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THE HONGKONG - DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10TH, 1926
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With Inexx, Price-$7.50.
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LONDON'S "SECRET SERVICE.” HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
FINDING THE BLACK SHEEP
TRADE.
·CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
70,000 SURPRISE. SHOPPING CALLS Chartered Bank.
X_YEAR.-———
TO-DAY AND TO-MOBROW,
AUGUST 9TH, 1910. Rongtang Bank ....................... 1,100 x. dir, bay. Do., Loudon... ..£135 x dir, nom.
„£20) bay. Marosatile Bank, A. a Bum£30j nom.
Do,
U.....£13) nom.
ibuy. BOSU BOL
QUEEN'S
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15.
F. O. Bank
There was a little incident in a Ken-East Asia Bank sington street that caused' passers-by some wonder. A fast motor-van drew up suddenly, and from it there stepped an individual who accosted the drivers of two coal carts. This individual examined the carters documents, and the selected
certain sacks of coal from the cart which the carters obediently brought to the
motor-Fan.
#
•Any $67"
145 DU $290 nom.
Canton Insuranca. China Underwriters. North China Insaranos Union Insurance Yangtze Insurance........ bay, China Fire Insurance .........$200 buy. Hongkong Fire Luanranss ... $540 20m Doug noce SONGAYDEDDING H.K., U. & M. Steamboat
nas (Prat) .............. Da (Def.),
Shill Trports Star Fame.....
China Bugtry evasion Malabon Bugars Binguete.... Kalan Mlining A........ Langkats (combined)
The driver of the van had opened it at the back to disclose a weighing machinear......................... spitable for sacks of coal." The weights of the sacks proved satisfactory when tested, and presently the motor-van-a plain van with nothing to identify it- drove away. It was all very mysterious to the onlookers, and it gave the carters Food for thought For this individual with the black van had come upon them "out of the blue," with legal powers to test their sacks for short weight...
PROTECTING THE BUYERS. This inspection of the sale of coal is one of London's many protective services, organised by the Public Contrel Depart ment of the London County Council The coal oficers, eight in number, are liable -to-pop-up-unexpectedly in any corner of the County of London, and not only do they protect the public against short weight, but they are occasionally the means of disclosing to merchants fraudu lent practices on the part of employees: Over 30,000 examinations of coal in tran- sit, or being actually delivered, are made
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Tronoh Mines
Ural Caspiana HK.&K. Warts, H.K. & W. Docks
bay.
buy.
$la nom, SJU nom. $40 nom.
כב 18
.367 sel,
$151 nom.
$351 buy.
$1 nom.
40. nom.
T93 buy
TL. 12 pm. Tia of Hom
Tha. 7 dow
$4 ngin.
..877. Bay. 8/-ndum. $193gnom. $54 bay, 1 Ths. 171 buy. MNET 5.50 Buy. TE, 108 buy. $104 bay.
..$63; nom.
15 eta, sal,
...$137 buy, 13.90 ks.
Hongkow! ................... New Engineerings.. Shanghai Dooks... H. & S. Hotels.
Lands Hongkong Hanging Realtys (f.p.)..... $7+ bay., d sel, Hb Territorial HK Developments ...... Humphreys Estates .............. Prince's Building.............. Bural Lazida Ewe Cations Orientala Shanghai Cotions
Do. China Buses Hongkong Tramvays Peak Trams (old).... →→→ Do. (new)...
50 nam.
$11 boy.
Tls. 9 buy. .Th. 2 buy. (ota)...31. & puy (now).....Tla, 27 buy.
in a year,
Premises from which coal is sent out are also able to surprise inspections. Records show that some of these pre- mises, which in London number over m thousand are inspected more than once--Singapore Tractiona
Taxi ...... in a year.
Amusements Canton Ices Cements (combined)
Do. (old) Do.. (дем) China Lights (combined)
Do. (old) ****** Do.. (new).....
Ninety-nine traders out of every hun, dred probably deal fairly with their cus tomers; but the other man has to be watched, and so 14 inspectors, covering the County of London, make 70,000 sur prise calls in a year or stops and other premises engaged in trade.
Between them they also make nearly
20,000 inspections of street stalls and barrows. In shops and other premises only 10 appliances were found to be seri ously unjust, or unstamped in one year; only 129 stalls and barrows were using faulty or unstamped appliances.
TRICKS OF THE ROGUES. - Like the coal vendors, the majority engaged in London trade are careful for their own sakes and reputations. Here against the inspectors occasionally find on detecting a misdemeanour that an am- employer. However, the protective ser CO.ployee is the dishoneat party and not the vices. are chiefly concerned in level justice for ali concerned, and this widely recognised. Warnings are often necessary nowadays, and prosecu tions are rarely made. Indeed, the Loo- don shopkeeper in general has a very good name for fair dealing.
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So has the street trader; but there are black sheep in every flock, and so you find the inspector of weights and mea sures to be an exceedingly wide-awake person, full of knowledge of all the tricks and dodges practised by the rogues. ·
A QUICK EYE FÖR SUSPECTS. Picture him entering a street market in the East End. He has a quick eye for suspects, and some of them recognise him. But he is so irregular in his visite- you never know when to expect him. He moves in the crowd when the market is busy, and presently his practised eye, watching scales in use, observes a thin strip of lead wrapped round one beam of 2 scale; or be notices weights in use that have an irregular look; or he observes that a bushel measure, seems to be short of the proper dimensions.
Chins Providenta ......... Constructions i Dairy Farm ......... Der A Wings. Hongkong Electrics Marso Electrics. H.K. Bopes (combined)
(old).... Do. (25W) Lane Crawfords........ Mackintoshe. Sincere......... med Asbestor.. Watson (old)
Wm. Fewells
Tla. 104 bay. $24.60 buy.
một bay.
..$7.00 nom:
..10:8 buy, 12/ sel
..$3 sel
....Silg buy. ..$7) nom. $13 nom $12 nom.
$13 pom ..$19 buy.
$14) nom.
$11 num
$1 bay. 5.20) sa..
2. nom.
$161 nom. $5 sal.
1,360 sel, 651 za.
.$35 nom.
326 sel.
.10 sal
..$5 aci.
..88% DO.. 19i nam. $11 no
SAU nom. „$13+ noux.
„96; nom.
buy-buyer; sel-sellers; Raskus
som.-nosinai.
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RUGBY, August 7th.
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12.11
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18.34
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Helsingfora
1932
Lisbon
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Buenos Aires
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28
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There was an occasion when an inspec spotted" by a trader who had tor was reason to fear his scrutiny. Quickly the trader removed a couple of faked weights -but not quickly enough to foil the in- spector. "Come on, let's have 'em. I saw you pick 'em up," said the inspector.
The trader, one hand behind his back, ningly fitted. There are even apothe affected innocence, and even as he did so caries measuring glasses with forged passed the deficient weights to a band proof marks-one of them 25 per cent, at bebind him that secretly touched his fault when filled. Alas-for-him, the hand belonged not to his own accomplice, but to the inspector's assistant!
When an inspector goes visiting shops he rides in a car which is fully equipped with avoirdupois and grain weights, troy and apothecaries weights, measures of length, measures of capacity, and scales for every checking purpose. His weights and measures are certified copies of the standards at his office. He has to know. every sort of scale recognised by the Board of Trade, ancient and modern.
WEIGHING A HAIR.
In the office of one inspector of weights and measures I have seen a museum col- lection of fraudulent scales and weights, the fruit of several years of vigilance Here are pound weights hollowed out and stuffed with cork, flat brass weights with concave bottoms, iron weights of the requisite shape and bulk but made of a
For testing weights and measures at much lighter metal, and a marine storé i dealer's weight that was a pound and a his office be has apparatus which will half heavier than it pretended to be a weigh accurately anything from a hair weight, he used when buying old clothes of one's head (one of mine tarned his most delicate scale at 1017 of a grain () for rags..
to a lorry and its load At this office there are men who do nothing all day but test half-piät tumblers with water and The collection of faulty scales is still i sand-blast on to those found correct the more surprising. One scale used on EC.C. proof, mark.
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SHORT-WEIGHT DODGES.
street stall had a string attached under London's protective services include the pan, on which a weight hung, under-officiala who keep a watch on employ neath the stall and out of sight. Another ment agencies, charitable appeals, and had a penny and a half-penny fastened hairdressers' establishments. There are to its beam with a tie-clip-the beam in pipectors who investigate closing times, this case being underneath the scale and half-holidays, and meal-times in shops, invisible. A third had a band of elastic, and who see to the proper provision, of which could be slipped off quickly, bear seats for female shop assistants ing on the indicator in such a way as to The storage of celluloid, the keeping of. effect short weight. A fourth, made by quantities of earbide of calcium and the the owner himself, had one beam slightly retention of stocks of petroleum, petrol, shorter than the other, so that five pounds or any of its dangerous products, are of goods weighed as seven pounds.* ́ ̄ ̄`·
governed by proper restrictions. Yet the In this collection are several measures public-and the delinquents themselves- with false bottom, bushel measures which have to be protected against thoughtless once were genuine, but have been opered infringements of the restrictions. and closed again with a smaller diameter these again are duties of protective ser- and pint measures with a false inside omvices inspectors.-W. C. 8. in Evening.
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