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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1930.

ICE PLANTS AT HOTEL. MURDEROUS ATTACK

TECHNICAL POINTS CAUSE DIFFICULTY.

TONNAGE OF REFRIGERATION NECESSARY TO

MAKE A TON OF ICE.

After nearly a week in the witness-box, Mr. Hacker, the expert witness for Messrs. Andersen, Meyer & Company in their claim against the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., was released yesterday following re-examination on points which arose in the cross-examination,

Another refrigerating engineer' was called by the plaintiffs in the afternoon and questioned on technical points in the case, which is likely to last at least another fortnight.

ALLEGED.

SAVAGE ASSAULT WITH

À CHOPPER.

WOMAN'S ORDEAL IN FLAT AT SHUM SHUI PO,

An alleged murderous attack"with chopper on a woman was related to Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday when a Chinese was charged with causing grievous bodily harm to a woman in Sham Shui Po and as- gaulting her with the intention of maiming, disfiguring or disabling

CAPACITY OF COLD ROOMS DISPUTED.her

Detective Sergeant Meadows, who wins in charge asked for the case to Who specified the temperature of be treated as one for the Sessions.

When the case was resumed, în the morning, the Chief Justice (Sir | the rooms 7—Mr.” Brearley. Joseph Kemp), addressing Mr. Potter, said:As you have been dealing with the technical side, perhaps it would be better if I put one or two difficulties now, before me, and try to clear them up straight. They seem to be elemen- tary, but they are difficulties which are on my mind.

You had an extract from Green put to you. Do you know of mutton being piled in stacks -No.

One dificulty I have is purely technical. In part of Mr. Hacker's evidence he gave some elementary information in reply to a question | that B... was required to raise one pound, one degree Fahrenheit, and that one ton of refrigeration was required to melt one ton of ice in 24 hours. I can't understand the relation between these two

statements.

Counsel replied that his Lordship would appreciate that that was the basis of calculation for commercial refrigeration on which they had to work.

Mr. Hacker, pointed out that 288,000 B.T.U.'a were required to melt one ton of ice in 24 hours, therefore 19,000 would be required for the same purpose in one hour and 200 per minute.

Mr. Potter said that the simplest way to put it was that one ton of refrigeration extracted 288,000 B.T.U.'s in 24 hours. If there was

It referred to a 30 degrees room and said that the mutton should be piled four feet high. Is that the kind of room in the "Peninsula Hotel plant 1-No, it is never done.

Does this hypothetical plant refer to storage. of fresh or frozen mutton 1-Fresh mutton,

Rooms's and 10 were not design- ed for frozen mutton and beef and were quite a different proposition from a commercial plant ?—Yes.

Outlining the case, Sergeant Meadows said that the complainant Shui Po, and came to the Police lived at 115, Tui Nam Street, Shum

Station in # ricksha with

number of friends. She had head and body and was bleeding several grievous wounds about her profusely.

The defendant was named as the assailant, and as he could not be found at the address given by the complainant, a. strict watch was kept on the outgoing steamers and trains from the Colony. The de- fendant was later arrested at the Taumati Railway Station when he was about to board the train. H tried to run away but was chased and caught.

Referring to the assault, the "A Bad Practice,"

officer said that the fat in Tai Nam Street where the complainant lived Taking a 20 degrees room and was occupied by a number of women frozen mutton, would you store it whose husbands were seagoing men and were pot in the house at the in stacks No, it is a bad practice. time. The defendant was acquaint- The mutton will get bad in time.ed with one of the women living. in the rear cubicle and called to The same applies to beef in stacks.

visit her that afternoon. Two of Answering other questions, wit- the women in the dat went out that ness said that only six and three-afternoon, and the defendant sent quarter tons of produce can be the remaining two women to collect some money on. his behalf, leaving stored in the room as against the tho complainant alone in the flat. defence that It was noteworthy that when the two women called upon the persons double that quantity could be stored. He proceeded to give the mentioned to collect the money, it dimensions of the room and the been incurred." number of rails which could be put in with due allowance of aisles." He said that the usual method was to, provide strips of wood between the carcases as dunnage to allow free

contention of the

was found that no such debt had

With the complainant alone in the fiat, the defendant, armed with and, demanding of her to give up a chopper, went into her cubicle her jewellery and other monies, which she had in the room, he set upon her and hacked her with the about the head and body, saying at the same time that he would kill

a 40 ton plant as in this case, then circulation of air, but, it was not hopper, inflicting grievous-wounds

the number of B.T.U.'s extracted per day would be 11,520,000

DIculties Explained.

possible to stack meat in a room the temperature of which did not rise above 15 degrees.

Referring to his calculations giv Following a remark by his Lording an estimate of 30,698 as the ship that a "load" might be used total load of the plant, witness said in two senses, Mr. Potter continued that it did, not include the extra that the plant, according to the radiator sections for the brine coils, contract, was to give 40 tons of his figures merely covering the refrigeration in 24 hours. That original installation. estimate indicated the tonnage re quired to do the work in cach of the rooms, and 40 tons was sufficient to meet the requirements of the Hotel. The main dispute the de- fence had with the plaintiffs was regarding the weight of the goods which the rooms could accom- modate

In answer to his "Lordship. Mr. Hacker explained that the working out of the ice water and ice making plant was based on the demand. They took the load as demand and the brine machinery as capacity. Witness said that the difference in the temperature of the water in 1028, when it was 72 degrees, and in the following year, which gave

perature.

The brine coils would increase the load by how much I-One ton and a half. That would be the maximam.

About the 17 tons of refrigeration for ice making, what is the posi tion 1-1/7 tons of refrigeration for one ton of ice is the universal figure.

Mr. Potter: I dispute the whole of the figures.

Mr. Hacker: Do you, really! After a further question, Mr. Sheldon: thanked Mr. Hacker and said that was all the questions be had to ask.

Another Engineer Called. A new witness, Mr. W. G. Rasey, then entered" the witness-box. He stated, in answer to Mr. Sheldon,

13 degrees, was probably due to that he was a refrigerating engin more water being taken out in the eer who would be aucceeding Mr. latter year and hot seepage flowingHacker. He had had experience in. The returning of the water to since 1923 of crection and super the well would also raise the tem vision of refrigerating plants of every kind. During the seven years In re-examination, Mr. Sheidon he had handled-600-different plants asked: What would be the maximum ranging from 480 lbs. to 185 tons. temperature of the water necessary Mr. Sheldon: Is the 20 degrees to obtain 120 gallons of water per minute for the plant to efficiently degrees.

room designed for frozen meat?- work Yea."

Did Mr. Brearley give you an analysis of the water and sign the chit book afterwards 1-No, that did not happen..

In Mott's tables the figure given for the low density of cork is 6.7 -and-for the high density 7.4 Which do you use in this plant -The low density, as is used in all refrigerat ing plants. It is cheaper and more efficient.

Have you ever known fresh meat. Only in a case of emergency, nover to be put in a 20 degrees, room 1-- for storage.

Have you known frozen mautton to be stacked in piles in a 20 degrees room 1-No, I have never seen fresh or frozen meat stacked in piles at. any time.

Have you seen beef stacked in piles 7-Yes, in a temperature of about 8 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit, -but always-with-dunnage.

Not Practical Propositions.

Have you seen beef stacked in Witness said that, with regard to piles without durnage-No, air placing 211 tons of potatoes and circulation is absolutely essential. 2,500 bottles of wine in the respec The case for the defendants is tive rooms to cool from 00 degrees that the multon room is capable of to 3 degrees, these were not prae-taking 17,000 lbs, or eight and tical propositions,

three-quarter topa. while Mr.

Mr. Sheldon: Take 20 degrees as Hacker estimates the capacity at the temperature of the beef room four tons. What do you think -- and mutton room. Is it designed. You cannot store 17,600 lbs. in that for fresh and frozen ment at the room." same time -No, 20 degrees is too low for fresh meat.

"IS_To_practicnord to" store "frean meat only in a room of 20 degrees |--No, it needs from 30 to 35 degrees, the proper temperature for storing fresh meat. A room of 20 degrees would be too cold for fresh meat... in the room,

Witnees went on to any that he arrived at his figures as to the c commodation of the room bƑ“á different method; and they agree Не with Mr-Hacker's estimate. was also agreed as to the number" of carcases which could be stored

her.

The woman cried out for help, and her cries were heard by the people in the fat below, who carna ran away and escaped. to her assistance. The defendant

The hearing was-adjourned until to-day.

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