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ISSUE OF $ COINS BEGINS

$2.5 million expected to

be circulated

Many people queued up at cash counters the now in

for Colony banks dollar coins which were issued for the first time today.

Appeal

case

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the time he witnessed any of the docu- ments or issuedt the eheques tial the transactions were fraudulent," he added.

knowledge at all at

Not disclosed

would submit that even

2

if the evidence in the present case was that secret cominis- sions had been taken by the been appellant and had no disclosed to his principals, the Crown did not make up case. They did not get a co- viction merely by saying that a transaction was of a secrol nature or anyway not actually disclosed to other persons the firm.

Mir How added that the onus of proof is on the Prosecution.

Mr Flow, instructed by Mr G. E. 9. Stevenson of Slewart and Co, re presenting Robert Ell Low was was Bet present Court

Me Bodills assisted by De- tective Inspector Lai Kim-nung, sp- pears for the Crown.

The hearing. before Mr Justice,

Senior Pulsnið

C. W. neece Ace A Blair-Ken Judge. Mr Justice V and Mr Justice K. Mille-Owen, continues this afternoon.

They tumed in old bank notes in exchange for the new cupro- nickel coins packed in paper bega of $10, $50 or $100 each.

At the Casa Department of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, coolles from other banks carried away the coins in tin boxes suspended from bamboo poles between their shoulders.

Each tin contained $25,000.

Sacks of $5,000

Coins were also taken away in cotten sacks filled with $5,000 enchi.

WILA $2.0 με

A spokesman for the bank said this morning it estimated that about million in coins would inued today.

or us, $5 Hengkang and

Kowloon.

millon Ja .for $1 million for

Up to 12.30 pm, the Hongkong and Shanghat Bank had. Issued $1 million worth of coins to other banks while half a million was paid out over the counter,

At the Chartered Bank, quite a few people asked for the new

coins.

Mr J. C. Burgh and Mra Li Fook-hing watch a group

of children in a classroom at St James Settlement. At left

Mr D. Baron-China Mail photo.

Colonial Office

official visits welfare centres

Mr J. C, Burgh, Head of the Hongkong Section of the Colonial Office in London, today saw some of the Colony's welfare services.

.

With Mr D. W. B. Baro, Director of Social Welfare, he visited St James's Settlement, where he saw some of its 200 children at work and play.

Mrs Li Fook-hing. Honorary secretary of the Settlement and Mrs Rebecca Kan, the Deputy Warda, explained how, from The domai is' moderate moll beginnings in an old and in small quantity. There is Buddhist Temple in crowded

Mr A. O.Wanchal, the Seulement now no rush yet." sud Small, the Manager,

provides far-reaching services At the Bank of East Asia to old and young. there was no rush either.

Diamond salesman

denies fraudulent conversion

charge

A diamond salesman today pleaded not guilty to fraudu

lently converting to his own use part of the proceeds of o sala of two diamonds belonging to a local company.

Wan Ki-hing, 40, of 165 carals to Fook Lung Jewel- Wongacichong-road, third floor lery Co for $3,745.30, and Wan appeared before Mr A. J.

this reported that the company con-

Sanguinetti

morning.

al

Central

He is alleged to have

cerned needed a month, to pay.

NEW PREMISES

'Mr Burgh admired the new premises now being bulle, the first of which, the new ---work- lalc shop, will be opened in February. It will accommodate all the vocational and handi- eralt departments of the Settle- ment.

The main new building will then be built on the site of the prevent settlement, so that mothers and children ein meet in their various clubs and classes in far better conditions than now.

Commenting on what he had seen of conditions in Hongkong since his arrival Inst week, Mi Burgh said he was most Im- pressed by the way in which the very poorest managed al- ways to be no neatly turned out and to exist in such cramped conditions,

TSAN YUK Later this morning he visited Old Tsan Yuk Hospital

From January 6, 1938 to May the

leaving

and

a training school for the blind and where the Family Welfare Society will shortly have premises.

fraudulently converted to his 31, 1950 ive payments totalling where there is a hostel own use $845.30 after selling $2,800 were made iwo diamonds valued at $945.30 balance of $945.30. which should have been return- Mr Cheung said he asked ed to his company, J. B, Ipekd-Wan to collect the balance but flon and Co Ltd

was told on November 3, 1959 that the Fook Lung Jewellery

This afterncon Mr Burgh

will meet Mirs C. Madge

Newcombe. Executive Secretary

Mr Joseph Cheungi Chinese Co promised to pay $50 a month. of the Hongkong Council of Manager of George Falconer & Co (K) Ltd and J. B. 1pckd- Mr D. Cheung, of F. Zim-Social Favice, end will visit

the Wong Tual Sin Community Centre.

He will the

flan & Co Ltd said Wan hdmern & Co represented the de- been a diamond salesman for fendant. Detective Sub-inspector

for the company. He resigned in F. K. Ko appeared August,

On November 18, 1957, sold 312 diamonds totalling 5,50 | Hearing is continuing.

POP by Goo

he

prosecution,

I'M SURE

MY HUSBAND CAN'T HEAR 'A WORD I'M

SAYING!

leave Hongkong next Sunday, spending two days et Singapore en route to London.

Carlsberg

GIVES ADVANTAGE TO SERVER

Stewart

Gray's

double birthday

San Francisco, Dec. 11.

From the Filos

25

years AGO

December 1935

London, Dec. 10, TONGKONG 13 the most IL valuable British asset ir China and British policy In China ought, therefore, to be

of. A newspaper editor had two largely based on the needs

Hongkong" said Sir Ceell Cle "high" birthday parties menti at the Roya! Empire Su- today. Ono was 41,000 clefy luncheon. fect high aboord an air- linor,

Stewart Gray of the South China Morning Post was A guest of Bôào on its inaugural jet fight from Hongkong

ta

Son Francisco,

The first birthday party for him was held aboard the plane on the Hongkong-Tokyo. sight after the Boeing 707 jetliner took off from Hongkong.

Sir Cecil strongly critleized the Foreign Office, which, in 1925, clung desperately to the illusion that Peking somehow governed all China, and forced Dr Sun Yat-sen, who wished to be friends with Hongkong, into the arms of Russia who embroil- in ed Hongkong and Canton disputes, culminating in a disas- troun boycott and the loss of millions of dollara.

Sir Cecil continued: "I most carnestly hope that we shall take warning from the past and do not again sacrifice Hongkong to an illusion. Nature herself die- tated the closest and most in- Umate and friendly co-operation und among Hongkong. Canton the teeming millions of Kwang- bottle tung, who are a most industri-

When the plane passed the Internatinal deteline, a

et champagne was presenteous, capable and peace-loving

to Mr Gray by Bose cffcial people." for his recond party. The plane was flying at 41,000 feet.-UPL

HK GAMBLERS TOLD THIS IS NOT MACAO'

and

Sixteen men,, who appeared They all pleaded guilly

hfore Mr. M. S, Donnell | at North Kawloon Court this?

ol morning 11 charges rambling, were told by the Mazistrate ના Hongkong "was not Marzo" and hal they should not indulge in gambling,

were aned between $15 and * 520. Sub-Inspector M. 11. Derman,

prosecuting, sold that December 19, a party of police raided 0 Boundary-street,

оп

third floor, where they' SAW the defendants playing Pai Каш

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Vice Admiral J. P. Estevo, Commander-k-Chief of

the

French Naval Forces

the today

Far East, arrives here aboard the cruiser Primayuet and will remain here tintil December 18,

Commodore C. a. Sedgwick tutti erchange calls with the Admiral Today, the former re- ceiving a salste of 11 guns and the Admiral 15 guns.

The Primanuet is "being re- placed by another flagship,

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