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STEEL BARS IN WRONG
POSITION
CURIOUS ADMISSION AT HAPPY VALLEY VERANDAH INQUEST
INTERESTING THEORY" OF
ARCHITECT'S ASSISTANT
The Yuk Sau Street Inquiry went on for the fourth afternoon yesterday and indications are that it will take several more hearings before being brought to a elusion.
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Mr. Tong, an employee in the firm of A. J. Lane, contractor, was subjected to very lengthy questioning and he was asked several technical questions in relation to the building of the house and the laying of the cement con-
crete.
HOW THE BUILDING WAS DONE
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Mr. F. C. Jenkin K. C., in Do you suggest that it is an un- structed by Messrs. Wup and beard of thing for a building owner Nash, appeared for the contractors to look after the tenders 7-It is who built the house, Mr. M. K. Lo, quite a usual thing. represented the owner of the house! and Mr. H: J. Armstrong appear
for Mr. A. J. Lane, the arhitect.
The Jury were as follows:- Mesra, R. A. Rogers (foreman),
Do you agree with me that nader) the contract signed between the owner, architect and contractor the architect has complete control of the work --Yes.
Do you agree that the plans and Li Kon Chun and Mr. A. C. lit-specification formed part of the
agreement 1-Yes.
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Cross-examining Mr. Tong, Mr. Armstrong asked -
Ou what terms are you employ ed by Mr. Lane,--On a commission "basis.
When you were first introduced to the owner, was he anxious to build in another locality-Yes.
Where was this laud that he wanted to buy -At the junction of Shan Kwong Road and Village Bord
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Was it the property that Mr. Cockchin eventually bought 1-No, Mr. Gorkchin also failed to ne quire the land.
What were your duties, actually, in connection with the inspection, if property while No. was be Joe built ?—I had to look after everything,
fa connection with these strel Jars, what actually did you have
t do?--To see that, they were fix ed in position in accordance with, the plans and also that they were of the proper size.
And the proper quality ?—Yes. Was it part of your duties to take measurements with a foot rule to see if they were the right dis tanges apart --I always carry my fet rule with me.
The Balcony Concrete.
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Under the agreement do you agree that it is for the contractor to build according to your plans Yes...
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Do you agree that without your consent the contractor cannot deviate from the plan-I wouldn't know of any deviation if I did not see it.
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Oh certainly, but I am speaking of the contractors duty.-Yes.
Is it or is it not usual for Chinese owner to have his own uverster --It is usual.
Is the primary object of having overseers to see to the materials so that he wouldn't be swindled by the contractors?-There are other objects.
What are the other objects ?-To { we that the work is carried out sutiafactorily.
And if an owner employs a man who is not competent, then he de frats his own object, it does that relieve your responsibility at all or the contractor's-No, it would not tessen our responsibility to any ex: tent.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1933
SHAI-HONG KONG HAINAN NEWS LETTER
AIR SERVICE"
Bi-Weekly Trips to be Arranged
U.S. AND BRITISH COMPANIES NEGOTIATING
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An important event in the history of aviallon in Hong Kong took place yesterday morning with the arrival at Kal-Tack from Shanghai of B big amphibian machine, Bikorsky, 838 type belonging to the Paelic-American Airways Company, who have acquired foreign rights In the Ohios National Aviation Company.
The trip was made via Wenchow, Foochow, Amoy, Swatow and Can" Log and was in the nature of a survey flight. It is hoped to take the machine up to Canton to-day and from there to make the return flight to Shanghál by the same route.
The return flight will also be of a survey and experimental nature, but in the very near future, pos sibly a week or a fortnight, 15 is hoped to have a bl-weekly service between here and Shanghai.
The route over which the planes expect to fly, is by no means an easy one and exhaustive informa- tion is needed before regular mail service can be instituted,
The Sikorsky Amphibians are very large machines, built to carry eight passengers in addition to a crew of three, a pilot, a mechanic, and a wireless operator, and J certain amount of mail cargo. They have a cruising speed of 10 miles per hour.
The passengers in the machine arriving yesterday were as follows: Mr. H, M. Bixby, vice-president of the Pacific American Line, Mr. P. Y. Wong, business manager of the Mr. W. L. Bond, operation may China National Aviation Company,
ager, of the same. Company, Mr. W. S. Grooch, operations manager of the Pacific American Line, Mr. W. Ehmer, flight mechanic and radia operator, Mr., P. C. Groeger, engineer and Mr. R. E. Gast, pilot,
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
INTERESTED
We understand that Imperial Airways are negotiating with the Pacific American Line with a view to collating with them an exten sion of the London-Singapore ser- vice to Hong Kong, thus bringing Shanghai within direct air commu- nication with London.
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ISLAND FEELS THE ECONOMIC
SLUMP
RUSSIAN - PIECE GOODS MAKING
BIG PROGRESS
(From Our Own Dyrrespondapt)
KACHER, June 23, The weather continued unusually dry and hot until the 27th of this month. Farmers were unable to plant the rice scedbeds for the fall harvest as early as usual, Ther has been a noticeable lack of the north-west thunderstorms which usually bring torrential rains, and instead
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it is considered espacially cooling food for hot weather. Python skins are stretched out and staked down to dry, and sold usually to Hoihow merchants. A very good. skin mea suring twelve feet from nove to beginning of the tail and the tail itself about a foot more was pur chased in the market a few days'
for 30.80. local currency. Python skins when properly tanned in Haiphong or elsewhere make very handsome bags, dressing cases or shoes, but the Chinese of course buy them for medicinal pur- poses.
there have been emaliogo
Out showers from the southeast. of their long observation of weather conditions the Chinese here have saying that the "festival of Sprouting Seeds is hot and dry there will be no heavy rains, but only night showers, and hence poor crops. However, there has been a steady downpour from the north: west for the past twenty-four! hours, with prospects of more, and an there is now plenty of water in the fields, and also reftet from the heat.
One good effect of the dry wea- ther of the past two years is the increasing attention to the making of wells. For years the wells on the American Presbyterian Mission compound, Kachek, have been won. dered at and admired, and have furnished water for nearby villagers in times of drought. Now various people are sinking wella on their own land and bricking them up. thus assuring a more reliable and far more sanitary water supply. Wells here need be only about fifteen or twenty feet deep to reach water but thirty or forty feet down supply. The difficulty in digging a will strike rock and an unfailing well so deep is of course the caving in of the earth and few wells are more than twenty feet deep.
Trade Dull la Kachek. Times are very dull in Kachek market. When causes are sought, three anawers are given, First and foremost is the lack of money from Singapore and other south sea re- gions. It is estimated that in the years before rubber dropped out of the picture between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000 a year came back to the regions tributary to Kachek mar ket from the "Hylams" in the south, and.. was practically all ex- pended locally. Now only three tenths of that amount is coming in, and many men are coming back to Hainan from the south practically Second, there is empty-handed. the lack of money in these local. regions themselves, due to the dis- turbed conditions of the last few years, to heavy taxes, and the fact here do not yield very heavy money that the exports going out from returns-dried betelnut and ear- damom seed, bamboo and rattan work, and live piga to Hoihow, salt fish from the south and coarse paper and some dry-goods to the The third mountainous interior. reason 13 an interesting develop. ment of motor traffic. Kachek mar ket was formerly the gateway to Kheng-dong, Lobh-hoe, Vang-neng and Leng-tui districte. Kachek merchants went to Hoihow and laid in large stocks of goods, selling to
the merchants and traders of the four districts above mentioned, who came to Kachek to make their pur chases.
A Visit to Piece Goods Market.
A recent visit to market shops in search of cloth revealed several in- teresting things. There is a good. supply of English made cotton cloth on sale, plain white muslin and white shirtings with coloured stripes. These goods and of good quality, full width, and selling at twenty-six to twenty-eight cents a Chinese foot (sixty to sixty-eight cents a yard). These striped pat
Now, with motor roads terns are not however favourites and cars, the merchants even from for women's and children's wear,
Leng-tui can get to Kachek in one. and here the Russian gonds with day and to Hoihow in a few hours gayer colours and flowered pat-the next morning, so why not go terns are coming into great de directly to Hoihow and purchase mand. A year or so ago only a
for themselves? The added ex-. pense of the trip to Hoihow is more seen on sale, rather in the nature
than covered by the saving in. of a tentative tryout. Now every
eliminating a middleman's profit. big shop and almost all the small Kachek merchants feel the force of merchants who spread their wares the argument deeply, and all told, along the street on market days business is very slack. have their supplies of Russian cloth-narrower than the English cloth by seven or eight inches and only half the price. Russia seems to be replacing Japan as the source of flowered cotton goods, and re placing her very rapidly.
I put it to you that you were paid 5% on the contract price and that this 5% includes your fee for ASSAULT ON TWO AMAHS few bolts of Russian cloth were
superintending the erection of these hoses.-That 3% was 'paid to me for preparing the plans and for services rendered a few years
This concluded Mr. Armstrong's provinusty for the purchase of the questioning, Mr. Jenkin then ask-Innd.
ed witness if the pouring in of the concrete was a very important pire eludes the usunt architects charges? Do you agree that this. 5% in- of work and witness replied in the
-Yes affirmative,
Mr. Jenkin: And you were sent from the office as special repre sentative to oversee that?-No.
Was ຕາ represantative for the offer sent -Ña.
your office:
Did anybody from oversee the pouring "in of the con- erete-No, but when the concrete was first laid I did go down and watched for about twenty minutes. There is a man called Chan Yin in your office, is there not Yes
And he was present during the operation --No,
Did he go down there at all? Yes, but he had to watch the con- erele as soon as it was laid.
He was detailed to specially lok after the concrete -His duty was to water the concrete as soon as it was laid.
His duty including the supervis- ing of the pouring in of the con- crête 7-No.
times did Mr. Lane go to the site? To your knowledge how many
Forty to fifty times.
Bars in Wrong Position,
Is it a fact that in canti-lever construction the upper edge is in tension and the lower muge in com- pression 7-Yes.
OF
EUROPEAN'S ABSURD
BEHAVIOUR",
Mr. W. C. Loynes of 8 Lai Kwan Avenne, Tai Hang Road was fined 810 on each of two Sum monses brought against him by
two amaha for assault.
Defendant did not appear when his case was called and the evi- dence of the amaha was taken in bis absence.
Defendant appeared in Court in the afternoon and appologised to Do you agree that if steel bars the Magistrate and said he had were put in the bottom is would been very sick. He said the noise make the bottom unsafe? Yes. of the amahs had been most pro- voking. He did not get the sum
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Popular Official Leaves. Mr. Wong Ho Tan, for many years the postmaster in Kachek, is being transferred to the Yun-sio City office, and Mr. Ngou Hi Soang, present postmaster in Vun- Ice and Turtles By Car. sio, is coming to Kachek. While Kachek market is no longer en recognizing the value of changing incumbente in the potal system. at tirely without ice. An enterprising times, Kachek very much regrets to amail merchant, also owner of a car making regular trips to Hoi-lose Mr. Wong, who, has given how, is bringing down ice packed faithful and efficient service here. in wooden cases. It sells for afteen cents a pound, and apparently is used principally by the vendors of sweet drinks.
What is your theory as to how the monses while in hospital, because Recently one of the motor cars steel bars got there!--It is not un- his wife, a Chinese lady, could not carried a unique load. It was com- usual for the owner and his fore-read, and therefore did not sending from the sea-shore and was man to visit the place after 5 p.m." and being interested in the con- them. He had had many years ex
loaded with immense sea turtles, crete he would naturally be an perience in Court work in Singa easily three feet long and two feet xious to see the steel work and afpore. He saw Mr. da Silva yes across their heavy shells. One or were tied on the running ter the frame work was completed terday, and was informed that the two the owner might have removed the solicitor would be appearing for boards, several others were stacked chocks, thinking that the steel work |
inside, and all on their way to him. should have been
market, presumably to Hoihow.
the bottom in The Magistrate described defen the same way as in the floor. dant's behaviour as absurd. He And this very interesting theory had given the Court a lot of The pouring in of the concrete of yours, did you tell the police trouble, and should have known in the balcony area was of prime bout that?-I don't think I did, better. importance," was it not?-The con- I am still puzzling over the ques. crete work all round was importtion as this has never happened be
fore.
ant.
Oh, come, rome, the pouring in When did you form this opinion 1
of more importance than the rest? -Yes.
of the concrete in the balcony was About a week ago. Where did you think the wooden chocks had got to They must have been thrown away.
Do you suggest that during these operations nehody was sent down tà supervise the work-Nobody went down. This concluded Mr. Jenkin's cross-examination.,
What do you think the contractor did when he came to put in the con Jerete and found the chocks, missing?
They would have no way of find ing out.
Since the collapse, have you been down to the promises 7-Yes.
Mr. Horace Lo appeared for the complainante.
AUSTRALIA'S
RACIAL PROBLEM
SEVERE CODE OF PENALTIES
The Usual Procedure.
Mr. Lo then asked: During your experience of building you have completed many houses 1-80 far as overseeing work is concerned.
Did the building of the houss in it could be?—I only saw part of iterument is to give cash bonuses to Yuk Sau' Street follow the usual Did you receive notice from white-man who marry half-caste
procedure -Yes.
Was there anything unusual in
In particular did you see the balcony in the first floor of No. 13 Following the exposures of certain which has been opened up as far as aspects of the Australian colour problem, the Commonwealth Gov-
Messrs. Clark and I informing women. you that the balcony would be opan-
sent-No.
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The Trade fu Pythons. One of the special commodities handled in Kachek market
The live snakes aro pythons, brought up from the south of the island in bamboo baskets, and are either killed here for local con sumption or sold alive to Hoihow buyers. In the market here py- thon meat sells for five coppers an ounce, the usual price of pork, and
Commonwealth Government recently decreed that for offences between white men and aboriginal girls the former would be fined £100 and sent to jail for three months.
Authorities in Conflict.
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In the Schools.
In the schools graduating exer- cises are the arder of the day. The Lower Market Primary School and the McCormick School have classes finishing the sixth year, and the Thirteenth Provincial Middle School is graduating classes both from junior and senior middle school. There is one girl in the senior middle school class, the first girl to complete the course in this school. There is much protest against the comprehensive examinations to be' given here for the first time this. year, and principal, faculty and students are much concerned over the outcome. While this of course is a government school still 'differ. ence in textbooks and in emphases of content may make it difficult t adjust comprehensive examination questions fairly until after several years of experiment-and this first class to take the test is naturally
anxious.
breeding out, he said, there wers alarming throwbacks, and Queens land statistics showed that 80 per cent of such marriages were failures and the progeny unsuitable to build up & moral, virile race neCOULTY to a young country.
For girls the punishment would The only solution of the half- be three months in jail.
caste problem, he said, was the In acting on the report of the encouragement of white women to nedical officer for North Australia settle in the tropics, and having (Mr. Cheil Cook) the Canberra | married men only supervising authorities are in direct conflict aboriginal employment. with Mr. Bleakley, Queensland'a |
the relation between owner, archi-ed up and inviting you to be prestrain from the children of, marri- special protector of aborigines and Home Secretary Hanlon said that
tect arul contractor -Yes, because after I had completed the plans he went out, to look for a suitable contractor.....
never
Anything else -I have heard of any owner's foreman tak ing no notice of the architect.
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This effort to breed out the black ages between aborigines and whites I put it to you that if a contrac has caused serious conflict among tor puts in concrete properly there the authorities. -- is no room for accident. That is so.
Hearing was adjourned until To keep the races apart the Monday afternoon.
(Continued on next Oplumn)..
the leading authority on the subject. The strongly disapproved the Com- In an interview with & Daily monwealth action, and said Queens- Herald correspondent Mr. Bleakley and would continue not to grant definitely opposed the inter-marri- | permitaión, for white and black age of whites and half-castes. marriages, except in ungual
Even admitting posibilities of circumstances.
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