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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1936.

LOCAL MEDICAL MEN HONOURED

O.B E. For Dr. Moore: And M.B.E. For

Dr. Gibson

VALEDICTORY

Tribute Paid To Prof. Shellshear

A large gathering of myrabers of the Hong Kong University Me- dical Society, including members of the teaching staff, met to- gether "yesterday morning at the Union Assembly Room to bid fare well to Professor J. L Shellshear Who will be leaving the Colony for good to continue his research work on anthropology in the Byd- Hey University.

FORGED BANK NOTES

CASE AGAINST CHINESE

Prosecution Closes

The case for the Crown was com- Central pleted yesterday at the Magistracy, before Mr. Q. A-A against Pun Shu MacFadyen,

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Richly deserved honours have been bestowed upon two well- known local residents in the New Year Honours' List. They are Dr. W.B.A. Moore, Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary Services and

master of the Kam Cheung Piece Goods shop, Cheung Kin Pul, Dr. R. McLean Gibson, formerly

Professor, W. I. Gerrard presided. bookkeeper of the On Lok Yuen Superintendent of the Allee Me- and among those present were, Cafe, No. 25 Des Voeux Road Cen- morial and amated Hospitals.

Professor W. C. W. Nexon, Pro-tral, and Sze Po Wal, unemploy-. The former has been made antessor K. D. Digby, Drs Herklots, ed, charged with the possession of Omcer of the Order of the British Paster, Li Shi Fan, Yeung Tsaw forged bank notes. Empire (Civil Division) and the Ches, Lam Kow Cheong. K D The first defendant was repre- latter, Member of the same order.Leng, Lin Quee and Quak sented by Mr. Hin Shing Lo, in-

* DR. MOORE, OBE.

structed by Mr. J. M. Hall, second defendant was detended by Mr. J. Dr. William Brownlow Ashe Moore, LRC.PI,, LRCEL, LM

M. D'Almada Remedios, and the (Ret.) D.T.M. and E. (London)

third accused was defended by Mr. Sir E. Wild's Humble |

Cheng Kim.

"Professor Gerrard in a short speech, said that he had been in association with Professor Shell-

shear for the past six years and was born on August 8, 1879, at Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland, the he was very glad to say that they on of J. H. Moore; MA, ALM, had been very happy ones. When of Dublin University, Past, Prest-he was suddenly taken last dent of the Institute of Civil En-year and had to leave the Colony, Professor Shellshear very willing- Dr. Moore first arrived in Hongly took over the Deanship and Australia Kong in February, 1904, under now, h's departure" for

Jardine, was certainty going to be a great agreement with Messrs. Matheson and Company, Ltd, roslass to the University. He wished Profesor and Mrs. Sheilshear one year as a ship's surgeon. In

every luck

gineers, Ireland.

S

F. G. Nige).

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Mr, E. H. Williams, Assistant At- torney General, asslated by De- tective Inspector K. W. Andrew conducted the case for the Crown.

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WHEN HE WAS WEDDING GUEST OF CAFE GIRL

Lord Shrewsbury Engaged

THE PREMIER EARL

London, Dec. 12, The engagement is announced

The late Sir Ernest Wild, K.C., Recorder of London til his death just over a year ago, had, despite of the Ear of Shrewsbury, pre-

mier Earl

England and Ireland, his position, many humble friends.

daughter of Brig-Gen. The authorised biography writto Mar Nadine Crofton-Atkins, LR.

ham, an Under-Sherif of the City

Cheung Kin-put was charged With the possession of a forged $10 bank note of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and Chins, Pun Shu faced, charges of uttering a forged $50 banknote of the Hong March of the following year, Dr. Dr. Herklots said that he had Kong and Shanghal Banking Cor- Moore Joned the Government ser-known Professor Shelishear rporation and the possession of vice as Assistant Medical Officer of the last seven years and knew him one forged $50 note of the same ten by Colonel Robert J. Black Crofton-Atkins, bf Crediton, Derga, Health, supernumerary for plague

to be a keen gardener like him- bank and nine forged $10 bank- "duties, and after six months was

self. Ha reminded the members notes of the Chartered Bank; and transferred from the Sanitary to

present that the Professor was Sze To-wal, was charged with pos- the Medical Department.

more well-known throughout the session of a forged $50 note of the He was seconded to the army in

world than he was in Hong Kong Hong Kong and Shanghal Bank March, 1917, and spent two years His work was keenly sought for ing Corporation, a forged 20 in Mesopotamia, during the sec- and of which he held the appoint- by all anthropologists throughout pisaire bank note, and a forged 5

the world.

plaste note of the Banque de ment of Special Plague Officer to

In a brief speech Dr. Yeung Indo-Chine. the Mesopotamiah Expeditionary Tsaw Chee said that Professor: Force, being attached to the Cen-Shellshear was not only popular

tral Laboratory, Busts.

·WAITING FOR A SHIP Lal Cheong Bing, of No. 21 Hing Loong Street in reply to the pro-

of London, shows that one of the Lord Shrewsbury, who is a godson outstanding features of Sir Er- of the King and Queen, came of

· Crofton-Atkins was a guest at his est's brilliant and many-sided on Dez. T. and Miss Nadine character was that he was a

magnificent mixer and relates coming-of-age ball at Ingestre

Lord Shrewbury's father, Capt.. that shortly before his death he Hall, Staffordshire, on Tuesday. sat in a corner of a little back kit- chen in Fulham as the wedding Viscount Ingestre, was killed tr

January, - 1815. - FILE - guest of a cafe cashier. ..

"He had promised the little bride mother, a sister of the Marquess to be present the author states, of Angkeey, married in 1917 Mr. "and there he was, the Mag-Richard Pennoyer, who was for

actiun La

After his return to Hong Kong ents of all other faculties. He was secutor, bald that he knew the | niñcent Mixer, making himself merly in the United States Dip-

With Medicals but also with stud- In 1918, Dr. Moore was for some undoubtedly a painstaking teacher time la charge of the Governi-

a helper and about all a good ment Oivil Hospital, dolog duty friend to students, especially in the later in Kowloon and at the Vic examination hall, and he took this toria Hospital. His wide and ax- opportunity of wishing him every tensive experience and his success by the future. found knowledge of local condi- tions made him pre-eminently fitted for this appointment.

Another speaker was Dr. Ir How Cheong who paid high tri- bute to the Professor's. Work it While on vacation, Dr. Moore the University Professor Bhell represented the Hong Kong Gov-shear he said, had built up thployed at that time. He was ernment at the 7th Congress of Anatomy Department which the Far Eastern Association of † merly consisted of two ст three Tropical Medicine held in Calcut-bare rooms. Now there were in ta.

numerable specimens of the hu- man anatomical parts with a fine array of skulls.

third defendant for 8 years. On absolutely one mi that humbla lomatle Service. November 24, defendant was dis party.

The earldom of Shrewsbury was covered in his shop by the police. "He chatted with any of the conferred in 1442 upon Bir Johu Defendant had been living in the guests who happened to be near Talbot, the great genera) in shop for a few days, but witness him, and quickly made them for France during the time of Henry was not sure of the exact date get that he was a famous Judge, VI. Four years later he was made when defendant came to the shop. and they were working people. Earl of Waterford and Lord Lien- Referring to defendant,' 'witnesi "When the wedding breakfast, tenant of Ireland. The family was over-and the cake had been records can be traced back to the said that the former was unem

cut, the Recorder proposed the days of the Norman Conques....

Lord Surewsbury, who is the merely in the shop, waiting for a health of the bride and bride- for

ship to take him to the straita groom. He took as much trouble: 21st eart, succeeded to the title in Settlement.

over his speech as if he had been 1921, when not was" seven years Witness added that he did not in Buckingham Palace, and made of age, upon the death of his

Cross his hearer feel that there was no grandfather know the first defendant.

He comes int; the potsession of examined by Mr. Nigel witness auch thing as social differences

"Afterwards he passed his cigar- large estates in the Midlands this Addressing the gathering Pro- said that he knew 3rd defendant fessor Shellshear sald that he was was going to the Straits Settle-ettes round the company and month, and proposes to concern leaving the Colony for Australia. ment, as he (witness) had made joined in the fun like a boy. It was himself with their management, There he would continue to do re the defendant's acquaintance in kindly actions like this that made For some time past he has been studying ratata management t Dr. Moore was in 1907 Lecturer search work in the Sydney Un-Barkpapan, where the AP.C. had the Recorder so widely beloved " on various medical subjects at the vrsity.

the estate offices of the Marquers of Bath.

Dr. Moore has held several im- portant medical posta and has ucted us Director of Medical and Sanitary Services during which time he was a Member of the Legislative Council

.

cld Hong Kong College of Medi-On behalf of the Society Pro- cine. He is now senior medical fessor Gerrard presented him with practitioner and sector JP.

a Peking rug and a Fire Screen.

Dr. Moore is a prominent Free- mason, and has held Office in the District Grand Lodge as Superin- tendent at Works and President of the Board of General Purposes.

He also takes a very keen in- terest in the St. John Ambulance Brigade of which he is District Surgeon and a Serving Brother of Jerusalem. Dr Modre's recres- tions are goir and swimming though he was a devotee of rugby in his younger days. He is a mem- ber of the Thatched House Club, London, the Hong Kong Club and the, Hong Kong Jockey Club,

MADAM GORDON'S CONCERT

Madams Lottle Gordon will com

ence a series of Concerts on 88 turday night January 4th at p.m. at the Music Link Club rooms 14 Hart Avende, niso on Wednes day January 8 at 9 pm.

an installation.

NO MENS BEA!

At the conclusion of his cross- examination, Mr. Nigel Tubmitted that so far as his client was con- certed the Crown had not" a tota of evidence to show that his client had knowledge that the notes in question were forged. The ordin- ance under which defendant was charged read "knowing the thing to be forged."

Words of Encouragement Colonel Blackham tells many other stories to liustrate the Re- corder's humanity, and generosity. and his desire to encourage young, members of his profession,

"By a word of congratulation at the end of a case," he writes, "Wild would send a young barris- ter out of court with a greater confidence in his future at the BAT Mr. Macfadyen

DECEMBER WEATHER

The first three weeks of Da-

cember were unusually cloudy and damp for the time of year, 8 days during this period being completė- ly supless. Drizzle or rain · fell every day from the 1st to the stb, incident of this sort, the young and in the 20th and 21st on the

said that authorities were all "Once, when there had been an

agreed that when more than one note was found, it did raise a pre-lawyer told Sir Ernest that his 22nd the weather cleared up and mother had come to court to hear remained belliantly sunny until him, as he was conducting his the end of the month.

The mean temperature for the "I should like to meet her, said month was 0.64 F which is 25* Bir Ernest, and tell her what a clever son she has.****

sumption of knowledge, quite An excellent programme (vo- apart from other considerations cal and Instrumental) of great it was not for him to decide this masters, also Australian and Hong point, but a jury. Kong music will be presented. Ma- Mr. D'Almada Remedios said DR. GIBSON, MBE

dame Gordon will be assisted that he was in agreement with Dr. H. McLean Gibson, M.D., by Madame Andreia (Russian Mr. Nigel's remarks. · The Crown C.M., F.R.CS., who retired in April | Gypsy Songs) Miss Clotide An had falled to prove knowledge that this year after 38 years service as drade (planist) Misses Dorothy the notes were forged. Superintendens of the Allee Me and Winifred Raven, and Mr. 8.

The Magistrate said that these morial and Affiliated Hospitals, Moore in a Shakespearian act.

were merely preliminary proceed- first came to Hong Kong in 1997 Also a fancy dance by little Dogs, and that he could only dis- to take up the post. Blace then jores Landau,

charge defendants when he the Maternity Hospital, the Ho

thought that there was definitely Miu Ling Hospital and the Nurses'

no case to answer, Home have been added,

A specialty of this Club Concert will be the introduction - ¿f young musical artists. Tickets are avail abit at the Moutzle's Anderson

The case was adjourned until 2.30 pga. this afternoon, when

Dr. Gibson in earlier years held the office of Director of Btudies in Music Store and Tsang Fook Piano both Mr. D'Almada Remedios and the Hong Kong College of Medi- Co, or from Madame Gordon at Mr. Nigèl will have an opportunity cine, until that Institution deve- the Music Link Rooms, 14 Hart to cross-examine witness. loped into the Medical Faculty of | Avenue, Kowloon,

the newly formed Hong Kong University in 1912,

Speaking at a farewell gather- ing in April, a student of the old HK. College of Medicine, paid a tribute to Dr. Gibson's patience

GOLD OUTPUT

THE FIRST TELESCOPE

first defence, P

below normal & maximum tem- "And then the Recorder, with Derature of 18.0 was recorded on the 1st, and a m'nimum of 46.7" on at of his charming smiles, ask the 14th The mean relative hu- ed the prend mother to accept his midis 74% against a normal nosegay' of roses of the Olá Batley."

LADY WINIFRED CECIL

Lady-In-Waiting To The Duchess Of Gloucester

The "London Gazette last night announced that the Duchess 0. Gloucester has appo atëd Lady Letitia Bibed Winifred Ceci, to be a lady-in-waiting. it is a far cry from the giant Lady Winifred is the elder telescope which is now being con aaughter of the Marquers of structed in the United States With Exeter Hereditary Grand Amoder, its twenty-ton reflecting mirror of and sister of Lord Burgh'er, M.P, 203 inches diameter, to the little the athlete who married Lady instrument made by Gallico and Mary Montagu-Douglas Scott. 88- first used in 1810. But this re-ter of the Duchess of Gloucester fracting ... telescope "the Starry Galbed was the first practical telescope aver made. It maguiñei thirty times, and through it. Galileo first saw the mou ent that magn the satellites of

digings. It is true that the shape of he had parlonsly made amalk

""The Hong Kong Stock Ex- and skill in the Instruction of his change have received a cable students and the many kindnesses from Messrs. Derrick & Co. Local he showed them outside the hours secretaries in Singapore of the of study to Raub Atitralian Gold Mining Co. Dr. Gibson's kindly disposition, Ltd. annracing the output for patience and care of the Chinese for weeks ending December had won the affection of the 28-1935 to be 1994 ounces: A whole Chinese community and hade or ta done much to break down the pre- Judice amongst the poor against

Western medicina:

In recognition the long, Valuable services rendered by Gibsan to the Alice. brial and Antilated. Hospitala, a war in the proposed new Nethersole Hospital. is to be named the

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MEDAL FOR SIBELIUS

02 69%.

The total sunshine amounted to 130 hours, a deficiency of 43 hours.

A maximum wind velocity of 40 mph was reached at 8 a. on the 31st..

Rainfall amounted to 104 inches, against a normal of 1.15 inches.. The total rainfall for 1935 was 7132 inches, against a normal of 85.18 inches.

BRITISH MUSEUM

Mr. E

Forsdyke To Be Directore

London Dec -zc-14 announced from, the Home

that the King has hee tzy appoint Mr. Edgar John rudyke MA,” F8), Kerner of of Cheet and

ided the floathe for Klance, and.

fus, in the 70th birth:

Midsummer

be Director and