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IN COURT

Claim Against Mr.

B. G. Birch

SERVANT'S WAGES

Before Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden

There and Everywhere

All communications intended for at the Summary Court yesterday FELLOWSHIPS publication should be addressed to B. G. Birch, of 6 The Peak, was

the Editer, and be accompanied by sued for wages by his former By his appointment to an Haa- the Writer's Name and Address cookboy. The plaintiff was Yauforary Fellowship at New College. not necessarily for insertion, but Kokchung, and he claimed $60,- Oxford. Mr. Ormsby-Gore will join $30 being wages for one month another colleague in the Cabinet! ļas a guarantee of good faith.

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and the remainder being one Sir Samuel Hoare. month's wages in lieu of rôtice.

Other Honorary Fellows of the

POTENTIAL EMPIRE NAVAL BASE

DEVELOPMENT SCHEME

FOR CAPETOWN

ENTHRALLING VISION OF THE FUTURE

college are. Prof. Gilbert Murray,

N°

The parties were not legally re- presented.

Originally. Shum Wai, à bouse-Lord Parmoor and Lord Donough- boy formerly in the employ of de-more.

struck off.

in

topic has agitated Capetown Capetown's strategic position more in recent years, or the defence of the Empire's trade been the subject of more rumours, routes, its importance in the event

The country's astonishing

the

Development Scheme

Hong Kong. Saturday, Nov. 14, 1936. fendant, also brought a chaim for Mr. Ormsby-Gore became a BA than the future development of of war as a balf-way house be $4 as wages, but as he was notjof the college in 1908. He will not Table Bay Harbour, the Tavern tween the industrial West and the present in Court his writ we have many privileges apart from of the Seas and the Gateway of productive East, and the certainty

his South Africa.

that there would be a permanent having rooms in college and

It could not have been other-diversion from the Suez Canal to In the witness-box, Yan Kok-keep whenever he so wishes.

wise.

the Cape route of a considerable will not, however, have It is of the first importance thang said he entered into the

re-tonnage of cargo shipping between that the enquiries of coroners employment of defendant on Au-¡- He

as he would if he were an ordin-covery from the depression, result-Britain and Australia. courts should be conducted ac-gust 17 last at a salary of $30 rooms permanently allotted to him

fing in an ever-increasing traffic, cath. !cording to the established prin-i

He worked until September 1,ary resident Fellow.

the building of bigger liners, the ciples of British justice and

Lord Hugh Cecil, who has re-diversion of shipping from

And, suiting his sentiments with when he asked for his wages and istrict forms of law. So far as

Honorary Suez Canal to the Cape route-all deeds. Mr. Pirow immediately an- the recommendations of the rewas told they would be given at cently been made an

the nounced that it had been decided cent Departmental Committee the end of that mouth. The fol- Fellow of Hertford, was formerly these scon began to overtax on Coroners were designed to lowing day the wife of defendant a resident Fellow. His rooms with port's facilities to such an extent to press on with the building of that object, they have made a complaint to him about his name over the door were in that a campaign for a "better and two new deep-water berths in the

bigger harbour" was inevitable. {new basîn, and thereafter with the.. commanded general assent. But the work of the house-coolie. She the old part of the college.

Agitation followed agitation. building of a random block mole Mr. Ormsby-Gore's appointment| there is obviously a good deal said the work was not properly the done, and that the coolie was not of misapprehension over

preclude him. if forward, with the Government, be-full area of what has been called proposal that "in future only worth his wages. Later in the day, as an Honorary Fellow of his old scheme after scheme was brought to Woodstock. Beach, enclosing the the and the "long-range scheme" for solicitors or barristers should she asked him and the coolie to college will not

In

leave saying they were unsatisfac-the years heap distinctions on hiring continually be appointed as coroners."

in the matter. London the practice has been to tory and that she would not pay from accepting similar Fellow even threatened to do something expansion and development of the

ships from other colleges. require both legal and medical qualifications. All but one of the London

secure

coroners are

¡them a cent.

*

{time.

exhorted

harbour.

Minister's Interest

It is in this recognition of the In reply to defendant, plaintiff

"long range scheme" and in the thus admitted that when he asked for ARCHBISHOP PLURALIST

At first it seemed that the re-certainty now that it will be push. The biggest "pluralist" in this doubly qualified, and in many his wages no particular date was

respect is the Archbishop of Cansponsible Minister, Mr. O. Pirow,led forward in the years to come

was almost totally unmoved by to its very last detail, that Cape-- other populous parts of the mentioned for the payment.

terbury. He is an Honorary Fel these demands for a Wares Not Done

better and town's good news lies. For the country the dual qualification is

Defendant testified that plan-low not only of his own college, bigger port, and if anyone can be scheme, prepared by Government the rule. The L.C.C., it is un- derstood, have read the Depart- tiff started work on Angast 18 Ralliol, but also of Magdalen. He said to have ever been in Cape-technical experts themselves, is a mental Committee's report to and remained until September 1. is a member not on the founda-town's black books it is be. But gigantic and ambitions one, which the Minister's vision was not so at the cost of $5.000.000 would mean that only a legal training when he asked for the wages of tion of All Souls as well.

His brother Archbishop is also should be required and propose the amah who was engaged at the

place in the Southern Hemisphere. to discontinue the condition of same time as he. Defendant told an Honorary Fellow of Balliol and dormant as people believed at the raise Table Bay Harbour to first

an For suddenly there was The scheme provides for a huge medical knowledge. For this plaintif that the amah's wages Queen's.

Sir John Simon is a Fellow of interpretation they have the were not yet due as she had not

one month. All Souls and an Honorary Fellow ominous change in the internation-rectangular basin, 6,000 feet long excuse of a protest from one of been with him for

that Plaintiff then asked for his wages, of his own college Wadham. Lord al situation and Mr. Pirow was and 2,000-feet wide, parallel with London, to return with the existing foreshore and extend- the London coroners

news that ing as far as the Woodstock Beach. the Committee's recommendation and was told the same thing. The Halifax is an Honorary Fellow of called

Capetown had heard for a century Five or six giant liners the size would "definitely exclude medi-following day plaintiff left his All Souls and an Honorary Stu-the most welcome

without farther dent of Christ Church. cal men from becoming coron-employment

Prof. Gilbert Murray has been news that would one day turn of the Queen Mary will be able to ers." But this, as a deputation speaking to him. He was not in from the British Medical Asso-the house when plaintiff and the thus honoured by St. John's in Capetown into one of the greatest be berthed on one side of

addition to New College. Mr. Jus-ports in the world and perhaps in basin alone, and there would be Honorary addition into a second Singapore space for 30 average-sized cargo ciation has urged upon the coolie left. Council, is not a fair inference.

After further evidence had tice du Pareg is an

What actually was, responsible ships. A gigantic dock, which would for Mr. Pirow's change of front be the largest in the Her-was revealed by the Minister him-Hemisphere, would be built on the Lord self on his retura from London, southern side of the basin, and also holds and must still be fresh in the pab-la special oil dock

(Continued on Page 7) *lic's mind-viz, the realisation of]

The Committee did not. suggest been taken, His Lordship, in the Fellow both of Exeter (his old col (that the dual qualification course of a brief summing up, lege) and Jesus. *· should no longer be required. said he was satisfied it was the Lord Hewart (Univ.), Sir All they did was to insist that usual custom in Hong Kong to bert Samuel (Balliol) and domestic servants their Tweedsmuir (B.N.C.) each legal qualification should be pay made indispensable.

wages for the end of the month one Honorary Fellowship. The British Medical Associa- Concluding His Lordship said, tion naturally criticises the "I am satisfied that plaintiff must Committee's decision that "legal have left his employment without training is of greater import-giving any notice, but having re ance than medical training forward to the usage in the Colony I ja coroper.” This was modified will give judgment in his favour ¡by another recommendation for $14, and costs thereot.”

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tical experience. Obviously if a Entering the church on the army man combines with that the of her father, the bride looked knowledge of a medical man, he charming in a white satin wedding will be much the better coroner. gown set off with a long tulle veil The crux of the question is held in place by a halo of orange- whether a sufficient number of blossom. She carried white roses.

ber: doubly qualified and suitable Attending the bride were men can be found According two sisters, the Misses Connie and to the British Medical Associa-Marjorie Maxwell, who were at tion there is no dearth of them. tired in ankle-length gowns of Of all the 309 coroners only 13 mauve shaded water-wave taffeta are employed. for the whole of The duties of best man for the their time. Quite a large mum-bride were undertaken by Mr. C.) ber have salaries on a low scale. Gutterez, while Dr. A. C. Chan was It is not very likely that for the best man for the bridegroom. majority of appointments dou- Following the ceremony, a re bly qualified men would care to ception was held at the bride- Istand as things are. Where groom's home at No. 15, Ashley the burden of work is heavy Road The honeymoon is being there seems every reason to re-spent in Canton and Hangchow. cuire both legal and medical qualifications.

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