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Man uses chopper on nephew
A man who wounded
1.
his
nephow with a chopper, was bound over in $1,000 for two years by Mr E. S. Haydon at South Kow- loon Magistracy this morning.
Defendant, Wong Wai, 45, uf San. village. third-street, King's Park, admitted wound- ing Wong Mun-fai.
Insp. A. Lew said the offence occured
the morning of
UR
June 27 when the defendant and the complainant quarrelled over the payment of rent and electric bills which they shared.
The defendant, who was then
In nuncial dimeulties,
told by the complainant
was thai
he could not pay the rent and Dia.
In the quarrel that ensued, the defendant took a chopper from the kitchen and struck the com- plainant on the healt,
Defendant later surrendered himself to the pollen. He had uclear record.
Public reminded
about tax
tu
The public are reminded submit return forms for profit iax or salaries tax for the 1981- C year of unxessment.
Persons, partnerships or com panies likely to be chargeable to profits tax or salaries tax and who have not received a relura form from the Inland Revenue Department should apply for one now. Those falling 10 do
A Merryweather and Sons fire fighting machine which is among the new appliances ordered by the Hongkong Fire Department.
Coolie
denies
Television
murder charge for students
An earth coolie, Kwan Chung-yu, alias Kwan Wing, pleaded not guilty this morning at the Criminal Sessions to a charge of murdering his former co-worker at a construction site in Taipo on March 27.
He said that
Mr W. S. W. Davidson, Crown Counsel, addressing Mr Justice C. W. Hecce, and a jury of als men and one woman, said that this was a simple and straight- forward case and did not have many witnesses. .
had accused been employed by the Union Construction Company as an earth coolle at a site in Talpo.
A few months prior to the in- cident, accused "left the Com- pany. But on March 27, accused returned to the site at Taipo at about 7.50 pm.
some coolle there. At about 8.20 pm the victim, Chan Kwong, was seen by other workers to be bleeding from the abdomen, Mr Davidson said.
was
Chon was then taken to the Taipo Flinte, and later to Kow- Joon Hospital, where he certifled dead.
The doctor
Chan died sald from shock and haemorrhage, Mr Davidson added,
LEPROSY
tics.
this are liable to revere penal-ving quarters of the workers by had stabbed Chan with a knife
Accused was arregled or March 29 or information, and was seen walking into the admitted In a statement that he
on March 27. Accused
4160 the said in the statement that victim had
previously IB troduced him to a prostitute and he had contacted leprosy, after that, Crown Counsel said.
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Two construction site work- ers, Ya Hung and Wong Ping,
this Kave evidence
morning that they saw accused return- Ing to the slic at Toipo on March 27 and saw him enter ing the living quarters of the workers.
Another worker, Chan Wal-
ut about 8.20 pm, he saw the viotim bleeding from stomach of the site.
programme for students Students in Hongkong are to have their own aduca- tional programmes in Ro- { diffusion Tolovision this autumn.
In accordance with development plans
A new fleet of fire appliances will arrive by the end of this year to
strengthen the Hongkong fire-fighting force.
Ordeal for a talented
young girl
By D. E. GRAY
Orders Irave
been placed in the UK for 10 fire appliances over the last 12 months in vecordance with plans for the development of the Fire Services Department
On order are the following new appilances:
Two 100-foot hydraulically operated turniable ladders, each complete with its own unit cap- ablo of pumping 800 gallons of
water a minute.
EXTRA HEAVY DUTY
Two "Merryweather" cxira heavy duty pumping units on diesel chassis, each with a pump.
The programme issued for the performance by Priscilla ng capacity of 2,000 gallong
It is
minute.
a
host-
From the Files
25
years AGO
July 1936
THE theft of seven tram- Tway standard
basca, weighing 2,940 lbs in all, and valued at $350, was admitted by Lau Kwan, 22, unemployed, when he hip- peared before Mr W. Scho- fleld at the Central Police Court yesterday, Sentence of two months' hard labour was imposed:
The complainant was Mr G. S. Rodger, of the Hong- kong Tramway Company, owner of the property."
Detective Sergeant J. S. Riddell stated that at 6.50 am on June 30 a constable was on duty in Smithfield- road when a person went up to him and informed him that four men were unload- ing iron at the Kwong Tai Godown, 28 Belchers-street. On the constable's approach three of the men bolted and
the accused was caught and questioned.
Apparently they had en-
King at Loke Yew Hall on Friday evening stated: minute. "The audience is requested not to treat the young
Four "Dennis dual-purpose girl as on accomplished plonist or to criticise her appliances, each carrying 66 feet attainment in music. As long as she can display of escape and capable of pump- gaged a lorry and taken correct music technique and execute intricate places in 900-1,000 gallons of water a the standard bases from opposite the North Point to enable her to perform the programme of tonight's
By removing the escapes, these bathing sheds. The bases recital, we may say that this augurs woll for her: future, although it takes practice and will power to dual-purpose ongines can also be were too heavy to bring to
used os water tenders of 400 Court, he added. attain it".
gallons capacity each.
✩ Two "Fire-Armour"
"Perpetual Check" writes in laying lorries capable of carry-Chesa Notes: ing 0,003 feet of hoge, each and Frank Marahall's anccesadr laying the hare at 10-20 miles as United States, champion was an hour...
in doubt until the conclusion of One agricultural are tender the last round of the tourna which is a light unit mounted on ¡ment on Saturday, May 16, a Landrover chassis designed at the Hotel Astor, New York, for rural areas and has a fire Going into the last session of pressure water fog pumb. play, A. G. Simonson, of the Manhattan Chess Club and Samuel Harman Reshevsky, are one-time boy prodigy, were
tied.
Mr Marc Miller, Television Programines Manager, revealed that big things are planned to beneilt the community at large
all very well to say develop into quite a reasonable and students in particular. It is expected that the new educa-"don't criticise," but a news-player. am sorry that, so tional series will be inaugurated paper's representative specially early in life, she should have in October, and speelalised sub- | Invited to attend a pubile per- had such an ordcal infileted on include applied formance would be failing in her, for she should nover, have Jeets would science and English literature. duty to my nothing.
been asked to attempt such a programme at the present early stage of development.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS He explained that while about 70 per cent of the programmes would be entertainment, at least 30 per cent must be attuned to public affairs and educational features of attractive presents- tion.
VERY MODEST The very modest teclinical at- tainments of this child of 12 became apparent by the way she played the Anthem at the beginning of the concert, and I cannot but condemn in the most As the number of TV seta is emphatic manner those respon- estimated to have doubled insible for asking this youngster Hongkong during the past year, to come before the public In more than 40,000 viewers are Hongkong's leading concert hall being catered for and further with the following programme; increases are expected.
Sonala Op. 22 No. 11 by Beethoven.
Sonata Op. 53 No. 2 by Schubert.
Mr Marc Miller and his wife June, who designs sets and material for art promotion com- bining also journalistic work with her varied activities came to Hongkong in April 1900.
TV SERIES
He then helped him into a vun One of the high-spots of his which took them to the Taipo career was to be able to start clinic, and later to Kowloon a TV series for primary schools Hospital. He added that he in the United Kingdom. He also identified the body of his co-produced programmes for young worker the next day at the folk on music, presenting artists public mortuary.
like Gerald Hearing is continuing.
'Humphrey- Lyttleton,
Moore and
Sonata Op. 35 No, 2 by Chopin
Concerto in B not Major K.450 by Mozart I
no apparent appreciation of the music at all,
THE RONDO
New building
planned for Wanchai
Plans for a $100,000 six- storey building in Won- choi wore laid before, a Tonancy Tribunal this morning..
Mr J. R. Oliver, Tonancy Tri- bunal President, with members, Mr R. M. Alurukia and Mr Ko
LANDROVERS
which
Five Landrovers designed for rural areas having self-contained
pumping unlis with the capacity of 400-500 gallons per minute,
Simonson, however, in- judiciously tried to force an even position and lost to S. Factor, of Chicago. Meanwhile tillo designed specifically for rescue Reskovsky clinched the
|by accepting a draw.
Two rescue appliances
purpose.
ACUC
of
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It
All guests at the hotel have been requested to ar range for their removal from the Hotel not later than this date.
They will carry special re- such as jumping
was announced on gears
tools (oxy-Saturday by the Hongkong sheets, break-in After running a Shakespearean
acetylene cutters), searchlights and Shanghai Hotels Ltd., The little girl had not even company, in Cambridge for two
and lighting generators.
that the Peak Hotel wit sommer seasons, Mr Miller start-mastered the notes in one ed an experimental theatre com- single movement of any of
And one "Coventry-Climax" | cease to operate at midnight teather-weight pany in London. He introduced those works, Half the notes
pump, modern on August 31. version of the old trafier pump, hol, testified that on March 27, the dramatist Adamov and was were just not played, and she wing-tung, heard an exemption
passage ofter
capable
transmiting 300 offered complete rights on the slithered over
passage at breakneck speed with application brought by Mr Ne, gallons of water per minute. It work of Inesco. the
Yee-king and Air Lee Chun-
can be carried by two men in choy.
difficult situations, Mr A. Y. Hon appeared for the applicants, who propose to EXTRA EQUIPMENT
The future of the build- I the object was, as stated in demolish the existing 35-year- the programme note, "to dis-old tenement house, described by Along with the orders are ing has not yet been de- play correct music technique the architect, Mr Steven S. L. extra-equipment, auch us hoses,cided. It is possible that
execute and
intricate pieces Yue, as being in a poor state of breathing Apparatuses, and modern service flats may be "I must say she failed repair.
diving gear, in addition to mis- erected on the site. The completely, in my opinion, The site is at present occupied collaneous operational equip- even in this.
Even the famous Rondo in the junction with
by No 8, Sharp-street, East, atment for the old and new ap- cessation of activites at the
Mathoson-pliances.
Ponk Hotel will mark the Schubert Sonata was, for street in Wanchal : most of the ume
of one of Hong- An adjournment was ordered recognisable as such, and she for the discussion of compensa- did not even get the famous tion in settlement for tenants. Funeral March of the Chopin Sonata technically correct.
There were a lot of wrong chords in the left hand, and there V
A particularly exasperating moment which nccurred four times during im great melady when a most im- portant minor chord was, for no obvious, reason, executed in the relative major key with unimaginable anti-climax for the listeners.
This is a ploduro of the Coumes Biddin, School, which, fá la claimed, will be the highest school bullding in thi part of the world. It will occupy 21,000), BRAZA-fest, and rise ́1434 #lorers and barvo more than 38 alsasrosze.” The j "whole building, farapóstod to bé completed by next sum» mer, and a zoolion of it may be... readyś turfuya by › this - sujumn. "Tho sakool," which fe, situated in Argyle street,
Kowloon, will have" pingen for 1,000.
hardly
The Orchestral reduction in the Mozart Concerto was play- ed by Samuel Hsu, who 19 quite a reasonable player.
But
it seemed that he had been told to take this concerto at twice its normal speed, for he set a terrific. pace in the opening tutti; and 20 Lifís lovely concerto raced through somehow, and I was glad when it was all over. This young girl has talent, and if properly directed
Can
dear sir
Baffled
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'guage and out the wallia.
OUTER.
Mr C. B. Burgem has resumed duty as Colonial Secretary on return from leave,
POP by Coc
fighting
the
The present Hongking fire- passing
force has 108 ap-kong's landmarks after plices, four fire-boats, 20, long period of utility. ambulences, 15 general service The Hongkong and vehicles and two radio vans, Shanghat .Hotels Ltd.
under Mr W. J. German Direc-
tor of the Fire Services Depart bought the Hotel from Mr
Findlay-Smith in 1922,
ment
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OUT TO SPEND THE EVENING WITH SOME,
OF THE BOYS
Carlsberg
On the ball
with the
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