STRAITS RUBBER QUERY.
SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN POLICY.
GOVERNMENT TAKING THE INITIATIVE.
RELIEF MEASURES.
A letter from the Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements referring to sug gested measures for the relief of the rubber indus
causing much try is
dis cussion in Kuala Lumpur. The letter suggests the waiving or reducing of export duties and
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SON WHO FAILED TO TYPHOON AN ACT
MAKE GOOD.
ROBBED FATHER AND THREW
UP CAREER.
TRAINED IN FLYING.
OF GOD?
ARGUMENT RELATING TO- DAMAGED PIER.
WEDNESDAY,
TRIED TO ESCAPE ARREST.
MAN JUMPS IN SEA BUT IS CAUGHT,
Jot
APRIL
1930.
TO-DAY'S WANTS,
26 WORDS
$1.00,
$1.50 If Not Prepaid:) The following "replies have been received
644, 545, 547, 550, 556, 566, 593, 595, 598, 618, 634, 639, 642, 650. 651.
LOST.
LOST GOLD CURB BRACELET in or near the Hongkong Hotel on Saturday afternoon Poward on re- turn to Box No. 656, care of "The Hongkong Telegraph,"
• FOR SALE.
That boarding a sampan and stealing clothing was tantamount to, GOVERNMENT CLAIM. breaking into a house was a com
ment made by Mr. Whyte Smith at
SITUATIONS VACANT. the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- Accusations by a father against The question of negligence ing when a Chinese pleaded guilty WANTED-Eurasian male or female his son, that he had been lazy at arising out of alleged failure to to attempting to steal a bundle of for English business, able to school, that he had thrown aside remove logs of wood from close clothes from a boat in the Yaumati do correspondence. Apply Wassia- & profession and that for the last proximity to a new Government typhoon shelter.
inull Assomull & Co, 46, Queen's Hond eleven years had been stealing Pier at Tonnachy Road, Praya Inspector Marks said the com-Central between 8 to 10 m, goods and money from his house, Reclamation, before the typhoon plainant, who was sleeping on board were made at the Central Magl of August 22, 1920, was discussed the sampan, was aroused by.ay
WANTED. stracy this morning, when Tong in the Summary Court this morn noise, and on awakening saw the Fat, aged 23, the son of Tong Fating before the Puisne Judge (Mr defendant collecting a bundle of MATSHED WANTED—At Repulse chun, a merchant living on the Justice Wood). The case was one clothing. When the alarm was Bay for the coming season. Please ground floor of 2 Flydragon Ter-in which the Hon. Attorney raised the man jumped into the ke Bex No. 4, "Hongkong Tele- race, Taihan, was charged with General sued the On Cheung Tin-water but he was arrested by a
graph." stealing 21 pieces of clothing front ber Company and Ho Kal-chik, the constable as he stepped ashore. his father's house.
proprietor, for $660, for damage sustained to the pier, allegedly by labour was imposed,
Sentence of six weeks' hard The defendant denied the allega-logs of wood belonging to defen- the quit rent on rubber lands tions and accused his father of dant which were improperly during the present slump until neglecting him and of not giving secured and, to use his Lordship's
logs up, as he could such time as the price of rubber him a fair chance in life by taking expression "acted like battering the
him away from his studies at an rams on the pier."
land them. shall have Improved to an early age and putting him to n economic figure, and also that profession to which he was not Crown and Mr. F. C. E. Rendall various points, hig Lordship said FOR SALE-Union Church, Hong-
Mr. L. R. Andrewes was for the his Lordship and Mr. Rendail; on After some argument between
the levy export tax in kind on a suited and disliked.
defended. sliding scale based on the price
The case, as outlined by the
in the normal way defendant was kong. Annual Spring Jumble Sale to of rubber be placed at the
Mr. Rendall said the case was justified in taking the logs there, be held. May 9th. Contributions of police, was Government's disposal for new who was well-educated; went to before the legal aspect was taken was justified in doing so at the at the Church Hall any morning.
that the defendant, based both on law and on fact aud but the question was whether he clothing will be gratefully received uses or other purpose.
his father's house when there were his Lordship would have to look time in question. It is understood that H. E. Sir only two or three servants there.at the evidence.
Admittedly Cecil Clementi has given serious He broke open acveral boxes but evidence to show that the pier was given and no typhoon materialised. TO LET-FLAT at 16, Macdonnell
There was no typhoon signals were sometimes
PREMISES TO LET consideration to the position of found nothing. He then obtained damaged by the logs. the rubber industry since his a chopper and forced open a cup- His Lordship said he must hold man might get away with it arrival in Malaya and also to board and stole twenty-one pleces it as common ground that there nine times out of ter questions of whether remedial of clothing. The police were noti- were at least six logs and he would
Mr. Rendall replied that there measures are possible.
fied and arrived in time to prevent further hold that the damage was was shipping in the harbour and The Colonial Secretary's letter the defendant taking is therefore construed as a sign goods away.
the done by the logs, but it had to be the ferries were running until proved that the logs were negli eleven o'clock. "I can remember that the governmental attitude!
gently placed near the pier.
it very well because it was my towards the troubles of the indus-
first typhoon and I went to try may have undergone a change,
Defendant's Duty.
watch,” added Mr. Rendall.: but at the same time it has been
In the In the
of course read with some bewilderment.
course of
further quoting authorities. Mr. Rendall agreed argument, his Lordship said he that there was a duty on defen-could not find that defendant was dant, because a man was under ato blame after nine o'clock on the duty to use his neighbours' pro- morning of the typhoon, but the To LET-Furnished Flat, from perty in the same way as he would question was whether or not he middle April to beginning November. use his own. close proximity to a Government thing before, as a typhoon signal Harbour. Five rooms, three bath
His logs were in was negligent in not doing some- May Road level. Splendid views of a position for himself. His son pier and it was up to him to take was hoisted on the previous day rooms, Electric light, Hot and Cold was a lazy boy at school and at care that no damage was caused when he took delivery of the logs Water, Telephone, Flush, Kelvinator. the age of 13 or 14 regularly stole to it by his negligence.
and his foreman received verbal Apply Box No. 038 "Hongkong house. He Another point laid down in the warning from a P.W.D. foreman
Telegraph." articles from the
authorities was that for a case toon that day. succeed, defendant must be proved to have been negligent. Mr. Rendall quoted other authorities with regard to damage done by animate and inanimate objects.
He continued that in the present
Surprise is expressed that the Straits Government should have taken the initiative, since the "waiving or reducing of export duties" is a mater which affects only the Federated and Unfederat- ed Malay States.
How seriously it affects them may be seen by reference to the statistics for the year 1928, when the F.M.S. Government collected $3,710,604 from the duty on rub ber exports and $6,639,808 by way of land rents and sales. The duty : imposed in the Unfederated States is identical with that imposed in the F.M.S., and it is an important source of revenue in all the States,
Would Welcome Relief,
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The father also alleged that it was not the first time that the lad had been found stealing from the house, but he had not taken any previous action.
Sent to Learn Flying.
In a statement to the Beneh, the father said that he had given the defendant every chance to make
"Act of God."
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would not study, so at the age of 16 he thought it would be beat if he took him away from school. He sent him up to Canton to a relative to learn aviation, but the boy only stuck it for five months and then gave it up. He fitted himself out with a full aviator's case, evidence had been given by by signals on the day before the suit and walked about the streets defendant that he tied the logs up typhoon which he must be pre-
to a ring-bolt in the Praya wall. sumed to have known, and he The following quotations have been What is generally assumed is
of Canton showing off. Witness The logs were left floating in the also received, on the same day, a received from their correspondents that Sir Cecil Clementi is desirous brought him back to Hongkong water owing to the fact that the special warning from a P.W.D. Messrs. Hayden, Stone and Co., of of "discovering whether the rubber again and sent him to school but pulley-block broke down, and his foreman. He said he thought the New York, by Messrs. Swan, Culbert- industry wants the appointment of the defendant then complained work of trying to get them on real crux of the case was that son and Fritz, Sassoon House, Shang-
committee to consider ways and about the teachers. He was then land
was necessarily stopped. defendant acted, too late, he means of assisting it, and that sent to Tientsin where he planting and mercantile opinion also a failure in his studies. He on the following morning (the day regard to the point of a typhoon Shanghat), who are not responsible Was When he started the work again should have acted sooner. With hai, (cable address: "Swanstock," has been consulted before more gave him up after that and turned of the typhoon) he found wind being an Act of God, he would for cable mutilations. definite steps are taken with the him out of the house.
The last and waves were against him and say that the evidence excluded it. Governments concerned.
time he saw accused Was last prevented him from getting the One of the points relied on by the year when he went up to Tientsin. logs ashore. With iron rope and Crown was defendant's inaction The letter certainly does seem to indicate a significant change in He returned to Hongkong on wire staples he bound the logs between midnight, on August 21 Malayan policy, as the attitude February 19 this year. During together and tied them to the until nine o'clock on the morning hitherto taken up has been one of witness's absence, the defendant Praya wall.
Then the wind increased, and it of August 22,. He would further determined refusal to interfere forced his wardrobe and stole with the free operation of the In- $600, and since then he had visit was known that the typhoon blew say that defendant kept a danger- Heous object and kept it at his dustry or to repeat the actioned the house three times, and his at over 100 miles an hour.
City Service Common taken under the Stevenson Scheine office twice.
would say that as in one case he peril.
Curtis Wright Common had cited, where a ridden horse His Lordship remarked that the Eastman Kodak and set up governmental machi.
became restive, went on to the whole crux of the matter was that Electric Bond & Share nery to assist the industry.
pavement and killed a man in the logs were not, removed in time.
General Motors Mr. Lindsell:- take it you re- spite of the rider's efforts to con-
Mr. Andrewes went on to say he General Rly. Signal gard him as a hopeless case?
Gold Dust trol it, when it was, held that the had shown that the logs were To the defendant, the Magis-man was carried on to the pave improperly secured immediately Granby Consolidated
Goodyear Tire & Rubber the typhoon. Further, International Cement tate said "This is a nice charag-ment against his will and was not prior to ter your father's given you.
responsible for the consequences, defendant's foreman agreed, in Montgomery Ward so the logs in the present case were cross-examination, that it would Nevada Consolidated Defendant: "I ranked high in carried away by the force of the have been safer to have acted Radio
sooner, which, Mr. Andrewes Sears Roebuck & Co. aubmitted, was
an admission of Standard Oil Co. of New York
Simmons. Co... negligence, because it meant that Union Carbide & Carbon Mr. Rendall submitted that defendant chose to take the risk. United States Steel a position for myself in defendant exercised proper care
His Lordship reserved judg- the industry life. He drew me away from under the circumstances by tylng ment. would unquestionably welcome re school at the age of 16 and made lief in some form or another. It me learn aviation, which I he
The levy of an export tax in kind, which is suggested in the Colonial Secretary's letter, would presum- ably involve the creation of na- chinery collect and deal with the
rubber so obtained.
"Object to Being Exploited. Discussing the subject with the| Straits Timex representative, Mr. E. N. T. Cummins, the chairnut of the Planters" Associatica e Malaya, said that
Had Nothing to Eut.
class at school."
Denying the father's aceusa- tions, the accused said "My father has never given me a chance to make
was hoped that the May stoppage was not interested in. Had would improve prices, and, beyond allowed me to study until I was that, the F.M.S. Government could 21, I should have been able to get find a ready means of assisting the job and support myself. As it industry by heeding the protest, made in the last meeting of this I have no means of support. I Federal Council, aga the new stole these things because I was
hungry and had nothing to eat.
scale of rubber duties.
Later defendant, in a vehement statement said "I swear I have never been lazy at school. In St. Paul's College and at Tientsin I have never been. lower than seventh hoy, and in studying Chinese 1 was never lower than
"We do not object to proper taxation," said Mr. Cummins, "but we do object to being exploited, and we consider that the add tional revenue, if it is wanted, ahould be raised in, other ways.
Mr. Cummins declared that pre- sent prices were unquestionably third boy." not giving a fair return to pro- ducers. "Sevenpence is no good to
The Magistrate imposed a sen-
us," he said, "because at that price tence of three months hard labour.
most estates cannot put anything
to reserve and maintain cultivation
at the proper standard and still
continue to pay.
Reform Favoured.
He personally was opposed to
ESCAPED SEVERAL
CHARGES.
any other scheme being considered | POLICE CONSIDERATION FOR
until the month of May was over, Mr. Cummins added, but once the May tapping stoppage had
A CYCLIST.
been In prosecuting a young Chinese carried through with success, he at Kowloon this morning on a thought it was very probable that charge of riding a bicycle on the the Sunday holiday would be con- wrong side of the road, Sub-In- sidered and that it would meet with spector Chester Woods remarked a generally favourable reception
that the defendant had three
Looking still farther ahead, Mr. empty kerosene tins strapped on Cummins suggested that if govern the back of the machine and one mental policy became more favour-on each side of the handlebars. able towards assistance for the He collided with a ricksha and industry, he thought that a cess on could have been charged with fail- exports, to form a fund for the tak- ing of surplus rubber off the mar-ing to have full control and also ket, could be collected by Govern- with negligent riding. The Police, ment with no additional customs however, had only preferred one machinery and would be a practic-
charge. able.and effective measure.
Defendant was fined $10.
wind.
Proper Care,
REG.W.S.PAT-OFF.
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