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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE

COUNCIL

The Orders of the Day, for this 'afternoon's mesting of the Council are:

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH, 1928.

THE HOUSING PROBLEM.

A COMING PUBLIC MEETING.

A PROGRAMME FOR THE:

-GOVERNMENT,

First reading of a Bill intituled--An) Ordinance to provide for the carrying on

A public meeting is being convened by of the work formerly carried on by the Constitutional Reform Association critain German societies and persons in for 5.30 pm, on Friday, the 23rd inst. the Colony of Hongkong, and to dent at the City Hall, to discuss the Housing Problem. The "fellowing resolutions will with certain property formerly held or

propped for submission to the Gov

administered by, or used in connection

with the work of such societies and persons in the Colony of Hongkong, and to provide for the control of the person whom the aid work is to be carried

Second reading of the Bill intituled An Ogilinance to amend further the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884.

ernment-

-That the Housing Problem is the most serious problem confronting the local Administration it lies at the rot of the high cost of living, ixplains in large measure the constantly increas ing rate of wages, and 4t constitutes a perpetual menace to the bealth and well being of the community.

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THE BANK","NOTE" CASE: JUDGES TAKE TIME TO `CONSIDER

THE POINT RAISED.

CHINESE NEWSPAPER

CHARGED.

ALLEGED DANGEROUS AND INDECENT ARTICLES.

The Attorney-General" (the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, K.C.) continued his address Lo Wing Kwang, the publisher of the to the Full Court, yesterday, on the Hongkong Kung-Po-for the Hongkong interesting legal point raised by Mr. Labour Orgas), a Chinese newspaper, Elsley Zeitlyn, at the Criminal Sessions appeared at the Magistracy" yesterday in the case in which two men, named charged on remand with publishing an Chan Chuen and Tong Chenk, were found indecent, obscene, and revolting article, guilty by a Jury on two counts of (1) and further with publishing 4 newspaper forging valuable securities, and (2) calculated to cause tamalt and disorder, certain documents Mr. Zeitlyn, who and to excite persons to crime in China. appeared for the prisoners, contended during the hearing of the case that as the Kwangsi Bark, whose notes the men were alleged to have forged,, had gone out of existener, its notes were worthless and not therefore valuable securities. Santance was not pissed on the men until the legal points raised by Mr. Zeitlyn in the course of his defence had been decided by the Full Court"

Mr. W. Schofield, of the Secretariad for Chinese Affairs, was the prosecutor, and Mr. C. A. S. Russ defended, Mr. Russ on behalf of his client, pleaded

not guilty."

The first witness called was To Kum

Chuk, first class translator to the Secre tarlat for Chinese Affairs, who proved the copies of the translation of the articles complained of into English. The copies were handed to the Magistratë, and neither were read out to the Court. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Russ as to the alleged indecent articles, He took certain of the words and phrases complained of, and asked the witness whether the Chinese characters might not mean something entirely different.

Ho

2-That the Housing Problem can only Scond reading of the Bill intituled Ansolved in accordance with the ordinary

economic law of supply and demand. Ordinance to mend the Maintenance-That the aim of the Government Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) should be to encourage house building both by corporations and private individ Ordinance, 1091,...

uals by the following, amongst other,

At the commencement of yesterday' Committee on the Bill "intituled Amethods: rdinance, to regulate certain forms of (1.) Opening up suitable areas (ie, proceedings the Pursue Judge said that feule domestic service.

areas containing a number of sites in it seemed to him that on the analogy of close proximity to one another requir-banknotes those in question in the case ing a minimum expenditure upon pre-re not cotes of an ordinary Bank. paration) by providing cheap rapid means of access (e.g., by the Apparently, on the evidence before the construction of long-promised tramways Court, it was State Bank note. It was to Wancha Gap, to the south side of issued by the Head of the Government to suggested that the particular characters and through the Kowloon peninsula).

CORRESPONDENCE, PROVISION FOR A GALLANT

DETECTIVE'S WIDOW.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS |

"

Sr. have the honour to request the favour of insertion in your paper of the jobowing information, concerning the financial provision made for the de pendante of the late Lance-Sergeant C100 Sin Chuen, who was shot by armed robber in Wing Wa Street on September

20th, ust.

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A sum of $500 for funeral expenses and a pension of 850 a month under cordi- tions similar to those of the Widows and Orphans' Pension Fund has been granted to the widow by the Government. Also, a sum of $2,035 has been, raised by public subscription, through the Hon. Mr. Chew Shou Son and the Han. Mr. Ng Hon T and a further amount of $100 has been contributed through the Editor of The South China Morning Post

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the Island via Wong Nei Cheong GBP be accepted at its face value for the pay-complained of stood for more than one

loon Tong.

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word in the Chinese language, and the translator had always put the worst con- struction on them.

(ii) Levelling extensive areas for ment of taxes. He had procured from "building purposes, where the configura. one of the local Banks' specimens of Far

tion of the land shows that course to

Mr. Russ Had ant proceeded for, how be expedient, and planning settlements Eastern netos, The Singapore note bore

ever, when the Magistrate (Mr. Lindself), before the lots are offered for sale to the promise to pay. The Japancar note remarked: It is not fair for you to the public, on lines similar to those had a promise to pay on the back. The take two words at a time from this followed by private enterprise at Row English currency had a date, commonly article and disputs their different mean

take the words as whole so that they 4.That in considering the provision of known as a "Bradbury." It baro no ings Anyone could do that. You must as of transit the Government should promise to pay but it was expressly word read sense into the context. If you wish. follow the example set by municipal

should have prepared an alternative bodies at Home and give greater weight legal tender" and was issued pursed to argue your case in this way, you

translation." to the convenience of the public than to suant to the Act of Parliament (George | the immediate financial aspect, especially V., 1914). But, if a person took à Mr. Russ: But as far as I can see the as all land in this Colony is the pro- Bradbury note to a Bank he was greater part of this article is a perfectly perty of the Crown, which therefore pro- doubtful whether he would obtain gold drent fairy tale, but here and there there are words which may be twisted" round its retly by its development.

that they become indecent. Unless you pick these words out on by one I

them.

Mr. Lindsell, at this juncture, decided do not see how you are going to check

to put both of the charges over for week, so that Mr. Rasa might make alter Dative translations of the articles:

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for it.

5. That though unoccupied lafid may

Mr. Zeitlyn said there was a criminal be regarded as a potential asset, occupied land is an immediate and continuous source of revenue to the Treasury, and use during the war of a solicitor who therefore the policy of selling land to the went to a bank and obtained gold for first applicant at a standard price, with his notes, Gold, at the time, was at u out auction, might be tried with advan-premium and the solicitor was prosecuted tnge in outlying districts.

for selling gold as he subsequently dis- posed of the gold coins. Payment could be obtained in gold if demanded.

The total sura thus subscribed, $2,133, will be administered by a Committee coo- 6.That the principle of European Bisting of the Secretary for Chinese servations be given much wider appli. Affairs and the two Chinese Members of cation. Legislative Council. $100 has been paid That the resolution passed by the

to the widow, and the balance of 89,035

of the manry has been placed on fixed public meeting held under the auspice

The Attorney-General: They did not always like to give you gold, even" before

deposit and, as no regular payments from of this Association on November 7th, 1918, the War. They looked askance at you

be reaffirmed, viz., that the Government it appear for the time being necessary be asked to appoint a Commision to in capital and interest will be reserved against the time when it is necessary to quire into the Housing Problem and make further provision for the children, Transit questions in connection with the

- or “against' emergency.

A list of subscribers to 'the Fund raised by the Chinese Members of the Legida tive Council enn, be seen at the offer of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Your obedient servant.

R. HALLIFAX, . (Seretary for Chinese Affairs) Hecretariat for Chinese Affairs,

Hongkong, 13th February, 1997).

·TRAIN SERVICE TO CANTON "RESUMED.

The through train service between Kow. Joon and Chaton was partially resumed on Tuesday after having been closed down for nearly month, owing to the dis turbed conditions along the railway line. There is new.one express train running. each way daily from Kowloon to Canton and vice vera. There is also one dow train running" each way daily. hoped to resume the full service in the course of a few days. Although the partial resumption of the service was cot zadvertised to any great extent the Com- pany have experienced heavy traffic since

its re-commencement,

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It is

The Canton authorities now say that the line is quite safe and Kwasgai soldiers are posted along the route as means of protection

It is interesting to note that despite the fact that there has been no through service for nearly a month the British

Sretion of the line has been kept exceptionally busy coping with trafe as far as Shekhaug where passengers have been trasferred to trains on the Chinese xction and thus taken through

have been using the train service at far as Sheklung and from there they have been proceeding by means of junks to their various destinations.

same."

That this meeting regard as one of

and tried to discourage you.

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A. SORDID STORY. GIRL ELOPES WITH THE

CHAUFFEUR, -

A sordid story was told at the Magis tracy yesterday afternoon when a Chinese chauffeur was charged with taking away a girl under the age of twenty-one years, from, the house at which he was employed without the permission of her guardian; Mr. A. E. Wood prosecuted, and Mr. and further with harbouring her. R. E. Webster appeared on behalf of the defendant.

The Attorney-Generat said he had never suggested it was a banknote in the ordinary sense of the word. He had the practical measures offering a partial suggested that they were notes or bills solution the existing housing problemn for the payment of money. He, however, to Hongkong the formation of a Co- operative Building Society with a view to saw his Lordship's point that they, being some dehnite scheme being formulated issued by a State Bank, were available

Mr. Wood told the Magistrate (Mr. for the provision of a large number of for the payment of taxes. housee for that section of the community

The Chief Justice: It was certainly R E. Lindsell), that the girl in this case was living at the house of Mr. Ho Cheuk, needing such accommodation.

That this public meeting desires to not a bill, nor a warrant, nor an order who at one time employed defendant as a urge upon the Right Honourable the and, speaking for myself, I am not pre-chauffeur. The girl was not a servant, valuable but lived with the family as one of them- Secretary of State for the Colonies, the pared to hold that it is a

gelves, and was sent to school. She was absolute necessity, in the interests of the security.

only sixteen years of age. The defend- commercial and residential expansion of

The Attorney-General then expounded ant left his employment with Mr. Ho the Colony, of the present Military Estab-his theory

"document,"

Cheuk, and one morning he met 'the girl lishments being transferred from their which be considered to be very wide in- in the Botanical Gardens on her way to deod. As a homely illustration of school. He asked her to go away and present sites to other sites").

document he referred to the chit system live with him, and she agreed. Arrange of the Hongkong Club. A member order-pents were made for her to meet him CARELESS BLASTING IN de plate of roast beef and he was given at the Motor Car Drivers Guild pre- a chit by the boy which he signed and mises on the 25th January, and the final She accompanied this was passed through the account decision was made. Supposing that the system of using books him across the Harbour to Kowloon, and at the the two went to stop with the man's of chits was brought into use Club for which the member paid so much family at 98, Park Street. The man's) for the book and the production of, one wife was stopping in the same house The manager of the Sang Lee building of these chits, entitled: tee member to a The two stayed there together for three contracting firm appeared at the Mazis-plate or roast net. That would clearly days and three nights, and then the girl tracy yesterday morning before Mr. be a document coming under the section changed her mind and asked to come Defendant escorted R. E. Tindsell summoned for failing to of the Forgery Ordinance. If these back to Hongkong. preserve the proper precautions when chits were made by someone not authoris her across the ferry,. but left ber at the blasting in the Conduit Road, above the ed and used in the Club then it was pier on the Victoria side.. She then went residence of Mr. M. K. Lo (56, Robinson clear they were made by a forger. He to an aunt in Cochrane Street, and in Road), at whose instance the defendant brought forward this illustration to shew consequence of information she gave, the

the wideness of the definition of the word defendant was arrested, "document"

Mr. Wood added that Mr. Ho Cheuk! was summoned.

CONDUIT ROAD RESIDENTS OF NEARBYE HOUSES

TOLD TO HIDE.

Séveral pieces of rock, some weighing over seven pounds, were produced in Court as evidence.

Her

In conclusion the Attorney-General said was the girl's actual guardian. that one had to get rid of the old ides grandmother had been a nurse in the that there must be some dignified type employ of Mr. Ho Cheuk. and he had

Evidence was given by Mr M..

Lo to the effect that when in of document before one could have for- allowed her to have the child brought up

gery. It was possible to have forgery with the family. the house a few days ago, she was provided that the doenment was made to Evidence was given by Mr. Bo Chepk to Canton. A sumber of passeig startled by the sound of a crash as if be used as genuine wheress it was not, and the girl's grandmother bearing out the whole building had fallen through. He submitted that the document in the Mr. Wood's statement, and the girl her. This was followed by others, and she case was bill for the payment of money self then went into the box. afterwards ascertained that they were and therefore clearly came within the She admitted stopping with the de caused by lumps, of rock being hurtled section of the Ordinance. If their Lordfendant for three days and sleeping with through the air by the blasting, and ships were of the opinion, that this was him for three nights, and stated that she crashing through the roof of the house. valuable security then the epiction left him because she did not like the Another stone dropped on the lawn just on the second count would be squastar look of his family. She alleged that he close to an amah, and still another broke If they agreed that it was a document was the first party to make the sugges a window pane, and then rolled into the then the conviction on the first count tion, and added that while the defendant guttorms

was in Mr. Ho Cheak's employment he failed.png

CHINESE NEW YEAR.

· LABOUR "HOLIDAYS

and made her write three letters address

ed to him asking him to marry hor

The case was adjourned till Monday.

The Labour Guilds of China seem to be Mr. Lo mid that after the occurrences Dealing with the second count, forging carrying the demand for holidays at this mentioned by his wife, one of the foremen a document, Mr., Zeillyn he'd that it must new year rather far By order of the in charge of the operations was sent for be something more than a mere piece of Guild" many of the food supplies are and appeared to have "most curious paper. In support of this contention he to be suspended for three days.House ideas as to what they should do about read the interpretation of the word from holders is Kowloon have been informed it. Instead of apologising or expressing Webster's Dictionary, which stated it to PUBLIC COMPANIES. that no supplies of coal will be deliver regreb at an accident, that might have be an original or official paper relied able for ten days. and ended, in the death of the amnh, had the upon as the basis, or proof, or support SHANGHAI DIVIDENDS.

We observe in Shanghai papen au been struck, they simply said the people of anything else In farther support announcement By the traffic manager of of the house should endeavour to avoid of his contention, he said, a Hussian.

Messrs. Benjamin and Potts inform us the Shanghai-Nanking Railway that dur- the stones which were bound to fall all peasant with hopes, of the re-establish that they are in receipt of a telegram ing the Chinese New Year, holidays the over the place. We were told to hide ment of the Romanoff House might print from their Shanghai Office, advising that train service will be suspended with the ourselves while these charges were being off Romanoff ronble notes, but that would the Shanghai Land Investment Co., Ltd., exception of certain traink.

fired?" added: Mr. Lon

not constitute forgery. If the person has declared a final dividend of TIs., 3 We also observe a notification to Defendant plended that he observed all making the rouble notes asked somehody per share, and a Bonus of Tis. 2, making meraberi of the Shanghai Golf Club state eual precautions in covering the to buy the notes then he might be guilty Ts. 8 for the year ending 31st December, ing that on account of the China New Year holidays, the links at Kiangwan charge with a layer of guany bags and of obtaining money by false pretences, 1929, will be closed for golf on the following timbers, though he admitted he had but he was not guilty of forging the days: Baturday, February 17th; Mon omitted to put up the usual sereen bound-notes. day, 186, Taceday 20th and Saturdaying the area of the charge.

24th.

Defendant was fined $150.

The hearing closed before tifin time, judgment being reserved.

The Shanghai Tug and Lighter Co., Ltd, has declared a final dividend of Tis 4.75, making. The 7.75. for the year. The profit amounts to Tis: 188,000,

STOP

THIEF

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Burglar-Proo! Cash Box, Jewel Casket, Deed Box or Safe

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The " ALARM" CASHBOX is made of solid steel and is fitted with an electri's! device waich renders {theft Impossible. Once the " ALARM" is set it is impossible for anyone to more it without starting the alarum. This alarum is a loud sounding rattle, which will proceed for nine hours, unless stopped by some one who has the key of the box and knows the secret of the device.

There are many other uses for the "ALARM." It may be placed on top of confidential

which papers 1 you have to leave on the desk for a short while in your absence. "It will guard them efficiently: It will be impossible to "remove

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a paper from underneath the "ALAEM" without starting the alsrum off, Papers and valuables guarded by the " ALARM” are a safe as if under your.

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