(O. 70.) MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE
G.
R.
Case No. 19544.
Caution to and statement by accused (Ord 3 of 1890 Sec 73)
IN THE POLICE COURT AT VICTORIA IN THE COLONY OF HONG KONG
Before
A. G. Grantham Esq.
a MAGISTRATE of the said Colony
(hereinafter called the accused)
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stands charged before the undersigned, a MAGISTRATE of the said Colony for that he Noel Instone Brewer, on the 16th day of August,1927 in a statutory report made and filed by him on the said date, which report he was authorised to make by the provisions of the Companies Ordinance, 1911,
on behalf of the Instone Banking Corporation ltd. did knowingly and wilfully make (otherwise than on oath) a statement false in a material particular to wit, that the total amount of cash received by the Instone Banking Corporation Ltd. in respect of the shares issued wholly for cash was 876,750 dollars. contrary to Sec.7 of
the Perjury Ordinance,No.21 of 1922.
and the said charge being read to the accused and the witnesses for the prosecution:-
being severally examined in his presence, the accused is now addressed by me as follows:
"Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge? You are
not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so; but whatever you say will be taken
down in writing and may be given in evidence upon your trial and you are clearly to
understand that you have nothing to hope from any promise of favour and that you have
nothing to fear from any threat which may have been held out to you to induce you to make
any admission or confession of your guilt, but that whatever you say now may be given in
evidence upon your trial notwithstanding such promise or threat". Whereupon the said
Noel Instone Brewer
saith as follows:
[T. O.]