TRAMS AND BUSES
LOCAL TENDER AND WHY
IT FAILED
Petition To The Secretary
Of State
The Annua. General Meeting of the Hong Kong Tramway Co. Limited was held yesterday at the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine Matteson and Company. Ltd. The Hon. Mr. J. J. Pat- terson was in the Chair and was supported by the folowing directors. Messrs. A. H. Compton Choa Po Sien, the Hon. S.r Shouson Chow, Kt, Mr. F. A. Joseph and Mr. M. T. Johnson. the General Manager, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy and Mr. W. F. Sim- mons (Secretary).
The Secretary read the notice calling the meeting and the auditors' report, after which the Chairman addressing the meet- Ing said:
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Gentlemen. I presume you will; as usual, take the issued report of the Directors including the State- ment of Accounts as read.
On April 1st last year your Com pany sustained the heaviest blow
which
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1936.
P. & O. CHANGES
Capt. Carter On The "Mooltan"
pro-
Captam BAJ.W. Carter, R.N.R.. is now on hits way to Australia in command of the P. & O. liner "Mooltan" to which he was moted from the "Ranpura.” .
Captain Carter was born at St. Peter's Port Jersey, was in the Worcester Training Ship from 1898 to 1900, served his apprenticeship "Glendoor" in the sailing ships
and "Lawhil" and la the 5.8.
'Ottawa" from 1900 to 1903.
CHINESE WEDDING
Ng-Chan
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LIVING ON THE EARNINGS OF BOYS
Juggler Caught
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Fan Yu Tak à 34-year-old- arougat beiore Mr. Juggler was
Balfour at the Central S.F Magistracy yesterday élarged with aiding and abetting three boys to beg in Pedder Street in the vici- nity of the Gloucester and Hong Kong Hotels.
A Chinese wedding of much in- solemnised at Hotel terest was Cecil yesterday when Miss Ng How Ying, mece of Mr. Ng Hang Ping, became the bride of Mr. Chan Wai Kuen of Melchers and Co. The was officiated by the ceremony Hon. Dr. Ts's Seen Wan.
The bridgeroom is the eldest son of Mr. Chan Shau Ting, a well-
Inspector A W.".Smith. wher known merchant, and a brother of Mr. Chan Wai Chuen, manager prosecuted stated that on Thurs- of Hotel Ceell. He was educated day evenirig as he was walking along Pedder Street at about 9.30 at St. Paul's College where he was a noted scholar and a remarkable he saw the defendant and an- ainer man with Ave sma boys. Entering on the arti
of the One of the boys was seen to hand bridegroom and carrying a bouquet over to the defendant 20 or 30
white sweet peas, the bride
cents and the defendant told one locked charming in a white" gown of the children named Fan To of satin. She was attended by to perform somersaults in front of Miss Rosemary Tang as her Bride-the officer. No attempt was made maid, who, holding a nosegay of pink gladioli, wore a dress of power- Continuing Inspector Smith said blue satin. The duties of the best that he continued walking and man were discharged by Mr. Chung later telephoned to Central Police Yu Wing while Misses Tang Yiu Station asking for a van and two When the van Fun, Ho Ching Ha, It Chor Hang plain clothes men. were flowergirls and Master Iparrived the defendant disappear. Tai Tak was page boy.
ed'and three of the boys were Among those present at the wed-arrested. A ittle later witness saw the defendant again and had ding were Mr. and Mra. Ho Kam
and Mrs. She Tat him arrested. Tong, Mr. Cheong, Messrs. F. Zimmern, Ng G.
He joined the P. & O. IL 5th officer in the "Peshawur" in 1905. and on the outbreak of war went to the Navy and was on war ser-
ice up to 1918. After the war hevolleyball player. return to the P. & O. service and it was as the result of several transfers of commands consequent of Captain upon the retirement Sudell, Commander df the "Strath- more" that Captain Carter was the he appointed to January, 1938.
Secretary of State for the Co'cntes had given our Pétition carefu consideration but that he failed to see any ground on would be just frd in Interfering with the discretion of the Hong In its history in the sudden an-Kong Government fegarding the nouncement that the Government matters which were
subject had permitted, the China Motor of the Peittion. Bus Company to hitroduce second class fares
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the
of
THE PETITION routes competing | In our Petition we asked, Inter with tramcars, namely, routes Nosalta that the Secretary of State 1 and 5. Not only were your Direc- might be pleased tors not consulted ds to the prob able effect of such concessions but. your Company was not informed that any 'such concessions was even contemplated.
It was through the medium of the Chinese newspaper "Wah Klu Yat Po" on March 1st that the Strong announcement appeared. representations were then made by your Company culminating in the appearance of the then Chaliman (Mr. A. B. Stewart) and the Gen- eral Manager before the Executive Council at its meeting on March 28th.
EXTENSIONS GRANTED
"to refer to the Ministry Transport matters of transporta tion princip e arising out of
this Memorial for report regard- ing the treatment of which your
the
tloner
past 31
having
"Moolta" in
He has commanded 05 been Staff Commander in a number of the Company's vesels, including the Khyber, the Maloja. All pore,' 'Strathaird' and 'Strathna- ver. With his long experience in the P. & O. Line, Captain Carter is well-known to a large number of the travelling public, and has many friends in the ports of the Eastern. Far Eastern and lian run.
Austra-
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Captain J. M. Legg, who is pro-
's a
is another Commander well-known on the run. his bus! Eastern and Australian of
been the 5.5. last vessel having "Mantua," which he commanded from March 1933, unt she was sold
of
Wah, Chak
Ε Zimmern. Schuldt, W. Sporlader, Ļ Pracht,' K. Schmidt. E. W. Welsing, Miases
Mrs.
A dinner was held at Kwong Chow Restaurant. West Point, in the evening and was attended by a large gathering of relatives and frlends. The "happy couple will spend their honeymoon at Canton.
petitioner (as providers of effi- ceeding to Bombay shortly to take A, Schutte, N. Zimmern. Messrs. The Yu Chuen, George She, Hon cient public passenger transport command of the 'Ranpura'
Kam Shing, Mr. and Mrs. Ip Ching services within the Colony formative of Kent. He served a four Suen, Mrs. Wong Kam Fook, Mrs. years) complains years apprenticeship in the fam-Ho Yu. Mrs. Ho Leung, Mrs. Ho since the year 1928; and. in ous sailing ship 'Port Jackson, and particular, with regard to the had a year in steam in the ssing, Mrs. Ho Cheuk Mrs. Ho Ki, Ho Kwong. M and Mrs. recent injury which your Peti- "Ayrshire.
complains of
He joined the P. & O. Company Tang Man Kui, Messrs. Tang Man suffered vis-a-v's the present as 5th Officer of the Plassy in Chun and Tang Man Wah. Motor-Bus Acensee by the Hong-1906. Captain Legg kong Government's action in permitting reduction fares on routes competing with your Petitioner to a level equal to the lowest tram fare." There is nothing to indicate that to be broken up last November. the question was ever referred to It a the Ministry of Transport. CONCOS-
speech the Permanent
that competitors, be ng Secretary of
Ministry-Sir Cyri: Hurcomb, K.EE-said:—
difficult "One of the most questions which has arisen in connection with the censing of the road passenger services is extent to which an efficient road transport undertaking, provid ing adequate loca: services, whe-are charged under the Road Traffic Jardine, Matheson & Co., and .ate
At this meeting it transpired that not only were second clusa bus fares on competitive routes to he introduced but that certain route extensions, for which the Motor Bus Company also apled, had been granted, these sions tu OUI effective as from April 1st.
One of the extensions relates to the No. 1. Happy Valley Route
hitherto which
terminated Elake Pier but which now extends for a further mile to Eastern Street and where it is not actual- track is
ly along the tramway within 75 yards of it.
at
Your Directors then der'ded that they must appeal to the - tetary of State for the Colonies. Consequently a Memorial wir pre pared and sent in to the Hong Kong Government, for despatch by them to London, in May last.
to
This Memorial was of a comire- hensive nature and dea't with your Company's affairs as far back as 1925 when we were informed by the Government-in responce our application for authority to commence a trolley bus or motor bus service along the No. 5) Queen's Road route-that nether could be approved, the streets be- ing too narrow for such veh lel. The principal points in the Pit tion, however, dea ́t with, the ques- tion of second class motor bus fares which had been introduced only on routes Nos. 1 and 5. that is to say, the routes which rom- pete must "intensive'y tramway services.
with
the
It is signla-
second ΠΟ
cant that on the University Routes
(Nos. 3 and 4)
fares were introduced.
class
WES
recent
take.
"The question of competition between public service vehicles and tramways and trackless troi- ley undertakings is dealt with at considerable length in para- graph 91 of the First Interim Report of the Departmental-Com- mittee on the Licensing and Re- gulation of Public Service Vehi- cles. It is there pointed out that tramway ündertakings. sub- ject to statutory liabilities, such as the maintenance of part of the highway on which they run and also that tramway and trackiess trolley undertakings have sunk heavy capital expen- diture in track, electrical equip- ment and other plant and are unable to transfer their services to other routes. The Committee reached the conclusion which
TWO MILLIONS" DOLLARS
Estate Of The Late
Mr. Landale
out on a visit to the Colony senior official of that Ministry. This ometal would make n report and recommmendations to the
ཡང་མར་པར་རིན་ཀྱང་། ཡ་ Government which could safely be regarded as unblassed and in ac-
estate amounting cordance with the practice of the | $2,070,100 was left by the late Mr. British Traffic Commisioners who David Landa e, formerly of messrs.
Act of 1930 with the duty of issuing road service Vicences and fixing fares etc.
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Local
to.i
to arrest them.
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Defendant pleaded that he had only arrived in the Colony, ten days ago, and did not know the laws. He further alleged that he had been sick for some time and the children had gone out with- out his knowledge.
police had
Inspector Smith added that the numerous received
worried
complaints from the residents of the Hotels in the vicinity of Ped- der Street about "being by the defendant and people like him. There were special men on duty in that area,
The Magistrate decided to send the children to the Juvenile Court te be dealt with. Defendant was remanded in police custody for three days.
STOLE FROM BENEFACTOR
Ungrateful Friend
of Dalwinston, County of Dum- Li Chun, (30) appeared, before fries Scotland. Mr. Landale died Mr. W. Schofield yesterday, ai the at Dalwinston on. September 6. Central Magistracy or a charge of having stolen a diamond ring, the Estate duty amounting to $252,-property of Wong Po-chun,' mar- No. 273, ried woman, living at 441.05 has been paid.
1935.
An application by the Hon. Mr. Lockhart Road, second floor, on
Paterson, the awful attomey, February 25. for sealing exemplification (nomi- nate) of the executor, was grant- ed.
some
ther municipally or privately owned is entitled in the public nterest to protection from the
ROAD TRAFFIC ACT undertak- competition of other
the Ings, whose justification t
Observe what was said by the provision of longer-distance Right Hon. Herbert Morrison, P.C., through services, and the form MP., (Minister of Transport 1929- which that protection shoud 1931) the originator of the London
Detective Sergeant Fitches stated Passenger Transport Act, in a speech in 1930 when referring to
that the defendant and complain- ant were well-known to each other, the Road Traffic Act of that year:
"In his judgment the two most Mrs. Mildred Sophie Landa'e, the and the latter being in more far- the Road widow, and Mr David Fortune ourable circumstances frequently Important parts of Trafic Act were those dealing Landale, the elder son, were ap-loaned money to her friend. These sums were never repaid but never- with the regulation of public pointed executors of the estate, service vehicles, and the Omni- The late Mr. Alfred Laing, of theless complainant still continued to lend her money and give her bus BUI promoted by the Muni Chefoo, who died on January 25, cipal Tramways and Transport 1934. left local estate to the value food whenever defendant came to
OL $2,300. Letters of administra- Visit her. Association.
On February 25, defendant visit- "They shou.d be clear as totion with the will annexed have
ed the complainant and asked, for N. to Mr G. G. what were the elements of the teen granted
money,
but complainant economics of transport. There Tinson, solicitor, the lawful attor
having none to spare told defen- must be sufficient transport toney.,
dan; so and after giving her some meet the requirements of indus-
food want to sleep, expecting the try and the reasonable require-
defendant to RO away. When ments of the years ahead. There
meant for the transport worker complainant arose she found that must be elasticity in the means
low wages, long hours, and the a ring which she kept in a saucer of transport which would meet
mental discomfort of being mix-was missing, the ring being valued temporary expansions and con-
& mismanaged en- ed up with
at $300. tractions of demands. Transport
terprise.
When defendant was accosted in must be efficient transport, and,
Proceeding, Mr. Morrison sald her house by the complainant she if it was to be efficient. It must
he wished people to trave by admitted that she had taken the be guaranteed reasonable secur-
rail or road as they liked but ring and had given it to ner mo- ity within the transport system.
there could not be reckless du-ther, who wanting to go to Can- The system must meet the pro-
plication of means of transport, ton had pawned it for $10. A low blem of the peak load of demand
which in the end would mean aum was asked as complainant in- for transport. In the nineteenth
disaster for everybody concern-tended redeeming the ring later. century they were told that free
Inquiries revealed that the defen- competition was the great thing.
THE ACCOUNTS
dant's mother was unknown at the, and that it would provide cheap- ness and efficiency. It was to Turning now to the Accounts house. Complainant then changed her story and stated that she had the credit of Socialist propagan- before the meeting' I must first of da that there was practically no all remark this as the first occa- given the ring to a man in Kow- business man of repute who to-ision that complete information loon City.
While being taken across the day would say that that was a cf the Working Account position
harbour, defendant jumped over- included in sound commercial doctrine.
has not been
pre-
the ferry, but WSIN "Competition in road trans-senting the annual statement of board from
rescued. port meant that time-tables | accounts. In the existing condi-
Mr. Schoneld remanded>defen- were unrelated and that theretions of direct and intense motor-
dant for three days to see whether was lack of contact betw'en dif- bus competition your Diretors re- ferent forms of transpor, which gretfully advise the undesirability the ring could be recovered. meant empty seats. People ap of continuing our former practice preciated empty seats, but these o publishing full particulars of were the economiem not of wis-operating detall, Whi'st, in other the serious nature of the decline dom but of bedlam. The empty respects retaining as far as possi in traffic receipts will be appre- seat had to be paid for either ble their customary form, the pre-
ciated. by capital, in the shape of bad sent accounts in this particular services, bad vehicles, and bank- are accordingly modified to ruptcy, or by the passengers to form merely with requirements of needlessly high fares for those the Companies Ordinances. who did travel, uncomfortable The inclusive profit for the year and unsafe vehicles. Inemcient 1935 was $744.813.58, being over services, and a poor quality of $200,000 less than in 1934, and transport worker. Finally, this when I state that on the expense competition between capitalists i side figures compare favourably
was generally accepted, that so long as such undertakings are providing adequate and efficient services, they are in principle entitled to some measure of pro- tection, so, tar as their strictly local traffic, is concerned, from the competition of public service vehicles conveying passengers stage by stage between points served by the trams and trolley 'vehicles."
MUST BE UNIFORM Prior to Government calling for tenders for a motor bus franchise It was laid down that
fares bus Hong Kong (this applied to the Hotel, Company's bases and to the buses operated by our own Com- pany) must not be less than the When in fare. first class tram 1932 tenders for the exclusive bus franchise were invited there no suggestion that this policy of leaving the second class pastengers tu, the trams was to be departed
Sir Cyri; Kurcomo then proceed from and it was strongly contend- ed that what had occurred con- Led to deal with what is known the Leicester case. Brief- stituted a grave departure, gen-s erally, from the spirit and inten- this was a Ministry of Transport tion of the conditions of tender order which forbade motor buses and. particularly, that the insti- other than those owned by the tution of second class fares on Lalcester Corporation to pick up routes Nos.1 and 5 was in conflict and set down the same passenger
of such portion of the route with these condi@dhs.
lay within 440 yards of the Lel-
CASE QUOTED
cester tramway track,
as
As pointed out in the speech from this chair two years ago our
Your Board has now approached tender was not accepted, the China Motor Bus Company having offer the Hong Kong Government en- ed Government a higher tender quiring whether it is Government's than your Company found it eco-intention to grant protection to nomically possible to put forward your Company such as is outlined by the Permanent Secretary to -under the conditions laid down.
I regret to report, however, that the Ministry of Transport and at on November 22nd last a letter the same time asking whether His was received from the Hong Kong Excellency the Governor will be be sent Government to the effect that the good enough to cause to
A
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An apparent falling off under the Investment and Bundry re- venne head is inrgely explained by the amount taken into the pre- vious year in respect of forfeited dividends.
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