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HOW LAW GOVERNS

ONE'S DAILY LIFE

Chief Justice's Lecture

At Y.M.C.A.

"Freedom is a noble thing, bat freedom untrammelled may de- generate into llcenes, and so the legal brake is necessary in the in- terests of the community as a whole, but English law does not further Interfere with freedom than is absolutely necessary" remarked His Bonour the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, when he gave a lecture on "Law And The Ordinary Citizen" to a large and interested audience at the European Y.M.C.A. last night.

The lecturer sald: "Man is a gregarious animal." In that curt phase there les a profound truth. The moment that you predicate as an "essential of human existence the friendly asso- ciation of man with man, you' get society: from society there springs naturally the modern concept of citizenship, with all the rights and duties which it necessarily con- notes, and unless within the asso- clation or group, whether it bé Empire, nation, city village or family, there is to be chaos and anarchy, the rule of might rather than of right, there must be a code of rules of behaviour, and it is that code of rules that we call law.

DUTIES OF INDIVIDUAL

We hear a great deal about the duties of Government, statesmen, and politicians and still more of their lamentable shortcomings, but we are apt to forget the equally important duties of the Individual citizen and to gloss over his short- comings. Although "every one of

us is a human unit with his own separate tastes, peculiarities, out- look and character, we cannot live our lives independently without the goodwill and co-operation of others.

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To extract the full beneft of what the world has to offer we are obliged to sacrifice some of our individuality, surrender some of our freedom. and act together. That is why there has to be a cen- tral organisation or Government to co-ordinate effort and supervise the activities of the community.

THE HERD INSTINCT. Without some such unifying process it would be impossible for the several human units to reap full advantage from the fruits of

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the earth or to make full use of the wonderful inventions of man. The strong silent man of Action and the pictures is not a pleasant character in real life, and when he carries his strength and his silence to extremes he is a menace

to society.

Even in the animal kingdom the herd instinct is strong. and the beast that leaves the herd, that forgets or flaunts the pack law, is the rogue, the outlaw, the bad' citizen.

Let me now say a word or two about law. It is one of the most significant features of English law as, to every lover of trae demo- cracy. It is one of the most inspir- ing and heartening features, that It has a sense for practical issues.

"PUT PEN IN

INSIDE

POCKET"

Magistrate's Advice

To Public

The larceny of a fountain pen from the person of Mr. Shou J. Chen, Manager of the

Bank of China,

on in Ice House Street Wednesday, had a sequel in the Central Magistracy yesterday when Li Tim, 25, salesman, was charzed before Mr. R. Edwards with the theft.

The man was convicted and li passing sentence the "magistrate. expressed his surprise at the in- sistence of people in clipping their pens to their outside jacket pockets despite the frequency of such Jarcentes.

Mr. Shou J. Chen said he was walking, in Ice House Street, on his way from his office to the Bank of Canton, on Wednesday after- noon. Half-way down the street defendant came from his left side and bumped into him. He heard the click of his pen and knew something had happened. He im- mediately seized hold of defendant but the pen was not on him. At the same time he saw another man

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king away very "quickly.

ARRESTED MAN - THE LEGAL BRAKE

Witness looked round for a po- Freedom is a noble thing, but 1lceman but saw none and pro- freedom untrammelled may de-ceeded to take defendant to the generate into licence, and so the Bank of China. On the way the legal brake is necessary in the in-

man tried to escape but a member terests of the community as a or witness' staff happened to be whole, but English law does not passing by and together they further interfere with freedom secured him and took him to the than is absolutely necessary. Bank. There the police were tele-

phoned for.

You may say that is nothing but sheer compromise. It may be so, but I am proud of Nowhere throughout the body of English law will you find that striving to achieve scientific definition, that urge to lay down a form of such idyllic perfection that the effort to attain it means the distortion of one's way of thought, the disloca- tion of one's ordinary course of living. and the ultimate subordina- tion of the citizen to the law.

"A CRUEL SPORT Professor C. K. Allen writing of the practical impossiblity of sup- plying exhaustive definitions of English legal conceptions says "It is a cruel sport and one to which lawyers are somewhat prone to try to make the supple body of the law lle easy on the Procrustean bed of definition."

The very flexibility of English law ensures that it marches on wards hand in hand with the trend of modern social development, and that it is the strongest and most unobtrusive ally of the good citi-

LI Tim denied the charge.

"In view of the frequencies with which fountain pens are picked from jacket pockets, particularly of European clothes, I am quite at a loss to understand why people don't put them inside," said the magistrate in imposing sentence of two months' hard, labour.

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BIT WATCHMAN'S FINGER

Scen by a district watchman early on the morning of January 18, acting suspiciously, Tam Yat, CHOPPER ATTACK ON 28, unemployed, was stopped. When taken into custody he resisted arrest by biting the watchman's

FOREST GUARD

COMMITTAL CASE

Committal proceedings неге commenced yesterday before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett, at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday against Chung Cheung, 28, when he ap

peared on three charges of house breaking and larceny "of clothing. from a dwelling.

Els Worship replied that he would hear the case summarily and would withdraw the charge if defendant pleaded not guilty or sentence him if he pleaded other- wise.

For the unlawful possession of 56 | finger. cattles of pine tree wood and as- Later enquiries were made and Inspector W. Russell applied for sault on a forest guard, Chan Sam- he was brought before Mr. R. A. D. permission to withdraw a count in kul, 38) unemployed, was fined $250 | Forrest at the Central Magistracy which defendant was charged with or three months' hard labour, and charged with (a) housebreaking at the theft, of eight pieces of cloth, sentenced additionally to three Jaffe Road, and theft of two leathering from No. 35. Reclamation Street months by Mr. H. R. Butters at the suitcases, one gold ring set with as the police had no evidence to Kowloon Police Court yesterday. diamonds, one jade brooch, a pair offer against defendant. It was stated that when the forest of earrings and a few fur coats on guard. arrested defendant, he at January 17 with another not in tempted to escape by attacking the custody; (b) receiving the above; forest guard with a chopper. (c) assaulting district watchman Li

ANOTHER CASE

Kwal at Queen's Road Central on As Professor Holland puts it. prisonment with the option of a

Sentence of three months' im- January 18.

Defendant pleaded gulity to the "Laws are the very bulwarks of fine of $250, was imposed on each first charge and the second was berty. They define every man's of the two anemployed men, Lai withdrawn: Sentence of three rights and stand between and de-shing and Li Chi, when they months hard labour to be served fend the individual liberties of all pleaded guilty to the charge of consecutively

possession of 85 and 28' cattles of pine tree wood, respectively at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.

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AN APT QUOTATION

The quotation which, I always think, most aptly puts law la fts proper perspective in relation to citizenship is: Carlyle's "Laws age not our life, only the house where- In our life is led: nay, they are but the bare walls of the house, all whose essential furniture, the in-

GAOL AND CANING

Brought on remand before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magis tracy yesterday, Chan Kwat, who was

ventions and traditions and dally habits that regulate and support

convicted. on Wednesday of our existence are the work not of having snatched a bag from a lady Dracos and Hampdens but of in Des Voeux Road, was sentenced Phoenician mariners, of Italian to three months' hard labour and masons and Saxon metallurgists, of 10 strokes of the cane. philosophers, alchemists, prophets and the long-forgotten train of artists and artisans, who from the first have been jointly teaching us how to think and how to act, how to rule over spiritual and physical nature."

JOHN AND MARY

With that brief introduction I want you to follow the adventures of John and his wife Mary, good citizens of Hong Kong through an ordinary average day. Picture to yourselves a wet dull Monday morning in February in Kowloon,

FORGED. BANK NOTES CHARGE

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passed on

charges (a) and (c), Detective- Sergeant J. Bentley prosecuted.

ASSAULTED POLICE

Li Shiu-sek and Shek Yuk-ling. described as clerks, appeared be- fore Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy yesterday, charged with assaulting two Indian police re- servists Bhek was additionally charged with being drunk and incapable.

Inspector J. Fender said about 1.30 am., Police Reservist Abdullah Shak was in Wellington Street and saw the two defendants fighting. He

and companion tried to separate, them but were struck.

First defendant pleaded he had merely tried to help the other man

Li Wal-leung, 29, unemployed, and His Worship gave him the was brought before Mr. R. Edwards benefit of the doubt. Second de- at the Central. Magistracy yester-fendant was fined a total of $15 day. charged with possession of 150 and bound over in $25 to be of forged bank notes purporting to be good behaviour for six months. 3-Yuan notes on China. Défendant was arrested on the Bank of

the Tung On Wharf, Connaught Hoad Central on January 18.

Detective-Bergeant Soutar asked

GAMBLERS ABSENT

Not one of 20 Chinese arrested

one of those mornings that Cole- for 24 hours' remand, remarking in a gambling raid at Spring Car- |

ridge with such apt alliteration described as "a long lagging muz- zly'morning."

When John gets up it is still pretty dark, he has got that Mon- day morning feeling and nothing is further from his thoughts than that his every action is governed by law. He walks into the bath- room, turns on the bath, and while the water is running in starts shaving, for which purpose he has to switch on the electric light.

For the hundredth time he re- members. that the bathroom light is in the worst possible place in re- lation to his shaving mirror, and reflects ruefully that he will prob- ably cut himself. He makes up his mind to ask the Company to put in another Eight for him.

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that the case might be for com- mittaj.

FORGED BANK NOTES

Ho Yuen-put, allas Li Kwong, 24, unemployed, appeared before Mr. H. R. Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday

three charges of possession of a forged $50 Hong Kong, and Shanghai Bank note, a $10 note of the Chartered

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den Lane appeared when their names were called before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central · Magiz- tracy yesterday, and all had their bails estreated.

Chung Cheung pleaded guilty to- the charge and before the adjourn- ment of the committal proceedings,. was sentenced to four months im- prisonment.

In connection with the two- charges for committal. defendant. was remanded for seven days.

ILLICIT STILL

Fines totalling $500 or, in de--- fault, six months' imprisonment were imposed on Chan Hing, 42, unemployed, by Mr. E. R. Eutters at the Kowloon Magistracy yester- day, when he pleaded guilty to a charge "of possession of a still. fermenting material, and distill- 1ng, at No. 166, Lai Chi Kok Road

POLICE SEAMEN

CHARGED

Two, seamen of the Water Police, Leung Ngau, 24, and Li Ken, aged 25, were brought before Mr. E. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magis- tracy yesterday on four charges of misconduct. They were alleged to have received and solicited gratuity from four sampan, folk on Tuesday. The accused were remanded to Jan.

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REVOLVER IN GIRDLE

Sentence of a year's imprison-

ment was imposed on Chan Sal Two of them; Chan Man, 38, un- when he pleaded guilty to the un- employed, and Pun Kam, 40, unlawful possession of a revolver and employed, charged with keeping the two rounds of ammunition, before premises as a gaming house, were Mr. H. R. Butters at the Kowloon on ball of $50 each, and the others Magistracy yesterday. on $3 each

LOCAL ESTATE Wong Pak Ming, late of No. 100, Bank of India, Australia and China, Hak Fo Street, ground spor, who a $5 note of the Bank of China died intestate on December 6, 1637,

Det-Bergt. F. Nolan stated that defendant was arrested by. Bergt. Griggs who was on picket duty. Defendant was searched outside No. 212, Lai Chi Kok Road and the revolver fell from his girdle.

and a $10 and $1 note of the Can- left local estate to the value of The quaranting restrictions 'im- toa. Municipal Bank. The case was $2,200. Letters of administration to remanded for 48 hours on the the estate of the deceased, have application, of the prosecuting been granted to Wong Ching Shi, officer

widow, of the same address.

posed by the Siamese Government against arrivals from Hong Kong on account of cholera have been removed.