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of master of ss Amayor maru"?
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Ho (So.)
2 June 1926
17th of June :26.
It will be seen that in No. 8 the Home
Office express no opinion as to whether thefine
imposed on the Master of the 'Amazon Maru' should
or should not be remitted. As, however, in
29233/25 and 32183/25 the Home Office had
intervened to get the fines imposed in similar
circumstances on the Masters of the s.s.
umisted
'Havestein'
and the 3.s. 'Haruna Maru' I thought it well to ask
them what their views really were. I learnt that
No. 8 was sent to us while Mr. Perrings and Sir
Malcolm Delevingne, who deal with these matters,
were at Geneva, and the officer who was
responsible for sending No. 8 had never heard of
the other two cases. He asked me to return No. 8
and its enclosures for discussion with Sir Malcolm
Delevingne. Sir Malcolm Delevingne has spoken to
me about it on the telephone and I gathered that he
is in favour of the fine on the aster of the
'Amazon Maru' being remitted, hough it is not quite
in all fours recollection of offices of the Osana tine cooperating with
with the others, as he was
You will see that
Section 12 of the Straits Deleterious
Drugs Ordinance is quoted in the judgment, which
forms a sub-enclosure to No. 8.
the onus of proving that he was not concerned in
the smuggling of the drugs is, by Sub-section 3,
placed upon the Master. In most cases this is
almost impossible and for a long time I have felt
that this Section of the Ordinance is very unfair.
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an amending and consolidating Ordinance which
is now under consideration in conjunction with the
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cester to 140 on
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