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COMMUNICATION TROUBLE WITH MANILA & CANTON.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1929.
EXTRALITY. ISSUE..
CHINA DESPATCHING FURTHER NOTES.
Nanking, Sept 6.
A TAILOR'S CLAIM.
TROUBLE OVER OWNERSHIP OF SEWING MACHINE,
While the annual report of the
A dispute between a tailor and Post Master General for 1928 The Foreign Minister, Dr. C. his apprentice over the ownership shows that a great deal of radio T. Wang, Informed pressmen that of a Singer sewing machine form.. communication took place between he is mailing fresh Extralityed the subject of an action which Hongkong and Manila and Can Notes to the United States to was heard by the Puisne Judrė ton, it also makes known the fact day, to Britain and Franco to (Mr. Justice Wood) in the Sum that a considerable amount. ofmorrow, and to the Netherlands mary Court yesterday afternoon. trouble developed in connexion
The plojutill was Yan Wing- with. fl.
kwong, No. 3. Tai Yuen Street, tailor's apprentice. and the de
Lok-ahan, fendant was Fung alias Fung Ki, trading as the Fook Mo tailoring shop, No. 70 Bridges Street,
During the year 8,816 messages (51,558 words) were forwarded to and 5,001 (46,124 words) receiv ed from, Canton, showing a total increase of 3,605 mensages and 6,771 words over 1927,
and Norway next week, through their Legations, urging these Powers to settle the issue with out delay.
The Notes wili.bo Issued textually to, the press, probably on Tuesday or Wednesday, after delivery to the Legations.
The Provisional Court.
Commenting on the Canton ser
Mr. D. L. Strellctt conducted vice the Postmaster General anys::
the plaintiff's case and the defen. Dr. Wang also stated that | dant conducted his own case. During the first quarter of the year the service suffered frequent identical Notes were being sent
According to the plaintiff'a to America, interruptions and telegrams were to-day
Franco, heavily, delayed owing to the Can Britain, Brazil, Norway and the story, he was apprenticed for two ton Station being engaged in Netherlands. regarding the Shang-years as a minor to the defendant handling military and Govern hat Provisional Court, urging the on July 1, 1928, the terme being ment trame to other places, & Re Powers mentioned to appoint re- that he should work for the de
to discuss the fendant without wages and should, presentations were therefore made presentatives
to Canton regarding the institu-matter immediately with Nanking, pay a sum of $80, for board. It tion of a continuous daily short-Reuter. wave service.
267,476 words, and for putting Hongkong Radio Service in touch with many other parle of the world.
The service however has
not
been so successful as anticipated. chiefly owing La. mutilations and delays,
was a' condition of the agreement that the plaintiff should bring his own sewing machine with him.
Contract Ended,'
Testa were carried out on short waves during the greater part of the second quarter in order to de- termine the possibilities of re- liable, communication' on short waves. The tests proved success ful and it was decided to open the service on June 12th. Canton transmitting on 46 metres and VPS on 28 and 32 and 47 as re quired. The service was to be continuous from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. and every endeavour was to be made to avoid delays and errors.
In order to bring the service into line with other modern art vices the "Receiver to Pay" sya tem was abolished, a proper ac counting system was instituted and vates reduced from 30 cents to 10 cents per word, without mini-combination of these two factors tion; also a refund of $50 of the mum, for each station. The total resulted in the public losing con- $80 paid for board. charge, which was paid by the Adence in wireless services and
Plaintiff further stated that ha placed a treadle Singer machine (No. 4016968) in the defendant'a premises on or about August 8, 1928, together with a drawer and ter. The mutilations occurred, in cover. The contract was many cases, on some portion of minated by the defendant on the circuit other than Hongkong, March 31, 1925, when he refused though it must be admitted that a to return the sewing machine to. fair proportion of mutilations oc- plaintiff and also refused to re- curred here owing to the use of the sum paid for board. Appl. fand a proportionate amount of comparatively unskilled · sinif which was necessitated by the cations to the defendant had been shortage of skilled men.
The refused. heavy delays were caused by short Plaintiff claimed the return of wave fading which was very bad the sewing machine or 385 as ita during the summer months. The value and damages for ita deten
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word against the previous rate of ferred their telegrams from wire-tiff's father to the effect that the
60 cents per word,
less to cables. This, however, is machine belonged to him (wit- hoped to be but a temporary set- neas), He had asked defendant A Moderate: Success.
back. The operators are now to return it on several occasions This service proved moderately much more proficient, delays have bat, each time he had refused to successful. Traffic, both forward- been cut down to the minimum, do so. ed and received, shows a steady and with the aid of new transmit- incrense rising from 544 forward ters and automatic sending and ed messages in June to 1,302 in receiving apparatus it should only December, and rising from 446 re-be a question of time before the ceived messages in June to 761 in public is again convinced of the December.
speed and accuracy services,
Defendant admitted that he had
con-
refused to hand the sewing ma chine over, saying he had done so cenuse the plaintiff had broken the agreement. Defendant of wireless
tended that the plaintiff verbally agreed to work for hilm (defou dant) for a certain period after the two yents apprenticeship but he was now going away without fishing that part of the agree
Short wave communication did not prove to be quite so patis- Another factor which had A factory as had been anticipated, great effect on this service was Communication was therefore in the Cable Companies' reduction of proved by using 2,800 metres for rates to the level of wireless rates, VPS transmission And 1,300 | which meant that many of our metres for Canton transmission { conservative customers who had whenever short wave communica- used the service when it offered lion way interrupted by fading or lower rates reverted to the old en- other cases.
tablished cable serviens when rates were equalised.
Revenue Figures,
In addition to ordinary shart wave difficulties Canton has had a very serious amount of transmit- ter trouble which caused frequent
The revenue collected from interruption to the service. It is radio-telegrams amounted to for this reason that the volume of $101,493.00, an increase of $38,- received traffic on this service is 695.04 on the amount collected in so much lower than that of for 1927. warded traßic, as message from
ment.
Judgment for Pinintiff.
Jis Worship gave judgment fo the plaintiff for 870, the value of the machine, and $10 as damages for the four months it had been in the defendant's possession, at the same time telling the defen-} dont that he could not return the sewing machine but must pay the money. As the claim for $50 re- Advices of vessels signalled at fund of board had been with- quite frequently the Lighthouses yielded $1,021.00, | drawn, his Lordship ordered that heavily delayed and the pale did Semaphore messages $3.00 and the defendant pay half the costs not have the same confidence in Wireless Receiving Station Li- of the plaintiff.“ this part of the service as it had frences $482.31. The total Re-
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The number of radio-telegrama forwarded during the year was 39,122 consisting of 322,041 word against 22,793 consisting of 200,- 171 words in 1927, and 51,051 were received consisting of 477,- 100 words as against 26,326 con- sisting of 276.078 words in 1927.
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