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RIGGING OUT A MOTOR-BOAT.

OWNER EXPECTS TOO MUCH FOR $500.

DISPUTE SETTLED AT SUMMARY "COURT.

POLLUTION" OF THE SEA.

HONG KONG'S REFUSE.

ALLEGED ILL EFFECTS UPON BATHERS.

The question of the pollution of the harbour by refuse, etc., and the consequent infection of bathers A Chinese boat-owner who ex following their wee of certain well pected too much to be done for frequented bathing grounds is to $500 and who refused to pay extra be the subject of a series of ques- charges for work done to his motortions by Mr. J. P. Braga at to Sessel appeared yesterday, after day's meeting of the Sanitary noon as defendant in a case heard Board. before Mr. Justice P. "Jacks at the Summary Court, Mr. A. King, the well known small crafts builder of the Colony being the plaintiff

Plaintiff was represented by Mr. D. L. Strellett, and the defendant appeared in person. The claim was for $260.30 being balance due for work dose and material sup- plied to the motor boat Tung Fat I belonging to the defendant.

Defendant admitted liability to the extent of $20 at a previous hearing but disputed several items in the bill amounting to 19,30.

When the case was resumed yes- terday Mr. Strellett told the Court that the claim was for work done to defendant's motor launch in ac cordance with an estimate given to defendant in March of this year. The estimate included fixing up new cabin, installation of a new motor engine and certain repairs to the hull of the vessel. The motor was to be supplied by an outside party who had sold it to the de- fendant.

The estimate was for 8000 which also included the removing of the old engines from the boat. Prior

to work being commenced, plain tiff was requested to draw up a plan and submit it to the Harbour. "This Authorities for approval. was done. Work then commenced and in July the Harbour Authori ties inspected the vessel. Defon- dant then said that the life buoys on the vessel were not painted and showed up conspicuously in con- trast to the new coat of paint on the vessel's aide and superstructure. Plaintiff was then requested to paint the life buoys as well.

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The launch was then tested but it was found that certain magneto contact breakers were not working efficiently. Defendant then order ed plaintiff to supply new ones. This was also done but spite of the hew magneto contact breakers having been put in, the launch was still not working satis factorily. A request was then rade for a new propeller, then a erank shaft bush became overheat ed, and defendant also requested plaintiff to attend to that.

Plaintiff supplied a drum of motor spirit for the test, Shell and the claim of 849.30 which the defendant disputed were for the extra materials and work done to the vessel which were not included in the estimate. The agreement was only a verbal one.

Mr. Braga is asking whether several cases of acute infection of the ear have been reported and whether the Government will con- eider the whole question of the erection of a refuse destructor.

Mr. J. P. Braga, pareuant to notice, will ask:-

i. Has it been brought to the notice of the Medical Officer of Health that several cases of septe infection of the external

eat have recently occurred amung bathers in some of the most popular bathing beaches of Hong Kong ( ii. Is there any connection be

tween these cases of infection and the pollution by prevent ible means of the sea water in the best frequented bathing grounds of the Colony

iii. Are the bathing beaches of the Colony subject to pollution by

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th, 1928...

TROUBLE AT THE CROSS ROADS.

- GUATEMALA CONSUL'S

COMPLAINT."

ACCUSATION OF GETTING

EXCITED."

Chan Cheung, driver of a private car, No. 12, appeared before Major C. Willson at the Central Magis tracy on a summons for driving in a manner dangerous to the public, The case arose out of a complaint made by Mr. J. Gascoa Gonzalez de Bernedo, Consul-General for Guatemala, who stated that the defendant nearly ran him down out. side the King Edward Hotel on August, 26th.

Mr. C. A. S. Russ appeared on behalf of the defendant and enter. ed a erose-summons for assault against Mr. Gonzalez.

Mr. Gonzalez told his Worship that on the morning of August 26th he was coming out of Ice House Street (Broker's Alley), and was about to cross the tram lines to wards the Ferry. At the time he was accompanied by a lady.

ANOTHER MAIDEN

SESSIONS.

SECOND IN FIVE MONTHS.

WHITE GLOVES FOR THE

CHIEF JUSTICE:

'CHANG."

MÄN VERSUS

JUNGLE.

WAS YOU WATCH THE TIGERS!"

ASTONISHING FILM AT THE QUEEN'S.

[BE OUR FILM CRITIC.]

A good deal has already been published in these columns about Chang, "but little which really

Hong Kong must be one of the most law abiding places in the East and again this month no prisoners are down for trial at the Criminal Sessions. The local police force must be warmly congratulated upon the manner in which they are keeping crooked folk" in check for it was only in March of this prepares you for what you see at year that there were no cases for the Queen's The history of the the Criminal Sessions, and Sir making of the film is interesting. Joseph Kemp, E.C., the Attorney- but Chang" defies description. General, said to his Lordship (Mr. For more subtle than any trade" Justice J. R. Wood) that an empty laudation is the decoration of the calendar, though very rare, was lobby of the Queen's Theatre. The not unique. For over twenty years box offices have been turned into part of his duty was to commit the palm leaf buts of the jungle cases to the Criminal Sessions and family whose fortunes you will he could only recall two previous follow the screen; natural maiden sessions. He added that greenery, palmas and trees have the relief came. bat seldom and transformed the marble and the that those who were engaged under brass into á woodland scene which, the guidance of the Court from as you peer about you. becomes month to month in the administra. significant. Cockatoos swing up tion of criminal justice 'could con ander the roof, the trees are alive gratulate themselves and his Lord with amali monkeys and a great snake glowly moves (or seems to move) in the undergrowth that brushes your elbow,

the

Just as they got to the second rail of the tram line a car-No. 12-ship.on the occasion. came towards them without sound The Criminal Sessions will be

morning at the existing methods of dising the horn and at a very bigh opened this posal of city refuse by the speed. The car which was coming Supreme Court but as there are Sanitary Department f'

from the direction of the Post no case for trial, the opportunity Office nearly collided with a rickshawill be taken to observe the time which was standing on the left of honoured custom of presenting the the road. The driver in attempt-Judge (Sir Henry Gollan, K.C., ing to avoid the collision swerved.B.E.) with a pair of white glove. to the right side of the road and. Two maiden sessions within five both he and the lady with him were months is a record for the Colony. nearly knocked down.

iv. Will the Government consider the advisability of substituting the present method of refute disposal by the erection of Refuse Destructor, thus mini: mising the dangers of pollution of the waters of the Colony within harbour limits by the drifting thereta of floating matter containing the germs of inlection ?"

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TO CLEAN CANTON'S

CREEKS.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO

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But that is after all

an in-

essential, "Chang" grips you with- out the need of any artifice.

I suppose that those who saw Mosna," the lovely Samoan idyll, must,

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as I did, compare the two productions. They stand alone as the two films acted by During the last twenty years only unsophisticated people who He called to the car to stop and two euch occasions could be re-living their normal lives in their The frat one WAB in own surroundings before the eye going up to the driver bespoke called. a few plain words about his driv November 1904. when Sir Henry of the camera. The difference, how- ing. The driver asked if he (wit-Spencer Berkeley, Kt, was Chief ever, is at once apparent. Moana" ness) wanted to fight and punched Justice, the second was in June deals with the simple things of every day life, "Chang with the 1914 when Sir H. H. J. Gomperts adventures of life. Every scene in him on the chest. Being a res-

* Chang? has happened and does pectable, man," said witness, "I was Chief Justice.

Mr. Justice Wood, who presided happen, but normally they neither did not care to be mixed up in a fight with an uneducated chauffeur." at the last ceremony on March of happen in such rapid sequence nor to the same people. "Maana" is The Canton Bureau of Public Witness called the Chinese traffic this year has rightly remarked that extraordinarily restful; it pictures Works has formulated a dennite constable who was on duty at the the occurrence of an empty ealen the dream of all those of us who tire of the burden and rush of plan for the raising of funds with cross roads, and told him that he dar was a matter of gratification

civilization.* * Chang" is exciting, which to carry out the programme would make a complaint to the to the community as a whole, and vivid, dramatic, and the picture of a constant warfare. There must of clearing the silt from the city's

have been this difference oven had reeks, and this plan has received Traffic Department.

the films been made on the same plan, for life in the jungle is passed in a constant strain unguess- ed at by the island family of Moana. Even the faces, of the small children are marked with it.

CONTROL EXPENDITURE.

Witness re-

more specially to the officers of

the assent of the Municipal Coun-marked that he was afraid that the the Police Department, who are "The plans provide that the Gen- Chinese constable could not under-responsible for the maintenance of

cit

stand him.

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"You Cannot Teach Me Anything." Mr. Russ cross-examined witness, bat progress was very difficult as the Consul did not speak much Eng- lish. To one question the witness replied "My dear Mr. Russ, you cannot teach me anything-I am a

law and order in the Colony, and the security of our lives and pro perty.

In answer to Inspector Alexander who was in charge of the case for the police, the constable said that The he only noticed one blow. driver gave

the signal for a tura with his right hand and sound ed his horn twice. The car was not going fast and witness saw no ricksha. The European gentleman 'appeared' to be very angry.

eral Chamber of Commerce is to control the funte as a measure of assurance to the public that the money will be used specifically for the purpose for which it is raised. The Chamber of Commerce will be in charge of all collections and disbursements, while the police will be instructed to assist in making Concluding, Mr. Strellett said the collections from the shops. that the defence was that all the The Bureau of Public Works will work done to the vessel and be responsible for the supervision barrister-at-law." materials supplied were included of the actual work. The Munici In the agreement. Defendant also pality is to issue public announce- claimed for the return of ald en ments explaining to the people the gines, He could have them back varioue reasons that make it neces as soon as the claim was settled. sary to clear the creeks and drains,

Witness: "No, I never get The General Chamber of Com- Olaim $220 Admitted. Mir, Strellett then drew his Lord-merce, the Bureau of Public Safety, cited when I know that I am in

and the Bureau of Public Works | the right."- ship's attention to the fact that the are to act jointly in making col defendant had admitted owing. lection of funds from the public.

220 at a previous bearing and

croaching jungle. It is proposed to begin in the dis-

for the full amount.

As soon as actual work is com menced in the 1st Police Section, the collection of funds will he taken in hand in the next section, and so on with each district, so as not to cause any interruption in the work.-Canton Gazette.

Mr. Russ: I have no wish to teach you anything but you need not get excited.

Witness also told Inspector Alex exander that he was not standing under the post but just at the mouth

The Magistrate, who heard the case at great length and, with ex- treme patience, asked witness if he could give a detailed account of the attack on him by the defendant. Witness, however, replied that he scolded, the driver and that. was the reason why he was struck.

Mr. Rass: Yes. Witness then went on to say that had therefore avoided judgment

judgment trict of the 1st Police Station, and it was not the negligent driving have paid 8290 into Court, but every shop, whether situated on an that he cared about, but the manner inner street or on a wide maloc, in which he was insalted by the that had not been done.

Corroborative evidence was then will be requested to contribute ten Chinese chauffeur, who struck him given by the manager of the plain- days' rental. This contribution is a blow on the chest.

to be borne equally by the tenant fi Grm, who in answer to the de-

The collection and the landlord. fendant, said that he had never

in each district is to be completed contracted for the work to be within one month, and all monies

There pleted within two weeks. was a delay, and he was sorry for collected will be kept in charge of it. He also denied that the $500 the Chamber of Commerce. asked for ineluded all the extra work and materials supplied.

Re-examined by Mr. Strellett, witness said that the defendant had taken the vessel away without their knowledge...

Defendant was then called to the witness box but before he gave his evidence,

asked: bis Lordship When this case came up before you were ordered to pay $220 into the "court"

Defendant: Shall I pay it now? His Lordship: You should have paid it on that day. That was the amount you admitted.

Defendant: I thought I was al- lowed to have a few days' time.

His Lordship: Have you the oney now 1-Yes.

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sible for making the vessel sen- worthy, and to find that out, he had to test it. To do that, defen dant argued, plaintiff must have spirit to make the boat go, and therefore, he failed to see why he should be called upon to pay.

Defendant also said that when ho found his boat left unattended in plaintiff's yard, he took it away and had the rest of the work done

for 850

of the alley. "Mr. Ruse then submitted to his Worship that no evidence of neglig. ent driving had been given, bat the Magistrate replied that he would hear the defendant.

ap.

Kept On Walking. Chan Cheung, the defendant said a car for that he had driven

When he about ten years. proached Ice House Strect there was no ricksha nearby and he was moving very slowly. The constable was standing "under the post and returned his signals for a right hand turn. The two Europeans kept on walking against the constable's The Lady Corroborates.

signal for him (witness) to turn Mrs. Paula de Rojas, the lady and he had to pull up quickly to who was accompanying the last avoid collision. The European witness, said that they had just came up and struck him on the crossed the second track of the head. tram line when the defendant's car came towards them at 'n very high speed. The defendant's car struck a ricksha a glancing blow, from which he swerved across the road and almost knocked them down.

Witness corroborated Mr. Gen. zalez's statement of the attack and said that the defendant used very unmannerly language.

Mr. Russ suggested to witness that Mr. Gonzalez had struck the driver on the head, but witness denied this.

Defendant's Version.

Cross-examined by Mr. Strellett Defendant then gave evidence

What The Chinese Constable Baw. and maintained that the contract as to how he took delivery of his

Chinese constable No. C115 who ed fee of $500 included everything, boat, defendant said that be took

was on traffic duty at the spot Flaintiff's job was to instal the ea it out for a trial run, but after

said that the car was coming from gines, paint the vessel, put in new going for some distance, it broke canvas for the deck and even to down. He therefore had it towed the Post Office and was about to turn round the post. Just at this get a licence for him. Plaintiff to another. yard for the necessary

juncture two Europeans came out was first shown the engines He repairs.

of Ice House Street and the took them away and knew very Judgment For Plaintiff. well what he had to do before he His Lordship gave judgment for driver on seeing them stopped fulfilled the contract. The propel plaintiff for 8281 with costs. The dead to allow them to pass. The ler was put in at the request of the two items (85 for painting life European gentleman went up to the

aan who supplied the engines and plaintiff should debit that man for boys and $3.30 for the drum of driver and struck him. Words pass that he took down the number of it. As for the drum of spirit, do spirit) were ordered to be struck ed between them and witness said fendant said that it was absurd off the claim, as his honour was of

opinion that it was the plaintif's the car.

Both parties then went away and that plaintiff should charge him duty to paint the life buoys and for it. The plaintiff was respou to supply the necessary fuel for the nothing further happened.

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Kra A Siamese. Pidzeer. "Chang" tells the story of Kru, a Siamese pioneer who makes his home in the jungle, his wife and tiny family. Their life is a con- stant warfare against nature; they live in a hut built up on a high platform and their stock of domestic animals are barricaded in each night. Loopards and tigers prow! around when the darkness falls, and a wandering elephant may trample down their poor patch of cultivated land or even the home- stead itself. Kru, with friends from the nearest village, Aghts the beasts single handed and also the ever es-

The Tigers."

Although we know that for the purposes of the fim the action took place within a buge stockade and the actors were safeguarded a far as possible, it has been so admirably photographed that you seem to live with Eru and his family and to share their hopes, their terrors, and their childish joy and pride in conquest.

Perhaps as you watch the tigers they seem to cringe and slink and You know them as trapped rather than the trapper, and then, just as the first natural thrill and horror begins to wear off, you see Kru in the background, and the cringing beast leap like lightening, fierce, terrible and glad towards its

foe.

Inspector Alexander then re.

The scenes of the drive of the marked to his Worship that the witness had placed the constable elephant herd are very well dons, "under the post "whereas the the monkeys leaping in the forest constable stated that he was at the give a sense of freedom and reality, mouth of the alley. "The driver and the whole picture of jungle claims to have driven for ten years life is most extraordinarily inter- whereas his record shows that he eating. There is no faking except only commenced in March, 1929, such as was absolutely necessary which is three and a half years in for the safety of the actors, and excess," said the Inspector. The there is never a dull moment in drivers record showed a number of the picture. fines for petty offences.

"Chang" is a film to see and see Mr. Russ, in his submission for again. defendant, suggested that the com plainant suddenly realised proximity of the car and became excited. This led him to think that it was moving very quickly...

the

Mr. Russ remarked that the com- plainant had struck his client. The police evidence was in his favour and it was significant that the traffic constablo was a Shantung man and not naturally very well disposed towards a Cantoness.

His Worship decided to dismiss the summons for negligent driving in reply to which Mr. Russ said that he would not carry on with the assault charge.

This was also withdrawn.

"THE VIRGIN QUEEN."

The Virgin Queen," an his- torical romance about Queen Eliza beth and Sir Walter Raleigh, which preceeds Chang" is equally good of its sort. It is quite the best colour film I have seen, the tones and blending of the colours are

solt and beautiful and an excellent atmospheric effect is got in the indoor scenes. It would be very well worth while paying a visit to the Queen's for this short film alone. The gazette with which the programme opens contains some, in- teresting local pictures of Aquatic Sports and the Chinese All Souls festival.

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