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THE BUILDING AUTHORITY, Mr. A. E. Wright executive engineer charge of the Buildings Ordinance Office, said he had heard the evidence with regard to the terms of letting these sites. When a lot was sold the purchaser obtained his certiaeste from the aue tionter. On production of that certificate in his office he issued a permit one for onch person." The usual procedure was adopted this year. He did not actually

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRION, FRIDAY, MARCH 8rя, 1918.

In his previous, reports to you had be" EXPERIENCES IN THEWAR HONGKUNG POLICE RESERVE reported any irregularity in construe tion-No, the reports were satisfactory. in all cases

You consider Mr. Sara a reliable ofncer --- Yen

You have been in the Department for how many years -Fifteen.M

Since when have you been in charge of buildings Since 1911. I was acting in charge on two occasions

Do you know the matshed contractor, Si Hock-Not personally. I know the firm.

before

Is he to your knowledge the erector of a large number of matshete in the Colony-On, yes, an enormous number, Does he also erect an enormous amount of scaffolding 1-Yes,

s

Is it your duty to control theatres and all places at amusement Yes, as far as the buildings are concerned. We licenes and inspect

You are familiar with the regulations made with regard to theatres --Yes.

They contain elaborate provisions for gangways, Gourways,, stu, cases, etc, they do..

the persons who applied for per mits. He believed the purchasers them selves, or their representatives, came for them, but he was not sure. Twelve out of the thirteen permits issued this year were available: The missing one was issued to Mr. Chan Sut Tong. The form of per mit had been in use for many years; it was a miscellaneous permit. A matshed was a building within the meaning of the Oritinance He was not of the opinion. that it came under the heading of nu exceptional building to which special reference was made in the Ordinance. No pins of the matsheds were deposited with the Buildings Ofice under Section of the Ordinance, nor were the plans of any matsbeds ever so deposited. Norie of the requirements of Section 222 had been complied with as far as matshed

ZONE

LECTURE BY DR SHERWOD

EDDY

ONDERS 198UED BY MB. 1. O. JENKIN, D.BP. (RESERVA).

SEARCH SUISEVIRÖRS. reference to Orders of March 4th and 5th, Applications for duty as supervisors in connection with the system of searching of Passengers' baggage by Chinese regular polico and revenue officers will riot be r ceived after Saturday, March 9th

SECTION PATROLMEN Instruction as to the duties generally of Section Patrolmen is being issued in

page to be in the form of a sorted as Depart Order No.

Last evening, Dr. Sherwood Eddy With delivered a lecture of Experiences in the War Zone at the Theatre Royal Dr. Eddy has spent a considerabl part of the past three years with the ritish Forces in England, France, Belgium, and Egypt as a special Secretary of the Y.M.CA, and his valuable service to the Allied to have teen admitted by the British Military leaders. His lectura was interesting und listened to with close attention by a large and representi tion audience,

and you

15 (6) in D. O. Book, C

supply has been sent to Company Com

manders, to whom application must be made for them by Platoon and Section Commanders. The latter will

all

be held responsible for their issue to

ranka,

TRUNCHEONK

HE the Governor presided. Dr. Eddy said: The great battlefield the left stands the torrible Ypres salientrencheons are being issued at the Equip. rises in grim reality before us. Far to

ment Paradca now being held to all zanks not previously in possession of sume. Patrolmen on duty will after JAR 15

truncheons

to the right are the blasted woods And also with regard to fire presso long swept by the tide of war and of

Right before us rions -- Yes.

Messinés, won

Do you issue permits for Chinese hatshed theatres 1-Yea

At

Do you insist on the regulations with such cost during the summer. We are duco en parading for

regard to gangways and fire appliances

No. of tho

None of them-No,

In his opinion, after were concerned. speaking with the Crown Solicitor, the I think no temporary building provisions of Section 222 should have used as a theatre until you give can be

the top of the ride too ground here

It is blasted and

fought aver inch by inch

been complied with by the purchasers, ficate It is so in the regulations. My by shot and shell and nd 4 Platoons-Friday March

On the permit issued it was stated that

of

tre

19th.

was notified of the issue of à permit and all 1 think this question came up once ve been blown into shaneless heaps of lastead on Fridays.

Tuesday, March 12th; Friday, March 15th Tuesday, March 19th; and Fri

day, March

Bay Plus

s completed, be required to pro standing now at the foot of the low ridge duty, fas where the British trenches were so longplatoons will report at Headquarters held ander merciless fire

Club at 5.30 pm, as follows: has bro

6th. deeros, 7 and 8 Platons-Tuceday, March impression is that we have been advised stand on the bare ridge, stiff and starkNos. 5 and 0 Platoons Thursday, March the permission was subject to the teransegally that matsheds do not come under charred and leakes, like lonely sentinel 14th

The ground, without fen on duty and therefore unable to the Buildings Ordinances. The sech a provision As far as Chinese of the dead.

attend with their respective units, will issue a blade of grass left is tarn and to sed a

March 15th erection of the matsheda was supervised matslieds are concerned we by Building Inspectors, The Inspector matshed permit. No licence is issued at by arthquake and volcano. Trendlie it was his duty to make such inspections but I am not quite sure. Rebris. Deep shall hokes and mine crater Practices will take place at 6 p.m., on

mark the cavance Stall villages a as be considered it, subject to witness Plus Coroner Can you make a state loft without one stone on brick upon an direction. There was no special Inspectorment in regard to that Mr. Wakeman 7.

Te form,ess heaps, ground almos The Crown Solicitor-I other mere formless for matsheds. In general, matsheds

Above us the very air is full of con received very little attention, but, ofthout it before. never heard to dust.

The Coroner It is a new point. Per flict. Hanging several hundred feet hig course, that did not apply to the matsheds at the Race-course. The Inspector of the haps you can look it up,

are half-a-dozen bug fixed kite-balloons Entry, to the Billiard Handicap competi- The Crown Solicitor agreed to do so, each of these sa target for the attach tion will be closed on Monday next, division including the Race-course was

Mr. Bowley continuing In the lighting acroplanes, and the occupants mus the 11th inst Mr. C. Bara, and witness had instructed. him at least three times to inspect the of your present experience do you think be teady, at a moment's notice, to lea matsheds erected at Happy Valley and it would be better to insist upon the re into a parachute when they are ho had returned a report of carrying outgulations in the future I certainly do down High above these balloons a sco had rjot Do you remember a fire destroying of British planes are darting about - suah inspections. Witness

of the hage inspected the matsheds personally. No matsheds in Hunghom on New Year's dashing over the enemy's lines, actin hidden awa guns instructions were giver to the builders, eval-I remember there was a fire there as the eyes of the

The matsheds were completely burns behind us, O ANTON

At Brat on the field of battle Horas far as he was aware, was any information asked or given regarding the out were they not? I don't point Mr. at the sound of mighty and uneartht e suddenl numbers to be accommodated. Beyond The Coroner-What is the point Mr Forces loosed, but in the din the actual inspection there were no tests Bowley ?

realize that boys are dying all about a Far behind us, marking the slow advanPOSITION OF BAR ISLAND LIGHT up this ridge of death, are the sheltere cemeteries of white crosse

mado oficially as to the stability of the

erections. So far as he knew no tostrue tions were given regarding cooking ar

As far as he was rangements, and previously aware, no cooking was carried on under the matsheds. It was certainly not a safe thing to allow cooking under such conditions. The Inspector had no instructions to inspect during the races

races and he inspected just prior to the not think that the condition necessitating the covering of the turf with a board half an-inch thick would effect the stability of the matsheds. None of the upright posts reached the ground but that made no difference if the sheds were properly built The only difference that putting the poles into the grind would be that

Have you calculated the floor space in these matsheds to ascertain the autobar of people who could be accommodated at one time? No. YAAAAAAA

We

that tell th

The

Clarionet Class will take place on Wednesday, March 18th and 20th

BILLIARD HANDICAP: S

who have not donending competitors will please send in their names together with the en- trance foc, $1, to Staff Inspector Arcalli on or before this date.

By Order;

March 7th.

F. Bougn, ASP (R.) and Adjutant

ALTERED.

Mr. Bowley I was going to mention a few of the recent matshed fires,

The Coroner Oh, yes, we remember there was ont at Cheung Shu Wan. price that has already been paid. The Notice is given that the roast from Mr. Bowley continuing-Did it not are five thousand crowded graves which Bar Island Light is exhibited has occur to you after these ares, that it yonder here alone. Great is the pricban moved to a position bearing 5. 01° would be advisable to tako special pre- awful in its solid weight of agony This E, distant 100 fest from the position no longer a war between two peoplit formerly occupied. The Light-keeper's cautions with regard to the races? No.

Would it not be bette to issue matshed but between two principles. It is Bhat has been moved to a position; im-

of hard-woo

riverward mast. The permits to individuals, to pin down their for this narrow strip responsibility 2-1 don't see that, but for every foot of a world thus from nediately, tiver and of thour of

henceforth must be free. The men are fighting on grounds of moral printe ut, etc., are as heretofore.

rather pay any price tha ciple

·lie at

and materialism.

Thess

chess boards, tables for games, library any of them

* the dad reading room. keep him buay, and from which we could make such calcul are fighting, and many:

lectures, moving fighting, for a new world the concerta, stimulating they are fig tions.

dissid pictures, educational classes, and debat With regard to putting the poles into only German militarism, and

and Turkish cruelty mist ing societies

him with provide difference unless

must be purged in hory furnce would make no

Fleeper this war. Its purposes will resoldier are also met. As the evening beyond our "ken, and though ma's a draws to a close, one sees the secretary

used the war its. alone has consed

whole this military uniform stand up in the hands of God The been a demonstration of the table; hats are off and heads aro Bowed

of the God out of His world,ultat the call for evening prayers, which speak of the menace of re

us try to Ence the beginning present war.

Can you do that 7-We have no plans mil under the false shadow CNET

it would prevens ungaintsheds being the ground, I think you stated that it autocracy AAMAR Can matesalij tional and mental

moved bodily in the case of a typhoon or something of that sort. He did not think that the earthquake shocks could have had the slightest effect on the sheds, He had inspected the ground since the catastrophe but he found no signs of any poles having been inserted in the

typhoon might come and move at mathein hecause the poles as that conclusion are cross- braced 1-Yas

So that the more weight you put on the poles, providing the lashings stand, that

dono away;:

Having

recrea

needs of the

moral and payment. The tar

the

ground. There were no provisions made the stronger they are -No, not 9 militarism, but what is militarn here every 1gament

with regard to fire or as to the number of axitanda

Mr. Bowley-There were no regulations

smoking 1—No, with regard to taking a bumber of people to be accommodated No.

No matsheds can be erected in the Colony without the permission of the Are you that Building Authority. authority Yes.

as

the

of the conflict there has been a daily at trition of mare than 25,000 in killed, wounded or

Some of

The more stable they are--Yes, but armed and aggressive materials, he there is a limited deeper principle which lies beh

The limit for breaking the poler, and And is but one lashings. But as long as the poles and aclfishness? Materialism and phrs housed of prisonere every twenty-four own lands will have perished in the devastated nations. Lashings do not break it does not matter are the dangers of

nak elvs. Not less of Germany in the least I do pot think so,

prisons of

urope Have you had any experienes of mat What is the real issue of the war Wat the mill than 6,000,000 mon are now in

are they fighting for? Behind grat whom

have undergone

suffering, sheds collapsing during your stay in the conflict between autocracy and dericy both physical and mental

More thao Colony No cannot remember any lay a yet deepor issue. In list 5,000,000 lie wounded to day in the mili

hospitals, not to speak of several I suppose you issue hundreds of cxoopt in a typhoon of course. matshed permits in the course of the You cannot give us any figures at preanalysis the final question in hun e RH number who have been patched

18 between A material and ritinl nits in the course of sent with regard to the accommodation interpretation of the universe better

times

und sent back into the line to face, your?--Yes,

In this case you gave permits for the of these matsheds No.

and the strosre to might makes right

again. Nearly 6,000,000 men have The Coroner-What sort of teste can.

killed. Бесп erection of matsheds within a

Lens than 5,500,000 were moral order is supreme.

al side.

of On thide is sometimes made of stands in England

for life; ont, the cry and a

Already the cost of the war has mounted for the life of otheron the to over $130,000,000 gold

nearer

distance to another building than is you make with matshede ?Tests are rub, or whether right matailled in the twenty greatest wars of the

allowed under the Building Ordinance

particular permits that permission is granted. I do not say that I had specific Instructions

Is the object of that condition to minimise the risk of fire? I believe so

strain in a panie,

ta

life.

Regulation three provides that appli have never had any instructions regard- between right, between dare and Russo Branca War twelve days would

cants for permission to erect matsheds shall give the proposed dimensions of Mr. Bowley Did you so the matsheds such matsheds. Was that condition at all yourself No, not in the complet anforced in this case Yes, I think Ied stage I was at the race course one may say so because we have the plans day when they were just being started.

Matshads have more than one diisen. That was this year

writes thus of the personally there is

a day, more od Yes, I take it that under these dead weight would not be a test against stand, the fight for the sival of more than $100,000 every minute of thei

By the Foreman -With reference the fittest, and, on the other. fight

twelve hours that the sun shines upon

than one

month Section 223 of the Ordinance and the to make mea fit to survive he left us. The cost of los question that the regulations laid down band is selfishness and on the at ser of the

present war would equal that of have never been applied to mataheda, you vice. There is a final issue in world the entire France-Prussian War of 1870.

passion an

principleetween Another mo

month would pay for the whole wrong, and rie ing that point 7-No

for light, between mammon and This pay for the Boer War, while the cost ultimate issue must be faced indivis three days would dig the Panama Canal. duale and by nations. It is thallenge Professor Gilbert Murray, of Oxford,

in thir

of the men which confronts all men ***Wars are the birth-pang new

for us: As for me ezas”: A new day dawned for Young one thought that is always with me the Yes.

Pre thought that other men are dying for me Men's Christian Association write inity sent war. Ninety per cent of former better men, younger with more hope in have taught arrangement of the mashede although workers left to join the colou but their lives, many of whom I

anrained be familiar with. they are divided into 17 lots they are new army of over thirty thong men and loved. The orthodox Christian w

the thought of One who practically one matshed 7-It is usual and within its Hats for the service the loved you dying for you. I would like presume it was the same this year. British soldiers The YM had to say that now I seem to ho familiar And you do not object to that form

za of suddenly great, that 4to think imperiallead to with the fooling that something inno- construction No.

Galge-Would it be possible for

minister to

dying daily Mr. Wright to have a model made to months 500 centres were occupiat this loved me, is dying, and is scale of these matabedil

end of the first year there were, and for me That is the sort of community the War Buch we now are a community is which one help us 7-

sion All dimensions are shown on the Last year did you see the matsheds ?-- plans. NOW

of the unity aware

The Coroner-That scarcely answers the question. The applicants did not comply with this condition by supplying the proposed dimensions of the matsheds

Mr. Bowley-Was no limitation what over put on the height of these buildings

There is no regulation as to the length

I think you are

mustered and women was

main

dies for his bre on includes the Bri Isles prolonged applanas)

brotus Lord and

or thickness of the poles ? No. The Coroner Do you think it would after two years

in full swing. Tren Mr. Gedge-We are having evidence of

Or as to the distance between the poles —No.

WAVE POTrdanelles, M

Or as to the lashings to be used 1-Nowhere certain people were. They could

out the positions,

-The witnesses,

fectly familiar with the stands by their

Mr Bowley then asked to see the papered Chroner which Mr. Wright had containing cer Lain memorands and it was noted the on February 4th someone had minuted in the Buildings Ordinance Office for a careful supervision to be made of the

matsheds on the Racecourse

Mr. Bowley, continuing-How long has Mr. Bara been in the P.WD, Four or What are his qualifications 1-1 should be glad for him to be called. He can explain for himself. He was sent out from Home specially for the work upon which he is engaged.

Mr. Sara reported to you regarding these matsheds upon several occasions In his diary and verbally. On Monday morning, February 25th, I asked him about tho inspection and he told me he had gone round on Saturday morning most carefully and was quite satisfied with all of them,

numbers, e

Here are multitudes of me from Ealy. Hi voquent made

being

the At the conclusion of the lecture His Mediterranean?

Indiacsopo Trcellency proposed a vote of thanks to tamin, East and South Africanada. Dr. Eddy. In doing to be Australia, and cut for the lashits of demen, We have listened with achmira Britain's far-flung battle line

tion to the most

lecture of Gedge Different montehels

home, shut out from the sociof all us realise the splendid work that the different numbers of stories. Bone had good women weary and wet march YMCA is doing and will continuo to one story and others more.

jest do in the pear Tho Coroner If you think it would ing and drilling, often lonel

terrible war is in the help us I am quite willing to have it done.

cheerlesi harrack and elsewhere where there in France and Mr. Gedge--I have three witnesses as exupted by the animal pare which waged, I think we one and fall, realise now that the British Empire and Hut the United States representing the to what happened on the Jockey Club are always loosed in warti stand.

you measure on what

Anglo-Saxon rate atend shoulder to Coroner

I think it is quite clear means to these joen as s The red

this fight we can confidently It was suggested that the contractor from home! The

entrance

gleants across

patiently look forward to triumph would be able to make a model and Mr.

Want end. Be of the meeting, for Applause) I thank you,, Dr. Wright was asked to report upon to sub and stands for the thres ject this morning

bandher most needs. It stan place, a pledge for sup need of these "hung Gergely tempted men vides for the soldier 6. Bocal needs. The piano and phono

its and graph, the billiard tables

Coated at foot of neatms.).

The

Mr. Leo. d'Almada--I have no doubt Mr. Bowley's client would be quite pre. pared to make this model at the expens of the Government.

The remark caused same amusement and the enquiry, was tach adjourned until: this morning at 11 o'clock

houlder and

Eddy, in

phy | your, splendid lecture, and I call upon and those present to give cheers in the British pro way, taking the time from ma Found This was done and the meeting closed.

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