16
ہوتا
A
*
I MI
t
*
Report
181
*
2.
154
庭
"An Ordinance (No.41 of 1912) to prevent the undue and improper
interference with or hampering of lawful business and commercial
undertakings. *
1. This Ordinance introduces legislation of somewhat unusual.
character.
It is perhaps unnecessary to go into details in this report of
the circumstances which led up to the passage of this OrdinanNCO
through the Legislative Council and it is probably sufficient
to state here that, as the result of a parfectly legitimate re-
fusal on the part of three large passenger canvoying companies
to accept in payment of fare Chinese seins, an organized and
persistent beyeatt of one of these companies has been engineeroë
and is still maintained by the people of Chinese race who are
in the Colony.
سو
2. The boyestted Company-which operates the Hoetrie Tramways of
the Colony - is an excellent and useful concern and finds itself
new,
through no fault of its own, running its ears practically
are without passengers. All kinds of intimidation and threat being
A
and have been secretly utilized by the organizens of this bay-
estt with the shjeet or dissuading and preventing the publis
frem using the ears: the success and clandestine way in which
the affair has been carried through indicate a skilful and dan-
gerous combination of those sesiaties with which Chinese life
is honey, sembed.
3. The Ordinance, somewhat hastily produced, is designed as an at-
tempt to svar-rido this class of really improper sombination;
it defines and erentes certain offences and endeavours to pre-
vide means by which the loss and expense incurred by persons
ing with affected and in sopping this troublesene situation may be re-
severed from that seetion of the community by which mainly such
a state of affairs is brought about and maintained.
4. Beetien 1 of the Ordinance is fermal.
#
5. Sestion 2 defines" høyestting", "intimidation", "person" and "society.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.