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HONG KONG, Octosan 1, 1999,
A FACTORY CODE NEEDED.
A SMALL but satisfactory item in last week's Budget, debate was the announcement by the Attorney General that the Government in tends to alter and bring up to date the Factory Code, The Honourable Sir JOSEPH KEMP said:-"A Bill to amend the Industrial Employment
these
Since the week-end, all the ships of the 8th Destroyer Flotilla, in- clading, the leader, H.M.S. Bruce, have been flying paying-off peri nants. The reliefs for the officers and ratings of the Flotilla have already arrived and transfers are being made daily,
In our account of Sunday's cele- bration on the board the & Sui Tai it was stated that a concert was given in the second class saloon. Wonre asked to state that the entertainment at which the Aloha Serenaders took a leading part was in the first class saloon.
A correspondent kindly draws attention to the fact that it was the Hong Kong and Singapore Brigade R.A. team (and not the 3/13 of war at the H.K.V.D.C. sporta Punjab) which won the open tug-
on Saturday. We regret the error, and thank our informant for cor- recting it.,
ROBBERY SEQUEL: A.P.C. CASHIER. CHARGED.
SUED FIRM FOR WAGES BUT WAS ARRESTED.
MONEYLENDING AND BORROWING AMONG CLERKS,
BURGLAR TO BE CALLED TO GIVE ̈ EVIDENCE!
Singapore, September 24-The alleged burglary of a Chinese cashier's safe in the grille at the sales branch of the Astallo Petroleum Company's premises at Ocean Building, Singapore, in February this year, which resulted in a charge of theft, as a ser- vant, of $1,238 being brought against the cashier himself, was the subject of a hearing by Mr, C. H. G. Clarke, the District Judge, yesterday afternoon.
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The accused is Toh Boah Hwee who had been in the employ- ment of the AP.Q, for several years.
Mr, N. E. P. Whitley, the Deputy Public Prosecutor, being en- gaged at the Singapore Assizes, Mr. Spenser Wilkinson conducted the case for the Grown. Mr. Withers Payns represented the ac- cused.
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SAFE DEFIES EXPERT LOCKSMITHS.
The case was first brought to Cross-examined by Mr. Withers. notice when the accused commenced Payne, witness said that the week
On the afternoon of Wednesday, an action in the Supreme Court previous to "that of the burglary because | October 2, the play-off for the Lady | befare the Chief Justice, Sir there was 81,400, more in the sale.
Stubbs' Cub will take place between William Morison, against the The week previous to that there the Typhoons and the Somersets, under the auspices of the Hong Kong Polo Club. The band of the 2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers will play during the
afternoon.
was still more. On the Saturday before the burglary there was less in the safe than the previous three
wooks.
His Honour : It is rather in- fortunate that the robbery took place this week!
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1929.
WEATHER REPORT, springing up in and about Kow Among, passengers arriving here loon, and it is quite time the Gov. | yesterday in the Empress of Yesterday's weather report, fore-ernment insisted upon proper con Russia from the North were Major cost and remarks, issued by the ditions being observed. The ex and Mrs. H. Armstrong, Mr. J. M. Royal Observatory At p.m.,
perience of England in the early Alve, Major C, F. Carson; Dr. and stated :-
| days of her industrial history was Mrs. W. B. McClure. The antjarelone remains station- that things were worst in the small ary over S. Manchuria and has fur- factory run by the self-made man. ther increased in intensity. The | Ho was hard on himself and ruth typhoon has passed into the Pacifis less to his employees. Britain is to the east of N. Japan. Moderate still suffering from the legacy of monsoon will continue along the | class-hatred, ill-health, and many S.E. coast of China and other the other national ills directly handed N. China Sea.
down by a bad factory system in- adequately controlled by the State in its beginninga. Japan is strug gling with similar problems, but recently night werk was made illegal for Women and young peopic. What Japan has accom- plished Hong Kong should be able to do. Our readers will remember that a painful impression was created one time ago when a police prosecution revealed quite incidentally, that in a knitting- factory at Kowloon young girls of 10 upwards were being employed, with full consent of the law, on'a seven-nights a week shift from 8.30 p.m. to 7 a.m., the munificent wage for this to hour task being 35 cents a day. That is aweating. with vengeance, but girlai
conditions accept there are fewer jobs than applic ante: The Medical Officer of Health who gave evidence in the ease in question denounced the conditions with far more effect than any Com. munist or anti-British propagandist could have dons, because he spoke
Further cross-examined by de- of Children Ordinance, so as to as a fair-minded man of scientific
fending counsel, Mr. Munsey extend its scope to women and training. He said, referring to a
agreed that anybody could leap over the grille from the counter. young persons
has already girl just under äftcen who was
The accused cashier had the key been drafted and is now under working in the factory, that the
for the grille. The height of the double door leading from the alley consideration by the Governor in effects of such conditions are very
way into the street below was about. Council." The Attorney-General of serious. ́ ́. A girl of that age
the nine feet. The back door of the Hong Kong" walks delicately, how was undergoing important physienl
A.P.C.'s head office at St. Helen's office should be locked and the key
kept by the tamby. ever, like a certain King of ancient changes which take up a great deal
On February history, when approaching auad of her energy. Continuous stand
Court. He had nothing to do with 2, he (witness) left the office at. the working of the company's sales about 1 o'clock. From his deak he mittedly thorny subject. He warns ing was particularly harmful to
Be- ad known the accused for about fore leaving he checked the eash branch in Ocean Building. He could see the cashier clearly. us that improvement must of women ... and would have ill-
15 years and bad had a money but could not say whether the safe necessity be slow and gradual, and effects upon their children." These
He did not- transaction with him but could not was locked or not it is very difficult to travel far are the things, on the showing of
remember the actual date; is was keep the keys which were with the
On that cashier. Two keys were kept by. ahead of neighbouring countries in the "Government's OWD officials,
about two years ago.
were, at the this matter. The first proposition which need remedy and it is to be
occasion necused borrowed $1,000 the cashier and two on a promissory note from a chetty head office. Witness had been, in is arguable. It is always difficult hoped that the legislative mill will
and witness signed the noto as the sales brauch since October guarantor, He had not backed 1927, and the accused had been to abstract money (for such the be neither so slow nar so full
The rainfall for the 24 hours any notes for him previously. The there all that time, operation of a Factory Code would of uncertainty as the Attorney-ending at 10a.m. yesterday, as loan of $1,000 was repayable in in- Re-examined by Mr. Spencer- amount to) from wealthy and General's statement
measured at the Royal Observatory, stalments the first of which was Wilkinson, witness gaid that he did was 3.67 inches, the heaviest fall paid to his knowledge but later the not know if anybody went into the patriotic members of the community might be the case. We know that being 1.30 a.m. and 2.30 am, when accused repaid the whole loan in office on Saturday afternoon to even when the sources of their | the Government has its hands full, 137 inches were recorded. The one payment.
work. He knew that people. went. "If the instalments had no, been there usually on Sundays. There revenue may not be all that could but in this matter it need not fear downpour was very welcome from
the Water Engineers' point of view paid regularly the chetty would was nothing to prevent the cashier be desired. That great exponent opposition except possibly of a after a fairly long dry period and have come to me," witness proceed from opening the safe. of worldly wisdom NICCOLO MAC-kind that only needs a bold front has set the streams in the catched. The accused mortgaged one
Safe Defes Locksmiths, ment areas flowing with renewed of his properties for 83,000 and
The difficulty of opening a safe vigour.
paid off the loan with interest. I TEXAS COMPANY,
Europe and America are slowly aneenturies ago, that while a Prince,
simply signed as guarantor; I do without the proper keys was next. learning sweating in industry does N°
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN American Corporation, mannfacturing or Government of any kind, may
dealing
not pay; that the best financial After a very successful sensor in not remember the interest charged." explained by Mr. Tan Hong Gim,
His Honour: You signed with- Bank.
secretary of the Overseas Chinese that the EIGHTH ORDINARY
He said that they had 1. YEARLY MEETING of the SHARE Petroleum, with Oces at SHANGHAI, generally take a man's life without returns come from factories where Canton, Torcat'a Roosters will be HOLDERS in the Company will be Howe KONG, KE and elsewhere, has making dangerous and lasting conditions are good, wages ade back in the Colony for a few days out seeing how much. No wonder Chatswood safe in the bank. The The commencing Thursday, October 3, at there is such a lot of bankruptcy key for this safe was lost sometime held at the Uffices of the Genera disposed of and gives over to
among clerks in Singapore 1 Managers, LowER ALBERT ROAD, TEXAS COMPANY (CHINA), LTD, enemies among his relatives, if even quate, and treatment humane.
healthy and contented servant is the Star Theatre, to afford threatre-
in January this year. Two lock- Mr. Spenser Wilkinson: You remiths were seat for to have it a part of the victim's estate be a better proposition than the man
goers a final opportunity of wit- Hong Kong, on TUESDAY, THE 15TH its Assets and Liabilities and OCTOBER, 1929, at 11 AM, for the
the Property, of whatsoever description
But this is
nessing the wonderful performance member quite well that the loan opened as the bank did not have of the roosters, prior to leaving for as repaid out of this mortgage the duplicate key. purpose of receiving a Report of the located in CHINA, and Provinces of sequestered then trouble must be with a grievance. Directors together with Statement of CHOSEN and TAIVAS (JAPAN), the Expected both from the family con- principle to which employers are
generally short-sighted, and it is Indo-China where they are due for money f-He told me so... Accounts, and re-electing Directors and AGING LLARED TERRITORY, the cerned and from other persons of not only in the East, that they are an extended tour. There will be Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
property apprehensive for their ravenously eager for a free hand special matinees on Saturday and Company will be CLOSED From the
awa possessions. All legislation, to ran their businesses just as they Sunday at 2.30.
see fit. The 'sweating problem is, 7TH OF OCTOBER, 1929, to 15ra
that touches property and profits in fact, a peculiarly grave one OCTOBER, 1929, Both Days inclusivo.
is admittedly difficult because it "East of Suez," and we are baving By Order of the Board of Director,
makes inconvenient enemies but it a taste of it bere. The plea that M. MANUK,
only under such conditions will Secretary, Hong Kong, 30th Sep, 1929, (8495
THE INSTITUTE will RE-OPEN
MEDALS,
on FRIDAY, OCTOBER GOLD & PRIZE Studenta joining Classon held at QUIES'S COLLEST, Kiro's COLLEGE OF the BziiLics SCHOOL will be Enrolled at the EDUCATION DEPARTMENT only; thome joining Classes held at the CENTRAL, BRIT:BH SCHOOL, KOWLOON,
ibe Enrolled at that School. Entry Forms and Copies of Prospectus may be obtained at EDUCATION DETART. XENT OF at the CENTRAL BRITISH SCHOOL
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WO Young Cantonese, pomessing some Experience in and Knowledge
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Details Apply, giving concerning Age. Oncrer, and Point of View, also Balary WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. required in First Instance, To, TRI SECRETARY, EDUCATIONAL LABOR-
PHONE C. 616. HEAD FOSTOFFICE Box 83. CANTON CITY,
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ATORY,
THE HONG KONG & CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
HONG KONG & CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING CO.,
LIMITED,
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of considering and, if thought the following Resolution as
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Shares
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the Com- be reduced from $400,000.00 divided into 40,000
Df $10,00 Each to $200,000 00 divided into 400,000 Shares of 85,00 Each and that auch Redustion be effected by
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NOTICE.
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and the CROWN COLONY OF HONG KONG. Sigaod: THE TEXAS COMPANY, By P. F. LE. FEVRE, Attorney.
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A.P.C., for wages in lieu of notice. After having heard the evidence bis Lordship reserved his judgment ad ordered that the papers bo sent to the Deputy Public Prosecu New Kowloon Inland Lot No. top. As a result of this the pre- 1980, situated in Yu Chau Street, sent criminal charge was prefer was sold at the Crown Land Office red against the accused. yesterday afternoon to Messrs. Kong Wong and Fan Sung of 1. Wong Chuk Street, at the upset price of $7,850. The land has an area of about 5,100 square feet and its annual rental is $35.
The Police Recreation Club have
arranged an open-air concert for next Saturday evening at the Club's ground, Happy Valley. The KOS.. band will play and Mrs. F. Bunje, Mrs. Keown, MTB. Womack, and Mr. V. C. Labrum have also promised to assist. A start will be made at 8.30 p.m. and the last item is timed for 11.30
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Looking Back 25 Years,
Among the votes passed in the
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Bankruptcy Among Clerks, The first witness called Mr. Wee Ean Quay, who stated that he Was cashier nt
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His Honour: Probably the spare key was locked inside the cafe Yes, we found is inside.
Evidence was next, given by Mr.
sales branch, who said that "on J. W. Munsey, assistant in the
Witness continued to say that the February 2, Saturday, he checked two locksmitha tried to open the the money in the accused cashier's safe for about a month without safe. The following morning be success. They used wires Finally went to the office arriving there the safe hand to be cut open. The
Ho between 10.30 and 11 o'clock.
Police
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can be done, in fact, the adminis enterprise pay has always been'n Estimates for 1005 is the sum of discovered that the safe door in agents for the safe could not sup- Mr. Withers Payne: What kind trative question is not complicated.
but the bolts were of locksmiths were they 7-Chinese. The second contention about not this Colony industrialists enjoy Station. This work has now been witness said he did not try the
to the Central storey
though the door had been locked. I knew them. Becurity and lightness of taxation CONCERNED travelling ahead of neighbouring, unknown elsewhere in China. AARE
in the hands of the P.W.D. for a
You did not apply through the Later he checked the cash government for burglars from the If considerable time. The scaffolding with Mr. Winsley.
balts. HEREBY NOTIFIED countries is even less convincing they do not like the Code, which we that, THE TEXAS COMPANY
wns erected long ago, and it was
he prison 1-No. (CHINA), LTD., & American Corpors Shall we have it argued that the hope will be imposed, they can set rumoured that the cause of the arrived in the office Mr. Winsley
His Honour: They were mot- TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tion organized under the Laws of the standard of Hong Kong's police rible a choice preference will still delay it been discovered that and a filing clerk.
was already there with two tambies supplied through up elsewhere. Faced with so ter- in pushing on operations was
the Detective that An EXTRAORDINARY STATE OF DELAWARE U.S.A, kas taken
Department 3-No. Over the CHINA Business of THE
must be measured by that of be given in most casce to Hong the walls were not capable of ear- Looking for Finger Prints.
Hi Honour: It would have been GENERAL MEETING of the above TEXAS COMPANY, including all Canton? Because Kwangtung pub Kong, and it is safe to prophesy, rying another storey
There ap Company will be held at the Otices A
interesting to have naked the De "I am not positive about the teetive Department .to get L of the DAIRY FARM, ICE AND Assets and Liabilities of the inter COLD STORAGE
Company in CHINA, the Provinces of lishes no audited accounts, is our homesty, will prove the best policy. pears to have been no truth in the. COMPANY,
Is in not honest to steal from em- story, however, for the roof is now grille door being open or closed," burglar. LIMITED NO.
GHSSEN and TAIWAN (JAPAN), the own Treasury be similarly ployees a fair share of the profits being taken of and the work of Mr. Munsey continued. "When I Mr. Spenser Wilkinson: I am Victoria, in":
in the Colony of Hong
KWANSTUNG LEASED TERRITORY, the exempt from scrutiny. When Can- and above all, it is unfair to steal heightening the walls will be set
went into the grille I saw a black going to call one. TUESDAY, the FIFTEENTH COLONIES OF MACAU, KWONGCHOWAN
If Hong about in due course-Hong Kong coat on the table and several pieces Mr. E. A. Taylor, of the accounts DAY OF OCTOBER, 1929, at 11.16 and the CROWN COLORT OF Hord Kong, ton changes her civic head should their physical health.
Kong is to have an industrial Daily Press, Oct. 1, 1904. we do the same? And in Canton future it must be laid on the sure
of wire on the floor. As far as I branch, A.P.C. said that he was O'CLOCK in the FORENDON
Bigned: THE TEXAS COMPANY, for the
remember there were two pieces of in charge of the particular safe (CHINA), LTD.,
the bead is not severed from the foundation of a Factory Code that Looking Back 50 Years..
galvanised wire in the lock. De-where valuable documents and title We notice last evening the Secretective Inspector Jeans was tele deeds were kept together - with reat of the governing body. Head, will breed a race of sturdy and con-
touted artisans. We have no place tary of the Cricket Club practising phoned for by Mr. Winsley and he duplicate keys of four other safes. trunk, and limbs they either stay, here, for over-worked, under-paid on the cricket-ground with a newly-came later. Inspector Jeans walk These keys were kept in a tin box or go, together! There is something unhealthy workers making a invented catapult for bowling. To ed round and looked for finger and sealed with the company's seal.
Evidence was next given by to be said for the system, but what natural hot-bed for Bolshevism. cricketers who cannot always com- foot prints. I don't think he was
Employers who cannot see these mand the assistance of a bowler very successful about finger prints,Kader Lebab, an Indian tamby it gains in strict adherence to demo things for themselves need, instruc- when they wish to practise this in- but found some foot prints. When employed at the sales branch of cratic principle it loses in question from factory, inspectors and vention is most invaluable, as by a I looked into the safe I found the the complainant firm. On the Sun- tions of political skill and 'adminia magistrates backed by a Code of very simple mode of letting off the money strewn in the wooden tray.day in question be opened the office at 8 am with a key which he had trative efficiency: We fail, in fact, as which should be a credit to trigger, you can bowl straight, or There was $30.85.
British rule.
to the off or leg, "give full or short Continuing, witness said that received from the head tamby on to see why Hong Kong should
pitch, or a fast, medium or slow there were two front and one back the Saturday previous. He open- necessarily pitch its Factory Code
ball. This can be managed in so door to the premises. It was posed the office to let in coolies who simple a manner that a coolie could sible for one to get out to the were to wash the premises. Soon in harmony with any of its neigh-
give his master as genuine practice streets below through the hack afterwards the head tamby also as any first-class professional bow stair case. There were two ways camesin. Mr. Winsley arrived *n hours. Let the thing be judged on ita merits; it is no use accepting a
ler. Another important point in out of the office one of which led office at about 9.40 a.m.. They saw bad Code because someone else is
that there is no danger in working to a little alleyway from which one the safe open but prior to Mr. it, for it could, in fact, be well-could get through a door and gain Winsley's arrival no one went into setting the example. That is not
managed by a lady, if set at the street, All the doors were the cashier's grille. moderate or medium pace. The in-fitted with ordinary locke On the principle upon which
Cross-examined by Mr. Withers strument is six feet high, weighs February 2, some money was paid Payne, witness said that although British Empire has been built.
hundredweight, into the beak from the safe in he had the key of the grille door A meeting of the Chinese General three-quarters of Hong Kong is some way off being Chamber of Commerce takes place and is so portable that no incon question. It was the usual prac he did not open it. This key was venience would be experienced in tice to pay money into the bank banded to him by the head lamby a big industrial centre, but there this afternoon at 2,30 p.m.
moving it from place to place. It at about 12 o'clock each day. Any and remained in his possession } in a chance that there may be
is lately patented by Mr. J. J. Wis money received after that time from Saturday afternoon to Sun- growth in that direction. ' A num;
Owing the faulty cable connce den, of the firm of John Wisden & would be kept in the cashier's safe, day morning tion, telegrams to and from Shang-Co. of Oranbourne-Street, Lon- He was allowed to keep ne much The further hearing was ad- ber of small factories, mostly owned hai and beyond are subject to don. Hong Kong Daily Press, as $10,000 in the safe at a time fourned at this stage until October and managed by Chinese, are delay.
Oct. 1, 1879.
celing the Capital Lost or is anrepresented by available Assets to the ortont of $5.00 Per Sharo
**PEAKMANSIONS,"
$5,000 SITATER within a Station Land ITUATED within Two Minates verlooking the Southern Side of the Island. Ready for Occupation..
прод which havo boca
been issued and are now outstanding and by reducing the nominal amount of all the Shares in the Company's Capital from $10.00 to $5.00 Per Share.
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AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that' A SECOND EXTRA- ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Same Place MONDAY, THE FOURTH DAY or NOVEMBER, 1929, at 11 am, for the purpose, of receiving & Report of the Decodinga at the above mentioned Meeting and of confirming, if thoug fit, Special Besointion the aburs mentioned Resolution.
By Order of the Bord,
M. MANUK
Becretary
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