1960-05-20 — Page 10

CHINA MAIL

Established 1945

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1960.

DRUG TRAFFICKING, POSSESSION CHARGES

Norwegian officer acquitted

appointments

Prosper case Government ends with jail for two

gazetted

The following Government appointments, promotions and transfers were nounced in the Gazette this morning:

Mr W. P. McFadzean to be

Rating and Valuation Surveyor.

Mis M. M. Orr to be Mis- Department; tess, Education

A 53-year-old Chinese plastic manufacturer, Chan Kwong-shing, who was described by the Court, as playing a prominent part in drug trafficking between Bangkok and Hongkong, was sentenced to four Mis Vera Cheung Au-yeung Wing-chu: cused to be a Sub- years in Victoria District Court this Insp of Schools.

Mr A. J. Peaker to be Con- morning on charges of dealing and controller of Stores; Mr G. A. Lemay spiring to import opium. Passing the sentence, Judge W. F. Pickering told Chan: "You stood at one end of a pipeline which stretches from Bangkok to Hongkong and through which dangerous drugs are sup- plied."

to

Store

be Deputy Controller of

Dr Chang Shiu-sig to be Act-

ing Specialist (Social Hygiene): Health Inspector; Mr Francis Lee Flu-Pu! to be Acting Medi-

Mr Tang 10-yan to be Chiet

cal Defence Staff Officer; Dr M. T. Timoney to be Woman Medical Officer; Dr Linz Chuen.

Judge Pickering added that being so, you are entitled to be sheng ceased to act as Principal if it was not for the accused acquitted." people like him

who ran the

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Prichmataja.

risk of importing drugs for the Judge Pickering said although money, the supply of dangerous he was satisded Prichmataja

drugs would have diminished was a party to the conspiracy. and finally disapperred.

The Judge also sentenced a 61-year-old Siamese Thire Officer of the SS Prosper, Bunecheute Pricttmataja, to 12 months on a charge of con- spiracy,

Prichmalaja was acquitted on two other charges of possessing and dealing in opium.

Hls Honour also acquitted a 37-year-old Norwegian Bjorn Hoyan Aravik, Chief Officer of the Prosper, on two charges of possession of opium.

Very foolish

his party wre not a very pro- minent one.

War veteran

In

said

2 be was

mitigation. Prichmataja

veteran.

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Medical

and Health Officer (Port Health) on resumption of duty by Dr G. B. Smart,

Mr H. A. de B. Botelho lo be Acting Solicitor General during the absence of Mr A. Hooton; Mr J. W. D. Hobley to be Acting Principal Crown Coun- sel, vice Mr Botelho,

Mr E. Tyrer to be Acting Commissioner of Police, Head-

bribe

'Fan Kwais' begin Attempt to

training for dragon boat race

The "Fan Kwai" dragon boat went out on the placid waters of Tolo Harbour for a trial row yester- 'day.

Twenty men, mostly European, under the leader- ship of Mr J. C. C. Walden, District Officer, Taipo, ara training hard in preparation for this year's event,

The Dragon Boat Festival is 12 days away. The "Fan Kwai" boat is the first to begin serious training. The crew is determined to do better than till last place this year.

A bigger dragon boat race has been planned for Taipo area this year. Twenty-four boats will take part in it.

Bermuda helps Hongkong's refugee appeal

joined the allied forces in qualters; Mr P. J. Clough ceased News of what Bermuda, another Crown Colony, is

Europe and when the war was to act as Assistant Commissioner over I took part in parades in of Police on resumption of duty

Paris

and by Mr Tyrer; Mr C. L. Bevens, London, Brussels,

pleased the Mr B. J. Bretherton and Mr D. Thailand. I have presidents of three nations. R. Harris to be Superintendents

"When I was a captain of a ship, I rescued 30 persons on four occasions."!

of Police.

He said he had a wife, six V KICKED

children and five nephews and nieces who were dependent on

Judge Pickering said Arsvik him.

svik R. W. S. Winter, counsel

-had-been-very- foolish.

the

you

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words

your for Chan, said Chan had been of were obsessed, in Hongkong for 30 years and with the idea of a reward for his wife and six children were

Counsel,

the discovery of opium.

all dependent on him. to Mr A. Zimmern represented Arsvik, on the instruction of Mr P. C. Mann.

Prichmataja was not legally jepresented.

or

"That obsession led you some strange conduct but you are not charged with folly

You are strange conduct. charged with possession of two separate quantities of opium."

Judge Pickering said there was a good deal of doubt in his mind in the case against Arsvik. "That

Chief Inspector C. L. Smith prosecuted, assisted by Detective Inspector D. MacMahon, of Anti- Narcotics Bureau

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doing to help Hongkong's World Refugee Year appeal has been received by Miss Madge Newcombe, Executive Secretary of the World Refugee Year Committee in Hongkong.

Mrs D. E. Greenfield, who of "The Nun's Story is being visited

her sister, Mrs given at which the Governor is Thompson, in Bermuda last expected to attend." year, gave a talk on condtions in Hongkong, which stimulated interest In what the Colony

do was trying

IT re-

STOMACHfugees. has now received a

Private Michael Tarmer, is, of 8 Company, RASC, was fined $150 by Mr E. S. Haydon at Kowloon Court this morning for kicking a waitress in the stomach.

He pleaded guilty. Inspector Wang Hei-man said on May 18 the defendant went the Jordan Cafe, Kowloos.

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dear sir

!!. Too lenient?”

the

Mr Brook Bernacchi Chairman of the Reform Club- has forestalled me in writing to commend you on your edi- torial of May 18 on the above- mentioned subject, as I was typing you my letter when the machine broke down (apparent- ly with grief at the inhumanity of our laws). As usual, you have exposed the weakness of our judicial system and the possible injustice to a member

of

From the Files

25

years

AGO

May, 1935

THE South China Morn

TH

the public unfortunate encugh to transgress against the law, Mr Bernacchi's instances ing Post commented' in of the varying penalties meted an editorial on the problem out to almost the same cate of overcrowding in Hong-

kong.

"The appointment by Govern- ment of a commission to make

gories of offenders are not at all strange, and if one would go over some of the many convic- tions for minor infringements of the law one would see the discrepancies in this respect of recommendations for the 'im- making the punishment fit the provement of Hongkong fous- crime.

ing la welcome, and is in Whilst touching upon fico A 38-year-old woman, Wong Magistrate's (Amendment) Or-logical sequence to recent mani- festations af public-spirited Tai-mul, was found guilty naree that passed the secont of a charge of offering and third readings at the meet policy. The Commission's terms precise: $20 to a policeman and 14 of the Legislative Council on of sentenced to six months' Winesday, May 13, we might the Commission is to investigate also dwell upon the Folies and report with particular re jail by Mr T. L. Yang at Supervisiot (Amendment) Or-ference to overcrowding and s Central Court this morn-dinance, 1959 that was passed on effects, in causing tuberculosis,

November 25, 1959, as this also

Ing.

reference are

"The problem is, of course,

has some bearing on the liberty etc. She also pleaded guilty to of the subject which should co charges of taking heroin by in-cern all freedom loving people. as old as the Colony itsel Jection and possession of a Whilst one does not wish to though in the benighted early syringe for that purpose and accuse the police of abusing years it aroused little pubile was sentenced to nine months, their power, it would be more concern. The high death rate consecutive to the first sen- prudent to lanit such power as from tuberculosis, about 50 a

much as possible to ensure that week, Is

reproach to the not unuftingly en Colony; and there can be no courage our law officers to ustry question that this is in great de the power that is often abusedres due to insanitary and by those in authority in a police overcrowded dwellings. state. Already we

tence.

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Evidence was given by police we shall constable Chan Kan-kwong that he arrested Wang on May 11 for alleged drug offences. He said that she offered him $20 to "save her face,"

The woman denied the cor- ruption charge, stating that she handed the money to the police constable so that he could hand it to her husband.

Inspector W. Watson secuted.

are match

by

harassed by the police today "At different thres Govern who herd us along the highways ment has endeavoured like sheep driven to be shom or promote improvement, by both cattle to be slaughtered. When direct and indirect action... a person is accused of a crime, direct, by legislating against

indirect. his word is often doubted whilst overcrowding: that of the polles is taken as prescribing a shorter type of pro-gospel truth and unquestioned tenement, with open space and although unsupported by evi-many doors and windows, con- dence. Also when a member ofsidered to be "fool-proof," the public offends the police

intervene and "These measures have not

once, but succeeded

that except

the offends death-rate is perhaps, lowe

Army v Navy -law won

1

can

at take action when a police officer

A story of the best Baron Munchausen type is Folated about a Soviet parachutist in today's issue of Pravdu, says a Moscow report.

none dares do anything beyond than it might have been.” making a report to the authority concerned, and in almost every case such report tot being sup Mrs Thompson,

who was

ported by evidence of witnesses formerly with the United Na-

A soldier, Brian Scott, 24, who are disincliued to be in- Lions Secretariat in New York, of Stanley Fort, and a seaman, volved with the police, is always read a message at a Rotarian Michael Joseph Delahunty, 15, thrown out of court, and the lunch, from the Governor

accuser at once becomes a mark of of HMS St Brides Bay, were Hongkong concerning welfare fined $15 each by Centrul ed man to a vindictive offender. in the Letter

from Mrs Thompson, needs there, which

The Reform Club was also Magistrate, Mr Derek Cons this

under the broadcast, more in-

morning for disorderly conduct, present instance Mid-Ocean News, of Bermuda, by fighting.

leadership of its able Chairman after sending her

An airman leapt from his formation and pamphlets, as

said on May 11: "The speaker Sub-Inspector Yip Tai-yau is truly living up to its name machine for a delayed pare drew a vivid word picture of said that

a desire for suitable reform, chute drop 23,000 feet above shortly before 11 the plight of the refugees in o'clock last night, the defen- and not only you but also the Hongkong.. She read

an dents were involved in a fight Chairman of the Reform Club the earth. He was less than especially moving and graphic in Lockhart Road following an are therefore to be warmly con- 500 feet from the ground letter written by her sister, who argument in a bar.

gratulated on trying to preserve when he pulled the parachute is active in welfare work among The fight attracted a big the liberty of the individual. cord. Then, to the amaze the Chinese in the Colony of crowd of people and ended just The Pross has a responsible meat of the spectators. he Hongkong."

before the arrival of the polles, function to perform in the started to rise rapidly and interest of the public, and you reached a height of 5,000 feet have once again, amply demonstrated your leadership before he commenced to drop again. The phenomenon is in this respect.

ascribed to the fact that he in a strong was caught Reform Club) ascending current.

Mr

First meeting "The Bermuda Committee for had World Refugee Year has its inaugural meeting. Charles Pearman-Wilson, who was on the staff of the office of Commissioner for the High Refugees in Europe has been asked by Dr Lindt, in Geneva, to form a Bermuda Committee, and I am the executive secretary.

There, for no apparent reason,

1.6. ກ * | be klated the waitress,

Wai-fong.

When asked by the magistrate why he kicked her. Tarmey replied: "I don't know, sir."

Defendant had a previous conviction for a similar offence.marathon to raise funds, which

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PUBLIC SERVICES

appointed

Mr M. S. Cumming has been temporary Member of the Public Services Commis sion during the absence of Mr J. Dickson Leach.

HK solicitor

"The radio is planning aon

will be A continual appeal

running for several days at the

start of their campaign. They

on remand

London, May 19.

will also do a Cavalcade Show Robert Low, 31-year-old on the World Refugee Year effort in Bermuda.

"Already the grounds of Government House have been opened in aid at WRY. Ladies of two big clubs are collecting and school children are being

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL asked to bring a shilling for

every year they have lived in

Mr H. D. M. Barton ceased freedom.

solleitor, whose home is at Victoria Road, Hongkong, appeared at Bow Street Court here today.

He had been arrested last month on a provisional fugitive offenders warrant accusing Him of fraudulent conversion in Hongkong.

to act as a Member of the Ex-¦ "The Rotary wives' are help- Mr John Mathew, for the ecutive Council on the return ing at leas at Government Hongkong Government, said the to the Colony of Mr M. W. House on Sunday afternoons papers had arrived but they for WRY and a local premiere were very voluminous, and

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Reservoirs now

one-third full

By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER

Observers pointed out this

there were more than 70 ex-. libdts.

As the warrant had not been backed by a magistrate of this court, it would be necessary for Low to appear each week unti the case was ready.

Low was accordingly remand- ed until May 28.-Reuter,

morning that Hongkong Balmain

still had "a long way to go" before the reservolta are full..

Hongkong's reservoirs are now just over one- third full, latest water This figures reveal

But unless heavy rains fall soon, an early, increase in water hours is unlikely.

At 8 a.m. today the Colony's. reservoirs contained 3,784 million gallons. Their total capacity is 10,469 million gallons." This time last year total capacity was 4,229 million. gallons. Yesterday's one-inch rainfall yielded 108 million get- Tons,

But

time last year the Colony was on on eight- hour supply.

in HK

Pierre Balmain

the famous

· French・・ fashion designer, arrived here from Bangkak by Air India this morning to':bury Chinese antiques for, his 'new villa on the island of Elba. This is the island, to which

heavy spring rains and an enforced cut in the supply hours to three a day during repair of the Tai Lom Chung tunnels, kept storage above the 4,000 million-gallon murk. - Quicut "

Napoleon was first exiled. He said his new, ballahi will be Alled with real. Chlinso „anikzusen, und "things of the

He was In Bangkok to deliver

It was not until July 4 when Haartrobe for the Thai

the reservoirs were almost.

full that the Coll

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“was socommended by Mille MA; Kohloe;:: Mis business : 15- ‚sistant ̋and÷Mr Erie' Mörpen-

sen," "bla, sastatant designer,

The Government Gazette not- fled this morning that Capt.

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