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Reform Civic coalition

leaders give views

Leaders of Reform Club and Civic Association whose candidates will be automatically returned to the elected seats in the Urban Council this year expressed different views on the fact that there will be no election.

Jury retires for verdict

DEFENCE OF

WOMAN IN ACID CASE

In his final submission at the Supreme Court for the defence of 22-year-old Li Wai-chun, ac- eused of throwing corrosive acid on her lover and wounding him, Mr Terence Y. Shurlock said this morning:

that happened, saying. 'He has cheat- "Experience has shown there to form of evidence ed ine, so I wounded him in frightened he which is

than a revenge: 1 am less reliable

will chase me and kill me."

hasty confession.

1 Wal-chun might have i Mr Justice W. A. Blair-Kerr. that wound addressing the jury, said -formed the acts of ing and throwing seld with her they might well understand the hand and be guilty with her feelings of a young woman who hand, but any not be guilly in had just surrendered her body to her lover on his promise of her intrc.

be immediately "11 Is my

this marriage, when defence of

sald You can go! woman, only aged 22, and, in afterwards my brisalon a very good type the inderd, that wanda inilleted on her lover with the razor blade and the wound in the eye infleted by cartolic acid, were cauzed Ly accident."

uf Woman

DISINFECTANT

Ji Wai-chun has admitted staying at the Good Luck Hole! on December 10 with the man Ma Chi-man. anel admitted taking to the hotel a paper bat which contained, besides all her worldly possessions, a boille of erhalle held.

Ltr B. A. Bernacchi (Reform Club, away in England at the mament. Dr P. F. Woo, Mr Li You-bor and Mr Hilton Cheong- Leus (Civic Association), whose terms of office will expire at the only end of March, were the

Te! ominations received for election.

Dr Raymond 11. 5. Lee, Vice- President of Reform Club ad this morning, "We would like see more public-spirited citirena of Hongkong to par tielpate in the Urban Council only election because it is the council for the various elected representations.

Greater interest

"If the publie of Hongkong desires to see more progress 18 that direction, greater interest must be shown,"

Dr Lee deplored the lack of interest in this year's election, and went on to say:

"If we have more contests in elcelion, Government may give more clected seats in the Urban

also

ant Council and may

councils elected seats in other as well,"

On the other hand, Dr P. Y. and be a dance hostess in Was-Woo, Chairman of Civic Asso- chai,' and that she lost her tan- ciation, said, "My feeling is that the public supported our plat- per and hit him.

forms. There is no lack of public interest in the election.

But Me had denied ever using these words and had said the wounds had been infleizd the accused while he was sleep- ing.

by

Li Wal-chun is stated to live with her blind father at 301, Lockhart-road. She previously tok the Court that on the night of Deveniber 10, when Ma per- suaded her finally to go to the Good Luck Hotel after promis- ing to marry

her, she decided to leave her father for good at

"Our two associations (Retorm Club and Civic Association) are

and they speaking for them agreed with our views as ex- pressed in our Jalat Memoran- dum submitted to the Colonial Offee Inst September,"

Mr Hilton Cheong-Leen stated this (Civic Association) morning, "The fact that there will be no Urban Council elce- tion this year is virtual recogni= tion of the Erength of the two organizations that comprise the infectant and took a Fazar blade paper bag, Ma having said that coulition and the broad measure

utay at the Good of support Ma had they could cfter

She says that she teck this midnight, and Therefore had Leenuse she uset it as a dis- packed all her dresses in the

to teim her eyebrows.

In a quarret

they have among

said to her I am hard up and Luck Hotel for a few days until those who would have taken the

Be got permanent accommoda-trouble to vole.

eatshot get married, but you could get a job if we married on for them.

Ma denies that he said this as a came hostess and make

she seized the and the room boy at the Good easy money,

in evidence razor blade lo wield in front of Luck Hotel stated

Ma had only booted the Ma, and accidentally wounded that him he then asked him to le room for one night. down an applied the carbolle The Judge told the jury that eid, which she forgot, in her they must decide who was tell- agitation, to diliste.

Ing the truth, Ma Chi-man, or the gil.

She then fed in fear at the blond and what she had done and told the room boy what had

The jury relired to consider their verdict.

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"IL in also an indication that the great majority of the public supports the moderate constitu- tional changes advocated in the Joint Memorandum submitted to the Colonial Omee last Septem ber.

PREFERRED KOWLOON TO HONGKONG

Two Australian

women

who

spent four days in Hongkong they as tourists. said today liked Kowloon beiter than Hongkong.

of

War- Mrs N, Caldwell nambool, Victoria, and Miss J. Porter, of Melbourne said they preferred Kowloon to Hongkong because "shopping in Kowluon Is Letter than m Hongkong and The poplc in Kowloon Bre nleer than those in Hongkong." The ladies said they hud found pries in Kowloon hups "cheaper."

Woman held for 'savage beating

of daughter

magistrate at North Kowloon Court this morning described the beating of a child by her mother as "most savage.'

Mr J. E. F. Dargan made the Mrs Caldwell and Miss Porier remark alter he had the child teft by Air-Ins for Europe on brought up for a close inspee- the recond leg of their round-tion."

the-world tour,

INDIAN MP RETURNS

The 11-year-old. girl, Wong Wal-pin, was beaten black and blue all over her face, shoulders and body.

The defendant, Lel Sau-ying, 33, housewife, of First-street, Fuk Wah Village, NT, pleaded guilty.

to the

In mitigution, she said she Mrs G. Parthasarathi, a mem- had beaten the girl with a after she had re- ber of the Indian Upper House, rattan cane

her clothes left by Air-India today for New fused to change Delhi where she will attend an und, took ten cents without per-

misto last Friday. upper house session.

Mrs Parthasarathi is also the The grandmother of the child

the Incident wife of india's Ambassador In reported Peking. She is a member of Pre-police. mier Nehru's Congress Party. The mother was remanded in for seven dinya cuclody Mrs Parthasarathi who has Jait been a member of the Indian pending a probation report,

The husband was told by the upper house for one year, was seen off at Kai Tak by Mr F.magistrate to lools after the

Kamath, De Mello

Commia child properly while the mother sioner for India in Hongkong. way in jail

Ship aground off Pl

Almost lost big wheat shipment

pregramme.

"

Boy found

crying in street by policeman

A patrolling police constable found a 10-year-old boy

of leprosy

in Colony

Miss Jean Watson has join-

ed the staff of the Hay

Ling Chau Leprosarium

From the Files

25

years

AGO

February 1936

as physiotherapist to leper TN the SCM Post stop

patients on the island.

IN

press, an item appeared

the Commons, Mr

to the effect thut in Trained at King's College, London, and having completed House of almost two years' practical work Lunn drew attention to the at the Church of Seatland Col-finding of the local commit- tsai and that lege, Edinburgh, Mira Watson tee on mui left England last September for while mui tsai in Hongkong her journey to the East.

undesirable, any at-

She spent four months at the were Karigiri Leprosy Research Sana-tempt to stop the practice torium near Vellore, in South was doomed to failure, and before continuing her he asked whether the Gov- Indla Journey to Hongkong

ernment accepted the de- This was revealed this morn-claration.

tho Marianne Reichl Ald to

ing at the monthly meeting of Mr J. H. Thomas, reply- Lepers' Group at the Southing for the Government China Morning Post boardroom. agreed that the sale of girls Mrs J. A. Pegg, Chairman, was undesirable. He did not welcomed Miss Watson end'

number of new members Inaccept the view that it was who impossible to suppress the cluding Mrs Sanden Leea will be the honorary secretary practice, and declared that of the Leper Fair, 1981.

the owning of mui tsai in Miss Watson caid she was

very Impressed by Hay Linz Hongkong was illegal, Chau and the work being done he intended

there.

BOEING MEN

IN COLONY

crying in Queen's-road, Two field representatives of West, in the early hours

of today, an inspector told

a Contral Magistrate this morning.

and

to pursue vigorously the policy of securing the final disappear- ance of mui taai by means of inspectors and prosecutions.

Ho had investigated the prosecutions and found far too many fines. He would like to geo imprisonment used as a deterrent rather than fines.

The

Years

Morning

apo

Post'a 25 of tho manufacturers

column Baid: Boeing 707 jetliners, Mr H. H. Wendell and Mr I, Thursday's meeting of the J. Vogwill, arrived from Legislative Council promises to be interesting. After the Tokyo by Air-India today usual routine work and

the for a two-day business jurors' list for IVII have visit.

been considered the Hon Mr

He refused to go home. Inspector Yip Tai-yau said that the reason the boy dur not go Home was that he was frightened of being beaten ogain

Mr Wendell and Mr I. J. H. E. Pollock, KC, will move by his father. He sold his

rosolutions following me assigned Vogwell

by the the father had beaten him on many

Boeing Aeroplane Company to 'That in the opinion of this previous occasions.

work in ison with Air-India Council it is desirable that a Before Mr Derek Cons,

International at the airline's Clock Tower should be erected 30-year-old father. Young Chi-base at

Cruz airport, on the New Post Office ac- chats, living in an unnumbered Bombay.

cd

the

Santa

plane Company"

hut on Mount Davis, was charg They sald the Boeing Acro-cording to the original de-

with wilfully ilf-treating

has about 40 sign, with a suitable clock in his son, Yeung Yiu-fal, in field representatives assigned to it. Whether the Council oc- manner likely to cause the boy

Pollock's view various airlines which use Boc- cepto Mr unnecessary suffering or Injury,

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Yeung pleaded guilty but ex- plained to Mr Cons that his son

or

ing products on their dir routes, not the public is of one mind

that the Clock Tower should

be removed from where it at

was lazy. He raid that he liad $80 FINE FOR rescat stands as an obstruc

been in the same class for four years.

Whenever his son was given money and told to buy things, he went to a cinema or bought

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A 23-year-old Asherman, Lai- comic books.

Ah-fat, who installed petrol who was The

found engine on his junk without a boy wandering ot 3

am today was permit was fined $40 by Mr C. Meeting of the Hong- Court this kong Benevolent Society admitted to hospital and found Cairns at

morning. bruises on his body,

was held yesterday after- Lal was also fined $40 for according to Insp Yip,

Mr Cons remanded Young for without a certified masier.

operating his motorised junk noon. Sir William Hornell, Vice Chancellor of the Hong- He pleaded guilty to both kong University was in the

the grounded to have

wheat,

India almost lost a shipment-of 10,000 tons of United States wheat when the American fraighter, Portland Trader, went aground on a reef at Puerto Princesa, 365 miles south of Manila, last month.

According to Mr B.L. Sahney, now salvaging Deputy Secretary to the Gov-vessel, he added. ornment of India, ie wheat was

As for the salvaged part of an American forelen ald Mr Sahney said he had charter. Ave days pending a report from "The Clule-Refonn realition

ed a British freighter, the Esk- the probation officer. will continue its efforts to have increased clected

Mr Sahney, who left for New glen, to transport the food to representn- tion in the Urban Counell, and Delhi by Air-India today said Indla. also to have its elected repre he had made a special trip to

the sentatives in

to Legislative Manila

for arrango

the Council

salvage of the wheat. "Speaking as one of the four candidates who has been re- He said, "We have managed turned unopposed, I would like to salvage almost to thank the very many up wheat." porters from all walks of life who had expressed their cup- port for the coalition end what It stands for.

all ot the

SMALL DAMAGE

Tourists from

Tokyo

A party of nine American

Air-India today for a five-day tourists arrived from Tokyo by visit. Tho party which was Č. Watson, 15 led by Mrn known as the Brownell Tour No. 1. The Travel Advisers Lid, Island. are locking after the tourists The Luzon Stevedoring Co, were' during their stay in Hongkong.

Mr Sahney added that only "Outside the coalition, both a very small percentage of the the Civic Association and the

wheat was damaged. Reform Club will exercise maximum flexiblilty in advocat- ing any new ideas and proposals that may be regarded as being beneficial to Hongkong and its #tople."

Mr Sahney revealed that the Portland Trader was abandoned by its crew shortly after it went aground near Palawan

BROKER WHO PROMISED TO ARRANGE

FLAT TRANSFER, FINED $400

A 31-year-old broker, who obtained $100 from a man as an advance payment for

the transfer of the tenancy of a flat from Kun Tong resettlement estate to. Wang Tai Sin resettlement estato, was fined $400 and bound over in $500 for three years by Mr E. Corbally at Central Court this morning.

10 A

Kun Toor to He was also erdered to pay Delective Inspector Chan Siu- plainant from $100 in restitution to the com-shun, of the Anti-Corruption Wong Tai Sin resettlement ex-

Branch, rald that the complata- tate, takd Insp Chan plainant.

ant Young Ab-yim war resol Defendant also suggested that Defendant, Chen Muk-tao, cfled at Flat A148 Kun Tong re- it required $200 "tea money" to fat M157 Kun Tong resettlement settlement estate after his hut have the matter settled. As a

Village in Fu Mel

was de- rezult, Yeung pald the delen- estate, pleaded guilty

dant $100 as an advance ¡pay- charge of obtaining money by mallshed in Jaraiary, 1980.

Young occasionally mentioned ment on January 18, 1000. falsc

through pretences

of to his friends that Kun Tong Since then there was no newn

was a enther remoto district,

Fcb Counsel Mr Francis Chulne

Edmund Cheuta & Chaine,

and he wanted to move nearer from the defendant. On

úrary 0, defendant was arrested Chan, who pleaded not guilty to Kowloon City. to 'n second charge of obtaining

Later, he came to know the by Anti-Corruption Branch per- Printed and published by Trance Gordon NEWLANDS PEARCE sey by falas pretences, was defendant who claimed that he connel

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Murray A. B. Stanners,·· 20, af Stannera was alleged to

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Delective Inspector B. D. Car-C. G. S. Perdue and Mrs R.

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D. Walker (Committee).

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