picture by a China Mail cameraman shows a Police officer-in- terviewing the driver of the car after the accident.
GOODBYE HONGKONG
Cheery despite the rain is this young soldier of the Lancashire Regiment who strummed his faltar as he marched aboard the troopship Dunera this morning.
He embarked with comrades of the First Battalion, after completing a tour of duty in the Colony- a tour which saw the birth of the regiment.
It is an amalgamation of the East Lancashire and South Lancashire regiments."
Commanding Offer of the First Battalion Lt. Col. F.O. said: "We shall Ceire, always look back with pride and affection on Hongkong."
They are returning to United Kingdom.
the
dear sir
A floating hotel-club..
I was very interested to read in "Comment of the Day" in a recent issue of the China Mail that a member of tourists had to be turned away because of lach of hotel accommodation, and your Imaginative.
suggestion that some ship due to be con- slined to the scrap-heap such as --the "Ile de France" should be chartered and converted into an hotel. As big liners are in fact floating hotels the cost of con- version would be negligible, and especially to those who had arrived in this Colony by air to Flay on a luxury ship sited in one of the beautiful bays near the harbour with no fear of soa-sickness would prove an
respect to a fastidious appetite, followed by a turn or two round the ball-room and finally a little flutter at the tables,
venture to suggest that if such a club were to be run on really, tip-top lines it would be the show-piece attraction for the our visitors from overseas,
offers of Government would bes much enriched by a percentage from the takings at the tables and It might weți be possible to "bull-doze" many of our slams, to bring up the children of today who are the Colony's workers of tomorrow in happier and more
sanitary conditions and to build all the hospitals and schools both technical and otherwise — of which this Colony, so badly, stands in need.
PANCH CALYAN.
attractive alternative to an Too lenient?
hotel on land.
on
It may well be that in the In congratulating you future this Colony will find it your editorial of May 18, I necessary to rely more and more would like to say that the en the tourist trado which of Reform Club is seriously per- course has a tremendous "snow-turbed over the discrepancies in belling"-effect on employment in sentences in the Magistrates its various forms, and the pre- Courts. A very obvious example sent. Lack of hotel accommoda- occured recently when in the Ben shows clearly that despite one Court, a man was charged the excellent work done by the with being (a) an unregistered Hongkong Tourist Association in teacher and (b) teaching in an publicising the Colony abroad unregistered school. The charges and the facilities for faster and are obviously interlinked in that cheaper air travel Hongkong is one would generally expect an teacher to be not yet ready to receive an unregistered ever-increasing
unregistered of teaching in number
school, but the gentleman con- cerned was fined $1,000 on each
visitors to these shores,
UM
Apropos your suggestion in count lc. $2,000 and given two regard to floating hotels you may recall that last year epriespondent in your esteemed newspaper suggested that if Casino was good enough for the British Colony of Gibraltar then why should it Leewise not be good enough for the British Colony of Hongkong?
The:
weeks in which to pay. A few days later another man, or pre- cisely similar charges was fined a total of $300 and given 'two. months in which to pay, Reform Club does not wish to express any opinion on either of these sentences or as to which should be regarded as the more reasonable, but unless Would it not be in the inter- there were special aggravating est of this Colony If in addi- circumstances in one case or tion to Boating hotels an old special mitigating circumstances luxury liver.could be, bought or in the other, the public is left chartered and converted so as with the impression that the to provide accommodation for degree of penalty depends too We (1) a' large swimming pool (2) much on the individual.
a news cinema (3) a restaurant agree that to give the Crown a 10. European food (4) a res-right of appeal against sen- tence is not the answer, but taurant for Chinese food (5) a ball-room and (5) à Casino with this matter does require to be studied and the Reform Club the usual games of chance,
has recently · setup"'à 'Sub- Membership of this "Club" Committee on Legal Reform to could be restricted to bona fide consider this matter together tourists and wealthy members with the much wider field of
of the community, and being poor persons representation.
located at sea and restricted in membership its operation could have no corrupting influence on the whole populus or spell
'NO ROOM'moral degradation and ruin to
REPORT DENIED
the "vulgus profanum" as is prophesied by those who oppose the Introduction of football poole.
As a "Club" with European and Chinese members drawn from local residents and with
BROOK BERNACCHI
Chairman.
Nappies
Your
Reference the article emanat. ing from London in columns of yesterday.
As
Surely, Punch used to say, the remarks made by Mr Grimwood might have been better phrased, Naturally Hongkong nappies.
THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1960.
Corruption, forgery charges
Brokers plead not guilty
Two brokers pleaded not guilty to a charge of conspiring to obtain a letter by cor- ruption and forgery, in the Victoria Dis- trict Court this morning.......
The two accused, 'Abdul Aziz Rumjahn, 58, of 31:Lee Garden
Read, third floor, Hongkong ANOTHER
and Ho Hit-pa, of Room 24, 16-18 Conduit Road, third floor, Hongkong, were reinanded on
bail to June 17 by Judge B. J. Jennings,
Humjahn' bail" was renewed at $10,100, and Ho's at $10,000,
FILM TO
BE MADE
Chief Inspector CL-Smith; IN COLONY
prosecuting, alleged that Rum- jahn and Ho,-ón; diverse dates between September 14 and No-
vember 24, 1959, conspired to- gether to obtain unlawfully, bý corrupt means and forgery, letter Issuing or purporting to issue from the District Officer, Tsun Wan,
the effect that cer-
Hongkong will again be the setting for a big Him; a film company executive revealed today,
He is Sidney Kramer, Vice- President of the Foreign Dis- tain farm lands in Demarcationibution for National Telefilm District 448, Thun, Wan, could
Associates who arrived by
be converted to building lands.Air India from Tokyo this
Separate charge
Under a separate Indictment, Rumjahn pleaded not guilty to corruptly offering $50,000 10 Hilary Duppa Miller,
a Dis- trict Officer of the New Terim
ritories Administration.
The $50,000 was alleged to have been the proceeds of the sale of 10,000 square feet of land, which was offered as reward for or otherwise on ac count of Hilary Miller showing favour in the matter
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of con-
version of certain agricultural land owned by Mayar Six Mille (HK) Limited, in the New Ter ritories, it being a inather In which the Hongkong Govan- ment was concerned.”
morning.
Mr Kramer was accompanied by the General Manager of the Far East and Australasia divi- sion of the Company, Mr J, Remi Crasto,
Mr Kramer said that his corn- pany intends to make a film and major city of the world.
television series in every
"Although Hongkong does not compare in size or importance with dites like London and New York we feel that it has een and will be one of the Breatest movie locations in the World," he told a Chica.-Mail
Porter
new
Mr. Kramer whose company recently released the other cinemiracle film "The Wind-
men Jimmers
Pleas in answer to charges against the two were suspended until their ap pearance on June 17.2
Rumjahn was represented by Mr D. Q. Cheung, and Ho by Mr Gerald de Basto, Instructed by Mr P.-L. Lam.
POLICEMAN ALLEGED TO HAVE MADE
FALSE STATEMENT
A Police
was
sub-inspector
alleged at Kowloon Court this morning to have made a falme statement to mislead another trappefor about collision between motor vehicles..........
He was Sung Han Chee, 26, of 134 Arryle Street, 8th floor, who pleaded not guilty to "Tummens" for" making, a' false, statement, The case is being heard by Mr L.M. 8. Donnell
It is alleged that uni February 16 at the Kow- loon traffic office, Sung, the defendant, made a false statement to mislead Sub- Inspector Bey Sturgeon,
Hearing was fixed on July 11 and 12.
Mr F. T. Yu la représent- ing Bung...
Mr D, E Remedios. Crown Costell- in fu- nħarge of the case.
Ordered to
pay maintenance
stand up very well to the ends A music teacher. War found:
maintenance by
ME
A tourist authority told the visitors from all parts of the to which they are put, but then guilty of deserting his wife and China Mall this morning that world with temporary member they are usually put to one end" | arcaned to pay $100 monthly as on this particular day there ship during their stay in the only, were 20 or 30 rooms at the Colony this would-be the first Shamrock-hotel, 15 at the real step' in setting up a club in Broadway and another 18 at Hongkong of International com- the Melbournent e
position.
A tourist authority today
has arrived to organise for the early distribu- tion of the film in Hongkong.
The
Appeal Tribunal
order
Full
Court this
Sheaffer's
The new Shell Buliding.-China Mall photo.
Newest
BALL POINT PEN
AVAILABLE AT ALL GOOD STORES,
SHELL TO HAVE
THEATRE
NEW
IN
BUILDING
Lady Bastyan
visits Service
families
From the Files
25
years
AGO
May, 1935
One of the most remarkable dramas in the history of aviation- "was unfolded over the southern Pacife 'Ocean yesterday when Air Com- mander Sir Charles Kings- ford-Smith, the famous Australian pilot, flying the plane in which he has” cir- cumnavigated the earth. fought a successful battle", to reach land in an almost wracked machine.
When the tri-motored monoplane landed at Mascot, one of its propellers was com~ pietely shattered and a second engine had seized.
By almost miraculous pilotage, Kingsford -Smith flew the last 100 miles across the ocean back to Sydney on one engine, the machine slow- ly losing height with each mile towards the goal.
Kingsford Smith was with | Captain Charles Taylor in his famous "Southern Cross" and soas on the way to New Zea« land when the mishap 0 curred forcing him to fy |back 300 miles to safety.
believed to be Ameri-
THREE armed foreigners cans held up the well-known jewellers' establishment, Sennet Freres, in Nanking Road, Shanghai, today, The Shell Company's new pre- tying up the clerks and mises will have a theatrette. gagging them and then es The company will move into caping with the contents of their new building sometime 24 trays of diamonds, In June when house-jewellery and watches warining" ceremony will De valued at thousands of döl- held,
lars.
It is the first All departments, with
hold-up by a total staff of about 150 will be foreigners In the history of socommodated on six floors, Shanghai, from the 12th to 17th floors.
The theatreife, capable of seat- The fact that the Govern-
ing 80, will be used far show-ment was exploring the pos ing the company's films to sibilities of a co-operative
gueste from time to time,
Lady Bastyan, in her capa- city as Chairman of the Soldiers', Sailors' and Air-The company has a library.
150 flims, men's Familion Associa tion this morning made a The top floor will
house
of
schema for New Territories
} farmers was mentioned by the Hon. Colonial Secretary, Sir Thomas Southorn, at yester the | day's_meeting of the Legisla
farewell visit to the Kow- Shell Club canteen for staff | Live Council, presided over by
loon Tsai Families' Wel- fare Centre.
She was accompanied by Mrs morning granted leave tow. P. L. Lawson, SSAFA Cen- tenants of five houses in tral Committee Army Repre- Hill Road, to apply for an sentative. order of Mandanus direct-
Lady Bastyan was greeted on ed to the Building arrival by the Chairman of the Authority to convene a Kowloon Tsal Familles' Welfare Centre, Mrs F. R. B. Words. meeting of t the Appeal Tribunal in respect of the houses.
worth who introduced the com-
mittee members.
The party then toured the centre including the nursery
The Full Court also ordered that the Building Authority be school and baby clinic. notified and that the application
Lady Bastyan also watched
members.
His Excellency the Governor.
Another inch of rain
An inch of rain fell from A spokesman for the Royal" midnight to noon today accord Observatory told the Cains Mail that, "unsettled weather is ing to the Royal Observatory
The dheaviest shower occurred in store for the Colony. between 1140 am, and 11.30
am
Total since January 1 this year is 12.36 inches against an average of 18.98 inches for this time of the year.
The temperature at 8 a.m.
for the Mandamus be heard on the SSAFA Sister Jeffrey help-was 80.5 degrees compared with a date to be fixed.
Mr Brook Bernacchi, Qing Service mothers and their the 83.1 at 9 am yesterday. counsel for the applicant, said babies. that the occupants of the pre- mises, 58-64 Hill Road, had vacated the houses on a closure order.
Death by misadventure
verdict
However, he mid, the tenants had ascertained that no order for demolition had been marie, The applicants are Tong Yuna choy, keysmith, of 58 Kill Road, ground floor; Wong Ket-hing, merchant, of 58 Hill Road, round Boor, Woon Poon, th dealer, of 60 Hut Road, ground floor, Wong Yun- on, clerk, of 62 Hill Road, ground floor, and Tp Eling-cheung, factory worker, of 64 Hill Road," ground floor.
They
represented by Mr Bernacchi and Mr Lawrence Leong Can the Instruction of Me P. L. adventure was returned at Cen
The Full Court comprised the tral Court this morning by a Acting Chief, Justice, Mr Justice JR. Gregg, and Mr Justice W. "A. jury of a man and two women Blair-Kerr - and Mr. Justice K. R. at the conclusion of an inquiry Macfee, Acting Puline Judges Into the death of a police cor
poral who died after a traffic accident in Wanchal earlier this | year.
ate
New Ikebana committee
At the first executive meeting of the newly elected committee
Ikebana International,
the
A verdict of death by mis-
10
The jury said there was evidence that the driver of a private car was incompetent or was to be blamed for the acel dent. They also expressed sym
to the widow of the de-
H.M.H. Morris at Central Court this of the Hongkong: Chapter of ceased: 978-
morning,
Kent Yu Chiu-zhao,
Miss Hongkong Yu Kang, of 11 Kal Kuen,The following omder were elected
Flint Vice-President, Mrs P. J race, as also ordered to \p Eva pecond
denied reports that there was no I cannot think of a more hotel accommodation for 72 entertaining way for a tourist to The preliminary contest for 350 per month in maintenace. Mrs MsTalang's Tatian tourke what werted to spend an evening than having the Via Universum deadly for their eldest child VickyT. GRANDA PO stay in Hongkong Jast Turedes donned his best bib and tucker Pageant" at "Miami Beach, Me You
but could get no bookings.
"The i podmlalnám, <Lock (Tu to sally forth by fast launch to Florida, will take phỏc at the
well-lighted and decorated New Ritz Swimming Pool on Lang harian, testified that she
not rorried. Der ship, to have, a win in the pool, Tuesday, May 24
The Italiane were reported to a
have wanted to głaz, be week, but
a newspaper repres sald they found no available hotel accom-
then a first-class dinner of Thursday as stated in the luie | August 24, either European or Chinese food, of this paper yesterday, Tickets Court, and from a card which pays proper for this event are sold out..
since fiztir
Interna"
Police Corporal Mak Sing-ziam WAR Crossing Hennessy Road near its junction with Stewart. Road, about 1 a. on February Pechen, he was involved in the.
accident
Bub-Inspector DJ. Brya was the driver of the car.
Corbally Magistrate, for and rat sa coroner.
Wyndham
It will be overcast with p castonal showers and occasional thunderstorms later today.
He said that there was A possible passage of a colé front this evening in which case - 12 cooler to. would be a little
morrow.
This funny world
¡the floor.
bublished by TERENCE GORDON NEWLANDS
Tot Bouth China Morning Post Limited Street, City of Victoria in the Colony, ut Hongkon
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