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VOLUNTEER ORDERS

Orders by Lieut.-Colonel R. C. B.

Anderson, M.C. Commandant,

Hong Kong V.D.C.).

ADVISORY BOARD

His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government has

MAINLAND

CORONATION

DECORATIONS

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1937.

Weekly Return Of Traffic Accidents

In the Colony of Hong Kong in- | while alighting from moving tram-

Peninsula Hotel Tocluding the Island. Kowloon and cars and buses respectively.

Be Floodlit

Kowloon will

ba

brillantly

the New Territories during the week ending at 8 am. on Satur- day, the 1st May, 1937, there were altogether 42 trame accidents, as

been pleased to appoint the follow-ughted on Coronation night and the result of which person was

ing gentlemen to be members of Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Volunteer Detence Corps: Lt. Col. Hugh Blackwell Layard Dowbiggin, O.B.E., vice Mr. William Henry Bell The Honourable` Mr. Léo D'Almada e Castro, Jr., vice Mr. Augusto da Roza (Deceased). Government Notification No. 298 of '24.4.37),

CORONATION PARADE "Monday, May 10: Practice Parade at Happy Valley. R. V. Paddock at Race Course at 5.30 p.m. Dress: Review Order with shorts and Sun Helmets.

Wednesday, May 12: Parade in Paddock at Happy Valley at 7 a.m. HOLIDAY

The Office at Corps Headquarters. will be closed on Wednesday, May

*12.

BOX RESPIRATORS

Os. C. Units will please arrange with the Quartermaster to check the number of Box Respirators on charge of their Units.

PARADE

Corps 1st Battery

A and L Sections: There will be no parade on Thursday, May 13.

Laying & Range-finding Classes: Will be held at Belchers Fort on Sunday, May 9 at 9.30 a.m.

No. 2 Improvised Battery

(M Section), Next parade for Layers and Trainers, Wednesday, May 19,

Corps Engineers

There will be no parade on Mon- day, May 10 except for those tak- ing part in the Coronation Parade. Corps Signals

Parude at H.Q. at 3.30 p.m. on Tuesday, May. 11."

Machine Gun Troop " Parade at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 11 at Causeway Bay Stable Riding School."

Armoured Car Section There will be no parade on Tues- day, 11th instant.

Motor M.G. Platoon

The Escort for the Coronation

among the public places decorated killed and 15 persons were injured. The person' killed, a Chinese ty.he China Light Company are Police Pier, which will have by 630 male, aged 24 years, died as the lamps; Signal Hill, 1.200 lampe result of injuries received while and a 20-feet sign reading "G.Ralighting from a motor bus whist Water Police Station 800 lamps; in motion. Kowloon Magistracy 1.000 lamps; 300 lamps; Signal Hil mast, Vehicular Ferry Wharf at Jordan Road, 800 lamps; and the Kow-were struck by vehicles. loon-Canton Railway Station 2,500 lamps.

Private buildings which will be luminated include the Star Ferry Pier, Holt's Wharf, European Y.M. C.A.. Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's godowns. "Salfash" the residence

of the persons Injured, 9 were pedestrians, who were either walk- ing or running across the road and

Three tramcar passengers and two bus passengers were injured

GARDEN ROAD

of Mr. G. B. Glford Hull. Qun Motor Cars And The

Club. Hill, and Jubilee Building Military Married Quarters at Shamshulpo).

"

The China Light and Power Company. is, apart from these Jobs, erecting Bluminations also at Its Kowloon Tong affice which w' support 700 lamps, the Yau- mad sub-station 600 lamps," the Staff Recreation Club 150 lamps and the private houses of a num- ber of members of the arm.

Unofficial decoration have been appiled for by the following firm and private individuals: Mamak and Company, Wing On Company Nathan Road. Knutsford Hotel. St. Mary's School. Empress Lodge private hotel), Lyeemoon Bulld- ings. Kingsclere Private Hotel. Kowloon Hote', Karl's Silk Store, World News Company. Nathan Roud: Lee Sang and Co. Nathan Road; C H. Windsor and Co.; S'tlani Silk Store: Swatow Wing. Lee; Sunny Farm Dairy. Nathan Road: Hariram Silk Store: Far East Motors.

In Yaumatı, Uluminations wili be placed

the on

fruit and vegetable märket: Mr. J. Manners, in Dundas Street; and in Pitt Street: Sui Hong Yuen! Taxicab Company, Garage.

In Mongkok, Illuminations will be erected for the Confucian As-

Old Cobbler

Garden

The Improvements to Road are just about finished, and very nice it looks.

The road is corisiderably broader at just the point where width was most, needed, and there is now % most excellent car park behind the newly built wall beside the tram station. The fact that drivers will now start up their cars of the main road and on the level, (in- stead of in that tiny corner by the

big tree; will help traffic going up

the road.

A bicycle rider was injured as the result of a collision between two vehicles.

Of the 42 accidents, 10 were col- Ilstons between vehicles; 14 were vehicles and collisions between pedestrians; and 10 accidents were due to other causes.

Type of Vehicles, Involved.

Private motor car Motor lorry...... Publie motor car Motor bus Motor cycle "Tramcar Bicycle

1.

No. -30

$

5.

3

2

WEDDING BELLS

Brown-Smith

A very quiet wedding took place at St. John's Cathedral yesterday when Miss Winnie Smith, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Smith of Dorset Crescent, Kowloon Tong was married to Mr. Conrad Brown,

The ceremony was performed by the Rev, H.W. Baines. The bride was given away by her father and the bridesmaid was Miss Dorothy Lee, while the duties of best mau were fulfilled by Mr. SA Rumjahn, the well-known tennis player.

The bride wore a charming, dress

of pure white satin yelled with tulle and with a long tulle train bordered with beautiful embrol- dery. She wore a wreath of orange blossom, and carried a bouquet of white gardenias and maidenhair

Let us hope all these improve- ments will not mean that we can no longer have the old shoe-meri- der with his tent, who used to do repairs so quickly and cheaply-fern. and who was a regular "character." The bridesmaid wore a dress of and never needed to write down light blue silk with a hat to match, the names of his customers-since and the bride's mother had a ne new them and their shoes by charming costume of palest gray sight.

silk sprigged with flowers, with a wide hat of the same colour, and gray shoes.

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A quiet reception was held after- wards at The Gloucester. The honeymoon will be spent at Re- pulse Bay Hotel.

Further evidence in connection Blue with the alleged murder of

scaffolding contractor, identified as Li Ching, whose body was found by Rifleman Alleni. of the Royal' Ulster Rifles, on the hillside near Customs' Pass on March 8, was given before Mr. K. M. A.

The wedding between Mr. George Barnett at the Kowloon Magi Michael Gillard, Assistant Manager tracy.

Parade las already detailed) will sociation, Sai Yee Street, Kowloon parade as follows:-

Monday, May 10 at Volunteer HQ at 5.15 p.m. Dress: Mufti.

Wednesday, May 12 at Volunteer H.Q. at.7 a.m.,, Dress: As, already detalled.

No. 1 (M.G.) Company There will be no parade on Fri- day, May 14.

No. 2 (Scottish) Company There will be no parade on Thursday, May 18.

No. 3 (M.G.), Company There will be no parade on Mon- day, May 10 except for those taking part in the Coronation Parade,

M.G. Ba. Signal

There will be no parade for sub- section on Monday: May 10.

No parade for Sections. B and C -on Wednesday, May 12.

Air Arm

Parade at 5.30 p.m. at Kal Tak on Thursday, May 13 for a Lecture. LEAVE

No. 2611, Gr. T. W. Carr, No. 2 Imp. Bty. (M Sec.), is granted 10 months' leave from 1.5.37 to 28.2.38. STRENGTH

No. 2787, Trooper D. Campbell, B.A. Tobacco Co., M.G. Troop. .30.4.37.

(8gd.) G. S. FRIZELLE,

Captain, Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C.

NOTICES

Coronation Parade Wednesday, May 12 Members of the Corps in uni- form, with their wives and families, will be admitted into the Service Penclosures without tickets.

AFFILIATED UNIT Nursing Detachment, H.K.V.D. Corps There will be no lecture Monday, May 10.

(Sgd.) K. DURRAN, Commandant. Nursing Detachment,

H.K.V.D Corps.

··· DRIVER'S CLAIM

The case in which Chan Shiu- Joong, driver, of No. 7. Lun Fat Street, first floor,' Wanchal, claim- ed from George Duncan Jr., chief clerk of Messrs. W.R. Loxley and Co. York Building, the sum of 580, $40 being wages for the month of April, 1937, and to the sum of $40 in lieu of one month's notice, was concluded before Mr. Justice Lindsell at the Supreme Court

· yesterday when judgment was given for defendant with costs.

Motor Bus Company Garage. Britannia Aerated Waters, Wah. Yan College.

In Kowloon City, La. Sale Col- lege will be decorated.

The total number of electric "ight globes thus used in the above Ilumination schemer. is 35.400.

Tang Fu alias Tang Wat-chuen. and Chan Kul who were charged with the alleged murder,, were committed to stand their trial at

In addition, the Peninsula Hotel the next Criminal Sessions. will be floodlit and will be crown- ed by a Coronation design illumin- ated and two other Coronation Attings..

F

DEATH INQUIRY

REGISTRY WEDDING

of Cafe Wiseman and son of the

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late Mr. George Buller Gillard, and Miss Sophia Enoff, of No. Boundary Street, Kowloon Tong, and daughter of Mrs. Sergię Efinoff. took place at 10 o'clock, at the Registry of Marriages, Supreme Court, yesterday morning in the presence of Messrs Pater H, Sin At the Kowloon Magistracy and W.C. Simpson. Mr. T.S.

inquiry was yesterday an

heid | Whyte-Smith, Registrar of Mar- into the circumstances. touching riages, officiated. wi'l come in for its share of brightness. At Un Long. a "pallau" upon the death of Ko Sze, aged about 20, who died in the Kowloon has been erected at each end of the main road surmounted with Hospital as a result of a ruptured poles on top of which will be spleen. Mr. E. Himsworth sat as flame-like effects obtained by Coroner assisted by a jury com- Gallagher throwing a bright light on to red prising Messrs. B. J.

(foreman), A E Atkins, and F... A. V. Riberio.

Almost every village of in- portance in the New Territories

EJIK.

Evidence was given by Ng Hong who stated that he saw deceased

The total number of lights in the New Territoples will be about} 17,000.

"Strafford House Talpo, will be snatching B handbag from a Chinese female about 9 p.m. on April 10, and was pursued by ser- veral passers-by, including him- self.

floodlit

REVIEW PARADE

REHEARSAL

Big Crowd Witness Event At Happy Valley

Deceased was stopped by a European who handed him to two Indian constables. Witness added that he did not see anyone as- saulting deceased. A full dress rehearsal "of the

was given by From evidence combined Services review on Coro- į Sub. Inspector Cunningham and nation Day, was held yesterday other police officers who stated morning, over 4,000 troops taking that deceased was conveyed to the part

Kowloon Hospital immediately His Excellency the G.O.C., Ma-after he was brought back to the for General A. W. Bartholomew, Station. was present, while H. E. thể om- The jury returned a verdict of cer Administering the Govern death from a ruptured spleen in- ment, Mr. N. L. Smith, was repre-ficted by some causes unknown, sented by his A.D.C., Capt. G. F. and that the rupture did not take Rickcord, who followed the pro-place while deceased was in the cedure for the O.A.G.

custody of the police,

The rehearsal was conducted without a hitch and occupied an hour. Some hundreds of specta- tors watched the March Past which was followed by a fight of two RAF. machines in & final serial salute before the Review concluded. The troops afterwards

marched back to barracks with their bands.

-HAW PAR ACCIDENT STATION

It la proposed to put into opera- tion, formally, the Haw Par Acci- dent Station at Hy San Avenue on Monday, May 10, at 8.30 p.m.

Mr. Aw has invited Mrs. Morris to declare the Station Open. I

is hoped that all members, friends

MOTOR CYCLIST FINED

Alguaiman D. C. Dickens, motor cyc'e driver of the Royal Corps of Signals, Whitfield Barracks, was ordered to pay a fine of $8 by Mr. E. Himsworth when he appeared on a traffic summons at the Kow- loon Magistracy yesterday.

ARCHITECT'S CLAIM

Summary Court Action"

The case in which Mr. Alfred J. from architect, claimed Lane, Messrs. Lo Kam-sing. Hul Yeung- shing and Chong Sam-your, of the Sun Sun Hotel, Kowloon, the sum of $267, being balance of fee for work done, was continued before Mr. Justice Lindsell at the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon.

Mr. W. A. Mackinlay appeared for the plaintiff while Mr. W. M. Brown conducted the defence.

It will be recalled that in the latter part of 1934 defendants in structed plaintiff to furnish plans for the erection of four houses in Kowloon. Defendants later changed their minds and decided to build two houses and a hotel instead. The fee agreed was $1,750. Plain- tift received $1,250, while deduc- tions totalling $243 were made, leaving the balance of $287, which was the subject of the claim.

After evidence was given by the plaintiff the case concluded with judgment for defendants with costs.

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Leung Chin, aged 22, an office bay, appeared before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy yester- day on the charge of stealing four letters which were given to him to

post by air mail on Wednesday. The defendant only posted two letters and kept the other two which were letters belonging to Mr. N. J. Perrin, Manager of Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son. and the other belonging to Mr. A. Wheeler, the assistant manager. The defendant

given four letters to post at 3 p.m. Three of the letters belonged to the firm while the last belonged to Mr. Wheeler who sent a draft of £20 to his sister in England.

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The defendant was followed to the Post Office by Mr. Perrin who later saw him leave.. Mr. Perrin arranged with the Postal Authorl- ties to find out whether the letters had been posted or not, Mr. Perrin later inquired from Mr. Randall, the Superintendent of Malls, as to whether four letters from Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son had been posted and it was discovered that only two had been posted.

Returning to the office Mr. Perrin asked the defendant what he had done with the letters and he answered that he had posted them. When Mr. Ferrin threaten- ed to call the police he admitted having stolen the other two letters. Sergeant Davis asked His Wor- ship to take a serious view of the care and His Worship then, im- posed a fine of $100 or six weeks' hard labour on each charge.

THEFT OF WATCH

Inspector Bhannon of the Yau- mati Police Station, who appeared for the prosecution in the case before Mr. E. Hinsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday morning, in which a 23-year-old unemployed, Lam Chut-man, was charged with the theft of a gold The Engagement between Mr.

pocket watch, valued at $40, be- Lampo Kwok and Miss Silvia Leelonging to Mr. V. Xavier, said will be announced on May 10, at that a report made by Mrs. Xavier Shanghai. The parents of both was received about 9.30 am on Mr. Kwok and Miss Lee are pro- Thursday regarding the lor

Cir- milnent residents of Hong Kong. culars were then sent out to the Mr. Kwok is the son of Mr. different Stations to keep a look- Philip Blockchin, Chier Manager of out for the article, and as a re- The Wing On Co., Ltd., Hong Kong.. sult, defendant was arrested while and Miss Lee is the sister of Mr. | attempting to pawn the watch. The Hong Kong Benevolent 50- Koon Chun, partner and manager Further investigations were car- ciety acknowledges with grateful of the Wo Fat Shing Firm, Bonham ried out regarding defendant's thanks a donation of ten dollars Strand East, Hong Kong. She was character which brought to fact from Mr. and Mrs. J. Gibson Infequented in the Diocesan Girls' that he was a returned banishée..

It was alleged that Signalman Dickens, while driving motor cycle" No. 241, on April 21, along Lal-chi- kok Road, had both hands off the handle bars,

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