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HỒNG HỒNG DALLY PRESS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1932.
COLLISION CLAIM. MR. PEPYS IN HỌNG
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JAPANESE VESSEL HELD TO BLAME.
JUDGMENT FOR CHINA,
NAVIGATION CO.
Judgment was delivered by the Chief Justion (Sir Joseph Kemp) at the Supreme Court yesterday in the action brought by the China Navigation Company against the Nippon Yuse Kaisha for damages resulting from a collision between the 8. Kiangsu and 8.8. Toyooks
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His Lordship held that the Toyooka Maru was wholly to blame for the collaion and gave judgment for the China Navigation Com- pany for $40,000. The counter- claim. by the N.Y.K. of 940,654 wan disaniased.
At the hearing of the action the Hon. Comdr. G. F. Hele, R. N. [Rotfred) sat as Assessor. Mr,¦ Elder Potior, K.C., and Mr. F. C. Tenkin, K.C., instructed by Mr. M. Mr. Watson of Messrs. Johnston, Stokes and Master, were far the
plaintiffs and Mr. H. G. Sheldon, inapructed by Mr. E. S. C. Brookes, of Messrs. Hastings. Dennys and Bowley, was for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha,
ひ The Judgment.
KONG.
18th-Rose late this morning 880. ing that last night. I do attonů“ at the Audition of those who would sing upon the electric broadcast and then be three pretty ladies and three men. Talking there with the Master of the King's Pastes ho do tell me that, as he supposes, those who do listen will write a docu- ment to state their opinion-whe- ther they would fain hear this ond or that. And I do and that the singers be announced not by their names but by numbers, so that there should be no proper solicitatioun for this one or for that. All this day very busy at my office, and then to play at Oriquette, and so home and early to bod..
14th, Lord's Day.This day/
RADIO LICENSES.
FINES FOR NON-RENEWAL.
Holders of wirelous licenses, who have not had thair wireless Iteon ses rempwed for the year 1032, are wall advised to make good,, thijs, oversight at the earliest possible. moment as yesterday several per- sons were sumisoned for falling to have proper licenses in respect of their sets. The fact, that a wireless set is not in use, spparently, ia no excuse for not taking out a license.
Mr. J. G. Pengelly was summon ed for possession à wireless" ent without a license. Defendant ex plained that it was quite trus he had not renewed his license. He admitted having received a remin dor. but explained that since re- ceipt of such a reminder, he hail been at work in his office daily up
till 9, p.m.
being Valentine's day, I do pluck a nose-gay of flowers for my wife, of pensies and mignonetto ns fine
Mr. E. W. Hamilton, Postmas-
a bunch as ever I saw.
tor General, prosecuting, pointed And I do much regret the disuse into which out that the defendant could easily. this good custom of old England have sent his wife or a messenger do fall, being as I suppose too to renew the licenso. Mr. Hamil simple and modest for these foreign ton said he was not pressing the nudists and other parts of the precharge but would like his Worship. sont day. Fur they do strangely to note that personal attendanco ¦,
onough suggest
that men and was gessary for the purpose of reone's license. He ao women should congregate, without
Pengelly's statement garments which indeed may be vers
having had no time since ro suitable for some but not for. dey
whrulng to renow his cent White mirn and White women,
Magistrate, Mr. Wynne Jones, imposed a fine of $8.
4.
After reviewing the circumstances and reading in the News Sheets. I leading up to the collision his Lord-ş
do laugh most heartily at the ship spid in part:-I have no
satiric verse which doth ridicule the nestines. Later to Arst hesitation in saying that the main cause, at least, of the collision was
showing of pictures at the Queen's the netion of the Toyooka Maru in House where I do see two most ex "Guilty cellent picturea valled crossing the fairway into fog. It Hands and The Phantom of was a very dangerous course to take, Paris" which I did enjoy, as also and she might with safety have an- I did Tons of Miney at the King's House before. And, as I do chored in the then clear water to any to my wife, I am well assured the south or south-east of her 7.43 that the standard of films here do a.m, position. She was perhaps be immeasurably improved, though: again at fault in not porting when I do admit her logique when she sure that this is true of all the she heard the Kinng's fog signal world. So home and writing in my at 7.44 m., but I do not so fad diary. and I do not base my judgment in
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license.
The
In the case of Tam Pak Chun el 407, Queen's Road West, the de- fendant admitted the offence, but pointed out that since receipt of the summons he had taken out a licenso. "Fined $5.
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Belonged to Absent Tonant,
A Chinese, living nå 19 Leighton Hill Rond, when summoned for similar offence, sought to explain. that the person, named in the sun mons was his mother and that the wireless set, belonged to a tenant who was away from the Colony.
Mr. Hamilton pointed out that
16th.-This day very busy in my any way O that allegation. I offer and 1 am grieved at the many think that it is no answer to my papers that I must parse. Yet to! soll merchandise in these various finding above, that the Toyooka times calls, indeed for much labour.if the person aummoned did not Maru had reached an anchorage ground and should have been safe."
One reply to that remark
in that she had nos anchored but was still moving across the area, with fog signals sounding on her atarboard bow.
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16th. To offico betimes and the
pressure of business being laid by I do go to one of His Majesty's great shippes where I do eat a piece with Mr. Pitt and we talk of things from wild foule to wilder I have also come to the conery Japanese From the North will sion that after sighting the other bad news and I doubt more shall ship, the Toyooka Máru eculd have came. In the afternoon I do read avoided the collision by "at once a report by the Master of the dropping anchor, obvious King's Postes upon the singing that manoeuvre and one which ought was upon Friday last. And as I almost to have been automatte und thought there be not many who do Ipss the Toyona Maru had then write a critique, but the Master no way on. I find that she had tells me that there will be yet an- way no Tho master admitted that other Test" holder, "and that 'til it would have been bad seamanship then do pronouncement will be not to drop anchor if the Toyooka made in publique. Home and did Maru had had way on, but he said on my fine clothes and to dinner, that she was at a standstill.... my wife and I, with friends. So The Toyooka Maru was thus at home very late, alt being very least the main cause of the colli- merry, mon, and she could also by ordinary care and skill have"avoided it at the last moment,
Question of Speed,
17th-Roso kite and to office but Lord it prove so cold I am uigh perished, having praetermitted to do on my warmor garments. So home and sitting over the fire until I must go out and dine. But after a cup or two of wine all is well and I merry again,
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choose to accept responsibility, he would ask for the confiscation of the wirelcas pat.
Defendant thereupon indiested that he was willing to renew the license on behalf of the tenant. His Worship imposed a fine of $5.
In another case, a woman, who appeared for Troi The Yui or s Hill Road, told the magistrate that the set had been out of commission for some time and that she had"not had a license even for 1931.
Master of Honour."
Mr. Hamilton referred his Wor ship to the Ordinanes where it was stated that every wireless so t
be licensed. His Worship, in in posing a fine of $26, said: "I re- gard this question of wireless, licen ses rather a master of honour. 11 is very difficult to find people who are using wireless sots withéas n license."
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particular year of grace. Mr Clark rides him, and I do recall that I had his acquaintance former- ly, he being of the Hong Kong Banque. But whether there he an call not. Mr. Seeds goes on to say at the end of his name I re that the danger do fe either in Cy-Pres or Pathfinder to bis mind. Maidens, he do funcy Chateau Bay, For the Derby Griffins in the if he goes, or it may be Wild Life.
The next point is the speed of the Kiang. The master said that at the moment of sighting ho was going at
"about 6 knots over. the ground, by about knots 18th.--Reading in the News through the water thus putting Sheets this day I am greatly pat the side at about 2 knots. The mas to a stounde when I learn that the ter of the Toyooka Maru puts the great shippe in which my wife, tide at about 1 koot. The King pour wretch, do travel coule au's preliminary act puts the tide mouth hath inst conveyed Mr. L. at 1 to 2 knuts," I have taken George to England. And I am in it as 14 knots, and the Assessor much fear lest the virus of Liber ngrees. It would appear therefore alism may not have been sufficiently ask him of the Trial Plato, but that the Kiangau was going at a exstirpated. For a Tory friend I little more than 4 knots through love, and a Labour foo I can res- the water on her own showing... pect, But Liberálo and Commu- The onus was on the Toyooka Maru nists I do inte like the devil, and to prove excessive speed, "and she should my wife be touched of the has failed to prove any speed high infectioun I know not that should er than a litle over 4 knots through be done in the matter. Grave nowe the water.
from Shanghai, and it seems our After dealing, further with the two sailors were struck by the shell Assessor's views on this paint, his be dend, whom may God Test, Lordship held that the Kiangsu Later in the day nows comey of was navigated at ↑ moderate some parley but I have little speed having careful regard to all hope. the existing circumstances and conditions up to 7.47 am
Toyooka Maur's Error,
19th.-Up pretty bátinks and to the office where busy myself with tidying my affairs against Runco Week. At noon to the Club where His Lordship held that the Kian come Cread. Pávy, Sir R. Harpen- au was negligent in not stopping den and Mr. Ashby,who brings Mr. har engines at 7:47 am, yet that F. Beods who is killed in this was not in law a contributory science of Racing. And there wo- canos of the collision, because the fall talking of the Racing and more, Toyooke Maru could have avoided especially of that on Saturday' the collision by the exercise of or when, as I learn, among others, dinary care and skill, ., by there bo two races for the Griffina dropping anchor.
by Auberiptioun, and two for The Toyooka Maru brought her the Derby. And Mr. Leeda do tell self into the position of danger, us that for the Wong Nei Chong and default of the Kinngen was Staken ho do fancy Kanpaz whicht due to an árror of judgment in the bo owned by Mr. Kangaroo. For | ambiguous : position greated by the the Valleys, also a race for the Toyooka Mara horself. He there. Sube, he doth fancy Philanderer," fore found that the Toyooka Maru which, says Creed, is an upt name was wholly to bláme; and entered for con genelemen who doth wan judgment for the China Naviga-around at the Happy Valley in this tion Company," with costal
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he do say that he is not sure what go. Liberty Bay shall win he thinks, an' he start, or else Trent- bridge, in sound, which I must de- Youtly hope to be the case. Short of these, he says he do fancy Princess Fall So back to the office very mazed, and what I shall back or where I shall 6nd the monies wherewithal to
wager I know not..
1932
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