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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1060.

Workers' debts discussed | False alarm

at Arbitration Tribunal

How the Rehabilitation Allowance and Food and

Fuel 'Index:cómo into existence, and how they wore computed, were explained by Major H. -F. G. Chauvin, Labour Officer, to the Dairy Farm Arbitration Tribunal yesterday. There were no further questions on the workers' cost of living budget yesterday, as the rest of the time was token up on the question of debts alleged to have been incurred by the workers at a high rate of interest,

'Professor R. Robertson, the solé Arbitrator, who presider!, said, the matter of these dubla was irrelevant to the procee-i- ings and that the Tribunal would not Ko into

tong about!

1:

habilitation Allowance shall not excoad $3. This decision, was laken by a meeting of ampie Parkzoneinnenĝo, and-the purpose was to make it easier for workmen when prices re calling, "When the average gure for the Food

and Fuel Index has At the outset of the proceed- | been obtained, it is relate to the Inga yesterday Professor Robert-Reliabilitation Allowance by ron "fold" that on the question or teang af the Boures on this pas rlebt he did not intend to purrue | per." further the matter raised ink the previous day's meeting.

drawn-out discussion this matter,

Paper handed in

Firoju star

tuberizon. the paper in the, assessors, paid what was being done was, to re- late the Food and Fuel Index to the Rebabilitation Allowance.

brought false Information. The letter he was presenting was in rebuttal of auch allegation. Professor Robertson sale be dind atrcady made elcar at the be- ginning of the proceedings that in so fur or the Tribunal wok on.. cerned at the moment, this mutter

of

debis. a raired # the last mebling, was strictly not relevant to the enquiry.

documents

the

He noticed, however, thut n relcase in Chindre was being handed to the Press tuble, where- upon he told Mr. Leung that ult Telineat

handed in

in to must we blotte Arbitrator, and nothing should he hunder direct, to the Press,

"But the release is just a copy of the letter I run handing you,” replied Mr. Leung.

fo

"A.to(rphan call to the Central Police 'ation et 12,10 Piyesterday by the Tela when Company cent the Emergency Unit and delec. I'ves ruching to the branch office of the Bank of Canton al 40..Bonham 'Strand, West.

It was reported that armed

had taken robbery place .at.,the Daok,but.pm, ar. elval it was decovered, to bo a false alarm.

an.

Mao-Stalin example not followed

Gov't rice theft hearing continues

That Ho Wai-fàm, alías William, former cargo

supervisor of the Rice Section of the Report- ment of Supplies and Distribution, charged with the theft of 130 bags of Government vice, was not at the scene at the time of the al- leged crime was the evidence given by two of his co-defendants at the continued hear- ing before Mr. F. X. d'Alinada at Kowloon yesterday.

REMINDERS Today

K Amateur Radio Transfitting Society, meeting at Chira Fleet Club, theatre, 5.30 pận.

The witnesses, Cheung Lun. cook at the Hip Yick Her Depot, and Cheung Kwan, foki ut the Depot, charged with

the While Joseph Stalin and. alding and abetting in Mao Tse-tung, leaders of the the theft of the rice from go- down 30B of the Hong Kong. two Communist rogimes, are and Kowloon Wharf and Go-Toe meeting, 30, Mardunnel

Road, 1.30 pm. dining and conferring in down Company, in Jordan Rond European YMCA Women's Sec- letter to document to the Moscow, their followers in last September 23, guld that

or any

tion, Whist Drive, 10 a.. Press

It must be given to the Hong Kong have hitherto they did not see Ho until European YMCA. Debating and Tribunal only. I I ask therefore maintained TE strict non-hortly after 4 p.m. on the day

Discussion that this release to the Press | fraternisation silence.

in question.

6.45-p.n. must be given back to me," sald the Arbitrator, "I ask the Arbitrator to read

Letter

the meeting, since he read out the letter handed in. Mr. Thomson yesterday, ited Mr. Leung.

Ath

"The muiler is In Itself irrele- This paper showing ane calculs- The bank to fue vant to the enquiry we are hiriations was

However, we shall be pre- Arbitater by Major Chauvin, 16.

pulos. pared to receive evidence from workers either by word of mout or in writing, as to the debts they rony have incurred. It is the

Professor Robertson insisted amount of these lents and the

to vee interest charged, with which we Major Chauvin, proceeding, said that the letter released are courent"], rather than the celestice to the left-hand column Press be withdrawn first.

in a matter of precedure, I perrons from

whom they have of the paper would show figures been contracted," explaineri the which altered by 50 cents. Sup-must insist," he explained,

However, .move

was made Arbitratur.

posing that the average gure of withdraw tho Press

release Prolensor Habertson then said the Fool and Fuel Indes is $14.50, to

Professor Robertson he had asked a labour nice res and if one would look at the left whereupon

would presentative to attend the meetnud column and find the column remarked that the Press

not use the release. ing.

in between $14.50 and $14.99, c

"I ask the Arbitrator 10 An- "My purpose in arking a re- would and in the columns to the prozentative of the Labour Office right all the Agures for the Re-nounce this letter," again insisted

Mr. Leung. here is to receive from hini in- habilitation Allowance.

Profe sor Nobertson replied that formation about the method by Here Mr. Taning Wing inter- which the Rehabilitation

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that the

They are semen aboard the Both witnesses refuted the pro- three Russian freighters and 1xecution's alloxation. Chinese silps now riding at on former cargo supervisor was inet

'his by chauffeur sud was at th thor in Hong Kong, waters. Whatever Hakon they

cene shortly after 3 p

The have is normally though the lenses of a telescope,

may

A

itnesses, represented by

Group meeting,

Massed Band Conrørt at Fiogkun- poo, Football Ground, & ́p.m. Chinese New Year hampers dls- tribution at Rosary Church to 200 poor families 10 to 11- 0.m.

Services Club, Dancing Class, 2.30 p.m., Film

how: pan.

Dragons Mr. J. C. Stewart, said that they | Ning The Chinese Communists are new of nothing improper in the

men

St. John's Cathedral hall, 0.15 p.n.

of the China Merchantsiovement of rice from the god- Steamship Navigation Company, wn to two rice shops In Shug-Sino-British Orchestra calearsal. who detected mid-January in a Street.

They luled time they had not was emially the Colony. earned yesterday at since the taken part in any other delivery Central British Asscelation an hoisting of the Five Star flag notice, from the godown. connection has been made with visiting Kursinn-seamen or of rials in Hong Kong.

"We have no cause to get to- gether for the time being,” a high-ranking ofhelal declared.

Cross-examined by Mr. A. „A. Shaw Assistant Superintendent of Police, who is proseculing, de fondante denied that He Wai-lam was in the car used in the hiring of lorries to convoy the rice.

nual ball, Root Garden, IIK Hotel, 0 p.m. Cheern Services Club, Tombala, O

p.m.

Al-Trupled and uskeit permission furst he must have the letter toet-tonether for the seamen dawn amployees. who had since British Council weekly film show.

"At this time the standard of to different sends his inspectors. imarkets in the Colony to make the Rehabilitation Allowance was investigatione an to cost of foot. $42 month for a male. These markets are the Central "In 1948, consequent upon the

the Western Wanebol Märke!

Morket, the

the result

Coming Events TOMORROW Kowloon Rotary Club, Luncheon. They sakl that there were six Asked whether there were

Feninis in Hotel, 12,30 p.m. persons in the ear at the fine-HK Stage Club, radio excernte plans to arrange meetings or a

the chauffeur. He's son, two go- from "The Chillern Hundreds" replied that -no - such arrange-

absconded, and themselves. ments have been contemplateri.

Helena May Institute, 5.30 lio fin-sing, Ho's son, who was HK Women's International Cluiz The Russian freighters, which make irregular visits to Hong tally clerk at the Rice Section,

Valentine Dance for Services, Kong plying from the Vladivo-charged with the theft of the rice.

7.30 p.m. had pleaded Nino Dragons Bervices Club, Table stock-North China route are the with his father, Atdan, Poltava and Surlkov. gulity to the charge on November

Tennis Tournament, 8 pait. Most of the porsonnel speak 21,

FRIDAY out the only Russion. Some officers hava

ǹ knowledge of English.

ing. Ho Wai-lam, while Mr. A. §.

Mr. M. A. da Silva is represent-Nine Dragons Services Club, Tom-

bola 8 p.m. C. Comber is representing Ho European YMCA Women's Sec- Tio-sing.

tion, Beginner's Dressmaking, Hearing continues this after-

· 30 nm,

* SATURDAY, Nine Dragons Servicos, Club, QSLI

Band Concert, p.in.

Gramophone Kowloon

Society Concert,

Diocesan Boys' School, 8.15 p.m.

LECTURE ON PARLIAMENT

Towance is computed. and the hand in a letter, but the Arbitrding the Press withdrawn and handed relationship between it and the suld he would finish with Major over, to hím,

·Food and Fuel Index. I propose

Chauvin first.

"It is a matter of proper pro- have a right to ask with your permission, to take!

Towards the end of 1945."cedure. his evidence first before procontinued Major Chauvin, the the Press mepиwhile. I say meant- carding.

that letter," while, not to use the Lalstur

Professor Robertson. added Major 11. F. G. Chauvin, Labour sub-cominitice Olfleer, then gave the Tribunal Advisory Board advised on a

Rehabilitation

If we withdraw this letter, whi Allowance. This the history of the Rehabilitation)

Arbitrator, rendi Allowance and the Fed and Fuel was agreed to and incorporated in the Index:. He said:

the Civil Affairs Administration's letter?" asked Mr. Leung. Asks for letter 67. The Government Statisticia Citenlar No.

"I do not think Mr. Leu13 SHANGHAI understands fully the nature o these prectings. All I am asking KEDAH ANNUAL is that before i proceed to deal

Fined for driving MEETING ¿Market, [strike of cinployees, of the Họng with this letter, the cupy given to and the Kong Electric Company, the Re-the Pros should be returned to Yauat Market. Other shops habilitation Allowance was re- me. I think it will shorten the Crops harvested on the two van without licence Pat stalls are also subjret to fl-examined by a full meeting of procedags it just ask the Press Malayan estates of the vestigation.

employers which included Gov- to hand the letter over to ine. Shanghai Kedah Plantations, Hin-shing Lo at Central yès- Pleading guilty before Mr. Three times weekly ernment, and the Rehabillation said Professor Robertson,

"I feel that the arbitrator is Limited, in the year ended terday in charges of driving on "There investigations are cor-Allowance was increased by 100 ried out three times a week, and per cent. This raised the figure blassed in this matter," said Mr. December last exceeded the Austin van without a licence.

Leung.

original estimate by 178,532 driving it while under the is forvarded to the to $84 a month.

In the second lecture In his Labour Office-un a sheet showing, "Since then there has been no am sorry to hear Mr. Leung pounds.

Innuance of drink and driving series on "Parliament." Mr.. alteration, and the present say this, but as matter stands at

This was announced at yester- | it without the owner's per Bruce of the British Council will reckoner which I have Just present I wish him to understand

day's annual „geeral moeting of mission, on February 11, describe the functions of the handad In gives the present that any letter prescaled to this thareholders of the company. The Robert James Russell, aged 24. King and the two floures .at method of calculation,"

Tribunal

nal must go through my The Arbitrator asked if any hands. I ask the Press to ignore for the year was 1,440,03% of the 27th Company. BMH, Parliament.

At a time

when the power. body wished to sk Major the letter handed to them, and Major Chauvio then handed the Chauvin questions, but as mom-am sure they will agree to de

J.K. Brand, Chairman of was fined a total of $60 and of the House of Lords are under · the Board of Directors, said in his ordered to pay $35 for dam-review and with the Generat Arbitrator, the assessora, and the bers had not had an opportunity this. All I want before I deal with annual report that the year's ge to the van. He was also Election only one week distant, representatives of both sides, aus yet of studying the reckoner, this letter is to have that Proworking showed an all-round Inbound over in $100 for one this lecture on the constitution

it was decided that coples would release brought to me," sald

provement on the previous year. year.

of the legislat .01 Britain ***Tilly

sheet of paper," he went first be circulated to the assessors is a specimen calculation of and the representatives of th

He added that the two estates Russell

I was given 14 days to comes at an appropriate time. have been free of bandit activity Poy."

the the application of the Govarn-sides, and leave questions on it to

In addition to describing and the manager's wife and child the driver of the van, a Government, an explanation

Bub-Inspector Yuen said that functions of the King in Parlin ment Statistician's figures to our be asked at a future meeting.

the April to Рауа own Food and Fuel Index.

Major Chauvin was then given

ment vehicle, was also at fault principal office-bearers of the This Foci and Fuel Index is

Mr. Leung then, addressed the Kamunting to resume residence for loving it parked in Jaffe two Ilouses will be given, leave. permission 10

Professor Robertson then an-Arbitrator saying Mr. Cheuk on the estate.

Road. He naked that defendant The lecture, which Is in tho Department which in use before nounced that_the_Tribunal would homson in the previous "day | proved,--they-arc-silil forste? | damage while therenaindor"]'start-at-5:30p.m. today,"

letter, handed in by Though conditions have ime be made to pay $20 towards the British Council Library, will proceed from where it left off the Mr.

day, and asked Mr. was read to the Tribunal, and normal and constant care must be

exercised, whether he wished to asking why the letter now pre-

.The profit for the year amount forward matter arising out of cented could not be similarly, an

cd $245,628.65 which, together cost warkers

of

living

nounced. budget. Before Mr. Thomson

with the balance brought forward "I have not yet said

the average prices in the differ- ent localities. When there sigures are received by the Labour Office, çalculations are made to apply them to the Food and Fuel Inclex."

copy of the theet.

OR.

a scale provided by the Medicul,

the wor

In the calculation for tice, 3.16 cattles are Government rico calculated at the oficial Agure of

54 cents a catty. That dives input this example the figure of $1.70. the

is still sinall amount of

There

pounds.

fessor Robertson.

The official interpreter then walked over to the Prass table and look away the Press re- lease.

returned in

.

would be paid by the driver.

Mr. Lo said that although the driver was at fault, it was de fondant who had done the damage and he should be made to pay.

Mr. G. Arliss of, the Govern mont Transportation Department 5606.04, makes a total of $205.- said that departmental--achim:

would be taken against the driver | of- tlid văn for his carelesmjer:

oficial. Ention dour of 7 catty at howover. Professor Robertson, he not announce this letter, replied

replied from the last account of £18,909.50 Ments a realty. The makes 39 hunde forgotten that Me King Prafeerer Robertson barsants and a mall over provision of

cents. The rest of the "rien ir 3.33 | wanted to hand a document: zaid that: I will; not-proceed 10 | 141:25: for appropripiumided. Rafía Teaving the vanmunattended. entiles. The price of thus 3.51 and that he would now be predeal with this letter until I had The Directors recommend

cutties open-market fire is figur-paced to receiva Ita -et-knihe average of the tw

us by the upper figures given to Government Statistician.

The Governmient Statistician elves figures for three different grades of rice. On calculations

ac made an the average of flo tiral two.

"If you look further down the paper you will see the total of 7.2 caties of rice and flour costing 45.10100.

For the rest of the compon- enig which make up this Food and Fuct Index, the quantities origin- ally provided by the Medical De- partment are priced according to The figures given by the Govern ment Statistician. In this case you will see the total for February

1950, Is $14.5000.

ligures

are obtained ...every week. On an average four the four

wucks are taken, und

tres are added together and

divided by four. This gives the

copies given to the Press, deliver-increate in the dividenden 57535. Workers debts fed up is me. It was, just a matter following proper procedure..

a share, ond the propised cents Mr. Leung, handing in the This letter is in Chinese, and be transfer of $100,000 to Replanting Messrs. R. Gorden, L.B. Hovell document, said that Mr. Thpm- non had the previous dem fore. I can cocide further on It Reserve has already been referred W; Mellor (Directors), Mr. C. 3.

must have a translation made. I

Smith (Representing the Secre- evidence to the affect that on shall adjourn this meeting until I

Those present at the meeting taries), and Shareholders repre the question of the debts In- have had an opportunity of seeing ware Mr. J.K. Brand (Chairman),senting in 611 69,550 shares. aurred by the workers the a translation of this letter. workers' repræsentativea had

(Continued On Pade 12)

EXTENSION OF

BUSINESS HOURS

Patrons are requested to note that our

avtrage figure of four weeks of business hours are extended on the fol-

the Food and Fuel Index.

"Bometimes It is necessary

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take five weeks, because: four

wecks do not. At into one month

of 30 or 31 days.

Four or five weeks are alwayz taken when the Food and Fuci "Index. in' steady or increasing.

the Food and Fuel Index is falling, then, if necessary, “Jonger periods than four wiska are taken in order that the drop "during each month of the Re

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