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CORRESPONDENCE:

APPEAL TO THE P.W.D.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."]

St.- beg to draw attention to the perpetration of a cruel nuisance by the contractors with the sanc tion of the Public Works Depart ment-on the residents along Kai Tack Road and that neighbour.

hond.

A few months ago sputtering en gines attached to earth-trucks be kin to operate from morning till night, sending volumes of suffocat ing smoke into the houses, but this inconvenience has to be tolerated, as there is reclamation work to be done at the Aerodrome for the

Government.

Lately, however, these engines have been even more intensively exploited and in the chint of the evening, the nerve-racking nois and health-destroying smoke do not i rease until midnight. ·

I have to submit that a resident is entitled to his sleep from 0 p.m. without organised disturbaner, and the the Public Works Departinent should not, in the interests of the public, permit. these engines to

that hour. operate after

The assistance of the Director of Public Works is hereby invoked to remedy a real grievance.Yours, etc.

RESIDENT.

Hong Kong, October 1.

WATER SHORTAGE

PERSISTS

THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG

DAILY PRESS."],"

this

Sia-After reading your thrill. ing account of the thunderstorm last Sunday, 1 felt sure there woukl be plenty of water for morning but no As usual, hefore.; the geyser has been on five minutes, the water gradually gets less and; less and then stops entirely for some minutes,

Surely there is enough water now! in the reservoirs to give us full, pressure, but we da not get it. Why 1 How the people on the third floor of the fats here get on I cannot imagine when those on the ground floor cannot get a con- stant supply.

Will somebody in authority please look into this matter and put it right if there really is n shortage of water still, let us know and we must put up with it but if the reservoirs are full, please let us have our full supply.

Finally,

tell anyone whether claim could be upheld

can

me

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CLAIM AGAINST A

BANK

PLAINTIFF'S STORY OF DEPOSIT MONEY,

JUDGE'S POOR OPINION OF WITNESSES

In the Sammary Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Wood, the Foo Loong Bank, 100, Queen's 'Fiond

Central, was sued for the recovery af 2011, which, it was contended, was the equivalent of a deposit of $1,000 Central Bark of China noter.

Mr. F. C. E. Rendall for pluin tif, said that his client purchased.

Central Bank notes from defendant for which he paid $598. He receiv ed 100 812 notes and me he had no immediate need for the money, deposited it with the back.

"On August 21. plaintiff went to the bark to draw his money, Wher the made application the clerk look- ed up the records and said no money had been deposited. Plain- tif left for Kengmoon" and returned to Hong Kong on September 7 when he again made 1 demand. He was aghin informed that there was no deposit, in spite of the de posit note which he produced.

Plaintiff's Story. Giving evidence, the plaintiff. whose name is Chan Hang Shan, said he was manager of the Lee Sang Chung 6rm. No. 16, Easteru Street, and of the Li Chai rice mill, Koagmoon. He had made other purchases of Central Bank notes but those transactions were for cash and no records had been kept.

When he was told he had made no deposit, he made fuss" and told defendant's manager that he could not de business in that way.

Cross-examined by Mr. Watson, denied for defendants, plaintifi that he received the equivalent of his money on June 2. "

He denied that on June 22 he

sold the notes to the tank for 631. He admitted that up to June

he had a lot of other transac tions with the bank. He could not remember whether $1,000 was de- posited with the bank as security against speculation in exchange because the money was not all de- posited at the same time. It con- sisted of several sums.

Mr. Watson: The money in this! case is for money deposited with the book and not fer exchange transactions -Yes.

Plaintiff denied that he had ever owed any money to the bank, and declared they would not give me eredit for one crat."

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Mr. Watson: On June 32, you owed $1,560 to the bank on ex- change contracts 7-No.

against the P.W.D. i a geyser You had a settlement on June explodes through the water supply-1 did not settle anything with heing suddenly stopped 1-Yours,

etc.,

KOWLOONITE.

Kowloon, October 1.

RACE-TRACK TACTICS.

the defendant on June 22. I did not receive any money on that day. On that day your deposit of

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Mr. Owen mentioned that the defendant had had ten years' ser. vice at various barracks and had a good character throughout. The military representative in Court confirmed this and added that they were not 'pressing the charge.

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Cross-examining the defendant,

powers that be stipulate that be Mr. Rendall neked him whether it fore a competitor is allowed to was not a strange coincidence that cross mother he must first gain the plaintiff should have a deposit three yard lead. Now when the note bath in this action and the first Indian runner passed Ptc. previous one.

Defendant If there were no such Baulsh of the Somerseta he certain-i ly did not wait until he was three coincidences there would be no yards to the good before he crossed litigation.

to the inside berth; rather more Asked why how did not get the like one third of that length, and deposit note back at the time the it was about this distance apart money was alleged to have been they remained until within fifty paid, defendant said that a fuki yards of the winning pest, when it of the Erm kuey the plaintiff and appeared obvious that Baulsh in. The accepted a promies that the tended regaining the lead, but note would be returned the follow owing to the presence of another ing day.

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Kowloon, Sept. 30.

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CONDEMNED MAN'S LAST ACTS.

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WU PEI-FU,

Two Chinese convicted for black mailing and murder, were handed over to the Chinese authorities for execution, under an escort of the Settlement police, after they had beca 'asked their last wishes at the Provisional Court.

The blackmailer who was an ex“ policeman, and an ex-soldier of the Nationalists Army, had піде charges against him and was een- tenced to 12 years' imprisonment which sentence was disproved by the Kiangsu Provincial Govern- ment who asked that the should be re-tried. Consequently the court sentenced the accused, to death, in May, 1900.

Cast

When brought before the court. be asked if he might write letters to Generals Chang Kai Shek and Wu Pei Fu, which request was in mediately granted. The cpuden- ed inan said that he did not care if he died as he was 38 years of age and too old serve his nation. His letter to General Chang Kai Shek as as long as that to Wu Pei Fu; both were written in an empty court-room. He asked the forier to engage new officials who were not afraid of death, and mant similar sentences as that, in which he concluded with a poem, declar- ing that it was the secret of how China could be saved. He finished his letter requesting that the poem be inscribed on the monument eréct- ed before the Shanghai Nankings Railway Station. His letter to Wu Pei Fu was in the same strajn. •.

The other condemned "man was convicted of the murder of a ban: enesenger whom he shot on 8ze- chuen and Ningpo Roads in April, 1929. They were both given food. at their request.—NO. Daily Press