CENSURE OF A SHIP-MASTER.
Chief Officer Reprimanded.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1931.
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The Court severely reprimanded tho chlef officer for concealing the
(Continued from Page 2.) fact that he had brought the deck scrap log ashore, and for sub-permitted to conduct sweepstakes, FINDING IN HIGHLAND HOPE soquently destroying the log.
The Court commended the fourth conditional on the fulfilment of cer- STRANDING.
portant were
respect of the officer, Mr. Parry, for courage and in conditions, of which the most im- resource in dealing with the situa- allocation of not less than 80 per cent tion which arose due to an ac-
of the total subscription as prizes, cident to one of the lifeboats and in respect of the allocation of chances only to members or end- Reuter.
seribers. Such regulation, of course, [Tho 14,000 ton British motor-did not prevent them from preting liner Highland Hope went ashore or publishing tickets-these only said on November 19, and the passen- they could not sell tickets. gors took to the lifebonte, all boing rescued subsequently. The High- land Hope struck a dangerous reef
London, Feb. 26. The Court of Inquiry into the stranding of the liner Highland Hope last November, has found that the stranding and subsequent lose were due to failure by the master to navigate his ship in a proper seamanlike manner, and has suspended his license for aix morning, months.
It considered the second officer remise in his dution; and decided that the owners cannot be absolved from all blame because a master at such an age cannot be expected to stand the physical strain of com manding such a large passenger vesaol.
in a dense fog at four o'clock in the
Portugal, captain refused
He submitted that it was a ticket that had been sold to the Police Inter proter in the circumstances detailed.
eluded Counsel, to say that thin
am asking your Worship," com off the coast of
document comes well within the law. and at first the
It is with regard to a lottery, and it leave to
the in a ticket. And the individual whore. bridge, hoping to save the ship name appears on it in one of those which, however, became a total people who had printed or published Iona. The Highland Hope was one it or caused to bo printed or pablish- of the Inteal accessions to the fleet. I am asking you on that secount of the Nelson Steam Navigation to convict Irrespective of the other Co., Ltd., whose "Highland" Hne comprises stenmoru.
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Mr. Lo' Addrean, Mr. Lo: In order to save time, I The master, Capt J. Jonas, is 75 wish to address your Worship not years of age.]
only on this legal point as to whether or no it is a ticket, but also on the Kurrounding circumstances in order that your Worship will, as I hope, take a certain view of this matter.
Mr. Lo proceeded to detail the his- tory and growth of the South Chins Athletic Association from the time of its inception in 1917, with a member- ship of 16, Lo end of last year, when membership had increased to over 4,400 and its subscription fees to nearly $40,000. He set out the multifarious forms of sport in which its members engaged, not overlooking the charitable side as expressed by ita maintenance of a number of free vernacular schools.
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The Association of which he had the honour to be a President, and of which the three Chinese members on
that was all that reads be done. If they had consulted him inter as their President and legal advisor, and if the letter had been submitted to him, which In view of the Regulations the Committee WAS referred, he thought no one would later have wald they would not apply for permission as a mere matter of formality under the Ordinance.. That aspect of the caso did not then strike the committee at all.
A Misunderstanding.
Mr. Lo went on to stress the readiness of the Clab to comply with the requirements of the authorities; and submitted that failure to apply for the formal permlesion in this cas was due to misunderstanding through the circumstances he detailed.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Woeful Waste.
To The Editor of Hongkong
Tatograph.]
My dear, I didn't see you at the Dance. No invitation? How
galling, my dear, but anyhow thero's St. Patrick's and the Volunteers though they are dif- forent, aren't they.
Simply all the beat people were. there and all trying so bravely to show they werent haunted by the Turning to the legal issue, Mr. Lo Sceptre of Poverty. But the frocks, said that the Court was asked to give my dear, too utterly economical and its judical ruling whether the docu-practically no backs, only what the a V-shaped ment in the case was a ticket of the Observatory man calla nature prohibited by the new amend-
1930.
Nothing lavish, my dear, but Angus ed Gambling Ordinanec, No. 12. of depression between the Bonins." Apart from the technical formality said he'd never seen so much waist. And there wasnt A collection of permission not having been sought ing, the sweestako was a bona fide one be an the Government has simply which the proscention was not press-thagh Tabby said there was sure to within the provisions of Section 18, no money left, but everything was and the judicial ruling was therefore quite free and heaps of people sim-
to the stricture that "nu confined tickets should be sold. He (Mr. Lo Ply hibernated in the supper room had spent some hours in the Law and ate like Indian Famine Victims for an as--too glutinous, my dear, but the Library without result, thoritive definition of "ticket." except poor things hadn't been able to that he was informed in Abball's Law afford a meal for weeks. Dictionary that the word had "no fixed or determined meaning." He was however, perfectly content to secept the definitions quoted by Mr. Fitzroy and added some of his own, one of these defining a lottery ticket as a plece of paper bearing some number in a lottery which entitles the halder to receive such prize as may be drawn against that number. When it draws no number, it is said to draw a blank and the holder has nothing to receive. That was the definition of a lottery ticket.
On the document, 'no such definition a pure 7)- was contained. It was nouncement,. sald Mr. Lo, of the Committee informing the subscriber that certain chances had been allotted
the Legislative Council were honorary Presidents, ao far from wanting or wishing to do anything against the laws of the Colony, had throughout all these years, tried in every way to meet with nil official regulations. "It is only right that 1 should be acknowledging the big debt of oblign tion which the Association owes to the authorities for their every sym. pathetic attitude Lowards this Association. In this enge, I shy that the sympathetic attitude has been
maintained. undoubtedly
But Your Worship may or may not know, there was one or two proscentions and year against Clubs-some of them charitable Clubs-for running lot teries; and in spite of the fact that the Association itself has in fact been running Sweeps
many years, as your Worship knows, in August last, the Executive Committee found it necessary to meet and solemnly dis-them that at their request, they cuss the matter."
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And the Bar, my dear! Did Arty miss His Bottle? I trow not. Why, they clung like molluses and got so damp they became positively fungoid.
And, oh, those uniforms! Just too scintillating, my dear, and the glittering satrap who took me to supper aaya ita real gold and no wonder there's none in circulation. Angus said we could have stablolard the dollar at 2/- with the braid off their trousers and why werent the Commissionaries there to tako them off but they couldnt have done that with us there. could they. Haw terribly thrilling to wear 18 carrot pants, my dear.
Haunting their mis-begotten gains too leprous, my dear, sort of Caif's Head at the Feast you know, and I say they really ought to be Insulated because they do tarnish the air.Your terpsicoroan,
POPSI.
to him. In every case, there was reglater of numbers signed for by the
'Tabby says there were quantities members, and there was an official list of civil servants there aimply reck- of numbers so allotted. The lettering of confidential dollars and In effect, says "We have allotted to you a certain number. We ask you to take a noto of that and send us the amount #0 As to confirm this. Otherwise, If you don't pay, it is vold." Mr. Lo submitted that the "" In the last sentence, referred to "allot ment." The letter was merely given | to a person as a matter of convenienen' for members. On the documents be- fore his Worship and in the light, of the evidence given, could his Worship possibily hold that this letter in form as well as in substance, was other thon a letter issued by certain officials of the Association to fellow members, in every case fellow members, informing
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had been allotted certain numbers.
Mr. Lo at this point, referred his been circulated inviting subscribers rails at Lautoka, are among in- a printed form that had away, and a train blown off the Worship to for chances in the Hongkong Jockey cidents of the worst hurricane Club Sweepstakes.
und floods ever experienced in Invited to give his views thereon, Fiji, details of which are brought Mr. Fitzroy declared he had not the slightest hesitation in holding that it by the crew of a ship from Suva. was a ticket, which was being hawked,
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The Decision
Mr. Le went on to relate what ensued, when in their desire to an certain exactly the requirements of the authorities, the Committed through Mr. Lo an their President and legal adviser, approached the Police au. thorities. A letter was addressed by Mr. Lo to the Deputy Inspector Gen- oral of Pollen to which Mr. King very courteously sent a reply enclosing a copy of the latest regulations issued by the Police Department, which re- gulations were practically reproduced In the amendment (Section 18) sub- sequently Inserted in the Gambling the nature of the document at issue After further argument, regarding Ordinance in the following October. in the case, and the rights it might Whereas, said Mr. Lo, in the oldenbe held to confer in the sense that days all
those Police Regulations certain rights were conferred by the issued were, as Mr. Fitzroy or Mr.pomsension of a railway or theatre King would agree, merely to be in iicket, his Worship observed that the timations by a responsible Depart
more he thought of the matter, the ment that if you complied with cer
more was he convinced the document tain Instructions they will not inter. fere with you, the view taken by the came within the definition of a ticket. Association's Committee was, rightly and the Ordinance would make it ap or wrongly, that the new Ordinance pear to be a lottery ticket. He must
nerely served to invest the Regula convict on this summons.
I tions with the sanctity of the law;
Mr. Fitzroy: Then won't proceed so that they felt that since they were
on the other summons. obeying the Intest regulations which had now been sanctioned by the law,
This was withdrawn; and his Wor hip then imposed a fine of $10.
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