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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1929.
REFUSAL TO TAKE CORRESPONDENCE. ROUND THE COURTS. |
MAILBAGS.
SANNING CAPTAIN
SUMMONED.
SAYS THAT HE WAS NOT
PAID.
Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham.
A SHAREHOLDER'S GRIEVANCE,
(TO THE EDITOR, OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."']
CONSTABLE CHARGED.
A remand of 49 hours Was Or dered when a Shantung eonstable was charged before Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham with assaulting and injuring a woman of 50, in Eas tern Street.
I was stated that the woman was in the Government Civil ho pital, suffering from the effects of a kick which the constable is ai leged to have inflicted on her sodo мед It was said that her condi
ion was very serious and at one time it was thought necessary to take her dying deposition, but yes- terday she was reported to be im proving.
SIR,-The report appearing in your Saturday's issue of the pro- For refusing to accept-18-bags of ceedings at the meeting of the Hong mail on board the s.s. Sanning on Kong Development, Building and November 23, for conveyance from Savings Society provided interest- the Colony to Wuchow and Saming reading to those concerned, and shui, Captain Edwin Page Smith the replies given to the various was summoned yesterday before questions asked apparently show that at no time prior to or during.
It is stated that the cause of the trouble was that the woman at- Mr. N. L. Smith, the Acting its existence did the Company ne- Postmaster-General, who prosecut- quire from, or did the Government tempted to hinder the policeman grant to it, that piece of property in the execution of his duty, re- ed, said that the launch officer on
known as the plateau below senting his intrusion into a matter that day took 21 bags of mails for Jardine's Look-out, notwithstanding which she considered was purely Samshui and "Wuchow of which it was understood that the Com-private and domestic.
pany had completed negotiations eighteen were transit Chinese bags with the Government for ita c and the remaining three were Hongquisition, and further, the Chair- Kong mail bags. According to the launch officer's statement, the Cap tain said he would take only the Hong Kong bags, saying that he did not get paid for the Chinese bags.
man's statement at the statutory meeting held on March 20, 1924, at' which he very definitely referred to the grant of the said property of the Company,
To my mind it seems that share holders were asked to take shares Captain Smith agreed that if the in the company to develop a large summons referred to the Chinese area of ground it never had, or mail bags only, he would admit which (assuming that it had had that he did refuse them. He add negotiations with the Government ed that he had sent a letter on regarding its acquisition) the com- November 23 to the Postmaster-pany-for reasons best known to the General, to which, up to the pre- Directors themselves-failed to ne- sent, he had received no anaver. quire. He had first been to interview the The Chairman, in his speech at Superintendent of Mails and, on the the statutory meeting, referred to latter's advice had written to the Jardine's Look-out as the foundation Postmaster-General explaining his of the company, but it seems that position, but had received no reply. not having a grant of that land, the The Acting Portmaster, inter- company was icinus its foundation. runting, said that Hong Kong was It also seems that the Directors the capital subscribed, 21 hall way herween certain, parts of took China, and mail bags were acme-matter of only $500,000, and loaned times sent here for transhipment. it out on shares, borrowed
seven lakhs from the Bank, and The Past Office here charged a
niso loaned that out on shares, a small storage fee. In cases where the Chinese mails were sent by purpose which I as a shareholder contract vessels, of which a list never considered was intended by was supplied by the Chinese Past the Company, which is involved in Office, and of which the Sansing & loss approaching $1,200,000. was one, no gratuity was paid. If any dispute arose in the case of ene of these contract shins, the matter was on purely between the Chinese Past Offer and the owners or master of the ship.
A Standing Agreement, The Post Office here, said Mr. Smith, knew nothing about the matter of payments, except that they had a standing agreement with the Chinese Post Office to tranship the latter's mails' na 'and whenever required. From time to time the Chinese Post Office would send down a list of such ships, and the Post Office here, guided by such Hists, would not be paying anything to the mastere.
The Acting Postmaster at this stane asked if the letter mention- ed by Captain Smith had been sent, The latter replied that it had been forwarded but he had not a copy with him. He had a rough draft, which however vas not worded exactly the same the letter which he had forwarded. The rough draft read as follow:
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To the P.M.G.-Sir,-In reply to your letter of the 12th instant,
I beg to say the following:-
"The se. Sapning is not owned by the Man Ou Company which is Chinese firm at Wuchow, and the agents there for the Kam King 5.S. Company of Hong Kong, who are the owners of the vessel.
further
The poor shareholders, most of whom are wage-earners, are new
OPIUM RAID SEQUEL.
A visit by Revenue officers to a house in Des Voeux Rolld West on Tuesday, resulted in the discovey on the premises of ten taels of illicit opium. In connection with the "And" two men were charged before Mr. Hamilton yesterday and one of them was fined 8200 or alternating to do three months' hari labuor. The second man, against whom there was no evid ende, was discharged.
HOUSE COOLIE CHARGED,
A house coolie in the employ of Mr. M. H. Large of the Duro Garage Kowloon living at No. 2 Torres Building was charged with theft of $30 from his master's safe, Inspector. Ogg, who was in charge of the case applied for a remand to make further enquires in the case. A 24 hour remand was granted.
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CRUELTY TO PIGS AND **
CHICKENS.
Two Chinese boatmen were fined 810 and 83 respectively for bringing swine and poultry into the Colony
in a manner as to cause them un- It was stated necessary suffering. that one of the cluickens which had bean rammed into a small crate was dead when the crate was opened, while a number of the pigs bore marks of injury on their legs due to the way they had been secured.
A YOUNG RASCAL. "
A Chinese youth who was charged The proprietor of the Peking with stealing ten pieces of clothing called upon to pay up for all this. Hotel, Nathan Road, was summon from his father, the proprietor of add to the mess, it appears thated before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smitha steam laundry in Dundas Street, the Directors admitted a claim forat Kowloon Magistracy yesterday Yaumati. Detective Sergt. Fowlie something like $80,000 for survey for allowing his premises to be used told the Magistrate that the defen and architects fees in connection for an immoral purpose. Mr. J. T.dant was a son by adoption only, with property which it seems the Prior appeared for the defence and Alter the matter had been report- Sub-Inspector Chevalier prosecuted.ed to the police enquires were made Company never at any time had!
This is the sort of thing that The hearing was adjourned. and later the defendant was arrest- shareholders are now called upon to pay for, but which very hard upon people who can ill afford to lose their money, but who took shares believing they would be nhle to obtain a home of their own on the instalment plan through the good offices of the company,
It is to be sincerely hoped that Mr. d'Almada will obtain redress for the shareholders, and it is the duty of all shareholders now to rally to the call and help along in the matter of costs, and if possible get together to held a public meet- ing to ventilate their grievances. Yours, etc.,
A. VICTIM. Hong Kong, December 4.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
BUSINESS BEFORE TO-DAY'S MEETING.
At to-day's meeting of the Legis lative Council the. Colonial Secre tary will move:--
That the Report of the Finance Committee (No. 17), dated November 28, 1929, be adopted. The Attorney-General will move the first reading of —
On making enquiries through my purser, the Manager of the Man On Company stated that a few years ago the then Chinese Govern. ment forced them to sign a con- tract to carry mails which has no stated time-limit. At the time the vessel, I think, was being operated by another company between Wu- ehow and Canton under the Chinese dag in which case they had no redress. But when the Company was re-formed and the vessel put under the British flag, in 1828, 1 take it that that contract was no longer valid, as I believe that a foreign firm ia a foreign country' has not the power to make con tracts for a British vessel carrying mails out of a British port, they not being the owners of the vessel. But even if this is so, and the con- tract is valid, then the onus of responsibility must reat on the firm or someone paid by them, and not on the master of the vessel, whom they expect gratuitously to take charge of the mails which they have agreed to carry, whether by is force or of their own free will..
"If this is not the case, I am being forced to take the risk of being fined anything up to $500 for loss or damage for no recompense whatever. I have known cares. where masters have been heavily fined, but in those cases they were paid for what they carried.
"I have been verbally told that the big companies have agreed to carry Chinese transhipment mails free. To those wealthy companies it is a mere nothing and a fine would not hurt them, but the San- ning is a single chip Company and the mails. are left to the Master. so in caso of loss or damage, I could not expect them to pay a fine, as the big concorns undoubt edly would I should be held.ce.
An Ordinance to amend further the Public Health and Buildinga Ordinance, 1003.
An Ordinance to amend further the Companies Ordinance, 1911.
An Ordinance to amend the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1000.
An Ordinance to amend the Crown Lands Resumption Ordin- 'ance, 1000.
An Ordinance to amend the Deportation Ordinance,, 1917. The Attorney-General will also move the second reading of:
An Ordinance to amend further the Stamp Oridnance, 1993.
An Ordinance to amend the Jaw relating to intoxicating liquors...
The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton to move the second reading of:-
An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Procurator, in Hong Kong of the Portuguese Province, of the Jesuit Order.
An Ordinance to amend the Jesuit Order Incorporation Ordin- ance, 1927.
"I would carry the mails with pleasure if the Chinese Post Office and the Hong Kong G.P.O. will give me a written statement that I shall have no fines levied on me in case of damage or loss."
Mr. Smith then told the Magis- rate that he wanted to go into the correspondence, as he confessed that he had no recollection of the Captain's letter. He suggested an
1 Sparciju. And 150 you think that adjournment-of-the-tar
a fair thing.
Ar, Grantham granted af
| (Continued at foot of next column), I journment sine die.
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ed. He was questioned and finally admitted, his offence and assisted the police in recovering the stolen clothing. The parent mentioned that the boy was always running away from home and gave no end of
trouble.
The Magistrate sentenced him to six weeks' hard labour.
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