Masterpiece In Ramps Denounced
and under a most peculiar system was paid by them for performing the duties of the permanent staff engaged by the company.
"Peculier System"
"On September 21, 1940, he received further "promotion" by being placed on the permanent staff and thereafter became a salaried employee.
IN MY 15 YEARS' judicial experience of rackets and ramps which have been exposed in the courts I must confess that this parti- cular one deserves to go down in history as a masterpiece," said the Puisne Judge, Mr. P. E. F. Cressal this morning at the Summary Court when he gave judgment in favour of the Hong Kong Yaumati Ferry Co. in action brought by a dismissed employee.
The employee claimed return of $300k, to assist him. deposit money, $11.50, half a months' wages, and $23, being a month's salary due in lieu of a month's notice.
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dismissing him without notice faels proved to my satisfaction are as
His Lordship was referring to the defendant company was justified in the practice of ticket sellers of; the company giving short change follow to third class passengers when tendering a ten-cent piece for a joined the company as what is known
three-cent fare.
Mr. H. A. de B. Botelho of Lea d'Almada and Co., appeared for plaintiff and Mr. F. H. Loseby was for the defendants.
Giving written judgment His Lordship said:-
"In this case the Plaintiff claims the sum of $334,80 being $300 cash deposit ed by him with the Defendants as a fidelity bond for the due performance of his duties: $11.50 for half a month's wages in lieu of notice
"The sole issue involved is whether
"On October 23. 1937, the plaintiff
as a "reserve Ucket collector." He
received no salary but was able to be called up for service, if and when, one of the permanent staff was away. Hc was required to deposit the sum of $100 as security for his good behaviour and diligence whilst employed by the
company.
"On April 26, 1938, he was promoted to "reserve ticket seller" and in return for the honour thus bestowed on him, he was required to produce a further $200 in cash, which he did, He. then. apparently, acted as a substitute for some of the permanent ticket sellers,
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"On October 1, 1940, he was put in charge of the 1st class ticket booth at the Jordan Road terminus of the ferry and remained there until October 10 when he was transferred to the third class ticket booth, This work he says he found to be far more difficult than the former, so he was "forced" to "en- a gentleman by name. Leung He did this, bo
asserts, because he was not used 11 the routine in that office, and, being a Į philanthropist drawing $23 a month, he paid his assistant at the rate of $20 a month from his own pocket, without | telling his employers he had done sol The inference, is, of course, that have ing the interests of the company GO much at heart he was prepared to re- duce his own salary to $3 per month. in order to save the company money. Nothing further seems to have happen. pened until October 24 when, very in- considerately, certain officials of the company paid a surprise visit to the ticket booth presided over by the plain- lift and found that the mechanism of the turnstile had been tampered with. with the result that it was not register- Ing. It is not necessary to go into de- tails as to how this was done. Suffice to say that there was, an excess of roughly $4 in the ticket booth, and above the amount which the metre of the turnstile called for. An investi- gation followed, and the plaintiff, his private assistant, Leung Fong, and an- other gentlemen were arrested by the Police and charged with conspiring to defraud the company, The case was however, dismissed by the Magistralo, but in the meantime the plaintiff had been summarily discharged from his
employment.
"Habitually Late"
over
"These, shortly, are the main facts of the case, but there are other facts of interest which are relevent to the Issue involved and which muat now be mentioned.
"(a) Under the Regulations of the company, which bind all employees, no employee is permitted to report late for duty. He must be at his post by 4.45 a.m.,
each morning. The plain- that tiff nevertheless, has admitted during the period-October 18 to October 24 (the vital week as it were) he was habitually late for duty and did not arrive until nearly 6 a.m. He explains this by saying that it did not matter how late be was, provided his assistant was there at the proper time. In other words, he suggests that as he was pay- in the piper he was entitled to call the tune to the extent of an extra forty winks in bed each morning.
**(b) According to the plaintiff it has been the practice of employees of this company to rob passengers deliberate- ly when giving. them change for a ten- cent piece. The third class, fare 19 three cents., and as far as I can gather from his testimony, if a passenger 'was so foolish as to tender a ten-cent, plece (which, in view of the then shortage of copper coins' and, the fact that the new ono-cent, rote was not then in exis tence, was the lowest money denomin alon in possession of most people)" he or she was deliberately given six cents. change, the one, cent, difference being tooked. upon as some kind of "profit" gr"premium" for the ticket seller for performing the duties for which his employers were, paying him.
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my 13 years judicial experience rackets and ramps which have been
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