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WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
29. The following table shows weights and measures examined during the year:-
Weights and Measures examined. 1934. Correct. Incorrect. Total. Foreign Scales 241 X 249 Chinese Scales 1,268 9 1,277 Yard Measures 142 1 143 Chinese Foot Measures 228 228 Total............ 1,879 18 1,897The following prosecutions were instituted under the Weights and Measures Ordinance :
Number of Cases. Convictions. Fines. 10 10 $355.PIRACY.
30. There was one piracy on a ship during the year as compared with three in 1933.
The s.s. "Norviken," 1,779 tons, flying the Norwegian flag, but chartered by a British Company, was en route from Shanghai to Swatow with 216 passengers, when at 6 a.m. on the 13th March, position thirty miles North of Turnabout Island, twenty-one armed pirates who had boarded the ship at Shanghai as passengers, took charge of the ship and stole money and effects from passengers and crew to the value of $7,873. The ship was steered for Chilang Point where the pirates left her at 4 p.m. on the 14th March, taking with them the stolen property and six of the passengers in a commandeered junk. No person was injured. The kidnapped persons were taken to Hoi Fung and eventually to the Bias Bay area where four of them were later released on payment of ransom.
Five Chinese males, one from Bias Bay and four from Hoi Fung, were later arrested by the Hong Kong Police and dealt with by banishment proceedings for being concerned in the demands for ransom.