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JUSTICE REBUKES.

WITNESSA

YOU ARE FENCING."

QUESTIONS ABOUT EYESIGHT TESTS;

ATTRACT

{To the Editor of the China" Mail T

semente extelling the benef Goverment Saving Certificates rabowing their investment value and aleting that they can be obtained through any Post Office or Bank. The Post Office here does not deal in these securities. The premier Bank is willing to buy Certificates when requested to do so, but we imagine it is rarely asked to do so, There is no publicity and conse quently no demand. If it is argued that the Colony's money should be kept here, is there any argument Capt. R. Innes in the course of the throng the tennis courts. I say against the Savings Certificates idea latter's evidence in the "skipper'nothing about the entire absence of being adopted in Hangkong? There case this morning upholstered chairs on the mean is a Savings Bank with a limitation A little Inter His Lordship Inter-, we believe me to the total amount jected you are fencing, I am not which may be deposited. The at all satisfied with the way in Banks have also an excellent Fixed which you are giving evidence Deposit system. Those may be You say you? sent him... (Mr, better or just as good aa, Savings Kettlewell) to Dr. Harston because Certificates. If so, well and good, he had failed to pass the Board of But for those who may desire to Trade test and afterwards you try have a stake in the Old Country to drag in something else. You and combine it with profitable are here to tell the truth and not to investment for old age, or for act as arbiter.” dependents, there is very much to be said for an extension of the Home Certificate system to Hong kong.

Sir-I think the tennis tourna ment might be muda much more at- tractive than it în if some attention! were paid to the convenience of the Do try to be fair to counsel" many spectators who nightly," or said His Lordship, Sir Henry afternoonly, (whichever you like) ⠀⠀⠀ Cowper Gollan, Chief Justice, to

PROBLEMS OF INDUSTRY.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CAPITALISM.

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award (I am not sure if green sward" is right but as there is the barbour in the offing, and as the green sward would rich it if it Wan't for the houses in between, perhaps I am almost If not pearly, right); but there is surely no reason for the absence each night of the

Mr. F. C. Jenkin and Mr. Elsley best and the Colony possesses. Zeitlyn (Instructed by Mr. G. K. Neither can I understand why there Hall Brutton) were for the plaintiff is no bar on the ground for the con- Mr. Robert Kettlewell, who claims

As it is, our

damages for wrongful, dismissal Venience of the great assembly of and Mr. Eldon Potter, K. C. (in the sporting public. structed by Messrs. JoburDu, sporting petites are whetted by Stokes and Master), for the China what we can but dimly see, but Navigation Company,

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not

Capt. Innes appeared as a wit this kind of wetting is ness for, the defendant this altogether satisfactory. A long morning, the position he holds in open-air bar would be a delight, the China Navigation Co. being | sind if the price of drinks could be that of Marine Superintendant.

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"The Psychology of Capitalism" Is subject which Would-

To examination in chief by Mr, Record with that for admission to see the games, it would be frighten many people away from Potter he said that he would not a lecture but Prof. J. W. N. Smith employ in his service a man whose splendid so good for trade your developed it in an exceptionally ayesight was as described in the know.. And then the players. interesting manner in the course of certificate of Dr. Morrison in re-Maify df the faces we see sach the fourth of the series he is spect of Mr. Kettle well. Answering night handling a tennis racquet delivering at the University.

another question he said that (Pracket) (7 don't really mean faces," Analysing the mind of the ne her would he employ in his of course), we have seen in previons. capitalist he said that to underservice a man who had oxe years: Cannut they be labelled: stand it was necessary to to hack defective eye and one good one.Fifth year to appeur-prizes.nil. to childhood. A very young child He would not object to the use of they had all noticed would play sun glasses. with mud or muck of any kind.! Mr. Jenkin opened his cross- By and by it would play with examination and in anewer to ques, cleaner things such as sand and tions Capt. Innes said that he had eventually when about three years bean thirty years in the service of old it was attracted by bright hard the Company and his sea "service and smooth-objects and would lo extended from 1873.. time collect something of Interest to itself such as particular shells, At three years it wanted things hard and it would get a liking for bright colos and would probably be encouraged to place a value on

Capt. Innes: I am not prepared money. It got to place a value on to say whether it is or not? money as money,

Mr Jankin: Do you share the view that the Board of Trade eyesight test is no good at all? That it is useless because a man with a bifod eye could pass it?

This would help us in the matter of distributing out, applause. Then if the Impirea could arrango to fall off their dizzy, perches ansinially; it would add im measumbly to ours, and I hopg their, enjoyment. There other matters which I tight men tion, but perhaps this is sufficient to he going on with.

Yours etc.,

FORTY LOVE. Hongkong, March 14... "Interested."'-Kindly send your

Mr. Jenkin: From 1919 untline and address, not necessarily Dealing with this aspect the the end of 1923 (I will deal with for publication, but na the usual lecturer said that it was often that a later period afterwards) was the evidence of good faith.]

a miser was a man is whom these only test that had to be passed by developments had been suppress-officers who were to serve with the ed. The instinct to acquire a lot of Company the Board of Trade money was often the child instfact eyesight test. surviving and not developingIt was a psychological fact that a nations. After 13 years the sole desire not satisfied wurvived into

Capt. fones: Yes.

Mr. Jenkin: And was it the only

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SUN YAT-SEN PASSES.

andeveloped form, It was nection with the promotion of possible, however, for arrested officers mean the getting of ideas to be turned into another higher Board of Trade certificates?

Cap Innes: Yes. channel and become extraordinari

Mr. Jenkin: It, was therefore ly creative.

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STUDENT HELD-UP.

-WAYLAID BY HIGHWAY ROBBERS.

COAT-BUTTONS STOLEN.

have required further informa tion?

.. Capt. Innes: I am not in a post-" tion to say. I would have put it formally to the manager.

Mr. Jenkin As a matter

witness and stressed the doctor's

Capt. Innes: Yes. In every statement that there was no reason why Mr. Kettlewell should case where there was any doubt. not be placed in command of any the Board of Trade certificate Mr. Jenkin: If he had brought vessel.

wherein would there have been doubt?

Capt. Innes; Because he had not passed the Company's doctor.

His Lordship: Dr. Morrison? Capt. Innes: Dr. Harston and Dr. Morrison.*

was its name. Cynics may any it achieved a new style in hair dressing and proved that it is

A highway robbery was coMTE* easier to pull down-than it is to It was an argument of capita- the only test that could be applied mitted at Pokfulam near Sassoon build up. Sun was a patriot, but. Hism that without capital there to officers of the Mercantile Marine. Road last evening when Cheung

Capt. Innes:

Officers in the Sik-leung, living at St. Stephen's, we have to remember the famous would be no production. Against China Navigation Co.

socialism there were several argu.

Hostel, was stopped by two men," dictum that patriotism is the last ments, some tras some not. He

Mr. Jenkins Dld Dr. Morrison one of whom pointed a revolver at resort of scoundrels. Not that in instanced a factory in which there telephone to you on April 17 with him. They stole from him a sum his hour of passing we would use might be 1000 men working on regard to the certificate he was to of 55 and the brass buttons of his coat. A motor licence which they such a term against one who qual terms and profit sharing. If give Kettlewell?

Capt Lonos It is rather a long extracted from the student's an inventor came to them and undoubtedly acted according to offered them at the end of three time ago to remember. He might pockets was returned to him be-

fore the robbers released him. his lights. But the impattial years work an invention which have done.

Mr. Jenkin: To refresh your Telephones Central 22 & 4641.observer must weigh things and would make their productive Cable Address:-Mall, Hongkong.

men dispassionately, and in doing power much greater if they would memory a bit might I say that he only put aside's p.c. of their wages said something like this, "Look so in this case, it is difficult to get for him they might do it, but at the here, what sort of language do you away from the thought that end of two years all could imagine want me to use?" instead of sinking himself in the the meetings which would be Capt. lunes: Probably I said cause, the cause was allowed to held to discuss whether they should" is he fit to take charge of a ship's sink in the man that it was not go on with the arrangement and bridge?" or something like that. so much China as it was Sun. It the chances were that the scheme Mr. Jenkin then rend Dr. was said of a famous poet that would be dropped there, because Morrison's certificate over to routine? Street

his name was writ in water. That | the risk was too great. will probably be applied to him The capitalist could employ the who in his own lifetime trafficked inventor knowing that he had with theories, took to his bosom plenty of money and could afford the extremes of Bolshevism, and to take the risk Often new ideas thought it not a sin to bombard were carried on in this way for That, Capt. Innes, is just the the City which had sheltered him. years with constant loss but with class of information you wanted, out this enterprise there would be was it not? Upon the receipt of no progress. Another argument it you arranged for the Board of That £250,000 GILL

was that the workers, if they Trade examination of Mr. Kettle To a man who on his own

Shanghai seems a bit sore about governed their industry would well's eyes. The reason being, 1 admission had spent forty years our generosity. We gather this on take too much la wages and leave suppose, the source of doubt con- His Lordship: Come, come, do in national revolution the end of reading some of their newspapers Hittle for reserve funds In the tained in the second paragraph of be fair to counsel. Plaintiff had Sun Yat-sen seems prosaic in the or rather reading between the days before the war there was a Dr. Morrison's letter? (This had not at that time been examined

lines. They cannot, so it seems to great outcry because workers said reference to a "small refractory by Dr. Haraton. extreme. The peaceful quiet ofus, quite understand it. The wind the capitalists were putting too

error") poze the sick room, surrounded by has been taken out of their sails much to the reserve funds but the friends, attendants and relatives, by a simple, unexpected act, which war showed the value of to Mr. Jenkin: If on the Monday lett

funds and the part they played in bent on staying the inevitable not lessened in its greatness by the re-organisation of industry. It following the test he had come to

being simple, and which stamps

you with a pass certificate of the hand of death, does not fit in with H.E. the Governor, as an incom- would have been better had the Board of Trade he would have the word revolutionary. Death parable statesman. There is been larger.

There was this to be said for the gone straight on to the bridge of plays scurvy tricks like that and reference to an alleged loss other side that one learned by the "Huzan?" in doing so helps to a traer consustained by ship-owners through ones mistakes and how could ception of what that which it has not having the service of their people know until they had ex boats during the control period. perimented. The workers could taken-life-has been. Sun'e Surely they were paid for this not be expected to walk into the conception of himself is to be war-time chartering of the basis places occupied by capitalism and sensed in the two documents he ruling at the time, and the boats Enow all about it. I was Im has left. His cause was right, were returned in good condition? possible, however, for the workers

** been a purposeless object in send- "Easy generosity one paper to buy out capitalism. We had it therefore he himself was right describes it. Quite likely. but and must keep it. A government Mr. Jenkin: For what reasoning him there if that was not the He was a "good" man. But the generosity all the same when it is could buy out over a period of years did you want to know that ease? half-witted Dauphin in Saint remembered that the control and could lend money to the Capt. Innes: We wanted to Capt. Innes: I don't know

perhaps have workers to buy their plant and to know if he was fit to take charge Mr. Jenkins I put it to you that Joan" tells us that it is always period might you good men that do all the resulted in a loss. The effect of provide their wages until the return of a ship's bridge. We should the reason why you sent him to the "oney, generosity of this gift for production came in. The probably have sent him to Dr. Dr. Harston was that he failed the mischiefs." According to him may not be apparent in our day workers culd then be Harston if he Board of Trade test

with your heads in the sky spend England's destiny is upon the sea, the same position with the sorerie Mr. Jenkin: Do you mean to all your time trying to turn the and that must mean a free sements they had he say that you would still have sent world aide down Suns biggest The Bingapore Base will help capitals and wilde

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More self knowledge on both

Capt. Innes: Yes.

Mr. Jenkin: The doubt was contained in Dr. Morrison's

Capt. Innes: Yes. Mr. Jenkin Did not you send him to undergo the Board of Trade test with a view to reme ing this doubt?

Capt. Innes: Probably, he Capt. Innes: Yes, I suppose sou might not, I don't know.

Mr. Jenkin: If he had come Mr. Jenkins What then was back with the certificate would your object in arranging for the not that doubt have been Board of Trade test 7

removed 2 have ex Capt. Innes: To see if his eyes Capt. Immes: I don't know. passed the Board of Trade Mr Jenkin: Would it not have examination.

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Capt. Innes gave no direct answer hat was quarying mus reference to Dr. Morrison test

him to a further doctor if he had passed the test. Laur

Capt. Innes: Yes, as his eyes the terms' reported nonve were considered doubtful by Dr. Capt. Innes then. Morrison

Dafirmat to His Lordship Leave out of tion, but pointe

des was wanted and if there was your mind his not having got the decision tested with

it would make any certificate

FACThe case was proc Jenkin: Would you still this issue want to pres