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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1929.
KOWLOON TONG
AFFAIRS.
COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY
DEMANDED.
MR. BRAGA'S QUERIES TO
THE GOVERNMENT,
At to-day's meeting of the Legis- lative Council the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga will ask "a series of very interesting questions relating to the promotion and financing of the Kewloon Tong and New Territories Development Co., Ltd.; the con- ccasions made to
CRUSHED BETWEEN
TRAMS.
GIRL'S TRAGIC DEATH AT
QUARRY BAY.
The distressing incident on June 25 last at Quarry Day, when a Chinese girl had her head crushed between two trans, formed the sub- jeet of an inquest at Central Magi- stracy, yesterday, with Mr. T. M Hazlerigg sitting as Coroner.
The evidence showed that the drevased WiL8 24 years of age (not seventeen as previously, re- them and theported) and that on the afternoon nature of the supervision exercised of Jane she was with a" girl friend on Tram No. 30, going from by the Government.
Causeway Bay to Shaukiwan. She The final question asks for a Cour appeared to be under the impression mission of Enquiry into the Row-that her amah was travelling on loon Tong Scheme
the lower deck; she and her friend being on the upper deck.
Below is the full text of Mr. Braga's questions: -----
On reaching Quarry Bay, the girl 1. What are the respective dates leaned over the left side of the tram- and amounts of the premium paid for Crown land leased to the Kow. car and shouted for her amah. loon Tong and New Territories There was no response and she then Development Co., Limited, under leaned over the right side and cal- Clause 5 sub-sections (a), (b) and (e) of the Agreement dated October | led for her amah again. While she 20, 1922, between the Government
was doing this, Tram No. 75 passed and the Company?
in the opposite direction and the deceased's head came in contact with part of the super-structurë' of the passing ear. The impact caused her to fall back on her seat, and she was removed from Tram No. 39 dend or dying, and was eventually taken to the Mortuary where Dr. Cannon performed a post mortem examina- tion. It was found that the girl's skull was
2. Is it a fact that there is still owing by the Company to the Government a sum of $318,430.14 as the balance of land premiunil
3. In view of the fact that ghout one-sixth of the estimated totni cost of land and building is paid by cach out of the 242 subscribers to the Scheme upon his siguing the Agreement with the Company, and belere any actual work is com- menced, what is the explanation for the large sum stated in Question being still, unpaid to Government in respect of land premium?
fractured. There was
no sign of any organië disease.
The motorman and conductor of the tram coming from the opposite direction did not notice the girl leaning out of tram No. 39 and as inatter of fact, were not aware
4. Has the Government knowledge of a circular letter, dated July 1929, issued oven the signature of the Managing Director in which the sum of $2.900.235.49 is stated as of anything wrong until they had the gutte which represents the total count payable by the entire body passed the tram some way. The space between the two tracks had subscribers under their resperheen measured and found to be four tive agreements in respect of all
feet four inches. between the inner the houses embraced, within the
lines. With two cars on the tracks, Scheme," r., the Kowloon Tong the space between the superstruc Estate Scheme?
tures was sixteen inches.
to in
It was stated in the course of the case that there were.. notices on the decks of tramers calling the passengers' attention to the danger of leaning over the side. notices were in English.
These
3. Is it a fact that the signatory of the letter referred question besides being the Managing Director of the Kow loon Tong and New Territories Development Co., Ltd., is also the paid architect of the said Company
The jury returned, a verdict of and a director of the Hong Kong death by misadventure and Excavation Pile Driving and Con-exonerated the Tramway Company struction Co., Ltd., with which the contract for the carrying out of the scheme has been entered into by the Kowloon Tong Company?.
6. Between the period when the last Managing Director left the Colony early in 1928 and the ap- pointment of the present incumbent to the office on May . 1920, is it not true that no Managing Director existed, and this being the ease tu whom did the Government look for the fulfilment of the agreement of 1929 during that period?
from all blame. They added that it was desirable that notices should also appear in Chinese warning the public of the danger of leaning over the side of the cars.
"EMPEROR OF CHINA." BANDITS AUDACITY.
SHANGHAI, July 13. Decked out in royal robe and crowns manufactured by his own family, one Wei Liu Kai, handit of the fact that for the carving leader of the Sanchang district in out of a scheme involving in the Hupeh Province, has proclaimed end a Bum of nearly 83,000,000 himself Emperor of China." (irrespective of the Government
The local magistrate has asked
7. Was the Government cognisant
A GILBERT and SULLIVAN OPERETTA--- Complete
Each clever word and every bar of music in the little dramatic cantata, “"Trial, by Jury," has been recorded for Victor in this new and immensely entertaining Red Seal album. If your tastes rufi along instrumental lines, the famous. Flon- zaley Quartet (now in the last year of their existence as an ensemble)-has re- corded a lovely bit of Schumann chamber music... But that isn't half of the wonderful musical opportunities in this July list of Victor records. The beat Red Scal music and the best dance entertainment are right here! You'll want to bear some of these new records. We want you to hear them. Let's get together Boon!
Trial by Jury (Gilbert-Sullivan)
وجهم
DOTLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY Album C-4 (Nom. 9314–93LT)
Automatic (No 9318-9321)
Coraplete Text Norma-Casta Diva-Parts 1 and 2
(Queen of Heaven) (Bellini) ROSA PONSELLE WITH
METROPOLITAN OPERA Chorus
No. 8125, 12-Inch
I'm Falling in Love With Someone
(from "Naughty Marietta") Moonbeams (from "The Red Mil")
RICHARD CHOOLS
No. 1371, 10-inch Etude in C Sharp Minor Piano Etude in D Flat Major MURIEL KERA No. 4113, 10-inch
Melodie Arabe (Glazoumow-
Kochanski) Violin with Piano ti Sicilienne and Rigaudon (Francoeur)
SADAR SHUCHARI
No. 4114, 10-Lock Alt-Wien (Old Vienna)" (from "Triakontameron") Piano Prelude in A Minor (Debussy)
ISABELLE YALKOTSKY. No. 4115, 10-fach Peer Gynt Suite No. 2-Part 1-
Ingrid's Lament
Peer Gynt Suite No. 2-Part 2-
Arabian Dance ..... EDCENE GOOSSENS AND
·ŠYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
•No. 9327, 12-inch Peer Gynt Suite No. 2-Part 3-
The Return of Peer Gynt Peer Gynt Suite No. 2-Part 4
Solvejg'e Song EUGENE GOUSSINS AND
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA No. 9323, 12-tach
Don Giovanni-Madamina!
(Pretty Lady)
Don Giovanni-Nella bionda egli
ha l'usanza (Is & Maiden Fair and Slender) FYODOR CHALLA. PEN
No. 1393, 10-inch
Capriccio Italien-Parts 1 and 2
LEOPOLD STOŁOWSKI AND
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PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA "No. 6949, 12-inch
Cappriccio Italien-Parts 3 and 4.
LEOPOLD STOŁOWSKI AND
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA No. 6950, 12-inch
Quartet in A Minor (Schumann,
Op. 41, No. 1)
FLONZALEY QUANTEI
Album M-1 (Nos. 1374–1377)
Automatic (Nos. 1378-151
I Kiss Your Hand, Madame She's a New Kind of Old-Fashioned
Girl
1J
No. 241973, 10-Inch
Blue Hawaii On a Summery Night
JACK SMITH
JIM MILLER-CILARLIN FARRELL No. 21904, 10-inch
From Sunrise to Sunset (from
Sunset 'Til Dawn) · To Be in Love (Espesh'lly with You)
JACK SMITH
No. 21937, 10-inch
If I Give Up the Saxophone (Will
You Come Back to Me?) Hello Sunshine Hello
EDDIE CANTOR ."
No. 21987, 10-danch
S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.
ELECTRIC COMPANY
PROSECUTES.
MANAGER OF CHINESE
SHOP CHARGED.
Before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at Central Magistracy" yesterday, the manager of the Iu Wing electric seeds shop was charged with receiv ing stolen property, namely, a quantity of electric fittings belong-.
pany.
share) there was registered a Com the Hankow military commander' to 1ng to the General Electric Com- pany with a capital limited to a liability of only $20,000 of which take steps designed to bring Wei not more than $2,000 was actually and his bandit friends back to
reality,-United Press, paid up!
8. Was it cupsidered prudent to vest in a Company the right and power of absolute control of a theme involving a few millice dollars in its execution when its only visible capital was a sum of $2.000 with shares paid up to the extent only of 10 cents each ?
14. Is the Government aware that in the Circular letter referred to in Question 4 the Kowloon Tong Com- pany has given notice to all sub- scribers calling for the payment of a further Call to the extent of 9. Was any and what Government per cent. of the amount covenant supervision exercised over the Comed to be paid by each and every pany in the carrying out of the subscriber in respect of each and Company's obligations towards the every House on the Estate Government in terms of the Agree will make a total of 100 per cent. of what the subscribers covenanted inent with, the Government?
to pay?
which
Mr. H. J. Armstrong appeared for the General Electric Company and Mr. M. K. Lo represented the defendant.
Mr. Armstrong in applying for ai remand stated that some time would be taken to check stock worth over $100,000 and until then his cli- ents could not say exactly how they stood. It was possible that part of the goods found in the defendant's shop had been bought from the com- plainants in the ordinary course of business. The only goods which came under suspicion were those which the defendant offered for sale below cost price.
In pressing for a date to be fixed 10. Is it not a fact that up to
13. Has the demand for payment Mr. M. K. Lo pointed out that the December 31, 1924, the following been made with the knowledge and compisinant had been arrested on aggregate payments had been made
"consent of the Government? Did July 10 on a definite charge, but by individual purchasers.
not the Company write in to according to the prosecution there
Government subsequent (a) In respect of Land... 8536,925 the
to was a possibility that the case" be. (b) Buildings-1st Call... 630,000 1924 sending a Lis of Subfore the court on the present charge 2nd Call... 127,800 scribers who have fully paid up might not be sustained. It seems, 3rd Call...
78,400 all monies in respect of their pro said Mr. Lo, that the prosecution perty under the scheme and calling were on a fishing expedition. 81,397,1252pon the Government to issue The case was fixed for the after-
Crown Leases for same in terms of noon of July 23.
representing, 18.62 per cent., 91.27 Clause 7, sub-section (n) of the
Agreement?
per cent., 4.27 per cent., 2.55 per cent, respectively, of the total coste. In a letter to the subscriber.
of 82,090,258 up to date 2.
11. If the reply to Question 10 be in the affirmative, what reason there for a sum of over three bup- dred thousand dollars for and pre- mium remaining unpaid. to the Government, when the Government bad already been informed that 8556,925 had been collected from the subscribers t
12. What steps is the Government taking to recover the debt from the Company?
13. Is the Government aware of the fact that, in respect of and to pay the Government about
THE GENERAL ACCIDENT FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE CORP., LTD. for which the Company contracted
motomnawapping
AGENTS:
J. H. BACKHOUSE, LTD,
TEL. No. 1788.
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and had been for several years in receipt from the subscribers of over $500,000 1
(Continued on next Voluma).
of House No.. 111 of the Kowloon
Tong Estate dated January 20, 1996, the General Manager stated:
"I can now produce the docu- mentary evidence to the Crown Land Agent (sic) and ask that your Crown Leane be made at once. The fees therein will be
JAVANESE LABOUR.
TO GO TO PHILIPPINES.
(Victor Distributors)
Chater Road.
MR. W. E. L. SHENTON'S THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.
QUESTIONS.
WIRELESS, THE VEHICULAR FERRY AND MALARIA.
The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, at to-day's meeting of the Legisla sive Council, will ask:-
$20,000 SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE.
At to-day's meeting of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Coun- total of 820,400 will be presented. cil supplementary estimates to a
Among the items is $1,500 to pro- vide an extra storey to a cook-
Will the Government inform house which is very old, dilapidat ed, too small, il ventilated and this Council:-
has urinals on each side. It cannot (u) As to what steps are being be satisfactorily remodelled and it taken to establish an effective is therefore proposed to demolish broadcasting system in thisit and, construct a new cookhouse Colony?
with quarters over. The cost will
(b) What will be the effective be increased by $1,500 and a supplé range of such system when mentary vote for this amount is re- the Government's contemplat-quested. The above is to be, met ed scheme is completed 1 from savings under Sai Ying Pun (c) When is it anticipated that New Market.
such scheme will be in full operation?
Mr. Shenton will also ask:
The Public Works Department asks for $1,500 for the purchase of six typewriters for W/T. Office. Is the Government in a position Provision is made in this year's to inform this Council whether estimates for six short wave receiv there is a possibility of arrange-ers and they have been ordered from ments being made in the near Englands It will be necessary to future for a vehicular ferry across obtain six typewritera for use in the Harbour.
conjunction with the receivers as one What steps have been taken dur-machine is required to cope with ing the current year with the object the traffic of each import W/T. service such as Canton, Swatow, of bringing into operation
Tunnanfu, small services (ie, malaria in this 'Colony effective system fer dealing with Manila, etc., or for each group of
Siam,
British North Borneo, Taihoku).
and
CHINESE DIRECTOR ”.
CHARGED.
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The Education Department needs 85,400 for equipment of King's College. This is a re-vote.
This equipment was provided for in 1923 estimates head 28, sub-head 29, Equipment.
DEFALCATION OF BOOKS ALLEGED:
Owing to late delivery of equip- ment 85,998.44 of sub-head 29 of Wong Cho-on, formerly a director inst year's estimate was unspent. A Becretary treasurer of the re-vote of 85,300 is now needed as Kwong Ah Company of No. 6 Wing the equipment has arrived. Lok Street, was charged at Central A sum of $12,000 is asked es Magistracy, before Mr. E. W personal emoluments for the assist- Hamilton, with falsifying the ant to Attorney-General. The office books of the Company, the defalca-1 of Assistant to the Attorney- tions amounting to 818,051.
General is normally held by a cadet ("D.P." Special Service,] In outlining the case for the officer (barrister) and the pay is prosecution Mr. D. L. Strellett charged to Head 2, Cadet Service. Manila, P.I., July B-The stated that the defendant had been There is no cadet officez available 830. If you desire the Company evident superiority of Javanese in sole charge of the cash and re- for this office at present, and pro- to secure this Lease for you, I tobacco growers has been attested ceipt books of the firm, which was vision has been made by the tem- will make sworn affidavit under to by the request of the Compania engaged in import and export busi-
barrister at $1,000 per month.. the Agreement, and do so for General de Tabacos de Filipinas for hess and banking. The firm had a porary appointment of a practising you."
the importation of skilled labour branch in Tahiti and on the re- from Java for its tobacco planta signation of one of the officials of tion in the Cagayan Valley,
the company in Hong Kong, a mem- According to the request, which ber of the branch in Tahiti was has been granted by the insular col- sent out. This man before taking lector of customs, the Tabacalera gyer from the official who had re- from Java 30 Javanese signed, ordered an investigation in bring from felicis growers Tentigamen's Accounts as a the stay of the workmen while here fesult of which the alleged defic tions by defendant came to light, have been filled by the company
(Continued at foot of next column). with the bureau--United Press.
Will His Excellency the Governor kindly direct that the text of the "documentary evidence referred to above be laid on, the table of this Council t
17. Will the Government appoint a Commission of Enquiry to in- vestigate into and report on the Kowloon Tong Scheme
Defendant disappeared on May 18, but was arrested in Hong Kong at the beginning of this month when he arrived in the Colony from Singapore on the 8. Porthos.
The hearing was adjourned for Mears. Wilkinson and Grist is for. the defendant.