PACE 8-HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS
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PUBLIC AUCTION. PUBLIC AUCTION.
WHE/Undersigned have received instructions
THE "Undersigned have received TREE Instructions
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
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Friday, the 16th February, 1940
commencing at 2.30 pm.
at their Bales Room, No. 35 Han- kow Road, Kowloon.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
Comprising:-
Bedsteads, Divans, Wardrobes, Cheats of Drawers, Dressing Tables, Katstands, Chesterfeld Bultes, Din- ing Tables Sideboards, Chairs, Desks, Bookcases, Cabinets, Tea- Doys, Wardrobe Trunks, Pictures, Rattan Furniture, etc., etc.
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
Cu
Thursday, the 15th February, 1949
commencing at 11.90 a.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 2 Con- naught Road, Central (Room No. 205, 2nd Floor).
8 Bales Wood Pulp
56 "Demon" Stoves (new)
5 Kegs Red Lead
3 Teakwood Ship Wash Stands 3 Cases Sleeve Holders 35 Boxes Sleeve Links
4 Boxes Tie Fins
*B150
Carpets, Rugs, E. P., Brass, Alu-Ladies Rubber Swimming Costumes, and Porcelain Shoes, Caps, Raincoats, Bathing minium, Glass Ware, Cutlery, Ornaments, Curtos, Toys, etc., etc. Gramophones and Records, Electric Lamps. and Heaters, Filters, Tea Sets, Dinner "Crockery, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc.
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A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD FURNITURE
and
1 "Agfa" Cine Projector (8 mm)
and
GENERAL
IMPORTANT JUDGMENT St. Patrick's
AT CENTRAL COURT
Conthued from page 5.
the
(1) It shall be lawful for the]ferent signification, means Governor in Council to exercise entire load of the ship which car all or any of the following ries it for although the ques- Dowers:—
tion, before the Court in that case (a) to prohibit the Importa-was entirely different trom the. tion of unmanifested argo, question in this, these words up- either generally or from any pear, to have been spoken in a particular country or place; general serpe
(b) to prohibit the exporta- tion of unmanifested cargo. either generally or to any parti- cular country of place;
(e) to prohibit the placing on Beard any ship in the Colony of any cargo without the consent of the owners, charterers, agents or master thereof;
Society, H.K.
INFORMAL DINNER DANCE ON MAR. " 15
The following officers of St. Patrick's Society of Hongkong have been elected for 1944:
President-Mr. J. C. M. Gren- ATTRACTIVE PROPOSTAON ham Vice-Presidents—Mr. G. E. Secondly, as to "ordinary lug-M. Terry, Mr. P, J. A. Hamilton: game, it is implicit in Mr. Lo's Hon. Secretary--Mr. R. J. Min- ment that the term "Tagragon'tt; Hon. Treasurer-Mr. P. J. A. should mean the receptacle or Hamilton.
Committee:-- Condr. W. P. container and not what la con tained in it. At first sight thila McCarthy RN LA Col J. 19. is an attractive proposition for Smith, Messrs. H. Williams, B. the Section under which these m❘ H. C. Hallowes, B. T. Flanagan, gulations are made has the phrase P. R. James, J. O'Donovan, J. cargo carried in passenger's fug-5. Crozier, A H Guinness and gage" and the Oxford Concie A. R. Fowles, Dictionary defines "luggage" 18 #traveller's baggage: partman- (e) to prescribe any other
teaux, boxes etc." But the terms restriction or condition whatso- ever on the importation or ex-ordinary luggage" or "personal luggage" (they may be taken as portation of unmanifested cargo or on cargo placed on board any Railway LR4 QB. p.366) have a synonymous-Hudston v. Midland defalte meaning in law. on the meaning of these terms are listed in Stroud's Judicial Die tionary under the heading "Per- |sonal Luggage.”
(d) absolutely or conditionally to exempt from any such probi bition cargo carried in passen gers' luggage or any other class of cargo whatsoever; and
ship,
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(2) In this section "anman fested cargo" means cargo not entered on the ship's manifest.
Cases
ST. PATRICK'S DAY In view of existing war condi- tions it has been decided to cele- brate St. Patrick's Day this year by holding an informal dinner dance instead of the Annual Ball The dance will take place in the Peninsula Hotel on Friday March 15 from 8.30 p.m. to 2 a.m.
WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 14, 1940.
Say "BLACK
i).
& WHITE
and be sure!
NO TWO WAYS ABOUT IT, IT'S THE SCOTCH.
The leading case is Macrow v. clusive of drinks; all profits Rotary Club;
to
NO TICKETS
The charge per person will be THE ARGUMENT
$5.00, Including dinner, but ex- The argument is: Regulations 1 and 2 of the Order prohibit the G.W. 1871 QB, RS18; the plath- atising from the function will be
British the
War importation or
of taff in that case took with him 12 donated' exportation cargo. unless it is entered or the sheets, 12 blankets and 6 quilts in Organisation Fund and earmarked for Irish Troops. ship's manifest. Regulation 4 pro-a. trunk by train from Liverpool for comforts vides that these prohibitions shall to London, intending them for| This contribution is, supplement- ary to the donation of $1,000 al- "A Quantity of Furniture, New Books not apply to "the ordinary lug- the use of his household when
gage of a passenger accompanying he had set up a home in London, ready made by the Society. and Sundries
the passenger."
The question was whether they If Regulation 4 merely exempted were to be considered as “ordin
Cock- from the necessity of being enter-ary passengeľa luggage.” ed on the ship's manifest articles burn C. J, giving the judgment of such as a passenger's pyjamas and the Court said: toothbrush, it would be absurd and Lanecessary; therefore the mean- ing of Regulation 4 must be that all goods of whatever nature con- fained in a passenger's ordinary uggage are so exempted. The Oderhor-in-Council is expressly given power to make such an ex- emption (Sect. 4A (1) (d).
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS.
1 "Kodak" Cine Projector (16 mm) CHARITY BAZAAR IN
1 "Kelvinator Refrigerator
1 "Watson" Whole Plate Camera
1 "Columbia" Radio Gram
1 Grand Piano
1 'Robinson" Upright Piano
4 "Underwood" "Typewriters
AID OF REFUGEE "
CHILDREN
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The complainant contended in The Industrial Home for Refugee
4 merely Children. New Territories, Kow-reply that Regulation loon, founded and managed by excluded from the necessity of
being entered
the ship's Dr. and Madame George Hsu Chien, former Minister and Chief manifest the "ordinary luggage of Becretary, respectively, of the Chi-a On View from Thursday, the 15th nese Ministry of Justice, will hold a charity bazaar m aid of refugee February 1940.
children at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, No. 84 Connaught Road Central, Hongkong. from February 14 to 10,
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS..
AUCTIONEERS.
R.
Besides the produce of the home, artistic and literary contributions of Madame Eugene Chen, wife of China's former Foreign Minister, and of Chang I-Ling, China's for mer Minister of Education, and Mr. Yap Klong Chae, Mr. Ko Chung Fu Mr, Do Che Cheong, and Madame George Hsu Chien, etc.. will be exhibited.
Price of a ticket will be $1, obtainable at the Chamber.
EXHIBITION
PUBLIC AUCTION. OF CHINESE ART
THE
Undersigned have received instructions
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
OM
Tuesday, the 27th February, 1940
at H.M. Naval Yard, Hongkong, and at Kowloon Naval Depot,
A
commencing at 9.30 am, with an interval from 12 noon to 1.20 p.m... Old and Surplus Naval Stores, etc.
comprising:
ON FANS
An exhibition of Chinese Art on Fans will be held, under the auspices of the Chinese Society of the Hongkong University, at the Fung Ping Shan Chinese Library. *from tomorrow (Thursday) to Saturday, Feb. 17, daily from 10 a.m. to 8 pm.
A very fine collection of over 600 masterpieces treasured by pro- minent collectors, will be display ed. Many of the masters of the brush of the Sung and the Yuan Dynasties are "represented, but most of pieces are of the Ming and the Ching Dynasties.
Gen. Ho Lok, former Command- der of the Police Force in Canton, one of the well-known collectors of Chinese Arts, has kindly con- sented to open the exhibition at 11 am, tomorrow. The Frealdent Four Cylinder Petrol Engine, Re-
and members of the Society frigerator, Old Tools, Canvas, India | Rubber, Clocks, Leather, Electric extend their cordial invitation to Gear, Electric Motors, Lamps, Bino- all who are interested,
culara, Oars, Cofdage, Firewood. Blankets, Counterpanes, Carpets, Rugs, Beds, Wash Basina, Furni ture, Hedtric Cable, of Drums, Dirty O, etc.
:.ft..
also
Cast Iron Borings and Zinc Ashes Lots may be inspected on Mon- day, 26th February, 1940. (Only British subjects will be admitted into H.M. Naval Establishments to view or bid for the lots)..
REFUGEES IN THE COLONY There was a decrease of 333 in number of refugees and destitutes accommodated in the Colony in Government camps, etc., in Urban and Rural Areas for the week ended Feb. 10.
the
....
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Urban Areas (Civilinna) on Feb. 3-King's Park 1,318 against 1,310, Ma Tau Chung 1,183 against 1,158 and North Point 1,472 against 1,440.
passenger accompanying the Passenger," a phrase which as it stood had a clear meaning in law. For Ita meaning he cited Phelps V London and North Western Railway 12 LT. p.496, Story's Ball- ments Sect. 499, Macrow Y. G.W.R. 1871 Q.B.D. 614
Banknotes had to be manifested unless they were the personal or ordinary luggage of a passenger, and he submitted that with so
large an
amount in value, and- bulk the banknotes in this case could not be held to be the per- sonal or ordinary luggage of a passenger as defined in the au- thorities quoted.
CANNOT BE SUSTAINED After a careful consideration of both arguments. I have come to the conclusion that the defen- 'dant's argument cannot be sus- tained. On analvals it is clear that certain definitions of "cargo”
and "ordinary luggage" are im-
pifcit in it, although these deini- tions were never explicitly put forward. First, as to "ango," the argument must tail at its frst step the term "cargo" includes the personal effects of a passer--. xer such as Byjamas and tooth- brush; for if such articles when carried on a chip come within the ordinary
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In order that the contribution to the Fund may be as large as possible, printing expenses are being reduced, and no tickets will be
"Extracts From The Letters Of Col. T. E. Lawrence"; Dean J. L. Wilson's Address
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There was a very large gathering at the weekly timin meeting of the Hongkong Rotary Club yesterday to hear the Rev. Dean J. L. Wilson on "Extracts from the Letters of Col. T. E. Lawrence." It was in fact a continuation of a previous talk the Dean had given to the Rotary Club,
Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, who my mind for Al hour. Con- presided, announced that the sequently, I talk of it to most of following five new members the people I meet.
"They often asked "why the had been enrolled and pre-
"We hold the true rule to be
Issued. Applications from that whatever the passenger takes with him for his personal Members accompanied by remit use or convenience according to tance should be sent to the Hon the habits or wants of the par- Secretary as soon as possible but tlcular class to which be be in any case not later than Satue langs, either with reference today 9th March; an acknowledge the immediate necessities; or to
ment will be issued by the Horsented them with their badges RAF.?" and I don't know only I the
ultimate purpose, of the Secretary against which table re of membership. They were
servations may be made direct
desired
with the Hotel management Mr. Phil. S. Delaney, Mr. W. E Fickwood, Mr. R. P. Morris, Mr. Luke Ol-wah and Mr. E. Dennison
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THE ADDRESS Apologising for having had to postpone this talk owing to cir- cumstances over which he had no
journey, must be considered as personal luggage. This would include, not only all articles se dr apparel, whether for
A private room has been ornament....but also the gun-served for service of drinks be case or the fishing apparatus of fore dinner, and a special late the sportsman, the easel of the ferry will leave Kowloon at 2.30 artist on a sketching tour, or
am on the morning of the March the books of the student, and 16. other articles of an analogous The dance programme will in-control, Dean Wilson said: "The character, the dige of which "la | clude the Irish dance which talk I have to give today may not personal to the traveller, and proved so popular in previous the taking of which has arisen years, and arrangements are in from the fact of his journeying. hand for practice dance to be On the other hand the term held on Mondays, March 4, and "ordinary luggage" being thus March 11 in the Jacobean Room confined to that which is per- of the Hongkong Hotel, sonal to the passenger and car- red for his uss or convenience, It follows that what is carried for the purpose of basin Cas, such as zherchandise or the Hko, or for large or ulterior purposes, such as articles of furniture or household goods, would not come within the description of ordinary luggage unless accepted as such by the carrier.
The articles as to which the question in the present case arises consisted of bedding. -Now, though we are far from saying that a pair of sheets, or
AIR RAID SYREN TEST TOMORROW The Director of Air Raid Pre- cautions announces that, the Naval Authorities will be testing the air raid warning syren situated on
Stonecutters
Island
tomorrow
Thursday) commencing at 230
p.m.
the like, taken by a passenger to be ordinary, escape the require for his own use on a journey,ment of entering his goods on the might not fairly be considered ship's manifest.
as personal luggage, it appears to us that a quantity, of articles of this description, intended, not for the use of the traveller of the fourey, but for the use of his household when permanently settled, cannot be held to be so."
"ORDINARY LUGGAGE”
ARE "CARGO" /
bave tried, and I like it, as much after trying it as I did before.
The difference between the Army and Air is that between earth and air; no less. I only... came into the Army in the hope of earning my restoration to the RAF, and now the third year is running on, and T'am as far away as ever,
BO MANY COMFORTS
hold the same interest to you as "It must be the ranks for I. am my previous talk, because it is al-afraid of being loose UT M- ways easier to listen to blogra- dependent. The rails and rule, phical details about a man than and necessary subordination are to sustain an interest in the com- so many comforts. Impossible is ments on men and affairs which
a long word in human dealings: that person gives over a number but it feel to me impossible that of years.
I should ever assume responsibility "The extracts that I have taken or authority again. No doubt any from the letters of T. E. Lawrence great crisis, would change my I have tried to make representa- mind; but certainly the necessity tive, but there are nearly 800 pub- of living won't. I'd rather b dead lished and my selection must be that hire out my wits to anyone less than 20. and so I have chosen importantly. them chronologically, beginning with the time when he was at school and then when he had just
left Oxford.”
"Dean Wilson had in his selection one or two extracts from letters to newspapers about Messopotamia, one or two from that period of misery while Lawrence was writ- ing his book and making his fu- ture. The rest were selected for literary or political interest.
POETRY & NATURE
Applying to the facts of this case the view of the law which I accept, we have the box and bun- These were interspersed de full of banknotes to the value one or two giving Lawrence's com of $70,000. They are "enrgo" just menta on life in general, and the
...
"The Ale Ministry has.offer- ed me Jobs: a commission and the writing of their history. These
are refinements of cruelty for my longing to be in the RAF, is a homesick÷. ness which attracts me at the most casual sight of their name in the papers, or their uniform in the streets; and to spend years with them as an officer or historian" knowing that I am, debarred myself fram ever being one of them would be intolerable.
definition of "cargo."
FITTER & TOUGHER there can be no absurdity in a re-
as any other goods whatsoever speaker with a letter written by
"Here in the Tank Corps, I can gulation which exempts this par-
carried in the ship are cargo Lawrence to his mother, which at least cherish the hope that I ticular class of cargo from the
In my view it is the meaning They ought therefore to have shows. Lawrence's great apprecia-may someday justify my return. necessity of being entered on the ship's manftest.
of ordinary luggage" that the been entered on the ship's mani- tion of the beauty both of poetry Please understand (anyone here will confirm it) that the Hatta- His argument, therefore, in-Legislature intended in Regula fest unless they come within the and of nature.
The next was a letter written by Hon authorities are perfectly con- plies that "cargo by definition tion 4. With such a clear mean-only exempted class of cargo, that does not include the personal ing available for the term "or it. "the ordinary luggage of a pas T. E to his brother Wille Lagtence tent with me. Nothing in my
senger" as deflried above. Do they from Oxford. Another latter, character or conduct makes in any:: effects of a passenger. But no dinary luggage it seems to me
Prima written as a subaltern, on the way unsuitable to the ranks and authority was adduced for such a unnecessary to read into the Re- come within that class?
are not fade it would not appear that arenaissance of Turkey, shows I am fitter and tougher than most definition and I have been unable gulation words which
people.... to and any. It is true that for there and construe it as though it box and bundle containing $70,000 Lawrence's political realism, the purpose of salvage law cargo" read "This Order in Council shall worth of notes are necessary for does not include the personal not apply to any cargo contained the personal use and convenience effects of passengers or crew but in the ordinary luggage of a bas- of the defendant or anyone on only the merchandise on board senger accompanying the passen-Journey from Kwong-chow-wan (Halsbury Vol. I 1914 £a. p.559); gera." Indeed if the Legislature to Hongkong but in the absence of any defint had meant this it could easily tion in the ordinance to give the have bald sc term "cargo" such mean-
tea, (the ormance limited me then has regard to what is coo finition at all), it appears to me taped and not to the container, that "cargo" must for the pur- Friamas for the journey packed in poses of this ordinance have its any receptacle one pleases are widest meaning, that is to say, "ordinary luggage" but business the entire, load of goods of what samples even in a suitcase ure not. ever description carried in a ship. And though some results of this The Oxford Shorter Dictionary interpretation of Regalation 4 are defines "cargo as "the freight or somewhat surprising it is an lading of a ship: a ship load offence to bring Into Hongkong 8 Urban Areas (Boldlers) on Feb. Webster's Dictionary as "the lad-sheets or a canteen of spoons not Terms of Sale:---As detailed in 3-In Hospital 7 against 9, and tag or freight of a ship: the mods, intended for use on the journey Catalogue.
Argyle Street 704 against 701. merchandise or whatever is car unless they have been entered on Rural Areas on Feb. 3-Kam ried in a ship or other merchant the ship's mantreat the un Tin 1,866 against 1,942, Ban UK vessel” And that this is the charted seas into which the de- Ling 304 against 600. Total: 6.834 against 7.167.
LAMMERT BROS.. By Appointment, Auctioneers to the Admiralty,
Hongkong, 12th Feb., 1040.
meaning generally
law to the word is the words of Mel Borrowihan V. DN
Mr. Gilinore, of the Chartered Bank. accompanied by MrB. 278 Horány Gilmore, left in Home leïve, yes- terday via America
In the context to
This was followed by a re- markable document planning his eampaign three years be- fore "it was carried out, andTMs diary of peace conference. which ably illustrates Law-
•réhoc's kien sense of Fitzko,
TO LORD TWEEDSMUIR A letter written to. John Buchan: Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor Gen- eral of Canada whose death was reported only on Monday) was also read in this connection.
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GUESTS PRESENT Guests present were Capt. N. Thurity Comdr. Stiff, Lieut.-. Comd. Jolly, Lieut. Comdr. Whyte, Fit Lent, Oxford, Rev. A. P. Rose, Comdr, Kirby, Messrs, R. B. Fuckle, D. B, Evans, D. Kossick,
ton.
In any case, the defendant stated in his answer to the charge term "ordinary luggage" that he drought the money
Hangkotlk to us goods, which Then there was a letter to the Simpson Mack frof. A. R appears to me to be a purpose of Times, and another letter saying Maunder. M E. Fetit, E. Ascot, of business or a larger and iterior, why he joined up. There was one Hongkong, Mr. N. G. Beale, of purpose such, as to prevent the describing the Tank Corpe, and Shanghai, Mr. H. Gellion, of Lacao notes from falling within the de- another contrasting the Army and and Rotarian D. L. Dawson, Can- nnition or "ordinary passengers the Air Force, a luggage given in Macrow v. G. W. R. I can see no difference in principle between a box full of currency notes intended to be ex- changed for goods after arrival in Hongkong and a box full of goods intended to be exchanged for money after arrival in Hongkong. In the absence of any evidence trom the defendant to show that it was necessary for him to take this quantity with him for his personal use of convenience on this journey or some greater jour ney of which this voyage was but part, I am bound to convicte
ched in tendant's. argument leads Le sted by would produce results more, sur- Tin prising still merchant, could by packing all his merchandise into ordinary pasyenger trunks King and suitesses up to any number, presumably that he could calm
P.W.D. DRIVER FINED
(Work Yuk-hong, P. W. D. lory It ran "Dear Buchan, I don't driver, appeared before Mr. H. G. know by what right I made that sheldon at the Central Court yes. appeal to you on Sunday. It hap terday summoned for driving is pened on the spur of the moment Government vehicle without per.. You see, for seven years it's been mission and carrying two passen my ambition to get into the Air gers other than Government Force (and for six months in 1922 ployees Fines totaling 138 or I realised the ambition) and I three weeks Impittsomment were can't get the longing for it out of imposed."
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