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ALLEGED RE-USE OF OLD LABELS.
The case in which the master of the Tung Mei Distillery in the New Territories is charged on several counts under the. Ordin- anco, was continued before Mr. W. Schrofeld at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon.
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submit correct returns on various dates, (2) falling to use labels in their numerical order, (8) falling i to produce the distillery books. when requested and (4) mixing or altering rice shoung ching spirit after it had been distilled, without the presence of a revenue officer.
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Mr. J., D. Lloyd, Superintendent of the Imports and Exports De partment, prosecuted, and Mr. M. K. Lo represented the defendant.
Revenue Qeer Grimmitt ex- plained in detail the duties of a member of the Revenue Depart- ment who visits the distilleries. He described how the labels were required to be applied to the jars in numerical order, The first and last numbers of the labels issued to each distillery were eatered in e book which was required to be kept on the premises.
1.
The labels on the jars were not checked singly but only a few of
60
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1 Animal. d One
THURSDAY, MARCH 3,
OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
Across.
7 Mude into beer.
Heraldic name for gold. 13 Peg
From.
14
15 Sooner than.
16
10 Make red.
21 Gaelic
Mountainous,
them would be examined, and if 22 To have on.
those which were checked were 24 Reduce to nothing.
110 Eagle.
11
Pronoun.
17 Trench..
18 Gravity.
20 Parts of hands..
23 Fruit (plur.).
26 Robs heartlessly.
27
Silent
27 Large ship.
Was ill.
30
of goods for waste.
1927.
Allowances made to purchasers
32 Nowt.
33 Bled.
34
Consumed.
correet the. others would be taken 20ation used in making beer. at Short-
for granted.
28 6
Referring to the paas bock, wit-3
út Beverage.
ness said that a pass was issued 80 Species of willow.
to each custor or and the counter- 30 Am able. folls of such passes were sub- 87 mitted to the Imports and Exports 38 Department.
98
85 Short poem.
40 Royal,
48 Cloth,
45 Cooked,
46 Pledge,
At a distance.
50 British shrub.
61 Short letter.
at courtship.
river.
.40
41
Dirit of the foot,
Choose to an office.
44
Cultivated vetch,
47
Certain
days in the
Roman
R. Q. Grimmitt also gave evid-42 cnce of visiting the Distillery on March 8. He requested the stock book but was only shown the label book and another book show ing the amount of Equar distilled each day. The manager's office 6 Ploughed, but not sowed, was searched, but the stock book, 68 could not be found,
Unlabelled Jars.
50. Of 48 And mind.
52 Notion.
Well-born.
53 Wild animal.
64 At the summit
56. A number of animals.
57 Length of existence.
69. Fifth sign of the zodiac. Yeatorday's Puzalo.
NC
INJA
Go Fust 61
Starting point in golf. C3 Feminine proncua.
Over.
Ego.
66
04 Staggered."
Outside the office door witness later saw ten jars with dirty 65 labels attached. They were full and sealed. On the other sitle of the door were 47 jars which had been scaled but bore no labels. In various other places several more unlabelled jars. A large number of labelled jars were also found on the premises.
were
With the exception of the ten jars found near the door of the office the other jars bore clear labels. From the appearances of the labels on the ten jara, it
Three-footed caldron.
Doron.
Comparative of much.
2 Exist.
3 Inhabitant of Media...
Tailless monkeys.
5 Composed of lines.
7 Noisy quarrels. # Part.
9. Dam.
seemed that they had been issued to the label found in the socks at least a month before the seizure of the man who was previously
Ordinarily the sealing of the jars would be completely dry after three days, but in the case of the ten jars they were not entirely dry, while the labels on the other jars, issued three days previously, were absolutely dry.
The
DENE
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BOAT OF DEATH.
RESULT OF MOTOR FUMES.
charged when Mr. Lo again" rose and objected to any reference be- ing made to those labels. man himself had been called and contrary to Mr. Lloyd's expecta- tians he had not said what the ed two men in charge of a Middle prosecutor thought he would say: Rhine motor-bont which had taken
"Any reference "to those labels
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Mr. Lloyd produced a number of would therefore not he evidence a party of 12 persons for a Sunday CHINA UNDERWRITERS,
afternoon trip up river.
against the defendant,
When the boat got back to
labels which had not been issued, and on their being handed to Mr. Lloyd pointed out to the Biebrich, near Wiesbaden, late in witness, Mr. Lo objected to the Bench that the man who was pre-the evening, the men made her production of labels which had viously charged, together with the fast to the pior and waited for not heer used as comparison defendant, had come out of the their passengers to come ashore. As no one stirred, one of the with those which were alleged to defendant's shop, have been issued over
men went below. To his horror a month
Mr. La drew Mr. Lloyd's atten- he found all 12 passengers uncon- previously..
tion to the fact that that was conscious on the cabin floor. Mr. Lo said that the Inbels tradicted by the man himself.
Five. of them, including three which should have been produced He had said that the labels were childron, were already dead, for comparison were the clean given to him in the street. What The remaining seven, suffering ones on some of the jars referred that man had said, and he was a from severe gas poisoning, were
to by witness in his evidence. witness for the prosecution, had taken to hospital in a critical con-
Mr. Lo said that witness had to be accepted by the prosecution. dition.
After further argument Mr. emphuslaed in the beginning of
his evidence that he was merely Lo's objection was upheld and the
evidence deemed inadmissible. The case was adjourned
expressing his personal opinion.. If Magistrates shared the opinion
of Revenue Officers or Superin- Friday afternoon. tendents, then there would be no need for Magistrates to try cages.
The unissued labels were dis- regarded.
Poison. Fumes,
It is supposed that the passen- tigers had succumbed to poisonous
fumes escaping from a damaged · exhaust pipe.
It appears that the boat had lightly run aground at a shallow
Mr. Charles Humphries, who spot on the return journey; but carved some of the panels in the as she had been got off again, Mr. Lloyd was on the verge of House of Commons,, has died at without delay, the damage to the questioning witness with regard Warwick, agod 91.
pipe had passed unnoticed.
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