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        "content_text": "183\n\nrequest that my case may kindly be put before His Excellency for favourable consideration that my service which I had done in Hong Kong Regiment under Imperial Government may kindly be counted towards pension, for this act of kindness I shall ever pray and shall be most grateful for your long life and prosperity.\n\nFurther, I beg respectfully to bring to your kind notice that in the case of any other man put the similar case, they have no claim, save 6 men who have served in the Hong Kong Regiment.\n\nYour most obedient and humble Servant,\n\nFrom\n\n(Sd.) Ismail Khan,\n\nNo.725, Police Constable.\n\nDated Simla, the 13th May 1903.\n\nTo\n\nColonel M.H.S.Grover,\n\nOfficiating Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, Military Department.\n\nThe Adjutant-General in India.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.1260-3, dated the 9th May 1903, recommending that certain non-commissioned officers and men who took their discharge from the Hong Kong Regiment on the disbandment of that corps may be allowed to re-enlist in the 5th Bengal Infantry now being reconstructed, on the following terms :-\n\n(a)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-511-12 Staff list for Hong Kong- approval for staff increase in Colonial Secretary's Office 15-6-1928 - 15-6-1928",
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        "title": "CO129-511-12 Staff list for Hong Kong- approval for staff increase in Colonial Secretary's Office 15-6-1928 - 15-6-1928",
        "content_text": "38\n\n28\n\nHONG KONG,—Continued.\n\nEDUCATION DEPARTMENT,— Continued.\n\nMistresses, Contil.\n\n£300-£20-£400\n\nC. Peyton, Mar. 17, '25.\n\nthen £410-£10-£600.\n\nC. C. Munro, July 31, 25. D. M. Jaques, Jan. 14, '27. A. E. E. Steele, Sept. 9, '27. H. Gilmore, Sept. 9, '27. M. B. Watts, Sept. 9, '27. D. S. Smith, Sept. 23, '27. 1 vacancy.\n\nHONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.\n\nCommandant.....\n\nAdjutant\n\nCorps Sergt. Major\n\n.. $900\n\nAllowance L. G. Bird, D.S.O., Lieut.-\n\nColonel, Mar. 26, '20.\n\nper annum,\n\n$10,200 per annum. R. A. Wolfe Murray, Bt-\n\nMajor, D.S.O., M.C. (The Gordon Highlanders) Dec. 31, 26,\n\n£320-£10-£400... H. Westlake, D.C.M., Apr.\n\n10, '22.\n\nPUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.\n\nDirector of Public £1,250-£50-\n\nWorks.\n\n£1,500.\n\n3 Assistant Directors £1,050-£30-\n\nof Public Works.\n\n1 Engineer\n\n8 Engineers\n\n3 Engineers\n\n£1,200.\n\n£1,050-£30-\n\n£1,200,\n\nHarold T. Creasy, C.B.E.,\n\nAug. 30, '23.\n\nH. T. Jackman, June 1, 21. E. W. Carpenter, Jan. 1, '25. H. E. Goldsmith, Sept. 3, '26.\n\nA. E. Wright, Jan. 1, '25.\n\n£725-£25-£1,000 | R. M. Henderson, Jan. 1, '23. Charge Allow- A. G. W. Tickle, Jan. 1, '23. ance at $2,400. E. Newhouse, Jan. 1, 23. H. C. Lowick, Jan. 1, '23. L. H. King, Nov. 29, 23. H. S. Rouse, Jan. 1, '24. P. D. Wilson, Jan 1, '25. Adam Anderson, Jan, 1, '27. A. B. Purves, Jan. 1, '25. 12 increments of | H. H. Pegg, Jan. 1, '25. £20 and 12 of H. J. Pearce, Jan. 1, '25. £25 each.\n\n£460-£1,000 by\n\n29\n\nHONG KONG,-Continued.\n\nPUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT,—Continued.\n\n3 Engineers....\n\n29 Engineers,\n\n1 Mechanical Engineer.\n\n£460-£20-£700. R. P. Shaw, Mar. 27, '20.\n\nR. S, Logan, Mar. 27, '20.\n\n£460-£20-£600. Charge Allow\n\nance to 1 £100.\n\nat\n\nE. S. Carter, Aug. 21, '20. C.B. Robertson, Nov. 22,'20. A. Nicol, July 30, 21. A. Kirk, Sept. 9, 21. W. Woodward, Nov. 22, '21. C.W. E. Bishop, Feb, 18, '22. S. C. Feltham, Jan. 5, '23. A. E. Lissaman, Feb. 19. '28.\n\nW. J. S. Key, Sept. 15, '23. G. S. Graver, Dec. 7, 23. D. S. Edward, Dec. 21, 23, R. J. B. Clark, Jan. 4, 24. R. S. W. Paterson, May 9, '24.\n\nJ. Bottomley, May 23, 24. S. O. Hill, July 5, '24. R. Cryan, Nov. 17, '24. A. W. Hodges, Jan. 3, '25. C. J. Waddell, Jan. 3, '25. W. H. Owen, Jan. 29, '25. A. H. McBride, Feb. 28, '25.\n\nR. J. Vernall, April 18, '25.\n\nG. S. Brown, June 13, 25,\n\nJ. Ring, July 1, '25,\n\nN. K. Littlejohn, Sept. 1, '26.\n\nK. S. Robertson, Aug. 1, '27.\n\n5 vacancies.\n\n£500-£10-£60... E. P. Fletcher, June 5, '25.\n\nSupt. of Crown Lands. £900-£25-£1,000 | L. C. P. Rees, Jun, 1, '22.\n\nCharge Allow- ance £100.\n\n1st Asst. Supt. of £700-£25-£875...| II. West, Jan. 1, '26.\n\nCrown Lands.\n\n1\n\n2nd Asst. Supt. of £650-£25-£750... E. Larmour, Jan. 1, '26.\n\nCrown Lands.\n\n39",
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        "content_text": "# THE TIMES, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1929\n\n## COURT PROCEEDINGS\n\n'This is my garage.' \n\nThe witness said nothing. \n\n## CHILD LABOUR IN THE EAST\n\nLORD LYTTON, who presided, said the work of the International Labour Organization of the League of Nations was helping the peoples of the world to realize their responsibilities for the conditions under which manufactures and foodstuffs were produced. The history of Britain's factory legislation had shown what abuses could arise in the early industrial organization of a country and how even parents might connive at the enslavement of their children. Generally speaking, in all the industrial countries of Europe legislation had been introduced for the protection of women and children, and in those countries conditions of their employment were approximating to something like a general standard. In countries in the East which had become industrialized, and in others which were in course of becoming industrialized, conditions existed analogous to those which had passed in the West. Voluntary societies were keeping alive public opinion on the question, with the advantage of the experience of the countries of the West to guide them. Though Japan had not ratified the Forty-eight Hours Convention, restricting the hours of employment of women and children, that country had introduced many reforms.\n\nLADY CHATTERJEE, wife of the High Commissioner for India, said that under the stimulus of industrial developments conditions were changing rapidly in certain areas in India. Overcrowding in tenements was one of the results, with a consequent high death-rate. The infantile death-rate under one year for Bombay was 316 per 1,000 births, but in certain wards it was between 300 and 500 per 1,000 births. The infantile death-rate for 1927 was 326 per 1,000 in Calcutta. Improvement trusts in both Calcutta and Bombay had improved housing conditions very considerably for industrial workers, and recent legislation, largely influenced by international labour conferences, had improved very considerably the lot of women and children by restricting the working hours and age of employment. Two difficulties that hindered the further expansion of industry were lack of imagination and the ignorance and apathy of the workers themselves. To overcome the illiteracy of the workers meant making primary education compulsory throughout India. What was needed was realization of the fact that the problems of industry were not the concern only of the organizers of industry or Government, but of the nation as a whole.\n\nDAME ADELAIDE ANDERSON, dealing with women and child labour in China, mentioned that the new draft legislation of the Nanking Government for factories provided for the establishment of a factory inspectorate, which alone marked the proposed legislation as a more serious plan than that of the defunct Peking Government. She described the existence of a world-wide system of slavery so far as women were concerned. In many parts of the world women were still regarded as property, and it was time that women were given equal representation on all committees of the League of Nations to deal with such problems.\n\n## LABOUR SYSTEMS ANALOGOUS TO SLAVERY\n\nMR. E. BATESON, a former Judge of the Egyptian Mixed Courts, presided at the afternoon session during a discussion on \"Labour Systems Analogous to Slavery.\" \n\nMR. W. BENSON, member of the Diplomatic Division of the International Labour Organization at Geneva, stated that it was expected that next year the International Labour Conference would adopt a series of international agreements relating to forced labour, but the ratification of any convention by national Parliaments would depend on the public opinion aroused in the countries represented.\n\nMR. CHARLES ROBERTS said he thought that through the channel open to them at Geneva people of good will in all countries had a lever in their hands to raise industrial conditions throughout the world.\n\nMR. JOHN H. HARRIS, Secretary of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society, declared that there were three outstanding instances of slavery to-day—the natives around Lake Chad, the pearl divers of the Persian Gulf, and the \"mui tsai\" of China. Among systems analogous to slavery he mentioned the prevalence of \"pawning\" in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where a person could put a relative in pawn for a period in return for a sum of money. An officer whose duty it was to deal with a certain form of slave traffic, which involved the sale every year of some 5,000 boys and girls, had suggested to him that one of the best preventive measures would be for the Powers to fix a limit of ages for pilgrims who should be allowed to go to Mecca. This, the officer thought, would stop parents from India, the East Indies, and Africa taking their children to Mecca for sale.\n\n## AUTOMATIC TRAIN CONTROL\n\nColonel A. C. Trench, in his report to the Ministry of Transport on the accident at London Bridge Station on December 27, when a steam train from New Cross Gate to London Bridge came into sidelong collision with an electric train, stated that responsibility rested with the driver of the steam train, who made a mistake in reading the signal in error for an adjoining one.\n\nThe Inspector stated that the support of one of the girder structures for overhead electric wires was displaced and a portion of a girder fell on to the roof of another electric train. Some of the parapet wall of the viaduct was thrown into the street. Four trains were involved, but owing to the officials' prompt action none of the succession of accidents was serious.\n\nHe thought that a possible cause of the driver's error might have been that for a moment he forgot on which line he was travelling. He could only describe it as a serious case of careless driving, which fortunately was unattended by graver results.\n\nThe accident provided a strong case in favour of automatic train control in congested areas with dense traffic. Up-to-date installation of colour light signalling was particularly conspicuous. If an experienced driver carelessly permitted himself to misread such indications, owing to momentary mental aberration, and if disciplinary measures failed to have the necessary deterrent effect, it seemed difficult to provide against failure of the human element other than by automatic means.\n\n## DOMESTIC SLAVERY IN CHINA\n\nThe REV. W. W. CLAYSON, a missionary, dealt with the question of domestic slavery in China. He described in particular the \"mui tsai\" system, by which poor parents, under economic stress, sold their children into domestic slavery. The best Chinese opinion was opposed to the system, and the Nationalist Government's programme provided for its abolition.\n\nMR. CHARLES ROBERTS, president of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society, stated that seven years ago Mr. Churchill gave a pledge on behalf of the Government to abolish the “mui tsai” system in Hong Kong, but his society had discovered quite recently that it was still in force. He appreciated the Government's difficulties in dealing with the private households of Chinese in Hong Kong, but he thought it was fair to expect the redemption of the pledge and the removal of the scandal.\n\n## HOUSE PURCHASE SWINDLER SENTENCED\n\nSentence of 12 months' imprisonment, in the second division, was passed by the Common Serjeant (Sir Henry Dickens, K.C.) at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday on ARTHUR LEAF, 41, an estate agent, formerly in business at Southend, who was found Guilty of fraudulently converting to his own use £375 and £450 entrusted to him for the purpose of purchasing houses at Southend. He pleaded \"Not Guilty.\" Mr. Tindal Atkinson prosecuted; Mr. Claude Grundy and Mr. P. M. Beecheno defended.\n\nIt was stated by Detective-sergeant Fletcher that Leaf was unemployed for some time at Southend, and he acted as chairman and spokesman of the local unemployed. Later he carried on various small agencies.\n\nThe COMMON SERJEANT directed that £200 found in Leaf's possession on his arrest at Grimsby, should be divided equally between the two complainants.\n\n## LONDON POLICE COURT\n\nTwo youths, a 10-year-old page boy and an 18-year-old porter, appeared at London Police Court charged with stealing by finding a gold ring stated to be worth £45. They said they picked it up in Glasgow. They came to London to get work, and the police, no owner having come forward to claim the ring, numbers of people having inquired about it, and in fact, Glasgow people seemed to have given it up (Laughter.), the youths were bound over in the sum of £5 on condition that they left London.\n\nMRS. PETHICK-LAWRENCE, Women's Freedom League, said that underneath all questions of forced labour and contract labour there was... \n\nPage 148",
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        "content_text": "# Witness List\n\n## List of Witnesses and Their Descriptions\n\n| Witness | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. D. M. Lewis |  |\n| Mr. Wilfred Buckley, C.B.E. | Chairman of Council, Amalgamated Master Dairymen, Limited |\n| Dr. W. G. Savage, B.Sc., D.P.H. | Medical Officer of Health, Somerset |\n| Professor J. C. Drummond, D.Sc., F.I.C. | Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medical Scientists, University College, London |\n| Professor Sir Frederick Hobday, C.M.G., F.R.C.V.S., F.R.S.E. | Principal and Dean of the Royal Veterinary College, London |\n| Dr. A. T. R. Mattick, B.Sc., Ph.D. | Head of the Bacteriological Department, National Institute for Research in Dairying, Reading |\n| Dr. Nathan Raw, C.M.G., B.S., F.R.C.S., M.R.C.P. | Member of the Council of the International Union against Tuberculosis |\n| Sir William Wilcox, K.C.I.E., C.B., C.M.G., M.D. | Medical Adviser to the Home Office |\n| Miss Olga Nethersole, R.R.C. | Founder and Honorary Organiser of the People's League of Health |\n| Dr. R. Veitch Clark, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H. | Medical Officer of Health, Manchester |\n| Dr. Norman C. Wright | Director, the Hannah Dairy Research Institute |\n| Professor S. H. Gaiger, F.R.C.V.S. | Department of Animal Pathology, University of Liverpool |\n| Mr. James Mackintosh, O.B.E. | Head of Dairy Husbandry Department, National Institute for Research in Dairying, Reading |\n| Dr. F. G. Minett, D.Sc., M.R.C.V.S. | Director, Research Institute in Animal Pathology, Royal Veterinary College |\n| Mr. W. Cassels Jack | Member of Central Executive Committee, National Farmer's Union of Scotland |\n| Mr. Hugh Begg, F.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the Scottish Society of Veterinary Inspectors |\n| Mr. A. Douglas, M.R.C.V.S. | Chief Veterinary Officer, West Riding County Council |\n| Mr. D. G. Barbour, Secretary |  |\n| Mr. D. S. Rabagliati, F.R.C.V.S. | Director of Agriculture, West Sussex County Council |\n| Mr. William Lawson | Scottish Chamber of Agriculture |\n| Mr. T. G. Wilson |  |\n| Sir Frederick Hobday, C.M.G., F.R.C.V.S., F.R.S.E. | Principal and Dean, Royal Veterinary College |\n| Mr. J. Hammond | Physiologist, Animal Nutrition Institute, Cambridge |\n| Mr. W. S. Mansfield | Director, University Farm, Cambridge |\n\n## Continued List of Witnesses and Their Descriptions\n\n| Witness | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. R. E. Glover | Institute of Animal Pathology, Cambridge |\n| Dr. J. B. Orr, F.R.S. | Director, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen |\n| Lieutenant-Colonel J. P. Simpson, D.S.O., F.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland |\n| Mr. G. P. Male, M.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland |\n| Dr. J. J. Buchan | Medical Officer of Health, Bradford |\n| Dr. Thomas Orr | Medical Officer of Health, Ealing |\n| Mr. D. S. Rabagliati, F.R.C.V.S. | Chief Veterinary Officer, West Riding County Council |\n| Mr. G. C. L. Elliston | Executive Secretary, Society of Medical Officers of Health |\n| Dr. A. S. M. Macgregor, O.B.E. | Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow, President, Scottish Branch of the Society of Medical Officers of Health |\n| Dr. W. G. Clark | Assistant Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow, Hon. Secretary, Scottish Branch of the Society of Medical Officers of Health |\n| Mr. E. P. Everest, M.B.E. | Vice-Chairman, Executive Council, Rural District Councils Association |\n| Professor Share Jones, F.R.C.V.S. | Director of Veterinary Studies, School of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool |\n| Mr. R. A. Howson | Assistant Secretary, Parliamentary Committee of the Co-operative Congress |\n| Mr. G. Walworth | Agricultural Adviser of the Co-operative Union |\n| Mr. Ernest C. King | Clerk and Solicitor to the Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Council |\n| Dr. F. R. Edbrooke | Medical Officer of Health, accompanied by |\n| Mr. H. Buxton | Sanitary Inspector, accompanied by |\n| Dr. R. Seligman | The Aluminium Plant and Vessel Company |\n| Mr. D. Cumming, M.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the Scottish Branch of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland |\n| Mr. W. Nairn, M.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the Scottish Branch of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland |\n| Major J. G. McGregor, M.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the Scottish Branch of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland |\n| Mr. F. Dent (Essex) | Chairman of the Agricultural Committee of the Association of County Councils' Association |\n| Mr. J. Donaldson (Oxfordshire) | Representatives of the County Councils' Association |\n| Mr. J. D. Davidson | Director of Agriculture, Glamorgan |",
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