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PEAK RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION.

A Year of Useful Work.

EUROPEAN TRADESMEN AT LAW.

Mr. Brewer Wins First Local Case.

The annual report of the Peak 'Residents' Association, to be

In the Summary Court, this presented at the meeting to morning, Mr. Justice Gompertz morrow, is a bulky volume, can-delivered judgment in the case taining correspondence on many which came before him last week subjects which bave engaged in which Mr. W, H. Coole, trading attention during the past year, as J. T. Shaw, sued Mr. B. Pasco Pressure on our space prevents for $125, amount due for goods us giving the text of the extensive sold and delivered. precis accompanying the letters, but we extract the following facts therefrom :-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the “Hongkong

Telegraph."'} A Pedestrian's Complaint.

Sir,-Permit, me to encroach upon your columns to ventilate a complaint-it is the use of the footpath by hawkers.coolios, etc. carrying loads, Coolie-women (usually earth-carriers) are the Mr. F. E. Nash appeared for worst offenders in this respect. It plaintiff and the defence was con- is quites common sight to see a ducted by Mr. N. I, Brewer, who bevy of them monopolizing, appeared in the local courts in a practically the

whole length of a case for the first time.

idewalk-especially in that part of Caine Road which runs into Bonham Road. These inconsiderate folk should be made to understand that their proper place is the road, and that the footpath is reserved for the ordinary pedestrian.

Peak Hospital-Considerable repairs have been carried out by the Government, a hot wateri One of the defences put forward systemTM installed and the by Mr. Brewer was that the debt Hospital is now in good running was not due to or recoverable by order.

Mr. Coole. The debt was incurred with Messrs. J. T. Shaw and Co. Peak Motor Road.-Cars can at a date earlier than the transfer now obtain permission from the of the business, and defendant police to proceed as far as Stewart had received no written notice Terrace. Steps are being taken whatsoever of the assignment of to surface the road for heavy the business to plaintiff. On this lorry traffic, enabling building point Mr. Brewer won his case. and heavy materials to be brought

His Honour said:-The plain.

• up by this road.

Obviously, this is the duty of the police. I sincerely hope that they will put a stop to this state of things when they see it..

Enclosing my card, and thank-

WEDNESDAY, APRI

11, 1923.

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claims

as assignes from the LTO executors of the late James;

Totten Shaw.

P.W.D. is forming playgrounds-one adjacent to the Peak School and the other in Plantation Road.

Post Office for the Peak-The Government does not consider branch Post Office necessary on the Peak at present.

The claim is for goods sold and defendant it is in fact a claim delivered by the deceased to the for a book debt. It is admitted that the defendant has received

Servanta Wages.-The Ladies Sub Committee have drawn up list of average wages for the benefit of newcomers, which is giran in thereport. It is bot considered feasible to draw up notes have been standard wage at present.

Yours etc.

PEDESTRIS. Hongkong, April 11, 1923.

The Volunteers.

ao formal notice of the assign Sir. Before the war, I was very defendant, who worked next door school I was a strong supporter of ment, but it is suggested that the keen on things military, and at to the plaintiff, knew all about the College O. T. C. from an early the matter.

age. While not denying that the It is also urged that debit traininx I received therein was sent to the useful, I found, when I joined up. Fest Trams.-Though

defendant, and it is admitted that that most of my knowledge" had the he received in January last a to be unlearned in view of the general managers of the Tram-letter of demand signed W. H. changed conditions of the Great way Co. were willing to co- Coole, proprietor of J. T. Shaw. operate with the Association in

War. After the Boer War the whole obtaining the services of Peak

changed and the then latest details of tactics were residents prepared to assist in

tactics" were found to be obsolete running the trams in case of emergency, the matter has been

except in principle. abelved, as provision is being business is not enough. A man To claim as proprietor of the made by the Government to meet may purchase the good-will with this need in the "Essential Ser-out acquiring the book debts. vices Scheme.

in- but it is

The debit notes again are not claimed of an assignment, that they constitute formal actice

The financial year closed with

a credit balance of $115.13.

Out

of this balance, however, will have to be paid the expenses incidental to the publication of this report and the post cards printed ic connection with the opening of the Peak Hotel Store.

The latter of demand has not been put in, and on the evidence before me I do not think that it is sufficient.

not

ers! principles of war, which re- Ex-Service men know the gen- main almost unchanged since the days of the long bow, and probably the details which one would learn in the Volunteers would be com- prately revised in the next war. Why then worry to muff up com-) Judicature Act 1873 an ordinary gunnery when these will probably Now, of course, before the pany and squad drill or machine dabs or chose-in-action was not be altered later by newer weapons, assignable so as to pass the right etc.? of action at law. The year closed with a mem-

At least the men who spend bership of 253, but as some of ented in the Colony by sec. 9 of ball are keeping fit, which is one Sec. 25 (6) of the Act is repres-their spare time at tennis or foot- these members have left the the Law Amendment Ordinance of the essential things for a soldier.. Colony and others are away or1901. Under both statutes express leaving on home leave, it is bored notice in writing is essential to that new members will be found pass the legal right therefore, un- to take their place.

The wives of members who have not as Jet joined the Association ara particularly requested to do so this year.

Yours etc.

CALPE.

notice you cannot avail yourself

less you bave given the statutory Canton, April 10, 1923.

of the benefits of the statute.

A striking illustration of the strictness with which the act is construed by the Courts is furnish- ed by the recent case of Hockley. U. Goldstein (1920) 36 TL, 8, 539.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.The debtor in that case could

The

neither read nor write. plaintiffs, therefore, did not go To a varied company interested through the formality of handing in its work Lady Galway re him a written notice of the cently gave an account of the assignment, but they took the Joint Parliamentary Advisory agreement of assignment and Courcil. This body had ita read it aloud to him twice so that origin, during the early part be understood its contents.

of 1914, in a conversation at The Court said that the words: Mr. Humehty Ward's breakfast of the Ack were perfectly clear.) table, at which ast some members The plaintiffs bad not given the of Parliament interested in Bills notice required and there must relating to women and children, be judgment for the defendant. and anxious to get an unbiased So bere I must non suit the woman's point of view. It was plaintiff, with costs. decided then and there to form a There are, cf course... other non-party council of women er-defences, into which it is un- perienced in social, public, and necessary to enquire now. professional work, to which There appear to be cross-claims. members of Parliament could be between the parties, who are not affiliated and on which suffrage, strangers to each other. I hope then controversial subject, that they may settle the matter would not be discussed. A great amicably ont of Court.

deal of work has been done since i

this inauguration, in conjunction with fifty affiliated members of Parliament. Among the subjects dealt with recently have been

DAY BY DAY.

the guardianship of children, tore more than the number allow For having 300 hundred specta adoption of children, separationed him under his licence, the pro- and maintenance, criminal lawprietor of the Koshing Theatre Amendment, registration of thea. trical employers to eliminate the was this morning fined $100. In. apector Kent said that there was

bogus manager), women prisoners hardly room for him to walk into on remand, and women police. the premises when he visited the Members of Parliament about two Theatre. The defendant had a years ago were invited to suggeat previous conviction, having been the names of one or two women once fined $50 for a like offence. in their constituencies interested

in social legislation who could be Invited to join the council and the membership has widened,

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