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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1937.

CRUEL AUNT

FINED $250

For Ill-Treating Her Niece

SIR HENRY POLLOCK

CRITICISES

GOVERNMENT

CONTRACT

Supplementary votes amounting to ob3,339 were approved by the Finance Committee at a meeting heid yesterday afternoon in the Council Chamber. The Hon. Mr.

Scenes ut indescribable cruelty, depicting the El-treatment of a little girl by her merciless aunt who deliberately applied a red-hot oplum-pick to the poor child's arma and legs because she failed to carry out her duty to massageN. L. Smith, presided, and the fol- her from midnight til dawn by falling asleep. were recalled at the Central Magistracy yesterday.

Before Mr. RA.D. Forrest, Kwan Yun To, allas Kau Koo, aged 26, married woman, of No. 133 Wing

Lok Street, second Bloor. 'Was charged with keeping and 11- treating a 12-year-old giri, Kwan Tsul, her niece, as if she were a muitjal

Mr. H. W. Fraser, 'Inspector of Multsal, prosecuted.

Outlining the case. Mr. Fraser said that on November 8. 1937 complainant went to No. 7 Police Station and reported that defen- dant had ill-treated her. Defen- dant had possession of complain- ant ever since complainant's mother died.

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members were present: Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson, Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North, Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, Hon. Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro Jr., Hon. Mr. J.

J. Paterson, Hon. Mr. M. T. Johu- son, Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fan, Mr. E. Davidson and Mr. Sidney Caine (Financial Secretary).

Objection was raised by Sir Henry Pollock to the vote of $82,000 under the head "Prisons Depart- ment-Subsistence

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THE BRITISH LEGION

MEMBERSHIP AND

BRANCHES

The total membership of the Legion at the close of the last financial year was 17,949 in excess of that of the previous year. Its Branches numbered 4,207,77 more than in 1935. In addition, there is the Women's Auxiliary, with Each Branches numbering 1,637..

of these Branches is a self-contain~ ed unit'working voluntarily for ex- Service men and their families. Previously acknowledged $13,871.92 1st Bn. The Seaforth

Highlanders

220,00

H.M.S. Medway and 4th

Sub-Marine Flotilla Prison Officers Sports Club, Stanley, Auction and Dance Kowloon

212.00

80.00

Street Sale, Foreign Money EX- changed

70.26

20.00

27.10

9.41

Stephen's College (Sale of Popples) " F.E.C.A.N.

9.28

4.00

$14,313.07

of prisoners." He considered the figures rather exorbitant and thought as he had R.A.0.B. (GLE) occasion to express before, that the H.M.S. Duncan contract entered into by the Goy-HMS. Proteus

unfavourable from St. Was the taxpayer's point of view. He recommended that the item should not be approved until a thorough tnquiry had been made.

erament

Mr. M. K. Lo said that however bad the contract was, it had al- ready been entered into, and he could not see how they could re-

Continuing. Mr. Fraser said that complainant alleged that defen- dant burned her with cigarette enda and oplum pleks, made her massage her at night, and wash clothes, sweep floors and do other fuse to sanction payment. That domestic work in the day time. 111- treating generally.

Giving evidence, Dr. Cheung Shiu Fan, medical practitioner, of the Queen Mary Hospital, said that on November 8. 1937 hc examined a little girl by the name of Kwan Chiu (complainant), and found that in her right and lett forearms were six and two burned marks respectively.

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Complainant gave corroborative evidence and proved that her aunt burned her deliberately with a red-hot oplum-pick because applied the opium-plek to arm once and repeated the action again after the oplum-plck had been heated by a flame for some time. His Worship fned defendant $250-$100 for the first offence and $150 for the second. The girl is in the custody of the S.C.A.

SUPREME COURT CLAIM

would amount to a breach of con- tract by the Government.

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DRASTIC ALTERATION The item was passed by a vote 5 to 4, but a drastic alteration of the method of supplying rations,, for prisoners was recommended.

OPIUM OFFENCES

Hi Fat. aged 30. unemployed was fined $100 or two months' hard labour for keeping an opium divan at No. 6 Kam Wah Street, first floor, and $15 or two weeks' impri- sonment for the possession of pre- pared" oplum.

Chan Yee. aged 45, unemployed. Other items approved were na was Aned a total ör $155 or four published in these columns yester-months' hard labour on similar day; and included the sum of $37.- charges in regard to 62. Main 000 for a new submarine cable Street Salwanho. across the harbour to replace the one damaged by the wear and tear of ordinary use and effects of typhoons. This cable is for the government telephone line.

In this connection, Mr: J J. Paterson asked if it would not be more economical for the Govern- ment to make use of the ordinary service. Mr. Henderson (Director of Public Works) replied that the matter had been investigated many years ago, and it had been decided to retain the separate Kine.

Amongst other Items considered were provisions for repairs to G07-' ernment buildings which suffered damage as a result of the typhoon Before His Honour the Chief

of September 2. The details are:-- Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, at Government buildings in the New the Supreme Court yesterday, the Territories, $130.000: in the New {SHIMONOSEKI Union Trading Company Limited Kowloon district, $28,000; District

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(plaintiffs), of York Building. Office South, $200; Hong Kong. brought an action against Wong $225,000: and Kowloon district, TAKABAZUKA

(near Kobe)

Tong (defendant), of the Ng Wa333,000, TAKABAZUKA Bank, of No. 94 Wing Lok Street..

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WOOD CUTTERS FINED

Before Mr. C. P. R. Burgess at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, Lau Chap, aged 51, was found guilty of unlawful possession of freshly cut pine tree-trunks to a total value of $15. A fine of $50 was imposed with the alternative of two months' imprisonment.

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Ah Lui, 24. with head injuries, was taken to the Kwong Wah Hos-- pital, the man having jumped off a moving bus in Nathan Road,

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The names of 15 firms alleged to be dealing in Japanese goods were Requesting. the Magistrate to mentioned In an anti-Japanese take a serious view of the case in porter found on a pillar at the which three unemployed men were Wong Wing-pak. store at No. 21 charged with loitering in Kowloon Bonham Street West on Tuesday. Tong district, Detective Sergeant One of the fokis of the store saw MacPherson said, "during the past the poster at 6 am, and the police month six European dwellings were immediately. Informed. The have been entered and money public did not have a chance to see and jewellery to a value of about the poster. -91,000 have been stolen."

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