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THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1961.
Revenue Officer tells court of chase
Sheaffer's PEM
Hen For Map
THE BOLD NEW PEN DESIGNED EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEN
THREE JAILED FOR SMUGGLING
OFF FOR NURSING COURSE
Seven of the nine girls are shown before their departure by BOAC today for a nursing course in Germany: (1 to r) Jo Kwal-yim, Lam Shum-tim. Wong Kam-cking, Lols Chan. Carol Wong, Jennie Chan and Tso
Lavinia, 18
hunts for vanished bridegroom
bride
Eighteen-year-old
Lavinia Wright has asked to trace the the police man who was to be her
but did noti bridegroom
turn up.
When 23-year-old Desmond Daca falled to Sumision
malda
appear ut Parlsh Church last ark Lavinia went home
her 12 brides in te will
Mr Duncan is a brother of and has Lainio stepfather Lee living with her family in Pertand-road, canlagtan,
She said: "4e did nist arrive
hame
and
I
have
Friday evening
Kwan-sin-Staff Photographer.
Nine girls leave for nursing course in Germany
Nine Hongkong Chinese girls left by BOAC for Germany this morning for a five-year nursing training course.
The scheme for the girls to work in it hospita! has been են {1} Lutheran urganised World Federation.
In a 90 Chinese girls from Hongkong will come under the scheme.
Those girls who do not know will be taught in
Thought hp might German, cuibrated with friends English.
and stayesi overnight,
Fifty guests were watching
Asked how they tell about
Pl team wins dance prize
in the church as I waited at the going off on such a firs: long The Philippine folk dance
what
itar for
semned ages, trip some replied: they felt n until I gave up hope of him Ittle sad,
Tiving.
"I believe he must have lost his memory."
London Express Service).
Piano recital for charity
A plano rezkal will be
fomorrow
The titis will spend Ave years in Wuppertal Hospital bea: Dusselder.
DIPLOMAS
They are Misses C. P. Lay, K. Y. Lu, S. T. Lam, Jennic Chan, Luis Chan, M. A. Lau, K. C. Wong, Carol Wong, and R. 5. 1'sD.
riven g
Caceres, Juno 28.
"Filipinoscas" was troup awarded first prize today Interna- in the Fourth tional Dance Festival
Modern Caught with liquor, building tobacco aboard junk planned
Mr W. Ancurin Jonos, Ten- ancy Tribunal President, announced the decision to recommend exclusion of Nos 321-325, Portland-
Revenue officers using a jet speed boat intercepted a motor junk off Deep Bay last Friday and seized a large quantity of dutiable wine and tobacco worth $33,000,
Three crew inembers - woman and two men-were Arrested.
Before Mr Derek Cens at Cen- this morning, street, Mongkok, fromtral Magistracy
the trio pleaded guilty to hav Ordinance control, anding in their custody 5,700 pounds compensation about of Chinese prepared tobacco and
to
105 tenants of the 40- nearly 300 bottles of quer. year-old premises.
TAC application by Joint-owners represented
Mr Walter Hon, plans
They also admitted Importing
three the commodities without paying
by the $31,057.31 duty.
the
The defendants: 42-year-old redevelopment of the site by a housewife, Lal Woon-tal: Chow modern eight-storey structure
Kwong, 39, sailor; and Kwok were costing $330,000. Mr Lo Kwong-Kam-thing. 39, engineer,
the jailed for six months un each
of the two charges.
The sentences are to run con- currently.
yuo, architect, scheme.
designed
Cempensation amounting to $134,000 was included in the recommendation.
Sitting with the President were Tribunal members, Mr Chan
Liu-chong
A. E. M. Rajeck.
and
Mr
ANOTHER CASE
INFORMATION
C.
G.
Inspector Revenue Kurswill, prosecuting, sald that ofcers, A party of Revenue acting on information, proceed- ed to Hung Shan Tsui, in Deep
In another hearing, an ex-Boy aren where they were emption application concerning transferred to a jet boat operat Nos 32-34, Toi Man-street, ing in shallow water. Miongkok, has been recommend-
officers
ed by Mr J. R. Oliver, Tenancy At about noon, the Tribunal President, and Tribunal sighted from a hillside in that members, Mr W. W. C. Shewan distrlet a motor junk travelling from west to vast towards the River. The party The Alpha Investment CoShum Chun and Mr M. da Rozu.
the property, then re-boarded the speed buut the junk at a Lid, owRCES propose to demolish the tene- and Intercepted
Nos
a mile of Hung ment houses,
32-34, Tol point about Man-street, Mongkol, and erect Shan Tsui. on the site a nine-storey struc ture costing $190,000.
that
af
Insp Kerswill said as
the
Mr A. S. K. Lou explained speed boat got alongside, the Junk attempted to move away, the redevelopment would Increase the floor space avaliable but the officers, however, even- from 6,000 square feet to 14,000tually stopped the vessel. square feet.
dutiuble commodities Mr Steven S. L. Yue, architect, were found on board the junk. prepared the plans,
Kelantan Rubber
makes profit
which ended here fast A nel profit of $402,860 was night.
made by the Shanghai Kelantan
Groups from it countries par-Rubber Estates (1925) Ltd dur- ticipated.
The Philippines competition all
has Won
The
AGROUND
Insp Kerswill informed the
that the court
junk went oground and eventually lowed away by a Revenue
was
Painting exhibition
Shown at the exhibition of paintings by Chinese artist Fang Chao-ling at the St Jobu's Cathedral Hall are (l to r) Mrs K. Hamilton-Johnstone, artist Fang Chao-ling and Miss M. Carr.-China Mail photo.
'Chu Chin Chow
to be given in new City Hall
From the Filos
25
years AGO-
Juna 1936
ODAY, the new King's- road by which the tram- way trafic will be diverted from the congested Whitfiekl district, will come into use. The new highway, which is 100 feet wide through the entire length, is the finest
piece of road on the Island.
मै
£10,000 have been given by Mr. W. Schlesinger, the South African magnate,
to
| promote an air race between London and Johannesburg, confined
Empire pilvely to British
and aircraft.
The race, which will be known an the Schleninger African Air Race, is being held to celebrate the opening of the Empire Exhibition in Johen- nesburg on Sept. 15.
☆
Shanghai, REPORT was issued by the World Chinese Students Association on the number of students who will go abroad for further study this year. Of all countries, the United States in the most popular and the subject which most students want to pursue la civil engineering. The other countries favoured France, Germany, England and Japan.
are
50 YEARS AGO Extract from SCM Post 25 ycare ego column.
"On Thursday information was received in Hongkong that a wild animal was causing con- siderable trouble in one of the neighbouring
islands.
The message did not particulariso what animal, thought that a tiger was the
Fut
it LOR
cause of the trouble, and
你
party from HMS Mmmonth
to
set out yesterday with a view
party
turing "stripeded five lieutenants, and they left Hongkong about nine o'clock by the lug morning
launch, with the help of a police The production of "Chu Chin Chow" by the in the
Jaunch.
Insp Kerswill said that the cence of the junk had expired on March 3, 1959.
The maximum punishment for an offence of this nature was a foc of $5,000 and six
Jasp Kernwill asked the court to confiscate the goods as well as the junk, which was valued at $15,000.
compared ing the past year, with $374,000 for 1958.
This was revealed by the it four years has been held here in Spain. Chairman, Mr Horace Kadoorie, months Imprisonment, he said.
general meeting called The prize,
Caceres the annual and this afternoon. a liver plaque On completion of their train-City,
A dividend of 20 cents per the
will rucelve medals,
the 25 nurses
was awarded Philippine boys and girls tor equivalent to
performance of dances of pure state examination
felklore inspiration.
prizes are to be dis The
during a festival in tributed Madrid tomorrow night 111 400 years
by 12-year-old diplomas Priscilia King at 8.30 pm at German
the for
They were selected with the
the Loke Yew Hall. Hongkong, University.
At 8.30 pm on Saturday, Miss help of the Lutheran World
recital Service. Hongkong, King will give another
at the Keswick Hall, Technical Among these present to see honour of Madrid's College, Hunghom, Kowloon. then aff wire the Rev. K. L. a capital of Spain.-AP.
All proceeds of the recital will
Stumpf,
Director
be for the benefit of the Hong- ntheran World Servles, and
kong Music Training Centre for the Bling.
the uf
Mrs 1. Neugebauer, Director of the World Council of Churches.
Visitor impressed with local farming methods
A South African seed merchant left here today after a three-day visit during which he ex- plored the possibilities of exporting flower and vegetable seeds to Hongkong.
added.
He is Dr Rudolf Jordan, direc- we shall not in the future," he tor of F. Kirchoff and Co. (Pty) Ltd., one of the South Africa's largest seed dealers.
America Last year
led the Beld in sced exports to Hong- kong and the total Imports amounted to IK$2,060,120. From January to April this year the Intal value of seed imports was HK$1,300,048.
Dr Jurdan said he would re- turn to Johannesburg and con- sider the facts he had learned
"IMPRESSED"
"While in Hongkong I toured the New Territories, and was very impressed with the highly emeient farming methods used by the Chinese farmers,”
ul.
he
Youth facing menaces charge
ap-
A 17-year-old youth peured before Mr. T. L Yong ot Causeway Bay mnglatracy the murning on a charge of do- munding $2,000 from another person.
of
The youth, Lam Chun-kl Flat E Golden Court, 6th floor. Electric-road, is alleged to have,
with others not in custody, de manded $2,000 from Wong Sou- Juen out June 29.
Inp Y. C. Lam, prosecuting. asked the magistrate to remand the defendant for three days in police custody for further en- quiries.
This was granted. No pica was taken.
Man caught
"Many of the market garden- smoking heroin
ers in South Africa are Chinese and co their methods are well known to me."
"I think the most popular
here before making any deci- needs we could export here
cion.
would be cabbages and other
We have been established | vegetables,” he added.
Den-
A man caught smoking heroin in a publie lavatory was teneed to stx months' fall this morning.
for 65 years and have yet to He was seen off at the airport export reda to this Colony, with Mr Max Banninger, im-Wang
But because we have not done port manager for O. Kees and so to date, does not mean that Co., of Ilongkong.
Lam Hung. 35, a Taikoo dock- yard worker living at hut 10 Hang vilinge East, pleaded guilty to the charge of smoking heroin.
share was declared.
Printing press
name changed
Mr Edmund Cheung object- ed to the application on behalf of the junk owner, saying that she did not know it had used for smuggling.
been
Mr Cons ordered the conflsca- tion of the goods, and
fixed
At the extraordinary general hearing on the junk for meeting of the Local Printing Friday.
who also repre- three defendants,
next
| Press Ltd held this morning a Mr Cheung,
special resolution: "That the sented the name of the company be changed said thal the defendants were to Local Property and Printing only crew members and had Company Limited," was passed committed the offence for a very unanimously.
emall sum.
Commune allowed
to dredge part of British section
Representatives of the fishermen's section of the Shum Chun Commune have been given permission to dredge certain shallow sections of the Shum Chun River, which is in British Territory, in order to enable larger boats to use the river at low tide.
A series of meetings had been held over the past fortnight with members of the commune by the District Oficer at Yuen Long, accompanied by the Assistant Director of Public Works, to establish the nature of the work to be undertaken and to ascertain whether damage to the south bank was likely to be caused.
The meetings were conducted in n cordial atmosphere and, agreement having been reached on all points, permission was given for the work to Alart.-
of Shek
Hongkong Singers is planned for the week Atlas, proceeding to the island Chan. The place commencing on March 19, 1962 and will be the was reached during the course of the morning, and the big delayed
first musical comedy opera to be given in the new City Hall,
recent
December.
Hongkong and the
"Chu Chin Chow" has been, Yew Hall. selected by Committee members Keswick Hall, Hunghom from a list of recommendations made by members of the Hong- kong Singers at the annual general meeting.
This will bc departure from the popular Gilbert
the
last
REHEARSALS Mr Tony Falrey, Chairman of the Singers, in announcing the decision about next year's show, will start first said that rehearsals extremely in the first half of September. and Sullivan Anyone, not already a member of Singers, the society shows since the Stagers decided of fo produce.light opera in 1959. who is interested in taking part, "Theor in helping in any way be- Their show in that year,
write to Mikado," Alled the Loke Yew hind the scenes, may Hall and "HMS Pinafore" drew the Hon Secretary, Major F. L. good audiencer on both sides of T. Blockley, E 12, Royden Court, the harbour, both at the Loke 71 Repulse Bay, Hongkong.
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31
350
game hunt
was not more than necessary.
Several hours were spent in trying to "find the spoor", but although signs were seen, the be animal itaclf could not located and the party had to return sorely disappointed.
During the heat of the day, ancaman, who accompanied. the party
had an attack of aunstroke, but luckily it was not acvere, and he recovered some time afterwards. There
is still considerable speculation
as to whether the destructive animal on the island in a tiger,
I
and how it arrived there is a mystery".
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