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CHINA

Established 1845

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1961.

Continued hearing in

THREE YEARS

MAN TELLS

TELLS OF Payment of $170 the night before

A man told Judgo B. J. Jennings in Victoria District Court this morning that he paid $170 to another man "so he could fix my driving test for me.”

The man, Fung Tale-him, of 33

Yuva Chai- 'reet, secund Floor,

the seven.

testify

of 60 witnesses to

four ng 1

persons

charged with conspiracy in con-

nection

Lests,

with written

driving

Accused are police inspectors Chan Kwok-wai and Tse Hel. driving Instructor Lung Chung- wing and a woman, Yuen Pul- hang, allas Lung Po.

'fold

Crown

Fung Tak-him Counsel, Mr W. H. F. Hobson,

he handed over the money the night before he was to take his test to one, Yeung Man-so.

Letter

Is the

handed the

inspector in charge a letter.

Travelling

gambler caught

with drugs

FOR MAN LEFT HOLDING

THE HEROIN'

A 40-year-old unemployed Chinese broker arrested in Queen's-road West with almost $4,000 worth of heroin in his possession was sent to prison for throe years by Judge W. F. Pickering at Victoria District Court today.

of

ડાર્યો

Ng On-king

370 Des third floor, Vooux-road West, hud pleaded not guilty to pos

025 sessing 0%

of dangerous drugs.

N told the Judge he been given the parcel to hoki by a woman friend while she went to a lavatory. He did not know what wad Inside the parcel.

He walked slowly up the street while waiting for her to catch him up and was arrested,

TEA MONEY

The Judge said he was satis- fled NK hud offered money" to the constable who Larrested him and that he know what the contents of the parcel were.

Chief Inspector W. Apps, prosecuting, sald Ng had 21 previous conviction for anaking opium.

next morning. A "professional gambler" August 31, 1960, he went for

and regular traveller be- the exam and

twoen Hongkong and

Judge Pickering sentencing Macao was jailed for two Ng, told him "six and a quar years by Mr Derek Conster ounces is a lot of heroin." at Corrt Court this morn- ing for possession and

of importing one

Mr Hobson: Would you re- cognise the inspector If you saw him?No.

Did he do anything when you gave him the letter?-H¢ gave me an exóm paper.

morphine the

Fung Tak-im sald inspector distributed the papers from a pile he held but when!

be reached him he took one

from the middle of the pile.

the paper were you familiar

ounce

hydrochloride

without a permit.

According to the prosecution,

the 53-year-ald man, Tüm You,

Mr Hobson: Before you saw of 4 Hak Po-street first floor, with the quesitons In it?--Yes, sald he was paid $30 to carry

Yeung thu

dangerous

drugs

from

I know them because Man-so had told them to me," Macuo. He added tho, he ha no money because he lost it all gambling.

Hostile

During earlier evidence, Mr Hobson asked Judge Jennings | i.. eunsider another witness. Chat Mui-fan, as hostile. He claimed she was not answering

his quevilons frankly.

Chan Mu-fan then admitted that during her evidence yes- terday, she had omitted certain

things.

Yesterday she said she could not remember whether Yeung Man-so had shown her anything when she paid him $200 to pass her test.

She now remembered she had seen a piece of paper which looked like an exam paper and contained several answers.

Judge Jennings adjourned the case unt this afternoon so that he and the court could visit the hall in Kowloon where driving lests are held.

for

'CO-OP'

FLAG

FLIES

13-year-old girl deceived

lover

man

MAIL

"willes fashion news" LAYEYIQUE

NEW

Lady Sheaffer

SKRIPSERT FOUNTAIN PEN Cats Santa

UNITED PAPEN DO. STIA

conspiracy case 'FIXING TEST

A 29-year-old unemployed who admitted having carnal knowledge of a 13-year-old girl was jailed for one month by Mr Derek Cons at Central Court this morning.

notes MGM to hold

Forged U.S.

in transit

through

Hongkong?

conference

From the Files

25

years -AGO

March 1936

in the Colony TT was officially announced

yesterday afternoon that his Excellency the Morton A. Spring, President Governor has received В

of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film

productions. hos selected telegram from the Right Hongkong AS the centre for Honourable the Secretary of the MGM Asia-Australia con- State for the Colonies an-

ference, to be held from May nouncing that His Most

19-23 this year.

Gracious. Majesty the King This is the first time in movie has been pleased to approve history that Hongkong has been the appointment of Sir chosen as the site, for # conference by a leading foreign Secretary, Hongkong, to be An Thomas Southorn, Colonial of International

Governor and Commander- in-Chief of The Gambin

The many friends among communities of Sir

repute.

The Commercial Crime section of the Hong-tm company

kong police is said to be investigating reports that batches of forged U.S. notes have left Hongkong for distribution in Southeast Asian countries.

Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Laos and Malaya, where well- printed false American notes were discovered, suspected that they originated from Hongkong, a report in a leading Chinese newspaper went on.

A number of forged US$20 notes was found In Hongkong several months ago.

In sequence

Recently simmilur notes ap- peared in Australia. They were also of US$20 denomination and bore numbers in continuity with these found in Hongkong.

"Experts thought that the fuise U.S. notes finding their not way into Hongkong were the work of small-time opcra- tors," the report claimed, "because the notes were so well

The man, Ng Kam-shul, was remanded by Mr Cons a week ngo pending a probation officer's report. At the last hearing, Ng had begged the magistrate to allow him to marry the girl.

Before sentence was passed on him this morning. Ng told the court as far as he knew, the girl was 18 years old, ac- | printed:" cording to her identity card which the girl had once shown to him.

Mr Cons told Ng that the girl had not only deceived him

also the Registration but Persons Office.

n

of

was

It was believed that the notes came in from abroad through a firm in Macao.

All a

Mr Spring will lead the dele-. gation in person, and the meet-

will take place at the all ing's Peninsula Hotel. Twenty-eight delegates will attend over Asia and Australia.

Thomas and Lady Southern from all will offer congratulations on this promotion and wish them the beat of health and happinces in the new post.

Chopin concert great success

By D. E. GRAY

COME may have doubted the wisdom of presenting an all-Chopin programme in Hongkong-but from the reaction of the audience at last night's recital by Mal- cuzynski, it was a pronounced success.

Appointed Colonial Sec- retary, Hongkong from Ceylon, he arrived here in 1926 and they rapidly, made friends in all communities.

The Gambia, the British Colony in West Africa, con- sists of islands at the mount of the great Gambia River, with a total area of 69 square miles, but the al- ministration includes i

The programm: opined with formance of the F Minor Plano Protectorate adjoining with

the C Sharp Minor Nocturne, which is a nne example of this form and embodies grent variety of emotion.

Concerto.

an area of just over 4,000 sq, Chopin, of course, was at his miles, weakest in orchestration. How such a master of the piano could have penned such pathetic at-

Hir Excellency the Gov- tempty at orchestration is puzzle. He seemed to want toernor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, ret: in all the colour in the plane. said yesterday that it was

There is no distinguished

real "contes. terrible mistake for Volum here. The plane is master of the teers to serve the mere enlist- situation from beginning to end, ment period and then reign. and the artist's

performance They should continue to give wig brilifant throughout.

Then came the main work of the fist half the B dat Minor (Funeral March) Sonals, Quile

number of planists have played this in Hongkong in recent years, but

sure none that I am

gave a finer of it than lepretation Malcuzynski.

Investigations revealed thing! the notes were smuggled out of Hongkong by dr and by sea to in back- various destinations ward areas of Southeast

Ania to handle them, the report added.

It was also believed they were, not printed either in The Prosecution's

Hongkong or Macao. case that Ng and the girl were fellow Hunghom factory. flag is In pyjamas

A multi-coloured

now workers in Union They had had relations with the flying alongside Revenue Inspector C. G. Jack outside the offices of the each other on many occasions.

The offence come to light Kersvill

Hak told the couUPE

Co-operative Development and Fisherles

when the girl's parents reported with special agents Department at Revenue Wes searched by officers on arrival of the ss Tak

Chambers in Des to the polles on February 13 Po Chun Shing

Voeux-road Central,

that their daughter was missing ut the Hongkong and

flag 1 The

the Internationally from home, Mucao Wharf shortly before 7

recognised co-operative flag gene through the customs and am yesterday. Tak had already

and its multi-coloured horl nothing

zontal siripes embrace the colours of the flags of all na luggage.

tions.

in was found

his

A Revenue Omeer, however, stopped Hak again and, upon searching, found two packets of morphine

to his pyjama

which Vis concealed inside the socks.

attached trousers

Hak's previous record revealed that he was a member of a trted society.

the latest in

Spring

visit

Fashions

Paquerette's

Dresses separates lingerie swim-wear and model gowns

at

our

“Oriental Boutique"

IGA Dos Vácsx Rood, Ci

Tol. Zi-157

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It was later found out that the girl went to join Ng in Fing Chau Island,

Scissor attack

A 40-year-old man was in- A Chinese was attacked and "It is the emblem of the Co- jured when the van in which

wounded by another man armed operative Movement and rep- he was travelling was involved with pair of scissors outside resents its spirit of interna- in a collision with an ambu- No. 80 Junction-road, Kowloon,

Com- tional fellowship," the

lance in Castle Peak-road, near shortly after 6 pm yesterday. for missioner

Co-operative Tal Lam Chung, at about 2.30 The injured man was admitted Development and Fisheries, ❘ pm yesterday, The injured to Kowloon Hospital. Mr J. Cater,

A mon has been detained by explained this man, Chung Tai, was admitted

io Kowloon Hospital.

the poller for questioning.. morning.

GOVERNOR VISITS

NT PRISONS

The Governor, Sir Robert Black, watched prisoners at work in the open air this morning when he visited the "open" prison at Chimawan, on Lantao island, and also the special institution for the reception and treatment of convicted drug addicts at Tai Lam, in the New Terri tories.

The Governor, who was ne-, olready carried out by prison Sir Robert first visited the companied On hla inspection labour on the Tal Long penin- garden und nursery area, where tour by the Commissioner of sula. In the far distance, hc terrazzo swimming pool, 00 Prisons, Mr G. J. Norman, flew could see the Shek Plk area, feet long by 30 feet wide, has from the Government stadium where prisoners have started been bullt by the prisoners for to Lantao Island in helicopter work on the afforestation of the their own enjoyment. of the Hongkong Auxillary Alr slopes of Sunset Peak. Force.

On arrival at Chimawan, Sir Robert was met by the Super- intendent, Mr C. T. F. McDonita and the Chief Officer, Mr D. Hampion, and was taken to the site which has been prepared for now bulldinge which will at- commodate warders and some of their families.

the

Sir Robert then Inspected the klichen, the dining room and dormitories before proceeding

through by Landrover, forestry reserve and the Shap Long valley, to the small "bam let of Ham Tin, whero prisoners have just completed # now bridge to enable small vehicles 10 travel between Chimawan prison and a point on the south Lantao-read near Pul O.

En route, Sir Robert saw the extensive - renfforestation work

די

The Governor next inspected From Chimawan, the hellcop- the kitchen, the dining hall, the ter flew to Tul Lam prison, reception cfen, the after-care situated in a steep-sided valley section and the worksh's. below the giant Tai Lam Chung where prisoners ore employed dain just off the Castle Peak on tulloring jobs. road about 15 miles from Kow- Toon. The Governor was met

At the end of his visit, Sir

on arrival by the Superintendent | Robert again boorded the hell- of Tal Lam prison, Mr H. R. coptor, which flew over the Slu Tappenden, und the chief offt | La valley to give the Governor cer, Mr R. I. Zajac.

Swimming pool

↓

At Tal Lam; which accom- modates 000 prisonura and is always full prisoners who are nt for work KTO employed, riripped to the welat, on Krouml; and garderi which give the residential section of Tai Lam a park-like appear-

ance.

an aerial view of the rehabill- tation project sponsored by the British Council of Churches through the Hongkong Christian Welfare and Rellet Council,

In the secluded valley, four coltatas have been built by Tal Lam prisoners. These cot- tages will eventually house for- mër drug addicts in an effort to rehabilitate them in now aur- roundings and to a now. Voca- tión. From Słu íam valley, the helicopter returned to the Gov- ernment. Stadium at Sookunpoo.

for

their

a

services to the Colony I must congratulate the Hong- kong Philharmonie and their this valuable capacity. The About me, I could hear sotto conductor Arrigo Foa, for giv-| Governor was speaking to the with other tag the planist as much tonal Hungkong Volunteer Defence voce comparisons interpretations such as Alized support as Chopin appears

to Corpa of which he is Hon. the

work. Colonel," at In this have intended Cortot's, for example. In

presentation of analysis,

highly The first violin section was very Efficiency Medals Anal

at' 'Head- rellable indeed, and the opening of this sort, emotional music

Tutt wa

bold and convincing. quarters yesterday evening, one conjures up one's own in- The Arst bassoonist (Fung dividual programm. For my Hang) in his little conversation ow taste, I have never heard with the plano in the 1st and that controversial Finale 2nd movements [Presto) played so convincingly. listen to,

However, my favourite num- ber on the

irst half of the programme was the Scherzo

was a joy to ITIS Majesty the King has

H approved

the appoint-

ment of the Hon Mr Chau Tsun-nin to be an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council for a further period of four years.

No. 2 in B Flat Minor. This The piano itself did not come It had a was played exquisitely-I will up to expectations. never forget that Presto Sotto fair amount of depth in the but its capacity Voce opening phrase (so re-bass register,

His Excellency the Gov. miniscent of a similar phrase in the upper register seemed

ernor has authorised the in Verdi's "Forza" overture) as to be very limited and tirany.

wert question

being Time and again one was con- awards of Defence Force framed, and the bold answer clous of the pianist's having | Corps efficiency medals to which it receives in the second inadequate resources at

Corporal James Joseph King, Private Edward Docherty and Drummer William Ren- nie Forsyth.

&

and energy of the coda when

phrase; or the superb strength disposal.

his

the questioning phrase is again However,

Bi told the

worked

answered by the composer Dut instrument is * new one this time convincingly thereby perhaps after it is bringing one of the most bril-suficiently it will improve. Han or Chopin's works to a satisfying end.

Д

Mr A. G. W. Tickle has been appointed acting flne evening's Director of Public Works. been

Mr Bernard Ho is

of his

This was In the second half of the music, ard programme

was due the thanks Malcuzynski

for joined by the Hongkong Phil-lovers harmonic Orchestra in a per presentation.

POP by God

245

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