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HONOUR OFFERED GEDDES
CAUSED BULLOCK'S DISMISSAL
OFFICIAL'S PROPRIETY
London, Aug. 31.
As cabled despatches regarding the dismissal of Sir Christopher Bullock from the Permanent Secretaryship of the Air Ministry may have left some to who initiated the ambiguity as
an honour being conferred question of de Geddes, fester desires upon Sir Erle to quote the following from the officiat
report, Paragraph
the spring of 1934, Sir Chris topher Bullock conceived the iden that it might be an oppurtune moment for the recognition of the services to the state of Sir Erle Geddes, of Im- perial Airways, by conferring upon. idea him a high honour, Ile put the
then before Lord Londonderry, Secretary for Alr, who inquired whe- ther the honour would be acceptable to Sir Eric, and if so of what nature it should be.
"Sir Christopher Interpreted this as giving him, authority to approach Sir Erle us to his views upon the matter."
The report makes it quite clear not only that the suggestion on con- ferring a certain honour on Sir Eric not chanute from him but that did in fact the declined to discuss it while the agreement between Imperial Air- ways and the Government was under discussion.
Paragraph 5 of the official report
states:
"We desire to record our considered oplaten that the representatives of Imperial Airways behaved through- out with perfect propriety."-Router.
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Passengers
On Nankin
STRANGE VISITORS TO HONGKONG
There was a touch of real Australia pboard the E. and A. steamer Nankin when she arrived here from Sydney The vessel housed aft this morning. three ve kangaroosi
One of the animals was brought here by Mr. H. B. Brown, Secretary of the Sydney 200, who is on a trip to Japan, and it is destined to be presented for the Mayor of Tokyo. A number of tithes Kangaroos have heen sent to Tokyo from Sydney, but for some reason only females ever arrived 'safely. This animal is mate and so for hins stood up to the trip very well and appears to be in the best of health. It has been under of Mr. the constant supervision Brown who has, he admitted this morning, had to "spoon feed" it throughout the voynge.
There are also two other kangaroos aboard, being brought to China by members of the crew of the Nankin. They will probably be sold in Japan, Mr. Brown, when he has finished his business in Japan, intends to join the Ranpura for Singapore where he will pick up a number of animals for the Sydney Zoo. Among others he intends to collect at least two
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male black orangoutangs panther. He will join a Dutch ship, the Nieuw Holland, at Singapore and at Sourabaya a keeper from Sydney will meet the ship and help care for the animals during the rest of the trip.
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KWANGSI READY TO.
ATTACK
ON HENGCHOW
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
1936.
DISPUTE OVER
TRADE MARK
APPEAL AGAINST
CONVICTION
BATTERY SEIZURE
SEQUEL
DRIVERS FINED
BUS OPERATOR'S BAD RECORD 1.G. P.'S CAR IMPEDED
bus without due care and caution Mr. at Island Road on August 23. M. W. Lo was the complainant.
A Full Court appeal against a n recent magisterial conviction in battery trade marks case was com-
Ng Yuk, driver of motor-bus No. this menced nt Supreme Court
nt the Central Magistracy this morning before Sir Atholl Mac-415 appeared before Mr. W. Schofield Gregor, Chief Justice, and Mr. Justice morning, summoned with driving his J. J. Hayden, Pulsno Judge.
The Paul Battery Co., Ltd., of Nos. Sun 284-8, Lockhart Road, and the
of Nos. 137. Des Light Company, Voeux Road, appealed against the them for conviction
against infringing Trade Mark No. 211 of 1928, owned by the National Carbon Co. of America, and used by their subsidiary company, the Eveready Co.
At the Magistracy a fortnight ago, a further summons for Infringing the the Eveready 1930 Trade Mark of Co. was dismissed.
Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., Instructed by Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton, appeared Mr. Leo whilst for appellants. D'Almada, jnr., was instructed by Mr. C. S. Hugh-Jones of Wilkinson and Grist for respondents.
Mr. Lo sold that he was driving on Auslin Seven, with his wife and son as passengers, along Island Road was then in towards Stanley. He top gear and was proceeding along miles per nt a speed just over 20 hour. After passing all the houses on the left side of the road, and as he was about to round a left hand bend, the bus came into sight. Wit- ness did not see the number of the bus and it was right over on the wrong side of the road coming to- wards hlm.
Witness could not tell
its speel.
Fortunately, continued Mr. Lo, he He had to was driving a smul car. keep right up to the wall, and had he the bus would had a bigger car,
have had no room to pass. The eft mudguard of his car hit the wall He could not sec and was damaged. 11c saldint
no
Mr. R. A. S. Waters, representative of the Curban Co., appeared in Court. GROUND OF APPEAL The morning session was occupied by Nr. Sheldon in pulting plaintiffs' case with legal arguments. the appeal was on the ground that the conviction was erroneous in point of fact; alternatively; there was
Magistrate evidence on which the could properly convict.
Counsel traced the case from June 74 when
the appellant Company's premises were searched on a warrant and 59,000 batteries and 400,000 labels were seized on the complaint
mark 60 that they bore a ma
trade marks in resembling the fion
as to be calculated to deceive, A letter to the then complainants resulted, in which exception was taken to the drastic action of seizing these goods, which meant that d fendants were unable to fulfil some standing orders and also supplies re- quired for the local market. Great loss and been sustained by the defen- dants and they were also being sued for damages in respect of breach of They further pointed out contracta. that they had openly used the Paul Battery mark for five years.
nearly nuucit
A copy of the 1928 trade mark have been which was alleged to infringed, was eventually produced by the then complainants and counsel would submit that it could not possibly deceive anyone.'
Mr. D'Almada here intervened to hand their Lordships another sample of the trade mark which had a blue instead of a black marking on It.
COUNSEL'S PROTEST
Mr. Sheldon protested that this was the first time this copy had been shown in Court. For all he knew, it might have been printed In Wai- chal, Now they had found a sumple that ald nearly resemble the Paul Battery mark they wanted to hand
to help their Lordships it in
The incident was referred to again. Mr. D'Almada suld the fater sample had already been shown to Mr. Strellet some time before.
Afr. Sheldon said it would extraordinary if Mr. Streller had not Alany shown it to him, counsel, and there was evidently some mistake. rate, the Court was only concerned with materials which had been shown i to the Magistrale.
Trade Mark No. 211, continued counsel for appellants, was registered
1928 and, according to Mr. Waters' own evidence, had not been used in Hongkong for the last six or seven years. Will
Witness had then agreed there were many makes of batteries in Hongkong and they generaily favoured red, white and blue colours
had his eye to the wall, but witness how close the bus passed him, as he inagined it was very close. His wife
à severe received
shock, but she ******
round and saw the number turned the bus stopped at all. of the bus. Witness did not thinks
Remarking on defendant's record, the Magistrate and he had had three accidents and three convictions for dangerous and negligent driving. He imposed a fine of $25 on defend-
ant and ordered that his leener be General of the Inspector sent lo Police to consider its suspension,
DISOBEYED SIGNAL
J. C. Williams, driver of private tar No. 3062, was summoned for the disobeying a trallic signal at junelian of Jackson Road and Des Voeux Road Central on August 11. Mr. H. L. Decker appeared on his behalt and pleaded guilty.
Traffle Sergeant G. Your suid flust
a constable was on post-duty about 5 p.m. on August 18, and he gave the signal to the Inspector General of Police's car to pass, from west in cast. The car had almost reached cur the bend when defendant's passed in front of it from north to south, and there was nearly a col-
A
itslon.
fine of $20 was imposed.
W. E. Loveless, driver of private ear No. 1474, pleaded guilty to a summons of unlawfully placing his car in Bowen Road, which was closed to traffic, on August 16.
Trafile Sergeant Freyer said that the car was about a quarter of a car was a small one. mile past the Military Hospital. The Trafic Inspector S.-C.-Satindera were allowed on the suld no cars road as a rule. They were only allowed under special circumstances and when they had permits. Defendant was Aned $10.
Mui-Tsais Allegedly Ill Treated
on their labels. The object of the | WIDOW FACES FOUR prosecution was to protect Ever- in cady's trade in Guatemala and Hongkong if necessary.
the
CHARGES
It was not appellants' case that un-
A 64-year-old widow, Chan Tai- der no circumstances could Magistrate stop the infringement of mut, was charged before Mr. W. this morning with (a) keeping an goods to be sold abroad; nor was it Schofield at the Central Magistracy their case that proceedings against unregistered mui-tsal, Mak Kwai- infringement could not be brought tart, alias Cheuk Kwai, aged 13, on because the trade mark in question August 20 at No. 27 King Kwong had fallen into disuse. This case was Street, first floor: (b) keeping on un- however, father unique in that there registered mut-tsai, Au Nui, alios were no goods with labels attached Chiu Kwal, aged 13, at the some address on the same day: (c) - 20,000 MAY. MARCH1o which the infringing goods could
treating the mui-tsai, Mak Kwai und be compared,
(d) ill-treating the mut-thai, Au Nui. REAL INTENTION Counsel submitted, that the then
The prosecution was conducted by Nanking, Sept. 1. complainants had not been quite
Secretariat for Chinese Altairs, and state
straightforward in bringing out their Inspector H. W. Fraser, of the Chinese press reports
case for on their own admission the Mr. S. Ng Quinn appeared for de- there are more than 20,000, Kwangsi
in troops concentrated Northern 1028 trade mork had not been used Kwangsl, prepared at moment's in Hongkong since 1030 (nor, he sub- fendant. Mr. Ng Qulan asked for a notice to march across the Hunan mitted, had it been used anywhere remand of 48 hours to receive`ins- border, with Hengchow as their clse since then), and the real inten-tructions from his client.
tlon of the case was to stop the com- The remand was granted, and ball objective.
In the sum of $1,000 was allowed. It is noteworthy that Hengchow, pelition of the Paul battery again the the bearing battery which is 220 miles within the Human Eveready border and a junction point along the 1030 label. The summons for in- Canion-Hankow Rallway, was the fringement of that label had been objective of the combined Kwangistaissed by the Magistrate, The hearing is continuing. tung and Kwangsl armies during the original rebelllous movement in June,
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DORADO LEAVING PENANG TO-DAY
Mr. M. H. Curtis, Traffic Officer of the Hongkong office of Imperial Alr- ways, announced this morning ilat in order to enable homeward mails to be despatched from Hongkong on. Friday as usual, the Dorado would leave Penang to-day with only malls' from India, Malaya and Australia on board.
European and English mails which were being carried by the Horsa and normally would have arrived to-day,
week late. will therefore arrive in Hongkong a
Jerusalem, Aug. 31. No European and English air mails Two Araba were fired on in the will arrive in Hongkong, by the streets of Jerusalem to-day and one
R.M.A. Dorado this week, becnie of was killed.
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