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GENERAL
LAMMERTS AUCTIONS LAMMERTS AUCTIONS Chairman On "Princely. Salary"
PUBLIC AUCTION, PUBLIC AUCTION,
THE
THE Undersigned have received
Instructions
ta stil by
PUBLIC AUCTION
h
Friday, the 19th September, 1941
at 1 o'clock, a.m.
at the Holt's Wharf, Kowloon
172 DRUMS FERRI: CHLORIDE
Fur
bispection apply to the Undersigned
He said the reports were for because I had soine experience of Every day?--Not every day: ance May and June. but one of them, tunnels in the Shing Mun Scheme.
Continued from Page 7
or twice a week.
And
was
missing. He unfortunately, added that it was for the last day
It WILS having satisfied yourself, of the month, but fel the bill is sent to Mr. Campbell somewhere in the office.
to What happens Chairman: and the bills are o.k'd try some-
afraid I these reports?-1 am
They to Mr can't say, six. Campbell and I presume he uses them to check up on the amount They are reperts of work done.
can't
HE Undersigned have received one else in the PW.D.-I
say. I know nothing of the bills sent in by contractors.
instructions
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
un
Friday, the 19th September, 1941
commencing a1 2.30 pm.
at the Sales Room. No. 35. Han- kow Road. Kowloon
Nothing at all?—Yes.
thou-
до
Am I right in saying that as the result of these questions, the post-giving particulars of the number tion is this: You at $2.50 a day of men engaged on each tunnel are the man through whom Gov-face, the number of timber men tay croment has been paying
night and for each shift.
the sands and thousands of dollars? shift the progress made th Since I was instructed to work in drilling of the tunnels, the num
I was not
ber of holes drilled, the amount of gelignite used and the number of
this manner I did so.
the only man who was doing this
F. T There are also Mr. Work Cheng and another Chinese tore man
Whal is Cheng's salary"--$80. A princely salary!
Orders please
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
comprising
Teru
Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS
Room
AUCTIONEERS.
p
Is it correct that no European even to engineers ever bothered check the work on the tunnels and Dining Roum Bed Teakwood
relied entirely and solely on the Drawing Room and Office
& Wardrobe
Cabin Chinese | Furniture.
and Mr Trunks. Ice Chests. Folding Bereens,
ponsible. Perambulators. Taples Chairs Gramophones & Records, E.
PUBLIC AUCTION, Brass, Glass and Porcelain Ware had far too much to do and could
HE Undersigned have received Truck the Liquide
tors and others
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
on
Saturday the 20th September, 1941, Commencing at 11 o'clock am
at their Bales Room. No. 2 Con- Central. Second naught Road Floor
ONE LEITZ" RESEARCH MICROSCOPE complete with
Carpeis Ornaments Cutlery, Pic- Utensils. Clocks Lures. etc elc
Cooking
also
A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD ! FURNITURE
and
Westinghouse Refrigerator
!
I
Gas Stove
1 Pair Binoculars
Radio Bet
1 1940 Model All Wave Marcon
Radio
On View from Thursday.
:
detonators used.
Do you know who they are made
by?.-They
are signed by up Chung Chun, foreman of works. I don't know who he is.
You don't know whether he is a foreman of the PW.U?--I don't know. And
on that
you
say
Mi
Well the fact remains that you suddenly rose from office boy in Shing Mun to No. 1 foreman in the A.R.P. tunnels scheme.-1 office boy. 1 gained promotion step by step.
WAS
never
an
You worked under Mr. Campbell all the time? Yes, except when
was on Home leave
I mean all the time he was in Hongkong-1 also worked under Mr. Woodman.
But I am correct in saying that you looked upon Mr. Campbel as: your boss?-A fact: he was my
Doss
You know a man catied Chu Pak-lum? Nu, sir.
Well, this man 1 am referring to is No 1 foreman who looks after pen shelters in Kowloon.-I seldom go about with these people.
You don't know him?- No Now, those sub-contractors who are supplied do tunnelling work
Lee?- with materials by Kin Correct.
They are issued to them--Yes, Is that part of the work you su- porvise too?—Yes.
foremen?-Mr. Campbell Campbell eventually approves the Buchanan were also res work done?-He would use them Kin in checking to assist him. Campbell Lee's accounts. Chairman:--But Mr
He was solely responsible for
A statement has been made that has said he was overworked and/
the Kowloon the supervision of
unless a sum of money has been paid to the foreman, they are not Lunnels?Entirely.
Is that daily reports. Issued with the materials. Are there any Mr. Bishop, with regard to the re-correct?-A lot of people hate me.
do not moval 01 muck? There
are against me, because I am too All the morning re
strict on the job, and they have Dame of the Buchanan seem to be.
to be And so did Mr.
ports seem
been spreading scandalous rumours the
about me. Likewise he could think the mat-
type, the progress made in fer over
Excavations, the number of men employed.
not possibly check all the work and He always ac- had to rely on you. cepted everything you told him as!
his Campbell has | correct?—Mr
own brain.
But over $800,000 was sperm by Government on your certificate or statement to European engineers
You are not in a position to tell
What statements bave been made against you?-Rumours. have beard rumours that they
Ι
that everything was correct?-wus how Mr. Campbell could check wanted to report me to my su-
periors. or ok bill in regard to the trans
were merely tlony
Instruc- acting on
At the
portation of muck? I thought be had an agreement that they were Where do you live?
paid at so much per lineal foot. Chinese Y.M.C.A.
He hasHe would be able to Have you ever owned a car?check the total advance of tun
month and Na I was surprised when I saw
nelling
during the
a statement in the Chinese press from that know that so many feet that I had one and laughed.
had been removed ever driven Have you
You do not Chun is? No
the 18th September, 1941
Yes.
!
Terms Cash on Delivery.
Four "UNDERWOOD" Typowrtiers
Accessories
1 Case Wooden Framed Mirrors
1 "ROYAL" Typewriter
15 Cases Ladies' Shoes
**Bitulac Brand Tins 134 5-lb.
Ready Mixed Paint
and
A QUANTITY OF OFFICE FURNITURE
On View from Monday. the 15th September, 1941
Terma
Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS..
AUCTIONEERS.
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE
PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE
of the
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY
known as
one ninth share of Inland Lot No. 2278
(No. 16 Fung Wong Terrace)
to be sold by
PUBLIC AUCTION
on
Tuesday the 23rd day of Sept. 1941.
at 3 o'clock p.m.
by
Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS, Auctioneers at their Sales Room, No. 2 Connaught Road Central
HONGKONG,
PARTICULARS.
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS.
CAR NO. 599 was the last drove Car No. 593
Which
one? -
know who Chung
Do you know whose initials are car you in the left-hand corner? No. I We have don't know them, sir.
five sites to inspect su when we are in a hurry we have to use a
car.
'This
SLIPS THOSE PAY
completed Mr
For what, doing your work pro
The people say that perty?--No I had been taking squeeze.
Have you taken any steps to re- port these rumours?-No.
say who Why not?--I cannot spread them
FALSE RUMOURS
No, but having heard the
rú
mours, you could have told Mr. Campbell that the rumours had been spread about you. No, I did not.
Bishop's Yes. In other words you are supplied evidence and the next witness to
And those rumours are false?.-
Can you tell me why, you of all: the foremen. have been singled to out? I don't know why.
ASSIZE JUDGE'S with a car by the PW.D.?--No. testify was Chan Lo. who at the
HINT
this car belongs to a sub contrar.previous
Who? Name him. -Li Man
sub-contractor
| BLOK.
He is a
'TOO MANY BIGAMY Lee?—Yes. CASES FOR TRIAL"
why 1 ++[ cannot understand
that should have beca insisted cases of bigamy should be tried here and not elsewhere," remarked
Mr
Justice Humphreys at Kent Assizes recently
"I should think that in 99 per cent of cases pleas of guilty are made, and no question of law or of human interest is involved.
"Those cases might well be dis- posed of by magistrates at police courts or by Quarter Sessions."
Of 22 cases in the Assize calen dar ten
indictments for
were
bigamy, the majority of the alleged offenders being serving soldiers. 1 Two oflenders and their sentences [were:-
asked hearing was produce the sups of paper on workman was paid. which each
And he supplies labour to Kin was Lee? No.
I see. it is just your misfortune? Absolutely.
He did so and the Chairinan ask --
Amongst these rumours, have you heard that you and other Kined if the slips were signed by any.
some explosives body. Witness replied that thereforemen demand
no signature to We slips, back, when you issue them, so that
You can sell thein?-No. merely Kn Lee's chop.
Chairman
When a completed his day's work he is And you drive about in his car? given one of these slips? Yes ar. -Yes.
What does he do?-He supplies tunnel inbig.
To visit the jobs? Not to go round to all of the sites, but from sile to atle.
Did
How did you get the car. you speak to the sub-contractor? -It happens sometimes that the car is outside the office. I then at the time ask the person in
1
workman
Who gives them these slips?—I don't know sir
Is he a Kin Lee man, or a Gov. ernment man?-A Kin Lee man.
And then, on these slips you pay the workmen?-Yes.
It is something new then?-Yes. Do you know a man called Ho? Ho Kwai-sun, yes.
How long have you known him? --He says he has known me a long time.
Why does he say that?-le says that he used to work in Shing Mun.
Is that correct?-It is such a long time I have forgotten.
Do you pay the men twice a month or every day?--Every day.
And you rely oir this unknown How did he get the job? He
for permission to use it and it man who makes out the slips to went to Mr. Campbell, and show. pay out the amount on each?ed him his certificate and got the granted.
And you drive about yourself Yes. from site w site? Sometimes I drive myself, at others the driver
does sv.
Are you allowed any allowance for transportation by P.W.D.?
Albert Hunt, 34. soldier-four am supplied with a bus ticket.
And why did you not visit the months' imprisonment; and.
Albert Edward Restall, 26, soldier sites by bus then, instead of dris- ing a car?-Sometimes a bus takes -three months.
too long, nearly half-an-hour.
Hunt was married in 1928, and four years later his wife obtained
Have you ever driven a car No.
a separation, In 1934, posing as 599 after 6 o'clock at night? Yes, single and using the name of just for convenience sake, after I Laurence, he bigamously married have finished for the day. Miss Mabel Fuller at Tunbridge | Wells.
HAD CONVICTIONS
į job.
Have you anything to do with I was correct then when I said
unknown the sub-contractor for the drilling yesterday that if this man was dishonest, he pays out part of the work?-Yes. money which he has no business to do?-Yes, that is so,
In other words, let us pre- sume that Mr. Kwong Wing, if he wants to make a few hundred dollars, would And it very easy to get the unknown man to issite slips in the name of fictitious men and pay out? -That is 80.
ay
enquiry You make no Where to? Sametimes to my whether the work has been, per- house, sometimes to the YMCA formed by the man who presents
In other words you use the car the slip?No. Miss Fuller, who had two children as a convenience? Sometimes; I left Hunt after three years. She was always given leave to. also obtained a separation order. under which nothing was pald.
Have you ever used a car be- longing to another sub-contrac
other sub-contractor
A police officer said Hunt had six tor?--No previous convictions, including an owned a car. assault on the police.
Restall's wife, whom he married
in 1937, obtained a separation after
16 months on the ground of per sistent cruelty.
Have you ever been to a taurant in that car?—No,
In February of last year, while ma with me.
You do not enquire at all?-By virtue of the chop on the slip I pay out.
So, Mr. Kwong Wing, it he wanted to, could rob the Govern- ment of hundreds of dollars by res-making out Actitious slips of pa-
per?--I don't know about that.
But I am making this statement.
And have you heard that the foremen had to be given cumshaw as otherwise they would not give the sub-contracturs the drills?-- No.
What kind of drills are they?-- They are hexagon drills, 7/8th in. diameter.
Are there any 7 feet long? Yes. And these are used for a parti- cular kind of work?-Yes, they are used for driling holes for blasting. And if the sub-contractor can't get them the work is held up?—
Yes.
You have not heard of rumours that unless he pays a cumshaw he would not be able to get the drills? -There is no such thing as that.
CUMSHAW what?Cumshaw
As
15sue.
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No, but have you heard of the
You have never been to a cine- ma in that car?--No. The driver because you told us that when rumours?—No: was not pleased to go to the cine- you pay out the money to the
Mr. Bishop has produced the workmen, there is nobody there morning reports for June?--Yes,
Who are they signed by?They Have you ever asked him?-Noto dentify them I have no in the Army at Tonbridge, Restall; one The property consists of
met Miss Dorothy Mills, she been really that he does not power to make such identification are signed by Chung Chun and I
like the cinema.
There is nobody there to iden-initialled them at the left-hand equal undivided ninth part or
and came pregnant;
Have you ever been on a joy tify the workmen, am I right? corner. share of and in all that ploce or through a form of marriage with ride in this car?-No.
And he sigris thein and gives percet of grouna registered to the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 2279, her at Plaxtol Farish Church
He went
Yes.
At this stage witness was told Chairman: Well, Mr. Blake, we them to you? No, I initial them Told that Restall had a bad to stand down in order that evid-are only going to take one of these and give them to him. Together with the messuage and character, the judge said, "You ence from another witness may clips as a sample. other erections thereon known as treated your wife badly, you get be takon. He was, however, told No. 16 Yang Wong. Terrace.
two months for assault on a girl, not to go away as he would be further
and and you commit bigamy. You must required again later. particulars
go to prison."
For
Conditions of Bale apply to:-
Mesars, HASTINGS & CO..
Hölleltors.
Marina House,
or to Messrs. LAMMERT BROB.. Auctioneers,
No. 2 Connaught Road Central
Hong Kong. 12th day of Sept., 1941,
In aik cusu aentences of three
MR. RISHOP CALLED
days imprisonment were passed,
Mr. O. W. E. Bishop, Bočutive,
TEANG RECALLED This combluded evidence by this witness and Teanga Pul-fan was recalled. 1942
Chairman: Now then, before you
Who writes out the statements? The foremen.
How do you check them?--I take measurements in the tunnela.
You do that every day?—No, how can I do that?
Sometimes he algns first, Whatever happens, that goes to Government and they pay on that? Yes.
Do you know who the store keopor is?-Chan Chun-fal..,
Where does he live? I don't
know.
Is he still employed?--Yes. And the stock in hand, is this Was there any occasion when kept at Hunghom?-Yes,"
Do you ever chook the storea?----
CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES
A conference of the Churches will again be held at Dr. Uttley's Residence Kowloon Hospital, on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 3 pm. Bub fects (1) To receive reports from Parish Counictis on Bocial work. (2) Personil evangelian
All members of Angilean Chur
This other gentleman does that? tond to be prescrit, would they TCB.
which meant immisdiate discharge. Engineer, Waterworks Construc- became foreman in the tunnelling you initialled them without check-
In the rehathing two cases a tor, was the next witness called, work in Kowloon, did you have ing? Yes, sometimes. I trust my I am not looking after the stores, alios are invited, and if they in=" ma and a woman both pleaded and in answer to the chairman any previous experience in A.R.P. foremon.. they har not seen or heard from said he had brought along with tunnels?—Nog
head foreman: signs them without their lugnt spouses for seven yours, him the morning reports, in con- They wore found not guilty and nexion with tunnelling work in No. 1 foreman by Mr. Campbell checking I don't know that.
Kowloon done by Rin Lee,
I was not suddenly made foreman He only signs on your uittials discharked.
And you were suddenly made
And when that happens the
Is he a P.WD. foreman---No.
please send in their name to the Hon Becretary Dlobeban Conifer-
Do you know if any P.WD. manence, H., Margrett, Esq. Gen-
eral Electriu .00. checks that?—No,