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KISSING AND CHURCH LAW. JAZZ BAND AT PUSSYFOOT

VICAR'S APPEAL

DISMISSED.

A sitting of the Court of Arches

MEETING.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1920.

HOW THE MONEY · GOES.

'AIR ACCOUNTS "ALMOST CHAOTIC."

Was

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Some remarkabla details of expenditure and losses are given in the analysis by Sir H. J. Gibson, Controller and Auditor- [General, al the Appropriation Accounts of the Ministries of Shipping and of the Air for the The Enancial year 1918-19. dadcit

the first

and | £100,403,706

an second. £85,437,384. But these totals are not really deficiencies. They represent roughly the total amount which the taxpayer haa to pay, for the original estimates presented to Parliament were (based on socalled "token Votos of a few thousands only. The actual expenditure on shipping was £285,466,120, and on Air | £85,443,084, but in each C498 there weru receipts in aid amounting, in the case of ship- [pine, to £185,061,314.

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The Air Ministry's account is the first rendered by the Ministry for a complete year. In his cam- GATHERING BROKEN UP.

ments the Auditor-General says: Lively scenes were witnessed "The general standard of store- was held at the Church House.at Mardy, in the Rhondda Valley keeping and accounting had been Westminster, recently before S recently.

deplorably low. At several ir- stations it had been Lewis Dibdin, Dean of the

A party of miners, members of portant Arches, for the bearing of an

various clubs, invaded a prohibi- necessary, with Treasury approv. appeal preferred by the Restion meeting, and with jazz bandal, to disregard the accounts as

and variegated costumes, turned valueless, and. at the meeting into'a burlesque.

One of the jazz bands marched up to the platform, and, what with the shouting and the mesic, the din was deafening.

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Herbert John Martin, vicar of Holy Trinity. Old Brompton, Kent, from a decision of the Chancellor of the Dicess Rochester in the matter of

the brought b prosecution Bishop of Rochester against Mr. Martin under the Clergy Discipline Act. 1892. One of the questions raised in the case was whether an assault hy kissing was or was not to be regarded as an "immoral art and conduct' under the statute referred to

A number of others, Courts of Inquiry or other investigations into losses and dis- crepancies bad revealed an almost chaotic condition of affairs,”

Among

IRRECOVERABLE LOSSES. The Rev. Hugh Jones Llanelly.)

the details of the and Mr. J. Thomas, Porthcawl, "balances irrecoverable" are the were to have addressed the following: mesting, and, on their appearance Theft of a Ford van during! on the platform, accompanied by temporary absence of driver Ber. J. Evans, the chairman. the £200. Additional precautions are Rev. J. Hape Evans and others, a now taken. football chorus was sung, follow-!

jazz band.

At the close of the argumented by farther strain from the for the appellant, counsel for the respondent was not called un.

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Theit of a Fond touring car- £130. W.RA.F. driver reprimand- jed for neglecting to use the safety The members of the band were locking device. Mr. Ernest Charles, K.U., and asked to quit the platform, which

Theft of another Ford car--- Mr. A. 1. B. Thesiger appeared they did without demur. They. £10. Passenger asked to stand for the appellant. Mr. Martin: however, vecupied the front seats by the car, "but on going outside Mr. E. W. Hansell and M.. Win The Tai sit prevented at saw it rapidly disappearing " Dis N. Stable for the respondent, the attempts to proceed with the ciplinary action against W.R.A.F. Bishop of Rochester.

meeting.

Several efforts were made by the chairman and thera zo speak, but to no purpose.

driver..

Destruction of two aeroplanes by negligence -£3,430. Pilot crashed into a stationary machine in taking off. Reprimanded, and called upon to pay £5 towards the damage.

Mr. Charles. K.C., said that le particulars of the charges for ed the subject of the inquiry be- fore the Consistory Court of

One of the members of the Rochester related to "immoral band, dressed as a policeman. acts and conduct" under section went on the stage and put the

of the Clergy Discipline At question. "for" and "againa:" Seven hangars wrecked in viol- 1892. The offencra alleged prohibition. The show of hands jent gale £6,350. Improved agains: the defendant Weth was strong for both sides.

-method of anchorage now adop:- first.

t. assault by ks-ing

The speakers left the stageed, July 29, 1919. a domestic without having obtained "A bear-1 Destruction of aeroplane by fire, servant then in the defendant's ing, and the meeting dispersed. caused apparently by the ballseye employment. The defendant wa* The jazz band then headed alantern of a policeman who was convicted of that offence de

croonseon fr. the hall to a talking to the guard-£1,378. the stipendiary :itat Chatham on September 19. 199 The second pretitular alleged.) against the defendant was falsely

£5,000 EASILY EARNED. The following letter from the Secretary to the Treasury to the stating an oath at the trial befe | The matter before the stipendiary Secretary to the Air Ministry the magistrate that the defendant magistrate was not an ecclesias-August 5, 1913) is tantalisingly

If there was no vague: tical offence.

Sir.--I have laid before the ecclesiastical offence in the act! charged and the act which was Lords Commissioners your letter the subiect of the conviction. of the 31st ult further relative to then a statement made on gath Mr.'s claim for compensation in regard to it was not a matter owing to the decision not to make that could be dealt with in the ur of his Dying school for the

training of military pupils... Consistoly Court.

did not commit such or any absault on the poung woman. The third particular alleged that on July 30, 1919, the defendant at the vicarage said to her. "You can love me as much as put love Four young man Don't think Want to have any connexions with

Mr. Continuing. 300." Charles said that at the hearing in the Consistory Court he deemed i:

he to

his to take the preliminary objec. not tion tha: There disclosed on the face of the parti- culars of the changes that which Wasso immoral act or constituted immoral conduct as defined by the 75th and 109th canons, which by virtue of the statute contained the definition of those two words. He took the inether objection to the second particular in the charges that that matter involved.

My Lords now sanction the payment of £5,000 to Mas proposed in full settlement of all claims.

In some further conversation it was stated that the kissing of the girl was against her will.

Mr. Charles submitted that the a servant giri

Other interesting items of ex- act of kissing

gainst her will was not an act penditure include the following: which came within the ambit of: For training American pilots

repaid by the US.A.) £164,500. either of the two canons.

The Dean of the Arches re-l For translating German marked that the kissing was on wireless telegraphy manual, £7. July 29 and the words were For the purchase of land, £178.. alleged to have been uttered by 446. the defendant on July 30. He thought that those words were in favour of the defence.

Mr. Charles said that the state-

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On the sites fur the aerodromes Junction, Eastleigh,

the trial of the question of perjuryment alleged to have been made and should not be dealt with bby the defendant on July 30 on at Ford the Consistory Court. The finthe face of i: denied any desire Tanginers, and Berehaven a sum point was whether an assan: by to do that which was immoral of approximately £750,000 was kissing was or was not to be The act of kissing was in itself spent

In his analysis of the accounts Dregarded as an "immoral act and innocent. The kissing in this

case had no immoral environ-of the Ministry of Shipping the conduct" ander the statute.

The Dean of the Arches saidment. and therefore it was no: Auditor-General states that the actual cost to be borne by the within the ambit of the Statute.

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