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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1933.
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CRUELTY TO CHICKENS the Colony almost daily from you think the Police will do that? Wachow. Witness also stated No, they wouldn't. They will go that he did not know that the and arrest some wretched under- river_boat Kong: So had arrived, ling and have him up'in Court.” from Wuchow on the day in ques- His Worship: I am not bound tion. He did not trouble to find by the decisions of my brother Magistrates in the Colony. I
LAWYER MAKES PLEA OF-COMMONSENSE
hold that under the section in which defendant is charged he has a case to answer.
"I think one has right to expect out where the chickens on de- that there should be some con- fendant's junk came from. sistency in the administration of Mr. Hall Brutton submitted that the law by the Magistrates of on this evidence alone there was the Colony," expostulated Mr. nothing at all to show that there
Mr. Brutton: If your Worship G. K. Hall Brutton at the Kowloon had boon needless and avoidable holds that no one can tako Magistracy on Saturday morning suffering. In order to succeed, chickens off--n ship without| when he appeared before Mir: the prosecution had to prove this matting, then nobody will over Bullers to defend Ng Shui, the and, he maintained, they had not take them off. They must then be master of a cargo boat No. 3633V. done so.
left on the wharf to continue who was charged with transport-
their suffering.
ing chickens in a manner which] His Worship pointed out that caused them needless and avoid- there was no matting, in the crates; In the box, defendant anld hel able suffering on July 13.
and they in turn were over- was engaged by the Foot Cheong It was stabed by Sergeant Tato, crowded.
Laan to carry the chickens from of the Water Police, that whilst
the 8.8. Kong So to the store- Mr. Hall Brutton: But what is house. He had nothing to do ho was patrolling in the Southern defendant to do? A ship arrives with the placing of the crates on Fairway at about 12.30 p.m. on with a consignmont of chickens, his Junk as the Laan had their July 13, ho was attracted to which he has to take away im- own defendant's junk by a noise which mediately. The, master of the chickens were transferred to the fokia to do that. The he thought to be the "walling" of ship refuses to have any delay, so junk in the same condition as chickons. He ordered his launch alongside
lig cannot do anything for the they wore on the ship. and made Inquiries, He found nine small crates and take the chickens on to the praya chickens on board. He cannot
A foki of the Fook Cheong Laán four large ones all containing chickens. All the crates, in his to sort them out, because if he'did testified that his firm had writ opinion, were overcrowded and he would be prosecuted by the ton to the owners of the chickens there was no matting provided, Police. The only thing for him in Wuchow to put matting under with the result that the chickens to do, I submit, is to take the the crates, but had received the legs were protruding through the the storehouse and there take the placing the chickons was best. chickens as quickly as possible to reply that the present way of holes at the bottom of the crates. chickens out of the crates. I sub- To put matting under the crates Witness noticed that some of the mit that that is the most humane would, they anid, affect the chickens were bleeding.
There is no other course-left open voyage between the ports. way under
circumstances. chickens in view of the long for the defendant.
At the Water Police Station, a count was taken of the number of chickens contained in one of the small baskets measuring about. four feet in diameter, and it was found that it contained exactly 60. When the chickens were taken out of the crate, they were so weak that they could not stand up. They were all full-grown.
The crates were piled one on top of the other the larger ones being at the bottom.
From Wuchow,
the
Defendant's Dilemma.. His Worship: He can refuse to accept delivery.
Mr. Brutton: That means more suffering for the chickens. They will be left on the wharf or on the
ship, still with their legs sticking out of the crates,
Mr. Brutton submitted that the principal offendors were the mas- ter of the ship or the owners in Wuchow, and not the defendant. His Worship: But in point of law, I think defendant is guilty.
Mr. Brutton: And Ignoring everything else.
Mr. Brutton pointed out cases His Worship convicted the de- dealt with in Hongkong where fendant but let him off with the Magistrates held that the caution, adding that there were Cross-examined by Mr. Hall masters of ships should be held societies in the Colony to deal -Brutton, witness sald he did not responsible. He himself sub-with such matters. na cruelty to
know that large numbers of mitted that the masters of ships chickens, and he thought chickens were being imported into should be prosecuted but. "Do might take the matter ap.
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