South China Morning Post and the Hongkong Telegraph
August 18th 1946 A Bird's Eye View by Argus Some of these rumours are really too absurd. The latest is that out of the goodness of their hearts the people who now transport passengers across the harbour, devote 30 per cent of their hard-earned winnings to the strikers! * * * Modest curate: 'Jonah, my friends . . . well, Jonah spent three days in a whale's . . . in the society of a whale.' * * What a world. By the time you're important enough to take a couple of hours for tiffing, the doctor puts you on a milk diet.
* * * Garage man: 'Did you taste the oil?' Car owner: 'Yes. It tasted awful.' * * * I appreciate the logic of the grave-digger who said: 'It's all very well to advise the young folk to begin at the bottom and work upwards, but in my profession it ain't practicable. * * * HUNGRY LAD'S LAPSE ON SIGHT OF FOOD A roast duck, wrapped in newspaper, was an exhibit at Central Court yesterday when a 19-year-old unemployed youth was given three months by Mr Sheldon for stealing the duck from a woman in Connaught Road on Friday.
The lad, So Chuen, said he had earned no money since coming from Canton. He was very hungry and yielded to temptation when he saw the parcel contained food.
Inspector Sell said the duck would be sold and the proceeds placed in the Poor Box. * * * GIRL ALLEGES FORTUNE TELLER TRICKED HER OF MONEY The story of how she stole her step-mother's jewellery case to raise $3,500 for a fortune teller who promised to return her the money ten-fold, was told by a 15-year-old girl at Kowloon Court yesterday.
Charged before Mr Latimer with stealing $2,050 from the girl by a trick was Pak Wan-kiu, the fortune teller, whose establishment is in Ho Tung Building. SI Andrews prosecuted.
The girl, a student, said she went to have her fortune told for $10 and Pak told her she would fall sick during the year. He asked for her address and, with the ashes of a piece of paper he had burnt, prepared a drink for her. She drank the tea and with his instructions to look under her pillow the next morning, she went home.