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BUILDERS OF ALL CLASSES OF SHIPS. BUILDERS OF RECIPROCATING STEAM ENGINES. BUILDERS OF MARINE AND LAND_BOILERS. BUILDERS OF TURBINE MACHINERY

Under License From Messrs. Parsons.

BUILDERS OF DIESEL ENGINES

Under Special License

From Messrs. Sulzer Bros., Winterthur.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, NÖVEMBER 16, 1937.

DEATH BY

MISADVENTURE

JURY MAKES

RECOMMENDATION!

A Coroner's Jury sitting at the Central Magistracy yesterdaý re- turned a verdict of accidental death, with no blame attached to anyone, but made a recommen- dation that there should be more

MOSQUITOES ON THE INCREASE

Kowloon Residents Complain

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of the

REMA

The montaly meeting General Committee of the Kow- loon Residents' Association held on Tuesday, November. 9. In St. Andrew's Church Hall

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Those present were:-Mr. thorough and regular inspection Wylie iPresident), Mr. R. Baldwin property by Government autho- rities, at the conclusion of the inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mak So, 27, coolie, who died of a fractured skull after having been hit on the head by a piece of concrete falling from No. 14 Peel Street on October

28.

The Jury comprised Messrs. J. G. Jones (foreman), M. A. Simces and T. Yeung, while Mr. R. A. D. Forrest sat as Coroner. Sergeant Byren conducted proceedings for the police.

Expert evidence was given by Mr. W. Pryde, of the Bullding Authority's office, who said he was called by the police to inspect the third floor of No. 74 Peel Street on the afternoon of October, za. The balcony was. of concrete and at the front was an L-shaped iron bar. He found a piece of concrete approximately 12 inches long miss- ing and another portion also ap- proximately 12 inches long was cracked, and was liable

to fall into the street on pressure of the hand. He tore this loose plece

off and the rest of the concrete appeared to be sound. At the end where the portion had fallen off It was badly corroded. This

corrosion had come from the iron and it was more the faultiness of the construction than of the con- crete. The corrosion W15, not visible till the portion had fallen oft.

Dr. P. F. S. Court testified that the cause of death of the deceased was. in his opinion, fracture of the skull and arterial haemorr- hage.

NO COMPLAINTS MADE Ho Tai, woman hawker, sald she was hawking in Peel Street and saw a brick fall on the head of deceased from somewhere up top.

(Hon Secretary}, Mrs. Gardiner. The Hon. Mr. L D'Almada e Castro, Jnr., Messts. B. W. Bradbury, W. C. Felshow, LJ

Murray. R. Pestonji Cher Chi, D. W. Munton, I. N.

Apologies

were received from Miss R. Mow

Fung, Messrs. H. Gittis, C. E Terry and W. J. Rattey.

Correspondence concerning the Yaumati Ferry Co. Traffic Signs in Boundary Street, and House Rentals in Kowloon were read and approved. It was decided to write

and ask Government to allow this Association to nominate its repre- gentative to the Trame Board."

A report on the two playgrounds in Kowloon Tong was submitted by a sub-committee and it was agreed to write Government on the mat- ters contained therein.

A sub-committee appointed "to consider Road and Street Names and House Numbering in Kow- loon submitted a short general report. It was decided that the matter be left to the sub-committee to draw up a list of specific in- stances to which the attention of Government might be drawn.

STREET LIGHTING

It was reported that residents in Chatham Road. Mody Road, and éther roads in the neighbourhood were experiencing an unusually large increase in the numbers of mosquitoes, probably owing to the use of the Marina as a storage ground. It was decided to draw the attention of the Urban Council to the matter.

Discussion took place regarding the composition of the material used recently to surface parts of Waterloo Road and Boundary Street. Such, it was alleged, was easily broken up under pressure by trame and, in addition, was

causing a dust nuisance. · A sub- committee was appointed to in-

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that

Various employees of the land-vestigate the matter. lords said that no complaint had

The attention or the General been made to them regarding the

Committee was drawn to "that concrete in the balcony.

portion of Nathan Road' between. Summing up. the Corner-sald the Alhambra Theatre and Water- he thought there was. Httle doubt loo Road whereon a new system that it was a case of accidental of street lighting was being ex- death. The question of respon-perimentally displayed. The upin- sibility, it any, was a little more on was unanimously held dimcult. but in any case the state this revealed improvement and the of the house appears to have been

hope was expressed that Govern- worse than. that of

many ment would shortly proceed-to- others There appeared to be no light the whole of Nathan Road in

a similar manner. officers or owners. The jury would have to consider whether the present system was sufficient for the proper maintenance of buildings or whether it is desir able for the supervision Improved.

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After retiring for a few minutes the Jury returned their verdict and added that they were satis- fed that no blame was attached to anyone as the accident could not have been perceived till it had

POLICE REPORTS

Wong Fat-chan, aged 8 Was knocked down by a motor car in Des Voeux Road Central on Sun- day. He was taken to the Queen Mary Hospital in an ambulance and his condition is good.

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Mr. L. V. Neumann, a travelling student on the ss. Prominent, re- ported the loss of two cameras, valued $500. from his cabin while by in port.

happened... They recommended. however; a more thorough and re- gular inspection of property with reference to its soundeness Government authorities.

FLOOD OF OPIUM CASES

Sentor Revenue Officer A. W. Grimmitt prosecuted in several oplum cases which came before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy yesterday,

Leung Fuk, 34, unemployed, was fined $2,000 or six week's hard labour when he pleaded guilty to possession at Yuen On Wharf on Sunday. The oplum was found concealed round his legs and waist. A coolie *pamed Wong Tung was fined $500 or three months. He had six tacls of the prepared variety concealed in a false. suitcase at the Wing Lok Wharf. Lo Yin-han, a 25-year old married woman, was fined $140 of two months, Mr. Grimmitt say- ing that the address in Hollywood Road in which the opium was found was apparently a distribut ing centre.

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Lin Sang, aged 61, who was ad- mitted to the Queen Mary Hospl. tal suffering from a fractured forearm sustained when she fell down the slope of Aberdeen Street on October 22, died at 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Ng Kul, aged 27, was admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital on Sunday suffering from stab wound in the thigh, alleged to have been inflicted by an unknown Formegan

Wan Ting, who fainted in a bus in Nathan Road on Sunday was admitted to the Kwong Wah Hos- pital.

SNATCHER CAUGHT

Sentence of three months' im- prisonment was imposed on an unemployed man, Lam Hol, who pleaded guilty before Mr. K. Keen at the Kowloon Magistracy yester- Arrested on information. by a day to the charge of snatching a Chinese constable for possession of handbag belonging to Miss Chan prepared oplum in Queen's Road Kan West on Sunday, Wong Sze, 50- year old widow, offered the -con-

stable a bribe of $5 to let her go.labour and on the second she was Her captor refused, however, and given two months' hard labour, she appeared before Mr. R. A D the sentences, to run consecutively. Forrest at the Central Magistracy The $5 was ordered to be placed yesterday, charged on the two in the Poor Box. The constable in.Į counts.

question was C185. Cheung. Fung-.

On the first His Worship fined cheung, and Acting Sub-Inspector her $160 ar three months hard Clarke prosecuted.

THE BRITISH

LEGION

Helping Other Institutions

The British Legion Benevolent Committee during 1936 granted £12,068. to other smaller institu- tions assisting the ex-Service com- munity, this in addition to the grant made to St. Dunstan's.

Poppy Day Fund now stands as follows:- Previously acknowledged $ 7,199.70 Hong-Kong Street Sales

of Poppies

3,088.35 Kowloon Street Sales of

Popples ...

2,155.41 Happy Valley Sale of

Popples

984,24 Bale of Popples R.E.O.

C.A. Dance

100,00

St. 'Andrew's Church. Kowlcon (Collection) 20th Heavy Battery R.A.

H.M.S. "Thracian"

H.M.S. "Diamond"

J. S.

H.M.S. Robin"

Total

58,25

33.10 20.84

18.60

10,00

5.55

$13.671.92

` INDIANS IN COURT

Before His Honour, the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, at the

Supreme Court yesterday. Attar Singh (plaintiff. of No. 17 Morrison H Road, brought a summary Jurisdiction action aga-

·insç. Kartar Singh (defendant), of No. 12 Morrison Hill Road, claim-

ing for the sum of 8700 being balance payable by the defendant to the plaintiff under an agree- ment for the dissolution of the partnership of the Amritsar Store, dated January 3, 1937.

The Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for the plaintiff, whilst defendant was represented by Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios..

After evidence was

the given case concluded with judgment for plaintiff for the amount clahned and cost for claim and counter- claim and a further order for pay- ment out of the Court of the sum of 2480.

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