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Comment Hongkong and Shanghai Bank chief's criticism SPECULATION FEVER
of the
day
ONE MORE TRIUMPH
THERE has never been so
successful at royal tour
as that of the Indian sub- continent, which the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have now completed.
It was not that the welcome was greater, or the arrange- ments better, than those in other countries she has visited.
But this was different. ilere
were lands and peoples who, only 14 years ago, gained their freedom after con- turles of British rule. How would they greet one who to recently would have been their Empress?
Driving tests conspiracy
case opens
Two Chinese police inspectors, a driving instruc- tor and a woman had charged $180 to reveal the answers to the written driving test to candidates before they sat for the examina- tion, Mr Dermot Rea, Crown Counsel, alleged in Victoria District Court today.
The answer, nt first, was n little muted. The crowds in Delhi were polite but re-conspiracy. strained. Then, as the day" passed, enthusiasm ruse, By the time the royal party reached Ahmedabad it had renched exuberance,
:
accused are
LORD MAUGHAM LOATHES HK
His Lordship
He was opening the case They had asked these driving against the four on charges of instructors to introduce to them
London, Mar. 10. elkonts who were willing to
Lord Maugham. nephew of Yuen take advantage of the scheme. Somerset The four
"loathes Puting, 35, a female, of 224
Maugham.
writes Hongkong," he
10 龋 Once a ellent Gloucester-road. 3rd floor, Lung
had received
friend. Chung-wing, 38, a driving in- an appointment for the written
Revealing this today in his stractor of 153 Wanchai-road. test he would bas astm of
columu William Hickey says the 2nd floor. Chan Kwok-wai, 39, a money to his driving instructor, Far East doesn't hold the same.
h!። 24, and
provisional police inspector of Flut
licence
Lord Maugham Green Lane Hall, 2nd flour and number and the $180 fee would fascination for
as it does for his novelist uncle, THE Queen, in an open Cars
Tse Hel, 33, another palier in- be passed on to the first accused
Three months 320 Lord drove for ten miluxspector of 512 Nathan-road, 11th or the 18th person.
Maugham left by cargo boal for through a lane formed by floor.
The third or
fourth accused a leisurely tour of Singapore, the people, with few police
that until last would receive from
this Arth Hongkong. Japan and Formosa. and no barriers, And this
year knowledge of tire High-person a list of provisional e intended to stay away for the
collecting materjal place where way Code
tested orally, driving licence numbers
six months and Gandhi began his campaign but this was changed and details of a signal to be adopted. for a book. for the overthrow of Bri- written test substituted. tish rule,
Was
Thus Ahruedabad spoke for
Mr Renald
was
24
The written test was con ducted by 12 different examina. tion papers being prepared, and the invigilating officer
In
at
India and Pakistan, The charge was supposed to shuffle populace discovered that them and give them out this Queen was regal and | rondom.
dignified, but imbued with
a simple, unaffected charm. List available
to
He sald
applicants for the the Indian test were put on a daily test list which became available to
But he has cut short his "trip'
Some signal and is already on his way home.
"I loathe Hongkong and I hate The day before the test the the Far East," he has written to candidate would receive a sel a friend "and am returning to
of answers to a particular blessed London."
paper which would be furnish-
ed through the driving instruc- tor by the first accused or the fifth person together with final instructions.
On his
in the appearance examination hall the candidate would display some signal such as carrying a red plastic ruler in his left hand, Mr Ren said. by the third or fourth accused, The papers were handed out
Such qualities make a strong
appeal people. Let us here pay a the testing officer on the mom- tribute to their friendlinessing of the test. The names of and good manners during the applicants would be called this royal occasion.
Gut and they would take
and candidates who displayed place in the examination room. the signal would receivē The There were memories, of After the half-hour test waspaper to which they had al-
papers was taken to ready been given the answers. course. As when the Queen over the
office and the answers Unless his memory lapsed, Mr visited the North West an
were checked. The questions
Rea added, he would then be Frontier. But they stirred simple and could be answered able to answer the paper cor-
by Yees, Na, X's, noughts and rectly.
a stronger nostalgia
He said seven candidates
those older than herself.numbers, Mr Rea sald, She la, after all, the wearer Therefore if you had been would give evidence of overt not of an Impèrini but of | told the answers first and had nets by the third and fourth a Commonwealth crown. any sort of memory, even with- | accused.
out understanding the questions,
One would give evidence that
THE stress was on the new Sou could write down the cor- much to his surprise, presum-
Tindia rather than the old.
even during such splen- doura as the Maharajah of Jaipur's reception.
When one recalls that the Queen's grandfather shot 24 tigers during his visit 50 years ago, the solitary beast hagged by the Duke typical of the seems changed times.
The Queen visited 11 towns and cities in India and seven in Pakistan, apart from the trips to Nepal and Persin. In five weeks she has "worn herself out“ but who would suspect It?
This arduous tour has been one more triumph for her presenco and personality.
rect answers, he added,
However, this was possible which of the twelve papers they were going to get, and the papers were supposed to be dis- tributed at random.
if candidates knew
ably the paper he was given
of
only had no relation to the set
When the officer realised his answers he got the day before. mistake he said he was sorry he gave him the wrong paper and then stood behind him and to- dicated what the right answers were, Mr Rea sak.
The Crown case was, Mr Ren said, that the four accused and another person who would be a Crown witness got together
ot
Failed
a time when the fourth accused was about to start duty us in-
A woman would say that the vigilating officer for the tests.
They had contrived a scheme examining officer stood behind
fourth whereby the
her and told her the answers. accused
"Apparently she wasn't very would, for a consideration, place a particular test paper before bright she falled," Mr Rea
72 BODIES BROUGHT UP FROM MINE
Tokyo, Mar. 9. The bodies of 72 miners trapped underground in the Veda coal mines in Kyushu, were brought to the surface today, after the worst colliery disaster in Japan's postwar his- tory.
Share, factory site price rises disturbing
Mr M. W. Turner
The Chairman and Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Mr Michael W. Turner, today criticised the "speculative fever which has gripped certain sections of the community" in Hong kong in recent months. He mentioned particularly the volume of share market business-145 per and the "disturbing" increase cent greater last year than in 1959 --
in prices of factory sites.
He said he hoped speculation would slacken "before prices are pushed too high" and he told the annual meeting of shareholders today that the Bank would adopt "a conservative attitude in considering new advances as long as present conditions continue-an example which I hope others will follow".
Mr Turner said the rise in share prices and land values Wis phenomenal and i doubtful whether the peak had been reached.
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seems
"Mucl: of the demand to have come from funds seeking investment and
Overseas
venue
Government revenue had in more than 10 per cent and ex-
and ports by 20 per cent.
creased by 24 per cent Production of electricity had during 1961-62 financial year in ocean expiriditure is expected! risen by 18 per cent, shipping tonnage entering port increase by 21 per cent to more than $1,000 million but estim- by nine por cent, railway re-
per cent. The ates for revenue were only six by 21 total number of items passing
Commenting on the recent although this has not had the through the Hongkong Clearing per cent higher,
"a House had risen by 20 per cent budget, Mr
mode to and at HK$23,000 militon had suggestion has
propor- at last exceeded the 1951 figure. the government that
tourists in-tion of the assets of the Ex- The number of
(Contd. on Back Page Col. 3) creased by 18 per cent.
same effect on bank deposits. these had risen by more than 30 per cent.
Unhealthy....
"So much of the postwar de- velopment in Hongkong has been due to an influx of capital from abroad that one would nel wish 40 discourage the flow, but there is life" doubt that the present volume is un- bealthy
Commenting on the increase in prices of factory sites, Mr Turner said it was disturbing that these were so high because expenditure on land in Hong- kong had always been a greater proportion of the final cost of an industrial unit than1 was normal elsewhere.
*This factor has assumed a recently greater importance
as labour is becoming more competi-
expensive and the tive advantages which Hong- kong used
longer so favour #
are no
Mr Turner told shareholders
that development in Hongkong and continued at a high rate during the year and most see- tons
of the economy had shown a considerable growth.
The bodies were all brought up from the burning pat 1,400. feel underground.
10
were
Of the 90 miners originally caught in the min
when the fire broke out, nine vscaped and another
later rescued.
There was a bare possibility that some of the skill missing to remote miners had escaped
the mine. But t comers of
of was belleved unlikely any them could have survived the oticed,
heavy carbon monoride fumes Mr Rea salg the Attorney filing the pit after the com been told what the answers General had decided not to pressor chamber burst into
flame. WITC by the first or second prosecute the fifth person in- accused or the fifth person,
volved in the scheme on any- One miner who escaped suic The third and fourth accused thing arising out of evidenco he had been working 100 feet would have supplied the as- wers to these three,
certain examinees.
The examinee would
In a position
Mr Rea said the
have
-30 EX
The mutual respect which cused and the lifth person had inda Britain with India, advised various driving in Pakistan, and the country structors that they were in of the Gurkhas, has been position to see that their parti- onormously enhanced. Only cular clients would be auccess- the Queen could have done ful in the written examination it.
for a fee of $180.
Difficult
"In the early part of the year the parmet industry had dificult time due to the American market becoming overstocked and too optimistie increase in local production,
"The position has now shown some improvement and the car- ller shake-out should leave the industry In a healthier state.
"The
with th: ugreement United Kingdom on the volun- tary
limitation of exports on of cotto piece- certain types goods to that country has had restrictive influence a pro- which is all the more duction disappointing when it is found that competitors have benefit- spinning and he would give for the Crown. beyond the compressor chamber weaving Industry has shown
Mr Hea la sesinied by Mr Howard when he
remarkable expansion in recent Ilobson, Crown Counsel.
number of and the Mr Lawrence Leong, instructed by begin filling the pit. He said he years
and looms had risen Peter Ma & Co is appearing for the called to five other miners to spindles
run, and the six of them by 04 per cent and 139 per cent Mr Y. 11. Chan of Lau, Chan and managed to climb out of the respectively since 1930. Ko, who presented the first an second accused today, sald he would pit. brief Mr Leo D'Almada, q. Mr Last September, the flooding Patrick Yu and Mr John J. Swaing of the Hochu coal mine killed
The trial. before Judne J. J. Jennings, was adjoured until March 67 miners.-AFF,
first and second necúšec.
a
14.
It is expected to last for 30 days.
with more than 60 witnesses, being celled by the Crown,
Clergyman's courage
Swansea, Mar. 9. ...The quiet courage of a clergy- man ended near here today an all-night house "slero" staged by a bricklayer said to armed with a blunderbusa, a revolver, ammunition and wword.
The bricklayer, who had
*
bar-
all the appeals of police, fire- men and neighbours to come out.
bolle warned that if anyone tried to enter the house he would "blow their heads off." Polloe decided against using tear gas because the man's father had been II, then a local viour, Canon Bidney Morris was called and after talking
ricaded himself in the house with his 12-year-old sister and B0-year-old father had resisted
saw white
smoke
Shot at rat hit wife
London, Mar, 0. George Liles shot at a rat but killed his wife, a coroner's
Deross
38 A
les. The cotto
"Fears have been expressed that any further increase on this scale might outrun the capacity of markets to absorb 110 additional production. While it is clear that the growth of this industry is likely to slow down. capacity of foreign markets to absorb our products in dim- cult to assCSS.
The growth
"Not only is there the normaal hazard of popular taste but to the man at a window, en-jury was told today,
there is also the possiblity of tered the
310 house where
Liles, 08, of Tonwell, near restrictions** in established stayed for nearly two hours: Hertford, wept as the police markets and the tendency of Canon Morris later came out told the story. He fired at countries with planned economica
scumpering with a rifle, revolver, a sword rat
his to show large variations in and a darrCT.
orchard. But the shot ricochet- demand." ed and hit his wife who was
Mr Turner then gave these out of sight behind a hen house. statistics to illustrate Hongkong's total The The coroner brought in acconomic growth, verdict of accidental death on volume of trade had increased 89-your-old Mrs Beatrice Idles, by 10 per cent over the previous with Imports. lgher by who died 17 days later,-UPI, year
The man later visited a nearby shop and niter a struggle with four police
the ofloora in sircel was taken to a mental hospital.China Mall Special,
Haid Turner
been
Hongkong
woman
deported
Ottawa, Mar. 9. The Chinese-born mother of a two-year-old Canadian son has decided to take her child with her when she leaves Canada this month under a Federal deportation order.
The deportation order issued Yuet against 29-year-old Mrs Loule does not
apply to her son, David, who was born in Ottowa in August 1958, while Mrs Loule was in Canada on a visitor's permit,
Ottawa food merchant Harry Toy, father of Mrs Louie, said that his daughter and the boy will fly to Hongkong in about
10 days.
"She will take her son with her," Mr Toy said. "We would like the boy to stay in Canada as he is a, Canadian citizen but there
is no one to take care of him."
Mr Tby sald
he is malting arrangements for his daughter and her son to fly to Hongkong.
Leaving her husband
and two
in Hongkong, Mrs Loule entered Canada on a non- In December, mmigrant visa 1957, to visit her father. After the birth of her son the follow- ing August, she unsuccessfully sought to have herself declared a legally-landed immigrant.-- Reuter.
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