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Capacity of Junk 1663 piculs. Crew 25.
Junk licence last renewed on 10.8.36. Arms on board :-Nil.
1092. Fishing Junk No. 1822 H.W.
Name of Junk
Name of Owner
Name of Master
Capacity of Junk 1591 piculs. Crew 29.
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Licensed first at Shaukiwan on 1.9.20. Fung Kam-shing
Fung Kam-shing
Fung Kam-shing-Native of Macao.
Junk licence last renewed on 10.8.37. Arms on board:-Nil.
1993. Fishing Junk No. 2925 H.C. Licensed first at Cheung Chau on 17.6.19. Formerly owned by Mak Fuk-ling of Cheung Chau. Junk was sold to Lam Shu-po who is owner and master, at Shaukiwan on 26.7.37.
Capacity of Junk 1762 piculs.
Crew 20.
Arms on board :-Nil.
1094. Mr. Whyatt: Does that complete your list? No, I have more.
1995. Fishing Junk No. 3891 H.A. Licensed first at Aberdeen on 6.8.25.
Name of Junk
Name of Owner
Name of Master
Capacity of Junk 1275 piculs. Crew 16.
Licence last renewed on 2.6.37. Arms on board: 3 cannon, 1096. Fishing Junk No. 4123 H.A.
Name of Junk
Name of Owner
Ng Ying-kit
Ng Ying-kit
Ng Ying-kit Native of Ping Hoi..
200 lbs. shot, 150 lbs. powder. Licensed first at Aberdeen on 12.7.27.
Chan Kau
Chan Kau
Name of Master
Chan Kau
Native of Ping Hoi,
Capacity of Junk 1468 piculs. Crew 18.
Licence last renewed on 2.6.37.
Arms on board: 2 cannon, 30 lbs. powder, 50 lbs. shot.
1097. Fishing Junk No. 4470 H.A.
Name of Junk
Name of Owner
Name of Master
Capacity of Junk 1347 piculs. Crew 20.
Licence last renewed on 26.6.37.
Licensed first at Aberdeen on 17.7.29.
Lam Yung-hei
Lam Yung-hei
Lam Yung-hei-Native of Hoi Fung*.
Arms on board: 3 cannon, 70 lbs. shot, 20 lbs. powder.
1098. Fishing Junk No. 1069 H.K.
Name of Junk
Name of Owner
Name of Master
Capacity of Junk 1515 piculs. Crew 20.
Arms on board :-Nil.
Licensed first at Sai Kung on 10.7.36.
Lam Fuk-tai
Lam Fuk-tai
Lam Fuk-tai Native of Shanmei.
1099. Mr. Whyatt: Those are the 12?
Yes.
1100. In the course of your duties you have frequently been on board these junks or junks of the same type, and you have frequently seen these cannon that you men- tion and the muskets? Yes.
1101. Taking the cannon first of all-have you ever seen them fired?
to
Hoi Fung is in Chinese Territory.
I have spoken
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[16th witness Philip Francis Shelsley Court.]
1102. Mr. Whyatt: I don't want you to repeat any conversation you may have had with others can you give me an idea of what sort of range these cannon fire? No.
can
1103. From your experience can you tell me if these cannon are fired frequently or
infrequently by junk masters? Very infrequently.
1104. Taking a typical fishing junk-would they fire their cannon once a year or once in two years or what? These cannon are placed on board purely for "look-see." 1105. Will you please put that into more classical English? They are not for the purpose of being used but for the purpose of making the junk look aggressive. 1106. The same description would apply to the muskets? The muskets, yes. 1107. Are all these armaments muzzle-loading? Yes.
1108. In the whole of your experience as a junk inspector have you ever known a junk
that had any means of propulsion of a mechanical nature? Not a fishing junk. 1109. I am speaking of fishing junks. No, not fishing junks.
1110. And therefore you have never heard of a fishing junk having a Diesel engine?
No.
11. If an enterprising junk master of a fishing junk installed a Diesel engine on his
junk, would you license him? He would not have a licence.
1112. Chairman: Can you explain to us what is the advantage of a dual licence ? We have been told that some of these junks that you have been telling us about are licensed at Shaukiwan and Aberdeen and others at Cheung Chau and Shaukiwan? It happens to be their port of call or their base from which they work. We have a Harbour Master's station at each of these places. When these vessels anchor there they are boarded and if they are not licensed they have to have one taken out. 1113. They are not licensed in two places at the same time? No, at Shaukiwan one
year and Aberdeen the next, for instance.
1114. Is there anything to be gained by taking a licence in Macau as well as a licence here? No. A Hong Kong licence is good whilst that vessel is in British waters; once it is out of British waters it would have to be licensed by the Chinese Customs and the Macau authorities would require it to be licensed too.
(Witness left the witness box).
Inquiry adjourned.
Inquiry resumed.
2.30 p.m.,
18th October, 1937.
1115. Mr. Whyatt: I call Dr. Court.
116. Sixteenth Witness. Philip Francis Shelsley Court, duly sworn, states :-- 1117. Mr. Whyati: May I have your full name, Dr. Court? Philip Francis Shelsley
Court.
1118. Dr. Court, I think you are a Government Medical Officer at the Queen Mary
Hospital? I am,
1119. At the moment and for some time past you have been doing the Chinese surgery?
I have.
remember a Chinese fisherman being admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital 1120. Do you
on the 29th September? A Chinese fisherman named Leung Hong.
The
1121. Was he placed under your care? He was. 1122. Will you just tell us what you found when you examined Leung Hong?
instep of his left foot was torn away. There was a lacerated wound in front of the left leg about its middle, and the great toe of the right foot was shattered at the tip.
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