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DECEMBER 18TH,
TRAMS V. BUS. THE VEXED QUESTION IN
SINGAPORE,
ITS RELATION TO OVERCROWDING
At a meeting of the Singapore Muni cipal Commissioners held ou Novem such. Mr. Lowther Kemp moved:
That the Commissioners are Op posed in principle to the granting of monopolies to private concerns in respect of transport within Singapore Municipal bouts and to the extension of existing monopolies.
That the Commissioners are pod Lo
extension of the Trauwny QILA Myster
&itat Singapore Maneiged limits, whether much extension 15 11 companied by improved method *I working not
Mr
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FAMOUS MINING ACTION INĮ
MALAYA
SUCCESSFUL CLAIM AGAINST PERAK GOVERNMENT.
A case which will probably go down
of 134 in mining history as one remarkable civil actions connected with the industry has just been advanced an other stage in the Fall Court of Appeal in the Federated Malay States
Government
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A. པིཏཝཾ པཱསུཏྟཝཱཏྟཏ ཙ བྷནྟོ rahaa, of Per Perak the
Van Cuylenburg and D of Perak. fained from the
81-348,074 as dausages sustained by reason & licence granteil of the cancellation of
them by the Governgent
The licence, which was granted in the latter half of 1911. gave the plaintiffs the right f Renerating electricity by water power drawn from the River Dipang, n Mtream Tonning from the range of moun
Tur the centre of the
years elapsed before the Government, the ground that sufficient work had t
preformed, cancelled the hence Among other items the plaintiffs clam ed $1,000,000 as their estimated profes from the sale of the electricity which they might had generated from the river dur ing the 21 years for which the licence was granted, and a sum running into six gores as the profits which would have Berred to them if they had been allowed
work the famous Jebosophat tin mi with the electricity.
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Thut The Commissioners consid that the transport requirements of the city of Singapore will best be met by a Municipal Motor Transport Service and for this purpose suh committee be appointed forthwith to consider and report on the necessary organi sation and the best type in types of vehicles to be introduced In puting his motion fo the meeting, inter abu that he had gathered be COLUNISSTONITS had almost always been in favour of motor transport service, and they had expressed their feeling of the inallequacy of the EFRIWAYS. It might be said that the
The action in Opel, heard by Mr Municipality had a great deal on
Justice Fairer Manby lasted 65 days, hands at the present moment, but he during which one side or the other called though that no matter on its hande aas
expert witnesses from every part of the more important than the question
Peninsula in
in reference to the electrical, transport, because it was ou inextricably the mining, the financial and the legali intermingled
The Government. 8) aspects of the estee health and housing The housing prol | chief contentions were (1) dat
at plaintiffs lem resolved itself into the question of had broken one of the conditions under!
The | overgrow.ding
for remedis
which the licence was granted to them crowding was a facther distribution of (2) that there was not sufficient water in the population over wider areas, Ther
River to allow of the genera the Dipang
voltage a really could not distribute the residences of electricity
LITRE would wake it a marketable commodity and the places of business, so that if they
in the separated people from their work they and (3) that there was Busi provide them with transport.delosophat Mipe and therefore the plain Therefore the question of transport was tills could not have made any profit from:
the mine intermingled with the question of over
Mr. Justice Farrer Manby in giving prowding and should be considered at the same time. There was another rensjudgment for the plaintiffs in the Mas of 847-714. expressed his opinion that be why he considered the matter was urgent, should have had the assistance uk rom- because was clear that private enter
Both sides appealed. pete sessrs. prise was unable to cope with the or
The Full Court of Append was the g <ah1:7srrIelitw of the population of
of Mr. Justice Innes, Acting Chief the town With regard to the resolution,
Commissioner, M first formed the principle, the second Farnshaw
and Mr. Justice Sproute showed what they did not want, and the Argument in the appeal took about 23 third what they did want As regarded days. Mr H. Ashworth Hope, who ag the principle he trusted they were all in peared for in and L. T. Willians.
the plaintiffs with Мевата. Г. quite clear, he N. Sanderson thought, that private monopolies should pving the four for ten days not be tolerated, and in that connection opening address Mr. WR. Armstrong private enterprise had failed and not and Mt. Roland Headdell, who appeared.
and He therefore maintained for the Government, addressed the Judges
for seven and five days yespectively
The Appeal Court has found for the
11h certain reservations.
The plaintiff following in t brief summary
Plaintiff obtains $25.714 in respect of the Mining Case, on which the Jeb phant Mine stands.
agreement
met the case
F
Wing
that the Municipality should step ini.
To anyone who sai along the tramway roates and watched the trans go by objection after objection must appeal the Trains were usightly and noisy
Look and
ELTI uncompromising atti tade with the rest of the traffic; and probably a very high proportion of the street noridents was due, directly or in directly, to the tramways. Of course, a great many of the tramway defecte might be attributed by the defenders of the system to the war They would hear it said that the tramway, if it had not been for the war, would have been a perfect institution, but he would like to draw the attention to the report of the Regis. tray of Vehicles, dated July 15th, 1914, in which he states that many of them and noisy. He ven were falling off Lared to say that if it had been a private body in competition with another private bors they would have found greater efficiency than was the case at the present)
tim
With regard to motor bus services, of which he was an advocate, a great advan- tage it had over the tramways was, hel |considered, its elasticity.
Litt
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Plaintiff obtains two further sums of
$850 and 871,344,
The Court decides that the licence ezt. oiled had a marketable value and grante plaintiff $100,000 on Recount of that co
The Court declares that it is proper to assess the market value of the said fierce! upon the basis of potential profits, and finds that an electrical scheme is pu seblens there is never less than 1.200 culte feet of It, therefore, orders water in the river. the details of the electrical schetstes to be who placed before a competent_jeferee will nesess the probable profits.
Full custs were given to the plaintiff, except such money as with Commission to London
Spen! 011
It is likely that the towerment will) appeal to the Privy Council
SAIGON RICE MARKET.
The Chairman (Mr. Peel) said that he The Compagnie de Commerce and de agreed with the first part of the resolu-Navigation d'Extreme Orient, of Saigon, tion on principle, that such transport in their report dated December 2nd, system should be in the hands of the state :
Municipality. He had come from a town Our rivo market has been quite active where they had had municipal electric during the past fortnight, but Japan trans for some years and they had work-only is on the market. Prices closed for A fow ed very well and gave a very satisfac December January
very high. sory profit. But they had to consider quantities are still available. that the tramway system had got a lease of 19 years to Fun. The President thought it was wrong to condemn trainis generally and cited Shanghai as example, where the tramway service had proved successful.
It is reported that business has been done for April-May next year.
The total amount of rice exported from the 1st of January up to the 26th of November, 1018, is 1,128,390 tons, against 1,143,000 tons in 1917.
Mr. Kemp said he was quite aware that.
We quote to-day :--White Saigon rice, the company still had a nineteen years No. 9 wilted, Japan quality, Hongkong lease on certain routes.
He was not 86.64
for per pieul, f.o.b. Saigon, opposed to any extension of the existing December shipment. routes but he was opposed to any new rontes being opened, as they would he better served by motor huses.
and that the Commissioners appoint D
The President, with the approval of sub-committee to report on how far the the Commissioners, then amended the transport system of Singapore might be resolution, parts 2 and 3 reading respec-mproved, and especially how far it tively as follows: "That the Comunis sioners are opposed to any extensina of the tramways system njong new routes
(Continued at trot of next column.)
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