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| An: Air· Holiday.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER
CONSPIRACY?
CHARGE AGAINST AN EX-EMPLOYEE.
A LOST CONTRACT.
1927
P'RAPS-P'RAPS NOTI
A newspaper correspondent who complains of the alleged low prices
The man on home leave from the Far East often Anda himself at a "loose end" for a part of the time. Say he has four months to spend fa actual holidaying and no speci- fic business to perform or definite journeys to make during that time. Ho finda, as a rule, that all his "duty calls" are completed within a month, and that but an- ather month is taken up in visit ing the places he had planned to visit and doing the things he plan- Magistracy that he on divers dates A little fellow left in charge of ned; to do. What, then, of the between June 1 and July 18, did his tiny brother, called
E. Chan, a former employee of at the Fun o' the Fair has donat- the Wing On Company, was yes-ed $1,000 to make up the differ- terday afternoon charged before enco!
Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central
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Lawyer: "What's the mastor?” Chauffeur: "The car is running away, sir."
rest of the holiday? As a rule, he conspire with H. K. Yeung and "Mother, won't you please speak to simply loafs around. Some, those others unknown, to Injure the trade baby? He's sitting on the flypaper who cannot bear to do this, take a of the Wing On Company by Induc- and there's such a lot of flea wait- motoring trip through England or ing the Robert Dollar Steamship ing to get on! on the Continent Travelling ex- Company to cease being customers penses, however, rule this out of of the Wing On Company. This the reckoning for many. Or, the accused
A farmor was filling in a claim was alleged to have sheet for a cow killed on the rail- rather, travelling costs did make done by falsely representing to the way. He came to the item "Dis- such an outing an expensive item. Dollar Company that the complain-position of the carcase." Now he can take a tour by air,ant firm wished to increase the and accomplish it cheaper than prices of certain commodities then a long time, and then wrote, "Kind He puzzled over the question for would be possible by rail or motor being supplied. Further, the accus-and gentle!" car. The authority for this assered was alleged to have falsely re- tion is Sir John Rhodes, who represented that a certain price list cantly covered 1,500 miles with a dated July 12 containing the in passenger in a baby Moth aeroplane creased prices was supplied by the in France and Belgium. Careful re- Wing On Company, thus securing cords were kept of all expenses for the transfer of the Dollar Com- petrol, oil, landing charges, housing pany's patronage to a new Company the aeroplane, and even for customs organised by the accused and fees. The total cost was less than others. Hong Kong $140, and the petrol There were other charges alleg. showed a record of over 15 miles, ing that the accused had induced to the gallon. The average cost was certain members of the Ship Chan- only nine cents a mile, mileage be-dlery Department of the Wing On ing measured on the ground. As Company to break their contracts two persons were carried, this com-with the Company and enter the pares favourably with the cost of employment of the new Company; travel by rail. It is, however, only and lastly, one of breaking his own in Europe that such tours would be contract of employment with the undertaken, for a trip such as the Wing On Company.
Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by
one outlined above was undoubtedly The prosecution was conducted by
greatly facilitated by the large num- ber of well-organised landing fields Messrs. Hastings, Dennys and Bow in Western Europe. Still, the idealey, together with Mr. E. Davidson. is worth considering. An ordinary The accused was represented by Mr. intricacies of high finance, which interceting to
tour through Europe should prove M. K. Lo.
any jaded Hong. his legal knowledge as a barris-Kong-ite, and here we have the addi- ter-at-law was able to supplement. tional thrill of a daily air ride and After the war he travelled in Cen- of railway travelling. Of course the total absence of the discomforts tral Europe to report on economic you have to get your 'plane. conditions for the Anglo-Danu- bian Association, Limited, and, since then he has been in turn Chief Assistant to the OrganiserTIS BETTER TO HAVE LOVED their
of International Credits under.
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AND LOST."
The Contract. According to Mr. Jenkin, the ac cused was On Company in 1920. In 1924, the Chandlery Department of the Wing engaged in the Ship
Company secured a contract with the Pacific Mail 8.8. Company to supply provisions to their ships. This contract was continued on the Pacific Mail being taken over by successors. The
Lawyer: "Can't you pull up?" Chauffeur: "I'm afraid not, sir." Lawyer: "Then for mercy's sake run into something cheap!"
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Talkative Lady: "Do you know,› Professor, I think you are simply wonderful. Has anything ever puzzled you?"
Professor: "Yes, madam, De thing."
Talkative Lady: "And what is that?"
Professor: "If exercise reduces have double chins ?” flesh, how is it that so many women
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Mrs. Jones thought she was dying,
and she called her husband to her bedside.
"John," she said, "I am dying, thing. I want you at the funeral and I want you to promise me one.
mother." to ride in the first coach with my
There was a long silence.
last thing I shall ever ask you; will "John," she repeated, "it is the you promise?"
"Well, Maggie," answered John, "seeing it's your last requeat, I will value do it--but you've spoilt my day!"
Up
of the the League of Nations, a member
contract in the first year was $17,000, while in 1926 of the Advisory Committee to the have Loved und Lost than never to to the month of July this year, considerably at having to walk so
The motion that "It is Better to the figure rose to $10,000.
It was a cold, rainy morning. The Treasury under the Trade Facili- have Loved at al!" was lost at a which would undoubtedly have been far to the place where the sentence spy, sentenced to be shot, grumbled. ties Act; Chairman of the Ad-Young Men's Club, the voting beed's year, there had been a further debato yesterday at St. Peter's
a bumper year but for the accus was to be carried out. Secretary on East African Loans, T. J. Price, B.Sc., seconded by Mr. of $20,000 per month.
The motion was proposed by Mr. Increase to $180,000, or an average the escort at last. "What have you "Oh, shut up burst out one of and Financial Secretary to the E. R. Price and the opposition led to letters in the possession of the walk back."
According got to grouse about? We've got to Soudan Government. Thes. by the Rev. H. A. Wittenbach, M.A., Wing On Company, they were as- varied experiences obviously must The proposere of the motion dwelt Shipping Company as long as the seconded by Mr. F. Sands, M.Á.. sured continued custom from the stand him in good stead in his new appointment of Economic and Financial Adviser to the Colonial Secretary.
"How much bread do you sell a
on the inspiration that had come to quality and price of goods was what day?" the customer asked. many poets and others as a result
of love, even though unrequited, was expected.
"Some four hundred pounds on
"Yes; give fall weight!" said the customer.
mummy,"
ing the economic development and ments of about fifty Crown Cole embittered nature of those cused, who wa Yeung's assistant ined her if he could kith her, and she
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and held that sympathy was often The Wing On Company continu- the average" replied the baker. taught by affliction and that diff-jed to cater for the Company "I can tell you how to sell five. culties and disappointments were until the end of July this year, hundred pounds," anid the custom- At first sight it may appear best powers. Instances were given ed to their customers, in one
sometimes necessary to evoke man's when certain letters were address-er. Hong Kong, Taesday, October 4, 1927. that the position is too big for one of great men who owed their best of which the man H.K. Yeung wholy.
"Can you?" kaid the baker eager man to fill with satisfaction to works to the sublimation of their was the manager of Wing On'a himself and the Colonial Office. It votion to their life's work the Ship Chandlery Department, gavo disappointed love in a greater de- COLONIAL ECONOMICS.
will be interesting to see if his cases of Goethe, Dante, Petrarch,
notice of a proposed increase in duties will find him in conflict impossibility of a man never having would prove that it was wholly un- Newcome been talking about in the Cowper and others were given. The prices. Mr. Jenkin said that he. A London cablegram informs with the much over-rated and loved at all was stressed and, even true that the General Manager of drawing-room all this time?" in- "And what have you and Mr. us to-day that the Colonial Secre- much-criticised Crown Agents assuming the existence of such, Wing On's had any intention at any quired the girl's mother. tary has decided to establish pro- for the Colonies.
was it not due to their inability to time to Increase the prices of the These are ap- sink their own self-love in worship goods supplied to the Shipping Com- and kin" replied the girl carelessly. visionally the appointment of an pointed by the Colonial Secretary of another and in the willingness pary. His case was that the let
"We've been discussing our kith to make sacrifices on her behalf? Economic and Financial Adviser and act as business and financial
"Yeth, they were, The Opposition,
ter was written as part of a con- chimed in her small brother, who to advise him on questions involv-agents at Home for the Govern The opposers of the motion dwelt spi.acy between Yeung and the ac-had been "listening-in." "He athk-
who had been, "crossed" in love and, the management of the department, said: "You kin," Conies and Protectorates. For a whilst admitting that, to some, such financial problems of Colonies
Colonial Government to order aed in increased endeavour in other disappointment might have result- and Protectorates and other ter-pin other than through the directions, claimed that the records asked for a new price Hat. They small son, John, came running to
Yeung Dies. The Shipping Company wrote and
Mrs. Jones stood on the edge of ritories the administration of Crown Agents would be rank of greater parcentage were ma wieived two, one purporting to be her. "Father says," he wanted, the cliff admiring the view. Her which is subject to his control. heresy. As to whether the Colon-tered men whose blighted love creased prices, and the other from you must come away or else give far embit-Wing On's revised list showing in that it is not safe up here, and He has selected for this past Sirial Governments are enabled to found outlet along lines which con- F. Chan and Company. George Schuster, who is shortly get the best bargain possible The opposers of the motion also took Chan, Counsel sald, was no other me the lunch basket." terminating his appointment as
through the Crown Agents is a the view that they were not called that the accused himself, who, had Financial Secretary to the Gov-matter that never seems to worry who had never felt the slightest de- from the Wing On Company. A kiss, Billy ?" asked the pretty visit- upon to defend the position of those now started business independently Aren't you going to give me‘a ernment of the Soudan, and who the. Colonial Office.
If Sir gree of love for another, but the comparison of the two price lists or of the infant son of the house. will continue to act as consultant Schuster can probe the dealings of position of those whose love was showed up much to the disadvan the Crown Agents with the Colon-concentrated in one individual.
diffused over a greater field and not tage of the Wing On Company. to the Soudan Government on
"No, I'm not” ⠀ matters of financial policy.
ial Governments and Protector-
"Oh, Billy, why?" Bright Sayings,
The result was that the Ship Well, I saw what you did to dad ates he will accomplish what no the lip of some of the speakers tom. "Snappy Items that fell from On's
ping Company wrote to Wing When he kissed you in the hall.” This appointment, it may be servant of the Crown overseas were as follows:-
discontinuing their cus- concluded, is the outcome of the has ever done and what the
This and the previous Asked at Northampton County The female of the species is letter asking for the price Court if she had recent Colonial Conference at majority have never attempted to more deadly than the male."
were received by Young as cupation, a woman debtorre- which Hong Kong was represent-du.
"He travels the fastest who tra manager of the Ship Chandlery De plled "I have three little any oc- ed, although we have not heard
vels alone."
The soft, clinging woman who of Wing On's did not know any but it is not always remunerative," partment, and the General Manager children."That is an occupation, depends upon man, the brute, for thing about them.
responded, the Judge.
stituted them a danger to the state.
Het
That. F.
Molly Won't you play some
shall disturb the notghbours." Molly"Ob, it doesn't matter about them they poisoned our cat
The Professor"It's getting lata.
last week!"
It is too early to predict what of any report being submitted to the Government here. If such a influence Sir George Schuster her strength and whilst caressing Then Yeung died, and it left only report has been received, it has will exercise upon the economica the day, neatly extracts the price what had happened. After the re- his tired brow after the labours of Chan to give an explanation of not yet been released to the Press and finances of Hong Kong. His of a new hat from him. It may be considered that there is sphere is far too wide to permit A few members of the audience celpt of the Shipping Company's thing more, Professorat time enough for this about the of him giving the affairs of this sion had, been restricted to those ments to leave the Wing On Com- spoke, one holding that the discus second letter, Chan made arrange middle of next year. Hong Kong Colony anything but superficial who had loved and been turned pany. He opened up a business in could not be directly interested in attention, and then he will rob- down whereas the saying had been Gilman Street, taking over most of all the questions discussed at the ably himself be advised by the those who had loved and lost diery Department. Then all of a originally applied, he thought, to the staff of Wing On's Ship Chan- Colonial Conference, but some past and present Governors through death or other misfortune. sudden Chan also left the Company
which will leave us no better off thought that the saying should not his intention to do so. His depar-gaged to last summer
Another member of the audience without any previous Intimation of meet one of the boys you were en- She Cat beach) It's awful to than before. The only direction be applied merely to the opposite ture was sudden and unexpected Her Friend It must be in which there can be a better ex
An Apt Counter. A in the economics and fin Referring to the quotation of one On August 8, the General Mana he wanted the old engagement re-
Manager's Surprise.
She just ran across Dick and ances of Hong Kong is by the ay of the speakers that he rode the gur of Wing On's was sudden nowed without giving up NOW Of Sir George Schuster's abil pointment of a Financial Adviser member of the audience compared that there had not been the usual
fastest who rode alone, another ly made aware ities as an economist and finan- of its own, as has been suggested married life to two cyclista, not requieftion for s cier there is no doubt. As a part in these columns many times in cyling alone, but pedalling toge Inquiries the result of which was a ner in Schuster Bon & Co., and a the recent past Meanwhile, we Another speaker aptly countered which led to the
supplies. He made ther onca tandem LED A NUM Director of many publ
surprise for him. Then action was public Com-can scarcely be expected to go into this by contending that this was panies from 1906 to 1914 he ob-raptures over the new appoint and was dolus her, share in the
present alright so long as the woman? be
charges against the accused tained a thorough insight into the ment announced:
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