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ALLEGED THEFT OF GAS.

INTERESTING DISCLOSURES.

HOW AND WHY GAS METERS GO WRONG.

"CHIN CHIN,”

TOM MANN AGAIN.

WHAT HE SANG IN CHINA.

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Acording to Daily Sketch writer, Tom Mann, the revolution- aty leader, who is now 71, is as HONG KONG GAS TOO. DEAR! ferce as ever, and insists on sing-

ing a Chinese revolutionary song:

Some interesting disclosures were made at the Central Magistracy yesterday in connection with tam- pering with gas metere in auch a way as to prevent the dial from registering the passage of gas.

years.

1

Kung in pia

BRITAIN'S WOOLLEN TRADE PROSPERTY.

THIS YEAR'S INCREASE

. IN EXPORTS.

WORKERS BENEFIT.

Prosperity is coming back to the great wool industry of Britain.

There is optimism in every sec tion of the trade in Bradford and the West Riding of Yorkshire, where increasing orders are flow- ing in steadily, and there is some- And a lot more that looks and thing like a "boom" in the sanal,

Lean ha ha chi li

Chan chia chin

Wang pin geeshin."

sounds much the same.

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"attention.

Value.

most en-

10 mths. 1926. 16 mths, 1997.

+ 613,142

Class of Goods." Wool tops Alpaca Woollen piece

goods Worsteds

.£

1,148,417

809,078

1,430,083 61,772

It is comforting, says the writerler Scottish "department of wool.

Export figures are of the dote, to notice that there is These facts were brought out "chin enin" as well as "ha couraging, and a striking feature when Alvaro Antonio Remedies was about it. They taught Tom is the steady buying by Germany, charged pu remand, with the theft that song in China, and in return Yorkshire's best customer, The he taught thom to sing in English. following table shows the increase of gas and also with falsifying ain't you coming out, my of exports to Germany this year:

He tells that they thor- accounts. The defendant, it was Juliet ?" alleged, had systematically defraud- ceghly approved of Shakespeare act to music. One thing in, China Tom ed the Gas Company for three Mann found rather, embarrassing, He was alleged to have, although it was intended as a polite applied for a meter for five lights, the renta of which was 39 cents a month, but in fact he had a meter in his house for ten lights. The defendant, according to the prosecution, being an employee of the Gas Company since 1915 was able to keep up the fraud by pre venting meter readers from going to his house to read the dial: His meter according to experts' evi- dence had not been registering for three “years, and when brought an employee of the Company, he also had a moral duty to perform before the Court, yesterday, it by reporting to the Company of peared to be in a very dilapidated any defects in his meter.

condition.

Yesterday's proceedings was held before Mr. R. E. Lindsell Mr. Leo d'Almada, Sar. appeared for the defendant, and Mr. R. A Wadeson, was for the Company.

To Prevent Meter From Registering.

Mr. James Hunter, Superinten dent of the Fitting Department of the Gas Co., gave evidence yester day to the effcet "that the meter in the defendant's house had not been registering for the last three years. He also read out from his record of the various fistings sup plied to the defendant at various dates, and alea of the respective rentals charged. Up to November 3rd, when the defendant was found out, his rental for fittings ed to $1.60 a month.

"Wherever I travelled," he said. "they always met me with a hot damp towel with which to wipe my face and hands. They offered it when I addressed a meeting, and often several times during the course of a speech. It was very nice and very fresh, especially or hot day, and I know they meant well, but all the same, people don't wash their faces every thres minute

Mr. d'Almada; Is it the duty of the Company to keep the meter in good condition? Yes.

Mr. d'Almaila: The consumer is

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690,739 20,553 Exports to a number of other countries have also increased, al- though not quite in the same pro- portion, and the total increase in all exports of wool and woollens for the past ten months exceeds £3,500,000..

Double Time.

The Scottish wool trade is enjoy ing a period of brisk prosperity. Reporta from Hawick, Peebles, Galashiels, and Selkirk, the wool manufacturing towns north of the Border, all tell the same atory: "Excellent export business. Mills. working double time." The vogue

Full-overs" digans has made the Scottish mills exeptionally busy.

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not responsible for damage to the meter -No, except wilful damage.

Mr. d'Almada: Is it not the duty" of your meter renders to make a reading.once a month Yes."-

Mr. d'Almada: So that if your meter readers had done their duty, as they ought to have done, your Company would have been inform ed of this and the damage would have been rectified Yes.

Mr. d'Almada: That would be the treatment a consumer would expect from the Company --Quite.

Dr. d'Almada: But this treat- ment was not extended to the defendant -It was not reported to the Company.

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machine-knitted wear is bound for More than 30 per cent, of this the United States. A. Scottish pull-over" is the only thing that real American' golfer will wear. France, Belgium, Spain, and Ger- many are all buying Scottish goods,

Wages in Hawick, a busy little town of 15,000 people, are high, and no skilled operatives are out of work. Indeed, men and women have been imported from York- shire to recruit the Scottish mills.

A good operative can easily make from £4 10s. to £s a week, and specially clever workers get as much as £1 for a week's work. The women and girls in the mills at Mr. Almada: By substituting a the machines are also well paid, ten light meter for a five light one, and it is common to find a family the Company would have been in Hawick, with four people at å amount-windled of only eight cents a mill, bringing home £18 on pay month in rental. And if the day to a little five-roomed cottage.

WILS three light original meter one, then the Company would have been defrauded of only 16 cents n month in rental? Yes.

Cross-examined by Mr. d'Amada, witness said that he could not say whether or not the defendant had

any technical knowledge of gas. Mr. d'Aimada: Do you remember work.

the incident of the French Convent in September of this year in refer ence to their meter not register. ing!-Yes.

Mr. d'Almada Do you consider that he ought to know. something

Mr. d'Almada: That report was considering the great length of time he had been with the Com-given by the defendant, wasn't it? pany I think he ought to know something,

Mr. d'Abada: He would gain this knowledge by seeing meters or otherwig from the reports sent in time 1~~ hy consumers from time to Not necessarily. Meters returned in a faulty condition do not come under his department.

Mr. d'Almada: But he would know that a mere attachment of a wire or a rattan to the float would be an effective way to stop the passage of gas from registering ?-- Yes, that would partly do it.

"Mr. d'Almada: And the other way would be by letting out the water-Yes.

Mr. d'Almada: And so far as this meter is concerned," the complaint is that it has no dial Yes.

M. d'Almada: I put it to you that many meters had been return ed to the Company in very much the same condition -Very much less damaged.

That was so. When he saw the account from enth to month, he observed that there was something wrong with the meter.

Mr. d'Almada In consequence of that, an amended account was sent which was paid by the Convent ?--- I cannot tell you that.

Gas Too Dear,

As a matter of principle," Mr. Wadeson pointed out to the Court that the Company have three hun- dred employees, and that if they swindled the Company of eight cents a month, it would amount to something big particularly if the fraud was over three years.

Mr. d'Almada: Most of the em- ployees use electricity. They say kas is too dear. (Laughter.)

The next witness called was Mr. G. E. F. Tompson, accountant of the Gas Company, who produced several books to show that the rental charged to the defendant. had been erased and the figures

30" had been substituted. two books, he was of the opinion that the altered figures were in defendant's handwriting.

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Other witnesses were Mr. A. Abraham and "L., M. Xavier, Both testified as to the checking and Mr. d'Almada: I will produce making out of the hills to con- one very much like it.

A Moral Duty.

The meter was then produced and the witness after examining it said that the meter was just as much damaged but only recently. The only difference was that the defen- dant's meter had been damaged för quite a considerable time.

Mr. d'Almada: If the meter readers had done their duty and informed you of the detective meter in defendant's house, you would have rectified the matter 1-That's right. -

Mr. d'Almada: In so far as the defendant's ineter was concerned his name was entered as a cou sumer 1-Yes.

sumer. Mr. Xavier and the delen- dant were engaged in this work every month. One would call out the figures and the other would enter them. The man engaged in checking this account would not know whether he was calling out the figures for his own account as they did not call out the names.

Cross-examined by Mr. d'Almada, Mr. Abraham, chief clerk of the Company, and has been employed there for 30 years, said that he never had occasion to complain about the defendant's work.

Mr. d'Almada When the first Seamen Strike was on in 1993 and all employees of the Gas Company, including-yourself, Kr-Abraham.. refused to work, the defendant and Mr. Xavier were the only two loyal elerks who kept to their jobs. They Mr. d'Almada: Therefore he

had to walk from Wanchal to West would be in the same position as Point because there were no trams. an ordinary consumer-I don't or rickshas I cannot remember. quite see that. I think that being

The case was then adjourned until (Continued on next Column.) Tuesday afternoon.

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